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t TTIE OMATTA DAILY BEE: TniTHSDAY, OCTOBER IS. 190.T The Omaha Daily Bee. E. ROSEWATEIl. EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. rslly pw (without Snnda). One Yenr.JiOO l'dlly Hee and aiindnv. On Year S."o Illustrated liee. One tear 2 -00 Sunday H-e. On" Ynr Siturdiiv hp. One Yer 1 M Twentieth Century Farmer. One Year. 1.00 DKLIVKRKD IIY CARRIER. P-slly Ili (without Hunrtnv), per ropy.. 2c Jally Be (without Sunday), per week..12o lially Bee f Including Sunday), per week.lTc Hunnay Bee, ,r ntpv fe Kvenlng Be (without Sunday), per week 6c Kvenlng Bee (Including Puiiiiy). per week lOo Complaints of . Irreaiilnrltlcs In delivery 1 should he addressed to City Circulation De partment. r OFFICES Omaha The nee Hull, line. South Omaha city Hall Building, Twenty-fifth and M afreet. Counell Rliifra 10 pearl Street Chicago m Unity Building. New York 23i1 Park How Building. Waahlngton 601 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Cornmtinlrntlons relntlnp to new and edi torial matter should he addressed: Omaha Bee. Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or povtsl order Payable to The Bee 1'iibllHhlnK Compuiv. Only I-rent stamp accepted In payment of mall acrounta. Personal check, except on Omaha or eaatern exrhanaea. not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OT CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Doug'.as County, as.: George B. Tischuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, aya that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of September. 1903. waa aa fol lows; 1 30,120 t M.3TO 20.3TO 4 20.370 16 2S.O.TO 17 SIM.D10 lg! 2.T0 II 2,84K t... 80,SftO 2n,T5 20.S20- an.aT n,2iK , 2f),lSO 20,220 , 20,810 20.... 21.... 23.;.. a.... 24.... 26.... 2.... 27.... 28.... 2.... to.... .20,44(1 .2N.880 T 10 11 12 U ....2H.PWO ....K8.ft.tO ....2S.780 ... .28.720 ....20,200 ... .27.240 ....28,700 ....2S.8BO ....20,040 .2-,43S 14 20,020 IS Z8.8UO Total tMi2,xuo Lea unsold and returned copies.... 0,480 Ket total sales HA2.T44 Net average sales 24.424 GEORGE B. TZ8CHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and aworn to before roe this 3uih day of September. A. V. iJ3. M. B. H UNGATE, tSaal) , . , Notary Public- Senator rintt should havo applied to Senator Dopew for a Op on the state of the matrimonial market. There Is n tide la the affairs of cities as well as of men, nud the tide Is rap idly rising In the vicinity of Omaha. Municipal ownership Is not to be anuffed out by a reactionary city coun cil playing the game of hide and neck. Don't put off for tomorroV what you can do today; Don't fail to register to day because there is another day of registration ahead. The republicans are carrying on a campaign over In Iowa Just to keep in practice and make sure that their orators do not get rusty. Spinning editorial yarn all Wool and a yard long Is an amusement for which our amiable democratic contemporary "holds the sole patent in these parts. (Irover Cleveland still commands apace Jn all the papers. Irrespective of politics, whenever he consents to speak in public. That's what makes the liryanltes sore. If there is any good reason why a re publican should this year voto for the democratic candidate for Judge of the supremo court of Nebraska, it is jet to be advanced. . With a bojiker in the governor's chair and two. bunkers .representing the atate In, the United States aenute, no wonder the Nebraska State Bankers' association is feeling its outs. "t didn't steal those apples," cried tuo boy. "I didn't ask those council men to hide,'' cries the president of the electric light company. Of course not. It waa his several men Friday. 1 - ' T ' i -;f nftamuOh' as no oue questions Judge Barnes' eminent qualification, for tho r.ftrema bench, no good republican will have any excuse to object because he bvlougs to tho republican party. Thft announcement that tho Wabash ystem proposea to acquire terminal fu tilities in Omaha will be highly gratify ing to ( everybody interested in tho growth and prosperity of this clty.; Nobody will be allowed to vote at the coming election In Omaha and South Oniahu unless ho appears in person be fore the'roglKtrnrs of his voting district. The flit day of registration occurs to- U"y' ''; ' ' If tin nnuor materializes that tho coiulusr .rout-ma in, likely to prove of uu iuqulKJT turn of mind, several di parttuentH down at Waxlilngtou might aa well get their records ready for tho iuvrsiUiatur. Before Omaha undertakes to establish a wool market it should establish a grain market.. Omaha has too often failed ts drive the nail home because It bus pendHled In hammering too many nails at ope time. ' L . J Why can't tho Heal l.tat exchange organic Itself into a comuitttee of the w hole for the inr-oHe of loduclng capi talist to ere t couiuioJIotis and sub stantial buHineiM blocks to aivonunodate the Jobbtiur Ilium's that wunt to locate la OaiU? Omaha has never Utu a walled tty. It has wlcomd eery railroad that baa deelred t entur and acirilel to every rallroaa Hljeral', treatment, for securing terminal facillUea.. A represejdatlvea wf the city of Ouiaha, euunciluieu are xpectM to adhere to the liberal policy in reiot to the Great Western , that has benu pursued by thr predeHwiora toward an oibcr ial!roal Uat uav e-n-ter4 Otaatav ' r ......,.