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12 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2. 1004. The Omaha Sunday Ber E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERT MORNING. TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION. Pally Bee (without Sunday). One Tear.. MOO Dally and Sunday, One Tear Illustrated Bee, One Year Sunday Bee, One Tear 1-00 Saturday Bee, One Year 1 "0 Twentieth Century Farmer, One Tear.. 1.C0 DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Tally Bee (without Sunday), per copy .... to Dally Bee (without Sunday), per week ....12c Dally Bee (Including Sunday), per week. .170 Sunday Bee, per copy to Evening Bee (without Sunday), per week 7o , Evening Bee (Including: Sunday), per week 12c Complaints of Irregularities In delivery should be addressed to City Circulation De partment. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha City Hall Building. Twenty-fifth and M Streets. Council Bluff-10 Pearl Street. Chicago 1640 Unity Building. New fork 328 Park Row Building. Washington cV)1 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, Sayable to The Bee Publishing Company, nly 2-cent stamps received In payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omnha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, as.: George B. Txschuek, secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally. Morning, Evening and Sunrtoy Bee printed during the momn or September, um, was as roiiowi 1 82,iXW ie w.aso 17 1H,2T0 18 20.UBO 2 32,800 2H.20M 4 Z7.1SO 6 !M),lNO 6 ,2S0 7 20,820 S 20.1OO SO ,060 10 2,2flO 11 27,000 U 2U.4O0 13 m,4to It 20.3AO u so.aco 10 2fl,OIM 20 21,1W a 20,200 22 20,250 23 20,100 24 20,720 25 27.000 26 20,160 27 20,240 28 20,800 29 20.B30 30 2,;mo Total ' .875.7HO Leas) unsold and returned copies.... 0,033 Net total sales Hm,lT Dally average 2H.8T1 GEO. B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 8Ulh day of September, 19U4. (Seal) M. B. HL'NOATE, Notary Public Now let the weather man smile his beat on Ak-Sar-Ben. We would suggest that the horseless horse show should find a place on the Auditorium program before long. Omaha society will be moro tlior4 oughly broken to harness by the time the next Horse Show rolls around. ' Having brought about an international Incident, the automobile can now look with more or less complacency upon the horse shows this fall. Venezuela is to buy a railroad. Evi dently General Castro is an advocate of the strenuous life andWants to keep in practice between revolutions. Joseplt Jefferson announces his perma nent retirement. from the starje. "Hcre'a to hla health, hla .family's health may they all live long and prosper." Despite tho inactivity of party leaders Great Britain must be looking forward to a gencra'l election else why this tale of coercion and evictions from Ireland? Tom Tagpait say a that Indiana is a "pivotal" state, which probably means that In his opinion the state can be made to turn if Grandpa Davis puts in enough to "oil" the "Joints." The lance as a military weapon is aald to be coming again into favor. But we hardly believe the future will see the soldier going into battle cnrryln? armor like the knights of old. . There Is a real difference between con tentment and apathy, but it is all the same to the political workers for reve nue only, as neither condition Is con ducive to large cumpulgn expenditures. France has a woman who has slept for seventeen years, but the record for somnolency la still held by the demo cratic party, which apparently has been asleep for forty years and not awakened yet. It Is possible that since Colonel Wat terson bus to repel attacks of democratic papers as well as hold up his end of tbu fight against Roosevelt he may be sorry for hla embargo upon the pert para graph. The coudltlon of the democratic party In New York can well be understood when the Brooklyn Eagle explains as its chief reason for supporting Ilerrlck for governor that he was opposed by Tam many Hall. , The public will soon know how far the nntlouul committee censors have been able to "blue pencil" Candidate Davis' Ideas ou the subject of protective tariffs. Ill letter of acceptance is al most due. If the Horse Show furnishes a vehicle In which aomo previously unrecognized aspirants to social honors iiinnajre to ride Into society it will be entitled to be scored a success Irrespective of -Its box oince balance. The arrest of a German on charge of celling to Ilussla plans for a submarine boat prepared by the German naval de partment would Indicate, that tho pres ent Russo-Gcrman "understanding" has Its limitations. Since managers of automobile race 9 have decided to use petroleum on the courses to settlo the dut John D. Booku f i-Iler U expeclid to show let dlslllte for the whlcglgM