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THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1000. Thf: Omaha Daily Del FOUNDED BT EDtTAnO ROSKWATKR. VICTOR ROSE WATER, EDITOR. Entered at Omaha postofflc a aecond ciass matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Pally lee (without Sunday) on year..4 lally Be nd Bunday, on year DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Pally Be (including Sunday), per week..ttJ Pally ilea (without Sunday), per wek..l0o Evening Km (without Sunday), per week Evening Jiee, (with Sunday), per wek..le Utinday B. on year ,...,.H V) baturday Bee, on year Addrena all complaint of irregularitlea In delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICE Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha Twenty-fourth and N, Council Bluffs 1 Scott 8trC Llnroln 618 Utile Hullding. Chicago lMg Marsuette Building. New York Room 1101-1102 No, M Weat Thirty-third Street. Washington 726 Fourteenth Street N. W. CORRESPONDENCE Communication relating to new and edi torial matter ahould be addreaied: Omaha lira, tdltorlal Department, REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal ordar payable to The Re Publishing Company. Only -ent tamp received In payment of mall "account. Personal check, except on Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, .: George B. Tfeauhurk, treaaurer of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, aay that th actual number of full and complete copies of1 The Dally. Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during th month Of August. 1Q, wa a foUownij . 1,... '.SS.SOO 17 4.1,780 t 1,00 IS 43,630 t 41,470 1 4190 4. ...... ...41,830 20 41,010 $.... .....41,770 . II. t 41,630 .k, 41,840 .22 40jD00 ".W.... .41,700 v 21 40,850 1.4......... "3,000 .24 ...41.T70 I. .........4i,e3o ' 25.... 4a,eao 10 '.'.4l,tM ' ' 21... 41.700 11 41,040 17 41,730 12. ...... ...41,870 21 43,170 II. .(...... 40.030 1 , 21 ,....40,000 14. ...... ...41,430 20....' 41,010 15. ...... ...40,000 II 42.190 1. ...-.,.,.41.680 Total '..fcv 1,28,410 Returned cople. 10,301 Net total l,B79,OTt Dally average 41.8SS GEO. B. TZ8CHUCK. Treasurer. Subscrlbod In my preeance and sworn to before to this 1st day of September, 10. M. P. WALKER. Notary Public. Sabacrlbrra leavlasr tk eltv tem porarily aatoald kava Tk Be nailed the. Address will be) ekaagei a oftea aa reqaested. Tenderloin steaks are going up, but Irish stews stand hitched. Have you registered T If not, your next chance to register will be Tues day, October 6. Mark it down. The public schools close down and start up without making much fuss or noise about it. The output, however, speaks for itself. Reduce the steaming time a few more days and New York will realize its ambition to do a day's shopping in Paris over night. McKees Rocks and its strike hare been rubbed off the slate.'.. Gradually the late nienjjil strain of. the public Is being loosened. ' ,. . We suggest a debate between Mayor Dahlman aad Governor Shallenberger on the subjoot. "Is a platform promise of home rale binding.' It's nothing but respectable acute Indigestion but it does not take a groat doctor tq tell Mr. Harrtman that an attack often kills people. A moving picture trust has no trouble in hiring a competent moral censor, while public opinion cannot choke down objectionable books. The city council keeps planning new street lamps spring, summer, fall and winter. Money in the lighting fund makes the street lamp crop grow. . Travel to the pole may be slow, but we confidently assert that to the ex plorers it is nothing compared with the slowness Of travel getting home. International medical delegates at Budapest report that appendicitis is net spreading.- It was thought that people would get tired of it before this. Our city health commissioner wants to deliver a lecture on milk to milk men. That's; taking a mean, advan tage of. peopl who idont dare stay away. The World-Herald is evidently egg ing Mr. Whedon on to talk tariff to get him away from that unanswerable speech of his exposing the mistakes of Bryan. l "Don't vote for the democratic su preme Judge nominees because they are democrats," admonishes the dem ocratic state platform. What's the answer! i Calculations prove that the western baa ball tonms are better than, the eastern. The eastern shackles slip in the basq ball business or the umpires are subsidised. The country must be. safe or the bankers would not feel so free to leave home In such numbers long enough to attend their state convention In ses sion In Omaha. Idaho's Irrigated apple orchards are In the front row