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C. C. ROSEWATER.
Secretary.
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(8al. M. B. H UNGATE,
Notary Public.
WHEN OVT OF TOWS.
Sabaerlbera leavlag; the vlty tem
porarily eltonld ha Th Be
mailed to them. It la better than
a dally letter from home. Ad
dress will be changed as eftea as
requested.
South Omaha paving- matters are said
to have taken a new turn; but there la
uothing startling about that .
With yellow fever In New Orleans the
bnnuna will probably be required to
prove up its arrival iu America through
some other port.
A sea voyage seems to Imve been of
advantage to Count Cusxlul. He no
longer insists that Russia is ready to
continue the war.
Grain elevator inD -In. these parts
havo troubles of theft: own in these days
without being hauled over the coals by
St Louis complainants. '
The acquittal of alleged pool sellers at
St. Louis Indicates that Governor Folk
will tiud plenty of work at home after
he leaves Jefferson City.
Omaha is still waiting for somebody
to establish a tannery. Here is an op
portunity for I E. Her to render ln
valuable service to Omaha.
revised cotton report will be Issued
at noon today. The effect upon the mar
ket of a cotton report not sold In advance
will be watched with Interest
That Bennington sailor who is held for
desertion ut Honolulu perhaps realizes
what Is meant by saying that It is better
to be a live dog than a dead lion.
It Is highly probable that the king of
Sweden will not again make the mistake
of falling to appoint a cabinet now thai
bis Swedish advisers have resigned.
Bryan, La Follette uud Folk are still
wluging arouud the circle of western
chautauquas, but Tom Lnwson ha re
tired from the oratorical combination.
According to John X. Baldwin, R. B.
Schneider ha abdicated Ills pre-emption
to the aenatorlal succession In favor of
Ross Hammond. Thnt might to settle it
The Swedish Riksdag is willing to
grant a divorce to Norway, but insist
thnt the bill shall be presented in proper
form aud thut arrangements be made
for alimony.
Chicago is objecting to ruilroad dis
crimination in favor of New York. If
the equity rule of "clean hands" should
b enforced, Chicago could hardly get a
portion filed. ,
South Oiuuhu bus Just bought 1,000
feet of fire hone without half the wran
tie precipitated by th proposition to
buy 600 feet for the Omaha street clean
ing department. Why?
If the mosquito theory of yellow fever
contagion is correct the Uulted States
should establUh a detention camp for
those pest which they are supposed to
be drlviug from the Isthmus.
Paper trust officials who refuse to an
swer question in the suit of th United
State are probably Increasing the cost
of tbe next session ot the United State
court for tho district of Minnesota.
Lincoln school census enumerator
compute the population of the Capitol
city at a fraction over 46,000. The fed
eral census enumerator for 1010 will
bar to govern themselves accordingly
While we have a court house problem
wt bav a city ball problem as well.
The city hall problem is that of placing
the bulldlug again In a creditable state
of repair after it hn been allowed to
run down thrvagu parsimonious neglect
OBSTACLE TO PS AC
It apppiirs probable that the pence con
ference, whkh lsipxpwtod to inert within
a couple of weeks, will be confronted by
obstacle which may not easily be over
come. In the first place It aeetug that the
Ilusxlnn envoys are not clothed wltb
plenary power, as they were reported to
be at the time of their appointment.
This may prove to be unsatisfactory to
the Jiipancge government. whoe pleni
potentiaries are understood to have born
given full authority to negotiate a treaty
of pence. It is pointed out that when
pence negotiations were to be entered
upon t)otween China and Japan the rep
resentatives of the lntter, finding thnt
the Chinese envoys had not been given
full authority to negotiate a treaty, de
clined to have anything to do with them
until they were fully empowered to make
a treaty. It is thought not Improbable
that there may be a repetition of this In
the present instance If It should be found
that the representatives of Russia are
chnrged simply with the ascertainment
of Japan's terms, without possessing the J
authority to say whether or not they will
be accepted. Herein may be found the
first obstacle to peace negotiations, for
it Is pretty well understood that Japan
will not proceed unless assured that the I
conference will be productive of definite
results. I
Another possible obstacle Is in regard
to an armistice. Russia desires a su9-lcan
pension of hostilities, but in order to
secure this she must .show Japan thnt
she sincerely wants pence and is pre
pnred to accept any rensonable terms to
effect peace. Unless she can do this it Is
not probable that Japan will agree to an
armistice and her refusal to do so would
possibly, though not necessarily, put an
end to the conference. It seems plain
that the Japanese do not Intend to call a
halt to their military operations until
tliey are perfectly satisfied thnt Russia
menus business. As was said by the
minister of Jnpnn to Great Britain a few
days' ago, "after the events of the past
eighteen months Japan puts faith only In
accomplished fncts." She will demand
to know whether Russia Is sincere for
peace before she makes known her
terms. Thoroughly familiar with' the
tricky and evasive character of Russian
diplomncy, Jnpnn will take no chances
In the coming negotiations. Herself hon
estly disposed to make peace, Japan will
proceed only If assured beyond doubt of
the Integrity of purpose of her enemy.
