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THE )MAHA DAILY DEE: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1903.
The Omaha Daily Bee.
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VICTOR ROBEWATER. EDITOR.
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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
State of Nebraska, Douglaa County, .:
George B. Tsscr.uck, treasurer of The
Bee I'uhllshlng Company, being duly sworn,
says that the actual number of full and
complete copies of The Dally, Morning,
Evening and tiunday liee printed during
the month of January, ia08, was as fol
lows; 1 36,800 N 17 38,300
I. 38,180 II 36,150
I,' 38,380 II 38,400
.,. 38,400 SO 88,650
1 38,300 11.. 38,410
I 88,340 13 88,140
, 1 83,600 II 38,860
1 88,890 24 38,480
1 38,380 St 36,640
10 88,410 16 36,100
11 38,330 ST.. 88,140
II 36,160 SI 37,180
It 3830 SI 38,030
14.. 88,880 10 38,330
It 88,360 II 36,960
II 38400
Totals 1,183,890
Less unsold and returned copies, . 8,480
Net total 1,114,340
Dally average- 36,968
QEORQE B. TZSCHUCK,
Treasurer.
Subscribed In my presence and sworn to
before me this 1st day of February. 1808
ROBERT HUNTER,
Notary Public
. , WHE.1 OUT OF TOWN.
Subscribers IttTtsg th city teTT
porarlly shnnld bar The Be
sailed to them. Address will be
ehaa-ed as oftem as requested.
rhev grand Jury . irr aesBlon bo
look out for well-defined rumorB."
Up to date the fleet baa had nothing
to fight ,on Its way to the Pacific ex
cept a few Btray storms.
Southern cotton planters are said to,
have money to spare. In other words,
the COttOn mn Mvlncr rr
- - ' " Q VI IC1TCU
"Mr. Bryan Is always positive," says
the Washington Star. Except at the
polls, where he develops a negative.
Georgians are reading carefully all
those Advertisements that close with
the promlse.of "a sample bottle free by
mall."
Persia understands It will be apt to
suffer the fate of an Innocent by
stander In case of a war between Rus
sia and Turkey,
"Pittsburg women do not smoke
cigarettes." says the Pittsburg Dis
patch. Is It possible they prefer those
Pittsburg stogies T
Over 4,000 Japanese In San Fran
cisco are planning to Join with hur
rahs in the welcome to the American
fleet. Confusion to the Jingoes.
Congress Is making a determined ef
fort to provide currency for use in
times of panic. Many persons have a
chronic panic in currency matters.
" Some jilgh financiers in New York
are demanding that C. W. Morse re
turn and toll all he knows about cer
tain crooked deals. Others fear he
may. ' v
The Treasury department has ruled
that an octopus is not dutiable. - Yet
soma folks insist that if it were not
for the duties there would be no oc
topus. Count Crelghton could have saved
V lot of trouble if he had specified in
his will Just how macn of his estate
he wanted tho lawyers to leave for his
heirs.
Our amiable democratic contempo
rary takes nearly a column of editorial
space to argue that no political party
has any monopoly on booze fighters.
Admitted.
Out of reach ,ot banquet committees
for'several weeks, Admiral Evans in
forms the authorities at Washington
that his rheumatism is much better,
thank you.
The Moses that was to lead the dem
ocratic hosts out of the wilderness of
Bryanlsni seems to have been lost in
one of those snowstorms that have
been prevailing in the east-
Uncle Sam is going to use one of
the old monitors as a target for naval
practice. The monitors were used for
that purpose eome forty odd years ago
and stood the test very well.
The Good Government league at
South Omaha is going to call on all
the candidates up for nomination for
rltten promlat to be good if elected.
Those promises ought to come easy.
Is It possible that in Douglas county,
too. the delegates to the democratic
state convection are to get their cre
dentials by the undemocratic" method
of appointment by the county' com
mittee. ,v
tilt BtORO VOTE lit JS.
