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THE Oat AH A DAILY EE; TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1001.
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I'AIITIKS MJ.VVUVQ 1'OIt SUM.MI2II.
I'nrtlrN iravliiK tlx city tor
the summer imiy hnve The lire
sent to tli nil romilnrly by ,
mitlfyliiK 'I'll if lire Uimlnes
tilllee, In person or by mall.
'1'lie nil lire III be cliuneeit
n often na dralieil.
KIiik Corn Ift causing greater nnxlety
to tli(! rullroiul kings tlmii nil the so
cialists rind anarchists.
IMcrro I.orlllard, tlio horsey New York
inultl. millionaire, will he remembered
chiefly ns the paternal progenitor of
Pierre Lorlllnrd, Jr., und Pierre Lorll
lnrd III.
The three great rnllwny combinations
have divided up the coal transportation
east of the Mississippi river. The small
boy and the hired man still have the
privilege of carrying It Into the house.
Porto'Hlcans are said to be clamoring
lustily for free trade, but tho principal
beneficiaries of free trade between t' u
United Stales and Torto Illeo will be
the Tobacco and Sugar trust mnguates.
The rivers and harbors committee Is
on a tour of Investigation. Before the
members prepare another appropriation
bill they should more accurately
measure the How of senatorial elo
quence. Omaha's exposition contingent at Buf
falo Is preparing to transfer Its experi
ence and enterprise to St. Louis. When
it num once embarks In the show busi
ness he Is uever satlslled with any other
vocation.
Dairy products for export are to be
Inspected and branded by the govern
ment, certifying their purity. The
consumer at homo must continue ns
heretofore to take his chances on get
ting butter or axle grease.
Kansas railroads are complaining they
cannot get cars enough to hnndle the
wheat crop. It Is no use to look north
for help tho Nebraska roads will soon
luivo all they can do to handle their
own' troubles In that line.
Robert Plnkbfne, who was the active
supervisor of the building of the Iowa
state capltol, Is dead at his home In
lies Moines. In the building he leaves
behind lilm a magnificent monument,
honestly constructed and all paid for.
It has been discovered that the
original order to Dewey to attack the
Spanish licet at Manila Is unsigned and
the Identity of the man who wrote It Is
unknown. There Is no doubt about what
happened as the result of the order,
however.
From present Indications Omaha Is
destined to retain for the present sea
son at lenst-tlie distinction of being the
only, city to make an exposition a pay
ing Institution. The attendance at
Buffalo, while on tho Increase, is still
disappointing.
The building permits Issued up to July
1 Indicate that more than $1,000,000 will
bo expended for store houses and dwell
ings In Omaha during the present sea
son, but the question Is, Will these Im
provements be visible on the assessment
roll In 1002?.
Property owners ou Harney Rtrect.
between Sixteenth and Twentieth,
should make haste with their petitions
for replnclng rotten wooden blocks with
asphalt pavement. It Is doubtful
whether they will get another chance
for repnvlng the street at $1.50 per ynrd
within tho next ten years.
Will Nebraska never cease to rub It In
on tho calamity howler? It Is now an
nounced that, Instead of being a bor
rower from the east, Nebraska banks
have actually loaned over $1,000,000 to
New York. The popocratlc orator must
hunt up a now song, tho ono about the
"poor, poverty-stricken farmer" will
not answer this season, for It Is from
tho rural districts that this surplus
money comes.
nvn Aamcvi.Tvn.iL kxpohts.
The mainstay of our export trade Is
agricultural products. The foreign de
mnnd for these, as shown by the report
Just Issued from the Department of
Agriculture, has been steadily growing
and there Is reason to believe that It
will continue to grow. The facts pre
sented by this report, covering the last
live years, are highly Interesting nnd
Instructive. The best customers for
our agricultural products are tho United
Kingdom nnd Germany, but there Is a
wide disparity between these, the
former taking three times as much as
the latter In the lust llscal year. With
the exception of a single year we sent
more agricultural products to the
United Kingdom In 1000 than ever be
fore and more to Germany than In any
other year.
These are fact.1 worthy of attentive
consideration In connection with the
question of commercial relations with
those countries. The United Kingdom
will not need less of our agricultural
products this year than It did last year
and the probability Is that Germany
will require more. Neither country can
therefore afford to do anything that will
reduce- the Imports of our products.
We have already referred to the bread
stuffs deficit In Germany, which accord
ing to a report of the American consul
general at Berlin will be almost un
precedented. Such Is the alarming char
acter of the situation thnt a number of
propositions looking to relief are under
consideration. The one measure that
would be most beneficial, however, a
reduction of the Import duties on grain,
Is not among these propositions, but it
Is wife to say that the demand of the
agrarians for nn Increase of duties will
not be heeded. That would mean dearer
bread for the German consumers and tho
government will hardly venture to In
crease the cost of living to the German
people.
