fllE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDESDAT, NOVEMBER 12, 1902.
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The coal donler Is patient on the theory
that everything comes to him who waits.
On second thought. Our Dave has
decided not to enter the speakership race
this time.
The opinion of Iowa republicans is
Terwhelnilngly In favor of Congress
man Cannon for speaker. .
The New York papers are loudly com
plaining because anthracite coal Is (8 a
ton. They would drop dead if they had
to pay western prices for that article.
Union Pacific strikers are preparing
tor an all winter's campaign. But what
lore the patrons of the road who want to
ee trains resume time card schedules
to do?
I Omaha Is becoming such a good show
town that the theatrical promoters
threaten to Invade In full force. Our
only advice Is, "Don't spoil a good
thing."
The burning of the East river bridge
at New Y'ork suggests that a fire Insur
ance policy should be taken out In ad
vance on the proposed tunnel under the
North river.
The greatest civic demonstration In
Cuba, since its Independence, to enforce
the legalization of cock lighting shows
that the patriots are alive to the privi
leges and diguity of liberty.
It looks as if Colombia were attracting
so much attention to Its revolutionary
fiesta that all the other South. American
republics are eager to go Into the game
Just to protect their reputations.
' County Clerk Drexel hbd the unusual
privilege of stepping Into an elective
office without a long string of campaign
bills to pay. But he won't come out that
easy w hen he tries for a second term.
The supreme court of the United
States has put the Seal of approval upon
pink oleomargarine, but with an equally
divided court. If It should be asked to
endorse pink lemonade, we would fear
for the result.
As a result of his tour of the United
States Mascagnl, the Italian composer,
la acquiring some valuable experience
In the methods of our courts and law
officers, even If he is not adding to his
ruublcal couquests.
Of course there was no politics what
ever iu the Baldwln-Mercer-Broatch po
lice board withholding Its police decapl
tatlous until the first meeting after elec
tion. The new reform police board Is
strictly out of politics.
AH members of the Omaha police and
fire departments are supposed to be pro
tected by civil service regulations from
arbitrary, displacement. If civil service
does not protect It is high time that the
law be fixed so that it does.
In fixing their ballots for the late elec
tion the people of Arizona, Oklahoma
and New Mexico, who w ant statehood,
ought to have remembered that for suae
time to come they can secure it only
through the republican party.
The American Federation of Labor at
Its annual convention about to meet lu
New Orleans proposes to hold eight hour
sessions dally until all its business is
'transacted. This Is practicing the eight
hour doctrine as well us preaching It
General Chaffee thinks that supersti
4tlou constitutes the chief obstacle In the
wsy of progress iu the Philippines. Our
.ttrxt war will have to be a war of ex
termination ou oriental hobgoblins aud
iliglv own acquired along with our Ulaud
4acMlona.
THt SPEAKERSHIP CAMPAIGN.
There It no question hat at this time
Hon. Joseph U. Cannon la the strongest
candidate for speaker of the house of
representatives of the Fifty-eighth con
gress, and It Is evident that bis candi
dacy Is growing In favor, particularly
In the west. He lias been endorsed by
a majority of the Illinois delegation and
of course all the republicans-elect from
that state to the next congress will sup
port hliu. It Is stated that assurances of
support have been rt-celved from a ma
jority of republican congressmen In half
a dozen other states, among them Ne
braska, Iowa and Kansas. Thus the
Cannon campaign has gotten an excel
lent start and may be expected to make
good progress from now on. Among the
most active supporters of the Illinois
candidate Is said to be Representative
Tawney of Minnesota, who had been
talked of for the speakership and who
will make a tour of the northwest In
the Interest of Mr. Cannon. It Is noted
that he was a most effective worker In
behalf of Speaker Henderson's candi
dacy three years ago.
