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C. C Rosewater, general manager or
The Bee Publishing company, being duly
worn, says that the actual number of
full and complete copies of The Dally,
Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed
during the month of July. i!(U8 was as
follows:
1
30,140
17 31,330
18 31.&S0
2 31,710
33.330
33.SO0
39,800
31,360
. , 83,330
30,800
31,380
19.
20.
21.
22.
21.
24.
31,880
31,880
33,430
80,600
31,750
Sl,6b0
81,030
25
10 31,660
11 31,530
It 33,630
II 33,360
14 34,080
15 30,400
28 31,370
27 31,730
;j 33,180
29 80,560
to 81,830
l M10
II 33,900
Total ia?,to
Less unsold copies 10,860
Net total sales 876,94
Dally average 81,615
C. C. ROSEWATER,
General Manager.
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mailed te ,fceaa. Adores will be
If Persia is not careful it will have
more Mad Mullahs than Great Britain
ever dreamed of.
With lumber dealers advancing
prices at San Frauclsco. the extent of
.their. real sympathy for the
quake victims is measurable.
earth-
Those Lincoln knockers will find
themselves barking up the wrong tree
when . they impugn the integrity of
County Assessor Reed. .
Now that the Black Hundred has
substituted assassination for open riot
there la evidence of reform at work
In the Russian bureau.
As long as one-Tiairot thO 'Russian
army Is compelled to watch the other
'half Premier Stolypln's policy ot
"strong-handed" reform threatens to
remain a theory.
With the navy Involved in mutiny
the ctar may yet regret that Admiral
Rojestvensky did not have all the Rus
sian ships with htm when he surren
dered to the Japs.
Tom Taggart must be of the opin-
ton that the successor of Governor
Folk will not be an adept with "the
lid" or ho would not be negotiating for
a hotel at Excelsior Springs.
With a Kentucky negro . legally
sangea witnin nve minutes alter a
Jury was Impanelled to try him, Judge
Lynch will have to travel faster to
keep up with Kentucky Justice.
The man who organized the Kansas
City Ice trust proves ' to have been
"frosen out" by his associates. But
then he didn't make I4 5.00Q in two
years on an Investment of 1800.
That Insurance company which re-
frees to pay its Ban Francisco losses
on the ground that the disaster was a
visitation of Providence would proba-
hly object as strongly if shown that it
was the work .of man.
The correspondence between Omaha
and Lincoln over alleged dissatlsfac-
tion with mercantile assessments In
'the two cities affords further verifica
tion ot the Injunction. "Burn the let
ter before, you mall It."
It the Interstate Commerce commis
sion Insists upon a literal compliance
with the terms ot the publicity clause
ot the new rate law midnight sched
ules wll cost so much that daylight
schedules will have the call.
Alleged "grafters" in the Havana
city council have resigned. The
"Americanization" of the Island is cer
tainly Incomplete or these men would
have Insisted upon being convicted by
the court ot last resort before eepu-
raUng themselves from their salary.
.
South Omaha is having trouble in
getting bids for a proposed new sewer
within balling distance of the eati-
mates made by the engineers. One ot
two things must be involved either
the engineers undershot the mark or
the bidders have an understanding not
to press each other too closely with
the chances In favor of the latter.
'
The Sioux City Tribune speaks of
"the movement Inaugurated by Oov-
ernor Cummins to secure the election
of senators by direct vote of the peo-
pie." The memory of partisan writ-
ers is proverblaly short, but this Is
carrying the matter too far. since the
movement was "inaugurated" In Ne
braska, long before the father of the
"Iowa tea" entered politic.
RKDCCKD TAHK MAX 1)1 I'M.
The reduction of the maximum one
way fare to 2H cents a mile by the
Pennsylvania Is one of the mot Im
portant railroad changes announced In
a long while. Since It makes a lower
basis for through fares It will neces
sarily affect all competitive trunk lines
between the east and the weet, and In
directly their local rates. In any event
the Initiative taken by the Penn
sylvania, the typical and greatest rail
road system In the country, must have
a powerful tendency In the direction
of a lower general maximum pas
senger charge.
The Innovation comes as the logical
consequence of a broad policy adopted
a few years ago by the Pennsylvania
when a; series of permanent Improve
ments was planned Involving a pro
digious outlay. The purpose In con
structing quadruple main lines, with
numerous relieving side lines and vast
terminals, was to provide, not merely
for the natural Increase of business,
but also for the larser volume of
travel and tonnage that would be pro
duced by such reductions as the one
Just announced.
