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0 THE OMAHA DAILY J1EE: SATURDAY, JUNE 1H. Tiie Omaha Daily Bee. B. ROSK WATER. EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVKTIY MORNING. TERMS OF BUMFCRH'TKiN. flly Hee (wlthnut Sunday). One Yeor..l.00 nly lip and Bui.day. una Yar J " Illustrated Uee. Orm Year " Bunclny Hw, On Year Huturrtav Hep, One Tfr Twentieth Century Farmer, One Year.. 1.U0 DElllVERED IIY CARRIER. Dally Itee (without Huntlay). per coj.y.... 2o Pally Hee (without Bunday). per weeK...l-c Dally Bee (Including Sunday). per week..lic Bunday Hep, per ropy Evening Hee (without Similar), per week. sc fclenlng Uee (Including Sunday;. P-r week Complaint of lrrpularltl' In delivery should be addressed to City Circulation De partment. OFFICES. Omaha The Dec Building. South Omaha Cltv Hall Building. Twen-ty-tlfth and M Btreets. Counrll Hltiffs 1) Pearl Street. Chlraito 1640 I'nlty Bulldinp. N"w York 2XX I'ark Row Building. Washington 601 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi torial matter ahnuld be nddrepsi'd: Omaha &ee. Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, expres" or postal order, payable to The Bee 1'iililishlng Company. Only 2-eent stamp" arreptert In payment of mail account. Personal t hee, except on Omaha or eaatern exrhanRes, not iiccepted. THE DEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. BUte of Nebraska, Douglas County an. : George U. Tzucliuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, ay that the actual number of full una complete copies of The Dally. Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of May, 1SHH, was aa iouows; 1 30,1MH 1 3,75 ( au.itoo 4...' 30,600 17 2H,410 IS 31,030 19 30.7HO 20 8O.HM0 1 80,730 .10,070 1 80,070 1 30,(410 1 30,70 10 27,775 11 80,440 12 30,870 11 .....80,020 14 30.730 IS ....30,000 21... a... 23... 24... 26... 26... .30,870 .OJ40 3O.K30 ZM,2.tO 30,M.10 80,790 27 ao,7B0 2g 3O.0H0 2J 80,000 30 31.HOO II 27.000 16 80.H1K) Total Lesa unsold and returned copies .DH3.0O0 . 10,348 Net total sales 043.833 Net average sales 80.437 OEORQE B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 31st day of May, A. D. 1903. M. B. HUNQATK, (Seal.) Notary Public. Judge Hook got bis book on tbat cir cuit Judgeship first. When the new Towder trust busts, watch out for aa explosion. The greatest need of American work' lngmcn Is honest leadership. The motto, "81c semper tyrannls," seems to have been resurrected over in Servla Some men have royalty thrust upon them. King Karageorgcvltch belongs to that class. Omaha has bud all the experience It wants with pavements that are cheap In quality as well as price. If the council and tho Board of Public Works can- get together on appoint ments, so can the council and the mayor. Whenever The Omaha Bee hits the senior fakery a blow between the eyes it exclaims, "Mr. Kose water is mad, that's very evident." The railroad passenger agents are gain engaged "in tho commendable effort of persuading people that it is cheaper to travel hnn to stay at homo for a vacation. If all the power canal projects "sure to be built" materialize, Omaha will have power to burn. Most of us, how ever, are from Missouri on the power plant proposition. Lady Henry Somerset has been re elected president of the World's Wom en's Chrlstlun Temperance union. As long as Ludy Henry Is willing to foot the bills she can have tho honor. The tourist who wuh robbed of $20,000 while crossing the ocean will get little sympathy. He ought to know better thun to carry his wealth In a form that allows other people to realize on it .' It is announced that the Standard OH company has decided to cease its efforts to break' into the Roumanian oil fields on account of the government opposition it has developed. ' People conversant with the tactics of the Standard Oil con cern would advise the Roumanians to be on their guard. Nebraska will get nearly $13,000 out of the first apportionment of money ap propriated to equip the national guard on the same busts as the regular army. This is $3,000 less than Iowa gets, but $2,000 mora than the share allotted to Kansas. Compared with surrounding states, it looks ns if Nebraska were be ing given a fair deal. . This is the time the tax committee of the Real Estate exchange should get busy with the county assessment, which will certainly bear improvement. It is just as important for the county tax list to be equitable as It is for the city t.i.v list The campaign for equal taxation must be waged in the couuty court house as well as in the city hall. In view of the experience so fur with the amendments tucked onto the charter by tho Douglas delegation to the lute legislature, the best thing that could happen to the city for the simplification tf municipal government would be to have the whole charter amendment bill knocked out by the courts ou some ground