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r Til 12 OMAHA DAILY HEE: SATURDAY, SEPTWtRER 24. 190. Tiie Omaha Daily Bee E. HOHEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERT MORNIXO. ' TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION. irHy Dm (without Sunday). One Year. 44 00 Bee and Sunday, One Tear.. S 0 Illustrated Bee. On Tear J2 . Bunday Hw, One Tear i -M , Saturday lie, one Tear 1 00 Twentieth Century Frmfr, One Year.. 100 DELIVERED BY CARRIER. I telly Bee (without Sunday). pr copy .... Jo fally Bee (without Sunday), per week ....IjO uaiiy nee tinciuoing dunai Jay). Pr week.. 17c Sunday Uee, per copy 1 Vvnln P Asithmit Runrlav). eer week 3C ' Evening Ilea (Including Sunday), per w'k.Lc Complaints of Irregularities In delivery . should be addressed t City Circulation De partment. OFFICES. Omaha-The Bee Building. Bruih Omaha-City Hall Building. Twenty-fifth and M Street. Council Bluffs 10 Pearl Street. Chicago 1640 Unity Bulldlnr. j New 5ork-232S Park Row Bulldlnir. Washington Ml Fourteenth Btreot. f i CORRIISPONDENCE. i Communications relating- to new and edl ' torlal matter hIiouM be addressed: Omaha : Bee. Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. . Remit by draft, express or postal order, i payable to Th Pee Publishing Company. Onlv 2-eont stamps received In payment of rr.all accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or en.tern exchanges, not accepted. TUB! BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION, fitate of Nebraska. Douglas County, as.: Oeorge B. Tzwhuck. secretary of Tho-ee . Publishing company, belns duly sworn, says ' that the ncttinl number of full snd complete copies of The Pally. Morning, Evenftlg and , Sunday Bee printed during the month of 1 August, 1901, was ts follows: 1 2n.BftO 2 JiO.ftOO )T. 18 2H.-K40 XJ ill.OKO 10.... '. sw.aoii tl 2M.40O t ...2WM'i0 4 SIW.OAO I...., 2ii,ono aa.Tno T 2U.7BO 1 21,MO i ...... X9,nio 10 29,(120 11 2!,8W 12 2U.4MO IS 80,140 14 20.BOO U .....xo.aao 22 20.8OO 23 2S.030 24 3H.D40 26 a,ar.o 26 2O.100 f 30,000 28 2T.100 2J. 20.25O SO 29,444 1 29,210 1G X,2S4 - vTotal 9O4.9S0 Leu unsold and returned copies... 723 Net total sale (WT.T11 Daily average 28,920 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me Uto 31st day of August. lirW. (6eal.) N. B. H.UNQATE, Notary Public Rain or shine the Omaha horse show will come off according to program with out a bitch. Colonel Tibbies Is the only candidate for Tie president who Is taking care to do most of his orating with his pen. Corea seems to have moved up to the Missouri standard In one respect it now executes men who wreck railroad trains. The Bee most cordially seconds the motion of the World-Herald for a better train service on the Elkhoru division of the Chicago & Northwestern railway. A Swiss savant says that "skyscrap ers" are doomed. This news will be more reliable when it receives the "O. IC" of the owner of urban real estate. Philadelphia municipal politics must be getting cleaner. Only 212 alleged i Illegal registrations are reported out of a total of 575 persons registered in one district The protracted contest over the dis trict court clerkship is a forcible re minder of the long felt want of voting machines that will leave no chance for dlsputa over mlsmarked ballots. The czar Is said to be a fatalist, and Japanese have for ages been influenced by the fatalistic doctrine, so that what ever may be the result of the present war both sides should be satisfied. The estimated cost of the late maneu vers on Bull Run battlefield is $750,000, bat If It has resulted in stopping one real battle with as many troops engaged It is worth more than twice its cost. Since J. Flerpojit Morgan has enjoyed the novelty of a railroad wreck in Mas sachusetts perhaps more pains will be taken to avoid accidents on roads in which he is Interested, at any rate when he Is traveling over them. The ruler of Montenegro has granted a form of constitutional government to his subjects. It Isn't every day that he becomes the grandfather of the heir to the Italian throne and he wants his people to rejoice with him. Citizens of Omahu and Douglas county were badly disappointed in the last del egation which went to the legislature from this district If they get fooled a second time by the same bunch they will have only themselves to blame. South Omaha. has managed to. do a great deal of paving this season, al though It does not possess a board of public works, while street paving in Omaha dm been stalled apparently Just because It has a board of public works. Russia la offering $9 per ton for coal delivered, at Vladivostok, and this Is taken as evidence of an alarming short age In the fuel supply. There are places not a thousand miles from Omaha where the price of $0 for coal would indicate a flooded market. "Democracy's blunders are the only hope of the republican party In the !." declares tho New York Evening Post. Fortunately "domocracy'g blun ders" have been so regular of late years that their recurrence can be predicted with almost