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0 Tiie Omaha Daily Bee E. ROSE WATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERT, MORNINO. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally He (without f Jnday), One Year. $4 00 peily hr and tiundal, Una Year. '4 Illustrated Met, One rear Sunday ki. One fear Baturaay Bt, One year Twentieth Century Farmer; One Year.. DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Pally Bee (without Sunday;, per copy.. baity Bee (without bundayi, per weea.. Dally Bee (including; Sunday), per wee a lliitMlaw Maa nar MmV l.M 1.00 . 2c .lac .le Be Evening Bee (Without flunaayt, per wru mi livening Bee (Including aunuay), per week ...15c Complaint of Irregularities In delivery should be addressed to City Circulation department. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building-. South Omaha-CHy Hail Building, Twen-tr-ritth and M Street. . Council Bluffa 10 Pearl Street Chicago 16i Unity Building. . New York Temple Court. Washington fort Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communication relating to new and editorial matter hould be addressed; Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. Business letter and remittance .hould fee addressed: The Bee Publishing torn pany, Omaha. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company. -Only J-cent stamp accepted in payment ot rnall account, personal checks, except on (Omaha or eaatern exchange, not accepted. THE BBIS PUBUbHIWU COMPANK. STATEMENT OT CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Dougla County, .: , Oeorge B. Tsschuck, secretary of The Be JPubllanlng Company, being duly sworn, ay that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Daily, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the montn of June, iwi. waa as iouowh 1.. 2t,10 18 2W,-0 17 ..2,B40 18 8W.TBO I.. !0,41HJ .irt,670 .!W,IHSO .30,610 .2,nTO ,a,eou .SO.BeO 19.... 20.... 21.... 22...'; a.... 24.... 25.... ....StO.TeO .20,500 .21I.BTO .89, BOO .2t,5NO .81,330 .20,000 io..!.. ...... 13..... 20,500 26 29.BH0 27 20,00 28 2,6ViO 28 2,BHO 80 ao.oio .20,010 18 2S.BHO 14 80,600 IS n,6M Total 8,20 Lee unsold and returned copies.... 9,BJ ; Net total sale 8T9.B08 JSet dally average 29,818 GEO. B. TZ8CHUCK. Subscribed In my preaenco and (worn to before me this nh day of June, A. D., 1902. CSeal.) M. B. H UNGATE, Notary Public Tnless the weather clerk turns off his water sprinkler prayers for a dry spell Will be In order. . This has been a bad season on the sprinkling cart man, but he will make up for It before the snow flies. The daring courage of that reckless Oregon convict enlisted in a worthy cause would have made a hero. Omaha has grown about as lusty a crop of base ball rooters this year as is to be found in any town In the, country. Railroads that run harvest excursions to Nebraska this year will not have to make any explanations to their passen gers. ' . Fortunately for the strikers they can prove an alibi from the cave-in that destroyed the . trackage leading to the Union Pacific bridge. The Sons of Benjamin have held an annual convention. The sons of Adam meet with each other all the year around Without password, grip or ceremony. Agitation for a curfew ordinance Las reached South Omaha. When South Omaha tncks all Its boys in bed by. 9 o'clock p. m. the millennium will be at band. . If anyone entertains doubts that the republican candidate for governor. Is a farmer who farms the soil, the photo graphic pictures In The Bee will dispel them. ) Parliament will hold an extra session n the falL The late South African war has left a legacy that will . keep the British lawmakers busy for some time to come. Ana the wona-ueraia nasn't even peeped about the interest money paid .n deposits of state school funds which that great reform treasurer, Meserve, put Into his own pockets. It seems to be hard for Aguinaldo to persuade himself that he is now nothing but a common, every-day Filipino, en titled to no more privileges or attentions than the other ' pardoned Insurrection lata. . Down In Oklahoma federal officers bad 'to Intervene ' to stop the Indians from continuing a sun dance. Dp. this way, the rain god would have shut off the sun . and saved the officers the trouble of coming to the front. If the Chicago newspapers are al lowed to have their way, there will be Do stopping point until that oft-prom-laed meat packers' trust Is a reality, ab orbing every packing t house at . every Important center in the country. . As to i beef trust, these prophets will not be happy till they get It As a royal patient. King Edward can dot be beat. When tha surgeons said in operation was necessary he sub bitted at once to their demand and ahea they prescribed he took the medl tine. without a whimper. Physicians like patients who obey orders as much is monarch like subjects who yield un guesttoniug obedience. Campaign committees, organised . by both republican and democratic con fressmen down at Washington, promise rigorous work for the coming elections. Pumping out tons of dry speeches at bong range under congressional franks (or .which the people must pay, bow vert, recalls the exclamation of a fa nous French conqueror, 'Tls magnlfi tent! But it Is not war!" The real en Kagement will have to be fought out on tha borne grounds ' in each atata and Jistrlct V ' ' . RAILROAD ASSt.8t,MK.fTH BHOVLD BK DOLBLKP. Are the railroads paring more than their Juat proportion of the taxes levied