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It Is now a foiegoue conclusion that Congressman Hitchcock will be renom inated for the position to which John L. Kennedy will be elected. AO inspector general has been ap pointed for the Russian army. If he hurries to the front be may And at least the remnants of an army to inspect. A hatpin with a head bearing a min iature automobile is one of the latest novelties on the iuarket--a sort of col lection of deadly weapons, as it were. - Since assuming the position - of 'apostle" Elder Dowie says he will be come "meek and humble." The elder has evidently confused certain biblical roles. King Peter of Servia is crowned. The other aspirants for the Servian throne now have a fair field and no favor ex cept as their dynamite may be the itaore powerful. 1 a Navy department officers have been requested to edit their reports so they may be read in foreign countries with out giving Information of value to a possible enemy. An official naval editor should have the call. Five new members of the Board of Ed ucation nre to be elected on the 8th of November and taxpaylng citizens of all parties nre vitally concerned in the char acter of the men who are to manage the affnlrs of this school district. The ordinance reducing telephone rates has been put to sleep by the city council and the ordinance submitting the 'proposition for a public lighting plant to the voters at the coming elec tion still rests in the pigeonhole. The harmony which exists between democrats is aptly illustrated by the New York World, which on Monday contained a two-column "roust" of David B. Hill and not one word In com mendation of either Parker or Davis. The campaign of 1004 at the Amer ican beet sugar factory at Grand Island has been opened and will con tinue without Intermission for ninety days, whether Mr. Oxnard is elected United States senator from California , or not. eTT - . The head of the weather bureau de nounces the amateurs who make "long range forecasts," by which he means forecasts not bearing the government label. It is now up to the bureau to abolish the guosebone aud corn-busk prognostics tor. Senator Henry. M. Teller presided over the democratic stato convention in Colorado. It is strange how the sena tor discovered the error of bis entire previous life through failure of the re publican convention of 1890 to endorse free silver. Judge Wade is running his campaign lit the Second Iowa district oil the theory that the district Is nnturally dem ocratic. When the republicans who voted for htru last time for personal reasons realize the force of this claim Iowa's deUgutkui at Washington will dUtuitfJot; rain, be solidly republican. . nnosKVKLra work ran rcxcE. Is President Ho:iseveit In favor of peace? The answer to this Is to be found In every utterance of the presi dent and in every d "clarntlon which he has mad" of pubii end a semi public nature. No more, outrageous charge could be made ago Inst President Hoose velt tlinn that of the democrats that he Is In favor of a military ' policy and would commit this country to a great armament. There Is not a single net or sncgestionj in bis whole career that Justifies such a conclusion, but on the contrary everything to show that he Is opposed to an excessive army and navy. What President Roosevelt has advo cated, and what every good citizen be lieves to be necessary, is a navy and au army which will be adequate ln.nn emergency and will be always prepared for whatever demands may he'mnde upon It. Does anybody question the wisdom or expediency of this? We do not think so. We believe on the con trary that every citizen who thinks on the subject at nil Is of the opinion tlint this great nation should do nil It can to pnnect. itself nn!nst a fornign foe nnd to make Itself sectire from attack from whatsoever source It might come. That is the absolutely legitimate policy of n niilion and the failure to do It Is Inex cusable. It has been the policy of the repub lican party, from the very beginning of Its existence, to take care of nil the In terests that were exposed to a foreign foe. The finest tribute paid to President Roosevelt Is that of a lending French statesman conspicuous for his work in the cause of International pence, In which he says that better thnn anyone the present chief executive of the I'nited States lias contributed to the cause of Internationa! pence. No greater encomium could be uttered in behalf of the chief executive of this republic than this of the man who Is at the very head of the p.n'linmentnry tinlon of pence and arbitration. It Is a compliment to Roosevelt of the very highest merit. THE WATER WORKS PRIMES. No. 1. Iu 1881 the city of Omaha, act ing under the provisions of the charter for cities of the first class, lilch author ized the mayor nnd council to contract with any individual, association or cor poration for the erection, establishment and maintenance of water works on such terms as might be mutually agreed upon, entered into a contract with Sid ney E. Locke and his associates for the erect I an of a system of water works