the same degree of accuracy aa that of an eclipse. Ak-Sar-Ben's mask ball, following the great court ball this year, is in the na ture of an experiment which can be made a success only If the general pub lic participating In It appreciate the conditions and limitations which attach to a mask carnival Ak-Sar-Ben, how- ever, has made a success of everything he baa toughed so fa and there is no good reason why he should not make a uooese aUJs also DAXin OX TITS HACK QUESTION. The democratic candidate for vice president. In his speech opening the West Virginia campaign, Utfelt at length upon the allegM extravagance of the republican administration, which Is favorite theme with the democrats, but had very little to say alwut the vlr tual nullification of the federal constl tutlon by several of the southern states In their disfranchisement of colored cltlsens. The venerable gentleman ex pressed regret that republican leaders agitated the question, apparently forget ting what Is being done by the demo crats of Maryland and what will be done by the democrats of West Virginia If the state is carried by that party in November. At the democratic state convention of West Virginia there was an nrgent demand for a plank in the platform fa vorable to depriving the negro of the suffrage, but Mr. Henry O. Davis had It omitted, not because he is opposed to disfranchising colored voters, but for the reason that he feared h platform dec laration for that policy would be detri mental to tho national ticket. If the democrats elect a governor and leglsla ture nothing is more certain than that the democrats of West Virginia will take the suffrage from colored citizens. As to the republican leaders they are very moderate in their expressions on this question, which is of fur greater Importance than is commonly under stood and appreciated. What the re- publican party Insists upon Is that negro disfranchisement shall mean a loss of representation In the popular branch of congress and In the electoral college and this Is a perfectly Just demand. The south and not the republican party Is responsible for the agitation of the race question, but republicans who want tho negro treated Justly and have his constltuional rights will not Ignore the question so long as the colored citizens are subjected to wrong and Injustice. A SIGN OF IMPROVEMENT, It Is pleasing to be able to note an instance indicative of a growing antl lynching sentlnent in the south. This is furnished by the action of a grand Jury nt Huntsvllle, Alabama, which returned seven indictments against per sons charged with having taken part in the Maples atrocity and recom mended tho impeachment of the sheriff of the county and of the mayor and chief of police of Huntsvllle for wilful neglect of duty. In its report the Jury said: "The question is whether we shall be ruled by a mob or by the law; whether we shall have anarchy or gov ernment, whether an armed and un reasoning rabble whose worst passions have been inflamed and prejudices aroused shall be permitted to trample our statutes under foot and openly com mit most atrocious crimes merely be cause they have brute force at their command." Tho Huntsvllle grand Jury merits the heartiest innmeudation for its action and utterance. It has set an example which it is to be hoped will be emulated In other southern communities where mob violence may hereafter assert It self. Whenever in the south generally such sentiments as those above noted shall prevail there will be little of the lawlessness and the brutality' which have caused so much reproach to that section. There are many southern peo ple who condemn lynching, even In the case of the most heinous of crimes, but there are also many who defend it and it is a question whether these do not constitute the majority. At all events the Huntsvllle indictments are an en couraging sign of Improvement in pub lic sentiment and ought to have a good influence in the Interest of law and order. THE LAST PENSION ORDER. The Parker Constitution club of New York, composed of lawyers, having as sailed the pension order known as the age order as an act of usurpation on the part of the president of the function of congress and also unconstitutional, the commissioner of pensions has replied to the charge and very conclusively points out its fallacy. Commissioner Ware Is a lawyer and doubtless the equul in ability of most of the members of the New York club. The order to which the democrats object makes the proof of certain ages, by old soldiers, evidential facts of certain degrees of disability. A union veteran of the civil war who has reached the age of 62 la presumed to be partially Incapacitated from .the per formance of manual labor and is en titled to a pension of $0 per mouth. At 03 he is two-thirds disabled and is en titled to $8 per month and at 70 he Is wholly disabled and entitled to $12 per month. As Commissioner Ware says, this order Is within the strict line of statu tory authority, human experience and executive precedent. "No democratic president or