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TTTi: OMAHA DAILY BiTE: MONDAY, JUNK IS, IPOn. Tiie Onlmia Daily Bee K. HOSE WATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERT MORNING. TERMS OF SUH8CRIPTIOM. , Dully fir (without Hundnv), One Yeor..W.fO Dally bee anil Sunday, One Tear 2 illustrated Me one. Year ,("J Sunday B' . One r J "2 Saturday Hi-.-', One Year J Twentieth Century Farmer, Oni Year.. 1.U0 DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Dally Ite (Without Sunday,, per copy I 'ally Hee (without Sunday , per week.. ..120 Dally Bn (Inclmllns Hunday), per week.. 170 Holiday Hp.-, per ropv ?J Kvenlng lien (without Hurtday). per week, to Evening; Bo (Including Sunday), per week 1"0 Comprint of Irregularities In delivery huuld be addressed to City Circulation De partment. OFFICES. Omaha The Dee Iluildlng. South Omaha lty Hall Uulldlng. Twenty-tin h and M Ktreets. Council r.luffs 10 Pearl Street . Chicago lulo I'nlty Hulldlng. New York i'K Park Row llullding. Washington fn1 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communication!! relating to new and edi torial mutter should be addressed: Oman Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, ravable to The. Bee publishing Company, nly 2-cciit a lam pa accepted In payment of mail accounts. Personal checks, except on Omnha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. THE UEK PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of NebniHkd, Douglas County,.: George li. 'Jz.schuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing- Company, being duly sworn, ays thai "the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Bunds y Bee printed during tin month of May, Uo3, was aa follow: 1 8,IHM 17 28.4(10 2 :,7 W 81.030 I BI,1MM 19 80,TW 4 3.5!H 20 30,880 I M0.730 :tn,s7u 21 30,870 23 30,810 7 I 10 11 12 13 14 ....ao,7 ...,;to.Hio ,,..ao,74o ....a7,775 ,...:t,4o ....80,370 ....UO.tCtO ....ao.Tao 23 so.eusu 24 8H,SKM 25 30.H30 26 80,700 27... 3O.7B0 28 aO,6M0 2a ao,ew 30 31,800 SI a7,IHX) is so.uro 16 30,800 - Total tM53,IHK Less unsold and returned copies 1U.34H Net total sales ..B43,B5il Net average sales 30.437 QEORGK B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 31st day of May, A. D. 1903. M. B. HUNGATE. (Seal.) Notary Public , . I The campaign for tax reform should go right on without a summer vacation. Flag day today. Respect for the flag Is one of the ingredients of patriotism. Omaha bank clearings manage to show up In the weekly comparatiTe table In good healthy form. It's a trifle early to discuss In any seri ousness the effect of a British protectee tariff upon the United States. Just to be in style South Omaha's mayor and council are indulging in a little deadlock of their own. Now that the teamsters' strike has been called off, you can get all the haul ing done you wttnt, if you hare anything to haul Shamrock III is entitled to a warm welcome because cold comfort is all It Is likely to ,get out of the races with Reliance.,,; . . , , a f) ft Grover- Cleveland evidently thinks he can get-more satisfaction tout of acting as amicus curia at Princeton than of bring the whole thing at the University of VlrginU. ' ' . . . , For every walking delegate who ac cepts bribes to betray hla people there must be some employer to pay the bribes. Bribe taking and bribe giving are equally condemned by law-abiding citizenship. People who figured on a slump In the yield of corn in the corn belt states on account rt the overplenteous rains are likely to be fooled. No one should over look the recuperative powers of the soil In the western prairie states. While inviting bids for asphalt re pairs, presumably for streets where the pavement gunranty has expired. It might not bo out of place to remind the con tractors to put in a few patches on the streets where the guaranty still runs, Down at Lincoln the stage has been reached where the local franchlsed cor poratious whose assessment for city tax ation has been brought up with a sharp turn are complaining against the under assessment of tax-shirking business firms and individuals. If they will only keep it up back and forth an approach to reasonably equitable taxation may be secured. Occasional demands for a straight ticket oa a straight platform are not very numerous as yet among the Ne braska populists, but still Just numer ous euough to make it risky to call the populist state convention at a time and place separate and distinct from the democratic state convention. Separate conventions might result in two sets of candidates for every office iustead of two nominations of the same candidates for each office. Harper's Weekly, as the organ of the democratic reorganize, professes to see in Colonel Bryan's most recent ut terances a sudden and marked change In his attitude toward the party, it insists that thenfereuce Is warroated y his renunciation of leadership that he will support any man put forward by the democratic national convention, provided the choice falls to one who adhered to the democratic party in l&M) and 1000. "Suppose it could be shown,' It askes, "that Mr: Cleveland did not vote at all on those occasions? Must an ex-presUUnt's omission to vote be counted a betrayal of bis party?" But we apprehend that it will take a bigger crevice than that to get Mr. Cleveland through the fence, although the que tlon suggests a plausible loophole by which the claim to party regularity ma h apt nn. Omission to veto for itretti. dent once might be ascribed to