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Bubacrlbcd In my preeence and sworn to before me this c day of October. 1B04. (Seal) M. B. HUNQATE. Notary Public. The ease with which the ItusBlans disclaimed any knowledge of troubles at Koushk must have made them wish the North sea were In Afghanistan. The Indiana senatorial succession Is beginning to demonstrate why so many politicians were so eager to help pro mote Senator Fairbanks to tho vice presidency. Legislative deadlocks are generally to be deplored, but some people harbor a feeling that the legislature of Delaware might do worse than fail to elect a sen ator this winter. All business "booms" have bad after effects and the apparent "boom" in the liquor market, following the presence of Indians attending federal court In Omaha, Is no exception to the rule. Cores ns are said to be showing dis content with the Japanese. Even the most hospitable of people sometimes find a guest who overstays his welcome, and tho Japanese show no signs of leaving. It Is to be hoped the reported injury of a man at the New York Horse show may not impair the popularity of foot ball with those who like to watch them cany off -the disabled from the gridiron. Mrs. Maybrlck denies that she Is to enter the lecture field. But she must admit that If she does not do something like that, much valuable free advertis ing will have been permitted to go to waste. Governor-elect Douglas of Massachu setts must be mistaken In his expressed opinion -that his views on the subject of free trade were responsible for his electlon-r-uuless he meant free trade In that (34,000 fund. Iowa has finally decided that It can rest satisfied with two cabinet offices, but wants the president to understand that If he has any difficulty In filling the other places its supply of good ma terial Is far from exhausted. The way to make Omaha a perma nent grain market Is to build flouring mills and elevators, and the way to build mills and elevators la to build them and not talk about them. Resolu tions do not supply the demand. Without , reference to the particular case brought against Father Bchell, It may be well to recall the fact that no one who has ever undertaken to expose the viand grabbers and grafters on the Winnebago reservation has escaped being made the victim of some criminal charge trumped up against him by these plunderers of the Indians. The retail merchants are determined to continue their efforts for a revision of the exemption laws that will permit more severe methods X collection. No one has any sympathy with the, pro fessional deadbeut, but the difficulty is to get a law that will aceouipHsh Its purpose without attending hardship upon the merely unfortunate. According to the latest advices the supreme court will, on Its own motion. strike from Its records Senator Allen's brief criticising the motives of a mem ber of the supreme- court commission. but the court will refrain from citing Senator Allen to appear for contempt or pay a $500 fine and costs, without appeal. Times have changed. The minister of war of Panama has retired on a pension and Secretary Taft will find no man Of corresponding rank to greet htm when he arrive on the shores of the new republic. lint this will hardly Interfere with the settle ment of the matters between the gov ernments, as Judge Taft has started out to make, things harmonious, and tarmonloos tbey must be. partt OR PRINCIPLE f The World-Herald has attempted to explain the political landslide and to draw lessons therefrom in an article headed "Worth All Thre Tears." It commences: The democratic party In the nation met with a terrible defeat because It yielded to the temptation to occupy republican gtound. There is no room In this country for two republican parties. Near the close It adds: Mr. Bryan himself emerges from the campaign a stronger man than he entered it Many democrats who were honestly mlstukrn, and who had been led to be lieve that Mr. Bryan was not a democrat, but was in fact a populist, have had their eyes opened. The courage and force Be displayed during (lie recent campaign has won for him the respect of men, regard less of political prejudice. The first quotation is a confeeslon that the democratic party In the campaign Jutt closed was merely another repub lican party, advocating republican poli cies and doctrine, nnd that It deserved defeat. The second Is to the effect that Mr. Bryan proved bis democracy and won the respect of men by the tremen dous efforts he put forth In behalf of Parker nnd Davis In other words, that he proved his democracy and won re spect by moving with his party upon re publican ground, advocating republican policies and doctrine and pleading for the success of a party that deserved defeat. That Mr. Bryan has proved his party loyalty may be conceded, but many of his slncerest admirers have openly re gretted that in doing so he has set party above principle. Has his course been consistent? If "my party right or wrong" be the true test of political char acter in a man of Mr. Bryan's standing, It must be the test of those who make up the rank nnd file. He belongs to a mi nority party, nnd what ground would there be for him to hope that It would ever be anything but a minority party should each voter