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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 27, 1903)
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Communications relating to news and edi torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to The Bee Publishing Compmy. Only 1-eent stamps accepted In payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, eseepl on Omaha or eestern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COM PANT. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION: State of Nebraska, Doug as County, ss.: Oeoree B. Taschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, ays that the- actual number ot full and complete copies of The Dally Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed during tb month of September. 1903. was as fol lows: I .lXO It aWMW I SD.8TO IT .! 1 2V.STO la .? ,... .8 TO It M.tMI XV.SO0 ' (0 XO,44S ....IM,TM . t xu,sao ' 12 x,mHO 1 SO.STO y 2H,Sao t ,290 14 2M,TU0 10 38,1 KO Zt HK.TiO (l ajMo it ....xojtoo i sn.ni s; 7,jo It. JWt,3S . .. XM.TOO 1. sw.oso s stttso U jm,(m9 tu ku,u4 Total .. MWtjwit Leas unsold and returned copies.... n.-tott Net total sales ...HZ;144 Mst average sales an.44 ' UEORQIS 11. TZSCUUCK. Subscribed in in prase live and worn te t fore me thla nb day o( Hepieniber, A. X). 1 M B. HUNUATK. (Seal.) Notary Futile. Now kep your eye on the, campaign roorback. . . - Th 1003 foot bnll casualty lint is growing slowly but surely.. - Next Saturday In Inst registration day. Mark It down. Card and handbills put In circulation by Irresponsible parties and political bushwhackers will be discounted by In telligent voters. The democrats think they Bee discord spreading In the ranks of the repub lican of thla county, but it is only the wish father to the 'thought. Thanksgiving day proclamation will toon be In order It will not be difficult for any of our executives to And valid causes for popular rejoicing, For some reason or other the country refuses to rise to the tip-toe of ex pectancy In anticipation of. the forth coming extra session of congress. Russia objects to British a d4' American sympathy for Japan., It objected also to American sympathy for 'the perse cuted Jews. Russian objections, how ever, do not go in this free country. It la not too lute yet to have a-little diversion in the shape 'of lit ipn'tion over the form of the official inrllot A politi cal campaign in 'Nebraska' without such aide ahow wJU be a record-breaker. One swallow does not make, summer and one disgruntled republican who re fuses to be harmonized Is. not to be taken as an index of prevailing senti ment among the' rank and ' file of the party. , '. , Out in Butte, Mont., they think they know the right 'way to. go u boat It to tret on obnoxious court ruling reversed on appeal. They have simply hanged In. effigy the trial judge renderinjc tho decision. A drowuliig man will cutch at straws. That explains the reason why the popo cratio fakery Is taking straw votes at boarding house tables to ascertain the proportion of republicans who Intend to bolt the Judicial ticket. Unless you register for tho coming election and get your, name on your party enrollment you will not be able to vote at any. of your party p'rlw&rle next year. If you have not' et' regis tered, be sure to do 'so Saturday'.' .: Under direction of President Roose velt the adinluUtratlou did its own post cflice house cleaning, and if there Is nefd of overhauling In any other de partment the admlnlstmtion will be able 'to do the work effectively Itself. Mr. Barnes has been the beneficiary of considerable kindlier ut the hands of Judge Sclllvau'a frii'iulu, declares the World-IIerold. ' Not a bit more than Judge Sullivan has been the beneficiary of considerable kindness at the hands t Judge Barnes' friends. Bishop Potter's - advocacy of large families may subject him to the charge of Inconsistency, when taken in con nection with his well known views op- , posed to the remarriage of divorced per sope. . There la no reason why remar- t rled divorcees should not raise as largo I'a'nilllcs as the parties to first uiu fringes. The Bee remarked. eultorially . a . few days ago: Judge Sullivan pledged himself and hii partisans to a clean campaign, but . tae vilification circulars ' concocted against Judge Barnea In .the Interest of Judge Eulllvan are already out. But, then, what else was to have been expected? What Is there In this which should make Judge Sullivan's champions foam so at the mouth? They must be hart) pressed to find aa excuse for repudiating .'udgt Sulllvaa's pleds. ItffiTf AKD BUV8B. ' Just before the close of the last con rress Representative Cannon made a speech vigorously arraigning