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4 THE OMAHA The Omaha Daily Bee. E. ROSEWATER. EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF Sl'HSCRIPTION. Dally pee (without Sunday). On' Year. .$4 "0 Dally Hee snd Sundiiy. mo Ve;u J Illustrated lie. Mie Year J'"' Sunday Be. One Year J Saturday flee. One Year J -J Twentieth Century Farmer. One Year.. l.W DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Dally Hee (without Pundiiy), per ropy... to, Jnlly Ron (Without Sunday), per week. ..12c Dally Hee (including Sunday I. per week.. lie Simla v Bee, per ropy 0 Kven.ng Bee (without Bundny). tier week c Evening Bee (Including Sunday), per week 12n Complaint of Irregularities In delivery should he addressed to City Circulation Department.- OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building Bmitli Omnha City Hall Building. Twenty-fifth and M Streets. Couniil Bluffs 10 Pearl Street. Chicago 1S40 I'nlly Building. New York 232 I'nrk Row Building. Washington U) Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications rein tin to news and edi torial matter should he nddresed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The lice Publishing Company. Onlv 2-cent stamps received tn payment of mail accounts. I'erson il checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanc-s. not accented. THE REE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.: George R. Tzschuck, secretary of The nee Publishing Company, being duly worn: says that the actual number nf full and romnlete copies of The Dally, Morning. Evening and Sunrtny Hee printed during the month of July. was ns followa: J 21,7BO 17 2'-'wo I si.i to is :o..-.o 3 ....les.TBO 1 SMMMHI 4.. 6.. 6.. 7.. I.. .. 10.. 11.. 12.. 13.. ..,.JM,4( ....2I,!4M ....2,taO ....2fl).7T . ...sm,h( ...ni.s n ....SH.niii .....TO.iOl? . . . .no.Tixo ....JtO.O.V) 20 tl,U7U 21...... yj 23 24 25...... 26 27 28 29 80 31 .2t,HB0 i!,(UO 2,W0 st7,no 21MI23 W,4(V iMI.RHO HO,tMM k. .31,7K) ilit.tMIO 27,oO 14 ,rno is o,Nao 18 21,KC'0 Total 02T.2U8 Less unsold and returned copies.... lo,lH Net total salca 01T,oT Daily average, it,r2 GEORGE B. TZ8CHLCK. Subscribed In my presenee and sworn tp before ma this 1st day of August, A D. Iw4. (Seal) M. U. HUNG ATE, v Notry Public. THE BEE will be mailed upon request te subscribers leaving: tb. city darlnat ' th ' summer months. Cktagei of address will be made a frequently aa desired) notices of aoch chance must clre botb the old aad new addresses. Despite the heavy rains Russians find the roads to th rear passable when the guns begin to roar. It Is hard enough to fuse gold and silver, but It would take' an alchemist's crucible to fuse goldbugs and green backers. Peter the Great taught the Russians how to build ahlps, but It remained for a foreigner to teach Muscovites how to sink them, ' . ' Thfj Orriahit "grocerif and butchers' picnic Las lost its talismanlc properties. Hereafter we will have to look else where for thi rain gauge. If the West Virginia democrats In con vention assembled are a fair sample of the rest, Candidate Davis may well prny to be delivered from his friends. If meat on the hoof could be cashed at the same rate a meat In the pot western cattle raisers would be up to their uecks In clover, or rather In al falfa. Much progress . has been made this year In Nebraska toward the equaliza tion of the burden of taxation, but the battle for tax reform' has not been half fought jot. A good many men who want to repre sent Douglas county In the next legis lature should be kept at home and u good many who do not want to serve should be conscripted and made to go. Russia has postponed the suiting of the Baltic squadron for two weeks, probably in hopes of knowing by that time whether it will have a harbor to enter on the Pacific. Morgan's steum yacht Corsair had a few collisions the other day in Ntw York harbor. It is believed Uy soi.io that the, financial corsair who owns the Corsair has also had a few collisions lately. Kipling is to enter Into campaign work. His last poem is a glorification f Chamberlain and bis tariff scheme for Imperialism. Now is the time for the muses to apply for a Job to Taggart or Cortelyou. e 1 1 1 How pleased the sultan of Turkey must feel when he hear of the assaults upon Armenians la - Port Au Prince, while Minister Lelshman is doing all bo win to prevent such outrages In Uie land of the Moslem. ! i . , a ' it is announced in all seriousness that tba Meat trust has been smashed. Hut trusts, like cats, are not easily killed. Tbey have nine lives and always uian ir to land on their feet when they are krown in the air. With but 2,000 Japs guarding supply trains from New Chwang to llttl Cheng a Russian Sheridan or Stonewall Jack son would have easy work, but unfortu nately for Russia "Lfttle Phtls" do not ice in to be bred In that land. Rhode Island democrats who hall Judge Parker as a progressive conserva tive mean Just what Nebraska demo crats mean