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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, MAY 3. lOOfl. The Omaha Daily Bee. E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR PUBLISHED EVERT MORNINO. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Fee (without Sunday), on year..$4' Dally Be nl Sunday, on year Illustrated Hr, one year IW Sunday Bee, ona year 3.W Saturday Una, ona year DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Pally Fee (Including Bunday). per week..l7c Dally Pee (without Sunday). per week... .12c Evening Fee (without Sunday), per week. c Evening Bee (with Sunday), per week. ...10c Sunday Bee. per copy 50 Address complaints of Irregularltlea In de livery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. 8tjth Omaha City Hall Building. Council Bhiffs-10 Pearl Street. Chicago 1M0 Unity Building. New York 15"S Home Ufa Ina. Building. Waahlngtnn 01 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to newa and edi torial matter ahonld be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or poatal order payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only t-rent stamp received aa payment of mall accounta. Personal rhecka. except on Omaha or eaatern exchangee, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, aa : C. C. Roaewater, general manager of The Be Publishing company, being duly aworn, aava that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Daily, Morning, Evening and Sunday Be printed during the month of April, ltrw. waa aa follows: 1.... Ut.lMO IS 81,800 t 81.4HO 1J 31,410 1 31,400 18 45,840 4 84,7W 19 40,20 I 31.2MO 20 48.8T0 ( 81,20 21 40,24)0 7 32,100 22 88,0 3 40,100 23 8IMHH) 81,400 24 31,300 10 SI, MXi 25 81,4IM U 31,4UO 26 31,470 1 12 81,880 27 81.R30 IS 81.1TO 28 82.370 14 82,100 29 8N.200 15 20,100 90 81,000 ToUl 1,041,300 Less unsold copies 12,372 Net total sales 1,028,HH Dally average 34.200 C. C. ROSE WATER. General Manager. Subscribed in tny presence and sworn to before ma this loth day of April, 19u6. (9al) M. B. H UNGATE, Notary Public. when oirr or towi. hsarlhrrs ItatUg (ho olty teas, porarlly shoalo have Th Be uiallea tat them. Aaaresa will . ha Political hindsight Is, always better tlmn political foresight Now, wbo wants to run for office with the Fontanelle label on hini? .... May day wa moving titty In Omaha, although It will take three weeks more to act the house to rights. If Hurry B. Zlmman had only sought re-election as mayor Instead of as coun cilman, Hahlman might have had a dif ferent title to tell. Voting machines at least have the merit Of showing how badly candi dates are defeated . without keeping them long in suspense. Judging from reports from Paris ths police of that city ceem surprised to think that their measures to keep the peace were effective. That slump on Wall street comes in time to anticipate the purpose of Senator La Follett to squeeze the "water" from railroad securities. In recommending the use of candles in the earthquake area Mayor Schmitg is showing poor return for John D. Rockefeller's contribution to the relief fund. A lot of democrats wbo were piteoutly urged to consent to go on the ticket a few weeks ago are doubtless wishing .they bad not been so stony hearted. Count Wltte will now have an op portunity to show what a good man can do in opposition to the govern ment la Russia; but his retirement bodes no good to the Douma. Pennsylvania miners do not make so much noise about it, but advices from Mount Carmel would indicate that when It comes to May day dis turbances they can dlscount'the Pari sians. Kansas republicans make the mis take of thinking that they are strong enough to Indulge In factional fight ing. Iowa is the only state whose re publicans can afford to Indulge In such luxury. The company owning the Iroquois theater has gone Into the hands of a receiver, confessing debts of $2,000, 000 and no assets. The reputation of the house proved no drawing card to sightseers. Millet's "Man with the Hoe" has been saved from the San Francisco disaster, but residents of the Califor nia metropolis are Just now more in terested in the man with the mortar and the trowel. San Francisco underwriters are to pass upon the sufficiency of chimneys before Area can be lighted, according to law. For some time yet the Insur ance men will b "the whole thing" in the city by the sea. Congressman Pollard has succeeded In making half an hour's speech upon the floor of the house under the flve mluute rule.. A men wbo ran make the moot of his time like that ought to score when he efts out for anything. From scanning the election returns, The Bee might be inclined to doubt wbetiier It still exercised any political Influence in this community, were It not reassured by the figures showing thst the incompetent Butler bad been snowed under by 4,200 plurality. J7.VB TO GET TOGETHER. There will be a vsltislile lesson In de feat for the republicans of Omaha and Douglas county If out of the wreckage of this election they will rife up and get together for the snke of the future of the party. Omaha is a republican city by a nor mal majority of not less than 2,0no, snd Douglas county is a republican county by a normal majority of altotit