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' N. B. HUNOATE. Notary Pabllo.
The czar la going to the front, so St.
Petersburg reports say. Reports from
Manchuria say the front is going to the
czar.
With six hospitals already established
and two new ones projected, Omaha
wilt bo the ideal place for the medical
student . t . '
Ex-Senator 'Allen promises to do all
that lies within his power to bring about
the election of a popoctatia governor.
And still that wii: not be enough.
Dueling clubs in German universities
should note the fact that a Cuban won
the International fencing, match nt St.
Louis over German competitors.
- Now is the season for street fairs
throughout the country. The king ot
them all is due -in Omaha before the
month is over. All hall Ak-Sar-Ben! '
-Judge rarker Is evidently a democrat
oast in the Horatio Seymour mold.
Grandfather Davis, a war democrat, is
falling ill to bad company in his old age.
. Tho Che Foo correspondents must
stand in with the cable companies.
When there is no real news from the
front they always file au interview
with an "Intelligent Chinaman."
The World-Herald baa discovered an
other man who la sufficiently acquainted
with the career of the fusion candidate
for lieutenant governor to vouch for his
career and qualifications. Let the good
work go on.
In referring to the cabinet officers in
Cleveland's first administration and
their high standing Judge Barker men
tioned the name of one Garland, but no
democratic editor said a word about
Pan-Electric stock.
Russian troops advancing Into Corea
say they expect the natives to show
the same degree of neutrality to them
as was shown to they Japanese and have
therefore wado a demand for provisions
for the Invading Army.
Over( across the river, in Pottawat
tamie county, the' tax levy has been
reduced one aud a quarter mills from
what It, was a year ago. Here Is an
example bur Douglas county board
might emulate to advantage. i
Judge Tarker has at last made a
definite-stand. He stands" upon h
record of flrovcr Cleveland. "Men may
die, bu( principles are eternal," said W.
J. Bryan In 'lSOfi, but since that time
somo ."principles" hove apparently
gOjjie to the "morgue. '
' L. -J ' '-i
Mouth Omaha proposes to negotiate
for voting machines without the cop
currence. of Ouinln. or Douglas county.
To' this there can be no objection pro
viding Jbat the price of the machines
is no hightr than they have been sold
for in other cities.
.According to Elder Schultce of the
eleventh Day Adventlsts, the war now
going on in the east is not the last' war
that will be fought upon this earth.
This will be encouraging news to the
patentees of multiplex machine guns
and submarine torpedo boats.
It looks very much as if Omaha were
in the grasp of an Ice trust Only one
bid Mas received to furnish the mu
nicipal buildings with ice during the
coming year, and that bid was at the
maximum price. The natural sequence
Will be s municipal Ice-making machine.
Judge Tarker in his address to dem
ocratic editors mentions the "Incapacity
Shown, by the opponents" of democracy,
but HJ . falls to mention specific in
stance. Aa the democratic editors
have been vainly searching for thirty
years to discover this Incapacity, the
Judge would have made a decided hit
wliU tbem by being specific,
BEorCSISO THE HACK ISSCK. '
The democratic charge that President
Roosevelt has tried to reopen the negro
Question is as unfounded as some of
the other' allegations -of that party
against him. The New YorklEvenlng
Tost which Is supporting Parker and
Davis, has the fairness and candor to
say that at no time, has Mr. Roosevelt
ever dreamed of reopening the ques
tion, that "the south Itself reopened it
by its hysterical outburst over the
Eoot.iT Washington Incident Just. as if
the president of the United States did
not have the right and the privilege of
entertaining any Atferic.n cltlsen of
distinction, whatever the color of his
skin." In regard to the administra
tion's negro appointments to office in
the south, that paper says they have
been fewer and better than those of
McKlnley or Cleveland and that the
president would have been recreant in
deed had he denied ' office to worthy
Americans merely because of their
Colon It declares that when the his
torian of the future writes of the pres
ent administration he will find nothing
to record more creditable than Mr.
Roosevelt's stand on tblsv!ssue.
