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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-07-07
raising ducks without water.

Ducks don't need water to thrive
There are many duck raising plants in
this country where thousands of the
fowls are bred each year for market and
where there is not even a puddle for
them to founder in One of these farms
is credited with an output of 90, 900
ducks a year
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-07-07
HAWLEY.
June 20.

Heretofore unheard OF
prices to close the season on
New York Tailor-made
gowns.
Clearance of manufacturers
samples so that we shall let
our customers pick from $I2,
Sis and $I8 suits for $7,95.
This is the other fellows
loss, and now we will take
ours on the "a suits we
have on hand as the balance
of this seasons business;
mean to do same as last year,
not carry over a single suit.
What coats and capes we
haYe left get served the same
way now.
Morewrappers-somemade
of percale, some made OF lawn
came to us yesterday to go in
to our 40 cent lot-every one
is worth more than that.
Today more of those very
desirable two-piece house
dresses at $I.5o-some fine
lawns in black and white
strips among them.
Shirt waists-new lot to sell
at 80 cents, and of bias tuck
ed fronts at SO cents.
All our finer grade fancy
shirt waists go at cut prices
now.
Choice things in white shirt
waists are scarce and difficult
to get as fast as wanted; we
have a few new ones today.
No. 80 and 4olwhite all-silk
taffeta ribbons, IL IL and IS
cents per yard.
Job in No. 40 double-faced
black satin ribbon, OF superior
quality, 20 cents.
Expect a special in wide
colored taffeta ribbons here to-
morrow or first of next week.
Fans, just here cents to
$I.5o each.
Few new and handsome
things in white petticoats and
some other new cotton under
wear.
Piques stocks, IS cents.
Novelty in linen neck tabs IS
cents.
Sofa pillows covered with
fancy cretones or silkoline
your choice for SO cents,
Special in hemstitched linen
tray clothes, good ones, IS
cents.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-07-07
SHAKE INTO YOUR SHOES

Aliens Foot. Ease powder 1t cures painful,
smarting, nervous feet and ing mails, and
Instantly takes the sting out of corns and bun
ions. It's the greatest comfort discovery Of the
age. Aliens Foot Ease makes tight or new
shoes feel easy, Il is a certain cure for sweating,
for 25 cents In stamps. Trial package free. Ad
dress, Allen s. Olmsted, lie Roy, N. Y.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-07-07
". /. HAWLEY.
Later

Fivedoz.regular$ 1.5o"Der-
by" shirt waists, in latest eff
feet of colored stripe came
this morning to go on sale at
69 cents.
The ribbons will be here to-
morrow. N. |. H.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-07-07

very large, but the few who
appreciate and buy them, are
always wanting to find a few
more of the same sort.
New lots of buck towels at
II IL, at IS, at 20, at IS
cents.
Crochet bedspreads, fresh
lot 62 II, "a, $1.3s, and a
grade $1.21 and $1.so.
Have just had sent us with
instructions to sell at $4,000
each, four very choice
and elegant Zass Wersba
tailor made suits, which have
been held at $35 to $40 each,
wholesale.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-19
SWALLOWING THE popt Ii rs.

Readers OF The Bee are asked TO give
special attention to the exposure con-
tained I'm this issue of the democratic
plot TO absorb the popullsts of the Sixth
district by delivering over to Neville,
the populist candidate, certificate Of
nomination on the democratic ticket,
procured through perjured atiidavits.
The letters and documents in this case
are set out in full, including fac-similes
of the give-away statements of Candi-
date Harrington in his own handwriting.
Mr.. Harrington unquestionably gets his
inspiration from Colonel Bryan and the
other democratic leaders of the state, t
whose personal solicitation he acccded
to the request for the withdrawal of his
candidacy for congress after he had as
sured the convention which nominated
him that he would remain on the ticket.
In these letters Mr. Harrington makes
some interesting admissions, which, al
though previously matter of common
notorety, had never before been
fathered by any one speaking authorl.
tatively for the democratic leaders, Mr..
Harrington says that after 1900 there
will be no necessity for a third party
and that by sacrificing the offices this
year to securing control of the ma
chinery Of both parties the populists will
next year be absorbed by the democrats.
He repeats this in the second letter in
these words:
We must accept the inevitable. The flu
ture Of democracy in the Sixth district de-
pends largely upon the number we can draw
from populist ranks. There is only one more
There will be but two parties and the lead
ers OF the democratic party now will be the
recognized leaders then
The question is simply this: Will the
populists, who organized their party ms
revolt against the two old parties, sub
init without protest to be handed over
bound hand and foot, to the democracy
simply that few faithless leaders may
enjoy the fusion mess of pottage?
Let voters of all political parties read
these letters and ponder upon their sig
nifcance.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-19
FATNEss OF THE LAND.
Overflow of Abundance for All Who
Hustle.
New York World.

