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18 THIS OMAHA DAITjY BME: Sl'NDAV, SIilTI0M 11 10 li .10, 1000. "Pie Omaha vSlwday Bmi K. llOHKWATKll. Kill tor. I'UIIMHIttiD HVKttY MOHN1NO. TKK.MS OF Slll8(.'Itll'TION. Daily He (without Sunday). One Year. .10.00 Ually lie uml Sunday. One Year S.frj illustrated Her. On Your 2.00 Hunrinv Hce. On Yenr Z.IK Hatiirday Her, One Year l.to wtekly lice, One Year o.. OFF1CHS: Omaha: The He.- Ilulldlntt. South Omaha: City Unit HulldlnR, Twenty-fifth nml N Htrcts. Counrll Muffs: 0 l'earl Street. Chicago: 1010 fnlty Hulldliit;. New York: Temple Court. Washington: 5M Fourteenth Street. Sioux City: ll Park Street. coimnsi'o.vDKNCi:. Communications rclntltiK lo new and edl torlnl mutter should bp addressed: Omiiha nee, IMItorlul Department. IH'HINKKS UiTTKHS. nuslness letters nnd remittances sho ild 1) addressed: The Hop Publishing Com rany, Omaha. 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Not only has the Chinese front door been forced open, but the powers seem to have blocked the threshold so that the door cannot bo shut. The straw vote man Is iifraln abroad In the land, but fortunately his period of usefulness cannot extend over more than another live weeks. "Save the republic" Is the motto on the banner hoisted by the Hryanltos at Iiryau's home. It should read: "Save the republic from Jlrynulsm." The ".Situations Wanted" elasslllon tlou in the advertising columns has been nearly eliminated by McKlnley pros perity. Look and see for yourself. The United States received the highest number or awards at the I'arls exposi tion of any other country, with the sin Klo exception of Franco Itself. This Is un old world tribute to now world genius and skill. Twenty-six fnrmers out of one pre cinct were ablo to make a trip to liuropo during the past season, Oiii h seems to Indicate that farming under existing conditions pays In Nebraska. This record was made In Cuming county. Chairman Jones,,of the democratic na tional committee Is trying to make ex cuses for the onslaught of hoodlums upon Governor Hoosevelt nt Victor. Tho ' less the democrats, say about this outbreak tho better It will be for them. Nebraska has had more county fairs this year of prosperity 1000 than for a deende. There is no incentive to hold county fairs when depression and busi ness stagnation overshadow tho farmer, us they did beforo McKlnley's election lu ISOti. And now the sultan's special envoy to Spain Is reported to have quit work be cause his salary was not paid. The sultan Is rapidly accumulating an as sortment of creditors that would do credit to tho most accomplished royal dcadbeat. Democratic politicians ndmlt they nro going to tap tho national committee for $-'5,000 to help oi't the campalgp lu Nebraska. If tho leaders admit that much, some idea can bo formed of the actual amount which they will demand. Theso moves arc also convincing that the party managers are becoming alarmed orcr the situation In this state. Apologists for Governor Poynter say that he has had to contend with trying ClrollfOStllltl'OU mill tf lu nn MMtnlni. In. 1..... . ......v. ...... w fw ii iin,i:, nil imn I made some mistakes. Tho trouble with , roynter Is that tho trying circumstances ' nro tho creatures of his own blunder-) lug and lack of Judgment. No one but ' himself Is responsible for tho trouble he has had at tho various smto Institution. ' Mr. Uryau and his organs keep on In timating that the United States has not a good title to the Philippines, although acquired by treaty purchase rat I tied only with Mr. Hryan's Intluence upon nonocratlc senators. If anv other nn. tlou had as good u title, how long I that If now a request for annexation would It be before It perfected It b. I from tho Cubans were submitted to our occupation and possession? If the people It would bo overwhelmingly re united States has not a good t't'e, fused. It would receive the support of within whom docs tho title rest? rvm.t sw nmvnFTitnsTAHcit minus When C'a idldate Hryan heard of the action of Attorney (neral Smyth to 'oitiM'l the Ariro Starch works at Ne liraska City to go out of business be cause Its owners had entered Into a com pact with the National Starch trust, he decided to shorten his days of rest long enough to discuss the trusts "tinder the shadow of tho starch works." lu his attempt to Justify Smyth In his exhibition of petty splfowork against .1. Sterling Morton, Candidate Hryan stigmatized the business men of Ne braska