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TTTR OMATTA DATT.Y PEE- TUEhAV, NOVEMBER 12, 1907. ft ie 'Omaha Daily Uee FOUNDED BT EDWARD ROSEWATEU. VICTOR ROBE WATER. EDITOR. Entered at Omaha rostofflee second :) matter. TERMS OF fitUPCRIPTION. Dnll Bee (without Sunday), on ear..4.00 t)l)y Bee and Bun flay, one year Sunday Bee, one year l-M Haturday Bee, one year DELIVEKED UY CARRIER. Dally Be (Including Sunday), per week..lBc Dally Bee (without Sunday), prr week. .10c Ev-nlna- Bt without Sunday), per week 6c Evening- Bee (with Sunday). rr week... loo Addre all complaints of Irrerularltlei In delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. Mouth Omaha City Hall Building. Council Bluff 16 Seott Street. hlrea;o-K,0 t'nlty BulldlnK. New York ISM Horn Life Insurance Wahlrg1on-73 Fourteenth Streot K " CORRESPONDENCE. Communlcatlona relating to news and nl torlal matter should h nddn-esed, Omaha Jf. Editorial Department. . REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or poMl order payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only ?-rent stamps received In payment of mall areounts Personal checks, excent on Omaha oi eaitern exehe.nire. not accented. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. .State of Nebraska, Douglas County. s: Charles C. Rosewater, general manager of The Bee rubllshinr irmnany, belna; duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complete coplee of The Dally Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed luring tha month of October, 107, wii aa follows: 1 36,70 2 36.690 8 36.600 4 36,380 1 36,650 33,600 7 .". 86.440 1 36.890 I.. 36,700 10 38,860 II 38,400 11 36,630 13 36,300 14 38,630 It 38,830 jt 36,to II 36,600 II 36,540 JO :. 40,600 21 36,650 22 36,940 II 37,310 24 . 36,800 26 38,783 2 36,700 27 38,680 2S 37,010 20 , aebo 30 36,6)0 31 37,330 1 38,980 Total i,139,4b0 J -oi unsold and returned coplea. 8,933 Net total 1,189,885 Dully average 36.4J7 CHARLES C. ROSEWATER. General Manager. Subscribed In my presence and sworn tu before mo tills lat day of November, U07. ROBEttT HUNTnK, Notary Public WHEN OUT OF TOWN, ttnbserlbers leaving; thai city tern porarlly ahoald hart Tha Ba mailed to them. Addrcaa will ha changed aa often aa requested. The first enow of winter has arrived close to schedule time. No car short age above. The difference between a panic and prosperity 1b the difference between a net re and a fact. The Gentile voters at Salt Lake have furnished the Mormon leaders with another revelation. Dun's agency reports that trade is growing better. Dun's deals with commodities and not with stock trans actions. .... - Merchants 'Will be pleased to accept all cashiers' checks from customers ) ho want to do their Christmas shop ping now. Those fastidious persons who insist that Uncle Sam's money is not artistic might tell us how they like the cash iers' checks. , John L. Sullivan and Jake Kilrain are giving boxing exhibitions in Kan sas City. That town has a warm side far basbeens. One of the big graphaphone factor ies has been closed down by the finan cial stringency. Even a panic has its compensations. . General Funston should be informed that thft "unwhipped mob", in San Francisco got what' was coming to it on election day. - "Learn to be a good loaer." said Secretary Taft to the Filipinos, and he might have added, "like your friend, Mr. Bryan." Election is over, but the competi tion for the prospective vacancy in the county board is Just beginning and the entries are not all in yet. Water rates .are to bo reduced in New York City. Wall street knows that it has been paying too much money for water for a long time. It is evident that the president is still determined not to run again. He did not appoint a solitary Rough Rider to any of the federal offices In, Okla homa. Among the paradoxes of the finan cial situation is the lack of confidence by those who have the cash and the lack of cash by those who huvt the confidence. Wonder what Caleb Towers will do for a living it the new republican gov ernor of Kentucky refuses to allow him to be tried any more for the Goe bel murder? It in reported that the principal floral decoration at the big Bryan ban quet to be given by the Dahlman Democracy will be a huge "gum-shoe" formed of rubber plants. The dead letter offloe is going to turn over Its accumulation of souvenir postal cards to the orphan asylums, Just as if the lot of the orphans were UQt already hard enough. BB(BBBBaaaaBiaaaiBBBBBBaaBPBBaaaaamamnB