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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1902 1niE omaha Daily Bee FUMJSHED EVEftT MORNINQ. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Xa11y Hee (without "unUay), One Year.. M "0 Imlljr H- and Sunday, One Year ( lllurtratrd Bee. One Year 2(0 Sunday H-e, Unt Year 1 0 Hutu rosy H-e, one Year ) '.Twentieth Century Farmer, One Year.. 1.00 DELIVERED BY CARRIER, pally pea (without Sunday), per copy... 2o lally Iee (without Sunday), per week. ..12c aJly lie (Including Bunday), per week. .170 Burnley le, per copy BO Evening Bee (without Bunday), per week. 10c Evening Be including Sunday), per week 15c Complaints of Irregularities In delivery should b. addressed to City Circulation department. 0FFICK8. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha city Hall Uulldlng, Twenty-fifth and M Streets. Council muffs 10 I'earl 8treel. Chicago Tnlty Building. New York Temple Court. Washington dul Fourteenth Street CORRESPONDENCE. Commiinlratlons relating to newa and edi torial matter should be addressed: Omaha liee. Editorial lepartment. BUSINESS LETTERS. Business letters and remittances should be addressed; The Bee Publishing Com pany, Omaha. REMITTANCES. , Remit by draft, express or postsl order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only S-cent stamps accepted In payment of mill accounts. Personal checka, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska. Douglas County, ss.: Ueorce B. Txschuck, secretary of The Bee, Publishing Company, being duly sworn, ays that the actual number of full and complete, copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Hunday Bee printed during tna montn oi July, iwi, was as toiiowa: 1 30.MO 17 I S9,STO t 31), IV tO 4 XO.B20 1 29,820 ... aw.Goo 1 zd,rio I 8 29,400 3. 30,540 IS 2S.BBO 11 .20,510 U so.eao IS 29,615 14 a,oeo IS 2,BOO It 29,BOO 18 19 0 21 80,580 ..X0.5TO ..&:,ni5 ..2U,B0O ,.2t,nao ..20,StO ..sii,soo 22 t S3 24 25 nn.oro 26 m,S40 27 2R.4AO 28 . M.BBO 29 20,600 SO 20,010 tl 29,020 Total. 10.4 BO Lets unsold and returned copies.... , Net total sales. Net dally a'erage. 000,824 2,262 GEO. B. TZBCHUCIC Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before ma this (1st day of July, A. D. 1901 (Seal.) ii. B. HUNGATB, Notary Publlo. A peaceable strike Is the one that bring-, best and most permanent re mits. Buffalo Bill Is the one eminent Ne braska whose continued hold on the people no one will question. It ought not to be necessary for Ak-Bar-Ben knights to go all the way to Deadwood to break into Jail. Another jwrtlnpnt "nestle-!!! xyvf does Governor Savage owe to Congress man Mercer? What did Mercer ever do for Savage? The republicans of Iowa appear to be well satisfied with the work of their state convention and they alone have the votes to back it up at the polls. Governor Savage finds that to pick out four suitable business men out of poli tics for members of his new Omaha po lice board is much easier said than done. Jim Dahlman is out already for Bryan for president in 1904. Dahlman Is said to have put up money in 1900 that New York would give its electoral vote to Bryan. Another Arctic explorer has come back from the frozen north "baffled, but not beaten." The consolation consists In the knowledge that no one else has reached the pole ahead of, him. If our Deadwood friends will return the visit during the week of'Ak-Sar- Ben's carnival, hla royal highness will see to it that they are treated to some thing at least as good as a ride in the patrol wagon. General Jacob II. Smith has arrived la this country from the Philippines, but discreetly declines to talk for publica tion. General Smith seems finally to have realised that be has done too much talking already. . It is worthy of note that the warning that Superintendent of Schools Pearse was about to be stolen away from us by an Irresistible bid from Cleveland for Omaha's renowned educator was evi dently a false alarm. Rock Island reorganization may run up against a snag in Iowa. The privi lege of paying perpetual tolls on oceans of watered stock and Inflated bonds Is not appreciated by the people who have to patronize the road. Those California earthquakes are now ascribed to disturbances created by gases in the interior of the earth. This fortunately lets out several eminent windbags who might be blamed for emitting gases on the exterior of the earth's surface. ' The only wonder Is that some of our enterprising yellow journal contempo raries have not discovered that in the recent incorporation of a group of trained nursea in this city for mutual benefits is not the seed of an odious trained nurse trust . Colonel Arthur Lynch of the British army, accused of treason, explains that he was In the Boer lines only as a cor respondent of French and American pub lications. If representing an American magazine on the field constitutes treason, the price of war correspondents may be expected to go up. Nebraska is not so insistent, thst all the experimental reservoirs provided for under the new irrigation law, be lo cated within its borders, but wants to get the benefits of the stored water. If Sk reaenolr Is built across the Wyoming line It should be