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9 THE HEK: 0MA1LA. THURSDAY, XOVEMHKR 11, 1W0. The Omaha Daily Bee. FOUNDED BT KliWARD ROBEWATFR. VICTOR ROSE WATER, EDITOR. Kntcru) at Omttt postofflc aecond- ciass matter. TERMS OP HfBSCRIPTlON. T'allr Fee (without Sunday), ene year .14 00 Daily Hee and Sunday, on yr 4.00 DELIVERffb BT CARRIER. r!ly Re (Inrrudtmg Sunday), per wekk.ISc Dally Hee (without Bundsyl, per week. .10c Evening Fee (without Sunday), per week c Even Ins llee (with Btindirl. Mr week.. 10c Sunday Hee, on year IIM Saturday !r, on year LM Address all romplalnts of Irregularities In delivery K City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Bullying. Pouth Omaha Twenty-fourth and N. Council Bluffs 15 Roott Rtreet Lincoln ISI8 Little Building, t'hlraeo lfiM Marouette Hulldlnc. New York-Roome 1101-1101 No. II Want Thirty-third Street. Washington 72 Fourteenth Street. N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communlratluna relating to newa and edi torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order pnyahle to The Bee Publishing Company. Only I-cent stamps received In payment of mall account. Personal Checks, except oh Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. STATEMENT OF OKCULATIOM. Stat of Nebraska. Douglas County, sa.: George B. Tischuck. treasurer of The Be Publishing Company, being duly aworn, say that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning. Evening and Funday F; a printed during tha month of October, was as follows: 1... .42,350 IX..:. 49.940 21... .41,790 I... 44,060 II... .41400 t....4a.4M 40,600 14. ...43,940 24 40,330 4 49,640 IB..:. 49,930 25 41,990 I 43,810 It 43,860 it.... 41,990 6 43,450 IT 40,300 17 43,350 7. ...43,670 IS. ...43,480 18. ...43,310 I. . . .43,810 19 43,080 29.... 43,000 ....43,880 20.... 43,880 10.... 43,070 10. ...40,300 21. ...43,050 II. ...40,500 11 43,710 Total 1,303,040 Returned copies 8,670 Net total ; 1,398,370 Dally average 41,731 OEORQB B. TZSCttUCK, Treasurer. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before ma this 1st day of November, IMS. (Seal.) M. P. WALKER, Notary Public abscrlbers learlaa; the elty tea ovarii? afaoald have Tha Be (nailed to them. Addresa will be changed aa often aa requested. All the comet hunters are "dream ing now of Halley." Mention whitewash and the Chicago Jury probers color right up. In building Its big bridges New York ought to provide for a longer life span. Japan's forthcoming diet will doubt less dispose of any undigested public securities. Now that the proposed telephone merger has got Into the courts, all lines are busy. Reduced to a maxim, the opinion of the manufacturers Is that tariff silence Is golden trade. An eastern journal speaks of the days when America "was the Garden of Eden." Was? Is! The police of Madrid In protecting the king of Portugal are having their share of Manuel labor. For a man to shoot the buttons off the back of his wife's gown Is really carrying the mutiny too far. The Omaha of the near future will bo big enough to "save" lower Farnam itreet as well as upper Farnam street. The Big Four must have a lot of money lying around loose to be plun dered of so much without noticing It. The suffragettes In London are mak ing distinct progress. They are hit ting the windows they throw stones at. The Insanity defense cloak is being made over to fit a Denver crime. Here Is one fabric that never seems to show the wear. That 8 o'clock lid law decision must be merely a revised version of Pap rika's favorite song, "You May Learn to Like It." Society leaders may make lions of the British officers at the show, but the American horse declines to play the part of the unicorn. The way In which the metropolis has fallen in Jove with a uw opera whose Salome is sweet and virtuous shows that you never can tell. '"'M Good Advice reiterated: Don't throw good money after bad. Come across with the formal declaration that the street car strike Is off. Take note that Mr. Fowler and Mr. Aldrlch agree that our present banking currency laws are "barbarous," but they refuse to travel together any further. The case of the courageous chief of police who dispersed a mob at Cairo by unmasking the leader affords fresh proof of the fact that the ordinary rioter is a coward. As the old sea dog. Admiral Fisher was a popular idol, but In the present state of the British mind his elevation to the peerage may be regarded as a lepresslon In spirits. Lest we forget! s The social clubs of Lincoln that have been dispensing boots to their members at Lineoln be fore and after 8 o'clock have secured reprieve from the supreme court. Knowing the quality