In some of the other Kuroncnn coun
tries the situation Is not very much bet
ter than lit Germany. Prance, Belgium
and Italy, ns now Indicated, will need
as much of our agricultural products
this as last year, when the aggregate
value of their Importations was upwards
of $73,000,000. In none of these coun
tries will the grain production of the
present year be beyond the average, If
up to It, and they must look to this
country to supply the deficit. It Is
noteworthy that the most striking gain
In our agricultural exports disclosed by
the figures of the last five years was
lu the Asiatic trade, which rose from
about $0,000,000 In 1800 to nearly $23,
000,000 in 1000.
It would seem to be a safe conclusion
from the facts of the situation, as now
presented, in which there Is not likely
to be any Important change, that so fai
ns exports of our agricultural products
are concerned they are not likely to
suffer from any adverse Europeau
legislation. The agrarian acltatlou for
higher Import duties on breadstuffs
will hardly bo heeded under existing
circumstances.
THE UUASOX WHY.
Tho Deo seems to bo. displeased with ..no
recently organized "Municipal, league." to
the extent that Tho Ueo editor prints a
letter alleged to bavo been written by a
tuxpayor la which Tho Bee's position Is
upheld nnd tho organization of a "tax
payers' league" suggested.
Why will not tho Municipal league nil
the bill? This organization has been set
on foot by a body of reputable taxpayers.
World-Herald.
The letter purporting to have been
written by a taxpayer Is genuine nnd
can be Inspected lu this olllcc by any
one doubting Its authenticity.
The Municipal league will not fill the
bill of a taxpayers' league for the rea
son that some of the reputable taxpay
ers In the league enjoy well established
reputations for tax shirking and tax
lighting. One of Its leaders, for exam
ple, appeared before the county board
to protest against the Increase of the
assessment of the South Omaha stock
yards. While this was perfectly
legitimate by renson of his profession
as an attorney, he would cut a sorry
figure In n taxpayers' league in de
manding an equitable assessment of
corporations that have been under
valued by assessors and equalizers. Tho
very fact that no one In the Municipal
league dared evqn to whisper against
the rank favoritism exhibited by the
assessors affords abundant proof that
the league cannot be depended ou to
fight the battles of the taxpayers.
A PFAWLKXtxa QUESTION, m.,
Hcpresentatlvo Dnlzoll of Pennsyl
vania, who Is a member of the ways and
means committee and a leader of the re
publican side of thp house, has been
talking on the subject of concessions to
Cuba. lie. spoke of It as ouo.of the most
Important questions that will come be
fore congress and said thnt It will havo
to be dealt with broadly. What the
course of procedure will be he did not
venture to say, but ho expressed the
opinion thnt there will be a great deal
of embarrassment In adjusting the
wishes of tho Cubans to our local con
ditions, lie thought we may expect to
find a great deal of sentiment In this
country favorable to the generous treat
ment of the Cubans consistent with our
own Interests.
Mr. Dalzell said the dllHcultlcs In the
way are readily apparent. "The Cu
bans will ask a market for their sugar.
If wo can, as Secretary Wilson, of tho
Department of Agriculture, asserts, pro
duce In this country from beets raised
by our farmers all tin, sugar we con
sume, there Is n problem right nway.
The beet sugar Industry, Is. extensive
and growing. The fanners engaged lu
raising the beets and the men who turn
the raw material Into the llnished prod
uct by the Investment of cnpltnl In man
ufacturing plants will Insist upon pro
tection. Then there nre our own citi
zens who will wnut less. restricted com
mercial relations with Cuba. It Is not
to bp expected that tho Cubans, will ad
mit our dairy products, .our flour and
meal, our machinery, agricultural Im
plements, boots and shoes and clothing
Into their country upon less favorable
tariff terms than ire glvo them for their
stnplo products." Mr. DnUell stated
that ho favors reciprocity upon the lines
laid down In tho republican national
platform last year and up to the point
Micro It does not conflict with the prin
ciple of the American protective tariff.
The more this question of commercial
relations between Cuba and the United
States Is considered the more perplexing
It becomes. The fact Is very generally
recognized that the Industrial and com
mercial development nnd the prosperity
of Cuba, as well as tho maintenance of
peace and order In the Island, depend
upon tho marketing of Its staple prod
ucts In this country. If the Cubans can
not profitably dispose of their sugar
and tobacco lu the American market
they cannot do so nny where. And lu or
der that they may sell them prolltably
hero they must have a preferential
tariff. Senator Lodge has expressed the
opinion that the preference need not bo
very great to enable Cuba to success
fully compete with other countries from
which we Import sugar.
But, as wo have heretofore pointed
out and as Itcprcscutntlvc Dalzell sug
gests, there Is our domestic sugar Indus
try to be considered and also our tobacco
Industry. Can we go ou developing
these, until they reach a production
equal to the home consumption, as pre
dicted by Secretary Wilson, If we make
such concessions to the sugar and to
bacco of Cuba as will allow them to bo
prolltnbly tnnrketed In this country?
