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0 rviXV. MAI ATfA TAn.Y IITIT!. WV.nXESlUY. AlTl. ITST "S. 1001- The umaha Daily Bee. E. H03EWATEH, EEtTOtt. PCIJLISHED EVEHY M0HNIN0. TEHM8 OK HUIISCIUI'TION. Ually Hce (without Sunday) ,Ono Year.JG.0 Dally Hoe and Sunday, One Year s.w lliustratid Hoc, One Year jj ' Hundiiy Ucc, Ono Year ?' Saturday lire, Ono Yeur ' Twentieth Century Earmor, One lear. I.iw OFFICES. Omaha: The Deo Hulldlng. South Omahn: City Hull Hulldlng, Tw-jn-ty-nrtli und M Streets. Council Ulurfs: 10 I'enrl Street. Chicago: 16K) Unity Hulldlng. Now York: Temple Court. Washington: 601 Fourteenth Street. COItltESl'ONDENCE. Communications relating to news nnd e11 torlul matter should be addressed: Omaha iitt, Editorial Department. BUSINESS LETTEltS. Iluslncs.i letters and remittances should ho addressed. Tho Heo Publishing Com luny, Omaha, REMITTANCES. Hcmlt by draft, exnrem or postal order, p.iynblo to The Hce Publishing Company. Only 2-cent stamps accepted In payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern i.-xcluinges, nut acitpted. THE UEE 1'UULISUINO COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss,: Ueorgu 11. TzschucK, stcrutary ot The B-'o Publishing Company, being duly sworn. Hays thut tho actual number or full and t omplutu copies of Thu Dul.y, Morning, Evening and Sunday Het prlnteu during tho iiiuuui ui juiy, i.mi, wua as ioiiows ...,ur,uio 17 u..,iao 18 ar.,ioo 19 225,120 M sts.oiio lto,-'i 3 KS,!i70 4 IM.UIM 6 'Jfi.ti'M U... 'IR.MM 1 3,uir. 21 iiS.nUS ti 1 24 2j...... !IG 27 28 29 :u 31 .an. olio ....ItB.IMO ...,us,:t3o ....Vi.-,,U40 ,,.,i!3,i:r.o ....U.I.iSM) ....un.r-iu ....un.Ktio ,...5,a7o H M7,,'MU 9 ii.-.,:no ltl 'M.il'M n ii.-,:i7o 12 yr,,i!i:o 12 u:.,:i.-,o it y,-.,ru.-. IS Uft.OSO 1C li.-.,07O Total 784,015 Lets unsold und returned copies. 0.002 Net totul sales 775,0ia Nut dally average 125,000 OEOIIQE 11. TZSCIIUCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to beioro mo this uay of July, A. U. iL M. U. HUNOATE, Notary Public. I'AHTIHS LEAVINU Foil SOIHUU Fftrtlca Icavluit (ha city for (he summer may have The Oca cut to theni regularly br uotlfrlntf The lice lliinliievs olflce, In iiersnu or by uinll. The nddrrsa Mill be eliunifetl aa often na desired. All roads for republicans lead to Lin coln just now. The mayor of South Omaha has finally Issued his Labor day proclama tion. Now .let the celebration proceed. The Nebraska National CSuard will fu-cept Omaha's hospitality for Its an nual eurampment this year. The sol dier boys arc entitled to the best. An Indian chief will be the principal speaker at the Dakota county old set tlers' picnic. No one will be able to dis pute his claim to being the oldest In habitant. Only two montfis remain that can be depended on to favor outdoor work. I'ubllc and private Improvements should bo hurried along to get In under the frost wlro. His royal highness, King Ak-Sar-nen, never falls to arrive on schedule time and he never falls to make good every promise of entertainment for guests at his court functions. Douglas county farmers liavu been notified to cut the weeds along tho roads, under penalty of the state law. The drouth evidently neglected to get Its work In ou tho weed crop. A system' of drawing Jurors that pulls out the names of women with every batch must be defective somewhere. The seat of trouble should bo located and tho correction applied. If tho committees of heavy property owners who are so much In evidence when tho city tax levy Is about to be inodo will direct their attention to tho court house they will, easily discover several leaks that could be stopped up. After sacrificing several lives by Imv log people bitten by mosquitoes Infected with yellow fever, the doctors profess to believe they have proved their theory. This may bo comforting to tho doctors, but tho victims are not In a position to rcallre ou the value of the discovery. Lord Mllncr, ou nrrlvlng In South a men, nnnounces there will Ito no cliauge In Ilrltlsh policy In that portion of tho globe. Thcro Is every Indication that until there Is a change It will not bo safe for his lordship to go rabbit hunting without a bodyguard of at least u regiment. Tho St. Louis exposition officials have called for a substantial payment on the stock subscriptions. The preliminary (stngo of the fair has dragged so long mac it it is to do a success tnc money must 1m paid In promptly and actual work commonced. Omaha knows from expcrlcnco that It takes something be sides talk to make nn exposltlou a sue cess, Tho governor of Indiana has decided to bring Impeachment proceedings Against sheriffs who fail to enforce the law against prize fighting. If he fol lows up hlu program tho sheriffs of that state will be likely to take official notice of such violations of law. TrUe fighting would have been broken up long ago but for thu fact that officers of the law wink at the violations. Official reports from China tend to take some of the conceit out of scientists from Europe nnd the United States. In treating tho plague tho better class o native doctors have succeeded In saving from 30 to t!0 per cent of their patients while European doctors havo only been