Beyond question it must be clear to
the directing minds In the transporta
tion world that a larger volume of
travel can be profitably carrted on a
lower fare maximum than the one that
has so long been maintained, but two
circumstances hava hitherto prevented
a step In that direction, although the
average rate actually paid has been
somewhat reduced by special conces
sions. In the first place, travel through
increase of population and Industrial
prosperity has pressed upon facilities,
at least of the great trunk lines. In
the second place, the carrier interests
were certain to be slow to make radi
cal reduction so long as the public
showed no disposition to use compul
sion. Moreover, sagacious railroad lead
ership can now hardly fall to realize
the fact that the free pass abuse is
doomed to speedy abolition, relieving
the roads of a burden as heavy to them
as the injustice was to non-pass users.
The action of the Pennsylvania, it Is
safe to assume, merely starts a move
ment that Is destined to become gen
eral at no distant day.
DUBIOUS ABOUT THE TARIFF ISSUE
The effort of those democratic
statesmen who favor the paramountcy
of the tariff issue to push it to the
front seems to be succeeding no
better than that of various other
groups who would have the coming
contest turn on one of a half a dozen
other Issues. The more they ponder
the situation the less hopeful does a
tariff ripping program appear. There
are some congressional districts In
which the democratic party commands
an overwhelming majority and in
which it is safe no matter what it may
write in its platform. But by far the
greater number of districts are not
like the Mlsslaalnnl district represented
by Jonn 8narp w,iliams, the advocate
of a tarlff-rlpptng campaign, in which
there will be no republican candidate
and no republican ballot cast, but are
the debatable ground of a free and in
dependent electorate.
The Information that is reliably re
ported to be coming In to the demo
cratic managers from the close dis
tricts Indicates that the tariff issue. If
made pivotal, will be ratal, and even
that not a few districts now repre
sented by democrats will be lost to
them. Industrial conditions are so
pre-eminently satisfactory that a party
pledged to strike at theu will certainly
have uphill work.
The situation that thus confronts
democratic candidates whose main
point Is to secure election Is so serious
as very likely to eliminate the tariff
also from this year's contest as the
dominant question. What Is wanted
is a "paramount issue" only that will
not lose votes, if by hook or crook
such an issue can be invented.
BRYAS ASD SULLIVAN.
The history of American politics
will be searched in vain for a deliver-
ance by a public man in Mr. Bryan's
position more extraordinary in its
terms, and underlying assumptions
than his peremptory demand for the
resignation of Roger Sullivan, the Illi
nois member of the aemocratic na-
tional committee. The regularity and
validity of Mr. Sullivan's title as na
tional committeeman are impregnable
and, as he shows in his trenchant reply
and as Mr. Bryan of all men has great
est cause to know, had been affirmed
by the highest and sole authority lu
the democratic party, namely, the
democratic national convention itself.
For that body deliberately and most
expressly affirmed Mr. Sullivan's title,
denying the allegation of fraud which
Mr. Bryan; as attorney and champion
of the contestant, urged with all his
might before the St. Louis convention
two years ago.
In short, Mr. Bryan sets himself up
" tne democratic party's absolute dic-
t8tor "Kardless of its established or-
Sanitation and regularly constituted
authorities. His attitude Is like that
ot n attorney who, having appealed a
caM to the supreme court and been by
11 sweeplngly decided against, shoult
lonK afterwards suddenly demand that
tbe subject matter be forthwith sur-
rendered by the successful party on
tne Yerv ground rejected by the court,
Mr. Bryan does not deign to explain
by what right he thus assumes to set
himself above all rightly constituted
party authority, national and state
- The general public will Inquire in
smazement why, on that basis of po
litical czarism, he has not Issued I
ukase of banishment against Tom Tag
gart? And It Mr. Sullivan's "corpora
tlon connections" are deemed by the
dictator. grouud for decapitation,' how
is It that dozens ot other members of
the democratic national committee
with 'notoriously greater "rorporatlon
connections." are not In the same de
cree ordered to the block.
Possibly," however, the Imperial pro-
nunclamento against Committeeman
Sullivan Is merely the first of a purg
ing process whereby all democratic
party organizations, state and national,
are to be reduced between now and
1908 to mere echoing Instruments of
his autocratic will. The act Is con
sistent only with that theory and it
also harmonizes with the long-distance
dictation of arrangements for the
much advertised bome-comlng cere
monial.
USB US IS ESS UK E.
The renewal of the fight made by
Lincoln merchants, goaded by business
competition, against the mercantile as
sessments of Omaha before the State
Board of Equalization, irrespective of
the merits or lack of merit of the con
tention, emphasizes the fact that the
state board transacts Its business in a
most unbusinesslike way.
