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TTTE OMATTA DAIXTY BITE: TIUJHSDAT, .irijY in, l!)OH. The Omaha Daily Peel 1 E. ROSEWATER. EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVEKT MORNtNO. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. pally be twlthout Sunday), One Tar..M Laily Bee and Sunday. One Tear J-w I Illustrated bee, una Year Miday Bee. One Year. ilurday bee. One Tear.. l 1' twentieth Century Farmer, One Tear DELIVERED BT CARRIER. to I Dally Bee (without Sunday), per copy ally Be (without Hunday). per w..l" I Dally Be (Including Sunday), per we.. 170 Bunoay Bee, per copy J lV2r&tiTVy week .".:.iiZ?lt)artlcinatlnir in the ran Mar re. 850 of Complaint ot irregularltes in should be addressed to city Circulation ! I partmeot OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha-City Hall Bunding. Tw-ty-flfth and M Streets. Council Bluffs 10 Pearl Street. Chicago 140 tTnity Building. New York 2328 Park Row Building. Washington 61 Fourteenth Street ' CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi torial matter should be addressed: Oman See, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, eirreea or poatal nrder, payable to The Be Publishing v.omi"w.j. Only -ent stamp accepted i in payjnen1 " mm accounts. rrmnii " ".-, 1 Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. 1 THE BKE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CrrtCTJLATION. tat of Nebraska, Douglas County, . Georr B. Tsschuok, secretary of The Be Publishing Company, being "wornJ ays that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally Morning. Evening and Sunday Be printed during the month or June, was a wu" l ao.aao I SO,9TO IT... I .....0,GO 18... 4 .......SCrtOO 1... I i. 80,810 ' ... .goao I ST,060 ... I 8O.T20 13... .....80,510 24... 10 Sl.OOO 25... .si.iw 80,070 80.9T0 8O.09O fJO.VSO 87.TOO 8o,ao 80,800 80.030 u bo.bso ..81,210 U 80.S40 U 30.T80 14 TJ1 U 80,7TO 91 81,310 87.SWO 29 SO.BOO to!!.- ao.oao 8U.OSO Total Leas unsold and returned oopl twi Net total sales 00304 Net averag sales 80,075 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to b.ror. m. this 80th dajroW j (Seal) - Notary Pubu PARTIES LEAVlgQ FOR SUMMER. Prtls leaving th city. lo tk namtr may Tfc B sent to them regularly , by , otlfylag Tne Bee Baelaee Otoe, la paraom or y Ball, The avddreee will ehat4 a often dlrd. Pope Leo's doctors are not the first doctors to bo fooled by a patient . A tip to the temporary chairman of the . republican state convention make It short. ' .The Omaha Woman's club seems to find the good( old summer .time as good mer was t0 become a waiter at a aura as any other old time to manifest Its mer hotel. Some yet do this, but the activity in the entertainment of its gUeStS. I Just to show that they play so color favorites, the Kentucky mob has hanged a white man. Whether this will make the negro population feel better, 'how-1 .over. Is open to question: ... ' J The new Pacific cable appears to be working all right But Just wait until the emperor of China tries to send the Chinese minister a telegraphic com muni- cation In the yellow vernacular. ine ariermatn or tne Fourth is still reflected in dispatches telling of delayed fatalities from toy pistol execution. The next invention should be a toy pistol mac win nmsn its joo an at once. That story about an Iowa man refus ing a $7,000 appointment as a member' of the New York board of appraisers reads aatt it needed verification. Iowa Las nox been passing Up anything good of late. If any paving is to be done in Omaha this year that is not yet under way it should be expedited at. once without i further unnecessary delay. The hurry work of the fag end of the season is al ways apt to be poor work. One hundred and seven divnr,... granted by one judge on the district ucucu iu ires man nine months la a pretty fast record. How many clergy men In Omaha can equal It with their record of marrlago ceremonies? Secretary Koot may eventually resign from the secretaryship of the War de- partment but If he does he will write his own resignation without waiting for the aid or consent of any of the Wash- ington newspaper correspondents. in order that the czar may not be taken by surprise, be Is to be notified In advance through the American em- bnssy of President Roosevelt's Intention year. There are many southern demo to forward the Jewish petition. If this crats who, while prepared o drop dead is not sufficient to give the czar due issues, are 'strongly opposed . to the warning a few marked copies of Amerl- can newspapers might be mailed to his address. City Treasurer Hennlngs call for out- Standing city warrants Is a reminder a great many western democratic re tbat the city gets the short end of It on organizers. However anxious they may the interest account of its floating debt be that the pnrty shatl be placed upon it pays i per rent on us own rmner. while It receives only 2 per cent on Its nan Balances. The closer .. the city treasurer runs to the rash In hand the less wm d me expense item charged up to interest. . . The -disbarment trial, in progress in Montana against the chief attorney of one of the big copper mining companlea, charged with offering the Judge a bribe of fJ30,000. ought to bring out some interesting developments, even in a state that baa received so much' notoriety from bribery and corruption charges, iue cmwi rorciDie circumstance mat stand out In defeuse of the accused is