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JIXK OMAHA DAILY HEEs WEDNESDAY, AUOUST 14. 1007. Tiif, Omaha Daily Bee FOUNDED BT EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER. EDITOR. Entered at Omaha postofflce M second class matter. 1 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Be (without Sunday), one yar..4.00 I'ally Bee and Sunday, on year J-W Sunday Be, one year Saturday Bee, one year Ll DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Dally Bee (Including Sunday), per wek-.lSo Dally Bee (without Sunday), per week. .lc fcvenlnt Bee (without Sunday), per week 8c Lvenlng Bee (with Sunday), per week. .10o Address all complaint of Irregularities In lelivery to City Circulation Department OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha City Hall Building. Council Blurt s-18 8cott Street. Chicago 140 Unity Building. New York 101 Heme Life Insurance Bid. Washington 601 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi torial matter ahould be addressed. Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to The Bee Publishing Company. -nly t-cent stamps received In payment ot mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. STATEMENT or CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas county, as; Charles C. Rosewatar, general manager of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, aays that tne actual number of full and complete copls of The Dally Morning. Evening and feunday Bea prlntM luring the month of July. 107. was as follows: 86,940 17 88,700 1 38,180 It........ 38,480 t 34,180 II 38,510 88,500 10 88,630 I 88340 11 85,550 38,490 tt 87,870 T 84,500 it 38,570 8 38,800 24 88,630 88,810 It 88,420 19 88,340 t 88,400 11 88,480 17 88,700 II 88,380 II 35,400 II 38,840 II 41,370 14 85,800 10 38,880 It 36,780 11 38.880 16 36,690 " Total 1,133,330 Less uusold and returned copies.. 10,335 Net total 1,181,985 Dally average 38,183 CHARLES C. ROSEWATER, General Manager. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before ma this 1st day of August, 10J. (Seal) M. B. HUNGATli , Notary Public WHEN OUT OK TOWN. abacriaera leaving; the City tem yorartly eboald hava Tha Bea mailed ta thosa. Addreaa will ba chanared as often as reaaested. France is practicing a shell same on Morocco. t ' The decree abolishing the use of opium In China Is not a pipe dream. It we are correctly informed, Mor occo has no delegates at The Hague peace conference. In enumerating "the effects of hu midity," the Boston Qlobe forgot to mention profanity. The also of the Standard Oil pile is not so offensive as the methods em ployed in its accumulation. To all Intents and purposes, the tel egraph operator at Oyster Bay has been on a strike all summer. Walter Wellman Is too good a news paper roan to start for the north pole while ji telegraph strike is on. In this strike, the sympathy really belongs to the overworked operators on the long-dlstanoe telephone lines. The clerk .who opens the registered mall for Secretary Cortelyou reports that he has not yet received a check for t,S40,000. . All railroading Is hazardous, but the most dangerous job in the business seems to be that of first Tic president to James J. Hill: "The messenger boys also walked out," says the veracious chronicler of facts. Certainly. No one expected the messenger boy to run. Attorney General Bonaparte is go ing to Inquire whether there is a ko dak trust. He will probably be an swered with a negative. "What on earth is 'definite democ racy?' " asks the Washington Herald. It is the kind whose supply is "Just out," when you ask for It. I A physician now declares that 90 per cent of the crimes of the day are due to bad cooking. These trust mag nates must have mighty poor cooks. Judging from his letter in answer to Judge Pound, Regent Abbott is too good a lawyer to be wasting his talents on the editorship of a country weekly. The rest of the country refuses to show concern over reports that certain Wall street brokers have lost f 30,000, 000 or $40,000,000 that they never had. The oats crop will be about 6,000, 000 bushels under last year's record. The shortage will be felt by the live stock and the consumers ot breakfast food. The census of King Ak-Sar-Ben's sub jects shows a population Increase to date well In advance of all previous years. No race suicide In Ak-Sar-Ben's realm. "There Is nothing certain about an automobile," says Ella Wheeler Wil cox, who plainly shows that she never had to pay the garage and repair bills for one. No street sign ordinance that does away with any of the offending sign boards can be passed, except over a concerted protest from those who are affected. The way to clean up the ob jectionable street signs Is to order t&em Off Uk sXfU. A CHAPTER IX XEBRAfKA POLITICS. The Bee is not politically aligned with William Jennings Bryan, but for the truth of history it volunteers tho evidence to exculpate him from an old charge which Is betcg revamped