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TTIE OMAHA DAILY BEEt THURSDAY. JANUARY SO, 1008.
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ROBERT HUNTER,
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WHEN OUT OF TOWN.
Subscriber leaving; the city tem
porarily boald have The Bet
.mailed to them. Address will be
changed aa often aa reBestd.
Senator Foraker threatens to write
a book. "Alone In Ohio," would be
a good title for it.
The marquis of Anglesey, young,
six feet two and handsome, is coming
to America. It la also stated that be
Js disgustingly rich.
"The snakes 'aie crawling forth
again," says the Atlanta Constitution
And It is less than a month since the
. prohibition law went into effect.
Premier Franco of Portugal sleeps
each, night In a different Jiouse In order
to evade the anarchists. In other
words, he Is living on the European
plan.
Omaha la developing a great bunch
of globe trotters, but it should be re
membered that our pioneers in that
line were George Francis Train and
Charles H. Dewey.
Champ Clark predicts the triumph
ant election of Mr. Bryan to the presi
dency in 190S. Champ is at least con
sistent. He made the same prediction
In 1896 and In 1900.
It never rains but it pours. The
lower house ot the Kansas legislature,
now sitting in special session, has
passed three different kinds of guar
anty bank deposit bills.
America ranked next below England
and far above France and Germany in
ship building In 1907. Advocates of
ship subsidy will not make any undue
effort to advertise the fact.
The prominent physician who says
It is improper to call la grippe any
thing but Influenza, may think as he
pleases. The sufferer from grip will
call It anything he can think of that's
mean.
The Austrian count spent $40,000
on orchids for the decoration of the
Vanderbllt home. Still, a man who
has bargained for a life interest in the
Income of $10,000,000 can afford to
feel liberal.
"Hundreds ot Japs are sailing from
San Francisco and won't tell why,"
ays a dispatch from that city. It
should not be considered necessary to
ask a Jap why he wants to get away
from San Francisco.
"Everything produced in our city
should be labeled 'Made in Pitts
burg,' " says a newspaper of that city.
There would be an awful row if some
of the things made in Pittsburg were
credited to other cities.
Statistics show that twenty-three
KnglUih !. Judge, for a population of
32,000,000, dispose of as much busi
n)s as ninety-eight Judges in New
Tork. who try cases for only 8,000,000
people. The clients pay for the law's
delay.
The Union Pacific wants to test the
Nebraska anti-pass law. The Union
Pacific is the'bad railroad, but, should
it wiu out. all the good railroads will
take the same advantage of any loop-
boles It may find in the law.
"Mr. Fairbanks," says the Chicago
Tribune, "is practically sure of the
whole country except thatpart ot It
uuUide the boundaries of Indiana." In
the same way, Mr. Bryan has a cinch
ou carrying the whole country except
that part of it north, ot Mason and
Dixou'a Una.
BRAZtS HERVK.
ricking tip tho catch phrase. "The
Democratic Pasture," from an lnterior-of-tne-state
exchange, the democratic
World-Herald tries to use It to ring
the changes on Bryan's old "stolen
clothes" simile, as follows:
When the republican legislature enacted
the 2-cent law It entered the democratic
pasture.
When It enactfd an anti-pass law it en
tered the democratic pasture.
When It reduced freight rates It entered
the democratic pasture.
When It enacted the direct primary law
It entered the democratic pasture.
All those things are essentially demo
cratic.
For a well-developed case of brazen
nerve this Is entitled to the blue rib
bon. The political history of Ne
braska and the legislative record in
this state completely refute the claims
set up by the local democratic organ.
With tho possible exception of the
2-cent fare law because the repub-
,jCRn platform contented itself with
pledging a reduction Of passenger
rates, whllo the democratic platform
specified the extent of the proposed
reduction the republican legislature
did not have to enter democratic pas
tures, but went tnto a field the demo
crats had been promising to occupy,
but always shied away from tho gate.
When the republican legislature en-
acted an anti-pass law It did something
the democrat were once elected to do,
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by a proline" shower of free passes
When th rpnn hllrnn loc-lslature re-
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duced freight rates It actually aid
... ...
what the democrats had been talking
about t0T vear8 but which they had
avoided doing when they were in com
niete control of the state government,
When the republican legislature en
acted the direct primary law it forced
on the democrats the principle of pop
ular nominations, which the democrats
up to that time had steadfastly refused
to adopt, while the republicans had al
ready developed through their party
machinery a primary election system,
Insuring an equal voice to all members
of the rank and file of their party
The republican legislature also en
acted a law for more equitable taxa
tion of railway property for local pur
poses, to beat which the democrats had
entered into a hard and fast compact
with the railroads.