of unconstitutionality. . , i- 1 It . wouldn't be a bad Idea either for the same committee that Is Investigating city hall -sinecures for the Real Estate exchange to look. into the soft snaps under the couuty officers aud county board across the street. Salaries paid to useiee county officials come out of the pockets of the Same taxpayers as salaries paid to unnecessary dUr em ployes. v miMKrnAT rrtcuATLnt. (ViiNitlerntlnn of the question of a re-1 ptiHIi an Tlt-e presidential candidate in I lf4 Hoems to be somewhat premature, yet the matter is receiving attention in politlral circles and several are named ns possible running mntos to President Itoosovelt. It has been suggested that In the event of the election by a large majority of Myron T. Herrlck for gov-1 t rnor of Ohio lie mny stand a very good I chance of lxlng nominated for the vice I presidency, tho assumption being that I he would be favored by Senator Hanna I and the Ohio delegation In the national convention. Another suggestion Is tbat I Governor (Jenrral Toft, also of Ohio, would be a most available candidate for the vice presidency and would doubtless be entirely acceptable to Mr. Roosevelt. When the bread winners in any corn Senator Keveridge of Indiana is being muulty are all employed at good wages talked of and mention has also been made of Governor Cummins of Iowa, Some republicans are of the opinion that It would be good policy to take the can- (llclnto for vice president from the Pa- ciflc coast and Senator Bord of Call, fornia hps been suggested. Several others have been named and nndoubt- edly the list will be considerably en- largod before the meeting of the na- tlonol convention a year hence. It Is sufficient to say at present that any one of those suggested as possible candl- dates would be acceptable to republicans generally. They ore men of excellent owners, were thrown out of employ ability and character. thoroughly ment. This strike, or lockout, was a grounded in the principles of the party most deplorable impediment to Omaha's and having a substantial claim upon the growth and a serious drawback to Its confidence of the country. There are progress. The loss entailed upon the others, however, equally worthy of con- slderatlon and it Is quite possible thot the nntlonal convention may not find it this spring by the deadlock between the expedient to select, from among those building contractors and mechanics en now being talked of for second place gaged in the building trades. Within on the republican presidential ticket. It seems to be rather premature, also, to consider the chairmanship of the re-1 publican national committee for 1904, but according to reports the politicians are already manifesting interest In the matter and expressing opinion on the I subject. A few days ago Senator Piatt of New York was quoted as saying that I he saw no objection to retaining the I present chairman and Senator Lodge Is I said to hove expressed the hope that Mr. Hanna will retain the place. The Wash- ington correspondent of the Philadelphia Press states upon what he claims to be I authority that no one but Senator Hanna I has been In the mind of Mr. Roosevelt I and his friends. He further says tbat the mention of Senator Quay for the chairmanship of the national committee has been entirely gratuitous and with- out warrant from the senator or bis I frlends. The national committee for I 1904 will be named by the. convention and it will choose Its own chairman. 1 He will of course be a man entirely acceptable to the candidate, but while I the nomination of Mr. Roosevelt is as-1 sured, he will not, it is safe to say; In-1 dicate a preference for any one as chair-1 man of the national committee in ad-1 vance of his nomination. 1 . -. I What can confidently be predicted is I that the next republican national con-1 ventlon will nominate for vice president I a man in every way worthy the support I of the party and that the chairman of I the national committee will be chosen with reference to his ability to Judl-I clously and vigorously conduct the cam-1 pulgn. THK CANAL COMMISSION. President Roosevelt will have few du ties more important than that of ap pointing the Isthmian Canal commls- slon, provided for In the Spooner law. It is said tbat there are several bun- dred applications on file for places on I the commission, but very likely only a I few of these, that of men of the highest I capacity, will receive consideration. It I is the Intention of the president to np-1 point only skilled and practical engi-1 neers, with one or two exceptions. He wants good business men on the com-1 knowledge that the man Is an ex-con-mlssion, because it will have the ex- vict It Is manifestly the, duty of the pendlture of an immense amount of money and practical as well as scientific Judgment will be required in the prose- cutlon of this great