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THE 0MAI1A DAILY BEE: MONDAY, JULY 16, 1900. "fiiE Omaha Daily Bee. E. ROBE WATER. EDITOR. F.n tared at class, matter. Omaha Postoffloe aa second Titnua or bcescription. Deily Bee (without Sunday), ona year..$4 J'auy tie and Sunday, ona year Hunday Bes, ona year Saturday Bes. on yaar I 00 iw l.M DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Dally Bee (Inoludlng Sunday), per week ..Lo Dally Boa (without Sunday), par week..Uc Evening Pm (without Sunday), par week, to Rvenlng Bee (with Sunday), par week. .100 Sunday Baa, pr copy : Addrese complaint of irregularltlee In oa llvary to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha City Hall building. C'ounoll Bluffs--10 Pearl Street. Chicago ltrM fnlty Building. New York-150 Homa Life Ina. Building. Waahlngton SOI Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communication Mating to nwe and edi torial matter ahould be addressed: Omana liee. Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to The Pea Publishing Company, only l-cent nam pi received aa payment ot mall accounte. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not scceptea. THE BfcK PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT or CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglaa County, aa: C. C. Roseweier, general manager pr The Bre Publishing Company, being duly worn, aayi that the acroal number of fun and complete coplea of The Dally. Morning, hvenins and Sunday Bee printed during the month of June. 1908, wae aa ioiww. 31,730 aa,sio 80,750 81.8S0 I1M0 sa.070 S8.010 81,800 38,410 30,660 39.30A 31380 31,810 8130 3170 38,460 30,800 31.880 31.810 83,000 31,840 31,830 38,870 30,340 31.780 31,300 1,860 31,710 81,700 38,860 Tola! .... l.fss untold Net total .854,190 . 10,488 cop lee. aalea . . , .843,864 Dally average 81,455 C. C. ROSE WATER, Ocneral Manager. Suhacrlbed In my preeence and aworn to before me thle 8oth day ot June. 1M8. tSeal.) M. B. HINOATE, Notary Public WHEN OUT OF TOWN. Baeaerlbera leaTlag the city ten orarlly aaoald hari The Ba mailed to them. Addreia will be changed aa often aa repaired. In discharging his lawyers Harry Thaw Is probably preparing a better Insanity defense than his attorneys contemplated. That railroad conference over the new rate law is an indication that the lawyers have not yet discovered the deblred loopholes. Reports from all over Nebraska are to the effect that crop prospects were never better. Railroads' may prepare for another car famine in the fall. According to one of, the special at torneys of the Omaha Water board Omaha has been buncoed in the water works contest. The question is, By whom? -. iWlth all his anti-trust declarations, Colonel Bryan seems to have a decided monopoly of his own in connection with the democratic presidential talk- Just now. That Omaha man who must choose between a seat In the city council and a preferred homestead on the Crow reservation has an opportunity to dis play civic pride. With Egypt experiencing a boom in land, modern speculators may show how much better Joseph, could have done had he awaited the' development of the, American millionaire, , The man who made his initial air ship flight over Chicago showed his Judgment In selecting a place where the atmosphere Is supposed to be stronger than In most places. Had the president of' Guatemala known more of American affairs he would have realised that civil war roust follow when he Imprisoned an Iowa statesman without trial. -Omaha's showing of bank clearings for the week Is above the average of other clearing house cities. Omaha business expansion must be keeping up- Its pace without Interruption. It Is said that Secretary Wilson' visit to the South Omaha packing houses has been postponed, but not abandoned. Whenever he may come he. may be assured of a cordial wel come. The .report that the csar Is losing his tekson," will su,'rjrlse some people whej have imagined from . current events that he had lost it long ago and was In n$oat Imminent' danger ot losing his crown, it not his head. - The charge that millions ot roubles were stolen from the Russian treasury during the war. with Japan Js hardly surprising and still It does not account for, the ease ttJh which the Islanders drove the imperial troops before them. Aa, increase of mora than 15,500, 000 ; In taxable property In Douglas county is af pretty good showing. The increased assessment, however, will make each mill ot the levy produce so much raore revenue and it ahould not be overlooked 'as' a factor in reducing the tai rate when the levy cornea to be njade. 