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STATEMENT OP CIRCULATION.
Plate of Nebraska. Dnuglsji County, as.:
Oeorge B. Txschuck. treasurer of The
Bes Publishing compny. being duly
worn, says that the actual number of
full and complete copies of The Dally.
Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed
during the month of July, 19o8. was as
follows:
1 . 38,750 17 38,400
2 38.740 II 39,950
1 30,710 If 38,000
4 36,100 10 30,400
6 80,800 11 30.950
30,400 12 35.800
7 38,830 21 30,780
1 36)30 S4 30,800
9 38,800 2S 35,960
10 88,400 28 35,650
11 36,100 77 35,880
13 36,100 S 35,550
It 36,090 29 36,380
14 36,330 SO 35,780
II 36350 tl , 30,150
It 36,160
Totals 1,118,460
Lass unsold and returned copies. . 9.04a
Net total 1,108,418
Dally average 35,788
GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK.
Treasurer.
Subscribed In my presence and sworn to
before me this 1st day of August, 190S.
(Seal.) ROBERT HUNTER,
Notary Public.
WHRlf OCT Or TOW!.
abscr I here leaving: the city tem
ernrtlr anoald have The Dee
malted to thena. Address vrlU be
chanced aa often mm renaestea.
The man who tries to take life easy
often has a hard time of It.
Castro must envy the Turkish
method of getting rid of diplomats.
Haa Mr. Bryan invited Judge Parker
to make any speeches for him in Ne
braska? Still, a man named I. M. Lyon la
asking the Missouri voters to elect
him to office.
Brazil wants some American bankers
to locate there. Brazil should repeal
Its extradition laws.
In accepting his nomination, Candi
date Chafin invites everybody to come
in, as the water is floe.
Candidate Chafin naturally is trying
to throw cold water on the hopes of all
the other presidential candidates.
The usually enterprising merchants
are a little Blow in advertising "A
Great Slash in Dlrectoire Gowns."
Mr. Taft Is going to Canada for a
fishing trip. Mr. Bryan will remain in
the United States fishing for votes.
Sauerkraut has gone up, but as soon
as the weather gets a little cooler and
spareribs are ripe it will begin going
down.
William Money has been fined oy a
Kansas City judge for refusing to tes
tify in court. Yet. it is Insisted that
money talks.
Honors are even again. The town of
Taft, Mont., was destroyed by fire and
the town of Bryan, Okl., was ripped up
by a cyclone.
The democratic state committee
won't let Edgar Howard make It a
present of Dan Stephens' money. This
decision is final.
Statisticians assert that 64 of every
1,000,000 of the world's inhabitants
are blind. And there are more of them
who only think they see.
The presidential candidates ha .re
started the race, but, according to the
reports of the finance committees, they
are not yet raising tnucb dust.
Very naturally, the national conven
tion of the Dryers' and Cleaners' As
sociation of America elected H. Irons
to one of the Important offices.
"We should not exaggerate the
growth of the agricultural Industry in
the United States," says the New York
Journal of Commerce. We can't.
Candidate Kern is not as bashful as
was Candidate Bryan. He Is already
making campaign speeches In advance
of notification that he has been nom
inated. According to Edgar Howard, the
canvass for the democratic nomination
tor congress In the Third district has
developed simply a contest between the
dollar and the man.
For some strange reason the people
most directly affected seem to be en
tirely unrepresented In these confer
ences between city and county officials
about providing jail facilities.
As another evidence that the cam
paign is on la Tennessee, the Nashville
Tennesseean refers to Its contempor
ary, the American, as "a booze-blub-bertr
and bell-broth megaphone."
BhYAS AXI 7HI n (Ht TAHitr.
Mr. Rrvan's rcfunal, or failure, to
take advantage of the tip given to Mm
by former Attorney General Monnelt
of Ohio, to make the republican policy
toward the nation's wool growers a
near-paramount issue, has been ex
plained. Mr. Monnett, It will be re
membered, drifted Into Lincoln about
the time of the Denver convention and
told Mr. Bryan and, through him, the
public, a touching story of how the
wool Industry of the nation had .ieen
ruined by the protective tariff. He pro
duced statistics to show that there pre
no longer any sheep In the country and
that the public is being robbed Mind
by the Wool trust, which has secured
all the wool there Is In the world and
has fixed an exorbitant price on every
ounce of it.
The Boston Commercial Bulletin has
been to some pains to secure authen
tic data, from official sources, that f.iil
to harmonize with Mr. Monnett's dis
mal statistics. From these figures it
appears that on January 1, 1893, just
before the beginning of President
Cleveland's second administration and
the enactment of the WilBon-Gorman
tariff, there were 47.273,673 sheep in
the United States, and that on January
1, 1897, just before the close of the
Cleveland administration, the number
had been reduced, to 36,818,643, a ?oss
of 25 per cent, without any offsetting
eduction In the price of wool pro
ducts. According to the report of the De
partment of Agriculture, there were,
on January 1, 1908, in the United
States, 64,631,000 sheep, an increase
of nearly 100 per cent mnce the close
of the last democratic administration.