anew. In a pungent editorial, entitled, "The Source of Bryanlsm," the New York World undertakes to support "lts as sertion that Bryanlsm Is traceable to populism by charging Mr. Bryan with having helped in 1892 to arrange a form of fusion between Nebraska dem ocrats and populists by which the bulk of the democratic vote was cast for Weaver, Cleveland polling fewer than 26,000 In a total of 200,000. For Mr. Bryan the Commoner enters denial, particularly to that part of the World's charge that would lead people to believe that Mr. Bryan bolted the democratic ticket in 1892. The Commoner goes on to say: It la true that a large number of dem ocratic votes were cast for General Weaver, but this was done In the hopo of keeping Nebraska out of the republican column In that year. The plan was not arranged by Mr. Bryan. It was arranged by the democratic national committee and for the benefit of Mr. Cleveland. The plan was communicated to the democrats in a "confidential letter" written by the late Governor James E. Boyd, under data of October IT, 1892. In that letter Gov ernor Boyd asked democrats to vote for the Weaver electors, saying that he male the request at the Instance of the demo cratic national committee, and he assured Nebraska democrats that this would bo "a definite step toward victory and the ultimate triumph of Cleveland and Ste venson and the principles they repre sented." The Bee presntB herewith a fac simile of the ."confidential letter" re ferred to, which Is practically self explanatory. That the democratic scheme to sidetrack the electoral vote of Nebraska to Weaver was frustrated was due largely to this paper and its then editor, who was at the same time the republican national committeeman for Nebraska. Governor Boyd's con fidential letter was in the hands of the republican national committeeman be fore it reached the democrats for whom it was intended, and by prompt and Judicious work to counteract its effect Nebraska was carried for the republican ticket and its electoral vote cast for Benjamin Harrison. In following out the directions given In the Boyd letter in 1892 Mr. Bryan simply proved his devotion and loy alty to the Grover Cleveland democ racy, from which he had not then been weaned. 8ERVIXQ XOTICE OH WAIL BTREET. High financiers are not making much headway with their campaign of edu cation, designed to convince the coun try that the government and the courts are conducting a savage and wantonly vindictive crusade that threatens to bankrupt transportation and industrial corporations and bring financial ruin to the country. One big journal in New Tork that is suspected of finding its Inspiration in Wall street deplores the "hysteria of the hour" and de clares that "the offenses of corpora tions are held to excuse the invasion of their rights and the denying to them of the equal protection of the lawe." It this charge could be proven It would be a severe arraignment of the authorities, but those making the charge fall to offer any more convinc ing evidence than the fact that certain Wall street stocks have fluctuated greatly, as a result of recent decisions of the federal courts. Acting Attorney General Russell, one of the most con servative men in the government serv ice, answers this wall from Wall street with the statement: When tha Department of Justice shall hava continued a while longer enforcing tha laws against rebating and restraints and monopolies of trade the result ennnot fall to ba a sounder and less tainted prosperity. This may be accepted as official notice .that stock market declines, cooked up on short notice by manipu lators of. the speculative stocks, will not check sealous enforcement of the anti-trust laws and that the Depart ment of Justice does not believe the real business situation is reflected by stock market depressions. Referring to the fine Imposed by Judge Landls on the Standard Oil company, Judge Russell says: So far as tha fine Is concerned. It may have operated to convince Investors that such part of their dividends as come from rebating and other Illegal practices will be less certain In the future. As for the state railroad rate and controversies, possibly some dividends have been swelled by ex orbitant local rates. My own view Is that whether a lower rate will lessen dividends or increase them by increasing travel and shipments Is chiefly a matter of experi ment. I presume It was upon being con vinced of this that some of the railroads abandoned their preliminary Injunction of stats law and authority as of doubtful le gality, even If a permanent Injunction shall be properly upheld upon, full proof and after some little time for experiment It will doubtless be the policy of this de partment to aid In the speedy determination of all the questions involved In the railroad rates controversy by the supreme court, and In that high tribunal tha rights of all will be safe and soon settled. The people will refuse to believe