Tho future political relations between
Cuba and tho United States have been
practically settled. The commercial re
lations between the Island and this
country present a problem that H
seems safe to predict will not be so
easily disposed of.
SHOULD HE DUjCOVXTESAXCED.
The announcement Is made with a
grand flourish of trumpets that Gov
ernor Savage and his staff will attend
the South Omaha street fair ou Wednes
day, which Is to bo tho red letter day of
the carnival.
For the good name of the state and
his own reputation It Is to be hoped the
governor will not take part In the orgies
that have characterized this brazen at
tempfto pander to the vicious aud law
less classes.
Omaha and the state have already
been lowered lu public esteem by these
exhibitions. Tho advertisement of the
bull lights has provoked decidedly un
favorable editorial comment lu the press
of the couutry. The Chicago Itecord,
for example, lu a half-column editorial
Saturday, denounces the South Omaha
Jamboree lu terms that are, to say the
least, not very llattering. That Journal
declares that the city of Omaha appears
to be drifting rapidly toward the point
where It will be wiped off the map of
civilization, and recalls the fact that
Omaha was hard hit by the last census
aud Is not likely to recover prestige by
exhibitions of the Spanish bull tight
order. While it Is true that the bull
tight proved u farce, this fact does not
relieve Omaha of the stigma of trying
to transplant to its soli an exhibition
of brutality that is repugnant to Anglo
Saxon ideas of sport. "There should be
no place on American' soil for the Span
ish bull light."
Tho Chicago Tribune on the same day
also devotes considerable editorial space
to the South Omaha carnival, wludlug
up as follows:
There are thousands ot men and women
as well who will pay a largo sum to seo
a reckless man risk his life, and If thero
Is a show ot blood about tho exhibition in
some way It Is likely to bo even more popu
lar. Under the smooth surface ot modern
civilization still sleep tho brutal passions
which were gratified when men fought with
ono another or with wild beasts at Home.
It needs only tin opportunity like that of
this farcical bull fight at Omaha to bring
them to the surface again. It la small
wonder the Cubans and Filipinos cannot
understand why tho United States authori
ties should object to cock fights.
The truth of the mutter Is that the
sham bull tights arc the least offensive
feature of the South Omaha fair. The
protection guaranteed to pickpockets,
crooks aud skin gamblers to ply their
vocations, without police Interference,
In tho crowded streets and extemporized
dens of vice Is more reprehensible.
It was an evidence of sublime assur
ance on the part of the promoters of the
South Omaha carnival to ask the chief
executive of the state to participate In
such uu exhibition aud Indirectly make
him an endorser of the scandalous show.
You nlways havo to go away from
home to find out the news. According
to the Omaha correspondent of the Lin
coln Journal the campaign waged by
Tho Bee against the corporate tax shirk
ers Is Inspired by a desire to depose
Commissioner Ostrom from tho chair
manship of tho republican county com
mittee In the interest of the alleged can
didacy of Frank Moores for congress.
The man who discovered this wonderful
piece of news probably does not know
that a new committee will bo elected by
Douglas county republicans not later
than September. Another thing that
this wonderful mind reader has not dis
covered Is that the campaign for raising
tho corporation assessment was begun
long before anybody could foreshadow
what position any particular member of
the county board would take with re
gard to a revision of the assessment re
turns. New York Is greatly agitated because
tho chief of the weather bureau pre
dicted a continuation of tho hot spell
and Its pnpers proceeded to belabor that
otllclal. Prof. Moore cannot help It If
the climate of the metropolis Is unpleas
ant. Instead of working themselves
Into unnecessary perspiration the New
York editors should come west to tho
land of hog and hominy, where tho
weather Is bearable, even during tho
hot spell.
Having devoured everything green In
sight lu the Itetl Ulver valley the festive
grasshopper has put In an appearance
In full forco In northern .Minnesota nnd
extended the skirmish Hue to the bor
der of North Dokota, while the
gcowhopper baud plays "In This Wheat
By and By."
In spite of trade restrictions tho trade
of this country with Germany In agri
cultural products shows a wonderful In
crease for tho past year. Tho result
should convince the Germans thnt In
putting up the tariff on what they are
compelled to buy abroad they are only
Injuring themselves. Year by year
Gcriunuy Is becoming more nnd more
dependent oil foreign countries for Its
food supply nnd the United States Is
Increasing Its exportable surplus. Ger
many better innko up Its mlud to trade
even.
The mortality statistics of the Fourth
of July celebrations nre not yet com
plete, but tho returns up to date show
the gratifying fact that the number of
maimed aud killed In the year 1001 Is
from 33 to 50 per cent less than during
the preceding yenr. That Is not saying
very much for our civilization, however,
as It still exceeds lu number the men
that were killed and wounded on tho
Amerlcau side during the entire Spanish
war.
