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6 Till OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATt'IJDAV. .IAXITAHV IS. 1908. Tim Omaha Daily Dee. FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATEK. VICTOR ROSE WATER. EDITOR. ' - r - " ' " Kntered at Omaha Postofflee as second elasa matter. . . i ' TERMS OF SrRSCRIPTION: Dally Be (without Sunday I. one year. $4 M Dally Wm and Btinrlay, one year J Sunday Bee. one year... J:"0 Saturday Bee, nne year. ' DELIVERED BT CARRIER: Dally Be (Including Sunday), per werk..lhc Dairy Bee (without BundHyl. per week.lwc Evening Bee (without BundHy, per week 6c Evening Bee (with Sunday), per week. ..lc Address all complaint of Irregularities In delivery to C'ltv circulation Depai tment. OFFICK8. , Omaha The Be.Rilldln Pouth Omaha City Hall Building. t'ounrll Blufra 15 Scott Blreet. Chicago 1M0 1'nlvrrxlty Building. Kew York 1.VX Home Life Insurance Building. Washington 7JD Fourteenth Street . W. CORRESIHJNDENCE. Communlratlnna relating to new and edi torial matter should be addressed. Omaha Be, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to The Bee Publishing ompany. Only 2-rent stamp received In payment of mail account. Personal checks. e:tcent on Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. 8tat of Nebraska. DO Jglan County, as. : George B. Tisohuck, treasurer of lee Pee Publishing Company . being duly sworn aaya that the actual number ot full ana complete copies of Th Dally. Morning, Evening and Sunday free printed during the month of December, 1907, was as fol- 1..'. 3,4O0 IT... 38,640 t 37,150 II "e'M0 t 37,370 1 36,840 .... S7,a0 80., 36,680 ... 37,390 II 36,560 M,80 ao.soo T 87.0M ' tt 36,400 38,900 24 38,890 38,930 25 36,600 1 37,090 t 36,680 11 37,000 37 '8,890 If 36,740 tt.. 36,360 II 37,690 2 35300 14.... 30,810 SO 38,110 1 30,960 11 38,510 II .. 36,960 TotaU 1,139,980 Jvas unstld and returned copies. 1,204 Net total 1,139,776 Dally average 38,444 GEORGE B. TZ8CHUCK, Treasurer. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 2d day of January, lfr. ROBERT HUNTER, Notary Public. WHEI OUT OF TOW. bacrlbera leaving: the elty tem porarily aboalaT have The Beet nailed to thrm. Address will ba ebaaged aa often, aa req nested. It Is now up to the weather man to fix the price of ico for next summer. Senator "Jeff" Davla proclaims, "I know Mr. Bryan." Wonder If Mr. Bryan knows Senator "Jeff" Davis? It must be a real shock to Senator Foraker to get into a controversy with an Ohio politician who refuges to, be scared. "Insomnia is on the increase in Lon don," says a foreign paper. Natural result of changing the style of the Lon don Times. i A poll of tbe lower house shows only thirty-nine votes for Speaker Cannon for "president. The committees have I all been appointed. Congress is evidently trying to jus tify Speaker Cannon in hiB prediction that there would not be much impor tant legislation at this session. The Interstate Commerce commls slon has been asked to lower Pullman rates. The traveling public is also in terested in the Pullman upper rates. "Lying is caused by Indigestion," says the London Medical Journal. It may be noted that Indigestion Is al ways epidemic in a political campaign. Harry Thaw has one consolation ' He has been treated with much more consideration by the authorities than have the men who have acted as Jurors at his trials. An improvement club holding a jolli flcation meeting to tender thanks to a public service corporation is a novelty In Omaha and would probably be novelty anywhere. South Omaha is waking tr to the fact that tt, too, la a Missouri river town equally Interested with all the other Missouri river towns In the im provement of that stream. It la a little early to start the "Humors of the Campaign" column, but Tim Woodruff of New York la ac tually aspiring to the nomination for vice president on the republican ticket. The Washington Herald says that the Aldrich financial bill Is in almost exact Una with the views of Colonel Bryan. This ' will doubtless surprise both Senator Aldrich and Colonel Bryan. It is eeml-offlclally . announced that Russia propones to spend at least 12,000. OQD la building two fleets of battleships. Evidently the cipher box In the Russian printing offices Is kept well filled. i The lawyers are trying toprove thai Harry Thaw is insane because he sent bta wife eighty-four pounds of beef steak for breakfast. Looks more like a vulgar display of wealth than an ex hibition ot insanity. "None of us her can say . with au thority whether the planet Mars is In habited." says a New York scientist. New ' Yorkers