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V THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1000. ft The ' Omaha Daily Bee. FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSK WATER. VICTOR ROBEWATER, EDITOR. Entered at Omaha postoffice ea aecond las matter ; TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION. aJly Bee (without Sunday), one year..4 W Jnllv Bee and Sunday, on year 00 junday Be, one year 00 aturday Bee, on year ! DEUJ VERED BY CARRIER. Onlly FSaa (Including- Bunday), per week. .15c Jnlly Bee (without 8undy), per week..loc Cvenlng Bee (without Sunday), per week to Cvenlng Be (with Sunday), per week.. loo Add rem complaint of Irregularities In de 1very to City Circulating Department. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee building;. South Omaha City Hall building. Council Bluffs Id Fen rl at reel. Chloago-iKrfO t'nlty building. ,, New York If Home Life In.' building. Washington 601 Fourteenth street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communicatlona relating to news and edi torial matter should be addressed: Omaha "re. Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. . . , Remit by draft, express or postal order fyable to. The Bee Publishing company. Jnly S-cent stamps received as payment or riall accounts. Personal checks, except on Jrnnha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEK PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OT CIRCULATION. ate of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss: Charles C. Roaewater. general manager pt "he Boa Publishing companv, being duly "worn, says that the actual number of full mil complete rnples of The Pally, Motntnn, Cvn'ng and Bunds v Bee printed d'irlnir the nonth of October. lBo-was as follows: 1 30,660 ' . 1 30.830 I 30.800 "' , II 30,930 I 30.800 ' 1 .31,390 30,730 20 .,.31,930 80,780 ! 1 '.. 31.00 .1,760 .. 13.. .;.30,850 7 .30,300 tl 30,890 t 30,870 ' ' 4.,V..,.... 30,830 30,5a0 ';' tl... ....... 81,870 10 3O,7b0 T ' .81.410 ii..:..).. ;,90,M : , tl;'. ... 11 30,730 . !ZJ. 30,670 It 81,060 .' ' 28. ......... .31.300 U 30,300 aOi... 31,110 It 31,480 , $1., ........ 81,110 14 33,000 . ' Total ......; 981,350 Less unsold copies................ 11,023 Net total aa'.es . 950,337 Dally average... 30,965 C. C. ROSE WATER. - : Ocncral Manager. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to efore ma this 1st day of November. IMS. (Seal.) M. B. HUNGATE. Notary Public. WHKtf OCT OF TOWS. Subscriber leaving the city tem porarily ahoald hare The' lie mailed to Iheqa. Address .mill b chanaed as often requested. Supervisor Voliva stands in danger of contempt of court in attributing bis position to a higher" power than a fed eral judge. That New York man who has solved "the riddle of the sphynx" may in time tell an anxious public ' who 'struck Billy Patterson. Rev. A. 8. Crapsey may be the real martyr of the-recent trial, since the public was not compelled to read the record of the case. The situation in Morocco is a certain indication that the Americans failed to destroy all seeds of piracy In their visit to the Mediterranean in the last century. ; April rains and May skies In Ne braska may strike visitors as singular, but Nebraskans are accustomed to the most enjoyable fall weather this globe furnishes, v So far as publicly known the late democratic candidate for attorney general has not condoled with John P. Irish over. Mr.'. Bryan's victory at Kansas City. In deciding to surrender Russian agitators to the czar the Finnish sen ate has evidently decided that grand ductile as well as republicans can be ungrateful. Some Idea of profits in the Ice trade may be gained from the fact that a Des Moines plumber threatens to go into that business and undersell the local "trust" The capture of a train robber In Missouri by a-- railroad conductor proves that the bandit has deterio rated or th conductors have improved since the days of Jesse James. Now that President Roosevelt has broken ', a : precedent by leaving the United States he and his successors will have niore difficulty in declining Invitations from European rulers. ' 1 " ... Pittsburg, Cincinnati and other as pirants lor the depravity belt must still admit . Kansas City's supremacy. When Iti cqmes to genuine pertinacity l crime; Kawville beats them all. Secretary' &httw la evidently opposed to Increasing that "elasticity" of cur rency which permits It to unwittingly stretch ' from the United States sub treasury to the pocket of an employe. One packer of alleged codfish has decided to defend twenty-three suits broughf by the state of Pennsylvania alleging the use of adulterants.' Law yers may find the pure food law a gold mine. . ' President Roosevelt Is back in Wash Ington'and ready : for the coming of congress. After p.U experience with the long session the short meeting can scarcely hold either terror or new