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One prohibition Swallow does not
make' sumnietv
For a man 73 years young Dr. George
L.A Miller handles bis pen like a broad
sword. Bryan may not bolt Parker, but the
Bryanftes will see to It that Farker
cannot be bolted.
It begins to look as If some of that
Wisconsin political' virus bad impreg
nated Minnesota as well.
Perhaps, after all, that malaria was
to blame for "Uncle Joe" Cannon's ex
pressed opinion of the vice presidency'.
A taxpayer wants to know In all se
riousness what Omaha Is coming to 7
It is . coming to be a pretty big town In
spite of inossbneks and croakers.
The St. Louis man who committed
uiclde because he could not secure a
life Insurance policy fully Justified the ac
tion of the companies that refused him.
Doleful tales of crop experts, clrcu
la ted on the grain exchanges to stimu
late prices, do not seem to be taken
seriously by people who live In the corn
belt.
The American dispatch boat which
rammed a British cruiser near Gibraltar
may be only another example of the
premature celebration of the Fourth 'of
President Roosevelt will resume his
residence at Oyster Bay tomorrow, but
the government at Washington will con
tlnue on Itoosevelt Hues without inter
ruption.
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If Mr. Bryan really wants a "good
candidate on a good platform" he can
join the majority of his fellow rttlsens
In accepting those sont out from Chi
cago last week.
The way to bulla up Omaha is to
- patronize home Industry and encourage
very enterprise that promises to pro
mote the commercial and Industrial
progress of Omahn.
Iowa populists must be preparing for
a' real campaign After the Springfield
convention or they would not have
'placed "Calamity" Weller in the field as
candidate for vice prealdont
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Now that the republican state com-
mlttaA tins 1 uif a hrttt.man w Vi will
a 1 1, no runner units biiouiu oe lost in
getting Into action and the first step in
that direction should be the opening of
; state headquarters. '
i Owners of town lota that were origl
' nally In the George Francis Train tract
are not lu the remotest danger of losing
their property by the threatened pro
ceedlnga de-lunscy. It Is simply an
. other case of Hclfenateln
, Itrt a government cuwe system in
Alaska In successful operation Uuele
Sam la at least one step nearer the es
tablishment, of a postal tslegraph system
Tin the center of population where there
will be some Income ns well as expendi
ture. ' v
The , Lincoln Stale .lourual company
has been sued by the state of Nebraska
for ?72,BOO, which' It Is' rip lined that
corporatlou has fraudulently pocketed In
4cllli4 Nobraxka supreme court reports.
W fear, however, that It will take
more than 72.BOO days before the state
recover the amount cluliutd.
Colouol Wattcrson's list of democratic
presidential ellglbles includes only the
names of Olney, MoClellan, Gray and
Folk, which on xtvond thought gives va
riety as well as numbers, and shows the
colour!' versatility In being able to back
'the Tammany bred MoClellan and the
lU-furuuT Folk at the same time.
FOR TBS BZCOSD FLACK.
While the democrat are perplexed as
to who will be the candidate for presi
dent, It Is not surprising' that little at
tention has been given to the second
place on the ticket The leader appar
ently do not consider that a matter of
very great Importance and they are not
particularly mistaken In this view. let
In the past the democratic candidate for
vice president was a somewhat In
fluential figure In the campaign. Such
men, for example, as Hendricks and
Thurman, who were on the ticket with
Cleveland, unquestionably exerted a
good deal of Influence with the people,
being in fact stronger men than the head
of the ticket, becanse of larger experi
ence In public affairs, of superior ability
and closer to the people. Both Hen
dricks and Thurman were statesnien of
deservedly high rank, either of whom
was superior to Mr. Cleveland In attain
ments and enjoyed to a greater extent
the respect and confidence of the coun
try. If an eastern man is nominated at St
Louis next week, as now seems assured,
It is probable that the selection for the
second place will be made from Illinois
or Indiana. This is what Is now indi
cated. There appears to be a strong ten-
Meucy favorable to the nomination of tho
multi-millionaire dry goods merchant of
Chicago, Marshall Field, perhaps for the
reason that he could contribute very lib
erally to the campaign and probably
would do to. The impression In demo
cratic quarters seems to be that he
would be a very strong man in Illinois.
Indiana has at least two candidates for
the vice presidential nomination, both of
whom are vouched for as very popular
In that state. The Pacific coast has also
a candidate or two, but It does not ap
pear probable that that section will re
ceive much consideration at St Louis,
since It Is a foregone conclusion that
the democratic party has no chance of
carrying any state on the Fadfle slope.