the same slee. There Is no good reason whatever why those who believe In republican principles and who look to the repub lican party to give us what Is best In government and in legislation should not dwell together in peace and harmony. With factional differences allayed the republicans will be constantly in con trol of city and county and ke repre sented by republicans In the leglttlnttire and in congress. Democratic ascendency in Omaha depends solely upon repub lican dissension. It lias been gained temporarily only by the destruction of republican unity by a proscrlptlve faV tlonal club, whose memlters, If they will read the returns dispassionately, must see that it has outlived Its usefulness. The republicans must learn to listen to reasoning advice and to discard the leaders' who can be followed only to de feat. They must take up with men not only In good party standing, but also commanding the confidence of the peo ple at large. The Bee gave advice before the pres ent campaign which, If accepted, would no doubt have insured victory. It? Is therefore In position to speak without discredit. In all charity to those who have differed with us, we say that a new policy must be at once adopted. If the chastening effect of dismal failure can be made the foundation for a re united republican party, the achieve ment will be worth the sacrifice. CONFERENCE AFTER SENATE VOTE. While there Is Intense public inter est in the changes which may be made by vote of the senate on the scores of proposed amendments to the rate bill, It is to be remembered that the action of the senate is by no means conclu sive. Whatever changes, great or small, may be voted in the senate must be submitted to a conference commit tee between the two branches of con gress, and the whole matter will come back to those bodies separately on a report of agreement of the Joint com mittee or for their action if the com mittee cannot agree. The general public, which demands the enactment of the Dolliver-Hepburn measure substantially unchanged, has this solid fact to rest on, that the house stands unequivocally with the president and can be counted on to stand out (Irmly against emasculation or weakening of the bill, even if amendments having such effect should pass ths senate. If a court review amendment going to the. lengths de sired by the .corporation senators should be attached, the house 'would refuse to accede to It.' On e&y 'such amendment hostile to the purpose of this great meaaure the house would have It in Its power to co. front the senate with the alternatives either of yielding or of assuming before the country the fatal responsibility of de feating the whole measure. It by no means follows that the friends of rate control, both in the senate and in the bouse, will reject every amendment. The president him self Is not a stickler for mere words and forms, and it is not- denied that It is possible to Improve the bill. But Its friends will not consent, and they have great power to prevent, the mangling of the bill, even If a ma jority of the senate should vote to do so. THE COAL MININO SITUATION. More than half of the labor dis turbance In the coal Industries, which seemed so threatening a few months ago. has been quieted. The dispute, so far as concerns the bituminous mines, the really vital matter from the broad industrial standpoint, has been for the most part settled by ad justments in the several districts, In volving Increase of wages on the one hand and abandonment of many of the miners' claims on the other band, and the soft coal supply is proceeding al most at its normal volume. Nothing now remains, but to dis pose of mattera In the anthracite re gion, where after long negotiation they have Anally been brought to a sharp Issue between the miners and the op erators. That Issue is simply whether the Roosevelt arbitrating board which aettled the dispute In 1903 shall de termine whether and how far, If at all, conditions in the anthracite region have changed so as to Justify change of wagea or otherwise from the orig inal findings. This Is the ultimatum of the operators and the miners have to determine whether they will accept It or make general and Indefinite the atrike which has virtually been in effect since April 1, pending negotia tions. It cannot fall to strike the observer that the public attitude towards the parties In dispute In the anthracite re gion has radically changed since 1903. Then public sympathy was distinctly on the side of the miners, at least to the point of having the dispute settled by arbitration. There la Indeed little positive sympathy now for the proprie tary mining Interests which have con tinued to practice monopolistic meth ods and which have been freshly shown to be engaged In unlawful com binations with railroada and in far- reaching conspiracies to restrain trade. The public, however, is going forward irresistibly to abate thoee evils by leg islation, by resort to the courts and by Invigorated executive action every where. But the most notable change is the failure of the public to espouse the cause of the leaders of the anthracite miners. The mass of consumers have paid without complaint the large In creased cost of coal on