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WHEJI OCT OP TOWS.
Subscriber leaving; the city tern
porarlly ahoald hit Th Be
mailed to them. It Is better than
a dally letter from home. Ad
dress trill be chnnaeu urn often a
requested
"With martial law proclaimed In St
?etersburg It may be easier to Introduce
.he new system by Its revocation.
As a souieu of "war uens ' St. Peters
burg Is now even better than It was be
'ore Russia was offlclnlly nt peace.
If Mr. Harri.au can sur things up so
y simply traveling across the country,
t is to be hoped he will come oftener.
The lid thut covers tu juggling with
Jie trust funds of the widows and or
phans In the county court must be lifted.
i .
Can It be possible that John D. Rocke
feller has stopped writing double-shotted
editorials for the local pottoeratlc organ?
MMaaHaaHkMkBi
And now It Is Intimated that the Rock
Island may take 8 Land In the Nebraska
game of railroad extension. The more
the merrier.
It seems that they have "antis" over
In Chicago, too, and these "antis" are
anti-Roosevelt Just as were the Omaha
"antis" a year ngo.
. TBE KTTTCT O.T TRW SOCTfl.
President Roosevelt has completed
bis southern tour. What has been its
effect upon the people of that section?
So far as can be Judged from the ex
pressions of the leading newspapers it
has been altogether salutary. There
has been, so far as we have observed,
nothing but commendation for the
speeches of the president His tributes
to the confederate soldiers have natur
ally pleased the people. Ills assurances
of confidence in southern loyalty have
been gratifying. Ills advice to the peo
ple in regard to the duties and obliga
tions of citizenship has been reeognlised
as that of a sincere friend. The south
has a tetter opinion and a greater es
teem of Theodore Roosevelt than be
fore be made bis trip to that section
and this better Judgment of him will
grow.
The tendency of this will be to
strengthen the republican party In the
south. One of the republican leaders
in North Carolina is quoted as saying
that the president has made great in
roads on the democratic party in the
south and that many are enthusiastic
ally for him. "If the president wins as
much democratic support in other states
as he did in North Carolina," this repub
lican Is quoted as snying, "he will be
able to turn It to better account than
if he had stayed at home for an extra
session of congress. The selfishness
of republican officeholders has blocked
party success in North Carolina, but
now that Roosevelt's visit has split the
democratic opposition there will be a
new alignment." What is true of that
state may apply to some others In the
south. Not all of the democrats of that
section are incapable of appreciating in
what direction its best Interests lie or
beyoud the influence of the logic of
events. Some of them must certainly
realize what benefits the south has de
rived from republican policies and
therefore desire a continuance of those
policies. There must also be some who
are convinced that nothing is to be
gained by maintaining an opposition to
the republican patty largely, if not alto
gether, on sectional grounds. This has
been done so long with ntter futility
that the mistake and folly of it ought to
be appnrent.
President Roosevelt's southern trip
has undoubtedly contributed to a better
understanding, to a more friendly feel
Ing, between the people of the riorth and
south. Both know the absolute impnr
tlality of his sentiments and equnlly be
Heve in his broad patriotism. They
know that he is prompted by no per
sonal ambition, but solely by a desire to
promote the harmony, the interests and
the welfare of his country. Mr. Roose
velt's visit to the south has been of
great Interest and will doubtless prove
most beneficial not only to ihat section,
tut to the entire country.
lican cause. As we have heretofore said.
It would not be extraordinary if In this
off year the republicans should lose Ohio,
especially In view of the fact that their
present leadership i" not markedly
strong.
If such acciueuts as thut in Iowa shall
become frequent there might be an ur
rreat demand for government supervi
sion of train dispatchers.
Chinese are said to be coming to this
country In Increasing numbers, but until
congress acta it Is hardly probable that
any trade or occupation will be affected.
Mr. Parry cpemts of "Boernment lim
iting the returns from capital" as though
It were a new Idea, while usury laws
have been on the statute books of every
nation for centuries.
