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TITK OMATTA DAILY "BEE: HON DAT, JULY 1ft, 100n. 1P OVIAIIA FlAIIV RFP. K. noSEWATER. EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily Bp (without Bundny), One Year. .M M liiy Bee and. Bumlay, One Year H Illustrated lie, One Year Sunday He. one Yenr.... oaiun relay Boo, Una Year 1.H 1.00 Twentieth Century Farmer, One Year. DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Daily Bee (without Sunday), per copy.... Ks Dally B-e (Without Bumlay), per week..Uo Dally Bee (Including Sunday?, per week..l7o nunav nwe, per copy i Evening (without Sunday), per week. 60 wkV.r"..:!" Complaint of irregularis In delivery should he addressed to City Circulation De partment. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha City Mail Building. Twenty-fifth and M Streets. Council BlufTs 10 Pearl Ptreet. Chicago 16) fnlty Building. New York 232 Park How TtiHldrng. Washington 601 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi torial matter should be addressed: Omaha See, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit hy draft, express or postal order, Unly 2-cent stamps accepted In payment of man accounts, rersonal cnecss, exiv Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. THE" BEBJ PUBLISHING COMPAN. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, Oeorra B. Tanchuck. secretary of The Bee y 01 duly f uoiismng berna aava ha the actual number 01 full and complete conle of The Dally Morning.. Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the was as follows: It 81,120 IT 8.T0 IS..., 80.9T0 I.- ao,oto JO.... 80.930 XI...... -2T.T80 21... so.eao 23 . 8O,O0 montn 01 June, iw. 1. ,...30,020 I ......80,970 so.eno ,.. 30,800 ......80,610 8V30 t. 7,0 I .ao,rzo a. .....so.cuo U 15 24...... 27 B8e 80,0)40 10. ......81,000 80,030 8O,BJ)0 81,210 81,310 87,260 ....80,600 12 - am 80Btr40 U ..30,730 14.... ,..JiT,8U Ifi .80,770 SO. 80,0.10 aOUL. . h . .. . . ....... ...!, OSO . Leas unsold and returned copies 8,7ml Net total sale. ........... 90:Wtt4 Net average salsa. 80,075 G HO RGB B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this sou oay 01 June, a. v. . M. B. HUNGATE, (Seal) Notary Public PARTIES LEAVING FOR SCMMKR. Fmrtte leavta-' tn eMy io the iiuutet maty hwe T Bee mmt to tae-m ralarly hr SMrtlfytagr Tn Be Boalaess Ob, la pmi o fer taaXU TJa sUim will fee efcaagea sta oftea mm desired. Uniortrmately so consolation prizes are to be awarded in the normal school location competition. la It not a little too early lit the season and altogether too warm for stretching the legs of political candidates plctort- ally? If Postmaster General Payne doesn't resign from the cabinet tight soon he will disappoint several prophetic jour nals most grievously. When those eastern, college students begin to tackle the wheat sheafs of Kansas they are likely to appeal to the umpire for an. .advance on the score of off side play. When we can't work op a hot time at a republican primary in Omaha by buma'n caloric, the weather man Just turns on heat a little stronger from his solar furnace. The coonty . board la tabulating bids preparatory to entering a few more bridge contracts. Douglas county ought to be the best bridged county in the country before long. Another shining bunch of tax shirkers la to be found In the fire and life Insur ance companies hereabouts which pay less taxes proportioned to. the business done than the railroads themselves. Omaha continues to show up right in the weekly exhibit of comparative bank clearings.'' This means that local busi ness la holding its own notwithstanding the heat of the good old summer time. If the proposed pasteurized milk depot Is established In Omaha Treasurer Een Blngs can make good use of his ran as a baby-saving . ambulance. Always, of course, after the personal taxes have been collected. The provisional bill of fare for what la to be known as the Pike at the fit. Loula exposition reads enough like the list of attractions that graced the Mid way at Chicago to be Its twin sister. Perhaps it will turn out to be an ex purgated edition perhaps. It is hardly fair to say that Nebraska corn grades behind the return for the same period last year when it Is known to have been retarded by late planting and interfering rains. Give it a few weeks more time to catch up and It will regain most of the lost ground. From now on we shall be regaled with the same startling revelations about the republican machine that has so often been consigned to the scrap pile, but all reference to the democratic machine will be discreetly suppressed In the in terest of a strictly nonpartisan Judi clary. The law requiring criminals convicted of murder to be executed In the peni tentiary works admirably. It has proved ltaelf not only a safeguard against lynching mobs, but has also re pressed and suppressed the unnatural craving of the multitude for witnessing the supreme agony of the criminal. The editorial Junketeers have ex pressed their gratefnl acknowledgement for free railroad rides, free trolley rides, free lunches, free music and free enter tainment that will be embalmed in their fond remembrance until the next an nual Junket which, of course, will sur pass all the previous ones until it Is sur passed la tarn by tbe aaxt ont. . 