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TITE OMAITA DAlIiV BEE; TUBS DA 1 fi5l"rErniEIl 23, 1002. Tim omaha Daily Bee , . C ROSEWATfcR. EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERT MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. tally Bee (without Sunday). One Year.. $4.10 taliy h-n and Monday, One Year liustraied iee, One lear '" Buri'lay Hee, one lesr J"' baturuay B, one Year twentieth Century warmer. One Year...l.J DELIVERED BY CAKKIER. Pally Bee (without Sunday), per copy.... 2c pally Bee (without BunOiiyi, per week...Uc paliy Bee (including Bunuay), per we..lc Hunuay wee, per copy c Evening toee (without Kundy. pr weeK c Evening Bee (Including Hunday), per weea ...........we Comulainta of Irreguiarltl'-a In delivery should be addrstaed to City Circulation Le banment. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha CUy Hall Building. Twen-ty-nrtn and M Street. Council Blurts I') Bearl Street. Chicago iJ Unity Building. New york 23:1 lark Row Building. Washington M Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communication! relating to news and edi torial matter thould he addressed: omaha but. Editorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. Business letters and remittances should be addressed: The Bee Publishing Com pany, omaha. REMITTANCES. Remit by drail, empress or postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only -cent stamps accented In payment of tuall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepteJ. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, sa: George B. Tsschuck, secretary of Tha Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, says that tho actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during tha month of August, I'M, was as ioiiows 1 28,720 t 2K.T70 1 2S.M35 4 2,61Q i 28,m0 an, 7o I Ktt,T0 an,M 10 28,760 U 2H.7BO 12 8,730 U JM,K30 14 3M.!0 U XM.730 i z.oo 17 28.830 18 20,30 1 30,770 ZO 30M0 21 30,120 3 20.IMJO 23 30,810 24 28,733 28 30.3.W 28 20,000 27 20.M30 28 29.AHO 23 30,070 30 30,110 41 2D, 120 Total tHHJ,4-0 Less unsold and returned copies'.... 8,877 Net toUl sales 81X1,563 Ket dally average 28,021 GEO. B. TZSCitUCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 1st day or BeptemDer, a. M. B. HINGATE. (Seal) Notary Public The base ball season of 1902 is up to Its last Innings. Governor Savage still persists In hold lng down the lid of that telltale cigar box.. From bis discussions of the tariff, it will not be bard to Infer President Roosevelt's idea of "the Iowa Idea." The Union Pacific machine shop lock out was not a circumstance to the lock' out of the republicans of South Omaha by the Mercer machine. Aa the Iowa papers are now speculat ing on the future of Speaker Hender son, the sensation caused by his with drawal may be regarded aa closed. The total of 308 tons of anthracite coal banled by the Pennsylvania Railroad company la decidedly discouraging from the consumers' standpoint at this par Ucular season. Make sure that the temporary, review ing stands for the Ak-Sar-Ben parades are substantially constructed. Omaha wants no wrecks to mar the Joviality of 1U jubilee. Ex-Governor Boies will hardly use as the keynote of bis campaign this year his famous document showing that corn In Iowa Is produced at a net loss of 07 cents per acre. The frauds perpetrated at the repub lican primaries by the wholesale Issue of affidavits and certificates emphasizes the need of some radical changes In the primary election law. Omaha's theatrical season is again on. Omaha used to be down on the list of towns to be avoided by the best theat rical attractions, but now they are us anxious to come here as formerly they were to stay away. , After that dressmakers' congress, In aesslon in Chicago, adjourns and Its members disperse to all quarters of the country, the man who puts up for the dressmaker's bill will consult safety by taking to the woods. Here's a chance for a guessing contest. If the Union racttte has already im ported more than l.TiiO strike breakers lnce the lockout was declared, how many strike breakers will be brought In before the strike Is ended? When a few United States marines keep transit open across the Panama Isthmus for the Colombian government, we may be sure a few American men-of-war will be fully able to keep transit open through the isthmian canal when It Is built. In most of the Nebraska cities to be Tielted by President Roosevelt the pub lic school children will have a part In the reception accorded the nation's chief executive. A place for the public school children of Omaha ought to be arranged In the reception program In this city. One of the subjects on the program of the coming Christian church convention is "Advertising." Why not? The live merchant who has a good thing adver tises to bring it to the attention of the people who may benefit by It. If a religious organization has a good thing (or the