The wool clip of 1907 was valued in
excess of $50,000,000. Mr. Monnett
failed, in bis disquisition on the wool
question, to call attention to the prices
of wool In the United States under
democratic and republican rule. On
January 1. 1893, shortly before the
democratic wool tariff went Into effect,
Ohio washed XX fleece was selling on
the Boston market at 27 cents .a pound,
while in August, 1896, just before the
election of President McKlnley, the
same grade of wool was quoted at 17
cents a pound. The same kind of wool
sells today at 32 cents a pound. The
Boston newspaper further emphasizes
the changed conditions by quoting
these prices on wool:
AviKust, July,
ikhs. v.m.
Ohio XX, washed l"c 32c
Kentucky quarter - blood, un
washed 16c 25c
Territory best fine staple, clean Sue 60c
It is not difficult to Bee why Mr.
Bryan has not grown particularly en
thusiastic over Mr. Monnett's advice to
attack the republican party for its
treatment of the wool industry in
America.
ABnCT THAT ALASKA ft HKA T,
The day of miracles has not passed,
not by a long shot, if there is any
thing approaching even near-truth !n
the story of the success of Abraham
Adams of Idaho in his experiments
with wild wheat he discovered in
Alaska some years ago.
Briefly told, Adams started out to
look for gold in Alaska and stumbled
upon something which makes the out
put of the world's gold mines look like
the drainings of the baby's toy bank.
In one of the Gardens of Eden not
charted by the geological survey, far
from any living human that could have
planted It, grew a rare species of wheat.
There must have been many millions
of bushels of it a regular Chicago
Board of Trade crop but the birds of
the country had picked this particular
wheat as their favorite breakfast food
and Adams succeeded in securing only
one overlooked head of the prized
grain. He carried this back to the old
farm In Idaho and has since been ex
perimenting with it, with the most as
tonishing results. The last report
shows that the average yield of this
new wheat is 222 bushels an acre; that
each kernel Is as big as a minstrel
star's diamond; that it is hard or soft
wheat, to suit the taste of the pur
chaser, and that It is the only wheat
In the world from which can be pro
duced the kind of bread that "mother
used to make."
It may be mentioned, in passing,
that this Alaska wheat grows in any
soil and flourishes under any condi
tions. It does best in the really damp
regions and on the arid wastes. It is
poison to chinch bugs, the green bug
and the rust, and attains Its greatest
strength of stem and development of
head in the regions where hailstorms
beat down strong trees and cyclones
move farm houses from one county to
another without formal notice. Frost
does not hurt it and, under proper
coaching, it will produce predlgested
flour for the benefit of dyspeptics.
Summed up, in the language of the
Saturday Evening Post, "if all America
could seed with the new wheat, it
would, at only 50 cents a bushel, add
nearly $2,500,000,000 to the wealth of
the farmers every year."
"Does that not mean a revolution
In' the wheat industry?' is asked, with
a ring of challenge in the query. Well,
we don't know. There are a good
many Missourians out in this country,
where twenty-two bushels an acre is
looked upon a a sizeable wheat yield,
and the bent thought of agricultural
experts has for years been devoted to
plans for raising the limit. Just casu
ally, be it mentioned, the west might
get more enthusiastic over this Alaska
wheat miracle if the Po6t did not dis
close the fact that Farmer Adams has
accumulated some 63,000 pounds of
that marvelous wheat which he is will
ing to contribute to the cause for th
modest sum of $5 per pound.
This talk about candidates for pri
mary nominations withdrawing is all
very well, but it conies too late to be
effective. The primary law gives fif
teen days for withdrawal after the
filings close, hut does not authorize
any change In the official ballot rvhen
made up at the expiration of that time.
A candidate who so desires may an
nounce to his friends that he is nn
longer in the race, but no way remains
to him now to take his name off the
official primary ballot.
AORE MiyPARTlSAN BVyCVMBC.
The local democratic organ, which
is one of the most blindly partisan
newspapers published, hurls "an In
vitation" at Governor Sheldon to an
nounce in advance of the acceptance
or rejection of the pending constitu
tional amendment enlarging the su
preme court whether he will appoint
democrats as well as republicans to
the places on the bench which he
might be called upon to fill.
Presumably Governor Sheldon will
cross that bridge when he comes to it,
but the demand of the democratic
mouthpiece is the veriest buncombe.
