r
. . wi a
Pork and Brtni.
Thli Is a Tar lotion of the orthodox
pork and baked twang. Soak a pint of
vhlte beans over night. In the morn
ling put them on to boll, with plenty
qX water to cover them, and add more
Js K becomes absorbed In cooking.
Ilea half a pound of breakfast bacon
thin a&4 distribute through the beans
nd cook with them. Cook gently on til
the beans are tender, but not soft
nough to break. Just before taktDg
from the Are add half a cup of New
Orleans molasses; let all boll up and
then pour Into a buttered dish. Cut
(trips of bacon like straws and lay them
over the top of the beans ; place In the
even and bake until well browned, or
lor about two hours.
Canoed reached.
Tare, cut In half and stone, taking
cart not to break the fruit j drop each
piece In cold water ns soon as it Is
fared. The large, white, freestone
teaches are nicest for this purpose.
Firmness of texture Is a desideratum.
The fruit should be ripe, but not soft
Allow a heaping tablespoonful of sugar
to each quart of fruit, scattering It be
tween the laycis. Fill your kettle and
beat slowly to a boll. Doll three mln
Otes, Just to assure yourself that every
piece of fruit Is heated through. Can
jwd seal. It is safe to put a cupful
?f water in the bottom of the kettlo be
ore pocking It with fruit, lest the lower
layer should burn.
Sea Foam Pudge,
Put three cupfuls light brown sugar,
cap of water and tablespoonful vine
gar Into a saucepan, neat gradually to
toiling, stirring only until the sugar is
dissolved, then boll without' stirring
nntil a little forms a hard ball when
tested In cold water. Remove at once
from fire, and when the sirup stops
DuDDiiDg pour gradually into it tno
stiffly beaten whites of two eggs, beat
ing constantly. Continue heating until
the mixture will bold its shape, then
add a teaspoonful of vanilla and a cup
ful of English walnuts or any other
kind of nuts cut Into small pieces. Drop
In small, rough-shaped piles on par
affin or buttered paper.
Aerated Ilread,
Tour a pint of boiling water upon a
pint of new milk; add a tablespoonful
each of sugar and of butter and a tea
spoonful of salt Stir Into this mixture
enough flour to make a moderately stiff
batter, and "beat In the open air, with
long sweeps of the beater that bring
fresh air Into the heart of the batter
every time, until It is lukewarm. Thm
add the yeast This well worked in,
Stir In flour until you can knead It free
from the floured board. Set It to rise
' until light Then mold Into loaves, and
when they have doubled their original
bulk bake In a steady oven. This quan
tity will make four loaves.
Strawberry aad Ilioe Pudding.
Boll one-fourth cup of rice till thor
oughly done; while warm put through
a potato rlcer, and Into one cup of this
rice stir one cup of strawberry Juice.
Whip onc-hnlf pint of heavy cream.
Dissolve a tablespoonful of gelatin over
the steam of the kettle, and add, with
one-half cup of sugar and the well
beaten whites of three eggs, to the rice
and berry Juice. Stir In the whipped
cream and pour into a wetted mold and
put on Ice for at least six hours before
serving. Servo as It Is or turn on a
platter and serve with or without
grenm.
ytJP"". left-over Ears.
Eggs that have been hard boiled ' and
ont to the table and untouched can be
tllped and dressed with, mayonnaise
fried eggs can be run through a food
chopper, mixed with potatoes and
cooked In potato balls. Poached eggs
Should be reheuied and cooked done and
. .1 - . t . i ,
run xurougii a rurr iu uuu iu en inns.
' Boiled or fried rggs If run through a
fleet and mixed with finely chopped
meat make good croquettes. If the yolk
'of an egg is used and the whlto Is left
beat It and stir Into apple sauce. A
broken egg can be covered with water,
placed in the refrigerator and will keep
rood for several days.
f v To Cau Ilects.
, Cook the beets uutll tender, then slice
as for use at the 'table. Ono quart of
water, one cup vinegar, one-half cup of
granulated sugar; boll all together, then
drop the beets in tho liquor and let
them stay until it bolls. Tut In glass
cans, seal tightly and keep In a dark
place.
Siwort Buseslion.
To cover the pan in which fish Is
cooking will make the flesh soft
AH lard to fry fritters and doughnuts
must be very, very hot before putting
In the batter.
Black lead mixed with vinegar will
bo found to give a specially good polish
to the kitchen stove.
