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The Bee.
Not to sdr up a Quarrel over the
sexes, what do the ethical culture so
cieties honestly think of Mrs. Thaw
and Mrs.' Sutton in a trial at law?
Surely a judge who has to amend
an opinion after handing It down, with
the explanation that he forgot part of
It, is too good a Judge to be kept on
the supreme bench.
In the battle of Boston It is a cause
of regret that the cranberries are
downtrodden at Cape Cod and the
baked bean supply threatened with a
shortage. War is .
Judging by circumstantial evidence,
the author of the dissenting opinion
in the nonpartisan Judiciary case also
had a hand in the authorship of the
democratic state platform.
Everything has been counted except
the goldenrod product and the hickory
nut yield. It is time that the appear
ance of the fireplace and the taffy
question should have due consldera
' tion.
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In the meantime, members of our
Water board are still busy drawing
salaries while, waiting for the case in
volving the ownership of the water
works to come up in the supreme
court.
To resort in Lincoln to common
every-day booze to Influence the pri
mary is painfully shocking to those of
us who had come to believe In the Im
maculate moral perfection of our state
capital.
Literature and the privations of the
students in their higher life are
classic. The Yale fellows are going
to have a 1500,000 stadium and keep
up with the record In the groves of
Academe.
Chicago's new chief of police used
to be superintendent of city mall de
livery in the postonlce. Omaha once
had a chief of police who bad formerly
been postmaster, Chicago has no
bulge on us.
Some candidates who were cocksure
they were going to be nominated
didn't get enough votes In the late
primary to make a respectable bridge
score. But they will be running again
next time, Just the same.
There will be no applejack In New
Jersey this winter. The apples are
not In sight. Between Broadway and
the Boardwalk substitutes may be
found and we understand that New
York is open all w inter.
Reports from the consular office at
Hongkong state that 207,000 pounds
of human hair were shipped last year
to the United States. The spread of
railroads In China will now be hailed
with lees confident approval.
Another flag has been raised In
Crete. Four battleships, carrying
1,000 or 1,000 money spenders, are
worth more than the cost of a few
yards of bunting. Rebellion at Can-
dla la good for business and the Greeks
are not letting the enthusiasm run
i
out.
Educating a President,
President Taft will visit more
places, meet more people and travel
more miles In bis coming tour than
any president has ever done. The
value to the country will not consist
entirely of what he teaches the assem
bled multitudes or in the reports of
the speeches which he is preparing in
his vacation house at Beverly. He
w ill learn much every 'day of his Jour
ney. In various ways he will have
the company of men from the inner
circles of those who do things. There
will be senators and congressmen,
governors and state officials, munici
pal department heads and able busi
ness men, professional men of emi
nence, ministers, lawyers and doctors.
While the trains are Ju motion these
men v.lll be around him. He will
meet them at banquets and receptions.
The nation will be teaching Us chief
executive all day long. A public man
soon acquires the gift of learning
from a crowd. Though nothing defi
nite, may be said, he senses the col
lective thought from the feeling dis
played. The murmur that follows a
sentence of a speech has a language,
the spontaneous sound of approval or
the silence of doubt tells a story. A
man used to dealing with audiences
knows how to test his Ideas and ascer
tain the popular status of a policy.
Before his trip Is half over Mr. Taft
will be clear about many things he
could never learn in Washington.
No man living is more adept than
the president In this absorption of
knowledge from contact with people.
Me likes them and they and he soon
reach familiar understanding. His
remarkable experience in public
speech all around the world has
acquainted him with every conceiva
ble fashion of manner and thought.
He will go back to the White House
an instructed official and the instruc
tion will have come straight from the
voters, balanced by contributions from
all kinds of opinion and all degrees of
knowledge.
After President McKlnley's tour fol
lowing the Spanish war his mind was
clear about the nation's policy in deal
ing with the Philippines. Until then
he bad entertained doubts in the new
experience of American government.
His return found his policy settled
and there was no further thought of
change. Before Jfls first election Mr.
McKlnley was not familiar with the
country from experience with masses
of people in all the different sections.
From that time he was a broader , and
more certain leader in great matters
of policy.
Neither he nor Mr. Roosevelt ever
wanted courage, but each acquired the
boldness that comes from an assured
certainty of touch and the difference
appeared after what for a president
might be called the grand tour.