Ohio democrats nre having a serious
time trying to llgure out what they be
lieve. They are all willing thnt Colonel
Kllbotirne shall offer himself up as a
sacrifice on the ticket. They are un
decided whether Tom Johnson's radical
Ism or John McLean's conservatism
shall be their rallying point. By nature
they sympathize with Johnson, but the
temptation of the McLean barrel Is
potent.
There Is not enough left of the demo
cratic party In Iowa worth bothering
with nnd democratic papers are forced
to put In their time mixing In rcpub
Ilcan politics or remain Idle. The repub
licans do not mind It, nnd If the demo
crats get any enjoyment out of It they
are welcome to continue the mixing,
One Blessing for Oulin.
St Louis Republic.
Thero has not been a death from yel
low fever In Cuba this year. That Is a
sort of lndcpondcnco to which tho Cubans
are unused.
Cruelty to the Spectators.
Chlcaso News.
Thero was no cruelty In tho bull fight
nt South Omaha except such as was inflicted
on thoso who bought tickets and sat
through tho show.
Pence ThrotiKli Kxtertnlnntlon.
Baltimore American.
Tho Doors havo dcolded to accept no
terms except Independence. The British
aro determined to pursue tho war until
tho Doers submit. So the question has re
duced itself to tho survival of the fittest.
Favorite of the Ilntrlict.
Kansas City Star.
Mrs. Nation, tho Kansas smasher, de
livered tho address at tho Elks' Fourth ot
July celebration at Crawfordsvlllo, Ind,
Mrs. Nation said that she was In great
demand, but felt that "tho poor, lost Elks"
needed her most.
PIukkIiik- n B'k Leak.
Globe-Democrat.
As long as tho United States rostofflco
department Is required to expend more
than half its entiro revenue In carrying
second-class matter at a loss of $56,000,000
a year It Is useless to hope for a proper
development ot postal facilities In this
country. v,'
Art In Mns'tcn! Criticism.
Buffalo' Express.
Not long ago a convention ot musicians
denounced ragtime as out of harmony
with tho .eternal musical fitness of things.
Now the Indiana music teachers in con
vention pronounce the Moody and Sankey
hymns to bo "rot." What sort of musical
criticism Is It that expresses Itself with
such a word?
Cinch on Three Grrnt cceaarlea.
Now York World.
Mr. Morgan's soft coal "combine" Is the
logical supplement to bis hard cool "com
bine," his iron and steel "combine" and bis
transportation "combine." And we shall
soon confront tho condition of a Bmall
group of men tho Morgan group In abso
lute control ot the prices of tho three
great necessaries of our civilization, coal.
Iron and transportation.
Keep In the Open.
New York Sun.
On July 1 ten boys and a man were killed
by lightning under a pier, whore they had
fled from tho rain, In Chicago. On July 4
a man and his wife and three children were
killed by lightning at McKeesport after
having taken shelter under a tree. Sclenco
and experience both say emphatically that
when caught out in a thunderstorm tho
safest placo Is in tho open.
Comparative IllKneaa,
Minneapolis Times.
Before tho United States gets too uppity
and blgglty about its annual trade it might
bo well for us to remember that Australia
last year had a total trade of $823,000,000,
nearly half of which was Imports. With a
population ot 5,000,000 this would show the
extraordinary per capita of $185. In order
to equal this the total trade of this country
would have to bo vory nearly $14,000,000,000
a tidy sum even In thoso days when bil
lions aro talked of with a gllbnoss that
would bavo made Croesus stare himself
blind.
a iiopf.lkss nounnoN.
Midsummer Impntlrneu of a Demn
erntlo Foghorn.
New York World.
William J. Dryan la reiterating In brief
speeches and reprinting In largo typo his
unalterable devotion to tho "principles" of
the Chicago and the Kansas City platforms.
lie predicts that the democratic party
will take no backward steps," but whether
it does or not ho will, like John Brown's
soul, "go marching on," to tho sound of his
own voice demanding "froo silver at 16 to 1,
now and forever, world without end."
"I am fighting on," he said at Roanoke,
Va., "not so much to win, for I would
rather die fighting for right than win fight
ing for something else," What keeps Mr.
Dryan so terribly cocksure, that bo was
right and Is rlght7 Aro the great American
people fools, or, like tho sinner of tho
hymn, knowing the right do thoy still the
wrong pursue?
Twko In presidential elections and six
times In other elections tho American peo
ple have repudiated, rejected, Jumped upon
and kicked out tho free sliver and cheap
money delusions. Aro not these great and
repeated majorities quite as likely to have
been right as are Mr. Dryan and bis dis
solving populists?
Events have proved Mr. Bryan to have
been wrong In evory one of his arguments
and prophecies on this subject In 1896. The
country has under tho gold standard more
money of all kinds than ever before, and It
Is all good. It has greater prosperity, higher
wages, higher prices for farm products, a
vastly larger export trade, with diminished
public a,nd private debts.
