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UM AHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER SO. 1007. 'Hie Omaha Daily BEt FOUNDED BT EDWARD ROSEWATBR. VICTOR ROSE WATER, EDITOR. Rntered at Omttii FostoLfice as second inn mauer. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Dally Ba (without Sunday), one year..M.0O Ially Br ni Sunday, one yaar Sunday Bee, one year 8-W Saturday t, one year IM DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Dally He (Including Sunday), per week.. lie I 'ally Bpc (without Sunday), per week..loc Kvenlni Bra (without Bunday). per week so Evening lite (with Sunday), per week lOu Add res all coniplalnte Of lrriularltl in ocuvery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha City riail Pulldlnf. Council bluffa 18 Scott Street. Chicago 1640 I'nlveralty UulldinB. New York-lfc Home Life Insurance Bulldlna. Wahin-ton-728 Fourteenth Street N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communication relatlna to news and edt torlal matter should be addreaaed, Oman Mee, tentorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express er portal order Bsvahla In TK Ru Puhllsh InK PomDIIO. Only 2-cent stamps received In payment of man account Peraonal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. STATEMENT or CIRCULATION. Slate of Nebraska. Doaalas County, est Charles C. Rosewater. general manager cf The Bee Publishing company, being duly swern. says that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of OotoU.?, W. was as tuiiows: 1 .. 36,170 2...., S8.6S0 t a,eoo 4 36,380 ( 86,960 85,600 7 86,440 36,690 3S.700 10 36,860 11 36,490 IS 36,(36 11 ,3O0 14 36,830 1J... 36,930 14 M,M0 Total IT 3.T0 II 3,5S0 1 36,540 SO 40,500 U 38,680 21 36,940 1$ 87J43 14 36400 ft 36,780 J( 36,700 IT 36,580 37,010 21 86.9B0 10 36,810 II 37,330 .1,138,480 Lass unsold and returned copies. ,MB Net total 1,138,565 Dally average 34.4J7 CHARLES C. ROSEWATER, General Manner. , Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this lat day of November. ROBERT HUNTER, Notary Public WHEN OUT OF TOWN. Bnbscrlkers tearing; the city tem porarlly should bar The Re mallet to them. Address will be chaaged aa ften as raqaestad. Kebraaka and Iowa farmers are too busy husking corn to waste any time busking bees. A Detroit woman baa refused to throw her money to the dogs by devis ing most of it to a hospital for cats. At that, Thanksgiving Is not in It with the Fourth of July with furnish ing subjects for the hospital and the undertaker. Dr. Osier la a little slow in send ing his telegram to Pedestrian Wes ton, who, at the age of 70, has Just completed bis 1,400-nrHo walk. A society leader In New York turned on the gas and the phonograph at the same time. The coroner's jury will have to decide which caused the fatality. The democrats would be happy enough If they could only believe the reports they are circulating about the collapse of the Taft boom. Speaker Cannon may not know it, but 'there are 886 members of the house, each convinced that he possesses special Qualifications for appointment on the ways and meanB committee. Mayor "Jim" got back alive from the great conspiracy at French Lick Springs. But. of course, no one can tell what might sot have been done bad not Mayor "Jim" been there. "The trouble with Santo Domingo is that its people have never learned to live within their Incomes," says the New York World. Anyway, the Santo Dominicans need not feel lonesome. Inquiry shows that twenty-five col lege graduates are working as street car conductors at Pittsburg. Yet some persona insist that a college education does not help a man in earning a living. Sos-in-law Nick Long worth Is a real sport all right. To tho charge that he has won $3,000,000 on Wall street recently, he retorts that he will give 11,600,000 to the man that can prove it Senator "Jeff" Davis of Arkansas says be "will make Rome howl" when he gets to Washington. Washington and the country will appreciate it if "Jeff" will just confine his attentions to Rome. A dispatch from Lincoln says that Mr. Bryan expects to remain at home during most of the next presidential campaign. That man simply seems determined to make himself popular at any coat. The Kaiser's gift of f 10,000 in tips to the heHvat Windsor castle will lot avail. Ambassador Reld, who spends $1,000,000 a year of his I1T.000 salary is the real idol of the London courtiers and flunkies. Unfortunate as it may be, it can not be helped. The postponement of the Tbaw trial until late in January la going to give the entire membership of the Pert Paragraphera' union an ex cuse for talking about the January Thaw. Governor Crawford of South Dakota would like to be promoted to the United States aerate. Governor L FoMette rf Whwonsin la already there, and Governor Cummius of Iowa is on his v ay. Pui why not Governor Craw ford of South Dakota DVRNISO THC XATIOXa WMALTB, The boast of Americana that this country produces more wealth each year than any other country on the