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1 ! -S 4 .riffi.OMAiA. Sunday Ber It ROsfcwATER, EDITOR. PUBLISH! b EVERT MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION ally Bee (will fut Bunday), Ona tear. U 00 ally ties and I tinday, jii Year .w ustrated Dee, m ear z.w nday Bee, On Year x.UO .turday itee. itie Year I. at .vsnlleth Centufy Farmer, Ona Tear. l.UW HKLIVEftED lit CARRIER. Ily Bee (without Bunclavi. tier codv.. 2c (tny ee (without Sunday), per weeK..12c ally Bea (including Sunday;, per week. 17c t iiukt isee. per codv c leniog Bee (without Sunday), per week.lc ('eninj iiee (including bunuayj, per 15c 'implalnts of Irregularities In delivery ouid b addressed to City Circulation ipartment OFFICES. maha The Bee Building, louth Omana city nail Building. Twen--ntih and M atreeta. Council Bluffa-lu rearl Street Chicago IMo Unity Building. 1tm fork Temple Court. Aashiiigton bul Fourteenth Street CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to new and Itorla! matter should be addressed; nana. Bee, Editorial Department ' BUSINESS LETTERS, lualness let ten and remittance ihould addMJd: Tb 1'ubllshlna Com- ny, Omaha. ' REMITTANCES. UmJt by draft-express or postal order, yable to The Bee Publishing Company. X "cnt stamps accepted In payment of ill account. Personal checks, except on S'.V T"1"1 exchange, not accepted. CliJB BEE PUBLISHING COM PAN X. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. ! ot Nebraska. Douglas County, ss : vf?rf? B Xchuck, aecretary of The Bee ibllshlng Company, being duly sworn, ys that the actual number of full and mplete eoplea of The Daily, Morning, enlng and Bunday Bee printed during month of May, 13CU, waa a follows: 28,000 W,4ilO 17.... 18.... 1.... 20.... 21.... X.... 23.... 24.... 25.... ft::: 28.. .. 29.... 30.... 31.... ...21,Blk) ...KO.SUO ...il,tMO ...20,1100 ...uit.oio ...xu,roo ...ZO,470 ...20.SN0 ...20,540 ...20,040 ...20,5.10 ...2t,noo ...2M.4UO ...20,000 ...20,810 ....S9.S20 ....29.USO ....SO,2HO ....80,300 ... .80,700 ....ifU.MMO ....St,70O ... .20,400 ....2i,BUS ....ao,5o ....2,530 ....20.030 ....20,870 i eU- .2,0O i .ul i,8 a unsold and returned copies.... 10.7OU Net toUI sales. , dally average. IHH,NX! . vtk n Hi ' for. rh..nm5'i,rMcnce anl om to i fie?l " tM" 81,1 of May' A. 190L Notary public. I In the Tocabulary of the trades union erythlng that is not fair Is unfair. "j A nomination for congress ' pulled wn on the 177th ballot ought to tarry mascot with It. ;Telee and Soufrlere may now lay off ;r their summer vacations without ob wtlon from any quarter. rhe river and harbor bill has been j.tned, but the Missouri river commls- jn railed to connect with it. If Cuba decides to go into the pension ftslness a migration of smooth pension : itorneys from Washington to llayana Jty be expected. In the meantime the Indefinite post- Inement of the sale of the Danish est Indies has made Captain Chrlst- l i' commission go a-glimmering. ; 'Onee more the Hank of France is ir, this time to the tune of 450,000 ancs loaned to oneAf its employes on Lown securities. - The Bank of France st be easy. ; The American Water 'Work assocla ' jn has been holding its aunuaJ session past week. That may account in jit for the plenitude ot wind and water pwered upon us. & rresldent Roosevelt truly says th reference to our iieniimr. with iiba, "we have kept faith absolutely." I we do more it will be out of gener uty rather than duty. ;A. bright parngrapher remarks that it wulres perseverance and sand to se tre A nomination for congress in Ne aska this year. Of course he had in and the sandhill district JSouth Dakota congressmen want their .lebrated Wind Cave made a notional krk. Congressional favor should be rtalned on the theory of furnishing a orage vreservolr for the surplus ora fy f house and senate. In all their declarations about Cuban dependence the democrats are dis- etly forgetful of the fact that before i,d after our civil war Cuban annexa tm with or without the consent of the jurwns waa one of the favorite demo- atlc watchwords. Lt Cubans read up on the difficulties fcd embarrassments thut In-set the fath- a Of the American republic wheu they arted out to set up at national house teplng for themselves and take hope loin me glorious results achieved by fe perslsteuce and euergy of the build is of this nation. If the railroad hirelings think they can istify railroad tax shirking by distort lg facts and deliberate lying, they are aiply foollug themselves. The people ill soon learu the truth aud then the ink Injustice of the preseut railroad wessuients lu Nebraska will stand out still bolder relief. jWhen the Boers come to restock their jftua and buckle down once more to Using crops ou their veldts they will d that American-made farm machln V la Just what they need to produce Ulta. An American mule might be P,n Into the bargain occasionally to t rve as the motive power. ow that the railroad tax bureau has artM In to Justify railroad under-yal- itlon by Instituting comparisons with assessments of Individuals and prl- t concerns, we may expect it to eui- dy In Its next bulletin a correct ex- bit of the pcrsouul taxes assessed L .. . . . " " uiauagrra, attorneys ana . vuit-iai. u. i iic titiiivaiia iuu ine