The transformation of the foiu.tr fusion candidate for governor, George W. Berge. from a populist to a demo crat may interfere somewhat with the plana of the democratic bosses. Mr. btrge has not yet been weaned of his ambition to occupy the executive man sion, and while he does not ew(ug a lariat aa well as Mayor "Jim," he Is 'tetty active for foot race. rboR co.vror. Democratic organs are trying to get some comfort out of the fact that in the recent Nebraska election they managed to pull out one more district judge than they had before. The dem ocrats would like to regard the loss of a district judge by the republicans as an offset to the sweeping republican victory throughout the state, and more particularly because three or four ot the district judgeships captured by the democrats would have gone to the re publicans on a normal vote. . More careful scrutiny of the district Judgeship contests, however, will easily furnish the explanation. In one dis trict the defeat of the republican candidate was due entirely to local extraneous matters. By the eruption of a fierce war over the liquor question the democratic candidate in this dis trict was landed on the bench by an attempt of a republican county attor ney to enforce the "No treat law," all very much In the same fashion as last year in this district a democratic candidate for congress was landed In Washington astride of a telephone franchise. In two other Judicial districts where the democrats won the republican candidates were beaten because they had for years been branded with the railroad label, which was only covered over in the eleventh hour with a thin coat of whitewash.' For a'railroad at torney to announce that he has sev ered bis connection with his corporate employers and has sent back his passes In order to clear his path to a political office does not inspire popular confi dence. This is all the more true when the defeated, candidates are loaded down with noisome legislative rec ords of abject subserviency to he rail road lobby and have not even sat on the penitents' bench the usual proba tionary period. While there is only poor comfort in the district Judiciary results for the democrats, there should also be in it a lesson for the republicans, who should realize that the people in their present mood will resent and rebuke every palpable attempt to turn the courts over to the railroad retainers. WHERE THE BLAUE BEL0KV8. Political opponents of President Roosevelt and many ot the Napoleons of finance who have suffered by the recent slump in speculative stocks are still blaming the president for the financial disturbance. Those Indulging in this foolish talk must, in tlfelr sober senses, know belter and they must soon realize that they are not con vincing the public by their protesta tions. With signs of a subsidence of the strained conditions, it is possible to review the situatlo'n dispassionately and to place the blame where it be longs. ' ' '"" It may be admitted that the presi dent. In his Impetuous way, has sail some disturbing things at moments when reassuring words would have been welcome, but that does not make him responsible for the conditions against which be has complained and against whose continuance he has di rected the legal power of the govern ment. The trouble has not come from the creation of great corporations or aggregations of capital, but from the iniquitous practices of their promoters, the evils of over-capitalization and the illegal devices for crushing competi tion. The financial stress has been caused by stock watering jobbery and the manipulation of railway securities for the personal gain of men in posi tions ot trust, to the positive detriment of shippers and stockholders. No pub lic protest has been raised against the upbuilding ot gigantic manufacturing enterprises. The protest has come against the monopoly by these institu tions of commodities and peceBultles of life, on which the. people have beeu compelled to pay an extra tax. The president has no part in creating these conditions. His part was in their exposure, by calling attention to the resulting evila and pernicious practices. In the situation today, the people know how far the abuses have , gone and they know the remedies that must be applied. Where confidence has been shaken by exposures, it will re turn with the assurance that the evils have been remedied and a recurrence of the former intolerable conditions made impossible. It is announced