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Th cork season always calls for corn
weather.
South Omaha has decided to plant a
few more, hydrants Justrnow it needs
a few more policemen.
Nebraska's candidate for rice presi
dent is this year to be found on the
populist national ticket
Since Che 'Jacksonlan club has In
creased Its dues the real cash value of
"the kitty" may be ascertained.
Tha discovery of a new anaesthetic
Is announced. It Is a remarkable year
that surgeons do not And some new ex
cuse for experimenting with the knife,
It is not so much a question how the
assessments of property under the new
revenue law, compare with the figures
of last year as how they compare with
the true fnarket value.
t f ' " n
Dougla county populists ' will hare
only thlrry-eignt delegates in me com
ing popusst state convention. But, the
problem $i to find as many as thirty
eight populists to serve as delegates.
It the warring paving contractors
would let up on the Board, of Public
Works there might be some prospect for
laying thl new pavements on the Omaha
thoroughfares so wretchedly In need of
them. "
If the Bryarr democrats can only be
persuaded to. disregard Bryan's exam
pie, discard Parker and Davis, and sup
port Watsoa-nd Tibbies, all will be
forgotten" and forgiven, and the fusion
reform forces of Nebraska will fuse once
more.' - s i
When It came. to .th. count. Admiral
Alexieff found 2,000 killed where 80,000
were reported but this may-be another
evidence of the 111 feeling existing be
tween the personal representative of
the czar and the .$ead of the Russian
srmy. ' ' ,
Panama is Investing $10,000,000 re
ceived from the United States in public
Improvements, which will be much bet
ter than the average Central American
republic, whose surplus heretofore has
generally been Invested In self-exiled
dictators and spent In Paris, ,
The World-IJeraJd's pathetic appeal
to the fusion reform forces of Nebraska
to rally once more for tha redemption
of this commonwealth from corpora
tlon and railroad rule should have beea
made when the fusion reformers wero
In full possession of the state house.
The r most Important difference be
tween the campaign of Judge Parkcyr
and that'of W. R. Jlearst, had he been
notuluutad, is that Hearst would. have
bought the presidency with bis own
money, it .thaj: V :were possible, while
."Tarker's" friends will try to buy It for
Him. v
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. These frequent desertions of Judge
Parker by former democrats looks to
the eastern democrat like clearing away
the wreckage, while to 4 the western
democrat it looks like taking to the life
boaU before' the Ship sluks showing
bow ;tnuch depends upon the point of
ttSW.''
With over 50,000 persons registered for
Rosebud claim jWhers but 3.0(A) are to
be located and not more than 500 of
that number of value sufficient to pay
for the trouble and expeuse of proving
up, Uut'ls Sam's ' latest lottery offers
not ah many chances as the aiuch de
nounced policy game.
The ralirottd tax agents earned their
a&lariea when they kept the assessment
of railroad property In Nebraska down
below $47,000,000 when It Is earning re
turns on. UJ.QOOJOOO more. There Is no
call fortthsm.tD try. to pull the. railroad
taxes down , stilt .further before -the
fqualislflg'.iioafvlj . ' -
WHAT BlfALL THE ISgi fr llEI
There Is diversity of views among
the democratic orguns and politicians as
to what the paramount Issue In the com
ing campaign shall be. Some urge the
tariff, '2 'Some Imperialism, some the
trust., some extra vngauce In the ex
penditures of the government, some
executive usurpation, and so on accord
ing to the point of view. Tbere Is a
marked lack of uninon on this important
matter. Eastern democrats generally
re. not in hearty sympathy with the
tariff plank of the 8t Louis platform.
