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THE OMAIIA DAILY I3EE: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1903. The Omaha Daily Bee i K. ROSE WATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERT MORNtNO. TERMS OF BfRSCRIPTlON. Tally Tie. (without Humlay). one year...H no Iatly Hee and Sunday, one year gj Illustrated Bee, one year J J" Sunday Bee, one year Saturday Ree, o.ie year 1-W DELIVERED B CARRIER, pally Bee (without Sunday, per week . ..I!" bally Hee (Inrludlngl'.inriayl. per week. .17c Evening Be (without Bundsy), per week, tc Evening Hee (with Sunday), per week. ...10c Sunday Be, per ropy c Address complaint of Irregularities In de livery to Ctty Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Rullding. South Omaha City Hall Building. Council Bluffs 10 Tearl Btreat. Chicago 1S4 Cnlty Building. New York lfiOrt Home lAtm Ins. Building. ' Washington 6n Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communlratlons relating to news and ed itorial matter ahould be addressed: Omaha U-e, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, eipress or postal order, Payable to The Bee Publishing Company Only 2-eent stamps received In payment 01 mall account. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPAN' STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, si: C. C. Rosewater, secretary of The Bee Publishing Companv, being duly sworn, aeya that the actual number of full and complete copies of The I'ally, . Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of August, 1606, was as follows: 1 80.4O0 16 81.TOO 17 X.10 18 SO.TOO i no, too SO 82.410 21 SO.K80 22 ao.noo 21 31.920 24 80,000 25 81,130 2 i 8.1,000 27 SO.IMK) 2S SO,7TO 29 30,170 SO 81,HftO a si.nao 1 2,fWO 4 801ffO 6 80.7TO 80.R20 7 80,T.K t Sl.CMIO 1 81, MOO 10 2,IIM 11 80,HIMI 11 so.rno II 8O.T10 14...... 80.8AO IB 31,000 Total xzn,n Less unsold copies 10, lit a Net total sales 9lfl.:iSS Dally average , 80,344 C. C. ROSEWATER, Sec'y. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before ma this 30 day of September, 1906. (Seal) M. B. HL'NOATE. Notary Public. WHEN OIT OF TOWM. ' Sabscrlbera leaving; the city tem porarily ahonld have The Bee saall.4 to them. It la better than dally letter from home. Ad dress will be change aa oftca aa reqaeated. The destruction of much of the Ma nila hemp crop by a typhoon will not disturb the Texas burners In the least. According to newspaper reports Councilman O'Brien has been testing lamp posts with a gasometer and a stenographer. The Hon. r. Crowe of Butte. Mont, will kindly relieve an anxious public by telling whether he Is himself or merely ' tnasruerader. Discharging employes for failure to attend and listen to a curtain lecture by the employer is a new phase of the labor reform movement. rat Crowe, lgoresighted to the last. If there Js a place on earth that would reconcile a man to confinement In Jail Butte is the place. : That reminds us, those electric :trolley cars were to have been running hourly between Omaha and Lincoln by this time. What Is the trouble? The printers' strike has gotten aa near qfT St. Taut and Minneapolis. If it will circle around Omaha without touch log us no objection will be entered. It will be well to remember that Hooker county is not the state of Ne braska when making an estimate of public aentimeut on the land fencing matter. Old King Cotton Is playing a poor second fiddle to King Corn. It Is hardly likely that there will be any extensive burning of cotton to maintain prices this 'season. The (Jmuha Womaus club hus re sumed active operations. If the court oilmen canuot settle their telephone and gas franchise difficulties they might call on the club women. It would be mighty Interesting to know what rresldent Roosevelt would bave laid to President Mitchell If they had talked on the labor conditions in the Pennsylvania coot fields. Building permit figures have almost reached the three and one-quarter mil Hon dollar mark for the first nine months of the year. The year 1005 Is sure to be a red letter era in Omaha's building lannals. Developments in the New York, bank robbery sensation prove that woman still exercises a potential Influence on the affairs of nieu. "Chercheg la femiue" hasn't lost a lap since the days of Louis the Bourbon. .The Gould-Kamaey quarrel may un cover some of the unwritten history of that famous entry Into Pittsburg, but It does not appear Just where the small stockholders of the Wabash are going to profit by the affray. Train robbers show a lamentable lack Of originality. The story of the latest attempt on the Great Northern gtvea Dot the slightest indication of advance In methods. Here la an opening for some one with true genius. If suits continue to multiply against the executive officers of life Insurance companies, attorneys who have been fig vreheads on the pay rolls the directories will have ample opportunity to earn the salaries they are drawing. Prospects are good that Omaha wi: tbla week entertain more out-of-town guests