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" Subserlbdi In my proaenca acd wom to
txfore me this 0Ui day of Juna. A. V. li.
i6eai) M. B. HUNOATK.
Notary Fubiio.
THE! BF.E will be mallad aiwa rneat
to anbaorlbara IcktImc h lty
dorlna; ' th ammmav , raomtha.
CUuitM of addraaa will t
it fpaqvaatly axa dlrd aoiloea
f nek ohanare aawat fcotk
the ol w avadraaa.
v The tax Issue, like tbe poor, we havt
always with ua.
Candidate Davis la merely the latest
addition to the "Foxy Grandpa" aerlea.
i
Judge Tarker Is a better swimmer
than mixer. He takes to the water like
c dock and to( the campaign like a
Quaker.
Corean neutrality, according to com
mon report, seems to consist In grant
ing everything in sight to every power
. occupying Its territory.
. Before starting on actlre operations
in the racing ocean the commanders of
Admiral Jes sen's fleet should read up on
American naval history.
V. I Tibbies evidently desires to fight
the campaign in Nebraska along the
lines of 1892, but ttven General Weaver
would object to thUt Idea.
The cuan who can devise t plan to
maneuver an army safely in the rainy
Reason can obtain a good job by apply
ing at either St. Petersburg or Toklo.
The patient and humble Nebraska
Iopulint Is dlsfnollned to play pack mule
in tbe impending campaign for tbe dem
ocratic Parkerlte, but he may relent
Iu the Malacca incident Rua&ia found
!t en&ier, if lesa satisfactory, to back up
than to go ahead. The retreating habit
iseeiM to have. become epidemic in the
realm cf the czar.
' Cilice Tibbies has become one of the
lutUovial standard bearers of populism he
lit rtforma his habit of calling every
one on thq opposite side of the po)itlcJ
fence a 'mullethead "
i miI ujar ,
Nebraska populteta would doubtlees be
1!HnS to let tbe democrats fu-a with
them .j endordng a populist ticket from
ii-j) to bottom. Hut democratic patriot
1 in id not (ju.;u so ungelflsh aa ail that.
- Tj-..z..y ball bi ready to deU with
Jud;: I'ar'uT on the bunts of btisg per
! to s:r.3 ta fctita Uv-Vui. Taiu-
r iny hall is alwajs democratic where
; f is something in It for the botisn.
If ex-KenaUir Alien had counff1 to
nrr.-r-t the presidriiiHjiJ BOQilaattou prof-!
fo::d tim by the populism at fc yiiugfield
It would have been Just tbe same Bryaa
woiiSd bnve stuck to Parker as Clowe as
r..Lle.
I is Li tcccrd 'wl.i Co ctul iltuewf
of tMci that Iojlas county should bo
:mde the tnrt for the railway tax
spent. Dck1i. county was the first to
i'i3 la revolt agii.st corporate t-
; !.'iUltf.
Tha cleavage between tbe Nebraska
rr fnr.tns of the popuiJut porsuasion and
t!ue of the democrutlc persuasion is
becoming more and more painfully niaji
.iiVft as the day for the two-ring ed cir
t uH:'li a a n-r.
J'artli.l law will be revoked and civil
'law rMi'd In Colorado during the
'present wet-k, but civil law in Colorado
i uncivil luoht of tbe t!:uo and will ao
continue mull the hip pocket is abol
) l td l y common conseut
g j
Two ruorii deaths froia accldpitts
.-. 1 by the din 1 a rye of flrearme and
!:(.- k. ia (.a t!.e Fourth. oJuiy Lae
1 -r!i r i rtd H' la the l -'.f-.t wt-k. but
t -t f.a i R.i tha i xr. i v; ,,,'.
:.. i...t Sj'l'.-nr to ha l;nj::..i any
i '.it t our tl'y et, to t'tc.i ;.t
; t i n ..,.1 t,. t' , !,.,., . J l i-
DISSATISFIED ani.O Z'FWCrtATS- .
Not all the jtold dentofints In the coun
try are anUsped with the portion of
the St. Louis convention recording the
cjuostlon of the money standard. Pome
of fhem, notw-lthntanJlnn the declaration
of the donioAntle candidate for.the jires
ldency, have in a very positive way an
nounced their conviction that tht dec
laration by no tnefins acquits the dem
ocratic party of Its previously -declared
devotion to e'lver and the so-called
double standard and that the failure of
the notional convention to incorporate
a gold-standard plunk in the platform
is to be regarded as a confession that
the pnrty is not yet in favor of tbe
alnfcle standard 0f gold. That this 1 a
plausible and reasonable view cannot '-be
denied, especially wTtcn it is borne In
mind that a majority of the PC Louis
convention was Bfjalnst .incorporating In
the national platform an announcement
In. favor of the gold standard and voted"
for an omission of all reference the
money quest Ion,. I
A leading democrat of New "York, Mj.
