HIE OMAHA ' DAILY ' BEE i FRIDAY, " SEPTEMBER 23, 1904.
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Notary Public.
Part of the Connecticut tobacco crop
has been 'caught, by frost. What luck
for western cabbage raisers'
Judge Parker lias gone to New York
again. Strange that J. J. Hill and his
friends cannot be Induced to visit Ropo
mount Omaha Is to have a place on the wire
less telegraph map so look out for vag
rant electrical currents that may soon
be roaming around the 'streets loose.
It Is to be hoped, that the confusion
In the standing of the clubs In the
Vestern Base Ball ' league will be
stiVilghtcned out by the opening of the
next season! ' "
WJ'cn Judge I'nrker sees how et.sy
the cunipiilpn 1h made for his successor
on the bench, who lias been nominated
by both parties, he may be excused a
few regrets.
The district wnjrt has, decided that
the resurrection of the defunct demd
erotic city convention is -not necessarily"
Illegal . : But that does not make It any
less undemocratic.
The democrats will avoid talking na
tional Issues' . In Nebraska this year.
Speeches nke that delivered by Secre
tary 8haw to his Omaha audience sim
ply cannot be answered.
The desire, of . the water-marked
Utesnian Is to connect wjth a pay roll.
Be does not seem to care so much
.whether It Is the pay roll of the city or
the pay roll of the water company.
New York democrats have named a
man for governor who parts his name
In the middle, v Walt till the "plain
peepul" get a -chance' at him and he
will hardly figjore as on "also ran."
Ministers of the gospel are to be ad
mitted free to the World's fair during
the month tf November. It need not. be
explained that this Is not Intended for
the especlar benefit of the shows upon
the Pike.
It Is now said that the Russian Baltic
fleet may not sal! to the east this year.
This kny be bad news to California
boarding house keepers, who thought
they saw an opportunity for increased
business.
In the irrepressible aud protracted
squabble over circus compllmentarles
tjhe mayor and Council have the advan
tage over the city clerk. They can re
vise the circus ordinance and rub it in
by making blni certify to It.
. Nobody will be disappointed if Presi
dent gtlckney does not build a pas
senger depot on the Great Western res
ervation, but everybody will be dlsnp-
, pointed if the Great Western does not
i erect one fr two grain elevators on its
reservation.
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There are a whole lot of things which
Omaha would Itke to do If it bad the
money at Jts command to do tbetu, the
development of nearby water power be
ing near the bend of the list. The
thing Is to get the money first and then
to spend It for what we need the most.
V; In the flrnt trial of the year of a
' Mlsslsslpplan for taking part In the
lynching of a negro the evidence Intro
; duced was such that the Judge In
structed icqulttnl without permitting
the case to go to the Jury. The prose
: cuting attorney must be a candidate for
re-election. . . .
Adlnl Stevenson has the satisfaction
of being the one man of national promi
nence In the democratic party who
stands in with ltoth factions. Having
been a candidate on tickets with both
Cleyelan.d and Bryan, he may be sold
to represent the real spirit of present
day democracy of all complexions a
desire for office.
LETTER OF BKXATOR FAIRBANKS.
The republican party has In Its candl
date for vice president a roan thoroughly
experienced In public affairs and fully in
sympathy with the progressive spirit of
the American people. Trie letter of ae
crptauce of Senator Fairbanks Is a most
worthy supplement to the very nble and
'omprebenslve letter of tresldent Roose
velt, presenting some points In the re
publican argument which were not dwelt
iion by the president and which will be
of mnterlnl -assistnnce to republicans In
the campaign.
It Is a great merit of this letter that It
presents the whole republican case con
cisely and forcibly. Every question be
fore the people Is considered and loglc
nlly discussed, the reasons for the repub
lican position lelng given with a clear
ness and convincing directness which
leaves nothing to be desired. The argu
ment for the maintenance of the policy
of protection, for example, is cTjgent and
appeals to the common sense of the
reader. "A revision of duties." says Mr.
Fairbanks, "should be made only when
conditions have so changed that the pub
lic Interest domnnds their alteration, and
they should be so revised as to preserve
and not destroy the protective principle."
That Is In accord with very general pop
ular sentiment, as shown In the last two
national campaigns.
