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WHE OCT OF TOWJS.
labacrlbers lea Tins; the city tern
porarlly aboeld have That Ilea
mailed to them. It la better than
a dally letter from home. Ad
dress will bo vbaagrd aa oftea as
reqeested.
Cotvaus nud Flllpiuos may now enter
a race to net which will first cam the
riifht of Hflf-g-overnineiit.
In accepting the title of Haakou VII,
t'uiule of Donmark apparently believes
there lit more In the game thau in the
name of king.
Prince Louis need have had no feur of
dynamiters, for the American variety of
dynamiter does not send advance notices
of his coming.
The third Indictment of Senator Bur
ton will be "the charm" for either the
prosecutiou or the defense, an the statute
of limitations will soou step in.
With a larger production of gold year
by year the United States la getting still
further away from the agitation for the
free coinage of silver at any ratio.
With Mormons moving to Mexico the
Vnlted States may yet have a precedent
for the Reed Smoot case provided the
senate acta with its usual caution and
delay. " " ' .
In the. light of their work in Man
churia, one wonders why the Russian
radicals are making auch strenuous ef
forts, to enlist the co-operation of Rns
Ian soldiers and sailors.
South Omaha's municipal election
and Omaha's municipal primaries cou.ti
on one and the same day. That threat-
. ens to put a damper on the movement
of population between the two cities.
The eyes of the world are on the
(emstro Congress at Moscow. Will It
follow the precedent established by the
continental congress at Philadelphia or
that Inaugurated by the revolutionists at
Paris
The: officer of the Hilda who made a
mUtaka In the lights off the coast of
Prance doea not live to explain how It
happened; but it la safe to say changes j
will bo inade In the lights so as to make
another guch 'accident Impossible.
With a delegate from u farmers' soci
ety addressing the' American f'edM'atiou
of LnlHr the tiui may tune when tlie
farm laborer will strike against hurry
ing to get the evening "chores" done in
time lit light the fire for lu-enkfast.
If the big. cattle barons who have
lawlessly -fenced In hundreds of thou-!
sands, of '.acres of the pnbllc domain
get off with fJKHi flue in a pica of
guilty, .the llttlt; land fencers may ex-'
pecf to get off with a tine of about 90
ccuts,
III I
It uow begirt to dawn upon ambi
tious South Omaha statesmen that they
have made a great blunder In arraying
themselves against annexation. Under
a separate government South Omaha
couucllinen are obliged to serve at hard
latxr for a paltry &V0 a month, while
Omaha rouncilmeii are in clover up to
thttlr necks with $1,500 a year and per
qulsitea. Snout rage.
The Omaha, Lincoln & Beatrice In
trior bail company is said to bare shown
nioro Signs of life during the past few
I'loutli than at any time during previous
very., but that does uot signify ui.y
cry materia) progress iu the construc
l ;tl of the road. Snails sometimes five
itt lgn of life, but they cannot be de
pendnil npon to travel thirty miles an
lM.Hr .unlees they are perched on the
back end of au automobile.
KRoniyn A FAVoii
There I" every iliilintioii that (lie
polity of railway rnte regulation Is
growing In ptihlic favor. Men of prom
inence ami Influence iu railroad circles
are licginnlng; to ee the wisdom and
expediency of supporting the iionition of
Irca(lent Knoscvelt. Due of these Is
Mr. Mellon, president of the New York,
New I In ven & Hartford, who called
upon Mr. Roosevelt last week. Mr. Mel
len believe that It Is good policy on the
part of the railroads to acquiesce in the
enactment of reasonable legislation. He
Is reported to have said In an Interview
that the only action he is going to take
la to support the president.
There are other railroad men of large
Influence who are In the game position.
They have become convinced that the
policy urged by Mr. Iloosevelt will re
sult In benefit rather than disadvantage
to the corporations of which they are
the heads and that It is wiser to yield
to the overwhelming public demand for
the proposed regulation than to invite
more radical legislation. They see that
If . what President Roosevelt recom
mends Is denied the eventual outcome,
as he has pointed out, will be the adop
tion of a policy which would anbject
the railroad to much grea'er super.