It is the action of soutnern states In
denying to the negro the rights given
him by the federal constitution that has
raised this question Into commanding
public interest and Importance. This
grave wrong to colored cltlaens and
flagrant injustice to the states where all
the guarantees of the constitution are
"respected it Is proposed to extend until
every southern state shall in this way
have nullified . the organic ' law. If
Parker and Davis should carry West
Virginia, with a democratic legislature.
that state is certain to crown the result
by disfranchising the negro. The dem
ocratic candidate for vice president is
favorable to this being done, though
"in the interest of the national ticket"
he had excluded from the state plat
form of his party n plank demanding
disfranchisement. The Maryland de
mocracy is fully committed to the policy
of depriving the negro of the suffrage.
although there is not the remotest dan
ger of negro domination in that state.
The election of a democratic president
would be regarded by the so nth aa the
natlou's endorsement of its policy to
ward the negro and would be followed
by a harsher discrimination against the
colored citizens of the south than now
exists.
The democrats of the south are re
sponsible for the reopening of the race
question. The position of the repub
lican party is plainly stated in its plat
form: "We favor such congressional
action as shall determine whether by
special discriminations the elective fran
chise in any state has been constitution
ally limited, and if such Is the case we
demand that representatlonvln congress
and In the electoral college shall be pro
portionately reduced aa directed by the
constitution of the United States." This
Is absolutely Just. Why should a state
that disfranchises a large portion of .its
citizens be allowed representatives "In
congress and In the electoral college for
those who are deprived of the Suffrage?
It is manifestly unfair, for example, that
Mississippi, with a white population of
041,4100, should have the same number of
seats In congress as California, with' a
population of 1,402,000. .
The question Is simply one of fair
play and equality between states and
sections. If half the citizens of south
ern states who are given the right to
vote by the United States constitution
must be prevented from casting their
ballots freely and having them honestly
counted, then the strict command of 'the
fourteenth amendment should be obeyed
and the representation of the states so
limiting the suffrage should be reduced
accordingly.
INDIJJTA.
The democrats will make a vigorous
fight for Indiana and the party man
agers in that state, of course including
the chairman of the national committee,
are professing confidence that Parker
and Davis will carry it A correspond
ent of an eastern democratic organ' has
been looking over the state and of course
was able to find the political conditions
favorable to the democracy. He dis
covered that there is to e a large drift
among independents, from republican
Ism to . democracy, that the democrats
who left the party in the last two na
tional elections have all returned, that
there Is no defection In the democratic
ranks and that a good many republicans
are distrustful of Roosevelt
If there Is such complete harmony
among the Indiana democrats, why Is it
that the national chairman is so solicit
ous to have Mr. Bryan go into that state
and urge his adbereuts to support the
democratic ticket? Also why is It that
the democratic candidate for governor
has deemed 7 It necessary to warn the
eastern managers of the party not to
put too much emphasis on Judge Par
ker's herotsmvln sending his gold-standard
message and to show proper respect
for the personality and record of' Mr.
Bryan. According to the gubernatorial
caudidate some of the democrats of In
diana have a greater affection for Bryan
than for any public man since Hendricks
and bitterly resent every attack on blm.
He also states that of the 315,000 men
in Indiana who voted for Bryan a very
large majority cf them are atill In ac
cord with blm on the money question.
He indicates that it will be dangerous
to talk much to these voters about the
gold standard.
Pour years ago the republican plural
ity In Indiana was 26,479. Two years
ago the republicans again had -a large
plurality. Senator Fairbanks, the re
publican candidate for vice president. Is
very popular In the state. Indiana Is In
a fairly prosperous condition, her In
dustries havlpg experienced a vigorous
development during the past eight years.
The republicans of the state are well
organized and harmonious. With these
considerations in mind the only reason
able conclusion seems to be that the
lllouejler state Is safety republican. Of
course the republicans there cannot af
ford to be lukewarm or apathetic and
it is safe to say that they will not be,
Aware of the Intention of the opposition
to make the strongest possible effort to
rapture the state It is to.be expected
that they also will put forth their very
best efforts. There Is apparent no sub
stantial reason for the democratic as
sumption that Indiana ' is a doubtful
state. '
Hons BAXD FROM JHt WATERSPOUT..