There is a disposition to belittle the
attitude of China regarding the peace ne
gotiations, so far as they mny affect Chi
nese territory. It s by no means Impos
sible, however, thnt this may prove
something of an obstncle. There is an
Impression that Russia is in sympathy
with China's position and if this should
prove to be the ense It is easy to under
stand that it might raise a troublesome
Issue in the conference, since Japan is
understood to be utterly opposed to giv
ing China any such recognition or con
sideration as that country desires.
-J9re BF undeveloped conaitions that
may prove obstacles to' peflcer but at
present the reeling quite generally is op
v-. , ir. v I
timlstlc, the opinion being that Japan's
terms will be found fair nnd reasonable.
APPRECIATE OUR FRIENDSHIP.
The reception given Secretary Taft
and party in Japan, the cordial expres
sions of the press and public men and
the enthusiastic popular greetings, at
test how heartily the Jnpnnese appre
ciate the friendship of the United States.
It appears that a knowledge of what-
this country has done to aid Japan to
rise to her present position among the
nations is by no means confined to her
statesmen and scholars, but is possessed
us well by the common people who are
at all familiar with the history or their
country. They know of the visit of
Perry to Japan more than half a century
ago and of its result in bringing that
country out of its Isolation and start
ing it on the path of progress.
What Japan has since achieved in In
dustrial and commercial growth her peo
ple with a true sense of gratitude attrlb-
ute largely to the example and the
friendly Intercourse of the American
people. The strong feeling. of friendship
which had its beginning with the ad-
vent of Commodore Perry into Japan
and has since been uninterruptedly
maintained the Japunese are most anx
ious shal) continue. There 1 In this
the assurance that whatever interests
tbe United Stated has in the far east
are in no danger from Japan. There
has been some Idle talk about that coun
try coveting the Philippines. There Is
not the leust basis for it Equally
groundless is the fear professed by some
that Japan's influence may be exerted
to deprive us of trade in tbe orient
This country baa in the island empire
of the far east a whim and earnest
friend and we shall find it to our in
terest to carefully cultivate it friend
ship and in all proper way show that
we appreciate and value Its good will.
NOT RtASSCRISO
Tbe Chinese minister to the United
States says tin reference to the boycott
of American good that his government
I i
ha done what it could to discourage
the movement hostile to our commerce.
but that the government has no control
over the commercial guilds. It would
also teem that it has little influence
with them, a report from Paris quot
lug a member of the Chinese legation
there as saying that the boycott la
gradually extending and wi!l prob
ably gain considerably ' in northern
China. He' further aald that the move
ment is very popular and will only cease
when the United State modifies certain
laws affecting the Chinese.
There 1 nothing reassuring In the
statement credited to the Chinese min
ister to this country. It snow that so
fur a hi government is concerned it
I practically powerless to even check
the movement hostile to our trade,
which It is very probable Is receiving
every possible encouragement from our
commercial ' competitor. Obviously
therefore. It U quite useless to make
any appeal to tbe Chinese imperial
authorities In the matter. The commer
cial guilds, which correspond to our
lioards of trade, have it entirely in their
hands, and it appear that the press
and the people of tho trade router are
In full accord with them. This is the
situation which confronts our manu
facturers and merchants who export to
China and It Is manifestly of such im
portance as to merit the serious atten
tion of our government Something
must be done to avert a loss of business
amounting to many millions of dollars
annually and which until recently had
been steadily growing. What that some
thing is everybody understands. It Is
simply to give China such fair treat
ment as our own laws promise, with
such modifications as she may reason
ably ask. The administration has done
what it can in this direction and it will
be the duty of congress to do what
more may be necessary.
REFORM IS iriCESSART.
