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Notary Public.
Some ' of those ; April showers must
h.ve gotten sidetracked and thus de
layed. Japanese are but half civilized after
1L They still think a dead lion more
admirable than a live dog.
The proclamation writers of the Civic
Federation are strong In generalities,
but weak In specific details.
So long as the Russians do not know
that Tort Arthur Is blockaded the suc
cess of the Japanese is not apparent.
Colonel Bryan has Instructed himself
to stay by the Kansas City platform.
No danger" that be will violate his in
structions. ' New York's new bridge may now be
considered Id commission since, the first
suicide baa been committed by a woman
Jumping 'from It Into East river.
! The railroads may have the first say
in the matter of the assessment of rail
road property In Nebraska for taxation,
but the people will have the last say.
General Kouropatkln has gone Jo the
front, but when he sees what has been
done be may change his mind about de
vouring the Japanese nation at ono sit
ting. In the light of the action of Japan In
keeping the mllitnry attaches of other
nations from the front the wrecking of
the vessel bearing them from Toklo be
comes a remarkable coincidence.
Philadelphia is the latest city to ex
emplify the danger of storing explosives
in a congested business district. This
time it is gasoline which has covered
tbt firemen with flames.
Nebraska gets a reading clerk and a
tally clerk at the republican national
convention. Now If the convention will
only throw In the vice presidency our
bapplness will be complete.
When "Unci Horace" Boirs views
from afar the action of the Iowa demo
crats bow be must regret that he figures
In history as Iowa's only democratic
governor sine the civil war.
Had Lea . Herdman only continued a
good Indian, and stayed on the reseiva
tion bis re-entry might .have been her
alded at the station with a brass band,
but as it is he will have to pay bis own
fiddler If be wants music for that oc
casion. .
party has been formed at Pierre.
8. D., to make the trip to St Louts in
a stiff. .When the navigability of the
JJlesourf river Is thus established It is
hoped that it may again figure with the
long Hat of creeks in the river and har
bor bllL
The Tnlted States leads the world in
the number of battleships under con
struction. Since the experiences of the
I'etropavlovsk and the Missouri, bow
ever, there Is some question as to how
no tit h a battleship adds to the fighting
atreagth of a tutlon. ;
The railroads own fully one-fifth of
the taxable wealth of Nebraska and
they should be willing to bear on-fifth
of all the tax burdens. In other words,
the railroads should bear their Just
share and proportion of expenses for
maintaining government nothing more,
nothing less.
The Colorado supreme court in" the
Mover case is in a delicate position. By
taking one course it can proclaim the
superiority of itself over the executive
branch of government, while by another
it will make Itself play secoud fiddle te
the governor. Undsr these conditions
It would appear that a decision would
not bard, te reach. t . . .
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. MAKIT1Q TUB tLATTOKM.
According to Washington . advices
which appear to be authentic, It Is the
wish of President Roosevelt that the
platform of the republican national con
vention shall" be short, plain and direct,
stating concisely and unambiguously
the principles and policy of the party
In terms which every voter can readily
understand. It Is stated that the party
leaders. who have had cmferences with
the president fully concur In bis position
in this respect and undoubtedly the
great majority of the thinking men of
the party will agree that the view of
the president is correct.
The republican party does not need to
make any elaborate declaration of Its
principles, nor does It need to Incorpor
ate In its national platform any defense
of Its policies. The American people
know fully what the party stands for
and they are equally aware of the re
sults of the application of Its principles.
Republics nlsni, as has been Abundantly
dx-Mnonstrated, means national develop
ment and progress. Thi history of the
country for the last forty years bears
evidence of this. In that period, under
almost continual republican administra
tion, the United States made greater ad
vance than in all Its previous history,
the only check to Its progress coming In
the last democratic administration,
when a reactionary fiscal policy de
stroyed Industrial and financial confi
dence and brought about one of the
severest depressions In the history of
the country. It will be sufficient for the
national platform to note this by way of
reviving popular recollection. In regard
to our foreign affairs the republicans
In national convention can Justly claim
for the course of their party an emi
nence and success without parallel, not
only In our own history, but in that of
any other nation In modern lmes. Wo
have heretofore referred to the remark
able diplomatic record of the McKlnley
and Roosevelt administrations, which
has been in all respects most honorable
to the nation and has given it a great
influence in the affairs of the world. In
the management of our insular posses
sions the republican party has In the
main proceeded wisely and with a
proper recognition of the character and
the requirements of our political insti
tutions. It Is needless to discuss at this
time whether or 'not a mistake was
made In acquiring distant possessions.
