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Subscribed in my presence and sworn to before me this 1st day of September, A. D., 1X2. M. B. HUNGATE. (Seal.) Notary Public President Roosevelt himself Is no fair weather soldier either. Nebraska's Grand Army of the Re public boys propose to keep the Interest In their anuuul reunion up to tho very atnrl. Attorney General Knox's visit to Tarls ought to furnish food for several yellow Journal stories before ho sets sail on his return trip. Chicago seems bound to keep top space on the crime calendar, even if necessary to have Its murder mysteries manufac tured to order. With the arrival and departure of so many successive Installments of strike breakers, railway travel must be brisk In this direction. Acreage planted to cortt In Nebraska for 1002 Is given, official, at 6,433,080 acres. This Is what constitutes King Corn's broad domain. "Maine goes republican," say the dis patches, but Maine has been going re publican so regularly it doesn't create even a ripple ou the political sea. If It Is to be a race which Is com pleted first the Isthmian canal or the Platte river power canal lon't place your bets until the start is made. Every fireman who wants promotion has been notified by the Mercer-Baldwin reformers to get out, with a petition and hustla for signatures. That 1b reform. When all those popocratlc headlights get together In Texas as the guests of ex-Governor Hogg those Texas oil gushers will hare to .hump themselves to furnish the Ubricunt Our Dave should know that In the business world, If he knew unythlng bout business, the employe whose head gets swelled up with the notion that he Is ludispeusuble Is ripe to be let out Charles A Towue insists he Is out of politics, but that does not prevcut him from accepting invitations to political plcuics, lu company with William J Bryan, Tom L. Johnson aud William J Stone. Omaha's postal receipts continue to how substantial growth from month to month, compared with year ago. Our postal receipts could not be growing If our volume of business were cot grow lug, too. Although it has held its own for four More yesjs and more, the Monroe doc trine is by no means ready to give up the ghost On the contrary, it Is still enjoying lusty good health and gilt edged expectation of life. , Wlthlu another month Omaha will be entertaining the delegates to the Chris tian church convention, our biggest gathering of the year. Omaha must see to It that every promise made to secure tbe meeting is redeemed with full measure. Tbe Boer generals are expected to put In six months in the United States. They might devote day or two to an effort to locate the wbcrvabuuts of the contributions to the Boer relief fund gathered here In Dmaha or find out what disposition was made of the money. Our fusion friends keep on referring to "the representative of the republican party now in the gubernatorial chair," notwithstanding the fact that the re publican party has twice disowned him and repudiated his acts. Might as well refer to G rover Cleveland as the repre ycnUtlT of the democratic part. RKLirvtH In ohoamzcd labor. The declaration of President Roose velt, "I believe emphatically In organ ized labor," was timely lu view of the war that Is being made upon trades itnluiilKin, and such nn utterance by !Ue elilef fxerutlve of the nation cannot fall to lmve a rennMiiing and stimulating ef fect on organized labor. To have so distinguished a champion Is ft fact which worklngmen who are united for mutual protection and advancement will earnestly appreciate, while un doubtedly many who are not members of trades unions will be influenced by the president's remark to Join them. Mr. Roosevelt has views regarding what should be tho character of organ ised labor which we think all Intelligent worklngmen will approve. The worth of an organization, he said, depends on Its being handled with courage, skill, wisdom,, the pplrlt of fair dealing be tween man and man and wise self-restraint. Some of the labor organiza tions are thus handled and these are the successful ones In conserving the Interest and welfare of their members. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire men, which the president addressed, is a good example, as also Is the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. These or ganizations pursue a conservative pol icy. Their leaders are careful men, who believe la avoiding conflict whenever that can be done without too great sacrifice. They have at times found it necessary to tight for their demands, but only after all reasonable efforts were made to secure an amicable ar rangement It Is perhaps too much to exect that all labor organizations will attain the high standard of those re ferred to, because the members of some of them are as a whole less Intelligent and therefore more inclined to yield to passion and prejudice, but all should earnestly endeavor to reach that stand ard. The president's appeal to the Instincts of manhood in the American working- man should not go unheeded. One of the most noteworthy statements In his address to worklngmen ou Labor day