One of the famous platforms drafted
by the late J. Sterling Morton for the
national democracy contained a dozen
planks, each ot which reiterated the
declaration that "reform is necessary"
While times have changed and parties
have changed front on many issues that
were paramount in their day. reform is
still necessary and always will be. How
necessarr reforms be effected and
whocan be trusted to put them into ef
fect? That is the problem of the pres
ent hour.
The necessary national reformg are
championed by Theodore Roosevelt and
he can be depended upon to exert all the
influence and power at bis command to
carry them into practical effect but
even President Roosevelt with all his
strenuosity and vim, cannot hope to suc
ceed without the co-operation of the na
tional legislature and the federal courts,
backed by the American people.
It is altogether different however.
with initiating and executing necessary
reforms in local government state,
county and municipal. It has become
the fashion of late for political mounte
banks to pose as reforir.ers, to rant and
talk glibly about municipal graft and
Indulge in scathing denunciation of pub
lic officials, but when the searchlight Is
turned upon these bogus champions of
reform they are too often found to be
wanting in veracity as well as in integ
rity. For example, not many years ago
one of these spurious champions of mu
nicipal purification, who was assistant
county attorney, made a grandstand
play about the suppression of gambling,
but when be was asked on the witness
stand concerning gambling in the Jack-
sonlan club, of which he was a member,
he declined to answer on the ground
that by doing so he would criminate
himself,
Another bogus reformer, also an as
sisting prosecuting attorney, who has
achieved notoriety as an enemy of tol
erated vice and crime, refused to file
compiaicta agnst , gamblers in South
nmnhi nairi tv an hr tho hif
" y ---
of police. Last year about 175 protests
were filed against applicants for saloon
licenses by a champion reformer-for-
revenue-only and all of these protests
were dropped when the police commis
sion granted licenses to certain other
saloons whose proprietor keeps the sham
reformer on his payroll.
These citations are made not to be
little men who honestly endeavor to
bring about better local government
t to draw the line between honest
reformers and spurious reformers. Un
doubtedly there Is in Omaha much room
for reform in various directions in local
government city, county and school dls-
trlct but every effort In that direction
should be rational and sincere, with a
view to the elevation of the standard
of integrity in the public service and
the suppression of graft, blackmail and
bribery. In these movements, however,
the ranting Pharisee who parades bis
piety and does his praying on the street
corners with a megaphone is to be dls-
trusted and shunned.
The Lincoln Star does not thiuk any
hlng would be gained by publishing the
annual grist of new laws In news
papera, so as to give those who are ex
pected to obey them a chance to post
up. Perhaps not Some folks prefer
not to be told that they are violating the
statutes, but then the great majority of
lawa biding citizens would gladly ob
serve the letter of the law if they only
knew what it was.
Will it not be time euough to impro
vise a new name for the midway when
Samson changes bis own name. There
never was any rhyme or reason for
christening Ak-Sar-Ben's sovereign aftor
a man who set green corn on fire and
slew a thousand Philistines with the
Jaw bone of an ass.
South Omaha people think the pros
pects for a new railway passenger
depot there are exceedingly "bright We
hope it will prove true, yet at the same
time believe it our duty to. recall the
fact that Omaha was fooled several
times before its railway passenger
depots materialized.
The democrats have succeeded for
years in holding onto several of tbe best
offices in Douglas county by simply fo
menting factionalism among their op
ponent. Whenever the disgruntled
Fontanelles want sympathetic aid and
comfort they can always get it in the
democratic camp.
Tbe people of Iowa will be startled by
the announcement that appear in the
latest issue of Leslie's Weekly that John
N. Baldwin ha been prominently men
tioned a United State senator from
Iowa. But a good many people who
have been prominently mentioned failed
to connect.
The statement that Japan 1 grateful
to the United State la to be accepted
'ouly when relnforciJ by action showing
that the gratltud la not for receptlou
committees only. Open doors In Man
churia and Cores will do more to prove
the gratitude than any numler of
speeches.
Census enumerators with, per capita
payments have no difficulty In finding
names on hotel register and sometime
In the grave yard. That may account
for the abnormal Increase in population
of Lincoln a computed by school cen
sus enumerators.
The Chicago suggestion that all life In
surance companies of the country be in
vestigated by the policy holders would
Indicate that some Chicago people are
never satisfied unless they are In trouble
and the teamster' strike is not entirely
settled.
