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STATEMENT OF CTttCUUATlON:
State of Nebraska, Douglas County, a.:
Oeorge B. Tsachuck, treasurer of The
Bee Publishing company, being duly aworn,
aaya that the actual number of full and
complete coplea of The Dally. Morning,
Evening and Sunday Bee printed during
the month of June, ism. wai aa follows:
1 3530 15 38,490
86,740 IS 38,490
3 88,080 17 38,930
4 35,800 18 39,110
85,700 19 38,400
0, 35,880 30 35,890
T ,...35.900 81 85,750
8 35,950 83 38,480
35,910 S3 38,099
10 80,970 84 38,340
11 38,380 85 38,800
13 30,030 88 38,070
13 35490 88 35430
14 88,050 89 38,500
15 39,080 30 3380
Total! 1489,090
Ltii uniold and returned copies. . 9,877
Nat total 1479413
Dalley average 35,977
QEOROES B. TZSCHUCK,
Treaaurer.
Subscribed tn my presence and aworn to
before ma thla let day of July, 19.
M. P. WALKER.
Notary Public
WHEN OCT or TOWH,
Subscribers leaTla the city tm
pnrarlly aaoala have Tae Be
mailed t them. Adarcss will be
eaanaied aa aftea aa raeaia.
Naturally, the prohibition platform
carries water oa both shoulders.
"Denver has been making history
says tho Denver Post. And money.
Denver tackled too big a contract
when it tried to howl Hobson down.
I
Castro Is getting to tho point where
he will soon be on friendly terms with
none but himself.
Mr. Bryan has put publicity Into his
platform. Mr. Taft has arranged to
put It Into practice.
I ;
None of Mr. Hearst's managers has
yet called at Fairvijw to congratulate
the democratic candidate.
The Geographical society has located
a new volcano In Oregon. There la
one In Oklahoma, too, named Haskell.
The colored voters will notice that
there was no protest In the democratic
platform over the Brownsville Incident.
Anyway, Mr. Taft .and Mr. Bryan
will be able to have th dandelions In
their front lawns properly extermi
nated. A man named Hazard has been nom
inated on the democratic ticket in Illi
nois. Hazard Is tho man to take big
chances.
Senator Piatt celebrated his seventy
fifth -birthday by having "Three
Weeks" read to him. He seems deter
mined not to resign anything.
Secretary Wilson estimates the com
ing corn crop at 2,700,000,000 bush
els. The Peoria class In arithmetic
can reduce that to pints, quarts and
tarrels.
Ia addition to having been twice
defeated as a candidate for governor
of Indiana, it Is charged that John
Worth Kem was onca city attorney of
KokOmo.
"The republican party will be rid of
Mr. Roosevelt in a few months. When
will ths democratic party be rid of Mr.
Bryan?" asks th New York Sun. In
few months.
Returning democrat are asserting
thst they lost a pound a day in Den
ver. Most of them lost aeveral
pounds a day, with extra shillings and
pence on the side.
"This is a democratic year," said
Permanent Chairman Clayton at Den
rer, and at the same time the govern
ment reported the crop projects bet
ter than the ten-year average.
Omaha has gotten along finely for
nearly forty years with the High school
at the present location and the pros
pect are good that it will get along
nicely with one central high school for
a few more years.
Just to show that he Is not over
particular uor unduly proud, W. E,
Corey of the steel corporation gave 3
dinner In Parla at which he enter
tained a duke, two counts, three
princes and a miscellaneous assort
ment ef titled personages.
By the way, the law of Nebraska re
tjulree every candidate lor office to file
a public statement of all the moneys
expended in procuring his nomination,
Mr. Bryan la a resident of Nebraska
and baa Just 9 esq, nominated for the
presidential effloe . Havre la a eaaoc
lor him to make another gallery play.
OALLKRY PLAY rVnLHITf
A most casual examination of .trip
resolution for campaign fund publldty
adopted by the democratic national
jcommlttea at the request of the candi
dates on their presidential ticket will
show that It is a gallery play pure and
simple.
After the republicans had named a
treasurer subject to the publicity laws
of New York for the express purpose of
having that law govern the receipt and
expenditure of campnlgr moneys, there
was nothing left for the democrats but
to follow suit with some sort of effort
to make good their professions of su
perior virtue. But the proclamation
made by the democrats is such a trans
parent fraud with such big skimmer
holes left for evasion that it is not
likely to fool anybody with ordinary
Intelligence.
