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The omaha Daily Bee E. R08EWATER. EDITOR. k . PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Be (without Sunday). One Year..Mto Laliy Bee ana bunday, One Year t Illustrated Bee, One lear It bunaay tee, one tear Baturuay Bee, one Year ! ' twentieth Century t trmcr, One Year...l.w UELIVEREIJ BY CARRItR. Pally Bee (without Sunday), per copy.... 2c iany Bee (wltnout dunuay), per weelc.Uc Laliy Bee (including biuiuay), per wet.. lie gunuay me, per cojiy ec fevenlng toee without Bunday), per wees be Evening Bee (Including bunday), per ween 10c Complalnta of Irregularities In deliver Should be addressed to City Circulation le uarlrnent. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. Mouth Omaha CUy Hall Building, Twen-ty-nitn and M Street. Council Blurts 10 pearl Street. Chicago Ivhj Unity Building. New 'ork park Ku BulMIng. Washington ool Fourteenth Street CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to newa and edi torial matter thouiu be addressed: omana Bee, Editorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. Business letters and remittances shojld be addressed; The Bee Publishing Coin pany, Omaha. REMITTANCES. Remit by dratt, express or postal order, payable to The Bee Publlshlna Company. Only 2-cent stamps aocepted In payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Urn ana or eastern exchanges, not accepteu. 11U 13 Ct, fLUUBIlliNU tunrii. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION, Sl U lllUriMK, JLOUglKB A-UUIliy, George B. Tsschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, ays that tho actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during tn month of August, Utuz, waa as follows: 1 .8M,Ta K itM.UOO UM,T7t 17 3H,ai is sm,:o 1 'JI),7TI 20 HO, HMO 21 ao,iai S liM.MHS . 4 SlN,HO UM,it0 T. ....8,T1H ....UH,750 ....2H,MM ....ItH.TBO ....2M.760 ....rt,T30 ....SH.nito a. 21. u. 2ft. .. ,( HI ),ftlO a,7n.i ho.hho at,(M au.nao 2U.0HO ao.o7o ao.ito ait, ixo 10. 11. 11. 13. ... 27... 28... 29... DO... 11... 14 U HS,730 TotaJ Less unsold and returned copies.. .006,440 H.M77 Net total sales...... 800.RO.1 Ket dally avcrag 88,021 GEO. B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 1st day of September, A. D., 1802. U. B. HUNOATK. (Seal.) Notary Public The paramount Issues In Omaha and Dou?ls county are home rule and tax reform. The only way to settle a strike la for the discordant strikers and employers to get together. The man without a country is not In It with the Isle of Tines In the role of is Island without aa ov.ncr. Unanimous verdict of the western press on the abandonment of the presi dent's trip a great disappointment. America has carried coals to Newcas tle in years past, but this year it will hare to go to Newcastle to get them back. , New York democrats who pin their only hope on republican dissensions show what little real ground they have to stand on. . It is noticeable that the man who never did anything to build up Omaha ia always the loudest In decrying others aa knockers. Washington hotel keepers will here after take out tornado Insurance by re quiring all guests to leave their dyna mite in the office for safe keeping. When one of the local yellow Journals begins to denounce the other local yel low journal as a fakery, the climax of yellowness must be nearly reached. We violate no confidence In announc ing that the pressure on city council men for seats on the official reviewing stand has been appreciably relieved. Mexican railroads seem to be becom lng Infected with the merger fever. The tendency to Industrial consolidation knows no race, creed or nationality. Rain may Impede the military ma neuvers at Fort Riley, but It cannot pre Tent their consummation. The Auierl can army 1a not ' 'composed of fair- weather soldiers. The emperor of Oorea would have eon- f erred a favor on the public by making better advance arrangements for con firming his death when the time came for him to shuffle off. -i . Tba order transferring Ambassador Tower from the court of St. Tetersburg to that of Rerlln having been officially Issued by President Roosevelt, further speculation as to the succession to Am bassador White may be called off. It transpires that the abandonment of the president's western trip was against bis will and acquiesced la only after strenuous protest to the physicians President Roosevelt is not the man to break engagements In willful wanton nesa. Predictions of the weather forecaster bare been slightly off for several weeks. So have the prophecies of the astrologers who came near alarming the country by predictions of a hot blast between the latter part of July and the 17th day u August- Witb hard coal selling at $20 per ton the strike of the anthracite coal miners bas proved a great blessing In disguise for the coal barons who are coining millions out of the distress and destltu tlon of the anthracite coal miners and their families. Minneapolis' mayor has Just shut down oa the unauthorized transfer of liquor licenses from one dealer to a successor who may buy him out. He Insists that all the precautious sur rounding the original grant of the 11 cense to sell liquor