They do not think it .was Judicious to
eclare that protection is robbery. They
re friendly to the proposition that the,
tariff should be revised, but they would
have this done in the conservative way
recommended .in the first draft of the
platform and not as demanded by the
free trade element In the national con
vention. Borne -of the newspaper sup
portcrs of the St." Louis ticket are also
not In favor of the platform utterance
regarding so-callpd imperialism. Hav
ing persistently urgod that it is the
duty 'of the United States to retain pos
session of the Philippines and defended
the policy of the government in the
archipelago, they cannot now stultify
themselves bj approving ' the plank n
the platform which contemplates the
surrender of the islands., A majority
of the democrats of the south are also,
opposed to this platform, deliverance,
though ofcourse their vote, iwlll not
bs influenced thereby. J
In "regard to the trusts, there is mani
fested a tendency to be conservative,
since the men. who were most active In
promoting the ' nomination of Judge
Parker are expecting very material as
sistance in the campaign from the great
Industrial combinations and therefore
must say nothing that might alarm
tfcem. It is already obvious that the
candidate and the democratic leaders
are hot going to ignore Wall street and
the trust magnates In this year's cam
paign, button the contrary InCend to
court their favor to the fullest possible
extent, of course giving acceptable as
surances for the future, In the event of
democratic success. Alleged extrava
gance in government expenditures will
not make a serviceable Issue because
as a matter of fact tbere has been no
extravagance and moreover the people
understand that every dollar expended
by the government goes into their pock
ets and contributes to the general pros
perity. As to the charge of executive
usurpation, there is not the slightest
justification for it and it is impossible
that it can make any impresslpn upon
the public mind unfavorable to the ad
ministration. No president has been less
amenable to the charge of usurpation
than Mr. Roosevelt. . :
Perhaps Judge Parker in his letter
of acceptance will define the leading
Issue of the campaign, though It is s
perplexing situation that .is presented
to him in the various views of his sup
porters. The country will await with
great Interest the next deliverance of
the democratic candidate, meanwhile
wondering whether he will again startle
the party as he did in his message to
the Sti Louis convention. l if
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DEMAND FOR GOOD SECURITIES:
Tbere is no difficulty in marketing
good securities and indeed there is au
active, demand for them. i This was il
lustrated during the past week when the
city of Philadelphia marketed ah Issue
of $16,000,000 of bonds at a handsome
premium. Referring to this a financial
paper remarks that there' are two points
of view from which the transaction
can be most instructively studied, one
being the lesson that it teaches of the
general financial condition of the United
States and the other the somewhat re
markable coincidence that a demonstra
tlon of this kind should have been mado
Just 'at the beginning of a presidential
canvass. , .
The circumstance is proof of the
healthful change that has been in prog
ress since the beginning of the year.
"It was first noticed early in the winter
in this city," says the New York cor
respondent of the Philadelphia Press,
"and Jt was Impressively .demonstrated
at the time of the . subscription to the
Japanese war loan. The, Philadelphia
transaction and the quotations for New
York bonds sold early , last spring give
fine proof of a' healthful ' condition of
the money market and an increasing dis
position on the part of capital that has
been for a long time Idle to. make per
manent Investment in good securities."
It is stated that in New York City in the
last half of the flscaf year Just ended
offerings for approximately $100,000,000
of public bonds, city, Japanese, and Co
ban, were so grfeatly over-subscribed
that the aggregate of the subscriptions
wrs nearly $300,000,000.
Of course there could be no better
evidence than this of the abundant sup
ply ot capital,, but it Is at present a vaU
able only for sound and safe invest
ment and not for speculation. The
holders of idle money, of which there Is
a very large amount, were never more
conservative than at this time and there
is no apparent promise of a change
from this condition. Bound securities
and legitimate enterprises are being
eagerly sought by capital, but specula
tlve ventures a re receiving no atten
tlon. Of course no one can say how
long this situation will continue, but It
Is highly probable that there will be
no great rhange from it during the
present year, or at leant until after har-
vext and then only in the event of the
crops being abundant. Should the prom
ise of this be realised It may confidently
be expected ' that capital will become
more active and that there wUl be a de
elded revival In all lines of enterprise.
The vast amount of capftal awaiting
Investment will when put Into use start
a new ana perhaps unprecedented era
of prosperity.
The place where the railroads - beat
the other taxpayers out of Ho big Item
of taxes is In,, the bmtlon of uiunlrlpal
government in the cities and tow ns they
traverse." This tax-shlrknig Is' not in
Oniaha and Llncom alone, but in every
Incorporated municipality in Nebraska.
The railroads want to share all the bene
fits 'of our city governments, but they
object to paying any reasonable propor
tion of the expense.
CATTLE AXD 8HKKP MEN AT-WAR
t , AOAIS.
It seems that the reign of anarchy In
Colorado Is broadening and affecting
lines of business all over the state which
have no connection with the dispute be
tween the miners and their employers.
The reported slaughter by cowboys of
1,500 sheep, which were being placed In
the mountains on feed, marks another
outbreak In the long-waged war between
the sheep and cattle interests of the
west. The fact that there is today prac
tically no Inw In Cokirado has erribold-
ened the cattle men to seek reprisals for
the loss of their pastures. Although
these pastures belong no more to one in
terest than another the fact that the
lowlands and foothills, formerly used-by
the cattle men for range purposes, are
being ijulckly taken up by farmers and
fenced in and cultivated, has driven the
cattle barons to seek new pastures for
their herds, and so the sheep men, who
have long enjoyed undisputed possession
of the mountain feeding grounds, must
fight to' keep their pasture.
The slaughter of the sheep means a
loss of nt least $7,000, apart from the
wool, probably much more, taking pres
ent prices as a basis not a large sum
as money Is reckoned among large live
stock men, but sufficient to cripple many
Smaller operators. The concentration of
thet efforts of the officers of the law in
the disturbed districts near the mines
has no doubt led to a weakening of the
police surveillance in the, outlying por
tions of the state. It Is doubtful if the
Jawbreakers in this case will be appre
hended, as once away on their horses In
the range country, even if the sheep men
could Identify them when caught, the
task of finding tlrem would be a long
one. If suth outbreaks, however, are
not visited with the quick action of the
law demanded in t the west the sheep
men will probably take the law Into
their own hands and return the compli
ment in kind. Thus the reign of anarchy
spreads.