Nebraska democrats, with their pop
ulist allies, had ample opportunity to
put their professions of reform into
practice. They had tho governor and
executive offices for six years. They
had both houses of the legislature for
two of those years. They had a ma
jority of the supreme Judges for four
years. But they did nothing to give
the people adequate relief from cor
porate abuses.
The record of achievement of the
last republican legislature is bound to
bother the democrats a great deal In
the coming campaign. The democrats
may have the gall to claim it as, their
ovn, but they cannot make that claim
good with anyone who knows anything
about it.
THE KEXTUCKt DEADLOCK.
The first net and tangible result of
Mr. Bryan's appeal to the Kentucky
legislature to elect former Governor
Beckham to the United States senate
has been the deaertlon'of one of Beck'
ham's supporters with the resultant
effect of strengthening the deadlock,
with the hope of ultimately accom
plishing the final overthrow of the
democratic political machine in the
state. As the vote now stands, Beck
ham is four short of the necessary ma
jority, former Governor Bradley, re
publican, five short, with seven votes
scattering.
National attention is being directed
to the fight, on account of the effect
its result may have upon Kentucky's
position in the national campaign and
also by reason of Mr. Bryan's Inter
meddling and the opposition his course
has aroused among certain influential
democrats of Kentcky
Chief among
these latter Is Colonel Wratterson, who
Is the center of the real opposition to
Beckham. While Beckham carried the
state two years ago at a primary elec
tion, defeating Senator McCreary, the
republicans carried the state at the last
fall election, due .almost entirely, ac
cording to Colonel Watterson, to the
revolt of the democrats against the
methods of Beckham in managing the
politics ot the state. Beckham's op
ponents insist that his methods have
released from all obligations to his
support the holdover members of the
legislature chosen at the primary
which endorsed Beckham over Mc
Creary. The opposition insists that
the election of Beckham would be but
rubbing salt In the sores of the party
and would make Kentucky safely re
publican for years to come. Colonel
Watterson, In an editorial severely
criticising Mr. Bryan for taking a part
In the purely local fight In the state,
says:
The democrats whom Mr. Bryan sought
to Instruct In their duty know that there
is more in this Issue than the choice of
a United elates senator, for they know
as Mr. Bryan has had no such facilities
for knowing, that unless the power of the
Buckham personal machine is broken now
Kentucky will remain In the control of
the republicans Indefinitely. It Is almost
certainty that a democratic president
cannot be elected without Kentucky's
vote, and Kentucky's vote cannot be
counted fur the democrats either in state
or national elections If BeckharnUm Is to
be synonymous with democracy.
Colonel Watterson must be credited
with knowing the local conditions In
Kentucky better than Mr. Bryan pos
sibly can. If Colonel Watterson's es
timate of the situation is correc t Ken
tucky la certain to go republican it the
legislature accepts Mr. Bryan's advice
and elects Beckham to the senate. In
that event Mr. tiryan may nave a
chance to ponder the question. What
proflteth it a presidential candidate to
gain a United States senator and lose
thirteen vote In the electoral college?
JAFAXS FOSlTtUX MADE CLKAtf.
American Jlngolsts who persist in
seeing a deep laid plot behind every
action and utterance of the Japanese
authorities will have some difficulty In
finding fault with the latest official
statement of the position of the Jap
anese government on the question of
Japanese emigration. Through Baron
Hayashi, minister of foreign affairs,
the Japanese government has an
nounced a decree prohibiting the emi
gration of coolie laborers to the United
States and to Hawaii. The Tokio gov
ernment also absolutely prohibits Jap
anese emigration to Mexico, which
must set at rest all the foolish talk
about the Japanese preparing to form
an army Jn Mexico and conduct opera
tions against the United States from
that rendezvous.
