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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1903. The Omaha Daily Hle E. ROSE WATER, EDITOR. PUBLISH Et EVERY MORNING. TF.RM8 OF SUBSCRIPTION. ri1r Bee (without Puniliiy), one year. $4 no rily B -and Sunday, one year 6 Illustrated Bee. one year 2 at Sunday Bee. one year 2 S" fiaturday B. one year LaO DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Pally Be (without Sunday), per werk..12n Ially Bee (Including Sundav). per week. 17c Evening Bee (without Sunday), per week (if! Evening Bee (with Sunday), per week 1V Sunday Bee, per copy 5c Addreaa complaints nf Irregularities In de livery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Bulldink. ' South Omaha City Halt Building. Council Bluffs 10 Pearl Street. Chicago 1640 Unity Building. New York lino Home Life In. Building. Washington SOI Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communloatlona relating to newa ard ed itorial matter should be addreaaed: Oinaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only t-cent stamps received as payment of mall accounta. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, as : C. C. Rosewater, secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, beinar duly sworn. says that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of October, 1806. waa a fol lows: I 83,ioo j7 so.nno 2 bo, too u , sn.aao t SO.PflO 19 80.4MIO ai,32o 20 ao.ftro 81,220 21 81,510 ( S1.B20 22 wi.ono 7 83,4 lO 2 8O.BT0 1 00.030 ?4 80,000 t si.oao 25 81,100 10 Jtl.lOO W 80.HNO II 81,100 17 80,010 12 80.T10 M Sl.rMM i ao.siao 29 so.too 14 81.S10 iW 81,000 18 AO. 48ft U 80,000 1 30,700 Total OOll.fMO Less unsold copies 10,001 Net total sales 003.3-40 Cally avtrags 80.T1T C. C. ROSEWATER. ' Secretary. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to bef-r ma this 21st day of October, 1906. ' (Seal) M. B. HUNQATB. Notary Public WI1E5 OCT OF TOWH. Subscribers le-aTlnsT the cl(y tem porarily shonld kSTS The Be mailed o them. It Is better than m dally letter from home. Ad- , dress will be chanced aa oftea as reqaested. Uoodby, John D., goodby from Ne braska politics for another year. ' For some strange ana unaccountable reason that growing question never got full grown.. Tbe Board of Education now bns 3"0 embattled ncboolma'ms to wrestle with, and tbe board will bare to capitulate. Tbat expected school board resigna tion failed to show up. Members must till be sticking at the line of succes sion. I - . . . Chancellor Andrews demonstrates not only trrat be baft notten concerted by bla critics', but ,bat he' Is' unrepentant as well. ..... Cassle Cbndwlck bns been denied a new trial. She made the mistake of ber life In not organizing an Insurance com pany. John D. Itockyfeller bits Joined Gen eral Calamity in his retirement from the Nebraska cyclone center of popocratlc Journalism. Quakers may be opposed to war, but after that Philadelphia showing no one can accuse them of being opposed to political warfare. Before those heavier buttlesbtps are ordered it might be well to perfect a de vice for saving the ship and crew from "flarebacks" of the big trims. If Count Wltte is unfortunate n the formation of bis cabinet it should be re membered that he has no experienced cabinet officers to draw from. If there ever were auy people honestly in doubt about It, they must now be convinced that Nebraska stands for tbe "square dal'' and Theodore Roosevelt It Is safe to hay that, tor a little while at least the council will be somewhat more circumspect about suspending va rious provisions of the building ordi nances. I4ind fraud investigation has resulted in Indictments in Idaho, tbe names of the parties not tielug anuounced, from which it may be inferred that all federal officials escaped. Organized labor has dictated oue ap pointment In the Russian cabinet. Mr. Parry now knows where to resume work when. he has rested after adding Presi dent Roosevelt's walp to his belt. The supreme court decision on the validity of the Dodge election law which has, been overdue for some weeks, may now be looked for. The election Is over and the fuse has been pulled out of It. II voting mucmues were in use Throughout Nebraska Instead of in Doug las county only, complete election re turns would 1x3 available on the morn Ing after instead of taking two or three day to get it lu. In affirming the constitutionality of the Missouri eight-hour law for miners the supreme court of the 1'nfted States further tangles the legal status of labor when taken iu conuectlon with Its late decision on tbe eight hour law for bakers In New York. Hearst