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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
SJtate of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.i
' George B. Txschuck, secretary or The Be
Publishing Company, being duly sworn,
issrys that the actual number of full and
complete copies of The Dally, Morning,
Kvenlng and Sunifay Bee printed during the
month of June. 1904. waa as follows:
1.
. .20.-400
IS. 2W.430
17 S,tMO
1J 20.HOO
U S8.130
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24 29 ,10
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U 06,880
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14 e,B30
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Total.
883,085
unsold and returned copies
,71
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B. HUNGATE.
Notary Public.
The wheels of the government lottery
at the Rosebud agency 'are ,now revolv
tag. ' ' . ' '
Democrats are almost as much in the
dark about what Gorman will do aa they
are as to what Parker will say.
f Bonesteel will attract local attention
from Bt Louis this week, and, the people
ct Bonesteel will really be doing some
thing that counts. -
By the time the land rush Is over at
Rosebud and the western Nebraska land
office towns a large field will be opened
for the special agents of the Interior
department .,;, k '
A new first-class hotel and audito
rium, or theater, would be acceptable
to South Omaha, and so would a city
hall building and a market bouse, but it
takes money to make the mare go.
I , .St 1 a ..
The belligerents are preparing to
i await the end of the rainy season . in
Manchuria. The general who can de
mise a plan to operate in spite of that
aeason may be the next one to score a
, victory.
The next few days will be very stren
uous for Colonel Bryan, but with the
lung power . of a - mastodon and ' the
' voice of a megaphone he ,can stand a
heavy strain (Without serious detriment
to his constitution, ' '
When those two "stand-patters," Lafe
IToung.and William Jennings Bryan,
spoke at S&-. Louis yesterday the crowd
at the World's fair had an opportunity
to appreciate the golden mean through
the silver extremes. '
1 A Kansas, delegate says he will place
General Miles in nomination for the
presidency at St Louis. He is probably
admired) 'by. Kansas democrats in
greater degree since he refused the pro
hibition nomination.
Eastern democrats desire to readopt
the platform upon which Tllden ran In
1878, Nebraska democrats may be ex
cused If they protest when they remem
ber the vote which was recorded la this
state for that platform.
The idea that the democrats are "rain
3ow chasing" this year probably- gained
ground from the fact that so many of
them have been after that pot of gold
popularly supposed to be at the service
jff Congressman Hearst
Since Nebraska cannot nave a second
place ou the republican national ticket
or first place on the prohibition ticket,
It is eminently appropriate and fitting
that .It should be accorded the head of
the pounllat national ticket
Missouri populists have nominated a
ticket and they probably will stay in
the field, as there is a strong Impression
that thero will not be funds enough in
the coming Missouri campaign to waste
If Folk la nominated for governor.
' Two hospitals are In course of con
struction In Omaha. When these, hos
pitals and one or two others In contem
platlon are . completed Omaha will be
one of the best equipped cities of its
aixe in the world for the care of the
suck and maimed. '
S ' '
' The state of his health will prevent
lAlexls IgnatJeff, formerly governor of
Poland, from succeeding the late Gov
ernor Bobrikoft as governor general o
, Finland. Fosslbly also Governor Igna
tlett is not seriously Inclined to eipo&e
Xils corporoelty to Finnish bullets.
City Treasurer Hennings has broken
another record of tax collections. Mr.
Hennings has been a record breaker
ever since he took charge of the city's
cash boX , If it depended only on the
tclty treasurer the business of the city
Lwould hava bea irousluetud on a cash
jasls Ions sg '..
SEBRA SKA'S AIW HOMESTEADERS.
Within the next six months homes will
be established In the gracing regions of
western Nebraska by thousands of farm
ers who have availed themselves under
the provisions of the Klnkakl act of the
last opportunity for acquiring free lands
In Uncle Barn's domain. Like the old
homesteaders, who located on quarter
sections In the semi-arid belt ' twenty
years ago, this last installment of home-
Beekers will be compelled to undergo
many hardships and encounter many
difficulties that will tax their energies
nd endurance to the utmost
In the struggle for existence the law
of the survival of the fittest will-always
assert itself and only those who are
hardy, persistent and thrifty will suc
ceed, while those who are shiftless, In
dolent and lacking In the elements that
make up the successful ranchman wil
fall by the wayside and succumb to the
Inevitable. The commonwealth of Ne
braska will, however, welcome the new
homeseekers and bid them godspeed in
their effort to utilise and reclaim the
waste .lands that have' remained com
paratively unproductive and from which
no revenue has yet been drawn by the
state for the maintenance of the govern
ment. t
This last distribution of free homes In
Nebraska cannot fall very materially to
benefit the thrifty and hardy home
seeker and the settlers who have pre
ceded them and who have blazed the
way for civilization In the western part
of the state. With the subdivision of
the grazing region Into homesteads cov
ering one section there doubtless will
come a temporary breaking up of the
large cattle ranges and a i diminution
of large herds under one ownership, but
readjustment will be followed in the duo
course of time by a very marked in
crease in the number of cattle pastured
with greater care by men of compara
tively small means.
