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S9.K40 4.. ....... .... 620 I ...,aao t..ano l 19 to n B u t 57 28 M 10 ..2.B"0 ..JfO.BTO ..3X815 ,.21.S(iO ..ao.neo ..20,(140 ..iw.aoo ..20.U70 ..20,840 ..29.40 ..zo.eso ..20.B00 ..29.010 ..29.020 T I io...... li.:.... u fa .89,1110 ,30,eo .2B.K40 , so.eao ,..v 29,015 20,000 4 20,500 , . 1. u., .21), BOO . ; Total 91U.4K0 Leas unsold and returned copies.... 9, Kt total sales., BOO.82-4 Net dally aeragt. ;.; 3tw,?B2 .. GEO. B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and "worn to fcefore me thla Slat day of July, A. D. isot (Seal.) . ... M. B. HUNOATE, Notary Public. Cloni; the trtck'once' more for the coronation. , . . Perhaps .Tat Crow can now get Into the running tgnin. " The train robbery industry does not eeem io flourish quite no well In Illinois s It does In Missouri. . There Is no call for wasting sympathy fcn Tracy. The dead bandit was simply a beast of prey in the human form. Does tb Real Kfitata ezchanre really want to lanncn into politics? If so. It will simply mean a smashup of the ex change. .',:.' , Central Labor union might frame that sntographed letter from G or erpor Sav age along with portraits of labor's twin friends Mercer and Ualdwlnl 'i - 'i gy-grT fl ' ions- ' " The' president of the Real Estate exchange is said to bare shied bis cas tor Into the. ring as a candidate . tor mayor. , Does anyone see , anything green In the political atmosphere? Stock In the South Onaha Union Stock yards bas Just sold at a premium at an auction sale. By the time the property Is op for assessment for' taxation again this point will be carefully overlooked. Nebraska retail hardware dealers are strengthening their state organisation. It will take a hatchet bereafter for any- one outside of their organization to break Into the business in this state; Omaha still maintains the lead of all the pork-packing centers except Chicago. Since March 1 Omaha'a output has been D20.000 hogs, as against 876,000 for St Louis. Cincinnati and St. Paul and 912,. bOO for St Louis, Indianapolis and St TauL ... Does the little giant who. is running as the democratic candidate for gov ernor' know what risks he is taking In turning himself over to ' the County Democracy as Its guest for a daj? How does be propose to square himself with the jealous Jacksonlans? Suppose the Real ' Estate exchange hould project one set'of political candi dates, the Commercial club another set, the Board of Trade another set, the Au ditorium Junta another set the Ak-Sar-Bens still another, wouldn't that make a picturesque .merry-go-round? Colonel pryan aVbe could not say "no" in ense the democratic party de cided that he wna the proper person to lo&d Ua forct-a aHu in pi evidential bat tle. Caewir put aside the crown: three times, but Bryan would reverse the rule and accept the nomination three times. The Standard oil trust has advanced the price of gasoline 1 cent a gallon. That would see iu , very insignificant The raliroffis rn.red to advance the wheat rate 1 ceut per hundred pounds. That also seems a trifling Increase. Hut w hen these pennies all drop into , the corporation lt they .will mount into the lulUloas and iulillous. The letter of ei-Kepresentatlve Webb, the populist war horae of Custer county, explaining why be. cannot swallow the fualou pill this j ear, pour but shot Into the democratic annexationists , and makes mighty iuteresting reading. AVLat Is more, a whole Jot of Nebraska populists who think for themselves have come to' about the same couclublou. . County onVlals with two-year terms all over Nebraska are organising to move on'the legislature for the enact ment of a meaaure that will lengthen the tenure to four years. Some people might look with favor on four-year ifl clals limited to one term, but the idea of legislating into offlc for four years men who have been elected for only two yeare la geurj!y repugnant to our con ceytWa ftf reeyoualM government The portly and, Imposing figure of John N. Baldwin, has for some years been well known to NVbrnakans. . The Council .rtliiffs bsaao proftindo bus en tertained multitudes on this side, of the river on festive occasions with mega phone orations and side-splitting storU, but bis modest ambition to figure In the national arena did not manifest Itself until two years ago. It was then that be became Infatuated with the Idea that his part In the great drama of life was not the favorite role of Richard. Mans field as Cyrano de. Bergerac, but the post of honor aa president of the United States senate. -. ;--, ; . ..To gratify this ambition It became necessary for 'the Iowa ' bombastus to engage the services of a peerless orator who had the right to the floor of the na tional republican convention to present his name for the nomination for the vice presidency. Although' the' Hawkeye state has a superabundance fof gtfted orators of the first magnitude, the great Baldwin found them all obstinate and impervious to bis sweetest blandish ment and most pathetic appeals, so be kit upon William F.