THE OMAIIA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1903.
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before me this tuih day of September. A.
D. ISO. M. B. H UNGATE.
(Seal) Notary Publlo.
Last chance to register tomorrow.
General Prosperity Is the best cam
paigner enlisted In the services of the
republican psrty because he never stops
working.
If the Missouri Pacific should decide
:o keep all Its trains off the Belt line
the receiver of the Belt line would have
.lttle to receive.
President Parry of the National Manu
facturers' association Is talking again.
The manufacture of public sentiment
seems to be his specialty.
This Is the year when there are more
disgruntled and dissatisfied democrats in
Omaha and Douglas county than there
tire dissatisfied republican.
Every Judicial district In Nebraska,
with possibly two exceptions, went' re
publican last year and every one of them
uught to go republican this year.
It Is suggested that the legislature,
called to settle the copper war at Butte,
Mont As If the people' of Montana
were not afflicted sufficiently now. :
Every good republican owes It to his
party not only to register for election
himself, but to see to it that every other
republican of his acquaintance Is duly
registered.
The fusion reform organ must be hard
up for campaign ammunition when it is
reduced to the necessity of filling its
columns with fake interviews with dis
tempered antls. " '
Don't delude yourself with the Idea
that because you registered last year
It Is not necessary to register again this
time. Last year's registration is as dead
as Noah's giraffe. .
Nebraska's national guardsmen man
aged to get through the ordeal of fire at
Fort Riley without serious loss.. It is
no discredit to them that the cartridges
used were all blanks.
Omaha still retains second place among
American pork packing cities with , an
excess of more than 200,000 bogs
packed since March 1 above Kansas
City, which Is third In the race.
The Canadians are still sore over the
Alaskan boundary award and Great
Britain does not know which liniment to
apply. The soreness, however, will wear
off by Itself in the course of time.
'
Judge Doano does nut mince matters
when he refers to the patchl-uilt
Judicial ticket as a bogus nonpartisan
ticket Judge Doane knows the ling of
a genuine cola from the spurious coin
made up of galvanized brans.
A court verdict down at LIuco!u is
being attacked on an affidavit alleging
that some of the Jurors drank beer along
with their meals. What would the de-
foated litigant have them drink when
Halt creek water Is so unpalatable)
The forecast for Nebraska "or Tues
day, November 3, is a shower of heavy
republican gains In the eastern half of
Nebraska, with a republican clean sweep
la the western half of the state and
heavy frosts on fiiMion reform territory.
, There are still more than la.OOU
voters In the city of Omaha and fully
2.500 in South Omaha who hare uot
taken the trouble to register this fall.
If you do not register tomorrow you
will lose your vote for Tuesday's elec
tion. I !
When holding river conventions de
manding congressional appropriations for
the protection of the banks of the
Mississippi the resolution committee
should remember that the Mississippi is
not the only river that Is proue to overflow
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'v MlSttSSUTl YAhhtT PKOTUCTlOlt.
The action of the convention at New
Orleans, urging , that the national gov
ernment should at once undertake the
protection of the Mississippi valley from
floods, will undoubtedly be in due time
brought to the attention of congress and
should receive earnest consideration.
When it is stated that the floods of last
spring, by far the most disastrous In the
history of the west destroyed property
approximating $40,000,000, the import
ance of the subject can be realized. The
convention favored the construction of
levees and while this Js undoubtedly es
sential it is not all that is necessary for
the protection required.
In an article In the October number of
the North American Review, Senator
Burton of Kansas makes a forcible ar
gument for the prevention of floods by
storing the waters high up along the
tributaries of the streams that drain the
continent where the extendea catchment
areas collect the rainfall. He says that
there is the place where the most effect
ive measures may be taken to prevent
flood destruction, for there the excess of
water can be conserved and the flood
Itself averted. "This does not mean that
we should abandon our artificial em
bankments along the lower Mississippi,
nor that we should cease constructing
levees. It may be necessary to go on
with that work, for a time, until we
have adopted the better plan of getting
control of the . tributaries and heed
waters, by means of dams,' reservoirs
and cut-offs. In the great1 catchment
areas higher ' up." Senator Burton re
gards prevention of floods and Irrigation
as twin Ideas, .which should be treated
together. The lower country should' be
protected from overflows and the upper
country shduld be given the water for
Irrigation' and power.
