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Tnn OMAHA DAILY BF.E: WEDNESDAY. JUNE 28. 1003. Tite Omaha Daily Bee . K. R08BWATER, EDITOR. PLfiL48HED EVERY MORN IN Q. ; TERMS OF rH'HHCRlPTION: Eily fee (without Hundar), one year. ..$100 Pally Be and Sunday, one year tt 00 UluMratl Iif. otm year 2fiO Buhday Bee. one year 2-3" Saturday fee, one yrar 1 M Twintletn Century Farmer, one year.... l.W DELIVERED UY CARRIER. Plt)r Pee (without Sunday), pur ropy.... 2c. Pally Hee (without 8univ), per wn k ....l-'o Dally B (Inrludlnft Burnley), per week..l7o Evenln Bee (without Sunday), per week. 7o Evening Bee (Including Sunday), per week 125 Sunday Bee, jer copy Complaints of irregularities In delivery hnuld be addressed to City Circulation De partment. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha city Hall building, Twenty fifth and M streets. Counrll Bluffs 10 Pearl street. Chicago 1B40 I'nlty building. New York 150 Home Life Insurancs building. Washington 6nt Fourteenth street. CORRESPONDENCE. Cdmmunlratlons relating to news and edi torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bet, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Rmlt by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only J-cent stamps received In payment of mall acr-ounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. BTATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btata of Nebraska, Douelas County, C. C. Rosewater, secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the momn oi May. iwk, was ss ionows; 1 2,04O 1 2N,4M t 28.0&0 .... 2R,ir.O 1 88,040 1 2,BO 7 81.5B0 1 28,5 lO 1 2S.40O 10 88, lOO U B0.300 11 2M.U40 11.. 00,230 It 81,0dO It 2H.TUO 14.. 20.4OO Total 81T.900 LM unsold copies 1U.OWO Nst total taiaa IH7,ao4 Daliy averags it,!n C. C. KOSK WATER. Secretary. Subscribed In my presence and sworu to bsfor me this jUsi oay ot May. I'Mb. (Seal) ' M. H. HUNGATE, Notary Public. 17 BO.S70 18 ItH.tflO ( UM.HT.O 20 80,250 21 81.70O fi 2O.02O JJ SM.fiHO 24 2M.B1U 24 HM.Too JK 2U.04U 27 80,150 28 SO, 1IO 29 aO.HOO 30 aa.ooo U 2U.U2U WHEN oirr Of TOWN. crlbera leaviuai tfca city ten. yorarily should have Tha Baa mailed to tbem. It is better than dally letter from borne. Ad dress will be chssged aa oftsa as ranested. The cane part of the Fourth of July Celebration should ' begin several Uuj-s ahead. The summer resort managers aud the feather mau will have to pull together a Mttle better to get results. BeveYal kinks In the new direct primary law will have to be stralght ined out before the September primaries.. If the peace envoys do not hurry, the condition in Poland may press for at tention more urgently than that in Man churia. ItU"ftlan experts say General Llne rttch's position is desperate. But think ot what it would be were there no talk Of stopping the war. r AS Senator Mitchell listens to the tes timony of his former secretary he may realize that it is worse to lose one's temper than bis fortune. Perhaps . that drop In the Pawes county assessment represents only the shrinkage in value of the fences illegally erected on government land. Judging by the uuinber of resignations still being filed, places on the board of directors of the Equitable Life society are not as valuable as formerly. Judge Harmon Is "mentioned" as democratic candidate for governor of Ohio! That letter to Attorney General Moody seems '-to have produced quick results. An Increase of between $-',500,000 to $3,000,000 in the totals of the county as sessment is another straw that points the direction of Omaha's growth and prosperity. coxrnoL or trvst comtaxies TLe growth of trust companies In this country wltlilu the last few years aud the InrKe part they are playing in finan cial affairs has created a sentiment, shared ty those connected with these Institutions, that Ihey should be sub jected to some such supervision and regulation by the federal government as it exercises over the national banks, in a recent address before bankers and trust company oiliccrs of Massachusetts, the president of a St. Louis trust com pany urged federal control of such cor porations, lie 'said that if the growth of the trust companies continues In the next ten years as it has in the past they will rival in point of actual resources the national banking system of the country. He pointed out that the re Sources of the trust companies of the United States now aggregate more than $3.2ro,(Kio,(XN1 which Is over '23 per cent of the banking power of the country and practically 10 per cent of the bank ing power of the world. This showing of the great financial strength that has boeu attnlned by the trust companies was regarded by Presi dent Wade of the St. Louis company as Justifying the suggestion of Secretary Shaw that these companies should have the privilege of incorporating under fed eral law and be subject to such regula