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STATEMENT OF C1RCTI.ATIOV
State of Nebraska. Douglas County ss:
George B. Toliurk. treasurer of The
Bee Publishing company, being duly wor"
savs that the actual numher of full ano
complete copies of The Dallv. Morning.
Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the
month of Jiilv. 1309, was aa ioij"
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. .48,00
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Returned copies
Net total
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9,838
; 1,883,419
41,388
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before me this 2d day of August. 19n.
(Seal) M. P. WALKER.
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mailed to them. Add pes will be
changed aa often aa reqaested.
Put it down that Taft day In Omaha
will be a big day.
The annexation microbe Is working
around Ihe edges of Omaha slowly
but surely.
Rubber prices are said to be advanc
ing by leaps and bounds. Naturally
that is the way rubber Jumps.
Congressman Norris of Nebraska
evidently expects no joy rides In
Speaker Cannon's new automobile.
It Is announced that King Edward
has dlstardeJ the high hat, from which
we inf'.r that the lid ia off in Great
Britain.
Anyway, "Bill" Oldham didn't treat
the Da 5il m an flea right when he failed
to start after they had staked their
money on h!ni for place.
A Kansas farm
bears the
slgn-Hun-
legenJ, "No hunting aloud."
ters should take notice and put the
new Maxim silencers on their guns.
Who says there is such a thing aa
retributive Justice when lightning kills
a base ball catcher and never touches
the umpire standing right behind him.
No Jokers have yet been discovered
In the Wright aeroplane, but then con
gress and the newspaper correspond
ents have been too busy with the tariff
Th World-Herald will not hesitate when
the occasion demands It to call a spade a
spado. World-11 era Id.
Why wait or hesitate? Are there
no democratic spades?
Gloucester, Mass., has been cele
brating its 286th birthday. If Glou
cester had come west to grow up with
the country It might be bigger than it
la.
Mrs. Besant asserts that a ghost ob
jected because she sat on It while rid
ing in a cab. After a survey of Mrs
Besant's photo we do not blame the
ghost.
When President Taft starts on his
summer vacation he should send
message of sympathy to King Alfonso,
who has something worse than con
gress on his bands.
The republic of Colombia has a new
president, but until It Is discovered
how much the former president, who
retired to Europe, left in the treasury
congratulations will be withheld.
The comet may be forgiven for the
hot, muggy weather, but If it is re
sponsible for the many violent crimes
committed In various parts of the
country of late It la going entirely too
far.
The prince of Saxe-Welmar-Klsen-acb
has been fired out of his Job be
cause he spent all his money and Is a
bankrupt. What's the matter with
marrying him off to an American heir
ess? Kong Edward reminded the czar
that he wag looking upon the greatest
war fleet in the world, but hoped there
aould never be any occasion for call
ng it Into action. Simply another
way of saying, "Speak softly, but carry
a big stick."
When ex-President Roosevelt and
the magaxlne for which he is writing
at $1 a word go to settle up there Is
oom for argument over the question
whether dld-dig is one word or two.
A Ue copy reader could save hU
alary by a free use of the hyphen.
The Tariff Law. j
The tariff bill haa finally passed the
legislative stage and become law by
the approving signature of the presi
dent. In response to public demand
for a revision of the Dlngley law,
which hag been la force for twelve
years, the president called a special
session to deal with the whole ques
tion and congress has been engaged at
It almost uninterruptedly since
March 15.
What to many seemed like a com
paratively simple problem, which could
be deponed of by the middle of June,
has proven one of the most difficult
legislative tasks In recent years. In
fact but for the Arm stand and Ju
dicious action of President Taft there
la no probability that a bill could bave
been passed which would bava been
reasonably satisfactory to the coun
try. The house had readjusted the
Dlngley rates while the senate bad
pursued Its policy a If quite Inde
pendent of and supe'Ior to the bouse.
The dominant features of the law, so
far as they affect the masses, are
neither of the house or senate bills,
but the compromise brought about In
rnnfArcnrn Ihrnitfh President TaftB
Influence.
Aside from the demands of each
section for ptotectlon to its special In
dustries, the general demand for re
duced duties was complicated ly a
treasury deficit and- the absolute
necessity of raising more revenue.