City, who had Joined together In their remonstrances regardless of party, as outlaws who were doing the bidding of republican politicians trained In the school that teaches men to shield a big thief and prosecute a small one. Such frivolous excuses may be pleas ing to Mr. Smyth, but they will not sat isfy the people who live "under the shadow of tlie starch works." First and foremost. Mr. ISryun knows enough to know that Attorney Ceneral Smyth Is a monumental fraud when lie poses as a trust smasher. He knows that the anti trust law under which Smyth sought to break up the starch factory at Nebraska City was on the statute books and In full force when ho came lulu olllcc as attorney gen eral. Why did Smyth wall three ycae and a half before beginning war on the trusts? Why did he not pick out the trusts and combines that he knew were lu operation under the shadow of his own law olllce lu the city of Omaha? lu his Nebraska City speech Mr. Hryan asserted that It - was done to save the starch factory for the people of Nebraska City and to prevent It being closed lit the behest of the trust magnates of New York. That will do to tell the horse marines up lu South Dakota, but It will not do "under the shadow of the starch works." When Mr. Hryan declared that the upheaval at Nebraska City was purely political anil caused by republican outlaws ho simply adds insult to injury. The men who participated In the mass meeting that denounced Smyth were representatives of all parties and fac tions. There were as many democrats as republicans. If we are correctly in formed, and their resentment was not because they favored lawlessness or are opposed to an honest, rational enforce ment .of the anti-trust law, but because they believed that the action taken by Smyth was a premeditated attempt to punish .1. Sterling Morton through his sons for handling Mr. Hryan's political fallacies without gloves "under the shadow of the starch works." As far as the final outcome Is con cerned Mr. Smyth does not care a rap. He wanted to strike a tel'lng blow at "democratic renegades," as Mr. Hryan fondly terms the gold democrats with a McKlnley leaning. it was hardly necessary for Mr. Hryan to deliver his phllllpplc "under the shadow of the starch works," for he could have done that as well under the shadow of his farm house lu the vicinity of Lincoln. VLKA FOIS VVUAS AXXKXATlnX. A writer lu the October Forum who signs his article "A Cuban" makes a very strong plea in favor of the an nexation ot Cuba to tho United States. Evidently he belongs lu the professional class of Cubans, who an; generally an nexationists. This writer believes that Independence In the social order threat ens chaos, lu the political order an archy or dictatorship, and In tho eco nomic order It would bring for Culm "the sterility of an African desert." Anticipating what American energy will accomplish In I'orto Klco and the I'hlll Ipplnes lu stimulating production, lie says: "This production, even before its development, will require from Its gov ernment a protective duty, which has never been refused to the Industries of the country. What shall we do, then, with our'sugar and a Jorge part of our tobacco? Will It bo possible to adjust treaties which will leave a margin wldt enough for competition? Will the prac tical legislators at Washington be so foolish as to prejudice tho Industries of their new possessions for the benellt of a foreign country?" Ho argues that they will not and therefore Cuba as an Independent state will be at a ruluous disadvantage In competition with our new possessions. in regard to the proposal that the United States assume a protectorate over tho Island, "A Cuban" argues that the perils of an Independent Cuba are not those from without, but Internal dangers those dally revolts anil those monthly prouunclamentos that have characterized the early history of all the Latin-American republics which a pro tectorate would not remedy. "The only help," lit' declares, "lies In annexation to the United States a solution which, if accepted by a majority of tho Cubans, will be more diguitled than a llct It Ions and nominal independence. If Inde pendence Is to be, let It be In the only form rationally possible. ' Let us ask a place In the American home." This retlecU tho view of the better class of Cubans, but It has been shown that a majority of the people of the Island are not In favor of annexation and do not desire even a United States protectorate, except so far