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4 THE OMAIIA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1908. The Omaiia ; Daily BeV. FOUNDED BT EDWA-RD ROSHTWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR, Entered at Omtha poatofflc aa second class matter. TERMS Of StrBWCTUPTION: Daily Be (without Sunday), ona year.84 Dally Baa and Sunday, ona year S.OS DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Dell Baa (Including ftanday), per week. .16. l'l.r Baa I without Snnrlay), par waek,..10 Evening Bee (without Bunday ), par w'k o Evening Bee (with Sunday), par weak. 10a Sunday Bee, ona rear........ 8. SO Ssturday Bee, ona year 1.10 Address all complaint of Irregularities In delivery to City Circulation Department. offices. . Omaha The Be Building. South Omaha City Hall Building. Council Bluff if Scott Street. Chicago 1641 Marquette Building. New York Rooms 1101-1102. No. J West Thlrty-thlrd Street Waahtngton 725 Fourteenth Street. N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communication relating to news and editorial matter ahould be addroaaed: Omaha Bea, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-cent stamps received In payment of mall accounts. Peraonal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchangee, not ac cepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.: George B. Tsarhuck, treasurer of The Bee iMhllnhlng company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally. Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of July. 1108. was as follows: 1 33,750 t 38,740 IT 38,400 lg 30,960 I.......... 35,710 4 36,100 5 . 85,800 8. ...,..,. 38,400 7 ;.. 35,830 S i 83,030 t 39,360 10 38,400 11 86,100 12 86,100 IS 86,090 14 86,330 IS 86,360 1 20 21 tl 23 24 16 28 27 28. 29 80 SI 36,000 36,400 .. 35,950 .. 35300 . . 33,780 .. 33,800 .. 30,360 .. 80,650 30,880 .. 35,950 .. 36,380 r. 85,780 .. 36,150 14 36,180 Totals . ,. Less unsold and returned copies .1,118,460 9.042 Nst total 1,108,418 Dally average 85,788 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK, Treasurer. Subscribed In my presence and worn to before ma this 1st day of August, 1908. (SealJ . ROBERT HUNTER, Notary Publlo. WHEN OUT Of TOtVW. abaerlhera leavlaaj th city ten, porarlly should Stave) Th Be mailed to thorn. Address will be They all look alike to King Ak-Sar-Ben. It will be a tb rice-told tale that Mr. Bryan will hear on August 12. Someone should drop Mr. Bryan a hint to be at home one week from today. Mr. Hearst - says he Bees victory ahead. He does, but it is victory for .Mr. Taft. 5? .It should be remembered that the American worklngman delivers his bwa vote. The latest motor cycle accident in 'Omaha lg a collision between two of . them.. It might have been worse. "Is Mr. Bryan turning to mam mon?" asks the Kansas City Star. Oh, no. He's turning to the phonograph. The campaign is on. "Old Figgers" Grosvenor has predicted a republican majority of 49 in tho electoral college. "A fisherman," says the Fishing Gazette, "can tell the truth as well as any man." Well, then, why doesn't he? According to Secretary of State Junkln the democrats have a legal right to steal the people's Independent label. The American athletes who won the honors in the Olympic games are now resting and visiting their old homes in Ireland. George Gould says he has succeeded in- borrowing 18,000,000. He must have been visiting his brothers-in-law, Helle and Castellans. Dr. Wiley says that mosquitoes are fond of whisky. Still, most folks get fldgetty when they find a mosquito try lng to take a little nip. The absence of Would-be Senator Sorenson s name from the congres sional Sling list would indicate that Bomebody's foot sllppec. Colorado la excited over a peculiar skeleton that has been found in one of the canyons. Perhaps it is the skeleton of "Sixteen-to-one." Chairman Mack says that Mr. Bryan is anxious to have the advice of old time democrats. Will Colonel Guffey of Pennsylvania please write? Banker Morse, .who went bankrupt in financing the Ice, trust, has now organized- a Wallpaper trust which he hopes he will be able to make stick. A Baltimore girt dropped a purse and th Rn who picked It up married her an hour later. A girl with money is always popular In some sections of the country. "William Nelson Cromwell has Taft under his thumb," says Norman E. Mack's Buffalo Tjmes. If Cromwell has a thumb of that size he can make a fortune exhibiting It. Every, time Mr. Harrlman has vis ited Omaha an enlargement or Im provement of the Union Pacific car shops here has followed. Hope this will be no exception to the rule. Mr. Bryan says that Mr. Taft Is dis satisfied with als own platform. While that may or may not be true, Mr. Taft makes it plain that he likes his platform better than the one Mr. Bryan ballt at Denve. WILLIAM BOTD ALL IS OX. The death of William Boyd Allison, rounding into his SOtb rear, takes Iowa's Grand Old Man from the stage of American political blstory, where for many years he has played bo prom inent and bo honorable a role. Of the long line of distinguished