people, why not let them know It through up-to-date methods? The Bee's expression, of apprehension that the retirement of Speaker Hender son will lose the speakership to the west has already drawn out the names of several wet-tern congressmen as speak trshlp candidates. That's just where tie trouble is likely to come in. Too many western candidates for the place would give the east iu chance to carry off tha honor. A ORE AT LEADER'S WORDS. Thomas B. I"ed Is out of politics, but hat distinguished republican Is not out of sympathy with the foremost principle of the party of which he was for years one of the grrat leaders. Among the champions of the protective policy there has been none abler or more consistent than Mr. Reed. During all the long ruriod In which he was a member of congress, much of the time exerting an nfluence probably greater than any other man in public life, Thomas B. Reed was the uncompromising advocate of protection to American Industries and American labor. Whatever he may have lacked In practical work he fully made up In brilliant and logical ad vocacy of the policy of protection. The most powerful speech made In the house of representatives against the democratic tariff bill of lf4. the dis astrous consequences of which are still remembered by most of the American people, was that of Thomas B. Reed. It discussed with great luclility and force the principles of free trade and protection and demonstrated. .most con clusively the great benefits and advan tages to the United States of the protec tive policy. lie pointed out the unassail able facts of the official statistics that protection had built up industries and In creased the price of American labor. He showed the splendid results of that pol icy, then being realized. In our foreign trade. He pointed out what protection had done In building up the home mar ket, to the enormous benefit of American farmers. He declared that our people consume nearly three times as much as the people of the next best nation on the globe, for the plain reason that as a whole they have the income which en ables them to do this. It Is eight years since Thomas B. Reed delivered that great speech In the bouse of representatives and the arguments that were applicable then are of equal force now. The distinguished states man who uttered them Is still an ad vocate of protection. In the published Interview with hint a few days ago he said: "They bad better let the tariff alone. I believe the sentiment of the people of this country is radically op posed to tariff revisiou, and if It Is not. It certainly will be should the tariff ever be revised." The meaning of the clotting observation of Mr. Reed is plain. The country has had one experience of dem ocratic tariff revision and should cer tainly not need another. The position of Thomas B. Reed on this most important subject should com- luuud Uie eeiluUs altciitiuU of all repub licans. He speaks as an advocate of protection who has only the Interests and welfare of American Industries and American labor at heart He has no political ambition to promote, but looks only to the good of his country. The counsel and admonition of such a states man Is entitled to the highest considera tion. S0LV1HQ THal FRUR PROBLEM. There Is every Indication that the friar problem in the Philippines will be solved without any serious difficulty. Thus far the disposition manifested at Rome has been entirely friendly and conciliatory and It Is the evident desire of the church authorities to comply as soon as practi cable with the wishes of the government of the United States, the soundness of the reasons for which is practically con ceded. A few days ago two American priests of the Auguslinian order received orders to go to the Philippines as pio neers In the movement of American priests to the islands to succeed the Spaniards. It is expected that these will In a short time be followed by other American Augustlnlans, a number of whom have volunteered to go to the archipelago. It Is not to be doubted that the effect of replacing the Spanish friars by Amer icans will be exceedingly salutary. Although there are among the church authorities some who Insist that the Spaniards have been misrepresented and even maligned, yet It Is unquestionable that there is a very strong and general feeling of hostility toward them among the Filipinos, and were the Unlttd States to permit them to remain there it would be a source of constant trouble. Most of the Spanish friars are now being protected and provided for in Manila, not daring to go Into the Interior, where they have property. Their withdrawal is one of the conditions to the preserva tion of peace and order and it should be effected by the church authorities as soon as practicable. WHO FREE TRADE WOCLD HIT. "We can injure some trusts by free trade," says the San Francisco C'bron Icle, "help others, and on some it would have no effect. But