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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1907. The Omaha Daily Bel FOUNDED BY EDWARD H08EWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. Entered at Omaha Fostofflce aa second class matter. TERMS OP SCF9T1UPTION. r T Bee (without Sunday), one year.. $4 M k lally n and 6unday, ona year W Sunday Bee, en year 2 Saturday Ur-m, on year , DELIVERED Rt CARRIER, fally Hf (including UuDdny), per week..lSa pally Bee (without Sunday), per week.. loo Evnnlng Hee (without Sunday), par week M tvulnir Bee (with Sundav). eer wwk,..10a Address all complaint of Irreirularltlee la delivery to City Circulation Departset. OFFICES. Omaha The Be Building. South Omsha-Clty Hall Building. Council Bluffs It Bcott Street. Chicago 1M0 l.'nlty Building. New York-IK Horn Uie Insurance B1d. Washington 7?5 Fourteenth Btreet N. W. ( CORRF-flPONDENCl!;. . Communications relating to newe and edi torial matter' ahould be addressed, Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. I REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to The fee Publishing Company. Onlr 2-rent stamps received In payment of mall accounts. Personal checka, except on Omaha, or eastern exchange, not accepted. ItATKMENT PP CIRCULATION. State djf Nebraska. Douglas county, aa: Charles C. Ronewater, general maneaet ef The Pea Publishing Company, being duly eworn, says' that the actual number pf full and complete copies ot The Pally Morning. Evening and Sunday Pee printed ddrbig the month ot September, X907, was as lonowe: 1 88,700 1 86.640 t 8606 4 , 38,980 SB.360 M.I40 7 t. 38,440 SB.600 M,10 10 36,630 II 36,470 It. 38,870 IS 36,030' 14 30,610 II ' 36,400 ' 36,650 If,,.' M.6M .It 36,880 If 86J00 10 36.30 Jl 86,670 It 36,320 II.. 37,360 (4 863301 tl 36,380 2 86,630 17 86,600 II 36,660 tl 86,660 0 88,86a -Total 1,083,470 Less unsold egd returned ooplea. ,B87 Net total .,.'...... l,0S,68a Pally average 86,11 . CHARLES C. KOS1C WATER, General Manager. Subscribed In my preaence and aworo to before me thla I Win aay of Septem ber. I07. Ueal li. B. HUNQATB,- Notary uuilo. WHEN OCT Or TO Wit. V eabacrtber leavlngr the city teas norarlly shoald kite The Be Mailed te then. Addreaa wiU bo chanced aa oftea teatdU The Luelt&nla haa broken Us record going each way, but haa not yet met itself coming back. Washington is aa proud over its new union depot aa Kansas City would be If it had one. The time-worn Injunction, "Don't take any bad money," has been put on the shelf for a few days. If anyone wants anything else ot Mayor "Jim" that he does not Bee, all he haa to do la to ask for it. The farmers have come to the aid of the Wall street speculators, but warn them not to do It again. The packers have reduced the price of some of their producta, but steaks are still more expensive than atocka. Senator Knox has not yet found it necessary to use the back pedal on hla presidential boom. Europeans are expressing regret over the flow of their gold to the United States, but they admit that they have to eat. Having placed the ban on soda water, Dr. Wiley now declares most ot the candy i of commerce dangeroua to health. Oh, fudge! ' "Many congressmen are traveling on passes despite the new law," says a dispatch from Washington. Why not print their names? The city ot San Francisco la paying $S each for rata and New York depart ment stores have ordered the girl clerks to quit wearing pompadoura. It la formally stated that Mrs. Stuy veaant Fish buys all her huaband'a cigars for him. That may explain why Fish Is always looking for a fight. A negro who stole 75 cents was promptly lynched by a Georgia mob. He might have escaped more lightly had ho merely stolen a cashier's check. The Ute uprising is a reminder that there are but few savage Indiana re maining In the country, except the kind that go on the warpath on elec tion day. Mr. Carnegie wants Mr. Roosevelt elected for another term. Thla may be accepted aa pretty good evidence that Mr. Carnegie haa severed his con-' nectlons with the trusts. Th Paris Matin nominates J. Pier pont Morgan for president f the United Statea. The question cannot b put to a vote until someone seconds the nomination and Mr. Morgan is very bashful. A Florida paper thinks the president should Bay something to encourage that Texaa man who is the father of forty-two children. Presidential en couragement does pot seem to be necessary In that case. The managers of that railway in the Philippines have apologised to Secre tary Taft for that breakdown while he waa on h train. They will probably have aome stouter cara built by tha time he takea the next trip. Critics of tha president want to know why tha navy ahould be in creased when tha country la at peace with all natlona. . The president aaya the navy la to be increased to keep the country at peace wli