globe, is true enough and proper cause for pride, but it loses some of Its effee tlveness when the other side of the case Is presented. In the -current number of Appleton's magazine F. W. Fiupatrlck of Washington mar shals some astounding figures show ing the almost criminal carelessness on the part of Americans In their failure to take proper precautions against fire losses. As a nation we own, according to the figures offered, 11,500,000 build ings of all classes and erect more new structures each year than any people on earth, but tally SO per cent of the new construction is necessary to fill the gaps made by flames. Eighty thousand buildings, valued at $200,' 000,000, are destroyed by fire in this country every year. Fires are lncreaa lng at a far more rapid ratio than either wealth or population. In twen ty-flve years, property valued at $3,600,000,000 has been destroyed by fire. The average fire loss in Boston Is $1,600,000 a year. The average loss in a European city of the same size Is $160,000. New York normally Indulges In 8,700 fires a year and Chicago In 4,100; we burn up three theaters, three public halls, twelve churches, ten schools, two hospitals, two asylums, two colleges, six apart ment houses, three department stores, two jails, twenty-six hotels, 140 fiat buildings and 1,600 homes every week in the year, according to the verified figures of fire losses. The loss by fires does not constitute the total penalty in this direction. It costs $300,000,000 annually to main- lain fire departments of the country and to supply them with new equip ment. About $195,000,000 a year Is paid to the Insurance companies for premiums and othor millions are lost by Interrupted business and the time spent In adjustment of fire losses and the rebuilding of destroyed property. The remedy suggested calls for a material strengthening of the back bones of city councils and building in spectors. Admitting the extra cost of the construction of fireproof build ings, it is proposed to remit taxes on such buildings until the amount re mitted would cover th'dilrerence be tween the cost of the fireproof build ing and one of the fire-trap variety. This way out is, however, Impossible under existing constitutional limita tions in most If not all of our states. Severe as the arraignment is, Amer icans have not profited by their costly J experience. ,W are spending millions annually hi consretion work that offers little or no resistance to fire, while the majority of build tags erected In most of the European cltiaa are practically fireproof. It is not to our credit that half rite buildings we con struct each year only take the place of those unnecessarily destroyed by fire. A BWWLIC.HT OH THB GAME. Speaker Cannon, John Sharp Will iams, Joel W. Babcock and Senator elect. Bankhead of Alabama were playing for pastime and a small ante, in a Washington hotel. It was Uncle Joe's deal. When the cards were scrutinized. Bankhead discovered that he was the possessor of four Jacks. Williams had to look twice and squeeze them several times to con vince himself that he had four jacks. Babcock had four mooarchs and Uncle Joe's even glance revealed four kings in his hand, with an ace for a kicker. The betting, as may be imagined by those familiar with the rules of the game, was a little spirited. After everything from the year's salary and mileage to superfluous Jewelry had been stacked In the center of the table, the show-down came. The Washlng tbe Post describes the crisis in these words: There was a paralysed pause. Then Speaker Cannon reached for the deck and looked at It. "Gentlemen," said he. "If any one of you lata It get Into the newspapers I wfll see to It that he never gets a decent committee while I remain la public life. It shall never ret out to the country that Joseph O. Cannon of Illinois played poker with a pinochle deck.'' And the ram broke up. Such a story, too good to keep, was of course told m strictest confidence to a few friends, soon becoming pub He property, and the speaker's worst fears are in a fair way of realization. The country has stood for much in the way of candidates for office, but it Is not ready, as the speaker admits, to give the highest office In the world to a man who will sit in a poker game and deal from a pinochle deck, until be shows evidence of reform. cnooajNO tub corrjrojv city. The republican national committee will meet at Washington next week to choose the convention city and arrange the other details that must be settled before the call is Issued for the selec tion of delegates to put In nomination the next republican candidates for president and vice president. The advance lgns point to a brsk competition for the honor and emolu ments that attach to the cholci of the convention meeting place, with at least half a dozen cities actively la the race. When the conflicting claims are sifted out, however, it will probably be found that the real choke will be between Chicago and Kansas City. Both Chicago and Kansas City