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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1903." The Omaha Daily Bee. E ROSE WATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERT MORNINO. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. DIIr Bee (without rtunduy). one year. 14 "0 lally Bee and Humlay. one year llumriiM Hf. one year I M ftuoJay Bee, oim rfr I W Saturday B, on year 1 ' fwentleth Onturt Farmer, one year.. 1 00 DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Dally Bee (without Funday), per rory.. tc Dally He (without Bundayi. er week. .12c Dally Ree (Including Sunday, per week.. lie Evening B (without Sunday), pel week "o Evening Be (Including Sunday), per week l?c Sunday Bee, per ropy 6 Complaints f Irregularities In delivery thoiild be addressed to City Circulation De partment. OFFICES. Omaha The. Bee Building. Pouth Omaha City Hall Building, Twenty-fifth and M atreeta. Council BlufTa 10 Pearl street. Chlcago1640 fnlly Building. Naw York 1S00 Homi Life Insurance Bulldlnc Washington Wl Fourteenth street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to newa and edi torial matter should e addreaaed: Omaha Be, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable t.t The Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-cent stamps received In payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges not accepted. . THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas county, as : C C. Roaewater. secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, aaya that tie actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Bunday Bee printed during the month of July, 1, waa aa follows: 1 S1.810 17 SS.480 l ro.aoo h sm.omo I 2n.Mto it zft,fiio 4 aO.lOO Xrt.lUO I S,TnO II V,3UO I.... a),SAO 22 Itlt.OTO 7 2,HKO 2t 28.500 1 80,000 U 2M.0T0 1 8MBO a BIS.1TO 10 SS.800 24 Sft.lOO II 1IS.840 27 HS.130 12 8.,UOO 2t 2,10 13 8A.IflO i 8O.40O 14 8A.710 SO aa.aaw It 3CU,MM U 87,010 U 8M.1AW Totals HB8,8:iO Leas unsold copies UtiB Net total sales. i 88,4 in Dally avers gs 88,400 C. C. ROSE WATER, Secretary. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this flist day of July, 1906. (Seal) M. II. H UNGATE, Notary Public. WIIKM OIT OF TOWS, Sabacrlbers lea viae the city tem porarily shoald have The Bee Mailed te them. It la better them at daily letter front home. Ad dresa will bo changed aa oftea aa reejoested. South America con now reoccupy the martial stage with, its election cam paigns. According to reliable crop forecasters, Nebraska's potato crop will also be a hummer. Tb "HlUtleu 1'ortune" Laving proved true to name, stockholders may try to Uncover just wtio bid it. When Fartluii) street puts on its new tapbalt coat its oldest friend will have to b reintroduced to it.,j . t . Old Sol ought really to be more ac commodating In the timing of his eclipses if be is anxious to draw a full bonne. If Omaha Is to be In ou the big Job printer' strike that Is now brewing at Chicago, the sooner we know it the better. Should Uncle 8am feel the need of a roat of arms be could appropriately as turn the dove of peace coucbant upon the "big stick." What fuu Secretary rUinw and (Jov ernor Cummins could have if each were only editors of rival newspapers printed tn the same town. Considering the stretiuoslty of his vacation, one can understand why the president decided not to call an extra session of congress. For some reason or other the cam paigns in Virginia and Ohio this year fall to attract the attention of either the politicians or the betting public. The city authorities of Council Bluffs sra moving for an ordinance to regulate utomobiles In tbe city across the river. Our new automobile club will have to branch out. Tbe "official" proceedings of the con ference will be made public in duo course, but It Is to be hoped none of the plenipotentiaries will undertake to write mags tine articles. ' . Governor Mickey bas returned from Portland and resumed supervision of tbe Itate house. Demo-pop papers, whose cfelFf stock In trade consists In berating the governor, will take notice. . Representative Bartholdt's proposal of a International congress to consist of two bouses would Indicate that the ten sion between tbe two ends of tbe capttol U ot as strained as waa Imagined. - The problem of aerial navigation does bot seem to be so much to get into the air as to stay there, and so far the pen alty for a mistake Is too severe to make the experiment specially attractive. "Gush and grind" may have a differ ent meaning to Chancellor Andrews, but to somo Omaha school teachers it will recall mainly memories of watch preaen' rations and close attention to bookkeep ing. After Mr. Calhoun bas examined the Venezuelan court records in the asphalt case, be might learn something to his advantage by looking over similar cases In some of the courts of tbe United States. Judging from Japanese newspaper comment tbe mikado may find an In teresting "Internal situation" when the saaco terms become known, but It is probable that those comments are such M the American pqblic long have knpwn. 