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ADYOCATLS THOROUGH VTOiS
faltlrate Little Vmm mm Bltt-rete
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far .pit MM te GrtVi
take RnflMHlm.
ST W. fi. rER5HING, ,
Mayor of Uimm, Colo.
HThrr hi the rilth of the fl"
This question a few years ego mould
Have been answered by pointing to the
mountains wlti a description of thr silver,
gold, copper and coal a few years later
by indicating the reservoirs, ditches and
the growing rmps.
How was this great wealth brought Into
being? We have heard of the thousands
who crossed the J'lalna with ox teams to
undergo hardahi and dangers, and spent
their taat dollara hunting Tor pay dirt
w hlfh hut few of them found; agetn we
have heard of the men who were irub
stsked by other who were In better cir
cumstances to win wealth for both. TVe
have heard, too. of the man who put bia
money Into a reaervolr and failed and
ioee t iirk w hen taken up by a company
later with more financial backing became
the foundation of fortunes.
K. TV Parsons. Bishop Tarrell and a few
othera have found pay dirt In dry farming,
but who ever heard of a rapitaliat grub
staking a dry farmer? And yet the jltl
r.rns of our weatem atatea are Boon going
to look to the aemt-arld plalna country to
keep up the proaperity of our weatem
states.
eallk la Drr Uilt.
Thouaanda of 8 Tea of the mountains
have Imen prospected over and found lo
contain no mineral. Hundred of minea
are being worked that scarcely pay ex
penses. The l.MOG.StXj acres of irrigated land
in Colorado are producing more wealth
than the mineral districts of the atate. but
the supply of water from all the Btreama
for Irrigation purpoae la practically all
utilised.
lo marking on the map of our weatem
atatea all the paying mineral diatricta. ell
the land that la now irrigated, and all the
land thai is believed to be capable of profit
able Irrigation It will be found to cover
but a Broall stiece on the map. To keep
tip the proarmrlty of the country thla vast
unmarked area muat be utilised to tbe beet
advantage.
"We find ra traveling across The plalna in
almost any direction that 0 per cent of the
.JSfc-ecre homesteads that proof have been
made on. that not over ten or twenty
arras have been cultivated end the larger
part of that has never been plowed over
jstree or four inches In depth. Our heat au
f thority on dry farming and my na n -perlenee
teaches that the plowing ahnuld
be at least aeven Inrhee and better ten or
twelve Inches deep to get satisfactory re-
ulta.
A great mistake ha been made by our
generous pove-nment in allowing KO acres
to be taken as a homestesfl The. law re
qulrea a certain number of acrea to le
cultivated, but no certain depth to be re
quired. A large er cent of the home
steads will be held with but ltttle work
done for three of four yeara.
. Tkereank M rk deeded.
Most of the homealaaders never owned
an acre of land before. It they own teama
they are. perhapa, too light to do good
plowing to a auffictent depth on land that
haa been tramped over a thousand years
by the bufTalo, antelope, cattle and aheep.
If It is one by contrail h k done as
slightingly as possible by the one hired.
The writer In lttlO had as many dollara
worth of crops on ten acrea of aod broken
ten inchea deep and well rolled down aa
was ralaed on 240 acrea adjoining plowed
about the acme time with the same steam
plow, but only three to five inches deep.
The shallow plowing shows results in a
wet
Xf
wet season, but It takea deep plowing
show good results during a severe
routh.
the government had given the home-
si 'a der but forty acres, but had it plowed
once a foot deep lie would have had a atari
and could have taken care of the aame
afterward and made a living.
The price of one battleship would have
purchased d ep tilling machines and broken
up enough of land to make homes for
lOO.OMu families. The example would have
baen folic wed by ci-pitallsts as In trrgaton
project a. Wealth would have been won
from our own pi jduclioi without seeking
fields of adventure In Canada and other
countries.
