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GEORGE B. TZ8CHUCK.
Subscribed in my presence end sworn lo
be for me this lst day of August, 1801
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N. B. HUNOATEL Notary Public
' Translated Into English, General Ku
rokl'g name la said to be Kennedy.
The Nebraska State fair of 1904 has
pasted into history as a record breaker.
Notwithstanding the packing house
strike Omaha holds Its own on the clear
ing house records. "
Tom Watson asked Parker some Inter
esting questions the other day, but up to
data Parker has not answered.
, The telephone war at Fremont Is said
to be over. The telephone war In Omaha
Is said to.be only on the skirmish line.
. The Second congressional district
needs no political guardian and will give
no corporation' a, political power of at
torney, ; ', .
If Samuel Gompers can settle the
packing house strike, both the beef kill
ers and the beef 'eaters will feel ex
tremely gratefnl.'' -..?r . . f
Novti that ' the Labor, day proclama
tions bar ail "bees ldeelalmolt will be
In order for the laboring men to write
letters of acceptance.
If the Cunard line carries out its pro
gram of outstripping all Its competitors
In the construction of mammoth Atlantic
ocean racers, steerage passengers will
goon be carried as ballast
Harrlman's latest deal in Alton stock
Is not the deal the democrats probably
hoped for, but according to Tom Lawson
the Standard Oil has a corner in the,
N stock of the democratic Alton.
'Joseph Cbacberlaln might make bet
ter headway with his fiscal reform If ha
would abandon Its Chauvenistlc feature.
No law built upon race prejudice erer
brought prosperity to a country.
Taggart Is trying to reriye the droop
ing, spirits of the democracy with the
statement that Colonel Bryan has be
come a democrat The pews has not
yet been confirmed by 'the Commoner. '
-Russian strategists need not fear Idle
ness no matte? how the present war
ends. Their poweni will probably be
tried to the utmost In keeping the pres
' ent governmental system In operation.
I i a
General Cowia and General Smyth,
attorneys for the strike makers and the
strike breakers, bare agreed to disagree
on the law and the facts, and the dis
agreement will extend until the strike
Is over.
Secretary Taft has coined one expres
sive phrase that seems destined to live.
He describes the democratic party as at
present constituted as "organised Inca
pacity." For neatness and exactness this
seems Jo fit
Our local popocratlc contemporary has
unearthed a letter from a man who sub
scribes himself a populist and makes
a plea for votes for Parker and Davis.
Better take off the old label and put
on the new.
If It takes a three-sheet poster to bold
the big type with which the yellow
Journals tell their readers that the re
sult of the fighting at Llao Tang Is not
known, bow many sheets will It take to
' tell them the result when It Is known T
It Is to bt hoped the observance of
Labor day this year will be of the quiet
order, though the strikers utilise the
day to relnsplre their ranks. An or-
' derly Labor day In spite of strike
, troubles will be a tribute to Labor day.
, We regret exceedingly that the dell
' cate health of our distinguished visitors
from Atlantic City,. Milwaukee and
Washington will not allow them to tarry
any longer . in this variable climate.
' Good by, Dave! Good by, George! Good
by, Carroll 1 So loagl
LABOR' 8 HOLtDAT.
It Is very greatly to be regretted that
on this holiday of labor, which Is ob
served in more than two-thirds of the
states, industrial peace does not every
where prevail. Unhappily there are seri
ous conflicts between capital and labor
in which many thousands of wage earn
ers are involved and In the, graver of
these the end cannot be foreseen. Heavy
losses on both sides have resulted from
the conflicts and the business of the
country has been more or less disturbed
and. Injured, necessarily to the Impair
ment of the general, prosperity. An in
evitable effect of these troubles has also
been. to intensify antagonism between
labor and capital, thus increasing the
difficulties in the way of those who aro
working to bring about an era of Indus
trial peace. This is a situation which all
who are concerned for the welfare of
the working class and for the advance
ment of the general Interests must de
plore. The observance of Labor day has
grown from year to year and undoubt
edly there will be a greater number of
participants in Its celebration throughout
the country today thari ever before. At
no previous time has organised labor
commandeoT a larger measure of public
Interest than It doea now. or Its rela
tions to capital and its Influence in re
spect to industrial progress been more
seriously discussed. The growth of
trades unionism In recent years has
compelled its recognition as a powerful
factor in the business world and this
has Intensified hostility to it in certain
quarters. Great combinations of capital
have shown a disposition to ignore or
ganised labor and in some instances a
purpose to crush it On the other hand
there are many wise men who believe
that organised labor is entitled to re
spect that the right of worklngmen to
unite for the promotion of their common
Interests is as defensible and Justifiable
as the right of capitalists to combine for
the advancement of their interests, and
It Is not to be doubted that this is the
view of a large majority of the American
people. That being admitted, It la self
evident that those who attempt to de
stroy trades unionism must fall.
f The great problem la to find a way to
preserve industrial peace and organized
labor should assist In its solution. All
who have given the subject Intelligent
attention realize that there ore great
difficulties to be overcome, but it must
not be conceded that . these are insur
mountable. In England the responsible
labor leaders are among the most potent
of the forces that make for industrial
peace. There is no apparent reason why
their example cannot be emulated In this
country.