it would bit hard every American worklngman and every American farmer. This expresses a view that is rapidly obtaining accept aiice throughout the country. It was in effect voiced by President Roosevelt In his Cincinnati speech when be said: "The trusts can be damaged by depriv ing them of the benefits of a protective tariff only on condition of damaging oil their smaller competitors and all the wage workers employed In the Indus try." No class of our people is more Inter ested in this question of the tariff than the wage-workers. A majority of the people ot the couutry who are now em ployed in the various industries are in those which are independent of the in dustrla! corporations, or so-called trusts, The authentic statistics In regard to this ure conclusive. Not only this, but the facts show that the wages of labor are on the whole better In the individual in dustries than In the combinations, while tne t nances lor continuous work are quite as . good. What sound reason therefore, can be given for a policy that would have the effect of Imperiling the existeuce of these individual Industries, which contribute so largely to our pros perity and especially to the welfare of labor? It would seem that no rational man, and especially no worklngman, could doubt for a moment the wisdom of maintaining a policy that conserves the Interests of our" Industries and the benefits which are being enjoyed by American labor. At this time there Is no country on earth In which labor as a whole is so well requited or enjoys so many advan tages and opportunities as In the United States. Is it necessary to go Into de tails to show this? Whoever doubts It let them look at the statistics of the savings banks, at , the figures of the building and loan associations, at the facts regarding the number of homes owned by worklDgmen in this country. AH these facts bear indisputable and conclusive testimony to the superior condition of the workingmen of Amer ica over those of any other country on earth. Foreign investigators of condi tions in this country have been unquali fied in their statements that nowhere else in the world was labor so free and so privileged, or so favored with oppor tunities, as In the United States. The policy that has produced this for tunate condition every intelligent wage worker should understand and ought to support the party which is in favor of its maintenance. ABOLITION OF THE SCBTREASVRT. From Secretary Shaw's remarks It Is plainly to be Inferred, although he makes no direct assertion, that one of the recommendations in his annual re port will be the abolition of the sub treasury system. This recommendation has been repeatedly made by secre taries of the treasury, and the change was never so strongly advocate in the business world as now. The one strong point in the sub-treasury system Is Its safety, but the conviction Is growing that other methods for the custody of treasury funds can be devised suffi ciently safe and at the same time free from the Inconveniences and the evil results of the present system. The treasury is now absorbing cash to the extent of $4,000,000 to fO,(X0,000 per month In excess of its disburse ments. Just now the business of the country can ill afford the loss from active circulation and use of any con siderable amount of money. It is all needed for the crop movement and for other commercial uses. Yet under ex isting laws it Is practically impossible to prevent the piling up of dead money In the treasury vaults Just when It is most needed outside of them. It is ab solutely impossible to prevent such ac cumulation by any adjustment of rev enue laws, so that the income will always balance the outgo, because the same provisions will at one time pro duce more und at another less rev enue, according to the fluctuations of business. Indeed, the time of great est need for money In business is almost certain to be the time when the greatest amount is taken from business for payment through the custom bouse into the treasury. The only way so far suggested to rem edy J;he trouble Is to give the secretary of the treasury a wider discretion for meeting such emergencies by disposing of Idle balances than is possible under the present law. And now it transpires that the North western road is pursuing the same policy with regard to the taxation of the Blair bridge that has been adopted by the Union Pacific road with regard to the Omaha bridge, the only difference being that, whereas the Union Faclflc bridge Is assessed for one-sixth of a mile at the rate of $0,810 per mile, or just $1,560, on the west half of the Union Pacific bridge, the west half of the Northwest ern bridge at Blair has a mileage of a fraction over one-half a mile, which, computed at $3,500 per mile, makes it assessable for $1,890. In view of the fact that each' of the two bridges at Omaha and Blair could not be replaced for $1,000,000, a conservative estimate