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THE OMAHA DAILY IEK: FIJI DAY, JULY .1. 100$ The Omaha Daily Bee. FOL'NIjKI) ItT EDWARD HOSKWATKR. VICTOR KOSK WATER. EDITOR. Entcroil at Omaha postofflco B Second class matter. TBRM9 OK SIHSCIUPTION: Daily Hie (without Sunday), one year. .W. CO Dally l.rn and Sunday, one year Sunday 1 one year faturday Hc. one year 160 DELIVERED UY CARRIER: Dally Iee (induing Sunday), per week. .15c Daily lie" (without Sunday), per week..l'io Kverilng flee (without Sunday), per week tic i;ver,lng Hee (With Sunday), per week .Hie Address all complaint of Irregularities In delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha The Tee itulldlng. South Omaha-City Hall Building. Council HIuffs-15 Scott Street. Chicago 1)48 Manjuette Building. New Vork Rooms 1101-1102, No. 34 West Thirty-third Bireot. Washington Tii Fourteenth Street N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi torial matter should he addressed: Omaha Hee, Editorial I icpartment. ' REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to The Hee I'ubllshlr.g Company. Only li-cenl stumps received In payment of mail accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCCDATION: Btute of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.: Ocernc H. Txachuek, treasurer of The Hee Publishing company, being duly sworn, rays that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Daily, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during tho month of Juno. lJft. was as follows: 1 3S.8B0 IS 38,490 2 35,740 3 36,030 4 33,800 8 33,760 6 35,830 7 35,900 8 35,950 9 35,910 10 35,970 11 36,350 13 36,030 13 35,890 14 30,060 IS 36,080 10 38,490 17 36,930 18 39,110 19 36,460 SO 33,890 31 33,760 S3 36,480 93 38,099 34 38,340 SS 36,800 38 38,070 98 3630 89 36,600 30 36,330 Totals 1,089,090 Less unsold and returned copies.. 9,677 Net total 1,079,313 Dalley average , 35,977 OEORQE B. TZSCHCCK, Treasurer. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 1st day of July, 190K. M. P. WALKER, Notary Public. WHEN OI7T Or TOWN. Subscribers Icavlaa (lie cllr tern porarllr should have The Bee nailed to them. Addreea will be changed mm ofteat sus reaeted. Castro has not yet railed on Japan to help him whip Uncle Sam. The photographs of Senor Obaldla, the new president of Panama, look the part. Look not too closely'upon the fire works when they are red and big and dangerous. Now that It 1b all over, Mr. Fair banks might tell whether he drank that cocktail. In his nWbook 'Mr. Rockefeller may explain his secret of extracting oil from water. The Vermonters should not try to Bhoot tho balloonists who are doing the best they can. "Sunny Jim" Sherman has fully re covered and Utlca may go as far as It likes in welcoming him home. It will be worth the price of admis sion at Denver to see the Tammany tiger jumping through the Dryan hoops. The gentleman from Texas and Mex ico Is now busy making a new charter to govern Omaha. Nearly all the newspapers In the country made note of the fact that Mr Bryan gave a dollar to a hobo. It pays to advertise. Congressman "Billy" Sulzer of New York has arrived at Denver, so there Is no occasion for delaying the pro ceedings any longer. When our club women come home we may expect to hoar Just how it was dono down In Boston. Venezuela needs a few good doctors who are Immtino from the bubonic plasue more than It needs a visit from Uncle Sam's warships. One of the bitj fljh concerns has U-en 4lncd for accepting rebates. Still, how is a fish concern going to do bus iness wifhnt't re-baits? Minister Wn Ting-fang says he ex pects to live to be 200 years old. Kven at that some of his questions will prob ably remain unanswered. Governor Swanson of Virginia is to second the nomination of Mr, Bryan it Denver. Please note that the name Is Swauson. not Swansong. The Gray and Johnson boomers are unable to agree on any issue that la up for consideration, thus proving the genuineness of their democracy. When Miss Plant fell into the ocean t Atlantic City and was rescued by Mr. Blossom, the acquaintance thus started promptly flowered Into matrimony. Editor Watterson call a President Roosevelt "The Great Nominator." The president might retort by desig nating the colonel as "The Great DlvUor." The weather man is duly advised of the near approach of the glorious Fourth and the urgent