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THE HEE: OMAHA. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1909.
THepmama Daily Dee:
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VICTOR ROSEWATER. EDITOR.
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complete enples of The Dally. Morning.
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1 40,360 It... .43.940 tj.... 41,790
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QEOROB B. TZSCHUCK.
Treasurer.
Subscribed in my presence and sworn to
before ma this 1st day ef Novambar, 1949.
(Seal.) M. r. WALKER.
Notary FubUe.
Sabscrlbers leaTtaat tha city tem
porarily sbanld kara Tha Bee
mailed to tharn. Adareae will ba
cfcaaa-e me often aa reqaeste.
What a swarm of lies In the sugar
bowl.
If Is; Dunn la ready to take it back
and apologize, why doesn't he? 1
The next question is, Will Uncle
Sam ring off that telephone deal?. .
The more Uncle Sam considers the
told deal Chile gave him, the hotter
he gets.
While the sugar ring refrained from
being good, it wag for a long time
careful.
Those Canary Island tremblings
must have been the tremolo of the
canaries.
No one need think that the French
children mind the burning of those
school books.
If Mrs. Stetson were an actress she
would be expected to announce In the
pupers "At liberty."
Ambassador Thompson is now pres
ident of the Tan-American railroad
and the Lincoln Star. '
Scouring the seas for Colonel
Astor's yacht will not cleanse the
records of the divorce court.
The promised .opening of more land
In the Rosebud reservation wllf find
plenty of people ready to dash for the
Pine Ridge pole.
One brave girl has demonstrated on
the Chicago elevated that a well-directed
punch will rout a robber, even
If It's only a ticket punch.
Those life sentences for train rob
bers will have a tendency to make fu
ture bandits study their geography to
make sure of keeping out of Nebraska.
A female doctor has arisen to an
nounce that the electric chair Is not
fatal. And this after they have burled
so many ef Its victims under" the de
lusion that it was.
Our amiable democratic contem
porary has a rail-down for Ross Ham
mond for "rounding a Corpse." It
evidently wants that privilege reserved
exclusively for Itself.
That Muskegon democrat who for
seventeen years has been under a
hypnotic spell to vote for Grover
Cleveland Is In a bad way. Where are
the other spellbinders?
Although Mrs. Longworth did not
take that horseback ride as described
in Frauleln Krobel's book, we venture
to believe that when the emperor of
Korea reads about It he will wish she
had.
14 r. Qompers may think that he Is
abused la the matter of free speech,
but just let him consider the awful
case ef those Knox college girls who
are forbidden te yell for their favor
ites on the foot ball field.
The man who has writteu a book to
demonstrate that the cigarette is a
"Tyrant In White" has overlooked the
rial claimant for that title who makes
tie fathers of the land walk the floor
when they Bhould be slumbering.
'hi!t tCusapla Paladlno is having
I roubles convincing skeptical New
. rkers t her ability to raise the
'iests ef the departed, an Inucxant
- rastula has instantaneously resur
rted the spirits of the dead letter
rfllre. The tarantella danrej by the
lorke shows that to be a good judge
of moribund mall one dors not have
u. t necessarily a f!ead una
Out Neighboring' Kevolutioniiti.
The significance of the decision of
our government aa voiced in the mes
esge signed by Secretary Knox after
consultation with the president con
cerning the Nlcaraguan affair Is not
In the-language of the dispatch, which
la that usual In such cases, in con
formity with the established interna
tional blockade code, but Instead lies
In the fact that by recognizing the
blockade, "If effective," we virtually
commit ourselves to recognition of
the rebels operating against Zelaya as
revolutionists.
Recognition of such belligerents
has uniformly been withheld in the
practice of the State department, but
the knowledge that Zelaya's long-
established hostility to Americans had
actually taken the form of operations
against American Interests in Nica
ragua and also execution of Ameri
cans without trial, was bound to pre
cipitate action. The United States
manifests no desire or intention to
take any active part In the conflict of
the two forces, and Its vigilance thus
far Is confined to protection of its own
Interests, but the fact that circum
stances required us to acknowledge
the belligerency of the insurgents may
l6ad to attempted reprisals which will
still further Involve us in the future
of that republic.