iuc ion inn iu sum ne is saia to nave offered as a brtle has so many ciphers to.lt If .lt were $2,600 instead f f-'W.OOO.lt WOV14 look more plausible, trrtcrtvB tnortnn. -Whother or not tb Russian govern- mont shall receive the Jewish, petition, tbe protests of the American, people and those of other countries 'against the I Klshlneff massacre and the general trlUnpnt of j , Ru81,a bve bee " . effective In bringing that govern nieut to i sense of Its obligation to humanity nd' It im rnaiiohf kft" AvVkAf A will result in reforms' tbat will materially Itnnrnva mnrilHnna ". ! tho rilanfltches " - t . have already recorded, there have been 800 rre-M.ot person! '.charged with ' , ... whom vrere remanded for trial in tbe lower courts and 450 sent; to- a higher conrt, fifty-three of the latter being in dicted for manslaughter. It is entirely safe to say that the Russian authorities would not have taken such decisive steps for punishing the perpetrators of the Klshlneff massacre but for the protests, unquestionably the most Influential of whli.h ti-m m that gt th ' A ml1rtl rifwirllrt . M''tm w r . . "J Russian officials and newspapers. It , , . i , . was the indignant voice of . America that . . In regard to the petition from the Jews 'and others of this, counfry It .has been decided, after careful, conslderti- tlon, net. to transmit it unless-the Rus sian government is willing to recelre It and our diplomatic representative" has been Instructed to ascertain the disposi tion of that government In' the matter. While tbe unofficial transmission of such a petition should -cause no offense, still the course decided npon is doubtless tbe wiser one and Is said -to be-entirely satisfactory to those most concerned. It is expected that ' the Russian govern ment will decline to receive tbe petition, but' It is already well Informed regard ing American public opinion and is showing respect for it 1 " COLLK01C MKCt AS NAItrKSTf RS. The novelty of students in eastern col leges coming west in considerable num bers to work in the' harvest fields has commnnded- widespread attention and the youug men are being warmly com mended for their pluck in engaging In this class of work.. Harvesting calls for bard and strenuous labor.. Tbe harvest hand goes to. his task early, and' works late, putting in frota ten . to fourteen hours a day, but he Is welt fed on good, wholesome food ' and , the man who Is physically able to do the work wiU,.flnd It healthful and strengthening. It is remarked that this, willingness on the part of college men to .take hold of hard work and to face rough conditions is a great advance in the college atmos phere of a dozen or fifteen years ago. Then the accepted thing for a student wno wsnea to make money in the sum innovation now being made will prob- OUiJ AVTBOr-U 1U IUIU1D UiC UUUiLni UL waiter students; who must depend chiefly upon -tips for'theff pechnhtry -re- ward. ' The harvest fle14 t-yertlnly n manlier place thari' the summer hotel dining room and the' student ypho earns something by - houast- tven 4, though harder work In the former -must think better of himself for having, done so, The college students who have conie west will return to their studies .with hardier frames and broader minds. AH TO DEMOCRATIC HARMOIIT. gorne democratic organs are able to persuade themselves that there Is favor aDie promise of the democracy' har moulting for next year's campaign and that if this shall be realized the party will have a good chance of success. Thus the Philadelphia Record, which, is a very earnest advocate, of reorganiza tion, remarks that' democratic harmony is progressing ' satlsfadtorHly enough- much more.so, lri act, 'hkn coilld have oeen anacipatea.. .year, afto," , ,ri?iat paper- finds the' democrats of the- south showing a strong disposition" o drop dead issues and thinks that'towas late democratic state .convention , has . given an earnest of the sentiment that per- yadeslthe party In the west ' It says that with the exception ,of an in- transient nere ana mere trm.aemo- crats of the 6081 are a,ad PrePared to turn their backs on' the "past and grapple with the issues ofHhe living present . ..... It is true that the movement for re organizing the democratic party has re- P11 mme encouragement A' number of prominent men and Influential news- P"ner" ,n the south 'are favorable to it on'1 tnre is a considerable supporting sentiment for it In , the west But in neither of these sections is there general agreement among the supporters of re I organization as to the form and scope it should take and anything but harmony in regard io democratic leadership next proposition to make Mr, Cleveland again the standard bearer of the party, or to place In leadership any one who has been actively Identified with Cleveland- Ism. - The same la undoubtedly true of la different basis, thev ar n.r.n. opposed to the eastern idea of Cleva- landlzing it That ' would require the casting aside practically In its entirety the Kansas City platform and It is very doubtful If a. majority of democrats in the south and wst are now or will be a year hence prepared to do thla. The decline of Bryanlsni U unquestlon able, but It is by no means dead and In fact has still a much stronger fol- lowing than the reorganizing element In the party may be disposed to admit, Its author has not surrendered and so far as appears does not propose to and 1 be baa earnest and aggressive bupDort ers who