This board, both as a board of as
sessment fixing the' value of railroad
property and as a board of'equaliia-
tlon to' review the assessment returns
from the different counties, needs very
badly some rules of procedure by
which those concerned may govern
themselves. The revenue law pre
scribes the work of these boards only
In general terms, but the board itself
should establish and adhere to some
sort of rules governing the filing of
protests, the notice to those protested,
an opportunity for answer and a hear
ing upon the Issues.
In the present case the board had
met at the time required by law and
gone over the assessment returns from
all the counties in the state, making a
few changes on Its own initiative in
certain classes where the valuations
appeared on their face to be Inequit
able, and had practically finished its
work when the protest of the Lincoln
merchants was allowed to be filed at
the eleventh hour. If there was merit
in this protest there was no good rea
son why it should not have been filed
at the commencement of the session,
inasmuch as the Douglas county mer
cantile assessments were completed
and publicly known weeks ago.-
Under the open and shut procedura
of the state board j-epresentatlves of
still other counties can yet come in
and protest the returns of Lancaster
county and of other counties, one after
the other, holding the final assessment
off practically indefinitely. It is
safe proposition that an eleventh hour
protest is not made in good faith and
should not be entertained on general
principles.
Colonel Bryan's demand for the
resignation of the democratic national
committeeman for Illinois and in event
of his refusal for his ousting by the
coming democratic state convention
raises the point anew as to the source
of authority of the national commit-
'tea and the control of its members by
the state organizations. On the re
publican side it Is fairly well estab
llRhed that national committeemen get
their commissions from the national
convention merely on recommendation
of the various state delegations, and
that they are not subject to discipline
by the state organizations. When
they resign the resignation is properly
addressed to the national committee
which alone has authority to fill va
cancies, although every political com
mlttee, doubtless, has the power to
expel a member for cause. The state's
rights doctrine, which would make
eacH Vate a separate and Independent
unit. 'Blight be invoked by the demo
crate to warrant the ousting of a na
tional committeeman by a state con
ventlon before his term of service has
expired, but the pernicious effect of
such a rule would be seen If it were
carried still further to state, county
and city committees, subjecting the
members to ousting at any time on de
mand of some dissatisfied constituent.
Nebraska prohibitionists In thel
state convention have again affirmed
allegiance to popular election of
United States senators, but instead of
nominating a candidate for senator
they have relegated that duty to th
state committee. Upon at least one
previous occasion a prohibition candl
date for United States senator wa
nominated In Nebraska and voted on
at the polls, so that this action, or
rather inaction, by the prohibition
convention 1b a backward step on its
part. If It Is right and proper that
the rank and file of each political
party should choose their own candi
dates for senator it would be hard to
Justify the exercise of that power by
a small group under authority vested
In them as a party committee.
According to the report of the city
engineer, Omaha's municipal asphalt
repair plant Is making good on the
financial side of the account as well as
In other respects. Not only are the
bad places In the pavement being re
paired with reasonable promptness,
but the cost to the city has been re
duced to approximately 82 cents a
yard as compared with bids of paving
contractors ranging from $1.10 to
$1.20 per yard. No wonder the pav
ing contractors lose no opportunity to
disparage the municipal repair plant
and have their representatives In the
council constantly at work to have It
put out of commission so they msy re
sume the job at lucrative prices.
The county board and the sheriff are
still negotiating for a readjustment of
the Jail-feeding contract to conform to
the recommendations ofsjhe late grand
Jury. There is no question but that
the present Jatl-feedlng arrangements
are unsatisfactory to all concerned. It
la to be hoped a new deal ran be
agreed upon by which the sheriff
I would bo paid per capita only for the
food furnished the prisoners, but no
hange should be made nnless It in
hides wiping the slate clean up to
date with a complete settlement that
will effectually bar future law suits
over pending differences.
It Is only fair to explain that Con
gressman Towne s visit to Nebraska
was not as an advance agent of
Colonel Bryan's home-coming proces-
lon, but merely in connection with a
Chautauqua lecture engagement.
1 1 to the Dealstner.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
It has been shown that all steel railway
car can be built as, cheaply as wooden
csrs, that they weigh but one-tenth more
and that they minimise the fatalities In
case of accidents. Then why not make
their use general? '
nemscrsey and Discretion.
St. I.ouls Globe Democrat.
A democratic paper says republican plat
forms said nothing about protection until
IS), when the party was several years old.
Isn't that early enough to cover the whole
ground? The democratic party hasn't
reached discretion at the age of 70.
Older Heads Arc Sorry.
Indianapolis News.
But the bright young men who didn't
play the chancy game of bidding on the
Panama bond Issue, and thereby pick up
some I27,00rt, as did Mr. Byerley. are not
the only one who are kicking themselves.
There are some shrewd older ones who
reflect regretfully what a material differ
ence a slight change In their bids would
have made.