. HOT SEKKINQ RECIPROCITY.
The business interests of New -Eng
land which are so earnestly urging reci
procity with Canada and insisting that
our government should without unneces
sary delay make overtures to the Domin
ion government looking to the negotia
tion of a treaty may have their ardor
somewhat cooled by the announcement
from the Dominion capital that the
Laurier government does not consider
the present an opportune time for a
conference regarding reciprocity; that it
deems It futile to take up the subject
again until the American congress, by
affirmative action toward lessening the
tariff, shows that our people are in
earnest 1
The plain meaning of this ls4hat while
the present liberal government In Can
ada has not renounced the Idea of reci
procity with the United States it is not
seeking its realization and will make no
move in regard to the matter unless in
vited to do so by this government If
the Ottawa report correctly represents
the attitude of the Laurier ministry it
requires that there shall be a reduction
In the American tariff duties on Cana
dian products as a condition precedent
to consideration of the subject of reci
procity. What view will the New Eng
land advocates of reciprocity with our
northern neighbor take of this? Will
they endorse the position of the Laurier
ministry and say that at the behest of
Canada congress should lower duties, or
will they give up an agitation which
appears to find little If any sympathy
among Canadians? It Is well understood
that the manufacturing interests of Can
ada are not favorable to reciprocity.
What they want is more rather than less
protectlbn. These interests have been
growing and while not hostile to the
preferential tariff on British manufac
tures they naturally do not desire that
the entrance of American manufactures
Into the markets of the Dominion shall
be made easier. It lg undoubtedly these
influential Interests that are in large
measure responsible for the position of
the government. . Montreal, Toronto and
other cities having flourishing industries
are naturally not altogether enamored of
the proposal to promote American com
petition with their Industries. ' '
Nothing is more certain than that the
present congress will not lower the tariff
on Canadian products and consequently
the prospect of reciprocity with the
Dominion cannot be regarded as favor
able. Meanwhile the Canadian govern
ment la not neglecting the Interests of
Its own manufacturers, as shown by the
new customs duty imposed on steel rails,
which will give the manufacturers of
rails in the Dominion a very decided ad
vantage in their home market over the
American producer.
The attention of the demo-pop leaders
of Nebraska is called to the disserta
tion, on SunspoU" that has Just been
promulgated from the astronomical ob
servatory of the World-Herald. By
careful observation they will note that
a serious disturbance Is taking place In
the democratic orbit that revolves
around those fixed luminaries known as
Parker aud Davis. j'
It was to hive been expected that
the lawyers would file all sorts of friv
olous demurrers to the validity of the
scavenger law, and it U nt at all sur-
prising tbst an eminent Omaha attorney
should include among his many objec
tions the Insufficiency Of publication of
the notice of tax sale. This is very
much on the same line at the habitual
objections of every lawyer whether emi
nent or insignificant to every Interroga
tory on the count that It is "incompe
tent irrelevant and immaterial.'
. FIRS PROOf SCHOOL BCILDINOS.
Boards of education in several of the
leading cities of America have entered
upon the, experiment of fire proof con
struction of public school buildings.
Nearly, if not all, of the new school
buildings In the city of Cleveland erected
during the last two years are fire proof.
With the exception of a few of the old
style fire trap structures, the central
high school and the manual training
school, the Board of Education carries
no Insurance whatever upon them.
The financial Importance of this econ
omy becomes apparent from the fact
that there are eighty school buildings
In the city and the total Insurance pre
mium upon that number of buildings
exceeds by far the loss of any one of the
buildings Insured. The board calculated
that an additional 10 per cent first cost
for ateel and tile fire proofing Is more
than offset by the permanency and
safety of 'the structural Investment
-in the city of Pittsburg only fire proof
school buildings are to be erected here
after. Not merely because of the sav
ing to be effected in the matter of fire
insurance premiums and in the cost of
keeping the buildings in repair, but as
a matter of public safety, which should
be the paramount consideration.
In Chicago an ordinance to govern the
building of new school houses has been
recently enacted, but the estimate of the
value of human life is decidedly Chi-
cagoan. Under the Chicago ordinance
school buildings seating not. more than
400 pupils may be of ordinary construc
tion; in other words, they may be fire
traps. Those seating 400 to 600 pupils
must be of slow burning construction.