near enough to fur bish water for Nebraska farms too, but Nebraska ought to have one or more of the experimental reservoirs for Itself too,. BKfVRt ASD ATTER TAKIXO. The railroad tax bureau has Issued another bulletin to eonrlnce the people of Nebraska that railroad assessments in Lancaster county are way up above the level of the assessments of other property, aud It has succeeded In making Itself believe that the railroads are over taxed, although, possibly, It may not be able to convert other taxpayers of Lan caster county to that belief. For the purposes of the tax bureau, comparisons are Instituted between the census bureau figures of 1900 and the assessed valuation of 1893. A compari son between the assessed valuations of railroads In 1891 and 1001 would be much more effective In 1891 the Missouri Tacluc Lincoln branch was assessed at $70,992; In 1902 It was assessed at $09,000. In 1891 the Fremont It Elkhorn was assessed at $81,250; in 1901 It was assessed at $00, 000. In 1891 the Omaha & Republican Valley railroad was assessed for $173, 055; in 1901 It was assessed for $135,065. In 1891 the Nebraska railroad was as sessed for $173,840; in 1901 it was as sessed fof $150,880. In 1891 the Lincoln It Northwestern was assessed for $51, 255; In 1901 it was assessed for $41,004. The Atchison & Nebraska was assessed In 1891 for. $97,000, and in 1901 it was assessed for $89,240. The Burlington & Missouri River road was assessed In 1891 for $383,072, and in 1901 it was as sessed for $344,273. The assessment for 1902 is substantially the same as for 190L The distribution for the Improvements made by the railroads, and for the enor mous Increase in their value and earn ing capacity within ten years is not vis ible to the naked eye, but the contrast before taking and after taking is more decidedly in evidence by the comparison of railway assessments in the' city of Lincoln. The amount of bonds voted by the city of Lincoln as donations to the various railroads aggregate $194,500. The total Interest paid by the city of Lincoln on these bonds for the year end ing June 30, 1902, waa $9,380. For the year 1901 the total taxes paid into the city treasury of Lincoln by ail the rail roads was $987.55, a difference of $8,302.43 In the Interest paid for the rail roads and taxes collected from them. When it is borne in mind that the tax payers of Lincoln have paid over $90,000 in interest within the past fifteen years on the bonds donated to the railroads, these figures are decidedly suggestive of what yon expect before taking and what you get after taking. RXPCBLICAX COSFWKBCK. The republican congressional commit tee is preparing for a vigorous cam- . . , i m ..a - migu, win a. iccuu kil cuulo vuu- fldence in the result - Chairman Bab cock of the committee Says that com plete harmony prevails, whereas dis sension and discord among the demo crats continues and has perhaps been aggravated by the eastern visit of Mr. Bryan. Having practically dropped the Philippine issue and miserably failed in their attack on the army, the democrats are now pushing to the front the trusts and the tariff. On these questions the republican party is ready to meet them, said the chairman of the congressional committee. "The only anti-trust legis lation on the statute books was enacted by the republican party in congress. The democrats have no record. The tariff is an issue we gladly espouse. With everybody at work, everybody with money and clothes and food, with pros perlty on every hand, the result of republican policies, we are not afraid to ask the country to continue the repub lican party in power in order that those policies may be continued in effect." This is the feeling that pervades the congressional committee and is enter talned generally -by republican leaders. All the conditions are favorable to the republicans winning the next house of representatives. The republican major lty In ' the present house is forty-six, There will be 380 members In the next bouse, which is twenty-nine more than the present enrollment To overcome the republican majority in this congress and gain any portion of the new mem bership seems to careful students of the situation practically impossible. Unless some great convulsion ahould occur in the political situation, of which there is no expectation or Indication, it Is quite probable that there will be a larger republican majority in the bouse of the Fifty-eighth congress than there is in the present congress. " An eastern democratic paper re cently remarked that "an Impartial sur vey of the situation does not Justify the democratic party's hope that' It will con trol the next bouse of representatives.' The more sagacious party leaders do not expect It to. They realize that the party has no winning issue, while the lack of unity and harmony causes It to be distrusted quite as .much now as at any time during the last six years. The great majority of the intelligent and thoughtful voters In all relations farm ers, merchants, manufacturers, wage earners are averse to jeopardizing the favorable conditions that exist by sup porting a party spilt up as the demo cracy is and which has no definite and settled conviction or po.lcy, unless it be to