was this: "Much of great good can come by such associa tions, something can be done through wise legislation, but do not forget, gen tlemen. In the last resort you cannot And a substitute for a man's own en ergy, resourcefulness, skill, courage and honesty. Work through association In combination with your follows, but tlo not. under any circumstances, let any man lose his own capacity for self- help." This Idea Is contained In the Chattanooga speech, one declaration of which Is: "Much can be done by the brotherhood, but It still remains true in tho brotherhood and everywhere else throughout American life that In the last resort nothing can supply the place of the man's own individual qualities. We need those, no matter how the or ganization Is outside." Intelligent and thoughtful worklngmen will see the soundness of this. Organized labor has made rapid progress in recent years and undoubt edly will continue to advance in spite of tho strong hostility to It In some quarters. What it should do is to care fully cultivate those qualities pointed out by Mr. Roosevelt as essential to the worth and the success of organization. THE MAJAC ELECTION. The republican victory In Maine Is highly satlsfactoty. The plurality Is more than double the average of other off years, the legislature is overwhelm ingly republican and the four republican members of congress are re-elected. The result shows In a most decided way that large majority of the people of the Pine Tree state are perfectly satisfied with republican policies and disposed to "keep on letting well enough alone, They are having a share of the general prosperity and they see no reason for any change In the policies to which this prosperity is largely due. No one can have any difficulty In un derstanding the meaning of the message that Maine sends to the country and it ought to Increase the xeal of republicans everywhere. It ought to arouse them to a realization of their duty to uphold the national administration and to main tain the existing prosperous conditions. Republican success means the contln uance of financial and business confi dence. It carries with it the assurance of judicious and conservative treat ment of all public questions, Instead of a policy of disturbance, with more or less Injury to business as the Inevitable consequence. Republican success will give encouragement to enterprise and thereby Increase the general prosperity. It Is the experience of the country that republican victory has never done In jury to any Interest, but on the contrary hus benefited all. The republicans of Maine have set most commendable example in this off year. It should not be lost upon the party lu other normally republican states. the tariff aav tonnun trade. It is common assertion that protec tion hampers the protected country in the development or increase of its sales to other countries. There Is nothing In that notion, says a contributor to tbe New York Sun. and he presents figures In support of the assertion. Thus dur ing the period of tbe Wilson tariff the Imports were nearly as large as in the last fiscal year, while the exports were little more than one-balf what they were In the fiscal year ltHC. Everybody Is ware of the fact that our exports have grown euormously lnce th enactment of the Dingley tariff, the excess over Imports sluce tbe law bns been in opera tion, five years, belug the enormous amount of $2,852,000,000. In his notable speech on tbe existing tariff United States Senator Gallinger of New Hampshire pointed out that not only, bad there been an Im mense Increase In exports, but the customs receipts have exceeded those under tbe Wilson lew, thus disposing of the assertion that the higher tariff lessens revenue. Under TIVE OMAHA DAI1YY the Wilson law there were annual de ficit, while In each of the last three years there has been a large surplus In the treasury. The repeal of tho w-ar taxes did awsy with revenue to the nmount of cv.-r $1w.(nm,inh and yet the receipts of the government are more than sufficient to meet the greatly In creased expenses of the government The statistics of exports and the rev enue results most fully vindicate the ex isting tariff, but this is not nil. Its ef fect upon the industries of the country has lcen valuable almost beyond compu tation and In this It has Immensely benefited labor and the agricultural In terests. There Is no doubt of the sound ness of the clniin of Senator Gallinger that the Dingley law Is the most sclen tlflcally constructed tariff act the Coun try has ever had. OPLMAO OF THE IOWA VAMPAIOX. The republican campaign In Iowa will be formally opened September 2o under circumstances demonstrating that the party, both In leadership and" Ia the mass, starts out with a united front. Very appropriately the opening meeting will be held In the Third district, where ex-Governor Boles Is to be put forward to contest with Speaker Henderson, and on the same platform with the speaker will appear Governor Cummins and Sen ator Dolllver to set the pace for the cam paign. The lately widely heralded notion that serious division exists among Iowa re