Rub over new tinware with lard and
thoroughly heat it In the oven before
using it for thus it is protected froui
rust
When cleaning kulves add a little
carbonate of soda to tho buthbrlck on
the board, for then they will polish
lunch quicker.
A neglected grate, or one which has
been red hot should be rubbed over
with a cut raw potato before it is black-
leaded. .The result "will be a brilliant
polish, t
Ink stains on silver or plated articles
may bo removed with a paste made of
chloride of lhue and water. This should
be left on for a little while and then
washed off in warm water.
If, when using lemon for flavoring,
you need only half a one, put the other
half ou a plate and cover with a glass
tumbler. This excludes the air and pre
vents it from drying up or getting
moldy.
J I
BUSINESS ON TJPIUEN, (
Nation's Trad in Some Case Bur
passes Normal. I
Careful analysis of commercial, In
dustrial and agricultural conditions
made by representatives of the Chicago
Record-Herald throughout the United
States showed thut business activity
In all linos Is stcudlJy ruturnlag to nor
mal uiid has In some cases . exceeded
it. y Crops are unusually lurge and tie
mimlter of unemployed men and of
empty railroad cars show marked de
creases. One of Uncle Sum's most reliable
business barometers, the Chicago post
oillcc receipts, reentered an exception
ally reassuring Indication Saturday
that the thin of business throughout
tho country has taken a sharp upturn.
Statistic on the postal receipts of the
country were compiled In New York
and made public by Postmaster Ed-'
ward M. Morgan of tho eastern me-
trojwlls. There the business pulse was
shown to be quickening by the fact
that the receipts at the New York of
fice for June of this year were $21,
1X11.28 higher than In Juuo, 1907. Fig
ures were forwarded from fifty of the
largest oflleea to Postmaster Morgan,
and of this numbor thirty-three made
a showing of Increases during the
month of Juno, 1!X8, over the receipts
of Juno, 1907. The aggregate receipts
of these llfty offlces reached the large
total of $7,01fl,l!(, a gain of $61,083
over the business of the same offices
in June, 1007.
In Chicago fully 10,000 railroad men
have gone back to work In tho last six
months. Half of the men the pnekers
laid off hist winter are at work again.
The Idle cars in tho Chicago district
have been reduced one-half since the
high number reached In May. Illinois
will have u winter wheat crop of 40,
000,000 bushels, which is a little less
than last year. Tho oats crop will be
12.-,0()0,000 bushels, which Is 20,000,000
bushels more than last year. The corn
crop condition and acreage suggests a
crop of 325,00,000 bushels, about the
same as last year.
Oeneral conditions seem promising In
Wisconsin, where the big manufactur
ing institutions report an Increase of
business, actual and In Inquiries. J.
I. Klapp, of Milwaukee, president of
the National Car Service Association,
says that by Nov. 1 there will be a
car shortage.
With all factories and shops In Oma
ha and its vicinity running full time,
with assurance of another year of
bountiful crops In Nebraska and sur
rounding states, the Industrial outlook
in that city Is most promising. In
Kansas wheat 'destroyers have been
active, but the yield of corn will be
the heaviest In the State's history.
There Is a heavy demand for unskilled
labor.
Secretary George A. Wells, of the
Iowa Grain Dealers' Association, in
annual estimate made public at Des
Moines, shows crops In Iowa to bo
slightly above normal, with prospects
for the future favorablo.
St, Louis reports conditions In the'
wholesale and retail mercantile lines
as fast resuming normal and keeping
freight business moving fairly well.
St. Louis reports conditions in the
wholesale and retail mercantile lines
as fast resuming normal and keeping
freight business moving fairly well.
At Indianapolis there ure probably
12,000 to 15,000 men still unemployed,
but conditions are Improving. Facto
ries generally arc putting more men
to work.
. Advices from Detroit say that busi
ness conditions In Michigan, though not
yet normal, are showing a steady Im
provement and are much better than
three or four months ago. Bumpor
crops are rejiorted from both grain and
fruit regions.
Iu Ohio crops are uniformly good
uud prices on farm products are the
best in years. Kvery trunk line rail
road entering Cincinnati reports a
steady Increase In freight business.