Mr. Burton concludes his article as fol
lows: ' "We have subjugated the Missis
sippi valley, developed enormously our
agricultural, manufacturing and mining
resources, but we have reached a point
where there Is no frontier. The millions
of acres of land now uncultivated, if
they ore to be utilized, must be Irrigated.
Other millions of acres In the lowlands.
If they are to be safe from destruction,
must be protected from floods. If "this
solution be practicable, It. promises
greater good than any single form of de
velopment undertaken by us as a nation.
That It Is practicable Is believed by the
leading scientific engineers who 'have
given the matter careful consideration.
To harness the rainfall, thereby at once
protecting the lowlands from desolating
floods, utilizing the waters for the benefit
of man and extending the farming area to
meet the needs of an ever-growing popu
lation, forms a task worthy of the most
earnest endeavor of our government"
Admitting the practicability, of Senator
Burton's plan and not questioning that
It would result In great benefits, yet Its
adoption Is not probable at least in the
near future, because of the great ex
pense involved and the fact that the
government has already entered upon a
vast work of Irrigation that will re
quire an enormous expenditure. Doubt
less at some time In the future the propo
sition urged by Mr. Burton will receive
serious consideration and In the mean
while the levee system must be con
tinued and enlarged. The action of the
convention at New Orleans will have the
earnest support of the people of the Mis
sissippi valley.
WHO ARK HW UPPVSKtiTSI
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Evening Post says that ques
tions much discussed In the political cir
cles of the national capital are whether
President Roosevelt's opponents can pre
vent his receiving the nomination next
summer, or whether it Is too late for
any adverse combination to accomplish
his overthrow: 'lie states that the possi
bility of a sensational reversal of today's
apparent program finds not a few sup
porters and observes that proponents of
the theory that Sir. Roosevelt will yet
fall of the nomination hold that no op
portunity will be given his opponents to
show their hand until, this year's elec
tions are over.
Who are these opponents of the presi
dent? Where are they to be foundT We
know of no republican leader who Is not
in favor of the nomination of Mr. Roose
velt next summer, some of the strongest
among them having so publicly declared
themselves. The correspondent says it
Is asserted that six men could get to
gether and decide that Roosevelt was not
to be nominated and be would not bo.
Who are these leader powerful enough
to set aside the will of the masses of the
republican party, who demand that
Theodore Roosevelt shall be nominated!
They connot be named. They are not
among the recognized republican leaders.
It Is not uncommon to see the intimation
that Senator Hnnna Is secretly hostile
to the president. No greater Injustice,
we think, could be doije him. Mr.
Hanna has declared that he favors Mr.
Roosevelt's nomination and during his
political career he has never given nuy
cause for doubting his candor and sincer
ity. We believe the president' has no
more earnest supporter for the nomina
tion than the Ohio senator. So far as
known there is no republican leader In
the eastern and middle states who Is an
opnonent of Mr. Roosevelt and there cer-
talnly Is not one In the west. And every
where the president has the hearty and
unqualified support of the rank and file
of the party.
This Is the situation today and there
seems no reason to doubt that It will un
dergo no change berore the meeting of
the republican national convention next
ye.r. The opposition to President Roose
velt on the part of certain corporate in
terests may become more " pronounced,
but it has done him no harm with the
people and is not likely to. Whatever
republicans there msy be who are la
,j mpatby with this opposition, and of
course there are some, are without
weight or Influence la the party. Mr.
Roosevelt has done nothing which honest
and loyal republicans can reasonably find
fault with. II Las bVcn faithful to the
pledge he gave to carry out the policy of
his' predecessor and his course In all
respects has been strictly In line with
republican principles. We believe his
nomination to be as certain as any future
political event can be.
Tat CVCHTY BOARD.
With the possible exception of the
newly' created position of county asses
sor, the taxpayers of Douglas county are
more vitally Interested in the makeup of
the Board of County Commissioners than
they are in any other office to be filled nt
the coming election.
The county board disburses more than
Imlf a million dollars of the taxpayers'
money every year. It Is an open secret
that for some years past, and especially
since the board has been under demo
cratic control, thousands upoa thousands
of dollars have been voted away and
squandered on favored contractors and
dile-blters who render no equivalent serv
ice for their pay. There Is a crying need
for reform In every branch of the county
government now under control of the
board, but no radical change is to be
hoped for until the board Is reorganized
on a business basis.