ail nations, f VSF, OF tFDKRA f. FVXDS. Congressman Sims of Tennessee is not blazing any new trail In announc ing his-Intention to offer a resolution ot Inquiry at the coming session to ascertain whether the secretary of the treasury haa legal right to use gov ernment funds, lying idle lir the treas ury vaults, to relieve a stringency of the money market in New York, to aid in moving crops or for any other purpose han meeting obligations con tracted by congressional appropriation bills. The question has been before congress at previous sessions, but no satisfactory answer has been reached. It Is a purely republican problem be cause no democratic administration ever had to worry about a surplus. The present situation Is complicated a little by another proposition from another southern congressman. One of the ablest members of the Texas delegation In the house, Albert Sydney Burleson, has filed a request upon Sec retary Cortelyou to deposit $10,000, 000 in southern banks so owners of cotton who want to hold It tor a bet ter price may not be compelled to sell at a sacrifice. Congressman Burleson takea the view that the deposit of funda in the New York banks haa aided the stock market and that It la no more than right that the cotton growers be given equal benefit.' Both Congressman Sims and Con gressman Burleson are basing their arguments on a false premise. It has been the aim of Secretary Cortelyou to avoid making deposits of federal funds and aid stock jobbing or boost speculation. Early In the season he established the policy of placing fed eral deposits in different sections of the country, in the weBt, north and south, where demands existed for ad ditional currency for crop moving pur poses and keeping it away from New York as much as possible. This policy waa pursued until it was found neces sary to furyish liberal relief to New York In order to avert disaster. The charge of th6 two southern congress men that the federal funds have been used to encourage speculation finds answer in tha fact that before the treasury funds were placed in the New York banks, a complete reorganiza tion of several banks had been forced and every plan adapted looking to the stopping of apeculatlon. No revival of speculation has followed the deposit ot the treasury funds in New York, dem onstrating clearly that the relief af forded went to legitimate Interests and that any advantage to speculators was incidental. It will bo generally agreed that treasury participation In the money market is undesirable, but that it can not be withheld at times Is evident. No one charges abuse of the discre tionary power vested in the secretary of the-treasury, in spite of the pres sure and the temptation of specula tive Interests. Until congress revises the currency laws to make provision for expansion and contraction of the volume of circulating medium to meet legitimate business demands, secre taries ,of the treasury will be com pelled periodically to employ surplus funds in this way to avert panic. THE a. A. ft. AXD THE SOl'TH- A movement has already been Btarted to have the encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic in 1909 held at Atlanta. The movement was started recently in Atlanta, when a delegation of Grand Army ot the Republic men from Wisconsin were welcomed to the city, where they went to pay a tribute to their departed comrades of other days. General Clement A. Evans, second in command of the United Confederate Veterans, assured the Grand Army representatives that the south was ready to welcome them and to give them auch a reception as would fur nish overwhelming proof that sec tional scores had been healed and that all animosities had been buried. The suggestion of a Graud Army encampment at Atlanta must appeal to the sentiment of the veterans. Some forty-three years ago many of the men who are members of the organization encamped in the neighborhood of At lanta and later moved Into the city. Their reception was exceedingly warm, even If it waa not cordial. The ap proval coming from all sections of 'the south of the movement for securing the encampment for Atlanta in 1910 la assurance that the warmth of the reception of the veterans In 1910 would equal that of forty-three years ago, with the elements ot cordiality and hospitality added. Recent years have witnessed many gatherings at which men who wore the blue and men who fought under the stars and bars have mingled as friends. The holding! ot tha Grand Army of the Republic encampment at Atlanta would be a generalization ot that friendship, now fully grown,, that exists between sections and men. It would be a victory of peace instead of war. In boosting tor its candidate for comptroller the democratic World Herald puts in a hard knock on its candidate for sheriff, who has still several unredeemed promises out which be made