the senate for Its methods of doing business, with particular reference to its alleged usur pation. Mr. Cannon, quite plainly in timated that if the senate did not In stitute a reform of its. own, mot Ion the house would compel it to do so. There were many sympathizers with this ut terance In the lower branch of congress and one of tbem, Mr. McCall of Massa chusetts, has recently expressed his views on the matter in no 'uncertain terms, charging that the senate hns usurped authority nt the expense' of the house on the one hand and of the presi dent on the other., ' He remarks that the (striking circum stance in connection with the power of the senate Is that it holds the com manding pmce at the center of the gov ernment. "It brines to mind the condl tlon of things in Europe under the feudal system, where the nobles hnd the position between the king and the people and gradually encroached upon them both until they were able to oppress both. The senate shares the powers of legislation with the bouse and some of the most important executive functions with the president The latter la on able to appoint a collector or a post master, or even a member, of his own official household,, without the -senate's consent 8uch Important powers, exer cised at the center of the state,' would' naturally increase by encroachment upon botn extremes, and they certainly would not diminish." In regard to the nlleired usurpations of the senate, Mr. McCall refers to the extent to which it has taken from the bouse control over rev enue bflls. which, the . constitution pro vides shall originate In the house, and to the fact that it has In a measure monop olized the work of framing tariff bills. m otner directions it Is noted that tho Senate has so far encroached upon the constitutional powers of the president mat it has virtually taken out of his hands much of the work of negotiating treaties. As to a remedy. Mr. McCall finds the only practical hope of even a partial remedy in the xealous Insistence by the house upon its constitutional preroga tives. "If It should rin that h .i-. --., .v ,.? n, it would be more Hkelv to realise th' advantage of its position in a nation im bued with the democratic iden. Th doubtful powers of government would gravitate toward the house, our laws would become more popular In character and would respond to broad and ponApn I needs in the community, while the char- ucxer or the senate as a conservative body -would be tlnlmnnlred.' Till a promise that In the coming congress, with , a speaker strongly committed to an In- nsrenco by the house anon Its enn.m. tlonal prerogative, that body will as sert useir in this regard, but If it should it cannot be confldentlv . innmi It would accomplish anything, for as Jir. aici.au points out the period of the life Of the house Of' renreaenrart. u, so short that Its term would be likely f come to nn end before a contest between the two houses would acquire any great u.uuiennim. The only sure remedy for the usurpations complained of . k- - - v. a vv ISTI found In the popular election of aenatora. rnt iMMionATioti qvkstioa. The commissioner cenersl of immi. gratlon, Mr. Sarsent,. appears to be dis posed, as was his predecessor, to ploy into the hands of those who would im pose additional restrictions upon immi gration, ilia annual report is of a natm-3 to intensify the demand of those who think that tere 'should be prac tically a closing of the aliens who desire t6 make their homes in this country aud it is nof to doubted that they will make the most A0 il 1 .JW.l. . ui u in rnonn io secure the legislation they, desire. .YVe have heretofore said that the concentration of large numbers of immigrants in the great cities is un desirable, that a better distribution of tnose woo come, into the country would be generally beneficial, but we are nn able to agree with the view of the com missioner that this concentration consti tutes an alarming peril to the nation, or as he puts It a t menace to the "physical, social, moral and political se curity of the country." It is doubtless true that alien communities in some of the large cities do not in all respects live in accordance with American Ideas, but Is It 'not' also a fact that they stead ily Improve under the influence of those ideas?. . . , . Commissioner ffargent seems to us to be altogether, too extravagant In his characterization of these allen'tommunl ties. Tbey have, unqnestionably. their depraved and vicious elements, but there are 'native communities .of which this can nlsolsaui Bnj these pre by far the n pre dangerous to tl physical, soring moral and political security of the country.