Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 20, 1906)
THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, JANUAKY 20, 190G. The Omaha Daily Bee. E. ROSEWATER. EDITOR. PCBLISHED EVERT MORNING. TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION. rHy Bee (Without Hundny), on year W) Ially H and Sunday, one year IllustratM Bee. on year Sunday Bee. on year i-M Baturdav Bh one year 1 DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Pallv Bee (Including Sunday) lr W"ek..l7o pally Bee (without Sunday), per week. .120 Evening Bee (without Hunilay. per woek 6c Evening bee (with Sunday), per wee..10o Hunday Bee. por copy o Address complaint of Irregularities In de livery to City circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha City Hall Building. Council Bluff lu Pearl Street. Chicago 1H40 Cnlty Building. New York l Home Life In. Building. Washington 5"1 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to new mid ed itorial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-oent stamps received as payment of mail accounts. Personal checks, cx.vpt on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE Fi;i)IJ8HlNO COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of NcbruHka. Douglas County, .: C.- C. Rosewater. secretary of The Bee Publishing company, being duly sworn, savs that the actual number of full and complete conies of The Daily, Morning, Evening anil Sunday Bee printed during in1 monin oi icccniwr. li. wo . lows: 1 :.1I.AI4 2 :vi,T4o ;.KMWO 4 aijiM 6 .H.THO c at fim 7 :ixi.v .. aiMMi t :w,.vk io ;hmm n ai,;io 12 3l.TM 13 :u. ;. 14 3I.S(M 15 a 1,7:10 1 M,71 17.. 1H.. .. 20.. 21.. :m.o2o .31.H20 .31,770 ..11,o:M 2..,. aa.ioo 23 SK.OSM) 24 80,060 25 8i,78 2c :w,aio 27 Rtf.OlO 2S :w,ooo 29 31.840 30 33,010 31 80.160 Total ..V . .ON'J.IMO t-ss unsold copies 10,801 Net total sales tt7 1.KKI Dally average .11,340 C, ROSEWATER, Secretary. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to beioro me tills 31st day of .'""Tvl?0" ,Seal) M. B. HUVJAIE, 48 " ' Notary Public. WHES OCT OF TOWS. Subscribers leaving; the cltr tern porarlly shoald have The Bee mailed to thciu. It la better than a tlnlly letter from home. Ad dress will be chapged aa often aa reo, nested. Local democrats are also Laving their troubles iu couueetlou with the selec tion of a suitable candidate for mayor. And Bryan lO.tXJO miles away. At this distance it would oppear that Chicago packers are arguing for Immun ity from prosecution because their ir regularities have been, discovered. Chicago wholesale dry goods mer ;hauts are getting excited over Missouri river competition. It is a truism, how ever, that competition is the life of trade. . . William Jennings Bryau send word from Borneo that his excursion through the Philippines has not changed his uilnd regarding the Filipino lnde IH'ndeiiPe, provided An Intimation that frauds against In rlliius in Nebraska are to receive atten tion at the hands of the administration may Indicate that the land fencing case may have company. Mayor Dunne has corralled a majorl ity of the Chicago city council, but he had to go to Denver to tell what he 'bought of the members before he could muke them come to time. The Mississippi legislature is to in vestigate the report that the governor if the state whipped a negro convict. flad the governor killed him, he would loubtless have avoided trouble. The report of Dr. Gorgas on the health 3f negroes on the isthmus of Fauania shows it may yet be necessary to use "Ither Intelligent white labor or heathen Chinee iu digging the big ditch. Poultney Iligelow owes it to his fellow magazine writers to prove bis assertions regarding the Panama canal or much literature now accepted as history will he advanced to the fiction department. The renl problem of that first political couveuliou in Russia, now being held in Ht. Petersburg, Is to draft a platform which will satisfy the liberal voters without sending the men who write it to jail. An Irish nationalist has carried a Belfast division. The "liberal" hysteria Is so acute that the recovery threatens to be too rapid for the execution of a real policy by the present British gov ernment. If that Chinese embassy, which has just passed through Omaha, only pro longs its stay iu this country a few months, the members will be able to note on the return trip how Omaha is growing. In deallug with the Iowa student ac cused of hazing at Annapolis the court martial should temper justice with mercy, rememler!ng that in business, politics and recreation the Iowa Idea Is . a synonym for strenuoslty. Hamburg politicians should reuietn her that political demonstrations fall of their object, even In the most free coun tries, when they are used as a cloak for lawlessness. Order is the first law of humanity as well as of heaven. The State Historical society can not be regarded by the railroad tax bureau crats as a very potent molder of public opinion or they would have injected some paid apologist for railroad tax shirking Into the discussion of taxation provided for by the program makers