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A, D. Mil ' .M. IS. lll'.NUATK, Notary IMbllc. PAIITICS I.I.AVI.VO FOH SUMMER. I'nrtlrn irnrliii; Hie city for li niiiiiiiirr mi) linte Tlir llec rut ( Hi ''in rriculnrly tir notifying The Her llunluea oilier, In lirmon or lir nintl, Tbe addfr-aa trill lie cuaniced often nm dralreit. Tho paving contractors still hiiyu u fctrong -mil on the council, Keep your right eye on the prayer gauge and your left eye on the ther mometer. The new mayor of Hastings has been Inaugurated with an invitation to the soda water stand. A few more deputy ga.me wardens can be commlbr-loned without pay if appli cation Is made at the fe'ovemor's office within the next three davs. Brad .Slaughter has been ordered to the Philippines and Colonel Mostly has been ordered to Nebraska. What is this country coming to, anyway? The Alabamii constitutional cohven tlon has decided that n session of the legislature every four years Is all the state, can stand. The Ahtbnmlan Is wise In reducing life's troubles to the minimum. it Is estimated that the steer strike Is costing the companies and the men $.'10,000 each day of Its continuance. Wisdom would seem to dictate, that such it waste should be stopped by renson nble concessions on both sides. Jules fitierln has been banished from France. This is a severe punishment for him. Outside of France no one would pay any attention to his ravings and wild antics and tq deprive him of this pleasure Is rellned cruelty. Next to the grave, hot weather Is the greatest leycl(ri The heated term In Londoti has been'V ever' tlit the Judges' have- actually discarded their Ulg wigs, much to thfli disgust Of the older people, wh6 nro wedded to fho anclcjit ciisloni. v fining the first ttfiiush Into the now lauds In Oklahoma will he thq printer with his army press. Llko'tho noutul of the gong to the old lire horse is the hint of the land otllcu notice ty the pub lisher who has ever had n taste of this "easy money." Mnyor Moores has nuulo no mistake In his veto of the $15,000 street repair ing resolution. All the taxpayers In Omaha except those directly Interested nre u unit against the methods by which North Sixteenth street Is to be repaved tit the expense of the whole city. Preparations en the most extensive pcalo are being made by the citizens of Kouth Atlhurn and Nemaha county for the reception of Consul Church Howe, who I si expected from Furope with a largo Invoice of .Sicilian whispers and Shellleld scissors. Fverybody In Ne braska Invited. Indian instructors are having a con Teutlon at l.uffalo. They might start in tiy teaching tfie exposition oillclals a little Indian history and correcting tlio exposition advertising matter where It classes (lorontmo as a Sioux and states Sitting Hull was killed at Wounded Knee. Much has been said of late on the progress of forestry, but, unfortunately, while there has been some progress in forestry it has by no means kept pace with the destruction of the timber re BourceH of the country. The United States has been most prodigal with its timber, as with everything else. The committee of the Chli-tigo Hoard of Trade which has been Investigating the recent corn corner has exonerated King Phillips. The committee states thu complaints wept nrndti by parties who did not understand the operations of the Hoard of Trade. They!' should know by this time that the II rut'. rule Is to smile iiuil look pleasant -when you nro skinned no one but ti professional trader hau a right to complain. STtl.L lUUUMXU AT VEKIX. No nni'iiii'iit Iiiim jet liocn roncliod roKonlliiK it plnn for (ho imyiiicnt of tin; ClilncNo liKlfiniilty mid iircorrilng to tin1 Intcst inlvkcH then; It lit t Ics proH licet of nil curly tiiiilcrstniKlliig liolng urrlvcd nL It iipiiciiref Hint the oh HtritftfonlHtA. fire (irciitlitltiiln nnd Km hIm, which art not nut felled with tlvu nr niiifft'iiicnt Miibinlttud by the mlnlritcrw, .Hid former on the ground tlmt It did not iidcijtnituly protoct her corninorcifil Inter cstn. Pending the tetllcinent of thlti mat tcr nugotlutloiiH nre at n Htatidhtlll, though It n Kiild they could he con eluded In a very brief time If the In demnity iniuKtlon were dlHpoHcd of. .Meanwhile the l'hlnee government, through Its ilcnlotchtliirlc, is urging a K'ttleniont. It aiinimiiceM ItH readiness to coniily with any reimoimlile demand and the evidence of this Is In the fact that It agreed without hesitation to pay the Indemnity n.ikcd. Ah hoou as the ''heathen Chinee" was Informed hh to what the powers wanted there wns ac iulescence and It wn left to the en lightened governments to pay how pay ment should he provided for They have heeu haggling over thin for weeks and seem to he ns far from a settlement of the matter as at the beginning. Kach of course legards the question from a-purely hellish standpoint and there Is no disposition shown to make any con cessions. Perhaps they may yet have to allow China to determine how puy nient shall be made. At all events the situation Is not cred itable to the powers, which nfter having shown their greed in the amount of In demnity demanded are uow unable to agree upon a plan for Its collection. They are all willing to pluck China, but each Is mot solicitous lcht the other shall get some sort of advantage In the plucking. And while this haggling goes on the work of rehabilitation In (.'111 n a