Meanwhile It Is Interesting to note the
expressions of cordial commendation of
Mr. Cannon which his candidacy for the
speakership has elicited. The Philadel
phia Press, of which Charles Emory
Smith, former postmaster general. Is
editor, says: "Let no one disparage
Joseph G. Cannon. He Is a glorious
veteran, true, straight, square, who
through a long series of years has done
splendid service and who Is Justly hon
ored by all that honor courageous and
honest fidelity to the public Interests."
The Springfield Republican says that
Mr. Cannon enn be depended upon to
keep a tight hold upon the public purse;
"Extravagance in legislation Is not likely
to characterize his speakership and dur
ing the next few years It may be well
for the country to have such a man at
the head of the house." The New York
Evening Post remarks that "If a cau
tious speaker Is wanted, adverse to Inno
vations and opposed to bold Initiative
of any sort, Mr. Cannon would seem
to be Just the man." The Baltimore
Amerlcan'expresses the opinion that Mr.
Cannon in the speaker's chair would
give pleasure and prompt confidence In
all parts of the country. Such expres
sions show how generally -and well the
able and faithful services of Mr. Cannon,
as chairman of the house committee on
appropriations, are appreciated.
As now Indicated, the contest will
finally be between Representative Dal
zell of Pennsylvania and Mr. Cannon,
the other candidates dropping out
There Is some talk that the question of
tariff revision may exert . an Influence
upon the choice, but this Is altogether
mprobable, there being no more earnest
friend of the protective policy than
Joseph G. Cannon.
A SIGNIFICANT SCOUKSTION.
President Roosevelt Is credited with
sflylng that "the people have given the
republican party a chance to make
good." The remark seems characteristic
and at any rate is significant What has
the republican party to do In order to
"make good?"
In the last national platform of the
party It Is declared that "we condemn
all conspiracies and combinations in
tended to restrict business, to create
monopolies, to limit production or to
control prices, and favor such leglsla
tlon as will effectually restrain and pre
vent .all such abuses, protect and pro
mote competition and secure the rights
of producers, laborers and all who are
engaged in Industry and commerce. One
of the most Important duties before the
republican party Is to make good this
declaration and the people expect this
to be done and without unnecessary
delay. The platform favored the policy
of reciprocity, "so directed as to open
our markets on favorable terms for
what we do not ourselves produce In
return for free foreign markets." This
policy was strongly advocated by Presl
dent McKinley In his last deliverance to
his countrymen, in which be said that It
was essential to the maintenance and
growth of our foreign commerce. It has
the support of the present administra
tion, as shown by the fact that It has re
cently secured the extension of several
reciprocity treaties to cover the short
session of congress. All who are con
cerned In the extension of foreign trade,
all who believe with McKinley that
"reciprocity Is the natural outgrowth of
our wonderful Industrial development
under the domestic policy now firmly
established," will expect the republican
party to "make good" In regard to this
policy. Another thing, and by no means
the least Important which .the repub
lican party Is expected to do Is that of
amending the Interstate commerce law
so as to Increase the power of the com
mission and better enable It to remedy
the discriminations and other abuses
on the part of common carriers that now
exist.
The republican party stands firmly by
the policy of protection to American
Industries and labor and this position
has again been endorsed by a majority
of the people. Therefore protection will
be maintained, but this does not neces
sarily mean that there will be no change
or modi ilea flon In any schedule of the
existing tariff. It Is of course not at all
probable that at the coming' short ses
slon any serious attempt will be made
to change the tariff. Very likely the
matter will receive no consideration
whatever. But It is extremely probable
that there will be modifications of some
of the schedules by the Fifty-eighth con
gress. iu paramount question upon
which the republican party must "make
good." In order to hold popular confl
dence and support Is that of the regula
tlon and supervision of the combinations
or trusts. It has given the country an
unqualified pledge In regard to this
which- It cannot afford to disregard.
There is no doubt that President Roose
velt will do his duty In the matter. He
courageously met this ' question before
the election and he will sot be less brave
now In dealing with II If the republic
ans In congress have a due sen so of tlieif
duty and responsibility the demand of
the people In regard to the trusts will be
compiled with before the close of the
next session.