' The natural disposition for us Is to
keep hands oft of these troubled Cen
tral American republics, but when
driven to take a hand events maroh
fast. Since we have committed our
selves thus far, it might be worth
while to consider seriously the subject
of a convention that should put an
end to these constantly recurring
ebullitions go destructive of trade re
latione and subversive of prosperity
among our i leaser neighbors. While
they take advantage of our protection
through assertion of the Monroe doc
trine, they should give us some sort of
assurance of good behavior.
The Burden of Armament.
Nations of Europe are beginning to
look askance at the naval programs,
and there are indications that a halt
eventually will be called upon the na
val rivalry of the world. Great Britain
Is already beginning to stagger under
the gigantic burden of its peace arma
ment and has not succeeded in
straightening out its budget crisis
when France also awakes to the fact
that naval and army expenses have
brought it face to face with a budget
whose increase is more than forty mil
Ifons. The suggestion broached In Paris
that France, Britain and Germany
form a tripartite treaty for the limita
tion ef the poace armament is likely
to be viewed favorably by the taxpay
ers of the three countries, yet with re
luctance, if not suspicion, by the am
bitious and jealous powers. But the
prodigious bounds made in the cost of
naval construction must soon bring
not only European nations, but also
the United States, to realise that ere
long the limit of endurance shall have
been reached by the public purse. '
One hopeful sign in our own coun
try is that the future evolution of the
navy promises to be along lines that
may make for economy. The strat
egists having doomed the light cruis
ers and Other auxiliary vessels, the
navy promises to be confined to two
classes, the battleships and the de
stroyers. ' Simplified batteries are
promised for the dreadnaughts, and
Inasmuch as the naval battles of the
future are likely to be confined largely
to long range fighting, it is probable
that fewer warships will be needed and
that no exhaustive addition to our
present program need be made. As
far as our country is concerned, it
must maintain a navy sufficient to
operate If need be against any hostile
power in either ocean, so that we have
a direct interest in every proposal to
fix a limit for European fleets. '
Another Banco Game Exposed.
The opinion recently given by the
city attorney advising the city council
that the initiative and referendum law
Is not In force in Omaha is entitled to
some attention in passing because it
exposes another bunco game which our
friends, the democrats, tried to work
with more or less success on victims
who ought to have known better.
It should be remembered that three
years ago the democratic mayor and
council submitted to the voters a prop
osition for popular ratification which
was supposed to put into effect the in
itiative and referendum law, which by
Its terms waited for such acceptance.
The democratic World-Herald pounded
the tom-tom for the initiative and
referendum to enlist votes for its edi
tor, who was then running for con
gress, knowing full well that the
proposition was not in legal form and
was vitally defective because of failure
to comply with jurisdictional require
ments. In other words, the referendum
was simply a bunco game set up by the
democrats la control of the city hall
with full knowledge of Its fraudulent
character and designed to catch a few
suckers who might not see through the
sham.
And now comes the same democratic
city attorney, who was officially
charged with passing on the original
ordinance, and la a written opinion de
clares that the action of the former
democratic mayor and council is void
and ef no effect and the vote taken
purporting to endorse it was merely a
straw ballot. If the city attorney had
given this opinion at the time the fake
ordinance was up the bunco game
would have been balked, but holding
his office as a democrat, be must have
thought Jerty loyalty called on him to
keep still. The mly question Is, bow
many 'times the people will permit
t
themselves to be fooled by the same
bunch, of democratic bunco steerers?
Oilder and Laffan.
In leveling Its shafts, death has in
one day singled out two shining marks,
men 'of similar walks of life, In Rich
ard Watson Glider and William M.
