THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 8. 1008.
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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
Ptate of Nebraska, Douglas County, at.:
Ueorgo B. Tsarr.urk, treasurer of The
Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn,
A'S that the actual number of mil and
complete copies of The Dally, Morning,
Evening and Sunday Bee printed during
tha month of January, 11108, was aa fol
lows; -
I, ... 36,a00 IT 39,300
2 M.taO II M.160
a 8,gao - 1. ......... 38,400
4 30,400 (0.,... 3860
t 30,300 21... 3,410
6 36,340 22 36,140
7 M.SO0 ... 30,aS0
3,30 24... .30,400
9 36,380 25. . 36,640
10 a. 36,410 21 35,100
11 36,330 27 ... ? 86,140
12 38,180 SI 37,130
13., 36,430 2. 36,060
14 '. 36,300 80 36,830
16 36,360 11... 36,960
1 36,100
Totals ....( 1,133,380
Less unsold and returned copies. ,
8,450
Net tout.............. .1,114,840
Daily average ...... 38,968
' GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK.
Treasurer.
Hubscrfbed In my presence and aworn to
before ma this 1st day of February, 1901.
ROBERT HUNTER,
, Notary Public
WHEN OUT OF TOWH,
abacrlbers lea-lag; tha city tem
porarily afcoald bare The Be
mailed to tktsi. Adarcaa will b
change aa oftea aa requested. 1
The simplified spelling board has en
dorsed Mr. Dooley'B tyle.
. "Xet tho women talk." says Colonel
Watterson. Submit to the Inevitable,
In, other words.
It is Just possible that Chancellor
Day would rather talk, that way thr,
work for a living, .
they going to iwallr-V 'that vlthout re,
taliatlon or aprJjfyT
;y
jJj out that J. Barleycorn is
'ue -v .'eu1,Ht 9 get the drop on
th6VArgi clan in Kentucky.
yht. Starr' says America is be
coming a nation of Jesters. Btarr Is a
, great Joker or a great Joke. .
A Bryan-Berry ticket was launched
at a dinner at Philadelphia. There
I have already been two Bryan-Bury
tickets.
"Senator Foraker, we fear, saw his
shadow," says the Pittsburg DlHpatch.
It is more probable that he saw Mr.
Taft's shadow.
Just as a return for past courtesies,
Governor Hughes will probably let the
Philippine delegation go to Secretary
Taft without a contest.
It seems like adding Insult to injury
when congressmen flood Georgia dis
tricts with the government publication,
"What Is Whisky?"
Under skillful management it may
be done for a little while, but the
Jacksonlans and the' Dahlmanltes can
not be driven in double harness for
long.
The prince of Monaco has repudi
ated his son Louis and refused to pay
his debts. That ought to put Louis on
the eligible list for some American
heiress.
The census bureau reports that the
mule is worth more than the horse.
Politicians will be more Interested In
the comparative value of the mule and
the elephant.
Reports from Matteawan show that
Harry Thaw Is allowed to use a knife
and fork.. He never had any trouble
until he discarded the knife and fork
for the revolver.
It now transpires that the adoption
by the Nebraska delegation at Wash
ington of a code of pie-counter rules
still leaves the question open as to who
is to get the pie.' '
Tho report that President Roosevelt
is planning to enter the United States
senate from New York is good news to
about everybody except "Tom" Piatt
and "Tim" Woodruff.
According to the city directory mak
ers, Omaha has' a population exceed
ing 1(0,000. For bur 'part we would
rather place no beta till the federal
census takers get down to work.
Miss - Ida : Tarbell declares that
America women were responsible for
the recent panic. Trade statistics
show that France sent . $7,000,000
worth of women's hats, ft. 000,000
worth of lace, $2.00Q.000 worth of
gloves and 13,000.000 worth of "mil
linery and lingerie to this country last
year. ;.
novo las coca tit Rft.iC4 .
The only coinllf where It rt deruritely
known that no primaries will be held to
ascertain the ' presidential preferences of
republicans are Douglas, Stanton, Cuming
and AVayno. Lincoln News.