publicans Is unfounded. The joint ap pearance of Speaker Henderson aud Governor Cummins at the formal opeu- ing of the campaign would rebut that notion, even If It were not otherwise dis proved. It is true that a spirited debate has lately been on within the party press of the state on the subject of tariff re vision, and both In aud before the late state convention there was a contest over the platform declaration on that subject. The party the year before bad declared In favor of tariff revision and of reduclug duties if In any case they shelter monopolies and trusts. The con vention .this year reiterated In terras tho tariff plank of last year, but at the same ti,me It declared Its unabated and unfal tering adherence to the traditionary pro tection policy of the party. What gave to the opposition hope of factionul division among Iowa repub licans on this question was the strong championship by Governor Cummins of the declaration adopted, whereas nearly every member of the Iowa delegation In congress. Including the senators aud Sec retaries Shaw aud Wilson, were under stood as not favoring such a deciaruiiou. In point of fact however, the line of difference did not coincide with the line separating the Cummins and the antl Cummlns elements, since many of the strongest leaders among the latter were most Insistent for reaffirmation of the Cedar Rapids tariff plunk this year, while some of the warmest supporters of Cummins were conspicuous among tho opponents of such a pronouncement, After all, there is at bottom little sub stantial difference between the two sides. The debate within the party press precipitated after tiie republican state convention, however wordy and appar ently realous It may have been, was academic rather than practical. The two sides were emphasizing different things, Those who favored a strong revision declaration were emphasizing the busi ness need arising out of changing Indus trial conditions, without so tnucii con sidering the methods of actual legisla tion; while their opponents, and nat urally enough the republican congress men who have to do with actual legisla tion, rcgurded the matter from the stand point of the practlcul difficulties. According, after thorough conference, the campaign managers, party leaders and congressmen, announce a harmonl ous program. At the very outset and from the same platform Speaker Hen derson in the same voice with Governor Cummins will declare that the ' tariff needs republican revision. On the. other hand, he will declare, and Governor Cummins will corroborate him, that it Is Impractical to revise the tariff at the short session of congress, and that needed changes cannot be successfully undertaken at best before the regular session a year from next December. And all the party leaders and spokesmen will go into the campaign- standing hon estly on the Iowa platform. The plan for memorial services for the late President McKlnley in ail. the churches next Sunday, being the1 first an niversary of his death, should commend Itself to all patriotic citizens, who were thrown into mourning by the assassina tion of the president. It Is to be hoped the ministers of Omaha churches with out regard to creed or denomination will set upon the suggestion and devote at least a brief moment during, the morn lug devotional exercises to recalling the noble example set by the life and death of our last martyr president It was one of the Inspiring features of the na tion's bereavement that sympathy and sorrow knew no bounds, but was as sin. cere In the homes of the poor us in the manslous of the rich, on the farm as In the city, with the worldly as with the churchgoers, and above all was broken by no sectarian Hues. Tbe refusal of democratic leaders to accept nomination for congress In Iowa raises a new question under the Iowa election laws, viz.: Whether candidates mimed by party committees, without express authority of conventions, can bo put on the official ballot In the Eighth and Eleventh districts the regu lar democratic convention nominees have withdrawn, and In neither case did the convention authorize the -committee to fill the vacancy. However, practically It makes no difference whether democratic nominee is on the official ticket or not Millionaire Rockefeller has been in vited to hang up big cash prize for tbe discovery of the smallpox germ. When we hear so much about the devotion of scientists U the cause of humanity, it is JIEE: WEDNESDAY, RETVT EMBER 10, 1002. humiliating to hear such suggestion that niedlcol research tvnnM V" quick ened by iho hope of a reward counted out in dollars and cents. It Is readily conreivable that experts engaged In solving a difficult problem of this kind, that brings no immediate returns, might need assistance to carry them along, but the glory of success should afford all the stimulus required. If any million aire wants to encourage the work, be should do so, not by offering a prize, but by establishing a fund to defray the expenses of Investigation and make good the loss of the investigators con sequent upon taking their time and at tention from more gainful