1 had a booth at each of the land shows
at Pittsburg. Chicago. St. louis and
Omaha end did all at my own expense
without a dollar of aid from town, count v
or atate, convened with thousands of
would-lwi homeaeekera. a large majority of
them declared they would be happy to pel
even forty acrea of good land as a hotne
wlead close to school and church. The
acre tracts with a lot on nonresident Una
between almost prohibits good schools and
churches on account of the great dis
tances. A neighbor across the road from
the writer is making a better living off two
acres plowed a foot deep without IrrUj
tlon than the evcrcge homesteader n ltin
ar KSs acrea of shallow plowed land.
Any one w ha doubts the difference in
the conserving of moisture in deeo or
shallow plowing 1 ran convince in a two
hour drive by showing them at thia very
Cry time ground moist enough to make
mud balls three to five feet deep under
ten-men deep plowing. Under the aim. low
wing no moisture ran le found The
shallow plowing held the moisture an near
the surface it evaixirated. w hlle In the
deep plowing It kept going decer and had
te chance lo evaiorate.
There are splendid opport unities el far
capitalists or Investors to grub stake- dry
farmers with 6r tilling machines and
power to run them on rich fertile 'and
tills It ren br secure '! Thla is
based on actual experience and obswve
tlon on the wesiern i.iatiih for forty j e. a.
The exhibitors were betlir treated and
the management took more pains lo see
that all had a square deal at Omaha 'Lou
at any of the other shows 1 attended. 1
am more than ever convinced that Omaha
Is rightly located for the exhibition of
western stales products, from the cor
respondence already received 1 believe the
exhibitors will receive greater reaults from
Omaha.
Raise in Wages for
Africans and Indians
weasBSBSBSSHa
Own en of Katal Sug-ar Estate, in
Cfseroui 2ood. Boost Piy of
"VTcrken.
JOHAN.VEXSBl'RG. March 4 iBps
ctal tn The riea The wages or
X natives bse been doubled and the
V wjafea of Indians i anted by W per rant
: .-a the Natal sugar estataa. as a result
fJ mt tbe stoppage of Indentured Indian la
bor. It Is expected that the smaller con
cerns will feet this inrraaee In working cost
severely A movement la oa foot la NaiaJ
to t Iowa I. ill u land es a recruiting gTouud
iaaur for the Jtaao,
President Choosing-Old Way and New
I'y Victor r.osewster. In March Review r.f
Rm lews
TFTORT records that Oenrae
Y y I "Washington was chosen preal
JL I I dent of the Vntted States with
out an opposing candidate. fo
was his successor In office.
John Adams. In th u...r.
of the street, the presidency waa. In the
of these dlatlngulabed petriota.
handed to hltn on a allver platter " The
presidency went. a tt were, by common
consent to the founders of the republic to
whom a grateful people looked for con
tinued service and guidance.
In the early days of president -choos.ng.
according to the primitive wev. was as
simple compered to modem methods as a
klndergerten exercise beside e course In
four-dimension mathematics. Since then
the changes, although gradual, have been
marked and have led up to our present
complicated convention nominations that
make the Electoral college but a mechani
cal device for registering the popular de
cision a between rival party organlxatlons
It was the fluke that elmost Installed
Aaron Purr es president, instesd of
Thomas Jefferson, that forced the initial
modifications of the plan of the prealdnt
chooalng agreed upon by the framers of the
constitution.
Orlgla a,f x.tl. eti.ee.
Originally, mem Intra 0f tne Electoral co;
lege were to vote for two persona, the one
receiving the highest number of votes to be
president end the next highest to be vice
president. The danger or a sucoession that
would pull the political lever each time
from one side to the other made Imperative
the change by which the eleciors should
vote for only one person for president and
for another for vice president. Two or
three ob.lect lessons too. or Irresponsible
and haphexerd actum by the Electoral col
lege. thT-owlng the rholce at president to
the house or or vice president to the sen
ate tecsuse no one had a majority or the
voles cast, showed the necessity or center
ing the errorts or the newly aligned politi
cal partlea each on a single presidential
ticket and or Imposing on the members or
the Electoral college a morel obligation to
cast their bellots uniformly for the nom
inees of the psrty which had elected them.
