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    TIIE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1007.
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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
Btste of Neoroska. Douglas county, :
Charles C. Hoeewster, general manager
of The Bps Publishing Company, helng
inly sworn, says that the actual number
f full and complete copies of Tha Dally,
Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed
luring the month of May, 1907, was as
'ollows:
M,VK
85,810
35490
35,410
II 35,700
II 33,800
10 35,370
1 35,030
J2...; 35,610
35,600
t 33,090
15 85,800
II. 34,600
IT 85,460
II 35,610
1 80,010
10 36,080
SI 36,810
34,300
35,680
7 35,480
t 38,660
05,730
It 36,880
11 36,390
it 84,650
1 36,480
1 88,380
II 36,830
1 35,480
Total. ,.1,06,690
85,380
Lass unsold and returned copies 8,687
Net lotal Xo83.!3
Daily average 36,063
CHARLES C. R08E WATER,
Oeneral Manager.
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WHEN Ot'T OF TOWIf.
Subscribers leaving the city tern,
pararflr shoald save The Bee
Mailed them. Addrpx will bo
The tetanus germ la beginning to sit
up and take notice.
"We never smile on Sunday," says
the Nashville American. Got a lid?
It'e a poor paving contractor who
hasn't some kind of an excuse for de
layed work.
"Handle your best friends like your
cash," advises the Baltimore Ameri
can. It does not eeem right to change
them that often.
J. Ham Lewis Bays the American
people have grown tired of fads and
fancies. Lewis ig not now holding
any public office.
Mayor "Jim" says he Is not a Ne
braska pioneer, but he wishes he were.
There are some things even Mayor
"Jim" can't lasso.
"Nearly all freethinkers,'.' observes
the Houston Post, "are men." Yes,
but men are not In the majority among
the free speakers.
Omaha does not want any destruc
tive fires, but if It must have them, it
would like to put the tattle-trap tinder
boxes on the preferred list.
There would be less complaint about
the price of meat or other necessities
If the people knew the prices were
fixed by competition and not by agree
ment. .
A Paris physician has discovered
that breathing Is an Important factor
in the treatment of tuberculosis. Why
not? Breathing Is an important fac
tor In living.
Carrie Nation may be something of
a nuisance, but she had admirable
courage. She Has just announced her
intention to undertake the task of re
forming Pittsburg.
"Th people own the eorporatlons,"
tayn Judge Grosscup of Chicago. Pos
sibly,! but somehow the people are not
la evidence when the dividends are
being passed around.
The Young Men's Christian assocla
Uon building fond solicitors declare
that giving to public enterprises Is a
habit. Omaha people ought to have
the habit hy this time.
New York will have its new drink
Ing water reservoir completed In
twelve years. Many New Yorkers will
not care if they have to wait longer
that that for water for drinking pur
poses. The king of Slam and the special
representative of the emperor of Ja
pan are both visiting In Lon don, but
they ' seem unable to get any of the
spotlight while Mark Twain is in the
town.
Tom Lawion says that it Mr. Roose
velt will run again he will get 40 per
cent of the democratic vote. Judge
Alton B. Parker will testify that Mr.
Roosevelt got about 40 per cent of
the democratic vote the last time he
rao.
A tadical reduction has been or
dered la the railroad freight charges
between Kansas City and 8t Louis. It
Is ferbaps but a rolnlcldtnce that the
reduction took effect the same day
that a line of freight steamers began
operating on the Missouri river be
tveam th two Missouri cities.
OCVASIOyALLT SISLvO TUB LViHT.
It is refreshing to And the head of,
one great railroad system of the coun
try earnestly championing every Im
portant feature of President Roose
velt's railway policy, as outlined by
him in his Memorial day address at
Indianapolis. B. F. Yoakum, chair
man of the executive board of the
Rock Island system and a man who
has operated railroads from the field
Instead of Wall street, contributes an
article to the World's Work In which
he favors strongly direct federal con
trol of railroad capitalization, inspec
tion of railroad accounts and opera
tions and a complete and fair adjust
ment of the Interests of the public, the
railroad and the government He ex
presses the opinion that tho time has
gone by when a railroad could go
ahead and work out its plans without
consulting the Interests of the people.