Such schedules as are now higher
than needed for protection govern for
the most part articles on which Im
portation Is heavy and the added rate
la a revenue one. Some concessions
have doubtless been made to aecure
votes necessary to pass the bill, as al
ways has occurred and probably al
ways will occur, no matter what party
attempts tariff revision, and the last
democratic tariff bill was the most
conspicuous example of the fact.
What stands out In the law more
prominently than any other one thing
Is that the rate reductions have been
made generally on the necessities and
the increases on luxuries. In spite of
he many and large decreases on
necessities the law Is expected to pro
duce $4,000,000 more revenue from
customs than the Dlngley law.
A Foul Thrust.
From a local newspaper account of
the last meeting of the Public Library
board at Lincoln we take the follow
ing paragraph:
'Oh. I wish someone would give us
something," enthusiastically exclaimed
Miss Joanna Hag-ay, city librarian. In re
counting her observations during bar recent
trip through the east with the national a.
soclatlon and her vlaita to the libraries of
many cities. She was telling of many ad
vantages which she had noted In the
libraries of other oltle. most of them es
tablished and endowed by generous and
public-spirited cltlien.
We respectfully invite the attention
of William J. Bryan, who has set up
claim to a protectorate over all public
Institutions In and around. Lincoln,
and suggest that here is a case calling
for immediate and- severe discipline.
To think that a lady-like city librar
ian should so far forget herself as to
cast sheep's eyes In the direction of
Rockefeller's oil-soaked money bags
and Carnegie's greed-gotten gold, and
to wish that some of this tainted
money might be showered upon Lin
coln's public library! What an un
pardonable sin.
Of course, the fact that the public
library at Lincoln is boused in a build
ing erected with money given by Mr.
Carnegie at the personal solicitation
of Mr. Bryan may have misled this
well-meaning young woman. But she
cannot have kept up with the times if
she is ignorant of the fact that Mr.
Bryan has since repented having
helped procure this library building
for his home town and has put himself
on record as against the distribution
of any more of Mr. Carnegie's wealth
within tbe boundartea of Nebraska.
She ought to know that so long as Mr.
Bryan exercises a censorious super
vision from his resting place at Fair
view tbe Lincoln library will not be
allowed to take anything from any
body unless it has first gone through
the ordeal of fire to test It for traces
of taint.
No More Connecticut Blue Law,.
The Connecticut blue laws have
passed away at a ripe old age, having
been born In 1772. When the colony
was first founded the Inhabitants "Re
solved, That this colony should be
governed by the laws of God until we
shall find time to make better." They
never found time to Improve them un
til 1772, the Connecticut Yankee be
ing too busy making wooden nutmegs
and other things.
People who never lived In Connecti
cut are doubtless unable to appreciate
fully wbat a change this repeal of the
blue laws will work. Tou can actu
ally carry In an armful of stovewood
on Sunday now without being liable
to arrest and Imprisonment. Possibly
if you were not too boisterous about li,
you might even swear on weekdays
when the grate falls down in tbe hard
coal stove on a cold morning. Under
the old law the things which you
could not legally do la Connecticut on
week days were so numerous that
space forbids mentioning them and on
Sunday tbe only safe course was to re
main in a mate of suspended anima
tion.
But, really, It Is ridiculous that laws
which no one ever tried to enforce for
generations and which, In fact, no
court would dare to enforce to the let
ter should have remained so long on
the statute books. Possibly the Con
necticut people know why, but it is
much to be doubted. Even when
originally adopted they were out of
harmony with the age and were only
oosslble In a colony founded by the
I r let eat churchmen and for 100 years
at least tbey have been a dead letter.
The only quality they have bad to
recommend them is the fact that they
were too old to work.
Helping- Worker, to Home.
Mrs. Russell Sage is preparing a
new departure In helping working
people of small Incomes to secure
homes of their own and also to rent
at a reasonable figure. The plan fol
lows closely the building and loan as
sociation Idea, except that it ia to be
made available to those who do not
have the amount for original Invest
ment required by these associations,
which protection of the other mem
bers rendera necessary.