when running for the city council. No one can legally bold two county offices, but we have had democrats drawing salaries out ot the city treasury aud out of the county treasury at the same time. The principal p.ea ot the "antls" in South Omaha against consolidation is an appeal for the preservation of a separate city government. South Omaha baa had aome men in city office who have been a credit, but it has had many more' who have been a discredit. Few who have made creditable city officers object to consolidation, know ing that their merits and claims will receive recognition in the larger city Just as well as they have heretofore. The officeholders who are Irreconcila bly against consolidation tre .for the most part men with records so bad that Uiey know they would be rele gated to political obscurity as aeon as pried loose from the payroll. WOHTll COXSIDERIXQ. Thc only representation Douglas county has on any state ticket before the voters of Nebraska is that accorded by the republicans in the nomination of Henry T. Clarke, Jr., for railway commissioner. Thla is not only the beBt paid office to be filled by favor at the polls, but it is also one of the most Important, if not the most important, office, from the standpoint of our com mercial and business interests that ia at the disposal of the people. The nomination of Mr. Clarke was achieved only In the face of a virulent anti-Omaha campaign in behalf of his competitors and in spite of a vigorous effort in certain quarters to wipe Omaha and Douglas county off the po litical map of Nebraska. Under these conditions, although the candidacy ot Mr. Clarke for railway commissioner ia unopposed, it behoovea the people of Omaha and Douglas county, if they ex pect further recognition, to keep them selves In evidence by coming hand somely to the support of their own candidate and likewise of his asso ciates on the republican ticket. Inasmuch as the demo-pop combina tion ha3 shown no consideration in the make-up of their ticket to? Omaha and Douglas county, the scat of at least one-ninth of the entire vote of the state, there is no good reason why Douglas county voters should Bhow any consideration for the demo-pop ticket. Nebraska is a republican state and Douglas county is normally a re publican county, and we in Omaha and Douglas county have nothing to gain and everything to lose by getting oui. of touch with the dominant party in the state. These suggestions are, we believe, worthy of serious consideration by every intelligent voter In Omaha and Douglas county Irrespective of party, and more particularly ot every intelli gent voter who does not tie himself by hard and fast lines to any party. The local Bell Telephone company has reached the point where It consid ers it good business policy to reduce the price of telephone service to its Omaha subscribers, but it will not get the credit such concession would do serve, because most people will think the reduction ia forced by the Immi nent competition of the new Inde pendent Telephone system. If the Bell people had been willing to make these reductions a year ago and to re spond also to tha demand for inter connection with outside independent 'phones, It is doubtful whether Omaha would have voted a franchise for a sec ond telephone system, which at best Is a necessary evil. As police Judge, Bryce Crawford haa shown brilliantly by contrast with the record made by the candidate now seeking to regain the office aa the nom inee on the democratic ticket. We take it that no one who knows any thing about the improvement in the police court under Judges Berka and Crawford will want to go back to the unsavory conditions that prevailed prior to their incumbency. Not a word in the local democratic organ about that tell-tale letter writ ten by Chairman Allen of the demo cratic state committee, hitching the democrats up to the railroads In the last campaign, nor any evidence that they have been unhitched. With this testimony of record, the prattle about the called-in passes bhould be rung off. According to a Georgia paper, John Temple Graves becomes badly excited every time the moon gets full. Mr. Graves should remain In Georgia in stead of going to take charge of the Hearst paper in New York. A man who gets excited but once a month cannot draw pay very long from Hearst The political campaign haa reached 1 Iour y'ar and " almost half as much has the point where roorbacks may be ex- loBt ,n ,e" tnan two 'a" w are uf- . . , ... , ; fering a destruction of wealth as rapid as pected to Bprout over, night In the:that of a war wnlch caIIed mloPni f local yellow Journals. A Btory pur- soldiers to the field and consumed enormous porting to tell what some one else said nutte, a while; ten. which haa hin h-M off until too tete for denial, ahould be put down in the fake class. Ordinarily