that every dip of the stock market is evidence that the government is out trying to lynch the great interests or assail the foundations of the republic. The courts are still open and the cor porations know the way to them. No one believes the corporations will be punished tt they succeed in finally con vincing the higher tribunals 'of their innocence of the offenses for which they have been convicted In the lower courts. It the reduced fare laws are confiscatory, no one doubts the supreme court of the United States will nullify them. Until these rate cases are tried, j the cry of confiscation is palpably pre mature ana aosura. The "prevailing hysteria of which Wall street complains does not em anate from the people, nor from the authorities at Washington. Its home la in Wall street. It will disappear when the big corporations learn to obey the law Instead of following their old time practice of defying It for the pur pose of creating fancy dividends. CRA IRMA A Hl'fil'UA'3 RLllRKME! T- The decision of Representative Bur ton of Ohio to relinquish his place as chairman of the important house com mittee on rivers-and harbors will be received with mingled regret and re joicing. The members of congress who have supported the general policy ot Mr. Burton to reduce the appropria tions for river and harbor improve ment to a system will regret his with drawal. Those who have supported the old policy of using the rivers and harbors bill as a vehicle for distribut ing a vast amount of pie, without much reference o the lasting good to be ac complished, will rejoice over Mr. Bur ton's forthcoming surrender of the chairmanship of this important com mittee in order to be in a position to devote more time to general legisla tion. FriendB of Mississippi and Missouri river Improvement have had no favors from Chairman Burton, unless good results eventually follow his warfare upon indiscriminate appropriations. These two great inland waterways have suffered In the past because ap propriations that should have been made for their improvement have been diverted to useless works on impossi ble creeks and streams in the districts of favored congressmen. Chairman Burton has persistently opposed large appropriations for the Mississippi and Missouri river districts because, as he has contended, it would be money wasted until a general Improvement system has first been adopted. The wisdom of his policy cannot be ques tioned, even If it has resulted In de feating or deferring needed Improve ments in western waterways. While Mr. Burton will retire from the chairmanship of the rivers and harbors committee, be will remain at the head of the Inland Waterways commission, appointed by President Roosevelt, charged with the duty of considering the whole problem of the nation's water highways. The find ings and recommendations of this commission are expected to have great weight with congress and promise to result in the adoption of .a definite system of improvement that will Jus tify large appropriations by congress, on a permanent basts, instead of the hit and miss plan followed for so many years. The improvement ot the Mississippi and Missouri rivers can not be omitted from such a plan. Chairman Burton's retirement will doubtless result In a complete reor ganisation of the committee on rivers and harbors. H4 has completely dom inated that committee 1 tor several years and has, been, in effect, the en tire committee, although there are seventeen other members. As atpres- ent constituted, the committee la with out a member qualified to take up and carry out the work bo well commenced under Mr. Burton's management. A new committee, composed of members familiar with the waterways of the natloa and their needs, is absolutely necessary. MOROCCO AND THE POWERS. In the bombardment of Casablanca, delegates to The Hague peace confer ence have had a striking illustration of how futile their efforts have been toward securing universal peace. When the final story of that affair is written, It will probably appear as one of the most wanton slaughters of in nocents in history. It appears that the unfortunate residents of the town, and not the tribesmen who committed the massacre that provoked the bom bardment, were the real sufferers. When the bombardment of the native quarters began, the tribesmen rushed to the town, where order had been maintained, and began a campaign of loot, rapine and murder. The troops of the native governor Joined the pil lagers, destroyed property, killed men and dragged off women, amid scenes of unutterable horror. The reports state that "Casablanca is quiet." It is the quiet of death the town is in ruins, its streets strewn with bodies of in offensive citizens, the result of a day of foreign intervention. Responsibility for this horror plainly lies at the door ot France. The duty of the bombarding force was to have taken possession of the town and protect it from the tribesmen who were to be