as that Is provided under tho Monroo doctrine. It Is safe to pre- .II.. ...l..iti Hut dllinli j.illul It lit Inllfl 1 WILt UlllL III. II HIV -.. v.. iik-ii.iii , ....... j convention assembles a month lienc" It will bo disclosed that the delegates arc practically unanimous for a government absolutely free from external Intluence. Some have so declared themselves ami the few delegates who are not of this , mind will exert no Influence upon tu- convention. ' Were a majority of tho people of Cuba, j howover, in favor of annexation, It Is by no means certain that a majority oi the American, people would approve of - I it... I.. I 1 .1.. ..fr .l.xl.l.t ' uilueniiK i lit iniuuii, mi- uu inn iniiiiM I one or two lutcrcsts, but the masses ct tho people would oppose it. on the ground that annexation would bring the I'nlted States no advantages not to be secured without It, while It might cause this country a great deal of trouble. It Is not to be doubted that as American territory Cuba would develop more rap idly Industrially and commercially than she will as an Independent state, but there are American Interests to be con sidered and these will demand that they be not sacrificed for the bcnellt of Cuba. Having freed the Island from Spanish domination. Its people must be given the fullest opportunity to show whether or not they are capable of self-government. No plea for aniiesatioii, how ever plausible, should at this time have any weight with the American people. AMKItlCAX yoL Tll IX XU l)AX(li:il. One of the stock arguments or William Jennings Hryan and those who take their cue from him Is that the tendency of the times Is to block the way of progress to the young men of the nation and that this tendency can only be checked by abandoning, republican policies, lu his Sr. Louis speech, for example, Mr. Hryan aimed a direct Inquiry to the lathers and mothers id' the land, asking them whether they were satisfied with the conditions and probabilities that confront their sons and daughters. The entire object of this sort of ap peal Is to make thoughtless people be lieve that the opportunity for advance ment lu the various occupations and professions Is smaller now than here tofore and that the rising generation must encounter harder trials than were met by their parents and forefathers. Like most of the demagogic oratory ex ercised lu behalf of Mr. Hryan, tho cider merit of tills so-called argument Is that 11 Is not true. To anyone who will make the compari son honestly It Is plainly manifest Unit there Is Just as much room at tho top today as there ever was. The young man of today starts out with many ad vantages not enjoyed by those who went before him, and if conditions have changed they have changed lu the di rection of making life easier Instead of harder. The privilege enjoyed .by the youth of even the very poorest classes of free access to our public school sys tern, which lu most parts of the coun try has been developed so as to fur nish the foundation for a technical edu cation, Is In itself or priceless value. And the young man or woman who is launched Into the stream or business lll'e linds the wheels of promotion re volvlng us fast as ever. If we will but look around us we see the young men occupying most of tho responsible positions In all our great Institutions. The question is not so much what to do with the young men as what to do with the old men who are displaced by the rapid succession of nov processes, nuw inventions and new machinery. lu nubile life It Is safe to say that the young man Is more In evidence to day In this country than at any previ ous period of its history. Mr. Hryan's own career Is tho most striking exam ple. Ho caine to Nebraska a clientless attorney, scarce out of his law studies, In the fall of 18S7, and by 1800 had se cured an election to congress. He was nominated for president four years ago at the ago of I'M, the youngest man over so signally honored, and now If by chance elected to the position of chief executive, he would still be the young est president who over occupied tho White house. There is no danger to the young mau in this country so long as the young mau Is alive to his opportunities and the necessities of the situation. The Uulted States has achieved Its position und maintains It through the restless energy of its young men and will continue lu the path of progress as Jong as youth and hope Inspire each successive gen eration. nn: injsixt:sa vikw. There Is a growing