Those with a seating capacity exceed
ing 000 must be of entirely , fire proof
construction. Inasmuch as the kinder
garten and primary school houses av
erage less than 400 children of from 4
to 10 years of age, and this class of
children have less presence of mind and
are more likely to be frightened by a
fire than children above the age of 10,
the distinction is certainly unique. In
Chicago and in all the large cities rigid
regulations have been adopted since the
Iroquois theater calamity to safeguard
the lives of patrons of theaters, concert
halls and public halls generally. It is
simply incomprehensible why the chil
dren who patronize the public schools
should be of less moment than the peo
ple who patronize public amusement
places. ;
The trend of twentieth century civili
sation is in favor of the utilization of
twentieth century appliances for the pro
tection of life and property and no class
of buildings are more in need of fire
proof, construction and safety appliances
than the public school buildings. First
cost and subsequent saving should be
a secondary consideration.
It is to be( hoped that Omaha will soon
be in position to emulate the example
set at Cleveland, Pittsburg and other
cities despite the fact that structural
iron and fire proof material are con
siderably more expensive in Omaha than
they are in the cities named. A begin
ning has already been made with the
high school building, but that should not
be the end. The lives of little children
are fully as precious as the lives of
grown children and we feel sure that the
taxpayers of this community would
cheerfully pay the difference between
the cost of fire trap and fire proof school
buildings.
The prospectus for the Omaha-Lincoln
Interurban electric trolley line is grow
ing brighter, but the prospective slump
in passenger traffic over the Burlington
between ''the two, cities is not likely to
be realized. All the lawyers in Lincoln
and half the lawyers In Omaha are sup
plied with Burlington pasteboards.
The price Japan paid for its. victory
will be known later. Loss of virile man
hood Is hard to replace, as shown by
France, where the small increase In pop
ulation is directly attributed to the Na
poleonic wars of the last century.
Things are about even lh the way of
predictions. The republican enthusiast
who promised to carry Alabama for
Roosevelt finds a fellow In Joslab Quiucy
who promises to elect a democratic-governor
for Massachusetts.
i
Pleases Both Parties.
' Chicago Post.
Hill's retirement Is received with unani
mous approval It is the first time- since
the gentleman began taking an Interest In
politics that he had succeeded Id pleasing
all parties. . , ' .
We Can't Lose Htn
. Boston Transcript.
If John D Rockefeller Is not already th
salt 'of the earth he appears to have a
desire to become .such,, being the highest
bidder for the oompany that aimed to con
trol, the saline ntrest of the United.
States.
Prestige to Be Free Of.
. Philadelphia Press.
Once America swas Ignored lit - world
questions, such as arise in the east; today
the powers look to us for leadership. ' The
little American may not like this, but the
average cltlien Is proud of th prestlg
of his nation's flag.
A Chase of Base. . '
Pittsburg Dispatch.
That wireless telegraph station at Chlfu
has been dismantled and this leaves the
plaint over flour being contraband as the
only urge International law question. Tbs
pundits can tak a nap and (he strategists
resume their wis remarks.
Gated Caase for Optlsalssa.
Baltimore American.
Th peasimlaUo farmer is not In evidence
this year. In fact, there r no pesslmlsilo
farmers. With cut ion- soaring above U
cents for the pound, wheat at the dollar
mark, and a record-breaking corn crop
with th price still ranging abov to cent
for th bushel, there Is no room for agri
cultural pessimist.
Pattlag th Screws.
Philadelphia Ledger.
When the Coal trust decides to suspend
mining Just before th winter no doubt It
purposes to make coal a bit higher, and.
Incidentally, to Increas the popularity of
the Coal trust
Roars f th Toothless.
San Francisco Chronicle.
It Is not at ai! surprising that the party
which exhibited Itself In th attltud of a
roaring toothless Hon In the dsya of
"Plfty-four-forty or fight," should tske
exception to the sensible motto, "Speak
softly; ctrry a big stick and you will go
far."
Coadenanatloa of Fogery.
Springfield (Mass.) Republican (Ind.).
The Republican wishes to Join in the
general condemnation of the literary bu
reau of the democratic national committee
In putting Into circulation an alleged say
ing of President Roosevelt In depreciation
of farmers. The president Is alleged to
have remarked In on of his speeches In
ISM piat "Mr. Bryan and his adherents
have appealed to the basest set In the
land the farmers." The president never
said any such thing; he long sine re
pudiated the report; and It Is obvious that
only a born fool in politics could have Ut
tered such a sentiment. ' And Mr. Roose
velt Is no fool, although he has a habit of
somewhat impulsive speech. Th forgery
should be withdrawn.
PACKERS AND BUTCHERS.