necessity of clearing the atmosphere to keep the powder dry. Mr. Hearst's New York paper is giv ing up a stingy bit of space over in the Inside pages to let Its readers know that 4 democratic national convention la about to b pulled off. TA HKKR'S roiSOMD IWQUtJT If Alton B. PnrkT projerts at Den ver his resolution in coiniiuTnoration of the late Grover Cleveland In the form In which it has been made pub lic, we may expect sparks to fly on the convention floor. Every flower of the bouquet which Judge Parker would lay on the grave of the last democratic president con tains poison for William Jennings Bryan. When the Parker resolution com mends the faithfulness of Grover Cleveland to the settled traditions and policies of the democratic party as ex emplified by all Its groat leaders, "from Thomas Jefferson to Samuel J. Tilden," It studiously stops short of the Intrusion of Mr. Bryan and Inti mates that Bryanlsm is the complete reversal of democratic traditions. When the Parker resolution empha sizes Mr. Cleveland's "heroic devotion to principle,'" It suggests a contrast with Mr. Bryan's boxing of the politi cal compass. When the Parker resolution holds Mr. Cleveland tip for admiration for "respecting the integrity of the courts,'" it draws a line through the platform plank demanding the curtail ment of Judicial power which Mr. BryaA is demanding. When the Parker resolution praises Mr. Cleveland for "maintaining the public credit" and "standing firm as a rock in defense of honest principles of finance," it excoriates Mr. Bryan's propaganda for free silver repudia tion. From first to last the proposed reso lution Is a direct contradiction of all the bitter arraignment which Mr. Bryan has repeatedly made of Mr. Cleveland. The adoption of such a resolution by the democratic conven tion could be construed in only two ways either as an Indictment of Mr. Bryan's democracy or as a reflection on his sincerity. For the same delegates in conven tion assembled to adopt such a resolu tion of tribute tx Grover Cleveland and then to nominate Mr. Bryan to be the party's standard bearer would be a political satire of monumental pro portions. THE VFRlSlbQ IS MEXICO. The administration at Washington Is charged with a delicate duty in us ing federal troops along the northern border of Mexico to prevent the 'revo lutionists who have been finding refuge In Texas from crossing the border to take part In the Mexican uprising. The laws on the subject are vague and Indefinite and our government has al ways refused to take cognizance of the political quarrels of other peoples. At the same time the peace of the sister republic and the necessity of preserv ing American interests furnishes war rant for determined, but cautious and conservative action to prevent Amer ican soil from being used as a recruit ing ground for a revolution against a friendly nation. The present insurrection against the, government of President Diaz has been brewing for a dozen years. Mex ican politicians who have failed to make headway have been fomenting the revolutionary sentiment, hoping to start an uprising upon the death or retirement of President Diaz that would place the old regime in control. These Insurgents established headquar ters at St. Louis some years ago, but the American authorities compelled them to move on. Of late years they have been living at different towns near the Mexican border In Texas and carrying on their plotting under cover. President Diaz has used strong meth ods to suppress the bandits and mal contents In his country and has given Mexico the first "stable government it ever had. He has aroused much an tagonism by giving subsidies to Amer icans aid using every effort to have the resources of the country developed. He has been handicapped, however, by the large discretionary powers lodged In the local governors and his plans for nationalizing the Mexican railroads and making other extensive improve ments have been bitterly opposed. Tho lazy, shiftless and roving Mexicans who have become dissatisfied have Joined Benito Juarez, a descendant and namesake of tho grand old aborigine who led a successful revolt against the imperial government of Maximilian, in a new revolution against Diaz. The outcome of the revolution can not be long In doubt. President Diaz has a strong, well-drilled and finely equipped standing army of 35,000 