-. . TO CtTA AOS HOCSB HCLSS. Efforts to change the rules of the house of representatives, so as to make them more liberal, were made In the Inst two con cresses and It is announced will be renewed in the coming con prens. The leader of the movement for n change is Itepresentatlve Hepburn and It Is stated that be proposes, among other things, not only to enlarge the committee on rules, but to make it elective Instead of appointive, following in this the course of the senate, which elects all its committees. In regard to tills "the New York Tribune remarks that jwssibly the fur larger lower house could not accomplish this feat without excessive friction and turmoil, "but whether the rules committee Is to be elected or "appointed, it certainly should be enlarged. It should reflect and speak the sentiment of all the elements in the majority party. Its voice would then be final and decisive and we should bo spared the spectacle presented in the last conirress of n leadership which had ceased to lead which was openly and successfully antagonized by republican 'insurgents' and had lost the confidence even of its own more loyal followers." It Is stated that Mr. Cannon, who will be speaker of the next house, is favorable to some concessions to the demand for a change in the rules. It Is intimated that he favors such an enlargement of the committee on rules as will give It a truly representative character, which of course It cannot have with only three members, one of which Is the speaker of the house. The proposed plan Is to hnvc all sections represented on the committee and the Justice and expedi ency of this is obvious. It is pointed out, for example, that in the last house the speaker's two colleagues, Dalzell of Pennsylvania and Orosvenor of Ohio, represent districts scarcely 150 miles apart. "New England, with twenty four republican votes, had no repre sentation on the committee. Neither had New York and New Jersey, with twenty-eight republican votes. The central west and northwest, with sixty fivo votes, were represented only by the ex-offlcio membership of the speaker. Missouri, Kansas and far western states, with .twenty-two .votes, had no representation whatever." Yet this committee fixed the order of business and decided what propositions the house should or should not be allowed to vote on. What are known ns the Reed rules have unquestionably been serviceable in expediting business in the house. Tbey put a check upon tho old practice of filibustering and other dilatory meth ods and enabled the majority to enact such legislation ns it wished. Nobody would seriously ndvocate a return to the old system, under which the minor ity party in the house could block and defeat legislation, but some modification enn be made without impairing the power of the majority and the proposi tion to enlarge the committee on rules' and to make it elective would not neces sarily Interfere with the expeditious transaction of business. If Mr. Can non is favorable to such a change, as he is said to be, it will of course be ef fected. CUBA'S CUM.M HICK. It is understood that the extra session of congress will be devoted exclusively to legislation making effective the Cu ban reciprocity treaty. There has been prepared by the' Department of Com merce and Labor a comprehensive statement of the commerce of Cuba, which is expected to prove especially valuable to the friends of the treaty. From this it appears that the. volume of Cuban foreign commerce, which was greatly diminished during the years of warfare In the Island, has alnce the present government was established experienced an encouraging Increase and promises in the near future to ex ceed the best record before the war. It Is pointed out, however, and this is the particularly interesting feature for those who advocate reciprocity with the "new republic, that exports to that country from the United States have recently not been increasing, although our , imports from the island have grown largely, the balance of trade for the last fiscal year against this coun try amounting to nearly fl3.000.000. The figures show that last year Cuba Imported almost twice as much from other countries than she took from the