break down the policy of protection to our Industries and labor. Republican confidence In carrying the next house of representatives is well founded, but it must not be allowed to Interfere with a vigorous prosecution of the congres sional campaign. WHAT DorS It V 8 MA ME ATI t This question in connection with the Russian note relative to trusts, seems to be giving some concern to ' certain of ficials at Washington as well as to those of foreign governments. The most re cent conjecture reported Is that Russia is either preparing to recede from her position on the bounty-fed sugar ques tion, or preparing to negotiate a new trade treaty with the United States for the purpose of offsetting the proposed discrimination of foreign governments against Russian sugar. It is intimated. ltatea & Washington dispatch, that Rut sla may be serving notice, by the pro posal for a trust conference, upon Eng land, Germany and Austria that any attempt on their part to enforce the Brussels conference agreement by im posing a discriminating duty ngnlnst Russia, will be met by Russia's refusal to buy ber manufactured goods from those nations. Russia takes the po sition that sho can get along without them, but that they cannot get along without her agricultural products and petroleum. . It Is said that If this theory is correct. the United States will be the gainer In case the other European countries in sist upon tariff discriminations against Russia. As yet none of the European governments which have received the proposal for an international conference to consider the trusts has made any response or given any intimation as to how the proposal is regarded and the matter has received very little public attention abroad. The opinion has been expressed that the Russian idea of some sort of international anti-trust agree ment is not likely to be viewed with favor by any of the European govern ments and certainly not by England and Germany, In both of which are many so-called trusts and where indus trial combinations are on the increase. The governments of those countries will under no circumstances enter into an international arrangement which would require their interference with domestic enterprises. This Is doubtless the case also with France and Austria. It ap pears to be no less certain that these countries will enforce the agreement of the Brussels conference, which requires discrimination against Russian sugar as being bounty-fed. , It is possible that this might result to the advantage of the United States, but this country would probably .be asked, in order to get such advantage, so far as the Russian market Is concerned, to make' concessions that might prove not to be expedient The obvious fact is that Russia is looking chiefly to the protection of her sugar industry and In this she Is not likely to receive the as sistance of any of the sugar-producing countries. MERC KB STILL HAH THK FLOOR, David II. Mercer is trying to pose be fore this community as a much maligned man because The Bee has insisted that he must square himself with his constit uents before he can Justify his demand for another term In congress. Mr. Mer cer is certainly not oblivious to the fact that on May 17, 1902, William F. Gurley Issued a challenge to the editor of The Bee to discuss his candidacy in the fol lowing terms: "Having announced yourself as opposed to the renomlnation of David H. Mercer in congress, both by publlo speech and In the columns of your paper, and as the con gresalonal campaign Is now at hand, the question of Mr. Meroer's candidacy Is one of no little interest to the people of this community. Believing in free and full dis cussion of all publlo questions, I hereby extend to you an invitation to meet with me in Joint debate before the republicans of this district in such time and place and under such arrangements as may be agreed upon with us, or our representatives, to discuss the sltuattpn. An Immediate reply will oblige" The challenge was promptly accepted and the debate took place more than a month ago. During the progress of the debate certain questions were pro pounded to Mr. Gurley, which he either Ignored or declined to answer. Al though Mr. Mercer has been a visitor In Omaha for more than ten days and has repeatedly been urged to answer these questions, he still maintains a discreet silence. In order that Mr. Mercer may have another opportunity to square himself with the people of the district of which he is the non-resident representative The Bee, at the risk of being charged with malice aforethought again propounds the questions in the exact language in which they were propounded the last time: Question Will Mr. Mercer live in Omaha if he la not re-elected, or will he locate permanently in Washington and resume his old business as professional lobbyist? This question Mr. Gurley parried by declaring that he is not a mind reader. Question Will Mr. Mercer be satisfied with a sixth term In congress, or will he want a seventh term, an eighth term and as many more terms as he can fill during the balance of his life? This question Mr. Gorlcy met by the bold declaration that the people of this district needed Mercer more than Mer cer needed them. In other