nblo to savo '-'5 per cent. Evidently the heathen Chinee sometimes knows thing or two, and perhaps three. HKVUIIIjWAXS CAXXOT UKMA .V 81LEXT. Tho eyus of the whole state nre upon the republican convention about, to us soluble at the Htntc. capital. Tor the llrst time since the jjlorlous victory of 1100 the representatives of the party will meet to formulate the party's policy on which It will appeal to tho voters of Nebraska for a renewal of confidence. The demand of the hour from the rank and tllo of republicans Is for a frank and unequivocal expression on the exercise of executive clemency to em bezzlers of public funds. Whatever may be the coiidltldns under which a parole has been jjlveu, the patty cannot justly be held responsible unless It assumes the responsibility by tacit assent. In other words, while the 1,1100 delegates representing the party are not called on to arraign the executive or Impugn Ids motives, they cannot shirk the duty devolving upon them to dls lalm for the party any sympathy with custodlnns of public moneys who have betrayed their trust and brought dis grace, humiliation and disaster upon the party which bad honored them. AO I'IjATFOHM Of 1'IjATITUDKS. The tepubllcans of Nebraska have been restoied to power on probation. 'heir lease of power will continue only so long as they administer the trust they have assumed on behalf of the people with fidelity nnd Integrity of purpose. Not only must the caudldiites nomi nated by them be clean and capable, but the declarations embodied In their plat form must have the right ring. This Is an off year and the campaign Is sure to turn on state as well as on national Issues. The ruslou reformers must not be given the monopoly of battling for reforms favored by meii of all parties. While It Is proper for the republican state convention to point to the match less achievements of the, past and the substantial prosperity of the present, it can not put off the Issues of the hour either by glltterliig generalities, equtvo- nl platitudes, or studied silence. THE IXSULKXCtl or OTUK. Who would bear the whips and scorns of lme, tho oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, the pangs of desplBed ove, tho law's delay, tho Insolence of ofllco and thu spurns that patient merit of tho unworthy takes. The soliloquy of Hamlet Is as appli cable today as It was In the time of Queen Hess, -(H) years ago. The climax of the Insolence of ofllco has Just leon exhibited by the outgoing receiver of the land office at O'Neill. According to the World-Herald, the recognized organ of the Holt county ring, strong resolutions of censure dJ- ected to the national administration, Senators Dietrich and Millard, and K. Hosewater, were Introduced in tho re publican convention of Holt county by It. H. Jenness und his friends and ad mirers because 1). Clem Denver has been appointed to supersede him. One would Imagine that .Tciiucss had at some time done something to distinguish him self nnd place the republican party un der extraordinary obligations because of his Invaluable service. Up to 1SUI the political history of Jen ness was a blank. In that year ho was earning about $18 a week as a typeset ter In the World-Herald office. During tho fall campaign of that year he pro jected himself as a labor champion and was nominated and elected to tile legis lature as the special representatlvo of labor. He bad not warmed the sent In tho stnte house three days before ho turned his back on the worklugmeu and allied himself with the corporate lobby and the jobbers that Infest the capital. Incidentally, he formed a warm attach ment for Joe Hartley mid worked hard for Hartley's pet bill to repeal the de posltory law which required treasurers to account for the Interest on public money. After the session had closed Jenness became Impressed with tho Idea that It would not be agreeable for lilm to face his constituency by resuming his rcsl deuce In Omahn. He preferred to take up his future residence in Hartley's home town of Atkinson, where he was Installed as editor and proprietor of n print shop reputed to have been the property of the treasury wrecker. In due time thu services of Jcuuess In the senatorial election were substantially recognized by Senator Thurston In his appointment iib receiver of tho O'Neill laud otllce, Although his four-years' term expired In June, Jcuuess was allowed to hold the ofllco three mouths longer. With no claim for reappointment, Is It uot sublime cheek ou the part of Jenuess and his admirers to pretend to bu Indlg mint and outraged by tho appoluttuenl of his successor? Is It uot an exhlbl Hon of Impudeucu as well as Insolence for them to try to cast slurs upon Presl dent McKlulcy and the Nebraska sena tors because they relieved Jenuess from further ollleial usefulness to the Holt county ring? THU ilKXAL'K TO UKBTSVUA) lXnUSTIl 1 Tho fact Is now very generally recog uized that the policy and purpose of the Sugar trust are to destroy the American beet sugar Industry. That Is what the proposition to admit Cuban raw sugar freo and retnln the duty on refined means. It Is a proposition that con templates the abandonment of bee sugnr production In this