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Illuminations are - the order of the
night, while Ak-Sar-Ben rules the day.
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For the next few days keep your eyes
on Howell, the hurabug. lie has a few
more deceptive water primers up bis
sleeve.
When the Servian king honored a,sol
dier for disobeying the orders of the
crown prince he was simply making due
obeisance to his creator.
Omaha to Hastings by trolley Is one
of the coming events that ' is fore
shadowed by promoters of the tramway
system of the no distant future.
The Bee may print a few water board
primers rtself presently. And The
Bee's primers will bo eye-openers to
adults as well as to kindergarteners,
Omaha . now ranks as the greatest
sheep market in America and it will
not be many years before It will rank
as the greatest corn ' market in the
United States.
- When a member of the legislature
toonfint once yon ara Hot to blame.
Bur If you vote to send film to . the legls-
rrAttire, a second time you will have your
self to blame only.-"- -
During the past week Omaha has
more than held its rank in the clearing
bouse record and the meat-packing in
dustry at South Omaha has resumed
its natural proportions.
The announcement that the war in
the orient has entered a new phase may
be taken by astronomers to mean that
it has passed its first quarter, but others
Will not be sanguine of so early a con-
A renominated does not mean a re
election by a long ways for O. M. Hitch
cock, but for all that his peculiar
methods of campaigning will have to be
observed by the republican campaign
managers.
It is now announced that Admiral
Alexleff is to return to Manchuria as
viceroy at the conclusion of the war.
This is probably the Russian way of
saying that the' admiral has been
granted an indefinite vacation.
Mr. Bryan will begin tomorrow to fan
the embers of democracy in Nebraska.
From present Indications it will take
stronger lungs than his to create a flame
from the ashes of disappointment which
now covers the few sparks of demo
cratic hope.
The ctar last week sent the usual
pension to the jinrlksha men who saved
his life while traveling In Japan. It is
' not Improbable that he will have to
send a much larger amount to pacify
those who are trying their best to curb
his ambition.
In a few days we may know Just how
Mf. Bryan expects to reform the demo
cratic party through the election of
Judge Barker. But the chances are that
we, will not, as It Is doubtful If Mr.
Bryan himself has fully determined to
bis own satisfaction how it can be done.
Now that tha horse show Is practically
over It will not be bad form to suggest
that the next horse show can be made
more popular by charging a popular
price of admission. The smart set is not
numerous enough In Omaha to fill an
auditorium that can have a seating
capacity of 8,000.
It now transpires that Mr. nitch
cock's postal savings bank Inquiry was
not designed for the purpose of ascer
taining what the voters of the Second
congressional district thought about the
postal savings bank, but to ascertain
bow many republican voters who favor
postal savings banks are in a frame of
mind to be converted to support Mr.
Hitchcock for re-electfon. And Uncle
8am pays the postage.
WHEAT CONSUMPTION.
The short wheat crop tfals) year natu
rally gives interest to the question of
consumption and it is one of those mat
ters that must be left largely to conjec
ture. Estimates of per capita consump
tion are from four and a half to four
and two-thirds bushels. Assuming the
population to be in round numbers 80.
000,000 one Of the commercial papers
figures that the annual wheat consump
tion is somewhere from 300,000,000 to
378,000,000 bushels. The wheat acreage
this ear is reported to be 44,224,300
acres. Last year It was 40,464,007. As
suming that next year It will rise to
aronnd 60,000,000 acres, and that seed
calls for a bushel and a quarter an acre,
we shall need 62,o0,000 bushels for
seed. Tbla figure and, the higher figure
for food would give a total consumption
for the year of 435,500,000 bushels. The
exports last year were light, about 120,-
000,000 bushels. Including flour. The
crop last year was officially reported at
037,822,000 bushels and about the lowest
estimates of this 'year's crop are 630,-
000,000 bushels.
As most of the European crops are
below the average, the New York Jour
nal of Commerce remarks that we may
reasonably look forward to a consider
able increase in the export demand, but
it Is slow. In coming. As last year's
wheat -crop was a good deal more than
100,000,000 bushels rabove the probable
consumption and the exports, and a low
estimate of this year's crop is 100,000,-
000 bushels above the probable home
requirements, that pnper observes that
the suggestions that we may be short
of bread before another harvest have
a very slender foundation. N "Decreased
crops here and In Europe afford a suffi
cient Justification of high prices, but
they afford no Justification for famine
prices. In order to show anything like
a wheat scarcity in this country it would
be necessary to prove a wonderful in
crease in the amount of whent used for
food. ' But thus far no reason has been
disclosed for supposing thnt we have as
a people increased our demand for bread
and the use of brenkfast cereals other
than wheat is apparently as commorT as
It was when, a few years ago, it was
held to have reduced perceptibly the
consumption of wheat."
