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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, JULY 11, 1904. The Omaha Daily Bee. B. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED. EVERY MORN1NO. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. - Dally Be (without Sunday), On Yar..4. laily lie and Bandar, One Year........ Illustrated Bee, Ore tear ! Sunday litre, On Year Saturuay Bee, On Year U'wntleth Century Farmer, On Yeer.i.W UCLIVEaill BYWCAKRIER. Daily Bea (wlthaut Sunday), per copy.. c Dally bee (without Sunday), per week...l2o Dally Bee including Sunday), par wek.lc Sunday Bee, per aopy..... S Evening Bee (without Sunday), per week. io Evening Bee (Including Sunday), P week .Vii 120 Complaints 06 irregularity In delivery ahould be addressed to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee. Building. South Omaha CUy liall Building, Twenty-fifth and M Street. Council BluffslO Pearl Street. Chicago 1640 Unity Building. New Waal York 2320 Park Row Bulldlrg. hlngton 001 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi torial matter ahould be addressed: Omaha Dee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. . Remit by drafL" express or postal order, payable to Th Bee Publishing Company. Only S-cent stamp received In payment of m.U accounts, personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. TUB BKB PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT' OF CIRCULATION, fata of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.; George B. Tzscbuck. secretary of The Boa Publishing Company, being duly sworn, aays that the actual number ot full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bea printed during th month of June, 1WH, was as follows: . a. 2,4ftO U 20.430 ao.TM 17 ,....2t.0 . SU.TJtO 18 XO.HSO 4 JIW.TSO 18 3H.1SO I Sn,TS 2U,T0 WJ.T90 tl !t9,T40 2,7VO 23 JW.TOO t 3,TB 23 JW.TW lW.flOO 34 att.WO 10 a,400. : ifii......:...a,To IX. 80,000 ' . M.... T.TT5 u au.ewo n ao.uo U. 80,000 28 M. 29,680 14 XO,uaO 2 2,BSO 11 .HO,ltO W :.2V,T70 Total 883.08B Lisas unsold and returned copies.... t,7l Net total alas -. 87iL37a Daily average .., SrB.lia GEO. B.'TZBCHUCK, Subscribed In my presence and. a worn to before me.Uua Will day of June, A. D. 1804, (Seal) ' ' M. B.' HUNQATE, . : , Notary, Public. The riddle of the sphynx Is solved. Esopuahas spoken, and. Bt. Louis trenir bled. !.,,; i ' . ' Senator Tlllmaa says lie ..objects to political Jjoaaee. Thin .VlR be fnews la Bouth Carolina. Weat Virginia coal miners will have something to Bay about that candidate from their home state. The agitation for a sane and aafe Fourth of July should be kept up until It la a a assured fact. Judge Parker haa succeeded In creat ing more interest in the fate of Watson and Tibbies than was ever expected. If all of Tarker'a utterancea cause aa much ujroar and bickering1 aa his first, Where : will the "united democracy" ever land? i; , " 1 n . The commercial agenclea, report a notable increase of confidence In busi ness circles. The election of Roosevelt and Fairbanks la almost an assured fact Mr. $ryan delivered the weat In 1806 and now it 1b up to David Bennett Hill to 'show what he can do In the east with' his no longer silent candidate. Parker could not bo satisfied with a nomination. lie had to hold a trium phal procession with the former free silver champion chained to hla chariot What haa become of the proposed re adjustment of electrio lighting lamps, and what baa become of the ordinance providing for a municipal electric light plant '..' William Jennings Bryan la a pretty good acrobat but the greatest feat of his life l8 yfet'?serjrer for' Klin, namely, straddling the populist and democratic platforms. Three new-' elevators and1 at leaat one flouring mill are already in sight and more in prospective. . That means more to Oniata than' anything' that baa hap pened since the establishment of the meat packing industry. The proposed extension of the Union Pacific .rahch- lines from' Norfolk into Bouth Dakota by way of the Rosebud reservation will be hailed with satisfac tion by Omaha business men and by the people pt northeastern Nebraska. In the morning .Mf. Parker, said, "I shall say nothing 'until I am formally notified of my nomination, " but" before the shades of evening fell he had said something and that something in no un certain terms. jWhat caused him to change hia mind bo aiiddenly? - If the acavengffl law. Could only reach the railroads and make them plank down the 1234,000 they now owe to the city of Omaha In back taxes the city would have no difficulty in meeting all the de mands for an increase of the fire and police departments and needed repairs of public thoroughfares. " The 'latest city directory credlta Greater Chicago with' a population of 2,241,000, which is an increase of only 10,000 over the directory estimate for 1003. But directory estimates must al waysNe akeV with' a grain of allow ance, and If Greater Chicago has passed the 2,000,000 population mile-stone, it can well be satisfied with its phenom enal growth. The next legislature of' Wisconsin will be asked .by the city council of Milwaukee td' give the Cream city the power to Issue bonds fur the construc tion and establishment of a municipal loe plant If the legislature accedes to the request and tlw people of Mil waukee vote the bonds the establish tnent of municipal Ice plants may be come all the rage In other American dries. For tresent Omaha will be poutent J"iU av wuoicljpal paving plant rCS PRESIDES TIAIt CAXDIDATE. The democratic candidate for vice president Is not well known to the coun try and he comes