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I'nrtle leaving ihc city for the limner limy huvr The lice "flit to tlicm ri'KUlurly liy niitlfjiiiK The Ilee lliinlnesii olllee, In person or liy miill, The mldreHn will I,r dimmed ns often n ilevlreil. Tins prayer belt Is cxcltislvey confined to the corn belt. If MiicIny'H vitriolic screed nsnlnst Atlmlrnl Schley wn designed to ndver tlso IiIh nnviil history he Iiiih nchleved Ids purpose. There In n teamsters' strike on at Son Francisco and everybody who eau drive n imilo or wield a whip Is worth his weight In gold. Of all trade branches, the figures might to note an expansion of the thcrnioino t6r liuslneBH, no matter what other Hues niny show contraction. Wo venture to suggest in whispered tone that the weather man send In new copy for his display ad which has been left standing altogether too long. Whethor Ir. Koch's theory Is cor rect or not. you had better boll the germs In the milk before you drink them. Well boiled germs never hurt anybody. Senator Jones of Arkansas has turned his back upon Hryan, who may derive some consolation from the fact that Jones has been carried off by the Cot ton Bale trust. If tho rain will otily come copiously enough to break the hot spell we will not quarrel whether It is sent In response to prayer or as a result of the rain makers' efforts. With nil these new game wardens watching for a chance to enru a fee it Will take n pretty wily hunter to squeeze lu between the seasons In Nebraska tin less'lio stands In with the warden. i Tho Mississippi River commission only wants congress to appropriate tho mod est sum of '$3,000,000 nnuually for six years to enable It to remove snags from tho river and riprap Its banks at special places, and when tho $18,000,000 has been sunk the commission will renew Its appeals for more. (Jeorgo Kennan, the American lec turer and correspondent whose articles on Siberian exiles caused so much com ment a few years ago, is lu Russia, but ho will not remain long. The police have untitled him to leave at once. When he comes back he will bo able to appreciate more than ever the beauties of living In a free country. Dr. Koch says that consumption Is rarely caught from the- milk or moat of cattle mulcted with pulmonary ills ease. Other eminent physicians and veterinarians Insist that tho disease Is contagious and can be contracted by the consumption of milk or meat of eat tlo whose lungs are affected. When doctors disagree who shall decide? Governor Oaten of Alabama has re corded himself In a speech to the effect that some negroes make better citizens and better voters than some white men and that whatever suffrage quallllea tlons are applied should relate to whites and blacks alike. Governor Oates must be cultivating political ambitious that require tho support of northern states to satisfy. Under tho leud of Tillman the Bouth Carolina democratic committee hat voted Senator MoLaurlu out of the party. As the heuutor has several years yet to serve In the senate he has no oc casion to worry about the present. This notion, taken In connection with tho bolt of tho Itryan men In Ohio, Indicates clearly, however, that the popullstle element lu the party proposes to rule lu tho future or complete the wreck of the organization. The country can stand such a breakup better than the otllce hungry democratic politicians. .Sf.7vt TIIUST KXPASSlO.t. The American Sugar Refining com pany has announced an Increase of Its capital stock by $1,".000,000. The pur pose of the Increase, according to ii statement of the president of the com pany, Is not to buy up outside con corns, but to encourage the sugar liv dustry In Porto Ulco and In Culm. As sugar will come lu free from Porto Rico, the head of the trust frankly ad mils that he would like to have Cuban sugar admitted to the United States free of duty. He Is quoted as saying: "The sugar Industry In Cuba will boom when they get the tariff llxed right. What they want In Cuba and what the beet sugar men and the cane sugar growers In this country would not object to Is the admission to American ports of raw sugar from Cuba and Porto Rico free of duty. What the growers here want Is a tariff on reilned sugar." So far as we are Informed the Ameri can sugar producers do not want Cuban sugar, raw or reilned, admitted to the American market free of duty. Their desire Is that the existing tariff shall lie applied to the sugar of Cuba and If we are not mistaken they will be found Insisting upon this whenever the ques tion shall come up for action. It Is generally safe to dlstrtisl statements emanating from the Sugar trust rela tive to tho domestic Industry. It Ih not favorable to that Industry; It does not desire that It shall grow. Tho Increase lu the production of American beet sugar Is a menace to the trust, the best evidence of Its hostility to the Industry being In the fact that It has refused to sell trust-made sugar to merchants who buy domestic beet sugar. To admit the raw sugar of Cuba free would undoubtedly