halts and the trade of all the powers with that empire suffers. .1 CUUttTKUt.'S CAMPAlGS. The Ohio campaign promises to be en tirely courteous and amiable, so far as the republican and democratic candi dates for governor are concerned. Gov ernor -Nash and Colonel Kllboume nre warm friends and each speaks In the highest terms of the other. Nosh says that he and his democratic opponent always agreed In everything but poli ties and declares that he has always en tertained for him the highest respect and personal regard. There will be none of what they call "personalities" In the campaign, says Governor Nash. Colonel Kilbourne Is not less cordial in his expressions of friendship for the re publican candidate. "I regard (Jovernor Nash ns a man of the highest character," he Mild, "with an honest purpose In both olllclal and private life. Whatever he does Is always In the belief that he Is right. Neither the campaign nor the election can In any degree modify the personal attitude we have always main tained towaril one another." .This Is as it should be. Political cam paigns in Ohio In recent years have not been characterized by the personalities which were common at an earlier time, so that the one of this year will not in this respect be a departure, yet It Is pleasing to know tlmt the candidates for chief executive of that state will dis cuss each other's claims to the conll deuce and support of tho people In a thoroughly friendly spirit. It will be a wholesome example. While political zeal is not lees ardent now tlmn In former years, there is not so much of asperity and bitterness In our political contests, and there Is no question that the change Is for the bet ter. The parties In Ohio will not be less active and aggressive because the can didates are good friends whose respect for each other's character will not per mit them to Indulge In depreciatory per sonalities. wu.h cnvi: vouto lco viiusrKitiTi. There Is no doubt that when free trade shall have been established be tween Porto Klco anil the United States, as It soon will be, the effect will be to materially promote the Island's prosper ity, as has been the case with Hawaii. Tho treasury bureau of statistics re cently made public the llgures of trado between the United States nn,d the Ha waiian islands, showing that since, the reciprocity treaty ndmltting tho sugar of the Islands free to tho American market Hawaii has made steady prog ress. It Is shown that the sugar produc tion of the Islands has Increased enor mously, while thu other cane sugar pro ducing Islands and countries have, dur ing that time, sulTered great depression and In many cases heavy losses. Prior to the reciprocity treaty, which was negotiated in 1870, the average pro duction of sugar In the Hawaiian is lands was but -.'.".OOO.OOO pounds per annum, whereas lu 181! It was over ,riin,ooO,000 pounds. The negotiation of tho treaty was iiIko followed by an In crease of the exports from the United States to the Islands, the value of which last year was $11,000,000 and It Is estimated will this year reach $-0,-000,000. The fact that this great In crease lu production and commerce of the Hawaiian Islands has followed free dom of trade with the United States suggests Hint the Porto Klcans are cer tain to beuellt by the miuid close trade relations which they will have under the new law which It Is' expected will go Into operation within tho next week. Not only will the sugar of Porto Klco come Into our market free, but also Its coll'ee ami tobacco, giving the Island a very great advantage over the other Islands of the West Indies, and the present production of Porto Klco can bo materially Increased. The question suggests Itself whether, In order to promote to the fullest ex lent the development anil prosperity of our Insular possession In the West in dies, we shall not be compelled to re fuse any material concessions to com peting products' lu that quarter. Cer tainly tho P.orto Klc.'tus. will Insist upon this and they will have pretty utrong support here. It wili be urged that we cannot show- any favor to Cuban sugar and to)acco without detriment to Porto' Klco, while there will be decided opposltlou o reciprocity .ngrgtunents THE OMAHA with the West Indian possessions of I2u ropean nations. It Is obvious that lu order to properly take care of the In terests of Porto Itleo we cannot be Very liberal toward the competing prod ucts of other Islands. OMAHA AS A MttATAHY STA 7'fO.V. The army hill passed by congress at Its last session empowered the secretary of war to establish four permanent camps of the army at locations best adapted for military maneuvers and most conveniently located for the con centration and redistribution of troops The selection of these military camps Is the main purpose of Secretary of War Koot's present Inspection tour. It Is a foregone conclusion that one of the four great military camps will be west of the Missouri and It is doubt ful whether any locality possesses such exceptional advantages and facili ties for the maintenance and distribu tion of troops as Omahn, For more than thirty years Omahn has been the headquarters of an Important military department and every general of the army, Including Grunt, Sherman, Sheridan, Schodeld and .Miles, has pro nounced Omaha the most Important strategic point in military operations west of the Mississippi. Its railroad