than during any previous carnival period. It Is up to the people of Omaha to make themselves each a committee of one to provide for the entertainment f tot visitors. JAPANESE IMMIGRATION. The fear of a large Immigration from J a pun, wlibh has leen expressed on the Purine coast, ought to be allayed by the statement of the special agent of the Department of Commerce and Labor, who has been making Commer cial investigations In Japan. He states that Japan would welcome legislation by this country keeping out Japanese Immigrants, for the reason that Japan desires to turn her tide of emigrants Into Corea and other territory coming Into her control as a result of the war. According to this authority, Japan Is eager to undertake the development of Corea and Manchuria and to settle those countries with her surplus popula tion, thereby securing a dominating in fluence In that part of the world. To carry out this policy, It is stated, In ducements will be offered to the Japa nese, to emigrate thither instead of to the United States. This is in accord with what we have repeatedly said in referring to the pprehenslon of a great rush of Japa nese to this country. It seemed to be perfectly obvious that In the great work of Industrial and commercial develop ment tipou which Japan, is soon to en gage she would need all the labor which her own people can provide and that she will be able to offer them Inducements and opportunities which will keep them at home or in the territory where Japan will exercise a predominating Influence. Undoubtedly tlie people of Japan will be as free In the. future. as they have been In the past to emigrate, but they will bave less reason to do so and not being a migratory people they will remain in their native land or as near to It as pos sible. No legislation for the exclusion of Japanese Is probable, nor will any be necessary. .Those people are not at all likely to come here In any considerable numbers. They will be wanted at home and in the nearby countries and there they will remain. A few may come here, but not a sufficient number to In terfere with the interests and welfare of American labor. GERMAN IMPORTS. It is an Interesting fact that the vol ume of Imports from Germany has re cently been unprecedented and contin ues without any material let up. A treasury official Is quoted as saying in explanation Of this that the German manufacturers are preparing for the storm which will break during the next few months and which is bound to bave a bad effect on German shippers. It Is expected that when the new German tariff law goes into effect, a few months hence, there will be a great outcry in this country, probably In favor of some an, ., nui i ui irmuaiiuu, juui kuill aimed. chiefly at our agricultural prod ucts and therefore likely to cut off many millions of trade, It Is only reasonable to expect that the great Interest affected will demand that something be done to avert what It will naturally regard as a great Injury, and if it be not prac ticable to avert It then that action be taken by our government to punish Ger man producers In other words, that a policy of retaliation be adopted. It would seem that the German man ufacturers are apprehensive that the lat ter policy will be resorted to and there fore are freely sending their goods to the American market, taking chances on being able to dispose of them at a rea sonable profit Evidently they have little faith that a reciprocity arrange ment can be effected and there really appears to be very small probability that a satisfactory treaty can be nego tiated. Meanwhile the indications are that our market will tw supplied with enough of German goods to meet the demand for several years and the Im ports from this source are materially adding to the customs receipts, which were $3,500,000 larger in September than for the corresponding mouth of last year. ADMINISTRATION WORK. It will be a couple of months before the national administration will be called upon to enter strenuously upon Its work, but la the meanwhile the pres ident and the heads of departments will find enough to keep them busy in prep aration for the larger and more urgent duties that will devolve upon them after the session of congress begins and the business between the legislative and the executive departments becomes active. The return of President Roosevelt to the national capital and the going back to their duties of the department chiefs mean a resumption of administrative activity which Is of general Interest While the governmental business never halts, while the machinery of our great and ever-Increasing national administra tion la always in motion, still its ac tivities are at times somewhat abated. This has been the usual case during the past summer. The period of rest and recreation be lng over, work in the' various depart ments of the government wll be re sumeu witii renewed vigor ana very likely under improved conditions. The period of vacation has been marked by an investigation of the