Ttie forerunner of our rational nominat
ing convention of the caucus or conference
of members of congress of the same politi
cal faith who got together on their own
Initiative and without any mandate from
their constituents assumed to advise as to
who. in their judgment, was entitled to be
recognised es the perty standard bearer.
This caucus must necessarily have proved
to be too crude and unsatisfactory to serve
long es the president-choosing machinery.
In Burh en assemblage, only those states
and districts represented In congress by
members of one and the same political
party had a voire and all the othera were
left without representation. H was to rem
edy these defects and to enable the rank
and file of the parties, wherever they
might be. to ererc'se at least a nominal
control of the presidential nomination that
the national convention, meeting every
four years, came to evolved as we know It
Is tbe rssrestles a Fa Hare T
The first of these nominating ronvrn-
tlons, made up or delegates commissioned
for that purpose, met in 1832 more then
forty years after the first presidential elcc
tinn. To lie sure, the credentiels of mem
bership were not toe critically scrutinised,
nor were there full delegations from each
state in the union In the early conven
tions; jet they were really representative,
and tbelr .nominations were, as a rule, ac
cepted as the official decrees of their re
spective parties. In time, national com
mittees were appointed to carr on the
work of the campaign and to at? for the
party In arranging the preliminaries of the
next convention. A form of party organi
zation, with a fundamental law of party
government and rules to be observed by
conventions and committees, came Into ex
istence, was perfected and modlf ed to meet
new conditions, and became the established
custom and constitution of the political
parties.
The promulgation or presidential tickets
by national nominating conventions com
posed or delegates chosen in convention to'
represent atate and congressional districts
in the same number Oaler in double the
numbcrl or senators and representatives In
congress has prevailed for more than aev-enty-flve
years. Alt our presidents since
Andrew Jackson have come to us by this
way, end lo say that president-choosing
by convention Is an utter failure and Is a
denial of popular government ia an Indict
ment of almost tbe whole political history
of our country.
That there are no derects in the existing
convention system calling for remedy. I
would be the last to assert. The greatest
weuktiess Is the arbitrary apportionment
without relation to party strength In the
various ststes. The persistence with which
those alreedy tn official place force them
selves Into the conventions end at dele
gates seek to make and unmake the exe- !
cuttve. who In theory forme a co-ordinate
and Independent branch of the government,
is another. The opportunities for special In
terests to exert their Influence under oovet
through these and other agencies consti
tute still another feult. although they
would doubtless also be exerted to greater
or less degree in any form of premdent
chooalng fcaall W e A4.pt tee Prlsaao T
it la now declared by some that the na
tional nominating convention has quite
outlived Its usefulness and must soon give
way to a nation-wide primary for direct
choice of presidential candidates. IVesl-driit-rhooalng
by direct primary is pro
claimed the closest approximation to true
democracy, it must be admitted that the
lues thus advanced ia In tiself attractive
that theoretically a presidential primary
fur nominating candidates Is the logical
outgrowth of the direct primary for
i.unnnat tng candidates for local and
rtttr offices. T in.iriKli for a new
way of presldent-chooalng. apparently
revolutionary, warrants en Inquiry aa lu
what assurance It offers of curing ex
iMItif evils. Low far it is feasible, end il
1'ea.stble. bow such e change would have
to be brought about. IHscuasiou or I hit,
sulject Ik. 1 believe, timely because Ore
gon at the lat election adopted an act.
submitted by Initiative petition, applying
its primary law to tbe selection of na
tional convention Delegates and a prefer
cntial expreesiuii on presidential catidl
oatea If other states should follow to
lead of Oregon, we are assured, the popu
Germany's Heir
Gets Lost in India
Took Wrong- Eoad, En Car Broke
Down and a Ccw Charg-ed
the Party.
