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mn OMAITA DAILY ,HEE: WEDNESDAY.' KEPTEMBETt IB, 190.1. Tiie Omaiia Daily Bee. E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PVBIJRHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF 8UBSCRI PTION. pallr Bee (without Hunday). One Year.. $4. 00 laliy Hmi end Sunday. One Year S.OO Illustrated Bee, One Year i f"1 Hunday Be. One Year 2-00 "sturdily He. One Yur 1 60 Twentieth Century Farmer. One Tear.. 1.00 DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Pally Bee (without Punday), per copy.... 5c Pally line (without Sunday), per week...12o Pailir Bee (Including Sunday), per week. .17c Pundsy B. per copy Q Kvenlng Bee (without Sunday), per weeK 6c Evening- Bee (Including Sunday), per week 1 Complaint of Irregularities in delivery should be addressed to City Circulation De partment. OFFICES. Omahs Tfie Bee Building. South Omaha City Hall Building. Twen-ty-hfth and M Streets. Council Blurts 10 Pearl Street. Chloago-1640 Unity Building. New York 233 Park Row Building. Washington Afll Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi torial n-.atter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-oent stamps accepted In payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.: Oeorge B. Tsschuck. secretary of Tha Bee Publishing company, baing duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and com plete copies o7 The Dally Morning, Evening and Sunday Be printed during the month or August, urn, was as follows: l. s,oio I ST.3WO IT. 18. 19. 20. II. 22. 23. 34. 25. ...... J.KH 8O.010 2t,2-0 2,8 3,2TO .3SO 3O.UH0 U0.2H0 20,830 29,280 -. 20,T8O 4 aeaso i 2,T60 ..20,750 7 a&aa 1 80,180 t 24MUO 10 SKMsOO 11 ft,fiO IS 8B.5MO U... 89,000 14. i,4JIO ! si,oa M J7 WJAM n ai,s-o 29 a,oo ... SWWO U. 2W.470 It Mr80 Total Leas unsold and returned copies .tMM.MS- Net total sales oft,70 Mat average salsa 8,M3 OBOROB B, TZSCHL'CK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before ids tola (1st day of August, A. D. 1903. M. B. H UNGATE, (Beat.) Notary Public PARTIES LBAVUO TUB CITY. Parties learlBs; tha etty at say tlsse aur kT The Baa seat to thesa rear-larly by . aotlfylac Tha Dee Baalneas IB, la person or fey mall. Tha address will be eksagtd aa oftea aa desired. For once King Corn was saved by the clouds. St. Nicholas will soon begin to Inspect the chimneys. We are coining, Father Ak-Sar-Ben, more than 1,500 strong. All things considered, Nebraska has fared very well with tha premature equinoctial. It la to be hoped that the Irrigation congress will turn on more water' than the Mining congress and a good denl less gas. 'Now that the political, campaign Is fairly opened an ndvance lu the price of hen fruit is reported by the commis sion merchants. , It may not be generally known, but It la nevertheless a fact, that an emi nent Nebraskan once filled the position of consul general at Beyroot. Refer ence Is had' to the late John T. Edgar, one of the most prominent merchants of Omaha lu tha '70s. Before Omaha embarks In an active sntl grain rate discrimination campaign It will have to organize the Commerciul club on the same lines on which the Kansas City Commercial club has fought Its campaigns You can't win battles with Quaker guns. Tlio long haul and the short haul and the haul all together is wbt the rntlroad traffic uiauagers are working for, and Omaha business men may as well understand first as last that the traffic managers will not change their policy until they are obliged to. It Is rather late In the day to uncork the correspondence between Bismarck and Emperor William I, before the Iron chancellor had become a prominent figure as an imperial premier, but it affords interesting reading aud Illus trates forcibly the main springs of affinity that held the two men together. The bill to erect a quartermaster's , warehouse in Omaha passed congress In February, 1902, and the announce ment that the plans are nearly ready will create gratifying surprise. People familiar with Uncle Ram's habits did not expect the, drawings for the build ing to be begun before 1910, or there abouts. If Bt. Louis has neglected to Invite the prince of Wales to ths World's fair, that fact should not keep him away from tha country. He knows that he is always welcome In Chicago. Chicago Inter Ocean. Omaha, extended a most cordial in vitation to the prince of Wales five years ago, but for reasons that have never yet been divulged h!s royal high ness did not deign to put In an appear ance at the TransmUslsslppl exposition. It is all right for tW mayor and coun cil to grant a light of way for the pro posed Eighth street viaduct, but it is all wroug to obligate the city to pay for the electric lights above or below the Tladuct. The railroads can well af ford to pay for these lights, so long as they do not pay their full proportion of city taxes ou the grounds, streets and tracks, and eveu if they .11. 