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Tim OMAHA DAILY HEE: SATURDAY. MARCII 14. 1903. I -1 in i rJ . r; , r -,V 1 V I . .0 ! r y I v I ' J1 X ". ill i , 4 1 -' : r-A t X 1. l 1 Ttir, Omaha Daily Urn FOUNDED 1ST EDWARD ROBEWATEK. VICTOR ROSEWATfcR, EDITOR. Entered at Omal.a I'oatofflce second Class matter. TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION: Tally .Bee (without HunclMy), ono )ear..$1.00 liallv be and Btinday, one year A fctinday Ure, one year H-M . Saturday li-e, one.yar l.W DELIVERED BY CARRIER: Pally Heo (Including Sunday), per week.lSe lwily be (without Huii'lay), per week luc Evening ! (without Punrta)), per week c Evening iiee (with Sunday), per week.luc Addreua all complnlnta of irregularities In dullverjr to City Circulation Department. OFFICES: Omaha The Bee Bnlldlnr South Omaha City liall liulldlng. ' Council fluffs 15 Erntt Ptreet. Chicago-1640 University building-. New York IMS Horn Life insurance Bull-Una-. WoBliinrton-TS Fourteenth Street N. w. CORRE8FONDENCI3. Communications relating- to news and edi torial matter ehonld be addressed. Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, rxpreaa or poatftl order f'ayable to Tha Bee Publishing- company. nly 2-cent atampa received In payment of mall account. Personal check, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. x STATEMENT OP CIRCULATION. ". . State of Nebraska, Douglaa Coutny, a".: Qeoro-e B. Tzschuck. treasurer of The Bee Publishing comrany, being duly eWirii, aaya that the actual number of full and complete conies of The . Daily. Mornlnn, Evening and Sunday Bee printed- during the rnontk of February, 1903, was aa fol lows; ! 1.... 36,700 IS... 86,100 I 38,300 17.. 36,200 t 36,180 18. . f M.930 4 M,SaO 1..... 38,730 t ...... 88,310 SO.. 38,300 38.C30 SI 38,340 7 35,940 12 30,830 I.. 86,030 23 35,000 38,000 14 36,300 10., 85,800 25 38,870 11 38,100 25.... 38,490 12 .... 38,300 27 36,580 1 36,300 21 38,380 14 36,100 .,... 30,830 15 ....36.110 Totals ...1,04 8,880 Less unsold and' returned copies. 8,437 Net total .V . . . 1,039,113 Dally average 35,831 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK, Treaaurer. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 2d day of March, 1908. ROBJiRT HUNTER. Notary .Public. WHO OCT or TOWS, Subscribers leaving; thm rlty tcm. , porsrllr aboalal have Tha lies mailed to them. Address will be asjge sis sftea as reqweatetl. Modlll McCormick declares that yel low Journalism la on tho wane. No flowers. It should be easier to keep anarch ists out of the country than to put them out. China has apologized to Japan, but Japan Insists that It does not under stand Chinese. Tho Kentucky night riders have a bad way of doing their smoking In the tobacco barna. ' :" : -. J Mr. Clark Howell says tho south is ; wild for' "Bryan. f Tho south 1s tho ' victim of habit. , f Th6 noiseless campaign gun has not been Invented, but' LesllesM. Shaw' is getting mighty close to it. - ; "Uncle" -Dan Nettletron may npt prldo himself on being good to look t, but he is good to listen to. Douglaa county taxpayers are ready for a new court house, but they are not ready for a real estate job. Colonel Watterson la making it plain that Vlth the old line democrata ; enthusiasm for Bryan la an acquired taste. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw might get her divorce more quickly by pleading that she was insane whan she married Harry. A hodcarrler at Boston has had a title conferred upon him by the king ot Italy. A titled hodcarrler is still below the masons. Texas reports a mountain of petri fied fish nearly 6.000 feet above sea lavel. Fish stories are always fash ionable during Lent. ' . r The teacher or Janitor, who locks a Bchoolhouse door while children are oa the insidfl should be bebjnd another kind of locked door.. ' Chicago delegates to the Denver ' convention, will carry' - a J vaudeville team with them. Seems like 'carry lpg coals' to Newcastle. ? "An orderly lynching" is reported j", from Texas. We take it for granted that the victim appreciated the polite; Bess of his executioners. "Our political Ufa all is discord," says Chancellor Day. The chancellor ehould'read the report' of the Ne braska republican convention. It turns out that the Lancaster county delegation fared better in the convention held at Om&ha than it did In the convention held at Lincoln. A Boston report says that Tom La'wson has become an Inveterate chewer of gum. Glad ho hrs found something to hew besides the rag. Ban Francisco has raised nearly $100,000 by popular subscription for the extermination of rata. The prin ters, naturally, contributed liberally Mexico Is going to spend $8,000,000 In improving that harbor at Topolo- banipo. A few