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" " .Iff" jsszae IUE .NORFOLK WEliKLVNEWSJOrilNAL Ml DAY SETOMIMIJ 4 11)08 ) Norfolk Weekly News-Journal Thn New * . Kutftlilliihril. 18 ) . _ Jhe | Journal. ! tab ! In had Wl _ THE HU8E > UBLI8HNU ! COMPANV W N. llfnn N. A. HIM : 15v Try Pruluy Tty "n7ilTlier yi'nr.JJ Ku. Kritered nt ilio iiuMtolIlco nt Norfolk , Kfil' . MM Kfcoiid rlnHH nmtlpr. _ . . Telephone ) ) ' IMItorlnl Department No. It. Hunlnc'n Olllce nnd J' ' > ' lloomiv No. II 22. The greatest Joy wo got out of this life Is the- Joy of being "next. " Colleges arc great equalizers. For -tlio most part they polish the pebbles and dim the diamonds. It takes a grent man to accept the Icmono fate hands out to him and use them to start a lemonade stand , New York gamblers arc not so doubtful about the political strength of Governor Hughes ns they were. A Los Angeles man cannot remem ber hl pant. There arc a great many who would be glad to forget theirs , but can't. It Is suggested that as an Initial step In conserving the nation's re sources the money wasted In elabor ate notification might bo cut out. \The \ business man In this or any other town who can glvo employment to one more man and does not Is not & friend to his city or to his kind. The chauffeurs of 11 smelling auto mobiles say the odor protects them from mosquitoes but It seema to most people that the cure Is worse than the disease. The Bryanltes of Pennsylvania have succeeded In collecting all but $188 , 000 of the $200,000 promised to the campaign fund. That's doing pretty well , considering their resources. Energy will do anything that can bo done In the world and no talents no circumstances , no opportunities will -make a man a success , without energy , which he might be with It. In splto of the contention of the pessimist man has constantly grown In power , wisdom , excellence and worth , through the ages. Ho has stumbled and fallen but It has been upstairs , not down. The privy council of Great Britain has decided thnt the Insurance com panics must pay $4,000,000 worth o losses Incurred as a result of the Kingston earthquake. That will be n worse Jar than the earquako. After an absence of seventy-five years , Halley's commot , o named af ter the astronomer who dotormlnei Its orbit , Is on a return trip. It Is no expected that It will be as brllllan as on Its former appearance. It Is a fortunate thing that Hlsgen the Independent candidate , Is a man ufacturer of axel grease. It wit need considerable to keep the wheel of his political machine In condition to reach the head of the procession B. C. Bfshop , candidate for the Re publican nomination as state super Intendent , has the endorsement of al prominent educators In northern Ne braska. He is said to be the best man In the field. Ho is not tied up with promises to anybody. As a preacher of religious doctrines built upon faith , Mr. Bryan would have been a success for he could call upon the faithof his hearers to re inforce the deficiencies of his reasonIng - Ing ! But In the world of finance and politics the holes In the skimmer are plainly visible. The welcome of the great fleet at Sidney , Australia , was of the same generous , enthusiastic nature of those accorded to it elsewhere on Its tri umphant Journey around the globe. Lord Northcoto extended the welcome In behalf of the island continent and the whole city turned out to do them honor. In the six months ending June 30 , 377.CC4 of the laboring element of the United States left the country for Eu rope. In the same period only ISC , 58C arrived here. In those six months there were 559.000 less Immigrants from Europe than there were dur ing the same six months for the pre vious year. In his speech of acceptance Con gressman Sherman especially com mends that plank of the Republican platform which promises an early re vision of the tariff schedules. This stand Is a severe blow to the Demo crats who have tried to brand him as one of the congressmen opposed to reform. The question of gaining a pure wa ter supply sufficient to meet tiielr growing demands Is a difficult and ex pensive problem to solve for many of the large cities of the country. Ne\\ York Is now engaged In bringing a supply from the Catskills at a cost of nearly $200,000,000 and across the con Unent Loa Angeles Is also calling from the high Sierras the water to sat Iflfy Its millions at a great expense. Thofc cities blest with an nhumlnnco Chairman Hitchcock Is described as a fair haired , broad shouldered , six > ot thii'o , animated tower of silence. " le In a good planner nnd usually inl < OH things oomo out right , but cos not consider that n working cam- mlgn should be a gahfost. Those vho know him best think he Is the Ight mnn for the Job. It is often claimed thnt to be a sue- OBS a man must give his whole nt * cntloh to one line of endeavor. This tile may apply to the majority of this vorld's Inhabitants but there are n great many exceptions. How about tir own Francis Hopkins Smith , who an do six useful tilings any one of vhlch would make him n successful nan and do them all well. Silas It. Barton Is the only cnmll- ate for the Republican nomination or state auditor who has made no iromlBes to anybody ns to his np- lolntments. If nominated nt the irlmnry next Tuesday , Mr. Barton will go Into the ofllce absolutely free- landed and Independent to act. Ho s the only candidate who can take the office In that free-from-promlse way. It Is this unswerving adherence o what ho believes to be right , thnt makes Judge Taft strong with the icople. He Is not n practical polltl clan but a straight forward , candid citizen. Ho has always done what he considers his duty and said what he believed , regardless of what might > o the result of his frankness. He would not trade his Influence If he knew his successful election depend ed upon It. Joslah M. Shlvely of Fremont ought to have , and probably will have , the solid support of northern Nebraska Republicans at the primary for com missioner of public lands and build ings. Ho Is the only northern Ne braska man who Is a candidate for that ofllce and he Is splendidly equip ped for the work. Northern Nebras ka Republicans will make no mistake In helping to nominate Joslah M. Shlvely. In turning his critical eye upon Great Brltlon's Institutions and writIng - Ing a most discriminating work on "The Government of England , " Pro fessor Lawrence Lowell has In a meas ure , at least , repaid the obligation laid upon America by James Bryce , English ambassador to the United States , in his excellent work on Amer ican political conditions , "The Ameri can Commonwealth , " which is still accepted by students as the standard text book on that subject. The Thaw case gives the people most ample proof of the untruth of the oft repeated statement that there Is one law for he poor and another for the fortunate rlchfwyptaolmnfwypaaf the rich. If money could have made Justice look the other way , enough was spent by Thaw nnd his family to attain that object , but It all failed and a half million dollars was spent In vnln. An aljiost beggared family and a bankrupt paranoiac behind the bars arc the tragic proof of the majesty of the law. Mr. Bryan is going to tell where he got It but Is very anxious for a largo campaign fund. It Is understood that his committee Is out after half a million. There Is absolutely no call for so large an amount at least that Is visible. It Is well known that there will be no large campaign fund. It Is openly confessed that there Is no le gitimate way of spending much money. The game of politics this year Is one of principles rather than money. Mr. Bryan Is not wise to place emphasis on money raising. It will be a long time before the commercial automobile supplants the liorso as a burden bearer even In the largest cities , but trend of events Is strongly In that direction. When the machine generally replaces the ani mal there will unhappily be many Jobs lost , for many thousands of chauf feur. But the change must be for the better In the long run. The freight nuto will eventually give the horse a chance to work out his destiny under dor fair conditions. Only the best will survive , but they will bo horses that are horses. The automobile Is said to ho doing more to drive polygamy out of Utah than laws or missionaries could ac complish. A Mormon might strain his conscience or shut his eyes to the law but not oven the Mormon elders could Induce him to get along without his automobile , nnd very few ire so rich that they can afford more than one wife and an automo bile at the same time. Either the surplus wives or the autos must go and fortunately for the morals of the country the majority find the auto most attractive. Since the Spanish war there has been an Increasingly felt demand for more trained soldiers to fill up the ranks of army officers. Seeing this need Mrs. Russell Sage Is proving her patriotism and her generosity by pro- ionium to purchase what Is known as Constitutional talaiul near West Point and to establish there n propaiatory school In which to train boys for our t < rent military school. The Bite alone will cost $200.000 and a miltnblo building would cost more without tiny endowment. Mrs. Sage's gift to the government will be worth nt least a half million dollars. The new West Neeblsh channel has been opened nt the Soo. It cost $1.