1 pay city taxea on the actual value of their prop erty as they should, the privileges granted and the saving of damages for injuries to man, beast and vehicle are well worth the cost of a few arc lights. Ay KXCEI.LKXT WKA. lovernor Vansnnt of Minnesota, in nn address tn-fore Hie Chicago Tress club, said Ihnt his Mute has nn Idea, which he explained as follows: ''In olxvllenco lo law lies the safety of the state and the 1111 1 Ion. Mlnursota pledges herself to stand by her Idea until It applies to every foot of her territory and to every Individual In her broad domains." He urged thnt public officials can best servo the people by compelling strict obedience to the law by all classes, re gardless of station aud influence. When violations of law by powerful corpora tions, he declared, or men of great wealth and Influence, go unchallenged, then confempt for law follows. "To maintain Its dignity and to make force ful and true the saying that law Is no respecter of persons, should be our in dividual aim. Belief in the enforce ment of our laws and in the Integrity of our courts Is our greatest shield against lawlessness and anarchy." Every, good citizen will admit that this is a most sound and excellent Idea and Governor Vansnnt has shown In practice that he most earnestly be lieves in it To him belongs the credit of having Inaugurated proceedings against the Northern C"curltieB com pany and he has ahovn as the chief executive of Minnesota a firm deter mination to enforce the laws. It is a gratifying fact that this "idea" is not confined to Minnesota, but is very gen eral and has recently been growing In force. Leading public men are con stantly urging that the safety of the country depends upon the enforcement of the law. We have in the presidency a man who profoundly believes in 'this and who has repeatedly urged it with characteristic earnestness and vigor, We are glad to believe that' there are few if any . of our state executives who are not In full accord with the view of Minnesota's . governor. There can be no doubt that the very great majority of our people will timrtiall fiedly approve the position of Mr. Van sant. Corporations and combinations that seek to override the law may dis agree with him, but they constitute a small minority. Enforcement of law Is essential to public security and social order and It is well to have this strongly Impressed upon the minds of the people and of public officials. ' PRESIDENT WILL INVESTIGATE. President Rocsevelt will make a per sonal investigation of conditions at Ellis island. He very properly desires to see for himself whether these are adequate to the care of the large num ber of Immigrants now coming into the country and also to ascertam what further reforms, if any, may be re quired to insure the security and the right treatment of aliens arriving here. The Interest inv4his matter thus mani fested by the president will be heartily commended by our people generally and especially by those who were them selves immigrants. There have been from time to time, though not very ' recently, reports re garding the treatment at Ellis island of Immigrants which was a reproach to thnt branch of the public service. Shortly r.fter Mr. Roosevelt became president he instituted an inquiry re specting charges against some "of the officials of the island, with the result that they were displaced and the new officials Instructed to make needed re forms and Improve conditions as far as practicable. It is the understanding that this has been done and at any rate there has been no serious com plaint for at least a year past regard ing the treatment of immigrants. It is possible that there Is room for further improvement in conditions there and It is for the purpose of informing him self as to this that the president will visit the island. There should be pro vided every necessary facility for the proper care and protection of the peo ple who come to our shores. They should be made to feel on their arrival that they are among friends and that they are not less secure here than they Mould be in their native land. TRUST RECEIVERSHIPS. A statement from Trenton. X. J., makes the significant showing that forty -five Xew Jersey corporations have gone into the hands of receivers since the beginning of the current year. The aggregate authorized canitnl ,t these corporations is given as $80,340,000 nd ! their known assets $1,501,377. more than half of the capitalization .of a single corporation, the United States Shipbuilding company,-perhaps the most excessively overcapitalized of any of the corporations Organized under the laws of New Jersey. When application was made for a receiver for this coiimanv its fraudulent character was very clearly shown and it is not to be doubted that most if not all the corporations for which receivers have been appointed were of like character, though on a less aqibl tlous scale. The men who organized the shlnhuildina' enmnnnv h-om nnt . r 1 J V . y U'l actuated by any sense of conservatism or moderation. Their scheme was to pluck the public to .the fullest extent jKisslble and seemed to be carrying it out with a fair degree of success until a dissatisfied and doubling stockholder asked for a receiver. How much the promoters got out of the deal is not stated and iossibly never will be, but It can be confidently assumed that they were generously repaid for their