While some of the methods employed
by the powers that be in trying to re
store order in Colorado are no doubt un
constitutional, there can also be no doubt
that vigorous measures are needed to
keep the peace and prevent the Inception
of another war between the conflicting
live stock interests, which has already
led to such excesses.
Among the new departures Inaugur
ated In pursuance of recent congres
sional legislation' is the radical change
effected in the mode of computing com
pensation for all officers, agents and
employes in the service of the United
States. In place of the quarterly salary
computation tables adopted more than
thirty years ago, a uniform system- for
the computation of salaries In - all
branches of the federal government
went Into effect July 15. ' Under the
icw system thirty days will constitute
a calendar month, the thirty-first day
of the month will be treated as no day,
and the last day of February will be
treated as three days, or in the case of
leap year, as two days. This new or
der of salary computation, however,
does not apply to officers or agents who
have heretofore drawn their pay by the
day Instead of by the month. Per diem
compensation will be paid as heretofore.
July and August having each thirty
one days will give the men and women
on Uncle Sam's pay roll a satisfactory
test by affording an opportunity for
fasting and prayer on the last day of
those months.
The call for a democratic State nom
inating convention to meet at Lincoln
August 10 has Just been issued. The
time given to local authorities covers
only twenty-six days, when, should it
have been necessary to hold a delegate
convention In this or any other county
Containing cities where the registration
of voters prevails, five days' notice would
have been needed to convene the gov
erning committees and twenty days' no
tice for the holding of a primary if the
primary election law Is to be observed.
The democratic state organisation, and
the republican state organisation, .too,
for that matter, ought to have some
established set of rules binding upon
the officers with respect to the calling of
conventions and the apportionment of
delegates to make certain that due
notice and ample time be given for
Securing a fair and honest represents
tlon of the rank and file in voicing the
party principles and choosing the party
standard bearers.
After a profound study of the mu
nlclpal problem the Iowa State Bar as
sociation has reached the conclusion that
the rule of three would be preferable to
the rule of one and several in mu
nlclpal government. It is proposed In
all seriousness, therefore, to abolish, the
mayor and council of every town and
city in Iowa and substitute three mu
nicipal commissioners, who are to con
duct misconduct the affairs of these
Various municipal corporations. The
experiment is worth trying, but its suc
cess will depend very much, if not en
tirely, upon the capacity and Integrity
of the triumvirate, just the same os
the efficiency of municipal government
conducted by mayor and city council
depends upon the same qualities. Iowa
lawyers ought to know by this tiuie
that you cannot make men honest by
law and that you cannot fabricate men
of brains and Integrity by title.
The contractor fur the proposed rais
ing and removal of the battleship Maine
has struck a snag. Although permls
slon has been granted by the Cuban
government for the removal of the
wrecked battleship, the atutent of the
United States government. ' or rather
the Navy department, is also essential.
The Judge advocate general of the navy
has, however, rendered sn opinion that
it Is outside the province of the Navy de
partment of the government to grant
permission for the removal of what re
mains of the battleship Maine without
'tthe authority of congress. Should the
Navy department sustain this opinion,
the raising of the Maine may be in
definitely postponed. The present con
gress has only ten weeks for ths trans
action of the important and pressing
business already pending, and the next
congress will not meet until December,
1905.
According to a well defined rumor,
William A. Jones, United States com
missioner Of Indian affairs, has ten
dered his resignation, effective as soon
as a capable man can be installed in
his place. This action, we are told,
was forced by the breach which has
constantly been widening between tho
commissioner and his superior in com
mand, the secretary of the interior.
Should the rumor prove true a rattling
of dry bones in the Indian service may
be expected In tho no dim and distant
future. It has been an open secret for
some time that the Indian bureau is
sadly in need of thorough reorganlia
tion. Is there any good renson why the con
gressional committee for this district
should undertake to run a primary elec
tion In Douglas county and, not in Wash
lrfgton and Sarpy counties, tho other
parts of the district? Is not the county
committee in Douglas county as able to
conduct the party affairs within its Juris
diction as the county , committees In
Washington and Snrpy countlcsT
The victims of insane Fourth of July
celebrations have not all yet been re
ported. Two more deaths from lockjaw
occurred in Chicago this week and re
ports of other fatalities may be antici
pated, but the lamentable lesson taught
Is liable to be lost because a good many
people, even north of the Mason and
Dixon line have the manana habit and
then again tomorrow.
The admission of that sage and phil
osopher of Nebraska populism, T. II.