We have them and they must be taken
enre of. No one who has any respect
for bis country, or any faith in its abil
ity to wisely develop nnd Justly govern
the people who hove come under Its
control by reason of war, advocates the
abandonment of those people, the great
majority of whom are today satisfied
with American rule. The republican
party stands now as always for the pro
tection of American Industries and labor
and it needs do no more in its national
platform than make a simple reaffirma
tion of its continued devotion to this
policy.
President Roosevelt Is right- A plain,
direct explicit platform," "which means
what It says," 'is all that la required,
and it is safe to say that the republican
platform of 1004 will' be of thie cnar
acter. rrjcB mcoRPunATwaa.
The prevailing spirit of conservatism
ln business ventures. is well shown in
the fact 'that the aggregate capitaliza
tion of new companies formed in- east
ern states during last month was a lit
tle less than $75,000,boO, which was not
one-third of the amount for the month
of April last year. This is a very nota
ble' decline, but the New York Journal
of Commerce, which keeps a record of
incorporations of companies with 1,000, -000
capital and over, remarks that it la
not altogether disappointing at a time
when the securities markets are still
burdened with a heavy accumulation of
unsold material. That paper aays
further that while the organization of
new enterprises bas lagged there has
been a steady succession of flotations
by companies previously organized and
particularly by railroads.
Therefore the returns in regard to In
corporations are not a fair indication of
the current changes in the-, amount of
securities on the market : They do very
clearly denote, however, the greater
care that is being exercised by those
having capital to invest in business en
terprises, and this la a fact of no small
significance. The corporation promoter
no longer finds it an easy thing to induce
capitalists to take bold of almost any
sort of enterprise. Propositions of busi
ness ventures are now being carefully
scrutinized and looked Into and so long
as this continues to be done there will
be no danger of any addition to the
number of combinations of the char
acter that have been exploited In recent
years. The new corporations are organ
ized on. a legitimate basis and there Is
good reason to think that it will be a
long time before there will be any of
a different class.
TBS LABUH tilTVATlOV.
It is highly satisfactory to note that
at present an extraordinary state of
labor peace exists in the United States.
While there are some local disturbances.
a few of them more or less serious as
to their immediate neighborhoods, no
great industry Is disturbed and so far
as appears none is threatened. It Is
usual for dissatisfied labor to make a
demonstration at this season of the year
and the fact that nothing of this kind
has occurred rf a serious nature war
rants the inference that very generally
the wage earners are pretty well satis
fied with conditions, or at any rate have
eoBclo.ed that nothing Is to be gained
under existing circumstances by war
fare. That such is the wise view Is not to
be doubted.' While It Is true that the
cost of living Is htgb and that wsges
have not generally been, keeping pace
with the advance of commodities which
constitute the necesnaries of life, yet It
la perfectly plain that labor could gain
nothing by causing a disturbance of In
dustrial peace, for the reason that cap
ital Is not at all anxious for Investment
and is for the most part quite content
to let mutters drift for a time. In other
words, there Is no rush of activity or
enterprise In any branch of Industry or
business and while In all lines there Is
a steady movement. In none does it
reach proportions cr yield profits which
would permit the Investors of capital to
materially increase the cost of labor.
The urgent requirement is the main
tenance of industrial peace, so that there
may be a recovery from the depression
which bas naturally followed the extra
ordinary prosperity of the past five or
six years. This depression is by no
means great but It could very easily be
aggravated and mnde Borlous by wide
spread labor disturbances.
UAKIXO A WltOXQ STAR1.
Under the old method of assessment
the railroad tax agents, or rather tax
fighters, made It their business to sleep
with the taxing board from the opening
day to the close of the assessment and
their hypnotic Influence generally over
came ali the arguments, facts and fig
ures that could be presented in sup
port of an equltfble assessment of rail
road property.