The letter of acceptance of Senator
Fairbanks Is a campaign contribution of
the highest merit and republicans es
pecially should give It a careful reading.
CAUPAIOX PERSOyALITIEH.
The democrats are citing the letter of
Judge Parker to the chief of the literary
department of the democratic national
committee as evidence of the desire of
the candidate that there shall be no per
sonalities in the campaign. It Is alleged
that the republicans have already made
a personal attack upon the democratic
candidate In connection with the gold
s ta mln nl message and the letter of
Judge Parker Is referred to as showing
the difference between the parties as to
manners.
Judge Parker did well In warning the
editor of the democratic text book not
to indulge In personalities. Nothing is
to be gained by personal abuso of candi
dates and the part7 which doe.i this
makes a great mistake. The republican
party has not done so. It has criticised
the gold standard dispatch of Judge
Parker as having been sent under con
ditions that Justified a suspicion as to
the sincerity of the sende:- and this was
a legitimate criticism. It Is a matter of
fact that Judge Parker voteJ twlca for
the free and unlimited coinage of sil
ver, as demandel by the platform! of
1890 and 1000. Was he outraged by the
assumption that his declaration for the
gold standard, after he hud been nomi
nated at St. Louis and there was no pos
sible chance of his being deprived of
the nomination, was made for political
effect? He did not say In his speech of
acceptance that he regretted his vote In
the last two national campaigns. The
country does not know today whether
or not Judge Parker believes that the
declarations of the Chicago and the
Kansas City platforms were sound He
has said that he regards thi gold stand
ard as irrevocably established, but If a
democratic congress should legislate for
the restoration of free sliver there Is no
assurance that Judge Parker, If elected
to the presidency, would veto such
action.
As to personalities In the campaign,
who have been most guilty of them?
Read the democratic speeches at St.
Louis in denunciation of President
Roosevelt. Read the utterances ' of
David B. Hill and Senator Biilley of
Texas criticising and abusing Theodore
Roosevelt. Nearly every democratic
spellbinder In the present campaign has
employed to the fullest extent against
the republican standard bearer the lan
guage of vituperation. They have ap
plied to him the coarsest epithets and
sought to make him not only ridiculous
and contemptible, but also to Impress
upon the people the Idea thf t he is an
unsafe and dangerous man, who cannot
be trusted to administer the government
wisely and securely. No one questions
the high personal character of the dem
ocratic candidate for the presidency.
His political associates, however, the
men upon whom he relies and to whom
he Is under the greatest political obliga
tions, are by no means above reproach.
Hill and Sheehan and Belmont are not
rneB In whom the country pan have con
fidence and the intimate connection of
Judge Parker with these democratic
leaders justifies the criticism to which
he Is subjected, nowever excellent the
personal . character of the democratic
candidate he cannot expect to escape the
blame entailed by his association with
corrupt and unscrupulous politicians.
THB Cfrt'"f ("iDrviVCB.
The taxpayers and business men of
Omaha are not in the least concerned
as to who issues the permits to circuses,
meuat'erles .and other perambulating
shows, but they do have an interest in
maintaining the rates charged under the
existing ordinance, A charge of $300
for a circus permit and from $10 to $r.rt
more for side shows and other priv
ileges is not excessive. A charge of
$JHX) would not be too much for all the
privileges of a circus of the first magni
tude. Every circus that exhibits In Omaha
carries away from $10,000 to $20,000
and the bulk of this money comes from
the wae workers. Taking in $300 and
paying out from $10,000 to $20,000 Is not
an unmixed blessiug. The old style cir
cus traveling on wagon wheels disbursed
a' large proportion of Its gate receipts In
the purchase of feed and other supplies
for man and beast In the community
where it exhibited; but the modern cir
cus that, travels iu special railroad trains
carries with it a full commissary and
pays out little for anything except ad
vertising and license fees.
While the newspapers get their full
share of patronage from the circus, the
retail merchant, the grocer, the butcher,
the baker, the tailor, the shoemaker
and the local amusement places are all
more or less Injuriously affected by the
withdrawal of from flO.OoO to $20,0(10
of the circulating medium. If there Is
to be any change in the circus license
fees, we feel sure the business men of
Omaha would favor an Increase instead
of a decrease in the rate.
