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Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-02
KHAr DOES RussIA MEANi

This question in connection with the
Russian note relative to trusts, seems to
be giving some concern to certain Of
hcials at Washington as well as to those
Of foreign governments. The most re-
cent conjecture reported is that Russia
is either preparing to recede from her
position on the ~bounty-fed sugar ques-
ton, or preparing to negotiate a new
trade treaty with the United States for
the purpose of onsetting the proposed
discrimination OF foreign governments
against Russian sugar. II is intimated,
states a Washington dispatch, that Rus
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-02
HoNI SOFT aUI NAL z PENsE.

E. 8. Martin in Kansas City Star.
1t was my happy lot to meet
Upon a late occasion,
While seeking of the summers heat
Agreeable evasion,
BY visiting a resort
OF fashion-where, no matter
A maid whom there was none to court,
And very few to fatter..
Her head had not the graceful poise
OF A~phrodite's statue;
Her hair reminded you of boys;
Her nose was pointed at you.
A derby hat, the selfsame sort
The fashionable male owes
Money for, she used for sport
As angels do their halos.
She seldom walked in silk attire,
But commonly in flannel:
Not yet in oils did she aspire
To figure on a panel,
Because she could not help but see
She was not tall nor slender;
Nor did she deem her curves to be
S~uperlauvely tender.
Some prudish DANES did her abus
With censure fierce and scathing,
Because she happening 10 lose
Her stocking while in bathing,
Deemed such a loss of little note,
And simply tied the plagued
Stocking round her little throat
And reappeared barelegged.
I do not think that for the pelf
OF eligible boobies,
Or for the chance 10 deck herself
With diamonds and rubies,
Or for her standing in the books
Of prtm and proper ladies,
Or for their disappearing looks
She cared a oot from hades.
Though competent to hold her tongue
When circumstance demanded
Speech, she was, for one so young,
Astonishingly candid.
She sang the ~vulgarest OF songs,
Which sung by her were funny,
And never brooded Ger her WronRp-
Nor boarded up her money.
It's true this careless damsel's fame
At last grew somewhat shady,
But II the man disposed to name
Her fast, or not a lady,
VIII in The present writer's way
CONSIDERABLY toddle,
This writer thinks that person may
Get punched upon his noddle.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-02

The Iowa State Board Of Equalization
has raised the assessment Of the rail-
roads in that state over $4,OO0,OO Iowa
has been held up to the Nebraska as
sessment board as a model Of high taxa
ton, but according to members Of the
Real Estate exchange who have just re-
turned from Lincoln the Nebraska state
board declares that "Rosewater has
made nc case on railroad assessments"
Possibly the state board may be induced
to revise its opinion after the supreme
court has rendered its decision.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-02

Nebraska is not 30 insIstent, that all
the experimental reservoirs provided for
under the new irrigation law, be To-
Gated within its borders, but want to
get the benefits OF the stored water. II
a reserve DIR is built across the Wyoming
line It should be neal enough to fur
nish water for Nebraska farms too. but
Nebraska ought to have n or more
OF the experimental reservoirs for itself
to@ )
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-02

1t turns out that the estate left two
years ago by a London merchant to pub
lie purposes, supposed to have been
worth about $1,O00,OOO, in reality
amounts to more than 100000 This
reverses the usual rule. Most estates
shrink like a cake of ice under a sum
mer sui when they get into the admin
istrator's hands.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-02
Bryan's DeIusive Crowds.
Detroit Free Press.

Democratic managers in the east are
making the common mistake OF attributing
great political significance to the immense
crowds that turn OUT 70 hear Mr.. Bryan's
speeches. Experience has shown that Mr..
Bryan always draws large crowds, but the
crowds do not necessarily mean a heavy
democratic vote. Mr.. Bryan will be
greeted by large audiences as long as he
remains In politics, because he is easily
the most graceful and fascinating political
speaker in the United States.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-02

Rock Island reorganization may run
up against a snag in Iowa. The privi-
lege Of paying perpetual tolls on oceans
of watered stock and Inflated bonds is
not appreciated by the people who have
% patronize the road.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-02

Colonel Arthur Lynch OF the British
army, accused Of treason. explains that
he was in the Boer lines only as a cor
respondent Of French and American pub
locations. II representing an American
magazine on the field constitutes treason,
the price OF war correspondents may be
expected TO go up.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-02

Those California earthquakes are now
ascribed to disturbances created by
gases in the interior OF the earth. This
fortunately let's out several eminent
windbags who might be blamed for
emitting gases on the exterior OF the
earth's surface.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-02
An Outrageous Policy.
New YORK Times.

