THE OMAIIA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1903.
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aays that the actual number of full and
complete coplea of The Dally. Morning,
Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the
month of October, 1908, waa aa followa:
. 1 87,100 IT '..,..17.710
2 88,880 II 36,800
I. ........ .8,80 1 1700
4 16,300 20 37.6O0
i 17AM 21 17,660
17,600 II 17,880
7 18,600 II 37,780
1 17,630 14 17,460
1 16,180 II 17,100
10...., 38,80 II 67,780
11..... M,80 27 37,640
II....'. 37,700 II 33,820
II 1730 21 1789
14.. 17,810 10 17,640
II. 37,730 II 1700
11. 17,780
Totai.,...ww 1,174,770
Lees unsold aa4 rsturnsd copies.. 178
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;WHB!f OUT OF TOW3T.
Sabaeribers leaving the city teoa
porarlly should have The Bea
mailed to them. Addreaa will be)
chanced M often aa requested.
Senator Elklns apparently is op
posed to paying any tariff on dukes.
As a goat rider Governor-elect Shal
lenberger is not a distinguished suc
cess.
"Senator Piatt should resign now,
Bay th New York World. But he
won't.
The kaiser must feel like a victim,
of the Society for the Suppression of
Unnecessary Noises.
: The health officials are planning an
other vaccination crusade. Another
call to arms, aa it were.
"Where may a woman wear her
bat?" asks a New York paper. On
her head, for one plate.
The Connecticut mqn who agreed to
kiss seven cows on an election wager
should have got the hook.
A few signs of revived activity in
Omaha's street-cleaning department
would look well about this time.
The Tobacco trust will appeal to the
United States supreme court. This
trust objects to being smoked out.
"Thanksgiving day is coming on a
pace," says a New York writer. On
the contrary, it is coming on a Thurs
day.
The postal deficit for the year may
reach $16,000,000 unless the souvenir
post card craze breaks out in a fresh
place.
Anyway, Senator "Jeff" Davis
should be thanked for having main
tained an eloquent silence for six
months.
"The democratic party's principles
go on forever," says Mr. Bryan. Yes
and some of its principals promise to
t the Bame.
The man arrested for purchasing
burglars' tools is apparently justified
in pleading that he was only making
a safe investment.
Steel rails have been reduced ft a
ton in price. Those who laid in the
winter's supply of steel rails early will
see where they made a mistake.
Castro is going abroad for
his
' health, but he will doubtless decide
in
advance that the climate ot Holland
would not be healthful for him.
A Pittsburg parson has solved the
problem by requesting that all but the
elderly women of his congregation re
move their hats during the services.
Mrs. John W. Kern sys she never
wanted her husband to be vice presl
dent, A large majority of the Anier-.
lean voters felt the same way about It,
The man who after election talks
loudest about how it happened is us
ually the man who did nothing before
flection, to make it happen differently
Theodora Roosevelt, jr.. Is said to
have ordered a $500 bath room set'for
bis boarding house. If true, this slm
ply shows what a young man may dc
on a salary of $5 a week, if he
careful.
Senator Perkins says nothing will
be don at the short soasloa of con
gress with tb Japanese exclusion bill
Chances all ar that nothing will be
done with it at the long session of con
gress, except to kill it
FOR WA RDNOT BACKWARD.
The local democratic organ, the
World-Herald. 1 endeavoring to read
Into the returns on the legislative
ticket la thl county aa endorsement
of a 6chem6 tor an elective police com
mission, forwhlch it has drawn plans
and specifications. Although the city
f Omaha gave Ha majorities to the re-
ubllc&n legislative candidates, it is
hardly worth while discussing whether
the democratic home rule slogan was
r was not the real Issue In the local
campaign, because It Is a condition
and not a theory that confronts us.
The aim and object of establishing
and maintaining a police commission
for Omaha as a metropolitan city was
from the outset to divorce the police
nd fire departments from politics and,
particularly, to remove the police de
partment from the sphere of Influence
of the classes subject to police surveil
lance. The particular plan for an elec
tive police commission, now proposed,
Instead of keeping the saloons and
vicious elements out of politics, is es
pecially designed to force them Into
politics and to keep them In politics
year In and year out.
