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ns oftrii us desired.
Now that tin' wnr nt Hentrlee lins been
settled tho Nohrnskii militia Is iiKniu
nvnllnhle for forclRn service.
When those rival democratic county
committees Ret together harmony will
he ho thick that It can bo used to butter
bread.
Uryan objects to a Rough Hlder cam
paign for the reason that a bucking
broncho Is likely to disarrange any ex
pansive smile.
Nobody ever suspected before that
Towno could keep silent so long as to
his Intentions with respect to that Sioux
Kails uomlnutlon.
When Iowa men find reptiles In their
beer and IVnnsylviinl.i men swallow
Ilznrrts with their water the ordinary
man must bo at a loss to know what to
drink.
Nebraska's great trust-smashlug attor
ney general Is so anxious to bequeath n
Tow more nulls to his successor In otlico
that he cannot decide which octopus to
tackle first.
Attorney Ucneral Smyth would doubt
less have proceeded against the Ne
braska end of tho Starch trust some time
ago had it not been for consideration for
his dear friend, J. Sterling Morton.
The Hee's question, why more than
$l7.r,000 of money belonging to the tax
payers of Douglas county should be on
deposit In tho banks without returning
1 cent of Interest to the treasury, Is still
unanswered.
Nearly 20.000 children wore enrolled
In the public schools of Omaha during
tho school year 1S00-1900, being the high
est aggregate on tho records. Another
mark of substantial growth in a prosper
ous community.
No new business enterprise need hesi
tate to locnto in Onmlm for fear of the
dlltlculty In procuring suitable quarters.
If the stock of stores and warehouses
on hitnd docs not till the bill the choico
will be enlarged to order.
The prluce of Wales Is now a fellow
of the Royal College of Surgeons. It Is
not announced whether the royal sur
geon holds himself In readiness to an
swer all calls, day or night, nor Is his
ofllco telephone Included In the latest
book.
.Terry Simpson Is In hard luck. Aftef4
consenting to tho requirement of wear
ing socks, his own people have decreed
that his feet are not titled to senatorial
shoes. Tho only thing left for .lerry Is
to take the socks off and try again for
congress,
Governor Shaw still has tho pair of
senatorial slippers In a glass case ami
keeps the key In his pocket. When he
finds a man who will promise not to
wear thctn out ho will turn them over
on ticket of leave until the legislature
convenes.
Governor Poyntor and Superintendent
Lang of lleatrlce have signed a treaty
of peace, Lang should be sure that tho
last coat of whitewash Is warranted not
to rub off and the governor should be
careful that tin string is tied to tho su
perintendent's resignation.
The same papers that were lampoon
ing Carl Schurz four years ago because
of his refusal to swallow 10 to 1 are now
devoting columns of eulogy to his back
sliding. Hut all they say cannot make
less convincing the nrguiuentH of four
years ago, proving the folly of following
the free silver statesman,
China now has Its chance. Let It show
gopd faith and produce tho foreign
colony In Pekiu Mifo and sound. If tills
should bo done the United States as
mediator will have a stronger position In
the Orient through peaceful means than
the armies of other powers are ever
likely to wlu for tlioiu by force.
TIW I'ltKSIDKXTS rilUlVSALS.
if the Chinese government seriously
desires mediation It will offer no objec
tion to the entirely reasonable condi
tions proposed by Ifcsldcnt McKlnloy.
Proceeding upon tho Inference Hint the
Imperial government has given no en
couragement to tho revolutionary move
ment,, the president urges that the gov
ernment give public assurance whether
the foreign ministers arc alive, and, If
so. In what condition. He further pro
poses that the Imperial government shall
put the diplomatic representatives of
the powers In Immediate and free com
munication with their respective govern
ments and remove all danger to their
lives and liberty: also to place the Im
perial authorities of China In communi
cation with the relief expedition, that
co-operation may he secured between
them for the liberation of the legation
ers, the .protection of foreigners and tho
restoration of order.
These are perfectly fair conditions,
which do not Impose Insuperable dllllcul
ties upon the Chinese government If It Is
still cnpable of exercising authority. It
has shown that It Is able to communi
cate with other governments, therefore
It can certainly comply, If willing to do
so, with the llrst aud second conditions
proposed by President McKlnley. It Is
probable that It would tlnd some tllfll
culty In placing the Imperial authorities
In communication with the relief expe
dition and In this would be tho principal
test of Its ability imU willingness to
nicct the demands of the situation, if
the Imperial authorities can bo placed
in communication with the relief expe
dition it will be evidence that tho gov
ernment is still strong enough to cope
with the revolutionary movement. Such
evidence would raise tho question why
It has not made an earnest nud deter
mined effort to repress the uprising.
