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THE OMAHA DAIIT BEE: TUESDAY, AUGUST G, 1901. The omai ia Daily Bee K. KOSUWATEIt, UDITOIU PL'DLISHUIJ EVKIIY MOHN1NO. THUMB OK 8U1JSCIUPTI0N. Daily Dee (without Sunday), One Yuar..$G.O0 .Uuily tlcu ana Sunday, Uno Ycur SW illustrated Jltu, unu lour -W nunuay uw, une Yenr fw bJtJinay lite, one Yeur ug 'iweiilluth Cuitury Fanner, Ontj leur.. ltl UFF1CKS. Omuhd. Tho lieu Building. ... bouth Omuhu: City nun iiullding. Twen-ty-iuin ana .m Streets. Cuuncll iiluirs. lu 1'eurl Street. Clucugo; ltiiu Unity Iiullding. New iorki Temple, court. WubhniKton: M Fourteenth Street. COHKUSPUNDISNUIS. Communications relating to news and cdl tonui mutter bliouiu bu addressed: Uinulia Hcc, Euilcirlul Department. ULSlNKriS LliTTEHS. "Justness iutters und remittances should he uuureaseu; The lieu Publishing Com puny, uiuuliu, UliMlTTANCUS. ltcmlt by drutt, express or postal order, puyunlu tu Tlie J lee I'ubllshlng Company, only 2-ceiit Mumps accepted in payment o( mull accounts. 1-crnuiuu cheeks, except on uinului or eastern exchanges, not accepted. vim uEh puiiushk-su uumi'a.m'. STATEMENT OK CIUCULATION. Statu of Nebrusku, Douglas County, ss.: Uorgo H. Tzscnuck, secretary of Tho Hoe Publlsnlng Compiuiy, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full unu complete copies of The Dully, MurnlliK, Kveulng und Sunday lleo, printed during tlie month ol July, umi, wan us follows; 1 ar,,nto 17 M.itto 2 'M.-l'l'i Is sr., 1110 3 .v-7 19 as.iiio 4 Sl.dllO IV "M.U'20 6 i!r,NH 21 vt.-.,aiti c sr,,:inu 22 :j.-.,oho 7 sn.riin zz it.-.,:Mo 8 ur.,:ir,l 24 ari.ano 0 un.aio 23 .-.,:iio 10 m.umi 26 un,sr.u 11 sr.,:i7 ,27 sn.Sho 12 'm.vm '28 U.1,740 13 sr.,:i.-i 23 sn.auo 14 sn.nnr. so un,i!7o is s:r,oro 31 a.v-iao 18 25,070 Total 784,015 J-cJs unsold and returned copies.... ,ooi: Net total sales 77.',, ((lit Net dully average... SR.ooo GEO. U. T.SCHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to oeforo mo this 31st day of July, A. fJ. 1001. M. U. Hl'NOATi:. Notary Public. PAHTIUS LKAVINO Foil SUMMI2II. I'artlc lcnvtiiK the city for the summer niny linrc The lice sent (o thrm rrKiilnrly "X notlfylnir The lice Illiniums office, In person or ly mall. The nddreaii trill lie chniiRed alien nil desired. Odnr Itaplds Is now tho center of political gravity for Iowa politicians. It Is no longer a question of hot wlntlH In August, but nnrly frost lu September. Just wait until those new game war dens enn set In their work nutl listen to tho howl that goes up from the out-of-sonson poachers. There Is nn abundance of bills and claims before the .South Omaha coun cil, but u very slim prospect of raising tho money to pay them. h'rom the number of early shoots It does not look as If any drouth; had In terfered with tho annual crop of candi dates for the local ofllces lu Douglas county. Kudyard Kipling Is ndvlslng the British politicians how to run their coun try. Tlie politicians arc afraid to tell Kipling how he might write poetry for fear they .will start another eruption. While the two-minute, trotter may kick up tlie dust, the demnud in all parts of the globe for tlie good old American mule keeps him well In the front In tlie race for eipilne supremacy. Democratic and populist lawyers are not falling over each other In pursuit of the nomination for supreme Judge. Tho appetite for olilce Is as strong as ever, but few care to play a long shot for a winner. All of the questions Involved In tho bcliley Inquiry are being exhaustively discussed and passed upon by the press of tho country. The court of innulrv will meet September 11!, merely for the discharge of a perfunctory duty. No one can complain of snap Judgment In the republican county nominations this year, since the committee has made the call for the primaries a full eight weeks in advance. As tlie primary election law requires ouly twenty days notice, this Is certainly glvlug full measure. Foreigners In Pekln are becoming alarmed over the hostile attitude of tlie Chinese, emboldened by the departure or the foreign troops. The foreign rest dents should not stampede. After the experience tliey have gone through the Chinese are not likely to Invite nnothu visit from the nllied army. Ux-ttovernor Stone of Missouri Is. out ns a candidate for tlie democratic nom nation for the presidency In 1P01. Tho Deo has Deen buzzing In the bonnet of the ex-governor for several years, but up to the present It never madu enoii of a disturbance to attract the attention of the men who direct tho affairs of tho party. It is doubtless necessary for the engineers representing the Interested capitalists to Inspect tho route of tho proposed power canal that is to fur nish electrical energy for Omaha manu facturlug Institutions, but the people of Omaha would prefer by far an assur anco that they may Inspect the llnlshcd plant within a reasonable time. Tho power plant will look better In oper atlon than It docs on paper. It is Impossible to agree with Senator Tillman lu many of his views, but it is equally Impossible not to admlro his frankness, lie boldly defends lynching and nlso announces that the white people of his state, though lu the mi nority, propose to rule the state,como what may. While other southern demo crats are llndlng excuses for laws do nlgneil to disfranchise tho blacks and deify such Is their purpose, Tillman has tiie hardihood to say so. THE TAHIFF