ex perience for the president. Cincinnati negroes who denounced negro soldiers for not revealing the names of persons Involved in the Texas murders evidently have a better Idea of the situation than that shown by some emotional white men. Debrutallsed foot ball Is pronounced a success, because only eleven young men and boys were killed by the game during the season which closed Satur day. One hesitates to think what the game isotild have been called if no oue bad been killed. rnKsirucsT Axr the nAxugns' pla. It Is noteworthy that several of the leading financial papers should agree on the point that the plan of emer gency bank note Issues recommended by the committee of the National Bankets' association lacks popularity. Undoubtedly the great majority of special students and of those who are are familiar with banking and finance id this country positively favor a cur rency system facilitating greater elas ticity of circulation volume than Is possible under our laws, and our lack of such a system is quite generally regarded as a grave defect by finan ciers In other countries. But the av erage citizen or the average business man as the case stands simply has no definite notion on the one side or the other of the question, and this fact, since congress allnoflt Invariably acts on such matters only under pres sure of popular demand,' has a most important bearing on the prospect of any legislation whatever at the com ing short session. It Is undoubtedly in vie of this" condition that such anxious effort is being made to secure President Roose velt's Indorsement of the banking committee's plan In the forthcoming message and his aid and champion ship in other ways. But while it la Judged by many that he may recom mend that plan to the serious atten tion of congress and indorse currency flexibility as a desideratum, it is more doubtful whether he will commit him self to the means proposed, not to speak of taking the laboring oar In pushing the measure to enactment. . The fait appears to be, as many of the advocates of the plan 'show signs of appreciating, that It was formu lated too late to .permit such a dis cussion as would evolve a definite strong public approbation between th6 meeting of the banking committee and that of congress. Only weeks were al lowed where months were needed. The nonexistence of public sentiment might be overcome to some extent by the president's championship, but is very likely to have an important deterrent influence on the latter, even supposing blm personally to assent to the plan. ELECTION COSTS. The footing of expenditures in, the late New York campaign, as shown by the sworn statements of party com mittees and candidates, makes a total, in round numbers, of $2,500,000, or an average expense of about $2 for each vote cast. But this showing, re markable as it Is on Its face, falls far short of the total money cost of the campaign, for the sworn statements include only those expenditures which technically come within the . .qulre ments of the law. It is well agreed that other expenditures at least equalled and probably far exceeded those officially reported. The extent to which the abuse of money Jn elections has been carried may' be inferred from the fact that the amount disbursed In the late elec tion was far below the average In re cent years. It was, too, the first elec tion In the Empire state in which cor poration contributions were absolutely prohibited, and in which both the sources as well as the outlay of funds were required to be exactly reported under oath. Moreover, numerous vol untary covenants limiting expendi tures were made, In one case including all candidates of all partleu In a dis trict covering four large Counties, were another Important new factor tending to reduce campaign outlay. The facts are valuable as a measure of the heavy burden of political con tests, additional to the costs of. our government In the ordinary form of taxation. They more than warrant the universal revolt in public con science against the methods that have prevailed, running Into all manner of corruption and prostitution of govern ment to evil purposes, the full price of which, with multiplied usury, the peo ple finally pay, and 'they should be warning to the people In every state and locality that only the fair begin ning of reform has yet been made. DOir.V DRAKES. The mayor and city council of Cleveland have Just enacted an ordi nance prohibiting under severe penal ties the operation of , automobiles "By persons not yet 16 years of age. With the rapid introduction of self-propelled vehicles Cleveland has suddenly come to realize that,lt has more than rf,300 uutomoblles darting In and out of lta streets and boulevards and that the proper guiding of these high power machines requires physical ability and self-control which are, not to be had in school children. It is not a question of preserving