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TITE OMAITA DAILY DEE: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1004. 0 U fl lit . i 'The onluia Daily Dee? E. BOSS WATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED KVIftT MOBNINO. ' TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, pally Be (without Sunday). One pally Bee and fiundav. One Tear " Illustrated Be7one Tear J-JJJ Sunday B. On Tear I Vl Saturday B'., One Tear... ....... -"J Taeatielh Century Farmer, One Tear.. DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Eaily Bee (without Sunday). Pr 0PZ"',f? ally Bea (without Sunday), per w lally Bi (Including Sunday), per weak. .lie Kunday Bee, tf copy . "'"ilw iH Evening Bee (without Sunday), per week 7 Evening; Bee (Including Sunday). P' jtfjkll Complaints' of 'irregularities in TJ should addreaaed U City Circulation Lepartment. omcei. Omaha Tha Bea Building. South Omaha City Hall Building. Twenty-fifth and M Streeta. Council Bluffs 10 Pearl Street Chicago 140 Unity Building. New Wk-BS Park Row Building. Washington 01 Fourteenth Street. CORRE8POND1CNCE. Communications relating to mi Jorlal mutter ahould be addreaaed: Oman ;, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Bea Publishing Company. Only S-eent atampe received in payment or mall aocounts. Personal checks, esoept on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not acceptea. THE BEE PUBLISHINO COM PANT. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Stats of Nebraska, Dougla County, ss.f aorg B. Tsschuck, secretary of The Bea Publishing company, being duly 'ornj aays that tha actual number of full ana complete, copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the Month of August, 1904. was as follows: X SfMlftO 17... ..v..... ... t to.eoo M M,4ao t zff.eso l att 4 ii9,oo moo J ,....;.,BSO . SI .26,400 . 82.TBO it S00 I .,...B6,TBO a S,BSO ( ... .00,080 ' M ..2AMO MBfilO X - to ae.oico m mm 11 SO.MO V 30,000 JJ .....29,480 11 ST.1O0 U S0.14O S9 860 14 .....aejjoo to n,o u .....Mi3o n ae,aio 14 " - Total , oa,9BO Leae unsold and returned copies... T,S3 Nat total sales SM.Tli Dally average KS.esw GEORGE B. TZ8CHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn, to before ma this fist day of August. UOt. , (SeaX) . N. B. HUNOATB. Notary Public Tha picking house strike is oyer and Omaha rejoices with South Omaha. It Is all up with tha strike, but it is not yet all down with the meat prices. Russian irony is so keen that many persons might be misled by the demand ot St. Petersburg newspapers for higher rank for Kouropatkln. Sir Thomas Llpton is to visit the, St Louis World's fair. As the Olympic games have ended, , it is not probable that he expects to secure a trophy.- - Mexico , la , to have . a legation at Peking, It begins to look aa if the southern republic were getting big enough to "sit jip and take notice." The' political pot will not reach, the boiling temperature until King Ak-Sar-.Ben X has made, his entry with H the pomp and clrcumetance of glorious ' peace. ' - Donnelly, tctf the reins in bis .own hands and ' stopped the packing bouse strike, and still there are those who hare n6'god word td say for any labor leader. i The war between the; contractors for bltullthjc, brlckolltblc and stoneopathlc parement Is still being fiercely waged. Hurry up with that municipal paring plant! , There Is every evidence to indicate that the present .national campaign has produced a stringency In the money ' market at Elkins, W. Va., If at no other financial center. " A special grand Jury has been called to investigate the latest Alabama lynch ing. The sentiment of the community can be judged better after the grand Jury's report; is in. Princess Louise says she intends to lead a simple, retired life. It is to be hoped that Parisian newspapers will as sist her In the effort, although she has chosen S pqor town in which to begin. Ornithologists are now hunting a bird which will destroy the boll weevil. In (the language i of the street, anything which will destroy this pest will be a ."bird," regardless of the form it may as sume. Secretary jTracy of the Butchers' union finds a victory for the men in the settlement of the packing house strike. . Evidently the, Raseslan war office has no corner, on optimism under adverse clr cumstaeces. ' " Throughout toe .whole , strike South Omaha took rank as the moat orderly of (the tpacklng-house towns, even though ' there were-occnelonal disorders on a mail scab),- There, should ' be ' some gratification in this for the strike leaders here. v . ; . h-!. u ,. 