pursuits. If the War department Is short of officers for detail as military Instructors at colleges and schools, it can readily supply the deficiency by calling on offi cers of the volunteers who have been mustered out and, who have the requisite training and experience. That has been tried here in Omaha with satisfactory success. No wonder the World-Herald objects strenuously to an article In the New York World denouncing the Ohio demo crats as "still crazy" because they re affirmed the Kansas City platform with special reference. to the 16 to 1 free coin age delusion. The Nebraska democrats set the pace on reaffirmation. What kind of a fire department can we expect under the new Mercer-Bald win reform board, that overrides recom mendations of the chief and promotes officers ou petition of outsiders? How long can efficient work be secured in the face of such demoralization? Futile Zeal of Knockers. Brooklyn Eagle. We are living seven years longer than we did ninety years ago. Yet the popu lists are trying to make out that we ought to live seven years shorter. Old Humility In the Saddle. Chicago Record-Herald. Uncle Horace Boles Is to be nominated for congress, but he desires to cotlfy the public that he will continue to eat In the kitchen with the hired man. Small C'rnmb of Comfort. Washington Post. The Iowa and the Wisconsin democrats turned their backs on the heaven-born ratio last week, but ilie Idaho populists en dorsed Bryanlsm right up to tha limit Ideal State of War. Philadelphia Record. It ts gratifying to observe that In the military maneuvers on the coast both army and navy have been victorious. May all military maneuvers prove cs b!oo,lls! Head-Bail Recklessness. Portland OregOnlan. The Plttafleld motorman should be pun ished for manslaughter. He evidently ran into the presidential carriage just to show that he had the "right-of-way." The "head end" of street cars fairly teems with this reckless and sullen doggedness. How It Is to be reformed the Massachusetts author ities seem likely -to show us. A Plutocrat on Parade. " ' Buff alo Express. Tbe heralded' entrance into Buffalo of Hon. Charts A. Tavne of Minnesota will be made In a private car. Mr. Towne Is now described as a Wall street financier. Once he was a silver candidate for vice president and used to say very, nasty things about money and the men who owned It. But things' have - changed since then. Mr. Towne probably could give some other views now. - Humble Heroes in the Items. New York World. On the day when Craig, the president's bodyguard, lost his life in the performance of his duty two other heroes figured In tha news. Michael Holahan of New York, 68 years of age, was struck down by runaway horses while thrusting a baby In Its car riage out of danger. Merten Brechert of Jersey City, smitten with smallpox, walked thirteen miles to a pestbouse rather than endanger others In a public conveyance. Both may die as the result of their un hesitating courage, which shines as brightly as any deed performed on tbe battlefield. A Knocker . Out of Time. , New York Tribune. The editor of the German paper who de clares that "American arrogance directed not only against Germany, but against all Europe," ought to have a few minutes- of confidential talk with Prince Henry. Tbe emperor's brother might be able to im part something of sweetness and light to this troubled soul. It Is not tho general Impression here that the prince discovered any arroganoe among us. In fact. It Is thought that he sailed away with a feeling of cordial friendship to this republic, and had satisfied himself that we were by bo means a bad lot, after all. Strong;. Tlea e Self-Intaroat. Boston Transcript The belief so frequently expressed that we must have a large navy of fighting ships to defond tha Monroe doctrine seems reasonable,' yet the fleet may not be the only or tbe principal protection. Commer cial relations quite aa much as tho fear of solid shot deter nations from going to war. ' Possibly real encouragement for our ship building industry and commercial in terests. not necessarily by subsidies until every nation looks to us for means of transportation and tha majority of tho mer chants" and capitalists of the world are bound to us by ties of self interest, would avail as much to defend the Monroe doc trine as tha building of great fleets of war erulsera. The, arts of peace are stronger than tho Implements of war. Trees Aro Treaanres. Pittsburg Poet. Time changes all things and time U changing the public and private estimate of trees In this country. When the pioneers came upon a vast wilderness the trees were as much opposed to their making com tortable livelihoods aa were the copper- skinned savages. They made war upon the forest with more seal than Judgment; they slaughtered and laid waste. With such beginnings of the people their constituted authorities have been slow to make laws for tbe protection of mere trees, though gradually the worth of the latter has oome to be understood by many. Old trees. soon will bo held, as they should be. to ba sacred, and young trees as something to be encouraged, fostered