commissioner will ever ab rogate order 78, because It Is for all time, yet a democratic president or com mUtsloner would have that power and General Black, who had been pension commissioner, knowing of this power, thought It wise to suggest that congress put the question beyond the reach of his party by making an act done In pur suance of congressional authority the motive of a specific act." In regard to the charge of unconstitutionality made by the New York club, the commissioner of pensions points out that when the order was made congress was in session, that It wbi Immediately reported to con gress and an appropriation of $1,600,000 asked to carry the order into effect. This appropriation was made and there by congress approved the order and rec ognized its legality, which would seem to completely dispose of the objection on the ground of unconstitutionality. There Is a section of the constitution which provides that "no money shall be drawn from the treasury but In conse quence of appropriations made by law." The money to meet the requirement under this pension order having been appropriated there was manifestly no disregard of the constitution In paying out the money. But as a matter of fact only a very small portion of the appropriation $!O,0OO was paid out at the close of the last fiscal year, the remainder, $1, 410,000, having been covered back Into the treasury. Instead of the govern ment's being compelled to spend $.V), 000 a month for pensions under the age limit order, $30,0t0 a month for that purpose appears to be approximately the correct figure. There Is absolutely no sound reason for the democratic ob jection to this order. A precedent for It was made by the Cleveland adminis tration and no fault was then found with It. The contention that It Is uncon stitutional Is utterly untenable and It makes no excessive demand upon the national treasury. The union soldiers who have reached the age of 02 are Justly entitled to a pension of $0 a month and the democratic objection to granting them such a pension will not commend that party to the favor of a majority of the American people, who undoubtedly believe with President Roosevelt that the veterans of the civil war should be treated In a spirit of broad liberality. THE REPUBLICAN STATE LEAGUE. A call has been issued for a con vention of delegates representing the various republican clubs throughout Ne braska to meet at Omaha next Friday, September 30, to select delegates to attend tho national league convention at Indianapolis, and also to perfect ar rangements for the more active partici pation of the cluba in the present cam paign. Tho republican state league In the past has, we regret to say, been more ornamental than useful in Nebraska, al though there Is no question but that 6uch an organization of republican clubs can be made an efficient adjunct to the forces at the command of the campaign managers. Having called the state league to meet in convention it behooves not only those who have been instru mental in issuing the call, but all those who are especially interested in repub lican success this year to see to it that the convention is more than a mere for mality. To bring this about each and every re publican club in the state should be con vinced at once of the necessity of ap pointing delegates to represent them here at Omaha and the delegates so selected must be impressed with the duty of attending and participating in the work and discussions. So far as the care and entertainment of the delegates devolves upon the republicans of Omaha they may be depended upon to fulfill their obligations fully and cheerfully. It is up to the republican clubs of the outside cities and towns, however, to make the league convention what it ought to ba. If they fall to answer the call the effort to revive the league will prove more harmful than beneficial to the republican cause In this state. Omaha wants as many interurban lines as can be operated between this city and the towns within a range of from fifty to one hundred miles on both sides of the Missouri. All these Inter urban lines should have a right of in terchange of business with the Omaha street railway and the Omaha & Council Bluffs street railway on reasonable terms to facilitate travel and traffic. The Interurban lines should also be granted eminent domain privileges for acquisition of terminal grounds for power plants and car sheds. It is an opeu question, however, whether fran chises should be granted to the various interurban lines to operato over public thoroughfares within the city limits of Omaha that are already occupied by street railway tracks or, in fact, whether they need any tracks in addition to the tracks now laid. New York steamboat inspectors have declared that the lire-saving equipment of the ill-fated Slocum was . in proper shape, but that the great loss of life was due to the lack of discipline on the part of the crew. Those responsible for the action of the crew will probably make a report showing someone else to blame, and the easy going