CAIaTI" 1 J A. Klart b 4. tr'pecia! lo Ttie
bee There Is an Interesting story co
nected with the missing by ttie Germaa
crow a prloc of the recent Talukadare' fete
at lurknow . His Imperial and ro al hign
aeee started in a snotur car fur a drive of
some length. He took the wrong turning,
and his staff, who were following la a
oeouBd car. tmw ssaml by the direct road,
eventually tbe prtaua's car brute eWesmv ia
lar nnmtnettnn of presidential candidates
would be achieved.
t mm the Btetew Reaalatef
Th new Cregon prlmery law Is separable
Into two parts The first has to do with
the choice or national convention deie
getes. In requiring that these delegates
be chosen br direct prlmery. Oregon Is
not breaking ground, because Wisconsin's
prlmery lew has for several years em
braced this feature and Wisconsin sent
delegates to the lls) national conventions
so chosen, as did also several other ststes.
some like California and Ohio, by virtue
of primaries ordered by the stste organi
sations under optional or permissive laws
The power of a state to enact legislation
governing national conventions has. how
ever, been seriously questioned In IMC
the sub.tect was referred to by the Repub
lican National committee to three of the
ablest lawyers In the country, w l(p agreed
that these conventions were entirely extra-legal
and beyond the jurisdiction of
state lawmakers, and possibly also or fed
eral lawmakers, and that all states could
do was to regulste tbe mechinery or pri
mary elections within their own geographi
cal limits and to govern the conduct of
party committees in charge or stste or
local campaigns. The vital point is that
each national convention Is ltseir the plen
ary power or the political party In the na
tion and that Its decrees ere Independent
of any lawmaking body and paramount to
any enacted lawa in conflict with them.
Let me Illustrate by recalling that the
republican party has a definitely estab
lished dual unit of representation, the state
Tor delegatee-et-large and the congres
sional district for district delegates. For
each delegate an alternate Is to be chosen
In the same manner ashe principal, end
commissioned to ect for htm in the event
of disc billt. v or absence. When the legis
lature of democratic Mississippi undertook
to reytilre ll dlegstes to be selected in
stste convention, conforming to the demo
cratic unit or representation, which Is the
state. It made compliance with this law,
by which all the districts but one might
lie left without delegates, a defiance or Jhe
conditions laid down by the republican na
tional convention, which Is the highest
partv tribunal.
Again. Wisconsin's primary law, as origi
nally enacted, provides that while the dele
gates must be chosen by direct primary In
each representative district, the alternetee
should ell he appointed by the stete com
mittees or the respective parties. The alter
nates, therefore, might be named without
regard to districts and should the contin
gency erlse by which the delegates were
unable to act and the alternates be called
on to serve, the republicans of various
congressional districts might be completely
disfranchised.
Orrgas'i ew Im w.
The newly adopted Oregon law collides
with the custom or the convention in more
than one place. I nder the Oregon lew a
special primary Is to lie held once every
four years on the forty-fifth day Iwfore
the firm Monday in June, at which all the
delegates apportioned to that state are to
lie chosen by direct vote, but no elector
is to vote for more than one delegate. Ore
gon's Isw w Ipes out entirely the recognised
republican unit of representation In the
congressional district and seeks to make
all the delegatee delegates-at-large. Not
only this, but It would deprive every mem.
ber of a party in Oregon of his equal
voice in presidential nominations en toyed
by members of the party In other states.
tltrrrUn Elxlatlc Practice.
To explain more In detail, under the
existing rale every member of the republi
can party 1b entitled to a voice In tbe selec
tion of six national delegates, namely, the
four delcgates-at-large for his state and
tbe two delegates for his district; every'
member of the democratic party Is simi
larly entitled to a voice In the selection
of not less than six delegates and may
have a volt In the selection of the whole
number to which his state la entitled. The
Oregon law would limit the franchise of
each party member to the selection of a
single delegate. Tbe Oregon law further
fails to make any provision whatever for
electing alternates. Incidentally, It should
not lie overlooked that the last republican
national convention and that while these
rules leave tbe method of electing dele
gates to be prescribed in the call Issued
by the national committee, they expressly
require the alternates to be chosen at the
same time and In Uie same manner aa the
delegates
How easily the Oregon lew could be nulli
fied If there were any purpose to do so is
plain. It specifies a fixed date (which In
1U will be April 18), for tbe presidential
primer', assuming that the several na
tional nominating conventions will Invari
ably lie held tn June and July aa usual.