QUESTION. The commanding question, without any doubt, before the next congress, will bo that of the tariff. This Is plainly Indicated by every expression of leading republicans and particularly by those who are nearest the administration. The best evidence of this Is furnished In the recent Interview with Senator Oullom of Illinois, a man whose In llucnce lu the senate Is very great and who Is something of a power with the administration. Senator Cullom was a recent visitor to Canton, O., where he held nn Inter view with President McKlnlcy. Accord ing to the Associated Press report Mr. Cullom found the president favorable to some modlllcatlons of the tariff and particularly Interested In a policy of reciprocity, which means necessarily a change In the tariff schedules In the In terests of freer trade. In regard to this the secretary of agriculture Is re ported to have said that be hnd no doubt that the senate at Its next session would ratify some of tho treaties which baVe been negotiated and would fnvor others that are In process of negotiation. In reference to this the secretary of agriculture Is reported as saying that he had no doubt that congress would en dorse some of the reciprocity arrange ments nlroady negotiated and that it would endorse others yet to be ar ranged. Ho did not anticipate any general tearing up of the tariff, but only such changes ns nre necessary, without opening up the whole question and with out tho disturbance to business that would attend a general revision. In other words. Senator Cullom, In com mon with republicans generally, does not think that It Is necessary to make a general revision of the tariff, though it may be expedient to modify It In cer tain respects, ns for Instance the Iron and steel schedules, which In the general Judgment do not now need pro tection. The particular slgnlllcance of the ut terances of Senator Cullom Is due to the fact that they were made Immediately after his conference with President Mo- Klnley. There have been Intimations, more or less authoritative, that the president Is In favor of some departure from the radical policy of protection and there seems to be no doubt that he Is disposed to favor a reciprocity system that will abate certain protective principles In the Interest of a closer commercial arrangement with other countries. There has been no direct Inti mation from President McKlnlcy that lie holds this position, but there Is very good reason to believe that he Is pre pared to favor an economic policy that will bring the United States Into closer commercial relations with other coun tries. Senator Cullom Is pretty close to the president In this matter and his views lu regard to It may be regarded as reflecting pretty accurately the position of the administration. From this point of view It seems pretty safe to predict that the intluence of the administration will be exerted In behalf of the. reci procity treaties already negotiated, or such of tlieui as pronilsoVto benefit our export trade. LIMITS OF HAIWAY CUMUINATIUK. The current Review of Kevlows has nn article contributed by II. T. New comb, editor of the Hallway World, on "the recent great railway combinations" that throws some interesting light on the question how far the centralizing tendency can go or. rather, Is likely to go In the near future. Uy grouping the different Hues subject to common con trol If not common ownership, the au thor gives a graphic Illustration of the extent to which consolidation has al ready been effected. The systems and mileage covering more than .r,(XRi miles of trackage are enumerated as follows: Vamicrbllt system 19,453 miles Pennsylvania nytcm 13,772 miles Morgan system 11.7J& miles Morgan-Hill system 20,458 miles Harrlmun system 18,800 miles Gould system 13,705 miles The more Important separate lines, some of them under the Inllueuce of the larger systems, foot up In addition some thing over 40,000 mllos. After review ing the history of the deals by which this result has been brought about Mr. Newcomb ventures this slgnlllcant opinion: It is not certain that the current move ment has not, In somo Instanced, nrtvanced further than tho present economic situation Justifies, that the method of effecting somo of tho recent combinations has not been extravneant, nor that some of tho opera tions have not been inspired by tho wish to securo speculative prontB. Tho oppor tunity to do so bas been great and, ns most notablb Industrial movements attach to themselves parasitic operations, It Is quite probable that the ultimate analyses will show that somo railway properties have been combined by extravagant Issues of se curities which have largely passed out of the hands of thoso who effected tho com binations. Such combinations will eventu ally have to bo reorganized under lower capitalization or may even fall to pieces of their own weight. While this Judgment coincides with that already expressed by The Uee, tho author quoted goes further to express tho conviction that for the present rail way consolidation must proceed nlong the lines now mapped on tho group system. Absolute unification of nil tho roads In the country he declares to be far In the future If at all conceivable. Not- many decades, be says, will proba bly elapse before the lines south of the Potomnc and Ohio and enst of the Mis slsslppl nre combined; another combina tion will Include tho east