No contributions are to be accepted
whatever from corporations. Of course
not. But they will be accepted from
men who are officers of corporations or
who get their money from corporate
sources, or who serve as substitutes
for the corporation men. With men
like "Boss" Murphy, Roger Sullivan
and others publicly denounced by Mr.
Bryan as corporation tools helping to
gather the funds and to direct their ex
penditure, the corporation odor Is not
to be disinfected by resolution.
No single contribution is to be re
ceived over $10,000, nor over $100
without public listing, but contribu
tions of less than $100 are to be kept
strictly confidential. If a man wants
t6 ante up $15,000 ho will have to put
In his chips In two stacks. If a man
wants his name posted as a self-sacrificing
democratic patron he will give
at least $100, whereas If he wants to
"keep It dark" he will make his dona
tion $99.99, or he may make any num
ber of donations he may desire, pro
viding none of them exceed $99.99.
Publicity Is necessary to insure the
pure motives of the man who gives
$100, but entirely unnecessary to ex
pose the corrupt motives of the man
who gives only $99,99.
Again, the list of contributions sub
ject to publicity Is to be set out to pub
lic light October 15 and subsequent
contributions Immediately as received
thereafter. But why wait until Octo
ber 15 two weeks before election?
If there Is any good reason for pub
licity then, why not now? If the con
tributions to the democratic campaign
fund were to be Juggled or misbranded
which, of course, Is not to be im
agined what relief could be had or
remedy applied fifteen days before
election?
The Bryanlte plan of publicity is a
good gallery play, but it will not stand
publicity.
"THE EKEMY'S COUNTRY."
In an apparently studied effort to
convey the Impression to the outside
world that the entire sentiment of
Mr. Bryan's fellow townsmen has un
dergone a change toward him since
1896 and 1900, democratic news pur
veyors make gut that Mr. Bryan will
be notified at home of his nomination
for the presidency this time, because
the political hostility of his neighbors
has sufficiently subsided to allow the
ceremonies to be held In Lincoln with
out danger of an outbreak of some
kind. The Lincoln correspondent of
the democratic World-Herald, writing
in this vein, says:
To Lincoln especially and to the stat!
at large In general the declalon to have
the official notification take place at Fftlr
vlew is of tremendous Importance. It will
bring here crowds -which probably no other
event In the history of the c ty has ever
done. Twice before thla Mr. Bryan has
had to leave his home and his home city
to be notified elsewhere. This was mada
neceasary by the hostility of too great a
proportion of his neighbor!. Tcday theso
same folk are overjoyed that from the
doorstep of his own house he may fire the
first formal gun of the campaign of 19.
Mr. Bryan has long been recognized
aa a reputable citizen of Lincoln and
this premeditated insult to the intelli
gence of the residents of the state
capital can not be excused by a mere
deBlre to manufacture political capital.
Mr. Bryan himself has furnished writ
ten and oral evidence in refutation of
the flimsy misrepresentation of his
newspaper organ. When he was nom
inated In Denver last week the first to
congratulate him were hundreds of his
neighbors and fellow townsmen. In
response to their greetings Mr. Bryan
spoke feelingly of the friendship of his
neighbors and the good people of Lin
coln, who, regardless of political dif
ferences, had always been lavish with
their expressions of good will to him
personally and to his family.
The conditions that exist now in
Lincoln Indicate no revolution of senti
ment. In 1896, when Mr. Bryan was
for the first time a candidate, he could
Just as well have been notified at
home, but chose to go elsewhere for
different reasons. In "The First Bat
tle," Mr. Bryan's own story of that
campaign, he Includes this speech,
made to a throng of neighbors who
marched to the train to spued him on
his way to New York, where he was to
receive notice of his nomination:
In ordinary vmiea I would have, desired
to have the notification take place ut my
home. But this is not an ordinary cam
paign, and. feeling that the principles in
which we are interested should rls abov
any perianal preferences which we nil)
have, I expressed the desire to be notified
In New York. In order that our isuie may
be preaented f rit In the heart of what now
seems to la the enemy's country, hut which
we hope to la our country 1 efore this
campaign la over. I appreciate the kind
neaa which you, our neighbors, have shown
In gathering here to bid ua good bye. All
that I can promise you la tht, whether
what I shall do mreta your approval or
not, i shall do my duty as I see it and
accept all cajieyjeocta which may fgllow.
