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THE OMAHA DAILY KEF.t MONDAY, JUNE 22, 1003.
The Omaha Daily Bee.
E. ROBE WATER, EDITOR.
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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. I
8 aeorge "chuc sreu?ro7'The Be. ftnd Ten Bu8ar machinery would be But his nresentatlon of It Is a valuable
PubiiMhing' company, being duly sworn, brought from Scotland. About the only contribution to the discussion of a qnes
"mpieVceiCorThrDlny!f Morn",. Increase from the United States would tlon in which the financial and business
Evening and Sunday Bee printed during til k.
month of May, 1S. was as follows: .
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... 3O.07B
ll 81.03O i
...841,1
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...80,1
.80,730
2i 3O.870
3S,K7Q
22 3M40
t .'. .'.-00,670
.30 .MIO
30,740
10 27,775
U SO,444
11 80,870
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14. 30,780
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2 80,760 I
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29.
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.31.8B0
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Total w,mra
Dss unsold ana returned oopies
Net total sales 4a,62
Net average sales ao-8T I
GEORQE B. TZSCHUCK.
RuhacHbed in mv oreeence and sworn to
before me this Slat day of May A D 19uS.
(Seal.) Notary Public.
M K 1-1 I J IN I A A Hi. I
It Is not always tho horse carrying
the smallest odds that Is carried by the
fastest feet I
In the Interval the prudent Nebraska
fanner has been planting corn and at
tending strictly to business.
Tom Johnson should be reminded to
bring bis circus tent along to Colonel
Bryan's Fourth of July picnic.
Property owners on North Sixteenth
street had better fall in line with Gen-
eral Manderson and sign the petition for
repaying. -
Next play in the water works purchase
pnmo Trill Ym fb a apl pf'tlnn nf tha third I
appraiser. The third appraiser Is the
joker that counts the winning point
The orators of the nigh school grad
sating class of 1003 have .settled all. the
Important problems of the hour and the
earth maT now rotate en iti axis with-
out further friction or disturbance. '
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Nebraska's floating debt approximates
M.600.000. whereas tbe constitution ex-
Dresely fotbida an Indebtedness in excess
Of tlOO.000 to times of peace. But tben.
what Is the constitution between friends?
Every ominous fire that is extin-
guishea witn comparatively smaii loss
Is added proof that no mistake was
mad when Chief Salter was put in the
place formerly occupied by Chief Re-
dell.
Nobody seems to think It worth while
to discuss the chances of Chairman
James K. Jo.nes for being retained at
the head of the democratic national
committee through another presidential
campaign.
Six Omaha milkmen are being prose
cuted for mixing formaldehyde with
their milk. The dealers have none but
themselves to blame. Nobody will sym-
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paiuuB win! ycuyio nuv lui. Uiror-
Nebraska la rtne for a system of inter-
urban electric Mnes that will afford bet-
ter facilities for social and commercial
Intercourse of the rural population with thing is that while the State Board of nere8sary he might take the chairman
the principal towns and cities during aU Equalization may at its coming meet- Bnlp o( tna hoUBe poatofflce committee
hours Of the day.
Government by Injunction has struck
a snag at Richmond, Va., but Uncle
Barn's cruiser is bound to get out of dry
dock as soon as It has put en its war
paint notwithstanding the extra Judicial
dead rest mandate.
With what has been accomplished in
the way of tax reform in Omaha be
fore themf the people of Bouth Omaha
will have only themselves to blame If
they stand for continued corporate tax
shirking that makes low tax rates lm
possible,
Members of the police force are grad
ually discovering that to resign from
the department requires the assent of
the police board. In the past police of
'fleers have been allowed to resign as
a matter of course to keep their records
clear when other measures of discipline
would be more In order.
In trying to banish the dope fiend from
Omaha. Chief of Tollce Donahue has
tackled a heavier task than he has ever
undertaken before. . Confirmed nior-
chine eaters do not all live In the Third
ward any more than the confirmed
drunkards all bttj their rum in the aa-
loons.
The only way to get results In adver-
tlslng Is to select the medium that
reaehea the lamest umnher of reaular
paying subscribers. Experienced bunl-
ness men are 1101 i-uufc-ni vj i iir-
culation claims lu redj or In black. The
proof 'of the pudding i4u the eating.
The mock auction advertising fakirs
w-
ongr cnicu ur uruuiuu. ru "
snaps t the tempting baits offered, as
special lpiluoaiaeats.
Cunantss to MttT in XvTtMlitft. lit
Announcement Is again uinrte that I
resident Roosevelt Intends to cnll con-
gross In extra session In November. The
chief purpose In view Is to secure ac-
tlon on the Cuban reciprocity treaty, troller said that the change in our cur
tut other matters may be considered, rency lutvs which the plan he advo
perhaps a currency bill If the sub-committee
of the senate finance committee
should have a measure ready by No
vember. It thus appears that the presi
dent Is as earnest as ever In the desire
to fstubllsh closer commercial relations
between Cuba and the United State"
and it is regarded as highly probable
that the treaty which has been nepotl-
ated will be ratified by congress.