1DLK TALK Or DlHARMAMtHT. A few days ago Ftfine Minister flal four said In the House of Commons that thfe British government had not altered Its views, expressed In the early part of 1002, in regard to the Russian proposal for a conference to discuss the best methods for a diminution of nrtna menu and declared that If any of Uie jrrent powers would tnke the initiative on the subject the British government would be glad to Join It. The premier added: "It must be remembered, how- ever, that the British fleet alone, or alone. '.of all the IWts.In the wnPi,i maln'.v for rlpfpnslve DUT- poses. Other nations coum mane no auch claim and for that reason the In itiative should be taken by some other power than Great . Britain." There la the difficulty. No nntlon Is willing to take the initiative and there fore the talk of disarmament at present is utterly Idle. The maritime powers are strengthening their navies as rap- Idly as possible, their programs of naval enlargement contemplating active work In this direction for years to come. While It may be admitted that Great Britain has a plausible reason for not taking the Initiative In a movement for reducing armament. In the fact that her fleet Is mainly for defensive pur poses, her great preponderance In sea power naturally suggests that she should take the first step toward car rying ont the Russian proposal. The fact Is, however, that If the govern ment were disposed to do this It would undoubtedly meet with an overwhelm ing popular protest The British people are not only most proud of their great navy, but they fully realize Its Im portance for defensive purposes. They will not consent to have It reduced, but will continue to willingly pay whatever may be required of them In orde that Britain's predominance In naval strength shall be maintained. Possibly at some time In the future there will be a conference of the powers to discuss the best methods for a diminution of armaments. The burden of great military and naval establish ments la pressing more heavily every year upon the people of Europe and It Is quite conceivable must sooner or later become so oppressive at to be unbear able. But from all present indications the time la remote when all nations can be brought to agree to a policy such as Mr. Balfour referred to. It Is per haps true that the Idea of peaceable ad Justment of international affairs, by means of arbitration, Is making head way, but those who hope for its full realization must wait, It is to be appre handed, a very long time. TBC 1BISB LAUD BILL, It appears to be pretty well assured that the Irish land-purchase bill will be passed, this, according to all ac counts, being the very earnest desire of King Edward, who Is said to have manifested a great interest in the meas ure and exerted hia Influence in support of the demands of the representatives of the Irish tenants. . A week or two ago this measure was confronted with a serious danger. The secretary for Ireland had announced his firm deter mlnatlon to grant no modification of the original terms of the bill, as asked by the nationalists. Suddenly and nn expectedly there was announced a quite opposite conclusion and there seems to have been more yielded than was de manded by the representatives of the tenants. It is quite probable that the well understood desire of the king had much to do with bringing about the change. It is said that the bill Is safe unless the House of Lords should cut down the concessions obtained by the Irish party in the Commons. The in ftuence of the king will perhaps pre vent this. King Edward is to pay a visit to Ire land toward the close of this month and his friendly attitude in regard to the land-purchase bill should insure him an enthusiastic welcome from the people. There is some speculation, however, in respect to this. The authorities of Dublin Castle have ordered that copies of all adresses to be presented to the king during his majesty's visit to Ire land should be forwarded to Lord Plunkett, Dublin Castle, in order that the lord lieutenant may take the king's pleasure on them. The obvious Inten tion of this is to prevent the presenta tion of addresses other than those pro fessing loyalty to the British crown. It is stated that a large number, probably a majority, of Irish dtles and towns have refused to present such, form of addresses and that most of -the county and district councils have done likewise. Some of the lead ing nationalist members of Parlia ment are opposed to giving the king a hearty welcome, under the circum stances, on his visit to Ireland, upon t'ae rather remarkable theory that It would be used by the British press to make It appear that Ireland's grievances are nominal and her troublous conditions brought about by mere agitators. Mr. John Dillon, speaking for the national ists, recently said that "It Is no time for the representatives of the national lata of Ireland to be cringing or crawl ing before royalties or the representa tives of royalty. If there is one thing above another," declared Mr. Dillon, "that the nationalists of Ireland ought to have learned from the history of their country it Is that nothing was ever won for Ireland by bowing the knee to the representatives of a hostile gov ernment" If this representa the gen eral sentiment there will be a distinctly discordant note in ' the ' reception of King Edward by his Irish subjects. The