- 100,000 but will add to both the speed nd the safety of the river navlgn- Ion. The opening of the now channel Illustrates the rapid progress that has lieen made In the development of the Inko traffic. Already the traffic hrough the See has Increased until t succeeds In volume that accommo dated by any other canal. The old channel was no longer capable of ac commodating the Immense traffic safety. No better argument In favor of Improved waterways can be ad vanced than the phenomenal develop ment of the lake shipping. Thnt cheerless prospect that has been held before us for Uie past de- : ade of a not far distant date when the oal supply would be exhausted , has now been extended a few centuries as the result of recent discoveries In Alaska. Only a small portion of the area of Alaska has been Investigated but enough Is known to Insure the country that there are millions and even billions of tons. The quality ranges from low grade lignite to the best grade of anthracite and bitumin ous , equal to any found in the coal regions of the eastern part of the country. The facts already at hand In- dlqate , that 1hls { northern territory will bo able to supply fuel for many years for the Pacific , fleets besides keeping the people who remain at home warm. There Is no present Indi cation that Providence failed to pro vide fuel for many generations to come. At the recent "constitutional con gress" In London the comparative merits and demerits , of the organic charters of England , France and the United States were discussed by emi nent statesmen. Prof. Dicey , the au thor of some excellent political works , describes the conditions In America as a "melancholy paradox. " The consti tution , he said , was the most skillful Instrument ever designed by men and yet he thought any candid American would admit that the United States was no better governed than Europ ean states. This professor says that Washington is governed despotically although It is the capital of what Is called a democratic nation. Prof. Dicey must know that there Is a great as sortment of municipal governments In America and that while our constitU' lion has required amendments to keep up with the times and will require more , that it has worked very well for a century and as a nation wo refuse to pose ns a melancholy paradox or any other kind for the gratification of the English people. PROGRESS AT PANAMA. It is with special pleasure that wo note as a nation the change in the tenor of the reports from the Panama canal commission. For the first three years each report naturally told of additional expenses Incurred which would delay the progress of the work. Col. Goethal's latest report tells of a new route for the Panama railway which will effect a saving In con struction of about a million dollars and also that nearly $2,000,000 can bo saved In the estimated amount needed to purchase land to be appropriated for canal purposes. The condition for canal purposes. The commission named to appraise the required tracts have succeeded In making reasonable terms with the owners Instead of payIng - Ing the exorbitant prices demanded nt the outset. Col. Goethal's advocates using the amount saved In widen ing the Culebra cut from 200 feet to 300 feet. This would necessitate more work on the cut but would not delay the actual completion of the canal , as under the present plan the excavation of the cut will be finished before the work on the locks and dams can bo completed. It would be a great Improvement and make the ca nal a more complete success to have the channel a hundred feet wider. The work of the municipal engineerIng - Ing department that employed 2,000 or more men to Install modern water works and sewer systems and pave the streets | of 1 Panama and Colon have completed their task and left the service. So , also , have the 2,000 car penters who built the quarters and other buildings. Those at work at the Isthmus now are directly connected with the completion of the canal. It Is estimated now that the excavation will bo completed In three years at the present rate of progress. JAMES NICHOLS' RECORD. . It seems unfortunate that H. Hal derson , the young man at Newman Grove seeking the Republican nomln atlon for county attorney should have thought It necessary to personally at tack his opponent , James Nichols of Madison , in a circular letter Just Is sued. The atack , based as It is upon lint-fly selfish ambition on the part of the writer. , can not fall to react and materlHlly help Mr. Nichols' candi