words, Mer cer needs them only two months out of the year and they ought to be satisfied. Question Is it true that Congressman Mercer pockets the allowance of $100 per month for clerk hire Instead of giv lng some Nebraska boy or girl a chance to earn the salary? About this subject Mr. Mercer's cham pion seemed to be dazed and the people still remain absolutely in the dark. Question Why does Mr. Mercer make political deals for West Point and An napolla cadetships while other congress men leave these appointments open for competitive examination so that every boy who aspires to such an education can have an equal chance? This also staggered Mr. Gurley and failed to elicit a response- Question Why did Mercer displace two Nebraska grand army veterans who were employed in the capltol building and substitute for them men who are not old soldiers and moreover are re puted to hail from Minnesota? This inquiry stirred Mr. Gurley to most profound Indignation and in re sponse he wanted to know why the editor of The Bee does not wear wooden shoes, dress in rags and go foith into the woods to make penance for the rest of bis life. ! It is said that many of the Americans who participated - in the reception to Prince Henry and who were selected to receive decorations in recognition of their hospitality, have declined the deco rations. This must be a new experience for Emperor .William. lie la sot accus- tomed to having Ms favors turned bsck in fact no subject of the German em peror would dare to refuse a proffered honor. But the sovereign American citizen has a perfect right to accept or reject gifts or decorations no matters what their source. The Iowa State Board of Equalization has raised the assessment of the rail roads In that state over $4,000,000. Iowa has been held up to the Nebraska as sessment board as a model of high taxa tion, but according to members of the Real Estate exchange who have Just re turned from Lincoln the Nebraska state board declares that "Rosewater has made no case on railroad assessments." Possibly the state board may be Induced to revise its opinion after the supreme court has rendered its decision. It turns out thst the estate left two years ago by a London merchant to pub lic purposes, supposed to have been worth about $1,000,000, In reality amounts to more than $10,000,000. This reverses the usual rule. Most estates shrink like a cake of Ice under a sum mer sun when they get into the admin istrator's hands. Nothing would please Omaha people better, without regard to religious creed or denomination, than to have this city made the seat of a western archlepis- copal see for the Roman Catholic church, with Bishop Scannell advanced to the archbishopric. Aaether Case, tor Arbltratloa. Kansas City Journal. Colonel Wattersori and Colonel Bryan may settle It between themselves as to which one's assaults have had the most effect on the Fat Fisherman. Aa Overlooked Opportunity. Milwaukee Wisconsin. Curious some Nebraska special corre spondent doesn't wire a etory of a farmer whose potato crop was harvested for him by the earthquake, without cost New Schema (or Chlcag Folks. Chicago Mews. Now the man who wants to account for the loas of his money does not have to tell how he was held up. He simply misses It from his safety deposit vault Another Penalty of Prosperity. Minneapolis Tribune. Since horses have become valuable the horse thief Industry has picked up, and has become so flourishing In southern Minne sota that the sheriffs of several adjoining counties have organised an anti-horse thief society. Cora la Kin This Year. Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune. It Is Corn that la King this year, In his mantle- of gold and hts plumags of the color of the ean. The voice of the calamity crasher Is too far off for King Corn to hear It., and too far for tha pennU to heed It. It le Corn that is King this year of grace 1S02I Aa Oatraceaaa Policy. , , New. Tork Times. It may be there is no way of reaching the coal presidents ' and Impressing them with a sense of their publlo duty, but the obllgcfion devolves upon all independ ent newspapers to denounce their policy as an outrage upon the rights of the eoal conaumlng public. If the state of Penn sylvania does not see to It that such a crime against the publlo welfare is not sgaln commltteed it will be derelict ia its duty to Us own people and to the sister hood of states. Bryan'a Delaatvo Crowds. Detroit Free Press. Democratic managers in the east are making tha common mistake of attributing great political significance to the immense crowds that turn out to hear Mr. Bryan's speeches. Experience hae shown that Mr. Bryan always draws large crowds, but the crowds do not necessarily mean a heavy democratic vote. Mr. Bryan will be greeted by large audiences as long as he remains in politics, because he is easily ths most graceful and fascinating political speaker in tha United States. COVUTERFEITI1NG SILVER COI.fS. Daaaer el Overvalaatloa aa aa Ia- eeativo (or Shoviac tha ttanr, Chicago Chronicle. Secret service officers of ths United States. have arrested one Alfred S. Cun ningham for making and circulating spurious sliver half dollars. ., These spurious colna contain