King Oscar evidently believes It Is
better for bis son to be sure of a small
Income from home than to take chances
in a big one from the people who have
Jlscarded his father.
One of the opponents of Mr. Roose
velt's rate regulation plan says that the
Vatflc managers of the railroads could
uake rates to satisfy all hhlppers in six
uonths. Weil, why have they not done
t long ago?
PTIIXTISQ EXTRAVAOAXCK "
According to a statement of the act
ing public printer between one and two
million dollars might be saved annually
in the government printing office, but in
order to effect this there must be econ
omy on the part of congress in ordering
printing done. Representative Landls of
Indiana has been quoted as saying that
in every department of the government,
as well as in both houses of congress,
there is extravagance, reckless and
shameful waste in the matter of public
printing. Mr. Landls is the chairman of
a congressional committee of Investiga
tion which la about to enter upon that
duty and he states that the amount of
material collected and the evidence al
ready in the bands of the committee are
sufficient In volume to a ma re any one
conversant with the facts, ne declared
that when the condition of affajrs is
made public It caunot help working a
revolution in the methods and volume of
public printing.
This matter will undoubtedly be urged
upon the attention of congress early in
the session. There is no question that
a vast amount of unnecessary printing is
1 done In the government office, the result
being a waste the cost of which cannot
easily be estimated. For this both con
gress and the departments are respon
sible, but chiefly the former. It Is alto
gether probable that with reasonable
prudence the government could save In
this direction at least two million dollars
a year.
IMPunTAfiCK OF THE COVXTT BOARD
The taxpaylng citizens of Omaha and
Douglas county must make themselves
realize more fully the Importance to
them ofthe county board. The county
board is the moving source and respon
sible authority in the management of
all branches of county buslnoss. It is
more than a mere administrative lody
to O. K. bills and spend money, al
though the amount of money at its dis
posal for current expenses is in Itself
sufficiently great to require the services
of men of good ability and strict in
tegrity. The county board not only spends
the money but Imposes the taxes. Under
the new revenue law It Is the Board of
Review for both city and 'county, and
In that capacity equalizes and fixes the
valuations upon which our property is
to be subjected to the tax gatherer. If
the members of the county board had
no other function whatever than to
verify and correct the tax returns made
ty the county assessor, the responsibili
ties resting upon its members would be
as great as those of any of our public
officers.
The county board has the final de
cision In all matters relating to the
county's bonded debt and the funding
andrefunding of its maturing bonds.
We have had some pretty shady
transactions, and not so very long ago,
in the conversion of Douglas county
Indebtedness through Intermediary
bond brokers. Whether the county
board handles the debt honestly and
shrewdly, or dishonestly and care
lessly, makes a difference of thousands
of dollars, not only to the present tax
payers, but to all who are to come after
them.
' The prospects are good that Douglas
county will take steps within the next
year or two to erect a new county
building. Such nn improvement would
necessarily involve the expenditure of
upwards of a million dollars, aud every
thing connected with the construction
of a new building will devolve upon the
county board. To put through such a
big undertaking will require the serv
ices of men of mote than ordinary ca
pacity. The people of Douglas county are
about to choose two new members of
the county board members who will in
all probability wield the preponderating
influence in that body for the next three
years. It will mean dollars and cents
and lots of them to every taxpayer to
see that the right men are elected. No
candidates for these positions of sncb
high reputation and special fitness have
ever been presented to the voters as in
the republican candidates this year W.
O. Ure and E. O. Solomon. Under the
new law, too, the county commissioners
are to be voted for all over the county
instead of as formerly in the district
j only in which they are required to live.
It will behoove every voter to protect
the Interests of the county and of the
taxpayers by registering his vote for
both of these candidates.
on tobacco. When the people get hungry
they can still take, a smoke.
(' and K.ffert.
Philadelphia Ledger.
The railroiuls killed more, people last vratsT 1st
man ine year perore. Hut, then, mere
were more people to kill.
MerUasInt the Future.