The first move in that direction must
bo taken by the election of M. J. Ken
nard, the republican candidate for com
missioner, who possesses not only the
requisite business qualifications, but
stands pledged to a thorough overhauling
of the county payroll and a general
cleanup. While his opponent may have
good business qualifications, bis Intimate'
relations to the present county board
combine, leave nothing to expect from
him In the1 way of reform or retrench
ment What the people of Douglas county
want Is full publicity of all transactions
that Involve the expenditure of public
rooney. There should be an end to star-
chamber sessions and the letting of con
tracts for public work without competi
tion. This cannot be done by simply
substituting one member of the combine
with a man who stands In with the com
bine. We can make sure of breaking the
combine only by the election of M. J.
Kennard next Tuesday and following up
his election by the election next year of
another equally competent and equally
honest business man.
Every little while the old state sov
ereignty spook bobs up in Dixie land as
If it had not been buried forty years
ago. Its latest appearance at the Mis
sissippi levee convention held in New
Orleans during the present week was
grotesque as well as ludicrous. The
state sovereignty extremists that repre
sented tho lower Mississippi expressed
great anxiety to secure an appropriation
Of many millions from the national gov
ernment for reconstructing and improv
ing the great waterway, , but they did
not propose to surrender their states
rights to the national government In the
expenditure of the money. In other
words, they want the people of the whole
country taxed for Improving the Missis
sippi river, but want the states traversed
by the Mississippi to boss the Job and
disburse the taxes.'
All democratic hopes of success In the
Douglas county campaign appear to be
centered upon South Omaha, but even
If South Omaha should give its old-time
democratic majority of five to six hun
dred the prospects for democratic suc
cess are awfully slim, for It may be set
down as a foregone conclusion . that
Omaha will cast Its old-time republican
majority, which will overlap the South
Omaha vote by two to one.
Attorneys for an Immigrant under or
ders for deportation as an anarchist have
made a plea In court that anarchy is a
religion and that the constitution forbids
discrimination on account of religion.
The next thing we know the champion
of some clever criminal will be arguing
that forgery is a religion and invoking
the constitutional guaranty of free
thought to keep the culprit out of the
penitentiary.
To get the grain shipped to Otntiha
the grain dealers will have to divide
up the differential secured from the
Chicago Great Western with the grain
growers. When the farmers of neigh
boring territory share In the benefits
they will appreciate the effort to make
Omaha a grain exchange and bring them
a home market at their very gates.
It is certainly a pretty how-de-do
when a democratic war horse like Judge
Donne has to go on the official ballot
labeled a populist while the democratic
ticket Is loaded up with candidates who
have always declared their uncompro
mising opposition to every principle and
everybody belonging to the democratic
party.
Word comes from Washington that
President Roosevelt's Thanksgiving
proclamation will be Issued to the pub
lic by tomorrow ami that he will desig
nate the last Thursday lu November as
the; national day of thanksgiving.
Strangely enough, the calendar makers
; hare anticipated the president's action.
If there is any way for Tammany to
get the election of Greater New York by
book or crook it may be depended on to
go the limit The Tammany tricksters,
however, will have to be smoother than
usual to work their scheme successfally
with the friends of Mayor Low warned
and on their guard.
The plans are about completed for the
visit of the Russian czar to Emperor
William of Germany. The czar hai
thoughtfully Bps red his host a great deal
of trouble by ignoring the example set
by King Edward for royalty to travel
Incog.
Meaas ts Heavrk the Sea.
Brooklyn Eagle.
Why all this hoo-hoo over the alleged
Inability of Canada to reach the sea. now
that the Alaskan boundary haa been fixed T
The Canadian Pacific runs through Maine,
and the Michigan Central goes through
Canada. National coneent - alone Is
necessary and both railroads are peace
makers. '
Cool Soot to Rest law
Washington Post
If Secretary Root and Senators Lodge
and Turner are looking for a place where
they will not be disturbed by dinner In
vitations for a few weeks, we suggest that
they visit Ottawa, Canada.
Completing the Collection.
Chicago Tribune..
The Alaska boundary decision gives Uncle
Sam possession of Chllkoot, Skagway,
Chllcat, Dyea and several other equally
Interesting places. He already had
Puyallup, Snohomish, Wallula, Taklma,
Stellacoom, Issaquah, Chehalls, Whatcom
and Conconully.