be a good thing for the trust and It Is safe to conclude that In the degree that It contributed to the advantage and profit of the American Sugar Rellnlug company it would be a detriment to our beet sugar Industry. In order that that Industry shall continue to grow the raw product us well as the reilned must have tariff protection. Give the trust raw sugar from Cuba free and there would soon be an end to the production of beet sugar in this country. Then the Sugnr trust would have the Held to Itself and the consumers wholly at Its mercy. A duty on reilned sugar would not pre vent this result. The president of the trust professes to think that congress will give the kind of tariff he suggests. Wo believe It safe to say that It will not. It Is highly probable that some favor will be shown to Cuban sugar, but a re publican congress, we confidently be lieve, will not sacrifice tho American Industry, which Is one of the conspicu ous examples of the wisdom of repub lican policy. . THE STMKt: AND WL1TICS. The effort to give the steel strike a political bearing will not bo successful with Intelligent worklngmen. The ex traordinary suggestion has been made that the national administration should Interpose and endeavor to Induce the men who control the stCol combination to concede the demand of the Amal gamated Association of Steel Workers. What right or authority has the admin istration to Interpose In n contest of this character? It Is an Issue between organized capital and organized labor, with which the public authorities have nothing to do so long as tho contest Is peacefully carried on and no law Is violated. For President McKlnley or any one In the administration to med dle with It would be not only an un precedented proceeding, but one which could find no Justification In duty or authority. But it Is said that thore Is a prece dent In the fact that last year the chairman of the republican national committee, Senator lliiuna, exerted his lutluencc to bring about a settlement of the coal uiliverH' strike. Tho two cases are not parallel and what Sen ntor Ilaumi did was a personal matter, lu nowise Involving the administration or the republican party. Mr. Ilanua believed that the miners were entitled to what they asked for and he per suaded the operators that It was ex pedient to concede tho demands. This does not mnkc it Incumbent upon him or any member of the administration to intercede In the contest between the steel companies and the steel workers. The suggestion of such n thing is ut terly preposterous ntul It Is most sur prising that It should have anywhere been considered with seriousness. SLAYHltl' IS T1W I'lllhll'l'lKS. The report to the War department of Colonel .Morrison of tho Judge ad vocate general's department, on slavery conditions in the Philippines, shows a state of affairs that must sooner or later be remedied, but which may cause tho government no little trouble, lie states that slnvery in the nrchl--pelago has all of the essentials of tho negro slavery formerly existing In the United States. This Is true so far as tho traflie In human beings Is cou cerued, but there is ft wide difference In other respects. It Is needless, how ever, to make comparisons, It being sulli clent to know that slavery In the Phil ippines Is In Its general fentures quite as bad If not worse than was African slavery In this country. This Is one of the ugliest matters connected with our possession of the nrchlpelago and the problem of dealing with It Is certain to be found dilllcult and perplexing. The system has ex Ibted for centuries and the barbarous people who practice It will not easily be persuaded that It is wrong and that It will be to their advantage to abaudon It. All their traditions approve It and they will not readily bo convinced that a practice so old among them and which they regard as entirely legiti mate n practice never Interfered with by tho former ruler of the archipelago should bo given up. They may be ex pected to resent anil resist uny attempt to do away with slavery, even to the extent of fighting for its retention. This l one of the difficulties, and THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, perhapR It will prove a very serious one, yet to be met lu the Philippines It Is possible that before It can be dls pood of much more blood will be shed and a great deal more money ex pended, but In any event slavery can not be permitted to permanently con tlnue In the Philippines under tin American Hag. As moii as the United States shall have firmly established Its sovereignty over the Islands steps must bo taken to do away with slavery, however hard and troublesome the task. UllYAXS JIUSCSr VULLAH. In his address delivered at Chautauqua, 111.. William Jennings Hryan reiterated his time-worn declaration that he was lu favor of an absolutely honest dollar- dollar that had the same purchasing power yesterday, today and forever. How Bryan would get this extraordinary dollar he failed to explain. In order to get such a dollar he would