1t may be there is no way OF reaching
the coal presidents and impressing them
with a sense of their public duty, but
the obligation devolves upon all independ-
ent newspapers to denounce their policy as
an outrage upon the rights OF the coal
consuming public. II the state OF Penn
~sylvania does not see to it that such a
crime against the public welfare is not
again committed it will be derelict in
its duty to Its own people and to the sister
hood Of states.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-02

Another Arctic explorer has come back
from the frozen north "bafied, but not
beaten" The consolation consists in the
knowledge that no one else has reached
the pole ahead of him.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-02

Nothing would please Omaha people
better, without regard to religious creed
or denomination, than to have this city
made the seat Of a western archlepis-
copal see for the Roman Catholic church,
with Bishop Scannell advanced to the
archbishopric.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-02

1t is said that many OF the Americans
who participated in the reception to
Prince Henry and who were selected
to receive decorations in recognition of
their hospitality. have declined the deco
rations. This must be a new experience
for Emperor William. He 10 not aecus-
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-02

If our Deadwood friends will return
the visit during the week Of Ak-Sar-
Ben's carnival, his royal highness will
see to it that they are treated to some
thing at least as good as a ride in the
patrol wagon.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-02

General Jacob H. Smith has arrived in
this country from the Philippines, but
disereetly declines to talk for publica-
ton. General Smith seems finally to
have realized that he has done too much
talking already.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-02
Corn is King This Year.

Cincinnati Commercial-Iribune.
It is Corn that Is King this year, in his
mantle, Of gold and his plumago Of the
color of the sun. The voice of the
calamity crasher is too far off for King
Corn tn hear It.. and too far for the nennla
to heed It. 1t is Corn that is King this
year of grace 1901
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-02

1t is worthy of note that the warning
that Superintendent of Schools Pearse
was about to be stolen away from us by
an Irresistible bid from Cleveland for
omaha's renowned educator was evil
IDENTIFY a false alarm.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-02

toned to having his favors turned back
in fact. NO subject of the German en-
peror would dare to refuse a pronered
honor. But the sovereign American
citizen has a perfect right to accept or
reject gifts or decorations no matters
what their source.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-02

The only wonder is that some Of our
enterprising yellow journal contempt
raries have not discovered that in the
recent incorporation OF a group Of
trained nurses in this city for mutual
benefits Is not the seed Of an odious
trained nurse trust.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-02

Jim Dahlman is out already for Bryan
for president in 1904. Dahlman is said
to have put up money in 1900 that New
York would give it's electoral vote to
BRYAN.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-02

The republicans of Iowa appear to be
well satisfied with the work Of their
state convention and they alone have
the votes to back it up at the polls.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-02
Another Penalty of Prosperity.

Since horses have become valuable the
horse thief industry has picked up, and has
become so hourishing in southern Minne-
sofa hat the sherifs OF several adjoining
counties have organized an anti-horse
thief society.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-02

Governor Savage finds that to pick out
four suitable business men out Of poli-
tics for members Of his new Omaha po-
lice board is much easier said than done.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-02

knnther pertinent question. What
does Governor Savage W to Congress-
man Mercer? What did Mercer ever do
for Savage7
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-02
sTATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.

State Of Nebraska, Douglas County, S.:
George u. T~zschuck, secretary of The Bee
Publishing Company, being duly sworn,
complete copies OF The Daily, Morning,
Evening and Sunday Bee printed during
the month of July. 1902. was as follows.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-02
New scheme for Chicago Folks.
Chicago News.

Now the man who wants to account for
the loss Of his money does not have to
tell how he was held UP. He simply
misses it from his safety deposit vault.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-02

Buffalo Bill lie the one eminent Ne
braskan whose continued hold on the
people no one will question.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-02

1t ought not to be necessary for Ak
sar-Ben knights to go all the way to
Deadwood to break into Jail.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-02
Another Case for Arbitration.

Colonel Watterson and Colonel Bryan may
settle It between themselves as to which
ones assaults have had the most effect on
the Fat Fisherman.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-02
An Overlooked Opportunity.