It la proposed not only to make the
four tnembers of the police board elec
tive Instead of appointive, but to elect
them one each year so as to make the
control of the police commission an
issue in every election. That this
would destroy all the reforms that
have been slowly accomplished In the
conduct of Omaha's fire and police de
partments in the last " twenty years
must be self-evident.
If we are to have a change In the
method of selecting members of our
fire and police commissions,, by all
meanB let us go forward and not back
ward. If we are to have a change, let
us have seme plan carefully worked
out in the light ot experience here and
in other cities that will not put up a
prize that will be fought for year by
year between the elements of civic de
cency and the elements ot vice and
licentiousness.
TURN OF MIGRATION TIDE.
Officials of the bureau of immigra
tion at Washington report that for the
first time in a year the tide of alien
migration, which has been running
from American shores, has turned this
way again. For the second week in
November the number ot arrivals at
Atlantic ports was 10,937, while the
departures were 10,899, a margin of
only thirty-eight, but considered sig
nificant, as the difference has been
persistently on the other side for a
year,. ....
From the beginning .of the year up
to November 14 ther$ were 349,655
arrivals and 601,288 departures, a net
loss of 261,633. In the. same period
last year 850,637 more aliens came to
the United States than left for their
former homes abroad. Last, year was
almost a record-breaker in immigra
tion, due to the nnprecedented'demand
for workmen in all classes of American
enterprises. As soon as the industrial
depression set In last October the tide
turned and the, emigration broke all
former records.
This exodus, It is now clear, was ot
great economic value to the country.
It reduced the number ot idle work'
men and consequently increased the
opportunities for employment for the
rest. As a result there was less ac
tual distress among workmen in this
country than in any other serious In
dustrlal panic. The exodus furnished
evidence, too, that the aliens had been
prosperous and frugal during the busy
times and were able,' when the depres
sion came, to return home and live
cheaply until the bard times in Amer
ica were over.
The fact that the Immigrants are re
turning is a cheering sign of renewed
activity in labor-giving enterprises. It
is not expected that the Influx of these
workmen will be heavy during the
winter months, but with tho full re
covery in Industrial activity and in
business lines a considerable flood of
Immigration may be expected in the
spring and early summer months.
KENTUCKY'S BID FOR SETTLERS.
Tho officials of Kentucky have or
ganlzed a systematic plan for inducing
immigration to the state. Headquar
ters have been opened at Louisville
and the agent in charge announces
that he will make a systematic effort
to bring to his state a desirable class
of foreigners. The state's resources
will be advertised both at home and
abroad and attention directed to the
opportunities offered to those seeking
homes or locations for business or In
dustrlal enterprises.
In one respect, Kentucky has much
to offer to Immigrants. The state has
thousands ot acres of fertile lands lying
Idle because of the scarcity of help
and much public work that lags be
cause of the lack of unskilled labor
Labor Is in great demand and, accord
ing to the reports of the immigration
agent, me farmers of the state are
anxious to sell part of their land at
reasonable prices and on most favor
able terms, it by so doing they can
secure ample help for the cultivation
of their own farms and the marketing
of their products.
All of this sounds highly attractive,
but it would seem that this is an un
fortunate time for Kentucky to begin
bidding for immigrants. For more
than a year the news columns ot pa
pers throughout the country have been
filled with reports of the murderous
operations of the "Night Riders," who
have kept a large section ot the state
In a condition of terror. They have
made life and property rights In the
state unsafe, as shown by the fact that
manjr hundreds of farmers are leaving
the state through fear of these des
peradoes.' Immigrants going into Ken
tucky would rising the right ot protec
tion, and the record, ot the last yea
shows that Kentucky Is not able to 88-
ure such protection aa the residents
f a civilized community have a right
to expect. The best bid that Kentucky
could make for immigrants would be
the swift and complete extermination of
these outlaw bands and the publication
to the nation and the world that the
state is effectively protecting the lives
nd property of Its cltliens.