Meanwhile it is said that the business
men of Cuba have become quite indif-
ferent in regard to the reciprocity
treaty. The opinion appears to have
obtained among the indimtrlsl and com-
merdnl Interests Of the island that theT
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the small concession in tie
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Cuban products, r tliat any
rtifrerpn,.e wou,l occur in the (
the small concession in tie taiitr on
material
course of
importations. It is said that manufac-
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iu'cu fwun nuum u" viijc imcu
from Great Britain, Germany and Spain,
in emir, and nmvlalnna and fhihn la
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HKe:y to Decome toierauiy capaDie or
feedlnir herself.. An eastern naner re-
marks that when the treaty comes up
in congress n appears as 11 uie uuDans,
outblde Of the Official Class. Will Care
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about what bocomes of Thls
view is Da sea upon me ODservaiions or
Bomo representatives of American busl-
noaa intopoata trhA iiawo ror.or.tiu uiaitod I
Cuba. Whether or not the view be cor-
ree it l8 a tact that so far as present
trade conditions are concerned this
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country is not enjoying any sucn aa-1
vantages In the Cuban market as itraellvery w deservedly popular and can
mtght reasonably be expected, for obvl-
on a rinna tn'havt Tho taia.,.1 Mn.
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tinues to import liberally from European
countries, thus srlvlnar renewed demon-
stratlon of the fact that sentiment plays
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a very small part In business affairs,
Under a reciprocity arrangement how.
ever, even with the small tariff conees
slon contemplated it is not to be
doubted that exports from the United
States to Cuba would be quite ma
terially Increased, though probably not
to tho extent that some of the moro
ar,ent advocates of reciprocity have
Predicted.
cah't Ran An m mm wbmivo.
The mere fact that the assesors in
Ave or six of the ninety counties of
Nebraska have listed lands and chattels
at a lower valuation for 1903 than they
had been listed at for the preceding
year Is projected to the front as a Justt
t A v n..A. t,n Tln A
of Assessors to raise the assessments of
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property,
There Is an adage that one swallow
does not make summer, and flva or six
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counties representing possmiy o per
crul U1 luo sin"" "
state, should not be taken as the stand-
ard of valuation for the assessment of
tne enure state. Taae, ror example, tne
assessment or uougias county, wnicn
aggregates about 125,000,000, or nearly
one-sixtn oi tne total vaiuauon oi an
property in the state, exclusive of rail-
roaas.
The ratio in Douglas county to actual
value Is one-sixth, or fully 16 per cent,
and that is the ratio lu fifteen or twenty
other counties in the most densely set-
tied Dortlon of the state. It Is a mat-
t . of fact -, Bome of the
westepn countiM the ratio of assessed
value t0 actual value lg one-fourth
to one-fifth, or from 20 to 25 per cent,
Taken as a whole the grand assess-
ment roll, exclusive of railroad prop-
ertv. renresenta a ratio of from one-
seventh to one-elahth. or from 12V. to
14 per cent of the actual value, while
the railroads are assessed at from one-
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v v vil kU iv vucLUiibccuiu v t,-ir.a. nun l
r . B - ,
nciuui vaiuu.
These are stubborn facts wlilch no
amount of sophistry or Juggling with
ogurea can uisprote. iub wow oi mo
ing in .uiy equauze in a measure me
uurueu luipuneu m uio nnnie ui eiuie
taxes upon the respective counties, it
cannot undo the rark Injustice that It
has perpetrated in the assessment of
the railroads by undervaluation in the
face of the increased earnings and ln-
creased valuations of those properties
over what they had been during preced
ing years.
FOR KLASTIV CCBHEXCT.
In a recent address Mr. Itldgely, comp'
troller of the currency, urged that there
should be greater elasticity In bank note
currency and explained how he thought
this could best be accomplished. He
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practical suggestion seems to ie to make
no change In the present bank rlrculn
tlon, but to allow the banks to lnsne lu
addition to the present notes a certain
percentage of notes uncovered by any
bond i deposit, but agalust which the
bunks should be required to hold In gold
or Its equivalent the sapie reserves as
against deposits, and ... the aine time
" a '"e ,uw and regulations in
regard to redemption as to provide very
ample requirements and means for re
aempuon ana retirement, inereueinp-
Von machinery should be made so com
I Plete euecuve as 10 insure us con
gtant application. A part of his plan
hs to provide a guaranty fund for tho
uncovered gold reserve notes, eaih bank
being reuulred to nay Into this fund 5
per cent of its uncovered notes before
im-y -iu .BUri, iui
talued by a tux on this circulation. He
thought that the proportion of uncovered
gold reserve notes could be permitted to
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but -'D per cent is enongn to suppiy a
I considerable element of elasticlt and
would he well to betrtn with the
smaller amount
in regard to tho view that uncovered
g0:d reservo notes would lead to a great
inflation of the currency, the comp-
cated would require will Introduce more
factors which lead to contraction thnn
to expansion. Dank notes, he said,
should never be used for reserves, their
true use being for current cash business
only. Bank reserves should be gold, or
some paper certificates which can be
quickly converted into gold. He ex-
pressed the opinion that "a currency
not available for reserves and protected
by gold reserves and ample facilities
for redemption would not be made the
basis for undue inflation of credits or
used for speculation. It would only be
used for those legitimate enterpriser
Tl - hlfh lmr a nrnnor Vinala rt rraA r.A
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uuijr iu lurujaii iu i-uhu as long as li
was needed for cash transactions."