Of course tho 1'nlted States govern
ment con do nothing In the direction of
mediation without the assent of the
other powers, but as hone of them Is at
war with China It would seem that as
sent to mediation will not bo refused If
It shall be shown that the Chinese gov
ernment Is acting In good faith. This,
however. Is at present doubted In Hii
ro pe. The comments of tho Merlin
newspapers upon the proposed media
tion show tho prevailing opinion then'
to bo that the Washington authorities
are being misled by the Chinese. This
may prove to be tho case, but pending
further developments In regard to medi
ation It Is not necessary that the powers
shall halt their military preparations.
These should go on as vigorously as if
there had been no suggestion of media
tion and undoubtedly will.
Perhaps It was not to be expected that
the position taken by our government
in this matter would secure the appro
bation of all Europe. There Is a good
deal of Jealousy abroad respecting the
lnlluence which the Pulled States Is ex
erting. There are Kuropeans to whom
American prestige Is not pleasing. Hut
the position of this government Is en
tirely honorable and is In the interest
of the world's peace. If the United
States can avert war between China
and the civilized nations It will accom
plish something of lmmeirsurable value
to mankind ami the efforts of our gov
ernment In this direction should receive
universal endorsement and support.
OXK THIIM OF A 1)1, A i exuuuH.
In his letter of acceptance four years
ago William .lenniugs Ilryan said:
In order that I may not be tempted to use
tho patronage of the ottlco to advance nny
personal ambition I hereby announce, with
all tho emphunls which words can express,
my determination not under any circum
stances to be n candidate for ro-clectlon In
casn this campaign results In my election.
If only one term of the presidential
olllce is permitted by true democratic
doctrine, why should not the same logic
apply with equal force to the vice presi
dential olllce? Yet we see tlds year Mr.
Bryan linked to, If not loaded down
with, a candidate for vice president who
has ahead served one term In the olllce
and who Is presented for re-election In
direct conflict with the one-term safety
valve idea on which llryun professes to
lay such great stress.
Pnder our constitution the qualifica
tions for tho vice president are the same
as those for the president, because the
former Is llrst in line of succession to the
higher position. Die same qualities de
sirable In a presldeut are therefore also
desirable in the vice president, who may
at any time he called on to discharge the
duties of president. If a second term
would be odious to Mr, Ilryan tor him
self, can It be less odious to him for his
running mate? Must not the former
term as vice president recorded for Stev
enson take all the wind out of the sails
spread by Ilryan against second-term
candidates?
When Mr. Stevenson finished his first
term as vice president neither his party
nor the country gave any evidence that
they wanted him to continue In that ca
pacity. Hoes anything ho has done since
then warrant the belief that they are
anxious to have him restored to tho vice
presidency again?
G RUM A X'AMKMCA X VOTRItii.
A great deal of Interest Is felt as to the
attitude of (leriuan-Anierlcan voters.
The democrats are conlldently predicting
that a majority of these citizens will
support the Kansas City ticket becanse
of their opposition to so-called Imperial
ism. Republicans, on the other baud,
expect the Gernlan-Anierlcans generally
to support McKlnley, for the reason
that they strongly favor a sound cur
rency and as a class are, believed to re
gard the tluauelal qmvtlon as of first
Importance.
The Chicago correspondent of the New
Yorlc Times says that the Germans will
vote this year ns they did four years
ago. Speaking for this element In Illi
nois, Indiana aud Wisconsin, he ex
presses the opinion that If this vote
stands by its present Inclinations it will
be cast against Ilryan and his financial
theories. Prominent German-Americans
in St. Louis have declared their Inten
tion to support the republican ticket.
They do not favor expauslon, but they
regard tho menace of freo silver as a
much more serious matter. As one of
them remarked, the former question is
academic, while the latter Is practical.
We do not believe that the Intelligent
THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TILVHSDAY,
and discriminating German-American
citrons can bo misled by the democratic
fustian about Imperialism and militar
ism. They know that there Is absolutely
no danger of such a condition and no
basis whatever for tho outcry of the
Brynnlte party. They are a very prac
tical people and are enjoying their share
of the prosperity that has prevailed dur
ing the last three years. This experi
ence has vindicated their Judgment In
voting against free silver four years
ago and It Is not conceivable that they
will stultify themselves this year by
giving their support to the cheap-money
and nntl-prosperlty party. We have not
the slightest doubt that the great ma
jority of this Intelligent and practical
element of our citizens will vote next
November for the maintenance of the
gold standard and the continuance of
prosperity.
iwmiFVi.ro run vauty.
Senator Hoar Is a profoundly earnest
autl-expanslonlst. He thinks that tho
president and tho republican party have
made a mistake In the Philippines. lint
he does not look to the Hryanlte party
for a rectification. In n recent state
ment of his position he snys: "I ex
pect nothing from Mr. Ilryan. I expect
nothing from Tammany hall. I expect
nothing from the populace that govern
our great central cities. 1 expect noth
ing In that direction from the solid
south, though 1 1 io solid south contains
now many honest and patriotic men.