It is difficult, of course, for Ameri
cans to understand the Japanese and
other Asiatics but there seems to be
no room left for question of the friend
liness of the Toklo government and Its
desire to maintain the cordial relations
with the United States. The emperor
has gone even further than this coun
try requested In settling the Japanese
coolie labor question. The motive of
the recent decree need not be consid
ered. The fact of it Is eminently satis
factory. M
RETURN OF GEXERAL WOOD
Major General Leonard Wood will
return from the Philippines next
month, to find, we are confident, that
the American people have changed
their attitude toward him and their
estimate of him. Ills record In the
military service of the country is, In
many respect, unique. An army sur
geon, he was sent to Cuba as colonel of
the Rough Riders and was soon trans
ferred, with higher rank, to the reg
ular arm of the service. After Mr.
Roosevelt was made president, ' he
Jumped General Wood over the heads
of a long list of regular army officers
and made him a brigadier general in
spite of protests poured In from every
quarter.
As governor-general of Cuba, under
the first American occupation, General
Wood failed to make an enviable rec
ord. While be maintained peace and
accomplished some desired reforms, he
was charged with favoritism and did
not succeed wholly In removing sus
picion of the truth of the allegations.
Then he was sent to the Philippines
and for nearly six years has had actual
direction of the military affairs of the
islands.
It will now be generally conceded
that General Wood has made good.
Insurrections have been suppressed,
brigandage stamped out and peace ap
parently permanently established. Gen
eral Wood has proved himself a sol
dier. His record will go far toward
making the country forget the Indig
nation it felt at the manner of his
rapid promotion in the army service.
The manager of an express com
pany has been fined $20 and costs by
a Delaware Judge for "disorderly con
duct," the offense being apparently
deliberate carelessness and slothful-
ness in the delivery of a package by
the express company's wagon. The
country will rejoice If the decision
points the way to recourse against ex
press concerns by the public whenever
people pay for prompt service and fail
to get it.
The cornerstone ot old St. Phllo-
mena's cathedral has at last been
found right In the place where it was
originally put, with all ot the contents
Intact and undisturbed. The particu
lar Importance of the discovery Is that
It vindicates the veracity of the news
paper reporters who described the lay
ing of the cornerstone so minutely at
the time and who were In Imminent
danger of being "writ down" as the
first yellow Journalists.
It Is not so important whose name
attaches to the bill to make Omaha
division headquarters for the railway
mail service, as proposed by The Bee,
as it is to have the bill passed and the
division established. If all the mem
bers ot the Nebraska delegation will
help they will all get some of the
credit. -
The price ot $50,000 asked for a
strip of land belonging to the railroads
which the city wants for the opening
of a street is, doubtless, for sale pur
poses only. When that land cornea to
be assessed for taxation under the new
terminal laws It will show a remarka
ble shrinkage of value.
The mayor of Boston is visiting
New York for the purpose ot getting
pointers on municipal government., He
will do well If he will make a very
careful study of the way they do
things in New York and then go back
to Boston and do things differently.
Take warning again about the dan
ger of fire when furnaces and heating
apparatus are screwed up to full blast
to counteract the cold snap. Don't
make unnecessary work for the fire de
partment which a few common sense
precautions would prevent.
A Chicago statistician has figured
out that the marriages ot American
hell eases with foreign noblemen has
tost this country $900,000,000. That
is Just the cost of getting them. It
has also cost a lot to get rid of some
of tbem.
A branch ot the Bryan Volunteers
has been started In Iowa, and unless
some counter move la made It will soon
outshine the parent organization In
Nebraska. Bryan Volunteers in Iowa
are to be touched for only $5, whereas
Bryan Volunteers In Nebraska are ex
pected to loosen up with $10 apiece.
The newly appointed committees ot
the Omaha Commercial club make a
formidable list of names. If they
would all get busy they could do a
great deal to keep Omaha In the very
front rank of growing American cities
during the coming year.
A man who cut his neighbor's throat
at Sukphus, Okl., In obedience to the
unwritten law, was acquitted after a
trial that lasted less than two hours.
Harry Thaw may be expected to locate
In Oklahoma, if he gets out of that
scrape In New York.
"The embezzlement of power 1b a
greater crime than the embezzlement
of money," said Mr. Bryan in address
ing the Kentucky legislature In behalf
of Mr. Beckham, who has achieved
most of his fame by getting power In
that way.
Thus far Mr. Beckham has lost but
one vote since Colonel Bryan asked
the democrats In the Kentucky legisla
ture to support him. Prior to that
he had not lost any.
