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TI1E OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2. 1904. I "J I 6 a h w 3 3 3 a 49 1 1 0! I o il a pra tor tha let h ma RiO; BM W is l! of fro 41 14 II Em omajia Daily Bee. V rosewaTer, editor. I PUBLISHED EVERT MORNINO. ' TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: lfr Bee (without Sunday), one year..4 00 I1ly Bm and gundav. one year too ( Illustrated Bee. nm year 2W Sunday Bee, one year 100 Saturday Bee. one year 10 Twentieth Century Farmer, ona year... 1.00 DELIVERED BT CARRIER Patty Bee (without Sunday), per copy.... 2e DsJIy Bee (wltnout Sunday), per week..l2 DaUy ee (Including- Bunday), per week. .lie Sunday Bee. pet copy e Evening Bee fwlthfiut Bunday). per weqir. 7e 'Everting Bee (Including Bunday), per week i 12e f Cumplalnta .of Irregularities In delivery I should be addressed to City Circulation De- pert meat. OFFICES: f' Ohiaha Th Bee building. Bouth Omaha-City Hall building. Twenty l flfts, and M streets. ' Council Bluffs-10 Pearl afreet. Chicago 164 Unity buildlnir. New York-sen Park Row building. Washington 601 Fourteenth etreet. CORRESPONDENCE. CommsnloatlnnB relating to newa and edi torial matter should he addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing company. Only feeetit slain pa received In payment of mall accounts. Personal checka. except on Omaha or eaatern exchanges, not accented. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. ,-J ' STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. ' State of N&braeka. Douglas County e.: George B. Tzachuck. feoretary of The Bee Publishing company, being duly fworn aye that the actual number of full and complete coulee of The Daily. Morning. . Evening anil Bunday Bee printed during the month of October, 1904. waa as follow: 1 9CA.S04I 1" gtt.tMO X ftOJiOO 18 89.1TO 8 SnJIMO 19 BO.R.TO 4 ...an,.tf0 ' 20 20.400 ..80. WO 21 00,000 a , 22.; so.aao 7 XtSH 2t 80,800 5 H0.1BO 24 S0.23O t no.soo js m.-jno io 'in,4ro 26 ao.ooo 11 .".i,40O 17. .119,040 12 ....8,mt4 ' 2s 29.OO0 13.... 14.... 1.... !.... ...,.330 . ...ZH.B40 ....S9,nftO 2 90 81 ..gtt.BOO . ao.ioo ,.aa,ooo '.ao,itso Total,...,,, B1B,40 Less unsold coplej 10,075 Net total 'aaies tK18,HW5 Dolly average 89.221 '.GEO. B. TZSCHUCK. . Subscribed in my presence and worn to before me this 31st day of October, 19"4. tSeal) M. B. HUNOATE, . t:.'' , " " " Notary Public. Baturdajr nxt- last chance to register. "Contraband of war" may assume a new moaning to fJreat Britain In case of a hitch in tho North sp lncjulry. Candidate Swallow rrow silent aa Jiidxe i'ariter grows talkative but maybe be 1 preparing a letter of condo lence. : ' ' ' Those British ships may be preparing for a fight ; at Gibraltar only to make cure that the Russian fleet will not mis take them for fishing boats. Is it possible that Santoa-Dumont had a tip as to what an American inventor bad done before that injury to bla air ship sent him back homer ' Qfunral (Kanlbars may .be no, bettj prophet than General Kouropatkln, but It is worthy bitethahe Is not risk ing his reputation in indiscriminate pre dictions. "' '' '' 1 In view, of ihe unusual calmness in Asiatic waters recently readers should not be surprised if the first news of a naval fight in which the Russian Baltic squadron Is engaged .comes from Suez. ' lu urging election for W. W. Slabaugh for county Jpttorney republicans are pro posing no experiment. Mr. Slabaugh' baa had experience as it prosecutor and bis reeoK wmimend -him to favor. Registration so far is fair, but there are between 0,000 and 10,000 voters in Omaha and Bouth Oinaba yet to be reg istered and Saturday la the last and only registration day, femlnlng. Get busy. The World-Herald .cartoonist is still under Instructions to keep off John N. 'Baldwin's grasa and a lot of good ma ; terial stored away before Baldwin em !( brai-ed the cause of Berge Is going to I waste. ' . . This is the last week for the spell ; binder, and it Is' almost safe to say that j speeches not delivered this year will not I be available four year from now, as the ! democrats will probably find an issue by , that time four years late as usual. ! It is rp'bff hoped Judge Parker will have carefully Verified the figures which ; he VlH, ue in bis speeches during the remainder of the campaign, for It must be wearing upon federal employes to hare to issue corrections dally In addl- Itlon to their, official duties. r Illinois coal mines are closed aa the ! result of hoisting ' engineers quitting I wori rather than to submit to a reduc- tlon )Uwagea.,The public might aa well ask ixow much the strike will cost and prepare to pay the additional ;cost of j coaf without having the work suspended. A. Colonel Bryan discredited himself as a prophet' with his numerous predlc ; tioos about free siJVer coinage, but be ibida' fair to redeem himself with his declaration that "with Judge Parker for . the, democratic candidate, the battle will begin with a loot race and end with a If, Governor Toole of Montana con tinues to refuse to honor requisitions from Colorado until satisfied that the accuiMMl persona- an have a fair and apeedy trial, it may be necessary to re fer the matter to a board of arbitration to dfclde upon' what should be consld eivd a fair and speedy trial. Sau Francisco promises to bold an in dustrial exposition In 1015 to commemo rate the discovery of the Pacific ocean and the completion