and trained In the way they should go. It Is only a few year since Dr. Marshall of this state astonished the public by bringing suit against a tele phone company for hacking branches off soma stately trees because tbey Interfered with the stringing or proper Insulation of its wires. Tha courts sustained the doctor's contention that ancient trees are treasures The telephone company will not soon for get the fact, for tt was compelled to pay smartly tor ths destruction It wrought The Right New Tors. One remark In ths brief colloquy be- tweea the- president and the motorman who came so near to killing hlra ws eminently characteristic,. We are told that the parting words of the motorman, s the president turned awsy, were: "Tour driver had a right to get out of the war. anyhow." The remark was as Insolent si It was slangy, and as brutal as It was In solent. But It was typical and illuminat ing In high degree. It expressed with exactness If not with elegance the too frequent attitude of the strong and swift toward the less strong and less swift upon our highways. Their1 rule la simply an arrogant "get out of the way.' The trollef car motorman clangs his gong and expects all other vehicles and pedestrians to get out of the way. If they do not It Is their own fault If thev set run over. The automobile motorman blows h! raucous horn and ploughs furiously along the middle of the road, expecting all others to get out of the way. The driver of horses attached to some cumbrous vehicle, or the driver of some swift trot ter, acts similarly toward the hapless ped estrian. "Get out of the way!" Is the Insolent mandate of the strong to the weak. As a matter of fact, that ts an unlawful attitude. The weak have equal rights of OD SCHOOL HOl'SB GOING OUT. Sla-nlflcant sign 0f Good Times in the West. St. Louis Globe-Democrat There is something of more than passing Interest In the news that South Dakota's last sod school house Is about to be raied. The sod school house was virtually un known east of the Mississippi except In parts of Illinois and Indiana. East of the Alleghenles and throughout tbe stretch of country betweon that range and the great river log school houses were the rule at the outset In pioneer days. But in a por tion of Illinois and in the greater part of tbe region between the Mississippi and the Rocky mountains, especially between the Missouri and the mountains, the absence of timber made some other kind of material necessary In the construction of the origi nal cabins for all sorts of purposes. School houses appeared almost as early as habita tions. Thus the little sod school house became almost as familiar a landmark on the great plains as was the Indian or tbe buffalo. Like them, too, it has had Its day and Is about to pass on. South Dakota as a state is only a little over a dozen years old, but time moves swiftly in this age. More changes have come in that locality in the last thirty or forty years than were made in all the preceding century and a quarter since the Verendryes went up the Mis sourl In searching out new fur trapping grounds for their French friends in Canada. That was long before Laclede and Chou teau laid the foundations of St. Louis. In ouo lesect, vvhlch la hardly realli'd, tl'er has come a sweeping change In the last thirty years, largely, too. through tbe efforts of the late J. Sterling Morton. There are far mora trees on the greaC plains now than Coronado, from bis glimpse of them three and two-thirds centuries ago over dreamed would be there. In the evolution of the American com munity the sod school bouse held an im portant place. In most of these little nurseries of American democracy the mime of Pestaloizl, of Froebol, or even of Hot ace Mann, may not have been known, but they met the demands of their habitat 'as rue- 1 cessfully as did the little red school house of New England, and are fully aa deserv ing of their laureate. Kansas, Nebranka, South Dakota, Montana, Colorado and the rest of the newer states have changed the material of their institutions of learnlnn in the lapse of time, though the alteration in spirit and ideals has necessarily been less marked. Pike's, Long's and Wilson P. Hunt's "Great American Desert" Is today dotted with flourishing, progressive and happy communities, but that vast domain contains nothing more typically and robustly American than were the little sod school houses which have passed out with the Indian, the trapper, tho buffalo, the prairie schooner and the rest of the primi tive life of the Vanished American frontier. PERSONAL NOTES. Manila is soon to have Its first electric cars. Then tne American in Manna win get run over without the trouble of com ing home. H. E. Hun'.ington, a nephew of tbe late Collis P. Huntington, has been elected a director of the Minneapolis ft St. Louis railroad, to succeed John W. Mackay, da ceased. Senator Hoar celebrated his seventy-sixth birthday at his home In Worcester, Mass., auletly on August 29. He has been In publlo life since 1887, when he was elected United States senator. Judge John H. Reagan, the surviving member of Jefferson