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TIIB OMAHA DAILY BEE; SATURDAY, JULY 9, 1904. .Tim omaiia daily Bee EL BOU2WATKR, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERT MORN1NO. ' TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily Bee (without Sundar). On Year..M.sr. lliy Dm ard Bundny, Una Tear 00 - Illustrated bw, One Year 1 00 BuiKlar Be, One Year... ! Sturday Bee, One Year 1M Twentieth Century Parmer, One Tear., i.00 DELIVERED BTkCARRIER. Pally Bee (without Sunday), per copy.. c Pally Bee (without Surxtay), per week...Uc Dally Bee (Including Hunday), per week.170 rJunday Bee, per oouy 60 Evening Bee (without Sunday), per week. 7c livening Bee (Including Sunday), per week 12c Complaint of Irregularity In delivery thotild be addressed to City Circulation epartment OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha City Hall Building, Twenty-fifth and M Street. Council BltilTe 10 Pearl Street. Chicago 1M0 I'nltr -Building. . New York 222 Park Row Building. Washington 601 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi torial matter ahould be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. ., Remit by draft, express or postal order, raj able to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 1-oent stamps received In payment of mail accounts. Personal checks, except on 4jinaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. - THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, aa: Qorge B. Tsachnrk, secretary of The Be Publishing Company, being duly sworn, ays that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of June, laoi, was as follows: 1 ...,-t0 1 20.480 I a,T2 jj OT.BHO I J,T20 lg a,rao u swuso ........., mo sw.ero SR.TW SI STB.T40 T... a.rno n b,7o I .....99,780 23 119,72 f SSH 34 !tt,940 10., Sl,400 26 29,790 11 1)0,038 28 27,778 11 3H.SM) r 80,110 U ao,ooo n 2,eso li ae.uao t xo.bao V ao,ix . SO 20,770 Total 8(a,085 Less unsold and returned copies.... 9,7 1 ' Net total sales 878,372 Dally average 2tt.Ha GEO. B. TZ8CHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this SOtb day of June, A. D. 1904. ' (6al) M. B. HUNQATE. NoUry Public. Omaha Jobbers bava no ground for Complaint against the County Board of Equalization. As a campaign Issue the "crime of "73" has been' relegated to the Spring field convention. . -1 ! Mayor Moo res seems to be needlessly perturbed oyer what the Fontanelle chiefs are going to do next ' According to Bryan, Cleveland has be come the logical candidate to weigh down the new democratic platform. Nebraska Bryanltes are confronted by the large area of low barometer which la gradually approaching from St Louis. Mayor Koutsky of South Omaha now reads bis title clear. Recounting South Omaba election returns Is an expensive luxury. : .. The toighest compliment ever paid to the republican financial policy was the democratic decision to say nothing about It With floods Interrupting traffic to Kan sas City It is,, up to the Omaha Grain exchange to attract wheat shipments to this market ".Where was "the old guard of Ne braska" when the resolutions committee was putting .the gag In the mouth of tts favorite son? ; The democratic convention was stalled for fear of bad luck that follows Friday, but a Saturday nomination will not save It from saltpetre. ; The "sphynx of Edlpus" cannot be more silent than Mr. Bryan will have to be when It comes to discussing his here tofore "paramount Issue." Taken as a whole the democratic plat form as reported from the committee on resolutions means in effect: The coun try Is all right but we want to run it The silent candidate Is in the best po sition to endorse the platroin. lie Would not come Into collision with It even If It remained silent on every liv ing Issue. - Waste of energy is always to be de plored and for this reason the majority of the people of the country will tender their sympathy to the democratic com mittee on resolutions. .It was a rather mean thing for the democratic national committee to try to onload the . responsibility for the suc cessful maintenance of the gold stand ard upon the Almighty. : Senator Daniel of Virginia expressly disagrees with the motto of Wendell Phillips, which wss Take your stand with the absolute right and trust to God to make it the expedient" 1 Silas Swallow asks William Jennings Bryan to become a prohibitionists, but Bryan has swallowed enough crow to poll his appetite for cold water, at least for the next four years. Democrats found that It required more ability than they possessed to mix the oil of sound finance with the water of free silver, so they gave up trying to prepare the Impossible mixture. . When they bear of the flood of water rushing down the Missouri river It Is expected the democrats In national con vention assembled will make the