Vision and regulation than is now con
templated. The more judicious of rail
road managers are hcglnniug to realize
thut the position of the president !s
really conservative and that it means
only what Is absolutely fair and Just
and equitable. They are coming to vm
dctstand that It docs not contemplate
any curtailment of tin proper rights
and privileges of the railroads, that it is
not Intended to deprive- them of any
legitimate function or place them under
any arbitrary or desiotic authority. Its
purpose Is simply and wholly to require
them to comply with the law and to deal
fairly and Justly toward the public in
all respects and under all circumstances.
The present Indications are altogether
favorable to the success of President
Hoosevelt's policy. It Is said that some
of the New England senators who have
hitherto leen opposed to railway rate
legislation, as recommended by Mr.
Roosevelt, have decided to support the
president. It is very probable that
others from that section will decide to
do so when the question comes before
congress. The present aspect of the sit
uation appears to warrant the predic
tion that the rate legislation recom
mended by the president will be enacted.
THE MOST PROSPEROUS COVXTltltS.
Representative William Alden Smith
of Michigan, who during the past sum
mer visited Europe and Investigated
economic conditions there, says that he
came back a stronger protectionist than
ever. His observations impressed blm
with the fact that the protective tariff
countries are the most prosperous. There
is abundant evidence In support of this
view. It is an indisputable fact that
Germany and France, for example, are
more prosperous than free trade Eng
land, where at this time hundreds of
thousands of people In Loudon and other
cities are ont of employment and more
or less dependent upon charity. Very
recently Mr. Chamberlain, the champion
of fiscal reform, has urged this fact In
support of the policy ho advocates, and
last week the National Union of Conser
vative associations, lu n meeting at New
castle, adopted a resolution In favor of
fiscal reforms based on the preferential !
treatment of trade between the mother-! v,'v' nn Inquiry Into the feasibility of j iem by the extremely primitive and some
land and the colonies. It was a distinct i tlle undertaking and the Inducement what farcical method of arresting would-be
enunciation in favor of a policy of pro
tection. Those who are conversant with con
ditional abroad will not 1h surprised at
the view expressed by the Michigan
congressman and It is astonishing that
there should be any one In this country,
knowing how greatly the ladlcy of pro
tection has promoted our Industrial
progress and prosperity, to seriously pro
pose abandonment of thut policy
The
object lesson of idleness and Impover
ishment In the United Kingdom, with Its
flee trade, should make an impression
upon tho Aruericau people, who have all
the work they Bre willing to do and are
enjoying, as a whole, unprecedented
prosperity. ,
Tff HUUSt COMMlTTtKS-
It appears that Speuker Cannon,
whoae m-electlon la of course assured
and who !s said to be already at work
arranging the committees of the next
luusc of , represcutaiives, Is. likely to
find bla task in this respect somewhat
perplexing. The chairmanship of the
committee on appropriation is a matter
of commanding - importance, because
upoa that committee will devolve the
duty of finding where a reduction iu
public expenditures can practically be
effected. Mr. Cannon is In favos of
economy and it is expected that he will
apioint on that committee men lu ac
cord with his vlows. Next in import
ance is the Ways and means committee,
which has charge of all matters relating
to revenue. The chairman of this com
mittee In the las, house was Representa
tive Payne of New York, who it Is said
is not very highly regarded by the
speaker as a floor leader. While a very
earnest supporter of the protective
policy, Mr. Payne is not a particularly
strong debate and according to report
Mr. Cannon wants a man at the head of
this committee who will be able to de
fend the republican tariff position
against any democratic assault that may
be made upon It, and the expectation Is
that the democrats, under the leadership
of their a blent man in the house, John
Sharp William, will avail themselves
of every opportunity to attack the re
publican tariff policy.
Aa now indicated, the choice for chair
man of the appropriations committee
will prottably lie Mr. Tawney of Minne
sota, and for chairman of the ways ami
means committee Mr. Imlxdl of Penn
sylvania. Both are experienced mcm-l-rs
and In all respects qualified to head
the committees for which they are being
talked of, while they are known to be
in hearty accord with the views of Mr.
Cannon respecting appropriations and
the tariff. Their appointment to the
chairmanships of the leading committees
is regarded as highly probable.
THE AC XT STEP FORWARD
The year 190 has been an epoch mak
ing year for Omaha. No other western
city has made more prodigious strides
as a mercantile distributing center, and
no city of equal population can match
its building record. The establishment
of a grain exchange, followed by the
erection of half a dozen grain elevators,
has made Omaha the third largest grain
market west of the Mississippi, as it
already had been the third meat pack
ing city in America.