Mr. Taft Is said to have three great
propositions for the short session of
congress. He hopes to put govern
ment action on a permanent basis re
spectlng the interstate commerce law,
the anti-trust law and the supervision
of corporations generally. In a score
of ways he will test the sentiment of
the people on these subjects as he
travels among them. He will return
with his own mind clear. He and
congress will be on terms of under
standing if not exact agreement. He
will know more not only of policy,
but of detailed working out and of
prearrangement In perfecting legisla
tion. The education of a president by
public opinion is as desirable as the
education of public opinion by a presi
dent. It will be the best accomplish
ment of a long, on the surface fatig
nlng and noisy, Journey. It is a great
thing for the people to see and hear
their president. It is a greater for a
president to observe and listen to the
people. The next session and the rest
of Mr. TaffB term will show the re
sults. The H&nnis Taylor Diagnosis.
Dr. Hannls Taylor, 0nce minister to
Spain as a democrat, gives a moment
of profound and disinterested Btudy to
the political situation. He decides
that the democratic party Is so near
dissolution that It will never again
set a formidable squadron to the
charge. Dr. Taylor's ability to pass
a dispassionate Judgment will be gen
erally acknowledged. The only way
of replying to his calm opinion Is to
assert that he poisoned his grand
mother or chews plug tobacco or
snores when he sleeps. The eminent
diplomat has a clean score and his
diagnosis will go far toward convinc
ing the country.
Old parties, Dr. Taylor continues,
give place to new. An old party be
comes conservative, another party
takes a radical view and sooner or
later wins. In the United States the
democratic party, either In its old or
Its new guise Is really not radical or
novel. It has simply declared an op
position and has three times proven
Its unpopularity and Incompetence
without inspiring hope.
The tariff reform cause is not an
issue for democrats, but, if for any
set of men, for Dolllver, Cummins,
Murdock and the Mlnnesotans.
ur. Tayior mentions the party
solidification of 1820, out of which
grew the division Into whig and demo
crat, but can not make the analogy
apply. The election of Mr. Taft would
as well have been unanimous in the
electoral college, as far as effect on
the country was concerned, except for
other differences to keep the two old
organizations apart and alive. It
true that the democratic party has not
much out of which to create a victory,
but there Is nothing else to supplant
It. Its destiny is to wriggle along in
a cheap opportunism, beaten at every
election, until a real issue arises. The
leniocraMo party exls's uu the colored
people of the south and the fifteenth
amendment. It is a pitiable exist
ence for a national party, but it Is the
democracy.
Dr. Taylor puts an interesting case,
but there is yet no sign of a cleavage
In the republican party or a new era
in the political history of America.
There is nothing for It but the repub
lican party governing the country and
the democrats berating each other.
China's Railroads.
Cable reports are that China has
withdrawn from the controversy over
the Antung-Mukden railroad and coin
cides with Japan In all Important par
ticulars. To an American It seemed
all along that if Japan were going to
reconstruct the road It would as well
make It a standard and useful prop
erty. There is a political ana stra
tegic' side, as we always hear In these
Russo-Chinese-Japanese operations,
but it seems absurd to make a ram
shackle railroad when the power In
charge would like to improve the
world with a standard gauge, Ameri
can-equipped line. If the Portsmouth
treaty engaged Russia and Japan to
exploft Manchuria solely for commer
cial purposes the making of a cheap
railroad would not Improve matters.
There are only 150 miles of It at the
worst. The best guess Is that China
was only saving Its face.
The standardization of the road
does make It a useful military high
way and gives Japan access to the
wheat country of Manchuria, but it
does not hurt China and China, as
well as all the civilized world, needs
all the short, standard, practical rail
roads It can get. China has 10,000
coolies at work hastening the comple
tion of the Tlentsln-Pukow road. It
Is planning a vast northwest system
through Mongolia. Rail-making
plants are being, erected and schools
of engineering established. Incident
ally It should interest Americans to
learn that every district on this north
western system will plant 30,000 elm
trees for future ties. China's wide
plans for railroads should, the novice
American being the Judge, incline its
officials to help out high-class roads
everywhere. China cannot fight, but
It can connect railroads and use them
to advantage. When an 800-mlle road
is still only hilf way across the em
pire China has no energy to waBte on
little, narrow gauge connecting lines
in the Japanese zone of Manchuria.