Pnhltrlty and Morality.
Indianapolis Star.
Cardinal Gibbons believes In the news
papers as moral agents. Bpeaklng of pop
ular abuses and their remedies, he says:
Rrond and liberal discussion of prevalent
abuses and their causes, fixing responsi
bility and disclosing criminality, are doing
much to remedy those abuses and to bring
business morality back to the point of
safety." In other words, publicity Is a
cure, and how can there be publicity with
out the press?
Poithimovi Assessment.
Bpringfleld Republican..
While the Chicago taxing authorities did
not dare assess Marshall Field on more
than a. small fraction of his personal prop
erty. In fear that he would change his
residence, they . now proceed to even up
matters a little by collecting taxes seven
years back on so much of the estate as
should have paid and evaded payment. The
great merchant cannot now change his
residence; that has become pretty defin
itely fixed, so far as this world Is con
cerned. It Is thus not a particularly coura
geous performance on the part of the tax
ing board, whatever may be said of the
equities of the case. The estate' will ac
cordingly be "soaked" this year to the ex
tent of I2,SOO,000 In taxes, or more than
the whole amount of the personal prop
erty on which Mr. Field consented to pay
taxs while living. It Is now reckoned that
his estate Is worth some $l8o,ono,000.
Congress and the Canteen.
New York Bun.
Representatives In congress who voted to
withhold appropriations from soldiers'
homes maintaining a canteen must have
doubts by this time of the Wisdom of their
ruse as a vote getting proposition. It seems
to have aroused and Incensed the old sol
diers all over the country. The time-serv
ing politicians will hear from them at the
national encampment of,.t he. Grand Army of
the Republic If J'CorporAi;,'. Tanner, the pres.
ent commander-in-chief, has any Influence
with his comrades. "f have been over a
great deal of the country In the last year,
says Mr. Tanner. I have talked with a
great many of the Inmates of soldiers
homes. I have also talked on the same
question with many of the officers of the
regular army. All of them denounce such
legislation as an Insult to the old soldiers
aa well as to the soldiers In the regular
army." Candidates for congress, we fancy
would sooner have the old soldiers with
them then the fsnatlcs who can he line1 up
by the Woman's Chrlstlsn Temperance
union, the organization which procured the
legislation complained of.
BACHKl.ORS AND SPINSTERS.
Some Reasons Why They honld Not
I.onaier So Continue.
Chlcsgo Inter Ocean.
It would not be absolutely within the
bounds of truth to say that the first an
nual convention of the Associated Bach
elors and Spinsters of Iowa, held at Forest
City on Wednesday, was a complete suc
cess. It might have been were It not for cer.
tain reasons. One of these was the all too
apparent fact that many of the spinsters
are young enough as yet to change their
minds. Another was' that several of the
bachelors, who are really old enough to
know better, preferred to sit with the
spinsters when they might have sat with
each other.
Another reason wss that, while the dele
gates professed to regard singleness as an
Ideal state, they would not trust a bach
elor with the nomination for the governor
ship. And still another was that, while
they refused to endorse the anti-race sui
cide policy of the national administration.
they adopted a platform which declares
that good government Is founded on the
home.
Putting sslde everything else and confin
ing ourselves entirely to the last named
proposition, let us ask what in the nam
of sense they mean by pretending to be
opposed to the anti-race suicide policy of
the national administration If they believe
In the home? What do they mean by a
home? s
Do they mean a place where a spinster
lives downstairs and a bachelor has a
hall bed rcom upstairs and 'where the only
occupant Is a cat 7 Or ao they mean a
place where, the spinster having at length
yielded, r.o matter how reluctantly, to the
perpetual entreatlea of the bachelor, both
live all over tha house and In course of
time the patter of six, eight or ten pairs
of little feet Is heard on the landings and
tha merry noises produced by six, eight or
ten pairs of little lungs resound merrily
through tha halsT
Wa do not pretend to say what they
mean. All we know Is that they are In-'
consistent. We cannot have homes unless
we go about making homes In the right
way. Brick and mortar and wall paper
and furniture ajid whatnots and gas stoves
and all that sort of thing do not make
homes. A home is only a home In name
that haa not at some time or other had
shoes, marbles, base ball bats, dolls, toy
cannon, short pants, tops, kites, chewing
gum. strsy dogs, safety pins and such like
strewn over Its floors that has not had
the prints of dirty hands on the windows
that has never echoed In the silent watches
of the night with the soft but steady
tramp of the kind father as he soothed
the pain In the Interior department of his
first born.