This appears to be a Judicious view
of the wheat situation. Conditions er-
talnly warrant some Increase In prices,
but the crop shortage is not so great
as to Justify famine prices, and those
who hold whent In the expectation of
getting such prices are very sure to be
disappointed. Of course no one can
foresee, what the export demand will
be, but it is safe to say that it will not
be bo large as some are anticipating.
AS TO THE STATE FINANCES.
During the last eight years appropria
tions for the maintenance of Nebraska's
state governments have been made as fol
lows: s
1901-1904, under republican man
agement $0,615,570 21
1897-1900, . under fusion manage
ment .'. 4,927,217 00
Increase 1,688,353 21
These' figures show that the republican
administration required 31,688,35321 more
than Ihe fusion administration to maintain
state . institutions, , boards, commissions,
etc. To pay for these appropriations state
taxes were levied against the taxpayers, as
follows: , ,
1901-1904 'state taxes, republican '
management 35.655.507 96
1897-1900 state taxes, under fusion
management ,S40,o a
It will be noted that during fusion ad
ministration the appropriations and state
taxes were practloally equal:
Appropriatlona, 1897 to 1900 $4,927,217 00
State taxes levied, 1897 to 1900.... 4,840,906 23
This shows that a fair attempt was made
to provide revenue for the expenditures.
Under republican administration no attempt
has been made to equalize income with ex
penditures. The figures plainly show this:
Appropriations, 1901-1904, 36.616,670 21
State taxea, 1901-1904 6,655,607 96
There Is conaequently an Indebtedness of
31,000,000 that future administrations must
provide for, and this Is a most conservative
estimate, because the school levy does not
apply on appropriations, and the amount
realised on this levy more than counter
balances any miscellaneous receipts which
would add to the Income. World-Herald.
A mere glance at these figures will
very naturally create the Impression
that the state debt has been Increased
by more than $1,000,000 within the last
four years by reason of extravugance,
wastefulness and general maladminis
tration. As a matter of fact, the in
crease in the state debt was due pri
marily to the collapse -of the Capital
National bank and the Burtley defalca
tion, which aggregated more than $800,-
000, and, secondarily, by the overlaps
created under fusion reform adminis
trations. -
It is an open secret that the demo
pop administrations between 1805, and
1901 left a legacy of more than $150,000
in the shape of unpaid bills and legiti
mate claims incurred for the mainte
nance of the various state institutions,
for which the fusion reform legislators
had made no appropriation. For these
shortages and deficiencies the present
state administration cannot Justly be
held responsible. The $230,000 loss
caused by the failure of the Capital
National bank occurred during the ad
ministration of Governor Crounse,. and
the bulk of the money embezzled by
Joe Bartley was lost during the admin
istration of Governor Ilolooinb.
Another factor in the increased taxa
tion for the last two years must be
looked for in the enlarged wants of the
state Institutions, which have been
growing from year to year, and also In
the losses entailed by the burning of
the penitentiary building and the asy
lum at Norfolk. These losses would
have been incurred under a fusion ad
ministration Just as readily as under a
republican administration.
THE WAY or 8AFETY. :
In a speech at Indianapolis Senator
Bevetidge said that the way to keep
the gold standard out of danger Is to
keep it in the hands of those who put
it out of danger. Unquestionably this
is the way of safety. The statement
of Judge Parker that he regards the
gold standard as Irrevocably established
does not necessarily . bind the party.
The democratic standard bearer in the
last two national campaigns does not
concede thnt the gold standard Is irre
vocably established and there are tens
of thousands who stand with him. "I
have not given up the idea of fighting
for silver," said Mr. Bryan In one of
his Colorado speeches, "and I think the
day will come when the plank will
again be a part of the platform." A
very large number of democrats, par
ticularly In the west and south, hold
this view.
The St. Louis convention did not com
mit the party to the gold standard. The
effort to do so failed, the radical ele
ment having its way In this. There is
no distinct pledge by ihe candidate or
the party of opposition to the upsetting
of the gold standard. The democratic
campaign text book is silent on the sub
ject, its index containing one entry only
under gold standard and that refers to
the plank in the republican national
platform., The democratic speakers are
making no promise that the gold stand
ard shall not be disturbed if Barker is
elected. The democratic party cannot
be trusted to maintain the gold stand
ard. Should a financial crisis come,
with that party in control of congress
and the presidency, it would not hesi
tate to overturn the gold standard. Se
curity for that standard is in republican
success In keeping it out of danger by
continuing it in the hands of those who
put it out of danger.
CANADIAN GENERAL ELECTION.