dacy. In the letter Mr. llalderson says : ' . \ to rny ability mid success In the irnctlco I refer you to the leading nwyers and judges of Madison , Hoono nnd Plntte coutles. Then examine In- o the professional standing of my > PI onent , James Nichols , and vote on September 1 for the man who , in your udgmont. will make the best county attorney. " It scorns hardly possible that any- .jody , after reading that egotistical mrngrnph of self-praise and , personal uttack upon an opponent , could for n noment think of voting for anybody nit Mr. Nichols. The young Mr. Hnlderson has only lived In Madison county a short time , while James Nichols has lived In the county eighteen years. Mr. Hnlderson ins only been out of school -eight years and during that time has moved about from ono county to another , having lived In that short time In Boone , Platte and Madison counties. Nichols has practiced law In this county for eighteen years steadily. James Nichols has never asked an elective ofllce. He has held high of llce In the Knights of Pythias order , where a man's qualifications arc In quired Into thoroughly before election. Ho Is classed among the best lawyers of the county and Is well known In the legal profession. The young Mr. Halderson Is snld to have declared that "he would re form Madison county In twenty-four hours" If elected. Mr. Nichols Is mak ing no extravagant promises , but people ple who know him know that he will make a very excellent county attor ney. SPLITS ON THE SAME ROCK. One might have thought that Mr. Bryan , after the experiences of his past would have avoided anything re sembling a financial Issue. His mone tary vagaries arc the cause of the deep seated distrust that the people feel toward him. They stood between him nnd the presidency twice. And now , Just when the people were be ginning to forget the sixteen to one insanity , and Mr. Bryan had a chance of emerging from the shadow of hla own past , he promptly comes to the front with another financial fad that knocks Into splinters any llttlo confl dence that the public might have be gun to feel In his possible return tc sanity and his learning from expert ence. Mr. Bryan chooses tptput In thefronl of his campaign the Issue of a govern ment guarantee of bank deposits. II Is not as ruinous , In one sense , as free coinage of silver , because It would not Involve , If adopted , Immediate re pudlatlon and the collapse of finance But In another sense It Is less oxcus able. Free silver was an Issue so big and so full of unknown consequences that people were easily bewildered by It. The mass of men could not think the system out to Us legitimate conclusion , and hence were blind to Its great evils. But the consequences of a government guarantee of bank deposits He on the surface. This Is no abstruse thing ; it is a mere trifle to reason It out and see Just what would happen. In the first place , this , as Is usual In what Mr. Bryan advocates , Is class leg Islatlon. More than that , It Is legls latlon In favor of the capitalist. Ever > other man with a little money ahead the man in trade of any kind , the man ufacturer and the artisan , must take his chances of loss. The bank deposl tor alone , Mr. Bryan says , must bo guaranteed against loss. He Is to bo favored above all others In the com munlty , who are employing their capl tal In productive ways. And to accom pllsh this safe banking must bo do stroyed by guaranteeing the same pub He confidence and patronage to th Ignorant and the reckless as the con servatlve and competent banker. Mr Bryan Is Indeed a great financier ! NO SURPRISES DUE. Of course It adds piquancy to campaign and keeps the public Inter est alive to predict that unusual an unexpected overturnlngs are likely t happen. So Mr. Bryan shows us ho\ he Is going to capture various state of the middle west , as well as swoo down on New York and New Englnn and wrest some of the constltuencle from Republican grip. So the Re publican managers assure us that th ! Is a good year to begin the dlslnteg ration of the solid south ; and that M Tnft's popularity will enable him t make Inroads whore no Ropubllca has been able to accomplish anythln since the close of the civil war. All these are pretty dreams , an they do no harm as long as they d not Interfere with the serious pract cal management of campaigns. Mlra cles may happen at any time ; an either Mr. Taft or Mr. Bryan ma capture some state which now looks sure for the other side. But we do not expect It. Wo do not bellovo this campaign is going to bo productive of any surprises. Setting aside the possibility of gross blunders on ono aide