Milwaukee, Wlsconslo.
Curious some Nebraska special corre-
spondent doesn't wire a story Of q farmer
whose potato crop was harvested for him
by the earthquake, without cost.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-02

A ~peaceable strike is the one that
brings best and most permanent re-
suits.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-02

ANGW AOIk 6uHs hnlCkeI-M mat OGCAUl0
Of your resolution not to eat Welsh rabbit?
Bocker-It was laid on the table.
Detroit Free Press: wnlie-say, pop,
give me a nickel for a poor, lame man.
Wilie-He runs the lemonade stand on
the corner,
Town Topics: Cobwigger-If he's going
to spend his vacation there again this
summer there must be something nice
Merritt-fhere is, but he wouldn't tell
me her name.
a GOOD MANY automobile ~enthHsiasts in
this town" said the stranger.
There are,' replied the hotel keeper,
but what made you think there were3'
A / came in on the train / saw your
cemetery. IL seems to be full of new
graves"
Chicago Tribune: ''Guten Morgan" said
the man with the bones, in as good German
as he COULD en- u,,A
the tambourine.
And the band played THE Man That
Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo"
,s sgdF g..s, Il .t tel .g you y What att them San.I bu TsIs
trip. boosted Uncle Siias.
''They didn't, hey2"
mo, stree. I lost my pocketbook on the
way to own an they wasn't nothin' fer
Chicago News: Her Father-Have you
any prospects of being able to support my
daughter in the style in which she is ac-
customed7
suitor-Sure. / may say in ali confidence
that everything in that direction is al
together In the prospective.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-02
SATURDAY SMILES.

New York Sun: Knicker-What became
of your resolution not to eat Welsh rabbit?
Bocker-It was laid on the table.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-02

In the great university OF berhn thero
are now more than 1,70O students in the
law department. and in the medical de-
partment the total exceeds 1000. Prus-
STA is not likely to suffer from a scant
supply Of lawyers or Of doctors. But
with philosophers it may be even more
generously provided, because In the So
called philosophical department the uni
Verslty r~ejoices over the presence and the
assiduous devotion Of nearly 2,70O acolytes
of learning. Thrice fortunate Prussia.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1902-12-24
High Waters.

The rise in the Ohio liver is
making trouble for steamboat in
terests in the vicinity of Cincinnati.
The entire fleet of the Peoples Coal
Company was torn loose from its
moorings on the Kentucky shore
Dec. l6, and swept down the river.
Part of the feet wasl lost. Nearly all
the small streams in Kentucky were
out of their banks and heavy dam
age is reported from many lOcali-
ties. Henry Taylor was drowned at
Almo, Galloway county, while try
ing to save cattle, and there is a
rumor of the loss of five lives at
Boaz. Graves county.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1902-12-24
Reversal.

The Court of Appeals, Judge
DuRelle writing Wednesday re-
versed the judgment of the Scott
Circuit Court in the case of Kelly
against Ferguson and eight other
cases involving the city offices OF
Georgetown. The county election
commission gave the offices, from
down, to the Democratic can
didates. The Republicans contest
ed in the Scott Circuit Court,
charging fraud in the mutilation of
ballots in certain precincts by the
use of thumb stencils.
Judge Cantrill decided against
them and allowed the Democratic
incumbents to remain in office. The
case will come before the new court
in January on petition for rehear-
ing.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1902-12-24

baggy at the knee and utterly
busted at the dome, for the poor ;
the dancing lady gets 5000 week
and the city missionary 5000 a
year; the horse race scoops in
$4,000 the first day and the church
fair lasts week, works twenty five
or thirty of the best woman in
America nearly to death, and comes
out $40 in debt"
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1902-12-24
Summer Coon.
ON CHURCH UsIc.
mont Pelee india