of New York nllk, one may be pardoned for being skeptical about the claim that Stand ard Oil has cornered Manhattan's dairy fcuftftees. Oil an water won't mix. The Eight O'clock Law Standi. By decision of the supreme court unanimously concurred In, Nebraska's 8 o'clock closing law stands as a valid enactment The drastic character of the penalty Imposed by this law and the extraordinary methods by which it was forced through the legislature In the closing hours do not, In the opin ion of the court, constitute constitu tional defects that require It to be pro nounced void. It may be taken as set tled, therefore, that the 8 o'clock law will remain operative until repealed or amended by the law-making body, which will be at least two years, if not indefinitely. If any liquor dealers have been placing hope in a court de cision finding the law unconstitutional they should adjust themselves perma nently to Its requirements. The Bee's opinion of the unwisdom of the law Is not changed by the fact that It Is adjudged constitutional. Every community that wanted early closing could have fixed the desired closing hour under the law as It pre viously existed In fact, Lincoln had made 7 o'clock the closing time. Here In Omaha the Anti-saloon league had made a demand only last March upon candidates for city council that they promise an ordinance for 11 o'clock closing and had no expectation of get ting an 8 o'clock closing order. The Bee has always believed that the regu lation of the liquor traffic should be left to the various localities, within certain general limitations, and that the hours should be a matter of local option as much as the Issue or reusal to issue licenses to sell. The 8 o'clock law la bound to Increase the difficulties besetting communities that are not In sympathy with it, but that must not prevent a reasonable effort being made by the law officers for Its enforcement. The Kaiser'i Promise. It was a 1 wise woman who exacted from the kaiser his pledge not to at tempt any airship Toyage. The well- known adventurous spirit of the Ger man emperor must have rebelled and suffered in sacrificing this ambition, for the father was just as testful for the sport of aviation as was the son who had actually enjoyed such flight. But even at the risk of loss of spectac ular triumph if restraining his ambi tion to be the most modern of Eu ropean monarchs In the thoroughness of his personal accomplishments, the kaiser did well to submit. Not readily does such a proud and imperious man abandon his desire to be a king of the air as well as of the earth and water. Yet there Is some thing truly regal In his surrender. Not only has he given assurance of peace of mind to a faithful wife, but also he has gratified, a nation. To have tempted his fate In an airship in the present hazardous stage of aviation would have been to achieve a vain glorious exploit; but to yield to the solicitude of consort and subjects dem onstrates a manhood that must make the empress all the more proud of her king. i The Housekeeper's Problem. Those club women who have entered upon a propaganda that the housewife shall make all her dally store pur chases, particularly her food supplies, In person, spending time enough to scrutinise her selections, overlook a few points in the housekeeper's prob lem. It la not the well-to-do woman who telephones her orders for supplies that is In dagger of suffering from vio lation of the pure food laws. Her abil ity to patronise the higher-priced stores guarantees her the best that the market affords. The dealer who tries sharp practices on ber loses her trade. The real sufferers from Impure foods and substitutions are the myriad homes which have no telephone, be cause It is a luxury they cannot af ford, and whose mistresses are so harassed by the countless cares of housework, whlc'h In many cases must be done by one pair of hands, that they must perforce order their supplies of the man who comes to the door, or else send one of the children out with a basket. There Is no gainsaying the merit of personal marketing, but In forcing It upon all women the fortunate club members are forgetting entirely the host of the sisterhood bound down to the dally drudgery of broom, dlshpan and washtub. The Magic of Hidden Lure. The fact that another salvage com pany has come to the end of Its re sources and the end of its hopes in digging for Captain Kidd's pirate gold on Oak Island, revives memories of the long list of expeditions made to that mysterious spot in Chester bay, and will serve as an Incentive to others to test the truth of the tradition that un told wealth awaits the successful searcher In