un der plans prepared by J. D. Cooke, an expert hydraulic engineer. The ordi nance granting the franchise to Sidney E. Locke and his associates bound the city to pay for at lenst 250 hydrants at a rnte of $84 a year, and for all addi tional hydrants at the rate of ?f!0 per year, nnd also fixed the maximum rates to be charged to private consumers. No. The contract between the city of Oma'.ia and the water works company extended for a period of twenty-five years fromthe date of completion and acceptance of the works, with the pro viso that at the end of twenty years' time from Buehdate the city of Omaha was privileged to purchase the works at an appraised value without allowing anything for the franchise, the appraise ment to be mnde by three expert en gineers, one to be appointed by the city, one bj' the water company, and they to choose the third. No.. 3. Soon after the completion of the works Sidney E. Locke and his as sociates transferred the property and franchise to a corporation known as the American Water Works company, and that company continued to own and op erate the works until 181)2, when the company wns thrown Into the hands of a receiver and the water w;orks plant and franchise were finally soid under fore closure proceedings to eastern capital ists, who organised the Omaha Water company, which now owns and operates the works. , No. 4. The validity of the contract between the city of Omaha and the wa ter works company has been tested sev eral times in the federal courts, and the courts in every instance have pro nonnced the contract valid. The last test was made immediately after the purchase of the works by the Omaha Water company, when the city refused to pay its hydrnnt rental on the plea that the transfer of the works to a new corporation without the consent of the city did not enrry with It the franchise. This contention was declared baseless by the court, and the city was ordered to pay the rental In full, with 7 per cent interest, and the costs of the suit. No. 5. In January, 1003, before the ex piration of the twenty-flve-year purchase period, the compulsory water worlds pur chase bill was railroaded through the legislature by Senator R. B. Howell and Representative D. W. Gilbert, with the sanction and in the interest of the wa ter works company, whose owners in the east weue anxious to unload the works upon Omuha at a time when the price of Iron, machinery and labor was at high water mark. This bill was put through under whip and spur, and within a few weeks thereafter the potential Influence exerted in its passage through the legis lature secured the passage through the council of an ordinance declaring In fa vor of the purchase under the three appraiser plan, arid shortly thereafter the city appointed its appraiser, the wa ter company followed suit, and the two engineers chose the third. No. 0. The appraisers thus appointed, and entirely unrestricted as to time or mode of procedure, have, after much delay, Indicated that tbey would com plete the appraisement by the middle of October or sooner. No. T. Six weeks ago R. B. Howell, who was foisted on the water board through the same mysterious influence that inspired the compulsory purchase bill, engineered a resolution through the water board asking the mayor and conn cil to reduce the water rates to private consumers, well knowing that the rates were fixed by the contract twenty-three years ago, and could not be changed by any city ccunclt or legislature during the term of that contract, and that the enforcement of such rates would Ik re strntned by the courts If the attempt was made. No. 8. The pretext under which How ell's resolution for rate reduction was Introduced and passed, ns explained by him. wns. first, th.1t it would deprecinte the value of the plnnt now under ap-pnisemt-nt by reducing the buonie, and, second, that It would expedite the ap prn!sement. City Attorney Wright has orer his own signature pronounced any nttt-ir.pt to reduce the valuation of the works under appraisement as In conflict with the decisions rendered by the T'nlted States supreme court, and. fur thermore, lias pronounced as Inadvis able, in view of the status of the ap praisement, any attempt on the part of the mayor and council at this time to chnngo the rates. THE SUrtM ARISE BOAT It is the consensus of opinion among naval men that the submarine boat Is in the future to be the most formidable of destroyers. Thus far Its. power lu naval warfare has not been absolutely demonstrate!, but sufficient has been shown to mnke It certalnthat the sub murine boat is a most dangerous craft In wnr on the seas nnd must In the fu ture be reckoned with as perhaps no other vessel will be. A few days ago at Newport one of these little submarine torpedo boats bad a trial nnd the result was abso lutely convincing as to Its ability to de stroy the largest battleship or cruiser. In this particular Instance It wns sent out ngninst n Inrge cruiser of the Amer ican navy and It did Its work perfectly. That Is to say. It crawled up within twenty yards of the cruiser, under the water and