speaking, this ia 'not a good time to vote bonds. The bond proposition entitled to an affirmative vote must have some reason behind it beyond a desire of the city council or an administrative board to spend more money than la at ita disposal from taxation. John Wanamaker is convinced that more than $1, 000, 000, 000 is hidden under carpets ln this country. Not even a talk like that will make the average man smother his desire to take hla meals downtown during; the carpet-cleaning saturnalia at home. "I have never "Suborned any man in ray life," says Governor Campbell of Texas, "but I denounce Joe Bailey as a liar, a bribe-taking scoundrel and a coward." It is clear that Governor Campbell alao suspects Bailey of hav ing other faults. That foruior iusurauce vice presi dent who has been tent to prison for perjury in New York saya he coin- mltted perjury on the advice ot his counsel. The courts ahould find some way of getting after a lawyer ot that etrlpe. The story is being printed about a New York messenger boy wjbo re turned a package of money because he could not buy a box of cigarettes with a $500 bill. Living must b high when cigarettes cost more than $600 a box. tome Oat of the Cellar. Philadelphia Press. The storm Is over. Wrecks may have to be cleared away. But what remains In business and In banking Is tested, solid and stable. Promoting; a Good "Froat." Chicago Record-Herald. The price of meat haa been rut 10 per cent In Omaha. Perhaps thla ia a scheme to enable Omaha to make a big showing when the next census Is taken. Appeal to Bportlaa; Instinct. Baltimore American. Governor Hoch thinks that President Roosevelt would run another time through out Kansas liko a herd of Texas steer. Surely, this la a way of putting the' third term proposition up to Mr. Roosevelt that must appeal to his sporting Instincts. It'a the Farmers 'lira, St. Louis Republic. With dollar wheat and better, the west ern farmer Is Juat where he had alwaya wanted to be and where he la llkety to Lremaln most of the tlma hereafter. To the gentleman riding In the sulky plow all the world must take off Us hat with low obeisance and tha price in hand. Confab of Pomona Faelonlsta. New Tork World. Mr. Brvsn says It Is nobody's business whether lie called on Mr. Hearst by ap pointment or not. Why this peevishness? The tender affection whloh Mr. Bryan and Mr. Hearst have for each other Is well known. No formalities are necessary when the champion long distance fuslonlst calls on the champion catch-as-catch-can fu tlonlst. (erniany'a Triumphant Editor. St. Louis Republic. The stubborn Independence Oermnns can show when they think they have an emer gency Justifying It appears in the acquittal of Maximilian Harden at Berlin when this action Involves the virtual conviction of high officials who are now repudiated, though they have long surrounded the kaiser aa close and confidential friends. As an Impeachment of the morals of the German court it ahoVs the stubborn moral sense of the German people. It Is a blow at- military absolutism and the dissolute habits It breeds on which the civlllted World may well congratulate jiot the Ger many ot the court and the kaiser, but the Germany of the German people. 1 BLAMING PRESIDENT ROOXEV ei Crooked Financiers Vainly Strive to Shift .Responsibility Chicago News. A grotesque feature of the recent finan cial crisis in New York was tha loud com plaint made by the vice president of a for mer great trust company that President Roosevelt had caused all the trouble. The Institution represented by this official had been closed up because Its condition was too bad to warrant lta rescue by the bankers forming the. Clearing House asso ciation. Standing amid the wreckage pro duced by foolish investments made with depositora' ,money, the doleful vice presi dent of the concern bitterly exclaimed "Roosevelt did It." Others have taken up the cry. They have little insight or else they are trying to divert attention from their own misdeeds or the misdeeds of their class. There have been panics before. ' The present disturb ances are mere child's play to what haa happened In other yeara when wild specu lation had drawn the nation Into the In evitable abyss. If President Roosevelt haa precipitated the general renovation which Is now In progress In Hnanclal circles he should be given high credit for hs handi work. The logic of his Dostlon that Hnan. clal crookedness must be blotted out Is so completely unanswerable that Wall atreet Itself, under the guidance of sane finan ciers. Is turning In that direction. Wild-cat finance and Ita glided exponents will have to go. The reputable bankers of New Tork have been brought to a real ization of thla great truth by the. difficul ties of the present situation. They have been busily speeding the speculative gentry on the Inglorious road to