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TTTE OMAHA DAILY J1EE: "WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 1902. Tire pmaiia Daily Dee, E. ' ROBEWATEn, EDITOR." ' PUBLISHED EVERT MORNINO. TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION. Dally K without Sunday), One Tear. $4 09 .Laily I?e and Sunday. One Tear.... .'0 Illustrated lie, On Year..- Bunrtav Br. One Year..... Saturday e erne Year Twentieth Century' Farmer. One Tear. DELIVERED BT CARRIER, pally Bee (without Sunday), per copy., Tiallv Ua llfhntit fttinrfAVK Der wee.. 1.00 l.M 1.00 . Jc .12c lally Bee (Including Sunday), per wee..17e Aiinrlav rvr rrmv ec Evening Bee (without Bunday). pel er week.loc Evening Wee (including week ftuniiar). per IV Complaint of Irregularities In delivery Should be aadreesed. to City Circulation - OF?ICE8. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omahar-Clty Hall Building, Twenty-fifth and M Streets. Council Bluffs 10 Pearl BtreeL Chicago 140 Unity Building. New York Temple Court. Washington 691 Fourteenth Street. : CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and editorial i matter should be addressed: Cnnaha Bee, Editorial Department. ' BUSINESS LETTERS. BualneM letter and remittances should be addressed: Tho Bee Publishing, Com pany, Omaha. ' , REMITTANCES. Remit by draft expreaa or postal order, ' Only j-cent stamp accepted tn payment of to l lw 4e ranmnini uimi"". mall accounts, fersonai cnecas, eictyi uu Ctmaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. '. Hifi BEE PCBLJ3HINO COMPANY. j 1 : . i : : STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. att f Nrhrukt. Doualaa County, as.: Ueorge B. Taechuok, secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and rnmnlmi entile of The Dally. Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during (he month of June, 1902, was aa follows: 1. ....21M10 16.. .20,400 S ifc 10 11 u 13 14 IB ZS,4IM a,3o ...:.im,BTo 1W,50 ' ..... 39,010 21,T0 ...,.a,mK 3H.B40 .....,io ai.B50 ....ait.Rio - ....20.SS0 ,.;..2t,600 17. 18 19 20 a....... ...2II,M0 ...20.7MO ...29,740 ...29,fiOOv ... 29,570 . 22 29,B0 23 29.B80 24 81,830 26 29,000 id 29.B80 27 .,.20,080 28 20,840 ...20.BHO so... 29,oio Total 8m),M Leas unsold and returned copies...- P,6a Net total sales.:.. ..8t,b8 I fcet daily average 29,ai8 Bubarribed in JlS before, me this 30th day of June, A. D 1902. lay of June, A. D-, 1902. (Seal.) al. IS. nUNuATE. . - Notary Public' -' Can there be such a thing as too much 'rain in Nebraska? ' For some reason or other, the Peter JCooper club has not yet ratified. Notwithstanding a late tax levy and 1 heavy rains. City Treasurer Hennlngs I Jus scooped in his golden harvest I King Edward should try to tlmo his Illness hereafter . to cause less Incon venience and loss to-both himself and ubjects. : .- . V Perhaps ; Henry Wa$erson feels ag grieved, too, because he did not get a Registered letter Invitation to the Tllden dub jubilee: Jf, -.-' , '. Ia . tie meantime, Cuba may rejoice that It has Its Independence which but for American assistance would still be j vision of the future.' The last curtain Is down on the Trans missleslppl exposition, but the picture of the exposition. will never fade from the , memory of anyone7 who shared Its I glories. t ; Hereafter- aspirants for the United States senate will have to pass i civil service examination as pugilists. South Carolina and Texas iave set the ball a-rolltng.- j . The loss of .congress will. not make the fertlle-mlnded .Washington correspond ent despair. He will continue to build and rebuild cablneta during recess at the same old stand, t, . ... v . . A ..." 1 ' -? ' Don't underestimate the recuperative power of crops grown but of Nebraska and Iowa soil. ' With Old Sol's help, It will not take long to make up1 for time lost by the cool spell. J- '. , : , Porto Rico seems to agree with United States) Collector ftriizan an well that ka is willing to live therw the remainder of hls'days, always providing , his salary of 11,500 a year is not euj down. ' -Prise 'rjng contests in the congres- ionar class will be deferred until the aeries Is resumed after the two houses reopen next winter. In the interval, the seryiees of the official trainer prom ise, to, be Jn great and steady demand.' Two sheriffs have Just been killed in battle'wtth horse thieves in Oklahoma. Presumably this is f Intended ' as rein forcement of the plea for statehood for Oklahoma, on the ground that Its people are'. fully .competent to take -care of themselves. . , The anthracite "coal miners' strike has 'so far been ver profitable to the coal barons, whohave managed to unload their surplus of coal at an Increase from 20 to 30 per cent on ordinary sum mer rates. When the strike Is over they wlllJceep up these rates, under pre tense that coal la scarce and the de mand r,u.ns high. Our democratic friends are cot so Inquisitive about events In the Philip pines since Admiral Dewey satiated their curiosity by telling them a .few things they did not waut to know. These con gressional inquisitions set off by the democrats' have a peculiar, way of -kicking back to the discomfiture of those bent on making political capital put of them, . No one has yet been able to explain why, railroad property la worth less in Nsbraska'for taxation purposes in the year 