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, STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. .
late of Nebraska, Douglna County,.:
f tedre B. Tsechuck. secretary of Th Bee
ubllshing company, being duly sworn, says
hat the actual number of full and cem
fdeta eoplen of Ths DaHy Morning, Mvenin
pd Sunday Be printed during th taohtK
ft August. 1914. waa a follows:
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90,610
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18 80,010
19 .20,280
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Net average sales XA,tKa
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Subscribed In my presence ahd sworn to
before m tul list day of August, A, P. Itba,
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Come Into my nonpartisan tarl6i says
the popocratlc spider to the republican
fly. ' ' ' ' "
If any mpre plumbing Is to be done In
the eounty hospital the commissioner
had better let the Job to a jeweler.:
All that new market bouse . needs
dow to lnsur permanent prestige is a
few people to buy and sell goods In It
All the democrats and assistant demo
crats are unrecondlably opposed to any
thing that sarors of harmony among the
mnuhllana.
The ghost of John Irwin has appeared
In Washington county through the
medium Oil BCTerat spirit lawyers, who
are gunning after woodchuck
Interest In the official advent of the
president of the Chicago Groat Western
Into Omaha is secondary only to our In
terest In the advent of the road Itself .
The business men of Omaha who are
interested n the success of the Alt-Bar
Ben carnival will tolerate no more tom
foolery about repairing the street pave
ments. V
The wonder Is that Ellen M. Btone
has kept so quiet when she might be
breaking into the public prints with her
opinions of the Macedonian and Bul
garian troubles.
The double-shotted appeal of the local
popocratlo organ for nonpartisan Judges
in all republican districts and demo
cratic Judges In all democratic districts
la strikingly disinterested.
The postmasters of Wisconsin have or
ganlsed themselves Into a union on the
community-of-lnterest plan, with the
mental reservation that no member will
go on a strike unless he Is Invited 'to re
sign. Tha electric light company has given
It out semiofficially that 700 old poles
ara to be pulled up bjr the roots and. re
placed with 1,400 new poles If the com
pany can secure the proposed monopoly
of public lighting.
The National Wholesale Druggists' as
sociation has again denounced the cut
rate retailers, but all the resolutions It
can pass will not prevent people from
buying tbslr pink pills and tired-feeling
tablets wherever they can get a dollar
box foe 63 cents.
Receipts from sales of public lands
from Nebraska during the past fiscal
year foot up $118,83& The private
sales of lands In Nebraska during the
same time , would probably foot up
many times that sum, a pretty good
showing of real estate activity after all. L
e1 , fe
The annual report of Pension Commis
sioner Ware Indicates that the high
water mark of civil war petitions has
been passed. If auyone had predicted,
however, at the close of the war that It
would take thirty-four years to reach
this point he would have beeu laughed
out of countenance In lucreduUty.
No-" that the restraining order. tying
tha hands of the mayor and council In
entertaining proposals for gus lighting
for the coming year has been modified
and virtually dissolved, it Is to be hoped
that the electric tight company and the
gat Company will not keep the people
math longer in enspens awaiting pro
poaala, providing' that they are madti
jrlta bcnotabl InteutWua,
kcliko Tflg riLtrmos.
When (Governor Taft retires from his
position in the Philippines to become
ttrptary of waf he Will be succeeded
by tJeneral Wright, who acted as got
ernor of the archipelago during the ab
sence of Taft. The prospective new gov
ernor of the Philippines is politically a
democrat and a good deal of ntprst is
nnltirally felt af to. the attitude which
he may take In regard Id the govern
nient of the lslahds. In the brief time
that General Wright was acting gov
ernor of the Philippines he of course
pursued th6 policy whlchfthe commission
had established and be manifested no
disposition to make any departure from
the course that had been outlined by
that body.
It appears (that the American element
in tne archipelago bAs raised the que
tion whether the fair and equitable
policy Inaugurated by Governor Taft is
to be continued by his successor, or a
policy instituted wbldh Will discriminate
In favor of American exploitation of the
islands. There is now A. good deal of
opposition Jo Governor Taft because of
his 'policy of giving the Filipinos an
equal chance In the affairs of govern
ment, of recognising the right f, the
people of the Islands to a proper share
In the government It is alleged, dmbt
less upon substantial grounds, that
efforts have been made to induce the
Philippine commission to show . special
favors to Americans, particularly ' in
industrial and commercial ways, and
that such efforts have uniformly met
with refusal. There IS no question al
to the wisdom and the justice of this
policy. There should be no discrimina
tion between the people of the islands,
all being given An equal chance, accord
ing to capacity and fitness, in every re
lation, governmental and otherwise.
