Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 7, 1900, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. ——__,EA ll‘»lk:\)‘_A‘l‘),l;T,J-Lw i PUBLISHED EVERY MO NINC STION Year 8 r [ TERMS OF SUBSCH ally Bes (without Sunday), Qne aily Bee and Bunda oune llustrated Bee, On Year unday Bee, One Year aturday Bee, One Year Weekly Bee, One Year OFFICE Omaha: The Beo Bullding Bouth Omaha: City Hall Bullding, Twen- Iy-fifth and N Streets, Council Bluffs: 10 Pearl Street. 1640 Unity Building ork: Temgle Court uhln’mn 1 Fourteenth Street. x City: 611 Park Street CORREBPONDE Communications relating to news and editordal matter s#hould be addressed Jmahs Bee, Editorial Department BUBINESS LETTERS Business letters and remittances should be addressed: The Bee Publishing Com- pany, Omaha. REMITTANCES Remit by draft, express or pos avable to The Bee Publishing ( nly 2-cent atamps aceepted in pavment of mi ACCO s Personal checks, except ¢ Omaha or Eastern exchanges, not accepte THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY SBTATEMENT OF CIRCULATION hraska, Douglas County schuck, retar Thi mpany, being duly &w actual mber of of Dally printed as fo CEB. Publishing says that the omplete coples Tvening und Bunday the month of July, Th Be 1900, Morning during Losses 27 san o 27510 27320 26,010 27,390 27,500 27 480 26,700 2 27,520 a7 . 27,450 27,650 27,010 27,620 v 27,310 20,73 oeis 27,500 850,055 | 12,278 Total Less unsold and re.urned coples Net total sales Net dally average B Bubscribed and sworn to 3t day of July, 190, M me this B._HUNGATE, Notary Pubiic. O ————————— PARTIES LEAVING FOR SUMMER, Parties leaving the coity for the summer muy have The Hee ment (0 them The person o The address will be changed often ax desired. ms to » much frequency. The renewed activity in Omaha real estate means that investors still kuow a good thing when they see it —_— Mr. Bryan hus started east again, but he does not have to go so far this time to reach “the enemy's countr The aged LI Hung Chang may nearing his end, but he has not taken a ticket over the suicide route, yet A few more double-shotted, double column appeuls for democratic hurn, In Douglas county are again in order, Another sign of prosperity: The in creasing number of picnies and the in creasing number of people who attend them. —_— It is to be noted that all Nebraskans who have returned from European tours express the utmost satisfaction on get- ting back to thelr homes, As usual, Sunduy is agaln the chosen day for the fighting In the Orient. 1t will be remembered that it was the same duriug the war with Spain. It is to be hoped there will be a large crowd at the Bryan meeting at Indian apol It would be a shame to inflict an 8,000-word speech upon a handful of people. A German naval officer is going in search of the north pole. No confid 1s violated In stating that there is no ovidence it is secreted fn this vicinity Just at present. No fusion in Alabama. Democrats are ready to divide the places on the ticket with populists only In states like N braska, where the populists furnish the bulk of the vote Democrats will have a hard time of it explaining why the brown man in the Philippines is entitled to more considera tion than they are showing the black man in this country. Kansas people have solved the prob lem of elevating the saloon by placing dynamite under them. Such ammuni- tion, however, should hardly be needed in a righteous cunse, All those commercial travelers laid off in the mind’s eye by the trusts has only increased the numbe rallway mile- age books sold to the traveling Facts speak louder than fiction The United States will not find fault with Japan's decree prohibiting the eml gration of Japanese to this country. But it trusts the rule will not be applied the other way to keep Awericans out of Japan. tending to show that the reports of pros perity are a myth they should see the Colorado train robbers. Times tainly must be hard when two sleeping cars yield ouly $20, The building inspector should insist upon the coustruction of a fire wall be tween the domiclles of the factions of the democratic party. With the tem. perature mounting so high, a disastrous conflagration is likely to break out at any time unless precautions are The statistical exhibit of comparative business transacted in Omaba during the months of July, 1900, and July, 1808, is a revelation of progress and pros perity. The expansion of Omaha bank clearings, postoffice receipts and tax collections reflects an expausion of gen eral business In every branch of local ritory men, | [ bis reason for this view being that “sub 1t democracy Is looking for interviews | | the general business of the country, the tade and commerce, NEW PROBLEMS--NEW SOLUTIONS. | The principal stock in trade of the popoct eritles of President MeKinle, and the republican pe be aws and learned the quotation of wise *i n who have figured in the opinions from the of distinguished prominently at s perlods history of the republic Coplous excerpts are prod ove or disprove that Thomas an expansionist or that Andrew Jackson belleved in government by force. Citations from the messages of Abraham Lincoln are held up to show on