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TIIE OMAIIA DAILY IJEE: TIIUItSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1804. Tiie omaiia Daily Bee. S3. ROflEWATER, EDITOR. i FCBIJBHID EVERT MORNINQ. nrwva nir ritbbcriptiON. fHr Fee (without Fundny), On Year. .14 -J lly Bee and Sundfly, One Year w j'Justrated UN, one rear - Pnndsy H. one near j Future!? Bee, One Yonr Twentieth Century Farmer, One Year.. l.W DELIVERED BY CARH1BK. rxlly B-e (without Punday), per copy... to Pelly Be (without Sunday, per week. ..12o 1'nlly Bee (Including Sunday), per week. .170 punday Bee, per copy Evening B- (without Bundav). per week 7o Lvenlng Bea (Including Bunday), P" week 1-0 Complaints of Irregularities In delivery should be addressed to City Circulation Iepartmsnt. OFFICES. Omibl-The Bee Building. Bonth Omaha City Hall Building, Twenty-fifth end M Streets. Council Bluffs 10 Pearl Street Chicago 1640 T'nlty Building. New York 2V J'ark Row Building. Washington Wl Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edl ferial matter should he addressed: Omaha Bee. Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit tjr Graft, express or postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only J-oent stamps received In payment Of mall accounts. Personnl checks, except on Omnha or eastern exchnnres, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF C7 RCtTLATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.: George B. T7jichuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly, wor"j says that the actual number of full and complete corlea of. The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the montn or July. iw. was as ioiiows; 1 20,730 17 SO.SOO I , 8 1.1 TO t ES.T30 4 30,410 C ...S,9O0 ,.,ao.fto t att.rTo I &SKOO 1 81.3 40 M .S,324 U ....SO.lOO II I,TM 13 ie,OBO 14 2,70O IB S0.&20 jg M,2M 19 ...21),f00 jo ao.oro 21 ttO.HRO a. w,20 13 20,850 M S7.0RO 25 20,aa M 20,460 XI 20,BW t 80.600 g 31. TOO 80 32,oO gl U 1S0.WO Total.... vaijtw Less unsold and returned copies.... 10,18 Net total sales 81T.OT rol)y average SJH2 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed in my presence and sworn to before me this 1st day of August, A. D. 1ft (Seal) M. B. HUNQATE, Notary Publls. Tibbies says the only way to raise a dust Is to . keep in the middle of tlie road. Wheat wants It distinctly understood that Meat Is not alone In being able to bold its head high. If we could only abolish the boll-wee-Til, lynch law and caste there would be more hope for the south. Mr. Davis was a delegate in the con rentlon that gave him the nomination, but be knows It now for sure. Incidentally, toippoHing Russia had tackled something 'her own size like Germany well, Just think of It! Some of our city officials might do well to remember what the poet said about the man "who doth protest too much." ir a rew more uieveiana democrats write letters endorsing the head of the fusion ticket the Bryanites may also turn against him. Idaho democrats after much wrangling have concurred in Mr. Dooley's dictum that "Wan wife is enuf for anny man, an' too manny fer most." Tom Watson's Lincoln speech has ap peared in print in full. Its circulation, however, will not be permitted by the democratic member of the fusion part nership. The abolition of the knout In Russia as an "act of grace" to signalize the birth of an heir is all right providing it la followed by the abolition of the slip per in the royal nursery. ' Millionaire Davis can make his formal letter of 'acceptance of the vice presii dential place on the democratic ticket much more acceptable if he will write it in the form of a good big check. The railroads are said to be getting ready to use the Bt Louis World's fair at the pretext for some vigorous rate slashing. If it is a pretext that is wanted the fair will serve as well as anything else. ' In offering to permit the removal of noucoinbatants from Port Arthur the emperor of Japan has done the decent thlntf, but it would be Interesting to know how many noncombatants are left there to be removed, The World Herald Is Indulging Its most vicious satire against Governor Mickey In the hope of heading him oft from an assured re-election. It is not necessary to use that weapon upon the populist candidate who la aspiring to wear Governor Mickey's shoes. Bt Louis fair statisticians figure that the attendance at the gates daring the last half of the exposition will register from four to fire times as many admis sions as they did during the first half. The EtA Louis fair boomers plainly prefer disappointment to pleasant surprise. Sixth district democrats have - nomi nated an antl-fuHlon statesman to run against ' Congressman Klnkald. If the popullttts will now nominate a candidate of their own faith the flxth district may glv us a chance to find out by compari son with the fusion candidates on the state ticket whether fusion really helps or burta. The democratic ruction la Missouri has reached the letter writing stage lu which a distinct Issue of veracity is drawn between Jloodlor I'rowecutor Jo--i h I). Folk and Unking I'owder Trutt Ouster William J. 8 tune, At last sc eouiiU the demand n the purt of the fci-ttM uix-f reading public, who are bf Ji f l.iunhnrdfd by a cross flro of Utters, for t-.vniK.I.