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Office, la peraon or by mall.
The Address will be changed
as oftea as desired.
The gas company has accepted the ex
rislon of its contract Tbut might have
con expected.
The farming out of trust funds for
private gain ia Junt as reprehensible as
the embezzlement of public funds.
If some of the high class exhibits at
the Midway were labeled low class ex
hibits they might bo more attractive
and less commendable.'
What would become of South Omaha
If the patched-qullt charter enacted by
the late legislature, should be knocked
out by the supreme court?
Senator Tom Piatt wants its distinctly
understood that he does not propone to
be outdone by his colleague, Senator
Iicpew, In the matrimonial department.
i e
The late Postmaster General Blssell
really achieved more famo as President
Cleveland's former law partner than as
a member of President Cleveland's cab
inet. Governor Van Sant welcomed a grain
en's convention to Minnesota ns the
"bread and butter" state. Nebraska
will have to bo taken into the combina
tion to make It a beef sandwich.
While there Is not as much harmony
In Douglas county republic a u ranks
as there ought to be, them Is a good
dual of discord also in democratic: ranks
ml jjio coming county election Is liable
to be full of off-year surprises.
In cutting dividends on United States
Steel In half, the company is only pro
mulgating a post-mortem statement af
firming the Judgment already rendered
by the stock Jobbers who cut Steel com
mon quotations iu half and then some.
In the case In which the railroads
luivo been most interested iu the Ne
braska supremo court In recent years
the railroad tax ease they got a deci
sion from Judge Sullivan Just tho way
they wanted It. What better could
tbey ask?
Kveryone takes it for grim ted that the
republican cundldutes for university re
Ifents. to be vood on in this, slate at the
coining cItctloii will win out wlthodt
an oflort. We adr t that it looks very
much as If this assumption were nlxnit
to prove true.
Imports Into the Philippines during the
past fiscal year decreased a trltle. The
number of American soldiers cm duty
there to constitute tho effective demaud
for the. fluid that made Milwaukee fa
mous and other little luxuries that havi
to be Imported from, home Is smaller.
The I.lucoin Mar says a lew words
editorially In praise of Omaha's Ak
8arBcn demonstration . and exproses
the wish that the carnival and pageantry
may be this year the most successful of
the series. This is so at variance with
the usual altitude of I.lnivlu pner to
ward 'Omaha enterprises that It Is re
freshing as well as gratifying.
m ... ' -j " .
For everything that the city of Omaha
buys li usually pays more and never
Jess than the market price, but when it
comes to omcial advertising it inviats
upon VfJ'Ing only one-fourth of the com
mercial rate churged by the dallies to
their beat patrons the department
tores and that notwithstanding the
fact that tb total volume of city ad
vertising ia than one-f uirtli jf the
total volume oi1- ndreiliMng don; by any
M of tho Uepurtn.cnt ttorca of Ou;aha
J Hi." VKMiKBATIC A WSJ I.
In his speech accepting a rt'iioml
mi Hon (Sovornor Hates of Massachu
setts snlil tlint the democratic party
makes Its npiM-al to "(he discontented,
the rtlsgmntled. the unsuccessful, the
disappointed." White this had special
reference to the democracy of Massa
chusetts, it applies to the party through
out the tiiuntry. Look at any demo
cratic platform of this year or of
nn.v recent year' and it will be
found to ttiiiiulti an appeal to the ele
ments spoken of by the governor of
Massachusetts. There Is in none of
these utterances a candid and unquali
fied acknowledgment of the material
progress and prosperity of the country.
If in any case they Imply that the na
tion has lxen growing industrially and
commercially. It Is nccornpanied by the
statement or Insinuation that such prog
ress has not been normal and that
It. cannot last. The persisteut democratic
assumption is that the country has
advanced In wealth ond power uuder
conditions that are largely fictitious and
that there is little If any substantial
foundation to Its prosperity. The dem
ocratic campaign in Ohio ia being con
ducted upon this theory and very re
cently one of the democratic leaders In
Now York publicly expressed the opin
ion that the time Is near nt hand when
it would be (shown that our "alleged
prosperity" Is insubstantial and the in
dustrial ami commercial fabrics would
be thrown down and general dlsnster
ensue. According to these prophets of
ciilamity the country is soon to experi
ence a setback that will destroy the
profits of capital and reduce the earn
ings of labor, inflicting inestimable
danmgo on all Interests.
