The age-herald., 1902-03-16
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT HAVANA CIGARS
 AND NEWSPAPERS AND MANY OTHER THINGS

It's closing remarks to the public it an- nounces that the doctors of this country owe 1t ssO,OOO for subscriptions which they contracted to pay, but for which they hava failed to remit.
 So while doctors don't always collect from their patients 1t will be seen that they are sometimes bad pay themselves, and that there are many of them. In fact, this medical journal says that 5000 of them have tailed to pay up, and there fore 1t has to retire from the arena of publicity
 I learn from the newspapers that Will liam Jennings Bryan is making 2o,ooo year on the lecture platform. Perhaps he Is making an equal amount from the publication of the Commoner. This Is far better than being presidential candidate, and is in a measure more profitable than holding a seat in Congress.
 Perhaps MT. Bryan has abandoned his presidential aspirations for the present at least He retains his personal dislike to David Bennett Hill with the same vigor of former years. He is equally antago- nistie to German. Bryan seems deter mined to have the old contest over again, rega1 dless of whether or not he Is in the race as the standard bearer. He appar- entiy sticks to the old lines upon which he made his contest in 1896 and 1900. though the necessities which brought about the platform at that time seem to have passed entirely away. The policy of the Democratic leaders in Congress-and they are the spokesnen of the Democratic party today--is in favor of making the next campaign upon the tariff issue en- tirely. Even Senator Jones of Arkansas who was chairman of two national Dem- ocratic campaign committees which advo- cated MT. Bryan for President, admits and urges in a recent article that the tar if is and shall be the pain issue in the next campaign. He says that the silver question has passed out for the present . on account of the fact that sufficient gold has been coined in the past several years to form full standard for the currency of this country. The worlds coinage of gold in 1899 aggregated $466 000,00O. It has averaged almost this amount annually for ln6 pdSI three UT AodA yCoAo eAAi~ N-0 NN crease in the volume of standard money has been such as to relieve the dearth of money and increase prices so that there is no pressing demand at this time for furtrer increase in coinage.
 Thus it would seem that the next con test for the Presidency between the Dem ocratic and Republican parties will be based along the old lines upon which the two parties were founded. The tariff will be the issue and no one at this time can tell who will be the candidate. In all probability, however, the Democratic can didate will be an eastern man; one in whom the business interests of this country have thorough and complete con- fidence.
 The news from South Africa is to the effect that Cecil Rhodes, the South Af- rican multi-milionaire, is dying. Rhodes is said to be worth hundred million dollars or more. He is said to be the richest individual in the world. It was upon his advice that England entered upon the South African war.
 Cecil Rhodes dies practically without ar heir. He has no children, and the world is today speculating as to who will be the beneficiary of his fortune.