That section of the country Is so abso
lutely committed to tho republican party
that the sop of a democratic nomination
for the vice presidency from that part of
the country would have not the slightest
effect upon popular sentiment there.
It seems to be practically certain that
an eastern man, probably from New
York, will be nominated at Bt. Louis for
president. It would therefore seem to
be the policy to select for the second
place on the ticket a man from the mid
dle west and the demand will undoubt
edly be for one who has been "regular."
The radical element in the democratic
national convention will certainly ask
this much, if unable to dictate the can
didate for the presldoncy, and perhaps
will be given the concession. At any
rate It is safe to predict that the man
chosen for the vice presidency at St
Louis will not be taken from the ranks
of the conservatives or reorganise rs.
TIMS FOB ACTIOS.
Sixteen years ago an Omaha city
conncll paased an ordinance granting a
franchise to Casper E. Yost, Edgar M.
Morsman and other associates for the
establishment of a plant to supply the
city and cltleens of Omaha with light
power and heat The franchise was ac
cepted under the conditions embodied In
the ordinance and about one mile of
pipe Is said to have been laid by the
corporation to Justify an Issue of $300,
000 of bonds for carrying out the enter
prise, but for reasons known best to the
parties on the Inside and unknown to
parties on the outside, the project was
allowed to go to aleep. Now after fif
teen years of Inaction the power of the
federal courts has been invoked to re
strain the city authorities from lnterfer
lng with the parties who have acquired
the lapsed franchise In carrying ont the
original plan.
Without attempting to discuss the
merits of the contention that Is now
pending In the federal court It seems to
us appropriate and timely to call atten
tlon to another lapse. More than eight
een months ago the people of Omaha
elected a mayor and council on a plat
form pledging them to municipal owner
ship of pnblic utilities. For reasons that
havo not yet been dlvulgod these pledges
have lapsed and we are apparently no
nearer to municipal ownership than we
were twenty-five years ago.
To be sure a movement has been set
on foot for the acquisition by the city of
the water works plant but it now looks
very much aa If final action for the pur
chase of the water works will not be
reached before the expiration of the
original contract four years hence, In
September, 1908. At any rate, It will
remain an open question whether the
dtv will be disposed to saddle Itself with
a bonded debt for more than '(0.000,000,
which Is now believed to be the upset
price at which the works will be ap
praised by the arbitrators.
There is, however, no good reason why
the city should any longer defer action
with regard to the acquisition of an
olectrlc lighting plant. The most liberal
estimate of the cost of such a plant does
not exceed half a million dollars. Cora-
( potent electrical engineers express the
opinion that I2.V).000 would be ample for
la plant that will supply the city with
double the number of are light for
street lighting that it 1 now-favored
with, and the cost of double the number
of lights will not be any greater than
tlte amount tho city now pay for street
lights.
Inasmuch as the contract with the
electric lighting company will expire De-
cember 31. J00.1, the proposition to !sa
bond for a municipal lighting plant
should be submitted at the election next
November. Whether the old Yost Mors
man corporation franchise hold gopd or
not 1 immaterial so far a the municipal
llghttng proposition la concerned. The
city thonld ba In position to do for Itself
what several of the larger business con
cern In Omaha have done for them
selves for wir year supply Its own
light at the Art cost.
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The way for the business men who
rent stores on North Sixteenth street
to get Quick, action on the repaying ef
the street is to serve notice on the prop
erty owners that they will Insist upon a
material reduction of rents or vacate the
premises If the street Is not rcpaved this
season.
TBS TWO-TBIRDS BULK
Will the coming democratic national
conventon adhere te the two-tbrds rule
for the nomination of a presidential can
didate? That la a question which seems
to be commanding a good deal of atten
tion In certain quarters and particularly
among those who are supporting the so
called conservative candidates. For ex
ample, there are reports from the east
that the Parker contingent la seriously
considering the proposition of making
S departure from the traditional course
of the democracy by making the rule
that a majority shall nominate. 'Ac
cording to recent eastern advices this
plan seems to bo seriously contemplated
by the supporters of the Empire state
Jurist They believe that be will have
a majority of the delegates and that the
duty of these is to take control of the
situation and abolish a rule which if
adhered to may result In the defeat of
their favorite. Although the Tarter
men cannot figure out an absolute ma
jority In the convention, they are suffi
ciently near to It to warrant them In
the belief that they can after the first
ballet change the traditional policy or
practice of the party In regard to the
nomination of a candidate and according
to reports they are contemplating doing
this.