More Nonpartisanship.
Not long ago we quoted from the
Howells Journal, a staunch democratic
paper, declaring that it took no stock
in the "nonpartisan nonsense" incor
porated into the democratic state plat
form to decoy votes in the coming Ne
braska election for democratic candi
dates who could not otherwise hope to
be elected,
A counterpart, although with varia
tions, we find in the Fullerton News
Journal, another democratic paper in a
usually democratic county, which man
ifests its nonpartisanship by this ap
peal for strengthening the democratic
organization :
To secure future victory in the national
and state campaigns one must remember
that party organization and party lines
must be guarded. To secure greater things
we must watch out and make the smaller
ones sound. The county election Is but a
small cog In the great democratic machine.
Nance county must go democratic this fall.
To make this territory democratic we must
elect the men who aie capable of drawing
epubllcan votea. "Not that we love Caesar
less but Rome more," or not that we love
the candidate less but our party more. Is
the great reason that we should forget
personal friendships and enmltlea and elect
the man who we think will carry the larg
est number of republican votes.
The Fullerton News-Journal is naive
as well as frank. It wants Nebraska
to go nonpartisan this year in order to
pave the way for a democratic victory
next year, and it wants Nance county
to go democratic this year in order to
get something bigger for the democrats
next year. It wants democratic candi
dates nominated wjio will draw repub
lican votes, but it carefully abstains
from the suggestion that any repub
lican candidates may be entitled to
democratic votes.
Even the democratic World-Herald,
which has been beating the nonparti
san tom-tom loudest, confessed a few
weeks ago that it was not in the habit
of supporting republican candidates
for office, and It has since then shown
no signs of changing Its habits.
The game of democratic nonpartisan
ship la a great buncb game.
If Philippine bonds that sold for
$1.09 In 1905 are now par, what will
the islands be worth In twenty more
years? Whether the answer is high
finance or common arithmetic, the
subject is not one to be unseasonably
forced on cultivated society at a time
of exultation over o corn crop. We
have about concluded that we took
the Philippines as our share in bad
luck. We will settle the expense and
take our medicine.
The open primary is vicious and danger
ous because It atrlkea at the heart of re
sponsible party government. World-Herald.
Likewise the so-called nonpartisan
Judiciary act, which has a similar pur
pose to destroy party organization.
The open primary applies to the nom-
inations the same vicious principle J
which would be applied to the elec
tion If political parties were prohib
ited from "endorsing, criticising or In
any manner referring" to candidates
for office.
As we draw near, water power
trusts cease to make us tremble. The
McCall'a Kerry dam at the mouth of i he. replied, after both had stated much money as the entire cotton crop of)
t ... 'their sides, "my son and I have been the year sells for. The figures are not
the Susquehanna, which once was tOhau,lng wha, ni.arly forty yrar. now , verv far niffer,.nt fr ihe. wheat crup
provide electricity from Reading to j There are two roads leading to the mill. ! Follow the wheat growers from fall plow
Raltimore, Is once more being rc-tl- : ne tne valley road and the other leads j ing( to tluahlni or the cotton growers
nanced. The trolley cars and tlie lvler ,he hl"' H,lt nevr V't has the miller from planting to picking and one can
1 a-'ked me w hi, li rood e came. He aluays form a notion ot how many people are
street light, operate as usual. Count-af,kli, i ,iu, ,lea. guodr .. woiking iw kep the government going.
lng financing and refinancing, the gov
ernment might make money for the
people by letting the trust Indulge In
a few brief experiments. Mr. Plnchot
does not know the electricity business
as well as the forestry end. Maybe
Mr. Ballinger knows whose fingers are
burned oftenest in water power investments.
Mr. Yoakum told the farmers In Ok
lahoma that cotton Is a natural com
modity for warehousing and holding
until the time for selling. It Is good
advice, but. farmers who have been for
a year furnishing sides of bacon and
bags of meal to numerous clients in
the underworld of cotton do not find
It always so simple to balance accounts
without money, or to get money with
out selling cotton.