I'nitod Stntes. Tills is a condition which the sup porters of tho rcc'jiioeity treaty may be expected to ma'e the best possible use of and unquestionably it presents a very strong argument in favor of closer commercial relations. BCSStA KtSPS MAXCHCHIA. Several days ago the Russian minister to China announced that tho Man churluu convention had lapsed. This referred to the convention with China signed a year and a half ago relating to the evacuation of Manchuria. Now tho Russian Foreign ottlce aunouncea that the question is closed for the prva ent, which simply means that the Chi nese province la to permanently remain in the possession of Russia. If that government ever aerloualy contemplated evacuation, - which appears most im probable. It certainly haa no thought uow of doing so. Its already formid able army there la being Increased as rapidly as possible, aa also la its nava force iu that quarter.' The obvious' fact is that Russia baa been acting in ltad faith throughout. She has not carried out a single pledge, but has gone on steadily strengtheuluj her hold upon Chinese territory until she has reached a position that gives her coutrol of the situation. It ia not at all probable .that the, negotiations i wlih Japan will result in any important con cessions to that country and China is of course helpless. Her territory la ir recoverably lost and she must snbmlt to whatever terms the denpoQer majr sea fit U ljjipoMk TLa , warlike iirll In Japan appears to be subsiding, perhaps overawed hy the Russian preparations. What of Russia's assurances to the United States in regard to the protec tton of our commercial interests and treaty rights In Manchuria? The prob ability is that she will find a way to evade them. It Is fully demonstrated that no dependence can be placed upon any promises she may make. In the event or her pursuing a course detri mental to our trade nnd our rights it would become a very serious question as to what our goYcrnment should do, It is a possible contingency that it is not pleasing to think of. One thing the situation quite plainly suggests. This Is that the tradition of a firmly ce mented friendship between Russia and the United States is evidently about to bo destroyed. COJFFSSSIOjV UOUD FOR TUB 8UVL. Each successive political campaign we nrc regaled with more or less hypocrit ical talk about political assessments levi led upon office seekers and olflce hold ers. The party that wants the offices tries to make capital by accusing the party that haa the offices of levying forced contributions upon the salaried list. It is refreshing, therefore, to have the principal organ of the self-styled re form party The Nebraska Independent talking common sense on this subject "There are certain unavoidable ex penses in conducting a campaign," says this populist oracle, "and it is only Just that the office holders' who are to profit financially by success should at least pay a reasonable proportion of those ex penses. It costs the farmers from $10 to 40 a year to attend conventions when those they elect to lucrative offices often think that they have made a liberal contribution to campaign ex penses if they put up $5. The Inde pendent has become very tired of this sort of work. A man who won't pay a reasonable portion of the actual cost of electing him to office whether it is n state or county office should never be elected. He is too mean to be entrusted with an office." The Independent goes on to describe another class of office holders "who are still meaner" those who bold their offices by appointment. '.'These persons," it declares, "have had no campaign ex penses to pay like those who are elected and the office is clean gain to them. Some of these persons have held office continuously for twelve' years nnd re fuse to contribute to campaign pur poses. When they act in that way the appointing power should be held responsible for their action." The populist party is not the only one that has been afflicted with deudheads. The republican, patty In Nebraska has been, if anything, more seriously tried. The time will come, however, when the political deadhead will be left out iu the cold, no matter what party profes sions he may make. . The Lincoln Journal says that the people of that city hare apparently given up all idea of opposing the con struction' of an electric trolley line to Omaha, having come to look upon it as inevitable and to see besides a number of advantages connected with tho project certain to outweigh any possible diversion of trade. Why there should at any time be any opposition among In telligent people to the introduction of twentieth century Improvements passes comprehension. There would be Just as good reason for the people of Lin coln to oppose rail and telegraph connec tion