The settlement of the great Nebraska
grazing region cannot fail to have a sal
utary effect in expediting the reclama
tion of such lands as can be cultivated
by irrigation. The evolution from the
semi-barbarous state to the highest
standard of American civilization will
be as marked and stupendous In west
ern Nebraska as has been the evolution
witnessed within the past fifty years in
the eastern half of the state. ,
EDUCATWQ PORTO RICANS.
There arrived In New York last week
about 125 Porto Rlcan school ma'ams
and fifty Torto Rlcan young men. They
came as guests . of the United States
government and will take the summer
course for teachers at Cornell univer
sity. ' The fact is interesting as show
ing what the .government Is doing for
the promotion of education in Porto
Rico. One of the male teachers stated
that the effect of the American occupa
tion on the prospects of the island could
not be better Illustrated than by the fact
that In the sixty years prior to the ad
vent of the Americans only eight new
schools had been established throughout
Porto Rico". The Americans already'
bad established forty-five' new ones,' as
well as two large high schools and an
Industrial school. There are 60,000
pupils in the schools of the Island and
next year the attendance will show a
great Increase. The natives are gradu
ally learning English, which Is, now
used almost exclusively In the advanced
schools.
It Is thus shown that great work Is
being done for the education of the
people of Porto Rico, a work in the high
est degree creditable to the government
and which should go far toward silenc
ing the criticism of the so-called anti-
imperialists, who will undoubtedly be
In evidence at St Louis with their as
saults upon the policy or the govern
ment. In the Philippines, also, educa
tional work Is being advanced as rapidly
as practicable and much good In this
direction has been accomplished. The
Porto Rlcans appear to heartily ap
preciate what has been done In estab
lishing schools since the American oc
cupation and it is not to be doubted
that the Filipinos are no less apprecta
tlve of what Is being done for their In
tellectual Improvement.
SMALL 80VTB AMERICAN TRADE.
A late number of the dally consular
reports Issued by the Department of
Commerce and Labor contains an art!
cle by the vice consul of the United
States at Trinidad relating to our trade
with South America which Is instruc
tive. He points out that a notable
feature of this trade Is its comparative
fixity, that during the last thirty years
there has been an Increase of only
per cent in our trade with the southern
continent and the sales of 1800 were
about the same as those of 1002. While
during the past thirty years" our' com
merce with the world outside of South
America baa more than doubled, to the
40,000,000 people In South America our
yearly sales amount to less than $40,
000,006 not $1 per capita. We sell more
to Mexico than to .air of South Amer
ica, while our commerce with Canada
last year amounted to $24 per capita of
the population.
The vice consul is quite right In say
lng that our trade with South America
Is Inadequate and unsatisfactory. It is
remarkable that American manufactur
ers have permitted 'themselves to be
completely outstripped In the southern
markets, except that of Mexico, by their
European trade rivals and the fact
seems to discredit the energy and en
terprise of our manufacturers. We buy
heavily of South American products.
Why is it that we do not aell more
there? There are several explanations.
one of which la a lack of shipping fa
duties under American control. In his
last public speech Mr. MCKlnley re
ferred to this and urged the expediency
of establishing steamship lines between
our ports and the principal ports of
South America. That obviously sound
advice, however, has not as yet bad any
effect and American merchants and
manufacturers continue to be largely
dependent upon foreign ship owners.
THE OMAHA DAILY DEE: TUESDAY, JULY 5t 1904.
Another explanation is that our manu
facturers do not study closely the pe
culiar wants of the people of those
soulhern countries. Europeans do this
and so long as we fall to do tt we shall
not be able to successfully compete with
British, German and French manufac
turers. Another disadvantage to ouf
trade is aald to be the lack of sufficient
knowledge of foreign languages on the
part of the agents of American bouses.