of the Panama canal. It will be news to the Japanese to learn that the Pacific waa first discovered 500 years ago and to a number of engineers to leant that the Panama canal will be completed lu eleven years. - ' - KBOOTIAT1SO TRKATIES, The Iepartment of State Is negotia ting treatlea with the leading Edropn countries, which. If rrtt Into efTect, will go a great way toward Insuring against war between the United. States and na tions of the old world. The proposed conventions are treaties of arbitration and one with France was signed yester day. Its provisions of course not being made public, though they are understood to be in the lines of the Anglo-French treAty. Similar conventions with Italy snd Switzerland are in course of nego tiation. It Is the expectation of the secretary of state that he will have all the treaties which it is now proposed to enter Into concluded in time to submit them to the senate for ratification on the convening of congress in November. No hitches have yet been encountered in the effort to make for international peace. These treaties are to continue in effect for a period of five years. In addition to these arbitration treaties. It is stated that the department Is negotiating some proposed commercial agreements with foreign powers, which It Is hoped the senate will adopt At present there are four com mercial agreements in effect between the United Stotes and foreign countries, but none of them were dependent on the ap proval of the senate. They were nego tiated under the section of the tariff law which anthorlr.es the making of agree ments of this kind under definite limita tions. One is with France, which was negotiated in 1S0S, and the other three are with (Jermany, Italy and Portugal and were drafted In 1900. They may be abrogated on a year's notice by either side. 'It Is probable that no serious opposi tion will be found in the senate to the arbitration treaties, so general has be come the sentiment In favor of promo ting International arbitration, but experi ence in regard to commercial agreements does not encourage the hope that they will be adopted. The fact that eleven such agreements were negotiated under the McKlnley administration and not one of them has been approved by the sen ate does not hold' out much promise for additional treaties of this kind. A LESSON FROM ENGLAND. Mr. Chamberlain paints a gloomy pic ture of the effects of free trade In Eng land. He says that there are 1,000,000 fewer farm laborers in that country now than in 18T1 and 13,000,000 laborers are underfed, while the people of America. Germany and other countries are pros perous. At a meeting of the Manchester city council recently It was announced that between 40.000 aad 50,000 people in that city were practically on the verge of starvation. Similar conditions prevail In London and in other large cities of the kingdom. While the nation is losing ground in commerce, the loss of value of her agri cultural property continues. It Is shown that the decrease of capital value of agricultural land In Great Britain be tween 1875 and 1805 .reached the enor mous sum of S4,000,000.000. . Considering that fact, no one can regard it' as sur prising that at last a great body of pub lic opinion has been formed in England to protest against a policy that has pro duced such results. What is astonish ing, however, is that with the American policy splendidly triumphant at the very moment when the British system Is showing signs of collapse there should be found thousands of Americans who are busy trying to persuade their coun trymen to abandon the successful policy and accept the failure. The lesson from England should Im press especially American farmers and workingmen, who have for years pros pered for beyond those of any other land. Certainly these classes of our people can not desire for their country a policy which has produced such disastrous re sults as those pictured by Mr Chamber lain and other students of British eco nomic conditions. . THE .arTwtCJt VX THE PRESIDENT. Early in the campaign Judge Parker wa reported to have admonished his party managers that there was to be no auud-sllnglng and no personalities. ' In this, as in most other respects, he has changed front and joined with certain of his newspaper organs in charging1 that President Roosevelt, through the chair man of the republican national commit tee, has entered Into corrupt,' relations with some of the great corporations in order to obtain camialgn funds. In a speech last week the democratic candi date for president made this charge In very plain terms and he repeated it In effect In bis speech at Madison Square garden Monday night. t There are no specifications. The or gans that originated the charge have not cited a single instance In which Chair man Gortelyou has solicited or accepted a contribution from a corporation on any promise or pledge. Judge Parker makes no specifications, Repeated challenges to them to name a case Justifying their charge have failed to draw out the In formation they claimed -to have. It Is a most grave charge aud If true the evi dence of it should be given to the public. Can there be a reasonable doubt that if those making the charge had evidence to sustain it they would make it public! Nothing could be more effective in be half of the candidate than such a rev elation. It would make hundreds of thousands of votes for him. Yet In tensely anxious as