mont Felee lnula
Brother Mcgarvey-i believe you
are right about this music in
churches, Think myself Tha ar
using to mulch organ and horn
Blowing in the house of the lords.
| am in favor of more chin music
and les operatic purformanc in the
house of the lords, tho don't think
there is eny harme in a good musl-
cal instrement if tina play the right
kind of hims and tones on them
sutch as sweet home and / wont go
home until morning hav always
admired them etc if tina wer sung
and played right, Sum times our
church singers sings a little to
scattering but that, caused by them
wanting to initiate sum opry troop
tina had herd the night before prob
ebly, l don't think the time is fare
off when you cant see eny diferanc
between a church quir and a opry
orchestr, stile and fashion is dun
gon a head of the good lords cal
culation long ago, the onley way to
come out successful now is to follow
the majority right or rong, if our
forefarthers and mothers could
come back here now and see our
church performenc they would say
olde nick has captured the whole
load, wee don't weary eny in our
political faith but wee keep in tuch
with all religious changes, it wont
be long before wee peopel of this
world will be able to convince the
master that his Book is back num-
Der and of no intrust now whatever
wee are getting smarter all the time,
wee have dropped the bible standard
and taken the gold standard for
our salvation, it don't matter who
you are and where you are, you are
a lost chicken if you have no mon
ey in this world, l stopped and
stayed all night not long ago in the
mountains with a old friend and
when bed time come he ses let us
neel for prayer he began thvs
good lord have murcy
on NEE and my wife
my sun Jake and his wife
us fore and no more
amen
Summe, cocoon
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1902-12-24
Will be Ready For a Fight.

The men of-war in Admiral
Dewey's fleet hove been placed dur
ing the holidays under disposition
of the Secretary of the Navy in
view of the complications arising
in Venezuelan waters. The report
ed object of the move is to place
the ships directly in control of that
department, which will be in con-
slant communication and CO opera
ton with the State Department.
Venezuelan affairs were considered
Dec. 16, by the the Senate in ex-
ecutive session, but no action be-
you'd a general discussion was
taken. Signor de Riva, the Italian
Minister at Caracas, presented his
Governments ultimatum to Ven
ezula Tuesday, and Wednesday he
took refuge on an Italian cruiser.
The British Foreign Office in Lon
don gives no assurance that the
plea for arbitration will be accept
ed by the English Government.
1t has been learned that an officer
on the German cruiser Vlneta was
killed during the bombardment the
10, of the fortress at Puerto
Cabello. Spain and Belgium have
indicated that they desire a settle
ment of their claims against Ven
ezuela.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1902-12-24
Arbitration Decided Upon.

Arbitration has been decided up
on by the Venezuelan Government
as a means of escape from the pres
emit international difficulty. A dis
cussion of terms of settlement was
begun Wednesday afternoon at
Caracas, and the United States
Minister Bowen will be one of the
arbitrators. The Venezuelan Gov
eminent is in fear that coercive
measures would follow an actual
blockade. Leading citizens of Car
acas petitioned President Castro to
yield to the demands of the allies.
In the House of Commons Premier
Balfour admitted that peaceful
blockade" does not exist, adding
that the war had practically been
in progress since the appearance OF
the allies fleet off the South Amer
lean coast. Admiral Dewey re-
ceived orders from the Secretary OF
the Navy to dispatch torpedo
boat destroyer TO La Guaira to be
put at the service of Minister BON
en- in case cable communication is
interrupted by the blockade.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1902-12-24
MISCELLANEOUS PRICES

Best Air Gun made, 69c each
Extra nice fancy White Bowl and
Pitcher, csc per set
Best Skates in the city, 5Sc a pair
Don't fail to get a Basket of
Dishes for 81 per basket, witch
contains Cups and Saucers, 6
Plates, Meat Dish 125 inches
long, 4-gallon Water Pitcher, one
Vegetable Dish, 6 Glasses, Bowl
and Basket-29 pieces in all
Don't fail to price our fine Chi
mas and Carving Sets, Silver Knives
and Forks, Chamber Sets, Dinner
sets
Don't fail to get one of those
100-Piece Dinner Sets we have
been selling at 81 so for the price
of S5-this is only for a few days,
so be sure and get one.
And don't fail to get one of our
So 12-Piece Chamber Sets we have
sold at $3.50. These goods are
bargains
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1902-12-24
THE ScRIBBLER