of the west half of these bridges would be $500,000, and the most liberal assess ment would be $75,000, or from thirty five to forty times as much as the rail roads are disposed to pay. And this is a fair sample of uniformity. The Bee has made it a practice never to issue an extra unless the event really justifies such an extraordinary proceed ing. It has also made It a practice not to Issue Sunday extras unless for ex ceptional events of utmost and Immedi ate importance. The Bee believes in considering the wishes of its patrons and is satisfied that people of Omaha do not want to be startled, especially on Sunday nights, with cries of newsboys raising fears of terrible calamities when their papers contain nothing more than ordinary news Items. This is the reason that whenever occasion really de mands the Issue of an extra edition The Bee is sought for by all who want re liable Information, and purchasers of other local papers are not convinced un less the news Is verified by The Bee. In dealing with the big corporations we Intend to proceed, not by revolution, but by evolution. This is the keynote repeatedly sounded by President Roose velt in his speeches. It is a terse declaration that corporations, which are the creatures of tbe state, must be regu lated and controlled by the state which gave them life and to which they look for protection. To put It more pointedly still. President Roosevelt Insists that the policy of the government should be not to destroy the corporations, but to hold tbe corporations In ( heck, so that In their rapacity they shall not destroy the gov ernment It Is hard to please- fault-finders bound to criticise. One set of critics complain because President Roosevelt deals only In generalities about the trusts, while another set Is busy trying to prove that his proposed remedies go too much Into detail to be at all prac ticable. It la to be noted that Tom Johnson whom Colonel Bryan eulogizes for "bar ing bis breast to organised wealth," made a good part of his $5,(jO,0u for tune out of 5-cent street railway fares. Nor did be agitate strenuously for a cent fares till after be had taken the pru dent precaution of disposing of his street railway holdings. Before he bared his breast he was pretty busy organizing wealth for himself. When the ministers commence to dis cuss industrial combinations from the pulpit, with side lights on the great ben efits of concentration. It Is noticeable thnt they carefully overlook the great economies that would flow from a con solidation of the churches that would enable one preacher to expound the faith to congregations now supporting half a dozen churches and accompanying preachers. Philadelphia's allied business organiza tions are keeping hot on the trail of the Insurance underwriters in protest against the unwarranted 25 per cent In crease In fire rates throughout the coun try. Why can't the business men's or ganizations of Omaha help along this good work? The 25 per cent markup of the underwriters is just as grievous a burden In Omaha as it is In Philadel phia. Tha republican county nominating con vention was in such a hurry that It adopted no platform resolutions. That should not, however, prevent the candi dates from declaring themselves on mat ters of local Interest with which they will be called upon to deal. The voters will want to know where all the candi dates stand before the time comes to cast the ballots. When the names of the thirty addi tional policemen are announced by the Mercer-Broatch police board we may ex pect an exclamation from the 250 dupes that have been confidenced into filing applications for those positions. That will sound very much like the exclama tion that usually follows the announce ment of the telling number In the game of keno. The award of contracts for beef, mut ton and pork products for the slate in stitutions made by the Iowa State Board of Control looks much as If the meat trust were working with regularity and great equity as among its own mem bers. The bids seem to have been fixed so that each should get a fair share on the basis of an unfair price. Fine Art Appreciated. Chicago Tribune. There is nothing strange in the fact that Kaiser Wllhclm prefers American dentists. Dentistry is a One art in America. In other countries it la a trada. Indiana Heard From. Indianapolis Journal. The Omaha Bee fears that the retirement of Speaker Henderson will lose the speaker ship to the west. Indiana can present a man who will make an efficient speaker. Sweet Voices of the Those, Chicago Tribune. According to the rules Just promulgated. when an angry man yells "Hello!" Into the telephone ha will have to be careful to ac cent tbe last .syllable In order to avoid getting iDto trouble. Perils of the Hoodoo. Globe-Democrat. George Fred Williams is the most un fortunate man that ever ambled down the political pike. He has Dot Bad a single crumb of comfort since the day Colonel Bryan rescued tha brow of labor from the crown of gold spikes. Work of the Ice Trust. Baltimore American. We gather from the statement of Explorer Peary that it will take several years for the ice trust to remove tho barriers from the route to tbe pole sufficiently to permit its being discovered and decorated with a divine right of some sort. . More Ornamental Than I'sefal. Chicago Inter Ocean. The' National Dressmakers seem to be divided on the question of man's useful ness to the dressmakers, as a matter of business. 