first have to nullify the eternal laws of supply and demand which govern the exchange able values of commodities. Mr. Bryan's conception of an honest dollar seems to be that of a standard nienhttre or standanl weight which Is the same yesterday, today and forever. A yardstick Is thirty-six Inches long and always will be, but the yardstick does not fix the price at which goods mean urod by the yard shall bo exchangeable A yardstick will measure silks, satins and calicoes, but calicoes and silks will not sell perpetually at to much a yard. The same Is true as to weight. Six teen ounces make ft pound and sixteen ounces of gold will not weigh any more at any time than sixteen ounces of iron or lead, but sixteen ounces of iron or lead will not exchange for sixteen ounces of gold, although they will bal ance on the scales. A year ago potatoes were selling at HO cents a bushel and today they are selling for $1.10 at Chicago. How would Bryan adjust his honest dollar to this situation? With Bryan's honest dollar gauged by last year's prices pota toes would have to keep on selling at 110 cents a bushel, or If the purchasing power of his dollar was Initiated In 1001 potatoes would have to sell at $1.10 a bushel forever. Two years ago corn was selling at 2.1 to tiO cents a bushel lu Chicago and today It is selling at from 58 to 00 cents n bushel. If Bryan's honest dollar had been the standard com would sell at the same price today for which It sold two years ago and would sell at -o or ;!0 cents a bushel throughout all eter nity. The Idea of vesting a dollar with equal purchasing power for nil time, regard less of the scarcity or abundance of the commodity that is to bo exchanged for the dollar Is on Its face the most ab surd proposition that bus ever been con ceived. The protracted drouth has exploded a great many sclcntllle theories. It has knocked the sun spots silly and shown that there is a great deal of moonshine about tho profound dissertations of as tronomical charlatnus.". It has also forced the hand of hitherto highly es teemed authorities on arboriculture who have all nloug persistently claimed that drouth Is caused by the. destruction of the forests. It is 11 matter of common knowledge that rainfall promotes the growth of forests, but it is still a ques tion whether forests promote the fall of rain. Tho dense follugo of the forest retards the evaporation of the moisture within Its confines, but It does not pro duce rain. In order to produce rainfall tho forests would have to cause evapor ation, but It Is well known thut the forest does not create the atmospheric moisture that must precede rain. The destruction of the forests since 1800, In the region west of the Mississippi, has been colossal, yet the drouth of 1800 was more protracted and more Intense than the drouth of 1001. Official confirmation is given to the report thut the new German grain duties will be so high as practically to amount to prohibition. Tho United States, as the leading exporter of grain, will, of course, be largely affected, though Germany Is not by tiny means the largest of Its customers. The loss Is not without compensation, however. The effect at home will bo a large In crease lu price for consumption lu Ger many, which will prove a serious handi cap to German manufacturers If it puts up the price of living. There Is still plenty of market for all the surplus grain of this country and If Germany, which Is, next to England, our greatest rival lu manufacturing lines, wishes to start In with a handicap the United States can stand it. While some talk has been ludulged of calling a strike of organized laboi everywhere In the country out of sym pathy for tho steel workers now out, It Is gratifying that the real leaders of labor have dlscounteunnced any such move or even thought of such a course. A strike of this kind, which would mean paralysis for every Industry In the country, would be tho greatest ca lamity possible to Inflict and would certainly react on. organized labor, it would strike capital, It Is true, but the ruins would carry with them all In their path. Emperor William Is credited with con templating a move to secure peace be tween Great Britain and tho Boers. If a peace honorable to both could be se cured It would bo a blessing to tho con tending parties, The Transvaal Is a waste land owing to tho ravages of war and the burden upon Great Britain Is a most serious drain upon Its re sources of men and money. The utter ances of leaders on both sides lend lit tle hope that any peace short of ex termination of the Boors Is possible, however. Tho St. I.ouls exposition Is Involved at an early stage In litigation, an In junction being already sought to re strain the city from allowing tho ex position to use Forest park. At this distance It is Impossible to say what merit there is In the case, but such suits, nine times out of teu, arc out breaks of disappointed ones whose schemes have been Interfered with The organization of an exposition Is a dilllcult task without