-Gurley of Omaha as the man who should with one great trumpet blast acclaim to the world tbe qualities and quantities of this imperi ous leader and magTloq-Vnt statesman. The great speech thaf was to electrify the Philadelphia convention and put Baldwin In the vice president's chair as tbe running mate of William McKlnley was duly prepared, carefully rehearsed at Union Pacific headquarters and firmly impressed upon 'the retentive memory of Mr. Gurley,' but owing to unforeseen obstacles never unpacked at its destination. Although the great Baldwin labored under the hallucination that his name was one to conjure by, the Iowa delegation to a man positively refused to fall in with, Nebraska's young Demosthenes. Instead of rallying to Balduln .with a roof -raising shout, they actually ridiculed the suggestion . and proclaimed with one voice that if Iowa was ' to be recognized on thu national ticket Jonathan P. Dolliver, and "not John N. Baldwin, was Iowa's choice. Thus the Baldwin boomlet died pre maturely in the capacious womb of Wil liam F. Gurley and the nation-was be reft forever of the superb intellect and profound . statesmanship that Baldwin of Council Bluffs would; have brought into the executive mansion as the suc cessor of the lamented McKlrUey. Just think of the. freaks of. manifest destiny 1 Had Gurley only got the floor to deliver that nominating speech, the . eyes of the world would cow be focused on Presi dent Jobn'N. Baldwin,, while Theodore Roosevelt would have been ' relegated to the seclusion' of private life to rusticate at Oyster Bay.. ' ' HepuDlics may . ue . - uugraveiiu, . m great men like Baldwin cannot be snuffed out by pig-headed delegates to a national convention. Although Bald win bad struck a barren field In Iowa, he has since found Nebraska in a very receptive mood. Within ' tlx ' months after the dismal failure at Philadelphia the pompadour ' statesman from Iowa, folding bis cloak about him. crossed the Missouri and camped for three months at Nebraska's state capital with a well filled commissary , chest to see that thi Nebraska legislature should make no mistake in its choice of United States senators. : ' ' - '.; - ; In this strenuous work 'Baldwin dis played such extraordinary resources and versatility that he :. was' immediately commissioned political plenipotentiary for 'the great railroad which pays his salary and Incidental expenses. .As po litical supervisor for Nebraska, Baldwin of Iowa has now taken the contract not only to renominate' and re-elect Dave Mercer to congress, but also to devote his paternal care to the city . of Omaha, provide It with fire and police commis sioners and convert the police force Into a railroad constabulary. While his pom posity, Baldwin the First has not been able to call William F. Gurley to a seat In his cabinet or to appoint him to a lucrative foreign-mission, be is to be congratulated upon his success in "'ap pointing Gurley by proxy to a place on the Mercer police f board. By , what means he hypnotized Governor Savage Into executing bis orders will be told by The Bee in another chapter. ; " - Great is Baldwin of the Union. Pacific and Gurley is his profit THE DEVRiiAajX KXPORTB. Regarding the .decrease in, our exports of manufactured goods for the last fiscal year, which was . not large, the New York Journal J of Commerce observes that it does not indicate any 'decrease of our ability to meet European competi tion, but only a decrease; la our dispo sition to, with souse-decrease in the ability of Europeans to buy. ' The con dition of business in Germany, Austria Hungary and KushIb would account for a decreased consumption-of manufac tured goods. The absorption of British energies and capital iu the. South' Afri can war checked the industrial develop ment of the- country. After all, adds the Journal of Commerce, tbe main reason for the decrease is that the home demand has been fo great that the man ufacturers could not respond to. foreign demands. The decrease is mainly In steel; rails,' locomotives and cars; tbe demand , for rat's and railroad equip ment iu this country has been phenom enal. ' The exports of cotton cloths in creased . very much and there were smaller increases in some other lines. -. Whether or not we shall recover this year the decrease of last year Is of course uncertain, but the general condl ttons abroad at preseut are not favorable to an increased demand for American manufacture. - It is therefore prubable that our exports for the current fiscal year will not be larger than list year, but perhaps less. The refusul of ex-Governor Boles to sacrifice himself a, a democratic can didate against Speaker Henderson shows that the democrats have no hope of heading Henderson off, notwithstand ing tbe braggadocio talk they bate been putting up. - Titer U no question but