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    THE OMAIIA DAILY I3EE: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1903.
The Omaha Daily Bee
i K. ROSE WATER, EDITOR.
PUBLISHED EVERT MORNtNO.
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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.
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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,
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44-60 East 13d Street .
NEW YORK
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