The European agent generally speaks
at least three languages, whereas the
American seems content with his own
language and a 'smattering" of one
other.
Our limited trade with South Amer
ica, frankly declares the vice consul,
cannot be based on anything but the
lack of trade energy! This is an ugly
Indictment but it really seems to be
deserved. Of course effort has been
made to secure a larger share of the
South American trade, but evidently
it has not been Veil directed, nor has
It been persistently pushed. It Is the
opinion of our vice consul that a due
amount of well-directed and Intelligent
canvassing by men who spvak the lan
guage would double our trade with
South America in a yery few years.
There is good reason to believe he Is
right and certainly the trade Is worth
the effort. ;
TBS CIVIL SERVICE LAW.
The republican party gave, the coun
try the civil service law, which has been
faithfully enforced since Its enactment
by every administration of that party
and by none more thoroughly than the
present administration. The republican
national platform renews the pledge
that the law shall be honestly enforced
and with Theodore Roosevelt in the
presidency the country can confidently
count upon this pledge being carried out
Mr. Roosevelt has been a consistent
supporter of the civil service reform
system. As a member of the commis
sion he was(most zealous in promoting
the reform and as president he has
greatly extended It
There la the authority of a former
member of the civil service commission
and one of the most earnest supporters
of civil service reform, Mr. William
Dudley Foulke, that during last year
,688 more appointments were made
through competitive examination than
In the previous year and 3,007 moreitp-'
polntments were made in that year than
the year before. Under President Roose
velt about 30,000 positions have been
added to the classified service. In a
letter to the chairman of the house
committee on civil service reform
Mr. Foulke 'said: "Heretofore exten
sions of the classified service have
usually taken place near the close of
an administration and the exceptions
made soon after the new administration
commenced. But President Roosevelt
at the very beginning of his administra
tion, began to extend the number of
competitive positions and to strengthen
the rules. He also dealt out summary
Justice to offenders several. of whom
held, high positions in bis own. party."
These facts will have weight with all
friends of the merit system, with that
large number of voters wbo do not wish
to have the public offices again become
the spoils of politicians. The demo
cratic party of today Is not friendly
to ' civil service reform. It does not
favor the merit system as applied to
offices under the federal, government
It believes In the maxim proclaimed
many years ago by a distinguished
destomrat, "to the victors belong the
spoils." , Should the democracy be vie
torious next November nothing Is more
certain than that the party would do
all it possibly could to overthrow the
merit system ana a president can do a
great deal In this direction. On the
other band, the success of the repub
lican party will assure the honest en
forcement of the iHvll service law and
Its 1 extension wherever practicable.
President Roosevelt has shown by his
acts that be Is still an earnest supporter
of the law and In this Is presented one
of his strongest claims to the confl
dence and support of all Wbo under
stand Jthe importance of keeping the
public offices free from the control and
manipulation of the politicians.
The Insurance companies ..are busily
engaged In trying to make the public
believe that the recent decision of the
Nebraska supreme court sustaining the
reciprocal tax feature of our insurance
laws is going to impose an extra burden
on the policy holders in Nebraska. If
Nebraska were the only state that taxed
Insurance companies the policy holders
here might be singled out for retail
atory measures, but as Jong as Ne
braska does not impose any heavier
taxes than other states it Is difficult to
see how the; insuranco companies can
Impose higher rates on policy holders
here than they do on policy holders else
where. Insurance has gotten to be like
any other commodity bought and sold
after due consideration of quality and
price. There will always be Just enough
competition to keep, the rates down to
the lowest level consummate with eco
nomic management reasonable profits
aad safe Investments.
There is a growing Impression that
"civil service reform" is not working
satisfactorily In the steamboat Inspec
tion department Just before leaving
office Secretary Cortelyou ordered a l e
lnspectlon of the passenger-carrying
boats In New York harbor. This has
not been started and- the Inspector In
charge has - gone to .Washington to
secure) a modification of the order. In
the meantime no one knows how many
sawdust live-preservers are In use and
apparently none of the local Inspectors
cares.
State Labor Commissioner Bush has
compiled an estimate of the money on
deposit lo state and national banks In
Nebraska, Why should the state labor
commissioner trouble himself with mat
ters that, do not eoocera him In the
least? Why not let the State Banking
board and the state bank examiners
make the compilation of bank deposits?