Only in this way cad equal Justice be
done and the confidence and content
ment of the natives be assured.
General Wright has shown himself to
be In full accord with this view. There
Is ample authority for the statement
that he and Governor Taft have been
from the outset and at all times in per
feet agreement as to the wisdom and
expediency of the policy which has been
bserved and which there is every reason
to- expect will continue to prevail. As a
democrat General Wright has views re
garding economic policy that differ
somewhat from the opinions of a ma
jority of the commission and of the
national administration. It Is the under
standing that he favors absolute free
trade with the archipelago, that he would
place it on the same basis In v this re
spect as Porto Rico. But he has hot
been aggressive in urging his opinion in
this regard and probably will not be so
aa governor of the Philippines. In short.
General Wright, although a southern
democrat, will undoubtedly prove to be
a most capable .governor of our far-east
em possessions, loyally conserving the
Interests, of the government. In those
islands and promoting native confidence
in American rule. ' '" .. J
WO AID TO BtWLVTtOSHiTS.
It Is .to be hoped there Is no truth In
the statement of some of the Washington
correspondents to the' effect that our
government may be called upon to sup
port a revolutionary movement In Pan
ama and possibly may give serious con
sideration to such an appeal It is said
that many public men of prominence
privately express themselves as in favor
of Intimating to the Panama revolution
ists that If they will maintain resistance
long enough to be respectable this gov
ernment will see to It that they are not
run over by the superior forces of Co
lombia.
This Is said in a dispatch to the Boston
Transcript, whose- correspondent is one
of the most careful and well-informed
newspaper men at the national
capital, thus giving the statement
character which it would not
have if appearing In what are known
as the "yellow" Journals. Who are the
prominent public men in favorof the
United States promoting and support
ing a revolution against the govern
ment of Colombia, in order thereby to
force that government to ratify the
Panama canal treaty? It is not easy to
believe that , anyone who has a proper
regard for the dignity and the Integrity
of the United States would favor a
course which could not fall to bring
upon us the reproach and contempt of
the civilized world. ,It la certainly safe
to say that no one of official esponsl
billty In Washington would give . the
slightest countenance to a proposition to
encourage the revolutionists of Panama
and the ldoa of our government assist
ing them In any way is not for a mo
ment to be entertajjned. We want to
build an Isthmian canal. Upon that
question the American people are prac
tically unanimous. But we do not de
sire to acquire) the right to construct a
canal through revolution and the dis
memberment of a sister republic. If
Colombia has not the wisdom to see the
advantages and benefits sho would de
rive from the construction of the Pan
ama canal 'by the United States and
persists In the attitude she has taken,
we should turn to the alternative route,
however regrettable the necessity of do
ing so.
Those who counsel or favor any sort
of coercive policy on the part of, the
United States In connection with the
lnteroceantc canal project do this country
an injury of a very serious nature. They
luvite distrust of our national Integrity
which cannot be otherwise than harm
ful, particularly in Its effect upon our
relations with the southern republics.
Let us keep clean hands in this matter,
whatever the outcome,
-Castern democratic papers insist that
If Colouel Bryan caa endorse for the
United States senatorshtp a uin from
Ohio who Stumped the state against Mm
In 18U0 he can bring himself to accept
any candidate who may be proposed for
the presidency In the national conven
ing. What becomes, then, of Mr.
Bryan's former pevt allies la the
Tfin OMAHA- DAILY HKB: SATURDAY. BKPTDMnKTt 12. 100.1.
event tbst their lender In the last two
national campaigns ties up with the gold
democrats? Will they not be In
qnnndsry, from which they will bSve to
extricate themselves as best they csn
without even the aid or consent of Mr.
Bryan?
HVRBltD TAX ASSK&SMKATS.'
The Chicago Real Estate board, which
in that city occupies the position the
Real Estate exchange holds in Omaha,
proposes to appeal to the legislature to
change the revenue law so as to permit
of niore time in which to make the an
nual assessments 'of real and personal
property, hd more particularly In
which to hear complaints before the
Boafd ot Review, seeking to correct er
rors in the assessment roll.
