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Servla has not assassinated a king for several years. Of course, the temporary chairman nt Denver will not stumble over the pronunciation of William J. Brennings' nam. John Hays Hammond should cheer up. No ouo seeius to be fighting for second place on the prohibition na tional ticket. "Congressmen will not be treated like dogs," says a uouthern member. No, la the District of Columbia the dogs are all muzzled. "I do not see how any woman can liavo the face to wear a dlrectoire gown." says Anthony Comstock. It's a matter of form, not of face. Mme. Wu Ting-fang has arrived from China and the wily Mr. Wu will now hove a chance to answer some questions Instead of asking all of them. "And when there comes the fateful Ides of November ah, but that's an other story," says the Cincinnati En quirer. No, It will be the same old srorjr. The manner In which the New York Sua Is abusing Mr. Sherman is the most effective answer to the demo cratic charge that he is controlled by Wall street. Surface Indications to the contrary notwithstanding, Zero Snow, who was a delegate to the Chicago convention la one of the warmest republtcana on the Pacific coast. It ta denied that Kussla Is buying trillions of tons of steel In America. Tbe denial Is accepted, as It conies from the credit man of the I'nited State Steel company. Colonel Bryan strew a a few verbal flowers on the bier of Grover Cleve land and doubtless wishes he could withdraw a lot of the opprobrious name he used to call htm. "I mut refuse to discus subjects eJ lue of which 1 know nothing ays John Mitchell. It would help a good deal If some politicians would follow Mr Mitchell s example In that respect. Money can be no object to those delegate to the democratic convention ho los'.st on making the trip to Den ver la an automobile when the rail road are putting in such low excur sion rates Practically every newspaper east ot the Allegheny mountain has either ritn wit for Tft or served notice that It !il do if Mr. Bryan is nominated at Iur The "enemy country" is a big a vrr The county boar! ba Just let a new contract for repairs to wooden bridges a! r.g cojnt road It l to be hoped a tlu will come when e will have nothing but permanent bridges in iKiug.a county aa4 bo ooden bridge t j r4 I nn ns a a PI r; triftftrt.V Hi" liri'iik ten I'.Htln (inn cutiie nut c,rni''i, ini,.) r Hr.inii mid nn- nip f . r -i ihrtf iitujir nn nnnditlcm wilt " I i Mm Iti thf (clnlnp? cnni I lli" l iigl" Is otin nf the sriit i jH.. t (,f Ainf-rliH HtH Iibh fur warn Ii. in p , i.ciilr".! nn urip of tho .i"f i tiniu.nfm df di'tiiiK rBlIf prln- Ii'' ll'p'lM8 tn n suggestion In ni.,Mir r S. -v Vnp k paper that t lio l';ii'.n unnlil i rnlml ly holt the ih-nio-'"iti" iirkct after tlif convention nt li'-tiwT, tm Kntli- my. ' 'f M t:ii-:ii .n nn platform hlfvir , " " " ;' iw I' " li li nn iifnlr no 1 1 -iir-. .f n in 11,. f-,i rlr rumst .i nr. ' ' " I bi'fortn n"d f ,r nn 1 nn l ilatr f ' i'"1' "' Mr liran. ni!ikln or 1 rf- 1 ii" I'.sk " "'in ,, n,iitp, f,,r 'il. an "'" '"' B""t. II"! S II WAllillpt In I Mil rT I,, , 1 1 1 n j f v l,r. f.,r, g.. , I1. I.iibI,. i. I.lxi .rl. illv and loptirally !' in", r.iil. . wlmllv mitl-l'.i an im.l wholly 1 1 ..,il.i Tills ntiiinnnci'ini nt serves to direct fiMonflnri tn the fact that there is noUlon The dressing and packing should be I'lliB'T n fl'Miincm I lc party press In the) renewed every day. coiilitrv Whin Mr. tlrvnn entered the presidential nrena In 1 ; !t ther" whs nf least one democratic daih pa- '"'r com ilia lid I n Influence In every aiui Today there Is hardly a demo- i rn"1' paper west of the Alleghenles ; thnf Is known outside the ity in ; Immediate independence. Mr. Bige whleh it Is published and east of the ! low, Mr. Winslow and Mr. Story are AllegheiileH there are but two or threp issuing frantic appeals to the delegates democratic dallies that will support Mi.niii. v iiciiKii, wuii u pollina tion of more than 2.000,000 persons, has no democratic paper. Hoston has two democratic papers, neither of i In which will support Mr. Ilryan New York the World, the Times and liie Hrooklvn Kngle are democratic papers, but all bitterly opposed to Ilryan. In Philadelphia the Public Ledger and the Record are democratic newspapers, hut are making the fight for democracy on an anti-Bryan plat form. The Washington Post and the Cincinnati Knquirer, both owned by John U. McLean, are anti-Bryan dem ocratic papers. The Pittsburg Post Is a democratic paper which will give Mr. Bryan but half-hearted support, if it does not openly repudiate the Den ver platform. Indiana used to have two strong democratic papeis, but to day It has none, Michigan used to have a great democratic paper, but now has none. Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, Montana and the Dako tas are without democratic papers of consequence. Democrats are almost without representation in the newspa per field in the entire Pacific coast country. North of Mason and DIxon'B line, and aside from a few weekly publica tions, Mr. Bryan's newspaper support rests almost entirely with the Buffalo Times, the Denver News and an Omaha dally. The party has to depend, ex cept where there are purely local sheets, upon the republican press to give publicity to lis campaign, even to the point of printing notices of local meetings. The democratic press of the west, with rare exceptions, was blighted by the free silver frost of 1896 and never fully recovered. A VdDFL RKl't UT The report just made public by the Omaha branch of the Young Men's Christian association showing the ex tent of its work, and more especially Its financial operations, during the past year, should be a model for other semi-public organizations and institu tions which depend in whole or In part upon popular support. This report contaius in succinct form statistical enumeration of the membership and departmental activ ity with boiled down information as to methods and results. The balance sheet is in plain, readable language and the record of income and outgo undisguised and unmistakable. The same is true of the building fund statement, which goes back to the In ception of the new building enterprise and Is brought down to date under de tailed headings. The showing must be still further gratifying to those who have contributed to this institution In its demonstration of enlarged work accomplished since taking possession of the new building. What the Young Men's Christian association has done In this report in the way of taking into its confidence the public to whom it appeals for moral and financial support ought to be done by every charitable, educa tional and hospital association of a nubile or seml-Dubllc character. If It were done it would accomplish much toward strengthening confidence In the management and giving assurance that the money contributed is being eco nomically used In the most effective way possible to promote the objects desired. ITARXUiQ AOAiyST TETASV8. Surgeon General Wyman of the Ma rine hospital service at Washington publicly warns the country against neglect of proper precaution against tetanus In dressing wounds resulting from the celebration ot July 4. The surgeon general is convinced that this neglect has been responsible for many of the "21 death caused from tetanus immediately after July 4 in the last five years. His report shows that 93 per cent of these lockjaw case have resulted fatally. Most of these cases were caused by blank cartridge wounds or from the giant cracker wounds. The number of case baa de creased wherever the firing of blank cartridge or the use of giant fire cracker is prohibited, The warning issued by Dr. Wyman contain a history of the origin of the tetanua bacillus and the manner In which it is spread through powder wounds. It calls attention to the fact tUat physician too often treat blank cartridge and other powder wounds, unlpfS of very btIous character, natter, however, to persuade the coninils trlvlal, contenting then'Kelves wltbjflon that nn existing, rate Is too low. picking out the plainly Been pieces of wad or powder, while the pieces over-1 Articles of Incorporation for n looked promptly develop tetanus. The , 1 0,000,000 stock company have Just warning concludes: heen filed with the secretary of state. It sttmiiii ho an invariable procedure Nebraska Incorporation laws must be that (II Fourth of .Inly wounds be laid fully opn uiulef local or. proforably. pzen rsl anaesthesia and all forrlptn material 1 and necrotic or badly In.Hired tissue re moved, as the presence of blood clots and , m i rot in tissue favor anaerobic rendition which are essential for the development I of the tetanus orpranism. After the wound , has been thoroughly cleaned