than that evinced by . rlerpfml Morgan. The principal trouble with the leaders ( tho de.uoemtie party la that they are joiever advocating systems which the country has outgrown and clamoring for those "good old times" which when we had them were not good enough to per sist for any length of time. AKSAR-BZN' X. No apology Is needed for the amount of space The Bee today devotes to Ak-Snr-Ben X and hla festlvo' carnival, which will hold away In Omaha the entire week. Ak-Sar-Ben X la no mean potentate on the contrary, hla aubjecta have been ateadlly Increasing In number until they outnumber those of any pre ceding monarch of the realm and hla in fluence baa become more powerful and more beneficent than the founders of the dynasty ever dreamed. Ak-Sar-Ben X commemorates the com pletion of the first decade of the ac tivity of thla wonderful organization. Those ten years have been full with unlocked for change and fruitful of progress for Omaha, In which Ak-Sar-Ben has been a perceptible factor. Those ten years have seen Omaha raised from the depths of depression and de spair to the pinnacle of prosperity It la now enjoying. Those ten years have witnessed a commercial nnd industrial revival that mokes Omnha today one of the most promising and inviting trade center in the country. Those ten years have found Ak-Sar-Ben steadfast In the work it has assumed, while imitators and rlvala In other cities have sprung up and disappeared as if over night Had any one suggested to the original Ak-Sar-Ben the possibility of an Ak-Sar-Ben X he would have scouted the Idea as preposterous, but here he Is because he has found his opportunity and lived up to it Long live Ak-Sar-Ben! May he never i run out of successors to his throne and may his welcome never fall of enthusi asm from loyal supporters! DEATH OF CHARLES H. QEBE. The announcement of the death of Charles II. Gere, one of the founders of the city of Lincoln, and the founder and editor of tho Nebraska State Journal, will cause profound sorrow among the pioneers of Nebraska and especially among the first settlers of the state cap ital. Among Nebraska Journalists Charles II. Gere deservedly occupied a front rank not merely because he had successfully established the leading daily at the state capital, but because of his culture and eminent qualifications for the intricate and delicate profes sional duties devolving upon the editor of an Influential dally paper. While radically at variance for many years with the policies championed and advocated by The Bee and Its efforts to purge and regenerate the party, Mr. Gere In later years gradually drifted toward the Ideals and standards which The Bee has sought to establish for its party and its representatives in public office. Like all men of earnest conviction Mr. Gere was a man of strong likes and dis likes. He never wavered In his zeal for Lincoln and he never repressed his hos tility toward Omaha and every measure that tended to promote the growth-of Omaha. His attachment for David Butler, bis first benefactor and protector, made him, a most bitter and unrelenting enemy of those who were instrumental in depos ing Butler from the governorship. His resentment over the impeachment and removal of Butler exhibited itself in per mnnent form in the section of the state constitution prescribing the method of impeachment of executive officers, which was engrafted at his Instance on the or ganic law and was designed to thwart Impeachments by future legislatures. In this respect Nebraska stands unique as the first and last state that has dis credited the mode of procedure "pre scribed In the federal constitution for tho Impeachment of 'executive officers and their removal if found guilty of mis demeanors in office. During the past few years Mr. Gere has been practically in retirement, al though always recognized as the chief factor in the management of the news paper he had founded. AN IMPORTANT RVL1NO. One of the most important Judicial decisions rendered In this country In recent years Is that of Judge Gray lactates, for a strict application of the the case Just determined by him In the coal controversy involving an Issue be tween capital and labor of the most diffi cult circumstances. The controversy in volved the question as to the right of the miner respecting the contract of any miners of any colliery, check welghman, or check docking bosses, or both, shall be employed, at the request of a major ity. It is also specified that the wages of check weigbmen or check docking bosses shall be fixed, collected and paid by the miners, In such manner as the miners shull by majority vote elect, and when requested by a majority of said miners the operators shall pay the wages fixed for chock welghmen and for check docking bouses ont of deductions mado