account of wages fixed by the Roosevelt board, amounting, as It has been conserva tively estimated, to f 17,000,000 In the single year of 1 904. While they might still be willing to have charged back any further Increase which the same board might find Justified by changed conditions, they have made It plain that they do not welcome the demand of the miners to throw away the re sults of Its Investigation, which was most competently and thoroughly made, for the purpose of levying an additional enormous arbitrary assess ment upon the consumers In the shape of still higher prices of hard coal. The sole alternatives before the miners, therefore, are to submit to the reconvened Roosevelt board the ques tion of wages only as affected by changed conditions, or to engage In a labor war In the face of an unfavor able attitude of the public. The peo ple of the country will deal In their own way with proprietary wrongs In the hard coal industry, but it Is a seri ous, and should be a sobering, fact for the miners that the people do not show a disposition to back them In the stand they have taken In this controversy. CA USES OF REPUBLICAN DEFEAT. The result of the city election Is to turn over to the democrats the entire municipal government of Omaha from mayor down with the exception of a single councilman. It is always much easier to look back and so the mistakes that have been made than It Is to avoid them as they occur. Facing the fact of a democratic landslide, which has overwhelmed the republican ticket, it. Is plain that not one factor, but many factors, have con spired to republican defeat. 1. The republican candidate repre sented a minority of his own party minority banded together into a club, out of which has been built a political machine more arbitrary and despotic than any species of political bosslsm with which the community had ever been afflicted. That republicans should be disposed to revolt against such dic tation was not at all unnatural 2. The republican candidate stood for a policy of illlberallsm, Which the peo ple of Omaha had repeatedly repudiated. The Idea of puritanical law enforce ment,' cultivated by him before the primaries, stuck to the ticket after nomination, and no amount of explana tion was able to direst It of this sus picion. 3. The candidate for mayor and sev eral of his associates have been closely Identified with the Civic federation In work which had made It odious to a large part of our people. The election of Dahlniau can not but be regarded as a rebuke to the Civic Federation. 4. The republican candidate occupied an unenviable position from the fact that he had himself severed all party ties three years before by running as petition candidate for mayor, with a populist nomination, against the regu lar republican nominee. It was impos sible to appeal to republicans to sup port him out of loyalty to the party when be was himself a standing object lesson to Justify bolting. 5. The republican candidate was par ticularly unfortunate In the support ac corded him by the Junior Yellow, whose pink head lines did more to damage bis chances of success than any other one thing. This newspaper by Its virulent denunciation of the democratic candi date, its mud slinging at people not running for office, its deliberate attempt to sidetrack all other candidates on the ticket by advertising republican meet ings as Benson meetings, disgusted friend and foe alike. 6. The republican candidate for mayor was also unfortunate In his cam paign speeches aud In his campaign management. Instead of winning sup port he seemed to drive It away almost from the first. Instead . of healing fac tlonal sores, bis Fontanelle captains seemed bent on keeping them open. In stead of conducting the campaign through the regularly elected . party committee, bis Fontanelle sponsors In sisted upon usurping it into their own hands. So far as The Bee is concerned, it sincerely regrets the defeat of Benson. It gave him unwavering support on the one ground that he was better fitted for the office than his competitor and would make for us a more creditable mayor The Bee hopes that when Inducted Into office Mayor Dablman will surpass ex pectations. He will hsve the support of The Bee In anything calculated to build up and improve the city and will be freely criticised in any official act conflicting with it ideas of what 'the municipal government of Omaha should be. W. W. Young of Stanton has an nounced his candidacy for the repub lican nomination for congress in the Third district. Mr. Young has served raitnnuiy as county attorney and In th state senate. He is a man of ability and sturdy republicanism. If the renub Deans of the Third district should a. clde to replace Congressman McCarthy they con Id not choose a better man tha W. W. Young. The bouse of representatives has de cided that the free distribution of seeds Is to continue, but perhaps at the first session of some congress, when an election is more than a year ahead, the time-honored "graft" may be killed. The World Herald rushes to the front to csll upon the newly elected official "to 1 faithful to the pledges they gave to the people wbo have trusted them Advice That F.dltorlst Reproduced Three candidates