Oscar 8. Straus, who has announced
himself in favor of the republican pres
idential ticket, puts the matter clearly
In saying that "a party which cannot
nnlte, or has not the wisdom or the conr
as:e to unite, in putting a sound money
plank in its platform, is not sufficiently
reconstructed to be Intrusted with
power." That Is undoubtedly the view
taken by many gold-standard democrats
and it will grow as the campaign pro
gresses. "Giving all credit to the mes
sage of Judjre Tarker as a courageous
and manly act, the fact remains that it
was addressed to a convention the ma
jority of which was not In favor of de
claring for the gold standard and in
which Mr. Parker ' could not" have se
cured the nomination If he had stated
Ms ixmiiion on this question in advance
of the convention's action. The fact
stands out boldly and undeniably that
the convention was deceived, that the
champions of Parker played a ''bunco"
game, and that as a matter of fact bis
action did not, as is claimed, commit
the party to the maintenance of the
gold standard. While there may be no
doubt as to his position on the ques
tion, there is still a reasonable doubt
48to the position of a majority of the
party. This is very distinctly shown
In the attitude of Mr. Straus and It Is
not to be doubted that there are many
other gold standard democrats who view
tbe situation aa he does and who will
support the republican ticket as he pro
poses to do.
SEBRASKJ. FOil LASD BEKKERS.
One good effect of the Rosebud land
lottery which can not be lost is apt to be
overlooked by those who are waiting
only to see who draws the capital prize.
Of the 50,000 and more people trans
ported to the reservation for the purpose
of registration, tbe large majority will
have made the trip through one of the
most fertile sections of Nebraska at a
time when It is bursting with' nature's
bounties. They will have been com
pelled to make the trip either going or
returning by day so that an Inspection
of these fertile fields Is thrust upon
them and there is no chance to doubt
the favorable impression made upon
them. " i
The people registering for Rosebud
land have come from all parts of, the
country, but for the moat part from the
more crowded farming regions of the
state immediately to the east of us, and
while many of them are doubtless ani
mated solely by the fever of specula
tion and chance with the hope of getting
something valuable for nothing, a large
proportion are industrious, thrifty tollers
seeking opportunity to better their con
dition by removing from cramped and
narrow quarters into the freer and less
limited areas of the farther west Only
a fractional percentage can poseibly be
taken care of la the distribution of Rose
bud lands, but there ought to be hun
dreds among the land soakers who will
find thiemuelves unwilling to forego the
temptation to acquire 'new homes in this
land of promise and who will be able
with their own resources to secure bet
ter lands in easily accessible portions of
this state at decidedly reasonable prices
and on terms that make the property
almost pay for Itself.
In this way the opening of the Rose-'
bud reservation ought to accelerate tbe
occupation and cultivation of the more
sparsely settled areas of Nebraska and
that with a claes of people experienced
In successful fanning and alive to the
dwsis cf twentieth csutu; apiculture.
,Oue of the mutlrs that la of peren
nial interest to the business Interests
of "the country concerned in our eipurt
trade is that of the consular service.
Tor many years this service has ben
d:scusad not only by the commercial
txiterc-sts of the country, which have a
very d!r?ct l::teitt ia it, but ,Io by
othera whose concern is largely political.
The question agitated for years is in I
Srd to whether' the cousular service
should be placed uuddr a cvuijvtltive
or merit system that would relieve it
from the influence of politics.
11i ere is no doubt that tbe consensus
cf opinion is in favor of a policy which
will place the consular service in a posi
tion of abnolule freedom from political
control in other words, that would tre.
llove it from the influence a-nd control
of the politicians but all efforta in tLla
direction that have been mude in con-'.
Srcfcs have proved futile. Still the effort
should not be given up and probably
will not be. '
Mr. Pulrce, assistant secretary of
state, who has Juwt returned from an
a v tensive inspection of the Consular
iybteru of the United t'.tat In European
cmintrlcs, htis foti.nl that on the w hobs
our consular fe;rvh'e U very cin, iable
ami coiMiiin i v ry well with tln-a of
other coi'iitd.!. Th re U rextliy noth
ing new ln this, f-: uKur coiiti;indatlon
1 .! come from fiiiij.' n fi'Veiii'LU-iil-j piel
tl-U li r. . 'v i ti.tv t 1 1 '. ... I... y, f! ,,.
it is ;;: ; j v j u iy
d:wlnterostrl judrmont the olJe't of
foreign governments being to show their
own people how they can Improve the
consular service of their countries.
It is still a fact, however, that the
consular service of the I'nlted . State
ran be improved and unquestionably
this hould be done. How shall It be
done Is the question that Is considered
by . the assistant secretary of sthte and
his foremost Idea Is that It should be
separated from politics. That Is the
practically universal Idea. The consu
lar system of the United States, ln or
der to be absolutely iisrful and efficient
must be divorced from politics and
placed upon a basis of absolute Inde
pendence. Until this Is done It is use
h'vto expect such a reformation ln
the tervlce as Is to be desired or such
efflclejicy as Is attained under those
foreign systems with which politics has
nothing to do.
It isery gratifying to learn from the
report of Mr. Telrce that the consular
service' of the United States compares
as a whole very favorably -with that
of any foreign country, yet this fact
does not dispose of tbe proposition that
modifications in the service are essen
tial to make It all that Is desirable.