77i It ACE AQKttMtST. Teace at last. Teace wlh honor Rus sia cnu say. For Japan a peace that means greatly augmented power, In creased prestige and security for the future. It Is a result which the civilized world engcrly hoptfl for and will wel come with profound satisfaction and gratification. A treaty Is yet to be frsnied and ratified by the two trorern nients and there need be no apprehen sion that any Issue or compllcstlon will arise to Interfere with this. There will be no more fighting between the vast armies that confront each other In Man churia, both of which by the terms of the agreement tnust evacuate that terri tory as soon as practicable. Japan Is stronger in the respect of the world for having preferred peace to Indemnity. Justifiable as was her de mand for reimbursement of the cost of the war, it was the part of wisdom to relinquish It rather than to continue hos tilities. She bad gained all and more for which she went to war. Russian power in the far east has teen so broken and shat tered that It can scarcely be recovered In half a century, If It be possible ever to do so. The military prestige of Rus sia has been greatly damaged If not de stroyed. The fear which she inspired In other nations no longer exists, not even in Turkey, and for a long time she will have no more Influence In world affairs than any of the smaller nations and none at all In Asiatic affairs. Beaten and humiliated by n power which she regarded with contempt and believed she could conquer with little effort, Russia's dream of dominion In 'Asia has vanished and all the hundreds of millions ex pended In the effort to realize her ambi tion are lost to her. Japan has nothing more to four from Russian intrigue, duplicity and rapacity In the orient, For whatever Russia seeks or desires In that quarter of the world hereafter she must consult the nation whose victory over her gives It the dominating power and Influence In Asiatic affairs. Having ac complished this and thns placed herself In a position that assures her future se curity, at least so far as Russia Is con cerned, Japan could well afford to drop the claim of Indemnity, rightful though It unquestionably was. t'nder the peace agreement China will have restored to her the territory which Russia practically wrested from her, after having deprived Japon of It as the price of conquest. The preponderance of Japanese Influence In Cores will be recognized, which means that the penln suln will be wholly dominated by Japan and developed for her benefit. The Chinese empire will be relieved of the danger of foreign aggression and Its territorial integrity made more secure. Japan Is pledged to the open door to trade and It Is not to be doubted that after peace her Influence with China will be exerted in behalf of this principle. The dlplomotlc battle being over, It Is to be said that so far as the envoys are concerned the honors are even, pres ident Roosevelt Js reported to have ex pressed great satisfaction with 'the re sult, to the attainment of which he con tributed more than any other external Influence. It Is not too much to say that but for his timely interposition and Ju dicious proposals tbe conference would doubtless have ended In failure. A WORLt) PARLIAMENT- The proposition of the American dele gates to the interparliamentary congress at Brussels for the establishment of an International parliament met with unex pected opposition and was referred to a couimltte composed of specialists from the parliaments of the various nations. It appears from the report that the prop osition waa regarded by some of the del egates from European countries as be ing somewhat radical, one of them re marking that "Europe was not suffi ciently advanced to accept the American plan without careful consideration." The probability is that the committee of specialists who will consider the prop osition will not report in its favor, fpr the reason that the European govern ments are not yet ready to enter into a plan for submitting questions affecting their foreign Interests to a permanent world parliament whose decisions as to matters submitted to It should be final. Several of those governments have en tered into treaties for the arbitration of differences of a certain character, but tbe American plan contemplates some thing far more comprehensive than this in International parliament to which the nations would agree to submit prac tically all disputes and differences and abide by the verdict of the parliament The time may come when such a body will be established, but it is remote. Tbe educational work in that direction, how ever, Is certainly making progress. THE I'REKWEUrS ATTITUDE. There U apparently a tendency in some quarters to doubt whether Presi dent Roosevelt Is as earnest now as for merly in his attitude regarding railroad rate regulation. Au eastern paper re marks that