those Isolated sands. The quest for buried secrets. whether golden metal or the Intimate pages of an old romance, is never fail ing In Its hold on the popular Imagina tion. The very name treasure island builds up a castle of dreams, and hu man faith In such dreams never fades utterly. The hope that perhaps the miner abandoned his claim Just on the eve of rich discovery Is an Incentive to the next comer. There Is a magic in the mystery of the lure hidden un der the surface which brushes aside every appeal to reason. The popular ity of the old-fashioned bouse party games, such as "hunt the thimble," was based on this fascination. Human credulity attaches itself loyally to the prite that Is out of sight. Aa years pass, traditional treasure and relics possess all the more glamour, Impel man's search and Inspire his faith. Dr. Cook, returning from the moun tain peak and Arctic floes with tales of burled records, bullded firmly a reputation unassailable long after he shall have passed away. The magic of such things Is incompatible. Alaskan Coal Lands. Two things are evident from the many-elded controversy that has arisen concerning the Alaskan coal fields, first, that they ought to be de veloped as rapidly as possible In order to meet the degiand of the northwest for fuel, and, secondly, that there Is need of great care lest they get into monopolistic control of operators with out sufficient government regulation. The United States holds a vast area of Alaskan territory known to contain coal, and under existing laws It Is said to be possible for private ownership to gobble these up at a ridiculously low price. It would seem to be a Judicious proceeding for congress to undertake better protection for this district with out delay, In order that the rights of the public In so vital a matter may be maintained. This Is one branch of natural resources to which the con servation policy cannot too thoroughly be applied. Easy to Ask Questions. If the republican state convention of Ne braska had declared for the bank guaranty would republican Judges have felt Bure of Its unconstitutionality? Or did the repub lican national convention settle that ques tion? Mr. Bryan's Commoner. Because the democratic state con vention of Nebraska declared for the bank guaranty, would democratic Judges have felt Bure of Its constitu tionality? Because the democrats of Oklahoma put deposit guaranty In their platform, and enacted It into the statute books. Is that the reason the democratic su preme court of Oklahoma decided In Its favor? Are democratic platforms binding on democratic Judges as well as on democratic law-makers? Would a democrat elected to the bench as a nonpartisan be expected to recognize the binding quality of the democratic platform Irrespective of constitutionality? Our old friend, Edgar Howard, does not think "Grand Old Platte" did so well by his nonpartisan democrats as it should have done. He says that with no opposition whatever put up locally by the republicans the demo crats of "Grand Old Platte" should have rolled up 1,600 majority. Re spectfully referred to Chairman Byrnes of the democratic state committee and the big three, all of whom live in "Grand Old Platte." Mr. Hitchcock's World-Herald dom inates as "a wise selection of location" the disposition of the Woodmen of the World to erect their proposed new building at Fourteenth and Farnam. Without undertaking to disagree, we wonder what he would have said If the Woodmen had gone to Eighteenth and Farnam, the very mention of which was enough once to set him frothing at the mouth. The great deficiency of Omaha today Is that Its streets are not kept clean. World Herald. What heresy! Has not the street department been commanded by a democratic street commissioner for nearly four years? Hasn't all the money been spent regularly and mostly Just before electron? The expense account filed by Judge Sullivan as late democratlc-nonpar- tisan-popullst candidate for supreme Judge discloses the payment of $100 to the democratic state committee and $25 to the populist state committee. The sacred ratio has been changed. It Is now 4 to 1. The thoroughness with which Lon don has become Inoculated with the American spirit of enterprise Is shown in the fact that the oldest conservative paper of that city sent Its dramatic e:lMc to New York solely to report the opening of a new playhouse. If Ig Dunn should refuse to apolo gize or take it back and be disbarred the whole city government of Omaha might come to a standstill at any rate, the city law department surely would. "Regrettable Imeldeata." New York Sun. We notice that death by foot ball has become "a regrettable Incident." like homi cide In Brecthltt county. Cola Holla Oae Way. Pittsburg Dispatch. Railroads are cutting rates on sugar, but the trust does not allow any Illusions about the ultimate consumer getting any more for his money than usual. A Wise Precaution. 