punished. The situation in Morocco Is extremely serious. Under i the terms of the Algeclras treaty, France and Spain are charged with keeping the peace in the seven prin cipal coast towns. The burden of this obligation has fallen on France, and the bombardment of Casablanca was in punishment of a tribe that had re cently murdered eight foreigners. Cas ablanca has paid a heavy penalty. The indifference of Germany and the tacit suppprt of France by Brit ain indicate that the stage has been set for the extinction ot Morocco sov ereignty. Intelligent Moroccans have urged reforms on Mohammedan lines, but It has been demonstrated that these reforms were impossible, the sultan ot Morocco having been unable to control bis tribesmen or furnish any guaranty of peace to foreigners de veloping the vast resources of the country. The Moors have failed to re form themselves and now France, with the consent of other powers, proposes to do the reforming from the outside. Morocco seems destined to become a French Egypt. While the extinction of the nation's independence may not cause much regret, it Is unfortunate that the first step In the program, the bombardment ot Casablanca, should have bwn such a horribly mismanaged affair. . The police board raises an Interest ing question when it proposes to return one-half of the license money paid in for a license for a place that was closed by cancellation of the lease of the premises. This money is in the school fund and how the police board can withdraw money from the school fund Is not quite clear. Nothing of the kind has ever been attempted before, but on the contrary it has been repeatedly held that no license can be issued for less than the full $1,000 fee, although part of the year may have expired. If license money can be returned for the unused portion of the period it would amount to the same thing as issuing a license for six months or any part of a year at proportional charges. The conference of attorney generals of the western states, called by Attor ney General Hadley of Missouri to dis cuss the enforcement of railway regu lation and anti-trust laws, is to be fol lowed by a full conference of attorney generals of all stales, to be held the end of September. Nebraska was not represented at the preliminary confer ence, but it ought by. all means to be represented at the next one. The city council has designated four of its twelve .members to represent Omaha officially at the meeting of the League of American Municipalities. If the city is to pay the expense bill they will all be there. If they are to travel at their own cost the chances are that Omaha will be unrepresented. Union Pacific receipts for the month of June, as officially exhibited, show nearly $440,000 more net earnings than the corresponding month of last year. Those lawyers will have to work overtime to prove that the rate reduc tion legislation Is bankrupting Mr. Harrlman's road. If the striking telegraphers will tell us what possible gain they may have by persuading the messenger boys to stop working they will enlighten the public. The boys do not need Instruc tion in the art of striking. All the local militia companies are in camp with the rest of the Nebraska National guard at Lincoln. The teleg raphers' strike does not promise any trouble of the kind that will require their services at home. Secretary of State Junkin says he was following the Jaw In mixing up the filings for full terms and vacancies. He might as well have mixed up the filings for supreme judge and for dls-1 trlct judgeships. -Met. Senator Lodge ' ays that ' Speaker Cannon, Congressman DalzeJI and Sen ator Aldrich .will revise the tariff after March 4, 1909. "That looks like a promise that the '. tariff is to be re vised up. The local demo-pop organ always finds big gobs of dissension in the re publican camp, but it' could not see a breach in the fuBlon lines, even with the help of a magnifying glass. It is asserted that Mr. Rockefeller was not in the least annoyed over that $29,240,000 fine. Most of us would feel flattered if asked to put up that amount. Mr. Rockefeller expresses a desire to serve the people in any capacity. Might run him for vice president, in the absence of other methods of pun ishment. Traarlc Part of Strike. Indianapolis News. But If the telegraphers tie up every thing, how are we going to get the reports of the ball scores? This thing Is becoming serious. What's tho Seoref Buffalo ' Express. It becomes more and more apparent as the base ball season progresses that there lives no man with soul so dead that he passes heedlessly by the score board. Maklaa- Business for Builders. Chicago Record-Herald. Owing to the havoc wrought by those French warships, there Is likely to be a sharp advance In the price of mud when the Moroccans get ready to rebuild. When Wraith Comes Rolling; In. Wall Street Journal. Last year the official estimate of the value of farm products In the United