- rXD J.1U KUPiRt, , The Free Food league of England haw taken a decided position against 'the Chamberlain policy of fiscal reform, as serting thn It wo lid tend to promote the disintegration rtther tbau the. union of the empire, while leading inevitably to ' policy of protection. The league Is composed of unionists with whom the former coloulal secretary has acted and will exert a very great Influence upon popular sentiment In support of the policy of free trade, so manifestly Im portant to n largo majority of the people of the United Kingdom. In order to appreciate thla It la only I necessary to note the fact that out of 200,000,100 -to 225,000,000- bushels . of wheat In round numbers consumed an nually In the United Kingdom only a little over a fifth, about C-o.000,000 bush els, Is (rown lu the British Islands on the average. . England new taxes tea, coffee, coco and sngar. The Chamber lain plan Is io tax wheat and reduce taxes on the other articles. He would put 0 cents a bushel on foreign wheat and 5 per cent on meat, admitting colo nial wheat free. The colonies supply about one bushel In six 6f the amount consumed.' The United States furnishes a-foil two-thirds. This plan would be equivalent to a considerable bounty on the wheat fields of Canada, Australia and India and would undoubtedly en courage wheat production in those conn tries, but In 'the view of the Free Food league this bounty would come out of the -pockets of consumers, millions of whom are not In condition to pay It. That- organization sees nothinc to be gained by such a policy, but many dis advantages. The Idea of strengthen in:; Imperial nnlty by taxing bread and meat does not commend Itself to the masMcs of the English people and the present Indications are that Mr. Chamberlain will not be able to convince a majority of them to accept his plan of fiscal re form. - American wheat, it is safe to say, will continue to have a free market lu England for an Indefinite period. RCU. ROMA MUM ASP BtBCLLIOX. Partisan criticism directed against Chief Justice Sullivan and the supreme court because of the decision In the bible case was severely rebuked by the Rtv. II. C. Herring, pastor of the Plrat Congregational church, in a sermon last night on "Why Is Not the Bible Read In Our Public Bchoo.s?" The minister commended the decision as an exceedingly able. Interesting and luminous paper, conservative and sensible, and one that, It seemed, should be good law, and expressed the hope that "the foolish and unjust criticism" of the court on account of It would cease. World-Herald. In the closing days of the presidential campaign of 1884 an indiscreet pu'plt orator at a banquet table in the city of New York compassed the defeat of James Q. Blalue for the presidency by the utterance of three simple words rvim, ronianlsm and rebellion. If the fate of 'the lamented Blaine overtakes Judge Sullivan it will not be so much because of the Indiscreet utterances of a preacher as the stupid Insistence of his editorial champion to keep the blble-in-the;piibllo-schools decision to the fore front of the campaign. - Whatever may have been the motive of the Omaha divine In taking for his text the btblc-ln-the-publlc-schools con tention, he perhaps unwittingly let the cat out of the meal tub when he made the following declaration in his sermon: : One of. the main contentlona of the Catholic advocates of the expulsion of the bible from the public schools was that it was the King James version to which they objected: As a matter of fact, the Catholics do not like our public schools, because In the net effect they draw the children away from the domination of the priesthood. They have been opposed at all times to a general reading of the bible. Their oppo sition Is not to the King James version, but to bible reading altogether by the general public. ; This part of the sermon was studiously omitted from the World-Herald's report. Why? Because Judge Sullivan's main stay is the democratic party and the mainstay of the democratic party is to be found among the Catholics. Credit ing Rev. Mr. Herring with the best intentions, his reasoning regarding the alleged Catholic aversion to public school education is illogical and un founded. . If., it were true that the Catholics are hostile to the public school system on general principles, would It not be good, tactics for the priesthood to make- no opposition to bible reading in the public schools, so as to keep the children of their parishioners away from the public school ou reriglous grounds? Would not tb- ithollc clergy have clapped their V, jver Judge Sullivan's ruling; n f. be. cause It would strengthen tiieiu in their effort to build up their parish schools as, against the public schools? Doe not