proportionately from the earnings of the said miners, on such basis as tho majority of said miners shall de termine. Tho decision 1 a complete victory for the miners. The Philadelphia North American, which Is unalterably In favor of tho men, says that the principle of majority rulo Is to, apply to every col liery, the minority to be bound with the majority for the payment of the cost of something from which all derive a like benefit. "The caviling of the operators." says that paper, "who evidently tried to exempt the nonunion miners from the cost of this benefit, are swept aside, and they nro shown, In clearest manner, how they can make compliance with the terms of the award obligatory upon the minority without exacting assignment of wages. The fairness- and Justice of Judge Gray's decision no one, we think, will question. It Is absolutely Just to both ides and It would seem that both cap ital and labor must conerdn Its absolute correctness In nil respects. It recog nizes and lays down a principle that Is unquestionably sound and a general ac ceptance of which must Inevitably lead to. a fair adluututeut of all labor con troversies, lu this particular respect f Judge Gray has abown himself to be one of the moat eminent conservators of the cause of Industrial peace and no man could occupy a worthier position than thla. TUB IMPERIALISM tSSVE Judge Parker evidently regards so called imperialism as the leading Issue In the national campaign. He gave It the first place In hla letter of acceptance, dwelling upon It with an unmistakable sense of Its commanding Importance. "The Issue of Imperialism," said the democratic candidate for president, "which has been thrust upon the coun try, involves a decision whether the law of the lund or the rule of individual caprice shall govern." The meaning of this Is obvious. It Implies that our government In administering the af fairs of outlying possessions has not been proceeding in accord with law, but mainly or entirely according to indi vidual caprice. This lies against Wil liam McKlnley far more than against Theodore RooVvelt, since the latter has pursued strictly the policy of his prede cessor. There Is no more staunch supporter of Judge Parker than the Brooklyn Eagle, which Justly claims to have dis covered the judge as an available can didate for the presidency. That paper dies not concur in his view regarding the Philippines. It docs not believe that this government should now prom ise the people of the archipelago Inde pendence. It does not acquiesce In the Idea that American government of the Islands Is "Imperialism." On the con trary the Eagle Is of the opinion that In duty and In honor the United States Is bound to retain control of the Phil ippines and to continue In the course that has been pursued, having for Its object the uplifting nnd the Improve ment of the people there, until they shall be fitted for self-government. ' Referring to the letter of Governor Wright to the president, our Brooklyn contemporary says: "Assuredly, be did no more than his duty when he notified the president of the results there of agitation here. Nor Is It for a moment to be presumed that he exaggerates tho consequences. Under Spanish rule the Islands knew no pence. Under Ameri can rule law Is no longer a travesty on the term and plunder is not a common place. Achievements of this sort are no stigma they add luster to the stars that decorate the flag. Agitation as to Inde pendence near or remote Is distinctly damaging. Drop It." Sound advice, but too late. Tlie democratic party cannot recede from the position It , has taken that the Filipinos shall now be promised Independence and whatever the conse quences of that position may be the re sponsibility Is upon the democratic party. The surrender, the down-hauling of the American flag, which the democ racy asks In Its platform nnd through Its presidential candidate, It must ad here to. The party Is unalterably com mitted to that policy and no language of recantation, however strong, would relieve it of the stigma, the cowardice and the dishonor involved in that atti tude. The American people know the real feeling and spirit of the democratic party In this matter and will render Judgement upon It accordingly, ns they did when the question of so-called im perialism was before them as the para mount Issue four years ago. j( . SENATOR KNOX ON THE ISSUES. Senator Knox of Pennsylvania, form erly attorney general of the Uplted States, delivered a speech in Philadel phia last night, of which we publish a part In this Issue. It Is n very able ex position of the course pursued by the administration in the enforcement of tho anti-trust law and In this particular es pecially is exceedingly Instructive. We have never had at the head of the De partment of Justice