will be much In evidence,, there i is gooa reason to bellare. In the next I national democratic conTenMoh. The Beeord sees hope for' the'demoo I nCj la th differapoaa f Htf repabllcaa ranks. It finds signs of a silent revolt In the republican party. It is not to be doubted that there ore some dissatisfied republicans, but there Is no evidence or indication that tbe number of such is large enough to endnnircr the success of , the party. .The expressions of re publican 'conventions, such as those of Ohio and Iowa, unqualifiedly endorsing the course of the national administra tion, 'show 1 the general sentiment In the party,'' which'' as a whole was never better united or- more harmonious than at this time. What may happen within year to change this condition it is impossible to say, but democratic hope based upon the possibility of dissension or revolt in the republican ranks has a most unpromising outlook. As to demo cratic harmony, the signs are that the party will be no nearer to It a year hence than It Is at present in TOO ORE AT A RUSH. Acting on the advice of the city at torney, Tax Commissioner Fleming an nounces that he will undertake to Ini tiate on his own account the new reve nue law passed by the last legislature by applying its provisions to the assess ment to be made by him for the ensuing year. The principal change which will be worked by this proceeding on the part of the tax commissioner will be with reference to the assessment of per sonal property, respecting which the new revenue law is much more inquisi torial than the present law. Notwith standing the fact that the first step con templated by the law makers as prelim inary to the enforcement of the act con sists of the organization of the State Board of Equalization and Assessment and the promulgation by that board of schedules for the listing of personal property, Tax Commissioner Fleming proposes to anticipate the action of the state board, which cannot meet until after his period for the work of mu nicipal assessment is completed. With due regard to the legal learning of Mr. Fleming's advisers, we believe that his plan puts the cart before the horse and that by assuming duties which . are not devolved upon him he will not only be running the risk of an Interpretation of the law different from that put on It by, the state authorities. but will also place Omaha taxpayers at a disadvantage as compared with j those in other parts of the state. The tax commissioner undertakes to find au thority for making his own schedules In that section of the charter which em powers him ' to provide the necessary blanks and forms for carrying on the business of his office, but it seems to us that this authority refers simply to the usual ' records which such an - office would have to have and the forms for notifying property owners in cases of their assessment or summoning them to appear before the assessor or review ing boards. Under our separate tax commissioner system the assessment of personal prop erty in Omaha has been steadily and wonderfully Improved and there is no question but that we have today a more nearly equitable assessment than ever before. No harm would come from con tinuing on the present plan of personal assessments for another year, so far as the city taxes are concerned, and by letting Omaha fall in with the smaller details of the new revenue law when it applies to the entire state lather than to this city alone. If It is a question which may, without straining the law, be decided either way, the taxpayers of Omaha should be given the benefit of the doubt rather than to chance a sacrifice of their interests by being in too great a rush. We feel It would be wiser to let the state board wrestle with the formula tion of assessment, schedules first par ticularly as there is no assurance that the example set by the Omaha tax com missioner will be followed by the state board later. It Is not too late for Tax Commissioner Fleming to reconsider his proposed course. The confusion created by divided au thority and divided responsibility in municipal government Is again . illus trated by the contention between the South Omaha police board and the South Omaha council. Tbe police board, looking to the governor as its source of power. Is Imbued with the idea that it has a right to dictate to the council which is commissioned by the people direct what the tax levy shall be for fire and ' police purposes, or, In other words, that It has practically independ ent taxing , powers. Omaha police boards buve never assumed to have any such prerogative, but have bowed to the necessity of, making their expenditures conform to the appropriations fixed by the council. For the protection of the taxpayers it is absolutely essential that the taxing power be vested in a single responsible body If the tax rate Is not to go soaring sky high with each de partment putting the blame on the. other. There la no good reason why the rail roads should have to be Importuned to keep the viaducts In repair every time they get out of condition. The viaducts save their cost to the railroads every year In permitting the unobstructed transit of their trains at full speed to say nothing of damage suits avoided for Injury by accident at grade cross injrs. Under such circumstances the roads ought to be glad to pay the small amount required for the maintenance of these' structures without waiting even for a second notice from the city