work. The pro- fesslonal men whom be appoints must possess engineering ability of a high order and be above reproach as far as their personal qualifications go. Politicians who have been urging the appointment of one of their kind on the commission are said to have got cold comfort from the president who told them that he proposed to restrict ap-1 pomtments to men experienced In en- gineerlng enterprises. Regarding the construction of the canal as perhaps the greatest achievement of ancient or mod- ern times, the president does not pro- poso to injure the prospects of the un - dertaklng by appointing men not known to be thoroughly competent to take charge of it. This is a matter in which political considerations should have no weight or Influence and doubtless will have none. FUR A MERCHANT MAKWZ. Discussion of measures for the build' ing up of an American merchant marine for the foreign carrying trade will un- doubtedly be renewed in the next con- gress. Meanwhile those interested In the subject will take steps to have the matter presented to congress and to bring pressure to bear in behalf of legls- Iatlon. At a recent meeting the New lork Board of Trade and Transports - tlon authorized Its president to appoint a committee to lay the" subject of Amer- lean shipping in the foreign trude before commercial associations, labor assorts - tlons and all interests concerned In the! Incre&se of our deep sea tonnage; also inviting the press of the country to help In ascertaining and recording public opinion as to the best means by which our shipping msy be built up. The importance of the question is very generally recognized. No one who has given it intelligent consideration can doubt that the maintenance and exteuslon of our foreign trade Is la no small degree dependent upon the build- ing up of aa America merchant ma- rine. But so great is the diversity of opinion as to measures for accomplish ing this that there seems at present little prospect of any legislation for the attainment of the desired end. Ilos- tlllty to a subsidy policy is doubtless as strong today as it has ever been, while the idea of restoring the old pol Icy, instituted at the beginning of the government and which Senator Elklns of West Virginia has announced he will urge in the next congress, of dls criminating duties upon imports In American vessels, hss few supporters. It is a question which the Fifty-eighth congress should make an earnest effort to determine, TltoK TO RtSVMt, Its merchants are prosperous. When a large portion of the wage-working pop- ulatlon of a town is idle, business Is dull and mercantile pursuits become un profitable. Within the past year our business community has been crippled and prosperity lms been seriously re- tarded by labor strikes and labor lock- puts. In July last from 600 to 800 mechan ics, who had been employed In the Union Pacific shops for many years nt good wages, many of whom were counted among our most thrifty home community by the Union Pacific ma chlnlsts' strike was aggravated early the past six weeks more than 2,000 wage earners men and women Joined the ranks of the unemployed, creating a big gap in the wage fund that const! tutes the arterial blood of Omaha's home traffic. On the heels of these labor troubles came the protracted unseason able weather that threw a wet blanket upon the retail trade and aggravated the commercial stagnation caused by labor troubles These causes of business depression have nearly all subsided. The Union Pacific strike has been amicably settled and a larger number of men are now actively at work In the machine shops than have been employed in Omaha for a number of years past Most of th. working men who went on a strike in the month of May have resumed work and are now earning good wages. The only unsettled strikes of serious propor- tlons are In the building trades. These can and should be arbitrated at. the earliest possible moment so that Omaha may again forge ahead with might and main on its path of progress.' The way to bring about resumption is to resume. If the business , men, who have organized resistance to all un reasonable demands on the part of wage workers,, wilt how organize to restore the . channels, of trade to their normal condition they will have no difficulty In removing all the obstacles In the way of . prosperous trade during the remain ing six months of the year, A few days ago Policeman Goodrich tried to arrest . man whom he believed to be either a beggar or a vagrant The man started to run away and the po licemen fired three shots, one of which entered the back of the man, inflicting a mortal wound, from which he died the following day. It is said the dead man was recognized by the sheriff of a neighboring county as a criminal who had served a term In the penitentiary for grand larceny. That fact, however, offers no Justification