oblivion, it would be the height of folly for them to turn back now from the excellent work which they have begun. It la their duty to co-operate with the president in obtain ing permanent aafety by putting' Into effect the reforms In corporation affairs which he so earnestly advocates. STOCK SHRINKAGE. WIm1 - -mm--. u . Wind d Water 8o.oee.ed O.t, the ? M , 1 hll-Je'Ph' Record. "., . " V". ""-"'" lno "'entered to No. 12 and when thla was refused onea of last year It Is figured out that there has been a stock shrinkage of three billion. The New Tork Journal of Commerce com putes a loss of more than a billion and a half la several Industrials. Three billions Is almost half the cost of the civil war to the north, without count, tng what it cost the south. That war lasted .values in military supplies. The country Pugnt to be poor. Hut the truth Is that the destruction of wealth during the past two yeara hag been neering ln this city were accomplished by very small. When Mr. Harrlman sold the I th employmentof Italian laborers. They Union Pacific's holdings ln the Great Nor- j have demonstrated that physically they are them and the Northern Pacific these stocks able to cope with extremely hard work, were paying I per cent on their selling regardless of climatic condition. These la price. But railroad stocks are not worth I borere belong to the unskilled class, but I a price that yields only savings bank In terest. The stock boom had sent the prices ot these shares far above their jic- tual value. Harrlman recognized the fact I a-d sold. The men who bought at those"! prices -iiave lost. That Is they lost as a I man who pays $200 for a $100 horse loses nair nts money; the horse ts just as good for service as he was when sold, but one man hus a lot of money out of the other man. . Nearly every one of the industrials waa capitalised at more than ita real earning value and the active speculation sent the price of Inflated sharea much above, par ii many cases. The shrinkage has brought I r'i i down to what the properties are worth, and in some cases very likely a tittle leas. But the properties are all there, and nearly all of them are earning and dividing as much as ever; some of them have in creased their dividends. There haa been a good deal ot shifting ef wealth from Im prudent buyers to lucky sellers, but the mills and the factories and the railroads are doing approximately the same business aa before and the actual loos In the com munity 1 little or nothing. Tha holders of shares really lost their money when they paid too much for them; what la hap peuiug how is that they are finding It out bOijid adowt new tork. Ripple on the Torrent of Life la tho Metro poll. One ot the Nw Tork Insurance com panlea which passed under tha limelight a few years ngo gave evidence that re form struck the right spot by removing to cold storage gorgeous office furniture, replacing It wltb It furniture suited to the simple life. Now the furniture outlawed is on the auction block in New Tork and Its lavlshness Is visible to all visitors at these "art emporiums." There la the dlrectora' tuble of enamel and gold, laid by the hands of high priced artists upon chosen wood, which had been cut And moulded by master craftsmen. As an example of Loulrf XV, art and of ex travagant expenditure this probably haa no match In the world. Ita cost was 112.000. Not less than $1,000,000 was the cost of the scores of gilded and hand carved chairs, the wardrobes of klngswood and white walnut, the tables, the tapestries and hand carved bases. And close be side these are the veriest mass of Inar tistic but expensive Junk that ever made the American collector a byword and a welcomed patron. On top of a table whlcTi cost not a cent lss than 110,000 la an African buffalo horn mounted upon a very poor half of an American elk's horn and bearing an elec trolier, whose chief ornamentation is what looks like dented tin. Most beautiful of tha objeots belonging to the Insurance company are a number of ixmia XVI. library tables. In gold and i?ih,r,,!n rMn, ?namel- oId ana Spanish and Italian m.rblea. In which, with reck- leas vandalism, alectrlo bells have been placed. For the board of directors there were Louis VI, chairs In gold and em bossed red and gray plush, with a hand somely carved throne chair, said to have been used by their head. There were red and gray plush desk chairs, an onyx and gold Louis XVI mantel clock, a number or carved wood chalre Upholstered in Il luminated Spanish leather and designed by Sheridan. There were Armoirs from the Louis XVI, period and a beautifully designed silk Aubusson suite In sort pinks, yellows and grays. Tha newest cocktail on Broadway tt oalled the "affinity." This Is the way they make it along- the Great White way: One teaspoonfu, f powdered sugar, one I dash of orange bitters, one J