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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.
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-;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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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