8ome think he ought to be around, while others think he is mostly In the way. The Interests of the man himself are not considered at all. And perhaps they ought not to be. Geaero.ltr. Old and New. Chicago Chronicle.' Much credit is givca to the kind-heart edness of the coal operators for allowing the striking miners to take coal without charge from the waste heaps around the mine shafts. This calls to mind the scrip ture story of Lazarus, who was permitted to pick up tbe crumbs that fell from tbe rich man's table. The munificent generosity, it will be remembered, counted tbe rich man naught when the final reckoning waa made. Cinch of the Glass Treat. Philadelphia Ledger. Those who have not yet convinced tbem- selvea that the trust is a good thing will find their courage strengthened by the ac count currently sent out about the disso lution of an Independent glaas manufactur ing company. This throws the business Into the hands of a combination which la In undisputed control of tne mamei. it removes ail fear of a cut in prices and puts the consumer at tbe mercy of a monopoly which Is as devoid of sympathy for the public as most organizations of tha character. If this Is anything in favor of the trust, which now baa so many de fenders, the fact Is not very oDvioua. PKKSOV!. KOTE8. Secretary Moody will make his only speech cf the campaign before the Marquette club of Chicago on October 9. The Walters' International union has chosen Harry Pancake as president There's something In a name. Dr. R. Masujlma of Toklo, a distinguished member of the bar of Japan, haa accepted tbe Invitation to deliver tbe annual address before tbe New York State Bar association. Brigadier General Frank S. Nlckerson, the only man In New England who went Into the civil war a private and came out brigadier general, has Just celebrated bis 76th birthday at Cambridge, Mass. Now that Colonel Gaston has triumphed so decisively In the Massachusetts conven tion for tbe gubernatorial nomination, hit rival, Charles S. Hamline, should gracefully say: "After you, my dear Gastoo. While President Loubet waa returning from a shooting party at ,Ramboulllet he found a bicyclist lying badly Injured In the road. The president dismounted and as alsted tbe man to bis feet. He drove bim to bla borne. Tha Oyster Bay clergyman who preached at the president reminds the Kanssa City Star of tbe Kacaas man who arose at funeral "and announced that If no person had anything to say about tbe departed be would like to make a few remarks about tbe free coinage of sliver." THE COGREIOAL CAMPAIGN. Wakefield Republican: At election time draws near Hon. J. J. McCarthy's chances of being elected congressman from the big Third grow brighter every day. Mr. Mc Carthy deserves to be elected and there it ne question but what ha will be. Tork Times: Hlnsbaw Is max lng the kind of fight that wins. He goes and does It himself and tben he knows It Is done and done light Wherever he roes he makes new friends and revives old ones and lie goes everywhere In the district McCook Republican: Judge Norris, the republican candidate for congress, is much sought for as a speaker at all tbe public gatherings In this part of the state and bit fame as aa orator It not confined to this district, but he haa to decline all outside invitations lately, at his available time has been all taken up In hit own district Pender Republican: One of the strong points In favor ot J. J. McCarthy in hit race for congress Is the fact of bis great popu larity In bis home county, where he It best known. The fact that he haa alwayt car ried by good majorities hit borne county, which for ten years has been strongly populist, attests the high esteem In which he Is held by his neighbors. A man could not possibly be thus repeatedly honored unless there was extraordinary merit In him to thut hold tbe confidence ot his fellow men. Chadron Journal: When the people call on Judge M. P. Klnkald for a speech he glvea them a strong logical address full of truth and reason. He never haa to speak by proxy. Klnkald is tbe man whom tbe people of the Big Sixth want to repre sent them down at Washington. If you don't believe It vote for him anyhow, for It wouldn't be possible for him to do lets than Kem and Greene and Neville have done and Barry would do and everything points to the fact that he would do vastly more for hit constituency than others