facilities for the rapid distribution of troops at any point within the region between the Missouri river and the Pa clllc coast aa1 unsurpassed. Its loca tion In the heart of the corn belt will enable the government to feed an army at the least expense, while the military posts at Fort Omaha und Fort Crook af ford ample drill grounds and facilities for the training of large bodies of men In the tactics of war. The I5ee has for years advocated the establishment of a military school at Fort Omaha and with this end In view- has urged the rehabilitation of Fort Omaha with modern structures and equipment specially designed for that purpose. When- General Miles visited Omalia two years ago lie declared himself In favor of the reoccupatlon of Fort Omaha at an early day and congress would doubtless have made provision for this purpose hud It uot been for the great pressure exerted In favor of the estab llshment of a military post at Lies Moines, which, from a military stand point, had no greater claim than Uutilngton, Davenport, Dubuque or Sioux City. Hut Dcs Moines had a trump card In Congressman Hull, chair man of the committee on military af fairs, whose commanding position civ abled lilin to dictate the establishment of a military post nt the capital city of Iowa. The contest for a western army camp will uot, however, come between Omaha and Des Moines, but between Omnha nnd Fort Leavenworth, unless, Indeed, Secretary Koot should decide to locate two great military camps In the west. With two military reservations In Its vicinity Omaha should be In position to Impress upon Secretary Koot Its superior claims and advantages from every point of view. Government by injunction has reached a very extraordinary stage In this coun try. Down lu New Jersey orders for commitment In the cases of the Pater son strikers who were adjudged guilty of contempt of court lu having violated an Injunction restraining them from serenading non-union workers were Is sued Mqudny with all the gravity and decorum that pertains to a great Judi cial tribunal. The papers call for the commitment of eight persons two men and six girls who have so far forgotten themselves as to sing union songs under the windows of a non-union- shop. Pretty soon people will be enjoined from thinking without a special permit from some court. The governments Interested lu Chi nese affairs are still at loggerheads re garding the method of payment of tho Chinese Indemnity, with no prospect of an Immediate settlement. The trouble with the powers Is they want the China man to do all the hurrying. They can quarrel among themselves, but the min ute they come to an agreement want tho celestial to say yes without any hesita tion. Nothing in recent years has so set out thu mutual Jealousies of the great nations and demonstrated that all the talk of amity and good will Is simply lip service like tho trouble In China. The Chicago board of equalization, which has been In session for the past ten days, has Increased the assessment of the Consolidated Traction companies by $.'1,000,000 and the Chicago City Hall way company by $3,000,000. The as sessment of the People's Gaslight com pany has been placed at $11,000,000 and the total Increase made by the board of equalization on personal property as sessments will exceed $30,000,000. In Chicago equalization means something. Iowa democrats have taken heart from tho action of their brothers In Ohio and there Is considerable talk of throwing olT the Incubus of populism. Kepnu Ucans have no particular Interest In the welfare ol democracy, but they would llkfi to see the party In Iowa rejuvenated enough to make the contest Interesting. Illuming a bye each year Is becoming monotonous to republican candidates. When the contractors for public works put on their high pressure the members of the city council enn see no obstacle to voting an overlap, but when ordinary taxiiayers ask for Improvements coun cHineii have a mortal dread of the re sponsibility that will rest on them by reason of a possible overlap. Now you see It and now you cannot see It. If the Hngllsh liberals desire any sym pathy front quarters able to appreciate the situation Its leaders should write to the democrats in this country. Neither party has a lender who Is competent to set out Just what the party believes or stands for, lioth parties are rudderless and no material Is at hand to tlx up even u Jury rig. Jlt-r' of frnwf Truck, Chicago News. If "Pat" Crowo Is reully In South Africa tbe detectives who bod him located at DAILY liEiS: TIiri.SDAV, points eomewhoni In the utates adjaci lit to Illinois wcro not nftor all io for wron-t as they might hnva been Them are locall tlr firthcr away. than Booth Afrlcu. Where u Doom Ciinir. In, QloheI)enloerat. Onu thing, at leant, is boomed by th drouth, and tlmt Is tho subject of Irrigation Comfort .So utile- llic Kli'Ucr. Philadelphia Ledger. When a hot wave prediction proves false there is not much disposition to abuse th weather prophet, An I in pi ii en li I e I'm'. New York Tribune. floneral Humidity In one of tho direst fee-. of suffering humanity, and a resistless con queror ns wen. no ninstcr or strategy, no Alexander or Hannibal, no Cnoaar or Napo lcou can dovlso a campaign which will put him to night, Ills .armies nro Invincible. Ilrv-rliiic .More Irritation. Denver Post, A magnzlno writer has made a cnlcula tlon