"Only Policy that Caa Preveat Per
petual Industrial War." '
Chicago Tribune.
We recognise the organisation of capital
and the organisation of labor as naiural
outcomes or our Industrial system. Each
kind of organization Is to be favored as
long as It acta In a spirit of justice and of
regard for the rights of others. Each Is
to ds granted the full protection of the law
and each In turn Is to be held to a strict
obedience to the law; for no man Is sbove
It and no man below It. Theodore Roose
velt In his speech of accenting the repub
lican nomination for presidsnt
Spoken at one of th most solemn mo
ments that can com to any American cltl
sen, these words are to be taken not as a
personal, amiable - speculation, but as a
public, practical principle of action. A
speech of acceptance Is a filtered liquor
from which all muddy theories, all gaseous
philosophies have been strained away, leav
ing only such clear and accepted doctrines
as are supposed to be Immediately applica
ble to Immediate difficulties.
The Tribune wishes, therefore, to ask Its
readers to give Mr. Roosevelt's policy about
labor and cspltal their earnest considera
tion. To the Tribune that policy seems to
offer the people of America a strateglo po
sition on which7 they can all converge.
Surely we have gone i far enough to admit
that both labor and capital will form or
ganisations "which are natural outcomes
of our Industrial system." Surely we have
gone far enough to admit that the work of
the future will be the control -of these or
ganisations and not their destruction. .
Mr. Roosevelt would doubtless say that
the butchers are within their rights In form
ing a union. But the packers would say, to
quote Mr. Roosevelt's own words, that the
butchers' union had not acted "In a spirit
of justice and of regard for the rights of
others." It Is only so long as "each kind
of organisation" does act In that spirit that
It Is to be "favored." Would Mr. Roose
velt, therefore, agree with the packers that
if the union has acted in a contrary spirit
It ought to be destroyed? The Tribune
thinks not
In the , Miller case the International
Brotherhood of Bookbinders objected to
Miller's reinstatement In the gqvernment
printing office because he had been ex
pelled fronf thetr ranks. Mr. Roosevelt be
lieved that the union was unjust. He be
lieved that no man should be discharged
from government employ because he had
been expelled from a union. He therefore
gave Miller his place back. But he did not
start in to destroy the International Broth
erhood of ' Bookbinders. In the letter in
which he announced Miller's reinstatement
he said:. "There Is no objection to the em
ployes of the government constltu lng them
selves Into a union if they so desire." He
believes in manful resistance to any organ
isation, either of labor or of capital, when
it Is unjust. He does not believe that the
fundamental right -f organisation should
be attacked.
In the coal strike this policy was equally
apparent. Mr. Baer told the president that
he would under no circumstances agree to
treat with John Mitchell. If the miners
wanted to go back to work, well and good.
He would treat with them Individually. But
he would never recognise the union. It
was by the president himself that Mr. Baer
was forced to recede from this position. It
was because of the president that th min
ers' union was a party to the conclusion of
the strike.
Organisation will come. Unjust features
of organisation must be resisted. Isn't this
the only policy that can prevent perpetual
Industrial wisr?;
VERTICAL HANDWRITING. '
Chicago Bosloess men -
School Board raa. ;
Chicago Inter Ocean. "
In the face of such testimony against It
as such practical and progressive business
men as A. C. Bortlett give, tne scnooi
board can hardly retain the vertical writ
ing system. Ther Is obviously no us In
boys learning to writ In a way that they
must promptly unlearn .when they go to
work In buslnero.
The complaint against th old sloped or
"Bpencerian" houd, once almost universal
In our schools, was that, while easy to
write rapidly and not difficult to writ com
pactly, with high spa " tenaeo, witn
many writers, to become Illegible. The
complaint against the vertical hand now
In voyu Is that while legiDie, it is aim
cult to write compactly and cannot be
written rapidly.
The constant effort has been to devise
some universal system of penmanship that
would be at th same time compact, rapid
and legible. This effort dknnot be said to
hav succeeded. A correspondent suggests
that It has failed because it Ignores th
physical and mental differences between
children,
This correspondent further suggests that
th solution of the problem will be found.
not In experimenting with or devising mors
system of penmanship, but In discarding
systems altogether and fixing attention on
result. That was what ne bad to do,
through much chldlsh tribulation, in order
Anally to b abl to writ rapidly and
legibly.
. Of course, children In learning to write
must have models for Imitation. There
seems no reason, however, why all children
should be compelled to Imltat th same
model, regardless of results. They will
not do so In fhelr practical wprk In Ufe.
They will take the easiest way to get a
near as possible to the desired results.
What Is demanded of the schools Is that
they teach all .their pupils to writ rapidly
and compactly when necessary, and legibly
at all times. It seems quit evident that
no one system of penmsnahlp can glv to
all children th training that will accom
plish these results.