Mr. Bryan may choose to go on fighting
forever In the last ditch of a back-number
lost cause, but unless all present signs are
misleading ho will not again have the dem
ocratic party at bis back.
POMTICAI. TALK IX TIIIJ STATU.
Kearney Hub (rep.): J. II. Edmlsten has
been telling the dear people again nbout tho
troubles of the populist state central com
mittee, of which ho has been sole proprietor
for soveral years. If Mr. Edmlsten would
mind directing his remarks to a policeman
tho public would doubtless appreciate. It.
Hastings Tribune (rep.); In flxlug the time
for holding the republican state convention
the state central committee made a wise
movo In setting Wednesday, August 28, as
tho time. This will give the candidate
about eight weeks In which to make their
campaign and that will bo tlmo enough In
fact It will bo Just about right.
Kearney Democrat: It has been made
public that Judgo E. C. Calkins of Kearney
will bo a candidate for the republican
nomination for supreme Judge. As it Is
generally conceded that tho uuprcmu comt
of tho state should be non-partisan, and
when Judgo Norval retires there will bo no
republican member of the supreme bench, It
Is therefore concluded that tho republicans
will In nil probability elect their candldit?
and, If so, wo would be satisfied with Judgo
Calkins.
Minden CJazetto (rep.): Now that tho
committee has fixed tho date for u stale
convention it behooves tho republicans of
the state to cast about nnd select the very
best man that can be chosen as a candi
date for supremo Judge. No man can be
nominated and elected Just because he Is
a good republican nnd a good fellow. That
part of it Is all right, but in addition ho
must bo thoroughly qualified from a legal
standpoint nnd ono whoso character Is ab
solutely unassailable. Thero are plenty of
such men In Nebraska, and most of them
aro found In the republican party. Let us
nominate ono of them and the work of
electing him will come that much easier.
Schuyler Sun (rep.): The republican
state convention which will meet in Lin
coln August 28 has an Important work
to perform nnd that Is the nomination of
tho right kind of a man for supremo
Judge. It should nomlnnto a man who has
no questionable past, a man whoso legal
attainments are already respected by tho
bar of this state nnd a man who will not
bo nfrnld to canvass the state nnd let the
peoplo know what manner of n man ho Is.
Tho Sun had In mind Judgo Dickinson of
Omaha when the above sentences were
written. This man will do ns much to save
tho supremo court from giving biased
opinions as nny man that could bo named
from tho bar of this state.
North Platte Telegram: In an interview
which tho State Journal had with Senator
Owens of Cozad thu Information was given
out thnt the western portion of Nebraska
Is in favor of Judgo H. M. Grimes of this
city for supreme Judge. For once, nt least,
the senator mum havo had his finger on the
public pulso when ho made this statement,
forsso for ns this part ot the stato Is con
cerned tho republican party Is a unit for n
"consummation so devoutly to bo wished."
Since the Judgo first occupied a seat on the
bench in this Judicial district until now- no
Judge has ever been so generally satisfac
tory to the people. His acute legal mind,
his absolute fairness, his prompt manner
ot disposing of petty suits, his nblllty to
dispense JuRtlco and at the same time
plcaso tho litigants, has won for him the
respect and friendship of the people of
his district, and if ho should receive a
nomination at the hands of tho party for
supreme Judgo of tho state, he would poll
more votes In' this part of tho state than
nny other candldato over received for any
office In the gift of tho people.
PERSOXAL XOTES.
Tho Deutschland averted a terrible finan
cial panic by bringing Us cargo of mil
lionaires safely Into port.
The sultan of Turkey Is said to bo much
affected by tho death of one ot his wives.
Naturally: It breaks tho set.
Tho philanthropic undertaking of Mr.
Olnn of Doston for putting up fireproof and
.sanitary tenement houses for the poor la
probably by way of atonement for his name.
The emperor of Japan has an allownnco
of something liko $2,000,000 a year to keep
up tho Imperial establishment. He has also
a large prlvato fortuno, having Invested In
stocks and real estate.
By the will of tho late Jacob S. Rogers
of Patcrson, N. J., tho bulk of his estato,
estimated at not far from $10,000,000, is
given to the Metropolitan Museum ot Art,
New York City. His nephews and nieces
are given $25,000 apiece.
More demo-Tats than republicans, it Is
said, voted s gainst the calling of a consti
tutional cor vent Ion in tho stato of Vir
ginia, but tho proposition prevailed never
theless nnd Its adoption will make m6rc
difficult hereafter republican contest for
control. ,
There does not seem to bo nny proba-.
blllty that American royalty will set the
fashions In this country. Tho sultan ot
Sulu, tho only monarch who reigns under
the Stars and Stripes, wears neither col
lars nor cuffs with bis dress suit, and bo
does wear a skull cap sot with diamonds.
John E. Russell ot Massachusetts, whom
President McKlnley, when they wero both
In congress, once described sb the "golden
sheep rhepherd of Lelcoster," has returned
home from a two years' trip abroad, which
he took with his family for tho benefit of
his health. Ho l still far from woll and
his physicians have forblddon his taking
part for the present In political life.