public men who have been given by the Hawk eye state into the country's service, none has reflected greater credit than Senator Allison. A leader among the nation's lawmakers for more than a third of a century, he has left his Impress upon our constructive legislation as have few other men. Cabinet portfolios and foreign mis sions' might easily have been his. At one time he aspired to the presidential chair, and was seriously considered among the ellgibles by his country men. But he preferred to end his days as the Nestor of the senate. It must be forever a source of satis faction to the people of Iowa that, not withstanding deep-seated division of opinion as to his ability for continued usefulness, a decisive vote of confi dence was recorded for his retention as a result of the primary held only last June, and that the end, if it had to come, should have found him still In vested with his robes of office. It goes without saying that Iowa's grief at her loss does not stop at factional or party lines, nor at state boundaries. but is shared In only lesser degree by all the. sisterhood of states. prospect of tariff revision. Americans interested in tariff re vision will do well to consider what the effect would be by the election of Mr. Bryan to the presidency in Novem ber. All parties are practically agreed that the time Is ripe for tariff revision and a readjustment of schedules to meet the changed conditions developed since the enactment of the Dingley bill. It remains only to determine the man ner of the revision and the party that shall have charge of the work. No revision of the tariff need be ex pected in case of the election of Mr. Bryan. The democratic tariff pro gram is in direct conflict with tha established republican principle of pro tection and even' if Mr. Bryan should be elected with a democratic house, it is beyond the bounds of probability to expect that the . republican senate would agree to any democratic revision program. No matter wnat the returns In November, the political control of the senate cannot be changed in less than six years. If Mr. Bryan is elected, he will have a republican sen ate during his full term of office. Colonel Henry Watterson, one of Mr. Bryan's most enthusiastic supporters, has called attention to this fact and offered it as an argument to these who fear the election of Bryan would be followed by extremely radical legisla tion. Colonel Watterson assures those who are afraid of Mr. Bryan's ultra radicalism that the old reliable-republican senate will be on guard to save the nation from Bryanlsm in legisla tive form. The republican attitude, . on the other hand, Is clear cut and well de fined. The party has declarad for a revision of the tariff, at an extra ses sion to be called immediately after March 4. 1909. Committees of con gress are already collecting and com piling data to have the material in shape for consideration by the new congress as soon as it 1b convened. The maximum and minimum tariff plan, recommended by the National Manufacturers' association, is meet ing with Borne favor and may be the baBis of legislation by the republican congress. With the preliminary work out of the way, the revision of the tariff should be accomplished in a session of a few months, without Inter fering with business,' as would be the case if the work were taken up at a regular , session. Jf Mr. Taft is electee:, the country may expect a new tariff law by July 1, 1909. If Mr. Bryan is elected there can be no satisfactory revision of the tariff for at least four years. Ati EPIDEMIC OF LYArJtlAO. The determination of southern gov ernors and state officials to deal rigor ously with lynchers appears to have been ineffective. For a year or more there has been a diminution in the number of iynchings and some hope has been held out that the south was being broken of its old habits of mob violence, but within the last ten days a veritable epidemic of lynch law has broken out throughout the south. A few days ago a mob in Texas lysched a negro who was shown later to'have been entirely innocent. A day or two later another mob burned a negro to death in the public square In the presence of more than a thousand spectators, none of whom offered any protest or. made any effort later to identify the mob leaders. On August I four negroes were lynched at Ru6sle- vllle. Ky.. who had committed no crime, but were charged merely1 with having expressed sympathy for an other negro who had Killed a white man. "The tree from which the negroes were hanged had been used before for the Bame purpose," says the report of the affair. In the month of July the state of Louisiana was dis graced by six. Iynchings. In but one of the numerous lynch ing affairs of recent date did the of ficers of the law offer any opposition to the wishes of the mob. The sheriff and his deputies at Pensacola, Fla., resisted the lynchers with bullets, kill lng three men and wounding eight but the mob finally had its way and lynched a agro. In explanation of his conduct, the sheriff said: "While I regret the death of the