from a state West Virginia that has only-seven electoral votes and la classed" aa safely repub lican. Henry Gnssaway Davis is a nian of large wealth and this fact doubt less explains why he waa selected. He Is a railroad president and a national banker and so far as khown is not boa tile to "plutocracy," ef which be Js, aa a multi-millionaire, representative. Mr. Davla baa been In politic. He waa a number of yeara ago a member of the West Virginia legislature and was a United States senator for two terms, 1S71-83. He was also t delegate to six national democratic conventions. It is not remembered that Mr. Davis shewed any marked qualities of states manship when he was In the national senate, or that at any time in hla politi cal career be. manifested any abjllty be yond that of the ordinary politician. He certainly baa no claim to distinction and being nearly eighty-one years old he of course cannot take any active part In the campaign. It la undoubtedly the expectation, however, that he will be a liberal contributor to the cam paign fund, while as a railroad presi dent and national banker, he will per- linps be able to obtain contributions from the corporations." In no other way can the nomination of thia octoge narian be explained, for there. Is no reason to think that he can carry West Virginia, for the democracy. Tour yeara ago that state gave a republican plur ality of. 21,000 and there; la -hot the least likelihood that, this can be-over come next November.' ' , The nomination of Henry O. Davla looks like a political mistake. It waa aupposed that 'the convention would se lect a candidate for the vice presidency from the middle west or the northwest where it could have found a man who would have given strength to the ticket and could take an active part,, in ,the campaign. But obviously the. money consideration was of controlling In fluence and against the argument of the millions of the veteran of eighty the claims of. younger men were of no con sequence. With a . gold-standard man at the. head of the ticket And a corpora tion man at the tail, those democrats who- have been denouncing i plutocracy and the combinations will be effectually silenced. AX HONEST TOBEian ppucT. v !i t In his address at the semi-centennial anniversary of the republican party, Secretary Hay said in regard to the foreign v policy of the United Statea: "All the foreign policy of MeKlnLey, and Roosevelt haa been , marked with,' the same stamp of honesty and fair dealing, confessedly in American interests, bot treating our friends with equity t and consideration. They have- made "more treaties than any two preceding presi dents, and the conclusion of the whole matter la that we etand today In Inde pendent though . amicable relatione to all the reat of .the world without an ally and without an enemy." The hlatory of American diplomacy shows that our government has always pursued the policy of treating foreign nations fairly and honestly, and if this fact has been more conspicuous during the last five or six years than at any other time, it is because in . this period our government has beenacalled upon to take a larger part In world affairs than formerly. Uow great haa been the ad vantage to our Influence and prestige from pursuing a straightforward course In our foreign policy there la abundant evidence. European nations have learned to place implicit confidence in Ameri can diplomatic reprcsetatlons and the views of pur government in, regard to any international matter affecting the Interests of the United States are treated with the greatest , respect, and receive the most earnest consideration, While adhering to the traditional pol icy of not entering into an alliance with any nation, this country via atlll able to obtain Just treatment everywhere and to have its. rights' and Interests' pro tected. Aa .waa ald by. the secretary of state, himself entitled to no small share of the credit for the wisdom and Integrity of our foreign policy, we-are without an enemy and although Ameri can institutions are not universally, fidr mired there is no-nation :that.doea not most sincerely desire to ' be on the friendliest terms with the United States. The position of this . republic among the great powers of- the earth s one of which Americans can -Justlybe proud. OMAHA MUST HELP-iTSELF. - -"Heaven helps those Mho help, them selves.". This applies as, '.well. to! com muuitles and cities as It does to every Individual. From the day since the first apade waa struck In the virgin aoH on the alte occupied 'by Omaha its upbuild ing has been due to the energy, pluck, perseverance and enterprise of the men and women who have; lived at)d tolled to promote its growth and commercial su premacy. Rome waa not built in a day and Omaha will not reach ita full meas ure of commercial growth and industrial greatness for many generations to come. What haa already been accomplished by the past generation Is an incentive for the present and future generations. The most difficult task in a . self-made man's career Is the saving up of bis first thousand dollars. The most difficult task In the upbuilding of a city Is to make It cross the hundred thousand pop ulation mark. Omaha haa crossed that line and la rapidly turning the second quarter of the second circle, With all the elements that go to make up the brain and alnew of lta population work ing In concert Omaha ahould have no difficulty In making a showing of 200.000 population when the next census Is taken In 1010. We mean, of course, Greater Omaha the Omaha that will embrace not only South Omaha and Florence, but also Dundee, Benson and other