But the dates of tbe conventions are wholly
wiinln the control of the several party
organlxatlons and could be put in January
or March or any other month that seemed
preferable. If the conventions were called
to meet in advance of Oregon's primary
day, the Oregon plan would never get
started.
Prvrelaeatlal Prefrreapra,
The eecond part of the new Oregon prim
ary law haa to do with a preferential ex
pression on preuldent and vice president
as advisory Instructions on the national
convention delegates. Neither Is this fea.
ture unique, although so far as 1 ran learn,
it Is tbe first Instance of a law providing
fur such a straw ballot under official Buper.
vision. Ohio held a state-wide primary in
ltW designed to determine the choice of
Ohio republlcuns as between two Ohio ran
didatca. but the supporters of only one
candidate entered Into the spirit of It and
the overwhelming endorsement of Mr. Taft
did not prevent the delegates from two con
gressional d.strlcta voting against him. thus
depriving him of the benefit of a solid
delegation from his own state.
But In Oregon the names of presidential
and vice presidential possibilities are to lie
filed, with or without their consent. In the
same manner as are names of candidates
lor state office and printed on the prim
ary ballot. Their merits and demerits are
to be set forth in the official campaign
book and the vote Is te be canvassed and
certified to each of the elected delegates
of the same political party. No penally
is prescribed for any delegate who declines
to be governed by thia advice and each
delegate la lett to determine how long. If
at all. he should continue to cast his ballot
for the ostensible choice of bis constit
uency. The hope is expressed by tbe Bpon
surs of the new way that the vote of such
an Intelligent and discriminating eiecturate
Hit country, and some Inhabitants of a
neighboring village gathered around to as
sist. Suddenly a cow charged the throng,
knocking down and Injuring a woman,
wnoiu the prince personally at'endwd tu.
After bousing the car the prince nd his
driver next took the liver boat for a short
dlstanoe. and then. In an ekka a uuuntry
vehicle) drove acroaa country to a small
railway station. After traveling during the
night In an ordinary railway carnage the
prince reached Lucknow early in the morn
ing highly entertained by tbe novel ex
perienoa Tbe staff nearly went cruy.
A Bias? A f Lair
Is lung hemorrliaga. Klup It and cure
weak lungs, coughs and colda) with Ir.
King's Xes Tnacvwery. s-jc ajid tl.go. for
seia be beatua rug Cs
as Oregon boasts, especially if It d Is loses
an emphatic preference for one patlcular
standard-bearer In any partv. wit! have a
potential Influence on the delegates feom
other states and point to them the only
nomination that ran command popular
support. The extent to which this influ
ence could go would, of rourse. depend on
whether the delegates or other states were
chosen and instructed lefore or after this
vote.
Yatfas; la vtBea Priaaar?.
Be tbst ss It may. let me note In this
connection that the Ctregon primary Is the
so-called open primary' and that nothing
whatever In the law or practice, prevents
any one there from voting any party ticket
regardless of his own party affiliations or
his Intention lo vote the some party ticket
in the subsequent election. In other words,
there Is nothing to prevent republicans
from helping the democrats to choise their
presidential and vice presidential nominees,
and vice versa, or pecking the straw vote
for an unpopular end week candidate lor
the express purpose or hsvlng an easy
mark to combst In the campaign. This
difficulty would not be presented so
strongly In a closed primary with participa
tion confined to avowed and known mem
bers of each political party, but with the
open primary, If the piecemeal presidential
primary proved to be what Is rlalmed for
It. assurance tiiat the strongest man would
be the high man would still l-e wanting.
The "Dark Hrw."
As chief merits of the presidential pri
mary are set forth that It would make the
"dark horse" impossible and would tend to
eliminate the "favorite son," both results
contributing to reduce the power of "spe
cial interests" to trade tn the nominations
for their own subservient or trusted repre
sentatives. The extinction of the "dark
horse" would unquestionably follow a re
quirement barring aspirants not listed
on the primary ballot. American history
reveals some Interesting "diirk hot-set;"
Garfield would never have been president
had we then his this new way of presldent
i housing; Bryan would never have talked
himself Into a nomination on a cross of
gold and crownif thorns; Roosevelt would
not have succeeded the lamented McKlnley.
let the "dark horse" Is admittedly an ex-tra-haxarduus
risk; there would 1 com
pensating benefits to uffset the loss.