I expect that what Is to be done for
freedom and Justice In the future Is to
be done by the party that stood for free
dom and Justice in the past." The vet
eran statesman declared that the free
dom and equality which had been
lodged by tho republican party in the
constitutional fortress of the American
people "will not be dislodged unless the
southern democratic supporters of Mr.
Bryan ami the men he would bring into
powei with him shall have their way."
Men who turn from the republican
party In tho expectation that the suc
cess of the Brynnlte party would help
tho cause they represent are deceiving
themselves. Senator Hoar Is right In
the position that the republican party,
as the party of freedom anil Justice in
the past, can be depended upon to still
uphold freedom and Justice and to rec
tify nny mistake it may have made.
The party whose dominating element
disfranchises millions of American citi
zens in the south cannot be trusted to
do justice anywhere, while Its success
would have a most damaging effect
upon nil domestic Interests. Tho atti
tude of Senator Hour Is a stinging re
buke to tho "autl-Iinperlallsts" who are
making wnr on the party they formerly
acted with and laboring for tho success
of Bryanlsm.
CAllT HHFOIIK THE HOnStl
When the city council of ISM submit
ted the question of Issuing water works
bonds to the voters of Omaha It placed
the cart before tho horse.
The charter expressly provides . how
tho works are to be acquired by eminent
domalu. The lirst step must be the ap
pointment of appraisers and the ap
praisement of the works. If the mayor
and council are sutlslied with the ap
praisement the question of ratification
Is to he submitted, together with a
proposition to issue bouds for the pur
chase price.
Instead of following the plain letter
of the law the council of 1S00 llxed the
amount of bouds at $11,000,000 without
reference to any appraisement. If the
water company were actually willing to
uccept ?:i,000,000 for their property It Is
doubtful whether the bonds voted could
bo legally Issued. Although the bond
proposition carried at the last city elec
tion, tho bouds can be of no use In the
acquisition of tho works unless the $.1,
000,000 are within the amount at which
the city could buy the works under the
contract clause that permits the value
to be llxed by arbitration. Even In that
case tho water company would have to
agree with the city that the twenty-year
period has expired or. the city would
have to force through the courts a deilul
tion of the contract terms.
It is well known that the water com
pany contends that the twenty-yenr
clause will not go Into effect until Sep
tember, lOOll, and If this claim Is sound
an appraisement of the works nt this
time would be useless nud the money
expended for experts' would bo thrown
nway. The value of the plant must
necessarily vary from time to time. With
the advance or decline In the price of
Iron and machinery tho water pipes may
be worth twice ns much as now two
years hence or they may be worth only
half as much. .Manifestly, therefore, the
attempt to secure an appraisement by an
engineer expert Is again putting the cart
before tho horse.
What tho mayor and council should do
llrst Is to Institute some proceeding In
the courts to ascertain the date when the
city's right accrues to purchase the
works without paying for the franchise
or buying back the unexpired hydrant
contract. That must be the essential ele
ment In the appraisement as well In
the final transfer of the property.
Nothing certainly can be gained fot
the city at this time by hiring engineers,
although no harm would come and no
extra expense would be incurred by ask
ing tho city engineer to examine the
plant and make a careful estimate of Its
present value.
Nebraska National Guardsmen are
still cogitating whether to acquiesce in
the proposition to go into annual en
campment on half pay as suggested by
Adjutant General Barry. The trouble
Is that all the members of the militia arc
busily employed at good wages, which
would make the encampment a positive
pecuniary loss to them even at full pay.
If tho hard times of 1SIHJ, before McKln
ley was elected, were still upon us the
guardsmen would doubtless Jump at the
chance to earn half pay.
Democracy Is greatly worried because
official statistics prepared by the Treas
ury and other departments of the gov
ernment prove good republican cam
paign documents. It is really too bad
that ofllclal reports should so accurately
reflect the prosperous condition of the
country that the purty which brought It
about should bo able to use them In the
campaign. There Is no denying the fact
that during democratic administrations
public documents did not furnish any
argument for the p.u ty in power, hut re
publicans arc not responsible for dem
ocratic Incompetence.
After sotting up a great howl that the
Grand Army of the Republic reunion
was to be made 11 republican nlTnlr and
that Bryan had been snubbed, the dem
ocratic press Is forced to admit the fake.
Bryan was Invited to ntlend at the same
time President McKlnlcy's Invitation
was sent out. The president accepted at
once, while Bryan delayed until this late
day to answer the committee's Invito
tlou, Now that democracy has had Its
customary howl It probably feels better.
Tho nntlonal campaign of the people's
Independent party Is to be directed from
the national headquarters at Lincoln.
There will be nothing nntlonal about It,
however, as the people's Independent
party will not have tickets In the Held
except In n few western states, In which
they may be of service to the democratic
candidates. As a national organization
tho people's Independent party has given
up the ghost.
The latest Is that Goronltno has gone
stark mad as a result of the conllnement
of his long imprisonment. This reads
well, but sounds like another fake.