out It nhould i be swabbed out w ith stronR eariollo acid. ' ;it eat ;! per cent, followed by a wasli 1 In with per rent alcohol, to prevent (further action of the acid. Some siirptenn lime peroxide of liydroxen Instead of csr- 1...II., After cauterisation, by whatever method uid be thoroughly MIHMI IM1I W U 11 n l.i.l'l'll Ol Itlon of bichloride of mercury and packed with Ksuze soaked In a saturated solution of salicylic or boric acid and a large wet dresxltig of the same solution applied. In no cae should the wound be rlosed. but it should he allowed In heal bv granula- Ayri-iMPKniA i ism. The remnants of the Anti-Imperialism league, up Boston way, are send- ing out a new call to arms over the demand of the Filipino assembly for to the Denver convention to unite upon a ringing platform plank seconding the action of the Filipinos and making their demand one of the paramount issues of the coming campaign. Since Colonel Bryan has gained ex perience in politics, it is hardly prob able that he will repeat the anti-lm-perlalism performance of 1900, al though he will doubtless reiterate his demand for the fixing of a definite date for Philippine Independence. The I mere discussion of the subject shows how little the Filipinos appreciate thelr'present limitations. Mr. Taft, Gov ernor General Smith and all who have become most familiar with the situa tion in the Philippines agree that It will be many years before the natives are prepared for self-government. That they are wholly without such ability at the present time is gen erally admitted. Major General Greely, commenting on the Filipino resolution, says: We have Introduced obligatory education among the Filipinos, but the time it will take for that education to filter through and render the people fit to govern them selves may be long; certainly it will not end In my time. Supplementing General Greely s statement, Governor General Smith calls attention to the fact that to pre serve order in the Moro province alone requires the services of 5,000 Ameri can troops and ten companies of con stabulary. He says the Filipinos are not able to maintain Independence even internally and it left to them selves would be in the throes of a rev olution within a month. Governor Smith strongly deprecates agitation of Filipino independence, on account of the 111 effect on the turbulent element In the islands. The Filipinos have shown raarsra nrouress in the last tew yrar - considerable portion of them are now able to manage their own affairs, but it will require years of patient enori to advance them to the point where they will be able to defend themselves not only from enemies on the outside, but from enemies inside the islands. Until then they must have me tectlon either of the United States or . ..Un nrA thorp of some other strong uaw. ---- is no thought of allowing any otui nation to undertake that task. The political party that urges immediate independence for the island Is doing the worst thing possible for the Fili pinos. Although they failed to nominate the ticket, the Iowa ptogresslves have secured control of the republican state organization and assumed along with It the responsibility for waging a suc cessful campaign. That seems to Il lustrate one of the essential difficulties of direct primary nomination which give no assurance of cordial co-opera tion between candidate and commit tees. Lewis Nixon, a former Tammany leader, cables from London that Mr. Taft will grow weaker as a candidate every day and that the democrats should have no difficulty In carrying the country. Mr. Nixon ha had dreams of that kind every four years and it would be a shame to wake him up before November. An Englishman has invented an electric gun which he claim will throw a projectile weighing 2,000 pounds a distance of 300 miles. If It Is not too expensive to operate it might be used to advantage In trans porting coal, structural Iron and other commodities when the railroads are congested. It must be the same men who had it from high official sources that the Chicago convention would be stam peded for President Roosevelt who are now whispering the straight tip that Mr. Bryan is going to withdraw at the Denver convention and nominate Gov ernor Johnson for first place. The census report show that auto mobiles valued at (90,000.000 were manufactured in the Tnlted States in 1907. At market rate the