suburban villages. ' ' f To achieve this result; howeverOmaha must above all things stand for Omaha, not only at borne, but abroad; -sot only one day, but 805 daya in the year. First of all, Omaha should sdopt a broad minded, progressive home-rule policy and encourage and stimulate every enter prise that promises to contribute to Its growth and prosperity. It must strive to attract capital and population from abroad by making Omaha not merely at tractive for investors, but for people who-desire to make it their permanent home. . . It must not merely foster industry and commerce, but education and art. In everything that Omaha undertakea lt ahould aim high and strive for the best that is obtainable with the meana at Ha command. It may be selfish, but it Is one of the cardinal virtues of every conv munlty to cultivate local pride and ex hibit loyalty to itself by giving prefer ence wherever it is possible to its mer chants, manufacturers, artists, archi tects, artisans and professional men. By pursuing such a policy Omaha will easily outstrip all its competitors in the upper Mississippi valley. RUSSIAN DISCOXTEXT AVVTE. Recent advices say that discontent In Russia has become acute and that'the prisons are being filled with persons of Intellectual note, while Increasing numbers are being banished or deported to Siberia. There appears to be at present no great da.nger of anything like a revolution, but those familiar with the popular feeling of discontent in the empire say it Is conceivable that In the event of an adverse issue to the present war there might be a general rising of the peasantry, which would be directed, not against the existing re gime, but against the property of the educated classes in general. While perhaps a majority of the Rus sian people are paying little If any at tention to the war, if the government shall find it necessary, as almost cer tainly It will, to make further conscrip tions, there will probably be great dif ficulty in preventing an uprising of the oppressed peasantry. In that case there undoubtedly would be a deter mined demand for some radical modifi cation In the existing government and there is reason to think" that the czar himself would not be , unfavorable to this. It has been urged that the Rus sian system of government is the only one' suited to the masses of the people, but It cannot be regarded as sure to be perpetual. The outcome of the war with Japan Is very likely to produce some change in the character of the government. Some months ago the Chicago city council enacted an ordinance requiring closed shafts for elevators In certain classes of .business buildings. Against the enforcement of this ordinance a per manent injunction has been issued in the Chicago courts on the ground that the enactment of such a law is unrea sonable and oppressive in its terms and tends moreover rather to increase tho dangiar from fire 'to. both life and build ings even In the' kind of buildings for which It was designed. ' According to the testimony of competent builders the old type of closed elevator shafts proved to be practically fire flues that set all floors to burning before the fire depart ment could reach the fire, while in build ings of modern construction they arc useless besides being costly and unsatis factory. What is true of Chicago, of course, would also be true with regard to similar construction In Omaha. The only safe -plan is to construct the ele vator shaft of noncombustlble materials. The most striking proof that electric railways are rapidly entering into the field heretofore monopolized by steam railroads may be found in the record of receiverships and foreclosures affect ing this class of transportation lines. Examination of financial Journals show that eight electric railway corporations and systems have been placed ln the hands of receivers since January, of the present year, chiefly, if not wholly, because their promoters and builders had followed the example of the steam railroad construction rings by issuing bonds and etocka far in excess of the actual capital Invested. When the water la wrung out of these concerns most of them will doubtless be In con dition to earn fair interest upon tbelr true value. , With sixteen votes credited to him by delegates representing Oklahoma, Indian Territory, New Mexico, Arizona, Alaska, Porto Rico and District of Columbia Parker only secured the nomination by one majority. In other words, Parker's nomination was made by the territories that have no vote in the electoral col lege. In 1804 a delegation headed by Andrew J. Poppleton, representing the territory of Nebraska, waa politely given back seats on the convention floor with out the privilege of casting a vote, to prevent Just such an incident as hap pened In St Louis at thia time, viz., the naming of a national candidate by dele gates representing no electoral votea. The people of Armourdale have grown so accustomed to the annual uprising of the Kaw river that it haa doubtless come to be looked upon a a something to be expected, sighed at and meekly endured, as the powera do with the "trouble in the Balkans." Why some energetic means la not devlaed to either keep It between proper borrlera or have It run through another channel and atop this carnival of destruction every time we have more than two days' rain at a time, Is something bard to be understood. It Is simply a question of who Is going to own that particular little section of the state, the Kaw river or the business peo ple of the community. Filipinos lq this country to study American methods ahould not fall into the mistake of considering