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I J. Do you think enthusiasm is greater than laughter? Thla or euros y rerlem department la for co operation In Informa tion on t A anemlea of easy error I ami fr lentil of forethought, to re'luca Mutually ex penal ea mistokea. it ia for mechanical, com mercial ant I profea aionnl people; th in iHritltiiit emnlouer. ,or, 18725 smptoy ami euatomrr; anil consists of extracts Hit en o permiesun from tha copyriijhtad letter a. Jie lectures, notebooks and libraries of f'arl .V. Pratt, (tat llirk. Illinois. Its is hunting tha rhota mtrlit orrrfor information of erery day to yon, ami he reijrets his inability, personalty 'a reply to contributors. So far as possibla ha fishes to hare in this apnea tha rery Men you, roul.it ie to Untl ht re. You are at liberty to send tin ant svrrjefion yon may cars to. Ilia roller 'ion mil slitt.eil in WJ ami now eontaina un published information ilatinrj bark to t7:i. with utstemntir plans extending to I.VJ. Your short tfartf of soma exumpla of forethought giren to tim iwfjy prora to lie your moat tul'iitbla ijift tee i her a. Men, Methods and Work. The manager, for a very successful coney maker, said that he worried aver the bis things, while his employ er worried over the little things. The manager got along with the employes and the details better than the proprietor did. but the proprietor got along with the whole business much better than the manager could. Some men can keep anything run ning lovely if some cane else will only we that pay day is passed in good shape. The roan able, to attend to pay-day requirements might rattle the whole concern If he were to see to little things. A man able to make a hundred dol lars an hour may be able to hire for hundred dollars a month a man who can do some things better than the employer can do them. Few are able to get a living doing just wh.it they want to do. and very f;w are willing to limit their efforts to the things they can do the best. One man told me that more men failed in his line of work for lack of ability to handle men than for any other or all other reasons. Few men know how to interest, animate, educate, and keep on good terms with other men. In some cases the more you know the more in the liackronn I you have to go. due it may be t: having more knowledge than skill. In one case, of an unpopular fore man going on a vacation and a popu lar workman taking his place for the day. the product was over twenty per cent more than usual. If ten thousand men of all kinds should find themselves out of work, one might create ideas, another exe cute them, another organize and man age the others. Some could do some part3 of the de tail work twice aa well as some of the others could. One would be a good buyer of material and another a good collector of accounts. Some would win honors and some would get disgraced, but they would finally drift or climb, fall or jump, to positions Just as we find them to-day. Only this difference the successful might make better use of their success and the failures profit by their ex pensive experiences more than they have been doing during this century. If this possibility were to.be ac complished the next century would be moro than a hundred years ahead, and :he common humdrum life would be juit3 ideal. if our best Intelligence were to ac company our every action much would te done. We all know why things are not better than they are. Hard to Believe. 1. That any one would try to start an orchard by planting dried apples. 2. That any one would stock a mule stock farm with mules. 3. That people would make a hole 'n the ground to fill another and keep Dn till they ran the hole out of town. 4. That a man would move his office furniture and also his telephone with out notifying the telephone company nd then complain to the company :hat the telephone was no good that 't had not worked since he moved. But thl la.it act is on record and dupli cated. Get the Right Plow. It is without doubt unwise to turn bacic or look back after you hare put rour hand to the plow, but a great many have taken another plow ami done the world good and cut out a nick for themselves in a manner sur prising to all their friends. An author says: "The three de crees of a lawyer's progress are get ring on, getting honor, getting hon ?st." Sunday Recreation. Statistics say that Monday Is the jareless day of the week and tke day Tor mistakes and accidents. This nust be due to people using Sunday to ?et untuned rather than to become ,etter tuned- How is It with the vio 1n and strings? Is it better to loosen :he strings when not in use or should .he instrument be kept all the time n tune? I may select Sunday for i subject in order to learn how to ise the day to my profit. I heard vtoody say that he had learned by ex erience that be could not preach leven days a week and keep free from leadaches. The teacher and preacher ive the longest of any class of work ;rs. so the hint from Mr. Moody is vorth