I'alnt.
Property owners should know how to
prove the purity and quality of white
load , the most important paint ingredi
ent , before paying for it. To all who
write. National Lead Co. , the largest
manufacturers of pure white lead , send
a free outfit with which to make a
simple and sure test of white lead , and
al. jo a free book about paint. Their
address is Woudbridge Bldg. , New York
City.
The 1'oiver ot tlie "Whale.
If the whale knew its own power , it
tould easily destroy all the machinery
frhich the art of man could devise for
catching him. It would only be neccs-
Eary for him to swim on the surface
In a straight line in order to break the
thickest rope , but instead , on being
ctruok by the harpoon , he obeys a nat
ural instinct , which , in this instance ,
betrays him to his death. Not having
tn air bladder , he can sink to the low
est depths of the ocean , and , mistaking
the harpoon for the teeth of a sword-
6sh or a shark , he instantly descends ,
this being his manner of freeing him
self from these enemies , who cannot
bear the pressure of a deep ocean , and
from descending and ascending in
tmall space he thus puts himself in the
power of the whaler.
AWFUL GRAVEL ATTACKS.
Cured by D < mn' Kidney Pill * Aflei
Years of Suffering ; .
F. A. RIppy , Depot Ave. . Gallatln
Tenn. , says : "Fifteen years ago kidney
disease attacked me. The pain in my
back was sc agonizln.
I finally had to glvt
up work. Tli-n cam
terrible attacks oi
gravel with acute pala
and passages of blood
In nil ! passed 23
Atones , some as lar
as a bean. Jilne jean
to a stale of eonfinua
weakness and I
thought I never would be better unti
I began using Doan's Kidney Pills. Tbi
Improvement was rapid and since uslnc
four boxes I am cured and have never
Jjad any return of the trouble. "
Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a bos
rFoster-MHburn Co. . Buffalo. N. T.
No Strniisrcr to That.
Mrs. Ilighmus 1 suppose at some time
'In your life you struggled with the Nibc-
lunsenlied ?
Airs. Gaswell O , yes ; I had an awful
siose of that in ' 015. I had to take all
kiruls ot nasty medicines before I got it
iout of my system.
Cook's Book , Free to Housekeepers.
A collection of choice recipes foi
baking and other domestic sciences
lias just been compiled by Mrs. Janet
rUcKenzie of the Boston Cooking
School. This Cook's Book will be sent
fiw to any housekeeper purchasing a
r -cent box of the celebrated K. C.
Slaking Powder and sending the cou-
jpon to the Jaques Manufacturing Co. ,
Dept. 75. Chicago. The object is to in
troduce into families this best baling
powder made at about half the "Trust"
jn-iei * asell as to give away a Cook's
2ook containing the latest develop
ments in the science of cooking , etc.
The large announcement of the Jaques
Manufacturing Co. elsewhere in this
paper gives farther partici lars well
\\'orth reading and following.
r "What Lava Is Good For.
Tourists in Italy are astonished at
"the practical use made of the lava that
lhas flowed from Vesuvius in past and
recent eruptions , for all Naples and
Its vicinity appear to be a world of
lava. The streets are paved with it.
IThere are staircases and statues ,
fflrinking troughs , brac-a-brac and even
jewelry of this strange material which
once bubbled from the yellow and drip
ping lips of the great crater above.
The careless guides make money out of
it by pressing coins or other objects
on partially cooled fragments and sellIng -
Ing these to visitors. On the ashy
rianks of the mountain there is enough j
lava 10 build another New York or Chicago
cage a shoreless frozen sea , it seems ,
of dull black that shimmers strangely
purple In some lights. These heaving
billows and snakelike masses were once
white hot , stea-ming and even exploding
'as ' the fiery flood met some little in- '
.noeent stream on the wav down.
Amendment I ot Accepted.
"Mrs. Jagvvay I wish I knew where my !
liusband was. '
Mrs. Kawler You mean , I presume ,
that you wish you knew where your
husband is ? I
Mrs. Jngway No , I don't. I know
whore he is. He's up in his room , sleep
ing off a .headache.
of the happy homes of to-day is a vast
fund of information as to the best methods
of promoting health and happiness and
-right living and knowledge of the world's
best products.
Products of actual excellence and
reasonable claims truthfully piesented
and which have attained to world-wide
acceptance through the approval of the
Well-Informed of the AVorld ; not of indi
viduals only , but of the many who have
the happy faculty of selecting and obtain
ing the best the world affords.