The devil of a North Missouri
paper has an ambition to become a
paragrapher. The other day he
produced the following, which he
submitted to the editor:
There are no hair on fog.
Good apples grow high, also
cherries.
The humble bee looks prett but,
cut him out.
The farmer what raises wheat
can get full and raise other things.
The Lord made the earth, but
Morgan and Carnegie own it,
A corn is a wart on your toe
corns and warts is just the same,
only different.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1902-12-24
LAND, STOCK AND CROP ITEMS

j. w. Redford and Jacob Hugue-
ly, both of Danville, sold to Simon
We'll, of Lexington, 200 fine export
cattle, averaging l, 800 pounds each,
at $3.50 per hundred.
While attending the cattle show
at Chicago last week, T. G. Robin
inson, Of Winchester, sold a COW
for $500, one for 1855, heifer for
$500 and a bull calf for $3.50.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1902-12-24

Here is good one from the San
Francisco Call; ga new Jersey
man claims to have an educated
alligator ten feet long, who will eat
from the same plate with the house
hold cat, without trying to swallow
either the cat or the plate, and now
if the alligator trainer will whirl in
and train some of those New Jersey
trusts to eat from the same dish as
the public, without devouring the
public, he will be national bene-
factor"
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1902-12-24
OUR 10 CENT COUNTER GOODS

6 nice Table Glasses
6-quart Covered Buckets
Fine Line of Pictures
Nice Wool busters
Vases, 9 inches High
Fine Line of S-inch Glass Bowls
! gallon Glass Pitchers
China After-Dinner Cofees
Fine Line Cups and Saucers
Medallions
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1902-12-24
.Jim Howard Grant d a new Trial
Democratic JUDGES Dissent.

The Court Of Appeals has grant
ed James Howard new trial.
Howard is under sentence OF life
imprisonment for the murder OF
William Goebel and has already
been tried twice.
The opinion in the Howard case
was Written by Judge DuRelle and
rdissented from by Judges White,
Paynter and Hobson.
y The court holds that it was i'm
y proper on cross examination to
g make Howard answer questions as
I to the details of the shooting Of
george Baker in Clay county and
as to whether or not he killed Tom
Baker.
Discussing the closing argument
of the counsel of the State, the
court says:
'It is impossible in reading this
record to escape the conclusion that
counsel determined to get around
the former opinion of this court
and by indirection and innuendo
get before the jury exactly what
toHs court had said should not be
PROVEN, and that they succeeded in
their undertaking, having got be-
fore the jury statement that the
defendant was indicted for the muir
der of George Baker: that he was
seeking pardon for that otfense;
that he had been in the Richmond
jail; that he was seeking the assis-
lance of Laurel county jury to
obtain pardon; that he was un-
der suspicion of the murder Of Tom
Baker, committed under circum-
stances similar to the killing OF
Goebel, with which he is charged.
These matters were argued to the
idry as if proven, and doubtless
produced the same effect upon the
minds of the jury.
eve do not undertake to say
that each and every one of these
matters would be prejudicial in and
Z of itself alone, but together in the
manner IN which they were pre-
sented to the jury they were pre-
judicial in /. high degree.
.Upon the second trial an in
xtruction was offered by the ac-
cused, and refused, that he could
not be convicted upon evidence of
what others did, but must be con-
victed, if at all, only upon his own
acts and conduct, which must be
proved beyond reasonable doubt.
Judge Guffy concurs in the re-
versal for the sole reason that the
court did rot give the instruction
indicated in the opinion, but holds
that no other error was committed
by the court to the prejudice of
the appellant.
The case will likely be reheard
by the new Court of Appeals, which
will be Democrat by to 2 after
abe first of next year.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1902-12-24
5 kinds Felt Boots Guthrie Clo.C

The Senate Wednesday passed
the Pension Appropriation Bill, car
rying $139, SAT, 900, and an urgent
deficiency bill representing the sum
of $1,14S, 400. An item of $780,
600 to enable the Secretary of Ag-
riculture to stamp out the foot and
mouth disease is included in the
latter measure.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1902-12-24

The clothes press is a swell for
garments nice and neat; the hay
press is a good machine and does
its work complete; the cider press
is lovely with its juice so red and
sweet, but the printing press con-
trolls the world and gets there with
both feet.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1902-12-24

The poet who wrote a flaming
poem on martyrdom in which oc-
CURED the line. "See the pale mar
tyr in his sheet of fire" was cut to
the heart when it came out in the
village paper: "See the tall martyr
with his shirt on fire."
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1902-12-24

A certain young man who de-
tected a piece of bark in his sau-
sage went to the butchers shop to
know what had become of the rest
of the dog. The butcher is re-
ported to have been so affected that
he could only give him part of
the tale.