What relation has the labor bureau to
the banking Institutions of Nebraska,
excepting possibly , to cash its salary
warrants?
Why should the chairman of the re
publican congressional committee ask
for a conference on Joint primaries wHh
the county chairman for Douglas county
and not' with the county chairman of
Sarpy and Washington cotttitles? Are
the rights of republicans living in Doug
las county, with respect to the repre
sentation of this district in congress,
any different from thoe of republicans
living tn other counties that make up
this district?
State Treasurer Mortensen's monthly
statement of treasury balances and the
disposition of the state funds In his
custody is a model financial exhibit.
There have been no "keep-lt-dark"
methods employed In the state treasury
under ''Mr. Mortensen a distinct con
trast with customs that prevailed under
most of his predecessors.
According to the Lincoln Journal Jo
. Kasson of Omaha was appointed
minister to Germany twenty years ago
yesterday. The hind sight of The Jour
nal forecaster must be seriously out of
repair. John A. Kasson never lived in
Omaha and was never a resident of Ne
braska, but has always claimed a resi
dence at Des Moines, la.
Forgotten Achievement.
Chicago Record-Herald.
On of the greatest of President Roose
velt's achievements has been almost over
looked. He has succeeded In making the
public forget that he was not born in a
log house or on a farm.
' Trot Oat Your Mystery.
New Tork Tribune. x
No mystery was ever elected president
of the United States, and none ever will
be," aald Senator Beverldge In his speech
at Chicago. Still, If the democracy Insists
upon it. It may nominate one at St. Louis.
WstIbb the Flasr.
Boston Globe.
Yes, the flag that waves undisturbed over
the Colorado bull pen where men are kept
until they can be sent out of the state for
being union miners Is the same flag which
la being torn from the front pages of maga
zines In Boston.
All a dnestlon of Bait.
St. Louts Republic.
Excepting only the mermaid' and the sea
serpent, very nearly everything that swims
in water is to be seen in the fisheries ex
hibit at the fair. And. a man who has
been using the right kind of bait may see
even sea serpents and mermaids In some of
the tanks.
A Thrilling Unliable.
Baltimore American.
The person who has to resort to plain,
old-fashioned suicide in this season of
splendid facilities for: accidental death -is
Indeed lacking In the quality of resource
fulness. With the excursion steamers, boat
rockers, Ice cream poisoning, Ice water
foundering, sunstroke and- stealthy trolley
cars, opportunities-fofc death are no plenty
as to make tbe preservation of one's Ufa
so full of the element of uncertainty and
chance as to satisfy the gaming appetite
that Is Inbred in alfc of use-. .
GROl'PIXG THE KNOCKERS. '
Class of People for Whom the Presi
dent la t'nsafe,
Louisvlll Post.
What men say that the President is un
safe.
These. . The brokersj with the delegations
to sell. , t ;
The spoilsmen, deprived of their power;
The men who have grafted on ths service
a great machinery of, jobbery.
The manufacturers of tissue-paper secur
ities, the promoters of get-rlch-qulck con
cerns; The men of capital who say they are
commissioners of God to grind the faces of
the poor;
The violators of the law, who appeal to
ths kaw for vengeance on the men they
have outraged; - :
The organised capitalists who think or
ganised labor has ne lights they are hound
to respect;
The' organised laborers who believe un
organised labor has no rights tbe union
Is bound to respect; '
Those party leaders who resent the com
ing of a young man who will not follow
Implicitly the order of things merely because-
It Is old; '
The advocates and orgains of wrongdo
ing; 'the men sceptical of better things
In publlo life; the men who assert that
every man has his price, and name theirs;
the men who In a campaign would shackle
a president for his full term; these say the
president Is unsafe, and for them he 1s
unsafe.
HEW CHIEF OP THE HAW.
Naval Circle Bpa-calatlasr Oa tlf Pol-
' ley of Secretary Mortan.
Army and Navy Register.
Considerable interest attaches to the pol
icy which will be Incorporated in naval
administration by the appearance of Jir.