Tibbies, that 80,000 populists have been
lost, strayed or stolen during the last
two campaigns is strictly within tho
bounds of truth. How to coax them
back info the sham reform fold, how
ever, is one of the most serious of prob
lems. I I T
Hnatltna- WIthoat Beef.
New York World.
There Is one compensation In the threat
ened beef famine: the 4og- dnys are upon
us, when beef can With great benefit to
the majority of people, be-dispensed with.
treaaoas Candidate.
Minneapolis' "Journal.
The correspondents at Baopus and Sag
amore tell us that. Parker takes a dally
dip In the Hudaon'"arMl that Roosevelt
wields the ax for . exercise. Swimming
Is well enough for an-"acoompllihment, but
what the country wafflj is a man who can
split the wood., .. . ,'.,
Opportunity to Vegetarians.
New . York Sun.
Now Is the vegetarians' . opportunity.
Meat Is soaring, when It already had be
come almost a luxury. . Soon, if the butch
ers' strike contlnue,'"Croesus himself will
feast on oats and corn. The world will
cease from war. Peace . will find a spot
whereon td light, and the man who sells
nut meat" will prosper In Ms bonk ac
count. Men's appetites for strong waters
will diminish, disappear. The butchers
may be opening the door for the millen
nium. THREE AMERICAN PERSONALITIES.
Waabtnsrton, Lincoln, Roosevelt
Their Reeorda Compared.
Kansas City Star (tnd.)
The two statesmen Who by the most
nearly unanimous consent are regarded as
the greatest Americans Washington and
Lincoln hold that rank largely because of
their personality. Washington's superb
service to the early republlo rested more
on those masterful qualities which Inspired
absolute confidence among the people than
his genius as a general or his accomplish
ments as an administrator. With Lincoln
It was tha large charity, the patience, the
strength of soul, the Indomitable love and
faith more than his grasp of state affair
that made him great in life and have ex
panded his stature In perspective.
The man whose personality regarded . as
something apart from his Sphere of publlo
action becomes the subject of bis fame.
whether living or dead. Is the one w!-.o
leaves the greatest Impress upon history.
The place of Theodore Roosevelt In the
record of American publlo life has not ytt
been definitely fixed, because he Is a young
man who has, seemingly, many years of
achievement before his account Is closed.
But already he has stamped his personality
upon the American people with more vivid
ness and more lasting quality than any
statesman since Lincoln. There has not
been another public character of this gen
eration whose candidacy for, or occupancy
of, an office would have been In itself a
platform of American principles and Amer
ican Institutions. There has been none
other whose qualities as a man, and not as
a functionary, have been so well known
and regarded with such Involuntary ac
quiescence as tha embodiment of the char
acter and the aspirations Of tha American
people. r
It has been this exuberant personality of
tho man Roosevelt that has made him a
leader of the people In the sense that Lin
coln was their leader. Roosevelt I a leader
because he Is so thoroughly Imbued with
the attributes and Impulses of tho people
that he moves with them and gives expres
sion to their thought and puts It Into ac
tion. His personality differs from that of
Lincoln as tho temper of the nation today
differs from that of a people on the eve of
a tremendous conflict. Ths consecration to
a sacred duty, th chastening Influanc of
a deep anxiety, the atern devotion to a
principle assailed this was the spirit of
tho nation which showed through Abraham
Lincoln. The triumphant assertion of a
principle established, th Indomitable con
fidence of a secure government, the self
reliance of proaptTlty achieved and prom
isedthis I the quality of the American
people which finds Its representation la
Theodore Roosevelt
If, when th account Is mad up, th
Judgment of mankind shall acoord to
Washington and to Lincoln a greater plae
than to Theodore Roosevlt It will be be
cause th people who found a nation and
the people who save it bring Into play
greater qualities than those who preserve
It In Its uninterrupted course; for Wash
ington and Lincoln were no more surety
the embodiment of the times In which they
lived thnn Ttoofevelt Is the representative
: Of lb lit ot America today.
t
AMOSO TUB F19IOSISTS.
Hebron Champion: This Is a good year
to vote the prohibition tlckt. There Is
no real Issue between the republicans and
th democrats.
Stanton Register: Tom Watson's remark.
"Where am I atf is doing overtime these
dsy. The reformers hav llttl to hope
for ths next four years.
York Democrat: Mr. Bryan had a fine
article In the Saturday Evening Post last
week on "Farming." Farming Is more
satisfactory than politics, anyhow.
Columbus Telegram: Ona never knows
th good points of a dish of crow until
he gets down Into the bottom of the dish.
Really, It Isn't as bad a It might be.
Springfield Monitor: Th democrats ot
this locality are not expressing their en
thusiasm over the ticket named at St.
Louis as loudly aa they might, but that
will com later.
Baline County Democrat: The "sixteen
to on" eras Is now aa dead as th green
back eras of 187. Th people themselves
settled th question In ISM and clinched It
In 1S00. So let us turn to Ilv Issues.