dollcrs of tho amoun should be spent for a simplified name. "The United States should shut the door on anarchists" says' Secretary Straus. Yes, and the door should be the improved kind, with chilled steel r and burglar proof locks. KCBHASKA tllFVBUCA !fS OX RECORD. Nebraska republicans are now on record not only through their stats convention, but also through conven tions speaking for each of the other six congressional districts in favor of William If. Taft as successor to Pre! dent Roosevelt. At no time since the candidacy of Taft was announced and the statement made positive by Mr. Roosevelt that he would not accept another nomina tion has there been any serious ques tion as to where Nebraska would stand at Chicago. Nebraska has been and Is a thor oughly Roosevelt state. It was al ways to be counted on to uphold the distinctive policies of the present ad ministration and to insist upon a candidate pledged to their continu ance.' So unanimous and outspoken has this sentiment been that it was only to be expected that the state con vention would, before commissioning Kb delegates, call upon them individ ually to announce whom they favored so that, there might be no doubt that the delegation would be for Taft at heart as well as on tbe surface. The resolutions adbpted by the state convention properly stand upon the record of achievement of the repub lican party In state as well as in na tion. It was not for the republicans of , Nebraska, aa The Bee has already said, to write in advance a platform to guide the platform-makers at Chi cago. It was sufficient to say In plain words that Nebraska republicans stand for the Roosevelt i'leps in legislation and administration, that they stand for tho reform doctrines on which Governor Sheldon and his associates were elected two years ago and which the last legislature Incorporated into the statute books. The resolutions adopted say this in unmistakable language and promise that there shall be no backward step. Nebraska re publicans point to deeds accomplished as contrasted with Nebraska demo crats, who merely find fault and re new oft-broken pledges. KIKO ALFONSO'S SERVE. The young king, of Spain is proving that he is made of sterner stuff than some of his ancestors and predecessors on the throne and that he apparently Is determined to study conditions in his kingdom at first hand. Since his coronation he has shown a disposition to break away from the counsels of the court clique and to do everything in his power to get into closer touch with his people. Little affairs like the attempt to assassinate him on his wed ding day and the frequent discovery of anarchistic plots against the throne have, not been sufficient to check his determination or to cause him to aban don any of his plane. : ' . Jtv roQUlred ' real courage for King Alfonso to spend a weak at Bar.ce lpna, the chief commercial and in duy trial 'city, ot his empires Barcelona is the storm, center of the Spanish rev olutionists, the .breeding place' ot ' ah archistlo plots. The king's decision to visit the port, to welcome the fleet sent there by the Austrta-Hungary govern ment and to Inaugurate a system of general public improvements, was dis couraged, it Is understood, by King Edward of England, by the German emperor and by other royal relatives of the Spanish ruler. They urged the (lunger that would attend the visit, but Alfonso declared that he could not be exiled ty anarchists from any part of his own country. He contended that bin failure to visit Barcelona would be construed cis a recognition of the power of the anarchists and revolu tionaries and that he could not shirk his plain duty, as he saw It, on account of any personal danger. Spanish peo ple, including the anarchists, should rejoice that they have a sovereign who is not content to be a mere figurehead. BACK 7) TUB FARM. The United States Is not the only nation becoming keenly alive to the improvement and betterment ot agri cultural conditions, although we have clearly taken the lead in this work. Itectnt consular reports show that pearly every country, in Europe Is ex periencing a reaction from the tide ot migration toward the cities, promising a noted change in every branch of the farming industry. This has been forced, particularly in Europe, by the high prices of farm products, particu larly in fruits and vegetables, making the work ot the small farmer more pro!it:i!ilo than it has ever been. So strong - has been the demand for a change in agricultural conditions that the British Parliament has passed what is known as the small holdings act, which contemplates the introduc tion of Intensified farming. Under the English law provision is made for cutting up some of the large estate into small farms. Provision is made tor the settlement of differ trees between landlords and tenants by a board of arbitration, for the pay ment of damages for destruction of crrps by game or animals, and for co operative buying and Helling. The new law yi'.l tiko effect. January 1. 