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Forecast: Hot air and variable winds
Kansas Is now praying fervently for
harvest bands and overflow contrlbu
tlons.
Nebraskans should familiarize theta-
elves with the new laws that have gone
into effect today.
If anybody complains about the beat
tell him to go to a cooler place. For ex
ample, Join Senator Dietrich in his ex
cursion tour of Alaska.
And now the Sioux City Bridge com
pany wants to beat its local taxes In
Dakota county. This is in accord with
the eternal fitness of things.
New York is agitated from center to
circumference by the break of the bears
Into the cotton field and the stampede of
the bulls from the cotton exchange.
The Omaha 4 per cent thirty-year
bonds have been snapped up like cakes
. fresh from the griddle. Thirty-year
. municipal bonds are a desirable morsel.
The mayor of Lincoln baa joined In
the crusade against the dynamite
cracker and the Glorious Fburth prom
ises to be a tame affair for the-patriotlc
young Idea at the state cnpItaL
.jrg
One of the questions the Transmissls
slppi summer school should discuss is
whether Omaha Is not speudlng too
much money for fads and frills and too
little for old-fashioned essentials.
The warring republican factions of
Iowa are now enjoying . their annual
love feast, and when they get back
home will hammer their broadswords
into plowshares and twist their pitch
forks into pruning hooks.
The South Omaha school board has
levied a tax of 13 mills for the mainte
nance of schools for the coming year.
One-third of that rate would be consid
ered very high In Omaha. Only another
argument in favor of annexation.
Cablo advices announce that the
American squadron has sailed away
from Kiel, and the sea Hons who have
been hobnobbing with Emperor William
will have an opportunity to sober up
when they get' the full north sea breeze.
If there are any more injunctions to
be ground out by the courts in these
parts they should be applied for at once.
All the Judges are entered lu the July
Judicial races, which will monopolize
tholr time from now until the last of
next week. ,
Why is it that the land speculators
and land grabbers In the neighborhood
of the Winnebago Reservation are tak
ing such an active Interest In the reten
tion of Charles P. Mathewson? Is It
because a chunge mtght interfere with
their profitable industry t
The police commission has tabooed
musical Instruments from the saloons,
presumably ou tho assumption thut the
music Is an attraction for the patrous
of these resort. But where does the
board get its authority to draw the line
at harmonicas, phonographs, musical
clocks, pianos, melodeons, music boxes,
guitars and violins? .
The Colorado district coo has wipWd
out the Denver Board, 'Public Works,
created by an act of ie legislature two
years ago. , The yloD Is based on the
ground that.tU.efslature had no con
stitutional power I invest the governor
with the power t appoint a Board of
Public Works for foe city. It thh de
cision is affirmed k the supreme court
of Colorado we iur sooner or later see
a similar dotiiil.s in the case of the
Omaha Water Bolrd appointed by the
governor under' at act of the legisla
ture that has taUa from Omafia the
WALL BTHKKT A ft It KOOSKVSLT.
That there Is opposition to rrewldent
ltoosevelt among eertaln elemtiits in
Wall street is well understood, but tins
will perhaps be found not to 1? so ex
tenolve or strong as has been repre
sented. The New York correspondent
of the Philadelphia Press points out
that discrimination should be made be
tween the Wall street that is repre
sented by the Stock exchange, which
typifies speculation, and the Wall street
of the Clearing House association, which
is practically the financial, almost the
commercial, heart of the nation. He
says there Is no doubt that among a com
paratively limited group of capitalists
who were aiming at the unification of
railway systems there was Irritation, not
so much that President Roosevelt should
havo instructed the attorney general to
test the Northern Securities proposition
in the courts as that he should have done
this of a sudden. Then tlere is a cer
tain group, according to this correspond
ent, made up of those who warmly fa
vored the passage of the shipping sub
sidy bill, who were disappointed that
the president did not actively support
that measure. But outside- of these two
groups little or no hostility to Mr. Roose
velt has been developed in the higher
financial or commercial circles of New
York City.
This is very likely a correct statement
of the situation. The capitalists con
cerned In mergers and other combina
tions of questionable legality were quite
naturally chagrined at the course of the
president, while those Who have not
been engaged in this sort of thing and
hare pursued their legitimate business
are, generally not opposed to Mr. Roose
velt and are finding no fault with bis
proper determination to enforce the laws.
Of the others there is little to be feared,
however actively, they may press their
opposition, whether openly or insidi
ously. 'Their influence is. not widely
extended and it is not," growing, but
rather the reverse. ' Circumstances are
impairing the prestige of the trust mag
nates and the combination promoters
and it is not impossible that within a
year some of them will have fallen from
the high place they attained in the finan
cial world through devices that contra
vene sound economic principles, as well
as violate the laws of the country.
