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inniniunli'Htii.h relating to tie aryl
editorial matter should be addressed:
Onmha Uee, 1-lltoria.l Department.
JU-.Ml'll AN(JtM.
. lUmit by draft, expres or postal order
pa value. ti 'i tie Bee 1'utniNiiing Company,
only 2-cent a 'amps reoelved In payment of
mail account, Personal rliecka except on
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STATfcMKNT OK CIl'CLLATlOM.
iMate ol ibraHka, Liougiaa lounty, :
George B. iiscnuca. treasurer of 'Hie
I' 1'uullaiiing company, be ne duly awotn,
s that the actual number of full and
complete copies of The i-iaily. Morning,
keening anu Sunday Wee printed during
itie. month of bepleiuber, liO, WM aa toi-
lowa;
J 44,080
1 43,870
43,130
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1 44.4IMI
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'lreaaurer.
. .Subscribed In iny presence- aud awotn to
befoi me Una tuirlietii nay ot Sepiemoer.
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Notary i"uuiic.
Snbaeribrr Irnvlns the cltjr tem
pornrllr ahvl4 have Ik Be
.mulled lo . Ikeio. Addreaa will b
Register today.
' Kor the tentn time
Hitchcock put it back?
we ask, Will
Last chance to register today if you
want to vote this year.
1 Umaha doctors report the city as
painfully healthy just now. Too bad.
A tailors' strike is on in Chicago.
What a lovely excuse for renting a full
dress.
Yes, but Just think back to July 2 7,
wheu the thermometer . went, to . 104
above.
'"liOBs" Cox, they say, is going to
move to New York. He might as well
until the returns come in.
. Folks call these hobble skirts up-to-Jate,
and yet our plainsmen were hob
bling their bronchos decades ago.
To be unregistered is not a crime
under the law, but it is an offense
against good government, just the
same.
Our trade boosters used to be
known aa the "rain-makers," but this ;
time they seem to have turned rain
into snow.
The St. Louis Browns may not have
cut much ice in the pennant race, but
they figured big in that race for the
automobile.
Richmond claims a population of
"127,000 souls." Figuring on a soul
to each person. How is that? No
soul mates?
A Boston thief stole a peddler's
glass eye. Still he is not any meaner
tbau the one who stole a St. Louis
man's faUe teeth.
It is reported that Secretary Bal
linger has said that he would "do and
tell things If he were footloose." Get
off the man's foot, there.
Hetty Green's son has bought 15,
000 post cards. He wilj have to bor
row Jack Coomb's or Chief Bender's
arm to write on them all.
. 1 ; tolled for daily wages. From its ln-
"Cap." Palmer cannot forget that j teptiou it has been the distinct friend
hu was forcibly dislocated from a of labor. It first showed that frlend
$6,0U Job by and with the aid and ship by emancipating the American
content of Senator Burked. ! alave and destroying the institution
As soon as the supreme court de
cides whether a woman can recover
$70,000 from her husband for beating
her the game may proceed.
"French aviator killed'" one day.
"Italian aviator killed." next day. The
Americans seem to have the beet
stand-in with old Mr. Grim Reaper.
.Mr. Bryan has rented the Lincoln
Auditorium in which to mak a speech.
That is another extremity to which
the exigencies of practical politics
hav driven him since the dark days
of 1S9U.
Now that Wood row Wilson has re
signed as president of Princeton, what
wouid ho do, asks a contemporary,
should ho loso out for governor? Easy.
Writo a book about it, or take to the
chautauquas.
It ia also a safa guess that if tho
resignation of Hon. D. E. Thompson
a ambassador to Mexico had not been
roqutated and accepted tho Lincoln
Star would not now bo so liberally
ouotd ky douioc ratio organs.