with Omaha or to ask for a stop page of mail interchange as to try to block the Junction of the two cities by electric tramway. The dark ages of isolation have long since been passed. Who pocketed the lion's share of the county fair graft this year? That is a question the taxpayers of Douglaa county have been asking themselves sluce the carnival closed its gates. The general presumption is that the county fair grafters went to the full limit of 18:1,000, but most people who inspected the cabbages, pumpkins, squashes and rutabagaes on exhibition expressed the opinion that there were not $500 worth of fruits, vegetables, poultry and patched quilts in the whole collection. Why the bounty board should permit this annual raid on the county treasury has always been an executive session mystery. Nearly 5,000 additional rural free de livery routes have been established throughout the country within the past year, and that despite tho more stringent enforcement of the regulations with reference to length of route nnd number of patrons served. This is pretty good evidence that it is not the Intention of the department to cripple or even retard the growth of this branch of the sen-tee. Rural free de livery is a pretty healthy infant. The clerk of the old State Board of Equalization will be secretary of the new State Board of Assessment created by the new revenue law. The new board, however, will have to do better than the old board if it hopes to satisfy the people that they are having a square deal as compared with tho railroads and other favored corporations. The best way to secure thorough re form of State university abuse is to re store that institution to republican ad ministration by the election of the re publican candidates for regents at the coming election. Ob Favet Made Clear. Chicago Record-Herald. Live and learn. It has at lait been mads pretty clear that Wall street can have about the worst kind of a slump without stopping the United 8tate for a minute. Frern Bl Mitt Setrlda. Philadelphia Record. The most remarkable tragedy en record la detailed tn the late foreign news. The even members of tbe municipal council of a village In southern Hungary, having been discovered In Uie appropriation of money resulting from tbe aale of property be longing to the municipality, all coinrolLLod uu-Us rathrr thaa ia&e M .f iT-'-m-riir-as I 'Id ever councllmen, since coancllmen were first Invented, before these thieving Magyars make such an end of their steal big? The story seems Incredible. The WlaSoaa of Years. Chicago Tribune. There will always be a lot of conserva tlve, old fashioned persons who would rather wnlt for the milk train than travel at the rate of two miles a minute. Adraatclais; ajatloaal Arhltravtloa. Baltimore American. The eld statement that "the bravest are the tenderest" Is beautifully sustained In the fact that President Roosevelt, who, as his enemies declared and some of his friends feared, was almost too warlike and strenuous to follow In the peaceful foot steps of William McKInley, has done more for the cause of national arbitration than any other Individual had ever done before. Making; Grafters Disgorge. Springfield Republican. Suits are threatened in the Shipbuilding trust ense to compel those who profited from the scheme to disgorge for the beneflt of creditors. They will probably be brought, as they have been In the case of the Asphalt trust. But In the present case only one man stands out as an available object for such action Mr. Schwab. Every. body else concerned seems to have pocketed a loss. Writing It Dowa a Fraad. Philadelphia North American. Two things stand out clearly as the re sult of the cutting in half of the quarterly dividend on the common stock of the t'nlted States Steel corporation. First, it Is shown that men who do not hesitate to sell "water" will not hesitate to disre gard any pledges they may have made In connection with Its sale, and, second, It Is demonstrated that so low has fallen the phase of "high finance" known as"Mor- ganeering," that Its chief spostles are compelled to write It down a fraud. CJIVK HIM THE BENEFIT. President Roosevelt's Interest la the Chase of Fugitive Boodlera. St. Louis Republic (dem). Mr. Roosevelt, even aa the already chosen national candidate of his party for next year, will receive the ungrudged com mendation of democrats who have observed his active interest In securing the return of fugitive boodlers. It Is a drawback to good government that men should be able to ply the trade of corruption with a guarantee that If de tected they can escape the law's penalties by traveling a short distance to the border or a longer but pleasant distance across the ocean. A. haven of refuge is an encour agement to crime. Persons indicted in the state