American public will accept these evidences of thorough work as usual and continue to ride in dangerous boats until the next accident. The deceptlveness of the demand for early nominations that the candidates may start in with their campaign is pretty well illustrated by the democratic local legislative and county tickets, which have been nominated now for several months, but without making any visible noise or headway in the matter of campaigning. For all the good It has done them, the democrats might as well have waited until after the repub lican primaries should have been held. Republican voters who have moved within the last six months from one ward to another and republicans who will vote for the first time in Nebraska on November 8 will have an opportunity to participate In the republican prima ries October 7 If they present themselves at the city clerk's office for special regis tration any time before . Monday even ing. Frank C. Andrews, the Detroit banker who was paroled from the penitentiary where he was confined after conviction for bank wrecking, has made restitu tion to 250 depositors and promises to pay other claims later. Nebraska has a few former bankers who r.Ight make ten-strike by following this example. It may be that It was only an odd coin cidence which caused the presence of British ships off Las Palmaa after the arrival of a Russian cruiser, but In the Interest of international good feeling It is to be hoped Russia will be content to accept the fact without inquiring Into the cause. A Sound Policy. San Francisco Chronicle. Men mnjr differ about the merits of a fiscal policy, but sensible business men are a unit In believing that "Let well enough alone" Is a sound motto. Limited Capacity tnr Mischief. New York Tribune. The boll weevils of the democratic party are doing all the harm they can to Amer lean prosperity. Fortunately their capac ity for mischief has Its limitations. Tips Worth the Money. Kansas City Star. Secretory Wilson says a severe frost might do considerable damage to the corn crop. Such tips as this are what make the Department of Agriculture worth all that it costs. Fact and Reasons Wanted. Baltimore American. The spellbinders are filling the air with their eloquence, but after all it is the man behind the vote who is really going to save the nation, and ho is looking for facts and reasons. Side-Tracked. Washington Post. The Lena incident is closed. Secretary Morton has wired the yardmaster of San Francisco harbor to place the boat on the sidetrack back of the repair shop and leave It until further orders. Compalaorjr Arbitration. Philadelphia Press. Compulsory arbitration, which haax been the law of New Zealand for ten years, Is pronounced by a labor leader of that coun try a great success, as It has prevented strikes. But the British workmen will not have It. They voted It down by more than two to one when proposed at their recent trade union congress by Ben TiV.ett. It will perhaps come in time. If strikes in the United States could have been prevented during the last two years both workmen and employers would be much better off. The advantage of arbitration was shown in the anthracite coal strike. Arbitration on the New Zealand plan, each side appointing an equal number of arbitrators, who agree on an umpire, seems to be fair, and It has given satisfaction in that country. HEADING FOR TUB PACIFIC. Probability of the Milwaukee Becom Inar a Transcontinental Road. Chicago Tribune. It is said by some who pretend to know that the Milwaukee & St. Paul wishes to blossom out Into a transcontinental road that business is not growing rapidly enough in the territory it serves; and that it must open new fields in order to prosper. The westernmost points reached by the St. Paul road are Chamberlain and EVarts, on the Missouri river In the state of South Dakota. If it were to extend its lines to the Pacific It would traverse territory lying between the Union and Northern Pacific roads, and would become their competitor for through and local business. The St Paul is in such good shape financially that it can get with ease all the money that would be required. . One of the officers of the road says that it had such intentions eight years ago, but has not now. He says the country pierced by its lines is capable of great develop rnent, and some day will sustain five peo. pie for every one it does now. That is em phatlcally true. The future growth of Wis consin, Iowa, Minnesota and South Dakota, where the St. Paul gets the bulk of its business, is beyond all calculation. That road has so rich a home field to cultivate that it Is not necessary for it to go farther west. ... Tho denial of the St. Paul officer Is not necessarily conclusive. Railroads often, up to the moment of their entering upon some new project, swear that they have not thought of it One is Inclined to attach more faith to the denial In this case' be cause the construction of a new transcont! nentaJ road at this moment would be a questionable venture. It would be expedi ent to And out what