1902 than it was one 'year ago. ,In lftOi- the average assessment of rail roads In Nebraska was $4,670 per mile; In 1002 l Is only $1,061 per mile, or $18 a mile less than It was last year, in spits pf the fact that millions of dollar -have I been spent within the last year for nf y rcUlag stock and improvement! THE record vr COfiQHtSa, While the first session of the Fifty- seventh congress did not do tome of the thing expected of It there wan enacted legislation of very great Importance, a part of which will make the session memorable. This Is to be said of the passage of the Irrigation bill and the isthmian canal bill, measures whose ef fect will be to Increase greatly the na tional wealth and augment our com mercial power. The carrying out of these great enterprises will for several years require a large expenditure, but that the ultimate returns will vastly overbalance the outlay Is certain. The reclamation of the arid lands means a large addition to our agricultural pro duction and this will not be made faster than there is a demand for it Eastern opposition to the opening up of these lands was due to a fear that the agri cultural producers of that section would be Injured by the added competition, but there Is no substantial reason for such apprehension. Reclamation of the arid lands will be "a work of years and in the meantime both the home and for eign .demand for agricultural products will grow. The rhlllpptne civil government bill Is also a measure of Importance, which there is every reason to believe will have a most beneficial effect upon conditions In the archipelago. It must convince the natives of the purpose of this gov ernment to treat them fairly and Justly, giving them such participation in the government of the Islands as circum stances warrant, gradually enlarging It toward complete self-government as the people grotf In -capacity for governing themselves? .The creation of a perma nent census bureau Is another piece of legislation that will undoubtedly prove valuable. . -. . V, k The question of granting tariff con cessions to Cuba commanded more at tention than anyothcr . and the failure. of the reciprocity propositions ooes not nooKBflrilv menn that the auestlon has . . . . Deen nnal,T 'P"e" . may negotiate a treaty who uun aim caH. a special session of the senate to act upon It Of the other matters that taWcA nr ura hnnsr no In either the sen- ' ate or house, there fci none that cannot safely walt.untll the next session and It Is perhaps quite aa well that they were deferred, with perhaps the exception of the bill for the admission to statehood of Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma, which wag made the unfinished business In the senate' for December-10 next tWa Tr,rt to have the tariff interfered with met with little support, for the sound reason that tariff tinkering would unsettle and Injure business. The enr rency propositions, also, ,were not aerl MarH fnr a like, reajum. VUOiJ wwoava'wa - y In the matter of appropriations the session was liberal, as Mr. Cannon, chair man of the house committee on appro priations, pointed out a few days ago, It does not appear, however, that there has Lbeen any great extravagance, though of course this will be charged by the democrats in the congressional cam-, palgn. On the whole the record of the first session of the' present congress la creditable to the party In power. ' TBt K1SO COSVALKBCIAB. The latest dispatches appear to fully I warrant the conclusion that King Ed ward Is now out of danger and that his convalescence will 1 be uninterrupted, though it must be some time before recovery is complete. ' The' progress of the patient has really'been remarkable, considering his age and other condi tions, the consensus of opinion in the medical profession at the time of the operation being that the chances were very largely against the king surviving the treatment, which it was very gen erally thought had been .unduly de layed. 1 . From the medical point of view the case is regarded as furnishing a valua ble object lesson." The medical. Journal of Philadelphia says that it will teach bow little is to be gained by delay and how great a peril is Incurred by It "We have recognized for a long time," says tbat authority, "that the teaching and practice in this country, on the sub- i,ct of PPdlcltl were,,n dvance of those that prevail In Britain.- The con servatlsm there has been extreme; the practice has verged upon timidity. The American rule, we believe, Is the better one and, whether the king lives or dies, this fact will remain 'proven. ' If the king lives it. will only be by passing through a great peril, which in almost all. similar cases can . be. averted by prompt operation." King Edward has shown great fortl tuda in the hard . ordeal, bearing man fully the severe suffering and obeying Implicitly the. directions of the physi cians. The favorable promise for his recovery will be universally regarded with gratification. .THE LAW AUD TH COAL COMBINE. The federal anti-trust law declares 11 leeal "every contract combination In the form of trust or otherwise, or con1 spiracy, In restraint .of trade or com merce among the several states or with foreign nations." . The question as to whether this applies to the combination of anthracite coal .railroads it is under stood Attorney