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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-08-02

The fellow who predicted that it would befound
that Russell Sage had left lot Of his money to
charity, has another guess coming There was no
such word known to Sage as charity He left his
whole fortune to his wife, save and except an insg
nfcant bequest to sister, who died two years ago.
There is every probability that relatives at Troy, N.
Y will contest the will the ground Of undue inu-
ence. He left only $6OOOOOOO but as the widow is
seventy-fve eighty years Of age she probably will
not want for any necessities of life Here's hoping
the relatives of the miser will secure possession of
about $49, 10000 and spend it like unto drunken
sailor who has years wages in his trousers Still
water Gazette.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-08-02
Enemies Us. Enemies.

E7IEVIIHS OS. E7IHUIUES. !.
ENEMIES of the republic" is phrase very much
in evidence these days Considering it's ndiscrim-
nate by those who claim to be constructive and
those who engaged in the work of destruction it
is difficult to tell who is who Those who are dis
honest seem to be shouting as loudly those who
are crying stop thief. OF course those who IA
miliar with the game understand what is wrong and
arenot fooled by this old suberfuge but the
person is too bewildered at it all to thoroughly
prehend the situation.
When the unbiased bographer performs his
task will be given better opportunity to study
the lives of these at close range. Wewill then
know who were the real enemies of the republic
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-08-02

FOLLOWING the example Of the czar, the ~douma
has gone into the game Of issuing appeals to the
people The only trouble is, the Russian populace
court Of appeals is about eighty years behind the
docket Minneapolis Daily News
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-08-02
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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-08-02

IT is surmised that the reason Sage gave none of
his money to charity, education OF religion is
that he feared ncky folks might object to receiving
it because it was tainted. His heirs seem to be
troubled with no such qualms.-St Paul Dispatch.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-08-02
Among Our Exchanges.

ADMIRAL DEWEY has been attending old
settlers association If you don't believe George is
an old settler, ask some Spaniard.- Minneapolis
Daily News.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-08-02

published in the Minnesota State
the prisoners and is edited and
aged by objects
prisoners acquaint
disseminate pathological
prejudice which
selfedempon The entirely
public support time there
should surplus money would
interests of the prison library.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-08-03
THE YENNER pROPOSAL

Charles H. Venner, who figured quite
conspicuously in legal battles over the
control and possession of the Omaha
water works some years ago, has come
to the front with proposition to res
cue Omaha from the clutches of the
present water works monopoly by the
creation of a new water works monop-
oily under conditions that would trans
fer Omaha from the frying pan into
the fire.
/ Mr.. Venner's proposal contemplates
the purchase by the city OF Omaha of
the water works plant at the valuation
placed upon 1t by a majority of the
appraisers, $6,263, 900, and its resale
to a new Venner water works company
for the sum of $6.76S, 900 in bonds
$6,263,OOO in bonds and 100000 in
cash. 1t is proposed furthermore that
this $6.763 900 bond issue is to be part
of a 10000, 900 bond issue secured by
first mortgage on the water works
plant, of which $S,7S7.OOO of bonds are
to be issued in the future for the pur-
! pose of paying costs of extensions and
betterments. In consideration of these
ingenious suggestions the city is to
grant to Mr.. Venner a new franchise
for twenty-five years. with the privi-
| lege of re-purchasing the plant at the
end of that time. and in the meantime
to pay $4,000 year for the rental of
the existing hydrants and $50 per
annum for each additional hydrant
planted in future extensions of the
water mains, provided also that the
taxes against the new water company
shall not exceed $4,000 year.
Mr.. Venner is a clever stock broker
and he knows a thing or two about
stock watering and water works stocks.
We apprehend however. that Il will
take long pull, strong pull and a
pull all together, as they say at sea,
before he will be able to convince the
people of Omaha that they have any
thing TO gain by accepting his PROPOSE
ton.
To begin with, the contention of the
city of Omaha is that the actual value
of the water works plant does not ex-
coed S4.00O.00O, while Venner pro
poses to accept the appraisement with
out dedueting a penny. Assume, how
ever, that the city We're obligated TO
take the works at the hgure named by
Omaha daily bee., 1906-08-03