three men and the wounding of others, I have dose nothing except what I was called upon to do when I took the oath of office." The sheriff's brave example deserves emulation and the shameful record of lynching will cease when the defense of the law is placed In the keeping of men of hit standard of courage and loyalty. The south has been Blow to learn that brutality on the part of a criminal furnishes no Justification for greater brutality on the part of a mob, and that every lynching impairs respect for the law and makes life and prop erty less secure. The white partici pants in a lynching bee injure them selves and their community as much as they wrong their victim." The low ering of the moral standard remains long after the victim and the crime he committed are forgotten. CATCHISQ PESTS WITH FISTS. Experts of the Department of Agri culture have figured that the annual loss to crops in this country from the ravages of pests runs Into millions, enough to build a Panama canal every year and leave a surplus sufficient to build the biggest fleet of battleships afloat. The department 1b accordingly constantly on the search for insects that will destroy the other insects that thrive and fatten at the expense of the farmer. The latest discovery in this line is a bug, found by a scientist of the department and brought from Eu rope to make war on the elm leaf beetle. The bug in question is about the size of a ptnhead, but 1b worth thousands of times its weight in gold, as the experts have become convinced that it and its progeny will soon extrl pate the elm beetle and save the for ests of the country. The department has Had many ex periences in this search for pest destroying Insects. A few years ago when the cotton boll weevil began eat- ng up about T10,000,000 worth of cot ton annually, the department went to much expense and trouble to Import a colony of Guatemala ants and planted them in a Texas cottonfleld and waited for the battle with the boll weevils. The next day not a remnant of the Guatemala immigrants could be found. Further experiments showed that the boll weevil, after gorging itself with the heart of the cotton bolls, liked nothing better for desert than about a peck of nice, fat Guate mala ants. The department is still hunting for a foe to the boll weevil. No friends of the department will remind its officials of the mistake made when the government imported the English sparrow under the impres sion that this active and voracious bird would soon eat up all the bugs in the country.- The man who can suggest some effective method of exterminating the sparrow will be welcomed by the department officials. While some mistakes have been made, the department is really doing most valuable work in Its war against crop-destroying pests. The Hessian fly ...for many years the great est foe of tho wheat raiser, has been put to rout by the Polygnotus hiemalls, a bug imported from Russia by the de partment. A bug has been found which robs the greenbug of its terror and within the last few years the de partment has filled the orchards of the country with a bug that makes war to the death against the San Jose scale. The work is saving millions to the farmers of the nation by furnish ing insect soldiers to fight the battles which the farmer is powerless to fight for himself. A DELICATE TASK. The members of the State Board of Equalization have a delicate task on their hands in their effort to equalize the assessment of land values returned from all parts of the state in Nebraska. The real estate' assessment la made only once in four years and in that time It is inevitable that considerable changes must take place and likewise more or less variation in the rule of measurement applied by ninety differ ent assessorsain as many different counties. The. state board has been industri ously endeavoring to locate the low spots and the high spots and to bring them to a common level, but in this work of equalization of land values it must not overlook the relations which the real estate assessment bears to the assessments c-f other classes of property, personal property, railroad property, etc., that have been llstea for taxes with special reference to the scale on which the real estate has been Doraised. We mean to say that the board must take into consideration the relative burden of taxation which should rightfully be borne by land owners as compared with those which should rest upon the owners of per sonal property, railroad property and other classes. It la not so much a question whether the assessments be put up to the high est selling, price in the various local! ties as that they be equalized in fact so that the burdens of government press evenly and equitably upon all who should bear them. , An Omaha correspondent of the New York Sun. telling the virtues of Mayor Jim, declares: Our one great regret In Omaha Is that "Sunny Jim" Is not the democratic nomi nee lnatead of "Grape-Julc BUI Bryan." Ha would get the vote of every red blooded man In this town and It Is my humble opinion that ha la just aa capable of