Building' Up One Welt. I program In the next session. It is'
This movement of transporting pro-j ,n'rpfor(' necessary for It to have the
pie to the ' far new west" can have support of labor In order to give it the
nothing but the. bent influence upon j IpK Islstion it demands and Is entitled ;
the states of the Missouri valley. No'10- ' j
.i.rr, ,4 ho nrraiond aa to that.
If people want to buy land in the
states of the Rockies or Pacific roast,
they are going to do It and If they
want to go there to live they cannot
easily be prevented. And there are
ample opportunities to Justify them.
But the middle west has nothing to
fear, no matter how great this move
ment msy become. It is going tc
more than hold Its own and It Is going
to advance Just as rapidly as the coun
try further on and profit Instead of
lose by this tendency of migration.
Tho middle west needs greater outlet
for Its trade and commerce and the
multiplication of settlers and new
homes In the far west will help to
meet those needs. The middle west
also has markets that can handle
greater volume of products than they
are doing and the opening up of this
territory out west to cultivation will
tend to give us the additional produce
we are seeking.
So we find ready compensation In
this system. But beside that this
movement of people from the eastern
states toward the west Is going to re
sult In the upbuilding of the middle
west's population also It has been
doing It for fifty years and there is
no reason to suppose that it is going
to work any differently in the next
fifty. Where the family from Ohio
moves to Idaho or California, the
family from New York or Massachu
setts may move to Nebraska, Iowa or
Kansas. What we are interested in Is
getting people to move west. We
need not worry about what locations
they select. No state and no section
has yet or ever will have a monopoly
on the Influx. We are engaged in
building one country, a vast empire
of wealth out here In the west and
one part cannot be benefited without
the other parts deriving a reflex ad
vantage from it
Befriitration.
Today Is the last day for .regis
tration of voters for the coming elec
tion, and no voter who shall have
failed to appear personally before the
registrars of his voting- district and
have his name properly enrolled on
the registration books will be entitled
to receive a ballot at the polls.
The registration law is plain and
ignorance of the law does not excuse
failure to comply with tt. No regis
tration of previous years holds good,
but. on the contrary, this year's regis
tration books are altogether new and
complete in themselves. Registrars
will sit from 8 o'clock in the morning
until 9 o'clock at night in the respec
tive polling places of the various vot
ing districts. H devolves upon every
legal voter in Omaha and South
Omaha to see to It that this prelim
inary step to voting is taken.
The Bee has more than once called
attention to the cumbersome and bur
densome requirements of our Ne
braska registration law. The law
fmrl-it trt ha rhanppft art aa tn nermtt
4 , , ,. ,, . .
of a permanent registration list sub-;
, A . j .v t. ,
iect to Drotest. and thus make it un-
. . . , .
necessary for voters to re-register so
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long as they continue to reside) in the
, w . . . .
same place. V e hope the law will be
I . . , . . . i mose comiorts ana even luxuries they
! so amended by the coming legislature,!. . . '
, . . . , . . - , , . . ,
iuui ill lilt; imn vai iucic is umy uuc
t way to qualify to vote, and that is to
j register anew for every election.
Republican Labor Legislation
Laboring men in all clashes should
take a vital interest in the present
congressional campaign. Upon the
political complexion of the next con
gress they have much at stake. Leg
islation in their behalf is pending
which will not be completed if the
republicans lose control of either
house, for the best that could then be
hoped for would be a deadlock. Two
of the important issues, begun under
t thA Toft artmtnlatrflHnn that dm tr
be brought to fruition in the next
congress are further safety appliance
legislation and the definite fixing of
a basis for workmen'a compensation
in case of bodily injury.
The republican party came into ex
istence in response to a demand of
larger liberty for the masses and
greater opportunities for those who
which throttled free industrialism.