of the society's annual meeting. TtlK pvhk roon pill. The subject of pure food legislation received some attention' In the I'liited States senate Thursday, Senator Mc Cuniher of North Iiakota making a speech. In support of the pending bill. This measure, which passed the house In the last congress, has undergone some slight changes, though In all essential re spects the same as when considered by the flfty-eigth congress. It makes unlaw ful the manufacture of forbidden or pro scribed articles, prescribing a flue and Imprisonment against the manufacturer of such articles. It provides against the Introduction of forbidden articles from one state or territory or district or Insu lar possession Into another Jurisdiction. In the case of any violation of these provisions by any corporation the fines and penalties Imposed therefor may lie enforced against the officers of such cor poration personally responsible for such violation, and any violation of any of the provisions of the act by any corporation shall be deemed to be the act of the officer of such corporation directly re sponsible therefor, and such officer may be punished for such violation as though such violation was the personal act of such officer. The Intention of this is to obviate the possibility of escape by the officer of o corporation under r plea that they did not know that this was being done on the credit of or on the re sponsibility of the corporation. The bill provides that the secretary of the treasury, the secretary of agricul ture and the secretary of commerce and labor shall make uniform rules and reg ulations for the collection and examina tion of specimens of foods, drugs, medi cines and liquors manufactured or of fered for sale in the District of Columbia, or iu any other district, territory, or insu lar possession of the United States. The co-operation of these departments is deemed necessary from a consideration of the application of those several de partments to the subject matter of the bill. Another new feature of the meas ure is the separation of liquors from foods. In explanation of this Senator Ileyburn, chairman of the committee on manufactures, which has had the bill j under consideration, said: "Liquor Is not a food necessary for the mainte nance or sustenance of the human frame. If anything, it is a luxury. Hut, however much difference of opinion there may be on that subject, it was eminently unfair to that great portion of the people who do not believe that liquor Is a necessity, to classify liquors with foods In determining a great ques tion of this kind." There appears to be a very good pros pect of the bill becoming a law. Of course there is opposition to it. The manufacturers of adulterated foods, drugs and liquors have their representa tives in Washington, who are working Industriously to either defeat the meas ure or have it so amended as to deprive it of much of Its strength. The honest manufacturer has nothing whatever to fear from the proiosed legislation and those who oppose it virtually admit that the goods they put on the market are not what they are represented to be. A national pure food law Is necessary to protect the public against that which Is Impure and dangerous to health and It Is astonishing that there should be among the representatives of the people In con gress any opposition to such legislation. THE VESEZCELAX AFFAIR. It is announced that the French gov ernment is determined to act with firm ness iu the Venezuelan affair, which probably means that the warships now near, the waters of the southern repub lic will soon be ordered to enter those waters for the purpose of enforcing a de mand for indemnity. Diplomatic rela tions having been severed it Is not likely that there will be any more dickering or dallying on the part of the French gov ernment The probability is that It will, without unnecessary delay, present its demands to Venezuela for reparation and if these should not be promptly ac ceded to, with satisfactory guarantees, will proceed to their enforcement. It 1b stated that the Washington au thorities are being kept fully acquainted with France's attitude and that nothing will be undertaken without the absolute cognizance of the United States. In the event that France should decide to adopt aggressive measures, It Is not likely that our government would offer any objec tion. The blockading of Venezuelan ports and the collection of an indemnity and other claims the United States would doubtless not attempt to Interfere with. France does not want any of the territory of Veuezuela, so that there will be no question raised on this score. There Is little if any danger of the Mon roe doctrine becoming Involved. The fact Is that Venezuela needs to be taught a stern lesson as to Its International ob ligations and France should be allowed a free hand to give the required instruc tlou. CAVSB OF VHIXE8E HOSTILITY. Secretary Root, in his statement be fore the bouse appropriations committee regarding commercial troubles with China, pointed out that they are due to ill-advised provisions In