If they should succeed, which Is not
at all probable, It would be a most re
markable departure for the democracy.
The two-thirds rule for the nomination
of a candidate for the presidency Is one
of the traditional practices of the rjemo
cratlc party, dating back more than
seventy years. In every national con
vention during that period the two
thirds rule has been observed and it is
not at all likely that the democrats In
the coming convention will repudiate
a policy that they hare adhered to for
more than three-quarters of a century.
The two-thirds rule Is a necessary
corollary of the unit rule, and while the
latter Is absolutely undemocratic it has
been adopted by every democratic con
vention In the country this year. Con
sequently the delegations to the St.
Louis convention, bound as they are by
the unit rule, will not be in a position
to abandon the two-thirds rule.. There
Booms, consequently, to be no prospect
of .the Farker element being able to re
peal the traditional practice of the
party, however essential that may be to
the nomination of the New York candi
date.
"The country is on the brink of ruin,"
was the opening paragraph In the dec
laration of Independence promulgated
by the populist from Omaha on the
Fourth of July twelve years ago, but
the country Is still on the brink and will
so continue for an indefinite period.
The supreme court of Nebraska ha
reversed its own Judgment and sustained
the validity of the reciprocal Insurance
tax provision of the new revenue law.
This is another striking Illustration of
the adage "Wise men change." '
The way the Russians assume the suc
cess of the Japanese plan to occupy the
Llao Tong peninsula should be discourag
ing to Japanese, for It indicates a deter
ruination on the part of Russia to con
tinue the war Indefinitely.
Decisive Faetors la a Battle.
New Tork Tribune.
A Russian military expert attributes
Japan's successes to Japan's superiority
In artillery. The heaviest guns, hot the
heaviest battalions, decide the modern bat
Uee.
Maklaar aoaaaua Holiday.
Chicago Tribune.
Breathes there the man with soul so dead
aa to be indifferent to the fact that 4M
persons were killed and I,t8t other persons
Injured In "celebrating" the Fourth of July
last year!
Hot Maefc ef a Novice.
' Bt. Louis Qlobe-Democrat
For a novice Mr. Cortelyou Jump Into
the game with wonderful confidence. Bui
Is Mr. Cortelyou a novlceT He has been
very close to the machinery of politic
for more than a dosen year.
Peralaleut Eaerelse.
Chicago Reoord-Herald.
There la in Ohio a man who has been
fighting the Btandard OH ' company for
thirty years. Other people get their exer
cise playing golf and tennis and by riding
horseback. Still, every one to his taste.
MtsMr Bard to Fleas.
New Tork Tribune.
Democrats who saw In the quiet and or
derty proceedings of the Chicago conven
tlon a convincing proof of republican
apathy are now sure that the enthusiasm
which marked ths closing scene was vul
gar and meaningless. Some people are
hard td please.
The Vaeal Reminder.
Boston Transcript
This seems an opportune time to remind
the public that V deaths from Jockjaw
were among the results of last year's
Fourth of July celebration, 8C3 of them be
lng eeused by blank. cartridges used In the
toy pistol. A word to the wlae ought be
sufficient, but unfortunately that Is a day
whan the public la not wise.
Crylac Before They Were Hart,
Philadelphia Pre.
The alleged army or 180,000 veterans who
rere to rush for pensions under the "age
pension oroer, as asserted by some demo-
eraie in congress, turns out to be an
Imaginary army. There have been few ap
plications for pensions under this order
and the pension bureau estimates that there
are net more than 90.000 veterans of the
civil war now living who are not on the
I ton roll. A large proportion of there
are men who will never apply for pensions
because they do not nerd them.
Tread of Twelve Tears.
Philadelphia Press.
Sine 18S1 there has been nothing In the
democrat! record, attitude or Impression
to attract the ardent. Intelligent young
man who has com to the rights, privileges
and duties of cltlsenshlp. The first few
years were signalised by geneeal calamity.
All the later year have been marked by
publio disgrace. The party leadership
ba been surrounded by an odium that wss
ealoulated to repel those who oxm rn the
scene of action free from the h-mds of
fredltloa and heritage. Oa tbe ether hand
the luster of success which has dlstln-
gulahed the progress of Americanism dur
ing the last eight years appealed to their
pride and public spirit to Join the party
which proved Its title by such achieve
ments. Takla- a Heaa Advaatage,
Chicago Chronicle.