Davis' confederate cabinet, sat on Friday for a portrait to be painted and placed in the Confederate Museum of History at Richmond, Va. Sir Wilfrid Laurler Is shortly expected in Rome to discuss with the Italian govern ment commercial convention ana rur ther to arrive at some understanding In regard to Itallas emigrants to Canada, Dr. ' James B. Thornton of Boston has the finest collection of small arms owned by a private individual In the united States. He has Just secured a knife fully 8.000 years old from the mining lands of the central wast. September II, known In Baltimore as Defenders' day, ts a municipal holiday In that city, and Governor John Walter Smith has Issued a proclamation making It this year a legal holiday throughout the state of Maryland. It is celebrated in memory of the successful resistance offered by the city to tbe British In 1814. Mr. Baer, tbe coal magnate who recently wrote of "the Christian gentleman to whom Ood In his wisdom has given control of the mines," Is coming to be regarded by his fellow magnates as a sort .of Burchard of the trust companies. His utterances have been repudiated in guarded fashion on sev eral occasions, one critic saying that Baer reminds him of Bob Toombs' definition of a fanatic "a man of weak parts and strong convictions." Tho late Senator McMillan of Michigan used to tell about a green Irishman em ployed on his country place near Detroit He had a severe attack of malarial fever and the senator sent him a box of five grain capsules of quinine. Upon the oc casion of his next visit to the farm the senator called to Fat and asked him If be received tha medkla all right. "Yes. sor," said Pat, "and It cured me, too, but It was a lot of trouble to dig the medicine out of those little shells." Mark Twain has given a six-volume edi tion of his books to tho library supplied for tbe prisoners In the United States prison at Atlanta. Ga. "I would gladly send the other set," writes Mr. Clemens to Mr. Tupper, "the complete one. If I could afford the expense, but it would cost me 55 and there Is no cheap edition. Tbe newspapers are trying to make me out a rich man, but tbe continued discrepancy between my Income and my outgo con vinces me thai taex, axe sot succeeding." of Way Tribune. way with the strong. If tbers be any discrimination between them It ts In fr0' of the weak. The ateamshlp must yield right of way to tbe sailing vessel, and the vehicle to the pedestrian. It Is reason- able and right that It should be so. So far as trolley cars are concerned, it Is especially so, for they have no proprietary right in the street. They occupy mo street on sufferance, as tenants at the will of the real owners, and It Is Incum- bent upon them to respect the rlghta of the owners. The president's carriage had a superior right of way to that of the trolley car which ran It down. It was not so much Incumbent upon the driver of the carriage to get out of the way, as tne mo torman declared, as It was upon the mo torman of the car to yield the right of way to a vehicle,' no matter whether It was the carriage of the president or of the humblest private Individual That Is a fact which Is elemental and fundamental. That tt should need re statement and emphaalrlng Is s circum stance not creditable to the prevailing sense of law and Justice. That It should be, as It Is, so generally Ignored and vio lated Is a circumstance as ominous to the welfare of every cltlien as tt was on Wednesday perilous to ths president and fatal to hts companion. BITS OF WASHINGTON UFB, Minor Scenes asl Incidents Sketched on tho Spot. Although your Uncle Samuel has over a thousand weather sharps on the psy roll, and the most modern Instruments tor meas uring and foretelling the vagaries of the elements, he is not wholly protected from losses on account of the weather. A singu lar feature of the "rainy season" which distinguished the middle six months of the year was the wholesale dampening of post age stamps In stock In various parts of the country. The usual precautions taken by the department proved useless against the penetrating moisture. Millions of the little booklets . of stamps, lined with pared ne paper, got stuck on each other and weuld not let go. At first postofflce officials surmised the gum was inferior, but an in vestigation showed the weather was respon sible for the stlckatlveness, and an order was Issued authorizing redemption. They are coming Into the department by the bale. There la no private contractor to fall back on, so Uncle Sam charged the loss to J. Pluvlus. Tbe day of the lightning rod is passing. The government's latest census returns-show that Franklin's invention for protecting the house is little used today. No electrical manufacturing . establishment reports It among the products, and, so far as the census expert has been able to learn, only one. American . electrical engineering firm makes a business of setting up tho rods or designing them., Bo far as large cities are concerned, d!"trnim lightning strokes are reported to be more rare and ths decrease ts accounted for by the network of elec trically charged wires and other apparatus with which the city Is now interwoven and surrounded. ' . . The American Protective Tariff league has Issued from its Washington head quarters a leaflet showing the country's prosperity as evidenced by an abundance of employment for working people and the marked scarcity of unemployed. . One of the agents of ths .tariff league examined the Sunday pewspapers that were printed in the month of August in twenty-five differ ent cities, and counted the number of help advertisements they contained. In all he reviewed forty different papers, but Instead of including the advertisements calling for more than one person he counted only the single ones. 