Secretary Burgess has corrected some
of the errors about Omaha public
school finances that anyone would nat
urally fall into from reading his exhibit
of the receipts and disbursements of the
school fund for tbe last fiscal year. The
corrections made do not however, dis
pel the apprehension that the board will
call for another extra heavy levy for the
coming year unless ft lops off all frills
and fads. According to Secretary Bur
gess there was a surplus of a fraction
Aver ? 13,000 ln the school fund over and
above the floating indebtedness on July
1. In addition to this the board has
since received $27,043.tK) as the city's
share of the semi-annual state school
apportionment Computing the income
of the board from police court fines and
miscellaneous sources during the next
six months at $10,000, and the delinquent
taxes collected under tho scavenger law
at $20,000 more tbe aggregate amount at
the disposal of the board to defray cur
rent expenses from July 1 to December
31 would be about $71,000. .The pay roll
for teachers, officers, janitors and other
employes for the same period will ag
gregate fully $150,000 and Incidental ex
penses, including fuel and supplies, will
scarcely fall below $20,000. That means
that the boards will have a deficit of
about $100,000 at the end of the year.
Whether th board will be able to con
duct its business on a cash baala with an
overlap of $100,000 Is a problem that
must be solved hereafter.
i a
The grand assessment roll of taxable
property as returned to the State Board
of Equalization will approximate $290,
000,000, one-fifth of the true value,
which would make the actual wealth of
the state approximate $1,450,000,000, or
more than $350,000,000 below tbe Davis
son table. It is not at all likely that
more (than $550,000,000 of taxable prop-j
erty has escaped the assessor of that the
under-valuatlon of taxable property has
reached such enormous proportions. It
should be remembered also' that tho
Da vlsson table was-an estimate of tbe
taxable wealth of the state exclusive of
the railroads, which have been appraised
bv the state board at $235,000,000.
Judge Parker's nomination at St Louis
was clinched before the first ballot was
announced by Senator Dubois changing
the vote of Idaho to the New York
jurist Dubois was one of the men who
walked out of the republican convention
In IS5X) because It refused to declare for
16 to 1 free silver, insisting that he was
till a republican en everything but the
money question. Here1- we have the
strungo spectaclo produced by the whirl
igig of time of a man who bolted one'
party to get aVay from the gold stand
ard turning the trick that saddled the
gold standard on the party of his sub
sequent adoption.
una
One of the great questions before the
fiuixt democratic state conauw.ui will bw
to formulate a plank to carry out Bry
an's scheme for every state to own andi
operate Its own railroads. Inasmuch as
tt would take from $o'U0,000,000 to $350,
POO.OOO to buy out the existing Nebraska
rU roads the state would have to bond
rtseif for that amount before It could put
Mr. Brian's scheme into operation, and
Inasmuch as the limit of state liability
has been. fixed by the constitution at
$iuo,ooo It would take a revision of the
constitution before the state could enter
upon the preliminaries cf the plan.
If it Is true thai the Seputy state labor
commissioner has suoylied tickets-of-leave
to the sons of several Omaha mil
lionaires who want, to hire out as bar
vest bands In Kansas, it is still a ques
tion whether the game is worth the
csndle. Able-bodied sons of mllllon
airrs would find mo more d'illcuity In
securing engagements as harvest hands
than the on of paupers, always pro
viding that they are not too tender and
fastldloua about the work. At any rate
it Is an open question whether it pays
the state to open a labor bureau for the
son of millionaires.
It Is to be hoped that the impending
dttitiihutlon of government lands which
Is about to be conducted on the lottery
plan will be the last of its kind. No
matter bow Impartial and bonet the
drawing may bo, the method of dintribii
tlon by lottery la extremely demoralis
ing and calculated to generate perjury
And Ktlmulute the gambling spirit anions
people who would otherwise never think
of participating la a game of chance.
According to 1S a Jt reel's railway earn
i4,a for the fisi-al year are grvater than
was eije-tiyl and It is probuble they wiM
ahow the heaviest volume of k'' "!
tM't earnings ever rw.' ,1. lit mtre-l's
con pufation hard'y t,t- .: to J.oe vl'.li
the etlimatea of the railroad lawyers
mid tat ftcnta'Mho hae boo.btri.vd the
''.' r' A ( f !' '.): 9 t V ''(
ligures about the alleged tremendous
slump ln rallwtsy earning and values.
The "Jim Crow" law requiring separ
ate street cars for whites and blacks in
Richmond may be repealed. The negroes
now walk and the white stockholders
of the street car company find In de
creased dividends something they dis
like worse, than riding on the same car
with a negro.
j . .
Tha Barilag Qavatlow.
Milwaukee Sentinel.
"I feel like a lad of 80," says tbe demo
cratic v!ce presidential candldata. That's
all right rtut tha burning- question la,
will bo spend money like sixty?
The Point of View.
Kansas City Btar.
Paul Morton, secretary of the navy,
must ncew.arlly feey more kindly toward
tha Panama canal than Faul Morton,
traIlo manager of tha Santa Fa.
flcklnu l'p the rrlaarea.