the band that he believed men | had an inalienable right of self-govern ment and upon the other hand that he forced the erring states to remain in the unfon without their consent and agalust The history of the co try is bei ped to find expressions of men whose names carry authority in support of the contentions of one or the other in today's political cc All this is undoubtedly interestin instructive und educationally stimulat ing, particularly to those thus led t brush the story of the nation's career. it t not be forgotten that th on of statesmen and pub lie men reference va Ty 1ced on both 1os to § vas or their dissent slde tost and up on But Is always taken with special | to the problems by which they | are confronted at a particular time Whether Jefferson would be for or against the ition of the Philippl it he were now whether Jackson would today advocate or oppose a stand Ing of 100,000 whether Lincoln would object to or advise the relinquishment of any part of the ter now under our national Ity — st pure guesswork. On contrary, must recognize that new conditions and new problems have arisen mever before presented in their present form, and these problems must met and solved by the enlightened statesmanship of the present-day It is the progressive policy pursued by Prestdent McKinley and the reactionary policy advocated by Mr. Bryan and the Kansas City platform between which the people must choose. Before making this choice they should have all the light possible that will enable them to uct wisely. Yet when it comes to deciding through the ballot on election day it will be the Judgment of the present genera tion that must determine whether the country shall continue on its forward march or reverse its course | by taking the backward path, | ot alive men army or sover be the we of voters ANNOT ESCAPE IT. The democrats cannot escape the fuct that the election in North Carolina was | carried by terrorism and intimidation. It is true that there were no serious disturbauces on the day of election, but this s explained by the fact that the | armed “red shirts™ ompletely overawed the opposition to the disfran chising amendment. 8o violent this element that two of its represent atlve men, one & member of congi and the other the mayor of Wilmington, declared it to be the duty of the white men to expel United States Senator But- ler from the state. There we many counties in the eastern portion of the state where the opponents of the amend ment were not allowed to address the people. Referring to this the New York Even- ing Post sald: “The spectacle we have witnessed during the past ten days, of a senator of the United States practi- cally denied the right to defend the con stitution of the United States by public speech, and threatened with personal violence when he made the attempt to do so. would have been looked upon & few years ago as the beginning of a new rebellion and as a cause for taking up arms to maintain the unlon of the states and the results of the civil war. Now the affair is looked upon very much as a matter of course.” It I time, Lhow. ever, that vright-thinking and fair- minded men took a more serious view of it. The brutal course of the North Carolina democrats must not go un rebuked. was THE MEN BEHIND HIM. Thoughtful and conservative men are beginning to into serious considera- tion the question as to what sort of an adwinistration the country would have, in the event of the tion of Mr. Bryan, in view of the character of some of the men who are supporting him and from among whom it is reasonably ex pected he would select his cabinet and ill other important positions in the gov- erument. 1t Is & question that demands ul consideration. In a communication to the New York Evening Post, Mr. Charles Francis Adams, who is an “anti-imperialist, remarks that when the eircle of Mr. Bryan's political intimates is reviewed the result is not markedly reassuring. “Phe most conspicuous among them,” says Mr. Adums, “so far as the public is advised, are Mr. Croker of New York, jovernor Altgeld of Illinols and M. porge Fred Willlams of Massachusetts, and it would be difficult to name a single wan in the whole ‘gang’ who elevate level to which those | Kausas City assem bluge.” Another contributor to the sume paper und an opponent of “im perlalisin,” exprosses the opinion thut Bryan and his cabinet would in aull | probability make a fearful mess of it, cal the mass above th three reduce the stantially all the men of character, ex perience and ability have been driven from the Bryanized democracy and it is certain that the whole civil service of the country would be demoralized and departments at Washington, the post offices, custom houses and internal ey enue offices would be woetully misman | aged.” Still another among the “anti imperialists,” who questions whether Mr. Bryan has “the proper mental cquip ment to be the chicf maglstrate of this great republic,” is of the opinion that if olected Bryan “would bring into power sueh men as Altgeld, Tillman, Towne, | Fred Willlams and other ous doctrinaires.” There can no doubt of this These men would necessarily be among the advisers of Mr. Bryan, not only be- cause of the