effect the Panama canal, which is a certainty now, will have upon transcontinental freight rates. Much freight which has been going by land will go by water, unless rates are lowered con. slderably. POLITICAL DRIFT. Election bettlns In New York continues 2 to 1 on Roosevelt, but there is not enough doing to pay for the chalk. The campaign in Illinois hasn't vim enough to move the local windmills. Even Chesty Gullet is conducting a gumshoe canvass. Thomas E. Watson is to be chief guest at a dollar dinner in New York next Sat urday. It Is worth the prios to hear the "Modem Jefferson" spiel in "the enemy's country." Colonel Oliver C. Sabln, who proved his loyalty to the cause of free silver by edit ing, together with Senator Stewart of Ne vada, the "Silver Knight," has declared In favor of President Roosevelt in a long statement. James K. Jones, the genial prophet of former campaigns, has broken into the payroll of the democratio national com mlttee. Mr. Jones is Invaluable aa a pro rooter of political gaiety. William R. Morrison "Horizontal Bill" Is about to re-enter politics. He will be connected with the western democratic campaign management In an executive capacity. He is 79 years old, so he does not crowd Uncle Gassaway. Doc Ames, the boddle mayor of Minne apolis, who escaped a term In the peniten tiary on a technicality, possesses a fine brand of nerve. He sought a nomination for congress at a recent primary, but Min neapolis decided not to parade its shame. As censor-ln-chlef of the reorganised de mocracy the Brooklyn Eagle has a busy time Inculcating the principles of right thinking. The Eagle has Just pushed its talons into Bourke Cockran'a Tammany hall speech, dubbing It "a speech unfit to be made," Miss Margaret Ingles, a vivacious Ken tucky lass, has gone to New York to an swer a summons from Thomas Taggart, chairman of the democratio national com mittee, who wants her to begin a stump speaking campaign through the state of Indiana. Miss Ingles Is well known In Ken tucky and several other states as a cam paign orator, The New York Sun tells of a democrat, one of the particular variety, who Uvea In the state of Washington. After he hid been nominated for office he was ap proached by a grafter who tried to "work" him by saying: "You're all right I'm going to vote for you." He answered: "Well, I don't care a whoop whether you do or not. I'm going to be pretty d d particular about who votes for me." The republican congressional campaign In the twenty-eighth Pennsylvania district will be opened September 19 with a barbe cue near Franklin. Preparations are being made to receive 30,000 voters from all parts of the district. Congressman Joseph C. Sibley, who gives the affair, will be one of the speakers. The following Items give an Idea of the proportions the barbecue will assume: Five thousand pounds of beef, (00 lambs, hams and chickens by the hundred, two car loads of watermelons, 10,000 loaves of bread, 2,&0 pounds of butter, 60,000 cigars. The tables will measure 1,100 feet In length. Fifteen butchers will carve and 160 men will serve. OTIIEn LAS DS TIMS Ot RS. Germany Is going right ahead with her naval building program without any letup. Word received at the Navy department 1 to the effect that the new German schedul will be a duplication of that of 1900. It pro Vidoa for thirty-eight battleships and proportionate number of cruisers, which Will add to the kaiser's navy no less than seventy-six battleships and the proper ratio of smaller vessels. The German secretary of the navy Is now drafting the plan fo financing the measure. It is reported that the shipbuilding yards of Germany are able to take care of this great Increase of work without any Inconvenience. It Is also stated t.iBi the last ships completed for Germany have not proved satisfactory. is found that In order to keep pace with naval progress by the improvement of ar mor, guns and torpedoes the battleship must be newly designed each year. The original scheme was to draft out a plan for a fleet of battleships, building a certain number each year for a period of six or eight years. The march of progress In the development of new features in warships makes this plan unsatisfactory. In Ger many it seems to be the policy to lay down Ave battleehlps each year and complete one in two years. It takes four years to finish a battleship In this country, while In Ger many the work has been done in three years. Several gross miscarriages of Justice which have occurred In Italy recently have directed publlo attention once more to the scandalous conditions existing in the crlml nal courts. A parliamentary committee, which has had the whole subject under in vestlgation, recommends some radical re forma, but, according to the writer of long letter In one of the London news papers, does not go to the real root of the matter, which is the Incompetence, or worse, of the Judges. He admits that very often the president of an assize court is worthy and well-meaning official; but net ther the emoluments nor the prestige of the