Interest among business men throughout the couutry in tho campaign and it Is perhaps needless to say that In their view the paramount Issue now Is tho same as four years ago the demand of tho Hryanlte party for tho free und unlimited coinage of silver at 10 to 1. Ono of them writes to an eastern paper that the impairment of confidence by the agitation or tho money question, the destruction or faith lu the future business prosperity of the land through the demauds.of Mr. nryan for free silver, constitute tho most serious feature of the situation which confronts tho country. Ho declares that, regard less of the fact that the United States senate Is republican, the election of Hryan would precipitate such an agltu tlou of the repudiation heresy that iiuun clal panic would bo Inevitable. He says: "The danger of free silver and repudia tion, the threat to reduce America to a silver basis by offering double price for bullion, thus bringing all tho silver lu tho world to our mints, and the outlook for Mexlcaulzlug this country, have practically paralyzed all Investment en terprises and projects for mouths past. The writer during the last few months lias been told by more than a hundred financiers that they were not proposing to make any more investments until they knew who was to be our next presi dent, There Is no doubt that this is the case. While business generally Is good am; the commercial reports state that there is less apprehension lu financial cir cles than there was our years ago, stlli there Is a check to new enterprises ami money Is not seeking Investment. Husl ness men who recall the effect of the financial discussion and prevalence o. doubt as to the stability of the standard f value, during the years preceding tin .'lection of ltpd, are not troubling them selves about tho possibilities or Impossi bilities of the future uuder a Hryan ad ministration. It is quite enough for them to know now that tho election of .Mr Hryan would bo the signal for a renewal qZ doubr and discussion and questlo.i- Ings ns to the stability of the gold stand ard. Practical men know that capital shrinks from entering Into trade and Industry when there Is doubt expresse as to the maintenance of the standard of value and they understand that a gen oral oppression of doubt would be stif llcleiit to start the country toward lu dttstrlal adversity and operate to tin Injury of Jill Interests. Therefore tin substantial business men generally are opposed to the Hryanlte parly and an exerting themselves for Its defeat. vp a xi) nnwx rauivnwn. one Idea projected by Governor Hoosevelt In one of his Kansas speeches deserves more emphasis than Is usually accorded. He said: Our safety In this country llrs in keep ing ever beforo us tho fundumi u al unity and fundamental brotherhood (f iho Amcr lean people. For weitl or for woo we n.o knit together and we must go up or down ttgether. Too often people allow themselves to be persuaded that the welfare of certain classes can be assailed without react Ing to the detriment of the. whole so eitu structure. All history teaches, however, that the advancement of civ illzatlon is marked at every stage by greater solidarity of Interest among all elements that go to make up the state or nation. In barbaric times one tribe might possibly have built Itself up on the ruins of another, but in this Twen tleth century era no one section or the country has anything to gain by holding back Its neighbors. When flnanclnl depression and Indus trial distress were upon us, no element escaped sharing the general calamity. Capital and labor, the artist, the nier chant, the iiianuraeturcr, the profes slonal man and the wage worker, city and country, all were brought under the pnll of hard times. So with tin restoration or prosperity by the re-estab llshment or business confidence, the re opening of the mills and factories, tin revival of commerce, the renewed de mand for the products of the Held and farm, the benefit1 are distributed to every nook ami corner of the laud and enjoyed almost equally by every class and community. When the country encounters disaster and calamity we go down together when the balance turns with the rising tide, we go up together. Conditions that make for progress and prosperity mean progress and prosperity for one and nil and what strikes at tho wel fare of any considerable section or class strikes at the welfare of the whole. (WHUAXVS attitude OMIXUVS. 