They are equally pessimistic, profess
edly, in regard to our Insular posses
sions. Hefuslng to take any note of
the progress that. Is being made in the
Improvement of conditions in those pos
sessions, they yet seize upou every un
toward Incident, however trifling, as
evidence that what has been done by
our government Is a failure and that
there is no promise of any better re
sults in the future. Fair-minded ob
servers know that a most valuable work
has been accomplished lu these Insular
jkwhchsIous and that their inhabitants
are very much letter off now than when
they came under American protection.
Yet the democrat persist in denying
this and iu asserting that not only has
there been no improvement, but that
the outlook is anything but encouraging.
So with regard to our foreign policy
there is complaint and adverse criti
cism, although there has never been a
IH'iiod in our history when the govern
ment of the Uulted States was stronger
In the respect and confidence of the
civilised world.
The democratic appeals to the discon
tented and the disappointed may affect
a few. but they can hardly bare any ex
tended Influence with a people as gen
erally prosperous as are the American
people at this time. They have uot for
gotten what resulted from placlu; con
fidence? in a like' appeal not man; years
ai, and they are nor to l misled by it
now. The party of calamity has no
cla:ii: to the respect or support of a pro-fcrcst-ive
and proswrora eopl.
CHAIRMAN OF APPROPRIATIONS.
One of tuc most important chairman
ships lu the house of representatives Is
that of the committee of appropriations.
It has been filled in past years by men
of the highest qualifications for integ
rity and prudence, men who were most
watchful and zealous in regard to the
financial interests of the government
and were ever careful to keep the na
tional expenditures down to the mini
mum consistent with a proper adminis
tration of the public service. It would
bo easy to cite the examples of such
"watch dogs" of the treasury In our his
tory, of men who, feeling the great re
sponsibility imposed upon them by con
gress' to carefully look after the ex-
J penditures of the government have most
I honestly aud zealously performed ths
duty assigned to them.
It Is not necessary, however, to go
farther Kick than the record of the man
who is to be the speaker of the bouse-
of representatives of tho Fifty-eighth
congress, Hon. Joseph G. Cannon. In
all the history of our government there
has never been n inun who has more
earnestly worked for a reasonable ccoa
omy in the public service than this dis
tlnguished representative from Illinois
and there can ! no doubt that as
speaker of the Fifty-eighth house of
representatives he will be no less so-
liclious than he has Wen as the chair
man of the: committee on appropria
tlons to repress the extravagance and
kevp Hie appropriations of congress
within reasonable limits. It is Indeed
one of the strongest claims of Mr. Can
lion to the position of speaker that he
can be depended upon to exert the great
iuilue'uce which his position will give
him to put a check upon all schemes
which may bei presented for unnecessar
ily increasing the expenditures of the
government.' While not opKod to any
expense which may Ite absolutely neve
sary In the interest of the public service,
Mr. Cannon may Ik relied upon to an'
tngonize any aud all efforts that may be
made to unduly augment the outlay of
the government. -
1 Current reiort has it that Represents
live Hemenway of Indiana is to be
made ehalriuan of the committee of ap
proprlntious and then: Is some test!
inony to his ability for thut important
position. lie has been four terms in
congress and a part of this time a mem
bcr of the appropriations committee, so
that he Is familiar with the duties and
obligations that belong to tho position
of chulriuan of the house committee on
appropriations. Me Is little known to
the country, but that can be said of
other men who have first occupied this
Itiiistrtant position. What can conn
dcntly be assumed Is that tf Mr. Can
hem has dclded to place Mr. Ileiuen
r at the head of the appropriations
cc uiaitiee of the house of reprcacuU
tire It Is because he feels that this
would be in the interest of economical
folr illustration.
OMAHA AM) OTHtR CITIES.
Ueiieral Ma'nderson returns to Omaha
from a visit to New York. Pittsburgh
Phllntlelphla and Minneapolis saturated
ttlth municipal suggestions.
I'irt anil foremost. Ocncral M.-indcr-sonfecls
Impressed with the imperative
necessity for replacing nnil repairing
street pavements that are worn out nnd
keeping the paved streets clean and un
obstructed for traffic. "This Is a splen
dlei Iden," as was the habitual exclama
tion of an eminent Omoba lawyer ami
intimate friend of General Mande-rson.
But how should we go about it to put
this Idea Into execution?