tion and supervision by the general gov ernment as would naturally be con nected with such an arrangement. Those who are not In sympathy with the existing tretid In favor of federal su pervision of all the Instrumentalities engaged In financial and commercial operations among the states will not ap prove of this proposition. One commen tator observes that it would be no ad- antage to the country to have the trust compnnles Incorporated under federal law or subject to government regulation, so far as employing their resources legit imately is concerned, and it might be a disadvantage to the Institutions and to the commercial communities which it is their chief business to serve. Perhaps if these institutions did not increase be- ond their present proportions it would be. ns well to let them remain as they re, but If they go on increasing in flnan lal resources and power as they have done during the last ten years they may become within another decade a control ling factor In the business of the nation nd ought to bo subject to a more care ful supervision and regulation than at present. Unquestionably the trust com panies have been serviceable io the in dustrial and commercial interests of the country. They have demonstrated .their usefulness and doubtless will continue to do so, but It is quite conceivable that they may in time attain such a power In the financial and business affairs of the country as would render expedient their subjection to federal supervision and regulation and certainly no harm can be done by providing for this at an early day, If it can be done, rather than to wait until the trust companies have be come so formidable' that they may be ble to defeat such a policy if not ac ceptable to them. "" . There is a pretty general sentiment in favor of placing life insurance com panies under federal supervision and egulatlon. , It would seein to be quite as expedient to do this with the trust companies. ThRt the .Apaches under . tJeronlrao harbor a desire to return to Arizona is another proof that association with pale facet does not always raise the Ideals of, the Indian. Another building has collapsed while In course of construction in New York Gotham builders will soon be placed on the extra hazardous list by accident in aurance companies. The printed volume of 11105 Nebraska session laws Is long overdue. How can people be expected to live up to the legislative edicts If they have no means of finding out what they are Should the rumor from the east that Paul Morton will accept but $50,000 of that $130,000 salary voted htm, prove true he should not lack for volunteers willing to relieve him of the difference. If that American company in pursuit of Yaquls across the Mexican border accomplishes its purpose residents of the Southwest will doubtless gladly as sum responsibility for any lnteruatloua complications which may follow the in vatlon. The reply of Germany to the French Moroccan note Is said to be firm, and Buasla sees a German diplomatic vie tory. At misery loves company, the other nations will not condole with France until the Issue is made up. Why should our Nebraska deputy labor commissfoner bother himself about finding harvest bands for Kansas. One would naturally suppose that that duty, If It devolves upon any public author iry,' would belong to the Kansas labor bureau officials. graduated, and, second, by reason of more exacting requirements. The transition from purely profes sional education, leading up to the col lege and university, to an education that will fit high school graduates for a commercial life, is as marked In Omaha as it is in Chicago, and the progress made within the past year In that direction holds out the promise highly gratifying to the parents of Omaha High school pupils, as well as the community at large. In many respects Superintendent Iavldson holds the same views regarding the revision of the high school course that are held by Superintendent Cooloy of Chicago and other wide-awake, up-to-date educa tors, who are ready to adapt the course of Instruction to modern conditions. rAXAMA CASAL WUl'BLKS. The reported resignation of the chief engineer of the Panama canal indicates further trouble in connection with the enterprise, very likely, as intimated, growing out of differences between the engineer and the commission. It is an unfortunate fact that from the outset there has been want of harmony among the men charged with the administration of canal affairs, the necessary effect of which has been to retard progress. The efforts of I"resldent Hoosevelt aud Sec retary Taft to remedy conditions are shown not to have been wholly success ful, the retirement of Engiueer Wallace being really the most serious circum stance that has yet happened, for it will not be an altogether easy matter to find a man of equal ability for the position. That