of fame, bat Nova Scotia and Oregon are still competing in New York ' and Boston markets, where apples are apples.' . Ownership of tjha North pole is of fered at a low price. It is an f maglnary point. The land all around It belongs to Canada and Russia. Oar govern ment does not see the up-keep. Tom Johnson has another mayoralty campaign. If the republican poli ticians in Cleveland cannot get to gether, they will deserve to struggle on the ouUide for another term. Where Nebraska Republicans Stand. . It Is doubtless good democratic poli tics for the democratic organs to do all they can to stir up dissension among republicans and to give aid and com fort to any republicans who manifest a disposition to help foment factional discord. Why a republican should vol unteer to play in with the democratic game Is not wery clear, because the democrats, while willing to use dis affected republicans to procure demo cratic ascendancy in Nebraska, are sure to turn on their allies whenever there Is a straight party lineup Just as Mr. Bryan has already turned on the In surgent senators and 'congressmen, whom he coddled before adjournment The position of Nebraska republic ans is not to be distorted by democratic cries of "Cannonlsm and Aldrichlsm." Republicans of Nebraska as a 'body stand with President Taft In the' mat ter of tariff revision and regard the tariff bill as finally passed as embody ing most of the president's demands. When the republican state platform was promulgated less than two months ago this is the message that was sent to the president and to Nebraska's representatives in. congress: W approve, commend and unqualifiedly endorse the stand taken by President Taft In the matter of tariff revision. We are counting otylitm to see to It that the party's platform promise of revision Is redeemed by the enactment of a tariff bill accept able to the people, and w would approve the exercise of his veto on any bill that did not conform to hi construction of the platform pledge which he has said mean "revision downward within the limitations of th protective prlnctpl." ' We look to our senators and representatives in con gress to sustain the president In this posi tion, and we commend .them for their ef- forts In support of the party's pledges and the president's policies. This declaration was presented as the unanimous report of the resolu tions committee a committee which, by the, way, was appointed by the chairman of the convention as his free choice among the whole list of dele gates. The resolutions, moreover, were adopted by the convention with out a dissenting vote, and there were sitting in that convention representa tive delegates from all parts of the state and from all elements-" of the pTrty. This platform declaration doubtless had much to do with bring ing Nebraska's republican representa tives to support the bill after it had been modified to the satisfaction of the president. On this declaration every one who wants to call himself a republican ought to be able to stand. Confused Democrats. With all the advantage of location the Washington Post should be a qual ified judge and, when it says that if the democratic party had 100 major ity, as at present constituted and led, no tariff bill could be enacted, there will be few contemporaries to chal lenge the statement. If the democrats should by chance carry to .congress after the vote Of 1910 the house majority they have been talking- about, what use would they make of it? Not only the tariff, but the railroads, the army and navy, the currency and. banking laws and the anti-trust inhibitions have all been put before the country for settlement with the democratic party hopelessly divided on all, The Post exhibits its impartiality by saying that the republicans could not have made a tariff law in the extra session if they had not at every critical point had opportune assistance from the democratic side. If no democratic member of the senate had been in his seat during the session either we should- have htfd no law or a very much better one, from the democratic viewpoint, than we did get. From this source the undeniably fair mention of democratic weakness points to, a serious public danger. Nothing now pending menaces the na tional safety, but the contempt of dem ocrats ' for their own party does not promise efficiency if an accident of pol itics should change the party prepon derance in a moment of danger. Prob ably half, at least, of the democrats of the country honestly believe that a complete victory of their party would be a calamity to the country. ' Such a condition of feeling is not