Paul Morton as secretary of the navy. It
Is assumed that a man who can ocoupy
the position of a vice president of a lead
ing railroad in this country must be a
worker. It Is the first time In many years
that the head of the Navy Pepartment
has not been of the legal profession. Sev
eral of his predecessors have been what
may be called congressional training,
which is anything but of ths executive
order. Mr. Morton succeeds gentlemen who
have not always had a liking, for the desk
work of the department and to whom
ths unavoidable routine of ths office was
more or less Irksome. Perhaps Mn Moody
was the most conspicuous, as weu aa in
most recent, example of that type. While
he eame, as he said, to find his duties as
secretary of the navy somewhat fascina
ting. It was quite evldeat that he did not
relish the laborious part of the work and
It was apparent very early In his admin
istration that he would much rather have
retained his seat In Congress. 80 little Is
known of Mr. Morton in Washington tha
the keenest Interest Is awakened in tbe re
sult of his assumption of the duties of sec
retary of tbe navy. No on la able to say
what line of policy he will adopt on lm
portant questions suoh as that of the na
val general staff or the legalised general
board or whether be will undertake to
solve that vexatious problem of naval
pay. There are numerous questions which
be will find awaiting Mm and the decision
upon which will Indicate his sentiment
It is hardly likely that Mr, Morton's se
lection means that he la to run a political
department despite the fact that bis ap
pointment Is at the beginning 01 a preei
dentlai campaign, Tbe fact that be la a
praotloai railroad mail indicates that he
maat have the euauty and dispoelUon ef
Industry, aad that ia itself i a good
omen,
ROt'HD ABOIT HRW YORK.
RJ,le. the tTrTT.t f Life la t..
Metropolis.
The costliest residence In New To City
la ' not owned by a New Yorker. It be
longs to a westerner. Senator Clark of
Montana, "Billy". Clark, the copper king,
tbs "MaJ" Clark of the !Ves Forces cam
paign of U7S. Senator Clark's Income IS
ovsr $1,500,000 a month. The mansard root
of ths Clark palace on the Highlands Of
Fifth avenue Is being sheathed In copper
from the owner's mines. The walls are
constructed of marble from his own quar
ries. In tbe basement are Russian and
Turkish baths, etc., and en the second floor
are the art gallery and dining room. The
gallery will contain many of the celebrated
paintings of ths world, and the house and
Its contents will represent an outlay of
$8, (0,000. 80 much for copper.
80 much abuse has been hurled at the
heads of landlords recently because they
refused to rent their miserable little flats
to persons who have children that one of
the breed made the announcement the other
day 'that he Was going to build an apart
ment house and that only those who had
children would be admitted. To irrove that
he was not Joking he filed plans with the
building department providing a large room
for the storage of baby carriages, and he
made elaborate arrangements for prevent
In th nhlldren from falling down tbe stair
wells and out of the windows. The room
for the storage of baby carriages, will
probably not appeal very strongly to the
women. They like to have these things
standing around In dark hallways, where
the neighbors can break their necks over
them, and the Idea of putting a wire screen
over the fences, protecting the stair wells,
will not appeal, because It will make the
house look too much like a prison. At any
rate, the building of this house, will put
an effective gag on the howlers, If It does
not satisfy them.
Publlo school teachers' legal rights are
further strengthened by a decision given
by Justice Qaynor In-the oase f Frank M.
Bogert who is reinstated and gets back
salary since 1898 amounting to $4,270.83.
City Superintendent Maxwell dispensed
with Bogert's services at the close of the
school term In 189ft, that being the date of
the end of his contract with the school
board of the old town of New Utrecht.
Demand for' reinstatement was Ignored by
Dr. Maxwell, although Bogert held a' cer
tificate which entitled to appointment in
any grammar school in the state Employ
ment as substitute teacher when regular
teachers were 111 or absent from duty was
given him.
Justice Qaynor heard the evidence last
week and in his decision he rules that Bo
gert's term of employment did not end on
June 80, 1898, but that, under the consolida
tion act It became an Indefinite term until
the plaintiff was removed for cause after
trial. The city superintendent had no power
to remove him, and he is entitled to rein
statement with damages measured by the
salary of $1,250 he would have received,
less anything he had earned as a substi
tute teacher.
The court computed the amount due Bo
gert to be $4,270,83, and Issued judgment, to
gether with an order for his reinstatement
New York will have the finest hotel in
the world when the Hotel Astor, in the
vicinity of Times Square, opens Its doors,
early In the fall. Nearly $7,000,000 has been
spent by William Waldorf Astor for the
land, the construction and the furnishings.