The objections of the Real Estate
board to the present methods are
summed up in the statement that when
the Board of Review in Chlcugo fol
lowed bp the assessors' work there were
40,000 complaints filed by protesting
real estate owners and that it was man!
festly impossible for the reviewers to
give proper consideration o all of these
cases, vhat is true of Chicago in this
respect is true of Omaha, although in
a less aggravated form. Our experi
ence has shewn that It. Is absolutely lm
possible for the boards of review to do
reasonable justice to their duties in the
thirty days tlmtf allotted by the law for
the performance of the work.
At the same time it must be retnem
bered that many, Mn fact the greater
part, of the complaints made before the
assessment bodies are purely frivolous,
being filed with the hit-or-miss Idea on
the part of the taxpayer in the belief
that he has nothing to lose and every
thing to gain by asking for a reduction
of his assessment, even though he has
no good grounds for doing so. If there
Is" to be reform In the methods of tax
revlewihg, there should also be some
way provided to sif out In advance
complaints that are not made in good
faith.
Our new Xebraskarevet-ue law makes
no substantial changes in the system of
assessment reviewing and the first
amendments required after It has -been
put into practical Operation 6hould in
clude Some provision covering 'these
points. There is' noi question, however,
that more time should be allowed not
only to' the property, owners to ascertain
and Investigate the assessments placed
upon their property, but also to review
ing1 authorities to consider ' bona fide
complaints. . , . ,
The. removal from office of the sur
veyor general of Arisona for question
able practices uncovered by an investi
gation made under the direction of Sec
retary of the Interior Hitchcock may be
taken as assurance that there will be
some official decapitations in the Indian
service when the Inquiry lrito the Indian
agency frauds culminates in a; report
to the department A few examples of
thla kind, -: niaking object lessons ' of
crooked officials, mill prove more f-
rfective in the interest of reform than all
other precautionary measures: '
The hotel stewards, in their national
convention, have Joined In a request
upon Booker T. Washington to establish
at the Tuskegee Institute' a training
school for kitchen and dining room em
ployes. After this new departure is
well Inaugurated the hotel employers
may be expected to come In with a simi
lar request for the Inauguration of a
training school for hotel stewsrds. It's
a poor game that cannot be played at
by more than one.
Perhaps the best way to get the Boyd
county land dispute finally settled is to
have the courts pass upon it This is a
case in which there is some merit on
both sides, but Land Commissioner Poll
mer can not be discredited for standing
up resolutely for what he believes the
rights of the state and- the imprests of
the state school fund demand. It will
be up to the courts either to uphold or
to reverse the commissioner of public
lands.
The drift against the proposed asset
currency is exemplified again by the at
titude assumed by Senator Beverldge of
Indiana In expressing the opinion that
the coming session of congress will en
act no radical or sweeping financial leg
islation. Senator Beverldgre has had his
ear to the ground and ascertained that
the pretended demand for currency In
flation is confined almost exclusively to
a few speculators in Wall street
SeekJav a Fair DlvUloa,
Kansas City Journal.
The cattlemen propose to establish a
packing house of their' own to correct th
existing- Injustice of low .cattle and bigh
meat. They prefer to have high cattle and
high meat ,
Haw Jastlee la Halted.
Bt. Louis Globe-Democrat.
A feeling of surprise is expressed through
out the United States over the fact that
there hava been nineteen boodle convictions
In Missouri with no arrival ao far In the
penitentiary.
Will Parslsteaea Be Reward eat
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Whatever It Is that has Impelled Lieuten
ant Peary to try another dash for tha North
Pole, the Ijeart of the country will be with
him In the enterprise. The North Pole Itself
should warm Up to such a psrslstent wooer.
Presldeat's tabor Day Address.
NeW York Bun.
The president's Labor day address, de
livered at Syracuse. Is a sound and con
servative Utterance, befitting th occasion
and th times, and th Ideas and prln'
clplea which It Inculcates are those which
abide at the foundations of American lib
erty and th common weaL Those who
may have looked for a deliverance of a
mora sensational order, and perhaps of a
political or partisan significance, will, hap
pily, be wholly disappointed. Mr. Rooae-
velfs speech la to be commanded Without
reservation of any kind whatsoever.