If the governor to make these appoint
ments were a democrat Instead of a
republican, could any one imagine Bny
democratic organ serving demands
upon him to invest republicans with
the Judicial robes? The constitution
of Nebraska now provides for the fill
ing of Judicial vacancies by guberna
torial appointment and nearly every
governor who has occupied the execu
tive office has been called upon from
time to time to make Judicial appoint
ments. When the governor happened
to be a republican he has usually, but
not always, i appointed republican
Judges, and when the governor hap
pened to be a democrat or a populist
he has invariably appointed democratic
or populist lawyers to the bench.
Our democratic friends have never
hesitated to use the political carving
knife in this state because It might
cut into the Judiciary. When the su
preme court commission was estab
lished a solidly republican supreme
court named the commissioners with
out special reference to their politics,
but as the personnel of the court
changed by the substitution of demo
cratic and populist Judges the new
comers insisted upon their right to
share in the commission appointments
and the commission came to be made
up to correspond politically with the
membership of the court. In spite of
the fact that the precedent was set by
the fusion Judges, when the court
again became completely republican,
and the fusion appointees on the com
mission gradually dropped out, we had
another democratic outcry about par
tisanship on the bench.
The trouble with our democratic
noise makers is that they always
scream for nonpartlsanship when they
are in the minority and want to get
something that does not belong to
them, but are always Intense partisans
when they are in control and want to
keep everything for themselves.
FLTUHE OFTHK PHIIIPP1SES.
Senor Quezon, the leader of the ma
jority in the Philippine national as
sembly, has been conferring with Mr.
Taft at Hot Springs and with Presldo.it
Roosevelt at Oyster Bay, and is return
ing to Manila with the first Indication
when the Philippines may expect to at
tain self-government, should the repub
licans remain in power in this country.
The interview between the president
and Senor Quezon was arranged by Mr.
Taft, and at its conclusion Senor Que
zon said:
I waa completely conquered by the presi
dent. He Is a great man. He assured me
that he ravored giving all possible buslnesa
concessions to the Filipinos who are able
to carry out Improvements. But the best
message I can hope to take to my people
from the president is his assurance that
he hopea to see the Inlands absolutely In
dependent within the next twenty years.
The president said that lie did not be
lieve the . Filipinos would have learned
enough about free government before that
time, nor become rich and atrong enough
to defy outside enemies to be given com
plete Independence.
While President Roosevelt is, cf
course, not authorized to speak for
the country so far in advance, his as
surance is iu entire keeping with the
republican policy in dealing with the
Philippine question and is complete
refutation of the democratic contention
that the administration has been In
spired by a spirit of imperialism and
a desire for territorial aggrandizement.
The control of those islands came as an
unsought and unwelcome spoils of war
and the powers at Washington, In full
sympathy with the sentiment of the
country, have sought to protect the
Filipinos from the encroachment of
other powers and to hasten their ad
vancement to the point where they will
be able to take charge of their own af
fairs. In pursuance of that policy, schools
have been established, the agricultural
Interests encouraged, self-government
granted in the muuleipalities and lim
ited self-government established in na
tional affairs. As a result, marvelous
progress has been made and the presi
dent is fully justified in his prediction
that in twenty years the Filipinos may
enjoy full Independence. By that time
the Filipino youth, now In school, will
have been drilled to the responsibilities
of citizenship end equipped to take
their part in public affairs. The United
States will finally withdraw, with the
consciousness of having redeemed its
pledges to the Filipinos and of having
performed a distinct and notable ser
vice in the cause of humanity and the
advancement of civilization. In the
light of this prospect, the democratic
attitude on the Phllipine problem In
the last two national campaigns and in
the one pending Is far from praise
worthy. it is now up to Colonel Bryan to
take back his charge that joernor
Johnson of Minnesota is nothing but a
puppet in the hands of "Jim" Hill and
other Wall street magnates. As a com
petitor for tht presidential nomination
Governor Johnson was denounced by
Mr. Bryan as a corporation tool, but
as a companion on the democratic
ticket In Minnesota he will be lauded
as a tried and true tribune of the
people.
The campaign Is certainly on tn
Tennessee. The Knoxvllle Journal and
Tribune saysi
The smile of the pumrkln broadens every
day. the persimmons are sanging the
branches while the 'possum winks his
eyes, the porkers and the cattle are fat
tening, fodder pulling, apple drying and
cider making thrive, the "mash" Is heavy
In the woods, the ginseng picking Is quite
the best, likewise the feather crop, and the
potatoes fairly burst the ground which is
the song we sing of prosperity's return.