Mounts in wnicn tney are delinquent to 3 and count treasuries. cof.r:fl BVLLXTIX KO. I. When I ventured to enter earnest but temperate remonstrance before the Htate Board of Itallroml Assessment against the flagrant undervaluation of railway projKTty for taxation in Nebraska and to urge compliance with the constitu tional provision relating to the assess ment of the franchises, I realized that the railroad defense would resolve it self Into retaliation by personal attacks upon nie and attempts to bcfoi the peo pie by raising false Issues. For thirty years these coi-poratlons have never had trouble In finding men willing to hire themselves out to do penitentiary work In wholesale and retail bribery of pub lic officers, corruption of legislators and conspiracies to subvert popular self government by every conceivable device. I am therefore not surprised at the vil lainous concoction prepared by the con scienceless hirelings who are publish ing anonymous bulletins on taxation In name and by authority of "the railroads of Nebraska." That the scurrilous personal assault on me by which these mercenaries ex pect to divert public attention has the sanction of President Burt or General Managers Holdrege and Bldwell seems to nie almost incredible. These gentle men certainly must know that while The Bee under its contract is obligated to give space to the so-called bulletins, I shall not allow this cowardly attempt to stigmatize me as a hypocrite aud scoundrel to pass unnoticed. Quoting the legal maxim that he who seeks equity must come Into court with clean hands, the latest railroad tax bul letin alms to rivet the eyes of the peo ple upon figures compiled to make in vidious comparisons between the assess ment of The Bee building and Its actual value and also between the alleged value of The Bee newspaper plant and Its as sessment. The assertion is made that while The Bee building Is worth fttto.OOO, its assessment for 1000 and 1001 was only $00,000. If the rallroud syudlcute in whose name thisvaluatloji Is placed upon this property will take the prop erty at ?100,000 less than their own fig ures I will cheerfully transfer the title aud let them ruke lu the profit. It Is true The Bee building is assessed at $00,000 for county and state pur poses, which Is at the regular propor tion applied to all other real estate lu Douglas county, but what comparison does the assessment of the property of the railroads in Omaha and Douglas county make with The Bee building? The Union Pacific bridge, which earns every year a larger uet revenue than the entire cost of The Bee building. Is assessed for county aud state taxes at $1,030. Would the Union raclflc rail road exchange half of the bridge for The Bee building? Is it not significant also that the In vidious comparisons are made on tho couuty assessment and not on the city assessment, on which the taxes are three-fold those of the county? Keep these figures before the people: The city assssmeut of The Bee building for 1000 and 1901 was $105,000 and the amount of city taxes paid for 1001 was $5,010. The city assessment for 1901 of the Union ruclflc depot and deput grounds, right-of-way, trackage and terminal facilities, worth from '$5,000, 000 to $0,000,000, was $00,081, or a little more than one-third that of The Bee building. The assessment of the Bur lington passenger and freight depots, depot grounds, right-of-way, trackage and terminals was $32,021, or less than one-fifth the assessment of The Bee building. The total amount of city tuxes paid by all the railroads on all their properties, Including railroad head quarters, machine shops, machinery, city lots, depots, depot grounds, track age, right-of-way aud personal property of every description, aggregates a frac tion over $20,000. These properties, worth not less than $20,000,000, produc ing enormous revenues, contributed, less than five times as much to the city treasury for the maintenance of city government than was paid on The Bee building alone. No amount of personal abuse and falsification can counteract these stubborn facts in the minds of the people. The figures relating to the property of The Bee Publishing company are a tis sue of guesswork and exaggeration and the comment thereon permeated with contemptible spite work. One-half of the property Is represented as consist ing of an Associated Press franchise, valued at $2T0,(X)0, and to prove this ridiculous estimate citation is made of testimony given by me in a luwsult in which I declared that If the World Her ald's United Press franchise was worth $25,000, as claimed by Its chief pro prietor. The Bee's franchise was worth ten times as much. The humor of this citation as proof of press franchise val ues will be appreciated when it Is re membered that ouly a few months after this statement was made the World llerald franchise proved to be absolutely worthless because of the collapse of the United Press. There is no such thing now as an Associated Press franchise, but simply a membership in a natloual association of publishers who supply themselves with news ou the co-operative plan. The attempt to draw a par allel between a railroad franchise, which is a monopoly privilege granted by the state, carrying with It power