holding down the presidential chair as either Roosevelt or Taft. and If ha aver does get there and wa all go to the White House to offer our congratulations, there will be something stronger In the loving cup than Falrvlew grape Juice. Wonder Jf it is too late lo make the swap and enter Mayor Jim in the pres idential handicap, leaving the guber natorial auto race to wind propelled cars? The newly elected principal of the Omaha High school expresses the opln- that in five years' time that school ou ght to be the best educational Insti tution of Its kind in the country. We hope bo. The main part will be to hold the rank It now has. If Tom Tibbies had only thought of It in time he might have purloined the democratic vote for his electoral ticket four years ago and, of course, Mr. Bryan as the spokesman of Judge Parker in Nebraska would have offered no objection. Des Moines Is to have Its first ex perience with a recall petition under its new commission form of city gov ernment. If Des Moines will consti tute itself a municipal experiment sta tion for the rest of us no one will object. Farmers In the west and northwest who are threshing their bumper wheat crop will be surprised to learn that the crop Is almost a total failure owing to the hot and dry weather In the rooms of the Chicago Board of Trade. Detroit base ball fans are raising money for a wedding present for Ty Cobb and are discussing what form the gift shall take. If Ty is like the average bridegroom the cash would make a hit with Mm. Tom HIsgen received more votes for governor of Massachusetts last year than were cast for the democratic candidate. No democrat is enthusias tic enough to claim Massachusetts this year. Mr. Taft has been offered a real live elephant for a, mascot and Mr. Bryan Is to get a mule from Minnesota ad mirers. Mr. Chafln's admirers should send him a water wagon. Candidate Chafln Bays if he Is elected he will use the army to enforce prohibition. WThy this slight of the navy, which is better equipped for making a water fight? Forty counties in Oklahoma are pre paring to spend $4,000,000 for public school buildings. Oklahoma must be getting ready to drop out of the demo cratic column. Tom Tibbies is still trying to earn the $5,000 handout, which he says Brother-ln-Law Tom" gave him four years ago out of that $15,000 Ryan- Parker swag. -' It does not seem Just right for both of the leading candidates for the presi dency to keep favoring publicity at a time when they are Joining secret so cieties, a ' Dangerous Propelling; Power. Baltimore American. The use of alcohol for propelling power In automobiles la being discussed. In some cases of speed mania the suspicion is that there has been an overuse of it, .. ih Splklne Campers' Gin, Washington Herald. As a member, of the .Steam Bhovelera" union It becomes Mr. Taffsa.duty to decide whether or not he', will consider any aug gestlons from Mr. Oompers as to how he will vote. - . . ' The Proper Caper. Washington Post. The prohibition candidate aays he would call out the troops to enforce the anti liquor laws. Which would, of course, give some people a chance to get more than half ahot. Editors at I.ogaertaends. Washington Star. Journalistic circles cannot fall to be somewhat disturbed by these reports that Editor Bryan ' and Editor Hearst do not speak. The line on professional Jealousy should be drawn somewhere. Lightening- the Gloom. Cleveland Plain Dealer. The philosophical Omaha Be Is of the opinion that a spinster Is not always to be blamed for her condition. It Is the little masculine gems of thought of this clars that make the spinster feel supremely satis fied with her single lot. ' Helping; Him Out. Brooklyn Eagle. Prank H. Hitchcock Is regarded by the Washington newspaper men aa the mon umentally st ent man. Before the campaign Is over Mr. Hitchcock ,wlll discover that the newsraper men. will talk for h'm unless be loosens up a bit and talks for himself. Cannot Deliver tho Goods. Baltimore American. Campers Is rraklng a huge failure of his attempt to trade off the labor vote for some empty sentences in a meaningless platform. The self-respecting worklngman Is not go ing to repeat In modern American life the folly of Esau, who sold his birthright for a mess of pottage. Wherefore of Present Economy. Ch'cago Tribune. From aome of th popular aummer resorts comes the report that business hss fallen off. People are not spending as much money this year as they usually spend. In a spirit of noble self-sacrifice they are sav ing It, doubtless, to contribute to Mr. Bry an's campaign fund. Huh? , Confusion la Georgia. New York Sun. One of th Bryan candidates for presi dential elector in Georgia Is going to vote aa a cltlsen for Tom Watson, but aa an lector for Bryan. Thla elector was willing to resign, but the atata democratic execu tive committee wouldn't let hlin. The Oeorgla democracy hardly knows where It Is at. Why not divide electors between Bryan, Taft ar.d Watson? Saeria.ee for th State. Baltimore American. Governor Hughea la recognlsedly ona of the ablest lawyer In a atate