Our northern neighbors are to have
a political campaign and quite likely it
will be more spirited than bur own, for
the people will have addressed to their
attention several important questions of
public policy. The election is to take
place early in November, preceding our
battle of the ballots, and it is stated
that the principal idsue ' will be the
transcontinental railway. This is a pro
ject of large magnitude, which is fav
ored by the government, but to which
there is a good deal of popular opposi
tion because of the great cost of the
proposed enterprise. The advocates of
a transcontinental railway urge that it
is Imperatively necessary to the develop
ment of the country, particularly the
northwest territory, which is steadily
increasing its wheat production and
could do so much faster if there were
better facilities for gettlngMhe grain to
market. Another question of importance
that will enter into the campaign is that
of the tariff. The Dominion manufac
turers want more protection and will
undoubtedly make a vigorous effort to
send nien to Parliament who will look
after their Interests.
I An Ottawa dispatch says the outlook
fls favorable for the return of the gov
ernment with a substantial majority.
The premier, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, who
has been at the head of the government
for several years, is a very able mnn
and is popular with all classes. Ho
was formerly one of the most cordial
friends of the United States among
Canadians, but the success of the Amer
ican contention in the Alaska boundary
dispute and the indifference of our gov
ernment in regam to reciprocity have
produced a change of feeling toward us.
It Is very probable that the election
will be followed by changes in the Do
minion tariff inimical to American manu
facturers. Honest and competent registrars and
boards of election are called for by a
South Omaha democrat, who expresses
a fear that repeaters will be registered
and voted at the coming election by the
republican machine. Of late the word
"machine" has become a very convenient
bugaboo, but there arc machines and
machines. There are republican ma
chines, democratic machines and socialist
machines all of them simply represent
ing party organization, but the impres
sion is sought to be conveyed that there
is only one bad and dangerous machine
and that is the machine of the opposing
party. The suggestion that honest and
competen registrars and clerks of elec
tion should be appointed for the coming
election In South Omaha will, however,
commend itself to honest men of all
parties, but the reform should not be
applied in South Omaha alone. The
same regard for honest elections should
be exhibited by the appointing boards in
Omaha and every Other town and city in
Nebraska. . Undoubtedly South Omaha
election boards have been in very gen
eral disrepute and most of.the election
contests in this county have been caused
by irregularities and downright frauds
In the manipulation or ballots in Sout"r
Omaha. The most effective remedy
would be the voting machine, that does
not think, does not get drunk and does
not mark ballots for the benefit of
favored candidates. Inother words, the
substitution of the steel and iron ma
chine for the nimble fingered machine
will be a blessing.
' . Singular Coincidence.
Washington Post. .
It is probably Just a coincidence that a
Naples dispatch announcing that Vesuvius
has subsided appeara simultaneously with
the announcement that Colonel Bryan la
going to resume spellbinding. ,
Cold Wave Smiles.
Baltimore American.
The suggestion that Canada may annex
the United States should arouse no 111 feel
ing In this country, for the American char
acter is nothing It not humorous, and the
suggestion adds so much to the gayety ot
nations.
Perils of Fascination.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Perhaps General Corbln can devise some
means of making those young army officers
less fascinating. No doubt It's largely the
uniform that does It, but the geenral should
take into consideration the fact that he
has much Increased the feminine Interest
In the presumable heroes by labeling thorn
forbidden fruit..
Effect of Freo Trad Creaad.
San Franclaco Chronicle.
When Cleveland entered upon his free
trade cruaade the output of American pig
iron was a little ahort of ,000,000 tons an
nually; a couple of years of free trade
agltatlonT reduced production to (.000,000
toi Prices of things were very low dur
ing this period of diminished production,
but the S3 per cent of the total number
of men engaged In the Iron Industry who
lost their Jobs were not much benefited by
the reduction.
COSCENTRATISO O TUB BAST.
Battle Royal foe tho Presidency Lim
ited to Atlantic States.
Chicago Tribune.
Roosevelt's strength In the central and
western states Is so great because his per
sonal character active, self-reliant, ag
gressive, , resourceful so exactly typifies
and manifests the spirit of that part of
America west of the Alleghanles. In those
crucial days of his life when his character
was being formed, Roosevelt lived In the
west and acquired Its point of view.
The democratic committee realises tht
Roosevelt Is so popular In the west be
cause he harmonises with It, and that f
would be hopeless to try to attract the
west to a man like Parker, whose entire
makeup disaccords with western notions.
Not only ha Parker never lived In the
west, but he has hardly ever visited ' It.
In 1880 he was a delegate to the Cincinnati
convention; In 1884 he attended the Chi
cago convention; in 1902 he went to a meet
ing ot the National Bar association at
Denver. Each time he staid only three or
four days, (aa a member of the New York
delegation, and straightway returned to
the Hudson. The Tribune, after diligent
effort, has been unable to learn of any
other occasion on which Judge Parker
crossed the Alleghanles. Naturally a man
who has been so little In the west cannot
understand It or appeal to It.