the position of Rev. Mr. Herring in favor of bible reading lr tho public schools to k-uicate religious' sentiment take the props uuaer Judge eullivau's nUnr that the bible may be read In public schools as h merary production, but not Hgious book? us a re- TMSTIMUMALB JS IS TCSTLVOMALS. Is It the purpose of the local demo cratic organ to exemplify the poet'a line and "damn" the local ticket of Its party with "faint praise?" A glance at Its editorial page would certnl impression. For weeks past it has pub lished in Its every issue a imoii ..nmi. of testimonials in behalf of that ticket, wnicn. it says, were obtained by Its re portcra from well known citizens, "the purpose being to show the high char acter of the ticket ns a whole." Here ore some of these testimonials complete: T. J. O'Brien, Cafe Manager-A good lot of men. From all I hear the democrats stand a mighty good show. Fred Paffenrath, Tallor-I have nothing to say ngsinst any ot the democrsts nom inated, and from what I hear It is a very good ticket. ' Julius Bennett. Brewery Msnager-So far as I know It Is a very good ticket. At least. J hp.ve heard several good things about It! , How. is that for testimony showing "the high character" of the ticket, which is the declared object of its publication? Many a man has "felt the halter draw" after furnishing a hundredfold better testimonials tlfnn those. They remind us or the ,pld Scotch verdict of "Not proven." They do not Drove tine AVan tielp to prove that the democratic ticket Is'a'cood one, though they do show that the witnesses were friendly nn.i posed to bo obliging. The evidence, If it migbt be called such, is all hearsay and is Indefinite at that. It Is safe to say that each of the witnesses quoted Is- too good a business man to his n applicant for a responsible position on any such 'noncommittal statement as to his character from bis last employer or rrora ms mends. The local democratic organ must be hard up fo something to say lu support of its county ticket. Tosalblv it .. done the best It could, though readers or Its editorial columns might reasona bly conclude that its purpose was to render the ticket ridiculous. The New. York Central railroad Is planning to establish electric trolley lines as suburban branches In the central and western part of New Tork state In order to' save local traffic which has been cut Into heavily by the Independent electric tramways. The policy which the Cen tral adopted two years ago for meeting trolley competition by reducing fares and Increasing the number of trains bas proved Ineffective. The experience of the New Tork Central In thla respect has been no different from what will be the experience of all other railroads In trying to compete with the suburban trolley lines, which eventually are bound to become powerful competitors or be taken In ns valuable feeders. It Is n well established principle In the law of libel that the republication of a lilielous article subjects the publisher to the same penalties as the original publication. When the World-Herald reprints the contents of the anti-Barnes clrculnr, while denying that it hnd any thing to do with the publication of the original, its culpability Is Just as great as if the original had been set up, stereotyped and put through the print ing presses In Its own office. South Omaha democrats, who hare fallen down awfully in registration, claim to hove proofs of registration frauds by the republican machine. In asmuch as the county attorney of Doug las county Is a democrat, the democrats of South Omaha ought to : have no trouble in prosecuting , the republicans whom they claim to be responsible for the alleged registration of dummies and dead men. How lucky. most of us do not realize the terrible danger to which we are ex posed by having a hostile army In active eruption under the shndow of Fort Riley. A special pension fund for the brave soldiers who avert for us the threatened calamity would be only meager recognition of the debt ef grati tude we shall owe. There, Little Girl, Doa't Cry! Philadelphia Press. Cheer up, Canada; It will be all In the family one of these days. Merely u. Reciprocal Kaock. Washington Star. The disappointed associates of Mr. Mor gan and Mr. Schwab doubtless realise that an Investigation, while Interesting, seldom gem anybody his money back. Good Topic tm Talk Os. Kansas City Journal. President Roosevelt mlrht wlselv devota a portion of his message to the divorce question or rather ' to that phase of It which' involves the divorcing of grafting officials from their Jobs. Any Eieaae Better Tkas less, Detroit Free Press. -A.Baltimore trust company with a cap ital of I2.12S.00O loaned I&.000.000 to a Mex