Its managers being hampered with unnecessary lltl gatlou, Three years ago Sir Thomas Upton dispensed his famous Ceylon tea at the exposition grounds through the medium of beautiful English maidens arrayed In picturesque teagowus, but he had to pay handsomely for the concession. A St. Louis tea house goes Upton one bet ter by transforming several Nebraska state officers Into tea tasters and nit vcrtlslng sausages by merely paying for a brass baud. In attempting to head off frauds In securing laud In the timbered section of the northwest the government Is prac tlcally forced to work a hardship upon the honest ehtrynuin. Recently dlscov eretl frauds have led to the holding up of all patents for land, and the head mid front of the combination which has caused all the trouble Is said to be the great democratic reformer, Senator Clark. It Is only millionaires who can trace their genealogy to noble ancestry. Men of ordinary menus cannot afford to be descended from robber barotis and out law highwaymen who In years back levied tribute on honest toll. IlllxtL-rcil ivltli (he Host. Philadelphia Ledger. What has become of the theory that tho sun Is losing Its heat? An 0liliiiilt- for Delis. Washington Post. Is It not about tlmo tor Ron, Eugene Debs to udvlflo fonio of the strike leaders to beware of tlio deadly cucumber? Xo Ocouxluii for it Klek. Dnttlmoro American. Tho fato of tho Alaskan prospectors found frozen to death will not excite hor rified shudders Just now. An Icy death compared to a living broil seems to lcavo no ground for complaint. Of course lu the Icy regions this view may be reversed. The I.ckb jitit the Ilettrr. Brooklyn Eagle. Tho Spanish Senate, has voted that It will not Inquire Into the causes of tho war be tween Spain and tho United States. That Is a subject on which the Cnstlllan Is a llttlo Bcnsltivo and, now that It Is nil over, ho docs not care who struck Billy Patterson. Old Morro Modernised, Minneapolis Tribune. It has been decided that the States will retain possession of United Morro castlo at Havana and arm It with modern appliances. Thus armed and well manned It will bo Impregnable and will enable tho United States to protect the Cubans against any foreign aggression. To the Cubans, without a navy, tho COBtle would be of no use. How Hnve the MlKlity I'nllen. Detroit Free Tress. Alas! how have the mighty fallanl Loss than ten years' ago "General" Jacob S. Coxcy led his grand army of discontent "on to Washington and "Coxey'g army" be came a synonym for gatherings, small or great, of trnm'ps, Idlers, mobs, Ill-clad, foul-Binelllng-, 'Weary Willies and the like. Today this1 sdm Jacob S. Coxoy Is the chief stockholder of the Coxey Steel Cast ing company of Mount Vernon, O. Too bad) too bad! 9tnd)'lnir American Methods. Philadelphia Ledger. A number at British workmen are to be sent to this country to study American methods. Ono of the originators of this commendable scheme believes that the British workmen have lost supremacy bc causo they aro not given a scientific and technical education such as Americans re ceive. Thero Is no doubt much truth In this, but tho British workmen aro likely to discover before they have carried their Investigations very far that another reason Is that American workmen are not In the habit of making senseless opposition to the Introduction of now labor-saving ma chinery. Trlniiinhii of American Dentists. New York Tribune. American dentists have lanir liprn Ihr most successful In tho world and havo cared for nearly all tho crowned teeth of Europe with a skill which has commended them especially to tho favor of the uneasy heads whoso owners sit on thrones. Some envious Germans aro trying to make trouble tor the foreign dental surircons. hut thnv will surely be battled in their schemes. ueniisiry as a nno art has been developed among Araorlcan practitioners as among those of no Other neonlc. Germnnv must yield the palm to surpassing merit In dental oraiiimar.smp American dentists have acnloved so many triumphs and havo so plainly put competition out of court that people of Intelligence everywhere readily acknowledge their unrivaled ability. CUTTIMJ DOWN HXI'KXSU.S. Material Itedui'tlnn In the Army In the Philippine)!. Kansas City Star. Tho announcement that tho army of tho Philippines Is to ho greatly reduced In numbers and that it is to be concentrated at three points In the archipelago denotes that tho Islands havo been pacified and that the tlmo has come when a great re duction In expenses may be mado with safety. The calling In of tho numerous garrisons would not be considered but (or the conviction on the part of General Chaffco and his advisers that the people of tho Islands look with favor upon Ameri can occupation and with respect upou tho military authority. Then, too, the effect of this concentration will doubtless be seen among the Islanders of tho better cliuses who, like bthcr well meaning human beings, llko to be trusted. Tho war In tho Philippines was oxDen- slvo bUBlncBB, U was of longer