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6 THE 0MA11A DAILY DEE: SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1903. i r. o Vl Hi '' V V J. Tim Omaha Daily. Bel FOUNDED Bf EDWARD ROBBWATER. VICTOR BOflEWATRR, EDITOR. Entetvd at Omaha postofflce aa seoond claaa otatter.i TERMS Or tCB8CRIPTION: Pally Bee wlthout Bundar). year..4 00 Dally Bea and Sunday, one fear (.00 DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Dally Bea (Including Sanday), par week.. lie Dally Be (without Sunday), per week...lOe Evening Bea (without Sunday), per week c Evening Boa (with Sunday), par weak. ...10c Sunday Bee, oDe year w Saturday Bee, one year 1-W Addraaa all eomplalnta of Irregularities In delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. . Omaha The Bea Bunding. South OmahaCity Hall Building. Council Bluffe It Scott Street. Chicago IMS Marquette Building. ' New York-Room 1101-llOi, No. M Waat Thirty-third Street. Waehtngton 720 Fourteenth Street, N. w. . , CORRESPONDENCE. Communctatlona relating to tiewa and editorial matter ehould ba addressed; Omaha Bea, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, axpreaa or poatal order payable- to Tha Baa Publlalilng Company On y 2-cent etamps received In payment of mall accounta. Peraonal check, exoept on Omaha or eaetern exchangee, not accepted. , i , ' i 1 STATEMENT OF CIRCUUATION. State of Nebraeka, Douglas County, ea.r Qeorge B. Tsschuck. treaaurer of Tha Bee Publishing company, being duly worn, aaya that tha aotual number of full ahd completa coplea of Tha Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bea prlntad during tha month of July, 10S, waa aa follow:. , . 1. SWBO 17 1 35,740 It... 00,000 I 00,710 II 30,000 4 30,100 10 30,400 1 36,000 II M ........... 30,400 12 30300 7; 30330 21 30,700 t. ...... . . , 33,030 24 30,000 I i 8000 II 30,000 10....:... 80,400 21 30.000 11.......... 30,100 27 30300 U. .....O... 30,100 II 30,000 II..... 30.030 SI 304M0 14 30330 10 80.710 II 80390 11 80,100 II 30,100 Totala 1,110.400 t,esa unaold and raturned coplaa. . 3,048 Nat total .....1,100,418 Dally average 80,760 , OKOROH B, TZSCHTJCK. Treaaurer. Subscribed In my presence and aworn te before-me this lrt day of Auiuit. 108. tSeal.) , , ROBERT HUNTER, Notary Public WHElf OVT OF TOWK. Hakaeriatera laavlaar tha eltr taa awrarlly aktaalO . .hava. . Tfca. Bee , ailed ta tkeaa. Addraaa will ka ekaagad aa aftaa aa reaatad. (. ton Korn hoon't heard about it yet. The report that a balloon trust hao been formed appears to be groundless. Remember when Santoo-Dumont wag looked upon as the kin. of the alrohip clan! . Scientist": assert that ' t lleo are re- gponslble for the spread of typhoid. Boll the flies.. An optimists' league Is being formed in New Jersey. If. must be composed of non-residents. V - In another week or two the wind Jammer', union will suspend the rule against working overtime. "Kansas Is getting on," oays the Kansas City Star. Yea, and the rest of the country Is on to Kansas. When Br'er Watterson's ground swell moots Br'er Berge'o . landslide the bystanders had better hunt for ' cover. ' ' ;v An English physician asserts that nightcaps will cure baldness. And, of course, eye-openers- are good for night caps. itr, Bryan U said to be an expert swimmer. He needs to be, as he is in very -deep water and a long way from shore. "Everything In this world Is getting better," says Rev. Dr. Aked, who evi dently hasn't been buying cantaloupes this summer. If Jdr. Bryan falls again to get his diploma, be will probably insist on taking a post-graduate course in the school of politics. , John W. Gates has declined to be a candidate for congress on the republi can ticket In Texas. John W. wants a run for his money. The outlook Is a little gloomy for the political party that counted on hard times to carry it Into power. The hard times refused to stay put. The Society for the Suppression of Unnecessary Noises appears to have overlooked a Boston man who Is start ing another fight against "The Sys tem." An Iowa rnan claims to hava made a careful study of .ill seven of the na tional political platforms. He should have. a Carneglo hero medU without further argument. U lo in perfect keeping with the po t lltltal situation that the democrats p uhould namea man named .Stringer as the candidate for United States oen- otot from,-Illinois-. -i Herman. Rldder . ays that SO per cent of the American people have Ger man blood in their veins. Mr. Rldder must have been making his observa tions in Milwaukee. The Atlanta Constitution Is con rtaced that the democrats will carry Now. York thlo year. New York dem ocrats are sorry they cannot share the enthusiasm and hope of the Atlanta apeiv 'resident Roosevelt to very anxious to discover so rue iilan of induojog the farmer boys and girls to stay on the larm. If he can deylio some way of inducing