Minneapolis Journal. ,
Russia has the largest debt of any na
tion on earth, requiring an annual Interest
payment of 175.0uO,OOft. This with revolu
tion threatening, serious striken, a short
food supply In somo of the provinces, aud
a generally discouraged population, puts
Russia decidedly to the bad for the next
generation or two.
Opening; for m Proclamation.
( Boston Transcript,
It Is of Course true that the railroads last
year killed SS8 persons and Injured 1J.8S3,
but tha fact lhat the Increase In the num
ber of the slain was only eleven, over the
record of the preceding year, while the
increase of the Injured was .1, will no
doubt be loudly proclaimed by Blason
Thompson, Frank H. Spearman and Hugo
Meyer as evidence of the extraordinary
Improvement In condition of railway operation.
While the report of a defunct bank
ihowed $150,000 in overdrafts, $300,000
paper from that institution was found
n another institution; showing that
Mtnk statements should be compared be
'ore being received a true.
Coroner Irujley Lus ien the tax
luyers of Douglas county the most
tainstaktng and economical admlnistra
ion on record for that office. That Is
euson enough for voting him an ex ten
don of his commission. ,
With 500 people atteumug the "regu
ar" convention at Chicago and 300 at
tending the "anti" assembly It Is still
probable that the latter has more than
Is proportion, based upon public seuti
Xient on the president's rate regulation
program.
While reporting uecesury defenses
or the Atlantic coast members of the
.'ortificatlon board should remember that
there Is nothing to stop a hostile fleet
from sailing from St. Louis to Fort Ben
on. The Imperial west must demand
ecognitiou.
Now that 1 1 rover Cieeitud has come
out with an endorsement of Mayor Mc
('lellnn for re-election In Gotham, the
inltarraosment of G. M. Hitchcock must
try his orgunette still more sorely. Per
haps he can compromise with himself by
touting fur McClellan and weeping for
lU'iu.l at one au4 the aame time.
THE OHO CAMP A I0!f.
The political situation In Ohio Is some
what puzzling. It appears that the at
tempt to Introduce national questions
into the campaign has not been very suc
cessful, the people manifesting no great
Interest in them. The engrossing subject
appears to be the contest between the
liquor aud anti-liquor1 interests'. This has
occupied the field to the exclusion of
other questions and apparently will hold
It to the end, In spite of all efforts to
direct attention to other issues.
As matters now stand, according to
the latest trustworthy advices, no confi
dent prediction can be made as to the
outcome. There seems to be no doubt
that a considerable number of republic
ans will vote for the democratic candi
date for governor, while on the other
band it is thought at least an equal num
ber of democrats will voter for the repub
lican candidate. The fight of the anti
saloon element against Herrlck is being
carried on with great vigor and claims
to have not lees than 100.000 republican
votes. The liquor element, on the other
hand, is apparently no less earnest In
support of the republtcuu candidate,
though admittedly It cauuot be depended
upon to stand together on election day.
Such U the uncertain and confusing
state of affairs In the Buckeye state, no
parallel to which has occurred there In
recent years. In the opinion of some the
speech of Secretary Taft a wet-k ago, in
which he denounced the Cincinnati Cox
machine, s not helpful, to the repub-
Au article in one of the current pic
torial weeklies lays stress upon the su
periority of bridge building and viaduct
building in European countries as com
pared with our own. In Europe they
build bridges to last for at least several
generations. Right here in Omnha and
Douglas county we have spent enough
money to have every creek spanned with
solid masoury, but if such a policy were
adopted the bridge and rotid funds would
no longer be such easy marks. A thor
ough reform of the bridge business
should have the nttention of the county
board before this work is laid out for
another year.
The principal popocratlc onslaught on
fntintv Treasurer Fluk is bused en
tirely upon statements made by County
Jmiire Yinsonhaler with a seinsn ana
sinister purpose. How little reliance Is
to be nlueed on Judge Musonnaiers
word will be fully appreciated by those
who remember how Mnsonhaler signed
a written stipulation to get his own
nomination and then brazenly tried to
deny his own slfnntnre. v
One of the locul pulpit politicians
points the way to improve politics by
official church indorsement of candidates
whose fitness has been passed upon
"through practical and upright business
members." Who would pass upon the
fitness of the practical aud upright busi
ness members to Judge of the fitness of
the candidates?