Brooklyn Eagle.
By hoisting their flag over A little Corean
Inland, tha Japanese have signified .Their
dealra that Russia shall not acquire the
whola of Asia. And Judging from the way
that Russia has been acting of late. It will
ba aoroa time before It does.
Sauce for the World.
Boston Globe.
Whera ten years ago tliia country ex
ported only 3.0CO,000 worth of fruit, in
the fiscal year of 1SW4 it will send abroad
more than t2O.0OQ.00O worth. Included in
this are 74.000,000 pounds of prunes, and It
only goes to show how pleasant our rela
tions with European nations are when they
will take so much sauce from us.
Barbaric Mlmp.
New York gun.
An egg In a cocktail! The veneer of
American civilisation must be thin qnd
frail . upon a people which could tolerate
such a barbarlsir. It la as bad aa a lump
of sugar ln a rlckey. Milk ln a julep
would not be more horrible to contemplate.
The egg has a proper and worthy place
InTnlxology. It ls.-tiscd to advantage ln
the sliver flza, the golden fizz, aome vari
eties of milk punch and a number of other
pleasant concoctions. But a nation that
would put eggs Into cocktails la not yet
Americanized.
The) Brakeman'a roeelbllltiea.
Kansas City Journal
Less than tarenty-flve years ago William
B. Blddle was "braking" on a freight train.
Thlz la not a d rawing room-lob, where you
wear white kid glove's and use a gold
tipped cigarette. Mr. Blddle "broke" well
and kept up the deuce of a thinking. To
dy he la second dc president of the big
Santa Fe road in place of Paul Morton,
resigned to go Into tbe cabinet Hence you
should never try to Itck a brakeman. He
may be vice president some day. Besides
that, he is usually quite stouk
STATE PRESS OPINIO.
Rushvllle Recorder; It looks aa though
the money power was stirring up strikes
to help Parker; but the American people
are getting too cute not to eee through
that dodge.
Alnaworth Star-Journal: Governor-Harrington
and his brother, the Judge, have
been reversed ln the aupreme court and
Hans gets a new trial. The question Is
what does the county get?
Wood River Sunbeam: After all, Ne
braska land Is the ..cheapest for a man to
buy. It may seent a, little more expensive
than a Rosebud tomestead, but the soil
in Nebraska will Jp4y the largest dividend
in the Jong run. -i .,.
-Fremont Tribune: Beef Is advancing In
London on account "of tbe butchers' strike
in South Omaha. Xt London really fixes
the price of gold and silver and wheat we
are very glad that South Omaha is able
to do something to London.
Wayne Herald: It la believed by some
who are ' In a position to know that the
packing house strike la the result of an
effort of the beef trust to defeat President
Rooaevalt, whose vigorous efforts In proa
ecutlng the combination are well known.
The packing houses and other trusts are
fattened With Parker and will do ail they
can to secure his election over Roosevelt
Ponca Journal: Chairman H. C. M. Bur
gess of the republican state central com
mittee Is enthusiastic over the new head
quarters In Omaha. The Murray hotel peo
ple have given the - use of eight comfort
able room on the second floor and a mail
ing room ln the basement The prelimin
ary work of organizing the various de
partments Is well .under way; tbe furni
ture and fixtures hav4 been Installed and
by the nrt of the week the campaign ma
chine will be busily engaged In sowing and
cultivating the bountiful crop of . votes
which will be harvested for Roosevelt and
tbe state ticket this fall.
Valentine Republican: This paper Is In
formed that R. M.. Allen of tha Standard
Cattle company, operating largely in this
county, says he recognizes that the days
of large Cattle men In this part of the state
are numbered and. that they must give
way to men of email herds, He. Is also
credited with having said that ln view ef
this changed condition his company will
dispose of Its large holdings ln small tracts
and assist horaeseekers to locate upon any
vacant land in tha paeture of or adjoining
Its big ranch. This- Is a most sensible view
to take and win help to Solve the vacant
sand hill land question In A satisfactory
way. With the passing of large ranches
will come an Increased production of cat
tle by ' small ranchmen, and the product
will be Improved and of a higher grade.
therefore more profitable. The oat tie coun
try ln tills county 1b capable of supporting
several times Us present population, per
mltflng an increase Instead of diminishing
the number of head of cattle. Under the
new conditions more taxes will be paid
Into the treasury and wealth of the country
will be anniented.
PERSONAL NOTES.
Jay Cook, the veteran financier, has
taught a Sunday school for more than fifty
years.
Russia has ordered breastplates for Its
army. Recent events suggest that rein
forced trousers would serve a better pur
pose. Joseph Conrad, a, well known author,
has been blown up three times. He has
had numerous other hairbreadth escapes.
Tbe Igorrote clothes order has been re
scinded, and once nrore earrings and a
sweet smile will be considered fulf dress
in the Philippine village.
Pitchfork Tillman of South Carolina Is
receiving bifch praise ln the aouth because
he didn't make a fool of himself at the t
Louis convention.