. THB SEW TORK DEMOCRATS
David B. Hill Is still the leader of the
democracy of the Empire state. Al
though be has announced his Intention to
retire from politics at the close of the
present year, he continues to be the guid
ing hand of the party in his state and
unquestionably this fact Is well under
stood by the national standard bearer,
who owes his political prominence en
tirely to Hill. He Is distinctly the War
wick of Judge Tarker and In the event
of the letter's election It is not to be
doubted that Hill could have any posi
tion In the administration which he
might desire.
Hill dominated the state convention
and the man he named for governor was
nominated unanimously. So were all the
others whose nomination he desired. It
Is reasonable to assume that the ticket
was submitted In advance of the con
ventlon to Judge Parker and had his ap
proval. The candidate for governor.
Judge Herrlck. Is not much known to the
people. He does not possess the popu
larity of Edward M. Shepard and several
other democratic leaders. He stands
well as a Jurist, but the Judicial standard
is being somewhat overworked in the
Empire state this year. As between
Herrick, the Jurist, and lllgglns, the
business man, we are Inclined to think
that a majority of voters will prefer the
hitter. The republican candidate has
been for some time In politics. He Is
known to the people and everything that
is known of him Is creditable. The Hill
candidates. It seems safe to predict, will
be defeated. The state of New York
will elect a republican governor and re
publican presidential electors. For years
the brand of David B. Hill has proved
fatal to the New York democracy.
THE PROBLEM OF FTRE PROTECTION.
At the annual convention of the Inter
national Association of Fire Engineers,
held last week In Chattanooga, Tenn.,
the problems of fire protection were
thoroughly discussed and recommenda
tions based upon recent experiences were
formulated. The consensus of opinion
among Are engineer experts was that tin
standard of workmanship In twentieth
century buildings Is very low, often crim
inally so. In the craze for llgbtnes and
cheapness the modern Are resisting
buildings have been reduced to a degree
of fllmslness that makes them if any
thing less safe than the ordinary struc
tures with pine Joists and wooden par
titions. Attention was called to the building
code of the city of New York, which re
quires every building more than two
stories In heightabove the ground level,
except dwelling houses, to have doors,
blltlds or shutters made 'of Iron, or of
wood covered with tin. at every exterior
window opening above the first story,
except on the front of buildings fronting
on streets which are more than thirty
feet in width. The following summary
of the modern method of fire protection
commend themselves for serloiiB consid
eration to owners of buildings and archi
tects in every American city:
1. Stone of all kinds, wherever exposed to
heat, either on the Inside or outside of
buildings, fails at comparatively low tem
peratures. Baked clay and Portland cement
concrete, on the contrary, are proof against
almost any fire besides withstanding ex
cellently the application of water on their
heated surfaces.
2. Iron and steel structural building mem
bers lose their strength rapidly under the
Influence of even moderate heat, therefore
should be thoroughly Insulated. Portland
cement concrete and hollow tile, not less
than two Inches in thickness at any point,
are moat efficient against the attack of
both fire and water.
3. targe unbroken floor areas assist the
spread of fire and serve to augment Its
severity. Buildings of considerable area
and having large quantities of combustible
contents should be subdivided by substan
tial brick fire walls sufficient to form a
positive barrier to the spread of fire.
4. A large portion of fuel for combustion
In buildings having brick walls Is supplied
by the trim, floors, etc., as well as by such
furnishings as are necessary for occupancy.
Much of this can be avoided by the use of
substitutes for wood or of metal-clad cov
ered wood and metal furniture.
6. Vertical openings throughout buildings,
as for stairs and elevators, rapidly com
municate fire between stories. With build
ings of considerable height or combustible
contents this Is likely to result In fire con
ditions beyond flre'department control. All
such floor openings should be enclosed In
brick walled shafts crowned by a thin glass
skylight and extending through roof and
with fire doors at openings to stories. All
vertical light openings In such shafts should
be glased with wire glass.
. Nearly one-third of the total fire loss
Is caused by the contribution of flame from
one building to nnother through window
openings. All windows subject to exposure
should be thoroughly protected against the
attack of heat. Wire glass In noncombust
lble frames has proven most efficient for
the purpose, as It is always In position and
la not subject to deterioration.
7. Every aid1 to the fireman In the shape
of fixed equipment to the building adds so
much to his capacity. Fire alarms and
thermostats, standplpes. stationary nozila
and sprinklers all mean more prompt and
efficient application of water and should be
most generously and generally encouraged.