These men are powerless beyond a Tery
limited circle and that is steadily nar
rowing. As to those capitalists, in Wall
street or elsewhere, whose business is
legitimate and who are complying with
the laws, they have nothing to fear from
President Roosevelt, who is as solicitous
for the progress and prosperity of nil
legitimate enterprises as any one.
The nomination of Theodore Roose
velt next year Is already decreed.-1 It is
a popular demand which all the power
and Influence that Wall street might
exert could not defeat Neither can-any
influence from that source imperii the
chances of his election. t It should, in
deed,, rather strengthen them, for there
is no doubt that the president has gained
in popular confidence from such, opposi
tion to him there as already shown. "'.
MAT ADMIT AMKHICAft MKAT. .
A Berlin dispatch states that the feel
ing in government circles there agulnst
American meat has been much modified,
due largely to the recent ' vinit to this
country of Herr von Rhelnbaden, who
convinced himself by personal inspec
tion that the United States has made
satisfactory arrangements, for ae, ex
amination of meat for, export, so that
only good meat would be sent to Ger
many. It is also reported that the Ger
man minister In Washington is now en
gaged in negotiations with Secretary
Hay for a new commercial treaty be
tween the two countries which will un
doubtedly Include a pKuvlsloa in-regard
to our meats. , .
We do not know that there is any rea
son to expect more favorable considera
tion in this ' particular t from the new
Reichstag than from its predecessor,
but if the German government Can be
shown, as there would be ho difficulty
In doing, that our : meat for export Is
thoroughly inspected some modification
of the decree against it would be proba
ble. The true course, however, is un
doubtedly In the negotiation of a com
inerclal treaty that wil be broad in its
scope and equitable In lta operation.
There is no doubt that the Germafi gov
ernment is very desirous for such a
treaty and will be found ready to make
reasonable concessions 'to secure it. It
Is In this way that we.' shall bo, able to
retain and probably Increase our large
trade with Germany.
RATIONAL COMUlTltU CBAlRMAS.
The report that Senator Lodge would
succeed Senator Hanna as chairman of
the republican' national committee has
been declared by the forinef to have
nothing in it The Massachusetts sen
ator thinks that Mr- Hanna should be
retained in the position and this appears
also to be the desire of President Roose
velt. It is stated. that when the Ohio
senator was in conference with the pres
ident lust week Mr. Roosevelt asked Mr.
Hanna to remain at the head of the
committee and urged all the considera
tions that are naturally suggested by
current political events. According to
Washington reports ,the, president held
that any other man at the head of the
committee would give rise to misgivings
in the country that were to be avoided
if possible. Mr. Hanna is said to have
frankly stated thaj he did not want the
Vlialrmanshlp-' iMipon the earnest
aolIW-i.--.rot l".Vlripnr decided to
take the matter undeit a,lviRm.nt.
Referring to'tnlsff Philadelphia
Ledger. independf J .rkl thflt
while Mr. Hanna II m rwJ Mtute ,n(,
on exceedingly Pf(,ci TwmHan i
is an honest onejf ,.T.nIlk- . ,
other Ptlcn'1''pollt,clan(St Mf ,Unna
whan An thA ' . .
war patn, goes anoui open
ly nounsmn. a c,ub mdlng a knfe
up nis sie , h flshter. and
hr is also a 1
fair one. The president has
don nothing
more sagacious than to In-
slst that Mr. Hanna shall be in supreme
control of the national campaign of
llMel." The probability Is that Mr.
Hanna will accede to the request nf the
president and his doing so would un
questionably bo gratifying to repub
licans geuerally.
THK LAlkST FMiSI'tCTVS.
The rerised prospectus of the Tlatte
river power canal has the same rain
bow coloring with slight variations.
Millions are said to be in sight to con
summate the project, but for the present
the millions remain securely locked in
the vaults of Wall street financiers. If
the promoters are correctly reported ex
pert engineers are to decide whether the
water supply is to come from the Platte
river in the neighborhood of Fremont or
from the Loup in the neighborhood of
Columbus.
If Fremont wins out In the tossup the
Columbus promoters are to be reim
bursed for their labors himI traveling ex
penses. If Columbus wins out the Fre
mont promoters are to get a refund.
What the people of Columbus outside
of the circle of promoters ure to get If
Fremont carries off the prize Is not fore
shadowed, and what the people of Fre
mont who are not directly Identified
with the scheme will get In case Colum
bus wins out has not yet been divulged.