M'ne. Rostand, wife of the famous
French author who wrote "Cyrano de Ber
grtro" and "L'Atttlon," Is about to Issue a
volume of her own poems.
Michael McPanlel of Kokomo. Ind , fcas
ln hla posaesMlon the fWorlte chair of
Oeoige Wahkarton. It wil made ln France
and u presented to the g4iiaml by Rev.
John Ouno, the Baptist minister who bap
tized Mm In the Potomac '
V!':' K- I Itby of St. Ixuls has In his
library the oih inal diary of Msjor Andre,
running from Junti, 1777. to tha close of
l.'S. lie obtained it from Karl (iray, re
cently j minted governor gi neral of
('unroll. .Mr. l'lxty bus alao m.iiiy rule
ROOHKVKI.T ASA I.EADKR.
"M Powerful Hreeal w
PolKleal llpentl.
I'ortluid Oregonian (rep).
If Bonaparte had been defeated In his
first campaign of 179-that of Montenotts
and Lodt he would have beenvbut tran
siently checked In his career. He could not
posvlhly have been relegated to obscurity.
His military genius wa so powerful and
Intense, his energy so great bis courage so
Invincible, his ambition so quenchless, that
no defeat, however severe, could have re
moved so vast a natural genius for war
and government from the field of European
politics. Nothing but death could have
seriously blet ked the glorious career of the
young Bonaparte.
What is true of Bonaparte Is true of
Rooseevlt In the future politics of America,
for at least twenty yesro. His election Is
assured beyond any respectable doubt: but.
whether Roosevelt la elected or defeated
In November, he la sure to be the Hona
psrte' of the new era, of American politics
for at least twenty years McKlnley stood
or the Old methods and the old managers
of the republican party. Roosevelt Is the
natural leader of "the sons of the morn
ing" ln both American business and poll
tlca. The men who support him ardently
are comparatively young men In polities,
like himself. Roosevelt Is but 4fi. Ills
lieutenants are men like Lodge snd Root.
His oldest active supporter, Foraker, is not
fret 60.
The day has come for the decadence and
departure of the rule of old men In the
politics of both the great parties. Manna
snd Quay are dead, Hawley Is a hope
less Invalid. Frye and Hale of Maine are
both political shadows. Hoar of Massa
chusetts, Is the Nestor of the" republican
camp In the senate. The men of leader
ship and influence for the next ten years
In the republican party will be Foraker,
Ixdge. Root, Beverldge, men who ride, too,
in the bodyguard of Roosevelt. The Cul
loms. the Proctors, have become too old
for active warfare. .Tha able young leaders
of the party follow Roosevelt today, i not
simply because he has energy, ambition,
courage, character and self-confidence.
They follow him because he belongs to. a
new dispensation. Just as did Bonaparte.
Bonaparte won out because the French
irmy had been filled by the revolution with
thousands of little Napoleons, men of far
less military and political genius bvft with
not less ambition; men who recognized In
Bonaparte their natural supreme leader,
whose purpose was" at one with their own
desires and designs. So the party today
la full of little Roosevelts, of thousands of
young men, who are possessed, like him,
with the energy and courage In national
politics of dauntless "rough rider." That
Is, these men believe that, the new dis
pensation demands as . leaders and execu
tives men who are capable of doing great
things with courage and promptness rather
than men who make epigrams In debate.
Roosevelt has been more than twenty
years an active politician, Indomitable, un
compromising, a hard fighter, with a
splendid record x for defeat until the op
portunity of the Cuban struggle enabled
htm to win In battle what he could not
obtain by the cunning arts of peace.
Suppose Roosevelt was defeated In No
vemberT What would such a man do at
46 T He Is not a trained lawyer, like Benja
min Harrison; not a man of great talents
for political debate, like John Qulncy
Adams. He Is not a serene political phi
losopher, like Cleveland or McKlnley. He
Is a political fighter, like Jackson; a man to
do things heroically rather than to say
things smartly, and such a man at 46 could
no more be affected by transient check
than could Bonaparte, beaten at Montenotte
or Lodl, be obliterated from the roil of the
world's Immortals.
Roosevelt Is the man for the hour that Is
his magnificent opportunity. He believes
In himself. He Is In deadly earnest, as he
has been "all his days. His party believes
In him. Ha Is sura to be to his party the
child of ultimate victory, as Jackson was
to the democracy from 1824 to 1836. He will
be so, because, like Jackson, he Is the most
powerful and athletic representative of the
new political dispensation.
CITT MAN OCT OF DOORS,
Vaemtlea Habit Proaaataa Pablle
Health and Hasptaesa.
Century Magazine.
A general and killing absorption In the
business of Ufa was once tha accepted
theory of American activity. It Is true
that there Is still 'tremendous stress shown
by Americans In the pursuit not only of
their business vocations but of their socla
mer vacation Is getting to be more and
more an accepted Institution. He manages
to get longer periods of complete rest and
recreation and he contrives, moreover, to
seize upon any number of half holidays
and over-Sunday outings, especially In
tha warmer months. When he can control
his time he gives greater portions of it
than aver before to horseback exercise
and to golf and kindred Sports. The busi
ness man's family. Instead of being satis
fied, as of old, with few weeks In a
crowded hotel by the sea or In the moun
tains, spends the whole summer In the
country, aa boarders in hotel or farmhouse,
or as dwellers ln a country place of their
own, modest or sumptuous In aocorda.no
with their means and taste.