that a number of Interests wboae q;ia t Inn. bio measures have been blocked In congress by Mr. Henderson would like to see him kept at honve, or at leest out of the speaker's chslr,' bit they will have to tRke a new tack, with little prospect of success. ' CVXCILtATttia CAPITAL AKD LABOR, No one has shown greater Interest and eeal In the work of conciliating capital and labor and preserving industrial peace than Senator Hanna. Himself a large employer of labor, few men have been called upon to consider so care fully the question of the relations! of capital and labor and the obligations and duties of one to the other. As a result Mr. Hnnna Is a 'most earnest ad vocate of a policy that will bring these great Interests Into 'rodre Intimate and friendly relations and establish between them mutual respect and confidence. He has found this practicable In his own experience, benefiting both capital and labor, and he believes it to be a policy that can be generally and suc cessfully adopted. ; In an addresa on labor and Its relations to capltsl Mr. Hanna referred to the failure of the Civic federation to bring about a settlement of the anthracite coal strike, because of the refusal of the operators to arbitrate, end pointed out what, had been done by blmself and as sociates In connection with coal mining in western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. Four years ago in asso ciation was formed in which both the operators and operatives are repre sented. Conferring ' together they agreed upon a scale of wages and since then peace baa prevailed. That policy bas been succeeded, said Mr. Hanna, by peace and harmony and rjccesful busi ness operations. The operatives have adhered faithfully to the contract Aa to tbe charge that labor organisations cannot be depended upon to keep con tracts, Mr. Hanna denied it and cited against the charge the refusal of the bituminous coal miners who met in con vention at Indianapolis to strike in sym pathy 'with the anthracite miners be cause such a course would violate their contracts. "There is one of the best les sons that baa ever been presented to the American people," said Mr. Hanna. "There Is one of the strongest arguments that can be urged In favor of getting farther with this policy and encour aging these men and their class by as suring .them that they can earn and establish the confidence of their employ ers and the whole American people by such acts as these." Had the men who compose the anthra cite coal combine Just appreciation of those who labor, had they thu confidence In the honor of worklngmen which Mr. Hanna has found by experience to be Justified, the great strike would nave been averted and a fair and satisfactory agreement reached. There are untrust worthy men in the ranks of labor aa there are In the ranks of capital, but the great majority of those embraced in organized labor are honorable and at solicitous la the matter of observing their contracts as men" In' any other walk of life. It would be easy to pro duce the most ample and conclusive proof of this. ; Mr. Hanna does cot overstate tbe Im portance of conciliating capital and labor, of bringing them Into closer and, more friendly relations. ( It is Indeed a great question, demanding the most careful and sober consideration by all who are concerned for the material welfare of the country and the good of socletyi There can be nothing more Im portant for all interests than the con servation of Industrial peace and every effort looking to thla merits the heart iest encouragement . .GROWTH VP TRUST COMPANIES. - The comptroller ' of the currency Is ksa!d to feel some anxiety over the increase In the cumber of trust com panies organizing nowadays, regarding (his as an element of danger If another panic should occur. Official reports from New Jersey show that thirteen new companies have been organized since January and the records of nearly all the states, show a great multipli cation of these institutions. Comptroller Rldgely is quoted as say ing that the trouble with a trust com pany is that it does a banking business without the safeguards of a bank. It is supposed to be- under state super vision and Inspection, but la many states the supervision is faf from adequate and there is little if any regulation. The companies are permitted to do business without maintaining any reserve to speak of. Their charters of incorpora tion permit them to hold real estate and to transact almost any kind of business, and there are undoubtedly many In stances where trust funds are em barked in speculative enterprises which are far from legitimate. The multipli cation of these institutions is a phase of financial development or evolution which certainly may involve some such danger ai the comptroller of the cur rency suggests. They-have been1 very active for the ist two or three years in pretty much every kind of invest ment, legitimate and otherwise, and there Is reason