gger of o . u , .... i Scotch whiskey, one half jigger of Italian' vermuth. Rllr In rr.,l,.J l. .y. oughly blended and cooled; then drink; then the pianola sounds as good as the Symphony orchestra. The second one convinces you that trust companies and savings banks are solvent and you want to put your money back. If you take three It seem, like summer, otherwise you'd buy your wife-or the afflnlty-a new fur coat. Then it'a time to stop. It moved the poet to the following: In Its glistening depth Is the light of her eyes, In Its taste is her honev kiss. There s a victor's crown for the man who tries To build another like this. If you put another bright red cherry in the last one you will feel like a banker who didn't have to Issue clearing house certificates. Determined to prevent jostling and fight ing for places before the Lincoln Trust company during last week's run, Patrol man Wetxel of the new Tenderloin station hit upon a brilliant scheme. Wetsel tagged each depositor as he arrived. The first man was given a little ticket marked No. 1 and signed with the patrolman's Initials. After that every fresh arrival was given a ticket bearing his proper number. This scheme of the policeman's put a stop to fighting for places. If a man lost his place Patrolman Wetzel knew just where to put him. It also permitted men to leave their positions for a few momenta without danger of losing It. Many men took advantage of this and smoothed out their long watt with refreshments. An enterprising youngster brought a chair, placed It in front ot the line and mounted it. For a moment the boy did not looking at the depositors. "Now, genu," sRld the boy briskly, "these Is tryin' times, when every man needs all of his nerve. I knew some of you people would get tired standing. It'a your own good to preserve your strength. The man with strength wins. Now, I'm going to sell this chair to the highest bidder. The man who alta all night Is goln' to be stronger than the man who stands. "How much am I bid for the chalrf Twenty cents," offered one man In line. The chair was finally knocked down to No. 61 In the line at 50 cents. After disposing of the chair the youngster ran around the corner amfappeared with a soap box. Thla was knocked down to the highest bidder at SO cents. Iater three confederates of the young ster appeared. Between the four they sold sixty boxes. Borne excitement waa caused among the line when a man, dressed In a fur 6ver- . in wiT una juuw iur nig place. No. t r.fu.,d to . , , stranger offered 1100 to the man third for , pUce , ,h, . Flft 0,,ar. the man took his place at the end ot the line. The same phenomenon that was noted years ago In the Irish end the German 1m- migration to this country Is now remarked ' ln relation to the Italian immlgcation. It la the fact that the average character and capacity of the Immigrants has steadily improved. James B. Davenport, superin tendent of the Italian Settlement tiouae at H Front street, which Is almost at the southern point of Manhattan Island, bears this testimony. "You will find," he saya, "that eome of the greatest works of engt- would call your attention to a younger element that Is coming to our shores. I find moat of these Italians have been edu- e"ted on the other side. Intellectually they ,re far ""Parlor to that class which has bpen coming here for the last ten or fifteen '?". Some of them are able to take up more dignified tasks and they have fully shown that they can live up to American conditions." That these observations are corroct may be verified by anyone who takes a little trouble ln that direction. In thrift and self-development, too, the ItaW Amertcans have made and are making great advances. A stock broker who has been nagged to death the last few days by a nervous friend who owns about four shares of stock, got even yesterday, when he was called to the 'phone by the fretful one. "What's tha news?" asked the excited man. "Brooklyn bridge suspended," shouted tho broker. "Heavens, what elae?" "The Subway U in a hole." "I've got twenty share of Inter.-MetsI" yelled the nervous man. "What else?" "The Singer building baa gone ua." "Good Ood.w 4t (Jet next to I It; V AA yeuf dealer to show you the genuine. FERSOXAL KOTK9. Obituary notices of Emneror Franrla Joseph prepared by enterprising news papers all over the world must now wait for, a proper publication day. Now that the Ring-ling Brothers hare virtually organised a circus trust, all the necessaries of life, except good.'cooks seem to be under the control of the octopus. The old headgear which Oeronlmo, the Indian chief, wore In his last battle with General Miles, has been bought by Robert W, Wells of Washington and will be given to tho Smithsonian Institution. F. Augustus Heinse has suffered seriously unaer me Dludgeonlngs of chance." He Is etlll unsubdued, however, and will return in i Montana enemy, the Amalgamated Copper company, , ! P V vn me puutic or their matches are advised to exercise some discrimination hereafter. An anti-borrowing match has been pluced on the market. One will cure any but a chronic and deep seated case. A Cincinnati broker after making 11.000.