to show that In tho year 2230 tho ttorld will bo so thickly populatod there will bo 1,000 people to every square mile ot surface. This startling announcement may create a reeling of uneasiness outside the screno atmosphere of the "Don't Worrv clubs. nHt) .Mioulil Hi-Kin nt llonir. Chicago Chronicle. Ono of Gotham's millionaire. J. J. Van Alen, Is to receive a decoration from tho king of Dngland for bounty to tho IlrlMnh soldiers In South Africa. Humanity Is to bo commended wherever practiced. Hun. orcd of human bellies huvn neHaiuM i, mo nome or nn Alen for ack nf hmmtv irum Homo sourco to givo them help ngalns mo onset of summer h"at. The struggle ociwccn uotnarn heat and Gotham poor Is a deadly ono every summer. There would bo no royai nattery for humanity under such circumstances. Yet humanity., it will hi tnougnt, ought, like charity, to bruin nt home. Van Alcn's treasure goes where his neart is. Inrnali nf IiiinilKrnn tn. Sprlni-nehl Hepubllcan. immigration continues very heavy and tor tho last fiscal year will prove to have been larger than for any provlous year muie iBVi. i or trie cloven mouths end lng with Stay tho arrivals number -13,319 ana tno Juno figures yet to bo nuhliMiP.i will assuredly raise tho year's total con siderably nbovo 500,00c. The Immigration of tho fiscal year 1800 numbered 418.672 in isvn 311,715, and In 1898 229,233 tho low est point touched since 1879. Of the nr rivals for the eleven months of the last fiscal year 101,510 came from Austria Hungary and 119,544 from Italy these two countries contributing over one-half of the wnoio number. Hussla comes next with a contribution of 75,627 and Ireland next with 27,713. Thr Tonic nf 1'ronprrl ty. August Success. The cxerclso ot tho highest faculties of the mind Is not only stimulating, but creates tho highest character. Perhaps there le nothing else which has such a magical effect uron tho brain, tho nervous rystem. tho whole man, In fact, ns the consciousness of achieving that on which hl heart Is set. There Is a wonderful uplift In feeling that tnings wmch we take hold of still move. Achievement acts llko a tonic on the whole system, It quickens tho circulation, stimu lates the digestion and enlarges hope. Peo pie who haye been Invalids for years, whom no medicine of physician could help, havo frequently been entirely restored to health by uddenly hearing some good news or un expectedly coming Into some good fortune This shows that tho mind Is master, that tho body and lu-functlons are good serv ants and that the thoughts aro reflected In tno physical man. Cnrporntlona Ilrnticht In Time. New York World. The law taxing trust companies, nassed at the Instance of Governor Odell, will yield the state treasury Jl.400.000 net this year, which is larger than the estimated revenue. These companies enjoy the more valuable privileges of banks and are free from many of the restrictions Imposed upon me latter, it Is right that they should pay the stato something for their cnartercd privileges, and Governor Odell Is entitled to the credit of making them do It. Tho old corporation tax laws have yielded about J2.600.000 to the statp treas ury. Tho lawg which Governor Odell rec ommended and put through tho legislature add 2,200,000 to this, bringing the total up to $3,000,000. This will give some re lief to overburdened real estate owners. Now, if the governor can devlso somo plan for making Individual owners of large for tunes In personal property pay their Just share In tho expenses of government ho will go Into history as a great tax re former. ' THU ANONYMOUS WIUTISn. Cimiirtlft Who Stub In the flnrk Milli he 1'i-n. Philadelphia Times. Another Now Jersey village Is suffering from the work of somo ono who Is send ing anonymous letters to worthy people. Somn time ago a town of that stato was raado mleorablo throughout hy the work of this kind. A woman who wah after ward placed under restrictions spent her time In writing communications full of scandal and Innuendo to Innocent per-ons. Not a word sho wrote was true, Many of tho rumors sho named were Impossible. And yet tho letters were hid, brooded over and kept. Thu result wns Inevitable. Happy homes were niado miserable, friends woro pnrted, husbands and wives became suspicious, until there wns more unhappl ness to the cubic ft in that place than In any other part of tho world. Finally the femalo fiend Font n lettor to a very sensible man. He did not mako a secret or mystory of It, but placed It In the hands of tho proper authorities. Action was taken and the woman was arrested. At onco the comfort of tho .own Increased several hundred per cent. Men and women rather shpplskly brought forth letters from their locked drawers nnd saw In a moment what fools thoy had born for Blvlng a moment's heed to tho contents. It was a severe lesion, which they will not soon forgot. Kvcry day tho anonymous letter goes upon Its mission of evil. In these times assassination Is, apt to ho dangerous, so the cowards who want to stab In tho dark use tho pen. It ought to stand to reason that anyone doing a thing of this sort would rnlhor llo than tell the truth and that a letter which had not the honesty of a signature is not worthy of credence, in this matter people ought to lenin from their newspapers, which long ago found out the unreliability of unsigned communi cations nnd which consign them promptly