the property contained in the autos nor even of protecting the drivers and patr sengers who might perhaps be allowed to rlBk their own necks if they felt so inclined, .but of safeguarding the occu pants of other vehicles and of pedes trians along the thoroughfares ex posed to collisions from Incompetent driving. There are doubtless plenty of people of mature years and sound Judgment running automobiles who should never be allowed to handle them, but it is a safe proposition that boys and girls under 16 years of age are not sufficiently developed in their faculties nor sufficiently seasoned ,by experience In varied emergencies to make them reliable and trustworthy for this sort of work. All our growing cltlea, and among them Omaha, should follow the lead of Cleveland by fixing a minimum age requirement as a qualification for auto mobile driving. They should do this at once without waiting first for costly accidents to spur them on. We would think of allowing a boy or girl to play ruotoruiau on a street car no mure than to manipulate the throttle of a locomotive, though we still look with complacency on automobiles driven by mere children when the difference In danger Is only In degree. Prevention Is much better than cure. 111QH VRICE OF SILVER. . The experts generally assent to the view of Director Roberts of the United States mint that the rise of the price of silver is due to world-wide in fluences and is likely to go higher, or at least to be maintained indefinitely. Since last spring the price has gone up from 66 to nearly 73 cents an ounce, and only three years ago It ruled at about 49 cents. This notable advance has been made In the face of the annulment of silver as a standard by a number of coun tries, so that the gold standard Is now practically universal. That fact, how ever, has net prevented, but In some ways has actually enhanced the use of Oliver as money under the prodi gious stimulation of industry and , business, the demand for fractional coins in our own country calling for large purchases on government ac count in the open marker. The de- I preclatlon of gold, too, because of in creased production, reacts In a way that Is, in part at least, expressed in the rising silver price. Tlth the price of silver Increased BO per cent within a few years, and with the prospect of an abiding ex panded demand, silver mining In this country Is naturally showing unusual activity, since a great many ores can now be profitably worked which were long entirely unavailable. County Commissioner Ure has a plan for reforming the finances of Douglas county, which merits Investi gation. Under the law Mr. Ure pro poses the financial year of the county will begin on a date when the levy and estimate of expenditure can he made at the same time, thus relieving the county hoard from the inconvenience it suffers at present. Under the law as It exists, seven months Intervene between the date of making the estimate and the date of making the levy, during which time the county legally has no money to pay salaries or current bills. As a matter of fact the county has money, because the board has Ignored the law to this extent. Mr. Ure pro poses to amend the law so as to do away with this condition. Other ar chaic provisions will be given attention by the next legislature and a more'sat isfactory and economical method of do'-"? business may be brought about. Some of the state officials are begin ning to .discover what other people knew a long time since. The Ne braska state house is in a dilapidated condition and provides' practically no accommodation for the various depart ments of state governments The in coming legislature may be asked to de termine Just how much longer' the wealthy state of Nebraska will house Its government In Its present inade quate quarters. The democrats of New York now propose to expel Pat McCarren from the party for bolting his ticket. If Pat needs consolation he can come to Nebraska. A number of very eminent democrats were ousted from the party in this state a few years ago for bolt ing, but each has since been welcomed to return through the door out of the transom over which he was ejected. The Burlington railroad has an nounced Its Intention to haul no more grain until towns along Its line are supplied with fuel. This is another reason why the alleged agreement be tween the railroads to curtail expendi ture for equipment and extension sounds like a bluff. The Lincoln Commercial club will Investigate the occasion for the tele phone war In the capital city. If the investigation is thorough and impartial It may develop some points that will be of Interest to Omaha when the rate cutting begins here. Omaha will say good-bye to General Wlnt with genuine regret. As com mander of the Department of the Mis souri he has proved himself not only eminently qualified as a soldier, but has also been a most desirable