absolutely unnoticed, and on emerging discharged a torpedo which normally would have destroyed the cruiser and given the ship attacked no chance whatever to defend itself. That Is to say, the submarine torpedo boat would have had everything Its own way and could have put the cruiser out of action at will. How great a part these little vessels are to play in the future of naval war fare is obvious. The great battleship and armored cruiser will not In the daya to come be anything like as formidable as they now nre when the submarine torpedo boat has attained the import ance which It now promises. In fact. It would seem to be n snfe assumption that within the next ten years most of the sea fighting will be done by boats operated under, rather than above, the water. Submarine craft appears to be what the nations will use in the not remote future. COMBIHA TIOSS ABROAD. One of the foolish notions of our own people Is that it is only in this coun try that there are industrial combina tions and that their existence is wholly due to the tariff. As a matter of fact there are combinations abroad and some of them are In free trade Englnnd. A London correspondent notes the fact that there is now in the United King dom a consolidation of iron and steel manufacturers, brought about by a con viction that this is necessary to meet German and American competition, which has nearly taken the home trade out of the bunds of the British manu facturers. They have been fighting against this foreign invasion for years aud losing ground all the time and at last have come to the conclusion that the only way to safeguard their Inter ests is by a system of consolidation or combination which means practically the formation of a trust. s The circumstance is commended to those who are alleging that only in this countrx. industrial combinations exist and that they are due to our tariff sys tem. That Is the democratic argument, but it Is refuted by the fact that there are industrial combinations, precisely similar to those in the United States, in free-trade England. The assertion that trusts are impossible under free trade Is shown by British example to be ut terly fallacious. Why the council continues to plant fire hydrants in spite of the mayor's vetoes that explicitly point to the fact that the Increase of hydrants will create an overlap, seems almost inexplicable. The charter expressly forbids the mayor and council from creating any debt over and above the amount available in nny fund and lays councllmen and their sureties liable for the overdraft. If some eccentric taxpayer should take U Into his bend to invoke the power of the courts for the enforcement of this pro vision of the charter, the practice of creating debts in defiance of law would probably be suddenly discontinued. The commercial forecaster on the shores of Lake Michigan tells us that if the weather will stay warm for a few weeks buying and selling will go on briskly this fall. But while we have no assurance from the weather bureau that the mild weather will continue for a few weeks, there is every indication that buying and selling will be brisk this fall in Omaha, even with the ther mometer below the freezing point. With Henry Watterson threatening to hang "Tom" Taggart if the demo crats do not carry Indiana and Champ Clark threatening to cut the throat of people who Interrupt him when speak ing, it would seem that there are at least two democrats taking Intense In terest in the present campaign. "Marriage for army officers who have made no provision therefor Is hurtful both to the army and to themselves," declares Adjutant General Cor bio in hi latest pronunclamento. General Corbln tslks from experience. He has beeu a martyr as well as a martinet. i Candidate Davis should be permitted to exercise the buyers' privilege and pass upon that part of the democratic campaign book which, refers to protec tive tariffs. It Is Intimated that It Is rather severe upon the candidate's Me of Incidental protection to American In dustries. Toklo announces the fall of Port Ar thur within two weeks. The .Tapnnese have demonstrated their fighting abll ity. but their second sight Is no lietter thnn that of other people, as they have made the same announcement at least three times since the beginning of the war. ' Agitating the Wing. Chicago Tribune. Ore of the latest utterances of Editor Bryan is that he "lovea peace more thnn either gold or silver." This, we fear, will displease both wings of the party. The Wornt to Come. Chicago Chronicle. tnrl.l Dn.lhi innrnvil txt Ven the British military experts, but It has still to endure the harsh and unyielding criticism of the corner grocery strategists. Can't Help It. Xf tnnjn nrilla TlmeB. The gross receipts of the fifty largest postofflces in the United states lor a gust show an increase of 13 per cent, compared with the corresponding month year ' ago. The country Is growing right Jong. A Pertinent Question. New York Bun. It may be unkind to look a somewhat tentntlously magnanimous action In the mouth, but the question arises naturally. Wherein In the life