Laffan.
Mr. Gilder was the chief genius of a
family of geniuses, and came to be
universally known as an editor and as
a poet. His life and his letters dealt
with great thoughts and lofty alms,
and although he could in no sense be
considered a popular poet, writing for
the masses as did Longfellow, never
theless his name will live in song,
sounding the clear, high notes. Not
only was he a good editor and good
poet; he was also a good citizen, and
his works In the causes of benefaction
and good government will live after
him.
Mr. Laffan was best known as pub
lisher of the New York Sun, which he
had for many years conducted as' a
fearless free lance in the cause of civ
ilization. In addition he took impor
tant part in the directorate of Harper
& Brothers, and be was an authority
on fine arts, architecture and ceramics.
Both Mr. Glider and Mr. Laffan gave
to literature lasting products from
their pens, and neither was too busy
enacting the part of the scholar to take
a large personal share in the practical
duties of citizenship making for a
greater and a nobler country. Theirs
It was to demonstrate that One schol
arship did not need to stoop to con
quer In sharing with humbler human
ity the grind of the mills toward the
general uplift.
Railroad Supervision.
The spirit of hostility manifested be
tween state and Interstate commis
sions gives proof to the public, if any
proof were needed, of the justice of
the president's assertion that further
railway regulating legislation Is .called
for.
With legitimate state rights of any
sort there should, of course, be no fed
eral interference, nor is there evident
any Intention on the part of Interstate
commission or the president to ask for
congressional action that shall restrict
the powers of the state commissioners.
It Is manifestly unfair, however, for
federal Inspectors to be hampered in
their work by the exercise of the pre
rogatives of state officials, and con
gress will be expected to enact such
legislation as shall free the interstate
commission from such strife.
It should always be remembered
that state and nation are working to
the same end, and they should un
doubtedly work iu the utmost har
mony. State authority may be main
tained without interfering with the op
eration of the interstate board in any
state for the good of the country at
large, and the national board should be
able so to adjust itself that it may ac
complish its purposes without denial
of any local privileges. 'It is a delicate
problem, but it devolves upon congress
to make an early attempt to remove
existing restrictions which are at the
root of the present clash 'of state and
Interstate nuthnritv.
What the ah-wlae book suys about
returning good for evil Is strikingly
exemplified In the contempt case of Ig
Dunn, in which William J. Connell has
gone to the front to rescue the dis
barred attorney from his plight. For
years Mr. Dunn has been most virulent
and vicious in his fulminatlon against
Mr. Connell, presumably because he
was once city attorney during the may
oralty, of Frank E. Moores, and since
then has been the regularly retained
attorney for The Bee. The personal
affronts by Mr. Dunn, however, did not
prevent him from seeking Mr. Con
nell's assistance nor prevent Mr. Con
nell from responding to the appeal. It
remains to be seen whether this gen
erosity will soften Ig's asperity and
prevent him in the future from de
nouncing as a liar and a rogue every
one who happens to disagree with him.
The observing layman may wonder
if there Is not some truth in the Bos
ton physician's claim that the matter
of operating for appendicitis Is over
done. Since the memorable case of
Elliott F. Shepard, whose death first
called public attention to this malady,
there have been enough other distin
guished victims to make it a cause of
remark. Recent in the list is Clyde
Fitch, and now another ' Important
New York publisher, William M. Laf
fan, has succumbed. The wonderful
progress of surgery has not yet out
grown the stage of an occasional re
port, "Operation successful, but pa
tient dead."
The sale of the Gould Interests in
the Western Union are taken in some
quarters to mean that the Goulds will
devote all their attention to the devel
opment of the Gould railroads iu the
middle west. Omaha Is on both the
Wabash and Missouri Pacific and
therefore should share In the upbuild
ing of these lines, which are conceded
to offer much room for improvement.
A vear ago Comruls&loner Brunlng
gave as his excuse for tying up with
the democrats his persouai differences
with late County Commissioner M.