citizen of the community. Mayor Dunne's response to Invita tion to preside over the Tillman meet ing In Chicago will probably add fuel to the flames of the "Illinois situa tion" when the democratic national convention assembles. If Mayor Schmitz can show that hit Indictment at San Francisco is the work of political enemies and without foundation in fact, he will demon strate that there are men worse than he Is accused of being. ' : The official report of Increase of desertion from the army Is a demon stration of prosperity which can easily be understood. Men do not abandon certain pay and good quarters In "hard times." Tim to Cot !t (Int. Chicago Record-Herald. Mr. Bryan has become a Presbyterian elder. Honestly, now. Is there any nason why he should ever again be referred to as v boy orator? Peril of tha Pol. Kansas City Times. Betting Is ten to one and no takers thai if President Roosevelt ever becomes In. tereated In the North Pole he'll bag that dishful baton. hat's the I e f Cinclnnattl Enquirer. The Census Beureau'a estimate of the wealth of tha country la tl06.Sxl.41S.0i0. The estimate is rot worth 30 cents. Handling uvh biA IK-urea 1 a befuddling operation. I They will do ss well as any othT, though Nobody knows, or ran even make a gnod guess. What difference does It make, anyhow? A World Movement. Chicago News, Italy Is preparing to fight the Standard Oil company, which controls the market there. In fact, the thing Is beginning to look like a world movement. Penalty of Kccentrlclty. Washington Tost. The Nebraska congressman who returned part of his salary because he did not earn It will have to get used to being pointed out to sightseers In the gallery during the com ing session. . Trea.ary Sarplns an Asararatlon. St. Louis Glohe-Dcmocrat. ,, According to present indications tha dem ocrats will go Into tha presidential fight with a large treasury surplus as an Issue, The wrong Inflicted , by cash accumula tion of this kind Is ana of the torlcs on which the democratic party has been most eloquent In language . and vigorous in emergency measures. . , v' "Blesslna-s of PoTerty" a Myth. Chicago Chronicle. It has become a commonplace that the people who preach the. blessings of poverty most loudly have small Inclination for en joying those blessings themselves. Young Mr. Rockefeller exhorting hia Bible class to shun riches Is not a more Incongruous figure than many of his contemporaries ex cept that he has more money than they have. The truth Is that no sane man ever deliberately chose want Instead of a suffi ciency. Talk to the contrary Is nonsense even If It comes from the heir apparent to a billion. Less Talk,. More Thought. Saturday Evening Post. This is the time of the year when the lecturer begins to pour' forth his wisdom Into the ears of his audience. It Is appalling to think of all the millions of words that are falling dally all over the land In col lege lecture halls, In .school rooms, from university extension platforms'. How many millions of pages they would make If printed and bound! However, they rarely live beyond an evening. One of the oldest of human delusions. .Is that a thing heard Is a thing known. If that were even partially true we should all be wise by this time, and good, too. Human speech Is an Imperfect Instrument, and human hearing and attention are worse. The teacher would do well to talk less, and the learner to think more. The idea and the mind those are the two elements, and the idea cannot be poured Into tha mind merely by uttering words. The Senate and Mr. Moody. Springfield Republican. Reports from Washington pow have It that Instead of opposing Attorney General Moody's nomination to the supreme court, the senators who are out of sympathy with the administration's policies will h flrmiv In favor of Mr. Moody's early confirmation This Is on the theory that the unwritten law or tne supreme court would prevent Mr. Moody from sitting on the various trust cases, in the prepartipn of which he has already taken part. According to this plan of campaign. It saems hettar r servatlve senators to let Mr. Moody go on the bench with his claws temporarily clipped than to force the president to nom inate some other radical who might do business from the start. It Is even de clared that In addition to the Standard oil cases Mr.. Moody , would be prevented from sitting In any case growing out of the railroad rate bill because in an opinion as attorney general he declared that ia be constitutional. This la carrying the ar- ..v .uui u , irnginn. unrortunately for these senators, thev will not Va ti ar biters of Mr. Moody's conduct after he Is on the bench. HOW RICH WE ARE. Occasion for Letting- Out the Belt An other Notch. SprlnKfleld Republican. Throush the existence of a permnnont' census bureau the nation Is privileged to exclaim with greater frequency than for merly upon how very rich and