The directors of the Alexander III
museum in St. Petersburg havo defied tho
holy synod In its ban against two paintings
by Rcptn. Ono Is a portrait of Count
Tolstoi, barefooted, in the dress of a
peasant. The other Is r. symbolical Picture
called "Get Thcb Dohlnd Mo, Satan." Tho
exhibition of these paintings was prohibited
in Moscow, yet thoy havo boon bought for
a national art gallery.
In somo men's lives thero comes a time
when tho heart grows weary and life Is
hardly worth tho living. Tako that stren
uous Crlcago printer, for Instance, whose
generous heart throbbed and thrilled for
womankind. He supported two wives, main
tained two homes nnd worked two Jobs. Dut
Just ns soon as wife No. 2 found that wlfo
No. 1 was getting more than half the earn
ings Bho squealed, had him thrown Into Jail
and sent to tho penitentiary. Now she la
obliged to rustle for a living herself. Thus
Ingratitude Imposes Its own penalty.
M. Flammarlon, tho Fronch astronomer,
has prepared and submitted to tho French
Astronomical society a novel scheme for re.
forming the calendar. Ho proposes that
tho year shall begin on March 21, and that
tbo months shall be named after the car
dinal virtues. In order to make the year
exactly fifty-two weeks long ho would make
New Year's day (and, In leap years, the
day after It), a holiday, and would not
consider It a part of the week. Thus tho
dates of tho days of tho week would not
alter from year to year, but would be In
variable. Tho Philadelphia Record says: "At the
conclusion of Wu Tlngfang's address at
the Fourth of July celebration In Independ
ence square there was a pretty little cere
mony not down on the progrnm. Ono of tho
young women seated on tho platform passed
a small American flag to tho distinguished
Chinese diplomat, with tho request that ho
write his autograph on ono of the white
bars. A fountain pen was forthcoming and
Minister Wu gTaclously compiled. The In
cident was witnessed by others and In a
short time a perfect avalanche of small
flags poured down upon hlra with similar
requests from their owners. Wu took it
good-naturedly and for quite a whllo was
kept busy Inscribing his autograph."
HITS OF WASHIXCTOX UPE,
Scenes nnd lnelrieiit Xntetl at the
Xntlmial Capital.
Rear Admiral A. S. Crownlnshleld, chtef
of the Dureau of Navigation, Is determined
to break Into tho roll of .hcrots of the late
war. Tho ai)mlr,il considers himself a naval
tactician ot the first rank, having achieved
great distinction as a member of tho fa
mous Btrritegy board which regulated the
war aud tundo and unmade heroes accord
ing to plans and specifications. His re
ward was - promotion to the rank of rear
admiral. There seems to be a few anony
mous honors being around lu Washington
which the admiral covets. One ot these' Is
tho authorship of the dispatch "Capture
or destroy tho Spanish fleet," signed by
Secretary Long and sent to Admiral Dewey
after tho declaration of war. Secretary
Long referred to this dispatch at the dinner
given hlrn by the Massachusetts club on the
3d Inst. He said: "My name was at tho
bottom! Glorious dlspatcbl I should
rather like to have the credit of It. Dut It
is not mine. I have heard that some one,
wanting to get Into the graces of President
McKlnley, described him as the author ot
it. He never once saw' It .until I took it In
and showed It to him. Then others have
given mo credit for writing It. 1 did not
wrlto it." Then he told of his conversa
tions with Admiral Crowlnshleld and oth
ers and how they nil agreed that tho thing
to do was to strike as quick and bard as
possible. Tho dispatch was prepared and
this Is Mr. Long's account of It:
"Crownlnshleld did not'preparo It. Who
did? Some subordinate clerk In his de
partment. Who? God only knows. Dut
ho didn't. As (or me, I should not have
used the word 'commence.' I should have
said 'The war has begun.' Aside from that
It Is a mighty good message. I think we
can pardon that word. What do you think
of tho rest of It? 'Capturo or destroy the
Spanish fleet. Use the utmost endeavor.'
And, by tho way, Dewey did. The dispatch
came In to me. I took It to tho prcsldont,
saying to hlra, 'Mr. President, I thick this
ought to go.' He said, 'All right, sign it,'
We heard not a word more."
Now comes Crownlnshleld with a demand
for recognition as tho author of the dis
patch. Secretary Long, ho says, was made
nware ot tho authorship and the admiral
proposes to take the secretary by tho oar
and glvo him a heart to heart talk on bis
return to Washington. "I prefer to wait
until Secretary Long returns to Washing
ton next week before telling tho circum
stances of how the dispatch was written,"
ho said.
He was asked If this ' meant that he
wanted to verify his recollection of the
matter. "Ob, no," replied the admiral,
"my recollection Is perfectly clear on the
subject and thero nre others who were at
tho White House on tho day It was written
who will rcmembor all about It."