1 ' ;. ; '. , , Colonel Bryan says that Lincoln must com first of all Nebraska towns on lis. list ot home-coming receptions and 'Omaha will have to submit to the decree aa gracefully as possible. There is ene thing, however, which even Colonel Bryan cannot do. and that is to rearrange the bud so-that he will reach-iiaeola Bra on setting foot again w ithin "Nebraska boundaries ' A fKTCMPH fit PVBLICITT. There could hardly be a more strtk- ng Illustration of the potency oi ptio- liclty than the vindication of Captain Dreyfus. In spite of the prevalent passion and prejudice which his cun ning persecutors aroused against him, the original crime of Ms conviction on a diabolically false charge could never have been consummated if hit trial had been conducted In the full light of publicity. The elaborate forgeries on which the conspirators depended for evidence would have been promptly. and Ignominously exposed. But the original trial, if such a cold-blooded conspiracy to destroy can be called a trial, was a secret proceeding by a military triounai constituted by the conspirators, and neither the accused nor his attorneys were permitted ' so much as to see the forged documents on which the Judges acted. After the nfamous Judgment was thus procured, every detail of tne case against tne victim was sought (o be buried in the most profound secrecy and In the keeping of the very men who, high in power, had contrived the outrage. Even In this day liberty and life are not safe in any nation In which pub licity can be thus suppressed. The single chance ot saving the vic tim of this conspicuous outrage rested n exposure, and that chance nnder the circumstances was a most, remote one, for the assumption of guilt was well nigh universal and interwoven with the bitterest prejudices fanned by pow erful hostile Interests. The tremen dous arraignment In Zola's "I accuse" letter In the public press, in which he boldly charged home to the perpetra tors the main facts of their crime against Dreyfus, raised an issue in the conscience and intelligence of France which had to be tried in the open and which could not be settled till the whole truth became known, no matter how high mob spirit might run for a time. From that, moment publicity steadily gained, until every nook and corner of the elaborate conspiracy was exposed to public view. In spite of every effort to keep it dark, and then public opinion at last asserted itself ir resistibly for Justice. It. Is fashionable in some quarters to sneer at "trial by newspaper," -but In the light of the history of this memor able case -the process 'appears well in comparison with regular authority pro ceeding In star chamber, and to be In fact the sole method by which Justice and truth could be established. home made armor plate. The awarding of contracts fflr 8,000 Kpris of armor plate by the navy de partment for two i new battleships at the lowest price yet paid by the gov ernment Vindicates its policy of break ing down dependence on foreign manu facturers of warship armor, even though for a time that policy did In volve dependence upon . combined American manufacturers. . Wh.en .during , the Cleveland admin istration Secreyiry . Whitney undertook to build modern battleships he was confronted by the Tact that there was In the United States no plant that could supply tho plates 'necessary ' to arm them, and was compelled to buy .them Abroad at a cost of over $500 per ton, or postpone Indefinitely the construe tlon of the new navy which was so In dltpensable a few years later In the war with Spain. At the same time the government gave assurances to. home Fteel manufacturers the effect of which vas that within a few years two plants were established at which as good annoi plates as the foreign-made ones were secured at first at $480 a ton, and with these the splendid new navy lias been armed. But though the price fell to $400, It wm held there arbi trarily' by combination ot the two plants for several years after it should hitvc been 'reduced and In spite of the efforts of the government. But last year a third company, the Mldvale, entered into-competttion w'th the Carnegie and Bethlehem concerns, and now Its bid of $34C has broken the grip of the combination and fixed the price which the government "will pay for arming the battleships Michi gan and South Carolina. Even at that price Vhere remains a broad margin of profit for the manufacturer, and It is confidently-expected that next year the price wilt be still lower. and that under competition It will soon' be re duced to $300, the 'limit which the government sought to establish some years ago. ' The fact .remains,; however, that even the highest prices that have been paid to the home armor plants have been lower than the lowest prices paid when the government was 'dependent on the British and German plants. while we have at the same time the1 manifold Incidental benefits to our own workmen and