"55!
China is said to desire the restoration
of Manchuria free from conditions. The
ruler of that unwieldy realm apparently
does not realize that he is holding all
of his provinces only on the condition
that he submits to the combined de
mands of all foreign countries and to
the separate demands of none.
The spokesman at Washington for
the democratic national congressional
committee professes to hnve hopes of
carrying two or three Nebraska districts
at the coming election. It Is to be
noted, however, from a careful perusal
of his figures that he has given the
Second district up.
Responsible business men are said to
b reluctant to taul for places on the
school . board, although they are the
first to complain of extravagance In the
management of the public schools. If
no responsible people csn b persuaded
to take control there will be small ex
euse for them to complain in the future,
no matter how heavy the load may be
piled up.
Minister Lesssr Is again getting Into
the game at Peking with a protest
against the treaty betwean Thibet and
Great Britain. The Russian mlulster Is
credited with having more influence
than nny other foreign representative a
the Chinese capita), but It may be found
that that Influence has waned since the
events at the Yalu river and Llao Yag.
Perhap? Colonel Tibbies would, after
all, Just as soon occupy a seat on the
floor of fhe senate as to guide Its dellb
eratlons from the presiding officer's
chair. That may explain why he Insists
that populists shall send no one to the
legislature who will vote for a Tarker
supporter for senator.
The new democratic campaign book
proves that, In spite of Candidate Davis,
the New York Times and the southern
delegation In congress, the tariff Is the
real Issue In the present campaign. No
wonder democrats fall to create enthu
siasm. New Implement of War.
New York Tribune.
Japanese soldiers are equipped with fans
This probably accounts for the fact that
there are no files on them.
Great Opening; for a Plonste.
Chicago Post
Geographers say there Is a hole In the
Pacific ocean 28,000 feet deep. What a fine
dive that will make for Judge Parker No.
vember nex.
Forget Itf
"Washington Post.
The Parke.- Constitution club hss re
solved that the president's pension . order
was unlawful. It la none of our business
If the club wants to thus Invite one of
Commissioner Ware's explanatory poems.
Delicate Matter Well Handled.
New York Tribune.
The Washington government has acted
so discreetly In the delicate matter of the
Russian cruiser Lena as to preserve the
friendship and confidence of both belliger
ents. The situation was one that might
easily have provoked bad feelings or worse,
and the settlement of the case Is anothe.'
proof that the present administration
makes for peace and international good
wIlL
Is It a Gumshoe ConvasjT
Baltimore American.
There is a lesson for the republicans In
the old story of ths mother who became
uneasy becauss her youthful son was so
quiet, and went and found him engaged
In the rankest sort of mischief. The derro
cratle party is keeping suspiciously still
just now, and a search Into the secret of
its quietness will probably discloss the
naughty urchin with both hands In the
jam Jar.
List to the Ban! of Antnn-.
Albany Argus.
"Autumn 19 a gracious presence whose
gorgeous "beauty no touch of frost has
marred. It wears1 raiment fit for thrones
and palaces.1 'arid though It bears no gar
lands It comes bringing rrult for the sym
bol of Its harvest time. Its hills and woods
and fields wear cloth of gold, woven scarlet,
russett and purple; Its skies are gorgeous
with' the panoplied banners of su rises and
sunsets like the dyes of the Orient. Its
fleeting days that go to dusk so soon have
a subtler beauty than the careless summer
days that lingered long into the hours of
evening with Its surfeit of sunlight and
fragrant warmth. The autumn 'air braces
and thrills like wine from Its purple vine
yards; the autumn sunshine has the rap
ture of the blessing that brighten as they
wing their flight."
TSKS or CORSMEAL.
Abundance of Corn to Counterbalance
the Wheat Shortage.
! Baltimore American.
W. D. Wachburn, formerly a senator of
the United States from Minnesota, and one
of the great flour millers of the world, esti
mates the shortage of the universal wheat
crop at 300,000.000 bushels, of which shortage
America's shore will be one-half. Ex-Sen-wfor
Washburn has Just returned from
Europe, and while abroad he not only kept
himself well Informed of American condi
tions, but aleo made a thorough inquiry
into those of the transatlantic continent,
and the vast shortage referred to Is his
final Judgment. Ho says that the prolonged
drouth In Europe has duplicated the injury
to the wheat crop produced by rains and
black rust In the American northwest.