Democratic editors throughout the
country are sMzInz with avidity some
figures prepared by Brigadier General
"Andy" Burt a the possible effect
upon the republican vote in the com
ing election' it all the negroes of the
north should vote the democratic
ticket, losing the latest available cen
sus statistics, those of 1900, General
Burt argues that If the negro vote had
gone to Mr. 'Bryan m that year he
might have been elected. On the same
basis the general figures that the loss
of the negro vote because of hoBltlity
to Mr. Taft might make Mr. Bryan
president. The table prepared by Gen
eral Burt is as follows:
Negro. Rep. plu.
Rep. plu. voWrs, by negro
States. 1900. 190a: detention.
Colorado .... .I61 4,092 37.843
Connecticut .. 28.670 5,214 IS, 141
Idaho 63 1.604
Illinois 94.924 11.247 82.430
Indiana 18.479 ' 19.445 1S.4U
Kansas 23,854 15.234 "7, 111
Missouri 37.830 4S.887 Ul.nOl
Montana 11,773 7.03S 2.313
Nebraska . ... 7. 822 3.274 1,274
New Jersey... 66.899 22,858 11,183
New York.... 143. 0 89,908 63. T0
Ohio 69,036 81.624 fi,7
Oregon 13,141 13.1S5 13.220
Pennsyl'nia ..288.431 bS,757 180,919
Rhode Island. 13.972 3.141 7,686
Washington . 12.623 11,573 10,5:3
W. Virginia.. 21,022 14,841 8,6
Democratic plurality.
He concludes that had the negroes
voted for43ryan In 1900, the etates of
Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Montana, Ore
gon, Washington and West Virginia,
all of which gave their electoral votes
to McKinley ' and Roosevelt, would
have been thrown Into the democratic
column. In a closer contest such a
loss of the negro vote would have put
Nebraska, New Jersey and Ohio in the
list of doubtful states. On this as
sumption General Burt urges the re
publicans to nominate some candidate
sure to hord the negro voteTn the
north.
General Burt has evidently been
taklng'Senator Foraker's talk too seri
ously. Admitting for the sake of ar
gument that many negro voters are
angered at President Roosevelt's atti
tude in the Brownsville case, there is
no proof or indication that they have
any resentment toward Secretary Taft
on that account. But the Brownsville
affair is trivial, after all, compared
with other reasons why self-respecting
negroes of .the north can not, under
any circumstances, support the 'demo
cratic ticket in a national election.
They have before them the constant
and persistent efforts of southern dem
ocrats to disfranchise them, and, as
the democratic party is now" consti
tuted, Its triumph In a national elec
tion would place the south in the sad
dle and enlarge their possibilities of
keeping the negroes from participating
In political affairs. Most of the negroes
of the north use their ballots intelli
gently and they are not to' be led Into
any trap for their own destruction.
KKOX OS RAILWAY .REQULATlOy.
With his fine faculty for illumi
nating and simplifying subjects which
usually are considered dark and com
plies tej. Senator, Knox, in speaking be
fore the Lincoln club of Kalamazoo,
Mich., has made one of the roost nota
ble contributions to the literature re
lating to the government and its pow
ers and duties in regulating interstate
commerce. Though largely historical,
his address throws much new light
upon the development of the federal
power and the removal of trammels
upon transportation between the states
that existed in the earlier days of the
republic.
Attention was called to the fact by
Senator Knox that Just prior to the
clvirwar a railroad between Philadel
phia and New York City obtained from
the state of New Jersey the exclusive
right to transfer passengers across that
state between those two cities, or to
tax all passengers so crossing the state.
A congressional act, passed in 1866,
was the first step toward exerting fed
eral power over railways engaged in
interstate commerce. The growth of
this principle was slow, but sure, until
the interstate commerce law was en
acted In 1887. Since that date there
has been constant and persistent
tendency toward larger federal regu
lation of railways for the protection of
the people against abuse of the enor
mous power which the great transpor
tation companies had acquired under
the protection of national legislation
and free from the restrictlous which
many of the states were disposed to
adopt. Out of this growth of senti
ment has come the federal rate law,
the anti-rebate law and other meas
ures for the correction of allied evils.