act upon the maxim which Mr. Bryan himself has acted upon, "my party right or wrong." With what grace can he In the future nsk re publican voters to desert their pnrty when he himself refused to desert the democratic pnrty when It espoused doc trines which for years he had denounced as the sum of all political Iniquities? For Mr. Bryan It will be urged that he was forced to choose between two re publican parties. But his old running mate, Mr. Watson, was the candidate of a party having a national organization. Its platform did not differ materially from what it was eight years ago when Mr. Bryan was glad to stand upon it with Mr. Watson. It contained nothing Inconsistent with the views which Mr. Bryan has advocated ever since he en tered public life. It was supported by many of Mr. Bryan's closest political friends In Nebraska and elsewhere. With this opportunity In reach he delib erately allied himself with Cleveland, Hill, Gorman nnd others who for years have stood opposed to all he advocated as "safe and sane" In politics, and turned his back on his old political asso ciates who shared his views on questions of government. In so doing he seriously Impaired his most valuable political asset, namely, the popular belief In his sincerity of purpose. THE AXNVAL HOLD VP. The Omaha brewers, wholesale and retail liquor dealers and druggists, who are under the law required to publish their applications for license to sell malt, spirituous and vinous liquors In the newspaper having the largest bona fide circulation In the county, are again being subjected to the annual holdup by pub lishers of papers that Mo not meet the requirements of the law. These bogus claimants boldly threaten liquor dealers and druggists with prosecution and per secution If they do not allow themselves to be confidenced and held up. This Is nothing more or less than a down right attempt at blackmail. If liquor dealers submit they are entitled to no sympathy. It Is within their power to put an end to the "annual holdup" by entering a complaint with the county attorney against parties who seek to extort money from them under threats. The law prohibiting extortion by threats applies to publishers of newspapers just as it would, to men engaged in any other business. There never was a time tlnce the Slocumb law was enacted that The Omaha Evening Bee was not the paper of the largest bona fide circula tion In the county of Douglas. When ever a test has been made before city councils or In the courts Its position as the most extensive circulating medium In this city and county has been 'Sus tained. But the bogus claimants will continue their annual raids until they are called Into court and prosecuted for the violation of the code prohibiting the levy of blackmail. THE SOUTH 1ST POLITICS There Is to be a conference of south ern democratic leaders, according to re ports that come from Washington, to consider the question of the political In dependence of the southern states. Ac cording to what appears to be an author itative statement, the idea is that the south shall cease to co-operate with the northern democracy and that it shall cease to assume an attitude of hostility toward the republican party, bnt shall remain absolutely Independent. It Is suggested that ahould such a plan be followed the south would cease to send delegates to national conventions. It would allow the two northern parties to make their nominations, would choose Its own electors, and would have them vote for whichever candidate seemed most acceptable, or for a third party can didate If neither proved acceptable. In case no party named an acceptable can didate the south would choose a south ern msn and vote ftir blm. Tu men In the south who are urging this course aaeert that they have en tirely lost confldem.-e In the northern de mocracy and ara tired of their own sub- ordlnata position. They ara convinced that the time has coma when the demo crats party In the south should cut It self ant of the aaaitlaa of aelog a mare TFIE OMAHA tali to the deraocrxttc kit of the north anil a serum a poaftlan of fnflaciic En the coanrUa of the national democracy. ' Ap parently some of the democrats af that section see the folly of trusting the pledges and promises of the democracy of the east which have uniformly failed and sre likely to do so In the future. In the last campaign the southern democ racy believed Implicitly that the assur ances given by the eastern democrats would be carried out and It was upon the strength of this that they accepted a New York man as the candidate for president They confidently thought that the assurances given In behalf of the candidate would be fulfilled. They were not especially favorable to the man (whom the democrats of w Tork pre sented to them, because they had not found him to be of their way of thinking In a most important respect, but they took him upon the recommendation of the democracy of the east and they gave him support at the ballot box. It Is not surprising to learn that In their great disappointment they are now disposed to cut loose from on element of the party which it has been clearly dem onstrated Is unable to accomplish any thing and which has deliberately de cided the southern democracy In more than one campaign. We