effort of their lives to adjourn before it reaches them. Richmond Pearson Uobson should have confined himself to bis idea of an Invincible navy when talking at St Louis. Ills dlHcusNlon of the race ques tion end arraignment of Booker Wash ington did not show to the advantage that a real patriotic speech would have CWaVs TABITT TITS ISSVE. It Is plainly the purpose of the demo cratic party to make the tariff the para mount Issue in the national campaign. Having Ignored that question In the last t wo v campaigns, the party now returns to It and reaffirms Its traditional policy, with some modification. Experience has taught the democracy that the Ameri can people will not support a proposition to abandon the principle of protection. Even among democrats In the south there Is a sentiment growing stronger with the development of Industries In that section, favorable to protection. Therefore the representatives of the party at 8t Louis do not demand a tariff "for revenue only," but "favor a VtiHe, conservative and business-like re vision and a gradual reduction of the tariff." which Is not only a modification of the party's former position, but Is quite as indefinite as any of its previous utterances on the subject. What confidence can be placed in the democratic promise of a wise, conserva tive and buHlness-llke revision of the tariff, when nine-tenths of the members of the party sre'known to be opposed to the principle of protection? Is it not absolutely certain that in the event of the success of the democracy the indus tries of the country would expect legis lation adverse to their interests and pre pare for it as they did when last the democracy obtained control of the gov ernment? What the democrats now menn by a "conservative and business like" revision of the tariff is not In the least different from what they meant twelve years ago and should they be given another opportunity it is not to be doubted that they would carry tariff re vision further than they then did. The country has not forgotten the democratic past on the tariff. The only tariff legislation for which the demo cratic party is responsible is the one law ever enacted in this country which was pronounced by a president an "act of perfidy and dishonor" and which bore the imprints of corrupt Influences more distinctly than any legislation ever passed by congress.' The tariff law of 1MM was denounced by Mr. Cleveland. who refused to sign It Mr. Wilson, who was chairman of the house ways and means committee, characterized the bill as It came from the democratic senate as so full of demerits that he could not attempt to explain the. merits. Con demned by Its sponsors, made a law not In the belief that It would be a benefit to the country, but with the hope thot Its harmful effects could be minimized the tariff act of 18f)4 is now conceded to have been the most disastrous legislation the country has ever been called upon to stand. , Tho party responsible for this now asks the country to give It another op portunity to revise the tariff, promising that it shall be done in a "conservative and business-like way." The people will not again be deluded. They do not want a repetition of the experience under the last democratic administration. They confided their interests to the democratic party In 1802 and paid dearly for doing so. They will not make a like mistake in 1001. MICKEY. MERCER AND THE MACHINE In a recent issue of the Lincoln Jour nal an open letter la published, directed to Governor Mickey over a spurious sig nature. On general principles the po litical "Injun" who shoots poisoned ar rows from behind a screen la looked upon as a sneak and a coward unworthy of serious attention. The tirade of ma lignant abuse embodied In the open let ter would be passed unnoticed were It not for the fact that it emanates from the paid emissaries of the Iowa states man, who at one time claimed to be the maker and owner of Governor Mickey, but who more recently sought to snuff him out It Is an open secret that the literary bureau organized by him and maintained at the expense of the great "Overland" has monopolized the columns of the Lin coln Journal and other spurious anti monopoly organs with political black wash literature designed to create preju dice and foment discord In the interest of the would-be dictator and the poli ticians that trail In his wake. The drift and trend of the open letter, to Governor Mickey to which reference la made Is to the effect that the self styled "antl-machlne" reformers, who made up the rank and file of the Mer- cerites two years ago and now claim to be engaged in a holy crusade against corruption and vice In Omaha, were the staunch supporters of Governor Mickey two years ago, while the element stig matized aa "the machine" knifed him and were