In thla state? Or hare they shifted a large ahare of the burden they should by right have carried upon the shoul ders of other taxpayers? That Is the nly question with which the people of Nebraska are Just now concerned. What the railroads pay In other states, how much per mile they pay in Pennsyl vania, Indiana or Massachusetts, or what proportion their taxes bear to the olutue of property In those states Is Immaterial The cold fact that the prop erty of the railroads In Nebraska con stitutes one-fourth of all of the property values In the state cannot be gainsaid. conservative estimate of property values In Nebraska, based upon the cen sus returns of 1000 and recent market values of railroad stocks and bonds, jus tifies the following figures: Value of . farm and farm property. $ 625,000,000 City and town property 260,000,000 Railroad property 318,000,000 Total ... $1,200,000,000 A moderate estimate of the actual value of Nebraska railroads is $314, 870,220. The Union Taciflc system of ,020 miles, which is capitalized at over $120,000 per mile, but computed at only fj.00,000 per mile or $10,200,000, and equalized on the basis of one-sixth of its valuation, or $16,606 per mile, would aggregate for assessment 16,090,320. The Burlington system, with 2,574 miles, capitalized at $50,- 000 upon a computation of the double value of ita stocks equalized at one-sixth, or $8,333 per mile, would make $21,440,342. The Fremont & Elkhorn system, with 085 miles, capital ized at $40,000 per mile and equalized at one sixth of its value, $6,666 per mile, is worth for assessment $6,552,- 678. The 1,125 miles of all other Ne braska railroads computed at $40,000 per mile and equalized at one-sixth of their value, or $6,666 per mile, should be assessed for $7,477,030. This would give a total valuation for assessment of $52,478,370. On a total railway mileage of 5,703 miles and the average assessed valuation per mile should be $9,375, In stead of $4,661 per mile. As the owners of more than 25 per cent of all property values In the state the, railroads have for years been pay lug less than 15 per cent of the taxes. How they have managed to evade their Just proportion of the burdens of tax ation may be seen at a glance at the following table: Assessed Railway Grand asses- Year. No. Mile, valuation. ment roll. 1890 ... 6,309.65 $29,8(4,221 $184,770,304 1891 ... 6,418.15 29,265.917 183,138,236 1892 ... 5.465.74 29,339.631 186.432,376 1893 ... 6,635 28.674,138 194,733.124 1894 ... 5,542 27,939,178 183,717.498 1895 ... 6,542.60 25,425,308 171,468,207 1896 ... 6,542 25,424,708 167,078,270 1897 ... 6,641.95 26,561.720 165,193,736 1898 ... 6,642.47 26,108,936 167.810,764 1899 ... 6,642.37 26,106,450 169.106,905 1900 ... 6,662.83 26,346.736 171.747.693 1901 ... 6.652 26.422.732 174.439.095 1902 .., 6,703.32 26,589,592 180,000,000 Estimated. An exact comparison between the assessment of railroad nronertv and all other property1 within the past twelve years affords conclusive proof not only that the railroads have never borne their fair share of the burden of tax ation, but that it has been gradually shifted by them upon the shoulders of the other property owners In the state: Assessed Assessment exclu- Railway Tear. slve of Railroads. 1890 $164,916,083 Valuation. $29,854,221 29.265,917 29,339.631 28.574,138 27.939,178 26,425,308 26.424.708 1891 163.872,819 1892 167.092.749 1893 : 166.158,986 1894 156,778,320 1895 146.042,899 1896 '. 141.653,662 1897 139.632,016 1898 ....... 141.701.828 1899 142,999,465 1900 145,400,858 1901 148,016.263 1902 r.... 163,410,40$ 25.561.720 26.108.930 26,106,450 26,346,735 26.422,732 26,689,692 Estimated. It will be noted that the assessed val uatlon of property, exclusive of railroads for 1902 Is approximately the same as was the valuation for 1801, but the rail road assessment for 1902 is $3,264,629 less than it was In 1800, while Its mile age Is 400 miles greater. Assessed at $5, 000 per mile the increased mileage would have added $2,000,000 to the assessment of the railroads as fixed in 1890, and made their assessment .$31,854,221 in stead of $26,589,592. But even railroad managers and tax commissioners must concede that the Nebraska railroads as a whole have doubled In value since 1890 and 1891. As compared with the assessments of 1890 and 1891 the depreciation of all property exclusive of railroads will not exceed $2,000,000 In 1902, or IVi per cent, while during the same period the railroad assessments have been reduced 14 per cent, notwithstanding their in creased mileage. All the figures of speech of the railroad attorneys and all the figures projected by the railroad tax bureau charts cannot refute these stub born facts. s VSABLK TO TVP CUXP$TiT10ir. That the Industrial combinations have failed in their efforts to suppress com petition la a reassuring fact That they are gradually succumbing to the eco nomic penalties of oyer-caplt all ration gives promise of a reform In this direc tion that will remove one of the most serious objections to the combinations, Mr. Henry Clews, a conservative ob server of financial and business condl tlons,.ls of the opinion that many of the evils of the' trust system can be safely left to correct themselves, but he suggests that the public will not rest satisfied until some restraint Is placed upon the power of these . corporations and be thinks that among the proposi tlons thus far advanced those favoring reasonable publicity and a national cor