where able lawyers are not rare. The aaiary of a New Yqrk state chief exerutlv Is 810.00) per annum. Mr. Hughes' earning capacity aa a lawyer Is probably at least SlOu.O 0 per annum. The monetary aacrlfice which he will make In serving a second term ai governor Is, therefore, about Iu,wu0 per annum. Am Opening for Hryan. Springfield Republican. Mr. Bryan complains that Mr. Taft Is stealing from the democratic platform and writing things Into the republican platform which are not there. Why not pay him back In hta own coin? Thus, the repub lican platform has something lo say about th negro, while the democratic platform la studiously silent. Let Mr. Bryan then put something about the nesro into his personal platform. ion ROIND ABOUT NEW YORK. Ripples on the Current of Life la th Metropolis. Away up on Esnpus creek the guexllng stream beside Judge rarker's home, up In the famous Catsklll mountalna back of Kingston, N. T and along the ninety mile route leading down to a site Just over the New York City line, a force of nearly 6,000 englneere and contractor' workmen are now engaged In the biggest task of Its kind ever undertaken the task of constructing the gigantic new water supply system which New York City Is creating for itself at a cost of SKil.OOO, 000. A writer In American Industries cal culates the Job wll be completed In eight yeara and will deliver to th city 500. 000,000 gallona of water dally. When fin ished the Catsklll aqueduct will be able to carry not only the 260,000,000 gallons of water dally which the Aahokan reser volr will furnish, but also the additional quantity which It Is proposed later on to draw from other watersheds of the Catskllle. By 1915. It Is calculated. New York will be using 710,000.000 gallons of water every day, and to meet the needs of a time when even Ashokan will not be able to supply the city's great thirst, plans have already been made to utilise further the resource of the hills when needed. The Ashoksn reservoir Itself will cover an area of 8,200 acres, or 12. 8 square miles, divided by a dike Into two basins. It will be twelve miles long, nearly three miles wide at Its widest point and will have a ehorellne of forty miles. Its stor age capacity will be 130,000.000 gallons. The maximum depth of water will be 190 feet; the average depth fifty feet. From the little village of West Hurley, eight miles west of the Hudson river, to Its upper end beyond West Shokan, this Im mense storage basin will bury under Its waters an area of country having at the present time a permanent population of about 1,900 and a summer population of at least 2,900. Seven villages will be wiped from the map; thirty-two cemeteries will be submerged and 2,400 bodies burled In them will have to be removed to other resting places. Sixty-four miles of pub lic htghwaya will be Included within the reservoir or discontinued because of Its building and twenty-five miles of new highways will have to be built. The Ulster & Delaware railroad, which runs through the Esopus valley, will be sub merged for eleven miles, and to carry the road around the gap thus made four teen miles of new track will have to be located and built. According to plans filed with the bureau of buildings, New York City's first steel frame skyscraper the nine-story Tower building, at No. 50 Broadway, now but a mere pigmy among the Immense towers of lower Manhattan Is to be rased to make way for a thlrty-elght-atory building. The exact heujtht of the new structure is not stated in the reports, but, estimating by stories, it will be second among the standing skyscrapers downtown to the Singer building only. If Is to cost about S3,476,0O0. The new atructure will be of brick and terracotta, with thirteen passen ger elevatora and one for freight. It will have a frontage on Broadway of 81.S feet, and on New street of 80.2 feet Passengers on a Columbus avenue car, bound downtown, were surprised the other afternon to. witness the unique politeness of a conductor, who aided with Chester fleldlan courtesy, every woman getting on or off, lifting the children up and dowh, and was generally obliging In his conduct. Hia good nature seemed unfailing, and there was none of the hurry up spirit about starting the car after a stop. The passengers talked to rach other about It, and finally one . of them said to the man in uniform: "You are a new employe, aren't you?" "Twenty yeara," waa the reply. "Why?" "You appear to have time to be so er polite," the passenger remarked. "Oh, It's easy," the conductor said, with a grin. "Since these recetvln'shlps began. We save enough time on transfers to Jolly the people a bit." The athletic training of twenty-month-old Helen Graf saved the youngster's life when she fell from a window on the fifth floor of 1357 Webster avenue. Joseph Graf, a foreman mason, the child's father, is an athlete of some repute In Bronx clubs, and he had taught the baby to hold on to a broomstick while he lifted her up out of her crib and carried her around the room. While Mrs. Graf was hanging out clothes the baby climbed out