It la much easier to confuse the popu
lar mind about the water works problem
than to enlighten it For weeks the
Junior Yellow bas kept before the pub
lic misleading jand" deceptive water rate
primers. Now it bas discovered a con-)
splracy on the part of the water com
pany to obstruct and delay the appraise
ment of Its plant We are told, for
example, that "although the water com
pany has been notified by the appraisers
that all schedules should be submitted
to the city attorney "as soon as com
pleted, to permit of their being checked
over before they were placed In the ap
praisers' hands, this was not done. On
the contrary, a large number of these
schedules are said to have been sent
direct to the appraisers, who retained
them, thinking that the city's examina
tion had been completed."
Two " or three months ago it was
charged that the appraisers were un
able to proceed with their work because
the water company was dilatory in
furnishing schedules of its property, but
no pretense was made that the delay
was caused by a failure to submit the
schedules to the city attorney. To the
uninitiated the question will naturally
present itself. What has the city at
torney to do with checking over the
schedules of the water plant and what
does he know about water pipe, hydrants
and the various other parts that are re
quired in the operation of a water works
plant? -The
contract originally made between
the city and company, under which the
appraisement is being made, vests the
power of appraisement exclusively with
the three expert engineers. It might
have been appropriate to refer all water
plant schedules to the engineering de
partment, although neither the original
contract nor the. Howell-Gllbert bill so
provides. In- any event the law depart
ment of tho city can have no part in
the appraisement until after It la made
and then only In case of contention In
the courts. v.
The Bee makes bold to assert that the
owners of the water works have no in
terest in delaying the appraisement,
but on -the contrary, are anxious to sell
the works if they can get their own
price, and they confidently believe that
the appraisers will ,give them all they
can reasonably hope v for. Instead of
being to the advantage of the owners
of the plant the delay has caused them
a very serious loss.
When the three-appraiser plan was
agreed upon In the summer of 1003 the
price, of Iron pipe was quoted nt $37
per ton, or flT per ton- more than It
had been purchased for when the plant
was constructed. Within the past year
the prJce of iron pipe has declined from
$2 to $4 per ton and all the other ma
terials that enter into the construction
of the plant have experienced a corre
sponding decline In value. Ex-Governor
Boyd, the president of the Water board,
estimates the shrinkage In the value of
the water works plant by reason of the
decline in the price of iron pipe at
nearly 500,000, but his estimate is prob
ably excessive. A moderate ' estimate
of the shrinkage in the value of the
water mains alone Is computed to be
$100,000 and the lowest estimate of. the
total shrinkage in the value of the plant
Is 1250,000. So the water works
company, instead of being the gainer by
the delay, Is actually the loser and the
city Is the gainer If the works are finally
purchased.
Alt the declamation about the re
duction of the water rates by the city
council In violation of the contract be
tween the city and the company Is sim
ply sand thrown in the eyes of t peo
ple to promote the Candidacy r b.
Howell, who wants to make tin -plo
of Omaha believe that he is fighting a
great battle for the water consumer and
the taxpayer, but the people are not
likely to be fooled more than once by
the same man. ' '
, The local popocratlc organ Is very
much distressed because the con
gressional committee has ceased to
be a vest pocket organisation to be
pulled up and down by the statesman
from Atlantic City. But the new re
publican congressional committee for
the Second district-'! organized on the
same lines as the republican congres
sional committees in all the other dis-
tricts in Nebraska namely, selection by
the duly elected representatives of the
republic ii of the various counties mak
ing up the district. There is nothing
republican nor democratic in, the old
vest pocket committee. ' ,
Adjutant General Culver; gives it out
that he is already making inquiry into
the conduct of members of the National
Guard in the recent encampment at
David City against which, suph grave
charges have been entered by the local
press. General Culver Is on the right
track and be should , not stop until he
smokes out the culprits or proves the
complaints groundless by evidence suffi
cient to satisfy the most critical.
For an example of the perfection of
the political , machine commend us to
the local democracy. Who ever heard
of reconvening a convention that pasted
out of existence nearly two years ago
to make nominations for a forthcoming
election? Even the late republican con
gressional committee lacked the nerve
to do a job like this.
It is too' bad that John L, Kennedy
could not organise the congres
sional committee to suit -' the local
democratic orgaulat It is amusing that
the only flaw to be found by the op
position organ In Mr. Kennedy's armor
Is the fsct that he allowed the repub
lican congressional convention to name
the committee Instead of following the
precedent established by his predecessor,
whose defeat two years ago was largely
due to his autocratic rrt pocket com
mlttee. - ,.