paramount claim they have upon him, but also for the reason that lie would be compelled to wake up bis George & be | many, | which | be | ought to be no gre THE OMAHA dministration from Conservatlve men il have no use Whitney of New Massachusetts, for exa would from Mr. Bryan counsel for men of this class who gave charncter party In the he for. Such men as York Olney nocrat past and iple, got He ussist no recognition look for fn administering the affairs of the government to tl above and the other wild and who in the nization would and reckless men are lenders Bryanite It pertinent most . im portant, therefore, to ask what Kind of un administration the country would have under the control of men Would It er confidence at home and abroad? Would it maintain the friendly relations of the United States with the rest of the world? Would it national — pro and prosperity Would it fncrease American influence? Is there not reason to fear, on the con trary. that all these would be fmperiled? The people cannot too closely or ca fully consider the character of the Bryanite leaders, from awong whom Mr, Bryan, if elected, will certainly select members of his administration, GERMANY'S POSITION. The United States ambassador to Ger. Hon. Andrew D, White, arrived in New York yesterduy and in course of an interview to China that ther tion in Germany. He expressed the opinion that the trouble will never terminate In such a way, but that th conftict will end the allied dictating terms to China. He said present contlict means the birth throes of a new era. It means the beginning of the opening of China to the clvilized world."” There is 1o better authority than Am bassador White in regard to German sentiment and it Is gratifying to know that of that power s in accord with the United States so far as it relates to the preservation of the in tegrity of Chin territory. Rus it has been said fears an inter national war as the result of the dis turbance in China, has simply to place herself in harme with the States, Gern regard to the question of partition, in order to avert any danger of such a calamity as an international war would be. There is no confirmation of th port from St. Petersburg that Russia is seeking an understanding with the United States in regard to the course to pursued toward Chi but there t ditficulty in reach. ing an understanding if Russin does not favor partition. Had all the promptly declared their acquiescence in the attitude announced by this country it is highly probable that it would not have been necessary to send a military expedition against Peki is most and such promote Is 1o talk of parti in powers the position e ™ powers It looks as if the great trust-smashing attorney general were already running to cover in his joust with the Stundard 0il octopus. His popocratic organ, re- ferring to the proposed depositions to be taken in Chicago, says: “The case is similar to that which the company fought and won in Ohio two years ugo. Does this mean that the great trust- smasher expects the company to win in the same way in Nebraska? 1Is not this confession likely to take the wind out of his salls when he tries to use the case for political capital? Senator Hoar says the letter said to have been written to himself and Sena tor Pettigrew, and which the South Dakotan gave to the publie, was never by Senator Hoar and bears every evidence of being of howe manu- facture. No one who knows Senator Pettigrew would for a minute believe that he would spring u fake upon the public just for a slight political advan tage, for the senator is un hounorable man. But how does he like to be ad- vertised us biting so ecasily at such a palpable bunco game? ved Opportunities for money-making in Nome are exceedingly limited” is the report of one of the returned fortune seckers from the Alaskan reglon, Op portunities for legitimate enterprise right here in Nebraska are as prowising as anywhere else fu the world, but, un fortunately, the temptation is always great to pass by gold mines at our doors in order to hunt for treasure in the far nds of the earth. Senator Teller bas started the popo cratie alarm gong goieg again. The Colorado senator is terribly afraid the president will not | congi in special session to deal with the Chine: question. Up to date the president and cabinet have demonstrated themselves amply able to look after the interests of the United States in that quarter with- out calling on the tearful Colorado sena tor for assistance. ey Omaha cannot have a large warehouse istrict which is necessary to the growth of its manufacturing and jobbing inter. ests without affording ample switching and trackage facilitles. In the distribu DAILY ctionaries named | the | stuted in regard | United | any and Great Britain, in | | the | eriti tion of trackage privileges, however, no | tavoritism or discrimination should be shown. If a franchise charge is estal lished it should be exacted from all rail roads alike. If the man who has himself seeking to secure a reduction of tele phone rates expects the secretaries of the 8 Board of Transportation to exert themselves this hot weather, and especially when thelr salary war are held up, he is