authorities. Under the city charter tbe mayor Is vested with all appointing power sub ject only to confirmation by the council. When the' council undertakes to fill po sitions by concurrent resolution It in effect reverses the usual mode of pro cedure and makes an appointment sub ject to eonflrmation by the mayor. If the point la raised, there may be a ques tlm whether tbe council has legal au- tborlty to employ anyone for the city by resolution without .the mayor's assent. The advertisement for supplies for the commissary division of the military de partinent'of the Missouri declares that ."preference will be given to articles of domestic production." Uncle Sain be lieves in practicing as well as preaching under the motto, "Patronize home In dustry." It would be a good idea to have a similar clause Inserted when proposals are asked for supplies for state institutions. The collapse of the Christian Endeavor tent at Denver is ald by an experi enced circus man to be due to defective pitching. To make sure against the re petition of such an . accident when the Christian Endeavorers set up their tent again they should Join hands with a good old-fashioned ring show Whose crew knows how to put up the canvas and alternate performances on succes sive days. , Nearlnar the Favortt Teat. Philadelphia Ledger. The Agricultural department Is to try th effeots of tobacco on Its squad of hu nyui specimens. If whisky be added to this regimen th rush of applicants will prove a strain to th department. Unndnlteratea Kerr Foo4a. Baltimore American. Th pur food campaign is on. From th amount of pur and unadulterated nerve displayed In many quarters It would seem that at least on Una of foods nerve foods ar free from com pounds and adul teration." Com I as" Goald Merser. Kansas City Star. And now the Missouri Pacific, Wabash and other Gould railroad properties ar to be welded into on great transcontinental system, following th example of th Rock Island and th 'Frisco consolidation. At th present rat of "merging" It Is only a question of years until there will b only on railroad system In America. Irish Historian Pensioned. Springfield Republican. Justin McCarthy's pension of 11,200 from the conservative British- government would never have come to him,' perhaps, had he not always been eo very amiable In his criticism of political opponents. He treat ed the enemy with such unfailing affability In debate,' essay and history that that very enemy now endows him with government funds In his old age. Mr. McCarthy, of course, will accept the pension. Dr. John son accepted one from the Hanoverian king after nursing for a lifetime the con viction that the house of Hanover repre sented sheer usurpation; and If Tt. John son could do that, the former leader of th Irish nationalists can take with thanks an endowment from a government which con tains Joseph Chamberlain. , . r- Expaaelon t Trolley Lines. Philadelphia Press. Th rapidity with which vast changes are mad In any line pf tmslnass to meet new conditions Is Illustrated by th street rail ways of the country. In 1890 there were only. 1,262 miles of ,f rack need for electric oars, while now out of 22.577 miles of track not 1 per centals used for horse cars. Ca bles as well as horses have given place to electric wires. . Thejlflareirse of track since 1890 has been 176 per cent. There are 987 electric street railway, oornpanles and sixty nine Interurbah systems. This la a new and rapidly gtdwlnfr 'feature, and Is ex tending over country roads In a way greatly to facilitate travel and to enable people to reside In the country, at a small cost, miles from, their place of 'business in town or city. This is a greaf, benefit In many ways, and the work" has only Just begun. . CRISIS OF THE SMITHS.' Too Hash Johnson Threatens Their Pre-Emlaiaei, New 'Tork 8un. Know all Smiths by these presents that they ar not doing their duty; that they are falling behind in th' rac; that they are on the path to race suicide. One we believed In the Smiths. We thought that the world was theirs. It was a comfort to feel that wherevtr' you went the Smiths were at the head of, the poll. Voting lists were purple with, Smith. Directories sagged with Smiths. The country ..was safe and happy under the 'protection 'of the mul titudinous and oonsteHsted Smiths. And now wher ar the Smiths? The manager of the Chicago directory Is a Smith. He la not the man to let a Smith escape from his agents. ,.Te his figure show that there re - 5.988 Johnsons and only 6,874 Smiths In Chicago. 'The . Smiths ar running a close sec ond," writes an Inter Ocean reporter, whoa patronising manner : betrays him as a tri umphant and sneering Johnson. It has not been the habit of the Smiths to be second. Have they lost their long pre-eminence T Must they decrease and the Johnsons In crease? Where Is Mowbray? Where Is Plan tageaet? Nay, what Is store and most ot all, where is Smith? Will the Smiths yield without a struggle to the Johnsons? Call the clan together at Peapack. Th Smiths must meet the crisis like Smiths. HOPE OF TUB DOWNTRODDEN. Eloqnent Words Embodying a Ltion for Thinking American. Chicago Inter Ocean. 