It Is a mutter of notoriety that many
of our most prominent realty owners
nre lamentably lacking In civic pride
and habitually obstruct every effort to
Indui'o a majority of tho owners of
property adjacent to public thorough
fares to sign pctitlejus for paving or re-
pavlng. Without these petitions, signed
by a majority of the property owners,
the Poard of Fabllc Works and the
mayor and council are powerless under
the law to make contracts for paving
or repavlng. ' With the utmost stretch
of power they may do some repairing
on dilapidated streets, but even then
rival paving contractors and tax shirk
ers have blocked the way to these Im
provements by injunctions and counter
injupctions.
Unless the courts can be prevolled
upon to desist from grauting frivolous
restraining orders and frowning down
upon obstructionists to public Improve
ments, the city is helpless nnd will so
continue until the charter is nmeneled
and the powers of the mayor and coun
cil are enlargeel.
Everybody In Omaha realizes that our
streets nre not kept as clean ns they
ought to be, but street cleaning cannot
be done with a "whereas" or a resolu
tion. It must be paid for with money.
So long as the railroads, who own one
sixth of all the realty values In the city,
refuse point blank to bear their share
of the burdens . of maintaining local
government, the pavlug repairs nnd sys
tematic street, cleaning are practlerally
a luxury that Omaha cannot Indulge In
Who Is to blame? .
There are, doubtless, many municipal
reforms that could be introduced In
Omaha without a serious strain upon Its
municipal treasury, but these reforms
can be brought about only by a concert
of actlou on the part of public-spirited
citizens,' wlfing to devote part of their
time and some of tbelr money to Im
proving existing conditions. We must
remember that Rome was not built in a
day. When New Y'ork, Philadelphia,
Boston, Baltimore and Chicago were no
larger than Omaha their streets were
Infinitely more wretched and, dirty than
those of Omaha are today, while their
municipal government was more waste
ful and. ijiore extravagant. . For that
matter, municipal graft, official pllferiug
and wastefulness in tho municipal gov
ernment of Omaha Is like a drop In She
bucket as compared with the graft and
reckless extravagance In the conduct of
municipal affairs in most of the larger
cities of America. But that should not
deter us from trying to do still better.
In the face of his own admission of
conduct that would Justify his Impeach
ment nnd removal from the office of
county Judge 2.750 republicans of
Douglas county have by their votes at
the primary declared in favor of the
renomlnatlon of Duncan M. Vinsonhaler
for a third term. It remains to be seen
whether the 12,000 republicans who
have not expressed a preference at the
primary election are willing to 'put a
premium on Judicial lawlessness when
they cast their ballot at the election on
the 5th day of November.
The democratic county ticket Is pow
erfully weak nnd powerfully strong In
spots. The conglomerate republican
primary rules have given the democrats
material advantage in harmonizing their
ticket so as to represent tho various
elements of the party and community.
well as the various sections of the
county. It will remain for the repub
licans to make up by energetic work
what the anti-committee has spoiled by
lis foolhardy attempt to shoot the
rapids.
Out of the 15,(sx republicans of Doug
las county only about 5.000 have taken
the trouble to participate iu the primary
election. In other words, two-thirds
of the members of the party have rc
fused to avail tbemselvea of tho privl
lego of expressing their choice of candi
dates by direct vote. This would hull
cate that the rank and file of the party
is Indlsitosed to take any Interest In
candidates until after tbey are nomi
nated.
The Nebraska itate chemist has dis
covered that the liquid branded as pure
food apple cider vlnegnr is neither made
of cider, malt nor grain, but so long
as It Is sour and makes people's mouths
pucker It ought to pass muster as vine
gar without being subject to Sue and
imprisonment.
There will be do dearth of applicants
willing to accept appointment to the
place of secretary to the State Board of
Assessment created by our new revenue
law, but tills is a position, of such un
usual Importance that the office should
seek the man rather than the man the
office.
Proseeuitlng Attorney Folk of 8t. Louis
wauts to have the crime of bribery In
cluded ro the list of ff ense made extra
ditable by our treaties. The wonder is
that this crime should have been over
looked this long by the diplomats who
negotiate our extradition arrangements.
Natloaal Eaeltemeat la Check.
Baltimore American.
One mighty nice thing about that Alaskan
boundary I the nunnur In ahloli the com
moa pacple ar controlling thlr felingi
and lildlnir the pre.it esdiement they must
fi-el over tlie sli j- areiiments presented by
tin- rriireS'nlBllvta ol the Interested nation.