passage of the land-purchase bill would be a notable, victory for the na tlonallsts and it Is not to be doubted that it would have results most bene ficial to Ireland. The New York legislature only at its session closed this spring enacted a law requiring street railway companies op I crating la that state to protect the mo- tormen by enclosing the front platform of the car during the winter months. Many of the western slates haw been enforcing laws to this effect for many years and the street railway companies no longer regard it as any hardship upon them. It Is certainly surprising that the great Empire state should be so rar behind in the procession as is Indicated by Its tardy recognition of the demand for more considerate treat ment of street railway operatives. A SVOGtSTIVIt KASSAS PARDUH. The questionable exercise of execu tive clemency Is strikingly Illustrated by the pardon Juet granted by Governor Bailey of Kansas to a former county treasurer convicted for the felonious ap propriation of trust, funds. A. J. Pat terson, convicted and sentenced to three years in the penitentiary for withhold ing $5,000 collected from the Illicit sa loons at Clyde, Kan., as license pay ments while he Was county treasurer has managed to evade the penalty im posed by the courts by a pardon before entering the penitentiary. The plea on which Patterson manager to hypnotize Governor Bailey into grant ing the pardon was that the city had no legal right to the money he had em bezzled, but although the city could not hold him accountable for it, he had paid the money back with interest after his conviction. Manifestly, the plea of a convicted Kansas treasury embezzler did not hold good In the courts, other wise his lawyers would have doubtless been able to secure the dismissal of the complaint without trial. The very fact that .Patterson was tried, convicted and sentenced to a term in the penitentiary, and 'that the sen tence was affirmed by the higher courts, proves conclusively that the embezzle ment of funds collected illegally Is Just as much of a crime under the laws of Kansas as the embezzlement of funds legally collected. Incidentally, the ex traordinary pardon granted by the gov ernor of Kansas throws a lurid light upon the lamentable failure, of consti tutional prohibition. The imposition of a liquor license fee and the collection of $5,000 from liquor dealers In a, state in which the traffic, in liquor Is outlawed by the constitution and made a criminal offense by the statutes should be an eye- opener to visionary reformers who are deluding themselves with the idea that prohibition in Kansas , has been a phenomenal success. From any point of view, however, the exercise of the pardoning power for the benefit of a treasury embezzler Is un pardonable. The fact that the. stolen money was refunded with Interest may be a mitigation of the crime and might have Justified the commutation of the sentence to a shorter term, but restitu tion after conviction does not constitute vindication whether it be in Kansas or in Nebraska. In its frenzy to turn everything to its political .capital account . the . World- Herald endeavors laboriously to lay the responsibility upon Governor Mickey for the extinction of the life of the con victed murderer : Just hung at the pen ltentiajrjv 'pecause the governor refused to interfere with the due course of Jus tice. Governor Mickey doubtless could have spared this forfeited life by com mutation or pardon. Just as he might If, so disposed, set at liberty all: the; in mates of the penitentiary without dis crimination, but he would be no more Justified In the one than in the other. But for the execution of the late la mented murderer, the original Jury that tried him Issued the first decree; the fusion supreme court affirmed the de cree; the democratic chief Justice denied an appeal to prevent the execution by Injunction are they not all equally re sponsible with Governor Mickey? Shorn of all hysteria, the responsibility for shortening the murderer's life must be charged up on the murderer himself, who deliberately set out on his career of crime and outlawry with full knowl edge of the pains and penalties. Colonel J. A. Edgerton has been Joined in his call for a conference of true reformers for a revival of popu Usm at Denver this month by Colonel Jo A. Parker, as chairman of the na tlonal committee of the allied people's party and by Colonel X Hawley Ed mlsten as vice chairman of the national committee of the people's Independent party. Colonel Ednilsten, as a measure of precaution, to Justify his assumption of authority to call bis committee to gether sets forth in deliberate detail the resolution empowering him to do the deed, especially when Colonel Marion Butler, as national chairman, so far for gets or neglects the Interests of reform as to let the embers of populism burn low. When all the reformers embrace at Denver and bury the hatchets they have been brandishing at one another, the nation will be saved once more and the dark conspiracies of the money power concocted in the dark abysses of Wall street exposed again and shat tered. Our esteemed populist contemporary, the Nebraska Independent says that The Bee is correct In Its Inference that It will not support the present fusion regents If they are renominated and that should tbepopullst