are In the heart of the central west and are reasonably easy of access alike from all parts of the country. Both have commodious convention halls and both have adequate hotel facilities. So far as the republicans of Omaha and Nebraska are. concerned the cou- ventlon at either of these two places would be entirely convenient. Of late Omaha has been working to gether a little more closely with Kan eas City as having a comraunlty-of Interest as Missouri river towns. Not seeking the convention for Itself thl time it would not be unnelghborly for Omaha to throw a few bouquets at Kansas City in the hope some day of drawing on Kansas City for reciprocity when Omaha has something of a slml lar nature at stake. This much is certain with reference to the selection of the convention city, not only for the republicans, but also for the democrats as well, that the great west is recognized as a most lm portant factor In the next presidential campaign and that its influence will weigh strongly in the decision of all the preliminary questions. LATINO THE GOLD ZOO. The Pulhnan company will, it la an nounced from the headquarters, soon declare an extra dividend distributing i du.uoo.ooo of an accumulated surplus among stockholders of the company, mis is in addition to the regular divl dend of 8 per cent paid annually on a capitalization of $74,000,000. a yearly distribution of $5,92 0,000. The divl slon of the existing surplus is under stood to be due to the recent action of the company abandoning control of the corporation of the town of Pullman and turning attention entirely to the sleeping car business. The fact that a suit is pending in the federal court which will determine whether the Pull man company Is a common carrier and thus subject to the new federal rate law may also have something to do with the determination of the direc tors of the company to cut the $30, 000,000 melon. The Pullman company has been one of the blggfat money makers in the country, reports of its agents and oh- bylsts to state legislative bodies to the contrary, notwithstanding, with an original capital of $30,000,000, of wmen a large share was charged to patents, the company found In 1898 that it had a surplus of $18,000,000, aimougn the regular 8 per cent divl dends had been paid each year Blnce 1867. This surplus was added to the capital stock, each shareholder having nis stock intreased by . 60 per cent With a capitalization of $54,000,000 the dividend rate was reduced to 6 per cent, but was restored to 8 per cent at the end of the first year. In 1899 the Wagner company, with a capital stock of $20,000,000, was absorbed and the Pullman capitalization increased to $74,000,000. Since that time the company has not only paid its regular 8 per cent dividend, but has been accu mulating a surplus of more than $3,. 000,000 annually. The total dividend payments of the company since its organization are staggering. For thirty years the an nual dividends were $2,680,000, or a total of $80,400,000, to which must be added the $18,000,000 surplus divided in 1898, making a grand dividend total of $98,400,000 up to the Pullman-Wag ner merger in 1899. Since that date, or for nine years ending with last June, the cowpany has paid a yearly dividend of 8 per cent on a capitali zation of $74,000,000, or $6,920,000 a rear, a total of $53,280,000 for the nine years, making a grand total, In cluding the $8,000.000 that is soon to be divided, of $191,800,000 paid by the company since Its orgamlzatlon. The local democratic organ rushes to the defense of Colonel Bryan's claim to sponsorship for the proposed guaranty of national bank deposits, which is be ing disputed by numerous competitors for the honor. Who saw it first 1b really not all-important. Congressman Boyd of the Third Nebraska district announced some weeks ago that he bad a bllt along this line tucked away In his inside pocket and Congressman Hlnsbaw of the Fourth district has likewise been talking in print about championing a measure to Insure the safety of bank creditors. It Is now claimed for M. Bryan that he pro posed a bill In congress somewhat of this nature during his second term, away back in 1892, and old-timers are declaring that the ideptlcal idea was being loudly promulgated by the no torious Charley Mosher Just before the collapse of his Capital National bank,' which later gave him the excuse for retirement behind the walls of the Sioux Falls penitentiary. But the scheme was. not original even with Mosher, and it Is barely possible be got it from Mr. Bryan. If It is a good proposition it should be adopted, no matter who advocates it, and if it Is a bad proposition It should be turned down, no matter who may be offended. Information from the seat of author ity at Lincoln is to the effect that not withstanding the election of a successor to occupy his seat in the state senate supposed to have been vacated by re moval from the state the "Hon. Joe" Burns declines to be dislocated as a Nebraska law-maker. The "Hon. Joe" has