This Information Is not at all cor
rect so far as Douglas county repub
licans are concerned. Douglas county
republicans have an opportunity under
the call made by the county committee
not only to vote their preference for
presidential Candidates, but. also "to
vote their preference for national con
vention delegates and at the same time
to choose by direct vote the delegates
to represent them in state and congres
sional conventions.
It is true that Douglas county re
publicans have not seen fit to ask the
state committee to supply the printed
ballots with which to take a presiden
tial preference vote. But they have
ordered ballots of their own prepared
to which the doors are open to every
candidate on the same terms. No one
here in Douglas county has assumed
to put on the ballot any names for
which no votes will be cast, but every
presidential candidate for whom 204
republicans, being the number equal to
the representation of Douglas county
in state and congressional conventions,
will apply to go on the ballot Is enti
tled to a place there. No presidential
candidate who cannot muster, in a
county which should cast 30,000 votes
In the coming election, more than 200
supporters willing to serve as conven
tNm delegates In his interest, has any
right to have his name lumbering up
the primary ballot.
As a matter of fact, while a delega
tion Is to he filed, headed for Taft for
president, no move has been made in
Douglas county, so far as anyone
knows. In behalf of any other aspirant
for the republican presidential nomi
nation. If no other names are filed
for the Douglas county primary all tho
votes cast .here, whether few or many,
will be cast for Taft as the preferred
presidential candidate, and that ex
pression will truly represent the wishes
01 Douglas county repuDiicans. j
.If the followers of the different Prjpf
ldcntlal candidates were rGJUjired
throughout the state to petition 1 to
have their names put Upbn the pri
mary ballots in tho Ba;nle manner that
the names of can(JJ,ateg for nomiBft.
tions for state r'mce8 ar0 flied the
chances are that the name of Taft
would be the, onjy' one on th'eballot in
Beventy-nveJ-out of the inety Nebraska
counties. ' .
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. 'oVKRK MBS T rnWTIAO SCASDAL.
Tho difficulty In securing economy
in federal expenditures is being strik-;
lngly illustrated by the congressional
investigation, now in progress, of tho
affairs of the government printing of
fice at Washington. This is the big
gest printing establishment In the
world and its operation has been the
subject ef many past investigations,
attendant by some scandals and ex-t
posures."! ? ' " ? ".
Two years ago the congress commltv
tees on printing,' after -a caretul In
quiry Into the-' cost of government
printing, recommended a..clian&e in
methods. In complying with the
recommendations, President Roosevelt
appointed Charles A. Stllllngs of Bos
ton to be public printer, and notice
was served upon all department heads
to reduce the amount of printing mat
ter, in tho interests of economy. -It
develops now that printing expenses
have been increased from. 10 to 200
per cent, while the product is less than
it has been for years. ' As a result,
Public Printer Stllllngs has been sus
pended, pending Investigation of his
managementVf the office. '"'
While the recent revelations have
shown Mr. Stllllngs unequal to the
task of properly directing the affairs
of the government printing office,
with its 3,000 employes and manifold
interests, the remedy will not be found
merely in his removal and the appoint
ment of a successor. The real seat of
the trouble is the fact that the public
printer reports direct to. congress, in
stead of to some cabinet officer. As
a consequence, the public printer has
about 400 bosses, instead of one, and
the government printing office, in
spite of civil service rules, is about the
last remaining department of govern
ment that recognizes congressional
"Influence." The remedy for the ex
isting state of affairs Is to make the
government printing office a bureau
under one of tho departments, with a
cabinet officer responsible forthe con
duct of its affairs.
THM PVLt.MAN CVMPAKTS TIP.
The announcement that the Pull
man company had distributed $174,
S50 among its employes who had
been particularly faithful would be
more impressive If It were not for the
fact that the accompanying figures
furnish a clue to the company's wage
schedule. The company's statement Is
that the $174,850 has been distributed
in the form of a bonus amounting to
one month's wages for each of 3,770
employes whose records for the year
1907 were without "demerits." This
would Indicate that the average pay of
these employes is $46 a month. Con
ductors probably get more than this
amount, while the porters doubtless
receive less.