will not ven ture to predict what the result of the proposed conference of southern demo cratic leaders will be, but It is a rational hope that It will lead to a change in the attitude of the democratic party In the south Which will place It upon a more liberal and patriotic basis th?n It has occupied for the past thirty years. BEFORE AXD AFTER TAKIXQ. During the campaign of illumination, conducted at an expense of more than $20,000, the people of Omaha were in formed by President Nnsli that the property of the electric light company represented an investment of $4,000,000 and paid more taxes than any other of the public utility corporations. An inspection of the record In the office of the city tax commissioner shows that the street railway company made a return for 1004 of $3,908,000, which was raised by the commissioner ' to $3,000,000; the Omaha Gas company made a return of $1,552,000 and was raised by the tax commissioner to $2,250,000; the property of the water works company within the city limits of Omaha was appraised by the com missioner at $2,125,000; that of the Ne braska Telephone company was returned for $500,000 and these figures were ac cepted by the commissioner; the return made by Mr. Nash for the electric light company placed the value of that prop erty at $750,000, and that valuation was accepted by the commissioner. In his sworn return to the tax com missioner Mr. Nash places the value of the electric light company's plant for 1905 at $750,000, or $3,250,000 less than he claimed It to be worth before the late election. The people of Omaha have a right to ask what has caused this tremendous slump in the value of this plant within less than twenty days? Why was the electric light company's plant worth $4,000,000 before election and less than one-fifth of that amount after election? Nobody in Omaha Is aware of a sudden drop In the value of real estate, in the cost of labor and building material, during the Inst three weeks, and nobody In Omnha has heard of any terrific contraction In the price of poles, wires nnd electrical machinery since the late election. One of three things Is manifest. Either the strenuous president of the electric light company indulged In de liberate deception on the -public when he said the company owned property and franchises worth $4,000,000 In Omaha, or he has been laboring un der mental aberration and hallucina tion, or he has made a return to the tax commissioner and Board of Review outrageously out of proportion with the true value of the property. The only way for the Board of Re view, which is now in session, to solve the problem Intelligently is by compell ing Mr. Nash to submit a statement of the capitalization of the electric light company In stocks and bonds with the market value of each. Under the su preme court decision the combined value of stocks and bonds, deducting therefrom the value of the renl estate assessed separately, should be the as sessed value of tha property. The arrest of Father Schell on a charge trumped up In the name of an Irresponsible Indian is an unmitigated outrage, manifestly concocted by the Thurston county combine that considers the Indian Its legitimate prey. Father Schell might have been Indiscreet In making known bis Intention to carry the complaint against the rlngsters to Washington, and doubtless this fur nished the Inspiration for this move to detain and besmirch him, but we ap prehend that it will have the opposite effect. The arrest of Father Schell will arrest the attention of the secretary of the Interior and the president and com pel the adoption of regulations that will more effectively correct the abuses ex isting at the reservation. The making of a great grain market In Omaha by the erection of elevators and storage houses, the building of cereal and flouring mills and other In dustries to work up their products, offers at present the most promising field of expansion for this c-lty. If ma ha can get the benefit of the marketing of the larger part of the grain ttowu within th territory naturally tributary, It will Increase Its population and add to Its taxable wealth to an extent matched by no other single Hue of industry, ex cept possibly the live stock market and packing houses at South Omaha. It Is worth working for. , Omaha U to entertain the State Teachers' association In Its annual con vention during the holidays. This Is tha first tltna that the convention will have accepted Omaha's hospitality, Willi a little extra effort tha meet- DAILY DEE: SATURDAY, tng can be made so aocresafal in point of attendance and results that tha teach ers will be glad to come again. It be hooves th committees In charge to get in their promotion work early while school teachers are making plans for their midwinter vacation, and before they make arrangements that would In terfere with the trip to Omaha. Having done their level best to beat the successful candidates for republican nominations, and then having done their level best to beat them as repub lican nominess for election, the Fonta nelle India us are now organizing a ma rauding expedition to capture all the ap pointive places tha have fallen to the jiossesslon of the victors and are en deavoring to enforce their demands by the swinging of war