remembering. What do you (now about Sunday recreation? Dumplings. Once upon a time a good cook tried x make dumplings without baking xwder and another one spilt all the ream she had for her own breakfast, .hough cream is nine-tenths of her jreakfaat. Many times.we do the last 'Jtl&K we want to do. Questions. Can you report something which was fine In theory but a fizzle in prac tice? What is your remedy for serious trouble due to foolish sport? What have you learned by expensive experience? What do you want to know which you would be willing others should know? Are you willing to join us In build ing lighthouse thoughts on life's dan gerous rocks? Are little errors the sources of big mistakes? Can you recall a laughable laugh last event? Have you a record of a fakir's funny reasoning? How could the accidents you know about have been prevented? Have you spoken to a stranger while thinking him an acquaintance? Have you been Injured while watch ing to see if some other person would get injured? Can you think of a good illustration of profitable politeness? Old or new or both. What are two or three of the difficulties you have to contend with in your work? . Lending Money. Years ago I read that a young man should be satisfied with a low and safe rate of interest and take the advice of those more experienced to not know it all. I have been very fortunate in not losing money lent to friends. Fre quently. I give small sums to old friends who are now deadbeats and wish to borrow for a few hours or days. I never get such sums back and never expect to when I let it go. ' But whenever I have lent $50, more or less, to a friend and expected it oack it has come. I think this is due to my use of a discriminating judgment before lending. Once it cost me a good deal over a thousand dollars cash to dis obey my better judgment and go into a side-line business with a friend. I did not get the counsel of those to whom I should have gone, and I re fused to follow my own feelings. I was "roped" in by talk. Health Helps Money Making. I began talking with a man soon after we left the morning train, and some remark brought up the subject of his health. He said: "I have not been feeling well for three weeks." "Your health is generally good, isn't it?" " i es, I am usually as strong as an ox, but I have been working too hard and I wish my vacation came to-day in place of a month from to-day." "How to take care of yourself while you overwork, is a pretty good subject to study." "Yes, I should say it was. I sleep pretty well, although I dreamt last night that I was a cashier in a bank and was taking an inventory of the stock when the papers in the safe caught fire." The Man Himself Studies. "What Is the cause of criminal care lessness?' Two years ago a man ask ed me the above question. He had been having trouble and I have been thinking about the subject ever since. It may be due to ignorance. Some claim that people are not as good nor as bad a3 they appear to be If we knew more we would be better. But we will know more if we are any good and have our goal in i'ne right place. The idea that experience is a dear school but fools will learn in no other, might be revised to read: It Is a wise man who learns by experience; fools never learn. Though a man is not to be blamed for being born ig norant, he can be blamed for re maining ignorant, and continued or repeated carelessness may be called criminal. One's Sphere of Usefulness. One of the most important things for us to learn early, is what we are able to do and not to do. As for my self, I believe I was born without a sense of money value, and as I look back and note my expenditures and in vestments, I feel that I might have had a nice little property to-day had I put my wasted dimes and dollars reg ularly in some trustworthy place. It has taken me a quarter of a century to recognize my inability to lend mon ey commercially, or in a wise way so cially, and I feel like saying to all young people the quicker you can find out what you can do well, and what you are unable to do well, the better It will be for you, A Good Team. "Seize upon truth where'er 'tltr found, among your friends, among your foes; on heathen or on Christian ground, the flower's divine wheie'er it grows. a "Gems of price are deeply hidden, 'neath the rugged rocks concealed. What would ne'er come forth unbid den to thy search may be revealed." Placing Savings in Safety. There are thousands of men who are recognizisc the value of tying money up in s. ?afe place so that they cannot get at it when tempted by some wild scheme. They can borrow money on it, but they cannot destroy the deposit in any way for a number of years. . Corn-Made Memory. A student thought he had his les son, but when recitation time came he found he was mistaken. He went to his room, got 100 kernels of corn and used them to repeat his lesson 100 times. He had not forgotten it V ty years after. IIIIIIIIIMMIHIICIIIIH : : THE LIVE STOCK MARKET. I LatisC Quotations