the demo cratic national convention one of the ordinary features "of American life. Such a thing can happen only once In four years tind it. does not always as sume such fierce phases; tut it waa s mistake to draw the battle off so close to the Igorrotes. It waa not reorganisation at St. Louis, but absolute surrender on the part of the democratic reform forcee to a . f eie which desplsea them. The free silver Idea was fallacious, but the men who championed that cause held other Ideas not so fallacious at least they had the desire for better things, something not possessed by the men who now control the party. nobson's labor talk in the national democratic convention recalls forcibly the indiscreet utterances of the political preacher whose alliterative denunciation of rum, Romanism and rebellion lost James O. Blaine his election to the presidency. At Santiago Hobson was In his element but at St Louis he overshot the mark. Hew Let Civilisation Rejalee. Chicago Post. Tha Dutch have won two victories (T) over the Achinese. In ona 281 women and eighty-eight children, and in tha other m women and 130 children were killed. Surely the old-fashioned hell is not aa had aa this! New York Takes the Bakery. New York yorld. No New Yorker has to go away from borne for a presidential candidate this year. If you don't like Roosevelt you can vote for Parker, and if Parker falls to suit there Is Charles II. Corregan, who was nominated yeoterday by the socialist-labor party. Royal Loxoriea Come High. New York Commercial. It cost the British exchequer a round $2,000,000 to put King Edward and Queen Alexandra through the coronation cere mony, according to the official report Just rendered to Parliament. There must be times when the British taxpayers sigh for a Holman or a Cannon in their lower house. , Gleaming Fires of Pride. Denver Post. Pension Commissioner Ware says ha is proud of his past. The gifted man who could write such a classic as "A Kansas sephyr one day strayed to where a brlndle bull pup played,'.' surely has cause to glance back over his past with the fires of jfrlde gleaming in his glad eyes like aro lights. Heading for the Coast. Minneapolis Time, the Milwaukee road must be going to Seattle after all. The purchaae of tide lands, presumably for terminal facllltiea, at fabulous prices and to an aggregate of $1,000,000, has not been made for fun. The Milwaukee may be a little early, but Puget sound is going to carry as much commerce some day as New York harbor, and west ern railt-oad systems have got to reach It somehow. Woefnl Cry for Mora Money. . Philadelphia Reeord. Tha cry of the populists for wore money haa been answered. There is more money in circulation per capita at this time than at . any previous time. la tha history of the country, even in the daya of ahlnplasters and of legal tender greenbacks. But the populists are not satlsfted. What they de sired was "cheap money,' not "sound money." The rogues .leTeslred to pay $1 worth of debt with ' cents worth of metal. . !t.f . . .. . -tl; . -t ml mm 1 n '. . Adulterant, .lo. Dum: v ' Philadelphia Press. The use of wood, alcohol, deadly poison. Is much greater than generally supposed to be the case.' As it is cheap it la fre quently used in place of grain alcohol. In a letter to' the New York Herald George C. Williams says that "some essences of Jamaica singer, peppermint and lemon contain as much as 7S per cent of wood alcohol, and some witch hazel, sold In bulk, as much as SO per cent." If that statement is correct many persons are probably In jured without knowing the cause. Medical publications record a number of deaths aa the result of the use of this poisonous stuff which is sold without practically any restrietlbns. Drlnklnsr Men at a Discount. New York Sun. Total Abstinence , pledges, ' prohibition laws, tha exhibition of "horrible examples" and the preaching of intemperance as a sin may have had a certain amount of in fluence in deterring men from drinking, but the social sentiment against Intem perance as an Imprudence which has grown up during the last generation has accomplished far mors. Drunkenness has become disreputable or is looked on aa a deplorable disease. People are more sen sible. The strain ot modern social con ditions. It has been found, compels so briety. The drunkard cannot keep up the pace and falls behind those who hold their appetites In restraint. POLITICAL SNAPSHOTS. Indianapolis News: And Just to think. Not more than three months ago many peo ple were nervous about the Hearst boom. Minneapolis Journal: It la hard work to sober up after being on a bat for eight years. If you don't believe It, ask the democratic party. Chicago News: Another point in which political . platforms resemble sausages is that you cannot always be sure that they are What they seem. Philadelphia' Press: . Judge Parker has won his "safe and sane" medal simply by keeping his Hps closed. A democrat who Isn't always talking deserves a medal. Chicago Post: The "crown of thorns" is wilted, the "cross of gold" is nothing but brass; auch lsH19 withering, corroding ef fect of eight short years. Chicago Record-Herald: Judge Parker can furnish expert testimony to anybody who wishes to satisfy .himself of tha truth of tha saying that alienee la golden. Chicago Tribune: It is conceded that the nominee of tha Bt. Louis convention is sura of lit electoral votea As to the 80 other votea neceaaary to elect him It is conceded there is more of leas uncer tainty. Cleveland Leader: The president is six years younger than Judge Parker, but in wide and varied experience of life and in things dons and dona well) he