In the course of his article, Mr. Yoa
kum says:
The public demands that the railroads of
tha t'nlted States shall be so regulated by
law as to prevent future Injustice In their
management or "discrimination In their con
duct. The government of the t'nlted States
Is shaping its administrative policy to that
end. As a railroad manager and as an In
dividual, I heartily endorse this policy, and
shall do all I can to promote such a course.
The Hepburn Set Is effective and is both
Just and wise. As time goes on the ma
chinery for tha reinforcement of the act
will Improve and should Improve, and the
enlightened railroad managers will co
operate with the government and with tha
people to enforce the law. J believe In lite
principle of the act, which Is that there
shall be Uniformity of charges without
Illegal discrimination or unlawful devices
to one class of shippers or communities aa
against another.
Enlightened railroad managers are
slowly coming to the conclusion that
the solution of the railroad problem Is
to be found In the co-operation with
the people through the government.
Nothing suggested In the president's
outlined policy has been successfully
attacked by any of his opponents. The
limitation of future security issues, un
der federal restriction, is admitted by
all to be essential to stability in rail
way stocks and bonds, while the valua
tion of existing railroad properties Is
a necessary preliminary step. It is
agreed, too, that there should be no
mystery in the accounts of railroads.
Their books should be subject to in
spection by federal authorities as
openly and freely as the accounts of
national banks. These are the car
dinal points of the president's pro
gram and Mr. Yoakum places himself
in accord with every one of them.
Even the railroad managers who
have been most active in opposing the
president are beginning to admit that
the only true basis of public con
fidence in railroads and ;rallroad se
curities is to be found In better rela
tions between the people and the rail
roads. The president has pointed the
easiest way to reach this goal, as will
be thoroughly realised by the railroad
men In due time as one by one they see
the light.
TUB POWER OVEH COMMKHCX
The announcement that the address
to be delivered to the graduating class
of the Yale law school by Senator
Knox would be the keynote of his
presidential platform certainly was un
fair to the senator. The press and
the politicians have been scanning the
address carefully, searching for hid
den political meanings and have been
disappointed. The address was by
Knox, the lawyer, not by Knox, the
presidential aspirant, and was deliv
ered to a class of young men about
to be admitted to the bar. To such
an audience, Senator Knox Bhowed the
good taste of eschewing politics and
discussing the relation between thai
federal government and the states, a
question of constant Interest to attor
neys that has been given special promi
nence by recent enactments of con
gress and which promises to be made
more prominent by reason of further
efforts to extend the power of the
federal government over interstate
transactions.
Possibly political significance may
attach to Senator Knox's careful effort
to point out the line of demarcation
between federal and state powers, In
which he declines to go to the length
proposed by President Roosevelt and
some of his most ardent supporters for
future federal legislation. He differs
from the president far enough to deny
that the power of congress to regu
late Interstate commerce "Includes tho
regulation of the instrumentalities of
commerce and likewise the power to
regulate persons by whom the article
of commerce Is produced in respect to
matters disconnected with commerce."
This is clearly aimed at the bill of
fered by Senator Beverldge prohibit
ing the shipment in Interstate com
merce of the product of child labor.