clubs and toma hawks. Indian methods, however, are at a discount in civilized communities In these twentieth century days. Omaha's frnnchised corporations are persistent and consistent at all events when It comes to returning their prop erty for taxation. No matter what they happen to have been assessed the Inst year, they are sure they should be as sessed a little less this year. If the object lesson of the Sixteenth street pavement does not move the property owners on other streets, which are practically impassable because of their wornout pavements, some more forcible means may be required. They Have Not Hail F.nonih. Baltimore American. Russia says it will never cease fighting until it is conqueror. The world Is pretty well convinced that Japan feels the same way about It and will back up its determi nation with a much more presentable . -cle of war. So there you are. Decorations for Honesty. Washington Post. Italy proposes to decorate J. Plerpont Morgan because of his return of that stolen cope. This country might be willing to give some of those Napoleons of finance decorations if they would return the stolen propel ty now in their possession. It Won't Count for Much. j San Francisco Chronicle. A good deal of talk Is heard about the socialist vote, but it will never count for much in this country while the farms are in the possession of over 6,000,000 owners, and while there are as many more separate owners of city realty in the United States. Japan's Credit. New York Tribute. Uncle Sam smiles on the Jap as a bor rower and will discount his paper with pleasure. Tho little brown Oriental's credit Is good everywhere, even in Moscow, where the capitalists have quite a snug lot of Japanese securities stored awa". rated as gilt edged even in the fir i .'lal schedules of those who are at war with them. Confidence Well Placed. Philadelphia Press. The magnificent expression of confidence In President Roosevelt by the people of the United States has had a favorable bearing on his invitation to European na tions to reassemble the peace conference at The Hague. They all realize now n little more than before his good intentions, and the fact that he Justly represents this nation in the proposal. Vast Illches In Corn. New Orleans States. The greatest hoard of the yellow metal ever gathered in one countr. ould not buy one year's harvest of the American oorn and wheat. To buy one season's corn crop would take all the gold minted In this country In six years. In the last seven years all the gold mines have produced only enough to buy one year's yield of our six leading cerealB. ROAD STREWS WITH BROKEN HOPES Ambitions Shattered on the Road to the White House. Kansas Cltv Star. The loss of the presidency was probably not an overwhelming disappointment to Judge Parker, for he could hardly have been under any serious delusion regarding his chances of success. But the Way to the great office is strewn with the broken hopes and shattered ambitions of those of his predecessors who had given up their lives to the pursuit of the prise only to lose It in the end. The list begins with John Jay, who sacrificed his prospects by negotiating an unpopular treaty with Orcat Britain. It ends with Thomas B. Reed, for Mr. Bryan was the leader of a forlorn hope both In 1898 and in 1900 and he accepted defeat with fortitude. While there were disap pointments of aspirations early In the his tory of the oountry, the first case that ap pealed to popular imagination was that of Henry Clay, the brilliant "Harry of the West." Clay was pussed over in 1840, be cause his membership in the Masonic order and his tariff views made him less "avail able" than William Henry Harrison. Four years later he secured the nomination only to be defeated by the first democratic dark horse, James K. Polk. Webster was another leader who was sacrificed to the exigencies of the popular demand. In 1848 the whigs deserted their chiefs and went over to the military hero. General Taylor, although the Massachu setts statesman, according to all prece dents, was entitled to the nomination. Again, In 1852, Webster lost to another soldier, General WInfleld Scott. In 1860 Governor Seward of New Tork was the republican leader, and the logical choice of his party. But the know nothing ele ment caused his defeat and made possible the nomination of Lincoln. Salmon P. Chase was another man with a presidential ambition which was never gratified. He hoped to secure the nomi nation In place of Lincoln In 18S4. De feated at that time, be looked forward four years to the democratic convention, which rejected hlrn and named Governor Beymour. To avenge bis defeat bis daugh ter la reported to have Induced ConlUlng not to fight the decision of the electoral commission awarding Louisiana's vote to Hayes. For Mr. TUden had been the real power behind Seymour's nomination. Thus a grudge over a defeat helped to deprive the democratic candidate hi M7 of bis victory. Horace Greeley succumhed In 18TS under his crushing defeat and died a few days after the election. Blaine was defeated for the nuuiniy. tion in 1878 by tha cutting off of the gas from the convention hall, which thus com pelled an adjournment over night and gave his opponents time to arrange a winning combination. Ilia