a more .conscientious man than Mr. Knox, or one that was more earnest and zealous -in enforcing the statutes relating to the ureat com binations. The country Is indebted to him, more than to any other man who has been attorney general of the United statutes against the trusts and the rec ord he has made In this respect Is ono of honor and distinction, in which the ad ministration of which he was a part has a share. To President Roosevelt Is due a large measure of the credit of the proceedings that resulted In the enforce ment of the anti-trust law. The state ment by Senator Knox of what was done Is highly Instructive nnd should re ceive tho careful attention of all who are interested in this Important subject. A DESIRE FOR INDEPENDENCE. 1 Does Cnnndu desire independence That Is a question which appears to be more or less prominent In tho thought of Canadians at the present time nnd Is engrossing no little attention there. That there Is a very strong soiitlmont in the Dominion favorable to Independence Is not to be doubted and unquestionably that sentiment Is growing. Every year thpre Is nn Increasing fooling among Ca nadians that they are better qualified to stand nlone nnd to manage their domes tic affairs In their own way and accord ing to their own Ideas of what Is best for themselves. And In this they are right. To all In tents and purposes the Canadian people are now Independent. Whilo It Is true that they are subjects of Great Britain nnd In this respect owe a certain meas ure of allegiance to the mother coun try, which is very fully nnd patriotically recognized, still In all matters of self government tho Dominion Is practically free, enjoying every right that a prov ince ran have and having every demand tlyit may be asked conceded by the Im perial government. The simple fact that there is a governor general nppointed by the crown means very little, since Ills authority Is limited, and the British gov ernment exerts very little Influence In Canadian affairs. The step to Independence on the part of Canada would therefore not be a very great one and In all probability would not encounter any serious opposition on the part of the British government. However anxious that government may be to retain Its hold upon the Dominion, as really the most Important of Its pos sessions, not excepting India, It Is not an. unreasonable assumption that If the Canadian people decldediupon cutting loose from British control there would be no effort made to Interfere with their doing so. It Is not probable, however, that there will be any substantial ad vance In this direction In the near fu ture. There Is no doubt as to the growth of sentiment favorable to independence, nor can there be any doubt thai this feeling will continue to grow. The Intro duction of Auiorlenn Ideas Into Canada, Increasing from year to year, contributes to It. But the Inculcation of the spirit of Independence Is slow and the realiza tion of absolute freedom on tho part of the Canadian people, while certain to come, Is not a consummation of the near future. THE BEES NEW COLOR MAGAZINE. With this number The Bee gives its readers another proof of Its enterprise and determination to keep pace with the most progressive metropolitan news papers In the addition of a thoroughly modern and up-to-date color magazine. It Is needless to- recount n catalogue of the unexcelled features thus combined with our already superior paper, because it can be readily examined and tells its own story. It Is only fair, however, fur us to take our readers Into our con fidence to the extent of informing them that The Bee has been enabled to secure this magnificent color magazine by special arrangement with the Chicago Tribune and the New York Herald, by which it hns the Joint use of their best magazine pages. We believe we have a right to call particular attention to the present number, which Is onu of the most attractive The Bee has even gotten out and we have gotten out many fine editions In the pst that have elicited widespread comments of appreciation and commendation. The paper alone In each complete copy weighs nearly two- thirds of a pound It Is so voluminous that it must be printed In four separate sections. In quality of contents as well as quantity It will, we are sure, meet the most critical test of comparison, not with pretended local competitors, but with the stailbird newspapers of the Ig eastern cities. That Tho Bee's en terprise will meet with the recognition it deserves in the form of Increased pat ronnge and enlarged subscription lists we have every reason to fell confident. Kansas City, Mo., and Kansas City, Kan. estimate their combined population to be 304,009. Omaha, South Omnha and Council Bluffs will pleaso take notice that It is up to them. Chicago Tribune. , Tho