the gUi to stay, h nd not orry about the ooyg. BR1AX AD THE SKGRO TOTE. Mr. Bryen'g campaign inanagero have made an error In placing West Virginia In the list of states which they Insist Mr. Bryan has a fair 'ctnnce of carrying at the coming electljj. The state Is safely republican and has been over since Mr. Bryan got into natfonal politics as a candidate for the presi dency. The republican majority may be reduced, of course, If the West Vir ginia democrats succeed In their plan to have the negro votersof the state disfranchised, but that cannot be ac complished in time to bavo any effect on the result of the election in Novem ber. It Is nnfortunate, for the negroes of the country, that Mr. Bryan cannot discuss the plans of the West Virginia democrats In this campaign. ' He has declared that he cannot dlscusi the egro question, because It waa not mentioned in the democratic platform. That, of course, will prevent him from enlightening the negro voters, of the country as to whether he has' changed his views toward them since last April, when he made a speech in New York in which he. approved the action of the southern states that have disfranchised negro voters in order to '.keep the south oolldjy democratic. .1 ' , The West Virginia democrats have declared In state convention that "the democratic party is In favor of so amending .the constitution ao to pre serve the purity of the ballot and the electorate of the state frofh the. evils resulting from conferring such power and privilege" upon negroes. . Mr. Bryan has nothing to say about that. West Virginia became close and doubtful in politics about twenty-sfive years' ago, when the industrial devel opment of a commonwealth, rich In coal, lumber and other natural re sources drove the democrat lc party al most out of control In state affairs. Mr Cleveland carried the state In 1884 by 4,221 and by only 606 in 1888. In 1892 the democratic majority -was 4,174, but In 1896 Mr. Bryan's appeal was. met by a republican majority of 11,487. Mr. Bryan's second battle, in 1900, found West Virginia, In the re publican column by a majority of 21,022.- This -was clearly & straight republican vote, and not a democratic protest agatnst Bryanlem, for in 1904, with a West Virginia man on the dem ocratic ticket, ao & candidate for,-vice president, the state. gave a republican plurality of 3r,758. 'The republican majority in West Virginia has been growing rapidly for twelve years. Mr. Bryan lost It. In 1896 by the widest margin given up to that time against a democratic candidate and he doubled the republican plurality in 1800. It would' be interesting to know by what mental process Mr. - Bryan and his backers arrive at the conclusion that West Virginia Is scheduled for trans fer to the democratic column this year. Aa the West Virginia democrats will make their chief issue in the state campaign on the question of negro dis franchisement, it will doubtless be a distinct disappointment to ? them to have. to carry on their battle "without any word of encouragement or advice from Mr. Bryan on that Issue. ' The entire south, for that matter, Is con siderably wrought up over the ques tion. The plain-spoken Charleston News and Courlert discussing Mr. Bryan's attitude toward the negro, says: . " In thla matter It behooves the democratic candidate, at least to be ;,cautlous. If he permlta suspicion to enter the minds of southerners that his attitude is not squarely against recognition of the nogro aa an Important factor In American polit ical affairs, he will Induce an Indifference among aouthern democrata that would Im peril the chances of democratic success In Tennessee, Qeorgta and North Carolina. The Charleston paper, which Is one of the strongest democratic papers In the south, closes its discussion of the negro problem with these questions, directed to Mr. Bryan: : First If elected, president,, Mr. Bryan, will you attempt any Interference with the condition of negro suffrage in the United States? Second Will you make any effort to re- atore the negro soldiers who . were dis missed from the military service of tho oountry because of the affair at Browns ville. Tea.T Third Will you appoint negroea to offi cial placea in tha federal aervice? We submit, In all fairness, that Mr. Bryan should answer these questions. While democratic success In Tennes see, Georgia and North Carolina may not be Imperiled by his silence, both the white and negro voters of the north would be very much interested in his replies. If he does not answer the questions, the voters of the north will feel bound to believe that he holds the same opinion of the negro voter that be did when, in his speech at Cooper Union ball in New Yorkylast April, ho said: ' The white man of the aouth puta a quali fication on negro auffrage In self-defense. There la not a community in the north that would