'Iho attitude of Germany towards China Is said to be regarded at Wash Ington as ominous. It Is looked upon In administration circles as indicating that Germany would not accept a money Indemnity, but 'using the murder of her minister as a pretext will seek to so shape events as to bring about a war with China, as a result of which a slice of territory would be her only adequate compensation. Kiupcror William reels that his grievance against Chlnm Is much more strenuous than that or any or the other powers and apparently does not rare to settle It by diplomacy. It Is thought that Germany will have only two supporters or this policy among the powers, the others preferring a more pacific program. The latest advices from Washington state that Great Hrltaln, Hussia and France stand with the United States In regarding the German proposal ns inexpedient-, while Austria and Italy are with Germany and Japan occupies a middle attitude. The latter will un doubtedly range herself with the ma jority of tho powers. A foreign dis patch states that an agreement on the Chinese program has been arranged be tween France. Germany and Hussia and that it modifies the German proposal for tho surrender of those responsible for the outrages at Pekln. As our govern ment has heard nothing of such an agreement tho report must bo regarded as Improbable. Indeed, It Is most un likely that thoso governments would outer Into an agreement without having llrst communicated with tho other powers. There Is no doubt that Emperor Wil liam would like to do some lighting In China and it must bo admitted that the German grievance Is of tho gravest character, but It Is hardly possible that Germany will undertake a war which tho other great powers are opposed to and are manifestly anxious to avert. It would be very serious business for Germany under tho circumstances nnd It Is questionable whether tile people of that country would approve of It. Governor Poynter should go to night school and brush up on his mathematics. In an Interview on tho political situation ho says that for every vote the fusion forces have lost In this campaign they have gained six recruits. He winds up by announcing that tho tuslon forces will carry Nebraska by 1.1,000. As tin fusion plurality last year was slightly lu excess of l.'.OOO, the governor must have been in a trance when he made his calculation. The truth of the matter Is tho fuslonlsls do not know Just "where they are at" this year. When popocrats begin to accuse each other of an intention of trading off out portion of tho ticket for another It Is evi dence that they realize that part or al. of It is going to be defeated and each element Is attempting to save Itself. The candidates for the senate nro belnu scored for sacrificing the state ticket and vlco versa. Tho brigade which has sacrificed principle and everything elsi for oflice for Itself has brought the pop ocratle parties to the verge of dissolution. Advices from Kuropcan capitals hull cato that Germany has or is about t retire from the position It assumed re garding the Cldmse and that it Is gou crally conceded now tlvv" Hi original f -position was untenable. The United States was tho lltt to take such a posl tlou and the result has again demon strattd thin the United States State do parttnent la (he only one which apperrs to have a thorough grasp of the sltua tlou lu the Orient. The last few years have not only served to demonstrate to the world (hat this country is one of Iho world's forces to be reckoned with nut mat its Diplomatic nil a Irs are handled with a skill which foreigners had not given us credit for heretofore That the Irrigation propaganda con tlnues to make progress Is evidenced by the adoption of resolutions last wcel by the executive committee of the Nn tlonal Huslness league, endorsing the plan for a congressional appropriation to experiment lu the reclamation of arid lands in the west. The states west of the Missouri contain unoccupied laud enough to Ijulld homes for millions of families If the water supply can be made available. The arid belt has been contracting gradually as the Inroads of Irrlgatlonlsts have proceeded. The prob loin for tho solution of congress Is the best way to accomplish the results de sired. That terrible mau, Murk llauua, has been at work again. It Is charged that he Is actually attempting to settle the coal miners' strike by securing for the men at least a portion of what they ask and setting 100.000 men to work again. There Is nothing strange about this