ican railroad company, and the directors are now trying, to show that the failure was a visitation of Providence. The Forty Thieves Outclassed. Philadelphia Record. ' The most interesting theatrical perform ance In New Tork are the fairy-like exhibi tions In modern finance. "The Prince and the Frog," "Cinderella and Her flllpper" and "All Baba and the Forty Thlevea" are nothing to them. But In the confusion of the casta It Is hatrd for the spectators to' tell who -la All Bab or who Is the prince. " - " i .Modesty, Dwi the Vell - Portland Oregonlan. The disgust of 'people ot decent sensi bilities over the announcement of the union of May and December Is never quite complete until the rlcturea of the twain are printed in the newspaperav Smirking senil ity Is pitiable by the contrast with the charms of youth or tho well-preserved beauty of middle life, and the contrast be comes painful when the two are presented as husband and wife. Modeity turns away sickened ct the tight of the pretty face of the woman, ind dignity frowns darkly at the self-satisfied smirk on' the face of the aged mar. Morgraaeerlaar Klaanea, London Saturday Review. The Shipbuilding trust was to "sweep Britain from the ueas;" It has itself col lapsed. The Atlantic combine was to put an end to Engl.sh supremacy on the ocean; the one thing which . Is evident amid all the rumors which have been current for some months past la that American man agement has not been a success. Kven the great Steel trust - Itself, with Its nominal capital of 280.100,000, is no longer referred to as a miracle of finance In the way that was common .mmedlately after Its Inception. While the boom held the struc ture looked beautiful, but now at the first suspicion of bad times Its common stock Is quoted at 16 (par 10)), its preferred beljw and even Its t per cent sold bonds at 7u4. If a real depression comes It will be found that the watered ttock which was dumped on the public Is the reverse of gilt-edged security. There is doubtless a good deal which we have to learn from the States, but buccaneering methods In finance coupled with unlimited bounce In commerce are not the weapons1 with which supremacy will be wrested from the Old World. OMAHA RIVER COSVETIO.V Mara te Improve Navigation em the Mltaaarl, Kansas City Times. The proposed convention for river Im provement, to be held in Omaha, November 6. chould be of considerable aaslstance In the work already Initiated by the conven tion held In Kansas City, October t. The call for the convention contemplates a con sideration of waya and means to control the Missouri river and the Kaw river as well to the end that floods In both streams may be prevented. In other words, the purpose of the convention Is exactly (hat of the former one held here, except that It brings In a larger section of the Missouri river and seeks to arouae Intereat In other quarters. It is evident that the larger the scope of the work and the greater the territory Im mediately to be affected by the Improve ment, the better Is the proepect of success. If congressmen of Iowa and Nebraska can be relied upon to aid those of Missouri aad Kanaaa there would be scarcely a doubt that the national legislature would be made to recognise Its duty to the west and per form It. There should be no jealousy or fear that If other, sections of the Missouri valley fol low the lead of Kansas and Missouri noth ing at all will be done and all sections will fall of relief. It must be recogiated that the task undertaken Is a great one of really national Importance the Improvement of western waterways and the securing of vaai property Interests and the saving of many Uvea. There would seem to be no need of a modification of the . demands and the policy of the River Improvement associa tion at thla point, no matter what may be done at tha Omaha convention, but let It be understood that what helps one section will help the other, and that all are merely aaklng of congress the discharge of a duty that must be met at some tlms aad has al ready been neglected toe long- DOI1TGS I1 TUB ARMT. Kveate . mi Carreat talerest Gleaaed ' frasa the A nary aad Ravy Register. Army regulations have been amended so that commanding generals of the geo graphical departments shall have authority to act on all cases brought before courts martial convened within the limits of their respective commands. The object and ef fect of this amendment Is to relieve the president of the necessity of acting on cases coming from courts convened at Wp?i Point. Such cases will hnresfter be pasied upon by the commanding general of the Department of the East. After the appointments to the army from the class of service candidates st Fort Leavenworth there remains ninety-two vacancies tn me grade or second lieuten ant.' Of these flftv-threa In th i..