-Mtry arbitration by the two t.-i.il nljiits was Imuilnt-uL. i THE DAVIS NOTIFICATION. The speech of acceptance of the demo cratic candidate for the vice presidency contributes nothing of importance or value to the campaign) of his party. There lain this deliverance of Mr. Davis not one thing that can benefit the cause of democracy. He regards the monetary standard of value as Irrevocably estab lished. That was done by the repub lican party in spite of the opposition of men who like the West Virginia states man supported the demand of the de mocracy In the last two national cam paigns for free silver. He contrasts in dustrial conditions four years ago with the present, but does not state existing conditions with entire accuracy. , It Is true that the labor of the country is not so fully employed as In 1000, but it is to be remembered thnt a large addition has been made to it in the four years, so thnt probably the number of Wage earn ers now at work in the Industries is not materially less than in 1900. Neither Is it correct to say that apprehension prevails In buHlness circles, tf any conft dence is to be given to the latest reports of the commercial agencies. Mr. Davis throws a sop to labor and would have. the workingman think that the democratic party Is the surest con servator of his Interests and welfare. Intelligent men in the ranks of labor, however, know that nearly all the legis lation, national and state, for improving tile conditions and promoting the inter ests of labor, has been enacted by the republican party. Closely occupied with the affairs of the corporations with which he is identified, Mr. Davis may not have found opportunity to inform himself regarding what the political par ties have done for labor. Reference la made Jn the speech, by way of showing republican extravagance, to the' deficit for the last fiscal year, but the candidate neglected to Offer In explanation the fact that $50,000,000 was paid out on Tanama canal account, which was done without the least financial disturbance. He also neglected to state that notwithstanding the deficit, the national treasury has an ample cash balance. ' ' Mr. Davis asserted that from 1850 to 1800, "under democratic rule and the Walker tariff, the percentage of increase was greater in population, wealth, man ufactures and railroad mileage, the fac tors which affect most largely the pros perity of the country, than in any decade since. Without at present going to the trouble of looking up the statistics, it is sufficient to note thnt one of the most disastrous panics the country ever ex perienced occurred in 1857 and in De cember, 1800, in his last annual message to congress, the democratic president, James Buchanan, said: With unsurpassed plenty In all the pro. ductlons and all the elements of natural wealth, our manufactures have suspended, our public works are retarded, our private enterprises of different kinds are abandoned, -and thousands of useful laborers are thrown out of employment and reduced to want. We have possessed all the elements of material wealth In rich abundance, and yet, notwithstanding all these advantages, our country. In Its monetary Interests, Is in a deplorable condition. ' 1 Such wus the situation under demo cratic rule, with a tariff that afforded no protection to industries and did not yield sufficient revenue for the support of the government The comparison made by Mr. Davis of the per capita of government expenditures in 1800 and now is too obviously absurd, In view -of the great growth of the country, to call for serious consideration. GEORGIA SHOULD REMOVE THE STAIN. The burning at the stake of the two negro murderers at Statesboro will be regarded as a blot, not only upon the fair state of Georgia, but upon Amer ica's boasted civilization as well. There may be some excuse for the punishment of one crime by the commission of an other. In a rase where there is danger that the ends of justice are liable to miscarry, but in the Statesboro case even this apology of an excuse is absent. The negroes were implicated In the murder of an , entire' family named Hodges. The community in which it occurred was shocked beyond measure and inflamed by the hideous features of the crime, but the perpetrators were ar rested, given a speedy , trial and sen tenced to be hanged. There was every reason to expect that Justice would be swiftly meted out to the guilty parties. But mob law was not content with this. The guards were overpowered and the prisoners were taken forcibly out of the hands of the law and