men and can recruit it up to 100,000 on rhort notice. The insurgents have an unknown number of followers, most of whom appear to be fighting for plunder rather than principle. The Insurgents hpve already sustained one defeat and will probably break up into outlaw bands. At all events, the United States has a duty in prevent ing the misuse of its territory. DRCHAHD'S COH&IUTATIOS. The commutation of the death sen tence of Harry Orchard, the confessed murderer of Governor Steunenberg of Idaho, will be hard to justify. If Orchard were guilty of half the crimes of which he boasted on the witness stand, no man ever merited the death penalty more than he. If he was as sured of protection for turning state's evidence, which has been denied by all parties concerned, he could rightfully have demanded m full pardon instead of a life sentence. Commutation to life Imprisonment In Orchard's case will be taken to mean merely postponement of libera tion by holding out to him the expecta tion of another commutation or parole at some later time. From whatever point of view Orchard may be re garded. b cannot be considered, as en- titled to any consideration at the hands of society, and it seems to us that his execution without tho interference with the due course of law would have been the best way to close the astound ing chapter which li contributed to the history of crime. siimviso . irs hash. Tho democratic city council is show ing its hand In Its desperate effort to avoid giving The Bee the contract for city advertising to which it is entitled for having submitted the lowest and best bid. Refusal to award the contract Is confessedly Inspired by no other mo tive than to punish The Bee because it upholds republican doctrines, and to use the advertising contract to reward the local democratic organ for faithful service as an apologist for the council. Of course, had the World-Herald put In a bid either higher or lower than The Bee's the council would have found a way to give the advertising to the democratic organ. But the failure of the World-Herald to put in any bid whatever, in spite of ample notice and invitation, has put its democratic friends In the council up against a pretty strong proposition. They have been forced to an arbitrary attempt to reject Tho Bee'B Hd after opening It and making It public for the benefit of competitors and by re-advertislng to invite the World-Herald to come In by after thought with a lower figure. The council is In the same situation that it would be if It sought to reject the lowest bid for paving or for gut tering simply because it did not like the politics of the bidder. On the other hand, had the democratic World Herald been the only bidder we may be sure the contract would have been closed up, signed, sealed and delivered before anyone could say "Jack Robin son." Although the democratic coun cil may not concede to a republican newspaper any rights which It Is bound to respect. The Bee may have other ways of enforcing Its rights. Montana democrats have Just held their state convention to choose dele gates to the Denver meeting, less than a week before the convention Is to be called to order. If a contest were to be made about seating these dele gates there would be scarcely time to serve the notices, much less to give each side opportunity to answer. The democrats will some day have to adopt the rule incorporated into the repub lican call, which requires national con vention delegates to have been selected thirty days in advance of the conven tion and sets a twenty-day limit to the filing of contest notices. There is no question but that Charles A. Towne has the best claim to Colonel Bryan's favor for second place on the ticket as a matter of grati tude for eliminating himself in 1900 in order to make It more smooth sail ing" ( for .Brjan and Stevenson. But then, -Colonel Bryan has been accused of harboring "a sting of ingratitude." The Water board is to be com mended for taking tho precaution to name an acting chairman and empower him to sign vouchers and salary war rantsduring the absence of the chair man. If the Water board could not draw salary warrants without Inter ruption it would be, indeed, in a state of suspended animation. Who denies that the world is grow ing better? A man has been sentenced to seven years In prison at Goldfleld, Nev., for selling fake mining