Kearney Democrat: Qreat heavens! what
must hav been his punishment! Just think
of It! Colonel Bryan and Charlie Casper
had to alt for twenty long minutes and
listen to twenty thousand democrats yell
themselves hoars Over th mention of
Orover Cleveland's nam.
Hildreth Telescope: The editor of the
Campbell Ctt1en, the only democratic pa
per in the county, evidently doesn't like
the result of the St. Louis convention, for
he winds up a short article In his paper
of last week In regard to th work of
th convention with the words "Hurrah
for Roosevelt." This would Indicate that
Fred will vot tor Roosevelt In preference
to th Hlll-Pelmont candidate.
St. Paul Phonograph Preno: With a gold
bug for president and platform that Is si
lent on the money and other questions ot
vital Importance, Nebraska will roll up a
good vot for Roosevelt. The people of this
state believe In principle and not spoils,
and rathefthan support a gold democrat
they will vote the populist ticket, thus
giving the republicans a cinch in this
stats, as far as the national ticket Is con
cerned. Beatrice Sun: Thera Is still one spot on
th map where Mr. Bryan will reign su
preme, and that Is Nebraska. Her there
la nothing too good for htm, and hero he
will receive ail the recognition that he
Is entitled to. If he wants to run for gov
ernor, the nomination Is his without the
asking. If he would Ilk to go to the sen
ate, all he has to do Is to take the stump,
and elect a legislature In accord with that
Idea. While he cannot go before a na
tional convention and get all that he asks,
he was given a respectful hearing, and
the ccnventlon then proceeded as though
he had remained In Nebraska.
Piatt County Argus: Unllk their leader,
tha rank and file of reformers In Nebraska
are not committed to the support of th
ticket nominated at St. Louis, and until
th lines are more closely drawn many
voters will be In the position of Th Argus
at th present time not fully In sympathy
with either of the three leading parties,
and honestly in doubt as to the wisest
course to pursue. Certain It is, however,
that unless the aspect of the situation
materially changes before election day that
both the populist and the republican na
tional ticket will hav hundreds of sup
porters from the democratic ranks through
out Nebraska.
Columbus Telegram: This Is not a time
for faltering. It Is a time for proof bf
loyalty. W of Nebraska have often
charged eastern democrats with treachery.
God forbid that any friend of Bryan should
follow In their' footsteps.. And there will
be no 'faltering.- Bryan democrats and
Cleveland democrats will be for the ticket.
They will work side by side. Wo-- may
not be able to carry tha state for Parker,
but Nebraska democrats can and will do
their duty. Too long has factionalism held
sway. Too long : th democracy of
this stat has marched Under separata
banners of two leaderships. We shall havo
but one flag now, and on that flag will be
the name of Parker.
Howells Journal: There seems to be a
determined effort upon the part of soma
of our party leaders to again nominate
W. H. Thompson of Grand Island for
governor. The party In Nebraska has a
fighting chance to win this year, but
naming of Thompson would Insure defeat.
It Is hard to work up enthusiasm for a
man who a great mass of the people look
upon as a chronic officeseeker. It Is In
that light that the "Little Giant" stands
before the people of our stat today. He
may be a sincere reformer; we are in
clined to think he Is, but his everlasting
desire for office has laid every other qual
ity h may possess In th shade. W re
peat, wo canhot win marshalled by such-
a leador. ,
Butler County Press: Bryan saved th
democratic party from total annihilation in
1886. His detractors, by every species of
fraud and bulldoslng hav won a victory
of such doubtful character that the om
palgn will be over before they succeed In
squaring themselves. Until the Parker
telegram was sprung on the convention,
democrats consoled themselves - with tha
thcught that though Judge Parker's asso
ciates were foul, corrupt and traitors, the
man himself was square and honest. After
that they billed him for a cowardly hypo
crite. Wa ow Judge Parker nothing, but
bolting Isn't profitable. W are democrats.
The party was never more worthy of our
confidence tBan now. This truth wa dem
onstrated in on of the greatest political
bhttles ever fought on the American con
tinent. Th men who betrayed It wer
merely the foam that rode for a season
on the waves oreated by the tempest, and
they will disappear when the storm abates.
Central City Democrat: I shall not, with
my present understanding of the situa
tion, support Parker. This paper will con
tinue to advocate democratic principles,
which would preclude Its support of a man
who does not. I absolutely refuse to climb
the Hill that lie between myself and ths
band wagon. I believe that Parker has
acted th part of a crafty coward, and Is
not worthy of tho votes of free men. Per
haps It looks differently to you; If you
want to vot for him, all right; that's
your business. Whom Will I vote fort
That's my business. There's the substance
of the whole miserable matter, boiled
down to a gravy. I have written and
torn up four editorials on this subject,
fearing I had said something that might
melt th type or scorch the mall sacks,
and so will let this bald statement suf
fice, grit my teeth, work' for the stat
ticket, and hop for better things four
years hence. "If that be treason, make th
most of It!"