8t- Paul Pioneer Press. The Omaha Be announces that one of the republican candidates for the state su preme court "will win by a hair." Simply shows where the republicans were wise In not nominating a bald-headed man for the place. Carloas Bualarsa Taleat. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Uncle Ham has Increased the oust of registering a letter from 8 cents to 10, an advance of 20 per cent. Why not cheapen the absurdly high parcels post as an offset? It should not cost more to mall a parcel to a domestic postofflce than to London. Where American Dealers Fall Down. New York Tribune. The American counsel at Valparaiso re ports that Chilllans purchase - European In preference to American goods. Why? Chiefly for three reasons hitherto set forth in these columns. One Is that European manufacturers make and send thither tha kind of goods that South Americans want, while ours try to get South Americans to buy the kind of goods they want. The second Is that European shippers pack their goods so that they will reach their destination la good condition, while ours do not. And the third reason la that Euro peans establish branch banks In South America and sell on credit, while Ameri cans usually demand cash. As soon ns we adopt the asms methods as Europeans we shall largely enjoy the same patronage. Where, Oh, Where? Washington Herald, la there a big city In this entire country wherein the principal streets are not fre quently and all but persistently torn up at the most Inopportune moments? If so, the Inhabitants thereof ought to pin med als on themselves for being wonderfully and unlauMv blessed. Congress t'onld Tell. Chicago Record-Herald. It Is reported that the people who accom panied Colonel Roosevelt on his African hunting trip are almost worn eAit as a result of their efforts to keep up with him. Still, they will not receive much pity. They knew before they started what was com ing to them. In a Class Above, Cleveland Plain Dealer. Among the various ways of beating the government the sugar weigher seems to have a way peculiar to himself. When the weigher can save the Importers the duty on 21S.9M) pounds in a single cargo, as Is alleged, the petty Irregularities of the coal scales seem pitifully small and cheap. Aldrlch and the Hobher Trust. Philadelphia Ledger. Considering the consplcwtisly Influen tial position which Senator Aldrlch holds with refprct to all financial and economic legislation, his appearance as an Incorpor ator, In a large combination or "trust" Is little short of scandalous. Mr. Aldrlch Is no longer merely a Rhode Island man of business; he has become a national figure of great Importance. He was almost a Supreme dictator of the tariff policy, and ho has been formally lntr-.ted with the leadership in the efforts for the reform of the banking and currency system. ITe has shown a parliamentary ability that had gained him Increasing respect and Influ ence aa a senator. As director of a New Jersey corporation aiming at the control of the entire rubber trade aoth corpora tions and rubber being subject to con gressional action how can he continue to hold this commanding position In the senate? FEELl.XU WAY, Senator Aldrlch Sounding the Deeps In the Middle Weat. Boston Herald. Senator Aldilch Is feeling his way In the west. His Initial declaration In favor of maintaining the Integrity of existing banks and opposing a system of branch banks, of preventing political Influence In the control of any central Institution that may be established, and also of so organizing the system as to prevent sectional control, Is perfectly safe ground. None will dispute him on these points. The difficulty will be In convincing the people that a central bank can be organised without one or more of these defects. And yet a bank of banks, doing business with the national banks throughout the country, owned and controlled by them through proportionate ownership of tha stock, might be made proof against any of these defects anl serve the needs of currency reorganization. WINNING or TH K WEST Senator Aldrlrh'a Mission of Educa tion and Observation. Washington Post. Senator Aldrlch has gone west on a re connolssance and to deliver a speech upon the reform of ,.he currency system of the United States. nHe is thoroughly wide awake to the.fact th&t at this time the sentiment of that portion of the country Is averse, even hostile, to