Trom South Omaha and Kansas City. l I I I I II I I I II I II I I I II 9 1 1 1 SOUTH OMAHA. CATTLE There was only a fair run of rattle and as a result the market held up In very satisfactory manner and an early clearance was made. There were just few loads of cornfed b tears on tha market and they sold freely at steady prices. There was not bins; strictly cholca on sale, but atill some cattle were offered good enough to bring f V20. Tha cow market was ateady and a ltttle stronger than yesterday's lata market. There were not very many on sale and, as all tha buyers seemed to want a few. It was only a short time before everything was disposed of. Bulls, veal calvea and staga all commanded about steady prices. There were not very many stockers and feeders In the yards, but speculators did not seem to be very anxious for them.' The choicest bunches did not sell a great deal lower, but most of the offerings were of common quality and they were very slew and a little lower than yesterday. Western grass beef steers were In light supply, but anything at all good sold at steay prices. In fact there was no quot able change on any kind. HOGS Thera waa a moderate run of hoes here and the drop In prices was at Ust temporarily stopped. The market opened Jut about steady. If there was any charge a SlJ l w3 a l!ttt better feeling on tha lighter weights, while the heavy hogs were sticky, or In othr words It was h&rd to get ateady prices for them. That was particularly true to ward the close and in fact the heavy hogs sold a little weaker at the last end. Trading was not active at any time. SHEEP Quotations for grasa stock: Choice western lambs. S4.75ft5.00; fair to food lambs, S4.504.75; choice yearlings, $3.6083.85: fair to good yearlings, $3.40 I.C0; choice wethers. S3.3og3.60; fair to good wethers. $3.1503.33; choice ewes, $3.00 33.25; fair to good ewes, S2.651f2.90; choice feeder lambs, $4.2574.50; fair to good feed er lambs. l3.-tf1.00; feeder yearlings. $3.25 S3. CO; feeder wethers, S3.00fe3.2e; feeder awes, $1.502.50. Kansas crrr. OATTLK Corn-fed grassers and win tered westerns, weak; " quarantine, steady; western cows, active and steady; tockers eod feeders, steady. Choice ox port nd dressed beef steers, $4.505.50; fair to good, $4.154.50; stockers and feed rs, $2.25(54.00; western-fed steers, $2.30'3 4.75; Texas and Indian steers, $1.75'H3.0O: Texas cows, $l.eoi2.15; native cows, $1.50 CT3.73; native heifers, $2.400.4.00; canners, 1.0y&2.35; bulls, $2.COCa4.00; calves, $1.00 G.00. HOGS .Market weak to 10c lower; top, $5.65; bulk of sales'; $5.3015.55; heavy, $5.00 5.40; mixed packers, fo.Zo'iib.bo; light, $5. 37,,'fi"t!.t5; porkers, $5.556.65; pigs, 13.40Q) 6.55. SHEEP AND LAMBS Market Steady; native lambs, $3.2of5.35; western lambs, $2.501 5.15; fed ewes. $2.30tt3.75; Teaxs clipped yearling;, J2.5lK5i4.UO; Teaxs clipped sheep ,$2,4513.75; stockers and feeders, $2,0053.50. BREAK PRISON AT SALT LAKE. One Killed, Five Wounded and Two Escape During Fight. SALT, LAKE CITY As a result of a well organized and partly success ful attempt at a wholesale delivery of risoners at the Utah state peni tentiary Friday night one prisoner was killed, one guard was shot and another man was beaten almost into insensibility, three prisoners were wounded and two others under death sentences escaped. The dead: Frank Dayton, serving a twelve-year term for attempted high way robbery. The wounded: Guard Wilkins, shot in leg; Guard Jacobs, badly beaten by convict3; Convict Ed Mullen, serving a three-year term for burglary, shot in leg; Convict Abe Majors, serving life term for murder of Captain Brown of the Ogden police, shot in army; Harry Waddell, serving seven-year term for burglary. The escaped: Nick Hepworth, sen tenced to death for the murder of Night "Watchman Kendall, in Layton, Utah; James Lynch, sentenced to death for the murder of Colonel Prow seya. a gambler, in this city three Tears ago. Slashed Portraits of Emperors. BERLIN A youth was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for slashing with a knife one after an other a r6w of portraits of the Ger man emperors hanging in the town hall at Nuremberg. Stalwart Sells for $12,000. NEW YORK A mixed sale of race horse3 was held in the paddock at Morris Park, and high prices ruled. The feature of the sale was the auc tion of Stalwart, winner of the Cham pagne stakes, who brought 112.000. Wreck Home of Constable. JOPLIN, Mo. Tne home of Foster AlcConnell, a constable near ! --3.was wrecked by dynamite. Mr. McCon oell's two little children w" hurt, but the other members of tLj lamily escaped injury. Searching for Fugitive-!. MANILA At the request o. 'Tover uor Taft, Admiral Stirling has detach ed two gunboats, Isla de Cuba t J Pam pamga, to Samar to search the -eigh-boring waters for the little steamer Victoria, with Johnston and Herman, the defaulting constabulary, on hoard. The coast guard vessel has also been sent out to overtake the fugitives If . possible. No word of their where abouts has. yet been received from any source. Shakeup on Rock Island. TOPEKA. Kan. It is stated on good authority that three Rock Island division superintendents Have reign ed their positions in compliance? v.