The advice of W. A. Richards to old
soldier to keep away from the Uinta
reservation can be followed by other peo
ple with advantage to themselves as long
as Nebraska farming land 1 selling at
its present prices.
If the Delmar race track continues to
receive free advertising In future as it
has during the last few days the time
may come when horse races can be run
with profit from tbe gate receipts.
One Who , Soffere Both War.
Chicago Tribune.
The ending of the strike, strange to say,
throw the innocent bystander out of a
lob.
A Friendly Pointer.
Washington Post.
Colonel Bryan will please note that they
re still arresting persons for trying to
break into the White House.-
Late, as Venal.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Th price of meat has advanced 25 per
cent In Germany during the last si
months.' That country Is still rather slow.
The price went up over here two or three
years ago.
When to Start.
New Tork Tribune.
Governor La Follette says "mil other
Issues are secondary to public honesty."
Private honesty ought to find a place In
that kind of a progarm. Then public- hon
esty would follow as the night the day.
Hamber of No Avail.
St. Louis Qlobe-Democrat.
A Mississippi negro at a Baptist conven
tion declared that the negroes are in the
majority in heaven and hell. If they can
make no better use of their majority In
either place than they do In Mississippi, it
is not worth talking about.
Advertising that Pay.
Omaha Excelsior.
Mighty few business men know how to
write their own advertisements acceptably.
One of them, when he has time or takes
time, Is Drummond, the carriage man, who
ha Just secured, the Interest of the late
J. H. Evans In the firm. He wrote a
column ad In last Sunday's Bee that was
a screamer, both In wording and arrange
ment, and It has called out much comment,
even to letters from men whom he did not
know personally. He makes a bid for some
of the automobile repair work In the city,
and adds, "In fact, we like automobiles as
well as carriage except the smell of the
critter." ,"
CHANGE 1 OIK EXPORTS.
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Cnlted State a. No Longer aa Agrlcnl-
taral Nation.
.Chicago Record-Herald.
Not since 1873 has so small an amount of
wheat been exported from the United
States as during the fiscal year ended June
80 last. Since 1878 the yearly export of
wheat. Including flour a wheat, had, until
the past year, fallen below 100,000,000
bushels only twice, and then not far below
the worst year being 1889, when 88,600,740
bushels were sent abroad; while the aver
age for all these years was fully 160,000,000
bushels, and for most of them 200,000,000
bushels. But last fiscal year barely 43,
797,188 bushels went out.
Of Wheat alone, exclusive of flour, hardly
enough was exported to be worth mention
ing. The total was 4.391,061 bushels, and to
find a parallel to this we should have to
go back to the years prior to 1870. No
wheat at all was exported through th
ports of Boston or Newport New or Port
land, only 86,590 bushels through New Tork,
8,000 through Philadelphia and 116,040
through Baltimore. Nearly 4,000,000 bushels
of the entire amount of 4,391.061 went out
by way of the Pacific porta. Thus-It may
be said that the country east of the Rocky
mountains raised no wheat for export lost
year, except what little that was ground up
and sent out in the shape- of flour.
The following table shows the exports of
wheat and flour as wheat for th past four
fiscal years, and two previous years of
largest exports, together with the exports
in tne rorm of wheat and In the shape
of flour:
Wheat
and flour Wheat
Fiscal as wheat alone Flour
year. (Bushels). (Bushels). (Rarrnlsi.
1906 43,797.188 4.391,081 8.766,915
194 120,727,613 44.158.744 16.729 660
1SJ8 2.96.iit 118,464.462 19.716.4N4
li8 234.772.612 163.8W 723 17 769 303
1W2 2-JS.6fl6.812 167.2xO.Sil 15 196 7
1S81 16.321,614 150.665.477 7niR.7)i
There has been since 1881 a markQ In
crease in the milling trade for export, and
It would appear i,s though future exports
of the cereal. Insofar as they are main
tained, would more and more take tho
shape of flour.
But the flour export trade has also suf
fered badly In the past year or two, and
the question la raised in the most ac
centuated form known since the United
States became an important factor In feed
ing Western Europe whether It Is so to
continue any longer or not. According to
th Agricultural department' returns, the
wheat crop of the country last year, while
considerably smaller than for the previous
three years, was a little larger than for
the years 1900, 189 r 1897; yet in those years
wheat exports In each case ros above 200,-
000.000 bushels, while for the larger crop of
1904 less than 44,000,000 bushels are exported.