An Illinois minister has Invented a
device by which a motorman can turn
a switch without having to stop his
car with a jerk and keep straphangers
pirouetting on one foot while he pokes
his head out of the vestibule and
throws the switch with a rod. In Ad
dition to the financial profit that
pastor will reap, he will do a groat
service for the cause by reducing the
pardonable provocations for profanity.
If the puritanical Sunday crowd
were on the square they would be as
hot on the trail of the democratic city
prosecutor and the democratic county
attorney as they are on the police
board appointees of the republican
governor. It looks very much as if
these democratic law officers had been
given the benefit of an immunity bath.
It is a little difficult to believe the
renort that $300,000. left over from
the democratic national campaign fund
of 1904, has been turned over to Chair
man Mack. It should be remembered
that Tom Taggart had a handin the
distribution of tne iu tuna ana wu
on very chummy terms with Mayor
"Jim" and "Brother-in-Law Tom."
Governor Sheldon realizes that it is
a condition and not a theory that ton
fronts his Board of Fire and Police
Commissioners here in Omaha, and in
South Omaha, too, for that matter. If
the- governor wanted to pass personally
on every detail of police regulation
for these two cities he would not have
time to do anything else.
Omaha has had one or two men In
the mayor's office whose services were
easily worth $5,000 a year to the city.
It has also had a lot of men In the
mayor's office whose services would
have been dear at any price. The fat
salary will "not by itself guarantee an
able and efficient mayor.
Notwithstanding the proposed in
crease in the mayor's salary to $5,000
a year. Mayor "Jim" still stands ready
to exchange his present $3,400 salary
for the $2,500 stipend paid to the
governor.
The Water- board has reached the
point where it Is willing to confer. A
few conferences earlier in the game
might have saved the taxpayers $20,000
or $30,000 in lawyers' fees and court
costs.
It is said that the late Sir Redvers
Buller, the English soldier, always en
deavored to live up to the Fifteenth
Psalm. Of course, you can tell offhand
what Sir Redvers tried to live up to.
"What we want," says Mr. E. H.
Harrlman, "is more co-operation and
rationalism." This will surprise folks
who thought that Mr. Harrlman wanted
more corporation and railroadlsm.
netting Heady for the Start.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
All the public can do at present Is to
keep on hoping thst everybody will soon
be notified so that the campaign may be
gin. '
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Maw it Bnsy.
' Baltimore American.
The report of the coming of prosperity
Is seml-offlcially indorsed. The United
Btatea treasurer advises people to eat seven
meals a day.
Will They Stand for Itf
Indianapolis News.
If the American Bar association does
stop courts of appeal from making decl
slons on technicalities It will be a great
blow to the business of som of our most
eminent practitioners.
Gets There Just the Same.
Brooklyn Eagle.
The Chinese government finds that near
11,000,000 has been stolen through a public
dredging contract. When China gets Its
promised constitution all plundering of this
kind will be decently disguised in the form
of an annual rivers and harbors bill.
The Real rare that Kills.
Philadelphia Record.
Every day now brings Its fresh record
of motorcides. The deaths are very Im
partially divided between vlctima who ride
and those who go upon the highways on
foot or In other vehicles. The wonder Is,
considering the number of autoa and the
number of reckless chauffeurs and Ignorant
amateurs who drive them, that the killing
and maiming are no greater.
Bailors Improvement Steady.
FltUBurg Dispatch.
A careful review of all the elements
which enter the business situation pro
motea the belief that while Improvement
ia noticed It Is steady and with ever-Increasing
volume. When this can be re
corded In the hot and dull month of Aug
ust It may mean that the resumption of
activity In the first fall month may be
such as to warrant something more than
the conservative optimism of the present.
V. hat Has Bern Done.
Chicago Inter Ocean
What state aid and government aid have
failed to do, private enterprise has accom
plished for the farmer. The telephone
operates aide by side with the rural, free
delivery mall box, and the Interurban
trolley has wiped out distance to the
county seat and the market town In thou
sands of agricultural neighborhoods. Social
life and sanitary conditiona have Improved
marve.lously on the American farm during
the last ten years, and these Improvements
are not going to cease?
Much remain to be done. President
Roosevelt recognises this fact, and has
called upon the men who are eminently
qualified for the important task he asks
tilem to perforoii
not Ml ABOt'T SEW YORK.
Hippies the t errrat ( I, He In the
Metro pells.
Mention as made In this column re
cently of the successful transfusion of
blood from a healthy husband to his wife
critically III In a Jersey City hospital. This
slk woman Is Mrs. Anna Bradley. The
hospital physicians demed transfusion the
only hope of saving the woman's life, and
nearly a pint of blood taken from Mr.