loss of the presidency, eight years latar, due to the Burchard in discretion, loft him a broken man. The billllunt Reed hoped for the Humiliation i 1890, but It went to his more astute ad versary. The acquisition of the Philip pines alienated him from his party and finally forced his withdrawal from political life. Theodore Roosevelt is one of the very few brilliant party leader since the time of the Virginia dynasty whose long term of nubile service has been rounded out wtla a Siectlea to the presiaeacy. NOVEMBER 19, 1004. OTHER LA1D9 TBUS In France there continues to be com plaint of the decrease in the birth rata, though there appears no good reason for such discontent. The number of births last year was 835,712, as compared with H6,J78 the year before, and an average of 851,044 for the preceding ten years. The number of deaths was lew, so that the excess of births over deaths wes T3.10. That was a small natural Increase In the popu lation of France, but 'It was sufficient. France has a large population for Its slse, and while the births are proportionately much less than in Great Britain or Oer many, they are as many as the circum stances of the nation Justify. The French are not a migratory people In the same sense as are the British or Germans. Hence as large a birth rate proportionately In France as In Germany or Great Britain would soon overcrowd the country snd re sult In want and misery. There Is less dis tress among the French people than among those of any other European nation, de spite the enormous taxation Imposed on them. If the French government ceases to look for an opportunity to revenge Itself on Germany, and reduces Its outlay for war purposes, the French people would soon be. In an economical senfe. far In ad vance of those of any other European coun try. The failure to Incresse rapidly in population Is something which France does not need to worry over. The traces of the old feudalism In Japan survive conspicuously in the laws that meko labor unionism and strikes criminal. By the police regulations of 1900 the Japa nese authorities are empowered to punish worklngmen who go on strike or "who speak or agitate for wages and hours of labor." There Is, in fact, a complete legal prohibition of the right of combination among wage-earners. So lnng as such laws remain In force the capitalists and manufneturers of Japan are sure of very cheap lnhor supply, and this fact will un doubtedly aid them enormously In com peting with western lnduptrlallsm for the J various open markets In tho Orient. Tet I there Is likely to be, In time, an awakening nmong the Japanese working class. The economic standard of living among them will rise ns the Increase of wealth goes on. Then, too, the Jnpanese cannot assimi late western civilization to any great ex tent without Imbibing also our labor union Ideas. The right to combine and strike must be conceded some day. Meantime, It Is singular that a socialistic propaganda has begun there even before the right of labor to ''agitate or combine for higher wages has been recognized. There are Important matters before the French congress to which tho government Is addressing Itself with earnest resolution. On j Is the Income tax, concerning which two proposals are now under consideration, either of which would make revolutionary changes In the fiscal system. Another Is the refreshing proposal to reduce the pe riod of military service to two years. A third is the government bill for establish ing a worklngmen's pension fund. Of course there are also the agreements with Great Britain over the Newfoundland shore and the partition of Africa, and with Spain over the disposition of Morocco, which must bo brought up for approval. To all these measures the government stands pledged, and It .neans to put them through during the present session, or at least In the new session which begins in January next. To that end the deputies will probably be kept at work in both aft ernoon and evening, and speeches "for Buncombe" will be discouraged. It is an inspiring spectacle to see France thus settling down to business In serene disre gard of the winds of war and the waters of intrigue which are raging about her. There Is no nation of continental Europe that can so well afford an attitude of self-contained and self-reliant Independ ence as can France, and that she Is at this time assuming such an attitude is an omen of her future good. ... Reports continue to come from all sides of the terrible and growing distress In "southern Russia. The municipal authori ties in the large towns are voting relief funds, but In amounts which are ridicu lously Inadequate to the necessities of the case. Thus at Krementchug a resolution to pay one dollar a week to the more des titute reservists' families of the district was thrown out In the municipal chamber, and an amendment curried to pay fifty cents. Many of the reservists' families consist of five, six or even more children, so the value of this aid may be imagined. The military authorities deny all re sponsibility for the misery caused by the mobilization. In view of the large number of men killed and incapacitated at the front, they have been asked to whnt ex tent the various municipal corporations andS charitable