Investigation made at Pittsburg
showed that a gradual Improvement
has set In In all lines In western Penn
sylvania, West Virginia and eastern
Ohio, the district having financial and
commercial relations with that city as
the center. This Is evidenced by the
scarcity of men, more especially in, the
coke and coal operations. While the
mills are operating from 50 to CO per
cent capacity, more men are being put
to work every day. A sane estimate
of the number of men at work In Alle
gheny County in tho mills and fur
naces Is placed at 05,000, while In the
milling and coking districts not u man
need bo Idle. The railroads havo taken
on a spurt within the last thirty days.
At the Baldwin locomotive works in
Philadelphia 1,000 men have been tak
en back In tho last throe weeks.
Norfolk and Southern Hec-rl verahlp.
The Federal Court t Norfolk, Va., hai
plaeed the Norfolk ami Southern railway
in the hands of receivers upon the appli
cation of the TniKt Company of America,
the railroad assenting. The rosd recently
hiiM bought in a number of branch lines
on borrowed capital ami could not make
pood. A reorganization coinmitteo ha
een formed.
Men OuMtliiia; Ont Cattle.
One explanation advanced for the con'
tinned rise iu the price of moat la that
the big cattle raimeu of the Southwest
iliavo been rapidly tilling up with settlors
In the hist two year, with a consequent
clearing of the matures for cultivation.
The prices for cuttle on the hoof are
higher than ever. In all tha larger cities
the oorer people have begun systematic
boycotts of the butchers who charge the
high price. The result la that people are
eating less meat and more fruit and veg
ttable than heretofore.
Three-Cent Far Lines Are Short.
The Municipal Traction Company of
Cleveland, Ohio, which la operating nil
the city's ear line on the 3-ceut plan
carried out by Mayor Johnson, reports a
deficit of $54,010 for May. But Mayor
Johnson says that this was due more to
the prevailing strike than to the reduced
fares.
The International
Associat ien of Po
lice Chiefs adopted a resolution urging
a uniform law regulating the sale and
une of deadly weaiMtis. A resolution also
was adopted cndeimiiii' the cartooning
and caricaturing of policemen.
KUCES AT KI31 IIARS.
Level (or 1607 Twenty-Nina Pet
Cent Abova Average for Tears.
It win be of Interest to thoso whs
were busy kut year in keeping the wolf
from the door to know flint figures on
wholesale prices of 25S representative
staple articles reachad Ue apex of
their soaring last Octolwr. Those stjv
tittle are for the eighteen years be
tween 1X00 and 1007.
The annual report on this subject ol
the Commerce and Labor Departments
Shows that the average for the year
X0OT was BJ per octt higher than for
1006 ; 44.4 per eent higher than for
1807, the year of lowest prices during
the eighteen-year period, and 28J5 per
teat high or than the average for the
tea years from 1830 to 1B). Prices
reached their highest point during the
eighteen-year period la October, 1007,
the average for that month -being 1.2
per cent higher than the average for
the year 1007, and 2.8 per eent higher
than the average for Deeembcx, 1005,
the month of highest prices ho that
year.
When the commodities are divided
Into nine groups every group shows an
Increase In price tn 1007 ns compared
with 1000. For farm products taken
as a whole this increase was greatest
namely, 10.0 per cent; for food, 4.0 per
cent; for clothes and clothing, 6.6 per
cent; for fuel and lighting, 2.4 per
celt ; for metals and Implements, 6.1 per
cent; for lumber and building materi
als, 4.0 per cent; for drugs and chem
icals, 8.3 per cent; for house furnish
ing goods, 6.8 per cent and for the mis
cellaneous group. B per cent
Tho effect of the money stringency in
the latter part of the Inst year is re
flected in the decrease recorded in all
commodities during November and De
cember, the average price showing a
decrease of 3.5 per cent below October,
Of the 258 articles for which whole.
Sale prices were recorded 172 showed
an Increase in the average prices for
1007 as compared with 1000 ; thirty-five
showed no change and fifty-one showed
decrease.
Hydrophobia is tn reality so rare and
so terrifying thai its symptoms and treat
meat an little understood. As a matter
of fact, the commonly accepted expres
sion of madness in a dog Is often mislead
ing. The real mad dog does not shnn wa
ter, as it Is said. On bh contrary, mad
dogs often rush to the water and drink
eagerly, if they are able to swallow.
The mad dog does not froth at the
month. It does not run amuck, snapping
at everything in Ks path.