shall also surround each transfer ot the license. The abuses of license transfers are not confined to Minneapolis and the remedy Invoked then Is capable of wider application. PROSPEMTT AHD POLITICS. "The gresteot national lsene is the maintenance of prosperity." declsrrs the New York republican platform. This apiteals to all classes of our people. Everybody desires that-prosperity shall l maintained. The manufacturer whose plnnt is running full time, the merchant whose trade is active, the farmer who finds a ready and profitable market for his products, the working man who has constant employment all favor the maintenance of prosperity. With every one of these interests it Is the paramount consideration. They have not forgotten that only a few years ago the country was not prosper ous, that hundreds of mills and fac tories and workshops were Idle, that millions of people were unemployed, that business was stagnant and that the farmers of the country had a poor market at unprofitable prices. No one wants a return of those conditions. For the last five years the American people have been having a higher measure of prosperity than they had ever before known and without distinction of class or party they wish It to continue. How shall this prosperity be main tained. Manifestly by adhering to the policy which has been largely Instru mental In producing It To quote again from tho New York republican plut form: "The pledge given by, William McKinley of abundant work and good wages, based on the passage of a pro tective tariff, has been fulfilled." There has been realized very much more than was expected when that pledge of the great champion of protection was given. The great industrial and commercial progress since made was then hardly dreamed of, the general expectation be ing that we should simply recover what had been lost under the operation of democratic policy hostile to protection. The large gains of labor In the last five years, as disclosed in the statistics of savings bank deposits and building and loan associations, are far beyond what the most sanguine would have pre dicted when the republican party was restored to power less than six years ago. Even more remarkable Is the prosperity realized by the farmers of the country In this brief period. In his memorable Buffalo speech President McKinley said: "Statistics indicate that this country Is in a state of unexampled prosperity. The figures are almost ap palling.. They show that we are utiliz ing our fields and forests and mines and that we are furnishing profitable em ployment to the millions of worktngmen throughout the United States, bringing comfort alid happiness to their homes nd making It possible to lay by savings for old age and disability. That all the people are participating In this great prosperity is seen In every American community and shown by the enormous and unprecedented deposits in our sav ings banks." This, uttered a little more taan a year ago, is applicable today. What Is obviously necessary, then, for the maintenance of prosperity Is to up hold the policy which brought prosper ity. This does not require that the pol icy shall undergo no modifications, but It does require that the principle of pro tection, which the democratic party Is again assailing, shall not be abandoned. That principle must be preserved, as the New York republicans said. In order to maintain the highest scale of Ameri can wages and the supremacy of the American workshop. G CRM AM-$ TARltt' PROBLEM. American agricultural Interests seem to be In no Immediate danger from the German tariff. According to Berlin ad vices there Is likely to be a protracted struggle over the pending measure, with the chances favorable to the final rejection of the agrarian demands for higher duties on agricultural products. This demand is stoutly opposed by the government, which realizes what the agrarians seem to be quite indifferent to, that compliance with it would be fatal to the renewal of commercial treaties. Germany has already been as sured that If the agrarian program is carried out she may expect reprisals on the part of Russia and some of the other countries with which she has commer cial treaties more or less advantageous to her, while It Is highly probable that the United States would In some prac tical way manifest its dissatisfaction. There is some opposition being shown in Germany to the exclusion of Amer ican canned meats and sausages which will go Into effect October 1, but this policy will undoubtedly be adhered to. Industrial conditions In Germany are not such as to warrant a course that must result in Increasing the cost of living for millions of people In that country the proposed Increase lu duties on agricultural products Is a very serious mutter. THK WOAgr STftlACCVCr. The stringency In the eastern money market has undoubtedly caused some anxiety in financial Circles there, but so far as observed there, have been no expressions of alarm. It is quite nat ural that the fact of largely Inflated credits, particularly In the case of some of the Industrial combinations, should cause a feellug of apprehension which has shown itself In the decline of prices. Yet