It was hoped and expected that the
preseut year would witness a radical
departure from the odious system that
has made assessment of railroad prop
erties in pu9t years a farce. It was
hoped and expected that the board
would adopt as a model for its proceed
ings the methods that prevail in Mis
souri, Illinois, Indiana and other states
that have successfully grappled with
the railroad assessment problem. In
those states the boards usually, after
full discussion among their own mem
bers, fix specific days for each of the
respective railroads, telegraph and tele
phone companies, express companies,
palace car and fast freight car com
panies' to appear, through attorneys or
tax agents, to answer such interroga
tories as the board may see fit to pro
pound, and make such arguments as
tbey deem best in support of their own
contentions, which are always either for
lower assessments or against Increased
assessments. . It Is also customary for
railroad assessment boards to extend
invitations to county commissioners,
municipal tax commissioners and tax
paying citizens who desire to be heard
to attend these meetings on specific
days.
Railroad lawyers and tax agents
doubtless exert a very pronounced In
fluence in other states, but they are
kept at arm's length and not allowed
to dictate to or domineer over the
boards. Why our Nebraska state board
should have given the tax agents the
first bearing before determining
whether it will assess railroad systems
as a unit or continue the farcical and
Indefensible method of assessing rail
roads under their old charter names,
which have long ago been absorbed and
made a. part of the existing systems, is
incomprehensible. '
- It must be manifest that the board
could not possibly bear all the railroad
representatives and the representatives
of taxpayers on the same day. While
the principles that should govern the
assessment of railroads would apply to
every railroad, the conditions of the
various systems present a variety of
problems that must be discussed and
determined separately. It would be far
better for the board to retrace Its steps
than to continue proceedings that will
subject Its members to a charge of par
tiality and lack of thoroughness in
carrying out the letter and spirit of the
new revenue law.
M. V. Gannon, who will be remem
bered as a prominent leader of Omaha
democracy in ante-Bryan Says, traveled
all the wty from Chicago, where he
now lives, to Des Molnea to organize
victory for Hearst and the yellows in
Iowa. When the Hearst bureau settles
with Qannon it will find bis retainer
and expense bill almost as long as the
distance from Lake Michigan to the
Missouri river.
Opinions are ventured by interested
bidders on Indian supplies that the In
dian supply depot at borne Is here to
stay. That is a consummation to be
wished, but still it must not be allowed
to Interfere with the annual rescue of
the supply depot Item from elimination
from the appropriation bill through a
heroic dash by the congressman repre
senting this district.
The building boom we are about to
experience la not confined to Omaha,
but extends to the entire area com
prised In what we are pleased to term
Greater Omaha. South Omaha, Council
Bluffs and the suburban towns of Flor
ence, Benson, Dundee and Bellevue are
all showing new roofs that betoken an
expanding population of prosperous
home-owners.
The Wall Street Favorite.
Portland Oregonlan.
Roosevelt, it seems. Is not satisfactory
to the trusts. Bo Wall street proposes
Parker. This will become a real issue
by and by. .
Peaces nadOnacea.
Washington Post.
. Some of the congressmen will spend the
summer repairing their fences, while other
will be bus presenting their defenses and
trying to explain away their offenses.
When Johnny Yell.
Chicago Chronicle.
John Bull cannot conceal hi Joy over
the Japaneae victory on the Yalu. John
always ha more cause for rejoicing when
ouieon else Is fighting his battles than
when he Is compelled to enter tb lists
himself.
Wetcafalnee at Provide.
Kansas City Star.
It seems little less than a miracle that
the upper deck of a ferryboat, holding a
hundred passengers or more, could crash
down on the deck below, also filled with
people, without causing the direct loss of
a single life. The kindly Providence which
appear to guard humanity In such perilous
accident Is so persistently abused by
American builder of all classes that It Is
a marvel that U never becomes weary and
exhausted, .