country and the surrender of tho American market to the control of tho trust. "It Is well understood," suys the Cleveland Lender, "that without any protection on raw sugar the 'farmers of the United States could not or would not try to campet with the chenp lnlor and easy tillage o the sugar cane Islands of the West In dies. Thu moment they stopped the grow lug ot sugar beets in sufficient quantities to Insure steady supplies for tho beet sugar works tho domestic sugar Indus try of the American republic would be crippled nnd the Sugar trust would be flic master of the whole field which It has so ably and mercilessly exploited." That paper adds that the natural peril of the trust Is the American farmer who grows beets for sugar and who cannot be syndicated und absorbed. The Leader thinks It quite probable that the next session of congress will witness a struggle for life by the beet sugar Interest against the mncblnntlons of the Sugar trust and says It Is do- Irable that all neutral classes should understand In advance what the agents of the trust will mean when they pro pose the removal of duties on raw sugar and the retention of protection for re finers. "They may talk of cheaper sugur, but they will be aiming to smash nnd wipe out of existence the only force which now keeps down the price of sugar and forces the American Sugnr Helinlng company to lower Its market notations at the beginning season." In conclusion our Cleveland couteinpo- ary declares that "If the American people can be deluded by the special pleading of such an organization as the Sugar trust they will deserve no sym pathy. Its true purpose Is too uppar- nt. It stands too clearly for monopoly and the extortion which Is the child of complete control of great Industries." It Is gratifying to know that this sub- cct is beginning to command public at tention and discussion, for thu more arefully It is considered tho stronger will become tho opposition to thu mani fest scheme of the Sugar trust In Its advocacy of free raw sugar from Cuba. Wo do not believe that congress will do anything that might be fatal to the American beet sugar industry. We do not doubt that the administration would disapprove any legislation of that na ture. Hut the trust will spare no effort to carry out Its purpose and the friends f the American sugar Industry must be alert and active. The power that 1ms In effect declared war on that Industry cannot safely bu treated with indiffer ence. iiui'ixo t'oit ixrt:itt'Kiu:xcE. The latest advices regarding the dis turbance in Colombia Indicate that the government of that republic Is hoping for the Interference of tho United States In the event of serious trouble on the Isthmus of 1'anama. An American gunboat is now at Colon and another Is on Its way to the raclfiu sldo of the Isthmus, but this does not contemplate any Interference on tho part of our gov- mment beyond, what may be necessary to maintain free transit across tho Isth mus, which our government Is under treaty obligation to do. If the Insur gents attempt to stop transit across this, commercial highway It will be the duty of the United States to interpose, but this would not be done lu the Interest of the government of Colombia, except so far as thu isthmus Is concerned. That Is to say, the United States has nothing to do with the Internal or ex ternal troubles of Colombia beyond carrylug out the stipulation to preserve the neutrality of the Isthmus of Pana ma and secure the freedom of transit across it. The Insurrection lu that re public, which lias been going on for two years, concerns our government only to tho extent that It may endanger the free course of tralllu across thu Isthmus. l'hls applies, also, to any Invasion of Colombia from neighboring republics. In short, all that the United States Is concerned about and respecting which It could rightly Interfere. Is thu keeping open of tho Isthmus ami It can confi dently be predicted that our government will attempt no Interference beyond this. It may not be necessary for the United States to use force lu order to carry out Its treaty obligation, but If It should lecome uecessary there Is no doubt that forcu will bu employed. Thu situation 1ms a rather serious as pect for the Colombian governmeut. It Is lu an extremely bad condition llnan chilly, the Insurrection appears to be growing and thu country Is surrounded by foes. The overthrow of the govern ment seems highly probable. Hut at all events It Is tho policy of the United States not to Interfere u these South American conflicts and this policy will be studiously observed In the present case. Tho Philippine revenues show an In crease of over ?1, 000,000 during the past six months, as compared with the previous period. This Increase liiul cates largely the progress made In pad llcatlon of the Islands and the resump tlou of normal conditions. pot one penny of these receipts Is sent to thu United States, but all Is expended tor the benefit of thu Islands and their peo pie. This fact alone should be a powerful argument with the natives of the bene fits of American rule. During the Span ish regime millions were extorted In taxes to pay Interest on debts and other millions