The marvelous progress Omaha has
made within the past year and the pros
pective expansion of Its tributary trade
territory only makes cheaper power and
especially cheaper fuel more imperative.
Inland cities cannot depend wholly for
their growth and prosperity upon com
merce. Manufactures, giving perma
nent employment to skilled and un
skilled labor, are the backbone of all
great cities, especially those situated in
the heart of the continent.
Chicago, with all its advantages as
the emporium of the natural products
of the region that supplies the world
with breadstuffs. could not have grown
to Its present proportions, or even half
of Its present population, were It not for
the location of the great mills and fac
tories within Its Industrial radius. Chi
cago never could have been a great man.
ufacturing center were It not for it
ability to seeure cheap fuel and cheap
power. The same Is true of St Louis
and Kansas City. The greatest factor
for the upbuilding of Kansas City In
the near future is its almost Inexhausti
ble supply of petroleum and natural gas
from the Kansas and Oklahoma oil
fields.
Pipe lines leading to these fields have
been completed but recently, and Kan
sas City at this moment is agitating for
25-cent natural gas for illuminating and
heating purposes. The substitution of
fuel oil and fuel gas as a generator of
power in place of coal will place Kan '
sas City on almost an equal footing
with Pittsburg, Cleveland, Indianapolis
and other manufacturing centers, and
blaze the way for a very material in
crease In the number of Its mills and
factories, which already outnumber and
overlap those of Omaha.
To keep up with its southern rival
Omaha must In the near future secure
pipe line to the Wyoming oil fields,
gas fields of Kansas and the oil fields
Wyoming, which prospectively will
exceed those of Pennsylvania and Ohio.
The estimated cost of a six-inch pipe
line from Omaha to a point In Kansas
that would tap the line now leading into
Kansas City would cost not exceeding
$:.KH),(HKI. While Omaha capitalists
may not be In position to venture on
such an enterprise Omaha and Douglas
county could well afford to extend lib
eral aid to It.
The same would le true regarding a
pipe line to the Wyoming oil fields,
which, of course, would lnvotve a very
much larger outlay than a line to Kan-
T"0 preliminary steps would in
which would have to Ik? held out to
. .. . .ii, .
I'lil'liiinnin n in miuiu ur llini.meil )
embark In the undertaking.
Insurance experts of half a dozen
states who have for some months past
loen quartered In luxurious apartments
of palatial hotels In the American metro
polls, while conducting an Investigation
into the management and condition of
I tne nl Insurance companies, have
given It ont that they will be through
their laborious and delicate task within
a few weeks; they also assure us that
the expenses attending this expert In
quisition is borne by the Insurance com
panies and not by the respective states
from which they hall. This is poor
comfort to the policy holders of the
companies that have been subjected to
this ieriodlc holdup at the expense of
their patrons. The farcical character of
these Junketing inquisitions Is forcibly
shown by the fact that the state experts
have never reached down deep enough
to uncover any of the scandalous prac
tices that have for years jwrmeated the
system, lu view of the fact that the
New York State Insurance department
and the New York legislative Invesligat -
lng committee are making a very search
lllg ana very emcient inquiry into the
management of the big life Insurance
companies, the Insurance Junket of 11 i5
Is manifestly au inexcusable exhibition
of legalized graft.
The county board is wrestling with
the problem of supplying the Inmates
of the county Infirmary with blankets
for the winter, without Increasing the
enormous overlap that is staring them
in the face. The solution of this prob
lem is not as difficult as It appears to
be. The county is now paying 45 cents
a day for feeding prisoners in the county
Jail, while the city U paying only Id
cents per day. In view of this con
trast, a reduction from 45 to 'J5 ceut a
day would certainly not be unreason
able. By making this reduction the
county would effect a saving of from
$10 to $15 per day, or at least $.'Hs a
mouth. If She board will act promptly
It cau aave the price of the blankets
within teu days and reduce the overlap
by from $150 to $ltsj before the end of
the prest-nt year In this single item of
retrenchment. But there are other
places where the county board can ef
feet a material aarlng before the end
of the year without waiting for the aid
or consent of the new ineiii1s-r of the
incoming ImmiiI.