poration law must be the most accepta ble. In his judgment a national cor poration law would avoid the radical measures of some states and at the same tlma prevent the abuss which THE OMAHA permits the corporation of one state to break the laws of every state except its own, which very likely lino prnnted It powers not permissible within Its own territory. Legislation of this kind lias been urged by one of the lending corporation lawyers of the country, Mr. James B. Dill, who argued that the business of the country demands uniform corporate legislation and not sectional legislation, state against state. He would have a law applying to corporations along the lines of the nntlonnl banking act, not abridging the powers of the state to create local corporations, but affording an opportunity to organize corporations, national In extent, whose business re lates to trade with foreign countries or between states, with the protection of the national government against con flicting state legislation and local politi cal enactments. He believed that cor porations now and hereafter organized would avail themselves of a national act for reasons of self -protect ion, finan cial security and because no corporation engaged In interstate commerce and de siring to do business throughout the length and breadth of the country could fford to be other than a national or ganization. That there Is soundness in this view we think will be generally admitted. The failure of the combinations thus far to suppress competition gives very strong assurance that they will be un able to stop It in the future, for It is not likely that the trusts will hereafter find conditions more favorable to the uppression of competition than- they have been. It Is perhaps true that some of the evils of the trust system can safely be left to correct themselves. but in the meantime the question of trust regulation and supervision, by practicable methods that would not be revolutionary in their operation, must not be dismissed from consideration. President Roosevelt In his Pittsburg ad dress earnestly urged the necessity for national legislation for the supervision and regulation of the corporations en gaged In interstate commerce, and this subject should command, as it probably will, the serious attention of congress at the next session. The president has pointed out the duty and the majority In congress should find the way to Its performance. TRIBUTE TO THE J HUT. Every American citizen should have read the tribute paid by the president, through the secretary of war, to the army. As a reply to those who have assailed our soldiers In the Philippines it commends itself to every falrminded person. Aa official testimony to the courage, fortitude and devotion of the army it is Just and will be approved by all whose minds are not warped by prejudice or partisanship. Few can realize how difficult and trying was the task of the army in the Philippines. As said In the order of Secretary Root our soldiers, themselves bound by the laws of war, "were called upon to meet every device of un scrupulous treachery and to con template without reprisal the Infliction of barbarous cruelties upon their com rades- and friendly natives." They en gaged In more than 2,000 combats, great and small, and while none of them Is to be classified aa great battles they re aulred military skill and Individual bravery, as well as fortitude and devo tion. Hunting down guerrilla bands In mountains and Jungles, through an un known country and menaced on every hand by treacherous foes, demanded sol dlerly qualities of a superior order and the exhibition of these by the army In the Philippines has commanded univer sal admiration. Those who have traduced our soldiers took little account of the difficulties of the tasks they had to perform. With political capital in view they exagger ated the few mistakes and faults com mitted and held the entire Philippine army responsible' for these. Charges some of which have been shown to have bad no foundation were proclaimed be fore the world as evidence that our sol diers were cruel and brutal. Men In congress made the most sweeping de nunciations of the army, seeking thereby to fortify their opposition to the Philippine policy of the government and to strengthen themselves politically This most unjust and unwarranted course Is rebuked by the tribute of the president and secretary of war to the army a tribute in which the very great majority of our people, there can be no doubt are in hearty accord. They feel that the soldiers in the Philippines have shown a loyalty and patriotism and per formed a service that entitles them to the highest commendation that can be bestowed and they may be expected to record their resentment against those who for partisan purposes have indis criminately assailed the army and sought to bring upon tt the contempt and reproach of the world. On the oc caslon of the West Point centennial Lord Wolseley, formerly the commander in-chief of the British army, said that in his opinion the American army was the best In the world. There is certainly none superior in bravery. In patriotism in devotion to duty, in Intelligence and in all the Qualities and attributes of manly character. Who owns the plans of Omaha public school buildings? Do they belong to the school district or to the architect? Mem bers of the school board ery properly claim that the plans belong to the school district. Just as they belong to the