Dlatrlbotlag Ul-Uotten Wealth.
Minneapolis Journal. '
The litigation over the remains of the
Ship trust Is affording a means of distrib
uting some steel trust wealth. The law
yers are the agencies of distribution and
their pockets the receptacle. Toung man,
ponder long before you decide whether to
be a corporation or a corporation lawyer.
Imaclat It If Yea Caa.
Indianapolis Journal.
Imagine Benjamin Harrison, drover
Cleveland or any lawyer with a high sense
of professional honor drawing up a will be
queathing $60,000 to himself, having himself
appointed one of the executors, and then
writing a letter to the testator's widow,
censuring her for trying to break ths will!
"Rare Bean Goad to Hisa."
Kansas City Star.
In no other state has the decline of popu
lism been so marked as In Nebraska. The
populists became strong enough in Ne
braska to do a lot of things In'a political
way. although they never were numerous
In Mr. Bryan's town, ward or precinct. But
the head of the populist movement does not
need to worry If hla followers are on the
decline. They certainly have been good to
him. They have honored him politically,
they have paid their money to hear him
leoture, they have bought his books and
subscribed for his paper. He Is well fixed,
because lie did his harvesting before the
clouds gathered. . . 1
Secrets of Trust Finance,
Philadelphia Record.
Ultimately the country will learn all the
secrets of trust finance. Besides all the
rich information developed In the hearing
on the appointment of a permanent re
ceiver for the Shipbuilding trust, the tem
porary receiver Is about to make a report
which will disclose much of the early his
tory of the combination, and a foreclosure
suit In California has already caused some
highly interesting charges. Of course, this
trust Is worse than most of the others, or
It would not have failed, but the system of
forming and financing trusts Is substan
tially the same for all, and the men who
worked It early In the boom not only made
fortunes, but they made great reputations
as financiers. - .
Good Tim te Wo Canada.
Chicago Tribune.
Canada is feeling a bit put out with Great
Britain because of. the Alaska boundary
case. For the moment the Imperial ties
are loose. Now Is the time for Uncle Sam to
catch the snow lady's heart on the rebound.
By making himself Indispensable at this
particular moment he can do much to
bring to a final, consummation that mar
riage which all their friends say would be
the best thing in the world for them both.
In other words, .let America offer Canada
trade advantages .rand let the offer te made
now. - A -close .trade friendship will event
ually lead to political union In the case of
Canada and the United States. The time
to make this alliance Is now, for Joseph
Chamberlain across the water la busily
preaching the ImperlaP'sollvereln, and If
Uncle Sam waits, too long he la apt to see
Miss Canada turn her engagement with old
John Bull Into marriage.
RURAL MAIL CARRIERS.
Some Reasons Why They Shoal Re
eel re Better Pay.
Detroit Free Press.
In asking for more pay the rural mall
carriers havs a cause that merits ths se
rious consideration of congress. The car
riers now receive $600 a year, out of which
they must provide a horse and wagon and
care for the horse.' Their routes vary from
twenty to fifty miles, over roads that are
usually bad and frequently worse. The
work Is hard and exacting. In winter they
are subjected to much exposure, and it
would seem as a matter of justice that they
deserved at least as good pay as the city
carriers who encounter fewer hardships.
The rural delivery of mall haa become one
of the most successful experiments ever
undertaken by the postal department It
has brought' the farmer Into dally touch
with the world, and has destroyed the ele
ments of Isolation that narrowed the lives
of himself and his family despite the
greatest resistance on their part. With the
extension of the . service there should be
reasonable compensation for the carriers.
They began their work as an experiment,
and their salary was fixed afbltrarlly at a
very low figure In comparison with the sal
aries paid In general In the government
service. They are doing their work faith
fully and well, and the man who covers a
fifty-mile route six days In the week, rain
or shine, should certainly be paid as much
as a government clerk who never works
more than eight hours a day and haa thirty
days' vacation every year.
IXCOVERIJfti TUB RASCALS.
President's Determination to Stantp
Oat Graft of All Kinds.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Several members of the cabinet, accord
ing to a Washington dispatch, are sorely
discontented with the president's method of
hunting rascals out of the Potofflce depart
ment. They are said to have "almost
openly criticised the dragnet policy which
has involved men accused of Irregularities
only with those known to have been crimi
nal." An interesting concrete Instance of
this resentment Is given.