If home Is such a good thing If the
bachelors and spinsters of Iowa believe It
to be the foundation of good government,
then their duty Is manifest. And from all
accounts the convention at Forest City
though a failure la one respect, will event.
usJly prove quits a success la another.
TWO C RT tD IIIS MCIVC
Kew lark Ktpresa Company Clerk's
Deal la Panama Bonds.
A clerk who has worked fifteen years
belrfnd a desk on the top floor of the Amer
ican Express company's New Tork office
and was stoop-shouldered from driving aJ
pen all day long has set all Wall street
talking, lie is Samuel Byerley, who on
Saturday, July 21, received notice from
Secretary Shaw that he hsd been awarded
I6.WO.OHO of the new Panama canal bonds.
Nobody else bid for the bonds but bank
ers and preferential holders. A syndicate
got $i5,00n.ono. Next to the syndicate Byer
ley got Ihi biggest block of the bonds.
Thursdsy morning the express clerk dis
posed of his bonds at a price which meant
a profit for him of a little over tio.ono.
Bach A Co. of 42 Broadway, took the
bonds from him. They were acting for
Fiske A Robinson, the representatives of
the syndicate that got 115.000.000. They evi
dently did not want their market to be
destroyed by the bonds which the express
clerk had, and he did not have any diffi
culty In getting them off his hands.
After disposing of the little bond deal
Byerley went back Jo the express office,
put on his coat, shook hands with , his
fellow clerks, and started off on a two
months' leave of abaence. He Is going
to take his whole family to Europe on
what he has made on the Investment of a
postsge stamp. Mora than that, -when he
comes back he Is to step Into a bigger
job and get a raise.
The executive officers of the express
company aldn t know they had sucn a
clerk until the bond deal came out. Thurs
day they decided that a clerk with such
financial acumen might be of more aid to
the company than simply chasing up fig
ures on a set of books, so It was deter
mined to shift him from the accounting de
partment to the office of the tressurer.
Just what salary he will get they wouldn
say, but It will be a good deal more than
he has been getting.
Byerley, who hss suddenly become a
Wall street figure, and the talk of every
one concerned In making money, from the
humhlest office boy to the haughtiest mil
lionaire. Is a small man. about 60 year
of age and with hair Just turning gray.
He was once a clerk In a bank In Cali
fornia. When he came to this city he
could get nothing better than clerking for
an express company. For seven years
Byerley has been arriving at 8 o'clock In
the morning and quitting the desk at I at
night, with an hour off for lunch. He
has a large family, Including a daughter
nearly 20 years of sge. They live In a
very small flat In Central Park west.
Byerley's Job has been figuring out bal
ance sheets. He was accustomed to figure
millions, ' hut none of them belonged to
him. What Wall street Is pondering Is
how he acquired a knowledge for the bond
business sufficient for him to take such a
chance. They do not hnndle any such
things as bonds In Byerley's department.
The chance that Byerley took was open
to any one who could afford a 1-eent
postage stamp to carry a bid to Washing
ton. For the first time since 1896 the gov
ernment withdrew the usual order requir
ing a deposit when bids are filed. The
resson, It has been stated, was beeaues
there was some fear felt over the results
of the Issue, owing to the stagnation of
"the investment market and money strin
gency, and Secretary Shaw did not want
to put any obstacles In the way.
When the announcement of the sale was
made the clerk who had been bending over
figures m an office with scores of clerks on
the same footing as himself saw hla" op
portunity. Then he did some remarkable
figuring. It was remarkable In that his
average bid figured out a little hit better
than the big concerns. His average was
103. 96. He also was shrewd enough to see
that the bonds would almost certainly go
up that the banks would need money for
crops soon, and that government bonds
will be In demand. But he only had until
August 1 to do business. On August t he
would have had to put un the money to
actually get the bonds, and that would
have meant millions.
Byerley got word on Saturday the bonds
had been awarded to him. On Monday
morning he walked Into the office of Bnche
Co. He had to get special permission
from the express company to go out for
the few minutes. Nobody knew him In the
office of the bond house.
I've got a few bonds I'd like to sell,"
he said, pulling something out of Ms
pocket. ,
The bond expert thought It would turn
out that he hsd some old scrip or some
mining company paper. When Byerley
showed him the official notification from
Washington the bond man almost fell In
fit. He offered Bnche A Co. an option
on his bonds, and the firm took It fh-n
and there. But even then Bverley wan't
sure that the concern would take the
bonds, and every day brought him nearer
August 1 and failure. He left Rache &
Co. and the next day got two more hours
special lesve. He went around to some of
the other big bond houses. None of them
would buy his bonds. Had he. sold them
he would have had to give Bsche & Co.
their commission, but he was willing to do
that, as the dsys were getting so short.
He couldn't get anybody to take the bonds
from hlrn.