The plan has behind it the correct
Idoa of helping people to help them
selves, and If it fails it will be because
It savors ao much of charity aa to un
dermine Industrial responsibility. An
other element of weakness is (hat the
houses are all to be built upon one
tract, thus segregating the beneficiaries
from their fellows, which haa always
proven distasteful wherever tried. So
far aa Mrs. Sage's plan contemplates a
practical charity It commends Itself
and certainly all will wish that It may
result in giving home to many people
who otherwise might always be wan
derers In habitation.
Mrs. Sage haa the money with which
to conduct the experiment and It Is
to her credit that she desires to use
the fortune In her care for uplifting
humanity. If the plan should prove
successful there Is no telling to what
extent It might ultimately be carried
and work a revolution in home owner
ship in cities and industrial centers.
Swedeni Serious Strike.
Among the last places In the world
in which one would expect a great
strike, particularly of a semi-polltlcal
nature, would be Sweden, yet that
country Is now In a chaotic condition,
owing to a fairly general and con
certed strike. The Swede as a rule
is patient, Industrious, frugal and law
abiding, both at home and In this
country, to which thousands of Swed
ish people have come. Sweden has al
ways been fairly prosperous and un
usually so considering the natural re
sources. Industrially it has developed
greatly during the last few decades
and with this industrial expansion has
come a greater social change than sur
face Indications make apparent, other
wise no such great labor upheaval as
now exists would be possible.
The Swede is of different mould
from the Frenchman and the Spaniard,
and in spite of the alarming reports
no such scenes as those In Barcelona
or those which recently occurred in
the French cities during the postal
strike are to be expected. If the Swed
ish workman really has a deep
founded grievance, he Is more likely to
secure redress, for what he lacks in
fire he more than makes up in persist
ence. It is sot conceivable, however,
that anything will occur to overturn
me existing eweaisn government or
even impair its hold with the people.
Partisan Nonp&rtisansnip.
Our amiable democratic content
porary has discovered another non
partisan Issue confronting the people
of Nebraska In this Impending off
year campaign. The democratic state
platform not only appeals for votes
for democratic candidates under pre
tense of nonpartisaDship, but it also
embodies several planks of decidedly
democratic complexion, including an
Initiative and referendum plank. Our
democratic contemporary -insists that
certain "special Interests" are opposed
to direct legislation, and It, therefore,
supplements its invitation to vote for
democratic candidates as nonpartisans
with a second Invitation to vote for
them as democrats in order to rebukb
the "special Interests" for whom the
late democratic legislature kindly
killed off this very same Initiative and
referendum. According to the rules of
the bunco game, democrats who are
nonpartisans are asked to vote against
the republicans because they are re
publicans, and democrats who are par
tisans are asked to vote for none but
democrats because they are democrats.
This Is nonpartiaanship as Is non
partisanship.
Omaha people have Just had an In
terestlng object lesson In newspaper
making. One of our amiable local
contemporaries, presumably quite by
mistake, announced In its morning Is
sue the date of President Taft's forth
coming visit to Omaha as September
SO Instead of September 20. The Bee
had the date correct in Its morning
issue, and yet this mistake was not
corrected, but was carried through
subsequent afternoon editions of the
paper referred to. Not only that, but
the afternoon pirate sheet, which daily
steala Its news with the scissors, got
hold of tbe wrong paper and repro
duced the wrong date Instead of the
right one. If anyone needs further
elucidation we will draw a diagram.
The city authorities have a perfect
right to exact compensation from
abutting property owners for the use
of street and alley apace for private
purposes. But the f.lty cannot make
fish of one and flesh of another. What
ever plan may be adopted must be
general and uniform and play no fa
vorites. Another thing in this con
nection the city has a good deal
more to gain from encouraging sub
stantial building Improvements that
add to the assessment roll of taxable
property than by a penny wise and
pound foolish policy that would block
legitimate private enterprlae.
If you are good at solving pussies,
here Is where you can help out the
New York police, who are searching
for the owner of a valise which con
tained money, diamond ring, ahUky,
a box of cigarettes, a New Testament,
pictures of an actress, playing cards
and some dainty French lingerie. The
police usually bave a plausible theory,
but this collection stumps them.
Officers of the franchlsed corpora
tions subject to the newly imposed oc
cupation tax are reticent as to what
they will do about paying up. Tbey
will have until the first quarterly pay
ment is due to decide on their course.