Tribune would like to be facetious, but it is hereby cited to take notice that the census of 1900 gave Omaha, South Omaha and Council Bluffs a population of 154,338. We arc not indulging our fancies in estimating, but when the next census records some reliable figures Omaha's per cent of In crease will take no back seat for Kan sas City's. ' The principal speaker at the St Louis conference of lawyers devoted consider able time to discussing how far our courts should recognize divorces granted by courts of other countries. Before American lawyers attempt to settle this matter they might strive to bring about a better understanding on the subject between New York nnd South Dakota. Two Colorado ore-carrying railroads show decreased freight earnings of more than $500,000 for current year, com pared with last year, while the expenses of the "labor Insurrection" are placed at more than $750,000 to the taxpayers of the state. The people of Colorado should by this time all be 'ardent cham pions of arbitration for labor disputes. The democratic candidate for presi dent Is trying to convince manufacturers that they can do more profitable busi ness under n tariff levied according to democratic ldea-j. But the manufactur ers remember the Wilson bill and the panic-that followed In Its vfake nnd con tinue to favor a protective tariff. It Is reported that an American consul In Paraguay has cabled his government to send a warship to help the govern ment of Paraguay In Its contest against the rebels. It Is evident that he has not been at his post lonj,' enough to real ize what Is expected in South American revolutions. The British promise to evacuate tho Chumbl valley In Thibet Is very much like the Russian promise to evacuate Manchuria. But It is to bo hoped that failure to move. 011 hc1ih1uI li.no will not produce the same results. At last the reason for the alleged steamship rate war Is apparent. It Is asserted that immigration to America this year is 44,107 less than lust year. Including those who arrived since the low rates went inlo effect. Advantnge of Silence. Chicago News. By the time the govurmnent is through with lilm that smart young Briton may wish he had paid rhe fine for fast driving and kept still about It I?oyal ltciot'l to Ciimvroinlae, Indianapolis News. Abdul Hamld keeps Inviting Minister Lelshman to dinner, evidently with the Idea that he can give that diplomat, chronic dyspepsia and thus keep his mind off he bills which he I now continually pre senting. A Change tar the Better. New Tork Tribune, That la welcome action which the asso ciated theatrical managers have taken In pledging themselves to use no more litho graphs or photographs In shop windows and not to have placards or bills posted on buildings or barrels. They will continue to advertise In the newspapers aa before and that la by far the most rfTectlve meana which they can employ In order to obtain the widest possible publicity (or their announcements. SERMON! ROILED DOWN. The greedy church cannot trow. Faith always puts Ita feet on facta. We can keep only what we five sway. Terminology la apt to terminate truth. Tou cannot keep happiness to yourte:f. There U no uplift In the holdup crrurch. Tou cannot measure worship by the clock. Economy In love results In poverty cf life. There la no liberty like the slavery of love. Living true Is making sure of dying triumphant The man who it willing to face failure finds success. Fortune good or bad only hurts when It touches the heart. A field of lee looks tropical compared to a face with a cast Iron smile. The creed without bones of difficulty Is usually of the Jellyfish order. We all hold the doctrine of total deprav ity as applied to our neighbors. A man always feels most llbersl when he has forgotten to bring his cash. More good Is done by dispensing good cheer than by giving away dollars. We are Judged not by the poetry we ap plaud, but by the plain prose we apply. When faith and love go to work together they never stop to think of the weather. Chicago Trihune. SnClLAIt SHOTS AT THE PILPIT. Knnsas City Times: Tt will be noticed, however, that the theory that Christ was a nepro had Its origin In the Ebenczcr Bap tist church In Chicago. Chlcaso Inter Ocean: The Catholic church's new music regulations may mnke services less artistically entertaining. But, then, arc Christians supposed to go to church to be entertained? Chicago Tribune: powle haa announced that at the proper time he will make -his entry lnt:j Jerusalem In triumphal robes and riding a whjlte donkey. We are confi dent he would attract more attention on a white elephant. Washington Post: Members of a church at Wllkesbarro, ra., are going -to do with out meat, butter nnd pastry ftjf a week, using their savings to pay off a' mortgage on their