in law, - or In morals, for the taking of his life by a peace officer. A policeman has no right to shoot anybody merely on suspicion that be is a beggar, or even with full county attorney to proceed against Goodrich the same as if he had killed a man who had never seen the Inside of a penitentiary and to vindicate the majesty of the law under whose protec- tlon the life of the vilest criminal Is I just as sacred as the life of the most honorable and law-abiding citizen. The Chicago Board of Education at its meeting lasjt Wednesday adopted resolutions declining to permit the Woman's club to take up a collection in the public schools to defray the ex penses of maintaining summer vacation schools. The board's adverse action was prompted by its desire to establish a precedent against permitting col lee 1 tlons being made from pupils under any I pretext even when the object was a worthy one. The opponents of the "In I voluntary contribution" took the ground I that it was a wrong principle to permit collections in public schools owing to the fact tbat "the poorer children are embarrassed by their inability to con tribute as much as the children coming from the more prosperous homes." The principle enunciated at Chicago is Bound and applies with equal force to Omaha whether the contributions are compulsory or voluntary, I jim Hill's scheme for an air line to the gnlf Is not the first project of its kind. All the former attempts, how 1 ever, have foundered on the fact that the shipment of corn and wheat from the gulf ports would leave the rolling I stock to be taken back as "empties." 1 if the time has come when the traffic would support a haul both coming and I going, it is Jim Hill's luck and may I enable him to carry his scheme through, . Peuslon Commissioner Ware, who halls from Kansas, and was penned In the flooded district near Topeka two weeks ago, issued the following order over his official signature Immediately upon his return to New York: "It is reported that a subscription paper Is being circulated In the pension bureau for the Kansas flood sufferers. Let It Kansas can take care of Its sufferers." Among other legacies left to Kansas City and the overflowed districts by the floods will be an Immense amount of litigation to determine upon whom the loss Inflicted shall fall. When goods In transit are destroyed or damaged by water, every one Is eager to throw the ownership upon some one else. It will keep Judges and Juries busy for some time determining in whom the title to the destroyed property rests. The Specter of. Earope. Baltimore American. The outlook In the Balkans la retorted to be better. The Balkan outlook has taken the same relation In reference to current events as the moving picture bears to the summer show. No matter what the pro gram, the Balkan outlook invariably brings up the rear. Wonders Wrought om Paper. Cleveland Plain Dealer. At present Inventor Bell seems to lead all his competitors In aerial navigation on paper. Me has secured a name for his flyer that seems sufficiently mysterious and he appears to meet every theory that has been advanced and go it something better. But be hasn't done any flying jet. Perils of the Bavastt. Chicago Chronicle. Another investigating scientist has ac quired large quantities of Information re specting the bacillus of bubonic plague by squinting at it through a microscope, but his information is unfortunately unavail able because he became deceased Imme diately after establishing Intimate relations with the bug. This appears to be the drawback to all such Investigations. The savant no sooner gets well acquainted with the bacillus than the bacillus ungratefully turns in and kills him. The Flagr and Its Day. New York Suru The government flies the Stats and Btrlpes on Bunday as on other days; consequently Old Olory should be hoisted next Sunday. As In the case of any celebration which falls on Sunday the popular habit Is to observe It on the Monday following, put the flag up on that particular Monday and Join the crowd in making the day appro priately festal 1 : Again, as some people are sure to cele brate Flag day on the previous Saturday, that day being somewhat In the nature of a holiday anyway, they too should be sym pathized with and the flag should be flown on Saturday. . ' Every day of every other week is also a good time to display the national flag. Long and often may it be waved! "IGNORANT AND STIPID." Hard Coal Trusters Deaovaced Be came "They Kept Prices Down." Chicago Inter Ocean. Robert M. Olyphant, former president of the Delaware & Hudson railway, a member of the Hard Coal trust, made an interest ing confession on Monday before the Inter state Commerce commission. 