It seems that the Investigation made by
Assistant Postmaster Oeneral Bristew re
vealed that a member of the cabinet was
interested In property rented by the gov
ernment, of which the rent had been In
creased by Irregular methods. "There
was no evidence," the dispatch explains,
"that the cabinet official had any knowl
edge of the deal, but he naturally resented
a line of Investigation which touched him
even remotely."
Why should he resent knowledge that his
agents were dishonest, and were therefore
likely to swindle him as they has de
frauded the government? Why should hla
wrath be visited on those who brought
truth to light T
lien who resent disclosures of their per
sonal negligence of the management of
their private business may be personally
honest, but their honesty can hardly be
considered of the fibre that compels hon
esty In publlo affairs.
Nothing that the president has done
has won him such abiding confidence as
his manifest determination to stamp out
graft of all kinds In his administration,
no matter who might be hurt. And ths
sooner all members of his cabinet support
him In that determination the better for
themselves and their prospects of contin
uance In publie Ufa
ROUND ABOUT HEW YORK.
Ripples the Cwrreat at Life la
the Metropolis.
True friendship, unaffected and sponta
neous, often develops a material side. By
the settlement of the estate of Maxlmllllan
Herochell, once a tobacco peddler, Mrs.
William George of New York City Is to re
ceive $200,000. a tribute to the friendship and
kindness of herself and family. Herschell
came to New Tork from Germany about
forty years ago with only a small sum to
tide him over until he got a foothold here.
On the steamer he met Mr. and Mrs. Wil
liam Simons, the parents of Mrs. George
and they struck up an acquaintance. Her
schel became a peddler of cigars. Then he
opened a little tobacco store on the East
side. He slept fn the stort and lived on a
few cents a day. Fifteen years sgo he had
enough thousands saved up to give up the
store. After that he sought brokers' offl
ces, and made shrewd Investments. From
the day he landed until his death he kept
on accumulating money.
He lived in a hall bedroom, ate in the
cheapest restaurants and often walked
down to the financial district to save car
fare. But he kept up his acquaintance with
the Slmonses. When their daughter, now
Mrs. George, was married twenty-two years
ago he gave her away. Last summer his
visits suddenly ceased and Mrs. George,
going to look for him, found him 111 In his
room. She had him removed to St. Luke's
hospital and visited him there every day.
When he died she was at bis bedside. Just
before the old man died he gave her the key
to -a safe deposit box in the Mercantile
Trust company and told her that he had se
curities there which he wanted her to have,
as she had been hla only friend. The se
curities ' are worth $990,000. Mrs. George
traced the living relatives of Hcrschell,
four In number, and they, with Mrs. George
have, agreed on an equal division of the
property, each getting bne-flfth.
Members of the medical profession In
New .York are greatly interested in the
case of a Patchogue young man by the
name of Henry Price, who has survived one
of the worst attacks of lockjaw that the
local physicians have ever treated. The
recovery of Price Is attributed to the use
of antitoxin, $100 worth having been for
warded from Albany for the use of a local
surgeon. Dr. M. B. Davis, when the case
was reported, about a week ago. Price
is now able to sit up In bed and to move
his mouth and arms, and it Is thought
that In a short time he will completely re
cover. Dr. Davis contends that this case
is one of the most remarkable ever Ijeard
or, and he has sent a history of it to
various prominent surgeons and medical
Journals, and It Is receiving widespread at
tention.
Two trucks locked wheels at Broadway
and Chambers street. "What's the blanked
matter with you, you blanket y blanked
blank!" shouted one of the drivers.
"If you would kindly back your horse
a foot or so," said the other, "we could
become untangled."
"What's that, you white llvered "
"Please back up a little, and I can
disengage my vehicle."
'What! Who! Say that again It you
dare!"
- "I only asked you, as one gentleman
would of another, to back up a little bit."
"Well, I'm blanked! Been driving here for
twenty years!", driver No. 1 glared, and
grew red In the face. "Who be you? One
of them Dowleltes from Chicago?"
"Peace be to thee," said No. 2, with a
smile.
The old East Blder was speechless. He
wiped his brow. He glared about him.
Then he backed up and drove on. But
not another word was heard out of him.