'I am going to America, for In that direction lies hope. My great ambition Is to breathe at least once th fre air with which Clod has blessed the Amercan people. In these words, uttered by an unlearned Russian Jew to John B. Weber, late com missioner of Immigration at New Tork and quoted by him in a public address at Atlantic City Tin Sunday, there abide lesson for every thinking American. For some Americans so little realise the value of their birthright that they will say. after all, their country Is not so much bet ter than other countries. Franc, they will say. Is a republic, and England Is virtually a democracy, and Germany la very well governed Indeed, and In the and soma other countries a man can b as .fre as In th tTnlted State, and after all we Americans have not very much to be proud of that other nations also do not possess. Tet when those who feel themselves op. pressed In the lands of their birth look out over th world to find some country where a man may stand upon his feet as a man and b free, they do not turn to Oermany, or to France, or to England, or even to brave little Holland or Swltserland, but to the TTnlted State of America. With an our failures in making our country th Ideal of the fathers. It Is still In the main what the men of 1T7S meant It to be the refug of th oppressed of all. the world th light that shines upon them' that walk In darkness the land which Ood has blessed with a fre air that to breath even once Is th ambition of th poor and lowly th bop of th downtrod den everywhere. "And the American mho thinks or speaks otherwise but blackens his own fac with th sham of him who scoffs at bis birth right and forgets his mother. WESTER TKACItrna I HOSTO. They "Cnt th Mretlnae and Onve Society Frost. A Boston letter In the New York Herald tells of some of the dilngs of the teachers at the Boston conventlim. A noticeable fea ture of the ratherlrin wns the larjte num ber of schoolma'ams who rwere there for "a good time." Thoy "cut" the meetlnus. didn't buy newspapers nnd reg-arded so ciety as "chlllyl" 'The western teachers," says th writer, "started In to have n good time, but be fore long seemed to get the Idea that they were being watched by policemen In uni form and In plain clothes. Several of both kinds were In evidence, and th westerners assort that besides being wiitched their right to be present was questioned In sev eral Instances. Altogether they seemed to get the Idea that BoBton society was a rather "frosty" affair, and not a few pub licly contrasted It with the heartiness of the welcome extended by those who had met them upon their arrival In the city. At several of these receptions southern women were surprised to find negroes among the guests, and they made their visits very short In consequence. These social events did not find much favor with the teachers. At some of them, where ns many ns 300 in vitations were sent out, not more than a third of that number responded, and some of th leading members of the North Shore colony who had made elaborate prepara tions for th entertainment ot educationists were surprised to find that only a few re sponded. 'Th teaohers went In for a good time in their own way, and the ocean proved the biggest attraction for most of them. Months aa-o. when the .local committee was making J Its plans, Dr. Eliot suggested that the west k- .u-n down to Revere beach and given a bath, and It seemed as If thousands of them had acted upon the suggestion. Western schoolma'ams by the hundred took their first dip In salt water this week, and seemed to enjoy It. They went In pnrtles and thev wera bright, breesy, unconven tlonal parties very different from those usually seen there, although Rever beach is anything but a puritanical resort. The westerners, however, took more kindly to the camera than Boston girls do. The teachers were more numerous at tne amusement resorts than anywnere jiw even In the most historio spots of Boston and at all times a woeful lack of male es corts was noticeable. At the beaches, on th Charles river, where hundreds or tnem went eanoelns: every day, there were ai ways at least six women to one man, and the escorts wer sadly overworKea. jviai tora became so desperat at times that on riw mm lone man would be hiis-d to oaddre a heavily loaded canoe with two or three others, all filled with white shlrt-walsted teachers, in tow. "The women visitors astonished Boston in a number of instances, one of the most re markable sights being on the opening night of the convention, when Mechanics' hall was filled out Into the street, something like 17,000 being Jammed within th walls and thousands more turned away. After the first rush, and when the seats were all filled, about 300 women managed to get In, and being unable to obtain chairs sat on th floor In an open space to the right of th auditorium. Bostonians siooa aghast. But th most -remarkable thing about this meeting was the quickness with which the curiosity of the throng was satis- fled. Less than an hour after the proceed lnxs had begun long enough for the visit ore to get a glimpse of Dr. Eliot and others they had 'heard so much about' the speakers were talking to empty seats, and at times had to pause In their remarks while hundreds left the hall. This condl tlon of affairs prevailed most of the week. While ther were about 80,000 visitors registered, a meeting at which there wer 2,000 was considered large. It was sight seeing all ' the time, day and night, and ther has been so much of It In Boston sine the Christian Endeavorers were here about eight years ago. No matter where on went in Boton there were school teachers, mostly women. The Charlestown navyyard, the school ship and the docks were bright with white