lynched. ' " A more hideous, ihore revolting pic ture of brutality can scarcely be im agined than the one enacted at the blar ing funeral pyre at Statesboro. A pho tographer was even present and took snap shots of the screaming wretches ss they twisted and tugged at the bonds which held them. The state of Georgia cannot afford to let such a stain rest upon It. It should leave no stone un turned to find out the perpetrators and punish them. In a great many minds the most guilty parties to that crime are the members of the state militia who stood guard over the prisoners. It will be represented that they were overpow ered by the mob and rendered helpless, but this is no excuse. The guard had rifles and it. la presumed that it had them to ue for Just such an emer gency.' At least this is what the guard was sent there for. It had no business to be overpowered. , If it is proven that the guard was really powerless and not In collusion with the mob it is a disgrace to the state inllltlu; otherwise the members of the guard should be punished with the per petrators of the crime for their part In the outrage. The entire, affair tend to demonstrate that there' is an element in certain parts of the south which Is not satlhfH'd with the ordinary processes of law no matter how swift or Just they are. It In en element wiilch evidently has no respect for courts, nor law, nor onler. This f lenient should be made to understand ttuit liaik of tlie law Is greut ttate and tLut back of the etute Is a national government, and that this trinity must be respected. Until this respect Is enforced crimes like the one committed by the mob in Georgia will te repeated. SUCCESSFUL DIPLOMACY. All Americans should feel proud of the diplomatic successes of the present and preceding republican administrations. They constitute a chapter In the history of our foreign relations in every way a credit and honor to the United States, giving the country an Influence which It never before had and causing the world to look to It In every great International exigency for suggestion and counsel. The Just' closed controversy with Tur key, In which all the demands made by our government have been conceded, nat urally calls attention to other achieve ments by the Department of State. Con splcuous among these was the skill with which the delicate situation In Venezuela was managed, Inducing the European powers to abandon the so-called "peace ful blockade", and submit their differ ences to the arbitration of The Hague tribunal. It was most skillful diplomacy. also, which effected the negotiation and" ratification of the treaty with China, in the face of powerful opposition, by which the United States acquired rights in Manchuria thnt must be respected, whatever the result of the war there. Still another signal success for American diplomacy was in securing from the pow ers an agreement to preserve the terri torial integrity and administrative en tity of the Chinese empire. It was the initiative of the United States that brought about an understanding regard ing the "war one," necessary to the pro tection of Chinese neutrality and when the controversy came over the question of contraband of war It fell to this coun try to define the term for all civilization. No nation has had so much Influence as this in committing the powers to the policy- of the "open door" for trade in the far east And nil this has been accomplished without entering Into any alliance or be coming involved in any entanglements. It is the result of candid, straightfor ward and honest diplomacy, which com manded the confidence of other nations. Every matter arising has been dealt with in an upright way, impressing the gov ernments with which we were dealing alike with our earnestness, sincerity and honorable intentions. If there was in any instance doubt or distrust respecting the proposals of this government in any case a suspicion that we -were seeking only our own advantage, this was read ily removed by the obvious fairness of the American representations and assur ances. Thus it is that anything which now emanates from the Department' of State is accepted unhesitatingly by other governments as being in absolute good faith and entitled to the highest consid eration. The United States occupies at this time a more commanding position In diplomacy than perhaps any other na tion and it has been reached within the past five or six years. Justifying "our claim to the dignity of a world power. AN UNTENABLE POSITION. Building Inspector Withneli and City Comptroller Lobeck, who con stitute the majority of the Board of Public Works, persist in over riding the law department of too city and offer to make a test in court of their own interpretation of the charter provisions relating to paving in a court of law at their own expense. In other words, they propose to hire a lawyer to back up their own opinions as against those of the