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I1L Telephone. 1B04 Central. Eastern Office-23 and 24 Time, New Tork. Washington Offlm-S2 Wratt bide. Prooperity That's All.

The "Republican campaign text book Just issued present prosperity as the paramount issue of the campaign of 1902. The record is not of prosperity for one jear, or two years, but for Ave years. It is not a record of prosperity for bankers, investors, or manufacturers alone, but for the whole American people. The record is not of an era in which the manufacturer has prospered at the expense of the consumer, nor the merchant ait the expense of the purchaser, nor the industrial centers at the expense of the agricultural districts. It is a record of a period in which all have shared in the most wonderful years of wealth in the history of the country.

In the election of 1806 the Republicans promised that, with the election of Mr. McKinley to the Presidency, there would be a renewal of manufacturing activity and a return to prosperous conditions. The McKinley policy was put in force In 1S97. In the five succeeding years the excess of exports over imports was even times greater than in all the one hundred and eight previous years of the government. To be specific, the excess of exports over imports in the one hundred and eight years from 17J0 to March 4, 1S97, was $383,028,487, while the excess in the live years from March 4, 197, to March 4, 1902, was $2,707,093,19, the excess of exports in each year since 1S07 being greater lhan that of the entire one hundred and eight years prior to the inauguration of President McKinley.

There is no gainsaying this record. It is the best possible measure of our producing capacity under favorable conditions. We sold abroad in five years more American products by than we bought of foreign products. This means, of course, that there was a great increase in the value of manufactured products; a great increase in wages earned by those engaged in industrial pursuits. In the same time the value of the corn, wheat, and oat crops of the country as doubled, and there was an increase of in the value of live stock.

There was an advance in the price of what farmers had to sell, but there was a corresponding advance in the earnings of those who bought products of the farm. In 196 and 1900 the Republican party raised the battle cry, "McKinley and Prosperity!" Xow it raises the battle cry, "Roosevelt and Prosperity There are other great issues associated with Mr. Roosi-velt'u policies, but this issue of prosperity comes home to eerj- man's pocket; comes home to the farm and the workshop; to the investor, the manufacturer, and the wage-earner as well as to the millionaire. This issue has been with us for five years. It is the issue of all the people.

It is the child of Republican wisdom tand Iemocratic foil v. It will not down or off or out, as long as Republican wisdom and Democratic folly exist. The Man Who Does. One oi tne most interesting impressions of the IJritish coronation festivities i that recorded by a writer in Reynolds Weekly. This journal is the organ of the raises of British radicals, and has an enormous circulation.

Its attitude toward Rritish life in general is the same as that of Labouchere's Truth. "Perhaps the most satisfactory feature of the occasion, says the Reynolds writer of the coronation procession, "was the general refusal of the democ-rapr in make themselves absurd Itv lmnTit rn inna Of tlift thirty or forty royal personages not more than half a dozen aroused what could be called enthusiasm. The crowd would have naught to do with your pinchbeck, half -dozed royalties. Even the Prince and Princess of Wales passed by with little more than a murmur of appreciation. Queeu Alexandra's popularity was once more proved, but some of the Princesses were seen to be bowing gracefully to no salutations whatever.

A mighty greeting, he acknowledges, "was accorded King Edward. But he found in the procession another man in whom the British masses took even more interest, and to whom they gave even greater acclaim, although he Is lacking in those social qualities which no conciliate public opinion and win the applause that costs nothing. "The one man the populace knew, he declares, "and desired to cheer above all, was Lord Kitchener. lie sat. his horse like a centaur, a grim, stern, never-smiling figure; a man who had accom plished something.

History may rate his achievements poor, but history-will hare to say he'worked. The crowd was not repelled by Lord Kitchener's cold and almost callous indifference; it lav ished cheers upon him with a very wealth of profusion. The judgment of some of the people may be deceived for a time into exalt- i. ing ne man no uoes a small tning and poses for applause above the man who does a- great thing and is indifferent to applause. have seen here at home in the last few years the manifestations of such deception with regard to cer tain heroes, more or less real, of the Fpanish war.

But, in a large wsy and in tne long run, me. judgment oi trie 'ieopIe is cccurate. And so the whirligig of time and the slow but sure judgment of the people hare brought Kitchener his revenge. Those who fulminated against hint most sererel3'- may hope that "history win rate Ids achievements poor, bat must confess -that be stands first of living j.nii.-nuien in tne esieem ox tne masses of hi people. Thus it ever has been and thus it ever jadjrment the workiujr and enduring masses of mankind turn from tb tun who talked to the man who actH, aad exalt far above the man who posen and gives reasons for not doing, the man who says little or nothing but does something.

For the people instinctively know that the real man is the man who doea. Ovr Clerical Tomlinson. The Boston Transcript recently published a letter in which the Iter. A. A-Berle, lately called to the pastorate of the Union Park Congregational church of this city, undertook to define his political position.