to wio waste basket. Pools who write anonymous letters sel dom stop to think that they are playing with troublo. if they have tin Idcn that they can use tho malls with Impunity nltn ply beeauso they try to disguise their handwriting and avoid signing their own names, they aro vastly mistaken. They have escaped sometime simply because tho pcoplo who received tho iPttera took no action. AVe aro glad tq seo that In Vine land, where tho raso to whlrh we havo referred occurred this week, the estimable young woman who received the letter placed it at onco in the hands of tho postal authorities. That Is the proper way to treat every anonymous letter to discourage the anonymous letter writer. JULY 18, 15)01. oiiiu roi.vrN 'run w.v. Iteninerney mill I'iiihiIImii III, iirei-d Ni-iv I mi on mill Jriv l.ruitern. "Ohio democruts havo set tho pace for tho demotrats of tho country, llrynn and tho few faithful which still remain true to lil m from the old democratic gunrd will havo to seek a party of their own. It is sure to bo tho populist party, with Its ranks made up of the old-line farmers' alliance folks, tho socialists and nn cle ment of dlssatlslled laboring people." This wus the way a prominent southern republican, who has Just returned to Wash ington from Ohio, Kentucky nnd Tennes see, sized up the action of the democratic stato convention to a correspondent of tho St. Louis (IobcI)emocrat. Tho gentleman quoted has had much oxporloncu In thu south and has campaigned through a num ber of tho oldest democratic states. "It is only n question of time," hu con tinued, "until llrynn comes out squarely ns a populist, denounces his former allies In tho democratic party and he mis u third party movement. Kverythlng points In this direction. Until two weeks ago every one who know anything about politics at all counted Scnntor Daniel of Virginia ns ono of tho staunchest nf the Bryan supporters. Ho wns prominent In both conventions which nominated Ilryun, Within the week ho has nliowcd himself to bo quoted In a virtual declaration that free silver und nil Issues nre dead, and that the democratic party Is looking for another Issue. His ex prasslons nre a plain statement that th party U looking for nn Issue on which it can win. His statement is nn admission that what tho democratic party hag declared rc peatcdly ns cardinal and lasting Issues wero but campaign cries, and now It Is scurchlng for something along a different lino to ox perlment with. "If dtmocracy could keep tho Ilryan peo pie with them In trumping up a new Issu thoy might havo a chance of presenting a formidable front at the next election, but this seems hopeless now. llrynn has read everyone out of tho party who does not subscribe to tho plnnks of tho Kansas City platform. Twice has he been the nominee of tho populist party, and ho Is today as regularly in that party as In the demo rr.tic party. The democrats believe that they would have done well to let him ro main In that party. "His personal following, nlout which sa much was nald, Is dwindling to a corporal's guard. I nm told that at St. Louis the other day ho addressed an asoclatlon of editors of tho state of Missouri nnd his address attracted llttlo or no attention This shows the drift of sentiment In state which tho democrats havo long counted on as solidly democratic. In Ken tucky a short time ago he was at now I Ing Green, and where ho had been eagerly sought by thoupanda a year ago ho was hardly accorded nn nudlcnco of sufllclcnt size to pay his expenses to the state. Hp delivered a pay lecture. In splto of theso things, he will retain for some years a following from tho dissatisfied element of all parties. It will Include the remnant ot free silver republicans, all the old-line pops nnd the socialistic element of tho country, which hardly had party amilatlon until Bryan began his peculiar propa conda. "While In the west I was told that Dryan would bo deserted by Jones, the chairman of the democratic committee. William J. Stono of Missouri Is another of those who I nm told has tired of the old Idol, although ho will bo slow to admit It publicly. "There Is every indication that the new democratic party, which will be evolved from tho ruin which tho old party now pro scnts will be controlled by the Cleveland democrats. I hardly think Cleveland will himself be a factor In this reorganization. but tho men who clung to him and his con. servatlve Ideas will. Senator Daniel of Vlr glnla, Carlisle, Lindsay, Francl?, Herbert and many of tho old-line democrats who were men of Influence and "recognized abil ity will bo Identified with tho new move mcnt. The element of democracy which so cured control ot tho city of St. Louis at the last election will bo Identified with the new regime. It may not be a formal reorganiza tion, as the democrats seem bent on avoid ing anything ot this kind, but In effect tho result will be the tame." IJnnAN AND ntlRAIi GIIOWTII. Checking the Drift nf Popnln Hon from Country to Cltlca. New York Tribune. Some interesting, if not unexpected, con elusions aro suggested In the elaborate study of urban growth during the last do- cado Just issued by tho federal census bu reau. For many preceding censuses no ten dency In our national growth had been moro marked than the steady drift of coun try population toward towns and cities. It was only natural, therefore, to assume that this