healthy. The impotence of democrats Is a truth as described in the Post, but it is not a truth at which patriotic republicans rejoice. The government should be in safe hands whatever the turn of poli tics. Congressional Apportionment. Congressman Crumpacker, chairman of the census committee, will have much to do with the question of ap portionment under the new census, a Question which is now agitating all the members. It Is premature to consider the reduction of southern representa tion on the ground that it is uncon stitutional in limiting the suffrage, though that serious question has not by any means been laid aside, The problems that must be faced as soon as the count Is made begin with the number of congressmen to be fixed upon. The number In the last appor tionment was 386, enlarged by five after Oklahoma was admitted. The ratio of population to each member is 194.182. The house space is crowded now, but the plan to replace the desks with benches may remove that trouble. It Is expected that the census will show a very large relative Increase of population In the west and a loss of congressmen In the east. This possi bility, which has always played a part In apportionment, will this time lead to close figuring and possibly some acrimony. It may be that the present leader ship of the house will be disturbed if the Increase In the west la aa large as some estimates would make It. The census may show an Increase so dis tributed that the apportionment could give New England a stationary repre sentation and not Increase the western strength so as to produce uneasiness. In the Fifty-sixth congress the first ar rangement was for 367 members of the house, but that did not meet the wishes, or needs, of a majority and was changed to 386. The same thing may happen again, so that It Is now impossible to foretell the number in any state. It Is generally the object to let each state retain what It has. But Maine, New Hampshire and Ver mont each lost a member in the tenth census. New England will almost cer tainly lose again this tjme. It is con sidered impossible to give the west the increase belonging to it and preserve the present status of New England. Since the conservative strength Is moro pronounced in the northeast and the progressive forces preponderate in the west, the control of the republican party may be materially affected by the apportionment made in the Sixty second congress. Naturally every well-informed estimate, of census sta tistics la anxiously watched by mem bers of congress and by all political leaders. A great deal of hletory Is concealed in the figures. Saving Infant life. Late as It is for preachments on the summer care of babies, it Is never wrong to call attention to the loss the community and nation suffers In the preventable death rate of Infants. The superintendent of the United Charities of Chicago has forcibly told of the loss. If you wish to know whether your city is right, he says, get your health com missioner to put a dot on the map for every child under 2 years who dies In August. The babies got sick In May or June, fretted, cried, wilted and died. Other infants who did not die managed to live with constitutions blasted. Later they will be found among the under-nourished and backward school children and, finally, on the books of charity organizations as dependents supported by society. "You cannot make an efficient citizen out of a blighted baby." Realizing the Imperfect character of the efforts to care for children, the United Charities organized a service on a broader basis. The city was dis tricted for the purpose of covering It with a house-to-house visitation sys tem. Settlements, hospitals, churches, representatives of philanthropic agen cies and individuals were Invited to co-operate. The milk commission supplied milk, pasteurized and modi fied to suit the age and condition of the child. The city appropriated $10,- 000. The health department of . the city reports that there were In the week ending September 4 633 fewer deaths of children under 1 year old than in the same week last year. It Is not stated that the improvement Is due to the increased precautions, but that. pending more exhaustive examination of resultB, is evidently" the opinion of the Board of Health and the charity organization. One of the most praiseworthy and useful parts of the service is that of the medical men who give their efforts In a spirit of earnest co-operation, at the same time taking great care not to encroach on the legitimate field of the private practitioner. It is a valuable work, even consid ered coldly as a conservation