Mr. Bryan went to Indianapolis to
accept the notification In 1900 and he
went not because of hostility at home,
but because of his own preference.
Jest as he west to New York la 1196.
In his two former campaigns he went
from home to receive the notification
becaus he thought his political
chances would b bettered by so doing.
He elects to receive the nomination at
home this time because he doubtless
feels that the home field needs cul
tivating. It is unfair to him and to
his neighbors to attempt to place any
other construction upon his course.
A IfAXtiSVMt! OFT.
The offer and acceptance by the city
of Omaha from the widow of the late
Levi Carter of $50,000 to pay for the
acquisition of a public park around
the old Cut-Off lake makes a hand
some gift which should be gratefully
appreciated by the people of this city.
Gifts of this kind are often burdened
with conditions that make It questiona
ble whether they are real benefactions,
but in this case the conditions seem to
be few and wholly reasonable.
The proposed park is a natural and
necessary part of the park and boule
vard system of Omaha and would have
to be acquired at public expense even
tually to round out that system. In
fact proceedings are already well un
der way to acquire the property, having
been Instituted with no Idea but that
the bill would have to be paid In the
usual way.
The requirement that the Park board
for a period of five years expend upon
Its Improvement one-fifth of the funds
available for park Improvement pur
poses simply puts the new park on the
same basis as the other established
parka, assuring it substantially ' the
same attention for development as may
be devoted to parks In other sections of
tho city.
The final condition, that the new
park be named after the late husband
of the benefactor, for whom It is In
tended as a memorial, Is entirely ap
propriate. Even without that condi
tion In the gift It would be only decent
recognition of the source of the bene
faction to Inscribe over Its entrance the
name of the man without whose work
and thrift the donation could not have
been made.
The people of Omaha, now and In
the future, who may enjoy the beau
ties and opportunities of the Levi Car
ter park should not forget the noble
purposes and the generosity of the Im
mediate donor, Mrs. SellnaC. Carter,
whose name is thus enrolled on the
scroll of our public benefactors.
CENTRAL AMERICA'S TROCBIKS.
Those who tumultuously acclaimed
the conclusion of the recent treaties
among the Central American states as
Instantly eliminating all trouble or
possibility of trouble from their future
history do not understand the Spanish
American character. Revolutions are
apparently Indigenous in that section
of the world and rejoicings over the
treaties and the donation by Mr. Car
negie of $100,000 for the construction
of a Central American court of Justice
to adjudicate differences between the
toy republics have been suspended
while Salvador and Guatemala Indulge
In one of their regular mid-summer
revolutions and make a determined ef
fort to Involve their neighbors In the
row.
Costa Rica, Salvador, Guatemala,
Honduras and Nicaragua have Joined
In the agreement, suggested and nego
tiated by Secretary Root, by which
they seek to place law on a higher
plane than It has heretofore occupied
In Central America. They have the
tame climate, language and resources
and have begun to realize that they
must have a common destiny. Their
progress has been hindered by revolu
tions and by wars against each other
and the leading men In all five of the
little nations are professedly anxious to
Join in a federation for the common
good, but find it difficult to break
away from old habits. Honduras has
a little outbreak of Its own, with a
fine chance that Salvador will Join In
the mix-up. The president of Guate
mala narrowly escaped assassination
through a revolutionary plot, and re
taliated by putting to death some
thirty of his enemies. Costa Rica and
Nicaragua have kept free from the
iatest outbreaks, but the whole neck
of land connecting the two hemispheres
Is seething with the revolutionary
spirit.
The right of Intervention by the
United States is partially provided for
In the recent treaties and, If ordered,
would be fully warranted by our Inter
ests at Panama and throughout the
Central American section. With the
opening of the Panama canal, and dur
Ing Its construction, the United States
cannot connive in any disturbance that
would Jeopardize American interests.
For some years Uncle Sam has been
looked upon as the policeman for
South America and with the develop
ment of American Interests In Central
America the policeman will have en
larged duties to perform.
When he U asking for money under
cover Secretary Gruenther finds the
outlook for Bryan In Nebraska "dis
tressing and discouraging." When he
Is boosting his favorite candidate in
the open everything In Nebraska la
roseate and promising. Put It down
that the noisy Nebraska democrats are
simply whistling to keep up their
courage.