Tom Seldom a son OF the late premier
o. New zealend has been elected to rep
| resent Wesusnd In the New Zealand Par
] lament In succession to his father.
Senator LaFollette Is a vegetarian. His
daily menu consists OF fresh vegetables,
/ English walnuts and milk. and Il IL said
| prize fighter anxious to get into the pink OF
condition would envy him.
| Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace has gone
/ to Russia, on whose history and present
condition he Is a great authority. He &C
| companied the present car when as caro-
| vita he made the eastern tour in 1890.
| The German Foreign ONCE is considering
| the purchase OF the house at Vaiiima, sa-
moa, formerly owned by Robert Louis
! Stevenson, as a residence for the governor
The house was sold by Mr.. Stevenson's
heirs to Herr Kunst. merchant of Ham
| burg.
Prince Ferdinand Of Bulgaria is a very
distinguished ornithologist, and his knowl-
edge Of the science OF birds is edualed by
very few in Europe He devotes q good
deal Of time TO the subject, and is mem
Der Of the Ornithological Society Of
| Vienna.
Governor Cobb OF Maine Is to be present
at Camden, in that state, on August 30 at
the unwilling OF a tablet TO the memory
of Bill Conway, the United States sailor
who ct the outbreak Of the civil war re-
fused to haul down the American flag at
the navy yard at Pensacola. Fla.
The Congressional church Of Greenland,
N. II. celebrated its 20Oth anniversary on
| Thursday. The pastor of the church is
Rev. DR.. Edward Robe, who has served
the congregation for ffty-five years, and
L.
istence there have been but seven pas
tors.
Joseph Salmonson. who calls himself
"Nieva," Is exciting much amusement in
Paris, where he parades the streets dressed
only in a flowing white robe reaching to
his knees and wearing a gilt circlet on his
head. He declares he's the apostle Of the
simple life" His hair and beard have
never been cut.
The kaiser once told Admiral Evans that
of all the good stories his brother, Prince
Henry, brought back from America, none
amused him more heartily than this: As
the German boat bearing the prince came
up New York harbor hundreds of boats
crowded CLOSE and from the deck Of one
unpretentlous river boat came a hail In
megaphone tones: Hey, Henry, hows
| Bin?"
Sir Charles Tenant, though an octogena-
rian, has four daughters. the children Of
| his second wife, the oldest OF whom is
and the youngest still a mere infant. Mr..
Asquith and Lord Ribblesdale, the husbands
of his daughters by his first marriage.
have to stand some good-natured guying
from friends to inquire solcitiously after
the infant sisters-in-law of these dis
tinguished Englishmen OF advanced age.
Samuel Stillman Locke, . 74-year-old ath-
lete of Raymond. N. H., is out with a
challenge to walk any man over 60 years
old until one Of them gives out Locke
| has tried many times to get mp a match
with men in Raymond and adjoining towns,
but all seem afraid to take up his chal-
lenge. He boasts that he has never ridden
on a train, he never owned a horse and
that whenever he wants to go anywhere
| he walks.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-08-03
COLD STANDARD PROSPERITY.

The officially certified facts of the
experience of Mexico during its first
year under the gold standard. which
ended May 80. demonstrate benefits
unexampled in the history of that coun-
try and annihilate the representations
that few years ago became so famil-
lar to us concerning silver currency in
Mexico. The wisdom of Mexican states
in assimllating their monetary system
to that OF the other principal nations
Of the civilized world which secure a
stable bimetallic currency on the gold
standard with limitation of silver
coinage is thus again more than vindi-
Gated.
The fact Of the industrial prosperity
and progress Of Mexico while it still
delayed to join the world on the legal
lied gold standard of which our sill
verites sought fallaciously to make so
much, was of course not because of
its archaic coinage system, but in spite
of It. It's true basis was the substitu-
ton under the strong Diaz govern
ment OF public security and social
order for the old chaos of violence
and revolution. But, next to that.
nothing has been so beneficial as the
firm establishment of the gold stand
ard for strengthening the confidence
Of the world and promoting interna-
tional trade and internal growth.
Within the twelve months the capital
of incorporated banks has increased
$50, 100000, or one-third, with cor
responding increases of reserves and
loans, and over $150.OOO.00O Of new
foreign capital was invested in produc-
tive enterprises. And among the
proofs of extraordinary gain the off,
cial reports significantly show that the
farming industries have been stimu-
lated most of all, 1t is well indeed
for Mexico that the change was made,
but the result is so satisfactory that,
II 1t we're to be done over, the change
of legal standard would be made many
years sooner.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-08-03
TIE lnm1 REprRLrc.ns.