the exclusion act and the fact that the law has been administered In a harsh and lucousld erate way. While this has been well un derstood, yet Its avowal by the secre tary of state to a committee of con gress gives it extraordinary importance. Mr. Root further said that Chinese mer chants, scholars aud meu of prominence In their country have been subjected to gross Indignity and gross hardships and he did not wonder that they are lndig nant at it. . This ought to make an impression on congress and induce it to make such changes in the exclusion law as experi ence has shown to be desirable and if we are to appease the resentment of the Chinese absolutely necessary. Recent j reports have stated that in portions of China the feeling of hostility toward Americana is very stmg and aptiears to lie growing. The imperial government Issued l.ttely an edict against Ijoycottlng. but the Chinese have not abandoned that method of retaliation. To a very large extent whatever they know to be American they will not buy. It Is un derstood that the ordering of more troops to the Philippines Is a precau tionary step taken In view of the possi bility that they may be needed to pro tect Americans and American Interests In China. The remedy for this, as See rctary Hoot pointed out. Is plain and simple. We must treat Chlua fairly and If we do not choose to do so we must expect to lose her friendship and with it her trade. ABOLISH MAXASA KVLKS. The parliamentary rules under which the Hoard of County Commissioners conducts Its business appear to be pat terned after the rules of the United States senate. "Manaua" is the order of the day tomorrow and again tomor row, and again tomorrow and agalu some other time. In the United States senate every member Is permitted to talk an unlim ited number of times for an unlimited length of time on any subject, and one j senator can talk the bill to death if bis gas holder cab generate a sufficient quantity of hot air. Not many years ago Nebraska's stalwart populist senator made himself famous by talklug fifteen hours consecutively on one subject with out repeating himself and putting his audience to sleep before he concluded his few remarks. Under the rules of the Douglas couuty board a resolution, no matter how lm lortaut, must lie over for one week, and after It has undergone the evapor ating process it Is referred to some com mittee the following week, and after that week it is referred Jo the commit tee of the whole, and very frequently the committee of the whole refers the resolution to a special committee or to the Introducer, and its final passage Is thus delayed until the subject has be come stale and the people have lost all interest, or until the object for which it was Introduced has been accom plished in another way. or the oppor tunity to do some good has passed. This accounts for much of the pro crastination for which the Board of Commissioners is so noted. The ques tion Is. Why should such obsolete and obstructive rules be continued, and why should not business be expedited by the couuty board just as it is in other legislative and administrative bodies? There" may be instances and occasions when delay and mature deliberation are of value to the public, but all rules that enable a single member to obstruct re form by interposing frivolous objection should be eliminated by the !oard from parliamentary proceedings of the board. With sessions held In public and every proposition or resolution Introduced in public, discussed in public and voted on In public, there is no occasion for hedg ing In the board by "manana" rules. Now tJiat the board has altollshed the star chamber session. It should also fol low Uils up with a sane revision of its rules. When the prospective United State attorney for this district returns to Omaha he will probably have to spend a few months in a kindergarten school of criminal law practice. In the mean time the functions devolving upon him will be performed by special attorneys and assistants. The proposition to compel the sheriff to put up a few knick-knacks In the shape of underwear, blankets aud mid-winter ice for the Inmates of the county jail as an offset for the excessive charges for feed, is a very neat scheme to per petuate a long standing graft, but it will deceive nobody. Just to prove to Senator Tillman how far the Ideas of Andrew Jackson have been appropriated by President Roosevelt, fate caused the latter to ap point that good Tennessee democrat. Luke E. Wright, ambassador to Japan the very week the senator tried to draw the parullel. The supreme court has again con firmed the validity of the scavenger tax law In another point on which It has been attacked. It will not be long be fore every county In Nebraska will have taken action under this law to clear Its books of back tax Items. "How easy it is for one man to close 170 saloons," exclaims the attorney for the Civic Federation. But, how easy it Is for some men to let up if they come, to his terms as they did two years ago, when the tit-willow brewery Joined in the reform. When