Bradley veins was forced Into her en
feebled circulating system. Beneficial re
sults wcte soon ooserved, becoming more
marked with each passing hour, and con
tinuing so steadily that Mrs. Bradley was
pfonounced out of danger four days after
the operation. Now comes the second
stsge of the operation developing results
more surprising to the physicians than the
woman' recovery. Mr. Bradley Is turn
ing into a man. A few weeks ago she wa
the most feminine of women, frail. In
tensely nervous, subject to fainting fits at
the least excitement, and literally "weak
a a woman." Today her nerves are as
unshakable as though they were wire
of steel, her muscles have hardened until
they are as firm as those of a man, and
as for fainting under the stress of any
kind of excitement. Mrs. Bradley herself
would be the first to laugh at the Idea.
The doctors declare that they can even de
tect a change In the timbre of Mrs. Brad
ley's voice, that It has taken on an un
mistakably masculine tone.
All this has been effected by the Infusion
Into the woman's veins of a large quantity
of man' blood. Relative who have vlited
at the hospital say that they would hardly
know her and that she appears more like
her younger brother, an athlete of some
reputation, than her former self.
Mrs. Bradley wants to leave the hospital
now, but the physicians are delaying her
departure as long as possible In order to
record the change that are being worked
in her. She dislikes the notoriety that her
case has entailed, but has agreed to sub
mit to it for a few day longer for the good
that It may do in furthering medical
knowledge.
The only explanation possible, accord
ing to the doctors, Is that the blood of
Patrick Bradley has so changed hi wife
that she has In rfhllty become a part of
him. The matter, which will be the sub
ject for discussion at the next meeting of
the Essex County Medical society, open
all manner of possibilities.
The husband in a strapping six-footer, a
strong, dark, remarkably virile man. An
athlete ull his life, he had never known a
day of serious Illness. Just as hta wife
was a typical example of womanly weak
ness, he was a type of the strong man.
No. 9 Wllloughby street, Brooklyn, will
continue to be an auction room, a it ha
been foi over thirty years, but as the
Wllloughby street auction room, the fam
ous political headquarter of the late Hugh
McLauxhlln, it haa passed Into history, re
ports tho New York Sun.
No. 9 gained its distinction more than a
generation ago, when Mr. Mclaughlin,
long the unquestioned boss of the Kings
county democracy, established his personal
headquarters there. The late Thomas F.
Kerrigan, the city auctioneer, owned the
building al the time and had his office
there. He was a close personal friend of
Mr. McLaughlin and the visit of the latter
to the auction room became so frequent
that by degrees the place became known
as his headquarter.
No political boss In the country had
more modest and unpretentious quarter
than were allotted to Mr. McLaughlin at
No. 9. The political sanctum was a single
back room on the first floor and the furni
ture consisted of half a doxen chairs, a
couple of benches and a couple of desks of
old fashioned type. There was no carpet
and tho floor and the walls were utterly
devoid Of pictures or decorations.
It was In this dingy room that the bos
met the big men from all over the country
who from time to time vialted Brooklyn
to consult with him, and It wa here that
he hejd hi daily consultations with his
lieutenant and planned his political battles.
Kermlt Roosevelt I to be the official
photographer with the president' party
on the African hunting trip. In prepara
tion for this Important work the young
man Is studying with Frank M. Chapman,
the ornithologist of New York City. The re
sponsibility, which will rest on Kermlt
shoulders will be heavy, for all his
father's accounts of his adventure are to
be illustrated. The president I anxious
to bring back photographs of rare African
birds and other animals taken In life for
several of the big museums. Including the
Smithsonian Institution at Washington, and
the American Museum of Natural History
here. The president was anxious to have
Mr. Chapman accompany him, but when
this was found-to be Impossible It wa de
cided that Kermlt shoukt get a complete
camera outfit and be trained In its use by
Mr. Chapman. Mr. Chapman is associate
curator of the Department of Ornithology
of the Museum of Natural History, and
haa made a study of the photographing of
birds and animals. Kermlt will have to
snap the birds on the hop, aklp and Jump.
A pair of king cobra from India, which
Curator Raymond Is. Dltmar says are
the most deadly of all known reptiles, are
two expensive new boarders at the Bronx
park oo. These cobra eat nothing but
live snakes. They usually eat two at a
meal. Live snakes cost the aoo manage
ment $1.60 even the most common species.
But these king cobra have eaten nothing
since they arrived, threee months ago.
Curator Ditmars and Keener ttnyder of
the reptile house will make an effort this
week to procure live snake for them.
The cobras which are fasting Just now
because of the lack of food snakes are
each about twelve feet long. They are
the most vicious In the collection and are
kept in a cage to themselves. Their long
fast seems to have had no effect upon them,
unless it Is to make them uglier than usual.