fat It Is growing-. Instead of a decennial valuation of property throughout the country we now have a quinquennial ' valuation, and the total for 1905 has Just been published. It compares as follows with the two previous decennial results: Total in- pPr . Wealth. crease. ot '25 $10R.it.4i5.m $lS.S.V.rtS7.flV) 2rt? K8.62S.3-Mi.n00 23,491.257,000 36.1 l'sW 65,7.091,000 These are the valuations, for the respec tive years, of the country's total posses sions in tangible property, which Includes real estate and Improvements thereon, rail roads, mines and tangible personal prop erty, and is of course exclusive of stocks, bonds and other paper evidences of prop erty. The footing for the 1)05 Inventory of property on hand shows a striking growth In wealth from five years before. The ab solute Increase Is not far below that for the whole previous decade, and the relative Increase Is at a materially Increased rate. If your I'ncle Samuel Is not already swollen to the bursting point of self-esteem In the possession of great riches and It Is to be fearafl that ha Is here Is occasion for let ting out the belt another notch. Tet a greatly modifying factor Is not to be overlooked. This Is a money measure of the country's property possessions, and there has been meantime a great inflation of the money volume and cheapening- of the money unit. Property, therefore, which has not been Improved or added to a parti cle would show on the average a material enhancement of money value for the flve year period without showing any enhance ment In real value or value In relation to other property and things. Borne measure of this Inflation entered Into the 1900 fig ures. More of It must have entered Into those of 1905. As commodity prices ad vanced some 15 per cent between VKO and lHOS, It may reasonably be presumed that the general property Inflation amounted to some 10 per cent. In which case the actual property Increment for the five years wmild be only about S,000.000,0iO Instead of $18. 000,000,000. And that Is probably closer to the truth. Times of great Industrial prosperity and so-called money making are rather times of prodigality and waste In expenditure than times of economy and saving. Great as may be the Increased production of wealth, the consumption and waste of It are apt to be even greatnr. There are worse time for the upbuilding of the per manent property of modern society than those which ar deemed slow and ;ulet Industrially. Give" Dr-Graves9 Tooilt Powder.- re tiul and you will use no other. Makes yellow teeth white, clean Tid beautiful. "Society and your health demands its use tv.ico-a; lay;" so th dentists 6ay. jL la Itaady saatal aans or aottles, tSe. l Graves' Teeth Pettier G: , ARMY GOSSIP I WASIIIttiTO. Current Frents cleaned from the Army and Navy It ea later. Rripadlor General Charlp F. Humphrey, quartrrmaster general of the army, has decided not to apply for retirement at this time. He will continue on duty as qusr termaster general of the army until the expiration iof his four-year tour of duty. That portod expires next April, when It Is likely that General Humphrey will ask to be transferred to tire retired list. The con tinuance of General Humphrey on duty as quartermaster general of the army will be gratifying news to the service at large. It Is probable upon the retirement of Gen eral Humphrey he will be succeeded by Major C. A. Devol, quartermaster, who last week reported for duty In Washington as a member of the general staff. The secretary of war has appealed from the decision of the auditor for the War department In disallowing the claim for $2,flM.73 of Captain Leonard I). Wildman. signal corps, United States army, for per sona! property destroyed by Are April 18, 1906, at San Francisco. The auditor dis allowed the claim because "the loss of pri vate property was not attributable to an exigency, of the military service, but re sulted from a general disaster, affecting all persons and property In tha locality alike, without regard to the fact as to whether they were In the military service or not, hence he Is not entitled to reimbursement under act of March t, 1SSB." The comp troller In reviewing ' this decision of the auditor holds that the claimant Is entttled to recover the value of the personal prop erty lost which the secretary of war has decided to be reasonable, useful and neces sary for the officer to have while In quar ters, engaged In the public service. In the line of duty, and which loss or destruction appears to have been without fault or negli gence on his part. Under this decision Captain Wildman was allowed to recover 86.25 of the amount claimed. The Postofflce department has lately had before It the question of the use of penalty envelopes by an army chaplain In sending through the malls a publication containing an appeal for funds with which to enable his work, of unquestioned value