the president, upon whom rests the responsibility of pushing forward the work of the canal, will find a way to put nn end to the evident friction that exists, is not to be doubted, but in the meantime there wjM be more or less delay, which of eomeans waste in money as well as nffie. While members of the commission are at odds, as seems to be the case, nothing practical will be done, yet outlay goes on. It is nn un fortunate situation and appears to very conclusively show that the president's recommendation to congress at the last session should have been acted upon. Had it been It Is probable that the trouble which has arisen would not have come. However, the great undertaking, whatever delays may happen, will be steadily pursued. It may not be com pleted within the prescribed time and it may cost a great deal more than has been estimated, but the canal will be constructed, whatever the time required and the cost involved. Perhaps the next congress will be better disposed than was the last one to favorably consider such recommendations regarding the great undertaking ns the president may make. WHAT OCR HIGH SCHOOLS ARK DOIXO The graduating class of the Chicago high schools this year Is the largest in the history of the schools. The 1,200 graduates leave school thoroughly prepared for col lege or well equipped for professional or commercial life. Five years ago tho tendency in the schools was more favorable to professional than to commercial life. The majority of the graduates looked forward to careers as teachers or to a course in college. Comparatively few met- the expectations of business men as to qualifications for successful business careers. It was found that only about 32 per cent of the pupils of the first .year class in the high schools completed the course. For example, in September, 1896, there were S.574 pupils In the first year class. In June, 189, fo.ir years later, there were 1,160. Of the graduates that year only 26 per cent were boys. The reports show that 60 1er cent of the pupils entering high school In any given year dropped out In the first two' years and that the majority of those who dropped out were boys. Most of these left school to entar commercial life. Not a few left the high school for thorough preparation for the larger universities. In revising the high school course these facts had an Important influence. . More attention was given to the first two years of the course for the benefit of those who were compelled to leave school. More at tention was given also to work In commer cial subjects, the pupils having opportunity to pursue either the classical or a practical commercial course, and care was taken to give one and two-year pupils In high schools the full benefit of whatever time they spent .In the schools. At the same time, for those who elected to lake It, the classical course was made In every particular a preparation for col lege. The changes made undoubtedly in creased the popularity of our high schools. Business men complained less of the Inade quate knowledge of F.ngllsh and mathe matics among high school graduates. There was greater satisfaction among parents as to the thorough preparation of their children for college. Most particu larly was there greater interest among boys In the commercial as well as in- the classical course. Aa. a result, we have this year a larger graduating class than usual. The time was when a high school gradua tion certificate was no recommendation to an applicant for position In a business nouse. it Is now, and at the same time it Is an entrance certificate to the best colleges and universities. Chicago Inter ocean. Omaha also has had the largest high school graduating class in its history this year. In ratio to population, the Omaha High school graduating class of 105 outstrips that of Chicago as two and one-half to one. Estimating the population of Chicago to be 2,i00,0o) aud that of Omaha 115,000, the 1,200 graduates of Chicago High schools rep resent one out of every l.titifl of Its pop ulation, while Omaha's 175 graduates stand as one out of 0.17. The diver fence tietween Omaha and Chicago may reauuy ie accounted for ou two grounds: First, that a much larger per centage of Chicago's population Is made up of the lowest paid wage workers, who cannot afford to keep their children la the high schools until they have AKW BULK FOR BASK DIRECTORS- It is a pretty well established fact that many bank directors are not as well Informed in regard to the affairs of the institutions with which they are connected as they should 1h. The comp troller of the currency proposes to re quire them to be better acquainted with the business under their direction and with this view he has issued an order directing that whenever a letter Is sent from his office calling attention to er rors, derelictions or Imprudence, the re ply