business methods In the various departments and bureaus which is expected to be productive of needed chauges and reforms conducive to the betterment of the business of the government. President Roosevelt has very distinctly shown that he is not fa vorable to the red-tape system which is In vogue in the departments and that he intenda to do away with much of this and introduce simpler snd more direct business methods. If he can accom plish this it will result In a very ma terial saving of expense to the govern ment It Is not doubted that there is room fr numerous reforms in the bust ness of the departments and the efforts of the administration will be directed to the attainment of this. A Washington dispatch says It is fully expected that the opening of the fall work will be signalised by some very distinct changes la the organisation of the Department of State. It Is pointed out that things there bave been in a relatively unsatisfactory condition for some time past and it Is snpposed that the new men In charge will be able to do a good deal in the way of Improve ment Of course, It Is remsrked. the elaborate legislation and precedent which surrounds the department will hamper them, but there are important alterations that can be brought about In many matters of detail without resort to legislative enactment What the country can count npou with absolute certainty Is, that in whatever direction reform and improvement can be effected In the methods and work of the execu tive branch of the government they will be instituted. President Roosevelt has shown himself to be thoroughly prac tical In matters of administration. He is In favor of applying strict business principles to the management of public affairs. It Is therefore snfo to say that such principles will be put into effect and faithfully observed during the pres ent administration. HAMMER IT DOW X The decision of the district court ad verse to the appeal for an order to com pel the mayor and councilmeu and their bondsmen to refund to the city some $15,000 paid out as wages to employes of the street department In April and May of 1903 establishes one sollent fact that should be hammered down. The whole controversy over the pay ment of this mouey bus its origin in ef forts of certain discredited politicians to make political capital against the city administration and support the charge by which they explained their fnllure to defeat Mayor Moores for re-election to the effect that a horde of political work ers bad been put on the city payroll and paid out of the city treasury without rendering any equivalent services to the city. After listening to all the evidence that could be offered and Inspecting the records from top to bottom, the finding of the court on these points Is as fol lows: A. That only about the average number of laborers were employed as compared with other years. B. That they rendered efficient service In the usual and ordinary status of labor ers In their several capacities. C. That these services rendered were necessary to the city and to the health, convenience and welfare thereof. This ought to explode effectually the fake about the army of political retain ers drafted In the Interest of Mayor Moores and the republican city ticket In the spring of 1003. There never was any real basis for the charge and those who instigated It knew all the time that It was a fiction, pure and simple. It is 1 . . , . " . . " iProbably too much to expect these polltl- cal mountebanks to call in their fake stories, but they should no longer find credence with any unprejudiced person. LET OCR MERCHANTS DECORATE. Omaha wllf entertain this week and next week more out-of-town visitors than during any like period of the year. It behooves our merchants to make their places of business attractive aud Invit ing to the strangers within our gates. The-, opportunity for window display and decoration should not be neglected, nor anything omitted to make a favor- ble Impression upon patrons and sight seers. During the first few years of Ak-Sar-Ben our merchants exhibited a commendable energy In the matter of decoration and Illumination, but of lnte they have not kept pace with their own former records. First Impressions are often more last ing. Every visitor to Omaha should have a first impression of wide-awake, enterprising and up-to-date methods on the part of our local merchants that will convince them without further proof of Omaha's right to be ranked high among the pushing, progressive western clUes. The Bee agrees with Its local popo- cratlc contemporary that all business meetings of the State Board of Univer sity Regents should be open and that there is no call for closed door sessions for the ordinary administration of any public Institution. It Is not out of order to recall the fact however, that the board of regents was for many years under control of a popocrstlc majority. and that the offensive star chamber methods were Just as much In vogue then as now worse than that, when the