complains that some of Jiia paid employes deserted to Tammany ball when tbe voting began. After his inability to secure people to occupy the rooms he hired iu St IxuU be should have been wiser than to trust politician vtui offer themselves for sale. RffEM TO TATOH LOCK CASAU It tuny be several weeks before the report of the advisory board of engi neers on the Panama cannl will be com pleted and no small degree of Interest Ih being shown as to what the board will have to recommend. It Is said that a reHrt favoring a lock caunl Is now thought to be assured, the board taking the ground that time and money can le saved by construction of a lock canal and that such a canal will meet the needs of commerce for many years to come. It was Intimated Immediately after the return of the advisory board from the Isthmus that such would be the report, so that It Is' probable what la now reported will be found to be correct While perhaps most of the engineers who have studied the matter believe that a sea-level canal would, from the commercial point of view, be preferable, yet undoubtedly a lock canal will serve every purpose for at least a generation to come and it can be constructed In much less time and at a cost many mil lions below what would have to be ex pended for a sea-level waterway. As now planned the canal will doubtless cost fully $200,000,000 and consume from eight to ten years In the building. It Is not desirable to Increase the out lay or extend the time for construction and it Is safe to say that no proposi tion involving these conditions would be approved by congress. The great undertaking shonld be pushed with all possible vigor and completed as soon as practicable with a duo regard to thoroughness in the work. Unquestion ably a lock canal will meet all com mercial demands for many years and If It should ever be found Inadequate the change to sea-level may be effected without very greut difficulty. TRADING WITH CCBA- It is conceded by those familiar with the trade relations between the United States and Cuba that the latter is chiefly benefited by the reciprocity ar rangement which has two years more to run. While our exports to the Island republic have Increased somewhat since that arrangement was effected, our im ports from Cuba have enlarged greatly, giving to the Industrial and commercial interests of the island a marked impetus. It is probably a fact that Cuba Is at present In a more prosperous condition than at any previous time and this she owes largely to the treaty It was ex pected when that was entered Into that about everything the Cubans needed to export would be taken from the United States, but such has not been the ex perience.,. On the contrary the islanders have continued to trade extensively, with European countries and now it is proposed to enter luto a commercial treaty with England which will place that country on as favorable a footing In regard to the Cuban trade as the reciprocity arrangement gave the United States. An example of this kind is certainly not calculated to promote the cause of commercial reciprocity and it may be doubted If the existing arrangement with Cuba would be renewed if the question were to be determined now. Two years hence conditions may be dif ferent. AS IMPOHTAST CHAIRMANSHIP. It is generally recognized that the roost important chairmanship In tbe house of representatives of tbe Fltty nlnth congress will be that of the appro priations committee. This because upon that committee will devolve the duty of reducing expenditures wherever this caa be done wlthont injury to the public service. (Speaker Cannon, always in favor of judicious economy, It is under stood will urge it upon the coming con gress even more strongly than be has hitherto done and he will select a com mittee on appropriations, and particu larly a chairman of that committee, who is In full accord with hi in. Several men have been talked of for the position. Representative Burton of Ohio is regarded as among the best equipped for the position. He has bad a long service In congress and has al ways antagonized every form of extrav agance. As chairman of the committee on rivers and harbors be made a highly creditable record. But Mr. Burton, while a staunch republican, has some times acted with a degree of ludepend ence displeasing to the leaders and this fact may count against him as a candi date for the chairmanship of tbe appro priations committee. Mr. Pnlzell of Pennsylvania has also been spoken of and there Is a good deal to be said in his favor. He has Wen long in con gress, is a recognized leader and doubt less Is well qualified to bead the