recent utterances of the pres ident Beem to show that his attitude ou railway matters has been substantially modified since the adjournment of con gress and says: "Whereas, at the last session, he called loudly If somewhat ambiguously, for positive legislation on this subject, and was well pleased with the bill passed by the house, he now asks vaguely for an act that will merely correct railway abuses." We are not aware of any recent utter ance by Mr. Roosevelt that would Jus tify tbe opinion that he has substantially modified bis attitude in regard to rail road rate regulation. In his Chautauqua address, about three weeks ago he said: "I do not believe In taking steps hastily or rashly, and It may be that all that Is necessary In tbe Immediate future is to pass a p. interstate commerce bill confer ring upon some branch of the executive government the power of effective ac tion to remedy tbe abuses in connection with railway transportation," One of the abuser constantly complained of Is unreasonable rates and undoubtedly the president hsd this In mind when be de livered, what Is quoted above. If the eastern paper predicated Its opinion upon that the Inference is erroneous. It Is entirely safe to sny thst Mr. Roosevelt hns not changed or molli fied . his position respecting railway rate regulation and that this will be shown when he next addresses congress. Ills attitnde tn this matter wss taken as the result of careful consideration and It will be firmly and consistently ad hered to. a TRAXsmssissim cob. exhibit A letter printed in the Kansas City Star, a copy of whjch has been ad dressed to The Bee, offers the sugges tion that in view f the magnificent corn crop in tbe states west of the Mis sissippi river a com exhibit and con test be held some time during the com ing winter. The Idea, as outlined by the author, Thomas I). Hubbard, is that various premiums should be offered for the corn which would test best according to dif ferent standards. He would bare, for exanjple, a large prize for the fifty ears of corn which excelled in the amount of shelled corn they turn out, and an other for the corn which produces the largest weight of shelled corn per acre, and possibly other awards for different' styles and shapes of corn, which the corn breeding specialists are now pro ducing. He expresses the opinion that of all years "this Is the year for us to make a showdown, as there has never been a corn year excelling this year west of the Mississippi." Mr. Hubbard, being in business at Kimball, Kan., with branch offices at Erie, Kan., and at Kansas City, couples his proposition as a matter of course, with tbe assumption that the proper place, If not the only place, to corry out such a transmlsslssippl corn ex hibit, Is Kansas City. We submit, how ever, that if there is any merit In the plan. It would be greatly enhanced by fixing upon a location In the center of the corn belt, and that the natural cen ter of the .transmlsslssippl com belt Is right here In Omaha. Omaha Is Just as well equipped, furthermore, as Is Kansas City to provide for such on ex hibition, Omaha's Auditorium being even better adapted for such purposes than Kansas City's convention hall, and decidedly more accessible to the corn growers of the section. The old com palace of a few years ago has nnques-' tionably been outgrown, but with ef fective organization and the necessary support of the agricultural societies of the different states an Interstate corn congress along the lines proposed might be successfully worked up. Report of a special examination In stituted by the state insurance depart ment Into one of the fraternal Insurance associations organized in Nebraska shows that the claims paid for death and disability during the period under consideration amounted to some $316, 000, white expenses of management ag; gregated $190,000. The examiner may he Justified in his conclusion that he has discovered no evidence of any spe cific terms of extravagance or anything lu the financial management of the com pany which calls for criticism. But ad mitting all that the question Is whether some better system of fraternal Insur ance cannot be devised than one which eats up $2 for expenses for every $3 paid back to beneficiaries. The contractors who have engaged to furnish Omaha with its voting machines give assurance that the machines will be delivered In time to be set up and used for insruction purposes when voters presept themselves to be registered in advance of the election. It devolves upon the moyor and council, then, to make the necessary provision for open ing a voting machine kindergarten in every polling place, so that no one shall lose bis vote this fall through the Ignor ance of how to record it by pushing the proper button. States rights should not be made an excuse for personal wrongs and Louis iana health officials would confer a favor upon their state, as well as upon the na tion at large by retiring from business until the federal