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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.
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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.
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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. ,
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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.
Do not nil his heart too full
rnn your neaveniy toy,
m tun mifiiif-r n place De
lost
wnn ner nine boy
Those may dare to doubt who have
Their loved ones here below;
For me, I do not now believe,
I do not hope I know.
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