Senator Knox was emphatic In as
serting that no legitimate Interest has
been injured or will be injured by the
enforcement of the recent railway reg
ulation legislation. He insisted that
these laws "Include no attacks, enmity
or injury to sound business interests,
either corporate or private. They
mean a sounder, Btronger and more
widely diffused prosperity for the real
corporate Interests, namely, the own
era of railroad shares and securities."
The senator, who never has been
classed as a radical, served notice upon
the corporations and the country that,
notwithstanding denunciations of Pres
ident Roosevelt, there can be no turn
ing back from the principles- of his
policies and their further enforcement.
On that point he declared:
The principles established are permanent.
Tho policy of legislation, the subordination
of corporate operations to It, the law of
Impartiality In rates and accountability to
federal authority for Integrity and Impar
tiality In the conduct of the great transpor
tation services of tbs nation are now fixed
and rooted In our Jurisprudence and legis
lation. Postulating only the essential fac
tor of fair, earnest and faithful enforce
ment, we may rely on 1Mb body of bglsla
tlon for adequate protection against the re
turn of the evils which have evoked the re
forms, without Invoking acts of ft vindic
tive and destructive nature.
Senator Knor further effectively an
swered those who claim that account'
blllty to federal authority which has
resulted in such marvelous' prosperity
to American railroads is now to result
in disaster to them. Replying to that
charge, the senator said:
Unfriendly criticism has portrayed these
steps as bearlngfrult only In the dlstur
bancs of business. To this the facts fur
nlsh a complete refutation. No more can
the progress sccompllshed be turned back.
The principles established are permanent.
Practically the only point ! upon
which Senator Knox failed to agree
with the president turns on the need
of additional federal legislation to com
plete the extirpation of existing com
mercial tyrannies. The president has
recommended several additional enact
ments, supporting those already
adopted. The position of Senator
Knox Is thus defined:
There Is nothing In present conditions re
quiring any strain upon our Institutions to
supply a remedy for any mischiefs that
plague the public, and there are no mis
chiefs the correction of which may not be
attained without disturbing the public wel
fare. There Is enough federal power, if not
federal hvf Isldtlon, to meet all federal
emergenoles. There la nothing affecting
the external affairs of the nation or sucn
Internal ones as are committed to Us
charge that congress cannot regulate.
There Is nothing which does not belong
to the federal Jurisdiction that oongreus
should attempt to regulate.
THE DIOOMST JB OT-ALt-The
State Railway commission has
given public notice that it will take up
next the question ofthe reasonable
ness of the rates charged" for freight
transportation between Nebraska
points as a whole. This is the biggest
Job yet, becauselt involves the entire
question of rate-making and the prin
ciples of tariff construction upon
which there is no consensus of opinion
nor even preponderance of authority
to serve as binding precedent.
So long as the commission confines
itself to correcting flagrant inequali
ties or passing upon complaints as to
charges for specific service in compari
son with charges for other specific
service, It has guide posts to g6 by, but
when It undertakes to open up the
whole subject of rate-making It Is
likely to find Itself up against an al
most interminable task. This ques
tion, however, would have "to be
threshed out sooner or later and per
haps It la as well for the commission
to tackle it now as to have It remain
hanging over its head like a suspended
sw6rd.
The railroads of Nebraska have sub
mitted without contest to the commod
ity rate laws enacted by the last leg
islature, making 15 per cent reduc
tions on the principal farm products
and building materials, but they are
not likely 'to accept further reductions
without strenuous objection. It will
be for the commission to determine
when It goes into this inquiry whether
the rates now charged are, or are not,
excessive and to Bee to It that both the
shippers and the railioads get a square
deal no more and no less.