An old-fashioned English stonemason Is
employed In a yard in upper Hoboken to
chisel tombstones. He makes I3.48 a day,
as against 12.33 in the old country. He
lost his Job last week, and there wa
some protest, to which the manager re
plied: "He is a splendid workman, but
he is always getting us in trouble. Why,
the other day a party ordered a head
stone with this Inscription 'A Virtuous
Woman Is a Crown to Her Husband.'
You see, he wanted aomethlng for his
departed wife's grave. What do you sup
pose our Englishman did? The stone
being a little narrow, he contracted the
Sentence 'A Virtuous Woman la 6a to Her
Husband.' As we couldn't r t and the 6
Jhllling business we had to drop him."
Gedelle Zanderer of Avenue D, Brook
lyn, paid 7.t00 for a machine to make
money out of paper. It was a cheap let
ter press. The operator put a dollar bill
on the copying aheets. fed In a piece of
paper and pulled out another dollar bill
new and wet, which apparently proved that
It had Just been manufactured. When
Zanderer found that ho had paid nia sav
ings of years for a copying book and presa
he had the sellers arrested.
Worth a Passing; Thonght.
Washington Star.
Mr. Bryan's assertion that the republi
can leaders ought to fast In the wilderness
may rouse Nebraska to some inquiry a to
whether, aasuming that the aame advice
appllea to democrats, It is to be classed as
a wilderness, nd. If so, whether Mr. Brjan
lias been really fasting.
the hew nooevr.LT.
What the Prealdent Plane tn On nn
Retiring! frnsa Ofllre.
Part of letter giving a fresh and rn-
gsglng picture of Mr. Roosevelt, written by
one who recently visited the president, are
printed In the September American
magasine. Particular reference Is mad
to Mr. Roosevelt' future and his plans
for rest and recreation after retiring front
the White House. That part of the letter
follows: For the first time In my experi
ence of meeting him (President Roosevelt)
he seemed tired. He said everal times:
"Well, I'm through now. I've done my
work." His chief Idea seemed to be that
he wanted to get away out of the country.
"I want to get away o that when the
new administration come In my opinion
will not be asked, nor my advice nought.
If I talk, people will y that I am Inter
fering where I have no right to interfere.
If I refuse to talk, they will say that my
silence Is disapproval. The bM thing I
can do Is to go entirely way for a year or
more out of reach of everything here; and
that Is what I am going to do." He aatd
It was the last thing he would care to do;
to repeat Grant dvcnture. He had had
enough of public affairs; he wanted to be
alone and quiet.
He said he would like to meet William
of Germany If he could do It man to man,
but he could not think of attempting the
ceremonle incidental to a formal meeting.
The thing that attracted him most In
Europe was the Invitations of the king of
Italy and the emperor of Austria to go
hunting with them. He said he would like
to see how they did It tn the old countries
of Europe, but he felt that he could not
do this wlthdut attracting too much at
tention. He had concluded, therefore, to
go to the wilds of Africa, a thing he had
really long wanted to do, and to hunt big
game. He would sail as soon after March
4 aa possible, going from here to Italy,
there transhipping for the Suez and Italian
East Africa. Here he would take the
railroad which run Inland and Jump from
the end of It to the wilderness. Ill son
Kermlt will go with him. and, I
gathered, no one else, save, perhaps, a
secretary. He aald he wa looking for
ward to the recreation of the voyage and
to getting acquainted with hi son. "All
that country beyond Italy," he said, "wilt
be new to us both, and I look for great
pleasure In seeing It with a boy' eyes.
Kermlt will have hi book of poetry and
I'll have my hunting book. We shall have
a great time!"
I have never seen him In a more human
mood; nor have I ever been mora Im
pressed with his bigness and breadth.
Once when he said. "Well. I'm through,"
I suggested that the people might not be
through with hlrn, that four year hence
they might be clamoring for him more In
sistently than they are today.
"No," he said, with a curious finality,
a sort of sadness, a note which I never
before heard him strike, "revolutions don't
go backwards. New Issues are coming up.
I see them. People are going to discus
economic questions more and more; the
tariff, currency, banks. They are hard
questions, and I am not deeply Interested
In them; my problem are moral problems,
and my teaching haa been plain morality."
He Is certainly a very extraordinary char
acterabout the greatest of our time. Ho
ha the curlou flashes of genius, In which
he see himself truly more truly than any
one else doe. And I believe more than
ever before that he put aside a third-term
nomination, which he could have had at the
turn of hi hand, from the highest con
ception of hi moral obligation. I know,
from my talk with him last winter, that
he waa tempted almost to the point of
yielding, that the pressure had been
tremendous (far more than any ordinary
man could have resisted), but that he ha
asked himself simply, "What is right In
this matter?" and the thing he thought
right he ha done.