The showing is not complimentary
to the Pullman company. It Is an ad
mission that the company, while pay
ing fancy dividends on an enormous
capital stock, has expected its patrons
p contribute to the payment of the
porters and other car service employes.
The company does not expect Its em
ployes to live on the wages allowed
them and to this end becomes a party
to the system of relieving the trav
eling public of extra quarters, half-
1 dollars and dollars to secure service
and attention for which they have al
ready paid the company. While the
average . Pullman ratron may cheer
fully give a tip to a porter or dining
car waiter for prompt and efficient
service, he knows he Is paying for a
service that should be paid for by the
company. The system of the company
is fair neither to the public nor to the
Pullman employes, and the company's
decision to distribute a portion of Its
profits amofig Its' employes does not
relieve it of blame for the objection
able method employed In accumulat
ing this surplus at the expense of its
patrons.
STOCJC BVTiXO AD GAMBL1SG.
Much, diversity of opinion exists
among men learned In constitutional
law and the powers of legislative
bodies as to the right or power of con
gress to enact an effective law against
speculative trading in stocks. Presi
dent Roosevelt's suggestion, in his
latest 'message to congress, that some
cctlon be taken . in this direction,
has 'served to renew the discus
sion. Bills have been, offered in con
gress . prohibiting speculative trading
In commodities and pressure is being
brought to secure the enactment of
legislation of some form, calculated to
eliminate, or at least minimize, the
evils of stock gambling.
Supporters of the present system
contend that to prohibit the buying of
stocks on margin, or selling them
"short," would result practically in
closing the stock ' exchanges in the
large cities and, as the New York
Journal of Commerce puts It, "close
the market for public and corporate
securities." It is contended that the
market is "of vastly more lmporte
to Investors than to speculate; a and is
essential to the successfi''11ganizatlon
of successful enterprises. The strife of
speculative trader'to gain by the rise
and fall of n.rtce8 makes the constant
market fr securities and fixes the
prices S8 nea,. t0 a normal level as any
han agency can." In theory, per
haps, this argument Is attractive and
it might have more weight If it were
not faced with so many striking illus
trations of the robbery of Investors by
the' manipulation of stocks for specu
lative purposes. Charles W. Morse,
the lceklng, now dodging the courts
of New York, floated a dozen com
panies like the Steamship trust, the
Ice trust and other highly watered
concerns, boosted the stock quotations
sky high, then sold out and allowed
his companies to go into the hands of
receivers, with the investors holding
the bag. Scores of similar schemes for
looting the public have been success
fully floated in Wall street In the last
few years, to the enrichment of their
promotsrs and the impoverishment of
the Investors through what the presi
dent terms "deceitful publicity" and
"criminal manipulation."
The difficulty lies in drawing the
line between legitimate dealings in
stocks and the abuses of speculation."
Germany has tried the plan of prohib
iting dealing in futures of agricultural
products and has placed certain re
strictions on the sale and transfer of
Industrial stocks. It. is a matter of
record that the farmers were the first
to petition for repeal, contending that
they were the losers by its enforce
ment. Whilo it is not doubted that a
law may be passed and enforced
against "bucket shop" methods of
making the fool pay the penalty of his
folly, there is still a question whether
speculation in stocks may or can be
legally prohibited.
It is significant that the largest op
erators on Wall street are expressing
a desire to co-operate with the federal
authorities to eliminate the abuses of
speculation, which are numerous and
cause great' harm to the country,v They
contend, perhaps properly, that the
best cure for these abuses is an all
embracing publicity through a na
tional incorporation law and publica
tion of all facts concerning the amount
and value of stocks of concerns en
gaged In interstate Commerce. Such a
plan would enable investors to become
fully posted and more effectually pre
vent the manipulation of stocks for
gambling ' and speculative purposes.
Out of the discussion comes a prospect
for more serious consideration of the
president's recommendation of a na
tional Incorporation law and its attend
ant checks upon stock gambling.