DVORAK AMI AMERICA Mt'IC
New York Mall: Dvorak's thorough de
votion to Ms own national music, which hs
Interpreted with a firm philosophic loyalty
as well as with melodic genius, ha left the
world richer In truly beautiful music. The
man of whom this can be said deserves an
honorable niche In the wor'd's hall of fame.
Philadelphia Inquirer: He wss on of
the few really great compoaers who found
a source Of Inspiration on thla side of the
Atlantic, and the fine symphony which he
entitled "From the New World," a work
which appeals to many to whom symphon
ies generally are something of an Infliction,
will be a lasting monument of his residence
among us and of the receptivity of his tem
perament, it la not hyperbole, but the lit
eral statement of a fact, to say that ths
place which his leaving makes vacant Is
one which none can fill.
Boston Transcript: Dvorak measured
himself In the cramped field that he chose
And the very evaporation of his hopes and
plans for us Is our happiest promise. We
may have any quantity of folk-song. It Is
a brick-kiln and not a house; snd great
genius may build great music at the na
tionless north pole. In scorn of such ma
terial. Folk-song or no folk-song, we sim
ply stsnd the chance of other countrle
the sheer good luck that It may be on our
own shores, and on no others, that the next
great musician shall be born.
New York Globe: Of late Dvorak has
been somewhat out of the fashion, and
there has been a tendency among the truly
advanced to belittle him as a colorlst with
instruments and little more. But Dvorak
had no need In his prime to bring his melo
dies Into the world by laborious reflection,
or to write his music by piling Intricacy
on Intricacy. Ills was a fresh and fertile
Invention, and his was the power to de
velop the fruits of It with a charm, free
dom, ingenuity, clearness and individuality
that promise bis muslo an enduring beauty.
Besides, he had the Slav Intensity of mood
that equally makes the racial Are of the
"Husltzka" overture or the tender grace
of the slow movement of the American
symphony go straight and poignantly to Us
goal.
Brooklyn Eagle: Dvorak's Influence In
this country Is not merely the influence of
his music, as Wagner's la, for example. Hi
taught composition to aspiring young com
posers and his sincerity and seriousness of
purpose made an' impression. We have not
yet got a crop of symphonies based on.
either negro or Indian themes, but Fred
erick Burton, August Walther and others
have utilized Indian chants successfully
and ten years Is too short a time to expect
flower and fruitage from an artistic Idea.
The thing that our. composers most needed
was to be themselves, to escape the Influ
ence of their reverence for the muslo of
the masters. The hope of American muslo
at present la that. Individually, If not
Americanism, Is peeping out in the music
of men like MacDowell and Chadwlck.
They were young enough to be stimulated
by the Dvorak influence. But whether or
not the Bohemian composer hastens the
day of an American "school," he has at
least left the world better and richer for
much strong, vital, sunny, melodious muslo.
Neither his Slavic dances, his symphonies
nor his quartets will die easily, and so long
as they are played the world will be the
better for Dvorak.
THB MAN BEHIND THE GUN." '
Coolness, Bravery and Resourceful
ness Saved the Missouri.
Boston Transcript.
Russia mourns the loss of 600 men be
sides her most gallant commander) and
perhaps her greatest painter, by the des
truction of the Petropavlovsk. This coun
try mourns' ahoot' a twentieth as many
by the accident oh the Missouri, and ths
tragedy might have been almost on a nu
merical equality with that on the Russian
vessel had It not been for the prompt pres
ence of mind and devotion to duty of one
man, or two at most. In this thrilling
emergency Captain Cowles, commanding
the American battleship, showed himself
cool, brave and resourceful. He did the
right thing at the right time, and saved
the ship from destruction, or at least
helped to save her. He showed himself a
credit to the American navy, worthy to
have his name enrolled with the many who
have helped to make its fame lustrous.
Captain Cowles deserves the applause and
the gratitude of his countrymen, and.
though republics are proverbially ungrate.
ful, he will undoubtedly receive them. But
there is another man In mora humble
station ' whose praises can hardly be
trumpeted beyond their deserts if the
report concerning his action should con
tinue to stand as a statement of the facta.
There is a contrast in ths head lines of
today's news that might easily have been
a deadly parallelism. In one column we
read of 600 scalded nnd drowned on the
Petropavlovsk. In another we read: "Mon-
son jumped, thereby saving 600 men."