BROATCHISM BAMPAST.
The Broatch police board has once
more shown Its hand. The provisions
of the charter relating to the govern
ment of the police and fire departments
contemplate the enforcement of civil
service rules, which rest upon the key
stone of "No removal except for cause."
That principle has 'been repeatedly up
held by decisions of the courts when po
licemen who were summarily removed
without cause have secured Judgments
against the city for salaries after their
discharge on the ground of retrench
ment. With all these precedents and
Judicial decisions before It, the police
board has dismissed sixteen policemen,
most of whom had been many years In
the service, by a resolution declaring
that they were permanently discharged
for lack of funds. At the same meeting
the sham reform board granted leave of
absence with pay to a police officer, thus
giving the lie to Its false pretensions.
The board doubtless had a .right to de
crease the force temporarily If the funds
at its disposal were not sufficient to re-1
tain the ordinary force In active service.
If It became necessary to lay off Blxteen
men, the sixteen patrolmen who had
been enrolled most recently should, by
rights, have been granted temporary
leave of absence. That, however, did
not serve the purpose of the .Broatch
board. Such a condition could not ex
tend beyond the new year, or, at the
worst, for ninety days, but the Broatch
police board has shown no disposition to
live up to the spirit or letter of the law.
Quite the reverse. Its manifest purpose
Is to reorganize the police and make It
subservient to promote the ambition of
W. J. Broatch to become mayor of
Omaha. Just such conduct radically at
variance with the spirit and letter of
the law emphasizes the Imperative de
mand for home rule and legislation that
will make It impossible for police boards
to accomplish by Indirection and chican
ery what Is forbidden to be done by di
rect action.
So long as the police force remains as
mere foot ball and plaything for police
commissioners there can be no Incentive
to ambition. When policemen are guar
anteed stability of employment during
good behavior and promotion according
to merit the city will enjoy efficient po
lice protection.
VVLUHADU ELCVTIUN FRA VD9.
The republican press and party In
Colorado are to be commended for the
conservative attitude they have taken
with reference to the frauds In the late
election In that state. It Is the fair,
Judicial position that if the frauds al
leged to have beta committed In Denver
are proved, then the legal and political
consequences should follow, but tnai
the democratic legislative candidates
are not to be ousted arbitrarily and as
a matter of mere partisanship.
In any view the Colorado republicans
won a most notaoie victory, carrying
most of the counties, all but one of the
congressional districts the lower house
and the whole state ticket and this In
a state which returned a Bryan major
ity of 134,88:2 in 181KJ and of 20,001 in
1900. Nothing but the fact that one-half
of the membership of the state senate
holds over prevented them from carry
ing that body also, thus securing a big
majority In the legislature on Joint bal
lot and the defeat of Teller for the sen
atorshlp. Aa It Is, control of the legis
lature on Joint ballot depends entirely
on the contest on the members from
Amnnhoe countv. In which Denver Is
situated.
There Is the most positive assertion of
extensive and systematic frauds In the
democratic Interest In the city of Den
ver. They run the whole gamut of po-
Utical corruption, embracing elaborate
frauds in registration and balloting,
bribery, repeating, colonization and con
nivance and Intimidation by the demo
cratic police and election authorities.
These crimes were promptly and spe
cifically charged at the time, and so
overwhelming were the proofs that good
citizens without distinction as to party
organized In advance of the election to
expose and punish the perpetrators.
It Is a difficult task to trace wiw
legal proof such a system of corruption
in all Its ramifications, especially wnen
Investigation tends so powerfully to ex
cite partisan passion. The Investigation,
however, is proceeding in the courts in
an orderly manner, and upon Its result
will depend the contest before the legis
lature. Whether the exposure of the
election frauds can be made legally ef
fective to defeat their unrighteous pur
pose or not. It will be morally effective
to finish democratic and fusion misrule
In Colorado.