The senate may have passed the bill
for government participation in the
Alaska-Yukon exposition, notwith
standing Senator Burkett'B speech ob
jecting to further subsidies to local
shows out of the national treasury, but
Senator Burkett has the popular end
of the proposition, Just the same.
Lincoln newspapers are having a hot
debate over the suggestion that Ne
braska follow the example of Kansas
and Install a state printing establish
ment. The legislature does not meet
until hext year, January, ' by which
time it is hoped the combatants will
have cooled off a little.'
Two Iowa congressmen who have
been serving successive terms at Wash
ington have announced that they will
not stand for re-election. No signs,
however, of this contagion spreading
to the Nebraska side of the Missouri
river.
South Omaha voters can get a better
class of men to officer their city gov
ernment it they will Bee to It that
proper discriminations are made in the
make-up of the tickets to be noml
inated at the coming municipal
primary.
Mayor "Jim" is modest If nothing
else. Although It he saw fit to en
force hU rights he might have one of
. . v
the seats allotted to the Nebraska dele
gation to the Denver convention, he
will content himself with occupying
one of the leather-cushioned chairs re
served for themselves by the members
of the democratic national committee.
John D. Arrhbold of the Standard
Oil company says, there will be no in
dustrial peace in this country until we
have a national Incorporation law.
Many and varied are the trust methods
of defeating the president's recommen
dations. The Pullman company has decided
to give its porters a bonus of v one
month's wages. The traveling fTubllc
will continue to pay the porters sal
aries for the full twelve months of
each year.
Senator Foraker complains of the
muck rakers In "the 10-cent maga
zines." The senator has perhaps been
too busy to notice that 15 cents Is now
charged for nearly all the 10-cent
magazines.
Charles W. Morse has been fined
$100 for failure to report for jury
duty in New York. There are Indica
tions that Morse has more than $100
worth of reasons for not getting Into
relations with Juries.
, A New York paper asserts that
Countess Szechenyi Is not a beauty and
not even good looking. She may.not
be good looking but,, within private
fortune of I.1 0.c-Jo.OOO, she naturally
looks gooj to the count.
t lh is pretty certain that W. J. C.
Beckham will fall of election to the
United States senate from Kentucky.
His opponents want to cinch his defeat
by inducing Colonel Bryan to make
another speech In his behalf.
Most of ua, we believe, will be will
ing to accept that testimonial of good
treatment signed by inmates of the
Emergency hospital without trying to
verify it by personal investigation.
Hata OAT and Salute.
Philadelphia Record.
A very handsome thing has. been . done
by a corporation In Massachusetts, which
has reduced the rents of the houses It lets
to Its operatives one-half because It can
give them employment only forty hours a
week. Wherever operatives live in com
pany houses the rents ought to be reduced
when wageb or working hours are reduced.
An Insurance of Klnoshlp.
Brooklyn Eagle.
Assassination Is self-defeating. It may
kill Its victims, but It tends to defeat Its
own cause. Of this, miserable Scrvla, as
well as greater kingdoms, has given proof.
The dynastic principle around the world
has been consolidated, by assassination, and
Ha abstract defenders might welcome the
assassination of kings aa an Insurance of
kingship.
Peering- Thronth Glased Glasses.
Springfield Republican.
This Is a somewhat 'sweeping assertion
which cornea from the president of tha
Northern Pacific company, to the effect
that there is not a single drop of water In
any of the railroad stocks of the country.
If he will look over the stock list he can
find frequent evidence of good market
opinion that numbers of railroad stocks
represent little elseexccpt water.
POLITICAL DRIFT.
The Important acts passed by the Philip
pine assembly include one for the Increase
of the salaries of members. The Filipinos
are fitting themselves rapidly for self-government.
Governor Folk of Missouri may be nomi
nated for president while he is not looking,
for he Is so!ntent upon getting Gum Shoe
BUI Stone's sonatorshlp, that he has paid
no attention to the other prize.
The mayor of New York has vetoed the
ordinance forbidding women to smoke In
public, on the ground that It Is not a mat
ter for legislation, and that the board of
aldermen exceeded Its authority In passing
the ordinance.