to believe that cot si few of them are In a condition that could cot withstand any severe financial pres sure. There Is very substantial ground, undoubtedly, for the anxiety respect ing these companies expressed by Comp troller Rldgely and the authorities of states In which these companies are doing business should look after them closely. Members of the State Board of Public Lands and Buildings ; deserve commendation-for dropping the project to erect an addition to the state peniten tiary. In the face of the fact that no legislative appropriation has been made for the purpose. As The ' Bee has pointed out, no good reason exists why the penitentiary cannot get along with its present quarters and accommoda tions until the legislature responds to its needs after full investigation. To an ticipate an appropriation will be creat- Ing an unauthorised Indebtedness,' ex cusable only on the grounds of emer gency, whereas In this case no stub emergency as Is contemplated In the con stitution exists. In advocating municipal borne rule The Be bee pot committed Itself to the narrow gauge view 'that members of the police commission must be ap pointed by the mayor and council, al though direct responsibility to the head of the city government Is preferable to Indirect responsibility. A police com mission elected by th people of Omaha would certainly be more satisfactory than one appointed by the governor, wbo la subject to political pressure often at variance with tbe wishes and Interest of the coiSmunlty. Before the nev? reform police board attempts to reinstate Slgwart and Haze aa officers it would be well for its mem bers to read , carefully the charges and specifications that caused their retire ment from the service. If th docu ments bav been mislaid, The Bee will cheerfully furnish th board with a few pagea of ancient history that would make any reputable police , commis sioner hesitate before inflicting men with such records on the community as police officers. Where th Cssaaoier Qetai I. BalUmers American. Th eoal consumer Is la th sam help less and' bound-to-be-hurt position a the innocent bystander during a Kentucky argument. Uaselflshi aaerosltr. Philadelphia Press. Having gottta th democratic party re duced to a point- whr Its aomlnatlons ar not worth having, Colonel Bryan vary unselfishly declares b doesn't wsnt a nomination. ' . Great Ar , th Experts, , Indianapolis News. According to the experts tbe 'United States now- owns th only armor that can not b pierced by a shell and. th only shell that can plero any armor.. How can w wla both wayaT : . . , A a Bxampla Worts Iaaltatlag. Buffalo Express. It Is very flattering to th United States to have the people of British colonies in the West Indies call their government's' attention to Porto Rico as aa example of what ought to be don for them. - Hlait tar Deaaeratl Basse. Atlanta'. Constitution. It will b well for some gentleman to remember that a democratic national, con ventloa 1 pretty sure to be In favor of th fre coinag ot, Its own platform without th aid or consent of any boas whatsoever. Peril of Pol Hunt,! a-. Kansas CHy Journal. 1 Th troubl about making a dash to th pole is that the explorer knows h must retrace every step of hi laborious prog ress before h can be safe again. He mny find that ha ha sufficient atrenath to push on to th pole by heroic effort, but b must use that strength In 'getting back to his nearest depot of supplies. ". ST Advlo rm Seleaee. ' San Fr.ncJoO Chronicle. Even calamities sometimes bav' their eomle side. When h'earth was shaking at Lo' Angeles omebodf there telephoned to th "University", .rthat- thlr houses were tumbling down and what should they da. To this eminent solentlfle authority responded that the beat poaalbl thing was to run out of them. That certainly shows that th "sclentine fellers" ar not "mere" theorists." No sounder advice aould have been had from anybody. ' ... laolatlaa af Eaaalajrers. I New Tork Post '' Th heads of our vast" corporations can not, of cour, knowmll their employes. But they should know ' as - many as possible. There is no greater office than the preserva tion of good feeling between social classes. The way for our classes dlrlgeante to s cspe th peril of Isolation 1 to go out as often as possible among the human beings who depend upon', them for their dally bread, and make that bread sweeter by th sens of sympathy and .brotherhood. Trait that Coaat. Minneapolis Journal. President Roosevelt beat a Boer marks man "all hollow" in an Impromptu match at Oyster Bay the other day. "Teddy" made five "bull's eyes" in five consecutive shots and the South African declared that our president was a better rifle shot than any man on th veldt. It Is his capacity for ex celling in nearly everything he undertakes that, added to their abaolut confidence In his honesty of purpose, makes the people believe In Theodora Roosevelt as they bav believed in no man sine