"FIGHTING BOB" IN RETIREMENT
BlnsT Old Sen Do Relieved of Active
Dnty.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
The American people can easily appre
ciate exactly how Rear Admiral Evans
feel today. They regret hi retirement
from the navy as much aa he doe. They
have become a accustomed to associating
him with the navy and the navy with him
aa he haa become to living on a battleship
and commanding men. It Is not disputable
that Admiral Evan 1 the widest known
and the mod familiarly known naval offi
cer. HI rugged strength, his stalwart
Americanism, his unembroldered common
sense, his bluntnesa of speech and hi pic
turesque personality have made him aa
attractive aa a man as hi courage and
ability hive made him admirable aa an of
ficer. He haa been the protagonist of the
navy. He has been the central figure of
the battleship drama. When he goes from
the acene it I like Hamlet dropping from
the dramatis persons of Shakespeare's
play. The navy without Bob Evans will
be strange to the American eye and Imag
ination. It wll be atrange to Bob Evana
himself. But what will be the strangest
of all to him 1 the thought of hi Hv.ng
placidly In retirement, In some unforllfl.d
home, standing upon the dry land of some
city or countryside.
Into hi retirement follow the affection
ate and grateful greetings of hi feilow
Americans, whom he ha served gallantly.
.PERSONAL NOTES.
A Swedish girl of 13 ha Just awakened
from a cataleptic fit lasting thirty-two
year. How old is Ann?
Governor Haskell of Oklahoma I writ
ing the Bryan songs. He need not care
who makes the laws, so long as he can do
this.
David Bennett Hill, former governor of
New York, la on a week' vlalt at Glen
cairn, where he I enjoying a quiet holi
day with Richard Croker, near Dublin.
The latter' visit to the United rHates has
been postponed until November.
Smoking a cigarette, a Jersey City youiitf
man opened the gasoline tank of a launch
In order to remedy a defect. He didn't
remedy the one he wa after, but his
own Intellectual defect were In some
measure corrected.
Working up from the bottom to
steamboat pilot Is the story of Mrs.
Wyllia Hulett. member of the steamboat
family of Beardstown, III., who was given
a pilot's license. Captain Archie Gordon,
United States Inspector of steamboats,
who examined Mrs. Hulett. aatd that she
made an exceptional showing In naviga
tion. Dr. James Augustus Henry Murray, one
of the great scholar of England, and
famous as editor of the Oxford New Eng
lish dictionary, hai been made a knight
by King Edward. Perey William Bunt
ing, editor of the Contemporary Review
who haa reached the age of 72, was also
made a knight on the king's recent Dlrth
day anniversary.
Borne victim of speed mania admit that
auto'sm frequently cut a pretty clip for
the poorhouse. The bigger the machine
the quicker the pace. Usually the road la
fairly tralght and smooth. But one
machine of the M.OuO class, with a party
of four, cut across lots. Jumped brook
by the aide of tho road, clearud a low tone
wall, and stopped abruptly on the front
porch of the town poorhouse In Connecti
cut. Inventors often Inpus human Intelli
gence into their device
f .4 M PAtU KIND.
Problem of t;ett flnenah tn Hits
the Machine.
Washington Post.
The expected h happened; and everyj
practical man knew It would the popula't
subscription to the deiuneraili iMmp1!! f"
f'lt.d, unfortunately entreated t-y the twi
candidate on the ricmocrttir national
tlcknt, hns dlii1rovlv failed. The Courier i
Journal could rslre but a mleralle t'i. ami
In one county in Kentucky that never
gave a republican nihjerlty or pluru'lly i '
democratic orean ra sed but a single ,.
and contributed that Itself.
Your sentimentalist and jour dre:-i -,- i
find place on the mump to spoil-bind an,'
wind-Jam, but when It ot.mc to gnth.-i :r: 4
together the boodle, thoy must give :n t.,
men of ffalts. In imf C-eneral fJ.r(ie,i
se light to carry lidlnna by puttl"r ti,e
campaign In charge of the hlerare) v cf
that Christian sect vulgarly failed ranif
bellltea, but Jav Hubbell would not li ir ..f
It. and rnt something less thit-i i,,
car full of 12 bills, and they did the l;f'.
ness.
The spontaneous donations bavin? proved
a disappointment. It Is now ri'T'ived to
iu I'meiieni means to mi ii,. ,-,ini-
palgn chest, and former Senator lVftu.,., v
and present Governor Hakell have b , n
consultation with the head of the u, k.M
to devise ways and means. Whether ti.e
limit of llfi.ooo ia to be abandoned, we
not advised.