duration than at first expected and yet order and civil rule wero brought about In a much shorter tlmo end at much less cost than could havo been holloved by the light of bpain's experience with tho FlllpluoB. Tho people of the United States do not like hostile disturbances of any kind, They aro fundamentally tho most peaco loving nation on earth. They especially abhor anything like chronic trouble, and fret under the strain of long continued ftrlfe. Yet they rlso to every situation that mint he met. What they expect Is that when a war must bo fought or a mob dispersed tho translation shall be at tended with the least posslblo delay. They are Impatient of abnormal conditions. Henco It Is particularly desirable that ns rapidly as the situation mny allow tho permanent and least expensive order com patible with safety will be established In the Philippines, so that the routine of gov ernment and of Industrial development may move forward as n mutter of course. That end once attained it will be hard to make a llvo Issue, of the Philippines again. Doubtless tho administration realties the political as well as the economic value of reducing the military as well as the civil government of the archipelago to a busl- ncss basis as quickly as feasible. JULY 27, 1001. OTIir.lt I, AMIS THAN tM U.s. Trance becomes not only moro repub lican from year to year, but more na tionalistic, moro Intensely patriotic. The elections for the councils general, which aro conducted on party lines, Indicate Rains of seats for tho republicans and lofsrs for tho remnant of tho monarchists of various stamps. Tho tendency toward strong or ganization of national and patriotic feel ing Is on the gain In all Hurope.in and American countries, Social philosophers may regard It Is a reaction, but It Is cer tainly a step In tho world's evolution, to which the pcoplo feel themselves Irreslstl bly Impelled, France has forever turned her back on monarchical Institutions, All tnlk of llonapnrtlst or Bourbon restoration appears nonsense lu tho light of the fact that the republicans hnvo chosen about four-fifths of all these local councilors, nml all shades of opposition only the remaining fifth, Republican governments may bo Short-lived and weak in Prnnriv luit It In plain that tho pcoplo have no hankering lor any "strong government of tho old monarchical sort. At a elttlng last week of the Coronation -ourt or Claims, whose function It Is to decide rival claims to certain hereditary privileges connected with tho ceremonies nitcnciing thu crowning of n llrltlsh mon arch, some uxtraordlnary survivals of mediaeval fustlail Wero rpvnaleil. Thn Dnlin of Norfolk asserted It to bo hie Inherited right to provide a glovo for tho king and to support ono of his arms; nnothcr duko preferred a claim to net as chief butlor: two noblo lords had an animated discussion as to which of them had Inherited from a common ancestor the custody of the king's spurs, and still nnothcr insisted that h was folo heir to tho privilege of parrying his royal masters shirt to him on the morning of tho coronation. King Edward has a keen Rcnso of humor, If tho noble would-be lackevs have not. nml hn l UUelv to put down his foot ns hard upon these ridiculous claims as ho did upon tho prac tice of hand-klsslng nnd the asserted priv ileges of tho clerical peers to buss tho newly crowned monnrch n both cheeks. Tho New Zealand Parliament has con firmed the rt'CCllt retiort of the rnmtnNsInn which was adverse to tho nrnnnsnl of thn rolony's Joining the federation of the Aus tralian states. The commissioners nnd the Parliament arc of the opinion that for New Zealand to loin tho commonwealth wnutrl he greatly prejudicial to Its Interests. It is now deemed unlikely that tho mattor will be revived again for si-vernl venm. nnrtlr. ularly as the boundaries of lh eol recently so extended ns to Include tho Cook nnit otner islands. Apropos of tho com monwealth, points of rullne are constantly being raised In regard to tho interpretation oi tnc now constitution. A serious question nroso tho other day between the fedrml government and the senators, the latter strongly objecting to the form In which mo nrst supply bill was Bent to them. The hill only mentioned the lump sum required, omitting tho details supplied to tho Houso or iicproseniativcs. it seems that the con stltutlon gives the Senate thn rlcht nf sue gesting by a message to the Houso of Rep resentatives amendments or omissions in appropriation bills and tho sonators In- sistea mat tne absence, of details denrived tho Senate of the opportunity of exercising this right. A heated debate ensued. In the course of which some sonators accused the government of Intentionally flouting and Insulting the Sennte. but the matnrltv fn. vorcd tho viow that a mistake had Inad vertently been mnde; so the bill was sim ply roturnod with a request for details. There Is an outcry In Germany concern ing the number of foreign students In the universities and tho injuries which na tive Students suffer in