It
next abolished convict labor, a per
nicious system which partially grew
j out of Blavery. Sin0e then
it has
given further protection to American
labor by excluding the coolie from the
orient, doing away with slavery in the
Philippines and minimizing the dis
advantages of competition with cheap
labor of all foreign countries. Its
whole system of legislation and ad-
ministrative government has brought
about conditions In which the work -
man is better paid and better kept
and has better opportunities than the
,n. ,i
workmen of thia or any land ever en-
iyl-
In the last congress it did much for
labor in the enactment of a law estab-j ing the principle of know-nothlnglsui ' unU,r 1re"'denl Cleveland, was i.n uc
li.hlng a bureau of mine., guarantee-1 by denying foreign born citizens om-'i' Sl r
iug greater protection to life and bet
ter conditions to miners; the law re
quiring railroads and varied indus
tries to provide safety appliances; the
law provldiug more scientific systems
of boiler inspection; the employers'
liability act, the first step toward fix
ing workmen's compensation for in
juries and tuany others. The party is
committed to a completion of Ita labor
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Bi&hop Beecher.
Tne Hoe has waited 'for the official
announcement of the acceptance by
Dean Heecher of his promotion to be
Bishop of Kearney to extend to the
new bishop felicitations and congratu
lations. As dean of Trinity cathedral
he has In a few years made many
friends in Omaha and Impressed hip
personality on the community In nu
merous public movements for Its bet
terment. He has, moreover, as a rule, j Tho campaign fund publicity law
distinguished himself from many other j has been observed in both letter and
clergymen by uniformly manifesting ' spirit by tho republican state orRanl
sound common sense instead of vision- Uatlon, but as much cannot be said for
ary Impracticability. We hope that J the democratic campaign money col
as bishop he will enter larger fields i lectors. Just another ease where the
for -usefulness and meet with success democrats are long on preaching and
In all his undertakings. ; short on performance.
Smyth to the Bescue.
Former Attorney General Constan
tine J. Smyth volunteers an extremely
fine spun and Jesuitical defense of
Congressman Hitchcock for borrowing
state funds from a defaulting repub
lican state treasurer and refusing to
pay them back because the note out
lawed by the statute of limitations
whlln bis benefactor was In the peni
tentiary. Mr. Smyth had much to do with the
prosecutions and civil suits growing
out of the Hartley embezzlement and
he was much better for the prosecu
tion than he is now for the defense.
Mr. Smyth knows now, if he did not
know then, why Mr. Hitchcock's
World-Herald tried at every turn to
block his efforts to put Bartley In the
penitentiary and to recover the stolen
money for the state.
Mr. Smyth knows now, If he did not
know then, that all those Bartley edi
torials in the World-Herald were in
spired by the borrowed state funds In
Mr. Hitchcock's pocket.
Mr. Smyth knows now, if he did not
know then, that those democratic
apologies for the republican embezzler
were as much of a sell-out as was the
espousal by Mr. Hitchcock and his
World-Herald, about the same time, of
the republican A. P. A.'s, secretly
sworn to put all Roman Catholics out
of office.
Mr. Smyth knows now, if he did not
know then, where some more of the
stolen money is, and if he were still
attorney general he would doubtless
institute suit to make Mr. Hitchcock
put it back.
Luxury and Life.
Dr. Mary Noble, the missionary
from India, speaks of "an appalling
sense of luxury'.' which impressed her
as she arrived in the United States
from the orient. She felt it, she says,
when she stepped on an American! - - - -
steamship In England and when she! overlooked in the Roak.
entered a Pullman car at New York I Washington Herald.
, . . . . ,, , . Curious as It may seem, there are really
and she has observed it all along thetwo or thrM) ..tminen lawyeril )n th
line of life in the United States and country who have escaped being- named
comments rather chidingly upon It. possibilities for supreme court justices.