not put on a similar quallflca Mob under the same circumstances. The white men In neither the north nor the aouth will permit a few men to take the aolld black vote and uae tt for the making of money, regardless of the Interests of the community, aa waa done by the carpet baggera in the aouth. eixo r oh a. Attention is called to the increasing demand for corn land land on which corn can be successfully grown. This demand naturally rests upon the in creasing use of corn. For at least a decade scientific efforts have been per sistent along tho line of Increasing the annual yield per acre of corn through out that great stretch of country gen erally referred to as the "corn belt." These efforts have been attended by great success. It has been proven that In all certainty corn excels any other known product of nature in the matter of like producing like. Good oeed will produce good corn Just as certainly as it Is arwo and pojr aeed will produce poor . corn., Farmers have been given ample and exact in structions In how to select and tet seed corn to the end that the maxi mum yield may be obtained from their acreo. A ateady advance In the average yield per acre hao been noted for oev eral yearo past, and yet the possibili ties have not been attained. In oplte of the steadily Increasing yield of corn the price has advanced until corn has sold for the last two or three years at a figure far beyond what had been ex perienced at the time tho forward movement in corn cultivation was in stituted. This Increase in price, ac companying the increase in yield. Is the best possible evidence of the In crease in use. King Corn was never more firmly seated on his throne than he is today. THE COXTKOt, OF THE PACIFIC. Out of tho cheera of enthusiastic welcome to the American fleet on its present visit to Australia comes a new note of concern over the alleged piano of Japan and Chfna for a mastery of the Pacific and a new plea for co operation among the Anglo-Saxon na tions against the invasion of "the yel low peril." Officials of Australasia have not hesitated to couple their wel come to the American fleet with ex pressions of concern over the future domination of the Pacific and of hope that America may come to the aid of Australia in keeping orientals in the orient. The situation gives rise to complica tions that cannot be pleasing to the British authorities, in view of the fact that Greal Britain Is in working har mony with Japan, expecting protection of British interests and influence In the far east, and thus making it em barrassing for the British government to become active In checking Japanese aggression In the Pacific. The British colonies have felt the effects of this peculiar condition for Borne time, and undoubtedly some liberal share of their ' enthusiastic welcome to the American fleet is due to the fact that it forms, to a degree, a protest against England's failure to keep a fleet in the Pacific for the protection of Aus tralasia. This matter hao been before the British Admiralty for discussion, and the decision has been reached that the British naval policy will be best conserved by keeping the British fleet Intact, leaving Canada and Australia to depend for protection on England's alliances with foreign powers. Canada Is apparently satisfied with this policy but the situation is entirely different In Australia, where shrewd observers have long held that the real "yellow peril" lay in the overrunning of Aus tralia by the Chinese, thus giving the Asiatic races a foothold and a vantage gronnd from which to operate for the establishment of their supremacy In the Pacific. A writer In the National Review recently called attention to this condition in an article in which he said: Northern Australia is easily accessible from the most densely peopled part of China. Almost directly to the north, at a distance of 1,800 miles, Ilea the continental Mongolian country, overcrowded almost to the utmost point of endurance; to the aouth. the unoccupied coast of a continent, stretching 2,400 miles from east to weat, offering freedom, well-being, and condi tions of untrammeled prosperity, auch aa the Chinese race has never known in 2,000 years. Into this open and inviting field the overflowing millions of Chinese are aure to pour. In fact, are now pouring.' An influx of Chinese means an Influx of Jap anese, yand the two races once established In AuatraHa would mean a considerable vantage ground for the commercial con trol of the Pacific by oriental nationa. The Australians are keenly alive to the situation. The address of the New Zealand legislature to Rear Admiral Sperry contained the assertion that "the people of New Zealand recognise an unwritten Anglo-American entente far more enduring than one formally declared through their diplomatic agencies." This, of course, referent to the recent Anglo-Japanese