when they rail him a "tool nf Wall street" Thus Is the amplitude of the English language Illustrated. The pleasant relations existing be tween leading democrats Is shown by the fact that the service of Mr. Wall of Wisconsin as intermediary was neces sary hen it came time for William Jennings Brysn.to tell Judge Parker that be was read la da caasJa .work. MS POLITICAL cnsriDAXTS. An enstern paper remarks that It is a grest wonder to many persons that Judge Pnrker should select such men as Hill anil Phcehnn or his political confi dants and suggests that it Is indicative of what might be expected at Washing ton were Pnrker elected. But why sur prise at this in view of the great obliga tion tunt the democratic candidate Is under to these politicians? Would he not 1m most ungrateful if he were to Ignore them? But for Hill probably Judge Parker would now be a practicing attorney, instead of occupying the high est Judicial position in New York. It Is also well known that Hill was the first person to urtce Parker as an available candidate for president, that Hill secured his endorsement by the New York demo cratic convention and that the same adroit, tricky and unscrupulous politician had Parker nominated at St Louis. The democratic candidate for the presidency owes all that he Is politically to David B. Hill and quite naturally he relies upon hint to direct the campaign. If Pnrker should win it is not to be doubted that Hill would be rewarded with what ever position under the administration he might desire and would be the power ltchlnd the throne. William K. Sheelian, who has been made chairman of the executive coni nilttee of the democratic rational com mittee, Is a Hill henchman and Is no torious for shady political niethods. He obtained whatever standing he had In politics in Buffalo, but he fell Into such disrepute and disfavor In that city that he moved to New Y'ork City several years ago and has not held any office since that time. Sheehan was also an early and active supporter of Pnrker and they are on terms of personal intimacy, the candidate entrusting to Sheehan the message to the national convention re garding the gold standard. If there is any chicanery or unscrupulous scheming to be practiced In the campaign the chairman of the executive committee will be found equal to any demand. August Belmont, who Is a member of the executive committee, is the Wall street representative and wns very active In working up Tarker senti ment before the convention, having spent ft good deal of money, it Is said, In this work. He Is expected to be especially serviceable in looking after the financial end of the campaign. These are the men upon whom Judge Pnrker will mainly depend for the man agement of the campaign. Taggart. the chairman of the national committee, there Is reason to believe will bo little more than a figurehead, to carry out the orders that will come from the men who are the confidants of the candidate. The indications are that it is Hill's plan to keep in the background, but it is safe to say that little will be done in the cam paign without his approval. III11, Sheehan and Belmont these are the men on whom the democratic standard-bearer now leans and who, in' the eVeht of his election, ' would exert a commanding Influence in the adminis tration. CHASaiNQ THE SCHEDULES Senator Fairbanks said in his speech of acceptance that when altered condi tions make changes in tariff schedules desirable their modification can be safely entrusted to the republican party, but "if they are to be changed by the eue mies of the system along free trade lines uncertainty would take the place of cer tainty and a reaction would surely fol low, to the injury of the wage earners and all who are profitably employed." Such uncertainty would undermine con fidence and this would cause confusion and distress In lndustriul aud commer cial affairs. It is only necessary to refer to the ex perience of the country a few years ago to find Justification for this view. In 1802, one of the .most prosperous years In our history, the democratic party was victorious on a platform opposing the protective policy. The immediate effect of that was to produce the condition stated by Senator Fairbanks. Although the lndustriul interests of the country knew that more than a year must elapse before the enemies of protection could change the tariff schedules, yet they be guu at once to ' prepare for a change. xne curtailment or production com menced, projected industrial enterprises were abajnloned or postponed, capital ceased to seek investment in manufac turing and of course labor was thrown out of employment This situation grew steadily worse from month to month and when the democratic congress elected in 1892 convened the country was suffer ing from the most serious ludustrlal de pression and general business stagnation it had experienced for many years. Yet in the face of this the democratic party did not hesitate to