and, west lines north of these rivers from the Atlantic to the grain-producing regions; another probable line of concentration will nf fect the lines connecting tho Mississippi and the Paclllc coast, one north nntl ono south of tho Iowa-Mlssourl bound ary. "The most spectacular of all proposl tlons and that most frequently an nounced Is least likely. There will be no lino under ono management from the Atlantic to tho Paclllc coast. Such a combination would Introduce thu very competition that It Is the purpose of the leaders of the railway world to pre vent." If this survey of tljc Held Is based on sound reason, and It Is made by an ex- pert lu railway matters, the limits of railway consolidation linve nlroady nboitt overtaken the Industrial condi tions that warrant them and further absorption will come slower, dependent upon trade expansion. After all it Is the tralllc of the country traversed upon which the railroads must sub sist and the railroad cannot advance far In advance of the development of the resources of the territory It covers. VIIOSI'XCTIVE 11EA1, ESTATE VALVES. Kxperience has demonstrated that In periods of business depression real es tate Is the llrst thing to go down and In periods of business prosperity real estate Is the last thing to go up. This fact doubtless accounts for the slow ap preciation lu real estate values since the advent of general prosperity. It Is quite natural that farming lands should feel the Impulse of business Improve ment before town lots and city prop erty. This applies especially to real estate In the far western states. An explanation of the comparatively light demand for city real estate may be found lu the absorption of the loanable surplus of the country In Industrials, or stocks nnd bonds Issued by the syndi cates' and trusts controlling the vast Industrial combinations. In Omahn the potential factors In repressing real es tate speculation have been the process of foreclosure that has followed the col lapse of tho boom in city property and excessive taxation. In other cities the drawbacks are gradually disappearing. A marked revival In activity In real es tate Is reported In New York, Chicago, St, Louis and nearly all of the large cities of the country. The general and pronounced depreciation lu railway se curities has directed attention to the greater stability of Investments In renl estate, especially the Investment of trust funds. A prominent Chicago llnancler, dis cussing this matter In a recent number of the Commercial West, says: No better Investment has or could be nitulo In this country than that well made upon real estate security, and It Is almost Invariably true that It pays a rate of Inter est 1 per cent higher. It pays this rate, not becauso It Is not equally secure, or will not year In and year out compare favora bly with any other high grade Investment, but for tho single reason that It Is not quoted ou exchanges and Is, therefore, subject to Individual burgaln nnd sale when realized on, a feature which should not bo used against It by trustees to the disad vantage of benotlciarles where the estate under consideration has no necessity of a security which can be disposed of in tho open market. The only objection that car. he rnbed and not satisfactorily met is that they are not readily negotiable lu the open market. The only serious obstacle In the way of marked real estate improvement Is excessive taxation. The burdens Im posed upon real estate for the mainte nance of city, county and stnte govern ment have had a great deal to do with the depreciation of real estate values. Kxcesslve taxation has had a damaging effect upon Omaha real estate and has had more to do with depreciating values than the steady stream of mortgage foreclosures. So loug as It Is cheaper to pay rent than to own storehouses and dwellings business men will not in vest In city property. Omaha must emulate the example of other cities by compelling a more equitable assessment of property and by enforcing greater economy In the administration of city, county ami state affairs. The Chicago board or equalization, which has been in session for upwhrds of a month, will close Its labors with the revision of tlie assessment of railroad property on the tax rolls. It is charged that a very large portion of the $l!00. 000,000 of railroad real estate within the city limits of Chicago has escaped taxation. Tho attention, of the board has recently been called to the fact that railroad real estate which has been entered as trackage Is being leased by the roads for business purposes. For example, the Santa Fe owns TA'l acres of land lu Cook county, of which moro than ninety acres is located near Clark street between Twelfth and Sixteenth. This property is estimated to be worth at least ?."0,000,000. The grenter part of It Is leased to business concerns and large monthly rentals are collected for Its use, yet this goes in as trackage, and the entire valuation of this property for 1000 was returned to the city at 270,0.1:1. The Chicago & Western Indiana railroad has leased eight lots near Polk and Dearborn streets at 97,100, while tho assessors place the value of these lots at (150. This systematic evasion of local taxes on the part of the great railways Is by no menu conllncd to Chicago and the action which Chicago will take In the revision of the ridiculously low assessment will blaze the way for