shall in all cases be signed by every one of the directors. The practice has been for the president or cashier to sign such letters, promising to correct the faults complained of from the office of the comptroller of the currency faults which in many cases the bank directors probably were not aware of. This will not answer hereafter and it is not to be doubted that the require ment of the comptroller of the currency will have a salutary effect. As the Phil adelphia Inquirer observes, It is an ef fort to make bank directors direct, and if it has the effect of driving off stool- pigeons from boards and making in cumbents more thorough in their investi gation of the details of business it will have accomplished a great good.: At any rntevit will have the effect of making all directors responsible and make it Impos sible to set' up thp easy-going plea of Ignorance. It is nn order which bank directors cannot reasonably object to and which bank officers should approve as calculated to inspire public confi dence. First district to the list of offices nnmed in the regular election proclamation for November. A memlxT of the Kelchstag has been sentenced to three mouths in prison for criticizing the action of the German army in China. It Is luck for some American writers that lese majesty is not an offense recognized by the extra dition treaties. Our amiable popocratic contemporary applauds the criminal prosecution of blackmailing lawyers In New York, but here In Omaha, It lends aid and comfort to blackmailers of every description and calling. la the Bnalness to Stay. Washlnston Post. Secretary Taft wants It distinctly under stood thnt he will not seriously consider any tip to retire from artive politics unless It comes from the republican convention In 1908. Reciprocal PrlTlleges. Chicago Record-Herald. The War department has made the horrifying discovery that there Is nothing in the law to prevent a civilian from wear ing the uniform of the army. Well, is there any law to prevent army officers from wearing civilian hand-me-downs? Hail to the Stork. New York Tribune. Forecasts of the results of the census now being taken Indicate that New York has the highest birthrate of any city In the union. With 2.000 babes born a week In New Tork, and a birthrate of probably thirty-two to the thousand, the Empire City Is advancing at an Imperial rate as to population. Idc la Rudely Shattered. Brooklyn Eagle. Civics and commerce are to be substi tuted for music nnd cooking In the school course. Just as It was being proved for our satisfaction that music and cooking were producing a race of people with lovely Ideals and good digestion, we have to have our prospects ruined by politicians and push-cart peddlers. Bad! Summer Activity In Graft. Chicago Chronicle. Another crop of land swindles in New Mexico and wholesale grafting In Indian Territory are signs that the usual sum mer activity In those regions has not been delayed by unseasonable weather. When we contemplate the long and unbroken series of steals and swindles which have been perpetrated upon the government In the southwest it can only be deemed cause for thankfulness that the New Mexican experts have not turned their attention to high finance. Blgelow and Oasklll would look like children beside them. Generosity of the Sngar Trust. Portland Oregonian. The Sugar trust lopped off 10 cents per hundred on the price of sugar yesterday. The decline, coming at a time when there Is an unusual demand for tho great staple for preserving purposes, would have been somewhat mystifying had people failed to remember that the trust Is beginning to feel the alleged necessity for crushing out the competition of an In dependent company which is widening Its swath In the Pacific coast field. A de cline in the price of sugar or oil should never be taken as an evidence of generosity on the part of the skillful manipulators who control such a large share of the world's supply of those important commodities. John Ball Laughs Last. San Francisco Chronicle. During the' Boer war German military critics had considerable fun criticising the blunders committed by the British com manders and In showing how easy It Is to put down undisciplined Insurgents when a military commander understands his business. It Is now the British military critics' turn to retaliate on the Germans, for the latter's efforts to suppress the na tive Insurrection In German Southwest Africa are meeting with 111 success. The garrison at Warmbad, the German head quarters, was recently massacred to A man and the place destroyed and the rebellion Is said to bo spreading, while typhoid fever Is reducing the German troops elsewhere In the colony, to the discredit of the medi cal corps. Work that Counts. Success Magazine. Make It a rule to go to your work every morning fresh and vigorous. Tou can not afford to