One of the products of that class , ot
knoxvn component parts , an Ethical
.remedy , approved by physicians and com- ;
-nscndcd by the Well-Informed of the
World as a valuable and wholesome family
.laxative is the well-known Syrup of Figs
-.and Elixir of Senna. To get its beneficial
effects always buy the genuine , manu
factured by the California Fig Syrup Co. ,
only , and for sale by all leading druggists
TRYING TO DEO WE OUT THE BIG NOISE WITH A PHONOGRAPH ,
MB. BBYAN'S MAIL.
Thousands of l.rlloiPour in ot )
lli < VoIirnsKiin Onily.
The mail that reaches William Jen
nings Bryan these days wou'd ' m.iko UK
heart of a mail order house nunagei
glad , writes a Lincoln corivs-nomlent. II
comes in great volume and the nuinbei
of checks , express and posio.'iire ' nnnov
orders , crisp bills and promises to pa.v
that the daily iiisi.illment of 2.000 t (
o,000 letters bring is a formidable st.icli
Vrhen piled up on ilie table \\here tlu
mail is sorted and opened.
All of Mr. Bryan's mail trees first t < :
the Commoner oil ice. There the jrre.itei
part of it is cared for. sorted out. and
answered. Mail that deserves the at
tention of the candidate himself is sent
to Fail-view , and there a big force ot
stenographers is kept at work. All mail
promptly answered. .Much of it i *
of a nature that experienced assistants
\\lio have been with the candidate a
long time may answer without bother-
Jug either W. J. Bryan or his indus
trious and unusually busy brother.
Charles . Bryan. Much of it is Com
moner mail.
Some of the letters received require
no answer , but these are not numerous.
Many postcards , some merely contain
ing congratulatory remarks and expres
sions of hope for Democratic success ,
are received. Nearly every new post
card picture finds its way to the Fairview -
view home , and the Bryan grandchil
dren have the chance of their lives to
acquire a collection of these of un-
cqualed size. Some of these postcards
contain pictures of the White House ,
and others suggestions of victory o
just as pleasing a nature. Not all are
pleasing , however , and the cynics and
the jokers take their turn at the post
card pranks- .
Contributions to the Bryan paper
come in great number , and not one re
ceived is used. In the mail come let
ters for publication that some of the
high-class magazines would pay big
sums to receive. They are offered
gratis , but to use any would involve
discriminations for a name or make it
necessary to employ readers to go over
the large number of articles sent for
the purpose of selection. The Bryan
political editors are able to till the lit
tle paper , and all manuscript is return
ed with a stereotyped form of letter to
the author. That is another bit of busi
ness system that helps to dispose of a
daily mail that requires four girls four
hours to open.
Thousands of people who write to
know what Mr. Bryan said on a certain
date are answered by a bright young
lady -who merely consults an index of
The Commoner and Mr. Bryan's books
anil sends a dipping of the language
asked for. Mr. Bryan's utterances are
all in print , and everything he has said
through his publications or the news
papers is kept on file and indexed so
that it may be turned to at a minute's
notice. Mr. Bryan himself draws on
this source of information.
Demot-rul' : Will IIHp tinKiriiiT. .
The President has become wonder
fully solicitous , all of a sudden , about
uplifting the I'-inuer. Doesn't the Pres
ident think it would help the farmer
to get his farm implements ' 10 per cent
cheaper , his clothes . .0 per cent cheap
er , and most of his toed supplies 120
per cent cheaper ? But the President
loves the trusts and protected interests
better than the farmer , lie has let
them fatten enormously off the Amer
ican consumer , and the farmer is :
very large consumer. It is too late foi
Mr. Roosevelt to talk about upliftim
the farmer. The Democratic party has
been assigned that job. Columbh
State.
' ! ' ] : Deimicrrnlics C' ; iiipiiua
The most far-reaching reform evei
wrought in American politics will hav (
been accomplished if Democratic man
agers succeed in raising an adequate ,
fund for this year's presidential cam
paiiru from popular subscriptions am !
from contributions limited to sums no ;
in excess of $10. KtO.
Add the announced purpose of Mr
r.ryan and Ilie Democratic National
Committee to make public , before tlu
election , the name of every contributoi
of $11)0 ) or more , and \\e have an abso
lute inaiMUlet' that the Democratic
campaign fund of 3' OS. be it large 01
small , will be a 11 , clean money.