I Geo Tlaae a Saw Wead.
New Tork Tribune.
Let us keep cool over the Beyroot affair.
It may be that there ha been another
miatake, aa In th report of tha murder of
the American vtoe ooasuX But If th fcws
as it now stands Is true, the United States
"ol seem to be greatly concerned. It
uepioraoie to have Turks killing Chris
tian In Syria. But ao it Is to have white
men klHIng- blnrk me )n America. If any
of those killed In Beyroot are American
cltlsens our government will demand and
exact satisfaction. If not this country
... ....more business to interfere In the
oomestto affairs ot Turkey than turkey
as 10 interfere In ours.
Importaace at Mlala laaestry.
St. Ils
Secretary 8haw Is right In his words at the
mining congress at Deadwood. Although
th mining interest des not' flgur any
wher near so large In th returns as some
of the Other activities 'do, the things which
the miner produces lie at the basis of most
or tne great Industries. Without coal and
Iron, manufacturing en modern Unes would
b Impomible. Th miner is a man who
stands for a pretty big Interest In the econ
omy of the world of today. Moreover, th
American miner Stands first In his field In
th worm. Th United States leads In the
total of Us mineral products, as It does in
many other activities. The chance that the
mining interest may, at ait early period, get
a representative in the cabinet mi he
siuereu 10 very favorable.
Take Tfonr Clothes and Go. '
' Saturday Evening Poat.'
Thousands of Americjina tiva in
Every considerable city pn the continent
has Its American colony and veur l vaae
these colonies grow apace. Nearly all then
expatriated Americans are people of means;
...u, ui uiem are rich. They lead lives of
Industrtbus idleness and et eonaldnretlnn
far beyond their dues, simply because they
are Amerlcafts. . It is. natural that they
should dislike America.,' It is fortunate that
tneir dislike has been strong enough to
take them away froth home and to keep
mem inerei it Is a pit that the tnlaratlh
impulse does Hot sets upon mora of their
kind.. The world .has room for Idlers it
has. room for all sorts of people. But
America has no room for tlieof. That
great workshop wants no idlers of what
ever kind obstructing th aisles ahd hinder
tng tne toners at .their tanks. That will
d a sorry day for America when ths
leisure class finds it an agreeable place of
THIRTY-FIVE THE DEAD LIlfB.
M t TWO Scere Year op Mar fa
desirable Workmea.
New York World.
Is a man necessarily a final fAllur at sst
Evidently the Erie railroad ihanaarers think
so. they have JuSt Issued an order that all
clerks of that 4re or above It who bave not
advanced in th service slhc they nrt en
tered it ar to be asfted to resign, "Here-
. it . . ..... ...
says rresuieni unaetwood, "no mam
who haa reached th age mentioned will be
allowed to enter the road's employ as a
clerk, "
The secretary ot the company declares. In
Justification of the order, that "men who
have become 36 without succeeding at some
thing else have little chance to take ur
railroad work." This Is plainly equivalent
to saylngthat unless a man has found an
occupation In which he can succeed before
he is SS he is not likely to find It at all.
Surely a hard doctrine! Under this rule
Ulysses 8. Grant would have been barred
from cdrnrhand of the armies that saved ths
union, for at his talent for military lead
ership waa unknown, and. Unguessed at.
The Erie railroad new dead-line against
clerks is, however, ft accordance -with th
general trend Of thej.tiute, especially In this
country. Speaking roaoiy, young men ar
at a premium, old fern- at A discount The
IB-year limit II not 8 W. A report' made by
Secretary Thomas I.Tid of the Woodwork.
rsJntsrhatlonalmmSnowathat In railroad
shops generally, aa wel) as on the trains
and at the switches, new bands are reluc
tantly engaged after they have passed thla
age, though older men, being In the service,
ar retained. Carpenters, cabinet makers
and machine woodworkers are, it appears,
able to obtain new employment p to 45 or
over 60 years of age.- Out of 400 steamfltter
in Chicago only four were found working at
over GO yaars of age. An old sailor finds It
hard to get sea employment if a man under
to Is to be had. "...
- Yet there la consolation for older men In
the fact that where special skill is pos
sessed gray hair ar ho bar to ita employ
ment, and th demand for Special skill, only
to be acquired by long prattles, is steadily
growing greater. And th practical point
for the young man of today la that he must
make hay while the Sun shines" and prove
himself fit for one thing or another on th
sunny side of 38.
