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TIIE OMAIIA DAILY IJEE: THURSDAY, -OCTOBER 6, 1904. 6 ItolGMAlIA DAILY Bee. B. ROSEWATER. EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERT MORNING. TRRMR OP SUBSCRIPTION. Pally B (without Sunday), One Tear. .$41 Dally Bra and Sunday. One Year .0 litii4ratif Rm On Year "u Sunday Be. One Year Saturday Hm, On Year " Twentieth Century Farmer, On Year.. l.OQ ., DELIVERED BT CARRIER. "i.ftw na rvuhoiit Hunriar). ter CODV 3c Sally Be (without Sunday), per week ..I2e Pally Bee (Including Sunday), per week. .lie Sunday Be, per copy J0 l-venlng Bee (without Sunday), per week 7c Evening Bee (Including Sunday), per week . 12C Cmclnlni'e'cf 'lrre'iulfirltles In delivery nhould he addressed to City Circulation De partment. I OFFTCE& Omaha The Be Building. -South Omaha City Hall Building. Twenty-fifth and M Street. Council Bluff 10 Pearl Street. Chtrago 1640 Unity BuIMrng. New York 2828 Park Row Building. Washington Ml Foiirtnth Street CORRESPONDENCE!. 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It took the supreme court of Wiscon sin a long time" in the LaFollette case to determine that there was nothing before it to determine. What would have "been the effect had the Episcopal general convention been called to order in the townl where the subway tavern is in full blast? 8o far Mr. Debs is th only candidate who Is making expense as , he goes. An admission fee of 10,ceuts is being charged to hear him on his Iowa trip, y " You can't. rnafce . , crooked, stick straight' Men who went wrong in for. mer legislatures are not likely to go right in the next legislature. Keep them at home, .' Since there are four contestants in the1 race for the capital of Wyoming, Cheyenne is not so anxious as it was. In Its case possession Is at least five points of the contest .. .. The president of Cornell university says that any student caught "hazing" another will be expelled. ' Nothing now (mains for the students but to Qualify for the .foot-, ball team. : If the insurrection inside the Audito rium bour4Jly -turns on the question Of popular prices for Auditorium enter tainaaents the weight of public senti ment will .be wltb the-.Iasurge.nts every time. v ; ' - "' ' 'Russians now claim that the Japa nese are compelling Coreans not only to enter the army against the Russians, but also to occupy-the front rowIYr haps, however, this, is only another ex hibition of Corean neutrality. (Both Japan and Russia say they ex pect an engagement at Tlo pass. The knowing ones will refrain from maklug predictions on account of the unanimity of expectations, but will.. wait until the Japantsol armies Lav been located to S certainty. . . . L J- , The Bee's directorX of candidates for legislative nominations gives certain In formation as to the occupation, nattvlty and public .positions of each, but ft be hobven voters to inquire also into the record and reputation of the candidates before casting their ballots. " The corporation managers want Van Pi:nen to' do It'aguiii this year. It is np to republican merchants, furthers and laboring men ty say at the repub lican primaries Friday whether they want to be misrepresented again by a corporation attorney like Van Dusen in the state senate. : Vle appointment of First Assistant Postmaster General Wynue as tempor ary postmaster general would indicate that the, vacancy caused by the deah. of Henry . Payne will probably be per manently filled before the beginning of the president's next term. In the mean time Mr. Wynne will be able to admin ister the postofflce in good shape. During the session or tho legislature three years ago and again during tho etsioQ of the last legislature, J. II. Van Dusen was oa the floor of the senate and In the corridors of the capitol as a lobbyist for several corporations and helped put through some legislation that ha increased our tax burdens. Do we want a professional lobbyist to repre sent Douglaa count la the seuate uoj.t , Jblubatt . THE FRIEND OF LABOR Senator Fairbanks is reported to have said at Stockton, California, that "No party, from the time of George Wash ington to the present day, has .done as much for the laboring man as -has the republican party-" An examination of the history f labor legislation will Jus tify this statement This shows thst nearly every import ant act of legislation for the better ment of , 'labor conditions and tho pro motion of the welfnre of the wage earners of the country has been adopted by the republican party. The first elglrt hour law In this country was enacted by a republican congress and npproved by President Grant the act applying to all artisans and laborers employed by the government. Later this law was extended to include persons employed by contractors on public works, this also being done under a republican ad ministration. The net cresting the fed eral bureau of labor, now embraced in tho new department established by the republican party, was passed by the forty-eighth congress - and signed by President Arthur. State