- fantry. nineteen In the cavalry and twenty nm arunerj-. ui tnese, again, sixteen, - six In the cavalrv anit tmn in i . fsntry, were in existence before July 1. j pr is a prospect or the appointment to the army of twn mnn nt ih. m n i . . & . who were finally examined at Fort Leaven worth, which would reduce the nnnri.. previous to July 1 a la m,t. ber of vacancies, therefore, may be filled me appointment or civilian candidates, whom there are literally applications are on file In tha adlntant . erars office.' It will be a difficult matter select the vounar men tnr ni.. and it must necessarily be largely a case A . , . in. auccceas or i nose wno come most, at least best, endorse T been settled, of course, whether any ap pointments Will ba mm fmn 11 t. any event, the remaining vacancies must be held until June for the graduates ef the nrsi ciass at west Point. There has been some consideration of the project of an ultimate decrease In the mili tary force In the Philippines. This Is with the idea of cutting down, eventually, the army now stationed at various garrisons In the archloelas-o td the mini mum rnnrtv11ai by the necessity of the situation and the de- manda upon the troops. From reports which have come from Manila It seems to be evident that little may be expected In that direction. The decrease In the mili tary force now in. contemplation will bring the .numerical strength of troops In the Island down to a force which will barely suffice to perform the duties Involving upon tne soldiers. There Is every prospect that for many years to come there must be maintained In the Islands a considerable body of soldiery unless In time It will be possible , to Increase the native troopa and depend upon them to aid the work which Is now performed by the regular establish ment. It Is known that but three of the numerous native tribes will furnish satis- actory recruits for an Increase In the na tive force, and It Is by no means certain that they would In all respects meet the demands made upon them. In any event, such troops would have to be commanded by American officers, not necessarily those commissioned In the regular establishment, but certainly those of home training and education. It Is likely, therefore, that army people must count upon periodical tours of duty In the Islands for many .years. Some sensational disclosures are expected In regard to the administration of the mill-' tary prison at Alcatras Island. Cal.. Gen eral F. C. Atnsworth. who has charge of the records of military prisoners, has urged upon the acting secretary of war the neces sity of an investigation of the methods of protecting prisoners at Alcatras against es cape. This action Is taken on account of the release of four Inmates during October on what was found to be forged pardona. It has been dlacovered In going over the records that two releases under similar cir cumstances were effected as far back as 189V and some of the War department peo ple are beginning to think that there may be numerous Irregularities of this sort al though there Is no occasion to think that the forgers of 1891 were the culprlta In the latest Incident Yesterday It was found, however, that another prisoner had been released on June 13, the papers In the case being forgeries committed, evidently, by those who wrought the clever Imitations a few weeks ago. The case is that of Ralph K. Williams, whose release was ordered in the shape ot a mitigation of the unexpired portion of a flve-yeara" sentence. Aa in the later cases, the papers relating to Williams are fine examples - of forgery, Includ'ng reproduction of paper, printing, typewrit ing and even a red Ink pen line used habitually to erase an obsolete phrase. All the circumstances point to a collusion be tween clever' forgers In and out of the prison at Alcatras. Much mystery sur rounds the whole case. When the Army Board of Ordnance and Fortification meets In Washington on No vember it will be In receipt of the report written by Prof. S. P. Langiey on his at tempt to solve the problem of mechanical flight1 It will also be In possession of the report made by Major Montgomery M. Ma comb of the Artillery corps, member of the general staff and member of the Board of Ordnance and Fortification. Major Macomb was designated by the board to observe the test of the Langiey flying machine. It be ing the opinion of Ceneral Gillespie, presi dent of the board, that there should be some official representative of that body present when the flight was attempted, as the War department, by virtue of the recommendation of the