Regarding the Kentucky, senatorshlp,
Colonel Henry Watterson writes: "It may
not be Improper, or Irrelevant, for me to
repeat, what I have often declared, that If
a certificate of election were placed In
my hand I would not go to Washington
to take the oath of office."
The friends of ex-Treasurer William H.
Berry ol Pennsylvania have brought him
forward as an available candidate for the
vice presidency on the Bryan tcket. Mr.
Bryan's first running mate came from tho
republican state of Maine, his second from
tha republican state nf Illinois.
The loulsville Courier-Journal has dis
covered a Mr. Bum who Is a candidate for
office down south on a prohibition plat
form. In choosing his platform, Mr. Bum
appears to be actuated by a most com
mendable desire to remove as far as possi
ble the handicap attaching to a very bad
name.
W. H. Hearne of Wheeling. W. Va
whose campaign for the republican nomi
nation for governor has gained widespread
notice because the story was circulated and
not denied that Mr. Hearne Is aspiring to
the governorship merely to gratify the
ambitions of his young wife, hag adopted
another Innovation. He Is now distributing;
liberally throughout the state het buckles
containing hla picture. The buckles are of
silver In ornamental design, with Hearne's
picture In the center. It Is said the Idea
was adopted by Mr, Hearne, who Is 6)
years of age, at the suggestion of his wife,
who Is 18.
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OTIIF.H I.ASD TH OVH.
King Manuel 11. projected on the throne
of Portugal by assassin bullets at the aire
of 18, undertakes a burden that would bend
stronger shoulders. The country Is tax
ridden and Impoverished to an astonishing
degree. Portugal, exrlunlve of Its colonies,
has a population of 6,400,0011, ho endeavor
to subsist on a territorial area of 3.V"
square miles, or less than half the area of
Nebraska. Forty per cent of the land Is
reckoned as waste and from S.onn.Okfl to
lO.roo.nno acres of cultivable land is practi
cally unused. On top of tills limited pro
ductive territory monarchy lias piled a debl
of 84,000,OUO. requiring an annual Interest
charge , of $21.0on,onn. public revenue ap
proximates IfiO.ooo.noo a year, a sum rarely
equal to public expenditures. A high liver,
a sport and Junketeor, what little of his
time tho dead king took from royal pleas
ures, was devoted to devising new sources
of taxation. When direct taxation reached
the limit of the people's ability to pay. the
government created a tobacco monopoly
and still further squeexed consumers of
the weed by means of high prices for an
Inferior article. Kxtravagance pervaded
the court and graft honeycombed all
branches of the government. To avert or
check the 'growing storm of discontent,
Premier" Franco was Installed as dictator,
with the result of more oppression, mxrtlal
law, riots and suppression of newspapers.
These conditions winged tho bullets of as
sassins and linked cause with effect. Evi
dently the boy king has good advisers.
Premier Franco has been dismissed and
exiled as an olive branch to the discon
tented, and the summoning of the Cortes
indicates a purpose to secure tho co-operation
of the people's representatives In de
vising measureaof reform and relief.
, Substantial evidence of the growth of
protection In free trade England . W fur
nislictlTy -the results In two recent bye-
elections, particularly In the Mid-Devon
division, ' a week ago. In both divisions
tariff was the Issue and tho unionist
candidates won out in each. As several
other bye-elections are pending It Is be
lieved that tho prestige of the recept vic
tories will bring further success to the
unionists, and add to tho embarrarrments
of the ministry.
When Mr. Chamberlain first expounded
his doctrine of preferential tariffs and fis
cal reform It was understood that It meant
certain defeat for his party. . The defeat
came as expected, and was probably even
more drastic than had been looked for.
But the fight was continued with Increased
vigor and system, with encouraging results.
The fiscal reform proposed by Mr. Cham
berlain, does not contemplate a high pro-
tectlon tariff similar to that existing in
this country, but the placing of a moderate
duty on foreign Imports, which can be re
mitted by preference In the caso of tho
colonies, thus encouraging commercial re
lations between the colonies and the mother
country. In addition to the preferential
tariffs a system of retaliatory tariffs Is
also proposed, Intended to check the Im
portations of foreign manufactures rrom
such countries as Impose prohibitive tariffs
oh British goods. The progress of the
revolution In Great Britlan's fiscal system
will be keenly watched In the United States.