pono- crats were running the university, mat ters of importance were decided In a little party caucus without even the presence of the full board, but so far as any one knows the newspaper organ which professes now to be so greatly shocked never put In a remonstrance. The Lincoln Jour .al seems to be get ting cold feet on the direct primary prop osition. It has been crying day In and day out for the abolition of barter and trade conventions and the Inauguration of direct nominations, but now it is veering around against the direct pri mary to nominate the republican ticket for next year on the pretext that a com pulsory primary law, Imposing its provisions on all parties at one and the same time, is necessary to success. If the direct primary Is a good thing why hshould not the republican party take It up without waiting for the aid or con sent of its political oppouents? The spirit of enthusiasm that marked the subscriptions to the Young Men's Christian association building fund has survived to the psyment. No more notable evidence of Omaha's prosperity could be wished than Secretary Wade sitting up at night to sign receipts for checks thst . are being showered In on him responsive to the call for the first Installment The question arises, Was Colonel Bryan's around the-world trip hastened by the Information that Grover Cleve land was to Invade Nebraska as the ore tor at the an veiling of the Morton monu ment? Or did Mr. Cleveland wait to make sure that Colonel Bryan would not be at home before accepting the In vitation to orate? Another Wall street Juggler, Clarence H. Venner, of more or lsa notoriety In Omaha in connection with the water works receivership of a doaen years ago, is aching to play the Tom Lawson act to the New York Life. Lecture bureau managers should get Into touch with Mr. Venner without delay. Please note that the decrease in the funds in the hands of State Treasurer Mortcnsen does not mean that the peo ple of Nebraska are getting poor, but simply that the state is paying off some of its debts as a result of the prosperity of Its inhabitants. Dolus; the Adam Act. Baltimore American. Now the railroads are saying that, the packers made them do It. There Is much significance In the way that accused In terests are rushing to stand from under. Moving en Easy Street. St. Louis Globe Democrat. Government land sales In the arid region for the last fiscal year netted 14,700,000 for Irrigation. The new law is on Easy street In regard to funds needed for present and prospective work. A. Mission for fleTeland. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The president Is always opportune. He proposes to send Mr. Cleveland to a peace conference abroad when a thousand wo man's societies have declared war against him. It Mr. Cleveland can not plead elo quently for peace, nobody can.. Another Coal Sqaeese la Sight. New York Tribune. President Robbing of the Pittsburg Coal company has made the discovery that "the consumer has been getting his coal too cheap." Our unintentional Pittsburg phil anthropists need not be pitied for their mistake. They know how to figure profits fairly well when once they learn how much It is possible for the people to pay. A Chansre for the Better. Chicago Chronicle. According to a Washington observer of the situation the anti-graft campaign In the departments has resulted in general uneasiness. "The undetected guilty are fearful, the Innocents ae worried and the Independents are disgusted." It is easy to allow for some worry on the part of the un detected guilty, but it Is hard to see why the innocent should be uneasy. The cam paign has, at any rate, caused a pleasing condition of Interest and activity which can not but be beneficial to the public service. Governor Hoch and His Pass. Springfield (Mass.) Republican. Governor Hoch of Kansas has declared against the use of railroad passes by public officials, and yet uses them himself. This inconsistency he defends by the statement that he has paid for his passes many limes over by the advertising he has given the railroads in his newspaper, the Marion Record. At this distance the defense looks like a foolish evasion of the Issue. In his capacity as an. editor Governor Hoch might buy transportation by means of railroad advertisements, but on a proper business basis , this would,, not come to him in the form of free passes. His ground is therefore fatally weak." The governor of Kansas will do well to follow .the example of Governor Mickey pf Nebraska, who has returned his passes to the .railroad companies. DOOM OF THE REBATE. Significance of the Action of the Chicago Court. New York Sun. Friday four Of the Indicted beef packers pleaded guilty' of the federal offense of conspiring to accept railway rebates, and they were at once sentenced to pay heavy fines. The Imprisonment permitted by the statute they escaped. It Is more than three years since At torney General Knox filed his bill In equity against the packers, alleging combination and conspiracy. The