that the comptroller of the currency is preparing to prosecute the bankers of New York who violated the law In the operation of "pyramid" financier ing, which led to the recent crisis in New York. But it was not the presi dent's fault that these banks could not stand investigation by the federal au thorities. It was the exposure of the abominable methods by which certain Individuals had manipulated the funds ot the banks for their personal gain. Instead of along safe and conservative lines, that bhook public confidence In them. The exposure have resulted already In marked good. The manipulators have bees forced from positions of trust in banking circles and the financial in stitutions have beeu freed from the domination ot the speculative interests. This has done more than any other oue thing to enable the banking interests of Nw York to recover their com posure and to deal with the actual situ ation with the calm assurance that they are equal to its demands. It is a trifle early to start a dispute over the exact location of the two fire en cine houses which are to be butlt in Omaha with the proceeds ot the bonds just voted for that purpose. The number ot Bremen cannot be in ert ased until after the new levy U avuPabU', gittng adrift inn 1 rraourws for the fire department. If the new fire engine houses' are located by next spring and finished by next fall they will be ready in ample time. TREE-OhOWlXa JS A BCS1SKS. While the Department ot Agriculture has been doing a splendid work In brging upon the American people the necessity of preserving and increasing the forests of the nation against the day when the timber supply will be exhausted, more should be accom plished by the recent efforts of Head Forester Pinchot. to show that there is a profit in tree planting, just aa there is profit in raising corn, wheat, cotton and other products of the soil. It is admitted that the returns are consider ably slower than those reaped from the growing of cereals, but their value promises to be all the greater, owing to the inroads being made annually upon our timber resources, with the conse quent certainly that the timber when grown will command a good price In the markets. Tree growing as a business Is yet in the experimental stage, but the de partment has furnished statistics of ex periments already made which offer the greatest encouragement for further work along this line. The department records show that a 16-year-old ratalpa plantation in Pawnee county, Nebraska, gave a net return of $152.17 per acre, when cut last year. Another Nebraska catalpa grove, when 14 years old, produced a net profit of $170.50 per acre, while a lO-yea'-oId catalpa plan tation in Kansas showed a net value of $197.55 per acre. Osage orange has produced as high as 2,640 first-class posts and 2,272 second-class pouts per acre. Rod cedar, in plantation 25 years old, has attained a value of $200 per acre and European larch is worth from $200 to $300 per acre. Much encouragement to this desir able industry may be lent by legisla tive action. In Pennsylvania a law has been passed rebating for thirty five years 95 per cent of the taxes on woodland. This is expected to apply to some 55,000 acres of neglected for est land which was taxed as high as other land, and, because profitless, was abandoned. The new law has already caused plans for a general reforesta tion of the property. Connecticut, New Hampshire, Indiana, Maine, Rhode Island and Wisconsin also have en acted laws reducing taxation to en courage the growing of forests. In Nebraska, the taxable valuation of land is exempted from any addition by reason of growing trees upon It. The growing of trees as a business should be encouraged everywhere. It is a field that offers splendid Inducements for investments that are certain to re turn liberal profits in the end. Railroads have attributed their de lay in ordering new rails to the dis turbed condition, of the money market, but it appears that the trouble has been caused largely by the refusal of the Steql trust to make rails according to the new specifications without an advance in price. The rate has now been fixed at $31 a ton and Pittsburg is expecting orders for two or three million tona of rails to be released at once. The defeat of county division out In CuBter county means that Nebraska will continue to count up Just ninety counties for a while longer. Nebraska has several counties embracing more area than a New England state, and with the