When Geronlnio was one of tho star
guests nt the Omaha exposition two
years ago lie showed no signs of physical
or mental decrepitude and was certainly
not stiff' ig from any hardships of con
finement. It is a ..uTIalTle ambition for the Ne
braska fuslonlsts to want to run the re
publican campaign, but they will hnvo
all they can do to take care of their own
end of tho contest.
A .Sort of Kentucky Election.
Cleveland Leader.
Wo aro not at war with China. The
powers aro simply holding a sort of Ken
tucky election over there.
Missouri Dcniuc mt I'nklnd.
Washington Post.
It Is really unkind for those Missouri
democrats .to give Hon. Web Davis a
frozen reception. Web mndo quite a Jump
In order to become ono of them.
Will Not Surjirlsi- ltnosrvelt.
CIiIcuko Evening Post.
It probably will not surprise even Roose
velt to learn that the way he Is conducting
himself Is not pleasing to the democrats.
He Is not on the ticket to gratify them.
New Verb Coined.
Urooklyn Eagle.
There Is a new verb In the Press-Knickerbocker
and Albany Morning Express. It
says: "Croker's attempt to Roosevelt Hill
failed." Yet Roosevelt was a pretty good
Hill man at San Juan.
Will Allny Hill's I'enr.
Chicago News.
A society for the prevention of premature
burial has been Incorporated in New York.
This Is very opportune and will relieve
David I). Hill of an uncomfortable fear he
may ha- o had since the Kansas City con
vention. llrynn mill tho Camrrn Fiend.
Chicago' Times-Herald.
An exchange Bays "the camera fiend Is
annoying Ilryan." This Is a mistake. Bryan
has yet to seo the camera ho Is afraid of,
especially when ho has hln farmer suit on,
and he keeps rigged up in It most of the
time now.
Wool (rowers' l'nrnmiuint Issue.
St. Louis Globo-Uomocrut.
A farmer in Nebraska says be bought
2,000 Cleveland sheep at $2.25 a bead and
sold them no McKlnley sheep at $1.33, yield
ing a prolit of $4,200. It Isn't easy now to
fool an American wool grower on tho para
mount lusuc.
CIiIlwirii Labor Dny Orntnrs.
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
The Labor day celebration In Chicago is
expected to lne'.udo speeches by Theodore
Roosevelt, William J. Ilrayn, Eugeno V.
Debs and William E. Maeon. A moro in
congruous set of sjicakeiB could scarcely
bo brought together, and the man who lis
tens attentively to them all must find him
self vory much perplexed, unices, indeed,
ho is one of tho comparatively few who do
their own thinking.
The "New" I'riHlilcnlliil Cnmililnte.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Touching the difference between tho so
called "new" Mr. McKlnley and the "new"
Mr. Ilryan, there is a widespread notion that
the aforesaid difference Irt not as vast a
tho "antiB" would have It appear. As far
back as tho 60s Mr. McKlnley bore testi
mony to his devotion to the Sturs and
Stripes, offering his body as a target for
those who sought to haul that beautiful em
blom down. Occupying a tomewhat differ
ent position in tho conduct of affalrn this
year, be Is not volunteering to go China
becauso bo la doing Infinitely better service
hero, but, like the man who occupied the
White Houbo during the civil war, ho still
objects to the hauling down of the flag. Mr.
Dryan ha told us whero he stands and there
Is no need further to dUcuss his attitude
with respect to the flag. On the question
of purely political It-sues ho has acceptod
a realllrmatlon of tho Chicago platform,
with all Its vagaries and tenia. If that
makes hlra a "now" Mr. Ilryan the fact Is
not apparent to reasoning beings,
THI'STS AMI IimtOCHATS.
liven (Minimum .Ioiion Him n I'limrr In
the TriiNt I'll-.
New Yorlc Sun
Tho Hon. James K. Jones of Arkansas and
tho democratic national commltteo Is about
to go through the motions of conducting a
campaign against tho trusts. It Is depress
ing to havo to say thut tho Hon. James K.
Jones Is In tho nll-cnfoldlng tontacies of
the octopus and not struggling the least bit
to get away.
Mr. Jones Is said to bo a stockholder In
the Round Halo Cotton trust. It Is admitted
In tho south that the round bale Is cheaper
and better than tha square bale. Conse
quently tho Round Il.tle trunt makes the
southern cotton planters anxious. Accord
ing to tho Houston correspondent of tho
Olobe-Democrat the Round Halo trust Is now
trying to got "prnctlcal control of tho
south's cotton crop." Officially Chairman
Jones is hot against trusts. As a democrat
he froths nt tho mouth when they nre men
tioned, As a private citizen and man of
buslnesi he buys a good truBt stock when
he has the price.