those recommend ations which have been generally accepted as being the on.es which will finally receive the sanction of the majority of the mone tary commission. No one can doubt that Mr. Aldrlch Is alive to the need for cur rency reform and that he has the laudable ambition to round out his notable services as a legislator ' by securing an efficacious substitute for present complex and busi ness disturbing monetary laws. He Is Justified In thinking that his name linked to that of a model currency system will be a lasting honor, and he may be de pended on to exert all his energies and talents to that end. v Whether Mr. Aldrlch will find thatvthe hostility In the west Is so pronounced as to make it Impossible to hope for a change of sentiment Is one of the most Interesting and Important features of the campaign for an Improvement of the monetary sys tem of tha United States. Mr. Aldrlch is entitled to a respectful and unprejudiced heating upon currency plans, and his ad vice should be! considered for what It Is worth, without regard to sectional preju dices on other public questions. It Is also desirable that the west shall frankly make known to Mr. Aldrlch Its own opinions, In order that he may not pursue a policy which he cannot hope to carry to success. A "full and free conference" between Mr. Aldrlch and the people In the west will be most interesting, and it may be most Important. HACK TEST OP CITIZENSHIP. Naturalisation of Immigrants from the Ottoman Empire. New York Tribune. The declaration of the State depart ment on the subject of naturalization of Immigrants from the Ottoman empire clears up some misapprehensions which former statesmen from other sources have caused, though It repeats our suggestion of the complications and difficulties which beset the wav of any attempt to base acceptability for naturalization on technical ethnological line, Instead of on personal qualities and conditions. Apparently the crux of the matter, so faV as the courts' Interpretation of the naturalization statutes Is concerned, Is the phrase "white persons," which occurs In the old naturalization law of 1803 and again In the revised statute of 1875. In 1802, no doubt. It was meant chiefly, if not entirely, to exclude negroes. In 1875 It was con fessedly meant to exclude the Chinese, and perhaps also the Japanese. The question Is, What Is meant at the present time by "white persons?" In the dispute over Turkish subjects It Is, of course, borne In mind that tha Otto man empire la peculiarly composite. The Arabs and Syrians are undoubtedly Semitic Caucasians, and the Armenians are as aurely Aryan Caucasians. As for the true Turks, they were unquestionably of Mon golian origin, belonging to the Mongolo Tartar division of Cuvler'a Mongolian race. But for centuries they have made a spec ialty of Interbreeding with the purest Cau casions, so that at the present time the average Turk Is probaly far more Cau casian than Mongolian. Unquestionably there should be some tests of fitness fur citizenship. But If they are established on ethnographic lines we shall have the anomaly of accepting Afg hans and ,Abysslntans as Caucasian white men and of rejecting Finns and Magyars aa Mongoiiaa yellow men. If they are to be established on geographical lines, we shall see enlightened Armenians rejected as Asiatics and Polacka and Slavonians accepted as Europeans. Tha subject Is one to which the Stat department, tha Immi gration bureau, and the oourta will doubt less give tha eareful and deliberate con sideration which It deeervfa. Washington Life nor! tcbse of Incidents and Bpl odea that Mark tha Progress of Events at the iratlonal Capital. The popularity of the Lincoln one-cent piece, marking a coinage departure from the Indian design of former years, prompts the Treasury department to extend thS Innovation to coins of larger denomlna tlons. Engravers at the United States mint at Philadelphia are preparing designs for a new five-cent pieoe which will bear the head of George Washington. It Is not yet certain whether the government will accept any of the designs. Many hundred dies have been made for coins never accepted, but If this portrait coin follows the new Lincoln penny It will be the first coin in actual authorized circulation to carry the head of Washington. Yet several pattern coins bearing It have been circu lated. Washington himself refused to allow such a celri to be issued during his lifetime. Ho said It was a "monarchical" custom, not fitting In a republic. Yet his head has adorned pattern coins Issued In small numbers, but never adopted officially since 17RS. when some 5,000 to 10,000 by a well-known