NtW 1OTh NOIIu
That the country is richer than it was a
year ago, and that the people are living bet
ter appears in the fact that during the
month of September the imports of foreign
merchandise were s22,000,0O0 worth greater
than during September year ago. And at
the same time our own manufacturers sold
more goods than ever to Americans.
Going back further, the imports for the
first nine months this year exceeded these
of corresponding period last year by more
than 800 900 900
That is to say, the American people are
having better time than they were year
ago, with more good things TO eat and wear
and otherwise enjoy. and with more money
jngling in their pockets.
And when we ask where the extra wealth
comes from, the just published government
report from which the foregoing figures are
drawn promptly answers. During Septem-
ber OF this year we exported more Amerl-
can merchandise than We did in September
OF laet year by $50 900, 900 worth, while for
the first nine months OF this year our mer-
chandise exports exceeded even our vastly
increased imports by no less than sSl72s2'
/ 4O2. That is TO say. since January last we
have cold more goods abroad than we nave
bought there by more than sSl7,0Oo,OOo.
Figures are often dry. But these are
Juicy in their significance Of widespread aud
increasing prosperity.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-19
Personal AND OTHERWISE.


Dom Pauls folks could not be more ex--
pert at railroad wrecking if they had all
been brought up in Wall street.
Anybody who was farsighted enough to
lay in few pounds of diamonds year
ago can make. handsome profit on them
now.
In Germany the question of insurance
against storms, foundations and other forces
of nature is being considered and the prin-
cipal companies have been requested to re-
port their views to the government.
Five weeks board at the Waldorf for him
self and his party made draft on the
Bank Of England necessary and the draft
made the wind and the wind made the race
and there you are. Even Sir Thomas has to
draw at times.
Thanksgiving day in Canada has this year
been appointed for Thursday, October 10. 1t
has been customary to have it in the prov
ince on the last Thursday of November, as
in this country, but this date has been found
to be too late for public enjoyment in that
cold climate.
Count Boni de Castelane, who wrote an
impudent letter to the prince of Monaco
when that gentleman offered Dreyfus his
hospitality, has received word that Monaco
is in France and has telegraphed that he
will make all possible haste to get to the
capital A duel is expected il the two men
meet.
Prof Totten, once lieutenant in the army
but for some time past professional and
most persistent prophet of the end Of the
world and similar events, is now out with 9
new prediction He says the infant son OF
| the duke of York is destined to gather the
Jews from the four quarters Of the eartf
and to unite them under his banner.
! United States Senator Marion Butler o.
North Carolina Is to hang ont his shingle as
| an attorney in Raleigh early next year. i
| is said that this will be the first case or
record OF a man beginning the practice o.
! law after leaving the senate. There have
of course been senators who resumed th'
law after the expiration of their terms, bu
| Mr., Butler was not lawyer before he wal
/ a senator.
Governor Stanley OF Kansas protests tina
| etiquette fourishes in his state, tradition u
| the contrary Notwithstanding. In proof
| this he tells a story of how a woman wrot'
him a note enclosing a So bill, which sh
asked be given to the Methodist minister o
Emporia, Kan. She wished 1t to go to tn
Methodist Foreign Missionary society but al
she had never been presented to the paste
of her congregation. could not hand 1t t.
him in person.
Alfred S. Hartwell, who has consented t
represent Hawaii at Washington as an un
ofiicial territorial delegate at the coming
session of congress, has for thirty year
been one OF the leading members OF the ba
OF Hawaii He Is a graduate OF Haryart
and early in his life he was an instructor II
a Missouri university. He was a soldier II
the west at the outbreak of the civil war
becoming afterward successfully lieutenant
captain, lieutenant colonel, colonel an
brigadier general in the east, In 1868 h
was appointed first associate justice Of III
supreme court Of Hawaii. becoming subse
quently attorney general in 1874 and 1876.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-19
BALANCE SHEET OF THE NATION.
Notable Triumph of Republican Man
npemcnt and Policies
st, Louis Globo-Democrat,