on the fire escape and fell through the well hole. On the fourth floor the child struck the rail of the fire escape and waa thrown outside. As she passed the third floor she was so close to the balcony that ahe caught the Iron bar and held on. In the yard 14-year-old Joseph Colombo saw the baby and res cued her, DT. Rosen of Lebanon hospital said the baby had received nothing worso than a few scratches. More than thirteen hundred men have baen sent to the country districts by the frej labor bureau of the Bowery M salon In response to the appeal of farmers for field laborers. The perennial cry of farmers, coming from the west part'eu lariy, that their cropa are threatened with 1 structlon for lack of help, la being heard aa usual. The Bowery Mission started to relieve the farmers by supplying help sev eral months ago, and the number of men being sent out Is constantly Increasing. Owners of real and personal property In the Greater City, valued at $7,158,110.40), Will contribute Sllti, 117.SXI to the support of the tlty for the next fiscal year. The total budget as fixed today by the Board of Aldermen shows that 8143.B72.2b6 will be required to meet the city's expenses for the year, but a portion of this sum will bo raised through sources other thsn direct taxation. It waa found necesisry to slightly rslse th tax rat throughout the greater city for thia year. Popular Intereat In Primaries. New York Tribune. If anyone doubts the popular Interest in direct primaries, he should consider the re ault of those recently held In Texas. At the election of 1901 the total democratic vote In Texas was 187.20O. In 1900, with Bryan running, and a full party vote polled, the total waa M7,S37. The vote at Satur day's primaries is estimated at 82S.O00. Whatever elan may be said about direct primaries, they are not controlled by a few active party workers, but are really repre sentative of the desires of the whole party. Home Intereat Slighted. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. A parcel can now be mailed from any postofflce In the United State to any poatofric In Bolivia, a distance of 4,000 miles, for 12 cents a pound. The domestic parcela rat In thla country la IS cent a pound. Cong reus ought to explain why for elgnera are allowed this advantage In ths mails. It haa beoome a glaring rase of neglected home Interests. It I Ever Tkat. Boston Transcript. Th American federation of Labor seem to be aplitting on the Issue raised by Presi dent Gomper's attempt to bring unionised labor bodily Into th Bryan camp. Th member who are democrat want to go, while those who are republicans prater to take their politic front mm other sour It Is ever thus. THE )tTArRKtAL ROOftRACK. Start la Early ana Promlwe to Work Overtime. New York Times. The short-legged and brealhles II known generally aa the roorback ha etumbled Into th political campaign of 1. It is not original It never Is any more and th two specimens that appeared In the public prints bark back toward IMS, the year In which the mythical Baron Roorbaeh ac cused James K. Polk, then running for the presidency, of selling to th Duck river slave driver forty-thre negroes upon whose shoulders he had branded the Initials of hi name. Mr. Samuel Qompera I moved to stig matise a an "Infamous lie" the report that he ever boasted that he would, or could, deliver the labor vote to any political party! Such heat was Inexcusable, con. siderlng that no Intelligent person could believe that Mr. Oompera would aay out right any such thing, particularly If he really Intended to bargain away th labor vote. Even secret promises of this kind are rarely formulated In words between th b rgslners. Mr. Taft'a private secretary recently pub lished "upon the authority of Mr. Taft him self a denial of th story circulating In the neighborhood of Cincinnati that Mr. Taft had, In some speech or at some time, declared that "a dollar a day. or a dollai and a quarter a day, was enough for any workman." That one, now, has a flavor every old voter will recognise. We know not frorl whom the fathers of th men who circu lated the mendacity got It, but they accused Henry Ward Beecher of the very asm thing back In the seventies, since which time It has been held up to the blinking eyes of th laboring man upon every op portune occasion. We think Mr. Blaine, Mr. Harrison, and Mr. Cleveland succes sively denied the story as relating to themselves. Indeed, the denials are the only thing that gtvea the roorback dignity. W suppose before th campaign haa passed the hot weather stage, Mr. Taft will be called on to deny the charge flrat lodged against Chester A. Arthur, that he waa bom In Canada, and Is therefor In eligible, or Mr. Bryan will be called upon to discuss the document bearing hi sig nature, like th forged letter of James A. Garfield which Abram 8. Hewitt declared to be genuine. SEEKING THE) TEACH KR VOTE. Time Given to "Thlnklna- and Talk. Ins Aboat the Dollar." Hartford (Conn.). Times idem.). It is remarkable how much of his time the Nebraska man devotes to thinking and talking about the