Thursday morning at 11 o'clock he went
to Bache & Co.'s office. He didn't know
whether he had won or lost.
'We'll take your bonds," said the bond
expert, and his face was wreathrd in
smiles.
uosn: ne saia. as It dawned on him
what it meant.
mure a mrsy man. and you ve got
more nerve than most of them Mnn
here," said Mr. Woolman, the bond man.
Byerley did not get his money all at once
as It will take a day or wo to figure It
out. and then he will receive a chack
But Byerley decided to start his vacation
right away. He had won. and he didn't
lose any time In getting home to tell his
wife and the children what he had made
with a 2-cent stamp and a head for figures.
Byerley haa never had more than two
weeks' vacation, and only In late years
has he had this. He's saved a little on
his small salary, but the tlO.000 It may
even be a trifle more than that-ls clean
velvet, and he and his family are going
to have a good time with a large part of It.
"Byerley certainly showed wonderful
acumen." said one of the members of
Bache 4 Co. "It took careful figuring to
do w'hat he has done, and any amount of
nerve. But he's wmn out on an Investment
of 2 cents, and we're glad we had some,
thing to do with his fortune. He was the
happiest man I ever saw In my life."
The bond men figured out that If he has
made $10,000 on the deal, the actual profit
on his Investment of 2 cents for a postsga
stamp was 4.498.990 per cent. It's the roo
ord, so fsr as Wall street knows.
Allevlalloa or SanTerla.
Baltimore American.
A philanthropist In New Tork has made
a present of a thousand summer hats to
as many horaea. Another has given $10.
000 for drinking fountains to be placed In
the public streets for tha use of animals.
The cause of tha higher education In hu
manity Is making rapid headway, and with
It la coming a higher appreciation of hu
man suffering and the need for Its allevia
tion. The treatment of Its animals by a
community Is a good standard by which
to Judgs lis Intelligence ant progress.
M.4R AD MIS wirii.
t
Maseallne Standard and Koollaa
Woman's Apparent W him.
Cleveland leader.
Mrs. Frank H. Klrby of Merlden.
Conn., will beconsldered either a martyr
or a fool, according to the sex of the person
who discusses her and her conduit. Her
husband Is the local managrr of the Stand
ard OH company. His position Is rrspon-
sioie and nsra. tie nss to work msny
nights, and so he cannot pay his wife the
attention he did before marriage when he
turned down the gas In the front parlor
six nights In every week, with a high score
of seven out of a possible seven, once or
twice a month. Mrs. Klrby resented this
business activity so much that she took
carbolic acid the other night and .neatly
settled the whole matter herself.
Her act' will start again the' entvrual
question between the sexes whether It Is
better simply to tell a woman you love her
or to keep silent and show It.
Women, to a unit, prefer the first method.
It suits their emotional natures better.
Anyone who can dodge teacups easily
needn't mind adding lhat It better soothes
their vanity. They love to be told of their
beauty and their fascination. It Is a liner
exhibit of husbandry affection In many a
girl's eyes than the sight of a young man
slaving long and hard and willingly, too
to put all possible pleasure In her life.
Many men are accused of money-grubbing
because they grind and make hard bargains.
Their desire, generally speaking. Is to have
money to spend on their families, l'art
may be personal vanity, part the result of
business rivalry. But the basic cause of
this undue energy Is affection. It springs
from that fond protection which It 1s the
glory of good men to give and good women
to receive.
Mrs. Klrby Is a bride and one of exceed
ing foolishness. A seasoned wife, under-
derstanding man's nature from long and
loving association with him and knowing
that he must show his love In his own way,
would see In the excessive Industry of Mr.
Klrby the highest proof of his affection.
She would deplore the fact that he had
to be away from her so much, but no
more than he would lament the loss ot
her society.
It Is easy to tell a woman that you love
her and to keep on doing so till the crack
o' doom. That only wiggles the end of the
tongue. But true affection calls the
muscles Into play and tires them and makes
exhausting drafts on the brain.
The wise woman knows this and rejoices
that she can Inspire a love so sincere and
so strong. The foollBh one doesn I deserve
an Industrious husband. She might marry
a drone and take In washing to support
him.
rERSONAI, MOTES.
Thomas A. Edison Is planning a 2.500-mile
automobile trip for August, to extend to
Canada, where he will continue his re
searches Into the cobalt deposits.
Otto Belt, brother of the diamond king
who recently died In Ixmdon, Inherits the
bulk of his brother's fortune. His wife
Is an American woman, who was Miss
Lillian Carter of Louisiana.
Right Rev. Bishop Conaty recently ad
ministered the sscrament of confirmation
to a class of eight Indian boys and thirty
nine Indian girls of the Sherman institute,
which Is the government Indian school at
Arlington, Cal.