Probably most of tho shrewd ami ener
getic citizens who are members of the demo
cratic national committee or of the various
Btate'rommlttees havo a finger In tl.o trust
pie. Whj should they not? They might as
well be expected not to be ptrtners or stock
holders In corporations as not to bo Inter
ested financially In trusts. These a-e In
tended to be money-making conccrni, and
for all the conventional democratic pother
about money democrats like to havo it Just
as much as other folks do,
When you hear the democrats bellowing
against trusts just wonder bow much trust
stock they hold.
J1TTY 2(5, 1000.
'run uiM:sii cAi,i:.iAit.
l'oiIIilc ltrniiii Why Dnlm In ( nblc
llxiiiti'lirn Are Conf lifting.
Tho sojourner In the far east Is some
times driven to wonder whv the Chinese
have a cnlendar nt nil. says it writer in the
.New ork Tribune. They view tho
passing of time with superb Indifference;
punctuality, If such n thing were ever to
enter Into the Celestial calculation, would
bo regarded ns undignified. Neverthless.
they have n calendar which Is by no means
a bad one when one considers Its Immense
antiquity. A wise monarch named Yao
some time nbout 2300 II. C, revised the
calendar In use before that date to the
form In which It Is found at present. A
volume would bo needed to explnln all Its
peculiarities, but now that dispatches aro
mentioning Chinese dates It is as well to
have some Idea as to wherein the Celestial
calendar differs from the Gregorian.
The Chinese year Is lunar, and therefore
consists of 354 days. Uefore the tlmo of
Yno tradition has It that the year con
sisted of 360 days and that confusion had
resulted. That ruler decreed that time
should be measured by the moon nnd that
every nineteen years should contain seven
additional months almost one extra month
every three years. This reckoning Is ex
cellent; It vnrles only nbout an hour every
nineteen years from the true time.
Although tho year Is lunar its beginning
Is regulated by the sun. Thus the new
year comes between January 2 and February
6, unlike the Mahometan new year, which Is
regulated entirely by tho moon nnd comes
at any time, winter or summer. The year
Is divided Into twelve lunar months, called
by numbers, ns first, second and so on
The extra month that comes nbout every
tlirco years Is not added at the end, hs ono
would suppose, but Is inserted anywhere,
probably according to some system too
subtlo for western minds. The months are
subdivided Into three purts, which arc not
again subdivided, so that a Chinaman may
speak of an event without mentioning the
exact time within ten days. Tho days are
also numbered, so that exactness may be
secured if a Chlnnman should ever happen
to want such a thing. There is no jveek,
but foreigners arc gradually teaching- tho
meaning of such a division. Tho Chinese
hour is ISO minutes long, but In this In
stance ngaln the foreigner Is making some
Impression on the ancient custom, nnd the
Chinese In and near tho treaty ports are
familiar with tho western method. It may
bo added, incidentally, that Pekln Is Ou.it
nbout twelve hours ahead of New York In
point of time.
The Chinese gather tho years together Into
cycles, as Occidentals do, but for somo ex
traordinary reason tho cycle consists of sixty
j ears. This cycle is very ancient and prob
ably has something to do with old astro
logical superstitions. Another method of
numbering years is by tho reigns of the
emperor. Tho present year is tho thirty
sixth year of the seventy-sixth cycle, or the
year 4535 sluco tho adoption of tho present
chronology. Each year has n separato name,
formed by some combination of, ten "stem"
characters Joined with twelve "branch"
characters. These nro used In an ingenious
way that could bo described only by n
lengthy nrtlclc, and would probably then be
not quite intclllgiblo to tho western mind.
To go straight to anything Ih Impossible to
tho Oriental, nnd the complicated syntm of
naming the years is proof of Chlneso In
genuity. Of Into years It has been supposed that the
Chaldeans nnd Chinese had some Intercourse
at tho time when Yao reformed the calen
dar, and that tho two countries worked to
gether In making tho change. Certain It Is
that a similar event occurred in Chaldea.
about the same time. Hut whenever the
calendar was ndoptcd it Is likely for a long
time to withstand the march of progress.
It is correct enough and tho Inconvenience
does not worry tho Chinaman In the least.
I'HKSONAI, AM) OTIIKIt WIMIC.
In New York City there Is a maximum
density of 1,000 residents to tho acre, and
this is moro than double that of the most
congested cities of Europe.
Mr. Legcr, the Jlaytlan minister at Wash
ington, Is to go home soon on a leave of ab
sence. Ho will visit the Paris expedition
before returning to Washington.
It Is declared that $500,000 Is about the
amount Invested In eggH now being placed
fn cold storago warehouses at Kansas City.
They are valued at about 7 cents per dozen.
The emperor of fiermany has went to the
Paris exposition tho actual furniture with
tho paintings which embellished tho apart
ments of King Frederick the Great at Pots
dam. Life is not one grand, nwect song at Cape
Nome. A Wltchlta man writing homo from
there says: "Here lies the rolling sea.
Towering above the sea are the Ico moun
tains and towering above them Is the price
of grub."