designer named Wyon were struck off. As late as 1S63 a pattern for a two-cent piece bearing his head was made, and in lfWd a series of pattern five-cent pieces with his head upon them was designed, but never cir culated. This particular coin has been designed either by Engraver Morgan or Rarber, of the mint. Specimens to be struck off soon will be submitted to the Treasury depart ment In Washington. The adoption of the coin rests with the Treasury department. Of course we don't have any e'ectlons of our own." said a Washington man, In an interview, "but we have election Inti mations, If I may call them that, which can't be duplicated anywhere else in the country. "You see when we Waahlngtonlans want to vote we've get to do It somewhere else; and as most of us have va lingering fond ness for the franchise we are pretty likely to hang on to a residence somewhere out side the district. i "We especially like to do It because It makes us feel as If we had some sort of weapon to flourish before the observing eyes of the politicians who may have something to say about our hold on our Jobs. And when the time comes to go home to vote we visibly swell with Im portance. "Naturally a national election is the one that catches us all at once, and It is then that the Intimations I spoke of do most abound. The papers are full of ad vertisements of loans for election expenses. Department clerks can be accommodated with sums covering their railway fare, new clothes for the trip and a substantial mar gin over gnd above necessary Items. The Interest Is a bit high, but clerk who Is pining to go back home to splurge a bit is willing to mortgage his resources for the pleasure. "These offers of loans fill columns of the dally papers. Alongside of them are other advertisements, all turning on tlje one theme, the election. 'Buy yourself new suit to go home and vote In!' Tlv grammar Is a bit off. but the prices are asserted to be all right. "In the shop windows there are dozens of election placards: 'Just the hat to wear when you go home to vote.' 'Specials In suitcases for the election'; 'Take a souvenir hatpin to your best girl when you go home to vote'; 'Swell suit for the election; only II a week'; and In a shoe store window. Tramp,-tramp, tramp, the boys are march ing home to vote; wear s shoes and you won't get sore feet!" "The railways offer special rates to voters, and so It goes. You won't find anything like It In any other town." "A wife can't command her husband to live with his mother-in-law," declared Judge DeLacy in the Juvenile court of Washington the other day. "Every man Is entitled to a home of his own, and no less an authority than George Washington has said there Is no house In the world large enough for two families." Mrs. Ella Johnson sued her husband for alimony, asserting she would never again live with him, aa he made offensive re marks about her mother. Johnson pleaded he had no home life whatsoever and that his mother-in-law would not allow him to even come down and sit In the parlor; so that he was obliged to stay shut up In his own room or go to the club. He offered to provide a home for his wife and child if she would leave her mother. This she refused to do and the court dismissed the case. Government employes falling In fits must take the precaution to have a government doctor at hand or cause awkward compli cations. This valuable thought Is sug gested by the recent experience of a sea man on the lighthouse tender Crocus, who thoughtlessly went into convulsions on the deck one day and thereby incurred a bill for $l.fO, which the government refuses to pay. The case Is reported to the comp troller of the treasury by Lieutenant Com mander O. D. Stearns, commanding the Crocus, who, seeing his man wrlthinp about the deck, hastily called a civilian physician. Dr. H. H. Smith of Cape Vin cent. N. Y. Dr. Smith has presented a bill of $1.50 and the comptroller has Informed Commander Stearns that the government cannot pay it. The regulations provide that men of the lighthouse service, he says, may be treated by the surgeons of the public health and marine hospital serv ice, but they do not provide for or au thorize the procurement of or payment tor medical service for officers or seamen by private physicians. Probably the common law will protect Dr. Smith If he can get hold of the seaman. Commander Stearns Is said to be scratching his head and won dering what he will do If the man has another fit S. Zumoto, editor of the Japan Times of Toklo, and a member of the commercial commission now touring the country, en tered the barber shop of his hotel In Wash ington and, lovingly caressing hla