had more political Jolts than any other prominent political figure In Ne braska, but through all his somersaults and double somersaults he has always managed, cat-like, to alight upon his feet. Should the unforeseen emer gency by any chance present a special cession of the legislature during the coming year it Is dollars to doughnuts that the "Hit. Joe" will be cavorting around the senate chamber doing busi ness at the old stand. Another delegation of Indians from the Omaha reservation is to make a pilgrimage to Washington to re-enforce some pending claims agalust the gov ernment. Such an excursiou to Wah- Inton Is to the Indians second only to an around-the-world Jaunt with Buffalo Bill. There will be some tall tales told when the pilgrims return to the reser vatlon. "American reporters are optimists," says Mrs. Elinor Glynn. "They look on life from the bright side,' from the view point of men who succeed. Your reporters In this country are such gentlemen and they are so accurate.' We do not know Mrs. Glynn, but have a suspicion that she Is trying to save the amount that would go usually to the employment of a press agent The Ute Indians, who have been on the warpath in South Dakota, have gone to work at railroad construction and have agreed to send their children to school. In another year or two the Indians will be taking part in politics and will then be no better than white folks. When states fall out the public learns something of the truth. Maine's boast over chipping 1,000,000 bushels of apples to Europe develops the fact that California Is preparing to ship 1,000.000 gallons of champagne to France to be properly bottled and labeled. It is duly recorded in the early chronicles of Omaha that our first post office was located In the postmaster's hat That rural visitor who complains of the loss of his money, which he had likewise stored In his chapeau, was, therefore, mistakenly following an il lustrious and time-honored precedent. The navigability of the Missouri was proved more than tone hundred years ago by Lewis and Clark on their fa mous exploring expedition. Is it not strange then that anyone should have to go half way across the continent in this twentieth century to testify to the tact that the Missouri can be made to carry a great river traffic! The killing of a coyote within the city limits of Omal'a on Thanksgiving day is an Inexcusable offense. A requi sition should have been made at once for Mayor "Jim" and his lariat and the privilege accorded to His Honor to rope the ferocious beast. Pretty Read Ones. Chicago News. It looks as If the banks would resume paying out money with even less fuss than they suspended that pleasing employment. Pnt to Good L'se. Chicago Tribune. Bettor use some of those nice new checks hi buying Christmas presents now. Tou don't .know how' soon they may he called In and replaced with ordinary money. Baralin Bsmlnesit Looking; TJp. Philadelphia Press. The rather unuBual activity of burarlara all around the country is undoubtedly due to the general knowledge that people are hoarding money In their homes Instead of keeping It In the banks, where, neither burglar nor anybody else can get It Just now. Coming Oat of It. Chicago Record-Herald. John D. Rockefeller says the worst mirt of the money- stringency Is over, and, fur thermore, he refuses to bxllcve that Roose velt was wholly respenslbla for the trouble. John D. Is likely to wake up sotae morn ing and discover that he has Inst the unanimous support of Chancellor Day. How Railroad Provoke. Resentment. i Kansas City Time. Although Missouri, Kansas Oklahoma. Nebraska and most of the other states have the 2-cent fare In force. i(.ko from one state Into another state is still charged for at S cents a mile, under the technical guise of "Interstate commerce." Yet the railroads profess to be shocked and grieved that the traveling public should feel any rosentment. Valae of the Shtnplaater. Philadelphia Rucord. It is estimated that there has been rmt afloat In desnlto of leirnl nrnhihitin. k.. banks and other employing corporations as much as 25,0(i0.0O of clrcultlng rur- ivncy. v li&t else waa It possible to do to prevent a totnl stagnation of business? Th's Is practically an Issue of asset cur rency without aay better ruarsntee th.n the good faith of the Isv.iers. But there does not appear to be any doubt In any quarter of Its redemption and retirement from circulation directly after the re- establishment of cash pnytnents by the banks. It was a brunt made In congress after the subsidence of the paulc, of 1893 that not a dollar waa lost to the holders of lllegul emergency currency. The "shin plaster" has tta uses. RATH MAKING AXtt THB I A TV. Legrlalatlv Grant f Power t ComaU salon New York Tribune. The decision of the siiwllate dMsIon of the Buprome court sitting in Albany that the public service commissions Isw Is con stitutional goes Into the essential question whether the legislature can grant such powers to a pommlts'i a are granted