other cities similarly allllcted. The east, whenever the question of irrigation enterprises has been up In congress, has always fought favorable nctlon. The representatives of that se tlon havo always held that If tho west wanted to Irrigate It should not look to tlie government for any assistance It wns all the government could do to Improve eastern harbors. The pro tracted drouth In certain sections this year has opened the eyes of the east to the fact that the raising of a crop In the west Is of ns much conse quence to the east as to the west. It Is to be hoped the lesson may be effective In rendering eastern congressmen more reasonable lu the future. Hussla wants .Tnpan to waive claims on Corea and take a slice of the main land of China Instead. Russian gener osity with the property of others Is re freshing. With the United States and England absolutely committed against the partition of China such a scheme Is likely to bo blocked. The trade of both countries lu China Is worth too much to bo sacrificed to Uussla without an effort to preservo It. Lately compiled statistics shatter some Ideas that have been almost' uni versally held. India Is generally looked upon as n country densely populated, np compared with others. In this respect It Is outranked by Englnnd and Wales, Uelglum, llollaud, Austria, Switzerland, Germany nnd France In Europe nnd by Japan lu the Orient. The great density of population has often been cited ns a reason why India could not Improve greatly lu nn ludustrlnl way, but the countries which exceed It are those which arc most highly developed along these Hues. Some other explanation of the stagnation of that country must be looked for. The east pretends to believe that the west docs not amount to much and that the people of the east constitute all there Is of consequence of the United States. When It Is repotted, however, that the corn or wheat crop of the west Is likely to be a failure the east sud denly remembers that such a condition will largely cut off their income. Tlie west has heretofore given eastern pro vlnclnllstu some severe Jolts and Is likely to deliver nunc. The west Is coming and must have a clear track. The cool weather and the rains have enabled Nebraskaus to take a calm sur vey of the situation and the result Is the opinion that the state is not nearly so hard hit as had becu thought. It conies out of the ordeal on the whole In as good shape If not better than any other state In the union. With a bumper crop of wheat, plenty of hay and from half u crop to better of corn there Is nothing the matter with Ne braska. Secretary Wilson advises Nebraska farmers to raise canalgre, a plant used In tanning hides. The soli of the state Is suited to It and when tlie plant Is raised some enterprising men should proceed to use It on the hides from South Omaha's packing houses. There Is no reason why this should not be one of the largest tanning centers lu the world. The eastern papers of tho country which two weeks ago were announcing the absolute ruin of the Nebraska fanner should have the decency to cor rect the false reports they scattered. The Nebraska farmer will have no trouble In taking care of his own. To MnUc ItiiiipliirfM Ciiiuplt-te. New York World. Tho Canned Salmon trust is the newest. A Prune trust ouly is needed now to mako boarding house keepers thoroughly un happy. WorUliiK n Cinuli. Chicago News. The Coal trust needs smnshlng; It has put up coal 10 cents a ton with no excuse except that it could. It did not oven need tho money. lieuecill)- Kind, You Kiioit, Washington Post. It Is deuccdly nlco In the Hrltlsh consul nt Manila to worry over our responsibili ties In the Philippines. It shows such a nice, neighborly spirit, you know. Ilnlniirlntc the Account. St. Pnul Pioneer Press, "Tho loss to tho farmers," wo were told during the late drouth, "Is reaching up Into the hundreds of millions of dollars." "The rece.nt rains," wo nro now told by-tho same senders of .dispatcher "have been worth hundred of millions of- dollars to the farm ers." Then, It seems, rthc farmers have no balance to collect of Nature. KnrliiK Hie I-'titun-. ,,. T.oulsvllle Courier-Journal. Maryland democrat follow thoso of Ohio In Ignoring Mr. Oryan-nnd tho platforms ot 1S0G and JOOO. nut Maryland democrats follow Ohio only because their convention was held subsequently to that of- Ohio. They have long been .known to be In favor of letting the dead past bury Its dead and of turning their faces to tho future. And Maryland and Ohio arc but the beginning In this forward march. Anic-rlruii nriinmn mid Munclr. New Y'ork Tribune. American brooms sweep clean. They havo sept Havana entirely clear of yellow fever and the Cubans have learned such les sons In scrubbing and in sanitary precau tions of all kinds from the Yankees tint this pestilential malady Is likely to bo extir pated In the West Indies nnd to exist no longer us n menaco to the health and pros perity of the ports of our southern states. Spain was never sufficiently energetic In Its efforts to Etamp out disease. A thoroughly cleansed Cuba will bo almost an earthly paradise. Crliuliinln Turned I.oonp, Buffalo Kxprcss. Trial by Jury is not tho law In Hawaii, but It Is required by the constitution of tho United States. Accordingly, Federal Judge Clear of Hawaii has released on habeas cor pus petition all prisoners sentenced oftor the resolution ot