labor bureaus are among the most valuable agencies for giving A clear insight into the prob lems of labor and capital. There are now twenty-three such bureaus in re publican states' and ten in democratic states, and of the la'tter only a few are so efficiently conducted as to be of any real value. A careful examination of this lubor legislation by the states shows a marked contrast between what has been dono, by the republican party and what by the democratic. The for mer has been far more considerate of the interests of labor in, all 1 respects and eiecia!ly as regards 'women and children workers. In the southern states women receive little considera tion and it is only in very recent years and under great pressure that the con ditions as to child, labor in that section have been ameliorated. These states. It is perhaps needless'to add, have long been u'nder dehiocratlc rule. No candid person, familiar with the facts, can hesitate to admit that the re publican party has shown a much greater interest in the welfare of labor than has the democratic party. Take, for example, factory-Inspection laws. Out of twenty-eight republican states twenty-one have established factory inspections services, while but three out of seventeen democratic states have such services, and even in those three states the service Is not thoroughly en forced. , Thirty-one of the forty-five states prohibit 'the employment in fac tories of children under 12 years of age. Of these thirty-one states twenty-one are republican and ten democratic. Twelve states have enacted laws 'to regulate "sweat-shops" and all but one of these states are republican. These are factt, derived from an ex haustive review of labor legislation by Repre8entativa Grosvenor of Ohio, which every intelligent worklngmqn should acquaint himself with. He should carefully . examine , tho ,necor.d of the porfles in regard to labor. If working men' wlH do this they will not fall, to find ample and conclusive proof of the truth of the statement of the republican candidate for vice president, VAN DVSES AS A RKTRENVIIER. , Up to the year 1000 tba clerk of the district court was paid in fees, which aggregated' from $15,000 to $2u.000 a year. In other words, the clerk of the district court had an incono as large as a railroad president and $10,000 a year more than the seven Judges of the dis trict court put together. , During the session of the legislature in the winter of 1899 a bill passed the house fixing the salary of the clerk of the district court at $2,500 a year and providing that all the fees of the clerk's-office be turned into the county treasury. ' When the bill reached the senate. early In tho session, it was referred to tho committee on Judiciary," of which Van Dusen was the chairman. , Van Dusen held the bill back until the last day of the session and then reported it with several amendments, one of these being the raising of the salary of tho clerk of the district court from $2,500 to $.1,000 a year. Under the constitution no bill can bo voted upon until after printed copies of 'all amendments have been distributed In both houses of the legislature. Van Dusen took no steps to hae the amendments printed, but the friends of tho bill procured printed copies at a Job printing o'ttlce and dis tributed them in the Semite and house Just six hours before the hour of ad journment. This was a stunning sur prise to Von Dusen, who, doubtless, .ex pected that the bill would get no chauco for passage before adjournment As soon as the copies of the bill reached- the senate the late Senator Noyes called the bill up, and rather than Jeopardise its- success consented to the $5,000 salary clause and tho other minor amendment and .forced its passage through the senate. The amendments were promptly concurred in by the house. Then began a struggle that lasted nearly all night It .was an open se cret 4hat the beneficiaries of the $20,000 a -year fee' system had put up a pot of $5,000 to have the bill killed. Imme diately after the passage of the bill its enemies, or, rather, Mr. Van Dusen's friends, cautered all their personal in fluence on - the engrossing clerks, who, after botirs of delay in Its copying, re turned the bill three or four tlms garbled and with whole lines left out and it was nearly midnight before a correct copy was finally procured and the bill was delivered to the governor for his approval. Why Van Dusen insisted, on the amendment raising the salary of the clerk from $2,500 to $5,000 a year, when he knew that the Judges of the tmpreme court the governor and the Judges of the district courts get only $2,500 a year, , he has never yet explained Why Van Dusen held the bill back until the last hours of the session and did not get the amendments printed, when he knew that the , failure to print them would kill the bill, lias also remained a mystery. . But this if only one of the many legis lative trick horse performances of J. II. Van Dusen and shows what he is capa ble of doing and how dangerous a man ite wonld be