From the present indications the govern
ments receipts will more than meet its eK-
penditures in the current fiscal year.
Throughout the whole q the year which
closed last Juno the monthly outgo exceeded
the income, except in March, May and June.
in each Of which months there was surplus,
In the present fiscal year there has been only
one deficit thus FAR, that for July; while in
August and September there vas an excess
on the right side which Offset the shortage OF
July and furnished about si,00O,0O0 In sd-
dltion. The half year which will close on De-
cember 81, It Is now safe to predict, will put
a good sized balance on the credit side.
Here is triumph In governmental finan-
cioring fer which the republican party de-
serves high credit. At the outset the Ding
ley law. which was passed in 1897 did not
quite meet expenditures. The thrush OF Inn
ports in the four or Ave months in which
the law was pending reduced the normal i'm
portatlons OF the first seven or eight months
cf the operation CT that act. and the pending
and the actual war with Spain also had an
adverse influence. Then, too, the govern
mcnt's expenditures made sharp and ma
terial advance oven before the war started,
and of course even though the Spanish end
Of the conflict is over, the level Of outgo yet
remains far above the average OF the years
Immediately preceding 1898. Yet the war
revenue act, supplementing the Dingley law.
is now providing a sufficient fund to meet all
the outlay Of the government. Unless there
shall be lavished appropriations for other
than immediate urgent purposes good sur
plus is reasonably certain in the fiscal year
which closes next June, while the chances,
OF course, are that the balance sheet will be
even more favorable in the next twelve
months, unless some OF the taxes are dropped
in the interval. which is not likely. The
great Improvement which has taken place In
the governments finances as a result CT re-
publican legislation will undoubtedly make
tens OF thousands OF votes for the party In
the election CT 1900
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-19

Candidate William Neville seems to
have bumped his head against stone
wall when he tried to make his brother
James stand for the letter which he had
himself written and published over his
own name opposing the REIMBURSEMENT
of the Philippines either to Spain or to
the Filipinos. Brother William not only
wrote his views and published them
over his name, but expressed them pub
licly on the stump in number of places.
He cannot now go back on his own
record and his attempt TO repudiate his
letter must only disgust voters who may
expect him, If elected, to repudiate all
his other pledges.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-19
JOAQUIN MILLER TO THE BoERs.

The Sword of Gideon, Sword of God
Be with We, Beers. Brave men of peace
Ye hewed the PATH ye- brake the sod,
Ye fed white flocks of fat Increase
Where Saxon foot had never trod;
Where Saxon foot unto this day
Had measured not. had never known
Had ye-not braVely led the way
And made such happy home your own.
| think Gods house must be such home.
The prisstess mothers Choristers
Who spin and weave nor care 10 roam
Beyond this white Gods house of hers,
But spinning sing and spin again.
l think such silent shepherd men
Most like that few the prophet sings
Most like that few stout Abram drew
Triumphant Ger the slaughtered kings.
Defend Gods house! Let fall the crook
Draw forth the plowshare from the sod
And trust, as in the Holy Book
The Sword of Gideon and of God
God and the right, enough to fight
A million regiments of wrong.
Defend! nor count what comes OF IL.
Gods battle bides not with the strong;
Her pride must fall. Lo, it is writ,
Her gold, her grace, how staunch she fares!
Fame's wine cup pressing her proud lips
Her checkerboard of battle squares
Rimmed round by steel-buill battleshipsI
And yet meanwhiles ten thousand miles
She seeks ye out. Well. welcome her!
Give her such welcome with such will
AS Boston gave in battles whir
That red, dread day at Bunker HILL
JOAQUIN MILLER.
The Heights, Oakland, Cal, October 1893.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-19
cAMpALGNlNG oN SRAM REFoRM.