This Is an Immense shortage, but it need
cause no alarm, as the American corn crop
promises to be unprecedented, and corn
meal In the hands of the housewife and
cook can be made to take the place of flour
to a great extent. No edible made from
grain Is more toothsome than the corn
mush, corn bread, corn pone, corn griddle
cakes and corn In many other forms that
"our mothers baked." Corn bread many
not be susceptible of manipulation like
wheat bread by the baker who has made
the baking of home bread so nearly a lost
art, but wherever there la a stove with
an oven and a griddle and a pot, at home
or hotel or restaurant, the least Ingenious
may soon learn to produce a variety of
bread, puddings and cakes which are now
esteemed a luxury when they are set forth
at hotel or boarding house. In the pleni
tude of cheap flour throughout many years
the utility and high nutritious qualities of
cornmeal have been Thrust Into the back
ground. Its delicate and epicurean possi
bilities have passed almost out of the
knowledge of the masa. If flour should
reach an unusual price, and the dally loaf
rise above the customary nickel, while at
the same time decreasing In weight, corn
may again come Into its own and the yel
low ears resume an Importance and dignity
at the private hearthstone and public table
which had become largely historic.
A few yfars ago this government sent
agents abroad' to teach Europeans the de
lights embodied In cornmeal. That people
looked upon "malse" ss only fit for horses
and cattle. Elaborate efforts were made
to teach the cookery of cornmeal. The
European ate and praised the com bread
and cakes of expert American cooks, but
the foreign housewife and baker seemed
unable themselves to acquire the gentle
art. Besides, wheat bread was cheap at
that period, and the experiment was aban
doned, although a considerable demand for
cornmeal was created which still continues.
If the shortage In Europe Is so great, with
an American shortage which will lead to a
large reduction of eiportatton, the leaven
of that experiment may lead to an exten
sive use abroad of American cornmeal, and
also to a restoration of Its old reputation
at tho American table. Cook and house
wife may at least amuse themselves by
conning all recipes for transforming corn
meal Into food fit for the noil epicurean
palate.
i
words ro Yorito mm.
Thoughts mm Tratka tow the CoaeH-
eratloa ( first Voters.
In a speech delivered In Clevelsnd. O.,
October 11, 187?, Hon. James A. Garfield
spoke these memorable words to first
voters, and the lapse of time has not
dimmed their force and eloquence:
"I see In this great audience tonight a
great many young men. young men who
sre about to cast their first vote. I want
to give you a word of suggestion and ad
vice. I heard s very brilliant thing said
by a boy the other day up In one of our
northwestern counties. He said to me,
General, 1 have a great mind to vote the
democratic ticket.' That was not the bril
liant thing. (Laughter.) I said to him,
'Why?' 'Why,' he said, 'my father wss a
republican and my brothers are republicans
and I am a republican all over, but I want
to be an Independent man, and I don't
want anybody to say, 'That fellow votes
the republican ticket Just because his dad
does, and I have half a mind to vote the
democratic ticket Just to prove my Inde
pendence.' I did not like the thing the boy
suggested, but I did admire the spirit of the
boy that wanted to have some Independence
of his own.
"Now I tell you young man, don't vote
the republican ticket Just because your
father votes it. Don't vote the democratic
ticket even If he does vote It. (Laughter.)
But let me give you this one word of advice
as you are about to pitch your tent in one
of the great political camps. Your life Is
full and buoyant with hope now, and I beg
you, when you pitch your tent, pitch It
among the living and not among the dead.
(Applause.) If you are at all inclined to
pitch It among the democratic people and
with that party, let me go with you for a
moment while we survey the ground where
I hope you will not shortly He. (Laughter.)
It Is a sad place, young man, for you to
put your young life Into. It Is to me far
more like a graveyard than like a camp for
the living. Look at It! It Is billowed all
over with the graves of dead Issues, of
burled opinions, of exploded theories, of
disgraced doctrines. You cannot live In
comfort In such a place. (Laughter.) Why
look here! Here la a little double mound.
I look dowtT on it and I read. 'Sacred to
the memory of squatter sovereignty and
the Dred Scott decision." A million and
a half of democrats voted for that, but It
has been dead fifteen years died by the
hand of Abraham Lincoln, and here It lies.