seut to the Spanish treasury. All thu United States will ever ask of the Filipinos will be to sustain them selves. Many southern communities nre busily engaged at present In driving the negroes out. The southerner will dis cover In tlmo If he pursues his present tactics that after the negro Is gone he will bo compelled to get down to work on his own account. The negro Is thu burden bearer of the south and that section needs the colored mnn as much as the colored man needs tho south. Kx-dovernor Stone of Missouri con tinues to Insist that silver Is still an Issue. Some of his friends should take u day off and wake the ex-governor up. 1 1 II lit II no, by Co ii trust. Washington Star, Exile, nrson, confiscation and starvation are offered the Boers In exchange for the terras they gave the Jameson raiders. The more wo think ot our treatment of Spain the better satisfied we are with the work of the gentlemen who represented us t Paris. l.ncklnK (he Htnhle Door. Minneapolis Tribune. What Is left of tho nubile domain should hn reserved in far as nosslbloVfor actual settlers wherever the land Is desirable for homes. The balance otigbt lo be voted to forestry under somo arrangeme that would Insure the preservation of ihKtrees already growing and the planting of tnftear tea nnd the reforesting of tho denuded areas. It Is tlmo to call a halt upon reck less profligacy In disposing of land belong ing to the United States. Amendment n n lluiirli. Chicago Itecord-llcrald. It a constitutional amendment Is required to chango tho (Into ot Inauguration day and tho assembling of & new congress within a reasonable time after Us clectlou, the agi tation might na well be dropped now. Such amendments nro well nigh Impossible, lie sides, wo need one providing for the elec tion of senators by direct vote of tho people more than either ot these other changes. MlinriotTN on llrlitht Promises. Ilrooklyn Eagle. Wp have the promise that as automobiles Increase flh will decrease, for flics bre.d In street and road filth, which automobiles do not create. Files carry matarln and typhoid fever and ophthalmia and cholera. Hut then, automobiles carry nervous pros tration and explosions and create autcmo bllltls. it Isn't a perfect world, however you look nt It. I'lnyliiK In Ilnril Lurk. Itnttlmore American. Mr. Bryan Is having unusually hard luck this year. The state conventions aro treat ing him most cruelly In declining to In dorse his free sliver vlewu. Tho blow la Ohio was particularly severe. The Virgin ians let him down with more politeness, but they used language sufficiently firm not to bo misunderstood. The course of events Is such that more of this opposition may be expected, especially In tho south, where many of tho people are norry for tho voto they cast In 1896. Mr. Bryan's friends tn Iowa made n desperate effort on We(lnfsilay to keep him from being offended, and after n struggle the Kansas City platform was In dorsed. Iowa being hopelessly republican, tho Nebraska man can take what comfort he can find out of ,thc transactions of tho con vention In that state. QI'AnitE.NMAI, .SESSIONS. Alnhnnin Essnya u Nct Ilccord Ile- M'eetliiK Km Legislature. Chicago Tribune. The Alabama constitutional convention has made provision In Its draft of a now organic law for quadrennial sessions of tho legislature, the govornor to have authority to call special sessions when necessary. Thero Is a good deal to bo said in favor of this proposition In states whero so ample a measure of solf-govcrnmont Is granted to local communities that thoy do not have to be constantly running to tho legislature for new laws. Some states where thcro used to be nnnual sessions of the legisla ture, but where sessions nro biennial now, woro a little doubtful as to the wisdom of the chango when made, it did not tako them long to discover that tho chango was for the better. Few' laws were en acted, but tho community was tho gainer thereby. If leglelnturcs did not meet so often there would not be tho Incessant demand for new laws, thcro Is now. Tho people, awnre that oxlstlng laws could not be changed speedily, would accommo date themselves to them nnd manage to get along quite comfortably. If legislatures met quadrennially thero would be a bet ter opportunity than there Is now for the thorough public, discussion of proposed legislation. Tho Inutility of many sug gested "reforms' would becomo appar ent before the legislature was called on to tako action concerning thorn. There Is a law-making cnuo. In, this country and It rages with the greatest violence whore law making bodies meet the. o'ftenest. If tho Illinois legislature were to meet anually tho conacquenee-would be sad Indeed. t It wore to mtct (only onco every four or six years It Would he all tho better for tho state and, Its people. FOOD AIlII,TEUATfON. Steed of (irrnter Publicity for the Pro Icetlon ol Co ii Nil in em. Now york Tribune. The Department of Agriculture has at the Pan-American exposition an exceed ingly Interesting dlsplny of pure and adul terated food products. Except for one thing It might be said to be extremely val uable. The exhibit serves to awaken curi osity, distrust and, .even alarm by showing