The letter was addressed to Secretary Ifollis of the? New En gland Democratic and inclosed a contribution of $1. While quite ready to contribute to a Democratic organization, Mr. lierle was "hardly ready' to be enrolled therein, nnd urged Mr. Hollis to "kindly guard against the publication of my name as a member of the league." Having displayed a caution possibly ise, in view of his impending change of pastoral relations, Mr. Berle went on to make the following profession of political faith: I am an anti-Imperialist, and voted on that Issue for Bryan the last time, and would rots for Shepard or Cleveland on an 7 issue, but do not call myself Democrat, and would not be willing to be a member of any organization that could at all be identified with the Kansas City platform.

I am best described as a Republican of the type of Abraham Lincoln. But I am aa admirer of Mr. Bryan and also of Mr. Cleveland, and should count It great thing if the admirers of both could get together, eliminating the silver Issue (on which 1 voted for McKinley the first time), and take up the issue of imperialism pure and simple, and battle for the restoration of constitutional government. There is no reason to believe that the Rev.

A. A. Berle will exercise any particular political influence in Chicago, good or bad. Men who can spread themselves out so thin that they repudiate the Kansas City platform but vote for Bryan who are, as it were, against sin but in favor of Satan lack the character to influence other men in any direction. They are the Tomlinsons of American life, and what Tomlinson was and what was his fate ma' be learned in the writings of Rudyard Kipling.

It is, perhaps, a sufficient commentary upon the Rev. A. A. Berle's profession of political faith to say that had Abraham Lincoln been a Republican of the A. Berle type there probably would be now no "constitutional government" to find fault with, and no United States either.

"Our Foreign Element." The Rev. Edward Steiner of the First Congregational church, Sandusky, Ohio, who preached in the Second Congregational church. Oak Park, 111., last Sunday morning, fell into the common error of generalizing too much regarding the so-called foreign element of our popu lation. It is not true, for example, "that the average immigrant is, as a rule, from the low class, if by the low class Is meant the ignorant, illiterate, and vicious class, because the European immigrants of the last fifty years after due allow ance for obvious exceptions have been fairly well equipped with intelligence and moral training for the duties of cit izenship. This fact must be apparent to any observant person.

If it were otherwise the assimilating process that has been going on here to the great advantage of the country, and which is bearing fruit in an intellectual and commercial ex pansion that amazes mankind, would have been impossible. However, if the Rev. Mr.Steiner meant by' the term "low class" the humble and the neglected the people who are denied in their own lands the opportuni ties that belong naturally to all men he is right, for our immigrants have been as a rule of this class, and he was not called upon to qualify his assertion with the remark that, although the class they come from is low, it is not "necessarily the worst." There are many reasons for believing that, so far as the interests of this nation are concerned and that is, after all, the main point the Rev. Mr. Steln-er's so-called "low class" is necessarily the best class from which our immigrants can come.

Again, the Rev. Mr. Steiner is too general when he says: "The foreigner coming to our shores is weaker than the majority of Americans, and quickly looks to us to set an example." But, the reverend gentleman should have added. some of the examples which are set him are not to his liking, and he refuses to follow them, greatly to his credit. A few concrete cases may be cited.

The foreigner who arrived in the United States previous to 1860 was not turned from his duty to the country that offered him a refuge either by the native Americans of the South, who fought to destroy it, or by the native Americans of the North the copper heads who gave aid, comfort, and ma terial support to rebellion. The immigrant was not a factor in the movement for the repudiation of state debts, nor was he known in connection with the greenback movement, although in both cases he might easily have found examples among native Americans. He did not take kindly to Populism, nor to free-silverisin, nor to any phase or manifestation of Bryanism, although he might have found among the apostles of calamity great numbers of native Amer leans. The recent immigrant had such strik ing examples as J. Laurence Laughlin, Edwin Burritt Smith, Henry Wade Rogers, and Edward Atkinson all na tive Americans in the struggle of the anti-imperialists to.

throw away, the fruits of the Spanish-American war, to propagate treason in the- Philippines, to slander the American soldier, and to vilify the American government, but he ignored them. Many more historical references of the same tendency as the foregoing might be made to illuminate the error of the Rev. Mr. Steinera generaliza tions. Ilowever, the above suBce to show that the "foreign element" of our population has in the main discrimination and sense enough to act sanely in harmony with the best Interests of the regardless of the errors of those.

who have been here longer and should know better. It must be a source of immense satisfaction to the relatives and friends of the hundreds'of persons who are now stricken with typhoid and malarial fever in this city to know that, notwithstand ing the incompetence and corruption THE INTER OCEAN, TUESDAY MOHXIXG; AUGUST 12, 1002. which hare prevented the completion of the intercepting aewers. Carter IL Harrison is personally honest. Equeanalahnesa and Typhoid.

The health department bulletin declares that, in view of the alarming increase of typhoid 'and malarial fever in This city last week, the present "is no time for squeamishness in the use of language. Then, with the purpose of shocking the public to a realization of the danger that menaces it, the bulletin insists that milk be sterilized, that ice be not put in beverages, and that all green vegetables be carefully washed. We doubt very much that the public wilt be shocked sufficiently by these suggestions as to the cause of the present epidemics. Doubtless it would be wise if all milk were sterilized after it had been "thoroughly inspected by the city hall inspectors, if impure ice were generally discarded, and if unhealthy green vegetables sold in our markets by authority of the municipal government were carefully washed, or, better still, dumped into the middle of the lake. However, there are causes other than bad milk, impure ice, and unripe vegetables at the bottom of our troubles, and if the bulletin had followed out its own good suggestion not to be squeamish in the use of language it would have men tioned them.