is twice as old. Kansas City Journal: Cheers for Bryan and Parker lasted twenty-five minutes in the democratic national convention yes terday afternoon. What the national con ventions of both partlea need is a commit tee for tha suppression of buncombe. New York Bun: The genuine, hand-made, durable applauae which greeted tha flrat mention of Mr. Cleveland's name In the convention at Bt. Louis, yesterday marked one complete revolution of tha whirligig of time. No longer hisses and curses, but a sincere and spontaneous tribute of re spect and admiration for the statesman who In the crista of tha fortunes of de mocracy withstood the Ooths and Vandals until he was overborne by their multitudi nous incursion. And the man who jnt Chicago In 1& leaped to the front of the radicals and fanatics was at St. Louis yes terday to witness In person this Incident Mr. Cleveland haa waited eight years, but it was worth waiting fos. CHASCE9 FOR COLLEGE MB. Opatevtanltlea Are Many, bat Mast Be Foaarht For. Portland Orcgonlan. A young man who says he Is a college graduate, presumably of the year lfcM, though he does not say so, write to com plain of the public taste aa he has obered It. He haa spent eight years In study since he left the common schools and feels that his attainments ought to fit him to supply some public need. He finds no one seeking his services, however, except at ordinary labor or clerking in a store, and for such service very small compensation is offered. At the same time he sees another young man, with perhaps less than a common school education, readily earning 110 a day or more by diving twice dally from the top of a Sixty-foot ladder into a tank contain ing four feet of water. The complaint the college graduate makes Is that the public willingly, provides the compensation for the diver, but has nothing to offer him for the something radically wrong with a public Intellectual service he is prepared to render, While it must be admitted that there is taste' that encourages a man to rink his life In performing useless feats of reckless daring such as those described, yet there Is no Justification for the conclusions our college-bred friend seems to draw from the facts he recites. Much better would It be for the youth of the Innd if men and women would cease to give tha approval of their attention to daredevils whess necks are worth no more than the value they themselves have set. Boys may be ex poeted to aspire to similar accomp'lsh- menta so long as older people of respect ability continue to make heroes cf men win dive from ladders or fly fflrough space on bicycles. The readiness of a portion of the people to patronize a show that has no other attraction than a monstrosity Is also demoralising to the young and gives them poor conceptions of what constitutes de sirable entertainment. But the existence of such exhibitions and the apparently lib eral patronage they receive does not prove that the general public places upon them a greater value than upon the higher things of life. ' The world is full of opportunities for the college-bred men, though few will be able to step directly from the threshold of alma mater Into positions ot honor, Influence and large pecuniary recompense. The world is looking for men who can not only do things, but do them better than anyone else. That is why the performances ot the high diver and the trick blcyo'e rider com mand good compensation. When the col lege man has shown his superiority as a teacher, a writer, an orator or a buMnass manager, his reward will far exceed that of the man whose feats of daring appeal only to the lower elements of human nature. At any stage of his progress on the road to success the returns for his efforts are larger than those of the ath letic performer at a corresponding period. The college man. who registered the Com plaint made no comparisons save in the matter of compensation, and no others are made here. He is in error In assuming, as many others have done, that the people In general are willing to pay more for enter tainment than for Instruction, more for amusement than for education. . , THE FOUR-YEAR TERM. Edaeatlonal Benefits of a Presidential Campaign. Chicago Tribune. Hard-headed business men complain about the Immense sums of money that our national political campaigns cost. Millions of dollars ate spent during them in dis tributing political literature, in rending speakers over the country, and In other more, dubious .ways. And the indirect cost of a drtmpalgfi IS immensely greater than 1H direct cost. No matter how certain the result of nn election mny seem, capital Is timid while it Is Impending, and timid capi tal means a higher rate of lntereat, smaller purchases ot stock by wholesalers and re tailers, less manufactures, and fewer people employed. But much If not all of this money loss is gained back to the community in the form of education. The campaign of 1900, with Its "imperial ism" issue, spread a knowledge of oriental geography through the country. The "open door" became an understandable term to all intelligent Americans. The history of colonization was opened up. Even the de cadence of Rome was expounded that the orator might point out the parallels or the divergencies, according to his politics, be tween the fate of that mighty empire and the similar fate which might await us. Newspaper and magazine articles relative to the political problems and contentions of our past history are read with peculiar In terest and benefit by millions of the people when such a contest is In progress. The records, talents, and characters of public men are scrutinized