treaty, which one Auckland paper character ized ao "a temporary expedient to se cure peace." The pres of New Zea land professes to see for the early fu ture a struggle for the mastery of tlfte Pacific, in which ,the United States and Great Britain will be natural allies against the combined forces of China and Japan. The United States has been highly successful In evading entangling alli ances with any foreign power, but there is no telling what action may be forced upon the country as a result of its unavoidable entry Into the field of world politics. It is interesting to cote, however, and also reassuring, that In the case of the much talked of struggle between this country and Japan for the commercial or naval supremacy of the Pacific, Australia, end, through that colony, Great Brit ain, may be relied upon as the natural allies of the United States in prevent ing Asiatic domination of the Pacific. THE STANDARD UtL CASK. Attorney General Bonaparte has made formal announcement of his In tention to press the suit against the Standard OH company, refusing to ac cept as final the recent decision of the circuit court of appeals Sitting aside the fine of 129,240,000 imposed by Judge andls. The appeal court will be asked to grant a rehearing, and General Bonaparte Is confident that the rulings will be modified In mater ial particulars. Judge Landls' deci sion was set aside by the court of ap peals on three grounds, summarized as follows: The first was that Judge Landls erred on the trial In excluding testimony offered to prove that tha Standard did not intend to violate tha E'.kins law when it accepted from the Chicago Alton railroad a 4-cent rate on ahlpmenta of oil where tha pub lished tariff waa II rents. The second waa held to be that Judge I.andla In Imposing tha ISO.ObO.OGO fine arbi trarily fixed each carload of uil aa tonstl luting a shipment. Irrespective af whether each carload a as billed to an Individual consignee or a part of a larger ahlpment thus billed. The third ground of error lay' In fining the Standard Oil company of Indiana, a '.,000,000 corporation, twenty-nine times the amount of its capitalisation for the purpose thereby of reaching another corporation which wm" not a defendant before the court. The rase is of particular Importance In the effect It would have upon the entire prosecution of violators of tha anti-trust lews, In esse the decision of the court o appeals ' lo allowed to stand. The first reason given for the decision is the only one that goes into the merits of the case, but the other two reasons given would offer a loop hole of escape for every defendant In similar suits. On the first question, rhere was seme conflict of testimony as to whether' the officials of the Standard knew they were payijg but 6 cento on oil shipments, while the published tariff rate, and the rate ex acted from other shippers, was 18 cento a hundred. It Is not like the officials of the Standard to be unin formed on the matter of freight rates. The knowledge, or lack of it, may have Borne bearing on the size of the penalty to be imposed, and to that ex tent may be subject for review and re vision by the higher courts, but the same cannot be said of the other two grounds offered by the court of ap peals as reasons for the reversal of Judge Landls' decision. ' The action of Judge Jandis in con sidering each carload of oil ao consti tuting a separate shipment, irrespec tive of whether each car was billed to an Individual or was part of a larger shipment, Is a matter of detail and a matter of opinion. It served Judge Landls as a basis for fixing the pun ishment, just as the different counts in an indictment form the basis upon which a judge fixes the sentence and term of imprisonment of a convicted criminal. It has no direct bearing on the merits of the caoe. The third reago.n for reversal of tho findings of Judge Landls threatens the effectiveness of the courts in reaching all offenders against the anti trust laws. The fine is reversed be cause, according to the court of ap peals, it was twenty-nine times as great ao the capital stock of the Stan dard Oil company of Indiana, the branch of the trust against which" the suit was brought. ThlB is a mere tech nical quibble, although It was the pharfe of the case upon which Judge Grosscup vented most of hlo rhetoric and wrath against Judge Landls. No thinking man contends that the Stan dard Oil company of Indiana Is not a part of the Standard OH company of New Jersey, the parent concern of the organization, which is incorporated at 1100,000,000. and pays dividend-of about 70 per cent per annum on that amount To sustain the contention of the court of appeals would opea tho way for all of the big corporations to do their buslneso through subsidiary companies incorporated for a nominal amount, and thus escape any heavy penalty for violations