Hundreds of sewers are still emptying their contents into Lake Michigan, the source of Chicago's water supply, instead of into the river and thence into the drainage canal, nnd they are doing so in consequence of the failure of the business" administration to complete the intercepting sewers, which have cost in their present unfinished state over $3,000,000 of the water-fund surplus. The great rainfalls of the summer have washed the accumulated filth of a year into the sewers, the sewers have carried this filth into the lake, and the tunnels and wafer pipes have returned it in a diluted form to the homes of the people. To the south ninny square miles of territory within the city limits are un- tl rained, notwithstanding the handsome annual appropriations for sewer exten sion. Great districts in the neighbor hood of Grand Crossing and throughout the Calumet region are dotted with disease-breeding pools, ponds, and lakes, for which there is no outlet save that afforded by natural evaporation. To the north the sewage of a district containing about 40,000 people finds its way directly into Lake Michigan, the source of our wafer supply.

It has no other outlet- The lake, in which our cribs arc located, is a dumping place for the refuse of the north shore. To the north, also, is the picturesque but malarial Skokie marsh, in which all the conditions for a prolific harvest of fever have been ripening during the present wet summer. Within the city proper, to the west as well as to the north and south, are miles ft neglected streets nnd alleys where festering pools and decaying garbage heaps potion the air. It is significant that the great majority of the typhoid and malarial fever cases are reported from the poorer and congested districts of the city, where the "business" ad ministration has not even made a pre tense of enforcing the sanitary ordinances. With knowledge of the above facts in its possession, it is regrettable, to say the least, that the health department.

which had a good impulse not to be squeamish in its language, should for any reason have deemed it desirable or politic to lay all the blame upon unster- Uized milk, impure ice, and green vegetables. Progress of the Colored Race. The resolutions adopted by the Negro Educational conference at Atlanta are as remarkable a any ever adopted by a convention of the colored race, or any other race. Wrongs and grievances are balanced against exceptional opportunities and privileges, and the resolutions breathe the spirit of wholesome aspiration. The young colored people of the At lanta conference rejoice in what has been done for their race and in what the race has done for itself.

They take pride in the record, of which they say in the strength and simplicity of truth: A generation ago we cams out of bondage without a foot of land, without a home, wtthoat a name. Kven the clothes which covered our poorly clad bodies war not oars. Today we owa millions of acres of land, par taxes on property worth millions of dollars, and raise more cotton under freedom than under slavery. This is a wonderful record, and looking back to it, and standing upon it, the Atlanta conference recommends the colored people not to enlarge upon their grievances, not to complain of burdens or of wrongs, but to teach their children the dignity and Talus of manual labor, and to give them an industrial training as well as higher education. Speaking for themselves and their race, the men of the conference ask the whites simply for fair play, and to judge ths negroes not by the worst among them, but by the best.

A few years ago conventions of colored people were given to denouncing those who treated them unfairly, and to the enumeration of their wrongs. Recently the colored people have put their hands to the plow in the educational, business, and industrial fields, and are spending little time in regrets or complainings. Met by restrictive laws on suffrage, they have proceeded to remove the restrictions by special qualifications. Cheated in the management of crops on other people's land, they have bought land and managed their own crops. When they found themselves unfitted for' work in the home, or the shop, or on the plantation, they have proceeded to train themselves to equality with others.

Realizing their faults, they have striven to correct them. Recognizing wherein lheir raciil line- was weak, they have striven to strengthen it, and they ask of the stronger race only fair This admirable attitude finds expression not only in the Atlanta conference, but at the Charleston exposition and in the Mississippi Valley exposition to be held in this city. Now, whenever colored people rome together, they talk about the achievements of the race in the last thirty years. Instead of exhibiting their wounds, they exhibit what they have done. They bring up the negro ot slavery to compare him with the freeman of today.

They compare their yesterday, when ther had nothing, with, their today, when they have so much, and they declare -their' determination to deserve an5' right and privilege now enjoyed by every other American citizen. It is this spirit" which is winning friends for the colored people in the South, Is turning' their old masters into allies, and Is widening their field ot usefulness and activity. In this spirit the exposition to open this week in Chicago was concelTed. The colored people propose to show what they have done to write their progress in things accomplishedand there can be no more interesting study for whites or negroes. Mexico Wants three Wells.

The State Department at Washington, In on official communication to the press, gives notice that the Mexican government will pay three rewards of $3,000 (Mexican) each to the persons who will, within the next three years, drill and deliver in working order at the towns of Xochimilco, San Felipe del Agua, and Ilaconda del Aguilera, in the state of Oajaca, three artesian wells, one in each town. The fact that it has set the machinery of international relations in motion to make its wants known indicates that the Mexican government ia very much in earnest in this matter. It cannot be, of course, that all these three possible future metropolises of the Gulf of Te-huantepec are at present without water. The name of one is the same as that given to a lake in another part of Mexico, and "St. Philip of the Water" certainly suggests It must be, therefore, that the Mexican government is dissatisfied with the pattern of wells now existing in these towns, wishes to introduce a new style, and hence appeals to the United, States in general, and Chicago in particular, as abounding in wells of all kinds, to come to her aid.