Thtodoro Roosevelt's first ancestor to
como to this country was Klaas Mirtensen
Van Roosevelt, who came hither In 1619
with his wife. Janette S. Samuels-Thomns,
from Tho Netherlands. Ho settled in New
Amsterdam and soon became a prosperous
burgher.
Morton county, Kt. claims to be the
healthiest county In tho United States. It
has a population of 100, but for a year pant
has been without a physician. In that time,
it Is declared, there had not hcen a caco of
sickness so serious as to call for a doctor's
nrisU:nnce.
The Incentive to fighting the nrltlsh nrma
In the liotha family of the Transvaal Is two
fold, for tho wife of tho Hocr commander
and the mother of eeveral minor ofneers
In the nocr army wan an Hmmet before
she v as married and of the family made
famous by tho Irlnh patriot, Robert Kmmet,
who was Mrs. Botha's granduncle.
Tho superintendent of the Sault Ste.
Marie canulu says that Lake Superior com
merce for July will greatly exceed that of
June, although Juno broke all records by
the passage of moro than 4,000,000 tons of
freight. The superintendent says an un
usual volume of coal Ih going Into Lake
Superior, more than for nny previous sea
son, and that the ore tonnage for July shows
no decrease.
Baron do Schlckler, whose horse won tho
Grand Prix, Is ono of tho most popular
sportsmen in France, and one of the luck
test. In ISG8. whon ho won the Prix de
1'Kmpcrcur with Suzerain, Napoleon III.,
In congratulating him, said: "You must go
on breeding horses llko that." "I will, your
majesty," replied the baron; and he has
kept his promise, for four Grand Prix stand
to his credit.
Mrs. Senator Davis has abandoned her
proposed trip to Norway nnd Sweden. She
has intended nailing by the North German
Lloyd line, but on account of the burning
of two of the vessels In tho New York har
bor two weeks ago, the movement of tho
company's ships was so disarranged that
Mrs. Davis concluded to defer going until
next Rson. She will probably spend Au
gust and September In company with the
eenntor at ome of tho resorts In Minnesota
Considerable Interest attaches to the per
sonality and history of Wu Ting Fang,
Chinese minister to the United States, who Is
a dignitary of Importance In IiIb own coun
try as well us here. lilt appointment to
his present post bore more than ordinary
political significance, because ha plays a
prominent part In tho liberal party of
China. He represents the progressive ele
ment among bis countrymen. Minister Wu
studied law for four years In London and
was admitted as barrister In the Inner Tem
ple, He speaks English with ease and
fluency,
S K ? I II I, K T MM I' i: It A XC K.
Sen'llilr VIohm on n Tlmoly To pin
by n f.enilhiK HcIIkIoiim Journal.
The Outlook
Tho Outlook welcomes as Indications of
a return to tane methods of dealing with
the temperance question two recent sig
nificant evenln. At n session of the Young
People's union of the Unlveraallst church .1
prohibition resolution wa voted down on
the ground that I; violated tho legitimate
liberty of tho Individual. Hitherto In ec
clesiastical conventions those who have not
believed In such resolutions have been too
apt to keep nlleice, allow the resolution
to be carried without objection and then
disregard It as quietly as they acquiesced In
It. We are glad to seo this Indication that
men who believe In temperance, and do not
believe that prohibition Is tho best method
of promoting temperance, nre beginning to
get the courage of their convictions, nnd
to show themselves willing to avow their
belief.
Analogous to this action of the Universal
1st young pooplo Is a recent nddrese deliv
ered before a number of soldiers at Fort
Meyer, Virginia, by Rev. Tcunls S. Ham
lin, the well known Presbyterian clergyman
of Washington, I). C. on the question of the
canteen. We quote tho report of his re
marks from the New York Times:
"I am a trustee of tho Young People's So
ciety of Christian Endeavor, but speak now
an an Individual, ns the society Is not al
lowed to Interfero with anything pertaining
to governmental regulations. No doubt
como members of the society are opposed
to tne canteen and aomo nre in favor of It
I believe the vnntc'n is a promoter of tem
perance, and, while It dors not promote
total abstinence, It la n great Improvement
over previous conditions. 1 do not think
the canteen is perfect, and I think I could
Improve upon It. It has Improved the
conditions of the soldier, morally and ma
tcrially. Under existing conditions at
army posts 1 believe tho canteen Is a good
thing and a great benefit to soldiers. "
Almost simultaneous with this address u
publlshod In Leslie's Weekly an artlclo on
tho canteen qurtlon by an cx-mcmber of
the cabinet. Ho defends tho legal opinion
of tho attorney general that tho act of 1893
does not abolish tho canteen, but simply
prohibits tho detailing of otllcors and sol
dlers to do tho selling and the maintenance
of sepanite wtahllshmcnts within the posts
by private enterprise; ho shows that the
attorney general might bo Incorrect In this
Judgment and yet not bo Justly subject to
the censure which the "temperance wild
men," as Dr. Crcsby once felicitously called
them, have heaped upon him: "Courts fro
quontly decjde eases erroneously and their
dcolslons aro reversed by appellate courts.'