In the mean time a re-reading of the
decision of the supreme court In ffie
Lincoln occupation tax cases may help
them some.
Members of the Indianapolis city
council were mobbed because of an al
leged attempt to pack the primary
boards with partisans of a nonpartisan
combine. ' Indianapolis voters are
more sensitive than they have been In
Omaha.
Aotor Nat Goodwin was arrested for
scorching while hurrying to meet his
wife In an automobile. The report
should eay whether he was In a hurry
to beat out another divorce suit or
merely In a hurry to keep an engage
ment. Mayor Busse of Chicago has under
taken to promote his private secretary
to the vacancy In the office of chief of
police. If Mayor "Jim" should pro
mote his private secretary to the office
of chief of police he would start a
new departure.
Because a Massachusetts woman In
her will left 110,000 to care for her
two dogs and $2,000 for her husband
she should not be misjudged. Quite
possibly the husband was a better
hustler than the dogs.
If any surplus official ballots re
main after our coming primary elec
tion in Douglas county, they should
be sold to hotel keepers who want to
comply with the nine-foot bed sheet
law.
President Taft Is reported to be
heartily in favor of the good roads
movement. That was to be expected,
for he has been traveling over gome
rough places of late.
Gas Bag; Agjltatloa.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The effeot of th Zeppelin balloon on a
part of English Journalism only proves
that even a gasbag can frighten anybody
who was born to b scared.
Blestest Fish Get A war-
Brooklyn Eagle.
Four small boys .were arrested the other
day for gambling within the very Shadow
of the Stock exchange. The majesty of
the law must be vindicated at all hazards,
even at the risk of ridicule.
Something; of a Flatore.
New York Poet.
Some optimist conclude that Bryan will
not again run for the presidency, as he
declares that he means to be "a fixture
In Nebraska." Bullae,' always seems t,oo
much Ilk a fixture when he thinks he la
running for the presidency.
Hla Shot Coant.
Cleveland Leaden
Theodore Roosevelt Is beginning to take
part in a good many human activities In
Africa, aside from hunting. After all,
there's no game for him like shooting his
idea and hi plana Into the lea alert and
active minds of hi fellow men.
Revised Ejaculation.
Washington Star.
John D. Rockefeller saye the American
people eat too much. Such sentimenta in
spire a acorn which the recognized vo
cabulary cannot express. Such words a
"balderdaah," "tommyrot" and "punk" ara
feeble. Pardon the ejaculation "Oh,
petrol 1"
Mlataken Enterprse.
Baltimore American.
A man from the west went lately to New
Tork and tried to sell a gold brick there.
He failed, for the simple reason that Is
was a real gold brick, actually worth all
th money h asked for It. Had It been the
traditional kind, he could have diapoaed of
It at a premium, and the moral thereof 1
too self-evident for formal statement.
Farther Teata Desirable.
New Tork Tribune.
The apparent success of the govern
ment's experiments with Innoculatien
againat typhoid fever, made on three
soldier at Omaha, will encourage others
to adopt th same measure of protection:
but additional teata, to confirm the evi
dence and determine the length of time
for which the treatment will afford Im
munity, are desirable.
Worth.? of the Honor.
Army and Navy Journal.
The menu card of the dinner given at
Omaha, Neb., to the pioneer of that city
had an excellent likeness of General Charles
Frederick Manderaon, who served during
the civil war In all gradea up to that of
brigadier general, and after the war re
moved to Nebraska, which state he repre-
aented In the United State senate from
1882-K. during which he was pro tern presi
dent of the senate. No man In Nebraska
la held In higher honor than General Men
der son, and no on la more worthy of
honor.
WITH FACES t'OrNTRYWAHD,
Popalatoa Tarnlng from the Cities to
th Land.
E. B. Powell in Outing Magazine.
The country Is gaining on the city stead
ily, but not fast enough; and the reason
Is Just this one of Ignorance. The schools
are doing all they can to epoil farm boys,
giving them all sorts of information except
about what conatltutes farm life. In this
way the beat of them are tumbled Into
the city chaos, and it is hard work to
counteract this drift, and locate th tl red
out city folk in gardens. We are gaining,
however, and the percentage of Increase
of population that faces countryward is
double that of 1890.