The city man's modern dlsoovery of th
country and his Increasing use of It In the
summer months he been subject ef com
ment now these iryiny years. There has
been discussion of Ita effect upon the city
people themselves, and "upon tha country
people Into whose communities they enter;
of its effect upon manners ar.d morals; of
Its economic bearings and Its relation to
the abandoned fartn problem and of the
Influenoe upon . the nation of th greater
mingling of people from various parts of
th country.
With ail this search for recreation and
health, what, with westerners going east
and easterners going west with north
erners going south and southerners going
north, summer and winter; with all this
search for the opportunity to flah and
shoot or to enjoy social pleasures; with all
this Interchange of national advantages
(for sny and every climate can be found
In th United States), one may look for
an Improvement la the publlo health and
happiness, aa well as fur a dissemination
of a knowledge of our own people and of
our own country which ought to b de
cidedly conducive to an intelligent patriot
ism.
Lea vlna- tha Air' C'aatlea,
Minneapolis Journal.
Ther are signs that large Investors are
growing tiled of stock speculations and
returning to morn old-faihloned and sub
stantial methods of getting returns for
their money. Beyond a doubt the business
world has feit some 111 effects from the
great withdrawals of capital needed to
finance the steel trust and other watered
corporation. It will promote the general
welfare If soma of this capital returns to
normal ohannels. Th Increase In building
operations this year Is an Index to this
change of policy.
harta ef K t biialacm.
Chicago Chronicle.
That 'eminent praeilcal politician Zarh
Chandler used to say that enthuatasrn and
money were the two requisites for euo
ce.inful campaign, but that the uthusiaam
could be dlhimnaed with If there was plenty
of money. From this point of view Auguat
lteliiiont will have to dig lung and deep to
piocjre the rteeeary funOs lor the Packer
propaganda. Ihci U no U1U n;uul-
MROI OF KwriRW.
(.real Mlicratloaa ef H1U4
Always with ba !.
Garret P. Servlas In Buccess.
Can science explain wby the course of
empire lies westward? Of the fact, as a
general proposition, there can be no quea
tlon. There la nothing more evident In
human history than the westward tendency
of the great migrations of mankind, as
well as of the spirit of conquest and the
genius of civilisation, whlrh seem to flit
from race to race and from nation to na
tion, kindling new fires as the old die wit.
'almost Invariably toward the1 west, as If
the sparks were borne by a constant wind
sgslnst the direction of the earth's rota
tion on Its axis. The earth turns from
we.t To east, b'jt man, within the hlstorlo
period, has gone round the earth from esst
to west.
The Russo-Japanese war serves to em
phasize this tendency by the sudden, rise
of a great power on the western shore of
the Pacific ocean. The astonishing Amer
icanization snd Europeanlzatlon of Japan,
at lesst In I rV outward chsracterlstlcs, ap
pears as reults of the cstehlng In combus
tible ' material of the sparks that have
blown westward across the Pacific from
the mental conflagration which apread
from Europe to America In the track of
Columbus, and whlc?i burns higher and
brighter and with a quicker flame the fur
ther It progresses.
Whether this Is the first time that the
globe has been encircled In a similar man
ner hlrtory does not Inform us. becsuselts
records do not extend fsr enough Into the
' psst to Include more than a simple cycle
of the westward march of empire. There
are Indlcstfons of the former existence on
this continent of a civilization of vast an
tiquity, which might be thought to mark
some forgotten round of the sptrit of prog
ress, completed at a period so remote that
nearly all Its vestige have disappeared.
Tf only the settlement of America from
Eu-ope were concerned It would be easy
to account for the westward tendency In
question, on the ground that this continent
wss virtually an unoccupied wilderness,
filled with the most tempting riches, and
containing only scattered tribes of savages
and barbarians, at the time of Columbus'
vyare. and that Its rapid occupation by
men of the Caucasian race, and of civilized
hnhlts and needs, flocking from the
crowded countries of Europe, was an In
evitable result arlslne out of the situation.
But s glance st the history of the Old
World shows that the westward tendency
hits slwns existed. Every great overflow
of peoples, and. with temporary eicen-
tlons. every sweep of eonrmest and of
colonisation, has been In general toward
me west.
where: the shoe pinches.
fowsr of Few Men Over
' T of Life.
a BTeeea-i
Chicago Inter Ocean.
From the Rocky mountains to the At
lantic people are finding a prim neces
sary of life harder to get than usual. This
Is not because a pestilence has swept
away food cattle. It Is because a few men
and Their few thousand employe have
quarreled over the division of th profits.