city attorney, if only some property owner adjacent to the street proposed to be paved will come to the front with an application for an injunc tion. This is a very peculiar and not alto gether commendable attitude for mu nicipal officers to assume. The city of Omaha is a corporation whose affairs are governed by officers chosen either by the people directly or appointed for them by the mayor and council. The powers and duties of the officers en trusted with the management of the af fairs of the city are expressly defined in the charter very much as they are in the charters and bylaws of private corporations. The charter for metropolitan cities makes the city attorney the law officer of the corporation, and every municipal officer elective or appointive is presumed to be governed by the city attorney's in- erpretatlon of the laws and ordinances, ust as the directors and officers of a private corporation are expected to be governed by the advice of its attorney or legal counsel. To . permit every branch and department of the municipal government to be a law unto itself would not only create confusion and clashing of authority, but it would make the office of city attorney almost super fluous;. If members of the Board of Public Works undertake to override the official opinions and legal advice of the city attorney under the, pretext that they know the law better their conduct would be indefensible as well as lawless. The proposition of the comptroller and the building inspector that they be per mitted to back up their position by a special attorney at their own expense will not remove from the public mind the suspicion that the paving contrac tors are still operating behind the screen. We feel sure that tne taxpayers of Omaha and the owners of property ad jacent to the streets proposed to bo paved or repnved have no patience or sympathy wllh the policy pursued by the members of the Board of Public Works under the pretext that they know the law better than the city attorney, or that they are better qualified to pass upon paving specifications than the city engineer. Even if they knew more law than the rlty attorney, or were better quullned to prepara specifications than the engineer, they could well afford to let the responsibility for any Incorrect version of the law and any. bundling In the pepuratUu of the tpeciacatlo rtbt npon the city attorney and the city engi neer. While corn Is king in the corn belt and Nebraska is In the heart of the belt Nebraska dos not have to take a back seat as a wheat-raising state. Forty years ago Ohio wag the principal winter wheat state In America, but while Ohio has suffered no setback in its winter wheat culture, Nebraska with a ruoder ate crop has raised double the quantity of winter wheat this year that wns raised in Ohio, four times the win ter wheat crop of Kentucky and nearly four times the crop In Indiana, one fourth more than was raised In Illinois, one-fifth more than was raised in Mis souri, one-third more than was raised In California, two and one-half times as much as was raised in the grass state of Texas and more than double the quantity raised in Oregon. Out of the forty-five slates in the union Nebraska stands second, with Kansas at the head of the list That the time is ripe for the introduc tion of voting machines in place of the present system of voting by paper bal lot is conceded on all hands, but there is no good reason why Omaha, South Omaha and Douglas county, acting in concert and sharing the expense, should invest in more machines than are acta ally needed. The capacity of the voting machines now on exhibition is 800 per day and twenty-five machines would be ample for present needs in the city of Omaha and six machines would -accom modate the voting population of South Omaha without crowding. It goes with out snylng, therefore, that thirty-five machines, twenty-eight for Omaha and seven for South Omaha, would not only fill the bill, but leave sufficient margin to guard against possible accidents or breakdowns. One object behind the effort to recon struct, the fusion state ticket is to give the democrats a better division of the offices by pulling off a populist or two and substituting some names from the democratic slate. The two conventions, however, endorsed the apportionment, assigning only three offices to the demo crats, and the committees will have to stretch a point several notches to get around those Instructions. The story conies from Colorado that thousands of dollars of precious ore con taining radium has beeu thrown over the dumps in the mines in the Cripple Creek district. You may be sure that this waste of valuable material is to be ac counted for by ignorance, for no one In Colorado was ever known to throw any thing away with full knowledge that it was worth money. After all, members of the Board of Public Works are not expected to Inter pret the law for the benefit