shirtwaists; the In terior of the Bunker Hill monument was clogged with them half th time; the old North church had the largest congregations In a decade, and Copp s hill, the Old Granary and King's chapel burying grounds showed more life than they have for years. The teachers were so busy seeing things that they did not have time to read about them. "Although the Boston papers added more pages and devoted almost their entire space to Innumerable and lengthy discourses on the proper methods of Instructing the young idea In his different stages of development, there Is little to show that the visitors were St all Interested In the display of enter prise. Circulations failed to boom even in th vicinity of Copley square. The head quarters were used principally as a place to register and make assurance doubly sure about return tickets. PERSONAL NOTES. Admiral Tamamoto of the Japanese navy has nailed some more fans on his battle ships and says he is not afraid of Russia. Though the Delaware peach crop has been killed only about three times thla season. It seems that It will really be short. E. Q. Vaughan of Richmond, Ind., has the finest private collection of Continental currency In the country, and It will bo exhibited at the St. Louis fair. . A lieutenant who was "born In Tennes see and raised in Kentucky ' has been dismissed from the srmy. It Is possible to handicap a man too heavily. Probably the oldest public officer In the nation Is Judge John Slaughter, Rsslstnnt to the stat librarian of Wyoming, who has Just passed his 94th birthday. A Fourth of July statistician makes out th casualties of the recent anniversary to be fifty-two persons killed and 3,665 Injured, with a property loss by fire of HQO.KX. Rostand, who was made an "Immortal" In Paris, recently. Is famous for his fancy waistcoats, of which he is said to own over 100. Indeed, French papers talk more about his varicolored garments than about his literary work. Ex-Oovemor Boutwell, Silas Dean and Hon. Robert T. Davis, the three surviving members of the Massachusetts convention of 1S53, have Just held a reunion In Boston In commemoration of th fiftieth anniver sary of that famous event In Massachusetts history. Th New Jersey Historical society has elected President Roosevelt a life member. He is th first president of the United States to be thus honored, although Vice President Hohnrt was a life member, and Mrs. Hobsrt, his widow. Is one of the honorary vice presidents. An amusing feature of the reception given by th Larchmont Tacht club Satur day evening to Sir Thomas Llpton was the singing of a song specially written for the occasion by Clay M. Greene. Th song was "Tommy Llpton," and was a parody on Kipling's 'Tommy Atkins." Sir Thomas enjoyed th clever verses Immensely. They tell In New Tork Of a man named King who resides In Europe, visits all the capitals, knows ell the big wigs. Is at home on all the bourses and generally keeps track of whatever is going on In the money markets. He cables dally to the Standard Oil company and some of th allied life In surance companies. His rabies are kept secret. They sre full of meat. Th trans actions Of th Rockefellers and a few others ar based upon his say-so. II r elvs a salary of 835,000 a year. HOI Ml A IIOl'T NEW YORK. nipple on the Torrent of Life In the Metropolis. There Is one msn In Brooklyn who Is convinced that Liberty, with a cspltnl U Is nothing more than Bartholdl's bronse figure In the harbor. Some time ago he con cluded thnt as town painting produced a d irk brown, feeling In the morning h would ronllne his color scheme to his own house. le proceeded to put on th paint a bril liant redand when th Job was done his neighbors were obliged to draw their blinds to keep out the glar. In a few days the locality was ripe for an .Indignation meeting. The authorities were consulted, the law department dug Into legal tomes and the police prepared for a riot call. Arter some persuasion, as a peace meas ure the owner of th carmine house was Induced to ton down the color. The labor strike which Is about ending has been the most costly of Its kind In the history of labor In this country, for the time It has occupied, when It is considered that only two boroughs of New Tork City, Manhattan and the Bronx, were directly affected by It. Conservative estimates place th cost of the fifty-one days the shutdown has lasted up to date ss follows: Wagps lost by employes TB.000 skilled and 87,000 unskilled men. . .17,889,000 Loss In Interest, prospective profit, office expenses, etc, to eontrao- T tor 80.000,000 Loss to worktngmen In other trsdes through lack of production, owing to falling off In circulation of money, principally among win earners - 10.000.000 Total $67,839,000 To this might b added loess to local grocers, etc., tn Industrial districts, and to landlords and others. Latterly th shut down has been followed by a number of dispossess cases, th list Increasing weatUy It was evident that a dignified stranger from the south had com to town for th first time and was exploring Broadway. He stole a glancs at the flower girl on th corner and Jammed his left shoulder Into a Wall street banker. Both grunted. As he turned to apologize to the banker a blow In his side whirled htm around, bringing him face to face with a young woman who seemed In a dreadful hurry. H sprang lightly aside to let her pass and came down on the toe of a portly Vesey street mer chant, who soowled