- loBed up nls aceounts and quit, saying ..c ncu rimuKu. ji no ooBires now to earn a little on the side he ought to be able without much trouble to get a Job as a public curiosity. That verdict of $14,000 damages against five hazers at Kekanee, 111., may prove a great blow to a very popular sport, but It Is not thought that its effects will be last ing, with fresh enthusiasm being poured Into the colleges every jtear. , I ,., 1. T- . . ... I Mlnnonnnll. I .!(.... ...... 1 . ... . I p'7 Attorney General Young ,..,, , ,, , , , " ror contempt of Judgo Lochren s orders . v,.w ...,!. , "-- wur. .m uuuouui neiy prohibited by the federal constitution. The attorney general was detained In St. Paul over night. A fow days ago David PIngree of Salem, ! Mass., bought several hundred thousand acres of the "wild lands" of Maine, thereby ; becomln Possessor of a tract of land I ' Ml" t,,B entlr" of R1,ode .I'Iand- U ,s the beat huntln r "aA the eastern part of the United Stati Henry Decker, president ef the North western National bank ot Minneapolis, ad dressed tho members of the Board of Trade of that city Just before the close of busi ness on Monday. He advised them to be cheerful In the face of discouragement, and closed his remarks with the well known quotation from a poet of the people: It Is easy enough to he pleasant When life moves along like a song. But the man worth while la the man who can smile When the whole d world goes wrong. THOIBLE9 OK THE ARMY, Cause of Increased Desertions and Decrease In Hecrolts. - New York Bun. It ia a very serious condition of 'aTalrs In the army, much more serious then the cnuntrv at lara-e seems riltfuorid to reallae. Not only are men deserting in - . . . ,' formidable numbers, but as a rule good men neither enlist nor re-enlist. Although we need with each mice Wing year an Increase of our standing military force, each year It becomes more and more difficult to maintain even the establish ment we had twelve months before. Among military men of experience ami common sense the situation presents no features for disagreement. Men In the army are leaving It, and men out f the army are staying out. for the simple and sufficient reason that the career is ab solutely repulsive to them. Those wor thy and excellent persons who have abol ished the canteen, eliminated "tempta tion," repudiated the gregarious lriHtl.net, Ignored human nature, and generally or dained for our soldiers a plan of life tolerable only by Infanta and superannu ated Invalids, may be admirable on the acore of their Intentions. They are doubt- less good men and women who lead pleas- ant, honorable lives, commit no Bins and aet examples the very seraphim might envy. We can believe, moreover, that In their frequent social gatherings and entertaining conferences, enlivened by stimulating Intercourse, by music and by other congenial delights and luxuries. they think with satisfaction or the sol- go he screamed In alarm to his slumbering; dlers In desolste barracks whom they , frau, have saved to righteousness by depriving "Th"c"0"w' " ,n th kltcnen hl" them of avery Imaginable lure. ForlA m-ht?" "Whv. a hr" ti-oit themselves the social gathering, the In-1 der him, then!" terchange of experience and thought, tha "Tetur'',,ny.. 1 win lf Jou'n nr,t ven banquet and the rest of It. For the bo1'6o Bptrty leaped up, and the poker aao dlers, after their hard routine and wourtng ; seised, chores, no hilarious relaxation, no uol-se i Whlls i her man shut the door and agalnat of women's laughter, no lampllt nights, K "e ,(lu,e, no hours of pleasant revelry. No wives, no sweethearts, neither beer nor song nor moderate conviviality. The righteous j mg within: n -iioui-can be trusted to take their little dlsl-, "Well done, my brave Betty: now hit him patlons wisely. For the soldiers the cloister and the reformatory! There Is at least one consolation heft ua. Since the moralists and the reiorm era have auccoeded In banixhlng from the fighting man's life everything that -uakei It worth the living, our new army may be filled. If at all, with creatures who wouldn't fight If called upon, uid couldn t fight lf they would. That may lead to peace of a questionable virtue but the trouble with the army still remains. Straining; the Imagination. Kansas City Journal. Governor Hughes of New York Is Bald to be a very cold man. It would require a strong Imagination to picture Hughes and a Fairbanks coming down the home stretch In a hot finish. WJLM " m UlclUbblrt Da lias" On of the best things bout them is their STYL E THE NAME McKibbin assures thia at well ai the quality. J I O.