have or could. Gordon Journal: Judge M. P. Klnkald, tbe next congressman from this district, was a Gordon visitor last Tuesday. The Judge wore an air of confident expectation and unlets all the signs of the political zodiac are reversed he will have a walk away at the polls next November. Sheri dan county will give a majority vote for Judge Klnkald. now mark that prediction. The judge it well known In this county and hlRhly respected as a man by all par ties. The people of thla district, regard less of party ties, know that their Interest will be safe in tbe hands of Judge Klnkald. Columbus Edict: John J. McCarthy It surely the strongest rival John Robinson has ever raced against for congressional honors and that fact Is worrying Robinson to no small extent Platte county la the one county In tbe eighteen that make up the congressional district that can be banked on to return a majority for Robin son. This majority will largely decide the election result. Platte will not return as large a majority for Robinson this year aa in the campaign of two years ago, which will materially decrease the small ma jority Robinson bad over Hayes In the dis trict Ponca Journal: The Third Nebraska dis trict showed itself to be In sympathy with the national administration at the last presidential election by giving President McKlnley about a thousand majority, yet In the halls of congress the district is practically unrepresented, since the man who is supposed to represent it devotee his whole energies tc opposing the national administration. The Third district it en titled to representation In congress; It It entitled to the benefits it will gain by rep resentation. It can have them by electing Hon. J. J. McCarthy to congress. It can do without them by returning the present congressman. Alliance Times: Judge Klnkald and hit opponent, Mr. Barry, have been attending public meetings together for some time and It Is touching to see the kindly. courteous manner in which the Judge treats hit aged opponent A son could not be more considerate and tender toward his father than the Judge It toward th'e poor old gentleman whom the fusionlstt deluded Into tbe belief that he could be elected to congress. The fusionlstt thowed a woeful lack of taste, not to say of principle, when in order to give their ticket an air of semblance of respectability they placed the burden of a nomination on the shoulders ot the poor old veteran. McCook Tribune: The growing popular ity of Judge Norris, the republican nomi nee for congressman In the Fifth district is most btghly gratifying to tbe people of bla home town and very encouraging to tbe republicans of the district aa indicating tbe increasing certainty of his election. The Judge more than wears well; he grows In the popular esteem with acquaintance. Hit apoechet and meetings with people of the district are naturally resulting in the enlargement of bit circle of tupportera and admirers. He compete and strengthens confidence among tbe people, who have Just right to expect that he will protect their Interests to tbe limit of his ability and opportunity. Beatrice Express: If It is worth while for the Fourth district to have a repre sentative In congress It it worth while hav Ing one who can do aomethlng for his con ttltuents. A democratic congressman la a pure superfluity when the administration Is republican. A republican congressman, and especially when be is a man of ability and address, like Mr. Hinahaw, can do things for his district Mercer and Burkett have been the only republican from Nebraska in congress for some years and they have done great things for their districts, while other districts with fusion congreasmen have been completely out In the cold. Voto for Hlnshaw for congress, and let us have a representative who will not be purely a figurehead. Albion Times: Borne of the email fry of the fusion prest are seeking to annoy Judge Klnkald by asking him what they evidently consider smart and annoying questions as to what bills now pending before congress he will favor If elected. One of these Is Will you support the Fowler bill? The Judge will not deign to answer turn a fool Question because the mereat tyro in civil government knows that tbe Fowler bill, ana all other pending bills, will die a natural death with the ending of the aesslon of the current congress. Old bills will not come before the new congress to which Judge Klnkald will be elected. It will be an entirely new organization, or legislative body, and will have original jurisdiction over all legislation which will come before It. Central City Nonpareil: Hon. J. J. Mc Carthy, republican nominee for congress spent Friday and Saturday In Central City meeting bis many old friends here and mak ing new ones. He was accompanied by M. L. Rosslter of Sliver Creek, who Is congres sional committeeman as well as an old friend and business associate of Mr. Mc Carthy. "It Is