Huge cltiea are no longer needed. We do
not need to concentrate wealth or to use
It in the bulk. We have got our huge en
terprises that required syndicate and
trusts, off our hands; and now the great
problem la to secure a mora equable distri
bution of the wealth we have acquired. We
must alao vastly Increaae our production
in order to feed the enormously growing
population; and at least one-half of our
nonproducera. who now make tip what Is
called the laboring class, and a Kod many
of the capitalist as well, must h? got into
a position where they tan rreate food for
themselves and add to the bl suipKif
uttUed fur others.
Won't Be Put Out
Deaoon aTsmphlll Offera a Tew
Prayerful memarks for the Bene
fit of Coloael Bryan and Others-
Charleston News and Courier tdem.V
In the last number of The Commoner,
of which William J. Bryan la editor and
proprietor, he seeks to asperse the democ
racy of the News and Courier, and some
of the nailers after the great Nebraskaii
have In consequence extended to us either
the cold comfort of their sympathy or
visited upon us the more grateful largess
of their censure. Moved and Instigated by
the Indianapolis News. Mr. Bryan tell
the editor of that paper that he
"ought to know that the Charleston
News and Courier Is not an exponent of
democratic Ideas. It calls Itself democratic
without being' democratic, Just as some
legislators call themselves representative
when they are mlsrepreeentatlvee. Th
democratic Idea of representative govern
ment does not mean that the representa
tive shall efface himself; It meens that he
shall keep faith with those from whom
he derives power; but If the representative
has to choose between effacing himself and
effacing his constituents he had better ef
face himself,"
and so on, and so on.
We have high authortlty for saying that
"a platform can only bind those who run
upon it." In 1K92 the national democratic
convention nominated Grover Cleveland for
president. One of the planks In the plat
form of the party that year was an un
equivocal declaration for the repeal of the
10 per cent tax on state banks. Two years
later, or to be exact, In June, 1891, William
Jennings Bryan, then a member of the
houce of representatives, voted with the
republicans against the repeal of this tax,
although the democratic platform upon
which Mr. Cleveland had led the party to
victory demanded Its repeal. Not only did
Mr. Bryan vote with the republicans
against the repeal of this tax, but he spoke
against It, saying among other things: ,
"It has been stated that every democrat
la in duty bound to vote for the repeal of
the state bank tax because of the plank
relating to that subject adopted by the last
democratic national convention. A plat
form can only bind those who run upon it."
In explanation of his course Mr. Bryan
said ha was nominated for congress before
the adoption of the platform, had repudi
ated It In the campaign, and, besides, the
democrats In his district were not In favor
of the repeal of this lax. This Incident In
the political career of Mr. Bryan was used
recently to very good account by Senator
Simmons of North Carolina in reply to
Mr. Bryan' Impertinent criticisms of hi
course on the lumber question. In 1892
Senator Simmons was stale chairman of
th North Carolina democracy, and for
most of the time since that year he haa
been the official head of the party In hi
state. Talking to H. E. C. Bryant of the
Charlotte Observer, whose pen name is
"Red Buck," (a very excellent brand of
corn whisky, by the way, which used to
be sold at Raleigh.) Senator Simmons said
about Mr. Bryan and his criticism of the
senator's course:
I have not led the party Into any plt
faljs and I have alwaya let it to victory.
I have followed Mr. Bryan for twelve
years, and always to defeat and disaster.
During that time we have had more than
once to utterly repudiate his teachings and
preachment to save the party from disas
ter and ruin.