The "Pavrarlte a."
When it comes to eliminating the "favor
ite son" by direct primary process, that Is
more doubtful. What is to prevent a
"favorite son" from filing In each state
where a presidential preference 1b lo lie
recorded and why should not "state pride"
prompt cross-marks after the name most
familiar because the "home man" is an es
teemed neighbor? ir a "favorite son"
springs forth tn each state, or has his name
filed by Interested parties actuated by
either legitimate or questionable motives,
the votes thus diverted muet come from
the real candidates and prevent the re
turns of the primary election from reflect
ing the true state of public sentiment or
serving as a dependable guide for delegates
from other states. In fact, the setting up
of "favorite sons" would le ss much and
more a thriving business under a presiden
tial primary than under the convention
scheme, if other states, or all the slates,
copied Oregon's presidential primary law.
the national nominating conventions would
still In all probability be called upon to
choose the standard-bearers much the
Kim as they do now. and the preferential
vote would exert the aame sort of in
fluence as tbe Instruction passed by con
ventions and the straw voles taken here,
there, and everywhere by self-appointed
monitors.
' Wi for Effective Primary.
How, then, shall we ever get to an ef
fective direct popular choice of presidential
nominees If It Is thought desirable? My an
swer is that It must come through the na
tional organizations of the political parties
themselves or through congressional legis
lation, for which perhaps a constitutional
amendment may be prerequisite. Any one
of the national party organlxatlons can
at will Introduce the direct primary for
president-choosing and either do away with
national nominating conventions altogether
or continue them only for platform-making
and the contingency of no nomination at
the polls. A constitutional amendment
could abolish the electoral college, which
we all know has become mainly orna
mental, and give us direct popular elec
tion of presidents. It could predicate
such an election on a direct primary nomi
nation or It could combine It with a pre
liminary' election and a subsequent by-election
to determine between the presidential
race horses polling the highest votes in
the trial heat. Kuch changes In our ma
chinery of government would lie decidedly
radical and are not to I expected to
materialise In a day or a year. If the
demand for direct presidential nomina
tions, however, should become general
and Insistent, one of tbe political parties
might respond to It In the bofie or strik
ing a popular chord and scoring an ad
vantage over the political enemy. In the
meanwhile the sporadic efforts of Oregon,
and states that may follow suit, to pro
ject a presidential primary on the Install
ment plan must be at best only experimental.
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FT. rETEIKSRVna. March 4 Special,
to The Bee. i The I'uma Is gradually find-I
Ing Itself and Is beginning to take a real '
hand In affairs. For Instance, a recent '
deliale occurred concerning the accident to !
the battleship SWvi last year, which may j
result In an overhauling of the Slack and i
g-aft-rldden methods of the Russisn Ad- ,
mlralty and ultimately make of the new 1
Russian nav-y an effective fighting f orce j
Instead of the nondescript concern it was
at the time of the war with Japan. j
Afr the minister vT marine had mode !
a statement on the subiect the I'uma
adopted a resolution declaring that the ac
cident or the Slave did not stand alone,
was the result or negligence and careless
ness on the part of Individual officials and
reflected on the whole service and on the
system In foice at the Admiraltv, w here
the organization wns altogether wrong and !
there was a lack of trained and expeii- i
enced specialists.
t
a A red far a l.oaa.
M Alexetenko. the chairman of the
budget committee of the Iuma. says, al- :
though the committee's deliberations hsve'
"ot. yet been concluded, preliminary estl- ;
mates of the budget for 1911 Justify him j
in declaring that the revenue will exceed
the ordinary and extraordinary rxiiendi- I
ture by no Ickp than 2tl.ono.4KK roubles !
about ai0.4SMj.iMK end thai there can be no I
qurFiion of a loan. ;
Sect mt Devi 11 'Worshipers.