he, his party man agers and organs are for democratic success they withhold from the public Information they profess to have which would powerfully contribute to the sue cess of the party. Will any fair-minded man 'believe that they bave any evi dence r Is It not obviously a trumped up charge, without the slightest basis in fact the invention of some one of the unscrupulous politicians who are man aging the Parker campaign? The temerity of Judge Parker in mak ing the statement he has reflecting upon the president is astonishing lu view of the fact that bis own intimate associ ates and supporters, the men who con ducted the campaign for bis nomination and who are now managing the cam paign for his election, represent these very corporations wklch he affects to denounce, or else owe their political strength lely to the contributions they have received from them in the past and expect to receive from them in the fu ture. The names of these men Bel mont, McCsrren, Sheehan and the rest of them are well known to the country and one and all owe their whole power In politics to the Intimate connection tbey have established between the msnage ment of corporations and the manage ment of public business. With such men conducting his campaign It cornea with 111 grace from the candidate to charge the president and the Chairman of the republican national committee with entering Into a corrupt bargain with the so-called trusts. It is a most unworthy and discreditable position for the candidate of a great party for the high office of president of the republic. HITCHCOCK AND HOWELL. "Birds of a feather will flock together." Like the drowning man grasping at a straw, Candidate Hitchcock is trying to save himself from drowning in the po litical sea by catching onto the legs of the submerged mariner. The fraud cry, which Hitchcock and his organ have raised about Howell la the rankest piece of Imposture. There was no fraud perpetrated on Howell. He was defeated by 200 votes In a fairly conducted direct primary. Only three names appeared on the ballot and every voter able to read. Who wanted to vote for Howell, had no trouble in finding his name and putting his cross after it, and voters unable to read could not in the nature of things be deceived, having their ballots marked by a Judge who was able to read. But Hitchcock Imagines that he can humbug the people by inserting Howell the Humbug ns an Issue and creating discord in the republican ranks. The Hitchcock-Howell plon of campaign has, however, another aspect. Hitchcock is now playing the same part that he did when he was a candidate for congress six years ago. In that campaign he threw overboard and sold out ' every candidate on the Douglas county demo cratic legislative ticket by making a compact with the campaign manager of John L. Webster. This deal resulted In the defeat of ten democratic candidates for the legislature and through that de feat came the defeat of William V. Allen or some other democrat to the senate. In the same manner Hitchcock man aged to trade off and throw overboard other democrats who were ambitious enough to aspire to office. In the pres ent campaign County Attorney English and the legislative democratic ticket have been marked for barter and slaugh ter, while the World-Herald is shouting for Howell In the desperate hope of being able to make votes for Hitchcock. But that game can be played both ways and the democratic candidates who are being sacrificed for Hitchcock are not likely to remain perfectly quiescent. Up to the time he went before the people asking their votes to make him governor. Populist Candidate Berge was what Boodler Prosecutor Folk calls a non-combatant In the fight against cor rupt corporate Interference with popu lar government He has beon a close spectator to all the boodle lobby work at Lincoln and has been almost within hearing of the pleas for more equitable taxation of railroads before the state boards of assessment, but he never even lifted his voice In the cause of reform. He wants to be elected on the strength of promises rather than of deeds. The pernicious influence of the elec tric lighting monopoly has been seen too many times at the city hall. More than once the pleasure of its lobby has had to be awaited until councllmen kept in biding bave been permitted to attend a meeting and make up the necessary quorum to transact public business. X vote against municipal lighting is a vote to strengthen the grip of the electric lighting monopoly on our public servants and to continue the corrupt manipulation of councils by Its retinue of boodle dis pensers. South Omaha taxpayers have two bond propositions before them. The proposal to borrow $70,000 at 5 per cent to build a city hall is decidedly ques tionable. . It means an outlay of $3,500 a year for interest and upwards of $1,500 for heat, Janitor service and main tenance in lieu of rent For half that money, the city can have the use of ade quate quarters until the time comes when the two municipal governments' of Omaha and South Omaha shall be merged. ' Slallsrhts of a Forlora Hope. Philadelphia Preaa. Judge Parker is warming up. He Is now throwing .things at tha octopus and send ing heart to 'heart' messages to Colonel Bryan. , Isa't It Dreadful I Baltimore American. A surplus In the Philippine treasury howa how dreadful is tha oppression of the islands under American rule. Doubt less it Is the first surplus