if he were again returned to his old stamping ground on the floor of the senate. -V FAVVB OF LA FOLLETTK. The decision of the Wisconsin su preme court in favor of the La Follette ticket ought to put an end to a factional controversy which has been a serious menace fp republican success in that state at the coming election. While the division in the republican ranks may not have imperilled the national ticket it made almost inevitable the defeat of the state ticket. Terhaps the bitter ness of feeling between the factions will not be wholly removed by the Judicial decision. The antagonism to Governor La Follette on the part of a very large number of Wisconsin republicans is deep seated. But It is a reasonable hope that the faction opposed to him will, from a sense of loyal duty to the party, put aside hostility at least for the pres ent campaign and support both state and national tickets. As a matter of sound politics there can be np doubt of the expediency of such a course. Wisconsin is normally a republican state. With the party there united It can win by a decisive majority. Four years ago McKlnley's plurality was dver 106,000 and Only factional conflict' will j prevent the republicans from approxi mating that plurality this year. The leaders of the opposition to La Follette are Among the most loyal-tif the coun try to the policies and principles of re publicanism. They must earnestly de sjre to avoid whatever might injure their party. The defeat of the repub lican state ticket would be nn injury and it is hardly conceivable that such men as Senator Spooner and Represent ative Babcock, who have been greatly honored by the party, will refuse to accept the situation or fail to do their whole duty as republicans. iLet all fac tional differences be cast aside and the party united for a decisive victory. HOWELL OR WELLER. The contest for the republican nom ination for membership on the water board has practically narrowed down between R. B. Howell and Charles FJ Well sr. The question every voter must ask hlmse'.f is, Which of these two men can be depended upon to better protect the interests of the taxpayers and citi zen of Omahi in the pending negotia tions for the purchase of the water works and the management of the works after they shall have been acquired by the city? Howell poses as the champion of municipal ownership, but Is lacking lh every ''element of honor and moral stnmlnt. He has been publicly con victed of willful deception and duplicity. Ills presentation of the water works issue hasi;been a piece -of. grandstand play. While he lias denied upon honor that he ever had any relation whatever, dlrect'y or indirectly, to the water works company, vouchers covering salary, board bills and incidental expenses for more than one year, signed by himself, show that he has been on the pay roll of the water company. . Ills collusion with the company in pushing through the Howell compulsory waterworks bill is transparent.' The bill was gotten up expressly to force the purchase of the works by the city at a time when material and labor are high and when the company can unload the works at several millions more than they might be worth by the time the contract between the city and the com pany expires in 1909. If the water compiny had been op posed to the Howell bill it certainly would have interposed some objection and blocked its passage through the legislature instead of allowing it to go through on greased wheels without even a whisper of oppoaltlon to it No man in Omaha stands higher in the esteem of all classes of the community than Charles F. Weller. Vr. Weller has occupied many positions of honor and trust in the city of Omaha and is, moreover, identified with, the commer cial interests of Omaha as head of the largest wholesale house in the west. His word has always' been as good as his bond. - He has never sought office, and" it Is fortunate for Omaha that he is willing to assume the responsibility which will devolve upon members of the water board 1n the near future. THE FENCE THAT JAcJt BUILT. For several months past there has been a Jog In the North Nineteenth street boulevard that arrests the atten tion as well 'as the locomotion of pleas ure seekers who ride' on two wheels and four wheete, and especially those who" are, trying to annihilate time and space by automobile. The Jog'in the" boule vard Is caused by A fence that projects far. into tho middle of the road and forms an enclosure of a small tract of laud, from which Its owner stubbornly insists upon barring the travel over that part of the boulevard. The other night, when the owner of this fence presented himself to the re publicans of the Fifth ward as a candi date for state senator he was politely asked whether he would pull down bis fence and let travel go on unimpeded. Mr. Cat hers stuffed cotton into bis ears and declined to be interviewed. All the republicans in the Fifth ward, and some republicans in other wards, say tbey will not vote for Cathers unless he pulls down that fence. Omaha