One positive fact has been given out,
and that is the proposed issue of $3,000,
000 of power canal stock in addition to
the blanket mortgage bonds that will
cover the plant and its sources of reve
nue to the full extent of the estimated
cost of storage reservoirs, the power
plant and all its appurtenances. Viewed
from the business standpoint, Omaha is
not materially concerned whether the
final location of the Platte river power
canal is near Fremont, Columbus or
this side, excepting so far as it will af
fect the capacity to deliver power and
the price at which it will be sold to con
sumers. Mathematically expressed, the
larger the capitalization the higher the
cost per horse power and the higher the
cost per horse power tiie less the benefit
to be derived by consumers.
A PaLPABLS MIXTA Kt.
When the legislature limited the ap
propriation for the St Louis exposition
to $35,000 it was generally understood
that no attempt would be made to ex
pend any part of the money for a Ne
braska building, but the exposition com
missioners seem to be inclined to over
rule the legislature. It is announced
that the sum of $10,000 will be reserved
from the appropriation for a diminutive
gem that Is to serve as a Nebraska club
house, or place of meeting for visiting
Nebraskans.
In view of the fact that other states
are erecting buildings to cost anywhere
from $50,000 to $250,000, the erection of
a Nebraska gem or club house will
prove of doubtful advantage in advertis
ing the state. It will be very much like
floating a birch bark canoe side by side
with an ocean liner. It Is doubtful, also,
whether 10 per cent of the Nebraskans
that will visit the exposition would take
the trouble and time to avail themselves
of ,the hospitality of the "gem."
At any rate, that was the experience
at Chicago, where Nebraska had a fifth
rate building erected at a cost of more
than $20,000, which cut a very sorry
figure among the galaxy of structures
by -which it was overshadowed. The
main object of the legislative appropria
tion for St. Louis was to advertise Ne
braska and that object should be kept
in view by the commission from start
to finish.
Mr. J. Frank Carpenter struck the nail
on the head when he declared before the
Transralssissippi summer school that "if
the best possible results in our public
schools are' to be obtained, politics and
wire pulling must be taken out of the
public schools." Mr. Carpenter was evi
dently oblivious of the fact that politics
and wire pulling dominate our public
school system altogether under the pro
tense of nonpartisan reform. That fact
was strikingly . Illustrated in a recent
election, when the superintendent of the
Omaha public schools spent half of his
time in political headquarters while the
superintendent of building repairs
passed from one school house to another
Instructing the Janitors whom to vote
for. The weak spot in our public school
system Is wire pulling and politics, but
those who are doing the most of the
pulling insist they are doing so to bead
off the machine. What a convenient
thing that machine has been for schem
ing hypocrites and political mounte
banks. There is a well-defined rumor at Lin
coln that the injunction proceedings in
the Lancaster 'district court to restrain
the state auditor from paying members
of the legislature more than $3
per day for. forty days on the
ground that the change in the constitu
tion which allowed them $5 per
day in sixty-day sessions was illegally
counted in, emanated from Joe Bortley
and his bondsmen. .Will Joe Hartley
and his co-partners ever let up?
The executors and trustees of the late
Judge Henry Hilton, who for many
years figured prominently as a multi
millionaire in New York, have discov
ered that the value of his estate only
aggregutea a fraction over $0,000,(100,
although it was originally concluded to
be worth more than f-'O.OOO.OOO. The
disconsolate heirs of the lamented will
probably turn the Hilton portrait to the
wall because be came very nearly dying
a pauper.
la it a Dream f
Brooklyn Eagle.
Australia has dropped the Marconi wire
less telegraph, pronouncing It uncontroll
able and liable to Interruption. Is this the
vanishing of a brilliant dreamt
am "Tea," Same Bottle.
Detroit Press. "
Blr Thomas Lipton did not wreck any
of the china because asked to put his
knee under the same mahogany as did
Booker T. Washington. From as la-
lernatlonal stmlpolnt the most amicable
!cature of the en'ertMlnment was the open
ing of "Lli'ton ti-a" with a corkscrew.
lobetlre Power of Pelf.
Philadelphia Press.
It Is stated that the democrats and
populists of Nebraska will again fuse.
They have such a close resemblance to
each other particularly In that state
that It would probably be Impossible to
sort them out anyway.
Reading; Between the Lines.
Chicago Chronicle.
Governor Beckham of Kentucky seems
to think that because the late William
Goebel was murdered no one should object
to murder In Breathitt county. This Is not
the precise language of the executive mani
festo, but It Is the exsct meaning of It.
(Joins; to the Bottom.