the public specimens of dyes, impurities and even poisons found in alimentary ar ticles purchased ,in the open market. But It docs not enable .any person to avoid such adulterated foods. The labels are removed from the products subjected to analysis, so, urni iiu munuiaciurer s reelings aro hurt by the exposure of hU dishonesty and no consumer Is warned what not to purcbaso If ho would avoid eating deleterious sub stances. It Is said that putting the labols alongside tho results of analysis would give manu facturers of adulterated foods not ana lyzed for tho exhibit an advantage over those whose Impure goods were shown to tho public In their Impurity. It Is difficult to sympathize with tho plea that some men Bhould be protected In wrong-doing because some others doing the same thing cannot bo punished at the same time. On that theory very .few criminals would over bo sent to prison. Whatever justification thoro may be for froelng this exhibition of the scientific work of the Agricultural de partment from complications and avoiding making tho Pan-American showcases a pil lory for manufacturers who aro perchance exhibitors on tho 'same grounds, thert, Is uo reason why fhe department should be tender of food adulterators In general. It Is of little use to a1 man o be told that out of ten samples ot canned fruit seven wuro loaded with salicylic acid. The In formation may make htm miserable, but It will not give him protection or help him to protect himself. Iteports show that high priced goods are ns likely to be drugged ob cheap ones and the consumer Is at the mercy ot the manufacturer unless some one comes to his rescue. If the govern ment undertakes to analyze foods for the protection of the- public It should spread broadcast with Its analyses the names of tho makers of the articles examined. The truth Is no libel and It a poison is found In a cortaln brand of food It is right to say exictly In what It was found so that pcoplo can avoid It. Perhups they might In Ignoranco turn for a time to foods equally adulterated, but with an active department those, too, would be exposed and at the same tlmo the government an alyses ot articles honestly fabricated would direct consumers In the right path as well as warn them from tho wrong. Thero ought to be some way to make this knowledgo of what to buy and what to leavo alone general, Too frequently, Just. as at Buffalo, those who learn that vitriol Is put In some of the canned vegetables which they buy are not told Just which of them are -so treated and such Information as Is embodied In reports as to factories and brands docs not clrculato widely among those who aro the principal consumers ot the goods and no attempt Is made to ren der popularly available the fact that i certain brand of peaches contains for roaldehyde as there Is to toll people that they ar In danger from a counterfeit $5 bill which happens to be afloat. The money counterfeiter does no more harm than the food counterfeiter. They are both frauds and the government officials who detect them should advertise them as such so that no Innocent person will be wronged The food adulterator Is entitled to no pro tectlon. Every brand found not true to Its represented character should be ruthlrsely exposed. If that course hurls anybody's trade it will be because their trade 1 dishonest and ought to be hurt. 1WCT.S IHM'lini) IN 1'Klt ltES. Trnile, SIiIIiIiik, I'lre I, (' unit Dif fused lulelllHf iter. The fire losses In the United States lu 1900, according to the Now York Chronicle Are tnblcs, were $101,000,000, ns ngalust $133,000,000 for ISM'. The most disastrous year for lire In this country was lS'Jil, when the losses amounted to more than l'i",500,000. Of tho 1011,000 buildings burned last year nearly half or, to bu more exact, 50,4 17 were dwelling houses. Then 2,107 hotels, (4ubs nnd restaurants were burned, with 838 theaters and hall', G7S churches, C47 colleges, schools nnd convents, 241 public buildings nnd 1G1 hospitals nnd asylums. Tho total toss by fire In the United States for twenty-six yenrs ending Decem ber 31, 1900, was $2,899,714,021. Tho num ber of Arcs In New York state last year was 12,107 and tho loss $21,737,785. Penn sylvania hail 8,08 fires with a total loss of $16,497,025. In Nevada there were but fifty eight fires nnd the loss arising from them was only $183,000. Ono thousand three hundred nnd forty fires wnio caused In 1900 by spontaneous combustion, two by tho sun's rnys on milk cans, one by tho sua's rays on a tin roof and three by the sun's rays through win dow glass. The Frankfurter Zeltung of Frankfurter, KOormnny, furnishes the following table of the largest steamship companlc. of the world, their tonnngo nnd the average of their vessels. Company nnd Flag. Tons. AV. Age. ltnmburg-Atncrlcan line, dermnn 615,000 4.4 yenrs North Ocrman Lloyd, Ger man 510,050 D.S yea's British India Steamship Navigation company, Enc ash 3S0.000 12.7 years Elder Dempster. Ltd.. Enc llsh 375.O0O Leylnnd (now Morgnn), U. S.325,000 1'enlnsula & Oriental, "Eng lish 313.m 9.2 years Union Cable, EnKllsh 243.000 5.5 years Messngerles Murltlmes. French 245,000 11.5 yenrs Following is tho tonnage of the lnrgest steamship lines ot other countries: Company and Flng. Tons, nbout. Nippon Yusan Kalschii, Japan! 