then with special keen ness. Ordinarily, political economy is to most men truly a "dismal science," but It becomes to many, during presidential cam paigns, more interesting than Thackeray or Balzac. The currency question is one of the most difficult and Intricate in the whole range of political economy, yet the people of the United States had a pretty fair grasp of it at the close ot the campaign of 1896. The political arguments which take place during presidential year In every house and office, on every corner. In every car, re markably sharpen and strengthen the minds ot all the millions who take part In them. At nn nther time are tha Intellects of tha country's entire people enriched and ex panded so rapidly as during a presidential compaign. Only then do a large part of them appreciate and exercise their rights and power as self-governing citizens of a tree country. "THEY SAY" IS A LIAR. HU Methods and Means ot Procedure Clearly Outlined. Old Qorgon Graham In Saturday Evening Post. Loose talking breaks up more firms and more homes than any other one thing I know. The father of lies Uvea In hell, but ha spends a good deal of his time in Chi cago. You'll find him on the Board of Trade when the market's wobbling, saying that the Russians are Just about to eat up Turkey, and that It'll take ao.000,000 bushels of our wheat to make the bread for the sandwich; and down in the street, asking if you knew that the caahler of the 'Teenth National was leading a double life as a single man in the suburbs and a singular life for a married man in tha city; and out on Prairie avenue, whispering that It's too bad Mabel smokes Turkish cigarettes, for she's got such pretty curly hair, and how sad it Is that Daisy and Dan are going to separate, "but they do say that he shl sh! hush; here she comes." Yet when you come to warh your pan of dirt, and tha lies have all been carried off Into the flume, and you've got to the few particles of solid, elghtecn-carat truth left, you'll find it's the sultan who's smoking Turkish cigarettes, and that Mabel Is trying cubebs for her catarrh; and that the caahler of the 'Teenth National belorffs to a whist club in the suburbs and Is the superintendent of a Sunday achool In the city; and that Dan has put Daisy up to visiting her mother to ward off a threatened swoop down from the old lady; and that the czar hasn't done a blame thing except to be come the father of another girl baby. There are two ways of treating gossip about other people, and they're both good ways. One Is not to listen to it, and the other Is not to repeat It GOSSIP ABOl'T THE WAR. Sidelights en Peoples and Places Con nectod wits, the Strife. Mukden, the ancient capital of Man churls, present headquarters of the Rus sian army, and toward which, the Japanese armies under Kuroki are persistently mov ing, has a past that is a wonder. It runs back into the mould of prehistoric times, and exudes In abundance the odors of an tiquity, fringed with a modern atmosphere. Most venerated of the relics blooming there are the sacred tombs of the Manchu dynasty, a collection of ancient squatters, followers of Confucius, which ruled the country for ages and, like other ancient potentates, built tombs and crawled into them. There are two of them situated on elevated ground, in beautiful groves of evergreen trees. It the traveler should be bold enough, eluding the vigilance of the few guardians cf the tomb, to penetrate the underbrush behind the wing walls of the gate, he would discover a' simple crene lated brick wall, rather dilapidated, sur rounding an enclosure overgrown with small trees and shrubs, containing a cemented circular mound about eighty feet In diameter, with a group ot Small fir trees growing on the top. Reposing below, within the mound, is the dust of the great Manchu warriors of 300 years arfo. Each side of the two walls is pierced by two gates, and each gate and each corner of the inner wall Is surmounted by roofed, flanking towers. Opposite the center of the outside wall of each side of the town Itself, and distant therefrom about a mile, is a large pagoda, with a great square pedestal made of brick, formerly glazed, upon which Is built a huge solid brick cupola, coated with cement not unlike the dome of a Tur kish mosque. 8urmountlng this cupola Is a truncated cone of the same material, en circled by many bronze bands, and ending in a large, circular, bronze ornament, green with age, five feet In diameter and eight feet high. Hanging from this ornament are many small bells that tinkle In the breeze. On each side of the pedestal are three panels, the outside ones having large Hons, in low relief, while the central panel shows Lamltlc symbols. Japanese Journalism Is developing on western lines, and with surprising rapid ity. The events of the present war are responsible for extras which are sold on the street in the American fashion. The newsmen run barelegged, with a sort of napkin round the head and a small bell at the belt, which rings as they go. When the war news Is lively the extras coma out In a correspondingly lively manner, one after the other, and are liberally patronized. The sensational reporter has appeared there, as well as the female Jour nalist, and things are "whooped up" more than they used to be. One consequence of this is that' Journalism here and there be gins to pay, where formerly it had to be subsidized as a matter of patriotism and public, spirit. There is an English column in all the papers, and English Is studied in all the schools. The country has 600 newspapers In all, and a number of them have respectively a circulation exceeding 100,000 copies. As guides and directors of public opinion they are perhaps not Inferior to our own. Altogether, Japanese Jour nalism, though in its infancy, has a bright future before it, and will likely keep pace with the progress of the country It serves. A lady traveling In Japan gives the fol lowing sketch of an inn at which She stopped: "The landlord and his wife and the servants all come to talk to you and when you inform the company that you are sleepy and want your bed laid, everybody says at once: . 