THE TARIFF ON TOBACCO.
Both manufacturers and growers ot
tobacco have been making strong rep
resentations to the ways and means
committee at Washington against any
reduction in the tariff on tobacco. In
this case the producers have made the
strongest protest against any change
in the tariff schedules. They contend
that they would be injured by being
brought In direct competition with the
tobacco growers of other countries and
would have the price of their products
lowered, while the consumer would not
be at all benefited, as the manufactur
ers would absorb the difference and
pocket it as an additional and unearned
profit.
The manufacturers have, appar
ently, less to worry about. They have
the local business so well in hand and
have such a dominating hold on the
Cuban tobacco interests that they
would suffer but little by a reduction
of the duty on manufactured articles
and would gain by the reduction of the
duties on tobacco leaf.
As a general proposition, there is
not likely to be much demand for a
material reduction of the duties on
tobacco. Its use is considered a lux
ury and there is no general demand for
the increase of its consumption. It is
one of the sources of revenue whose
burden falls only on those who volun
tarily choose to indulge In such things.
The tobacco in most general use is of
native production and would not be
affected by the changed duties. The
user of the high-grade Imported to
bacco can pay a tax without causing
any particular dissatisfaction among
the people generally.
The tariff on Philippine tobacco.
however, is a different proposition. Mr.
Taft contends that the Filipinos are
entitled to consideration as much as
the tobacco growers of Porto Rico or
of our own states, and perhaps more
so, as this country is pledged to aid
in the development of the Philippine
resources. The claim of the tobacco
growers that their interests would be
njured by lowering the duties on Fili
pino tobacco sounds absurd in view of
the fact that the total value of manu
factured and unmanufactured tobacco
Imported from the Philippines in the
last fiscal year was 31,561. It would
be-years before the Philippines could
produce tobacco enough to cut any fig
ure in the American supply, even with
free trade. The amount that might be
imported from the Philippines could
not hurt the domestic producers, but
it 'would bo an item of considerable
benefit to the small interests in the
business on the islands. We have a
duty, pleged and implied, to aid in the
development of the Philippines and to
open markets to them to take the place
of those closed by the transfer of the
Islands to our control.
The Bee re-enforces the World-
Herald's protest against nepotism in
our state offices and institutions. The
objectionable practice, unfortunately,
has not been a one-party abuse, but
has always been excused by the asser
tion that the other fellow did the same
thing, which, of course, is merely beg
ging the question. Family relation
ship to the appointing power should
not be the sole qualification for ap
pointment to office.
Postmaster General Meyer says th
adoption of the parcels post would cut
down the postal deficit. Senatoi
Piatt retorts that it would also cut
down the dividends ot the express
companies and the senator will not b
out of public life until next March.
The prospects are that there will be
in the neighborhood of a dozen candl
dates for sneaker when the Nebraska
legislature meets. The aspirants
ought to know that there are not that
many first magnitude chairmanships
to be traded for.
It is twelve years since Nebraska
was up against a demo-pop legislature.
If the coming session repeats the per
formances of the session of 1897 it
will be twelve years again before the
demo-pops are commissioned to do the
law-making.
The prediction by an exuberant par
tisan that Shallenberger will be "the
best governor Nebraska has had since
the last democrat filled that position"
Is pretty rough on the two populist
governors who came in between.
Cleveland's famous mayor, Tom L.
Johnson, announces- that his, concen
trating bis time and attention on poli
tics has made blm a poor man. That's
the difference between Tom L. Johnson
and William Jennings Bryan.
Manila is now free ot cholera and
has a pure water supply. The Amer
ican administration of the islands has
accomplished in this something ot
which even the Boston anti-imperialists
cannot Justly complain.
Queen LUiuokalanl is going to spend
the winter in Washington urging con
gress to pay her for those confiscated
crown lands. Congress has never
been very gallant to the ex-queen and
her contingent fee lobbyists.