New Tork Is reminded -that If Theodore
Roosevelt shall be elected president he
wilt be the S rat successful eandtdate who
was born In a city. This Is a poor time
for New Tork to be ta&ing a mean fling at
a good man for a circumstance which was
beyond his control.
Prosperity la Cuba.
San Francisco Chronicle.
Cuba is in the enjoyment of a steadily
Increasing revenue. The prosperity of the
slsnders, due to the partial remission of
the Amerlaen sugar duty, enables them to
buy largely from foreigners; hence the
larger receipts at the custom house. The
United States is not much benefited by
the increased purchasing power of the
Cubans. The Germans, French and Britons
are the chief beneficiaries.
Ohio Holds Its Own.
New Tork Bun.
Senator Fairbanks was born in Ohio, In
Union county. His nomination preserves
the long established rule, as recognise
among republicans, of having one Ohio
man on their national ticket. Since the
close of the civil war this rule has been
deviated from on two occasions only in
1884. when neither of the candidates was a
native of Ohio, and in 1892, when both can
didates were natives of Ohio. On the re
publican national ticket In 1868. 1872, 1876,
1880, 1S8J, 192, 1896 and 1900, the candidate
for president was a native of Ohio.
Bombs of Reformers.
Baltimore American.
One of the most valuable bits of ad
vice ever given to students of philan
thropy was that addressed by a speaker
at a summer school In St. Paul. He
earnestly exhorted his hearers not In
their seal, to become reformers. Reform
is a high social explosive which only ex
perts should be allowed to handle, and
those only after they have been a life
time learning Its proper use and have
outlived any personal Interest In the re
sult. The crimes committed In the name
of liberty are mere little- amiable peculla
itlea compared with' the mischief which
can be worked with a well directed bomb,
however small, of reform.
Issae of Corporate Control.
Philadelphia Press.
He mistakes greatly the temper of ths
vast American public, which will this year
cast some 16,000,000 votes, who does not
understand that the overwhelming ma
jority of Americans are today more deeply
Interested in the problem offered by the
regulation and control of corporations than
In any other. Half the wealth of the
country is today owned under corporate
titles. The world's dally work Is done by
them. Great fortunes spring from them
and great fortunes are made greater yst
by their manipulation. The very base and
root of populism, Bryanlsm and all the
other attacks In the last fifteen years on
the stability of values, the validity of eon
tracts and the safety of property is a wide
spread Jealousy of corporate growth and
corporate power. Unless Judicious, legal
and Just regulation comes, a sweeping
economto revolution is certain. They are
blind who do not see this.
MB if WHO ARB WANTED.
Heed of Persistency Whea Promotion
and Prosperity Comes.
Saturday Evening Post
There Is on form of failure surprisingly
frequent and familiar In America which.
though It seldom excites pity, is yet most
pitiful. It is the man who does not or
who oannot measure up to larger things.
His previous record had been creditable
and promising. He showed Industry, quick
ness, aptitude. On these his promotion
came. But somehow, when he got Into
the bigger place and drew tbs higher
salary he had not the control Of self, the
continuity of effort or sense of hard work
needed to score success. Or he may have
come suddenly Into money or the manage
ment of a business or a larger scope of
responsibility; he tried fitfully, but he was
not equal. We have, as a rule, only bit
ter criticism for his Inadequacy, and w
hear on all sides the phrases of the day:
He get the swelled head. He could pot
make good. He was a round pc in a
square hole. H was small potatoes. He
used up all his steam In hot air. And so
on through the slang ef the day,
Life's pathway is strew with these fail
ures of clever men, of men of great adept
ties tn narrow pursuits and narrow cir
cumscribed duties, who went to pieces when
they reached positions of power that called
for steady, patient, courageous grasp and
push. They lacked the dogged qualities.
They endeavored to shorten the long road
of necessary toll by short cuts tn method
and finance. Frequently It was speculation
Instead of business and these tragedies are
spread over the newspapers every day.
Very often they throw away the hard les
sons of experience that mark the evolution
of business, and rush Into mar schemes
under the fatal belief that they are mors
progressive than their elders. And promptly
the wrecks follow.