Ialxr. The other corporations In the list given wer capitalized for a million and less and their liabilities are shown to exceed $18,000,000, very little of ' which, of course, will ever be paid, most of the companies having practically no assets. Keferriug to this showing the Phila delphia I-dger remarks that these cor imrHtloiiH. the great majority of which were mere paper balloous, have yielded tn the lnws of trade. "The consolida tion of productive Industries," t-ays that paper, "upon a basis of actual capital and business, has been a success, he cause it is In the line of rational devel- opinent. The hofrus combinations, with millions c.f paper obligations represent ing nothing but present losses and un real ianl ilo hopes, have run the course that Ivis lecn run in similar periods of speculation time anil time again, and have reached their end without any out side interference." How many other overcapitalized corporations, organized and conducted In dlregard of sound eco nomic principles and the laws of trade, are awaiting receiverships It Is Impossi ble to say, but It Is safe to say there are still some such and that the list of them will be considerably enlarged be fore the end of the current year. The examples already furnished should be Instructive and useful In warning in vestors against the securities of all com binations which do not In the most un mistakable way show that they have a substantial basis, that they are founded upon a bapls of actual capital and busi ness. Great conservatism in this re spect is now being shown by the invest ing public and It Is a good policy to cling to. THYMQ TO BEAD VFF COStPMTlTIOM Fifteen years ago Omaha owned and operated its own fire alarm telegraph, under supervision of the chief of the fire department. In due time the mayor and cruncll were persuaded that it would be better and cheaper to substi tute the telephone for the fire alarm telegraph. The municipal fire alarm system was thereupon thrown overboard and a contract entered into with the telephone company to ring all the alarms for a fixed price per annum for each telephone instrument. That contract hns been renewed and re-renewed from year to year, with a gradual increase in the number of telephones and no ma terial reduction In the price. And now the telephone company has submitted a five-year contract for rati fication to the fire and police board a la Nash, nnder the pretext that a good deal of time and friction will be saved In the periodic negotiations for renewals. As a matter of fact, the proposed five year contract is nothing more nor less than a scheme to head off competition, as well as municipal ownership. While there Is grave doubt whether the Board of Fire and Police Commis sioners has any more right or authority to tie up the city for five years in the proposed contract tflan It would have to incur a debt for the city in the erection of fire engine houses without, the con currence of the mayor and council, thero Is no valid reason or excuse for negotiating such a contract even if the board hnd exclusive authority to incur a liability way beyond the term of Its members. If the board has authority to make a five-year contract, it could with equal Impunity make a fifty-year contract. It will be pointed out, however, that a clause is, embodied in the contract au thorizing the city at any ilme to acquire the telephone wires and plant at an ap praised valuation under eminent do main ' process. ' That is, ' however, merely a blind. The right of the city to acquire the entire telephone system by purchase is inherent through its charter, but the purchase would neces sarily Include the value of the franchise, which might be appraised for hundreds of thousands of dollars. It Is questionable whether the city would want to buy out and operate the entire telephone system even If it found It to advantage to own aud operate its own tiro alarm system. The one is a service performed for private patrons, the other would be a public service per formed for the entire community. For the present the telephone company has an absolute monopoly of both public and private telephonic service, and It should be content to have its contract renewed from year to year at its owu figures. There is nothing to be gained by the city in forestalling telephone competition or foregoing the benefit of new Inven tions by tying itself up for five years, and we do not comprehend on what grounds such a contract would be justi fiable. In discussing the character and ex tent of the supervision exercised by the several states over railroads within their Jurisdiction the Interstate Com merce commission in its annual report points out the fact that thirty out of the forty-five stutes of the uuion have exerted' control over railways through commissions, while fifteen are without commissions. Stute railroad commis sions are found to be of two general chisses, the weak commissions and the strong commissions. Of fie thirty com missions existing in 190'J twenty were strong and ten were weak. A study of the railroad statutes during the last twelve years Indicates a slight distrust of the ability of coumissions as