Parker's managers realise this. And so
they have set out to win the election for
him In the same way they won the nomina
tion for him by combining the east and
south against the west. The south, of
course. Is solid. Many of the eastern states
and especially New York are doubtful.
The main effort must be, to get these states,
and, first of all, New York, without which,
Parker cannot be elected.
The democrats cannot carry New York
without the aid of the gold democrats who
left the party In 1896 and 1900. And the
surest way to get them back is to frighten
them back to represent Roosevelt to them
as a dashing, reckless, swashbuckling sort
of a fellow, who Is bound either to get the
country into war, or else to disturb the
business Interests at home by meddling
with them. These same gold democrats
were never especially fond of Roosevelt,
anyway. Ills "unreasonableness'' as gov-
ernor, the Northern Securities case, the
publicity law, and the coal strike settle
ment none of these things endeared Roose
velt to the gold democrats.
At first sight It seems a political error
thus to make an open set at the heavy
speculative interests of the east, lest many
vot,es be thereby lost In other places. But
then the west is lost anyway, so it might
as well be disregarded from the beginning.
The south can be counted in regardless of
its views on public questions. New York
Is the strategic spot, and it can be parried
only by bringing back Into the fold the
gold democrats, by converting some repub
licans of identical interests, and by get
ting some prodigals and converts to put
up a goodly campaign fund.
The plan is not without its elements of
astuteness.
PARKER AND RECIPROCITY,
Democratic Approval of the Policies
of Blaine and McKJnley.
Philadelphia Press.
Judge Parker In his letter undertakes to
make much of the question of reciprocity.
But he is clearly unfamiliar with the his
tory of the subject else he would not have
allowed himself to be caught In the mis
takes which can be so easily turned against
him.
He professes to be greatly distressed that
the senate has not ratified "the reciprocity
treaties negotiated in pursuance of the pol
icy advocated alike by Mr. Blaine and Mr.
McKlnley." Apparently he Is entirely Ig
norant of the fact that Mr. Blaine himself,
under the McKlnley law, negotiated recip
rocity treaties with Brazil, British Guiana,
Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Hondu
ras, Santo Domingo, the British West In
dies, Cuba and Porto Rico.
These treaties were In operation from
three to four years. During that time our
exports to the countries named Increased
26 per cent and our Imports from them In
creased 28 per cent. Meantime through th
election of 1892 a democratic president and
congress were chosen, and when they came,
Into power they proceeded to overthrow
every one of Mr. Blaine's reciprocity
treaties. And yet In the face of this fact
Judge Parker is deeply concerned that the
senate has not ratified reciprocity treaties
negotiated in pursuance of the policy ad
vocated by Mr. Blaine and Mr. McKlnley!
The only explanation can be that he doesn't
know this record.
Nor does he appear to be a war not
merely that the democrats destroyed re
ciprocity in 1894. but that they have very
recently denounced It. In the Democratic
National Campaign Book of 1892 this Is
said: "Reciprocity looks like freo trade,
but tastes, like protection. It Is really a
new sugar-coating prepared by the repub
lican tariff doctors for many patients who
are refusing to take their protection pills
straight. In practice, reciprocity Is worse
than protection." In the light of this demo
cratic declaration Judge Parker's words
Seem very curious.
His only exciwe is that the French and
Argentine treaties negotiated since the
Dingley law waa enacted have not been
ratified. They have not been acted on be
cause In the opinion of many senators they
sacrifice some American Interests for the
sake of others. Their delay does not signify
hostility to reciprocity, but only hostility
to one-sided reciprocity. In view of this
whole record it does not lie In. the mouth
of Judge Parker, or any democrats to re
proach republicans on this subjeot.
Boots and Booty Galore.
New York Tribune.
Russia is sending about 478,000 sets of fur
caps, cloaks and 'boots to the far eaat. It
would be an extremely cold day for the
Russians If General Kurokl should succeed
In Intercepting the consignment
Another "Isaac" Banished.
Chicago Post.
The Treasury department has decided the
cigar stamp case in favor of the Independ
ent manufacturers, and the democrats are
Indignant at this mean attempt to deprive
them of an Issue. v The decision ill accords
with democracy' claim that the repub
licans are for the trusts.
Two. Sides' to the Flurry.'
Philadelphia Press.
America means to pay full and proper re
spect to all International law and uaage, as
her prompt action in the Gurney case
shows. But Just th same, she does not
expect the gentlemen who come here in
diplomatla service to act as If superior to
all law. There are two sides to most of
the little flurries like the present one.
Japan m n World Power.
. Nw York Times.
The question of what will be the Influence
and the relations of Japan In the future
with the EuroDean nowera la exciting the
perplexed Interest of the statesmen and j
the press In more than one country. That
Japan will emerge from this war prac
tically victorious, that Is, that it will be
able completely to resist th aggressions
ot Russia against which It took arms, is
not doubted apparently even la France or
Germany, where the desire to make th
best of the Russian situation Is strong.