The building alone will represent a cost
of about $5,000,000. The land Is valued at
mere than $1,000,000. .. The movable furni
ture will cost nearly $700,000. In Its con
struction nothing in the way of modern
invention for safety against Iflre has been
overlooked. . From basement to roof gar
den, every corridor, stair, hall and room
Is to be finished . with a lavish elegance
and with little regard to expense. Artists
of world-wide renown have contributed to
the mural decorations. Experts in all
phases of interior adornment have spent
months working out schemes of color, de
termining architectural details, selecting
expensive tapestries ' and arranging ' the
thousand and one up-to-date comforts of
this huge pile.
The olosing of a great city's street to
traffic, all to save the life of a baby the
child of poor parents was a story told In
ihe dispatches from Brooklyn. Because
the noise of passing vehicles threw the
little one into convulsions and because ab
solute rest was needed to preserve its
slender chanoe for recovery Borough Pres
ident Uttleton, as soon as the circum
stances were made known to htm by the
mother, closed the street. All day the
huge tide of trafflo was held back from
that spot and not even when night fell
were the barriers lifted, although the baby
was reported much, better and on the way
to recovery.
Amid the death scenes at North Brother
Island following the Slocum disaster there
was one group whose happiness could not
be dimmed by the disaster. The group was
made up of an Italian, his wife and little
girl. The child had Just been released from
the scarlet fever hospital, where she had
been four weeks. The father and mother
had come over to take ber back . to the
tenement.
They got the child at the hospital and
started back for the boat, the little girl
sitting on her father's shoulder and the
father kissing hsr at every step. On their
way they had to pass a line of corpses
stretched on the lawn, some of the bodies
of children lust like their own. But the
three were lost In their own happiness and
entirely unconscious of tbe surrounding
horror. Down the pier they went, while
policemen, stretcher bearers and those who
were thero to look for the bodies of their
lost paused to glanoe. at the picture they
presented. The pall of the recent tragedy
seemed to be lifted for Just ona brief mo
ment as the three passed on. Isspctor Al
bertson stopped his work and watched
them.
'Thank God for that!" he said. Then he
went back to help another father find the
body of his lost little one.
New fork's small-shop architecture Is
adapting Itself picturesquely to Its pur
poses. A low building of the kind known
as a taxpayer has been built on an uptown
corner In the style of an old Dutch edifice.
snd Its unusual architectural features are
not only an ornament to the neighborhood,
but have proved attractive enough to rent
ail the shops and offices before the build
ing Is finished.
Another new shop Intended for a special
kind of business Is built In Imitation of an
old English house, with the white wood
work bt Its dormer windows facing th
street. A house devoted to the sale of
articles In ths style of ths Colonial period
la an admirable reproduction of a building
of thst era.
All these unusual edifices are In the same
region, to which they add unusual plctur
osquenese.
Along Fifth avenue between Thirty-
fosrth and Fifty-ninth streets there Is
long lane of boarded-up mansions, probably
80S of them. It Is the same tn Madison
avenue. Riverside drive and upper Fifth
avenue In that quarter called "Millionaire
row," There are probably 1,000 vacant
mansions In New Tork today which hold
treasure In paintings and tapestries that
would rPr an enterprising burglar for an
Informal sail. It Is seldom that ons hears
1 of a vseant ananlou bclig 4o;o!Ua, There
FROM THE GRANITE HILLS
of New Hampshire comes
Soft, light, and
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DISTRIBUTING AGENT.
ar an manv cunning burglar alarms used
In these places that it Is haidly possible
to walk up to the front floor witnoui giving
tha xinrm All the windows are safe
guarded by electrio devlcss, which warn the
police and private agencies of the approach
of tbe trespasser. All the wires are under
ground and It is not possible to get at them
for cutting purposes. In addition to tnese
precautions every block has tie private
watchman and the streets are so well
lighted that a auspicious character Is st
once spotted.
TATE PRESS OPINIONS.
Pierce County Call: An Increase of 65
per cent in the assessed valuation of rail
road property In this state is better than
waa expected. The state board received
the commendation of E. Rosewater upon
Its action, but it is noticeable that the
Yellow World-Herald has not made any
comment whatever. The motto of the
World-Herald Is, "If you can't find any
thing bad to say about the republican party
and republican officials, don't say any
thing." Greeley (Neb Independent: Some of the
Oreeley boys In Cripple Creek and Victor
were among the deported miners recently
carried away from their homes and left
to starve on the barren desert. If there In
& hell that will do Justice to Governor Pea-
body and General Bell in the way of tor
ment. It has not been written of yet. When
It comes to tying men up by the thumbs
starving the wives of union miners we
have no need of sympathy for Cuba against
Weylerlsm. The Siberian exiles are not
treated so shamefully. These men should
be investigated by the United States au
thorities and punished to the limit.