take hold of the task upon which your life's success rests with the tips ot your fingers. You can not afford to bring only a fraction of yourself to your work. You want to go to It a whole man, fresh, strong and vigorous, so that It will be spon taneous, not forced; buoyant, not heavy You want to go to your work with creative energy, and originality possessed of a strong, powerful individuality. If you go to It with Jaded faculties and a sense of lassitude, after a night's dissipation or loss of sleep, it will inevitably suffer. Every thing you do will bear the impress of weak ness, and there Is no success or satisfaction In weakness. PERSONAL NOTES. Our estimable contemporary, the Lin coin Journal, mildly reproves the Colum bia News bureau, which has recently been organized to conduct the educa tional campaign for the railroads, for making two misstatements. One of these is that the government is trying to establish rates and distance tariffs and the other that the Journal has adopted the views of the railroads. There Is still auother mistake the Journal should have corrected. The Co lumbia News bureau remarks that It is a little surprising to see that the Journal, which always has been a champion of government rate regulation, has adopted certain views. The Columbia News bureau is a recent Importation into Ne braska or it would have known that the Journnl has not always been in favor of railroad regulation. On the contrary, the Journal started out as a rampant rallrosd organ and continued as such for more than twenty-five years. Its conversion to nntl-mouopoly princi ples was brought alout by the Intrusion of D. E. Thompson into the domain of polities and Journalism. While its pres ent attitude on the paramount issue of the hour Is commendable and gratifying to the friends of popular government, it was not always thus. v report from the United HOI SI) AROIT SEW YORK. Ripples on the t orrent of 1.1 fe In the Metropolis. If "charity covers a multitude of sins.' as Is claimed for It, New Yorkers should stand in tor a good slice of salvation An Investigation conducted by the Even ing Tost shows that last year, in Indi vidual beneficences alone, counting only tnose of more than tTxACOO. cltliens of Greater New York gave to public uses almost $:-0,0iO.000. For 1906 the amounts allowed for charities by the Board of Es tlmate arc: Supplies, medicines, cofflns. etc.. and repairs to building for paupers.. I 11S.600 municipal lodging 62S.fH 17. Vii) 65.0UO 1,500 12.000 614,800 1,000 Admlnlstra tlon house rent, etc Clothing, ambulances, etc Poor adult blind Allowance for veteran on Memo rial day Burial of veteran soldiers of tho armies of the l and of pau pers and for headstone Bellevue and allied hospitals Open air concerts for city depend ents For deaf and dumb, blind and fee. ble-minded 173,237 To those Items must be added these from the Board of Health allowances Hospital fund $ 147.6 Medical school Inspection, salaries. 149,(nYt eupport of ambulance service 24,8i0 Then there are the new buildings, ex tensions and Improvements f,or Bellevue and Gouvernur hospitals (tS.OOO.OOO) : Appropriation this vear H.lUn.ono New Harlem hospital 800,000 volunteer nremen veterans and their widow and orphans ll.&iiO Cost of committing Insane persons. 8,000 Brooklyn Disciplinary Training school 48.000 There are besides 127 charitable Institu tions carried on by benevolent citizens and societies. When these are managed by persons without salary or compensa tion of any kind, the municipality con tributes to the cost of maintenance by appropriating for each Infant, each de pendent or delinquent child, each Inmate Of a home for fallen women, each ma ternity case, each case of free medical or surgical treatment, and for each In curable or Infirm patient In any such house or hospital, special sums 38 cents a day for Infants, 12 a week for dependent children, 118 for every maternity case, $110 a year for each fallen woman who Is be ing cared for, and so on. ' Appropriations from municipal funds for these 127 dis pensaries, homes for friendless, hospitals, convents, asylums, missions, Infirmaries, sanitaria and the rest of those places of mercy, Italian, Irish, German, Methodist, Catholic, Anglican, Swedish appropriations for these this year reach the splendid total Of ,09S,356. Thus this year's grand total for munici pal charities will be: Board of Charities and Bellevue and allied hospitals $2,5!2.290 Board of Health hospitals 3:il,396 Paid to private institutions 8.09S.3.'i6 Miscellaneous 6H.600 For additions and Improvements of hospitals 1.760,000 Grand total, 1906 17,840,642 Undoubtedly all records will be broken In this summer's ruhh abroad. Already the number for 1905 Is nearlng the half mark of the total of 1904 and the annual rush to Europe has only begun. The figures up to two weeks ago had passed the 60,000 mark. It can be safely said that the total now Is at least 80,000. The present bookings will Increase this by 30,000 by the middle of July. Add to this the figures for August and September and the rest of the year and it will be easily seen that 1906 will go beyond the 200,000 mark. For the last six years the New York transatlantic paBsengcr traffic has been in creasing steadily. In only one year of the six have the figures fallen behind the pre ceding., year. In that case the preceding year happened to be 1900, the year of the Paris exposition, when 190,537 persons sailed from that port. In 1S99 the number of pas sengers In eastbound ships was 164,286. Last summer the bookings aggregated 190,348. f . 