Lincoln. . ISLANDBftS AS ALIKXS. Ftllplao "sva Part Rtoaaa Sabjvet ta ImnlfraUsa Law. Baltlmor American. The circular issued by the Treasury de partment directing that native of th Philippines and Porto Rico arriving la thla country shall b treated as aliens and that the head Ui of 11.60 shall be collected from all uch persons, la a very good subject for litigation. For th first time It offer an opportunity for submitting to courts th question whether persons who ow their allegiance to this government can b held not to be cltlsens thereof. This lsu ha been avoided In all the controversies and all of th legislation growing out f our acquirement of th Spanish colonic. On tbe fac of th things It would ap pear Inoongruous that under a repub lican government such a ours a person could be held to fealty to u without at th same tlm receiving th rights and benefits of clttxenshlp. But, Incongruous a; It may seem th law as It read eartalnly sanctions that view of th status of these people. It will b remembered that tb supreme court authorised congress to pa laws for the retention and control of the Philippine Islands and of Porto Rico, and by legislation to defln th relationship which should subsist between those Islands and this nation. In accordance with that permission eongres passed laws declaring that while the peopl of th Island owed their allegiance to the United State. thy were cltixen ot Porto Rico or th Philip pines, as th rase might be. Thi would appear to dispose of th mat ter and to author! th action Juat taken by th Treasury department But th great question of clUxenship 'has never 'beee raised in the legal proceedings had up t thi tlm, and It 1 nnsaf to go upon th presumption tha,t the court will auatain tb position of tb department. Rather shuld th entlr matter be regarded a being In dispute, for In a republican government subject people and cltixen ar tklng between which no dividing lln has vr been drawn. What the court will decide la entirely problematical, but until it doe decide there is no u In denying th fact that those who have held that a nation In which every man I sovereign cannot hold subject bav a llttl bit th better of th theoretical arsunMct, - TIiQ Democratic Brahma PetroU Free All person, according to Mr. Bryan'j newer definition, are democrat If they be lieve la "a government controlled bv th people, and favor political and legal equal ity" with' three notable exceptions, Qroter Cleveland, David B. Hill and Arthur Pu Gorman. They cannot be good democrats no matter what tbey believe, because they failed to work for th election ot Mr. Bryan' In 1891. Th rank and 01 of th gold democrat ar at liberty to become pur democrats whenever they can establish, to the satla- factlon of the properly constituted authori ties, that they have 'veea purac ot the least taint of arlstfcratio pretension. If they ar friends ot th people and love tneir country, thej may be democrats. Otherwise .they, are republican always with the exception, of core, of Grover uieveiana, David B. Hill and Arthur Pu Oormsn. , Like the steeple dwellers In "The Bells:" They are nehher man nor woman, They are neither brut nor human; They are ghoul Mr.' Cleveland cannot be a good demo crat because the devil of aristocracy has corroded bis' soul; but Senator Clark of Montana, who bought two State lealala. tures and debauched th politics of an entire atata t. a A ,.k.... ,' and Without . renenseh . M ..... -- ........ .iuiuul lvrmi wu th. h?e? 'n ,rn,pthy with th great heart of the masses while he Is relieving them ot their Impedimenta. Mr. Gorman cannot be a democrat. .Walks FUEb in FAMILY ECONOMY. Effect at Abaansal Price of Coal aa Hew Ensrlaad Hasae. ' Bprlngneld (Mass.) Republican. Th law of expenditure as laid down by Dr. Engel of Germany embraced th ml that th percentage pf a family's inoome expended for fuel , or light is Invariably the same, whatever the . Income. If th Engel Jaw, Is aourid, the aggregate, expend iture on account of fuel for the same family should rise and tall with th Income. In come remaining, the same this year as last it follow that equal expenditure this year with last will be mad for fuel by th average family, and no more; and If coal remains at from $ to $9 a ton, aa now, and as it may remain well Into the winter, th quantity purchased should shrink about SO per cent which is th approximate in crease In price over last year. . - It Is probable that this flgur does not exaggerate th actual decline in the de mand for coal which wtii , a "... ... v.yviicuvmi at present prices. It Is rtore likely that ins percentage or decline In demand will exceed that of Increase In price, for pres ent conditions mint have the effect of calling the attention of th average man to th very large Item which fuel bas come to be In the family economy. Americans ar th most extravagant peopl In th world In th heating of their habi tation. Th average house In the parts t'Btates 