(Applause.) Young man, that Is not the
place for you.
But look a little further. Here Is an
other monument, a black tomb, and beside
It, as our distinguished friend said, there
towers to the sky a monument of 4,C0i)i00
pairs of human fetters taken from the
armj of slaves, and I read on Its little
headstont this: 'Sacred to the memory of
human slavery.' For forty years of Its In
famous life the democratic party taught
that It waa divine God's institution. They
defended It, they stood around It, they fol
lowed It to Its grave a mourner. But here
It lies, dead by the hand of Abraham
Lincoln. (Applause.) Dead by the power
of the republican party. (Applause.) Dead
by the Justice of Almighty God. (Great
applause and cheers.) Don't camp there,
young man.
"But here Is another. A little brimstone
tomb (laughter), and I read across Its yel
low facs In lurid, bloody lines these words:
'Sacred to the memory of state sovereignty
and secession.' Twelve million democrats
mustered around it In arms to keep it alive;
but here It lies, shot to death by the million
guns of the republic. (Applause.) Here it
lies. Its shrine burnel to ashes under the
blazing rafters of the burning Confederacy.
(Applause.) It is dead. I would not have
you stay there a minute, even in thU
balmy night air. to look at such a place.
(Laughter.)
"But Juse before I leave It I discover a
new made grave a little mound, short
The grass has hardly sprouted over It, and
all around I see torn pieces of paper with
the word 'flat' on them (laughter), and I
look down In curlosty, wondering what the
little grave Is, and I read on it. "Sacred
to the memory of the Rag Baby (laughter).
nursed In the brain of all the fanaticism
of the world (laughter), rocked by Thomas
Ewlng, George H. Pendleton. Samuel Cary
and a few others throughout the land.'
But It died on January 1, 1878, aad the
$140,000,000 of gold that God made, and not
flat power. Ho upon Its little carcass to
keep it down forever. (Prolonged applaute.)
Oh, young man, come out of that!
(Laughter.) That Is no place In which tu
put your young life. Come out, and come
over Into the camp of liberty, of law, of
order, of JuBtlce, of freedom (Amen!), of
all that Is glorious under these night stars.
Is there any death here In our camp?
Yes! Yes! Three hundred and fifty thou
sand soldiers, the noblest band that ever
trod the earth, died to make this camp of
glory and of liberty forever. (Tremendous
applause.)
"But there are no dead Issues h ere.
There are no dead ideas here. Hang out our
banner from under the blue sky this night
until it shall sweep the green turf from
under younr feet! It hangs over our
camp. Read away under the stars the in
scription we havs written on It. lo! theue
twenty-five years.
"TwentyeXve years aao the renuhllean
party was married to liberty, and thin la
our silver wedding, fellow cltlsens. (Great
tpplause.) A worthily married nalr inva
each other better on the day of their
silver wedding than on the day of 'heir
first espousals, and we are truer to liberty
today and dearer to God than we were
when we Bpoke our first word of liberty.
Read away up under the skv a or asm mir
starry banner that first word we uttered
tweniy-nve years ago. What was ItT
'Slavery shall never extend over another
foot of the territories of the great west.'
(Applauee.) Is that dead or alive? Alive,
thank God, forever more. (Applause.)
And truer tonight than It waa the hour It
was written. (Applause.) Then It was a
hope, a promise, a purpose. Tonlarht It la
equal with the stars Immortal history and
Immortal truth. (Applause.)
"Come down the glorious atrot of our
banner. Every great record we have made
we have vindicated with our blood and
with our truth. It sweeps the ground and
It touches the stars. Come there, young
man, and put In your young life where all
Is living and where nothing Is dead but
the heroes that defended It. (Applause.) I
think these young men will do that, for
course they will.'.')
Maeh Room for Improrement.
New York Tribune.
Health officials In various nlaees mak
ing e (Torts to bring about more thorough
methods of nleanlna and disinfecting n.
senger ears on railroad lines. No doubt, as
a rule, the most celebrated and most popu
lar of the great companies take consider
able pains to lessen the chance that their
patrons may become Infected by disease
while traveling In tnelr care, but sanita
rians are Inclined to believe that there Is
a great deal of room for improvement in
such matters on many railways.