What then, are tho indications of the
mad dog? To those familiar with a'given
dog the surest symptom and the one which
would eicite closest attention is a dis
tinct and unaccountable change in the
dog's disposition a staid dog becoming
excitable and a frisky one dull. That con
dition does. not necessarily mean rabies,
but it is suspicious, and if, in addition,
the dog bos trouble in swallowing as
though It seemed to have a bone in its
throat beware 1 That dog should be in
stantly tied up, because if it be rabies it
takes but a day or two for ferocious in
stincts to develop.
The unmistakable evidence, however, of
a dog with rabies is the sticky, whitish
saliva which covers the teeth and shows
on the drawn lips. The eyes glare and
are red j the dog has paroxysms of run
ning fury, during which it barks hoarsely,
which alternate with periods of tcmporory
exhaustion. Caspar Whitney, in Outing
for July.
Doctara Discuss Industrialism.
The effects of the present-day tendency
of women to enter Into economic compe
tition with men en me up for an airing be
fore the Chicago meeting of the American
Academy of Medicine.. Several of the
male physicians deplored the fact that
"too many women unseied themselves by
forsaking home Mfe for work in shops,
stores and factoriea," and one said that
the lack of servants and housewives was
disrupting society. A woman doctor,
Helen C. Putnam of Providence, came ont
squarely for woman siifraae, holding hnt
every woman had tbe'rlght to develop her
best faculties, to seek education and to
enter a business field where she might se
lect a father for her children on terms of
social and intellectual equality. Dr. Bur
rail of Boston, the new president of the
association, took strong ground in favor
of educating the public as to general hy
giene and sanitation, saying thlji was jie
duty of the medical pVufessloa. The
House of Delegates of the association
recommended the creation of a commis
sion to watch and oppose legislation
tgatust vivisection.
, A Houvywrlarht Tlelcet.
In spite of the fact that Secretary Taft
has often laughingly declared tha "no
real gentleman weighs more than 300
pounds," his solid bulk combined with the
compact frame of his running mate, James
S. Sherman, makes the heaviest ticket
ever put forward by any national party.
The two men together tip the scales at
something not far short of U0 pounds.
The record before this was held by the
Democrats on the strength of rhe avoirdu
pois of G rover Cleveland, When nomi
nated in 1S12 Mr. Cleveland weighed
about 275 ounda, but the small figure
of Adlnl E. Stevenson kept the total
irouud 425 pounds.
Jonra' HiKiiarmug Pile.
Charles O. Joiuw made a remarkabl
trial flight in his airship Boomerang,
starting at Hammondsport, N. Y. He
sniltd first to WtUfciua, twenty-six
miles, and then on to within six miles
of Path, where he ran Into a tree and
ripped his traa bag. The novel featmes
in the Jones ship are tha une of a second
gas ha trailing Uhlnd to repine the sup
ply of ths main bug, which ia 05 feet long
and cigurH&uped. and a system of ballast
moving ttat employs a UttW aand car
moving on tnulcs.
' "
New Cure for Itabtea.
An improved prevention of the develop
ment of rabies has just bwn brought Into
use at Paris. Although K acts more
quickly than did the old method, it must
be administered before the germs have
multiplied ao aa to rcsuh the nerve cen
ters.
The Latest llammoadnort Fllarht.
The airship known as the June This
designed by C. II. Curtis, has had a suo
cesf-ful trial flight at llainmondsport ter
ritory. The June Hug went the record
distance of 2175 feet at a speed of thirty
six miles an nour.
TOLSTOI STIfIGS CZAR
AS CIVILIZATION S FOE
Scathing Arraignment of Gpvero
mcnt by Execution Is
Published.
THE EVIL SPREADS DEPRAVITY,
Reformer Says Crimes In Name of
Law Are More Awful than
Revolutionists' Acts.
Count Leo Tolstoi, In a long article
pnbllshed In Tendon, Indicts, with his
old vivid literary skill,' tho present sys
tem of "government by execution" tn
Russia, the article concluding with a
noble appeal to the better nature of
his countrymen.
During the course of tho nrtlcle the
Count writes:
"I can no longer endure it. I write
this either that those Inhuman deeds
may Ik? stopped or that my connection
with thcru may be snapped and I be
put in prison, where 1 may lie clearly
conscious that these horrors are not
committed on my own behalf, or, still
iM'tfcr (so good that I dare not even
dream of such happiness), that they
may put on me as on those twenty or
twelve peasants a shroud and a cap
and may jiuhIi me nlso off n bench so
u
H rfo
msm&m
CUl'NT TOIJSTOI.
that by my own weight I may tighten
the well souped uooso around my old
throat."