the same proportion of pure sliver as the genuine and, so far as now appears, they were all of tho same date 1877. Cunningham seems to have chosen for his purpose a coin of the old design partly because it waa not so familiar as the new design and differences were not so likely to be no ticed, and partly, perhaps, because of the fact that by giving the spurious coins a worn appearance be could pass them with out suspicion. He himself states that he had no ac complices and that, though he had been producing these coins since 1898, be had put them in circulation without the as slatance of othere. If this is true It is certainly remark able. It must have required as much ''talent" for one man to put afloat worn halves all of one date for some four years without exciting suspicion as it did to produce so perfect an imitation of the genuine coin. ' Perhaps ths most Interesting feature of this discovery Is that Cunningham used steel dies, of which no less than twenty, it la said, were found about hla flat. Iu view of the number of these dies it Is the more remarkable that all the coins are of Mia same date. Upon examination It may be found that the dies are of different datea. If it was necessary to multiply dies it must have been easy to make them to counterfeit eolne of different dates and so to facilitate putting the epurlous plecee in circulation without exciting suaplcloa. It has generally been considered Imprac ticable to use dies In the production of spurious coin not only because of the cost of the dies themselves but because of the cost and weight and difficulty of operating the other machinery required for the manufacture of cola with dies. But hero waa found a little mint In a common flat and the whole was effectually concealed from the eye of the ordinary observer. Representing himself as an In vantor, the proprietor waa able to operate hla cola factory without awakening the suspicion of bis neighbors. All this serves to suggest that this sort of counterfeiting may be carried sa far mora extensively than Is generally sup posed. It would seem to be possible by increasing the number of dies and arrang ing a well-organized system for putting the spurious coins afloat to carry en a pretty extensive business of this kind for a long time without detection. The whole amount of apurlous coin can not become very great as compared with the entire maaa of the genuine without ae taction of tha fact but it can be large onough to make a number ef pretty re- JspecUble fortustf OTHER LASDS THAU OVRS. The result of the election at North Leeds a few dsys ago Is a severe reveres to tho British conservatives and liberal unionists, more, so even than that of the Bury election. According to reports, free trade and ths education bill were the Issues. Such a chsnge aa tho conversion of a government majority of 1.500 Into a minority of 700 has not often been wit nessed In Oreat Britain, and Is an om inous Indication of unpopularity which even the London Times warns the govern ment to notice. It is uncertain whether tho recent Imposition of the grain taxes had as much to do with the conservative defeat aa the education question. The lat ter has excited an extraordinary bitter ness among the nonconformists, and If op position to the grain duties west ae far against the government as It did in Bury It is evident that two very strong weapons hsvs been found by the liberal opposition. In hla heart of hearts the kaiser is probably most grateful to the nobles of Poland who have given htm so splendid a chance to be theatrically mediaeval. They beg him not to visit Posen at the present time because of the possible dan ger to his person. In reply he puts him self at the head of 90,000 men-at-arms (let us call them so for the moment) and advances on the discontented city to over whelm and stun it by 'the concrete ex hibition of his irresistible power. Thus would Coeur de Lion have done, and thus Barbarossa; and the kaiser Is . of their type. It will be a great day for Posen the barred doors and windows, the ex pectant hush, the distant fanfare of trum pets, then a mist of Uhlans, a surge of heavy cavslry, a cataract ef splendid sol diery of all arms, and In the midst of them the war -lord himself, glittering In steel and polished silver under his eagle crested helmet, and saluted by cannon and a crash of martial music The name of Swakopmund Is probably unfamiliar to the average reader, and that of Windhoek Is little better known. If to these we add Jakalswater, Abbabls, Karablb and Okahftndja, we have a list calculated to aend one In despair and perhaps in vain to the gaieteer. Tet those names indicate the stations on a new railroad nearly 240 miles long, run ning from the coast inland In one of the least known parts of Africa. The country In question is Damaraland, commonly called German Southweet Africa. Wind hoek Is one of the chief towns in the in terior, end Swakopmund is a port on the Atlantic coast Just north of Walflsch bay. The Z3S miles of country lying between them Is rugged snd wild in an excep tional degree. But the railroad has been completed it was begun less than five years ago at a cost of something more than )3,000,000, and (500,000 more will be