What -Dr
Noble is reproving us
ifor. of course, is the element of need-'
, , ' , , i
less luxury, the lack of economy in i
' I
our living. She certainly would not
. . . ,
wish her people to restrict their lines
. ... . . , , ,
of life to the limit of doing without
A. . . s
" - v . u wj ""'ft' live auu lull KUU
which form the essential groundwork
of modern life today. We in America
undoubtedly live better than do the
i people in India, or any of the oriental
countries and, of course, the contrast
must be striking to one Just coming
from those lands. But our present '
BlanaaroB of living are tne logical re-
Suits of a constant progress that be-
gan when the foundations of this re
public were laid, and. while there may
be ample room for economy and fru
gality, there Is no such thing as retro
gression; we are not going back to
the standards which our ancestors
lived by. They would no more meet
our demands than our ways would
have suited our fathers. Of course.
Dr. Noble does not propose anything
of this sort. She only believes that
we go in too much for luxury when
we might be putting the money spent
for that into missions.
While we are putting vast sums
Into luxuries every year, we are like
wise putting vast sums Into missions,
more vast than ever before and we
are doing it on a systematic basis that
ia bringing wonderful results
The
fact is the American people are ope-
.
i aim cuwitij uu a vast system to
day. It is not so much a matter of
readjusting ourselves to lesser and
former conditions, as it is to adjust
ourselves to larger and new customs
so nicely that we can observe them,
can enjoy their luxuries and at the
same time practice decent economy.
Through his great newspaper he t.Mr
liltrncock) dedicated his fortune to the i
defense of the rights of the many agalnht !
the claims ef ih iirivii.,rri .....
tine J. Smyth.
; Of course. He and his newspaper October oa. laio.
proved it, too, when they at the crucial John Keats, the celebrated English P'wt.
: moment oined with those who were''"8 born 0eloU,'r ,n London '"i
. . . . . idled In liume In at the early age of
j banded together in a secret oath-bound . but nol untll nud niadc nU ,.Mt.
'society with the purpose of proscrlb-j ing name as a pout.
ing every Roman Catholic and apply-i T,1ornaa F. Bayard, secretary of tute
clal participation In their own govern -
nient.
i
Yea. Vehraaka will hava nnlv . ,t
,. m , '
the first batch of postals saiug banks
established by the government. If
the democrats had bad their way in
congress we would not Lave any. Pos
tal savings. like rural free delivery. I
has to have a start. The first rural
free delivery route In Nebraska hasj
been followed, up by hundreds of oth-
rrs, until every fsrin house In thei
state receives msll every day ss a con- j
sequence of beneficent republican leg-j
ilslstlon and administration.
Remember that the democrat ic
ticket is the corporation-brewery
ticket and that the brewers and priv
ileged corporations are pouring In the
money for the democratic candidates
from the top to tho bottom of the
ticket. They absolutely controlled
the democratic state convention and
fixed things up to suit themselves, and
they are standing by their creatures.
And now it's a "yellow dog" speech
that Senator Cummrns makes all be
cause he advises republicans to re
elect Senator Btirkett. If Mr. Hitch
cock's newspaper had only had a pre
monition of this It would never have
thrown all those bouquets at Senator
Cummins.
Now that Mr. Hitchcock has ad
mitted taking from Hartley money that
belonged to the state and refusing to
pay it back, one may get a glimpse of
his reason for protesting so vehe
mently against Andrew Carnegie giv
ing his money to the State university.!
Charleston, 8. C, will have a league
ball team next year if the News and
Courier can brin'i it about. It well
says the city needs one. Every up-to-date
city does these days, and we
hope the News and Courier will suc
ceed in its undertaking.
As usual, some of the laggard pav
ing contractors are being nipped by
cold weather. Every paving Job in
Omaha could be completed before the
first of October if started not later
than Jily and kept under headway
until finished.
Omaha has made good progress dur
ing the last five years in spite of Being
handicapped with a cowboy mayor,
and tt will continue to go forward
even if Mayor "Jim" Is not trans
ferred to the governor's office in the
state house.
"Prof. Woodruffs denunciation of
Colonel Roosevelt Indicates a desire to
get into the Chancellor Day class of
educators," says the Pioneer Press.
Yes, or some class.
The local bossed prevailed on the
democratic nominee for congress to .go
to the front for the voting machine
combine. Why make him the goat?