In hat act. That the leglsli'ure Itself ha he power to do what the commission Is authorised to do no on disputes. Hut here Is an established rule of law that the legislature CRnnot delegate legislative powers to other bodle. The question wa whether the rate miking function of the commission was legislative er purely ad ministrative. It la tsUbllihcd by law that a legislature may fix a standard of charges and Intrust to a commission the application of that standard. It waa contended that he public service law fixed no audi standard and that therefore the func tions ef the body were Irgisletlve. The court has decided that the broad words within the limits prescribed by law" cen- tltntrf a standard within the meaning of the law. ' It Is In the public Interest that a broad construction be put upon the word "stand- rd. ' for the vitality of regulation bv commissions depends . upon, th power ut egisiatures to create urh bodies wlih arge disoretloiary authority. . As was hown at th hearing beore the court, wenty.two states hsve commission under statute imllar to the New York statute. The growth of such oemmtssion I s re- ent that the law relating to rhem haa not been made clear by decisions, nd there a been doubt how the court would ap ply In their case the prohibition against aeiegaung legislative power and how exact a "standard- the court would r- uir te be Axed In the W. This de- ilon was In th public Interest, and al though It was hanaea dpwa by a divVded bench there I r-. n to feel cunfliient hat It wtll be sustained on apreal. OTHER LAND THAX Oin. Modem Ideas are steadily spreading In China and uprooting- customs sanctioned by the usage of centuries. The last one scheduled for the ax of the executioner Is the system of native ministers of the crown kowtowing and addressing and repljing to the empress on bendTlT knees. The North China Herald reports that the Chinese cen sor has memorialised the throne on the necessity of abolishing the "degrading prac tice." Kowtowing has been a fruitful theme for discussion and controversy ever since tho occidental spirit Inraded the em pire. Diplomats have not been unanimous In their opposition to their performance, but the ambassadors of Great Drltan and France have refused for half a century to conform to that custom, and four of them were not formally received for that reason. European opposition succeeded, as usual, and diplomats are not required to conform to that court custom. The action of th censor In urging abolition of the custom Is symptomatic of the spirit of what Wu Ling fang denominates "the reformed empire." Not long ago a Chinese official who would suggest that the kowtow was a "degrading custom" would be meat for the execu tioner's ax. But the world moves ahd China moves with It. A London fog Is tho real article. All others are base Imitations. Those wh have not exrerienced It. unlesa gifted with the "creative Imagination,' ' caa scarcely comprehend Its density and dark ness. It must be seen arid felt to be appre ciated. A correspondent of the New York Times essays a picture of a London fog which settled down on the world's metropo lis on Wednesday of last meek: "There was no dawn," ho writes, "at the hour when morning light usually drives awiy night's gloomy shades; the darkness actually grew denser as the morning come. It was not fog that blackened the sky, althnuejh there was some of that about; as one looked overhead It seemed as If all tho smoke that had poured out of Ixmdon chimneys for a month had settled down over the city In a thick black pall. It gollder. much more substantial darkness than the sort one cuts up Into chunks with lits carving knife; It was of a sort to be blown to pieces with dynamite. Another peculiarity of the dark ness wns tnat It stayed aloft, and so did not cause so much Inconvenience as a thick fog Is Bpt to cause. One could see a fair distance along the street, Just as one can see In the nighttime. In fact, the street looked about as they look at r.lght. when the lights are aflame In the shop windows, the offices and residences. Above. It was Inky dark; on the street level It was merely the normal night. At various points one could read with difficulty electric signs that were fixed at heights not above fifty feet. Other signs higher up worked In vain, conveying no messages to the people. Such of the Illuminated clocks as were fairly close to the ground could he consulted rrwntably; the reet looked like debilitated anaemia little moons, and told the hours to no useful purpose. Our real nieht wns gladly welcomed after the literally awful blackness of a miscalled day." The exodus of British subjects from South Africa, which Is officially reported to exceed the number coming in by 8.2 for the first seven months of the present year, was the subject of special Inquiry by a correspondent of the London Mall. The writer, who has traveled from tho cape to nearly m miles north of the Zambest river, and who has discussed the subject with Kngllph and Boer