The Bee hopes Governor-elect Shal
lenberger will incorporate Into" bis'
recommendations to the legislature the
suggestion for a revision of the laws
governing the state institutions for the
care, and instruction of defectives so
as to require those who are able to pay
for their own food and clothing. This
is not politics, but practical economy
and absolute justice between the
state's wards and its taxpayers.
Nebraska republicans may not get
as many invitations to the inaugural
ball at Lincoln, but they will be wel
come to participate in the inauguration
exercises at Washington.
A South Carolina paper boasts that
no colored supplement Is Issued by
any newspaper in that state. They
draw the color line very close down
there.
The My t ery of the "Hand."
Kansas City Times.
Mr. Bryan "hopes" It will never be neces
sary for htm to run for the presidency
again. The trouble with Mr. Bryan Is that
whenever anyone gives him a "hand" he
mistakes tt for an, encore.
Overlooks the 1'olnt.
New York Bun.
Mr. Bryan's promise to tell the people
why he was not elected, when he finds
out, should remind him of his story of the
man who on being ejected from a meeting
and thrown downstairs three times rose
from the sidewalk and said: "Those people
up there can't fool me; I know now .they
dont want me."
Grafters Fear the Storm.
Baltimore American.
The cowering . of the San Francisco
grafters in the fact of the storm of public
wrath which has been roused against them
is equaled only by the effrontery of their
behavior when they fancied ttiemselves se
cure in permanent power. But this change
of heart is characteristic of the whole class
of political bosses.
Socialist Strength.
, New York Tribune.
That sensational speaking campaigns and
crowded meetings do not always produce
results at the polls is proved once more
by tho slight Increase In the socialist vote.
It looks aa If the Debs ticket, Instead of
drawing 1,000,000 voters to its support, as
was thought probable, had merely held in
line the 400,000-odd socialists voters of 1904.
Neglect Resented.
Brooklyn Eagle.
Porto Rico elects a legislature containing
not one member favorable to the American
connection. That Is not surprising when
tt Is remembered that we have persistently
neglected the plea of the Porto Rlcans to
be admitted to cltlsenshlp here. If we hold
him not good enough to fellowship with us,
how can we expect him to be grateful for
the dominion we exercise over him without
his consent?
Draft of the Sweet Tooth.
Boston Herald.
It 1s calculated that the yearly sugar
bill of the American people, for all pur
poses, Industrial and domestic, Is not far
from I4U0.000.O00, and this Increase at the
rate of about 6 per cent a year. It la a
large expenditure and It cornea out of the
pockets of all the people. This Is what
givea special and particular 'Interest to the
sugar schedule In the tariff bill, though
the activity of the refiners Is considerably
more marked than la that of the con
sumers. Ghosta Shy at m Prise.
Washington Post.
That 15,000 offered by the Metropolitan
Psychical society, for - the. medium who can
summon fro.ro the spirit . world a disem
bodied Intelligence versed In simple addi
tion Is still In the coffers of th associa
tion. The test of counting th number
of articles concealed In a bag and held
above the head of the medium la ap
parently too severe. After all the mar
velous phenomena recited In good faith by
the Journal of Physical Research, It Is
strange and perhaps signiflcent that such
a simple test should prove a poser. It
spirits can move tables. Impart wonderful
information, and transport bulky articles
through massive locked doors, It certainly
seems reasonable that they should not be
unable to do a little stunt In counting.
TACT AS SEU.N ABROAD.
Accurate Grasp of Klectlon Hesnlta
In Thla Country.
Continental Review, Brussels, Nov. 7.
The election of William H. Taft to be
the next president of the United States
and entering that office on March 4, 19oa,
means that for the next four years the re
publican party will dominate that nation's
affairs. Tho picturesque president, as Mr.
Roosevelt has been called, will retire from
what has been a very active battlefield,
leaving the country iu the hands of a very
worthy successor.
William H. Taft Is worthy; his record Is
absolutely unstained. Whatever he has laid
his hand to do has been done well. His
policy will be one of progress and purity.