Omaha people who used to complain
about the personal interchange be
tween the newspaper editors would
have -their eyes opened If they looked
in on either Kansas City or San Fran
cisco. In both these 'places the lead
ing newspapers are right now filling
their columns day after day with viru
lent attacks upon the editors or pub
lishers of their rivals and inviting
them to come into court to prove that
they are not as bad as they are painted.
The newspaper actuation in Omaha is
a love feast compared with the news
paper situation In Kansas City and a
regular . harmony dinner compared
with the newspaper situation in San
Francisco. .'
Mayor McClellan has made a truce
with Tammany hall for the purpose
of sending an anti-Bryan delegation
from New York to the Denver conven
tion. In the meantime. Bourke Cock
ran, who is a Tammany chief, has
picked up the Bryan trail where he
lost It in 1896 and. has agreed to stand
hitched for the Nebraska leader until
the night the polls close in November.
The order promulgated by Chancel
lor Andrews requiring all students in
the State university to be vaccinated
may be expected to precipitate the
transfer of some of the anti-vaccination
fight from the public schools to
the State university. This will be one
of the chancellor's troubles, however,
which his enemies will not be able to
charge up to Rockefellerlsm.
Secretary Cortelyou may as well get
ready to dig into the treasury stock
ing. Richmond Pearson Hobaon an
nounces that he will not accept the
decision of the house naval committee
to build but two battleships this year.
He demands four and rather hints that
if congress is stubborn about it he will
raise the ante and insist upon a full
hand.
"Any mention of my name in con
nection with the presidency," says Les
lie M. Shaw, Vis made entirely without
solicitation on my part." Newspapers
will continue to make occasional men
tion of Mr. Shaw's name in connection
with the presidency, Just because they
know how appreciative he is.
Banker Morse told the reporters at
Queenstown that he had taken the
hurried trip across the Atlantic for the
purpose of restoring his nerve force.
Those who have read of the high
financier's work will be inclined to
doubt his claim that he needs a nerve
tonic.
Down at Lincoln the trial of a crim
inal case was adjourned by the court
in order to let the lawyer for7 the de
fense take a bath. If . the prisoner
should be convicted It is fair to pre-
sume that this extraordinary proceed
ing will be set up in the appeal as
"error." .
xTh World-Herald outdoes itself in
calling State Superintendent McBrien
a variety of choice but uncomplimen
tary names, but It is careful, at least,
not to charge that he was drunk when
he delivered his Marquette club speech.
Colonel Bryan admits that the peo
ple of the country have made it possl
ble for him to acquire an independent
income, but at the same time he would
like to have them furnish him a house
rent free for at least four years.
Henry Gassaway Davis has been re
jected by a young woman at Washing
ton who . was engaged to him. Uncle
Henry has had little luck with the la
dles Bince his escapade with Miss
Democracy in 1904.
Making; Rerord. . A
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
In addition to Its other eccentricities. 1908
will be remembered as the greatest favorite
son year in the history of the United
States.
A Slip ef the Toma-ne. , v
Baltimore American. '
Irfslle M. Shaw recently visited Washing
ton, and while there gave voice to the
statement that he has "no opinion about
politics." This does not seem at all nat
ural, yet It Is hard to think that the for
mer secretary of the treasury Is a candi
date for the Ananias club.
What Governments Are For,'
New York World.
Ex-Secretary Shaw bobbed up In Mar
shall, Mich., long enough to say that "crim
inal punlBhment is not the end for ,whlcn
governments are Instituted among men."
Surely not; yet governments come nearer
doing Justice to all when great criminals
are punfohed than when they are left Im
mune,' Strategy, My Boy.
Chicago Tribune. ,
Once there was a Foxy Ruler who wanted
rTwo New Battkiahlps.