stock. Life is going to lose some of Its at tractiveness in the west if It is made a crime to fleece a tenderfoot by the mining stock game. A war expert has asserted that 100, 000 Japs might easily seize San Fran cisco by disguising themselves as United States soldiers. Easiest thing In the world. All tho Japs would have to do would bo to put on United States uniforms and add about a foot to their height. Chairman Lloyd of the democratic congressional committee bewails a woeful shortage of funds. The situa tion is particularly distressing, as T. Fortune Ryan is In Europe and did not leave his cable address even with Mayor Jim or Brother-ln-Law Allen. Iconoclasts are now trying to prove that no such person as Betsy Ross, who is supposed to have made the first American flag, ever existed. Next they will be trying to prove that there never was such a person as Charley Ross. The Real Estate exchange does not .ant to mix in the pending controver sies before the County Board of Equal ization. The Real Estate exchange has a peculiar knack of mixing in when It wants to and finding an excuse not to mix in w hen it does not want to. The astronomers were much inter ested in theyrecent eclipse of the sun. The democratic politicians will be In terested in the eclipse of a whole group of favorite sons that is sched uled for some day next week at Den ver. The treasury deficit for the fiscal year amounts to about 60,000.000. This might be serious were it not for the fact that the treasury started out with about $250,000,000 of surplus money to make tip the deficiency. Mr. Root says he is happy to be at Muldoon's. A man who has spent months buffetting politicians, congress men and diplomats may be excused for finding relief In the company of a trainer of pugilists. That cartoonist should be reminded that the democratic, candidate expects to run on a calamity platform and that he must stop playing up prosperity if he does not want to kilt the effect of the calamity howl. Congressman Pollard Is looking for young men among ,hls constituents willing to enter the marine corps. It seems hardly necessary for anyone to go outside of Nebraska for experience on the water. Because our amiable democratic contemporary went to sleep at the switch It now expects the democratic city council to back the train down and give it another chance to get aboard. Nebraska has been permitted to fur nish the sixth vice president of the Na tional Educational association. We are not advised how many vice presi dents the association boasts. Tropical Kniotlon. Minneapolis Journal. That Mexican revolutionary movement resembles an unlnstrurted d' legation adopt ing the unit rule. Interesting, If True. Wnalilngton Tost. Mr. Eryan's assertion that the republi can platform repudiates Roosevelttsm will nd'dly suiprife the rccple who though Mr. Roosevelt wrote It. Knltlna Action to the Letters. Chicago Post. The gentleman from Minnesota, who was at one time rumored to have presidential aspirations of 1!M8 growth, has been made an L. L. D. Some wag will promptly sug gest that It was a tip to him and might bo Interpreted, "liCt's Lay Down." Political Capital Gone Wronsr. New York Tribune. Mr. Bryan's attention is respectfully called to the fact that the Mobile A Ohio railroad, which some time ago cut the salaries of employes, high as well as low, has now ordered all salaries restored, with the exception of those of president and vice president. Another good piece of political capital gone wrong. Stains of Retnmlno; Sense. Boston Transcript. The Tennessee primaries, held on Satur day, resulted In the rejection of Mr. Car mack, who arplred to the governorship. Ills failure Involves a rebuke of the state wide prohibition Idea and correspondingly Is a popular reaffirmation of the local op tion system of regulating the liquor traffic. This Is not the first check to the temper ance week In the south, for In Georgia it is plain from the triumph of Brown over Hoke Smith that among the influences making that result was doubt whether the state had not gone too far and too fast in enacting absolute prohibition. rEHSOMAL OTKS. Licensed to marry In Chicago: Thomas Topolewski and Pelagla Putykowskl. Much Joy ski! When Mr. Roosevelt hunts Hons he should bear In mind that tho story of the slaying of one by the bare hands has tor some time been viewed with suspicion. Editor