proceed with its pur pose to change the schedules. The re sult was the tariff l.iw of 185)4, charac terized by the party's president, because it did not go as far as he wished in the direction of free trade, as an "net of perfidy and dishonor." As passed by the house of representatives this meas ure would have destroyed protection as to many Industries, but it was so amended by the democratic senate that some protection was left In it, the effect of which was to somewhat improve in dustrial conditions. Greet injury, however, bad been done, so that restoration was slow and It was not until the republican party was re turned to power, upon the assurance that its tariff policy would again be put Into effect, that an active and general revival of industries and business begun. This is fsmlllur fact to most people, but it Is well at this time to remind them of it by way of pointing out the danger Involved In the success of the democratic party, so far as our economic policy is concerned. It may be said that there Is no immediate danger because the sen ate is safely republican for at least two years. The great Industrial Interests, however, look beyond a year or two. They would regard a democratic victory next November as a menace to the pro tective policy that would Justify them in exercising extraordinary caution and conservatism. They would not be dis posed to enlarge their enterprises. The Inevitable effect would be to put a cheVk upon Industrial development and prog ress and prevent a full return to the prosperity which the country has had under the operation of republican poli cies. JCST TMRTT YEAltS AGO. Under the caption of "Thirty Yenrs Ago Today" the Lincoln Journal of Au gust 4 luforms us that "Captain Bax. the oldest letter carrier in Lincoln, re ported that he had saved his garden by persistently going through it end driving the grasshoppers out." This reminds us that Captain Bax was not the only man in Nebraska who about thirty yenrs ago was kept busy driving gmsshoppers out of his garden or smoking them out of his corn field. There were thousands anil tens of thousands between the Missouri river and the Republican valley. Few people in these days can Lave any conception of the grasshopper invasion of thirty years ago by which Nebraska was devastated, twenty-five thousand farmers were ruined and other thousnnds were frightened Into abandoning their homesteads and migrating ' from the state. The grasshopper scourge of 1874 and 1875 was If anything more disas trous than the drouths of 1894 and 1 Sl5. It is a matter of history that Nebraska Issued $200,000 In "grasshopper bonds" for the amelioration of the condition of the farmers whose crops had been liter ally enten up. Teople in these days would hardly believe it possible, never theless it is true, that the grasshoppers of thirty years ago were not only de structive to crops, but to the habitations of man and became n serious obstacle to traffic by the stoppage of railroad trains whose tracks were covered by swarms of hoppers to such an extent that the wheels would not grip the ralln. A strange coincidence between the grasshopper plague of 1874 and 1875 and the drouths of 18f4 and 1805 is the fact that both of these visitations of famine and destitution brought with them also political plagues, like the plagues that followed the locusts in Egypt. The grasshopper plague of 1874 nnd 1875 brought with It the greenbneker and T. H. Tibbies, who made his debut in the arena of public debate as a deadly foe to the state grasshopper relief commission, nnd the drouth of 1894 and 1895 had its political accompaniment in the blast of populism that swept the state from east to west and from north to south and was particularly destructive where the drouth was most severe. It was generally believed and expected thirty years ago that Nebraska would al ways remain a prey to the voracious hopper and therefore would periodically resume its place on the map as part of the great American desert, where the coyote and the prairie dog and the grass hopper would hold away unmolested. It Is almost marvelous that for more than a quarter of a century the grasshopper has never revisited Nebraska and Is not likely ever again to frighten and dis perse its population. While it is quite Improbable that Nebraska no more than other sections of the country will escape drouth, this generation Is not likely to witness another total crop failure llko the last by reason of two successive dry seasons following on the heel of a com mercial panic and crash from the Atlan tic to the Pacific. It ' is announced offlclully that coal rates to Council Bluffs will not be raised, but in Omaha 14 cents a ton additional is to be collected from coal dealers and in turn from consumers. This is not by any means the first time Omaha has been discriminated against. The dead line was established at the Missouri river before the railroad era. In those good old days before the Union Pacific bridge embargo was established Omnha business men were compelled to pay $3.55 for n ten-word telegram from Omaha to Chicago, while Council Bluffs business men paid only $1.55, and the same differential rate was exacted to and from all points east of Chicago. A ten-word message from Omaha to New York was taxed $5.05, while a ten-word message could be transmitted from Council Bluffs to New York for $3.