Where the Difference Comes In.
Brooklyn Engle.
Mr. Marden of Suocess says that "many
journalists give only per cent of thnlr
energy to their work and N per cent to
dissipation and Idleness." Journalists may
glv energy to Idleness, but newspaper
men realise that they cannot hold their
jobs oa those terms.
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sweetness and flavor noticed in the
finest cake, biscuit, rolls, crusts,
etc., which expert pastry cooks
declare is unobtainable by the use
of any other leavening agent
Made from Pore, Grape Cream of Tartar.
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APHORISMS OF ROOSEVTLT.
A good navy Is not a provocative of war.
It is the surest guaranty of peace.
A man to be a good American must be
straight, and he must also be strong.
We can as little afford to tolerate a dis
honest man in the public service as a
coward In the army.
If we fall to do all that In us lies to
stamp out corruption we cannot escape
our share of responsibility for the guilt.
It should be the policy of the United
States to leave no ploce on earth where
a corrupt man fleeing from this country
can rest in peace.
Every man who has made wealth or used
It In developing great legitimate business
enterprises, has been of benefit, and not
harm, to the country at large.
Fifty years of Europe are very much
longer than a cycle of Cathay; and the
period grows longer still when you take
It across Into the western hemisphere.
Each man must work for himself and
unless he so works no outpide help ran
avail him: but each man muat remember
also that he Is, indeed, his brother's keeper.
The line of demarcation we draw must
always be on conduct, not upon wealth;
our objection to any given corporation
must be, not that It Is big, but that It
behaves badly.
The wageworker Is well off only when
the rest of the country is well off; and
he can best contribute to this general well
being by showing sanity and a firm pur
pose to do justice to others.
The captains of Industry who have driven
the railway systems across the continent,
who have built up our commerce, who have
developed our manufactures, have on the
whole done great good to our people.
The consistent policy of the national gov
ernment, so far as It has the power, is to
hold in check the unscrupulous man,
whether employer or employe; but to refuse
to weaken individual Initiative or to ham
per the Industrial development of the
country.
PER SOX A I, XOTKS.
A former Pullman car conductor has
been made a pres'dentlal usher. He IS the
third of his occupation to reach that posi
tion. 'The fortune of the house of Bismarck.
Sch6enhausen passes to a 7-year-old boy.
He bears the Iron chancellor's name of
Otto.
John T. Trowbridge, author and poet,
celebrated the seventy-seventh anniversary
of his birth on Bunday at his home In Ar
lington, Mass.
The Bankers' association drew no color
line on the successful colored banker. All
money looks alike In financial circles, no
matter who baa it.
"Financial guerilla." "votary of rotten
finance" and "wholesale debaucher," are
some of the pet names bestowed on Ad
dicks of Delaware by Thomas W. Lawson.
It Is so cold in L'hassa that the British
expedition Is glad to move on before It gets
frosen to the ground. There can he no
complaint, however, that the natives didn't
do their best to make it warm for their
visitors when they arrived.
A committee has been formed In Paris
to erect a monument to Miguel Cervantes,
author of "Don Quixote." The monument
will be on the Champs Elysees. and Its
cost will be defrayed by the Spanish people
residing In the French capital.
Free passes to the Boston theaters hav
ing been withheld from the members of the
board of aldermen, the theaters are asked
to show cause why their licenses should
not be raised. The managers hold tho pass
and the pans Is the key to the situation.
Some Chicago people are getting mighty
particular. One of them exposss his
ruffled pride by suing a tailor for $2,000
damages because his pants did not fit.
Paragraphers are requested to refrain from
suggesting in this connection that Chicago
pants for fame.
AWAKBX1NG OF VEIXOW RACES.
Terming Millions of Asia Influenced
by the Japanese I'pllft.
Chicago News.
The most momentous of the developments
of the prerrnt war is that for the first time
a white nation finds Itself not on!y checked
In Its onward march by a nation of yellow
men, but beaten by that nation on land and
sea. It Is too early to say that this situa
tion may not be reversed before the war Is
ended, but there are not lacking signs that
the races of which the Japanese are the
foremost exemplars have been wakened
already; to a sense of their latent power.