consenuenen. T( in. pears that the names of more than 2,500 foreigners ore on the books of the differ. ent Institutions. Of these 855 aro at Berlin, 370 at Lelpstc, 232 at Munich, 159 at Heidel berg, 141 at Hallo, 140 at Freiburg and 102 at Gottlngcn. Tho Russians are most strongly represented with 717 students, tho result, of course, of tho troubles In their own country. In addition to the Russians there arc C07 Austrlans, 250 Swiss, 157 Eng lishmen, 323 Americans, 154 Asiatics (mostly from Japan), CS Bulgarians, GO Dutchmen, 47 Frenchmen and 33 Turks. Tho complaint Is made that It Is unjust that so many Etrnnizera should rnni ih benefit of the sacrifices made by tho Ger man Btatos ror the higher education of their youth. Professors declare that tho majority of the forelcn students lor. If nra. llmlnary training, and thus retnrd tho progress of the classes In which they take part. German students protest that a dis proportionate share of tho accommodation In tho laboratories la ocr.iinlml hv (nr. clgncrs, to the disadvantage of tho native students, for whom ft was primarily In- icnacu. ino rorcign studentB, moreover, being moro or less ignorant of the German language, absorb a large Dart of th tm and tho attention of the professors and their assistants. The native students of the Technical High school of Munich have signed a petition requesting that tho ques tion of the admission of foreign students be reconsidered. Sir Reginald Wlnc-nt. whn .i,m..,uj Lord Kitchener ns the sirdar of h nn. tlan army, Is now on his way to London from Cairo to lay on oxhaustlvo report on the Soudan provinces before the Brit ish Foreign office. Throughout his Journey Into tho Soudan he wab accompanied by Slatln Posha and Captains Markhum and Bailey. Some Idea of tho remarkablo ad vanco that has been made In transporta tion iacnuies in Kgypt may be gathered when It Is said that the party performed the Journey from Hoselres. in thn c,.. province, near the Abyssinian frontier and uciween w and coo miles south of Khar toum, to Cairo, a distance of over 1,800 miles, In ono week. Over f.nn mii nr h Journey were covered by river. This tlmo inciuucs a stop of twenty-nlno hours' dura tion at Khartoum and another of sixteen hours at Assuan. The British and German colonial nnwa will shortly send a commlssinn t v.t Africa to determine the boundary of the ninteriana or logoiand and the Qofd Coast. There are two points In dispute. According to clause 5 of tho Samoa agreement. th boundaries between the British and German territories in the Salag district should bo formed by the river Daka ud to its intr. section with tho ninth decree of latiniru But the exact courso of this rlvor. and . pecially tho point where it crosses tho ninth parallel or north latitude, aro still un known and will have to he aneert.iltir.fi hv the Joint commission. The boundary on tho coast Is also In dispute. In earlier agreements tho Daka was treated ns a tributary of another river and as lying en tirely In German territory. It now appears that tho Daka is an Independent river and Its west bank Is claimed hv Rutland, which claim Germany, relying upon hor own sur voys and the agreements which were bated upon theso surveys, refuses tn recognlzo. Itlicht Mnu tor the Task. New York Sun. A naval officer has suggested that Ad miral Dewey be sent to represent our navy at tho coronation of King Edward VII next year In command of a squadron composed of tho best types of our warships. Tho mat ter has not been taken up hy the depart ment yet, but if a naval representative Is to bo sent it is customary to send ono to a function of tho sort Admiral Dewey should go, at the bead of a fleet of our best ships, , POLITICAL lilt I FT. I ' I), H. Hill's presidential boom seems toj lack an experienced boomer. Reports from Ohio leave no doubt that the gold and silver factions of tho democ- r.iey are quite warm. ! Thi., ii, ! ii... i v... i Yo7kn;rviMe,,:,onst,l1rnd,,dB,eo; tho municipal ticket of any parly and the namo of the mayoralty candidate will bo' nt tho top of the column of both political ! lulriiC9 1 parties, There are three contested sc.its In the ! t.'lrl.. ...... .,!), r,..nr. It-. I..- . 1, ... oiiiitiiii v.'univrc.. v miui Kitv ni- portlonment there will bo an Increase of1 twenty-nlno members In the Flfty-elghth house of representatives, making a total rucmbcMhlp of 3StJ. I The contest over the olllcc of mayor of St. Louis which has been pending for some tlmo between Mr. Patker, the republican candidate, nnd Holla Wells, the successful democratic nominee, has been abandoned by tho former. The Missouri supremo court' has seven members, of whom six are demo- j crats. ' It appears that the sixty-nine years of . niu niir.iKiiu uiiuny in me uioranar con- sulato aro outdone by the service of tho lee of tho1 nd whleh v.Jr lin American rox family at Falmouth, England, has lasted 107 years, tho first consul there having been Kobert W. Fox, , grandfather of the incumbent, whom Presl dent Washington nppolnted May 30, l"!ii. The