steady increase of population Nebraska is due before many years to redecorate the map with a dozen new counties. The nepotism microbe has not got ten into the state house very far since the republicans regained control of Nebraska not nearly eo far as it did when the demo-pops tenanted the offices. Moreover, the nepotism mi crobe, if taken while it is young, may be eradicated without great effort. The proposed live stock show for Omaha is a good thing which should be pushed along, but it must not be d.scussed ai In the same class with the horse show. At a live stock show the live stock constitutes the main at traction. Mayor Becker of Milwaukee has de clined an offer of $1,000, a week to go into vaudeville. If the vaudeville man agers insist upon getting a mayor who can do funny stuuts they might find It to their advantase to search the Omaha city hall. It looks as it Omaha were at last waking up to the Importance of the movement for development of the In land waterways. Omaha's location on i the Missouri rlver is Just as good for wate. transportation as Kansas City's location on the Kaw. Four army colonels who refused to stand the fifteen-mile riding test have been ordered before the retiring board. These men will have the contempt ot Colonel Bryan, who has been in the Baddle since 1896, and without a very satisfactory mount at that. Hearst announces that his lu de pendence league will g? it alone In the fisht next year. It will have to do so. Both ot the old parties are still nursing bruises acquired by a fusion with the Hearstltes. Congressman Burton haa lucreaeed the tUft esteem in which be is held by the American people by refusing to offer any voluminous explanation of his defeat for mavor of Cleveland. The other democratic members at the sly toum ll might learn sonifthjag to their advantage by etudylng the re turns on the appeal of their colleague for an endorsement of his councll manlc record In the form of promotion to a lucrative county office. todv la Flsrares. , Chlcag-o Tribune. Mr. Bryan win And It Interesting; to study the election return from Kentucky and try to figure out what the republican ma- jonty probably would havfc been If ho had mad a few more speeches In that state. I Farina; a Hard Problem. ?!'lr'"ng,0n , , Lte. Indians are face to face with , ... . , . ., , 'position to work or starve. The is The the propoi even worse than the situation the hobo facea when he Is requested to saw a half cord of wood In payment for his dinner. (rowdlna; the Festivities. Washington Herald. Unless the financial stringency Is relieved and prices come down soon. It may bo advisable to call a conference for the purpose- of separating Thanksgiving Day and Christmas by something more than four weeks. latereetinar. If Troe. Phlladeplhla Press. The claim that the defeat on CoifgreBS man Burton for mayor of Cleveland puts Secretary Taft out of the presldental rnce Is Interesting and sensational, but up to tho present time It doesn't make the nomi nation of anybody else absolutely certain. 1'resldentlnl Shake-l p. Lrslie'a Weekly. The sliake-up which President Roosevelt's reforms have given to the politics of the last few years hus mttde sweeping changes In the personnel of the working leaders of Dotn parties, aa well aa In their Ideals and their methods. The six yesrs which have passed since Roosevelt entered the White Houso have placed new men st tho helm In the control of both the republican and the democratic parties In most of the Impor tant states. POINTERS OV STATE POLITICS. Howells Journal: The Douglas county fellows who looked upon Jim Dahhnn as a political Moses have another feruess coming. That Jonah will be thrown over board before the next state campaign. Sterling Sun: The wisdom of ihc Mate primary election law' Is more fully demon strated as time goes on. People should be a little more fully Informed concern ing the various candidates before -the primary, and they will seldom make a mistake In their selection. Allen News: Tho spectacle of u. county liko Dixon, with over 300 republican ma jority, filling the principal county offices with fuslunlsts, is a disgrace to tile party and goes to show that a whole lot of peo ple who claim to be good republicans, are after all only half republicans, and that half bad republicans. Beatrice Sun: Frank Harrison demands the immedlato organisation of a Roose velt club. He believes that the election returns enow a decided preference for Roosavelt and feels that delays