of euiuent domain aud of levying tribute on all the products of the country, aud a press franchise, which confers no privilege: except the right to share the expense of news collection by an asso ciation that makes no profits and de clares uo dividends. Is far-fetched, in deed. The valuations placed by the railroad tax liars on the plaut of The Bee Is ou the same scale of malicious exagger ation or malicious iguorance. Twelve Linotype machines, which cost $31,000 eight years ago, are appraised at $40,000 aud other articles In about the same pro portion. The clincher of the antl-ltosewater tax bureau bulletin Is the estimated profits of Omaha uewpapert based ou the censua returns oftbe volume of TIIE OMAHA business done by the printing trades, which Includes all the Job printing con cerns as well as publishing houses In the city. It would take a wonderful ex pcrt to compute the earnings of a single newspaper by the grand total of busi ness done and wages paid In forty print ing establishments. While it Is true that the assessment of The Bee Publishing company's plant Is opparently low, it must be liorne In mind that nnder the law the current Indebtedness Is sub ject to be deducted from the taxable assets. SumVe it to say, however, that The Bee Building company and The Bee Publishing company have paid Into the county and city treasuries more than $sn,xio in the past ten years and if ?I7C of this in personul taxes Is delinquent I fall to see how that excuses the rail roads from bearing their full share of the tax burdens. The Union Pacific Is delinquent for nearly $35,000 in special taxes to the city of Omaha, but I claim uo offset or exemption on that accounti In conclusion I do not comprehend why I am to be held up to popular scorn and calumny for trying to main tain the rights of the people by en deavoring to compel their dlrellct of ficials to do their sworn duty or for appealing to the courts to direct them In the discharge of their duty in conform ity with the constitution. E. KOSE WATER. THK SOLDIER OF THE FCTUHE. One of the most suggestive points in the address of President Koosevelt at the West Tolnt celebration related to the soldier of the future, lie expressed the opinion-that it Is going to be a great deal harder to be a first-class officer In the future than It has been in the past, that in addition to the courage and steadfastness that have always been the prime requisites In a soldier there must be a far greater power of Individuality than has been necessary before, In order to attain the highest level of officer like performance of duty. The president said that the develop ments of warfare during the lilst few yeurs have shown that in the future the unit will be the Individual man rather than the regiment or company. "If he does not know how to shoot, how to shift for himself, how both to obey or ders and to accept responsibility wheu the emergency comes, then he won't have any orders to obey. If he is not able to do all of that you had better have him out of the army. In a buttle hereafter each man is going to be to a considerable extent alone. It will be so that the youngest officers will have to take much of the responsibility that In former wars fell on their seniors and many of the enlisted men will have to do most of their work without any su pervision of any officer. The man will have to net largely alone." Those familiar with the developments of warfare In recent years will readily understand what the president meant In saying that In the future the uuit will not be the regiment nor yet the com pany, but the individual man. With the great Improvement that has been made in firearms, rendering them fur more destructive, battles hereafter will not be fought as In the past, with armies confronting each other In masses, and the change will liecessarlly devolve more upon the Individual man than for merly. He will have to act, as was said by Mr. Roosevelt, largely alone and not wholly as a machine dependent upon the direction of others. So far as the American soldier is concerned, he has already developed a good deal of In dividuality In war, but unquestionably more will be required of him In the fu ture and there is no doubt he will be a still better soldier therefor. WAR3WQ AO A 111 ST EXTRAVAGANCE. The prosent congress has been very liberal In appropriations. It should go no farther In this direction than Is abso lutely necessary. In a speech In the house of representatives' a few days ago Mr. Cannon, chairman of the committee on appropriations, presented some facts which should command general Interest and attention. He pointed out that the appropriation bills' already passed and those pending amount to over $590,000, 000. The permanent annual appropria tions amount to almost $70,000,000. That makes $000,000,000 that the appropria tion bills will carry that is, the regular bills and the permanent appropriations. Then there are the miscellaneous appro priations, amounting to at least $10,000, 000 more. Mr. Cannon said that leaving out the sinking fund, the apparent excess of ap propriations at this session over the total estimated revenues for 1003 Is nearly $52,000,000. This without the Isthmian canul bill, without the cable bill and without