A Waste of Time.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Mr. Bryan has taken the trouble to ex
plain that he does not intend to act upon
the suggestions of the opposition. We don't
think Mr. Bryan's severest critics really
felt that such an explanation from him was
necessary.
A Difficult Operation.
Baltimore American.
Governor Hughes of New York says that
telling the truth Is the most difficult of all
operations and seldom wholly successful.
Yet nothing touches the average man as
keenly on the quick as to tell him that he
haa not performed tho operation In plain
English, that he Is a liar.
Knvy'a Knock.
Washington Herald.
A congressman wants to make It un
lawful for members of the house or senate
to lecture on the Chautauqua circuits.
We do not know whether this Is a Jab at
people who do not live on the circuits, or
merely the wall of a Jealous soul.
One Reliable Asaet.
St. Ixuis Republic.
American nationality Is not one of the
assets the Countess Laszlo Jeno Maria
Henrlk Simon Szcchenyl will take with her
when she leaves New York for her ancient
Magyar castle; but, although she has lost
ino per cent on this, all her other American
assets will retain their full power to draw
dividends on their face value.
Cloae to the Telephone.
New York Sun.
It Is something of a shock to hear an ex
secretary of the treasury announcing to the
country that he will stay near the tule
phone while the republican national con
ventlon is in session and that he Is will
Ing to stake his political future "on a single
throw of the dice." Among his plodding
neighbors of Denlson In the old days Leslie
M. Shaw never talked with such abandon.
An enemy must have done this thing.
An Ode to King Qalbble.
San Francisco Bulletin.
Oh, sublime technicality! Oh, exquisite
hair-splitting! Oh, elaborate quibble, re
fined to the climax of absurdity, but
powerful enough to undo the bolts on
the cells of guilty men, to upset the re
suits of a long, expensive and Important
tr'..l conducted painstakingly by compe
tent lawyers, and to make a mock of
Justice and the public! Graft has been
legitimated by a BOlemn decision of the
court of appeals. The rake-off has been
sanctified by the holy word of three
Judges. Mighty King Quibble has Issued
his fiat, and what was deemed wrong
Is declared right; what was denounced
as oppressive and dishonest Is found by
Infallible authority, voicing Itself In some
thousands of words of legal hocus-pocus.
to be as lawful as going to church.
PERSONAL NOTE.
An emissary Is now on the way to Iiai
sull's quarters with 1100.000 for that genial
brigand, who Is getting more and more
into the circle of high finance.
"The title of "the oldest Harvard grad
uate" has passed tp Charles Henry Parker
of Boston since the death last Wednesday
of Charles A. Welch. Mr. Parker grad
uated with the class of '33.
Representative Frank Orren lxwden of
Illinois Is one of the brainiest men in the
lower house. He was admitted to the bar
when only 28 years old and for some time
was a professor at the Northwestern uni
verslty and president of the Law club of
Chicago.
Hiram L. Spencer, one of the veteran
poets of the country. Is spending the sun
set of his life In a quiet country home at
White Head, New Brunswick. He was
born In Vermont In 1829. His best-known
poem, "A Hundred Years to Come," was
written when he was at school.
able to purchase if they so desire.
Rev. P. J. Judge, pastor of the Sacred
Heart church, Omaha, contributes to the
New York Freeman's Journal an argument
In favor of granting parochial schools a
percentage of the public school funds,
based on the number taught and the
character of the secular education given
by sui-h schools.
Mr. James Bryce, the British ambassa
dor, will leave Washington about the mid
dle of February to visit Ottawa for a con
ference with Canadian officials about the
international questions now pending be
tween the United States and Canada. He
will make several speeches in Montreal,
and will return to Washington about the
first of March.
Acting under the suggestion of President
Roosevelt, the library of cor.gTess has
started the collection and compilation of
all the war songs used in the several con
flicts In which the armies of this country
have been engaged. When the collection
Is completed and the source of authorship
and history ef the writing of the songs has
been determined President Roosevelt will
ask, congress to have the collection pub
lished. 7hereJAF7V
ItV . guarantc ef purity
& )ur.ritf that your
meat extract is f r from,
cHcmictls &f.t; intact
i That you have th ofnuine
aV sure rd jaf A
MEDIO COM PAN Yjf
EXTRACT OF BEEF
TUB NATION AND rnEIDFCY.