board, furnished Prof. Langiey with tCO.000, which sum con stituted most of the fund upon which Prof. Langiey drew for the defraying of the cost of his experiments. It Is not known, of course, whether Prof. Langiey will make a request of the board for additional ap propriations, and nothing more Is known of the tenor of Major Macomb'a report. The Impression prevails, - however, that It will not be of the pessimistic chsracter of the newspaper comments. Scientific observers of the Langiey experiments are satisfied that an Important step has been tsken to ward the solution of the problem of flying through the air. Prof. Langiey has made Important contributions to mechanical science, and the recent tests which ended In the partial destruction of the original ma chine cannot with all propriety be deemed a failure. The newspaper ridicule does not maks It one. It Is probable that the War department will make further allotments It It Is reported officially that the Langiey test has been ef profit. . PERSONAL JIOTES. Wilson 8 Bisseil, formerly postmaster general, bequeathed his entire estate, said to be worth nearly $500,000. to his widow. President Diss has fortified to some ex tent agalnat race suicide by Inviting 23,000 Mormons to settle In Mexico. Because Ills wife called him a bow legged runt an aggrieved husband in Ban Francisco walked out of his home and into a divorce court. The court bailiff wears No. 12s. but the crushed specimen of the lordly sex never ssked him to get busy. Morris Williams of Wllkesbarre, who has Just been appointed president of the Penn sylvania Coal company, started his work about the mints aa a breaker boy and has risen through all the grades of mining to his present position, where he controls mil lions of dollars worth of property and commands more than 10,000 men. William atoll, a young German of Mil waukee, who three yeara ago left that city for the purpose of serving bis three years' term In the Germsji army, has Just re turned to the Cream City. W'lthlo twenty tour hours after the does of his allotted TilEOLD Absolutely Puro THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE term of service Stoll was on board a steamer booked for his adopted country. , According to South Carolina precedent the Armenians who s' e on trial In Massachu setts for shoot'a- an editor should be unan imously acquitted on the ground that they had to shoot. President Thompson of the State univer sity at Columbus, O., addressed the stu dents In reference to recent disorders on the campus. He declared ha sera to be cow ards and said those who refuse to submit to such indignities were heroes. The German government has awarded the title of "Excellency" and has admitted to membership In the Prussian Privy coun cil Prof, von Behring of Marburrf. the fa mous discoverer of diphtheria serum. This is the first time such an honor has been bestowed on a physician. William Allen White, the Kansas news paper man, denies that he Is to be dean of the school of Journalism In the State uni versity. "In the first place." says Mr. White, "the Job has not been offered me; In the second place. I wouldn't have the Job, and In the third place, there Is no such Job." Sylvester Burke, the hero of Samar, has received an appointment as lighthouse keeper at Sandusky, O. As a member of the famous fighting Ninth Infantry Burke was at the Samar massacre and In a hand-to-hand fight killed the chief of police of the city and received honorable mention from the War department JIDGE JOHN B. BARKES. . MoCook Tribune: John B. Barnes, the re publican nominee for supreme Judge, will honor the place he seeks by his manhood and Judicial ability. Vote for him. Holdrege Cltlsen: Judge Barnes' ablUty as a lawyer and a Judge is unquestioned, and as for his integrity, he is every whit a man. There Is no doubt but he Is-the right person for the place. Tllden Cltlsen: Judge Barnes and Judge Sullivan were alike nominated unanimously and without opposition In their respective party conventions. The Implied charge in the term "corporation candidate" no more applies to one than the other. Each Is well qualified for the supreme bench, and there is absolutely no reason why Judge Barnes should not receive every repubiloan vote In the state. Emerson Enterprise: Judge Barnes In his speech of acceptance before the con vention which nominated him for supreme Judge said he was under no obligations to any corporation, was familiar with the work of the supreme court and .knew of no reason why he could not administer tha duties of that high office with fairness. The Enterprise agrees with Judge Barnes. He will make an Impartial and creditable su preme Judge. Norfolk Press: The Press