solely responsible for the marked slump in the republican vote for governor In Omaha' In 1002. For the Information of Governor Mickey and all whom It may concern The Bee ventures to Institute a few comparisons and asks a few questions concerning the claim of the alleged reformers through their bushwhacker spokesman. It Is generally assumed that the ma chine element predominates In the lower wards of Omaha, while the reform ele ment has Its strength in the upper wards. The official canvass of the re turns of Douglas county In 1902 shows that Governor Mickey received 482 votes In the First ward. Mercer 526; In, the Second ward Governor Mickey received G02, Mercer 787; in the Third ward Mickey received 873 votes. Mercer 690. In other words, In the lower wards the Mereerltes cut Governor Mickey 156 times, or else liokey would have run as high as Mercer. In the Seventh ward, the home of Mercer, in which the spurious reform faction claims two- thirds of the republican voters, Gover nor Mickey received 737 votes, while Mercer received 004. Will any of the Fontanelle chiefs explain bow It came that Governor Mickey should run 167 votes behind Mercer In his own ward, which is eleven more votes than be ran behind Mercer In the First Second and Th'rd wards, that are supposed to be so terribly, terribly wicked? If It was true that the Dennlson gang, which Is reputed to be the potential po litical factor In the Third ward, was all msomtd against Governor Mickey, why did Mickey only run seventeen votea be hind Mercer In the Third ward while he ran 167 votea behind Mercer In the Seventh t Why did Governor Mickey only run ten votes behind Mercer In the Fifth ward, where the two factions are about evenly divided? To sum np, why did Governor Mickey run 302 votes be hind Mercer in the city of Omaha If the Mereerltes were all voting straight for him? Do not these discrepancies give the He point blank to the bushwhackers. who are screening themselves behind fictitious names and using the Lincoln Journal to disseminate malicious mis Information? LABOR TOR THE CAN Alt, The question of securing labor for the construction of the Panama canal Is re- wiving consideration In the proper quar ter and the commission is getting sug gestions to which it is undoubtedly giv ing attention. One of these recently made urges the employment of negroes from the south, It bflng thought that they would work successfully In the Panama climate and probably with greater efficiency than the natives of the West Indies. Doubtless an effort will be made to employ southern negroes, but it Is unlikely that any considerable num ber of them can be Induced to go to the isthmus for such pay as the government will offer or can obtain labor elsewhere for. Another suggestion is that Porto Ricans be employed. It is said of them that they are excellent workers and that there probably would be no difficulty In securing as many of them as might be required, since there Is at all times a large number In the island out of em ployment It is pointed out that what Porto Rico needs more than anything else Is employment for her poor people and It would be a boon to thousands of them to be given work on the canal. The idea of Importing coolies appears to be no longer entertained and It Is un certain whether a sufficient number of laborers can be secured in the West In dies. If efficient labor can be obtained In Porto Rico that would seem to solve the problem, since there could be no reasonable objection raised here to Its employment Some of the planks In the St Louis democratic platform are made of brass. For example. It takes a good deal of base yellow metal to lay claim for the democratic party to all the benefits and blessings that are to be derived from the national Irrigation act, in view of the fact that the act originated In a re publican senate, was passed by a re publican house and approved by a re publican president who has been an out spoken champion of Irrigation legisla tion ever since he mingled with the cowboya of North Dakota. For a man trained as a brick mason and builder Mr. Wlthnell exhibits ex traordinary law knowledge In his de fense of the paving specifications adopted by himself and Comptroller Lo- beck, acting as a majority of the Board of Public Works. There is a well grounded natural suspicion that his law points were supplied by one of the law yers In the employ of the paving con tractors. The city officials of South Omaha have very wisely postponed the submission of the bonding scheme. It Is easy to plas ter on mortgages, but It Is hard to take the plaster off when once It la on. Woadari Never Cease, Chicago News. Did drover Cleveland expect to live to hear of his name wildly cheered in a damo oraUo convention again T Stains; Up the Bnaeh, Philadelphia North American. 