post can attract a man of much ability, and few of the Judges have knowledge of law or strength of character sufficient to control the courts over which they preside, A Judges he adds, is hampered by many considerations, some of them political, aS the Judicature is not yet really free from dependence on the government. But, chiefly, he Is at the mercy of the advocates who practice before him. These, very often are men of far greater Influence and Im portance than himself sometimes deputies capable of promoting or retarding his ad vancement He can neither check the In terminable length of their speeches nor pre vent their introduction of purely irrelevant evidence, nor, In some cases, resent the complete contempt they display for his ruling. The death of Prince Herbert Bismarck will not In any way nffect politics In Ger many, for he had been out of public life for some time. Prince Herbert was a man who always exhibited respectable talent, but who never gave any evidence of genius, He owed his consplcuity in national affairs almost entirely to his father's influence. which kept him in various diplomatic sta tions of Importance and eventually put him at the head of the Foreign office. He was a good private soldier In the Franco-Prussian war, an efficient subaltern, an expert duel ist, a most accomplished beer drinker and a gallant to whom the contemplation of one episode at least must have been continually a source of shame. It Is difficult to say whether or not Herbert Bismarck might have developed into something bigger had he not been the son of a man with an over shadowing reputation Few great men have left great sons. Even where nature transmits the capacity to rise above medi ocrity the second generation Is apt to neglect its opportunities because the spur to endeavor is somewhat dulled by the fact that the first generation has made the family name sufficiently Illustrious. There Is no government in the world that has not its secret service, looking after the conduct of public affairs and private affairs also where there is any possible bearing on national interests but only in the cuse of Russia has it happened that a government hus been dotected in putting in a responsible embassadorlal position one of its secret police. The Russian govern ment hns Just ordered the recall of one Manulloff, from Paris, where he was at tached to tho embassy from St. Petersburg. because it had been discovered that he was simply a police agent to spot Russian revo lutionists. He has a record In Italy, where he was for several years a principal mem ber of the czar's diplomatic representation, and the expulsion of many Russians and Poles, and their surrender to Russian offi cersresulting In their Imprisonment In Russia or their transportation to Siberia, have been' traced to the agency of Manul loff. These revelations have caused no lit tle excitement In Italy, where spies are not regarded as on the same level as diplomats. It la said that this Is the first known in stance of the sort, but very likely many such police agents have masqueraded as attaches of legation. Russia's refusal to lend countenance to the coronation of King Peter of Servia looks well on the face of It, for the circum stances of his arrival at the throne were certainly about as bad as they could be, but, unfortunately for Russia, there is something distinctly ludicrous in the idea that its diplomacy revolts at the recogni tion of a bloodstained crown, and In .'.! parts of the world the obvious reasons for Its present delicacy will be promptly dis missed as Irrelevant. Of course the other nations will find reasons not obvious they must Indeed, to excuse or explain their unprotestlng participation In festivities which mark the successful Issue of a policy of brutal assassination. Their own position Is that King Peter himself la not half so bad a fellow as he might be, that be had no known part In the murders by whlah he profits if It is profitable to be king of Servia and that he really is the king In fact and In such law as the vicinage pro vtdea. That this Is not enough for Russia is an International Joke of larara Dronnr. tlons. King Edward, attending mass celebrated in honor of the Austrian emperor's birth day, remained erect, we are told, at the elevation of the host, not availing himself of the kneeling stool at his feet. In so aoing, says the London Chronicle, It may do saiu at once nis majesty broke no con- Hair - Vain? Why not? A little vanity Is a good thing. Perhaps you can't be 'hair-vain, your hair is so thin, so short, so gray. Then use Ayer's Hair Vigor. It stops falling of the hair, makes the hair grow, and always restores color to gray hair. " I have used Ayer's Hair Vigor for over 40 years. I am now In my 91st year and have an abundance of soft brown hair, which I attribute to the use of your preparation." Mrs. Mary A. Keith, Belleville, 111. V.M. iUsrauMs, VCaruca.Lmii.i CM; 3.SO "MAKES If year leel feel or the nit Buy Cressett the lull mtaninf of selid comfort. LEWIS THESE PRICES ARE A RARE TREAT. Orchard : Wilhelm Carpet Company. Saturday Specials in Drapery Dept. RUFFLED NKT Bnttcnburg edge on ruffle with Hattenburg In sertion; good quality of net; usual price $2.50 per T i" pair Spoclnl for Saturday only, per pair '. piTkJ RUFFLED SASH NET to match above curtains, 27 Inches wide with Battcnburg edge and insertion; special for - "Jr Saturday only, per yard COUCH COVERS 50 inches long, fringe all around, Each Sixty Inches wide same as Each CLUNY CURTAINS, with linen both white and Arabian only per pair Furniture Specials for Saturday. 