owner of any other building after he has paid for tbem, but the architect insists that be bas their perpetual ownership. The question is. Why should there be any difference in this respect between the owners of school bouses and the owners of any other public or private building? The plans of the city ball and public library -building belong to the city of Omaha. Why shouldn't the plans of the High school building, or any other public school building erected with money taken from the school fund belong to the school district? Why should the DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, I srlool board be compelled to pay a sec ond time for plans for school buildings It desires to duplicate? The assessed valuation of all property In Douglas county for the year 1901 was 22.881.792. In this grand total the property of the railroads Is represented by 3Vi per cent. For the year 1902 the total assessment for Douglas county will reach $25,500,0(10, or an Increase of more than $3,000,000, which equals an Increase of 15 per cent over last year. But while the valuation of all classes of property has been raised by 15 per cent the as sessment on the property of the rail roads In Douglas county has been low ered by over $2,000 by the state board, and the ratio of the railroad assessment to all other property will be 8 per cent Instead of 15 per cent bas been tho cluhu by the railroad tax bureau. Fopocratlc papers have made the wonderful discovery that President Roosevelt bas been doing nothing siuce he entered the White House except to shape up for a renominatlon. That President Roosevelt bas been giving the country the best administration of na tional affairs he knows how to give is readily admitted and that his purpose is to earn a full term as president Is not concealed. The president cannot please the democrats no matter what be does, but be can perform the duties of his office In a manner satisfactory to the people who will express their appre ciation In the proper way when occasion presents. According to the census returns, only 60 per cent of the total area of Ne braska Is included In the classification of farms. There Is unoccupied land enough In Nebraska to supply farms yet to many thousands of Industrious Ieople, who will find the royal route behind the plow that leads to a borne and Independence. Rumor bas it that the democratic legislative ticket in the field in this county will have to be reorganized and reconstructed before active operations are undertaken. The populists may also want to have a say before they get through instead of letting the democrats pick populist candidates for them. Mot aa Bad as Fainted. Indianapolis News, who aava thirteen i an unlucky number? The public debt tatement hows a decrease of $13,000,000 during the montn oi June. Aatomoblllnar on Easy Street. St. Louis Globe-Democrat, with ttMO.ooo.OOO of cold in the strong hnv aa much more in circulation, and $86,- 000,000 a year coming out of American mines. Uncle Sam feel easy as to the gold situation. All Loot Looks Alike. Boston Transcript. Admiral Dewey says Aguinaldo wii after money and loot in his Filipino campaign in thla respect he Is not unlike the "heroes' who marched into Fekln a short while ago. But thea, o course, they were edu cated soldiery and not savages. What a difference there la, to be sure, "twixt tweedledee and tweedledum." Bryan's Hoot at Hooaters. Indianapolis Journal. William J. Bryan seems to be getting madder every day. His double-barreled discharge at the Sentinel and ex-Mayor Taggcrt 1 the most vicious utterance he has made yet, though It i weakenea by personalities. Hi expression of gratitude to "the uncorrupted and unterrlfled aemoc racy of Indiana" is probably Intended to call that element to the front. Speaking; of Real Estate Deals. Saturday Evening Post. John W. Gate predict that the United States will be able to buy the rest of the world within twenty-five year and not miss the money. But Mr. Gates was talk- in r nn the flood-tide. There is a lot or vaiu able real estate which Uncle Bam doe not own, and judging from the expense bill that have come from Cuba ana tne rnuip pines be will not want much more of It. News from the FlrlnsT Line. Chicago New. Tna alesa is over. The bombardment which opened early Thursday evening and continued until late Saturday morning nas saii and tha forces have withdrawn to their hnmea or to the hospitals. In Chi cago the casualty list shows three mnea in tinn and 111 wounded. The casualties during the general engagement throughout the country, a reported -by special war correspondents at the front, are as lonows I, atlnn 21 Wounded .'