there Is nothing In the situation that can properly be described as pan icky and there does not seem likely to be. There appears to be a sentiment among eastern financiers that no great harm would be done and perhaps some good ultimately If a few of the corpora tlons were forced into liquidation, but It would seem tiiat this might prove rather hazardous In existing circumstances. Meanwhile the secretary of the treas ury has announced his Intention to do whatever he can to relieve the situs tlon, and this will lie done without de lay. The deposits of public money with the banks will tie Increased to the ex tent of receipts from Internal revenue snd miscellaneous sources, amounting to about hslf a million dollars a day, and this relief will be continued ss long ss necessary. It Is also proposed to an ticipate Interest up to the end of the THE OMAHA DAILY BEEj MID AY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1902. Current fiscal year, of course, with a rehate to the treasury. Secretary Shaw stats that no experiments will be tried, which will reassure those who have been apprehensive that he con templated departures by way of experi ment. It Is possible, of course, that the stringency will liecome more severe, but the probability Is that with the certainty of all practicable assistance from the treasury the market will soon right It self and confidence be fully restored. n flV TAX REFORM IS TUB IHSCE. Tax Commissioner Fleming has dis tributed the blanks for the city assess ment to be made for the year 11)03, with a specific instruction that all returns of taxable property shall represent actual market values. Inasmuch as the as sessment for 1902 was at 40 per cent of actual value and the total valuation a fraction over $37.1 x KM Km. tlie aggre gate valuation for 11MI3 on a full value basis will range somewhere between $!2,(KJ0,tKKi and $!3,0OO,00O even If there are no additions for new Improvements and personal property not heretofore listed. The question that confronts Omaha taxpayers under the changed conditions Is, Shall they continue to pay the taxes which by right should be paid into the city treasury by the railroads that con verge In this city? For the year 1902 the totul amount of taxes paid by the railroads was $2t),5-19.UO out of an aggre gate city levy of $1,110,000 against all property. The sums paid Into the city treasury by the respective roads lu 1002 are as follows: tnlon PaelHo SI3,9i4.8.1 Barllnaton . Missouri Pacific, 3. 423. HO 1.H27.75 4MJ5.10 uaa so 447.75 3O.0O io.no Omaha Bridge A Terminal.. Rock Island Minneapolis A Omaha. Elkhorn Northwestern Milwaukee Total a(,!5 4.4 This Includes not merely the trackage, rights of way, terminal facilities, depot grounds and depot buildings, freight and passenger, but also the west halves of the two railroad bridges, nine miles of the Belt line, the Union Pacific machine shops, roundhouses of the various roads, Union Pacific and Burlington headquar ters buildings, town lots and improve ments outside of the rights of way, fur niture, fixtures and nil the personal prop erty and, moneys belonging to all the various roads held In Omaha. A most conservative estimate of the actual value of railroad property lu Omaha Is $15,ixmj,000, which ossessed at 40 per cent and subjected to this year's 30-mlIl levy should have contrib uted toward the expense of city govern ment $180,000. In other words, the rail roads by the present unrighteous mode of assessment have unloaded $153,450.40 of city taxes they should have paid upon the other taxpayers.. Put luto plain English It means this: Every six dol lars collected from Omaha taxpayers represents a donation of one dollar to the railroads. The monstrous Injustice perpetrated on the taxpayers of Omaha by railroad tax evasion is simply indefensible. It affects alike the smallest home owner to the heaviest property holder. The home-owning wage worker is forced to contribute the earnings of from one to three days each year to the coffers of the jiiulti-millionaires who own the rail- oads. The investor in store buildings and office buildings must contribute to the railroads a large share of his rental Income, which often does not yield suf ficlent to cover more than taxes, repairs and Insurance. Take for example the most tobtly office building In Omaha, the New York Life, which pays city taxes on a valuation of $205,000, as agalust $103,000 for all the railroad property In the city as assessed by the state board IU forced contribution to the rallrouds for the year 1002 amounts to $1,325. If Tax Commissioner Fleming's plan, which complies strictly with the law, Is carried out, the city tax rate will be re duced from 30 mills to 12Vi, but while the amount of taxes levied agalust any ordinary taxpayer will remain the suine, the rallrouds will actually pay less thun they paid for 11X12. Ibstead of paying $2ti,54y.00 they would pay, com puted on the new basis, only $23,170.35, making the other taxpayers pay $156, 828.40, which under an equitable law should be puld by the railroads and de ducted from the amount Imposed on other taxpayers. With these stubborn facts and figures before them the taxpaylug