'In the whole history of commerce," he remarked, "there never' was anything so ignorant and stupid as- the way the ooal business has been conducted, considering the usefulness and necessity of coal and Us limited supply." i..C- Mr. Olyplu.nt was defending the increase in the price of hard coal and; accusing the operators of ignorance ana stupidity In not getting a higher prloe. "W could get-a higher price," he adde"d7""lf we asked for it." . , - - However, Mr. Olyphant's charge against the hard coal operators of ignorance and stupidity is ttue in a sense far broader than he Intended in fact, 'in the brbadest possible sense, aa his own comment shows. Here is a set of men whom the govern ment has permitted, on the theory that such permission was best for the public Interests, to own privately a necessary natural product an enormously valuable part of the public wealth. Now, the assumption in permitting pri vate ownership of such a product Is that it will be handled advantageously tor the public. In America the government always has proceeded on this assumption, though In Europe the rule has been the opposite. Yet we find the hard coal operators the private owners forgetting all about the condition of their existence, constantly shirking their responsibility to the public which created them, thinking only of how hard they can squeeze the public, and accusing one another of ignorance and stupidity because the squeeze has not been made tighter. For commercial and every other kind of ignorance and stupidity the hard ooal op erators are Indeed, as Robert M. Olyphant confesses, about the most Ignorant and stupid set of men known to modern In dustry. FLIGHT OF MONEY. Millions of Fictitious Values Take Win from Wall Street. Brooklyn Eagle. It would be difficult to estimate the amount of money which has taken flight in Wall street within a week or two. The unfortunates who hoped against hope while their margins were disappearing, and their name was legion, have been nold out Some of the giants of the street have had their wings clipped, and a host of the smaller fry have been crowded to the wall. Two or three years ago It looked as though the goose would never stop laying golden eggs for the promoter. Practically all he had to do was to effect a reorganization and issue a prospectus. Forced processes go" In Wall street for the time being, bit nothing Is surer than that the water will percolate through to the bottom, taking face value Into no account whatever. Out of a hundred, a thousand. Industrial bal loons the gas has been escaping since the purse strings were tightened. Of course, ruin has come to many. There la a moral. The slump la an object lesson In economics. It Is the fashion to berate the monopolist, so-called. It Is also a fact that the financial shores are strewn with wrecks, but the plain people have not suffered. Liquidation, contraction, percola tlon, has hurt the capitalist. It has hurt those who had money enough to buy out right and those who bad only enough to buy on margin. Nor have soma of the so-called monopolists escaped unscathed themselves. The point of the lesson In economics Is that Industries are alway under fire, not from legislative, but from what may be called natural guns. If they are equipped for defense, for stress and storm and competition, if they are sound and seaworthy, they survive; otherwise they founder, going down with or without all hands on board. Pressure comes from forces compared with which legislatures, lawyers, courts, officials are trifles light as air. Corporate evils wherever they exist have an Invariable and Inexorable tendency to correct themselves, and the more ag gravated the evils the more remorseless the tendency. To the stock speculator the Eagle has no advice to give, but to the cool, level-headed Investor who knows wha la worth having has come an opportunity. It la not a bad time to buy or will not be when It is plain that the bottom, or a point nr U It, b&s bea rsachtd. be discontinued. OTIIF.n LA5D1 THAS Of BS. , Predictions of a general break ud of the Austro-Hungarlaa 'empire have not been wanting during the last dozen years or so, founded on various political perils sup posed to menace that country and on the somewhat doubtful Imperial succession. But the most sagacious political observers at tach little weight to them. In their opinion, Austria has not yet fulfilled Its mission, and has a good many pages of unwritten history to round out before its record Is completed. tr. Adolph Btransky, leader of the young csech party In the Austrian legislature, .says that any dissolution of the realm of the Hapsburga Is not within the range of possibility. The leader of the Christian social party, Vr. Albert Qessman, says that the empire Is not only entitled to further existence on the ground of its his torical development, but the most Important neighboring states will feel themselves com pelled in their own respective Interests to insure the continuance of the dual mon archy. Count Banffy,' Hungarian