't. .. ' . Elder- Russell- admonishes the A4 ' ventistB'that there are Indications point- - 'lng to 'the end of some earthly things. ; For example, there are Indications that ; the , democratic, eongrenamao from the 'Second Nebraska district is foredoomed to one term. County fairs are on throughout Ne braska' In these days and never before have the fairs reflected such prosperous conditions, , both in exhibits and in at tendance. Successful county fairs are the outgrowth of good crops and prom ising markets. ' We fall to see what good that water ' logged statesman expects to accomplish by Insulting' the intelligence of Omaha .voters day after day. Does he think be ts' taken aerlpiwly? If he only knew a quarter aa much as he pretends to about 'the water question he would know .enongh to try - to , familiarise himself with the real facta of the case. BATIOXAL Kxnxsta. Perhaps for the first time In but life Judge Psrker has been giving attention to, the national eipenaes and be has found that It costs more to run this gov ernment at present than It did twenty years ago. The presidential -candidate Is behind his associate on the ticket in this particular. Mr. Davis having pointed out the fact in his letter ot ac ceptance and gone a good deal farther back t.bah did Judge Parker for com parative figures, of expenditure. The venerable democratic candidate for vice president showed that the expenditures of the government now are more than three times as moch per capita of the population as they were during the ad ministration of James Buchanan that interesting period when we bad a tariff law which nearly destroyed the indus tries of the country and when the gov ernment with difficulty met its neces sary expenses. In his speech to the democratic ed itors Jndge Parker cited the average an nual expenditure during the first Cleve land administration and that for the past three, years and added: "Instead of a surplus of the annual receipts of about $80,000,000, which the present ex ecutive found on assuming control, there is now a deficit to be found there of $42,000,000.'' He -ured the editors to give this careful examination. It is true there was an apparent deficit at the close of the fiscal year 1904, but it was caused entirely by the payment of 30,000,000 for the right-of-way of the isthmian canal. But for this there would have been a surplus of f8,000,000. The purchase of the Panama right-of-way cannot properly bp regarded as a current expenditure, but even If so regarded the payment on that account represents an asset worth the money. As to the re duction In the surplus from a little over $79,000,000 in 1000, it Is more than ac counted for by the reduction In taxation which took place in the meantime. The act of March 2, 1901, reduced internal revenue taxation by an amount esti mated at $42,000,000 per annum. The act of April 12, 1902, further reduced in ternal revenue taxation by an amount estimated at $03,000,000 per annum. By abolishing taxes, therefore, mounting In the aggregate to $105,000,000 per an num, the surplus was reduced about $72,000,000 per annum. Judge Parker should not have omitted these facts ex planatory of the reduced surplus and the deficit at the end of the last fiscal year, when enlightening the democratic edi tors In regard to national expenses, but the subject being, new to him be was perhaps not aware of them. Mr. Bel mont, who Is a financier, should call the facta' to " the candidate's attention, be cause it will not do his campaign any good to go oh repeating the statement made at Rosemount. Of course the expenditures of the gov ernment have Increased elnce Mr. Cleve land's first term and there are suffi cient reasons for this. The country has been growing and fhls growth has cre ated larger demands '"upon.,, the govern ment As we go on developing and ad vancing there will Inevitably be. an in crease In national expenses. Thomas B. Reed said several years ago that this was a bllllon-dollar country. It is more than that now. The . American people do not want to go backward. They do not approve extravagance, but they are In favor of progress, and the advance made during the past eight years is un precedented. A JOB FOR THE CITY ATT0RM1Y. , For more than thirty years prior to 1004. the Union Pacific railroad ma chine shops and grounds have been re turned for assessment to the local as sessors the same as all other taxable real estate outside of the right-of-way and outside of the railway depot grounds. Of the fifty-three blocks and parts of blocks within the enclosure known as', the Union Pacific machine shop grounds twenty-nine . ere assessed last year for county taxes at $193,875. This assessment was presumed to repre sent one-sixth of their actual value, or $1,103,250. . In 1904 only six blocks within the Union Pacific, machine shop grounds were returned for local taxa tion at $10,085, , which, multiplied by five, the standard under the new rev enue law represents an actual value of $50,425. Thus the county of Douglas and the city of Omaha have been chiseled out of local taxes on $112,825 in the assessment, roll for this year. By what right and under what law were these forty-seven blocks In the Union Pacific machine shop grounds dumped in as right-of-way? By what fiction could