A Fearless Leader to rentlnae the
Work of Theodore Rfturrrlt.
Chicago Kvenlng Post (rep.).
Two score and right years ago a politi
cal party, newly forged In the white heat
of national crisis, chose as Its leader Abra
ham Lincoln.
With that Inspired act the republican
party entered nobly upon Its destined role,
which was to take up with Lincoln's strong
yet patenient hands the tragic burden ot
fratricidal war; to bind up, though harshly.
the nation's wounds; to mold Its policies
of peace, and to preside over the upbuild
ing of that vast structure which is the
nation's self today.
In its birth the republican party was
dedicated to the Idea of union, and the
uplrlt of nationality has been the vltal-
lilrig element In all Its policy. Beneath
tho vexed current of partisan expediencies,
beneath tho turbid surface of selfish and
sordid and equivocal striving, beneath the
ungenerous and ephemeral measures of
many leaders, have run unchecked and
powerfully through Its whole being the
aspiration, tho punwse, the will toward
nationality. In this was the republican
party's High sanction, from this Its com
missions to shape the fortune of the nation
through half a century.
The large service of the democratic party
during this great epoch there Is no wish
to belittle. It has not flagged In patriotic
devotion; It has not failed to bring to our
political life a tonic criticism without which
the powers that ruled would often have
ruled to ruin. Nevertheless, It is becauso
tho republican party from Its beginning
made Itself the militant champion of an in
destructible union, and because throughout
the gigantic tasks of the last fifty years
It has given constant and devoted expres
sion to the Instinct of the American people
for national solidarity that It has been re
tained In th great service of the govern
ment by the political instinct of the Amer
ican people. The political cynic will find
reasons enough of a minor order and less
creditable nature for the perpetuation of
the party's power, but the larger perspec
tive of the historian v.tll reveal this as
the central fact of our epoch.
It Is given to us today. If not to rest upon
the labor of fathers, at any rate to look
upon It with an understanding deeper than
theirs. And out of that large view of the
fubrlc they built there grows some com
prehension of the work before ourselves.
We see how under their eager hands the
whole economy of the nation changed, till
Sun Francisco neighbors New York more
nearly than Connecticut did in the days
when the constltutloa was made up in
masterly compromise. The wizardry of
applied science has brought the two coasts
within sound of each other's dally voices.
The genius of Industrial and business or
ganization has matched that miracle In its
own field. Old methods and old bound
aries are alike obliterated. Commerce has
become national and woven us firmly ipto
one fabric; the railroad, the telegraph, the
telephone, th(- newspaper, the university.
the innumerable social forces have woven
us firmly into this fabric which is a na
tional entity, mobile, diverse, yet deeply
unified.
It Is the part of wisdom to recognize and
comprehend In Its full significance this con
trolling truth. Centralization Is not a the
ory or a policy. It ia the most Important
fact of our epoch. All great question of
policy must conform to It. When we dis
cuss state rights and local autonomy. If
we leave it out of account or underestimate
It, we make our solemn protests futile.
The people consciously or subconsciously
have laid bold of the idea of nationality.
They have made it their own In the deepest
sense. That is why the chief evils in ad
ministration and the feeblest legislation
have been not In the national but In the
local field of government. Classify this
preference as foolish pride or deep polit
ical Instinct, It is there, unescapable and
paramount.
With a more real nationalism and the
Intensive growth of the ration has come
internationalism, the acceptance of place
among the greater powers which rule the
earth, the acceptance of an active role In
world politics. How deeply this broaden
ing of our horizon will effect us and to
what It will move us only the future can
unfold, but one certain result will be a
stimulation and development of the national
feeling, a Btronger consciousness of na
tionality. Thus both from within and from with
out fate has conspired to make us a nation,
in despite of diversities of origin and con
dition and opinion. Irresistibly the forces
which ruled our progress have fused us
Into one people.
Yet as we are aware today this vast
transformation, this organizing and cen
tralizing of the nation's energies, has been
attended by great evils and great dangers.
There Is an Ideal In the heart of the Amer
ican people more potent and more precious
than that of nationality. It Is the ideal of
democracy, and this the great industrial
and social movement of the epoch pro
foundly affected. If it did not threaten.
Centralization of power, of economic power
through the organization of wealth and its
systematic control, modified the life of the
whole nation and called for a new account
ing of forces, a new testing of values, a
new assurance of liberty.