movement toward the centers of Industry and commerce would continue un checked during the decade Just ended, If, Indeed, It did not gain an accelerated force from tho enormous strides which the nation was seen to have made In Industrial energy and Industrial progress. Curiously enough, this a priori assumption finds only a quali fied support In the exhibits ot relative rural and urban growth from 1890 to 1900. Tho cities and towns of tho United States have, of course, claimed much more than an equal sbaro In the general Increase In pop ulation. Hut they have not made tho rela tive gain they did In the decade preccd- ng, nor do thoy seem destined at their present rnto of progress to wrest from tho rural districts an absolute supremacy In numbers for several censuses to come. The rate of IncrcaHo In population for tho country at largo from 1890 to 1900 was bout 21 por cent. Tho rate of urban In rease was 37 per cent. But In tho decado from 1SS0 to 1S90 tho urban population had grown nt a rate slightly over 60 por cent. Tho percentage of tho population living In towns of 4,000 Inhabitants or over wns In S90 nbout 33 per cent, ns compared with per cent In 18S0, But In 1900 tho ratio had risen to only 37,3 per cent, leaving to tho country the still formidable fraction of 7. It Is Interesting to note also that ho ratio of growth for the greater cities Is slightly lower than that for tho growth f towns and cities as a whole. Whllo rban population proper Increased frpm 890 to 1900 by 37 per cent, the population f the 1C0 cities which havo 25,000 Inhab itants or over showed a gain of only 32.5 per cent, and theso same 1G0 cities from 1S90 to 1900 actually gained 90.000 Inhah- rants less than they did between 1SS0 and 1S90. Tho greatest dluproportlon botween urban nd rural growth Is shown In the northern rentrnl division of states, where an enor mous expnnslon In manufacturing Indus trios has turned the drift of population trongly cityward. The western, southern Atlantic and northern Atlantic states, In which Industrial conditions have undergone. ess violent change, show n moro ovenly balanced development, though In five states f the, last division Hhodo Island, Massa- husptts. Connecticut. New York and New Jersoy tho urban now outnumbors the rural population, in tins statp, ithnde slnnd nnd Massachusetts the urban pre ponderance Is now moro thnn two to one. Such a preponderance Is Inevitable In ensely populated arpns whero mnnufac- urlng nnd commerce establish fixed ren prs of attraction. Hut for tho country as whole, ns yet but thinly and sparsely populated, no such congestion Is now re motcly Imaginable. Certainly the results f last year's census do llttlo to encourage the belief that the rlty Is to overwhelm ho country In numbers within our genera tion, or that within that time a new bal- nee of power social, political and moral- will have to be struck between theto two ontcndlng Influences In our national life 1,1(1 IIT AM MIA DM I.N (lOTlt.V.M. 1 1 1 1 I r - In thr Current of 1,1ft: In Now York CH. Men of wealth contemplating n public benefaction of nny kind should study well tho warning words of tho phrase, "Neve put off until tomorrow what you can d today." A striking Instance of tho foil of delay comes to light In tho caso Jacob a. Hovers of raterson, N, J., wh left tho hulk ot hU fortune to tho Metro polltnu Museum of Art In Central park As n builder of locomotives Mr. Rogers nnnio Is familiar to tho nillrond world llo amassed n fortune, gave liberally to his relatives and left a Inrgo bequest for tho museum. Hut his heirs nro not satis iimi wun the division nnd will attempt to nreaa tntf win in court. What points th moral In tho caso Is tho fact that a fow wcoks neiorn no died Mr, Itogcrs had drafted n lettor by which ho offered hi fortune to the museum by direct gift. Thl fact was mndo public by William O. Mc uoweii, a .New York nttorncy. lint Mr. Ilogers delayed signing tho letter, so tha his neglect defers if It docs not annul hi good intentions, Fresh nlr funds nnd fresh air picnics nro n icaturo or summer Ilfo In New York. woman ndvocuto of fresh nlr camps visited one or mom recently nnd tells her ex pcrlenco. She came across two small boys or ami sitting on n fence a halt mile from the camp. Kach bad his hat on the back of his head, with a lighted cigarette in his mouth. Ono of them held a lot of crap bonis, or dice, in a grimy hand. uni tho exclaimed as she saw them you aro tho 'fresh air' children?" Tho eldest looked down at her for a mo ment, took his cigarette from his mouth and said: "Well, wo ain't so blankctyblank fresh ns wo might be." One of tho striking features of Luther Kountzo s beautiful country place at Mor- trl ....... . iimunu, j., aro mo cannon tnat were brought here from Morro castlo at the clos-, of the Spanish-American war, lought by ;r. Kountzo nnd taken out to his Morris- town home. There nre thirteen of them. immenfo bronze pieces of the time of Philip of Spain. An embnnkment Is to be built cspcclnlly for them and they will then bo properly mounted, their present nrrnngo mcnt being n temporary one. Mr. Kountze also has a number of old Spanish mortars and other Interesting relics of tho war on his chnriiilng grounds. Tho surprising poverty of rich men and millionaires revealed In personal property tnx lists Is strikingly Illustrated in tho recent returns made by tho tax