are seeking the nomina tion for mayor on the republican ticket: Broatch. representing the demand for a wide-open town;' Benson, representing tha demand for a regime of puritanical law enforcement, and Hennlnga, occupying tha middle ground of decent and progressiva government by a sensible enforcement of tna law according to varying circumstances aa they arise. Before thoughtful republic ans commit themselves bj their ballots to one or the other of these candidates, It ' will be well for them to look ahead snd figure on what may be expected to happen after nomination. If Benson should be the successful can didate a large part and perhaps all of the so-called liberal element would unquestion ably go over to his democratic opponent. The fact that ho ran last time as an Inde pendent against the regular republican nominee would ' furnish those so disposed with an excuse for refusing to support Ben son. It would become a question then whether he could offset the republican de fection with democratic gains and whether the democrats who voted for Benson as an Independent when It was hopeless for their own candidate would not be driven back nto their party lines with possible success for a democratic candidate. If Broatch should be nominated, the more resectable element of the party would be antagonized and alienated. If Omaha were doomed to an administration of license and licentiousness, many of them would prefer to have It come under a dem ocratic mayor to save the republican party from the odium. They would not vote for Broatch. They might not vote at all. They would vote for a decent democrat. If the democrats gave them an opportunity to do so. They might even vote for sn objection able but untried democrat, convinced that The World-Herald seems hasty in in timating there Is danger that the newly elected officials jrtay prove recreant to the pledges they gnve to the people who hare trusted them. The politicians over at Council Bluffs are now getting busy, and will pull off the next political drama in the shape of a sharp contest between the forces representing Perkins and Cummins for governor, respectively. Our Council Bluffs friends are pretty adept political combatants without further instruction. The Dlea of the railroad companies that international commerce is not subject to the terms of the interstate commerce act Is rather novel, but cor poration lawyers have been looking for years for a position where the com panies would be outside the law, and this is their latest discovery. If Mayor Dahhnan will see to it that the hope held out for the consolidation of Omaha and South Omaha in the event of his election is realized before he goes out of office and in time for the 1910 federal census he can leave a mark .or helping to build up Omaha. We fear that Mayor Zlmman will feel mlghtr lonesome as the only repub lican in the next council. He should at once hold it caucus with Council man Dave O'Brien, who has played the role of the !only democratic mem ber of the present cpuncll. Mr. Benson has declnred that he has made up his mind never to be a candi date for office again. He should not take defeat so seriously. Duty may call Bonie time In the future and he Is not the man we take him to be if he falls to respond.. No one will be more surprised than Mr. Bryan when 'he returns to una bimaelf a member in good standing of the conservative wing of the demo cratic party, with many of his former friends under the banner of the radi cal Mr. Hearst. A Fortunate Inetltotloa. Washington Star. a. k. ..infl-ratlllated. 1 ne supreme wu " . . . .w. l.. institution unl it la aooui 1 1 1 c uinj " " versally credited with good Intentions, In telligently carnea om. Where the Knock Cornea !. Philadelphia Press, if th. fir Insurance comoanlea in their times of prosperlty'would share their dlvl rfonH. with the nublic there would not be so much objection to making the public share their losses In tlmea or aisaaier. Don't Mention It. Kansas City Star. The fuel-alcohol bill la alumbering in the senate commutes,, of which Aldrlch of Rhode Island Is chairman. Aldrlch la asso ciated with Standard Oil by both political and'famlly ties, but It might be muck-rase Journalism to mention it. Another (loess Coming. New York Tribune. The German geographer who thinks a period of seismic unrest has begun and predicts a "relay earthquake" Is entitled to hla opinion, but It is probable he knows no more about It than the rest of us, and that la about nothing. Distributing- the Load. Pittsburg Dispatch. The insurance experts are putting In a claim to having foretold the destruction of San Francisco by fire. But they did not foresee it strongly enough to Induce them to refuse the risks there. Accord ing to current reporte they seem to hava preferred to take the loss and then levy it on the business of cities that offer bet ter risks. For From BOYS 1 SIX and I 1 to GIRLS i s,x MACKINTOSH'S TOFFEE Th Old English Candy The taste of Mackintoshes Toffee is Ilka Comparison stops right Ihere. For there la no candy to compare with Mackintosh a Toffee for delicious flavor. Jka Mackiatoik. - 71 Hudtoa SU New York Was Rejected. from Toe Bee April 1. he could be no worse than Broatch, who has