Lett to Their Fate.
Kansas 1 '11 V Journal.
Colonel Hrynn willingness to go to Ku
rone :md pave the country at the niTcy of
nrennli"d wealth looks snspli lonely like
iiVamlonlng the plain pccplo to their fnt
Heroes to Rely On.
Cblenpn Ilecord-llerald.
It is reported from Washington that
tewey. S,.hry or tli nernl Miles will be tho
next democratic vice presidential candidate.
Ittit the rriuihllcnii needn't worry. They
have Corbln to fall back on If a hero la
needed.
Tralamea Braelna t p.
San Francisco Call.
It Is represented that one of the chief
causes for the crusade which the railroads
of the country are carrying" on agnlnst the
tuc of Intoxicant liquors nnd tobacco by
operatlnc employes lie the fact, which 1ms
been positively disclosed, that tho poisons
contained In the proscribed articles produce
color blindness, which Is, of course, a fatal
defect In locomotive engineers, firemen nnd
train hands.
Penalties of f.reat ne.
Minneapolis Times.
Greatness has Its penalties. ITncle Joe
Cannon Is compelled to take a fine houae
and entertain In a manner befitting hie po
sition now that he la to be speaker. Jle
would greatly prefer the simple, unosten
tatious llfn he led while be was a niero
momlwr and we are Informed that his
greatest delight Is to sit In the lobby of his
hotel and swap yarns with his cronies,
pulling away the while at a large Mick
cigar. They do say that his happleat days
nre when he Is back In the Danville neigh
borhood, expounding politics In some village
proccry and spitting at the stove, and It
must be admitted that that sort of thing
endears a statesman to his constituents
down in Illinois.
MILITARISM fJOAK MAD.
Spectacle Freseated hr the Colorado
State Troops.
Detroit Free Press.
Civil authority in Colorado will soon
have to assert Itself or cease to be of any
significance In conducting the affairs of the
state. The troops on duty there have set
the courts and the statutes aside and es
tablished themselves as the supreme lawl
The local soldiery have made arrests with
out warrant and without the evidence on
which a warrant coulel, be issued. When
writs of habeas corpus were Issued they
invaded the court lu the form of a small
army and when the Judge said that the
prisoners must be surrendered to the civil
authorities the oftleer in command sneered
at the order and marched his prisoners back
to camp. The latest Indication that the
military is In command appears In connec
tion with the suppression of a newspaper
office at Victor.
The paper offending Is the official organ
of the miners. It Is easily conceivable that
it did not please the troops, who arbitrarily
took command wherever they were sent; for
it dealt with them, as usurpers and tyrants.
There was no process from the courts, no
applications for any. Cavalry and Infantry
raided the office, ' arrested all those hav
lng Important connection with the Institu
tion, marched them to the camp and im
prisoned them In the guardhouse. The al
leged fact that tho charges are now to be
made does not lessen the atrocity of the
act In the least.' 'No power on earth was
entitled to arrest the accused except upon
warrants duly sworn' Out and Issued, placed
In the hands of civil officers chosen by the
people for that service, and executed by
them. The soldiers had the same right to
take to the guardhouse merchants, manu
facturers, lawyers, doctors, preachers or
anybody else who had dared to criticise
their high-handed conduct. While the Colo
rado troops profess to be restoring law and
order, most of their efforts seem directed
to maintaining a state of lawlessness on
their own account.
FAMOIS . Jl DftB RETIRING.
Record of Oliver Ferry Sutras of Ike
Federal Benea.
New York Bun.
Judge Oliver Perry fihlras of the United
States district cOurt of the northern dis
trict of Iowa, a brother of ex-Justice George
Shiras of the United States supreme court,
will leavs the bench on November 1, having
reached the age limit, "0 years.
During the twenty years since this court
was created Judge Shiras has continuously
presided over It and his fame as a Jurist
has extended beyond the limits ot Iowa. It
has so happened that he has had to decide
several famous cases, which have subse
quently passed on appeal to the highest
court in the union. In almost all of these
his Judgments have been upheld.
As a member of the court of appeals for
the Kighth United States circuit Judge
Shlraa heard the famous case against the
Transmlssourl Freight association, involv
ing the question whether the Sherman Anti
Trust act applle-d to railway companies,
and. If so, whether combinations between
railroad companies for the purpose of main
taining certain freight rates were lawful
under the provisions of that act.