spent on harbor improvements at Swakop mund. Passenger and freight trains are now running dally and a great develop ment of Industry and commerce Is reason ably expected. Now a railroad 238 miles long is scarcely comparable with the great "Cape to Cairo" scheme, or with the Si berian railroad. Tet It is long enough to reach across the island of Madagascar, or from Delagoa bay almost to Pretoria, or clear across Cape Colony to tha Or ange River colony. Such a line, opened up Is one of the least known parts of Africa, must be regarded as another Important avenue of access to the Dark Continent, and aa a significant token of the march of civilization under the German flag. The economic conditions of the empire give advantage to the agitators against the government In hie recent report on the budget of the empire for 1902 the Russian finance minister pointed out that the chief evil of the country Is Its 'lack of transportation facilities. The empire ss a whole produces every year far more food than Is needed to supply lta popula tion, and yet in some provinces grain rots in the fields because of local over production, while in other provinces there is famine. The empire ie rich In Iron, coal, oil, stone snd wood, but these varied resources are undeveloped by reason of a lack of means to get the products to market. In the course of his report the finance minister said there are 415 versts of railway tor every million of Inhab itants in Russia, while Austria has 716, Britain 796, Germany 884, France 1,033 and the United States 3,622. He urged a liberal expenditure of money In the construction of additional railways snd canals, and asserted that while the rail way mileage of the empire had been doubled In the last ten years, It Is still far abort of the immediate needs of in dustry and commerce. That increased transportation facilities will largely Im prove the conditions of the empire seems Indisputably true. Italy, which has long had an eye on Tripoli, as a rival to the French colony of Algeria, has disturbed the equanimity of Europe several tlmee In recent years by threatening to take posaesslon of It Hence, it is little wonder that tho ap pearance of an Italian squadron In port there has startled Turkey, the nominal owner of the province. It is now that the sultan feels the value ex having the German emperor as his friend. He can exert a restraining Influence on Italy, which will doubtless prove effectual, and in the present state of European politics there is every reason to suppose that he will do so. In the great University of Berlin there are now more than 1,700 atudenta in the law department, and in tho medical de nartment the total exceeds 1,000. Prus sia is not likely to suffer from a scant suddIt of lawyers or of doctors. But with philosophers it may be even more generously provided, because in the so- called philosophical department tae uni veralty rejoices over the preeence and the assiduous devotion of nearly 2,700 acolytes of learning. Thrice fortunate Prussia. AH INTERNATIONAL STOCK SHOW, r.r.mt Krmrmtm If WaaLd BrlBSC to Breeders of Hlah Grade Animals. Kanaaa City Journal. The mission to Europe of Senator W, A Harris, as a special representative of the Louisiana Purchase exposition, is of par ttcular interest to the west which has be come the great stock growing region of the country. It Is the purpose of the expo sitlon managers to get up a great interna tional stock show, and the mission of Senator Harris Is to Interest the stock breeders of Europe in making a display. In an interview given to a newspaper cor respondent at Washington ) the senator aays he is confident that he can induce the best breeders of Europe to send ever exhibits, and he is particularly sure that King Edward of England will consent to the exhibition of one or more of bis herds of thoroughbreds, than which thsre is nothing better. It le particularly appropriate that Eng land should be largely interested In a show of cattle ia America Tha moat of our American cattle are of British origin, and we still look to England for the finest bred of our leading strains. The cattle which we lump together as Shorthorns are nearly all of British origin. We owe to England, aa the samsa indicate, our Durhama, Herefords, Devons, Ayrshire! and Alderneya. From the reat of Europe we have taken but few etralns save the Holsteln-Frieatan and the Belted Dutch, though the continent hae many fine breeds which ate little kseva here and which might be Introduced with great advantage. It Is worth remembering that the Polled Ans,us were first introduced to the United Statea at an exposition, the Centennial, and by a Kansas man, Mr. George Grant of Ellis county. In 1876 Mr. Grsnt Im ported a show herd of these black, hornless rattle. After their exhibition at Phila delphia, where they attracted a tremendous Interest, he brought them to Kansaa snd used them In breeding up the longhora Texan Into a valuable animal. There scarcely la a state or territory in the west which csnnot trace eome of its polled stock to Grant's exhibition at the Centennial, and we have no doubt that a similar exhibition of European strains at St Louie will result In a distribution of new blood among all our