ap propriations committee, though his repu tation in public life has been made in connection with the tariff and it may be fhat be would prefer to remain on the ways and means committee, even should there be, as U prob able, practically nothing for it to do. Representative McCleary of Min nesota, a member of the appropria tlons committee in the lsst house, has been mentioned. With the expert euce he has had on the conhnittee be should be amply equipped for the chair manxhtp. McCleary Is man of fine ability and would seem to be in every way fitted to le the head of the com mlttee of which he has been a member. The latest reintrt Is tbat Representative Tawney of Minnesota has been decided on by Speaker Cannon for the chair manship of the appropriations commit tee. It is pointed out that Tawney has a great deal of Influence with the memlters of the house and be and tbe speaker work well together. Mr. Can non. it Is remarked. Is alive to tbe ad vantages of having a mouthpiece ou the floor who will be recognized as bis spokesman and for this Mr. Tawney Is frilly qualified, bejng a ready and strong debater and having a considerable per sonal following. The Important consideration, however, Is to have a man at the head of tbe ap propriations committee who will bend his efforts to reducing expenditures wherever it csn be done without Im pairing the efficiency of the public serv ice and firmly Insist upon such reduc tion. The thing to be accomplished is to bring the expenses of the government within the receipts, so as to put a stop to deficits and avoid additional taxation. It Is attainable and undoubtedly the hfmse of representatives will do Its pis In duty in the matter. ELECTION FORECASTS. A national bureau of political prognostlcators has became a long felt want In these United States of America. No branch of. scientific calculation has been more shamefully neglected, and the American people generally and the men who bet on election specially, are sadly in need of something of more re liability than the election predictions we are now getting through the chair men of the various party committees and opposing candidates. The following sample bricks of the unreliability and verltablllty of election forecasts will suffice to reinforce the overwhelming sentiment in favor of the creation of a national political guess bureau: COLUMBUS. O.. Nov. 4. The most re markable campalirn Ohio has ever had is drawing to an end. and on Tuesday tbs people will decide who shall be governor for the term beginning next January, A careful canvass of the situation forty-eight hours before the voting starts and next on poll reports from the best and most harmonious organization the democratic party has had for twenty years In all the counties of the state, together with opinions of the most prominent and best informed republicans In all the counties. Justifies me as chair man In making the qualified statement that Mr. Pattlson wilt carry Ohio by 86.000 plurality pver Herrlck on the expressed vote. My own opinion, however. Is that Mr. Pattlson will receive the largest plu rality ever recorded for any man In Ohio with the exception of Mr. Roosevelt. This Is based on the thousands upon thousands who refused to express themselves when the poll was taken. That thousands upon thousands of republicans have Joined hands and will vote against the whole state ticket Is an undisputed fact, because Cox named It all. Ths legislature will contain a ma jority friendly to Mr. Pattlson and will back him to a man In putting Into opera tion reforms and economics, "together with the repeal of the Inheritance tax and other vicious and extravagant laws Innumerable affecting the state In general and every county, city, village, hamlet and farm as well. That Mr. Pattlson can do nothing without a legislature supporting him is thoroughly understood by the people, and his election, which la assured, will mean a legislature In sympathy with him. HARVEY C. OARBER. Chslrman Democratic State Executive Com mittee. COLUMBUS. O., Nov. 4. Based upon the final poll reported by the county chairmen from the eighty-eight counties of the state, every doubtful vote having been counted against us and every eatlmato made upon the most conservative Unas, . net. repub lican plurality of 88.9M Is shown for Her rlck. In my experience, covering many state campaigns, actual republican plurali ties have exceeded rather than fallen be low results Indicated by the poll, and I have every confidence that this will be the caae at the election next Tuesday. The same reports also Justify the claim that the legislature will be strongly republican In both branches. CHARLES DICK. Chairman Republican State Executive Com mittee. ' CLEVELAND. O.. Nov. 4.