the board of governors of the Fontanelle anti-machine machine has rinsed its linen, put in the blueing and wrung out the water, a cry will rise from the washee-washee house very much like that usually heard after i game of keno. Champions of single statehood for Art zona may have demonstrated that the territory Is able to manage its own sf fairs, but reports from Washington would Indicate that some of the "boost ers" should have guardians. What has become of those New Year s resolutions or rt-rorm aud re trenchment which were to have gone into effect in the court bouse im mediately after the new board came Into office? A well defined rumor permeates the atmosphere to the effect that the repre sentatives of' the breweries and of the Civic Federation reformers have gotten together again on another compromise of their differences and that the pro tests lodged by the reformers, charging certain saloon keepers with violating the liquor law. aro to Ik? withdrawn as per stipulation. Presumably-there will be no more compromises after this one until next year. The Prise t'onnadram. St. Lout Globe-Democrat. The Philippines bill has passed the house, but nobody can guess Its fate In the sen ate. In the present session the senate is the prixe conundrum. The Price of Liberty. Philadelphia Tress. While the members of the legislature do not get any tree railroad passes, the most of them for the first time In years will enjoy the free use of their own thoughts and votes. And that is a bigger thing than a free pass. flogging for the Open Door. Minneapolis Journal. Uncle Sam alts In the Moroccan game on the distinct conditions that there Is a limit, that the cards, new and of standard Siie and unmarked, are shuffled and cut. He will stand for no heathen Clilneo practices, and If there Is any gun play he will cash In arid quit by the open door. Planners Strike, a Uik. Philadelphia Record. As a result of prosecution by the gov ernment the members of the Plumbers' union In Toronto, Can., have been con victed as Individuals of a conspiracy In restraint of trade and severely fined. The greater number pleaded guilty and fines were Imposed amounting to tlZ.OOO. It is pretty . well settled that the members of the plumbing craft are very well able to take care of their Interests without resort to combination. This may In soma measure account for the apparent rigor of Canadian Justice. Women Listen to Smoot. Washington Tost. Senator Reed Smoot made his first speech In the senate yesterday. It was brief, oc cupying about five minutes. It was an ar gument in favor of a bill to extend the limit of time for homestead entry within the limits of the Uintah Indian reserva tion from February 15 to May 15. Close attention was given to. Mr. Smoot. The female occupants of the galleries wers especially on tho o.ul vlve. Necks were craned and whisperings exchanged. Indi cating the popular curiosity of the man whom more than 1,000,000 women want to exclude from the senate. Senator Smoot developed a clear, resonant voice that was heard in every part of the chamber. At the conclusion of' his speech the bill was passed by a unanimous vote. Hero of n Stormy Sea. Baltimore American. Mark Casto, the hardy fisherman who saved the passengers and crew of the Cherokee, will get a 'diamond medal for It, and while he deserves It, he Is not the' sort of man who needs Jeweled, tokens to commemorato his courage and heroism. His deVds do that for him. Though he isn't foYty years old, he has a long record of rescuVs to his credit; but It Is the other fishermen who tell about them, and not Captain Casto. That his courage was of the contagious sort was shown by the readiness with which his crew followed In his lead. Heroism of this sort is the rule rather than the exception among the men along the coast, but the world rarely hears anything of it untaaa. it comes from some outside source. CATCBIW CQLD. Easily- Doae, and Uvea. More Easily AToMed. Chicago Chronicle. It does not attract one-half of the atten tion It should that almost every death that occurs from disease Is connected in some way with "catching -cold." If people were observant enough there would not be so much ignorance and indifference In regard to this matter. 1 The most Important thing to remember about catching cold la that It always oc curs when the circulation is retarded and generally when the body Is at rest. When the circulation is brisk through exercise It is difficult for the blood to tarry any where, but' when it Is barely creeping through the veins a blast of cold wind will bring it to a stand and may close up the avenues of escape. That means death. Colds are almost atways caught Indoors. It is true a person who goes out In the open air without his usual clothing or who heats his body by outdoor exercise and then stands still in a cold wind may catch cold, but the favorite and regulation method is to sit motionless In a warm apartment and let a Jet of cold air play on soma limited portion of the body. That portion will then be put out of business. Though a cold Is easily caught. It