mightily mistaken, He should learn the ways of the secretaries, Another democratie riddle: 1f we can not have subjects in the Philippines without endangering the life of the re public, how can have in North Carolina and the other southern states, made so through disfranchise went by the democratic party, without running the same risk busied ate we subjects No Ultimatums to Hothe New York Tribune Reports that the sultan is a sick man are balanced by counter reports from the sultan himeelf that he is lively as a Cappadocian cricket and as able to “stand off' forelgn claims for indemnity as ever. The world Was an lnterested speclator of bis owa ex- | | tashioned cents | Joke its | | shirt BEE citing Armenian saraband & few years ago ow he looks calmly on while the nations are doing the dancing, the bringing in to him his re- venges i Journa the sou iminent than the The red sh is nearer home and m peril ta China yellow Abdul's Season of Rest Washington Post sultan of Turkey leeply e news from China touched when The affected The sultan is very easily it d thing. yesn't cost any Theory that Fails | San Francisco is to judge hy maelves the ¥ Call the actice, It one very acrifice TR about the tdedly ¢ trom who for their legislature seeking the man must of date. number ¢ wor tizens are country serv state offh be de ut World-Wide Boston Tran The industrial nerve cent were never before ent. Thus the tro bread the Biddeford and Saco mills well many thousand more of the same class wage-earners iu England et of War, riat o €0 sens ble In ive China In Nehraska, Indianapolis Journal The ropublicans hope to carry Nebraska for McKinley and the secretary of the na tional committee has given out the list speakers who will a in doing it. It in cludes Senators alrbanks and and several others of equal The secretary says that en does not go for McKinley the republi feel confident of electing four of th cougressmen with a good chance of elect At present th The Campnign prominence. ing the entire delegation ation stands one democrat, two r licans and three populists. nk Fortune's Ra Portland Oregonfan People who rushed to Cape Nome expected too much. They expected to scoop up gold by the hatful. They were disappointed when they found the place to be but one of many on thie old mundane sphere in nowjse more sholtered than the rest of the world trom human gre to man. Late reports indicate that it fs a very promising mineral region. But it must go through the process of develop- ment before its richness is available. This hows. rational industrial development the rushing | throng has no patience for and the unrea onably disappointed are disposed the country wholesale, have saved themselves trouble by going back to their primers and chasiog the ends of the ralnbow for gold. to damn & England at Home. Chicago Chronicle, | It affords the London Times no pleasure | to record the fact that a large part of the electric plant for the underground rallway which has just been put in operation in the English metropolis is of American manufacture. In fact, it has to admit that the most of it is from this side. It ud- mits also that it will mot do to say that the electric equipment of this road was too small to be worth the notice of home man- ufacturers. After making these admis- slons the Times seeks comfort in the thought that when the contracts were let the British mechanics were on a strike and masters could not give satisfactory guar- anties. It is a trifie mean to lay it all to the mechanics, when the most natural and probable explanation is that the Americans were able to put in a better equipment on more satisfactory, terms. PERSON POINTERS, Patrick Henry will be the name of two representatives in the next congress. Both are from Missourl. Having lots of money does not nec sarily drive out all sentiment from soul. It is sald of ex-Senator William A Clark of Montana that he has preserved the first dollar bill which he made when starting life Colorado in According the personal property schedule of Mayor Harrison of Colorado, he does not wear a watch and Chicagoans are wondering what he wears at the end of the watch chain, which Is a prominent feature of the official photograph which appears on certain city licenses as a poor quartz miner in Conan Doyle has rather an original taste in the matter of critics. “I want a boy " says he, “the boy who will start a story and then chuck ‘rot,’ or who will read through and say ‘ripping.’ son 1 want to criticise my work." Every horse in the English army is num- bered and has a little history kept for it The number is branded on the animal's feet the thousands on the near hind foot and the units, tens and hundreds on the off hind foot. Thus the horse whose number is, say, 8,334, will have an 8 on his left hind foot and 334 on the right foot. Willlam Ashmead Bartlett Burdett- Coutts, who recently has aroused the peo- a book straight ple of England to great indignation by his stories 4 the neglect of soldlers in t hospitals of South Africa, is an America by birth, native of Plymouth, Mass. For long time he and his wife, Baroness Bur- dett-Coutts, were dubbed *the Bartlett pair.” Sometimes a joke reacts, as the Bangor (Me.) Commercial proceeds to prove by re lating that a young man in Auburn, to p & joke on a barber, pald him thirty-five old- Later, when he found that the barber had sold one of the coins for $3 he did not feel so well satisfied with his or at least thought it had become mis placed On a asylum at ascertained inmates of recent visit to the ( Milledgeville that there the lunatic asylum the largest number in its history, whi there are over 200 insane people in the various county Jalls waiting until there s room for them to be taken in for treat- ment The of silver golng to present to ¥ and which Is to be coin captured ~ on Cristobal Colon, will dinner plates, one gravy boat and ladle, four vegetable dishes, one game platter one fish platter, one platter and one soup tureen, The cost when completed will be between §7,000 and $9,000. Joseph Flory, republican candidate for the governorship of Missouri conducting most novel campalgn among the railroad men. He has secured a railway velocipede, on which he has been traveling all the freight yards of St. Louls and citles in Missouri, getting personally quainted with the workers. He ia ves most of the time and mocratic and approachable making friends wherever he goes orgla insane overnor Candler now over 3,000 set which Baltimore Admiral made from the the Spanish consist s Schley, silver bout a his in sle most d man The American people are frequently ac cuged of eatiug too much meat, but must eat a great deal of frult, too, the statistics of California fruit indicate. That state they culture has shipped east far this season 3,058 carloads of deciduous fruits—principally, It is to apricots, plums and pears, as those are the varieties in season. This Is 255 car loads more than were shipped in the time last year and these are only important fruits grapes are yel (o come is be presumed ates s of the world pres- menaces | and butter of 3,000 operatives in of Beveridge | it the state | ans six from man's inhumanity Most of these might | he it down and say That's the per- n a there, | cruiser of eighteen | same the less The apples, peaches and - AUGUST 7, 1900. LAND OF THE DARK SHADOW, other whirliglg | de Light on | lesing ¢ A writer in one the great wall of China is o the Egyptian pyramids. turles havo had ecarcely Equipy with modern manned by soldiers armed the modern manner, it pregnable as on the day when it ished. It has been calculated that the Chinese wall contains more brick and than would be needed to bulld a wail three foet thick and eight fect high around the earth at the equator. The wonderful for tification constructed to protect the northern and northwestern frontier against the barbarians of Mongolla and Manchuria. Chinn and the Pere pese Problem. of the exchanges says Twenty-one effect artillery and drilled would be as cen on it and in im was fin was Several millions of men were employed for which was ten years in doing the completed about 200 years ginning of the Christian | I8 about 1,200 miles long A recent dispatch from Shanghai jo Lon- don reported that Dr. Martin, the Ameri- can president of the Imperial university at Pekin, had b | No member of the ¢ him. Dr. Martin of the prominent Presbyterian misslonaries China and also one of the oldest. He be gan miselon work fn China in 1850 work before the be era. The wall was one most as of cause of education and as an adviser on international law the Chinese govern- ment made him a mandarin of the third class in 1885 and advanced him to the second class two years ago. Dr. Martin was born in Livonia, Ind, April 10, 1527, His firet mission fleld was Niug Po, where he remained six years. In 1858 he served as interpreter for William B. Reed, then United States minister to China, in treaty negotiations and went to Pekin and Yeddo in 1859 with United States Minister John E. Ward He took up missionary work again in | Pekin in 1563 and continued it until 1865, | when he became president and professor |of international law in the Tong Weng | college. When the present Impsrial uni versity was established he became its president and has held that office continu- ously since then. Dr. Martin last the time of Li Hung Chang's de¢ one of the addresses at given for the Chinese statesman. Baron De Vnck, former minister of Bel- glum in China, gives this picture of Pekin “Like all who have seen Pekin across the prisme of the imagination, we have pictured | to ourselves a picturesque city with fan- tastic palaces, porcelain towers and gaily colored pagodas; in fact, the China to be on screens, But the real China is quite different; not a monument, not & landscape, mot a garden, not even one street; it was a regular aewer, a depot for every kind of filth, swept during ten months of the year by suffocating dust and del- uged during the other two montbs by tor- ents and enveloped in DAUSEOUS VAPOTS Small gray, cracked and tumbledown walls border the large sewers which are mis | named streets.” in this country at visit. He the dinner | seen David Beswick, formerly of Philadelphia, has just returned to his native land from Tien Tsin, where he went some time ago to set up @ woolen mill at the invitation of & Chineee mandarin. “I greatly r troubles that have arisen,” he says, * for I saw a bright future there for American | capital and skilled labor, especially mechan- jcal and civil engineers. Tien Tsin, with mills, would become & great manufacturing center, because from there are shipped vast quantities of wool, much of it to this city for making carpets. At present it is one of the main ehipping ports of China, some of its products besides wool being hides, pea- nuts, bristles and furs of all kinds. 