Same Old Condition.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
"UnreHt," says Senator Bourne of Oregon,
In a magazine article, "exists today through
tho civilized world." It might be added
thut the condition has existed throughout
the history of the world.
A Long; Kelt Waal.
Philadelphia Preos.
The whole country and every businesn in
it, suffers from the lack of a cheap parcels
post, except the express business, and this
hlKhly profitable traffic ought not longer
to hold up a neceaaary public poatal re
form. llnRKlnar the Crowd Line,
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
as tar as population l concj-ned C anada
! ,s cn,efl" a narrow belt of territory along
the northern boundary of the I'nlted
States. Our Lady of th Bnows hearken
to the call of the busy crowd rather than
that of the wilderness.
Regeneration of Deadwood.
Washington Star.
Kerm Is marching on. At laat Dead
wood haa been reached. No more gam
bling there. No more all-night saloons.
Warning has been given that the law will
be vtrictly enforced. No wonder the Amer
ican "sports" ore trying to arrange for bus
iness in both Mexico and Cuba. The "wild
and woolly west" han passed. In that busy
and progressive section now tha men In
control are regulating affairs by a stundard
milted to the new times and the bright
prospect.". Htmlness before pleasure, and
ploavuie no longer a carouse.
IrOta of Money for l.nxaries.
Springfield Iiepubllcan.
The activities of the New York custom
officials In watching amateur Importers of
precious stones does not appr-ar to be ad-
verMely a,fectln ,h" -rious business, and
I the Maiden line dealers claim that the
figures for the entire year wilt record
breakers. Already over $.C,0u0,0uu worth of
stones have come In. and It is thought
that the next two months w Jl bring the
annual total to $40,000,00". American Im
porter recently back from Kurope say
that they had difficulty In procuring fine
gems, ax the London syndicate was letting
but few get Into the market. There must
be. plenty of money available for luxuries.
Our Birthday Book
1 bfor going into th cabinet.
j Frederick N. Inne. musician and- bund-
' master, la 62 year old. He was born In
' London. Inne and hi hand have been
I favorite In Omaha. nd made a special hit
, at our Tran.MiisiPpi exposition.
John Y. Hill, former gmtrnor of Milne
and now acting chairman of the republican
national committee, is .S. He waa born In
Klllot. M , and has been successful In the
lumber business and In publications known
a the Vlrkary A Hill list.
In Other Lands
Rid Lights oa Whit l Tran.
plrlag Among th Kar aad
rax station of th Barth.
In psce as in war, the loncrst purse
pulls down the pennant. Turkey has been
obliged to accept the t.-rms originally
demanded by the Ottoman bank f Paris,
bscktd by the French government, for
placing the loan of :.W.tW. llrmn
bankers, realising the Importance of get
ting a financial hook on the Turkish gov
ernment, endeavored to handle the loan,
but the best they could do was an install
ment plan of payment, which method
would not relieve the urgent needs of the
Turkish treasury. The French terms re
quire the money shall be disbursed for the
purposes for which the loan was negoti
ated. A Frenchman Is to head the newly
created office of Turkish auditor, who I
will supervise the disbursement, and In
a Kenernl way protect the Interests of
French nioney lenders, who now hold about
f per cent of the foreign Indebtedness
of the Ottoman empire. Hy means of the
latest financial hook on the crescent,
France checks the Austro-Uerman Invasion
In the southeast, and vetoes further dis
bursements for discarded Uerman warships.
I'nder tho persuasive spell of the French
auditor of Turkey, It Is reasonably certain
that future disbursements for Turkish mili
tary and naval equipment will move on
rubber-tired wheel to French foundries
and mutiuy.ine.-i.
