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afeMrlbrra laTla thai rlly tera
forarllr shunia kava Tkr Oe
thrm. Addrraa will b
rfc""4 aa sflea aa reqneitid,
Tlit grocers' and butdiers1 picnic
is losing i-aatH Da a rain-maker.
Of course, "Jim" Sherman is too
big a tuan to remain in pent-up I tlca.
Kansas Is complaining hecauae it
tins too many spellbinders and not
enough wheat binders.
Servla haa asked King Peter to ab
cllcatu or bo killed. 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
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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
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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
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