1P5.W) Nnvlgazlonu Genomic, ltalv 1W.0UO Itusslan Steamship und Commercial coinimnv, HllSHla lfij.OOO Austrian Lloyd. Austria 155,000 Forenede Darnpfklbs. Denmark 130,000 A Frankfort letter to th'e Chicago Tribune says: According to the statistical tnbtes of the Metnllgcscllschaft of Frankfort-on-tho Main, tho production ot aluminium In 1900 was 17,035,082 pounds, against 29,242 pounds In 1885. In this total oj production the following works participated viz.: The Aluminium Industry works at Neu hausen, Switzerland; nhclnfelden, Germany, and Lond-Oasteln, Austria, with 5,500,000 pounds; England, with 1,100,000 pounds; France, 3,300,000 pounds; United States, 7,135,081 pounds, Ono kilogram of aluminium 2 1-5 pounds In 1855 had a valuo of 1,000 marks (1 murk equal to 23.8 cents); lu 1856, 300 marks; 1857, 210 marks; 1838 to 1886, 100 marks; 1886, 70 marks; 1888, 47.50 marks; February, 1890, 27.60 marks; September, 1890, 15.20 marks; February, 1891, 12 marks; July, 1891, 8 ma'rks; November, 1891, 5 marks; 1S95, .1 marks; 1898-'09, 2.20 marks; 1900, 2 marks. Recently the prlco has declined farther, and it Is believed that tho demand hns not qulto equaled the supply. Germany Imported In 1900 2,075,480 pounds and exported 500, 700 pounds. Nearly 28,000,000 pounds of printed mat ter, deelgncd for general dissemination, was hipped In ono month ,last year, reports tho New -York Sun, by. publishers at the rato of cent a pound at the hundred largest post- offices In tho United Stato3, ranging from New. York at tho top to Fort Worth, Tex., t tho foot, the total amount of such ship ments having risen' from 296,000,000 pounds In 1896 to 450,000,000 In 1900. These ship ments of printed matter, collected and transmitted by tho Postoftlco department, constltuto a very fair gauge of tho dis tributing points of news and literature In the United States, nnd the relation which they bear to each other is peculiar and has little reference to population. New York stands at the hcod with moro than 25 per cent of tho whplo shipments ot the country. Chicago follows with nbout two-thirds of tho shipments of New York. Then follow St. Louis, Philadelphia and Boston, In tho order named, Uoston'B ship ments seeming unduly low, and then Kan sas City, Cincinnati and Augusta, Mo., tho hipmonts of Augusta seeming unduly hlrh, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Pittsburg, Do- trolt, St. Paul, Cleveland and Mllwaukeo follow all of them minor but populous cities nnd then come Springfield, 0 and Elgin. III., two small places, Springfield be ing notable on account ot Its output of agricultural machinery, and Elgin on ac count of Its manufacture of watches and IU shipments of condensed milk. Baltimore comes next, then uenvor, Omaha, Des Moines, Atlanta, Lincoln, Nashville, Louisville, Indianapolis end Washington. Bangor, Me., exceeds Buffalo; Dallas, Tex., exceeds New Orleans, Brook lyn has two shipments little larger than those of Watcrvllle, Me., and Rochester, N. Y., Wllllamsport, Tex., and Memphis, Tenn., have about the came shipments. Albany, N. Y and Providence, R. I., are far down on tho list. Newark, N. J., is still further down nnd Charleston, S. C, ranks below Racine, Wis. It would tako 25,000 poital cars, It Is estimated, to carry these second class mall matter shipments. Activity of German manufacturers anil exporters Is Illustrated by some figures regarding tho imports ot pig Iron into uormnny ana the exports ot iron and steel manufactures, which havo Just reached tho bureau of statistics, Washington. They show tho importation of pig Iron increased from 462,000 tons in 1897 to 830,000 tons In 1900, and those of rough Ironware from 43,000 tons to 73,000 tons, while the exports of Iron nnd lronwaro Increased during tho samo period from $82,000,000 to $118,000,000, machines from $30,000,000 to $45,000,000, rolling stopjk and Bhlps (not wood) from $3,000,000 to $9,000,000, making the total Increase in Iron and Ironware, machines and rolling st,ock and shjps from $114,000, 000 to $172,000,000 In a period of three years. Exportation! ot machines, chiefly ot cast iron, Increased from 118,100 tons In 1S97 to 167,000 tons In 1900, those of wrought iron from 22,000 to 38,500 tons, boilers from 4,400 to 5,400 tons, carding machines nnd their clothing from 270 to 500 tons, while locomo (Ives and locomobiles fell from 13,200 to 12,300 tons. On the other hand, Imports hnvc also grown, those of Iron and Ironware Increased from $17,000,000 In 1897 to $30,000,000 In 1900, machines from $10,000,000 to $19,000,000; machines, chiefly of cast , Iron, Increased from 51,500 tons to 69,400 tons, wrought dron from 6,600 tons to 15,300, wood from 3,900 to 4,500 tons, whole locomotives and locomobiles Increased from 3,040 to 4,300 tons, and sowing machines from 3,030 to 4,200 tons. The Importation of pig Iron was chiefly from the United Kingdom, the figures being In 1899 670,000 tons nnd 30, 900 from the United States. The growth from 1897 to 1899 was chiefly In that Ira ported from tho United Kingdom, the in crease from that country being 140,000 