111 ' V X "Y i n-M,,i -w. "rirti1 iW" i ranrTBTsjnrwT'' " '- I J 1 M 1 1 v V I V 1 X J There are no less than four Vv1' a x a li A! . 1 1 TV? iccn rciucuics in mis sianuaru vvy family medicine. Among them we might mention sarsaparilla root, yellow dock root, stillingia root, buck thorn bark, senna leaves, burdock root, cimi cifuga root, cinchona bark, Phytolacca root. Ayer's Sarsaparilla is certainly a medicine, a genuine medicine, a doctor's medicine. Hsae by tb 1. O. Aye Co., La wall, Vw. Also snntsator.rs of ATER'8 HAtR TTOOR-For the tislr. AYKR'8 PIIXS Pot constitution. AYEK'S CHERRY PBCTORAL For conghs. AYEk'S AGUB CUKE Kor malaria sol inn, I1B II I l.H""' m ' - . . Governor Mickey's determination not to recall his proclamation for a special election in the First Nebraska district makes it necessary to wait till some later time to test the purely academic question whether a governor has a legal right to rescind an election call. Should the courts declare the call illegal, there would be no need of rescinding It. all It would require would be the addition of a congressman to fill vacancy In the According to the latest Washington any citlten of States may. without fear of prosecution, wear the uniform of a lieutenant general of the army If he can afford the uniform. Paul Deroulede, the old French Irrecon cilable, duel'.st and journalist, who was banished from France for ten years, Is to be Included In the general amnesty which will be granted on the occasion of the French national festival July 14, the anni versary of the fall of the Bastlle. George Auger, the giant from Cardiff, Wales, recently on exhibition with Barnum & Bailey's circus, Is a freak who. will tes tify to the drawbacks of the life he leads. In his own words, "It's no joke to be a giant." Auger Is only 23 years of age, yet he has attained a height of seven feet eight Inches. Andrew Carnegie is a cltlien of more towns than anyone else. He has received the freedom of almost every city In Eng land and Scotland for which he has con tributed a free library or other Institution. He will soon require a museum to accom modate the caskets containing parchment rolls of his citizenship. Robert Rogers, one of the two remaining boer prisoners in Ceylon, left for Holland last month, having been four and a half years on the Island. The British govern ment has warned him that this permission does not imply that the prohibition of his return to south Africa will be canceled, as he has not yet taken the oath of alle glance. Baron Fersen. captain of the Russian cruiser Ixumrud, who reports to the cxar to having blown up his vessel rather than have it fall Into the hands of the Japa nese. has Just that sort of blood in his veins. For he is one of that family of highland Macphersona who settled In Sweden, where they dropped the "Mac, called themselves Fersen. and afterward overflowed Into Russia, where they rose to high positions. The most Illustrious of the line was that Field Marshal Count von Fersen, who entered the French service and played a considerable role In the life of Marie Antoinette. Charles F. Murphy, head of Tammany hall, Is now quite as great a nabob as his predecessor, Richard Croker. He moved to his new country place down on Long inland a few days ago, carrying with him all the accessories of social greatness a string of horses, two automobiles, a yacht, a troop of servants and many other things regard ing which he did not even dream twenty years ago, when he was .conductor on a horse' car. Said one who has known him for many years: "He does not need a knife when he eats his plo nowadays, and it is said that he can make a salad dress ing all by himself. Croker never made such progress In the time." If the high birth rate In New York City continues to increase at the present speed It will be necessary to declare an open season on the stork. At the very least there will be no occasion to offer baby bounties. The health department announces that the birth rate of New York has now risen to about 31 per 1,000 and is higher than any other city In the United States. Iust year the birth rate was 30 per 1,000. The prospect now Is that the rate In 1906 will be 32 per 1,000. According to political economists the ideal standard birth rate Is 30 per 1,000. Anything above that Is gilt edged and entitles a community to the choicest encomiums In President Roose velt's vocabulary. A young married woman out for an air ing In Central park took a seat on a bench along the west drive, where an aged negress sat minding a bow-legged picka ninny. Presently the old darkey called the child something which sounded to the white woman like Exy. 