Beatrice Express: It Is generally ad
mitted that Nebraska is safely republican
this year. Roosevelt Is a very popular
candidate tn the west, and there Is little
chance of the democratio candidate, who
ever he may be, winning in Nebraska. This
Is true not only because the people have
confidence In Roosevelt, and believe he is
In thorough sympathy with the west, but
because the people have learned to trust
the republican party and look to it as the
party of progress, ready to meet all ques
tions that' may present themselves and
work out their solution for the best Inter
ests of the majority of the people. The
republican party Is the party of action., ir
does things and makes the wheels go round.
The old democratio party, under the claim
of being conservative, blocks the wheels
of progress and Is continually pulling back
ward. Masquerading under the, cloak or
Thomas Jefferson, the present democratic
party has repudiated the doctrine of ex
pansion which brought to Jefferson his
greatest fame. It has repudiated its re
mote leader and is now engaged in trying
to repudiate Its recent leader. It is wander
ing In the dark, not knowing where -to "gff,
but only seeking for light
Nebraska City Tribune: The mental
curiosity who edits the Omaha World-Herald
has added another to a long list of
serious errors regarding himself. For a
good many years these' "personal mis
takes have been committed by the World
Herald man. and while the items and inci
dents have been various and cover a wide
range of subjects, the results have been
uniformly the same In every case ridicule
at the hands of every cltlsen who has sn
ounce of horse sense in his makeup. For
some years the World-Herald man has
mistaken himself for a great statesman and
has posed and squirmed snd taken himself
quite seriously. As the "personal repre
sentative" of Bryan at Kansas City In 1900
he neared the verge of physical explosion
from the expansion of self-important gas.
The net result was a wave of ridicule from
an onttre country, barring a small coterie
of blinded sixteen to wunners in Nebraska.
In 1904 he bad evolved Into an astute "poli
tician" and placed pins for a delegate's
honors to the St. Louis convention. A
horse laugh of ridicule from his own sec
tion put a quietus on this and he "with
drew" In the "Interest of Bryanltlc har
mony." In the Issue of June 27 the same
gentleman aspires to large fame as a
humorist only to meet with the same
merry ha-ha of ridicule from citizens In
general. In view of the success (T) met In
these various ventures, why not get sn axe
and try tho woodpile for a while? There at
least a sustained effort will meet with
some reward.
' Another Crnel Blow.
Chicago Tribune.
Tt t aiven out that no more silver dollars
will be coined, the supply of sliver bul
lion nurchase under the Sherman act nav-
ing been exhausted. This has been de
cided upon, too, as Editor Bryan will per
ceive, without waiting for the aid or con
sent of any other nation.
THE NEWSPAPER PAR EXCELLENCE.
Ruahvllle Recorder.
The Recorder has been so busy the
last two weeks that it has scarcely
looked at its exohange list, hence our
failure to notice the 83d birthday of The
Cmaha Bee, the foremost newspaper of
Nebraska. However much one may dif
fer from Editor Rosewater, none will
deny Ms ability as founder of The Bee.
His paper has character, vitality, force
and above all the news, snd It repre
sents the vigor of the west, free from
those yellow objections, yet clothed wltk
a dignity that makes The Bee the news
paper par excellence of Nebraska.
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RETAIL AGENTS.
PERSONAL NOTES.
Grover Cleveland will have a private wire
between his summer homo And the St.
Louis convention hall. His determination
to keep out of tbe political hurly-burly la
unalterable. .
A Chicago pastor is trylnt to build up a
"home-mending" society In bis ohurch, to
act as peacemaker in family disputes. The
members of the society , ouht to wear
armor, however.
Charles M. Stebblns, a pioneer Of Denver, .
who has Just died in Prussia, baa left $300,
000 to be used for the education and main
tenance of an orphanage in Denver to bo
named after h'rr..
Senator Joseph R. Hawley Is much Im
proved in health, and has leased a house
boat upon which he will spend the month of
July In Chesapeake bay, and later will take
his boat into Long Island Sound.
Several of the largest Insurance com
panies and other employers of clerical laoor
In New Tork have Issued orders to their
employes to cease betting on horse raoee
or be prepared for Instant dismissal.