know precious little about tbe inhabitants of any planet or township west of Jersey City. ". saaBBBBBMBBBBBBaBaBBBaBSBaBSJ Senator "Jeff" Davis of Arkansas and Senator Core of Oklahoma have committed the New York democrats to (be support of Bryan. When It comes to supporting Bryan tbe New York democrats have always used proxies. m at tax a t cosrsxTtox vriKaAtrx. It Is plainly apparent that the great majority of Nebraska republicans are for Taf't and-Will send a Taft delega tion to represent them In the national convention at Chicago. The desire of the republican of this state to make Mr. Tnft the nominee belnj assumed, it devolve upon them to choose na tional convention delegates who will not only answer right on roll call, but will be potential factors In bringing about the desired result and give Ne braska the weight and influence It la entitled to In the national counsels of the party. It Is not a question whether the men chosen to be delegates have been honored with public office, or have always been high privates.' but a question of having Nebraska repre sented by men who will measure up well with their colleagues from other states and will be able, by their per sonality, to add force to the expressed preference of Nebraska republicans for a national standard bearer. So far as The Bqe is concerned. It would have been pleased to see both the United States senators, as well as the governor, made delegates-at-large to Chicago. Senator Burkett, how ever, now . declares he does not want to serve, and under such circumstances bis wishes aa to himself must be re spected. But Senator Brown and Gov ernor Sheldon have both stated that, although not wishing to be regarded as seeking places on the delegation as due to them, they would gladly act If the republicans of the state should so decide. Both Senator Brown and Gov ernor Sheldon are earnestly for Mr. Taft for the presidential nomination. Their presence on the delegation would unquestionably strengthen his cause and at the same time add to Nebraska's prestige. Irrespective of personal solicitation. or geography, or factionalism, or any minor consideration, It Is the duty of the party to pick its biggest and most Influential men as national delegates and commission them to plant the ban ner of Nebraska republicanism in tho front row. METHOD IX THEIR HA CHESS, That there is at least some method In the madness with which the demo cratic organs and orators have been trying to spur on dissension among the republicans of Nebraska has been evident for some time, but if any further proof were needed it is fur nished by the democratic World- Herald among the reasons It offers In advocating better organization of dem ocratic forces in this state. "The first essential to democratic victory," it says, "is the democratic vote," but the organization of the democratic vote, it admits, is not enough to give Mr. Bryan his own state. To quote the exact words: Once every reasonable effort possible Is assured to give Mr. Bryan the democratic vote, then the important" matter Is to win him republican vote., and populist votes, and prohibition votes, and socialist votes, and votes from all other sources where men are to be found who would rather be right than be partisan. Special effort Is to be made "to galn- the votes of patriotic republicans who are more interested in the success of the policies to which Mr. Bryan is com mitted than they are devoted to a party name." The democratic program, therefore, requires that the democrats lend every encouragement to every republican who Is likely to have his ambitions denied and may thus acquire a griev ance on which democratic brine may later bo poured to re-enforce an invi tation to come over and line up behind Bryan. But to be forewarned is to be fore armed. Every republican in Nebraska must be made to see through this gauzy democratic scheme and to refuse to play cat's-paw for pulling demo cratic chestnuts out of the fire. KEKltSG FAITH iriTf CUBA. However mistaken or correct the de cision may be, the L'nited States Is pre paring to furnish, the world with an object lesson In the matter of keeping faith with a weaker nation. Governor Magoon of Cuba, Secretary of War Taft and President Roosevelt h'ave agreed upon tho details and fixed the date u?on which the Cubans will be mviiea to me.Ke a secona experiment In the art of self-government. Ac cording to the program arranged. Cu ban affairs will be surrendered to its own people not later than February 1, 1909, the final transfer to be preceded by municipal, provincial and national elections in the island. The people