present consul's son Is vice consul and Is likely to succeed his father, ns tho salary Is but 300 a year. Tho state census of Maryland gives the population of that state as 1,178.700, a de crease of ll,3f.O from tho figures of l.P.'O, 0S0 returned by the federal census. It In creases tho population of Baltimore nnd decreases the population of the stnto out side the city. In some of the counties of Maryland errors In the taking of the fed eral census of a year ago have been proved nnd some of tho enumerators responsible for them nro now, after trial and convic tion, under sentence. Except In Mary land, tho accuracy of the 1900 census has been little disputed, Tho new primary law of Indlann was put tn the lest In Indianapolis this week. Can didates for the republican nomination for various city offices were voted for directly, thus dispensing with delegates and conven tions. According to Indianapolis papers the provisions of tho law worked very sntls factorlly. The candidate chosen for mayor i. m i . ti i i. . ...... Is Chnrles A Bookwalter, ft strong, force- ful, aggressive young republican. He msdi tho race against Tom Taggart. the present mayor, two years ago anil was defeated by a small margin, Mr. Bookwalter Is a pros perous business man, a printer by trnde and n talented campaigner. Tom Johnson, mayor of Cloveland, doet not like government by Injunction. He thinks the courts stretch their prerogatives In favor of corporations. "I am no prophet," hf sold in n late Interview, "but I cannot cscnpe tho Impression that tho peoplo who arc using the Injunction arc sowing the wind. It this Is true tho har vest must como later. I cannot believe that a free people will quietly consent to having their rights to a hearing, to a trial by Jury, and to a fair deal taken away from them in advance. Tho American people havo been taught to believe that they govern themselves, but government by Injunction takes away that right. There will bo pro vided a remedy. Just how It will bo cured cannot be told. A legislative restriction may bo placed on tho court providing a trial beforo Imprisonment for contempt of court, based upon such Injunctions. How ever it may come, it Is certain to come. The practice la un-American and It cannot endure." BUREAU OF KOIIRSTRY. Plan nnd Scope of n Division of the AKrfcn'ltuml Department. Philadelphia Ledger. Tho rapid growth of sentiment In favor of forestry culture Is gratlfylngly lllun- trated by the establishment, at the begin ning of tho present month, of the National Bureau ot Forestry, under tho act of the lost congress. Tho growth of sentiment In favor ot this Important work is interest ingly ehown by the annual lncreaso In tho appropriations during tho last few years, In ISO'J it was only $28,520: In 1000 It was Increased to $88,520 and this year that sura is advanced to $18.',410, nearly sevon times what It was In 1809 and more than double that ot last year. Ono eccrot of tho success ot the move ment in favor of forestry culturo Is that, after painstaking effort, It was clearly dom- onstrated to the farming Interests 'that woodland culturo Is ot direct and vital Im port to thorn In many ways. It was proved beyond dispute that forest areas had u tendency to provent prolonged drouths and to prcscrvo an oven flow of water In the streams which Irrigated tho farms. Proof was also furnished that where ordinary In telligent was displayed very satlHfactory financial returns might be had from other wleo wasto land by the cultivation of trees. Tho experimental work of tho division of forestry nttached to the Department of Agriculture was of such a surprisingly ef fective character that Its advancement to the status ot a bureau was Inevitable. Tho field work of tho new bureau will be much broader than the work of tho branch of tho Department of Agrlculturo and it should and doubtless will be correspond ingly greater In valuable results. There will be three Important divisions, one hav ing charge ot forest management, a second of forest Investigation and a third of records. The object of tho first Is to assist owners of forest areae to develop thorn so that they may bo handled as nn unfailing source of timber supply. To this end nn expert Is sent to ascertain tho con dition of the standing timber, prospects of reproduction, the facilities for marketing, the best method for harvesting tho crop so DON'T OVERLOOK Our children's department if you want to keep the boys from melting away these fierce days and nights. It may get cool 8om6 day (but we have begun to doubt it). And we have thought that maybe you did not know of the pltasant cool suits and odd gar ments, that we have for small boys and the large. Underwear, Shirts, Waists, Hose Serge, Flan nel, Crash Linen or Duck Coats and Trousers, And regardless of what the cost, all straw hats have been reduced to three prices. 