dollar. He made a speech on a recent Saturday to 200 or more, school teachers of Nebnska. who visited him and dropped posies at his feet. To them he said: "I have wondered why th teachers In this country would go, year after year, and vote to turn the nation over to exploitation by great trusts and monopolies when they themselves are so poorly psid for the great and Important work they ar doing." Tho teachers of tho country ar poorl: paid If a comparison ba mad between their salaries and th Income which Mr. Bryan, Mr. Roosevelt. Mr. La Follette and other popular public lecturers . de rive from their efforts. On the other hand most of them are fairly well paid In comparison with the great majority of employed person. Mr. Brysn doe not hold out the slight est Inducement to any school teacher to expect an increase In his or her emolu ment by favoring the election of Bryan and Kern thla year. What he does ac complish by such a speech, however, Is to stir up discontent, and th man. who atlrs up discontent without showing th discontented person how to get what he wanta Is not a publlo benefactor. Of course th inference of th person who does not top to think about It I that voting for Mr.. Bryan may tend to raise th wage or salaries of the school teachers of th country. Twelve year ago Mr. Bryan wa working hard, with the aid of Marcus Daly'a cash, to cut In half th value of the dollar In which the school teacher of the country are paid. He la suggesting no fnanclal achemes this year, but he would much like to have the school teachers of the country vote for him. This year he Is willing to let the dollar continue to be worth 100 cents In gold, and all hi talk la about the number of dollar he and other peopl ar getting Instead of the Intrinsic value of government coin. Some time It aeems a If he had lost the power to think much about anything else. PERSONAL, NOTES. The Waahlngtonlan who got a coat of tar and feathers seems to be displeased. Possi bly he thought an aggrieved husband would fit him out with a nice easy divorce suit. Who says the English language 1 not flexible? The Philadelphia water board publishes a list of ninety-three different way of spelling "hydrant," culled from letters It has received. New York' first skyscraper, only SO year old, is to be torn down to glv place to a new one, twenty-nine stories higher. There Is a fin opportunity hr to guess what will be going on twenty years hence. William W. Russell, former American minister to Venezuela, will leave the United States In September for Quito, Ecuador, where there Is to b an exposition next year and for which congress appropriated SSO.GOO. Mr. Ruasell I th American com missioner to th exposition. Nothing could have been finer than th generosity of the new candidate for presi dent on the socialist labor ticket. The original candidate la In prlaon for murder and could not conveniently serve, but the substitute will let the convict nam the cabinet. There's usefulness for you. Process Stephen! of Belgium, who haa Juat put a patent chafing dish and spirit lamp on the market In her own name, Is no novice In th difficult pursuit of In vention. The patent offices of Belgium. England, Francs. Germany and Italy eon tain records of many of her labor-saving Improvements and discoveries, but none have been so thorodghly placed before th public as her chafing dlah, which I an Im provement on all Ita predecessors. Aa larrasoaahl Kick. St. Louis Republic. Th (tnile Nebraska delegate to Mr. Hearst' Independent convention I unreas onable In objecting that Mr. Heart packed t If a free and Independent American can't rack hi own Independent convention, whoaa convention can h pack? Ladies who wish something superior in the way of flavoring extracts, should purchase They have no equals. I , Variety of Tickets nealaraed Mlt All Political Tnatea. Washington Herald tlnd . The tstlv Is complete. in political convent lens have done their work, wll 111. aa the can may be. and th net or suit Is that If a votr. can't find om platform or candidal to ult hi fastldl ous tsste he must be hard to pleas In deed. There are two Williams In the field, two Thomases, two Euajene and one Martin seven In all. Her they are: Republican. William Taft; democratic. William J. Bryan: people's party. Thomas E. Watsdn: socialist, Eugert V. Debs; prohibition. Eugene W. Chafln; wlallst labor. Martin R. Preston, and lnd pendence league, Thomas I H1gn. Surely we are rich this year In randl dstes. though Ihti voter who has to ehodsw between their Conflicting claims mar garo seven lionets. seven csnaiost, seven declaration of principles, and vt choices as an embarrassment of rich. Th situation I not unprecedented, for tl 1W there were efght "Rlchmonds in the limn n n itiiir vamrK a . , 11 rrr wrrn x . If on considers h ends and aim of th minor partle in the field It will be een. w think, that these more nearly approach what has come' to be regarded In later years ss th Ideal of the democrats; and o It msy not be far-fetched to Infer that such support as thev obtain will be drawn n-ore from