Tho extent and value of the trade of
Frauco with the United States was the
theme of a late address by Consul General
Frank H. Mason at the French capital.
Despite the depression of the last two
months of the year 1907, Mr. Mason showed
that French exports to this country sur
passed all records. The total value of de
clared exports from Paris to the United
State during tho calendar year of 1902
waa HI.3u3.10R; In 1903 It fell to $10,044,875;
In 1904 ft went to 140,910,478; In 1906 to
t41,8ol,6S7; In 190C it mado a big advance
to $59,080,978. This record was broken by
1907 with a total of $i3,199,297-an increase
over the preceding year of $4,112,.m
The detailed figurea given by the consul
general bear out fully the popular con
ception of Paris as the market place of
the world's luxuriea Almost $7,CO000
worth of millinery, tor example, was sent
to the United Slates last year. Gloves,
lace, and lingerie are other Important
items. "Butlt ahould be remembered,"
said tho consul general "that even these
Imposing figures do not express by any
means the entire amount which our
countrymen-eBpeclally our countrywomen
contributed to tho prosperity of Parisian
merchants and manufacturers during the
vear. Outside of the vast aggregate of
goods regularly invoiced and shipped by
merchants, there were many, million col
lars' 'worth of costumes, furs, laces, Jew
elry, and other articles of luxury and
taste, which were either taken to Amer
ica as personal effects, or shipped In pack
ages less than $100 In value In cither
case without consular Invoice so that they
do not appear In conaular statistics as
exports.
A writer In the Contemporary Review
warns London against minimizing the
danger of the growing color line In South
Africa, a condition resembling the race
problem In the south. He says the Zulus
are "a fine fighting race; six feet is an
average height among' them; they are
bright, good-natured fellows, and the white
settlers recognise their excellent" qualities
and respect them. At the same time It
must be remembered that many of them
have already emerged from a semi-barbarous
state; their wives are still chattels;
clvi'.ixed labor Is unwelcome to them and
tho love of battle is not dead. In Durban
the Zulus outnumber the whites ten to
one, and without firearms the Natal set
tlers would stand no chance In a rising.
These Zulus ore In every house in Durban,
serving as house boys nurses, gardeners
or porters, but all the time they are sub
ject to their tribal chief. Ills word Is law
and they have been encouraged to obey
him Implicitly by the government at Pleter
maritzburK. which recognizes the chief and
acts throush him. If the chief commands
a massacre the Zulus will massacre; If he
prohibits It they abstain; if he crIIs them
to the kraal they return, leaving their
work and their belongings in the town
without a word of notice. If they disobey
their wives are killed a,nd their position in
the tribe Is lost. The chiefs are often
brandy drinkers, quarrelsome fellows, un
just, actuated by personal motives, greedy
of power and mom y and opposed to all
efforts to raise their people for fear of
their authority being undermined. Their
administration of Justice is Incompetent and
even venal. It Is all very fine- for those
who are far away to laugh at the sud
den mobilization of whito troops and the
precautions taken by" the Natal ministry.
You might n well laugli at John Bull
for building so largo a navy In time of
peace. The danger Is exar In both
cases, perhaps, but In Natal, as l.cir
elector tells you "that prevention Is better
than cure."
Two of a Kind,
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Vice President Fairbanks and Governor
Hughes are classed aa men without enthusi
asm. This Is suggestive of creating a na
tional tk"ket without the formality ut
holding a convention. These candidates
would exemplify the idea that, under a
guiding and controlling constitution, the
government ought to run Itself. Governor
Hughes might be Inclined to "brace up"
occasionally, but Mr. Fairbanks would not
disturb a self -propelling machine. One of
tha current complaints Is that we are
"governed too much." Fairbanks and
Hughes would sirs ply w ind up the ap
paratus and Kt it go. '
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HOW THH TRUTH SAVF.lt TUB DAY
Credit toe Checking- Pnnle Awarded
tho American Prrss.