or the other , which seems at present Improbable , we believe that Is Is possible to make up with reason able certainty at this time a table of electoral votes ns they will bo cast for the next president , And we tu not see where there Is n chance for a variation of three status for thu vole cast for President Roosevelt four years ago. Kontuckiy may not be held. On the other hand Tennessee or Georgia may bo easily won. Mis souri might swing back to her old moorings. And these arc about the only possible elements of doubt In the situation. The reason for this Is on the sur face of things. The Issues are prac tically the tmmc. It Is the Roosevelt ollcles which arc represented by Mr. aft , and the people are not going ack on them. There Is no sudden hange , no startling Issue to unset- c the situation. On the other side lerc Is the same old candidate , gainst whom the country has already eclared twice and who certainly Is no tronger than he was. If ever there as a campaign v\nen the result cemod to be predetermined down o details It Is this. AROUND TOWN. Goodbye , old Panama. It's practically up to counting the otes. Vote , If you haven't. It's your last banco. Baseball will soon make way for he pigskin. Fall has arrived. Not n straw hat n the street. Good morning , Mr. Oyster. Haven't we met before ? How would you like to start to chool In August ? For the next three weeks we'll bo on the still hunt for killing frosts. Another theatrical season has oiled around nnd the first of Septem ber brings back to town the well banned shapes of the pretty chorus girls. It doesn't pay to steal horses from nembers of the Northern Nebraska jive Stock Protective association. In his eagerness to get a monopoly on the Republican senatorial noml- latlon In the Eleventh district Mr. Inndall has arrived at the point ol abusing his opponent. He has sent over the district a vicious and unprin cipled letter , unfounded In fact , In he hopes of making votes by tearing lown the man opposed to him. II s to be noted that the attack was sent out secretly and privately ; Mr. Randall did not venture to give It open publicity. And Mr. Appleby's only chance to defend himself and ro ute the pernicious , . underhanded charge , came when ono of the letters was brought to him by a friend. ATCHISON GLOBE SIGHTS. Your average Is the best you can do. > "Anything new ? " a reporter asked a man the other day. "Nothing , " ho replied ; "same old seven nnd six. " What Is meant by seven and six. " Marriage Is a good deal like a cir cus ; there Is not as much In It as there is represented in the advertis ing. Some women can take a ten dollar bill , and buy clothes that look better than other women pay $50 for. Our Idea of a very mean man Is one who finds fault with his wife's break fast the morning after they are mar ried. Ask a baby what it's name Is , and Its mother will wipe Its nose , and say : "Tell the gentleman ! " OVER NORTHWEST PRAIRIES. Orchard will have a band. The Gregory Advocate has entered on Its third year under the editorship of G. G. Warner. The first number of the Bassett Bul letin , a new Democratic weekly at Bas sett , was Issued last week. Crelghton News ; John Hamm came home for a few days' visit. He had the misfortune to fall from a fifty foot scaffold while painting a railroad bridge and injured his leg which Is forcing him to take a lay off. He fell Into the water , which accounts for his getting off so easy , otherwise It might have meant Instant death or crippled for life. Ralph Nleman , charged with the murder of Emlle Sandoz , Sr. , of Sher idan county , Is to bo brought back from Roswell , N. M. , by Sheriff Les lie A. Beckwlth. Nelman is charged with shooting Sandoz with a revolver , July 3 , Inflicting a wound that caused death the day following the shooting. Governor Sheldon has Issued a re quisition on the governor of New Mexico. Bassett Leader : Postmaster Stock- well has received word that the re ceipts of the Bassett postoffice are such that It has been raised to the rank of presidential office , commencing October 1. The salary will bo Increased to some ex tent but the principal benefit to Mr. Stockwell will be that the govern ment pays a portion of the rent , fuel and light expense and will also pay | A JOHNNY DUMPER AND SADIE | t i * SAW THE CIRCUS AT O'NEILL | O'Neill. Neb. . Aug. 2To ! > the Hill- tor of The News : "Pap" and Ills fam ily rniiH1 down to Newport to take In the last too days of the O'Neill Car nival. 