If that be the case, then the Mexican government has come to the right shop. We produce in Chicago not only wells, but well drillers of all descriptions, and out of our abundance can easily spare some to our sister republic. Lest Mexico's demand raise unfounded hopes in Harrisonian or Truaxian circles, one fact must be held steadfastly in mind. Mexico does not desire such wells as a business administration has drilled in this city's treasury. Nor is Mexico in search of porcelain-lined subways or of Truaxoriums of any sort.

In a word, Mexico does, not yearn for re sounding caverns of any of the kinds which the genius of Charles Truax has imagined for the Lake Front, nor of the description of those which have been cre ated by driving intercepting sew ers into the water fund. What Mexico wants is real wells, with real water flowing from them such water as Commissioner Kiolbassa's inspectors use for external application only. Having thus set forth what Mexico wants, and given warning of what she does not want, and having thus assisted to the best of our ability the State Department's laudable desire to maintain amicable' relations with our neighbor to the we leave the matter to the well drillerV of Chicago. Real well drillers may find It advantageous to their bank accounts to supply Mexico's need. While the hospitals are overflowing with typhoid and malarial fever eases as a consequence of the filthy condition of the city, due to an incompetent and corrupt city government, let us not for get that It was Carter Harrison who wived the streets, euch as they are.

very tiling should be done to prevent a street-railway strike at a time when the city council-transportation committee is trying to explain how we can have two subway systems beneath the streets that the honest, majority has helped to save. The question, after all, is. What is society finally going to do to protect itself against such monsters as Bartholin and Holmes before they have had a chance to commit their hideous crimes? Afterward it is a comparatively easy matter. The water which requires so much boiling has yielded $3,000,000 for the construction of the intercepting sewers, which must be entirely rebuilt before they are completed. London was on its good behavior last Saturday night, and this was one of the most pleasing features of the coronation.

BALDWIN'S POLAR DASH. The Baldwin polar expedition Is to be done In installments Mobile (Ala.) Daily Register. It Is aaid that what really spoiled Explorer Baldwia's arcUc trip was "cold feet." Du-luth News-Tribune. Explorer Baldwin says bis trip Is not alto-iretber a failure. Probably be baa written bis magazine articles.

Baltimore We don't suppose say one was less surprised than Explorer Baldwin at bis failure to reach the north pole. Burlington (Iowa) Hawk-Eye. It seems that the' nviln purpose of tho Baldwia polar expedition was fully subserved that of the consumption of supplies. St. Louis Globe -Democrat.

Mr. Ztlgler assarts that be still has confidence (bat Explorer Baldwin will yet reach the pole. It's all right with Baldwia as Ion as Zelgler's confidence holds out. Atlanta Journal. Less late rest la manifested ia the results of Explorer Baldwia's trip to the arctic region than la the dissensions among the members of bis crew.

It will take a great many expeditions that kind to locate the north pole. Cleveland Leader. He Willi Loaf. This Is tbs announcement that D. K.

Winters makes In the Kiowa (Kan.) Signal: "Ia announcing myself as a candidate for register of deeds for Kiowa county, subject to the decision of the Republican county convention In September, I do not do It at tbe earnest request of a large number of my friends, nor bas there been a delegation of the most prominent citizens of the county waited oa me, and drank my whisky and smoked my cigars, and urgently requested me to allow my name to come before tbe convention as a candidate, believing that I was tbe only man who could be elected none of this baa happened. I bare worked 11 up myself. In fact. It lea self-made boom. I am getting a little too old to farm, and a little too ambitious to be thrown la the waste basket, and would like a couple ot years office rest.

Just to see bow loafing around tbe county seat feels to an old man." Sasae OWt Story. "Arctle Explorer Baldwia is back again. "What does he ssyr "Only one thing of any Importance. that?" "No Dole." Cleveland Flala Dealer. CLAIM ESTATE DODGED TAXES.

I rally 100,000 Sal tf Hare Beea Wltahel tr Heirs of J. Fowler. Special TPUpatca to Tha Inter Ooan. LAFATETTE. Aug.

1L Interesting developments In a ease that has held the at tention, of Ohio and Indiana for years, and one that baa- excltad considerable interest elsewhere, because ot tb Issues involved. were made today when J. 8. Workman, a tax ferret, announced that ha would ask the assessor to hare placed on the tax duplicate omitted tax claims on the, Fowler estate. One of the features ot tha ease Is tbe probability of Moses Fowler Chase, tha missing millionaire, appearing In court.

If the case 1 left to tbe Circuit court, tbe young man will be summoned from bis retreat In France, and brought to Lafayette. His sanity, which bas been questioned, will then be tested. Tbe rumors ot what the attorneys would do la tbe Fowler will case were started afresh at the death of Mrs. Eluta Fowler, widow of James Fowler, one of tbe richest men in tbe state. ber will was probated a tew days ago, tbe tax ferret worked upoa the ease and found that property belonging to- tbe estate bad not been listed for taxes, and this omission, it Is said, dated back for tea years.