producers of ma terials, with absolute Independence of foreign supply. BRYA)TS SEW A$D VLD FR1ESDS. Colonel Bryan 'isv evidently alarmed by the impression made by the demon strations of sudden allegiance by such former democratic opponents as ex Secretary Vilas of 'Wisconsin, ex-Governor Francis of Missouri and ex-Con gresBman Belmont ot New York, the millionaire backer and manager of Judge Parker, and by the suggestive exploitation pf the' Nebraska states man's alleged "conservatism" as a rea son why the element they , represent should no longer Oppose him. At least Mr. Bryan lu his London prouuncla mento betrays extreme sensitiveness on this subject and speaks elaborately and with studied qualifications on the text of his Imputed "conservatism "I am," he says, ' mere radical than I was in 181 and have nothing to with draw on economic questions which have been under discussion," and he even sticks to it at treat length that his monetary theories of that vintage were correct enough, except for certain subsequent circumstances over which he had no control. Wbatjs partic ularly burdening his mind "is clearly whst his old allies ot 18, namely the populists, allverttea and socialistic admirers, will think of the returning "conservatives," because he takes pains to reassure them that the "new friends" are not to have undue Influ ence over him when he assumes the responsibilities of power. it is noteworthy, however, that the Vilases, the Francises and the Bel monts utter no protest against these assurances to "old friends," nor do the populists and their former allies show, any sign of particular enthusi asm. The truth seems to be that the "new friends" are just as anxious as Mr. Bryan himself to hold the old friends for the purposes of the next election. ' OMAHA'S GREATEST WART. There never was a time In tha his tory of Omaha when it made such sub stantial progress as It has within the past two years. Within that period It has erected half a dozen colossal grain elevators and scores ot great Jobbing houses and retail stores, besides many hundreds of handsome residences and dwellings. Within that period It has materially enlarged Its trade territory through the extension of Its railway facilities and incidentally broken all records with Its clearing house and banking exhibits. But there is still yet much to do for the men of Omaha if their ambition to pass the 200,000 population landmark Is to be fulfilled by the time the next census Is taken. Omaha's greatest want is steady em ployment at good wages for working men and working women, and these can only.be obtained by an enlarge ment of Its manufacturing facilities. In other words, Omaha's greatest want is more mills and factories that will convert the natural products of this section of the country Into finished products. Omaha wants more flour ing and cereal mills, tanneries and woolen mills, that will convert the hides aud pelts of animals slaughtered in our packing houses into leather and woolen fabrics. The establishment of more shoe and leather goods factories would afford steady employment to a Small army of skilled mechanics and wage workers. The projected Union Pacific car shops, designed to give employment to1 several hundred mechanics, will in the very near future demonstrate whether tramway cars and modern vehicles of every description cannot also be fabricated in Omaha in compe tition with localities east or south of the Missouri river. It goes without saying that Omaha cannot make any great progress as a n anufacturlng center until cheaper power and cheaper fuel can be placed at the disposal of the manufacturers That problem is up for solution and shot.' 1 above all things receive serious ccnHldePption at the hands of the men actively engaged in the upbuilding of Omaha. The time is now propitious The,-demand for cheaper power and cheaper fuel la imperative and no time should be lost In devising the ways and means for supplying Omaha with cheaper fuel and power. The plot of ground which has for years been hallowed as the location of itinerant circuses thst show In Omaha Is to be cut up into building lota and Improved. This is another sign ot the times. Old residents will remember the successive locations of circus grounds, gradually crowded out to more remote points by the encroach ment of building improvements. The ttrae was-when the circuses showed at Ninth and Farnam and later on Jef ferson Square, and'stlll later on the tract at Eighteenth and St. Mary's avenue, and again at Twenty-fourth and Farnam, finally to settle at Twenty-first and Paul, where circuses have had an abiding place In Omaha now for many years. Another suita ble location win doubtless .be found but It will be a question ot only a few years before It will have to move