is getting much undeserved notoriety. in connection with the latest exposure of the , Farr diploma mill, which has been grinding out sheepskins at bargain counter prices in the gulfa of colleges and universities located at va rious places, among which Omaha hap pens to be oue. We do not believe Farr's fake law school ever did any buwIr'V'i in Omaha, because it wui thor-vf oughly uncovered by The Bee as A fraud before it got started and Farr and his associates betook-themselves at once to parts where they were not so well known. The damage, therefore, Is not on account of what Farr's school did here, but its tendency to discredit Omaha's substantial educational institu tions. . - 'All Is lovoly. and serene in school board politics. " , The composition of the republican school board ticket has been agreed on without discord and the candi dates are already as good as elected. The best part of it Is that they are all good, representative business and pro fessional men, for whom no friend of the schools need hesitate to vote. The New Jersey manufacturing con cern which ' introduced Iron bars - into the life-preservers to bring them up to the weight specified by law Is now in trouble, but following the precedent of the New Yorkv board of steamboat in spectors it may succeed in proving to its own satisfaction that the iron was in the proper place. The lllllloB-Dollar race. Bt. Louis Globe-Democrat. Estimates of the corn crop have been marked up to nearly 2,600,000,000 buBhela. It Is no use to deny that this is a billion dollar country. A Fitting Penalty. Chicago News. About the most fitting punishment for that manufacturer who put iron Into cork life preserver to bring them up to the prescribed legal weight would be to make him' ewim In one of his own suicide belts. Coming Event Ct Promlae Before. Springfield Republican. It Is nearly a month since the Baltic fleet was blessed nd started on Its way to the far east. Yet thus far It has not passed through the Skagerrack. The Baltic fleet may be coming, but so la Christmas. Explanation In Order. Chicago Record-Herald. The American consul at Dublin has been fined $2.60 for running his automobile too fast. There are many people over here who would be glad to have him explain how a man whose salary is $2,000 a year can keep an automobile that will go faster than the law allows. ; Great Spectacle of Progrres. New York Tribune. A manufactory of balloons would be a novel enterprise among American Indus tries, but a French nobleman Is here to In terest capital In uch a one, and it may be In running order and turning out a balloon a day, or perhaps more, before we know It With a balloon In the air for every automobile on the ground, the country would present a spectacle of progress to make even the remote Martian observer wonder what had broken loose down here and under stress of what conditions we had all suddenly turned Into, balloonatlcs. Ray of Light -HI Monument. Chicago Post. The world owe a sincere tribute of re spect to the memory of Professor Niels Finsen, who has Just died at Copenhagen. He waa an enthusiastic Investigator. Be ginning with the belief that rays of light would cure certain germ diseases, he proB ecuted his Investigations with no expecta tion of pecuniary (reward. Ills discoveries he gave freely for pe good of his fellows, and the fact that,!, he wa awarded the Nobel medical prize laat year by, the Nor wegian parliament"' 1 a sufficient Indica tion of the great value of his method of treating that dread malady, lupus vulgaris. Professor Flnsen's monument la a ray of light, a ray that "has distinctly lessened the sum total of hi(man suffering. He lived not to accumulate wealtWi not to wield power, but to do good to humanity. Would that this rushing, restless, money-mad world had more like him. MAXIMS OP ROOSEVELT. . Legislation to be thoroughly effective for good must proceed upon the principle of aiming t get for each man a fair chance to allow him to show the stuff there Is in him. Finally we must keep ever in mind that a republic such as ours can exist only by virtue of the orderly liberty which comes through the equal domination of the law over all men alike. The western half of the United States would sustain a greater population than that; of our whole country today if the water, that ,now run to waste were saved and used for Irrigation. I The first great object of the forest re serve i 1, of course, the first great object of the whole land policy of the United States the creation of homes, the fa voring of the home maker. The living can best show their respect for the memory of the great dead by the way in which they take to heart and act upon the lessons taught by the lives which made these dead men great , Among the benefactors of the land her (the mother) place must be with thorn who have done th best and hardest work, whether as law givers or a soldiers, whether In public or private life, yl desire to see In this country the decent men strong and the strong ' men decent and until we get that combination In pretty good shape we are not going to ,be by any means a successful as we should be. Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready. If we fio these things, we can count on the peace that come to the Just man armed, to the Just man who neither fears nor Inflicts wrong. The question of the municipal ownership of these franchises (traction, etc.) cannqt b raised with propriety until the govern-, ments of all municipalities show greater wisdom and virtu than has been recently shown. If you ar worth your salt and want your children to be worth their salt, teach them that the life that Is not a life of work and effort Is worthless, a curse to the man or woman' leading It, a curse to those around hin or her. I want to see every man able to hold hi own with the strong, and also ashamed to oppress the weak. I want to see each young fellow able to do a man's work In the world and of a type which will not permit Imposition to be practiced upon him. Th great corporations which w have grown to speak of rather loosely a trusts ar th creatures of the tat. and the state not only has. the right, to control them, but It la In duty bound to control them wherever the need of such control Is shown. ' Probably the large majority of the for tune that now exist In this' country have been amaaied, not , by Injuring mankind, but a an incident to th conferring of great benefit on th community whatever the consclou purpose ' of those amaaslng them may have been. Ther nvr haa been devised, and there never will be devised any law which will enable a man ta succeed av by th ex ercts of those qualities which have always been th prerequisite of ilbces the qual ities of hard work, of ka laltlllnae, unfUnchloa wilt BITS OF WASHMOTOI LIFE. Mlaor Seene and Incldaat Sketched ob the Spot. United States Consul General Dillingham at Aukland, Australia, In a report to the Department of Commerce, tells of a new system for preventing railway collision. He says: v "An interesting change has recently been made In the signaling system In Xew Zea land's railway, which. It 1 thought, will make collisions absolutely Impossible. "For a long time, up to a recent date what is known a the 'block' system ' has been generally used, but the 'tablet' sys tem has now been introduced. The essen tlal point In the new system is that no engine driver Is allowed to leave a station without a tablet In his possession, and the element of safety rests on the fact that the machines are so made that It is impossl ble for two of the tablets to be out at the sam time. If a driver leave Auckland for Newmarket with a tablet, that tablet has t,o be deposited In the machine at New market before another tablet Is issued al lowing a return train to leave that station for Auckland, and the electrical connec tion between the two stations makes It Impossible to extract a tablet from the Auckland machine until the tablet- has been put Into the machine at Newmarket. "It Is claimed by railroad experts that Aider the new system two trains cannot be on the same section at once, so that the danger of collisions is entirely done away with." The annual report of the director of the mint gives Instructive figures on the pro duction of gold and silver In the United States for the calendar year 1903. The total value of the gold product is com puted at $73,591,700, and silver at $29,322,000. The total output of gold show a decline of $6,400,000, and of silver a decline of 1, 200.000 ounces from the figures of the pre vious year. The falling off in both metals Is almost entirely due, according to Mr. Roberts to labor troubles in Colorado, The most Important gain by any state was about $500,000 In gold by Nevada. Colorado led all states in the output of gold and sliver, California taking second rank In gold and Montana In silver. For the whole world the value of gold produced during the year Is computed at $325,527,000 and silver at $92,039,600. These figures show a gain over the output of 1902 of $29,637,600 In gold and 9.109,331 ounces In silver. The commercial value of the silver output Is $6,632,400 greater than In 1902, at the average price of 54 cent per ounce, compared with 63 cents In the pre vious year. The most important gains In gold were $28,974,400 In Africa and $7,631,300 In Australia; and the most serious loss was In the United States, The most important change in silver production was in Mexico, which reports an Increase of 10,323,338 fine ounces. Australia shows a gain of 1,656,819 ounces. We are a billion country In many re spects, most emphatically, so in the out put of stamps from the bureau of engrav ing and printing. More than 6,500,000,000 postage stamps will be printed during the present calendar year. The exact figures, as estimated by the officials, will be 6,964, 800,000. Of this number 1,791.000,000 will be made up of 1-cent stamps, 3,627,200,000 of 2'8, and the remainder of the higher de nominations. The bureau of engraving and printing strikes off 20,800,000 stamps every day. This average is kept