Of course the plan for providing a
more elastic currency advocated by Mr.
Ulrlgely is not altogether new. Its more
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jirorameni ieniurw are ramuiar w mose
who have given attention to the subject
lntoDf.
w, iuuw. v.uu BUU
which will be prominent in the atten-
tinn of tho noit
contemplates no very radical changes
ana would probably secure the desired
elnntlcltv without In tho Ion or Imnoletno-
the safety of the bank currency.
There is no question but what the
rural free delivery business has been
P'ayed beyond the limit in some dlrec
tionR- uut there 1o danger that the
present reaction may carry the pendulum
Im,f ii , nn IVi .(V.. .M. T)..l
" u ui D1uc. uuiai ura
be nin.de a successful adjunct of the
postal system br liberal vet not ex-
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travngant administration, while hard
and fast narrowing of its scope may
destroy its usefulness altogether.
Secretary Shaw in addressing a grad
uating class at Chicago drew on the
impending Derby for an example of
careful preparation for achieving suc
cess and declared that if it was worth
while to go to so much trouble and ex
pense to train a horse that might win.
the educational training of our young
people for the race for success could
not be too carefully performed. It's
dollars to doughnuts that this lllustra
uoa u uot er m amors neaa8.
It's all In the point of view. It is
generally known that President Roose
velt expects to have the ticket in 1904
rounded out with a western man for
vice president, but here is U. 8. Grant
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uiuuu iu tun iuc me yu:o presiuency uui
expressing . the apprehension that an
eastern man will be honored. A west
ern man for a New Yorker may be an
eastern man to a Callfornlan.
Governor Bnlley declares that Kansas
is still In need of aid for ita flood anf.
ferors. but he carefully confined his call
for an extra .esslon of , iecl,iftture
to provldlne for the rebuilding of de-
8troTed bridges. When Nebraska was
affllcted wltn drouth the legis-
lature appropriated S250.000 as a relief
fund although the state had to borrow
thft money.
Ex-rresident Cleveland In denouncing
an. interview credited to him as un
authorized, explains that he never talks
for publication unless he reoulres the
reporter to reduce his words to writing
at once and submit them to him for
verification. This is a commendable
precaution on the port of an ex presl
dent It preventa him from talking too
much. .
Twro-thirds of the paving repairs now
demanded would be avoided if the public
eervlee wrponiuona mat cut tne pave-
ments lived up to their obligation to re-
store tne pavement in as good condition
as before. For repairs that come under
this category these corporations should
foot the bills.
Sneaker-to-be Cannon intimates that if
hlmBelf. won't be neeesarv. but
Speaker Cannon could do worse without
trying.
J a at to Cheer Him Oa.
Chicago Record-Herald.
TVhen Sir Thomas Upton started for
America the band played "For He's a Jolly
Good fellow," probably Just to remind him
of the headache he has coming.
Nature's "orrea Worse Than War,
New Tork World.
According to estimates made In the
weather bureau at Washington, the lives
lost by flood, and tornado In this country
thus far in the present year number at
least 1,260. Natural foices, therefore, have
destroyed within a period a little longer
tnn oi our .irunnie 71111 opain more
than four tlmaaaamanv Americana aa
kllled ,n tne b.,tie, at thaf war.
Who Can Answer ror lllmT
Portland Oregonian.
Ex-Reprcsentatlve Cobb of Alabama, who
died recently, left behind him a record of
having enriched the English language and
adding to the gaiety of nations. He It was
who halted in debate when a member of
the house of representatives and Inquired
'Where am I at?" Burn as he had, gave
he unto the world. Hence he should be held
in grateful remembrance.
Heralllac the Good Old Way
Chicago Chronicle.
Nowadays when a young hopeful Is taken
by the collar and gcAitly shaken by a school
teacher his fond parents first have nervous
prostration and then rush off and have the
pedagogue arrested. Yet men who are
scarcely middle aged can remember when
the boy who came home from school howl
t0 0f the dose on general principles It
being argued that If he was licked at school
he deserved it and probably did not get
"lke1 Probably ail this was very
wrong, but V. cannot forget that there
was not one Juvenile "touch" In those day
t0 .,., In tnJ, ,ra of moral suasion. Th
I swttcU seemea U havs a Aeairabla eflect.
FAD 15 MllMC SCHOOLS.
Tlalonary Fxperlmeatlns; y Kataa-I
alnstla TeorWt. I
Minneapolis Tribune.