ex-pre mler, also scouts the rumor of a possible dismemberment for a long time to come a hundred years or more which Is rather long range firing for political prophecy, and he adds that "both Austria and Hungary are aware that falling the common bond which Insures their twofold independence, neither could survive except through the hardest of struggles." The necessity of Its maintenance Is not altogether a political one; from the economic standpoint Austria and Hungary are thrown on their mutual resources, and this Is a factor which Is dally growing In Importance. Reduction of military expenditures In the colonies is a question of the day in France. n 1902 the military budget for the oolonies was $19,000,000. This year It has fallen to $18,000,000, with some resultant alarm. The Temps, which says it "will not be suspected of an excessive weakness for that sort of expenditure," still enters a strong plea for colonial defense After Fashoda, the Par liament voted an appropriation for a com prehensive plan of colonial defense, but It has been clipped and curtailed, under the pressure for economy. The French colonial system falls into three great divisions: Western Africa, the Cngo, Madagascar and Indo-Chlna. At the present time they are garrisoned by 64.S00 .troops, 25,000 in Indo Chlna, 15,000 In Madagascar and $.000 in Africa. The Temps Insists that they should be so thoroughly armed and equipped that, in a crisis, each portion of the colonial sys tem would be capable ef defending Itself. This would certainly swell, Instead of re ducing, the annual budget, ,the dimensions of which, as they are, give the minister of finance sleepless nlgnts. The results of the resent uprisings in Croatia were a good deal less serious than at first reported, but were sufficiently em blematic of the popular unrest. The Aus trian premier, Dr. Von Korber. announced officially that only two persons had been killed by gendarmes and that one of tiese had thown himself on a soldier's bayonet. He added, however, that the stories about scores killed and hundreds wounded would probably have been true If It had not been for the discipline and forbearance of the troops, whose steadfastness was a guar antee of order. Count Khun Hedcrvary, the banus of Croatia, Is convinced that the whole revolutionary movement In that country may be traced to the parliamen tary deadlock In Hungary. , All the various etements of opposition In Croatia, he said, in a recent Interview, have combined in demanding financial separation from Hun gary. , Public excitement was Intensified by the fact that few of the, railroad omciais knew any Croatian and that Hungarian names "had been adopted where Croatian names had been1 used before. The socialists tad .taken .advantage, of the opportunity afforded by the prevailing discontent, ana the priests aided In the circulation of rev olutionary placards. In some places, he declared, the rioting was of a distinctly anarchlal character, but the military soon restored order. It Is plain that the con dition of the populace is highly inflam mable. Thu reiinl utlon of the chamber of mines of Johannesberg urging the government to import indentured coolie labor ror tne con struction of new railways was adopted after a speech by Sir Percy Fits Patrick, who argued that this course would not only relieve the strain on the labor mar ut. hut would afford an opportunity of testing legislative safeguards In the regu lation of Imported labor. All Airica, ne M was based ution cheap, colored labor. It not only set the pace, but fixed the limit of accomDlIshment. and unless it oould ha nrocured far more plentifully man at present It would be necessary to revise all estimates and possibly might mean the establishment of a position similar to mat In western Australia, where they naa tne greatest gold field in the world, but no labor to work it. He then went on to ten what had been done to attract native labor to the Rand. The raising of wages by 100 in a few months, the giving of a bonus to time expired "boys." and the pro vision of a very greatly improved aiet ana many additional comforts had failed to flwt the obiect In view. On the mining Industry of the Transvaal an Immense su perstructure was raised social, commercial. inriiiMtrini and Dolltlcal ana it was em- in.ntlv desirable that every obstacle to Its expansion should be removed. Imported labor was required for the railways, ana he urged the mining Industry and the whole community to say so boldly. They could not surrender any native labor with out forcing the question of Importing Aiatli into Immediate prominence. It Is understood that Japanese will be Imported to build the railways, and return to tneir own country when the work is completed Among the ancient buildings at Vienna now undergoing demolition, la the once famous ball house, or racquet court, at