annexation was signed by the president, on tho ground that they did not hove a legal Jury trial. Tho oddest feature of this la that it Is based on the Porto IUcan decisions of the United States supreme court. It Is ono nf tho queer complications which havo resulted from th apparent compromise of opinions in th supremo court's decision. iiilnK Alirond for Home .Venn. Philadelphia Times. One looks In vuln In tho nowspapers of Missouri, Kansas, Ncbrnsl'a and other drouth-Inflicted statca for confirmation of tho stories sent out last week from tho corn pits of the Chicago and New York ex changes that corn was burned down to the ground, streams dried up, cattlo dying by the thousands and other similar calamity bowlings, heading newspapers In Kansas and Missouri did not even make llrst puge features of the drouth and there does not appear to be oven one editor who agrees with tho lightning calculators In Chicago and New York that tho losses havo been so enormous. Weetern farmers no longer de pend upon a Blnslo crop nnd even tho absolute fnlluro of the rorn crop would bo but a temporary check to the prosperity of the Kansas and Nebraska farmer. .u vIkiiIIiik tlie Mlftnuurl. St. Pnul Pioneer I'rcfs. The editor of The Omaha lleo lives where ho has a good view of the Missouri river, lu nil its brown, turbulent beauty, the whole year round. So It Is to he presumed thnt ho speaks with a knowledge born of long, If not loving, Intimacy when he says speaking of the recent report of the Missouri rlvor commission to the effect that "no commerco of any consequenco can be expected until the river is put in navigable condition nnd opened to Its mouth:" "That will happen when Gabriel blows his horn In tho morn ing, ft would cost more money to mako the Missouri navigable than to dig n canal na capacious as tho Erie. It would be still cheaper to build a double track freight rond from Fort Denton to the mouth of the Missouri at St. Louis and havo It operated at actual cost for tho benefit of tho popula tion In the Missouri valley. Such a road would bo navigable winter and summer, whllo tho river could bo operated Its cntlto length only six mouths of tho year." A Year Iloston Transcript Tho Agricultural department, under Its present direction, Is certainly something more and better than n mere perfunctory and ornamental branch of national ad ministration. It hns 10.000 agents In tho field in touch with tho crop develop ment and li employing all the resources nt Its command to summarize the situation as speedily as possible for the benefit of all concerned. Not content to rely entirely upon what his agents are doing Secretary Wilson has stnrted on a personal tour of tho corn belt, to steady his conclusions from his own observations. Ills Investiga tions will take ten dnys or two weeks and wo may rely upon his reports ns trust worthy. Activity of this kind Is rather discouraging to tho market manipulators. They did mnmago to get la a little line work for a week or two nnd represent the country ns enroute at express speed for tho "dcmnltlon bow wows," but wo do not think they havo done much hnrm, nnd with tho clear cold light of fact turned on tho situation their occupation Is nt least temporarily gone. Tho recent rains have been of Incalcu lable value. They were too late for early corn, but havo been of tho greatest benefit to that more lately planted, nnd ns there has teen more late than early corn this year that means n grent deal. Secretary Wilson reccommends Improving opportunity whllo tho rain falls, ns well ns when the sun shines, nnd ho tells farmers that even where their crops hnvo been totally de stroyed n second crop may be planted, which will yield rich stores of fodder for catllo and go n long way toward fending off dls- tTCM in tho winter that Is approaching. SUcctilcnt cornstalks arc not exactly the HOT AVKATIIHIl IHM'.SS IllII'OltM, Move lo TnUr llic Mnreli Out uf Ui lllltli Collar. Philadelphia Prcsx. Tho past few years have seen n number of senslblo reforms In tho manner ot dret Ing In hot weather. This reform has af fected the npparel of men nnd women alike. It hns brought In the shlrtwnlst for both sexes and encouraged the wearing of Ioojc nttlng nnd cool, light garments. The ad dition to the comfort nnd peace of mind of tho wrnrer has been great, and ns n conse quence good health and good temper have been promoted. Thoro 1b one more chnnge, however, that needs to be Introduced boforo the reform In hot weather dress can be considered com plete. And that Is n chnnge from tho high, stnrched collar which conventionality re quires every man to wear, to some more ac ceptable method of dressing the neck. There Is no part of the body more susceptible to tho heat that tho neck. The blood-vessels pass near Its surface nnd If tho neck U confined In n stiff linen collar the hent of tho system cannot bo thrown off. It Is retained in the blood nnd carried to th? brain or back to tho heart, Increasing the temperature nnd adding to tho general dis comfort. Usually under these conditions the neck rebels nnd throws out n profuse perspira tion which wilts the collnr but docs not mitigate tho dlsagrcenblc situation. In fact, It adds to It, becauso tho wearer knows that in nddltlou to his own discom fort ho Is adding to the nnnoyani-e' of others by his untidy und evidently heated condi tion. The wear nnd tenr on tho nerveus system which such