It Is not easv to trace the process by
which the American puhllo schools have
become full of fad. The truth is, Amer- I
l.-nnn have taken the excellence of their I
public schools too much for granted and!
have paid too little attention to the meth-
ods of teaching. This has given too much 1
opportunity for visionary experimenting by
enthuslastlc theorists. The mischief could
go on for many years without detection,
because the fact that children were not
taught the elements of education was not
discovered until they came out of school
and tried to make a living.
For another thing, rhlldrer. of educated
families pick up a good deal of elementary
knowledge before they go to school and
absorb a good deal at home afterwards; so
that educational defects do not appear to
those who would be first to notice them.
The main sufferers have been the children
of Immigrants, themselves without much
education, who fondly dreamed that their
children were getting an education to fit
them for American citizenship when they
were in fact learning to weave Chippewa
baskets and cut out paper dolls. This Is
what makes the matter most deplorable.
No one but the faddists could tell ex-
actly how the schools became honeycombed I
with fada. and Drobablv they won't. So
far as outsiders can see, It was through a
combination of natural la-norance on the
part, of school boards and misdirected en-
thuslasm on tiie part of pedagogic special-
Ists. We cannot expect to get persons of
hlch culture on school boards by the
method of popular election that prevails In
roost cities. We cannot even expect to get I
persons of high culture for superintendents
of sehools, since these positions exact rather
administrative power and a talent for pollt- I
leal manipulations. I
Therefore both school boards and super-
lntendents have been an easy mark for ed
ucational theorists, eager to try new ex
pertinents on the Infant mind. These have i
banded together In a kind of fad trades
union, have held Impressive conventions
and have gradually expanded a new theory
of education, evolved out or meir own un-
easy minds. This seems to have been
adopted by the rlaln persons elected to be
school directors and superintendents, under
the mistaken Impression that the educa
tion theorists know better than themselves.
It Is undeniable that the change has been
helped along by persons of real education
In the colleges, who ought to know better.
These have been Influenced by their oagcr
desire to convert the schools of the people
Into preparatory schools for the colleges.
Their wish to get large classes out of the
publlo schools has led them to encourage
overwhelming ambition for Higher eauca-
tion. and has led to. the sacrifice of solid
fundamental education to a hasty and su
perficial acquirement of college learning.
There begin to.be plain signs that these
persons realize their error, and are pre
paring to retrieve It. There is Increasing
demand for sounder 'elementary education
from all the colleges of the country, en
forced In many cases by refusing to ra-
matrlniilatea without it. Of Course
reform from this quarter will reach only
a small part of the evil. The rest must be
.tov. irKtlv bv the aeneral publlo.
which, after all, Is the greatest sufferer.
WHAT I? SrCCESST
Wronsr Standard Raised by Current
Stories of Great Business Men.
American Banker.
What a noisy gospel. Is that of "success'!
and how many self-satisfied evangeusts
are enlisted In its set1 vice! Pulpits, books,
pamphlets and periodicals overflow with
Its catchwords, Its ajihoi-lsms. Its moflern
Instances. In shops and offices, Inspired
by the propaganda of this glittering lore.
the young men are brooding. Bank clerks
join the American Institute, diligently read
J,. ..T,nt,n and rrocure Instruction
from the correspondence school In quest of
this elusive, precious, capricious thing sue-
cess. The literary hack ransacks the ca-
reers of conspicuous personages for the
secret and method of success. He finds the
xcentional and striking Incident extracts
i. n h mmmnnniira hv which It ta
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surrounaea ana seta it in a onumuo
The successful man Is a player strutting
. a. aa4a-s XT aft Mflvai SI T4 1 1 TO YYt Snf
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hlult a aunernal mwar of decision, of
preternatural Judgment of clairvoyant
.Kd.. -e tiffin instrv anrt thenceforth
hls ultimate triumph becomes Inevitable,
In other words, the siicceaaful man as he
Is portrayed In current literature Is an
ar
ptlcal Illusion, a chimera of the literary
taAAt.t Tliit all nf . unless we are Door
trash indeed, have moments of unusual
power, acuteness and diligence. This Is the are wms Pi,u .i u.,.,,,....,
common lot , Tet only a few of us that mortgage, filed during the last year rep
share the common lot are destined to ao- resent, with few exceptions. Indebtedness
..t wealth, or achieve eon. incurred for the purchase of more land and
splcuous stations. The number of such
stations and the chances for such accumu
lations never did correspond, and never
will, to the number of energetio, ambitious
and capable men which Is hopeful of
achieving them. This unpalatable truth
the literature of success abhors.
The normal service of an able and faith
ful man has no place In the literature of
success. WnyT Because surn a service
has nothing picturesque about it It Is too
common; is wanting in tne meioaramatic
pitch. Besides It Is so common. In fact,
that we may Identify It with countless In-
dividual, whose achievements, measured
by these limelight standards, are of 1,0
account whatsoever. The successful man
has never made a mistake, never taken a
drink, never missed a cue, never told a lie,
Is never weary, pluns and plots Incessantly
and probably never sleeps at all! And
above all thlnKS he always reaches the ton
and Invariably possesses a heavy bank
account. The greater this bunk account
the more wonderful the business and pro-
fessional powers of this astonishing indl-
virtual seems to be. lie Is always more
faithful more viiillaut, more Industrious,
more efllrlent than other me.n. But this
confuses the issue and debases the stand
ard of success. Browning said that the
eiriphuuls of success should be laid upon
endeavor. The man who is true to himself.
faithful to the trust reposed in him, em
ploying his resources to the fullest, allow.