- MCK'lbDiD T1" W,T best aheep lined HAS " tou world. A GREAT CI.AIF1F.R. Colonel Bryan's Definition of the Middle' Clasa." New York Sun. When Mr. Bryan turns his face from politics to illuminate social problems his wonderful knowledge of conditions and his complete understanding of human nature astonish ami bewilder. Iast wefk ha talked of the "middle rises" and, true scientist that he Is, gave his definition of that much used pair of words. Mr. Bryan'a "mlddlo class" consists of those who are neither too poor nor too rich to take In terest in the world and their government. It Is a definition bssed on purely ma terial considerations. Mr. Bryan did not tell what amount of property excluded a man from the middle class at one end or what degree of poverty debarred a man from It at the other. Perhaps he had no time for such elaboration of his definition. This Indeed may well have been the case, for the details would have been difficult to manage. In every community there are rich men with time for social and political activities, while living side by side with them are men of equal fortunes too wrapped up In their own business to devote eny attention to public affairs. IJkewlse there are me chanics, clerks, laborers, who engage in works of philanthropy, who do their share to Influence the nation's fate, thoughtfully and conscientiously, while their cowork ers, receiving the same salaries or wages, neglect all Interests except their ov Tu enter Into a discussion of the fig at which a man's money resources muk. aim Ineligible to the honor of membership in the Bryan "middle class" might have Im posed on Mr. Bryan a task that would have necessitated real knowledge, exact thinking and serious analysis, three thlnga he avoids as much as possible. SMILINQ REMARKS. The hen party was sitting in judgment on the new poet. "What do you think of this fellow's lay?" asked one old hen critic of another. "Merely a hatched-out plot by the pub lishers," answered another. "Rotten!" cried a third. Baltimore American. "What the public needs," said Mr. Duntlii Stax, "Is confldenre." "Yes," answered Farmer Corntosel; "but the trouble Is that whenever you say con- ndence, so many of us associate It with 'rold brick' and 'bunco.' "Washington Star. "Yes," said Mrs. Nurltch, mentis to be an artist." "my son "Indeed?" replied Mrs. Ascum. a very laudable ambition." "That "Yes, he thinks it's Just cute to wear thosn flowing black ties." Philadelphia Press. "I get mixed up In this crowd. Who Is the fellow you said not to lend mone y to, and whlrh one will approve of my advanced vlcwsj" "It's the tall one over, there whoV . wavs short,' and the Ihln otto neef'hlm' who is so broad." Indianapolis New. I. ",d hJdyJ, "L0U ,,,,M m2 'hat work would only cost irif $13, and , here you've sent In a hill for $14. ' ' "Yes'm," replied the carpenter, "you see, w.hCn c ?.WnL, thing oyer' aft.-r- "niu A wan BIIDHJ nmj ur iiul ill B II 1 tr- st litems snout that 13.- Philadelphia, Catholic Standard. The dentist on the third floor waa treat ing a tooth for the dentist on the fifth floor. "I hope I'm not hurting vou," he said, as the drill slipped Into the nerve. cavity. There waa no response. "I say I hope I dldn t hurt you any." The dentist In the chair opened his eyes. "I beg your pardon for not hearing you, doc," he said. "I must have fallun asleep." Chicago Tribune. BETTY AXD THE BEAR. Author Unidentified. In a pioneer's cabin out west, so they say, A great, big, black gristly trotted one day. And seated himself on the hearth and ba rs n To Ian the contents of a two-gallon Dan Of milk and potatoesan excellent meal- And then looked about to see what ho could ateal. - The lord ot the mansion awoke from hi sleep. And, hearing a racket, he ventured to peep Juat out In the kitchen, to aee what waa there. And waa scared to behold a great grizzly pear. As Retty then laid on the grizzly her blows. Now on his forehead and now on hla nosn. LI.. tk.mi.l, .V.. I. . . U .. 1 . . 1 . aln: Now a rap on the ribs, now a knock on tho snout. Now poke with the poker and poke hla eyes out!" So with rapping and poking poor Betty, alone, At last laid Blr Bruin as dead as a stone. Now when the old man saw tha bear waa no more H ventured to poke his nose out of tho door. And ti rre was the grizzly stretched on tha floor. Then - it to the neighbors he hastened to tell All tl e wonderful things that that morn Ing befell. And he published the marveJoua story afar. Hew "me and my Betty Jiol alaughtered a bar. Oh yea, enme and aee; all the neighbor have Bid It; Come and see what w did, me and Bettyi wo did It." SPECIAL FOR T SATURDAY Rockr like cut, mad) of t Jeholc Quarter Sawed Oak and j Birch Mohogauy. 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