When it. comes down to brass tacks,
will any court uphold a law Which says
that at an election of two water com
missioners a candidate who gets a ma
jority of the votes will not be allowed
to take his seat because In registering
he gave the- same party affiliations at
the other candidate who also got a ma
jority of the votes?
General Wlnt is to deliver the main
attack upon the armies of Stonewall
Jackson . and General Longstreet at
Manassas while Dr. George L. Miller Is
delivering the main attack upon Stanton,
Lincoln and General Pope at Omaha.
Noiwombatants are notified to move
out of range or stay at their own peril.
The czar Is aald to look with favor
upon the arguments advanced by the
American and British governments ' re
garding contraband of war. The ruler
of all the Russians may: be looking
Ahead to the time when his eonntry will
be fully developed and searching for a
market for its surplus products.
It is now hinted from St. Petersburg
that General Kouropatklu may find' It
necessary to retreat Into Mongolia. As
both sides of the contest have agreed
to keep hostilities out of that province
It is difficult to see how he cau contem
plate such a more unless he Is ready
to retire from business.
Governmcnt Food Expert Dr. Wiley
and his corps of "poison eaters" have
pronounced agalust Scotch whisky and
one or two other things. In the name of
the American people and in the name of
freedom, let them beware how they lay
their sacrellglous condemnation on Mil
waukee'a famous product.
Illinois missionaries who have been
warned to stay away from China until
threatened Boxer troubles are settled
may never have so good a chance of
winning the martyr's crown, but by
staying at home they may save the
United States considerable trouble and
expense.
New York Is discussing Its latest
tenement house fire, white the construc
tors and owners of other houses which
have shown illegal construction seem
to have escaped punishment. If there
were less talk 'and more action life in
New York tenements would be safer,
ttaadreaaial Atteatloaa.
. Chicago News.
So long as the custom Of holding Sep
tember elections ' endures Maine and Ver
mont can count on attracting national at
tention once ; every four years, anyhow.
' Tke 'n for Clover.
:' ' 'fadiasucpolla News.':
Very encouraging- -news come from th
far east. Not nry are the Japs pretty
well played out i with their hard and con
tinuous fighting, but th Ruaalana have
arrived at Yentat,- and Mukden Is .only
twenty miles away.
Rabbi BaT It In,
Chicago Chronicle.
It may be true, - as claimed, that Kouro-
patkln Is closelx following Napoleon's tac
tical We do not, remember, however, that
Napoleon was 'l th habit of getting
whipped fly or,, six times a week as a
preliminary to overwhelming the foe.
Republics Not Ungrateful.
Ban Francisco Chronicle.
The total number of men engaged in all
the wars of the United States was J, 304, 995,
and there haa thus far been paid to them
and their dependents the sum of Pt.Vn.-
717,161. The magnitude of the amount
will go far toward refuting th charge
that republics are ungrateful.
One Bright Spot tow Itaasla.
Springfield Republican. .
The heroic and atubborn resistance of
the Russian garrison at Port Arthur re
main the, brightest phase of the Russian
campaign- The Japanes appear to have
made no progreeq recently In carrying th
works by assault. .General Kouropatkln's
defeat at Llao Yang will b hard for th
Port Arthur, garrlaon to bear, for doubt
less General 8toessel has never abandoned
"hope that ICouropatkln might be abl to
fore th raising of' th siege.
, A DEFl'HCT PARTY.
Tom Watson la the Role of Trath
Teller Enrage Democrats.
Chicago Chronicle.
Tom Watson . excites high wrath and
angry, vituperation in- the Hoffman house
when he reiterates on every occasion that
there la no longer a democratic party.
Yet Tom Watson Is telling the truth. There
no democratic party. Th Faletaffian
brigade that now masquerades under that
designation la no more , the democratic
party than It la th 8alvstion army.
Of course th aggregation can call Itself
democrat lo todayJust as It called Itself
democratic In ISM and 1900. Caning an
as a Hon doe not . affect th fact that
th as remain an ass, however.
A majority of the. peeudo democratic
party ar popullat. who hare nothing in
common with th democrats. These men
ar currency fiatists. advocate of gov
ernment socialism and other doctrines fun
damentally opposed to Indlvlduallam, which
Is the fundamental tenet of American de
mocracy. They captured ' th democratic
organisation eight years ago and adopted.