tha Philippines ever saw In their revenues. . ' Relationship Forajottca. Chicago Record-Herald. King Edward la the csar'a uncle, but there are times now and then when the English people get excited and neglect to let themselves be run over, even by roy alty, without making complaint The Horse Will Stay Awhile. Chicago Chronicle. Self-propelled carriages are fair weather vehicles and good roads vehicles. They are not capible of encountering the stress of storm and the strain of rough high ways. There will doubtlessa be many Im provements calculated to Increaae the trength and durability of auto vehicles, but no Improvement can overcome the es sentia I weaknesses pointed out. Speed, complicated machinery and winter roads are factors which can not be wrought Into a satisfactory result. The triumph of automatic, propulsion will have to wait upon aerial navigation. So long as the vehicle is forced to cling to earth It mum wait upon the weather and In the meantime the horse will resume his old ascendancy. Carloaa Featarea of Election Ketaras. New Tork Sun. In the prertdentlal election of ISM there were 70.000 more than a round 14.(00.000 votes cast In the presidential election of 1M0 there were 17.000 ea than the round 14,000,000 votes. It Is notable that tha re publican vote In MarylsKt 'n 1W1 w" 1M.KI; In 1SW0 It waa Uiat In New Jeriey the republican vote In 189 was 221,Srt7; In lMO It waa 221.707. In IK the republican vota In Wleconeln was J68.1S6; In 1900 It was 25.M. In New York the republican vote In Vm wae gl.M8: in 1900 It waa g21,S92. in tha election of ISM the democratic vote In Nebraska was 116.S99; In 1900 it was 114,011 In North Dakota It waa 20.8fiS in 1896 and 30.S11 In 1900. In Pennsylvania the demo cratic vote In 1R96 waa 412.054; In 1900 It was 4:4.221 In Wyoming the democratic vote In 1894 was lO.SKt In 1930 It waa 10.iMi.( A result even more curious was shown In the state of Ohio. In 18W the democratic vote w 474,882; In 1900 It waa 474,882-exactly the same. 41 AARELS OF LOVERS. Jadge Parker and Colonel Bryan Ex change Compliments. Chicago Chronicle. Nothing bo affecting has occurred during the entire presidential campaign na the final reconciliation of Judge Parker and William J. Bryan and the tender messages which have recently passed between them. These delicious morsels, reminding us of the poet's romantic sentiment, that "the quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love," as as follows: To the Hon. William J. Bryan: I wish to thank you for the splendid service you have rendered to the democratic party In In diana and elsewhere during the present Campaign. ALTON B. PARKER. Judge Alton B. Parker: I appreciate the generous expression contained In your tele gram. I am pnylng an Institllm'ent on the debt I owe the American people by endeav oring to secure for them the reforms which your administration will bring. W. J. BRYAN. Truly this In the age of peace snd recon ciliation. On one side of the globe the roar of tha British lion and the growl of the Russian bear die away In a diplomatic crescendo and end In a frigid commission Of Inquiry. On the other side of It the anointed high priest and champion of a debased currency and the man whom he accuses of having betrayed that "sacred" cause fall Into each other's arms with thanks and gushing com plaisance. What Mr. Bryan has been saying In In diana is thla: "Mark you, I have nothing to take back. I said Parker was a straddler and a traitor, and I stick to it. I said he got his nomination by crooked and Inde fensible methods, and I say so still. I said no man could be trusted whom Orover Cleveland endorsed, and that was the gos pel truth. Still, I am asking you to vote for Parker as the less of two evils. With all his faults he Is better than Roosevelt. As for mc, much aa I dislike him, I have got to vote for him because he voted for me twice and even boasted of It after ward." To a person of sensibility In Judge Par ker's position such a support would be regarded as grossly Insulting, but circum stances alter cases, and Judge Parker, without the slightest appearance of morti fication or displeasure, thanks Mr. Bryan warmly for It and . refers to It as "the splendid service you have rendered the democratic party in Indiana'." Then Mr. Bryan, with the same canting hypocrisy, refers to Judge Parker's "gen erous expressions" and to "the reforms which your, administration will bring." Could deceit ana1 groveling self-abasement go any further? i' u - All this means'", that if Judge Parker should be elected? Mr. Bryan would be his secretary of the' treasury, duly commis sioned to overturn the gold standard and "reform" the national finances In accord ance with the Kansas City platform. THAT F AM CHS BOX PARTY. World-Herald Editor and Railroad Attorney asaggl Up to Each Other. Lincoln Star. The Omaha World-Herald employs a great deal of editorial space to explain tha fact, which was quite generally remarked at the time and has since been the subject of nowspaper comment and surmise, (hat at the big Berge-Folk meeting at Omaha the editor of that paper and John N. Bald win occupied the same box and were seated close together. The '!rld-Herald Is at great pains to explain circumstantially how this Interest ing juxtaposition occurred, that it was purely fortuitous that a Union Paclfto official, seeing the editor unprovided for, Invited him to a seat; that he innocently accepted