la next to Impossible to cure it. It Is to be feared that the physicians themselves do not fully understand It. Common sense would dic tate that as It Is produced by Irregularity In the temperature of the body one condi tion of recovery is absolute and unchang ing physical comfort. A man with a cold Is more sensitive to thermal changes than the most delicate thermometer. He needs to be comfortable and to be completely de livered from drafts and atmospherelc Changes. On this principle Gladstone, when he had taken cold, always went to bed and stayed there until he was well again. One of the best methods of avoiding colda i to accustom the body to a moderate temperature, and if a person Is unalterably bent on patronizing the funeral director he should overclothe himself. He should provide a nice fur-lined overcoat, a heavy ilk scarf for. the neck, flannel-lined ear muffs and arctlo overshoes. Then the first time be gets too warm and removes some of this toggery there will be a funeral. COD LIVER OIL. It almost makes you. sick to think of it, but it isn't nearly as bad as it used to be. The improved method of refining it makes it much easier to take, and when made into Scott's Emulsion almost every one can take it. Most children like it and all children that are not robust are benefited by it. When the doctor says "Take cod liver oil," he generally means Scott's Emulsion; ask him if he doesn't. They know it is more easily digested and better than the plain oil. CTT SOW MB, rsi OT1IF.R LslDft THAI OVR. One of the secretaries Of the French Co lonial Office has been making a pretty thorough investigation of the different railroads French, Oerman, British, Belgian, Portuguese, In Africa, and had prepared a most elaborate report, of which a few general conclusions have been pub lished. M. Baleeses found, after careful examination of twenty-four distinct rail ways, that a one-metre gauge has been almost universally adopted as the most suited for African colonies. In the ma jority of cases the railways have been constructed and are managed by ' the colonies themselves. The chief exceptions are those of Jibuti, Rhodesia, St. Paul de Loamla, Belgian Congo, Dahomey and Dakar St. Louis; but In the opinion of M. Salesses, the condition of things In Rhodesia Is only temporary. The Inter vention of companies Is the exception. England and Frame are far In advance of Germany, Belgium and Portugal. Eng land's work In South Africa is compared with that of France in Algeria and In Tunla, The British railways of Khartum, Uganda and Rhodesia are said to repre sent an enormous work, superior to that of the Jibuti and Madagascar railways combined. On the other hand. France has advanced In West Africa nearly as rapidly as, and at less cost, than Kngland. France has there almost 1.200 kilometres, while England has 980. In fart, France, with smaller domain than Kngland, has done more to exploit It. A correspondent of a Parts paper, who seems to speak with a certain authority, says that the negotiations for an Inter national agreement, which were begun be tween Russia and Great Britain before the war with Japan, would have been con cluded long ago but or that fierce strug gle. He says that they were resumed as soon as peace had been concluded, and adds: "I believe 1 am not venturing too far In affirming that the bases of the understanding were already arrived at when Sir Charles Hart Inge left the Brit ish embassy at St. Petersburg to come to London to rill the Important post of per manent under secretary of state at the Foreign Office. If domestic peace were re stored In Russia, and If the Russian gov ernment couhl recover the composure nec essary to devote its attention to foreign affairs, the agreement decided upon In principle would be Immediately concluded on bases similar to those of the Anglo French agreement that is to say, on mu tual concessions by. the two contracting parties." ... The London Times publishes a suggest ive article on the new Chinese army by its special correspondent who was lately with General Nogl. He describes the work of ' that army which has been mostly created within the past four years, and owe its organization to the genlua of the Viceroy Yuan Shlkai as little short of a revelation. At the maneuvers recently held at Ho-chlen-fu, a city a hundred miles up the river from Tientsin, thirty officers rep resenting foreign armies attended on the invitation of the Imperial authorities. The writer describes the Chinese transport and commissariat urrangementa as admirable, and the discipline of the Infantry as' all that could be desired. He says that "It is safe to assert that better fire discipline could scarcely be conceived. The manner In which the drivers handled their teams and brought the guns out of line one by one was a sight for gods, and a great con trast In the screaming and Jibbing team work characteristic of the Japanese artil lery." The wok of the engineers he also describes as excellent. The worst points of ,the new army, he adds, are the cavjlry. wnicn requires years to perfect, and the