The democratic World-Herald has
discovered that the open primary bal
lot is "vicious." This vicious ballot
was Inflicted on the people of Nebraska
by the late democratic legislature
along with a lot of other vicious meas
ures. Furthermore, this vicious bal
lot had been rejected by the preceding
republican legislature. Draw your
own conclusions.
A scientist says that the only true
and original Marathon race never oc
curred. What then? Amateur ath
letes hive spent many thousands on
our owa marathons and there is no
copyright on the name. Men now
alive will not chnnge It Just because
a lot of old barelegs forgot to have a
race In the Pyrrhic phalanx year.
The TUden period was from 1873
to 1876. It is not a period of happy
memories. The Cleveland period was
from 1884 to 1897. Democrats turn
aside and weep at the thought. East
ern democrats of the Tilden and Cleve
land schools are to have a reunion for
regeneration. We see our Nebraska
democrats rushing to Join them.
Senator Warren tells the people in
Massachusetts that Missouri Is about
to take the title of shoe state from
Massachusetts. The senator admitted
that he had no figures, but doubtless
thought the claim a good shot for ln
vlew purposes. A statesman who un
derstands his business never sleeps in
the enemy's country.
The irrigation question has run up
against Tom Patterson and struck real
fire. Patterson got his schooling in
the warmest populist camp along the
foothills of the Rockies. Forester
Pinchot and Secretary Ballinger do
not know the rudiments of controver
sial oratory beside Patterson.
Bookish students now assert that
Holmes and Aldrlch disliked Walt
Whitman. As everybody disliked
him, the news does not come with the
impact of a great discovery. Contem
porary memoranda debate Whitman's
rank in poetry, but there is agreement
on the unanimous dislike.
A suburbanite In New York believes
that the pistol is a useless weapon
compared with buckshot and a shot
gun. The view has force, but there
are reasons of celerity and compact
ness in favor of the pistol. The New
York suburbs have never offered, the
advantage of daily practice.
Union Pacific is a pretty sport for
men who like excitement. The liber
ties which Mr. Harriman has taken
with the credit of the company prom
ise to give vivacity to the game for
years to come. The ocean-to-ocean
fancy comes high and somebody must
cash up now and then.
Although a new figure in the avia
tion competition, Glenn Curtlss has
already got his name in the papers
with a law suit and a bumped anat
omy. Mr. Curtlss la a rising young
man. We hope to see more of him.
For the benefit of the uninitiated It
should be explained that an endurance
run which is supposed to be a test of
the endurance of the cars, in reality
tests the endurance of the drivers.
Preparing; for the Worst.
Minneapolis Journal.
President Taft has worked off sixty
pounds of flesh and become a handy man
with the mitts. All along wt have sus
pected that Mr. Taft was getting ready
for the regular session of Congress.
The Aanwerlag Echo.
St. Paul Dispatch.
"Watchman, What of the Night?" la the
title of Mr. Bryan's latest lecture. The
answer from his old town of Omaha la
"Every saloon closed at 8 p. m., and the
night la dark and dreary and very dry."
A Standpat Knock.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Senator Cummins has been received with
so much enthusiasm out In his Iowa home
that It Is felt possible he may lead his
state out of the union. The conquest of
Iowa will make a thrilling chapter In our
future history.
Bomiiuet Instead of a Brick.
Boston Transcript.
The choicest compliment that has re
cently been paid the Standard Oil company
which Is accustomed to find a brick at
tached to every bouquet Is conveyed by
implication in the letter of a casual corre
spondent. Whoever, he asks, heard of
employes of the Standard Oil company
going on strike?
The Political Mllleniora.
Kansas City Journal.
Two Kansas farmers, one of them a
republican and the other a democrat, were
quarreling over their political beliefs. The
more they argued the farther apart they
drifted. Finally they called In a neighbor
to l-ttle the dispute. This neighbor was a
man who seldom said anything; who went
about his business; was a good citlsen, and
substantial in every way.
In Other Lands
SHde tights ea Waal la Traaa.
pirlag Among the Hear aa
rar nations ef She Sarth.