Nebraska corn crop of 1907 would pay for all the automobiles manufactured, with several million dollars left over for gasoline. No Nebraska railroad has any diffi culty In getting the consent of the State Railway commission to proposed rate reduction. It is a difficult mat- able to compete successfully even with New Jersey incorporation laws. Chairman Tom Ta.imart says he Is for Kern of Indiana for second place on the democratic ticket. It does not 'make so much difference who Is Thr- part's favorite as w ho Is the choice of one William Jennings riijan. i The bankers insist that the new law 'requiring the payment of 1 per cent Interest on government deposits works a hardship on the borrowers, who have to pay It. but, strangely, the borrow ers are not complaining. The Filipinos are much pleased with the appointment of General Wright as secretary of war. They are sure the president did not call the wrong Mr. Wright to his cabinet. The prison labor contractors at the Nebraska state penitentiary should wake up to the fact that Governor Sheldon and his associates on the state board mean business. No one has expressed any surprise over Mr. Bryan's criticism of the re publican platform. The men who framed it had a suspicion that he wouldn't like It. o Small Hrer for lllm. Philadelphia Ke.ord. It is announced that l'r. si.lcnt Roosevelt docs not desire and would not accept elec tion to the United States senate from the state of New York. We should think not. lie who has once quaffed the nectar of the gods has no ( raving fur small beer. Thi Khp Attmied. St. Louis Olobe-Demociat. "They call a man u statesman," says Mr. Bryan, "whose ear Is tuned to catch the slightest pulsation of a pnekethook. and denounce as a demagogue any one wh dares listen to the heurt beat of human ity." A lrcture manuger says Mr. Bryan a share last season was $T.,m0. which shows that bis ear Is tuned to one of the high notes In the pulsation of pocketbooks. So iiie .ludgea Do Err, Springfield lUpublican. Justice Brewer. In defending "govern ment by Injunction" and appearing to de mand moro of It, admits that the courts have made "mistakes" In the use of the weapon. Presumably this Is equivalent to saying there have been abuses of the writ. Vet It was only Recently that Con gressman UMlefleld of Maine was chal lenging President Roosevelt to specify any cases of abuse which the president had spoken of in bis last annual message to congress, and a similar attitude lias been assumed by all those who have tried to keep the injunction issue out of the re publican platform. As it the judiciary alone, of all things on earth, is perfect and free from blemish. Boston Tickle I tar If. Boston Globe. Chicago dispatches mention Senator Lodge's "clear llosion enunciation" when speaking before the republican nationul convention. The Chicago papers refer to "periods of classical purity" In Ids ppeech, and attribute this quality to the Intluence of "Harvard's academic shades." Chicago is Just waking up to what the rest of the world has known for fome time, namely, that the English language is spoken more correctly in Boston llian any where elfse In America. Harvard may have some influence to this end, but we may Infer that Boston has learned to talk si well that it co-.',d keep up the standard without Harvard, if nefessary. Even the street car conductors In Bos ton use correct V .gltsh, and their "Please move quickly" Is refreshing In lis contrast to their Chicago -efren's "Step lively, there t" In praising Senator Lodge the wooiy west merely takes off Its hat to all Bos ton. C El.KIl HITIKS AS HKPOIITERS. Posaea Neither "the Koiie for em Nor l.rgs to Follow It." Louisville Courier-Journal. If the working journalist who plods along as Industriously as the ant and often as anonymously as the coral Insect, fears the.t he will eventually be supplanted by the celebrity whose name Is a thing with which to conjure, let him look over the files of the press covering the period of the Chicago convention. He will see that the news was written by the newspaper reporter and that the much-advertised celebrity politician, novelist or what not who went to Chicago to write something every day to fit around his picture In the columns of the newspapers employing him, did not contribute greatly to the sum total of Information as the little events of the great convention followed one