'Honorable bed augustly is It?' but nobody does anything, and when at last you have achieved your, desire; you have to force apart, in defiance of police regulations, the wooden shutters which hermetically seal the house,, in order . to avoid being smothered with the fumes of charcoal and humans. As soon aa things are quiet enough rats chase over the rooms and generally over you as well and sometimes bite you. One o'clock In the morning, In the old Japanese reckoning, was called '(he hour of the rat,' doubtlras for this reason. And all night long the watchman sounds bis rattle to show that he Is attending to his duties. You have to be up with the cock to get the first go at the bath, which is only filled once, and the wash hand basin, which Is only as large as a cake tin, la always kept In the veranda." Oeorge Melse, writing eiout the private life of the czar in Success, says: "The czar earns a bigger salary than any other man in the world, for the public ex chequer of hla country pays him the sum of f,8oo,COO per annum for acting as man aging director of the Russian empire, with Its area ot 8.000,000 square miles and - its population of 130,000,000 persons. But, con sidering the crushing weight of care and responsibility which he bears on his shoul ders, his remuneration, high as it is, does not appear excessive. His salary Is paid him In monthly lnetallmenta of 1100,000 each, which are sent to him by a special mes senger from the treasury buildings in the form of a check on the National Bank of Russia, Just as an office olerk receives his monthly wages; with the difference, how ever, that the czar's talent and industry exercise no Influence on his payment. He has more servants than any one else In the world, for a veritable army of over 30,000 domestics, cooks, pages,' butlers, grooms, gardeners, and so forth is em ployed on his hundred or more estates. He possesses over forty residences, which he haa never seen, a score of homes which he has viewed externally, but never In habited, even for one night, and another score In each of which he has slept on only one occasion. His private stables contain over 5,000 horses belonging to him, and the herds of cattle feeding on his own lands are estimated to number over 60,000 head. His wealth la enormous, - yet there Is no doubt that he extracts very little pleasure out of his life of perpetual toll and worry. He habitually rises at , rata a character istically English breakfast of ham and eggs, bread and butter with marmalade specially and privately prepared for him, and tea." The Japanese shoes, or "gets," as they are called, are one of the singularly dis tinctive features of Japanese life which will strike the observer with wonderment as soon as he sees them looming along the roadway, or hears them scraping the gravel with an irritable squeak that makes his very nerves shudder. Nevertheless, awk ward though the shoes appear, they are of a kind constituted to make feet as hard as sheet iron, and ankles as strong as steel girders. A curious story is told ot a Ban Francisco merchant visiting at Toklo, who was invited to attend a fancy dress ball. He thought it would be quite the cor rect thing to attend in Japanese costume and wrote to a friend In Yokohama to send a complete suit ot the costume of a gentle man of high class. On receipt of the cos tume he was immensely surprised at its extensive variety. He mastered all the In tricacies of the flowing robes,, but when he unearthed the "geta" he was com pletely at a loss to understand Its use. Having only Just arrived in the country, and not being over observant, he had omitted to notice the foot arrangements ot tha people. After much earnest con sideration, ha was suddenly seised with a brilliant idea. "Ah I" he exclaimed In .his desire to extol everything Japanese, "this wooden block haa got a very lovely shape. It la vary beautifully carved and artistic. Therefore, it anus he kind of doooreUoa to be worn on the shoulders like epau lettes." And so the merchant went to the ball with a "geta" on each shoulder la stead of on each foot. OPIXIOX OF TUB STATS PRESS. Norfolk News: After the rush It over at Bonesteel and the ether Roeebud towns the people who have gone there expecting to draw a fortune from I'ncle Bams lot tery will be ready to take hold of some of the valuable offerings In north Nebraska, which will prove Just ss good winners and much more certain than (he offerings open In the Rosebud country. There is a splen did chance to develop wealth in this eeo tlon of the country, and many who era attracted toward Bonesteel will see It. Long Pine Journal: It la noticeable that there are a few knockers against Judge Klnkatd's MO-acre homestead law Just a few. It la further noticeable that thess knockers are the men who have big tracts of government land fenced In their pas tures, and who will now have to take down part of their fence for settlers. One would suppose that these men would seep pretty quiet, under the circumstance. But the pop papers of this district ar at pres ent engaged in espousing the cause of the rattle barons, and