1 found the natives to be a very intelligent people and splendid imitators. The climate is cold and healthy, well suited to Americans. Liv- ing is very cheap. Duck, wild boars, deer, pheasants—in fact, all game—is the cheap- est kind of food, while mutton, beef and canned goods bring high prices. There are no factories north of Shanghai except the one I ran. I do not yet know whether to g0 back. The causes of the uprising are €0 complicated that no one can define the real origin of the trouble.” ECHOES OF OUR WAR. Occapntion Manil The authorities at Washington are serlously considering the adoption of some m ures designed to break up the combings sald to be responsible for the greatly in- creased cost of llving in Manila. Prac- tically all necessaries of life have been doubled since the American occupation entailing great hardships on the natives and seriously retarding American progress in the city. Any relief the government can afford will be heartily welcomed, for the exactions of merchants have become almost unbearable, Some idea of the increased cost of living in the Philippines 18 afforded by the Manila Times of June G, which publishes a com- American occupation and at the present time. The table is as follows: tables. One pound meat without Six pounds lard First-class rice, sack Pork, per pound Mutton, per pound Potatoes, per pound Onions, per pound Chick pens, pe One chicken One hen Nt One-quarter’ tin olive ofl One bottle vinegar One hen's egg One One One One 1 ne..s 1990, b $1.50 £ 0 8 [ g pound ad sure buffalo milk 10 ground coffee inground cocon One measure groand cocoa One hundred small pleces fire- wood Two buckets of W Four bananas House and S Small house for small family Falr-sz house fumily Servant Cook Washerman for one person Barber, per month Dress One ordinary white One drill white sult Twelve singlets. infe Twelve socks, in Twelve pajamas, One felt hat One pair mak one 1 muk One white shi One pair Chine One pair Philippine pers One palr Chinese slippers One packet matche One feather duste One broom One bar Chinese sult for class Philippine ir’sh Europ made slippers made slip- soap 05 it Commenting on the showing the Times says As demonstrated above the princl- pal articles of consumption have increased 10 per cent, and on account of this it is im- possible to live on the same salaries as were pald in 1897 to the employes of the commer cial firm s well as to those of the private companies and factories, and on account . this the heads of some firms have increased the salaries and wages of their employes 75 per cent to make up the difference which exists between what living formerly cost and what it does now nd by this means level up and make existence more support- able, which otherwise would be impossible with the salaries of 1897 “This increase of prices which we suffer from today is caused by the precarious con- ditlon of the archipelago and the increased | demand. God knows where it will stop.” enduring as one murdered by the Boxers, ctor's family was with in The Chinese government for his services in the ret the | on | parative table of prices prevailing before | FACTS ABOUT PROSY A Few Pertinent Hemarks on Bryan's Share in 1t Francisco Call an sald recently in Chicago ry on the defensive. | will talk prosperity, but we will be willlog to take the votes of all the people who have not had their share of prosperity and leave them the votes of t people who have had | their sbare.” The return of the assessor on file in the office of the county clerk in Lincoln, Neb, proves that Mr. Bryan| may be classed with those who have had their share of prosperity and therefore be |tongs in the republican column. His a sessment, rendered under oath by him self, has run as follows since 1863 Mr. Bry republican p is 18504 1507 1598 190 His ussessmer his par | gress b during the four years that | was in power and he was in con- plng run the government averaged | |8 0. During the four years of a re- | publican adwministration, that has run the | Eovernment without his help and in & way that he said “would write the history of the people in blood crushed out of thew by the gold standard,” his average assessment has been $2,008.7: | Another singular fact is that whereas up | | to the close of 1806 he appeared in the city directory listed as a lawyer, since then he | has not been put down for any occupation whatever. We suppose he was working hard at profession during the four years preceding McKinley's administration, and | since his professional income was part of | the time supplemented by bis salary as a member of congress, yet he only managed to accumulate an estate of the aversge value of $2 Since McKinley beat him he bas had no occupation, hus