In connection with the $50,000 gift
for the purchase of the Levi Carter
park let it be remembered that credit
for the tdea belongs to the chairman
of our Park board, the Hon. E. J. Cor
nish of Omaha, who has given his val
uable and efficient services freely to
tho city for so msny years In that ca
pacity. Congressman Norrls membership In
Iks Interparliamentary union may re
quire bis attendance) upon t gaaalons
In Berlin In September. This call
comes at a rather awkward time, con
sidering the fact thst Judge Norrla Is
seeking a re-election, but the people) of
the Fifth district may be depended on
to care for his Interests for him wlien
public duty takes him awsy.
A little matter of $2,500 a month
accumulating Interest on unpaid bills
for hydrant rental Is nothing to the
Water board or its attorneys so long
as their salaries and retainers are paid.
The money for the Interest, costs, law
yers' fee and Water board salaries all
comes out of the taxpayers' pockets.
Both Mr. Bryan and the democratic
national committee seem to have for
gotten to call on Brother-ln-Law
Tom" or Mayor Jim to make the
eworn public accounting for the Wall
street boodle which they got In 1904.
sb required by the csmpalgn publicity
law or Nebraska.
Mr. Bryan has paved the way for
the embarrassment of his campaign
managers by limiting the amount any
one person may give to $10,000. Many
democrats, particularly after the
fourth drink time, will refuse to give
anything at all If they cannot give
more than $10,000.
The list of benefactors of Omaha by
gift or bequest is lengthening. It now
Includes five names: Tho late An
drew J. Hanscom, the late Byron Reed,
the late Frank Murphy, the late Ed
ward Rosewater and Mrs. Sellna C.
Carter. There Is room for more.
T. Fortune Ryan will not be allowed
to give more than $10,000 to the dem
ocratic campaign fund, but he may
hand the other $10,000 to Mayor Jim
or Brother-ln-Law "Tom" Allen.
There's no law against that.
Dun's report says that "Instances
are noted of orders for fall goods
plaoed too late for delivery at the
specified time." Those Gray and
Johnson presidential booms, for In
stance. Governor Johnson's supporters are
already planning for his nomination
for the presidency In 1912. The gov
ernor may discover as much danger In
starting too early as in starting too
late.
Rear Oaard Infantry.
Boston Tranacrlpt.
The ancient meaning of Kem Is a foot
soldier of the meanest class, ao we assume
that Bryan Intends to keep the donkey
entirely for his own use.
Foallah Test of Langs.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
Eighty-seven minutes of yelling at Den
ver would, make forty-aeven mlnutea of the
same thing at Chicago look foolish except
for one thing; that la that both luoked
foolish from the start.
A Misleading; Symbol.
Brooklyn Eagle.
The dead eagles suspended from the
roof of the Denver convention hall must
have been Intended to convey the lmprea
alon that the republican ticket Is not in
vincible. A dead donkey would have car
ried a more plausible suggestion.
Political Aeronautics.
New York Sun.
Mr. Bryan thinks ha can carry New York.
"In fact," ha says, "you can't pffek out a
state In which we do not have a chance."
Hopeful, confident, cocksuro as ever. Al
waya sura to win, and If he loses, try, try
again. If Mr. Bryan can only live 200
years, as Mr. Wu'i recipe Insures, who
knows that he may not win at last? Mean
while It's no trouble for him to run.
Winning Plank Overlooked.
Baltimore American.
What the democrats ought to do to win
Is to put a summer cool wave In their plat
form, making It obligatory on tho weathei
bureau to provide such at short and regu
lar Intervals during all hot seasons. As
they are going to bring about the millen
nium In about everything else, they cer
tainly should not overlook ao Important an
adjunct to the public peace and happiness
as the weather.
Why Disturb lb "boaters.
Kansas City StRr.
If Bryan carries every state he carried
In 1MW, which Includes Kansas, Colorado,
South Dakota, Washington, Nebraska, and
a few others the democrats have no chance
to carry thla year: and (f Taft falls to
carry New York, Indiana and Illinois, which
the republicans stand no chance to lose,
then Bryan could win. It's a. long shot,
of course, but why discourage the demo
crat whose cheerful optlmlam will allow
him to shout over the outlook?
Pemltar Traits of Memory.
Chattanooga Times.