hospital corps can stop the fever. Political contention Is puerile in the face of an epidemic, such as the yellow fever seems to be rapidly be coming. A new victim will have to be found to stand for tbe test of tbe inheritance tax law. It is still inexplicable why tills law should be questioned by a county judge, putting the burden of prosecuting the claim upon the taxpayers instead of upon the heirs who are trying to evade the payment. Drawing; the Uae. New Tork Bun. The entire nation cherishes the respect ful but ardent hope that It valued chief magistrate will consent to draw the line short of the airship. Frwltless Babjects. Brooklyn Eagle.. People taint themselves for money, but the money Isn't tainted. Even If It were. It would take off the taint to apply It to a good purpose. Let's talk about the weather. Advaatages of Seeoad Place. Pittsburg TJIspatoh. ' Vice President Fairbanks has bfen hav ing all sorts of a good time during Ma vacation, while the president has been spending his days looking after affairs of state. There are soma advantages con nected with second place. Ktatscky Patriotism lea. Chicago Tribune. It la not creditable to the people of Ken tucky or of the nation that they permit the birthplace of Lincoln to be hawked about as they would a wornout piece of ground with which there were connected no histor ical or patrlotle associations. The land with the expenditure of a comparatively small sum of money, could be bought and turned Into a picturesque and beautiful park. There la no doubt that If this were done the park would be visited by many every year, both foreigners and Americana, for Intetest In the life of the great man who wss raised from a humble station to guide tbe dent in tea of the nation at the supreme crisis of Its etletence grows greater and more widespread as the magni tude of what he did becomes better and more generally appreciated. To eh In the Bottom of Thlacs. Baltimore Amerlran. It Is no surprise for the Amerlran publlo to learn that the president went down to the bottom of Oyster, Bay In the Plunger. He Is accustomed to going to the bottom of things. This Is one reason why that same public has put blm at the top of them. Horn, How Coald Yoal Boston Transcript. Governor Hooh. perfidious to his name but true to his principles, has at last christened the Kansas, and with a bottle, of water drawn from the "John Brown spring" In IJnn county. Bui, alas, there are those who say that John Brown, never had a spring In Linn county, and others who feel that, even If he had, his open spirit would hardly approve the genial coup by which the governor produced his water bottle at the very last moment. Amerlran larasloa of Canada. World s Work. Now the American Immigration question In Canada has reached a climax. It takes only three years for an Immigrant to earn a vote In Canada, and 7f,000 former Amer ican voters will soon come Into their Can adian suffrage. There are In round num bers 10,000 males more than 18 years of age In western Canada who formerly lived In the United States, 150,000 of whom are old enough to vote. There are now between 760.000 and S00.O0O settlers, with a possible voting population of ItO.OnO, a high per centage, because many cattlemen without families are emigrating from Montana and Wyoming. By the end of 1905 the Ameri can vote In the Canadian west will be overwhelming. In eastern Canada thousands of people believe that this Invasion means the ulti mate annexation of western Canada by the Vnlted States. It Is called "the com ing nation." noosEVEi.T's "sronnxa blood." Ilia Trip In tbe Plungrer to "tbe Bottom of the Sen. Philadelphia Press. It does not take m,uch argument to show that a president of the Vnlted States has no business to go down to the nether seas in a submarine. It Is not his Job. His life Is valuable. He risks It for nothing and a sensation. If the "Plunger" with a president Inside of It had stayed down, as have three sub marines In a year, all the world would have been the poorer. Value would have been shaken on nearly every market. Peace would have been more distant In the far east. War more certain. No one could have found excuse or apology for Theodore Boosevelt If his trip to the bottom of Long Island Bound had had no return ticket. But all the same, nobody with an ounce of red blood In his velna but was glad that the president did It. It Is, doubtless, Il logical, Irrational and perverse; but we all feel that way. After all, "sporting blood" Is worth having. The men who lack It lack the best part of a man's life, and many women will be quick to add: "Of a woman's life, too." Theodore Roosevelt la where he Is and does what he does because he Is chock full of "sporting blood." He takes risks. He makes precedents. He does not hesi tate to "butt In." The submarine trips which he has been taking for a week by way of cable messages to Toklo and St. Petersburg Are, ' Iti their way. more risky for the. "President of the Vnlted States" and