It Is announced that a majority of the
republicans who will make up Ne
braska's delegation in the Fifty-eighth
congress have already given assurances
that they may be counted on for Mr.
Cannon of Illinois for speaker. That is
the proper thing. Mr. Cannon Is not
only the typical western candidate, but
he is Identified with Nebraska next to
Illinois through heavy personal Invest
ments In Nebraska farm lands by which
he has bound his own fortune up with
the prosperity of this state. With Mr.
Cannon as speaker of the house, ise
braska may be sure of a fair deal ou
any legislation in which it may be di
rectly concerned.
Great Britain hopes to free Itself from
dependence upon America for its cotton
by encouraging the growth of cotton In
Its South African colonies. The fear,
however, Is expressed that a number of
years will elapse before the west coast
of Africa can be made a serious com
petitor with the southern states. By
the time the African cotton fields con-
trtbue appreciably to the supply required
for the world's markets the United
States will have a population at home
that will consume practically all the
cotton produced here while the people
In the far east will take the surplus, if
there Is any that the Englishman does
not want
The school' bonrd has held one con
tractor liable foralllng to comply fully
with the specifications In the construc
tion of the High school building. When
ever the specifications are changed the
contractor does not hesitate to put In a
bill of extras and the rule should work
both ways. It should be enforced, how
ever, without discrimination on all the
contractors who may be In the same
boat
If the Union Pacific bridge across the
Missouri at this point should be dam
aged by fire to the extent of half Its
value, does anyone Imagine the loss
would be given at 11,500? Yet that is
the assesHiuent upon which the Ne
braska half of the bridge Is paying state,
county and local taxes.
A Job Well Don.
Brooklyn Eagle.
"The federals are cheating!" "The re
publicans are frauds!" Biff bang! come the
echoes from Porto Rico. Only four years
among us, yet how sweetly assimilated!
Might Have Made It Vaaalsnows.
Indianapolis Journal
The republican majority In Iowa ts 74,872,
and the party carried eighty-eight counties
out of a total of ninety-nine. The party
does not seem to be particularly disrupted
on the tariff question.
The Art of Persuasion.
Chicago New.
The sultan of Bacolod has sent word to
Captain Pershing that he does not want
war. It seems that there are ne&tnens wno
can get a great truth pounded Into their
heads after a long while.
Poor Pay and Perquisites.
Philadelphia Record.
There Is a town in Illinois In which the
councllmen receive a salary of 25 cents a
year. In Philadelphia the councllmen get
no salary at all, and yet some of them con
tinue to accumulate small fortunes during
their official terms, especially In times of
railway franchise conveyances.
Hope Oa, Hope Evert
Baltimore American.
A St. Louis judge has ruled that a citi
zen has the right to pull the bell of a
car when he has failed to get the car to
stop by the ordinary means. It begins to
look as though In the superior civilization
of the twentieth century mere citizens are
to be accorded more rights than the priv
ilege of existing.
Sugar Kings Buckle To,
Indianapolis Journal.
The beet sugar Interests sent a lot of
sugar to New York to sell at a certain
price as a sort of defiance to the cane sugar
refiners. Now two Independent refining
companies in New York have marked the
price down 10 points, and outside of the
so-called sugar trust a sugar war Is In
progress. The public can witness such a
war with Indifference.
Checking a Freak Mo-rement.
Philadelphia Record.
Eleven Cuban children have been refused
admission to this country by the Immigra
tion authorities at .New York, ostensibly
because they might become public charges,
but in reality because they were consigned
for Instruction to a freak school In Cali
fornia, where the Instructors claim rare
theosophlc powers, jitd t'je soul of a fol
lower of Mme. Blavatsky Is incarnated in a
pet spaniel. Truly, the ways of the seeker
after free advertising are past finding out.
Signs of Robust Appetite.
New York Sun.
The soldiers in the Philippines are devel
oping a hearty appetite for sauerkraut,
and the War department will try to satisfy
it. When they asked for candy they got
it In large quantities, and pickled cabbage
will be hurried to them that they may
get the sour of life as well as the sweet.