Speaking- Oat la Meeting-.
Chicago Chronicle.
As a general thing th man with a loud
voice who attends political meetings and
tries to Interrupt tho speakers by bawling
out his sharp sayings at them deserves to
be kicked out. but it Is impossible not to
feel a sort of respect for the man of this
class who did something of this kind a
few nights ago at one of William R.
Heart's meetings In .New Tork. Mr. Hearst
had Just finished reading an extract from
a speech of Samuel J. Tilden when this
loud-mouthed man bawled out: "Tou and
your papers caused the assassination of
President McKlnley!" There was great ex
citement, but Mr. Hearst did not deny It.
XO EVASION OK THE ISSIK.
President Roosevelt's Determined
Btaad for Rate negalatlon.
Chicago News.
Those ill-advised prophets who lmvo prt
dieted of late that President Roosevelt
would recede from his position regarding
railway rat regulation will have to re
call their prophecies. It was patently ab
surd that a man of th president's quali
ties should yield either to th fancied
needs of political exigency or to the threat
ened danger of a hard fought battle with
the, senate. In his address delivered at
Raleigh, N. C, he made it clear
that to yield has pot entered his thoughts.
There la little In the speech which is not
a repetition of the views he has repeatedly
expressed before, though he states them
this time with even greater vigor. Deny
ing that he sanctions any plan looking to
public ownership or to unnecessary Inter
ference with the railway business, he de
clares his firm conviction that. "It Is out
of the question for the government not to
exercise a supervisory and regulatory right
over the railroads."
If the representatives of the railway In
terests now strongly Intrenched In the sen
ate nursed any hope that the Issue would
not be raised and forced to decisive action
they may as well abandon it. In all essen
tial features the policy which the presi
dent advocates In his Raleigh speech fol
lows that outlined In the new Esch-Town-send
bill to be Introduced at the next ses
sion. He Insists that the Interstate Com
merce commission shall have tho power.
In case a rate Is complained of as unfair,
to fix a maximum rate and keep It In effect
unless It Is reversed by the courts. The
law also must give th commission ample
powers to supervise the practices of the
roads with regard to rebates and the use
of terminal facilities. In a word, there
must be "a real and not a sham control."
Evidently there Is to be no evasion of the
Issue. There have been Intimations that
the railway senators will face tha emer
gency with some plausible compromise
measure making concessions that are only
apparent. That the president Is forearmed
against such action Is proved by his speech.
He would rather see a little additional
power granted, "but really granted, than
see a prf tense ot granting alt In some shape
that really amounts to nothing." Public
opinion, working with the president, may
succeed In wringing some real power ot
railway regulation from th reluctant sen
ate, i
BKET St OAR IX MICHIGAN.
How
the
the Producer Swamped
Greedy Factory Men.
Detroit Free Press.
Iurest In the out.com of the protest
against the present rate of duty Imposed
on sugar beets made before the United
States general appraisers In New Tork by
the Marine Sugar company Is not confined
to those whose money has been Invested
In fuctories In Michigan. Th question Is
one destined to haVo an Important bearing
on the Industry, and hence the disposition
of the matter Is fraught with importance
to agriculturists In general.
V.'i on tho beet sugnr Industry first came
into prominence In Michigan the state paid
a bounty on the manufactured product,
which had the result of attracting capital.
Factories sprang up like inuahrooms and
OTHER LAID THAI Ol R.
Th new Chinese minister of France, Uu
She-8hun has been talking freely about th
future rollcy of China to a French journal-
Douhtless. he said, the Chinese are
about to Europeanlie themselves. The em
press Is resolved to facilitate European en
terprises In China, and the emperor la not
likely to oppose them when he reigns ajone.