and merit, to be carried on. The publication had to do. of course, with public business In the sense that the assistance solicited was In tended to be used by the chaplain In his duly authorized labors described by law and regulations. It has become a ques tion, however, whether- the free use of the mails for even this laudable purpose is not In a measure contrary to law. There is something to be said on each side of such a question, It Is observed In the AVar de partment but,-' when all things were con sidered,! It was decided that the free cir culation of the printed rnatter through the malls should be discontinued and that post age should be paid. Under those circum stances there could be no further question. The discharge oi Uiu colored troops com prising an entile buialion of the iwenty .a ill uua:ilr- had us enlivening, It not (uncorous, aftermath. lue president is coming liume to a tine collection ot pro tests and appeals and a heterogeneous as sortment of criticism that runs tne gamut of human emotion and expression trom gentle reptuuf to- hearueos abuse. In the ringing .uikln looms up the shrill cry of that old stalker of the wllas, Major Uen era Uanlel K Sickles, U. 8. A,, retired. If the alleged remark of Colonel W. L. PitCi.w.-, Twenty-seventh Infantry, respect ing negro troops invoked the presidential wrath with siesmic precipitancy, what will he do to 'or with the. elder officer who delicately suggests a likeness between KooBMveliUn rule and Ottoman oppression? But nothing will be done to General Sickles, that, storm, center of other, and when need be of present, times. Nothing would please him more than to be rebuked more or less publicly and more than less fero ciously. The president won't hear the strident call of Sickles. It won't pay to bother a one-legged veteran with a record, a temper and a vocabulary. The War department lias called upon Captain Carl lteiehmann, Seventeenth fn fantry, for an acknowledgment or denial of the authorship of u letter alleged to have been written by that officer and ex tracts of which were printed In the New York papers of November 18. Tbis letter purported to show Captain Reichmann's reasons for discontent with the conditions which had kept him from dt tail as a mem ber of tha general stait. The extracts of this letter, which were incorporated in the departmental inquiry made the other day to Captain Relchmaun, included the following passage: "I almost wish I could have died without knowing that I was not trusted by my superiors. In nearly twenty-five years of service I have done my duty without look ing to the right or left, yet I am not trusted. I do not want any scandal, and tha last thing I want to do Is to involve the general staff in a scandal, for even though they refuse me to assist them In their work In so far as Ilea within my province and my power. My heart Is broken. I shall always feel that I am under suspicion; that I cannot even go and visit my old mother without arousing sus picion of my disloyalty in the minds of the general staff, if the general staff would openly declare that foreign born officers would not be admitted, tha matter would be very simple; but to brand me In ad- ( vance as a Benedict Arnold because a German born officer has betrayed the con fidence reposed In him Is, In my mind, rather far-fetched, and If it is true, I can not but regard it as a great Injustice to me." Captain Relchmann Is now on duty In Cuba and the War department authorities have sent to Havana a communication to ascertain to what extent Captain. Relch mann Is really responsible for the expres sions said to be contained in a personal letter to a friend In New York, whose In discretion In publishing the letter is quite as remarkable as would be the expressions of such sentiments attributed to Captain ReU-hmann. PACK OF LIV1MG. The Country's Golden Ae of OTtr Indulgence. St. Louis Republic. The pace of living In the United States seems to be getting faster. That It Is the country's golden age of overindulgence has bfen nowhere better illustrated than In sta tistics furnished by the Department of Commerce and Labor. We find that the value of luxuries Im fo:tcd Into the United States for the fiscal year reached the astonishing figure of !:oC':o,000. Tobacco, cigars ond cigarettes wie brought Into the country to tne ex teat of 115,000,000, which Is more than double the importation of ten years ago. The same figures show that opium smok ing has largely increased, and, to crown this evidence of our running, diamonds worth $10,000,000 passed through the cus toms last year, as compared with only $7l, COO worth a decade ago. Perhaps these may be soma of the trials end te:i ptations which the younger Rockf fUler advises hia Bible class must be ex pected with the flash of triumphant pros perity and be conquered by the man of strong character. It Is encouraging to be lieve that most of us can be trusted to meet them as mere temptations and ovtr- caxc them for the general good. GORDON FURS f HpHE locality in which fur-bearing animals arc taken, the time of year, the prevailing cli matic conditions all make a quality .difference in the skins. ( This quality-difference is always considered in selecting skins for Gordon Furs. . . To the broad experience and infinite skill of expert furriers, as well as to the masterly craft manship of high-class tailors, is due the supreme goodness of Gordon Fur-Lined Garments. 