When w study this phase of daily llfs
we" soon discover why It Is that the com
monplace, keep-at-lt boy of the town be
comes the successful man, while his bril
liant playmate flits from on failure to an
other until he reaches an old age of
despair. This plodding fellow move to
the bigger thing with a solemn realisation
of the work and responsibility they
require, while the genius takes his burdens
tightly and realise too late if he realises
at all that the long pull Is the moving
foro In all great problems of business
aa well as of transportation. Behold the
"brilliant", figure in the financial world 1
Today he cannot count his millions; tomor
row lawyers are squabbling over the pal
try assets tn the bankruptcy court
America hss been a synonym for magical
fortunes. Americans have more Insomnia
than any other people on earth because
they cheat themselves of good sleep by
the dreams of sudden wealth. Immigrants
come to us with ths same expectations a
the first gold seekers. But all this does
not chars the Immutable; success here or
elsewhere Is serious and conservative; It
stays with those who work for It and who
work with It. It flies away when played
with.
So, when men ssy, a a they do say con
stantly, that (3.000 and $80. 000 and tl 00,000
positions are seeking occupants they do
not mean the brilliant worker of- the hour.
but they signify how few are the strong,
dependable men who are faithful all the
year through and who keep everlastingly
at It.
VANDALS DAMAGE BIG ORGAN
Attempt Made to Wreck Instrvmeat
by Cuttlac the Seeoadavy
Dellowe.
ST. LOnS. July l.-It Is learned that
an attempt has been made to wreck the
great organ, the largest in the world, In
Festival hall, at the World's fslr, by cut
ting the secondary bellows. This will not
affect the working of the organ, which
can be operated with the primary bellows.
Aa a result of this attempt at vandalism
the company that la building the organ.
which is only partially finished, will here
after . exclude from the stage all except
those who are employ la tfca construction
of the Instrument,
I OTnlH LANDS THAN Olil. I -f.- -mv.r.-mmmmmmmmmmmmmmSrt
King Edward VII ha been practicing Ms
etplorcacy of fascination upon th Alan
of Abeokuta, a sable sovereign of the
Egbas, on th gold coast of Africa, who
has been visiting England. The Alak ha
been received In much stats by th mu
nicipal authorities of th larger cities,
which hav vied with each other to glv
him "the Urn of his llf," but the cllma
came when the dusky potentate was re
ceived by th king and had a talk with
him. The king praised the Alak for hi
Interest In the agricultural development of
hi dominions and particularly for his ef
forts te interest his people In cotton grow
Irg. Already cotton Is grown In the Egb
country, and the Alake la co-operating with
an English company that Is Intent on de
veloping the African cotton crop. A large
acreage I being planted and the cotton In
dustry of the Oold Coast is believed to hav
a great future. In toasting the Alake the
English manufacturing cities have an ey
to business. The American cotton crop ha
reached Its limits, according to European
opinion, and the yearly Increasing demand
must be met by an Increased supply from
countries other than the United State.
An Odessa correspondent of th London
Times, on th basis of official figures, estt.
mate the "minimum value'' of Russia's
fleet In the Pacific, when the war began.
at tl90.00O.0OO, apart from the value of
government harbor vessels, regular mili
tary transports, volunteer fleet transport
actually flying the Russian naval flag, vol
unteer fleet transport In the vicinity of
the son of hostilities on February a, or
vessels of the subsidized Chinese Eastern
(Manchurian) company or private Russian
shipping companies plying on that date In
the Pacific. A sum of $180,000,000 repre
sents a pretty large Investment o that, as
the correspondent says, "th nervous anx
iety of millions of Russians for the fate of
the bulk of the vessels of their Paclfio
squadron at Port Arthur can therefore b
readily understood." Upon the fate of this
fleet the Issue of th war largely depend.
If It be captured or destroyed Japan's con
trol of the sea off Vladivostok, Corea and
Manchuria remains secure, since the abil
ity of the Baltic fleet to reach the scene of
operations Is doubted. On the other hand,
the existence of the Japanese armies now
In Manchuria may be said to depend al
most wholly upon Japan'a ability to retain
control of the sea. The fleet Is a vital
necessity of Japanese success In th war.
Th new irrigation scheme in Egypt has
for Its object to irrigate perennially 2,000.-
000 acres of land which at present Is com
paratively worthless for want of a sure
supply of water. Th productive area of
Egypt will thus bo increased by one-half
and some $300,000,000 will be added to Its
wealth at an estimated cost of under $10,-
000,000 for the new works. The new works
will embrace two features raising the
height of th recently finished Assouan
dam by twenty feet and constructing a new
reservoir at Wady Rayan. a depression in
the desert south of Fayum and southwest
ef Cairo. At present the Assouan dam
holds a billion cubic meters of water and
gives perennial Irrigation of 800,000 acres.