If It does so emerge it will Instantly take
Its place as a fighting power extremely
formidable within the range of possible
military and naval operations. It will be
entitled to a voice In the settlement of al
most atiy question that shall arise in th
eastern seas.
MAXIMS or ROOSEVELT.
Out' place as a nation Is and must be With
the nations that have left Indelibly their
Impress on the centuries.
No other citizens deserve so well of the
republic as the veterans, the survivors of
those wio saved the union.
We have passed that state of national
development when depreciation of other
peoples Is felt as a tribute to our own.
Publicity can do no harm to the honest
corporation; and we need not be overly
tender about sparing the dishonest cor
poration. The vol of the weakling or the craven
counts for nothing when he clamors foi
peace; but the voice of the just man armed
is potent.
I do not think, so far as I know, that
I have ever promised beforehand anything
I did not make a strong effort to make
cood afterward.
But virtue by Itself Is not enough, or
anything like enough. Strength must be
added to It, and the determination to use
that strength.
We desire the peace that comes as of
right to the just man armed; hot the peace
granted on terms of Ignominy to the craven
and the weakling.
The very existence of unreasoning hostil
ity to wealth should make us all the wiore
careful In seeing that wealth does nothing
to justify that hostility.
No one can too strongly Insist upon the
elementary fact that you cannot build the
superstructure of publlo virtue save on
private virtue.
U la no use to preach If you do not act
decently yourself. You must feel that the
most effective way In which you can
preach Is by your practice.
We do not wish to discourage enterprise.
We do not desire to destroy corporations;
we do desire to put them fully at the serv
ice of the state and people.
A man of great wealth who does not use
that wealth decently la, in a peculiar sense,
a menace to the community; and so is the
man who does not use his Intellect aright.
It should be aa much the aim of those
who seek for social betterment to rid the
business world of crimes of cunning as to
rid the enth-e body politic of crimes of
violence. '
If demagogues or Ignorant enthusiasts
who pre misled by demagogues could suc
ceed In destroying wealth, they would, of
course, simply work the ruin ot the en
tire community,
I etpect you to be strong. I would not
respect you If you were not. I do not want
to see Christianity professed only by weak
Unas; I want to see It a moving spirit
among men of strength.
A man who Is good enough to shed his
blood for the country Is good enough to be
given a square deal afterward. More than
that, no man Is entitled to; and less than
that, no man shall have.
I have heard the millionaire say, "I
have had to work all my life to make
money; let my boy spend It." It would
be better for the boy never to have been
born than to be brought up on that prln
clple.
Everything that tends to deaden Individ
ual Initiative is to be avoided, and unless
In a given case there Is some very evident
gain which will flow from state or munici
pal ownership. It should not be adopted.
The man who by swindling or wrong.
doing acquires great wealth for himself
at the expense of his fellow, stands as low
morally as any predatory mediaeval noble
man, and is a more dangerous member of
society.
I believe that we are now, at the outset
of the twentieth century, face to face with
great world -problems; that we cannot help
playing the part Of a great world power;
that all we can decide is whether we will
play It well or not
There will be fluctuations from time to
time In our prosperity, but It wll continue
to grow just so long as we keep up this
high average of Individual .citizenship and
permit It to work out Its own salvation
under proper economic legislation.
OCTOBER Sl'IVSIIIXE.
Store It In Your System sva a Safe
amard for Winter.
Medical Talk.
The poet may sing,. "What Is so rare as
a day In June?" but we would echo back.
What Is so rare as an October day?
When is the air more pure and exhilarating,
or the skies so blue, or the sunshine so
coxy, and warm and mellow as In October
days?
There is a crlspness to a frosty October
morning that makes one feel like walking
miles and miles. These are the days when
the woods are burnished with red and
russet and gold. It la the zenith of the
year, the harvest time. The fruits are
rosy and mellow with ripeness, the prod
ucts of the earth have reached the fullness
of maturity. The flowers take on their
most gorgeous coloring.
Nature has been busy at work all sum
mer and now with work completed she
puts on holiday attire to enjoy It. The
rays of the sun no longer blight with heat,
but with soft, maternal touch they make
snug and warm, lingering with a richness
of healing as if foreknowing the approach
of cold winter days. '
These are the days of all days to stay
outdoors. Get as much of the October
sunshine Into your bodies as you possibly
can. Sit In the sunshine until your whole
body Is saturated with It. The tissues and
blood vessels will store It away for winter
use. Lie face downward on the. warm, dry
earth and let the sunshine simply penetrate
every nook and corner of your body. Lit
there until you can actually feel the sun
shine Inside of you, going through and
through.