accident, but accklentul omission to vote in tw successive presidential years would look too gauty. VVR MARKKT iy KOCTR AMERICA. A prominent British statesman said a few days ago in the Honse of Commons that Germany had not hurt Great Brit ain's market in South America "and when oue considered the (rreat nntnral advantages of the United States hef slite and her highly cnltlvntcd popula tion, it was marvelous that she had not years ago attained the first place in trade." The point herein presented is one which has caused no little surprise to Americans who have given the sub ject of trade relations with South Amer- i ica attention. When our natural nri- antages with respect to that trade are considered it certainly seems extraordl- ary that European rountrles should have secured control of nearly all the commerce of the countries south of us nd are now steadily strengthening their hold ujk.u that trade. The United States buys heavily of South America, but sells comparatively little there, our business with those countries lastyeaf showing a decline from the preced ing year. The balance of trade between the United States and South America is largely In favor of the latter. - Discussing this matter a short time ago the chief of the bureau of foreign commerce said that the uaiu cause of our failure to develop South American trade is that we have practically left It to develop itself. While there has been no lack of agitation of the subject mong our business men or of efforts on the part of the federal government to supply the information and incentive for concerted action, we have made but little progress except in the countries nearest to us. American goods find favor in those countries,4 in many instances be ing preferred to similar goods of Euro pean origin. It must be assumed, ihere- fore, that the fault does not lie with what we have to sell, but in the lack of proper instrumentalities and of vigor ous effort to extend our trade. Among the instrumentalities needed Is the establishment of adequate steam ship lines. Perhaps nothing is so es sential as this to the Increase of our South American commerce, unless it be greater energy and enterprise on. the part of our manufacturers and mer chants in competing for that trade. The chief of the bureau of foreign com merce said that until the business com munity of the United States makes up its mind that it Is worth Its whilp to go into South American trade on the large scale of its dealings wltb Mexico, with Canada, with Europe, the tools and ve hicles we might provide could not be profitably employed. "That our export Interests have not arrived at this decis ion aa yet," he declared, "Ib aVproposl- tien that can hardly be disputed. The plain truth is that the home market still absorbs all the energies of the av erage manufacturer and will continue to absorb them so long as times are prosperous and there Is an active de mand for his goods. It is only when the home market becomes stagnant or depressed that he looks abroad and then merely for openings to dispose of accn mulatlng stocks." , .'. There will come a tlm. and! itrhay not be very remote, when our manu facturers will find It expedient to seek the- markets of South America and the longer' they delay efforts to get into those markets the greater the difflcul ties they "are . likely to" encounter when forced to look In that direction for working off their surplus products. POWER CASALS OALORB - Omaha Just now Is In the frame of mind of the gallant young man who, in trying to break the spell of two mag netic charmers, exclaimed: "How happy I would be with either if the other dear charmer were away." Only a week ago the WTorld-Herald published with a grand flourish of trum pets an "exclusive" dispatch transmitted by grapevine telegraph, which had been "exclusively" prepared in ' Thomson Houston headquarters at Omaha for home consumption and "exclusively" published In the Lincoln Journal on the day previous, that the Fremont power canal was an accomplished fact and re quired only a few finishing touches to turn on cheap electric energy for the mills, factories and street railways now operated and hereafter to be operated in South Omaha, Omaha, Lincoln, Fremont and intermediate points. In that ex clusive dispatch it was also given out that all the capital required for this stu pendous enterprise had been secured by Manager Kenyon of the South Omaha stock yards, who was also represented as having successfully negotiated con tracts with the various packing houses. and, incidentally, had also succeeded in enlisting J. Ogden Armour and other packing house magnates in the Invest ment. This exclusive announcement has been supplemented by the following exclusive Interview with President Nash of the Omaha Thomson-Houston company.'who Is quoted as saying: I fn convinced that the canal will be built,' and that either the Fremont or the Columbus project will be carried out. In my opinion It Is simply a question of which one gets there first In the matter of .financ ing the proposition. Our company has au thorised a new battery of boilers of nearly 1,000 horse power capacity, but I am to certain that the cUnal will be built that I am not going to proceed with the expendi ture of about 1100.0U0 to Increase and Im prove our power plant. This declaration seems to somewhat contradict the "exclusive" announce ment that the promoters of the Fre mont cuual had secured all the needed money and all the contract guaranties to Insure