-ith ramesta from headquarters at Chi cago. They are: J. H. Colin, superirv ) tendent of the El Paso division, with i headquarters at Dalhart, Tex.; A. T. AAbot, superintendent of the Ccloradc division at Colorado Springs, ar.d C. H. Nichols, superintendent of the. Ne braska division. "'''''"'"'"aasBMs'aBB 111 M PSft Commoner PREACHING AND PRACTICE. In a recently delivered speech Mr. Roosevelt said: "I want to see men decent; I want to see them act squarely. "You know I am very fond of Mr. Riis, and the reason is that when I preach about decent citizenship I can tarn to him anu thinn he has practiced just what I have been preaching. The worth of any sermon lies in the way in which that sermon can be and is ap plied in practice." The Philadelphia Public Ledger, a republican paper, makes an interesting comment on this address, under the head-line, "The President as a Preach er." Vine Puoiic Ledger says the peo ole will not tire of the sermonizing jabit if Mr. Roosevelt "makes or mere ly tries to make a practical applica tion of these fine principles." But the Public Ledger holds it to be "as clear as day that the president of the United States has no warrant to go about the country urging the American people, who ire sound and decent too, in the main, to be decent and patriotic and politically clean, if he continues to strike hands with Addicks of Dela ware, or even permits his postmaster general to use. the whole power of his administration for the purpose of strengthening the Addicks faction in Deleware. We say 'continue' for the resignation of William Michael Byrne from the office of district attorney of Delaware recalls the fact vividly enough that -- was the president who placed Byrne in the position." . This republican newspaper throws a bit of light on Mr. Byrne when it directs attention to the fact that Byrne came into notice as an anti-Addicks republican, and was given the post of district attorney as a memoer of the opposition of that faction. In 1899 Mr. Byrne said: "The party can and ought to be unit ed, but any attempt to unite it by cor rupt bargain in advance, to give the senatDrship to Addicks, will be indig nantly repudiated by all who carry conscience into the discharge of their public duties." The Public Ledger says that after all this Byrne "went over to the Ad dicks camp, accepted he nomination for congress from the band and served the useful and vindictive purpose of defeating the regulars and seating a democrat." The Public Ledger ex presses the wish that Mr. Roosevelt will be strong enough to break away from the Addicks gang, but in the event that Mr. Roosevelt continues to affiliate with that "gang" the Public Ledger says: "Let us have no more sermons, saj we. Mr. Roosevelt ought to be quite will ing to yield to the very reasonable de mand made by the Public Ledger, for it was Mr. Roosevelt who said, and we think he has repeated the statement on several occasions. "Words are good when backed by deeds and only so." But the editor of the Public Ledger is not the only republican who is be ginning to understand that as an orator Mr. Roosevelt is given to sermonizing while as a public official he is not in clined to back up his words by deeds. PAYNE'S MANY BLUNDERS. "For a practical politician of na tional prominence," says the Pittsburg Dispatch, "Postmaster General Payne is exhibiting remarkable propensity for committing Irretrievable and most damaging political blunders. No soon er is he through explaining his pre mature charactization of the scandal which has already resulted In a dozen Indictments as 'hot air' than he finds himself involved in a scarcely less com promising' complication over the use of the spoils system In Delaware. And as in the department investigation, with each attempt at explanation he manages to enmesh himself more deep ly." If the financiers are permitted to borrow money from the government at a low rate of interest to loan to -the ir pie at a high rate of Interest, the. v.ill see to it that the people are al ways taxed enough to keep a big sur plus in the treasury. Kill the Aldr:.ca bill. It is a criminal offense In Hungary to lend money at usurious rates. Per haps Mr. Shaw is acting under the be lief that the same thing obtains in this country. That might explain why he lets the banks off so easy. If Mr. Shaw has more money on hand than he knows what to do with he can find a place for it in Ohio. The gyrations of Messrs. Herrick, Hanna and Dick indicate that they realize that they must do something. Republican financiers are too busy working for a bank currency to explain why the increased price of silver is not due to the Increased demand for it for coinage purposes. If the Pultizer school of journalism is not already "supplied Governor Pen nypacker would like a position in the cartoon department. Comment. AN IDEAL DEMOCRAT. General Buckner, who was the Cleve land candidate for vice-president in 1896, has taken the stump in Kentucky in favor of the republican nominee for governor. General Buckner insist ed that he was a democrat in 189G, al though he refused to support the demo cratic national ticket. General Buck ner has been referred to by the Cleve landites as an "ideal democrat." Per haps by giving his support to the re publican nominee for governor in Ken tucky. General Buckner is making a desperate effort to live up to this repu tation in a way that will be eminently satisfactory to the Clevelandites.