not practiced law nor done anything a8 a regular vocation to even earu his daily bread, yet his estate rose from | $270 in 1898 to $1485 in 1807 and now | figures, obesely indeed, at $4. We should suy that an fncrease of his| estate by nearly 300 per cent in one year | under such circumstances is evidence of great prosperity. It fncrease from 1596 to 1900 from $270 to $4.550 s something amaz ing. It is an in of thousands per cent and more than 1,000 per cent per wnnum average. Beside it the profits of the hated trusts pale their ineffectual percontage Yet Mr. Bryan quit work at his profession at the very beginning of this period of prosperity. He could get together an estate of only $270 while practicing law, but dur- ing the years of McKinley prosperity he | has got together an estate of $4,550 doing nothing! Is it possible that Mr. Bryan is himselt one of those sinister, secret, dark and mid- night trusts? his s FOUR YEARS OF LD HISTORY, roduction Precious Metal. Boston Transeript, The production of gold during the year 1869 was plhenomenally large. For the first time in history the world's output of this metal exceeded $300,000,000. This repre sents an increase of nearly 300 per cent during the last decade. The production for the last four years has been as follows: 1808 1507 1588 2 428,00) 159 e 72,500,000 T15,000,00) Totals CANTALLO0 $1L043,491,00 These enormous additions to the gold supply have brought the total production of the last half century up to $6,665,631,000, | which 1s more than double the production during the preceding 330 years. The steady growth of the gold output has naturally been accompanied by an in- crease fn the stock of gold money in the United States. The estimated amount of gold coin in the country and bullion in the treasury on July 1 was $1,036,031,645. It Is probable that this amount is slightly over estimated. The inquiries which the treas- ury experts are now conducting may be expected somewhat to diminish the total, but will hardly curry it below the billion: dollar mark. Chlefly as & result of adai- tions to the gold supply the per caplta | | eirculation of money has risen from in 1896 to $25 in 1898. The proportion of gold coin in the total stock of money has increased from per cent in 1896 to 45 per cent In 1809, The later percentage is the highest on record. It appears, then, that during the four | years since the last presidential election the total production of gold has more than doubled and the United States' supply of | gold money has nearly doubled. This fact is most disconcerting to the advocates of free silver. It has deprived them of their | main argument, which was based on the alleged insufficiency of the diminishing supply of gold to meet the growing mone- tary demand. In the face of & rapidly in- creasing gold output and generally rising prices this line of argument is no longer | possible. The Bryanite orators have ac | cordingly shifted their ground. Lustead of | devoting themselves exclusively to denun- | clation of the gold standard for causing | low prices, they are now indulging chiefly | in attacks upon the trusts for causing high prices. NT INVENTIONS, The first fountain pen required an ath lete to wield it. It was a massive arrange- ment of brass—a great contrast to the neat attle instrument of the present day. In South Kensington museum is the first model of tho phonograph. In appearance it is totally different from the phonograph we know nowadays. It was constructed in 1877. Here, for example, Is the first lockstitch | sewing machine, contrived by the Ameri- | | can, Howe, in 1845, What & bungling affair | lit looks in comparison with the smart machines of today. Probably the least jar weuld throw it out of gear. A pathetic interest, one say, attaches to the first models of well known inventions—the first clumsy efforts | of unknown Inventors who knew not Edi son. Many such are preserved in the great patent museums of London and Washing ton The first Edison electric pen is close by presented to England by its in ventor, You can make a quantity of fac simile copics of any writing by simply | doing 1t with this pen on a prepared plate and then running an inky roller over th back A clergyman, Rev. Pa the first repeating machine, and a lumber- ing contrivance it was. It was born in 1826, and from the very first A big success. American ingenuity certainly im- proved on it, but it was originally an English invention The parent arc |and its ioventors we Collier and H. W, Bak staters. Edison has alw | of making the first electric | records in the Washington are like the camera in the they “cannot lie The father London might almost | It was k Bell, invented was was born Messrs, H. M hoth New York 8 had the credit light, but the patent offce Octoroon lamp in 1558 of typewriters is shown in It was invented by Sir . Wheat | stone in 1831 It has thirty keys—one a space key and the athers print capitals. The Americans have always claimed the | invention of the typewriter, but this ma- chine of Wheatstone's came into being five and twenty years before that of Allen of Kentucky, who made the first American TOLIDOL, RT WAIST MAN. Philad waste time and about the shirt