at present organized to control the situa tion. This distrust Is doubtless well founded. The fact that one-third of all the state commissions are claHsed as weajt, which means either venal or In competent, irrelevant and immaterial, affords conclusive proof that the dis trust in commission is due either to their lack of efficiency or lack of in tegrity, or botht The assessment of Greater Chicago, which has just been completed by the Board of Review, shows an increase of $lS.irx.5.H, over the assessment of last year. Commenting on the work of the assessment board, the Chicago Becord Herald declares that although the new revenue law of Illinois has justified itself already, this Is only the beginning of a great reform which Is sure to pro duce better results later. The most powerful stimulant towurd tax reform Is publicity. The publication of the as sessiiHjnt roll affords the lest possible ii'.eui 'or procuring the assistance of the I-. ile so as to correct Inequalities. In Illinois, as In Nebraska, however, there Is still room for improvement with regard lo publicity. The luwinukers seem to fight shy of the expenses of publication of tax. aesuiuuU, whereas the cost of publishing such lists would be a mere bagatelle compared with the Icnefit8 to be derived. It will take a good many political mathematicians to figure out how a straight republican candidate, nominated by democrats, can, under our election law, have bis name inserted on the offi cial ballot as a democrat, or democratic republican. Under the law the name of no candidate can appear on the official ballot more than once, consequently the three straight republicans endorsed by the democrats ns nonpartisans will have to be designated as republicans with the group of republicans and therefore they cannot be voted for by making one cross mark over the democratic col umn. For the same reason the two re publicans who were rejected by the re publican convention and nominated by the democratic convention as nonparti sans will have to muster with the straight democrats. With more than sixteen millions in sight for Irrigation reservoirs and canals, the irrigation congress should have no difficulty in devising plans and finding locations where the money can be spent. Where to Pat Year Trast. Brooklyn Eagle. Now the farmers want a trust. Ths best trust for them is trust In elbow grease. It Is the man who works his muscles and not his politics who gets ahead in this country. Hint to Rural Mall Men. Chicago Tribiine. The rural mall carriers want niftier sal aries and better roads. Uncle Sam might drive a good bargain with them by In creasing their stipends on condition that they spend a portion of the Increase In putting wide tires on their wagons. Modern Warrior Caricatured. Chicago Chronicle. How grim old Bismarck would laugh if he could know that the sculptor who Is creating the national monument In the Berlin cathedral has represented him as a knight of the middle ages. The design Is almost as ridiculous as that first suggested of depicting the iron chancellor as a Roman senator In toga, sandals and other acces sories. A Wide Difference, Truly. Boston Herald. When the public stops to compare -the several scandals that are now bo'.ng brought to light in the various govern mental departments at the nation's capital with the moral rectitude of the father of his country for whom the capital was named. It realizes what a sorry dlfferencs thero Is between Washington, D. C, and Washington deceased. The Divine Discontent. Saturday Evening Post. Beyond question the "worklngman" is dis contented. Nor 'will this discontent de crease. On the contrary, the more he has, the more he'll want. His appetite will grow with what It feeds on. This republic was started by just such men, was started for the purpose of creat ing ever more and more of them. The eagerness for better pay, for better treat ment, for better surroundings, whether that eagerness be in the capitalist or In the street cleanetSMs proof that the repu'jl'c Is still doing business at the old rtand In the old way. And the more or lesa tur bulent wrangling1 over the division of the rewards will not cease until we have that silent peace which means either desola tion or despotism. Growing; Pnblle Xntsnnee. Chicago Tribune. One of the most trying things that the beauty loving vacationist has to endure on his return to urban haunts Is the presence of his old enemies, the sign board evils. During his absence he had half expected that the medicine maidens, the cigar en chantresses and the whisky giants might have faded away or been wiped out ty some enterprising woman like the one In a distant town who recently stood by and washed out a sign painter's work as fast as the man painted It In. But, on the con trary, during absence all of these figures seem to have taken on fresh coloring and greater proportions, while their commercial smiles have lost none of their Irritating quality. Of course the number of people who decline to use sensationally advertised goods Is small, but there is springing up a feeling among consumers that an article that is coarsely advertised must lack fine ness of quality. However this may bo It Is certain that a city must lack the first essen tials of beauty as long as ugliness holds high carnival on Its sign boards. EXPORTATIOJIS FROM THE ftl'LF. Orowlaar Volume of Grain Shipments Through Southern Porta. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Galveston, like New Orleans and the other ports on the gulf of Mexico, has recently attained great Importance as an exporting point. For the twelve months ended with August 31, 1903, according to the grain-Inspection department of tke Galveston cotton exchange, there were exported from Galveston 16,696.63 bushels of wheat and 4,462,505 bushels of corn. For the twelve months which ended with August, 1902, Galveston's exports of wheat were only about half as great, or 8.696.D64 bushels, while no corn was exported from that port In that year. Here are gains on which Texas' big port Is to be con gratulated. What la true of Texas Is true of New Orleans and nearly all the other points along the gulf coast. New Orleans' ex ports of wheat and corn in the fiscal year 1303 were 32,257,273 bushels, as corn pared with 3U50.(S for New Tork. which has hltherto usually stood at the front. The fact that New Orleans has got ahead of New Tork in Its grain shipments Is a matter of vast conse quence, it shows a drift toward tha gulf of much commerce which until recently hus been going to the Atlantic coast. The loss by New Tork Is shared by Boston, Philadelphia, Batlmore and the other ports on the Atomic seaboard. The grain has corn to the porta from Pensacola to Gal veston. A like condition Is reported from the Pacific coast. The ports ft that section of the country are Increasing their activi ties with considerable rapidity. The coun try's foreign shipments, that Is to say, are being more, widely diffused than was the case until a few years ago. New Tork, which lu still far ahead of all other points In foreign shipments, Is losing soma of Its former lead. The other ports of the At lantic coast are getting some of the trade which once went to New York, and from ali of them la now being diverted much trade which they would have received un der the old conditions. The porta In the Mississippi valley are hsndllng more and more of the export trade of this qusrter. Galveston's big gain In grain exportation In la tells a story of a great change In the direction of the trsde currents In the west which will soon assert Itself with much greater prominence thaa It does now. BITS OF WAHISGTO LIKE. Mil Irenes and Incidents Sketched on the Spel. The large and varied assortment of hu man suckers wlu snap up every baited hook that drifts their way keeps a bunch of postal officials on the Jump chasing the fakirs who operate through the malls. The amateur sucker with brains enough to In duce headache does not squeal when taken In. As a general rule he takes an hour off with the automatic klrker and quits. But the habitual sucker always expects to get the better of the deal, and Instead of going off to some lonely sand dune for prayerful exercise Indulges In a wild rosr and appeals to the government for help. Several pathetic "hollers" hsvs reached the Postofflce department from women who believe they are good looking appealing fur revenge on a colony of fakirs. The fakirs proposed to get up a gallery of beauties for the St. Louis fair. Mayors of cities were requested to nominate from three to twenty candidates, whose photographs were to be displayed in the collection. When the names were forwarded to the companies, agents were sent to call upon the nominees and solicit the portraits, as well as a fee, to "defray the expenses" of framing and oth erwise preparing the pictures for exhibition. By promising that the galleries would oc cupy conspicuous positions In their re spective state buildings, the agents en countered little difficulty in collecting from 12 to K each from the nominees. Most of the soliciting was done more than a year sgo. since when the women who gave their photographs and their money have heard nothing from the companies. The legal branch of the Postofflce depart ment has not determined whether fraud orders can be Issued, but Inasmuch as the malls were used In Interesting mayors of cities to make nominations of "types of beauty" and for the distribution of litera ture It Is believed that this can be done. Issuance of fraud orders against the com panies, however, will not satisfy the women who have been separated from their photo graphs and money. 