1909, and tilretidy thousands of families that reve been living In cities and villages, finding employment in the factories, are moving back to the farms. It is estimated that 12,000,000 acres of EngVsh lands now devoted to pasture, hunting preserves or lying fallow, wtll be tukn uii by small farmers within tha next two oar. The surprising stutrimrt is male in a consular report that but II per cent of the English population in rural. whereas in 1801 the rural population of the country was II per cent. Ei gland has great incentive for the encouragement ot the small farmer and ,tgetsble grower. ; It imports an nually' atfnt $0, 000,000 worth of ggs, $116,000,000 worth of butter and poultry; bacon and cheese to the rsluo ot $140,000,000. It is estimated thut the total imports of food products from the garden, poultry yard and dairy amount to about $400,000,000 ui.r.tslly The praiseworthy ambition has now been developed to have moet of this produce raised on English farms. Nothing that England or other Kurt pean countries may do in the dl rectlon of bettering agricultural con dltlons can have any injurious effect upon tha market for the products of th-4 Ameilcan farms. The annual in- cr ree in the population of the world assures a constant and widening mar ket and creates a necessity for further attention to intensified farming in this covntry. CRITICS OF THE SATT. Witnesses are apparently vying with each other in offering the most conflicting testimony before a congres sional committee as to the real facts about the condition of the American navy. Mr, Reuterdahl, who started the trouble by a magazine article. In which ho declared the navy weak and inefficient and most of the battleships unfit for active Bervice, is having some support from officers who do not agree with the methods of construction em ployer! in building American battle ships. ' Equally emphatic testimony is offered by other officials to the effect that the completed American battle ship represent the present day 'per fection of the shipbuilder's art. So far as the plain citizen, particu larly the landsman, is concerned, the testimony of Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans will "carry more weight than any that has been or will be offered by navy experts of either the professional or magazine type. "Fighting Bob" has Bent a telegram from Magdalena Bay announcing that his fleet of sixteen battleships has arrived at that' port, after a history-making cruise of 13,- 000 miles, with every vessel i ship shape order end ready to go into ac tion at a moment's notice. No better evidence of the character and condition of the battleships could be offered. They have been in almost constant motion since December 16, moving for the moat of the time in battle formation on one of the most hazardous voyages ever undertaken by a fleet of fighting ships. The admiral reports that the entire fleet ia in even better condition than when it started on its long cruise, thus, crowning with signal success the greatest naval un dertaking in history. In the face of such proof charges of inefficiency in, .either the vessels or their officers and men will fall on dull ears. In ' his remark- before the repub lican state convention the editor ofl The Bee is said to have omitted from the Jlst of state chairmen who, .in the seven.j'ears of his service on the state committee, had contributed to the up building of the party organization and the strengthening ot. a republican ma jority in Nebraska the name of W. B Rose, who served immediately preced ing the present chairman. If bo, the omission was entirely unintentional and The Bee is glad to testify to the painstaking and effective work done by Mr. Rose as head ot the state or ganization. Results tell and the suc cessful outcome of the campaign which he managed is the best evidence of his foresight and industry. Instead ot .making the test on the appointment of park commissioners tor Omaha by the judges of the dis trict court, the test should be made on the appointment of park commis sioners of South Omaha by these judges. It such appointment is an illegal invasion of the constitutional guaranty of local self-government and the division of governmental powers between the executive and the Judi ciary, it is the South Omaha park com missioners who are holding office by sufferance. The Good Government league ot South Omaha went on record before the primary in opposition to the candidate tor