Whether th so-called Beef trust be an
unlawful agreement or merely a common
policy Is Immaterial, Th result Is to put
Into th hands of a few men such power
over a necessary of life that when they
and their employes quarrel tens of millions
find food harder to get
Th existence of such power th ac
quirement by a few of such dominion over
the lives of millions Is th cause of the
popular resentment of trusts and of the
popular demand for their control.
It Is Idle to arrue that by co-operation
great Industries can mak things cheaper
and lif easier for-th average man. :A
long as th prio of suoh benefit la th
mastery of th few ovr th many In any
particular the existence ' of such power
will be resented ln the United State.
Th failur of the late George M. pull
man's benevolent dream Illustrates th
point. His model town probably secured
10 its peopie easier nve ror the same
effort than they could have found else
where. vBut thy had to liv there, not
ln thir own way, but in his way. And
against this Amerioan nature rose In re
bellion.
' Where th shoe pinches most as regards
the trusts Is ln the power It give a few
over th many. "The few may hav th
moat benevolent Intentions. Th co-opera,
tlon they organize may actually mak life
easier to millions most of the time. But
still they have the power to make life
harder, and tbe average Amerioan citizen
will not hav tt so.
This Is a vry practical couutry, but It
ha a few ideals that are larger and
stronger and sacreder ln Its ayes than all
els in the world. Ita people are willing
to sacrifice food and drink to keep these
Ideals and to realise them. And the Ideal
that no American citizen has a master,
that tha American people are beholden to
no. body, of men except themselves, 1 th
largest and strongest and aacredast of all.
HEW JERSEY CORPORATIONS,
Aaeomaaadatlnar tha Cotabtaae Pro-ves
Hiajhly Profitable for th Stat.
New York Mail.
Th stat of New Jersey finds Its ac
commodating disposition toward foroign
corporations decidedly profits Ua. It gath
ered ln S2.4.M,rKU In taxes this year from
concern which for th most part belong
outside th stat, yet have a New Jersey
organisation. One of these corporations,
which duly paid its tax to help swell this
fund, was described not long ago by
New Jersey roa!ver aa "an artistic swin
dle" . engaged la "wholesale plunder."
Probably not many more of them are of
th sam sort Most of them ar scrupu
lously honest
New Jersey corporation ar, la a ense.
Ilk Dakota divorce. Incorporators from
a dlstaao would not take their papers to
Trenton unless th law ther were
"easier than they are at horn And Just
as we beUsv that w ar right In pre
ferring Nw York marriage and divorce
law to those of South DikoU. and Ne
braska, we do not nvy New Jersey the
very respectable figure that it derives
from th taxation of foreign corporations.
W may b permitted to wonder, how
ever, that th stat let them off so eaally.
Its (2.600.000 might as well be twlc a
much. If It is a marked advantage to
Incorporate in New Jersey, as It seem to
be, th corporation should be willing to
pay at a higher figure for th chance.
Fifty dollars . only on each 11,000,000 of
stock issued In excess of I5.000.0u0 Is to
liberal. Th United Stales Shipbuilding
company's capital wa originally 13,000.
This amount It Increased, by a method
peculiarly ita own, to $i&,OU,000. If th
stat of New Jersey waa disposed to be In
any sense a partner In this enierprlse, It
should hav had a largsr share of th
profit
It I apparent that th liberality of the
atat of New Jersey In licensing these cor
poration Is onlyexceeded by th modus! y
of lis requirements of them.
The Last Straw.
New York Bun.
Aa though fate, were not satlafied with
robt.lng Iwyan of the fruits of the only
victory be won st tha democratic national
convention, he 1 sltll pursued by til for
tune leUlii'CW !-e torn out sgala fur
Lm
MILITARY AHtAMFT.
They Grew Ohaolete aad l aeless I a
Short Tims.
San Francisco Chronicle.
Tha dismantling of the pneumstlo battery
at Fort Point And th fMoposed ale of the
guns and their operating machinery as so
much old Junk Illustrates the Influence of
modern experience In war nd th progress
which ha been made In a comparatively
brief period In the development of arma
ment. It I only about ten year since this
bsttery wss constructed at a total cost of
about :.v.ono. it -was then considered one
of the most formidable of the harbor de
fenses. Each of the three guns forming
the battery possesses a range of 1,600 yards
nearly one snd one-half mile In which
It can drop shell loaded with BOO pounds
of nltro-gelatln, th explosion of which on
the deck of a warship would. It was ss
snmed, destroy It But th dynamite cruiser
Vesuvius, which wss equipped with similar
guns, proved an absolute failure at Santi
ago In th war with. Spain, a th range of
Its guns was too short to b effective
against th long-rang ordnance of the
forts. It was not able t get aear enough
to any of the forts .to demonstrate the
power of th projectile delivered by Its
pneumatic battery. It wa. ' consequently,
thrown out of commission at th close of
the war and Its guns were then dismantled
as unserviceable, and It Is-now to be cut
down and converted tt a torpedo boat
The long-range naval guns and land ar
tillery now In use hav mad a pneumatlo
land battery as worthies aa th Vesuvius
became as a dynamite cruiser. The high
power powder guns of the present day can
annihilate uch a battery without th at
tacking force entering within mile of the
sons of efficiency of Its go a a Lieutenant
Zallnskj'B dream that hla Invention would
revolutionise warfare ha, therefor, nver
been realized and never can. , . He man
aged, however, to acquire a fortun out of
It befor It worthUasneaa was demon
strated. Tbe Japanese-Russian war Is also causing
military and naval men to revise their
former views regarding th utility of aom
of the agencies of warfare In use, on whos
value great faith had been previously
placed. Grave doubt have been raised,
for example, as to th valu of battleships.