the grounds upon which the machine shops stand and the ground that is absolutely neces sary to afford the requisite facilities for the operation of the machine shops be transformed into a right-of-way and thrown Into the dump for distribution on a mileage basis? ' . It is a matter of history that the Union Pacific railroad machine shops were established and located in Omaha under a contract between the city and the railroad company. Under this con tract the city donated to the railroad company a large tract of valuable land to be used exclusively and perpetually as railroad machine shops. In this tract of land were included the streets and alleys which in the original survey were laid out through thse grounds. In the new contract, made three years ago, be tween the city of Omaha and the Union Pacific Railroad company the city con veyed title to the railroad company to several hundred lots and several streets and alleys on condition ihat the railroad would expend approximately $1,000,000 In the enlargement of its shops. When that contract waa made there was not even a suggestion or a suspicion that the corporation would seek exemption from city and county taxation on the grounds which had for thirty-eight years been subject -to local taxation the same as the Union Pacific headquarters and other Union Pacific, real estate outside of Its legitimate right-of-way. The revenues of thla dt and county have been decreased "by at least $8,000 to $10,000 ft year and the burden has been shifted from the Union Pacific Railroad company, where It properly be longs, upon the shoulders of the other taxpayers who were already overbur dened. Why no action baa been taken by the municipal authorities and tax de partments of the city and county tip to this time to undo-the wrong Is inex plicable. Here Is a Job for the city at torney whereby he can sare the city more than twice h(s salary this year and for the remainder of bis term. IPTXR3ATI0SAI POSTAQE. It appears that negotiations for a re duction In rates of postage between this and other countries have passed to a satisfactory stage and It is expected that the reduction will be accomplished through the delegates to the Interna tlonal Postal anion, which Is to convene In Rome In the near future. The plan Is for a reduction from the prevailing rate of 5 cents per half ounce to 2 cent and the delegates from Oermany have added their adhesion to the suggestion. The opposing voice Is from France, which is now charging at the rate of 3 cents for carrying borne letters and can not see her way to a reduction on for eign mail matter. But with the United States, England and Germany, the three countries most directly Interested be cause of the larger volume of foreign correspondence, favorable to reduction, the best results are to be expected. The true profit to be expected and to be demanded from a postal department, remarks the Cincinnati Tribune, is found in the commercial and trade advantages to come from quick and from safe trans mission of correspondence between pur chaser and seller and between Individ uals. Those features are being given under the administration of Postmaster General Payne, and to his administra tion is also due the heavy reduction of expenditure because of the successful efforts made by the department to weed the malls of the cost and burden of cart rying fraudulent publications at the rates charged to legitimate newspapers and magazines. ' The latest advance In the matter of lower foreign rates was due to the Initiative of the United States during the last session of the In ternational Postal union. TOS ONB-TSRM PLEDGE The democrats are endeavoring to make capital out of the declaration of Judge Parker that he will not be a can didate for a second term if elected presi dent. The spokesman of the democratic editors who visited Rosemount said: "We welcome in this avowal the Intro duction of a new and vital issue in American politics and unhesitatingly give it' our endorsement, and aupport." The one-terra pfedge did not originate with Judge Parker. On July 8, 1870, R. B. Hayes, in his letter accepting the republican , nomination for president, said that "believing that the restoration of the civil service to the system estab ljBhed by . Washington and followed by tjie early presidents can be best accom plished by an executive who is under no temptation to use the patronage of his office to promote his own re-election, I desire to perform what I regard as my duty in stating now my Inflexible ' pur pose, if elected, not to be a candidate for election to a second term." A simi lar pledge was given by Mr. Bryan in 1806 and repeated in 1900. This "vital issue In American poll ties" is therefore not new, though pos sibly Judge Parker was not aware of the declarations made by Mr. Hayes and Mr. Bryan. The people art not likely to be very greatly impressed by the one-term pledge. While perhaps none will be disposed to