fraught 'wtth -as many perils as the hodlly trip of. "Theodore Roosevelt" in a submarine; but both were worth doing, and the same qualities led to both. Civilization exists by sporting blood. In our comfortable, ordered and padded Uvea men go stale before their years. They cease to take physical risks. IJfe becomes tamed and fray for them. It Is a good thing to be reminded or tne worth of risk for risk's sake. The man leads but a parched and dry life who by sea or land In some one of the outer world's manifold ways does not now and then take the dally dare nature gives and enjoy a sheer and perilous risk for the happy sense of having done It. A president who does this puts a llttlo red blood Into a dull gray world. He heartens all. In the navy or out of It, whose dally duty Is risk, and to all the youth of the land In those precious years when risk and peril are the heaven of life, he has given a new sense and ex ample of the value of "sporting blood." PHILOSOPHY OF KICKING. A Very Vsefal Hnman Trait When Intelligently Applied. Chicago Chronicle. Civilisation Is the work of the kicker. There can not be too much Intelligent and honest kicking. The kicker Is the motive power of progress. If It had not been for him humanity .would still be living In caves, wearing skins and going out with a stone hatchet to kill something for din er. The world never has received an Im petus from the man who la satisfied with things as they are. A Chicago philoso pher waa once so profoundly Impressed with this truth that he declared that every man who reaches the age of 4fi should be taken out and executed because, as he al leged, men of that age become satisfied with the atatus quo and thus act as a clog upon the wheels of progress. v This, of course. Is an extreme view of the matter, but the principle which It em bodies Is correct. Kicking la another name tor dissatisfaction with existing abuses either active or passive and kicking la consequently the agent of reform and progress. Coming from generalities to particulars. It Is absolutely true that the American people suffer because they are averse to kicking. When the Englishman Is bull dosed by a policeman, robbed by a cabman or overcharged In a restaurant he kicks vigorously, manfully, successfully. The result IS thst the Englishman, living Un der 'an "effete despotism," Is emancipated from a thousand petty impositions. Im pertinences and downright steals to which the cltlsen of this enlightened republic submits with, bitterness In .his htyirt but no energy In hla legs. He confounds kick ing with "squealing," which is a very dif ferent thing. There Is nothing weak or unmanly In standing up for one's rights. There are, however, encouraging symp toms of the rise of a kicking movement. More people kick against traditional Im positions than ever before. There are kicks against the "tip," against official In solence and against the various forms of common injustice and roguery. The American c It lien is awakening to the power of the kick Judiciously employed. When he becomes fully aware of It there will be an Improvement In a whole lot of things which are now paaatvely accepted as necessary and irremediable nuisances and Impositions. The only phass of kicking which Is not commendable la that which la furnished by the political demagogues who Imagine that, a kick la a good enough platform to run for office on. The professional kicker Is a nuisance. Kicking la desirable at the right time and In the right place. The people who kick all of the time lack discrimination and. therefore, have ljttle Influence. AMOXQ THR PE ICE MAKERS. Dnratloa aad Probable Cost of tbe War Kovr (Inline, After two weeks of diplomatic maneuver ing, the envoys of Russia and Japan appar ently have warned a satisfactory agree ment on the principal terms of peace. It Is In order therefore to count the cost of the wat and foot up gains and losses. The war began February 8. 1904, a total of 572 days to date. Eegmntes of the financial cost of the war vary greatly and are mostly guesswork. Assuming the cost to average II. 500.000 a day. the cost In money to Rus sia would be IX43.000.0Oft. Some calculators place the cost at 11.175,000,000. The first calculation la based on the fact that the Russian war loans amount to 1770,000.000. The financial cost to Japan was much less, not exceeding 11,000,000 a day, or a total of 57J,flO,0OO. Japan's war loans total W0, 000,000. The loss to Russia In killed, wound ed and missing In both army and navy la placed In round numbers at 400,000. Japnn's losses are estimated at 170.000. Russia lost 62 warships of varied grades, estimated to have cost iro,ooo,oiio. Japan lost nine ships valued at lltS.OOO.OOO. Japan won every battle fought on land and sea, destroyed the Russian navy tn the Pacific, and drove the Russian army out of Manchuria. Every point for which Japan contended was won from Russia by force of arms and the empire raised from a fifth rate to a world power of