convention see fit to endorse them for a second term it will fight their renomlnation from the time the nomination is made until the last vote la cast. It would not be at all necessary for the Independent to go out of Its way to procure their de feat for whoever may be nominated for regents by the populists will be assured of defeat In advance but yet Its present defiant attitude Is surpris ing as the first evidence that any candl date labelled populist would be too nn palatable for It to swallow. It seems that the National Editorial association tried to get into fashion by producing a deadlock in the election of president but the nearest the editors could come to it was a tie vote on the first ballot The Chicago Great Western Is loom ing up with evidences of an early In vasion of Council Bluffs. When It reaches the east bank of the Missouri It will find a way to cross over to Omaha. I-abor day does not roll around for nearly two months, but from prepara tions already making we may look for the biggest demonstration yet of organ ized labor all over the country. Democrat to Help Not Needed Philadelphia Press. - Governor Pattlson need not worry about "turning the rascals out." They will be turned out aa fast as discovered without any democratic help. World's ureateet Tribute. Washing-ton Star. ' . The greatest tribute to the pope Is that the world has forgotten creed In Its sorrow for death's claim of a gentle life and kindly soul. One of Nature's Curiosities. Chicago Record-Herald. The Wheeling & Lake Erie railroad has received a conscience contribution from somebody who says he once stole a ride on one of the company's 'tralna. A man who is sorry he succeeded in beating ' a railroad might make.Mg money by exhibiting him self aa one of nature's curiosities. 1 Gray Bene Entered. Philadelphia Record (dem.). . Up In the anthracite coal region the newrpapers speak favorably or . judge decree Gray aa an available man for the democratic nomination for the presidency. The democratic party would And It a task no little difficulty to name a stronger candidate. He Is a man of spotless charac ter and unquestioned ability. "What a Boy Kuows." Portland Oregonlan. What a boy knows" is thus summed up by an exch&nge the editor of which was evIdonUy,' sixty years or "more ago, a boy himself: "At 10 years of age a boy thinks his father knows a great deal; at IS he knows as much ' aa his father; at 20 he knows twice as much: at 30 he Is willing to take advice; at 40 he thinks his father knows something; after all; at DO he-begins to seek advice, and at 60, after his father dead, he thinks him the smartest man that ever lived." These estimates are prob ably given for the encouragement or eon-' solatlon of parents who are struggling to make obstreperous boys . of the know-all age "see things," but the awakening of tho boys Is postponed to a date so late that the most patient father and long-suffering mother can only elgh In contemplating It. Pinch of Express Companies. Philadelphia Press. The complaints about the Increase ' of rates by the express companies on July 1 are met with the explanation that wages and other things have Increased. The ad vance amounts to 6 cents a package on parcels ranging frpm' two to fifty pounds. All. of - the companies made the same charges and the same Increase. But they Insist that they have.no association or Joint agreement. It Just happened so. Merchants and others complain, but that does not help them. Water aa aa Asset. ' Springfield Republican. . The collapse of another trust Is recorded In a receivership for t.ne Eastern Milling and Export company: which combines twenty-seven flour mills throughout Penn sylvania. This Is one of the smaller trusts of the New Jersey breed, with a stock cap. ltansation of 14,000,000, but like some of the larger ones It so far failed to realize on wise economies in production aa to be un able to meet Interest on 1800,000 of bonds, let alone paying the expected large dividends on five times that amount of stock. Unimpaired Prosperity. '-July Forum. The country's prosperity does not appear to be impaired. Railway earnings continue large, and the community's purchasing powers abundant On the other hand, the acute distress and almost unprecedented contraction of values ' on the Stock ex change must If experience of the past Is any guide, portend contraction else where. The two problems on which In leresi win especially converge, this com ing season, are the movement of prices ror commodities, reflecting the ' state of general trade, and the export and import movement If exports increase uid Im ports, diminish, larger command -over 'for eign capital will follow, and will be very useful to the markets. Whether or not Such readjustment can be reckoned on without a general lowering of staple prices la a more puzxUng question. THE SEASON'S COAL, PRICES. Unnecessary Additional Charge of 20,000,000 a Year. Philadelphia Ledger. Among the highly Interesting reading to householders on the first of each month Is the announcement that another 10 cents has been added to the price of anthracite coal for domestic use. This exaction began tn May and will continue until October 1, when the Philadelphia consumer will have to pay for the rest of the fall and winter 16.75. The price at the beginning of spring was W.28, which was SO cents