many other things pressing for appropriations. "If we should authorize the Panama canal," said Mr. Cannon, "there you have $40, OiiO.OOO out of the surplus at once. If we should have a cable, there are great expenditures at once. Without regard to those, from the present standpoint, from the present action of congress as It is today. It will take every cent of money that we receive the coming fiscal year to pay the expenses that we ap propriate for, those in sight, without the extraordinary matters to which I have referred." There is now a large surplus, but Mr. Cannon said that If we should buy the Pauama route or locate the Nicaragua route, there Is not enough lu the surplus to pay the required expendi ture of construction. "I tell you, gentle men," he concluded, "the party In power and the whole congress, which takes In both sides, should weigh carefully and long the appropriations and the legisla tion that authorize expenditures before we march up In our legislative author izations to exceed what the revenue will be the coming year." The advice la sound. . It Is In accord with correct busluesa principles, which unfortunately get as a rale little recog nition In congress. The condition of the national treasury Invites extravagance. The cash balance Is about $200,000,000. The surplus at the end of the fiscal year. DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, June 30, will as now Indicated exceed $80,000,000. The tendency of such fig ures is to stimulate appropriations and there Is danger of running into reckless extravagance. It Is not desirable that tire government shall go on Increasing the surplus and on the other hand It Is not wise to Indulge In such lavish ex penditure as may bring about a deficit. The revenues of the government for the next fiscal year will be considerably less than for the current year, the repeal of the war taxes going Into effect July 1. If the expenditures already authorized are In excess of the estimated receipts for the next fiscal year, the expediency of putting a check upon appropriations Is obvious. Mr. Cannon did his duty In calling attention to this matter, though his admonition may not be heeded by congress. TRRCATlNlXd TRADE HF.PRISALS. There appears to lie a growing senti ment in Canada favorable to reprisals on the trade of the United States. Re cently a convention of commercial or ganizations was held at. Toronto, at which this subject was discuss d and resolutions adopted lu favor of prefer ential trade within the British empire, a high protective tariff on goods from countries that have not a reciprocity treaty with Canada and in favor of reducing the preferential tariff with Great Britain. The resolutions are re garded as practically on indorsement by the commercial organizations of Cuuuda of a policy of stiff reprisals on the trade of the United States In Canada. It Is another manifestation of the eagerness of the Canadians to secure a reciprocity treaty with this country, but will have no more effect than did the introduction in the Canadian Parliament a few months ago of a resolution in fa vor of a high protective tariff, with such rebates to countries that would agree to free trade in natural products as would hold the tariff down to its present level. Remarking upon the latest ex pression of Canadian desire for reci procity with this country, the New York Commercial says it means that the Canadians are alarmed at the effect of their preferential duties for Greut Britain ou their trade with the United States and well they may be. The dls crimination In favor of British imports and against American goods Is 33 per cent That policy was entered upon by Canada with the manifest purpose of building up the mother country's trnde by beating down ours, but it has failed to accomplish this. Our trade with Canada has steadily grown, while the preferential tariff has been little If any advantage to British manufacturers. The advocates of a higher tariff on American goods, as a means of forcing reciprocity, are perhaps making some Impression on their countrymen, but they are not strengthening their cause here. The United States will not be in the leust degree disturbed by threat of reprisals from that source. This coun try desires to continue to do business with Canada, but It does not propose to open its markets to the free admis sion of the natural products of that country,, to the probable detriment of our own agricultural producers, unless there is some equivalent concession and Canada has not offered this. The "bluff" regarding reprisals will not liave any effect here, except perhaps upon some New England manufacturers who are quite indifferent to the welfare tt American agricultural interests. With the multiplication of the auto mobile, and especially Its employment for practical purposes as distinguished from mere recreation, the Influence or another large cluss for Improved roads In both city and country is sure" to be enlisted. While bad roads ore scarcely more insuperable to mechanically pro pelled vehicles than to those drawn by the horse, the advantages of good roads become more 'apparent when the motor must be made to conform with approx imate exactness to the maximum arart made upon it, and that Is