been tried to their sorrow. If, however, Hennlngs should be the can didate, there would be no good reason why he should not receive the substantial and undivided support of the whole party, which would mean an election hands down. The Benson followers would surely prefer Hen nlnga to Broatch and tha Broatch followers would prefer Hennlngs to Benson In a word, Hennlnga would satisfy the greater number of Omaha-republicans In degree much more than either of the other two competitors. . One other feature of the after-nomlna-tlon campaign deserves attention at this time. It Is the effect of a distasteful nomi nation for mayor upon the nomlnatlona for other offices. The defection of any consid erable number of republicans from the head of the ticket would Jeopardise seriously all the republican candidates for minor offices. With the voting machine In use republicans driven sway from their mayoralty candi date' would, to make sure of no mistake, be Inclined to pull the lever for a straight democratic vote with later corrections for special candidate of their choice. Every one knows that such voting would help the democrats all along the line snd might result disastrously to the whole republican ticket, notwithstanding the fact that Omaha Is nominally republican by more than 2.000 majority. In a word, It Is to the Interest of every republican candidate for municipal office below mayor to have tha ticket headed by a candidate for mayor who will hold the united republican strength and thus Insure the machine recording of straight repub lican votes. If Omaha republicans want to make the election easy and safe, they will rally to the support of Hennlngs when they cast their ballots at the primary. BITS OF WASHINGTON LIFE. Minor Scenes and Incidents Sketched on the Spot. No spot In all Washington has quite the Interest of that "Just outside the president's door." A correspondent describes this Im portant spot as a hallway or anteroom In the executive building In which the presi dent has his office. Here will dally be found a changing circle of those about to sea the president, of those who saw him a moment ago, and of newspaper men on the eager watch for news of whatever sort. It affords a daily chapter of life the variety of which can scarcely be equaled by any other area so limited. It Is a small place consid ering the number of those who pass through It each day. In all there are hundreds of them. There are cabinet officers, senators, representatives, now and then a foreign diplomat, come to present his credentials, heada of government bureaus and commis sions, office-seekers, others whose errands would present a variety beyond the power to catalogue, and finally the Inevitable line of those who, with letter or other recom mendation "Just want to pay their re spects," so that they can ever after tell of having "met-the president." The president goes to his office at about :30 every morning, Sundays excepted. There he remains In his private room or In the cabinet room for three busy hours. At 1:30 or later he goes to the White House for luncheon unless in some special stress of business a bite is brought In to him to save time. He returns commonly about t o'clock and remains perjiaps until t o'clock. So msny accounta of his busy life have been written that It Is scarcely necessary j to add that these are by no means the limits usual limits of his time at the executive building, and to what passes on there at tention Is for the moment restricted. . The hallway or anteroom of the executive building la a room about thirty feet square with sn open dome or skylight. Its simple furniture consists merely of chairs ranged against the walls on either side, and a very small table in the center, at which you may write a message or a card In the hope that the sacred doors will be opened to you. At the right hand la a little room for the newspaper men. It is fitted with telephone booths, etc., and usually two or three type writers are drumming madly away. In the far right-hand corner Is a door leading to the stenographers' and clerks' room, which occupies the entire east end of the building. Next to thla Is the door leading to the room occupied by Secretary Loeb and As sistant Secretary Barnes. Their room Is at the back of the building and corresponds to the width of the hallway or anteroom. At the left of the anteroom and separated by a narrow corridor and double doors la the cabinet room and In the extreme luft hand corner Is the prealdent's private office, which opens Into the cabinet room and is separated from Secretary IOeb'a room by a little reception room. Patent attorneys throughout the country have decided on a united kick for more energetic modern methods of transacting the business of the patent office. There are now 30,844 applications on hand which have not been acted on, and the patent office Is running behind at the rate of 1.000 cases a year. Thla causes enormous losses to per sons who have invented useful articles, which they cannot place on the market because of their Inability to borrow capital with which to manufacture their Invention until their patents are granted. The present commissioner of patents, al though having an Increase In force, has not kept up with the business of the country. This, It Is charged by the patent attorneys, Is due to defective sdmlnistra- tlon, to red tape snd the obsolete methods employed. In 1901, the first year of the administration of Commissioner Allen, the cases unacted upon were numbered 1.610; In 1902 the num ber had grown to 10. OK; In 1B0S to 11,000; In 1904. 