"Thero was an officer of the line put'on
thu retired list tho othor'day," said an, old
time messenger nt yie Navy department to(
n Washington Star" reporter, "who got him
self luto an odd pickle one' mornlng"way
back fonder In the '70s .by taking a shower
bath.
"This officer was a flno sallorman- to
servo under and the men were mighty fond
of him. But ho ha'd one kink. ' That wa's'
his opposition to tho practlco of tattooing.
Ho was 'first luff' or executive officer ot
tho ship at tho time I'm speaking of, and,
whllo ho was particularly easy on his" crow,
ho certainly had a habit of comtngdown on
em like a thousand of brick for the tattoo
lng business. There were-a lot. of men In
tho crow that did tattooing and tho first
lull kept an eye on them. Ho didn't want
nny of tho now young chaps In-1 the 'service
to get themselves marked up and-whon he
caught tho lads with new bunches of ink
on their persons bo Invariably berated them
soundly and had tho tattoocrs to the mast.
Thero was no regulation then, 'as there Is
now, against tattooing, and so the execu
tlvo officer couldn't punish the, tattooers,
but ho always lectured them pretty soundly,
at that. Dut he couldn't stamp out the
practice. Tho young fellows entering the
Bervlcc as landsmen weren't a little bit con
tented 'until they'd got themselves marked
up liko the old llatfcct; apd right down to
tho present day, when there's a, strict regu
lation against tattooing, tbo. lads blow In
a good part of their wages, particularly on
the China 'station when thelr'sblpa aro on
tho Japan coast, in getting the expert Jap
tattoolst to needle them up.
"This executive officer, however, .consid
ered the practice foolish and barbarous and
Idiotic, as It no doubt is, .although I've got
the Ink scattered over a great deal of my
old frame. I romembor that, while I was
attached to the ship of which this officer
was the 'first luff,' I went ashore at Naga
saki, Japan, ono afternoon, and came across
a Jap tattooer, whose work was high grade.
I had a small vacant space still unmarked
on my left forearm, and,-being a good, deal
younger then than I am now, and a bit
under tho sakl, I doubt not, at that, ,1 had
this Jap tattoolst needle me the American
flag and the Irish emblem Intertwined on
that vacant space. Well, the next morning
I was doing my stunt on deck, with my
sleeves rolled up, 'and that raised tilt of
tattooing showing raw on my left arm.
Tbo executive officer caught sight of it and
he rounded on me Instantly.
" 'Well, you ought to havo thirty day's in
some lubbers' jail,' said he to me. 'An old
Jack like you getting himself scraped up
like any beachcomber after all your years
In deep water! You ought to be ashamed
of yourself."
"I felt pretty sheepish,, of course, but I
told htm that I wouldn't ha' had It done If
It "hadn't been for a bit too much of the
rlco wine on tho afternoon before; but he
only snorted and walked aft.
"Well, only two mornings after that this
kindly 'first luff' showed himself up' and got
FACTS
Are stubborn truths, Thui fits our shirts as
well as our shirts fit you. And we haven't found
the man yet whom we failed to fit. The custom
shirter says that ' 'ready-made" shirts are cheap
shirts.
Guess he had ours'in his mind.
We donH know of any article of merchandise' '
so chuck full of goodness for so little money.-
$1. 00, .$1. 25, $1.50, ..$2. 00.
Pay the custom shirter a couple more if you want
to. . ' '
Don't keep putting -off 'that htraw hat purchase
too long, for just ' what you wanted may be gone. :
HO CLOTHING FITS JlIKE OURS.
Browning, King & Co.
Exclusive Clothiers and Furnishers.
R. S. Wilcox, Manager,
tor Cleaaa ataraar Nlaata at O'ajaab, QtM HtIib al B.no.
T"
the terrible laugh from the wholo Ship's
company for'ard. The officers had rigged
up a shower bath on the after deck, under
which, with only a pair of small trunks on,
they'd stand when they got up ou tho hot
mornings to get cooled off. The apparatus
bad only been up for a couple of days,
when, on this morning that I'm speaking
of, the executive, officer, who was an ex
ceedingly absent-minded man, pranced out,
with his little pair of now trunks and,
turning tho water on, stood under the
shower, gasping and enjoying himself. It
was about an hour nftor 'nil hands' In tho
morning Bnd all the men were on deck.
Woll, when they saw tho 'first luff' stripped
that way, there went up a shout from that
ship's company that Bounded liko a horao-ward-bound
roar.
"For the executive officer was Just one
mass of flno tattooing from his neck to his
middle It wss alt Japancso work dragons,
eagles, snakes, dainty gardou scenes nnd
all that sort of stuff, In all of tbo Japanese
tattootr'a colors. His arms had nil kinds
of adders and pythons nnd boa constrictors
colled around them, and nil In all, I don't
believe any of us In the crew had ever
seen, a mam for'ard or aft, so complotoly
tattooed up as that 'first luff of ours was.