OtItY HA g PI.BHTT OF MOSEY.
All Needed Elasticity to Bo Found
la Specie and Credits.
Chicago Chronicle..
The Omaha Be entertains tha very
rational opinion that the country 1 not
suffering from any lack of circulating
rtledluin. - It Is pleased td observe that th
people are conservative enough not to be
stampeded by th attempt of certain finan
ciers to create a' money famine scare.
The Bee points out the fact that In Ufa
th active circulation per pita was 118.04
In 1993, $34.07, and in 190t, $29 69. The total
circulation has Increased, bf course, in a
far greater ratio. "'
There haa been an Improvement In Qual
ity as woll a an increase in quantity. In
1BTS not a dollar of gold or silver, not vn
in tn snap or subsidiary coin, waa in
us excepting on th Pacific coast. At
preseht th per capita circulation of
metallic money and Its representative cer
tificates Is at least as great as the ntlr
eetlv circulation per capita In 1871
The Increase. In quantity haa Invariably
attended Improvement In quality by re
sumption of specie payments In 1X7 and
by th establishment of gold a th ac
knowledged standard in 100.
There haa been an Increase tn national
bank circulation, but aa Tha Bee shows
this increas haa been amall aa compared
With the Increase t in coin, and especially
in goto, mis increase in gold to tha
amount of fully a billion dollars has re
sulted from the operation of th laws of
demand and supply, and this proves that
w can get gold enough and that through
that w can hav all necessary elasticity
w do not drive it off by artificially sub
stituting something cheaper.
In one respect Th Dee is in error. Tt
has. been led by a -pretty long line of sec
retaries of the treasury and comptrollers
of th currency to belle v that K per cent
ot the business of the country under ordi
nary conditions Is transacted by checks
and drafts and only 6 per cent by money.
This error arises from failure to observe
that Checks and drafts are mere orders to
pay, and their actual volume at any on
time cannot exceed the amount In banki
to th credit of th depositors who wrot-s
the checks or drafts. That Is to say, these
Instruments serve only to transfer deposit
and they cannot do the work of a volume
ef currency exceeding the volume of de
posits. They serve aa additional currency
only to the extant that th deposits cc-
slst ef Items other loan cash actually n
bank. ' -
Thla error, however, doea not diminish
tho fore of th general arugment based
on th facts stated by Th Be proving
that there la no scarcity oi currency and
a need of any contrivance to give elas
ticity to bank not circulation. All needed
elasticity Is to be found In specie and In
the credits extended by banks and Indi
viduals for facilitating exchange of com
modities. -
OTHKB LANDS THAN OI.RS.
The slight Increas ifl th population of
Australia and the rapid Increase In public
Ind.ibtednesa Is giving serious concern both
to th commonwealth and the mother eouh
try. Great Britain. At th present Urn In
Victoria, it Is stated, the population Is
declining, th esoees of births over deaths
being more than counterbalanced by the
emigration, ao that In 1902. according to the
census ther waa A net loss In population of
3.1P2. The state debt la now 1211.60 a head,
or consmeraoiy more man , that of any
other country In, th world.- Thes figures,
Which apply alone to Victoria, which Is
the worst off In these respect of all tb
Australian, States, are tneasureably applies
ble to the others, for the Increase In popu
lation has been amall and the public debts
are large.. The debt statement, while aft
parently Alarming, IS hot really So, f6f th
greater part of It is represented In state
owned public works which ar returning
an Interest oh ih debt 4hd th taxpayers
are not burdened with Ita payment. Th
population question Is more serious, and
statistics show that It la not a recent de
velopment. '
Not until January i, 185. was th number
6f lunatics officially registered in Great
Britain. At that date there were K.7C1 in
sane persons,, a proportion to th popula
tion of I to MB. Today thty number over
118,964, a proportion to the population of 1
to every m. Nor Is this all. TH tendency
of muoh of the Insanity which comes under
treatment today In England Is to end in
dementia and to become incurable. It was
computed a hundred years kgo that the re
covery rat among cases of mania was 7
per cent Last year In all the London asy
lums the recovery rate amounted to nd
more than. 38.4 per cent. Thla In spite of
all the means of treatment which a cen
tury' progreaa In the sciences and In thera
peutl art haa placed at th disposal Ot
physicians. Even a quarter of a century
ago the prevailing typ of Insanity In Eng
land was different from that most conspic
uous today.