more than the normal price at that time of year, and by this system of advances of 10 cents a month the price of coal Is steadily main tatned with beautiful regularity during the whole year, just CO cents above the very high price which prevailed before the strike. The strike In over long ago; the award of the strike commission has been made, but the consumer is still paying, Strike 'prices have been fixed aa the con sumers' permanent lot, and there is no appeal. The annual production and consumption of anthracite coal has ranged in the past from 65,000.000 to 60.000,000 tons, and we learn from the testimony of Mr. Baer at the Interstate Commerce hearing that the demand and consumption are steadily in creasing. The coal operators thus take from the pockets of the consumers the additional sum of $30,000,000 a year. The strike imposed some burdens on the operators, it will be urged. No doubt; but every dollar lost to the oreratora. if anything were really lost, has been regained from the additional 60 cents a ton exacted since coal mining was resumed. The increase of wages to the miners is another charge on the operators. The wage Increase to contract miners was 10 per cent flat and certain Increasea under the sliding scale. The cost of mining coal varies from, say 70 cents a ton to more than 11. Let us be liberal and call It a dollar; and the Coal trust Is then paying 10 cents more than formerly. During a large part of the year the miner gets nothing extra from the operation of the sliding scale, and at most, when the full winter price of $6.76 charged the consumer, the increase to the miners will be about t per cent. Assuming that, on account of other wage Increases the operator will pay 16 per cent more for the mining of coal, or 16 cents ton. it still appears that a permanent charge of about 130,000.000 a year has been fixed upon the shoulders of the consumer over and above the previous unreasonably high prices. The trust takes this money, not because It is just or right, but because Athe people axe helpless. TALK OP TUB STATE PRP.SS. Storkville Republican: If Heldrege gets that normal school and our big crops mate rialise, southewestern Nebraska Ought to consider herself lucky. Kearney Hub: The Pee thinks that a $10, 000 Nebraska building at the St. Louis ex position will look like 30 cents beside the larger state buildings and would not do credit to the state. It suggests that It would he better to use the money In Improving the exhibit, end there Is merit In the sugges tion. Norfolk News: The corn Is putting forth tassels and there are exceedingly good pros pects that there will soon be roasting ears and later on feed for the hogs, cattle and other animals. The required weather has been furnished and Nebraska has redeemed her reputation for doing the right thing at the right time. DIHer Record: Up at Albion the farmers of the county have formed an elevator com pany to buck the elevator trust and con struct a $5,000 elevator. The building Is useless to them because the railroad com pany refuses to "build a sidetrack to the elevator. The Ramsey bill, passed by the last legislature, requires the railroad com panies to build sidetracks to farmers ele vators, and the validity of the law will be tested. Brfken Bow Republican: It la Interesting to note the efforts of the demo-pop papers to persuade the publlo that the state debt has all accumulated since the republicans cams Into power. As a matter of fact the dobt continued to accumulate under pop rule and they did nothing to provide for the deficiency. The republican party not only recognises that the debt Is accumulat ing, but they have enacted a revenue law to remedy the evil. Grand Island Independent: The Bee and World-Herald of Omaha where both "bested" last Sunday afternoon by a special edition of the News of that city, which In public sale bill letters proclaimed the death of Pope Leo, and the fact that the News was the first in Omaha to disseminate the Intelligence. The papers were "bested" for a few keurs, as stated, but I The next day the reliable press associations gave out the attending physicians' bulletins announc ing that the pope was rallying. This not being the only Instance of fake editions It Is somewhat a mystery how the aiscrimmat Ina public of Omaha continues to gobble up oxtra editions of the kind when It ha two other papers with a reliable, trustworthy news service. Weeping Water Republican: The soldier boys of Omaha and Lincoln were a gentle manly lot of young men, both organisa tions were well drilled and their work was highly appreciated by the spectators. York Times: Whatever relation may be between a normal school ana a creamery has so far been safely kept secret from the general public It seems, however, that thev a-o oretty well together, even though nnt 'absolutely necess&ry to each other. If Broken Bow gets the state normal It has the promise of a Wisconsin company that it will Immediately start a VX.vw creamery there. Perhaps the cows need the educa tion or perhaps the students need the "but f atto ilk. nobody except the creamery men and perhaps State Superintendent Fowler knows. Schuyler Sun: If the democrats are really anxious to help the dear people why should thev not do away with their national con vention next year and quietly acquiesce to the republican Roosevelt landslide. It