fixed by the worst stretch of road to be traversed. As an advance agent for better roads, the automobile is destined to make a big bit In the recent Oregon election an amendment to the state constitution was adopted providing for the initiative and referendum. The conditions to the ex ercise of this power are more or less complicated, yet designed to confine ap peals to the people to serious subjects of real Importance. Some enthusiasts have been imbued with the idea that direct legislation offers the solution of all vexed social problems. While it is doubtful if the expectations of its promoters wll be fully met, other states will certainly enter no objection to hav ing Oregon pay the cost for experimen tation in this direction. A Chicago paper enters protest against the distortion of history Involved In cel ebrating the est Point centennial at a time at variance with the facts relat ing to the establishment of that institu tion. Remembering that Chicago com memorated the discovery of America by Columbus In 1402 with a world's Colum bian exposition in 1803, its protest Is ruled out of order on the ground of es toppel. Im the Middle of the Read. Saturday Evening Post Between those who wish we bad not gone to the Philippines and those who wish wa could get away from them, the average cttlxen Jogs along in the middle of tha road and hopes that home prosperity will keep up its pace. Troabl Essafli Outside. - Chicago Post. It Is safe to aay that the surviving resi dents ot Martinique are not particularly Interested In the queat of tha scientists who are trying to find what is Inside ot Mount Pelee. Tha general Impression la that there Isn't much left to discover. Greatest skrlskags la History. Washington Poet. It will be recalled that when congress was called upon to make an appropriation to pay tha Cuban army General Gomes claimed ha had 40,000 men la Una. But when wa scat 3,000,000 dow thara and JUNE 15, 1902 railed for tha roster there was a moat re markable shrinkage la Cuban patriotism. Can It be possible that General Comet's bill for professional services has been M recklessly drawn? Ago QlTlng Vasitk a Raa. New Tork World. President rat ton of Princeton resigns at 69, not to enjoy a well-earned retirement, but to devote sll his time to lltersry work. The late Dr. Otis R. Freeman of Freehold, N. J., was a practising physician up to fire days before his death at 93 years of age. 'Why shoot a man at 45." Indeed! Ko I hanre for Araaiaent. Chicago Chronicle. Now and then a great thinker states a truth in a manner so forcible as to be axiomatic. President Baer ot the Central Railroad ot New Jersey, a ahlnlng light In the Coal trust. Is such a master mind. "Anthracite coal mining as we conduct It," he says, "is purely a business and not a religious, sentimental or academic propo sition." Will anyone dispute It? Decent Protection for Mnaanarr. New Tork Tribune. It was high time for a radical chango In the handling of baggage on all our rail roads. Passengers on Amerlcsn railways pay rates cf fare sufficient to entitle them to the decent protection of their baggage. In the face of the orders recently sent out by rallrosd managers, no apologist for rail road employes can deny that there has been too much baggage smashing from Maine to Mexico. For this wrong there was never a shadow of extenuation. It was always an outrage, and It la time it was atopped. Qneer Motions of Gratitude. Philadelphia Record. Cuban Independence hn brought In its train amnesty and freedom for all Ameri cans convicted of or Indicted for crime during federal occupation of the Island. Thus some Ingrained rascals ot the more desperate sort will go unwhlpped of Justice after all. President Palma'a view of the matter le that it Is simply "an evidence ot gratitude and good will toward the Ameri can people." Queer notion that. In recog nition' of our benevolence and generosity our scoundrels are to be sent back to us. Trlbate to Karly Martyrs. Baltimore American. The martyrs of the prison ships during the Revolutionary war are to have a monu ment. They deserve a tribute from the nation they helped to build, for their mar tyrdom wan of the hardest kind, while the martyrs were poor snd obscure, ex pectlng neither glory nor reward for tha sufferings undergone for the sake of a lib erty which few of thom personally had hope of eventually enjoying. Theirs was real heroism, for II was a sacrifice to duty, with nothing to sustain them but patriotism and principle. Why Boost Insurance Hates? Philadelphia Press. The losses by fire In May in this country and Canada were slightly more than In March or April, but less than In February or January. As compared with May of last year there is a large falling off, the total being $14. 