With the return of larger yields than
last year's, we may probably expect some
Improvement In th wheat export trade
but the Indications are that w have seen
our best days In this particular and that
hereafter, with tbe appreciation of farm
lands and th continued growth of popula
tion, w shall press more and more closely
upon th limits of the horn supply, and
compel th importing nations ot Europe
to look elsewhere for th needed surplus
ot breadstuff The Argentine Republic is
evidently taking th place formerly held
by this country In tbe grain trade. It has
so far this calendar year sent 71.8(4,000
Dusneis 01 wneat to curop. and it ex
ports this week amount Zttt.OuO bushels
against only 862.660 In flour ant wheat sent
out from th United States. Tt.it country
Is also becoming a considerable exporter of
corn.
It seems saf to say that th United
States, through the growing diversion of
Its energies into manufacturing and the
great Increase of population which an un
precedented Immigration I helping along,
will very soon appear as th producer of
no more breadstuff than are needed for
It own people. Th nation I no longer
predominantly agricultural and -1 moving
raylUi) iu IL nOiw direction
ITS OT WASHIMiTO GOMIF.
Some ot the Thlnaa Talked Ahont la
the Capital Paring the Summer.
An Interesting result of the Installation
of county rural free delivery service is
on exhibition In the office of the fourth as
sistant postmaster general In the form of
completed service, as shown by the de
partment map for the county of Lancas
ter. Pennsylvania. In this particular
county the conditions were particularly fa
vorable to the operation ot rural free de
livery service by reason of Its being densely
populated and well equipped with good
roads, enabling an unusually large pro
portion of the natrons to receive their
mall directly In front of their homes. The
routes as rearranged and established in
Lancaster county will conveniently
serve 11,813 families, at an annual cost of
$67,014.
The popularity of the rural service
continues unabated. Hardly a day passes
that the malls do' not bring letters of high
commendation of the effects of the estab
lishment of this or that route. Some ot
these comment on the line of fast con
versions of the rural towns Into cities,
others dwell upon th enhancement of
values because of the Increased conven
ience, while still others lay great stress
upon the educational advantages which are
being derived from the rural service.
Enjrlng the last year there have been
nearly 49,000 applications received for the
establishment of rural service. Up to the
close of the fiscal year nearly 12,000 of
these had been rejected because of the fact
that th proposed routes In the matter
of patronage, etc., fell below the standard
required. Of the 4,600 petitions pending
at the close of the fiscal year, nearly
1,000 have been assigned for establishment
while the remaining 3,500 are being ex
amined with that end In view.
On July 1 there were 32,068 rural routes
In operation, or 7,492'tnore than at a cor
responding period last year.
To facilitate a more accurate handling
of the mall by rural free delivery carrier
the Postoffice department Is arranging for
the hu.Tiberlng of all rural letter boxes
which under the regulations of the de
partment are entitled to service, and au
thorizing the delivering by rural letter
carriers of ordinary mall matter of all
classes addressed to boxes by number
alone, so long as Improper and unlawful
business Is not conducted thereby, the
samo as is now permitted In the case of
postoffice boxes. Instructions will be Is
sued to postmasters within a short time
to assign to boxes entitled to service con
secutive numbers, beglhnlng with- the first
box reached by the carrier after leaving
the postoffice and a new box erected sub
sequent to the original numbering will be
KBsignea me next consecutive number
use on the particular route.
In
If all nature's extremes In weather, the
Intensely hot wave is doubtless the most
costly. It Is doubtful If temperatures of
the last week have reached this charac
terization, but thlr tendency is In that
direction. It was estimated that the hot
wave of 1S94 cost Iowa alone $50,000,000, or
nearly double the property loss in the
Galveston disaster. This estimate w.
based upon a comparison of the average
value of the state's crop with Its re
duced value after the extreme And nrA.
traded heat had produced its blighting
effects. And this is only one form of the
financial loss of extremely hot weather.
The efficiency of the world's workers, as
well as their health and comfort is greatly
reduced.
Extremes of cold weather usually come
at a time when there is little tn loft In th.
way of crops. They have been harvested
and are protected, except such articles as
happen to . be in transit and so liable to
freeze In an extreme drop of temperature.
What the world really wants is "season
able weather," to use a phrase which la
made familiar by the crop reports. This
means the average weather of the season,
and it Is not so much that the average is
Ideally desirable aa that the public has
become accustomed to It, that makes it
the most welcome.