-The boas rule of Mayor Johnson will come to an end on election day. We have proved that we have the better man running for mayor and our city ticket Is one of the best ever nominated. W. H. Boyd will be elected mayor. He will have a large plurality. We have proved that Johnson Is a boss and that he has built up a machine of the Tammany brand. Mr. Boyd has convinced the voters that Mayor Johnson has not kept half the promise he has made, and instead of working for the people Is trying to advance himself politically with the aid of a Tammany organisation. HY. DAVIS. Chairman City Republican Committee. CLEVELAND. O.. Nov. 4. The democrats will carry the city and county by a larger vote than the people have given them for many years. I feel more confident of suc cess than I have at an other election. My opponent for mayor will be the worst beaten man that every sought the position. The indications are that the entire city ticket will pull through with thousands of votes to spare. The people have confidence In the ticket. The republicans are ashamed of a large part of their ticket and they know they have a hopeless task. We are merely asking the voters to approve of our work and they have no reason to disap prove of our work or policies. TOM L. JOHNSON, Chairman Cftiy Democratic Committee. r SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 4. -There can only be one result on Tuesday next. Salt Lake will be republican, and that, too, by a handsome majority. The republican party was never in better condition than today. It la united, and each worker Is enthusi astic at the prospect. I expect a majority or at least Z.UUU. WILLARD HANSOM, Chairman Republican City Committee, SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 4.-We expect to re-elect Richard P. Morris mayor on his record, because the people have confi dence In him. There Is nothing In sight to prevent his election. His businesslike administration and his progressive methods have given confidence to outside capital and have been largely responsible for the wave of prosperity amounting to a boom, and to the great rush of people from outside of Salt Lake City. These facts are appreci ated, and he will be returned to his present office. L. R. MARTINEAU, Chairman Democratic, City Committee. INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. t.-Ws are per fectly satisfied with the trend of the cam Eaten, and on the 'eve of the election are confident that ths full republican ticket .will be elected by majorities from 1.000 to 4.000. We have met very issue that has been presented, and Charles A. Bookwalter, our candidate for mayor, will be elected by one of the largest majorities ever given In this city. I would pot be surprised to see It reach 1,000 or even exceed it. Ths other candidates on ths ticket will be elected by handsome majorities, and we will have a large majority in the council. ROBERT METZKER. Chairman Republican City Committee. INDIANAPOLIS. Nov. 4.-I am not making predlctloas as to majorities, but I am satisfied that Mayor John W. Holtsmn will be re-elected by a safe majority. Tbe ctiy ticket has been gaining steadily In favor with the people sine the campaign I openea, ana it win receive ins largest vote from republicans on Tuesday that was ever given to a democratic candidate In this city. Its election is absolutely assured, and we will also control the city council, which is now republican. EDWARD RAt'B, Chairman Democratic City "Committee. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 4-The contest that is now coming to Its .closing hours In the city of Philadelphia has been marked by great activity upon both sides. After discounting all enthusiastic and colored re ports. I am firmly of the opinion that the republican ticket will score a clear and decisive victory, and that the majority for the entire ticket will not be less than 30.000. JAMES L. MILES, Chairman Republican (Machine) City Com mittee. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 4-The city party will win by a majority of 40,000, and cannot fall less than that figure. I believe the city party will carry thirty-two out of forty-two wards. The breakdown of the republican machine In Its strongholds, and the whole election, would prove a glorious testimonial of the power of the people over gang rule uie. FRANKLIN 8. EDMUNDS, Chairman City Party (Reform) City Com mittee. After thoroughly digesting all these divergent dishes, tbe political stomach should be capable of swallowing any thing. In his opening address before Judge Munger, in the injunction suit brought by the Water board to restrain the ap praisers of the Omaha Water company's plant from making a report upon the properties of the company In Omaha and South Omaha, John L. Webster, at torney for the Water board, declared that three expert engineers had spent eighteen months and received ?3,000 from the city iu their alleged efforts to appraise the water system, and Mr. Webster further declared that the ap praisers had received $100 a day from the city and had accomplished nothing. Precisely. That is what The Bee has been saying all along. But, what have the lawyers accomplished, and what have the special attorneys of the Water board accomplished, and how much have they drawn out of the city treasury? Have they not had about as good a pull as the appraisers? The voting machine will for the first time In the history of fusion give sepa rate returns of the vote of the various parties that have united lu the nomina tion of the same candidates. Iu Doug las county, for example, we will be able to tell how many votes are registered for Judge Hastings as a democrat nitdj how many as a populist. The In formation should be useful In several ways. It should throw light on the puzzle whether tbe fusion game is worth the candle. It should also afford an Index for more correct representation of democrats and populists In their re spective state conventions without ap portioning delegates to this county in each to the combined vote of both. Finally it should answer definitely the question whether there are any popu lists left In this county. Tbe Lincoln Star is not only opposed to postal savings banks, but It wants the postotflce to go out of the money order business, so that the banks and express companies may have a monop oly at the transmission of money and charge whatever they please for the service. Why not go a step further and demand the abolition of tbe postoffico altogether, so that the express com panies, railroad companies, telegraph companies aud messenger service com panies can have the field to themselves? Naval cadets should Ik compelled to use tbe weapons of their profession the next time they desire to fight The last engagement with fists was as deadly as though twelve-Inch guns had beeu used. Royalty on Its t'ppers. Cleveland Leader. Insurance companies seeking reorgani sation should not overlook the fact that Russia has a complete set of grand dukes out of a Job. Shackles Off the Pea. Boston Transcript. The Russian press regulations were abolished- yesterday and hereafter the Russian editor can say what he' thinks Instead of what the censor thinks he ought to think. Bead Xon or Break Later. Kansas City Times. President Stlckney of the Great Western railway realizes that it will be better for the railroads to accept the square deal now than to take chances on some other sort of a deal later on. "There Stands Massachusetts." New York Sun. It Is a monstrous condition of things If the laws of an enlightened community like Massachusettes do not provide for the criminal prosecution and punishment of one who dissects and dismembers a dead body for the purpose of concealing the true causa of death. Fartlaaashlp la Local Goveraateat. President Roosevelt. The worst evils that affect our local gov ernment arise from and are the inevitable result of the mixing up of city affairs with the party politics of the nation and the state. The lines upon which national parties divldo have no necessary connec tion with the business of tne city. Such connections open the way to countless schemes of public plunder and clvlo cor motion. . Heroes with Appetites. Baltimore American. The "poison squad" are now to be fed on cold storage food. Their observations and reports on their diet will, consequently, be anything but official hut alt. The young men composing this now Justly celebrated squad are heroes, possibly Btarlyrs. Many men before them have starved to death in the cause' of duty; they, are the first to be willing to eat themselves to death to serve their country. Some Lessons Taaarht t htaa. Chicago Chronicle. The Chinese minister at Washington has no doubt that If American missionaries have been murdered at Llenchow his gov ernment will proceed at once to bring the murderers to Justice and to punish any de linquent officials without waiting far our government to make any demands upon It. This Is not unlikely. The Chinese govern ment recognlsrs International obligations as it did not a few yea's ago. it has luaiuvd a few- things, RAILROAD miLDIJH U THE WEST Eastera Views mm the