citizens o Otnuba will want to know whether the coming legislature will give them relie or leave them subject to a continuation of this legalized robbery. The merger of the meat packers and stock yards has been postponed for an Indefinite period on account of Presi dent Roosevelt's antitrust siieeches, There Is ground for suspicion, how ever, that the stoppage of Inventory taking Is simply a ruse to avert adverse Judicial action in the proceedings insti tuted by the government against the beef combine. For once the outside counties that help muke up this judicial district seem to be in position to decide who shall be the republican candidate for district Judge. If they do not take full ad vantage of the situation their political astuteness will be subject to question. Dave Mercer has not paid a duller of persotml tax either lu the city ot Omaha or the county of ltouglas in the last five years. And yet the railroad magnates insist that he should represent the tax payers ot this city and district for an other term in congress. rase t Istescwsable Neglect. Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. The kaiser neglected to send a few srmy attache to Inspect the Fort Riley ma neuvers. That UcTfrsnirit took Beok. Baltimore American. Housewives will be Interested to know that the Navy department bas compiled a new cook book. This official poaching on feminine preserves may maks soms ap- prehenslve that the Treasury department will next undertake to regulate the styles in Imported millinery. Real Trouble fop the Money Market. Philadelphia Inquirer. Not assuming even for an Instant the character of either a financier or a seer, we don't mind saying that the only trouble Itb the money market which we can dis cover Is that everybody hasn't all the money he wants. , The Farthest North. Minneapolis Times. In view of Lieutenant Peary's return, the record of high latitudes reached by his and other arctic expeditions of note are inter esting. The appended table shows the beet results attained since and Including Hendrlck Hudson's achievement: Captain Gagnl of the Duke d'Abruisl's expedition 86 deg. S3 m. Nanwn, 1M M dee-. 14 m. Peary, last expedition M deg. 17 m. eary s second expedition deg. Z7 m. .ock wood, 18X2 83 deg. 24 m. eary, ttrst expedition, 1892.... 82 deg. 34 m. Hendrlk Hudson, ln7 SO deg. 23 m. Thoasthtfnlneae of Galasba. Philadelphia Press. Ex'speaker Galusha A. Grow says that be not going to write a book, nor is he going to write for the magazines. He thinks that enough has been written about the period he has served In congress and that be could not add much of Interest, He re grets that he Is to leave congress, but says that it Is not his choice. He represents the state at large, but as the next congress will have no representatlve-at-lsrge from Penn- ylvanla and he has no district he Is forced out. In the Role ef Vicegerent. Bprlngfleld Republican. President Baer of the Reading railroad, in his self-assumed capacity of vicegerent of God on earth, evidently feels In duty bound to look after the public schools. He baa offered coal to the Philadelphia and alao to the Baltimore authorities for the beat ing of public school houses at reduced rates and apparently Intends to look out for other nearby school buildings. But If the children are to freeze at home during eighteen or nineteen hours of the day, of what avail to keep them warm during school hours? The first cold snap would leave few children with life enough to go to school. Providence, acting through Mr. Baer, certainly moves in s mysterious way. In this case. The Trusts and President Roosevelt. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. It anything were needed to add to Presi- ont Roosevelt's strength with the people the declared opposition of J. Plerpont Mor gan would have that effect to an exceptional degree. Mr. Morgan Is singularly obtuse not to know that his Influence In general politics Is decidedly negative. He controls an Immense amount of capital, but his sup port of a political measure or a candidate for office has no weight with the people of the United States. As a money breeder Mr. Morgan Is a phenomenon. As a politi cian he would be a Jonah in any cause. Mr. Morgan's outbreak against Roosevelt, and fiuaacotlon that the druiutiatji should nom inate a safe man like Grover Cleveland, strengthens the report that the trusts are putting up demoo 'tic campaign money for the present year and for 1904. SEEKIXG HOMES IK THE WEST. Advice for Colorado that 1 Jnst as Good for Nebraska. Denver Republican. The annual excursions of homeseekers have begun, and reports from Chicago snd other points in the middle west indicate that all records will be broken by the transcontinental railroads In this form of travel. ' 1 ' Crowds of well-to-do people are now pass ing through the gateways of the middle west, and are turning to the new lands beyond the Missouri river. The railroads are now selling this class of tickets to a wider range than ever before, so s home seeker may visit, at very low rates, Ne braska, Kansas, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, British Colum bia, South Dakota, Texas, Oklahoma and the great