church. One's first thought Is that It would be easier to Just eatthe mortgage and be done with It. Baltimore American: The archbishop of Canterbury wants tho Kngllsh race to con vert the world. Dut when one sees how the Kngllsh race Is strenuously forcing civilization and Christianity now at the muzzle of the gun on savage colonies, one wonders what more he can want. Boston Transcript: To revolutionize the music of the American Reman Catholic church, in accordance with the desires of Pope Pius X, bld3 fair to be dim ult. There probably will be no open opposition to the plan, but only a disposition to go slowly, to temporize. The women's choirs must not be done away with until adeqinte pro vision has been made for' boys' choirs to take their place; and such provisions will require time. Meantime things may hap. pen. Sometimes, by putting off until to. morrow what might have been done today, one does not have to do It at all. The American branch of the Roman chinch has always exacted a considerable degree of liberty aa accords with American condi tions. There is no startling demand among the Catholic laity for Gregorian chants. On the contrary, people who are used to the prevailing typea of aecular music sym phonies, operas, vaudeville, ragtime are Inclined to give preference to high color rather than to- simplicity. Hance, make revolutionary changes slowly. The wheel may presently turn the other way. PERSONAL AD OTHERWISE. "The boy orator of the Platte" Is a bick number exclamation. Mr. Bryan Is a grand, father. Treasurer Roberts Insists that there Is one tlO.000 bill In circulation. Line up and show down. , If there's anything in a name, General Grippenberg ought to be an Improvement on Colonel Leggslcy., Miss Ida Tarbell has concluded her con clusions without afTectlng the regularity and julclne'ss of Standard Oil dividends. It wasn't a tankless Job, however. Now watch the coal man put on the smile that won't como off for six months. King Peter Karagcorgevitcli's crown weighs only nine pounds, hardly enough to hold his name. There la some talk In St. Louis of running the fair another year. Omaha haa a stock of valuable experience in that lino and would cheerfully give St. Louis a hunch or two on application. The Choliy boys of Now York, dontcher- know, are 'sorely perplexed for political guidance. Hlggins and Ilirrick head the opposing state tickets, and the Chollys are unable to drop the Ha without mutilating the ticket. Corporation tyranny reaches the limit when a telephone company adopts a de vice by meana of which the chief operator can "butt In"- on tho flirtations of the hello girls. Liberty, where art thouT Line busy. Ring off. A bunch of girls In a Pennsylvania town have banded themselves together to abolish kissing, on the ground that tho practice is silly and unsanitary. When the fox In the fable couldn't reach the grapes he made remarks of like Import. Report has it that Actress May Irwin will play an engagement of Indefinite length, beginning with the new year, ns Mrs. David Bennett IIIU. It Is needless to seek further for reasons for the promised retirement of the sage of Wolfert's Roost. A Philadelphia paper Is anxious to know why tho town authorities do not provide enough money for school books. At the same time the sani'- paper tells how diffi cult and costly Is the task of plugging the leaks In a $3,000,000 reservoir. "Oh, how easy." It is Just as well to state, to avert a stam pede, that the St. Louis newspaper man who left a fortune of 179,000 did not grind cut the pile at his desk. As a rule, news paper men do not work for money, but for the pleasure of keeping It In circula tion.' , I Borne fanciful theories get a knock now and then that's killing. Take the theory that higher education makes women averse to marriage, glxty-flve members of Chi cago's teaching corps changed their names during the summer vacation, and accepted new situations with pleasure. It Is not often that the stage aspirant manages to reueh the office of Wells Hawks, who Is the right-hnnd man of that Napoleon of theatrical managers, Charles Frohman. Of course, It waa a woman whu did the tlrck the other day. She apparently created a fair Impression, for the gen erally busy Mr. Hawks asked her: "Are you married or unmarried ?'Kas he prepared to hock her application. "I'nmarried four times!" was the reply that startled the plncld manager. "Let the young officers marry," exclaimed a graybeard in the service, commenting on General Corbln's dicta. "It will be the making of them. I have not a virtue that I do not owe to my mothe-, not n refine ment that I do not owe to my wife. Look at the court-martial records for the past two years. Since January 1, 190, thirty two commissioned officers have been tried by courts-martial. Twenty-flve were tin. married." That ought to hold the major general for a moment. , IF IT COMES FROM mm You can't afford to run any risk in purchasing your wints and whiskies, especially for medicinal and household use, but if you will "get the habit"1 of buy ing at KILLER'S you will always huve that satisfy ing, confident feeling that you are getting the BEST and at Wholesale Prices. We will give souvenirs away during ths Ak-Sar-Ben Carnival. Bring this ad with you or get a ticket at our booth on Carnival grounds. 