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10 THE OMAHA DAILY ttEE: SATURDAY, MAKCII 28, 1908 TitE Omaha Daily Bee OUKDED BT EDWARD ROSEWATEK. VICTOR R&SEWATER, EDITOR. Enters at Omtht Postofflce a second cltw matter. . TERMS OF BUBSCRIPTION: rl1r B (without Sunday), ona ear..$4W lally ilea and Sunday, ona year 6" Dunoav Re. on vMr Saturday bee. ona year 160 DELIVERED BT CARRIER: Pally Boa (Including Sunday), per week.130 Dally Bra (without Sunday), par weak.wc Evening Bee (without Sunday), per week o Evening Bea (with, Sunday), per weelt ioc Addreaa all complalnta of irregularities In delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES: Omaha Tha Bee Bui Id In. " South Omaha City Mall Building. Council Hluffa 1 Scott dtreet. Chicago 1940 University Building. Chicago l MO l New York loO Home Ufa Insurance Building. ulldlng. Washlngton-ttB Fourteenth Street N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to newa an, edi torial matter should be addressed, Omana Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or poatal order payable to Tha Bee Publishing company. Only t-cent stampe received In payment or mall account. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchangee, not acceptea. STATEMENT OF Vt RCU IAT ION. .. State of Ncbraakk. Douglaa Coutny, se t George B. TsechUck, treaaurer of The Bee Publishing comoany, being duly aworit aaya that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Daily, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of February, 1908. waa 'o1' lowa: i se,7o I 88,800 if 88,180 4 sa.aao t SSJI10 ,03O T SS.MO I M.030 85,000 10 SS.MO it sa,ioo It 36,800 II.... 38,200 M.... 3,100 It i,U0 Total j j 36.100 17 36,300 is J 36,930 19. 84,730 D 38,300 11 M,30 CI se.sao It 3800 14 BM0 t 36,670 It 36,40 IT., 38,560 H., 86,380 3360 .1,048,800 Less unsold and returned coptea. , 8,437 Net total '. 1,030,113 Dally average 31,631 GBORQO B. TZSCHUCK, Treasurer. Subscribed in nay preaenco end sworn to before ma tbia Id day of March. 190. ROBERT HUNTER. ' !!dtary Publla WHEJt OCT OF TOWN, abscrlberp IcwTlaar tha city tea Doraurlly ah old have The Be tallew to them. Addreaa wlU be ekuge oftes aV requested. In other words Senator Elklnt think more of ducaU than dukes. ' New Yorkers say their population has grown too dense. Dense or stu pid? Illinois republicans endorsed Mr. Cannon, but they adopted a Taft plat form. "Can monkeys reason?" New York Tribune. Does any difference? asks the It make Emma Goldman says she is sick of -the American public The public got sick of her first. One week from next Monday will be Taft day in Omaha. Mark it down on your calendar for April 6. Senator La Follette declares e is not a bolter and proves it by making three meals of the Aldrlch bill. Mme. Gould denies the report that she is to ask for a receiver. This ap pears to. be the last blow at Prince de Began. The governor of Kentucky would be justified in using Haytlan methods of restoring order in the "night-riding" diatricts. . The brewery strike is on again in St. Louis. A' brewery strike In St. Louis may be more disastrous than a water amine.' - The anarchist who assassinated a Denver priest is appealing to the law which he refused to recognize when he was at liberty, The Cincinnati" Enquirer persists in urging Mr. Bryan for second place That's where he will be in all likeli hood when the polls close in Novem ber. f "Will the democrats make a better showing In 190g than they did in 1904?" asks the New York World Locomotor stasia Is said to be incur able. . ' Theodore Shonts does not regard the Panama canal as a paying Invest ment. Still he got 130,000 a year out ot it as chairman of the commis sion. With the treasury funds running a little low. the government might offer Mr. Rockefeller a little discount for cash it he wants to pay that $29,240,- 000 fine. Oklahoma has passed a law prohib iting eavesdropping over the tele phone. It will be worth while seeing how Oklahoma Is going to enforce an act ot that kind. Edgar Howard's personal guaranty that visitors can buy "Old Crow" for 15 and two for 25 in Denver should reassure any democrat who has been hesitating about going to the convert Uon. Denver subscribers to the conven tlon fund will hall with pleasure the launching of the Johnson boom. It began to look tor a time as though there would not be excltment enough to draw a crowd. It the railroads attack the 2-cent fare laws in Missouri and Illinois it is a safe in t recce that they will at tack the t-cent fare law la Nebraska in due time. There are no state lines ila the railroad law dsartmeat. - l.STEnSATlOltAL A0R1CVLTCRE. Pome unwarranted opposition has botn expressed In congress to a pro tIhIoii in tbe agricultural appropria tion bill to pay the expenses of art American delegation to the Interna tional Institute of Acriculture to be held in ftotne next May. The opposi tion appears to