beautiful Imperial, said: "I would like to be shaved not alto gether, but conservatively." The barber tucked the towels and aprons and other articles of his trade in and around the Japanese editor's neck and went to work. Presently the Americana In the shop were startled by a fluent flow of what probably was strong language In Japanese. The barber had encroached on the Japanese Imperial, with the result that half of It had fallen before the customer could protest. It was necessary then to cut It all off. Members of the Japanese party esjoyed the situation, but Mr. Zumoto declined to see It In a humorous light- Tha l.ast la Vlret. St. Louis Republic. It Is something of a paradox that a land lubber state like North Dakota, some 1.500 miles from salt water, should give Its name to the swiftest battleship afloat and one of tba two or three most powerful. But there are no differences between tns Interior and tha seaboard In tha matter of maintaining an efficient navy. Cm- &Br I -v-vo; jr"'lK If I- 1 SHALLENBERGER'S BREAK. Paplllion Republican: Governor Shallen- berger has forsaken Nebraska's son Bryan and come out in favor of David R. Francis of Missouri for the next democratic candi date for president. He no doubt got a good lecture on his return to Lincoln. Plattsmouth Journal: Governor Shallen- berger lias started a boom for David 11. Francis of Missouri for president. Well, we admire our governor's Judgment. With Mr. Bryan out of the question, he couldn't boom a better or stronger candidate. Tekomah Journal: Governor Sliallenber- ger while a member of the presidential unketing party that has Just been having a glorious time on that Mississippi river out ing discarded William J. Bryan as a presi dential candidate in 1912 by proposing that the western democrats should rally around t.x-Govemor Francis of Missouri as their choice in 1U12. While Governor Khullenber ger and his friends may design to shelve the quadrennial candidate yet there are many noted Nebraskans who differ with him. To a good republican it looks though M. Bryan had about as fierce an Inier neonie political scrap in sight as republic ans could wish for. To see his powerful friends dropping from his support one by one must make him feel that there Is noth ing for him to lean upon except the lecture platform and a fat bank account. Fremont Tribune: Governor Shallenbcr ger Is reported to have said n a banquet speech at New Orleans that the one bet candidate for president In W12 la D. K. Francis, of Missouri, famous, chiefly, ( aa president of the St. Louis tair. News of the governor's utterance caused some gasp ing In Nebraska. It at once raised several quct onn. Was It said under a banquet Inspiration when the governors W. C. T. U. wife was not at his side? Was theiu an understanding with the ";-age of Fair view" that such announcement would be agreeable? Was It an independent sortlo on the part of the governor, wno remem bers that last yeur he outran Mr. Bryan In Nebraska and therefore roels no re straint In speaking his mlnd7 Is It an effort to score asalnst Mr. Bryan for position in the senatorial fight next year? The gov ernor has opened up wide possibilities fo speculation. Most folks would assume li would have waited for Mr. 'Bryan to spea. a so Important a matter. Why this pr. v touuness? PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE. A man whose wife goes up In the til on the slightest provocation will be likel to regard the purchase of an aeroplane t a Florida woman as a superfluous cxtrav agance. A sentence of three years In Fins S'n. has been Imposed upon a New York mn for "repeating" at the polls. Some pol. tlcal progress is being made In pite oi certain signs. Mary Garden protests vehement! against putting up $1,100 customs duty on her Imported clothes. But the ungallant in spectors will not unbend. Duty befort gallantly Is the revised tariff rule. A steady diet of ham and eggs developod incompatibility of temper in a prominent New York family, and both are exhibiting considerable temper In a divorce court. At tho same time a Chicago wife pleads for liberty because her husband persists In chasing "angels of the spirit world." Out sobs for less substance, the other sighs for less shadow. The Kansas City woman who accumu lated six husbands In rotation and "shook 'em" without bothersome legal formalities, has been turned loose by the courts. She had to be shown and appears satisfied. "1 want no more husbands," she remarked on leaving Jail. "I am through with this marrying business" at least until the next Jay happens along. The commissioners of Wyandotte county, Kansas, wherein the various packerles are located, have succeeded Jn getting figures from the packers on the value of personal property Bubject to taxation. Un der this head comes equipment, stock on hand, finished and unfinished. The as sessments for each of the six packers are: Armour, 11,917,210; Fowler, 1X36,000; Cuduhy, $1,215,000; Swift. $1.6.