doubt that it was made in good faith, some may question Its propriety. At any rate, it is not likely to make any-votes for the demo cratic candidate which be would not have got without It. . . l .a i The fusion legislative convention held In Sidney has bad the temerity to pass a resolution asking that much-nominated populist who is running for three offices at the same time to relinquish volun tarily his nomination for congress In the Sixth district In the interest of harmony. We -do not believe the delegates who voted for this resolution understood what a sacrifice they were asking. The priv ilege of being defeated for three offices at the same time is one that rarely comeU to any patriot and to retire from the congressional ticket would mean giving up one-third of the fun. Let them' ask anything else but this. John L. Kennedy has shown again by the makeup of his campaign committee that he is not a factional candidate. The spirit of fairness, baa alwaya been the guiding principle of the element of the republicans to whom Mr. 'Kennedy owes his -nomination, i Does any one imagine that had the radical anti candi date secured the nomination for con gress a single machine man would have been accorded recognition In the man agement of the campaign? Hardly. Five new members of the school board are to be chosen at the coming election and it behooves friends of the schools to see to it that candidates are forth coming who have some more Interest in the public schools than to load the pay rolls with their relatives or to protect gome contractor. The school board ought to command the very best busi ness talent and the most intelligent pro fessional service in the community. We are rapidly approaching the time limit when propositions that are to be submitted for popular approval or re jection at the coming elections must be passed upon by the mayor and council. The question is: Will the mayor and council let the people decide for them selves what they want and do not want in the way of public utilities? The Department of . Commerce and Labor would make Itself the most popu lar In the government if It would pu( ex ports to work to discover plan of pre venting railroad accidents. Here Is matter In which the people are all di rectly interested, while private efforts seem to have been failures. Even the double track, of which so much was expected, has proved a cause of wrecks, and It seenis to be necessary for the government in the interests of all the people whose lives are endangered, to give the matter some attention. People who fear that the Gould In terests ere striving to secure possession of the Rio Grande need not be alarmed. The advent of the Goulds does not mean what it once did, for Goulds of the pres ent generation have shown themselves to be road builders instead of road wreckers. By which route the new lhterurban line from Omaha to Lincoln will enter Lincoln Is still a mooted question. But we do not mind whether it enters the state capital from the north or south, or east or west so long as It gets there speedily. , ', Paaalty of Cariosity. Kanaaa City Journal. -Senator Depew reports that ha lost soma money while attending a county fair. It is really a difficult thing to pick out tha shell that tha pea Is under. Why, of Coarse, Portland Oregonlan. Oh, nol It wasn't tha republicans who established tha gold standard. It was tha democrats, who did it by' trying to elect Bryan on a silver platform. Beyond tha lest of Danger. New Tork Tribune. Bight milea Is' about as near tha scene of fighting as war correspondents are al lowed in the far east Reporting battles at that distance is a heavy draft on the Imagination, and many of the correspon dents are coming home to recuperate. Stirring; Times at Ball Ran, Pittsburg' Dispatch. According to the very latest telegrams from Manasaaa, General Grant baa crossed Bull Run and General Corbin is striving to retreat into the kitchen. The critical stage of the maneuvers will not be reached until a direct assault is made upon the wine .cellar and tha refrigerator. Ko Batting; In. Chicago Chronicle. It la painful to learn that John Bull regards the declaration of a Japanese pro tectorate of Corea as an Infringement of his treaty rights'. This revelation that the Jap means to partake of tha omelet for which ha has furnished tha eggs la likely to coma as a shock to others besides Mr. Bull. They msy . as well acoustom them selves to the situation. .Piling;. Vp Wealth. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. From present indications the aggregate wealth of the country In 1910 will be In the neighborhood of 1138,000,000.000. A day will come within .the lifetime of many persons now alive when the rate of growth in the country's wealth will drop below that of ' recent decades, but that data Is probably half a century at least in the future. Wealth Increases with us much more rapidly than does population, and this tendency of things Is likely to be maintained for a "long time,' if not per manently. An ' attempt to forecast the probable wealth tt the United States forty of fifty years'-' he rice takes the mind up Into the dlszy" heights of mathematics. - '.Is iti , . Need otiosesvttor the. Hsvy.'' ;- . Philadelphia Ledger. - The growth .of - th American navy has been unprecedented 1n the annals of the world. It Ufa good navy; consisting of -stout' ships manned toy able men and In telligently directed but some of the naval officers and officials of the' Navy depart ment are beginning to ask what good It is to build tha ships If there are no men to man (hem. ' Their' queries' are not un reasonable. There-is not a ship In the navy that is not short of men and officers. and In ' order to' overcome this lack some ten or more vessels that are in need of some repairs will'' be put out of commis sion for the time! being, not because the repairs are so serious as to call for thla step, but simply because of the shortage of the men behind the guns. POLITlCAIi DRIFT. Grandpa Davis 'ts said to have coughed up 160,000 for campaign expenses. In' the light of the returns from Vermont democrats have another guess coming. Jeff Davis will, continue to rule Arkan sas. The state Is so used to affliction that It would not be happy without it. .. The largest presidential vote ever polled was 14,070,000, cast In 1896. In 1900 the totaj was 13,967,000. It may reach 16,000,000 thla year. ' The Chinese vote of New Tork state ts solid for the republican ticket. . Chew Wing, the only one in Jt has declared himself. and Chew has Jils queue on straight. In tha early days, when life was abloom, Henry Gaasaway Davis whirled brakes on freight trains and Charley Fairbanks smiled over the bargain counter of a coun try store. Nobody ever suspected that the millennium would begin In New Tork, but It Is asserted that a Tammany official has Just returned M to the city treasury, saying he was overpaid to that exte'ti. ' John Llnd of Minnesota, ex-congressman and twice governor of the state, has been nominated by the democrats for justice of the supreme court. Mr. Lind Is the only democrat In Minnesota who enjoys a pull with tha ruling majority. Tha New' Tork,. Herald, which espouses the causa of Parker, without giving a good reason why, has been polling members of tha Produce exchange. Of 97ft replies re ceived, CM declare emphatically for Roose velt and 'M miroh less emphatically for Parker, . .V In Wisconsin, where, thure is raging that shindy between La Follette and the anti- La Follette. folks, the record has been: 1892, Cleveland's plurality, 6.644; 1S96, Mc KtnleyV plurality 102,611; 1900, McKlnley's plurality, 106,681; -state election, 1902, re publican plurality,' 47,6(9. John Sharp Williams of Mississippi is to bs speaker of tha house of repreaentatives if the democrats capture that body In No vember, In Mr. Williams' state the repub licans ca.it 82,406 votei In 1172, 62,706 in 1876, 84,854 In 1.880 and 80,0(4 In 1888. Then negro disfranchisement went into effect in viola, tlon of tha federal constitution and In 1881 the reputJican vote for president was 1,406, In 1896, 4,(49, and In 1900. 6.76S. J -. Governor La Follette of Wisconsin star tled tha ipolltlclans by a recent speech, In which ho adviaed his hearers to vote against John J. Ktmpf, former state treas urer. If. the supreme court permitted' him to remain on tha La Follette ticket aa a candidate for state treasurer. Bald tha governor: "Ha ' (Kempf) uaed money be longing ta tha- atata for private purposes, . I hope ho Is off tha republican ticket : But if he is not, if tha court ahould say he is a candidate, then I hops you will defeat him at tha polla, There Is not room In the republican party for any rascal." Mr. Kempf gave hlu resignation to the La Fol lette committee, and la now trying to re tract with tha aid of the supreme court. OTHER LAffDS THAU OtTRS. Tha competition between the at earn rail roads and the electric lines haa become so strong with respect to autnirban travel In eertain parts of England that the 'railroad Companies have adopted the "son" sys tem and reduced fares to extremely tow rates. Tha first application of. the son a aystem was on the railway Una from Grimsby to Cleethorpee, a coast resort. On January 1 a third-class weekly ticket, cost ing U cents, wss introduced, enabling a passenger to travel when and as often aa ha likes to and from any station between Grimsby and Cleethorpes, from Monday morning until Saturday night. If the pas senger chooses, he may spend the entire time oa the train. Tha single fare by tha electric line was 4 cents at tha time of the Introduction of the sons railway ticket, ao that, assuming that the owner of a sone ticket travels but one, a day, there is a saving of 86 cents a week. Tha result was a decided Increase in the number ot steam railway passengers, and the sone system has been applied