- ONE FEATURE OF IMPERIALISM A number of Filipinos who have been sent to this country to work i:p cti the Philippine village at the St. Louis exposition, have been detained at San Francisco by the immigratiorr officials. The Atlanta Constitution asks: "Do the immigration laws of this country exclude the Filipinos from coming to this country to exercise the blessed privilege of obtaining work? Are the inhabitants of those Pacific islands over which the American flag flies extended no greater consideration than that given paupers of Europe who seek admission to our shores? Is that the law; or is all this trouble due to ignorance or incompetence on the. part of some immigration officials?" Under the republican policy the inhabitants of those Pacific islands over which the American flag flies are subjects and not citizens. They must be content with whatever form of government we choose to give them; and while we will insist upon implicit obedience to our authority, we do not give them the rights which we claim for ourselves, and which are conferred upon the American citizen. To be sure that is not American doctrine, but it is one of the features of imperialism. 1892 AGAIN. Some of the gold papers are still harping upon Mr. Bryan's vote for Weaver in 1892. The election in 1896 showed that Mr. Weaver was a better democrat than Mr. Cleveland, butyit is not necessary to fall back upon this fact to justify the action taken by the democrats of Nebraska in 1892. The democratic electors only polled 24.943 votes in Nebraska in 1892. while the re publican electors polled 87,218, and the populist electors 82.134. If the vote represented the party division in the state as it then existed, the republicans had a plurality of more than 62,000 over the democrats, while the repub lican plurality over the populist vote was only 4.902. In the face of these figures it must be admitted that tne democrats very wisely attempted to de feat the republicans by voting the pop ulist ticket with the hope of throwing the election into the house of repre sentatives (where the democrats had a clear majority), or, if the gold bugs refuse to accept that interpretation of it. they must admit mat Nebraska's protest against Mr. Cleveland was a very forcible one, even as far back as 1892. If the friends of Mr. Cleveland will compare his vote in Nebraska in 1888 with his vote in 1892 they will be glad to find some explanation that will account for the tremendous shrinkage. The actual explanation as well as the most reasonable one is that the na tional committee advised the democrats of Nebraska, as it did the democrats of several other western states, to vote for the populist electors with the hope of securing the election of a democratic president in the house of representa tives in case no candidate had a ma jority in the electoral college. Cuban reciprocity shoud appear to be satisfied with a position in the "also mentioned" class. strange that there shouM be those who view with alarm President Roose vit' action' in the case of Mrs. Todd. Tne Clarkson and Payc appointments Lhouid have prepared thera lor almost any kind of a wrench of the merit svstem. The steel trust magnates want the government to provide the elastic cur rency. They feel amply aoie to provide the elastic securities. Organize and prevent disorganiza tion through reorganization. The invention does not have to be of much account in order to get it taken up by the postoffice department. The only thing is ability to make the deal with the right people. The Indianapolis Sentinel tells a vol ume in a sentence when it says that our chief trade with the Philippines is exporting live soldiers to them and im porting dead soldiers from them. The only difference between the General ' Buckner of 1903 and the General Buckner of 1896, is that the General Buckner of 1903 has laid aside his democratic mask LEGITIMATE BANKING. The Wall Street Journal accuses Mr. Bryan of being opposed to banks, and then it proceeds to quote Daniel Web ster on the usefulness of banks. The trouble with the Wall Street Journal is that it forms its opinions without regard to facts, and then in flicts those opinions upon the public. Mr. Bryan is not opposed to banks, and nothing that be has ever said can be tortured into support of the Journal's statement. Mr. Bryan is opposed to