the completion of the canal within less than eighteen months, and also flatly contradicts the exclusive in formation from the same source 'pub lished by the World-Herald before elec tion that the Columbus csnal had se cured all the financial backing It needed. Right on the heels of this "exclusive" information prepared "exclusively" for the hyphenated, comes the following an nouncemeut in the Columbus Times of June 13: Tueeday there was filed with the aiatt mslneer at Lincoln n amended water filing on the water of the Loup river by the Irri gation and Power company of this city. The recent surveys under the direction of Mr. Richard, the noted electrical engineer of New Tork City, have proved that we have the greatest power proposition In the state of Nebraska. The new plana contem plate a canal 1.16 feet In width at the top and carrying; nine feet depth of water for sixteen miles, when the water Is turned Into three reservoirs having areas of 1,400 acres, 870 acres and J.IOO acres respectively, or a combined ereaof 4,700 acrea for storage of water. I A head of 110 feet U obtained at Columbus, which will give 46,000 horse power on a twelve-hour basis, or SS.OO horse power de- llvered In Omaha or Lincoln. Further surveys have shown the feasi bility of using- the tall water from the Co lumbus plant and conducting It in a canal fifteen miles in length to the Muffs above Schuyler, where a head of ninety feet Is obtained and 36,000 horse power developed. and by the building of another twenty miles to the bluff north of Ames ninety-eight feet head Is available with another 36,0u0 horse power, or a grand total of over 100,000 horse power, within a distance between power plants of thirty-three miles. The surveys show the easiest and cheap- eat construction possible for a large power canal, and Columbus can furnish the cheap est power In the state for delivery to Omaha, Lincoln, Nebraska City, Sioux City or any other city within a radius of 100 miles of the plant here. Engineer Rich ards is enthusiastic over the results of his Investigations. Manifestly the promoters of the Co lumbus canal are much more modest In their claims as regards financial backing than the projectors of the Fremont scheme, but while they lnferentlally are still short of the necessary capital they are long on power and cheapness, and evidently expect to outdo and outbid the Fremont project As the biggest prospective consumer, Omaha is vitally concerned In getting the cheapest power within the shortest time, and the rivalry between Columbus and Fremont may in the end prove of advantage, providing the cheap power materializes within the lifetime of the present generation. AS TO riSASClAL LKOISLATIOH. The belief appears to be very general, in financial and business circles, that there will be legislation by the next congress relating to the currency. The subcommittee of the senate committee on finance, of which Senator Aldrich is chairman, is expected to have ready a bill when the regular session of con gress begins and there Is already more or less conjecture as to what the nature of the measure will be. Suggestions are also being made in regard ti it and undoubtedly the subcommittee charged with the duty of formulating a financial bill will be abundantly provided with opinions aa to what should be 'done to provide the country with more bank note currency and give it the quality of elasticity which is generally regarded as essential. "! Mr. Alles, formerly assistant secre tary of the treasury and now an official of an eastern trust company, is of the opinion that the public wants the bond secured bank note circulation to be left undisturbed, in which he Is undoubtedly correct, and he thinks that this circula tion should be supplemented to the ex tent ' of 1100,000.000, or some such amount "by nntlonal bank currency resting for Its security upon high class corporate bonds and taxed heavily enough to make the redemption of the various issues Immediately imperative in times of an excess of currency." If by corporate bonds is meant the securi ties of railroads and other corporations it la very safe to say that such a propo sition will have strong popular opposl tlon and It is most improbable that a measure providing for this could pass congress. The bonds of states and of municipalities that are on a sound finan clal basis would doubtless be accepta ble security for an emergency bank note currency, but the people would not be satisfied with a currency based on cor porate bonds and It 1s wholly unneces sary to have recourse to such bonds in order to provide whatever additional bank currency may be required. Ad mitting the necessity for legislation that will enable the banks to increase their note circulation aa the demands of busi ness may call for, it must Insure equal safety for such currency with that based upon the bonds of the govern ment According to the standard fire tables compiled for the year 1003, the number of fires in the United States for the twelve-month period ending January 1, 1903, was 76,623, as compared with 80,- 379 for the year preceding. The number of risks burned was 103,715, against 111.7P8 in 1901; the value of property destroyed f 161,4S8,2.5 and tlue insurance paid $94,775,045. By percentage com parisons the fires were 95.33 per cent of the record of the year before, the risks burned 92.85 per cent the values 92.72 per cent and the insurance paid 88.41 per cent The information at hand does not give the total of premiums