One of the greatest swindles of the age
was recalled In New York last week, when
the famous "spook pictures" of Ann O'Delta
Dts de Bar were placed on show at the
Fifth avanue art galleries. They are the
pictures for Which Luther B. Marsh, the
leader of 'the New York bar during war
times, gave a fortune. Under the strange
spell cast upon him by the woman, who Is
now In an English prison. Marsh declared
that he had seen the canvases executed by
Verboeckhoeven, Van Dyke, Bart el, Vel
tens, Paulus Potter. Clgolt, Jordans,
Salvator Rosa and other great artists under
the Invocation of Dts de Bur. Persons out
side the Influence of DIs de Bar said the
pictures were the work of her husband,
who was a' good painter. The pictures are
now chiefly valuable as a relic of one of the
most remarkable deceptions ever practiced.
As such they are fcttractlng not a little In
terest, and a few who call at the galleries
declare their belief that the pictures are
originals, as claimed.
Charles M. Schwab, former president of
the Steel trust, has abandoned, at least
temporarily, the resort which he announced
last year he would build for the poor chil
dren of New York. It was to be a place
where they could go for a day's outing and
enjoy It with all the advantages of the
most luxurious seaside resort. Mr, Schwab
purchased sixty-five acres with a laka on
Btaten Island, and there1 on the borders of
the lake he proceeded to erect the buildings,
which contemplated an outlay of perhaps
$1,000,000, to say nothing of the cost of main
tenance. The work was begun June E, and half a
million dollaj- would be a conservative esti
mate of the amount spent on the project so
far. On Thursday, October S, John Donlan,
the superintendent, received verbal notldea.
Uon from the general manager of the Insti
tution, Frank Tucker, that he hpd received
Instructions to dispense with his services
and with the services of all the men under
him. Hereafter Schwab's magnificent
charity will be under the care of a night
watchman and a caretaker until such time
aa it la deemed advisable to resume the
building, and grading operations. No ex
planation has been given except that the
work might as well wait till next spring.
The merchants of New York are about to
take concerted action against the vastly
overworked custom of returning wedding
presents and getting back the money paid
for them. There are many high-grade second-hand
firms In New York that openly
proclaim the tact In their advertisements
thst they give liberal prices for "duplicate
wedding gifts." Not only that, but for sev
eral years past a certain Fourth avenue
"agent" has been driving a flourishing
trade In the queer business of "identifying
wedding presents," as he calls the work.
This chap has some sort of a method
whereby he can tell at a glance, or at least
And out, at what establishment any wed
ding present submitted to his inspection has
been purchased. He Is therefore enor
mously useful to those persons who would
eagerly return wedding presents If they I
only knew at what establishments the. same !
were purchased. The "Identifier" makes all !
this easy. If you get a silver chafing' dish,
for Instance, for a wedding gift, and feel
that you could use ths money the chafing
dish cost to a great deal more advantage
than the chafing dish, you take the gift to
the "Identifier," leave it with him for a do
or so, and then he Infallibly tells you the
name of ths establishment at which it was
purchased he never . makes a mistake,
either. Then you take the chafing dish
back to the establishment at which It was
purchased, pat up a dolefuj tale to the ef
fect that you havs been victimised to the
extant of receiving Just seven chafing diohes
of almost the asms kind as wedding gifts
and you get the money that the chafing
dish cost from the dealer. The merchants
are now going to get together te nreveat
all this sort of scheming.
Waltham Watches.
Foreign made watches aro
no longer the fashion.
"The Perfeded American rTafV" n Mastrittd book
of interesting information iboxst witches, KviU be sent
free apon request.
AmertcM Wtllfuun Watch Company, 1
Wattham, Mass.
PEKSOMAI, SOTE9.
Sir Frederick Treves, the famous English
surgeon, who has Just retired, established a
record in performing 1,000 consecutive
operations for appendicitis without a death.
William Muldoon, the once famous
wrestler, has transferred his home at
Belfast, N. Y., to Bishop Charles II. Col
ton of Buffalo, to be used for a convent,
charitable or educational Institution.
There Is a great scarcity of servants in
Evanston, III., and Mayor Barker, whose
household was servantless for three days,
went Into his own kitchen and cooked a
dinner. It took him two hours to prepare
the meat
Mayor McLans of Baltimore Is generally
conceded to be about the best-dressed man
In that city. In the hours devoted to his
duties as head of the civic government he
Is rarely seen In anything but gray clothes.
Mr. McLane is not partial to jewelry.