Its name for tactical reason. They did
not adopt Us prlnclplea because thoe
principle were entirely repugnant to 'them.
Thea men are not democrats, never were
and never will be. . ,
There .la a small and relatively respect
able minority of men who once war demo
crats and who have compromised with
their consciences and convictions and pro
fessed fellowship with these populist b-
cause th popullat have adopted th dem
ocratic name.
These men ar straddling and ahuffllng
around on a slippery platform and sup
porting a slippery candidate In th vain
hep that the aggregation of quacka. hum
bugs and ' hypocrite can be transformed
Into a genuine democratic party. They
ar to be eosnmlsserated. thee men,' be
cause In .them I concentrated whatever la
left of the leaven of democracy and their
hope are Idle. : ,
The democratic party Is ss dead as Julius
Caesar because It ran after false gods
and dented It historic faith.
Tasgart. and , th Junta may rage and
Imaatii a vela, thing, but thev will not
alter the facta Wataon la right There
Is n inor democratic party.
m or washisgto urn.
Mtaer Seeaea sal laetdeata Sketeheej
tk Spot. 1
Th divorce division cf the census bureau.
In a bulletin dealing with domeatlc ties.
Just Jubllshed, presents statistics of un
common Interest on th subject of divorce,
Pome farts brought Out discredit several
prevailing notlona; for example, the asser
tion that early marriages turn oat unhappy
and harmful, ft Is shown In a long list of,
occupations, by groups, In which thefe were
not more than three divorces to 1,000 mar
riage, th tendency I toward early mar
riage. In 1900, fly out of every, 1,000 men.
gainfully employed, who had been married,
were living In a state of dlvorc on census
day, compared with four out of every 1.000
In l&O. This ratio of Increase held good
In nearly every occupation except that
there was no greater tendency to divorce
la shown In th case of clergymen, teachers,
professors In colleges, manufacturers, epub-
lie officials or textll mill operatives.
Considering th occupation of males la
five great clanae, it was found th highest
percentage of divorce was In ,the class de
voted to domestic and personal service. In
this claaa eight out of every 1,099 who had
been married war divorced, being SO per
cent more than In 1090. The lowest per
centage was found among men engaged In
agricultural pursuits. Th number of dl
voroed men her was four to every 1,000
who had been married, but this waa con
slderably higher than th percentage In
1S90. T
Fickle above ail men In their marriage
relation are soldier, sailor and marine.
The following are the occupations by
group In which the percentage of divorced
men is exceptionally high, the number given
being th number of those divorced out of
every 1,000 married:
Basilars I....
. 18Phatwaphra It
. 17IPaprliangeri !
Actor
Asrlrnltaral labnrm
It Darters ana hilrdi
Birtraden ill
(
"nil and waiters.... It Lui
mherroee aa rafta-
I woneohoppcrt n, mo I
mnciuw ana teachers I Clock ana witch mak
er mail u en n4 repairers ... I
Stnck niem. hartars, ir-alntora, elaiiars and
and 4rOTr lo. rarnlthara f
un further analysis the census bureau
found that moat of the above occupations
contain a high percentage of bachelors. The
statistic show that In nine of ths. fifteen
occupations In this line the tendency to
defer marriage Is exceptionally strong.
Great excitement has been created in
some sections of th country over th an
nouncement of a government chemlat that
only a limited number of the .Scotch high
balls compounded In this country conalst
of the real article. In fact, the chemlat
stated, there are not to exceed .twenty
barrel 0f real and pure Scotch whisky In
the United States. '
"It Is safe to make a wager with a bar.
tender that the stuff he hand over la not
Scotch, because the man on the drinking
side win win In per cent of the bets,"
aald an authority. Th great bulk of
Scotch whisky sold In this country I a
spurious compound, and ought to be labeled
aa such."
Vigorous protests have been received at
the Department of Agriculture alnc th
publication of th report concerning the
nature of Scotch whisky sold In this coun
try. ,
Tipping has been recognised as a valid
custom In an order approved by Mr. Mor
ton, th new secretary of the navy. Th
order establishes a standard of allowance
for th expense Of those officers of th
navy traveling on offlolal business who ar
not entitled to mileage.