This Intelligence must sendi a grateful
thrill to the heart of every patriotic Amer
ican. It Intensifies our admiration for "the
man behind the gun." In this Instance he
possessed Incalculable value. Monson was
the chief gunners mate. When the
explosion on the Missouri occurred the big
magazine door was open, and standing
against it were four charges of powder.
"Without a moment's hesitation, Monson
shoved these aside, and jumped into the
magazine, closing the door after him. The
magazine was quickly flooded .with water
and when the men opened the door they
found Monson barely alive, the water hav
ing reached to his 'neck."
Here Is an Incident that In the hands of
Vlcto Hugo might have been made more
thrilling than his "Story of a Gun" ln"93,"
without Its drawback of tragedy and dis
grace. It Is Inspiring to see a man In hum
ble position, with no more responsibility
than what he chose to assume, having at
that awful moment but one thought and
that the discharge of the highest duty that
any man can face, the preservation of his
ship and his comrades at Imminent
risk to his own life. The chances were
so many against him that his death would
not have added to the heroism of this
brave act, so vital at the critical moment
Ha deserves not only the thanks of his
countrymen, but special recognition, honors
and reward.
A Grab for I'nenrned Money.
Brooklyn Eagle.
When a man serve a private corporation
at a fair wage he Is supposed to lay aside
a little of his money against the rainy
day. If he retains his vigor In age be Is
not discharged. In our easier government
service the dangerous theory Is advanced
that when a clerk reaches the age of 00
or 70 he should be retired, to make room
for some other favored son, and that his
wages should still be paid to him. This
argues that he need save nothing while
he holds his place, a contention that would
be demoralising both to him and to the
nation. W own to seeing little in thla
civil pension scheme but a grab for un
earned money.
Symbols at tb Klahtl Rare.-
Leslie's Weekly.
The three symbols of ths Imperial house
of Japan are the mirror, the crystal and
the sword, and they are carried In front of
the emperor on all state occasions. Each
has Its slgnlflcance. . "Look at the mirror
and reflect thyself," or. In other words,
"Know thyself," Is the message of the mir
ror. "Be pure and shine" Is ths crystal's
Injunction, while the sword is a reminder
le "Be sharp,
ROIXD ABOl'T KBW YORK.
Rlnplea mm be Current of Life la
the Metropolis.
A heavy touting automobile was speeding
along upper Broadway, which was crowded
Suddenly the machine turned sharply to
the left and, without diminishing speed.
described a complete circle. It missed
street car by a foot, a carriage by an
Inch and another automobile by a fraction
of an Inch. Then It shot off In the proper
direction, having done no harm. "I don
think them chaffers' ought to drink," re
marked the cop, thoughtfully. "And yet.
he added, "a sober man 'ud broke his nec
by a trick like that"
Saturday the revolving door through
which people enter the Pulitzer building
happened to h motionless for a few sec
onds. Up rushed a man in a great hurry
and tried to enter to the left Just as
strong Insider started out the proper way
There was a bang and a biff, and the man
was shot backward, angry and bruised.
"Well," ha observed to the spectator a
few minutes later, "there's some comfort
In knowing I'm a Rube, anyhow. It was
not settled In my mind before,"
Having watched a few pass the door In
safety, he imitated them without further
disaster.
The desirability of a city Job as a means
of livelihood Is greatly enhanced by a de
clslon of Justice Seabury's In the city court
which practically makes the city employes'
hard earned salary sacred from the grasping
clutches of the butcher, the baker and can
dlestlck maker. Justice Seabury vacate an
order directing the Controller to turn over
16 each month from the salary of a
draughtsman employed In the department
of sewers In the borough of the Bronx In
satisfaction of a Judgment obtained against
him. Justice Seabury says the act of 19u3
provides that where a man had a salary
in excess of 13) per week 10 per cent pf
such excess can be taken each week by at
tachment until the Judgment Is satisfied,
but he holds that this aot does not apply to
municipal corporation, but only to a busi
ness corporation, and that it 1s clear that
it was not the Intention of the legislature
to have it so apply, as It would greatly
Interfere with the administration of publio
affairs.