mayor who was nomi nated by the democrats. To be con sistent la this professed desire to get a change for the better in the city government it should now be vigor ously supporting the republican nominee. Omaha has not lost anything by having the state conventions of all the political parties held here this year. They have enabled Omaha to Invite the personal observation of delegatea from all parta of the state and Omaha never suffers by such scrutiny. The absence ot the names ot mem bers of the Nebraska delegation at Washington from the list of million aires in the senate and house is strik ingly noticeable. Nebraska, fortu nately or unfortunately, does not yet rest under that cloud. "What better are we than Russia?" asks Chancellor Day. Well, we Just laugh at radical rantlngs like those offered by the chancellor, . while in Europe he would likely be sent to Siberia. The republican state convention signally haudisappoluted the domo cratl World-Herald by falling to de velop any bitter contention which the democrats lulsht Laip ou to futueut republican dissension. Emperor William Insists that there was nothing private in that letter -he wrote to tha head of tha British Ad miralty. Of course1, if there was noth ing "prlvste In the letter no one will care to know anything more about it When framing a law against carry ing concealed weapons the law-makers should be careful to make it broad enough to include the deadly water- bottle. t.ettlnar Others Do That. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The farmers are not worrying; much about politics. They heve 150.000,000 buah els of old wheat on hand, with fine pros pects- for a new crop. The Ceaatry Is Safe. Boston Transcript. The country will breathe easier since the Nebraska democrats have pronounced In fsvor of completing; the Panama canal. It would be too bad to quit now. The Editorial Peril. Baltimore American. Those good democrat lo papers which are busy showing; that Bryan should not be nominated because he cannot win will not want to consult their back files a few months hence. In n Natahell. Kansas City Times. In Nebraska, where the republicans are keenly Interested In the nomination of a man who can win, the news dispatches tell a significant story. Here la the story; It's U Taft In Nebraska." A Dana-erstaa Kaaerlmeat. Baltimore American. It Is reported from Paris that soma scientists there succeeded In literally rais ing people from the dead. They ought to be stopped Instantcr as establishing a highly dangerous precedent. There Is too much trouble as It Is In getting some peo ple to stay dead. - Civil ScttIcc Law Stiffened. Philadelphia Record. The United States supreme court has mightily stiffened the spine of civil service reform by Its decision that no llcltatlon by letter of campaign contribu tions from federal officeholders Is a vio lation of the law, This will serve to em phasize and make certain the protection of government employes against the raids of political bosses, When solicitation is declared unlawful and dangerous compli ance Is, of course, unnecessary, and non compliance safe. ' A Panama. Calamity Howl. Washington Post. 1 The ex-chlef engineer of the Panama canal has ranged hinrself with those calamity howlers and pessimistic croak ers who, aforetime, laughed to scorn the building of the Sues canal. They said It would never pay, too; It waa always to be a burden and a money waster. But for years and years It has to reduce its tolls In order to earn more money than Its charter allowed. Beyond thus ranking himself with thta early brigade of doubt ing Thomases It Is difficult to see what Mr. Stevens has achieved by his blue prophecies. Ho has not destroyed the country's confidence In the ultimate suc cess of the canal project; he has not be littled the excellent work Colonel Ooeth&le Is doing. Neither has he added anything to his own reputation as a distinguished engineer, FIRST OB" ITS CLASS. Harrlnaa Links His Maes from -' Ocean to Ocean. . Philadelphia Record. We have becotno accustomed to speak of the great railway syatema running east and weat as transcontinental, though hith erto there has been no trunk line operated under a single management that extended from ocean to ocean. The Canadian Pa cific camo nearest to being transcontinental. though Its eastern terminus Is hundreds of miles from the Allantlcr Indeed, the South ern Pacific, with Its terminals on the gulf, would have been called transcontinental with almost equal propriety, though It Is for Its entire length west of the Missis sippi. With the acquisition of the Georgia Central by Harrtman the word "transconti nental" applied to a railroad system for the first time becomes accurately descrip tive. The Harrlman system