again. The weed nuisance la an evil which for the most part grows out of non resident ownership of city lots. It is almost' impossible to force a nonrest dent to keep his property in present Die condition ana tne resident owner ot vacant property sees no reason why he should cut his weeds when his neighbor's remain uncut. The law should be fixed so that the city might have the weeds cut and ' the ' cost charged up against the property of nonresidents not oftener than twice year without first serving any notice unless by publication. It looks as if the courts would be railed upon to straighten out the Nor folk asylum mixup precipitated by friction between the asylum- author! ties and the espousal of different sides by various state officers constituting the State board vested with general supervision. Inasmuch as the leglsla ture does not meet for nearly six months, a court order probably offers the only way to get a reasonably prompt settlement of the quarrel. An ordinance is foreshadowed by which members ot the council will en deavor to force the Omaha Gas com pany to remove its generating plant from the site now occupied to another that is more satisfactory to the coun cilman. - If this precedent can be set and maintained the gas company may as well prepare to move its plant at least once every three years when each new council takes hold. Another cause for discord has been Injected into the local democratic ranks by the- receipt by Mayor Dahl man ot a latter from Colonel Bryan beginning "Dear Dnhlmnn. This la altogether too much for the mayor's enemies to bear without exhibiting their resentment. If that trolley line from Council I Bluffs to Des Moines is not, built any faster than the trolley line from Beatrice to Omaha the prospects of rural transit between Council Bluffs and tho Iowa capital are still dim and distant. Hamper (ri wtthoat Lather. Minneapolis Journal. Five weeks ago Nebraaka harvested a bumper crop of alfalfa without recourse to shaving the populist party. Slamntlaa the Door. New York 8un. Hon. Jamea Wilson holla over with ac tivity and apeech at the Chicago stock arda. After the horse Is stolen nobody can lock a stable door with more of a de fiant rattle ' and bang than Tama Jim makes. Merely a Horn Scrap. Philadelphia Presl. The political situation In Iowa would be more enjoyable If the people out there did not treat It so seriously. Nobody out aide the state can see anything in it that ! likely to devastate, the rest of the coun try. Alntoat to the Mailt. Washington Post. The preaident has aaaured the world that American canned meats will hereafter be clean and wholeaome la every reepect. The president could do no mora unless It would be to furnish a statement to the effect that he la eating canned meat at home. Soelal Frllia Cat Oat. Boston Transcript. The general etaff hss ordered that In the comtng army encampments the social en tertainment feature shall be cut out. So ciety people are not desired, but If they will come they must eat rations or go hungry. If this Spartan regime ia kept up the army stands in danger of losing all its attractions for senators' nephews, some of whom may even go ao far as to resign. PERSONAL NOTES. Mr. Rockefeller threatens to write his impressions of France. His Impressions of Amorlca would make friskier reading H. E. Clark, Just selected to a place on the Interstate Commerce commission, be gan life aa a brakeman, freight and pas senger conductor. Custom requires that European kings hall kiss each other copiously when they meet. Sovereign American cltisens, If they had to do that, might feel like throwing up their Job. ' V The theatrical man who circulated postals bearing the phonograph of an Infant, with the query, "Who owns the baby?" has been answered. The mother of the child admits the fact and demands $10,000. The Susan B. Anthony Memorial associa tion has started an active campaign to raise $75,000 for an "Anthony memorial building" for women students at the Uni versity of Rochester, in the home city of Miss Anthony. I-ord Charles Beresford Is a staunch tee totaler. "I am now GO years, old," he said recently, "and since I have entirely given up wine, spirits and beer I find I can do as much work, physically and mentally,, as could do when I was 30, If not more. I am always well, always cheery, laugh at the downa of life equally with the ups, and always feel fit and In . condition. If only some of the yovns men would try going-without liquor for three months I do not believe they w'ould, think liquor at all necessary again. ,, . ,r ROLLING IN WEALTH. Croa Report Proas t see a Harreat Beyond Compare. New York World. In neither this nor any other country. from the time when natlona first were founded, had last year's bumper crops ever been paralleled. They ' are paralleled now in the July crop report, which partly re veals and In part promises an equally in conceivable fnaas of perishable wealth. Corn promises a crop only 4,000,000 bushels behind last year's huge record of J,7O8,000, 000 bushels. Potatoes, oats and barley ' are likely to be somewhat below last year, but wheat, much of which ts already har vested, may go beyond the record by 30,000, OOO bushels. This mere esceaa alone would fill a bin 400 feet in height covering the Madison Square Garden block. The four great farm crops of corn, hay, wheat knd oats, named in. the order of their gross values, will probably be worth this year some $2,760,000,000. All the gold dug to all the world In the 414 years sine Columbus found the new continent would buy but four such crops. GUARANTEEING MEAT EXPORTS. Ilsalfoaaet ef Proaldeat Roosevelt's Aararaaro to British. Groeera. Chicago News. President Roosevelt's reply to an organl satlon of English grocers, assuring them that the American government's guaranty of purity now stands behind American meat tn-oducta. ausaeata a novel extension of governmental duties. To thoae who hold to a atrlct construction of the federal gov ernment's functlona the Idea that the United States should lend its name to the support of the packing buslnesa. virtually throwing the whole weight of Its prestige behind private industries, may seem a long move In the direction of bald paternallam The president himself has made no par ticular effort Jo avoid euch an Inference. "Under the new law." he says, "we can and will guarantee the fitness in all respects of tinned meata bearing the government stamp. If any trouble artsea therewith protest can at once be made not merely to the sellers of the aoods. but to the Lnlted States government itself." It Is obvious that the guaranty of which the president speaks .Is not a guaranty In the eense that It blnda the government to make good any losses or repair any de llelenclea resulting from Inadequate math oris in the preparation and exportation of meata. The government could not assume such a function In any event. The newly enacted law, however, does imply a moral guaranty on the part of the government and there la no apparent reaaon why this fact ahould not be frankly recognised. Vir tually, the Vnlted States says to the for eign consumer: "We hsve taken It upon ouraelvea to provide thorough and adequate Inspection of meata and meat-producing methoda. Assuming this office means the assuming of a responsibility. If we fall to do our work properly, if we are so neg. llgent that bad meats can be exported In spite of the Infection, . call us to account and we will apply the needed remedies." The guaranty. In fact, is simply a notice to the world that' the American meat In apectlon service will be thorough and ade quate to Ita end. The nvjrnl support thus given to an Industry which has suffered heavily aa a reault of the recent dlacloa urea will be highly beneficial. Yet, where la government auDerviaion to end? If American meata are sold abroad under government guaranty, why not American shoes er any other it annfactured produc which seeks a market on foreign shore or even In the ehanneli of Interstate com merce? This queatlon la bound to come up aooaar or later. NEBRASKA SENATORIAL CAMTAION The Real Qaeatloa. Madlaon Chronicle (rep ). The hand of the political dial In Nebraaka points toward Edward Roaewater aa United States senator. The result of the Douglas county primaries slgnallsea the popularity of the man among the rank and file of the party. The question before the people now la not one of porn leal expediency, or the payment of any political obligation, but who, by reason of abllljy, experience and past training will best represent the In terests of the people In the senate chamber. Nebraska Shoal Be Repreaeated. Kmerson Enterprise (rep.). The contest for the republican nomina tion for United Slates aenator teems to be between Editor Rosewater and Attorney General Norrla Brown. Nebraska would be well represented by either one. The former might be termed ss "the grand old man" fnd the latter "the grand young man." t.ooka Pretty Good. Loup City Northwestern trep ). Rosewater captured the Douglas delega tion last week snd starts In the senatorial race with eighty-three votea from his own county. It begins to look as If the old man was in to win. Roaewater la the'Utd. Geneva Signal (rep.). Editor Rosewiter carried the Douglas county primaries last week for United States senator against Lorenso Crounsa. Governor Crounse Is too old a man to be thought of and It waa foolish to think that he could carry Douglas county under any circumstances. Cedar and Garfield counties have also Instructed for Roaewater. The Beat Omaha Mao. North Platte