board In Now York City. Plerpont Morgan, who Is supposed to hayo niado millions out of his recent oper ations, not to mention tho wealth he had been proviously suspected of having, has sworn that he has only $400,000 for taxing purposes. Tho great trust organizer evi dently did not make anything worth talking about when he projected tho bllllon-dollar steel trust. No ono haft accused him of being too modest to make a boast of being rich. Russell Sage, who is credited with having about as much loose change as any man in wail street, was deeply hurt when tho tax collector charged him with having per sonal property worth 11,000,000. Ho sol emnly sworo that he had only $400,000. Senator Dcpew, with his customary re tiring disposition, refused to stagger under tho burden of owning 325,000 worth of property and stocks nnd std all he could call his own was $25,000. He has fled to Europe to cscapo tho soft Impeachment of tho tax assessors and of society report ers. Beth Low was under suspicion for a while of owning property worth half a million, but ho said he did not own a cent's worth and so ho was wiped off the lists. Helen Gould and Frank Gould are In tho same Impoverished condition as regards personal property. Owing to Bradley-Mar tin s expatriation his personal property fortune, placed at $200,000 by tho assessors, has been used up entirely In courting royalty. John D. Rockefeller was satisfied not to bo accused of owning more than $1,000,000 and let that flguro stand on the tax books Morris K. Jcssup, who helped to dazzle the London merchants when tho American millionaires overran England recently, sworo off $100,000 of tho $500,000 ot stocks and bonds tho tax man thought ho owned. Founding libraries bns been a heavy drain on Carnegie, and his munificent gift of $3,000,000 or moro to New York put the assereors In a kind mood toward tho gencr ous Scotchman and they let him off with a $1,000,000 record. James Stlllman, the Standard Oil bank president, doesn't save much of his salary. and when ho was charged with being half a millionaire he prpved that he had only $50,000, In tho usual way. Judging from the personnl property as sessments tno vnndermit family has a corner on that kind of wealth In New York. Between them tho various descendants of tho old ferryman havo enred well for the money ho left. Frederick W, and George V. admit they both havo $2,000,000 worth of personal property. W. K. pleads gutlty to owning $1,000,000 nnd tho others to about tho same amount between thorn. Though thero have been numerous 'swear-offs" In the personnl tax valuations this year, nearly $3,000,000 in valuations hnvo been Increased nnd ovor $69,000,000 ndded to tho rcnl estate. Tho total real nnd personal valuations In Now York amount to $3,787,970,873, according to thn report made by tho tnx board. Owing to heavy Improve mcnts undertaken during the year tho tax rate promises to be Increased from $2,24 to 2.35 per $100. rr.iisoN.w, NOTKS. Governor Orman of Colorado, though he has nlways been connected with tho rail oad business, has nlBo tried his hand at mining nnd has mado a largo forluno. John W. Gates, the stool wlro mngnate. Is probably ono of tho best amateur bll- laril players In tho country. Ho Is vorv fond of tho game nnd .days It nearly every evening. Chcltlb noy, tho new Turkish minister o this country, has nirlvcd. nccomnanled by his mothor, daughter and two tons. Ho Is said to ho n keen-going sportsman and n extensive hrocdor of thorouchtrod horses, In which ho takes n great Interest. President Eliot of Harvard waB nc-usoJ by Henry Austin Adams ut the Catholic summer school, nt Dotrolt, tho other day ot Doing "an avowed agnostic." Inter- lowed on Saturday whllo on his way to his summer homo on Mount Desert, I'resl- ont .-.not rpplled to Mr. Adams' stito- nient by saying: "Thero Is no truth In that whatever." Major Harrison of Chicago has been wlco distinguished In two recent davs. ''rldny he bocamo nn ofllclal shirtwaist man. Saturday lie wns summoned to ex- plain to tho Board of Review a J2.0(M falling off In his personal property schedule, ow no says "a man who is honest nnd does not dcslro tho mnyoralty for his own purposes Is n fool to seek to be mayor of Chicago." Henry Slenklewlcz's translator. Jeremiah Curtln, has Just rcturnod from a visit to tho novelist at his summer homo In the Carpathians, Slcnklowlcz Is at work on a novel of tho life of John Sobloikl, a king of Poland. Ho Intends to later wrlto a terlea of historical novels on the career .Napoleon I anil then a novel treating of tho career of Kosciusko and the down fall of Poland. ' AWAY WITH WlllUS. Hcceiit .SneerKNe of WlrHen Teleu- rnplij- n( Sen, Iioston Transcript. Last Friday the l.ucnnla picked up broken slgnnls from tho wireless telegraph stntlon at Crookhaven, Ireland. Twenty five minutes later thoy became coherent and mensages began to pas between tho ship and th shore, between forty and fifty miles distant Thus what but yesterday, so to spenk. was a selentlfle toy Is todny of prac tical utility. Moro than thirty of Dng land's great war ship have been provided with wireless plants, and virtually all llRhlshlps and delnehed lighthouses nre lifted out with thl new signalling np paratus. MBny 7P!, Rn, mUcU propcrly havo beon saved by its use. The Ilorkum lightship, belonging to tho German govern ment, reports 5C5 i-ommrrrlal messages