Oood Selllnsr Points.
Buffalo Kx press.
An exchangs Bays that th Japanese sot.
dler has muscles like whipcord. Is a sure
shot, has a good ey for landmarks, sleeps
only three hours out of the twenty-four,
Is cleanly and patrlotio and cont the na
tion only nine cents a d.iy. Sounds aa If
some big department store had Just re
ceived a choice lot of Japanexo soldiers
and was bound to hav a good run on
them.
Oc-Hlnar In tho Main Tata.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Paul Morton needn't worry about the
criticisms that sre being fired at him bv
people Who thtpk he should hav remained
a democrat. He's In and they're still try
til ls Ha4 aa oixiiln.
CANDIDATES AXD THEIR ACEI.
rarker's Reanlna Mate Holds the
Record for Years.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Th fact that Henry O. Davis, nomi
nated by the St. Iiuls convention candi
date for vie president. Is 81 years of age
has raised an Interesting historical ques
tion. As a rule neither presidential nor
vice presidential candidates have been over
66 years of age, but there have been ex
ceptions. In the last sixty years, how
ever, no man over 70 years ot age has been
nominated by either on of the great par
ties except In th case ot Allen G. Thur
man In 1888.
In 1814 th whig candidate for presidents
Henry Clay, was 67 years old; Frying
huysen, candidate for vice president, J7;
Polk, democratio candidate for president,
was 19, and Dallas, candidate for vice
president, 52. In 1118, Taylor, the whig
candidate for president, was 64; Fillmore,
candidal for vice president, 48; Lewis
Cass, democratic candidate for president,
was 66, and William O. Butler, candidate
for vie president, ES.
In 1852, Franklin Plerc. the successful
democratic candidate for president, was 48;
William R. King, candidate for vice presi
dent, was 66; Wlnfleld Scott, th whig can
didate, was 66, and Graham, candidate for
vie president, 52. James Buchanan In
18T.6 was 66 years old and John C. Breck
inridge was 4fi. John C. Fremont, the first
republican candidate for president, was. In
1866, 43 years of age, and William L. Day
ton, candidate for vloe president, 4.
In lSuO, Stephen A. Douglas was 47 years
old; Abraham Lincoln, 51; Hannibal Ham
lin, 51; John Bell, 53; Edward Everett, 66.
In 1864, George B. McClellan was only W
years old, and George H. Pendleton, his
running mat on the democratic ticket,
was only 39. Andrew Jackson, On the
ticket with IJrreoln was 66.
In the campaign of 1868, General Grant
was 46; Schuyler Colfax, republican can
didate for vice president, 45; Horatio Sey
mour, democratio candidate for president.
57; Francis P. Blair, 47. In the campaign
of 1S72, Horace Greeley was 61. Henry
Wilson, who took Colfax's place on th
republican ticket, was 90; Samuel J. Tllden
in 1876 was 62; Thomas- A. Hendricks, 67.
On the -republican ticket, R. B. Hayes was
64, and William A. Wheeler, 57.
In 1880, General Hancock, the democratio
candidate for president, was 56, and Wil
liam H. English. 68; Garfield, republican
candidate, wa 49; Chester A. Arthur, re
publican candidate for vice president, was
50. In 1884, Grover Cleveland, the success
ful democratic candidate, waa 47; Thomas
A. Hendricks, vice presidential-candidate,
66. James G. Blaine, the nomine of the
republican party for president, was 64;
John A. Logan, candidate for Vic presi
dent, 51
In 1888, Benjamin Harrison, the success
ful republican candidate for president, was
66; Levi P. Morton, elected vie president,
was 64. Alien G. Thurman, the candidate
for vice president on the democratio ticket,
was 75. In 1892, Whltelaw Reld, the vie
presidential candidate of the republican
party, was 55, and Adlal VS. Stevenson,
vice presidential candidate on th demo
cratic 'ticket, was 67.
In 1896, the candidates of the two great
parties were all comparatively young men.
McKlnley waa 63; Hobart, 52; Bryan, 36,
and Arthur Bewail, 61. Th only old candi
dates In the field wer th conservative or
gold democrats. John M. Palmer, 79, and
Simon Bolivar Buckner, 73. In 1900 of the
new candidates for vies president Theodora
Roosevelt was 42 and A. E. Stevenson
was 66. '
CHANCE TO EAT LESS MEAT.
Conditions Hlsrhly Favorable for Ex
periments with Vegetable Diet.
Kansas city Star.'
Existing conditions, with the weather
hot and meat Scarce and expensive, afford
th housekeeper a favorable opportunity
to experiment with a vegetable diet. Strict
vegetarianism -Isn't to be advocated as a
general rule, and for th present it doesn't
threaten to become a necessity. But It Is
believed that many families could decrease
their consumption of meat without detri
ment and even to the benefit of their
health.