are -tan-gerous. Mr. Harrison, la at present hold ing down a fat Job under Mr. Roosovjlt, which may In soma meaaure account tor his Interest at this time. York Times: Chairman Hayward of the republican atate commit too 1a to bo com mended for the clean and successful palgn through which we have Just passed. The atmosphere of he state its clearer and more wholesome than it ever haa been before after a campaign. There arS no bad sores and no. ugly, things to repint. Mr. Hayward is a clean, bright, aJfable gentleman and will be potent In the coun cils of the party. Beatrice Express: William Hayward, chairman of the republican state central committee, wins large credit for the man ner In which he led the late campaign. His selection for thtf place Is shown to have been a wise one. His influence for a united party was potent, and was effec tual in obliterating any spirit of resent ment felt over the defeat of Judge Sedg wick. Mr. Hayward is acknowledged to be a coming man In Nebraska politics. Norfolk Press: A "whirlwind campaign" of speech-making on the eve of election doesn't amount to as much as it used to. The voters had about all made up their minds on how they were going to vote when Mr. Bryan started on his tour, and all his audiences were composed of fellows who would vote, for any' old thing that wore a democratic label. Tlio democratic party needs a few less orators and a few more good newspapers with editors who have brains enough to conduct a campaign on winning lines. Falrbury News: It would afford us great satisfaction to support Roosevelt for re election next year, but wb have no sym pathy with tha sentiment that he la the only available republican for that poBltlou. The party has never reached that stage at any time In Its history. It has very many men who could be elected, and who would fill the position with honor and dig nity after election. If Mr. Roosevelt is persistent In his refusal to accept, a man will be forthcoming who will take up the work where he left off, and neither the party nor the reforms he stood for will suffer thereby. We have an abiding faith In the wisdom of the republican party. Beatrice Times: It la to be admitted that the bolting In the republican ranks of Oage county was furious. On of the best antidotes for this Is so to amend the primary election law as to require a ma jority vote to nominate a candidate. Take It on the sheriff in this county at the lection the other day, for example. Cf course the men who ran aaalnst Mr. Trude for the nomination did not bolt him at the polls. But supposing they had done so. Aa It was. he got "Just over the zence." If they had turned out aga. it him at the polls, he surely would hav been snowed entirely under. The -oi it Is, that with a measly plurality nomina tion there ia nothing to hold the party machinery together, unless the candid ite Just happens to suit all tlu- party mem bers. This seldom happens. Livers Exchanged IF the active liver of the 1 cod-fbh could be put into the place of the torpid liver of the consumptive it would probably do him a world of good. Next bot thing ii Scott's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil. Almost ai jood mi new liver. The great power of SCOTT'S LMULSIQN at a fluh-pro-!icer prove that much of the activity of the cod't liver !t contained In every ipoonfil. A 3 Dnis.nw SOc aa4 f 1.00. TO VOI R TET. O MRAELt Colonel Walters' Remarks on Ken tnckr and Democracy. Louisville Courier-Journal. If e were asked to put In a single sen tence the cause of democratic disaster In Kentucky we should answer. The One Man Tower. The One Man rower established by Will lam Ooebcl descended to John Crepr Wlckllfte Beckham. Always a precarious . possession. It became perlloua and finally deadly In the hands of an ambitious, un sparing organiser sacrificing everybody and everything tho ethlre and practice of Just government along with the prlnc'pleg of id'mocracy-to the single purpose of build- . . . ., ' ... lng a self-perpetuating machine like that ' . ,7 , !of the Camerons, and thereafter of Quay, In Pennsylvania. But the liluegraas state Ir not as the Keystone state. The truo Kentucklan bows his head to no man's yoke. Ken tucky was about to rebel against the Im mortal Clay when the Sage of Ashland died. What Clay could not do, what Breckinridge could not do, what Guthrie could not do, lay not beneath the com petency of a successor of far Inferior tal enta. Yet the times have been ripe for schem ing politics. Ten long years have witnessed little else among our public men than dicker and barter. Irradiated by scarcoly a gleam of conviction, warmoft by never a heart-beat of generosity. Beginning with perfidy, presently Pharisaism ruled the hour. For the first time In Kentucky the honest politician was regarded as tho poittl- clun who would stand nitehed and stay bought. Treachery, too common to be rated as one of the fine arts, became a commodity. To somo it became an asset If all the circumstances entering Into the shake-up given the democratic organization of Loulsvlllo by the democratic, organts atl.