Of course, we do not know what posi
tion Mr. Bryan will take next; he keeps
us guessing all the time as to what we
should do or should not do to keep in
touch with him. His double wabble on
political questions would confuse even the
elect. We reprint today what Mr. Bryan
says In The Commoner on the subject of
the majority and the minority, and on this
question he appears to be entirely at va
riance with the theory upon which our
government Is founded. There are. aa he
says, two kinds of government govern
ment by the majority and government by
the minority. As a matter of fact, th
government of this country Is largely a
government of the minority, else why is It
that the states as such are equally repre
sented in the highest legislative branch of
the government, namely. In the United
States aenate, not according to population,
or majority, to express It In another way,
but by the states themselves as well de
fined political entities. We have long
since rejected, particularly In this part of
the country, the doctrine of universal man
hood suffrage, and, by the same token, the
doctrine of government by the majority
Tet wa allow this political fakir to vote
against the repeal of the 10 per cent tax
on atate banks, although that repeal wa
demanded by the platform of the national
democracy, and cotton to his sentiment
that because free lumber Is demanded in
the platform which he formulated for th
party It Is treason to the party to exercise
upon the acceptance of this doctrine the
right of private Judgment precisely the
right which he asserted for himself when
he found himself In antagonism to the de
mands of his own party's platform.
And now comes the New Tork World
with mischief-making comment upon Mr.
Bryan'a repudiation of The New and
Courier, eaylng:
If Mr. Bryan is going to read any more
democrats out of the party we are glad he
has turned his attention to the south,
where there are votes to spare. In the
north so many democrats have been read
out of the party that they have ceased to
exst in many sections, and survive else
where only through the benevolence of the
republicans In establishing a closed season.
We can understand what that means.
The World evidently wlshea to encourage
Mr. Bryan In hi repudiation of The News
and Courier, and we shall not submit with
out a moat vigorous proteat. Have we not
nominated Mr. Bryan for the presidency In
1912, In 1918. In 1920. and shall we be de
prived of the privilege of supporting this
great tribune of the people for the office
for which he is In no way fitted, simply
because he does not think that The Newa
and Courier I "an exponent of democratic
Ideas?" May we not say to him as Ruth
said to Naomi: "Kntreat me not to leave
thee, or to return from following after
thee; for whither thou goest I will go?"
Shake up now ? Not a bit of It If we can
help it. Mr. Bran. We do not like your
democracy. Indeed, we do not believe that
you ever were a democrat, but our party
hta plsced upon you the seal of its ap
proval for many year, and we are going
to atlck to you to the last. Pray God th
last may come speedily.
. Serarlty In Travel.
New York World.
Chief Stone of the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers call atte-ntion, in the
World Today Magaxlne. to the fact that
"of every 100 men who became firemen,
only seventeen are ever made engineeia,
and that out of every 100 englneera, only
alx ever get passenger runs." They are
picked men who stand at the throttle.
Vet the provision for security In travel Is
only a strong as the weakest head that is
concerned with a train dispatcher' mes
sage, the most careleaa hand that throws
a switch or Ihe brain made moat weary
by an hours-of-work schedule omitting
hours of sleep.
Mllo I'roteat.
New Tork World.
If the Indian had to go from the cent
piece no other head could so appropriately,
be substituted as Lincoln's Tet the most
modest of presidents' would have been the
first to protest against the removal of the
traditional Hkenesa ' 'he noble red man
fiotn the Americau coinri
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LAW AS AX EXACT SCItiNlB.
Fletloaa fteatlngj on the Ahsardeat of
Legal Assumptions.
Kansas City Star.
A court trial Hi progress was a suit tor
damage for personal Injuries. The lawyer
for the plaintiff took from a satchel a glass
Jar containing a segment of bone that had
been removed from his client's Injured arm.
The eyes tf Ihe twelve Jurymen were at
tracted to th jar. Being of transparent
glass It had the properties of transparent
glass and could be seen through. The
Jurors saw the bone It contained. So did
the Judge. "Mr. Counsel put a paper
around that object," he said to the lawyer.
"It I not gdmlaslble In evidence."
The fiction of the law was that while the
Jurors wouia nave Been aentlmentally af-
fected, to th Injury of the defendant, If
they had seen a section of the plaintiff s
humerus, yet they had not seen It because
the Judge said they should not, though
they had.
Lawyers rest all such fictions on the
absurdest of all legal assumptions, that the
law and Its administration are an exeut
science. They would have the vital, flex
ible thing which the law must be. if It Is
In accord With life, ossified Into algebraic
formulas. From this arises the preponder
ant weight given to technicalities over liv
ing relatives. That la what gives pow-er to
a dead precedent to reach out from the
grave of past generations and discourage
or arrest the natural growth of society.