Senator Knox vigorously attacks that
proposition as an attempt to override
the barrier between state and federal
Jurisdiction, for which the constitution
affords no shadow of authority. He
also combats the Idea that "In respect
to natural products which are prime
necessities congress can prohibit com
merce in them between the states in
order to enforce its conception of what
would be a wise police regulation of
a Btate." ,
Senator Knox has done well thus to
call attention to a mistaken Impres
sion that tho congressional legisla
tion on the subject of Interstate com
merce furnishes a panacea for all pub
lic evils. People are prone to think
the federal government can constitu
tionally accomplish everything that
seems good and this results in a crop
of high expectations that cannot pos
sibly be fulfilled. If congress could
use the power of Interstate commerce
regulation to control the production
of articles employed in that commerce,
the sanitary conditions to be observed,
the hours, pay and age of laborers
to be employed. It could exercise the
entire police power of the states. The
maintenance of the distinction be
tween state and federal Jurisdiction Is
of greatest Importance both to tbe
state and to the nation. It Is useless
to urge the desirability or popularity
of measures that congress has no
power to enact. Those who demand the
impossible In federal legislation only
hamper those who seek in a rational
way to locate responsibility for wrongs
and to apply practical and practicable
remedies.
run firemevs wvble shift.
The Board of Fire and Police Com
missioners has a hard nut to crack in
the firemen's double shift law, which
is to become operative next month.
While the law as passed contains sev
eral serious defects which might im
pair Its validity, they are all of tech
nical character and hardly to be called
in question by the board, if by anyone.
The real difficulty presented Is that
the legislature has decreed a limit of
twelve hours' service dally for each
member of the Are department without
providing the means of increasing the
number of firemen to keep the differ
ent fire companies at their full present
strength all the time. So far as the
financial resources of the fire depart
ment are concerned they cannot be
augmented whatever this year and can
be augmented next year by only a few
thousand dollars by no possibility to
the extent required to pay additional
salaries to forty or fifty more firemen.
Under the circumstances but one
course seems open and that is to re
adjust the working hours of the Bre
men in the most practicable maimer
so as to give the maximum number of
men on duty at the periods when the
fire risk is supposed to be greatest.
The rules must at the same time be
revised so that firemen off duty shall
be subject to call In emergencies with
severe penalties for failure to respond
when needed.
Much diversity of opinion still exist
as to thejeasiblllty of the double shift
scheme for a fire department, but a
little experimentation should soon
show Its advantages and weaknesses
and help determine whether the double
shift should be maintained or modified
or abolished by the next legislature.
The Union Pacific is about to adopt
a new policy for inquiries into wrecks
that will commend itself to the public.
For every accident that occurs an offi
cial investigation will be made by a
board Including not only representa
tives of different departments of the
railroad, but sIbo at least one member
selected from the locality and entirely
free from railroad connection. The
findings of the board will make public
the facts and the conclusion as to the
cause of the accident and the outside
member left free to agree with his
railroad associates or to put in a mi
nority report placing the blame as he
sees It In case of disagreement. That
these investigations can and should do
much toward fixing responsibility for
railroad wrecks goes without saying,
but the new order is most significant
In indicating a disposition on the part
of the railroad to do all in its power
to prevent wrecks. In the finality, of
course, It devolves upon the railroad
company to make such use of these
reports by disciplining negligent em
ployes, making needed improvements
and enforcing precautionary measures,
as will reduce the frequency of recur
ring accidents.
The World-Herald goes into a double-distilled
spasm over a report in the
Lincoln Journal that the mention of
the name of Bryan at an initiation
meeting of Ak-Sar-Ben had been fol
lowed by a chorus of groans. Such
an unprovoked exhibition, If true,
would have been discourteous, to say
the least, but the Indignation of the
World-Herald must be regarded as
largely made to order, because the
Lincoln Journal had already in a pre
ceding issue made this correction:
An Omaha man who came to Lincoln
yesterday denied with some asperity the
report that Mr. Bryan's name had been re
ceived with groans by the Ak-Sar-Ben In
that city. "What happened was this," he
explained. "A speaker mentioned Mr.
Bryan and Governor Sheldon, and received
so much applause that he felt emboldened
to go on with some flattering reference to
Mr. Mickey. Then some unregenerate peo
ple in tha audience were ao rude as to
laugh and show disapproval. If there were
any groans they were not meant for Mr.
Bryan."
