i
y
A
w
w
t
li
Hi
Mi
hi
tt
o
M
cc
it
ts
to
o
111
I
V
p
ct
m,
h
1-)
be
vi
at
it
ta
9
10
s
tl
ab
J
In
t
ca
at
1
mi
a
tin
at
C
Ju
thi
mi
fii
da;
1
Ch
bel
ani
to,
thl
th(
del
a
Ms
wo
.mil
Vil
t
tian
Jit
pu
re
. n)
CSt
Ik
lid
v
.
vlv
Mn
W.
wl?
,fr
Pel
A
f 1
obtl
ell
tha
call
. wit
T
the
Sqq
I. 1
Ri
rn
nl
Mai
In
o
He
Ell)
a
Joh
ta
L. 1
at
Mm
H
na Geo
10,
di'
LI
to t
Ni
J. a
Mai
Cha
Mar
J. C
Sop
a",
w
Hi
Ut
kavi
eclat
hlb
car
In,
Idaa
any
tha
tha '
pure
CI
berr
plett
eubj
grea on
na
La
star
ftutrt
equa
I
and
lima
etc
two-
aarvi
Basal
Sol
r
nu .
Sal
Tas
Tiie omaha Daily Bee.
E. ROSE WATER, EDITOR.
PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING.
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.
tally hee (without Hunuayj, One Year. .14.00
laUy liee anu euiiay, one Year
Illustrated twt. One tear H "
hunciay ii,e, one Xtar i.w
baturuay iiee, line Year I '
Iweiilinh Century ttrmrr, One Year...lvw
DfcL.lVfc.KfcD BY CAKKlfcB.
pally Bee (without Hunday), per copy.... 2c
JJuiiy bee iwmiuut huniiuyi. per we;a...le
lniy tite nnciuuiriR tiunuay;, per week. .lie
Uuuusy ttc, per copy oc
Evening faee (wuhout Miiuuayi, per ween ttt
Evening lite (Including (Sunday), per
waea 10c
Complaint or Irrcgulurltlfe In delivery
a holi Id be audressea lo city Circulation De
partment. OFFICES.
Omaha The Bee Uull'llng.
ttoutn Omana city Mali Building, Twenty-nun
and M tltreets.
Council uluits ! 1-earl Street.
t hicaao ili Unity Building.
New Horn ziJi Kirk How Hulldlng.
Washington ool Fourteenth Btreet.
LOKltfcol'ONDfcNCfc.
Communlcatlnna relating to newa and edi
torial matter should be atlureaaed: Omaha
ilea. Editorial Department.
BC8INES3 LETTER8.
Buslneaa letters and remittance should
be addressed: The ilee 1'ubilshlna- Cora
(any, Omaha.
REMITTANCES.
Remit by draft, express or postal order,
payable to The Bee Publishing Company.
Only il-cent stamps accepted In payment of
mail accounts. Pernors! checks, except on
Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted.
XHB BEE PUBLJrilil.NU COMPANY.
STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
State of Nebraska, Douglas County, sa:
George U. Tsuchuck, secretary of Tha Bee
Publishing Company, being duly sworn,
ays that tho actual number of full and
complete conies of The Dally, Morning,
Evening and Bundny Bee printed during
tha month of August, rMi, was as ioiiows
..23,720
,.8,770
..SH.U35
..2N.610
. .2M,1I0
,.aH,T0
16 2N,J
17 2H.820
18 211,30
19 211,770
20 no.iwo
21 30,120
22 20,000
23 30.B10
24 28,73.1
25 80,330
26 20,800
27 20,030
7 28.7HO
t 2IN.T50
SH.IHIO
10 2H.7B0
11
U a,730
13 28,MStO
ii an.uao
15 28,730
28...
20...
30...
81...
...stu.nno
...8O.070
.. .30,110
... 211,120
Total
Less unsold and returned copies.
..000,440
.. 0,877
Net total sales...
Net dally average...
800.503
, 28,021
GEO. B. TZ3CHUCK.
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. J.t AYEgCtX, UweU,sUas.