85c, 60c, $1.00. Have you seen the invisible suspender attach ments. Browning, King & Co. Exclusive Clothiers and Furnishers. R. S. Wilcox, Manager. Btor Cloe Saturday NlithU at ft O'clock, Other ISrenlnva at B.30, ns to secure tho largest present nnd futuro yield nnd tho prospect of success under In- tclllKent management. A working plan Is furnished, together with much Important nn'1 '1PC"Rar.v data, ., S"n!';,h'"K ,of ,hls work wa ''0,lp ,m(lcr division of forestry nnd how popu- ,Hr " wnR Ib demonstrated by tho fact th.it ffi ."' LnTm V?. ,i'i.ii,i i uutii'i' nun iiiwi ii iiiiiti uiii'-iiau ot Uie rw named was placed under arHRemont Protection against tile. browsing animals and thieves, tho study of trees, their rates of growth, distribution ! and reproductive properties nnd other tcl- .....In. .... ... . tnllnc "'V'" co,1,;tc, therewith form ""mp nf ,ho fllni," ' tho new bureau, There are many perplexing problems to b solvri1 an' without the aid of tho forestry knowledge of foreign countries. Climatic and other conditions In this country aro totally different In many respects to tho. existing tn Europe, making it obligatory i on, t.ho,I!u't of lhp .llow buri'l to pursue urK'' ' rean success, --- A .NMILK (lit TWO. , I'lilladelphla Press; Mr. Penn The 1 weather man must hnvo n grievance "earner man must hnvo n Rrlevnnc "K!last the whole country. Mr' I'ltt-Whnt makes you say that? Alr. rcnn-See. the roast ho Is giving us. Washington Btnr: "A mllllonnlro am have things pretty much his own way In this world, ' said ono philosopher. ' Hi' can, ' answered tho other, "until ho comes to mnko his will," Brooklyn HhbIc: City Niece (In surprise) hy, uncle, are those little apples you are gathering good for elder? fnclo Ocelutw (utiiused-Uood? Why, siirtln! Enny little wormy apples Is good for cider! Cleveland Plain Dealer: "I see that tlm lute Governor Plngreo loft scrapbooks thut contain l5.(o columns of newspaper com ment ntio.it himself." "Well, there never was a man who liked a scrap butter." Chicago Post: "Hut tho gown doesn't fit,' Insisted the patron. "Thut," replied the mndlstc calmly. "Is because you uro not made right." Brooklyn Ragle: Trolley Car Conductor Say! this nickel Is no goedl Mr. KmUoHt Well, never mind; give It to the company. Philadelphia Press: "Me nnd my wife," said Nurlteh, "are going to gtvo a swell dance uud we're lookln' fur u fancy nanm to can it on tan invitations, mow wouui '?,'',t S',nmr"s,ffi ',0'" i Hard y, replied l'epprey. "Cu It n 'Codilsh bull " Codilsh hull.' Washington Star: "What l tho matter with those weather liulletliiH of yours?" nuked the man who complains about what can't be helped. "My tleai sir," nnswered the weather prophet, "those uro merely predictions, not promises." Puck: Rntlfnu (referring to pitcher) What magntlleent control he has! Root Perfectly marvelous! Why, h hasn't called the umpire a tdnglc name for over two Innings! A Modern Version, Cloveland Plain Dealer. Old King Sol Is a funny old guy, And u' funny old guy Is he; Ho cull for his niyn nnd he works up a blaze And ho raises the mcrcurce. Old King Hoi Is a funny old chap, As funny as funny can be. Ho scorches tho earth In nn excess ot mirth, And ho chnikcth a high degree. Old King Sol Is a funny old Joss, And ii funny old Joss is ho; We'd all llko his fun not unite, so well done, For a roust Is never funiicc. MAI D IN MIDSUMMER. Josh Wink in Baltimore American. Maud Muller on n summer duv Raked In the meadow sweet with huy. Her hat wan off, her .nrina were lmrili Sho muttered low: "Wish I could s.wear:, For Maudlc's mood was far from sweet, Uecauso of the tcrrlllc heat. She knew that every sunbeam's chase Brought a ne.v freckle to her face. And whllo sho ntked the hnyflcld through, Her neck burned red her noso did, too. The Judgo came riding down tho road, And stopped where Muudle's fair head glowcu. Ho wore a suit of snowy -white, And was, In truth, a most cool Bight. Ho leaped from off his old brown maro And hought a chat with Maudlo there. Ho asked a drink of water clear And, ns ho drank, sighed: "Wish 'twas beer." Then chucked Miss Muller 'nenth tho chin And gave her qulto a goo goo grin, And smirked and smiled nnd asked her: "Do You find it hot enough for you Then Mnudln grasped her ""clent rake. And shrieked aloud: "For goodness sakei U'b hard enough tn rako this bay. But harder when fools como this way! Sho swiped tho Judge across tho hat i And got him twice ero down ho snt. Hhn biffed hts car in manner neat Three times before ho found his foot. Sho chased him through tho mcadov ground . . Unmoved by his appeals profound. As he across tho stubble pawed Ho yelped: "I'm sorryl riease stop, Maud I" But there was murder In her heart. Twas well for him he had u start. She seized him with a clutch Intense And hurled htm through a barb wire feme. And ncv6r mlBsed a stroke or strike Till ho was headed down tho pike, And ns hn vanished In n cloud Of dust, her nttltudo was proud. Sho smoothed her hair with touches light, And cried, as he went from her sight, "The wnrmest words of tongue, or pen Aro those: 'Don't you come back ngaln! All that day, every little whllo, Our Maudlo paused and smiled a smile.