rest in claim that the United States, with its marked lead In agricultural development, should not co-operate in a plan for ad vancing agricultural interest In other parts of tbo world and thus encourage competition with our own products. The productive area of the world is comparatively limited, and. with the increasing demand, no develop ment that may result in agriculture elsewhere can rob us of our lead or lessen the demand for our products. The plan for an international confer ence pi agriculture was suggested some years ago to the, king ot Italy by L'avld Lubin. the American consul at Rome. The king was so taken with the plan that he caused to be erected in Rome 'a) magnificent palace, dedi cated to the use of the farmers of the world. He called a preliminary con ventloi in 1905, at which plans were adopted for the coming general world moetlng for the purpose of organizing an International agricultural society. The originators propose to make a bureau of agriculture for all the world that wlJJ work alons the progressive lines already adopted by our Depart ment of Agriculture. ' ' The United States may learn much from partlclsation In this work. Through the operation ot the pro posed international bureau of agricul- lire it will be possible to get valuable dati ao to the needs of the different nations, new ideas of soil culture, jedinK and all the elements that en ter Into successful farming in all its branches. Congress should be prompt to provide for American representa tion in tho meeting at Rome. ROGER SVLLIVAX tSDOBSED The Cook County Democracy March ing club, the organisation that has practically complete control ot the af fairs of the democratic party la Chi cago, has warmly indorsed Roger Sullivan as a good democrat and rec ommended him for re-election as na tional committeeman for Illinois. This action confirms the proclaimed truce between Mr. Bryan and the Sullivan supporters, by the terms of which Mr. Bryan is to receive the votes of an Instructed Illinois delegation to the Denver convention, and in return to stop his fight on Sullivan and allow him to continue in his position as n ley tional committeeman. Mr. Bryan made a bitter fight at the St. Louis convention In 1904, where he tried to have the delegation headed by Sullivan thrown out ot the convention. In the course of an im passioned address to the convention Mr. Bryan, in referring to Sullivan and his delegation, said: The evidence shows no band of train robbers ever mora deliberately planned to rob a train than these men planned to rob the democratic voters of Illinois. They now have the audacity to aay that the statement of the officers of their conven tion la proof of their regularity. If that's ao, all the train robbers need to do In court is to make a complete statement of their actions and, over, their own signa tures, state that they took up a voluntary contribution for charity. If these Illinois people make, a good defense before this convention, then I tell you these train rob bers have made an equally good one. The, men who supported Roger 8ullivan at St. Louis in 1904 are still loyal to him. Mr. Bryan is tbe only recruit in their ranks. KO F1SAHC1AL SACRiricr.. Congressman Littlefield of Maine, who has resigned to re-enter the law, has added his contribution to the growing volume of fiction about the financial loss that consressmen suffer by serving their constituents. Mr. Lit tlefield explains as the chief reason fOL bis retirement from public life that during his nine years In congress be has suffered "a large financial loss" and is "constrained from a sense of duty to his family to resume the prae tice of law." It Is the perfectj-ight of Mr. Little- field, as of every other member of con gress to make all the money he can le gitimately and to resign from congress to better himself if he deems best, but it Is unfair and, in moat cases un true, to pretend that members of con gress serve at a financial sacrifice. The pay or a congressman Is now $7,000 per annum, with mileage and allowances for clerk hire and station ery that make these perquisites bring fCOO to $1,000 more. He has hand somely furnUhed offices and every facility for the dispatch of business, public and private, without expense. His duties keep him in Washington but nine of tbe twenty-four months ot his term, leaving him more than half ot his time to attend to bis personal or professional affairs. In Mr. Littlefield's case the record shows that his membership In congress has ooVrated to his distinct financial advantage. With the possible excep tion ot Mr. Tillman and Mr. La Fol lette, no member of congress has been in greater demand as a lecturer than Mr. Littlefield. He has talked across tho continent and back several times in tha last five years and has doubt lent fully doubled his salary by his lecture engagements. There Is ' no mesns of ascertaining what his Income