Tips on trains, up to 60 cents a day, will
be allowed, and the same at hotels. Hotel
bills up to 18 and single meals at $1.80 ar
other allowances sanctioned for officers
traveling In the United State.
Officer traveling outside of th United
State can give tip at hotels up to tl per.
day. pay U per day for steamer chairs, PI
a day for hotel bills and 11.60 for etngl
meals.
Th order has been held back for some
Urn, owing to th objection that tt will
lead all, officers to make their expenae
accounts com up to th maxlmnm th
government will allow.
- Work on the Union station, th hug
marble depot which congress and th rail,
road hay jointly planned. I sufficiently
advanced to the ground level to give an
Idea of IU magnitude. Huge blocks of con
crete fifty feet In height and ' not
much lea In thickness virtually aolld
masses of stone shaped to form the walls
of th building and piers for supporting
floors and roof, are notable objects of 'the
sit of th new terminal. There are not
many men employed on th work, consider
Ing it alse. but It I progressing rapidly
because of the large use of maohlnery, the
economical arrangement of th concrete
mixing plant and, the facility with which
the material Is handled,
Th pier being erected near T street ere
a part of th main building. They will
ultimately b faced with white granite, and
will support th arches of th main en
trance and th dome of th waiting room.
In building them a box-like affair la erected,
the Inalde of which ha th chap which
It Is desired u outside of th wall or pier
shall have, and Into this the newly mixed
concrete 1 dumped and rammed down by
men with heavy tampers.
The amount of concrete which will be
used In the building alone, aald from th
approaches. Is snormou. It will amount to
about 40,1)00 cubic yard. Besides thla thr
will b 400,000 cubic feet of atone maaonry
and 20,000.000 bricks. Th bricks. If placed
ead to end, would reach from Washington
to El Psso, Tex.v For th floor girders and
roof aupporter of th main building, ex
clusive of th train shed, about 7,000 tons
of structural steel will be utilised.
PERSONAL NOTES.
It Is said that Drs. Ott and Hlrsch re
ceive each 180,000 for their servtcea to the
csarlna on th occasion of th csarevltch's
birth.
Daniel B. Christy of Des Moines, la.,
wis on of th first American to set foot
.In Japan. He visited Toklo In Uis. He
waa g member of Commodore Bldwall's
party.
Through Andrew Carnegie th Pittsburg
Chamber of Commerce has obtained th
attendance of John Morley of England as
th principal speaker at th annualrdlnncr
on th night of November 4.
Th mayor of an Ohio city has ordered
the police to wheel those arreated for
drunkenneas around town In a wheelbar
row befor locking them up. It looks at
this dlatanc as though th police would
not- b anxious to mas many , arrest on
such terms.
Dr. Charlea V. Herdiska of Cincinnati.
who -ha held numerous government posi
tions of trust and honor, haa been (elected
a general secretary of th American con
gress to represent the United States at
th twelfth Interparliamentary congress to
be held in -St. Louts.
Winston Churchill, novelist, has a super.
atitlon regarding th letter C. Th titles
to all hi storle hav begun with that
letter Celebrity, Crista, Carvel, ,Croaalng
and all hav been successes. He believe
that If he ahould writ a novel with a
tltl beginning with a D or K or a W th
book would b a flat failure.
Dr. Punkall, director f the Itoyal Ce-
ramlo school at Butslau. Prussian Silesia,
has started on a journey of observation and
study In th United Slates on behalf of
the Prussian mlnlatry of eommero. Sev
eral director of German Industrial schools '
and a high official of th mlnlatry will ac.
company Dr. Punkall, Th trip is
pec t til to last two anoolh j
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Chicago Record-Herald: Somebody has
started a story to the effect that General
Kurokl Is a Pole In disguise. This Is nrob
ably untrue, but Japan Is finding that he
enmes In quite handy for clubbing pur
poses.
Cincinnati Tribun: When It comes to
dictating terms of peace it will be found
that th program has been changed. The
dictation will be at St. Petersburg and not
in -Toklo, unless Japan Is willing to con
cede the point.
Chicago Chronicle: Kouropatkln can
hardly be expected to enjoy the situation,
but as he skips along, a few lengths aliead
of Kurokl, he may consols himself with
th reflection that he la getting that much
closer to home and dear old St. Petersburg.