banks of issue,' and in that position he has honorable company. Whether Dan iel Webster can be included In that number is not a matter of vital im portance, but it is certain that Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson were among the number of those who op posed banks of issue, and they are quite as good company, at least from a democratic point, as Daniel Webster and the Wall Street Journal. The democratic party is not opposed to banks of deposit and discount, nor is It opposed to the use of credit. There is no reason, however, why the gov ernment should loan the people's money to the banks and thus put the national treasury under the control of the financiers. DURBIN OR FULFILLMENT. In an address delivered at Atlantic City, Governor Durbin of Indiana de clared that the time lias come for wider recognition of the fart that gen uine patriotism consists "not merely in careless acceptance of our constitu tion and passive compliance with our laws, but that the complete fulfillment of the obligations of citizenship means the exertion of an active Influence in behalf of the laws and the institutions which give to citizenship its value." What about the complete fulfillment of the obligations of the executive? Does that not mean "the exertion of an ac tive influence in behalf of the laws and the institutions which give to citizen ship its value?" Then why docs the governor of Indiana exert an active in fiuence against the laws and the insti tutions which give to citizenship its value, by refusing to surrender Taylor, Kentucky's notorious fugitive from jus tice? "ALONE IN CUBA." Mr. Roosevelt cast reflections upon Admiral Schley, the hero of Santiago Bay. permitting General Miles to retire after forty- years of faithful service with no more recognition than a brief and formal order issued by a discredV Ited subordinate, and in his address at the Antietam celebration. Ignored the name of General McCleMan. Can it be possible that the reputed author of Alone in Cuba imagines, that the candle dip can be kept burning on San Juan Hill only by obscuring the blaze upon mountains? "THIS DISHONEST GAME." The Buffalo (N. Y.) Courier say?: "Why persist in classing E3 democratic papers such as do not support demo cratic platforms and tickets? This dis honest game no longer fools anybody." The same thought has occurred to a great many democrats, and it is sin cerely to be hoped "this dishonest game no longer fools anybody." But the simple truth is that the dishonest game has in the past fooled a number of people. The democratic club of Oreenille, Hunt county. Tex., has adopted rcto- lutions reaffirming their faith In. tha Kansas City platform, denouncing the attempts of the reorganizes, and tak ing the people's side of the various state questions which are at Issue. Of course the trust will not be able to make the "let well enough alone" plea stick when Mr. Hanna's agent shows up with the fryingpan. If the slump in steel is the result of a bear move on the part of Mr. Rocke feller, it is high time that Mr. Morgan change his manner of living. Mr. Dick gave every reason but the right one why he will not let Messrs. Hanna and Herrick meet Messrs. John son and Clarke on the stump. The real reason is that Mr. Dick "dassn't." Battles are won by organized armies. Organise a democratic - club in your voting precinct and organize for the political battle of 1904. Of course, in view of that flag inci dent, President Roosevelt paid bis rail road fare when he returned to Wash ington from Oyster Bay. A republican organ asserts that Mr. Knox is spitting on his hands prepar atory to tackling the coal trust. The trouble is that Mr. Knox's exertions are confined to exercising his salivary glands. The "race problem" now confronting Mr. Hanna is not a question of black, although a question of color. It Is making Mr. Hanna feel blue. Mr. Shaw will find it difficult to con vince the people that flat injected by the banks is vastly superior to fiat in jected by the government. ' PROSPERITY IN NORTHWEST. MltclicIL South Dakota, Kept. Z? ' The South Dakota Idea this year f impliaalze the itches of this r' When It Is confidently staled U.f yr for tho lxth coimicuilvr South Dakota v 111 lead ail other In the greatest pr capita wr( can readily be understood wby Dakota la ambitious to advert' cropa and resources. The report of a fortnight ago rega. Ing the heavy fall of snow and dam'' age done to the crops by frost, now appears to have been a falsa alarm. This Is the Judgment of a party of newspaper men and representative of the Chicago, Milwaukee St. Paul Ry. who have made a trip of more than 1.200 miles through the state during the last ten days. Tho greatest esti mate of damage that la now made by those In a position to know Is, three per cent damage to corn crop of tke state. In the rich agricultural section. In the valley of the Missouri Hiver, cropa appear to splendid advantage. Occasionally one finds fields where' there has been perhaps too