Then why should not ths school board
discard systsms altogether, a our corre
spondent suggests, and Instruct ths teach
ers that It la not of ths least eonsequeno
how their pupils writ so that their writing
be rapid, compact and legible f
ROIRD ABOtTT HEW YORK.
Ripples a tb Correal of L4f la h
v Metropolis.
A pathetic story of a girl's struggle tor
existence In a great city was told to a
New Yerk magistrate last week. Haiti
Barnes, a young woman, was found In
Central park Wednesday, and taked to the
pcllc station. Tb girl had gon through
terrlbl suffering and exposure. Her fac
was a mas of red blotches which wer
found to b mosquito bites. Her eyes wer
sunken and her fac was emaciated. Her
clothes wer torn, and her hair unkempt
Although ah said sh was n, sh looked
at leait K. 8h.at ravenously of food
given her by th matron of th police sta
tion. The maglstrau asked her what she
had ben doing.
"I've bn living for two week in the
park without food and didn't feel hungry.
Isn't that funny?" said tb girl. .
'When pressed for more of her story th
girl talked rationally. Bh said br horn
is In Ypsllanti, Mich., and that sh has a
brother, Charles Barnes, In Toledo. She
aid ah had been educated as a type
writer In a business college at Ypsllanti.
Sh cam her two years ago.
"I went from plac to place trying to
get work," said sh. "I finally got a plao
and kept that four months. Then they
aid they would have to get a stenogra
pher In my place. That was In March. I
tried opening an apartment In Manhattan
avenue and letting furnished rooms. No
body came and I was put out. Then I
rented a small room at II West Eighteenth
street I had only a few dollars left
could not get any work. I pawned all but
th clothes I hav on now for food.
"Two weeks ago last Tuesday I left my
room. I owed four weeks' rent, and
could not face the landlady any longer. I
had not a cent then. I walked, and walked,
and walked. Finally I wandered Into Cen
tral park. I found an empty arbor and
slept ther all night Next day I wand
ered around th park. When several pic
nic parties had left I picked up the rem
nants of their lunches. That was all th
food I had. That Is what I hove been
doing ever since. Sometimes I saw a po
llceman and was on the point of asking
for help, but I could not get up sufficient
courage.
In all this time she never begged, sh
aid, until Wednesday. Then she asked a
woman sitting beside her on a bench for
Ave cents. With this she bought bananas,
She had one beside her when th police
man found her.
In court this girl said from th tlm
ha started to eat on of these bananas
until sh found herself In th ststion house
her mind was a blank,
William Waldorf Astor, self-exiled .from7
New York, has made a handsome gift to
the city In which most of his millions are
Invested hv real estate. He Is the owner
of th new Hotel Astor building at Broad
way, Fortyefourth and Forty-flfth streets,
to be opened In about ten days, which Is
said to represent an Investment of 19,000,-
000. Two Isles of safety are to be con'
strutted In the center of Broadway In
front of the hotel, and Mr. Astor has de
elded to ornament them with two bronse
electroliers costing 110,000.
The gift was announced through Wll
Harm C. Muschenhelm, proprietor of the
new hotel. The municipal art commission
has approved the electroliers and pro
nounced them worthy to be placed In one
of the city's most prominent thorough
fares. The work Is being done under the
auspices of the Municipal Art society.
Several weeks ago the Young Women's
Vigilant society was formed In the Bronx
for the purpose of checking and finally
curing the vice of profanity in those of
callow years. It ha held several secret
meetings reoently, th outcome of which Is
the following resolutions:
"If any boy or girl Is heard to swear
by any member of this society It shall be
her duty to call a policeman and have
said person arrested and fined in the chil
dren's court of the city of New York'. If
the offense is committed more than 'once
by the same person, the uoclety shall take
steps to have the said child put In an In
stitution." (
It has been conspicuously posted In the
principal streets of Ore borough. Small
boys, with an lnclpent lov of swear words.
It la said, are now resorting to vacant
lots and obscure nooks behind high board
fences whenever the passion to Indulge
In them has becom overpowering.
Saved from Instant death by a corset
steel, along which a bullet from her hus
band's pistol glanced, Mrs. Ida Woods,
wife of George Woods, a billiard-room
keeper of Hoboken,, had the police send
out a general alarm for the man's arrest,
fearing that he might commit suicide.
According to the story told the police,
Woods and his wife had a quarrel and h
turned and, taking a pistol from a drawer,
fired at her. The Impact of the bullet
knocked Mrs. Woods down, and,' fearing
that he had killed her. Woods jumped
from a rear window of his horn and dis
appeared. Mr Woods quickly revived and her cries
attracted th attention of a policeman,
whom she told that she had been shot
He summoned an ambulance from the hos
pital, and from the powder marks on th
dress which were over th heart it was
not thought she would live. Examina
tion, however, showed that th bullet had
been deflected by th steel and that her
skin had not even been bruised by th
ball.