. W As manv centers where the firing Is known to have been severe have not yet been heard from these figures are neces sarily incomplete and the number of the missing cannot be accurately estimated. NEW ASSISTS FOR OIK CITIES. Valuable Pablte Prlvlleawa as Revenue Producers. Saturday Evening Poet It can be aet down as a safe rule that every popular agitation of a public ques tion producea good reaults. A valuable U lustration of the fact is found in Important caaes of late. Readers of this magastne recall numerous papers by msyor of cities and other men eloiely identified with mu nicipal affairs, Id which many references were made to public franchises freely given to corporations through the operation of distressing and apparently irremediable in fluence. Hundreds of million of dollars' worth of city street, for instance, have been voted from the people Into private use. so far as railway are concerned. But the constant references to these facts, despite the seeming hopelessness of good, have already brought forth wonderful results. As a single Instance of the new dispensation, take the tunnel franchise, which the Pennsylvania railroad ha se cured from New York City. This will not interfere with any traffic. Inconvenience a ingle Individual or disfigure any thorough fare. But it 1 a privilege that is In trlnslcally valuable and w find ffc city and corporations dealing frankly with It a business proposition. The result! well ths corporation will pay the city $1.50.000 In twenty-flv years and agree' at the end of that time to a revaluation. No wonder the paper declare it too good to be true. The great, the Incalculable blessing that, however much ha been lost in the paat through negligence and boodle poll tics, we are coming to the time when no Important publio franchise can be granted in any American city unless liberal com penaatlon b made to the public. This on of the most valuable gain ever known in municipal government and It hss been broucht about by the constsnt work of public-spirited men, aided and encouraged by publications that sre devoted to ths best Interest of the times. JULY 8, 1902. BITS OP WASHISOTO LIFE. Minor Scenes aail IneMents Sketched a tho Spot. If present plans of the congressional rommltteea of the republican and demo crats parties are carried out congres sional speeches will be spread over the country next fall as thick as leaves in the famed forest of Vltlambrosa. "Nearly every member of congress." report the Washington Star, "ha one or more speeches delivered by him in the house and eenate, which he desire to distribute among his constituents. They may be re mark upon the great questions of the day or merely a spread upon some local sub ject, but the congressman doe not think he ha done his duty unless he plseter hi district or state with speeches. It he did not his constituent probably would ask him upon his return what he had been doing down In Washington. "So In every committee room st the Capi tol the clerks are busy inclosing and mail ing the speeches of congressmen. Every senator and representative keeps a list of the people of bt constituency whom he de sires to reach and the envelopes are sd- dresed from these lists. The speeches go through the malls, free, of course, but it is quite a tsek to get them ready for ship ment They are taken from the capltol by wagonloads at a time and for the next two week the mall train leaving Wash ington will carry extra cars to accommo date the Increased traffic. In addition to the large volume ef politi cal literature sent out by Individual sena tors and representatives, the two campaign eommlttees will distribute this year mil lions of documents. In tha presidential campaign of 1898 the republican committee sent tut 23,000,000 documents. No such number will be distributed this year, but the total will probably reach several mil lions and the democrats will do as well." A long chapter cf wrathful differences be tween United States senators since last January had its ending In the row between Bailey and Beverldge. In the month named Senators Lodge, Tillman and Spoon er met in animated debate, during which Senator Tillman gave way to some characteristic expletives. A month later Senators Till man and McLaurln had a personal 'encoun ter in the senate. Early in May there wa a sensational moment when Senator Dolll- ver and Carmack exchanged angry wofda over the Philippine war. On May 21 Sena tors Patterson and Dietrich exchanged warm words during a session of the 'Phil ippine Investigation committee and a week later It looked for a moment as If Senator Rawllna and Dietrich would come to blow In the same committee. Senator Money's experience with a street car conductor oc curred on April 24. To set at rest many Inquiries, the Wash ington correspondent of the New York Ev ening Post say that the plans for the changes In the exterior appearance of the White House are noteworthy, but In no wise radical. The conservatories and greenhouses, which now stretch out from the Bide of the main building to the west but constitute no part of tt, will give way to a marble terrace leading to the office building at the further end. This will be a restoration, to all Intents, of some thing of which rudimentary relics and trace are found In the stratum of an earlier presidential era the office building Itself for Instance, being aa nearly aa pos sible where Jefferson had his. The terrace, which will probably be decorated with palms and flowering plants, and to that extent continue the idea of a conservatory, will be upheld by pillar on the lower aide, forming a covered way for reachlna the basement of the office building from the basement of the White House. From the east 'side, to eymmetrlte this struc ture, will run another marble terrace lead ing to a porteoochere, where guest may alight from their carriages and proceed to the assembly rooms on social occasions. A considerable sum Included in the gen eral appropriation for the White House was aaaea ror tne two terraces, which were, strictly speaking, an afterthought. Many a citizen from the Interior ha fallen a victim to the Indigestible soft shelled crab on going to live in Washing ton. Pension Commissioner Ware early contracted the soft-shelled crab habit and Indulged his appetite for the