Tolstoi, instancing the shocking
spread of greed to obtain money by
executing condemned prisoners, says:
Awful ns nre the deeds themselves.
the, moral nud spiritual unseen evil
they produce Is Incomparably more
terrible."
With regard to the government's con
tention that there Is no other way to
suppress the revolutionists, Count Tol
stoi, while admitting that the revolu
tloniHts' crimes are stupid nnd rcprii-
lii'iislhle In the highest degree, accuses
the government of doing th same
thing for the same motive, nnd adds:
All the revolutionists' boniblnir and
murders do not conic anywhere neCr
the criminality and stupidity of the
ueeds the government commits."
Y?OS&NDS,
"Iron Man" Joe McGinnily, hero of
many a pitching battle for tho Giants,
will pitch no more games for New York.
Poston leads the American League bat
ting with .2W, and the White Sox are
last with .220. The Sox lead in fielding
with .070.
iH-uver authorities have mado good
tiheir threat to arrest all bookmakers at
lenittfing to lay bets at the Overland
Park races.
Iode Criss leads tihe American League
irr butting with an average of .412, but
he 1ms only appeared a a pinch hitter in
fifteen games.
Princeton won the intercollegiate base
ball championship by defeating Yale iu a
shandy contested cleven-inuiug game by
a score of 4 to 2.
W. P. Dray, of Yule University, cham
pion pole vaulter of the world, has re
fused a place ou the American team to
compete in the Olympic games in Ixindon.
By ffie death of Admiral Dewey,
2:04-14, and Todd. 2:14Vi. both sons of
Uingeu, 2:0(1 ,4, the trotting horse breed
ers luive sustained a loss that will be a
severe shock to the advancement of fu
turity prospects.
New York bookies see a ray of hope
In the admission of the assistant district
attorney chat a bettor cannot be-arrest-ed
until he attempts to cash in, and that
the new law would be diliicult to enforce
with the English credit system of lietting
in vogue.
Tommy Burns, of America, and Bill
Squires, of Australia, ar I'd meet for Hie
third time, regardless ujf the fact that
Hirns knocked out Siiires in the eighth
round at Nouilly, Prance.
Piukolu wou the twenty-second renewal
of the litonla Perliy by a length from
Czar, with Ordondo, a long nhg, third.
Strung out over a 'sixteenth of a mile
tame the balance of the field.
Cheered by more than 25,000 persons,
Celt won the twenty-second running of
the Brooklyn handicap, one of the clussiu
v-Hts of the American turf, at tiie
Cravescnd race track. He did it easily.
W. K, Vanderbilt's Seasick II, with
Henry up, ran a dead heat with M. 11
Descha nip's Quintet II. for the French
IVrby. valued at $20,000, at Ohantilly.
Botti horses were favorites, and the finish
was a grueling one. W. K. Vanderbilt's
Maintenon won the stake in 1000.
Jak'.rt It. Haggin has announced bis
Intctitlft'i of selling all his horses at his
Klinendorf farm, near Lexington, Ky.,
and turning his attention to breeding of
linn cattle, a nucleus of the plaut having
already been started. His division was
caused by the passage of the anti-betting
law in New York, which Haggin says
ruins prices of horses
The new law directed a gats ft the
radical press has been execute fey Cat
postmaster general la erdars to tUs
postmasters telling them that they
are to refuse the maris te aQ pa
pers which, tn their Judgment contain
articles which "tend te Utctte ts arson,
murder and assassination," and fee hold
up all papers in foreign language like
ly to have objectieaable matter, pend
ing examination a translation ef
such matter to be furnished by tfc pro
prietor of said papers. This erfior Is
token by the Appeal to Reason, the Chl
cago Socialist. New Yerk Oall and eth
er socialist papers te be a challenge to
them, and they are preoarlnz to fleht
the order with every known weapon,
ir it shall be applied to thorn. They
say that It is against atl nrecedejit tn
give such discretionary power to every
petty postmaster in the land. The only
appeal from tho decision of the post
master will bo to the department at
Washington.
President Roosevelt's announcement
that he will spend most of next year
hunting big game In Africa Is regard
ed as an indication that he Is not a
candidate for Senator Tlatt's seat
This would leave the way open fol
former Governor Black, with an oppor
tunity for Mr. Roosevelt on Senator
Deiew'8 retirement two years later.