the courtesy, and thus only hap pened to ba seated near the political man ager and pass dispenser of the Union Pa cific for the state of Nebraska. Tha World-Herald's editorial article, evidently drawn up by the editor himself, will be ac cepted, of course, as conclusive as to the Incident. The editor pr the World-Herald, the article asserts, "has merely a speaking acquaintance with John N. Baldwin. He did not occupy a seat beside him at tha Folk 'meeting, and the only communica tion between tha two waa the mere ex change of nods." The editor does admit "tha mars exchange of nods" between him self and Mr. Baldwin. He Is silent as to whether winks passed between them. He leaves ua In the dark as' to the points In the proceedings at which "the mere ex change of nods" occurred whether It was when Mr. Folk touched upon the cor rupting nature of the free, pans or when he was working off his oratorical climaxes on the pleasant corporation art of mon keying with ' legislatures. He does not even Inform us whether ho and Mr. Bald win, although they have "exchanged nods," war able to keep their faces straight while Mr. Berge was speaking his piece and touching on those points. Mr. Baldwin and the editor both knew what the stubs of the Union Pacific pass books and the record of the mileage during the time Mr. Berge's party controlled the legislature and the state government would show, and If they eould look each other In the face without a derisive smile during Mr. Berge's remarks It would show them defi cient In the sense of humor. Two years ago' the columns of the World Herald were packed with cartoons of Mr. Baldwin, because it then suited the paper's purpose to try to .create the Impression that he owned tha republican ticket and particularly the head of It. History has wiped out that notion, so far as It ever ex isted, and most of all from tha mind of Mr. Baldwin himself, and Mr. Baldwin will hardly deny that he was eager and active In the plot to defeat the renomlna tlon of Governor Mickey as the World Herald to defeat his re-election. You see none of those cartoons of Mr. Baldwin In the World-Herald In this campaign. The World-Herald could not have been more abetemtloue In this respect, nor more scrupulous to avoid hurting Mr. Baldwin's sensibilities than If he were one of the principal supporters of Berge and the fusion sceme to get hold of the governshlp, carry ing with It nearly the whole of the official patronage of Nebraska. When Mr. Balwln appeared conspicuously In the same bos with the editor of the World-Herald at the biggevt fusion meeting of the campaign, it waa natural. Indeed it was Inevitable, that the people should re mark it. The World-Herald appreciates that as keenly as everybody else. GOSSir ABOIT THE WAR. An Example of the Spirit that Aeta tes tha Soldier of Japan. Writing on "Japanese Deration and Courage" In the Century Magaaine.. Os-ar King Davis, an American correspondent at the front, rites the case of Sergeant Major Sanko Takano of the Second company. Second rivalry regiment, as an Illustration of the Indomitable spirit that actuates the soldiers of Japan. "On a dark night in early April, soon after his regiment had reached the Yalu river, he nnd Lance Corporal Shlnohu Watanabe were sent out with a third mun to ascertain the width and depth of the main stream of the river where It flows between two large Islands opposite WIJu. They crossed the first chan nel in a boat which the sergeant-major and the corporal left cn the first Island In charge of the third man. Then the two worked across the Island to the main stream. The Russians occupied a little village on the opposite side, directly across from the place where Takano and Watanabe struck the river. Takano saw that It would be very difficult to get across without attracting their attention. Ice was running In the river, and the water was bitterly cold. Takano thought that If he tried to swim he would surely arouse the Russians. 80 he determined to walk across on the bottom of the river, rising arcaslonally for breath! They had a coll of light rope with them. Takann took off hla uniform and fastened one end of the line to his body. Then he picked up R stone to help him keep on the bottom, and waded Irf, leaving the lance corporal to hold the rope by which he was to be dragged bark whenever he gave a signal of two sharp pulls. Pounded by the loe and chilled to the marrow by the cold water, Takano strug gled on. The water rose over his head, but the heavy stone he carried enabled him to keep on the bottom. Now he could walk a little faster, for he was free from the battering Ice; but as he neared the center of the stream the current grew swifter and swifter, until, if It had not been for the stone he carried. It would have swept him down. He grew numb from the cold, and It took all his strength, stout swimmer as he was, to rise to the surface and stay there long enough to breathe. Yet he dared not drop the weight, for he knew he could not get down to the bottom again. So he worked, with Watanabe paying out the rope, until he felt the bottom rising and knew he was beyond the middle of the stream. Almost senseless, Takano stum bled along, striving to carry out tha letter of hla orders and reach the opposite bank. But not even Japanese nature could stand such a test, and Watanabe, waiting on the bank, felt the long, steady pull on the rope that told him Takano had tost con