J. Kennard. If Mr. Bruning ties up
with the democrats again this year It
will be because he prefers to work
In with democrats who did their best
to defeat him rather than with repub
llcana who elected him.
Omaha banks show substantial
gains in the reports made in answer to
the comptroller's call. If the banks
are in stronger condition, so must also
be the business Institutions who
transaction they reflect
In Other Lands
The Impending- Folltloal Crisis la
(treat Britain, tha Antagonised Bud
get Taxation ana Alternative Polloy.
A political crisis of International Internet
la approaching In Qrrat Britain. The de
termination of the House ef Lords to re
ject the budget aa aoon aa the formalities
of debate are gone through with Is Indi
cated by the motion of Lord Landsdowne,
on which discussion begins next Monday.
Lord Landsdowne is the recognised leader
of the forcea opposed to the program of
the liberal ministry, not only the present
revenue measuio, but every distinctive
party measure passed by the Huse of
Commons since tlte liberals came Into
power. Hla motion for rejection is pressed
to a vote, will bring to Its support an
overwhelming majority of the peers and
force an appeal to tha country for which
the Tories have been striving for two years.
There are 620 members In the House of
Lords. Four-fifths of them are Tories by
Inheritance. The Lloyd-George budget
drove into the ranks of the opposition sev
eral liberal peers, among them Lord Rose
bcry and Lord Iveagh, the former an ex
tensive land owner and tho latter a titled
brewer, representing the two Interesta most
serlausly affected by the taxing features
of the bill. There Is left but a handful
of liberal peers, estimated at forty, to
battle for tha bill. Scarcely fifty of the
entire membership participate regularly In
legislation, and only on occasions such aa
the present when their income and their
privileges are menaced do they concern
themselves with legislative affairs. Under
the leadership of Lord Landndowne no dif
ficulty will be experienced in rallying the
idla peera and overwhelming the feeble
liberal minority.
The anticipated action of the lords in
rejecting tha budget overthrows a custom
sanctioned by the usage of almost fifty
years. Not since 1800 has the lords
antagonized a finance bill sent up from the
House of Commons. In that year, in order
to Snake good the loss of revenue due te
tha repeal of the paper duty, the com
mons sent to the lords two bills, one in
creasing the property tax and another
stamp duties. These were preliminary to
tha abolition of the paper duty, and the
whole scheme waa expressed In three
separata bills. The lords concurred In
both Increases, and then rejected tha bill
abolishing tha papsr duty. Immediately
there was a constitutional crisis. The
commons contended that the lords had
by violating the "constitutional usag"
of more than two centuries,, encroached
upon tha commons' prerogative. The lords
retorted that so far from killing a supply
bill, they had rejected ona which diminished
tho revenue of tho crown and pointed to
two unchallenged instances of vetoing ad
ministrative measures In which revenue
raising waa an Incident, as their Justifica
tion. Thay denied emphatically that they
had Interfered with the budget. The com
mons, however, remained obdurate, and
finally adopted, at the suggestion ef Lord
Palmerston, a series of resolutions tha gist
of which Is that the peers are not te sit In
revision of the financial calculations ef tho
lower house made In carrying out Its con
stitutional power of providing for tho sup
port ef the government. For forty-nlna
years tha "platform" of the commons
adopted In 1860 has been tha unquestlaned
"last word" on tho subject.
m
The increased taxes provided for In the
budget are designed to meet an anticipated
deficit roughly estimated at JS0.tVi0.00n. Tha
estimated expenditures of the government
for 1909-10 are placed at $2O.75O.0OO. The
revenue en last year's basis of taxation
was calculated to reach only $741.?Wi,000. A
portion of tho deficit Is to be met by re
ducing tha sums appropriated to tho sink
ing fund by tl,OOO,O0O. leaving only about
166.000.000 to bo raised by taxation. The
additional revenue Is required for the old
age pensions, $46,000,000. and for Increased
raval outlay of from $15,000,000 to $20,000,000.