Mr. Roosevelt expects to sail early In
April, 1900. He will not touch at any
European port, but go direct to Cairo.
The actual hunting plans have not been
made, beyond the fact that British East
Africa wJli be the scene. Mr. Roose
velt expects to make a study of Afri
can animals, besides killing a few of
the. He will tell his experiences and
observations In magaslne articles and
possibly In book form. The trip is ex
pected to last about a year.
The end of the fiscal year fonnd the
United States Treasury approximately
$00,000,000 behind the total expendi
tures of the year, as compared with
a surplus of over $84,000,000 a year
ago. This condition is attributed by
the department officials to the busi
ness depression in the wake of the
panic or last fall. The receipts from
all sources were $763,000,000 less than
In the preceding fiscal year, while tho
disbursements were $181,000,000 larg
er. The total receipts were $5fK.8!5,
703 and the total of expenditures were
$059,551,755. Customs have fallen off
about $40,000,000 and the Internal rev
enues $19,000,000. The postal deficit
will be nearly $13,500,000.
Upon the second anniversary of the
passage of the pure food law, June 8,
the famous "poison squad," or class of
food experimenters conducted by Dr.
N. W. Wiley, ciemlst of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, was disbanded.
During this period nearly every class
of foods has been tested scientifically
by studying its effect upon these men.
A board has been created to pass upon
the final decision as to the quality of
the food and there are now about 100
criminal cases In tho courts. Dr. Wi
ley says that manufacturers and deal
era have generally come to see that It
pays better to obey this law as to
branding their goods for what they
are.
The Question which has caused so
much controversy between government
officials and distillers as to whether or
not whisky and neutral spirits are like
substances, has been Judicially deter
mined by the District of Columbia
Court of Appeals which holds that they
are not like substances. It also was
decided that bourbon whisky can only
be made In the State of Kentucky and
must be made from a mash, the chief
Ingredient of which Is corn.
The fact that Chairman Payne ol
the House Committee on Ways and
Means, which Is to Inquire Into the sub
ject Of tariff revision, does not intend
to call his committee together during
the recess of Congress is attributed to
a desire not to encourage tariff revis
ionists. Payne declares positively that
bis committee will not be called to
gether. After a conference between Secre
tary of Commerce Labor Straus, im
migration Commissioner Sergeut and
the Immigration officials of Boston,
Montreal, New York, Philadelphia and
Baltimore at New York, it was an
nounced that hereafter the rules for
the exclusion of persons because of dis
ease will be uniform.
The president has proclaimed the
reservation of strips of land along the
Canadian border, 30 feet wide, for the
better enforcement of tho customs and
immigration laws. This applies only
to unappropriated lands.
In a letter to Commander Hutch L
Cone of the torpedo flotilla, which
made the vogage from Hampton Roads
to San Francisco, President Roosevelt
says tuat,lf be could draw any distinc
tion between the work of the battle
ship crews and the men of the destroy
ers It would be iu faver of the latter.
He adds that the voyage of the destroy
ers Is even a more notable feat and he
would like to thank every member of
the crews personally.
Secretary Root's summer program
includes another course at Muldoon's,
where be got so much help physically
a year ago. Mr. Root la sure to re
main in otllce, apparently, until the
end of this administration.
The President has proclaimed th
reservation of strips of land along the
Canadian border 30 feet wide for the
better enforcement of the customs and
Immigration laws. This applies only
j to unappropriated lauds.
Secretary Lake Wrlcat.
President Roosevelt has appointed a
southern Democrat to succeed Taft In
the War Department.
General Luke Wright, of Memphis,
who followed Mr. Taft at the Philip
pines, and was afterward sent to Toklo
to represent this government, is the
lucky man. The general , Ixdongs to
that clasa of Americans who do things.
He la popular with the army nnd is well
fitted to carry ou the work laid down
by the Republican candidate for Presi
dent
The selection of Oeneral Wright will
moot with approval. The only criticism,
we venture to say, will come from the
hide-bound partisans who regard it
political treason for a public servant
to choose subordinates from outside the
ranks. Put the President long since
demonstrated his utter' Indifference to
protests from thut quarter. It is
enough for him to know that he has
found a man who will fill the bill and
perform the duty required in a capable
and patriotic manner. The pnrty wall
is not so high iu the President's mind
that he cannot scale it at a single
bound, nnd find fragrant flowers on the
other side. Toledo Blade.