John Lane, who lives at tha national
capital. Is the only man now living who
has seen the face of George Washington.
This was when the body wss removed in
May, 1834, from the old vault to the tomb
of Mount Vernon.
Friends and admirers of William Henry
Harrison Murray, "Adirondack Murray,"
have formed a plan for a memorial and
have Issued a circular in which a sum
mary account of his life and the value of
his work Is ' given. ( , ,'
Two Japanese boys, sons of M. Hayshl
of Toklo have arrived at Lexington, Ky.,
to work about the stables housing the fa
mous Salvator, Star Ruby, Watercress and
other great horses at the Elmandorf stud
In order to learn the method of breeding
thoroughbred horses.
Richard Harding Davis will assist his
fellow author, Winston Churchill, in his
campaign for governor of New Hamp
shire. He will not take the stump, but
as he describes It, will be "The Greek
Chirus." He says he will begin a per
sonal canvass of voters.
Rev. Wesley Borders of Harrison. Ind.,
Is the oldest republican voter In that state,
having passed the century mark. He cast
his first vote for John Qulncy Adams in
1828, and from the time of Fremont until
the last presidential year he has cast his
ballot fur the republican candidate.
Justice Brewer of the United Slates su
preme court says he spends the whole
vacation period loafing. "From June to
Octilier I sm absolutely no sccount to
anybody In the world, and I don't make,
a single unnecessary move from the time
I leave the supreme court till I get back
to It."
Claude E. Palmer, an employe of the
Missouri Pacific shops at Osawatomle,
Kan., who has been working his way
through the University of Ksnsas, has
been notified thst he has been sppolnted
to an endowed scholarship In the New
York School of Applied Sciences through'
the influence of Miss Helen Gould.
The doweger duchess of Newcastle Is one
of the great Roman Catholic women who
devote their lives to the poor. She was
told that the Whltchapel - district was In
greatest disrepute owing to the exploits
of "Jack the Ripper." She Immediately
went to the Whltechapel district, and has
since msde her home, for the most part of
the year, at St. Anthony's house In Great
Preseott street.
Is Your
Hair Sick?
That's too bad! We had - noticed it
was looking pretty thin and faded of
late, but naturally did not like to speak
of it. By the way, Ayer's Hair Vigor
is a regular hair grower, a perfect hair
restorer. It keeps the scalp clean and
healthy; and stops falling hair.
The best kind of a testimonial
" Sold for over sixty years."
Hade ay the . O. Ares
ATM SAJiaAJUtLA-Vr tae Me.
Atnas casual wsctokal rstasaghs.
DIED SUDDENLY
OP HEART D15EASQ.
How frequently doe a head lino simi
lar to tne above greet us In tha newt
pspers. The rush, push ao4 trenuon
nea of the American people has a strong
tendency to lead op to valvular and ovher
affections of the heart, svvmded by ir
regular action, palpltaUon, dlrrlness,
smothered sensations and other distress
ing tTmptoros. '
Three of tha prominent InjrredlatHs of
which Dr. rieiw's Woldon Medical Dis
covery Is trade are recommended by some
of the leading writers on MifrrH Mullet
for the cure of Just such cases. Ooldcn
Peal root, for Instance, I said hy tUe
UniTin States Distbjsatort, a stand
ard authority, "to Impart lone ani in
creased power to the heart's action.
Numerous other leading anthorltlc rep
resent Golden Seal a an unsurpassed
tonic for tha muscular system In general,
and as tha heart. Is almost wholl t com-
rsed of muscular tlssuo. It n(urally
illows tht It roust be greatly strength
ened by this superb, general tonic. Hut
probably the most Important ingredient
Of " Golden Medical Discovery so fur
as Its marvelous cures of valvular and
other affections of thn heart a so con
rerned, Is Stone root, or CoUtiumnfai l'm.. .
Pmf. Wro. l'alno, author of I'alnc t
Eli torn T '. Medicine, says nf It:
"I. not long tfnea, hsd a ps'lint who 4
ao much oppressed lth ralvnlar dlinsso of
tha heart that bis fr'.ends wen- t'taliayil to
Carry him np-stslrs. H, ..Ter. grsuuslly
recovered under the Influence vf rolllnxHiin
(medicinal prlnclplo extracted from tffona
root), and is now attantllng to hl m.:"f
Heretofore physicians knew of no rcmea
for the removal of so dv resting and vwlm,
gerous a maledy. Wlru tiiom it - sll
fmwwork, ana It fesrtnliy wrn,l the
r, filleted tbst death wss near at lisnrl Col
liisuntn unumwUonalily nfford relief la
such cases, and in ma t Instsm-es envois
eure."