sciousness. .With all hla might the corporal hauled In the line, and soon had the unconscious sergeant major out of the water. "A brisk rubbing and the contents of his flask finally revived Takano, who got Into his warm, dry uniform again and started back with the corporal across the Island. But when they reached the place where they had left the boat. It was gone. The third man, concluding that they had been captured by the Russians, had Btarted back. There was nothing for It but to swim, so In the two. men plunged. The floating Ice hammered them and the cold water, numbed them, so that they could not make head way against the current and were carried down stream. But fortune had not de serted them, and they drifted against the boat In which their comrade waa trying to scull back to shore. He, too, had been swept down stream by the swift water and the Ice which hindered his sculling. He hauled them In, and soon they were landed On the Wlju aide, to be commended by their captain for showing the real spirit of Yamato Damashll." The Army and Navy, Journal (Washing ton) estimates that "Japan haa put forth 28 per cent of her strength thus far In the contest with Russia, while the drain on the resources of Russia Is less than 2 per cent. This Is only a single factor, however. In the complex problem of military success, which does not always respond to the con clusions of the multiplication table. The politico-economists and tha pseudo-philanthropists may manipulate the figures as they please, the fact cannot be made to accord with the theory that war Is neces sarily exhausting to national strength. Pre cisely the contrary was shown In the case of our great war. Material resources may assume new forma of distribution In time of war, but this is not necessarily waste. It is the destruction of classes. It Is the Industries created by Industry which Is the foundation of the business of a community through which its Individual members pro cure their means of living. If all those who have the power of purchasing should cease for a single year to buy or make good their wastage, universal poverty and distress would follow. As a matter of fact, the assets of the American continent are less than they were when Columbus discovered it. Millions of mineral wealth that were then stored away In the bowels of the earth are there no longer; our soli has been partially exhausted of Its fertile properties, and our hills and valleys have been largely denuded of their forests. Yet 70,000,000 people exist in comparative com fort where a few hundred thousand In dians gained a precarious living before. The Industries of war draw upon the sur plus energies of a people, and, by stimu lating them to larger effort, Increase their power of production." "Tha emperor and the empire, the em pire Is the people these constitute the real religion of Japan," says a writer In Leslie's Weekly, "the great Jdea through the di vine virtue of which the Japanese have ac counted for themselves before tha wonder ing eyea of a Christian world. For His Imperial Majesty, Emperor Mitauhlto, tha little brown solMlera of Japan Joyously die, and taf him do the thousands of bereaved ones suffer In proud silence that dreams in great peace of ba afterward.-' And it is not weak Indifference they 'display, these tearless ones; It la strength, tha mightiest ever seen on earth. By thousands they hear the grim news that robs them of all reason for living, and by thousands they retreat in splendid awe, tempered, bless Oodl by patriotic pride that haa not Its equal under the shining sun. Orlef in visible racks the soul of Japan while It marches proudly on with a joy note In Its war song." One of the most amusing thlnga In Clar ence Ludlow Brownell's book of Japanese travel la a collection of Japanese signs In English, as writ and spoke in Japan for tha benefit of English travelers. Here are three selections: Over a drug store, "Kamune Doudo, Sasopra, Zlnslnbiya, Jin. Jlyae-1," which, tranelated, means, "Lemon Soda, Sarsapaiilla, Dinger Beer and dinger Ale;" over a barber'a, "To shave or to dreag hairs away;" over a butcher's, "Cowmaat and Pigmeat." Russian soldiers are going around tha bend of the southern shore of Lake Baikal, on the road Just finished, at the rate of about a dosen miles an hour, which la slow wheeling, but better than the slower fer riage or winter croasing on tha billiard swept Ue. How the new road will 'work in winter remains to be seen, there being more than a possibility that in such a windy corner the track may be laid under drifts half as high aa tha Kremlin, to be covered evr again as fast as they are dug out. , WORK, or THE LITERARY aUREAl. rractleal and ProntahU thanaes In Repahllean Metheda. New York Letter to Waahlngton Star: Eight years ago the republican national committee circulated 175 different campaign documents to the number of many millions. Four years ago the committee used 100 dlf ferent documents, and almost In aa great number. This year the committee has put forth six documents. Mr. Coolldge contended, when he was placed in charge of the bureau snd railed upon for suggestions, that there waa great waste Of material In dumping such Im mense volumes of reading matter on the public and that the greater portion of It failed to reach readers or to interest them The experience of many politicians Indorsed this contention. It was determined to cur tall the circulation of crude