a situation imposes les sons tho vitality nnd reduces tho resisting power of cveryono subjected to tho strnln. It Is n useless draft on the physical pow ers nnd It comes nt a time, too, when a man needs his reserve force to' carry him safely over a -period of high temperature. If the facta were known It would doubtless bo shown that the high stnrched collnr hns In thousands of cases exhausted that re serve of nervous vitality which constituted tho margin between health and sickness. Why should tho high collar be retained, then? Tho starched shirt bosom hni bten discarded. AVhy should not the starched collar go also? There Is Just as little scns. In retaining the latter as tho former. Seme slmplo dressing for tho neck can be de vised which will bo cool and graceful and which will snvo tho temper without harming tho nppenrance of tho wenrcr. The mon who can make two blades of grass to grow where one grew before Is called a benefactor to humanity. How much moro of a benefactor will tho man be who will In vent and Introduce somo sensible style of hot weather neckwear which will conduce to tho health and good temper of perspiring humanity. I'KH.SOXAI, XOTU.N. Count Donl do Castellano's mission In life appears to be to keep tho (Sould fortune within reasonable limits. Mr. Prick, who, now controls 'four-fifths of the roko production In Pennsylvania, bids fair to rival old King Coal. Cnrrlo Nation hns decided to take her medlclno and pay for It on tho Installment plan, nt tho rnto of n month for thirty mouths. Ex-Speaker Reed nnd Secretary Long will bo the principal speakers nt the Old Homo week celebration of Fortland, Me., ou August 15. A friend of Pasteur's In Paris says that the man who was to revolutionize chemistry stood fouiteenth In n list of twenty-two boys In his High school nt DIJon nnd wna marked "wenk" in chomlstry. Prof. George C. Tllden, tho expert mlnnrnlnglst of Denver, who was recently reported to have gone Insane In San Fran cisco on his return from Salvador, Is a nephew of ths late Snmuel J. Tllden. Tho festive young man Is such u scarce article at eastern summer resorts that hotel proprietors will give n linndBomo youth with a dress suit case wny down rates to stay over Sunday nnd ogle tho summer girl. Oovernor Taft of tho Philippine com mission when at Ynle, It Is snld, was uni formly successful In athletic nnd clasj room competitions and was of such a lik able disposition ns to be a general favorite. Tho Milwaukee WIsconFln says of the late Ocorgo II. Yenowlno of that city: "Ho wns tho orlslnator of Illustrated Journalism In tho west, and did for years what others had often attempted nnd failed In made a literary publication pay In Milwaukee. John Morley rarely "takes his walks abroad" without one or more of his pot dogs, to which ho Is devotedly attached. In his old Journalistic days his favorite dog al ways accompantod him to his office, 'wait ing patiently for him until tho day's work was over nnd it was time for tho homo wnrd Journey. Perry Dclmont hns organized his servants at Newport Into a life-saving corps, with tho gardener ns chief. Tho station which ho has established Is supplied with a life boat, buoys and all tho latest appurtenances for getting people out of tho water In a nurry. The crew Is bolng drilled dally by an Instructor, Although Isben Is best known In Knglnnd nnd ihH United States ns a dramatist, tho j Norwegians lovo htm nlso ns a poot. IMward Orfeg has sot somo of his most bcnutirut music to Isben's lyrics, nnd "Poor flynt" Is full of the romance nnd ardor of the singer. Ibsen used to take an eccentric delight In wearing the pink of fashion. His ties, his coat, his shoes anil his hat havo always been Irreproachable of Plenty samo thing as tho "full corn In the car," but they aro r. great deal better than noth ing, If wo cannot get beefsteak wo can nt least live on good bread and butter. Thus the corn crop Is comparatively en couraging nnd the wheat crop Is positively Inspiring. Up to three years ngo Nohraska never grew nny winter wheat at nil, hut this yenr she will make a return of nbout 40,000,000 bushels. The present cstlmnto of production from the whent belt, Is 125,000. 000 bushels of winter whent nr.d probably over 300,000.000 of spring wheat, or a total of more thnti 72.,000.000 bushels. This ex ceeds the highest previous record, which wns mndo In 1MS, by over 50,000,000 bushels. What Is moro, tho hot, dry wenther has been nlniost Ideal for harvesting tho grain In good condition nnd It will nltuost nil prove to be exceptionally clean, plump and sweet lu the kernel. There hns been und will bo plenty of help available this yenr to moot the needs of the farmers, nnd the trnnsportatlon companies were ncwr before in ns good hnpo to handle the output promptly. It Is nn opinion widely held throughout tho west that the wheat crop Is the test fac tor in the prosperity problem, as It deter mines our telatlons to foreign markets even better than tho corn crop. If this theory la correct then wo must pronounce this, la pplte of nil the panicky predictions that havo been sent Hbroad, n yenr of unpre cedented bounty and blessing. On tho whole, tested by tho gnugo of results, the Almighty seems to nrrnngo conditions for us better thnn they could be shaped by legislation or public opinion. Cronkers arc rarely good counselors. I.Kill'I'S AMI SHADES l. OOTIIA.M. tillniiisi'N of