In a large number of households exces
sive meat eating has become a habit, and
is continued only because It la an estab
lished usage. Because people hav been
accjstomed to having meat on the table
three times a day they fancy that their
health demands It. The fact Is that In
America doctors have to restrict the meat
diet of their patients far more frequently
than to urge Its increase. There Is a wide
spread tendency to overindulge, which, In
hot weather, Is apt to prov especially
harmful.
The human body will endure though
oftn under protest such ecoentrlcltlea of
diet that many persons give th subject
no attention and go on eating as heartily
In -ummer as in winter. Should they take
the trouble to vary their accustomed
monus they might find that a lessened con
sumption of meat, especially in summer,
would Improve their condition. Possibly
they might discover, too, that the altered
bill of fare worked well throughout all
the year. Just at this time th experiment
is worth making.
OOM PAIL KRl'GER.
Chicago' Tribune: Kruger's ultimate
epitaph Is likely to be this: "He fought
social and economio evolution with the
weapon of personal preference. If volu
tion could weep, It wou'd."
Minneapolis Journal: Kruger was the
last survivor of the "Great Trek" and his
nam will never disappear from history as
th daring and stalwart and, withal, abso
lute ruler, who had th nerve to seise the
British Hon by tha beard and give him th
severest shaking he has had In a century.
Chicago Inter Ocean: In recognition of
the high spirit and broken heart ofthe
Boer leader, th British government ex
cepted him from th conditions Imposed
on all other Boers. He was to th last a
Boer, with fealty only to th Boers th
Hon of th Transvaal, Isolated and help
less in old age, but a Hon still facing with
grim visage th destroyers of his country.
Indianapolis News: No matter how one
may Judge his actions, or, -indeed, condemn
some thing In his Ufa, on can hardly h'p
admiring th rude, strong figure that stood
ilk a rock sgalnst tha great British em
pire and that was the real leadsr In a war
which did, as he rr.ld It would, "stagger
humanity." He died an exile aman with
out a country. We Ilk him th better
because he refused to kiss the hand of his
conqueror.
St. Paul Pioneer Press: Death blotted
out a striking flgui already obscured by
defeat and exile when It struck Paul
Kruger from th canvas of II f. There
hav been few characters in history more
picturesque than that determined old man,
as rugged In spirit aa h was In frame.
Had his mind been a brosd as hll pur
poses wer earnest h would probably
have been conceded an even higher plao In
th general estimation of men than he ha.
Chicago Reoord-Herald: But he waa an
honest, sincere patriot, all aflame with th
sacred fir that drives men to resist for
eign dominion, and In on rcspeot at least
he was th most interesting man' of our
times. He carries us back two centuries
and more to th Scotch covenanters, who
fought with tho Bible In one hand and th
sword In th other. II carries us a t 111 fur.
I ther bark to th children of lsra'., whoa
I history inspires inos covvnanners wiw
tnatr maruiu arue-
POLITICAL SNAPSHOTS.
V . .
New Tork Tribune: After all, Bryns
and Parker cannot be called Strang bed
fellows. They bunked together In IS and
In 1900.
Nw York Mall: Bryan's attitude makes
Nebraska's vote doubtful. It was counted
on for 20,000 Roosevelt plurality. It may
go 40,000 now.
St. Louts Olob-Democrat: Mr. Brran
snys the nomination of Parker was secured
"by crooked and Indefensible methods."
Th Whit Hous la no place for peeple
with a bias ot that sort.
Washington Post: It Is recorded that
Judge Parker, wifcn less than ten years
of age, ran away from horn and carried
water and feed to th elephant. Now
they are going to try to teed him to the
elephant
Chicago Inter-Ocean: Clnrlnnattis win nt
the plow when th hews earn. Mr.
Roosevelt was on th back porch. Judg
Parker wa swimming. And It is not of
record that any of these gentlemen re
plied: "You surprise me."
Kansas City Star: It is Intimated that
both ex-President Cleveland and W. J.
Bryan will make a fewNmecches at least
for Parker and Davis. Wohldn't the sight
of th two speaking from th same plat
form for the same, ticket be an interesting
onT
Chicago Chronicle: Colonel Bryan's
somewhat grudging support of the myste
rious one indicates that the preliminary
essential of Bryanistlo orthodoxy has not
yet been complied with. The candidal
should hasten to forward his subscription
to the Commoner.
Baltimore American: Reading between
the lines, the telegram of that consummate
old sport Grover Cleveland to Judge Parker
means: "The way that you handed It to
Bryan when It seemed that h was about
to be accorded the decision was something
worth living for."
PERSONAL NOTES.
Henry Watterson is so tickled with the
democratio ticket that he wakes himself
up at night to yell. f '
Clark J. Fttzpatrlck, agod 15, a freshman
of Loyola college, Baltimore, has commit
ted to memory Homer's "Odyssey" 12,'kxi
lines.