He has been tried among men, so that men
know he cannot be bought or sold. His
personality Is strong, winning and never
unpleasantly aggressive. Tie has many of
the virtues of the present president, with
less, perhaps, of his faults. The Roose
velt policies that m-jet Mr. Taft's approval,
and that means the country's, will be car
ried out seriously and skilfully, but not for
one moment will It be a continuation of a
Rcoscvclt administration. It will be a
Taft administration, virile and progrvsslve
without being venturesome. Tho United
Slates Is to be congratulated and the en
tire world will breathe easier In the knowl
edge that William H. Tuft Is elected pres
ident of the United Slates.
ClUA'S M1SW PRESIDENT.
Hsi of the People and an Experienced
Administrator.
, New York Sua.
General Gomes speaka no English and has
not sought American companionship. Com'
parallvely few Americans speuk Spanish
and not many have sought the acquaint
ance of the quiet, reserved and dignified
man whom the Cubans know as "Josj
Miguel." During the first Intervention
General James 11. Wilson served for a year
and a half as military governor of the
provinces of Matansas and Santa Clara.
During the greater part of that service
General Gomes occupied the post of civil
governor of Santa Clara. In ad official
report General Wilson refers to him aa a
"vigorous and Intelligent man of affairs. '
A Cuban writer has described him thus:
As a soldier he has fought for liberty; as
a governor his long control of the province
of tianta, Clara is the most fruitful and
brililant in the history of Cuban lndepend
tnce; as a citizen he Is a man of active
patriotism and austera virtue. He has no
vkes. He has always lived modestly and
he has no millions to leave to his sons.
Jose Miguel Gomes la a man of the peo
ple of the people of the country rather
than of the city. He left his fields to fight
for the Independence ot Cuba and achieved
distinction as a leader. When the struggle
was over he devoted his time and his serv
ices to the reconstruction of the wrecked
Industries of the Island and to the con
struction of the new government. As a
member of the constitutional convention
and aa governor of Santa Clara province
he haa been ona of the leading f rcs In the
bu'liiing of the republic. Measuring by his
past we predict bis success la the future.
OTHER LAD THAN 01R.
In th calm succeeding the storm of Ger
man wrath directed agaThat tho loquacity of
tho . kaiser, several facts appear in a
clearer perspective. Practically all the
statements ocllated In the famous Interview
were made by the kaiser on different occa
sions and were common public property.
The chief exception was the statement with
reference to a plan of campaign against
the Boera drafted by the kaiser, approved
by the German military Staff and for
warded to Queen Victoria. Popular Indigna
tion did not arise from this event alone,
as no state secrets wore rovcaled, but the
Incident was the culmination of a succes
sion of national grievances against tho
kaiser's premature and precipitate conduct
of Germany's foreign relatione. The na
tional sense of responsibility was outraged
by the "calculited Indiscretions" of the
kaiser. None of the nation's advisers were
consulted and members of th Bundsrnth
and of tho Reichstag were Ignored. Thus
the Ideals of German unity and co-operation
In affairs gravely affecting the state,
Ideals not yet embodied In the written con
stitution, but none the less strongly en
trenched in popular estimation, were shaken
to their foundation. These Ideals were
voiced In the debate In the Reichstag and
Prlnco von Buelow made the bearer of a
message to the kaiser demanding a pledge
for ministerial Instead of Individual re
sponsibility. ' The pledge ws given with
apparent cheerfulness, and the lowering
clouds of Indignation havo vanished. The
kaiser came off his high horse, so to speak,
leaving his lofty notions of "divine right"
on the shelf for the present, and deferring,
with consummate shrewdness, to the power
controlling the nation's purse strings. In
measuring the value and the expediency of
the kaiser's pledge It Is Important to bear
In mind the urgent necessity of greatly in
creasing the Imperial revenue to meet tha
drafts of A vastly Increased naval pro
gram. The Reichstag determines the fate
of revenue measures, hence tha good will
of a majority of that body Is essential to
Insure the success of the navy program on
which the kaiser has set his heart. The
pledge serves this purpose beautifully. It
Is a sedative for popular wrath, It satisfies
the Reichstag, the Incfesed revenue bills
will go through and the kaiser made happy.