12.041; 1906, 16.028. and at the present time the number Is .46. In 1900 the total number of applications for patents was 39.(173, of which 36,4111 were granted, leaving 13.166 cases unacted upon. The number of casea unacted upon In creased at the ratio of about 3.000 a year, until last year 64.034 applications were made, but only 30,270 were granted, leaving 33,764 unacted upon at the close of the last cal endar year. Commissioner Allen Is being criticised for the delay, and the attorneys of the country sre threatening to request President Roosevelt to remove him. The government printing office handles many confidential Jobs during the year, but with none of this class of work are ths safeguards so safely planned as In the printing of the examination papers for the civil service rommlsalon. The major part of thla work is done at tha Interior branch office, and the copy la so divided and ar ranged that leaks are practically impossible. Many attempts have been made In the past to get advance Information of the questions, that the possessor might paaa aa examin ation with a high rating, or that tha questions might be sold to prospective con testants. Bo carefully la the commission's work guarded that employee of the Interior branch printing office are required to pass a special examination should they wish to enter soma other branch of the government service. The papers are prepared for these contestants by special clerks, and do aot pass through the regular channels. V V J. JL JUS A AliAifA A Waltham movement in any kind of a case is as accurate a watch as money can buy. The "Riverside" movement is particularly recommendta nude in H sise. SENATORIAL STOGESTIONS. Burweli Tribune: Editor Rose water of ths Bee Is the man of the hour for United States senator. Fremont Tribune: Mr. Bryan and Mr. Roaewater are both getting boomed while they are away from their country. Dis tance seems to lend enchantment, looking both ways. Stanton Picket: As far ss competency Is concerned most all pf the republicans suggested for the United States senate have the necessary requirements. But a senstor should be Interested In the welfare of the people. Hildreth Telescope: if the next senator la to come from Omaha by all means let It be Roaewster In preference to Webster,' Millard, Greene, Wattles or sny of the others whose names have been mentioned In that connection. Wausa Oasette: Hon W. P. Warner, present United States marshal. Is mentioned prominently ss a successor to J. 1. Mil lard as United States senstor. Should he decide to get in the race we are for him first, last and all the time. . West Point Republican: A new senato rial possibility hss loomed up In Omaha during the last week in the person of E. J. Cornish. He is a scholarly gentleman, a splendid public speaker, a conscientious man, free from embarrassing alliances. He would make a most creditable representa tive. Wakefield Republican: If the N orris Brown boomers aren't careful, Edward Roaewater of the Omaha Bee will shut their candidate out and capturo the senatorial toga. There Is one thing certain that if Rose- water was made a member of - the United States senste there would be something doing In Washington. Ansley Chronicle: The Chronicle has al ways been a personal admirer of Edward Roaewater and should he consent to enter the senatorial race a mighty army of sup porters will rise up from among the rank snd file of the republicans of Nebraska. Many newspapers throughout the state are already supporting Mr. Rose water. Wayne Herald: E. Rosewater, veteran editor of the Omaha Bee, meets consider able favor as the proper man to send to the United Ststes senate to succeed Sena tor Millard. Mr. Rosewater la probably the ableet man in Nehrsska, and hss fought corporation control and Insisted on the rights of the masses for twenty-five or thirty years. If a Rosewster boom for the senate should happen to develop and suc ceed, no mistake would be made. PERSONAL NOTES. Mark Twain Is very fond of collecting odd obituary poetry and has a scrap book which he prises very .highly containing 3.000 specimens. Prof. Calvin of the Iowa State university predicted an earthquake for the Pacific coast seven days before It came. He told his class In geology that It might be ex pected there at any time. H. H. Clayton, meteorologist of the Blue Hill meteorloglcal observatory, has ac cepted the position of professor In the United States weather bureau and will as sume his duties in Washington about July l It Is said that William Dean Howells, the author, haa made auch a careful study of the dialect and expressions of the various sections of the country that he can tell by their accent what city a person comes from. There Is some discussion as to whether ths people of San Francisco call their town "Frisco." They do not, and, more over, they resent the appellation