(15. The $2 differential enabled enterprising Omaha merchants to cross the river 'by stage .paying 75 cents going and 75 cents returning and save half a dollar on every ten-word message to Chicago or points east of Chicago. In considering the introduction of voting machines it will hardly be safe to figure on voting districts containing 800 voters to be accommodated by only one machine. It will take more than twenty five voting machines to carry through an election hi this city and there is no use underestimating the cost of transition from ballot boxes to mechanical voting registers. If It is advisable to Install voting machines it is advisable to install enough of them to insure success of the venture. Judge Wall of Wisconsin vouches that "Mr. Bryan is a democrat and will never be anything else." In other words, he gives it out that Mr. Bryan's par tisanship is so strong that he could not be driven out of the democratic party under any circumstances. Had the re organize only known this they might have declared outright for the gold standard at 8t. Louis and ridden rough shod over their former leader without the slightest fear of his bolting. Popocratie organs will now argue that If fusion of democrats and populists is a good thing for Kansas of course it is a good thing for Nebraska. But why, then, is it not also a good thing to fuso on the national ticket at well? Why should not the democrats pull off Parker and eudorse Watson, or the populists pry Watson loose and swallow Parker? Those crafty Union Pacific tax agents have managed to get the assessment of their road over la Iowa rJuce4 without letting any one on the outside know about It We presume this stealthily procured reduction In Iowa will be cited next year In' Nebraska In support of sn nppeal for a further reduction in this state. It makes little difference to neutral nations what the belligerents think so long ns they do not Interfere with neu tral trade, nnd therefore the decision of the cznr to sink no more carrying ves sels, although maintaining the right to do so, will doubtless be. accepted as a settlement of one vexing question. On Ms Impending visit to Nebraska Tom Watson Is expected to damn Wil liam Jennings Bryan with faint praise. Tom has not forgotten how Bryan gave the preference to Sewell the plutocrat over Watson the commoner when forced to choose between the two for vice presidential running mate in 1890. The World-Herald intimates Uiat the railroads are taking a hand in the nam ing of candidates to be put up by the democratic and populist state conven tions. The corporations are evidently not centering their hopes on any one ticket, but are preparing, as usual, to curry favor with all sides. The local electric lighting monopoly Is strengthening its grip by procuring an extension of contract for street lights with the city of South Omaha, and, strange to sny, this time it does not think it worth while to make any more promises about the Plutte river power canal to smooth the way. Connecticut courts hold .that a con tract between an employer and n labor union Is vnlid and Wisconsin courts hold that It Is not. With such conflict of au thority is it surprising that labor unions and sometimes employers' associations find themselves outside of their legal rights? Teople In all parts of the union will watch with interest and sympathy re ports from Worcester, where Senator Hoar is snld to be seriously ill. The scholarly statesman from Massachusetts would be greatly missed from the coun cils of the nation. Strike leaders at Chicago say that "outside Influences" are at work trying to settle the strike. The present sky scraper price of meat has brought an "Inside" longing for its settlement not disguised on the part of the consuming outsider. Snnetlntonloas Jasrs. Kansas City Journal. The man who gets his Jag at the saloon opened by Bishop Potter will be expected to have family prayers before whipping his wife and demolishing the furniture. Perspective' and Perspicacity, Chicago Tribune; The good Caliph, .Haroun Mickey of Ne braska, who, dlagwlped himself and mingled with the packing house strikers In Omaha, reports to hlrhsell" in his capacity as a. laborer that no troops are needed, and de cides In ' his official capacity that none will be sent. Professors Wisely Draw the Line. Kansas City Star. It will be noted that the college presi dent who discourses on the training of hus bands ventures nq suggestions whatever on the training of wives. This disposition on the part of a public Instructor to avoid visionary