Raising Its height twenty feet Its design
provided for this addition will double Its
capacity. The two billion cublo meters
still required for the Irrigation of all the
Irrigable land that remains will be supplied
by the Wady Rayan reservoir. Bo success
ful ha the Assouan dam- been In Increas
ing the annnual agricultural product of
the country that Egyptian publio opinion
I unanimously favorable to the new irri
gation enterprise. To add 1,000,000 acre
to th present irrigable area of 4,500,000
acres Is a business proposition that ap
peals to all. Not only will the cultivable
area at the completion of the new enter
prises have been nearly doubled since the
British occupation began, but the certain
supply of water will have given a certainty
to agriculture which the business lacks in
other countries. Taxes have been reduced
already In consequence of various reforms
and th Increased productivity of the soil.
With the new development th tax per
acre will be reduced still further owing to
Increased acreage.
M
If France undertakes th task of mod
ernising Morocco, 'as it Is said It will do,
the civilised world may well itejoleet For
a long period of tim the great natural ad
vantages of Morocco hav been neglected
because of th Weak and Inefficient gov
ernment. Th ruling sultan la a man ef
modern ideas, without prejudice against
Christians, and that has been his chief
source of weakness. His bigoted subjects
resented his exhibition of friendship for
Europeans and that feeling was seised
upon by an adventurer who led a revolt.
If France takes hold vigorously, and halt
way measures will be useless, such out
rages as those perpetrated by Ralsoult will
end. Spain and Italy and even Oermany
talk of objecting to French rule In
Morocco; but Franc has advantages in
the possession of Algiers, which will prob
ably secure It In control of Morooco,
.
Argentine appears to be In a prosperous
condition, and Is constantly developing Its
resources. Th treasury receipts for trie
first three months of this year were $8,200,
000 more than in th corresponding months
of the previous year, and th receipts in
190$ were much greater than In 1902. There
was a surplus, which Is a favorable sign.
Th exports for IMS show an Increase of
68 per cent over 1S9S, and th balance of
trade, nearly $90,000,000 last year, hss also
greatly Increased. The fact that the Im
ports Increased three times a much as the
exports last year may be only a temporary
matter. Immigration Is Increasing rapidly,
amounting to U,M7 In the first three months
of this year, a compared with 87,524 for
th entire year" of 1903. The electoral law
Is still unsatisfactory, snd Oenersl Rooa,
th outgoing president, recently said that
half a word" from htm would bend th
eolleg of electors to his will. Until that
defect Is cured and th college of elector
made subservient to th will of th people,
as In the United States, there will always
be langer of an uprising. Argentine would
probably attract many more Immigrant If
It system of distributing th public lands
war Improved. A It Is now, vast stretches
of land, combining many thousands of
acres, sre In poesesston of single owners.
That la a mistaken policy, and looks too
much like landlordism. With better gov
ernment, Argentine might Indue ten times
ss many Immigrants each year to settle
within Its borders as It now reoeivss. Per
haps that will come In time,
'
The output of gold from th Johannes
burg mines In May was IU.4M ounces, the
largest sine the Boer wsr snd but $150,000
ounces less than In May, 1899, before the
war began. The production In May, 190$,
was but VH.YX ounces, and In May, ISO!,
138,802 omic Production grows, despite
the dlfttculiy of getting Kaffir laborers.
Now that several shiploads of Chinese cool
ies hav been landed at furban for the
mines, a largely Increased output may be
expected for May, 1906. A number of mines
now Idle for want of unskilled labor will
by then be brought to the earning point.
Some T.ono Chlness are now In tranalt.
About 00.000 will be brought In, It Is
thought, within a year, at wagea 16 or $0
times what they get at bom. The more
laborers of this kind employed the greater
the demand for white men to superintend
their work.
Chicago Tribune.
It Is to be borne In mind, also, that this
young man Cortelyou has a record of never
having failed la aavthliuf h ha under
taken 1 do.
If food distresses you
Why not take half a tcaspoonful
s of Horsford's Acid Phosphate in half
a glass of water? It will give im
mediate relief; but it must be
HORSFORD'S Acid Phosphate.
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POLITICAL DRIFT.