Ho believes that the attorney general do
cIMon Is not only presumptively good law
since "no Judgo or member of the bar of
reputation has como forward to challengn
its correctness, but is good morals also.
He says very truly: "It is probable that
a majority of tho people of the country. In
eluding almost every ofllcer of the regular
and volunteer army, believe that the entire
abolition of the cunteen featuns of the post
exchanges would be a direct blow at the
cause of temperance." We call these ut
terances indications of a return to sane
methods of dealing with tho temperance
question, not because we think nil oppoel
tlon to the canteen or all advocucy of pro
hibition is Insane, hut because the spirit
which condemns all advocacy of the canteen
as advocacy of Intemperance nnd countfc
every opponent of prohibition as an enemy
of temperance is decidedly lacking In
sanity, nnd the spirit which submits to such
misrepresentations nnd la silent for fear
of them is lacking In that courugo which Is
Itself n. characteristic of the highest moral
sanity. When common sense and courage
aro mated in opposition to Intemperance
there will be a reasonable hope of moro
practical methods and moro rapid progress
than In the past. These utterances are In
dications of such a union.
HOAR TO II IK CRITICS.
Tells Aiill-Iniperlnllsts Why Amerl
cnus Cm ii not Truil Ileiiincrnlii.
Chicago Tlmes-Ilenild.
Senator Hoar remains as strongly opposed
to the forcible annexation of the Philippines
as ever ho was, but ho proves that It Is en
tirely reasonable for him to support Mc
Klnley against Rryan. Ex-Secretary Rout
well and other nntl-lmperlallBts with whom
ho has been In controversy have tho proof
In his last open letter. Evade it and quibble
over It ns they may, It puts them in a cor
ner from which they cannot escape.
Most of these men who have attained to
nny real promlnonce In the east nre either
republicans or gold democrats and they
cannot fall to feel tho significance of tho
sentence: "Tho election of Mr. Uryan
means dishonor and disaster to the Amer
ican peoplo nt home." That was their sin
cere belief In 1806 nnd Mr. Ilryan himself
has taken care to keep the cause for It as
conspicuous now as It was then. No new
Issue can possibly make uny dlffercnco with
tho essentials of Bryanlsm as they havo
heen prenched from tho rear platform in
muny a swing around tho country.
Aside from the Chicago platform, how
ever, Mr. Hoar adduces other reasons for
preferring McKlnley to Ilryan which should
havo a peculiar potency with the republican
malcontents, He looks distrustfully upon
democratic promises and says: "I expect
that what Is to bo done for freedom and
Justice In tho future Is to be dono by the
party tbnt stood for .freedom and Justlco
In the past. In spite of one mistake." Hot
ter this confidence, surely, than a strango
faith in an organization that hows down
to Tummany and that furnished the men
"who, when tho troaty was pending, played
and Juggled with this great and sacred mat
ter of human liberty for a party purpose."
Such Is the choice to whleh all the people
ar limited and the senator thinks It would
bo folly to hesitate. Nothing Is to bo hoped
for on the ono side, whoreas on the other
a rational policy conformable to the Ameri
can henso of right Is certain to be devel
oped. Atnumlng that a mistake has been
made, it wue an honest mistake and no re
publican could possibly plot tho overthrow
of civil liberty In fact the party Is already
pledged to the grant of homo rule and com
plete self-government will follow In duo
time without a suggistlon of Imperialism.
The debate Is largely over words and
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the democrats have only criticisms to offer.
Asked to think out a constructive scheme
and put it in operation they would fall mis
erably, ns they always have, and the people
would turn again, as Senator Hoar does, to
tho party that stands not only for freedom
nnd Justice, but for efficiency.
IIHYAVS iu:ai. goal.
AIiiiIiik for Whllo lloiifti', lint KiprctR
to I. nml In (he .Sound',
I Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
I Arguing from a hypothesis that llrynn hss
i no real expectation of being clcctod to the
presidency, tho Uoston Herald easts about
( for the couso of his political persistency.
Tho Herald might have reflected that by
authentic report Uryan has found the
pnstlmo of politics not only diverting, but
profitable. He makes It pay. Something
I llko an accretion of $100,000 In the space of
1 four years, outside the largo exnense oe-
count of extensivo and luxurious travel,
beats being presldeut. For n man without
vlslblo mentis of support In way of profes
sion at which ho practices of business at
which ho labors, it really Isn't bad. Yet
Ilryan Is n very busy man in his wny. He
not only tells the poor man how to get
rich without work, but he furnishes a dis
tinguished example of how tho process Is
personally performed.
Rut that Is a bit beside the question. Tho
Herald pasfes over ilryan's profitable In
vestment of personal magnetism in profes
sional politics. It looks further for the ad
ditional loadstone nnd finds it In n pros
pective United States senatorshlp from the
populist state of Nebraska. It Is an old
trick of the expert political markxman to
aim nt the top of the target In real design
upon about tho second or third area of In
fluence, surveying from tho top.
lll ll.T FOIL VVX.