western cattle ranches. CHANCE FOR SEW MEN. Bralaa and Ability Will Find Plenty of Roeaa la Cona-reas. Boston Herald. There are peculiar opportunities open to a man of talent In the house of representa tives at Washington at this Juncture. Ques tions of the first Importance are being brought up for consideration In that body. Among them is the vindication of the place of the house itself In the government against the encroachments being made upon it In this respect by ths senate. The action of the government ss regards the spreading of Its territories and the taking into its association of distant peoples with diverse Interests is of. the utmost moment. The condition of Its domestto affairs, with the growth of the Immense business Interests of the people. Is scarcely less so. We look back In history to the days when Webster and Clay and Calhoun snd Benton made their reputations In statesmanship, and often regard the opportunities they found there ae never to return. The fact Is tbtt if they do not return In the form In which they then appeared they may come In an other equally momentous, equally a test for talent In statesmanship, equally affording the opportunities to achieve a reputation in statesmanship. The truth of the esse Is that If parties themselves are not to be dissolved the time Is apparently at hand for a new alignment under party names. Neither party has the cohesion of principle In which its members are fully agreed to hold it together. This has been true of the democrats for years, snd it Is fast becoming true of the repub licans In almost an equal degree. There is a further signal that the time has come for men to achieve usefulness and win dis tinction In the public service and for the new beginners In it there Is no field like that of the national house of representa tives. No man who has genuine ability need shrink from it under the belief that he Is to be a cipher there. It all depends upon himself. He may sink Into compara tive nonentity If he is lacking In mental resources or yields to Indolence, but if he has the power within him and is true to himself In Its everrlaA thnr ha Iiaaii tin era In our national existence when the fleld for distinction In public life Was better open to him than It now Is. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. One of the lire department 'horses In ttslMmAre le trftTnolv fiynA r-f 1 1 rn Ki, cheese and eats It with evident relish. Sweden's last census records the lowest death rata yet attained by a civilized na tion. During the last tea years it only averaged 16.49 per 1,000. Nelson's walking cane, which was picked up on the deck of the Victory after be waa shot at Trafalgar, is now in the possession of a resident of Newport, Mont. Signor Schlaparelll, the Milan astrono mer, has been elected an associate of the French Academy of Science in the room of the late Baron Nordensklold. Sir A. L. Jones of the Elder-Dempster line announces that he will give free pas sages to and from England once a year to any of the Rhodes scholars Bailing from the Canadian and Jamaican porta served by his firm s steamers. Charles Dickens' office table, chair and looking glass and another high-back chair he used in the editor's office of All the Tear Round, were sold at auction In Lon don lately for (425. They were given at Dickens' death to his housekeeper and sold by her to a collector. A baby carriage which IS a miniature of "the deacon's one-horse shay' and was presented to Henry U Dawes while in congress in the 60's, when it was an nounced that he wa the father of a bounc ing boy, Is now being repaired to do serv ice for Henry L. Dawes III. Citizens of Charleston, S. C, are urging that the name of Meeting street, one of the widest and most Important streets in their city, be changed to Hampton avenue, in memory of the late General Wade Hamp ton. In Columbia, too, there Is talk of hav ing a Hampton atreet or avenue. The London academy la authority for the news that Rudyard Kipling might have been knighted along with Gilbert Parker and Conan Doyle, but that he deolined the offer. The academy further atatea that Mr. Lecky refused a peerage, contenting himself with membership in the new Order of Merit The late Dr. Talmage once called on his lawyer and found two of his parishioners there on legal business of a private na ture. "Ah, doctor!" called the lawyer In greeting. "Good mornlngl Here are two of your flock. May I ask without imper tinence if you regard them as black sheep or white?" "I don't know ae yet," re plied Talmage dryly, "whether they're black or white, but I'm very certain that If they remain here long they'll be fleeced." f What's the Use sweltering these torrid days, when it's ko easy to keep cool if you know how. Our store, in the first place, is the coolest in town, as there are a dozen or more big fans to stand under while you are selecting a thin coat, a light' pair of trousers, a homespun, a flannel suit, a soft shirt or two, or perhaps a straw hat. We hare all the cool, comfortable things for men and boys and the majority of them are reduced in price for various reasons. ; And no clothing fits like ours. . Bt'ore closes at 9 p. m., Saturday. 