-m of Frankfort could be plainly et forth the peP'o would draw back with amazement and horror. The strange thing about It, however, was not so much Its discreditable origin and rurpose as Its luck of wisdom and forecast In politics claiming to be practical and re cognizing no law except their own advan tage. Conceding that It was In itself a good thing for good government, how could the self-aggrandizing men behind It haVe Imagined that It would Inure to their profit? It gave tho repibllcani their chance and they were quick to Improve It. But the defeat which haa overtaken the democrats was infinitely moro far-roachlng. The queer proceeding with respect to the mountain feudists, ythe Immunity enjoyed by the outlaws of tho tobacco belt, the snap-primary with Its stuffed returns, the shameless use of the public patronage In dovetailing the machine, were enough to arouse the distrust of fair-minded men. Even these things, however, might huve been overcome, If they had brought with them some shining qualities dazzling the eyes of the people and appealing to state pride. Of eloquence there was none. Not a sentence was heard that could be de scribed as sclntlllant. not a thought was uttered that could take root to the popular heart and be remembered, but only medioc rity talking against time, while organism got In the ruthless work. Finally, as the crowning mistake of stolidity masquerading as a statesman, theso blind leaders of the blind, wholly misconceiving, the force of a hysterical wave of prohibition, sought to mount this and ride it, cutting loose not only from democratic tradition, but from the facta of the situation and the logic of the argu ment. At the last moment the day might have been saved If the democratic ticket had said, aa indeed to all Intents and purposes the republican ticket did say "Prohibition does not prohibit. - Nowhere has it resulted In anything but evasion and hypocrisy, adulteration and outlawry, smuggling and extortion. What shall it profit us If we confiscate 1 00,000,000 of contagious values, transferring $2,000,000 or X3.000.000 of taxes from l'.e manufacture and distribution of distilled and malt liquors to the shoulders of the already over-burdened farmer, merely In order to make Kentucky aa dry oa Maine, which Is not dry at all?" There could bo no answer to this. It is not only true in ltuelf, but It Is true democracy. Fancy a democratic ticket i preaching sumptuary laws in the stute and a democratic ticket preaching no law at all In tho cityl How was It possible for vic tory to emanate from auch an abandon ment of sound political tergiversation? The Courier-Journal hus done its bvst to avert a disaster which was inevitable un less the leaders of tha party, seeing It coming, eould also see the need to trim their lamps and set their house in order. We have been unable to utter a word of warning which was not violently resented by tho organs of the One Man Power. Nothing short of crooking tha pregnant hingea of the knee and becoming Incense burners with the rest could satisfy the in satiate demand of the time servers wko picked up crumbs from the official table or loafed about the throne of grace. No motive was bad enough, absurd enough, to bo ascribed to a newspaper which had committed the slnsrle offense of honestly supporting Itself and of calling its soul its own. Yet these ten years the Cour'er-Jour-nal has given Its party no advice that was not good advice, , dlulntereHted advice, the disregard of which has Invariably led to discomfiture of one sort and another, and now to overwhelming- defeat. It is too eurly for those who are not killed outriKht to do more than crawl out from under the ruins of the houe that has tumbled about us. It was, Indeed, an earth quake. So was that at San Francisco, and a conflagration as well: but, lo, the up rising! Just as the people of the Golden Gate have put foot unou the evil thing that were have turned their backs upon ma chliiH politics may the democrats of the bluegraHS country come to their own araln, thromrh tha power of democracy unterrlfled and undefiled. through heart of grace and deep convictiont for now, as ever, the vole of the people is the vole of Clod, and Op p'ttinlt v. ono mora c'ad In r"bes of light, stands tiptoe on the hilltops and aye even to us poor, betrayed demoerata ven to the machine-made men that are not yt dad to the force of Truth aud tha rlory of the state "Tliev d- ma Wrong when they say I culuc tut ir.nre Wh-n -wee I knock anj fail ta find you In; r r .'