and abstruse problems la en couraging In the extreme. Llontslnsr Crime. Kansas City Star. To persons who desire to think well of women and to believe that humanity Is making somewhat of an advance In In telligence and manners, there was nothing the least bit encouraging in the spectacle at the criminal court yesterday. To see several thousands of persons the majority of them women, and not a few of them with babies struggling and even fighting to get Into the courtroom, merely to see a couple of criminals charged with a most cruel and atrocious murder, was, to say the very least, depressing and disheart ening. EXPENSIVE FOR LAUD GRABBERS. Coat and Retnrna of the Rosebud Reservation Opening;. Minneapolis Journal. The Rosebud land opening has proved a very expensive thing for the landseekers, taken as a whole. Here was a reservation contalnnig about 382,0(0 acres, or about 2,100 quarter sections of allotments; yet ao great is the desire to get something for nothing that over 100,000 persons filed ap plications for land. At that rate, not more than one out of forty could hope o secure any land, for It will be borne In mind that, after the applications were filed they were all dumped Into a big wheel of fortune and a lottery drawing took place, the first one drawn out having the first choice and the next one the next choice, and so on, until the entire number of allotments were exhausted. Tens of thousands of course, were disappointed, because there was not enough land to go around. Now assuming that the average expense of travel and board Incurred by an appli cant amounted to only $10 each, we have an aggregate of $1,000,000 paid to railroads and boarding houses by the lundseekers. It is not at all Improbable that these ex penses averaged twice as much, or from $2,000,000 to $3,000,0)0. The land at H an acre, which la probably a fair average price, would only amount to $1.6.3,000. That Is to say, the land Is not worth as much money as that puid out by those who have been trying to get It. The average applicant, too, has doubt lees had the Impression that all he had to do was to file his claim and Immediately upon drawing an allotment make his selec tion close to an expected railroad depot site, and then sell out for a big bonus. If, however, the department followa the law. It will require every section to be occupied and lived upon for a certain length of time before the title can pass. This can only be done by the payment of $1 an acre down and 75 cents an acre each year for four succeeding years; or, the homesteader may commute his claim at the end of fourteen months by paying $5 25 an acre. No doubt if It had been thoroughly un derstood that these legal restrictions would be enforced, thousands of people anxious to get rich quick would not have thrown away their time and money In thle aeramble for lands not any too well adapted to agri cultural purposes. Then, too, this ru-ih for land on the Rosebud reservation will look. lets like a snap tq those who may here after become awsre of the tact that n neighboring counties In South Dakota there U still a good deal of government land open to setUetuaat va aubsuatlaUy. Ue sane lTiUS BITS OP WASHISGTOH Urt, Minor Seeaes aad Incidents Sketched oa the "pot. 1 With the regularly enrolled congressmen busied with their political fences, quite a bunch of cranks of the summer variety meander dally through the echoing halls of the rapltol. The great building draws peo plq with wheels in their heads as well In summer as In winter. A farmer from Currituck, N. C who Is bent on finding a member of congress who would Introduce certain reformatory measures In the houe. Is followed by "Dr." Walsh, who has a panacea for all Ills, physical and political. Then comes the old woman who christened many of the trees In the carltol parks. Horter Reynolds of Alliance, O., who has a scheme for collecting from Uncle 6am millions of dollars In Imaginary rents due him for the occupancy by Imaginary peo ple of Imaginary houses, called at the big building early last week. He told his troubles to a rapltol policeman and as a result was locked up until the police sur geons .can make ao examination of his mental condition. Later In the week a tall individual, with frayed milt of block, made his appearance In the building. He sought the chief elec trician, but as that official had gone home, the tall man promised to return. He be came confidential with Hnrry Fordham and told him ha had invented a plan for supplanting gas and electric lighting by using "stored sunlight" for lllumlnstlng purposes. "During the darkest hours of the night," he said, "I oan flood this building with generous sunshine at a comparatively small cost." He added that he expects to become a millionaire In less than a year after h's scheme goes Into effect. Contrary to general expectations, the forthcoming report of Mr. Ware, the com missioner of pensions, will state that the total number of pensioners