13 Exclusive Clothiers and Furnishers. R. S. Wilcox, Manager. HIGHER PRICES FILtT OFFSET. Amerlraa Waae Enraers Not Dispose to Hetnrn to Dlatreae. Philadelphia Tress. Those democrats who are seeking to bring the tariff Issue prominently Into the front are now trying to make the workmen believe that, owing to Increased prlcea, they are worse off than they were under the Wilson tariff act. It the American workmen were foola this argument would still be fruitless, because eo many hundreds of thousands of these workmen had no em ployment whatever under the Wilson tariff Set. But the workmen are not misled by such silly talk. They were never better oft tban they are today. There Is probably not a man In the United States today out of work who could not find employment if he sought It The enormous increase in savings banks de posits and In the annual premiums on life Insurance and other things of that kind demonatrate the prosperity ef the people In general, including the workmen. The price of the greatest and most expensive com modity in the land, Amer aa labor, has in creased since the Dlngtey law went Into operation fully BO per cent The railroad employee of the eountry are getting SO per cent more pay 'now than they received lu 1808-96. The statistics of Massachusetts, which are admittedly fair, show that the work IngmsB of all classes in that state are now earning from 40 to B0 per cent more than in 1896. The farmers of ths country are even better off. They were never so pros perous as they are today. Prices of com modities have Increased, but not In pro portion to the earnings of labor. There Is not only steady work for alt but higher wages. Both of those count Immensely to the Interest of the wage-earner. They can afford to pay better prices, which are not general, however, and are willing to do It When democratic orators and editors ap peal to the workingman against the tariff on the ground of alleged higher price the workingman has only to recall to mind the distressful condition of things under the Wilson tariff bill to answer satisfactorily In his own mind all appeals of that kind. SATURDAY SMILES. New York Bun: Knlcker What became of your resolution not to eat Welsh rabbit T Bocker It waa laid on the table. Detroit Free Press: Willie Say, pop, give me a nickel for a poor, lame man It Is Papa Who le hef Willie He runs the lemonade stand on the corner. Town Topics: Cobwlggerwlf he's golntr to spend his vacation there again thla summer there must be something nice about the rlace. Merrltt There la, but he wouldn't tell me her name. Chicago Record-Herald: "There must be a good many automobile 'enthusiasts in this town," said the stranger. "There are," replied the hotel keeper, "but what made you think there were?" "As 1 came In on the train I aaw your cemetery. It seems to be full of new gravea.'r Chicago Tribune: "Outen Morgan," said the man with the bones, in aa good German as he could command. "Wle Gates?" responded the man with the tambourine. And the band played 'The Man That Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo." Judge: "I tell you what, them bunko mm didn't sit eos ?' rry wnn.y tM trip," boasted Uncle Silas. "They didn't heyt" . "No, alree. float my pocketbook on the way to town an', they wasn't nothln' fer 'em ter git" Chicago Newa: Her Father Have you any prospects of being able to support my daughter In the style in which she ia ac customed? Suitor Sure. I may say in all confidence that everything in that direction is al together in the prospective. HONI SOIT QXI MALj Y PENSE. K. 8. Martin In Kansas City Star. It waa my happy lot to meet Upon a late occasion. While seeking of the summer's heat Agreeable evasion, By visiting a resort Of fashion where, nd matter A maid whom there was none to court, And very few to flatter.. Her bead had not the graceful poise Of Aphrodite's statue; Her hair reminded you of boys; Her nose was pointed at you. A derby hat, the selfsame sort The fashionable' male owes Money for, she used for sport As angels do their halos. She seldom walked In silk attire, But commonly In flannel: Not yet In oils did she aaplr To figure on a panel. Because she could not help but see She was not tall nor slender: Nor did she deem her curves to be Superlatively tender. Some prudish damee did her abuse With censure fierce and scathing, Because she happening to lose Her stocking while in bathing. Deemed such a lose of little note, And simply tied the plagued Stocking round her little throat And reappeared barelegged. I do not think that for the velf Of eligible boobies. Or for the chance to deck herself With dlamonda and rubles. Or for her standing in the books Of prim and proper ladles. Or for their disapproving looks She cared a hoot from hades. Though competent to hold her tongue When clroumstance demanded Speech, she was, for one so young. Astonishingly candid. She sang the vulgarest of songs, Which sung by her were funny. And never brooded o'er her wrongs Nor hoarded up her money. Tie true this carelea damsel's fame At last grew somewhat shady. But If the man disposed to name Her fast, or not a lady. Will In the present writer's way Considerately toddle. This writer thinks that person mar Oet punched upon his noddle. 0 i I