collected, but It Is safe to say that the per cent would be an increase over the previous year's figure because the rates were ruined by pretense that the losses of 1901 made recoupment imperative. In other words, the amounts paid out to policy holders by the fire companies last year were less by nearly 12 per cent thun the amounts paid the year before, but no move lias been made to restore the old rates of premiums to the scale before the Increase. If the policy hold ers are to be mulcted to make good the losses of bad years, why should they not have a good claim to rvllef when the annual summary shows a good year The suggestion is made that the ex ample of frequent tours of the country by the president to keep hi touch with the people and to secure first-hand in formation of chauglng conditions in dlf ferent sections should be followed, on a smaller scale, of course,, by the gov ernors of the different states within their respective boundaries. It neer hurts public officer to see with his own eyes and hear with his own ears what i going on under his Jurisdiction, but the comparatively small territory Included within even our largest states makes the necessity of such trips of observa tion far less urgent Sometimes It might not be a bad idea for our state execu tives to make tours of Inspection In other states to learn and profit by the more dvanced methods of dealing with pub lic affairs there in vogue. Over In Illinois the chief Justice of the supreme court lias been visited with vote of censure by his colleagues be cause be filed a dissenting opinion in a case in advance of the recording of the majority opinion, and the publication of the dissenting documerft on the eve of the judicial election seems to have affected the result In one of the districts. The gist of the censure is that the action of the offending chief Justice was a polit ical coup, and therefore unprofessional. It would be an interesting pntzle to try to guess whether the premature promul gation of a Judicial decision for political effect on an impending election would call forth such severe . criticism from bench and bar if It occurred in another state in Nebraska, for example. And now It is announced with due solemnity and decorum that the Omaha Thomson-Houston company has con cluded to abandon the proposed ex penditure of $100,000 for the enlarge ment of Its power plant by reason of the alluring prospect of the completion of the Fremont power canal within the next steen months. The announcement stimulates the suspicion that the Ken yonlzed project was thrown upon the Btereoptlcon screen to distract popular attention from the orderly retreat of the II. manager. The prospective invasion of Fremont and Elkhorn territory by the Burlington Is not likely to seriously Interfere with the passenger travel over the Union Pacific or Elkhorn roads between Fre mont and Omaha. That the average passenger wants to reach his destination by the shortest route is exemplified by the heavy passenger transit over the Burlington short cut between Omaha and Lincoln in preference to the Union Pacific long haul between Omaha and Lincoln by way of Wahoo. National Humiliation. Kansas City Times. Chinese pirates have kidnaped an Ameri can and ask only 19,000 ransom for his de livery. Now, why should any American bs marked down from JlA.000, even by pirates? Step LItcI? Now. New Tork Tribune. All over the land the college commence ments are awhlrl, and the sweet boy gradu ates are standing with reluctant feet, un certain whether they shall found libraries or empires. Apportioning; thai Derllment. Pittsburg Dispatch. President Olyphant blames the SO-cent ad vance in the prioe of ooal upon "the devil- lahness of the miners.' The other 20 cents. we infer, is attributable to the deviltry of the operators. . o 1 ' Several Shades Better. Minneapolis Journal. At any rata turbulent South America la some degrees better than Bervla. They have their bloody revolutions down there, but they are not In the habit of removing objectionable governments by brutal, whole sale and cowardly massacre, Milk In the Canal Coeoannt. :' Cleveland Plain Dealer. v It Is well that Uncle Sam has two strings to his Isthmian canal bow. If the negotia tions with Colombia fall through a deal can be made for the Nicaragua route. This alternative comes more to the fore as Colombia continues to spar for time over ratifying the canal treaty. The milk in the cocoanut lies In the fact that certain Colombian think they mt a chance for their government to pocket $40,- 000,000 or more, instead of the smaller sum agreed upon In the pending treaty. Ac cording to the terms of the extension the canal must be completed In 1905. Failing that, Colombia would succeed to the French company's rights and privileges and be at liberty to dispose of them as it saw fit. With a rich and eager purchaser at its elbow It Is easy to see how this argument appeals to a country whose normal condi tion la bankruptcy. MIRACI'LOIS NEW UKTALI, Sclent lata Gettlnac Very Close to the Urlajln ( Ltarht and Heat. Chicago Chronicle. Unless the accounts of a few newly dis covered metals are like Tekla's deacrlp tlons of his electrical discoveries, which have, not yet been discovered, some scien tists are! getting very close to the origin of light and heat, which axe the same In their elements and the same as power. As yet only Infinitesimal atoms of these metals have been produced, but the properties of the minute objects are little less