City experts, ways the Lincoln
Journal, are now investigating the
wftter pumping problem, and the public
may hear a great deal about economy
In purchasing and economy In iera
tion, while the watch dogs of the treas
ury may 1 more than usual In evi
dence. That Is precisely the condition
In Omaha, except that the watch dogs
are attached to the pumping station by
an endless chain that draws money out
of the city treasury and empties It Into
the pockets of the appraisers, special
attorneys and the water commissioners.
Economy Is an old watchword with
watch dogs.
Captain Palmeris not the only post
master who has !cen asked by the Post
offlce department to explain the recent
marked Increase in postofflce receipts.
The postmaster of Kansas City has re
ceived a similar requisition from As
sistant Postmaster General Madden,
and his reply will le very much on the
same lines as those of Captain Palmer,
that the marked Increase in postofflce re
ceipts is merely the Index of the
phenomenal Increase of commercial
activity in their respective cities.
With the gradual approach of the
spring election the mountebanks and
professional . frauds who opposed the
municipal ownership of a public light
ing plant last year may be depended
upon to reappear as champions of munic
ipal ownership of every public utility
that is out of reach.
British and American residents of
Odessa threaten to leave that place in a
body should another reign of violence
occur. This is probably notice to the
business interests of the community that
the Chinese are not the only people who
pan start an International boycott.
"Go 'Way. "oany-"
Philadelphia Record.
The Isle of Plnea Is a nice little insular
property, but Uncle Sam has over 1.400
more Islands now on his hands than he
can satisfactorily manage.
: Ohio Cornea i p Smiling.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Ohio, after all, elected the entire repub
lican state ticket except governor, and the
1 .... u t 1 1 1 r. im nnhltnnn rvn tnlnt tiiil-
iot. The democratic shouting over Ohio
must be restricted to one candidate pitted
against an opponent who was scratched by
80,000 republicans.
Inspiration for a Rally.
Washington Post.
The president Is said to be Interested in
' the movement to prevent the water of
' Niagara falls from being diverted for
' power purposes. The country Is apt to get
Sfjuarely behind the president on that prop
osition when It learns that much of this dl-
verted power Is used for the manufacture.
of nreakiast iooas.
t'ot It Ont.
Baltimore American.
It Is high time that hazing. In all its
forms, whs abolished. Even when Intended
to be harmless there Is always danger
that the liaxers. In their excitement, will
go to extremes and a tragedy may be the
result. The lives already sacrificed since
the college year began should teach the
lesson that the practice Is too dangerous
to be continued.
Reasoning; nltli the Depressed.
Baltimore-American.
Mayor Tom JohnRon wants an antl-sul-citle
bureau appointed, whose) task will be
to dissuade men from the worries that
drive men to take their own lives and by
conducting an educational crusade against
self-slaughter. New York treats the prob
I ulc,aM ana i",lun ,n'm ,n
I eniiy ior noi miiKing ururr ju ui n
FOOT HAM. KISDKKS3.
Chancellor Andrews' Trlbnte to the
tientleneaa of the Game.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
The Nebraska college prestdent who ex
presses his ndmlratlon for foot ball only
exercises his right as a cltixen of the re
public. But when he points to the game as
breeding kindness and restraint and de
clares It a schooling In alertness, courage,
self-mastery and motor efficiency second
only to army and navy service he leaves
In his wake a suspicion that his judgment
Is somewhat warped.
It Is doubtful whether the most efficient
players In the hardest fought foot ball con
tests will agree with the learned doctor
that the game produce kindness and self-
restraint. Even the spectator far from
the side lines has little difficulty In discov
ering that kindness plays no part In foot
ball, while self-restraint Is not provided
for In the rules. It Is true that players be
come alert and master the secrets of motor
efflclency, but that they are necessarily
courageous depends in large measure on
the construction of the word. No one will
deny that the training Is second only to
thut of the armyand navy, particularly
If this training refers to the service In
time of war.
There are two sides to the foot ball ques
tion, and Its best friends admit that there
1 room for r,,for,n ' ,h Play'na of the
f gHiiic. f-vui mere ih nine nope wim tnis
reform will come us long as the head of a
I great educational Institution openly ex
' presses the be'lef that It promotes kindness
and kindred virtues. Perhapa the records
do not show any d-aths from foot ball lu his
university.
SCOTT'S EMULSION
is more than a fat food.