The Omaha Bee having observed thai
"thera Is to be no peace for the southern
colonel," the Atlanta Constitution forgets
Itself long enough to retort: "Don't think
it. A hammock swung beneath two shad)
oaks; the mint growing gloriously green
near by; spring water, cracked Ice, tw
able attendants to fan him, and tin
Julep winning out on the straw vote'.''
Either prohibition la a failure in Atlanta,
or this editor has a beautiful and highlj
cultivated memory.
GHIDIRO.M.XO OMAHA fOl'STBY,
Aitanrt otlce of Coming Develop
ments In the Corn Belt.
Chicago American.
Mr. W. K. UcKeen is going to trollsyise
Nebraska. His associate is K. H. Hani
man. Electric lines are to penetrate all
parts of that fertile alate. From Oman-
rails will ha laid in every direction. l'or
I to be had pro the Missouri river.
"Riley" McKeen, the father of the young
man, waa the first person to show Ives, the
former Napoleon of Finance, that even u
county court clerk had wisdom. McKeen
wrested the Vandalla road from Ives when
he had only a county clerk's salary to U
It with. For a long while he van president
of the ayatem. He owns now one of the
finest farms In the world. Fairbanks beat
.him for senator in 17 because McKeen
slept too late one morning
Terra Haute, the home of the UcKerns.
Is one of the great centers of trolley lines.
Springfield. 111., is another. The Illinois
lines era controlled by Congressman Wil
liam B. McKlnley. who. as a farmer' boy.
bad to drive long mile to and from tit
markets. Now, for I cents, he will whisk
the boy with his basket of tggs to the
nearest store and b-k to hi home for
breakfast. Interurban roads in Illinois.
Indiana and Ohio have revolutionised he
farmer's life.
Young McKeen has naen an of McKin
ley'a atuaeuta. aad Nebraska may con
gratulate ltstif tbat It i.ow possesses him.
norwn about jtiew touk.
Rlnnlea n tho Current of 1.1 fe la the
Metropolis.
When te wheels of Justice are properly
oll-d In New York City the criminal courts
can make a record for speed and toboggan
a culprit to Sing Ping with as rmich celerity
aa a Chicago divorce court, A burglar
csua-ht In the act of robbing a bedroom
occupied by a man and wlfa waa taken In
indicted, pleaded rullty. and within ten
hours wss on his way to the penitentiary
to serve a term of forty years. The un
ususl speed with which tha case against
the burglnr was prosecuted was partly due
to the fact that his victims had engaged
passage on a steamship which sailed for
Europe that afternoon. They appeared be
fore the grand Jury and later In court to
testify agalnt the prisoner. It was within
thirty-five minutes of the sailing time of
the'r steamer when they left the court
room, but they rushed up town In an auto
mobile and got on hoard.
Talk about finding the proverbial needle
in a haystack! Here's a story told In the
Tribune by a New York Central official,
Not long ago a woman paasenger on a fast
express Just leaving the outskirts of
Schenectady attempted to open a ear
window. The window stuck for a moment
half way up, as car windows will, and then
crashed down on her fingers, knocking
from Its setting a diamond valued at $500.
The diamond went out of the window, of
course. Luckily, the unfortunate passenger
thought to pull out her watch and note the
time at which the accident happened. Then
she got busy with the telegraph line. At
the first station at which the train stopped
she telegraphed to the Grand Central sta
tion, giving particulars of her loss and the
exact time at which It occurred. With
visions of a damage suit ahead, some quick
wltted official rushed an order to Schenec
tady, and a young engineer In the mainten
ance of way department, accompanied by
a oouple of section hands, was sent hurry
Ing down the line on what he thought vai
a craiy man's search; but six miles out of
the Electrical City he found the diamond
in the track ballast.
"One happens upon architectural freaks
here now and then." said a New York man
quoted by the Sun, "which don't show for
what they are from the outside of the build
Ing. For Instance, a friend of mine. In
hunting up a doctor who'd been recom
mended to him, stumbled onto as complete
a three-story dwelling as you ever saw
which was built Into a largo and fashion
able apartment house. It was nothing like
your duplex apartments or anything one
ever seen before. It was a single house In
corporated as part of an apartment Inquiry
developed the fact that the doctor had
wanted a private house and had also
craved all the conveniences of first class
apartment house service, so when an ad
ditlon to this desirable apartment was con
templated the doctor and the architect got
together and the single room within the
large apartment building was the result,
The doctor gets his separate entrance- on
the street, his private hall and stairs lead
ing to the upper floors of his house around
which Is built the apartment house proper.