Tho two other members of the court, one
of them Judge Thayer, who recently wrote
the opinion In the Northern Securities case,
held that the written contract entered Into
by the railway companies was not unlawful,
because the rates fixed In it were not shown
ble. Judae Shiras. dissent
ing, held that the Sherman act did apply tof''''" snioklng by actual observations
railway companies, and that It forbade
their entering Into any arrangement for the
purpose of avoiding competition among
them.
The supreme court supported him and re
versed tho Judgment though the Judge's
own brother voted In the minority against
his view.
No federul Judge in the west lias so wide
an experience In trying esses In which In
diana were Interested as Judge Shiras. In
a celebrated case. In which a Sioux chief,
having killed an officer a few days before
a peace treaty was made with his tribe by
General Miles, was subsequently arrested
and trle-d for murder, the Judge made the
Jury acquit the Indian, holding that the
convention made with his tribe by General
Miles bound the government and the courts
to forgive the crime.
In a frequently quoted pension case hs
held that the state laws do not apply In
the matter of pensions, a subject wholly
controlled by the acts of congress. The
United States supreme court upheld this
view.
It has been the subject ot much comment
that so able a jurist remained on the dis
trict court beuch. He Is one of the few
district Judges who occasionally sit as a
member of the circuit court of appeals, and
it Is believed that had he chosen ha could
have been promoted years ago. He is
popular, and tho Dubuque Bar association
Is preparing a demonstration In his honor
on his retirement.
Judse Shiras was a Pittsburg boy. He
served in the civil war as adjutant on th
staff of General Herron. One of his for
mer law partners is ex-Speaker Henderson.
As a Judge he has the reputation of dis
posing of more cases in a terra than the
average district Judge does In tmo. In
ririvate life he is a model of precUlon. His
only painful duty on the bench, ha has
often said. Is to sentence prisoners, no mat
ter hew serious their crime may bavs been.
ROISI) ABOIT SIS W YORK.
Rlpplea the tsrrrat of Life la
Ike Metropolis.
"A few days ago." writes the New Tork
correspondent or the I'hlladelphla Iedgr,
"F.dward M. Orout. city comptroller, had
the respect, If not the admiration, of the
entire community. Ilia letter to Mayor
!,ow. accepting the fusion renemlnution for
comptroller, was the occasion for highest
commendation for the writer, ns well as for
the communication Itself. Kdltorlal writers
pr.ils.! Mr. Urout to the point of laudation,
lint today there Is not a more unpopular
man In New York City than Edward M.
Orout. On nil sides he Is being mercilessly
pilloried for what Is termed his treachery
to the fusion cause by accepting a
nomination from Tammany and refusing to
withdraw as a fusion candidate, virtually
admitting that his sympathies are with
the Wigwam by declaring thut he will
not attack that organisation on tho stump.
Mr. Orout Is utterly discredited with the
fusion element; he la being assailed by the
Kings county democrats, who declare that
he also betrayed them In years past; the
Tammany lenders, with whom It is claimed
he made a treach'-rous bargain, have no
good word to say for hltn; he was roundly
hissed at the convention which nominated
Mm only through the power of Mr. Murphy
arid his machine, and nt last night's
borotiKh convention of the Citizens' Union,
which organization Intends to purge Itself
of him If It he possible. The republicans I
-IH do likewise, and the Brooklyn donio- l
crats will doubtless loin with the fnsioni.ta !
In 4he selection of another candidate for
comptroller to oppose Grout, though thev
will support McClellan for the mayoralty.
lne combination against tho comptroller
promises to be powerful, and at this writing
It seems that his fate will be defeat.
humiliation and oblivion."
The splendid results of the Nathan Straus
system of pasteurized milk riistrimitjon are
made manifest In the statistics of mortality
among children. During tho senson the
Ftraus depots In New York have distributed
1.595,725 bottles of pasteurized milk and
milk fowls. In addition to this, over fiOO.fUKi
glasses of milk were consumed In tho public
parks. As an example of the effect of this
and other sanitary reforms, the health de
partment of New York presents tabula
tion for June, July and August In the last
thirteen years, the death rate being that of
children under 6 years of age. It shows
that the death rate among children has
steadily decreased from 126.0 per 1,000 In 18M
to ffl.6 In 1903.