County Attorney Shields, candidate
for district judge, is making his cam
paign on the lines of sham reform. ar
rant hypocrisy and downright dema-
gogy.
While he has never had the least
sympathy for the negro and would
disfranchise him If he had it in his
power to do so, he is trying TO work the
colored voters of Omaha in the prose.
cution of Police Officer linda.
While he has notoriously made farce
of his prosecution of gamblers and
to train with the gang that nominated
him for county attorney and tickled his
vanity by nominating him for a place
on the bench, he is trying to impress the
voters of this district with the idea that
he is the terror of lawbreakers by max
ing Il ridiculous muss over the prosecu.
tion of parties suspected of being i'm.
plicated in the Shukcrt fur robbery.
This horseplay will, however, deceive
nobody who does not want to be hum
bugged. Had Chief of Police White
stood in with the Jacksonian gang and
played into the hands of Noise, Tanning
& Co. he would have been lauded TO the
skies for the skill, tact and ability dis
played in tracing the burglars and re-
covering the stolen property. AS it is,
he is being blackwashed and black
guarded for doing a piece of work tina,
few police officers in America could
have matched.
Such partisan campaigning Is disgrace
full as it is contemplate.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-19
BRY4N'S RID For A .JOB

The appeal of William Jennings Bryan
to j. Sterling Morton to assist him in
securing an appointment on the state
railroad commission has caused more
comment in the eastern press than any
thing that has emanated from Bryan's
pen for the last two years. The impress
sion created by the letter in what Mr.
Bryan has designated as the enemy's
country is not tattering to Mr.. Bryan.
but there is also sharp criticism of the
publication of confidential comnunica.
ton and the Interpretation that has
been placed upon it.
In this section of the country the
frankness of Mr.. Bryan in declaring that
he did not seek the job for the honor,
but for the money there was in it, is not
considered as rejecting as seriously
upon its author as is the fact that he
applied for aid to a pronounced corpora
tiOn politician. While Mr.. Morton was
not directly in the employ of any rail
road he was the recognized leader of
the railroad democrats of Nebraska and
has been so classed by Bryan, Allen and
all the lesser lights Of the anti-monopoly
reform forces that train under Bryan.
| In soliciting j. Sterling Morton's in.
huence to secure his appointment on
| the railroad commission Bryan sought
to reach through Morton the power be-
| hind the throne, the railroad managers,
at whose instance the bogus commission
was created. In soliciting the place
| through Morton, Bryan tacitly bound
himself to do the bidding of the railroad
managers. whose aid Morton was eX.
pected to invoke in Bryan's behalf.
1T was doubtless a streak of luck for
Bryan that Morton failed to connect him
with the railroad managers and the com.
mission. Had he done SO Bryan would
probably have made no better record
than Jim Dahlman, Joe Edgerton and
ether reform commissioners appointed AT
the dctation of the railroad corpora
| tiOnS.
From this point of view Bryan's ap
peal for $1,000 job must appear mex
cusable to every honest opponent OF
monopoly in the fusion ranks, who
above all things, looks to his chosen
leader as absolutely beyond tempta tior
under all circumstances.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-19

The criminal code empowers the prose-
cutting attorney to offer immunity to any
witness to crime whose testimony
would lead to the conviction of the prin-
cipal, even though the witness may have
been to a certain extent implicated. The
same principle is applied in offering i'm
munity to men implicated in robberies
who cause the plunder to be restored to
the owners. 1t is common practice, in
and out Of court, where the property
stolen is owned by one person. How
much more desirable when the plunder
is owned by fifty persons to whom the
restoration of the property is worth Il
thousand times more than the convic-
ton of the thieves would be. In the
Shukert fur case, over which such hui
labaloo is being made by the organ of
the Omaha Tammany gang, the chances
of conviction are slim indeed and the
only thing that might result from an at.
tempt to force the suspects to trial would
be piling up big bill of expenses on the
taxpayers solely to make political CAPT
tai for Candidate Shields.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-19
Bnd News for Bryan.