New York Tribune.
Tho Indictment of an ex-congressman
charged with criminality In connection with
the postofftce frauds will be searched
through and through, and that accused
persons against whom sufficient legal
evidence has been obtained by thorough
and energetic Investigation will be brought
before trial Juries to clear their skirts if
they can. This Is as It should be.
Native Home Hale In Hawaii.
Springfield Republican.
The Hawaiian House of ' Representatives
does not extend the "glad hand" to fellow
Americans In voting down a measure
designed to stimulate Immigration to the
island from the mainland. It Is necessary
to state In explanation that the majority
of the Hawaiian House are native Hawal
lans. They frankly took the position that
there are Americans enough on the Island
already. And there aren't so very many
either.
Why Men Eat Too Murk.
Harper's Weekly.
Eating Is the greatest of all our standard
amusements. A great number of people
obviously eat a great deal more than they
need, and It Is entirely credible that a large
proportion of the moderate eaters might
thrive as well and look as handsome and
work as hard and live as long on a very
much restricted diet. But would the Joy
of life continue unimpaired for them? The
native born might raise plenty of children
if they could subsist for 11 cents a day, but
would they think life was worth living on
11 cents' worth of food a dayT No, they
wouldn't. That is ono thing that alls
them.
Too Expensive for This Coaatry.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
A recent article on the street railway
systems of the capital of Hungary contains
two points of Interest to American students
of the relations between cities and franchise
corporations. That the underground trolley
wires have been working successfully for
many years In Buda-Peath haa been known.
though not widely published. But what
has not been before known Is that after
the success of the system which does away
with overhead trolley wires a proposition
by the engineer that advised It to demon
strate it by an experimental line in this
country was negatived by the traction
authorities because It would provoke "ex
cessive demands for Improvements."
CHUNKS OF COMMON SENSE.
Things Which Employers and Em
ployes Might Profitably Learn.
New York Press.
Andrew D. 'White, -who has called upon
Andrew Carnegie and other rich men for
(14,000,000 as endowments for Instruction to
fit the youth of the United States for office-holding
and for,' "Inspiring accompani
ments to civic virtue and public life," might
well have Included an estimate and a
comparatively small sum would suffice for
endowing chairs to give Instruction on sub
jects in which two elements of our society
at present are In urgent need of enlighten
ment. A few chairs endowed In the circles
of "high finance" and labor unions could
teach what seems to be most required at
this stage of our history to enable Ameri
can business and enterprise to make fur
ther headway and the people of the coun
try to enjoy a continuation of the happi
ness and blessings which have been show
ered upon them. We mean common sense.
High finance needs some forcible Instruc
tion on the economic truth that If a busl
ness or an Industry Is earning a given sum
say, $100,000 a year on Its merits, It can
not be made to multiply Its earnings by
ten, to a million a year, merely by multl
'plying the number of share certificates rep
resenting Its value by ten. We had sup
posed that this economic truth had been
grasped long ago by nearly everybody In
"financial circles" until we were visited
with our recent epidemic of stock notations,
covering In many cases vslues which do not
exist and never have existed except on
paper. A course of training In the elemen
tnry principles of trade, commerce and
money, seems to be due In quarters which
have had the reputation of understanding
at least how to compute Interest and to ap
ply percentages of earning power to re
turns on capital.
Organised lakor likewise is In need of in
struction on the economic truth that tf a
business can earn a given sumsay, (100.000
a year and pay 95 per cent of it In wages,
It cannot be made to pay $300,000 In wages.
or $100,000 more than Itg earnings, merely
by the say-so of a walking delegate or by
u resolution of a central committee of
federated labor unions.
WOOD PIXP DUTY.
Aggressive Move for the Repeal of
the Tariff.
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
An Intelligent and determined effort will
be made during the next session of con
gress for the enactment of a measure simi
lar to that Introduced by Representative
Heatwole of Minnesota for the removal of
the duty on wood pulp. Under the existing
conditions the forests of Canada are being
preserved and the spruce and poplar for
ests of the United States are being cut
down mercilessly for manufacture into
wood pulp. The entire people are paying
for a benefit to Canada and an Injury to
their fields, their towns, their crops, their
property and their homes. The recent floods
in the western rivers, causing almost lrrep
arable damage, are tributes to the sound
sense and economy Involved In the proposed
measure, and the forest fires In the eastern
mountains make another.
Tne forests are being destroyed at a rate
sufficiently rapid, and sufficiently danger
ous, to warrant congress In coming to their
rescue by a remission of a duty which,
while It continues. Is an Incentive to the
destruction of forests of spruce and o
poplar at a rate that la simply enormous.