Tbe Inventory of James M. Fowler, executor of tbe estate of his mother, Mrs, Eliza Fowler, shows tbe value of ber estate to be Independent of real estate valued at over $10,000. In addition to this amount, tbe Inventory shows that tbe deceased gave sway during the year prior to ber death $19.000. Previous to ber death Mrs: Fowler bad In government bonds fully $300,000, but tbe records show that a portion of this was converted Into cash Oa April 1. 1902, Mrs.

Fowler had subject to taxation notes and mortgages amounting to J40.Q0O; cash In bank, $113,411: sales of realty, $308, tbe total being (153,919. This is tbe statement made by the tax ferret and bis accountants today. Tbe assessors' return show only $2160 listed for taxes, this amount Including mortgages, notes, aad cash la tbe bank. Tha rate of taxation for tbe year 1901 was $2.42. and If It Is to remain tbe same for tbe year 1402 the alleged delinquency of ten years would make the Issue Involved In tbe omitted tax claims considerably more.

If It Is proved that the omitted taxes amount to what the tax ferrets aad attorneys, both here and 'a Cincinnati, claim, tbe value of the estate will be reduced more than $100,000. This is tbe bone of contention. Tbe heirs will array their attorneys against the claim. Each heir to the estate will oe obliged to appear to contest tbe claim that the estate should be reduced In value to satisfy obligations to tbe county and elty. Assessor Nobes has set the case for hearing oa Aug.

18. In the nnl settlement of the Eliza Fowler estate one-third belonging to Moses Fowler Chase will have to be paid by the executors Into court. -This will necessitate tbe appearance of the young millionaire to claim his share of tbe distribution of the wealth. At that time, it Is claimed by attorneys, the sanity ot the young man will be determined. He will bo closely watched, and if there is any chance to prove Insanity his share of the estate will go to the guardianship ot his father.

Fred S. Chase. SHAW STUDIES CUBAN LOAN. Thiaks It Is 7iot Treasary Deaart-saeavt'a Jarlsdletiaa. WASHINGTON.

D. C. Aug. 11. Secretary Shaw has given some study to the matter of the proposed Cuban loan of $35,000,000, and has reached tbe conclusion that the questions Involved are not such as come within the Jurisdictioa cf the Treasury Department.

It is likely that tbe Secretary will so Inform the Secretary of State. TOUCHING VARIED TOPICS. If Minister Liang Cheng Tung makes, any mistakes they will be mere slips of the Tung. Anaconda Standard. Minister Wu Is accredited with tbe poses-sion of a long head, but when he gets home It may be cut short.

Anaconda Standard. Mr. Kipling Insists that wants to be let alone. But he bas signally failed la this respect to practice what be preaches. Atlanta JournaL A skeleton with aa eight-inch Jaw has been found In Texas.

Lots of good Senatorial timber was wasted ia tbe past. Baltimore American. General Buller has written cnother letter concerning tbe Ladysmlth affair. Tbe General should burn bis writing materials. Washington Post.

It looks very much as If Mr. Fltzsimmons owes his defeat to his attempt to amalaga- matt Bryanism and pugilism. Flu talked too muck. Washington Post. Next time Prince Henry visits this coon try be should send his presents in advance.

tnus ooviaiing loss or sleep in several communities. Baltimore American. The ma laters of tbe United States are In convention In Milwaukee. It Is entirely appropriate that a large snare of the Dro gram should Toe taken up with hops. Toledo ttiaae.

A Chicago man ia being sued for $50,000 by a woman claims that he attempted to kiss ber. It Is frightful to think of what ber claim might have beea bad be succeeded. Denver Post. John Mitchell betrays unmistakable symo- loms of being the ablest, the saaest, and tne most honorable labor leader that ever made bis appearance In the United States. Detroit Free Press.

Here Is a chanee for the Pullman company to get some new unpronounceable names for Its ears If It will look over tbe list of tbe Prince of Slam's suite that Is coming to this country Journal. Russell Sage was nearly killed while trying to board a street car the other day. This illustrates the folly of extravagance. Russell should save his nickels and walk. Des Moines Register and Leader.

Corporal Richard O'Brien has beea as-rested for perjury because ot false testimony la regard to Philippine affairs. He may get some of the antl-lmperlalists to bail him. Utlca tN. Herald-Dispatch. The report that Western capitalists have made about $40,000,000 by manipulating the stock of tbe Rock Island railroad Is possibly true.

All these rains and floods recently have made water cheap. Indianapolis News-There Is a watch being maintained on the membris of city council et Chicago- It Is. strangely enough, their operations cutslde. rather than within, tbe city limits tbat are under surveillance. St.

Paul Globe Col. Henry Waters on finds It embarrass ing to say anything further against Grover Cleveland ufittl Grover responds to the last sassing. And that's probably one reason Grover doesa't respond. Toledo (Ohio) Times. It is reported tbat Wu Ting Fang is to be elevated to greater position oa bis return to China.