another Into pages of history. With the exception of the occasional newspaper man who has won distinction as a finder or distributer of facts the cele brity makes an Indifferent reporter. The first requirements for news writing are a nose for news and legs to follow It. Uen erally speaking, the celehrlty lacks the one and Is entirely too great a personage to employ the other. He writes a great deal of "copy" that Is more or less Interesting except when it Is compared to the news of the day, which Is written by the reporter who uses his nose and his legs and lets his pen tell In plain, unvarnished tale of what Is going forward. The best correspondent or reporter Is the man who makes news writing hla calling and not the author of a popular novel or the hero of a political campaign. A daily newspaper Is published 3t'5 times a year. If It were not equipped to report a political convention without calling Into requisition the services of celebrities or novelists or "muckrakers," or to report a criminal trial without employing dramatists, it would not be able to report properly many occurrences that require an equal degree of Intelligence and Industry. Is it not an ad mission of weakness rather than an ad vertisement of enterprise for a newspaper to announce that It has secured the serv ices of some great man who knows little or nothing about news writing, and cares less, to supplement Its press service re ports? Would not a better advertisement be an announcement aomethlng like this: "This newspaper will not employ the au thor of any one of the six best sellers or the governor of any state or the mayor of any city to report polllicul conventions, nor will It employ a chief of police, a former detective, a writer of melodramas or an Anna Katherlne Green to report any murder trial that may be docketed at any time, but will depend upon Its reporters for report and Us correspondent for cor respondence." This la the policy of many of the most Informing and most Influential Journals, although It la not usually announced in large headllnta. lOt Ml .4 H O t ' T F.W lORK. Hippie on the t orrent nf I. If In the Metro poll. New York boasts of a collection of cen tenarians and better which It a surprise to the average, native. Whence they came is not given much publicity, because the big town would be tickled to death If the rest of the country could tie. Induced t believe that it wis a health renort of the first mag nitude. But the collection Is there, and takes on some of the characteristic of a museum. Attention was drawn to it re cently by a fair for the benefit of the "Home of the Daughters of Jacob," in the reports of which mention was made of the chief usher, a "lad " nf 1H6 years, nd of the "girls" who sold candy and lemonade, although they wire only 103 and 107 years old Some ilo'lbt was expressed as to the ages of these Inmates of the home. Albert Kruger. the superintendent, says In the Tribune that there was no exaggeration and gave these figures from bis last re. port: "These aie the ages of our wards: From fill to tlo, three women; 66 to 7o, three men and eleven women; 70 to 75. eleven men and fourteen women; 76 to' SO, twelve men and eight women; SO to S3, fifteen men and twelve women; R5 to 9o, six men and eight women; !) to 95, four men and six women; X to po, two men and five women, (me man Is tn his 100th year, one woman Is 1o; years old, one 1C7 and the oldest Is 113." A twenty-story building-the Silversmiths' - nn Maiden Lane, lower Manhattan, has settled so much that It is dragging down neighboring buildings with it, and these arc lint slight structures, either, for the Jew elers' building a but five stories less and the Hays building, on the other side, Is twelve stories high. As they have been drawn down the walls have cracked, and some of tlie tenants have got out, but tlw proprietors maintain there's no danger, atnl are putting In plaster In the cracks and rovering those with paint. The build ing of least height has to have a new front wall from the second floor up. But that's nothing. The cause of all this Is perfectly understood. All these buildings are erected on loose sand, and the foundations were made by laying criss-cross steel beams and filling the Interstices with concrete. Nobody exhibits signs of excitement over the published reports that there were 5.512 traction accidents in New York In the