As to the so-called yellow peril and th
millions of soldiers whom China could arm,
ha remarked that many are apt to forget
th pacific character of the Chines. In a
few years China will hav an Army and
navy reorganised on European lines, but for
purely defensive purposes. As to the ru
mors that Japan Is resolved to mllltarlxe
China, and has filled that country with In
structors and even agitators, he character
Ued them as newspaper Inventions and ex
aggerations. Japan and China, ha pointed
out, are different countries. The Chinese
will Europeanlie themselves Independently
of Japanese Influence. They are sending
students to Europe, who, when matured by
experience, will become the advisers of th
crown. There are fifty In Franc, fifty In
Oermany, 100 In Belgium, seventy in Lon
don, and ten In Austria. Mr. Liu She-Shun
is convinced that in the near future all
China will be opened up to foreigners, but
the latter, he says, -will have to be amena
ble to th laws of the country, which will
b remodelled upon the European pattern.
In the new China foreigners would hv
to abandon the privileges of exterritorial
ity, which they had enjoyed for so long.
Th defense plans which are to be laid
before the Belgian parliament, arid which
Involve an expenditure of I21.0XI.000 for
fortifications which are to make Ant
werp Impregnable from. naval attack, will
strike many observers ' of contemporary
European hlBtory as peculiarly futile. In
the present state of national development
the position of a small state which has
for neighbors on or more larger ones
Is at the best precarious. It must In the
nature of things owe Its security not to Its
own powers of defense, but to the protec
tion of one or another of Its neighbors,
the Interest of which may best be served
by checking the schemes of aggrandizement
of other "great powers." This Is particu
larly the case with Belgium, which could
do almost nothing to prevent the forcible
absorption of Its territory by France or
Germany, or the destruction of Its trade
and the ravaging ot Its coasts by the
British, provided the aggressor were given
a free hand and unhampered by the In
terference of the others.
M
A correspondent of the London Standard,
writing from Joliannesberg, gives an opti
mistic account of the Chinese and nalivo
labor situation on the Rand. According to
him. at the end of August there were
100.030 natives and 44.CO0 Chinese employed
In the gold mines, and application hud been
made for 12,600 more Chinese and 9 .COO na
tives, the latter not being procurable. The
amount of whit labor at the end of May,
1904, was 13.127; at the end of August, 1j6,
it was 17,429. The general revenue, railway,
customs and receipts from coal and explo
sives show a large and continued Inorease,
he says, since the arrival of the Chinese.
The Chinese as workers are fully equal to
the natives, he declares, and superior to
them In physique; the mortality among
them I under twenty per thousand, the
sickness under S per cent, while crime Is ex
traordinarily low compared with that of
other nationalities; 90 per cent of the con
victions being for technical offenses under
the Chinese labor ordinance. He denies
that thero Is any state of terror on the
Rand. The vast majority of the Chinese
coolies, he says, are lawabldlng, inoffen
sive and thoroughly contented. The crimes
of violence committed by them, he adds,
have bren very few and would not have
been even mentioned in the English press If
they had been the work of natives..
There are some famous smokers in Eu
rope, but perhaps none equal an Austrian
and a Hollander, both now deceased. An
old man who died In Vienna kept a record
of his smoking since he waa 17 years old.
In forty-five years he smoked no fewer
than :8,713 cigars, or 18,371 a year, giving
an average of thirty-eight a day. Out of
this gigantic total 43 E00 were given htm at
various times, leaving 5S6,21S, which, al
though this Auntrian devotee at the shrine
of my Lady Nicotine never paid more than
a penny for each one, cost nearly 2,500.
But even this marvelous record Is beaten
by that of Mynheer van Kloes, known by
the nickname of "King of the Smokers."
He was 81 at the time of his decease, and
sometimes smoked as much as ten pounds
of tobacco In a week. How strong with
him was the ruling passion In death waa
shown by his funural. At his express de
sire he was placed In a coffin lined with
What I Another
dizzy spell?
"Vertigo" the doctors call
it. You naturally fear it is brain
trouble, nervous prostration,
heart disease.
But your doctor will tell
you it is your liver. A slug
gish liver means a poor circula
tion, a congested brain, a dis
ordered stomach, constipated
bowels.