That is a horse chestnut of another
color, It Is up to the World-Herald
now to make its correction. But will
It? Or will It rush as valiantly to the
defense of former Governor Mickey as
to the defense of Bryan?
Boston Is following the lead of
Louisville with a home-coming week
for former residents to be held in con-
nectlon with a mid-summer carnival.
It Is probably too late to take up such
a scheme for Ak-Sar-Ben's festival
this year, but it might be worth while
considering for some future time.
Omaha would be crowded to overflow
ing if only a fractional representation
of all the people who have lived here
from time to time could be brought
back for a week of revlsltatlon and
reunion.
Complaint Is made because sieve
bottomed wagons hauling earth are
spreading their contents over the boul
evards. This Is an abuse that ought
to be stopped. But the dumping of
dirt in this fashion on the boulevards
is no worse than the dumping of dirt
and refuse in the same manner on the
paved streets. Our ordinances should
be amended to require all such hauling
to be done in tight-bottomed dump
carts and the sieve-bottomed wagon
absolutely prohibited from doing bus
iness within the city limits. No other
city of Omaha's site still stands for this
remnant of town-siting days..
Colonel Bryan lost a nightshirt on a
sleeping car in Kansas. It was found
by Conductor Jefferson Davis and
turned over to Station Agent William
McKlnley, who returned it direct to Mr.
Bryan, who doubtless suspected for a
time that President Roosevelt, whom
he accuses of having stolen most of
his clothes, had also swiped his
nightie.
A London cable says that Mark
Twain was highly pleased . when he
saw the king. Many a man has befn
highly pleased to see a king, particu
larly If he had a couple of them be
fore the draw.
A congressional convention down in
Oklahoma took 160 ballots at one ses
sion without making a nomination.
Although It is not yet In Nebraska's
class In this respect, Oklahoma must
be ready for statehood.
The United States has s?nt a gun
boat to Central America "to protect
American Interests," In case of war be
tween Guatemala and Salvador. The
United States navy has a habit of re
sponding to fire alarms.
The latest democratic ticket sug
gested is Johnson of Minnesota for
president and Hoke Smith of Georgia
for vice president. If they could get
the vote of all their namesakes their
election would be a cinch.
Detective McPartland moved to Den
ver from Pennsylvania to escape the
vengeance of the Molly Magulres. Dis
cretion will probably suggest another
change of residence for him after the
close of that trial at Boise.
Deposits In Nebraska state banks
have increased by nearly $12,000,000
within a year. It looks as If the peo
ple of Nebraska were not only of a
saving disposition, but had something
to save.
Emory Grubb has been pardoned
from the Missouri penitentiary. Gov
ernor Folk could not resist the appeal
of the man's wife, who Insisted that
she wanted her Grubb free.
A Comfortable Saurplsjs.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Uncle Sam's net cash balance Is nearly
$100,000,000 larger than at this time a year
ago. Absurdly large, say tha democratto
papers; and yet It Is easier to point with
alarm to a deficit.
An Interesting- Possibility.
Brooklyn Eagle.
The purpose of the Interstate Commerce
commission to overhaul's German steam
ship company as a putative American trust
suggests that Grandfather's Sword may
yet be Invoked against the Big Stick.
Encouraging Kvll Ways.
Portland Oregonlan.
It Is plain that the tramp evil and all the
evils that grow out of It are coddled and
encouraged by the system so generally In
vogue of suspending the penalty of va
grancy on condition that the vagrant leaves
tha town. A more unrighteous method, or
one more calculated to encourage ar.d
perpetuate vagrancy than this, could not
well be devised.
Troth Ilnrta.
San Francisco Chronicle.
General Funs ton probably wishes that he
had entered Into no explanations of his
reasons for not allowing the regulars to
parade In this city on Independence day.
To moat sensible persons his course aeems
to have been prompted by a desire to avoid
unpleasantness, but there are plenty of
people In San Francisco to whom the
presence of the representatives of law and
order would be objectionable, and they be
long to the kind ready to misrepresent mo
tives and statements. Hence the fuss over
the declination.