Not one person In a thousand wrould ever
notice anything a bit unusual about the
portion of the building which constitutes
this separate residence and yet It's there
and fills the bill to perfection."
Customers of a certain uptown florist
pause frequently before a roped off en
closure and ask the price of potted plants
blooming there. Always the florist replies
In the same words:
"They are not tot sale."
TJusually the customer passes on to other
flowers without asking why, but now and
then one more curious than the rest seeks
enlightenment. To such the florlut tells
an Interesting little story.
"They have been left to me in trust," he
says. "I'm simply those flowers' guardian
They were formerly owned by a retired
physician who lived almost entirely alone.
These plants were his chief companions.
He attended to them himself and, as a con
sequence, he became very much attached
to them. The thought of their being neg
lected after his death grieved lilm. So ho
made a will designed to save them from
such a fate. He bequeathed the flowers to
me and Invested a sum of money the In
come from which will be sufficient to care
for them for many years."
That there will never be a great confla
gration In New York City Is the first and
most Important fact which fire Insurance
men say the trial of the new auxiliary salt
water systern haa developed. For many
yeary the bogey of Insurance men and
others has been dread of a great confla
gration, but after the saltwater test It was
claimed that the new system would be
able to set up a high pressure battery
against which no fire could live. Another
thing foreshadowed by tha establishment
of the new pumping stations Is the gradual
disappearance of tho steam fire engine.
This wil be heard with great regret, for
where ia thera anything more picturesque
than a fire engira on Its way to a fire
with horses at full gallop? Fires fought
without the aid of fire engines will be de
prived of the chief element of romance and
interest. The disadvantages of the engine
are every day becoming more manifest.
The delay In the fuel, the time loat In get
ting up steam and other delays all were
rauaea of tha spread of fires. The high
water pressure mains are fed by salt water
pumped directly from the river. Every
hydrat-t haa a pressure up to 900 pounds,
if desired. The tales often told of poor
water presure at fires will now be a thing
of the past. It seems certain. The new
service protects the area between Chambers
and Twenty-third streets on both sides of
the river known as the downtown district
On the day when the cars were with
drawn from the Pulton street cross town line
a merchant displayed a card In his window
bearing these words: "Ooodbye, New York
horsecars we shall not miss you." People
who saw the sign might have thought that
the Fulton street cars were the only onea
of their kind. There are still fourteen
horsecar lines In operation In the big city,
namely, tha Went Side belt line, East Side
belt line, Chambera street crosstown,
Chambers and Urand streets crosstown,
Bleecker street, Chambers street and Ave
nue C, Deshroaees street and Sixth avenue,
Grand and Desborses streets, Seventeenth
and Eighteenth streets crosstown. Twenty
eighth and Twenty-ninth streets crosstowns
Avenue B line. Canal and Orand streets
ferry line. One-hundred and Tenth
street and St. Nicholas avenue
and the West Eighty-sixth street
line. The last named is the shortest, ex
tending from Amsterdam avenue to River
Side drive. Although the )lr's one car
runs only six blocks when It makes a
round trip, schedule time Is maintained.
The car is In charge of a veteran who haa
been in the Service thirty-five years, and
wlitn a passenger comas aboard thla
sometimes happens on rainy days he offers
Broadwioy transfer when tha fara la paid.
The megaphor. man on the sightseeing
car says, when passing Eighty-sixth street:
''Here you see the shortest horsecar line
In New York. Three blocks. The car
makes furly-flve trips a dy."
Tvrloa u i Hastle.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
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PERSOJIAL KOTF.9.
It Is not good form to call a balloon n
gas bng. Moreover, this title should be
reserved for some of the balloonlsts.
Fnnor Obaldla has been elected president
of Tanama, having received all the votes
cast. Several gentlenun In this country
would like to know the name of his cam
paign manager.
Dr. Slglsmund Tarrasch and Dr. Eman
uel Lasker will meet to contest the chess
championship of the world next month, the
preaent date for the beginning of this
momentous engagement being August 17
though this msy be changed.