that which really belongs to Mr. Bryan than from the republican party. It may be taken, too, we think, that the mere fact of this municipality of paf tlea argues that on tl, whele all of th parties are reaching closer and closer to what may be regarded aa the nation' ideal. In other words, that thtr are at the presw ent day no great, burning, vital Issues that cry for solution and for which on part. stands before the other. Th differences of opinion are all minor differences, and tho platforms of the strong parties, old established, aro so akin that th members of these smaller political denominations feel, no doubt, that they may safely leave the main Issues with them while they plump their vote for tt Inor principles. The strange Increase of parties and can didates reminds one, somehow, of that poem of Longfellow In which the child insisted that "We Are Beven." She was alone; her brothers and sister were "In the graveyard laid," but, she still Insisted that "wo are seven." It might be said. If it did not have a humorous twist about It, that after the vote ar counted the successful candidate, thinking of his rival In this septeangular fight, will hardly be able to ovoke a sigh of commiseration for the six of them who have to be Vln the (political) graveyard laid." SMILING REMARKS. Miss Pechis I waa quit surprised at Mr. Sloman last evening. He waa dis cussing "American Beauties" and he paid me quite a compllmer t Miss Chellus Well, that was surpris ing. I never before heard of him paying anything betoro It waa due. Philadelphia Press. , . Slowly, almost reverentially, the young -lergyman who was taking his first trip tcroas the Atlantic bowed hi head over the vessel's rail. "I'm doing this," he mutrered with pale Hps. "In response to an Inward prompting." Thereupon the others drew awav In silence and left him communing with th great deep. Chicago Tribune. "Biggins and his wife seem to have a deep respect for each other's superior wisdom." "Yes. He talk to her about nothing but base ball and she tslks to him shout noth ing but fashion." Waahtngton Star, v "Let us be thankful for on thing." "What's that?" "Nobody accused Candidate Taft of say ing 'Thjs la so sudden!' "Cleveland Plain Dealer. ...... "I wonder how ' a person look In a sheath gown?" "Through the silt In the side, I pre sume." Houston Post. Hyker Did you read that article ' In Blank'a magazine on the "Passing of th Horse?" Pyker No, but I know all about It. The horse that carried my money was psssed by all the other akatea in the race. Chi cago News. Squlggs Had gumption enough to fir that cook of yours yet? Bcjuaggs Sure; hired a bouncer who did the Job nicely, but we've more trouble on hand now. Squlggs-JWhaf that? Squaggs Can't get anyone to fire th bouncer. Toledo Blade. Mra. Dyer What ba become of Mr. His; bee? I haven't aeen her in an age. Mrs. Ryer Well, you know ahe ha only one afternoon out a week sine ah began keeping a servant. Judge. "That meadow acene looks fsr from natural." declared the stage manager. "What can all It?" "B'goah, I believe It'a the absence of ad vertising signs." Louisville Courier-Journal. A MAGNIFICENT OFFER. James J. Montague in Chicago American. The queation is not whether one can get th reform he wanta, but whether he can get th most reform. The democratic party offers him the best opportunity to get all that is obtainable at thia time. William J. Bryan. Why worry and fret for th things you can't get, when cheerfully, tight off the bat, Tom Tiiggart and Rysn and Belmont and Bryan can make you an offer like that? You perhaps want reform, and would fain make It warm for th placidly plunder ing crew Who have alway had cravings to collar ' your aavings and spend all your earn ings for you. But pleaae want something elss. for Tom Taggart's heart melts with sorrow for Persons of Oaln: He would not hurt their feelings by stop ping their stealings, but he'll get yea whst HE can obtain. - His die you can flip at five dollar a chip and although your luck may ba bad H will freely let you have an hour or two to figure what chance you had. And Ryan won't car If you breath all the air you can find In thla land' far flung borders So long aa he draws all th corporate laws and write the executive order. What you want you won't get upon that you may bet under old Miaa Democ racy's reign. But trust to the fearless and garrulous Peerless to get what HE can obtain. Once slxteen-to-ons wss the glorious sun that arose for th good democrat To dispel all hie troubles and worries Ilk bubbles but somehow he eouldn't get that! Then he took a few harks at the salary tax h missed but ha said that h would Be around pretty soon with a popular boom something elae but exactly a good; And he dulv appeared and waa Joyously cheered Ilk a hottentot battle alarm. With Ryan and Mack (tending light at hi back and Tsgsart tucked under his armt All willing perfnrmere, thse lofty reform ersthey make all hla promises plain. Don't need them? tut! tut! Pleaa don't talk like a mutt Bryan offer all h can obtain! - - Always reliable. WB ARB .HVB,