Tribune (rep.). The papers quote Senator Millard as say ing that he will be a candidate for re election no matter whom the republican state convention may nominate as senator. As Senator Millard has done no harm, neither has he performed any acts that has given him prominence or made htm a valuable man for Nebraska to keep In the senate,- If we must have an Omaha man. we'll take Rosesatcr. Resalt of Doaglaa Primary. Randolph Republican (rep.). The overwhelming majorities by which Edward Rosewater for United States sena. tor carried the Omaha primaries can mean but one thing that he will be nominated at -the state convention, August 22. The Omaha primary eliminated Crounse and Millard from the situation and Rosewater and Brown are' alone In the running, with the former ahead at thla writing. Mr. Rosewater has had more political enemies In Omaha than In the atate at large and thla fact, in conjunction with the solid Douglss county delegation of 83. means a victory. There will be ffiT delegstes in the convention aud it will require 429 to nomi nate. O'Neill Frontier (rep.). Objection is raised to the state conven tion nominating a candidate for United States aenator on the grounds that a state convention ia not ao much a representa tion of the voters at large as is the legis lature. It Is strenuously urged that while the members of the legislature are the representatives of a majority of the people the state convention la not. If this is true of United States senator. It Is true also of all state officers nominated by the con vention. And if thla thing la to be urged against state conventions, with clear con sistency It csn be urged agalnat senatorial and representative conventions, so that with equal, force it might be claimed that our state senators and representatives do not represent the majority of the voters. We believe the plan of recommending United States senators by convention is a step toward the election of senators by direct rote and should not be abandoned until some better plan Is offered. rp Against Hard Lack. Beatrice Timee (rep.). The World-Herald has as bad luck in running republican primaries In Omaha aa in electing atate fusion tickets. Rejolplng ia Garfleld. Burwell Tribune (rep.). The Tribune takes pardonable prlds In the action of the republican county conven tion In endorsing Edward Roaewater for United States aenator and pledging the delegates to the congressional convention to support M. P. Klnkald for renomlnation The Tribune haa contended for this all along the line and It pleaaea us greatly that the county convention acted on these lines. "The boys" did the right thing, sure! A New Caadlaaor. Pender Republican (rep.). One good thing about the forthcoming election to that it will elect a aucceeaor to Governor Mickey. He has been a political eyesore to the atate for the last four years. Mickey would like to go from the governor's office to the United States sen ate, but it appears to us that he is by alt odds the best qualified candidate for tha political dead letter office there la In Ne braska today. Maat Gt a New Argameat, Fairfield Newa-Tribune (rep.). Some few of the boys are arguing in their papers that B. Rosewater Is too old to be senator. Must be they don't know The Bee editor. He can stand more hard work than nine out of ten congressmen today and come up as smiling and fresh as the morning or the rose from which he takes his name, although, wis believe, he never "takes water." Oh, nol Some other ar gument will have to be found than old age; the "old man" of The Bee is made of tough timbei and he never sleeps, Doaglas Coaatr la Earaeat. Tork Times (rep.). Douglas county is obviously In earnest for Mr. Rosewater. The delegation to tha atate convention Is taking up the fight In earnest. They will not consider any other candidate from that county for any office and will exert themselves to the utmost to eecure the nomination of their candidate. Tet It does not necessarily follow that Douglaa county will elect democrats to the legislature If he Is defeated. We do not believe Mr. Roaewater la unfriendly either to Brown, Currie or Meiklejohn, and If either of them should be nominated they would receive his support. The success of the party Is of fsr greater Importance than the personal aspirations of any Individual The candidatea are all men whem we can rupport without any acruples and the talk about party defeat In any caae Is out of order and very poor politics. There Aro Also Others. Weeping Water Herald (rep.). About two to one la the result of the vote wherein Edward Rosewater's delegation was elected In Omaha, and they will sup port him solidly for United Ststes senator. There are others. Followlag a Good Eaamale. Hartlngton Herald (rep ). . The Floomfleld Monitor has