Milton Dwlght Purdy of Minneapolis,
former Vnlted States attorney general, has
been formally sworn in Saturday at Min
neapolis as Judge of the T'nlted States dis
trict court, to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of Judge William Lochren.
Judge Purdy was appointed by President
Roosevelt to fill the recess term.
Dr. Aletta H. Jacobs, who was elected
president of the Nstlonal Suffrage asso
ciation of the Netherlands, is a woman
of strong character, who has been very
successful In everything that she has under
taken. She was the first woman physician
In her country, and 'n order to enter the
medical university, had to get permission
from her government.
Nicholas Murray Butler, president of
Columbia vinlveraity. New York, who Is
to give a aeries of lecturea at the fnl-
versitles of Copenhagen, Stockholm and
Chrtstlfinla, haa been fairly overwhelmed
w-lth attentions sinco his arrival la Paris
on Thursday. When he visited the Palais
Bourbon Friday, as the gu.est of Baron
D'Estournellee de Constant, he received a
veritable oration from the French Parlla.
mentary arbitration group which went to
tha United Stats last year.
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VARIATIONS IX HUMAN TIDE.
Outflow of Castle Garden Far Ex-
reeds the Iaflon-.
Indianapolis News.
The "gatea of Castle Garden" have been
swinging outward In recent months In a
striking way. in 1X7 there were 733.7tf
alien arrivals and 166.792 departures. In
190S the. half year there have been 186,
5S6 arrivals and 377,66 departures. Never
before In a whole year did ao many peo
ple of the laboring class have thla coun
try as left In this halt year. More than
thla, the Immigration adds to the total
effect. It was 70 per cent less than a year
ago. And this also breaks tho record for
panda effects. The Springfield Republican
quotes the figures for 1893, showing that
the decline In Immigration then was from
623,000 In the fiscal year to June, 1891 to
MtJ.SOO in im, and from JH,i7 In ISM, to
279.W8 In 1435. So the relative decrease In
those years was less than this year. After
1S7J tha falling oft was about one-half In
the two following years and about two-
thlrds In three yeara. Hitherto the greatest
decline waa from 78S.8O0 arrivals In to
831,200 In lSS6-a smaller relative shrinkage
than the present year.
Possibly a greater proportion of recent
Immigrants were labor adventurers, so to
speak; that Is our abounding prosperity
attracted Immigrants merely for the Job.
Men may have calculated the cost of
passage, and the wages which the cer
tainty of work offered, and taken chances
on a visit as an Investment. With hard
times they Incontinently returned. This
theory seems to be borne out by the im
pression left by the returning aliens that
they did not Intend to come back here. Be
this as tt may, the fact abldea and the
drain on rough and unskilled labor. In
western Pennsylvania notably, is so great
that tha Iron and steel Industry Is appre
hensive lest there be a lack of laborers
when prosperity returns. But when two
Jobs are again hunting one man wa shall
have a renewal of Immigration. The hu
man tide seta easily these days between
Europe and America; and Its recent flow
the other way may have Its useful lesson
In demonstrating that K Is a small thing
to cross the ocean.
GREAT PARTY LEADERS.
Reaabllcaas Richer In Good Material
Than Democrats.
Collier's Weekly.
Why Is tt that leaders in on great party
are so much scarcer than In the other?
The war gave to the democratic party a
stunning setback. The solidity of the south
haa kept It back, and free silver completed
the demoralization. What Is the meaning
of the word democrat, when the most that
haa been done for the so-called democratic
policies has been done by a republlcun
president, who likewise believes In tariff
reform? When the preaent republican nom
inee endorses the policies of his predeces
sor?
Why is La Follette called a republican?
Why do the "progressives" of Kansas, Ne
braska and Wisconsin work doggedly with
hat party? Why does the tariff-assaulting
McCall carry that name? Apart from a
perfunctory adherence to a tariff Idea In
which he Is not Interested, what have the
democratic principles of Governor Hug.es
to do with the party in which he Is en
rolled? Men now In later or middle life belong
to the republican party either as a direct
or Indirect result of the slavery conflict.
Young men of ability go Into It because the
democrats offer them no coherent pro
gram and a much weaker group of leaders.