'As a result of his work he found that during the month of August the forty Sunday papers In question offered Situations to 7,682 men and to 6,254 women, a total of almost 13,000. At the same time he took account of tbe advertisements tbe papers contained of situations wanted, and he found that there were only 6,559 persons who wanted work badly enough to pay for an advertisement asking for employment This la taken to mean that the country is so prosperous that there is little reason for Idleness on tbe part of the honest and In dustrious. The agent says that if he had Included the advertisements where from two to 6,000 persons were wanted, the total would have run way up Into, the hundreds of thousands. He quotes the Seattle Intel ligencer as advertising for over 1,600 per sons in its Sunday issues of August, and the San Francisco Examiner aa calling for over 17,000 persona. .The cry for help Is the Pacific states Is most urgent, where from $2 to $4 a day la offered tor common laborers, - such aa brlckmen, teamsters, miners and railroad hands, A forty-foot launch that piles the Potomac with pleasure parties, consisting of war department officials and their friends, is always an object of Interest to the people of Washington. It is named Mercedes. It came into tbe possession of the govern ment through the capture of the Spanish cruiser Relna Mercedes at Santiago in tbe summer of 1898, and ever since has been part of tha equipment of the War depart meat Engineering and general officers i used It In Cuba until the early summer of 1901,' when it was shipped to Washington and turned over to the secretary of war, ! Rtna Mercedes was the cruiser which was sunk In the' channel of the harbor of San tiago to obstruct the entrance of American cruisers and battleships. For reasons tbat have been made clear since the close of tha war with Spain tt fell into tho hands of tbe army instead of the navy. It wilt be re called that the late Admiral Sampson made a demand upon General Shatter that Relna Mercedes bo turned over. In common with all other shipping, to bis fleet, but Shatter Ignored the request and retained Relna Mer cedes as a prize of war for tbe army. The launch Mercedes was part of its equipment. It Is a roomy, handsome and exceedingly at tractive HUls vessel and the War depart ment officials who have made use of It for pleasure trips up and down the Potomac declare it Is the finest thing of its kind afloat It la of English build and, under certain conditions, can make very fast time A DISAPPEARING PARTY. Vanishing; Strength of tho Desaocratlo Party In Vermont. Philadelphia Press. One of the results foreshadowed by the Vermont election la tbe near disappearance of the democratic party in that state. Its voto has shown a rapid decline for twenty years past, and in Tuesday's poll It took a sudden slump, leaving the democratic ticket with only one-third the vote the party cast twenty-two years ago. This decline In democratic strength Is made evident in the following table, which contains tbe vote cast by the democratic party for governor in each biennial election beginning with) 1880: uem. rm Year. lt. ... ISM.... 14.... 1nS.... 1.... !!!.... vote.. Year. vote 111,245 Wi... 19.214 14.4i IKH 19J li 17.1H7 IK" 19,fc!T 110 va 14.1. -J 14.8f5 14,tj 17.1 The decline in the democratto vote Is ovldest la 110 tha party polled 21.145 votes for governor ' and Isst Tuesday It colled only 7.2S0, or oniy a vrry .r- than one-tblrd as many. While the sudden .i tbia trir Is due to t democfatls support given to the bolting republican ran- dldate for vernor, previous yr. ru S steady loss and awaken the question whether the democratic party In Vermont Is destined to disappear entirely. The republicans have, however, more ,. maintained their party strength, al though the population of the state Is only a few thousand larger than It was In IS. In that year the republicans cast 47.848 votes for governor and In the election for governor of 1900 they polled 48,441, or Just about the increase the growth in popula tion luatlfled. Ths aKRTesate vote lor tno two republican candidates this year is 69.