Hllf-Harrlman Msves. President lUrrlman's recently expressed belief in ths nrrlval of an era of com petitive railroad building In the west, and the activity of construction forces of liar- rlinan and Hill In Nebraska, Wyoming and Oregon, are exciting keen Interest In Wall street and furnish live material for the financial editors. The New York Times says the expression "competitive railroad building" has an ominous sound "If the term be used In any reference to the com petltive building which two decades ago led to no few Instances of railroad bankrupt cles." The Times continues: "Intimate associates of that gentleman freely ex pressed the opinion Inst week that the com petition to which he referred will be largely competition for entrance Into- new terri tory, and that the fighting will he done before the railroads are built rather than afterward. In other words, the victor In any given field Is likely to be left In pos session of that particular territory, while I the defeated party will seek equal advan- 1 tags in some other location. . It this Is really to be the character of the competi tion that Is to be experienced in the west, and particularly In the northwest, the In habitants of that section are to be con gratulated and the country at large has nothing to fear. "Actual developments recently serve to a large extent to confirm this view of the character of the coming competition, or the present competition it may be called, for already the railroad projects in the west have assumed largo proportions. For a long time the rival railroad Interests In the northwest were restrained from build inij Into the Clearwater district that both the Hill and the Harriman forces were desirous of entering. In the end they de cided to build Jointly. Meanwhile each side hail been active in the construction of new lines to serve as feeders, and In some in stances this has been done In competitive territory. There has been a keen search for new business, but practically no build ing has been undertaken with the sole pur pose of taking away business already se cured by the other side. "Mr. Hill was quoted lust week as saying that there was no likelihood of any 'mad rush for competitive building.' With the exception of the territory to be served by the Pacific coast extension of tha St. Paul, he pointed out, most sections are already well supplied with railroads. This Is par- hicularly true of through lines. Mr Hill has steadily been adding feeders to his lines and he pointed to these roads as Indi cating the probable character of much of tha building that will be done In tho near future. Lines fifteen or twenty miles long, he says, are likely to be constructed In some numbers, "Competition for through freight Is less likely to become of the cutthroat variety than competition of local lines that are solely dependent upon the traffic derived from a very limited area. There are am ple Indications In the western railroad field, taken as a whole, that lines serving the middle west are looking toward the Pacific coast as the source of added reve nue. Already the Western Pacific under the tutelage of the Goulds is preparing to add to the number of transcontinental lines, and despite present official denials It Is generally behoved that It will not be long before the St. Paul acknowledges Its In tention to reach the Pacific. The Burling ton, too, according to report, denied, how ever, even more emphatically than the St. Paul report. Intends to extend Its lines further westward. It Is suggested that the rumored extension of the Burlington to Salt Lake. City Is a sign pointing In the direction of an alliance between the Hill roads and the Western Pacific. There la, however, little in the way of tangible fact to support this supposition. "Competitive railroad building that builds up new territory, and which adds In no great space of time to the business of all roads. Is real competition In no sense that In the least disturbs the Investor. Only In the assumption that competition will go to the extreme of building roads that must prey on others already In operation can competitive railroad building prove a stock market bugbear. "Speaking the other day of the reported Intention of the Union Pacific to build a line up tha North Platte river. In which the Burlington slso Intends to build. Mr. Hill remarked: 'That a broad country. If the Union Pacific wants to build there doubtless there will be room for us both.' If there be room, two railroads are better than one. If two railroads will be built only where In the Judgment of both sides there is room for both the western railroad situation