much wa ter and the crops are somewhat late, but this is the exception. The following is a conservative esti mate of the products of tbo statu and their value for 1903: Product. riushPls. Vslu. Wheat M.0.oo 3S.l,WlO Corn w.m).ai zl.0'),O Oats Jo.uoO.M ll.uiO.Oiw Harley ll.WiO.0w i.ipst.mu Klax 2MK Z.iKW.tHW Hye i.ieM.V.O ifrl.iNU Live stork ll.iofi.iM Dairy unJ croitmrry 7.tMKi,o)0 Kggs and poultry H.ixxi.imi Hay 12. ', X0 Wool and hides l.H'Ki.ixx) Oardrn products and fruit 4,X.uui Minerals, stone and cement IZ.wu.ouu Total 41111,4551 While corn is the second product In total value, tho 1903 crop shows an Increase of about thirteen and a half million bushels over the crop of 1902. At the rate corn ia being increased In acreage, tike prediction that corn will be king In South Dakota within a few years, wems to b reasonable. The total production of new wealth for 1902 was $119,949,000. The increase of nearly 927,000,000 of UjU year is sufficient answer to the derogatory ro rxjrts about the etate that livo ap peared within the last fortnight. Perhaps a stronger argument in favor of the statu is Known In an ex amination of the bank dcpoHita. In ..uly, 1901, South Dakota banks had deposits amounting to 9-4.0oo,000.0; on July 1, 1902, tlir.se amounted to $30,000,000.00, and on July 1, 1903, to f32.O00.OOO.OO. In addition to the mony In rorn, wheat and the gold of the Black Illlls, which has been termed the richest one hundred square nillen in th world, there Is good money In South Dakota cattle. Men who hnvj come to South Dakota without money, and who now count their dollars with five figures, say that raising cattle Ih tlu only business in the world for which a man cen borrow hia entire capita'. It is a fact 'hat South Dakota banka are glad to help any Ik ncKt, JndiiHili-. aus young man, who comes well rc-oni-m en led for his commercial Integrity, in cattle business and accept his cat tle as collateral. A banker of IpK wich told your correspondent tliut dur ing twenty yearB of such loans ho hud not lout one cent and he could nam by the score young men who lind h-r-tird from South Dakota Iianka tho price of their llrKt rnd of cattle. A visit to the cattle ranch of Lee & Prentis near Vermillion, S. D., wni one of the interesting feature tf tho above mentioned trip. Lee & Prentis ere the largest catt.e breeders In aouth Dakota. They exhibit wltj som pride, among their valuable short horns, a two-year-old heifer which re cently took sweepstakes over the win ner of the sweepstakes at 1902 Inter national Live Stock Exposition at Chi cago. Other shorthorns have junt re turned from a very victorious tour among inter-state and county fairs, winning eigh. flrtt prizes at Sioux City, eight at Yankton and six at Huron. There are other stock farms in the state that show blooded cattle cot far behind these prize winners. A large number of the farmers and stockmen, as well as a majority of the South Dakota editors have been in at tendance at the Corn Palace at Mitch ell during tho last week. The South Dakota Commission to the St. Louis Exposition has Just decided to repro duce the Mitchell Corn I'alace as tho Souiu Dakota exhibit, and visitor to St. Icjuis will have an opportunity to Bee a building 140 by 100 feet, the ex terior of which will be entirely con structed of corn. Like other South Dakota towns, Mitchell is shov 'ng considerable pros perity and enterprise this year. The cornerstone of the 940,000 city hall was laid last week; the walls of a 930,000 hotel to be built of stone and steel are up above the first floor; a Carnegie library has been built at a cost of 915.000, and a score of smaller buildings are tinder construction, and Improvements and pavement of Ktreeta are under way. As an especial reason for such a fine showing at this time, the last legislature of South Dakota agreed to submit to voters of the Btate in November, 1904, the quesHoj of moving the state capitol from Pierre to Mitchell. The people of the latter town, backed by a goodly number of those in, the most thickly populated portions "of the state east of the Mis souri River, and In the Black Hills, who will find Mitchell more accessible than Pierre, have already under way a lively campaign by which they ex pect to secure the capital in Novem ber, 1904. The reproduction of the Mitchell Corn Palace at the St. LouJa Exposition Is regarded as a big card in their favor. Scolding women are less ridiculous than swearing men. If too wish baantif al, deer, white clothes dm Had Crow Ball Blue. Larza 'J on. parJtaga, 5 cents. You can estimate a man pretty cor rectly by the men whom he does not kaow. Try One Package. If "Defiance Starch" does not plea:e you, return it to your dealer. If it does you get one-third more for the same money. It will give you satisfaction, and will not stick to the Iron. Try me just once and I am pure to come again. Defiance Starch. We snake all kinds of tacks. Red Cjvf ' of White Pine. 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