of the community's potential energy. All the year around the care of the babies should be ' a primary consideration. The hasty condemnation of Governor Glenn seems undignified and Ignorant compared with the civilized and gener ous efforts of Chicago to repel the at tacks of disease and death upon infant life. Coal robberies in Wyoming and Alaska will be left to the man sitting on the Hd. Mr. Taft Is away from home and the rest of us are all "tore up" - about the science of indigestion at Arden and that of sextants In the frozen north. Anyhow, coal in the places mentioned is small In quantity and Inferior in quality, J. J. Hill is rushing up to Alberta for real coal. It is well enough to wait. Where does the east begin? There Is a tendency to. agree that nothing west of Chieago should be called east and nothing east of Chicago called west. The feeling locates the line. The convenience to Chicago is that the stock yards are west and the art gal leries east, for purposes of social con versation. West Virginia stridently demands that Captain Rumsey be substituted for Robert Fulton In the steamboat pioneer legend. Nobody ever supposed that Fulton made, the first steamboat, but, seeing that West Virginia never had a great man, we are for Rumsey just to give Elkinsvtlle a show. Governor Brown of Georgia is win ning fame In the south because he lets embezxiers serve out sentences even If their wives belong to good families. "Little Joe" is a hero In the southland, for'only the initiated know what It is to debate with women of first families. As the veteran party engineers count up the census guesses, the framework of the gerrymander looms up among the shaky fences. The great national art of crowding all the demo crat! of a state on one strip of land is occupying some attention. Tammany is more nervous over the municipal' election than usual and is due for a beating. If Tammany were not sure to swim out In four years we would consent to call It a reform year. 'Senator Knute Nelson. In a white heat of eloquence at the Minnesota State fair, aald that the state was still in Its infancy. So It Is, and when all the lakes are filled up Minnesota will be able to support a nifty little population. The Bee suggests another joint de bate on the subject, "Postal Savings versus Deposit Guaranty," with Con gressman G. M. Hitchcock advocating postal savings banks and Editor O. M. Hitchcock upholding deposit guaranty. The Cincinnati Enquirer asks, as one of the great International ques tions, Why do mosquitoes bite when they do not . need it and live longer without it? Men had thought of It before, but there is no answer. Why should anyone, not a human fiend, want to murder a harmless little boy 11 years old, black or white? If the perpetrator of our latest Juvenile murder Is convicted he will be entitled to the limit of the law. I Assurances are given that the Chau tauqua at 'Bellevue took In more money this year than ever before. If that is the case the Bellevue Chautau qua may be put down as one of our permanent fixtures. Up-to-date adjusters do not see why Cook, Peary and Shackleton cannot form a combine and work the Arctic and Antarctlo business under a pool instead of cutting trade up to nothing. Seeking? a Classification. , Washington Herald. "J. J. Hill Is ,no chicken," says The Omaha Bee. There are those In railroad circle, however, who maintain he is a "bird," all right i Not Looking; That Way 8t Paul Pioneer Press. Some of the elder statesmen are advo cating the establishment of a central bank. The postal savings bank would be a cen tral bank, so far as millions of wage earn ers are Concerned. Rare Honor for Actor. Boston' Herald. Clyde Fitch was the first college-bred American actor ' to receive a degree from an American college, and it was staid old Amherst, that has been more prolific In clergymen and missionaries than In actors. Wlvrleaa and Otherwise. Springfield Republican. The strongest defender of automobile racing who has yet appeared In print Is a man prominently related to the psychical research movement, which, among other things, seeks evidence of the existence and communication with the departed. It Is certainly to be said that these races are Very, effective In broadening the field of spiritualistic effort. A Legislative Freak. Charleston News and Courier. " Some new freak has arisen in the Mis sissippi legislature and suggested that ' a law be passed forbidding negroes enter ing any of the professions. White suprem acy means the -superiority of the white intellect, and that is not a subject for legislative action.