from bis law practice was before he went to congress, but it was hardly mure than $5,000 a year His home town ot Rockland is a mere village, and the Indications are that hJs mem bership In congress has given him a prominence htch has attracted offers ot. UcjfcUv legal employment which. would have never come to him had he remain In private life in Maine. Tho chances all are that Mr. Llttle fleld'a congressional career, instead of causing him a "large' financial loss," has been a distinct financial gain to him. PAT ma THK 1KHKR1TAKCK TAX. The payment ot the inheritance tax on tbe, Crelghton estate under protest, setting forth that the Nebraska Inheri tance tax law should be declared un constitutional and that, even It valid, it should not apply to the bulk ot this estate, will hardly be taken as a pro test in good faith. In the first place, the Nebraska law has been passed on by our supreme court and Its constitutionality upheld as against the very points now raised by the Crelghton estate lawyers. In the second place, the alleged ex emptions of charitable and religious bequests are not tenable because the constitution of Nebraska does not of itself exclude them and the onlj' ex emptions provided for by law are those for direct heirs limited to a specific sum. All the objections now raised to the inheritance tax have been urged against every inheritance tax law that has ever been enacted in this country, and jet such laws are In operation today in thirty-seven of the forty-six states. The Cheighton estate protest calls attention, however, to several defects In the Nebraska law which should be remedied. One of these defects is that the law requires payment of the tax before the amount due can be Judicially determined. Another is that It makes the interest penalty begin to accrue before the estate need be distributed, and sometimes before the validity of the will of the deceased may have been adjudicated. These defects, however, are merely administrative and tech nical and do not necessarily affect the legality or the Justice of the inherl- ance tax With more than $150,000 at stake, however, it would not be surprising, especially In view of the tat legal pickings already pulled out of this es tate, to find plenty of volunteer law yers ready to chance a fee on beating the county out of all or part of the' In heritance taxes assessed against the Crelghton properties, but the heirs and beneficiaries should feel that they have been pretty well treated and be glad to let well enough alone. Omaha has succeeded in aelllns a new batch of municipal bonds aggre gating $279,000 at a slight premium. It is to be noted, however, that the bonds bear 4 per cent interest, whereas the city has Often gotten a snug bonus on 4 per cent bonds. Still another point that should be taken Into consideration is that Bhould these bonds be made available as se curity for emergency bank note cir culation they will quickly Jump to a big premium. South Omaha democrats are mak ing lots of noise and raising lots of dust an a cover for a desperate effort to secure a renewed lease on the city government at the coming election. But the voters, and especially those who pay taxes, can see through it all. They have had enough of the costly and inefficient democratic city admin istration and will vote for a change If given half a chance. N Lincoln declines to make effective the appropriation for a state historical society building by furnishing the site on which it is conditioned. That was only to have been expected. The Lin-. Leln people will be back at the next legislature asking for an appropriation out of the state treasury to pay for the Bite as well as the building. , The great mistake of Senator La Follette in making up his list of 100 names of men who hold the In dustrial fortunes of the country In the palms ot their hands was in leaving out Thomas W. Lawson. He should at once insert the name ot Lawson and then reduce the list from 101 down to 1. Congress is evidently . taking the "In God We Trust" motto seriously. It has cut the military appropriations in half and threatens to limit the con struction of battleships to less than half what the president recommends. "Congress should look at tbe mat ter of gambling at the Bennlng races,' says the Washington Herald. Congress does. It is frequently difficult to se cure a quorum in the house while the races are on at Bennlng. "Nowadays, declares a New York paper, "no newspaper can fill a col umn without referring in Borne man ner to Theodore Roosevelt." Well. tbe newspapers have to print the news The Washington Herald reports that "fifteen populists have nominated Tom Watson for the presidency." No ex planatlen is made for the failure of the other populist to Join in the action Candidate Berge is playing for votes in the democratic primary by eulogizing Mr. Bryan on ever; ocea slon. Candidate Shallenberger