of the city attorney, and as they refuse to do their own work, po , matter what . the city wants, maybe we'd better be thankful they are graciously pleased to be willing to do what they are not wanted to do. One War to Even. Chicago Chronicle. If the Russians ' could buy a, few New York excursion boats and entice the Japa on board of them this war might assume a different phase. Reach the Right Soot. Chicago Tribune. ' ' The mere thought of Uncle Sam's Cele brated jpills for the Cure of Hesitancy wrought an immediate change for the bet ter in the condition of the sick man of Europe. Eanltable Distribution of Joy. Kansas City Star. It Is pleasant to observe that while the procession of events has brought to the Russians a cause of great rejoicing. It has not brought to the Japanese anything to cause them to be low In their minds. It Is this equitable distribution of blessings that encourages the belief that the world Is ruled by a symmetrical and benevolent plan. The Rosebud Land Lottery. New York Tribune. In the recent land lottery In which twenty-flve hundred pieces of property in the Rosebud reservation were raffled oft Nebraska had 24 per cent of the lucky ones, Iowa 22 and South Dakota 18. There were 106,000 registered applications. It was an odd feature of the affair that women were amazingly favored by fortune; school teach ers, stenographers and other working girls were successful In a long list of Instances. Now that they own farma the unmarried possessors of land can easily acquire hus bands, If they care to resort to annexation of that kind. "Nobody Is Deeelved." Chicago Chronicle. It required no gift of prophecy to fore tell that John Bull, having shouldered his way Into Lhas.sa, would shortly be picking a auarrel with the denizens thereof as an excuse for a permanent occupation. The worst phase of Mr, Bull's character Is not his greed or his bullying of weaker people, but his hypocrisy In attempting to Justify himself in such matter. 'It would be far more creditable to him If he would avow outright bis intention to grub Thibet and keep It than to snuffle out complaints about the refusal of the natives to sell him sup plies. Nobody la deceived. DERGB AND I'HOHI ttlTlO. Pwsloa Leader Causes Catterwamla Where the "Kitty" Gambols. (Fremont Tribune.) Candidate Berge, it seems, Is as strong a temperance man as Candidate Mickey, and for this reason he is likely to lose some votes. The rumor has been started that he was a candidate on the prohibition ticket once upon a time. This looked ugly, especially to the Jacksonlsns at Omaha, where the "Kitty" gambols. But it Is explained that he was nominated by the prohibitionists while he was away from home and that when he came home he tried to get off the tliket, but It was then too late to with drew. This reminds us of an Incident which happened at the populist district conven tion at Columbus In 10, when Kern wss nominated for congress. In thnt conven tion Shrader of Lngnn was a candidate. It was a period when lawyers were regarded ss poison. Some one had clrculsted the report thnt Shrsder wss a lawyer. What to doT A Bhrsder delegste mounted a chair snd said. "It Is being charged here that Mr. Shrsder Is a lawyer. It Is false. He was once a lawyer, but not now. He was d!harred" Mr. Perce pa tlces prohlMtlon, but doea not vote lu RoritD Anorr www toric nlpolea the Crr of Life la the Metropolis. "Rocky mountain railway management" la the sneering criticism hurled at Charley Mellen, president of the New Tork, New Haven Hartford road, by the Indignant commuters along the llnev The sneer Is characteristically Manhattanlsh, a speoies of diluted conceit which thrives 4n that locality. But It does not convey a tithe of the wrath evoked by the reduced a;- commodatlons which the road's manage merrt, for economical reasons. Inaugurated a few weeks ago. Public meetings In nearby towns have poured out much wrath In resolutions and speeches, but the trains move according to schedule Just the same. Here are two characteristic screams: Thomss Hall said that the New Haven road was the meanest road n existence. He ssid: "This company changes its pres ident every year, and each time It gets a meaner man than before. Scream loud against this miserly, nefarious abomina tion or a railroad company. They want everything, sinews and claws and we, the public, get nothing In return. " President Harry E. Colwell of the New Rochelle Board of Trade said: "This msn Mellen, the president of the New Haven railroad, who talks so much and done so little for the people, deserves no consideration from the residents of New Rochelle. This com pany has been tratlng New Rochelle like some country railroad treats a town In the wilds of Maine or New Hampshire. We must not stand for It" This feeling wus greatly Intensified by an accident whlrn happened last Friday .ftemoon. A bridge being constructed over the New Haven trscks In