The Iowa republicans have cause for
self-congratulation. Contrary to the
expectation and prediction. the bitter
factional contest by which the party
had been convulsed for the past six
months has eliminated in the nomina-
ton Of ticket and the adoption OF a
platform that should restore harmony
among the Earring and warning ele-
ments and insure another victory for
the party next November.
The denomination Of Governor Cum
minis after a tremendous struggle, is
dlstinctively a personal victory, due
largely to the Overwhelming sentiment
against corporate domination Under
ordinary conditions the deep-seated
and widespread sentiment among the
rank and file of Iowa republicans
against the third term would have
proved a barrier to Governor Cummins'
ambition.
The platform shows signs of solicit
tude to avoid factional trouble. The
so-called Iowa idea as to tariff revision
has been materially modified and re-
vised by the platform makers so as to
embody a strong protection declara-
tion paraphraslng the last national re-
publican tariff plank. The pledge to
enact a primary law for the nomina-
! ton Of candidates for office by direct
vote is in line with the spirit of the
times, but while the corporations were
handled without gloves in the plat
form they managed to maintain a tight
rain on the positions in which they are
most vitality interested. With the en-
actment of the direct primary. this
/ pernicious interference with popular
self-government will become extremely
/ difficult and the emancipation of Iowa
! from corporate rule will be complete.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-08-03

the appraisers, where does IT gain any
advantage from Venner's proposition?
II Mr.. Venner can borrow $4,000, 900
on a first mortgage bond for the
Omaha water works plant. so can the
city, II II determines to own and op-
crate the works. II. however, the city
should desire to issue a new franchise.
the Venner proposal affords no advan-
tage or relief either to the taxpayers
or water consumers.
While ostensibly effecting a reduc-
ton of $4,000 a year on hydrant
rental, which as originally fixed was
regarded as fair for city of 10000
population, It would be excessive for a
city of 10000 population. and out of
all reason for a city of 100000 to
100000 population, which Omaha
surely will be within twenty-five years.
There is. moreover, not the slightest
allusion in Venner's proposal to a re-
duction of rates to consumers. who
must pay the freight If Omaha ever
gets into the frame of mind to grant a
new water works franchise it's policy
will be to throw the doors wide open
so that 1t may avail itself of the most
advantageous proposition.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-08-03
SHAKESPEARE IN OPERA.
Montreal Star.

Montreal Star.
The latest things in operas In London town
Are playful little PAROLES OH Mr.. Shake
TbeI Pe puf on PS Hamlet" with q ghost who
does a song and dance
And Hamlet, on behoiding him, lifts up a
lively clog -.
just a London fogf"
When old King Lear goes maundering
across the canvas lea,
His graceless daughter winks and says
Now. don't you Lear at mel
And Kent eXclaims when through the
storm he hears his monarch shout;
TITS pretty windy, amt II, king, to take
those whiskers outf"
And when his subjects hail the king. the
O.. old man says c9mPlainins; rrsva %
hall while l am reigningr
When dark Otheilo from the wars comes
Iago says: I'm scared Of him because
he looks so black" r.
And Desdemopa's stihsd while that Villain
Remarklng philosophicAlly the while: 81
hope she chokesl" lei.
And when Othello stabs himself, Iago. with
shouts out: There's always room where
you are bound for just one Moorr'
When Caesar gets the cleaning knives he's
OF show girls, while lean cassius mourns
Twas too much Roman punch"
Macbeth beholds the aged crones dance
round their bubbllnE pitch.
And asks them, with a grin OF giee; NOW
tell me, w'ich is witchf
and down by Avon's wave, !
It's said, the bard Is turning too-hea
turning in his grave.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-08-03
THE VEST AND FREE ALCOHOL.