southwest. The railroad officials who have charge of this business report that people seem to have plenty of money and are going farther away from home than ever, and that they are prepared to buy land that is already partly improved, in stead of taking up utterly unimproved claims. In the next few months Colorado should benefit largely from this class of home seekers. There is much farming land In this state that will require but little im proving to make it as rich as the richest. Irrigated lands are in great demand among homeseekers, particularly In view of the fact that the national government has taken up a large part of the work of redeeming the arid lands of the west. Coloradoans should do their utmost to show these homeseekers that they can find no richer land or more glowing opportuni ties than await them in this state. Colo rado's agricultural resources should be ad vertleed in such s way that the attention ot eastern homeseekers will be attracted. Every Inducement should be held out to encourage such a desirable class of citizens to settle in this state. PERSONAL, NOTES. Helen Gladstone, daughter of England's great prime minister, is devoting ber life to charitable work among the poor of Los don. The duke of Cambridge bas lived under five sovereigns of England. He was bora Just In time to see the end of the reign of George VIII, was a boy of 11 when his uncle, George IV, died, and was one of the princes who carried the coffin of the last king to his grave. The per capita debt of Boston Is 130 more than that of New York City. After New York, with a per capita debt ot $115, corns Cincinnati with $82, Baltimore with $78, Pittsburg with $68, Buffalo with $45, Phila delphia with $18, Cleveland with $34. St. Louis with $33 snd Chicago with $10. The estate of a Long Island miser, re cently deceased, shows up $40,000 in cash. During his later years he denied himself many of the necessaries of life In order that his heirs might enjoy the usufruct So deep Is the reverence for his memory that the heirs are squabbling over psylng for s $38 headstone. The fact that the widow of th famous "Parson" Brownlow of Tennessee la still living at the age of 89 has been brought out by the erroneous report of s pension having been granted her. "Parson" Brownlow was one of the characters of the war for the union and his unswerving loyalty and serv ices to the government entitle his widow to recognition. When be waa asked to Join the rebellion hs replied: "When I go to hell I II go there direct. I won't go around by the way of the southern confederacy. While th lat Brat Hart waa editor of the Overland Monthly in San Francisco there was s rather severe earthquake shock The correspondent of eastern papers were requested to "draw It mild," for fear ot driving away newcomers, but th notifica tion failed to reach Hart, who wrote an amusing skit by way of editorial In bis magazine. It gave such dire offense that when bis nam afterward came up for auc tion to a cbalr In th stat university he lost th vol snd support of th most In fluentlal trusts, th banker. William C. Ralaioa. President A Democratic Tribute. Detroit free When Andrew Johnson was "swinging around the circle" In 18!6, Petroleum V. Nashby, the Mr. Dooley of, his day, said that wherever the president appeared, he was most cordially received with enthusi astic cheers for Grant. Until Mr. Roce velt't time, all the vice-presidents who succeeded to the presidency had their Grant, and some of them had many Grants. Even the chaivalrous, courteous Arthur could never persuade the rank and file of his party to consider him as anything more than a pleasant, well-meaning gentleman whom . great national tragedy -ad thrust into s position for which he had no pecul- lar qualifications. Mr. Roosevelt, alone of the vlce-presl- dents that became president, has sue- ceeded in dominating his party snd ap- peallng to the popular Imagination. What Is more, he seems to have established him- self so firmly in this unique position that the hostile politicians of his councils have come to despair of dislodging him. He has no Grant. There la no man In the Re- publican party, or out of the party for that matter, towards whom Mr. Roosevelt could feel the slightest pang of Jealousy. If all the political snd military leaders In the county were to accompany him on his western trip, he would remain the con. splcuous figure In the assembly, the cynos ure of all eyes. A year's service in the presidency has established Mr. Roosevelt's title to the of fice, not by the grace of a deplorable acci dent, but by the force of ability and power. It was a popular superstition at the time Mr. Roosevelt succeeded Mr. Mc Kinley that he was s raw, unllcked cub that "pawed at everything like a young bound." ss the contemptuous Bismarck described the activities of his youthful kaiser; that he was another Hotspur "that kills me some six or eeven dozens of Scots st s breakfast, washes bis hands, and says to his wife, Tie upon this quiet life! I want work!' " Mr. Roosevelt, with all his exuberant vitality, was neither cub nor Hotspur, although one might say of him as Plutarch said of Marcellus, "There was no kind