dainty until a physician ordered him to desist. A friend In Kansas heard that the commis sioner was worn out by close attention to hi duties and wrote htm a solicitous letter. He received the following reply by wire: "It's not work that's breaking down my constitution it's soft-shelled crabs." ine Mcuau Din, wnicn was used as a means of getting through the amendment remitting the stock taxes, provide for the refunding of more than $500,000 that have been collected on legacle and bequest to various charitable institutions. When the tax on such bequests wa originally drafted congress had no idea that its en forcement would take so much money from religious, literary, charitable and educa tlonal societies and associations. The taxes, however, were lovled according to the highest rate imposed under the law, and In some lnstancea It was a high a 15 per cent of the entire legacy. The total amount collected under the act wa $843. 139, and It la now proposed to refund the entire sum. One of the finest buildings that have ever graced Washington, aside from the govern ment structures, will be the new apart ment house about to be erected by Secre tary of State John Hay. A row of very good houses belonging to Mr. Hay on fash ionable Connecticut avenue are being torn down to make room for It and a much used alley in the square will be closed, a he is the owner of all the abutting prop erty. Each suite of room in such a swell apartment house rents for more per annum than the full amount of the average man's alary. It doe not require the brain of a mathematician to guess at Mr. Hay's future income from this building alone, with its eighty-four suites, to say nothing of the cafe. Renatora Alltaon. McMillan and Piatt of Connecticut met at the senate elevator one div laat week, and after exchanging bow each waited for the other to precede mm. While they were still engaged in this .nurtanua rivalry Senator Mason came roll lng along, stepped Into the waiting eleva tor snd said sharply: "Third floor, please." Up went the elevator, leaving the other three statesmen looking at each other somewhat foolishly. Amicable Relations with Spain. Philadelphia Record. Ths new treaty of commerce and friend ahlp with Spain entirely restores amicable relations with that country. It provides that the cltliens of each country ahall en joy equal right In the other a to resi dence, travel, protection of person and property, the administration of justice and taxation, and exemption from military service and forced loan. Spain is willing to go even further in the establishment of reciprocal trade than the United State sre prepared to go until there shall be iodi abatement of our bristling tariff rate. This 1 a happy and a rapid end lng of tha late uopleaaantneta. ' It Is car tain that with the return of amity there will follow a return of profitable trading between the two countries. THB POPOCHATIC MES1. Norfolk News: Since W. II. Thompson. leading attorney for the Burlington rail- roa a, it la probable that the fuslonlsts win not mane much ado about what they term railroad Influence in republican con the ventions. They will experience sufficient nMfflfMlltV In k.anln. th. ..nnnim. ntl corporatlonlats of the fusion psrtles In line r meir rauroaa candidate lor governor. Falls City Journal: W. J. Bryan did not In a victory for the fusion forces bv an. win peering personally at the Grand Island con vention. Me simply succeeded In aettlna the contending force to rerognlie hi flag truce and suspend hostilities for the of time being. To use his own words, "the battle haa Just beaun" and Is not due to end until next November. And the fight will not present the spectacle of the united force of fusion presenting a solid front to common enemy, but will partake of the iture of a civil war mora rtennarat ha. cause of wrong that were done and ad vantage taken under the cover of the flag of irure that Bryan caused to be displayed. St. Paul Republican: The nomination of W H. Thompson a the fusion candidate governor seals the death warrant nf for populism in Nebraaka. The overwhelming defeat suffered last year bv Conrad Hnllen. beck, who wa nominated under much more favorable condition, bode no good for the miniature giant of Hall county. The elec tion or mickst and the entire republican state ticket is almost certain as If the ballots had already been counted and a clean majority found In their favor. Defeat for the fusion candidate being practically assured, there is little left In life to cheer "-v"h"b Baling vi ma average populist. '1th all hi theories of anvornmant . ploded, his calamity wall abandoned snd the hope of -office extinguish) fmm Ma heart by the sacrificial nomination of a democrat, he I In a badly demoralized con dition and will scarcely be able to ac complish the reaults in next fall's election wnicn ne was sccustomed In bis days ' pride and power. Holdrege Citizen: It la ome of the populist are wondering where tney are at since the Grand Island con ventlon. When the nonullut nrtv founded the men in It said they were found ing a new party because both the two old parties were rotten and corrunt. a taw year later they Joined force with the democrats and silver republicans under the neaa oi ruslon and styled themselves the allied forces of reform. Their mu m. that the democrats bad promised them half a iobi ana mat was better than nothing. Since then silver republicans have dmnnad by the wayside. The democratic nartv I being