Various increases' In existing taxes and
duties are mnde, chiefly on liquor and
liquor licenses, tobacco and inheritances.
Income taxes are Increased from 28 to IS
cents on each $5 and a super tax of 12
cents on each $5 on Incomes over $.000
a year. These increases strike the well-to-do
In a tender spot, as the chancellor of
the exchequer planned that wealth should
contribute the bulk of the deficit. The
greatest source of Irritation to the lords
and landlords, however. Is tho tax en un
earned Increment, amounting to 20 per cent
of thf Increase In tho value of land. To
tho land owners this taxing innovation is
denounced as "socialistic" and "revolu
tionary." "You will understand," said George I'alsh
of the London Statist, In recent lecture
at Columbia university, "that tha Incre
ment duty of 20 per cent la a matter of the
future only. Land la to be valued at tht.
present time and the tax Is to be placed
upon tho future Increment In tha vulue,
dating from tho time at which tho valua
tion Is made. How much this tax will yield
in the future it Is difficult to estimate
Rut bavin regard to the enormous ad
vance In the value of urban land In the
past and the probable further great In
crease In tho future, the tax should ulti
mately be a productive one. We have In
our country a population of only 45,000.000.
which is growing at the rate of about 1
per cent per annum, or 450.000 a year. Our
wealth Is doubling about every thirty-three
years and the value of land seems to rise
Just about In proportion to the growth of
wealth, 'that Is to say, as we grow richer
wo can afford to pay a higher price for
the land. Hitherto the unearned Increment
from land has entirely esenped taxation.
Not infrequently It happens that the land
Is left at very low rentals for a period of
years in expectation of a great Increase in
rental at a subsequent date and the In
come thus derivad by its possessor conse
quently escapes the Income tax, which la
imposed only upon the Incomes actually
received from year to year regardless of
the Increment in tho capital value."
All parties concede the necessity of dio-
vlillng more revenue. Old age pensions
have come to Ftay. The naval program
of four dreadnoughts a year has been
increased to eight under the spur of Ger
man activity. Both policies call for money
and lots of it. How is It to be raised?
The liberal party policy as embodied In
tue budget is direct taxation of wealth.
The Tory alternative la indirect taxation
embodied In the Chamberlain plan of "tai If
refi.rm." Tariff reform in Kngland differs
radically from the common understand
ing of the term in the United States.
Here it implies reduction of duties on im
port. In ICngland It means a tax on Im
ports now duty free. None of the leaders
of the Tory pulley has yet detailed v. hat
Imports are to be taxed. Former Premier
Balfour Insiste that tariff reform doea not
mean an Increase In tha cost of the neces
carles. Lord Miluer. champions It on pro
tective ground, asertlng that "tha for
eigner will pay the tax." In a vague way
the TorUa plan to devise customs duties
huh will protect tha homsnvaiket and
not raits tha price of Imports should
they coirje In. Carolyn Bellalr. a aeced
itig liberal and advocate of tariff reform,
defines 1 as "a low tariff on foreign
goods, framed to the best of tho govern
in nt's afcrity to secure reduclitna In
I he tun."f i'f other cnuntrles h hlch press
T.;V.
so heavily on British commerce." It is
too early yet for clearness of statement re
garding the new policy. An authoritative
definition must wait on this party mani
festo te tha electors, should the Issues
now joined be submitted to a vote of tho
people.
The fierceness of the coming struggle
between entrenched power and privilege
and the masses may be Inferred from
Premier Asquith reply to Lord Roseberry,
delivered In Birmingham several weeks
ago. "Is this issue going to be raised?"
referring to the threat of vetoing the
budget "If It Is. It will carry with It
consequences which he would be a bold
man to forecast That way revolution
ties, and If It Is going to bo seriously
threatened, Involving, as I venture to
predict It will, issues far wider and far
deeper than the mora right ef tho House
ef Lords to meddle with finance, I say
that the liberal party Is not only ready
but anxious te take up tho challenge."