viciously, paid no atten tion to his "I beg youah pahdon, sir," and hastened on. A long beam on th head of an Italian swung round, taking the stranger's silk hat off. His quick stoop to rescue It suddenly checked the rapid prog ress ot a member of congress, who swore softly. Th Impact sent Sir Dignity down toward the pavement so fast that he put one hand through the crown of his hat Gathering In the wreck, he started ' to straighten up, when the back of his head caught the chin of the garter man of th Park bank, putting that worthy's Jaw out of business. A kind-hearted policeman took charge of the old gentleman and gave htm some use ful advice, which he thus Jotted down In his memorandum book: "To see Broadway: Push right along as If you are trying to catsh a train. Look neither to the right nor left Don't see anybody. Don't try to get out of anybody's way. Never stop to apologize, even though you knock a man In th gutter. Walk straight ahead and he will think it was his own fault Don't lose your temper." Grisly Jokes ar perpetrated tn th ad vertising columns of New Tork papers all the time. Not long ago a Joker Inserted an advertisement In on of New York's Italian dallies to the effect thst Paul Dresser, the hugely adipose composer of popular songs, among them .fThe Blue and the Gray," de sired to hsve all the proprietors of street pianos and barrel organs whose machines Included The Blue and th Gray" among their tones to play that tune outside of his Broadway hotel between 8 and 8 o'clock In the morning. Th word as to this got up and down the line among the Italian organ grinders, and nearly 200 of,, the music ma chines were lined up and all going at once outside of the Broadway hotel, and all around it, on the following morning.. They were summarily chased by th police, but many others came on th following morn ing and set their ear-racking contraptions to working on The Blue and the Gray," and the hotel people had to have policemen stationed at all avenues of approach to keep th organ grinders away from th hostelry. "I chanced to be walking down Liberty street" said a well-known artist, quoted by the Times, "when the recent hurricane scooped his stock of evening pspers from under a we and wan 8-year-old newsboy's arm, mad a free distribution of them In the mud and rain half a Jilock away and came near serving him In a like manner. As he fought his way to his feet I heard him tersely summarize the extent of the ruin In the remark: 'Dat busts met' and h heard me laugh. . - 'Turning on m and assuming a sugges tive Terrible Terry pose, he savagely asked, Wotyer laffin' at?" " 'Not at you, my boy,' I hastened to ex plain, 'and here's a half a dollar to start you In business again.' " 'Money talks' with the gamin aa well as the goldbug, and In this case Its charm ing eloquence moved Its recipient to re mark with flattering sincerity, Tou ain't such a bad guy. after all.' as he scooted In the direction of Park Row. "But this was not the last I was des tined to see of my pigmy purveyor of th latest news, for, ss I was hustling to reach the ferry, I heard the quirk patter of pur suing little feet, and he overtook me to make the breathless Inquiry, f iv. mister, does you go by dls way every nlM?' " 'No. Why do you ask?' snli I. " 'Coz,' explained he, 'I wants ter give you a paper every night till 1 square de debt.' "Now," continued the artist, "Is there a man here who does not feel in his heart a desire to give such a boy as that a lift to ward a better life, or who does not believe that, granted half a show, he would de velop into an honorable and successful man?" Ther 1 a barber shop on Thirty-third street, a little to the west of th Waldorf Astoria, where the agile operator leans over and says. "Will you have any moisture on your hair?" This is one of the reasons why he charges you 20 cents for a shave. Down town they say. "Will you hsv It wet or dry?" and charge you 15 cents. Control of Binder Twin. Philadelphia Record. Binder twin does not look to city peo ple as If It were an article of vast Impor tance and extensive consumption, but It Is. The amount of It used In tying up last year's wheat crop was nearly 100.000 tons, and this year many think It will run up to 110,000 or 120.0U) tons. It was formerly a product of th cordage makers, and the cornering of binder twine was the Immediate occasion of the collapse of the Cordage trust which precipitated th panlo of ten years ago. Of late years th manufacturers of harvesting machinery hav been making binder twin In order to protect their customers, but th harvester manufacturers are In a combine them selves now. ItJ reported that they hav given large orders for binder twine abroad, asv their own production Is much leas than the consumption. This appears to b a blow at th cordage works th Independent manufacturers of twine. It Is expected that twin will be sold to th agents of th com bination at 10ft cent a pound, while the ouUlde concerns hav ban getting U and 18 cants. BOOK PIBLISHRKS' COMBINE. Pallor of an Attempt to Itegatato Retail Prices. Chlcsgo Tribune. A firm of booksellers In New Tork City Is endeavoring to enjoin th Publishers' a soclatlon, which Includes about 88 per cent Of the American nnd Canadian book pub lishers. The members nre pledged to sell to no bookseller not affiliated with them snd who doe not hind himself to. sell their books at a fixed net prlc. Th New Tork firm alleges that because It