-,. Ifhegroe can pas the state examinations they are entitled to practice their profession. iAny legislation to prevent their doing so Is as absurd aa it la unconstitutional ! . .., . THE UTt 1M. AMERICA. Historic WeniZwirs Freshened by tha - Hudson Celebratten. Collier". Weekly. The Hudson centennial will freshen our memories of a race that has always re mained sound that once ws great, Spain and France lost'- world empire through faults of theirs. Holland, like Portugal. fell because It was too small. At Its height It showed a talent for exploration and set tlement matched but two or three times In history. It taugh the world much of what It knows about trade, banking, art, schol arship, toleration and civil government. To the United States It gave Its beet In many lines. Nearly all of the military leaders of the colonies were trained In Holland. Also It Instructed on Its own soil men who have counted otherwise for much In our history, as Sis Walter Raleigh, . Captain John Smith, Miles Standlsh, Governor Dud ley, and Innumerable others. William Penn was In close touch with the native country of his mother, who wa born In Rotter dam, and he put-many Dutch idea Into the constitution- of Pennsylvania. Our flag took Its form and colors from the Dutah, which Is no wonder, sine the best model for our revolution was that other revolt headed by the man who reminded Philip of Spain what Demosthenes had said, ?th. strongest bulwark of a free people Is dis trust," a sentence which describes the very heart of colonial "Ideas of government and freedom. "The original of the two repub lics," wrote John Adams, "are so much alike that the history of the one seems but a transcript of that of the other." Partfy by treachery, Holland wa driven from America, but Its history in relation to u was glorious In Itself and strengthening and enlightening to our character. PERSONAL NOTES. Walter Wellmaa may yet find himself famous as th Arctic explorer who did not discover the North pole. Former Governor William S. Taylor, now a resident of Indianapolis, who wa par doned three months ago by Governor Will- son of all charges against htm growing out of the.Qoebel murder, has been visit ing hi old horn in Kentucky. After working for three year during their spare moments, William Russell of Altoona, Pa., a retired cabinet-maker, and hi son, Bushman Russell, a musician and dancing master, have finished a full stringed, chromatic harp, of roagnifloent ton. William Walther. who recently7 died In Mllwaake. at the age of 78. was born of titled family to Hanover, Germany, and when hi father wa compelled to flee the country on account of political activities the an took passage aa a seaman on a merchant's, vessel bound for New Orleans, where he taught school for a time. He be came a typical American. William Watson, as many think the greatest English poet at the ag of 40 odd years, has fallen In love with and married pretty Irish maiden of lea than JO. Aa liule of els verse up to date has been romantic or of th conventional kvr eravlng type, ' hi new experience, new vista, new status, may not only mak him happier, but literature richer. Mlaa Stella Josephine Feller of Harris county, Texas, ha recently received a large fe for -th use of what 1 accepted as a remarkable power by which she lo cates oil and minerals. The 1150,000 was paid by tea landowner upon whose prop arty two productive well wr (truck after Mlaa Feller had located oil not far from th Hum We field. . Mia Felles, It 1 said, has accumulated a fund of over fuOO.000 and la greeting so orphan asylum. In Beaumont with the money ah received from locating oil aad sulphur lands. Around New York Klpple en th Current of Zdfe a Been la th Oree Asaerteaa Metro poll from Pay to Day. Definite plana have been adopted for a co-operative kitchen In a block of typical New York Tats. The block houses ninety- five families, averaging five persons each or nearly 460 persons for whom food will be provided. A strip i to be taken from th yard of perhaps ten houses and there on Is to be erected a three-story co-oper ative building. This structure is to be three stories high, with a laundry in the base ment, store rooms and receiving court on the first floor, and a kitchen on the sec ond. Between this building and the con tributory dwelling covered way extend. o that the housewife ran communicate with the kitchen or laundry with ease. Here all the cooking and all the laundry work of the block can be done. The scheme enable each housekeeper to determine precisely tb sort of dishes she waqts. Those who prefer to do their own shopping can have their