General Knox is con sldering, by, direction .of .President Roosevelt It is said that the pres ident la taking a very earnest interest in the coal strike situation, with refer ence, of course, to the. public's concern In the matter and the question whether the law ia being violated by the rail roads. According to some of the Washington correspondents, it la the belief of Mr. Roosevelt that the anti-trust law is I boing Ylqjated. ut he does not consider himself competent to Judge whether these violations tan ba proved in court, or if the court can Intervene In such manner aa to bring about definite re suits. There la not a reasonable doubt of the existence of a combination be tween the anthracite railroad. - They ara acting In concert against the' strik lng miners. Doea this result ia restraint $t trade er commerce among the several states, as contemplated In the federal statute? This Is the question to be de termined. In order to. make the coal combine amenable to the law it is neces sary to show that there is restraint of trade or commerce and as the situation at present It Is somewhat doubtful this could be demonstrated. The users of anthracite coal have been put to more or less Inconvenience and must pay an Increased price for their coal. but can It be successfully contended that these conditions constitute restraint of trade? It Is manifestly not so simple matter as at first glance , It may ap pear to be. The existence of a com bination Js unmistakable. It Is not ob vious that Its operation Is In restraint of trade or commerce among the several states, though such a condition may come If the supply of anthracite coal becomes exhausted, compelling the stoppage of Industries requiring that fuel. President Roosevelt can be depended upon to probe this matter thoroughly and to have proceedings Instituted against the coal combine If It shall be the opinion of the legal advisers of the president that the anti-trust law la being violated. ' . . wflicH is wmcni In his speech of acceptance before the populist state convention, the fusion nominee for governor, endeavoring to explain tbat although a democrat he was In hearty accord with the populist declaration of principles, declared that to put the populist and democratic plat forms side by side no one could tell which was which, unless it had the let ters written across the top. More careful observation of the two platforms emphasizes the correctness of this assertion and enforces the neces sity of keeping them properly labeled In order that they may not become irre trievably mixed. The candidates on the fusion' ticket therefore, will have no trouble in straddling both platforms, be cause, aside from minor details and matters of verbiage, they are to all In tents and aarposes Identical. Whether this will lead the populists to v imagine that the democrats have come over to them and succumbed to the Irresistible logic of populist argu ment or whether it will convince the democrats that the populists are reced ing from their original tenets and em bracing the slmon pure faith of the founders of democracy, remains to be seen. The average democrat will insist that the democrats are swallowing the pop ulists, .while the most enthusiastic fusion populists will claim that association under the fusion compact has grafted popullstlc ldeaa upon the ' democratic tree until all that la left Is the root bidden beneath the surface. An exact determination by qualitative and quantitative analysis of the relative strength of the populist and democratic Ingredients in the fusion mixture will demand the' services of the most tal ented expert . i . I,. ' President Burt of the Union Faclflc labors under the delusion that the Dress Is the natural enemy of the railroads and that Its editors are con stantly conspiring to misrepresent and misquote the railroad managers. Aa a matter of fact the press has no disposi tion to war on the railroads or do in justice to any railroad manager who is willing to take the public into his con fidence through the medium of the press, If Mr. Burt or any other railroad man wants to be quoted exactly he is at liberty to dictate bis statements to a stenographer and furnish the press with copies. The trouble with railroad man agers is that they frequently give out contradictory reports and try to mystify the public when candor would serve the purpose better, and when they make a break blame the reporter or Imagine that the editor purposely perverts their language to place them in a false attl tude. The mere fact that the prss prints information derived from sources outside of headquarters indicates no hostility or malice. It ia the business of everr srood newspaper to get all the news wherever It can be gotten. Neces sarily, all sources of Information are not equally or absolutely reliable not even those in headquarters, for that matter. . Before the Lincoln city council the county surveyor testified that the tangi ble railroad property represented in the figures certified by the State Board pf Equalization for the municipal assess ment represents 832.53 acres of rlght-of way land, worth hot less than $1,000 an acre; 64.01 miles of track, worth $764,' 786, and improvements on the right-of- way in the shape of passenger and freight depots, etc., worth $180,650, making a total of $1,277,068. All this