The Mont Important Pnrpose,
It Is about time that some opinions
hitherto maintained In this country re
specting the operations of the tariff
were considerably revised. There Is a
popular Impression that the lowering
of duties would result in facilitating
the entrance of British iron products to
this market, but it is as fallacioua as
that which Induced the temporary
abatement of the duty on coal a short
time ago, and which did not result In
the increased Importation of- a single
ton of mineral fuel. The reason Is
pretty plain. In most things we are
perfectly able to compete with the for
eigner, nnd our own prices are low
enough, with a little dropping,' to ke
out the imported product.- If the only
object of a protective tariff had been
to create industries which would en
able us to comiieto successfully, Jt
would be time to let go; but there Is
another purpose back of the policy and
that Is to preserve the American stan
dard of living by refusing to enter into
a competition which would compel us
to lower it to the foreign level. San
Francisco Chronicle.
Foreign Trade a Broken Reed.
Just now Japan Is supplying an Il
lustration of bow poor a dependence
foreign trade may be as a support for
Industries. The people of the south
ern part of China Inaugurated a boy
cott on Japanese goods m retaliation
for the humiliation to which their
country was subjected a short time ago
by Japan ; and now comes the report
that the Japanese Industries which for
merly supplied the Southern China
trade are about to shut down, because
of the boycott and the subsequent In
ability to dispose of their products.
The home market Is the best andjbe
safest ; and the country which does Its
own work builds its prosperity on the
surest foundation. Break down the
protection to our industries which the
tariff provides, and we would thereby
throw open the rich field of American
trade to the competition of industries
which give employment to other work
men nnd promote the wealth and pros
perity of other countries. Denver Re
publican.
Whollr Acceptable.
Revision having been determined tin-
on. It Is th part of wisdom to voice
the party s purpose in unmistakable
language. This Is done in the first
paragraph. The second paraaranh at
tempts to outline the party's position
upon the question of protection. There
Is no radical departure from the an
cient standards in this declaration. The
last paragraph is more in line with the
policy which Congress has pursued
than could have been expected almost,
for the reason that Secretary Taft has
favored practical free-trade with the
Philippines. The tariff document as
outlined will be whollv aeeentahle tn
Republicans everywhere. Cedar Rad
ios ltepubiioan.
Jl the Democrats Should Win.
The Senate will, remain Republican,
regardless altogether of how the elec
tion on November 3 goes. In the Im
probable event of the electioji of a Dem
ocratic President and House of Repre
sentatives this year there win be no
tariff revision. A tariff bill fratujed by
a Democratic House under Bryan
would receive the same treatment from
the Republican Senate that the Mills
bill got from that body In Cleveland's
first term. It would be hung up there,
and a new measure would be framed
by that chamber. That would be the
end for that Congress. The two
branches would not be able to get to
gether, and Mr. Bryan would get no
chanco to Ffcn or veto a tariff bin.
St Louis (MoN'-lH'iiiocrat.
Nenlrd It All.
Old Gentleman Itastns, If yon hud
half of that big watermelon would you
be happy?
Little RiirttUK No, sah.
Old Gentleman What more would
you want to complete your happiness?
Little Itastus Do odder half ob that
melon, sah.
A Good G cesser.
' Short I guess you couldn't let me
have $10 for n week, could you?
Long Say, you ought to be able to
make a fortune at the racetrack.
Short Why?
Long You are such a good guesBer.
Sol Mnrb Difference.
Eva Harry saw you start on a fish
ing expedition this morning and said
he wished lie were a fish so you could
catch him.
Edna Oh, it amount's to the some,
I'm always stringing him.
lime to Move Oa.
Just a bit of "moonshine,"
Just a bit of soug,
. Just a big policeman and I
It's time to "move along."
Chicago News
BOUND TARIFF PRINCIPLE!
Amerleaa Peapla Shoald Ooanrsa
Platform br Their Votea.
One of the best things In the Repub
lican platform, as plain as a plke-statf
and as honest as Government coin, is
the tariff plank! a
The Republican party declares uneguiv
ocally for a revision of the tariff by a
special session of Congress Imthadletely
following the Inauguration of the next
President, and commends tihe steps al
ready taken to this end in the work as
signed to the appropriate committees of
Congress which are now investigating the
operation and effect of existing schedules.