The Kusskoye Bnanv a publishes some;
extraordlnury details regarding a remark
able sect of devil worshipers In St. I'e-te-sburg.
The journal desls with the prsc-
tlces of the devotees In considerable de- :
toll and states that the house In which
they meet is one or the must fashionable j
quarters of the city, w hlle the members !
are drawn almost exclusively from the
smartest people, lncrudlng many high offl-
cials.
Masses with weird ceremonial are cele
brated, those attending wearing fantastical
costumes, and going through an elaborate '
service. The men-ilier of the sect base'
their religion on the ground that since j
sslan has been appointed to preside over j
the punishment or the sinful and since all I
mortals are tainted with guilt he must j
he appeased by worBhlp. The "Russkoye j
Snanya" draws a riessimistir picture of
Russian morals from the hare possibility ;
of such sacrilegious proceedings being per- i
mltted in modem times, and calls upor. the!
authorities to put a stop to them without
further delay.
W awsea Metaeate MrlLe.
The female university students have i
struck work and most of the high schools j
throughout the country' are now boycotted !
bv students. The central authorities have
not yet decided what line to take Th
are desirous of keeping the educational
establishments olien. If necessary, even re,
sort to CBere.lv. e measures for purpoae.
as otherwise the large iereentage of Indus
trious students, who abhor the strike.
would be deprived of one y ear's studies. !
Rut the government Is uncertain how far
the agitation is political ond Is waiting
for developments. Official pronouncements,
hew-ever, may be published at any moment.
In various university cities students, male
and female, have been arrested.
Har Kaea- Dellclans. J
Madptne Severe, a "herbarian," has
opened a restaurant at St. Petersburg j
where the staple dishes are of roots and j
herbs. "Hay soup," described as delicious I
and substantial, is provided at Z farthings
per portion. j
vUrrat Railway Prejert.
Russia contemplates an expenditure of j
another JH0.0it5.0iX) on the great state railway I
by the doubling of the Siberian line. When I
these works are completed In 1H15 the lm-
fwrial treasury will have expended on the:
Siberian railway somewhat over $1,000,000.0 It.
Krrfcle Optimises.
All things must change. Though the snow-
onrts pile
In heaps where germs their prev entice '
Be natielit. In h little a-hii. " ' i
They will be changed to slush or Ice
T. E. M.
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A Welcome and
Its Meaning
The reception given (he Union
Ouf jilting Co. (Consolidated ivith The
People's Store), yesterday by the public
cf Omaha, South Omaha and Council
Bluffs icas -undoubtedly the greatest
ever given to any commercial establish
ment or enterprise at any time, any
where iiz the iL'Cst.
IVe entertained during the day,
more than 50,000 visitors an esti
mate based on actual count of one hours
arrivals. The enthusiasm and in
terest surpassed our expectations. IVc
were especially gratified U'ith what you
said about our store and our stock.
"It is a store that greets you with
a smile' said one visitor, and the ex
pression throughout was the same:
" 'Wonderful!" "Beautiful !" "Aston
ishing!
Ch
'tannine
Charming!" "Smiling!" These
arc the words we hoped you would use;
the very first impression we hoped the
Union Outfitting Co. (consolidated
with The People ' s Store) would make.
No Store has ever had such
a welcome in the west, but the
greater the welcome the
greater the duty to deserve it
We take yesterday s splendid
triumph in no spirit of empty conceit.
The outspoken approval of the most
critical public in the west awakes in us
only a stronger determination to keep
that approval with ?is.
Wc have promised to show you in
this beautiful new store the highest
notch yet reached in American retail'
tng. We have promised to show you
not merely a new store, but a Better
store.
Your enthusiasm yesterday docs
not blind us to the fact that we have
much still to demonstrate. The triumph
of a day means little. You will judge
us by the way w; square our perform
ance to our promise through many days
and months.
We have shown you the Union
Outfitting Co. that "greets you with
a smile." As day follows day, and
month succeeds month, we shall show
you as well the Union Outfitting Co.
that it is the "Store Reliable."
(fey T FQTTW .))
Consolidated with
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