can In no sense be considered a threatened' one." The New York 'Evening Post regards Mr. Harrlman's words as a statement of fact, not a prediction, and says: "Less than a month after contracts were let for construction of the Western Pacific It was announced that the Northern Pa ciflo would reach Portland, without first going up to Tacoma and Olympla, Wash. Since then It has been decided that the cut off will extend due west along the north fork of the Columbia river. The Union Pa cific extends through the entire state of Oregon on the south side of the same river. Before the close of September It was learned that the St. Paul would extend to the Pacific coast, via Helena, Spokane and Portland. This would nrcessarlly bring It Into competition at various points with the Great Northern, Northern Pacific and both the Union and Southern Pacific. "A singularly Interesting case In point came to light last week. Union Pacific and Burlington A Qulncy, now rival lines, had both contemplated building extensions along the North Platte river In Nebraska. Union Pacific obtained an Injunction against Bur lington on the ground that Its own survey ors had already located a Union Pacific branch exactly where the Burlington wus now Intruding. This injunction granted, the Burlington obtained another restraining the Union Pacific from building the con templated branch. Neither can build at present, though neutral railway officers de clare there Is room for both. As Sir Lucius O'Trigger says. It Is a very pretty fight as It stands. But It is not all. There are many railway officers who believe that ths Burlington also Intends to build an exten sion Into the rich copper district surround ing Salt Lake. If constructed, such a Una must cross ths Union Pacific at competing points. "AH of the mileage to be constructed west of the Missouri river, according to plans recently announced, will cut Into ths busi ness of the Union Pacific-Southern Pacific system either In one state or another. It is nut dlTOVuU tu understand, therefore, why President Harriman would In his own mind associate the new mileage with the era of competitive-railroad buying, through which we have Just parsed." Cattlaa- Oat Host Taps. Springfield Republican. One of the excellent acts of President Roosevelt was the appointment of the Keep commission to investigate all the de partments of the government, with the object of discovering the weak points In administration and recommending reme dial measures. It mii;hl be called the anti-red tape commission. Chairman Keep reports that the work of investigation will continue for several months and that the conclusion of the menibeis will be well disrated and matured before Deing cum niuulvaieU lo U president aud congress. A HATTER k lifi Absolutely Puro HAS JO SUBSTITUTE A Cream of Tartar Powder free from alum or phes phatio acid rfeRSONAL NOTES. A perspiring official In San Francisco announces to his constituents with vast pride, "I have increased the birth rate 10 per cent." Here are anti-race suicide and the strenuous life in one. The passing of M. Pobledonostcff from the center of eruption in Russia removes great load from the shoulders of printers. proofreaders and newspaper readers. That will be a great test of blue pencil talent. A California Industry which does not advertise Itself consists of collecting and roasting immature beans, mixing them with parched barley and putting on tire market a fine brand of "old government Java" coffee. Rear Admiral G. W. Balrd, superinten dent of the State, War and Navy depart ment building, who has asked to be re lleved of duty, out of forty-throo years of service In the navy, he has been oft duty only four months. Marconi, the young Italian who brought to Its present stage of development the system of wireless telegraphy, dislikes the name "Marconigram," which Is often used to describe wireless dispatches. Jlo has always called them "wireless dispatches'' or the equivalent of that term. Hoyt S. Spencer, a photographer of North port, Mich., Is said to have one of the finest collection of Indian photographs In the country. Ho is 87 years old. and when Michigan was still in Its primitive civiliza tion hs traveled through the woods taking photographs of Indans and their homes. Though worth $1,000,000, which he In herited a short time ago. August Forester, son of a recently deceased St. Louis banker. Is working In a packing plant slaughtering hogs at $10 per week. He intends to In vest a good part of his fortune In that business and is determined to master all details thoroughly. Mr. Forester Is 22 years old a graduate of the