1" artificially heated "" uvw iui iw uuiiusa ihrougn- out th six months of cool and cold weather. la Europe a family will . ex pend, say, 5 par cent of th Income on fuel, and get less for th sam money than her;, compelling tb confinement of warmth to a small fraction of the dwelling and th use of portable stove, but aa American -family win expend to -I per cent of income, end, with .prices, of coal no mor thaa they were last year, th average family could not heat the whol honse for mucn ies than S or 9 per cent of Income. This la far mor than any on Is Justified in expanding for fuel. As th rent charge cannot be allowed . to rise much above U. per cent of Income, with due regard for economy gna saving . against sickness and old age. so the. fuel charge Is to be con sidered extravagant when it exceeds I or C per eent of Income. But coal at IS a ton win can lor th expenditure of a much larger percentage of Income if the old tanoara or comfort is to.be maintained and accordingly the old standard of comfort in a 'good many case will be compelled to give way In th present emergency. One of me Boston papers notes quite a general determination among people, thereabouts to shut up part of the house this winter. The parlor and sometimes the sitting rooms will be closed according to- present Intentions and- heat excluded from th sleeping room, in which case the winter will prove healthier than usual. , On man has calculated that with the heat shut off from th chambers and the parlor he can get along with half th amount of eoal usually burned. ..As matters ar now disposed, ther will certainly be a more general turning of th kitchen into a sitting room than has been known sine th day of th fireplace as the exclusive means of beat for comfort or cooking. It will be a tendency not helpful to the coal corporations nor yet to th miners,' but it may prov salutary in gen eral effect PERSOJAI, ROTES. r A Artnro B. Calv of Porto Rico has passed the examination and will enter West Point W athr them In from everywhere. Joaeph Chamberlain will carry for' the remainder of hi life an ugly scar on his forehead, rsaiutlng from his recent cab ac cident. Japan Is reading up on th American. Chine exclusion law and proposes to bar out th heathen from the neighboring country. ' ' The Business Men's league of Bt Louis Is arranging to give President Roosevelt a suitable reception when he visits that city on Wednesday, October 1. - It is quite a shock to many naval officers to learn that a portion of their duties is lo go to sea. W have p!nty of water and a lot of ships; what I needed I com petent efflaer to look after th Utter. Lulgl Ardltl.-wbo wrote the famou kiaa song. "II Baclo." for Parepa Rosa, beside many other notable compositions I now SO years old. He live In Brighton, England, happy In tb loving companionship of his w.fe. son and daughter. Congressman Babcock of Wisconsin has bought the Washington hous In. which th 1st John J. Ingalla used to live, whll sena tor, paying 115.000 for the property. Mr. Babcock began life as a lumber Jack and new Is rated a millionaire. Th conferring of th rank of hereditary nobility on. th Aslatlo xplorr, Bven Hedkn. ha evoked a Violent controversy In th Swadlah pre. Bom radical Journal de mand that the law be altered ao a to mak such a proceeding Impossible hereafter. - Prof. . Hugo Muensterberg, the elamle ssaylst, recently urged that in th inter ests of scholarship th preaent democratic custom of paying th professor of a given college nearly equal salaries should be given up and great prises offered to eminent men as aa Incentive to research. General Jacob Smith will receive a roar ing welcome from the veterans of the Eighth army corps wbo served la the Phil ippines. Among thos wbo will ngag la th demonstration ar th survivor of a picket guard, seventeen ef whoa comrades I. were burned at th stake by U Filipino. Preas (tnd. dem.). he worked his way up from a par ta th senat t a senatorahlp, ha, too. Is a bora aristocrat: but th Hon.- "Oum She Bill" Btone I ens of th original friends of man, and his democracy Is warranted ' t be chemically pur. For th rest, all of us possess th po tentiality of becoming good democrat, It iwe subscribe to th Commoner and chase the bacillus of aristocracy out ot our blood. Even th 1450 hetfer, in spit ef her pedi gree, I presumably a good democrat la her environment It 1s not to be believed that she would aspire to give milk for an) but the plain people. Mr.- Bryan's definition may leave many democrat in a state of perplexity as. to th quality of their democracy. Many of them may be In a condition of painful anx lety lest their systems have unwittingly narDorea a germ or two of aristocracy. While they may be ambitious to b freed of all aristocratic tendencies and to love tb masse, they may not be certain that th Nirvana of their hopes has been achieved. Even la their longings they may doubt their fitness to associate with th Purified on terms of equality, or even on aay terms whatever. To thos. w can say only that ther is ons Infallible teat " xeuuencie. cy meana or It .1... ma f a nios as 1 to 1. 