The October sunshine will melt away
your rheumatism, it will dissipate your
neuralgia, It will make vigorous and strong
your nerves. It will put new corpuscles In
your blood, It will give a healthy glow to
the skin.
n Walk to your place of business these
October mornings. Watk briskly. Breathe
in deep draughts of the crisp morning air.
When you reach your office arrange your
chair. If possible, so the sun can shine on
your body, up and down your spine, toast
ing it, making the 'nerves comfortable and
qulej andeiealthy. 1
The houaewlfe should do as much -of her
work aa possible in .the sunshine. Sit on
the porch, er in a sunny corner of the
yard, and let the sun bathe your hair, your
neck, your back, your whole body with Its
llft-glvtng warmth.
Take long tramps to th woods, go on
nutting expeditions, ride horseback, take
a bicycle trip, anything, everything to be
out In the sunshine and fresh air.
Open the windows and doors of the
house, let the sun shine In the rooms all
day. Hang the bedding out on a line in
the yard and let the sun and air thor.
oughly renovate It. Get everything soaked
and saturated with the mellow October
sunshine. It will make It pure and whole,
some and clean. '
Storing away Into the system great quan.
titles of October sunshine and October air,
Is the best preparation you can make for
the winter. It will give your body strength
and energy and vitality, It will make It so
vigorous and healthful that you will be
able to paas through th winter months
unscathed by epldenilo and untouched by
contagion.
slew Task for Flsrare Shares.
Chicago. Tribune.
All proposals of marriage on the ten-year
plan should be accompanied with tables cf
rates shoving, among other things, th cash
surrender value front year to y.sar.
ROVXD ABOt'T SRW TORK.
Ripples on the terreat of Uf In the
Metropolis.
Possessed of luxurious tastes and a desire
to entertain young women friends, Herman
Miller, a W-year-old Brookiynlte, turned
burglar In order to make up th deficit
! between his Income and outgo. He was
haled Into court last week and half a dozen
girls belonging to prominent Brooklyn
families listened to Miller plead guilty to
seven burglaries. The principal complain
ant against the young man was Fred F.
Nolte, proprietor of Acme hall, who says
that since July IS Miller has stolen fl.MO
worth of champagne from him. Another
complainant was Christian fechwarts, a
butcher, who alleged that the young de
fendant stole from his shop a side of beef,
twelve chickens and four fiams. Miller,
who did not seem In the lesst discomposed,
stood before the magistrate, his hands
thrust In his trousers pockets, and admit
ted all the charges brought agftlnst him.
"It's'Just my penchant." he said. "I think
I was born a burglar. As a child, when my
parents refused me anything, I simply took
It."
In addition to stealing th wtne and the
butcher'a supplies, the young man con
fesses that he stole charlotte rnsses and
other dainties from a bakershAp, and thnt
to fill out one of his dinners he took a case
of milk that had been left In front of a
saloon.
A genius for figures calculates that the
saving of time by the faster rate of travel
In the subway will amount to the saving of
millions of dollars annually to the people
of New York this on the theory that time
Is money. He sets forth that there are
10.000 persons who will dally go south and
north between, say, the Rector and 125th
stations of the subway. The time aaved
between these two Dolnts Is calculated at
twenty minutes dally to those who traverse
this distance habitually, or two hours In
each week. Thus the aggregate saving In
time will be 3.83 hours a day, or 19.9 hours
a week. Allowing for the class who will
thus traveled the costnmary two weeks
annual vacation, their fifty weeks of dally
travel will be shortened by 939.9 hours, or
41.2 days of twenty-four hours. As the
average business day does not exceed eight
hours, this saving would represent 123.7
business days In every year. If the time
of these 10,000 habitual travelers be worth
60 cents an hour, each one will have gained
by the saving In time devoted to travel 16
cents a day.or In round numbers $37.24 per
year of 286 days. The aggregate money ad
vantage to 10,000 people In the ordinary
business year should be $372,400. If a mil
lion people travel by the subway dally,
each passenger making an average gain
of five minutes, and this time Is worth .83
cent a minute, or 4.15 cents per trip, 1,000,000
people would show an aggregate saving of
$41,600 per day, or $y!,450,000 per year of
business days.
A sandwich man wearing a dress suit,
patent-leather shoes; a silk hit, a clean
shave and other evidences of respectability
not usually associated with human adver
tising peregrinators, made his appearance
along Broadway last week. The saddle
signs dangling from his person were newly
painted and done in. most artistic style.
Following closely behind him was a small
colored boy In snlform who acted as his
valet. The boy occasionally supplied the
sandwich man with a light, and both mas
ter and man conducted themselves with
the greatest decorum and gravity. The
sandwich man with the valet was adver
tising a new brand of cigar, and he gave
a most polished performance.