than miraculous. Radium la extracted from pitchblende, or uranlnlte, a rare and little known metal, ton of the metal being required to fur nish leas than a grain of radium. So much of the raw material Is used In preparing radium and the process la so expensive that the new extracted product would be worth $20.0ii0,000 a pound if It were possible to collect a pound. The single atom of radium which has been produced has the power of giving oft light perpetually without any renewal of its energy' and spontaneously as if It em bodied the creative power from which light emanates. The emanation of light and heat continues without any sign of chem ical change, without alteration of mo! ecu lar structure and of course without waste. This la the reeult of experiments lasting over several months. Actlnum is the name given to a metal with somewhat similar properties and ob tained by similar means. Polonium la the name of another metallic product to which the most wonderful properties are ascribed, A mere speck of polonium arrested a pow erful electric current. v This metal la derived from uranium and Is evidently akin to radium in its qualities. The little specimen of polonium used In the experiments which are described con sisted of only fifteen one hundredths of grain and was extracted from two tons of uranium at a coat of TK. As a matter of course thus far theae ex periments are of merely speculative value. Whether the metals having these almost miraculoua qualities ever can be produced In commercial quantitlea la a problem o the future. The chemlsta are finding In the atmoa phere rarlned gaaes forming not a mil Month part of the common air which we breathe, but which In their moat attenu ated state may be the very elixir vitae homeopathic doses of the spirit of vitality which atlmulatee aad replenishes the prln;s of life at their enter of action. ROUD ABOIT KKW tVRK, Rlainlea the Cnrrent of l.lfe la the Metropolis Things do move In Greater New York at all hours of the day and night. Yet the residents sleep some. And when they sleep theirs Is the real article particularly the policemen. So sound Is their sleep that burglars carried off a sate weighing 400 pounds from a flat in that dl'.islun of ilrooklyn called Wllliamabutg, and not a mortal soul stirred to give an alarm. ,The safe was supposed to contain 11,000 In cash, but the owner by mere chance placed that sum in his purtner's strong box. The safe movers realised P6 on the Job. '1 never knew a man who was hurt by newspaper publications except men who should have been hurt," was the Just com ment made by Chief Justice Fltsslmmons of the New York City court, in an interview with reference to the absurd libel law recently put upon the statute books of Pennsyl vania. "I believe," added Judge. Fitxslm mons, "that one reason why our nation has risen Is that our public man have been sub ject to criticism. Such watchful criticism tends to make public servants careful, and where they do their duty thoroughly they should acquit themselves satisfactorily." In the Judge's opinion all questions of libel snd slander may be safely left to the ordi nary Juries and courts of Justice under the general law applying to such offenses, no special and extraordinary statute, such as that enacted in Pennsylvania, being needed. This Is undoubtedly the commonsenso 'view of the situation, comments Leslie's Weekly. It Is altogether too late In the day for at tempts to muzzle the freedom of the press, and laws framed for that purpose are dead as soon as born. In Russia and Turkey they can do such things, but not In America. Ico cream nushcjirtA Arm fnnnri In Waot York to a srreater extent than In anv other town. They penotrate to the remotest cor ners or tne city, but congTeg-ate chiefly In the crowded tenement districts and In the business regions, where the office and mes senger boys form s steady and consistent purchasing public There Is one man who hnn neramhiilnteA for years tn the neighborhood of Printing House square, reports the Sun, and Is well known to the bovs of that cnnnitmi n. gion. In the height of the season he makes an average uauy sale of eighty quarts. lis i a plutocrat. An average man will take in ui nr day. Half of this must go for cream, leaving- him wages of $2 or 12.50 a day. Some of the men rent their carta for Xl or ti M week, buying their cream where they choose or making it themselves. Others get the use of the ptrshcarts free from th men of whom they buy their cream. The greatest part of the enun mia this way Is made on Mulberry street. One establishment there keeps twenty push carts busy, each selling forty or fifty quarts a day besides supplying- soda fountains Innumerable. It has tus capable of freezing- thirty quarts t a iime, ana tne proprietor's wife, a blue-eyed little woman from north Ttalv waa anxious that the visitor should Inspect the cieaniiness or the freezers and utensils. Just plain, ordinary condensed milk, re duced with water and flavored with sugar an extract that is pushcart Ice cream. And aa the water Is used In the proportion of two to one. the East 8Ma Knv aia - take any startling- amount of nourishment into nis stomacn ror his 1-cent dinner. Just a mouthful of flavored Ice wfr- h. i. what goes over the little red cart for a cent. Representatives of Andrew r-in,..i. v.... leased a tract of forty, four acres of around In the suburbs it New York Tor a country residence. The tract adjoins old Fort Washing-ton and possesses great historic