864,000 this year, as com pared with $22,380,000 in 1901. This heavy decrease brings the losses for the year to date below those of last year or the year before, the total for five months having been $76,880,000, aa against $79,836,000 last year and $82,017,000 In 1900. These fig ures are reassuring when the heavy loss in February of this year Is taken Into con slderation. Railroad Speed on the Ocean. Philadelphia Record. The record-breaking time of 6 days 11 hours and 82 minutes from New Tork to Plymouth, mad, by the Kronprlni WUhelm on ita latest eastward trip, la another feather in the cap of German marine engl neers and naval architects. The average speed 23.53 knots per hour over a course of 2,962 milts Is far beyond anything here tofore achieved by modern ocean grey hounds, although Deutscbland In July made 601 knots In twenty-four hours, or at the rate of 24.19 knota per hour. Sensational as are these figures, there is no good rea son to suppose that they represent the ul timate possibilities of fast ocean travel un der existing methods of marine construction and engineering. There will be more record-breaking on the transatlantic ferry be fore the summer season shall have ended CLEVELAND AMD BRYAN. Reasons Why the Former Is the Loa - V leal Leader. Washington Star. On the 19th Inst, the Tilden club of New York City will open its doors and a notable gathering of guesta Is promised. The list Includes the following: Grover Cleveland, David B. Hill, William J. Bryan, Senator Bacon of Georgia, Mayor Patrick A. Colllna of Boaton, John D. Mllburn of Buffalo, Richard Olney, Dr. Felix Adler, Bourka Cockran, William C. Whitney. ex- Mayors Grace, Grant, Gllroy, Van Wyck, Hewitt, Cooper, Edson and Ely, and Lewis Nixon. This Is an Important announcement. If these men can be brought together to dis cuss measures it will be a long atep toward party harmony. Here we find all factions represented Cleveland and anti-Cleveland, Hill and antl-Hlll, Bryan and anti-Bryan. It will be worth the trip to aee, if Mr. Cleveland, Mr. Hill and Mr. Bryan are to shake hands and confer about Issues after the left-handed compliments they have been exchanging for some yeara past. Shall the principal topic be imperialism? Why mention the financial question in such a gathering? Why the tariff question? Why the trust question, with men like Mr. Whit ney and Mr. Olney present? But what Is called imperialism seems to gather them all in. Make the topic Imperialism, then, and an agreement would appear aa not improb able. And with such an issue who Is the logical leader? Does not the record point to Mr. Cleveland? He waa the first anti-Imperialist. Rather than risk expansion he tried to overthrow a republic In Hawaii and re establish a rotten monarchy and prop It with American bayonets. The Philippines were then unthought of. Porto Rico was then firmly In Spain's grip. He showed the wsy, and If a reward for that line of thought and aotion la coming it should come to him. For other things he has been roundly de nounced since by' the leaders and the rank and file of his party. But not aa much ao as Horace Greeley had been by the democ racy prior to 1872. The vocabulary of vitu peration had long been exhausted In his case. But there waa talk about Imperial Ism, about the man on horseback, about the necessity of saving the country from the smash that was advertised as just ahead. And ao the bated "old Horace" led the boats against Grant. Now why not the hated "old Grover" for thia emergency? Unlike Mr. Greeley, Mr. Cleveland has twice carried tha country. Many ot the men who have lately assailed him with violence profited by his victories. Here we are again, aa the gentleman with tha long whip aaya In the circus. Imperial ism has the second tlms appeared. The man on horseback la the second time. In sight. If the country Is to be saved now'a ths dsy and now'a the hour. Shall it be Clevelsnd for first plsce and for the fourth time? And why not Cleveland and Bryan? Why not, aa they aay In Chicago, go the whole hog? If harmony ia the watchword. and harmony ia necessary to aucceaa, why not Indulge ia the most pronounoed brand of tho article aoaslblal '. PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE. The young man who kef pa hie sweetheart comfortably filled with summer dellcsclea acquires considerable Information about In ternal taxation. C. F. W. Neeley, the American convicted of defrauding the Cuban postal revenues, announced on his release from prison that he would become a citizen of Cuba. A fitting return for mistaken generosity. General Kitchener la receiving boqueta of compliments on hia good aense In re fraining from predictions until the war waa really over, thus emulating General Buller'a motto, "Don't prophesy unless you know." Bellboys of New York hotels have or ganized a union and promulgated a warm set of regulstiona. One ot these forbid serving of nightcaps after midnight unless the guest guarantees at least two bite to smooth the ruffled "Front Ed Butler, chief of municipal looters In St. Louis snd democratic boss for revenue only, did not flee the city with his crooked companions and Is kept busy battling for liberty In the courts. He won the first round by securing a change of venue from St. Louis courts. The literary character of the Chicago di rectory scores a slight Improvement by the recent matrimonial merger of Ploter Py barczk and Maryanna Staasxynska, Boles law Werbaachowskl and Joxefa Ciajkowsky, snd Anton Brycywskl and Anna Jozljnska Let the good work go on. Chicago puts In circulation a bunch of statistics proving that the fabled Cinderella slipper fits the understanding of Chicago girls The Information Is Interesting and comforting to the web-feet, but