'Exy?" she said, "that's a queer name for a baby, Isn't it. Auntie?" "Dat ain't her full name." explained the old negress with pride, "dat's Jes' de pet name I got fer her fer short. Pat chile got a mighty fancy soundin' name. Her maw dat's my daughter picked it out fer her In a medicine book. Yessum, de chile's full name Is Ecsema." Vnlhlnv In more lnrilmtfVA of the changed conditions of the Bowery than the announcement that "Mike" Lvons' famous rataiirnnt lit to h. closed hereafter at S o clock at nlgnt. A few years ago uyona place was tne popular rtnaezvous ior poii iieinn. eltv officials and nlnht rounders When President Roosevelt was police com missioner he ate tnere orten, ana unester a Arthur before his rtresldentlal term r.ia4 It mrl of headauarters. Then came the Parkhurst crusade. The end or tne Bowery was beginning. The wave or re form that was then started never ceased moving and rolled relentlessly on. until to Av fnme. the Nlvn In the akv that the end has come. The street which once never Vnit what It kii to slevn Is deserted after midnight, and Mike Lyons' restau rant Will Be closed during tne nours wnen the Bowery once throbbed with life and crime. FORMER AM. IE IX REFORM. Populists Called tirnfters anil Dfino- ocrsU Denooneed as Frands. Schuyler Free I.ance, It was the official records ot the fusion officials when In power that wrecked the party In Nebraska and the Independent under Tibbies' editorial management ever upheld and endorsed that record. The railroad question was the chief Issue with the populist party In the state and the party failed to accomplish anything In that line, due to Its loaders and not to tho rank and file which alone Is guilty as it clung to those leaders and became simply pup pets. The men elected to office by the party proved to be tho rankest kind of corpora tion tools, while pretending to be re formers and for the people. Not only did they fail to legislate, but the whole bunch were pass grabbers and the fusion state board assessed the railroads lower even than did the republicans ahead of them. All this was known by the Independent management and yet not only did they fail to remonstrate or protest, but worse yet, tried by false statements to mislead the people as to the work and record of the fusion office-holding contingency. As rank a piece of work was the oil In spection under J. H. Edmlsten as chief and yet that fellow was boomed for governor by the Independent. We might go on and enumerate the short comings of the fusion office holders, but It was never protested against by the Inde pendent which ever talked to the people as if there was a great set of reformers In charge of the state government. The Interest grabbing of Treasurer Ml- serve, the fee-grabbing by Secretary of State Porter, the railroad pass grabbing by the whole bunch and the general failure to reform were never alluded to by the in dependent except to whitewash same. Tho populist party In NebrasKa died a well merited death and it should have died sooner. The Independent under the edi torial management of Tibbies was as rank a contingency as any and It should have died with the party or sooner. Old Tibbies is an old wind-bag and when he assails a man like Berge he Is using his nerve. This editor had a personal experience as a member of the legislature In 1901 with that Lincoln Independent outfit and knows what he Is talking about when he says that they are a lot of grafters. Ex-Secretary of State Porter had farmed the state printing out to the Independent which filed Its bill for about three times what It was worth. Those bills were referred to the printing committee of which this editor was a member. That committee promptly adjusted the claim by recommending to allow about a third the same. Then did Frank D. Eager, owner of the Independent, come to this writer and protest and try to get the claim allowed, by all means. And because we were loyal to the state he had nerve enough to accuse us of not being loyal to the party in not allowing the bill claimed. In defense of his charges he said that they always had to divide with the legislative committee and expected to this time, thus admitting that they were guilty of wrong doing. Albion Argus (pop) If there ever was a party out of busi ness and confessedly so by It's own admis sion, it is the democratic party. As