war between Turkey, and Bulrnrla. If
th present disturbances in the Balkans
lead to a declaration Of open hostilities,
would on paper at least, be a one-sided
struggle, ine nine principality Is no
match, so far as theoretical war strength
goes, for the big Ottoman empire. Tur
key proper has-a population of about IS,
000,000, and It can rats an army of at least
TO0.0OO, and possibly 1,000,000 men, Including
its neld and naval forces, On the other
hand, Bulgaria has a. population of about
1,600,000, and Its army on a war footing
numbers about 100,000.. men. Bulgaria has
no' navy worth mentioning, only a few
small steamers. Therefore the fighting
would be mostly on land, if the Turkish
army should Invade Bulgaria It Would .find
several strongly fortified , towns, BOflA.
Bhumia and Vldln, each of which Is de
fended by a circle of modern forts. There
Is also a fortress at Blllstrja, and Varna.
on the coast of th Black Sea, is a fortified
town, But if war Should occur In the
Balkan peninsula, It Would be difficult to
tell where it would end. The Bulgarian
army would likely be recruited largely
from th other states in that part of
Europe, whose people hav no reason to
be friendly toward Turkey. On the other
band, only about 70 per cent of the people
In th Turkish mplr proper are Moham
medans and loyal to the Porta. Engaged
in. war with Bulgaria, th sultan might
And tnemles within his own realm as well
as across Its borders. ' ;
Th appointment of Baron von Stengel
as imperial secretary ot state for th
treasury has naturally caused discussion
in the German press. The personal organ
of Harr, Rlnhter axptaas the opinion. .that
he was selected In the hope that he may
be able to wean the clerical center from
Its constant opposition to the government's
financial projects. The baron Is belioved
to be n favor ot the plan formerly ad
vocated by th late Br. Von Miquel of
fixing by law th contribution to be paid
tn each year by th federated states to
the imperial treasury, Instead of leaving
them to be determined by the exigencies
ot successive budgets. In that case, th
federal etates would - no longer have an
Interest In opposing Imperial expenditure
In the hop that tneir contributions might
be reduced. ' It Is thought that such a plan
would be popular with a large number of
clerical deputies, who are apt to be gov
erned by state Interests when dealing
with Imperial finance In the Reichstag.
If Baron von Stengel can win over these
deputies, with whom h Is believed to have
considerable Influence, to the policy ot
fixed contributions, the clerical opposition
to Imperial expenditure would probably
be less effective.
Inasmuch as th French naval authorities
neglected no precaution for preserving se
crecy Concerning th results Of the gun
nery experiments against th turret of th
man-of-war Suffren, In th neighborhood of
Brest the other day. It Is not surprising
that a great many persons profess to know
all about them, Ar that an infinite variety
of conflicting stories should be In circula
tion. Th Paris correspondent of th Lon
don Times, who la apt to be careful of his
facts, says that according to th most
trustworthy information, only two shells
were fired against th turret, other shot
being merely ef a trial nature. The first
shot did no damage to th turret or its
Internal mechanism. The Six sheep placed
inside the structure were not hurt. Th
turret rotated freely after the shock, and
the guns were also moved by the usual
crew of fifteen men. Thus far the experi
ment had demonstrated the solidity Of the
turret. The second Shell had behind It a
much fuller charge than th first It Struck
the turret perpendicularly, which Is an in
cident requiring a singular combination of
circumstances to bring It about. The shell
split into two halves, and ricochetted on
both sides of th ship. On examination It
waa found that two of the sheep in the
turret had been wounded, and that though
the atructure could b moved! It only re
volved through three-quarter of lis clrc'e.
It had been affected Indeed, In what was
regarded as the Strongest part It is said
thHt the authorities regarded the dart-ate
as something very eerloua, ahd that th
result of th trial is likely to b th aban
donment of the turret feature in futur
French battleships.
Certain nights Defacd.
Kansas City Star.