And as the republican party rose to de
fend the union, and held it power through
halt a century because it entered Into and
furthered the great Impulse of nationality.
so at this new crisis in the life of the
nation the republican party renewed Its
authority because without losing Its hold
upon the forces which have made for ma
terial greatness it made itself, through
Theodore Roosevelt, again the instrument
of the people's will.
But the day approaches when Theodore
Roosevelt will leave to another the ofXIce
he holds and the great work he has begun.
The American people are not blind to the
Importance of the choict) they are to make,
nor to the conditions upon which It is to
be made.
Of the men among whom the American
people will chooBe is one whose courageous
and generous identification of himself with
the policies and labors of President Roose
velt haa been brought aa a charge against
him. It la Sd.ld by those who have hated
the president and all his works that Will
lam Howard Taft has but weakly echoed
the voice oT another.
The American people know better than
that. They know that It takes a brave,
a strong and a true man to speak as Taft
has spoken of Theodore Roosevelt. And
In those spoken words they wisely hear
the pledge of a brave, a strong and a true
man to carry on the work which Is not
merely the work of Theodore Roosevelt,
but the work of the American democracy,
to which the jx-oplo have set their irrevo
cable wilL
Secretary Tuft has accepted this with
a candor and whole-hearttdncba which
strinkiiigly contrast with the caution and
reticence of his rival candidates. And he
has given his pledge fi-arlesHly and at the
beginning, not only because it 1m one of ilia
virtues to speak our for his conviction,
but because his poll!! -al wisdom has taught
him how di-eply stirred ii the national con
science and how in invincibly bent is the
national purpose, to make an end of the
dangers threatening fnidum in the In
dustrial and in the political world.
L'pon this pi amount luiue, then, William
There is never a question as lo
the absolute parity and kedLh
(ulncss of food raised with
I jfTTMIVI
A pure, cream of tartar powder
Its fame is world wide
No alum; no phosphate of lime
The poisouus nature of alum is
so well kAtmm that the sale of
condiments ' and whiskey con
taining it is prohibited by law.
In baying baking powder examine the
label and take only a brand shown
to be made with cream of tartar.
Howard Taft alone has made himself plain.
The claims which may be mude. for him
are only begun with that. If he were
to go Into private life today, his ploce in
the history of his country would be en
viable and secure. He haw been one of
America's great administrators, rjlfted with
singular constructive powers, lie hr-s made
in the Philippines a monument to himself
and to the political genius and f.encrous
Idealism of the American people. Never has
there been in tho course of empire a more
enlightened service from a powerful people
to a weak than Is represented by the
foundations of progress and self-government
which have been laid In these Islands
under the guidance of William Howard
Taft.
What should be the qualities of the
twenty-sixth president of the I'nlted Stales?
He should be in full accord with the
people In the work which they, under the
leadership of President Roosevelt, have un
dertaken, the conservative work which,
though called destructive, olniB to secure to
the American people their birthright of
freedom of opportunity without which there
can be preserved no other freedom.
Ho should be a constructive statesman
whose large view Includes and whose
efficient powers master the business of a
great nation, a leader farseelng, conserving.
yet progressive.
He should he a statesman of International
cope and a diplomatist. The day has gone
by when our relutlons with the outer world
were defensive merely. We have taken
upon ourselves, or there huve been thrust
upon us, the responsibilities of a groat
power, and the future opens to us charged
with grave lances. In the Pacific we are
already pledged to no passive part.
Jurist, administrator, diplomat, enlight
ened constructive statesman, William How
ard Taft may well offer himself for the
suffrages of his countrymen. The political
wisdom of the republican party will recog
nize his claim.
The party is fortunate that comes be
fore the peoplt with such a leader, the
nation fortunate that finds ready to Its
hand such a Bervant.
Palna Pearly for Speed.
San Francisco Chronicle.
The "accident" bulletin of the Interstate
Commerce commission for the quarter cov
ering the months of July, August and Sep
tember shows a startling number of fatal
and other railway casualties. During the
period 1.3J9 persons were killed and L'l.Tii
were Injured by the railroads. Hteam and
other rapid transportation Is a greut boon,
but the world pays for It dearly, as tho
above figures phow.
Tledf ( Inched 1
St. Louis Times.
The cowboy mayor of Omaha says thut
ho has the presidency "roped" for Mr.