reorganized by the eastern demo crats and the CODullSt. half Inmt nt K.V haa developed Into a stone. The late popu- usi party naa developed Into a "democratic annex." If the popullsta were sincere twelve year ago when they aoundly de nounced both old parties, are they sincere now when they follow the democrat in an "annex?" We fail to see how the old time populist can say he wa honest then and nonesi now lr he follow hi party leader. It he follows his leaders Into the riamn. crattc camp he must admit that he wa In sincere in his earlier position or mistaken, irhe waa mistaken in hi earlier position, what assurance can he have that he Is right nowT No wonder so many are hesi tating to accent the democratic nartv witi. all the mistakes it has made during the last fifty years. The wonder Is that when the populists see how they have been be trayed Into the democratic eimn hv laariara anxlou for . office, some still continue to loiiow those leaders and expect people to respect them politically. PERSONAL, NOTES.. F. Lewis Marshall, who was the oldest living descendant of Chief Justice John Marshall, died at Orange, Vs.. on Monday of last week. Rear Admiral George W. Melville has caused much comment in Washington by putting up a tomb, with an epitaph, for his future use in Arlington cemetery, with the date of death left blank. A memorial' tablet in bronze of the martyred presidents Lincoln, Garfield and McKlnley was unveiled on July 4 by a New York branch of the Young Men's Christian association. The tablet Is the work of Sculptor E. St. John and was pre sented to the association by Peter Win- cheater Rouse. Thousands of residents in Chicago and vicinity, Including a large number of po licemen, are said to have lost money In the Model Gold Mining company, a receiver for which ha Just been appointed by Judge Tuthlll. It is reported that the total of cash that has fled from weekly pay envel opes and from snug bank accounts may run up to $1,000,000. Baltimore newspaper men have Just been treated to the sight of a reporter who "covered" hi assignments In a carriage and had a footman follow him Into the houses whither he waa sent. He w Frank Brown, Jr., son of former Governor Brown of Maryland, and took up the work rather than go abroad, but after two week of it he recanted and 1 now about to sail for Europe. Congressman Ruppert of New York, a brewer in a large way of business, was traveling on the New York Central one day recently when he noticed some vine grow ing in great profusion. "What kind of vines are those?" he aaked the conductor. "Them's hops," was th laconic reply, and a city friend who was with the congress man said: "What do you make your beer of, Jake, If you don't know hops when you see them?". Hllalre Belloc, whose peculiarly vivid method of preaentlng history haa made hi "Robespierre" ao talked about thl spring, was once a French artilleryman. He be longed to the Eighth regiment and his post of duty was the driver's ssat of a gun carriage, where be 1 said to have handled the rein with conspicuous ability. What this means in point of nerv snd skill will be apparent to everyone who has seen rapid artillery maneuvers. STATISTICS OF THE BOER WAR. Rerlaed Fianres on the Cost of Con aest In Santa Africa, American Medicine. According to the Hospital 5,778 officers and men were. killed In action and 1,019 died of the wound which they received. Th death from disease amounted to 12,27$, and theae figure, large as they are, compare favorably with those of preceding war. There was a high proportion of officers killed and wounded and a high death rate from disease among prrvatee. In action on officer wa killed to every 10.15 men and on officer wa wounded to every 11.84 men. But of those who died from disease only one in every U S men wa an officer. Thl is partly accounted for by the rcklene with which the men drank polluted water. The number of lnvallda sent home during the war waa about 70,000 snd of these more than 6.000 died or left the aervlc. Th vast majority, of course, were restored to health. The financial cost of th war will foot up about $1,100,000,000. Thla. according to the Cobden Club, la sufficient to establish fifty universale, while Oxford and Cambridge are in desperate need of money. If one tenth of thla amount were aaksd for the en dowment of laboratories, etc, to prevent death and disease snd suffering, with what contempt would th request be met by both government and people! Bo far Is our "poor best" from true civilisation. rRosrr.RiTY amono railroads. Traaapnrtatlon Line Getting n (i imllr hare of the Velvet." Washlnson Ptar. Some economists gauge the financial con ditions of the country according to the fiscal health of the railroads. When the great transportation lines show signs of treasury weakness there la something wrong with the center of industry. A panic, such as that which occurred In 1893, precipitates embarrassments in such rapid succession that it Is difficult to trace the laws of cause and effect. The affairs of the great rail roads, however, are guarded so Jealously from the publlo notice that often grave conditions are known only to the director, who, hoping for a betterment, preserve si lence until the crash becomes Inevitable and the appointment of a receiver betrays the situation. During the panlo year 189$ seventy-four road went thu into bank ruptcy, with a mileage of 29.340 and an In volved capital and bonded Indebtedness of $1,781,000,000. This