surprising." remarked Mr. Rosslter, "how many democrtta are wearing McCarthy buttons. He Is going to get a heavy vote from friends and admirers In the opposition psrtles as well aa a full party vote. I think there la no q-iestlon about his election by a good, safe majority, and when be Is elected tbe people of tbis district will have a congressman to be proud of. He fills all tbe requirements for a good con gressmanIs a ready and brilliant debater, a careful and conservative reasoner and a tireless worker foi bit conttituents and for everything he considers for the public wel fare. This bat beta proven by his legis lative career." notTtn Aiiorr jew tohk. Ripple en the Current of Ut Metropolis. Tbe weightiest event pulled off in the vicinity of the New Tork tblt year waa the annual meeting ot the American Fat Men't assoclstlon. It was tbe thirty-sixth annual meeting of the mighty and thirty of the rotund cherubs squatted themselves around tbe loaded tables. Tbe only Inci dent which marred somewhat tbe joyous occasion waa the charge that President Murphy bad within a year faded from 140 pounds to 2M. Three hundred pounds full weight la the minimum of admission, but there being no scales bsndy, the president's denial of the cruel charge was accepted and he was permitted to remain within the tacred circle. The call for dinner was sounded at S o'clock, and the only reason there wasn't rush for the table waa that there wasn't man In the crowd who could do much more than waddle. The dining hall which the fat men have used for years was burned last spring, so they had to eat In long, narrow room. Everybody man aged to squeeze Into bis seat - all right save a Mr. Schaub. He couldn't get seated because' of the limited room between the edge of tbe table and the wall behind It. After everything else bad failed a waiter brought In a long plank, which waa forced between Mr. Bcbaab's stomach and the table. Thla plank was used as a shoe horn, and tbe tecretary was finally forced Into the space that had been allotted to him. The dinner was sumptuous, and It waa marvelous to see the fat men get away lth It In one of the popular musical extrava ganzas a waiter says to a hotel manager: What wages do I get?" 'You give me half what you gather," sayt the manager. In exactly thlt way Is much of the serv ice In hotels snd restaurants paid, reports the New York Sun. In one well-patronized uptown restaurant the man who takes your hat and coat pays the proprietor $3.60 a day or nlgbt for the privilege. He haa four assistants and he pays them. He does this out of the tlpt that he receives. To all but a few old and favored cus tomers he glvet cbeckt. Upon thote to whom he does not give checks he waits himself. He addresses them by name and expreaset the hope that they are well. From tbete he expecta to get nothing lest tban a quarter and he It seldom or never disap pointed. His receipts have amounted to as much at $23 In a day and night and seldom drop below $10. Several noted New Yorkers draw hand some annual Incomes In the form of feet for tbelr services at directors of various corporations. Samuel D. Babcock, who died recently, waa a few yeart ago director of more corporation! than any other perton In the United States and at the time of hit death was director In twenty-three cor porations. But hit record hat been sur passed. Russell Sage and Samuel Sloan, both of Mr. Babcock's age, are now direc tors In more corporations tban he. was. Mr. Sloan's number being thirty-two. Sen ator Depew now holds the record for di rectorships, his total being new fewer than aeventy-slx. W. K. Vanderbllt, Edward D. Adams and James Stillman come next with forty-eight, forty-three and forty-one. Oeorge J. Gould la a director in thlrty-slx Institutions. F. W. Vanderbllt. in thirty five; Anthony H. Brady, In thirty-four; D. O. Mills. In thirty-three, and August Bel mont, - in thirty-two. There are several capitalists the number of whose director ships exceeds twenty-four. Borne of tbe most prominent financiers are, however, directors In very few corporations. John D. Rockefeller, for instance, holds only three directorships, Jacob H. 8chlff only fourteen, E. H. Harrlman only eighteen and Levi P. Morton only eight. J. Pierpont Morgan Is a director In thirty-one. The University club, at Fifth avenue and Fifty-fourth street. It the mott magnificent club in the world, taya a writer in the Pilgrim. Tbe land on which Itt home stands cost over $S00,0OO; tbe building Itself more than $1,200,000. It requires tbe service of 200 servants, more tban are employed In any other New York v club except in the New York athletic, the number employed by tbe Union being 115, and by tbe Metro politan eighty. These servants cost the University club In wages not quite $50,000 a year. To conduct auch a club "Is a busi ness," with a restaurant, for example of one big Item, whoae receipts are over $70,000 a year. The