States wss placed at 16,764.000,000. This year there may not be quite so much of some thing, but what there Is of them will bring bet ter prices. You may, therefore, count on having as big a fund waiting to buy the things which the farming world needs. ' PUHSOMAL NOTES. New Tork Is rid of the old Fifth avenue stages, but It clings to the horse car still. Catherine Tingley, "the purple mother" of theosophy, is going to Europe. Don't get gay. She is coming back. J. J. Hill has been training so sedulously for his encounter with the government that he Just had to hit somebody. William J. Murphy, eldest son of the late Francis Murphy, will undertake to con tinue the work of temperance and reform in which his father was long and success fully "engaged. It Is just possible if- Peary does not get steam up and sail away pretty soon that he will wake some morning to read that Wellman has found the pole and carved bis initials on it. Frederick Fanning Ayer of New York City has presented lluo.000 to the Ayer Home for Young Women and Children of Lowell. Mass. His previous donations In clude tha Lowell General Hospital, tha Old ladles' Home and the Day Nurseries and the Ayer Home. An American woman who had been an noyed by tha attentions of a British masher during an ocean trip, ostentatiously ax tended her hand to the offender aa she was leaving the ship, and deposited In It well-developed lemon. The Britisher asked several people what she meant by It. It baa beau explained to bin. nOf .HO A BOt'T SEW TORK. Ripples os a Carroat of Life la tha Metropolis. The approaching demolition of the Fifth Avenue hotel Inspires a vast amount of reminiscences of Its career as a social and political hostelry. At one time tho most famous and fashionable In the metropolis and bearing on Its register of guests the names of men and women distinguished in tho world's affairs, it holds a unique position In the annals of the big city. "A trustworthy statisti cian," says a writer In Harper's Weekly, "has calculated that no other single ho tel In the world has ever entertained so many eminent persons as hare, been received at the Fifth Avenue, and as serts that, beginning with the prince of Wales (now .King Edward) In 1K0, a year after the hotel was opened, a never ending procession of the great men of this and other countries has marched through Its corridors. , "Every president of the United elates since the hotel opened, beginning with Lincoln and Including Johnson, Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Har rison and McKlnley, but excepting Rooso velt, has been a guest of the Fifth Ave nue during his term of office. Household graft and waste are costing the very wealthy and the unfortunate near rich In New Tork millions of dollars each year. In single houses, where the bills run more than $10,000 a month, the pick ings of the servants and tradespeople run Into many thousands a year. "Commis sions" is the cry, and "my lady's maid" expects her percentage for favoring the hairdresser, the butler demands his un derstanding with florist and wine merchant, the chef favors the supplies of those who favor htm, the grooms know some thing about harness dealers, and the chauffeur Is friendly In a quiet way with repair shop and automobile accessories firms, and the more that la used up the larger the bills, and the larger the bills the greater the commissions. As an Instance of how this system works may be cited the case of a chauf feur who needed $40 at once. He had Just had a profitable and elaborate repair job, so that another accident would not do. So he calmly went to a supply house and ordered enough tires and took four $10 bills and went his way rejoicing. Aa a result of these conditions there has come from the wealthy a demand for a new class of experts household actuaries. And as these experts have to be associated generally with the wealthy man'a wife, and also have to have a natural aptitude for domestic details, women are preferred, though there are many cases where men, who are masters of business system, get large salaries to run the financial side of a $250,00O-a-year hcusehold on the same principles that they have supervised some great manufacturing or purchasing plant. Gunda, an elephant In the Bronx Zoolog ical park, abruptly ended a country couple's honeymoon by chewing all their ready cash. The big animal collects cents dally from spectators and hoards them In a bank above his head. James Hench cllffe and his bride, who were Just mar ried at Pawling, N. Y., were standing before Uunda'a cage watching him collect pennies from the crowd, when It suddenly occurred to tha bridegroom to see if pick pockets had tried to get his roll of bills. This roll was specially for the bridal trip, and amounted to about $260. He . pulled the roll out of his pocket, upon which Gunda deftly grabbed the greenbacks with his trunk and stuck them Into his mouth. The bride screamed and the bridegroom shouted at