for men® Th law against a man wearing & It he wishes to do so, and d it is because his vanity makes Bim s from the trial of being unlike other pe in appeara That is to say, be coward. Therefore let him swelter poltroon coat Indianapolis Journal tion 18 whether comfort ol to conventionality, or vice versa. No doubt the cont and vest add to & man's droesed appearance, but it Is equally certain that iv very warm weather they decidedly u comfortable. There are indications that the shirt shirt waist movement for men has started in earnest. Several men of social ling and fashion in different places have within a short time appeared i pu in the ehirt waiet costume and with & little more pushiog it will prevail, at le t of being permissible Denver Post: As yet the coat has been Qiscarded only by those who could afford to wear a dozen at a time if they so desired { The faehion hasn't h/nme common or wide spread, as it doubtW.s will during the next summer eeason. There has been no vagary of the fashionable in years based on such sound sense ns this recent departure. A well fitting shirt of good material fs as attractive on a man as its counterpart, tho shirt walst, on his sister or wife. There is North American Why hent by disputing The real ques all be wacrificed sleeve or ot st Xt | no good reason why a man should swelter in tweeds because men have long done so Objectors to the innovation on this ground should remember our primitive anceetors who were as much undressed as too many are overdresscd today. Very properly the tendency of the times in dress fs to com- fort first and clegance next. This tendency has been productive of many odd freaks in woman's garments, which doubtless will in discarded or modified 50 as to retain comfort and appear beautiful as well, ' AND Chicago Tribune am always glad to have you spend vour summers here.” said the proprietor, “but 1 wish you wouldn's bring that gréyhound “Why not?" ‘asked the astonished guest “Because he's such a poor advertisement of this place as & summer resort LG IVELY. Indianapolis Journal: “Graclous, Amelia, what is all that dreadful noiso in the nuvs: ery ‘Oh, Edgar, do go up and spank two or three of those children: I'm reading “I'he Relgn of Law,’ and I positively can't be interrupted.” Philadelphia Pr Goody kissed a man ight. ue Bess. you know? Juck—1 had it from her own Iips. Ress—They say Maud at the Jones' lawn Times-Herald: “No," said the hetted his knife on the sid of his shoe, “they ain't nothin' much in a name after all. A nmn named Barnes Iives in that nice, big house up there on the hill, and say—" “Well?" “The first automobeel—or do you pro- nounce it byle?—the first ane we ever seen in this here town was owned by a man named Horsford." Chie squl & as he Chicago Tribune: The persistant corre: spondent was worming a blography out of reluctant statesma suppose it {8 true, senator, as every- ands,” he said, “that you b a poor plowboy?" growled the statesman. “I be- a red-faced, flat-nosed, squawi- ing buby Detroit Journal: The Inevitable Ignora- mus beamed radiantly through the netting in_front of the grand stand. 5 “A player's balting average, T suppose, she prattled, “shows how many bats he hae been on'" The Mere Man at her side contemplated her wonderingly, saying nothing “There is_indigna the Porcupine marked the Ob international ¢ the tract ced that. added the Cross-Eyed Boarder; “the miners are bristling up itke quills upon the fretful poreupine. Pittsburg Chronicle tion among the people in Creck district, Alaska,” r . “because t Bret Harte Which 1 wish to remark And my language is plain That for ways that are durk And for tricks The heathen Chin Which the same hat ure vain is peculiar. 1 would rise to explain Ah Sin was his name; And 1 shall not deny In_regard to the same What that name might fmply, But_his smile 1t was pensive and child-lika As I frequent remarked to Bill Nye. It was August the third, And quite soft was the ski Which 1t might be inférred That Ah Sin was likewise: Yet he played it that day upon Willlam And me in a way I despisc Which we had a small & And Ah Sin took a han. It was euchre. The same He did not understand; But he smiled as he sat by the table With a smile that was child-like and bland me. Yet the cards they were stocked In & way that | grieve, And my feelinzs were shocked At the state of Nye's sleeve Which was stuffed Tull of aces and bowers, And the same with intent to decelve But the hands that were p By that heathen Chinee And the points that he m Were quite frightful to & 1at lust he put down & right hower Which the same Nye had dealt unto me ayed de at ipon And he And Can this Wa are ruined by Chinee cheap lnbor,' And he went for that heathen Chinee In the scene that cnsued T did not take a hand But the floor ft wax strowed Like the leaves on the strand. WIth the cards tht Ah 8in had been hiding, In the game he “did ot understand In his sleeves, which were long. He had twerity-four packs Which was coming it strong Yot I state but the facts And ‘we found on his nalls tajer What's frequent in tapers which were that's wax Which 18 why I remark And my language 18 piain. 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