Judge J. M. Jones, on of the best known
lawyers In Ohio, has Just dlod In Cleve
land. He was a brother ot ex-United
States Senator John P. Jones ot Nevada.
An effort Is being made In Great Unrrlng
ton, Mass., to change th names of East
mountain and East rock to Bryant moun
tain and Bryant rock in memory of th
poet, who wa for some time a citlsen
and an official of the own.
Both presidential nominee rid horse
back; both take a swim in tha morning;
Mr. Roosevelt plays the single stick; Judge
Parker rakes hay; and It Is apparent that
this Is to be a strenuous, athletic cam
paign. Panama's military commander-in-chief
has gone abroad on a nfty-thousand-dollnr
government appropriation to study . th
systems employed In the English, French
and German armies. So eacly in th youth
of a republlo do its statesmen and patriots
acquire the "Junket" habit.
Prof. Albert Smith is now In England
and will later proceed to Franc on a
search for hitherto unpublished correspon
dence to use 'in bis new edition ot Benja
min Franklin s works. The work will be
brought out In 1906, the 200th anniversary
of. Franklin's birthdayi (
LAUGHING OAS,
Lawyer Then, too. there will be lb court
crlnr's fee. ' '- ' ' ' '' '
Fair Litigant (breach of promise) Oh, I
shall do my own crying. 1 should nver
. v .. . .nvKr.Av aIm tA An that
Goodness, nol Puck.
Maude And she didn't get a dlvoros after
finding a long blond hair on her husband's
coat sleeve?
Claude Well, ah certainly cam within
a hair s breadth of getting on. Town
Topics.
Nobuchadnexsar cropped the1 grass.
"it's hard," he mused, "that I should
have to chew Instead of smoke Just at th
time the candidates give their friends per
fectos, too." . ...,
Hereupon for the first tlra h felt th
full weight of his punishment. Nw York
Sun. j.
"Judging from the appearance of that
bright thing up there," remarked ths young
trout, "I conclude It's a nice fly.'
it.. utA " nninnft the wis mother
trout, "don't Jump at your conclualons, or It
will Do your nnisn. r-niiuoivm -.
Mrs. Saltonstall I feel tired to death this
morning. I've been out till midnight .th
last four nights running.
Mrs. Walslngham So do 1. I have had
comnanv for two weeks now, and I m nil
worn out. Let's go shopping. Somervlii
Journal. ,
"Hav you a coat of armst" she asked. -
"No," fie replied, "but 1 hav a forty-
horse power auioinooiie. iew xora Her
ald.
if. Vomiau T aiinnnaA Ir rtlV fafYiaa nh.
Jill, 11CI V J A aruojswarw f vu nv - -
Ject of my call, sir. To be brlf, I Want to
marry your daughter1
Mr. Uiey ftC,u I TV nn,i. a 111 nui i mwi
that vou should think of such a thine. Th
Ideal
Mr. Nervey Nonsense! You'r prejudiced
against the girl. She's all right. Cleveland
Leader. ' 1
A .1 u 1 1 upi.r. aa va ,
Al Blxby In Lincoln Journal.
Now our people all are voicing ,'
Their exuberance once more;
With glad hearts they sre rejoicing
As they never did before. .
Crops of all kinds are abundant
From the Colorado line;
Though th ralaull Is reaunuant
There's no reason to repine.
But the thing that mukt-s his dinner
Set well, with the local pop,
Is that Watson Is a winner,
- And Tibbies is on top.
Once we nil were Joyles creatures,
Omaha, to Broken llow.
For the hot wind fanned our features
And the corn refused to grow. .
Men were sad, and women wondered
As they gated across the plain.
Why the deuce It never thundered .
When so many prayed for rain.
Now the earth each day Is drinking
Moisture though it has enough
And we nil are busy thinking
That Tom Tibbies la great stuff. - -
Earth, they say, 'Is but a bubble.
There Is nothing here but woe,
Nang-ht hut hardship, toll and trouble
Whereso- ;, - .uay go." " . -
Dangers, seen h..a unseen, yer
Have beset men's steps for years,
And he'll reach' perfection nevar
While he tramps this vale of tears. ,
But today he has no reason,
To let anything annoy,
For this Is a model season.
And Tom Tlbblee la the boy.
Brainy Hair
Under your loose, thin,
falling hair is a brain. . Use
it. The result? You will
use Ayer's Hair Vigor. It
checks falling hair, restores
color to gray hair, and makes
the hair grow. No need of.
having rough and unruly hair,
"At ths sgo of 20 my balr turned
gray and soon grew almost white.
After I had been in Ibis embarrassing
condition for fifteen years, I used
Ayer's Hair Vigor, and three bottle of
It brought back the old color." M. A.
Knight, Baldwin, Mont.
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