The Democratic estimate of S. > 00,001
to $1,000.000 for the necessary and le
gitimate expenses of the campaign con
trasts sharply -nth the Republican es
timate of .fJ.OO : ( > .ono , and with Treas
urer Sheldon's call for half a million
just as a starter.
If the Democrats deem one million
sufficient to pay for tlie maintenance'
of headquarters' , the distribution of lit
erature , the expenses of speakers ami
organizers , what does the Republican
National Committee propose to do with
the additional two millions , if Treas
urer Sheldon c.in get it as he readily
can byiiving to special interests a first
mortgage on his party' :
In ISOo1 the Republican party's hoped-
for power of legislation in Congress
was sold to the interests that wrote1
the Dingley taiiff. Not the least im
portant question in this year's politics
is tiio extent to which the Repablicau
National Committee and its treasurer
are putting the party up at auction
and the market in which they are of
fering it.
But ii the Democratic plan of rais
ing campaign money can be made a
success , no party in this country will
hereafter dare to sell itself for money
with which to buy its way to power.
Application for campaign money to
sources which have no legitimate inter
est in polities ill be taken as prima
facie evidence of wrong intent. Th-
crime against the people of selling'leg
islation in advance will bo forever sup
pressed.
Democratic voters who earnestly de
sire the success of their party , because
they believe its policies best for the
country , should remember that mueii
money is needed for the conduct of a
trre.it campaign , and should make1 it a
part of their party duty to contribute
to its expenses according to their
means. There will be a creat purifi
cation of politics when this course is
adopted by the voters of all parties.
St. Louis Republic.
II oosc volt's AIISTPP.
It was not until Mr. Bryan called
attention to : t that Mr. Roosevelt knew
General T. Coleman Du Pont , head of
the gunpowder trust , was in charge of
t-ie speakers' bureau of the Republican
National Coni'uittee. When he found
it out Mr. Roosevelt became very an-
irry. His anger is directed atrainsf
Chairman Frank Hitchcock. Du Pout's
selection for tin * post is classeel by the
President as a great blunder.
The President's anger is by way of
atonement for Hitchcock's blunder. If
there was no expression of resentment
from , anyone aiid no charge of a blun
der against anyone , the people migh
conclude that it is an ordinary thin ;
for the Republican National Committe' '
to have intimate relations with mis
magnates , oven those who. like ( Jen
eral Du Pont , are defendants in suit :
brought by the government for viola
tion of the law. But the Preside-nt' ;
anser against Hitchcock will reniov <
: 'Msmrirestion or suspicion of Ufa
kind.
The President ought to send a lettei
of thanks to Mr. Bryan for le\iinir bin
know that a tru t magnate had form
bis unwelcome presence into the Re
publican con IK Us.
Points Kfvral le to lir.vin.
As the two gi'iat political parties an
coming to close quarters in the eonlesi
for the Presidency many solid reason1
are seen why the probability of llryan'-
electum this year is greater th.-in il
was at the beginning of September ii
IS'.H * or in 1KK ! > .
The first of those is that many ol
the surviving i nes of what was it
those ye.irs par-innately and vehement
ly denounced as "Bryanis" iiave beer
put into effect 1-y a Republican Presi
dent and Congress without subverting
civilization or hringim : anarchy.
Another is thiit the Chif-auo platform
intimates most < > f the things which UK
Democratic platform says distinctly
and without equivocation. This i1- : al
most an open confession that the1 Hvim :
policies for which Bryan contended foi
are riiriit. and ll'.e voters know th.it. if
successful , the Democrats will do what
they say. while doubting michtily if the
Republican party can free itself from
the evil ii-llueiues which control it anil
do what ii intimates.
The Republican platform and the ut-
teraiu-es of the Republican candidate
tie the hands of Bourbon standpatter ?
who would throw stones at Bryan as
the enemy of American industry for
his advocacy of rational tariff revision.
The hysterical shrieks from that source
he.ml in .ISM and in 1WO are pitched
in a.much lower key in IMS.
Thonirh the "interests" are still ii :
close alliance with the Republican or
ganization , the outcry of p'-eviou
year ? a canst Brvan as the arch enemv
of business prosperity is little heard
outside the "olumns of a rabid parti-
s.ni and sectional press.
The people trenerally recnirnh'.e in
Bryan the airuresive. . but conservative ,
leader of one of the irreat politit-al par
ties of the I'n I ted States , deliberately
rechoscn to be standard bearer after
long trial. Even the greater number
of those who oppose and \\ill vote
agains-f him see in Bryan a patriotic
and dignified character who must be
reckoned with as a real force in Ameri
can politics.