however, as It Is the natural thing for republicans and republican policies to set men to work' the democratic policies stop work and make Idlers and tramps, Colorado democrats attempt to-lay all the trouble at Victor when Governor Hoosevelt was assaulted onto the re publicans. Perhaps It was inviting trouble for any one to attempt to make a republican spcecn in a uomocruuc stronghold, but Hoosevelt Is not made out of the kind of material which runs away from an enemy or dodges an Issue. An ApolnKy CnlltMl For. Philadelphia ledger. If the Umperor Nero could rcud the re norts from China he Mould demand nn apology trom M. Slenkowlcz. ClmiiKCs In l'opulnr Tiivor. Louisville Courier-Journal. The musician who planted tho Hag on the wall of Pekln will now give way In tho af fections of the hero worshipers to the shaggy-haired youth who makes a touch down. (ilvliiBT thr IlrltUlieM m Jolt. Philadelphia Press. Tho announcement that Charles T. Yerkes Is to build the new underground trolley line in London, which Is to cost KO.OOO.OOO, with American capital ex clusively, has given tho Hritlsh capitalists qulta a Jolt. It Is a kind of expansion hcrctoforo undreamed of to them and "s giving our Hngllsh cousins a view of the financial possibilities of this couutry that is a revelation. ('iiinpiirliiK Two llllrRlllna. St. Paul Pioneer Press. Hryan talks of the purchase by the United States of tea millions of people nt J2 per head. But if Uncle Sam bought them it at least had tho dignity of a wholesale trans action, with the lifting ot all thoso millions of people to a higher plane as Its object. How docs-this compare with Hryan s bar gain with Crokor, whereby, In considera tion ot being given unlimited opportunities for plunder through control of all federal offices in Now York 3tate, and llkewiso of tho Navy department, Crokor agrees to deliver the electoral vote of New York to Hryan? .llorr TIiiiii Twenty Million. Chicago Tribune. Tho universities of tho country, both lit- tlo nnd big, havo had a favorable year thus far from tho donation standpoint, They havo received tip to date by gifts and be quests tho largo sum of ?20,li8,i00, as compared with 127.918.043 at the same datb of 1899. That there has not been an In crease over tho same period of last year Is nut remarkable, for 1899 was a record breaker In the way of aid for educational institutions, tho total for the year reach ing tho Immense sum of $55,851,817. After such nu outpour of benefaction as that It Is rrmarkable that tho record of 1900 for tho first eight and a half months should show so largo a total. It Is hardly likely that the total for the wholo year will equal that of 1899, but thero yet remain three and a half months. AVOMISN AM) imiMCI.Xi. An Assfrtlon Hint Will Heiilre Proof to Insure Ila t'rrdoiiee. Indianapolis News. Father Shanloy of Hartford, presiding over t lie convention ot mo uonnccucui Catholic Total Abstinence union at New Haven on Tuesday, reiterated the chargo that intemperance Is growing nmong fflEhlonablo womon a charge that has lattly caused strong feeling and brought out. vehement denials. "According to competent authority," said Father Shanley, "drinking Is decreasing among men, hut increasing among women nnd among women of tho wealthier clashes. It Is to ho regretted that women who are leaders In society Imltnto the drinking customs of Kngllsh society and that tho old American ideas of respectability In this matter aro fast disappearing." Is this true? Bald assertion one way or tho other does not go for much. It is a matter of fact, to bo established or dis posed of by tho presentation of evidence Thero Is. of course, nothing Inherently improbable in tho statement that fash ionable women meaning by that phrase tho ldlo rich, who llvo for pleasure and display In their contempt for bourgeois virtues nro prone to add the exhilaration of wine to tholr other excitements. But It Is highly Improbable that tho well-bred women of the wealthy classes should yield to a habit of which ovory rellned woman has a horror. Women ot this kind will not tolerate, socially a man who drink to excess. That fact goes far to account for the diminution of drunkenness among men which Father Shanloy notts. Is not contradiction to ho suspected when It Is inserted that tho same women who p'aeo Irlnklng men under the ban nre thorn- ailves acquiring tho vice? Thorn Is still plenty of hard drinking done by men. Tho number of saloons and ho statistics of liquor consumption tes