In the Bronx there la a large preponder
ance of the Teutonic In the population.
and the vernacular often, gets twisted. A
German druggist whose corner store on
the Boston road Is generously exposed to
the winds of heaven, suffered a break
down of the steam heating apparatus In
his building during one of the worst storms
o the winter, and was compelled to close
up temporarily. Passers by wtre enllght
ened as to the cause of this temporary
suspension of business by a placard hung
In the thickly frosted window, announcing,
"Closed on account of the heat."
Another native of the fatherland, em
barked In the respectable avocation of
fishmonger In Third avenue, near the One
Hundred and Ninety-sixth street elevated
station, adorns his stall with a sign which
asserts, in brilliant blue lettering, that he
purveys "Blew-fish, puggies and ells" to
bungerers for sea food.
The city house of the late William C.
Whitney, at the northeast corner of Sixty.
eighth and Fifth avenue, has been sold to
James Henry Smith for a little more thun
12,000,000.
The house Is In many ways the most
famous In New York. It la a four-story
structure, with a Fifth avenue frontage of
fifty-five feet and a Sixty-eighth street
frontage of 200. The exterior of the house,
however, gives no adequate Idea of the
magnificence of the interior. It la said
that with the furnishings and decorations
his Hew home represented an expenditure
of $3,600,000. ' The buyer Is a nephew of
George Smith, the Englishman, whose
death In March, 1900, revealed the existence
of a 160,000,000 fortune, which bad hitherto
hardly been guessed at.
Before Charles M. Schwab goes to Eu
rope next month he will see one of his
cherlBhed plans in a fair way of realization
For three years the steel man has been
working on plans fqr a children's fun and
health trust. This trust Is an octopus
which alms to seize the poor young chJl
dren of Kew York In Its tentacles and
force them to be fat, happy and healthy
during the hot summer time. The plant Is
located on Staien Island and consists of a
park many acres In extent, upon which
are constructed a number of pavilions
stocked with all the machinery calculated
to squeeze laughter out of the young
people. This place will be known as
Recreation park and It I located on the
shore of the Island, near Richmond beach.
From Recreation park to the Battery
there will ply a boat (also owned by the
trust), which has been christened Happy
Day, and the plan is to have about 1,000
children make the trip fery morning and
after spending the day at the beach return
at night to their homes. Trained nurses,
guards and big, good-natured private po
licemen will see that the children ars
properly cared for. In the big pavilion
every day a lunch -will be served, the
rest of the time will be spent mostly In
bathing, wading and playing around In the
sand. Mr. Schwab will get hi dividend
on the million or more Invested by hear
ing reports of how the children enjoyed
themselves.
A nice-looking woman walked Into on
of the Broadway stores of the Tobacco
trust the other night and naked to see
some of the store's best cigar. The clerk
handed out a dozen boxes In a jiffy.
While the new patron was taking a dry
whir of each fifteen men lined up along
the counter to make various purchases.
They might Just as well have been wooden
Indlnns as far as the on clerk was con
cerned. But Just about the time the en
tire line began to display a nervous desire
to get away, the fair one selected a 13-cent
cigar with a blight band, and asked the
customer next in line If he didn't think It
was a good one.
"I've been smoking thirty years and
couldn't have selected a better one my
self," he replied gallantly.
"Then will you please wrap this one
upT" she said, tendering the clerk a
tJO bill.
It took the clerk five minutes to change
the bill, and then he tripped on an empty
cigar box and dropped all the coin. It was
finally banded to the purchaser. When
she had her hand on the door knob she
thought of the coupons. She turned back.
"Don't you give trading stamps with
cigars?" she asked sweetly, whereupon the
clerk thrust a quarter' worth of coupons
Into her hand. '
"It doe beat 'ell bow dead easy a woman
can paralyse a cigar store," said one of
the men In line when be finally got the
package of tobacco for which he had
waited twenty minutes.
Didn't Know It Wns Loaded.