of Missouri are luxuriously living In Mexico, Canada and Europe. Tho state and the United States have been Impotent. Kratz. Kellv and Wulnwrlght have defied both govern ments. Circuit Attorney Folk haa brought the sit uation to the attention of the president, and air. noosevelt lias not only promised that the United States government will appeal to the officials of the countries where the Indicted men are residing, but put the law ana foreign departments of the cabinet actively at work. It is said that the United States government will claim a right under mo .Mexican treaty to the extradition of Krati. The president's action is wholly com. mendable and Missouri democrats will give mm creait ror being a good citizen and not a politician in his willingness to vig orously co-operate with the executive officials of the-state of Missouri. If that makes him any stronger aa a presidential candidate let him have the benefit he has earned. "LITERATURE TO JOURNALISM." Stimulating Thoughts on "Descent" to Newspaper Work. Springfield (Mass.) Republican. A WTlter of a favorite magazine recently made remarks about the "descent" from lit erature to journalism. No worker on the press could read them without a feeling that possibly, : for mere respectability's sake, he ought to make a rapid break for the uplands of literature. There was noth ing to show, however. In writing about thA "descent," that the magazlnlst realized how much trouble would e made for Jour nalism If many of Its most capable workers should seek to "ascend" to the upper realms or literary fame. While they were on the wing the iowly Journalism which paid their salaries might suffer. Journalism has long been regarded some- what scornfully by young literary aspirants as a stepping stone. The Idea U eniti- vated In them by the patrician magazines. Now stepping stones a re. useful In their place. Doubtless the world must have them. But no business Is helped or dignified by be ing made a kind of temporary foothold to something else. The work of leaching. Im portant as It Is. used to be regarded by many young college graduates as a step ping stone to medicine or the law; with the result that teaching was made the worse for the experience. This Is true of Journal Ism. It reaches Its best estate neither as a stepping stone nor as a door mat, nor aa a ladder to help the ambitious to climb to "literature" and fame. It may be difficult to regard literature and Journalism as bearing no relation to one another, but they certainly ought to be con sidered ns entirely distinct callings. The person who goes Into It should Intend, or at least hope, to make Journalism his life work, and to leave literature to those who wish to be, or think they are, poets and nrtlsts. Tbe truth is that a real artist In literary expression may be a wretched newsp.yjer man. and that a very able news paper man may not be at all a literary artist. Both these types would probably be spoiled by any process of "descending" or "ascending" the one from literature to Journalism, or the other from Journalism to literature. If the very superior beings who write such charming- essays for the magazines would get this distinction carefully tn mind, they would refrain from exhibiting Journal Ism as a "descent" from something. It ia no more a descent from literature than the steel business la. It deserves to stand on its own . bottom, and those workers in It who rare most for Its usefulness and its prestige never feel above It. Realizing Its great opportunities for service In the world, they cheerfully accept Its impersonality, Its drudgery and all the imitations which are so manifest, as part of the day's work. Nor do they aspire to "ascend" to litera ture, having learned that such aspirations are often the tawdriest vanity and are frequently Injurious to the efficiency end dignity of the work-a-day Journalism which they desire to promote. The true relation between the two callings Is that of the co-operation of equals. Where journalism can promote literature, it lends a helping hand, often to Its own profit. It maymake use of true literature to great advantage, for, considered In its broadest soope, or as aa Ideal, Journalism outreaches literature In its Immediate Influence upon mankind. )n this relation of allies there can be no hint of "descent" or "ascent," nor of superiority and inferiority. A cer tain community of interest, where two fields overlap, is tbe proper conception. As en tities, however, tbe two callings remain distinct, each-with Its special opportunities and disadvantages with more oread and butter perhaps in one than In the other and a less pairiUaa view of things and eaUt pursuing tta separata way. ROIHD ABOCT XEW I0RK, 1 Ripples oa the Correal of Life la the Metropolis. Occasionally a