The report that the populists in Nebraska
are deserting Bryan is bad news for that
parsonage. Bryan himself is populist and
by far the greater part of his supporters
in the west belong TO that element. If the
populists abandon him he will be in danger
even in the south. The pops were the big
end Of the Bryanite coalition in the western
states in 1896 and Bryan knew it. This is
why they got permission to run the fusion
in Nebraska this year. If his ticket is beaten
in Nebraska in 1899 the outlook in the ma
tional convention in. 1900 will be black for
Bryau.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-19

In 1896 Bryan and his clacqueurs told
the farmers that prices upon their grain
would never advance until the gold
standard of money had been replaced by
silver at the ratio of 16 to /. Time has
proved their yaporings to be mere parti-
san claptrap. And now some of their
organs are admitting the prevalence of
good prices and prosperity generally, but
they are careful to deny that good times
are due to the restoration of confidence
through republican administration.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-19
BewiIdcred by the Boers.

Paul Kruger's fighting men must possess
strange and mysterious power-that of
self-mutiplication on the shortest notice.
The largest estimate of their number before
the war broke out was $4,000, while any one
who takes the trouble to add up the number
Of Beers reliably reported" as concentrat-
ing opposite various British positions will
find that their present strength runs from
200,0 900 to 100000, according to the way the
English correspondents felt when they heard
that the enemy was coming.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-19

Iowa is trying to stir UP interest in
sugar beet culture through n beet sugar
convention called to discuss the adNisa-
bility of establishing beet sugar rae
tories throughout that state. Nebraska
is far ahead of Iowa in the beet sugar
industry, having already demonstrated
the adaptabillty of its soil TO beet cul-
turc hy supporting three beet sugar fac
tories. The Iowa farmer will make no
mistake in entering this new field.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-19

Attorney General Smyth is now deliv'
ering his famous lecture on "How to De-
stroy an Octopus" to the voters of the
state. The people of the state, however,
would have much more faith in the rem
edy if they could only see it in success
full operation. At present the trust
smasher is unable to present any testl-
monials from people who have been
nllrpl
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-19

People who live in glass houses should
abstain from throwing stones. The
wanton and malicious filings made by the
confusion organ and the popocratic cam
even upon people who are not running
for office, will provoke not only resent
ment but retaliation. And when the
rocks begin TO fly in the popocratic con-
servatory there is liable to be n lively
ducking of heads and rush for cover.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-19

The cattle pens of Nebraska will hold
more live stock the coming winter than
ever before in the history of the state.
Feed is so abundant and money so p!en'
tiful and the promise of good prices Sc
bright that live stock growers are pre-
pairing to reap rich harvest of shekels
by springtime. Corn and cattle are
worth more to Nebraska than Il hlon
dixie would be-
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-19

Cato Sells of Iowa was making a red
hot anti-administratio speech when a
band passed up the street playing "Stars
and Stripes Forever" The audience
stampeded and the speech has not been
finished yet. People over in Iowa, as
elsewhere, have very decided opinions
as to which procession they desire TO
march with.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-19

The Greater America Exposition will
remain open the entire period originally
projected, the gates closing at midnight
October 81. The people of Omaha and
Nebraska should make the best of the
short time remaining to enjoy the beau.
ties of the peerless buildings, grounds
and exhibits.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-19
Source of National wealth.

This country's grain crop of 1899 promises
to be one OF the greatest on record. At the
same time the shortage in other grain-pro-
ducing countries promises higher prices for
our surplus than have been known for years.
These are factors of national wealth that
nothing can disturb They mean money in
the pockets OF the people and as prices are
high they mean a vast deal OF money to be
spent in vivifying trade from top to bottom.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-19

The attorney general of Missouri has
found way TO make the insurance com
panies respect the antitrust law of that
state, another batch having just paid
fines of $1,000 each for joining rate
combination. Up to date the companies
have contributed about 100000 to the
state treasury for their persistence in
the belief that they could safely ignore
the law
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-19

The fusion city committee does not
seem to think it worth while to ill the
vacancy on the school board ticket
nominees who objected TO the use of his
name without his consent, The fusion
school board ticket is put up simply to
throw few boquets, as every one
knows it has not the ghost of chance
of coming within sight distance of elec
tion
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-19

The reception committees in the Bluffs,
having completed preliminary arrange
ments for greeting the Iowa volunteer
regiment, announce that everything will
be in readiness by the time the troops
arrive. 1t is predicted that there will be
great outpouring Of people from west.
ern Iowa points and the event promises
to be an epoch-maker in the annals of
the staid old town across the way.