weapons, .. which are often old-fashioned and too diversified In patterns. He gives high praise to the way In which great masses of men were handled in the final parade before the viceroy. The opium traffic In Australia has re ceived a severe blow. Some tl . ago, the different states agreed to forb.u the sale and growth of the drug, and now the commonwealth government has prohibited the importation of opium except for medi cinal purposes. The Chinese are the chief customers for the drug in that part of the world, and in one or two of the large cities there used to be found "opium dens" which were as vile resorts as could be found any where. The consumption of opium was considerable. Tho drug Is grown locally, but, In addition to what is thus produced, there was Imported last year no less a quantity than twenty-eight tons. Aus tralians have long been fully awake to the havoc the drug was causing, and this change In the law, following so soon upon the ordinance enacted In the Transvaal, Is somewhat of a triumph for the Anti Opium society. - Australia's action will result In some loss of revenue, Queensland alone having derived at least 150,000 a year from the traffic. But the gain is worth the sacrifice. Of course an Increase In the medical demand may be expected, t Victor Hirtsler, who served two years In the csar's kitchen at the Winter palace in St: Petersburg, has given some Interesting details as to the cuisine of the imperial household and the precautions taken j against any attempt to poison the autocrat of all the Kusslaa. The head chef or the Imperial kitchen holds the rank of general In the Russian army, receives a salary of more than $50,000 a year and is an important official of the state. Under him there Is an army of some 300 men as chefs, underchefs and subordinates, and also the keepers of the wine cellars. Every dish that la pre pared for the Imperial table must first be partaken of by a major of the army, the food Is then placed In a closed shaft, which the, major also enters, and it then ascends to the dining room of the csar, where the major again partakes of It, and, no HI ef fects ensuing, It Is then served to the Im perial household. The menu is ordered each day by the csar, who Is a hearty eater, and who occasionally demands that new dishes be invented by his chef. The dining room In which the regular meals are taken la small, made of cast Iron, Is bombproof snd Is sealed like a bank vault between meals. The reproach sometimes cast upon South American states, that they are sparsely set tled and growing too alowly, Is surely not valid against Argentina, according to the latest demographic reports of that country. At the end of 1M the population of Argen Una was 6.160.K8. and at the end of 1K04 it was 5,410,0a, showing an Increase of 249,042, or nearly I per cent a year. Some of this was, of course, due to immigration, chiefly from Italy, but a grattfylngly large part of it waa due to the natural Increase of population. The number of marriages In creased from 30,351 In 1903 to S3.040 In 19(4, the number of births Increased from 177,175 to 183.M4 and the number of deaths de creased from 12,715 to 11,275. That was cer tainly an excellent showing, full of "promise for the great southern commonwealth. Obslaelea to the Cnrtoa Combine. New York Tribune. Planters have been advised by the South' ern Cotton Growers association to hold their unsold product until the price goes up to 15 cents, or IVs cents higher than Its present level. If only the remnant of tbe crop of 19U6 needed to he considered, the scheme might work. But fortunately, or unfortunately, there waa an excess of about 2.0(10,000 bales left over from tho year be fore. Do Please Your Hair Don't have a falling out with your hair. It might leave you! Then what? Better please it by giving it a good hair-food Ayer's Hair Vigor. The hair stops coming out, becomes soft and smooth, and all the deep, rich color of youth comes back to gray hair. ' 'A, : , The best kind of a testimonial " Sold for over sixty years'. Xsde by the J. C. Ar Co., Lewsll, Mu. AIM MaaalMtunrs sf A ITER'S SAtSAPARaLA-Fot tht blood. ATBR'S PIILS-For eomtlpstlos. ATEA, CHKftRI PkCTORAI. For OOttgbs. ATBR'S AGUE CORK For msUriA l4 AgnS. POLITICAL DRIFT. . Reform Is reaching out for the strenuous life. A New York senator lias Introduced a bill to stop runaway marriages. Modesty is not one of the distinguishing characteristics of Mayor Fitzgerald of Bos ton. He talks about the destinies of (MiO.oOi) people being in his hands and says the eyes not only of. New England, but of the United Stotfs snd the entire world, are on him.. Former Senator David B. Hill will have brother members of the bar inquire Into the insurance fees he received. Big law yers receive such liberal fees for looking wise that It takes a lawyer to understand their relation to the ethics of tho pro fession, T. B. M'anamaker, son of the great mer chant and owner of the Philadelphia North American, has bought the Pittsburg Leader, paying. It is said, $1,200,000. One of the reported purposes of