1 t .i, 'i I ll a Jt$k your dialer for GORDON FURS Ajai PERSONAL NOTES. General Shaffer left an estate of J1B.000, of which $10,000 is real property and $6,000 personal. Recent wracks at sea tend to show the need of additional trackage facilities on the briny deep. Of the twelve members ot the new French cabinet eight have been regular writers for the Paris press. 'Oh, for such a senator now," said ex- Ambassador Choata in his tribute to the memory of Csrl Bchurs at Carnegie hall. Rival telephone companies want conces sions In Chicago, and consequently love the people very dearly for the tt-me being. Notwithstanding the great volume of hot air Mr. Harrlman encountered in Kansas City he couldn't pipe enough of It to warm his car on a sidetrack. As a radiator of vocal gas the town by the Kaw has the field distanced. By the will of the late Prof. James M. Hoppln of Yale, Just filed, he leaves, be sides many other bequests to Institutions, $t!0,000 to the Yale art school, to be used for the establishment of a professorship In architecture. A Chicago alderman Insists that the city needs a press agent to paint In adequate colors the charms of the city. What's the use of humiliating human skill? A sound ing board of words would present a sorrow ful figure In a sixty-mile gale. Nature "blows" for the Windy city. Ex-Senator David B. Hill is being talked of for - the leadership of the New York state democratic party. It Is said that he has no desire to re-enter politics, but his friends believe that no other man can undo the damage Inflicted on the party in the Interior , counties by the Hearst-Con- nersf Murphy combine.. O'Donovan Rossa, whose chief Joy In years past was to twist the British lion's tail, has been put on the pay roll of Greater New York. Borough President Coler of Brooklyn, who believes that Ire land should be free, has appointed Mr. Rossa a corporation Inspector. He will draw $4 a day and his duty will be to look after the Brooklyn Rapid Transit. Tragedy followed tragedy so rapidly that the trail of the Holy Roller craze In Ore gon and Washingtcn Is studded with graves. Brother killed brother-in-law, sister killea brother, homes have been wrecked and asylums crowded. The last but one of the unholy band died of heart failure In the Seattle Jail last week, where the woman and her sister were confined on the charge of murder. CHKCKI3G THE BOOM. Prospective Halt In the Rush for Western Land. New York Times. An Omsha telegram says that the west ern railways have cancelled the paes of SO, 000 land agents. "Thousands of real es tate agents who were partially engaged lng bringing settlers' from the east are affected by the order." It would seem to follow that the land boom In the west will be checked. This Is not an unmixed evil, and yet It must be classed with one of the unexpected compensations of re form. Probably there are only very few farmers anywhere who fancied that there would be any retaliation for the demand that their crops should be carried for less money. And It Is certain that very few fancied that there was any boomerang effect to the proposal that the crime of giv ing and accepting railway passes should be stopped. The first chill came with the announcement to commercial drummers, delegates to political conventions and other patriots, "This means you." And now we lenrn that the boomers who carry eastern tenderfeef out to pay good dollars for what may be called agricultural "prospects" In the desert and the Bad Lands region are not to be allowed to ride free. It may keep eastern money at homo, and It may reduce railway profits. Thera seems room to infer that It may also have some effect upon the ingenuous grangers who have lands for sale. mporfanf Hole h co Sh It cannot be denied that teiportant role in health. nourishing; power and other essential to Dei tiealth are tbe daily diet aUUU u uuuuu v WHEAT FLAKE CELERY 9 X' a. la the proper food for all classes aa It contains the essential elements for the support of life and ioaint- njnr rtf health that ia fttiiinl 1 aW..t ratatable-Notrltlous-Easy au - - Bw . -a a. a uaa wmrmwrn. rn aT mwm ier I TtW Basnet; ar Seal taDa Mat, 3a a Backers M "- ni , Vaggl Gordon FunLtned Garments This is a picture of a smart loose-fitting garment, as comfortable as if is stylish. 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