Not only New York and the New Eng
land atates are Interested In the preserva
tlon of their spruce and poplar forests, but
the states of the Appalachian and Cumber
land ranges are enually so. Kentucky Is
exceedingly rich In poplar and spruce, but
lands In that state, as well as In Virginia,
West Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia,
and other states south and west, are being
rapidly taken up for their wealth of the
timber because congress failed to remit the
duty on wood pulp and assist In the preser
vation of the woodlands of the country.
The sole question of protection Involved
Is the question of protection to American
forests a question forcing Itself dally on
the attention of the American people, and
which ahould force JtaeU with equal grav
ity on the congress.
WHAT IS l:kltGVf
Carreait Problems with Which Sclen
tlsta Are Grappling.
Chicago Chronicle.
The addiiFg delivered by Blr William
Crookes st llcrlln before the international
congress for applied chemistry has furn
ished branches of science material for
animated discussion.
Blr William entitled his discourse "The
Realisation of Dream." For nearly a
century, he said, men of science had been
dreaming of atoms and molecules and
speculating as to the origin of matter. Now
they admit the possibility of resolving the
chemical elements into simpler forms of
matter or of refining them away alto
gether Into ethereal vibrations or elec
trical energy.
The lecturer discussed the existence of
electrical atoms or electrons, he constitu
tion of X-rays and their passage through
opaque bodies. lie expressed the opinion
that the spontaneous dissociation of ra
dium suggests a doubt of the permanent
stability of matter.
That science Itself Is beginning to scoff
at all science grows more apparent with
the progress of Investigations. Sir Will
iam Crookcs declared that theories are
useful only so long as they admit of the
harmonious corelatlon of facts Into a rea
sonable system. "Directly a fact refuses
to be pigeonholed and will not be explained
on theoretic grounds the theory must go
or It must be revised to admit the new
fact."
New views of atoms, electricity and ether
which came in with the nineteenth cen
tury are already under suspicion tn the
twentieth. Crookes asks: "Are we not
learning the lesson that our researches
have only a provisional value?"
All recent experimentation converges
toward a question which haa been the most
urgent since the organization of science
and upon which neither physics nor meta
physics has yet thrown any clear light, a
possible relationship between mind and
matter.
Students of electricity are disposed to
recommend patience In the development of
that force as a promise of disclosure con
cerning the origin of both mind and matter.
The pursuit of this belief haa led even
chemists Into mists as dense as London
fog and almost as palpable.
A German scientist, Ostwald. claims that
he has discovered the bridge between mind
and matter, a bridge "which covers the
chasm between force and substance," and
Which is of a nature sufficiently manifest
to embrace the totality of our experiences,
the interior as well as the exterior." This
idea or bridge he terms energy.
It has been demonstrated, Ostwald claims
that there Is an Immaterial factor, one en
dowed with neither weight nor mass, which
in a quantitative way Is Just as unchange
able as the mass and weight of material
substntvos and which, exactly like these,
can undergo qualitative transformations of
all kinds.
While the power of transformation In
material things is not unlimited, but rather,
by the chemical law of the preservation
of the elements. Is confined to very definite
limits, energy may be converted from every
one of Its forms Into every other and Its
power of transformation Is therefore un
limited. Herein exists a fundiimental advantage
of this Idea as compared with that of mat
ter, since In this way It acquires the prop
erty of comprehending In a uniform fash
Ion the whole domain of the corresponding
phenomena.
Ostwald holds that every change which
takes place in the outer world and every
process may be described by a statement
of the kind and amount of energy that haa
undergone conversion.
This he declares to be particularly true
of the processes' by which the apparatus
of the senses Is put Into activity;
Such processes may ever be reduced to
exchanges of energy as between the outer
world and the apparatus of the senses. He
believes It possible to subordinate to the
Idea of energy the totality of physical as
well as physical phenomena.
This opinion Is undoubtedly entertained
by Sir William Crookes and it Is appar
ently the conviction of this latest school
of scientists that the new metals, the
wizard metals, radium and uranium, will
supply the demonstration of the theory.
PERSONAL NOTES.
Major General Oliver Otis Howard Is the
sole survivor of the commanders of the
great armies In the civil war.
Congressman Sibley of Pennsylvania has
tens to Invite "the fullest Investigation"
of his connection with the Postofflce de
partment. His Invitation was accepted
several days before It was Issued.
M. Jusserand, the French ambassador,
has formally accepted the Invitation to
deliver an address at the social celebra
tion of the Fourth of July on the south
lawn at the White House grounds.