So he asked the Wise .Guys who handled
the Purse-etrlngs and kept Tab on the Ex
penditure of the Country's Coin to Loosen
Up a Little and Authorize him to build
Four New Battleships. '
The Wise Guys referred his Request to
the Proper Committee, k
"Bosh!" exclaimed the Committee. "And
likewise Tlffle! He can't Work Us for nil
those High Priced Toys. But we'll Jet him
have TWo." . -
Moral: There Is more than One Way to
Remove the Integument from the Anatomi
cal Framework of a Feline Quadruped.
RAILROADS AND Till MAILS.
Move for Fair Tr-tatmrut for the
Government.
Cleveland IMuin Dealer
The announcements of the second as
sistant postmaster general that the gov
erment will no longer sutynlt ttt being
overcharged by the railroads for trans
porting the mails recall similar righteous
outbreaks, on the partof several of . Mr.
McCleary's predecessors that came to
naught. It la an old" complaint that the
steam lines charge too'-much for Varrylng
mall, and the charge . la probably true.
The roads have not been, worrying, for they
get what they can. , The government has
lately acquired the hftbjt of protecting pri
vate patrons from unjust ani discrimina
tory charges; It ought ta.be able to secure
the same fair treatment for Itself.
The second assistant now declares that
government pay to the railroads for carry
ing the malls, Jn cases whero there are
two lines between the points Involved, shall
be based on the mileage of the shorter
route. This. If carried out. would be a
marked departure from the former "prac
tice and, applied the country over, would
mean many dollars saved to the public
treasury. Opposition may be expected from
railroad Interests to tho department plan
Of economy but the proposed reform seems
so reasonable that Its success should be
certain. I
WIIAT'S IN A NAME f
Rank of Given Names In the Roll of
Presidents.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
How much of a political asset Is a for
tunate Christian name? If Mr. Taffs first
name were Reginald, would he be as popu
lar a candidate as he Is? How would Al
gernon Bryan appeal to the democratic
party? There are, of course, ho com para
live statistics by which to prove the cass
one way or the other, but a glance back
through tho pages of national political nls
tory shows that In general men who have
1 realized their ambitions by receiving a
presidential nomination at the hands of
a great party have had names that appeal
to the popular mind. They have been
names either distinctively racial, wjth
which all were familiar from childhood,
or, like Ulysses, Zachary and Grover,
names that attract by their very oddity.
Present Indications are that the presi
dent elected this fall will be th third Wil
11am to occupy the White House. This
name, though one of the most frequent
among English-speaking people, has been
elected to the presidency only In connection
with the elder Harrison and McKinley
James, a name equally typical among pi'0
pie of English ancestry, has been borne to
the -White House by five men, and John
by three. These three name James, John
and William rs the only ones that are
repeated In the list of twenty-five men
elected to the presidency. President John
son became chief executive thirty-six years
after Jackson's election, repeating the name
Andrew, but his ascension was accidental.
President Arthur's first name perhaps came
nearest to the tabooed class, and he, too,
was an accident. For the rest, such namss
as George, Thomas, Martin. Millard, Frank
lin and Ruthetford roll majestically from
the tongue.
Red Checker Men
Float the red checkers from
your checker-board In a bowl
of wter and you will know
why blood it red. Blood has
millions and millions of little
red wheels floating in a dear
fluid. The professor calls them
red corpuscles. Well,
Scott's Emulsion
makes red corpuscles. These
little red wheels jrow In the
bone marrow. SCOTT'S
EMULSION contains a power
which feeds and puts new life
Into the bone marrow of pale
people.
AJIDrassfctsi 80s. mm 11.08, .