There is no animal fat
that compares with it in
nourishing and building
up the wasted, emaciated
body. That is why chil
dren and anaemic girls
thrive and grow fat upon
it. That is why persons
with consumptive tenden
cies gain flesh and
strength enough to check
the progress of the dis
ease. SwVii fiUWKg, otvlStn,)Yerk,
r a ii. no. i ratf: ami rf.havk.
Mf narlni KtIIs ef Discrimination
aad Favoritism.
The second Installment of Kay Ptannard
Bakers Inves'lgatlon of the. rallrond rate
problem In the Ivccmber McClure's dr-als
with the railroad rebate, showing how dis
criminations In tates swells the Income
of the already rich at the expense of s niillcr
shippers In like business. "Let It be under
stood." says Mr. Baker, "that this Is not an
attack upon Individual enterprises and In
dustry, nor upon large fortunes, but an at
tack upon that piggish Individualism which
succeeds by taklr.g more than its share of
the public highway, which does not observe
the common decencies of the gentlemen In
the street, but comes to Its fortune by
crowding other men Into the gutter. For
that Is what the rebate Is. It Is the mark
of commercial boorlshness."
' The writer goes Into the rebate question
with great detail, citing specific Instances
to illustrat the evil, and the reasons for It.
In part he says:
The common method of rebating In past
years was for the railroad com:any to
charge the favored shipper the full freight
on his goods, then at stated periods send
him a check to the full amount of the
agreed rebate. That was one way crude and
easily discovered. Another way was and is to
pay the favored shipper a so-called com
mission on his business, as though he
were an agent of the company. Still 'an
other way Is to pay a real traffic agent,
say at Milwaukee, a large commsslon or a
large salary, which he divides with the
favored shipper. This method has spread
enormously In the past year to the alarm
even of the railroads. The Wisconsin In
vestigators found Innumerbnle other dev
ices, like under-billing and the under-weighing
of freight, the allowance to the favored
shipper of cartage or switching charges,
on the permission to hold cars as storage
for coal or lumber for a long time without
demurrage, or refunding the demurrage, if
charged.
The figures show that the St. Taul rail
road paid only about half the amount of
rebates In 1903 as the Northwestern rail
road; it may he concluded that the St. Paul
Is therefore the more virtuous. But figures
are proverbially deceptive. It was found
that sometimes when one railroad frankly
paid cash the rival road had another more
secret, underhanded way of doing the same
thing. In one city there are two equally
Important shippers In the Bame business.
One of them used one railroad and
reclved large rebates; tho other, shipping
by the other road, apparently received no
icbates. But the Investigators know that
the second shipper could not have done
business for a month In competition with
the first unless this great discrepancy In
rebates was somehow realized. I'pon In
stituting Inquiries they found that the local
agent of the second road was empowered
to correcj the way bill and deduct a cer
tain percentage from every freight bill
presented to the favored shipper and to
forward the amount collected as the full
payment, taking the necessary credit In
the agent's weekly report. By this method
no Incriminating evidences of rebates crept
Into the books of the St. Paul road.
And now the Northwestern railroad has
chosen new methods, It Is learning by ex
perience. When the Wisconsin Investiga
tors began work, the Northwestern railroad
stopped paying cash rebates almost en
tirely; but Immediately It began to Issue
a great many so-called "hektograph tariffs"
that Is, rate schedules, not regularly
printed, and barely keeping within the
fringe of the law. If they even did that.
And the effect of the hektograph tarff was
to give certain shippers advantages over
others exactly what the rebate did. Noth
ing could show better the progress from
the crude cash rebate to the underhanded
device which acocmpllshes the same end.
Another device shows how the passenger
and freight departments of a railroad work
together In giving rebates. It haa long
been known that the favored shipper could
often get a pass not only for himself, but
for his entire family. This Is, of course, a
true rebate, for It saves the shipper Just
so much money. But It Is more or less
public, therefore undesirable. Accordingly,
one Wisconsin railroad, among others, has
been employing a shrewder device. Cer
tain large concerns In Wisconsin who em
ploy traveling men, purchase the ordinary
passenger mileage book, upon the cover of
which, when the mileage Is used, the rail
road will refund CO. Btit It was discovered
that In the case of certain favored ship
pers, when the cover was sent back, the
railroad refunded $20 In the ordinary way,
and then' afterwards and secretly they re
bated the entire original cost of the book
or $t'iO. In other words, these favored
Wisconsin Industries were able to send out
their entire force of traveling men with
out paying one oent of railroad fare while
their competitors paid full fares. A good
many business men of Wisconsin do not
know, today, of this insidious and despic
able competition which Is undermining
their business. This article may give
them the first news of It:
I asked a prominent railroad official
what. In his estimation, was the greatest
single obstacle In ridding the country of
the rebate evil. He answered promptly
"The Industrial traffic manager."