TUB JIATIO.VS WKAI.TII.
Remarkable Expansion ana Wider
Distribution.
Brooklyn Eugle.
The census of 1900 determined the wealth
of the United States to be a little over $94,
000,000,000. The best estimates made de
termine that by the beginning of the year
of 1907 that wealth had grown to be $115,
000,000.000. This would Indicate that the
census of 1910 will show the wealth to be
not leas than $128,000,000,000. These are tig
urea that may perhaps be better compre
hended from thi statement that if this
great wealth were equally divided each
man. woman and child in the country
would have possessed on tha first of Jan
uary, 1901, the sum of Il,S6.s.
There Is a prevailing belief that thia
great Increase of national wealth haa taken
place within the last few years. This be
lief Is largely due to the visible evidences
of the accumulation of the great individual
fortunes that have dasxled the eyes of the
j country. It It were so, and If In the accumu
lation of these vast Individual fortunes
there had been a proportionate Increase ct
the national wealth, or, if such accumula
tions had been just so many additions to
tha general wealth t would not have been
ao bad. But the evidence Is rather that in
the growth of the national wealth tlun
haa been an Inside process of concentration
into the hands of a few.
It waa not until tha year li&O that the
statistics were taken on which an accurate
determination of national wealth could be
made. . That waa fifty years ago. The
average percentage of Increase haa beun
70.11. The total Increase has been 365 per
cent. But the story is told In tha detail.
For the decade ending In 1660 tha increase
of the national wealth was 128 per cent;
for that ending 1870 It waa $1 per cent:
for that of 1SH0, 40 par cent; for that of
IK). 54.71 per cent; and for that of ltOX
446 per cent; while for seven years of
tha decade ending 1910. tha Indications are
that tbe percentage for tha whole ten years
will be 37.14 per cent It will thus be seen
that tha percentage for alxty years has
gradually diminished, and, in the periods
when large Individual fortunes have been
rolled up.
Here is a problem for sociologists to
solve. Tha increase of wealth has bean
enormous, even though tha percentages of
Increase have shown diminution. And
while this has been going on there has
beea a tendency not to a wider distribu
tion of tha growing wealth Into the hands
of tha many, but toward a concentration in
tha vaults of the few.
OTHER LA5DH THAT OI RS.
Marcellln Albert, the peasant leader hailed
aa the aavler of the wine growers of south
ern France, haa discovered how much easier
Is the task of starting a popular con
flagration than putting It out. Tha strike
or boycott of the government, begun aa "a
peaceful revolution," waa quickly precl-
I pltated to the verge of civil revolt, and
brought Into action with surprising
i promptness the military arm of the govern
ment. The celerity with which the army
appeared In the disturbed districts effec
tively showed the determination of the
government to vindicate Its authority and
uphold the law. Tha legislative branch
of the government moved with like
promptitude In passing a measure cal
culated to afford the relief sought by the
wine growers. The latter attribute their
misfortunes to the manufacture and sale of
adulterated wine. The new law pro
hibits the manufacture and sale of chemical
Wine and Imposes a heavy tax on sugar
used In adulterating native wine. It Is
evident tha government does not expect
the law will afford the relief the wine
growers demand. Premier Clemenceau has
urged diversity of erops In the districts
affected as the best means of securing
permanent relief, and offered In behalf of
the government five years' exemption from
taxation. But the people seem wedded to
tha Industry followed for centuries, and for
the moment give little heed to the advice.
Besides the havoc wrought by adulterated
wine, the native Industry contends against
overproduction, diminished consumption of
pure wine, a marked Increase In beer
drinking and the Insidious Inroads of the
absinthe habit. The outlook Is far from
cheering for the wine growers, and It la
not surprising that the overawed peasants,
falling to secure all their demands, are
concentrating their wrath on M. Albert.
The savior of yesterday becomes the dis
credited leader of today.