tons while from the Untied State it was only a llttln more than 1,000 tons. Koree of lluhll. Minneapolis Journal, The Iowa democrats are as devoid of hope as lost souls, hut nn power on earth can prevent them from going through the motions every election. I'ltOMl'EHITV AMI roilEHJN TIIAIIE. , nierlen'x l.enp to n I'rliuiiry I'lnee n tln World' Storehouse. Baltimore American. The marvelous development of the coun try's prosperity during the past five years has been contemporaneous with tho equally marvelous development of our foreign com merce. It Is natural to conclude, there fore, that the one Is largely dependent upon the other. Our leap from a secondary to a primary place hns been so sudden that llttlo thought has been given to anything except the results as we find them. We know that we nre prosperous, and we glory In It with out examining causes. Tho exultation of our recently attained supremacy ha") so elated us 'that the tlmo Is spent more In eelf-fellcltatlons than In preparations to perpetuate it. It is well to understand thnt prosperity Is not ours by divine right. It comes to us through divine beneficence ns a rewnrd for our energy nnd enterprise. It is our ng gresslvo tolling at home nnd our bold un derselling abroad which have boon tho sources of our present nourishing condition. It Is, therefore, Imperative that wo protect them both if we wish to remain ns supremo ns we now nppcnr to be. An Injury to either source will be n direct blow nt the heart of prosperity itself. A severe nsfault on both would cnuso prosperity to languish in gloom. England Is bewailing her loss of foreign commcrco because It Is nlrcady lessening her prosperity. Murmurs nro henrd all through the empire, nnd they Incrcnso In Intensity with each recurring report of do- creases in exports. Her. monnlngs should bo a warning to us. Wo can HI afford to ttop our nggresslvo tolling nt homo or to lose our ability to undersell competitors In for eign markets. Our endeavors should bo bent toward nn extension rnthcr than to a con traction of our foreign trade. If we lose tho leadership we hnvo now attained It will bo difficult lo recover It. It should be conscientiously guarded. Our Industrial equilibrium at homo should bo kept per fectly balanced, so that tho necessary ag gressive tolling can continue without Inter ruption. Frictions nnd contentions should bo nvolded. There Is loo much Involved to How smnll matters to Interfcro with tho smooth movements of tho wheels of busi ness. Tho moro obstacles there nro In tho pathway of progrcse, tho hardor It Is for prosperity to mako nny ndvnnce. It diffi culties nt homo nre hung nbout prosperity's neck she will soon forsake our shores and ncstlo down In other lands. Our pcoplo would stand nghnst If such n sequel should follow. And yet, It Is possible. Unlcsi wo court her with tho blandishments she likes sho will desert us for nnother. It Is nggrrs- Ivo tolling nt home nnd underselling abroad which wins her smiles. ri'KSONAI. NOTKS. 'Divine Healer" Schlatter has been ent to "tho Island" for thrco months by a Now York police magistrate, charged with being drunk and disorderly. General Harris C. Hobart, who, after a service of twenty-live years, has resigned from tho Milwaukee Public Library board, waa one of the federal prisoners who tun neled tholr way out ot Llbby prison. Ho is now in his S9th year. The town of Pittsburg Is .happy In lis belief that Mr. H. C. Frlck Ib about to build thcro a magnificent fireproof hotel covering a plot ot ground 240 feet equnre nd having not less than 1,000 rooms nd an auditorium lnr?o enough for national convention purposes. President James B. Anccll of the Uni versity of Michigan says that the entire expense of his four years' courso nt Brown ollego (now university) .was but $60ft. Nowadays a student who can keep his ex penses, down, to $1,00,0 for tho course is thought to be very economical. Ono of the proud boasts ot New Hamp shire in the celebration of Old Home week was that Its town of Peterborough was the first In the world to havo n public library, and that tho Granlto stato was tho first state In tho union to pass a law author izing towns to establish free public libra ries. Colonel Krag Is now chief of ordnance In the Norwegian army. Jorgenscn was foreman of the government gun factory whon the colonel was superintendent there. Between them thoy got up the Krag-Jorgen- sen rifle. Tho foreman Invented It; tho colonel supplied tho ciinh and put it on the market. In a recent conversation with a friend Count Tolstoi referred to the effect of ago in freeing the mind from Its dependence on tho body. As a young man, he said, any bodily illness depressed his mind nlso, whereas In his present Illness the mind has retained all its freshness and power of lucid thinking. Washington officials who superintended the recent opening of tho Indian rojerva tlons In Oklahoma estimate that the re ceipts from tho sale of townstto property nt tho three principal towns will rench nealy $1,000,000, all of which will be ex pended for public Improvements and thu payment of tho first year's snlarles of county offlccra. Even aerial navigation has its cabals. The success of M. SantoB-Dumont, ths Brazilian, has nettled French cllqulahncss nnd there are symptoms of unfair opposi tion to his further attempts for tho Deutscb prize. Santos-Dumont Is tho son of the "coffee king" of Brazil, who employn 6,000 laborers on his plantation. Tho aeronaut Is the youngest of ton children nnd waj born In Rio do Janeiro In 1873. Trouble In Hnlvmlor, SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 27.