month of May. These casualties came quite In the ordinary course of events. There were almost as many In April and only a few hundred less In March, Febu ary and January. The Public Service board of experts. In its report, said that ' a cer tain physio-psychologic condition of care less exaltation, attendant on somewhat ex cessive good cheer on outings" was respon ible for the Increase, and let it go at that. The matter-of-fact acceptance of these lengthening lists of accidents is the re markable thing in evidence. Parallel cir cumstances of public indifference could scarcely be imagined. The new Holland-American liner Rotter dam, the skyscraper of the sea, which ar rived Monday is the heaviest afloat, being a SS.iX'd tonner. It has the largest num ber of decks of ary ship on the seas eleven and Is r skyscraper among- ships. A novelty of the Rotterdam und every new ship that comes ont these days must have some novelty, If It be a laundry like that on the French liner Chicago, a den tist on the Italian liner Principe Dl Udine, or a bookstore on the Prli.s Frledrlch Wilhelm It the exclusive stairway from decks to cabins. The most famous of mod ern hotels could not surpass the Rotter dam's decorative work. Kvery public room presents unique features, with exquisite In teriors and harmonious coloring and splen dor. Persons who went down to see the Amer ican liner Philadelphia sail for Southamp ton one day last week witnessed this scene on the pier; A man wearing a lr i g raincoat, accom panied by a handsome woman, arrived carrying n shaggy-haired yellow dog. As the pair neared the pungplank the man turned and kissing the dog on the muzile handed It to the woman, the while ad dressing It: "Now, baby, take good care of mamma, and be good to her until I get back." Then he turned, and, kissing the woman gocd-bye, boarded the ship. There was no cheering. It required the united efforts of eight men, besides the veterinary who actually performed the operation, to pull the tooth of Vendredi, a large Afriian lion which Is ne of the attractions at Coney Island. Vendredi had been In lit temper for several days and had refused to eat. When a lion refuses food it is a positive indication that the animal Is suffering from some thirg of an aggressive nature, and the manager knew at once, from his year of association with wild animals, that Ven dredi was suffering from toothache. Ropes were thrown around the different parts of the lion's body, Including his legs, and In this helpless condition the regal beast was pulled close to the bars of Its den. With a thick stick Its mouth was pried open, and upon this piece of wood Vendredi chewed until a pair of pliers was Inserted behind the back teeth, so that he could not closo his mouth while the veter inarian pulled tho tooth, which proved to be one of Its four fangs. A pair of forceps was used for the removal of the tooth, which had ulcerated at the root and must have caused the lion much suffering. With porterhouse steak at 30 cents a pound and round steak at 24 cents, New Yorkers have decided that vegetables are good enough for them. More vegetables are helng sold than ever before. During the last seven days a tilgh record for the sale of potatoes, green peas and asparagus has been set. For the first time in twenty five years it Is cheaper to eat Oyster Bay asparagus and hothouse tomatoes than dressed meat. The best asparagus In the market only costs 3 cents. As a result of the demand for vegetables retail butchers have suffered, and they are putting In stands to hundlo the garden truck. llOOUIMi T1IU FODDER, Policy of Trusts n Mrnao to Pablla Welfare. Philadelphia Record. Instead of reducing the prices of their wares, In answer to diminished demand, the policy of the trusts has been to main tain prices and curtail production. Instead of reducing wsges, and thus keeping their whole working forces em ployed, they have maintained Ihe rat of wt ges for a limited number of employes and turned all others out to grase. By keeping up the prices of the things they produce'they make recuperation and resumption of general business unecrtain or impossible. By adding many thousands to the ranks of the unemployed they enhance the misery they refuse to alleviate and add to the burden thereby Imposed on the savings of the thrifty and the charity of the mass. There can be In the meantime no reduction