The expected , action of the House of
Oommona In orrovlng the draft of the
constitution fur the united states of South
Africa marks a mighty step In the prog- j
ress of the dark continent and In Hrltlsh
empire building. The substance of what
the followers of Oom Paul Kruger fought
for Is embodied In the organic law of
the forthcoming federation. Beaten on
the field of war by superior number and
superior resources, the Boers are vic
torious on the fundamental Issue of self
government. Action on the constitution
Is yet to be had In the House of Lords,
but the unanimity of all party dlvlalona
In lh Commons foreshadows like action
by the peers. In a few weeks ail formali
ties will be completed and the Imperial
proclamation will launch a new Selfgov
ernlng colony under British auspices. The
result la a happy outcome of a fierce
racial struggle for supremacy and takes
rank aa an epoch In empire building. The
event possesses greater significance than
its local bearing. The four states of the
Transvaal, Cape Colony, Orange River and
Natal are directly affected by the con
stitution. In a 'larger sense, every self-
governing colony flying the union Jack
must feel the Influence of the act and the
Impetus It gives the movement for a
closer working union of the principal di
visions of the empire.
In finding moral reasons for the con
quest of tha Transvaal much uiie wua made
by the leaders of the British war party
ten years ago of the unequal treatment
accorded to the white and the colored
races under Boer government. Mr. Cham
berlain, In particular, waa distressed by
President Kruger's political oppression of
the blacks and it was alrongly urged that
the negroes ot 6outh Africa could hope for
equality of opportunity only under the
British flag. How hollow the talk was
became clear years ago, but the other day
In the House of Commons Mr. Balfour, one
of the leaders of the party that waged the
Boer war, declared, with no want of pre
cision, that the political discrimination
against the colored races, contained In the
constitution of the new South African fed
eration, coincided entirely with Ills own
views. The dispatches put It strongly in
saying that Mr. Balfour' denied that It
waa Intended to give the colored races
equality with KuropeanB and maintained
the opinion that It would be Impossible
for the higher forms of civilization to sur
vive if equal rights were granted to the
natives of the country.
...
A summary of the German Industrial
census of 1MH compiled by the Imperial
Bureau of Statistics shows a marked
tendency toward concentration In the lead
ing industries of the empire. In the year
named there were employed in the 4,025,5:11
Industries of Germany a total of 14.StS.389
persons, of whom 3,610, 4W were women.
Of these concerns J, 423,646 were ludependunt
or main concerns and 601,948 were branch
shops or factories. In 1SU6, the date of the
last previous census, the total number ot
employes was 10,269,2ti6, an - Increase of
4,079,120 for 1907. The railroad, postal, tele
graph and telephone employes are especi
ally excluded, but city tramway employes,
employes In the railroad shops, farm la
borers, foresters, clerks, salesmen and
even the employes of the army canteens
are Included. These figures Indicate a
constant tendency In manufacturing toward
the development of larger concerns. In
other classifications both the number of
concerns and the number of their employes
are increasing In about normal ratio; Re
garding the figures as a whole, during the
last twelve years (1895-1SW7) the number of
employes has increased In a ratio about
four times that of the concerns employing
them, and the proportionate Increase of
female employes is still greater.
Some 15,000 square miles of 81am, ad-
Joining the British protectorate known as
the Straits Settlement, have recently been
added to the British dominions. The ter
ritory embraces four provinces, the fine
harbor of Langkawl, and contains a popu
lation of 460,000. The acquisition of this
territory is expected to greatly affect the
trade of the far east, for Slam agrees not
to cere or lease to any other power or
foreign government any of the lands to
the north of the territory acquired by
Great Britain. Furthermore, Slam con
tracts not to permit any foreign govern
ment or company to establish coaling sta
tions or docks or to acquire the exclusive
occupation of any strategic or commercial
harbor there. The provisions of the treaty
give formal sanction to what England
would havo Insisted upon In case any liver
power attempted to establish itself between
Burmah and the Straits Settlements. In
return, 61am receives Jurisdiction over
British subjects In that country In place of
the International Jurisdiction which has
hitherto prevailed.
The railroad Is slowly but surely spread
ing its net of track over India, and ac
cording to the report of the Indian rail
way boards for the last year, there la now
a total mileage of 30.571', miles of track.
During the year 616 miles of new line was
put Into operation, and some 8,000 miles
more Is under construction. For the first
time In some years the state lines were run
at a loss, the deficit amounting to about
17,500. The death from accidents worked
out at .38 per million.
Warships and Airships.
Philadelphia Record.