New Tork policeman e tends his big mitt to enforce a lesson tn manners as well ns morals. A callow youth wenrlng a bottle green coat and pink tie, had the lesson handed to him one day last week. He waa parading on Whitehall street very jauntily, with eyes searching for susceptible maidens, when he espied an uncommonly pretty girl coming his way. When they were face to face he smiled at her like a comic valentine, turning his head on a pivot to see whether she h.d succumbed. A big policeman with a Miles Ian gray eye stepped out of a doorway and collared the Lothario, who shrunk visibly Then the law, as personified, gave speech after his kind, with the rough edge of his tongue. When the squire of damea waa re leased he waa blubbering. The postera with which the Citizens' union, aided by tha Municipal Women' 1 league, intends to plaster the town ' are artistically excellent Nothing so beautiful has been used before for campaign pur poses. Over ino.000 will be printed on paper and some 10.000 on celluloid. The figure of a woman. Impersonating "Health," "Charity" or i enements, figures on each poster with a background of a New Tork scene photographed. Each poster bears some epi grammatic argument, such aa "Tammany let the poor die and didn't care." These posters are to be hung throughout town In wlndowa and on billboards. The one thing that always Impresses t rangers who come to New Tork ia the rush of life along the etreeta-4he hurry of the people, the breathless hast whlrh seems to possess everybody, from the news boys to the bankers. Visitors at first find themselves unable to keeD un with the iar but after awhile they become accustomed to it and even catch the spirit and move ment themselves. Even the most hardened iew Worker, however, cannot accustom himself to the Jam at Brooklyn bridge. The thousands the bridge trains cast up Into the labyrinth of platform, corridor ami stair are at cross pumoses flahtlnr hll ward goals which obscure sienhnards tnrtl. cate with great uncertainty. The crowd Is aiviaea against Itself, and the consequent confusion drives it to a nltch beyond that engendered by the prellminHry ecume or the bridge. It Is distinctly each man for himself and devil take the hi nder most In the battle of thai labyrinth. Family 1. r lorgouen as nusnand, wire and child connect their persons to the human whirlpool. Friend turns his back tn friend and man, woman and child, each for self ana seir alone, wages a campaign toward one of tho many goals In the nartlnnlap style in which each Is proficient. Already workmen are enanced In tha llminary shaft work necessary before the true tunnel contemnlntrd hv the Pi.nn.,1. vania corporation can be begun. The en gineers are confident that tho Pennsylvania system, which In that of an artificial tun nel, a tubular bridge built through the mud and resting upon piers, may be completed within three years. Twenty years aro nrlvat raniiot uk which at one time Senator Jones of Ne vada waa associated undertook to construct a tunnel under the Hudson. It was com pleted until It was bron eh t within tho t,,r-4.. dictlon of New York state. Hard times, the exhaustion of the capital, the loss of faith in the project and possibly some Internal friction caused a suspension of work. Now, far beneath the Hudson workmen are pro pressing so rapidly, cutting through the bluffs which are characteristic of the ap proaches to tho New Tork shore, lhat It la expected that they will 'emerge within a year, having completed a true tunnel. Within five years It ia probable New Tork will have at least four submarine tunnel. and possibly five, representing In the ag gregate an expenatture or not far from $100,000,000. for which the city will furnish about $30,000,000, and In addition to that much of the subsurface of Manhattan Island, also tunneled so that there can be adequate transportation, urban and sub- urutui. ' At present there are forty distinct Im provements planned In New York City which will cost In the aggregate $250,000,OUO. rour-nrths of this sum will go Into public buildings, bridge terminals and the sub way, and the balance Into theaters, hotels, club houses and other enterprises Instt. tuted by private capital. The subway will cost when completed $W.OOO,000; tho Penn sylvania tunnel will cost $jo,0O0,000; the Car negie libraries, sixth-five in number, $8,0.0, 000. Other big improvements to be com pleted or begun In 1903 which will range In cost between $2,000,000 and $10,000,000 each are: Public library. Fifth avenue and Forty-second street; new custom house, new postofflce, new Hall of Records, ex tension of Riverside drive to Boulevard Lafayette, four new armories, Blackwella Island bridge. Hotel St. Regis, Fifth avenue and Fifty-fifth street; Hotel plaza, site of present