'A peculiar company of perambulating acrobats," Is the way Colonel "Jim Ham" Lewis defines the democratic party, and "Jim Ham" Is something of aa expert on peculiarity. Oh, the Pals of I.ettlDST Go!" Chicago Tribune. The Hon. William Jennings Bryan has had so much trouble In keeping the people straight that we should think he would be glad to give up the task now and let the ungrateful country go to smash. Preatlees lapraaiaay, Sna Francisco Chronicle. England still claims ,to be supreme on the ocean, but her supremacy Is not very pro fitable If there Is any truth In the published statements that most of the great over-sea carrying trade la being conducted at a loss. One Ookereat Ida. Philadelphia North American. Amid all the pulling and hauling, crimi nation and recrimination, there la a single coherent Idea, Never uttered exoept la the privacy of conference or committee room. and even there in whispers. It Is the dom inating note of the convention. Wherever you turn. It rings In your ears: "Anything to win." And acaln and agalai Any thing to win." Am Umerofltable Superstition. Minneapolis Times. , If somebody could invent a way to divest the public mind of the belief that a na tional campaign Is necessarily Injurious to business he would be hailed as a national benefactor. Because one presidential con test logically causes financiers, manufac turers, and everybody else to wait and see what la going to happen. It does not follow that the beginning of every succeeding one should be a signal for a general attltade of suspicion. Crime Neat te Harder. Philadelphia Ledger. Judge Beofatal of SchuyUill county has sent to prison for four mouths a group of election officers convicted of a conspir acy to prevent oltlseus from voting. The remarkable feature of this case Is that some aoo presumably respectable cltlsana of Shenandoah had Jolneed in a petition that the scoundrels should tot be sent to Jau. The judge most righteously dis regarded the petition, declaring the crime of which these men had been oonvioted, the robbery of the public right to a free election, to" be "neat to murder." The phrase la none too strong, and the exem plary punishment of ballot box thieves Is all the more necessary because a consider able portion of the community look upon them with leniency and aa not deserving of more than a mild reprimand, even when found out SIDKLIOBT ON CO VK.ITIcV. Pletwroeeae QliBaesett ( Warrlas; Dvsaeeraer lels. Water was free in the convention hall through the keenness) of a mineral spring company to advertise Its product, fmall boys passed around the ball with trays Oiled with loe-oooled water, crying their wares as lustily as though they were selling hot popcorn. One of these boys paused near a thirst-stricken delegate from Georgia and asked him If he wanted a drink. "Wall, naow, sonny, I'm powerfully dry, but I allow I can get along until I git out of here." The boy stepped up to the next perspir ing delegate and asked him, too. It he would like a drink. "How much Is It a glass, my boyT" asked the delegate. "Oh, I won't charge you anything, mis ter," replied the boy, holding up his tray, and the first delrgnte's eyes lit up with Joy. ,"If that water's free, sonny, I 'low as how I can make It easier for you to carry that tray. Olmme me a glass, too." There was a hAslng sound as the Ice cold water ran down the thirsty Georgian's throat and a sigh of satisfaction fell from his "lips as he emptied the glass. Senator W. A. Clark of Montana was In the push. He also waa at Kansas City four years ago. He Is not the figure now he waa then, however. It Is either a different kind of a convention or the Montana senator has changed. His friends deny the latter. Senator Clark was a good deal of a figure at Kansas City. He was the richest man there. That counted for a good deal, even In a William J. Bryan convention. He was also -willing to spend hla money. That counts for a good deal anywhere. Not only was he spending money but he went so far as to hire a man to help him do It, and In some ways that man had points. He was a barber. He cut the senator's hair the day he arrived, and the senator said he was a good barber. He talked to the sena tor while he was scissoring him, and Clark thought It would be a pity to have all that linguistic ability wasted even In a "ton- sorlal parlor." So he hired the barber. The new assistant's duties were to let the pop ulace know the senator waa In town. He certainly earned his money. Within an hour after the deal bad been made he had left the barber shop, put on some fine raiment fortultoualy provided, and moved out on the street. Soon reaidenta and visitors alike were In full possession of the fact the sena tor from Montana bad come to town. He was an energetic fellow, that barber. He hired two