And why not? He wins by relenting. The
life and binding force of the pledge rests
on his own sweet will. Under the consti
tution as drafted by Bismarck, the kaiser
has complete personal tontrol of Germany's
foreign relations. And the constitution has
not been changed.
Prince von Buelow, Imperial chancellor of
Germany, whose Interview with the kaiser
attracted world-wide Interest, has long de
sired to put down the cares of state and
enjoy life In a rose-embowcred villa he
owns In Italy. The desire Is as commend
able as the prospect is attractive. But the
kaiser has placed the prince under obliga
tions that cannot lightly be put aside. He
has advanced the prince through successive
offices to the highest post but one in the
empire, and1 made him a prince of the
royal household. The refusal of the kaiser
to accept his resignation, coupled with the
pledge secured by him for the Reichstag,
rhows a Btrong bond of friendship between
kaiser and chancellor, and a unity of pur
pose and plans for national progress. In a
pen portrait drawn by a London corre
spondent the prince la pictured as a most
approachable official. Those who gained
the impression that he is haughty and diffi
cult to reach will be agreeably surprised to
learn that there are few statesmen so ac
cessible, few so courteous and candid In
their dealings with the press. And yet he
is one of the proudest of men. . He comes
from the Mecklenburg aristocracy, of whom
the great Napoleon Is quoted as saying to
his marshals: ' I can make you into kings,
but not into Mecklenburg nobles." Prince
von Buelow Is a man of distinguished ap
pearance and bears himself with .statell
ness, yet, withal, with a gracefulness that
men are attracted to him.
The tendency of pensions to overleap the
calculations of government statisticians, a
nimble process familiar to people of the
United States, Is shown In a late report of
the French minister of the Interior. Tho
pension law of 1906 grants to every neces
sitous Frenchman who Is incapable of
work, and who is either 66 years of age or
afflicted by an Incurable disease, assistance
to the amount of from 6 francs to 26 francs
a month, or more In exceptional cases.
When the bill was first reported. It was
estimated that the system would cost about
17.6U),O0O francs a year. Before the senate
acted on the measure a conflict of esti
mates caused that body to order an Inves
tigation, with the result that the total an
nual cost of the scheme was fixed at 67,-
000,000 francs, and' the number of probable
heneflciarles 350.000. The law was passed
on this basis. Each year since tho system
became operative the number and cost have
Increased. For 19 the estimated expense
totals M.ODO.OOO francs, while the number
of beneficiaries has risen to 490.0U0. Great
Britain Is on the threshold of a like ex
perience. The old age pension system
which goes Into effect cn the first of the
year was estimated to cost J40,000,(t'i0 a year.
Applications now on file, If approved, will
exhaust ' the estimated cost, and benefic
iaries yet to com! will cause an overdraft
of about HO.COC.'m A pension system for
age or any ether cause has the Irresistible
charm of easy money, and is unrivaled as
a promoter of the long reach.
Creed and politics are interwoven In
Turkish affairs, yet the assertion Is
made by disinterested writers that the new
railroad from Damascus to Medina was
constructed without a taint of the graft
alleged to have prevailed In ctflclul circles
prior to the advent of the young Turks
party In power. The railroad Job was done
honestly and expeditiously by the simple
process of designating It a sacred railroad,
and thereupon the contractors and section
hands fell to work with a will that did
rot waver until a acrap-iron locomotive
belched soot at the tomb of Mahomet. Mo
hammedans the world ever subscribed
money for the enterprise, and every onn
associated wtih the work dare give nothing
but the best to an undertaking so closely
r latfd to their religion and their spiritual
salvation.