In all tariff legislation the true prin
ciple of protection Is best maintained by
the imposition of such duties as will equal
the difference between the cost of pro
duction at home and abroad, togethn
with a reasonable profit to American In
dustries. We favor the establishment of maxi
mum and minimum rates to be adminis
tered by tho President under limitations
fixed in the law, the maximum to be
available to meet discriminations by for
eign countries against America goods
entering their markets, and the minimum
to represent the normal measure of pro
tection at home, the aim and purpose of
the Republican policy being not only to
preserve, without excessive duties, that
securkv acainst foreien comnetltion to
which American manufactures, farmers
and producers are entitled, but also te
maintain the high standard of living of
the wage earners of this country, who are
tie most direct beneficiaries of the Pro
tective system.
Between the United States and the
Philippines we believe in a free inter
change of products wfth such limitations
as to sugar and tobacco as will afford
adequate protection to domestic interests.
Here is h declaration that means
something, and always the same some
thing to everybody. We shall have re
vision, whether rates are so high that
they permit abuses in the matter of ex
tortionate prices by monopolies which
ate immune from rivalry at homo
through agreement and combination,
and from competition by foreigners
through their exclusion from the Amer
ican market under any and all cir
cumstances, or whether rates are too
low to enable home Industries to main
tain themselves against the attacks
here of alien capital and labor. And
the most .ardent Protectionist who is
sincere In his support of the American
Tariff System in its true lines cannot
object to provision for freeing the pub
lic from the clutches of greed and ex
tortion which are exercised under tha
shelter of the tariff or of anything
else. The whole theory of that system
Is that it must benefit the people at
large flrRt by giving them work and
wages which otherwise would go to for
eign labor, and, secondly, by building-
up vigorous industries which, under '
natural laws and conditions, will com
pete vigorously among themselves for
the trade of the home market, thus
assuring fair prices In the rivalry to
gain and hold customers. Under this
tariff policy of the Republican party,
not only have the greatest industries
in the world been established, but prices
to consumers have fallen below the
levels which obtained before there was
such production by home mills and
factories.
But if there is no revision the Re
publican , party does not propose any
thing that will sacrifice the emnlnv.
ment of American labor or the legiti
mate profits of American capital. No-
language could be clearer and stronger
than this: "in all tariff legislation
the true principle of protection is best
maintained by the Imposition of Bucli
duties as will equal the difference be
tween the cost of production at home
and abroad, together with a reasonable
profit to American industries. " '
Undoubtedly this is the conviction ol
the American people. They know what
wealth and blessings they have enjoyed
under a tariff which has enabled Amer
icans to earn, their livings and bettei
livings by far than any foreigner hai
ever earned by making for tbemselvw
whatever they consume when It is pos
sible for them to make it They niusl
appreciate that the worst dlsastei
which could fall upon this oountrj
would be for a stream of foreign com
merce to come flooding over our mar
ket wiping out American Industries,
destroying the material wealth in th
factories and mills and the potential
wealth of the employment of the Amerl-.
can wage-earners. No war over de
vastated a country ' or wrought the
havoc to a people that would be suf
fered in the United States if a com
merclal invasion by foreigners should
be allowed to exterminate our lloine
Industries and strip our wage-oarners.
The whole or any part of such in
vasion that could overwhelm our produc
ing agencies would be absolutely pro
hibited by the continued enforcement ol
the ptdiey which is reiterated in that
tariff plank.
This will never satisfy those who
have made the loudest noise over the
tariff revision, which always meant
with them reduction, whatever the re
sult to our labor and investments. But
it cannot fail to bo confirmed by the
votes of the nation. New York Press.
The Main Question.
"Jnst this wny, sir," said the courte
ous clerk in the railroad office. "Let
me show you some summer guides en
titled 'Where to go' and 'When to
Go.' "
The man with the modest income
shook his head.
"They don't Interest mo," he slghod.
"What I want to know is TIow to
Go.'"
Capld at the Bat.
Pearl Yes, our college had a femal
baseball tenm.
Ruby Did you have any good catch
ers?
rarl I should say so. Five of thorn
caught husbands the first season mid
ferofee up the team.
The Horrid Thing-.
Clarence I told the minister h
mustn't kiss you.
Cordelia Ami what did he say?
Clarence ne thanked me, and said,
under the circumstances he would onlj
charge me half the usual fee.
Great Need.
Oh, that some Burbank of the West
Would patent, make and sell
An onion with an onion taste
But with a violet smelt
Judge. u