A halt has beVn called upon the political
talk around New York, and it will not be
reoommenced until the momentous question
is settled as to the proper place to wear a
scarfpln. From the first dawn of history
on this subject and up to ten years ago
the scarfpln had been worn In the knot of
the tie. About that time Prince Edward,
now king of England, emperor of India
and bosaof Ireland, appeared on the street
with a scarfpln in the skirt of his tie. Ten
days afterward no man with a proper re
gard for his reputation dared to place his
ornament in any other part of the , t(e.
Recently there has been a reactionary
movement. Sam Budd displayed In his
window a green scarf with a tlger-exe pin
stuck plainly and unmlstabably ' In the
knot. Fifth avenue Johnnies sauntering
down the street were horrified and Immedi
ately notified Mr. Budd of the sartorial
faux pas. The haberdasher declined to own
his mistake and stubbornly Insisted that
the scarfpln should be worn In the knot
and not In the skirt this year. Now the
question Is: Which King Edward or Sam
Budd? The frowning armies of both, are
of equal strength, and a battle Impends.
Parker and Roosevelt, Kouropatkln and
Kurokl may fight on, but Interest In their
trifling doings Is suspended until this mat
ter Is decided.
New York's newest and most expensive
hotel, the Bt Regis, on Fifth avenue. Is
not finding any difficulty in renting Its
much talked of "royal suite," the rate for
which Is reported to be $125 a day, $3,760 a
month, or $46,S25 a year. -Since the opening
of the hotel this suite has been unoccupied
for only a few days, and now it is said
that E. R. Thomas, the banker, has taken
It for an Indefinite period. , The suite con
sists of two bed rooms, a dining room,
library', parlor and bath room. It cost
$100,000 to furnish the rooms, and there Is
not an article of furniture In it that is not
the masterpiece of some famoua European
cabinetmaker. The bath room la floored
and walled with Italian marble, and the
plumbing throughout la of quadruple sliver,
plate. The carpets mark the highest de
velopments of the Turkish weavers' genius,
and the bric-a-brac and other ornaments
that add to the splendor of the suite- were
purchssed In those continental shops that
are patronised only by princes and multi
millionaires. Mr. Thomas has In his suite
a valet, a maid for his wife and two other
servants. . They are all guests of the St.
Regis, so that the dally charge upon the
young millionaire Is more than $200, or at
the rate of $70,000 a year.
Bellevue hospital's forty-four doctors are
Indignant. They do not want women valets
to make their beds, shine their shoes, pre
pare their baths, press their trousers and
do all the other things the fifteen men
valets have done In the comfortable past.
It has been the custom at Bellevue for
time out of memory for the doctors to hire
their own valets. They have clubbed to
gether and hired one man for each room,
fifteen In all, paying the men out of their
own pockets. For some reason the hospital
authorities decided several days ago that
this waa not desirable. It was announced
that hereafter three women would be em
ployed to take the place of the fifteen
valets and the women would be paid by
the hospital.
"With all respect for the honorable Board
of Truateea," said oat of the vexed forty
four, "that new rule is all foolishness.
Why, It will b Impossible to live at this
institution If they get women mussing
around here and poking their, noses into
very detail of our private Uvea,
"I can't call a women valet Into my room
to help me dress, can I? Suppose I wsnt
to take a bsth and need somebody to scrub
my back, I would look well asking one of
these women valets to do the job, wouldn't
I? And how In thunder can I say: 'Uisie,
please get busy and shine my shoes.'
"We doctors frequently work until late
at night very late. We sleep late next
morning, and conaequently our servants
com In th rooms and clean them up while
we are In bed. It would look nlc. now,
wouldn't It, for me to say:
" 'Here, you. AUce. get out until I put
my pants on!" "
President Brannan says he will hold thJ
order in abeyance awhile until he has in
vestlgated the matter.
PERSO VII. !OTKJ. ,
Commissioner McAdoo says women may;
smoke all they want to In automobiles
Prob(rbl he thinks even a cigarette mors
fragrant than gasolene.
It Is announced that the death of Prince
Bismarck removes all i hindrances to the
publication of th third Volume of his fath.
er's memoirs.
Two Kansas papers, the Wichita Eagle,
and the Lawrence Gaznte, are trying t
establish for William Matthewson of Wich
ita the right to the title of "Buffalo Rill,"
now worn so conspicuously by Colonel Cody,
"Jim" Henly. a strnnge and taciturn,
bachelor millionaire and cattleman of Ni
Mexico, Is one of the most Interesting per
sonages In that territory. Although his net
Income must be at least $100,0(0 a year lie
hardly spends $fi0 In that time.
Dr. A. R. Spofford, assistant llbrnrlan of
the library of congrers, has returned from
a three monMis' Btay In Europe. Whll
abroad he mado arrangements for the pur
chase of books from time to time and to
receive a large number of catalogues of
boo'ts.