1 was there too nnd Sadie , that's ono of Pap's girls , nnd me had u corker of a time nt the Yankee Hob- liiHiin's slrcus that showd Friday af ternoon. You see there was the racing and n ball game and n slrctiH all the same afternoon. I saw Barnum's slrcua to Norfolk last year and this show look ed so llttlo after seeing Itanium that I had decided I'd ruther have my fifty cents , but I got to talk with Sndlo Just nfter the parade and she seil she's Just dicing to see the elefnnt Jump the fence like she'd herd they did nt slrctises. She sod her Pnp wudn't let 'em go , sed they cud see the races and the ball gnmo but ho wasn't going to spend no fifty cents apeece on no llttlo one ring one elefnnt slrcus. Sadle'd never bin to a slrcus nnd I llkea her stile pretty well so I told her to get lost from her folks Just be fore sirens time and I'd meet her by the steem callyhope nnd we'd take In the show , even If I had seen Bnrnum. Sndle had to bo pretty sly about It because her Pap don't allow her to go with the boys , but she got away nil right and we met down by the big tent and went In early BO'S to see the an- Imllcs before the show begun. Sadie didn't care cnnythlng about the cammels nor the lion pups hut I could hardly get her away from that elefnnt. Old Tom Isn't eiiny little runt of an clefant that's shure , but say , don't you think Yankee Robin- sun shot n about a foot and a half above the mark when he claims he's the biggest elefant on erth ? We seen the people all going Into the big tent so Sadie and me went In. All the sects that was enny good was called reserved sects nnd you had to pay twenty-five. extra for them. As wo was going past them reserved hoots there was a smart ellcky lookIng - Ing fellow , about twenty-live with a sandy viustash from Stewart or some- 'ores up the road , setting on the front sect with a yung lady and n lot of friends , and he was making cute speeches to make the uthers laff. Sade and me was cumlng along hold Ing hands and a swinging our arms and a looking around when ho saw us. Mcbbe we lookt green for It was the furst time cether of us had bin out with the uther sect. Mr. Smarty call ed out , "Hello , children , does your mammy no you'r here ? " I turns's quick's I herd him and an swered , "Why hello , Pnppy : I didn't no you were hero. Yes , Mammy sent us but she didn't give us mony cnuf to get reserved sects : Plecso Pappy , wont you glv us a half dollar ? " I squosc Sadie's hand ns I was talk- ng , and she sed , "Oh yes , Pnppy , [ ilease do by us sum reserved sects. " I just tell you Sadie alnt so slow. You oughter herd the folks holler. They gled Mr. Smnrty till he cudent rest. They sed "Yes , Pappy , shell out and get the little folks sum good boots. " and ( hey slapt him on the back for addltlontl clerk hire. The business of the Bassett office has been steadily increasing and with a llttlo effort could have been made a presidential olfice before. Newman Grove Reporter : At the second day of the Leigh tournament the hose companies from Newman Grove and Humphrey ran a tie race In the 100 yard dash with carts , time fourteen seconds. One water fight had been postponed from the day before - fore , making three for the day. All three went to the credit of the Grove team. Henry Nelson nnd H. P. Olson won two of them and Albert Swanson and Simon Torgeson the other. The List was a particularly hard fought battle and one of the ITumphrey con testants was particularly hostile after his defeat. The ball game In the of- ternoon was between Humphrey and Columbus. Mclntosh played first base for Columbus and Torgerson was out In the field. Of the six runs made by the Columbus team these two were accountable for four , but as Hum phrey piled up ten scores they took first money. Want "Inside" Story. New York , Sept. 2. Several Demo cratic politicians of state-wide prom inence today risked W. F. Buchanan of the firm of A. O. Brown to make public the condition of the exchange making possible the alleged famous "wash sale. " They said that owing to the fact that Receiver Littlefleld Is a Republican , the Inside story would never be made public through him. GORED TO DEATH. Victim Had Torn Bull's ' Eyelids Off In Struggle. Chicago. Sept. 2. William Calder , aged twenty-five , was gored to death by a Shorthorn bull near Llbertyvlllo , 111. , today. His body was found by Joseph Flanagan. Ho had evidently fought hard for his life. He had torn the bull's eyelids away. CUMMINS FOR SENATE. Progressive Republicans Join With the Democrats to Force Vote. DCS Molnes , Sept. 2. Twenty-four of the "progressives" In the Republi can party today agreed to vote with the Democrats on Lambqrt Domar's resolution to elect a senator for the short term at this session , This will defeat the governor's plan to toke