interest. was the neutral ground for a time durlna the revolutionary war which Americans under Washington and the British under Lord Cornwallls met with out rear of battle or any other kind nf troubles. Their sratherlna- nlac a wayside tavern kept by the famous Becky Flanders. There British and AmnriMn soldiers met and clinked glasses In apparent menasmp. ,. - - The foundation walls of the old tavem are there today at the four corner XTi . by a noted massacre of American soldiers occurrea one night The British stole In upon them, and none left tn n v. tale. Their bodies were burled In a trench. Repeated efforts have been made to locate the exact spot of burial, and thu auk re newed efforts have been started with a view or erecting a monument to the men who crossed the great divide without having been given a chanoa for their Uvea. Tt at the Flanders Inn where the American cocktail, now known the world over, had Its birth. Livlna- in the nelrhhnrhwi nt h tavern was an Englishman who was a great fancier or game chickens. Becky Flanders' whole soul leaned to the A and she Invariably Insisted that she would some aay navs at least a brace of the En glishman's game cocks upon her table as a feast for American soldiers. This she ac complished. History does not account for how she obtained possession. But get them she did. She had a bio- oartv of American soldiers about her table and three game cocks roasted. One of the fowls was served with three feathers sticking to Its tail. The significance of this waa to nhnw that thi were game cocks, and the American soldiers present naturally tumbled to where they came from. . Just as the roasted cocks were served there came on the table an appetis ing drink for all. and for which the Flan ders tavern was noted. When the inMlun saw what was before them one of their number arose, plucked the tall feathers from the cock. Placed them in hla beveraee and as all arose he said: "Let's drink to the American cocktail." The anldlem fil ing almost as good over the turn of affairs as though a "big battle had been won, drank standing and with three cheers, Thua the American cocsiaii was born. Thus, too, there was engendered bad feelLna-M. from which resulted the cruel massacre at the dead of night, when the gallant American soldiers gave up their Uvea. PERSONAL NOTES. Dr. Arthur Cleveland Hall, an expert on sociology, has been choaen aa an instructor in political economy and allied topics at Princeton untveralty. Philadelphia has been guilty of a practical pun. To show ita high regard for the Lib erty bell It has detailed six-foot police men to guard it on the trip to Boston. Major Alexander 11. Davis of New York and London has presented Louisville, Ky., with Mock amounting to J1OI.0O0, to be used in providing a public parrk in that city. Wladyslaw Kuflewukl, a Chicago city official, makes an eloquent plea for a pa triotic celebration of Independence day. Somehow or other hla name auggests fire works. Colonel Charlea Page Bryan has rented the first floor of the magnificent Palacio Fox, in Lisbon, Portugal, which gives the United States the finest legation building In that city. The Hon. Whltelaw Held aaya the ten dency of Americana la toward exceaa. There may be a subtle reference here to the fact that they Inslat on wearing long trousers Instead of knee breeches. Brigadier General William H. Cartel of the war college board will not go to the Philippines this summer, but will remain on duty in Washington as a member of the general staff, until that body Is In working order. TALK Of TUB STATU lltlCS. Wayne Herald: The fuslnnlsts are fast becoming extinct, the latest departure from the ranks being ex-Governor Toynter. When fusion Is a failure men no longer have use for It. no matter how tempting the bait may be. Schuyler Free I,snce: The evil of rrtil road politics In Nebraska will never be removed nor cured until the root of the evil Is removed and that Is the railroad pass. As long as every public official rides on a railroad pass that long will tho people fall to have officials clear of corporation control. Central City Nonpareil: Kx-Governor Poynter, hoping, doubtless, to measure up to the significance of his name, has an nounced that the populists should go It alone In the future. In view of the fact that he was elected chief executive of this state by the grace of fusion votes, It would appear that this action Is a bit ungrateful, to say the least. Kearney Democrat: While It does not cost much to Judicially murder a roan in Nebraska, the governor should see that the state's Judicial murderer is paid promptly for the killing some time ago. When a man Is employed to kill people he should be paid his blood money promptly and without so much kicking. Wausa Gazette: Talk about the rallion.l.i preventing Nebraska from endorsing the administration of Theodore Roosevelt. What rot! As well attempt to dam the overflowing Mississippi with a handful of sand. . Get your ear to the ground and listen to the rumbling. That Is the Roose velt sentiment approaching and It will sweep everything before it, railroads or no railroads. Tekamah Herald: Judge Barnes of Nor folk was Indorsed last week by the Lan caster republican convention as a candi date for supreme Judge. That of itself will make his nomination almost certain to be unanimous, because, without the support of Lincoln a South Platte candidate would not have much show. Nothing would please the Herald better than to see Judge Barnes nominated by