General Miles did not mount the water
wagon. Perhaps he will take a f wallow on
the quiet
Mr. Bryan I having a bust of himself
mad in New York. St. Louis promises
to hand him an animated bust.
Judge Parker Is wise. He la not de
luded by enthusiastic friend and will not
enlarge his front porch unless Bt. Louis
speaks that way.
Although the battle has not opened In
earnest, one reorganlser on the skirmish
line refers to the peerless leader as "the
John Alexander Dowle of the democratic
party." 1
A New Tork Sport is wagering good
money that Cleveland will capture th
persimmon at St. Louis. The recent liter
ary and vocal activity of the only ex
president warrants the surmise that "Bar
kis Is wlllln'."
postmaster In Oklahoma has handed
In several resignation, but Uncle Sam
won't let go. This is on of the few in
stances In which your uncle ha had trouble
In finding patriotic Nasbys, all because
the salary is "too small to scramble for.
Senator Fairbanks does not smoke and
does not drink. A few years ago he was
thrown out of a, carriage and was pre
vailed upon to take a mouthful of whisky,
and he says he tastes) th horrible stuff yet.
A new version of th Iowa Idea, will
come with the majority piled up in No
vember.
There Is on Virtue left In the demo.
cratlo party. He Is a district delegate to
th national convention and 1 sufficiently
seasoned to face the pitfalls of Bt Louis.
In th opinion of th Cincinnati Enquirer
the right man to pick at St Louis Is
Judge Harmon, one of Cleveland's attor
neys general. From Harmon to harmony
Is but a brief letter.
Th wife of an English candidate for
Parliament has devised a scheme for secur
ing public attention for her husband which
may b recommended to the wives of Amer
ican candidates during th coming cam
paigns. Bfor each of his speeches she
sings a few patriotic and popular songs.
She cannot sing; that s where her clever
ness com In. Th audlenc Is so giaa
to have her stop that they listen respect
fully to what her husband has to say.
A CREDULOUS CLERGYMAN.
Trwstla- Setlmetllsts Taken In by
the Onaala.
Kansas City Journal.
That hyperbole of crime and female
twDrobate known to th nolle from New
Tork to Ban Franotsoo a "Fainting Ber
tha" ha added a new chapter to her rec
ord of things done. She has caught an
Omaha preacher. Bertha is had because
sh grew that way, and she probably
wouldn't if she could be other than as she
Is. Her favorite stunt, as her name Indi
cates, is to faint In the arms of her vic
tim and snip off his diamond pin and pick
his Docket whil he Is fanning her face.
Also when she Is caught In the act or with
the goods upon her, she faints In the hope
of being sent to the hospital where th
chances of escap are better than at the
calaboos.
An appeal to sympathy Is ths method
she resorts to for securing immunity tor
her misdoings. And sh has Just mat with
surprising success at th hands of th Rev.
Charles W. Savldge. a tender hearted, un
sophisticated preacher In Omaha. He has
earned her caua Into th pulpit. "I will
never forget tho look sh gave me when
I visited her at th elty prison," said this
reverend gentleman In his sermon. "When
she knew my errand she softened down,
and after I had spoken to her for a
llttl time th woman laid her head on
th table and sobbed as if her heart would
break, and then told the story of her
sad Ufa how from an ardent Sunday
school student at the age pf 17 years she
had ripened at 34 Into a hardened crim
inal," The Rev. Savldge was so touohed
by th simple tal of a misspent life that
he begged the mothers of the congregation
who had "daughters of their own to send
Bertha peaches, oranges and other fresh
fruit and so keep her In spirits until her
trial next October."
The Omaha minister has the fault com
mon to all sentimentalists who strive
to uplift th wicked. He Is too trusting.
He listens to the tal of a ounnlng liar
who makes mendacity and deception her
Implement of trade, and belisves what she
tells him. It Is not probable that the level
headed members of his church will follow
his advice. The plan he has suggested Is
wore creditable to his heart than hesd.
"My tailor cuts my clothes that I may cut a
dash" Beau Bnimmel to bis valt-t.
This Is cleaning houa. month snd you will be able to find t all time, som
fine values In different lines cf th. merchandise that w offer. Don't mak
your clothing, furnishing or hat purchase, without first looking us over.
"No ClothitiR Fits Like Ours."
JroWnii2- Km2--
R. S. WILCOX, Manager.
MICH VACANT LAND YET.
Danger of aa Overcrowded Ponnla-
tion Are Stilt Remote.
ICansaa City Journal.