Ayer's Pills arc liver pills.
They act directly on the liver. You will need
only one each night for a few nights. Your indi
gestion and biliousness will quickly disappear.
fey th . O. Ay t-vUt
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Iter's 6absaaruj.- th ii.
ATOT9 COTRRT PBCTORAL-Fof eearhi.
ATBK'S AOOB CURB-Fot malaria nda(u.
POLITICAL DRIFT.
Dr. Ames threatens another eruption in
Minneapolis as the only means of saving
th city.
Paterson, N. J., has concluded that It
Isn't worth while to send to Australia for
Its thieving mayor.
Alderman Graft was one ot the officials
participating In the welcome of President
Roosevelt to Mobile, Ala.
Senator Foraker is much annoyed by an
Irritating sore throat which prevents a re
ply to Secretary Taft's depl.
Politics make strange bedfellows. Jacob
Kils and ex-Captain Devery are "marching
under the McClellan banner.
A curious and significant feature of the
campaign In New Tork City is that all the
candidates and all the platforms favor mu
nicipal ownership.
Philadelphia hua another shocking po
litical sensation. Dr. Martin, chief of the
health department, has resigned a Job
which pays (10,000 a year.
Three candidates for mayor of New York
publicly promise all kinds of reforms, if
elected, and yet some critics say we have
no real comedians In America.
When the fact Is considered that from
October 2 to 19 New Tork City gathered
tuO,OS,3o4 in taxes some of the political ac
tivity down there Is explained.
Secretary Taft's speech at Limb, O., pro
LIGHT AMI RRinilT.
"I am looking." said Diogenes, "for an
honest man "
"And wucn you find him, what arc you
going to do?"
"8-ah! I'm not going to find him. That
would spoil the Jotve Wasiiington Star.
Curious Person 1 c toat much to run
one of these thing?
Owner ot Auivbl!e Well, on on or
two occasions it has cost me a hlKh a
a minute. It depends on the town yuu
happen to be running It in. Chicago Tri
bune. Willie Pa, what kind of an apple was 11
that Adam and Eve ate
Pa Why er fall apple, of course, my
son. Philadelphia Ledger.
First Chauffeur Do you believe In mu
nicipal ownership?
Second Chaui.eur What's th use? Wo
about own the earth anyhow. New Tork
Sun.
"Your enemies arc saying that you have
made your name a by-word," said the con
svrloun friend.
"Yes," anawered Senator Sorghum, se
renely, "I fancy I have arrived at a point
where my name at the bottom of a check
will buy about anything I want." Wash
ington Star.
"Miss FUnteyes says she never gossips
about anybody."
"lusts rlKiit. Gossip la too 'ame for
her; sh Just knocks!" Detroit Free Press.
"I don't know of anything worse than
a champagne thirst and a beer Income!"
said Waddles, as he picked up tho bill of
f:ue.
voked an explosion of wrath at the Mecca i Bteak appetite and a pork and bean salary!"
In Cincinnati. Mr. Cox considers It un
worthy of general circulation.
Senator Beverldge of Indiana is as smooth
as he Is pictured. He ordered advertise
ments of his new book In republican papers
only. Now the democratic papers are ad
vertising him freely and lavishly, and the
republican papers are defending him gal
lantly. As a result the book Is selling rap
idly. Strange things are happening in the New
York campaign. Commissioner Woodbury
addressed these words to 609 street cleaners:
"We are near election. You are all civil
service employes and that law (prohibiting
political assessments) means two things.
It means you don't have to pay campaign
assessments; that you men can cast your
vote for anyone you choose and as God and
your conscience direct, and in no other
way. That's all."
. Arkansas has a law which provides that
once a year all state and county funds that
may be In the custody ot the various banks
throughout the state shall be withdrawn
and retained in the possession Of the state
treasurer for a period of twenty days. No
time is fixed when these withdrawals ar
to occur, and it varies widely In conse
quence In the various counties of the state.