"Have you got any of those" fool dream
books?" said a short, stout man, entering
an Ann street bookstore.
"Lots of m," replied the salesman, toss
ing over a pile of paper-covered books, with
demons In red and black adorning the front
pages.
"My servant girl wants them," explained
the man, half apologetically.
"Tes," said the salesman, looking bored.
The man selected three of tho books, one
on dreams, one on fortune telling and one
on handkerchief flirtations, paid for them
and went away.
"His servant girl wants them." said the
salesman to a friend. "The old gag. He
wants them himself, and Is ashamed to ask
for them.
"We get several dozens of that kind In
here every week. They nre crazy over
dream books and fortune-telling books,, and
all that kind of thing, but they are so
afraid someone will know it.
"Almost everyone of them blames the
poor servant That's the most popular
bluff. They laugh, and say they don't know
why the servant wants them, but they sup
pose they'd better humor her.
"Then they take tho books home and read
them by the hour. When they've finished
them they come back for more."
"It's best to let them think they are fool
ing you, for we sell more books that way."
Notwithstanding Innumerable strikes, the
records of the Bureau of Buildings for the
last nine months show that the amount of
business done has been the heaviest In
many years, and Is several million dollars
ahead of the corresponding period of lust
year. The showing made by the depart
ment since the beginning ' of the year Is
considered remarkable. In view of the labor
discontent and the high prices of building
material that have been in evidence since
early spring. Tenement house operations
have been the most pronounced feature of
the activity, due entirely to the modification
of the tenement house law early In the
j-aar.
Magistrate Crane of the Harlem police
court naiuos tha vices to which cigarette
smoking wt'.' lead boys in this order: 1.
cigarette smoking; J beer and liquors; 3
craps; 4 horse and gambling; 6 larceny;
C state prison. Thia conclusion was
reached, he says, by his personal observa
tions as a police court Justice.
Ite further states that in ninety-nine
out of every one hundred boys, from 10 to
IT years of rge, who came before him
charged with crimes ranging from mis
demeanors to burglary their fingers are
stained with tho yellow discolorations that
result from the use of cigarettes.
Search for these stains on the fingers of
criminals arraigned before him has become
quite as commonplace in the proceedings
as the reading of the warrants or the
hearing of evidence. By these tell-tale
marks of mental decoy and moral weak
ness the justice professes to understand as
much of the case ns In any other way.
"Hold up your hands," followed by the
question, "Do you smoke cigarettes?" Is
by no means an unusual way of opening a
cuse in this court.
"I am convinced of the great evil of
nuule as a magistrate," said Magistrate
Crane to a reporter for the World the
other day. "I am not a 'crank' on this
subject and do not care to pose as a re
former, but It Is my opinion that cigarettes
will do more than liquor to ruin boys."
"Do you find from your inquiries and
observations," the magistrate was asked.
that the practice of cigarette smoking
among boys Is Increasing?"
"Beyond a doubt and to a most alarm
ing extent. The confessions made In my
court by boys arraigned there are posi
tive evidence of this growth."
"Do you think a moderate use ot cigar
ettes more detrimental than that of liquor
upon boys and young men?"
"The 'moderate' cigarette smoker Is a
rare exception among the victims of that
Mindyour doctor.
He says: "Ayer's
Cherry Pectoral
for COUghs." i.c..Tl:
THE OLD
Absolutely Pure
THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE
vice, and, as a parent, I would prefer
to see my boy given to the us of liquors
rather than to clgnrettcs, for the latter
Is cno of the ver7 worst hnhlts to break
from.
"Boys who use cigarettes." continued the
magistrate, "have such an appetite for
them that they will stent the money to
get them."
A man of so odd years riled In New York
City last week, leaving written on a small
sheet of paper the following: "Personal
memoirs. At the ago of 30 I gave up
dancing; at 40 my endeavors to plense
the fnlr sex; at 50 my regard of public
opinion; at 60 the trouble of thinking, and
I have now become a true sage, or an
egoUst, which is the same thing. I have
never meddled In any marriages or scan
dals; I have never recommended a cook
or a physician; consequently I have never
attempted the life of anyone."
A l,AD OF PARADOXES.
Strange Featares of Life In "Our Old
Kentneky flome."
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
"The Kentucklan who considers it his
God-bidden duty to beat you In a horsa
trade or a lumber deal," raid Rev. John R.