property, however, as returned by the state board for taxation by the city of Lincoln is assessed for only $08,314, or less than 8 per cent of the lowest estl mate, and this without any allowance whatever for franchise values. And the railroad tax bureau Is trying to make people believe that the railroads are bearing their full share of the tax burdens. One of the nominees on the state ticket put up by the Kansas fuslonists Insists that be Is a republican, that his nomination was without his knowledge or consent and that be will not run. His refusal to run as a fusion candidate Is proof sufficient that he is a repub lican. China Is locking horns again with the European powers over the exchange on the payment of the current Indemnity installment China will discover that the powers' ara relentless, more par ticularly when, aa now, they have the whip hand over a helpless debtor. The bulletins Issued from the king's bedside by his attending physicians are to be commended to medical men who may have distinguished patients In whose condition the public has a rightful cencem. While they do not go Into the detail that characterized the physicians' bulletins during President McKtnley's Illness, they have the merit of frankness that Inspires confidence In their truth ful reflection of the patient's actual condition and the progress he Is making from day to day. In cases of this kind the medical attendants must realize that nothing Is to be gained by misrepre sentation. Will the Snail Boy RefralaT Chicago Tribune. And It Is the popular belief, strengthened by years of obseryation, that the prolonged firing of explosives tcads to produce rain. Tia aa 111 wlsa," Ete. Atlanta Journal. King Edward's Illness Is proving- a bless ing In disguise fb at least one respect it Is getting a lot of Englishmen Into the churches and onto their knees. Around the World ky Rail. Chicago Inter Ocean. It seems almost Incredible that the short est mall route from western Europe to the Pacific is by way of Siberia. Yet. with the Transslberlan railroad almost completed, Russia Is securing mail contracts from na tions which less than thirty years ago were leagued against It Beyoad Reach of Vcaoai'i Shaft. . New Tor Tribune. Mr. Cleveland's Dlacld nlovment nf Mia fishing la Buxxard's bay is cot likely to be seriously disturbed by an verbal brickbats from Nebraska. The raage Is too long for one thing, and even at a moderate distance political missiles of the Bryaa make-up are not destructive. Preserrlnar "gpaalsa Heasr," . New York World. Admiral Dewey's latest version of the capture of the city of Manila Is not exactly heroic. Hli statement that he "had to lire and kill a few people" because the Spanish governor was not willing to surrender until "his honor" had been thus satisfied Is a revelation that will not Increase the gen eral respect for "the amenities of war." Killing "a few people" aa a matter of eti quette between commanders seems s shocking thing to the undisciplined civilian mind. Why Savas-e and Stnefer Withdrew. Hastings Tribune. .. There la no denying the fact that Ed ward Rosewater was the power behind the throne that caused Mr. Stuefer and Mr. Savage to come out and announce that they were not candidates for renomlnatlon upon the republican state ticket. And be It said to the credit of Mr. Rosewater that he had no selfish desire In so doing. What he did was for the best Interests of the re publican party. It has brought harmony and unanimity to the republican party of Nebraska and has been the means of put ting up a ticket without a flaw la it There Is only one thing left to be done now and that Is for the republicans to see to It that the entire republican ticket Is elected by such an overwhelming majority that It will succeed In driving fustontsm out of the state. v . Cle-velandUm and Desnoeraey. Boston Transcript A .congressman needs to ba verr cartful in quoting a sentiment expressed by an- otner congressman to use the exact words of the latter. Otherwise he Is liable to be called down. Thus" Congressman Landls of Indiana the other ''day In the house said that his distinguished friend. Mr. Clark of Missouri, had said that "Qrover Cleveland was the a-reateet'' calamity ' that bail tn visited on this country sine the days of Adam." Mr. Clark Immediately corrected Mr. Landls In these words: 'Mr. Chairman. I wish the rniMnmui from Indiana would ouote me corractlv. because I do not want to be put In the attitude of saying something I did not say. wna; i am say was that the second elec tion7 of Grover Cleveland was the greatest calamity that has happened to the human race since the fall of Adam." This Is "worse and more of It. and th moral of the Incident Is tbat there are a great many democrats who are harder to "harmonize" now than they were before the Tllden club dinner. DEGENERATES FIRECRACKERS. Plea for the Retara of a Oaee Worthy Foarth of Jaly Feat are. Saturday Evening Post. Something ought to be done to" rehabili tate the Fourth of July celebration, esne. daily its firecracker department The celebration of the present day Is but a pale reflection and a far-off echo of the glorious triumph of the past, and the sickly." petulent pop of the contemporary firecracker bears but sorry comparison with the detonation of Its predecessor of a few years aback. It Is sad