000, 000 Bry" th Brahmal baa attained True nm...- Lv.-v, , ttTal i ttS la All. - 1 ROI7RD ABOUT HEW YORK. Ripple . tka Carres f Ufa la tka Mtralla. Th pr-mlnne of steam as a motive power in New. York City Is about to re ce.v a finishing blow from lectrlclty. Th New York Central railroad ba decided to substitute th Utter for th former a th propelling power of all trains within a ra dius of thirty mile of the Grand Central depot, .. .... . The proposed change is the Immediate outcome of tb tunnel dlsaatar of last win ter. That accident hastened th Inevitable. Ever sine th Metropolitan elevated de cided to substitute electricity for Hum, it was only a question of a ahert tims when stesm would be obliged to abdicate la favor of th noiseless and smokeless monarch of municipal transportation. - The cost of th undertaking Is estimated at 120,000,000 and the tlm required to carry it out at-from two to three-years. Th Central's plan 'Involves th equipment with electricity on th main lln from Crotoa to Forty-second street snd oa th Harlem tin from Whlt Plain to th sam point Six power stations will be established, each of 100.000 horse-power. XarKe yard will b built at Creton and! White Plains, which stations will b made the terminal of th steam traffic of the road. A large three deck union station will be built in th bor ough of the Bronx,- which will serve aa a con nec tine oolnt for the Central line, th Interurban railway system and Manhattan Elevated railway, and will be a great clear ing bouse for suburban traffic. The Grand Central atatlon will b used exclusively for through traffic. Suburban traffic will be operated, by third rail; through trains by eiectrle locomotives to Croton aad Whit Plains, where steam locomotives will! ba' attached. Th Park avenue tunnel will be lighted by electricity and tb number of train running .through it reduced by SO per cent Th capacity ot th yard at the Forty-cond street atatlon will be. doubled. f , : , ' Andrew Carnegie Is not the only rich man who ts determined not to die wealthy. Ther I Francis -W. Dunlop, a bachelor of Brooklyn, who bas avowed his Inten tion to follow the Carnegie example, ex cept that he will not give his money to found libraries, but to his relatives, in his lifetime. " H ha tare nephews and a niece. They, may not - bav been waiting for the decease of their uncle .and in fact there fr every reason to suppose they have a strong,, disinterested affection, for him. To make sure that they shall not have too much reason 'to hope ..for his death he. has Just given all bis real estate to his nephews and a large sum In cash to his niece. i The nephews ar required to pay their uncle 200 a month as long as he lives. ' He is about 60 now and it may be that the apportionment of his property, relieving himself of all worry over It, Is a shrewd' business move. " It Is generally supposed that a woman of average strength snd size can control a l-ytar-old boy antess "h la abnormally powerful and vindictive, but Marl Bents, a governess of New Tork, says otherwise. She has entered suit for- $50,000 against young Harold Hartshorn, soa of a wealthy resident of Madison avenue, for an al leged assault and battery by th boy when he was t .years old, la 100. In her bill of complaint she declares that as coese- -quence of th lad's attaek upoa her she has suffered and Will continue t suffer from "hysteria, anastssis, abosia, para phllgia, partial paralysis, inability to walk, dissiness, twitching and cramps In faoe, legs and other parts of her body, head aad limbs, diffieulty ef speaking, sensory dis turbances. Intense emotion. Irritability and other distress."' She charge that th boy knocked ber down, beat her and Jumped I IS 1 - V . Friday's Special BRINGS YOU PLEASANT TIDINGS FROM OUR FAMOUS NECKWEAR DEPARTMENT. - " . , This seaaon' gathering of .all' diffprcnt lines auid styles of fifty-cent Neckwear axe bunched together for your convenient picking and It Is the sort of picking most folks like WHEN YOU CAN PICK. SUCH . O . , VALUES, AT .r...;.....weC' . Bee-15th Street Windows. , ' f .V,'No Clothing 'Pits Like Ours.r '.'v;:. Store open till 9 p. m. Saturday.