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THE OMAHA DAILY J1EE: SATURDAY, JUNE 1H.
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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! ..
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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