will do well to sit up and take notice. Governor Johnson of. Minnesota has consented to be a candidate for the presidential nomination at Denver. -All that is now necessary is for him to obtain Mr. Bryan's consent. The democratic World-Herald con trasts Tennessee and Nebraska very much, to the favor of Nebraska. ' Ne- braska la a republican state and Ten nessee a democratic province. Mayor "Jim" has tried his hand as a rope-thrower and as an editor, and now is to sally forth into foreign lands as an orator. Colonel Bryan had bet ter look to his laurels. This talk about "the slums' of Omaha strikes us as decidedly out of place. The Bee would like someone to tell Just where . "the slums" ot Omaha are located. The price tags on the Raster bon nets furnish complete refutation of the report that the cost ot living is de creasing. Consistency Auurfd. New York livening Post. It is lucky tlint Denver lias made up the full 10n,0u0 pledged for the democratic convention, for (ho party's principles are inconslHtent with giving any rebate or secret discount'. ' Fits the Country's Ideas. Daltlmove American. Secretary Taft'a plea against the c?n tralizatlon of power in tho national govern ment may not gain loud Applause at Wash ington, but It fits tho Ideas of the rest of the country. A one Is Below l'nr. New York Mail. Mr- Uryan'B business Is politic. Ho has grown rich at tho game. His trade Is uf-foot.-d. his market diminished, whenever a governor of either polltlral faith mukis good In his own stato by deeds rather than words, whenever another candidate ap pears In hla party wltH claims to those honors which have been hla chief business asset. " 'Health's reaet Mc:incc. Buffalo Express. The socialists are going to txplode a new hind of bomb in St. l,ouis, even niori terrifying than tha ordinary sert. The women socialism. It seems, have been hir ing out as maldfc 'in the service of wealthy society pople and- now threaten to tell all they know. And the curious world outside nirtiirbed social circles seems willing for tho explosion to take place Interference from the police. without Calculations on Hot Air. . . San .Francisco Chronicle. A recent report of tbe American Tele phone and Telegraph company declares that there is now in use by that company enough wire to enclrclo the earth 344 times, or to stretch thirty-five separate lines to the moon. The writer of the report is now hard at work on a calculation of the volume of sound that would have been embraced in 6,997.000,000 calls made during the year If all. the hellos had been shouted In unison. Lincoln and the Duke. Indianapolis News. The duke of Devonshire, Just dead, was noted for several things besides being a great statesman-and a peer ot vast wealth and high dignity, a party leader and a fac tor In the life of his country that few men aoe in any country. It was said of him, for instance, that he had the most haughty Sphinx-like expression of countenance that ever mortal wore, and especially In his young days he was prone to live up to it. Ha visited this country during the civil and wore a confederate flag in nis lapel at a ball. This am noi i y" him from calling on President Lincoln at the White House. In those days the duke was the marquis of Hartlngton-the cour tesy title of the heir to the dukedom. When presented to the president that fine -gentleman with a depth of diplomacy and sarcasm never eKCelled, persistently called him "Mr. Partington." This bland way oi ignoring him must have got through his hide If anything could which Is to be doubted. James Russell Lowell and others less eminent scored the marquis In the public press at (he time. FAREWELL OF LABOR LEADER. JA John Mitchell TnUlnig Lenvo of Hla Associates. Springfield (Mass.) Republican. Tnhn Mitchell, who had been for ten years at the head of the union representing the coal diggers of the United States and Can ada, took his farewell of the men ne nas well served at the convention in Indian apolis. IJ ,u,t W8ek- Tnera were 1,000 delegates present, representing the united mine workers, and it was evident in me scenes which followed Mr. Mitchell s leave taking how atrong his hold had become. The formal proceedings ended with the singing of "My Country 'Tla of inee ana then followed the parting words of the retiring president. He concluded as fol lows; My boys-and I will call you my boya, even though aome of you are nearly twice as old as I am; I regard you as my boys be aa good union men now and in the time to come as you have been while I was directing your affairs. God bless you again.. I am leaving this movement, not because I want to leave you, out Because have to leave you. I say to you now. gentlemen, may God bless our movement! May He look down on our efforta to Better the lot of humanity with that favor, with that grace He has given It in the daya that I have led you." Then the delegated paased In a long