to see a na tional Institution thus going to the don but tho dogs need not worry It no longer frightens them, as In times past It did. The old celebration used to come In at one minute past midnight with a terrific discharge of the village brass cannon. This formidable piece of ordnance, loaded with quantities of the loudest powder Wedged down with wet grass, was then kept In action by enthusiastic yeomen till sunrise; and throughout the day there were desul tory bangs, unless. Indeed, the thing blew up at about o'clock, as It too frequently did, with a great scattering around of the said unfortunate yeomen. Then, during the day, there was the program; races of all kinds, especially trotting races by local nags, some of which would not Infre quently cover the mils In less thsn three minutes, and running races In which quan tities of dust were kicked up. There were divers other conteats and patriotic songs rendered by the glee club with much sound and fury, vith the reading of the Declara tion of Independence by the school master in a penetrating voice; and, aa the cap sheaf of the whole more Important even than the cannon Itself the oration by the candidate for congress. In which, with the corner of one eye on the votes of the local cltlsens from a certain green isle, ths tall of the Brltlah Hon was given a few pretty little tiny ktck-shaw kinks ths whole Interspersed, punctuated and made alive Coy the resounding explosions of bushels of firecrackers. But now this sort of celebration is be coming rare and the firecracker is degen erate. What Is meant la the small, ordi nary cracker. When It consents to go off at all It Is with an Insignificant little slxxllng, asthmatic tentative, apologetlo pop which la about as spirit stirring as the report of a root-beer cork. Why la this? Haa a trust got bold of the cracker Indus try? Or does H need a trust to put "life and mettle" Into, It? Or la the Mongolian played out. and has he - lost his cracksr cunning? Perhaps all firecrackers are now made in Connecticut. If so they must be manufactured tn old wooden nutmeg fac tories. These latter day Inaudible firecrackers are frauds, cheating ths small boy out of his hard-saved dime. And as to the tall of the Hon, what Is It for? It is an orna mental rather than an essential appendage, and a gentle Utile twist, with a bit of a knot or two just for remembrance lest he forget can do no harm, and Is sure to awakes enthusiasm on the rear benches. Give us back our old celebration I and la the matter of the firecrackers there should be legtslatton; the makers must be com polled by law to use better powder and store of It . BITS OP WASHINGTON LIFE. Mlaor eaes aad lacldeaa Sketched at the National Capitol. Half a dotea strapping big Texan s called on the president a few days ago and ten dered the chief executive a cordial Invita tion to visit the Lone Star state. After leaving the White House they went to the senate chamber to hear Senator Bailey s fiery speech against certain provisions of the Choctaw treaty bill. One of the ma jors wore blue yarn stockings, and he created much excitement in the press gal lery by placing one of bis legs over the seat In front of him and exhibiting a large expanse of the home-knit hosiery. The doorkeeper of the gkllery persuaded him to draw In hie leg without provoking any display of firearms. Some school children were being shown through the capltol ths other day and vis ited, among other places, the vice presi dent's room. Mr. White, the handsome clerk of Senator Frye, undertook to play guide for the youngsters, says the Wash ington Post "Here." said he, "Is the bust of George Washington, the first president of the United States. He Is dead, now, you know. And here Is the bust of Jefferson. He's dead, too. And this Is Henry Wil son, one of the vice presidents. He died In this room." A little girl looked VP at Mr. White with wide-open, wondering etes. "Did be bust too?" she asked. Senator Beverldge was a book agent dur ing his college days and he never tires of telling how - he made It. possible for his parents to wear gold-rimmed spectacles and the younger children -to 'go to school because of his saocMa In forcing the peo ple of Indiana to buy his book. "It was a religious work," said the sen ator a few days ago to a number of his colleagues in the restaurant, "and It was called 'Error's Chain.' I believe its ob ject was to show that all religions except the Christian religion have fallen when as saulted. I was so successful In placing 'Error's Chain' on the parlor tables of In diana during my first season as a book agent that the publishers desired to avail themselves of my services during the next vacation. I was mads a state agent and I selected Iowa as the best field of opera tion. Then I chose about fifty of the stu dents at Greencastle as canvassers and we went to Iowa In a private car. I estab lished headquarters In Des Moines and when school opened up that fall I do not believe there was a family In ths entire state of Iowa that had not been given an opportunity to secure a copy of 'Error's Chain.' " When Mr. Beveridge got this far In his story Senator Allison Interrupted him and In his fatherly way asked: "Beveridge, are you the person who Is responsible for the circulation of 'Error's Chain' in Iowa?" "I guess I will have to plead