Dr. August Greth of San Francisco, will,
It Is thought, be a formidable rival of
Santos Dumont and the other crack flying
machine men at the St. Louts fair. He
recently sailed over San Francisco In a
ship, showing. It to be dirigible to an
amazing degree, and otherwise a most
wonderful affair.
John Redmond. M. P., In his anxiety to
discourage emigration from Ireland as
serts that the poorest laborer In County
Kerry Is better oft than the average Irish
American worklngman In the United States.
Mr. Redmond has been here, and should
know whereof he speaks, yet It Is passing
strange that so many come and so tew
return.
John G. Carlisle, formerly of Kentucky
and at one time a leader In congress, has
amassed a handsome fortune since taking
up the practice of law In New York City.
He Is a notable figure, always dressed in
black black broadcloth suit, trousers gen
erally very boggy, black silk hat, and black
cravat. Taken altogether, he looks like
a print of half a century ago.
HAW OR MOUSE t
Absurdity of Newspaper Neutrality oa
Pnbllo Qaertlons.
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
The Durand (111) Clipper has changed
hands, and the new management assures
Its readers that the change will be for the
better.
"It will be the aim of the editor." he
says in his Initial announcement, "to con
duct an up-to-date paper, using Its news
columns In the interests of Durand and
surrounding conn try: to give a fair and tm
partial review of events, showing neither
fear nor favor, and In fact to publish a
journal that will merit the approval and
patronage of the cltixens of this vicinity,
avoiding anything bordering on the freakish
or sensational."
This Is a good plank and we vould
gladly extend our congratulations and the
right hand of fellowship to the new editor
were it not that he spoils everything by
declaring that "from a political star.JpoInt
the editor will endeavor to remain neu
tral, conducting an Independent paper, at
least for the present." !
This Is where. In our Judgment, he makes
a mistake. Unless the people of Durand
are entirely unlike the people of the state
in general, they will not take kindly to an
editor who so cautiously withholds his
political views, If he has any, "for the
present," or antll he discovers which side
It will be the more profitable for him to
take.
We have already too many newspapers
lg Illinois that are conducted entirely with
a view to the present. They are wo'rse, it
anything, than those journals which are
conducted with -a view to the past. The
public has no confidence in them, and the
public is right. A newspaper which Is con
stantly on the alert for changes In the
weather vane, and ever on the lookout to
see which way the cat will Jump, is not
deserving' of popular support.
Perhaps the new editor of the Durand
Clipper may speedily see his error and re
form his plan. Possibly his patrons may
convince him that It pays either to fish or
to cut bait. In this age one must, to sue
ceeed, be either a man or a mouse, with
all the chances In favor of the former.
. The people of Illinois are fond of milk,
and they are not prejudiced against water,
but they do not like a mixture of the two
In politics, religion, or Journalism.
TRUSTS AND VESTED RIGHTS.
"Concrete Instances of Deliberate
Financial Frand."
Baltimore American.
The severest blow yet Inflicted upon the
various trusts has come from the exposures
connected with the investigation of the
Shipyard company's affairs. The revolu.
tlons In that Inquiry have generated a sus
picion which, when It becomes more ac
tively operative, is liable to weaken and
possibly destroy many of the other combi
nations which were formed on similar prin
ciples. Hitherto the capitalists have de
nied that the trusts In question were
financed on exaggerated lines. They have
Indignantly contradicted all charges that
the companies were capitalised beyond their
actual, tangible assets. Whenever threats
were leveled at the trusts with the idea of
questioning thtlr legality a great wall went
up from the promoters to the effect that
demagogues were seeking to Interfere with
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Farnam
From the teamster to the banker- . ? . -from
the clerk to the priest
Decatur shoes supply the most .exacting 7
desire as to wear economy style. ;(
$3. 50 and $5.00. v;
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SEWING MACHINES AND SUPPLIES.
We are agents for ths beat make of sew
Home, Domestic White, Household, Standard and others.
Our line of parts Is very eoroplsU. We do repitrlng and guarantee all our work
P. E. FLODMAN & CO.,
vested property. This affected air of In
jured Innocence was successful for awhile,
because the American people are very con
servative In their attitude toward vested
rights. The desire to avoid the prosecution
of any charge which Is likely to shake tho
security of established property haa en
abled more than one unjust Industrial com
bination to escape legal dissolution. The
people have permitted some wrongs to con
tinue in fear lest they might hurt some ex
isting rights.