line to Bhake hands with the man who had laid aside their . leadership, and tears were streaming down the cheeke of the most sturdy of them, and Mr. Mitchell was equally moved. Few could say more than God bless you," and the man who was affectionately called "John" could not rlk a word in reply. A spectacle like this must mean something. It is not always recognized how difficult is the material with which John Mitchell has had to deal. They represent bone and muBcle more than brains and restraint of thought and action. They mean labor In Its crudest form. Since John Mitchell be came the hed of the great union conditions have been vastly Improved In the mining regions, affecting the homes of the miners and the outlook for their children. Higher wagea are paid and better working condl ttona prevail,' while of course plenty of room remains for still further betterment In the surroundings of these laborers. Mr. Mitchell has not alone aought better phys! cal surroundings, but he has urged the men to live cleaner Uvea, to provide better homes for their families, to establish and maintain schools, to observe ths law and to recognise the rights ot others. Mr. Mitchell has been a large part of the forward movement because of which these new and Improved conditions exist. Boys under 1 years of age cannot now enter the mines and the old extortionate, company stores have largely disappeared. The basis of John Mitchell's work has keen tbe steady effort to Inculcate aelf-respect among the miners, and even those recently arrived from foreign countrlea have been taught that they must cast In their full lot here, and that they must respect home and fam ily if they would prosper. It was char acteristic o! the man that Ms last official words -were a fervent benediction upon the miners and their rgan.saUoB. and tbete was no cant about lu OTHER LAD TllA OCRS. i The feverish seal of world powers In modern navy building Is likely to result In the sacrifice of quality for quantity. Haste makes for waste In naval equipment as In other branches of official activity. This fact is being exploited In Great Britain by unofficial naval experts a class of critics dubbed "knockers" in tne domain of VJncle Sam. Vnawed by the deep-rooted senti ment expressed m the ballad, "We have the ships, we have the men, we have the money, too," the Brlltsh experts declare the present type of Dreadnaught battle ships possess In themselves their own de struction. The Idea dominant In their con struction is capacity for sending the great est weight of metal against the enemy's ships. Hence the batteries consist mainly of twelve-Inch guns. Secondary, batteries are eliminated. - Basing their opinions on re cent gun practice on the first of the Dread naughts the experts declare the concussion of the batteries fired simultaneously Is more dangerous to the lives of the crew than the fire of an enemy. Bcorea ot men were stunned, others suffered from vertigo, some had their vision ao affected aa to be practically useless. The experts' conclusion is that high-power guns which destroy or Incapacitate the crews renders a battleship a floating sham and puts It at tbe mercy of the enemy. To save the Dreadnaught trom such fate, the experts urge replacing some of the big guns with secondary bat teries. The French senate has agreed, after a prolonged deadlock, to a 'modified form of .he old age pension bill passed by the Chamber of Deputlea In 19U6. The compro mise measure, which will Boon become a law, aupplcments the present law, which grants a state pension to persons over TO years of age who are infirm, incapacitated or Incurable, and by which 300,000 persona were benefited last year, entailing an ex penditure of $12,000,000. Under the new act the age limit Is lowered to 60 years, and there are to be no conditions as to In firmity, incapacity or disease. On the other hand, It Embodies the contribution principle, which Is repudiated by British socialists and laborltea, but which forms the basis of the old ago pension law oper ative in the German empire. Like the Ger- i man precedent, the French bill when It is in full operation will require workmen, j If they are to qualify themselves for the i receipt of pensions at the age of 60 and thereafter, to contribute 3 per cent of their wages annually during a period of thirty years. Again, in accordance with the Germans-pattern, a precisely equivalent con- iriouuon is imposea upon uie empivyvn ui labor. Bo long as the compulsory' savings of the workmen and the compulsory con tribution of the employers do not create a fund large enough to furnish a pension of at least $72 a year, the state must make good the deficit. In order, however, that the old age pension law may become opera tive speedily, ' Instead of being applicable only after three decades from the date; of Its enactment shall have elapsed, there Is a clause granting pensions