rillty," answered the Indiana man. "Then just step out In the hall where we won't break any dishes. My wife has been holding up that book in my face for the last twenty years and I have always vowed I would get even with the man who sold It to her." Representative Olmsted of Pennsylvania Is making a bid for entry Into the class of humorists in the house. In his speech upon the Philippines bill he said that the minority report demonstrated the poverty of the democracy in the matter of issues, saya the Washington Times. A short time ago, he said, they thought they had one. The democratlo leader,-Mr. Richard son, had joyously launched, the charge that a certain man named Chrirtmaabad ob tained or was trying to obtain from the Danish government $S00,000 or so to buy up somebody or something in the United States. From the note of exulta tion in his voice and the gleam of hope In his eye, Mr. Olmsted said. It was appar ent that the Tennesseean felt tbat the democratic party had at last found an issue that it had, so to speak, "struck oil." "The utter collapse of his charges," con tinued Mr. Olmsted, "reminds me of a client of mjne, the necessities of whose large family, recently augumented by the arrival of twins, placed him In financial straits. He came to me one day, joyfully declaring that he had found oil flowing from a spring upon his land. The bottle containing the sample which he brought had evidently seen family use, but I for warded It to an expert whose reply dashed to earth my hopes and those of my client. "He simply said: 'Find no trace of oil; think your friend has struck paregoric' " Senator Chauncey M. Depew Is still mak ing speeches in congress, so far aa the peo ple of New York are concerned, although be Is now In Europe, where he always makes it a point to spend his summer va cation. The senator made several speeches during the session. When summer arrived he began to long for bis trip across the ocean and one day announced to his friends that he had made all arrangements to sail. His friends expostulated with him. They urged that he was playing very poor poli tics, to bs elected to the senate and then leave for Europe just at the time that body was taking up some of the most im portant questions which it had to settle. "I'll fix that all right," said ths famous after-dinner speaker. "I will just have my clerk send out a few thousand of my speeches each day and the people ' will never miss me." True to his word, he ordered 250.000 copies of his speech on the election of sen ators by direct vote to be printed and each day his clerk sees that several thou sand of them are put Into the mall. Senator Klttredge of South Dakota has a new story wnicn ne contributes to tne good of the order, saya the Washington Poat. It seems that a robbery had beta com mitted and the new policeman upon the beat was being taken to taak for his ap parent negligence. "Dldn t you see any suspicious men tnat night?" he was asked. "I saw but one man, was the police man's reply, "and I asked htm what he was doing there at that time of night Hs said that hs had no business tbere just then', but that he was going to open a jewelry store near there. So I said to him," continued the policeman,, "that I wished htm good luck." "Well," said the policeman's superior, "he did open a jewelry store, sure enough, and h made away with a lot of gold watches and diamonds," . "Begorra, then, captain," replied the po liceman, unabashed, "the man might have been a thief, but hs certainly was no Hart" When the republican conference of laat Wednesday became rather prosy, reports the .Washington Post, Senator Scott of West Virginia proposed a program of lighter tbinga. to be begun by a speech from Sen ator Proctor of Vermont, as to what would be the effect upon the maple sugar industry were ths baleful Cuban reciprocity bill en acted into law. Senator Proctor blushed and stammered something about a preference for voting Instead of talking. Then It was that Sen ator Hoar of Massachusetts, tn his high treble voles, spoke up: "My good friend from Vermont," said Senator Hoar, "does not make speeches In defense of the maple syrup Industry. Hs Introduces a much more effsctlve procedure. He sends each Senator a jug of maple syrup, .which . appeals mors . strongly to them thaa any speech he might make." HENRY WATTER SON'S DEFENSE. Explains His Hostility to Former President Cleveland. Louisville Courier-Journal. Mr; Watterson has but two ends In view: To scotch a movement wholly dangerous In character, and to vindicate the truth of history. He has never had the slightest private quarrel with Mr.' Cleveland. Not a discourteous, unseemly word ever passed between blm and Mr. Cleveland. He never sought to foist his friends upon Mr. Cleve land, and, making few suggestions, he was never refused any personal request by Mr. Cleveland. Everything that Is said, or printed, to a contrary effect, la wholly false, and could only be printed, or said, by malevolent persons, having no personal sense of accountability or honor. Mr. Watterson Is the last man In the world to make an individual grief the basis of a public attack. He would despise himself it he were capable of It Those who know blm well know him Incapable of It His op position1 to Mr. Cleveland rests upon the specific statements he has made, that