seeing the pachyderm compla cently munching the money. Two keepers rushed up and prodded the beast until he yielded the cash. The money looked as If It had been through a com slleller. Only a single dollar bill was passable. The bride wept bitterly, but the bride groom cheered her with the observation that the elephant had left them enough with which to return to Pawling. But be fore that he will try to get the subtreasury to redeem some Of the pulpy tens and twenties. With the completion of . the Belmont tunnel under the East river ysturday a world s reoora in tunnel Dunaingiwas es tablished and a noteworthy englnno"l"g feat successfully accomplished. While over $8,000,000 are burled in concrete and iron seventy feet under water New York has paid a price in human Ufa also for this submarine hole. Intended preatly to facilitate traffic between Manhattan and Long Island. Since It was start'id, a little over a year ago, the tunnel has been responsible for the loss of four teen lives. Four other men, who were drowned, were said to have been oaie less. But now that the work has been finished on the tunnel proper track lay ing will be pushed with all possible speed. Two months from now, unless some unforeseen obstaclo prevents, trains will be running on regular schedule and the novel experience of riding for a distance of 8,600 feet far beneath the water's surface will soon be open to all who hava the Inclination and the price. The late Mr. Barnum'a view that the public likes to be humbugged seems to be sustained by the general managnr cf a street railroad In New York, who ad mitted In an Investigation before the Pybllo Service commission that strap hangers are assets of the company to valuable that It Is not likely there will ever be seats for all passengers, and that he had often wondered himself ho the people managed to squeexe In the packed cars. The public may not avail Itself of Its advantages, but It is get ting highly educated these enlightened days. The Metropolitan Street Railway com pany has decided to try In New Tork City the "pay-as-you-enter" cars and has ordered 100 of them of the J. Q Brill company of Philadelphia. As soon as the cars are built they will be distributed among the different lines of the city. At present Montreal Is the only city of any slse In which the cars are In uie. The advantages which It is said the cars will have over the present system are - of grea,t importance to all street cur companies. They will make It Im possible, It Is said, for the conductor to miss fares, as each passenger pays aa he enters the car. It is believed that accidents caused by women falling from the step owing to starting the car too quickly will be obviated, as the con ductor's permanent post will be on the rear platform. It Is sal that the number of fares missed by conductors varies from 6 to 16 per cent of the persons on the car. What an Important Item this Is to the Metropolitan can be seen from the list yearly statement of the Interburouh, which showed that $11,000,000 was col lected In fares for the year. Ostwsri Calm of Imatr, Springfield Republican. We are now In the very midst of the va cation season, but after all tha most con clusive evidence of the faet Is that no Ananias club elections have been posted for weeks past, that Washington la asleep In spite of Its best efforts to prove the contrary, and that things around Oyster Bay are outwardly calm. BOYD'S HISTORIC LETTER. v LINCOLN, NED.. NOV. 4th, 1892. DEAR SIR! It affords no pleaouro to inform you that I have boen personally authorized by f the National Coraraittoe of the Democratic party to urge the democrats of Nebraska to support the electors nominated bj the Independent party .in this state--the object being to so increase the vote for the Weaver electors that those nominated in behalf of Harrison shall be defeated, and this state taken out of its accustomed place in the republican column. To do thiB 1b no sacrifice of democratic principles, inasmuch as the object is the triumph of democracy and the downfall of republicanism and the vicious policies which it advocates. Ip Nebraska, a vote for Weaver and Field is more than half a vote for Cleveland and r Stevenson. Hoping for your co-operation, I remain, Yours in the good cause, TAFT IN PRACTICAL POLITICS. Believer in Party Begralarltyt but Op posed to Bosslsm. E. P. Lyle In World's Work. Neither in his younger days nor since has Mr. Taft been a man to endure gang rule. though he does believe In party regularity. He frowns on minor differences that might split his party and hinder its activity in tha doing of big things for the country's good. But he sees no good fbr his coun try in venal bosslsm and he fights bosslsm as he would knock down a bully. He sim ply cannot Indorse that kind of a system In politics, and In this he frankly disagrees with his brother, Charles, wh'ose Times Star Is the "gang" paper In Cincinnati. Less than two years