of 4,'ubp. pre far from unanimous in their desires. Secretary Taft admits that many leading busi ness men of the Islands, those heading the Industries and roost concerned In the future stability of the .government, take a dlsmai view of the outlook. These people have not forgotten the Paltna regime and the failure that marked their first attempt at self government. They contrast the condi tions, then, with thodo now obtaining and note the marked Improvement ef fected under Governor Magoon'a ad ministration. Public money has been wisely and 'economically expended, peace and order have been maintained and property rights protected. They fear that tbe withdrawal ot the Amer ican forces will only foredoom them to another failure. They contend that the Cubans have not yet been educated to the point of maintaining a stable government and that nothing but ulti mate disaster can follow' the termina tion of the American occupation. Regardless of the situation la Cuba, the United States has reason to be gratified over its record In Cuba. At the dose of the war with Spain this nation would have been justified in the eyes 6f the world In annexing Cuba as spoils of war. Instead, our troops oc cupied the Island only until it was thought the Cubans were capable of managing their owri affairs. When the second occupation came the presi dent and Secretary Taft both pledged withdrawal as soon as the Cubans should, ha-ve complied with certain con ditions precedent to another trial of self-government. These conditions will noon have been complied with and the Tnlted States la preparing to keep Its promise. If the Cubans show that they have profited by past mistakes and so suc ceed In demonstrating their capacity for self-government, American duty in the island will have ceased. It may be set down, however, that If It again becomes necessary for the United States to send troops to Cuba to re store or preserve, peace they will prob ably remain there until Cuba becomes a possession of this country. A PIECE VP POOH POLITICS. Those who have been wont to look upon Senator Foraker of Ohio as a shrewd, practical politician will be compelled to revise their estimates In view of the fight the senator Is now making against the confirmation of appointees to poBtofflces and other fed eral positions in Ohio. Under the much-abused "courtesy" rule that ob tains In the senate, any member of that body can delay confirmation sim ply by asking that the appointment be 'held up." Taking advantage of this rule, Senator Foraker and his faithful echo, Senator Dick, have held up some forty nominations sent by tho presi dent to the senate for confirmation. Neither of the Ohio senators makes any complaint against the appointees reflecting upon their integrity or fit ness for office. The only objection to the men is that they were not politic ally allied with the Foraker faction. Opposition is :l?arly for the purpose of creating the Impression thaf the president is tisini; his appointive power to build up a political machine. Regardless of the merits of the case, Senator Foraker's conduct looks like folly, from a purely political view point. The confirmation of the forty appointees would promptly remove them from the field ot active politics, for It is a fact that postmasters and other federal employes In that branch of the federal service have been very effectively debarred, under the Roose velt administration, from undue activ ity in political affairs. The confirma tion of the men would, in effect, muz zle forty of Foraker's political oppo nents, while by holding up their ap pointments each of them is forced to get into the political melee, armed with anti-Foraker knives, while the men now in office, presumably favor able to Foraker, are prohibited by fed eral regulations from taking an active hand in the contest. By the test of practical politics, Senator Foraker seems to have made the tactical mis take of depleting the ranks of his own followers and adding to those he is fighting. FttlAiART III M FBIMAKY. As was "to have been expected, the local democratic organ goes into ecsta cics over the fake democratic primary and in order to find some merit in it misrepresents the primary plan pro vided by the republican state commit tee. The republican primary plan makes it optional, not wKh the repub lican county chairman, but with the republican county committee, to say whether a presidential preference vote shall be taken, while the democratic primary plan does not provide for any presidential preference vote at all. The democratic call simply says a primary election may be held on petition