Mr. Cleveland Is an Ill-tempered, self-willed man, having neither the Intellectual train ing nor the moral and political Inspiration for democratic fellowship or leadership; that he knows little, and cares less? about tariff reform; that such svmpathlee as ha has are not on the side of the plain, com mon people, and still less with the lowly and poor, but on the side of the strong, the mighty and the great; that be Is personally an lngrate and a glutton; that because of his selfishness and his bruttlahness, he alienated every democrat of consequence In congress who would not serve blm blindly; that In short he found the party a noble unit and left It a wreck. Where he Is best known he Is most detested. Seeing these things, sometimes at long range and sometimes at short range, Mr. Watterson stood aghast and appalled. The Edgar Apgar tragedy; the Manning tragedy; the shameless turning down of friends; the assiduous cultivation of enemies; the re volting self-assertion sometimes of exclu sive virtue and sometimes of exclusive cour age; In a word, the perpetual wearing of the self-made halo, the great, noble, con fiding democratic party going to destruction the while, first affrighted and then disgusted him.' And, finally, as nobody seemed to be willing to speak out, he did; he did It tn 1892, and he is doing it now, and never did man apeak more unselfishly or In greater disregard to any and all consequences to himself. Mr. Cleveland derives a great advantage from the dignity which doth hedge an ex president We should be disloyal to 4 trust If we respected this. His proposed activity now bodes no good to anybody except him self and at best but ministers to his quench less lust for the flesh-pots of place and power. The republicans may have him an' they want him. The democrats will none of him. They know that when he comes In at the door harmony files out of the window. Hence, with democracy, the word should be this: I know, thee not old 'man; fall to thy prayers ; Make less thy body hence and more thy grace; . Know the grave doth gape For thee thrice wider than for other rr.cn? PERSONAL NOTES. Senor OJeda, who Is to be the new Spanish minister to the United States, Is said to be a man of splendid character, among his numerous accomplishments being his ability to speak the English language perfectly. When Lord Kitchener arrives In London on July 11. from South Africa, he will be tendered a publio reception. If the king's health continues satisfactory. .' The com- mandefrlo-chlef, '. Earl Roberts,' will meet him at :8outhamoton. At least two street railroad companies in Chicago give delay checks or' refund fares to passengers In case tf breakdown or long delays. An officer of one ef the roads said that 'they had found that the practice made frlesMs for the eompsnr. ' ' Governor Smith of ML yland has appointed a commission of three to purchase a bust of Rear Admiral Win field Scott Schley to be placed In the new. state capltol at Annapolis, in accordance with an act passed by the state legislature at Its last session. Chicago derives a neat bunch of money annually for rentof ground beneath aide- for business costs 1 a . square ' foot, and for coal 10 cents. Outside the business district the annual rental la $5 for each twenty-five-foot lot front. David McMahon, a wealthy contractor of Philadelphia, has sailed for Ireland, his In tention being, it ia said, to buy a hlatorlo castle near Limerick, which he will turn Into a summer residence, or perhaps a permanent abode. Mr. McMahon In times past has purchased large pieces of real estate tn Ireland. ' i Governor John Walter Smith of Maryland has Issued a proclamation declaring Satur day next, July 6, a publio holiday in that state. The day is by custom a half holiday in Baltimore and the larger towns and finan cial and mercantile Institutions petitioned the governor to make It wholly a legal holiday throughout the state. - Theophllus H. Porter, for forty-six years a newspaper carrier in Lynn, Mass., retired from business last week, having made enough money to keep blm comfortably for the rest of his life. In all tbat time he has walked about fifteen miles every, day but Sunday, when he went to church regularly, as he does not believe In Sunday papers. R. J. Seddon, who Is premier of New Zea land, Is a mechanical engineer by. profes sion. He emigrated from England as a gold seeker in 1867. Besides being premier be is a general utility man. as he holds the posts of colonial treasurer, minister of labor, minister, of defense and commis sioner of trad and customs for the colony. Don't Forget that Friday Is July the fourth. The day -we celebrate. Our store will be closed ALL DAY and there may be some articles of dress you will want extra tor that day either at home at the lakes or some of the parks. No mattor what your vocation that day you will want to be properly dressed for the oc casion. We've the very thing you want to do It with. No Clothing Fits Like Ours, . and the goodness of same is equally tme of our Furnishings and" Bats. ' ' Exclusive Clothiers and Furnishers. U. & Wilcox, Mattngef. OLD MARRIAGE LAWN. Effective Means of Preventing Claa deailae t'nlann. Tortland Oregonlan. A hundred years ago there was a statute In full force In a number of the original New England colonies making a wide de gree of publicity