of fighting in which he was not ad mirably well skilled." But In contemplat ing the combative side of Mr. Roosevelt's nature, the public disregarded the more substantial though less picturesque quali ties of the man. Instead of being a veri table Kmlta, or even a Pan Michael Volo- dyovskl, pitch-forked Into the presidency . . ... . . . .. of s great republic, he brought to the u . ,,,.,, ,,, . White House an Intellectual training, a wealth of experience, an equipment of scholarship and a cathollcy of sympathy such as few presidents of the United States have possessed. He might have had a weaanees tor ine unconventional cowDoy v.. v ... v.. ,,..,' n the original. He was widely Intelligent In all that relate to the history of his own country, the history of Its Institutions and tne pnnosopny or us government, as ne knew his Jefferson, his Hamilton and his 1JB iocu.ut.viut,. .ui u. irnow- Americans not s little coterie of them, or a little community of them, but all of them as men are known in the aggregate the uranmin caste or oosion ana new cngiaaa, ROl'KD ABOUT NEW YORK. Ripples an tha Cwrrent of Life 1st the Metropolis. In the largest private market in New York nearly every woman who buys meat has her favorite butcher, whom she tips with a dime at each order, thereby com pounding a felony, for the fee Invariably obtains for her an overweight of the pur chase. Recently tour of the twenty-six butchers employed left their places and opened an opposition market three blocks away. Thts'sroused the suspicion of their former employer, who proceeded to investi gate. He learned that twenty of his butch ers had been systematically robbing him for the sake of tips. If s woman ordered three pounds of steak she would get three and a half pounds in consideration for her dime. On a single order of meat, worth $7, was found billed st $3.12. The day before the proprietor detected a butcher in the act of giving sway a four-pound chicken to s woman who had tipped him regularly for years. A police captain who was dismissed from the New York force this week, was respon sible for many amusing stories based on bis use or misuse of words, reporta the Evening Post. Once be asserted that he "never paid any attention to unanimous letters." On another occasion he Is said to have referred to his possession of a "veracious" appetite. Third svenue, he told s man one day, "runs paralyzed to Lexing ton svenue." At another time, one story goes, be was reading to an outgoing pla toon a list ot some clothing that had been reported stolen. One Item was a kersey coat. "Next on the list, men," he an nounced, in bis rich brogue, "Is s kero sene coat." - It was this captain who di rected s patro)man to open s window In th station house and "putrefy the air." It was not this captain, but s sergeant now dead, who, while testifying in a trial at police headquarters, asked permission of the commissioner to correct his testi mony, saying: 'Mr. Commissioner, I wish to retract th veracity of my former statement." The Salvation Army in New York City has resorted to a curious trick to entrap the unregenerat Into ways of righteous ness. At many points In the city In the lowlier quarters the Army bas established stands where books are sold for 2 cents apiece or three for a nickel. The work are bound in flaming colors of red, yellow and green, and bear tha most alluring titles. Th books prove s distinct dlsap polntment when opened. Instead of Im passioned love scenes the readers And long homilies on the dangers that lurk in tha society of glided youths and the glories that cluster around the brow of virtue. The Army appears to be working on th theory that the devil's own weapons ar th best to fight him with. It is s sight for gods snd men, says s New York letter, to stand, say, in front ot the Knickerbocker theater snd notice th dresses soma women wear, A man named Soloman once remarked that there Is noth ing new under the sun, but this expe rience would make him revise hi Judg ment. Th claim has been put forth with out contradiction that Parislenne are the only women in the world who know how to dress their head and feet, but a man who bas been both s boulevard loafer and s Broadway idler will have to be "shown." The Broadway girl is th large first person of th neuter gender. Cutting out stage "golls" entirely, there Is another type which always attracts th amazed and admiring eye. Tbts la th horn girl ot New York. She is to be seen In ber glory only here. Like the exotic she withers snd change when transplanted. She Is the girl who knowa how to drea right to taw. 8 be Is aa various In her raiment as the flower-decked hillsides of West Virginia. 