would save a whole lot of unnecessary ana Useless expense and the money might be given to charities (or devoted to paying that debt of the Nebraska pops to Heien uou gar). And then it would save a lot of trouble for the democrats, too, for it win tax an their political sawmills to get planks enough to makTahalfway, respectable platform Certainly they will not be able to make one that will hold Orover Cleveland.. In fact there doesn't seem to be anyone particularly anxious to risk planting their feet solidly on any demooratlo plank In the coming cam palgn. Bryan might do It again, and he Is the most plausible fellow, for he could stand on wind, and furnish the Wind him self if necessary. Nebraska City Tribunes .The "moral, edu cational and religious center of Nebraska," otherwise known as Lincoln, Is In a tantrum bf fear and despair lest she become known as tho "penitentiary city" on account or in more or less frequent executions of the death penalty that will take place within her confines under the state law requiring all executions to be made at the peni tentiary, and accounts of which will of necessity appear In the press of the country under a Lincoln date and Headline. There Is something worse than being known as the "penitentiary city," and the worst of it is that. Lincoln In a great degree merits the harder designation "the city of Immaculate hypocrisy." She wants the game, but ob jects to the name. The warden will find no difficulty In purchasing a hangman's rope at any time from many a good deacon In Lincoln who happens to be in that line of trade. The same good deacon perhaps that would redden with rage at the name of "penitentiary city" and turn first In hi Star or Journal to the sporttng page to see who won the Derby or If Fits put the kibosh onto Jeffrie the night before In some Cali fornia town. This Is the same Lincoln that drops In on us a wlnnlngtnannered poli tician of high aspirations who wouldn't stop In front of a saloon (In Lincoln) to perform an act of charity, ' f o fear he might lose standing with the .supercharged moral ele ment of that religious center, but he can get inside In Nebraska City. If Lincoln win cut out some of that "moral and religious center" talk her shortcomings can be more easily overlooked. PERSONAL. NOTES. Coal oil having proven a fattening diet tor mosquitoes. It is proposed to demolish them with music. If some of the so-called musical phonographs could be turned loose around the swamps the slaughter would be appalling. Pennsylvania Is now pointing at Mis souri a a "horrlb'e example." Most of the Pennsylvania tribe has taken to woods while the Mtssourlans are "hollering" to keep out of -jail. The difference Is la the quantity of noise. John Barrett the newly appointed min ister to the Argentine Republic will not go to his new post until next month. He still ha a lot of work to do In connection with his position as foreign representative of the St Louis fair. Henry James, the novelist. Is about to re visit the United States after an absence of twenty-five years. He intends to make a long stay, and subsequently will publish his experience and impressions of the United States In book form. Of all sad words of tongue or pen, none could equal the unexpressed thoughts of the late Admiral Crownlnshleld as he reads of the doings of the fleet abroad. Not unlikely the retired admiral Is chewing cotton to soothe his feelings. Though General Lew Wallace's hair and beard are now snow white, he still walks erectly and with, smart (read and he talks as entertainingly as ever. The venerable Indiana author declares that he never felt better In his life and never suffers from ache or pain. Under the old congressional apportion ment Florida had two members of th house of representatives. Vnder the new apportionment It ha three. Th demo cratic candidate running last year polled i.JOO, C.600 and 4,200 votes, respectively, in th three district of Florida, a total of 18,300 votea. RorrtD ahovt nkw York. Ripple on the Corrent of Life in the Metropolis, An Interestlns- snA hlf'tursmi fAntiir ef trade life In New Tork at thl season is th Inrush from the country of women, mostly milliner and dressmakers, on busi ness and pleasure bent. Women buyers ore a comparatively new element of trade, and the number Is growing every year. They are distinguished for their Independ ence ana inairrerenee to town customs. They go everywhere, In pairs, trios, quin tets. V nil will m,h IntA tM Im rk 1 . town, gently stringing th hotel deteeUve wno i snowing mem around. Tou will meet un with slaws ant v.. at any old time, on Coney's mystle Isle, racing wun eacn other on the wooden SteeDlechasa bArsns (ahlan.,- ann.lltn.. astride) or looping the loop or cruising In mai awiui contraption called the "barrel 0 love" or even throwing the base ball at the "live coon's" countenance. Their sightseeing Is of necessity accom plished mostly after th hour of twilight, for they are Immoderately busy with busi ness dur Ins- thai itav U,n n tv,.. , . V . I1I.IU buyers only in name. Thousands of them m pilgrimage to New Tork every year Just to "look." The milliners, for Instance, whose soli tary purpose, besides that of diverting themselves, is to look at th nivj,ri Paris hats so. as to be able to copy them wnen tny get back home. These looking millinery women are