George Harvey of the North American Review says: "Tho music In women's voices counterbalances any possi ble disparity In the Ideas expressed." Com pliments like this usually drive the women to writing letters to the man who makes them. -,,i . Thomas Wilkinson, whoso proudest boast was that his '.face had not been touched by razor or shears since the civil war, is dead at Adrlun, Mich. His whiskers meas ured about eighteen feet, and he formerly traveled with a elde show exhibiting thorn. Ho was a veteran of the civil war, and was well known all over the state. The firecracker and the toy pistol can not be suppressed by debate. The fathers who talk against these evils are poor mor alists. Where is the man In the United States who hasn't celebrated the Fourth with these dangerous toys of war? Tho safest way is to take the children away from the bad boy next door on that day. John B. Jarken, American minister at Teheran, Persia, has applied to the State department for leave of absence. The offi cials say they see no reason why It fchould not be granted, which Is regarded as an indication that they do not consider the Persian situation an alarming one, at least so far as American interests are concerned. BIIHEZY TH I FLICS. "I hear your daughter Arnle'e wedding was quite a lively one, Mr. Jones." "Well, it was something of an Annie mated scene." Baltimore American. "A hammock large enough for two?" echoed the dealer. "Do you want It wltn or without?" " 'With or without' what?" asked the girl. "Crowding," replied the dealer, KWtlli.ig at her Innocence. Thin she vr her order in a whiFoir. Philadelphia Ledger. "Your son, Mrs. Simpson." said the col lege professor, portentouHly, "Is. I am sorry to say, afflicted with ses pilp.-ii :iu verba. "O lord. Professor!" cried the agitated pnrent, "can it cured without H'l orir-atlon?"- Phlli-ot Iphta Press. "Paw. have vim ever been east?" "Yes; I spent a year In New York City wh"n I was considerably younger than I am no-." "Well, what hi tho 'eastern nuf lion'" "The only one I ever henrd was. 'Iluw much Is .he wortn? " Chicago Tribune. 'This town Is awful dry, ain't it. mister?" asked the thirsty drummer. "You net It s dry mi right, sourly en- swered the hotel proprietor. "It's that .lry that folks alout here won't even 'Huld-it? their bills." Haltimore American. Mrs. QushlelKh (to steamer acnuaintane 1 save all of hiv husband's old love let ters. Pn you save yours? 1 tie Other Woman My dear manamn. I hive hud four husbands." Chicago i rioune. prepare: to t ei.f.uu tk. W. J. Lampton In New York World. Get ready now to celebrate The Glorious Fourth and show To all the world to what extremes Our patriots will go. Give giant crackers to the boyg To make a glorious fuss, But have the doctors, over night. Prepare for tetanus. Go fling the Starry Banner out At half-mast fur the sons Of patriot fathers who supply Their kids with fatal guns. Let ever" man and bov turn loose With noise to raise the dead. And notify the hospitals There's extra work ahead. Set off the fireworks with a aiza To sling their glare about. And let the undertaker trot A few more hearses out. Tang forth thn rousing fusillade That heats Die beating drums. And tell the sweepers of the streets To watch for eyes and thumbs. Shoot up the daylight and the dark Of this our Cllory Day, And hang some crape upon the door For Willie passed away. The patriot fathers fit and bled And died to make us free, And once a year a few son ought To die fur Liberty. Hall to the Nation's natal day! Let Kant, West, boutli and North Gel ready now to celebrate Our grand and bloody Fourth. A FAMOIS AVMVERMnV, Destruction of the Ansnlnh Fleet al tantlnnn Ten lrnra (to, A famous sea haul.; was fought and won off the harbor of Santiago, during tho forenoon of July 3, IS!, ten years ago to day. The news ol the hattl" and the re- i It came opportunely, on the morning of the Fourth, and the customary rejoicings of the noted day took on a degree of patriotic exuberance thst has not been ex perienced since. No anniversary of Inde pendence day since civil war times was so enthu astlrnlly celebrated, none sounded the depths of patriotic Joy as thoroughly as that which marked the end of Spanish dominion In the Carrlhean sea. Omaha turned loose 60,m) strong In tho Trans tnlsslssippl exposition and reh'brated as never before or