cases have dragged in way which led many observers to believe that the defendants would finally escape through the loopholes of technicality by means of which they have endeavored to evade trial. In his speech at Chautauqua last month President Roosevelt said: "Some great cor porations to resort to every technical ex pedient to render enforcement of the law impossible, and their obstructive tactics and refusal to acquiesce In the policy of the law bave taxed to the utmost the machin ery of the Department of Justice." The result, confession by fear of con viction, and thus conviction by confession, shows at last Jhat hower much the ma chinery of the Department of Justice may have been taxed, it has not been over taxed. The punlshemnt of these rebate conspirators vindicates the attempt to shatter the system by prosecutions under existing law, rather than by new exeprl mental legislation. The adequacy of ex isting law has been proved. The sentence of Well, Cusey, SkipWorth and Todd sounds the death knell of the worst evil that has Infested the commercial commonwealth, with Its numberless Incidents of demorali sation, corruption and crime. And the man who has done It. under existing law. Is Theodore Roosevelt. IXSIRANCB ST1IX SOUND. Mlacondnet of Managers Doe Not Affect the Principle. Cleveland Leader. Condemnation ot misconduct on the part of high officials of great life Insurance companies must not be permitted to ex tend to the principle of insurance. Im mense corporations have been corroded with waste, extravagance, and gross crimi nality, but others may be clean and free of taint. There Is nothing In the nature of life Insurance which prevents entire devotlpn to the most exacting standards of business honor,, Out of the hugs scandals In New York good will come. From the scorching flames of publicity plethoric corporations, long fattening and waxing foul, will emerge purified. Their policies will be paid In due time. Their future will be cleaner, sounder, more prudent than their past. It la difficult to overstate the effect of life Insurance upon American prosperity because it has been perhaps the widest reaching Incentive to national thrift, In the last forty or fifty years. A policy taken out for the protection of a man's family demands the regular payment of premiums. They are saved when otherwise his whole Income might be spent as fast as earned. From one iclnd of thrift others are born Saving becomes a habit. Prosperity rests In no small degree on the enforced econo mies of millions of policyholders. The relation of life Insurance to the general welfare of the nation Is close and deep. All this makes the sins of the men who have shaken public confidence In life Insur ance and roused hot Indignation against the evil practices of faithless officials of bug corporations, blacker and mora dlsaa trous. Their offenses call loudly for con dlgn punishment. Nothing less will drive home the leaaon of scandals which bave Shucked the country. nOl!W ABOIT SEW YORK. Ripples on the t arrrnl of I.lfe In the Metropolis. 'For three full days excitement bordering on a panic reigned in Wall street over that bundle of securities procured from a bank by means of a forged check. The recovery of the papers reduces the temperature somewhat, but leaves an undorsprcad feel ing of Insecurity mingled with this vague dread Is the possibility of competition from professional crooks who are not regularly commissioned to work both sides of the street and rile the wool in the middle. Besides the event dlxturbs the Infallibility of the dead-line established years ago for the protection of the regulars, who have shown themselves fully competent to take care of the business. For men as smart as they are, the Wall street brokers and bankers have a loose way of doing business. At least three- quarters of the messenger work Is done by small boys from 16 to 18 years old. Millions and millions of securities and cnecks and sometimes In actual cash are sent along with such boys. They go. to a bank with an envelope full of securities, and put them through the window. Sometimes the loan clerk has to lean over to see an especially small boy. Sometimes there are a dosen In line. It would be a comparatively easy thing for a bright fellow to look over the shoulder of another and read on the back of the en velope he was carrying all the details of the transaction. Eighteen languages were spoken In New York before the war of the revolution, and that number has now risen to sixty six or seven. A writer In Harper's magazine says there is a school In the Syrian district In which twenty-nine languages and dialects are used! The greatest problem to be solved In New York, not only as a munici pality but as the gateway to the United States, Is the naturalizing of the host of children, not by the forms of law, but In spirit, temper, hnblt, and speech. How is this army of children from Europe or of recently Immigrated parents to be trans formed into an army of American cltl