eordlaliv riiaiiv. k the New Tork millinery trade, and they o rraroe up many schemes to suc cessfully accomplish their mission. The New Tork milliners do not want their Paris model hats copied, of course they want to force the "provincial' women to come or send to New Tork for their millinery. And the visiting out-of-town milliner who comes to New York to "rub ber" at the new Paris things In headgear has her work cut out for her. They are spotted as soon as they enter the Importing emporiums It Is even said that several such establishments employ private female detectives at this season to make the round of the hotels and familiar ise themselves with the visiting milliners' faces aj"d when they are spotted It Is nary a peek that they get at the Paris hats, except those that are on display, t , The outside granite walls of the Clark residence, at the corner of av.ntv.u.. nth street and Fifth avenue, are already -r uo wuuaing is enclosed. But this is but the beainnlna-. HuiMm. v....... - u v.. uniuil ful and artistic designs and pattern have -epara tor the massive bronse doors and domes; for the wood celling and stone frieses of the great dining room. 100 feet long; for the marble and onyx mantels and ceilings; the solid bronse conservatory, over forty feet In h.ioh . . " ' -UdUUIIUBQ Wlin bronse balconies; for the beautiful mar- m. -uuuarr-zor.tn window Jambs; for the massive cartouches tn ft.. . the big fountain, with its cherubs and a uuiuiuue or ouier bronse castings, it g expected that the work can h- .. 1-... within two year if nn ir,..... . i.it.... . .. oy ... now " The mansion cs. pronuDiy not far from ,000,- A Pole on the east side make his living piaies. iie breaks a consldar able number each week for applicants, re ports the Sun, and receive a fee for so doing. The plate to h hniiM 1. va vaakwa p U SI kacVlA J furnished by himself, but occasionally th rmaAMs. Almost anybody might be expected to be able to smash a plate with an Iron ham mer, which is the tool the old man uses, but the courloua thins. h.,. i... w .. . uviaoa la that the blow falls so aa to break the plat into three piece, two of a certain sise and one larger and differently ahaped from the others. There are few chip and splintering from his plate smashing, and never more nor less than the three pieces. mo pistes are mortuary plate and are an Important part of the burial ceremony amnno .r..ln rm knJ t . . .vuuuua, ws. xne two smaller pieces of the potter's war are applied to cover the daal n'. ..... and the larger and longer piece Is meant 10 exiena rrom eyebrow to. mouth. The believers hold that such piece of pottery war placed within th coffin assure pro tection tO the SOUl When it makaa l.a ..I. from the body a stipulated time after burial. Scientists and medical men are watching the transition from brown to white of Rufus Hurburt, a negro who runs a small tobacco store in New York. The trans formation began more than two years ago and ha been progressive, with the singular phase that it is more rapid dur lug the summer than in winter. The new color Is very much ilk that of a normal white person. It is not precisely a pallid white, such as comes from sickness or a haggard condition. Mr. Hurburt's natural hue of skin ts not black, but brown. He was born In Saco, Ma, In 1831 and his family history seems to give no ground for conjecturing that reversion Is operating in his cai His father came from Trinidad, Wast In dies, and lived to the age of lot years. His mother, who was his father's second wife, married when she wa U years old. Sb 1 now 74 year old. A little more than two year ago he no ticed white spots appearing on hi hand. Th white spot grew larger and larger, and Mr. Hurburt, though feeling perfectly Well, thought It wise to get medical ad vice. He called In his family physician. Dr. Richard Conwell, who Immediately de tected the cause, and explained, to his patient's astonishment, that a process was beginning by which the color of the skin was changing from brown to white. Long oeiore tne nanas were even nearly I covered by white skin the scalp began to turn white, then the whole body and Anally the nose. Mr. Hurburt's hands are bow partly . wholly white. The body la now partly white, every month showing a Steady progression in the change. Th nose Is partly white and will perhaps be wholly white by September, according to the present rate of progresa Th rest of th fac 1 giving perceptible evldenc of a changa Cooper Union Is not to be permitted to suffer financially by the death of it great natrnn Ahram a. Hewitt. It was an- nir.l la at weak that th ubcriDtlon to th Hewitt memorial fund, to b used fn th. aneclal education course of the In stitution, now aggregate 111,110, and thl sum wa turned over to tn trust sea imoni the laraest donor ar W. E rwwi. 13S.OO0: Andrew Carnegie. (56.000; John D. Rockefeller. $60,000; 1. P. Morgan, $25,000; George F. Baker, 110,000; Jacob H. nMfr no 000. and Henry PhlDDS. tlAOOO. Th subscription wa sLartsd soon after Mr. Hewitt's death ana win p increasea a opportunity shall offer. SINRISE I IRELAND. Greatest Oar ef th Islaas Abeat t Be Removed. Chicago Tribune. The Irish land bill has been reported out of committee to th House of Commons. Great thing ar expected of thl measure, which 1 in th main the creation of the Irish secretary. George Wyndham. Should