'The prize beauties" would like to know what disposition Is to be made of tho photographs In the event the gallery movement falls. Consternation was created In their ranks by the suggestion that the pictures may be used In patent medicine ads. "Considerable Interest attaches to the trip of the torpedo boat destroyers to tho Astatic station," says the Army and Navy Register. "The present plan Is to have these ships leave Norfolk or New York about October 15, accompanied by Baltimore and a collier, which. If necessary, will tow them. It Is Intended to send on this trip Decatur, under command of Lieutenant L. H. Chandler, who will be in charge of the flotilla; Baln brldge, Lieutenant G. W. Williams; Barry, Lieutenant N. E. Irwin; Chauncey, Lieuten ant 8. E. Moses, and Dale, Lieutenant H. I, Cone. This Incident of sending the torpedo boat destroyers to the Asiatic station is likely to attract much attention abroad, since it will be regarded there as having a political, as well as a strategic signifi cance. It Is understood the proposition to send these boats to Asiatic waters came from the general board of the navy, and it Is not known In the department, or at least It Is not admitted there, that the orders regarding the destroyers have any special meaning beyond the desire to furnish Rear Admiral Evans with some useful swift craft which can be used in shallow waters on occasion. At present the Asiatic fleet Is destitute of boats of this kind, and If they are of value In home waters, they are des tined to be of equal advantage abroad. In cidents of this kind, however are under stood to be regarded with much interest by keen European observers. ' The district . government has granted the formal permit to tha Phila delphia, Wanhlngton & Baltimore railroad, as the Pennsylvania road Is known here, to contruct the twin tunnel under the United States capitol building and the adjacent blocks and streets. The permit had been held up for several weeks because of a difference between Major Piddle, the engineer commissioner, and the railroad engineers In regard to the motive power to be used to propel cars In the tunnel. Major Blddln Insisted that electricity should be used and the railroad men wanted to be allowed to use steam. Electricity was Anally agreed on. The tunnel will be 2,000 feet long, be ginning at the Intersection of Massachu setts avenue and First street. Northeast, going under Capitol hill to New Jersey avenue and D street. Southeast. The total cost of the work will be approximately ISOO.OOO. One of our commercial agents In Germany reports upon a system of lighting railway trains by electricity which he convldcra the best solution of the problem. This method enables each carriage of a train to be lighted separately and Independently of the others. The report says In part: "Each car Is supplied with a small dynamo which Is at tached to the axle of the car wheels. This dynamo drives the necessary current for 'creating light Into the lamps while tho train Is In motion. Simultaneously a small battery Is charged with electricity from the same dynamo. This battery then serves the purpose of keeping up the current while the train Is stopping at stations. Generally speaking however, the lamps should be fed as long as possible directly from the dynamo in order that the battery may he spared. During stops and when the train Is going at a slow rate of speed up steep grades the lamps are always fed from tho battery. The accumulators are charged while the train Is In motion, and this is the case by day as well as by nlgtit," "LETTING TUB SOlTtl AI.OXE." North and East Talk Too Mnrb tor Southern Comfort. New Tork Independent. Congressman Livingston of Georgia as serts that the democrats may make the' race question an Issue In the next campaign, as the president's letters and conduct do not suit the people. He says: "If the north and east will let the south alone the whites and the negroes will ad Just matters and maintain satisfactory and harmonious relations." "Let the south alone!" Who has meddled with the south? What could the north and east do? Have they forced any offensive legislation through eongTess? Have they Invaded the south with hostile hosts T Have they interfered with the free utterance of southern opinion or with the enactment or enforcement of southern laus? Have they not Invited the most unbridled southern orators, like Tillman and Graves, to speak before their largest assemblies? Have we In the north and east done anything more than In a restrained and perfectly proper way to express our opinion about lynching and grandfather clauses and the suppres sion of the negro vote? We take It, for granted that freedom of speech up here. If not In the south, la quite permissible and ought not to give offense to anybody. Cer tainly "letting the south alone" ought not to mean the denial of free speech In other parts of the country. We Have the StuaT. Baltimore American. The English tradesmen are trying hard to retaliate agal'tst America's act of 1776 by Issuing an effective declaration of Brit ish Independence of American commercial tyranny In certain lines, but In vain. Ths American tradesmen are ubiquitous and Irresistible. Feet Out Tkers la aethinf se trrls as aac f Ul-attieg footwear or seaaaecosMry. BUT THS CROSSETT $3.50 SHOE $4.00 "Maktt Ufm't Walk Easy." It It punned with Idea la view-the comfort of tka wearer. There's correct style and naoeaal doraaiatw in addition. LCWIS A. CROSSETT. Inc. .NORTH AHIOTOM. MAS39. S-SH. I Ill II I IIMUH1 Jlltt iSi T fi TEZy I rERSOSAL NOTES. Even vsst wealth has Its disadvantages. John D. Rockefeller receives more anony mous letters than any other man In the whole country. Tolstoi Is 75 this week and In such good health as to have apparently entered upon a new lease of life, much to the