bands and he organized a corps of boomers who went into hotel ro tundas asking, "What's the matter wnn Clark of Montana?" and In turn assuring their hearers "He's all right." He got up parades with Clark banners. As a. result, next to William J. Bryan's and David B. Hill's, the name of the senator was most frequently heard In convention gossip. Now it's another story. nni of the most Interesting characters of the convention Is Judge John H. Reagan of Palenstlne, one of the delegates-at-large from the state of Texas. He Is eighty-rive years old, and Is the sole survivor of Jel- feraon Davis's cabinet during the days or he Confederacy. Among the other dele gates from Texas he is referred to as the "Father of Texas Democracy." For sixty full years Judge Reagan has been In oubllo Ufa. having been district Judge In Dallas county aa early as 1SU. He was elected to congress m 1806, and at tha formation of the Confederate States he was named by President Davis to be post- TnAatr-E-eneral In the Confederate cabinet. After the reconstruction period Reagan again was elected dlatriot judge, and later returned to .congress. h. w. elected United States senator in isanr hut resianed two years later to be come chairman of the Texas railroad com mission by appointment of Governor Hogg. This position has neither financial nor po litical returns, but Judge Reagan iook it sacrificing- his senate seat, at the urgent request of Governor Hogg and other party leaders of Texas. Hon. William Randolph Hearst selected his reception room in the Empire suite of th. jacaraon hotel. His followers took fright. "It will suggest Imperialism," they cried. "Let the common people In," wired Mr. Hearst. "They will taae the shine on Imperialism In short order." Thus the com mon people who were looking out or me Empire suite windows saw a balloon drift in runidlv toward the east, almost out of sight among the clouds. "Lookl Look!" cried the crowd. "What Is ltT" said those who had crowded to the windows. "It Is the Hearst boom, and It's away up In the air," was the answer. The delegates are chuckling over a yarn attributed to Col. James M. Guffey of Penn sylvania, The delegates say that Col. Guffey is much disgusted with the backing and filling and side-stepping of the Hon. Arthur Pue Gorman of Maryland, and this Is the story that they say the colonel told the other evening: "Senator Gorman makes me think of a calf I once owned. When I wanted to nave the critter drink I most had to pull the' ears out to get her to the trough; and then when she had drunk aa much as waa good for her I most had to pull her tail out to get her away from the trough." The most striking figure In the crowds la Governor Vardaman of Mississippi, dressed in white clothes, with long black hair falling down over his collar. Wherever ho went he waa taken for Bryan, and any number of people went up to him and called him by that name. While has was standing in the Jefferson a couple of strangers who supposed him to be Bryan went upland asked the privilege of shaking his hand, saying that they had voted for him. The governor supposed that they were Mlsstsslppiana, and meant that they had voted for him for governor. "Who Is your oholoe for resldentr one of them asked him. "Parker," said Governor Vardaman. The Jaws of the at rangers fairly dropped en their chests. They were Just framing up a question which would elucidate the mystery when the governor was claimed by somebody else. Then they went out and spread tna astonishing story that Bryan had come out for Parker, and the rumor traveled around the hotels for some time before it was run down. "Big Tim" Sullivan of New fork City was strolling baok from the Jefferson to the Southern some time after 1 o'clock In the morning when he met one of his own Tammany braves, much the worse for tin due familiarity with St. Louis beverages. "Shay, ole man, w't street's thlsT" stam mered the Tammany man, who dlda't rec ognise Sullivan. This Is Broadway," replied "Big Tim," after a glance at the sign on the corner. "BroadwayT" queried the Tammany man. Tou shay thlsh Broadway, hloT Now, mebbe you think, hlo, smart take 'vantage o' stranger In yer, hie. boofful city, but I think yer too dam fresh. 