come out with a strong endorsement for Rosewater. Now. If Dixon county pspers will do like wise there Is a good chance for Knox and , Dtaoa te be right oa the senatorial contest. CT? JL INDIA AND CEYLON Tea Gives every user the maximum of purity and quality and "f, It not merely aa good as other tea It is Incomparably Tlir, BhST TEA TO HE H AD. McCORD, BRADY & CO., Wholesale Agents, Omaha. ROIND ABOIT NEW YORK. Ripples oa the Correal of l ife la the Metropolis. A fine appetite Is highly esteemed by healthy people, especially when means are abundant to gratify It. But, like many other good thlnga. It can be pushed be yond bounds, wher) something has to give. A New Torker with the melodious name of Dooner possesses the most -extensive, varied and tasteful appetite ever observed In Vlanhattan, Brooklyn or Coney Island. Constant practice gave It an artlstlo polish, expanded capacity tor gustatory ecatacy and Increased demands for toothsome luxu ries. Dooner gave free reign to his ap petising Ulents. his purse gave way under the strain, and the bankruptcy court waa Invoked to act as financial guardian. For many years Dooner has been a fa miliar figure around hotels snd restaurants, and the tales told ot the meals he nte sound like a list of supplies tsken on "Big Tim" Sullivan s annusl chowder. On a wager with "Jim" Villeplgue, tha Sheeps- head bay innkeeper, Dooner once con tracted to rat a quell a day for thirty days. He did it, and to be liberal he stowed away half a dosen birds on the final day. He was a great champagne drinker, and onco said thSt he, made it a rule to consumo four quarts a day. On gala occaslona he has been known to do better in less than a day. Dooner once startled the management ot a Baltimore restaurant by ordering 100 ter rapins for a party of ten. Padden wae In the party, snd he declares that Dooner got awsy with twelve plates, and at bed time felt faint and had to have something to eat. There was one meal that the con tractor tabooed. This was breakfsst, which in his case consists only of two quarts of ice cream. Mr. Dooner's appetite, his chief asset, is not involved in the proceedings. There Is In New Tork ,1,117.754,537 worth of property exempt from tsxstlon. Figures showing this were made public In the city record isst week by the department of taxes and assessments. All of the exempt property is the property of the state and national governments, of the city itself and property used for church purposes. Chief among the items exempt from tax ation Is Central park, which is carried on the books as worth 1200,000,000. The subway Is valued at $40,000,000. the city hall park and buildings at $28,300,000, Governors Is land at $5,660,000, Union square at $4,000,000, St. Patrick's cathedral at $6,000,000, Black well's Island and its buildings at $12,000,000, Mt. Morris park at $4,500,000, Bronx park at $6,000,000, Jerome park reaervoir st $1,500,000, postofflce building at $10,800,000, Battery park reservoir at $2, 600,000, the new custom house at $1,800,000 and tha old custom house at $4,500,000. The sight of men using American flags to clean windows and braaa work at Lane's hotel. Thirty-ninth street and Sixth avenue, caused a riot that threatened to Wreck the place. The hotel is owned by Henry La.ua, who waa away. WTiat his views on patriotism may be nobody knew until this afternoon, when twe men appeared outside the place with a bundle of American flags. They were part Of the Fourth of July deflorations. With the stara and stripes the workmen began to rub the windows and polish the brass trimmings. A crowd collected and demands were made that the men change their polishing rsgs. They refused to do so and the mob, which by this time num bered nearly 800 persons, began to throw stones at the building. - Windows were smashed and the two men were being roughly handled when police reserves ar rived and restored order. The men finished the work with other cloths than the American flag. Vice Chancellor Pitney in Newark laat week declared .that the defunct New Tork Building and Loan Banking company was a fraud, and thoae who had Invested in it need not expect to receive .more than 2D per cent of their original Investment. - The vice chancellor also said that the concern could hardly pay S per eat honestly. The esse came up la the chancery court on the return of an order to show cause why the final accounting of Charles M. Preston, an ancillary receiver in New Jer sey, should not . be approved. The order also Included a proposed additional allow ance of $6,000 to trie! receiver and $3,600 to Frank P. McDermott of Jersey City. The latter requeata were allowed. According to the ancillary receiver, mortgage claims Involving several hun dred properties in New Jersey hsve been settled without