Chicago News: "Flossy Is so supersti
tious "She Ih?"
"Y.'s; when she wears her (lenth's-heail
hatpin she nlwuys wears her hnreeshoo
scHrfpIn and her wishbone hair ornutnent.
Indianapolis Journal: "That typewriter
girl inn t in love with anybody around this
Office."
"How do ynu know?"
"Why. when slio gets too warm she takes
her collar on."
Chlcnao Post: "Who is your favorite
author." nnked tho fluffy summer girl.
"Confucius." answered tho distinguished
Chlimmun. "All our people read him."
"Confucius?" she repented. "Why-er
what muguxliie does lie write for?"
Philadelphia Press: "Good morning'
said the proud mother ef the girl who
foozled tho piano wretchedlv. "I hope mv
daughter's paying didn't disturb you last
night."
"No," said Mrs. Nexdore, "It pteused us
Immensely. Some most onlntereitliig peo
plo came to en 1 1 on us early In the even
ing, but they didn't stay long."
Washington Star: Polndexter They tell
me that Trenchant Penn has won success
In literature Ht last.
Ollfovle I think the report may be true
Ho tells me thut he Is selling all hit old
accumulated manuscripts.
.t,',J,ll.,,li,t'lll.1,1,a.. rr,'s.!,:. "' "P1 for "
'Holld feouth,' cried the democratic orator.
"On election day Uryan will have all th
whims with him."
"And the next day," orled a voice In thn
crowd, "he will have the blues."
Chlcugo Post: "I understand thre ar
eleven presidential tickets In the field al
ready." "Oh, that's wrong. 1 Rssure von. Ther
nro only two really In the Meld, with
numerous others that merely thlnlc thev
arc. "
Indianapolis .Journal: "Have your sum
mer vacation plans matured yet. Blllv7"
"nil f.)M t..l ,t,A.. t .1.1. .
on uccount of some summer notes that also
matured."
Chicago Record: "What Is your Idea of
an lntelle.-tiiiil woman?"
"One who can say goodhy tr n friend
without holding the screen door open
twenty minutes."
Detroit Journal: The goose laid a golden
egg and sixteen sliver eggs In rapid suc
cession. Then she laid another silver egg nnd tho
peasant killed lirr forthwith.
"She Is Infected with the eommerclsl
rntlo heresy!" ho said, very sternly.
Til I U f.ll.tA Int.., I, A- linn. AvIAmAl. n . . .
a ...- ..,.,. , ,.v ... n ,-A , . V ..( VHIIIVBl
are the agrarian element In respect of this
Illillll'I HI I.lllU.
Wll.l. IK IIAIIin.'OOT.
Rochester (N. Y.) Herald.
Flieie's mini upon the carpet und there s
mud upon the stairs.
And tlif-re's mud Inside the porch and
kltrhcn. too.
There nro streaks nf muddy footprints
vverywiienj well Willie goes,
For he tracks mud In the house the wholo
dny through.
He keeps his mother busy cleaning mud
from every room,
And the hired Cllll kicks nil nn nwfnl ran'
Warm weather's here and boyhood days ars
iininming o er wnn run,
For little Willie's going barefoot now.
It dooi no good to scold him.
Thouuli fifty times you've told him
To stop and clean his feet, but yet, some.
now,
He files lu through the door,
Leuvlng footprints on the floor.
For little Willie's going barefoot now.
There nre slivers every evening that his
inoiiier nas to nno,
And stono bruises that she has to doctor,
4 ....
.WW,
There nro toes that have collided with a
rurK wnicii sup iniirM iiuio,
And with arnica and liniment make new;
There are scratches by the dozen whero
the thorns and briars took hold,
When he scooted through the pasture for
And there's 'music In the gloaming when
ins monier puns mem out.
For little Willie's going barefoot now.
Ills mother says she'll whip him;
The hired alrl won't skin him.
There's bound to be nil everlnstlng row.
inn ucvii is io pay;
There'll be trouble, so they sny,
('huso little Willie's going linrefoot now.
Ho musses up the clean white sheets upon
l.l lll
.tin in til' ,i.,i,
With his dusty, grimy, mud-becovereit
feet.
And everywhere he' chases, from the cellar
to the roof,
111 HUM' lliuilll ill. lllin Ji'll mil llli
Uo never stops to wlpo his feel the saucy
little niinU'
He suvs his daddy never learned him how'.
And there's Jawing In the kitchen when
the mop Is brought in play.
F'yr little Willie's going barefoot now.
Ills father says hell bless him;
'11,.. I.lrn.l i.lrt ..'III ',lr.wu I. In, '
His nmther says she never will allow
mo ii iMiniiini mi mi Hour
lll. fli. ir. u Irmihln .ii,. I, aliM
For Willie, since lies going barefoot now!