Grosser at the Kenwood Evangelical church
last week, "keeps all of the command
ments, and the eighth much better than
his northern brethren."
Rev. Mr. Crosser, It seems, has recently
returned from a vacation In tho Blue Grass
state, which he found to be a land of para
doxes. Tho native, he discovered, "wou'.d
not steal your umbrella, but he would
kill you for calling him a hard name; he
drinks moonshine whisky, yet shows no
signs of dissipation, and there Is not
dull-eyed man In Kentucky."
All this Is exceedingly complimentary
to a commonwealth from which the popu
lation of Illinois and Chicago has been and
is being largely recruited. Such disinter
ested testimony must excite pleasurable
emotions In the breast of Colonel Walter
son, particularly, with regard to the ability
of the Kentucklan to bear himself like a
gentleman and a Christian while he Is
beating his best friend In a horse trade.
Blood will tell, and there Is something In
the blood of a genuine Kentucklan which
prevents It from rushing to his face while
he is palming off a spavined mare upon
an unsuspecting stranger.
Colonel Wa-ttcrson will not be so well
pleased, however, to learn from Rev. Mr.
Crosser that Kentuckians "do not treat
their women right." "The men," he says,
"work from three to four hours a day and
the women work sixteen."
The . Kentucky gentleman who works
three or four hours a day, declares Rev.
Mr. Crosser, will not swear in the presence
of the Kentucky woman who works six
teen hours a day. Whether this is due to
the Kentucky man's fear let his profanity
might cause the Kentucky woman to sus
pend work. Rev. Mr. Crosser does not In
form us and we shall have to look to
Colonel Watterson for an explanation.
Still, It Is difficult for even a preacher
who has been making observations during
a 'vacation period to generalize In a matter
of this kind. There must be plenty of Ken
tuckluns who do not cheat In horae trsdes,
and It only stands to reason that there
must be many Kentucky gentlemen who
work as many as tight hours a day and
some Kentucky women who do not work
at all.
(i HEAT ISIH'STRIAI. CEVTEH.
C'oaanntnttoa of Coal Attests
tar
Maanfartorlne Vpllft.
fit. Iouis Globe-Democrat.
The announcement by the United States
geological survey at Washington that the
I'nlted 8tats' output of coal lu 1!02 was
3iO,0CH,0OO tons tells the story of the coun
try's Industrial activity and prosperity. No
other country camn anywhere near this
figure. Tho I'nlted Kingdom, which led
all the rest of the nations along until re
cently in coal production, Is far behind
us now. Though tho fulled States titood
low In the list in its coal yield a third of
a century sgo, It now produ-ics more than
a third of the world's iinnusl oi-tptit.
As coal Is the foundation of all the ;;rc.it
manufacturing activities, this Immense
output shows that the fiiltcd Htntcs is
high on the prosperity wave. At the
minimum price at tho mouth of the mine,
this yield of 300.000,000 tuns means u direct
addition of S25.0.00O to the country's In
crease lu wealth In the year. Moreover,
the output In 1'.1 is likely to go mil. h
Uyond the mark of lOOJ. Iast year the
production was diminished by the lengthy
and senseless strike among the anthracite
miners. Nothing like this is in sight for
this year, slthough strikes have boen
threatened.
There la no doubt at all that the coun
try's product could t largidy Increased
even by the forces which are at present
at work. The mines are not run tn their
full capacity in ull cases. There Is talk
every little while that some of them arc
being shut
creased. In
keeping up
the person
down or their product etc
order to give an excuse for
tho price. The consumer is
who r.vs the freight In the
Ust analysis.
He is the man who suffers
for the wra.iglts of the operators and
the miners. It would be easy for the op
erators to send the output up much be
beyond the o.(00,oou-ton mark, which
would be a benefit to the country at large
by cheapening coal, though It would not
greatly Increase the revenue of the men
who run the mines. Tho flguies of the
coal output, while they show that the
I'nlted States Is the renter of the world's
manufactures, also Indicates that there
la a chance for a good deal of expansion
In the product to the advantage of the
mass of Ut country's contumers.
RELIABLE
FFROVI, XOTES.
Hon. John D. Ixmg has Just been r
elected president of the board of overse .i
of Harvard college.
Senator Hanna's brother hns given tW ,
000 to the Western Reserve university. Tli '
will make more votes than a joint debate.