By the terms of the new license law nf
New Hampshire licensed saloons are for
bidden to sell Intoxicating liquors on Bun-
days, election days, and public holidays,
but licensed hotels are exempted from this
restriction.
It Is said In Philadelphia that when Sam
uel H. Ashbrldge went Into office as mayor
of that city he had debts of record amount
ing to about $40,000. When he retired last
April at tho close of his term he became
president of a bank.
Ex-Governor J. Proctor Knott, at the
age of 73, has settled down for the remain
der of his life, as he hopes. In a new house
built by him In Market street. Ibanon,
Ky bis native town. A fine country home
which he had Just beyond the city limits
was burned a little while ago.
The street car monopoly of New York
has backed down squarely, and the public
come out ahead. Suits are to be dropped,
because transfers are to be given at all
points. Much money will be saved to the
people as some of the road Intersections
to be added to the transfer list, are among
the most important In the city.
Next Saturday Bethuel and Aaron
French, the oldest twins In Iowa and pos
sibly In the United States, will celebrate
their 8Pth birthday at Peterson, Clay
county, near which place each owns a fine
farm. The Frenches were born on the
line between Green and Washington coun
ties, Pennsylvania', but have been In Iowa
many years. Both are In good health and
bid fair to see many more birthdays.
Dr. B. Wler Mitchell says too much
Importance Is attached to college athletics.
In a letter to the senior class of Pennsyl
vania he says: "Tou have lost out of col
lege life that which It were better to have
kept. We played hard In my college days,
but we talked of .our sports less than
you do. You, I fear, care too little for
your Intellectual athletes. Athletic sports
are meant, as I see them, to Insure that
the body shall be made and kept sound.
A sword which was presented by citizens
of Hartford, Conn., to the late Colonel
Daniel C. Rodman has been given by his
son, Charles L. Rodman of Philadelphia
to the state of Connecticut and Is to be pr
served In the Hall of Battle Flags' in the
capltol. Colonel Rodman died In 1878 from
the effects of a wound received at the
assault on Fort Wagner, 8. C, and from
which he suffered many years.
Perhaps Me Was Bern So.
Washington Post.
Nothing can rob the Kansas populist of
his right to protest. One of them who
found a bouse on his farm after the recent
flood la now kicking; because ha did not
get a barn with II
IIOUD ADUIT NEW YORK.
Ripples on the Current of Ufa la the
Metropolis.
Scientific nnd systematic efforts are being
made by the New York Board of Health to
check the spread of tuberculosis In the
metropolis. Tuberculosis now claims mors
victims annually than any other disease on
the list. President Lederle of the health
board proposes to deal with the terrible
malady In a mariner worthy of lta Import
ance. Half a million dollars will be de
voted to that object this year. It is pro
posed to establish a sanitarium capable of
treating 600 patients outside the city, but
sufficiently near to permit of visits by the
frlenas. President Lederle's Idea Is to have
something between the pavilion system and
the cottage system, both of which ha has
seen In operation up the state.
Among the Institutions of Manhattan
Island is Robert M. Budd, "Back-Number
Budd," as he la called. He has a tunnel
like place of business in Thirty-sixth street,
where one may find back numbers of al
most any paper or periodical from the year
1S33 to date. Many years ago, being then a
newsdealer, he noticed that there was a
continual demand for old papers which
were not to be procured at the offices of the
publication and often not at all. Bo ha
began to save papers every day and week,
and as he' found that he could sell back
numbers at an advance of from 1 to 600 per
cent on the original price ha took to buying
up old papers, magazines and other printed
matter. These he had assorted and in
dexed until ha had an enormous stock. His
customers are not numerous, but they pay
tremendous prices occasionally for the
privilege of merely copying something from
an old publication, and "Back-Number
Budd" makes quite a good living out of his
queer business.
At the very moment when the authorities
of Ruskln college are advising woman who
would be happy wives to give up stenog
raphy and typewriting cornea news of the
death, at the age of 80, of the first Amer
ican woman attnographer, Mrs. Ellsa B.
Burns. The "" In Mrs. Burns'a nam re
placed an "a," discarded by the owner to
prove her consistent devotion to the prin
ciples of phonetic spelling.
It Is not quite a half-century ago, relates
the New York World, that Peter Cooper
gave Mrs. Burns a small room In Cooper
Union rent free, where she could teach her
sex a new means of livelihood. Into what
an oak haa the little acorn planted there
now grown! Haa any one else of the many
champions of woman's cause singly done
more for her advancement mentally and In
lines of business progress than this pioneer
teacher of stenography? A copper cent
piece contributed by every girl stenographer
in the land would rear a monument to Mrs.