distinguishing peculiarity ot the University has made it an exceptional success that it Is not In tbe proper sense of the word a "New York" club. Its real- dent membership over 600 is made up to large extent of men college graduates. of course who are Immigrants, not New York born and bred, but men drawn there by Its business and profeaslonal oppor tunities. Tht nonresident membership- something over 1,600 is distributed all over America and the world. Now, what does a member receive In return for an initiation fee ot $250 and annual dues of $70, which are $125 and $36 In the case of nonresident members? On entering the doors be finds himself In most beautiful surroundings. In apart ments of palatial spaciousness, passing through halls of sculptured marble, served In a vaulted, oak-walnscoated dining room. housed, if he take a room, or Uvea In a suite in the club, with every possible ap pliance and device, from hie private bath to s telephone connecting with the office and an electric reading light over his bed, not to speak of tbe services of a valet; V Fall Styles Now Ready. Here are some solid reasons why you should call on BROWNING, KINO ft CO. before buying your Fall Suit, Overcoat or Furnishings. Our methods are different from those of other clothiers in respect to matters that are to YOUR advantage. For Instance: We make all the Clothing wa sell In our own Fifteen Retail Stores. We make it In our own Modern Factory Building In Cooper Square. New York City. It is manufactured under tbe atrlcteat personal supervision. . It is alwayt of one grade aa to workmanship, and that it the highest The materials uted are the best obtainable. In dealing with any one of the Fifteen Retail Stores of BROWNINf!, KINO A CO. you are dealing with headquarters so far aa responsibility is con cerned. You are cordially Invited. No ClothiMR Fits Like Ours. Exclusive Clothiers and Furnishers. R. 8. Wilcox, Manager. S. W. Cor. 15th & Douglas Sts., Omaha, Neb. Summer Safeguard: it tki Jul? of tki kiti tf nt't h ..,,. told to frcrrtJt afiimt thi kitl:h rin.t ,. eulur to $ummtr. 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Baltimore American: "Do you think I am suffering from the tobacco heart, ! tor?" anxiously asked the patient. "Not If this Is the brand of clears yu smoke bahltimlly," replied the doctor, rais ing the window. Philadelphia Press: Willie raised hta hand. "What Is it. Willie?" aeked the teacher. "You said 'proarr m.' That Isn't tight." The teacher consulted the dictiotiiry. Then, aa rhe couldn't whip. the dlction-tr;-, he whipped the boy. Chicago Post: "See here," protested th charltable man. "you touched me for n quarter last week and here you are again. ' "Well, gee whlxa!" exclaimed the ben gar, "ain't you earned anything since? ' Washington Star: "You say there are several of thoe voter who are to be clasped aa doubtful?" "Yes." answered Senator Sorjrhum. "What are they In doubt about?" "About how much to aak for their votes." lelphla tress: Gay boy "or "Mlsa Glnx." bepnn may I call you young Glnevra " "Call me what you like," she said, with a bright smile. "Well, I like Gin." he answered. And then he realised, as she turned her phis from him, that he had blundered. Baltimore American: "And so," says tho wealthy teacher of the Sunday school, "thn widow's cruse was always filled with oil. What do we learn from this?" "That she ought to have rjn up a deniik and bought leases," answers the budding magnate on the rear seat. Brooklyn Life: In this quandary the highwayman bethought himself to consult a lawyer. "Good sir," said he, "on the one hand my conscience will not permit me loneer to dn that which Is unlawful, while on the oth-r hand It Is not practicable for a man at my age to change his employment." "Incorporate under the laws of New Jersey," quoth the lawyer, readily enoufth, for It chanced that he was learned in t.19 law. THE NEW BAB V. Kansas Farmer. Yea. I've got a little brother. Never asked to have him, nuther, But he's here. They lust went away and bought him. And, last week the doctor brought him. Weren't that queer? When I heard the news from Molly, Why, I thought at fl rat 'twas Jolly, 'Cause you see, I "posed I could go and get him And then mamma, course would let him Play with me. But when I had once looked at him, "Why," I says, "Great snakes. Is that hlml Just that mite!" They said "Yes," and "Ain't he cunnln'?" And I thought they must be funnin' He's a sight! He's so small. It's Just amazln', -And you'd think that he waa blaxln'. Ile a so red. And his nose is like a berry. And he's bald aa Uncle Jerry On his head. Why. he Isn't worth a brick. All he does la cry and kick. He can't stop. Won't sit up, you can't arrange him I don't see why pa don't change him At the shop ... Now we've got to dseea and feed him And we really didn't need him More'n a frog; Why'd they buy a baby brother When they know I'd good deal rather Have a dog? 1