this step Is to put Senator Knox forward as a candidate for the presidency of the United States. Adjutant General Percy Haly is coming in for full credit for the defeat of Joe Blackburn as a senator from Kentucky and the election of Judge Paynter, on account of the thorough way In which he organ ised the county leaders. He Is only 29 years old and was taught his political astuteness by the late Governor Goebel. The Pennsylvania railroads are not ada mantine in their stand against passes. It is suspected. Pltcitlrn and other officials have been consulting with leading politi cians, and these leaders are said to say that tho new rule will be abrogated, or much modified, so that "none but office holders of prominence" shall get free trans portation. Realising how great is the task of sub stituting reform for old methods In tho Pennsylvania legislature, the chaplain prayed fervently In these pointed words: "The honored speaker of this house pointed the .way in his most able speech yesterday afternoon,' and If any member refuses to vote for the reform bills may he go down to political oblivion In November next." Missouri evidently proposes to take a hand in the presidential game two years hence. There are whispers of Folk among the democrats, and the other day Congress man Bartholdt of that state said: "If I live, I will do all In my power to present to the next national republican convention the name of Major William Warner as the logical candidate for the highest office in the gift of the people." One of the proofs that Mayor McClellan of New York and Charles F. Murphy havo come to the parting of the ways is the ap pointment of Hugh Bonner as deputy firo commissioner. Bonner was once chief of the fire department, but was never a poli tician. He was forced to resign after thirty-nine years' service In May, 1899. He afterward went to Manila at the request of President Roosevelt to reorganise the fire department there, which he did. It Is said that Bonner's knowledge of the con struction of buildings In New York was superior to that of any architect or real estate man. Browning, ICing & Co ORIGINATORS AND SOLE MAKERS Of HALF SIZES IN CLOTHING. Our Clearing Sale of hundreds of suits and overcoats in broken linos up to $25.00, that we are selling at is surely meeting with the success it deserves. Wo want to clean out all these lines wisdom and good store keeping demand it. Don't fail to take ad vantage of this sale. There's no mistake about our reductions. On every garment you will find a saving from $2.50 to $15.00. Suits and overcoats that sold for $12.50, $15, $18, $20, $22.50 and $25. now SSI plenty of sizes and qualities. SPECIAX- Allsof our men's stiff bosom colored shirts that sold up to $2.50, divided into three prices 85c, $1.15 and $1.55. Fliteenth and Douglas Sis. T 4 ways. I llm Sir 1 WEW FI.ASIIK OF FI JI. "What Is the most prominent cluo In Wnrthington now?" "I'm not quite sure, but I rather think It is tho Big Stick." BaUunoro A tot il ea 11. "It seems entirely wrong to speak of fame as a bubble." "But It's so llht and elusive." "Yes, but bubbles are usually 'achieved by .blowers." Philadelphia Ledger. Waiter You'd better send quietly for the police. That woman over at my table Is a man in disguise. Proprietor How do you know? Waiter She ordered a regular meal In stead o' lobster salad an' Ice cream, an' then she gimme a tip. Cleveland Leoiler. "It grieves me to tind that you piefer saying disagreeable things about people," said the considerate woman. "Ves." answered Miss Cayenne, "and it grieves me to tind such a universal prefer ence for hearing disagreeable things." Washington Star. . . The. misguided young man in the check suit had disturbed the audience by snick ering audibly wIiIIb the gifted actress was playing the part of Mary, queen of Scots, and tho big policeman was leading lilm out by the ear. "I've found out, anyhow," muttered the voung man, "that 'laugh, and the world laughs with von.' Is the biggest 'le that ever was publlHhed." Chicago Tribune. Brown (in restaurant) Say, Jones, what Is the matter with you, anyway? that's the tenth rum omlet you've ordered since you have been at tills table. Jones Shasli so. Brown. Promised 111' wife on News Year wouldn't drink any more an' always keep m" word like shen tleman! Puck. . norxD to tviji yet. Cleveland Leader. There Is a song that no one else has writ. I know, but cannot fashion It Not yet perhaps, some time, I'll get I lie rhyme And quit. I've started It a hundred times, I think, Grandly and then, ere one could wink. The Inspiration's gone The songs Is on . The blink! How things start well, but somehow miss Connections like a girl's first kiss Start with a mighty shout, Then peter out Like this! Ten syllables, a sonnet to begin: ElKht in the next, a metric sin. Then six who would have known It could have grown So thin? But. say! One of these times I'm going to switch the rhymes Around, by George, the ntherway Start littlo and end big I will, some duyl iKillsPain' Sloan's l IIIISBISBSSSBBSBSaSBBHSra OMAHA NEB. YOEM rsMtwy, Cpr