General Grant tells us that In the next
war the airship will be decisive. But the
Navy department has Just opened bids for
two battelshlps of 23.000 tons displacement,
and it is seriously considering designs for
ships of 90,000 tons displacement In order
to carry an armament of twelve fourteen
Inch guns. If the world ourselves In
cludedwill only become possebsed of Gen
eral Grant's idea we might save a few
hundred millions by not building any more
floating forts. Compared with them, even
Count Zeppelin's dirigible balloon is cheap
and the aeroplane of the Wrights corns
nothing worth speaking of.
Prod ill on; Idle Directors.
Philadelphia Press.
Comptroller of the Currency Murray Is
stirring up the national bank directors. He
has sent them letters In which he Intimates
that they are not to be mere ornaments In
a bank's organization, but must get busy
and know something about the details of
the business. They are i v-cially remiss
In the matter of approvo... loans as, ao
cordlng to reports In the comptroller's
office, only In 31 per cent of the cases have
the bank dlrectora approved the loana made
by their banks.
A Significant tieiulnaer.
Kt. Louis Republic.
The necessity for economy In public ex
penditures becomes startlliigly apparent
when we are reminded that the national
govi-rnment la now costing every year as
4
A Strong
is the best place for Savings.
You cannot more safely invest
your savings than by taking outV
3 Certificate of Deposit
in a batik which lias
Cash and Reserve Funds. . . .$5,600,000.00
Total Assets of over $13,000,000.00
The latest published statement shows that this
bank has interest bearing certificates of $2,077,577.68
PERSONAL NOTES.
A Texas Inventor has organised a 11.000,-
000 company to run mall. Daaseimer. and
freight airships to all parts of the country.
The news has not caused any railroad re
ceiverships so fnr.
Jefferson Nichols of Butler, Mo., whose
residence was inundated by the recent
flood In the Cynges river, caught a bushel
of fish in his dining room, where they
were carried by the rising waters.
Missouri Is about to be "shown." Some
400 new laws passed by the last state legis
lature went Into effect there today. Cigar
ettes are put nuder he ban; Columbus day,
October 12. becomes a legal holiday; mar
riages between Caucasians and Mongolians
are prohibited; It is made a felony to steal
a hog.
Dr. Nllo Pecanna, who by the death of
Dr. Alfonso Penna has become president
of Brazil, is an experienced though not old
administrator, with a remarkable gift for
financial administration, his transforma
tion of the fiscal condition of the state of
Rio de Janlero during his presidency being
one of the most remarkable In the history
of Latin-American financiering.
Sir Frederick Pollock, one of the fore
most English jurists and author of that
treatise on the "Ijiw of Torts," with which
nearly every American first-year law
student is familiar, has arrived in New
York. He is a member of the Royal Labor
Commission, corpus profess of Jurisprud
ence at Oxford, fellow of the British acad
emy and honorable fellow ot Corpus
Christ! college, Oxford.
Marshall Boll, a wealthy resident of
Newburg. N. Y., caused something of a
surprise recently by filing a voluntary ap
plication to be adjudged a bankrupt. Hia
liabilities were stated to be $112,000, but on
the day fixed for creditors to appear,
claims to the amount of $2,000 only were
presented. In his application Bell alleged
that he got Into a brace game of faro in
New York City and played rashly until he
lost all the cash he had with him and
gave In addition his notes for $110,000.
IDLE OAH8 AND CAR SHORTAGE.
Doleful Note Soonded oa aa Entirely
New Key.
Wall ' Street Journal.
Railroads are continually Jumping from
the frying pan into the fire. For more
thai) two years they have frankly published
every week the number of idle cars
throughout the country. Doleful as the
figures seem the silver lining to the cloud
broadened aa the numbers began to dim
inish. Now that they are threatening to
vanish before we get a good last look at
them, people are beginning to work them
selves Into a troubled state of mind over
the fear of a car shortage. Even Chalriuan
Knapp of the Interstate Commerce com
mission Is predicting one for the coming
year, which Is only a little more than four
months away.
However, the country does not mind being
burnt a little with the friction of competi
tion for freight cars. Railway people would
no doubt like to know how It feels to have
two customers clamoring for tha same
freight car. It begins to look like easy
dividends, and they need not explain to
analysts of their annual statements how
they manage to meet all their fixed charges
without trenching on their reserves. They
can also come with better heart to Wall
Street with their offering of securities
than at any time within three years.