Bryan, but Is It "tied?"
OneJDose
Aikyout doctor to tell you, honestly ani
frankly, JumI what he think' of Aycr't
Cherry Pectoral. Then do at he toys.
Browning, liing i Co
CLOTHING, FURNISHINGS and HATS
An Iimpoptamt
Announcement
A few specials in our boys' furnishings:
Uroken lines of Star Shirts
Broken lines of Star Shirts that sold for 7'c and $1.00, 55
Broken lines of Star Blouses that sold for $1 and $1.00, 50c?
Boys' Winter Caps that sold for 00c and $1.00, 65c and 35c
tlirls' Skuting 'Tarns" that sold up to $1.00, now. . . .35c
Big reductions in Men's Furnishings ulso.
15th and Douglas WJF 15th and DasugUa
Streets ffflf Streets
i : R. S. WILCOX, Mop. I t
.vm srm Arm 1 -
Mini'llKl'L ItF.MAHKS.
"Is your husband averse to taking tht
initiative in any energetic action?"
"No. sir, he ain't nothln' o' the kind. He's
Jest plain down lazy." Baltimore Ameri
can. "Heard a married woman tell all her
family troubles in u street car today."
"To you?"
."No; 1 was merely an innocent by
stander." ilouaton Post.
"They tell me, Mrs. Jones, your hus
band is suffering from Inr.omnla."
"He Isn't suffering from anything, only
he can't sleep o' nights." Baltimore Amer
ican. "Have you studied political economy?"
"No. sir," answered Senator Sorghum.
"I'd like to, but I'm afraid my constituents
would think I was amusing myself reading
books instead of hustling for pensions and
appropriations." Washington Star.
"Your latest speech has made the great
est hit of any In your career," said the
flatterer. "1 suppose you regard It as your
masterpiece."
"Not necessarily," answered the orator,
"the fact you recite merely Indicates an
improvement In public taste." Chicago
Record-Herald.
"About this movement to prevent women's
smoking In public places, do you think a
perfect lady would smoke In public under
any circumstances?"
"Well, she might, you know, If she were
on fire." Baltimore American.
"Now, all we wont from you Is a straight
story," said the lawyer.
"Sir," retorted the witness, "perhaps you
are not aware thut I am a prominent poli
tician In this community, nnd your Insinua
tion constitutes uu affront."
"Pardon me. rejoined the lawyer. "No
offense Intended. Just tell as near r
straight story as 'yo'i ca-i." VM'aiel. hlit
Ledger.
"And you mean to say that foot ball
player kissed you?" exclaimed tho Irate
mot her.
"Yes, ma," replied the blushing daughter.
"Why, the Idea! Didn't I tell vou If he
tried to ltiss you to yell 'stop!' as loud s.l
you could?"
"I I did. nia, hut he had on bis ear
Riiards and couldn't hear me." Chicago
News.
WOODLAND DAY". Ol'T WEST.
Denver (Republican.
The trails we trod last summer time are
buried in the snow
Those mystic paths through woodland ways
where pine branches Nwung low.
And where the breeze from distant hill
was soft upon the brow;
But ah. the pines are draped In white the
breeze Is chilling now.
The stream that seemed to laugh In glee
is silent now, and Klldes
Beneath an icy covering, I lie while a cold
moon rides;
And down the mossy aisles we knew there
floats the wolf's wild cry. '
And flecks upon the crusted snow tell where
the deer went by.
The peuks that smiled upon us then are
frowning now, and drear;
No smoke comes from the ranger's lodge
whore we found trailmen's cheer;
But once again. In memory, before a cheer
ful blaze,
We live aauln. as dreamers will, the sum
mer's woodland days. i
Often a single dose of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral
at bedtime will completely control the night
coughs of children. It is a strong medi
cine, a doctor's medicine, entirely free from
alcohol. Made only for diseases of the
throat, bronchial tubes, and lungs. Full
formula on each label.
J. O. AysrCo.,
UK Annual End-of-the-Soason Saio of fall
and winter clothing will end .Saturday. Vou
have only three days left to buy a suit or
overcoat at the big discount of L(0 jer cent
which when made on such high grade cloth
ing as that made by Browning, King & Co.,
means something. This sale includes all
our men's, boys' and children's fall and
winter sack suits and overcoats.
that sold for 1..r)(). now SI
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