Vsually two or three days' notice Is given
tha banks which hold state or county funds
of the treasurer's Intention to make the re
quired withdrawal. The actual money must
be paid over to the treasurer, not merely
a check, and locked in his office vaults it
the wood of old clear boxes. By his side I mu1 remain for twenty days, for It cannot
were laid his favorite china- bowled pipe, a i be deposited In other Institutions. At th
box of matches, flint, steel and tinder. eml of twenty days it
Around his grave was gathered a circle
of Rotterdam smokers, each with his pipe,
from which, at the words, "Ashes to ashes,
dust to dust," he shook the ashes onto the
coffin lid. To each of thse mourners the
deceased left ten puunds of tobacco and
two pipes bearing his arms.
King Alfonso of Spain, unless reports
do him Injustice, on occasion acts like
an unbroken colt. While in Cabudonga
recently th bishop showed him some
sacred relics In the cathedral there. His
for a season or two flourished. Glowing ! majesty referred to them as "nonsense
pictures were fainted for the benefit of J greatly to the horror of the prelate. One
Careful ihtimuI of the ulollotrraphy
of Cnndldnte Fleming- discloses tlis fact
that he has teen engaged in n great
mnny different busineswes duriug a Ions:
residence in Omaha, but that the only
business that he has driven with emi
nent success is the business of offlce-holrtlug.
No roan bns t-ver aspired to the posi
tion of county commissioner in Douglas
county better equipped to perform the
duties than Emmet O. Solomon. People
who want the business of the county
conducted on lysines lines will support
Mr. Solomon irrenort- tiarty.
It Is probable tbnt the uivestlsatlon
to be started by the trustees of the Mu
tual Ufe Insurance company will be
held under the "confidential" plan advo-'
cated by President McCurdy, but the
public will still look "to the legUlutlv
commlttee for some of ti fscts.
prospective Investors; th farmer was
tihown by promoters how he could revel In
wealth If' his energies were devoted to
cultivating the sugar beet. Heart-to-heart
talks had their elTect and vast tracts of
land war pledged for th purpose. Pros
perity was destined to be short lived, how
ever. Capitalists who saw In the Industry
an opportunity for larg returns under th
benevolent policy Inaugurated by th state
made the Initial mlstak of seeking to re
cover In the first year the entire amount
of their Investment. The farmers discov
ered that raising beets Involved something
more than drilling seeds Into th ground
and permitting nature to do the rest The
labor required. If .-. successful crop was to
bo harvested, proved expensive. Further
more, there was the annoyance and added
work, which proved distasteful and brought
the project into disfavor. When the re
turns were figured up the disparity be
tween the wealth portrayed by the pro
moters and the amount actually realized
put a crimp In their ambitions. Gradually
there cam a declln In acreage which
threatened th future of th beet sugar In
dustry and resulted In putting some of the
plants out of business.
Reducing tho tariff on Canadian beets
might furnish temporary relief, but there
la, no reason to believe It would prove of
j lasting benefit. AH the reciprocal agree
I merits that could be framed up between the
i two countries would not serve to revive the
beet sugar industry, any more than such
an arrangement between th United States
and Cuba injured the prospects of tha local
evening the king sllpptd away from the
palace . dlgulncd as a laborer, ..nd at
tended a workman's ball, passed the night
dancing, drinking and flirting, and came
back about daylight half Intoxicated. In
reply to th remonstratlona of his alarmed
mother, he told her to mind her own busi
ness and respect his authority like his
other subjects. The queen mother con
tinuing her protest, he threatened to have
her ejected from th palace. Just then
arrived his father confessor. In whom he
hns great confidence, and his tipsy majesty
went to bed.
t
What Is called a remarkable report on
the growth of Germany's Ir.dustrlal psllry
In recent years Is sent home by tho British
consul at Berlin. The number of income
taxpayers ha Increased nearly 70 per cent
In nine years, th population Increasing IS j
per cent, ana tne Danx a "i posits nave nearly
doubled. Great growth U also noted In the
textile and iron and machinery export
trade. This is not a timely report for the
American railroad campaign agulntt gov
ernment control of rates. One of the ar
guments most relied on by the roads In
this contest Is an assertion of tha paralys
ing effect upon German Industry of stable
and uniform rates on th state roads,
based upon the distance-tariff principle.
la returned to the
bank and th ceremony Is at an end for th
space of a year.