Mtrriuioun l.tfr In (Irentor ! YorW. When a new police enpmin Is nppolnted In Ilrooklyn saloon keepers nlong the line prepares to dig up. Tho captain must have n "token ot esteem," usually a gold, diamond-tipped stnr, costing from $1,500 to $2,000. "A captain," says tho Ilrooklyn Kngle." Is appointed nnd assigned to the command of n precinct which, In most enses. he haB never been Into before and In which he Is not known to anybody. Yet In less than two weeks usually he wins the lovei and esteem of the 'business men' there and they He nwake nights thinking out a wu'y to show him how very dear he Is to them. Then n hall Is hired, n banquet served nnd nt the end of It the 'honored giieif of tho 'business men" of the precinct, who have left their bartenders In charge of their warehouses nnd banks and fac tories while they attend, Is presented with n diamond badge. An Interesting little story Is told of one of the recently made captains In Ilrooklyn In this connection. It seems that after this mnn was nppolnted ho was hard pressed for money. Thu word wns passed around among the 'business men' ot tho precinct that the 'token of esteem was about duo and they wore starting In to subscrlbo for tho fund when the captain called a halt. He didn't want any diamond badge or any thing In that line; what he needed most was rendy money. If It was all tho same to tho 'business men" they could present him with $1,500 nnd never mind nbout th' bndgc. It was realized, however, that this might lead to a lot of unpleasant talk and maybe cause trouble. Hut one of the ward men of the precinct, who as a committee ot ono represented the 'bunlness men,' hnd a happy Idea which resulted In smoothing out the situation. He was a close friend of another cnptaln, who had been presented w.lth a. diamond badge only a short time, be foro. The ward man wcut to this captalt. nnd secured the loan of hla badge. The 'business men' of tho precinct were then told to go ahead 'subscribing' to tho futu nnd when It hnd been 'raised tho hnll wns hired nnd tho banquet was held. Then thr captain was presented with tho dlnmoii'1 badge nnd everybody wns happy. The nexi dny the ward mnn took the badgo back to tho other captain, whllo the first cnptnln went off to tho bank to mnko a fat deposit." "Tha banks of New York City that are members ot th clearing house," says a cor respondent of the Philadelphia Press, "wen carrying nt the tlmo of tho latest state ment, that of July 27, almost exactly $043. 000,000 In deposits, and If to this aggregate be added tho deposits In tho bnnks that aro not members of tho clearing house, the total amount in deposits In the New York banks is almost cxartly $1,000,000,000. Ii addition to that the trust companies o New York are carrying $800,000,000 of de posits, although ten years ago they had cnl; $200,000,000. Therefore, not Including tin savings banks or Insuranco companies thcie are on deposit In New York flnancla' Institutions $1,800,000,000. nnd nt tho rnl of growth It will not be long before th figures representing the total currency It circulation In tho United States and tin total deposits lu Now York financial Instl tutlons will bo practically the snmo. Mucl of this growth hns taken place slnco 189C nnd represents tho vast Increase in sur plus capital thnt wns occasioned by th'. era of prosperity that begun live yean ago. An Important decision relating to suit for llbd hns been handed, down In th' supreme court by Justlco McAiInm, whos long experience on the benrh nnd thorougl knowledge of tho law add Importance t tho decision. The court sots forth clearb that It Is not enough for n plaintiff to nl lege- libel and then go to trial expecting t prove that some part of the article In qucs tlon hn-3 Injured him when the whnlo artlc' Is of necessity set forth In tho complaint. The decision is mado in the case of Sara Jane Flaherty ngalnst a New York ncwspsi per. She wns Janltress of an apartmcn house and tho article complained of wn published on April S, 1S90 The at'ornoj tor the defendant naked for a hill of par tlculart!, contending that tho plaintiff milt set forth clearly what sho complained c nnd whnt It wns thnt Injured her. With th'i view Justice McAdnm concurs. Ho says: "Tho defendant Is entitled to a bill o particulars setting forth what portions i tho article mentioned In the complaint ap alleged to bo libelous, or In lieu there-1 Bhu may sot up that every word or state ment In tho article Is falso and untrue." The World reports that J. Plerpont Mor gan has formed a $300,000,000 pool to sup port thn steel stocks during tho long figh which he expects to hnvo with the Amalgu mated association. Tho operations of thlK pool explain tho comparative steadiness nl United States Stool shares In tho stock market during tho grpat declines which have taken place. In tho last fortnight Tho pool hns taken every share of stock offered below tho murket price. This moans I that the pool has bought this week In the open market nearly 200,000 uhares of the stock. With $40,000,000 cash 30 per cent of the ! pool's resources It expects to ha able to sustain thn market, nn matter whnt bad news or industrial uuprcnmun may come during the summer. Whllo tho composition of Mr. Morgan's pool cannot ho ascertained definitely, It Is said to Include, J. P. Morgan & Co., Kuhn, Iieb Co,, tho Hank of Commerce, tho Morton Trust company, Thomas V Ityan, P. A. 11. Wldener, Moore & Ecbley, tho Chase National bank, Hell ft Co. nnd A. A. Houseman & Co. tt Is said thnt Mr. Morgan sent out tn vltatlons to the Interests which have taken part In the pool, when, after a e-oiisul'nUi i with President Schwub, a definite polity toward thu strikers was decided upon Mr. Morgnn hns still a large quantity of steel securities which havo not be n mar keted, Nearly $100,000,000 of Uk- stock Is still supposed to be In the hands of tho un derwriting syndicate. The total Isstio t $r."0,000,000 of common stock nnd le.io.eion,. 