THEIR WAYS AND Ol'RS.
Jadlelal Practices Abroad and Their
Like at Home.
New York Sun.
The disinterested condemnation directed
from America against the processes and
practlsea of the French courts must bring
tho flush ef pride to every patriot cheek.
The examination of tho prisoner provided
for In tho Code Napoleon la properly de
nounced. The wrongs done to the ac
cused are fittingly celebrated. The hideous
possibilities concealed In these legal pro
visions for compelling confession are ap
propriately set forth. There is no doubt
that Judge Valles would mend his ways
were It necessary for him to appeal to the
electors ef Now York for retention in
office.
So from the contemplation of this abom
inable spectacle of public Inquisition and
tha admirable anger It has produced among
the foremost protectors of human rights we
turn In relief to the study ef our own
gentle and wholly praiseworthy Institutions.
The highly Ingenious misuse of the grand
jury's summons, which calls a suspect be
fore an assistant district attorney, pro
claims our superiority to the despised
French. The magnificent "third degree" of
eur police masters with Its edifying trick of
keeping prisoners without sleep for hours
on end, its reBort to mental if not physi
cal torture, Its bland acceptance of "volun
tary" confession, all appeal Irresistibly to
us. We know that they must be the finest
flower of human civilization, else their
existence would not bo tolerated for a
moment In th's country. Were they even
In the slightest degree questionable they
could not survive for an Instant In a com
munity in which the Bufferings of a pris
oner In a foreign land can stir to Indignant
expression so generous a sentiment of hor
ror and disgust
Words Pointing; One Way.
Kan Francisco Chronicle.
There are many way a of getting around
the shorter and uglier word In Parlia
ment but Mr. Balfour made a short cut
the other day when he described the
statement of a Scotch member as "a frigid,
calculated lie." Disraeli waa more cautious
and never went further than to describe
a man of questionable verity aa "con
spicuously Inexact" The Balfour method
came rather perllouxly near the edge and
was a reminder of Horace Greeley's fa
mous remark that his opponent In debate
"lied openly, knowingly and with naked
intent to deceive" a grouping of words
which did not leave much to the Imagina
tion. Warning; to Officials.
Philadelphia Record.
Sentences of sixty and ninety days on
Sheriff Shipp and his associates for par
ticipation in the lynching of a negro to
whom the supreme court had granted a
supersedeas will not stop lynching, but
will make an Impression upon the mln-'s
of sheriffs and other persons In authority.
When the supreme court decides te review
the trial ef a man It Is a dangerous busi
ness for a mob, official or unofficial, to
break into a Jail and assassinate him.
Backing; the Klark Clear.
' New York Tribune.
Some American cigar dealers object to
the government stamp on Philippine cigars
certifying that they actually came from
tha Philippines and were manufactured of
tobacco of the grade standard for the
brand and under sanitary conditions as an
undue discrimination against tha Cuban,
Porto Rlcan and domestic product la
that a confession that other cigars are
not up to the same' standard In quality
and conditions of manufacture?
Oar I'rmluctl vr I'oau bil: t lr.
Wall Street Journal.
rea rt and swamp lands to be reclaimed
by the government's project of Irrigation,
according to President Taft, will ult mately
yitld riir.re than the lands now under tillage,
while President Brown of the New York
dntral clalma tha average product per
acre of the nation's farma can ba doubled.
Evidently the (Initiations of our produc
tive possibilities can only be measured hy
our supply of agricultural labor, ambition
and Intelligence.
"Got There Jua the Same."
New York World.
Mherirf Hhlpp of Memphis sympathized
with the mob that hanged his prisoner be
cause he didn't want to see the negro'a
case delayed "four or five years'' in fed
eral courts. Those courts are not so slow
after all. He got Into Jail for contempt
in less time.