believes that Judge Barnea will be elected, because Ne braska Is a republican state to begin with and because It Is desirable to place Ne braska solidly In tha republican column this fall for the sake of tha national ticket next year to end with, in view of the covert and concerted attack now being made by organised capital on President Roosevelt no republican can afford to take any other view than that It would be dis astrous to permit the head of the ticket to be defeated this year, and however much regard he might have tor Judge Sul livan he cannot afford to vote for him. Madison Chronicle: Judge J. B. Barnes of Norfolk, who has been one of the su preme court commissioners for the psst several years, is most eminently qualified to step into the office of supreme Judge. His years of training as one of the most successful lawyers of northeast Nebraska, his keen Judgment and thorough knowledge of the law, as well as the fact that he has already received a most eminent training in all that pertains to the work of a su preme court Judge, are points In his favor that the toter will not forget this fall. Be aura you cast a ballot for him on Novem ber 8. His election will be a merited recog nition of legal ability. Men's $1 la That's the price of three or four new lines of men's suits that came fresh from our factory Saturday. They have the appearance tho' of several dollars more- u triile extreme but the season's rage Coat full and broad nhnnlflered and trousers of the regulation peg tops. What a man doesn't own in the way of figure, i?rowu- j ing, King & Co's clothes foan him. k NO CLOTIIINO FITS LIKE OURS. , ( OmtDiE SUGGESTIONS FOR A SMILE. "I see that Mr. Schwab refuses to take the witness stnnd." "I suppose It's because the pay Is too small." Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Is It true that you began life without any capital T" asked the reporter who was Inter viewing the multi-millionaire. "No, In deed," replied the self-mHde man, "1 began with a capital I." Chicago News. "But why do you advertise this ss a win ter resort when you admit that the ther mometer sometimes goes as low as 30 or VS degrees below sero? ."Well, that's winter, Isn't ItT Real win ter. It seems to me." Chicago Post. Blxter Tou have heard of a man biting off his rose to spite his facsT Yarley Yea, but I never have seen It done. I have known a man to kick one o' hla hands out ot doors, however. Boston Transcript. Zeuxls had painted hla grapes so well that the birds picked at them. "That's nothing," asserted his rival, "I painted some prunes so well that the people In our boarding house wouldn't eat them. ' Totally abashed the great Grecian slunk humbly back to his studio. New Tork Bun. Little Elmer Papa, what Is executive ability T Prof. Broadhead The faculty of earning your bread by the sweat ot ether people's brows, my son. Puck. "Silence, or you're a dead man," the burglar hissed, with revolver leveled at the man'a head. , . "Madam," whiapered the man. divining the burglar's sex, ."your mask Is. not on straight-' "Heavens!" she exclaimed, and as she tried to adjust It he, thus taking her off her guard, sprang upon her and disarmed, her. Philadelphia Press. "GOOD FELLOWS." . ' W. D. Nesblt In Chicago Tribune. Now, thla la not a preachment, and this Is not a screed, '..,. ... Nor does it point a moral that all of us should heed. .... ., , , . But, why Is It, "good fellows" men rich In sense and fun, . . Who give us song and story and cheer us every one, ... . Who in the realm of pleasure are lifted .to a throne . Why la It these "good fellows" must meet their death alone? n,. with hla fancies, tha minstrel I with his strains. The writer with hla stories In all their varied veins ... . ., Big hearted, open handed, the Idols of the crowd; No praise or friendly boasting makes them a whit too proud; All of us Join their laughter; none hears their passing moan . .. Why Is it these "good fellows" go down to death alone? Is all their fun to trick us? Ia It a matque Do they count folly hollow a th ng of little Is there behind the laughter that rings so true and clear . Is there a heart all gloomy the salt tang of a tear? . His life belongs to others; but Is his death his own? , , - Why is It these "good fellows", take the dark way alone? , , Now, ihle Is not a preachment but why do they not choose To hear, ss thev go from us, the last long langh they lose? . Do they not want the story, the rollick of the song ' To echo down the pathway the pathway straight and long? ' But, no; foraje'ting shunning the friendl grasp and tone, -Why Is It these "good fellows" must meet their death alone? Or. 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