on the rolls is still less than 1,000,000. At the close of the fiscal year 1903 there were 996.5 penaloners. Mr. ware has not yet received the nnal and official figures for the month of June, but from unofficial estimate hn,i , mm no oeuevea that the record for 1904. will be Just about what It wu a year aeo and that the Increase, If any. Is small. Tnere Is only one thing that keepa the total below 1,000,000 and that is the heavy mortality among the veterans. They are dying off at a rapid rate, but their nloces are filled by pensioning widows and men with no other disability than old age. More man &,ouu pensioners died during the month of May and the monthly average will soon be ,000. Commissioner Ware says thet If it were not for the widows of old sol diers the pension roll would shrink with regularity, despite the operation of order No. 78. The National Jobbing company of Roch ester, N. Y., has been denied use of the malls by an order Issued by the postofflce department. The company has done an ex tensive business In the past seven months and r.d branches In New York, Pittsburg, Chicago, Detroit and Indianapolis. It ad vertised for branch office managers, etc., offering salaries of $20 per week, but re quiring deposits of $50 for the outnt of plated silverware which the inspectors re ported not worth over $10, and which they were required to sell at an advance of 20 per cent over Its commercial value. Each was also required to secure six canvassers, who were to deposit $6 each for smaller outfits. The applicant subse quently found the $20 nalary was not forthcoming unless the sales of silverware exceed $50 per week, and when he tried to obtain his $50.deposlt H was regarded as a sale. H. S. Braman, secretary and treas urer of the company, acknowledged in the Investigation by the department that 161 special representatives and 1.000 .canvass ers has been employed on the terms named, and the report of the Inspector notes the fact that if the conditions could be carried out the number of employes on the basis In the course of a year would equal the total number of employes of the postal service. The attorney for the department held the scheme to be one coming within the scope of using the malls to defraud the public, and the order waa Issued. Secretary Morton found a vexed question on his hands the moment he took the desk In the navy department, one of the titles which the chiefs of the staff bureau and of the bureau of navigation have been fighting over for some time past. These naval offi cers are very sensitive on the matter of rank. A few days ago one of the staff bureau received a communication from a bureau of navigation officer, the title of rear admiral being omitted. The letter'was returned unopened, with a statement that It would ntft be received until properly addressed. It came back In a few minutes addressed "rear admiral," with apologies. Secretary Morton has turned the matter over tn his assistant and will go over the case before the new register Is Issued. When It la given out on the authority of a quartermaster and commissary gen eralwho certainly ought to be qualified by experience to form an opinion that during a lifetime of observation and asso ciation with mules he has never known one to kick a man or ever met a man who knew another man who had been kicked by a mule then it Is time to give the patient animal his Just dues. Colonel George E. Jenks Is the authority. Now the old slander should be strangled unless someone comes along to exhibit the evi dence of collision with the heels of such an animal. It was Herman Oelrlchs of NewYork who avowed that a shark never did nor ever would attack a man In the water, and he held all doubters of this theory at bay until It leaked out one day that an unknown man with .one leg had waited on him and much to Mr. Oelrlchs' discomfiture stated that he had heard of his shark proposition and wanted to settle the whole thing right there, for "that 'ere leg, stranger, waa bit off by a man eater, and don't you forget It. I don't." In front of an old four-story building In Seventeenth street, near the state, war and navy building, and diagonally across from the old Blair mansion, stands a "For sale" sign. Those of the present genera tion who pass that way dally hava little thought of the history stored In that old mansion. It has stood there at least three quarters of a century. Originally It was a fashionable residence. Today It Is used aa a shop where upholstery and old furniture are repaired. For a number of years It was the official headquarters pf Wtnfleld Scott, the old hero of Chapultepec. Presi dent Franklin Pierce appointed Scott to the new position of lieutenant general In the army, when the office was created by congress In 1&S2, and the latter established his headquarters tn the building that now the ruthless march of progress ha decreed must go. In those days General Scott, In full uniform astride a chargsr, or at tht