Plaza hotel; Hotel Knickerbocker, Broadway, coiner Forty-second street, and Hotel Astor, Broadway, Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth streets. Despite the fact that millions are being spent on "new law" tenement houses. there are in the Greater New Tork over 360,000 dark rooms without any windows opening to the outer air or even to another room which, itself has windows opening to the outer air. Moreover, these rooms are located In over 40.000 different tene ment houses scattered throughout tbe dif ferent boroughs. Under the law a large window; 3 feet by S feet, must be cut Into each such room. A special and systematic examination of cellar living rooms In tene ment houses Is to be made so that those which do not conform to the law may be vacated. That famous dog cemetery at White Plains, which most people regard as a myth or, at least, an exaggeration, . was the scene of another Interment today. Thomas Flagler, a wealthy Illinolsan. brought the remains of his faithful dog "Puggy" to the Eastern, cemetery because no similar place Is provided In the west. The burial service consisted In select read ings from Byron and other poets who cele brated the virtues of dogs In verse. Sen ator Vest's famous "Tribute to a Faithful Dog" was alsd read. The master and chief mourner wore a crape band on his hat. Severe Attack of Blaes. Chicago Chronicle. John H. Reagan, the only surviving mem ber of the confederate cabinet. Is con vinced that the republic Is soon to be dis solved as a result of the machinations of the "money power." Mr. Reagan Is si years old. and, like many other person who has lived to a great age, he is In clined to pessimism. If there Is such a thing as the "money power" It must be id that It la doing first rate under a republican form of government, and unless all signs are at fault It will be about the last of the various "powers" which are potential in American Ufa to upset things. Headache Cured and prevented by Dr. Miles' Antl-Fatal Pills, nnequalad for neuralgia, rcotn-, ache, backache etc. No opiates. Non- laxative. Never sold la bulk. Send fol" free book on the cure ef headache. 3 doeoo 2 cent. Sold and guaranteed by ail drua iat a ' Lit. MILE MiDICAii CO, Elkhart. 71 IE OLD I ( t'n v 1 N Absolutely Puro WERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE THE MERCT OF THE CORlf. Favorable Fall Weather Boosts the Greatest of Cereals. New York World. The government's monthly crop report shows practically all our grain staples above their ten-year average; but the hero of the story Is corn. The spring floods apparently doomed us to a short crop of the greatest grain staple. Much of It had to be replanted, and It sprouted late. Never before had a corn season been so backward. September fur nished a variety of "frost scares," but after viewing his farm on October 1 Uncle 8am reports an average condition of 80S, against 80.1 on September 1 snd a ten-yeur average of 77.7. Never before had the percentages Increased so steadily through out the season. Conditions have been favorable since October 1, and the frost danger Is now passed. A crop of more than 2.300,000,000 bushels is expected, actually 60.000,000 bush els more than was Indicated on August and more than the country e-er raised before, last year's bumper crop alone ex cepted. When man has done his utmost to de stroy prosperity, here by fomenting ruinous strikes, there by "high finance and low morality," it is a relief to turn to the con templation of the calm bounties of merci ful nature. PERSONAL NOTES. The oldest man in Missouri Is said to be a farmer named Young No caricatures of the natives are per mitted in Porto Rico, and there is no need to make any. In the New York municipal campaign George B. McClellan is already throwing up fortifications and calling for reinforce ments. Joe Chamberlain Is right In desiring a little prosperity for Great Britain. Its per capita debt is more than seven times that of the United States. President Porflrlo Dlaa of Mexico haa sent his portrait to Emperor William. This In the first time, according to the National Zettung. that the president of a republic has sent such a present to the emperor. Mrs. Rose Hart wick Thorpe, who wrote "Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight," Is a native of Indiana and now lives In a cozy cottage at Lajolla, Cal. She has recently completed a novel, "Brlarban," the scene of which is located In northern Indiana, which will' soon be issued from tho press. Hovhan Magoplan, a student in the Unl- vlrslty of Wisconsin, Is an Armenian who has Buffered greatly because of the cruelties of tho Turks, snd Is now gaining sn educa tion and wielding his pen effectively in the cause of his perse;uted countrymen. He has translated Tennyson's "In