Socialism in England is not progressing
al all In proportion to the noise Its ad
herents make. In the recent municipal
elections radicals of all classes were gen
erally defdated. The socialists lost ground
In several Important cities, while the lib
eral party lost In several Instances. The
Wesmlntler Gasette, a moderate liberal
paper, remarks cm tho result: "So far as
we can see, the socialist movement does
not make much progress after It has got
to a certain point. On the whole, we fancy
the country elections show the country's
dislike of extremlvt views and even mors
of extremist methods."
Penalty of "lllae Uwi,"
Philadelphia Record.
In view of the Increasing mortality In tha
regular army. Surgeon General O'Reilly
recommends In his report an Increase In
the number of hospital surgeons. What
perhaps would be mora to the purpose Is in
affording the enlisted men means of Inno
cent recreation In camp and garrison by
restoring the army canteen. This Is th
almost universal opinion of the officers of
the army. What goes to reinforce their
argument in behalf of opportunities of
cheerful Intercourse In tha soldier's monot
onous life Is the surgeon general's report
that suicide In tha army Is on the increase.
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POLITICAL DRIFT.
Richard Croker came over aa Flngy Con
ners went over, thus preserving the cqulll
brlm of the planet.
Thomas L. Hlsgen announces that he Is
"out of politics for good." With the help
he received it will not take Thomas long
to get out.
Tom Taggart of Indiana has decided to
pass up the senatorship which he couldn't
reach, and for the present confine his ac
tivities to French Lick.
Some heartless democrats In Illinois
rudely scoff at the suggestion that Uncle
Adlal Stevenson should be packed in moth
balls for future races.
Norman Mack says there is a deficit In
the democratic campaign fund, but all
bills will be paid. Mack has a large purse
and a liberal disposition.
A Savannah paper suggests that the
democratic party run a southern man' for
president In 1912, mildly intimating that a
southern man could not do more damage
than Parker and Bryan.
General J. Warren Kelfer, the Ohio con
gressman who fell outside the breast
works. Is going to make a try for Senator
Forakcr's seat. Before J. Benson gives up
his seat there will be several political
coiffures mussed In his neighborhood.
New Jersey's hunt for the octopus has
been checked by a court decision nullifying
a law which sought to holdup nonresident
stockholders of Jersey made corporations
for death dues. Tha court remarked that
state laws were limited to state bounds,
an Intimation which Jars the local im
pression that Jersey Is "the whole works."
Something of a political sensation ap
pears to have been created In North Da
kota by the re-entry of Senator H'ans
brough Into the race for re-election to his
present seat. His term will expire next
March, and at the primary election last
June he was defeated by M. N. Johnson,
But In a letter now addressed to the mem
bers of the legislature Hansbrough declares
that all moral obligation to vote for the
candidate chosen at the primaries has been
obliterated by the fact that 10,000 to 12, CM,
democrats voted for Johnson and one other
republican candidate.
PASSIM! PLEASANTRIES.
"Why do you look so downcast. Did the
paper refuse your artlvle?"
"Not exactly refuse it, but I asked them
to let a cut go with It."
"Well did they do It?"
"Did they do It, It's nothing but cuts."
Baltimore American.
"My friend," began the seedy stranger.
"Nothing doing," interrupted the solid
citizen.
"I don't want a cent."
"Then I am Indeed your friend. Oo ahead
with your remarks. Chicago Record Her
ald. The fiery orator was predicting that the
bank guaranty scheme would win yet. In
spite of everything.
"But can you guarantee that the slot
machine will deliver the stick of chewing
gum!" demanded his hearers.
Completely nonplussed ho chnnged the
subject. Chicago Tribune.
ntv Kdltor Pnn't ynu thTnk 'reason
tntte'rei on I's throne' Is a stramled figure
of speech to use In tne case or a man wnu
has been hit on the head with a black
jack?" Night Police Reporter No. sir. The
blow landed on the crown. Chicago Tri
bune. "That's a peach of a lamp! How did It
happen?"
"A little political argument: my opponent
said he would give mo a punch In the eye
and I said, 'Yes, you will, over the left!'
and he did." Huston Post.