OTHER LANDS THAN Ot R9. N '
Henry' Blenklewlci, the . famous Polish
novelist. In a letter to the editor of the
New Tork Evening Post, appeals to lovers
of liberty and Christianity throughout fhe
world to enter sn Indignant protest against
the spoliation of the people ot Prussian
Poland of property rights, language and
racial Identity proposed by the government
of Prussia. The government measure In
troduced In the Prussian Diet by Count
Von ' Buetow has for Its object forcible
Qermanlratlon of Poland by taking ovsr
the lands of the natives, who persistently
refuse to sell, and selling the Confiscated
lands to Germans selected by the Prussian
government. The drastic features of the
measures have been somewhat modified by
the requirement demanded by members of
the Diet, namely, that confiscation be lim
ited to certain districts, the selection of
which should first receive the approval of
the legislative body. Final action on the
measure Is yet to come, and this fact
doubtless prompts tho appeal to enlight
ened publlo sentiment to aid In preventing
"the consummation of the greatest Iniquity
and Infamy In the history of the twen
tieth century." ' "This protest," says Mr.
Blenklewlcs, "shall be the definitive Judg
ment of universal conscience against an
unprecedented crime, and this shall also be
the mightiest plea for the defense of an
Important traction of a civilized nation tha.
has well deserved of mankind." And surely
In such a protest no nation should be more
fully or more earnestly represented Dy Its
men "eminent In science, literature and
art"- than the great republic whose Inde
pendence Kosciusko and Pulaski helped to
win. ,
'
The real cause of the forced recall of M.
Rompard. French ambassador to Bt. Pe
tersburg, was similar to tha which sent
British ambassador, Backsvllle West, hur
rledly home from the United States during
the Cleveland regime. West committed the
Indiscretion of advising a correspondent
of assumed British sympathies how he
should vote in the coming presidential elec
lion. The French ambassador's letter to a
Correspondent, written over a year ago
and lately published, was much more seri
ous. Inasmuch as It questioned the ability
of the Russian government to meet its
financial obligations and predicted the suc
cess of the revolutionists and the Over
throw of the czar's government. Through
a rigid censorship of the malls the assailed
government evidently secured possession
of the letter before Its delivery, and there
upon Inspired persistent attacks upon the
ambassador through the official press
doubtless with the hope of forcing his resi
gnation without exposing the hand which
rifled the mails. This method failing and
the revolution having subsided, the czar's
government assumed the risk of offending
a friendly nation by requesting the am
bassador's recall. The circumstance of the
recall appear not to have Injured M.
Bompard In the estimation of France, for
the government has given him special dis
tinction In the Legion of Honor. On the
contrary, the damage is confined to the
czar's government. The manner In which
the letter was secured Is discreditable and
its publication Irreparably damages the
credit of Russia with a nation who&p peo
ple advanced vast sums of money to the
czar during the crucial days of the war
with Japan.
One of the correspondents "on the spot"
at Lisbon describes the personality of the
"young king", of Portugal as '.'very win
ning." "As a lad he displayed fine, manly
traits. He had considerable artistic talent,
especially for music, and, like his father,
was 'exceedingly fond of outdoor sports,
such as tennis, riding and shooting. He
was reared, with great care by the de
voted queen, who took the warmest Inter
est In the education of the princes, both
of whom spoke English, French and Italian
perfectly." The king's English tutor sings
the praises of the king and his - dead
brother. . "They were Ideal young men," he
said, and then told an anecdote Illustrative
of tbe king's gentle nature. As the prince
he had always spoken of the queen as
"Her majesty." one day.however, he
used the term "mother;" then he turned
to the tutor and .said: "I think I like the
word 'mother' best. I read last night? that
the queen was lost In the wife, the wife In
the mother." King Manuel Is especially
fond of Arm-rica and Americans. -In May,
1904. when he was appointed a naval ap
prentice, an American squadron under
Rear Admiral Barker, then at the Azores,
hastened its arrival a few days at the re
quest of the American minister, Charles
Page Bryan, In order to be present at the
ceremony. The prince was overjoyed at
the courtesy, and seldom failed, when
speaking to Minister Bryan since, to re
call the delight and pleasure he had at the
presence of the American officers.
i In two years a railroad will be finished
In the Hcdjaz, connecting Mecca with the
outside world. It will soon be but a four
days' flight. Instead of a wearisome four
months' ride or walk from remote Syria.