Ore has been found iu Colorndo eontaliiin
radium, unanluni, vanadium, buranlum an .
polonium. If they dig a little doepor may I '
they will find euphonium and Palladium.
Admiral John G. Walker, president of th
Isthmian Canal commission, wears Ion
Dundreary whiskers, which gives him th
nickname In the nuvy of "Old Whiskers."
The theory thut business Is business '
again called to mind by tho recommend:
tlon of Secretury Cortelyou for an upprc
prlation of J7.00O.00O for a commerce build
lng.
It is a great relief to the agonized house
keeper to have the assurance of the Do
purment of Commerce and Labor that th '
cost of living lias Increased only 17 pe
cent. '
Here Is how a Kansas paper Identifies a
multimillionaire railroad magnate: "George.
Gould, who Is a brothor of Helen Gould,
passed through here yesterday on his spe
cial car."
Although tho Cramps have been forced
out of tho great Philadelphia shipbuilding
concern, tho senior member of the old com
pany, Charles H. Cramp, will remain with
the new company as an advisor to tho
president, receiving a salary of $30,00 a
year.
Franklin J. Wllley of Janesville. Wis.,
who was found dead In his bed on Thurs
day last, was widely known among tti..s
Interested In tobacco as a writer on the cul
ture of the plant. His services we.o n . -quently
in request as an expert In dlspi; i
as to the quality and value of the 1 . .
product.
rOHTED HEM Alt Km
"With labor rising prices and capital los
ing prices, and inu in the niiudie," ha
grumbled, "where do I get off at?"
"Why, you get olT tno carih," was tlm
reply, nnd for some people that seems to be
the only thing to do. Chicago Post.
"Phwat's tho matter wld ye?" asked
Casey of McGookln.
" TIs n bad nose-bleed Ol hov," replied
McGookln, the plumber, "an" Ul can't slop
It."
"Huh! 'tis not much av' a plumber y
are ,f ye can't stop a leak in ycr own
face. "Philadelphia Press.
"Remember my son," said the prudent
man. "that a penny saved Is a penny
turned."
"That's so," replied tho reckless youth.
'"The trouble with ino Is that I am always
getting hold of ihe wrong proverb. 1 wiue
thinking. Nothing venture, i.othliig have. "
asiiingion Htar.
Servant Do doctor said I musn't give you
no more hrsndy. ah.
Major Wiiy, brandy Is my favorite bever
age. "I knows dat, snh. But the doctor said
you mcst chiniKe off."
"ih, well, then. we"l mnko a change."
"To what. SMh?"
"To another doctor," Kansas Cltv Jour
nal. "I viiiA to. see tho parade," wailed tlv '
boy c
"My moii." replied the father, who had
experienced the uhiiiiI vicissitudes of civic
celebrations, "I'll put you In the cider pro's
and you'll have all the scnsnloi s without
going so far for them." Chicago Post.
Mrs. t'pjohn Didn't it worry you nlmoi
to deth to entertain that big riowd ln-l
nl5ht?
Mrs. Hlghmore No, !njep(; enjoyed
every minute of it, thlnkliiK about tho
Yupiturtr. and the HtittlninhH, that 1
knew wanted to be here and tlint I hadn't
uxked to come. Philadelphia Pre.
IT AIVT I SE.
It ain't no use tr moiw nn' ms,Ii.
A feller's better glad;
This world is koikI enuf fer us.
It's .ooIIkIi ter be iud.
It ain't no be ter mope an' sitJi.
It ain't philoHophy;
Th' man thel null. an' works like st'
Is bound ter Imvpy be.
It ain't no use ter mope an' slli
Yt'll never will it crown:
Th' wurld'll think fur iuo;e of
If o i.uvvr ii own.
f- ali't no use dr mope an' high.
Ve'd hi Per ! c it now.
An' wi-r u -in i I . ,"t:' m away,
Ve'll VIII 111' MO.' Si Ill.rllKW.
Ilendei. on. Ia. Clai-ere M. Workman.
iVeVr.!'
K. STOMACH. Ss
QlTTERp;"-
Ah a Ku'filic mnctly for
Indigestion, Dyspepsia,
Constipation, Bilious
ness, or Malaria, Fever
and Ague, IIot otter's Sto
mach Hitters KtandK alone.
lt 50 years' record of
oil ret Droves its value. If
you are a sufferer from r?to-J
math ilU of any kind don't
overlook th letters. It
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