now extends from ocean to ocean from Seattle, San Francisco and Ban Diego to Savannah. OVEHHAl'LISfl DEPARTMENTS. Roosevelt Administration Exception ally Cloaa and Efllrlent. New York Times. The movement In the house of represen tatives to "galvanize" the numerous com mittees supposed to be charged with watch ing tha expenditures of the several depart ments is naturally attributed to Ppeaker Cannon's growing coolness toward the ad ministration. There Is no doubt that the president has fallen into the habit of using the departments and their various bureffus pretty freely without always troubling him self to get full congressional authority for action or for expenditure. Tha correction of any abuses that may have grown up in this way Is a perfectly legitimate function for tha committees of the house, whtcft In theory Is supposed to hold tha purse strings. It may be said that the congress Is It self fur from cautious In Its use of money or of patronage that coats money, but it is on of the rules of the political game that one set of officials shall be put to watch another, depending for results more on a certain Jealousy than on pure seal for tha 'public welfare. But ws venture to think that It will be found, on the whole, that the weakness of this administration does not lie In the direction of extravagant or heedlesa work in the department. On the contrary, Mr. Roosevelt has, wa think, shown more than ths ordinary vigilance and practical sagacity In h efforts to make the departments efficient and clean. Wa should hardly expect tha committees Of the house to do much better on these Hue. Bui thera Is uu pouiuis uujveuon to turning on the light. Baby Laugh It belongs to health for . baby to eat and sleep, to laugh and grow fat. But fat comes firsts don't ask a scrawny baby to laugh; .why. eren his stnile if pitiful I Fat comes first. The way to be fat is the way to be healthy. Scott's Emulsion is the proper food, but only a little at first. AH DrsbH SO, ami 1 JOO. OTHER LA Si DS Til It OIRS. What commotion a trifling spark can produca where overloaded powder mnga sl'tes abound Is evidenced by the fTuropean bother over Kaiser AVIlllam's private letter to Lord Tweedmouth of the Brltleb admir alty. The British lord, flattered by the attention of the German kaiser, could rot restrain his mouth and permitted the fact of tha receipt of the letter to become public. This was seised by newspapera which thunder In the index as proof of German 'Interference In British naval af fairs and th latent flrea of German- ophobia In th British metropolis were In stantly stirred Into a blase. Demand was mad for th publication of th letter. Parliament was appealed to. Tory patriots fumed and assailed th ministry. All In vain. Tweedmouth' declined to open his mouth. Parliament refused to b stam peded. Th ministry stood pat. Bo th less than nlno days' sensation over an Imperial note concededly of no political Importance vanished without a clash In Europe'e armed camps. The Incident, trifling as It was clearly Indicated that th profession of universal peace made at The Hague confer ence are not filtering Into th systems of th populace. Thera Is no sign of the red corpuscle yielding to tha mollycoddle germ. On the contrary, nations are vying with each other In extending and perfecting military and naval armaments on a seal hitherto unknown. 6om optimists regard these preparations for war an assurance of peace. But there Is the ever present danger when playing with guns that an "unloaded" on will go off. m Activity In navy building among maritime nations surpasses all former records. Great Britain publicly affirms Its policy of put ting on the sea as many fighting ship as tho two next ranking nations, or "four Drcadnaughts a year." Tills policy has been conalstenlty maintained up to the pres ent time, and the celerity of its shipyards In producing floating forts of the Dread- naught typ leaves no doubt of Its abllty li maintain Its naval supremacy. Germany has launched the first of Its class of huge fighting ships, and the United States and France are following the example. Russia is putting the finishing touches on two large battleships of 17,000 tons each, and two of 19,900 tons are projected. Since the close of the war with Russia, Japan has built four battleships averaging 18,000 tona, four armored cruisers, four other cruisers and thirty-seven torpedo boats and de stroyers, a total of fifty-one ships. Increas ing by one-half th empire's naval tonnage before the war. Two monster ships of 21,000 tons each, ar projected and three Mghclass cruisers are on the way. Rivalry throughout the world is Intense and fever ish. Every year or two brings out a new type- ot warship, larger and mora