- 8S5, but It cannot be rainy usea tor purposes of comparison. it la evident however, that tne re-pub-uc- ans have maintained their party strength in Vermont, while on the contrary the dem ocratic strength bss been steadily dimin ishing. WOVDRBFt'L BCSIESS SEASON. Millions of Money In Sight to Movo , the Crop. Cincinnati Commerclal-Trtbune. Eastern and western, northern and southern bankers, farmers, railroad men and elevator men are talking of the money needed to "move the crops," and conserva tive estimates put the amount required at 1800,000,000. There are billions of bushels of corn and of wheat there are millions of bales of cotton) millions of tons of hay and millions upos millions of buahels of oats, and of barley end of other cereals and farm products to be moved, and the money must be had to move them. Crops requiring $800,000,000 to move them from the farms and the elevators to the mar kets represent crops of an intrinsic value only to be expressed In figures which stag ger calamity howlers. Prophets of evil find In the suggestion of Secretary Fnaw that the national banks prepare to Issue more of their notes an Indication that the secretary fears a panlo and Is preparing to get under shelter. The suggestion . of Secretary Shaw was made solely with -reference to the vast amount of money required for moving the crops, which, of themselves and In them selves, and In their fulness and their al most immeasurable value, preclude the Idea of a panic and the danger of commer cial distress. When money Is needed for crop moving It Is needed as bsdly and as speedily as tbe gentleman from Texas re quires his trusty gun, and It mast be la the cash drawer of the banker, ready at any moment. The suggestion of the secre tary was wise and wholesome : financially. The first to respond to his Invitation -were, properly, the banks of New .York, which, on the day succeeding . the suggestion, ordered additional Issues In the total sum of $11,000,000 not much, certainly, but a beginning, and a beginning that will, doubtless, be followed. . In any event, the money to move the crops will be forth coming, and the mouths, of the people will be filled with bread calamity bowlers In cluded. POINTED REMARKS. Washlnsrton Star: "Dar aln much use In ahgufyln'T said UncTe Eben. "Ef you doesn' give In, do yuthuh feller gits mad, an' ef you does, you. stops da conversa tion. - Bomervllle Journal: One Way to persuade a girl that she isn't as beautiful, as she thinks ta to set her to have her . cloture taken by an amateur photographer. Detroit Free Press: Cumso I wonder wfiat makes Snooper always look so sheep- isn. Cawker Well, there are his mutton-chop . . a snare bed?" a spare bed ' "Indeed t Indeed they had. It was so spare I nearly frose to death." Philadelphia Press: "He's ' thlnkinr ' of ft. LI . . 1 . I . winter. - , 'I dldn t suppose he was fitted for that sort of thing." "Oh. yes. A relative- of his who died recently left him a fur-lined overcoat." Chicago Post: "He hits a erood ear for music, don't you thlnV?" remarked tha woman with operatic aspirations. - i tioiiDt it, returned ner brutal husband. "He listened to you for thlrtv -minute without making a protest" Washington Star: ''A woman t nv,.r happy unless she gets the last word," said tne man wno runs to platitudes. "That's a mistake." answered Mr. ' M-eV- ton. "A woman alwava Insist nn a man' having the last word. But it must oome In me lonn 01 an apology. MISTKH BllLLER. Baltimore American.' ' Maud Mutter's father honest soul .' was worried o er the price of coat He talked about It ail the while. And very near forgot to smile. He vowed, with bated, trembling breath, i.nai everyone wouia ireere lo qeatru Because the heartless coal combines Would not, start digging in the. mines. Each day he'd to his cellar go And shake his head both sad end slow. ' 1 -Because the furnace had an air- As though It wondered why t'was there. He bent beneath the heavy welaht Of gasing at the empty (rate. And oft with sighs he would deplore - inn sorrow 01 me rurnace aoor, . While mirthlessly he sometimes laughed Because no smoke was In the draft But Maudie. ontlmlstlc maid. Told papa not to be afraid. The Judge, she said, had ceased to' court, ' And now, she Joyed, she might report. Her hand she had been asked to yield To one who owned a great coalfield. To one who had a right divine To all the fuel in a mine, .. And ao she planned a fittlna; dress ' S To grace a new Coal Baroness.. , ' ' a The wedding day was bright and fair, uui fliaumc m fays m am uvt mere, For while she gave her hand and heart He hustled round aud hired a cjtrt,- And while the twain were 'turned to one He stowed away ton after ton, ... - . For he believed, did Maudle's pa, Thls was a proper aon-lu-law. a a Of all the words to make us arln, - The gladdest are: "We've filled the bin." Consumption Nearly all early cases can be cured. Expert physicians tell us they rrely largely on three things-fresh air. good food, and AyerV. Cherry Pectoral. If the, case is ad vanced, recovery is more un certain. , Follow your doc tor's orders. That's best., I had a terrible xoli on my lungs, feared I mi.ln h.., ... 6 - - - " vviij vn my lungs. 1 icarcd I mieht have consumnHon Nothing seemed to give me relief until I USed AVCr'l f'Ji.rn 1.,,... I I. J promptly and cured me rompletely.' . Miss Emms Miller, Fort Snelling , Minn. Uc iecM-Ss. 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