The report of Carroll D. Wright th um
plr to whom th unsettled contentions of
the Pennsylvania coal strike wer referred
by Agreement of both sides, asserts as Its
principal ruling the right of employera to
diacharge men without stating caus. and
th corresponding right of men to quit ser
vice without giving cause, but also de
clares that where contracts are entered
Into either discharge or withdraws! should
be preceded by reasonable nolle. It seems
straivje that conditions In any enlightened
country sljould make such a ruling neces
sary. It lsN based on the very foundation
princlplea of Individual liberty. To compel
a man to work against his will is enslave
ment, but It Is not raor inharmonlou with
th -principle of .common fairness than to
fore a man to employ a workman who 1
incompetent laxy or otherwise objection
able to his employer. Yet the right to dis
charge without giving reasons acceptable
to trad unions has been one of the great
contenton ef employers snd one moat
stubbornly fought by unions. The Pennsyl
vania riling ought to hav a good effect
generallA
No Other1
Portion of th
Human Body Is
So Tortured In
the Effort to ,
Clothe and -Pro
tect It as the Feet.
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WEST POINTERS MAY SMOKE.
Boy torho Poff la the Dark May Poll
, In the Open.
Philadelphia press,
the relaxation In the rules kt West Point
against the use of tobacco marks a very
considerable alteration In the community
a regards th attitude toward the use of
tobacco by boys , over 17 years bt age, as
ar all th boys at th United State
Military Academy at entrance.
With every aid which military discipline
could give, it has proved practically Im
possiblo to- prevent the. use ot tobacoo, at
West Point. Concealment, bred by
prohibition, turned the boys , toward
cigarettes. Pipes and tobaoc ar to b
permitted a a compromise.
A century ago th colleges penalised tVt
Use bf tobacco in public and discouraged
its us In private. Even half a century ago
some rules lingered on this subject. They
have all disappeared. In college tobacco Is
freely used, and even th fitting school
are leas Severs In their rules against Its
use than they one war.
the per capita Consumption Of tobacco
tn this: country does not Increase and the
aggregate amount Imported and used Is
Very far from keeping pace with the growth
ot population. Vaetly fnor Is Used In
cigarettes and vastly less In chewing to-j
ubui-u, uui mo pounas consumed ao not
much Increase. Our crop has changed lit
tle In twenty years' and exports have in
creased. Xm ports grow because more costly
cigars, are used, but the total Imported la
In small proportion to th. .ag-gregat con
sumption. -'..'
But people are easier over tha us nf
tobacco than they once were. . More clergy
men smoke. The-open trolley cars permit
It. The railroads" provide more comfortable
quarters for smokers. It Is even whispered
that the college. girl sometimes smokes and
that the traveled young woman uses an oc
casional cigarette. More smoking is aeen
on the street than Was once. Yet the num
ber of smokers Is probably less, and tha
number of young men whom athletics and
training, keep from smoking Is larger than
ever. . . ,
mMMMMwMMH " .
5 . ., POLITICAL DRIFT.
PttUbnrgi . fa 'understood - fo "be" throwing
out a, towllh to pull ith .feptlbUcan
national conyeotjpn. '
Although the campaign has hardly be
gun. Intimate friends of Tom Johnson say
he hss acquired the. Shamrock III feeling.
Governor Pennyp&cker of Pennsylvania
recently appointed to office a man who had
been dead two years.
Governor Dockery of Missouri has ttit
the scythe to hJ beard. Toung folk and
old folk have .talked quit vigorously at
tb governor . lately. ,. and the constant
soughing of hot air through his Whiskers
became very amusing. As he could not
check the hot air, off went th whiskers.
'A prominent politician who does not wish
his name to be quoted". Is tha authority
given Dy a New York paper for the state
ment that President Roosevelt desires to
have the neat republlrau presidential con
ventlon held In New York City. No re
publican national oonventlon haa ever been
held In the metropolis.
Th New York democratic state com
mittee ha adopted a resolution favoring
the nomination of A candidate for United
state senator by tne next democratic
State convention, anticipating action by
th legislature and binding democratic
members to vol for him. This is ah ap
proach to direct popular choloe.
Th announcement Is mad at Ills home..
wngnam, Mass., that Hon. John D. Long
la willing to serve in the legislature of his
state. Mr. Long haa been three tlmea
speaker of the Massachusetts hous, lieu
tenant governor one and thrice governor
of the commonwealth, and served in con
gress and In the cabinets of two presidents.