of fifty voters in any county to choose delegates to county or state conven tions, while in more than one-tenth of the counties democratic primaries are absolutely impossible because there are not fifty democratic voters there to sign the requisite petition. The re publican county committees are popu lar committees and may be depended upon to respond to tbe sentiment of the republican rank and file in any county where there Is a real demand for primary expression. It is a safe assertion, however, that Nebraska re publicans are as btrongly for Taft as, Nebraska democrats are for Bryan, and that there are few, If any, counties in the state in which a primary is re quired to establish this fact for either party. The Douglas county hospital may need a tuberculosis ward badly, but authority to build the same was voted at the last election and the building will be provided as soon as possible. In the meantime the thing for those In authority at the hospital to do is to make all tuberculosis patients as comfortable as present facilities will permit. While there Is doubtless room for Improvement, local physicians all agree that the county hospital was never better equipped nor better con ducted than it Is now. Appeal Is made on behalf of Colonel Bryan for the votes of "11 who would rather be right than be partisan." What did Colonel Bryan do four years ago after denouncing Judge Parker as a plutocrat and the antithesis of everything democratic? He de cided he would rather be partisan than be right and swallowed Parker and Davis at one gulp. Nebraska democrats propose to raise $10,000 as a preliminary campaign fund, which is probably more than twice the largest sum tbe democratic committee has ever had at its disposal In recent years. The Bryanlte idea of campaign fund reform is to dry up the sources of supply of the political enemy and to tap new sources of supply for themselves. The Bank of England has reduced Its discount rate from 6 to 6 per cent and the Imperial Bank of Germany has reduced Its rate from the point fixed on November 11. which was the high est in its history. These incidents mark the relaxation from the financial tension which strained -the world a couple of months ago. A division headquarters of the rail way mail service Is within Omaha's reach. If our people will only go after It with determination. Let the Com mercial club, the Real Estate exchange, the Grain exchange, the Live 'Stock exchange and all the other business organizations speak out. Senator Aldrich now proposes to tave $500',000,000 of emergency cur rency authorized In place of the $250, 000,000 provided for In his original bill. The senator must have had a tip that the presses In the bureau of print ing and engraving are in good shape. The first lesson in street cleaning to be learned by Mayor "Jim" Is that spending more money on foremen, time-keepers, blacksmiths and watch men than on brush wlelders and team sters will not remove the dirt. A Melancholy Warning. Chicago Inter-Ocean. The saddest thing about the Pennsylvania horror Is that It Is the kind of horror that Is likely to be repeated wherever there Is carelessness in the handling of crouds. V ill the Makers Wees. ' Chicago News. It Is predicted that a good many clear ing house cheeks will never be presented for ! redemption. Think of the pain , this will cause the banks which put therti In circulation. . Ilrynn'a Superior Arransreinent. New York Tribune. In denying; that he predicted the nomi nation of Speaker Cannon at Chicago next June Mr. Bryan nays that "no one Is In a position to predict what a republican con vention will do." No doubt he believes that the democratic arrangement whereby the convention Is turned Into a mere rati fication meeting in much the best. Snarnlna; an Old Friend. Baltimore American. Nebraska has a state railway commis sion whose members belong In the sternly virtuous Brutus class. Believing more In human nature than In Roman virtue, a road In the state sent the members of the com mission passes. "The members turned the Incriminating but well-meaning passes over to the attorney general, with orders to begin prosecution against the road and Its general counsel, who had sent tbe passes, for violating ihe Nebraska law. POLITICAL, DKIPT. The Philadelphia North American hung out the warning signal. "'"V'aieli Your Money," a few hours before the city council met In solemn session.' ' Philadelphia is anxious to have the great ness of Nebraska, Minnesota and Delaware represented at a slngfe Philadelphia dinner to Bryan, Jonnson and Gray. New graft suits in connection with the building