smaller than $72 to all existing workmen over ,t years old who can prove that they have worked continuously thirty years. ' Those who believe Japan la ready to fight "at the drop of the hat," are led by the distant perspective to mistake the staggering burden of war taxes for a chip on the shoulder. Congressman Denby ot Michigan, son of a former American min ister to China, in a recent address before a Massachusetts audience, presented some striking facts about Japan's financial con dition. Ho referred to the staggering debt of tho empli-e, amounting to $25 per capita, which has Uoubled since 1906; the meager resources of the i country, the searching and crushing system of taxation, the huge standing army, and the feverish energy of the country Is Increasing Its naval and military strength. He concludes that Japan foresees war, and he reasons that war with China, and not with the United StateB, la the next step to be taken by Japan. A deficit of U,0u0,000 yen la admitted for the year 1908-09. Even with .the help of In creased taxation, the estimated deficit of 1910-11 will be 7,000,000 yen, and of 1911-12, 16, 000,000 yen. The budget committee ot the House of Peers promises, however, that surpluses will be forthcoming after that time. Where will the tax be placed? The peopje are already heavily burdened. The wealth earners of Japan pay about 21 per cent of their earnings to the government In one form or another. They pay less per capita, ot course, than the workers ot Europe or America, but this Is because their earnings are leaa. The average Amer ican Income la $220, while that of the Jap anese is $30. The American worker earns nearly six times more an hour than the Japanese. fio, while the American con tributes 3.2 per cent of his money In taxes, the Japanese must give 21 per cent. Pierce O'Mahony, brother of the ousted custodian of the Dublin castle jewels of the Order of Bt. Patrick, the disappearance of which caused official furore last year, boldly affirms the charge, heretofore hinted at, that the custodian of the Jewels was sacrificed for the purpose" of suppressing one of the scandals with which Dublin cas tle reeks. In a published letter Fierce O'Mahony challenges ail concerned to Come into court in these warm worda: "I have accused the police of wilfully, withholding evidence In their possession that Is favor able to my brother. I now go furtherand I state deliberately that the government does not wish to find the thief, because one suspected man, and one of his associates, also auspected, are known to the people aa men of unclean Uvea, and have threatened to Involve aoclety in scandal; and bo, In this twentieth century, under the enllghtenod rule of a constitutional monarch, an official of unblemished character and name Is to be dismissed and ruined, and denied the oppor tunity of meeting his accusers In the open a right accorded to the manest criminal because a few members of what are ao falsely called 'the upper ten' and who circle round the throne, possess characters so absolutely degraded that they fear to face the threats of two men whom Right Hon. A. Blrrell has described as 'abandoned ruffians. My brother's honor Is of no account to them titled corruption must be shielded from the public gase. Not thus, however, can they stem the fetid tide." ' Qme&a Oil A CPBAIN sever wu ted never will b curd by a liniment The only thing that cures a sprain or braise is Nr tnre herself. But Omega. OU will stop the pain while Mature is do in? the carta-:. the Oil helps Nature make a quicker cure because it keeps the sufferer from worrying. It makes the patient quiet end that's the main thing. r s 1 CoBiMifleiiiice when eating:, that your food la of highest wholesomencss that it has nothing in it that can injure or distress you makes the repast doubly comfortable and satisfactory. This supreme confidence you have when the food Is raised with TW taT .assn f" 0 ' v The only baking powder mado with Royal Grape Cream of Tartar There can be no comforting confi dence when eating alum baking pow der food. Chemists say that more or less of the alum powder in unchanged alum or alum salts remains in the food. POLITICAL DTUFT. The shooting of a gray wolf In the ex treme suburbs of Chicago points to the danger of public game straying away from the city hall. The Immediate effect of the struggle for supremacy In the Tennessee republican con vention waa the rush to clothing stores for rentlesa garments. Some fellows sought to throw Toa Tag- gart out of the Job of running the demo cratic machine In Indiana. A fine line of Hoosler scalps adorns Tom's back yard at French Lick. v Hearst and his Independent league will flock to Chicago "on or about July 1." Every delegate will be equipped with ham mer or hatchet. William Randolph will swing the axe. In some quarters of Pennsylvania the fear la expressed that Bhould the capttol looters