Probably It would be better for the coun
try tu have two parties led with equsl
suenglh, but the democrats will hardly
furnish many leadera equal In ability to
Koosevr't, Taft. Root. Hughea and I.a
Follette, until tha south Is badly broken,
sr until intelligent end educated northern
ers feel at home In the democratic pM
The president of Harvard univeraliy may
be selected as an Illustration. He 1 uiw
of the ableat men alive a distinguished
leader ef hla country's thought He ts a
democrat, but when will he have an oppor
tunity te vate taa atnieeretto ticket la a
national eleetlvaT
most iamout cooks
Hi ll X D 1 1' u d "-ll Ul -:.- II
cXLN .Mil IQhi
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WHITTLED TO A POIT.
"It was certainly awkward for that pa
triotic orator when he leaned over thT
cannon to empliMstxe a point, and found
some mischievous urchin had put fly pa
per on top of it.'
"What did lie do?"
"The only thiiiK possible. He stuck to
his guns. '-Halinuore American.
"On you think theie is any reliable way
of foretelling the weather?"
"Yep,'' answered Farmer Corntossel. "Jes'
think of the kln.i vu don't want and then
prophesy It." Washington tar.
"My daughter." remnrkod Mrs. Nex
dore. "has developed a perfect passion for
music."
"Yes," returned Mrs. Peppery, "I'll war
rant It isn't as strong as the passion our
daughters music arouses In my husband."
Philadelphia Press.
"Hut how could you tell, darling, that I
had never proposed to any other girl?"
"Because you were not married. " she'
murmured rapturouBly and admiringly.
Judge.
Stella When people go to the country
thev leave the tats behind.
Bella Then where do a'l those on the
hotel piazzas come from? New York Sun.
"You no longer hear about a candidate
being in the hands of his friends," said
one delegate.
"No," answered the other. "Nowadavs
a candidate Is supposed to have his own
srtp on everything and everybody In sight!"
Chicago Heeord-Herald.
"That sign seema queer 'headquarters for
fC pants.' "
"What's queer about It?"
"Well. I thought pants were designed for
other quarters." Philadelphia Press.
Facetious Acquaintance Well. Mrs.
Comeup. did you have your daughter's
picture painted by one of the old masters
when you were in Europe? .
Mrs. Comeup No, I didn't. I tried to,
but they mum have had a kinder epidemic
of painter's colic, for they were all dead.
Baltimore American.
"You say he is one of our most remark
ahl oratora?"
"Yes."
"For what is he remarkable?"
"For never having been heard to say
that he put his trust in the wisdom of the
piain people.- Washington Star.
OI JOSHWAY AM' DB Sl'W.
Uncle Remus.
Ol' Joahway stood In front er his tent.
An' slcc'd his soldiers on.
But when he turned for ter look aroun',
De day wax nearly gone.
He rubbed his beard, he scratched his head, I
An' kicked his heel ira de groun'; 1
Kaze he wanter finish de battle-Job I
Befo' de Sun went down. '
He look ter de East an' he look ter de
West,
An' he wave his han' on high,
"King Sun," sezee, "I want you ter see
Me smite um hip and thigh!
Come down ter camp and' rest yo'self
A title while wld me,
I'll gel you a fan an' big wide cheer
AiV net it wiiar you kin see."
Dey wuz lots mo' talk, but de Sun corns
down
An' tuck a little ease,
An' when he got too awful hot,
He called up o' Brer Breeze!
"My time is short," sez d Sun, sezee,
"Am1 you better do yo' do.
Kazo I'm feeling like I wanter see
lls mortual scuffle throo!"
Well, dey fit an" fit an' fowt an' fowt
Bight dar in de light er de Sun,
But Joahway fralled um out an' aooa
He liml um on de run.
King Sun, lie say, "I'm over due
'Cross dar whar de night's still black
De folks will wake 'fo de chickens crow
An' put der big clock backs."
Ol' Joahway thanked him mighty polite.
An' ax him fer ter come ag'ln;
King Sura, he say, "I speck dat I
Will bo whar I've allers been."
Pen he nioaied off, kaze he ain't got tlmt
Fer ter set an' talk an' stay;
He hatter go off whar de night still dark
An' start ter breukln' day.
Well' time run on an' people 'spute
'Bout Joshway an' de Sun,
Some say dls an' some say dat.
An' splaln why Joshway won;
Sometimes when he wuz settln' 'roun'
Whar ha couldn't he'p but hear,
Ttp'rt mjlv. '(ln In H setrln'-rrtom an Ma
How he scorched my big arm cheer!"
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