In a recent speech before the Scottish
Conservative club, Mr. Halfour displayed
In fine form hi atistlc skill as a poktlcal
fence rider. The question he discussed
was the payment of member of Parlia
ment, u question forced to the front by
tho Osbomnt decision, rendered some time
Bgo, forbidding the employment of trade
union funds for payment of members of
the House of Commons. The leader of
the conservative party made it perfectly
plain that he was opposed to the Innova
tion, but members of the party were at
liberty to act as they pleased on the ques
tion. He would not favor reversing the
Osbourne decision, yet II would grieve him
very much to see labor representation
forced out of Parliament for want of funds
to pay their nay. To his mind payment
of salaries would be a deplorable solution
of tho question, but would not venture an
alternative remedy. The salary plan, how
ever, seems certain of adoption. Practi
cally all the liberal party papers favor It,
and more than halt the leading opposition
papers. Kven the rejuvenated Iondon
Times, commending the movement saya:
"It Is a mockery to pretend that the pay
ment of members throws the field equally
open to all classes."
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The loss of his throne Imposes on the late
King Manuel of Portugal, a task even
more perplexing than ruling an Insurgent
people. Royal etiquette forbids him seek
ing relaxation or recreation in any kind of
a Job. He cannot start a weekly paper
In which he could air his grievances and
remind the "dear people" that he stood
ready to serve them at the tap of the
bell. He cannot lend his name to any
enterprise for a handsome salary, and Is
so hedged by royal union rules that a joy
ride on the Chautauqua circuits would
forfeit his membership. Promoting an
Ananias club would he highly Improper,
and pleading the statute of limitations
an unforgivable offense. The only pcr-
mlssable Job for the young man Is to pose
as a country gentleman and look aa pleas
ant aa he can while his money lasts.
A succession of disaster has not chilled
th ardor of the Zeppelin airship passenger
line in Germany. Business is to be resumed
at Uusseldorf early In November. Alt the
novel features of the earlier Zeppelin air
craft ar embodied in the "Deutschland,"
now nearing completion. Luxurious cabin
accommodation will be provided for eigh
teen peaple and meals will be served
aboard the airship. During the alrBhip ser
vice of the "L,. Z. tt." the predecessor of the
"Peutschland," thirty-six actual air voy
ages wore made on eighteen out of twenty
days, or an average of nearly two trips a
day under all weather conditions. The dis
tance covered in nil was 1,830 miles, or an
average of nearly 175 mile a day. The en
tire distance of l.fcsn miles was traversed In
sixty-five hours, or at an average of twenty-nine
miles an hour. In eighteen days
the passage money amounted to over S15.0C0.
which yielded a profit despite the unusual
expenses of the new venture, so that the
air line paid from the start.
The constitution of the Australian com
monwealth ia not. ten year old, yet a move
ment to amend it in the direction of federal
centralization la now under way. The
labor party, which haa gained full control
of the federal government, la the respon
sible agency In the turn of affair. As It
now stands, the constitution follow the
American model In defining the subjects
with which the federal Parliament may
deal and In leaving the residue to the state
Parliaments. Koclal legislation passed by
the labor party haa been gt aside by the
courts as unconstitutional because tt wait
not within the power" of the federal Parlia
ment to enact It. The present labor minis
try, consequently, proposes to change the
constitution and to that end has Introduced
a measure which. If finally adopted by the
people tn a leferendum, will give to the cen
tral government full legislative control over
tiade, commerce, corporations, industrial
disputes, employment, wages, trusts and
monopolies.
Tht rapid growth of public feeling In
England ;lnst the continuance of the
Indo-Chinese opium traffic especially now
that China Is muking strenuous efforts to
free hereelf from the domination of the
drug la shown tn the influential appeal
that has Just been sent to all churches and
ChriMlan communities In the Uritlsh em
pire. This appeal proposes that each con
greaa Ion, of whatever denomination, shall
address the government, urging that China
be fonnrlly released from the treaty obliga
tion to admit opium into her territory,
and that the connection of the Indian gov
ernment wlih the opium traffic be brought
to an end. It alt-o recommends that every
minister, of whatever persuasion, shall
preach, on an apinted date, a sermon et
tlnK forth the whole painful story of (ireat
riritain's opium connections with China,
and of the efforts which China is making,
at gTeat icuiiary loss, to free heitelf
from the opium curse.