about aa a spirited boy objects to being addressed as "bub " All lovers of Dickens will be. interested to learn that the original of Little Dorrlt is still alive. She Is Mrs. Cooper, the sister of Dickens' school chum and his playmate In the days when she waa Mary Ann Milton. She haa lived for more than half a century In the south of Eng'and and, though now more than 90 years of age, she still retains full possession of all her faculties. Elliott Woods, superintendent of the Cap itol building In Washington, the other tnornlng noticed that a number of crows were building their nests up In the carv ings around the dome. He remarked on the circumstance while talking with Speaker Cannon, aaylng: "Those crows sre becom ing too familiar. I shsll send a man up For Coughs and Colds There is a remedy over sixty years old Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. Of course you have heard of it, probably have used it. Once in the family, it stays; the one household remedy for coughs and colds. Ask your own doctor about it. Do as he says. eaaaaaaMnsSMnnBaanann.vaBnnM Wc have no secrets We publish the formulas of all our medicines. suae y the t. O. A 1 ha - w avyg arena Sa SksUIe ' T r i A A J1 Ji AwUi there to drive them out." "Oh, no; don't do that," said Mr. Cannon, "w must concede something to the democrats. I jet them have all the crow they want. One of the most interesting figures In Harvard university Is Edward Ray, a blind student, who halls from a small country town in North Carolina. He haa mastered the most difficult courses In higher mathe matics. In geology won a degree from the University of North Carolina snd is now working for a degree of M. A. at Harvard. Mark Twain has Immense admiration for James J. Hill, the railroad- magnate. Said the humorist recently: "There sre two men of real genlua In this country. They began life on the decks of Mississippi steamboats. One of them Is James J. Hill. Let some future historian of ths highest capacity name the other." As everybody knows. Mark began his own career as a Mississippi pilot. FLASHES OF FIN. "What is your favorite play?" asked the girl who quotes Shakespeare. "Well," answered the youth with long hair. "I believe I like to see a man steal second as well as anything." Waahlngton Btar. "Say, doesn't our congressman do any thing but draw his salary?" "Oh, yea." "What?" "Ha spends it." Cleveland Leader. "That life Insurance agent Anally suc ceeded in getting you to take a policy, Uul he?" "Yes; I had accepted so many of his cigars, before I found out what his busi ness was, that when he tackled me for mv application I hadn't the face to stand him ott." Chicago Tribune. "I am like the persecuted heroine In the melodrama," complained the carriage to the team. "Ho, ho!" answered the latter, with a horse laugh. "Yes, 1 am," persisted the carriage. "Just see how I am driven from home." Baltimore American. "I want to get some bird seed," said the customer. "Don't try to plague me, smart?!" cried the new clerR irom tne country. nira Catholic Standard. "That orator is a nibst explosive speaker," remarked one statesman. "I should say ao." answered the other. "One of his speeches makes me think of a lot of exclamation points with a few words scattered through them." Washington Btar. "Gentlemen, loyal subjects, brothers," besan the exar. .. . The members of the Don ma listened re spectfully. "You have been duly elected. Cries equivalent to "Hear! hearl" "Well, that's honor enough for any Rus sian. Just try to have a good, aoclable time. I'll run the government without your assistance." Philadelphia Ledger. WHITTIER'S LINES ON CHICAGO, 18TI How Well They Fit the Fate of Snn ' Francisco. i Men said at vespers: "All la well!" In one wild night the city fell; t Fell shrines of prayer and marts of gain Before the fiery hurricane. On threescore spires had sunset shone. Where ghastly sunrise shone on none. Men clasped each other's hands and said: "The City of the West Is dead." Brave hearts who fought, in slow retreat. The fiends of fire from street to street. Turned, powerless, to the blinding glare. The dumb defiance of despair. A audden Impulse thrilled each wire That signaled round that sea of fire; Swift words of cheer, warm heart-throbs came: In tears of pity died the flame! From east, from west, from south and north, The messages of hope shot forth. And underneath the severing wave. The world, full-handed, reached to save. Fair. seemed the old; but fairer still ' The new, the dreary void ahall fill With dearer homes than those n'erthmwn, For love shall lay each cornerstone. Rise, stricken cltyt from thee throw The ashen sackcloth of thy woe , And build, as to Amphion's strain. To songs of cheer thy walla again I How shriveled in thy hot distress The primal sin of selfishness! How instant rose, to take thy part. The angel In the human heart! Ah! not In vain the flames that toaaed Above thy dreadful holocaust; The Christ again has preached through thee The Gospel of Humanity! , Then lift once more thy towers on high. And fret with spires the western aky, To tell that God is yet with us. And love Is still miraculous! Ays Co., Lewell. (Use. I SJC -IB! f FILX FN 4A1M tlaM . 14 4W. I I t c nt