.When ho heard the tremendous laugh tho
executive officer looked up In surprise, and
when ho saw tho wholo ship's company
doing nothing but staring nt him with grin,
he turned as red as a brct, looked at him
self, and hustled for his room nt tbo gallop.
He looked pretty sheepish nnd red when
he emerged about half an hour later In
uniform, but ho took ft all good nature'dly
and that afternoon said to me on the quiet:
" 'You lads for'ard havo got It on mo stiro
enough, hut I had those Imbecile things
needled on mo when I wan a pin-head of a
cadet, thinking It was fine. Anyhow, It'B
not. a caso ot doing as I do, but of doing
as I say!'
"I could only grin In reply and ho snorted
andithen grinned and went aft.
"From then on until the wlndup of tho
crulso be never said another word agalust
tattooing."
MIDSUMMER SMILES.
Chicago Tribune: "Hnve you got all your
preparations completed for your summer
vacation?"
"1 believe bo. Tho boss says I needn't
come back."
Brooklyn Life: "I never pould seo why
they nlwuys called n boat 'she.' "
'lEvIdcntly you havo never tried to steer
one."
New York Press: Sytnpathetlctis Don't
you feel sorry 'for people who linve to work
In finch weather ns this?
Cynicu'fi Not at nil. If they didn't work
thcy.'d all be In the ponltentlary.
Detroit Journal: "Aha!" cried tlio vil
lain, ".the plot thickens!"
"No doubt." muttered tlio low comedian,
"the, frost out front has had sometli.ug
to do with that."
Philadelphia, .Press: "Doctor," said tho
machine-'politician, who was very 111. "I
think: I need to go to n cooler climate."
"My dear man, ' replied Dr. Frank. "I'm
doing my best- to keep you out of a hotter
one;,T
Cleveland Plain Dealer: "The whisky
output of'Kentucky will bo SS.OOO.OCO gal
Ions'." "Whow! What'n the Intake?"
Puck: Ills Friend And you can't get
moneyed men to consider the matter?
The Promoter No. Money tnlks. but 1'vo
found it n mighty poor listener.
, i
Washington Stnr: "Don't you think the
shirtwaist Idea' is a sensible one?"
"No,, I tdon't,"- answered the positive man,
"If you are going Into tho subject of ward
robe, reform, I don't Bee the excuse ' for
wearing anything so hot and Irritating as
a (shirtwaist."
Chicago Post: Mrs. DcVorse I don't
like 'people to call mo n grass widow.
Mrs.' Churnm No, becausv), of course,
you're 'not renlly a widow, ,
J&TflL EeVorse Oh! I don't mind the
"widow" -If- 'they'd only "keep ort the
grass.".
Chlcago'Trlbune: "Paw," said Tommy,
who was, looking nt the "Household Hints''
In the weekly paper, "What Is a 'society
sandwich?'-"-
"A society sandwich," replied Mr. Tucker,
not-at nil certain of his ground, but un
willing to exhibit his Ignorance before the
youthful seeker after knowledge, "Is a
helpless young' man sitting between two
lively 'girls 'at a swell party."
DAME FASHION'S XKW IlECniSE.
James .Barton Adams In Denver Post.
Again doth fashion's fickle queen nHtound
us with n new docree
Xhat- gives oar buxom belles nnd dames a
fit of deep nrrxlety,
That hustles plumpness to tho rear and
honors leanness with the crown
An'd gives the shorter build of girl a sud-
' den, cruel turning down!
Young dames of fashion, fat nnd fair, nnd
forty, If the truth were known,
Will look with envy on the ones who run
' to cuticle and bone.
And little applo-dumpllng girls whom naturo
chooses to endow
With flesh must wade out of tho swim tho
- slim girl Is. In fashion now.
jLrfing-drawn-out angularity is now the lend
ing beauty point,
And gowns i are fashioned to expose tlio
workings of 'most every Joint;
The neck must be ot gqnerous length, rlsa
swan'-llka from Its shoulder deck
Be what .the vulgar musses call In Vulgur
way "the rubberneck."
The plump'and creamy style of throat, tho
' sort' ub fellows yenrn to kiss
When It supports thu shapely head and
sweet .face of a pretty Miss,
Now gets the famous chicken stroke, and
It must make Its final bow
Until the cruel gash has healed the allm
girl Is the fashion now.
But such of us n have admired' tho trim
and natty Btylo of girl,
The buxom lass who fills her gown, will
never hesitate to hurl
Defiance at the fashion queen and trample
(in her fool decree.
And stick right to the plumpy lass with
all -her adiposity.
Let those who pny their homage to tho
girls of willowy design,
Those built to cling to manly oaks In
c. nJityTe.t, the clinging vine.
Stick to their tnll nnd graceful dears, but
countlcHH thousands yet will bow
To JjVii80f .D01? Ri11(1 bll,w' though slim
girls are tho fashion now.
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