re ceived from Oetohcr to May, of which 51S cams from ships at sen. No electrical Idea of tide decade or even of this century was fraught wtth such boundless possibilities ns was tho propo sltlon to transmit signals through spaco without tho aid of wires. And, strange to say, most of tho predictions have been realized. At first It wag thought that tho sending of messages through space would bo so limited as to make tho practice of little more than scientific Interest, except In a few special Instances where tho con ditions were Just right. Hut Marconi and a dozen other alert minds have been at work upon the problem, and now the wire less system of transmitting meisagfg baa becomo of actual commercial value. Apparatus of a year ngo is entirolv out of date, A year ago, while It was posnl ble to send messages a considerable dis tance, there was liable to b refusion where moro than one Instrument . i, work ing In tho saino zone. Also i.tA.cy of messages was Impossible, as nny receiver could Intercept and road tho signals sent. Now tho transmitter and recelvor aro "tuned" to each other and no other re ceiver can take up the message and ac curately repent It. Great Improvement also has been mado In the distance that can bo covered. The record we believe, waB mado last spring, when n message wai send from tho Lizard, Cornwall, to St Catherine's, Isle of Wight, 186 miles dis tant. It would seem but n step from this nc compllshmcnt to the doing away with all overhead wires. Then blow high or blow low, communication with the different cities or tactions would not bo Interrupted Apparently, too, such n system would be less expensivo In ovcry way. Of course, tho now system is not at present elastic enough to take up tho enormous buslne-n of tho country, but thero does nnt seem to bo any Insuperable bar to Its eventually doing so. Meanwhile wo shall continue to depend upon the old-fashioned wires and to go without quick news when a blizzard or a summer windstorm sees fit to throw them down. LINKS TO A I.AUfill. Boston Transcrlnt: Hanks Dumlcleh Is not such a dunce as they make him out. In gets off a good thing onco In a while. Hill But It Isn't original. Banks-Still It's bright In him to re member It. Clevclnnd Plain Dealer: "I notice that some Greek letter girls recently met In New York nnd enjoyed a banquet." uia iney tiia licia 1'ir "Oh, Phi!" Washington Star: "Wn hail thirteen no- ple at our porch party last night." "Any bad luck?'' yes: everybody -wanted ice cream twice and It gave out." Baltimore American: Dcnpon Krroutfe No, parson. I don't rightly think we ought to give you a vacation. You know, tho evil never takes one. l'arson HnfippeiRh-Mie would, deacon, If you didn't keep mm so busy. Brooklyn Uncle: The Par win il-anliir over tho fence, shocked) Makln' garden on Sunday, brother! I In pained beyon' measunh. Brother Johnson! Hastus Johnson (flustered) Deed I ain't makln' garden, nanaon! l'ze onlv illscln' bait to go nshln'I Chicago Record-Herald: "Our office boy hasn't returned from his fresh-air vaca tion." "Haven't you heard from him?" "Oh, yea; ho. wrote that ho didn't like the country very much, but If we'd let his pay go on he'd stny two weeks longer." Ohio State Journal: Brother Jack It's no use! That's the third time I've fallod to pabs my yenrly exams. Slater Sue There. Jock, don't worry; you're captain of the foot ball team, first baseman of the collcgo nine and tho best oar In tho yacht club; thnt's better than a sheepskin. Chicago Post: "He was a philanthropist, they say," suggested tho casual caller, speaking of a man who had recently died. " ell, ho may havo done pood with his money In his lifetime." replied the legal luminary bitterly, "but he has demon titrated that he waa no friend of the lawyers." "In what way?" "Ho left no will." Ilnnl Molt. Philadelphia Press. Th.0., !"odest jnntden on a rainy day While walking on the damp and muddy St, May raise her skirt. The proper height, they say. Is Just ft llttlo bit above 2 ft. 11ANC1I (JIlllS kiust i:xi'i.hikxci:. James Barton Adams In Denver Tost. I used to Imagine the fust time I got A beau I'd bo nkeered half to death! One mlnuto feel chilly, another feel hot, An' set there an' ketch at mv hrenth. An' thought that tho feller that sparked mod no Plum full o' nice, sucarv words. An" lire his sweet extrnct o' honey nt mo As oft as tho slngln' o' birds. By Gosh! As soft as tho slngln' o' birds. I'd rend It In stories how fellerx M 1r When bunched with their Indies so fair, Tho klsHcs they'd alius bo snatchtn' from you, Their fingers n combln' ycr hair. An' I was plum certain nn' sure whon It come My turn to be treated that way I'd set there embarassed nn' skocry on' dumb As If I wns mado outen clay, By sosh! As If I wns mndo outcn clay. When Jack come around with a notion to court He wasn't ns bold ns I feared; Ho didn't cut loose like the stories re port, An' 1 wasn't rattled nor skeered We sot for awhile with our fiu-es .in red A if ihev',1 hln mirhMlrd nr nkinnen. Jest set there as silent as If we w.n dead, An looKeii at encli oilier nn grinned By gosh' Jest looked at each other an' grinned. r'linrlnn. Pon't lb wtnr I hVin i m ' rmi't't Kitrmc-t. Hie- ntt-n -outtlil ' wixxl itl'iihul" wlilcli Irrllitti I ho c.lu nnd. in-" ot;rn-llr,lu4lrpnlioii. M j (iriuilii" l'onit'f Itxtmrt rtn lie oh fi ttlf'J on If in -1601011 liutllci encloitd la