The Test of Greatness.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Mr. Tsfl will prove himself a man ut
wonderful resource fulnets and Versatility
If, after all he has said in tha last fow
weeks, he can find anything nw to Insert
In his massage to congress
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Hence Finer, More Wholesome Food
POLITICAL DRIFT.
Only sixteen days to congress.
Cleveland paid Tom Johnson $.0o0 a year
for his troubles. Mayor Baehr will get
$10,000 and no trouble at all.
A prohibition candidate for the legisla
ture In Maryland swears he spent 4 cents
for campaign necessaries. The boodle
equaled his run.
Fountain L. Thompson, the newly ap
pointed United States senator for North
Dakota, will hold office until the legisla
ture assembles In 1911. He Is rated as a
"progressive democrat."
One of the rural candidates for the as
sembly in New York reports his campaign
expenses at $6.80, and Justifies the extrava
gance by saying, "I don't see how I could
have been beaten for less."
The experience of being beaten In the
race for the Massachusetts lieutenant gov
ernorship this year Cost Eugme N. Fos,
$11,767; the democratic stale committee got
$21,00$ of it, and about $15,000 went for po
litical advertising in the newspapers. Gov
ernor Draper's re-election cost him $3 3C0.
Democratic sentiment now veering to
ward Governor Harmon of Ohio as an avail
able man to head the presidential ticket in
1912, would, If It becomes a reality, make
a unique contest. Two candidatea from
Ohio would make the Buckeye state a lively
battlefield and incidentally prove the un
surpassed reach of the Buckeyes for the
pie and the counter.
Fer the second time In Its history San
Francisco has a mayor elected on the union
labor ticket, but for the first time the chief
executive of the city Is a genuine leader
of labor, a worklngman who has risen by
the force of his own ability from the ranks
of the tollers. P. H. McCarthy, mayor
elect, la a carpenter, and for nearly thirty
years he has been an active and aggressive
leader of labor.
INAPPROPRIATE SIMILES.
Far-Fetched Political Spook Ma
terialised. Boston Olobe.
Napoleon and Roosevelt, as subjects from
which to point a moral or adorn a tale,
are sadly over-worked. Especially Is this
true when brilliant pens write of Roose
velt's' possible return from Elba a political
spook materialized for the purpose of
frightening Mr. Taft. 1
Mr. Roosevelt's retirement from the pres
idency Is so recent that It seems a pity
some persons must be reminded that In tha
biography of that distinguished hunter of
predatory thlnHS, both tame and wild, there
is no auch word aa "Elba."
In the career of the great Corslcan. Elba
followed a disastrous defeat The restless
spirit, which Europe was hardly big enoug.i
te contain, was cabined by his vanquishers
on a small Island In thn Mediterranean.
Although surrounded by some of the In
signia of state and permitted to have a
little army. Napoleon's Elba kingdom was
la fact a prison cell. And as the oat came
back so did he to Franco, for a hundred
daya. Then another Island Jail for him;
this time St. Helena, which became at last
his tomb.
As for Theodore Roosevelt, he was not
defeated. When he left the White House
he left It freely. Had ho desired to atay
another four years the people would have
assented. And, furthermore, they took as
his sucoessor the very man he asked them
to take.
Nor la he In exile. Though his present
address Is somewhere In the tropics and
In the same latitude as ft. Helena, he has
not yet been banished from the affections
of his countrymen. And when he returns
to his native land It will not be for a
hundred daya, we trust, but for manj
years.
t'oatlnsoai House Warmlna.
St Louis Olobe-Democrat.
On his trip through the west and south
President Taft Invited the people to pay
him a reciprocal visit to Washington. The
new addition tothe White House will come
in handy this winter.
Boys sumdl
Sinnisilia IVIsim
We have fifty Bints, in sizos .'52 to 35 chest,
that wc have left from last season, that we must sell.