tached to the Hofburg. Ball playing with racquets was introduced by Ferdinand I, who brought It from Spain. An official master of the court was appointed, and by degrees four others were built for the pub lic in various parts of the city. The one at the Burg was burned down In 1526, a fact noticed in the Burg archives. Upon the same spot a larger one was built, to which the court passed through a curious covered bridge, built across the public street, which will now also be abolished. As the fashion for ball playing died out the court lay neglected for a century, until the Archduke Ralner, after his visit to London In 1862 to the South Kensington museum, proposed that the ancient building should be temporarily used as a museum until a new one could be built. The em peror agreed, and the ball house served this purpose until 187). The old edifice, ill according with the restored Hofburg, will shortly be leveled with the ground. Saltable Westera Timber. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The latest good western man who has been mentioned for the second place on the republican ticket of 1904 is Judge Taft. This would be an excellent selection. The fact that good men are mentioned In nearly every western state In connection with the candidacy shows that the convention can not go astray In the matter of the selec tion. As the first place on the ticket has been pre-empted, the republicans of the country have a year In which to make up their minds aa to the man who ought to be put up for vice president This Is a fortu nate situation for the party and also for the country. Umm Has for Thirty Years Been Recognized By tho Medical Profession as an Invaluable Remedy in Bright' Disease, Albuminuria of Pregnancy. Renal Calculi, Gout Rheumatism and All Dis eases Dependent upon a Uric Acid Diathesis. Time Adds to the Voluminous Testimony of Leading Clinical Observers. Robert C. Kenner, A. M., M. D., Ex-Prtsidnt Louisvill Clinical Association, and Editor of Notes en "Oarrod's Materia Medic mnd 'JHera peutics," Louisville, k'y. "(See "Garrod's Materia Medic and Therapeutics," fourth edition, revised by Kenner.) : "In the treatment of Gout and all the manifestations of Uric Add Poisoning, chrouic expression, we shall fiud the water very valuable. The waters of both springs have been found by extensive trial to possess remarkable solvent powers over Renal Calculi and Stone in the Bladder. We have the authority i$nr?tS$x$fik duffmo LrnaAVOTn j.Urs Bright' Disease, and Hammond and other rreat observers find it greatly beneficial in this condition. In dyspepsia and astro-intestinal disorders the water has been found very efficacious. In vomiting and nausea of pregnancy there is no remedy Trrwrm9fM more efficacious than UVlIiUAl JUllsLUa. aartataa iUelf to be." Medical testimony mailed to any grocers eenerally. Hotel at Springs opens June I5U1. v PROPRIETOR BUFFALO LITHIA 8PRINC8, VWCINIA. PITFALLS OF THE LAW, Traps Bet fey Lawyers Aronad tho Throne of Justice. . Saturday Evening Post In his will Washington provides for the settlement of a contest, "if unhappily any Should arise," by three arbitrators, and says that they "Shall, ' unfettered by law or legal con structions, declare their sense of the tes tator's intention." Thus, even In Washington's day, there was among men of sense and experience a strong aversion to courts and to lawyers in cases where justice was wanted. And this aversion was never so strong as at the present time when the lawyers have had another hundred years In which to set traps and dig pitfalls all round the throne of Justice, and to erect toll-gates at every avenue leading to It. Tet the whole reason for the existence of court law and lawyer Is that Justice may be had by all, espe cially by the many the poor and the humble. Our courts, our Judges, are in the main sound and Just. The trouble Is with the lawyers and the lawyer-made laws. In a day when might employs a lawyer perma nently at a large salary as soon as he shows more than ordinary talent. Is it likely that legislatures filled with lawyers will move effectively to right the wrong? PERSONAL NOTES. George Gould has given $5,000 to the flood relief fund of Kansas City. The present Bt. Louis exhibition Is the most formidable mass of water that has gathered there In forty-five years. John Morley has had bestowed upon him the honorary professorship of ancient his tory at the English Royal academy. German women are now warned not to throw bouquets at the kaiser. The kaiser Is "pexfectl capable of throwing bouquets at himself. . . ... President Diss of Mexico has Inaugu rated the work upon the Pantheon which 4s Intended to be a monument to the illus trious men of his country. Major J. E. Burke, the blacksmith, who was recently declared mayor of Burlington by the Vermont supreme court upon a re count of ballots, has began