Memorlam" Into Armenian. William M. Johnson, a young man of Washington, who has been the conductor in charge of President Roosevelt's train on all his long Journeys, and also had charge of the McKInley funeral train from Buffalo to Canton, via Washington, has been given a staff position by the Pullman company. In Chicago. It is suld of the late Wilson S. Rlssell that when he became postmaster general he mastered the enormous amount of detail in that office months earlier than any of his predecessors had ever been able to do. The tradition of his systematic and thorough business methods still lingers in the department aa a high-water mark. Russia's armed forces in the far east are now reported to number 230,000 men, distributed thus: Fifty thousand, with eighteen batteries of artillery. In Man churia proper; 110.000 on the lines of com munication between Port Arthur and the Amur river, and M.0O0 In garrison at Port Arthur and Tailan Wan. Thirty forts have been erected at Port Arthur and fifty more are being built. Eighty warships are at Talian Wan, forty of which are kept constantly under stesm. Boys' Good $5.00 Suits Good clothing costs money, and we are not here for our health alone. But the best clothing costs 'you less at Brown ing, King & Co's. than anywhere else. Dollar for dollar, we put more value into our suits for boys and children than any other manufacturer in the world, and our, suits the special ones at $5.00 are he newest, handsomest and more reliable than any other kind you can find between Xew York and Omaha. Two-piece suits, Russian blouse suits, sailor blouse suits and rilor Norfolk suits, in serges, cheviots and fancy mix tures, all sizes and your choice of any style of these espe cially good suits for $5.00 No Clothing Fit Like Ours. R, S. WILCOX. Manager. RELIABLE '4 WAIFS OF THE WITS. "My son," said the father, "don't you think It's about time you sturtrd out as a hread winner now?" "Not much." replied the amhltlous votith. "I'll be a ple-wlnner or nothing." Philadel phia Press. "What are you going to do about the trust question?" "Same aa usual." answered Senator SorB hum. "if a trust asks me any questions it'll get as polite an answer aa I know how to make." Washington Star. "Ray, look here." said th nervy drum mer, "you'll marry me, won't you?" I've gof money." "Sir!" sneered the proud beauty, "this Is a gross Insult." "Oh, no; absolutely 'net,'. I assure you!" Chicago Tribune. t "Have I any rival in your affecnciffcT' ho demanded fiercely- , , "N'o-o." replied the lovely girl thotighl fully. "At least. I cannot think of nnv body else I regard with equal Indifference." -lOWn 1TWICB. f "Mars Tom should be de bRpples' mnn in as rnim' worl'," . . "Think so?" ' "I sho does. . He sperirts threefo'ths r r hlstlmo huntln' en ile y-utlier fo'th- rutin' what he hunts." Atlanta Constitution. "I'm going to tell him what T think .if Mm." said the anjrry man. "What lo vou think of It?" "I think, " was the reply, "that' he must be a smaller mnn than you are or else vn-i think pretty well of him." Chicago Post. Jinks Remarkable thing In the paper this morning Rn norount of nn American clt -zen who has been 111 treated by a forriun government. Winks What's remarkable1 about thru? Jinks He has a nam) I can pronounce ' New York Weekly. . DHEADFIX, ISJS'T ITf . Chicago News. Oh, Mrs. Brown la boiling mad. She feeM she in ebuned. A very Injuied person and a victim, so to peak. The thing that sue complains of can haiiily l Kxoused, , ,,,.,,...,. . . And there arc times when It a' a'alif u. be resigned nnd meek. "w one dou gut a new fall hat about a day or two ago, A beautiful creation In the most artistic tones, And then she saw a duplicate the hat It self, vou know- Pinned fast upon the tresses of her neigh bor, Mrs. a ones. And Mrs. Jones is angry and believes she's justified In feeling great annoyance, to say the, iry Irani. She felt so had about It that she hurrle.l home nnd cried And wrote a stinging nolo to her perfidi ous modl.xte. That hat she had selected suited perfectly her style; She was assured there wasn't one Just like It In the town. Triumphantly sbv donned It and In Just a little whilo - She saw the self-same thing upon her neighbor, Mrs. Brown. . Now Mrs. Brown declares that Mra. Jorea Is quite too old To wear a thing so youthful that it makes her look nhsurd. And Mrs. Jones says Mrs. Brown Is really so I'm told Too hatchet-faced and sallow for that hat that's what I've heard. Now. Mrs. Brown will hear It and poor Mrs. Jones will hear What Mra. Brown has said, and there will be some dreadful spats. They used to be good neighbors, but I ara Inclined to fear "V. Their friendship will be broken since tt uuugni mue uroauiui nais. THIS DLU& SICIJATURE BEWARE OF "JUST AS GOODS ; v, . 1 1 l V f I