Probably the army cook book lacks any
recipes for the preparation of sauerkraut
and candy In a single dish, but it may be
taken for granted that some soldiers will
combine the two articles more or less In
timately. May their digestions be as strong
aa their hearts!
One Cent Postage.
New York Tribune.
The revenues of the postal department
are increasing so rapidly that predictions
of 1-cent stamps for letters are beard In
many quarters. It cannot be doubted that
the halving of the present rate would be
popular and would bring about huge ad
ditions to the total of letters sent through
the malls. Penny postage long ago was
hailed with Jubilation in Great Britain, as
it well might be. The English penny is
worth about two of our Yankee cents, but
so many things are now sold for a cent
apiece that the publlo welcome to letter
stamps costing 1 cent each would be gen
eral and emphatic. Postal cards are unsat
isfactory substitutes for sealed envelopes.
May the era of 1-cent postage for every
part of American territory soon be here!
KEEP OFF THE GRASS.
Chicago Record -Herald: General Corbln
has come out against weddings la the
army. He says it Injures aa officer's use
fulness to get married while he Is In the
service. General Corbln took a bride home
a few years ago and he ought to know
what he la talking about.
Kansas City Star: The recommendation
of General Corbln to young army officers
not to marry Is not necessarily authenti
cated by the fact that he followed his own
advice. The general, who was born In 1842,
was married only last November. Whether
such procrastination enhances the amia
bility and general quality of a husband Is a
question which must be held In abeyance
until Mrs. Corbln has been interviewed.
Indianapolis' Journal: Major General
Corbln, adjutant general of the army, thing's
"the early marriage of the younger officers
of the army, many of whom are entirely
dependent upon their pay and allowances
tor support. Is greatly to be deplored and
should be discouraged." He advances soms
reasons for this view, but good ones can be
advanced on the other side. Nearly all of
our greatest soldiers have married early in
life and have not been handicapped In their
careers. The whole subject Is on that
should be left to Individual discretion.
Springfield Republican: "Early marriage
is greatly to be deplored." says General
Corbln. "and should be discouraged. A
young officer should have but one allegi
ance, and that should be the service." His
chief argument, apparently, Is that the
younger officers do not get pay enough to
warrant the maintenance of families, al
though, as a matter of fact, millions of
decent folks get married In civil life on no
greater Incomes. The anti-marriage idea
was evidently brought borne by General
Corbln from Germany. The kaiser dlsap
proves of the matrimonial bablt unless the
officer has private means aside from his
. salary.
nOt'HD ABOtT NEW YORK.
Ripples en the Current of 1.1 fe la the
Metropolis.
The cart-tail orator has become a cam
paign fliture In the crowded sections of the
city. Efforts were made to dispense with
this form of electioneering last month, but
the rival parties were suspicious of each
other and the oratory plowed on In In
creased volume. Practical politicians do
not value It highly. They have come to re
gard it as a means of disbursing money In
a direction where money must go in one
form or another. The teamster, the wagon
owner, the four-ply band, the orator and
the torch bearers each get a handout. They
are kept busy night after night and give
some return for the money, besides being
kept out of reach of the opposition. The
orators have no easy time, especially when
they turn loose In an opposition district.
Generally the annoyance consists of harm
less missiles and cat calls, though occasion
ally a knock-down argument enlivens the
proceedings. On one occasion a boozy Inter
rupter attempted to swipe tho speaker's
coat.
"If you don't quit your nonsense and get
out of here," said the speaker to him
sharply, "I'll tell you what you are and
who you are right In front of this crowd.
I'll do it anyway," he shouted as his tor
menter sneered at him. "I call the atten
tion of the police to what I am about to
say. I defy this man to deny the ehnrges
or to undertake to defend himself from it
In court,"
Everybody by this time was paying at
tention to the speaker. He leveled a long,
lean finger of accusation and yelled:
You are, and I can prove that you are.
a gregarious protoplasm of Inebriety!"