Mecca happens to be at present scourged
with cholera. Always when the pilgrim
age occurs In midwinter Mecca has the
cholera. It will walk out of Mecca with
the Mohammedan pilgrims. The railroad
that two years from now will facilitate
their travel may facilitate the movement
of cholera bacteria. Prof. Cltantemesse of
the Academy of Medicine, Paris, foresees
a spread of cholera from Mecca along the
entire Mediterranean seaboard as early as
next spring, and has sounded a serious
alarm. When this Mecca railway Is fin
ished, with Its still more rapid dissemina
tion of bacilli, he sees Europe reduced to
everlasting vigilance against the introduc
tion of the plague.' He counsels for France
an Immediate reorganization of Itsnuar
antlne on land. Ho sees wisdom In an Im
mediate international conference of de
fense. The existing sanitary measures at
all Ruropcan seaports, he thinks, are hope
lessly antiquated.
From all parts of Germany sharp ad
vances in the prices of the necessities of
life, especially In foodstuffs and Jn foddi'
for live stock, are reported. The latter
have been noticeable during the last few
weeks, and are due, In a measure at -least,
to tbe unsatisfactory crops of (he last
year. The result Is a strong upward move
ment In the price of all foodstuffs. Meat
Is the only exception. It shows a slight
tendency to lower prices, but Is still above
the figures of two years --Abo, and the
slightly lower prices of today are, per
haps, due to the constant agitations for
cheaper meat, which have continued unin
terruptedly for two years past. In some
Instances municipalities have gone Into the
butchering business and have sold directly
to the people, while In many places meat
prices have been fixed by municipal enact
ment. Prices of milk, butter and other
dairy products have advanced In sympathy
with the price of fodder.
The Pinch Hart.
Chicago Record-Herald.
An effort is being made to Induce con
gress to enlarge the pass privilege clausa
In the Interstate commerce law. This In
dicates that the pass privilege clause Is
being pretty rigidly enforced.
No Cans low Esrltesueat.
Washington Post.
Why all this excitement because an
earthquake l.suo miles away was recorded
by a seismograph in Washington? Kvery
thump of the big stick Is heard around
tits world. ...
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POLITICAL DRIFT.
Owen Wister, novelist, biographer and
essayist boldly challenges a Philadelphia
boss to do his worst by standing as a can
didate for the select council against a ma
chine nominee.
Donahoe's Magazine of Boston-ugests
Hon. Richard Olney for the democratic
nomination for president. Richard would
fill the bill, all right, but he Is too good
a man to doom to defeat.
The action of the republican national
convention, to bo held four months hence,
Is foretold by the Washington Post, the
staff of which seems exceedingly anxious
to head a bolt in the Ananias club.
Tbe Oklahoma house of representatives
having fixed the length of hotel bed sheets
and 'outlawed cracked crockery In food
founderlcs, is about ready to tacklo the
problem of the hour, "What Is a demo
crat?" The Kansas legislature concluded to
watch and wait while' Oklahoma experi
mented with a bank guarantee law. When
youth plunges Into streams of unknown
depth, wiser age squats on the bank and
surveys the scene.
That a politician In Pennsylvania rarely
forgets his business Instinct, no matter
now strenuous the campaign. Is shown by
the bill- of campaign expenses filed by
John McDevItt, candldato for mayor at
the primaries in WUkes-Barre. McDevitt'a
republican supporters raised a fund of S90
for him and he Jumped Into the fray with
tha aellltv of a winner. Hln Itemised hill
fjf expenses dhows 10 cents for a plate
of baked beans for one patriotic sup
porter, 5 cents worth of stogies for another,
one beer and 35 cents In cash for two
weeks' work.from a ward heeler, and 4
cents for music. Minor Items run the bill
up to $10.40. Balance to pocket 179.60. Mac
did not get the nomination, but he Is a
winner just the same.
Knocked In the Head.