tify to that. But gentlemen no longer drink, or If they do they ore ashamed of It and seek to hide their Indulgence. Is It probable that along with th's change In manners among men of srcleiy there has o been a revorso change among womon of society-good society, that Is. not the (lash society of the fast and cnrrus-'atlntr plutocracy? Wo shall not believe that the bottlo has left tho mulo hand only to be picked up by the femalo hand until more proof hus been supplied than Father Shan, ley and other accusers have d'ljned to furnish. UI.ASTS FlltIM HAM'S IIOU.V. Men are not saved by sentiment. Dullness sometimes passes for depth A vice Is always moro dangerous than a crime. U Is not the flowerpot that makes the blossoms. tlround that Is barren to seed Is often rich In gold. To substitute the good Is the best way to eradicate tho bad. It Is vain boasting of your sap unless you produco tho fruit. Wings of prayer can carry you where serpents of sin cannot crawl. Public wrongs will not be righted tilt men are saved from personal sin. Noah, who could face the world, was overthrown alone In his own vineyard. A mnn'B llfo never rises above Its per petual sources, hence the need of being bora from above. It Is better to have a dog come lu and stir up an excitement amongst the pews than to havo no Interest lu the meeting at all. SliCri.AH SHOTS AT TIU4 I'fM'IT. Washington Post: Tho gentlemen who aro engaged In trying to Introduce that new brand of rellglau In Ohio aro kept quite busy scraping the tor from their persons. Chicago Post: Tho Methodism cf ceuiral Illinois who dcslro to eliminate tlrcworns from tho celebration of tho Fourth of July would better keep well out of tho way ot tho small boy when that day comes. Boston Transcript: It must strike a great many persons as rather odd when a baptist clergyman advunccs the theory that wealth has too much luilucnco In the church. Hut possibly this minister mvant to convoy tho Idea that while tho church In willing to receive tho contributions of tho wealthy it must draw the lino at In fluence. Hut can It, bo long ns It depends upon the rich man's money? And If It d.d not take tho money, what would become of tho church? Brooklyn Eagle: This is itoiuc to bo a bad fall and winter for sensational preach ers. Thoso who aro Intent on doing up Paul and surpassing Peter aro g..lni: to boro or disgust men. Pulpiteering to show off Is going to ho stamped with failure. l'oik have booomo ho tired of d-teimtloi. that they aro desirous of plain tru h ihtt has a relation to life. The beginning of tho end of reticulated nonsense nnd of overwrought embroidery In surmonlcal form Is at hand. Ministers who have gut ro llglon nre going to bo at a premium. Kansas City Star: Tho eltorts of Arch bishop Hyan and of other clergymen of thu Catholic church to pacify the anthracite strikers and to bring about an agreement between them and their employers ato strictly In the line of practical Christian ity. The more Intelligent Idea of religion Is that It bears not only on tho llfo th.it Is to come, but that It should bo even more helpful In its Inlluenco on the llfo that now Is. The moral and muterial con cerns of human existence nro so closely reiaieu inai one cannot bo affected without touching the other. No denomination rec ognizes this fact moro clearly than the Catholic church nnd Its value as a great moral conservator has been repeatedly demonstrated by the use which It makes of the tremendous inlluenco which it ex erts among Its followers In controlling tholr conduct fn times of severe tral nnd excitement. nnsoxAi. ami oTiinuwisi: The pocket ncrvo Is cometlrlng of an oc topus Itself. Tho most Impresaivo of the early signs of winter is the attitude of old king coal. Tho policy of scuttle may uot bo popular. hut It Is safe to glvo odds on tho coal scuttle as an nrtlclo of prlmo interest. Reports from Mansfield, O., and Sioux City, la., Bhow that American boxers do not differ radically from tho Chinese brand. Oencral Apathy Is not very conspicuous In Ohio. It last accounts three ciders had se cured suits of tar and feathers and were strenuously plucking themselves. A Chicago woman has had her husband enjoined from flirting with a widow across tho way. That woman fears too much of a good thing Is not safo for men. Cleveland is springing to tho front as a clubahlo town. The Appendicitis club nnd tho Club ot Divorced Husbands ought to keep the social mercury at a high notch. Four distinct gangs of train