of the Pennsylvania Btate capltol have been filed In court. That Is as far nspreccdlng graft suits have gone. A bill has been Introduced In the New York legislature to the effect that If an autoniobllist runs a man down he must stop and give his correct name and address. The New York Sun refers to a public question aa combining "the conservahility of the Inconceivable and tho possibility of the impossible." At this point the type writer fled to the foundry for repairs. Senator Stone of Missouri Is pressing the passage of a bill permitting railroads to Issue transportation in exchange for news paper advertising. If the senator succeeds criticism of Missouri statesmanship will be suspended indefinitely. Senator William Plnckney Whyte, the pa triarch of Maryland, has been chosen by the legislature to stive as l'nited States senator for the term ending March 4. 1!V.I. His successor, elected at the same time, Is former Governor John Walter Smith. A visitor to the old home of Roscnc Conk ling In I'tlca the other day tells of the peculiar furnishing of Senator Conkllng's room. It was fitted up with mirrors till around the walls. It was In that room that Senator Conkllng used- to practice his speeches to. memory and then by rareful observation In the mirrors pay particular Attention to the gestures he desired te ac company the speech. Day after day and night after night Senator Conkllng would go through this performance Just as any actor ct ancient or modern times practised his part. 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Dr. mi' AaU-Vala XtUa ar U y 7ou drmgglst, who wtU tB annua that tha flrt pack will banaflt.. It It falls, a will rrtarm year airaty. IB 4oaa, BS orata. Vtc sold la knlk. MUea Medical 0?., Elkhart. ind. 1THKR 1..Mt TII!S- Ol R. The suffrage d' numerations and dis turbances In Berlin are due to the per sistent refusal of thev Prussian ministry to reform and enlarge the electoral system of the kingdom. It will surprise American readers to learn that while the German empire is progressive In all things that make for national greatness, the elective franchise of the principal kingdom has remained unchanged for fifty-nine years. The changes wrung from an unwilling government by the revolution of 1818 were repealed by the reactionaries a year later. By the revolutionary law suffrage was conferred upon every TrussKn Zi years of age. For manhood suffrage the re actionaries substituted a select "three class system" with tho open voting re quirement. It is against this law that the demonstrations are directed. It la unlikely that the ministry can long resist the de termination of tho people as manifested In Berlin. The vaat majority, excluded from direct participation In the selection of government officials. are thoroughly aroused and aggressive. Forcible suppres sion of popular agitation may produce and maintain outward calm, but beneath the surface organization will take root and spread, and sooner or later overthrow obstructionists. A nation which has given a host of warriors io the cause of liberty In the fnlted States would belle the spirit of '4S should it now recant and subsldo at the command of a standpat ministry. The Istue so forcibly brought to the front will become interwoven with all ministerial measures, and as the Van Bulow ministry now depends for a majority on a coalition of parties, It must give way to popular de mands or be eventually overthrown. The'oppresslve policies of the Von Bulow ministry are best illustrated In the ad ministration of Prussian-Poland. Sydney Brook's, the London correspondent of Harper's Weekly, in' a late letter sums up the situation In these words: "In dealing with the people of Prussian-Poland, Prus sia lias duplicated all the mistakes Kng land has committed In Ireland, and all that England would have committed if the Irish Btlll spoke Erse. It has conquered, confiscated, and partitioned. It has tried coercion, and It has tried concession. The Kulturkampf showed how little It was its desire to respect tl.e Polish religion. A wholo series of enactments has been aimed at the Polish language. There are, Indeed, degrees of malignity and pettiness In Prussia's policy towards the Toles to Which even the English, In their govern ment of Ireland, have never stooped. The Germans have many admirable qualities, but tenderness towards those who are In thetir power is not one of them. They delight to prod, bully, and annoy. One hears accordingly of Polish children being forbidden to speak their national tongue within the precincts of the public schools, of Polish newspapers refused a place on the' railway book-stalls, of letters ad dressed In Polish delayed for daya by the postal authorities, of boys and girls severely punished for wearing scarfs of tho national colors of Poland, of public halls denied to Polish meetings, of Polish children flogged by government officials for saying their catechism In Polish In stead of German. Soon, no doubt. It will be h crime for a Pole to own landed prop erty, or to publish any newspapers without a German translation, or to seek admission to a university or the public service.