11.26 Taborette. golden or weathered oak finish Special W.00 Steel Sanitary Folding Couch Special . $7.60 Mahogany Finish Rocker; leather upholstored back 17.00 Roman Chair, oak or mahogany finish Special ... H.OO Rush Top Stool Special , tor Open Saturday u .. ventlon, still less offered any slight to the solemnity of the rites at which he volun tarily and so courteously assisted. Sol diers, by common custom, stand upright at the most sacred moments of the mass even the pope's soldiers present at the pope's own moss; and King Edward at tended the service at Marlenbad in the uniform of an Austrian field marshal. The posture of kneeling Is the set posture of defenselessnessi and this Is not thought to be appropriate, even during humbUng re ligious services, to the man at arms. Senator Fairbanks' Stirring; Campalgrn - Baltimore American. " Senator Fairbanks has made a, powerful mpress upon the publlo wherever he has made an address. There is no mistake that in his canvass he has accomplished valu able results. His speeches abound in sub stantial facts, and his argument are al ways pointed and of convincing clearness. In the extended campaigning trip through the wett to the Pacific coaat, which he will shortly begin, his appearance will attract at every point where he spsaks a great popular out-turn, and' the message which he will deliver will encourage all the faith ful along the route, and win multitudes that were doubtful or wavering. Savoa-ery of War. Philadelphia Record. The savagery of the fighting at Port Arthur, which, if reports be true, goes to the frightful extreme of killing prisoners, violating flags of truce, leaving the wounded uncared for and the dead unburied, will wreak Its own vengeance upon the perpe trators. Thaf scourge of armies, typhus fever, will decimate the ranks of both vic tors and vanquished. "It Is a man's- right to change his clothes," said Beau Brummel, "Its a necessity, too, at times." DON'T YOU THINK It's about time to consider a change? First, of course, is the top coat (light weight) for cool evenings. That will be almost' a necessity during the doings next week. Good ones here at $12, $15, $18, $20, etc. If you have the coat have you the suit? You know you can't hide a good thing. And that is why we are selling so many of our $15, $20 mid $25 suits. The style and fit of our garments, together with tho modest prices for the value received, is most convincing. Hats that improve and adorn, $2.00, $2.50, $3.00 and the celebrated new stiff hat THE KNAPP FELT, $6.00. No clothing R. S. WILCOX, Mgr. SHOEM.QQ LI FEiS WALKIEASY TRADEMARK. pinched, don't blame the weather who frated your foat aa hour ago. Skees next time and yew will knew ' nm nH ttp thtm, wnl ma I Win I til von wtlO i A. CR0SSETT. Inc. Nsvth AbUgtea, Hm wide, Bagdad cover, three yards extra heavy ' above $2.25 $2.75 luco edge, witlo hem on edge, special for Saturday $3.95 75c $3.65 $4.50 $3.95 $2.35 Evening Until Nine O'Clock, BRIGHT AND BREEZY, . "When I saw him yesterday he said he was looking for trouble." "Well, I guess he saw It." "How do you know?" "Uccause he can't see anything today." Philadelphia Press. "Money talks," said the spellbinder as he pocketed his weekly wage. "Money flies," grumbled the aeronaut as he settled the bill for his latest bulluonlng failure. Clevelund Plain LVuler. I "Don't you know that most of the aloo holic beverages are shamefully adulter ated?" "Yes." answered Colonel Stillwell nt Tfn- . . tucky, "and I have adopted' the policy t taking larger drinks so as to get all of the genuine article that la due. roe." Washiuc ton Star. . . The Young Man Dearest, what do ye) want to put our wedding oft another mm months for? The Girl Because I overheard my two younger sisters the other day -telling each other how much more of pa's money they were going to have to spend on themselves after 1 was out of the way. Chicago Tribune. "You look blue, Tom." f "Yes, I've Just had a shock. "What was It?" "I Just heard a man who Is the same age as myself referred to as 'old.' "Philadel phia Ledger. New Arrival May I ask If you ever take a vacation?" Pluto Not what you would call one. My busiest timo Is whnn mortals ure taking their vacations." Chicago Tribune. "Why don't you try to make yourself one of the Intellectual celebrities of your time?" "What's the use?'' answered the bright but Indolent young man. "The firm whosa patent food I have been eating would come alonK and want all the credit." Washing ton Star. fits like ours. It ( - 'aT w