restdt'nts nllke, including not only politicians, bat traders and dis tributors, farmers, mining officials, railway men. bankers, lawyers and others qualified to Indicate pubMc opinion. Ho arrived, ho' says, as the conclusion that the exodus from South Africa la accounted for by cer tain Indisputable facts. In the first place, fr.wn the cape to far north of tho Zambesi the whole country (with the possible ex ception of Klmberley, the chief center of the? diamond outputs, has during -the Inst tw years been suffering from unexampled depression, which has been Intensified In Johannesburg. In the second place, ob servers; of all parties and nationalities agree that the cause of this depression Is an utter want of confidence In the future of the country's principal Industry, although the gold mining of the Rand Is still In Its In fancy, and If systematically developed might be expected to maintain and wen In crease tho present yield of gold for at least another half century. Confidence has waned because of low grade ores, requiring cheaper labor to yield a profit, and because nature "Kaffir" labor Is expensive, Ineffi cient and untrustworthy. I'nder the cir cumstances the Mall's correspondent can see no ground for a return of confidence on the part of Foropean Investors, and conse quently the pi ,-sent stampedo. from the Transvaal Is likely to continue. Among the various German protests ex cited by the Pope's encyclical on Modern- Ism Is a letter whloh a Wurtemherg priest of some prominence recently adilreosed In Latin to the rope with the approval of a r.umber of the Wurtemherg clergy and laity. The letter has now been translated into German, and has been reproduced very generally by the German press from the Journal In which the translation f'r' appeared. It deer!bea the Papal Kncycll cal as a stumbling-block for German teach ers of Catholic theology and for all pious and educated laymen. The encyclical Is represented as an attempt to suppres the professors and to exhibit them In the light of Intellectual slaves of the Vatican. The view Is expressed thst the policy of the Tape Is calculated to alienate the educated section of the laity from the chun-a and to reduce the church Itself, notwithstand ing the outward splendor of 11a recognised position In Cathollo and aeml-Cathollo (oimtrles. to tl level to which paganism had sunk In the Roman empire at the bo glnnlng of the fourth century, when al though It still remained tho ..fflelal re ligion, the light of Christianity was begin ning to permeate Europe and to attract the highest Intelligences of the time. The letter clones with the following appeal to the I'ope: "Do not pursue he path upon which you have recently entered; do not put too great trust In your adviser! They really have no knowledge of our times, they are Ignorant of the character of the Germans." GUARANTEEING BANK DEPOSITS Mr. Bryan in the Role of nn Expert Flunnrler. New York Bun. At Waahlngton, November H, Mr. Wil liam J. Bryan, tho well known expert on financial questions, advanced an Interesting scheme. He proposed that by act of cen tre b the government guarantee all deposits In national banks, the banks In turn to "agree to reimburse the government fer any losses Incurred." Thus would pear of riilhd and assurance of pocket be the con slant companion of depositors In national banka and. oozing from them, bring com fort to all. The particular ground upon which this scheme is open to criticism is It limited (cope. It I subject to at least a suspicion Of special If not of class legislation. The total deposit of the country in bank of all kind, national, saving, slate, private and In loan and Iruat companies, are re ported as exctjrding I12.lw.uw.0u0. About one-tlited of lb sum i deposited In na tional banks. . A considerable percentage of the national bank dt posit I th loose change of ntalefaiAui of great w.alth. , U 0 r- hi makt, sa tUmplc in T-EE " 1 ' use that beginners may work z EEr" with it successfully. It makes horns baking easy, and glvos you r g bread, cake and biscuit nicer, better 5 and less expensive than the baker's. But to make your home baking successful ami perfect you must use T Dr. Prices Baldng Powder j. ",' 1 1 '-s - " Most of the money of tho "jieepul" is In the other Institutions, for which Mr. llryan proposes no guarantee. Ill dlsrrfard of this fact conies as a surprise and startles us. We respectfully propose an extension of Mr. Bryan's plan. We suggest that the government guarantee the whole $12,000, VOf.'