there la a host of unbelievers who are ungallant enough to second the motion of St. Louis, "You'll have to show me." The jolly ocean rover who landed a whal lng story In New York a month ago ts unloading another cargo of weird yarns He reports' having spied in the Caribbean sea a floating island filled with monkeys. which amused themselves playing ping pong with cocoanuts. It la not yet known whether the loquacious tar is training as a magazine specialist or preparing to take the road for a comlo opera troupe. IMPRESSIONS OF AN EXPERT. American Industrial Conditions Viewed by a. Foreigner. Louis M. Goldberger, member of the social committee ot the German govern ment, who made an extended investigating tour of the United States last winter, gives his impressions, in part, aa follows: "The Impressions I received on my ex tensive trips from the Atlantio to the Pa clflo shore and in looking over the great centers of industry and commerce are simply overwhelming. Really one ia entl tied to speak of the gigantic atrength ot the nation. Of course a crisis In this coun try, as well as In every other highly devel oped country, will be inevitable; It will come sooner or later. Financially unsound assoclationa of capital, the great power of certain individuals combined with the dan gers always connected to Buch autocracies, the labor question In Its economical and very probably In Its coming political, as pect form so many clouds on the horizon oj America's future development. But any storm which may come will pass quicker than supposed. The menace of a crisis, continually written on the wall In Europe, Is nothing more than a nightmare. Europe has to be awake. The United 8tatea Is the country of 'unlimited possibilities and the economical discovery of America today in Idaho and California, tomorrow in Texaa and Kansas, proceeds from day to day In a most startling way. The treasures pro duced by the soli and the treasures raised from below the eurface are simply fabu lous. The mechanical equipment of the various Industries cannot be surpassed. "Germany and America, to which in fu ture will belong the traffic of the world, need neither Americanizing nor Germaniz ing. The captains of industry and com. merce might become personally acquainted, for today distance haa been eliminated. They must try to learn from each other. Commercial and industrial methods might be mutually exchanged, provided they could be adapted to the particular industry and thus be brought to success. "Both nations possess great merits and extraordinary qualities: In this or that branch one will excel the other. Each nation should esteem Itself, but not over- esteem; -then, according to my conviction, German and American interests not only will not collide, but will accommodate themselves mutually more and more." "NEW THOIGHT" MOVEMENT. People Who Think They Think Flock by Themselves. Philadelphia Press. The more vague the principles of a cult are, eo far as beliefs go. the better it Is. For ita success may wane if Ita practices be too concrete. The "New Thought" move ment is a case In kind. Even the mn.t careful of Investigators would find It hard to aenne the "New Thought." You can belong to the movement and believe any thing or nothing eo long aa you thrill over the brotherhood of man and the uaeless ness of drugs and are buoyed up with metaphysica applied to the hoe and the I aoup plate. And therein Ilea ita auccess. The "New Thought." however, in order to keep up ita hold on the concrete side oi inings, is sdoui to atart a summer colony about thirty-eight miles from New York. There the New Thought folk ara to Irrigate their brains with lectures on "The Sunrise of Spiritual Consciousness," The win to Be Well." "The Mystical Death," "The Love-Life of the New Age," while irrigating their farms with the hose and sprinklers In the arduous work of raising tbe gooseberry and the summer squash. But not only that. In addition, tha "New Thought" summer school provides for muHlo and art and recreatloud, and life may be one "grand, sweet song" with board at from $6 to $8 per week in the country homes, or even more untrammeled In the tenta and camps at from $4 to $5 a week. All this seems very fine, and the aummer achool of the "New Thought" may prove to be a great auccess, but if the colony ever assumes any degree of permanency It ia to be feared all the auperior meta physics won't save It from a emaah. There la nothing that so takes the starch out of any of tbe new systems as ths trying to harmonize discordant elements In a aummer or a permanent colony. The "New Thought" la very new, but the failure of Brook Farm ventures is very old, and ones the "New Thought" starts that way aa a cult ita day of usefulness will be over. Negligee Shirts si Tbe newest thing in neglige shirts this season tjv are small figures with white or light back grounds. jJI tf These are made up in plaited percale and madras. fl A full line at fl.la. n ti- 1 1 ZZ23 I if it comes fosn BLASTS FROM RAM'S HORN. To Impart happiness la to Increase It. Opposition often furnishes Inspiration. No evil can harm us as long as we hato It. Long praying cannot piece out short liv ing. Self-dental le tho thermometer of truo charity. Conscience hae a