New York Tlmee,
"Russia has never ceased to wonder why
the Idea that It was willing and anxious
to make war with Japan becam so gen
erally prevalent In the United State." N
These are the curious words of Count
Casslnt In his appeal to the American
people for a better understanding of the
motive and the course of Russia. The
truth appears to be, so far as we can
Judge from the early negotiations and
from every Important development since,
that tb Russians were signally and moat
unfortunately Ignorant, of the fact that
Japan was luaded,
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PERSONAL NOTES.
The ways of the assessor are devious
and, though he may be perfectly honest in
so' doing, id is his duty to make every one
that has give up.
"Old Bill" Voeburg, for fifty years a no
torious bank robber, was undoubtedly right.
The meanest thing he ever did was to
marry a good woman.
Chicago Is planning to have a quiet
Fourth of July. The aldermen who are
pushing this movement nre Jeopardizing
their hold on the physicians' vote.
Representative Hardwlcke of Georgia Is
so young and boyish-looking that he Is
frequently taken for one of the pages.
He served In the Georgia legislature before
he went to congress.
Governor Myron T. Herrlck of Ohio Is
expected to preside at the opening session
of the . Elks' reunion in Cincinnati next
July, and to deliver the formal address.
Mayor F'.elschman will deliver the address
of welcome to tho city.
Congressman Hepburn of Iowa is proud
of a Kentucky ancestor named Kelly, to
whom at Eddyvllle in 1856 was gTanted a
patent for steel made after that . world
famous process to which Henry Bessemer
gave name but not invention.
Captain Robert E. Lee, the youngest son
of General Lee, is at work on a book en
titled "Recollections and Letters of Gen
eral Lee," giving an Intimate picture of
the husband and father as well as of the
distinguished southern commander.
Dr. William Tecumseh Vernon, chan
cellor of the Kansas Colored university in
Qulndaro, la regarded out In that section
as the Booker T. Washington pf t,he west.
They both believe that the future of their
raoe depends on industrial no less than In
tellectual education.
Some of the publio men in Missouri are
manifesting a little Jealousy of David B.
Francis, who, they claim, . takes up too
much of the center of the stage at the In
ternational exposition; yet they should re
member that but for him there probably
wouldn't be any stage.
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A SMILE OR TWO.
BJInks Time run on. eht Now, what
makes time run onT .
BJunke The spur of the moment, I
s'pose. PitUiburg Post.
"Never was glad for this Impediment in
my snweh but once," said the man from
the country.
"When was thatt" . . .
f-fe-feiow asked me h-h-how much I
would take for a-a horse and while I-I-I
was a -trying to tell him 140 he offered me
$M." Kenebec ' Journal.
"Why don't you make an effort to coun
teract the suspicions which have arisen
concerning you among your constttuentaT"
"I don't want to counteract suspicions,"
answered Senator Sorghum. "Suspicions
don't do any harm until you go to stirring
"em around and uncovering facts." Wash
ington Star.
Tho youngster had heard a facetious ref
erence to tho fool killer and he waa curious.
'Does the fool killer have to work awful
hard?" he asked.
"No; he doesn't have to, my son. but he
ought to," waa the reply. "He'd have no
time for sleep if he didn't shirk his duty
most shamefully." Chicago Post.
"So Josh has been In town three weeks,"
"Yes," answered Farmer Corntossel.
"How's he getting alongT'
"I dunno yet. There' no tellln for a
month or so how a boy's goln to turn out
In the city. I reckon we'll know In a
short time whether he's a gold brick
buyer or a gold brick seller.'
JEAJCKH D'ARC. ,
Alfred Austin, Poet Laureate of England,
In the Independent.
Goddess of battles, with the maiden sword
And blameless banner, when to Franc
availed
Not all her gallant manhood, helmed and
mailed.
To drive from off her soil ths alien horde.
That over pasture, hamlet, vineyard
- poured,' '?. L-
You with your unarmed Innoeency scaled
The walls of war, and, where man's might
had failed.
Crowning, enthroned the anointed of the
Lord. . .
And should France yet again be called to
scare
The stranger from her gates, and hurl
back thence
Feet that would violate her frontiers fsir.
Not meretricious sycophants of sens,
But the pure hesrt and patriotic prayer.
Once more would prove her rescue and
defense.
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