Those suits come in plain blacks and blues and
in fancy mixtures, both single and double breasted
styles. They sold for $15.00 and $18.00, and for
Saturday you can take your choice for
$8o50
These suits are on sale in our Young Men's
lU-partment, on 2d floor.
See Douglas street case for display.
BrowninalCing & Cq
bTk7
CLOTHINQ,
ff FIFTEENTH
R. S. WILCOa, Manager. -
The
healthful properties
of Grapes
conveyed to food by
SMILING REMARKS.
Friend So your detective force Is a fail
ure? Chief Emma-"-Yea; we can't find any en
who Is willing to be a plain clothea woman.
Puck.
Tha prisoner had no friends.
Ills attorney, appointed by the oourt to
defend him, advised him to plead guilty.
The Judge yawned and looked at hla
watch.
"They're tryln to avltate me to the pen
itentiary!" groaned the wretched victim
Chicago Tribune.
"The foreigner we are entertaining thinks
we have queer ways of expressing our
selves." "How is that?"
"lie heard several men discussing the
transportation question the other day and
he asked me how they could ever land
Improved waterways." Baltimore Amer
ican. "So you went into the country te get
'atmosphere?' How did you like It T"
"Disappointed. Couldn't find a farmer
who had a horse named Dobbin, and never
heard one ef them say 'by hook!" "Phila
delphia Record.
"Senator." said the Interviewer, "It is
rumored that you Intend to retire from
politics."
"Well, well," replied the senator, "It's
queer how rumors ..art. I suppose this
one grew out of the fact that I attended
church with my wife last Sunday Cath
olio Standard and Times.
'You needn't think you can deceive me,
young man," said the financial and social
magnate. "I have an especial aptitude for
taking people's measure."
"I suppose," answered the young man
he sought to snub, "that Is because your
grandfather bean life aa an Itinerant
taller." Baltimore American.
The Pesslmlst-We'il pay for all this fine
weather later on.
The Optimist Well, cheer up! That's the
regular time for paying for things. Isn't
It? Puck.
"When I got home yesterday I found
that my wife had gone home to her
mother."
"You did, What did you dor'
"Oh. I Just hurried over there and had
a good meal, too." Cleveland Leader.
"You can't iret something for nothing
"Oh, I don't know," replied the boy
"How about the toothache?" Detroit Free
Press.
Her Do you believe that a word tn the
wise Is sufficient?
Him Well. It denenda on the word Chi
cago News.
The saccharine mairnate smiled & Ana
In high good humor.
Just heard a funny thing." he ramarkcwl
to a visitor. "The government threatens
to demand back the money we stole."
"That looka serious to ma."
"Haw, haw. Can't you see a Joke? Why.
we've spent the money." Philadelphia
Ledger.
"IT IS DONE, MR. DUNN.
. A. L. Bixby in Lincoln Journal.
It Is done, Mr. Dunn, and I speak net in
fun.
When I say that It fits like a garment:
The decree of the court for a crime of thai
sort.
Could be hardly lees fierce than disbar
ment. 'Twill be tough, sure enough, If the winter
la rough,
And the poor will find little enjoyment.
But I know if you go lii to win you can
show
Yourself strong In some other employ
ment. My belief is your grief came from writing
a brief.
Which fur you was exceedingly easy;
Not the same as its name might Imply.
for the shams
Was In making the darathlrur too
"breesy."
If some day you shall say. In no half
hearted way,
That you never will do It again, air.
Ah, mv aon, I for one, will regret. Mr.
Dunn,
This too hasty rebuke from my pen, sir.
On my word I have heard, though It may
be absurd, '
That, among alt the wise and tha witty,
Greater he. on the whole, with himself In
control
Than the one who subduea a great city.
Then, old man. If you can, here's the hint
of a plan ,
That will make all your enemlea dlzsy:
If you master yourself that la better than
pelf-
And light now Is the time to get busy.
FURNI3HINQ9 AND HATS,
aho DOUGLAS STREETS,