provisions sent home and delivered to the kitchen merely to be cooked. In some cases the house keepers of a block might agree oa a series of meals on the table d'hote plan, Anyhow, there can always b a series of dishes or classes of meals from which People In the block can order at pleasure. It Is estimated from statistics as to the actual cost of meals in New Tork hotels that with the new scheme th cost to oaoh Individual will be lea than a dollar a day. Charle R. Lamp, a New Tork artist t responsible for the Scheme. He finds It an obvloua proposition that a cook, occupied steadily for eight hours a day, can do far more work than h doe In a private family where there are other duties. Adelaide Trapp, an 18-year-old Brooklyn school teacher accomplished the feat of swimming through Hell Oat last Sat urday. Many men have successfully ne gotiated the dangerous eddies and troub lous waters of this part of the East river, but no woman has ever before suoceeded In completing the task, although many have made the attempt ' With a twenty-knot wind blowing and th water unusually rough. Miss Trapp, with Prlscllla Hlgglns, also of Brooklyn, startedwith forty members of the United States Life Saving corps from the corps station, foot of Bast Klghty-nlnth street through Hell Gate to Classon's Point a distance of about eight miles. Mis Trapp covered the dlstanoe in two hours-' and a half, but Miss Hlgglns was seised with cramp after swimming five and one-half miles, and was compelled to withdraw from the race. At no time during the long swim did Miss Trapp show signs of distress. She breasted the currents and stuck gamely to her self-imposed task, while one by one the men were forced to give up the effort. Fifteen of the original forty starter were lifted out of th river, worn put and exhausted, but this fact did not cause Miss Trapp to weaken. With a determination born of a firm re solve to swim the entire distance, the plucky Brooklyn school - teacher set at defiance a hard squall which blew up when 'the swimmers were off Rikers' Island. She reached Classon's Point just as the last man was drawn out 'Of the Water. Mis Trapp underwent the or deal In splendid style. She did not seem even exhausted when the end of the Journey was reached. The test wa an unusually severe one and several of the contestants were res cued in a state of collapse. The swim mers were each accompanied in -a boat In ' which . there were two - attendant ready for emergencies. . tl : ,, , ... Evidence of the near approach of the Hudson-Fulton celebration I given In the beginning of work on the street decora tion, among the most Imposing of which will be thirty-six pillars In Fifth avenue, between Fortieth and Forty-second streets, the erection of which 1 now under way. Of white stucco work, and surmounted with Corinthian cap and huge gilded balls, th pillars will tower fifty-five feet above the sidewalk. There will be eight een on eaoh side of the street and wires will be strung between them, from which many electric lights will be 'suspended. The pillars will be thirty-two feet apart. The pillars will be works of . beauty. On pedestals seven feet square at the base, and resting partly on the street and partly on the sidewalk, will stand, cylindrical col umns thirty-six feet high and five feet In diameter. The pedestals - will be mdre than eight feet high. At the top of the columns will be cap In the Corinthian style of architecture, richly ornamented with foliage, and bearing on eaoh of the four sides the letter "H. F." a foot high. Surmounting the cap will be a gilded ball, which, with it base, will add nearly seven feet to th height of the pillars. The National Association for the Preven tion of Mendicancy and Charitable Impos ture, just Incorporated by a number of wealthy men, proposes to do away with the professional tramp and beggar. James Forbes, one of the organisers and who has been prominent In charitable work, said: "The purpose of the new association Is to repress knavish Imposture and to aid and strengthen the physically crippled and physically sick who may be in a way to become mendicants and impostors. 'We purpose to work as a sort of socialised police and hop to cover the entire coun try." Impostors, Mr. Forbes explained, will be singled out In a systematic way. Photograph and record of them will be made, so. that in time the association will be able to unit with the police in Jailing the fellow. 