These formidable floating forts have been
practically at the mercy of the torpedo
boats in all of the naval engagements oft
Port Arthur. Whenever the Russian battle
ships .' and big armored cruisers hav
emerged from the harbor they have suf
fered more or less severely from the at
tacks of the Japanese torpedo flotilla, and
most of the Russian naval losses are trace
able to these active wasp of th sea. Like
the long pneumatic gun, the cumbersome
and costly battleship may have to be rele
gated to the Junk heap and all navies re
modeled on the torpedo boat destroyer plaa
as th result of th lessons of th Oriental
war.
SI' It NY GEMS, - -
"He always seems to be very earnest at
any rate."
"Oh I very. Why, he can say How are
your and give you the Itr.presston that
lie really want to . know," Cleveland
Leader.
Paid he: "You're a peach, fly with me?"
Hhe recited, aa. she dashed nil his hone:
"You're mistaken. A jech' did you say?
Well, I'm not I'm a cantaloupe." Phila
delphia Bulletin.
"The butcher talk of conducting ' some
race."
"They should be very successful.'
"Why so?"
"Because they have iib' much 'experience
In handling meats." Cleveland Plain
Dealer. .
Custom House Officer Madam, hav you
anything dutiable to deulare? . .
Madam No. my, trunk contains simply
wearing apparel.
Officer (After examlnatlori of 'said trunk)
What do you -call these six bottles of
whisky?
; Madam Oh, those are' night, cape. Ufa.
Bessie Carri doesn't get along well with
her husband. He was about perfect when
he was seeking her hand, but he has gon
on from bad to worse since, until ah hag
had to ask for a divorce..
Mattle A case of "unhand me, villain,
eh? Boston Transcript
Diogenes had just been asked why h
carried around his tub.
"Because," h answered ' savagely, "I'm
paying an election bet!"
Later he waa still further soured hv
having to add a lantern. In erdor to see
where his candidate cam out New York
Tribun. ,
"Yeu called m a "political "Jobber ' In
your paper this morning," began tk irate
visitor.
"Yes." replied the editor, "that was a
bad break. I discharged that typo Im
mediately." "Oh! then you didn't mean to ssy that?"
"Certainly not. I wrote "robber" very
plainly." Philadelphia Press.
"Stranger." ald Alkali Ike. towering
above, the little man and speaking lu an
awful voice, "I hev kilt my man I hev
kilt sixteen galoots durtn' me career."
Th stranger bent a contemptuous look
upon the ferocious bad man.
"Hir," he exclaimed, "fade away. I am
a New York sutatnboat inspector. Phila
delphia Press.
"Boas," began th beggar, Vwon't yer
help a poor T'
"Bee here!" Interrupted Goodheart. "I
gave you some money last week.
"Well, gee whlsz! ain't yer earned any
more sine." Philadelphia Ledger.
Olffle Did yon ever actually know of a
man making a mountain out of a mole
hill? - ..
Brinks Well, th proprietor of the hotel
I stopped t last summer cam near doing
it in-lii prospectus. Punk. '
Drovers' Telegram.
You will feel a whole lot better
And will hardly be. the wetter, -A
you sit at work In ode with you
' Pn,
Tf 'i throw the Stvie to hades
Or, to over-oror ladles.
And yana your cwuar iz uk outer
There Is nothing muoh I fashion
When' the ton sue Is stopped from laahln'.
It s a Jolly bit of foppish lack of sena.
And I wouldn't let the sooners, .
Who are merely high class spooners, mf
Mnka the laws t drtv my litU come
furt hence. , I
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For the earth Is hot as blase . - '
In the good old summer days.' a
Tbe sun beats down upon It with SJ
will,
When to work Is little pleasure.
And to play Is euual massute.
An4 I don l propose to wuuow tasnion
pili. v. , .;. ,
So I dally shed my collar,
And It matters not who holler.
For I wouldn't gty a mji ror such a
lliV . '
And I mak this bold Indentur.
Though It's not a riaky venture.
They will want w siiea most verytning
some dsy.
Bad Blood
Pimples, rashes, eczema,
boils, headache, nervousness,
debility these are some of
the results cf Impure blood.
Medical authorities sreo
that impure blood can bs
made pure and rich. Ycur
doctor will tell yea tbcut
Ayer's Sirs;parilli.
m .
All .
Bad blood follows cciiB.:; &:!on. and
constipation (olio a '',.,",,!'li liver.
Ayer's I'i!l3 at iv.4 j'i'iA. itey pro
duce natt'-i! !-.!y ii.c t a.eius ia t,
ntiurtl ty.
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