since. The hours of day and bight were as swift as the pace of the crowd, and both merged wearily Into the morning of the day after. Oh,' memory, hush! Tho chief Incidents of the battle and the principal actors In the historic scene form a panorama a shade less thrilling ten years after as when Admiral Cervern bravely led his fleet to Its doom. It was 9:3" a. m.. Sunday morning. Almost simultaneously from the signal bridges of half the vessels of the American fleet came word that the Spanish fleet was coming out. Quickly come the order from the Brooklyn, "Chnse and engage," bv.t by the time the bunting flapped from the ropes the entire fleet had, broken ground and was following out the general order to fight on sight. As they swung to port to meet the enemy the forward turrets of the Teresa biased with a noisy defiance and the shot were turned loose among tho vessels bearing down swiftly upon them. Then the most remarkable naval battle of all time was under way. Tho big Brook lyn, the largest ship In the fleet, swooped down under half steam, belching flame and moke from all, Its port battery. Then, with a mighty sweep of Its bows, It sheered up to starboard and, swinging around In a circle, passed close by the Texas, re opening with Its starboard battery. Swiftly It flew, gaining speed and power with each revolution of Its screws. Classed as In ferior to any one of tho four gigantic cruisers opposed to it, it successively en gaged them all. The Texas, the Oregon, the Indiana, all swooped down, turning to meet the west ward course of Cervera's ship. Their heavy guns threw tons of hard metal against the sides of the doomed ships, but only one had the steam and speed to fal low the escaping leaders. With an ex perience gained In a race of 12,000 miles, the stokers and engineers of the mighty Oregon had learned a lesson which stood them In good stead. With a speed greater even than that of tho Brooklyn, this leviathan passed to starboard of the Iowa and Texas and hung on the trail of the speedy Brooklyn, gaining rapidly on the flagship, hurling heavy shot and shell upon the enemy. From out the entrance of the harbor, last of all, lying flat In the water with a limited exposure to hostile fire, came the most dreaded of all the ships which floated the flag of Castile that morning. With double the speed of the Americans, with deadly torpedoes aboard and with Instructions to send In their deadly missiles on any ship daring enough to await their at tack, slipped out the Furor and Pluton. During all the long watch off tlict harbor these two had caused the blockaders the greatest anxiety. Yet the result tends to to show how useless' In hot battle they and their class can be. Opposing two vessels regarded as the most dangerous in the fleet of the enemy by this tlnio was but one daring Yankee seaman with a crew of daring Yankees aboard a fragile yacht, Gloucester, built for pleasure and not stern war. It was a contest none need have felt Bhame In avoiding, but Captain Walnwrlght had seen the Muine sink below the waters of Havana harbor, had seen his men in mangled heaps crushed out of life, and he knew no hesitation. Like a grey hound his little vessel shot forward. Down under the fire of the battleships which had turned their fire upon them, the yacht bore In be tween the deadly torpedo boats. Often In that brilliant action they tried to torpedo the Gloucester, but the skill of the com mander and the skill of the men behind the guns smothered bath vessels with a. damning fire. In less than an hour both were destroyed. As the Teresa opened fire she received the return fire of all the ships of the American fleet. Sheering to starboard, she made a futile effort to escape to the west. Closely following In her tracks came the Oquendo, the Viicaya and the Cristobal Colon, all superior In armament to tho Brooklyn and but little inferior to the bulldogs of tho American navy. The Spaniards made a gallant and desperate fight, but the constant rattle of v the rat ld fire guns In main and secondury battery aboard the enemy, combined with an ac curacy at long and short range little short of marvelous, made the Castllllan gun ners flee from their guns. Tim Iowa and the Indiana being short on steam were operating at long r-inge until well after the action commenced. But they cloned In and by the lapse of half an hour were