The crowd was silent for a moment. Then
It yelled with delight as It saw that the in
terrupter did not dare to deny the awful
charge. He, conscious, perhaps, of offences
against society which he thought hlra from
publlo knowledge, slunk back, dodged the
eye of the police and made for sheltering
darkness, while the orator watched him
with triumphant contempt.
"Say, mister," remarked one of the audi
ence who had been the loudest of those
who laughed at the Insults that the inter
rupter had thrown at the speaker, "you
had him right that time. I know he done
that, an' the police oughter have locked
him up fer it when he did It, free years
ago."
"It Is the men who commit such un
mentionable crimes as that which I have
distantly Indicated by the language he
forced me to use," said the speaker, "that
make up the party opposed to us. And
now, my friends "
And he launched Into his harrangue at
full length.
Another class of orators have appeared
east of the Bowery this year, according to
the Sun, and these are even more attrac
tive to the wanderer in search of strange
sights and sounds than are the battalion of
cart-tail speakers. These are the "boy
orators." Little scamps of 12 and IS and
the ages between go about dragging with
them as big a box as they can handle. They
set this down and mount It wherever the
prospects of an audience seem promising.
Sometimes the orator will have a number
of affectionate satellites who carry along
for htm a huge packing box and boost him
to the top when speech making times come.
These boys apparently have been members
of some of the man debating clubs which
are fostered by tba social settlements of
the neighborhood.
At any rate, they discuss the most for
midable economic and International ques
tions with the utmost freedom. They never
lack for words and an opinion and are
ever ready to quote John Stuart Mill and
Herbert Spencer In defense of their theo
ries. They seldom descend to mentioning
candidates for offices. They are content to
tell how in their opinion the coal strike
ought to have been settled and how those
who are Interested in revising the tariff
ought to proceed.
They have, as a rule, much more atten
tive and respectful audiences than do the
push-cart men and are regarded with some
thing like superstitious veneration by
fathers and mothers and grandparents, who
listen to them with open-mouthed delight.
A magnificent addition to the educa
tional facilities of New York City will be
made when the plans formed by the New
York Historical society shall have been
completed. A building Is to be Immedi
ately erected fronting on Central park from
the west and running from Seventy-sixth
to Seventy-seventh streets. This Is to be
Bed as, a library, museum and headquar
ters for this rich, old and useful organi
sation. The library will have a capacity
of 368,000 volumes and will be adjoined by
a reading room and two large picture gal
leries. There wlll.be an auditorium ca
pable of seating over 400 people, a smaller
lecture room, reception rooms, etc., all
on the first floor. The museum and a
manuscript room -will be on the second
floor. Rooms for special study will occupy
the third floor. The cost of the building
will be $800,000.
There are probably no mercantile estab
lishments In existence, says the Evening
Post, that cater to the wants of a more
varied line of customers than do the candy
stands at the Brooklyn bridge entrances.
I begin business at S o'clock," said the
keeper of one of these stands, "and I close
up after the rush is over. In those four
hours I sell two thousand 1-cent pieces of
candy, or 600 an hour, exclusive of more
expensive kinds of candy, and those which
are bought In larger quantities. People
generally suppose that small baya and girla.
and the parents of small boys and girls, are
the buyers of penny candies. This la a
mistaken idea. Men of all grades of so
ciety buy these little sticks and squares
simply and solely because thoy want to eat
them. The only reason everybody doesn't
know this Is because It takes such a short
time to eat a penny candy that the process
Is over before a man gets fifty feet away
from the stand, and people down in the
street don't get a chance to see htm."
WORLD'S ELECTRICAL CTOCCTT.
Event of Great Importance Attracts
Little Attention.
Bt Louts Globe-Democrat.