- Ger man officials are multiplied, and German tradesmen, laborers, doctors, and lawyers areaettled in the midst of Polish neighbor hoods, and preference in official contracts is systematically given to German bidders. But the Poles remain undismayed and un conquerable. They are more prolific than their rivals: they have a complete com mand of all the arts of agitation; they hold together more firmJy even then the French Canadians In Quebec; their rise In Industry, agriculture, cducaflon, numbers, wealth, the arts and sciences has been one political marvel. The racial Impulse,, touched with tho modern splr't of coiii mcrce. and welded by Catholicism, gives them a driving power that tho Germans In the long run will find themselves un able to withstand. Meanwhile, they re main the Irish of the continent, brilliant, fascinating. Inflammable, swiftly kindled by an appeal to their emotions, unhappy, oppressed, stung with a hopeless national Ideal, Indomitable. It would take little to make them contented, but that little Is beyond the German Imagination. Like the English In Ireland, the Prussians pre fer a barren and toilsome mastery to an equal and fructifying union. Theirs is the stupidity against which the goila them selves fight in vain. In a recent letter to the New York Inde pendent Justin McCarthy discusses the questions featured for tho approaching session of the British Parliament and s. nds over sea this message on Irish homo rule: My countrymen In Ihe Unites States, and. Indeed, all sympathizers there with the Irish national cause, must feel deeply in terested in the speech delivered a few days ago, at a public meeting In one of the counties, by Sir Edward H. Carson, a dis tinguished member of the bar, king's counsel, and representative in the House of Commons nf that ancient fortress of conservatism, Dublin university. Sir Ed ward Carson appears to have opt tied his eyes at least to the fact that conservatism must no longer hope to effect any good re sult by endeavoring to resist the home rule movement in Ireland. In the most direct and emphatic language he told his audi ence that England mut-t abapdon the idea of enforcing on Ireland her system of gov ernment by a majority of votes In tho British House of Commons, ttat she must sooner or later give to Ireland a system which will enable her to manage her na tional affairs for herself, and that the sooner she makes up her mind to adopt bitch a course the better It will be for the peace, the prosperity, and the progress of the whole kingdom. Such a declaration coming from such a man cannot but have an influence even over some of the mofct antiquated Tories, and it is one of the most remarkable evidences we have Jiad for a long time of the manner in which the Justice and the reasonableness of Ire land's claim for home rule are making themselvea recognized among -all classes in these countries. After the struggle with the lord the home rule question will come again before Parliament. Over 100,000 signatures have been attached in gwltserland to- the petition that the Swiss league has prepared to present to the federal council. The first lines in the petition read: "The high summit of pur Alps are the ideal possession of the whole Swiss people and the symbol of Swiss free dom. They are not for sale." The peti tion is a protest against the threatened assaults which, many thousands of Swiss say. speculators In the tourist Industry pro pose to make upon the acotiery of Ihe high Alps. It is In behalf of th" hundreds of thousands of foreign visitors to Switzer land that various construction companies re trying to get permission from the Swl Parliament to build mountain rail roads and hotels and residences in the Alps. The project of greatest Importance, the one which Is exciting the bitterest op position, is the proposed tunneling of the Matterhorn for a line to be rrt railroad and part elevator. It is proposed to con vert the summit of the wonderful moun tain shaft Into a aeries of grottoea with windows and balconies, where the tourist may smoke or blp hi tea and