Bryan enters upon the contest of
this year decidedly stronger than he
was in either of his previous candi-
elacies. And it is fortunate for the
country that th campaign of 100S has
gone forward thus far with compara
tively little of the acrimony which
ma'-ked the contests of ISfW and 1000.
-St. Louis Republic.
A Cliniti
"Do you think there is any reliable
way of foretelling the weather' : "
"Yep. " answered Farmer Corntassel.
"Jos' ihink of the kind you don't want
ami then prophesy it. " Washington
Star.
Stay not until you are tolel of op
portunities to do good ; inquire after
tliern. Smiles.
Lord Tweedmouth , first lord of the
British admiralty , is "in a beastly fix. "
The Kaiser wrote him a letter and
criticised tne - British
ish naval program.
It was only a per
sonal letter and
L o r el Tweedmouth
replied. To his horror
ror , the next thing
was the publication-
in the Times. En-
gland's greatest
newspaper , of a
al'ticle
TWECDMOUTH.SCMSltIOIlal
IOKD .
and a bitter edito-
ial demanding that he make the Kai
ser's letter public. The other English
lewspapers followed suit , and every-
jody began1 to 'want to know what busi-
iess it was of the Kaiser's what En-
'land did about her navy , and why he
la red to write Lord Tweedmouth about
t , and how it could have happened
: hat Lord Tweedmouth forgot himself
o far as to reply to such a letter , and
vhy Lord Tweedmouth couldn't let ev-
M-ybody know what was in the letter.
One of the cleverest cracksmen that
* ver operated in London has been ar-
estoel in the person of John Frederick
spencer , w e 11 -
< viiown citizen and
Sunday - school
teacher. Only re
cently he was given
prize of .sr.00 as
"most respected cit
izen. " Ilael ii'ot
Spencer been ar
rested while in the
act of burglarizing
few would have be
lieved the charges
against him. lie
has made a com-
" Jonx r. SIM.XCCR.
plete confession. "I . . .
vas caught red-handed , " he said , "so
there is no use denying anything. I
\m the so-called 'Mr. Raffles , ' to cap-
: ure whom the municipality employed
in extra force of detectives at a cost
Jf $4.000. "
Victor Rosewater. editor of the
Omaha Bee and member of the execu
tive committee of the Republican na
tional committee , is
i native of Omaha ,
where he was born in
1871 , the year the
Bee was established
by his father , the
late Edward Rose-
viater. Mr. Rosewa-
rer was educated at
the public schools in
Omaha , Johns Hop
kins university , at
VICTOK nosMVATLR-jjaitiniore. Ulld Co _
lumbia university. New York , taking
the degree of dor-tor of philosophy at
Columbia. Since 3893 he has been
iclive in newspaper work , being the
managing editor of the Bee from that
year until the death of his father in
August. 1000. when he succeeded to
editorship of the paper.
Bert M. Fernald. who has been elect-
Hi Governor of Maine , is a wealthy
farmer and proprietor of a large can
nery. He has a
farm of oOO acres
at South Poland
that is one of the
linest in the East ,
and lives on it be
cause he prefers it
to a city home.
Born on a farm ,
he has lid MM
one all his life.
Mr. Fornald i.- > "id
years old. lie has
served in th ° Le - HUST M.
islature and two years ago sought the
Republican nomination for Governor ,
! > ut was defeated.
Lady Dorothy Howard , to whom
\Viuston Leonard Speneor Churchill ,
'he young English statesman , is said
to be engaged , is
the fifth daughter
of the Earl of e'ar-
' lisle and 2(5 ( years
1
old. She is said to
be the keenest pol
itician in a large
family that is en
thusiastically de
voted to politics
and has made
speeches at street
LADY IIOWAUD. corner meetings in
favor of the liberal licensing bill. Her
father , the earl , is a unionist and the
ninth of the title , which is one of the
oldest In Great Britain.
Henry M. Nevius. who has been made
tommander-in-chief of the G. A. R. . is
a native of New Jery. . lie was a
law student with
the late R. A. Al-
jrer. when the civil
war broke out. He
enlisted from his
state , was promot
ed to a comniir-sion
with the Seventh
Michigan ta\alr. .
He lost an arm in
front of Fort Ste
vcns. He has been
department com-
WTTTTTQ
mander for New
Jersey twice. He has also been a
ind president of the state senate.
May Be Instrumental in Merging
Efforts Toward More Adequate
Protection of Timber.