organizations may depend upon government assistance later on. They have replied that soldiers or reservists, when dead or incapacitated, no longer of ficially "exist" and that their wives, fam ilies, or other dependents cannot be assisted out of military funds. The state of affairs In the villages and outlying hamlets is even worse. The representative of a Ger man agricultural machinery business who lately returned to Odessa after visiting various agricultural areas in the south of Russia declares that the ojtlook for the winter is the worst he remembers for fifteen yeurs, many of them years of har vest shortuge or partial famine. The scheme for the redistribution of the British, forces in India, upon which Lord Kitchener has "been at work for a long time, has been formally adopted and will be put into complete execution as speedily as possible. The object of it, put in the briefest way, is to arrange the dif ferent units in a formation which will en able them to train together and co-operate more effectively in the event of war. The condltiona of the country, It is explained In a general army order, have been vastly changed since the mutiny by railways and the telegraph The new scheme concen trates the troops according to present re quirement! and in, particular enablrs all three arms to be trained toge.her in the various centers. Southern I mi: a I by no means denuded of troops, though the post of lieutenant general of the Mdrai army has been abolished. The military arrange ments In Burma remain unchanged. The cost of the reorganization will. It Is be lieved, amount to 0,000.00.1, all of which, however, will nut have to be paid at once. The Bengal, Bombay and Punjab armies will be knuwn respectively as the easts n, western and northern corps. Bl.' CUir'.f Egerton will command at akiaiarbad, which will be on the same footing as Burma. Officers of divisions w 11 have In creased duties in order that lieutenant geuerals may have mure l?iure to aure.--lntend the training at their dLls nns. Each division will consist of one cavalry and three Infantry brigades, at wall as the di visional troops of cavalry, artillery, sap pers and pioneers. The completion of the scheme will require time, as new barracks on new lines will be needed. Officers ara specially directed to devote their energies toward an Improveal war training of thair men. Japanese Loaa In America. Springfield RepuUlcan. Americans are not subscribing for tho new Japanese loan in such number or amount Englishmen, a. a but there teenii to be nc doubt that the 30 0 0.000 aaslgned to this country will be fully taken here. It Is an exceptiurally attractive offer which Is made netting the Investor nearly T per cent. But American money is pretty well tied up 1b soheiuts of our own. Juat aam. ptJT.rrrcAi. drift. net afr cafctnet rnakera are bosr wtth their hammers. Colonel Henry Watterson strikes the last note In the dirge when ho says there Is nothing left to reorganise. The most surprising feature of the elec tion In Pennsylvania Is that one democrat should land a seat In congress. Apparently, Governor Dockery of Mis souri sees little to be thankful for, as his Thanksgiving proclamation is Just eight lines long. It would be easier to bear If It had been Gumshoe Bill Stone Instead of Cockrell that was standing In the way of the Missouri avalanche. Notwithstanding sll the energy and treasure expended, It la fairly certain that Gasman A (Hicks will not land the Dela ware stnatorshlp. Rev. Dr. Swallow declares that he Is "much gratified by the returns so far re ceived." If he Is satisfied the rest of us ought not to complain. A large proportion of the republicans of Moscow, Idaho, made a public bonfire of their old hats and donned new headgear provided by the opposition. Kentucky produced the greatest surprise of the election. The prohibitionists car ried one precinct In Louisville and tripled their vote throughout the state. There is an occasional rift In the clouds befogging southern newspapers. The Florida Times-Union exclaims cheerfully, "The price of whisky is falling!" E. T. Searles, who last week was elected governor of North Dakota on the repub lican ticket, was born In Wisconsin and is the son of a Methodist minister. The legislature of California, which meets In January, will be so nearly unanimously republican that a division on party lines on any subject whatever will be out of the question. Senator Depew la actively at work among the membnrs-elert of the New York legis lature securing pledges for his own re election. He Is meeting with good suc cess, but has t)ot yet pledged a majority of the republican caucus. "We are for Parker because we are weary of defeat," said Senator Daniel of Virginia at the St. Louis convention. Hi is one among a considerable number of democrats who have not been heard from since the election. Carter H. Harrison, mayor of Chicago, asserts his party is stricken and announces that he will not be a candidate for re election next spring, and that under no combination of circumstances will he ac cept a renomlnatlon. Governor-elect Douglas of Massachu setts acknowledges having spent 834,500 in his campaign. Still there are statesmen in the Bay state who insist that a demo crat cannot, under the constitution, hold