would hot he n, party to such an agreement th association had blacklisted It and forbidden the mem bers to sell It books. The firm asks for nn Injunction and for damages. Th appellate division of tha state ru- prem court has decided In Its favor. The eourt holds thst the agreement of the as sociation Is against publlo policy and Is void. It says: "When an article has passed out of th hands of the manufacturer and has com Into tha ownership of dealers engaged In general business, a combination . between all manufacturers that any dealer who pre sumed to sell the articles thus manufac tured at a prlc below that at which tbe manufacturers had fixed as the retail price should thereafter be cut off from all oppor tunity to purchase articles of a similar character Is a combination which would tend to restrain th free sal of th artlals thus manufactured and sold and would ree train or prevent competition In th prte of th article. " Certainly ther can be no effective com petition in th retail book trad If 98 per cent of th publishers ar allowed to dictate prices to booksellers. All who believe that competition Is aa desirable in books as In dry goods. Ice, or other commodities of common us will concur with th opinion of th court, or rather of th majority rf th eourt Two of th Judges were opposed to granting th relief asked for. On of them said: "I do not se why a seller of property In respect to which he ha a monopoly (tha publisher of a oopyrlghted book has a monopoly) cannot Impose any conditions aa to Its resale that he sees fit' The general publlo will not concur with th Judge. It will not admit that th manufacturer, even when he has a mo nopoly, should be allowed to dictate the price of goods after they hav passed out of his possession and thus to prevent whole some competition between th retailers, and to refus to sell to a retailer who prefers to manage his business In his own way nnd cut prices where It seems to his advantage to do so. The publlo Is much inclined to believe that ther are many kinds of books whloh It cannot buy so cheaply as It did be for th Publish' association was or ganised, and it win ba pleased If the courts shall Anally decld that th association Is Illegal and void. FLASHES OB KUW. t.'eTt'1 .M!1, Rlt", to thlnkln he's'smah- ter dan anybody else," said Unci Eben you kin look fob. a bran' new set o' ;iahd luck stories befo' long."-Washlngtoa Bur. "Jan indignantly denies that her new shirtwaists are diaphanous " Deater.1' t0 lhln-"-''levelaji4 Plain twKpar??' 'Hh 0" f U thlm "Aw, It's aisy I sticks ma finger In Dinnls' mouth, an' If he bites I know it s Molka." Harvard Lampoon. First Gamin Aw, youse hain't' so warm. Second Gamin Aw, I hain't seen your name among de heat prostration lit. Judge, "Of course, we needn't heliev vrythlng we hear about our friends." ,.!l?'rV.a- Put thank heaven, w can repeat It!" Brooklyn Life. Super No. sir, th ghost hasn't walked for two weeks. Crttttek I saw the leading man with a wad today; he must have got bis salary. Super Oh. yes; he's the star. Crittlck What you might called a "fixed" star, eh? Philadelphia ldger. "What's the matter with Fldo?" "Oh. isn't It horrid? I gave him to the laundress to wash and ah starched him." Stray Stories. Teacher (to English Uteratar class) I have shown vcu how Shakespeare was the Father of the Drama, and Fielding the Father of the Novel. Now, can you tell me who Chaucer was? ' Scholar Yes. sir. Chaucer was 'ho Father of Dialect New Tork Bun. "Have you over made any effort to get work?" "Yes, Indeed," answered Meandering Mike. "I once got work for free different members of my family, but none of 'em would take it." Washington Star. The ball no question makes of. ayes and noes, But here or ther as strikes th player goes; And He. that toss'd you down into the . Field, He knows about It all-Ho knows-Hs knows. - - ' . Omar Khayyam. THE JINER. James Barton Adams in Dnvr Post. My ma an ma's decided by a strictly party vot That pa's the durndest Jlner ovr rod a hlllv a-oat. .illy goal keens An' h keeps sayln' she's to blame fur all him Itnln. fur flu got the jtnln' habit time that h was Jlned to her. H Jined the secret Masons fust, then JJned the Woodmen's lodge. Than jlned the Elks, It beln' on he said h couldn't dodge.. An' then kep' on a Jlnln', glttln' secret fur to K6CP1 Ontll he got a talkln" about Jlnln' in hi sleep. Ma coaxes him to tell her what they do at lodge o' nights, An' why thev don t take wlmmen. In this state of wlmmen's rights. 'N'en pa he'll wink the other eye at me real sly an' say A woman couldn't ride th goat, not beln built that way. Ma save while he's a Jlnln he art to Jin th church. , An' labor for a roostln' place up on th Zlon perch. But pa has jlned the Rhrlners now, an' says he knows that slch A combination wouldn't Jlne In a successful hlteh. Ma had her dander up on night when pa come home, an' mid She wouldn't stand fur fairy tales no more, fur, on the dead, She thought this jlnln' business was a blind fur truatin' wives To let decelvln' husbands lead the wustest sort o' lives. Then pa explained th Jlner pash t 'd com her when he Would take the Inst sad fatal plunge Into eternity; An' now she's Jes' as patient as a hog stuck In the mire, A-waltlng fur the day when he will jlne th heavenly choir. Cherry Pectoral What would you do the next time you have a hard cold if you couldn't get Ayer's Cherry Pec toral? Better think this over., lfi Ay ers I, ' V 1