expen sive than its predecessor, at the same time relegating to the Junk pile an equal num ber of former monarchs of tho sea. When tho rivalry will end Is beyond the rang of mortal vision. Cost has jumped from $1,000,000 and $2,000,000 per ship to tha stun ning sums of 19,000,000 apd $10,000,000 each, and the cost of maintenance is relatively high. Only nations with limitless sources of taxation can hold a place on the naval race in th near future. A writer In the current Atlantic, dis cussing the growth of German cities, says that since 1870 Berlin has grown relatively and absolutely faster than Chicago, the Greater Berlin having today a population of over 8,000,000. Thirty years ago Leipzig was less than 150,000; today It Is more than 600,000. Hamburg then had almost pre cisely the same population as Boston; today, although Boston's growth has been so great, Hamburg, with more than 800, Ono people. Is larger than Boston; the growth of tta commerce has been vastly greater, and its docks and port facilities are In comparably finer, models commended to Boston for Imitation at this very moment by an expert commission. The Hamburg American line and the North German Lloyd are the largest steamship companies in the world, larger than any English com panies, the former having more than 150 ocean steamers in Its service. The great railway stations are the finest In Europe, Incomparably superior to those In the great English cities; the finest of them all as yet, tha Union station, now building at Leipzig, will cost $2,000,00a The Univer sity of Bellng Is planning a special de partment deVoted to the wise and beauti ful laying out of cities, with provision for making the lectures available to th direct ing municipal officials of Germany. In in dustrial and technical education, from top to bottom, Germany's achievements are far ahead of England, as It Is in so much ahead of us. It Is by science that It has pushed its way to Industrial supremacy In so many fields, that It has captured the chemical Industries of Europe and in so large degree the electrical Industries, and that It is distancing or crowding England and ourselves in the markets of the world. A recent report from the United States consul general at Antwerp shows that nearly one-half of the 4,500 to 5,000 diamond cutters of Antwerp were thrown out of work through the failure of orders from the United States on account of tha finan cial crisis. The consul general gives some Interesting facts about the diamond cutting industry. He says: "The Antwerp dia mond Industry comprises about forty fac tories and employs 4.SO0 to 6,000 men. Dia mond cutters ara paid a wage of $12 to $18 a week, cleavers $20 a week upward, whila the sorters receive $6 to $10 a week; thus the average wages amount to $13 to $14 a week. Thirty-five years ago th diamond trad was In such flourishing condition that a good cutter earned as much as from $230 to $3S0 a week. This remark able state of things, however, attracted the attention' of workers from all over the country; keen competition ensued, with the consequent diminishing of wages. The famous Culllnan diamond, given to King Edward VII by the Transvaal colonial gov ernment as a birthday present, cannot be cut In England, and will be sent to cither Amsterdam or Antwerp, where it will take ai tha very least six months to perform the wt,rk." The Oesterrelchlache Wochenschrift, under the headline "Heroism Rewarded" tells about a soldier In the Russian army by the name of Samuel Glans who served In the war with Japan. He was at Port Arthur from first to last and was severely wounded at tha battle of Mount Dagushan. For "distlngulahed bravery" ho was decor ated with the St. George medal and was promoted to the noncommissioned staff. After the war, when his term of service was over, Glans obtained a position at Moacow. Then he received notice t,at, being a Jew, he coulJ not remain in the city. By a ukase all Jews who distin guished themselves In the Russo-Japanese war were allowed the same rights as had been given to the Nikolujewer soldiers, and as these could not acqulr citizenship In Moscow Olans had to go, bravery decor ation and all. The cas was brought to the notice of the csar, and through a per sonal order from blm the soldier decorated for bravery received the exalted privilege uf eafiiliis hla llvius In llio clly of Mos cow. " Admiration JHIaas Eavy. Pittsburg Dlapatch. While on muit admlr th cool re sourcefulness of Banker Drak of Omaha he need not nvy blm his post a, m i n i, ma iianj t , , iiasasss ; m II ammaaamaaW MammmmfJsmmsaaaa nmOmmwmmmmrvmammmm I M4 Where the finefl biscuit, cake, hot-breads, emits or puddings are required Ifyyal is indispensable. 