New York City fell at 4 o'clock. Only a few people were made aware of the.v Interruption to traffic "The great majority," says the Times, "were allowed to take their usual trains without a hint that there was any trouble, and ths trains, ht the regular hours, were pulled into the great cut above the city, there to remain In unexplained Immobility until late In the evening. That was oaa enough ror tne peasengers, but It was Infinitely worse for their families and friends at home, who could get nothing more reassuring than vague reports of a disaster, and, with vivid memories of the tunnel collision still In mind, their ap prehensions were naturally keen. As matter of fact, the station platforms at Mount Vernon, New Rochelle and half doren other towns were crowded until close to midnight with half frantic women and men hardly more self-restrained. And all this merely because station and train employes are not allowed to give out Information about accidents! The stolid observance of that rule Friday night long will be counted as that worst of offenses, a senseless crime, against the New. Haven road, and will long be de nounced as a characteristic example of what aptly, though not quite fairly, has come to be called by sarcastic commuters, itocKy Mountain railway management. It Is safe to bet ones hend against a foot ball that Charley Mellen is not as happy aa he used to be out west. A fish dealer In Vesey street with a genius for attracting as much business as he can handle with the assistance of Ave men has a sign out these days. "Fish Caught While You Wait." And there, seated on a log, angling for dear life, la ex-President Cleve land. Another placard reads, "There Is no Fish Strike.- Oyes: My gentle friends, while, beef is soaring msn. You're overheated bv extortion's price: Fall back on the fish, and bake, or broil or fry Our morning's catch fresh! sweet! alive! on ice! Fresh fish Is nature's summer food. It even does tbe bummer good. Buy mine! It's fine! For brain and brawn fish plays the moral nart. It cools the blood and cheers the marble heart 1 The nn Ronth A merles n norcunlne In the Central Park menagerie has a habit of sleeping on his perch, which Is several feet I The Hawallans say they were more pros above the floor of the cage. 'He curled his I perous aa a kingdom than as a part of hend under his hodv and went to sleeo with bis forehead resting on the round perch between his .iawi. Several visitors stood In front 6f the cage, when he apparently had a dream that disturbed him, for he fell from his perch. He landed on his back with the short spikes sticking out almost tralfht. The quills bent like whalebone and he bounded up Into the air. By the time he landed the second time he was wlde awake. He seemed to think an enemy and attacked him, for he curled up Into a ball, with the sharp spikes bristling like bayonets from all points. It was some time before he took a look around. When he discovered no enemy about he climbed to a shelf and slept In safety. On one of the side streets near Madison square an elderly woman makes It her self-appointed mission to feed the stray eats with which the street Is thronged.' The street, ten years or so ago, was exclu sively residential, but many of the ca pacious brownstone houses of old have been converted into stores and other busi ness buildings. One or two private houses remain; and in one of thecs the benevolent elderly woman lives. Every dear evening at dusk she may be seen carrying out bowl of milk and small plates rillul wlih plect-.s of meat. These she places In areas ajid doorways. This has been going on or some time, and the stray cats need no sharpening of sagacity to know vhero to hie for their dally meal. Somewhere near the accustomed time they begin to km' her and the block resounds with Importunate mewlngs. By the time the eiderly wn,-.un appears a large and varies ii' il assortment of catdom is In wuitlng. The woman lis not seem to care whethor her feline war Is are respectable or not; all nrj 'cd wlttuut discrimination. If a big bruiser, however. tries to browbeat a kitten and f'-t et the food first, the woman will reprimand the bruiser as though It were i human being. "Here, Thomas, what do you mean, tak ing advantage of a helpless kitten? You ought to be ashamed of yourself, a big .cut like you. You ought t have more con sideration." After the cats have been fed and have dispersed to their various haunts, the woman take back the bowli and plates to her house, serene l.i the onnsciouanoss that she has done something to relieve the sufferings of a creation. part it the lily's dumb In a little German place of refreshment In a cross street on the middle East side. reports the Sun, two Inscriptions puzsled a couple of strangers who had dropped Into I the place. One was on a bottle behind the I bar. In letters half an Inch high, and evi dently the work of the proprietor, a Jolly