his reform administration by discharging the chief of police and assuming .charge himself. Judge Edward B. Thomas of the United States circuit court claims to have a friend who is the worst henpecked man he ever knew. On a recent occasion an agent for a phonograph company dropped into the friend's office and inquired if he had a talking machine at home. "Yep," was the reply. "And may I ask of what company you bought it?" persisted the agent. "Didn't buy it; married It." Blship Coleman of Delaware at the annual convention of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Delaware assailed cor ruption in the state and said. "A man must be made to feel that what he would be afraid and ashamed to do In his own social relations he is to be equally ashamed to do in politic. He is not to be allowed to use his church membership as a cloak under whose protecting folds he may he guilty of all manner of deceit and fraud." FLA9HE8 OF FUN. "How did you come out with your law suit?" "I won It" "(let damages?" "Sure. I got almost enough to pay my lawyer." Cleveland Plain Dealer. Mrs. Gwem How does It happen that you are out of work? Dusty Rhodes I belonged to do labor union; den I Joined de Employers' union, and I'm out on strike against meself both ways. New York Sun. Here the eminent statesman who was dic tating the particulars of his early career to the reporter paused for a moment. "This will be the Dlace. I think." he said. "to insert the statement that I don't like $3.50 Children's Suit Sale $3,50 Here is a good chance for the small boys where they can save a dollar or two on sailor suits norfolk suits-two-piece suits and all broken lines of our f 4.50 and f 5.00 suits are to be had NOW for $3.50. These suits are very different from the ordinary "special sale" qualities. They are made for those who ap preciate good materials, workmanship, and styles that are new and correct. "NO CLOTHING FITS LIKE OURS.M ' groWMi2- Km2- (2 R. S. WILCOX, Mntiager. Canvas, crash and straw Hats for boys of all ages. Wat wvftg XVmivn frequently shows address, For sale by druggists snd to talk about myself, and that I meHtlsn these facts with evident reluctance," Chi cago Tribune. Little Willie Say, pa, what Is experi ence? Pa Experience, my son, Is the headache a man acquires from butting in. Chicago News. "Now, what do you suppose ever induced htm to write a book like that?" "Perhaps it's a mere supposition of course, but perhaps he needed the money." Chicago Post. BJohnson Will you lend me your, lawn mower? Bjuckson Yes, if you'll cut my grass to pay for the use of it. Somervllle Journal. "How was Ethellnda's graduation essay?" "Beautiful," answered the proud mother "We spared no expense In ribbons to bind It, and I have no hesitation In saylhg It whs the most becoming essay in the class." Washington Star. Hicks BJohnson says his hens have all stopped laying suddenly. Wicks How does he account for H7 Hicks Well, he found out on Inquiry that the supply of wheat gave out yesterday, and his wife fed the hens on a lot of breakfast food. Somervllle Journal. WISHING. I John G. Saze. Of all amusements for the mind, From logic down to fishing, There Isn't one that you can flnU '. .' So very cheap as "wishing. " . : ' A very choice diversion, too, If we but rightly use it. And not as we are apt to do, 1 1 1, nA .hi.. 1 . f Clicii - aim tvwov . v . I wish a common Wish. Indeed My purse were somewhat fatter. That I might cheer the child of need. And not my pride to flatter; That I might mako Oppression reel. As only gold can make It, i And break the Tyrant n rod of steel, . As only gold can break It. ' - I wish that Sympathy and Love, And every human passion That had its origin above Would come and keep In fasnfonf That Scorn and Jealousy and Hate And every base emotion Were burled tlfty fathoms dv ,-. Beneath the waves of Ooean. ; . I wish that friends were always true. And motives always pure; I wish the good were not so few, I wish the bad were fewer: ' 1 I wish that parsons ne'er forgot To heed thi'lr pious teaching; I wish that practicing were not So different from preaching. I wish that modest worth might be Appraised with truth and candor, I wish that innocence were free From treachery and slander; I wish that men their vows would mind; That women ne'er were rovers; I wish that wives were always kind. And husbands always lovers! I wish In fine that Joy and Mirth, And every good Ideal, " May come erewhlle, throughout the earth, To be the glorious Real; Till Ood shall every creature bless With his supremeet blessing. . And Hope be lost In Happiness. , J And wishing In Possessing! .. r Summer Weariness When all tired out, nervous, sleep does not rest, and the fpne tite is poor, take Horsford'a Acid Phosphate. A tonic and nerve food that quickly improves the general health. Insist on having Korsford's field Phosphate