Napoleon Bonaparte Broward, the governor-elect
of Florida. Just prior t the was
with Spain, repeatedly defied the author
ities both of Spain and the United States
by transporting arms and supplies to the
Cuban patriots.
Sir Hugh Gllsean Reld. ths British Jour
nalist who came to this country some two
months ago to preside over the world's
press parliament at the St. Louis fair,
maintains a house in Brussels and for
years has been on terms of close personal
intimacy with Leopold, the Belgian .king.
Sir Hugh says that his majesty has been
the victim of much slander, and misrepre
sentation, both his publlo and private life
having been viciously distorted by. detain
ers. "The king," he adds,- "Is a man Whom
It is impossible not to esteem, and those
who know his true character Judge hisa
as one of the best of monarchs."
LINES TO A LAUGH.
"What is religion, anyway?" demanded
Sneerwell.
"Religion," replied Pecksniff oracularly,
'is the consolation of homely women."
Town Topics. .
Long Tailed Dog Don't you get tired of
everlastingly wagging that little stump of
yours? -
Stump Tailed Dog No: It feels as If the
tall was all there, and I get Just as muoh
fun out of the exercise as you do, with
a good deal less work. Chicago Tribune.
Mr. Eubedee Tes, I've changed , a good
deal since-then, Mrs. Jones.
Mrs. Jones And for the better, I trust.
Mr. Eubedee They used to call me a wild
youth, you remember, but now
Mrs. Jones Now?
Mr. Eubedee Now they call me an old
reprobate. Brooklyn Life.
"You can't do two things successfully at
the same time.'"..,,, 1 j
, "I dld -
"What did you do?"' . ,
"Spent my money and my vacation."
Cleveland Plain Dealer. y
' Gayman My wife found a bill In my
pocket the other day for "ribbons for the
typewriter" ....
Wiseman Oh 1 I've heard that old Joke.
Gayman So had my wife, so she never
suspected that this time they were for the
ladv and not for the machine. Philadelphia
Ledger.
"Ah!" exclaimed Cltlman. who was vis
iting Subbubs, "I envy you. All Is so beau
tiful; ths) tender grass" .
"Tender? Huh!" snorted SUbbubS, you
wouldn't think so if you had to cut it with
a dull lawn mower. ' Philadelphia Press.
"He says he doesn't want office unless
his country calls him." ' .''?.
"Yes," answered Senator Sorghum, ""but
he's hanarlna- close up to the telephone
ready to answer the very first ring.
Washington Star.
Uno' Eph'm was lecturing his spendthrift
son, . . .
De lub o' money may oe ae roo nu
evil," he said, "but de hatln' o' money aln t
de foundation or all good, ye ourn gooa t r
nuthln' cuss 1" Chicago Tribune.
UNDER THE BAMBOOZLE TREE.
Leslie's Weekly.
An astonishing shrub is the bamboosle
bush, aa It grows in the summer time
weather;
For its fruit starts to ripen as soon as the
spring has escaped from her worri
some tether. . . 1
And from then till late autumn there fall
from Its boughs such a crop 'tis amaz
ing to see
Let us stand for awhile where the things
may be seen as they drop from toe
bamboosle tree.
There's the lecman who comes with his
bamboosle weight, and tbe flssman
' bamnooallng the kid
By supplying him soda that's half an Inch
deep rneath a seven-Inch, bubble
xormea 11a. ,
There's the lager beer merchant purveying
ma iiuin iu a. ic ... uw.i .v 1
we I
These are only a few of the frulta that are
borne by this wonderful bamboosle
tree.
There's the shrewd summer boarder bam
bamboosllng the man wbo is rural In
tastes and In training.
By becoming Indebted a hundred or more
and from, needful remittance refrain-
There"the Reuben who knows vastly more
than you'd think, and who captures
the sharper (or he ,
Has a use of his own that he makes of the
fruit that is shed by the bamboosle
tree.
Bo we sit 'neath the boughs of the bam
boosle bush that In summer time
flourishes madly, AI M ' .
And we gorge on the fruit that descends
from Its limbs, though It nauseates
all of us sadly.
There I scarrely a soul neath Its world
shading top but Is dally bamboosled
you see ,
Such sn endless assortment 6f fruitage la
borne by tha versatile bamboos! tree.
thoughts and aspirations of the mother
bending over the cradle. Tho ordeal through
which the expectant mother must pass, how
ever, is so full of danger and suffering that
.v,- fnr-v.rd tn tha hour when she shall
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