- '"'; ". Exclusive Clothiers and Furnislirs IT tL Vilcek, n.anfcsr. " upon her back, Injuring her Spins and. head. . , The largest and th finest' kitchen en. earth Is in th basement ef th Waldorf Astoria hotel. It occupies SO.OOO sqnar teat ot specs, 1.600 wjuar ft being taken up by lhten immens raogs, oh hav ing twslv separat fires and requiring Bv ma to attend thsm. Thar ar twslv big broiler, four big steel ovens, three bake vena, two pastry vena, atx gigantic cop per caldrons for soup, six for vegetables, which ar divided into compartments; lit. teem coffee urn and dosens ot special grates, broilers, kettles, etc. In this kltchan bav already bee a cooked 1,700 rdrs s th same tlm. This Is ths hjgh-wat mark, which waa reaobed during th hers show a few year ago. Probably so largo a number of peopl. war never before served at a singi meal severing only about three hours That Is not however, th limit ot th capacity ef th kitchen. It Is possible to cook 6,000 orders ot soup, 6,000 order of coffee, 8,000 orders of meats and 1,100 or ders each of several vegetable, without confusion. Th salad department can mak 1.200 portions of different salsds In an hour the bakery can produce 4,000 loaves of bread during a morning, and th lc cream department can frees 800 gallons ot cream during tb hours for dinner. Ther ar fourteen chefs, all accom plished cooks, each cspahl of ' taking charge of a kitchen himself. Nearly all ot them ar Swiss or Alsatlana. Each has his own department snd they ar a existed by 18fmen snd twenty-four women sewlilon snd dish waehers. In tb sonp department which Includes th vegetables and also tb boiled meats, ther ar twnty-lgbt men; Uvea men 66 nothing but fry things; tea ar engaged In th salad department which Inoludes all forma of sauoea. Three men handle all the eold meat and twenty ar required for th Ice cream, fruit and pastry department , - ' Russell Bag, thVnoted Wall street mag nate, celebrated bis SSth birthday anniver sary August 4 by doing bis usual full day's work watching th market's variations on tape and ticker. "I believe, " he said, in response to greetings of associates, "that I am the oldest active business man ta New York, and I feel fin, I can tell you. Glv up work? Not a bit of It How long dO you think I would last If I gav up workt What sort of pleasure would I take In llf If I gav up work, which, let meaell you, young man. Is th beet thing that llf ha to offer. I tell yon, I would not be comfortable It I tried to get along Without It, I know. I have tried It when th doctor mad me. and there was a merry twinkle ta th vet eran s y. ... He said th young men of today wer looking for too many holidays, and added: "Always pay attention to business. I bav don it, and I have don pretty well, you will admit ' Ba on th lookout for eppor- ' tunttles always. Sets - them warn they come.- Hang onto them if It drags your nails out by-th root.. Don't let go of a good thing. Every man must mak mis- x takes. I ha v mad them, lots of them. Bet th man who succeeds is th man who sees bis mistake a llttl quicker than any one else, and who rushes la and correct It" '.'- ..-.. LHES TO A LAUGH. Chicago Tribune: "Tout Complain, of being half-starved on account of the high MmM.at WVw MM WAV, . wnalvlftv a fe tune off your truck "farm." .- "That's Jest it. I eain't afford to eat ' any of my vg-ta.ble when they're wuth ao much la th market b'goahl" Chicago Post: VYoo don't earn to think very much of Mr. Jones." remarked th visitor. , "No, I don't answered the llttl girl. '"Why, h'a out shopping and running; arxniad ao much that she haa to send out cards to tell people when she's at tome, 'Judge: Mistress Why dldnt you stay at your last plaeeT - New Girl The missus Insisted on having a model kitchen Ilk the on ah rea4 about In a household magaslne, and aha discharged me because neither of ua could ever find anything we wanted In It , Ohio State Journal: "What, ar your rateaT" ased the prospective victim of th woman fortune-teller. "I can't afford to tell you anything but disaster for CO cents," replied the woman, "but tor SI I'll agree to -tell you a good fortune with no bad luck in It" Chicago Tribune: "You ar beautiful, but hard hearted!" exclaimed th young man, with quivering Hp. "Blnce you nave coupled a' eompllment with an appeal to my generoelty," gra ciously said his hostess, who had won all his money at bridge whist, "I will -return, you enough to pay your car far home." AW OLD-KASHIOHED WOMAN. I M. Montgomery In th Congregation!!. No elerer, brilliant thinker, ah. , With- college record and- d'gree; Fhe ha not known th path of fame. The world haa never heard her nkme; Che walk In old. long-trodden way. . The valley of the yesterday. Horn Is ber kingdom. Wv 1 her dower fhe aaek no other wand or power To mak home sweet, bring .heaven near. To win a smile and wipe a tear, And do her duty day by day In her own quiet place and way. Around her childish heart ar twined. A round som reverend saint enshrined. And following her th childish feet ' Are led to Ideal true and aweac. , . - And find all purity and good In bar divlnest motherhood. Sh keeps her faith unshadowed tnV God rule th world In good and Hi; Men in her creed ar brave and tru. And women pure aa pearl of dew. i Arid life for her hl;h and grand, by woia au.4 giad oiCisavor spanned. This d old earth' a brighter plao All for the unshln of her faee; , Her very smile a bllng throws. And heart are happier where, sh go. A gentle, clear-eyed messenger. To whisper love thank God for Jierl E .v xJ L