the first magnitude. M. Pokotllnff, tho giant minister to Pe king, has met the American laundry at Portsmouth, and It Is his'n. We have a most charmingly Irresponsible laundry up here. When you send out any clothes you make out two lists, one for the hotel and one for yourself. You add your name, date of birth, mother's maiden name, color of your eyes and hair, staU of weather and general remarks. The negro bellboy carries It Awav. A few werka later, atrolllnsr In the basement, you see a familiar bosom; It Is your shirt, all your shirts, still there. Pokotiloff wears starched white coats In the morning. Last washday he sent four of them to the laundry. The washing came back, but not the coats. He kicked at tho desk. The clerk sent out a tracer. No result. Fokotlloff. Inspired by an Am erican, offered the bellboy cents for every one of the coats which he, the bellboy, dug up. And now," said M. Pokotiloff, "I have re covered seven white coats, all fitting me perfectly." They had a dance at Fort Constitution the other night for the enlisted men. It waa largely attended by tho help at Went worth. Some chambermaids, through an Interpreter, Invited Lin, M. Pokotlloffs Chinese aervant. Lin accepted on the spot. He wore for the occasion his moat gorge- ouse mauve robe. T In never ha been tailffht to Willi, but that fact did not discourage lilm. When the first dance started he walked over to his favorite chambermaid, and, as he saw the soldiers doing, hugged her tight to his mauve robe and hit up his gait. It wasn't exactly a waits. Neither waa It a two-step. It was described as a four-step with five Btep Interludes. Now and then Lin would cast one of his felt shoes. Then he would stop, carve out a free space In the midst of the dancers, resume his shoe, and re join the giddy whirl. Lin was the hit of the evening. A lltle debate In the palm garden Satur day set us to talking and thinking seri ously of the affair at which we are assist ing here, relates the New Yor Sun corres pondent It is hard to remember that the harMln ( for treasure so bin as to b past imagination, for the future of nations, that upon Its Issue hangs the possibility or 100 000 traeedlea in the paper houses of Nippon or the huts of Muscovy. And we fell to marveling at the contrast between the game and Its field. At Toklo, at St. Petershurar and at the Hotel Wentworth, In Newcastle, N. H., they are threshing out the question of peace. At Kt. Petersburg the cxar and his grana dukes hold counsel in a palace of a hun dred tragedies. They move through dark and splendid corridors, where life guard and Cossack salute as they pass. They meet In chamber of state with all the formality of empires. Before the palace ten regiments keep guard against an un quiet people. In Toklo the mikado confers with the elder statesmen In the Chyoda palace, the ancient castle of Tokugowa the shogun. It Is set in an oriental garden like that which borders the pleasure dome or Kuoia Vhmr The elder statesmen pass into tne far chambers of the palace, where none. of Inferior rank may pass; beyond are the sacred habitations or the emperor nim self. wherein none but princes enter. Regi ments guard this palace, too; splendor In the east, with military display in the west. ir.u n vw, ti. v TT . In a wooden built hv a nlaln Yankee cltlsen for . ...nrr, ranrt four men In frock coats representing a big slice of the brains of the Japanese and Russian governments, are meeting In the office of the general stores building, living amongst lumimr -1,1. tonnla men. retting tneir warn ing mixed with shirts, collars and lingerie of a family In the wholesale grocery busi ness st Portland. Me. and having their dress waistcoats mixed with those or rius burg people in the steel business. , In the Immediate background are lm hrldire whist tournaments. and all the floss, frivolity, and flirtation of a summer hotel. In the less Immediate v..-v-,,n .re two nualnt. sleepy, friendly New England towns. For pomp and parade there are nve marines wno u vy m to the Klttery navy yard. When the cor poral In command sees the automobiles of the envoys coming he cans to nis men, ii n vnn and the marines fall to In a ie h chauffeur Isn't too fast for them. There are also six secret service men t- hata an automobile burkboara, one man In white flannels and yachting cap, who represents the majesty or ine department, who goes ahead to make the arrangements. If these are not contrasts, the back stairs conferers won't take a cent. Unus Coppers His Prophecy. Chicago Chronicle. Mr. Lawson of Boston Issued a pronun. clamento the other day declaring that copper, the metal, would sustain an im mediate slump In price and that Copper, the Amalgamated, would forthwith de scend the 6tock exchange toboggan with great speed. Thereupon, copper, the metal, advanced cent per pound, and Copper the Amalgmated. shot up In the quota tions. The cognoscenti of Wall street now figures out that Mr. Lawson Is a fool, but the Inference