GREATEST LOSS SINCE 1871.
Work of Investigating Damage Is
Begun by Federal Government
Agent B. W. Pullman.
The recent disastrous forest
probably the most serious in a quarter
of a century , may be instrument" ; ; ! in
concentrating national , state and pri
vate forces to provide more adequate
protection against flames which exa/t
an average annual loll of ? 2o,000,000.
Not since the Peshtigo fire of 1S71 ,
when between 1'JOO and 1..100 persons
perished and many millions of dollars
of property was wiped out in a few
hours , has the devastation of the ( lames
been so great as this year , when from
coast to coast the great forest areas
of the North have been the constant
arena of the struggle against this
dreaded enemy of the forest frontier.
Accurate returns of the property loss
has not yet been received in Washing
ton , but the work of investigation has
been begun. R. W. Pullman , special
agent of the United States forest ser
vice , in passing through Chicago on his
waj Jo Hio burnt n-slons of Minnesota ,
told of the prolonged and thus far los
ing fight which is being waged to pre
vent the wholesale destruction which
yearly impoverishes whole regions.
liOss Xovr 3Ioro Conspicuous.
' 'Now that the timber of the country
is being reduced by luml > ering , " said
Mr. Pullman , "and people have awak
ened to the fact that the forests do not
represent an inexhaustible supply , the
loss that is sustained in these flrea
becomes the more conspicuous. It is
not alone the lumber owner that pays
the price. The loss of stumpagc value
is but a ( small part of the damage to a
neighborhood.
"The wages that would have been
earned by laborers in the lumber camps
and the produce that would have been
purchased to supply those camps , the
taxes that would have been devoted to
the construction of roads and other im
provements , and the fertility of the soil
that is destroyed , all bring the ulti
mate cost of these tires to sums that
cannot be calculated. I
"From reports thus far received , the
fires of this summer have been the most
destructive since those of 1S71. The
Peshtigo lire of October of that year
covered an area of l,000 ! square nn'Iea
in Wisconsin , entailing heavy loss of
life and property. Other fires in Michi
gan that year consumed 10,000.000 in
standing timber.
' 'One of the earliest was the great
Miramichi fire of 1825 , starting sixty
miles above Newcastle , N. I ? . , on the
Miramichi River , shortly after noon.
Before 10 o'clock at night it was twen
ty miles below Newcastle , in nine hours
destroying a belt eighty miles long and
twenty-five miles wide. In an area of
2,300.000 acres every living thing was
destroyed.
"One of the most serious ( ires of re
cent years was that which started near
lUnckley , Minn. , in September , 1004.
While the area covered was less than
in some others , the loss of life was
heavy. Six towns were destroyed , TiOO"
people perished and 2.000 were left
destitute. It was said that this ele-
struction was wholly unnecessary. For
many days before a high wind came
and drove it into uncontrollable fury
it had been burning slowly close to
Ilinckley and coull have been put out.
"The initial cause of such widespread
destruction can be traced to two agen
cies , the railroad anel the campers.
Both are careless. In many timber
countries the roads are required to fit
their locomotives with spark arresters.
If this law were more fully obeyed the \
danger from this source would be re
duced. The camper's culpability is more
direct. A few buckets of water poured
over the remains of u camp fire will
effectively prevent trouble.
Forest Rangers JIM Kcoiiomy.
"The economy of employing forest
rangers to keep constant watch , to pre
vent fires by the influence of their
presence on those who frequent the
woods and to report blazes as soon as
they start , when they can easil3 * be ex
tinguished , is. becoming understood
generally.
"It is not unlikely that there will be
more extensive co-operation between
all the parties interested , the owners
of the property and the State and na
tional governments as a result of the
serious conflagrations of this year. The
results of supervision in the national
forests has been demonstrated , where
loss-es. in spite of the dry season , have
been exceedinglv small. "
TELEGBA.PHIC BREVITIES
Mrs. HarrIVaron. . asod 21. according ,
to lior tatiimint before she died , was
hired to a lonely spot in Oklahoma City , .
Okla. . by Harry Parker. : > gcd 28. a gr.nn
inspector from lol.i. Kan. , who shot IIT
an l escaped.
The nsfifth annual meeting of the In
terstate Association of Live Stock S.ini-
tary Board- , meeting in Washington , voted
ed to ask Secretary Wilson , to lift the
( luarantinc regulation for preventing ha
spread" Texas or "tick" fever among
cattle in several Southern States.