greater commercial vahis than cash. Chaff and straw alwayt etack up hither than grain. To recede from a wrong position Is really to advance. It takes a great heart to be grateful for little things. We may find our greatest profit in our lost prayer. Godliness cannot be measured by a lack of manliness. Pessimism comes from looking out with out looking up. Heaven blushes for tha man who blushes for hie religion. The loss of money hae often meant tha finding of manhood. We get no blessing from public worship unless we have sought It In private prayer. SECl'LAJt SHOTS AT THH PLXPIT. Brooklyn Eagle: Every baby born in a Presbyterian home, since the revision of the creed, haa developed a special chuckle. Baltimore American: Elijah Dowie may yet make his religion unpopular. He de crees that husbands must arise first and make the Area. Unless this Is merely a summer rule, there will be a falling oft In the ranka of the Dowteltea before Christ mas. Philadelphia Press: Bishop Burgess ot Long Islsnd advised the Columbia colle gians to whom he preached on Sunday to do away with the mercenary aide ot ath letlce. "Away with the gate money!" he cried. Thla la all very well, but without gate money how are the necessary and legitimate expenses of even amateur ath letics to be met? Minneapolis Times: One of the leading ministers has found a text In the fact-or allegation that more poodle dogs than babies are taken out in carrlagea for an evening airing. The statement ia impor tant. If true, but not altogether alarmtiiR. The offspring of people who prefer poodles to babies might not be particularly de sirable addltlona to the population it thero is anything in heredity. Saturday Evening Post: A New York clergyman la fighting a eult for $5,000 brought by the parenta of a boy who. while acting aa caddie, waa hit In the eye by a golf ball and blinded for life. The defense Is that it wae an accident and that tho clergyman had paid the medical expenses. The golf casualtlea last year were many and included one or two fatal cases. Un less better care la exercised the game will soon be taking the placTi of foot ball aa a contributor to the hospitals. Yet, despite accidents and ping-pong, golf holda Ita own. DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. Harvard Lampoon: She lie idoclarea ho lnvra the very ground I treaci on. ' He-Ah! I tHought he had his eyee on the estate. t wht made you seem so upset the day we became engen You knew I waa going to proP"?er' XaL oh! Dear me. yes! Uut 1 had no idea I waa going to accept you. Chicago Poat: The honeymoon was wan ing t v.in thinking." she remarked. the clera-vman looked very solemn when he was marrying us.' . . Well," he answered, "he s a married! man himself." a iroroi.l- Floorwalker I'm verw sorry, madam, but I can't exchange thia hat for you. , ... Mrs. Bmltnson uuv my iiuoumiu like it Floorwalker Then I'd advise you to get a divorce. Chicago Tribune: The ship groaned. But the Giddy Young Thing who was i.ii.inn ,A tha fnntnln was a good SallOff and didn't mind a bit of rough weather. Doesn t It seem unnecesnmy tatn," she said, "to box a compass : Not any more no. minn, "7 grimly, "than to paddle a canoe. Ana men mo emy b1""""1 ... . rt,i... Twnrrf-Hernld: "Why. papn, she urged, "you know Arbuthnot never drinks, chews, smokes, gambles nor ft 'Yes' I know," the rugged, unromnntio old man answered, "but I don't want a chop for a aon-ln-law who merely doesn t do things." Cleveland Plain Dealer: "Do you think." he asked, "that you could learn to love """I don't know," "ha answered; "I might but If I were a man I d hate to think that 1 was an acquired taste." Boston Transcript: Greene The average married, woman does love to boss her hus- bGray Yes, and that's what makes It so pleasant for the average husband to cut uo a little now and then. If his wife didn't keep such a tight rein upon him there wouldn't be half ao much fun in leaping over the traces. It la simply a case of tha sweetness of forbidden fruit, you see. - ADMONITION. Be great. The world is full of little men. Bound up in sen ana ignorance ania greed. Knowing not God, their poverty or need. Nor that their talent will be asked again. 1 Make not your aoul a vault where sickly things Shoot blender, whitened stems Into th dark. Where glow-worms flicker forth an opal spark, And noxious creatures flutter somber wings. The miser hoards his gold and sees It rust; He counts his riches In a garret grim; He may be truly likened unto him Who saves his love and starves hia aoul with dust. Rise up. draw back tho curtain of your soul. And let the light shine in, the love shine out; Fling cheerful words and gladsome smiles about, Sweeter than nectar from a golden bowl. Be brave; you need not win a bloody field And slay a thousand with the naked sword. It takes more courage oft to face a horde Ot foes insistent In the breaat concealed. The noble thought, the earnest vteep desire, Unspoken oft, hut treasured in the mind, Haa power to lift the legions o mankind A step toward the throne, the clown, tha lyre. Think not that only that enriches you Which you have hidden In a brasen chest. I aay to you the God wlihln your breaat Oalna strength and stature by the good MayaJ, li2. ISABEL RICIIEY.