St. Louis Republic.
As the original Ohio Fire Alarm against
the danger of unchecked republican cen
tralization. Senator Foraker's gong seems
about to be muffled into mournfulness.
Browning, Ming $k Co
CLOTHING, FURNISHINGS and HATS
A REMINDER
OU can still get your size In a winter suit or overcoat at
the liberal discount of 20 and that means something
when applied to such clothing made by Browning,
King & Co. This sale Includes all men's, boys' and
children's winter suits, overcoats and pants.
Furnlshlno Specials
All $1.00 Stiff Boi.om Shirts G5?
All J1.60 Stiff Bosom Shirts )5
All $3.50 Stiff Bosom Shirts. . . . . . S2.35
, All $2.50 Stiff Bosom 8hirts $1.5
All $2.00 Stiff Bosom Shirts S(41.:i5
All $1.00 Stiff Bosom White Shirts , 85?
All $1.50 Full Dress Shirts j 95?
$4.00 and $5.00 Fancy Vests : S.1.50
$5.00 and $6.50 Lounging Robes SX50
$1.50, Boys' Negligee Shirts Jj51.15
75c and $1.00 Boys' Negllgete Shirts 55?
25 Discount on All Men's Mufflers. , .
15th and Douglas
Streets W(W Street
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Where Will You Buy
Your Piano?
Pianos are like watches their excellence and service
depend upon what's inside.
Pianos look much alike; so do watches. But a wise
man wouldn't choose a watoh by its looks, nor safely se
lect a piano that way.
"Won't it pay you to give like care, attention and
judgment to buying your piano as to buying a watch T
Isn't it of importance to' you to get to a store that has had
a third of a century experience, that gives-you a guaran-
tee as good as a government bond? The Ilospe plarr
makes piano buying safe and easy and saves you dollars.
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MILIAG REMARKS.
"There wouldn't be half so much troubU
In this world." said I'nole Allen Sparks,
"If the people who ought to be listening
didn't Insist on doing ail the talking." Chi
cago Tribune.
Mrs. Houlihan (sobbing) I never saw y
till th' day before mo unforrhnit marring.'!
Mr. Houlihan An' I often wlsht ye haU.i t
seen me till th' day afther. Puck.
"Fur hlven's sake! IVm't shoot, Casey.
ye forgot to load yer gun."
"Hegorry, Ol must, Pat; th dom burd
won't wait." Life. ,
"What do you mean by a safe and sand
man?"
"A man," answered Senator Sorghum,
"Is safe when we can rely on his sticking
to bis friends, and sane when he enn t.o
convinced that my views on the tariff and
finance generally are absolutely correct."
Washington Star.
"To what do you nttrlbute your success
In acquiring money?"
"Partly to tbe success of other men In
letting go of it," replied the great financier.
Philadelphia Ledger.
"That man always gets nlnng. and seems
to be enterprising In other ways, jkt ho
never handles anything which isn't a druj
In the market."
"What is his business?"
"He's an apothecary." Baltimore Ameri
can. "Hurry up there!" shouted Noah to tha
centipede.
"Well, I'm Just about all in," remarked
the clever atrtmal! making use of a play
upon words. Puck.
The Chinese noted that a lot of plunder
wrested from their Jtemplcs was to bo snl.l
in Amurlca.
"Well." commented an educated man
darin. "It Isn't a dead loss. Part of th
money will be sent over here to convert
us." Philadelphia Ledger.
"Tho old-time sailors do not seem to
think much of tho steam vessels."
"Well, It is only natural for an old sea
dog to stick to his bark." Baltimore Ameri
can. "Why do you ntnke a practice of predict
ing bad weather?"
"It's the safest plan." answered the pro
fessional prophet. "If the bad weather
prediction comes true, peoplo have to ad
mit I am right, ind if fhe weather is pleas
ant they feel too good-natured to care
whether I was right or wrong." Washing
ton ,Star.
15th and Douglas