Ing for human endurance aa well as weak
ness Is a successful man. His material
reward may be modeHt. but he Is doing a
part of the Indispensable work of the
world, doing It steadily asnl well Is not this
also success and success of a hltrh order?
To the literary perverts who write pithy
and snappy articles on how success Is
achieved In this dull world such a man Is
a mere cumberer of the around. Because
some one stands higher, this man Is held to
be outclassed and out qualifle.1. He Is
simply not In the rac.
Stretching the Charily of Belief.
Washington Post.
It requires considerable charity to be.
lleve It Is a pure coincidence that so many
places In the employ of government con
tractors are filled by sons and relatives ot
officials who pass upon the contracta.
The Road Roller of Thought.
Philadelphia Ledger.
Senator Beveridge of Indiana says: "The
cosmic lessons of nature should be the
decalogue of national living, and doing.'
We object to that man even for vice preal
dent.
TALK OF THE STATE PRESS.
Tobias Express: Th people of western
New York are looking for a rainmaker
what the matter with RainmnVrr Wright
r ewasKa? we can spare mm tor a tew
Holdrege Cltlien: It Is not likely that
any more offlceaeekcrs who want a position
under Governor Mickey will attempt to get
It by Improper means. People have learned
that Governor Mickey Is a man as well as
governor and that they must govern them-
selves accordingly.
Kearney News: It la no more apparent
now than ever that there Is no better
place to live than central Nebraska. Other
sections have had floods, drouths and fires,
while the worst that befalls us Is an occa
sional dry spell. A soaking series of rains
like we have had this spring only makes
us thrive.
Crelghton Courier: The largest alfalfa
field In the world comprising over 6,000
acres Is In Nebraska; the largest barn In
America Is In Dodga county, this state;
the largest county In any state is In
Nebraska and no state has as many miles
of any one river aa Nebraska has In the
Platte.
Fremont Tribune: The governor has a
vacancy to fill on the 8tate Normal board.
which board Is committed to the task of
locating the new normal school the state
will build. The board Is supposed to be
about tied on location, so that the new
appointee la likely to prove the determln-
In factor In the matter. Naturally there
Is a good deal of polities Involved, and the
interests oi a gooa many amouious iowns
anxious to be the center of the distribution
or state runas.
Norfolk News: The fuslonlsts forgot an
about the desirability of a nonpartisan su-
preme court when they were in power,
but now that the state has returned to
Its good old-time republican majorities and
with a fusion majority In the court, they
are most solicitous over the Indication that
the court may assume a partisan basis,
or, more accurately, they fear that there
will be a republican majority In the court.
elected by the republican majority of the
Btate. The republicans, however, seem to
ba ablo tfy ,jetect the real sentiment that
nspre8 the agitation and will mS. it in
tne manner that will insure republican suo-
Central City Nonpareil: It Is with consld
arable pain that we observe that a large
number of towns over the state are pro
ceedlng wltb their preparations for a
Fourth of July celebration, regardless of
the prophecy made by Mr. Bryan during
the last presidential campaign to the effect
that If McKlnley were elected there would
be no more celebrations. Borne people seem
to have no regard for the proprieties.
Norfolk Leader: A nonpartisan judiciary
has many advantages, but any plan where
by the party with a majority In the state
has less than a majority on the supreme
bench will not be favorably received or
adopted. In other words, a strictly non
partisan judiciary Is all wrong, but minor
ity representation on the supreme bench Is
all right.
Norfolk Press: There Is a systematic at-
tempt being made to minimize the offense
of the people who violate the game and
fish laws,- and this attempt
this attempt should be
frowned down by every good and decent
citizen. The safety of Amerloan Institu
tions depends wholly on respect for and
obedience to the law. The man who kn-w-lngly
violates the law Is an enemy to his
country. The man who has no respect
for the law Is an anarchist, pure and
simple. It matters not whether a law Is
good or bad It is entitled to enforcement
and obedience. The officer who is charged
with the enforcement of a law and falls
to do so Is guilty Of as great or greater
crime as the man who .violated It. The
Press lavors the punishment of the vio
lators of the game and Ash laws because
it wants every law respected and obeyed.
It doesn't believe In a false sentiment In
" ou" "T" "J,
Uavor of violation of any law.
I Wllber Democrat: Upon request, F. J
Sadllek, register of deeds, complied from
the official records the following statement
of real estate mortgages filed for record
I and released for the first three months of
the years 1901, 1902, 1908:
I riled. Released,
im siss.ons txsm
. 201. 2K4 249.78
1903 216,617 214.314
I -
touu -
mm ten hI.... (k.n A rt m
or 100,101 iiiuio
Paring this with the figures of nine years
ago, when the mortgage maeDteaness rec-
ord was first started, for the same period
of the first three months of the years
1892. 1893 and 1894, the amount of filings
enm oi .jf .AlaAai. I1M null Tm uuea
was t.io. a .v.