But it matters not. so long ss It
provided that there was to be pihh.ii,
of no subscription under 1100. which nnr,.
allow Millionaire Wctmore to chip In i-uinv
times lio.ono If so Inclined. Mr. J.-m -s
Ouffey of Pennsylvania. It will be r. -called,
has contributed lino.oiO in cash-to
say nothing or certain stained-glass wln-dows-ln
behalf of Mr. Bryan. It would
be easy for Mr. Ouffey to contribute t,1V0
this year, and another IW.nco In block-) of
K In the names of ti0 of hW feow-ltl-lens.
The whole scheme is ridiculous in
his: It is based on the fallacy that a
rich man can have none but selfish Interest
In his country, while a poor man can hav. .
none but virtuous Interest In It.
A for the republican they ure practical
men without any nonsense. They know
that it takes money to run a nstlonal cam
paign, and their appeal Is to men who hnvo
money. Of course they will be aecus-d
of selling privilege for It.
But If the farmers should chip In, .n
Mr. Bryan Invites them, would he rec
ommend and advocate the repeal of th
olecomargarine Iniquity or promote the
effort to take the tariff tax off hides?
MERRY FLINGS.
"Then I laughed sardlnically, and"
"Hold on! You mean 'sardonlcallv.'
"I do not. Please remember that It was k
fish story I was laughing al. "-Philadelphia
Ledger.
The lawyer who made a bluff at a b'g
practice, turned hastily to part from his
companions.
"I am Borry. bnt I must go." he said,
hurriedly. I have a ease at home which
t iiiu.v aicuiu ia inn last aeiail.
I guess," said one of the party. "It's a
case of beer.' -JJaltlmore American.
Dumley a drumming up trade for a rope
and twine house now."
"Gee whiz! that accounts for It." I
"Accounts for what?'' 1
"l met him yesterday end he aked n.e it
Id have a cigar. He must have aiven I
Pre" amples."-phlladclphia ,
"Pop?"
"Yes, my son."
"What Is a harpsichord?"
'i!Krpich0Hd' my boy- ' an Instrument
which when heard make a man feel sorrv
that he ever said anything unkind abtU .
a plano."-Ycnkers Statesman.
"I lupnose you look for peace now that !
you have given your people a co.-ia.itu-tlon.
..N.ot. actly," answered the minar-h.
But It will give the lawyers something 1
to discus for a few genera; Ions. I have
at least started a dlftermt kind of an
argument." .Washington Star. I
"So you are going to Join another club""
Yea." answered the lonely citizen, -i d
rather get bill for due than not have the -
postman notice me at all." Chicago Rec- I T
ord-Herald.
Silllcus What do you consider is the
proper time for a man to marry?
Cynlcus Oh, I suppose when lie hasn't
anything else to worry him. Philadelphia
Record.
Roderick Dhu was about to apply th
bugle to hla lips.
then he hesitated.
"No!" he said, putting the Instrument
back In the case. "One blast on this horn
'Uttlng the Instrument ,
One blast on this horn I
d men. One thousand 1
e. which is trie l.gil I
e, are worth ,i.0i.ui. 1
toot U for nothing? I
ji wi u inousana
men. at as nn anu.
ana customary price.
........ - ... m'""m m IUUI 11 I III
nOt fn Villi I hlnAmlni. O . . .
f Or. O It DllHArvaH hlk . 1 , - I 1
ever exact It price' before the ler.orin
ance begins. Chicnao Tribune.
FATHER WILLIAM.
A. Thompson, In Chicsgo New.
You are old. Father William," the young
man cried,
"And your lock are fast passing swav
But I see you are still In the candidate
class.
Now, tell me the reason, I pray."
"In the day of my youth," Father Wil
liam replied. .
"A speech that I made was a hit.
Then a large bussing bee came and lodged
In my hat
I am till doing business with it."
"You are calm, Father William," the younu
man cried.
"You go smiling and atrong on your
way.
Your many defeat do not eem to strike
in,
Now, tell me the reason. I prsy."
"My little backsets," Father William re
plied. "I counted a all for the best,
For I'm growing each day In the eye of
the world.
And my conscience is ever at rest."
"Yqu are smooth. Father William," ths
young man cried,
"And you turn every knock to a boost.
Have you aald anything In the last dozen
years
That la likely to come home to roost?"
"In the last dozen years," Father William
replied.
"I have cried from the housetops for
truth.
And the things that come hot from my
little old press
Are truly a guide to the youth."
"You have hinted. I think," cried the
youth, with a smile.
"That U to 1 was the dope.
That without tt the country would go to
the dogs.
You were not mistaken. I hone?"
"In the daye of my youth," Father Wil
liam replied.
"I was trained In the culture of hav.
My fields are In need of my presence at
once.
So I'll have to get busy. Good-day."
Always Pure
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flavoring
Extracts
Vanm
Lemon
Orange
ftosn.tta,
for they are pure and reliab!
flavors; have always in purity
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