mstter, often poorly printed and unattractive. The six documents Issued were prepared by experts and dealt with two subjects, the republican party snd Theodore Roosevelt. The mil lions of copies turned out were printed on good paper. In readable and attractive form The demand for them has been phenomenal, which Is taken as evidence of their ac ceptablllty to the public. A pictorial and cartoon service was or ganised. The country has been plastered with attractive cartoons and small hand books of cartoons and political sketches distributed everywhere. One of the most Interesting of the set Is a collection of pic tures reproduced from Harper's and Leslie's weeklies and other publications of that kind, which were printed during the hard times of 189S and 1894. This document Is entitled "Lest We Forget." The pictures are the actual sketches of the soup house period, and portray many scenes of misery and starvation In tha big cities. Coxey's army and the armies of the unemployed and destitute In many sections sre again thrown upon the screen. Most of the sketches were reproductions In ths magizlnes of the time from photo graphs, representing actual scenes . snd doubtleas will ba recalled with pangs of bitter memories by many a man who went through the hardships that the country suffered In that great time of depression. It makes a telling contrast between that period and the present. The press bureau Is another branch of tho literary work. There Is an editorial organisation In the bureau of which metropolitan newspaper might be proud. The country press has been supplied with editorial and plate matter, plate cartoons for the "patent insides" and special articles of every kind. The dally press Is supplied with high-class editorial matter and special articles upon any subject demanded. There has never been such an extensive press bu reau operating In this country. But, the telling feature, the new Idea, of the whole scheme of publicity, Is yet to be described. Having abandoned the old atyle of distribution of campaign documents. It was necessary to supply means of laying before the reading public republican prlnci pies and policies. ' No set speeches, deliv ered In congress, heretofore a favorite plan of campaign, were printed this year. If you will look In the front or back of any magazine of prominence for the month of October you will find from one to four prges of advertising matter devoted to dls cusston of republican politics. The repub llcan party Is being advertised, brought to the attention of the public In a business like way. It is estimated that a total circulation of 8,000,000 la provided for these advertisements. The articles were prepared by able men. Joseph H. Choate wrote one of them, and all are the products of competent brains. Instead of a long and sometimes dreary discussion of politics, here Is a brief, tell Ing and readable presentation of some fea tures of republican tenets. It is likely to attract the attention of the magazine reader and it is short enough for him to read. He will find something that appeals to his ln telllgence whether he agrees with the prin ciples or not. The articles were sagaciously prepared to suit the particular clientele of the magazine In which they appear. The scheme must have cost a mint of money, for a page in an American magazine is an expensive proposition. But the plan hns created more talk and attracted more attention than any other feature of the campaign, Mr. Coolldge caused the preparations to be made quietly, and the publications were sprung upon the publlo unexpectedly. He Is receiving many congratulations for the succeeaful employment of a very novel Idea In political campaigning. There Is no copy right on the scheme, and no doubt it will be extensively used in the future by both the great parties. PERSONAL NOTES. Captain George D. Ouyer of the Six teenth Infantry has been detailed to duty aa professor of military sloence and tactics at the South Dakota Agricultural college, Brookings. S. D. Lucius Tuttle, now president of the Bos ton A Maine railroad, waa the first man to hold ths title of "passenger trafflo agent" It was bestowed upon him by President Van Home of the Canadian Pa clflo railway. Hasel Harrison, an lt-year-old American colored girl the first negro artist who' haa ever appeared In Germany made a success ful debut as a piano soloist with tha Phil harmonic orchestra In Berlin recently. She Is a native of La Porte, Ind. . Dr. Otsuka, director of tha Klusiu Im peri a 1 Agricultural Experiment atatlon of Japan, is in New Orleans at the request of his government to study rice culture and the methods employed In Louisiana in the raising and refining of sugar. One patriotic heart has ceased to beat In Montana. Mora's the pity. But he will be remembered once a year at least, while his estate holds out. Intensely Fourth of Julylsh in Ufa, ha left all his property In trust to provide a fund for celebrating the natal day In Boseman with "ample quan titles of fireworks, flags and bunting." Walter B. Stevens, secretary of the World's fair, has not as yet bean awarded a bunch of medals for having listened to more speeches than any man that aver hit the Pike. Mr, Stevens' experience as a Washington correspondent enabled him to bear a continuous ran of calorlo functions with equanimity aad a sthaight faoe. Slgnor Marconi, who Is In Waahlngton at tha Italian embassy, says that tha British