regret, probably, of General Procurator Probye- donostseff. George W. Crawford, the negro who was graduated from Yale last June and won the Townsend oration prize, has been ap pointed a clerk In the probate court at New Haven, Conn. Harry Zicgler, a resident of Philadelphia and a member of the life-saving guard at Atlantic City, saved fifty-two lives during six weeks of the season at that resort. Zlegler Is a strong and daring swimmer. Manager Brady of a Boston theater, who recently failed to secure as many red-hatred girls as he wanted far a particular play he was producing, has Invited all tha red- haired maidens In the modem Athens to attend a matinee performance. He offers free admission and a box of caramels to all who accept his Invitation. Living- quietly on a farm In the little town of Viola, Del., Is George McKJUlgan, one of the few survivors of that band of men who have gone down In history since tha battle of Balaklava as the "thin red line." There are several living who went to make up The Noble Six Hundred," but so far as Mr. McKllllgan knows he Is the only one remaining of the Ninety-third Highlanders. The estate left by W. E. Henley, one of the most successful of modern writers of story books for boys, amounts to but $5,000, although his books have had an enormous circulation. Lack of an International copy right Is blamed for his want of success In accumulating property. His books were more largely read In tha United States than In England, but ha derived no profit from their sale her. Wolff Wetesmann of Hoboken, N. J., celebrated 10S birthday on Wednesday. He had sDent the day electioneering downtown and on his return home drank a coupie oi aoblets of wine and smoked a pipe. Bmok lng, however, he Bays, does not agree with him and he intends to abandon the habit. Tie was born at Klshlneff. Russia, but left there In 1824 on account of the persecutions to which his race the Jewlsh-were subjected. DOES SEW YORK WAST IT1 That City Hai Had Oaly Oae ol AU Presidential Conventtons. Philadelphia Bulletin (Rep.) n. n.r,,ihil-n national committee will be called upon toward the close of the ..... li time and dace of the . v. ...w next presidential convention, and 8t Louis, Chicago, San Francisco. Baltimore and Pittsburg are reported as likely to suDmic tii Miimi for the honor. Some of Presi dent Roosevelt's friends, however, are said ho considering the question of urging him to use his Influence In having the con- .ntlnn held in New York City. It IS con tended that aa New York may once more k Hnuhtful one in 1904. the presidential cumruiiirn will be strengthened there by the enthusiasm which flows from a great gath- rlng of the foremost representatives or the party. It is a peculiar fact that In tne long hi Mtnrv nf nrealdentlal conventions, iew ork has had but one, and that was held hen tho democrats nominated Horatio 8 vmmir for the nresldency In 1868. The republicans have seldom even seriously .nnuMnreri (i nronositlon to hold a conven tion there; of their four conventions In the east, three have been held In Philadelphia and the other In Baltimore. if Philadelphia shall not make an at tempt to get the next convention. It will be freely conceded here that there Is really, no o city In the country which is more en Itled to it than New York, so far as all tl the facilities for accommodating such a bud uli- Ira concerned. It would hardly be possible to make complaint thre as re- rards halls, hotels, provisions for commit, nrl thn transmission of news of the pro ceedings. The objection may be raised that might be Injudicious for Mr. Roosevelt s friends to put him In thn position of ask ing iur ino nrmuvii - the conventfon, hut ns he Is now practically sure of being nominated witnout opposi tion, no matter where tho convention may be held, there would be no ground for arguing that the. president would ne trying to .nm u nnlnt sinilnst ft rival candidate. It : woiild be something of a novelty for a nhllesn nutlonal convention to assemble rep n lu New York City, and It would In all likelihood be far nioro desirable to hold It there than In St. I.ouls, which Is pushing hard for It, but which the exposition will make the most overcrowded city In the union during the greater part of next sum mer. HIGH SPEED TRAINS. One Hundred Miles an Hour t'nattaln. able ruder Favorable Conditions. Chicago Record-Herald. After a recent run of J31 miles In 127 min utes. Including stops, which was made on the Lake Shore railroad by the Twentieth Century Limited train. It was stated that at times and for short Intervals a speed of more than 100 miles per hour was attained. It Is also on record that a New York Cen tral engine ran a single mile at the rate of 112 miles rer hour. These and other fast runs claimed by the railroads, or by tho press for them, have led the public to believe that a speed of 100 miles per hour maintained for a short dis tance is not only possible but Is not re markable. By a series of experiments Just completed, however, the Pennsylvania Rail road company has apparently shattered the popular belief us to the present limit of the speedabllity of a modern passenger train. It wus iliowii that one of the fastest en gines owned by that company was unable under the most favorable circumstances to exceed Hi.l miles per hour. The experiiaents were made on a twenty-ftve-mile stretch of track, which was In perfect physical condition, and with a r of Prison NrV tke esastaat aaaey ) I doea not ketp I 7 JnU UU voa slightly desoendlng grade. At the font r tha grade was on mile of dead level trark. A chronograph used was one of great curacy, tha track being equipped with el".