Kruiu I'oll tics to Hnslnraa.
Philadelphia Press.
The New York, New Haen & Hartford
railrond has managed In the last two years
to add only IHti.oOO to lis operating ex
penses and to Increase its gross earnings
by 17.M;! o0. It h.t cut down the cost of
conducting transportation from ij per cent
to per cent of Its gross earnings. It has
earned a surplus over its K per cent divi
dend. President Mellon, who has ac
tompl shed these nsuli, has had the ad
ditional wisdom of announcing that his
lead, which has Just secured control of
the Boston Mslne. will keep riiior'iusly
out of politics, securing the legislation 't
wants by rmnlnn its rosd so w-ll that
lex slatures will rare to irive additional ad
vantages because It Is ilain that :hey are
a-nlng to aid the public. This Is tlie wise
rullroad policy to which all curpoiations
must corn.
POLITICAL DRIFT.
There Is no such word s apology tn Mr
Hoosexelt's lexicon.
Those who refer to the piece, dings a "a
whirlwind campaign," hit the buU'-ee at
the first shot.
Franc' K. Alcihuern. bachelor candidate
for governor on the republican ticket In
Wisconsin, pledges h'mselt to marry If
elected.
A sure way of calculat ng the number
of brain storms In New Yolk Is to rottnt
the speeches made by Theodore Roosevelt.
Every speech starts a storm.
In the opinion of the Wisconsin supreme
court a vote cast for a dead man Is a
blank. Fortunately the dead ona won't
see the point until election night.
The fsct that s Cornell collece professor
proposed a candidate for membership In
the Ananias club strengthens the suspicion
that the New York campaign Is wide open.
Thomas W. Lawson breaks Into print
with the remark that he has 1M to hot
on the election of the democratic candidate
for governor of Massachusetts. He man
aged to hedge when asked to split the pile.
The uncommon vigor of the New Jersey
campaign thin year Is explained bv the
fact that tli new governor will have the
appointment of about M0 officials, with
salaries ranging from 11.000 to $10,000 a
year. Fight of the Jobs are Judgeships.
Petting odds favor !lx In New York. A
like condition prevailed Jut before "the
white man's hope" was paralysed at Reno,
and less than two weeks aco thousands of
anient "fans" bet their pile that the
Quaker Tnfl nns couldn't smear the lake
front with Cub scalps. You know what
happened In both cases.
Five of the even men indicted for graft
In connection with the building of tho
Pennsylvania state rapltol have been con
victed and sentenced. Two of the five are
dead, and ono of the two untried has dis
appeared. The last one to receive sen
tence Is Architect Huston, who has taken
an appeal from an indeterminate sentence
of two year and a fine of $5,000.
After March 4 next Secretary of Ptate
Philander C. Knox probably will get
J 12.000 a year salary, equal to that of
his fellow members of the cabinet. The
State department budget will make such
recommendation. Mr. Knox, aa I'nlted
States senator, voted for the bill Increas
ing cabinet officers' salaries, and could
not share In the Increase until the full
term fur which he was chosen senator
expired.
ABOLISH TIIK litA'VK,
Free Poatal PrlTelea-e a Groaa rnblie
KtII.
Washington Herald.
Postmaster General Frank M. Hitchcock,
who has declared that he I going to wipe
out the annual deficit In postal rev
enues, and, among other things, hopes to
establish 1-cent domestic pontage., now
proposes to recommend to congress the
abolition of the frank. He doe not hope
to do away with the franking privilege,
but proposes a change In form.