acclamation. Then It would Join in and assist In rolling up his major ity. O'Neill Frontier: Lancaster county re publicans have It cut and dried that Judge Barnes of Norfolk will be the republican nominee for Judge of the supreme court. While it Is a matter of no little surprise that Lancaster county republicans should lead out for a north Nebraska man, It is entirely satisfactory to this section of the state. Judge Barnes is a member of the Supreme Court commission at present. Ho would make a strong and winning candi date. Rushville Recorder: Governor Poynter has declared the populist party will run on Its own legs hereafter without the con sent of the democrats or any other party on earth. That's manly and straightfor ward. We could never understand why the populists, who used to cuss both the old parties, up hill and down doje, should make an alliance that has had no other effect than V place them for a brief span in offloe, without enabling them to accomplish very much In vindication of their principles. Beatrice Times: The Times wants to see the republicans of Gage county help Judge Letton onto the supreme bench If that is where he wants to be placed. No cleaner material for the position is to be found anywhere. It is better for the peo ple of the state to elect to the supreme bench a man with long experience as a Judge of a lower court. This conforms In spirit to the civil service Idea of the general government in that It provides against the selection for an important post of an un tried man. Tilden Citizen : Under' the new revenue law each county of the state will have an additional officer to elect this tall a county assessor. Although the office carries with it but a small salary ($600 In Madison and Antelope counties), tho position requires ability of a high order. The assessor should be a man of at least fair education, of excellent Judgment as to values of all kinds of property and of the most rigid Integrity. If an aspirant for the office has not these requisite qualifications, the tact that he has been a lifelong adherent to this or that party ought to have no weight whatever with the convention called upon to make the nomination. It may not be good politics to suggest such a notion, but it's good sense. Falrbury Gazette: The talk about the B. & M. and Union Paclflo Joining forces to prevent our state convention from en dorsing Roosevelt for president Is all rot. The people of Nebraska will endorse him Irrespective of all the railroad combina tions that may be formed. Should the rail roads win, however, we should not like very well to be the nominee for supreme Judge. The people will certainly get their revenge at the polls. A failure to endorse Roosevelt means a step backward, and ise braaka cannot afford to take such a step at this time. If It fails to "get into the band wagon" It wMI lose Ita present pres tige with the powers that be, and then ws shall "wake up some day and wonder where we are at." Chappell Register: Among the candidates for supreme Judge we heah Judge H. M. Grimes' name prominently mentioned. The Judge Is In every way qualified, and it la conceded that the candidate should come from the North Platte country. If the eas tern counties want to be generous they ought also to concede that the candidate should come from the wentern part of the state. In which event Judge Grimes is In the geographical center. The west end of the state is entitled to recognition this fall and If we go down to the convi :i .,.: August 18 with a solid front they will con clude that there Is something doing up our way. We ought to all boost together anyway, and a little boost from the South Platte fellows, who are If anything more friendly to the west than they are to the east, will give us the nomination. Leigh World: The supreme court says that Porter must put it back. Chief Justice Sullivan wrote the decree which' com manded Porter to liquidate. When Pot l was secretary of state he collected a emu ' little sum In fees from the owners of cat tle for recording marks and brands. He put this money in his own purse and con verted It to hia use, so he is accused. Many of hla party, ao the reporta etate. pleaded with him to act on the square and not touch the money, but he brushed aside all friendly snd wise advice. At last the arm of the law apoke and compelled him to do what every honest citizen knows that he should have done. Porter cart place the money back ao the the state of Neb raska will not lose anything by his actions Waltham Watches The best watches possible, "The Ptrfeded Amerkn Wich," n itlustnitJ hook of interesting tnfornudton iboai xutiches, xottl h tad fret ttpon request. American Wk&hjtm Watch Company, Waltham, tLtss. but he can never rise to the plane of popularity on which he once stood and be considered upilulit Hnt honest among his f How men. Grsnd IxIbikI 1ml. -pendent: The Wesleyar university )niiliy conferred the drgro of doctor of lims upon Hon. J. It. Mickey governor, and the compliment will no dnul be appreciated by all Xrhraskans. And yet when the matter Is looked upon from th standpoint of the standard of the Institu tion, there may be a rensonable doubt It tho conferring of such degrees as was done In this case by the Wesleyan, and Is done in very many other cases by other high educational Institutions, Is not more harmful to tho Institutions than bene ficial to the favored ones. During the po litical campaign Mr. Mickey was known to be a plain farmer or a matter-of-fact