admiralty con communicate with one of Its warships anywhere on ths Atlantlo ooean or In tha Mediterranean at any mo ment. "If It should become necessary for the British government to send ordsrs to ths fleet it would be dons by wireless," ha continued. . . Tea weeks ago Henry Weber was a re porter on a Denver dally. For some time hs had been interested in mining proper ties, oils of which. In Nevada., has proved to ba Immensely valuable. Mr. Weber has sold bla Interest In that mine for IsuO.OOO caah and holds others which sre expected to ba worth twice as much. He has pro moted eighteen companies, four of which are doing well. Rev. Ferdinand Kit tell, rector of St. Mlohael's church. Loretto. Cambria county. Pennsylvania, the ehurch which Charles M. Schwab built at an expense of tJOO.OrtO. states that "C M. Schwab had paid out more than .ono,000 to persons whom ha believed to have lost money by reason of tha formation of the Ship Building trust. There was one case of a widow In New York who lost all she had In the bual and she had nearly 1600,000. Mr. ghwab drew hla cflech for JHon.oo and gave It to her. I ssw the check." t t 1 CT1EAM Improves the flavor and adds to the health fulness of the foods tSES OF ADVERSITY. Minnesota Foot Ball Rooters Oet a Hard Fall. Minneapolia Journal. That game of foot ball last Saturday be tween Nebraska and Minnesota was a very profitable game. The Impetuous rooter may not see It that way, and the man who twt on a blank score for Nebraska could not be persuaded that the game was one of any value whatever. The game was useful in thin, that It Illustrated once more tho vicissitudes of life and foot ball. It often happens that when In the great game of life, all of us are forever playing, a man becomea greatly elated by his successes something happens. About the time he says to him self: "I am not as other men I am one of the its," something rises up and knocks the wind of vanity out of him. We will not say that the university, eleven had come to entertain a highly magnified Impression of Its own foot ball qualities, but the rooter had come to look upon the team as Invincible. The lat ter went to the game Saturday with a presentiment that the score would be about 40 to 0 In favor of their pet Gophers. When Nebraska scored first ths rooters greatly resembled a deflated balloon. When Nebraska scored the second time the root ers looked like a deflated balloon torn by ribbons by the wind. When the game was over the rooter concluded that on the whole there was nothing for him to yelll for. Tha foot ball fanatics will attend the game with Wisconsin in the proper mood, In consequence of their disappointment Saturday. They will go hoping that the Gophers will win, but knowing that they may lose. When such Is the state of, mind of the enthusiasts, victory by a narrow margin Is .cause for great rejoicing; an overwhelming victory justifies tranaports of Joy. PASSING PLEASANTRIES. Lazarus waa eyeing the crumbs which fell trom the rich man's table. "What's the use." lie re Dec ted, "when I might be out working one of the candidates tor a quarter." Cleveland Leader. "What did you think of my speech," Laid the orator of the prohibition party. "I was astonished," answered Colonel Stllwell of Kentucky. "I- never knew that water could produce so much loquacity." Washington Utar. , Tesa Mamma was clearing up the garret today and she found the crib I, used when I was a baby. Wasn't that an Interesting find? Jess Yes, Indeed; antiquities are vary valuable nowadays. Philadelphia Press. Father Henry, don't you think It is time for you to be doing your share of the world's work? Son I suppose It Is, dad. If you'll make over to me what you consider my share of world's surface I'll work It for all it's worth. Chicago Tribune. "I'm getting along much better now with Mlsi Roxley. "you don't say? I was told her father kicked you out every time you called." "So he does, but he doesn't kick me as hard as he used to." Philadelphia Ledger. "Well, there's one fortunate thing about the attack on the Hull Ashing fleet." "What's that?" "It's lucky that the Japs didn't do the shooting." Cleveland Plain Dealer. "PC8H DON'T KNOCK," Baltimore American. Upon the door I saw a sign; I cried, "A motto! And it s mine!" A wiser thing I never saw No Median or Persian law Should be more rigidly enforced Than this, from verbiage divorced Its logic's firm as any rock "Push don't knock." 'Twas simply meant to guide the hand Of those who wished to sit or stand Within the unassuming door This weight of sermonry that bore. , 'Twas never meant to teach or preach. But just to place In easy reach The ear of him who dealt In stock "Push don't knock." But what a guide for life was that Strong, philosophical and pat; How safe a chart for you and me While cruising o'er life's restless sea; Push, always push, with goal in view; Don't knock avoid, the hammer crew. Thla rule will save you many a shook! "Push don't knock." When on that door I see the sign. I say "Great motto, you are tnlnel No stronger sermon every fell From human lips; no sage could tell The hothead youth more nearly how To point alway his vessel's prow: There are no wiser words In stock: "Push don't knock." BREAKFAST COCOA is duanguihd from alt Othtn L- u. L.n a j.i- ; t oy as tun uavor, ooucmjmb qua fey and abolute parity ' ) The Walter PL Lovmcy Co, OiTON, MASS. -r . j, it, (i '" . iMii'nlii !il Ba a rJ a v 1 tr 7