Stone root Is also recotnmeniled bv tr.
Hale and Elllngwol. of Chicago, for
valvular and other dles of the heart.
The latter says: "It Is a heart tonic of
direct and pennaivml Influence. "
"Golden Medical Discovery," not onl,
cures serious heart aftctlons. but Is a
most efficient general tonic and tnv'or
ator, strengthening the stntnuch, lnls
orating thn Jlver, regulating tho bowo.i
and curing catarrhal nlTcctinns in Hi
parts of the system.
Da Pierce's Pellets euro fMt:sti(.a;l.iii
POISTKIl It KM A H KS.
"All men are crentd free,'1 decinred t lie
flunilxiynni cttlxrn.
"Thnt' right.'' assented the sour cltixen.
"Marriage eln't forced en to mil od, .
When a feller gels spliced he ill es It i'.ii
his own renMt .slliillty." litlsburg Post.
"Poverty." swl.1 tne man of platitudes
"Is no disgrace."
"No," onMWcred the prosperous pcrsnu,
"It's only wealth that's called im ,o
apologize nowaduys." Washington atar.
"You have a very bnd cold
you?"
hnven't
"Yes; can hardly I i;. By
tilt way
I
nave some runny slunes .
"Don't mind 'em. Never liked hoarse
chestnuts, anyway." Baltimore Amei.ciii.
"Do you remember the fishing hole . of
your boyhood days?"
"I sure do. Anil If 1 could equip it with
a sofa snd an electric l-tfti and h.-ive a
buffet handy, I wouldn't nhje.i to
an sfterniion buck hhoiik -tne old laT.jllw
scenes." Houston C hronicle.
Mrs. Snmrtset Mon t yott think tint
divorce has a had effect on the children?
Mrs. 1'pperten Yes. indeed; they are
thrown so much mure with their parents.
New York Sun. " .
'Ah understan' dnt Dencmi Jones has bin
charged wld chicken stealin'-- n' he wus
a plllHh oh de ch'ch. wtisn't he?"
"No; he wuzn't a iiillali. He turned
out ter be wot dey call do nave." Judge.
Knlrker Summer expenses are heavy.
Horker Yes; I have to puy all my wire's,
all my own and an extra chunk to keep
her from knowing mine New York Sun.
"Still, there is one thing that must be
said In favor of Hellish." remarked the
lecturer on the "Heroes of the Karliest
Times." "and thst Is, she never claimed
to be a member of the KJorodora sextet."
- Cleveland Plain Jiealer. ,
"He's a great practical Jitkcr; Isn't he?" '
"Yea." '. jn- (-;
"I suspected aa much." ...
"Why, has he been playing a Joke on
you7"
"No. I played one on him yesterday snd
It made him mad as a hatter.'.' Plilladel
phla Press. .
Stella Don't you like to kill two birds
with one stone? '''..'
Bella I'd rather kill two stones with one
bird. New York 8un. .
"And he was-Tiurled thirty feet, you
say?"
"Thirty feet, if an inch.
"Curs. him. I shall get myself hurled
forty feet." IxuilsvHIe Courier-Journal.
TIIK SI MM Kit BHF.K7.K.
Wanderer over the sunward sea, '
Winging from Sunward ways.
Bringing a breath of the South to me.
Wenrilv wmtlng it strays;.- ..
Wlici .. ha'e juti come fiom breath or
the dawn?
Over what fields hsve you Mown?
Breeze of the milliner, a welcome n"v
comer, , '
Out of the Jasamlne zone!
r
Vovager over the mountain dew. .
Palpitant out of the hills.
Bearing a cup of the cool spring brew.
A dash nf the dancing rills
Whither from verges i f dawn or dark.
Under what skies hive you dipt.
Fragile and fragrant, refreshing and
vagrnnt,
Pungent and spicy llptl
Brenthe through the dusk and dawn o'er
mv cot,
Strav with me hour after hour.
Sing to me songs that nre never forgot,
Breese of the bud snd thi flower!
Nevermore straying, but evermore stayirg,
Wind of the heart of the s'ream.
n.-inrlng and glancing, receding, advanc
ing, Shaclnws and shtipes out of dresms!
Traveler over the clover and pine.
Heinous 'anged with the wave.
Over what fathomless oceans of brine
lid thy soft plnlonings lave?
Sweep to me, creep to me. leap to me,
breeze I
fling to me. swing to me. rle.ir!
Breeze of the summer, oh. wtirr.me new
comer From sunlimd nnd southlmd and mere!
Folger McKlnsey, In Haltlmore Sun.
o., IVewell. Ifaes.
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