Burns of Inspiring proportions.
How many women are then thus earn
ing their living? How large la the annual
crop of girls graduated from buainess col
leges with certificates of proficiency In sten
ography? The exact data are wanting,
but In 1899 It was estimated that there were
altogether in the nation about 62.000 women
stenographers. . The figures show on their
face the error of understatement. It Is not
too much to say that New York alone haa
more than 62,000.
Within a few years the new skyscrapers
erected below Fulton street have added
more than 40,000 offices to those already In
use. Is it an exaggerated belief that In half
of these a girl stenographer la at work?
Undoubtedly In the city's skyscrapers alone
of recent construction there Is a larger con
tingent of girl stenographers than was
credited to the entire nation in the esti
mate of 1S99.
A perfectly scandalous condition prevails
In most bf 'the New York saloons. A man
familiar with the brand of whisky he wants
goes up to a seemingly respectable bar and
ordnrs his "poison" only to find that some
flagrant distillation of ammonia and fusel
oil haa been' poured Into the bottle bearing
his favorite label. When he protests to the
bar clerk he la solemnly referred to the
label. One of the oldest of the craft in
lower New York says that not one In a
hundred saloons keeps a full stock of the
advertised brands. Many of them buy bar
rels of raw spirits and run little rectifying
plants of their own In the basements. By
using essential ' oils they can turn out
Scotch, gin, brandy or any of the liquid
staples from one barrel. The only remedy
appears to be a general rush for the "water
chariot."
Work on the Pennsylvania railroad tun
nel, which Is to connect New Jersey with
Manhattan, was begun last Thursday when
men began sinking a shaft at the foot of
West Thirty-second street. This, the north
ern section of the tunnel, extends from
Ninth avenue nnder the North river to
the wustern side of Bergen Hill, on the
Jersey aide, and the work Is under the
supervision of Charles N. Jacoba. The
eastern section will be In charge of Alfred
Noble as chief engineer. "We have started
the largest piece of engineering and con
struction work ever undertaken by a pri
vate corporation," Mr. Jacobs says, "and
we are going about It In a businesslike
manner and will push It through with all
reasonable speed."
There are probably 800 bright young
women In New York who make between
$18 and $25 a week doing private manlcur
Ing. By this la meant that considerable
unattached corps of "artists" who call on
their clients at home or office and do the
work for 60 cents, 76 cents or $1. Men are
the best customers, and one of the curious
things about -It all la that they welcome
the coming of the little manicurist, not aa
a matter of vanity but because they want
to have a little rest and enjoy the small
talk which Inevitably arises out of the
seances. The manlcur girl Is usually
charming person. She talks golf, polo.
horses, yacht races, theaters and all man
ner of Interesting gossip. Frequently she
marries one of hei rich patrons. This, In
deed, was the case today, when a million
aire was wedded to his little manicure
girl.
Gold and stiver trinkets were collected
from the parishioners of the Roman Cath
olic church of Our Lady of Grace In Ho-
boken at all the masses last Sunday. The
gold Is to be used to make a chalice and
the silver to line the tabemaole of the
main altar. Bracelets, brooches, rings.
chains and other articles of feminine Jew
elry formed the greater part of the collee
tlon. Btx persons contributed gold and sil
ver watches.
A statute of the Madonna In the church
Is crowned with a gold circlet worth $1,200,
which was molded from the Jewelry col
lected from the Children of Mary three
years sgo. The Rev. C. J. Kelly, the pas
tor of Our Lady of Orace. aald he did not
know the value o( Sunday's collection, but
that he thought enough gold and silver had
been contributed to make the chalice and
Una the tabernacle.
Bine the Elm street wall of th old
Tombs prison waa torn out recently, the
cells which have harbored so many famous
prisoners In the last century can be plainly
seen from the street. What used to be
known aa murderers' row, In the days when
they banged men In the Tombs, and th
narrow walk In front of It, are now on view
for the first time, and hundreds of people
stop daily now to see the old cells. The
work of demolishing the old prison goea
rapidly on, and befor th summer Is over
there will be llttl left of th picturesque
structure.
Auers
Cherry Pectoral f
For hard colds, chronic
coughs, bronchitis, con
sumption. Ask your doc
tor if he has better advice.
He knows. He has the
formula. He understands
how it soothes and heals.
Tested for over half
a
century.
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Law.lL, Mass.
ONLY ONE IN SIGHT.
President Roosevelt Wlthoet aa Op
ponent la tho Field.
Leslie's Weekly.
President Roosevelt has every reason to
be satisfied with the result of his trip
through the west and to the Pacific coast.