enjoy the panorama of the Alps under conditions of warmth and comfort. Another irojvet rl Where the fineSt biscuit, cake, hot-breads, cruets or puddings are required Tpyal is indispensable. ft AfisclatcIyFuiv Not only for rich or line food or for special times or service. Royal is equally valuable in the preparation of plain, substantial, every-day foods, for all occa sions. It makes the food more tasty, nutritious and wholesome. ft aa. n u that the Swiss are opposing with almost equal vigor Is a curious scheme relating to the Aletsch glacier, the largest glacier not only of the Alps, but of the whole of Europe. It moves down Its long valley to the Rhomo river, and Ita Ice covers an area of nearly forty square miles. It Is a curious, fact that the largest glacier of Europe moves dowi; the southern slope of the mountain facing the sun. The prop osition In to lay down on the virgin snow of the Aletsch glacier a kind of sledge railroad, which shall traverse the .whole length of-ut marvelous solitude. SIN.VY (iEMS. Sailors of the fleet had reached Pernam buco. ' Shall we forget that we are Americans on shore have?" they asked. The consensus of opinion favoring the negative, they proceeded to lick a few local policemen. Philadelphia Ledgeff Mrs. Knli'ker Was your new gown a gned fit? MrF.. Booker Fine. Ned's bank account shows just 48 cents left. St. Louis Times. Adam Zawfox You've heard of the1 Thou sand Islun's, I reckon. Well, I used to own one of 'cm. I've spent many a winter there. Job Sturky Yes, I've heard of your is land. They call It Ulackwell's, don't they? Chicago Tribune. "I believe that man is leading a double life." "I wouldn't wonder; I know he Isn't lead ing a single life." Houston Post. "I'll bet you didn't succeed In borrowing anything from that old skinflint undo of yours."' "Borrow anything? He wouldn't even lend me his attention." Baltimore American, "We thought," said the reporter, "you m'ght caic to say something about these charges against you." "No," replied the crooked pi'.'jUe official, "I believe that 'silence. Is goMe'i." " "Well," replied the reporter, " perhaps the i, Browning, liing &. Co CLOTHING, FURNISHINGS and HATS N such clothing as that made by Browning, King & Co. is a big reduction. Wo are making this cut on all winter suits and overcoats to clean up our stock as we do not carry goods from season to season. ing jackets, bath robes and hats and caps. ( Big reductions in neekweavand stiff liosom shirts. Brpken lines of men's and boys' negligee shirts 55c 15th and Douglas Streets mi R. S. WILCOX, Mflr. x t 1 Ladies' Cloalis, $7.50 100 Cloaks, formerly priced at from $15 to $25, of good fab" E rics, Droaacioms ana Kerseys full satin lined, on sale Saturday, ur 1517 FARNAM -ST. Wj lit an i ti iia mmEr & Powder aMBaWjaai public might believe It's merely Jllt In this case." Philadelphia Irc8S. "No intelligent iierson pays any attention UrghnHts," said (Jie dog-ma'lc nerson, "Perhaps rot' answered Miss Cayenne, "unless the ghost has ln-e-i uole to sccuro an Introduction from ouie psychic re search society." Washington Star. Tho fat colonel jvho had received orders to take a horseback Jaunt, came out of his quarters and looked at the horse. "Will ho stand without hitching?" iio asked. "Yes. colonel." the orderly replied as ho touched his cap. The colunel looked at tbe horse again. "Then let htm stand," be stiid. slid went back and filled out his resignation. Clev- land PI E'htln Dealer, . TUB OH) HIGH HAT. T. A. Daly in Catholic: standard Oil, ye needn't be so- sly, All ye lads, when I go by, Wld your wlnkln' o' the eye An' your smlrkln" an' all that. Shure, I'm wliw enough to see That the cause of all your glee Is the ancient rut o' nw An' me ould high hat. Arrnh! lads must have thir play. So I've not a word to say : "Pis mesel' that wance. was'gay As the gayest wan o' you. Shure, there wasn't inajiy men That would Joke about me then. When me blood was young; an' when This ould hat was new. ' 1 1 It was wld me an' me bride When the bl ssed knot was tied;,, -An' It followed, when she died. Where they soon will lay me, too. It has served me all these years. Shared me laughter an' me teats. As It's shnrin' now the Jeers O' the like o' you. ' - Now we're worn an' ouhl un' sick, But there's Joy to think, avlc, ' That ye nlver heir', a brick. An' there's some that cun't sny tint. Sa they needn't bo so sly When they smile an' cock their eye, All thlm lads, when we go by. You an' me, ould hat. OIFIF This discount also covers all winter underwear, flannel shirts, fancy vests, smok ftcJ 15th and Douglas Streets j S I 7 Q J I