The latest developments In th New York
mayoralty campaign Indicate that Con
gressman Oeorge H. McClellan will 'head
the democratic ticket with the endorsement
ot Tammany Hall and that the incumbent
ot the office, Beth Low, will head th
fusion ticket. "Big Bill" Devefy, who eut
such a wide swath a Short time ago, aeems
to be "out of tb running."
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It requires no breaking in
and is a revelation of
comfort Iron th first
wearing.
hut Mem, writ .
le a wA 00.
L At CUING REMAfeKS,
'It's as hahd."'said Unci Eben, 'to llv
tip to yoh Sunday morals as It is to hold
on to ne smile dat you puts-on Whn you
rits youh photograpU took." Washington
gits j
Star.
Nodd I may be detained at th orTic td
nlpht.
Mrs. Nodd Then in case I want to call
ou u
p over the telephone what Is th hunt
er o:
1 yi
our clubT Brooklyn Li,
Olrl With th Olbeon Olrl Neck-f wish I
had hands a white ss yours. j
Olrl with the Julia Marlowe flrnple
You'd be orry if yu had. They show dirt
so easily. Chicago Tribune.
'How do you like my new fall rratr
'Is it all paid fof H
''It's' perfectly beautiful." betfblt Fre
Press.
"T she a good rmxnaa-err
"Well, she manages to get all tha
h ha." Chicago Post.
money
"Jimmy I Didn't it make you feel Ilk SO
cents when the footpads stopped ynuV' -
I!k.loI.o?k,r And 1 muBt- wd
"How do you mean Y' , , , . r
"Manda up." Philadelphia :frse.
t '" .bPby e'Bha twelve pounds, floe
neT aald the proud voung mother. "Ar
you Sure the ecalea are correct?" :
"Correct!" exclaimed the equally proud
young-father, incautiously. "Of course they
are. They're the scales I' always use for
weighing the nsh I catch." Chicago Trib
une. .
... ia ,
"How do you manage to retain the conffi
dence of your constltUHnts?"
"Well," answered Henator Sorghum, "t
Imagine they think they know the Worst
about me and would rather bear the III
they have than flyMo others that they know
pot of.-' Washington Btaf.. . t '.
A IHATTKIIKD DREAM.
lames Barton Adams' in Denver foet
Last eve while she waa fast asleep t crept
Anear the sofa upon Which she slept .
Ahd Stood tand. gase'd enraptured on the
face . ,' - . .
Enframed hi tresses tangled out Of place.
She seemed to rov in Dreamland, for a
smile
Would flutter on her rosy lips a 'while,
Then flee as if affrighted, and a look ,
Of care, like shadow o'er a placid brook
Would settle on the witching face, and
nthen
en the smile would come half timidly
. again 1 . i
And drive the care-look front Us nsurped
throne.
then from her lips wodld.- break A half-
voiced a-roan -
And fqulck , he amlle would .fipej befoMji a
Which, as a' Vapory cloud, would ; Settl
down .
rpon the fae so ravlshlhgly fair
You'd never dream that It could mirror
car,
I etood entranced, held as by serpent's
charm, 1 - '
And named upon the outlines of her fofrrt.
The graceful curves, th breast which rose
and fell '
As bHrk upon a peBeefut ocean's swell.
The rounded arm, half nude, thrown care
lessly .
Around the pillow In which nestled she
Her gulden head, and as I gased. It seemed
The air with heavenly insolratlnn teemed
And In my brain poetic fsJicy wove
A song whose woof was grace, whose web
, was love.' i
The muse's flna-er traced a poem there.
A sonnet couched -In words of sweetness
rare,
And In Imnelnntton I rould "hsar
The plaudits of the critics strike mv ear
When on the paae ef famous magasine
The heaven-Inspired production first was
seen. ........
Alasl aa rude hand sent to break the nll.
lTpon my ear a sound discordant fell:
A-sound that wrecked the beauty ot lb
scene ,. , .
And strirred all romance front my sleeping
flllAMtl! ' '
tier rosy lips broke loos from close em
brace ,
And threw agape a chasm In her face,
And from her midst, as lion's muffled roar.
There came a rumbling, mellow, eoholng
snore! . .-, . .
Diarrhea
should be magtera ,
without delay. V -V
Wakefield's
blackberry
. Balsam
is a. sure cure. -
Your druggist hfti it.
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