- trie circuit breaker connected with a r, -cording apparatus spaced by steel t.;o measurements. The trials began with mi engine hauling eight coaches and rumilr.c the entire twenty-five miles down grade t attain highest speed before the recording apparatus was reached. With each failure to attain a speed of vi miles per hour one coach was cut off frmu tho train. The final trial was made wit i the engine alone, with the result as ubo stated. There Is good reason to doubt, therefore, that a speed greater than 9C.1 miles p, r hour has aver been attained by a rnilro.-id train. WAIFS OK THE WITS. Tommy Papa, which are the walking del egates? Tommy's Father Those men that lust went by In carriages. Somerville Journal. ''It does look." said Cncle Khen, "as Ifi when a man Kits a reputation fori hein' a r sharp an' unscrupulous cltiien, a lot o'e people wants to tie to him In hopes he'll I rob somebody else fob. delr benefit. " Wa-li- ' ington Star. "I could never nndersUind." said the nl.l fogey, "what Is the great attraction' in automoblllng." "Perhaps," replied tho heRlnner with th bandaged head, "it's tho attraction of gravitation." Philadelphia Press. "5.0W dlcl 1 ,ook when you proposed l me? "You looked as If you were taking vnur nrst ride In an automobile." letrot. Free Press. 8he This paper says there's a trollev I linn In nrtA tt t v a ...... t .. ... ----- ... - . . 111 k'wiib inai em ploys only Indian conductor. HeWell, well! that's a sure case where none but the braves deserve the fare " Philadelphia Ledger. Young Doctor (with youthful misgiving I -W here Is you boasted progress? As mum ale as ever. Old Doctor Doubtless. But It cofIs them more than It ever did before. Puck. "Great Scott!" ejaculated the regular cus tomer, looking at his bill for tho month, do you charge me all that for waxlnir my mustache once a day?" "Do you think," retorted the barber, "you can go around looking like the emperor ?i.a"Pa"y without its costing you somc tningT" Chicago Tribune. "Have you any S-cent stamps?" Innulred the lady. . "No, ma'am," replied the drug clerk absent mlndedly, "but wo have something Just as good." "Ha, ho! Force of habit! That's wliem I caught you!" "Not at all. ma'am. I can Rive Vou tw twoa ana a one." Philadelphia, Press. SOW ONCE AUAJ. Jameo Barton Adams, In Denver Post. Now once again the breezes sigh a semi- mnilinflil Inna And frost begins to'gather on the whiskers The stars look down with colder eyes, the And fleecy clouds that smell of snow up The birds hold consultations In their lan- D 1 1 u tra u n. u .- 1. .1 ..1. . Discussing the arrangements for their an nual southern flight. And campers from the mountains come all tanned by wind and sun. And tell us fairy stories of tlioir carnival And once again the hosiery of openwork Gives place to shapely sheathing of a more close woven line, J) And shirtwaists ventilated at their northern itiuiuura No longer charm the eyes of nature's curios, thn dudes. Through fleecy silk the maiden's arms, white as the lily's soul. Save where a powdered spot denotes the presence of a mole. No longer switch attention from the faces sweet and fair They're sepulchered In warmer goods of more suuButnuaj wear. Now once again the Willleboy discards the nea-llae Of stripe and figures loud enough to call the time o' nuy. And Panamas and fawncy straws are In tho closets hid a. And tender brains are covered by the soft Fedora lid. The summer cane Is laid aside with tender loving care For stick that Is more suitable for chilly autumn wear. And Ice-crenm flrls are shaken off that Wllllelioy may lead. A more substantial brand of girl up to the oyster feed. Aye, once again on every hand we see un doubted sign That fiery summer has sustained a fracture nf the spine. And Indian summer, tinged with gold, eft soon will clxlm the front Of Nature's Kreat wide-spreading stage to do its little stunt. Then old King Winter, stern of face, with whiskers dripping mow, Will 1'rlng a cliaiiKe of program In the i liauKlntf season nhow. And earth will wear a frigid face of cold austerity, Warmed only by the struggling sun and coul mun's grins of glee. BROWNELL HALL, OMAHA. A Boarding and Day School for yoiint women and girls. Special eourse requir ing two years fur high school sradu.iee, also prepares for any college open to women. Vasaar, Welleslty, Ml. Holyoke. Western lleserve I iilverity, the I nlverty of NebraHka and the University of Chi- ' admit pupllx without examina tion on ertlrlcates of the principal and faculty. ..xceptlonal advantages In Music, Art and Kloeution. Well equipped gym nasium t'A feet by 40 feet. 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