1 know thlsh ain't Broadway. Where's the lights an' the boys? Thlsh here ain't, hlo, Broadway. "Thout all the swells Nat Ooodwln an Jim Corbett an' Lillian Russell an' all the rest. W'y.. hlc, 'f I wasn't so devilish drunk I'd swing on you. Guess I will any way." The Tammany drunk launched a left hook, missed, and suddenly sat down on the pavement OTHKH LANDS THIS Om, eorraapondent of a London newspaper, writing front Odessa, furnishes aome In teresting calculations of the money value of the Russian Paciflo fleet, taken from of ficial sources. On February t, before the dtaabllna- of the Csarevttch. Retvlxan and Pallada, there were sixty-eight effective Russian naval vessels la the Pacific be tween Vladivostok and Shanghai. There were seven flnrt-class battleships, four flrst-ctass armored cruisers, two protected second-class cruisers, three other smaller cruisers, seveen gunboats, three mine trans ports or mine-sowers, two torpedo cruisers. thirteen torpedo boat destroyers of the B and V types, twelve torpedo boat destroy ers of the 8 (Sokol) and R types, and ten torpedo boats of the 200 class. The mini mum value of the seven first-class battle ships, with thlr armaments and equipment. Is put at 108,900,000 rubles; the minimum combined value of the eleven armored and first and second-class protected cruisers at 88,20,000 rubles; and the minimum value of the remaining effective ships, number ing fifty-five, 87,400,000 rubles. This makes a total of 279,2uO,0OO rublea, about $150,000,000. No account Is taken of the government harbor veesela, regular military transports, volunteer fleet transports, or vessels of the subsidized Chinese Eastern (Manchur Ian) company, or private Russian shipping companies plying on that date In the Pa cific. The total cash value of the whole naval outfit Is, therefore, almost equal to the Russian war loan of 300,000,000 rublea. This gives some notion of the value of the stake at hazard around Port Arthur. Elghty-ntne years have passed alnce the great Napoleon the Incarnate god of war was defeated and finally overthrown on the battlefield of Waterloo. la this epoch making battle French valor ahone bril liantly, and although the eagles of France went down In disaster no dishonor attached to their defeat. Lust week a monument In memory of Napoleon's soldiers who fell at Waterloo was unveiled on the field of that historic struggle. The monument was placed near the farmhouse where the "Old Guard" made Its last stand. The design of the memorial la a striking one a wounded eagle surmounting a tall shaft. Since Waterloo the eagles of France have been stricken even more grievously than they were by Wellington In 1815. In 1870 an army of 173,000 men surrendered at Mets to the German conqueror. It Is Im possible to conceive of the first Napoleon giving up a fight with an army of 171,000 valorous Frenchmen to follow his lead. The "Old Guard" of 1815 was composed of men who were willing to die, but never to surrender. France honors itself in honoring the vanquished heroes of Water loo. Sentiment Is not extinct in the Gallic heart. It has survived Sedan and Mets. The "Wounded Eagle" may one day re cover his strength and revive the glories of the "Old Guard." Prisons In Japan resemble large country houses with many outbuildings, and do not either In the solidity or details of their construction, wear a penitentiary aspect. The prisoners get food In proportion, to their conduct and industry; those who do not behave well wUl get a cake of rice, which must last tbem for seven days. For the deserving It Is the ration but for four days, and they get with It also a little horse meat and potato or pea sauce. The labor Is compulsory, but not severe, and the prisoner gets part of his earnings, though it amounts to little. The disci pline la military, and serving a term In prison does not Impose an Indelible stigma. Systematic efforts are made to Improve the prisoners; all of the youths under nine teen years pass two hours each day in school. Even when their term of sentenoe Is over they cannot be released till a surety is found for their subsequent good beha vior. Till this is provided they must re main in prison and may do so for Indefi nite periods. Of late societies have been formed to care for the prisoners and to keep them under observation after they have been restored to society. Jail life there is accompanied -by all the ameliora tions of which it admits without impairing its disciplinary and reformatory character, and when It Is over the convict has a new chance la life, with no disabilities that diligence and .good conduct may not over come. A private letter from Toklo received in London, speaks with great admiration of the service done by Japanese women as trained nurses. When the war broke out all of the male nurses in the hospitals ware drafted into the field army and their nlan. were taken by women, ail of whom had naa tnree years' training, largely under the supervision or the Red Cross Society. The writer says that he was nresent reMntlv at a series of serious operations In the university hospital at Toklo, where the instruments and dreaalnara . vtrni iniirii. In the hands of women, and he declares toat nothing could have been more skill- xuuy done, or with creater attention t all the precautions of modern surgery. He then goes on to say that the Japanese authorities