.Oon; that It also guarantee all commer cial credits, all products of the aoll, the mines, the forest and the flahorles. the .olume of water In our rivers and all other Interests directly or indirectly subject to guarantee. It Is to be understood, of course, that all government guarantees are to be guaranteed by some other guarantor. Tilve process Is amaxJngly simple, and there can be, no doubt that It would be a panacea for all our financial and commer cial woes and trials. Such a broad plan would relieve the Bryan Idea of a'.l taint or suspicion of special legislation. A weary world, has been waiting long Tor a scheme which would give equal valua to the spec ulations of the foolish and the Investments of the wise. POLITICAL IRIFT. The certainty that Secretary Taft will he horns for th holidays already casts a shadow over the Joys of the Porakerltes. They have not Issued a defl for a week. Makers of a new constitution for Michi gan think It would be a good plan to put In Jail people who neglert to vote, but the expense of providing Jail accommodations cause the promoters to hesitate. Denver offers $inc.n(x n real ooln for the next democratic rational convention. Kan sas City talks of tendering a like sum for the republican convention. Should these offers be accepted, the respective executive committees would have a fairly good start In the tall grass. An active campaign has been started In the new state of Oklahoma to push Gov ernor Haskell for the democratic nomina tion for president. letters are nelng sent to influential men urging them to aid the Haskell movement, and the campaign Is to be made along similar lines to those on which Haokell was elected governor. A young literary woman who heard Gov ernor Hnghes address a meeting In New York recently, described her Impressions as follows: "I do not know whether I waa attracted by his cold, clear. Intellectual directness. In a measure sufficient to over come my disappointment bcause of his lack of magnetism; his utter Inability to reach the affectionate interest of his hearers, and the Impression he leav.s of being al together a bra'n machine." Ince the sweeping triumph n the repul llran ticket In Kentucky the silence In democratic circles has taken on tho In tensity of a graveyard. The young and the elders of both sexes are affected. An Incident showing the depth of the grief occurred In court recently. A young woman suing a brash yung man for damages for klsalng her without permission was asked to explain to the Jury why she did not make an outcry and attract the attention of a passing crowd. She answered, "Yeu'll nvver catch me hollering during a repub lican celebration." . Itawnlng, CLOTHING, rURNISHlNCrfi and HATS Omp IIEN we promise you that our suits are of sound materials, that they are well-made and skillfully tailored, and that they con form in style to the dictates of the best fash ion, we are not taking some jobber's or manufaeurer's word for it. We know, because we manufacture un der onr own roof all the clothing we sell in our sixteen retail stores. And we think it is not excelled by any other make on the market. Suits $15 to $49. Overcoats $15 to $50. ?j7 13th and Douglas Streets R. S. WILCOX, Mar. t t BETIEB VALUE NEVER WA3. mn Tt)9 CIsansst, Cheapest, Hottest and Best Wyoming Coal, $7.50 VICTOR WHITE COAL 90., 1214 Firairn. TeV Cim 127 mm 138 So perfect i PASSING PLKASANTHIKS. "Isn't he ono of the most successful financiers of the times?" "I should euy so! Why, three grand Juries have tried in vain to get him In il." Multlmore American. Monev was learning to talk. t!" It ald. Thus, tven at the outset of its career. It evinced an unmistakable tendency to say guod-by. Chlcugu Tribune. "B it," she persisted, "vnu can't o" It, A w m n I fe Is tmdo up cf sacrflcai." "Of sacrifice sales. ,es," lej'llcii tu,: . ...to, her husband. Philadelphia Press. . "You say your father snld I was tho brweziest young fellow he had met in a long time?" "Well, It amounted to that, though, I think the word he used was 'windiest.' "- Houston Post. Mrs. Way back I notice these here sub marine torpedor boats are named after stlngin" things mostly. Mr. Wayback Ye don't say? AVonder If any uv them are named "Soap Agent," Portrait Solicitor." "Rheumall Special ist," or "Patent Chum Peddler?'" Puck. "Rverr miss." said Poorley, tentatively, "1ms a mission In life." "What's that'" inquired Miss Cunning. "To get a man?" "Perhaps; provided the man has a man skn." Washington Iivruld. i -"And w' . ' did pa1 a a'- to you, George?" "He said it was all right. If I waa brava enough to want to marry eno of his daugh- ' . 'a a i (''I 'd o.r M'lancial stringency I ought to have her." Cleveland Leader. "Why," eeked the reporter of the Roman Aegis, "did you select the time when Home wa on lire to play your violin solo?" "Because," returned Nero, who had al ready given the reporter a photograph In his most i haracterlstlc pose, "I thought It the best time to awaken burning en thusiasm." Baltimore American. 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She thought by being hasty She could bske some biscuits tasty Her hands with dough were pasty. And the 'phone bell rang. All day her huwnrk waited While the 'phone bell rung; N time for rest or labor When the 'phone hell rang. At last he came to f"1d her Tn his arras. "Poor girl!" he told her, For a second he consoled her, And the 'phone bell rang. .King x Co Ovant 15th and DugUs Streets t t N9 MATTER WHAT YOU PAT ML mi mm a 4 - - I . i "3 0