of Theodore Roosevelt could the democratic press agents find ma terial for an attack upon his "personal honor and Integrity"? Coat of a Friendly Call. Springfield Republican. The latest from Thibet Is that the British have made the Thibetans pay 7.6OO.0O0 rupees for not opening the door promptly when they knocked. Ordinarily this would look llko a war Indemnity, but the British government Insists that It has not been at war with Thibet. It was only making a friendly call. King; Corn's Dora n In. Minneapolis Journal. Two of the beat crop experts have dis covered that the corn crop la a little short, too. It Is a splendid crop In Iowa and Ne braska, however, so that this section of the country will benefit by the higher prices later. It Is the southwest that Is hit, and es the southweit has had several 'fat years, It will hardly know that It Is hurt. Pray to Be Spared. Chicago Chronicle. England led the United States In the manufacture of a cheap bicycle and now an effort is to be made there to devise a motor car within the reach of moderate purses. The Automobile club of London la to hold a series of cqntents restricted to vehicles costing between i25 and 11.000. the object being to produce a good car at a reasonable price. People of moderate means hardly know whether to pray for the suc cess of the project or not. Hitherto their lives have been spared by dodging the cars of the rich, but they may yet have to incur all the dangers which a frisky motor car knows how to devise. - Should the automo bile come within the reach of all there may be no one left to tell the tale. Absurdity of the Race Issae. Minneapolis Journal. Robert Treat Paine, jr., twice democratto candidate for governo. of Massachusetts, announces that he will vote for Roosevelt because he Is democratic enough to feel that he wants a president democratic enough to meet any man whose character Justifies his presence at any function. He says he has himself dined with Booker Washington, and would consider It a priv ilege to do so again. He thinks Mr. Parker, if elected president, would be placed in a very embarrassing position If there were In Washington a gathering of the most emi nent educators In this country, as such a gathering would necessarily Include Booker Washington, who Is one of the most emi nent educators of the country. If Mr. Parker should receive Mr. Washington at the White House and not discriminate against him on account of his color, the whole south would raise the cry, and with Justice, that they had been buncoed In their candidate. On the other hand, the presi dent would naturally wish to show suffi cient respect and honor to such a gather ing, but to play fairly with his political supporters he would have to establish a "Jim Crow" pantry behind the White House for Mr. Washington. This, of course, Is not the only reason why Mr. Paine votes for Roosevelt, but he puts the absurdity of the race issue In a strong light. PERSONAL MOTES. Judge Parker acted as pall bearer the other day. There's nothing like keeping one's hand In. Tennyson Smith, the eminent English temperance advocate, who believes in the suppression of th liquor traffic by law, la expected to arrive In this country on Oc tober J, and will, make a number of tem perance lectures here. R. M. Arango has been appointed a con sulting engineer on the staff of Chief Engi neer Wallace, In the Panama canal con struction. He Is particularly charged to assist In building an aqueduct to supply the city of Panama with wtter. Captain Harry Houston, whose home la t Stanwood, Mich., Is the only survivor of the 120 men forming the first survey party on the Isthmus of Panama, In 1R49. and one of the four who survived the hardships of the expedition and returned to the states alive. The Dressmakers' union has decided to get busy and remodel women on ths prise fighter plan broad ahoulders, puffed sleeves and high busts. This Important Item Is rescued from the fashion department and presented to all concerned, sp that they may prepare for the worst. Captain Woodbury Kane, who Is a vet eran of Roosevelt rough riders, Is desired by the republicans of Newport, R. I., as colonel of the campaign regiment which they will organise. A committee has been appointed to wait. on Captain Kane and the party managers hope he will accept. Dr. Frances Q. Williams has obtained control of all the coal lands In ths Coad dale district of Nevada. She has organised trust capital of ts.ooo.Otin snd the railroads thst are dependent upon' the Coaldale sec tion for fuel have to make the best ar rangements they can with Dr. Williams. One of the most active delegates to the convention of the National Business Men's league of Negroes, held recently In Indi anapolis, was Isaiah F. Montgomery of Mound Bayou, Mis. Montgomery was born a slave, but now la tha owner of the plantation once the property of Jefferson Davis, president of' the confederacy. Montgomery and his brothers were the property of Joseph Davis, brother of the leader of ths confederacy. The planta tion passed Into the hands of Joseph Davis and was placed In charge of