Many steps and much perplexity ar
saved shoppers by the department store
guide. The functions of th guide ar
not merely those of pilots. They act a
advisers to shoppers and are beginning
now to solv vexed problems. Their serv
ices are asked for oftenest by women and
men from out of town. Although ' they
are not to be found In all department
stores In most of th larger one a word
to th floor walker will put you In touch
with a' smiling woman guide who ha a
way of convincing you, particularly If you
ar not a hardened city shopper, that oh
knows better what you want than you do.
In som establishments sh Is called a
hostess; In other, a woman floor walker.
But, whatever th title, her fort 1 help
ing you to spend your money expeditiously
and to the best advantage.
Unless som provision la mad by th
Uulldlng department of New York th piano
will b as extinct as th horned unicorn
In th next twenty year. As It A to
day, not on of the new flat building
going up ther has rooms large enough
to allow this luxury. The flats of all re
cently built apartment house ar simply
a series of well-lighted cells, with a bowl
ing alley running down th middle. In
such old neighborhood as Washington
squsr, wher th old-fsshloned brown
stone and red brick house still persist,
nearly vry family has a piano. Th
average flat dweller will tell you that
his agony box la In store because there
1 no room for It In his house.
Th North German Lloyd's fastest ship,
Kaiser Wllhelm II., fsiled by fifty minutes
to eclipse the Deutschland's record of Ave
days, eleven hours and Afty-four minutes
from Cherbourg to Sandy Hook. The for
mer brok It own record by two hours
and twenty-six minutes, eomlng ever In
tb trip which ended Wednesday In Ave
days, twelve hour and forty-four min
utes, aa hourly average of twenty-tare
knots.
A JtANVTACTOUJa HATTO.
Hosarkohl tiswlss la Rsoorts of
Maatafaetsrts rrodocts.
Springfield (Msss.) Republican (Ind.).
Rcord of th fact I mad by th gov
ernment bureau of statistic that for the
first tlm In th history of th country
exports of manufactured products are ex
ceedlngUn Value export of th products oY
agriculture. This has been the case for the
two last and will prove true of th present
month. During July $40,000,000 of manufac
tures went out, against IU.000,000 of agricul
tural products; and in June 142,0(0 000,
against $3?,2&0,000. Manufactured exports
now constitute about 4 per cent of the
total merchandise exports; and agricultural
products about 41 per cent. During th last
ten year th proportion of manufactured
exports has been about 21 per cent and
prior to that time it rarely exceeded 20 per
cent; whll for many years past th pro
portion of total exports mad up by agri
cultural products has never fallen below
60 per sent and has ruled abov TO. 1
Th conditions which have caused these
two classes of exports to Chang places In
relation to the total ar peculiar and not
likely to continue fully In prevent force.
At this season In all years agricultural
Shipments are at a minimum. But for
some months also our grain exports hav
fallen to th smallest volume known in
years thrdhgh a comparative shortage In
the American yields, large harvest abroad
and th rapid development of grain grow
ing In new countries like Argentine. Thus
th present advance of manufacture to
first plac Is due, In part to be sure, to
an lnoreaso In aueh exports, but?, also, and
In greater measure, to a decline In agricul
tural shipments, The changes ar likely
to become permanent In some degree, but
ther I no present probability that manu
factures will remain In the ascendency all
th year round.
It 1 certain, howvr, that th nation
has entered upon a new era In regard to
the export trade, where manufactures will
permanently take a much more prominent
place relatively than ever heretofore. We
ar' passing rapidly from a country pre
dominantly agricultural to one predomi
nantly manufacturing. It Is well that this
Should be so. It Is better to manufacture
for th outside world than to b it hewer
of wood and drawers of water, as It were.
The work I easier and more profitable.
The protective tariff In a general way
has undoubtedly been a powerful agency
lh bringing about this great change, but
we ar to beware that it la not permitted
to overstay It time Of usefulness In this
particular and becom a means not only
of burdening domestic manufacture through
taxes and restriction on th supply of raw
material, but of provoking reprleals which
will narrow our foreign markets.
THE YOl JIG VOTERS' VOTE.
Considerations to B Weighed la
Caatlnsi h First Ballot.
Baltimore American.
One of th most Interesting questions as
sociated with the campaign is that of the
vote of the young man who has junt
reached his majority year, or who has
come to be 21 sines the last presidential
election. For the first time he is brought
fac to fac -with national affairs as an
elector: Hitherto he has- theorised and
reasoned, out he has not voted. He Is Lk
the soldier who has gone through the man
ual of arms but has not actually fired a
bullet at an enemy. He stands ready to
Are th bullet of th ballot, and is even
more undecided than a soldier, because be
cannot be so sure which way lies the path
to patriotism. .