When there are favors to be got from a
railroad company It takes an expert to
get them. Accordingly, It has grown to
oe a custom spreading more widely every
year for large shippers to employ special
men to look after their railroad Interests.
An honorable and legitimate place exists
for the Industrial traffic manager, t he
mere business of making shipments, hilling
correctly, seeing that cars are properly
loaded, checking up freight rates, choosing
the best routes, and so on. Is enormous
But out of this legitimate work has sprung
the evils of freight rate manipulations
The traffic manager's first duty Is ti
"work with the roads for better rates"
I have met a number of these men as fine
and agreeable gentlemen as one would
meet in a day's walk. Some of them look
at their profession In the curious, clear,
lialf-cynlcal way of the American business
man whose motto has come to be: "Kvery
thing is fair in business: dog eat dog."
"Hrown It Co.." says the traffic man
ager, "has Its man on the ground working
for concessions. If we don't have om
nia n, then we go under! If they get re
bates, we've got to."
That Is the evil circle of logic of the
rebate.
So the country swarms with these traf
fic managers, ami over against them are
corresponding swarms of railroad freight
agents, of every description. Both are the
expensive. cumbersome, and corrupting
outgrowth of the present late system. They
rent the most expensive offices In the
main streets of every Iniixnlant city, they
spend lavishly lo get business, and the
people, of course, finally pay the bills.
We Are All flood Roys
Philadelphia Record.
Bef r 111 1 spreading like an epidemic.
Not onlv are the politicians tumbling over
eai h oilier in their efforts to get en the
side of the people, but John A. McCall
promises lo gel Lobbyist lUiollton buck
to this country if he tan. and to return
to the company the f.'.'!5.ouu he let Hamil
ton have to control legixUtlon with if he
lairiot Indue Hamilton to disgorge.
Evrlody Is goir.g l be ery good now
thai I. eei)lHly who l.a bteu fount
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PERSOV4.I, tlTB.
The mikado has gone to the shrine of
Ise to tell his ancestors how the war came
out.
The American who has sued King Kdward
for $87S,O0O has not yet decided what to do
with the money.
Marvin Kent, who has been president of
the Kent (O.) National bank since 1855, Is
among the oldest bankers In the country,
being nearly 90.
M. U Garrett and K. W. Preston of Sioux
City, la., claim to have patented an Inven
tion by which it will be possible to talk
around the world.
General Wood'a reports on Cuban affairs
during his administration of the Island are
now on the way to be reduced to pulp and
manufactured Into plain paper. Another
case of wood pulp.
A shooting scrape In the Neapolitan quar
ter of Chicago the other day, resulting In
one death and two hospital patients, tends
to confirm the Impression that this country
can on a pinch afford natives of any clime
all the comforts of home.
Some of the British officers anchored in
New York Intimate that the British fleet
could easily reduce the city to a heap of
ruins. Perhaps. But It would be a differ
ent Job to hold it. a fact the man behind
the corkscrew can learn by reading up a
bit.
Albert F. Springsteen, connected with the
pension office, Washington, claims to have
been the youngest regularly enlisted and
mustered soldier in the union army during
the civil war. lie enlisted at Indianapolis
on October IE, 1R61, at the age of 11 years
and 3 months.
Dr. Douglas Hyde, president of the Gaelic
league, who has been making an effort
during the last twelve years to revive the
Irish language and literature, has Just ar
rived In New York. He is the author of
several works In the Gaelic language. He
will remain in this country for several
months.
Chicago has gone divorce mad. More
than half a hundred cases of family discord
were docketed Saturday, occupying the at
tention of six Judges and probably a hun
dred lawyers. Nineteen decrees of divorce
and one of separate maintenance were
granted and the others are under advise
ment by the Judges.
MACHIXE-MADK COMEDY.