1 A physician, graduate of th Univer sity of Pennsylvania, a man of pro fessional reputation, recently went to New Tork and obtained work as an electri cian's assistant at tS a week. All day he went about the streets with his pliers, clad In overall and Jumpers, making re pairs on electric light wires. On the streets. In the cars, and while doing his Work, he found that his overalls were the "open sesame" to more of kindliness and consideration than h had met In all th year of his practice of a dignified and learned profession. So much more enviable did h find the attitude of the world a a laborer that he declared himself tempted to give up his profession and don the overalls for all time. Whan Domlnlco Enposlto wa questioned In the United Statea district court to test his qualifications for cltlsensblp he showed a lack of careful coaching, relates the New Tork Sun. "What 1 .th .constitution of th United States?" Esposlto was asked. "The biggest ship," was the reply. "What 1 th meaning of the Fourth of JulyT" "That 1 day East Itlv frose over." "Who was George Washington T" "Oeorge da Wash was big Tammany man. Had much contract." "la Governor Hughes a state or a na tional officer?" "Tea I dunno. Ife stop mucha horse rac. I guesa h want Tedy' Job." "Do you believe la anarchy?" "I dunno. Ms from Sicily. Never beard of him." "Are you willing to take up arma at any time to destroy the United Stutesr "Any time what I can.' I - iaar-aae 1 " is TJic Steady Growth f of this bank has I able In tho exclusive Women's Department an ideal place for the transaction offinan clal business, for meeting friends, and fer rest after shopping. , Entrance to Bafety Deposit yTault la on II th Street FAKE NONTAETBANSHIP. Kearney Hub: According to the World - Herald a Judge who decides a point in favor of a democratla contention Is a non partisan, and that a Judge who decides adversely to democratlo political Interests ar otherwise Just vice partisans, of aourse. This Is where th "horse laugh" comes In. Trenton Repullcan-Leader: The principal Issue of the campaign In Nebraska, ac cording to the democratlo platform, Is the nonpartisan law which was knocked out by the courts. It always brings a smile to hear a democrat talk of being non partisan. Nearly every act of th last legislature wa an effort to give a salary to a democrat Beatrice Express: Th World-Herald thinks th way to defend th spirit of th lata nonpartisan Judiciary law 1 to elect the democratlo nominee for superme Judge. Th presumption that It Is par tisan to vot for a republican and non partisan to vot for a democrat seem so reasonable to the World-Herald that it ex pects people to carry out the Idea with enthusiasm. Trite Vldatte-Herald: There was a vast amount of freak legislation passed last winter. Th moe unique thing done by that Intensely partisan hand of misreDra. sentatlves was to pass what they termed a "nonpartisan" Judiciary bill. The people can congratulate themselves that th su preme court standing between them and a blgtoed legislature, shields them from all the baneful effects of unconstitutional laws. Rushvllle Recorder: It' enough to make a cat laugh outright when it came to study the nonparttsanshlp of the demo crats. All the efforts of the democratlo legislature were directed upon two points, one giving th governor the appointive power for everything under the sun, both what was already on the statute books and what the democrat have since added, and If anything else pointed to the non partisanship idea It wa beautifully Illus trated by the high 'minded way they strained every effort to give the demo crat a salary over the will of the voters. All this was don to the tune of "Let th people rule," with democratic variations. St Paul Republican: , It Is nothing. If not Amusing, at th antios o the .democra tic party of th state. In regard to their appeal for . a nonpartisan supreme court They claim In- their tat platform that they are In favor of no partisan nomina tions for Judge of th supreme court but want the men selected on merl. But they want th first qualification of merit to be this, "He must be a democrat" Th proof of this He In the fact that the democrats are now befor th people of the state with a full ticket of Judge of th supreme court labeled democrats, and the papers of the democratlo faith are plead ing for vote for their nominee on th theory Of non-partlsanshlp. They ac knowledge that the republican ticket is oomposed of clean and able men, but they are not non-partisan, I. ., they ar not democrats, and hence wholly unqualified to be elected to a place on the supreme bench. Such blooming tommy-rot Is fully worthy of a lot of disciples of Bryan, and shows the kind of political schooling he would give in that celebrated school of politics be would establish at the state oapltol at th expens of th state. In an other year's course they might even learn to probate will and beg the widow's mite to make a campaign. . j Government Land Deal. . 