The completion, a few days ago, of the
British cable from Canada to Australia Is
an event of great importance and yet Its
announcement occupied only two or three
lines In the newspapers. The line extends
from a point near Vancouver, In British
Columbia, to Brisbane, in AuBtrslia. Flum
there connection la made with cables ex
tending to Asia and across that continent
to England. For the greater part of this
distance around the globe the telegraph
passes through British territory. That
morning drumbeat spoken of by wehster,
which follows the sun and keeps company
with the hours while circling the globe
with one unbroken strain of England's
martial airs, will henceforth have the elec
trical messenger as a companion In Its
circuit.
This is the first cable which crosses the
Pacific. Now for the first time the globe
is entirely encircled by the telegraph
Heretofore when England, or any other
part of Europe, communicated electrically
with Asia or Australia, it Bent Its messages
eastward, and Australia marked the tartbesi
Umlt of the connection. Hereafter It will
bs possible to send messages to Asia by
starting them In the other direction. Co
lumbus was the first mas who said: "Come
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along, follow me, sail to the west and the
east will be found." From this time on
ward anybody can find the east electrically
by sending his messages westwardly for It.
London can communicate with Berlin by
way of the Atlantic, the American con
tinent and the Pacific, as well as by way
of the English channel or the North sea.
The facilities of the peoples of the world
for telegraphic connection with their
antipodes have thus been doubled.
Within a short time the United States
will have a cable stretching across the
Pacific, going from the California coast by
way of Hawaii and other United States
islands to the Philippines. This will be
necessary for commercial as well as mili
tary reasons, and for commercial far more
than military. We will need more than
one of these electrical bands between our
western mainland and our -possessions In
the shadow of Asia long before the arrival
of the day seen by Seward in his prophetic
vision when the raclfic is to bo an Ameri
can lake. The whole world united with
America and England In their rejoicings
over the completion of Cyrus W. Field's
Atlantic cable long ago. but the completion
of the first Pacific cable the other day at
tracted scarcely any attention. Field's was
the pioneer ocean telegraph, but today
they are quite commonplace. The tele
graph, the railroad and the steamboat have
abolished mountains, deserts and oceans
and have made the whole world one vast
Ingle community.
PERSONAL NOTES.
Count Bonl de Castellans seems to have
been studying American political methods.
Mascagnl Is not so slow, after all. His
managers say they are out about $80,000
on him.
It's a pity William Hohensollern can't
pay a visit to his Uncle Ed without a lot
of people rubbering about it.
Alfred Jessup of Brooklyn has been se
lected to assist the Chinese government In
the work of currency system reorganiza
tion. Governor-elect Garvin of Rhode Island ts
a graduate of Amherst college and of the
Harvard medical school. Besides, he served
during the civil war as a private in the
Fifty-first Massachusetts regiment.
Indian Agent Erwln, at the Oakland res
ervation, in Oklahoma, concludes that In
dians are worthless, because some of them
are, addicted to drink. Of course, the
whites are never addicted to drink.
A young woman was arrested In Chicago
and charged with disorderly conduct for
masquerading In boy's clothes. There was
some question about the appropriateness
of the charge, but at least she seems to
have been boisterous.
Lord Kitchener, who will become com
mander-in-chief ia India, will take up the
best paid appointment in the British army.
The commander-in-chief in India Is worth
about $30,000 a year and Is tenable tor seven
years. Lord Kitchener becomes commander
in chief In India at the age of 62, and U
the youngest general who has been dp
pointed commander In chief In India for
many years.
Robert Bacon was as conspicuous at Har
vard a little more than twenty years ago
as he Is now as the partner of John Pier-
pont Morgan. "Handsome Bob Bacon" they
called blm at Cambridge. He was Har
vard's foot ball captain In '79 and there
never .was a finer physical specimen on
Harvard's eleven.. More than six feet tall,
broad-shouldered and powerful, he was the
idol of the students ss a foot ball player in
those days.
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TWO AT 50c
ONE AT 40c
Three specials ON SALE NOW In our children's de
partment and they are not the usual "bargain sale stuff,"
but they are bargains just the same, andof the "honest"
kind.