up for the 306 working days In the year. The dally shipment of stamps to the 70,000 or more postoffices throughout the United States runs from 10,000,000 to 70,000,000, the latter being the highest number ever sent out In a single day. About 100,000,000 stamps are always kept on hand for any emergency. "Why, sir," said the man In charge of the stamp division a few days ago, "we count In millions and billions here. We can tell without difficulty whether the country is prospering or floundering In the slough of adversity. In fact the order sheet for stamps Is an accurate barometer of indus trial conditions in the United States. As a political argument nothing better can be ad vanced than the unusually heavy demand for stamps during the last four years. The calls upon us necessitate 'constant activity. The sales of stamps ha Jumped with leaps and bounds since 1900. In that year we shipped 3,958,000,000; In 1901, 4,270,000,000; in 1902, 5,135,930,(00, and In the present year we hope to pass the 6,000,000,000 mark. "Our best month Is January. Business picks up in December as a result of the holiday season, but-we reach the flood In January. August is the slack month, and February ts counted among. the dull periods. The demand in the first twenty days of every quarter Is unusually heavy, and at such times our daily shipments foot up millions. "The task of printing and distributing the little certificate that appears on the letters in the United States malls Is a tremendous one. Great skill ts required in every branch of the work. The best plate printers that can b obtained In this country are em ployed, and the women who examine and count the stamps are among the most ex pert of the small array employed in the bureau of engraving and printing." The government has been printing Its own postage stampa since 1894. Previous to that years the work was done under contract. Under the present system the bureau of engraving and printing must compete for the work with private companies. Lost year the competition was lively and the bureau won on a small margin. The Insular possessions are beginning to draw upon the government for large ship ments of stamps. The Philippine take 6,09,000 a year and Hawaii and Porto Rico ench 8,500,000 a year. Formerly postage stamp were simple In design. The series authorized last year ar more elaborate than any ever before Issued by the government. They are more ornate and carry the year of birth and death of the subject. This gives them an educa tional value which they did not possess In former years. PERSONAL NOTES. ..Contrary to the reports circulated in the United States, Emperor William I said by member of his suite to be In perfect health, and to - peak In a clear and natural voice. The Chinese government has demanded Indemnity rf $40,000 for a subject who wa killed by a Nevada mob. When a China man I horn his government appraises hlro at leas than 30 cents. A Boston newspaper has discovered that th democrat have a campaign fund of $11,000,000, and now the democratic man ager ar willing to give him $9,500,000 If the paper will tell them where It 1. Rear Admiral Rodger, who retire as commandant of th Brooklyn Navy yard this week, on account of age limit, has been appointed president of a special board for th Improvement of th navy. The death of ex-Mayor Franklin Edson of New York, whose term of office waa In 1882-4, leave Edward Cooper, Hugh J. Grant, Thomas Gllroy, Robert A. Van Wyck and Beth Low as th surviving ex. mayor of th city. Dr. James F. Love, a native of Philadel phia, ha Just returned to that city from Egypt, where h has resided for fifteen year.' H come almost aolely to cast hla vol at vthe coming election. Dr. Love went abroad nearly fifteen year ago and found a profitable field for th practice of bis jrp(elon of dntlt, - ft ,j.;,iia All persons who believe in documentary evidence and are sat isfied ' WITH 6 PER CENT are invited to buy "Conservative" paid-up certificates and out their coupons with us every six months, if they need the money. Otherwise the interest compounds. Assets of nearly $ 1.200,000 with choice real estate security. Under direct supervision of the State Bank Examiners. Be one of us. CEO. F. GIIM0RE, Prtsldent CHA5. C. CEORGE, 1st Vkt-Prtit. I. A. SUNDERLAND, 2nd Vke-Prtst. JOHN F. FLACK, . Gen'l Manager THE WEST AS A SELLER. fend Larger Tonnage to the- East Than It Receive. New York Evening Post. President Mellen of the New Haven rail road remarked, at the close of March: "The slump In business In New England Is not only alleged; It Is a fact." Only a few weeks later, after a 10,000-mile western Inspection trip, E. II. Harrlman observed: "Conditions In the west and southwest are much better now than I had expected last fall. More conservatism Is being shown there thiSk here. The west Is In good shape to look after It own financial requirements." These two Interviews fairly , well voiced well posted opinion, regarding the cast In general on the one hand, and the west on the other. The accuracy of the two state ments have been fairly confirmed by the country bank exchanges during the first eight months of 1904, which showed de crease of 15 per cent in the'middl east, Increase of 10 per cent In the south, but a practically stationary condition throughout the west. Another and still more instruc tive test is the Atchison railway's showing of eastbound and westbound freight, pub lished In Its annual report this week. Here are the figures: JTons. Tons. Tons. 1904. 