These new sensations are after all things
that are worth while waiting for. With
every car groaning under its allowable
proportion of freight gross earnings will
mount upward In such fashion as to make
the railroads feel that they can do all the
double tracking, build all the terminals,
and supply all the equipment without beg
ging anybody to take the doubtful end
of the bargain. The whole morale of the
railway service from top to bottom is feel
ing the beneficial effects of the grand
shift from the Idle car era to the days near
at hand when the roads will have all that
they can do.
Only Here
There are no other stores than those of
Browning, King & Co. where clothing of
our standard of manufacture can be had
ready-to-wear. And nowhere else does a
cut in price mean so much.
Saturday will be our last day to give
20 discount on men's, boys' and children's
summer clothing.
We have still some good bargains left
in men's shirts, underwear, children's wash
suits and knickerbockers. Any straw hat
in the house 50c both men's, boys' and
children's.
Our new fall styles in men's hats are
ready for you. All shapes, all colors, all
styles.
Fall styles in men's and boys' clothing
ready Sept. 1st.
'Browning,
CLOTHING,
FIFTEENTH
B;K
a. s. wilco.
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Bank
Sunny gems.
"I wfll reform only give me (timet"
begged the prisoner.
"All right," said the Judge, kindly. "You
can have about ten years. Baltimore
American.
"You once tried to make money by get
ting up a spelling bee and charging ad-'
mlaslon? I never heard of such a thing.
How did you come out?"
"1 was stung." Chicago Tribune.
Judge This woman declares that you 1
hugged her at the base ball game.
Accused Couldn't help It. Judge. She was
sitting next me when one of our boys
swatted a homer over left-fteld fenoe!
Houston Post.
Lady What makes tnese peaches so un
uauully high, my man?
Kooney. the Peddler Well, 'tis thla way.
mem they come from the top o' the tree.
St. Louis Republic.
.ni, vuvxt- uu pnoiograpns or renows you
have been eiiKsgt-d to'"
"No. They're the fellows who didn't pro
pose." vv hat In the world do you want of
them?"
"Why. I am saving them to make a
rogues' gallery.-Philadelphia Ledger.
Knicker Johnny does Just what he Is
told.
Bocker He will grow up to be a Con
gressman. New York Sun.
He (turning It over critically) My dear,
this bread Is not like the kind mother
used to make.
She (savagely) Indeed! How does It
differ?
Ho (with suspicious haste) Tou can eat
this kind. Baltimore American.
i
Kxamlnlng Physician Have there ever
Ka.ir. aic I.wllnn.lm... ..0 1 ..I... 1
....... ,, auopa lliMtull.v 111 jrour
famlly ?
Applicant for Life Insurance (with visi
ble reluctance) Yes, sr; one. My father
was the victim of a hallucination that I
was born to be a great musician. Chloago
Tribune.
"I met a working man the other day and
asked him about business. He said It waa
looking up."
"Ah, yea, an astronomer."
"Nothing of the kind. He Is the man
who stands on the ground and watches
until the fellow on the brick wall above
him y.ils for more mortar." Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
NEVERMORE.
M. Lewis In Houston Post.
Never, never,
Nevermore
Shall I condescend
To snore
Thiougn a summer -
By my lone,
While my wife
And babies owa
Have gone far
Oh, far away
To the mount
Or to the bay,
Let myself In
With a key
Independent
As can be.
Take my shoes
Off In the hall.
Let my tie
And oolla fall
And He on
The parlor floor.
Hang ray coat up
On the door.
Drape my other duds
On chairs,
Drop cigar aehea
On the stairs.
Fill the nice
Big dining room
With a nutty
Pipe's perfume.
All of this for
A short while
Makes a man
Bit up and smllet
He Just loves
To put his shoes
On the mantel.
And to snooso
Where he choosea.
So he does;
But life isn't
What It wast
That la why
I swear tonight.
There is apt
To be a fight
If my wife
Mv darling own
Thinks that I
Will snore alone
Through another
Summer! Gee!
Thla has been
ttnough for me I
King S Cq
FURNISHINGS AND HATS,
and DOUGLAS STREETS,
OMAHA.
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