..v ilay I hi a n ri outside yur doir And bid you win. ske. anil rise to right and "Wa" for awav! perlslivd chaittes passed ' Wefp not fur golden aces on the wane! Each night I burn the records of the duy At aunri'M every soul lu born again. "When dwn in mire, wring not your hand and ween; I lend my arm tu all who say, 'I can.' N" shame-tuc-d urul ev-r aank so dep But yet might rif-t- and be again a man. "Art thou a mourner? Rouse thee from thy spell. Art tliou a fetnner'. gins may be forgiven. Each morning gives tli wings tu flea from hell. Each night a star to guide thy fe t to heaveu." An lafalllaar la. Nw Tork Tribune. j The lo'ji.iry is atill doing so much busi ltt that there are not cars enough to take care of it. That U a fc-iod Indication of con ! tinned iiiosprtiy. 3iooo. Per Year for If you are in good amount, or a larger or to you by a contract giving you and your ' income, beginning at tiie end of stipula and continuing as long as jour wife, a life income beginning Immediately If y The Mutual Life Insurance Company invites investigation from those who would like to make sure the welfare of tl.eir loved ones. It invites investiga ( tion of its assets, of its policies, of its rates, and just now especially of the savings made beine made by its new management. ' How would you like $1,000 per year for lifer for folder showing who have tried this method how they like it The Time For the new forms of policies write to The Mutual Life Insurance Company of New Or 8TAYHOPE FLEMING, Manager, Flx National Unnk Iildg Corner 13th and Fnrnam Streets, Omaha, Neb. PKRROKAL OTE. If the four queens go on j& visit to Kng land, as threatened, what a chance it will make for the poker players. Texas mobs now wait until their man has been Indicted before they lynch him. They are bound to ahow that they have some respect for law. Tho wine harvest of France Is said to be UW.OOO.CCO gallons. In addition to this must be considered the California wine that will como back with French labels. Lieutenant Coicnel Webb C. Hayes, presl- dent of the China battlefield commission, has sailed for China. He goes to place tho bronze tubleU on the monuments that were erected in Tientsin and Peking In honor of the American soldiers and sailors who lost their lives In the Boxer . out break. Dr. Edward L. Partridge Is advocating the erection of a national preserve In the Highlands of tho Hudson, commemorative of the war of tho revolution. It Is to In cludes the old revolutionary fortifications and landmarks scattered between Cornwall and Flshklll on the north and eeksklll and Jones Point on the south, besides the West Point military 'reservation and tha lona Island naval station. The trio would embrace fifty-seven square miles. Governor Magoon of Cuba on Monday presented to Dr. Carlos Flnley, chief of the Department of Health and sanitation of Havana, the Mary Klngslcy medal In recognition of his discovery of the mos quito theory of yellow fever. This medal Is awarded by the Liverpool School for the Study of Tropical diseases in memory of Miss Mary Klngsley, the African traveler. The presentation was made In the presence of a large gathering of local officials and scientists. XO ROOSEVELT REACTION. 1'aa.vaillnav Search for m Slaw In the Election Returns. New York World (Dim.) However, anxious we are to find some thing in Tuesday's elections which can be construed as a wholesome and adequate re buke to President Roosevelt we have been unsuccessful. However anxious wo are to find encour agement for the democratic party and evi dence of brighter democratic prospects, the returns refuse to assist us. On the contrary, the figures Justify Iresl- dent Roosevelt's exultant boant that the returns, are "extremely gratifying" and that as a whole "the showing has been an Improvement over what It was four years ago and eight years ago." Comparatively, the republican party polls ' Its heaviest vote in presidential years, the democratic party In off years. This was an off year. There should have been de cisive democratic victories with correspond, ing republican defeats. WTiere are they?