University of Mis- court. When Ralph Waldo Emerson was sitting to D. C. French he rose suddenly one day and walked over to where tho artist was working. He looked long and earnestly at the work, and then, with an Inimitably droll expression said: "The trouble is, the more It resembles me the worse it looks." After the sculptor had finished the bust he asked Mr. Emerson to inspect It. The philosopher's opinion was characteristic of ths man. "Well," he said at last, "that Is the face I shave." Government Employes in the Panama canal sone can divide their Idle time be tween reading the Bible and playing the great American game of poker, crlbbage, seven up, auction pitch and casino. It has been decided by Chairman Shonts that. In order to retain the services of employes. tho government must not only furnish com fortable quarters and good food, but amusements as well. To carry out his plans. Uncle Sam has purchased a large number of Bibles and playing cards for the use of the men who will construct the big ditch. POINTED PLKASA1TRIES. inf provero says inni you enn i rni your cake and have your cake, but the dyspeptic 1. ....... .......... U ill.. I . . , . 1 "Why don't you try to make yourself! soli with the masses? "Well," said Senator Sorghum "my con stituents are peculiar. They like j plenty of treating and speech-making. They don't care for solid randldntes. They want 'em liquid or gaseous." Washington Star. The erasy vehicle went bumping over the uneven pavement. "This Is enough to drive a man to drink!" groHned the passenger inside. "Yessir," said the cab driver. "Most of the fellers that hires it thinks it's good enough fur that. Any p tlcular place you was wlshln' to stop at light now, sir?" Chicago Tribune. "Father," asked the youth, "what Is your understanding of the saying: 'The race is not nlwsys to the swift?' " "Practically, my son," replied the wise father, "it means ttiat in the race of life Browning, Ming fk Co ORIGINATOBS AND SOLE MAKERS OF HALF SIZES IN CTHING. time in iJwer wS! 3e. Ovemwt, Suit, Hat, Gloves, Under- can please a man wear, Shirts, CtC. Peau Brummel, un less It's the fashion And at j Fifteenth and XM1 OMAIIA j Douglas Sis. W NEB. j Broadway at ILad fctrasl KEW V YOBK Factory. Csssst Ssjawarw OF HEALTH the tnrt men don't usuallv cofne out ahead." Philadelphia Catholic Standard. Dolly (Krltefullyl-I didn't sco you at tha Van IjOttiidu s ball. Polly (sweellyi I suppose not. There was such a crowd of men around ine. Cleveland Leader. "I'm going south for the winter." Chollv Rakeloy said; "expect to be In Florida next Monday." "Yes." remnrked Knox, "all the others Stnrt for tho south about this time." "What others?" "Wild geese." Philadelphia Press. There was a slight gale and some talk of Shipwreck. "Well. If we go down," said the corset drummer. "I can keep right on selling straight fronts to the mermaids." "No chance for business for me, how ever." declared the corpulent drummer. "Why not?" "I sell slippers." Houston Chronicle. SHE'S A WIWEll. Chicago News. She's Jest n stralsht lallapalooFa A f.ury it's Mamie I mean. I haven't met nobody who's a Circumstance 'long wld my queen. "Muf.t any old time she's a winner, Hut jof t glvo lie girlie her chance; I feel like I hardly dast chin her When Mamie's fixed up for de dance. Her pomperdor's golden In' puffy; Her clothes Is all poor. I dort't t'lnk; H-r skirts kinder clingln' an' fluffy. Her shirt waist nn' rlhhons all pink. She wears elbow gloves an' a necklls; Dere's "kurp-orr-yer-mltts" In her glance, I ain't got 'do sand ter he recklis When Mamie's fixed up for de dance. White shoes an' an Inch & silk stocking Perfume on her handkerchief, too. Jest hear all de odder girls knnckln'l You bet it's de best day kin do. I tell you it's all up wld Willie; I fall in a sort of a tronce, 'Most any wise guy 'ud git sIHy When Mamie's fixed up for de dance. D&rniek .Elastic Bookcase is the original and only per fect sectional bookcase made. The doors are non binding, dust-proof, operate on roller bearings, and posi tively cannot get out of order. Bases furnished with or without drawers. Call and see them, or send for catalog with interior views showing them artistically arranged in library, parlor, den, hall, etc. No. 103 is the catalogue .0 ask for. ORCHARD and WILHELM CARPET CO. EXCLUSIVE AGENTS. Wanted To-- Man came in the other day in a hurry and said: "I wanted to get in before this, but couldn't. Is there anything left!" "I always like to get the first chance at a new stock . while the picking is good." AVise head. The picking is ripe now best the world to select your reasonable prices.