000 of preferred. Of this there hns betn Issued of tho common stock ?r.06. 17.1. too. nnd of tho preferred stock $S0S.4Sti,300. "STAMMMl I I' TO 111! COl .TUtl." Prrlliiilnnry nii of 1trnuHr lu Hie Ihu-Ucjc Stiiti-. Chicago Chronicle (item t When It wns nnnounced a few weeks ngo that the particular friends of Mr. Ilrynn Including tho populist faction, would hnM a state convention In Ohio to nomln.ite n state ticket In opposition to the rogul.ir democratic ticket the Chronicle tie. hired that It was the best thing they could u i. They wcro Invited to stand tip and lo counted. It wns n matter ot Interest lo ascertain how tunny thnt Is, whnt proportion of tho ilemocrntlc party In Ohio were opposed to the action of tho democratic contention In repudiating the Kansas City platform nnd what Is popularly known ns "Hrvnn Ism." This fact could he determined only by nn Independent movement through a stnte convention to nominate n Ilryanlio-sllvcrlto-popullst stnto ticket. Tho nttendunee nt such a convention would begin to indicate the strength of that element in Ohio politics ns opposed to the regular ilemoerucy. Tho next In dication would bo the number of voten which the candidates of the bolting faction might receive nt tho polls next November. The convention hns been held. As nn Indication of the strength of tho demo cratic opposition to tho regular democratic, ticket It filled nil sensible expectation. Tho "convention" met In a hotel bedroom of the usual proportions. Most of thn delegates stood up or occupied seats nn the bed. Tho newspaper reporters wcro more numerous than tho members of tho "convention." The voto for the ticket nominated on this occasion will be much less In propor tion to tho full democratic vote thnn tho numbers In this "fnko" assembly bear to the number of the delogntes In tho demo, erntlc stnte convention. It Is ensy to get n sninll number of cnthuslnsts nnd ernnks Into a convention which represents but nn Inflnltcslmnlly smaller pnrt of the voters. It Is probable thnt If nn open .onventlon should he culled In Chlcngo to Indorse tho resolutions ndnptcd nt "Dob" Durko's plcnlo tho other dny It would hnvn nbout ns mnny responsible nttendnnts (not Including city hull employes) ns were present nt thn Ohio boiling convention. There Is nothing ns Instructive In poll tics ns "standing up to be counted." POI.V-i:il Kll.MAIUCS. Detroit Freo Press: "Several xnerif. nns. Mrs. Sassafras, nre trvlng to nn I board"0"'' Vl0-" u'mar '''e ""mmer wi'fcVI, l08t "7 nskMl ,hn umo"1 fnntier'.s i.nVM,k:ii'I,;,i'BP7.f'110 J"s.t V" nrnnnd tho i.?i i?".Jnp u.,n" ,,n' n(,vpr hlnks of going In the tviiter. Marjorle-I don't blame her. Sho wonrn one ot those bnthless bnthlng suits. Pittsburg Chronicle: Mr. Hlland-Thcro hns been n great change. In the weather. Mr Htilket-oh, yes; nil things como to him who waits, t r Chlengn Tribune: "Yes. T come Mnmo near losln my hired man last week. Hat tlennko bit him," "Wd yoj try tho Pasteur treatment on hlmv "I think wn rlf .1. but I'm not sure. Ia that l-ntln for whisky?" Olet eland Plain neater. "The Younger brothers aro traveling for a tombstonn factory. "Well, sny. I hopo they nre not going to push their business nlong by .startlmr cemeteries. ' Denver Times: City Kdltor .Tack. T wnnt you to go up In u linltonn, touch llro to the gas ling when 3,000 feet In. thn nlr and write up the experience of falling tn enrtli. Ileporter Hut. sir. I er 1 that IS City IMItor-Oh. that's nil right; I'll rnlso vour salary when you come back. Tim oi.n RAd. Huston Transcript. Friday, when tho circus comes, With Its chariots nnd drums. Then we'll seo the tnll giraffe And the clown that makes us InugtJ, For you know ho always can, He Is such n funny man. Then we'll seo tho great pnrnda. Then we'll buy some lemonade. And the kind they always drink Is so beautifully pink I should really like to know How unit why they mnko It so. Father says ho used to go To the circus yenrs ngo; Doesn't enre about It now; Onlv goes to snvo n row. Nothing there hu wants to seo; eioes because It 'pleases me. Mother, she dislikes It, too; Only gnei becauso I do. Uncle John will go with us (Seems to me It's curious); Kays he's gnlnK for my sako; Sure he cannot keep awake. Aunt June says shn 11 como nlong. Though perhaps It may bo wrong; Hut she thinks I ought to seo Things In natural history. Uncle Jnmes will go alone; Doesn't like to chupcrcme. Says he simply means tn go Itr.nim lie wants In see the show ECZEMA. That torturing and disfiguring diseaso lias its cause in an impure condition of the blood, The Impure condition of tho blood often arises from a diseased condi- ition of the stomach and allied organs of digestion and nutri tion, wiicn inges tion is imperfect, tho nutrition of the body lis inadequate to its needs. 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