Indianapolis News: Under the circum
stances, Russia can not entertain any offer
of mediation. Of course, . It may not be
Quit ao sporty, but It Is sometimes wiser
to quit loer than to quit broke. In the
excitement of th gam Russia may not
hav thought of this.
Chicago News: Why has th yellow man
triumphed in this first campaign In Man
churia? Why has a great army of white
soldiers been routed by a mixed, race ot
Malays, Mongol and Alnoa? Because th
Japanese soldier Is an educated soldier,
while th Russian soldier Is so stupid and
111 taught that h has failed to master th
exacting eclene of modern warfare.
Chicago Journal: Let no superficial ob
server of th war In th east make th
mistake of believing that the downfall of
Port Arthur and the defeat of Kouropat
kln's force means, peace. Manchuria is
th prise for which Russia and Japan ar
contending, and In th opinion of student
pf th situation in th Orient, tt Is a prise
which th csarwlll not relinquish without
a long and bitter Struggle.
Louisville Courier-Journal: There are
evidently plenty of x Mark Tapleys In Bt.
Petersburg. The military officers there,
the dispatches tell us, are unanimous In
th belief that General Kouropatkln, "by
hi withdrawal north, haa actually con
verted what might have been dlaaater to
himseir,, into what is regarded as a re
verse for th Japanese, for the failure of
th ' Japanese to hold General Kouropat
kln' arrrly and Inflict a decisive blow, It
I said, cannot be regarded otherwise than
a reverse." The mighty armle of all th
Russian have been "defeating" the Jap
In thl way ever alnc th latter crossed
tho Yalu river. Let us not quarrel with
the Russian bear if, foraging south to
make a meal of little Japan, he call it a
Japanese reverse because he scuttles back
north without allowing the Japs to take
hi skin.
JUST THINK IT OVER.
l
Lassoas frosa th Exaerieae of Eight
- and Tea Years Ago. , N
Portland Oregonlan.
In '188S-4-4-6 our country wa. producing
Immense quantities of wheat; cattle, w-iol,
fish, hops and metals, but there were no
'prices. People were not buying and wjgea
want down to anything th workman could
gat when he could get work at all. Nalur
was Just as bountiful as ever, but th
democratic policy was not favorobl to th
welfare of the country.! Doe the country
wish to return to that policy? Hardly.
Ther will b a bit of thought end reflec
tion about It ,
For It is known, for It l-s bea.t proved,
that th policy of a party has much lo do
with th public welfare, who th tide of
business, with markets, with employment
of Isbor, with financial c jnllclono- with tlio
whole system of affair on which indus
trial and commercial proHpi.-rU depend.
Your democratic on tor or newspaper will
tell you that th poll-.-y ot a i-arty Ugi-tn't
cause wheat to grow nor mines t-i yield;
that eropa and seasons are Independint of
party policy, and so on. Only a half
truth, and hardly a haif truth; for the
worst time this country haa known within
living memory was the seas'in of night
mar and despair, from 11 to 1P97, when
th seasons war as favorable' as ver
and the crops never better when woo: fell
to I cents a pouu-1. wheat X cvnta a
bushel and wage wire praeticully annihi
lated ,
It was the policy of a party that did It
And Just so Boon as that imrty waa com
pletely defeated. It policy arrested and
SMursnc of iteliK.'y, on rational condi
tions, restored,' an unexdtup: iJ ti-le of
prosperity set In, which haa continued to
this day.
Ia not fti country now sufficiently pros
parous? Does It wish to hang It policy
and bring bsek the conditions of si-S7?
It Is a pertinent Inquiry.
It Is cheap enough to ey that crop, pro
duction, movements-of bu!nia and gtn
ral prosperity ar independent of any
party policy and of party action It I I
cheap enough and flippant enough, but It
lan't true. Confidence I necessary to busi
ness, markets ar necessary to labor and
to production. If you wish to form a
Judgment as to whether democratlo policy
will produce these results. Indulge in a lit
tle retrospect. And recall how qufckl
everything revived when democratlo policy
waa so decisively overthrown by th else
tlon of th year ItM.