a "single foreclosure, and in New Tork, out of several thousands of Buy Hair at Auction? At any rate, you seern to be getting rid of it on auction-sale principles: "going, going, g-o-n-e!" Stop the auc tion with Ayer's Hair Vigor. It checks falling hair, and always restores color to gray hair. A splendid dressing, keeps the scalp clean. Sold for over 60 years. The best kind of a testimonial- Sold for over suae ky lb . O. At C., Xwslt, Uaa, Ala ataaaAMtmrera t A YVl'S 8 ABaAPAkIIXA-FeT Us Mace. ATSK'8 PU.L4-Wm seaatiaatiM. AVM'8Cajay rCTt)aal fateeeiaa. such esses, foreclosure hsd been resorted to In less tlisn fifty cases. The net pro ceeds of the company's assets In New Jer sey were $.10,482, and In addition, stock holders' claims aggregating $22.94 hav been settled. All the money twill, undei the law, have to be brought to New Tork, where distribution will eventuslly be mads. The concern was capitalised at ever a million dollars. The modern spirit of Inquiry has been at work in Maine and brought to light th Inner workings of the American Ice com pany. The company has fifty-four lea houses Is Maine, thirty-two separate pieces of prop erty In Philadelphia, twenty-four in New Tork, twelve In Baltimore and ten In Waahlngton. The total value of its lc properties ts $l$,20g,600. Its Philadelphls properties being rated St $4,098,280. Th company's preferred atock Ia of the pat value of $14,700,000, which more than coven , the given value of Ita plant. The amount of its common stock Is not given, but it appears to represent nothing but unfrosen water and the privilege of "soaking" the. public A profit of 2V4 cents a hundred pounds would suffice to pay a 6 per cent dividend on the preferred stock.. FLASHES OF FIN "Let me see," said the man who affected a knowledge of literature, "wasn't It Shakespeare who said, "The evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft in terred with their bones?" "I don't know," replied the weary looklns man, "but I'll bet the man who wrote that was never married to a widow." Chicago Tribune. "To him that hath," said the man whs loves to quote, "shall be given." "Yes." said the practical philosopher, "and to him that hath not shall be given a swift kick." PUck. "A number of statesmen refuse to depend on the Judgment of the common people. "Well," answered Farmer Corntossel, "after the poor Judgment shown by ue eom mon people in puttln' 'em up for office, I don't know as I blame 'em." Washington Star. "What's the trouble between yon and Mabel?" . "She aaked me to tell her Just what I thought ot her." "W'ell?" . "Well, I did what she wanted me to." Cleveland Leader. "Got the Job o' bualneas cards done fur Doc Pillar?'1 asked the country editor. "Y'a'as," replied the foreman. It's done, but Hi made a leetle mistake a-settln' it up. Mebbe Doo ll kick, but I reckon it ain't ao fur wrong." "W'at is Itf "HI made it 'Prescriptions Carefully. Cotfe founded.' "Philadelphia Press. THE BONO OK TUB "FAN." (With Apologies to Tom Hood.) With angers weary and worn,'' ' s' " With brain too 'heavy to think ' '" I sit In the office All 'day long, Plying my pen and my Ink. Writel Write! Wrltel :In summer, spring and fall. And still with a soul that's far from light I alng the aong of baae ball. Work! Work! Work I While the umplre'a "throwing" the game Work! Work! Work! While the home team'a beaten again. 'Tla, oh! to be a slave - ' Immersed In gloom and woe. Where a man has never an hour te himself To the base bail game to go. Write! Write! Write! When the base ball game begins: Write! Write! Writel While the Omahas have their "ins," Pen, and Ink, and book That I so often have seen. Till over the labor 1 fall asleep And watch the game in a dream. Bnt why do I talk of ball; That game so easily won? I scarcely aee a game a year For my bondage Is never done, I hardly ever gt there Because of the hooka I keep, Ye gods! that vacation ahould be ao dear 'And the admission should be so cheap. Work! Work! Work! Through the afternoons so bright. Work! Work! Work! While the brawny teams do fight. While from the bleachers and grandstand roar The fanatics with loud acclaim, ' And "root" and yell, till their throats are sore. As the favorites Jose the game. Oh! but for Juat one peep On these days so warm and bright. But I've no time to the park to leap But only time to write. A little yelling would ease my heart. But not till late P. M. Can I depart, for every stop Hinders Angers and pen. With fingers weary and worn. With brain too heavy to think,' I sit In the office all day long. Pushing my pen and my ink. Write! Write! Writel Till my fingers are crippled and lame, Oh! when will the office close Just onoa So that I can go to the game. Omaha. Neb. J. N. CAMPIOIf. sixty years" AIU'tAOTgCUKa tMlaftee84J4-