of the law. At torney General Bonaparte is acting wisely In refusing to allow the Judg ment of the court of appeals to go un challenged. The weather bureau at Washington ia not taklne any very great chances In Its long distance prognostications, the Missouri valley having already felt the effect of the barometric disturb ance reported by telegraph from the head office of the weather-makers. Now, If the excited bulls and bears on the Board of Trade can only be oub- Jected to the oame soothing influence, the weather bureau will be vinaicatea. fit Tuia la now to have an experi ence with the pyrotechnic methods of Walter Raleigh Vaugnan. tne non estest mayor Council Bluffs ever had." As Walter Raleigh is the nearest ap nmach to Mayor Jim now in circula tion. St. Louis Is likely to learn some thing. J Deposits in the country's national banks have Increased $62,000,000 In the last two months, while loans and discounts have been Increased by more than 187,000,000. No surer sign of a resumption of normal business con ditions could be furnished. Mr. Harrlman Is taking a very op timistic view of the commercial and industrial outlook. It is too bad that more of Mr. Harriman'o New York as sociates 'cannot be Induced to take a trip through the west. It's a sure cure for pessimism. "There are not enough silk stock ings in the nation to elect Mr. Taft," says Alton B. Parker. Tho wearers of stockings are" not allowed to vote, Mr. Parker, except In a few western states. It's the boys with the sox that will elect Mr. Taft. An increase in the assessment roll of 862,000,000 means that the prop erty of Nebraska has Increased more than 1300, 00t), 000 In value. This is a sufficient evidence of prosperity to answer any possible calamity how. Secretary Junkin may be able to lo cate 900 populists theoretically In Douglas county, but the democrats who sought for signers to the Neble petition found great difficulty In secur ing the necessary twenty-five. Colonel Moses C. Wetmore is afraid the republicans will get their money for the campaign from the corpora tions. Colonel Move never liked to have anyone beat him to It in getting money from the corporations. The Lincoln man who shot four times at his wife and missed ber and once at himself and missed again either lacks practice or determination. He certainly deserves no medals. OTHER LAXDA THAI OUR. Tho whirligig of political event In Turkey brings to the front aa grand vlaler of the reform administration Said Kutchuk Pasha. "Kutchuk" la Turkish for "little," and as Little Said he has always been known. He wjns a standpatter tor the "divine rights" of the aultan over thirty years ago, and applauded as an editor th suspension of the constitution of 187S. He grew wiser aa he grew older, and became so fierce an opponent of the abaolutelam following the Ruaso-Turklsh war that the climate of Conatlntlnopla frequently menaced his health. In and out of office Utile Bald assailed official grafters of high and low degree, and succeeded In driv ing several conspicuous robbers out of the country. An Incident is related il lustrating his directness as well as his unique delicacy of expression. To Hassan, minister of marine, who had built costly palaces with money intended for tha navy. Little Said remarked In the presence" of the ministers: "My dear Haasan, you are a thief and you know It." Thla la the rugged man to whom tha sultan has en trusted for the third time the highest office In the land. He la sagacious, ener getic, and fearless, three vital qualities for a pilot of a peaceful revolution. American assistant builders of the mod em British empire do not hide their enter prise behind walls or high board fences. They encourage publicity and aatlsfy ourl oslty. reversing the British custom of ex eluding from building under construction all persona but the workmen. The Ameri can builders of the new department store in London Invite tha curious to come in and view tha work aa it proceeds. A safe platform, out of range of the derrlcka, which swings tons of bricks and stono about, has been prepared for the public, and upon it thousands have watched the progress of the work of erecting a big building on the new system of steel frame and white atone. The apectacla la not as distressing to native pride aa' a bunch of Olympian prlxe wlnnera. The building will atay. The example of the United Statea in sending a battlcfleet around the world in aplrea the naval authorltlea of Germany to a enterprise aomewhat similar. It Is announced that sixteen battleships, three armored crulaers, alx cruisers, two tendera. and several torpedo boata will make a long practice cruise. The run will be made to the Asores, to the Canaries and back to Germany, a distance of 6,000 miles. The cruise Is announced for the purpose of "training the officers and men." Following closely on the British