" - "
half than Is readily realised now. Loans
Improvements.
A JOY OF JOl REALISM.
Trlbate to the Happy Hays of Country
Hewspaperdom
Atlanta Constitution.
A few days ago Colonel Alexander K
I McClure, the veteran editor and Nestor of
the Fhllaaeipnia frees, saia uiii me nnp-
I plest days of his Journalistic career were
1 tnosa in wnicn ne was m eauoi- m a
country weekly paper In Western Pennsyl-
vanlal"
There are thousands of the older men in
the profession today who can heartily say
"Amen!" to Colonel McClure'a experience.
They remember those joyous old days In
some ramsnacaie print nop in- a country
town; the old Washington press; the roller
boy; the roller moid sna tne casnng or a
new roller; the sitting up at night to mall
the edition of fiOD-that WO more formidable
J over public affairs and world Intere.ts than
the charge maae ai uaiamavs, oy mat
other 600 of old England! The country
edltor-wno is n pwr; no wrn- nu me
people naraiy contain inrar pauence
eek
to know "what he has wrote on the burn
Ing Issues of the day! He gets Invitations
to all functions, free passes to all shows,
appointed on all sorts of commissions where
there Is no pay. gets cake from the wed
ding, cord wood for subscriptions and, oc
casionally, "gets It In the neck from a con
temporary.
The country press Is an Inseparable fac
tor frorq the forces that make up our civ
llizatlnn. It Is on and of the soil. It Is the
mirror of the human problems of its en
vlronment. It If more nearly the organ of
public opinion than the mammoth Journals
whose strongest purposes are commercial
Any historian who would write knowingly
and truthfully the history of these times
must get the bulk of his material from the
countrv newspapers. They are the busy
bees who gather the pollen of s'l the In
dlgenous blossoms of their hnhltat i,nd
comnress theee Into the columns from
which the honev of true human history Is
extracted
Every community owes the prime duty of
support to Its local press. If a man ran
afford to take only one paper he should
take his home paper. If he can go further
and take a dally, let that be hut the sup
plement to his country paper. The old
Greek adage, "know thyself." should be
expanded Into "know thy neighbors." an
the way to do that Is to support your horn
paper. There Is no hetter or more helpful
ssset to any county than a good newspaper
filled with neighborhood news, and deal
Ings with 11 Issues of common Interest
s the weekly press usually does falrl
and honestly.
QL'AIST FEATTHE9 OF I.IFK.
An Insurance adjuster In St. IOuls tells
of a new expedient nf the Incendiary.
A man's store had burned, and he had
half admitted setting It off to a friend who
wanted full particulars with a view to
sin. liar practices.
I tell you," said the proprietor, "the
rats gnawed matches snd set It going."
"I low do you know 7 Did you see them?"
"No, I didn't see them, but I know I
rubbed matches In the Umburger cheese
befors I threw them on the cellar floor."
Jonathan Lefevre of sialt Lake City Is 91
years old, has burled eight wives and has
Just married a ninth, Mrs. Mary Kersen,
widow of 40. Five generations of his
descendants were present to wish the
couple happiness. By his eight wives
I-efevre had thirty-one children and all of
them were born within a period of ten
years, Mr. Lefevre was one of Brlgham
Touog'g councilors during Utah's stormy
times. He Is a devout believer In Presi
dent Roosevelt's race suicide argument and
the president's recent speeches on that
toplo so Impressed Mr. Lefevre that he de
cided to marry again. Mr. Lefevre Is
wealthy and one of the moat respected men
In Utah.
Father W. O. Miller of St. Joseph's
ohurch, Waukesha, Wis., has caused a
sensation by preaching against open lace
apparel, low neck dresses and lace shirt
waists. At all masses on last Sunday he
denounced this style of apparel, terming !.
"peekaboo" dress, and charging his flock
not to Indulge In It. He spoke scathingly
of the present modes of feminine dress1, and
especially censured the young women who
wore light waists with an abundance of
open work.. These garments, he said, were
altogether too previous and allowed young
men too fair a view of pretty shoulders.
The rebuke was so pointed that many
young women who heard it criticised the
priest after the service.
A Maine country doctor tells this story
on himself:
He responded one night to a not left
at his door by a farmer asking him to go
as soon as possible to see his little boy.
wno waa ill with a very bad cold. The
doctor gave one look at the child and
aaked severely:
"Don't you know that your boy Is coming
down with the measles r'
"Tea," replied the wife. "I knowed It."
"Then what In the world did you mean
by saying he had a bad coldT" asked the
dootor.
The woman hesitated a moment; then,
looking at her husband, she said, hesi
tatingly:
"Neither me or him knowed how to spell
measles."