robbers nro now leading the railroad sleuths a lively chaso In the west. For porsonul reasons tho looters glvo Goodrich, Kan., a cold shake. Twonty thousand men of Brooklyn, N. V., marched in procession ns a public pro test against tho use ot profano language. It is presumed they hnlted at tho navy yard to tell their sentiments to the marines. A Trifle Chilly Tliostniiorniiigs and evonings. Bettor prepare your self ut once, when the choosing is made easy, wit If a light or medium weight top coat. We have them for $10, or any price you want to nny. up to .fan. And No Top Coats fit Like Ours. And the new fall find winter suits fire ready. "Mili tary cut" practically speaking, custom made for we warrant the tit, and like our top coats no suits tit like ours. The same fit for 10 as for $25, and plenty of intermediate fits at 912.H0, $15, $18, and $20, Browning, King & Co., R. S. Wilcox, Manager. Oraaha'a Only Exclusive Clothier for Aicu and Umym. no.MiisTio iM.iiA.sA vntins. Detroit Joiirtuil: '-Why," asked thr ,.in wife, unlvel). "do you always whistle win n you get my tnl'lliierv lilUt- "To ralsi- the wind!" replied the man Chlnian Pout. "Poor piuw!" she slghc.l iitfrr U'llh vnur fnfh.r witut s the mutter will ne usKcii noxiously. m. Itn fnnt .... Oil. he feels xn tinnr nml the i?m iViiu are so high." she answered. Somervllle Journal: Klhel I was . frightened that my heart came right up Into toy mouth. Mniulc 1 always knew you had a large mouth. Detroit Kreo Preso: "l-MUIi. haven't v known that young man long enough to ilni out what his Intentions are?" "No. timintna. ll.it long enough to find out that he hasn't any." Indlauniiolls Journal' "Dntinev Dirks can't mnke any headway with his court Ing." "Why not?" "His rival Is a ralhvm man who Is always giving tho girl a pass to go somewhere " Washington Star: "No. sir." said Mr Meekton wnrm'y; "no man would dare sav I am henpecked!" "Why not?" asked a near relation with n tinge of sarcasm In his voice. , "Because, If he did, I'd tell Henrietta on him. Philadelphia Press: "I don't bin me Miss Hoxlatid for cutting you," Raid Miss Pep prey. "Your Interest In her was purely mercennry. "Not at all." replied Mr. Forchen-ltutH "I love her lots more than sho gives me credit for. "You're mistaken, She gives voti full credit for the amount or your love for her lots." Philadelphia Itecord: "Paw, what is stage fright?" asked the boy, opening his bag of popcorn, "ftngo fright?" repeated his father pointing to a veteran of the chorus; "whv there Is one." Cleveland P'oln Denier: ft Is n datk night It Is also a tlatk kitchen. The kind h:irtPd m.iu In his stocking feet Is after not Ink of water for his fretful yo.tngcst Ho thinks he can tlnd his way lu the lnk darkness, lie Is mistaken, lie turns t the left nstend of to the right and falls tlown cellar. Another good man gono wrong! h,?nK"iT.r.lbl,nV: "A,ltl MI" """ exclaimed Mrs. ltnmho. "whom, fourteen ?shr" "B0' 1 ,,r"",lla'1 ,0 ,"vo "ml clr "No, m'dear," Interrupted Mr. Itnmbo grasping one of the chairs us It swnm around him and dropping Into It. "Man s al! made over ev'ry sev'n yenrsh. I'm tw- removts fr'nt th' man you marrle.i in dear i i.ath si:i'tj:miii;h. Benjamin Copelnnd lu Zlon's Herald Crimson and gold, September's houghs iuo calm The approaching Passion of the waning year; By sacramental signs, for aye the same. Pathetic portents show the end Is near Tho landscape lessens In the shimmering haze; The songless silence chants the season's grief; Too soon shall follow, with the darkening thus, The fading field flower nnd tho falllnc leaf. No more alkires the lovely glade or glen. A immo'i's.i sorrow haunts the lonelv shore; The frosts have fallen on the hearts of men; The little children seek the woods no more. For Nature holds us surely as her own. In sleet ami snow, or under skies of blue I rom birth lo death we share her mirth or to our faithful mother true. A kindred Impulse mlrs our common dmit lo look beyond the Winter's dearth and dole, And Und In Hod, our Mfe, our Strength, our Trust, Tho everlasting Simmer of the soul. School Headaches Como from strained oyos. Don't ignoro tlm child's coin plaint. Glasses cure. But tho lenFos must ho made just right to suit tho individual case. Our classes are all made In our own factory; the only way to get perfect ones, nnd wo make a specialty of lilting Bchool children with mild corrective glasses, that glvo ease, comfort and satisfaction at a snug saving In price. Atu. ; - team