At th present Juncture, however, th
choic should b asy. Th high priests of
democracy have themselves pointed the
way. They have said that nearly all that
has been called democratic In recent years
Is wrong, and that practically all that has
been called republican Is right. It wss th
opinion of the Cleveland and Olneys In
1886 and 1900 that the Judgment of Judge
Parker was wrong and that the republican
attitude was right. The republican postu
late has not changed. It It was right then
It Is right now, and the ' democrat who
voted the republican ticket then has no
reason for voting the democratic ticket
now sav the one very poor reason that
having been labelled a democrat he feels
that h ought tc continue wearing the tab.
The palpable fact Is that the democratic
party has been endorsed by its own best
members only when It stood nearly on th
platform of th republican party. The .dif
ferences between republicanism and the
convictions of. the wisest democrats are
hardly mor Important than a difference
of verbal statement Those democrats
have given away their case. They have
pleaded for their party.- The new voter,
though" he may have studied deeply and ar
rived at the republican view oy r.gnt rea
son, can therefore reach th sam stand
point by th easier process of simply ac
cepting the view of the mot eminent dem
ocrats that when their own barque drift
without compass or rudder safety can al
ways be found in the republican vessel.
ICR ACT) 9 IK CHARITY'S NAME.
Worthy Object of Benevolence Injnred
by Confidence (James.
Minneapolis Times.
One of th most contemptible of all con
fideno games 1 that of oUcltlng money
In the name of charity when ther is no
Intent to deliver th proceed to th asso
ciation or Individual for wmcn tn con
tributor Intends t
It la a betrayal of on of th beat of
human Impulse, a robbery of the poor and
afflicted, a specie of then mat make
the benevolent suspicious and often de
prives worthy Institutions and persons of
futur assistance they would otherwl re
ceive. There is much of that sort of work In
evidence in this city, some of It amount
ing to embesslement. Th firt remedy
He with the Chan table associations tnem-
selves. Thy ar In a measure to blam
If they mak arrangements for collection
with agent of whos nonasty they have
not eoncluslv proofs. They should adopt
a system of credentials and Identification
and Insist that no contributions b made
except to persons bearing such credentials
and proving themselves authorised.
Charitably disposed ' persons should be
more oareful In demanding proof of genu
ineness from those who ask money of
them. San Francisco has a system of en
dorsement by a central organisation and
merchant and others who ar asked to
"subscribe" make It a practice to Insist
upon' the stipulated evidence1 of that au
thorisation.
Perhaps It would hardly . be practicable
to pass all applications through a single
clearing house, but If givers would Insist
upon som satisfactory credentials from
solicitors In charity's causs, thos having
th right would secur them and the army
of fraud wou'.d b decimated in time.
This 1 advisable, not so much en ac
count of th amount of money one person
may lose, hut becaus th present loose
system or lack of system, encaurases crime
and deprives worthy objects of benevolence
of aid they should hav.
Where His Holds First rise.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Experts say women ar naturally better
swimmers thsn men, "because their con
forms tlon give them at once buoyancy
and equilibrium In th water." There are
few thing' In which man may still claim
to exosl, but h undoubtedly continue to
hold first place when It oome to shaving
himself with, his left hand.
PERSONAL NOTES.
If those 000 editors do go to Eonpu,
Judg Parker stand a good chanc 1
getting hi name In the papers.
General Mlto 8 Haschall, on of th last
Union generals who still survives. Is lying
critically 411 at his horn In Chicago.
The dean of Rochester Is, according to
report, the tallest divine In the Church of
England. He Is t feet t Inches In height.
Th Corean prince, Penkeel Rulwha, la
having his seventh American lov affair.
He may be from Core, but that prince has
a Salt Lake City heart.
N. N. Whitney, founder of the Paclfle
Commercial Advertiser, I dead In Hono
lulu, aged 80 years. , In 18S0 he became the
head of the Hawaiian poatofflce affairs and
established th present system.
General Luis Terrasas. th richest man
In Mexico and th greatest land owner In
th world, will shortly- visit th United
States, a four months' leave of absence
having been granted hint: by th govern
ment
Frank Howland of tattle Rock. Ark., has
one of the most valuable collection of
minerals, geological specimens and Indian
relics, which h ha been thirty years In
getting together, ' In America. HI home
has been especially prepared ' to provide
for a display of his treasures.'