It la to be hoped tbat the amiable Empress dowager will not conclude to elevate him clear. to heaven. Peoria Herald-Tranaerlpt. The mayor of Omaha says be would rather have the support of cne gambler than that of a dozen church people. He Is net tbe only mayor In tbe United States who depends upon the vicious to help him win elections.

Cleveland Leader. The Illinois republican make no mistake in securing Secretary Root as tha orator to open Their fall campaign. Mr. Root la fully as able a man as there Inthe Cabinet, being well fitted for any eae ot three very Important Cabinet positions the Attorney-Generalship, the War offlce and the State Department. His diplomacy la sending Got.

Tsftto Rome may be questioned by some, but no one in the administration surpasses him la devotion to It or in thee" Intellectual ability to serve It. Springfield (Mass.) Republlcsa. He "Was Handicaps. Kind Lady Here's a nickel for you, poor man. I suppose you would work if given a chance.

Tramp Dat I would, ma'am, but fer only one ing. Kind LslAy And what la that? Tramp Me pore mother made me promis dat 1 woulda take no cnaaces. PLAGUED BY DOGS, CATS, GOATS. Williams Sees Ma ay AM to Hit Trssklfl. "I am probably tbe most miserable ma a oa earth, for I have done nothing of late but battle with a swarm ot dogs.

cats, and goats that have Invaded my premises from every side." Charles Williams, 1249 Blue Island avenue, told Justice Dooley yesterday when seeking relief from dog taxes. aad yelping canines of every description from the eommoa yellow cur to the blood-thirsty bulldog make my sleeping boors toeg nightmares, aad I am almost drivea Insane. Back of WllUama' bouse la aa uninviting-looking garbage box that has drawn all tbe dogs, cats, and goats of tbe Beighborhood. Tbe man claims that sometimes tbe box Is almost completely bidden by tbe animals, which ewsrm around aad upon It, making tbe nlgbt hideous with their fighting, bowling, aad bleating. Williams says tbat tbe city sever empties the box, and that It bad become tbe favorite feeding spot tor all tbe half- starved aad homeless animals of tbe avenue.

Justice Dooley suggested tbat Williams try to drive them away. "Drive them away! sadly repeated Williams. "I have smashed sll my furniture and clubbed them with everything I could aad, but while I am chasing them out of one end of tbe alley a swarm ot recruits comes pouring ia from tbe other way." "You are certainly baring your troubles, Williams." said tbe Justice, but I doa't see how I can help you. Troubles," moaned Williams, "my backyard is full of trouble. I can't stand It any longer.

The dogs crawl under the bouse snd fight the cats. Tbe lean, hungry brutes perch on the window sills snd peep In at the win dows. I can't walk without having my legs half-knocked out frcm under me by some scurrying eat or dog. and the dyspeptic goats stand guard at the door stoop -whenever 1 try to get out- Tbe dogs bsve even invaded my house, and the goats bsve eaten up one of my mattresses. I sm afraid to leave tbe house, for fear they will devour tbe wall paper or dine on my best suit of clothes.

"They'll go away after awhile, said Justice Dooley, trying to comfort the man. "Tbat won't do any good. The police are coming every day to my house, and declare I must pay a license on every one of these 900 dogs tbat skulk around my yard. That's what I'm here for. I want tbe police to or ganise a big bunt and kill these animals off.

Tbe brutes bsve become so familiar tbat they follow me around, and I can't escape them. They all know tbe dog catchers, and wra't allow the men to get witbla a block of "I'll take tbe matter under advisement and see if I can help you." tbe Justice told tbe troubled men. "I will try to set Us the affair for you Aug. 19." PROFESSOR IS OWN CARPENTER. Dr.

Tkaasas W. Gaadaateed Reaaadela SBrasaaer Haas la Wlaeaasla. The University of Chicago, not tobe outdone by Northwestern, now boasts of a member of Its faculty who knows bow to ase carpenters' tools and can drive a nail without hitting bis thumb. Dr. Thomas W.

Good- speed, secretary of the board of trustees. Is tbe man tor the past three weeks, hae been working In his shirt sleeves sawing boards and using the plane In remodeling his summer home up on a small Island In north era Wisconsin. Dr. Good speed returned to the university yesterday, brown and tanned. When asked how mauy fish had caught during his vacation, tbe doctor, with a smile, said that It was precicus little fisblcg be bad done.

"I am engaged tn carpentering." be said, to the surprise of his questioner. I round that my house was too small that wa needed a new kitchen and a dining-room so I went to work to build what was needed. Out Into the forest went tbe white-haired secretary with one of his sons, a lawyer In Chicago, aad together they -felled trees to be used In building the addition. The- cool morning air resounded with the sharp blos of the scholar's Jteaa-ax. and the, twilight found him and his son drawing the results ef tbe day's work to the summer abode to be' used In making the improvements.

Slowly but surely, the doctor and his family saw the framework rise. It remained for other hands to complete the work begun, however, as Dr. Goods peed was called hack to Chicago by the death of Joseph Bond, a trustee of tbe divinity school. This week tbe doctor's nephew. Professor George Good-speed, John Mills, and one or two othor university men are going np to the Island and finish the kitchen aad dining-room.