By a vote of nearly 3 to 1 the House of
Commons passed the resolution presented
by the British prime minister, Sir Henry
Campbell-Bannerman, expressing the sen
timents of that body In favor of restrict
ing the right of the House of Lords to
defeat Indefinitely ministerial measures
passed hy Parliament. The resolution ac
complishes nothing. It Is merely a gust
of Parliamentary hot air, which will not
disturb the lordly Indifference of the peers
to public sentiment generated by the liberal
party. The House of Lords as at present
constituted Is a moribund annex to the
tory party, exhibiting symptoms of life
tinctured with gross partisanship only when
a measure of popular Interest comes from
tho commons with liberal party sanction.
In former tlmea when the peers rejected
ministerial measures of vital Importance,
enough nw peers were created to change
Its political complexion. Similar action Is
not deemed practicable now because the
body Is already overloaded with dead
weight. The liberal party alternative Is to
limit the power of the upper house so that
measures twlces sanctioned by the elective
representatives of the people shall became
laws during the life of a single Parliament.
The tory peera Insist on an appeal to the
country on every measure rejected by them.
Such a plan would Involve frequent elec
tions, keep the country In continuous poli
tical turmoil and bankrupt the liberal party
treasury. As the case stands the liberals
are unable to redeem their pledges of re
form legislation, and In some way must
restrict or overturn the co-ordinate power
of the upper house or go out of business.
Having severed the ties which bound It
to Sweden, Norway now seeks Individual
ity In language. The national Parliament
passed 8 law authorising a change from
the present spoken tongue of the country,
which consists of made-over Danish. There
have been some very slight modifications In
the pronunciation and the grammar, but
Danes and Norwegians understand each
other at once .and the literatures of the
two countrlea are really a unit. But from
time Immemorial there have lurked In Nor
way many peasant dialects, dialects thnt
vary so much that peasants from one end
of the country talk Greek to peasants In
another end. These tongues are rich and
racy, they are alive, they smell of the soil
and they throb with the heart. Fifty years
or more ago there came Into fashion an
effort to preserve these tongues In the
country's literature. The written language
began to gather up quantities of these ex
pressive spoken terms. BJornson headed
the movement and started the fashion, and
his books borrow some of their remarkable
qualities from this broadening of his vocab
ulary. That broadening carried with It a
broadening of Interests and sympathies.
From these healthy beginnings there grew
up a widespread endeavor that soon over
shot Itself, became an exaggeration and re
ceived Its proper epithet in "maalstraverl."
From Innocent enrichment of the language
the enthusiasts passed to the point of at
tempting an entire upheaval of the lan
guage. BJornson suddenly became a purist
and set himself against this tide of whole
sale Iconoclasm. The act of Parliament
providing for a distinctive languuge of ac
cords with the nationalist spirit which
made independence possible.
An American traveling abroad, evidently
Something of a landlord himself, expresses
admiration for the German system which
takes the troubles of the landlords and
places them on the shoulders of the tenants.
In Germany the law protects the landlorls
and aa a consequence house rent Is cheaper.
For Instance, the tenant Is required to sign
a contract, and the breaking of this would
mean the forfeiture of all your furniture,
besides, a sojourn In prison. Tou may sub
let, but you must live up to your contract.
Should any damage be done to the wall
paper, mirrors, etc., the tenant Is required
(nay, compelled) to repaper and replace.
The tenant Is provided with a latch key.
Should he happen to lose It, he Is obliged
to provide new keys and locks for the whole
house. The old key many have fallen Into
unauthorized hands. Coal bins and closets
shelves used for kindling wood absurd!
Such tricks are Impossible In Germany.
When your contract expires and you hand
over your keys, you've got to leave every- j
thing In about the same state and condl- j
tlon you found It. Moving without paylne,
rev Can't be done. Can't remove any
tt your household goods until your rent Is
ra'(" 'n full. And so on. Justice Is dealt
out with even hand to landlord and tenant.