looking Teuton. It read: , Ebelgeg. The other sign was on a large white card tacked to a post and was plainly the work of the same artist. This was it:. ': Lotchlngs Tone Here. Chensonle. : After soms diplomatic Inquiry the pussled euHtomers learned that 'Ebelgog" was the proprietor's pronunciation of spplejsck. and he had reproduced It phonetically, rut Placard on the post was simply notification , the wevfarltig man tht lodgings were aau." thete; "gents only." I Creates. Aid to Cookery With least labor and trouble it makes hot-breads, biscuit and cake of finest flavor, lights sweet, appetizing and assuredly digestible and wholesome, Trice Bakinq rowoen CoM OHtoAoa POLITICAL SNAPSHOTS. Chicago News: Mr. Bryan will not over- look the fact that 11 under a republican administration, also, that he has lost his claim to that 150,000. Philadelphia Press: If Colonel Bryan should get Into the United States senate, as he hopes, Senator Morgan would have to move back a few chairs. Bryan can talk, too, and as there Is no way to stop talk In the senate, it is Just the place for him. New York World: Because a listener questioned his veracity while he was mak ing a speech at Louisville the Hon. Champ Clark offered to cut the gentleman's throat from ear to ear." Yet then are people who talk about the "apathy" of the cam paign! Baltimore American: By opening demo cratic headquarters in New York in the Immediate vicinity of the big trusts that are expected to fiirnlsh the democratic sinews of war. Chairman Taggart fur nished a very Important straw to siow which way the trust-busting wind will blow this year. ' New York Tribune: Ex-Judge Parker's reference to "the admirable platform upon which the party appeals to the country" must have caused a smile to chase over the features of the committee as tney recalled the fact that tholr candidate felt impelled to take exception tOthat "ad mirable platform" by telegram. PEHSOJIAL NOTKS. Thomas Taggart, the new chairman of the democratic national committee, has In vented a voting machine which has been approved by the Indiana commission. the United States. That was tne time when the natives held all of the offices. Ex-King Prempeh of Ashantee admired I Joseph Chamberlain to such an extent that he ordered for himself a complete suit of clothes and monocle like those worn by the ex-colonial secretary. As a result of the visit of several Ger man educators to Chicago last March, when they were the guests of the Unl- I verslty of Chicago, Emperor William has conferred decorations on Dr. W. R. Harper, Prof. Harry Pratt Judson and Prof. Starr W. Cutting of the university. The earl of Aberdeen's connection with Canada he was governor general from 1833 to 1898 has been appropriately recognised by the Canadians, who have sent Lady Majorle Sinclair a chain made of Klondike gold measuring sixty-five Inches and con taining eight links, typical of the eight provinces, and Jeweled with the precious stones of Canada. Lieutenant Helmmann of the Second Thurlnglan infantry regiment U to be court-martialed for having written a book entitled "Experiences of an American Woman in a Small Prussian Garrluon." His wife is said to be a rich American. The book is sensational In Its attacks upon the army and compromises some of the best known families in Melningen. Colonel "Bill" 6app, the new chulrman of the Missouri democratic state commit tee, looks like the typical clergyman and Is frequently taken for a man of the cloth. Not long ago, while In a strange part of the state, he stopped for dinner at a farm house. His host had no doubt whatever that the stranger was a preacher, so when they sat down he asked Bapp to say grace. The colonel put his hand to his ear and said: "Excuse me, my friend, but I'm so d deaf today I can hardly hear unless you talk In a loud tone." The farmer's wife hurriedly put In, "He wanted to know whether you take cream In your coffee." WHEAT IS THK THlfc TEST. Average Prosperity of the People la Republican Years. Philadelphia Press. The consumption of bread la the best pos sible test of the average and general pros perity. All men know this. All men under stand the test. It cannot be denied. It cannot be explained away. No statLiilclan ean manipulate It. For a single yea;-, where there are other food supplies, very high wheat may reduce wheat consumption, but In a term of years the average pr capita demand for wheat is the fairest average test of average prosperity. When tlme3 are hard the vast mass has to economise, even on bread. When times are good more bread a eaten. How was It in the year which cloied last June? The consumption was. per person. for all the United States almost one-half greater than the consumption In Cleve land's four hard years. In the four final years 1SM1H97 the average per capita c m- lumptloti of wheat In the United States was 4 21 bushels. In the fiscal year end nr last June It was I 35 