8h is not cheap, tawdry or bedizened. She does not glv th Impression of being dressed mlthls sa Inch of her lit. Ths visual affects A Roosevelt Tress (dem.). the plutocracy and mobocracy of New Nork the aristocracy of tne souin. m. Independent democracy of tne miaaio states, and the boisterous Individualism of the far west. He had not studied them from the standpoint of the managing poli tician, curious to see how long all tho people could be fooled all the time; but he might have said of his fellow-Americans, from whatever section of the country they hailed, as Kipling said of the people of India: I have eaten your bread and snlt. Thed'aths VedTed I ha veF watched" beside, An(j tne n;.eB ye id were mine, Because he had never served In congress, and had never been voted by s steering committee, and had never deviled s presi- dent about the appointment of s postmas- ter, the politicians of his party felt that he could not know much about the prac- tlcal affairs of government. But he knew many things that were not dreamed of in their philosophy. For one thing, he knew how the armr retarded the army. The long nights on the plains In company with American soldiers had not been spent to so purpose, and neither bad his own brief but honorable career as a volunteer officer dur ing the Cuban war. But his administra tive vision was not bounded by the War department. As ssslstant secretary of the navy, he had come to know its personnel snd understand Its esprit du corps as well aa he knew. the army. HU experience as a civil service commissioner had enabled him to know how the office seeker and the prac tical politician look upon the government, while bia political career in New York had made him familiar with the most sordid, self-seeking political system that this coun try or any other country ever knew. Jus- lln canny saia ot Btr varies j.iikb mat. "No .uesU" ' foreign or colonial policy cou,d weU come UD ,n th hou"9 of com" m,nS 'bo"t Whlch b WM not ab,e t0 ay' a muuot inn pmce; a Know toe conditions; I know the men.' " So far as the affairs of the I'nlted States, were concerned, this description, If transferred to Theodore Roosevelt at the time of his accession to the presidency, would not have been grossly extravagant. With this previous preparation It would have been strange If Mr. Roosevelt had been found seriously wanting when called upon to assume the duties of president of the United States, notwithstanding that :", ',, K " " " . " , "J " deplored by persons steeped In the Tom r,,, . ' ... .v , . Corwln dogma that the way to succeed in quality of "cockiness" which Is so greatly politics la to be "a solemn ass." "It Is not every man that can bear much wine." said Plutarch of Lucullus, "nor can the or dinary mind bear great prosperity without staggering." Mr. Roosevelt has not stag- verai! uu i ,i. , . . Kerea HlB yar ,n the Presidency baa ,he countryi and ,trenKthened popula con. ndence , the man He has hm an experiment. In the element of nolitl- cai leadership he I. .n .mnti.kJ Whatever the future may hold In store Ior nIm ,odajr he ,g the uncnailened caD. tain of his nartv with th .,.. eonal following in point of numbers that any president of the United States has ever known. she radiates Is pleasing snd satisfying. You feel that she Is s Is mode and sccordf lng to Hoyle. She Is wholesome, healthy snd happy; she exudes that Indefinable atmosphere which goes by . the name of Dreeamg. she shows through her clothes that she Is s thoroughbred. But to return to the original remark about the "dresses some women wear." The effective snd sin gular thing about It all Is that no two are alike. When you see s dozen of them together they do not give tho effect of having participated In a lob-lot rush for hats or shoes or dresses. The whole. In finite, kaleidoscopic whirl of the milliner's and modiste' illimitable fancies may be seen In a half hour at. say, the Knicker bocker, along Broadway. For sn animated group picture the New York girls have 'em all beaten to s chow-cbow. Mrs. J. P. Mitchell, sister of the new srehbishop of New York, Monsignor Fsrley. throws aome amualng light upon the early life of the personage who is now the prin cipal Roman Cat hollo dignitary of New York. She said; "We cam from County Monagban and of good old Irish stock, and save for my brother's seriousness in all matters he was not unlike other boys. Fond of athletics, he was always outdoors playing band ball, wrestling and Indulging in all sports, and In all, I must say, he excelled. Even In playing marbles, he would come home with his pockets full. I remember when be was about 15 years old he came home with his clothing torn and bespattered with blood and hi nose bleed ing. He had been playing marbles and had won, as usual. The other boy was angry over his losses and John's good nature, and when John was about to shoot his marble the other lad said: 'Knuckle down, now,' and st the same moment put bis hand in his pocket. My brother said it was s mean trick, and the lad knocked off John's cap snd s fist fight resulted. Each boy was cheered, snd for fully ten minutes it was anyone's fight, when a punch in the stomach made the other lad quit. John aaid he then emptied his pockets of marbles, saying, 'These mad you fight; probably they will heal your wounds,' and ran home." Our Clothing for Men, Boys and Children Is not only a little bit better than that of borne manu facturers, but a great deal better than most of them can make. We have the advantage of making it ourselves, and can guarantee the quality. That Is why you can get it for no more than is charged for inferior kinds. Our clothing is, in fact, made to order, but we are obliged to