China anil. India have been stirred by the
deeds of Jhe Japanese. Not only the peo
ples' of these great countries but many
others of mixed Mongol, Hindoo and Malay
descent are wondering why they, too, may
not adopt the arms and implements of
occidental civilisation and deal with the
white races on an equal footing.
Some of the ultimate possibilities of this
vast stirring of the yellow rsces may be
gathered from the fact that of the l.f.00,000,
000 or 1,000,000,000 people In the world Asia
alone has 862,884,000, of whom more than
420,000.000 are In the Chinese empire, 56,000,
000 are Japanese and Koreans, 204.860.OiiO are
Hindoos, 80,000,000 Malaysians and 18,000,000
Indo-Chinese. To group an the Aslatlo
people by religions, there are about 775,000.
000 Buddhists, Confucians, Shlntolsts and
Mohammedans, as against about 12,500,040
Christiana.
That these people aroused to s sense of
their racial and religious solidarity and !
equipped with the tools of western clvlll
ation, may bring new probleme Into exist
ence In the world's economy Is clear. Will
the -two races live side by side, vlelng with
each.- other in advancement toward higher
civilisation and benefiting by the mutual
rivalry or wW one strive to exploit the
other? A eentury or more may elapse be
fore the result Is known, so farreachlng
may be the consequences Of the present
great struggl
Tk. .1 1 1 J I . . , . V. .
vsh r 10 tne creau oi me nine cisrevncn
delphla Ledger.
"What's the good of all this?" groHnrd
the tired, sleepy militiaman, at the clo-e
of the third day's mimic battle.
"To show eyou what durned fools men
are that enlist in real war," grunted the
other exhausted militiaman. Chicago Tri
bune. "Dangsey just got his life Insured. I
wonder wnat he's worrying about."
"About bow he's going to ralwe the price
of his premium. He tiled to borrow It
from me." Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Stranger And did the old farmer over
there really starve his summer board
ers? Postmaster Did he? Why, by the end of
the season they were no tliln the mosqui
toes broke their bills trying to bite them.
Chicago News.
"Isn't it ridiculous to say half the world
doesn't know what the othc-r half's doing?
"Why so?"
"Because half , the world must live next
door to the other half." Atlanta Herald
Mrs. Goodart (slumming) -See here, little
boy, if I give you a dime will you promise
me not to buy clgaretets with It?
Little Itoy Sure, ma'am. Yer don't t'lnk
I'd waste de price of a kittle o' beer on
cigurettea, do yer? Philadelphia Ledger.
"My score began well," said the dis
gusted golfer, "but Jt turned out very
badly."
"Well," replied the spectator, "If It heaid
the language you've been using I don't
wonder It turned out badly." Philadelphia
Prert.
"These typesetting machines." srtld the
great Englishman, sadly, "are doing a
great Injury to modern humor." w-v
"In what way?"
"They don't provide Italics to show pre
cisely where the joke cornea in." Washing
ton Star.
"What Is your occupation, may I ask?"
Inquired the passenger with the skull cap.
"Mapmaker," said the passenger in UiS
long linen ulster.
"Publisher, eh?"
"No. Soldier." Chicago Tribune.
SONNETS OP AN IMI'IBE.
W. F. Kirk In Milwaukee Sentinel.
Oh, yes, I know I called him out at third.
And I was right the runner told me so.
His team mutes didn't die so tamely,
though;
Thoy called me almost every doubtful word
That any hardened rounder ever heard
And made my eyes as bluck as Old Black
Joe. '
What else could I decide? A perfect
throw
That nailed him by six feet; It was a bird.
I told them I was strictly on the square,
But Rowdy Robert slapped me on the
cheek
And Hasty Harry pulled my wavy hair
And Grouchy Gustave flattened out my
beak
Oh, that I were a flower or a cow
Or anything except what l,&m now!
Today I nearly died of heart disease:
Two men were out, the game stood five to
four,
The bases full, s pass would tis tBS)
score.
The batter took three balls, cool as you
please,
And thtri threo strikes, the last across his
knees.
I shouted, "Batter out!" and not a roar
Came from that gentleman; If he was
sore
He didn't show It didn't even wheese!
He simply walked away without a kick
I was so startled I could only gasp!
If, In the world to come. I meet thai MIcK,
I mean to give his hand a friendly clasp
And tell him. "Partner, shake! You're out
of sight- m
The only man that ever used me right!
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