The fiction of the law as an exact science
would put every lawyer out of business if
It were a reality, lor the law would, in
such case, work automatically.
AIRSHIPS AS TARGETS.
Considerable Kew Baalnefc Coming;
to Artillerists.
Philadelphia Record.
Wright made over forty-two miles an
hour. Zeppelin' latest voyage was much
longer, but at the leisurely gait of twenty
one miles an hour. A sub-committee of the
Imperial defense committee of England has
reported In favor of rigid dirigible balloons
for th navy and non-rigid for the army.
Th committee thinks th aeroplane must
be able to ascend to a much greater height
than at preaent haa been achieved before
It will be saf for reconnoitring purposes.
Wrlght'a aeroplane la about thirty-six feet
long. An object of that alse moving at
forty-two mites an hour, even If no more
than 600 feet above the earth, would bo
a very hard target to hit, while Count
Zeppelin airahlp, several hundred feet
long and nearly a hundred In diameter,
moving at twenty-one mile an hour, at a
great height would seem almost stationary
from the earth and would present a target
so large it could hardly be missed. It is
also Important to remember that the nearer
the earth the aviator flies the better lie
can see th things he la looking for.
PERSONAL NOTES.
The New Tork Hotel Men' association
has contributed 1100,000 to the Hudson cele
bration fund. Th Half Moon Is for t!i
crowds, but th harvest moon must be full.
A prominent Georgian who disguised him
self as a negro and attempted the abduc
tion of a girl must serve a year on the
chain gang, an ordeal extremely embarrass
ing to a sensitive person.
New Tork detectives, In trying to extort
a confession from a supposed murderer,
secured a woman to play the "ghost" of
th viotim. Her groans drove the prisoner
almost insane, but he did not oonfess.
A white man has sued a Chinese for
alienation of the affections of the former's
wife. She had been a missionary In Phil
adelphia's Chinatown. On more seems to
have been added to the list of race prob
lems. Governor Stubbs of Kansas, who will be
a candidate for renomtnatlon next year,
may be opposed by former Governor W. E.
Stanley, whose friends are urging him to
enter the race. Since retiring from the
governorship Mr. Stanley has been prac
ticing law In Wichita.
Over 25,000 licenses have already been is
sued In New York to prospective deer hunt
ers, although the season does not open until
September. The atate expects to obtain
more than $200,000 from hunters' fees, this
year, which would double Ihe record for
lo.
Mis Harriet Ward, great-granddaughter
of General Artema Ward, who was thv
first major general of the continental army
In the American revolution, next In com
mand to Washington, died In the old Ward
homestead In Shrewsbury, Mass., from
cancer of the stomach. She was OS yeark
old.
Henry Weldenbach, artist, serving a term
of four years In the Ohio penitentiary for
grand larceny, la to ge over the atate houae
In Columbus under the guard of an official
and redecorate some of the valuable oil
paintinga there. Governor Harmon and
Adjutant General Weybrecht have said that
they consider Weldenbach a thoroughly
competent artist to do the work.
A taxicab in New York was deliberately
driven over two pedestrians who were doing
their best to escape. One of them was fa
tally injured. The passenger in the cab
were four women who laughed gaily and
threw kisses at the pursuing policemen.
All ef them got away, the police having
shown a strange delicacy as to shooting
them.
Eugene Clarke, long known as a lead
ing tenor with Clara Louise Kellogg, died
In New York from diabetes. Hhe was 57
yeara old. Mr. Clarke appeared in the
original production of "Pinafore" as the
Captain, with Thomas Whlffen as the
Admiral, under the management of Wil
liam Henderson. At the time of his death
lie was connected with Ihe Tenement
House commission.
The fortunes of hundreds will lie In llm
Innocent hands of Harriet Post. 12 years
old, daughter of Attorney Frank T. Post
of Spokane. Miss Post haa been selected
by Judge Jamea W. Whitten. superlniend
ept of the registration and drawing for
the Spokane, Flathead and Coeur d'Alene
lands, to draw out the envelopes of alie
applicant for th Spokan allotment.