-The steamer San Jose, from Central America. leports that ut Acnlutln It wat. snicl nnntner ruvo- lutlon for the purnoso of overthrowing the government of Salvador was Imminent. though no outbreaK nnu yet WKcn piaco. School "No ClothitiR Fits Like Ours." Browning, King & Co. Exclusive Clothiers and Furnishers. R. S. Wilcox, Manager. tor Closes Saturday Mulili nt O'clock, Other Eronlnus at 5.30, Why a Woman Ablo to Holp Slok Woman When Doctor Fmll. How gladlv would men fly to wo man's aid did they but understand a woman's feelings, trials, sensibilities, and peculiar organic disturbances. Those things are known only to women, and the old n mnu would ghs 1b not at Ids command. To treat a ease properly It Is neces sary to know all about It, nnd full Information, many times, ennnot bo given by n woman to her family phy sician. She ennnot bring herself to tell everything, and tho physician U ' Mns. G. n. CiiArrcLi. at a constant disadvantage. This U why, for the past twenty-five years, thousands of women have been con fiding their troubles to us, and our ndvlco has brought happiness nnd health to countless women In the U.S. Mrs. Chappcll, of Grant Parle, I1L. whoso portrait we publish, advises fcll suffering women to use Lydla E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound, as It cured her of inflammation of the ovaries and womb ; she, therefore, speakb Irons knowledge, nnd her experience oilgh to give others confidence. Address Mra, I'lnkham's Laboratory, Lynn, MM MIHTIIIMT, Itl'MAHKS, New York Weekly; Tramp Please, mum, I haven't a friend or n relative. In tlin world. Housekeeper Well, I'm glad them's nn olio to worry over you In euso you gel hurt. Here, Tlgo! Philadelphia Press: Wlllle-P.i. what nro fulso eyes made of? rn-aiarn. Wtllte-llut what kind of glass? I'll Ol er InoklnKRlass. 1 BUliprtse. Now run oft to bed. Denver Post: "Yes." snld the dent st. nfler lie hud finished the Job, "you have a woimeniii amount or nerve, sir, 1 must nny." " ell, you might to Know, ilurn ye. You found nil of It." Philadelphia necord: Noll t supposo vliu'K long and lanky, Just thu snme ns ever. Hello Not nt all. You know. hIio recently camo Into n fortune. She's "divinely tnll" now. Washington fitur: "Home folks,", snld Uncle Ebon, "nln't appreciated foh de toa snn tint (lev huciuIh so miirli 1 1 nip wnii- derln why cloy ain't appreciated dat dey doesn hi tt(.' i.c.ifc in li 1:11,1111.1 , K'v UJI do sinnjilti' to bo appreciated for." nn Brooklyn ljfo: Buoklln-Dld. Throball mnko n homo run today? Iintz No; un fortunately foi himself and his poor, watt ing wife, he got no further than tho llrst saloon. ChlcnBO Tribune: While thn elmreh wan locked up for tho summer It was occupied an a sleeping plnco by trnmps, nnd on re opening thu building It was decided by tho trustees that It must bo fumigated. "lluvii you got miy brimstone?" naked tho man who had come to do tho Job. "No, Hlr," stltlly replied tllo sexton. "This Is a Univcrrallst church," TIIAMCS. Wo who have reason thank tho happy (.IlilllCO That sent tho rnln to quench our craving thirst; Wo cunnot grow sn narrow ns to dream That we, from all tho world, wcro set apart By Him Who mnrks the sparrow whon it falls. To bo the objects of Ills special enre. Wo know that our deserts nro not so great As aro the righteous needs of those who wait, With parching lips nnd wide, despairing eyes, For this that has revived and succored us. Wo ennnot be so Hellish u to think That CJod'H curse falls on these who aro no frnll (Tho bruised reed how can His anger break?) And that His blessings rest whero strength Is greut. Nuturc Is cruel und the plan of which Our life Is but 11 part Is very largo; Too ast for ojr weak ml nil 3 to compre hend, Wo cannot niter or direct this plan. Hut each must tnke his own atomic place, And, finally, compelled to leave tho cnrtli, As, nt the start, thrust through tho gates of birth, do on, through death, to what wo know not of, God Is not mocked nnd neither la He moved ' By human supplication, for If so Then, surely, He had heard His Own pur a Hon. When, In the garden of Gcthscmene, He prayed Hint the dread cup might pas.i from I i 1 111. , Arid we must drain the dregs of bitterness, The wormwood nnd the gall, But when a drink Of sweeter vintage comes to us we taste Of It In glndnesH, while oar hearts nre full Of tlinnkfuliicHH for gruce, mid wo aro sura This did not come because wo asked for It, BELLE WILLEY CIUE, Wlnsiie, Neb. Clothes for All the Boys. From tho kindorgartnor ab school for tho first timo to tho Higli School cadet radiant in his regimentfils- Wo aro showing this eeuson tho vory latost pattorns and tho most dopondablo and sorvicoahlo school suits ovor shown in this city. Prices rango from $3. 1)0 to $6.50 and romombor 4