sens? Valuations made of park lands In the borough of Manhattan, with comparisons of the cost of the properties, make an in teresting showing of the great bargains the city obtained when it bought these lands. Central park Is an InRtance of the city's unconscious foresight In Its real es tate improvements. The park site, with the adjoining Manhnttan Square, was bought in 1839 for $:,ono,000. The city hi spent 128,000.000 on this park In the inte vening' years, and now It Is worth, accord ing to the official valuation set upon It by the tax commissioner, $lS5,000,Ono, while Manhattan Square Is valued at $10,000,000. When the Battery park was first laid out the gross valuation of property In the whole city of New York probably was not as much as that breathing place is valued, at today 115,023.000. When Washington Square was bought. In 1827, for $77,970, the price was considered a stiff one. Today It is appraised at $3,000,000. In 1833 Father Knickerbocker bought an other property of this kind at Union Square, paying $116,061. At the present time that Is worth Just M.000,000. In 1834 he bought Tompkins Square for $73,358, and, after holding It for seventy-one years. his official commissioner who values the holdings says It is worth $3,000,000. He stopped Investing in these properties for several years, and when he resumed operations with the purchase of Madison Square. In 1847. he paid the absurdly small figure of $65,952 for it. Now It Is worth $7,000,000,- and the little Irregular block across from the park on which the Worth monument stands is valued at $1,000,000. Hej-e are some business maxims and busi. ness methods taken from the testimony of Banker Schlff before the Insurance investi gating committee: It is not a good thing for any corpora tlon to be at the mercy of one man." 'If all men were honest, no checks would be required. It is my practice to believe all men honest until they are proved to be dishonest. I think that a much better practice than to believe all men dishonest until they are proved honest." "No law can make men honest." "No law which you may frame, and which the legislature of this .or any other state may enact no law, however close It may bewill protect you against dishonest action or dishonest measures." "It has been my practice to believe that every man In the world is honest until I find out that he has been dishonest, and In going through this world I do not sup pose that any man Is dishonest until I find out that he Is not honest. That has been my practice Individually as a director of the Equitable Life." 'The system of directorship In great cor- j poratlons of the city of New York is such that a director has practically no power. He is considered in many instanoes, and, may say, In most instances, as a negligi ble quantity by the executive officers of the society. He Is asked for advice when It suits the executive officers; and If, under the prevailing system, an executive officer wishes to do wrong or wishes to conceal anything from his directors, or to commit irregularities such as have been disclosed here, the director Is entirely powerless; he can only act In an advisory capacity. and he can only Judge of such things as are submitted to him." Clinging like a fly to the surface of the Flatiron building, John Garrlck of Brook lyn, a steeplejack, last Saturday walked down the side ef the building from the twentieth story to the street and up again several times while thousands below stood trembling at his dating feat. Women fainted from the strain on their nerves, men turned white, while Garrlck, aa un concerned as though strolling along the street, was rapidly ascending and descend ing, stopping to pose for his photograph, clinging all the while to the sheer wall with his fingers and toes in the Inch and a quarter deep grooves that Indent the building's surface. .And all to earn a $2 bet. Garrlck did not touch a window sill save to leave or enter windows. His hair-raising . performance Is un- equaled In daring in the annals of steeple jacks. The Flatiron building is 286 feet high and the window through which Gar rlck made his first appearance is 270 feet from the ground. For the Baby You may be thinking of us ing an artificial food for your baby. Try, Mellin's Food ; it is a proper food suited to the baby's condition. It is not medicine but a true food. Let us send you a sample to try. MeUla'. r4 Is the 0MLY lafaate faaa. which recalv.4 the Creea Frtse, Ike klShMl award ( the L.Ulaaa Par claM lasMiilaa. (t. UaU. 1904. Mla er taaa a gala ateaaL aatLLIN B FOOD CO., BOSTON, MAM. I A&eSolwrteEsr Royal Baking Powder is indispensable to finest cookery and to the comfort and convenience of modern .housekeep ing. Royal Baking Powder makes hot breads, cakes and pastry wholesome. Perfectly leavens without fermentation. Qualities that are peculiar to it alone. ROYAL BAKINO POWDEft CO., MCWVORK. PERSONAL NOTES. The crowning glory of Mr. Wltte's career seems to be that there wasn't H single bomb to meet him at