anticipate the order in order to be ready for you. Out of town visitors are cordially invited to call and see the extra good values we are showing. ' Suits and Top Goafs $10 to $30 No Clothing Fits Like Ours. Exclusive Clothiers and Furnishers. R S. Wilcox, Manager. S.W.Cor. 15th & Douglas Sts., Omaha, Neb. POl-lTICAl. SSAP SHOT. Milwaukee Sentinel: After all. Mr. Brysn may conclude to make a third dash for the pole. Cincinnati Tribune: The one-night Jumps the Johnron circus Is making are merely preparatory to the final Jump-off. Chicago Tribune: In this emergency the democratic party sorely misses the guiding hand of Statesman J. Ham. JLcwls. Washington Poet: Of course Hon. George Fred can depend upon the Commoner to give the Massachusetts democrat merry fits. Philadelphia Press: Ths diplay of poli ticians at the county fairs this year is more than ordlnsrlly complete snd bril liant. Atlants Constitution: One democrat was elected to the Vermont senate. That, at least, assures harmony in the party caucus In that body. Indianapolis News: Hon. Horace Boles need not feel so confident. Just because Speaker Henderson encountered s bunker snd threw up the game. This Is only the semi-finals. Baltimore American: Suppose Mr. Bryan had the power to put "Just one trust mag nate In prison," as he so vehemently sug gests. Would he favor hts friend Towne, or Hogg, or Pet U grew, with this dlstiactlon st his hsndsT Denver Republican: Marion Butler has been talking about the glowing future of the populist party. The party has had a very warm past sad It is believed Mr. Butler has simply looked the wrong way along ths pike. x POINTED REMARKS. Judge: "There's one thing about the law's delays." What?" "They discourage lots of foolish people from going to law." New York Weekly: "I hope there will be no mistake in administering these medi cines." "Have no fenr, doctor. I am a profes sional nurse and madam Is a professional invalid." Detroit Free Press: "You claim to know so much about women and yet you're a bachelor." "That's the reason I'm a bachelor." Philadelphia Press: "By the way, dear," she remarked at the breakfast table, "Bon nets & Hats are going to have their fall opening today." "Is that so?" replied Mr. Kloseman: "that's the difference between them and my pocketbook." Indianapolis News: "A couple were mar ried In 8t. Ixnit the other day who couldn't understand each other's lunguage," said Mrs. QUIey. "And I suppose that they are unspeak ably happy, commented Mr. Gilley. Philadelphia Record: "Children, why does that flag hmig there?" orntorlcally asked a school room patriot, pointing to a nag orapea nenina mm. Please sir," piped up a voice from tha rear, "it Is to tilde a dirty spot on tha wall." I)S Angeles Herald: Naggshy I tinder stand Grubber is Recused of rank plagiar ism In the writings heJia been passing off as original. Waganby Yet one would hardly call him a thief. He is only a cliptomanlac. Smart Bet: "Honesty Is the best policy," asseverated the stubborn-chinned man on the night train. "It Isn't the best policy In my business," observed the man with the open counte nance. "And why not In yours?" blustered the stubborn-chinned man, aggressively. "Because," replied the man with tha open countenance, "I am a manufacturer of antique furniture." Chicago Tribune: The hands of the clock fiolnted to 11:30, but the young man, deeply nterested In hearing himself talk, etlll lingered. "Have you ever read that last novel," he was saying, "by by there, I've for gotten his name again. It Isn't that. I nave lessr e a poor memory, for It a merely care lessness, and I And it dlfllcult to excuse myself" yseir 'I have noticed that." the younc woman said, with a sigh of weariness. A SEMI-HISTORICAL POEM. Brooklyn Life. Oh! A lady caged up In an old castle gray Looked off from the battlements every day (I know that the books tell the tale that way. But I've no other plan to go on) For a bold, brave knight In a suit of mall That phone with the sheen of a new tin rail Would come to her rescue ere long, with out fall. And so on and so on and so on. Now, the knlht of the castle, the mis creant who Had 'prisoned the lady (a rough way to woo). Ah! he was a wicked, bad lot through and through, Not mortal nor even religious: While the good White Knight through his virtue won fame And played to the limit the chivalrous game. So the lady of most unpronounceable name Expected a battle prodigious. And here, lest y think that fh writer hath taken HI tale from some tomb long by readers forsaken. All oldtlme conventions the follow hath, shaken You see modern fashions outcropping; For the lady looked long from the battle ments high, And ever she prayed that her knight would draw nigh. But nary a knight met her dewdroppy eye Save the night that sets all the dews dropping. Meanwhile the bad knight made his casa very strong; He wooed her with sonnet, be wooed her with song. And, somehow, he let her And out before long What a big life Insurance he carried. He'd a right pleasant way when the way waa hie own; He'd money the virtuous duffer had nonet And well, the poor lady had no chaperon. So they called In the priest and were married. (9 V