Crops are planted on the basis of season
able weather. An unusually cold summer,
or early frosts, or belated planting through
spring floods, put the northern rim of an
area devoted to a particular crop to a dis
advantage. Similarly, an exceptionally hot
summer upsets the calculations of those on
tne southern line of each great crop belt,
especially is this true of an unseasonably
warm spell in the spring, which starts out
vegetation earlier than the general condi
tions Justify. If is almost as destructive
as the extreme hot wave of midsummer,
Aonormauy warm weather in' the spring
does about as much damage. In the opinion
of the Agricultural department experts,
abnormally early frosts.
The difference between a cool summer,
in popular estimation, and a hot one, is
much less, the weather bureau people say,
than is generally supposed. The difference
comes in th extremes. Thirty days of a
temperature of 80 make much less impres
sion on the public than would five days of
temperature of 95, and th remaining
twenty-five days averaging enough below 8(
to bring the total down to the same figure.
But this is not the way that It usually
works. The hot summer has all the mod
erately, or ordinarily, warm days of the
cool summer, with a few mountain peaks
of exceptional temperature thrown In, ,and
it Is these that give the season its repu
tation. Th difference in long-distance
averages between any two summers is sur
prisingly small.
Although drought is generally associated
In mind with the hot wave, the two are en
tirely distinct in their operations. Most
crop affected by drought alone will
promptly revive if seasonable weather
comes in time, but if their vitality has been
destroyed by excessive heat no amount of
moisture can restore them. Corn and cot
ton are among the woret aufferers, at a
critical stage in their growth, although
both ordinarily need rather high tempera
tures.
Need of I ranee.
Chicago Tribune.
The attorney general of New Tork la to
begin auit to compel the restitution of
moneys wrongfully diverted from the pol
icy holders of the Equitable. Litigation of
that kind Is always slow and seldom sue
cessfuL The rigid supervision and minute
continuous inspection from now on of life
Insurance companies will accomplish
greater results. If the insurance laws of
the state of New Tork sre defective In any
nartlrular they should be amended. It Is
reported that amendments are necessary
and will be prepared. But laws are ot
little value unless there are men who will
enforce them. The Insurance department
of New York, with tbe laws as they are,
ought 'o be able to put a stop to most ot
the methods of diahonest management
whose existence has been revealed by the
Equitable disclosures.
Eyes oa Klif. Cora.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
The corn crop haa In two week male
amazing progress, ao that In spit ot 'ha
late start It Is up to the normal growth.
The warm weather has been favorable to
Its growth and a tremendous output is now
predicted, since there Is llttl danger that
frost will come while the corn la tn the
milk, and so far there have been few com
Dlalnta of drouth. On the whole the farmer
aeenia to be In an unusually good posltloa,
PERSONAL SOTFS.
Joseph Letter, the Chicago millionaire,
has established a new department at
Ewlng college. Ewing, 111. that of do
mestic si-lence.
Paul Heyse Is accredited with being on
of the most famous living German novel
ists, who Is almost as well known In Amer
ica as in 4.h fatherland. -
Princes Augusta, dowager grand duchess
of Mecklenburg-Strelltt, I th oldest mem
ber of the royal family and waa born In
182 She Is a sister of the lata duke of
Cambridge.
Rev. John Sharp, superintendent of th
Lotidon Bible society's publication work,
which embrace 390 language and dia
lects. Is to receive a presentation on his
twenty-five years' service shortly.
King Leopold of Belgium employes as
chauffeur one Marcel, who Is a pronounced
anarchist. He has been warned against
the man by the police of France, Germany
and Belgium, but pays no heed to their
counsel.
Leonid Andreyev Is a new Russian au
thor whose work Is taking Its place along
side of Gorky In popularity. He was born
In 1871 and his literary career did not begin
until seven years ago, after his failure aa
a lawyer.
Mine. Georgette Leblanc-Maeterllnck,
wife of the famous author, has been giv
ing series of "dramatic, musical and
literary causerles" In London, which
have become quit a vogue among th
smart people.
Prof. J. Volney Lewis f Rutgers col
lege will devote the summer to a special
Investigation of the petrography of the
Newark traps of New Jersey and their
associated copper ore for the state geo
logical survey.
James Van Aim, the expatriated Ameri
can, Is said to hav exhibited ms love ior
lavish expenditure of money by buying
forty .hats for some of his women friends
at the recent opening of Countess Fabri-
cottl'a millinery shop In London.