Bayard Stockton, who presided at the
Fourth of July celebration at Princeton
this year, told of a conversation h had
with Grover Cleveland shortly before the
ex-presldent died- "Mr. Cleveland." lie
said, "made th statement that he thought
the Declaration ef Independence should he
read In every town of the United Statea at
Uast once every year, to make the rising
generation more rvtrtotlc and to keep the
older ones more mindful of their privilege."
f IPJt,....lI CZZZ: In., I
TRIFLES LIGHT AS AOL
"That fellow seems lo be extravagant."
"Hopelessly. Ppenrts his own money Just
as If It were the government a." Kansas
City Journal.
"I notice." said the knight of the road
to his weary companion, "there Is one
thing they have neglected to put on the
tariff schedules."
"What la that?" asked the assoelatt
hobo.
Free lunches' Baltimore American.
'Hiram. I hop you' didn't gamble w hen
you were In that wicked xvew iora.
Well, jest did. mother, i pisyen ons
o' them denied slot machines until I bet
It clean out of gum, by gosh." Boston
Transcript.
"He's a nice chap to take a girl fishing
I must sav."
"Why. what did he do?"
"He fished." Louisville Courier-Journal.
"Did you tell that photographer you
didn't want your picture taken?"
'Yes," answered the eminent but un
comely personage.
I 'Id he take offense 7"
"No. He said h didn't blame me."
Washlngton Star.
"Did youf cross-examination elicit nj
Important Information?" asked the Junnu
member of the law firm.
"Nil." answered the energetic attorney
"I didn't expert It to. It was merely a
conscientious effort to worrv the witness
and make my client feel that he Was get
ting something for his money." Washing
ton Star.
Judge How did the trouble begin?
Witness It began, yo' lions h. when de
ehalrman of de entertainment committee
swatted de secretary over de hald wlf de
lovar cup. Boston Trahscrlpt.
"Say, maw, do I look like youf
"Why, yes. Willie. I think there Is a re
semblance. Why do you ask?"
" 'Cause when Mr, Plpton fald his cigar
down on the porch rail. I took it up an'
smoked it, an' he said I had your eyes,
maw, an' your nose, an' your chin an'
paw's nerve!" Cleveland; Plain Dealer.
Drummer Is there a stationery store at
Crow Bend?
Slage Driver I couldn't say. pard, that
you'd find anything stationary at Crow
Bend, because they have a twister Jn them
parts 'most every day what starts things
movln'. but she's lively, and I'm shore
you'll like the plsce. -kludge.
MIDSUMMER.
John Townsend Trowbridge.
Around thla lovely valley rise
The lurple hills of paradise.
O. softly on yon banks of bare
Her rosy face the Summer lays.
Becalmed along the axur sky
The argosies of cloudland He.
Whose shores with many a shining rift.
Far off their pearl-white peaks uplift.
Through all the long midsummer day
The meadow-sides are sweet with hay.
I aeek the coolest sheltered seat
Just where the field and forest meet
Where grow the pine trees tall and bland.
The ancient oaks austere and grand,
And frlngy roots and pebbles fret
The rlpplea of the rivulet. , .-.
I watch the mowers aa they go
Through the tall grass, a whlte-sleevel
row;
With even stroke their scythes they swing
In tune their merry whetstone ring:
Behind the nimble youngsters run
And toss the thick swaths In the sun:
The cattle graxe- while, warm and still.
Slopes the broad pasture, basks the hill.
And bright, when summer breezes break.
The green wheat crinkles like a lake.
The butterfly and bumble bee
Come to the pleasant woods with me;
Quickly before me rise the quail.
Her chickens skulk behind the rail.
High up the lone wood pigeon alts.
And the woodpecker pecks and flits,
Sweet woodland music sinks and swells.
The brooklet rings its tinkling bells.
The swarming Insects drone and hum,
The patrldge beats the throbbing drum,
j The squirrel leaps among the boughs,
Ana emmers in nis leary nouse.
The oriole flashes bv; and. look!
Into the mirror of the brook.
Where the vain bluebird trims his coat.
Two tiny feathers fall and float.
Aa silently, as tenderly.
The down of peace descends on me.
O, this la peace! 1 have no need
Of friend to talk, of bock to-read:
A dear Companion uere abides;
Close to- my thrilling heurt he hides;
The holy silence In his voice;
1 He end listen, and rejoice.
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