bushels per ruplta. On the average 1.14 bushels more were con sumer per person In the Isst Roosevelt year than In Cleveland's four dire years. Wheat was higher. It avrragrd In Cleve land's four yesrs In New York 75 3 rents a bushel. It rsn li cents shove this the first Mil m " was still higher for the last half Whist was higher, but more was esten. Nothing can answer a fact like this. Our ii democratic friends, who are wriggling and squirming over Colonel Wright's convincing figures of the Improvement In the condition of labor, had better consider this fact and be silent. Wheat rose In the last fiscal year. The farmer got more. But labor was better employed. Wages were better. More wheat was retained for consumption. This, moreover, was the twelve months ending last June. Democratic newspapers which were, objecting because Colonel Wright's figures did not come down far enough only to last year will please take notice. In the fiscal year Just over the con sumption of wheat was over two bushels, nearly one-half, over the Cleveland aver age. . Low wheat exports for current weeks show that this lars'S consumntlon Is still In progress. ' These figures show what ail facta and figures demonstrate, that the broad, gen eral, average mass was never better off than today, never better employed, with larger wages of a larger consumption of food and of necessities. TART TRIFLES. When a girl gets blue she may en courage herself by remembering that every mirror has a quicksilver lining. Somer vllle Journal. "Surely," ealii the political reformer, "you don't believe a man should barter his vote for paltry gold?" "Sure not," Siild the ward heeler, "he ought to be saiuAed with a few drinks." 1 Philadelphia Ledger. Madge I wonder how Charlie felt when he was proposing to you? Dolly Well, If you really must know, he was feeling my cheek with one hand and my waist with the other. Town Topics. He So your father and mother both b- ' Ject to me? She Yes, but don't you worry. Pspa and mamma never agree very long about any thing! Puck. Mrs. Wlndyclty I hear that Mrs. Packer Is (iiilte a collector. What Is her fad? Mrs. Lakeside Husbands. Smart Set. Bowker Do you believe in cremation, eh? Barlow Yes, .'I do; I think It Juat aa well to have the burning done at once, and have It over. Boston Transcript. "Well, well," said Caddlngton, who had been going through Ou Hands new house with his none In the air, "Is this your dining room?" "No, you blooming Idiot," snapped Out land, "this Is the attic room. We Just brought It down here to air it." Phila delphia Press. . "Ma, I wish you'd speak to pa. He's too careless about the way he dresses. He doesn't seem to understand that he should appear in conventional attire." "Don't no? Of course he does. Ain't he beon wearing th' same suit he wore to th' convention all th summer? Cleveland Plain Dealer. The assessor was still suspicious. "Haven't you some personal property you are concealing from me?" he asked. "Nothing but a gold crown or two," re sponded Mrs. Spotrash, with a smile that displayed them. Chicago Tribune. Tom Turkey I've hesrd Mrs. Fsrmeraay that you senm to he afraid of her. Tobias Turkey Yes. I'm willing to let her have that impression. I've heard that the bravest are the tendereet. Puck. . THE TOAST OF MERRIMENT. New York Times. Good humor! Let us have more of It? Let's spice the wine of Ufa with It; The little day we tarry here Let flow the sunshine of good cheer. Find not In sober sense nuch sest We have no time for quip or Jest, Nor o'er our tasks so roundly bent We drink no toast to merriment. Oh. you whose sober fHce all gowned With gloom, and so oft has frowned, A smile could scarce find resting place Upon your worn and wrinkled f"ee. Let looee a laugh, to tell the world Your heart's dried substance has not curled Like a wormed nut, to rattle In Your moldy shell of bone and skin. And you, whose soul la so engrossed With duns snd dollars, drink the toast And let your honest laughter teach Your stunted sense the sweeter speech Of merriment. From your tired head , Remove tl gallows hood of dread Let you should m's a wage or fee And wear this cap and bells with me. A thousand years your mummied skin Will have no seed of Isughter In, And" in your sober grave find rest All undisturbed of quip and lest. Bo be not sullen, sordid, dull. An ever-walking funeral, Hut laugh, for you snd laughter when Yo part may never meet aguln. So click the glaxses and drink the toast. To the round table ied the ghost Of sombre cure and Jill for him The cup of lauKhter to the brim. Good humor! Let's huve more of it, Ifs spire the wine of life with wit. He merry while we may, I trust. And be pot gloomy till we must. FOR SCOURING AND POLISHING USE J0 THK 1II-ST SCOmiSG AKU I'OLIfllllMl IOAP O THE MAHKKT TODAY. IT IS AS OMAIIA FHOmtT AND IT HAS A VKLI.OW wHirrKR. ASsC TOIH likOCtH FOR IT, A M iiuuuwwatsM I. .1 II II f., kl EJ , I 1,1