Will the Increase In the price of dressed
meats in tho Vnlted States bring about
conditions which now prevail In Germany,
where, due to the acarclty of becf. the
people have accustomed themselves to eat
ing horse and dog flesh, Is tho question In
a Washington dispatch. In Germany about
182,000 horses and 7,000 dogs are slaughtered
annually for food. Horse flesh Is generally
advertised In the German newspapers, and
most titles In the empire have at least one
market which makes It a specialty, main
taining that It has a higher percentage of
nourishment than beef, veal, mutton or
pork. Consular reports received st the
State department say that advertisements
appear regularly In the German newspapers
for dogs to be slaughtered, and often whn
the available supply mas low valuable
animals are stolen to be converted Into
food.
Sidestepping a Jon.
Washington Post.
Although one Judge has decided that a
mollycoddle 1a one who shirks Ms part ef
the world's work, tha average boy la going
to continue sidestepping the Job of splitting
kindling wood as long as ha it'
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POLITICAL DRIFT.
Arthur Pue Gorman of Maryland, son of
the late Senator Gorman, Is attracting at
tention for his clever work as a political
boss.
The governors of Pennsylvania, New
York and Massachusetts each have vetoed
and defeated measures pensioning veterans
of the civil war.
It Is solemnly announced that New York
aldermen were beaten to a fraiile by Phil,
adelphla aldermen In a game of highball.
Quiet drinkers prove wonders when their
capacity Is challenged.
The New York Bun admits to Its columns
letters praising Governor Johnson of Min
nesota as a democratlo possibility for pres
ident. Oovernor Johnson carried a repub
lican state twice; Bryan carried a repub
lican state once.
The passage and approval of tbe bills
providing for a recount of the mayoralty
vote In New York City will not facilitate
a settlement of the Issue as much as ex
pected. As soon as Hearst moved ' last
Tuesday McClellan countered and the new
law la hung up in the courts until the ques
tion of constitutionality Is settled.
William R. Hearst announces that a na
tional conference for the purpose of boost
ing Ma Independence league will be held In
New York next fall, probably In September.
The call Indicates that several hammers
will be prepared for action on the demo
cratic party If the democratic party falls
to take advice from the right quarter.
Thomas Pryor Gorem, the political leader
of Oklahoma, is blind and haa been since
he was 11 years old. When he accidentally
shot his right eye out with an arrow gun.
Three years before a playmate. In a boyish
passion, blinded his left eye with a stone.
He Is one of the most sought-for lawyers
In hla atate and has been active in all
campalgna In Oklahoma since he went there
from Mississippi.
Senator Bacon of Georgia, who will be
the ranking minority member of the eorr.
mlttee on foreign relations, now that Joh;t
Tyler. Morgan Is dead, will have to preven'.
the ratification of many treaties if hs
equals the record of his predecessor in that
respect. During the thirty years he waa a
member of the senate Mr. Morgan probably
killed more proposed conventions with other
powers than any other man In the history
of congress.
John Oscar Sheets, Pennsylvania's com
ing state treasurer, is of Pennsylvania
Dutch stock, a graduate of Muhlenberg
college, the Baldwin Locomotive works and
the coal trade.' He's u great-great-grandson
of the John Jacob Mlckley who In
1777. when the Brltiah were moving upon
Philadelphia, carried the liberty bell In his
farm wagon to Allentown, where It was
safely hidden In the basement of the Re
formed church
1WIMH1NO THAOKUIES.
Melancholy Side of miner Oatlng
Pleasnres.
Baltimore American.
The drowning storlea are much alike one
summer after another. Sometimes It Is the
strong swimmer, full of coufldonca In his
powers to keep afloat Indefinitely, that la
suddenly attacked with the paralysing
eranp. At other times It l the Inexperi
enced youth, wading in shoal waters, who
suddenly steps off. a ledge Into deeper
water. Too often the water fatalities are
caused by the sportive Idiocy, of the peren
nial Individual who rocks the boat. These
are the three motives, so to express it,
that lead to nearly all the drowning acci
dents. In other words, most drownings are
from lack of proper precautions and might
have been avoided.