Recent revelations, however, have shown
that the publlo has been Imposed upon.
What the publlo bas been disposed to treat
as vested rights are discovered to be un
mitigated swindles. There Is how a sus
picion that all the trusts contain mor at
deception and false representation -r.u
they do of actual, tangible, vested w p
erty. This suspicion promise to dov ?
Into practical action. It la likely to pro
voke a scrips of Investigations which wilt
make possible the differentiation between
fraud and reality. It bids fair to force an
issue whereby the band of conscienceless
organisers will bo made to confess the full
measure of their wrongdoing. Tho moment
the publlo realises that the trusts are con
crete Instances of deliberate financial fraud
there will be a movement to crush them
with the arm of the law.
BRIGHT AMD BREEZY.
Raynor Weighing yourself?
Shyne Yes. 1 had my vermiform appen
dix removed the other day. 1 want to see
how much difference it has made. Chlca go
Tribune,
Visitor Do you consider your occupation
a profession or a trade?
Now York Times.
Little Elmer Papa, what Is politeness?
Prof. Broadhead Politeness, my son. Is
the art of not letting other people know
what you really think of them. Town
Topics.
"Do you think that the automobile will
cause tho extinction of the horsn?"
"Not unless the horsn persists In getting
In the way," answered the chauffeur.
Washington Star.
"For clearness read Mnrauloy, and for
logic rend Bacon," said Mrs. llondcllpper,
who Is literary.
"And for valuable Informntlnn read
Bradstreet's." added Mr. BomU'llpper, who
is not literary. Detroit Free Press.
"Why did you leave your last !ar?"
"Well, mum, the missus lolked my cook
In' so well she got dyspepsee eatln' it."
Yonkers Statesman. .
Penelope was unraveling the shroud.
"Yes," she admitted. , 'It Is work, but
this is nothing to unruvillng the ysrn
Ulysses will tell when he comes home."
Peeping ov-r the liahlster to see tf his
boots were there yet, she resumed her
taBk. New York Sun. .
"There never was a cat like my wife,"
began the first cluhmaa
"O! I say," protested the other, "that's
rather rough"
"O! I don't mean to he disrespectful.
I meant to sav It doesn't matter how dark
it is when I get home, she can alwavs I
see what my condition Is." Philadelphia 1
Press. I
FORT RILEY MANEUVERS. '
James Barton Adams' In Denver Post.
Dreadful the cho.-k of battle! The cannons
In anger roared!
Vicious the voice of rifles, defiant the
gleam of sword!
Clouded with smoke the heavens, the earth
us in terror reeled
As met the contending forces urjon the
maneuver field!
Hoofs of the war steeds battered the face
of the Kansas plain!
Bugles gave vent to shriekings as If In
the throes of pain!
And men In the glare and glitter of gold
galloped up and down
Directing the deathless struggle In the war
of the Blue and Brown.
Floated the flags above them untattered by
shot or shell.
Never a valiant sergeant yet grasping the
colors fell.
Never a wounded hero breatiied low in a
comrade's ear
A faltering dying message to the wife or
lhA aweHthejirt dear.
Never the knife of surgeon gleamed over a
shattered limb.
Never a Diooa stain aaraenca a uuiioim .
neat and mm,. . . v
Never a face was wrinkled, distorted by f
hatred's frown
Aa the Brown men battled the Blje njJ
and the Blue men battled the irown.-t
Then at the blare sf the bugles the torguea
of the guns were stilled.
Never a grass blade quivered at the splash
ing of warm blood spilled.
And the troops marched bark to the bar
rack unmovea aa on oany arm.
Marched to the fort of Riley on the brow
of tho beetling hill.
'Mid the smoke of their ripe Habanas the
liiriceM In irnld arrav
Shook dice In their hall of council to tell
who had won the day,
And a full hand, sixes the uppermost.
which the hand of a colonel threw
Prepared for the world the tidings that
the Brown had walloped the Blue.
Proper Glasses
cost very little more money than Improper
ones. They certainly cost much leH eye
strain. And the satisfaction of KNOWING
you have tho RK111T ones Is more tliir.
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KUTESON OPTICAL CO.,
211 Sosth Uth Street,
Paxtos Blsck,
The one shoe In Omaha direct
from maker to wearer.
lng machines In the market suoh as New
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