the bill pas th British government will advance a huge sun oi money ie puronaa I Irish lan from Its present aUigUa bolder I Acer's Hair Vigor Stops falling hair. Makes hair grow. Restores color. Cures dandruff. Could you ask anything more? And it's so eco nomical, too. A little of it goes a great ways. Sold for 60 years. and to turn It over on easy terms and long-time payment to Irishman. The greatest curse of Ireland has been absentee landlordism. The bill. It It be comes a law, will do away with that phase of Irish life, for the English landlords are not given the choice of selling their land or not, aa they choose. They must sell. When th land I cultivated by Its owners life will be more endurable In Erin. But the freeing of Ireland from economlo Slav ery will not suffice Its people. They still demand local liberty they still want home rule. There should be an Irish parliament for Irish matters, with imperial question left to be settled by the Imperial Parliament at Westminster. Under th present system Itishmen have little more control over local affair than the southerner had during th reconstruction period, when they were gov erned by major generals and bayonets. LAUGHING OAS. Ella Don't you hate to see a man mal e a fool of himself? Stella Yesj If it's about another woman. -New York Herald. Euphemia Professor, I suppose -you. would be afraid to marry a logical woman. Professor Oh, no; if she was really log ical I could convince her once in a while.-" ' Detroit Free Presa She George, dear, you remember that lovely sideboard that I told you I should like to buy because It wa u& cheapT Well, I've discovered a plan to make room for it. He How, my dear? She By taking a larger house. Sa n Francisco Wasp. Miss Parcavenue Are you going to th musicals at the De Squalle' tonight? Miss Utaplace I don't know. Ar they going to have musio or Is Gwendolyn going to sing? Baltimore American.. . . s . , "How did he get bis title of colonel?' "He got It to distinguish him from his wife's first husband, who was a captain, and his wife's second husband, who was a major." Cleveland rialn Dealer, "This world Is but a fleeting snow," re marked the austere clllsen. : ' "I suppose so," answered Mr. Btormlng ton Barnes. "And the taxpayer Is the man who pays his money at the box onice and takes whatever the managers choose to give him. Washington Star. Baaawaisaa ( - Kitty Harry Dlx ssys you are pretty ns a picture. Clara Nonsense! He didn't mean It. Kitty Oh yes. he did. But of course you know Harry's taste in pictures isn't any thing; to brag about. Boston Transcript. "DO you. know, young man. that tlits country is on the verge of rulhj ssked the pessimist old party with the' shiny "'Do"i?" replied the bright, young man Why, I'm carrying around a camera all the time to get a snapshot at it a It roe over. It wlll.be the greatest fP,, ever!" lndlinapolis News. ahan T aafaad eld Blnks for his daughter. Why. I wept, my-., elf " "Did he kick as hard as all thatr-Chi-cago Post. ...... THE ICE CREAM SODA GIRL. t n..inn A4ama in Denver Poet. We sing about the sum."',- irirljn semi- . heavenly lays, . The neashore girl In startling garb with blushing face we praise, The- fearless mountain climbing girl we laua up to tne And horseback girls who ride astride we IU1IUW Will. VW. Bcw - ... Though there be files on picnic girls, or even uui n.iu n--We think for fun and Jollity they all are perfect bricks, But In the charming galaxy our best bou- ... - At one who taken the cake of Ice, ths Ice cream moan Sin gh sits on the revolving stool In sweet artistic pose And on the floor beats a tattoo with nim ble little toes, ...... And as the colored artist squirts the soda . on th cream Her bright antlclpaUve eye with hungry sparaiea Rinai... . . With spoon in dainty finger she the del icacy sips . ' , The coolness adding redness to her plump rose-tinted lips, ' The while she to her escort talks each word a witty pearl No repartee so bright - aa hers, the loe cream soua. sjin. When walking In the gloaming In the sultry summer air With he whose shark and salary she soma day hopes to snare By some hypnotlo Influence she U ter him to the spot . Where fountains flis and all the air with flavored smell is fraught. She'll smile upon the dapper coon nd on her beau in turn And say she guesses she will take omo chocolate in her'n. And he, of course, will take the same he'd be the churl of churls - -Whose flavor taste conflicted with hi Ice cream soda girl's. t, ' Some maidens take their soda straight, some love the gassy pop, Some think that in the line of drinks pink lemo is on top. For phosphates some dear creatures yearn, some dote on cherry flis . And some think coca-kola is th only drink what Is. Some love to sip the ginger ale, root beer some others like, Some even tip the mystlo wink for vlohy with a spike. But for exquialtenes of taste our banner w unfurl And boldly take our stand beside the Ic cream soda girl. - In both Um pleasures end prats as ofHlraaRootbeer. Xtoeitght&4 benefits both old and yeong. Rootbeer, 1 pre-eminently tb bom bever age for hot weather healthful, braolng, eooling and -refreshing. And yoa can drink all ya wat. Lb mors th batter. A aa. aiaket saDana Bold naprbm, or am bi aU aaaa atoalpt ! aauia , aooalst free. OMARLIS ft. HIM OO Mat. pa iho Family rL jb All Join Vi w ."-a