the office of governor In that state. Governor Odell holds no grudge against anybody. Still, he declined an invitation to attend Senator Piatt's buckwheat cake and maple syrup breakfast. Buckwheat cakes don't agree with him, perhaps, and he may have his doubts as to the genuine ness of the maple syrup. Patrick Keerwin of Seward, Westmore land county, Pennsylvania, the oldest voter In the United States, cast his twenty-first presidential ballot for Parker and Davis. He Is 107 years 8 months and 1 day old and takes the same keen Interest In poli tics today as he did fifty years ago. ' I'nexperted Good Taste. Springfield Republican. One tiling can be eald for General Sher man Bell of Colorado. He knows when he Is not wanted. The defeat of Governor Peabody wa even more a condemnation of Bell, who promptly announoes that he will now go to Mexico as superintendent of a mine. This is really an exhibition of good taste that was not looked for. Not a Bit Discouraged. Chicago Tribune. Grandpa Davis is quoted as saying hn Is not discouraged. The good old soul should not allow himself to be absolutely certain that the democratic party has formed the habit of nominating him for vice president. It may make overtures to Uncle Russell Bnge next time. COAL WOOD COKE KINDLING We sell the best Ohio Cooking Coal-clean, hot, lasting Rock Springs, Hanna, Sheridan, Walnut Block, Steam Coal. Best medium grade is Illinois Nut $5.75; Egg and Lump $6. For heaters and furnaces Cherokee Nut $b; Lump $5.25. A hot burner-Missouri Nutt large size $4.50: Lump $4.75. Scranton the best Pennsylvania Anthracite mined. Spadra-the hardest and cleanest Arkansas Anthracite. All coal hand-screened and weighed over any city scales desired. COUTANT & SQUIRES, ,406TeleoAnMe !T3oEET Clothes You want wearing qualities and a reasonable price the boy wants Btyle. We meet both requirements. But to better appre ciate what our Boy's Clothing is like, vinit our Child ren's department and Bee if we haven't the handsomest cold-weather clothes that were ever displayed in the city. 3 to 8 years .... $3 50 and up. 8 to 16 years $5.00 and up to $8.50. Overcoats 2i to 8 years all styles 3.50 aud up to 10.00 Overcoats for the bigger boys 8 to Jo years 5.00 d p to 15.50 Young Men's Overcoats in the Swager style, belted back 10.00 to No Clothing Still a few Girls' Tailor few dont overlook a GoocJI R. S. VILCOX. Mgr. Fifty Years tha Slsndird Hada from pure cresm of tartar derived from grapes. FLASHES OF Ft N. "Is that Invention of yours praetlcplT" "I don't know yet," an.wered the ln ventor. "It works all right, but I haven't yet put any shares on the market." Wash ington Star. "George won a hat betting with papa." "And papa said George could have Erne line If he'd call it square." Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Yes. sir, he was the laziest man on rec ord. What do you reckon he did when hi! house was on fire?" "Punno." "Warmed his hands nt the Maze, ar.d thanked God he didn't have to spilt the wood for it!" Atlanta Constitution. "When Bragley starts talking to me It alwsyp makes me thirsty." "You mean because he's so dry?" "Well, no; I think It's heonus.. so many of the statements he makes have to be taken with a grain of salt." Philadelphia Press. "What's this story about Archie Feather top taking his nutomoblle apart to see what It was made of?" "Only partly true. It wasn t working right, and he took It apart--lnto a fence corner, where he could swep.r at It undis turbed." Chicago Tribune. "I confess," said he. during the tiff. "I can't undr-tand you at all; you're a reg ular puzile." "Weil," she retorted, defiantly, "If I m an unsolvable puzzle, there's only one thing for you to do give me up." Phila delphia Press BRYAN'S OPINION. S. W. Olllllan In Baltimore American. I wrote Bill Bryan asking what he thought of the defeat Of A. Bewildered Parker who was such a cinch to beat. I waHtid quite a day or two before tha answer came, Then opened It with feverish haste to learn who got the blame For all the harm Inflicted to the rartj; that had failed To get within a furlong of the Job they would have nailed. But this Is all I heard from him the party's liveliest head: "Don't ask any questions Tommy Watson says I'm dead." - Then came a little postscript worded thus: "I s'pose It's so. For Watson's fully posted and he surely ought to know. But If It's true, the symptoms rigor mor tis brings about Are not tho kind I thought I'd have while 'going up the spout;' My tenip'rature is normal and my pulse Is pretty swift For one in that condition fondly known as 'on the lift;' I've got the same old notions firmly fast ened In my head, ' Which seems tarnation funny If, as Wat son says, 1 m dead. "I've got the strength, though I'm de funct, to lead another fight - Against the sort of statesmanship I never thought was right; I've got the steam and courage to admin ister a biff To that old Cleveland party which Is queer If I'm a stiff. No undertaker's wagon has been calling here for me, No sad-faced, white-gloved neighbors, choir or preacher do I see; But how can I disparage what so good a man hath said? That sorrel-topped Tom Watson has pro claimed that I am deed!" 25.1 Fi Like Ours. Jade Coats left and only a flhing. aaaaaaBBBaaaiaBBBBBBBaBau