Detroit Free Press.
Stella Is Mabel stingy?
Bella Awfully. I Insisted for twenty
blocks that she allow me to pav the car
fare, and she did. New York Sun.
"Of all tho designing creatures you ever
saw or heard of, Mrs. Pneubryde takes the
leaS."
"What ha she been doing now?"
"She gave her husband a birthday present
of a gold trimmed automobile cap, and of
course he had to buy an automobile aftor
that." Chicago Tribune.
Hicks I understand somebody has dis
covered that there's alcohol In rootbeer.
Wicks Yes, but there's no fear of any old
whisky drtnVer adopting It tor a subatl-toot.
Philadelphia Ledger.
Father What were you and young Hug
ger talking about last night?
Daughter Heally, father, I can't tell you;
the lid Is on the cabinet. New York Sun.
TAKE LEAVE OF HASTE.
Clinton 8collard In Th Outlook.
Let us take leave of hast awhile,
And loiter well content
With little pleasure to beguile.
And small habiliment
Just a wide sweep of rs.ln-wash.ed sky,
A flower, a bird not sweet;
Some easy trappings worn awry;
Loose latches for our feet
A wheaten loaf within our scrip;
For drink the hillside spring.
And for tru heart companionship
The love of loitering.
We want so much, and yet w need
So very slight a stor.
But In th age's grip of greed
W hurry more and more.
The woodland weaves Its gold green net;
The warm wind las by;
Can we forego? can we forgetT
Come, comrade, let us try!
Browning, Iing & Co
ORIGINATORS A NO SOLE MAkXKS OF HALF SIZES IN CLOTHING.
IcoiI-t ff T"-It bra.
New York Sun.
The Hon. Joseph Benson Foraker of
Ohio is unable to speak In defense of the
Hon. George B. Cox of Cincinnati, the Hon.
ftsrthios o Fall OnrL. On.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Germany with lncreaxed tariff on food
stuffs seems trying to starv its worktn
pcopl. Bui lhr is no addlU?l tariff
Charles Warren Fairbanks is too busy to
sugar men. The difficulty is on that must 1' ,h political Issues of th day In
bo settled between the sugar men and th . Pnuaaeipnia.
..... . I Gonna n respectfully declines to
iijrR'jiiuiu.v. mi wiitr, nna:ng sugar - . .
beets wore not sufficiently remunerative.
owing to the exactions of the rellnera, hav
turned their attention to other crops which
offer greater Inducements. Permitting
Canadian beets to come In free would not
solve the problem. Michigan farmers sim
ply refus to ral beets at the price which
th sugar men at willing to pay. When
th latter awake to the fact that 'the
growers are entitled to some consideration
there will be a sufficient supply, regardless
of any tariff.
Arthur Pus
enter a
Joint debate with his splrltea colleague
from Maryland, the Hon. Isidore Rayner.
The number of eminent statesmen who are
making for th tall grass this fall is un
usually larg.
Hatralnta nf Modesty.
Chicago News.
Possibly th modest railway magnate
fear th fulsome praises that will be heuped
upon them if their books ar opened and
their total Innocence In th matter of rate
discrimination or lebate Is disclosed.
Excellent Coais
WtWs Your Preference?
Stop in and try on any or all of the new gtyles. We'vo
fresh Ideas to show you and we shall take pleasure In doing
It. The way to buy an overcoat or suit is to find out what
Is becoming to you.
Don't Buy in
a Hurry
Wo'vo niosnnt Suits
and Overcoats at
$15, $18, $20 and
$25.00
"What!" exclaimed
Beau Brunimel.'a
suit in th Instant,
there'll her no tail
or presently."
And you can rest assured that you get full value for your
money at any price you pay.
Our new feature of half sires in clothing Is entirely out
of the ordinary, and there Is no possible chance for a misfit.
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