numerous official functions during the ad ministration of Pierce and Buchanan was a great military hero. Old Waahlngtonlans remember the veteran warrior aa he ap peared with a white chapeau adorning his head. For nearly a decade Oeneral Scott occupied this house in Seventeenth street. A Warns Time Coming;. Washington Post. , That Berlin hotel keeper who charged Miss Susan B. Anthony for beer will have the time of his life if he trie the same dodge on Carrie Nation, who has an nounced her Intention eX solng to tterlln tut Ute wlnUJt Absolutely Pure For the third of a century the standard for strength and purity. It makes the hot thread, hot biscuit, . cake and other pastry light, sweeO. and excellent in every quality. No other baking powder is "just as good as Royal," either in strength, purity or wholesomeness. . UOYAL BAKINO POWDER CO., 100 WILLIAM ST., NEW YX"K. POLITICAL SNAPSHOTS. Chicago Inter Ocean: Judge Parker Is to attend the St I,ouls exposition. Historic spot In St. Louis, which may Interest him, Is the spot where his telegram struck. Chicago Record-Herald: David B. Hill and Charles F. Murphy shook hands at Esopus the other day, and eye witnesses report that each of the gentlemen had to .blow upon his fingers after the ceremony. Kansas City Star: Still, with all due re spect to the distinguished ability of Rich ard Olney, ha ought to take with him an experienced newspaper copy reader when he goes to Rosemount to edit Judge Park er's letter of acceptance. Chicago Tribune: It has been shown by Incontestlble tables of figures that both Roosevelt and Parker will be elected. We regard It as absolutely certain, therefore, that Swallow, Watson, Debs, Corrlgan and Scott will be among those who a o r n. Portland Oregonlan: Theodore Roosevelt is said to be "dangerous" because "dicta torial." But Jie was not the man who dic tated by telegraphic dispatch an addition to the platform, or an interpretation of It. There must be a mistake about dictators. Philadelphia Inquirer: Tom Taggart de nies that he has an interest in a gambling house; but he does not deny that he has had much experience aa a hotel keeper, which fits him for separating the confiding democrats from their cash with neatness and dispatch. Baltimore American: The democracy Is putting trust in the trusts this year for financial aid. The trusts will no doubt re spond, as they recognize In the democracy their friend that always threatens, but never harms, and in the republican party the dog tnut "bites severely, but never wastes any of Us energy In barking. PERSONAL NOTES. Bernhard Bethuann, who Is well known in Hebrew educational circles the country over as president of the Board of Gov ernors of the Hebrew Union college, In Cin cinnati, celebrated his 70th birthday last week. The membership of our house of repre sentatives has 236 lawyers out of a total of 867. The House of Commons, on the other hand, has only 129 lawyers In a total of 670, while the French Chamber shows an attendance of 139 lawyers In a total of 581. .Tnhn A. Kasson of Iowa, now 82 years of age, attracts attention In Boston and vl-i cinity, where he Is spending m summer. One who has seen him recently declares him to be, merely to gase at, "something to admire as one would enjoy a fine piece of Sevres porcelain." Miss Lavlnla Egan, the retiring secretary of the Board of Lady Managers of the World's fair, has Ideas of her own. She wears only tailor-made dresses, for in stance, and thinking long tresses a burden In the summertime, she cuts her hair short every spring. George Ade, playwright and author of "Fables in Slang," is passing August at his country place, Haielden Farm, Brook, Indv where he is Just now cutting oats In the daytime and working on the "book" of his new opera, "The College Widow," In the evenings; There are 269 generals on the retired list of the United States army, 227 more than there were In 1898. Of this list 120 were In service as generals less than two weeks and two for less than a month before re tirement. Taking the entire list Into con sideration, 210 never performed active ser vice of the rank. There Is a case of worse and more of It In Great Britain. It haa now transpired that besides the, flaming tie which King Edward was reported aa wearing at the lust Ascot races the eccentric monarch also wore trousers with crease, on the sides instead of in front. All the England that lives to dress is panting with excitement at the Intelligence. The liveliest question as to "Who's Who" Is that asked by the Atlantic Monthly paper of George W. Alger, In which It Is calmly stated that "the greatest bank wrecker In American criminal history now lives undisturbed In New York. He never served a day In Jail for a defalcation of $6,000,000. The indictments against him were all dismissed a few years ago." Anthony J. Drexel Blddle, the Phila delphia millionaire, Is by far the most democratic of all the rich people at At lantic City this year. Nearly