There can be no doubt that the frank
ing privilege has been most seriously
abused, it la not too much to say that It
has been used to defraud the government
out of a great deal of money, and the
worst of it Is that everjon who receive
an Improperly franked package or letter
reallxea that the government Is being de
frauded. We know it 1 a matter of common
knowledge that under the present system
the frank has been diverted from the pur
pose for -which It was originally designed.
We have had congressmen sending type
writer through th mail under their
frank; other hav used th frank to send
out their laundryt to send Christmas pres
ents to their friends, to say nothing of the
ton upon ton of printed pohe printed
free through special privilege at the gov
ernment printing office, and which, while
supposedly quasi-public documents, are, In
effect, nothing but campaign material dl
Htmlnated abroad for the member's private
behoof and emolument. All this should be
stopped. It Is a petty dishonesty, unworthy
of men elected to legislate for the nation.
It Is proposed by Postmaster General
Hitchcock to stop the Issuing of franks
and to Issue In lieu thereof free stamps
to the members of congress. This, we be
lieve. Is an excellent Idea. The stamps
t-hould be of a special Issue differentiating
them from the stamps used by th gen
eral public, and the Poatoffice department
should be required to keep a ledger ac
count with each Individual member of
congress and with all government officials
entitled to the free use of the malls for
business purpose, showing just how many
of these free stamp arc requitUloned
for and used.
PASSING PLASASTIES
"I understand you hired a magazine man
to run your newspaper."
"I did."
"How Is he getting along?"
"He quit. He couldn't wait until Christ
mas to Issue the Chritmaa number."
Kansas City Journal.
"I want my son to be a polished man
of the world, prepossessing In appearance,
tactful and skilled In the accomplishment
of a gentleman. "
"I'm afraid you have been reading
novels. Your description tallies exactly
with the description of the hero of th
latest thief atory." Washington Star.
"Is that man wide awak In hi buwl
ness methods?"
"Good heavens, no! He's Just patented
an Insomnia cure." Baltimore American.
"I understand the rh-h professor I going
to marry the homeliest girl In the summer
school. How did she attract him?"
"Hy distinctly sounding the first 'e' In
aeroplane." 4 'ievela nd Plain JJeaier.
"It Isn't what a man earns that make
him rich," said the morallzer.
"No," rejoined the demoralises "It's
usually what his father saved." Chlcauo
New.
Shoeless he climbed the stairway, opened
the door of the bed room, entered and
cloaed It after him wlthoat being detected.
Just as he was about to get into her bed
hi wife, half aroiMied from her slumber,
Oldest National
in Nebraska.
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turned and sleepily said: "I that you,
Fli'o?"
The husband, telling th rest of the
story, replied; "For once In my life I had
real presence of mind. 1 licked her hand."
Cleveland Leader.
"So you are going to Kurope? How
long do you expect to remain ovei
there?"
"Just long enough to send poetal card!
to all the people I know and gat ni)
satchel covered with labels." Chlcagt
ltecord-Hei aid.
STORY OF THE APPLE.
W. D. Nesbit in Chicago Post.
A farmer picked this apple In hi orchard
In th west
And put It in a barrel with some othsit
of his best;
Because they were so splendid he declared
the price must climb.
And so he raised his figure on that barrel
by a dime.
The man who bought that barrel stuck a
a label on the top,
Then told the Interviewers of a shortage
In the crop;
And when he came to sell It to a buyer on
the floor
He added on his profit and a half a dollar
mot e.
The man who shipped that barrsl stack
his label on it, too.
And talked of early freezes and th dam
age that they do;
The man to whom he shipped It said the
grower's price was high
And raised the price two dollars more than
In the day gone by.
The man who stored that barrel told of
shortage In the pick,
Of scale and other pests that make Hi
apple orchards sh-k;
And he put on five dollars to th cumulat
ive price
And so It went, each handler taking out
his little slice.
Oh. when you eat this apple, may It fill
you with delight
To know flat some one profit on eacli
nibble and each bit.
And. oh. be glad you do not live so very
far away
From where the apple started, for think
what you'd have to pay!
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