have been a good deal em barrassed by the Conduct Of certain wall. meaning Englishwomen who have persist ently volunteered their services as trained nurses under the impression that their help would be invaluable. The Janan AHA. Wnrkivw Ins their kindly Intention, are unwilling to nurt meir reelings, and are far too cour teous to tell them that they are In qf either Instruction or assistance, having An ftlllinl.nf uinnlw I . vuKt ii ubjiivu nauve at tendants who are in all respects as com petent as any Europeans. That the Rhodeslan dream of a Cape to Cairo railway through the heart of Africa will only be accomplished in a modified form Is becoming- evident What the dis tant future may develop it would be rash to predict, but most engineers, and finan ciers ss well, will be disposed to agree with Lord Cromer's recently expressed opinion that the very great physical diffi culties In the way of a literal carrying out of such a railway project would make the cost of construction out of all propor tion to Its utility. Continuous communi cation by rail and river between Cape Town and the metropolis of lower Egypt Is, however, a very different matter, and It Is In this form that the project Is being pursued. The Egyptian and Soudanese part of the work is already accomplished, and the lines from the south are now be ing extended to the Zambesi. That great river may be bridged this year, and the next link In the chain toward Lake Tan ganyika, a section bf 850 miles, will soon be under contract In the meantime other African railway extensions are being pushed. Nearly 89.000,000 Is to be expended on the line to connect Berber and Suaklm, a link which Is regarded as essential to the development of the Soudan. Prelim inaries are under way, and construction work Is to begin In the fall. The khedlve Is also credited with an Intention to build a road to the Tripoli frontier to connect ultimately with the Tunisian system. The present population of the Soudan is put by the "Soudan Almanac, 1904," at from 1.600,000 to Xooe.000, or about one- fourth of the population in 1&S4, before the roahdl and his successor, Abdullah, founded the Dervish empire. Khartoum, the capital, under the Anglo-Saxon regime, has a population of S.OuO, while Omdurman, which has greatly declined since Kitchen er"s fateful victory In Its vicinity, has still a population of 48,000. Recuperation Is slow. Many tribes in the regions south, north snd east of Omdurman ware almost exterminated by the Caliph AbduPah, who Sale of Regular Price $20 to $S0 They afe Going Fpxt Every Business Suit 8es for.... $15 Every Outing Suit ees for.,. .....$15 Every Rain Coat cLidie' or Men's) 331 off Every Straw Hat 25cPentOff Every Pair Odd Trousers 331 off This sale for cash only This is our regular stock and there is abso lutely no reservation on the articles advertised U17 Farnam also depopulated the western area occu pied by the Bugara, hla own tribe, by brinKlng the population en masse to Om durman to support hln authority and en. Joy the proceeds of his widespread plun derlngs. At the battle of Omdurman, thn most destructive of recent times, almost the whole Bagara fighting force vas wiped out. It follows that the successive vic tories of the DervlBhea and the Anglo- Egyptians have made the Soudan almost a solitude, and many years must elapos before the people and their Industries will be much In evidence. The building of the railway connecting Khartoum with the Red Sea now taken In hand by Lord Cromer la expected to stimulate greatly the repeopllng of the fertile regions east of the capital. Cotton growing is expected to become an important Industry In the fine country between the White and Blue Nlles. POLITICAL DRIFT. Judge Parker was 63 last May. Where was Col. Moses P. Whetmoro when the lights went out? Grover's cup of bliss Is overflowing. A twentieth century democratic convention wildly cheered his name. Among those who are not being "promi nently . mentioned" for anything at St Louis is the Hon. "Hod" Boles of Iowa. Campaign buttons snd complimentary newspaper notices are all right, but some people will not believe fame has really struck the man from Indiana until they see the Fairbanks l-cent cigar. Col. Watterson complains that Senator Fairbanks parts his hair too low down on the side. But as this Is the only low down thing that the senator can be convicted of, he will probably survive the charge. Nothing else political has quite the same spice of humor as the pictures of some of the newspaper illustrators who were not at the republican national convention at Chicago. To think of portraying the Hon. Albert J. Beverldge of Indiana delivering his second speech to the president's nomin ation dressed In a sack coat, neglige shirt and loose trousers held in place by a leather