-,000; Swartzschlld. $1, 114,000; Morris, $1,122,000. NATURE'S LAXATIVE THE BEST Many Are So-Called "Natural." Many Laxatives on tha market are often atyled "Natural" because of the well known fact that thfc Laxative which Nature glvea us Is the best. Such ones, constantly coming up, soon disappear, because they are man ufactured, and can never possess the In imitable merits of the product of Nature. HUNYADI JANOS Water, the genuine Natural Laxative, has stood at the head for nearly half a century aa the ONLY Laxative whose established reputation is Its best recommendation. It remains always tha standard because It la NATURE'S remedy In Ita original form, pure and simple. In no way dependent, aa others are, on artificial composition. At all Druggists. Try It. Look out for unscrupulous druggists, who will subatltute unless you ask for HUNYADI JANOS Received Highest Award Chicago World's Fair LAUGHING GAS. Sympathetic Old Lady Ah! my poor fel low, life is full of trials. ' . , you tried for? Kansas City Journal. "Were you successful the first time you ran for office?" "No." answered Senator Sorghum. "My experience was not an unusual one. I had to keep on trying until the opposltiotiV unpopular than I wns." Washington Star. Mrs. Chugwater What is animal mag netism. Josinh? Mr. Chugwater Well, you know what an animal Is, and you know what magnetism Is. Just combine the two and you get ani mal maVnetism. Isn't that plain enough? Chicago Tribune. Shorn You'd better get ready for the flood brother! Japhet Did father say this was the day for the beginning of the rain? Shem Not In so many words; but he went out minus Ills umbrella. Puck. Rinks Well, well! Hero's an Item which shows thnt a business man walks at least ttiree miles every day in simply moving around his office. Mrs. Minks Yes. and how far does he walk around a billiard table, every night. Cleveland liuln Dealer. "I hoar," said the ICnprllsh visitor to his American friend, "that you are to receive, the nomination of your party. Are you goingito stand for It?" "Sure I nm." said the surprised Ameri can, who did not Know that the English candidate "stood" for office. "Sure. How can I run If I don't stand for It?" Balti more American. "What makes you say your husband hm no consideration for your ulshs?" JiM tho emotional- actress. ,,-. rt,.(n . " "Ho utterly lost his temper! rerlled 'tha opera ninger. "when I told him I thoUKht It w ould bp 'nice to have a divorce." Washington Star. The young married man had been on the rond about a year. He had Just told his wife that the firm hsd tilven him a posi tion in the store a id he would not have to travel any more. "Oh. won't that be fine. Georep." she ex claimed. "Now we'll lie mnrried again and settle down!" Chlcaro Tribune. THE ARTISTIC "TOUCH." S. E. Ktser in Record-Herald, lie came In with n cheerful smile, nnd wlt!i a hand extended : "Ht.w do you do. old man?" ho said; but you're looking splendid! "gee. Mu're growing younger every year; I wonder lion you do It?" o then espied an empty chair and took a fancy to It. The world hits used you well, I hoar." lie said with glnd conviction: l always claimed you'd get ahead: you've made good my prediction: only proves that talent wins when nmn erly directed; 'ou've been successful, but no more than might have been expected. 'I bear men t.ilklnp everywhere about the things voir re dolnt; 4 I wish I'd hud the sonse to take the conii-J you've been pursuing; f Von alwavs Imd the girt to see the prop'r time for action; The victories you've won must be n source of satisfaction." It seemed ns If at last the world wn& prantlns- Justlc- to me. And while lie spoke I felt a thrill of glad ness coursing through me; But presently he spoke again and chang.?) mv pride to sorrow; Jk His purpose merely was to get "ten dollars till tomorrow." The Popular Price In buying a Suit or Over coat that Price is popu lar that gets the most for the money. Wc find that it is about $25.00 At that figure one may be sure of very satisfac tory fabrics and linings, and thoroughly good tailoring. Of course, the lower priced -Suits and Over coats, from $15 to $22, are just as well cut and as serviceable. ' ; But from $25 to $45 the luxury of linings rn I trimmings enters into the calculation. BrQvninen(iri8 PWfiCompaiiY Fifteenth and Douglas St, V OMAHA 4 It. S. WILCOX, Manaffer. .