UPHOLDS COLLEGE FOOTBALL Chaacellar Aadrewa Dtertti Ussod-tloa to- It ad at Ataletla Gaaae. College football, baseball, and other athletic games played by university men were vigorously defended by Chancellor R. Benjamin Aadrewa of the University of Nebraska yesterday afternoon ia a public lecture at the University of Chicago. Athletes and enthusiastic co-eds applauded the speaker's utterances. Chancellor Andrews declared that whenever he heard a mother say that her son could go to college, but must not play foot, ball, ha felt Ilka quarreling with ber.

"There are mothers." be declared, "who say their sons csn go to college, but cannot play football others who say that their boys must not climb trees or go swimming. This Is nonsense- Boys ought to be Inured to danger. "I thoroughly believe In football and baseball, especially the former sport- I should be glad to have every son ot mine, it I had a hundred or even a thousand, play football, and play it lustily. It Is a great game. I believe in it thoroughly." Turning bis attention from the physical training of young men.

Chancellor Andrews brought applause from the married teachers snd the unmarried schoolma'ams la the audience by giving It as his opinion that all men should marry If they hoped to attain to a full and complete manhood. "A men who goes through Ilto unmarried," he said, "tends to have a defect in his cbaraeter. He misses his full development. This applies to a woman also." MATTERS POLITICAL. Cannon's boom for the speakership resounds.

Utlca (N. Herald DUpatch. Tho Republicans didn't do a thing to those beet sugar Congressmen np In Michigan. Peoria Journal. Dreamocratle has been suggested as the name for the reorganised party.

Burlington Iowa) Hawk-Eye. Senator Burton continues to explain to Kansas Republicans; but the Insulation Meat off. aad the messages do not arrive. Deo Moines Register and Leader. Congressman "Joe" Cannon ought to be made speaker of tbe House In osso Speaker Henderson Is not renominated, and doubtless he will bi Springfield (111.) JouroalJ Thosa who fear that Cleveland may gaii.

aspire to- the Presidency do not know that gentleman well. He never aspires to anything he cannot get. Atlanta Constltntion The statement of Senator Burton that he favors reciprocity, but wants it to be Republican, reciprocity. Is rather superfluous There is no other kind of reciprocity. Kaa-saa City Journal.

Governor La Follette Is said to regard himself as a prime Presidential possibility. Perhaps the Hon. Magnus A. Hess was too precipitate to making his 1904 selections. Washington Post.

We cannot account for so many Democrats la Dickson county going Into the Republican party, except that they find the society of the Republicans more congenial than that of tbe Democrats. Dickson County (Tenn.) Press. Senator Cartnack says that Maine will go Democratic. If the Democrats pla thlr faith la carryiag the next Congress on such predictions they will be disappointed. Maine will go Republican this year Just as 1 bent" ss it did tor Governor Kent.

Dayton (Ohio) Herald. 4 Objection Is made, to ex-Secretary Olney as a Democratic eaadidate for President on the ground that he probably could not carry his owa state. According to this theory there is very little available Democratic material for President north of th Potomac river. Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. THE WHIRL OF SOCIETY i Back from the wilderness into tbe and on the very first day of the relntrodic-tioa aa interesting wedding toaaaouaee.

Tha bride Is MLu Sarah Crosby ot Oak Park, and tbe groom Mr. Benjamin F. Bock, principal of the Lake View high school. It will he a pretty summer affair, and will take place at Miss Crosby's summer borne at Saogatnek. Mich.

Miss Crosby Is tbe daughter of the late Frank Crosby, for many years one of the leading lawyers of Kane county, and belongs to tbe Massachusetts branch of the Crosbys, one of the old New England families. Mr. Buck a graduate of the University of Michigan and a native of that state. He has occupied the position of principal of the Chicago high schools for tbe past tea years. The bride has galaed a large circle ot friends aad admirers la Chicago and elsewhere by her work as aa.

artist. She has beea sn officer of the Barnes-Crosby artists snd engravers, for several years, aad will resume her business career at tbe close ot the honeymoon. uivufvi a rBT bcsi wil niuaaci dkk from the wilderness with me, too. Far be It from me to attempt to nass on so delicate a subject as a question of veracity between two estimable sportsmen, so the story may speak for Itself. To hark back a little, some friends of Mr.

John Ritchie may remember a gorgcou luncheon he gave some time last spring at the Press club. Tbe provender consisted ot two colossal snd noble baas which John had brought down with him that morning from Channel lake. Now everybody knows that there Is no gamer fisherman or truer-hearted gentleman than Mr. Ritchie, and the mcdecty with which he received the congratulations onahls skill in this case conld not have been Improved upoa. So.

then, on ray way back from tbe wilderness yesterday I stepped at that very picturesque spot. Antloch. remaining there long enough to meet John Morley and some other tbor-ooghbreds. Mr. Morley you may remember my telling about last winter also a skilled fisherman and a raiser of gamecocks.

Now John Morley loves and respects John Ritchie, and as we talked or the latter'a many virtues I stoke casually of the Una luncheon we had enjoyed from tho fish he had caught. The other John's brow darkened. He shifted his quid as hs asked rather bitterly: "Dlu John Ritchie say he caught those fish? Re-cause. If he did, Jotn's rod and line mast have reached all tbe way from Chicago. He was there when I caught 'em and sent 'eiu down to him on Ice." Now what'Il faappea when the two Johns meetT Lake Forest bas perhaps bad the creamiest country club eights to show this season.