Look at our history, review our experi
ence, to whether the policy of a party
make any difference. Would It hav been
well had, the democratlo parly won la 1SM
1M? Incredulity her must be tolerated
and excused.
WHY TUB RAINBOW 18 CHASED.
Tale of Wo. Employed to Tap
National ampatan Paada.
New York World.
These are days when the democratic
leaders In safely republican state Journey
to the national headquarters to tell Chair
man Taggart that there Is widespread dis
affection among the republicans and an
excellent opportunity to carry the state for
Parker. Likewise these are days when re
publican leaders in democratlo state paint
an equally seductlv picture for th eye
of Chairman Cortelyou.
An unsuspecting public! vaguely wonders
ir sll the republican state are really going
democratic and all the democratic states
republican, or If th state leader hav lost
their head.
No heads have been lost. Th stat
leader are as aaf and ssne as a cash
register. They know their business, part
of which Is to squees a maximum sum of
money from a reluctant campaign committee.
The republican leader in the democratlo
state and th democratic leader In the re
publican state ar always ambitious "to
make a showing." Th better ahowlng
they can make the lea chance of their
being dethroned by ambitious rivals. There
Is not much "fat"' for a minority party In
any state, and eo an appeal la made to the
national committee to lubricate the wheels.
National committees do not Ilk to throw
away money. It I too hard to get. So
th a tat leader begins his sppeal by de
scribing the dejected end despondent con
dition of th majority party In his state.
The more he needs the money th more
aggressive the minority party is repre
sented ss being, .and the more tottering and
impotent is th majority party.
Perhaps this almple explanation will as
rit th wayfaring tnart. In'- arriving 'at a
juater eattmate of some of the report made
to th national chairman by visiting states
men. There la a very old nursery story
about a pot of gold at the end of every
rainbow. The practical" politician know
that the pot of gold la really there If a
convincing rainbow can be conjured up.
" LAUGHING OAS.
"D man dat devotee hlitae'f tn f,K
tuTi I
tny I
flndln'," said Uncle Eben. "turn out many
a un jou o wora aai aoean give satlsiao-
'ao- I
uon to noDoay, waanington star.
' Flret Domestic Thought you liked your
place; why did you leave It?
Second Domeatlc I liked It all right, but
they had the gull to appoint the funeral ot
one of the daughter on my day off. Boa
ton Transcript.
Payahunt Juat rtald Dr. Blank tM tnr
pulling a tooth.
Hcaitny-was that all h charged for?
i es.
"Then he threw In the pulling of your
leg, did her-Phlladelphta Pres.
"Thla I a queer looking spoon hook,"
said the customer.
"That, air' aald the dealer In sportlnje
goods, "I th very latest. It 1 calUa tlsa
"Anglers' Delight.' " .
"What's the Idea 1n It?"
"It is a combination spoon hook and cork
screw." Philadelphia Catholic Standard. .
Mabel Where doe Madge get her good
looks from, her father or her mother?
Edythe From her father. He keep a
drug atore.'-Colller's Weakly.
"What do you think of Englind?"
"Painfully alow. . Almost a year behind
u." '
"What make you think so?"
My. I hadn t been la Liverpool five
minute when a blooming Briton ca
ut
nd said, 'Buy. 'ow hold Is HannT'
Clv-
land Plain Dealer.
THB LAND OP "PRETTY SOON."
Chicago Inter Ocean,
I know a land where streets are paved
With the thlnga we meant to achieve;
It is walled with th money we meant to
have saved,
And the tjleaaurea for which we grieve. -
Th kind, word unspoken,
the promises
broken.
And mariv a Mvti1 honn -
Ar stowed away there In that bind some
where There are uncut Jewels, of poaslbl famSr.,
Lying about In th dust.
And many a noble and lofty aim
Covered with mold and rust.
And. oh. this plac. where It stems so
near.
Ia farther sway than th moon!
Though our purpose la fair, yet w nvr
get there
The land of "PrettyNgoon."
It Is farther at noon than' It Is at dawn,
Farther at night than at noon;
Oh. let ua beware of that land down there
Th land of "Prtty Soon."
OUR .
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rlty and Fair Dealing The fact that
w devot ourselves .acluaively to the
elentthe examination f t he y a j and
th furnishing of ! t
potislbl to do more satisfactory work
both to our patient and ouraelvea.
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