Appleton's Magazine.
There was no real basis for a panic, and
yet the public mind seemed to demand
panic, llow then was the terrifying situa
tion ameliorated and the country saved
from a financial wreck of tremendous pro
portions? Not by a knowledge of the con
ditions, for the public had that and threw
It to the winds. A simple declaration of
fear on tho part of a score of depositors
was enough to start a run on any bank.
Institutions were toppling on every. IihihI,
not because of unsoundness, but because
of the Inability of any. bank to liquidate
all its liabilities on a moment's notice. And
yet where millions talked of ruin, and
fought madly for deposits In October and
November, tho samo millions In December
spoke lightly of tho late financial flurry.
How was the salvation worked? Simply
by tho Iteration and reiteration of the
true conditions, in the light of which a
panic was unwarranted. And by whom
was the truth.'trirmmered home? By the
American press.
SI NY or. MS.
Yes. ma'am." said the convict. "I'm
here Jlst for tryln' to flatter a rich nun."
"Tho idea!" exclaimed the prison visitor.
"Yes. ma'am; I Jlst tried to Initiate his
signature on a check." Philadelphia Press.
"Is ha well to do?"
"Not exactly. His affairs are what I
should describe as being at the lonesome
ntage. He is neither rich enough to bo
sought after nor poor enough have to
hustle." Washington Star.
Cheops had carved his name on every
thing in sight. '
"Now." boasted he, "posterity will know
me to be the real thing In Egyptian kings."
"Maybe not, sire," said the court essl
mist. "Maybe they'll take you for our
leading 5-cent cigar." Louisville Courier
Journal. "I know of at least ono board of Investi
gation which has a clean record of re
sults." What is that7"
"The - family washboard." Baltimore
American.
Do Style What makes you think Gotrox
has almost finished the cigars Ills wife
gave him for Christmas?
Gunbusta Why, I met him today and. he
said he wan almost at the end of his rope.
Harper's Weekly.
San Francisco was about to issue a lurge
amount of bonds.
"Wo have to name a big sum, ' tha citi
zens explained, "so that even If our graft
ers get out of Jail there'll be some left fur
publlo use." Philadelphia Ledger.
The Sleeping Beauty had Just awakened.
"I wouldn't open my eyes till tho prince
built the fire," she explained.
With this exhibition of tact theyn-Ht-urally
lived hapVlly ever after. New "York
Bun. . - , ,
Browning, King Co
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Our stock is pretty well broken up but
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"We are showing some rare bargains in
our furnishing department. . ,
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$4.00 and $5.00 Fancy Vests 3.50
$1.25 Outing Flannel Pyjamas i.85c
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$3.50 Stiff Bosom Shirts 2.35
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$1.00 White Stiff Bosom Shirts - 85c
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THE WHOOP OF (iOLIV
New Ysrk World. ' : '
Whoop, and the world whoops With JTOOi
Don t, and the world falls asleep,
1'or many 'a the one
Who goes on the run
For nothing except to keep
In line with the long procession
Of the strenuous tilings of earth
That pass for the gold of pleasure
And stands for tha gems, of mirth.
Whoop, and tho world whoops with yoili
Yet what is a whoop hut a sight
Of a restless mind
For what It can't find,
Though to have all the money to buy " '
The music, the wine and t lie women
Which count In the lurid glare
Of tho lamps of the merry maelstrom
That whirls mankind in despair?
Whoop, and. the world whoops with jrotj;
There Is Joy in that for a while
To tho thirsty souls
Afloat on their bowls
By the side of their funeral pile. '
Which makes no show In the picture
And carries no heavy thought
To the crimson-lit caroimlng
Their easy money has bought.
Whoop, and the world whoops with yotll
But pause now and then and think
of the frost to fall
That shall wither all
The rosea and rapture of drink.
What Is there to be In the future
To take the place of the past
When l'lttshuigers ecHse from tilttBhurglng
And tho rush Is over at last.' -
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