naval review and the American tour of the world the German naval program shows how feverish Is the activity of world powero In keeping their navies In prime condition for "a fight or a frolic." A great lesson In temperance waa preached In London recently when the earl of Bessborougti, presiding at the an nual meeting of a hotel company, made the positive statement that the receipts from the sales of wlnea and liquors in tbe great chain of hotels owned by the corpora tion has decreased SO per cent within the last three years. For this reason, divi dends are much reduced, because the prop erty Is nut producing the Income for which it has become famous. Thla declaration came in such a startling fashion that the meeting broke up In order that Its mem bers might adjourn to a place at which they could calm their anxiety. What they Imbibed for that, purpose Is not stated In the -cablegrams-that bring the intelligence. M Tho latest Prussian Income tax returna show that there are about aa many per sons subject to this tax as there are per sona regarded aa too poor to pay the tax. The latter claaa Includes 40.7 per cent of the population. It is estimated by the London Economist that nearly nine-tenths of those that pay In Prussia would be exempt in England. A mitigating circumstance is tha sniail amount of the tax collected. The Prussian minimum of $326 paya about 11.60. Incomes from $300 to about $375 pay from $2.25 to $4.00. From that point, however, the rate of taxes Increases rapidly. These represent state taxes alone and do not in clude the city taxes which collect fully as much and sometimes a great deal more. Mr. Sidney Brooks has been telling the English what he considers to be 'lone of th greatest of the menaoea that confront British rule In India." It is "the growing tendency of Ill-advised and often Ill-informed politicians and Journalists in Eng land to aoatter sparks among the ' gun powder with which India la strewn." Mr. Brooks names namea. He chastises Mr. H. M. Hyndman, Sir John Cotton and Mr. W. T. Stead. He holds the last-named gentleman responsible for Incalculable mis chief, and does him the honor to quota tha following tactful sentences from a recent Stead acreedt "If the Indians really desire to convince their rulera that they are In earnest let them stick to the boycott. One effective boycott carried out peacefully but resolutely is far more embarrassing than a doxen assassinations. The contemplated suppression of the opium trade continues to be a matter of grave financial concern to tha Stralta aet tlement. Many of the Europeans there re gard opium as a curse, but are yet opposed to government interference. Laet year, out of a total revenue of $10,117,263. it was es timated that tha opium farmer would have to pay $4,224,000. For tha current year, it is estimated that ha will pay $4,505,000 out of $9,646,832, or nearly half of tha total revenue of the colony, the other large aouroe of Income fcelng tha aplrits farm, which con tributes $1,350,000. It la not supposed that the whole opium revenue will vanish at oncpj but the closing of tha licensed housea will affect the taklnga of tha opium farm, and la likely to lead to the breaking of ex isting contracts, without much hope of re newal. The efforts which have been, made In France to discourage and restrain the con sumption of albslnthe have In Swltxerland reached the form of absolute prohibition of Its manufacture or aala. Geneva la the only canton in which tha prohibitory ieglalatlon has not been confirmed by tha "referen dum." In this legislation absinthe Is not regarded merely as an objectionable intoxi cant, but frankly aa a polaan, which aarves no useful purpose whatever, hut la in every respect noxious a fact which scarcely admits of two opinions. Us prohibition is accompanied by an effort to encourage a return to the use of the ordinary wlnea of the country, which tha vile wormwood spirit has supplanted to an extent that haa be come really alarming. We Are Hot Through With You When you buy glases from us, they must satisfy you. We guarantee our work absolutely. Our vaat experience of JO years aa exclaelve Eye Bight Specialists is at your aervice. v J. J WiISLK tmm VaMWfefteS Bistro Vaavfowv mm 9m mtm I ox Fresh and Crisp baked in white tile, Top floor ovens of the $1,000,000 bakery. 