proof of this assertion we refer the reader to the platform adopted by Lincoln, Thurs day of last week, at the congressional con vention. It was drawn by the boll sheep of the party In Nebraska, R. L. Metcalfe, hence must be the best they have to put before the people. On the pass question they say Just what the republicans said a few days before at Falls City. Then they fulminate against the trusts and so did the republicans. Then they Indorse President Roosevelt on his Interstate Commerce commission posltloii, which, of course, the republicans indorse. Then they Indorse rresment Roosevelt again In his order to buy sup plies for the Panama canal abroad, which, of course, republicans also Indorse. Re- Tlps oa Home Advantages. Chicago Inter Ocean. Doubtless there are reasons for regret ting that many of those who travel to Europe this yesr do not rather spend their time and money In learning to know their own country and its people beyond the districts where they have their homes. However, there Is this to be said: The American who travels In Europe with eyes open for anything beyond mere amusement returns, with rare exceptions, a better American than he went away. When he has really seen what life is without them he learns to value Ameri can institutions and ideals. publicans always swear by their officials in their platforms. And here the demo crats are also swearing by republican of ficials Not one thing do they condemn in the republican party, and not one thing do they demand more than republicans have promised In their platform. Now If that don't put them out of business, and re move the last excuse for the existence of the party, then we can't Imagine what it would take to put a party out of busi ness. Mayor Brown bucked; he didn't want the nomination. Well, we don't blame htm. Why should any sane man want to go to defeat on -such a miserable raft aa that? All the campaign he can make Is to go around over the district with his finger In his mouth like a green kid and say: "Please, mister, I would like tha plum." KI.ASHKS OF FI X. Reporter I have written Just one line about the meeting tonight. Night Editor (mechanically) Well, boll it down. Somervllle Journal. "Blank says he cashes his brains for a living." "1 don't doubt It. Ho has ft reputation for trying to pass plugged money." De troit Free Press. "Of course it Is essential," said th long-winded bore, "that a man should weigh his words when speaking " "Yes, and for some," Interrupted Ken dor, "It's well not to give such, generous measure." Philadelphia Press. The sweet girl graduate was reading her essay. The fond mother, sitting near the front row, was gazing at her with rapture. "You ought to be proud of her, Mrs. Hlghmus," whispered the admiring friend sitting alongside. "Indeed I am," answered the mother. "It cost 175, and fits her like a glove!" Chicago Tribune. First Club Woman (a few years hence)- Men are enough to drive a woman craxy. Second Club Woman Indeed they are. First Club Woman Only think! For five nights last week I remained at the club ter ribly late, and yet when I wont home I , didn't find my husband waiting ut (he top of the stairs to upbraid me for neglect. Tho heartless brute was In Vied, sleeping like a top. and actually smiled In his dreams. New York Globe. "Doctor," said the facetious fat man, "I believe I must have malaria." "What makes you think so?" "Well, I feel heavy when I get up in the morning." Philadelphia Ledger. DEESA GREATA HOLIDAY. T. A. Daly in Philadelphia Standard. Hoorah! for deesa General Dat niaka Fourth-July ! I sella playnta lemonade, Banan' an' cake an' pie. I go for shake 'ees han'. He maka beezaness for ma At dees peanutta-stan', An' w'en I eesa gotta time I go for shake 'ces han'. Wen I ees come America, Some fallow on da ship He tal how deesa General He "mak" da Inglalce skip." 'We don'ta wanta fiKhtln' here," Dees General he say. "So, Meestah Inglaice Flghtln'-man, You besta go away." An' den dees Inglaice Flghtln'-man He aska heem "For why?" Da General ees getta mad. "I no can tal a lie," He say to deesa Flghtln'-man, "An' so I speaka true. If you no getta 'way from here I tal you what 1 do. I tie you een a cherry tree, An' don I tak' my knife An' feeda you weeth cnerry pie Ees cooka by my wife!" "O! No!" ees say da Flghtln'-man, An' looka pretta soork, "I notta wanta tlnht weoth you. I go for home dees week." Da Flghtln'-man he was so scare He Justa run away. . . . "An now," ees say de General, "We maka holiday. For leetla boys to maka noise An' eata cake an' pie. Dees holiday will be rla one We calla Fourth-July." Hoorah! for deesa General Dot maka Fourth-July! I sella playnta lemonade, Banan' an' cake an' pie. He maka beezaness for me At dees peanulta-stnn', An' w'en I eemt gotta time I go for shake 'ees han'! 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