ago. Secretary Taft made a speech at Akron that helped to drive this "gang," Cox Included, out of power. Taft as a young man in politics did not contemplate the redemption of the nation. He attempted nothing beyond the reach of his own powerful arms. There was his own city, which had his affection "In spite of Its soot. Its yellow water, and Its pol itics." He was trying to make it cleaner. George B. Cox was also Just entering public rife, and these two young men were natural adversaries. They often met (they meet yet, and they do this without bitter ness), but they did not foregather In the same circles. - Cox was husky, coarse grained, and a power In the saloons. He was tha typical "heeler," but he acquired great political sagacity and grew to be, as Taft now describes him, a master In his art. It ta said that his personal hold on men cornea from dividing on the square. With Infinite patience he was already build ing at this time what Taft calls "the most perfect machine for the control of party conventions and elections." Taft fought him from the start. That was Inevitable. And yet, the only time Taft ever ran for office, this man Cox sup ported him. Politics has more vagaries tlan a cyclone, and this was one of them. Taft's Ideas of warfare against what Cog represents are not the usual ones. He does not believe In supplanting one boss with a better boss. Taft proposes a counter or gan iation of sharp-eyed young men who would put forward only the best candidates, and who would maintain their organisation the year round. He would take the offices from the boas permanently by means of municipal civil .service. He would separate national politics from the administration of local affairs, and he would have the direct primary. These conclusions evolved them selves naturally during a quarter of a cen tury of antagonism to Cox's spoils system, an antagonism that had a temporary cli max In the Akron speech, and Cox's feigned retirement from politics. From the above It Is apparent that young Taft was not, like many young men, turned from his activities by "the distressing effect" of rnarliirv'' rule, nor did he become subser vient to It. Maybe Somebody Has Fooled You! People don't get wealthy by paying the highest price, but by getting the most for their money. That is why more rich people drink Arbuckles' Axi osa than any other coffee, ARIOSA is the cheapest good coffee in the world. BBQ-Vi Maa Xsx at LINES TO A I.AIGII. "Can you swallow everything you hearT asked the shark of ancient times, who had been listening to some fish stories. "For my part." returned the whale who had taken In Jonah, "I can stomach a great deal." Baltimore American. , Mr. Easy Cheer up. Mr. Peck. If war must go down, let's go cheerfully like men.v Mr. Peck But, hang it all. Mr. Easy, If I don't get home my wife will never let me go fishing again, never! Harper s Weekly, The Man Ah, Miss Snooks, I used to know your mother when she was a girl. The Woman Would you mind repeating" that In a louder tone of voice so the rest of the people can hear It? Cleveland Leader. He When I leave you tonight I am go ing to take you In my arms and kiss you. She Dear me, how late It is getting! Chicago Reoord-Herald. "I once gave a waiter a $2 tip." "What did he esyT" "To me he expressed his thanks, but I heard him say to another waiter that I couldn't have real good sense." Louisville Courier-Journal. RugRles (the bookkeeper) I'm more than half sick with the hay fever. Ramage (the cashier) That's bad. You ought to go to some place where you would be sure of finding frost. Ruggles-I'll do It, Romage. I'll go this minute and ask the old man for a raise In salary. Chicago Tribune. Clgarmaker Here's a new cigar I've Just been putting up, and I haven't any nam for it. Suppose you suggest one. Friend (after smoking It) They're naming manif afta lift r Ms rat In flrtlnn now. Whv don't you oall this 'Mrs. WlggsT Detroit r roe tress. "Tou seem to find your book very InteSk esttn. Miss Maidstone," "Yes, It Is one of the most charming! stories I have ever read. And so true to life. Every man In It Is a villain," Chlcag. Record Herald. ' WHEN SILENCE 18 GOLDEN. New York Sun. "That reminds ma." he said: And he paused for the while When Jones shock his head With an all telling smile As Perkins went through The back cellar door whera The rloh mountain dew Was kept under the stair. That reminds ma" A pause Came again to dispel The rest of the clause Of the tale he would telL For Perkins oame out. And he wlnEed his left eyai "Thur's tansy, no doubt. In tho yard handy by.'' "That reminds me" But ha Quickly eeased his harangua When Jones said: "B'geel But this stuff's got Ihe tang.' And Perkins agreed With a sniff and a snort! "Ole tansy's tha wsed Fur this here sorter sort." No words then offended: "Twere saorilege, aye. For talk to be blended With mountain dew gay, Whose rich aromatlo Aroma arose To prick the ecstatic. Keen sense of the nose.