banker. If he has ever acquired any thor ough knowledge of law, the fact has been kept In the background and there will be a suspicion, erroneous though It might bo, that the fact that the Mr. Mickey was elected governor of the state snd Is a warm supporter of the Institution which has honored him, had more to do with the degree than real merit of the degree. American institutions of learning have al ways been charged with regarding degrees cheaply and they are In recent years mak ing no effort to place themsolvea above the criticism. TRVST9 OX THIAL. Opportunities for Them to Make Good Their Boasts. (Cleveland Leader.) The only thing which has softened or dulled public feeling against the. trusts has been the exceeding prosperity which has accompanied the growth and multipli cation of huge Industrial combinations. It has been possible to point to the general activity of business, the rapid progress of the country In all essentluln of success, and the high average renclied by wages, while work has been found easily by will ing seekers. That fact haa blunted host lie criticism, in the estimation of men who think first of practical results ami last, or never, of abstract principles and general theories. Promoters and managers of vast busi ness combinations have boasted that those huge industrial and commercial bodies would make bad times Impossible and pre vent violent fluctuations tn trade and In the condition of the masses of wage-earners In the country. The trusts ore pledged to maintain prosperity. It Is their excuse for some unquestionably obnoxious featurei of their development and their methods. The stock market Indicates that there I less confidence than there waa a few months ago In the ability of the big com binations to keep things moving along at a satisfactory rate In the .business world. The distrust may not be well grounded, but It evidently exists. Otherwise many securities would sell at bettor prices. Wall street brokers would enjoy a more cheer ful atmosphere In the splendid new Stock exchange. Clearly, the trusts must hold fast to prosperity. They must prevent bad times from following long depression In stocks. Above all, they must keep their armies of workingmen busy and fairly paid. It Is the only way to escape a wave of public anger and condemnation which no Inter ests, however great, would willingly face. LAlGHI.a RKMAHK9. Glldeck What I told Hobbs is a eloae political secret. He won't give It away. Swifter Not he; he'll sell it to the appo sition Yonker's Statesman. Ten billions of pins are made tn this country every year and still the young men will not keeD away. Somervllle Jour nal. ... -. -n ,. .;,-- ..-. t.7,r? :..?. ; Mistress 1 hope you'll ault. I've had eleven cooka in the laat three months. Cook That a nothing. I have had twice as many places. Detroit Free Press. "I tried the plan of thinking twice be fore speaking, he said, "but it didn't work." "No?" "Well,, hardly. Why. by the time I'd thought twice my wife had me roasted to a finish." Chicago Post. 'It ain't no flgger of speech," com mented the livery stable philosopher, "that justice la blind. Nothln happens to the man that makes the toy plstul, the feller that Kelts It or the guy that buys It for hla little boy, but the kid. who don't know no better, gits the punishment, that's comln, to all the othrs." Chicago Trib une. Tess T hear you're engaged to Mr. Slim. Jess That's true. Teas They tell me he's a pretty sharp young man. Jess He is. especially about the knees, but their sharpness doesn't bother me. Tor he always puts a vjxhlon on them for me. Philadelphia Press. "There's wan.:-jcky thing about work," said Mr. Dolan. "What's that?'" Inquired Mr. Rafferty. "The fact that H a a gridileal mxler to lave off than it wan ly Wyn. If It worn t 'fur that beautiful provision In nature we'd all be dead wi;1 :inluthry." Wsahlng ton Star. 'I'ke r I'onrtabln. Time was, before the jt,e of Tin, cJre woman took to l.iidge or uchre, . When It waa douineit a t'.eadly sin To sully l.ovo with I1 o.ifchts of Lucre. Gone are ihe ton.l i,,l ru les r.nd now The ilmts (In Walker puaxe) mutantur; Our i, iris in tvery lover'a vow Detect the possible Levanter; Each careless fragment you Indite, The slm-jlcat ode, the merest sonnet They keep it .light in black and white And clasp a Lualnesa label on it. London Punch. T II 10 THOl BI.K IS SCKV14. Whether suicide or homl'lde, no one knows which. Hence the trouble at lielgrade la somewhat a mix. But one thing Is sure that Alexindrovitch And his Queen Draga are both out of fix, Aa is their premier Jim Markovitcb. from ihe teat information Mike Uchlcko vlcs. With ine aid of his pal, OJi Vllckovlin, Wished to1 Ik lit the wrongs of Colonel Naumovlcs, And with the help of the regiment Sixth, Commanded by Colonel Mlschica, Went :o the pulace of the Obreuovltch, Began shooting- ut them without the least hitch. Thereby extinguishing Draga snd AJUv- androvltch. Immediately there followed Colonel Dani- lnovlcs. I Who waa appointed prefect vice Major rlloanveica. They then hailed as king Ales Karageorge- ovlteh. All of which is confirmed by Doo Petro- vltch. And is furthermore approved by Minister Avakumovlca, Kallevica, H to Jan Protlca, Alansokvlcs, Uenshlea, Kllchin and Vellckovlea, And the distinguished LJubomlr Bchloko vlcs. N. B. obituaries are In order In rhythmic dltsch For Draga, Alex. Markovlteh, LunJevlza, Mileovltch, Nikodem aud Palovltch, Tudorovlcs, Petrovltch, And with hla guards cap. Falovitoh.