The luxury of grief la Indulged In by all
ages, but It Is doubtful If It Is ever again
so much enjoyed as In childhood, accord
ing to the Boston Transcript. Perhaps, If
our memories could take us back to the
very earliest days of Infancy, we should
find that we were often revelling In delight
when we were sympathetically supposed
to be writhing with stomach ache
and with no language but a cry.
A little girl of most angelic disposition
has Just given the whole thing away. She
had fallen on a brick walk and barked
her knees and bumped her chin. To her
next door neighbor, who Inquired from the
window some time afterward If she had
hurt herself very badly, the sufferer re
plied with a quivering lip: "Oh, yes; I
ought to be In the house crying now."
Owing to the fact that the assistant man
ager ot Columbia Oardens, a pleasure re
sort of Butte, 'Mont, hse trained the
swans in the little artificial lake to bring
to the shore articles thrown Into the water,
little Gertrude O'Nell owes her life.
When the child fell Into the water and
was in danger of frowning, aa no help was
near at the time, the great birds seised
the little one by her clothing and dragged
her to the shore, pulling her up high and
dry on the bank. The spectacle waa wit
nessed by several hundred men and women
rom the plazsa of the pavilion, several
hundred feet away, and when they reached
the edge of the lake the child was safe.
while the swans were standing around,
waiting to be fed.
SEIZIX0 orPORTl'NITIES.
How Charley Schwab Grabbed Chance
for a Million or Two.
Chicago Record-Herald.
The statement1 Issued by Charles M.
Schwab concerning his connection with the
United States Shipbuilding company gives
a pleasing glimpse of a few of the opportu
nities that have come to one Industrious
young man within the present generation.
Mr. Schwab, who has lust turned 41. was
Invited into the company soon after It waa
projected, and owing to his previous op
portunities he was able to make a subscrip
tion of $500,000. A little later the corpora
tion wanted to secure control of the Bethle
hem Steel company, and Schwab under
took to manage the deal, on the under.
standing that he was to furnish the neces-
sary cash requirements and to receive
11.600,000 accumulated earnings of thjs
Bethlehem Steel company and $10,010,000 la
bonds and $10,000,000 In both kinds of stock.
It appears, however, that his Interest In
the steel company was complicated with
the Interest of J. P. Morgan, and that Mor
gan demanded 25 per cent of both kinds
of stock in addition to the cash lnves:d a
payment for the Bethlehem stock. A ml
tlement wss made on these terms, and
Schwab claims that his direct financial In
terest In the tranoactlon aggregated over
19.009.000 besides his subscription of $n,-
000 to the two first mortgage bond syndi
cates. '
These figures dazzle the uninitiated who
are neither captains of Industry nor Na
poleons of finance, and It seems that there
was some difference of opinion even among
the Initiated, some of whom estimated M v
Schwab's direct financial Interest at
$3,000,000 on)y. It seems also that the lat
est syndicate In the field proposes to reduce
the capitalization of the shipbuilding com
pany from $t,000,000 to $43.0110,000. It is Im
possible, therefore, to know Just what
dollars mean when the Napoleons get to
playing with the multiplication table and
the words "stocks" and "bonds." '
Nevertheless It will bo generally admitted
that Mr. Schwab has done remsrkably well
for a young man. considering that the lit
tle affair was but a side Issue after all, and
apparently his future Is secure if he can
escape drowning.
Waltham Watches
The last word!
"The Perfected Americtn WakK." ma OttsirtteJ look,
"of inlertsttng tnformziion thovi otcha, a27 h ent
fret cpon request,
American WtJtfum Witch Compuny,
WtiLhxm. Ham,
PF.RSOAl. WOTKS.
It haa tiiat AlarvivereA that T"mr.
Son found his greatest Inspiration in the
warm glow of a rrar.berry pi1.
For IPO years Spain tried In vain to sub
due the Mores. Under American manage
ment they walk right up to the trough
three times e, dsy.
Robert B. geott. a clerk In a Tlttsburg
hotel la a Inlnt tl m. 1 1 K PmiMiaI Paam.
Velt to the Vermilye estate In New Tork.
his sfiare will ba but one-seventeenth part
of the whole property, but as the property
Is valued at several millions nf dollars he
finds himself comfortably situated.
Ambassador Meyer Is reoelvlnar the un
flattering attention of the rtoilv nreaa In
Rome for the alleged recklessness with
which he speeds his automobile through
the streets. 11 Popolo Romano suggests
that the ambassador persists : his course
because, being unable to read Italian, he
does not know what the papers are savins:
about him.
Miss Bessie Johnson, whose father, Tom
L., is mayor of Cleveland, Is to murry
John L. Dudley, Jr., a New Yorker, The
announcement of the engagement was made
on tho day Mark Hnnna's daughter mar
ried Mr. McCormlck. Miss Bessie Is a
dashing girl, as full of energy and novel
Ideas as Is her father.
Richard C. Morse, for thirty-three years
general secretary of the International com
mittee of the Young Men's Christian asso
ciation, has Just completed a tour of the
world. In which he has visited the asso
ciations which have grown up under his
eye and care until they now number t.iOO
organizations, with C00.000 members.