Voters Wreck the Plans of Wise
Politicians.
New York Tribune.
Machines are not supposed to be en
dowed with emotions. Yet voting ma
chines, for Instance, may play conspicuous
parts In a humorous comedy. That was
certainly the case at the recent election In
Jersey City. Mayor Kagan was running
for rp-ejection on the republican ticket and
he could not succeed without the aid of
democratic votes. One of the mayor's bril
liant opponents concelvtd the Idea of put
ting voting machines In the strong demo
cratic wards. Of course, the voters
wouldn't know how to split their votes,
and In their anxiety to vote for the regu
lar ward candidates, they would vote the
straight democratic ticket. The theory wa-j
simply perfect, and Kagan couldn't possi
bly win. Melancholy and cruel as It may
Bem, the voters didn't look at this plan
In the same light as the designers. They
were told all about It before election day
and agreed that the schema was a pretty
one.
"Great Joke." they were told.
"Yes, 'tis a great Joke." they agreed.
"And by way of carrying It out we'll vote
the straight republican ticket to make
sure."
So It haa come to pass that for the first
time Hudson county Is sending to the leg
islature a solid republican delegation of
twelve members, all carried through by
the Joke that prompted demccratlc voters
to plump for the whole republican ticket.
Browning, King & Co
ORIGINATORS AND SOLE MAkEKS OF HALF SIZES IN CLOTHING.
"In the matter .f
style," said Hoau
Brummel. "that la
beat that beat meet a
the Intelligent taate "
i Fliteenth and
Douglas Sts.
Brasaafaamjr tSmal Ureal NEW
POIHTKD ri.EAATRlF.s.
Knlcker I see they are trying the Eng
lish style of foot ball.
Boeker Yes; we may soon clasp feet
across the sea New York Sun.
Hicks If It hadn't been for that fellow
Skinner I'd be a hundred dollars richer
today.
Wicks O! forget about It. You ought to
take things philosophically.
Hicks I do. That's ens- enough, but It's
hsrd to part with things philosophically.
Philadelphia Catholic Standard.
"That widow'll make a fool of him if he
doesn't watch out."
"No. I have It on very good authority
that she Intends to marry him."
"That's what I mean." Houston Post.
"Is your husband up yet?" asked the
early morning caller.
"I guest he Is," replied the stern looking
woman.
"I'd like to say a few words to him."
"I'd like to say more than a few. ll
hasn't come home yet." Philadelphia
Press.
Customer Is the boss In?
Clerk (absently) No but we have some
thing Just aa good. San Kranciaco Call.
When a man can't find his shears or his
pocket knife, or his other hat, or his slip
pers, or his fountain pen, he can usually
flnd fault, to beat the band. SomervUlu
Journal.
THEIR Q1EGR TARGETS.
Pittsburg Chronicle.
The same old tales are coming In
From scenes of reckless gunning,
Where hunters wildly bang away.
Though many risks they're running.
The same mistakes are being made,
Displaying lack of reason,
As those that have been causing grief
In every hunting season.
'TIs bad enough when horses, cows
And mules and pigs are stopping
The leaden pellets from the guns.
And In their tracks are dropping;
But worse, by far. Is blundering
That brings about the aiming
At human targets In the woods
And ruthelssly Is maiming.
A bunch of whiskers on a chin ,
Is by some gunner spotted;
"A squirrel!" he exclaims, and fires,
And there's a face shot -dotted.
Some fellow's hst protrudes above
The brush where he Is walking;
"A pheasant," is the gunner's thought
And there's result that's shocking.
Some unsuspecting paser-by
His leg or arm displaying,
And as a rabbit he's assailed
By some one bent on slaying.
Another who's concealed from view
By chance some twigs Is breaking,
And then he's sized up as big game,
And gets a fearful raking.
Of course, there are a lot of sports
Who never make a "blunder.
And who display a hunting skill
That oft excites our wonder;
But there are many others whom
'TIs wisdom to be shunning,
And they're the rhnps who make us think
That many fools go gunning.
The most dastardly act ever
charged against "The System"
is described in Everybody's
for December.
Lawson says they manip
ulated the reports from the
President's bedside to keep
prices up in Wall Street until
they got rid of certain stocks
and bonds, then sold "short,"
expecting the market would
drop upon news of his death.
A pretty tough story.
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