In the cost of living correspondent to prostrated trade and In dustry and decreased earnings. Discredited l'roihrl. Chicago Tribune. Those knowledgeous Individ lals who were so cocksure thst President Roosevelt would be nominated In spit of bis "no" are still trying to exptuln huw and why It d.iln t liapl-iiU. nm.Tic nitri.KAM ik. Chicago News: Hryan does not like the Chicago platform, but then Pryan was not exported to like the Chicago platform. P.iltlmore American: William .tennlnc Bryan Is evidently not satisfied with the republican platform because It does not have enough Bryanlsm In It. This Is un foitunste from the Commoner's point of view, perhai; but as that la not the point of view commonly held by the majority of tho voters. It will not prove to be a calamity when the votes are counted. St. Paul Plnnoeer Press: Bryan Is grieved down to the bottom of bis heart becsusn the republican national platform doesn't contain a lot of his policies. Hut t.e need not hopelessly despair. He can put whatever he wants to in the Ivnver plat form If there la room; If not, he ran psss the overflow on to the Hearst party, which holds a convention a few weeks later. New York Tribune: We Judge from sonic casual remarks of Mr. Bryan that the platform of the Denver convention Is to b. a model of Its kind, containing everything which It should exclude, free silver coin age, government ownership snd operation of the railroads and the Initiative and ref erendum In natlonai affairs falling ap propriately under the second category. Brooklyn Eagle: Mr. Bryan should remove the motes from his own eyes before he re marks concerning beams In the eyes nf others. But Mr. Bryan will not. Those who say or would advise that be should, or hope that l.e will, forget that be is Incapable of improving himself or of recognising ttie Unprovability of himself. He Is tethered to his record by no tie. He is held even to the present by no responsl blllty. The whole boundless continent of future mutation and of future suggestion Is his for language. In consistency Is his right, his duty, his license and his foible, and wisdom, evicted from other breasts and minds, will find Its babltlon in hlir, until his death, and will then be burled with his bones. rKKSO AI. SOI'M, Some prophet has set the end of the world for October, but the free and en lightened voter proposes to drop a ballot in November Just the same, "What do you suppose the husbunds of the visiting clubwomen are doing at home this week while their wives are In Bos ton?" If you know wire the Information to the Boston Transcript. E. D. Llbbey, a prominent Toledo (O.) manufacturer, haa given JlnS.OOQ to the Toledo art museum. This will enable the trustees to erect a new building, ISO.OOO ad dltionjal being available through public subscriptions. Miss Amy Wren, attorney and counselor at law. has been graduated from the Brooklyn Law school as the winner of a $100 prize. Miss Wren will make a suc cessful lawyer. She has taken all the money In sight so far. McKtnley Garry and Hanna fiarry were pages at the republican national conven tion last week. They are black twins and their names which won them their official distinction were conferred upon them not long after the St. Louis convention of 11. They are sons of Prof. D. W. Garry, presi dent of the Alcorn Agricultural and Me chanical Institute of Alcorn, Miss., a negro Institution modeled after the plans of Booker T. Washington. David Rankin, a member of the Missouri delegation to the republican national con vention, is said to be the largest individual farmer In the world. He was the oldest delegate In the convention, having passed his eighty-third year. Ills farm In Atchi son county, Missouri, comprises 25,000 acres, 18,000 acres being given to the culti vation of corn and the other 7,000 to pas turage. Laat year his corn crop reached over 1,000,000 bushels. Ha haa 10,000 cattle and 15.000 hogs. 