to other portions of the Great Central company's lines. Manches ter and Its suburbs have been divided Into sones with very low fa re a Tha maximum distance between the points of travel In this case is ten miles. Since tha auccesa of the system waa established by the Great Central company, the Midland Railway company has Introduced a similar system In the vicinity of Sheffield and other towns. It is announced that tha Caledonian com pany, which has suffered a heavy loss In suburban travel by competition with the electric lines operated by the city of Glas gow, will adopt the sone system, to Include tha Clyde coast- traffic and that between Glasgow and Edinburgh. The twenty-fourth birthday of Queen Wllhelmlna has Just been celebrated with great rejoicing by her devoted subjects. The Dutch are a most Independent and at the same time a most loyal people. They are very Jealous of their rights and con stitutional liberties, and they are also deeply devoted to their sovereign. Tha queen is loved and reverenced not only on account of that charming personality which has endeared ber to her people, but also because she la the representative of the beloved house of Orange, the descend' ant of William the Silent and of tha he. roes who won liberty for Holland and made her glorious. The queen Is the personifi cation of tha past as well as the hope of the future. Liberty has always flourished under the aegis of the house of Orange. The Dutch have all the freedom of a re public, together with all the advantages of a monarchy; moreover, they have tha lead' ershlp of that dynasty whose fortunes have for so long been linked with tha destinies of the Netherlands. This is the Important point, and they love the house of Orang more man any form of government The French- minister of completed his official report of the census oi -rance in 1901, which shows the popu lation of tha rebubllc to be 88.961 uk nin of only 444,618 in ten years. This trifling aoaiuon to tne population of France has oeen tne subject of much discussion and some conclusions have been drawn which are not warranted by the facts. Outside of the circumstance that the countrv ! not seem to be breeding men enough to maico tne armies of. the republic as big aa those of Its rivals, France Is doing pretty well. Its prosperity and nroareas m i complete refutation of the theory that a comparatively stationary nnnnTatinn i. . sign of national decadence. Throughout tha lengrn ana Dreaatn of France there is ah. soiutely no sign bf decay. There Is not a siaie in Europe wnicli can male, a hftp showing in the matter of the utilisation of material ana mental resources that Wan. does today, Despite tha comparatively small area 'occupied by tha nearlv M nm ivn Inhabitants: of ; Franco, the French coma vary nearly supplying themselves from their own soil with all the food nM..on. to a comfortable existence and of some Kinas tney manage to spare a great deal ior export.. iNot only are tha FVonrh m to feed themselves but they have shown me woria Wat they-are industrial 1p When driven from the commoner branchea of manufacturing by tha tltlon they have taken up the finer' kinds " succeeaea in establishing for themselves such a. reputation that in .iiics inoy are practieauy without rivals. reopie aoie to do this are in no danger of dropping out of the race, even ' Itimi.h their numbers do not Increase rapidly. Dalgety. the prospective cnnltnl nt tralla, la at present little more than a """" " ""P. "a population Is that or a small village, hardlv rcirhinr nn Tha place Is thirty miles from the nearest railway station, the terminus of a branch railway line runnlnr fmm th n connecting the four capitals, Brisbane, oyaney, MeiDourne and Adelaide. Bo far aa altitude and he?'h conitinn. u are concerned, Dalgcty appears to have an iaeai position. The tableland, known as Monaro Plain, on which the tal Is situated, Is more than 2,000 feet .otvo mo level or the sea. Dalgety is a few miles away from tha highest eleva tion of the Australian continent The Lon don Standard says: "If a bush capital has io do createa. the newlv chnnn appear to be as good as any that could have been obtained. In pitching oa so small a township, the government has, at lew. gone on economical lines, for the vested Interests to be bought are small. From the point of view of climate and water supply, the spot could scarcely be bettered." In 200 years. St. Petersburg, the Russian caDltal. hu important city from a village not as large aa Dalgety Is now. The modern capital of Russia was founded by Peter the Great in 1703. Ha built a small hut fnr him..i and some wooden hovels. Tha first brick nouao was not built until 1710 Th. .... --- "citl of empire waa transferred to St Peters burg the following year. In betrothing his elde.t .nn .. t..,- ww., BIIV, . ,11)1 , to the Duchess Cecilia ot Mecklenburg, the German emperor has done very much the same thing that hi r.ar.n.. -.u - . . . 