John Wanamaker has In contemplation
the erection and endowment of a college
for men near Ellenvllle. Ulster county,
N. Y. The location selected for th ool
leg la on Mount Mennagha, on of tb
Shawanguk range. Mr. Wanamaker and
J. 8. Huyler are Interested .in a pros pec tire
publishing house to be erected at Kllan
ville, wherein too men will be employed and
a general magasln and book publlahtng
business conducted.
Chairman Taggart' action In sending
number of democratic spellbinder to Ver
mont recalls an Incident of a former pr
Identlal campaign. Calvin 8. Brio wag
democratic manager and he ent word to
Bradley Smaller, national committeeman
from Vermont, that he proposed to send
forty speakers -.to th Green Mountain
state. Smalley wired back: . "Don't send
speakers her. It will be cheaper for m
to com down and listen to them at New
York." .
UNFINISHED EDUCATIONS.
proteted Intellectual Foondatloaa
Fall lato Decay.
Chicago Trtbun.
Fifteen years ago ther was hardly av
town In western Kansas whloh did not
show many foundations on- whloh no super
structure had been erected. Th founda
tion! remained uncovered becaus of th
collapse of the boom. Some of them wore
small and hallow.-- Others were laid broad
and deep. Th elements assailed them all
alike. Th rain washed th mortar from
between their bricks and stonea Th frosts
disintegrated the bricks and stones them
selves. Foundations which. If built upon
In the ordinary way would hav endured
for generations felt in a few year. Into
such utter ruin that when "good times"
returned to Kansas it Was in all cases un
safe, and In' many impossible, to erect
buildings upon them. Only small nortlop
of the material they contained could be
utilised in h construction of other found,
tlons.
Not unlike th at which th aban.
doned foundations suffered Is that which
overtakes the educations which manr men
acquire in the schools. Schools and college
lay but the foundation of education. They;
may lay It broad and deeD. but If no aurwtis.
structure is later erected over It the founda
tion will quickly fall to niece. Aaaon!.
tlon, the mortar that bind the brick and
tone Of th mind together, will be waahod -
away In time. Ideas which aro th mind's
bricks and - stones, will 'crumble and fall
apart' A foundation without a suparatruo
ture 1 worthless. It has no adaptation to
Its environment Natur will not let It
long exist There are thousands of men
and women who have a smaller sum total
of knowledge and reasoning power at to or
u tnan they had when they threw M.
their school text books. They hav erect4
ror memseivea no Intellectual superatruoo
ture, and their Intellectual foundation, ha
lng unprotected, ha fallen Into decay.
WHITTLED TO A POINT.
"I see by the paper," mid Mr. Seannem.
"that the price of ateel may soon fall."
"Well." said Mrs. Seannem. "what d m
caret W can't eat It." Cleveland Leadar.
"Ye, madam, when I alnar the auritanm!
always rise out of compliment to me."
"Yes, I've noticed It. But why do they
always hustle on their wraps and hatst"
Cleveland Plain Dealer. - -
Gerald I claim to be a gentleman.
Geraldlne But we all haven't your Inuv.
Inatlon. Town Topics.
Tommy Paw, what is a lummoxT
Mr. Tucker A lummox, Tommy, la a man
who thlnka he can answer all the questions?
a boy can ask him. Chicago Tribune.
"Dar's gwlneter be trouble," said Unci
Eben, "jes' aa long as it's human nature
fob. a gal to think mo' of a man det kin
serenade her on de banjo dan she does of
a man dat kin earn reg'lar wage." Wash
tngton Star.
Clarence That Is a mighty good looking
costume, Grace.
Grace This old thingt It's so shiny I oa
see my face In it
"That's probably why it's so good look
lng." Portland Oregonlan.
"Before you are married," said TTnelO
Jerry Peebles, "she cuddles you. After
you ar married she oaudles you." Chicago;
Tribune. -. ,
"Thy are - an extremely fashionable
couple, are they not?"
"Gracious, no! Why, they hav several
children." Philadelphia Press.
THE DREADFUL OLD GENERAL,
Chicago Chronicle
One more the general appears
Beware 1 He ware!
His horrid front sgain he rear .
Look outl Take oarel
HI trail Is on the fruitful plain, ' N
And forth from lake to sea
Goes up a solemn, aad refrain
Concerning that pernicious ban
Old General Apathy.
Hark! Hear the fretting chairman call J
"'Beware! Beware!
HI heavy hand is over all!
Lookout! Take care!"
The doleful shouts sre loud and clear
Ah, shall there ever be
A glad campaign when w may hear
No more wild warning fraught with fear
Of General Apathy? ,
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a great deal about Aver's Sar
saparllla how it makes the
blood pure and rich, tones up
the nervous system, clears
the skin, reddens the cheeks,
and puts flesh on the bones.
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kind you want the kind
the doctors prescribe, ah iV-Uw.
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