Judge D. Cady Herrlck, democratlo can
didate for governor of New York, was hap.
tlzed plain Cady Herrlck, the name having
been selected by his mother. But this d d
not please his father, who was afraid when
he would become a big, bouncing boy that
his chums might soften it Into Katie.
Prof. Roentgen, who discovered th
marvelous rays which now bear his name,
has refused Immense sums of money offered
him by American publishers for a book on
what he himself modestly styled "a new
kind of ray." Though fifl, he carries his
years gallantly and looks more like a man
who has led a healthy outdoor life than one
who has spent the hole of ht.s manhood In
Investigating strange physical problems.
Secret Police llnlc France.
Vance Thompson In Success.
Skilled In all Ilgunges, able to enter any
society, the agents of the brigade des
recherches (the secret policed have their
fingers on tho pulse of public life and
know the men of high places ns well as
if they had gone through with lighted
candles. In a large measure It Is through
them that France Is governed. It Is a
mistake, though not an unnatural one, to
assume that, because France Is a repuhlln,
the people have much to say In matters
of government. The word of the people
Is 6T little weight. The republic is par
liamentary. It Is Intrenched behind privi.
leges and buttressed by an Irremovable
Sonate which selects the presidents. In
later yeara It has become largely a gov
ernment of financiers. It has abrogated
the right of trial by Jury and denied to
the people the right of pleblscltal suffrage.
The French republic Is ruled from the top
down. The prefect of police Is the agent
of this oligarchy, as he was In the time
of Louis XVI. The secret policy Is Its
obedlant servant. Presidents come and go;
liberal ministries are succeeded by radical
ministries, and socialists follow the rad
icals, but always the secret police remain,
and always the oligarchy governs. The
very man who Is chief of state may be
ranked among ' the enemies at least the
adversaries of this occult ruling power.
Reciprocal Courtesies.
Baltimore American.
A question of International exemption has
been raised by the arrt-Bt of a member of
the British embassy for violating the speed
laws of Massachusetts In his automobile. '
But one question will not be mooted along
with thia one the same courtesy .. which
exempts diplomats should also Induce th
latter to be scrupulously careful to ob
serve the laws of the nation so exempting
them. Diplomats should be more diplo
matic than to abuse the privileges of their
position.
LINES TO A LAI Gil.
Foreigner Why do you have so long a
period between the election of your press
dent and his Inauguration t
Native To give the people time to forget
the promises he made while he was trying
to get the office. Chicago Tribune. (
"That man Sniffem is a professional liar.
He said I paid $17,000 to insure my elec
tion." "No! Did he overestimate it?"
"No, confound him! He got the 'amount
altogether too low." Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Rupert (sighing) I think of her every
minute.
Harold Try thinking of her every seo
ond, old chap second thoughts are usually
the safest. Puck.
Father (sternly) Johnny, Is It possible
you are studying your lessons again?
Johnny Yes, father.
Father Well, you Just drop your booka
Instanter, get your ball and bat, and hus
tle out to the back lot for a couple of
hours' practice. I'm actually ashamed ot
you, mv son; you don't seem to have even
a little bit of ambition. Chicago Journal.
"You do not approve of oratory In a po
litical campaign?"
"No," answered Senator Sorghum: "th
most you can hope for from the average
political orator nowadays la that he will
avoid saying something that gives th
ohter side a good argument."-W ashlngton
Star. ,
"Pardon me. but are you the alleged hotel
thief?" asked the police reporter, taking
out his notebook.
"I waa pinched In an alleged hotel, all
right," responded the primmer at the Sta
tion, sullenly. Chicago Trlbum,
Mr. Jones It Is the man with the pull
that gets ahead.
Mrs. Jones Don't you believe It; it is
the man with the head that gets the pulL
Philadelphia Telegraph.
OCTOBER.
v-
With the hazy sunset ending.
Every day now shows the blending
Of the warm days Into colder.
Of the season growing older,
While the frosts are gently turning
Green leaves Into colors burning
Golden yellow, crimson bright
In the stilly hours of night.
Wood and field in transformation
Breathe the wonders of creation,
And the shorter days remind us
Shorter ones to come must find US
Well prepared to meet the corning
Of the storm king, loudly strumming
Aeolian chords among the branches
Of the trees, while avalanches
Of bright leavea fall down in glory,
And repeat the old, old story,
Of a mission that Is ended, v
As to earth they now are blended.
Omaha. FRED. T. RUD1UER.
Did you buy
your hair at an
auction?
At any rate, you seem to be
getting rid of it on auction-
sale principles: going,
going, g-o-n-e I " Stop the
auction with Ayers Hair
Vigor. It checks falling
hair, and always restores
color to gray hair. Sold for
over sixty years. L,f;i;