No. 1 is Star Shirt Waists Colored. The goodneBs
of these waists need no introduction more than to say
that we are selling Hi dozen of the fl.OO SOr
kind for, each
Fizes 7 to 12 years.
No. 2 is Colored Shirts She 12 to 14 soft and
stiff boHom with and witnout collars 10 CAp
dozen 75c and fl.OO grades at OV-JL
No. 3 Union Suits For immediate wear 5$ dozen
of theae splendid garments our regular 65c (r
quality NOW at twC
Ages 5 to 12 years.
These are genuine bargains and should be investigated.
R S. WILCOX, Manager.
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family f nr over IS years. For all lung troubles
a. row brov. appieum, Minn.
PL4IIIE9 OP Fn.
petrolt Free Press! Iidy (after singing
a few rusty notM ron't you think my
voice should be brought out?
Manager No; pushed back.
Philadelphia Pressi "Some sorts of rub
ber, they say, are very expensive."
"That's right, I know a fellow thnt
turned to look back at a couple o' girla on
tlin street and he atumbled and smashed a
(100 vase he was carry In'."
Cleveland Plain Pealert "Judging by her
portrait you'd conclude she was a person
of udvanced literary attainments, wouldn't
you?"
"Yes. but I happen to know that she Isn't
as well read as she in painted."
Baltimore Herald: "Birds of a feather
flork together," said the man who quotes.
"Don't hand me that chestnut about birds
flocking together."
"Why 7"
"Because I've Just been duck shooting
and come back with an empty bag."
Chicago Post: "Don't strive for riches,
my son. Wealth doesn't bring happiness."
"No?"
"Certainly not."
"Well. I haven't heard that poverty does
either, nave you?"
Judge: Mr. Justwed Shall I order any
thing for the house on my way to the ofllce
this morning, my dear?
Mrs. Justwed Tes, love. Stop at the
grocery store and toll them to send up a
five-pound bag of salt right away. And,
George, tell them to be sure and see that
It la fresh.
A STILL DAY IN AVTCMX.
Sarah Helen Whitman,
Z love to wander through the woodlands
hoary.
In the soft gloom of an autumnal day,
When summer gathers up her robes of glory
And, like a dream of beauty, glides away,
i
How through each loved familiar path she
linger.
Serenely smiling through the golden mist.
Tinting the wild grupe-with her dewy ling
ers, '
Till the cool emerald turns to amethyst.
Kindling the faint stars of the hazel, shining
To light the gloom of Autumn's molderlng
hallt,.
With hoary plumes the clematis entwining,
Where, o'er the rock, her withered gar
land falls.
Warm lights are en the sleepy uplands
waning.
Beneath dark clouda along the horizon
rolled,
Till the slant sunbeams through their
frlngea raining,
Bathe all the hills In melancholy gold.
The moist winds breathe of crlBped leaves
and flowers,
In the damp hollows of the woodland
sown,
Mingling the freshness of autumnal showers
With spicy airs from cedarn alleys blown.
Beside the brook and on the umbered mea
dow, Where yellow fern-tufts fleck the faded
ground.
With folded lids beneath their palmy
shadow.
The gentian node In dewy slumbers bound.
Upon those soft, fringed lids the bee sits
brooding.
Like a fond lover, loth to say farewell;
Or, with shut wings, through silken folds
Intruding,
Creeps near her heart his drowsy tale to
tell.
The little birds upon tha hillside lonely,
Flit noUelessly along from spray to spray.
Silent as a sweet, wandering thought, that
only
Shows Its bright wings and softly glides
away.
The scentless flowers. In the warm sunlight
dreaming,
Forget to breath their fullness of delight.
And through the tranced woods soft airs
are streaming.
Still as the dew-fall of the summer night.
So, In my heart, a sweet unwonted feeling
Stirs, like the wind In ocean's hollow shell.
Through all Its secret chambers sadly steal
ing, Tet finds no words its myatlo oh arm to tell.