1309 FARNAM STREET, - OMAHA. 27. B. While Mr. Hiller was in Europe he pur chased a splendid assortment of Steins and Rhine 1 Ft 710 which has arrived and is now on sale. You are cordially invited to call and sample our Rhine Wine, Yon will pronounoe it very fine. gir 205 So.l5:3treei. DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. The Younar Man Do you think you could be satisfied with love in a cottage? Tho Adored One Yes, if there's room for hope of a mansion some day. Chicago Tribune, Ted Do you think that old millionaire will do any good with hia money? Ned He'll have to. He has six marriage able daughters. Town Topics. "Solomon was the wisest man that ever lived." "No wonder." "No wonder?" "No. Look at all the wives he had to tell him things." Cleveland Plain Dealer. "She Is a beautiful girl," said the rapt young man. "Such physical perfection! Such coloring!" "Yes," said her girl friend, "and she deserves credit for it, because, you know, she's self-made." Cleveland Leader. "Are you In the habit of observing your birthday anniversaries?" "Why, I can't help observing them as they come nnd go," responded Mr. G-ayboy, "but I don't make any fuss over 'em, you can bet your life!" Chicago Tribune. Miss Passay You may sneer at pet dogs, but they're faithful, anyway. I'd rather kiss a good dug than some men. Mr. Sharpe Well, well, some men ere born lucky. Philadelphia Ledger. Bjenks They say It isn't easy to keep a girl in your kitel en nowadays, but I've had the same cook for twenty years. Bjones That ia a great record. How did you manage It? BJonks I married her. Somervllle Jour nal. Florence I never was so annoyed. The man had no business In the yard, anyway, and when I went to the window to see "Attention to detail," said Beau Brummell, "assures us of a perfect whole" PREPAI Your Fall Comforts should bo looked after now .thia week will be one grand round of pleasure and you will enter into the spirit of the oecanion with more true enthusiasm if you are wearing the right things. Top Coats.." $10.00 and better Rain Coats $15. 00 and better Dead Swell Business' Suits $12.50 and better BETTER Clothing thari we make in our own factory cannot be had. Furnishings and Hats that ore correct In every particular. "NO CLOTHINO FITS LIKE OURS " Out-of-town visitor during this week are particularly requested to make themselves at horoo In our store. There Is a whole lot of easy chairs and other conveniences for your coaifort. R. S. WILCOX, Mgr. VX MUST J k) be GOOD KJoyvil S3.50 m S2.50 !J fl IT Q are surely leaders in style OllUkd and value. They are carefully made without any possible economy at expense or labor; made ou foot-formed lasts molded like the human foot, of material the best ob tainable on the market. No shoes are the gonulne Regent Shoe Co.' Shoes unless they bear the Onlmod Trade Mark. We bavo no branch stores In Omaha. You will find us at the same old place. what he was doing he had the Impudence to exclaim, "Massage." Gertrude For goodness sake, what could he have meant by that? Florence Well, of course, he said "rub ber," but "massage" Is more elegant, don't you think? Boston Transcript. "What on earth Is the matter with Peck ham?" "He bought a naptha launch, you know, and named It after his wife." "I know, but he's all cut and brlused, and" "Natural result, of course; the thing blew him up." Philadelphia Press. WHICH f Edmund Vance Cook. Are you a trailer, or are you a trolley? Are you tagged to a leader through wisdom and folly? Are you Somebody Else, or You? ' Do you vote by the symbol and swallow It "straight?" Do you pray by the book; do you pay by the rate? Do you tie your cravat by the calendar's dute? Do you follow a cue? Are you a writer, or that which ia wordei? Are you a shepherd, or one who Is herded? Which are you a What or a Who? It sounds well to call yourself "one of t)u flock," But a sheep Is a sheep, after ail. At the block You're nothing but mutton, or posnlbly stock, Would you flavor a stew? Are you a being and boss of your soul. Are you a mummy to carry a scroll? Are you Somebody Else, or You? When you finally ' pass to the heavenly ' wicket. Where Peter the Scruttnoua stands at his picket Are you going to give him a blank for a ticket? Do you think it will dot a ,au L i r u I fl 1 "J