. Aa to the paralytic cramps which some
times seize those In the water, thrh Is a
mishap which cannot, of course, be fore
seen. Every swimmer, however, should
take the possibility of such a disaster into
consideration before he makes a venture-
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some effort. The Individual who cannot
swim should never wade In water that is
above the waist line without wearing a life
preserver. Hctter still, ho should never go
out over knee deep until he learns to swim.
As to the fool thnt rocks the boat, whut
more Can be added to the oolumhs of lit
erature than have alreudy been published
for his discouragement? Apparently lie
cannot be weeded nut; It Is impossible to
eliminate him as the evil genius of tha
festivities of many and many a summer
outing.
LAl'GHINO OAS.
"Was anybody drowned?"
"Well, not to speak of; Just the fellow
who'd rocked the boat." Philadelphia
Ledger.
Physician Your boy will pull through all
right.- He has a wonderful constitution.
Mr. Tyte-i'hlst I am giui to hear It,
doctor. In making out your bill, of course,
you will not mnke me pay for what his
constitution haa done In pulling him
through. Chicago Tribune.
'They claim that Schmltz was the first
violinist to boss a city."
"Well?"
"But there waa Nero." Washington Her
ald. "Ned, dear boy. I want you to enjoy
yourself at this party. Now what can I
do for you particularly?'"
"Don't bother about me, old chap. Any
old thing will do for me."
"Then I'll get you Miss Antique for a
partner." Baltimore American.
Stella What was the summer resort like?
Bella-A hamlet, with Borneo left out.
New fork Sun.
"The man who carried off the highest
honors In his class hopes to a get a $
Instructorshlp In a western college."
"How about the man at the foot of tha
class
"He's ell right and tidy. One of the big
baaa ball leagues has given him a three
year contract to pitch for It at $5,0u0 a
year." Cleveland Plain Dealer.
' Your enormous fortune has resulted in
comfort and ease for yourself and your
"Well, I dunno that it has." answere.l
Mr. Cumrox. "It has compelled mother
and the girls to put in a terrible amount
of hard work givln' ma lessons in etlquet."
Washington Star.
Wooer Sir, your daughter Kate loves me,
and while she says 1 may take her, I do
not want to rob you of her
Father (dryly)-l see. Just a case of
contls-Kate. Baltimore American.
"It's easy," began Mr. Jolley, "to obey
the Biblical Injunction when one's neigh
bor Is a pretty girl."
"But surely," replied the bright girl next
door, "it Isn't easy for you."
"O yes; I refer to tha command to Move
thy neighbor.' "
"Yes, but the command Is really iove thy
neighbor aa thyself.' "Philadelphia Press.
IIMHERTOWN.
Baltimore Sun.
I love the life of Buromertown, when
whistles blow at five.
And tollers with the 11 pe of song coma
hurting from the hlvel
I love the life of ftummertown, when Sat
urdays at one
The offices are empty and the holiday's
begun!
Oh, lasy. daisy Summertown, where les-
senlug tiatfice reels.
And labor rests a little bit. and slower
whirl the wheels!
I love the life of Summertown, with half
the town away,
And all tbe spacious steamers running
round trips on the bay;
Wtith bloomy gardena open where tha
rubber plant and palm
Give a gentle Imitation of the real old
tropic balm;
Where parka with globea are gleaming
through tha sultry evening hours
And the "vodeville" lights its tapers 'neattt
the papier-mache flowers!
I love the life of Summertown, with win
dows boarded tight.
And all the happy people far away tn lanes
of light;
I love the Blackened purpose and the let
ting down a bit
Of grind and strews and struggle, with Its
valor and Its grit,
Tha whistles sounding early and the tolling
throng set free
With time to pluck a blossom or to dream
beneath a tree!