The disposition manifested by the
American commission headed by John
W. Yerkes. commissioner of internal
revenue, which is studying the dena-
turized alcohol systems in force In
Europe, to magnify, the peril of fraud
on the revenue will naturally excite
apprehension lest our revenue regula-
lions may be drawn so as to prevent
manufacture of alcohol under the new
law in distilleries in the neighbor-
hoods where the grain and other raw
materials are produced. The west
especially has entertained the hope
that tax exemption of alcohol for fuel
and the arts might be the basis of
widely diffused system of local manu-
facture, as it has proved to be in sew
eral European countries, and particu-
larly in Germany. But If the Treasury
regulations are drawn with an eXag-
gerated fear of revenue frauds if there
be a large number of small local dis
tilleries, manufacture will be arbitrar-
lily concentrated in few mammoth es-
adjustments.
It is conceded by the American COM
missloners after investigation in Ger
many that frauds are practically un-
known there, Notwithstanding the regu-
lations are such that denaturized alco-
hol is produced by a great number of
small local distilleries but they ex-
press serious doubt whether similar
rules could be similarly enforced in
this country. To the ordinary mind
this looks like forcing theory in the
face of fact. whereas the reasonable
inference from experience abroad
should be that substantially the same
satisfactory revenue results would be
produced here.
Extreme multiplication of petty dis
tilleries beyond the point of safe or
economical revenue collections is
largely foreclosed by competitive ad-
vantages of large establishments at
central points. But on the other hand
the west will not be satisfied with a
scheme of regulations which Danish
manufacture from communities which
are at once extensive producers of the
raw materials and consumers of the
alcohol, and will insist that presump-
lions as to revenue frauds fairly stand
on experience abroad until they shall
be negatived by actual experience here.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-08-03
THIS YEARS ISSUE.
President RooseveIt's Record the
Campaign Argument for 1905.
Uonsoa ritv JournaI

| Kansas City Journal.
AS matter of political strategy the re-
publican congressional campaign committee
has made a shrewd move in making Presi-
dent Roosevelt's personality and his OK
ecutive record the chief issues OF the cam
paign this year.
Mr.. Roosevelt is, as a London writer ex-
pressed it the other day, easily the most
popular figure in American public life"
and consequently his party, which Is re-
sponsible for his acts, can we'll afford to
put him forward as the central figure"
and his achievements as the central
thought" in the campaign. In the next
place, being an of year in politics, when
change in national administration is inn
possible and furthermore, being the first
campaign since Roosevelt's election in 1904
the logical issue is what has been accom-
plshed so far by his administration. In
giving an account of his stewardship Presi-
dent Roosevelt is assured in advance of the
Endorsement and approval of the people,
| and therefore of their continued faith and
confidence in the party of which he is the
| leader.
The democrats have already virtually
confessed judgment on the issue thus
! framed and Joined for the decision of the
American voters. They have stamped
Roosevelts administration with tacit APP
prevail in their mournful complaint tina;
he has carried out their policies; or, as
they nut it, has stolen their clothes BY
this ingenious, though unconscious, ad-
mission they have put themselves out of
court. They are not only estopped, as
the lawyers say, barred from criticising
his policies and acts, but they have no
facts left suffcient 10 constitute cause
of action and to make out No
higher praise could be given the president
by an opposing party than its frank
/ statement that he has done just what it
would have done had IT been in power.
The American people, however, can
| form a pretty accurate opinion as TO
whether the administration has been a
/ democratic one in disguise, jackdaw In
peacock's plumage, and, judging by the
mast whether the democratic party could
be trusted TO carry out the policies which
the republicans have brought to tri-
umphant conclusion. Whenever the dem
ocrats have been given trial In national
administration since the war they have
made a sad mess Of IT. betraying their
utter incapacity to execute any policies
whatever. Witness their tarin hzEle in
1904. which cost the country so dearly,
and which even democratic president
denounced as "a contract with perhdy and
dishonor,"
The republican party says that Roose-
Welt is all right and claims an endorse
ment of him at the hands OF the people
! this fall so that his administration may
be uDlifted and strengthened for it's work
in the future Inasmuch as the democrats
admit that he is right. the verdict is apt
to be pretty nearly unanimous.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-08-03
wnAr nroomn. oF rnr prMn.,
Question that is Now wOrryinR the
Treasury Omctals.