10pSE-VlLE3 Graham Crackers a a? 1 t 1 f a. 1 1 1- a. fcvMaae irom tnc mSb crraham POLITICAL DRIFT. The Bryan campaign fund aeema to be awelllng. The Chartestown News and Cour ier haa raised aa much aa $25 for tt. In tha state wide primaries in Illinois tha republicans caat 410,000 votea and the democrats 140,000. Illinois will "go for" Bryan tn the usual way. There are 7.034 Johnsons and 5,115 Smiths In tha new Chicago directory. Neverthe less, a man named Hopklna la successfully running for office back there. John Temple Graves la not to be notified officially of his nomination for vice presi dent, but tha abaence of the ceremonies will not affect tha volume of hla campaign thunder. A Chinese Bryan and Kern club has been organlxed in Loa Angeles. Democratic factions in California promise a boom In the oountry business and the celestial Johnnies are on the spot. At the recent democratic primaries in Missouri, tha St. Louis' machine showed automatic precison. Thirteen of tha fav ored Indiana received exactly the same vote In five precincts. A man In Indiana haa vowed that he will not paint his houaa until Bryan is elected president. He ta tha only peraon that waa needed to establish tha truth of tha proposi tion that all klnda of people live In Indiana. Tha activity of local grand Jurlea In cut ting into tho business of members is re sponsible for tha raise of the salaries of members of tha St. Louis city council. A lift from $300 to $2,600 a year helps to oft Set the loaa In buatnesa. The Oklahoma law requlrea an itemised statement of campaign expenses. Where fore one candidate who swatted an offen sive competitor good and plenty announced In his report: "Fine paid by me for Whipping William Stacey, I1L" In some mysterious way Judge William H. Wallace of Kansas City the functionary who tried to put tha screws oo tha Sunday lid, obtained 40,000 votes as a candidate at the recent democratic primaries for the party nomination for governor. He was distanced. AID I FUN. "I never had any luck." " WhV. fhev UV Vmi K.r. hnrn with gold spoor, in your mouth." "Yes. and It blAm(4 n..i nt,nkH death." Cleveland Leader. Hla trio to Denver hrnarleneH him greatly." Yes. he got in the wav nf tbe atAm roller." Houston Post. "But you must concede that women are the Intellectual eouala of men." auid th suffragette. "Never," replied tha man. firmly: "never. until they have learned not to ret off of a street car backwards." Philadelphia Ledger. Miss Mayma (on vacation) Oh. auntie. it'a auch a luxury to have nothing to do but Just loll In a hammock with my pre cious Shelley or even the "Vicar of wake field!" Elderly Relative Child. If I hear of any mora Such scandalous doings I shall write to your mother. Chicago Tribune. 'I hope you are not going to aulk In your tent?" "No. air." anawered Senator Sorghum. No sulking In a tent for me. I shall take care to provide myself with a four-story house and an income to run it berore i un dertake to do any sulking," Waahlngton Star "We were awfully disappointed In our summer outing." "How was thatT "Why. It wasn't a bit aa the comic auo- plementa picture It. Tha farmer had no mmMmk Come to you in ..-' t ...::-:-' The Optimist Theae mountains are almnlv fin. ' Tha Peaalmlat Simply rookal . p y . ne- One-FIf tlv Off , All our lightweight clothing at 20 per cent discount. When you can buy a Browning, King & Co. 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"-Judge. "la Blnga In wheat speculation now? ' V "No; he haa found aomethlng better." "What ia It?" "He has a corn affair on foot." Balti more American. FROM AN OFFICE WINDOW. 1 New York Sun. Oh, tha aun Is shining, shining, and tn window's open wide, I look up from my rolltop to the world that's Just outside. And I feel as felt tha heroes who for glory up and died And who didn't have to plug It in an office. i tlmea t la M and I la SO And the stirring of tha sun-kissed air Is like a potent wine. I feel like up and flying." " ' Like an armored warrior dying. But I'va got to keep on plugging in tha office. ; i , i . ' ' . ' Somewhere I feel It in me there are em- plrea to ba made. And somewhere waits a dragon for a knight who's not afraid, And somewhere there's a princess who when waa that. Invoice paid? Oh It's mighty hatd a-plugglng In an oiuce. When waa that Invoice paid, I say? Or waa it MM at all? And somewhere there's a princess wha awaits the prince's call. My heart Is beating, beating, And the hours are (leettng, fleeting, And here, I am a-plugglng In an office. The birds upon the roof are singing with the rest, ."Dear Sirs ' KeplylngVtd your note, we beg to say our bcul, ; ) Quotation on itugh' vafings is" They're a building tl enj a nest! Oh, lawa, it'a .hard a-plugglng In an office! . Princess,, princess, ,-jnv. .only lova, excuse my absence, piy.; ' ' Remember that the- ulderf knights were ta rove alway, And the alayer of a dragon didn't have hi board to pay, . . He didn't have to plug in an office. He didn't have to plug it. No. Ha had l lot of sport, Where la that Stephens letter? What? Th cash la 10c short? The pools and brooks are brimming And the saucy fish are swimming Oh It'a mighty hard a-plugglng in si office! Dr, Price, tho famous food expert, has produced a product called m m WHEAT FLAKE CELEIIY which is considered to represent the highest food production. Its healthful qualities are unsur passed. For ! by all Cro4r