prerequisite to marriage. The first section of the Rhode Island law, whtch did not differ greatly from that In some other eolonles, required specific pub lication of marriage Intentions. It made to a rlvtl officer. It was his duty to post a written notice thereof In some public place In the town "wherein the parties respec tively dwell;" If to the mlnleter, the bans were to be published In church tor three copsecutfve Sundays., This latter provi sion was a survival of a good eld English custom, and might be revived with profit, since Its tendency Is to place marriage upon . a responsible, dignified basis, and recognise . the in terest of society therein. . Another point of some Importance in this old law was the provision whtch required those who alleged some Impediment to the proposed marriage to furnish their reason In writing to the officers, and to give sureties to make the objection good, thus guarding against merely mallcloua prosecution. The whole intent of the law was to make marriage a respon sible, solemn and binding engagement. Of course, a marriage made la the moet publio manner may, and In point of fact often does, turn out unhappily. TfiVre can be no legal guarantee against diversity of temperament or . opinion, or against the social and Individual sina that wreck homes and fill charitable institutions with worse than orphaned children. But It can scarcely be doubted that a law which prevents clan destine marriages effectively, as this . old statute must have done disposes of some of the most conspicuous causes of divorces. This being conceded, it is worth while, in the very general discussion of the divorce question, to consider whether or not an act based upon the old law would he an ad vantage In these times. Mediums through which matters of interest are conveyed to the publio are different from those of a century ago; hence publication of Intentions In the newspapers, as other legal notices are served, three weeks in advance of the date set for the marriage ceremony, might well take the place of posting publio notices or crying bans from the pulpit. Society, having largely to bear the consequences Of hasty, ill-assorted, Inconsiderate marriages, may well rise up In dental of the pompous individual assertion of the'present day that marriages concerns nobody except those who enter into it "It Is our own business," say the bumptious youth and pert miss who enter clandestinely or defiantly Into mar riage. And though the foolish and Impu dent assumption Is disproved . In a few years, when the young woman returns with her children to her father's home to be cared for, or, falling in this retreat, seeks the managers of baby homes or children's aid societies with a babe in her arms and another clinging to her skirts, asking that they take her children In, as "he has de serted her and she and her babes are home leas," the proof comes too late to protect parents or society from the results of ill advised, irresponsible marriage. In . the face of thla literally "crying evil", legis lators would do well to consider seriously an amendment to our marriage law provid ing that the intentions of persons entering matrimony be duly declared to the public with a challenge to anyone to present good and sufficient reasons, properly avouched, why the marriage may not or cannot law fully take place LAUGHING MATTER, Philadelphia Press: "Pa." said the Uttle tnosqultto, ''what does) perseveranoe mean, anyway?" 'Perseverance, my child," replied the wise old Insect, "means finding a hole in a wire screen." New York Sun: Knlcker Those bathing girls must be afraid of the police. Rocker How so? Knlcker They hate to be caught with the goods on. Washington Star: "Is that man still a leader of his party?" ., "Well," answered Senator Sorghum, "he's doing his best to make peopls think he In, but as a matter of fact he is simply hust ling to keep his party from running over him." BomervlHe Journal: "She Do you believe In co-education? He Well, yes If all the boys and girls belong to the same family. Chicago Tribune: "It seems to me," ob jected the shaggy-haired member of the committee on resolutions, "there ain't no need of luRgin' in tha names of Jefferson and Jaclmon." "Darn it!" exclaimed the chairman, "we've got to have something democratlo in a democratlo platform, haven't we?" Boston Post: "Why do you spit on your bait? asked the city angler sarcastically of the boy-with the bent pole and knotted line. "Huh!" replied the urchin. "That s a fool question. I've ketched four fish, since you got here an' you hain't had a bite." Cleveland Plain Dealer: "They say the new king of Saxony Is a great musician." "Maybe so. A good many yams come from Saxony." . . ADJOURNMENT OP CONGRESS. Washington- Star. Bark to the farm and the village. Where the field and the sidewalks blendl Hark to the state Where tho fences watt For some one to come and mend! They are coming like bees from the honey. For each with undaunted will Has dona what he could ' ' To come out to the good On the 'propriaUon bill. (- And It isn't bis splendid speech ' , That will bring him to town again. For tho mighty plan For the good of man He evolved from his massive brain, So much aa his bland persletence .And hi most superior skill , . In getting a share Of the good things there In tho pronriatlon but ,