everyone calls him "Tony" Blddle and he seems to llko It. One day an oversealous New York newspaper photographer took aim at Mr. Blddle with a camera. The millionaire yelled: "Cut that "but, young fellow, or I'll hand you one that you won't forget In a hurry." As the millionaire Is well known to be "very handy with the gloves" the photographer obeyed and hastily de parted. A Year of Disasters. New York Tribune. In collisions and accidents of all kinds on land and on sea this year 1901 haa sur pasned most of Its predeceiisors to such an extent that the students of social condi tions and problems are sadly perplexed to explain the long Hat of fatal catastrophes. Some of these Investigators are Inclined to think that the new century Is heedless, hurrying and reckless to a degree that more philosophical and serene humanity In the past could hardly Imagine possible. After all. mlle-a-mlnute automobiles and limited expresses whirling through space at seventy miles an hour may not be perfect and flawless blessings on any and every occasion. Boms people think that hu manity in these days may be excessively Impetuous la lis m4 and furWus rush. NATIONAL IRRIGATION FIND. Proceed. f Public Ijind "ale. Treats m Generous Snrplns. - San Francisco Chronlole. Whether It Is a matter for rejoicing or regret. It seems to be the fact that the public lands are being sold at a very rapid rate. The proceeds of these sales, available for Irrigation works, now approximate $15. 010,000. At the close of the fiscal year 1903 the amount which had been paW Into the Irrigation fund was $16,444,839, which were the receipts for three years. During the lost fiscal year there have therefore been sold lands to the value of between $8,000,000 and $9,000,000, or more than half as much as ha-5 been sold during the previous three years. This is as was predicted when con gress refused to repeal or suspend the land laws, except the homestead act. Every body who ever expects to get lands Is grab bing for them now before the bars are put up. If theae large land sales represented new homes established they would be a proper subject for rejoicing. As a, matter of fact, while the character of the land sold Is not stated In the dispatches, we may be sure that they are largely timber lands, to puss, by fraudulent methods, into private ownership and be held for speculative pur poses. But It Is an HI wind that blows nobody good. The Irrigation fund Is being aug mented to a point where It will be Quite possible to undertake nny reclamation pro ject, however large, whose engineering and economic features commend It. As this is also a revolving fund, It can be used over and over again forever, or until all arid lands have been reclaimed. How much It will be Increased by the sale of land still remaining In possession ,of the puWIo can not be known, probably it ought not to be Increased very largely, as the title to the foreet and grazing lands ought to remain where It Is and the use of the lands only be sold. The land under the irrigation systems will none of It be sold, as It will all be taken under the homestead act. The forest and grazing lands will Increase In value if properly managed. If sold, those who buy them will get the profit. If retained, tha nation will get It. It is quits safe U say that they will be sold. Sl .WY GEMS. "Beg pardon. Blr," said the peddler o supplies, "but have you got a tVDe wrlter?" "Yes." replied the merchant. May I ask what style?" "O! out of sight! A regular peach! E?mo.ln ?.naJ " introduce you to her." Philadelphia Press. r,.'!?umil?".b!rJ" Poon"mln since the meat packers strike began. ;'ls that so?" h.t t0 church and gets the meat of the sermon." Cleveland Leader. th'Vf"'l Pct et the presidency of the telephone company?" "J,.10,",'1 kno' hut he's getting his wires out."-Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Our John's goln' to be a preacher I fuess, said Farmer Korntop, "Jedgln' hlT" ' h'" conrK Perfessor ses about ;;Whats thet?" asked his wife. Philadelphia" Vre.'Uned " be Wbu'0"--"- eJn"",? .Aulu,mr A-t any rate. I waa new called homely. Mlsa CaustlqiieYou would have been only your father Is so rlch.-Town Topics. "Has Mr. Gassy become sufficiently x- bTleV' runnln" hlB automo- ,lX.r.f" "n"wfred Miss Cayenne. "When i. iV, I Bnhod.y n can BO fast that it is impossible to read the number on his niachlne."-Washlngton Star. THK SORROWING MOTHER. Katherlne Pyle In Harper's Bazar. LaBIt r'ft14. 1 dreamed he came to me; MJ If,1?. nln?,fJ0!,e anl wept and said: My little child, where have you baenT 4U oe; it almost seemed t , . .thouKh my arms could feel him yet, I hud been sobbing in my sleep; My tears had made the pillows wet. I cannot think of him at all As the brlvht HllKel he mutt k. But only as my little child Who may bo needing me. Do not make him grow too wise. Angels ye who know; I am dull and slow to learn. Toiling here below. 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