Mrs. Hugh Fraser, sister of Marlon
Crawford and niece of Julia Ward Howe,
has sailed for Japan In order that she may
assist the work of the Red Cross at Toklo,
of which society she Is a member. Under
Princess Tonln she will give her services
In the hospitals and It may be go to th
front If the necessity exists.
Mme. Pallle, the accomplished Trench
mute, who has done so much in Franc
for those afflicted like herself, has been In
vestigating the sign language of th Crow
Indians In the southwest. She was amased
at the facility with which she could con
verse by signs with the Indians, their Inter
communication being comprehended a
easily as spoken language.
Anthony Hope, th British novelist and
playwright, was educated for the law, but
says himself In his droll way that he failed
to make a living at his profession and had
to turn to writing In self-defense. He de
clares that In all his Ufa of forty-two
years there h t not come one Incident that
Is worth telling he has Just lived "the
average life of an English gentleman."
Randall Morgan, the Philadelphia finan
cial magnate, has sailed with his family on
his yacht Waturus on a cruise that prob
ably will extend to European waters. The
vessel Is In command of his daughter, Miss
Jane Morgan, who last fall went before
the inspectors of navigation and after a
severe examination was awarded a master
mariner's certificate. She Intends to take
all observations at sea and will attend to
all the workings of the vessel. Just like a
renl sallorman. The yacht is 210 feet long,
27 feet beam and draws 15 feet of water.
When First Assistant Postmaster, Gen
eral Hitchcock began th discharge of hi
duties he found that order for the pur
chase of supplies were being approved In
the most perfunctory manner. He decided
to put an end to such slipshod methods and
with that end In view decided not to sign
any letter until he had read It contents.
As he receives sevr I hundred dally ha
soon found that tn order to carry out his
plan he would have to work about twenty
hour a day, so ha was forced to give it
up.
Indicated by Whls Cart.
, Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Bradstreet' have been making an Invest
igation as to the growth of the automobile
Industry In the United States. In 1904 about
17,500 machine were constructed, valued at
322,000,000. The total output of motor ve
hicles of all kinds in 1900 was valued at
less than $5,000,000. This authority says that
the greatest activity the Industry ha ever
known here was In the first half of the
present year. For the fiscal year ending
June 31, 1905, 26.601 machines were manu
factured, valued at $34,850,000. Ohio lead In
the Industry, with Michigan, Connecticut,
New Tork, Wisconsin, Massachusetts and
Pennsylvania following In the order named.
The growth of the domestic manufacture
of the vehicles has been accompanied by
large Imports of machine of foreign make,
which is accepted by Bradstreet' a proof
of "the high measure of general prosperity
In the country."
I.eaaoa of the Strike.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The strikers hav again learned the old
lesson that disreputable leadership can end
only In disaster and the public has again
been reminded that only men should be
elected to publlo office who are able to see
their duty and brave enough to do It, The
now closed tragic chapter serves to empha
size once more the fact, which not one
Incident In th history of Industrial strug
gle contradicts that a resort to violence
means a weak cause which sooner or later
becomes a lost cause. No strike yet has
been won by tbe means adopted In Chicago.
Want to
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new medicines on the market.
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WHY DOGS C6 "M4D."
Heat, Thirst and Peraereflnn Rather
Than Rahlea the tans.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Naturally more dogs than usual hav
t.t-tn shot during the recent hot "spell."
and the usual, talk, about mad dogs nl
hydrophobia Is Just now Wing heard. Po
licemen who hear the cry of "mad dog"
on their beats well kaow thnt the wretch.!
animals are generally the victims of man's
cruelty or neglect and are suffering th
torments of thirst. A bullet IS the speediest
and often the only practicable way of
putting such an animal out of misery,
though a bucket of water in most esses
would prove more effective and merciful.
Doubtless few In this city ever saw a dog
afflicted with rabies or a genuine case of
hydrophobia In a human being. The hydre
probla myth has been pretty thoroughly ex
ploded by physicians who hav made It
their business to Investigate the subject,
but Its tenacity of life Is amazing. Hydro
phobia Is something that every one tnlka
about and practically nobody ever . aaw
though that there is such a disease few
will deny. The mad dogs seen on the
streets are In nine cases out of ten ani
mals that hav been made "mad" by heat
and thirst, or by other torments suffered
at the hands of men. Dogs that run loose
are often a nuisance and frequently a dan
ger, but the risk Incurred by people who
encounter them. Is not that of hydrophobia;
and even when the disease does develop
In a person bitten by a "mad" dog eucft
a one Is more often than otherwise the
victim of his own Imagination.