belt! The Hon. Mr. Belveridge would have worn his pajamas first Congressmen and senators from all over the United States will watch closely the election returns from the Seventh Kansas district this fall. It will be a test case as to what government garden seeds will do for a man. Besides his regular apportion ment of 11,000 packages, Congressman Mur dock has talked other .Congressmen out of 10,000 packages. Senator Long and Con-gressman-at-large Soott have also dis tributed part of their apportionment In the district Each one of these packages con tains five smaller packages.' hf you Gart'4 take half a teaspoon of Horsford's Acid Phosphate in half a glass of water just before retiring. To strengthen and quiet the nerves take Horsford's Acid Phosphate KIDNEY TROUBLE"' URIC ACID Pilw Tacali Alarsi. ment that this teaching- is absolutely false. He Bays: "It is rather an indication that they are doing their work of throwing these poisons out of tho system. The fluid that is to be filtered and purified is sot the urino but the Wood. The fact that these poisons sppear in the urine shows that they are being removed from the blood, it alto shows that the blood con taint an excetaive amount of them. The sensible thing to do is not to clear the urino by precipitating these wisous out of the blood into the titiuee, thereby causing Kheumatitm, but to clear them out of the bloo4 by assisting nature to throw them off." El I f 1 I 91 f Aatlits the Klaas te Partly Ida Woes st UllnllNV EllMinatlns Irsai It the Uric AcM teens, This relieves the kidneys and reitores and preserves the health. Call er chaos TO DAT for one battle TKLK It ma you fool Klrered free. WHihrH n I "l ' I .'Mil I-j if n I lit ISth and Chlcaao Sta. Omaha, 'Phones T7 and TOT. tb and K Bts,, loath Omaha, 'Phone No. 1. 6th Ave. and Mala Street PLEASANTLY FOIXTED. "Hallruma doesn't seem to be popular with yo'u follows at Mrs. Starvem's board ing house." a "I should say not" replied Border, scorn fully. "That fellow always pays bis board la advanc." Philadelphia Press. The office boys were .living about Uncle Runoell Sage. "They say he never had a vacation In his life." "You can tell that by lookln' at him. Fvery time he didn't take one It put a new wrinkle in his face." Chloago Tribune. "Did your son play on any of hla college athletic teams?" "No, but he graduated with honors." "Well, of course that's something." Cleveland Plain Dealer. Several ladles were dlsotutslng social posi tion the other day, when llule Frances cut In: "I'm not disturbed about my social posi tion, for I think I shall have all the social position that I have clothes for." Detroit Free Press. "Can you direct me, my man," asked the English tourist, "to a place where one may get a good drink V "Well," replied the thirsty native, "I kin direct you to a place where two may get a good drink." Philadelphia Press. , "How did that phrnse, nlp and tuck,' ever come Into use, and what does It mean, anyhow?" ''The most natural supposition is that It woe started by some man with a thirst. Whenever he wanted a nip he went and tuck It" Chicago Tribune. "And why did you Insist upon standing; by Miss Snlffem all through the recep tion? I know you don't like her." "Of oourse I don't Didn't you notice how my new tailor ault made tier's look cold and dead?" Cleveland Plain Dealer. STAND VP FOR NEBRASKA. AL Blxby In Lincoln Journal. Watson Is too much of a fire eater for the conservative members of his party who live In the north, but the nomination." of T. H. Tibbies will do much to keep the malcontents in line and lend to the canvass an enthusiasm that would other wise be entirely wanting. Stand up for Nebraska I When Webster sought honor and glory. His name was put under the ban; But this Is a different story The office took after the man. It started out "cross-lots and crying," Determined the right thing to do; It went after Tibbies a-flylng The moment he hove into view. Great wisdom the world la his college Has Tibbies aoqulred In life's race; Hla caput Is crowded with knowledge That fairly Illumine his face. He never dissembles or quibbles. His life is devoid of all flaws. That's why I am writing for Tibbies. And splitting- my throat in bis Oause. I wept when John Webster was pickled In politics June twenty-first But now I'm so thoroughly tloMed, My fat sides are ready to burst fi- it. Mil Wr i Trwttnnl C sllartw PttHartths. It has been widely advertised that if when rains stands (or twenty-four hours ther ,'a deposit, it shows that the kidneys are not properly doing their work of filtering. DR. E. C. SCOTT is authority for the state Ask your druggist or write fur Booklet. ELIMINO MEDICINE CO., Dcs Moines, Iowa. of Ellmtne and saw mw MUCH BJCT. Fr sate Sy rw i ftuji m. a. mmim. m iyw wiw. St., Oouncu Blune, -rnone IA