This, I suppose, because its gilt-edged aristocracy bas dispensed with some of Us ex-clusiveness and issued invitations with a more liberal hand. Tbe horse show broke some records, and tbe women's golf tournament promises to break some more. The tournament opens on Tuesday, Aug. Zt, and will continue until tbe following Saturday. The following matrons will act as entertainers for the club during tournament week: Mrs.

James C. Evans, Mrs. Edward S. Adams, Mrs. George McKlnlock, Mrs.

L. Thompson. nd Mrs. Richard BUsell. Added to all thia I here will be cross-country riding, and everybody knows that means smart people and smarter clothes while the ruction lasts.

Also a few spills, possibly; though let's hope sou Pleasant to come and find that nice people are still getting married. A pretty wedding of afternoon was that which united Miss Amy Hollnger, daughter of A. Holinger, 8 a Us consul, of 917 Hamilton court, to Dr. Rudolph Peschanof Milwaukee. It was a hoin-reddliig eelsbraud la the presence of the families aad a.

few intimate friends. Justice Max Eberhardt officiating. The ceremony was followed by a dinner for the bridal party and wedding guests and in the evening there was a reception to which 200 were Invited. Miss Sophie Hollnger. a sister of the bride, served as maid of honor and Eugene HUdebrand was best man.

Miss Ida Hollnger. another sister, was the only bridesmaid and Hans Relnhart of Milwaukee was groomsman. Green and wblte prevailed la the decorations, white carnations and asparagus ferns being prettily combined to carry out thia color scheme. Dr. and will leave for a honeymoon in the Dalles of Wisconsin and wlU be st borne In Milwaukee after Sept.

V. Miss Clara Fchleslngr will be marrUJ to Mr. Osear J. Friedman At 6: $0 this evening, la the preaencs of I ho fanily only, at tha residence of tha bride parents, ssos Michigan avenue- The engagement la announced of Miss Stella Ann Leach, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Jcbts Usaeb. of Burlington. to Mr. Max E. Peltier of Chicago.

The wed. ding will take place In tbe latter part of September. Mrs. Alfred Edwards. 29S Fifty-Third street, wnnounces the marriage ot her daughter.

Mua Ismeaa Edwards, to Mr. James Keator. The wed ling took plate Aug. at St. Paul's church.

Kenwood. Mr. an! Mrs. Keator are spending their honeymoon at the Eastern resorts, and wUl be away three, weeks. Th Walter Dupoes are at Green Lake, with Mrs.

Dupee's sister. Miss Kcnnctt. tor company. Young Mr. Dupee is not as big aa Herculee.

but he is one of tbe smartest skipper usually seen ia those parts, and that's saying a good deaL He has one of his white-winged flyers with hlm. Colonel and Mrs. Robart Roe and daughter of the Kenwood hotel have changed thelf plans ot travel, and Instead of going to Saratoga left last week for Lake George, N. Y. Mr.

and Mrs. Simeon B. Chapln have visiting them at Lake Geneva Mr. and Mrs. Tracy Lay Turner.

Miss May CountUs, and Mr- F. IK Count iss. -f Movements of some ot the others: Mr. and Mrs. J.

H. Eckels. Mr. snd Mrs. Orville Bab-cock, aad Mr.

D. M. Plaoe were guests ot Mrs. Joha Dupee at Edgemoor, OconomOwoc, last week. Dr.

and Mrs. Franklin H. Mar-Ua left Saturday for a two weeks' outing In northern Michigan. Mr. and Mrs.

Truman O. Palmer are at Galea hall, Atlantic City. N. J. Miss Harriet Palmer, superintendent ot the Visiting Norses association, has gone to the coast of Maine for a vacation ot several weeks.

Mrs. A. Becker of Richmond. Va-, Is visiting bar sister. Mrs.

George M. Drake. 91 Flournoy atrset. Mr. and Mrs.

William H. Swift, 4112 Drexel boulevard, arrived last vr. nA mill star the rest of tha summer. Dr. and Mrs.

Benjamin Hotchkln, 3SS1 Kenmore avenue, Edgewa-ter, hare gone to the Pacific coast for a month. General Walter C. Newberry and Miss Newberry of the Virginia hotel are at Mackinac. Mrs. James Mix snd Mrs.

Howard Gallup are spending tbe summer at St. Clair Springs. Mich. Mr. Marshall Field has lately arrived at Claridge's hotel.

London. Interesting Item from a eon temporary: Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Dresden have sold their residence, 121 West Adsms street, to Arthur C. Probert.

M. D. They will move to their country home. Castle Rest. Niles.

-Mth leaving today. Ther daughter. Miss Plondoa Stevens, baa been spending a few dsys at Highland Park. Although the Drcsdens will not longer be residents ot Chicago they expect to spend a few months each winter here-." Home, sweet WILLIE PBAKBUKM. Anarchy," said the cynical codger? "meani not tbe division of wealth with your fellow-men, but his division with you.

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