The material development of th country
is quietly progressing at a remarkable rate
In one direction which is not given much
popular attention. More than 22,824,299
ores of th public lands were turned over
to private individuals last year. This
means that on area almost .equal to that
of the state of Indiana has within that
time been added to the productive regions
of the United States. Most of these newly
Opened lands were homesteaded by farmers,
as will be seen from the following figures:
There were 54,305 patents of all classes Is
sued within th year. Of this number 47.SM
are classed as agricultural, 4,904 as Indian
allotments, 1,104 as mineral patents, 200 as
coal patents, $76 as private land claims,
1S7 as railroad patents and 40 as swamp
land patents. Tbe total sum which the
government got by way of fees and com
missions for Issuing these patents was $11,
084.714. Under a recent law the most of
th receipts from th sale of publio lands
will henceforth be set aside for reclaiming
arid lands by Irrigation.
In the publio domain there r still un
appropriated $80,978,807 aores of surveyed
lands and 601,978,189 acres of unsurveyed
lands, or a total of more than 970,965,000
acres. A great many tracts ln this Im
mense area, of course, will always remain
uncultivated and unsettled, but It has been
estimated that when the contemplated sys
tem of irrigation snail be put into working
order so much good .'and will be opened
that a population as large as the whol
nation's present population could find room
there to thrlv prosperously and content
edly. Rapid strides are now being- mad in th
developing of the publio domain. Th ex
citement and uproar of formr pioneer days
are absent In this work but th process Is
marked and very effective. Th passenger
trafflo en western railroads Is evideno of
this fact Agreeable reflections arls in
contemplating that the United State still
owns so much arable pubUc land. Th dan
gers of an overcrowded population by Im
migration or natural lnorease ar still re
mote. The censu for many years yet to
com will not show an excess of peepl
abov what th west wlU need in settling
up its vacant lands.
LAUGHING LINES.
"I believe lt,wlll rain tomorrow."
"NrVoIng to a plcnlC'-Cleveland
Plain Dealer. (
"I saw my doctor yesterday and h told
me to take exercise."
"I thought he told you to take rest.
"That was a week ago. and h mistook
m for hi brother.11 Puck.
Father." said the small boy. "what la
'.iraaVgaio. my son 1. usually an
effort to locate the responrlblllty for a -disaster
after it s too late to mak any differ
ence. "-Washington Star.
"Opportunity knocked at his door, but he
"""That wa because ha was running
around nights." Cleveland Leader.
Mr Eubedee Yea, I've changed a good
deal since then. Mrs. Jones.
Mrs Jones-And for the better, I trust.
"They used to call me a wild youth, you
remember: but now"
"NowTthey call me an old reprobate."
Brooklyn Life.
Kouropktkln-I await the Japanese ad-
vance with confide!.
The Csar But why awaltT
Kouropatkln-How otherwise esnl
m confidence T-Qevoland Plain Peeler.
Rich Caller (who Is making the round of
the tenement districta)-We?l, I must go
now. Is there anything I can do for you.
mv good woman?'
The Other (of the ubmerged)-No. thank
ye, mem. Ye mustn't mind It, mem If I
don't return the coll. I haven t any time to
go slummln' meaelf.-Chlcugo Tribune.
"After all, the best thing when yoVre in
trouble Is not the advice that's jtlven to you
free, but that which you pay for.
"No, the best thing, after all. Is not to
need any advice at ull."-Phlladelphla
Press. .
MEMORIES.
oaaB-iBsa
From out th crowded vista of th years,
That noue so swiftly by In bright array.
Or slowly pass In somber hue of gray,
Th memories flock which fill my eye with
Or bring "a smile for some sweet other day.
Those other days! before I knew so well
The mysteries of jssalpn nr-d of pain:
When all In life was Joy. and I had lsln
Care-free amo)irt the roses e'er night fell.
Ah, withered Iloweral naught but thorns
remain.
Omaha. MRB. HARRT MILLER.
You will probably want to cut som
hind of a.figur th "FOURTH" and
as our store will be closed all day
Monday there insy be rome article or
articles you will need on that day te
msks the celebration complete. No
matter what the occasion you nttend
we are prepared for you, from Bath
ing Suit to Evening Full Dress.
'.t you favor this store, make the
purchase "Saturday". We have Just
finished our Inventory and "Tuesday"
e commence a mid-summer clearing
and cleanlng-up sale of broken line
and odd artlrles of nisn's, bus' or. J
children's wear that will interest you.
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