"Dennis," Inquired Mr. Hopan, glancing
over the door of the postoffloo building,
"what Is the meanin' of thiro letters
MPrTTXCVIlI.?"
"They mean "eighteen hundred nd ninety
eight.' "
"Dennis, don't It sthrik you thot they re
carrvin' this spellln' reform entolrely too
far?" Everybody's Maguzlne.
"It's ea?y to be gay and make people
about you forget their troubles."
"That's all you know shout It," answered
the professional comedian. "You never had
"An Appeal So Ignorance"
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or any other pianist,"
not to your intelligence.
There are numerous Player-Pianos and Plano-Players today
that exploit various hair-trigger devices (a new one every month
or so) claiming that they
of the great pianists. Yet
keys that are on a piano s
Imagine Paderewski playing bis Menuet on only 65 keys! There
would be 78 notes In this
could ever strike on the
say such an Instrument will duplicate his or any other great pian
ist's playing!
The Apollo Player-Piano (a piano and player combined), and
the Apollo Player, separate,
board.
It you think of purchasing a player-piano or a separa
player for your present piano (the Apollo plays any piano), u
at our Anollo uarlors and
represents the latest thought In player-pianos construction, and
you will never consider any other, once you hear It demonstrated.
The price of the Apollo is the same as for the old style 65
note piano-player. Easy payments may be arranged, afid we will
make a liberal allowance for your old piano lu trade.
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a lot of people out In front wondering
whether they were tfolng to get their
money's worth." Washington Star.
Madge Why do you worry about being
as brown as a berry?
Dolly I'm afraid my neck Isn't tanned
quite low enough to meet by gowns. Puck.
DRYAD FOR THIS SENATE!.
R, F. Marwood In Norfolk News.
Yeave ho! ye Bryan volunteers
Who walked the reeling deck
And snatchud Nebraska's colors
From the democratic wreck;
Patch up your tattered party flag
And raise It to the sky,
With "William Jennings Bryan
For the Senate" as your cry.
For years our fair Nebraska
Held the ribbon proudly pennata
For the longest-winded senator
That ever stumped the senate.
It was William Vincent Allen,
Who never lacked for breath.
And he talked for fourteen hours,
'Till ha talked a bill to death.
No other state dared trample
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it less eyes (
On the glorious windy
Of our William Vincent Allen
Of good popullst'lc fame,
'Tlil Wisconsin seized the
'Nnnth the caze of count
And put her Bob La Follette up
To battle for the prize.
La Follette filled his magaslne.
Then started In to kill.
And for more than eighteen hours
Fought the Vreeland-Aldrlch bill.
'Twas a noted filibuster,
Quite a legislative slaughter;
La Follette made his record
With no stops for food or water.
Wisconsin thinks she's got us skinned; 4
con c you inniK it xor a minumj
When It comes to really talking
Mob La Follette Isn't In 1t.
We've got a man at Falrvlew
Who can talk a "razzle-dazzle;"
He can give La Follette three to two
And "beat him to a frazzle I"
Then send him down to Washington!
And "give our Bill a chance."
To talk La Follette oft his feet
And lay htm In a trance!
He cannot be our president.
That truth Is plainly shown;
8o let him make the longest
Talking record ever known!
CALLING A BLUFF
It is always safe to call a bluff
when you hold the cards.
And when we claim Superior
Style and Fit for our Suits and
Overcoats wo know we have the
goods.
The man who doesn't know how
well made is our Clothing is in
vited to call.
Suits 915 to $35.
Overcoats $15 to $50.
SPECIAL
1.50, $2.50 and $:J.50 Stiff A".
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Fifteenth and Douglas St.
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HEN the manufacturers of 65-note Piano-Player
ask you to buy their instrument "because it
duplicates the playing of Lhevinne, Patlerewski,
it is an appeal to ignorance and
enable a person to duplicate the playing
not one ot these plays over 05 of the 88
keyboard.
piece that neither he nor any one else
abbreviated keyboard. How absurd U
plays all HH notes ot the piano s key
hear this instrument demonstrated. It
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