Mont gomery and his brothers. lister Mont gomery obtained complete control of the land. Montgomery Is now an old man snd is a typical representative of the Afri can race. His wealth Is estimated St 1204.000. U employs US tusa. GOSSIP ABOVT THE WAR. SldellKhta rwe Cum pel em and the Men ni reel In ST It. Like the heavyweight champion of ths fistic arena, who scoffed st the pretentions of a lightweight, exclaiming. "Ah, go get a reputation:-' Just so dVi the Cossacks look down upon the other srms of the Russlsn military establishment. The rough riders of the steppes had achieved world-wide reputation for courage, dash and skill, snd were expected to live up to their reputation In the present wnr. But the accounts have not ss yet singled them for special praise r distinction. "Against OenemI Kun.kl." says the New York Tribune, "the Cossock has signally failed. Military crltlca asset that this Is due In part to the vast line of communications General Kouropatkln has to protect, to the Immense transport gnarl Ing necessary, and also to the huge Rue slan army. Immobile and entirely unlike that of th Boers, for which the Cossacks must continually act as a covering foixe In the endlesS retreats. Bo that as it mar. however, his gallantry may have rrlslie but the little Japanese cavalryman, mounted on his diminutive pony, has not been overwhelmed and destroyed, ss the world believed he would be, by his hugs Cossack foe, who claimed kinship long ago to the Rough Riders of the Spanish-American war." A Toklo correspondent relates an Instance of national patriotism Illustrating pic turesque and noble traits of character Unk ing old and new Japan. Nearly 3no years ago, when Togugawa Iseyasu captured the castle of Osaka from the Talko's widow, Todo, and her son. Hldeyorl, he found there a large part of the treasure that the great captain and statesman had accumu lated. It was In the form of gold norses, for the Talko's fancy hsd been thus to stamp upon the preefcyus metal an Indica tion of the warlike uses to which It was destined. The Tokugawa leader distributed a great part of the treasure among his chief tetaln- ers, and to his second son, Norlnao, he gave 300 Ingots, with an lnjunotion that the geld should be held as a reserve for use In a na tional emergency. " Nortnao received In fief the province of Owarl, and In the vaults of the colossal castle built by him at Nagoya the Ingots lay untouched until the fall of feudalism, In 1874. The feudal chiefs were then red-teed to ths position of simple gentlemen, with in-' comes representing a mere fraction of their previous revenues. But no official scrutiny was made into the contents of their strong rooms, and thus many emerged from the debacle In a much better financial position than the bald figures of the state's commu tation scheme suggested. The Owari Ingots, however, being re served from ordinary uses by the Injunction of Iyeyasu an lnjhnctlon of absolutely binding force in the eyes of his descend antsremained Inviolate' until a few days ago, when their owner, Marquis Olrel. pres ent representative of the Owari family, de cided that the national emergency contem plated by his illustrious ancestor had come. The Ingots have a value of 1,000,000 yen JMR',000 In modern money. The gift has not evoked much comment In Japan. It appears to be considered tro ap propriate to be extraordinary. Bdt It con stitutes an Interesting link between the old and the new. Thomas F. Millard, writing In Scrlbner's Monthly on "Why General Kouropatkln Failed." describes the destructive lire of Japanese artillery as follows: "Shortly before 9 o'clock occasional Impact shells began to fall upon the Russiun cen ter, snd the Russian batteries ent back a few In reply. This was merely & prelimi nary exchange of courtesies, for the pur pose of getting the ranae. The Russia gunners in the redoubts were given the range at 8,800 .yards, which Jhows approxi mately the distance between the lines. About 9:20 ths Japanese batteries began, to fire salvos, also of Impact shell. This was for the purpose of finally correcting the rang, but they needed little correc tion, for it was remarked that nearly all these salvos, which were fired at short In tervals, burst almost directly upon the Rus sian redoubts. At 9:30 the Japanese artil lery opened all along the line, and at the same time the counterftanklng movement Started. Eye-witnesses of thla fire agree that it exceeded In Intensity, accuracy and execu tion anything of the kind they had ever seen, and many of those expressing this opinion were officers of experience In for mer wars. A perfect rain of shells (this well-worn simile is literally true) fell upon the positions occupied by the Russian but teries, killing and wounding hundreds of the artillerists and dismounting quite a number of the guns. Fifteen minutes sfter the Japanese fire opened not a single Rus sian gun fired another shot. Within that brief time from ten to fifteen thousand shells fell upon the Russian positions, mak ing It absolutely impossible to work the guns. The Japanese used both shrapnel and impact