His carefully prepared speeches, as well
as his short extemporaneous remarks, were
all received with great enthusiasm, but It
was th president himself who stirred the
hearts of the welcoming crowds to their
deepest depths. It Is not surprising that
th first Information to greet the president
on his return, as he passed through Indi
ana, was the announcement by Senator
Fairbanks of that state that he Is no longer
a candidate for the presidency next year,
but that he Is for Roosevelt. There are
some who affect to believe that the presi
dent's nomination next year may not be
eonoeded without some show of opposition.
but It must be manifest to every experi
enced politician that nothing. In sight or
out of sight, can prevent the renomlnatlon
of President Roosevelt as long as he Is In
the field. What little opposition has mani
fested Itself In his own state will disap
pear, and he will receive the unanimous
support of Its delegation, and of every other
delegation on the floor of the convention
hall. So far as public manifestations of
popularity go. President Roosevelt, In the
west at least. Is the most popular man In
his party. The outlook, therefore. Is en
tirely favorable to bis re-election, no mat
ter If the democrats succeed In their almost
hopeless effort to get together on some
oandldate who will be acoeptabl to Its
various and widely different factions. Sen
ator Depew Is right. President Roosevelt
will be nominated by acclamation, and will
nam his own running mat.
LAl'GHING LINES.
If I had my way." said the man of high
principles, "there would be no money In
politics."
"But." said Senator Sorghum. "If you
didn't put any money In politics it Isn't
likely you coma nave your way. asn-
ington Star.
Mrs. Nexdore That piano we got for our
laiiffhUr the other Hrv was cilllte A bar.
gain; we bought It at auction.
Mrs. Pennrey Yes. it reminds me of sn
auction "going, going, going," all the
time. Philadelphia Press.
You come ter me fer advice?" asked
Brother Williams.
Dat what I come rerl"
Well, here It Is In a nutshell: Don't
worry yo'se'f Inter a perspiration, en don't
preach hell In hot weather." Atlanta Con
stitution. "What would you do If I were to offer
you work?" -''
it ua do an ngni, mister," answerer
Meandering Mike. "I kin take a Joke as
well as anybody." Chicago Post.
"W,at are you going to do with your
boy7"
'That isn't the question. I'm wondering
what he's going to do with me." Chicago
Tribune.
"Sometimes." said Uncle Eben. "a man
gtta abused Jes' foh habbln' mo' prudence
dan yuthuh folks. I specks dat Noahs
wicked neighbors had a heap to say agin
his ship monopoly aftuh de rain sot in good
an" steady." Washington Star.
' 'Honesty Is the best policy.' " saplently
said the commuter.
'My dear sir. you re wrong! ' exclaimed
the suddenly awakened Insurance agent
who had been dozing In the opposite seat.
"My company nas tne pest policy. We
long ago abandoned the other aa out of
date." New York Times.
THIS TRAVELING MAN.
James Barton Adams In Denver Post.
O, who has not heard his big yarns In th
amoaer
While speeding along o'er the glistening
rails?
A great raconteur, an Inveterate Joker,
Bo full or Drignt gags ana improbable
tales.
Though carea and annoyances oft may dis
tress mm
The air with his tongue he will blithe
somelv fan.
And train-weary passengers gratefully bless
turn.
The Joke cracking, yarn spinning travel
ing man.
When ' trains are delayed upon any oc
casion.
By floods or by wreck or by cuts filled
witn snow.
No gloomy blue devils can make an, in
vasion
And nrlnt unon face a picture of woe.
His fund of good stories has never a limit,
His blight wit is never a flash in the pan.
No clouds of annoyance or trouble can dim
Or wrtnkl the brow of th traveling man.
Th ladlea all think him a Jolly good fel
low.
The sun that Illumines their traveling
' life:
With smllea In his presence their faces ar
mellow
While wondering If he Is blessed with a
wife. '
While trying his shafts of keen humor to
parry
The maidens hi fun-twinkling features
will scan
And vow to themselves when their time
comes to marry
They'll try to hitch onto a traveling man.
O, wouldn't this life be a Jolly exlstenoe.
And wouion i grim oare e a leatur un
known. And wouldn't blue devils look on from a
distance,
And wouldn't our songs have a merrier
tone.
And wouldn't morbidity flee from our portal
If an human creatures were duiii on tne
plan
Of that ever Jolly and genial mortal
The tlrelesa-tongued, never dull traveling
man?
For Nervousness
E.orsford's
Acid
Phosphate
It nourishes and strengthens th
nerves, enriches th blood, vital!
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