a rcec'hod In Ills limits pocket and liullod out a linlf and tlmnvcd It over to mo nnd sed ho 'lowed that waa ' one on him. Sndlo and I went around to the gnto and got reserved seels away up next to the roof of the tent whore wo cud see everything , and to a feller thnt had soon Itanium , everything wasn't much. But Sadie ( hot It WIIH out of site , especially the wlmmuii'H olothoH. She was tlckeld to doth with the trained mule and the cloun but when a woman In tltes cum galloping out and cluni way up Into a lilo swing Sndlo just took ono look nt her ami then sed , "Oh Johnny , HOO the elefant eetlng hay out In the other tent ; BOO how he his whun . flops ears a fly ( -y bites him ! " H , I KOI ] I didn't HOC enny flys , and kept a looking nt the tlto woman In the swing. i. When the nice old lady that was r a bear-back rider In short ukurtHcamo ' Into the ring , Sadlo got rite Interested ' for she cud ride like the wind herself , "y * but whenever enny women came out ) ) In nothing but tltcs nnd spangles , Sndle wild look for flys on the olo- fant's cars. There was a kind looking woman sitting on the uther side of Sadlo and while. I was buying a pop-corn brick Sadie ast her sumthlng. I ctidont hoer what she ast , but the old lady whis pered back loud enuf for me to hccr , "Why child , that's what they ware 'em for , Is on account of the men. Why them tltes Is mor'n half the slrcus. " Sadie lookt ns If she'd like to ask more but Just then the boss came out followed by n meak looking man with sum .fliunks of meet In his hands , and nnnounct that Prof. Armadillo , the rne.uk looking man with the moot , had made n bet with the bear-back rider that he wud enter the lion's den , a feet that no one else had ever before - fore dun , and feed the feroshus boosts from his bear hands ; and that every- bodily that wud pay ten cents apeece to see the aftcrshow , would be allowd to sec Prof. Armadillo perform his big feet at the concliishun of the show. Sadie sed lots not stay for she didn't want to sec the poor man eat up by lions , but I sed If I cud see a mnn ot up by lions for only ten cents -t I was going to see It. So Sadlo went - ( out when it cum time to feed the lions and I stayed and what do you spose I ' seen ! Prof. Armadillo opened the i cage door and went In just like ma f goes Into the lion hous to feed the { chickens , and he thru down his scraps of meet and the lion pups gobbled them up nnd then llckt themselves and lookt happy like our dog ustor do when he had his dinner. Mr. Bryan shure struck It rite when he sed "What fools us mortals be ! " When we was going up the street I nst Sadie how she liked to ! show , and she sed , pretty well , but she'd a liked It lots bettor if the elefant had only jumpt the fence. Yours , Johnny Dumper. recess until Nov. 0 before electing a senator. The progressives will vote for some resolutions this afternoon and will Insist upon their passage. This means a forced vote on Cummins for the senate for the short , term. \ i CHURCH PARADE ABANDONED. Police Feared Anti-Catholic - Demon- stratlon. London , Sept. 2. After arranging the greatest procession of Catholic clergymen In the history of the- church as a feature of the eiicharistlc congress which opens here Sept. 9 , It was revealed today that the Idea has boon abandoned at the request of the police , fearing an anti-Catholic demon stration by the mob. An effort was made to keep the abandonment secret. Stewart and Nelson Win. Pierce , Neb. , Sept. 2. Special to The News : From reports over the county it appears that Charles Stewart of Osmond has defeated W. W. Qulvey of Pierce for the Republican nomina tion for county attorney and that N. W. Nelson has been nominated for county commissioner. Michigan Primary. Detroit , Mich. , Sept. 2. Returns from the primary at noon Indicated the II nomination of Dr. J. B. Boadley for governor by 3,000 over hla nearest competitor , Governor NVarner. The Fairfax "second" baseball team defeated Anoka 11 to 8 on the Fair fax grounds. Batteries : Fairfax , Manholter nnd J. Koster ; Anoka , Lubor and Anderbon. Struck out by Manholtor 10 , by Luber 2. Bryan Won't Talk. St. Paul , Sept. 2. Mr. Bryan said today thnt he did not known whether or not the Vermont Republican vic tory could be considered a barometer ns to the national election. Ho said that as the presidential' campaign has Just begun he could not answer that question. Mr. Bryan declined to discuss the Independence showing in Vermont. He left at 10 this -morning for Sioux City , where ho speaks to night. More people are poor on account of bad management than on account of v extravagance.