| chicago ITibuna
| In some parts OF the country trouble is TO-
ported on account Of the scarcity OF dimes.
what becomes Of the dinaes7 An oaiciai in
Washington suggests that because the coun-
try is prosperous people keep dimes IN their
pockets 20 hear them Jingle. This position
Is not tenable, because any other coin would
Jingle just as well. and if people are so
prosperous as TO nnd pleasure in jinslins
coins in their pockets they would be likely
to use larger ones for the purpose.
The penny-in-the-slot machines are held
responsible for q scarcity Of pennies. Street
car lines and automatic telephones acoumu-
late nickel scent pieces but there is no par
ticular use for dimes that would cause them
| to be concentrated in the hands OF a FEY
corporations II is not likely that they 81
boarded in children's savings banks 60 the
extent that pennies and nickels arc, because
It does not take many dimes 70 make a dol
lar, and dollars are deposited in banks
where they draw interest and then the
coins are released to go back into ciroula-
ton. ...r .....
Estimating the coinage Of dimes since the
publication OF the last report OF the d.
| rector OF the mint as averaging the same
as in the last few years reported. there have
| been coined from 17s3 20 the present day
about s9OOo0oOO dimes. More than half Of
these, however, have been coined in the
last twenty years, and the older ones have
largely disappeared from circulation. In
the year 1903 the different mints Of the
United States received nearly $4,000 dimes
which we're retired as uncurrent, a number
almost exactly equal to one-third the
| coinage for the year. II lie probable that
there are not in circulation more than three
dimes for each inhabitant Of the United
States. The slight relation which the total
| coinage, OF even the amount outstanding.
bears to the amount in circulation is shown
by the fact that there are still outstanding
about 10000 half cents, 100000 2-cent
pieces and 100000 nickel Scent pieces.
which no one ever secs and which may
have been lost or melted long ago, but are
| still on the treasury books as outstanding
| In view OF the statistics the scarcity OF
dimes need not be wondered at The only
extraordinary thing is that any one should
complain, There is nothing a dime will buy
that cannot be paid for in other coins with
almost equal convenience Any kind OF
money is good II there is plenty altogether.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-08-03

who will vote against making any con-
vention nomination Of United States
senator at all. and turn the selection Of
the senator over to the legislature,
where the corporate interests and cor
rupting lobby can get in their smooth
operations as before. IL behooves
every republican county convention
still to be held in Nebraska to instruct
its delegates for It's preferred candi-
date for United States senator and,
whether agreed on senatorial prefer
ences or not, both to instruct the state
delegation to vote for the nomination
of the senator in strict accord with the
convention call as issued by the state
committee, and to pledge its legislative
nominees to the candidates for United
States senator endorsed by the state
convention.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-08-03
PRESIDENT AS PEACE CHAMPION.
Award of Nobel Prize 10 MIR. Roosevelt
IL Interesting.
Philadelphia Public Ledger.

Philadelphia Public Ledger.
The report that the great Nobel peace
prize IL 70 be given 20 President Roosevelt
this year is interesting. Let us hope that
Il Is true The Nobel prize OF $4,000 Is
given each year 10 that person who shall
have best or most promoted the fraternity
OF nations and the adjustment or diminu-
ton of standing armies and the formation
and Increase OF peace congresses"
Lest any one should be surprised that
our most strenuous public man, the -four
isher Of the big stick, the champion OF a
great navy and hghting army, the bellicose
Roosevelt. who has lauded war as an anti
dote TO the cankers OF a long peace, should
be chosen as the peace champion, II may be
well 70 mention that the president very
promptly and successfully used his good
Offices TO mediate between Russia and
Japan.
But even IL the president had not ended
the Russo-Japanese war, It would be wise
and polite for the trustees TO grant the
prize to him. There Is a wise principle
underlying such a selection. In the west,
In troublous frontier days, the most bellig-
erent man in the post or town was always
chosen TO act as town marshal. When
killings were Of everyday occurrence the
leading citizens we're wont 70 make the
chief bad man" marshal Then there was
peace because on the side OF peace was the
man most expert at gun play the man
with the most notches on his pistol grip,
who would have peace II he had to fght
for a."