1903. 190& Eastbound 6,832,607 6.134,300 5,8l'3,041 Westbound 6,363,090 '6,845,793 5,773,052 The eastbound business represents mostly grain, live stock, cotton and lumber, prod uct of the west; the westbound Is chiefly manufactured goods and general merchan dise which the west has bought. These figures are abundant confirmation of the nature of western "trade reaction" this last season. The west sold more than be fore and bought less; hence it ought to ba richer now han a year ago. PASSING PLEASANTRIES. "He's writing a novel." 1 "I supposed he was out of hi mind. . "He Is and he thouarht it would be more successful If he wrote it white In that con dition. It's to be of the regular popular order, you know." Cleveland Plain Dealer. "You can never Judge a man by his clothes, you know." , "No, but you can juage mm preuy wen by hjs wife's clothes." Philadelphia Press. "Don't vou sometimes promise more than you can fulfill?" xes, answerea ornaiui- ouibumui. "Sometimes a promlsi Is an investment, and the difference between it and the ful fillment repredentu the margin of profit. Washington Star. Ethet-Maude Is bosatlng that she had a large partv at her house on her birth day. Were you invltedT Kate No; but I understand that one of the guests weighed almost 300 pounds. Somerville Journal. First Clubman (remlnlscently) Was your daustiter married then? Second Old Clubman (whose daughter ha been thrice espoused, absently) Yes, now and then.-rTown Topics. Joseph had donned his coat of many col ors. "I think I will have to take my clothing to some other steam dye works In the future," he said, as he looked ruefully at the garment. Which only goes to show that the dyers of Canaan were thoroughly modern. Chi cago Chronicle. "Wat Isyer goln' t' do wld dat saw. Mister Doctor?" asked the alarmed colored patient In the hospital ward, aa he saw the surgeon come In the room with a saw and other Instruments. "Oh, Sam," replied the physician, with Strangers May not be as well versed in clothing and where to get It as town residents. And if friends-have neglected to mention the "fact" that Browning King & Co., make "all" of the clothing they sell and that clothing is the best in the world, they might be tempted into taking something home that would forever cause distrust of Omaha. Now is the time to pick out a top coat or a good serviceable winter suit one that will meet your every requirement and give the satisfaction you expect. Dpn't wait until the last minute to make the selection. COMB TODAY. COATS Kft cifv $18 $20 and S25 NO CLOTMINO HATS R. S. WILCOX, Mgr. Read This AdI We are 13 years old, and over We have 1300 mortgages, and over . We have 1300 stockholders, and over, which breaks the "13" spell. The Conservative Sav ings o Loan Association 205 SOUTH SIXTEENTH ST., OMAHA a 2x6 smile, "I'm Just going to see If I can saw where your trouble Is." Yonkera Statesman. Maggie Sav. everybody ses you're dead Stuck on Chimmle. Mame Metibe I am. He cert'n'y kin make love tor beat do band. Maggie Kin he? Where did he learn dat? Mame He's bin caddyin' on de Shady nook golf links all summer. Philadelphia Press, i PEPO TIIE STRENIOI'S. Young Pepo awoke in his house 'neath tha mold, Though adorned with, silk tapestried, walls. It wa narrow and dark, and ie yearned to push up To the top where the warm sunlight falls; So he Hung wide the portal, pressed up in the light. Where i ue sky its blue banners unfurled. And he rejoiced with high Joy in th free everywhere, And took step with this work-a-day world. Folks said he wa coarse, and they liked not his airs, But he saw things to do, and he flung Bright emerald canopies over the sward. on columns of crysoprase hung; To the gray crumbling top of the old gar den wall. He climbed, then ran over the bank And set golden goblet turned up to tha dew, Whence the birds and tha honey bees drank. t Then he laid by the roadway great sacks of rich fruit. For his work was not solely for show, That others might profit by what he had done. In the time of the frost and the snow; Now this ardent young Pepo, of purpose and vim. This vigorous confrere of thine. With retlen activity doing hi best, Waa only a pumpkin vine. That each may not be an Adonis I true. And people may not like our airs; But in doing tha things that our hands . find to do We may ease what the other one bears; Recking not how tha crowd, la Its bustls and haste. May measure up your work and mine. In duty to self we should not be outdone By a strenuous pumpkin vine. ROBERT -MCHESNCT. 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