In delivering the founders' day ai.dress
at the commencement exercises In a school
at Lawrenceville, N. J., Bishop Potter of
New York had this to say among other
things: "We are getting to be In such a
hurry In America that the ordinary civili
ties are disappearing out of ot.r education
and our life. When you have dismissed
good manners out of society you have dls
missed that beneficent and kin.lly instinct
toward your fellow man of which good
manners ought always to be the expression.
No one who Is conscious of the social an.1
Industrial situation can be unconscious of
the fact that the classes have drifted awiy
from the masses. And It Is surprising how
large a proportion of them you find dis
posed to the belief that In order to har
monize the difference the use of force Is the
only remedy."
I.AlaillG REMARKS.
"Life," said the Tobacconist to the
Wooden Indian, "is, for most people, a
continuous Process of getting used to things
cute Heery.W.aVan ' bee" ""-ByrS-
shnViM hr2nt!MDoli!t Jou ,hlnK there
Should be a tnx on bachelors
nru.Tu Muph,ywed-I'd gladly pay for the
privilege of being one.-IlluBtrated Bits.
Thespian-How does Stroller strike you In
that new role of his?
Manager-i-Sume old way: "Won't you
Journal 8"Ce m "ver-Kansas City
,hJeu a,(S om?one told him yeaterdav
family." W8 handsomest man In his
"What?' b8d hft'bU h"" RoL"
"Talklngo hlmself."-Phlladelphla Press.
Belle-Married next week? Why. you toid
M ton? J :. ?-"n-
Marlon-v. h-: Party.
persona eH "r?8
the
select party.-Chlcago Journal.
small.
wlhl l'PJohn-Pld you notice that Mrs
" f-nVAfha4"i Uk'n 'he P'-aldenry of
It "an eie .hn, 'T"""1 Slub7 8h' ""d
11 Hn ejfyiiant on her hands.
enouS-'h 'dore-Well. her nanus are big
hr.L.' Pr"fe"r Hypothenuse, our slge
mo?t:.mHd; " -ddress before t lie Mathe
matical society last night on "the Pre-
Tre?' 0t frobbl'"y n "he Tare and
'.t?'1 wonder If he meant It?"
onli an-Mi" J ,maBln. wnt he said waa
only a figure of speech. ' -Baltimore News.
"Well, then, what Is your idea of the
llnlst?11" betwee" a nddler' and a 'vlo-
"A fiddler la -n i. ... a. .
hai'Vi'"1.. "J who kno" how to pliy
the Addle." Philadelphia Press.
cldef"y011 refuM ,ne 1 "hall commit sul-
i,LW""v,pa f,ay you can't hang arount
here. New York Sun.
What are the wild waves saving
As on the sands thev play?
Do they sing of the wlikr shins straying
Kver so far away
The lands where love gofs Maying
L.ands of an orient ray?
.'. Kvpr Ihe waves urn saying:
' Board, six dollars a day.1'
Atlanta Constitution.
SOME AtiliS Or' WOMA.V
8. K. Klser In thn Record-Herald.
. . .1 At first the maiden
Skipping the rope and nursing dolls,
Or climbing trees and Hitting straddle
On top of fences. Sticking out her tongue
And making ugly face hi tlte boys
Who slop to teHse her. Then the graduate.
Arrayed In fluffy stuff hikI looking sweet
And Innocent despite the big, long wordf
She thinks show forth her knowledge. Next
the bridesmaid
With flowers In her hand, and full of hope
As with the handsome usher proudly she
Moves down the aisle behind the ouo who
leans
With clinging confidence upon the groom.
Fourth stage, herself a brldo. With eyes
downcast.
She leans upon her sturdv father's arm
And wonders why he Isn't slim and tall
Like John. She sees her mother drenched
In tears,
And cries a little bit herself, mayhap,
But proudly notes that all the town Is
there
And knows the presents will be beautiful
So, radiant, she passes from the scene.
Then the young mother, leaning down
To count I'ach several eyelash resting on
The tiny cheek; her heart so full
Of love and Joy thst all the happy day
She babbles Incoherently and dreams
At night of troops of angels and can hear
The whirring of their wings aroui.d bet
bed.
Next, the mother-in-law, weeping copiously
While John, so slim and knightly once,
grown stout
And awkward, trudges down the lengthy
aisle,
Grim-vlsaged, with their daughter. There
she sits
'And, with a sinking heart, gives Up her
enua;
Knows that the man can't ba half good
enough
To merit the sweet treasure he receives.
And blubbers so she cannot hear the words
That once, as falling on her willing ears,
Were so delicious. Last scene of all,
The grandma, fondly dandling up and down
The crowing little one. Half daft with toy.
Stewing the catnip tea and giving forth
A thousand lessons from her own experi
ence: Jealous of every touch and each careaa
That careless, bold Intruders would bestow.
Talks baby talk and thinks It understands;
In second-chlldlshneos she eooe and croons,
Sans common sense, sans everything but
love.