St. Petersburg. Notwithstanding the great variety of policies offered, several life Insurance man agers are rapidly coming to the conclu sion that an honest policy Is the best of all. Walter Vsughan Morgan, the new lord mayor of London, Is a septuagenarian, a banker and a bachelor. He was educated at the Bluecoat school and is a prominent Free Mason. American Medicine merrily advises medi cine makers subjected to Internet revenue tax to face the music boldly by naming their dope "prophylactic cocktails." A pronouncing dictionary and a headache goes with each drink. With the Intuitive sense of the ridiculous, a bunch of Holsteln cattle gathered about a woman balloonist In red tights who un expectedly landed "In their midst" near Jefferson, Wis. The animals circled around her Indian dance fashion and snorted shamefully. The mean things. Constantln Schususs, a young Russian, supposed to be Count Constantln Stran slnski, Is studying railroading In this country. He Is not taking a course In any college or technical school, but is at work on the New York Central railroad, learn ing the business from the bottom up. From some unknown part of the Mediter ranean Mr. Bperopanagrotls Poppatheo- dodakoumountourgnplous dragged his name to Chicago without paying for excess bag gage and with characteristic gallantry conferred it on a maiden fair by special permit. The woman In the esse Is a heroine worthy of a Carnegie medal. The Brooklyn Eagle's Insurance expert thus luminously slses up one of the trans actions brought out by Counsel Hughes: "George W. Perkins has engaged In a brilliant negotiation with George W. Per kins In which George W. Perkins saved to George W. Perkins, buyer, $40,000 through most skillfully overcoming George W. Per kins, seller." UAVGHIXQ GAS. "Woman lust dronned dead In the bar gain crush at the ribbon counter!" cried the floor walker, excitedly. "How Inopportune! exclaimed the head of the firm. "Our undertaking department won't be opened until next Monday ("Phil adelphia Cathoilo Standard. "Why don't McSosh take the gold cure?" WdiiBr ui piinuiiio win, mm. onri iiv a always been a silver man and always will l it pl..iAnJ T "Do you think I could get an audience with the boss? asked the political hanger on, going in. "Yes," snapped the disappointed office seeker, coming out. "If you featured him in a dime museum aa the "Two-Faced Man." Chicago Tribune. "That man shows when he's well bored." That s because he s so well drilled. 'Hm! Aus-urs well for his social sue. cess." Philadelphia Bulletin. 'Honesty Is the best Dollcv." remarked the old-fashioned man. Yes," answered the discontented eltlsen. Browning, King & Co CLOTHING, FURNISHINGS, AND BATS Fall suits are bursting fortH. Aren't you about ready t Get inside one of our new beauties and tell your friends you paid $40Made to order. They'll believe you. , Then tell them the truth. Tell them you bought it at Browning, King & Co's. ready-made for $15. Then they will doubt you. Suits $12.50 to $25.00. Overcoats $15.00 to $40.00 Nats and Furnishings Strangers in town especially invited to look over our store and its contents. Fliteenth and OMAIIA DoufjlasSts. NEB. Srselway al ! airt PflTWYOHK rSary. Ce.pay Mm re "Rut some of our big insurance companies haven't been writing that kind." Washing ton Star. "Who was the man that was kicking so about the crowded cars?" asked the con ductor. "He Just got off." said ft passenger, "with out paying his fare." Detroit Free Press. Hicks Scribbler looks dejected, doesn't he, since that publishing house refused his novel? Wicks Yes, even Ms collar Is turned down Somervllle Journal. TUB MODERN JOHS GILPIN. Baltimore American. He went away at dawn ot day As eager as a boy. JiiKt full of life he kissed his wife, "This trip, dear, I'll enjoy." At set of sun he did return With dragging step and slow; ' His hat was gone, his clothes all torn, He was a sight of woe. "Oh husband mine, oh husband mlnel Where have you been this day, That to your home you thus do come In this forlorn array?" "The grandest time since morning chlm Has been my happy lot; I've speeded full a thousand miles, Bo, dear wife, chide me not. "No lovely scene has filled mine e'en, For they were full of dust, And on my lungs doth real estate Lie thickly aa a crust. "We raised up fogs, we killed off drgs, Of live stock left a trail; Ban over men some eight or ten And now are under ball. "We horses scared, and bulls we daref " One almost gored our tires Into a ditch our car did pitch. And we got shocked with wires. "Mv head's In soak, my nose la broke, My face la in a state One eye doth mourn, front teeth are gone- This motoring Is great!" The Cost of Your Breakfast thla morning was dictated by a small group of men who are the real rUlers of this country the men who control the railroad, who make the freight rates and who dictate prices. How? Ray Stannard Baker MJL, tells how in "Railroads on Trial", beginning In November McCLURF'S, S. 3. McCLUBB COMPANT 44-60 East 13d Street . NEW YORK UOTS