8t Louis Republic To th ordinary mind there is no more reason why the government in these days should value It real estate at one-fifth of its worth and dispose of It by lottery than It should follow the same course with any other property it may own. And yet the highest appraised value of the public land to be disposed of In South Dakota pext month Is H an acre, while similar lands In th neighborhood are held In private ownership at $26 and $30 an acre. In nlna case out of ten the lottery gambler 1 the only beneficiary of th government' prodigality. A Final Clean-up of Shirts Thursday morning at 8:$0 wc will start our clean up sale of men's shirts to make room for our new fall goods. These shirts sold for $1.50, $2:00, $2.50, $3.00 and $3.50 and arc the broken lines from the season's best selling styles. Thursday, Friday and Saturday you can take your choice for - 95c These shirts all bear the Browning, King & Co. label a guarantee tbat they are right. 'BrQWiiinUlCinp; & CQ WK7 CLOTHINO, rir iatn in B. S. WILCOX, Uunga. . ' WW ' ' -r" 'j'fp 1 been particularly notice LINES TO A LAUGH. "It Is no longer eustomarv for a man to kneel when proposing," said the entimcn tal girl, regretfully. "Quite true," answered Miss Cayenne. "That Idea went out of fashion when men's attire lengthened fr.om knickerbockers Into a garment which required care to keep It from bagging at th knees." Washington Star. ; , "That's a well bred child." "You bet she is. Never corrects her parents publicly, no mattor what the exi gencies of the case may be." Kansas City Journal. "That man seems to be making a great deal of money." "Yet In the nature of his business, he Is always up against It." "How Is that?" "He Is a wall decorator." Baltimore American. "Do you think thaf Oreek has much value In modern education?" "Certainly," answered the young man wtth a college hat: "the Greek alphabet enables a man to know what frat he be longs to." Washington Star. The orchestra had sued the unsuccessful owner of the show for unpaid salary, and the owner had brought forward a number of low-browed witnesses, whose testimony did not agree, to prove that there was no Indebtedness. "It certainly looks," said the Justice, as he gave Judgment for the plaintiff, "as if somebody had been lying to beat the band." Chicago Tribune. Johnny Do you peek through the key hole when your sister's got a beau? Susie Nope, I can't. Johnny Aw, why not? ' Susie Mamma's always In th way. Cleveland Leader. She offered an explanation of her tearful mood. "I've been to a wedding." she said. "I always cry more at a weddlnp than I do at a funeral. It's so much more uncer tain." Boston Transcript THE FARMER'S VIEWPOINT. Detroit Free Press. "Young man," said Silas unto me, "you city writers Joke A lot about us farmers, and a heap of fun you poke At th country cousins swarmln' into town to see th' fair, : A takin' up th' precious room, while dad - sleeps In a chair; Tou picture us a spohgln' at a Tive-a-day' hotel. "You city chap have pictured- us as nuisances an' bores; You've Joked about our manner an' the way a farmer ;snores; You've painted country cousins as a poor and stingy crew. Who think a five-cent sandwich ts enough to buy for two. Th' fact Ms, when I come to town on trips to buy or sell, I pay for what I et you bet an', sleep in some hotel. , - "Those city cousins do their best to get me up to stay With them, in spite of all the things you funny fellows say; I do the entertainln' an' wish you'd write this down The only time they see a show Is when I come to town. I always buy the tickets, and, I'd also like to tell, They always figure on a meal with me at my hotel." He started then to leave me, but I begged of him to stay. "I'm In a hurry iow," aaid he, "there's nothing more to aay. My wife Is entertaining all her city folks tonight; She's got the Turkish room for them, and doing things up right. It makes me sort o' weary, but don't tell her that I said It. I've got to put my dress suit on an' gosh! how I do dread It!" m ARRHOEAw ,.i If "you or come member of your family were taken suddenly to-nignt wun diar rhoea, Dysentry, Flux, Cholera Morbus, or Cholera Infantum, would you be pre pared to check it? Every borne should have a supply of WakeUeld's Blackberry Balsam Th most reliable remedy for all loose con dition of th bowels. All drucglat sell it FURNISHINaS AND HATS, a pouqlas 8TREKT&V i ' X f mi ft pi