SIMMER DAY SMILF.il.
Mr. Corrlgan How much ,d' yes charg
fcr pullln' teet'T
entist with gas, one dollar.
Mr. Corrlgan An' how much wld
lolght7-Puck.
electric
"Yes, my husband Is credited with hav
ing a great deal of ingenuity." said Mrs
Newrlnh to her rural visitor.
"What an awful attllctton," responded
the visitor. "If I were yuu I'd try some
good liniment and castor oil. It's bound
to cure 'em every time." Milwaukee
Sentinel.
"Now, Tommy, remember," Tommv'
mother cautioned him. "You know where
bad little boys go "
"Tes," interrupted Tommy, who had been
told he must stay at home, "they go flshln'
an swlmmln an' have a gen'al good time."
Philadelphia Press.
A fellow who doted on liquor.
To drink with more haste made a dlquor;
So a funnel he bought,
And it was as he thought,
He could drink his llouor much oulfluor.
Chicago Chronicle.
"The schoolhouse burned
night. Johnny."
during the
"Just my luck! It wouldn't
vacation." Houston Post.
burn till
"I am so sorry for that blind beggar
there."
"Pshaw! Probably he has thousands of
dollars laid away. Many of them have."
"Maybe so; but think of being blind on
Canal street on a wet muddy day!" New
Orleans Times-Democrat.
"You seem to like hi attentions. Why
don't you marry htmT"
"Because I like, hi attentions." Town
and Country. '
Jasnar Many a wise word Is spoken la
jumpuppe res, our. iney can 1 compare
with the number of foolish ones that ar
spoken In earnest Life.
Mr. Woolllmon "Loogy yuh, now! Dl
In't right! De whole country, fum d
Atlantlo to de Specific, and fum Alphabet
to Omaha, am full o' niggers dey am a
right dlgnattous presentiment of de entiah
popularity, de niggers is! Well, and ylt,
sah, out o' all de states In de union dar
ain't a single contaminated one of 'em
named after a cullud man! Dat's scrimlna-
tlon, sah; sho s yo bawn It Is!
Mr. Slewfoot ''Humph! No state named
after a cullud man? What' de matlah
wld Washington uh?" Puck.
'Isn't Hussel going to take a vacation
this summer?" . . : ..,-..., .t fi
"No."
"Why, he took on last summer."
Yes, out ne was on a aaiary iwn. ne
a member of th firm now." Philadelphia
Press.
1 Tommy "Pop, what I meant by th
price of liberty?"
Tommy' Pop "Oh, I suppose it has
something to do with a tax on bachelor."
Philadelphia Record.
"If unfortunate," said Unci Eben. "dat
a man don' feel a much like swellln' up
an' gettln' proud over a good day' work
a he does over wlnnln' a bet on de races. '
Washington Star.
THE WHEELMAN.
(Minna Irving in Leslie's Weekly.)
When th apple trees are pink with bloonv
And the dogwood boughs ar white.
Anil everv little budding leaf
With dew Is fresh and bright.
And hooded violets through th
Begin to shyly steal.
Then I am up at early dawn.
And off upon my wheel.
A sprig of violet In my cap,
A song upon my lip,
I see the ribbon of tne road
Beneath me smoothly slip.
There's health in every balmy breeze.
And, oh! what Joy to feel
The steed beneath you never tires.
When riding on a wheel.
Not always do I spin alone
By fields and gardens gay.
One morning fair I chanced to meet
A dainty form In gray.
The lightness of a merry heart
Her dancing eyes reveal,
She wears a silken streamer blue, ,
A-flutter from her wheel.
We stop beside a mossy rock,
Where flows a crystal spring.
The hollow of her rosy hand
Is goblet for a king.
We rest upon a ferny basuSj
And share a simple meal.
With appetites that only com
To those who rid a wheel.
When purple grapes perfume the air,
- And corn is In the shock.
And starry nights are still and cold,
And birds begin to flock.
And autumn gilds the smoky hills,
The wedding bells will peal,
And tandem we will ride through life
When out upon a wheel.
tni an experiment ?
one of the hundreds of
come, they go, and are
soon forgotten.
Or want to be cured?
Then take a medicine that
has been tested and tried,
generation after genera
tion. A medicine that has
been a household remedy
for sixty ysars. Ayer's
Sarsaparilla.
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