- Veering with (he Wind. Pittsburg Dispatch. Having boxed the compass of national Istiues, Mr. Bryan ia edging around to the old Cleveland doctrine on the tariff. If this falls to arouse democratic eotluinlann the Nebraskan may begin to conclude there la some coolness toward himself. CSHOE Jot MEN Originality is characteristic of the Packard shoe. It is Original in Design, in Fit, and Service. It pleases the eye, the foot and the pocketbook. Sold at $3.50, $4.00 and $5.00 M. K PACKARD CO., Makers, Brooklon, Mass. If your dealer does not carry the Packard Shoe, write us for Catalogue and name of nrareat dealer who does. M. A. Packard Co., Erockton, Mass. British Columbia Shingles Have a Reputa tion That No Competitor Cun Shake Clear. Red Cedar and packed FULL COUNT. $3.75 per M. The price doesn't begin to tell the value. This is for cash, because we are over stocked. Also a large stock of lumber at 20 dis count for csvsh. Grit Top, absolutely the best pre pared roofing. $1.90 a square complete for cash. lAll Bi-rgains. C. N. DIETZ LUMBER CO. 00 N Life health, approxima smaller sum can b either shall live, or gl to Act is NOW. York. N. Y. I.AVGIII.VG I.I.K. Test) I hear he has broken wltli lui. Jefcs Not exactly. He wn tur.k her and when nh dlcovered that l u i broke with him. Baltimore AmikMn. IT "The idea! wonder why 1 exclnlmed Mr. Kh, that woman Is valrl.i: so. Probably," replied her IiuhIihii trying to find out why you ur. at her." Philadelphia Prens. "li.- Nellie, the Beautiful Clouk Mo.l.l a lovely complexion poor dear Loir, sometimes! Bertha, the Pivor Hewing Machini ll.M - (iii ! Yes. and how charmingly he enn IiIujii when bIio' haa the colored lights iirmiihcj to bult her! Chicago Tribune. "Ah." said the young liUKhaiiU. "Ii la Hard to part' "You are irolng to leuve nit !" hri. k. 1 the young wire. "No, Indeed." replied he, "I wns i 1 --n 111 to this biscuit." Houston Po!t. "I havo read," said the caller, "tiui ,,n of the Greek artists painted a bai.'i i.f fruit that was so natural that th- tiri came and pecked at It." The artist sighed. "I only wlnh." he said, "that 1 inn . I paint a ham sandwich that might 1 mi taken for food.' Cleveland rinln Dealn. Reporter (writing up apartiumits of k'"'1 opera prima donna) What maKnliierm works of art and furnishings Madam bcreechellnl has! Attendant (proudly) Yes, and she them for a song. Baltimore American. "Mind you." said the man with the bulg ing brow, "I don't say that every woman who wears ear ornnfiients will crowd la front of you when you are siundina: in lin at the box office of a theater waltinir for a chance to buj" your tickets, hut I ilo anv that every woman who haa ever tried to crowd In front of me at a box office won? ornaments In her ears." Chicago Tiilnnn'. WR ITE THEM A LETTER." Author Unidentified. Don't go to tho theater, concert or ball. But stay in your room tonight; Deny yourself to the t'rienda that call, And a good long letter .write; Write to the sad. old folks Ht home. V ho sit when the day Is done. With folded hands and dnwncaHt c And think of tho absent son. Don't foolishly scribble. "Excuse mv liasle - 1'vo scarcely the time to write." Lest tin ir brooding .huuglits go wandering oaca To ...any a bygone night. When they lost tnnir needed le p anj rest. And every breath was a prayer "Jli-n. o woi. ii leave tho.r u.-il 'Pte babe To their tender love and care. Don't lot them feel that you've no i need Of their love or counsel wIm.; For the heait grows Miungly sensitive When bkh has dimmed tho eyes. It might bri well lo let them believe You never fornot them quite; That you ucem It a pleasure wh n far am'ay. Long letters homo to write. Don't think that tho young and gMdy friends, Who make your pawl line gay, ITe hali the anxious thought lor yotl That the old folks havo todav. Tho duty of writing do not put off, Let sleep or pleasure wait. Lest the letter lor which they long lnr.e longed Be a day or an hour too late. For the loving, sail old folkn at Lome. With locks fast turning white. Are lnnginR to Iwar from their absent sua, Wrltu them a letter tonight. TB.Ei MARK, orequAiTY tely this b assured wife a life ted period vine U ou die. II Send i ' 1214 Farnam Tel. Douglas SI.