they Say that the law 1 a bad thing. NEBRASKA PF.HSOSAL AMRNITIBII. Burt County Herald: What will the pop ulists of this county think of their nom inee for vice preeldent, T. H, Tibbies, "Buck Tibbies," the Squaw man of the res ervation? Don't that cork yout Who would ever thought that the populist party would ever come to that? Tom Watson, the mouthy staesman from Georgia who divided the honors of the tall with Bewail, head the ticket, and our own dear Tib bies for second place. A Fatare Possibility. Philadelphia Inquirer. When th nations take the hint and feed their fighting men on rice the meat com bination may perceive a further argument in favor of putting the prices of beef less emphatically in th luxury class. PERSONAL MOTES. Secretary Morton made a good start by reprimanding, on his first day in ernes, an officer of the marine corps who oommltted, an unprovoked assault on a negro. Walter Cook, who has Just been chosen law Vrofessor of the Missouri university, la one of the youngest law professor Id th United States, being only $H year old. Senator N. B. Scott of Weat Virginia de light to be called ' ftcottie," because the late Senator Hanna, for whom he had the greatest admiration, always addressed him In that way. If the New York republicans run Frank S. Black for governor and the- New York democrat run Charles C. Black f of the same office, th pot and the kettle will please refrain from calling names . A well known English military writer, Dr Miller Magulre, recently called the Jap anese "sclentlflo fanatic" and declared that "man for man and ship for ship they can bea.t any opponent in the world because of their superior knowledge. Andrew Freese, a venerable eld sohool teacher of Cleveland, has a book which he prises very much. It contains th school boy compositions of John D. Rockefeller, M. A. Hanna, Edward O-. Woleott end Jsmes K. Jones, all of whom he St one time Instructed, Like the traditional Englishman, Arthur Stanley, dean of Westminster, wore home from his first visit to America an expres sion of amasement which only time could efface. He was at one beset by inter viewers, who asked, the usual Questions. "What was th thing which, 'most impressed you in America?" was one (of these. With out a moment's hesitation Dean Stanley re plied: "My own ignorance." Plus be, though said to be less witty than his predecessor in the chair of St, Peter, is credited with a rather clever remark about France, a country , which. Just at present occupies his thoughts both by day and by night. "What a paradoxic,) pation the French are!" he exclaimed,, "the palace . of their Senate bears th. nam of a city which no longer belongs to them namely, the Palais du Luxemburg; the palace qf the Chamber ot Deputies (the Palais Bour bon) that of a dynasty which they have expelled, while the president of the re public lives in a palace (the Palais de I'Elysee) bearing the name ot a paradise in which the people no longer believe." WHITTLED TO A POlM Miss Passay The Idea of Mr. Hoamter asking me if I couldn't learn to love him? Miss Pepprey Why not? One is never too old to learn. Phlladlphla Pre, "I have been told," remarked the visitor in Salt Lake City, "that your - lake Is drying up. What seems to be th causer" "I guess, mister," said the native, "if you had aa much sail in you as that there lake'e got you'd be glttln' purty dry, too." Chicago Tribune. He So you are under the Impression that I am a woman Hater of the worst sort? She No, of the best sort. You say you never intend to marry. Modsra Society. "I am afraid you are one of these people who look down on toll." "Not at ail," answered the luxurious youth. "My great-great-grandfather worked hard and Invested his money, and w are quite pleased with him for doing so." Washington Star. . 1 . "Every dollar I have was mad hon estly," he assured us. Thus being assured that he didn't have enough of them for us to bother about, k. & .nntamntiiAiiv nut film O ft OUT VlSlt- ing list. Cleveland Leader. Caller you never play th violin In pub lie. I presume, then, you do It solely for your own amusement. . , 11UIL , Rill 1 I I. U . av. - . ... remarks dropped by the neighbors I hav been led to think It doesn't amu them at all. Philadelphia Press. U- I. a mrmmt Aml nt an AntlmiSt." SSld on bright girl. . ' Yem" anawered th other, "and an egotist as well." "(,'n one oe nom .' . . . . firmly believe that th wurW cannot go 1 . 1. . I,..,. In ft and look arruiiK au luiia. - ,,w out for it" Washington Star. BOYISH BERK A V BMBST, nmnblvn Life. . ..-.M ninia riffle sadd too me becuc mi gurl Is gone away tu sea . .. f?5 vizTet with hur unkel fokea ann f ' woant sea her fore a hoi. weaa wlch I wl. aurnhow hur goen m-is -- ' bout hur nouse. m iuua th blind, ar ahutt ann awl th kurten with usSt the gujrl ann hlrd mnh lu Too kepe thee burgglers owt ann the frUnt Jusst "hollers out shees gon shoe's gon snees gune. I leened on the front fense lass olt snn too think" she wuzent there, snn Jbenit I too chere upp butt ml feallngs wus too Ann'urt'e sobb Jusst rattuld thee frunt I was'oskalrt shed neavermoar k""- suraway I inoti inn iru ann kilt um awl. In mi dreemS I eood Be hur ayen dedd ann eawirn uuv 1 ni,vr.ill ann I aedd no Itt Is so dredful that Itt cant be so. tooday we hadd fresh donut such us we ur orfi fond of uv ann 1 ett down three hrfoar 1 thott uv hur ann theen the. lite w.nt out for me. I loaat ml app.tlght. A grata bigg lump ros rll. upp In ml I putt a ciiupl donuts Inn ml kot soa. I muni "..' . . w T BUM wv. v ' - - ---w-w butt I Jusst lookt st um ann thenn wennt on. . ' . how cood I think uv pis wna sh Is asaah