'THIS IS SO SlDDEJi." nut Then He Knew it Was Coming:, So What'i the I set Minneapolis Journal. William J. Bryan saya he is like the young girl whose engagement has been announced, and who finds It proper to remain at home. Shucks! William J. Is more like the young girl to whom the young man proposed and who, after wards, womanlike, claimed that It was a great surprise to her. "Get along," said the women to whom he made this statement. "A month ago she asked me to be her bridesmaid." William, so far from retiring Into seclusion, la arranging for tha wedding. He la sending out tentative invitations to Johnson, Gray, Mitchell and other nice young persons to act as bridesmaid. You couldn't surprise William with a nomina tion any more tfkan you could surprise a widow with three children by a proposal from a widower with six. Browning, lilng & Co CLOTHING, FURNISHINGS and HATS Prc-Invcnlory Sale N July 1st which were left from the season's best selling lines. We have placed these suits on our two front tables and Friday and Saturday will sell them all at one price Now is the time your vacation trip at 15th anal Douglas Strosts I t R. S. WILCOX, Mar. t t I.Atl.HIMi (its. "No," growl'1 the Chmn, i don t see why I can't have iwi mv tn IghtMir has It am t r i k I ' Very well." remarked i i erohe. "one of your neighb pnx. I'll attend to you at . tr Tribune. "Have von thought of the t.,. detent. Mr. Taft?" "Well." replied the rotund "what s the use of frettlr ; The csmpalgn'll make me work fifty pounds, anyhow."-PbiiM l. ger. ' 1 M v cocoa's cold," sternlj the gruff old gentleman to l.i reis. "Put your bat on." shn s ges ted. 'Harper's Weekly. "The easiest way to succeed. ' to give the people what they i , "No sir, you are mistaken t wsv to succeed Is to mske the p. thev want what you are giving Chicago Recnid-Herald. "So." remarked the boyhood fi:. are In the swim " "Mother and the (Ills think I ,i swereil Mr. Cumrox. "But iu ; feelings are those nf a man who ! . overboard and ought to be bni:, help." Washington Slar. "That family of acrobats who'- ' Is to stand on one another head , successful. I linderw tand?" "Yes, notwithHtandlng I he fact t whole earner Is a series of fun versi a." Baltimore American. '.'After all." said the earn st ' . "you are but a servant of the u iL' "Yes," nnswerd Senntor Hiraliun. as a rule the public Is a cureless . rather good-natured Sort of linns. flattered and exacting only when v,i hor.istlv Irving In (in snniethlng . I'm benefit." Washington Star. "That model of yours Is n pu?..l, mo." ssld the artist's friend. "Well." responded the nrtlst rl't,l,'i, Ically. "she Is something of a poser " - Biiltlmote Amer.i n Phlsty I suppose you think tVat I had tlie regulating of ttie nnlveise could mske some improvements nn H pnsent Job, don't you? Kuphs-1 don't know about (hit. b' think 1 could suxgrst one change I sh u I like to have things so arranged tint wh. a man Is having a good time tie- d would seem to pass slowlv Ins en i ,, quickly. I'm a limit to take a vacation. A TOAST TO TIIK ".Al.0 HS." From "Today and Oilier Poems" Vn have dn nk. O my friends to the victor Ye have toasted the valiant and s tniiv. 'I".. , I . BrB, . . r ,v& .... I. .... i .I-.... In your mirth. Tn the wise e have lifted your song. It Is well they are worthy my biothers. AS auglit that the rinnami lit snail. But I pledge you u health to the others A health to the "also rans." To the men who went down In the stiugg! To the runners who finished unplaced. To the weak and the young, the unkm w: and unsung, The depraved, the oppressed, the it graced. Ye are blooded, developed, completed: They were bred without stamina. rlnv 'TIs to them, tho surpassed the defi ate ' I bow as I drain my glass. Who are ye that should dare reject tt;ri"' Do ye know what the handicaps weigiud" Did ye suffer the pain, run the rr.ee, mhm I the strain. Thpt ye scoff at the place that t made? It may be that, they ran overweighted It may be that they were left at the p,.st Far or near, 'tis to them, ttie Ill-fated. I bow as I drink my toast. They have lost, they are 111, they si weary; Ye have won, ye are well, ye are strotic By the drops that they bled, by the tear that they shed. By your mirth, by your wine by yorv song. By all that haa e'er helped tn sweeten Your lives, by your hopes, by your plans. I pledge you the health of the beatens The health of the "alw rans." JAMES B. CONNOLLY'S An Olympic Victor A Romantic Love Story of the Oympic Games at Athens beginning In the JULY Thrilling descriptions of the athletic contests In the great Htadluni. we take our semi SCRIBNER annual inventory and .we .have about 300 Men's suits in broken lines which we wish to close out. These suits sold up to $30 and are all desirable patterns so to get fitted out for a small expense. 15th and Douglas Streets V