represented the high water mark of that innndatton of distress, and from this point onward, according to figure which have been collected by the Railway Age and recently published, there hss been a steady diminution In the annual number of receiverships and in the mileage snd capital involved. Year by year th total of roads still under receiverships has decreased, despite annual addition, ss the affair of the corporation have been straightened out, with an increasing publlo confidence and a betterment of the general nnanclal conditions. From a total of 191 road, with a mileage of 40,819 and an In volved capital of $2,500,000,000 In 1894, the record ha shrunk until In the current year there are only twenty-two roads in re ceivership, mileage 1.810 and capital in volved $61,086,000. During the current year only one road bas failed, a email one of fifty-two miles, and the receiver has al ready been discharged and the road reor ganized. It Is noteworthy that all of the road now in thl condition are small ones. with lees than 100 mile. . save three the Bellalre, Zaneavllle A Cincinnati, of 111 miles; the Terre Haute ft Indianapolis, of 432 miles, and the Columbus. Sandusky A Hocking, of 219 miles and the largest of these Is In good health, but. owing to fao tlonal differences among stockholders, It cannot yet be freed from receivership. Thu It conclusively appears that the railroads are again In excellent financial health, with every prospect, under a strong system of management, of remaining so. The Railway Age, however, believes that a period of trouble la opening for electrio lines, thou sands of mile of which have been spread out over the middle west connecting small toxins and cities. Their construction was undoubtedly due In some measure to the freeing of capital after the '93 panlo and the Inability of the steam roads Just then to en large to meet the growing traffic demands. Now that the steam lines are In good con dition again and are expanding they are competing with the lnterurban electrio ltnea, and in this rivalry the electric roads, having no freight business, are suffering from a handicap. LINES TO A LAI Gil. Chicago Tribune: I wasn t worth po I understand you said powder to blow me un. I want you to taite that back!" "I will. You are worth iust about ennueh powder to blow you up." Detroit Free Press: "I think It was a shame for the Indians to bury their hatchets!" "Why?" "Just think how lovely they would be for decorative purposes." I brought you end happily? -UMo I . . 1. t . l . . . . uwi, i naiuw. 1 k luuujuru Pjr Bay ing the hero and 'heroine were married. Puck: "They used to ao rowinr verv often before they were married. They seemed very happy then' "They don't get along at all now." "Indeed? Who Is rocking the matrimonial boat?" Philadelphia Press: Slopay The Ideal I promised to pay that tailor on the loth of this month. Here he's sent me a bill and It's only the 1st. Newltt Probably he wants to get in early to avoid the rush. Philadelphia Press: He (reproachfully) Perhapa you forget what happened yester day. 1 waa cut by my dearest acquaint ance, the one I love beat In all the world, in fact She (coolly) The Idea? Do you really shave yourself? ,iiujaiiaiuus icwai jt-rijf, saia r ISO- w.,tj ,o ,h jvio Bum, nu iivua Bines yere glttln' a bit of money ahead?" aid Jerry. " 'Tls a measure of protlctlon ag'ln' me poor relations." Detroit Free Press: "John never has on a collar that isn't broken down In front." "No. He does It looking at the fraternity pins on his waistcoat." Cleveland Plain Dealer: "Yaa. luat run ning down to the country for a few dava." "Taking a dress suit along?" "Drees suit? I guess not. I've got a fnBi.lrlntn.K h.M artA . I. a .Lk.. boots. That' all." THE DESERTED ROAD. Thomas Buchanan Read. Ancient road, that wlnd'st deserted Through the level of the vale, Sweeping toward the crowded market Like a stream without a sail. Standing by thee, I look backward, And. aa In the light of dreams. Bee the years descend and vanish Like thy whltely-tented teams. Her I stroll along the village. Aa in you in a departed morn; But I miss the crowded coaches. And the driver' bugle-horn Miss the crowd of Jovial teamsters Fllllna- buckets at tha wells. With their walna from Cone.atoga, . Ana tneir orcneatra or Deua. . . . To th merry wayside tavern Comes the noisy throng no more; And the faded sign, complaining. Swings unnoticed at the door. i While the old decrepit tollman. Waiting for the few who paaa, Reads the melancholy story In the thickly springing grass. Ancient highway, thou art vaolsh'dj The uaurper of the valo Rolls tn fiery. Iron rattlo. Exultations on the gale. ' Thou art vanlsh'd and neglected T3.. k -.Li.k . U . . V.-- J. . qui luo ajwu tii..ii uiuu naa, uui-ay. Though by man It be forgotten. . I Dn&ii in aeainicH ine sun. Though neglected, gray and graaay, Shall I pray that my decline Hay oe tnrougn aa vernal vajieys, Ana uivat a katiu mm iiniio- HairBscaping?: No wonder. Your hair Is starving. Feed it before it all leaves you. Then you can keep what you have and add greatly to it. Ayers Hair Vigor is a hair-food. It stops falling of the hair, makes the hair grow, and always , re stores color to gray hair. "One year ago today I had not one single hair on my bead, and today I have as fine a growth of balr as any younf man In my town, and Just three bottles of Ayer'a Hair Vigor did t." Arthur B. Ackley, E. Machlas, Ma. , $1.H. AUtoolsts. J. C AYEl COl. UwtU.