shells, and both were terribly effective. Ths Russian redoubts, which were of ths old-fashioned kind, offered scarcely any protection from the shrapnel, while the new high explosive first used In thla war by the Japanese caused fearful havoc, ripping up the entire top of the ridge like a ploughed field. FRAVDIXEXT PHOSPF.CTISES. How Promoters Sugar the Beat for Easy Investors. Chicago Tribune. The fraudulent prospectus is the subject of complaint In two Interesting suits begun this month, one In New York and the other In Baltimore. In both cases the defendants are banking Institutions which attempted to unload on the public securities which were by no means so valuable as the pros pectuses described them ss being. In the Baltimore case the plaintiff is a woman, who was Induced to buy some of the bonds of a consolidated street railway system In Nashville, Tenn. The trust com pany which had charge of the flotation of the stocks snd bonds is accused of having made deliberate misrepresentations. The plaintiff alleges that It hid the fact that some of the franchises of the road were about expiring; that the sum paid by the promoters for the properties, which they capitalised at 113.000,000, was only ll.873.C0), and that the $1,000,000 of bonds professedly reserved to extend the system really wit reserved to make ir jch needed repairs. Nearly the entire issuo of bonds, says the YourDoctor Always comes promptly? Ever faithful? Saved your life? Then hold fast to him. We believe In doctors. Ask yours about ,Ayer's Cherry Pectoral for hard colds, coughs of all Kinds, asthma, bronchitis, and other throat and lung troubles. For 60 years - doctors have used it. I hara used Ayer's Cherry Pectoral for 52 years. Just a linle of it cures a cold and stops a cough." A. G. Hamilton, Marietta, Ohio. Us., is., It f. J. C. ATEI CO., Uweil. IU. ml i" Greatest Aid to Cookery With least labor and trouble it makes hot-breads, biscuit and cake of finest flavor light sweet, appetizing and assuredly digestible and wholesome Pmoe Baking Powdir Co.. CmoAca plaintiff, was unloaded on the "confiding investing public of Baltimore," to the great pecuniary Injury of that public. In the New York case a national bank sues a trust company which by a deceptive prospectus had induced It to become one of the underwriters for the I'nited States Cotton Duck company, a concern with a capitalisation of 130,000,000, but nothing like that amount of tangible property. It Is charged that the prospectus was issued with Intent to defraud. A suit was begun recently by a share holder of the Electric Vehicle company for declaring a dividend when it had not been earned "for fraudulent and illegal pur poses." In 1S96 8 per cent dividends wore paid on the preferred and 2 per cent on the common stock. As a consequence the preferred sold up to 130 and since then, it has brought 8H- ' Investors generally submit too tamely when they have been taken in by deceptive prospectuses. If they had grit enough to sue an4 expose the operators who have de frauded them those operators would be less audacious. At present they reckon that the Investing public, even when It has been badly bitten, will grumble for a time, but will do nothing more serious. PASSING PLEASANTRIES. "They tell me your sister is getting home lier all the time.1' "Yes, she's looking more and more like your wife." Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Ps, what's the difference between a flat and an apartment? "The price, my son." New York Herald. Knocker Well, I'm glad I don't owe any body a cent, anyway. Debtor Yes, some people find it very hard to obtain credit. Philadelphia Press. Gotrox What did that chop say when we rsn over him? Chauffeur Said he was delighted and hoped you were quite well and Qotrox Speed on quickly! That must be one of my poor relations. Puck. Jylns Wall Street So your son Is studying law. Do you expect that he will stick to It? Speculator Oh, no; I Just want him to know enough about It so that he will be able to evade it successfully. Detroit Free Press. "This radium Is wonderful metal," said Mrs. Corntossel. "Costs about tl.000,00) an ounce." "Yes, answered the farmer. I was in terested when I first heard of It. But when they told me the price it sounded too much like a gold brick." Washington Star. Maud So that's a photogrnph of you and your handsome cousin, Clarence, Is It? You seem to be sitting pretty close to gether. Where's his left arm? Mabel (blushing furiously) He hasn't nny left arm. He lost it In the war with Spnin. I told him everybody would misunderstand that picture! Chicago Tribune. Evening Clothes It is no more necessary to have your evening drens suit made to measure than it is your overcoat. Fine as a dress coat must be in fit aud finish, we can meet your every requirement. The Cost We carry complete lines of both swallow tail nnd Tuxedo, beautfully finished. They are perfect examples of tailor's art And all the accessory adornments. ' No clothing fits like ours. ! R. S. WILCOX, Mgr. mm WHEN TUB TAN COMES OFF. 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