1UI nlm. Having sowed hia wim ..,.. early, the crown prince waa ready, at the age of 22, to be nroDerlv married rt princess of a small German grand duoal nouse. -ins aaiser's dlfflcuitina with t.i. own mother, and the vurlous troubles which resulted from his father's marriage to the uumr ot arfigiana a queen were enough to dispose him against roaiiv . dynastic match for his son. Tha Crown x-nnco r-reaencit William Victor August Ernest, heir to tha nrnurio.t .v.- European continent, Is a good fellow, with no genius, apparently, except for horseback riding and for eacapades of a rather mild aort He has as yet shown little sign of tha ability for publlo affalra that haa char, acterlsed hla direct anceatora for many generations. Bo much the better, perhaps, for Germany. The empire, relieved of a dominating hand at court, may have a bet. ter chance to develon iinnr nn.Ht,.,i tinea. The great outside world haa no rca. son tor not wishing thla imuH.i.,i.ui couple a happier married life than generally falls to tha lot of their kind. Taklagr It to tha Woods. Chicago Record-Harald. Tha calar.a ot riMri fnr hii.h A nr.H Carneaia hnm nrnvM.il fnmt, ! A w- erected at Schevenlngen. Anyone who has ever mea 10 pronounce that famous name to the satisfaction of a listening Hoi leader will recognise tha need of a palace of peace In the neighborhood, i h1""! yr Cash ..b js. Cjsl1 Credit Ml (THE PKOPLBI' rVBWITfRBI ASP CAK PIT to.l A ILneEw Sfioib! KWri, NATHAN ft FIQtlKR h . f. Suits come in single and double breasted In all this fall's latest patterns. Overcoats in all lengths with or without belts. Your VERMONT FOISTS TUB WAY. Pittsburg Dispatch: Vermont sets the re publican pace. Without the Intervention of some new issue Into the presidential canvass confidence In President Roosevelt's overwhelming triumph In November, cannpt be dislodged. - Philadelphia Press: Arkansas and Ver mont tell the same story In their early re turns. In both the democratic vote has decreased. In both the republican vote has increased. A signal victory In Vermont, a signal advance in Arkansas, attest signal republican success later. Louisville Courier-Journal : We believe that sufficient returns are in to justify the announcement that the democrats have carried Arkansas, and the republicans have carried Vermont We believe also that It Is safe to predict that along In December Santa Claus will carry the country. Kansas City Times: For the present there Is no occasion for the republicans to worry about New Tork, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island or any other so-called "doubt ful state." Vermont has removed a good many doubta. The democrata will have to do something, or says something, or shows something of 'better quality, If they hope even to seem to be "In the running." The people like to know something about the men and the thlnga a party stands for. Some Is Have a fancy that they can't get good clothes ready to wear. Tkey Call Here. . Our new Fall Lines include about fifteen styles at the popular price of $15.00 Some for less Many for more. And there are as many styles-of Tap Coats nearly as there are men From $12.00 up. Long, short or medium length. . "NO CLOTHING FITS LIKE OURS.". ' ;. BroWnm- Kn2-5: R. S. WILCOX, Mgr. Kuh, Nathan fe Fisch er, the "well known makers of men's fine clothing, sold us the balancs of this fall's suits and overcoats, in cluding some of their best goods, at our own price. We will open the Fall Season Saturday with ex- ( tra good values in men's aits and overcoats, that K N. & F, sold wholesale at $10, $12.50 and $15.00. These will all go at the one price of 1 Credit Good. Bl ILT FOB FUN. The Managing Edltor-rYes, we want you to take a good rest. You need It badly. Go somewhere where you will have absolutely no cares and nothing to do. The Faithful Attache All light. Make me your war. correspondent In the far eaac .'"Age before beadky,'' said Falstaff, as he attempted to enter "before the prince. "No! Grace before meat," said the prince, ently, as he pushed him from his path. "Say. Mr. Kulcher lives somewhere In this . block, doesn't he?" inquired the stranger. - .. .. "He resides in this block, yes.'-' replied the Boston policeman, with a -strong ac cent on the verb, "his Is the penultimate residence upon the opposite side." Phila delphia press. "It Is getting to be a problem with me," said the nolxy politician, "how to keej the wolf from the door." "Stand on the steps and make one of your stump speeches when you sea him coming." Detroit Free Press. , The people of Salem were burning a witch. . . . "Why are you roasting her?" somebody asked. - . "Because she's a bad actor," they ex plained. Cleveland Leader. "Stop!" said the muscular footpad, grab bing him by the arm and bringing him to a sudden halt. "Hold up yer " "Thanks!" gnsped the man on the motor cycle. "The blamed thing waa running away with me." Chicago Tribune. People X