break Into the penitentiary that imposing Institution would soon cease to be state property. Colonel John J. Kern of Indiana, men tioned aa a running mate for Colonel Bryan, is remarkably well fitted for the Job. Colonel Kern has a voice wonderful In volume and endurance. Tho most affectionate and reverential sentiments that admiration can fashion are now poured on ex-President Cleveland by the New Tork Sun. In less sunnier days the ex-president waa swatted aa "The Stuffed Prophet of William Street." A presidential ticket that would sweep the country by reason of limitless family connections la proposed by John T. Mc Cutcheon In Appleton's. John Johnson of Minnesota and Hoke Smith of Georgia, with James K. Jones as campaign manager, is esteemed an Invincible combination. WRere do the Browns come In? LAUGHING GAS. "Pa, what was the age of brnnre?" "I don't remember just which one it was, but If you wish to know anything about the age of steal there are several magazines on the shelf that will tell you all about it." Chicago Record-Herald. First Britisher Tweedmouth saya our navy is without a peer. Second Britisher That's where It differs from the 'ouse of Lords, ha, ha!" Cleve land Plain Dealer. j Mr. Staylate I see a western genius Is perfecting an apparatus by means of which a person's face may be seen miles away. Miss Patience Goone Well, it certainly will be a boon to see some faces there. If they can only be kept there. Philadelphia Press. The bank cashiers had been considering the application of the titled Spendthrift for a large loan. "No." they finally announced, "on ,'the strength of a mere rumor that you are en- Browning,' I&ng i Co CLOTHING, FXJRNISHIMGS and HATS SPRING 1908 UR lines complete and up'to'date line of cloth' ing for men, boys and children ever shown. , Fashionable Fabrics While worsteds are still in demand, the softer woolens and unfinished wor steds have the calL This season is one of odd shades of olives, stone and smoke colors. Grays, and more recently, brewns have been put forward. They are all here for your choice. 315.00 to J53S.OO Our furnishing and hat departments are also showing the season's latest fancies. 15th and Douglas t t R. 0. WILCOX, Mar. ' t I ft gagnd to a plutocrat' daughter we Imv decided that wo cannot advance more tlimi 5 cents on every IO0.0fH of hi repi.el wealth." Chicago Tribune. "I thought." salt! the American who w:i seeing Europe for the first time, "tha you people hud a lot of Interestln' old tul:n over here." , "Once we hail such things." the ni:lv apologised, "hut your heiresses have c.im over and had most of thm put in gno I repair." Chicago Hecord-llarald. "Have you a college diploma?" "No. But I have several nilninr stork certificates that I might frame and Ian; up as evidence that I have been tlinuu i the school of experience." Wasliln jto.i Star. Immigration officials stopped the T.w le st the dock and asked his buclness. ' "I am arrive In pursuance cf r.iy ;i r i--ment to marry with Mecse K.os,., i I., top." said the stranger. "flunr.y FrHnce for you," repl d the c 1 1 f Inquisitor. "Aliens under comraci sr burred. You'll find n nice deten.l n p i at the left. Next!" Philadelphia I. djjer. A SPHIXG MKDI.KV. Spring has come. Do you see Tho amber tint In the willow tree? Fleecy clouds racing overhead. Keen eyes watching the tulip hed. Spring has come. Do you hear The robin's note, piping cle;ir? And, mlnglAd with his ardent rret:';i;. Is borne thei sound of carpet heating. Spring has come. Do you smell Bonfire smoke from hill and dell? i Sprouting grass and clover peephiK" Also sassafras tea a-stecplng? Spring has come. Do you feel At each Indoor task a grrp of stei. Then a stir within an' a anenkin' wl?h To go off somewhere an' dream and ft;r.' Spring has come. Yes, we know i The trail where telltale footprints go: ' In the willow true is the March wiml'i harp; In the pond below are the waiting enrp. Spring hna come. On the hill The winds of March are cavorting still In the purple sapling of the grove And fattier is taking down tlvj stove. Between the trees the sky shows bluo. But not so blue as tho bird that flew Across my vision, beyond my ken Ma's trlmmln' her last year's hat asaln. Spring has come. The purple prackle On the willows swings the iienr. all cackle The spoonbills are seen In the park i:i pairs, I Unfeathered spoonbills Ihat put on alra. Spring has come. The farmer's piow Turns up the soil and the mooley cow Seeks fresh, green tufts In hillocks sprout ing. And far away children's voices shouting. Yes. Spring has come with memories sweet. Of the fiel of the earth to small, burt feet; Oh! to take off our shoes If we only dast And bury our toes In the cool, green grnsi. Omaha. Bayoll Ne Trele. of Spring suits, overcoats and raincoats are now ready for your in' spection. We pride, ourselves this season on showing the most tJT7 15th and Douglas