dealing deudly blows at all but the swift Colon, which seimed in a fair way to glido out to sea to the west and muke good her escape. The Oregon, wlih a burst of speed which has caused naval authorities and writers to gatp and con tinue gasping, set sail for tho flying flag ship, and before the Colon g.tve up the fight was well up with the chase. In to th shore turned the flagship of the enemy, but as she turned Captain Clark's gallant vessel flew by, raking her as she faltered. Then she flew the white flag and dashed a wreck on the beuch. Seventeen miles of travel and less than two hours of fighting and three of the mighty cruisers were gone. On swept tho Brooklyn and Oregon, the big battleship now close on the quarter of the flagship, hanging grimly to the chase. I'p lumbered the Indiana and Iowa and, no longer able to maintain the chase, turned to the, rescue of the unfortunates. A flag broke out on the New York, now rushing by, and Captain Taylor, on the Indiana, saw his ship's num ber called. Then he received a signal order to leturn to his station off the blockade and guard the harbor entrance. So slowly and reluctantly he came about and dropped out of the fight. "Fighting Bob" Evans, with the Iowa, having done as much damage as possible while the enemy's fleet cxlsttd, now turned his attention to caring for the survivors. Kveu while at this work the New York, under full steam and with screws revolving under forced draught, plunged by on its way to get into the fight. On the bridge was the commander-in-chief, whose orders were Leing so gallantly and thoroughly car ried out by the ships of the two squadrons In his absence. lio sent Taylor back, flag ged Kvans to care for the wounded ails' surviving and then raced ahead to where In the distance ha was able to see puffs of white smoke mantling the Oregon, and then later on see a geyser of water beyond the fleeing Colon as a thirteen-lncli shell ex ploded on the Inshore side. But It was too late. Kven as the flet flagship drew near to the chase the Colon turned Inshore and the last of the enemy signaled submission and defeat. Then up went the signal of bchley that thn battle was over aud the Schools AMD oil !'Y, AiVa mm. Men! worth Oldest and largest in the Middle West. Prepares- for Universi ties. Government Academies or for l.lfe. Active U. S. Otrtcer. Rated In clnss "A". Infantry, Artillery and Cavalry drills. In dividual instruction for backward hoys. Manual Training. 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Students holding cer tificates covering in full the, entrance re. qtiircments of a standard Stuto Unlver slty, are admitted without examination; to Junior year of collegiate course. Ortl. flcutn In colleptH preparatory course admits) to Vassitr, Wt llesley, Smith, Alt. Holyoke, Univ. of Nebraska, Univ. of Wlaconciu and Univ. of Chicago. Exceptional ad antages In .MuhIc, Art and lumestl(j Pcience. Well tuulpped gymnasium and outdoor sports. Students mothered syni puthetlcally by women of large practical experience with girls In that highly lm portant foimutlve period between four teen unil twenty-one years of use. Send for Illustrated Year Hook. Address; Miss Macrae, Prlncluul, Oimiha. LEA.H1M AUCTIONEEIUNQ And make from J 10 to $50 per day. V teueh yuu Auctionosriuo' lit four weeks time so that you can step at once Into una) of the be.st paying occupations in the land and tli.it without capital. We only requires one-h.ilf of tuition down, the other arttr you have become a Buccesstul suctlenei-r, liius Illustrated cal.ilocUM now ready. Meat Term Aug. 3. Actual practice Kiven. MISSOURI AUCTION SCHOOL, W. B. Carpenter, free., of Trenton, Ma, HASTINGS COLLEGE HASTINGS, SIB. "Every tttudent Advertiser." College Courses, Academy Courses, Teachers' Courses, New, Conservatory of Music. Ideal locution, Nrw ticlenca liulliling, moderate expenses. Write for haudsoin catalogue and Illustrated souvenir. A. . TUBNEB, IL, V. PKESIBEWT. Potter College For higher education of young women. Very Select I ndorsed by two I O. .J vice-prtslcleiits. fjund for catalogue. V.'IUTE ir YOU USE OR WAST COAL Refers Coal Mlolut Co.. Pcllc. lews are Just the thing for your vacation trip. They are light, neat, durable. I'rke up from 52.00-. We carry everything in line of trunks, traveling bags and suit cases. . Omaha Truralk Factory 1SOO Karri am &treet. si I