Is not necessarily Justified. Being a copper expert. It Is altogether likely that he "coppers" his own predic tions. The results would thus be satisfac tory and profitable. Par Geataa Moaatlu Hlah. San Francisco Chronicle. A novelist la credited with a suggestion and patent, the uae of which will enable those on a submarine boat to spy out what la doing on the surface of the water while they are moving beneath the waves. It la said that he Is to receive 150.000 for his Idea. Shakespeare, who hinted at the pos sibility of the cable when he made Puck declare that he would put a girdle about the earth In forty minutes, hardly received pay for hla manuscript, and a continuous effort la being made to rob him of ths credit of the pltus which bear his name. Vm about his liver. There is where all lis trouble lies. A sluggish liver mikes sluggish mind. A boy cannot study en his blood is full of bile ! U A; yer's Pills act directly on the liver. They are all vegetable, sugar-coated. Dose, just one pill at bedtime. Sold for 60 years. Always keep a box of these pills in the house. Blade by - nlww JkIIUarnr D ittdio naro wwmoWa fcaf AVER'S BASSAPARIIXA-Vet the blood. PERSONAL 1VOTKS. Br the will of Mrs. Julia E. Hackley, widow of the 1st millionaire philanthropist of Muskegon, Mich., that city gets 1300,000 as an endowment to be known as the Julia B. Hackley memorial fund for the poor. The shah Of Persia has his own Ideas of fun. At Ostend the other day he cut the String that held 100 toy balloons a woman was offering for sale. Having laughed heartily at her distress aa the ballnns rose lito the air, the shah paid her for them. Wliyam Dutcher, president of the Na tional Association of Audubon societies, announces that he has received a check for 1100,000 from a well known man of the financial world, the money to be used In furthering the objects of the organisation. Oreen McCurtaln, governor of the Choc taw nation, will take his place among the millionaires ere long. He settled up the affairs of the tribe recently, involving the sale of coal lands worth 140,000.000. Of this purchase price Governor McCurtaln will receive 10 per cent as commission, or 14.000.000. Mr. Edison has but one speech to his credit. He was to lecture on electricity be fore a girls' seminary and was to be as alsted by a friend named Adams to work the apparatus. He was so dated when he arose that he simply said: "ladles, Mr. Adams will now address you on electricity and I will demonstrate what he has to say with the apparatus." Boston is somewhat ahead of Washington in furnishing the sultan of Sulu with a desire to possess an American girl for a wife. Marie Sweet, daughter of Colonel Owen Jay Sweet, V. 8. A., who subdued the Moros In the sultan's territory, Is the one first coveted as a bride. Miss Sweet, who Is now Mrs. Will'am H. Baker of Boston, is the proud possessor of some rarely beautiful pearls sent by the sultan in 1890 at the time he sought her in mar riage. ORIGINATOR OF (O.VCOHD GRAPES Proposed Trlbate to tbo Foaader ot a New Industry. Chicago Tribune. 'A movement has been started looking to the erection of a memorial to Ephralm Bull, the originator of the Concord grape. Mr. Bull found the grape vine growing wild In the woods and transplanted it In a yard In Concord, Maas. From that vine, which Is still growing in the place where Mr. Bull aet It, has sprung the entire Con cord grape Industry. Autumn and grapes wilt soon be here. It Is an appropriate time to start such a movement. It Is proposed to secure enough money by voluntary contributions both to put up a monument to Mr. Bull and to give perpetual care to the old vine which he tended with such skill snd effect. Grape vines are ex tremely longllved. In California there are some which are certainly several hundred years old. There seems hardly any limit to the time they will survive and remain healthy and fruitful If properly tended. 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The growing of It has ex panded into an extensive and highly profit, able Industry, and It Is the progenitor of several other1 fine grapes. Every year Con cord grapes are converted Into thousands of cans of Jellies and Jams, while carload upon carload of them are eaten raw. A fruit which Is a source of so much profit to some and of so much gustatory Joy to all should have many warm friends, and these friends should unite to do honor to the man to whom they owe so much. LIKE TO A SMIL,K. "Am I really awake?" murmured the Vag abond on the park bench. "I'll pinch you and sea," quoth the quick-witted policeman. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Mrs. Mnlaprop Did you hear about that poor man's accident while shavln ? It was an awful cat's thropo. Mrs. Brown laujrhlng An awful whatt Mrs. Malaprop Oh, It's no laughln' mat ter. He cut his Jocular vein. Philadelphia Iress. Iawyer Have you formed an opinion on this case? Juryman No, sir. 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