7 V ) 1 Balding Powder Absolutely Pun? Not' only for rich or fine 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 tasly, nutritious and wholesome. n u POLITICAL DRIFT. Political headquarters ar opening up and preparing for summer and fall trade. John Johnson of Minnesota carried his own state twice. Bryan carried his state once. The justly celebrated "Sob Squad" of New York, having worked Itself out ot a job, seeks an assignment on Senator For- akor's political staff. Coincident with the discovery of the al leged life restoring qualities of magnesium, Adlal Stevenson shows signs of vitality and tha vice presidential fever. Th recent state convention of republicans In Kansas marked the passing ot the old order In that state. State-wide primaries supercedes state conventions. Edward N. Dlngley, a son of the author of the present tariff bill, has announced his candidacy for the congressional nomina tion of his party In tho third Michigan dis trict. If it is true as reported that tha Denver convention hall Is one mile from the near est irrigation joint, a motion to adjourn will take unquestioned precedence In the hot July convention. W. Qy Conrad, the Montana millionaire, who has been mentioned among democratic candidates for the nomination of vice pres ident, came within two votes of beating William Kt Clark for a seat In the United States senate. Richard Franklin Pettlgrew of Sioux Falls, S. D., who has been mentioned aa the successor of Thomas Taggart aa chair man of the democratic national committee. Is a Vermont boy, born In Ludlow fifty years ago. When he was a senator In Washington he was known as "th pick erel" because ot his contentious spirit and stinging comments. Thomas J. Aklns, republican national committeeman for Missouri and assistant United States treasurer at St. Louis, will enter the race for the United States senate at the coming election. Ha Is very close to Secretary Taft and was largely Instru mental' in carrying thoae dlstrlcta in Mis souri which have already Instructed for the secretary of war. BRIGHT AND BREEZY. "There is one paradoxical quality which a vine possesses. ' "What Is that?" "It can keep on running while It Is still rooted to th spot." Baltimore American. "Why doesn't that man get on in poli tics? He aeems capable and Industrious." "Yes." answered Senator Sorghum, "he la all that. But he showed bad judgment In i selecting hla opinions." Washington Mta: "What are you going to do with your second boy?" "JlmmleT Well, we've com to the con clusion that Jlmmle has no last for busi ness and can't make money and ao we are going to get him into West Point." Cleve land Plain Dealer. "What are the most powerful explosives known?" queried th young man. "Two prima donnas In one opera com pany," replied the ex-theatrlcal manager. Chicago News. "Whom do you hold responsible for the embarrassments that the public suffers?" "Well," answered Farmer Corntosael, "It depends on circumstances. I own a few shares of bank -stuck and I've been runnln' The New T IS not too early Browning,' Ming & Co CLOTHINO, FURNISHINGS and HATS '1 M Suits and Top Coats. They ar here now, direct from our own New York work shops, showing la advance the latest metropolitan fashions. The name of IIROWMNG, KING & CO. on a suit or coat Is like the sterling mark on silver. Too will find the same name and style In our Boys' and Children's Suits, of which we have a splendid assortment to show you now. Spring Hats are here In all the new shapes and shades, tor both men and boys.' In our Furnishings department you will find the latest Shirts. Ties, etc. 15th and Douglas RTfft 15th and Duglas Streets t x R.S.WlLCOX,Mor. t t V 1 1 St r ( u ft U A .wsmBtaarnvmBBBBamns fur road supervisor. Pponkln' as a flnan cier, I blame the politicians, an' epeakm as a politician, I blame the flnHnelira." Waahlngton Star. He I bope, now that the dog quest'.oi has come up, I can get rid of that cron: little cur of yoirrs. She It ia a good thing Hint all kinds o: Ill-tempered brutes are not included In tht crusade, for something might happen It t'n men who are growling all the time. Haiti more American. A SPRING 1UYI-. New York Sun. Tha birds will please sing in the trees Spring. Ho, brother, shut your eyes and sneexo Spring. Th flowers will now begin to bud, The lovers chant a roundeluy. The hurdy-gurdies come and play. And everything is sluali and mud Spring. One day the southern sephyrs blow. Spring. The next It's ten degrees below, Spring. Today the children skip tho rope, Tomorrow morning it will snow, The tailors' windows make a ahow- The oldest maid begins to hope Spring. Remember that the year is leap Spring. Beware or you'll be let In deeji Spring. 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