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Snba.Tibrd In) V"y prrfenc and aworn to
l)efnr mo thla u diiy 6t Jum. A. t).
(ieaJ) .. IM. B. HUNOATB,
; V ; Notary v Vublla
V11ZS CEQ wtj! fca matlad tapon rexncat
t aobct!bf lcRTlns th city
darlnar tt ' limmfl months.
Cbi(n of ail Area a will be xnade
a fretnantlr aa dealrdd aotle-a
( ancb thaaia mutt koth
the old and uw addreaaes.
t
Hona flde rteiJcnta of Bonceteel now
know how a fnon feels In "the cold gray
C.wn of tho boriilng after."
- Senator TiJtman fcna "Imply suspended
vork with his pitch foric until he can de
c'.Io upon which end, to i:fro"tht8 year.
In the language pf.thebaBe ball dia
mond, the ItuaBlan volunteer fleet was
cnught while trying to make a score on
a foul etrlke. . .
How many meinbffs of the pmaha
Civic Federation, n tq down for a chanc
In the Ilosebud iahi lottery? Don't all
epeak at once. -
It will t : 'j a ?150 ante to got Into
Tqm Blacklurn'a little game of con
jcrosslonal dray. Ilere la chance for
liaker to hoilet; that he has been fenced
out - v V '
After Kuflsia has paid Great Britain's
claim for dams yes for the, seizure of
tlilps the bear 111 have a better nnder
fitandinij of what is meant by "tho lion's
hare." '' .
The man .tho made the windward
ravage fr'. his In 1803 has arrived at
'i 'mi TIn t.nd his first dispatch says:
' .ItHvy i ng was heard off this place
lat liifeuu? (
riockif Jj runners who were so much
I 1 evidfii 4 off the Cuban, coast before
V.t Ppar h war can probably And
t ady eti-j ! yment at Tokio unless the
VSiidlvosto. squadron Is speedily, cap
tured, v ' 1
A second reaui";: of Mr. Bryan's mani
. f 4o shows thut he la trying to graft
V'-a populist Uoetrind' ef, government
tv. nershlp upon the democratic doctrine
ci states' riht, but tho two doctrines
r fuse to mix.
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1! 1
n Hons agree that belligerents
t right to seize contraband of
: each nitlca Js suro contraband
1 only Ly tht other fellow, which
..iir. f..r nrfnjrfient very t!n;e a
,e t
r, I.
5 j c
urr:
f
he
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met
it of the twelve members of the
it that uiiKreprcBented Douglas
:t the ht at leglbluture are satdi
1 a receptive condition, for re- J
::.-!, but uclerfs a'! signs fail their
ure decidedly slim.
i.tli ire la probably the culy cltyton
(h v, ;.,-to tho l..is,..'.-s men are up in
t 1 lu.it t'-ii prohibition to lay new
If the paving contractors
t-... eail thoRS of I'.ait'more could
y 1.. . .vil.iii.i'd wouldn't It be fine?
,!.: 1 K. Jones, In Quitting the man
.ttuu. tif the douioeratle party, has
1' b it .'iictloii of knowing that no man
u -v work harder a;..l pnxluce fewer
-lis ' ua he bus done In tho eight
xra t it be as Leon iiatlonal chalr-
Ml.
' 'I r;. 1 wi'.l l- the next United Statee
, rt'ta Net inska, if the democrats
i il.e I J.-laturu, ileclartl Jim
' i . 1 at t!e IUi!Ts:ian house la New
: v ; Sii l iy, Hut there Is do 1u
! i ;wr;--rt t'f the democrats coa
; , .e li . . :ature.
. ,! t: U ; t ar mvi.lent tiiily
1 li c .1 t tl.r.t Omul.H l.,i
:.wiy fx, e f '(:! t.-i t..n- n reet
' i ... . ; i '.. 1 ly hen t 'ie
- t-f h . t i' t: '. Y.i i i are
. I i : 1 v. 1 . - i ' f
pvzixrta coyrn rycr,.
y.r, Lyman J. Cagt who ia now at Ilia
head of one of the largest Coanrial In
atitotion of the country and In close
touch with buntncss sentimpnt. Is quoted
as raylrig that "the faith of our business
men In the general good sense and patrl
otic spirit of the people, regardless of
their party affiliations, eaves us from
ruinous pelinifm." It Is undoubtedly
a fact that lu financial and bus!
nos circles tenerallr there Is a
feeling of confidence In the future,
inspired to a largo decree by( the
promise. of good crops and also hased
upon the conviction that whatever the
result of the presidential election there
will be no serious disturbance of Cnan
cial and economic condition"," Since the
maintenance of the monetary standard
is assured. There is, of conrse, the
democratic threat regarding the tflrlff.
but with a senate which will remtta In
republican control for three or four
years no change in tariff schedules not
sanctioned by republicans can take
place. This fact gives to the great in
dust rial Interests of the country a feel
ing of security.
The New York Commercial remarks
that tho money-standard 'Issue having
disappeared entirely, business eonSJence
has been restored to a degree, that no
body dreamed of as possible sit months
ago. "Business hopefulness Is In the
air. Everybody is breathing It It is
something roal and tangible. The basic
conditions in Industry and trade are
such that the people seem determined
not to let politics disturb or embarrass
them la the slightest degree." , The out
look would be better !f Indnstrisl peace
generally prevailed, but there Is reason
to think that the existing disturbances
will not be prolocged. The country as
a whole Is still fairly prosperous and the
restoration of business confidence must
be followed by a return to the high
tide of prosperity. ;
THE CnAJIBERLJ.l!r TARIFF.
The commission selected by Mr. Jo
seph Chamberlain to formulate, a tariff
plan for Great Britain has made a re
port on the iron and eteel trades, Its
conclusion being that the decline of the,
Industry Is due to the fact that the
manufacturers of America and Germany
have secured control of 'the home mar
kets by means of high tariffs and an
organized system regulating their ex
port trade. This enables those coun
tries to dump their surplus products on
the British and other markets "irreepec
tlve of cost," which could not be carried
on except for the British system of free
Imports. The commission expressed the
opinion that the situation can -only be
remedied by a system of tariffs which
shall provide a low scale of duties for
foreign countries . admitting British
wares on fair' terms, a preferential tariff
for the colonies and a maximum tariff
consisting of comparatively, higher du
ties than the general tariff, but subject
to rtHlucfTontiy negotiation to t o'vel
or uie general lanrr. .. . ;
(Thlsrplan; is the result of a thorough
Investigations ef the views of British
manufacturers and It Is to be presumed
will have their united support when
ever the matter shall -come before Par
liament The, realisation of the pro
posed policy, however, Is not likely to
come In the near future. There Is no
question that British Industries -have
suffered fromv American and German
competition end will continue to do so
ns long as the existing conditions con
tinue. That Is recognized, yet so strong
and deep-seated. Is British free trade
sentiment that a much severer experi
ence In the loss of trade will be neces
sary to effect a change that will assure
success for the Chamberlain tariff prop
osition. ' ' '.
rUK AMERICAN POSITIOH.
The raclflc Mall fJteamship company
has asked the Department of State for
an ofSclal definition of contraband of
war, so that ships of the company;
plying between San Francisco and Ori
ental ports,' might look for the most
Insistent protoctlon of the government
In the event of their, being overhauled
by the Itussian 'cruisers of the Vladivos
tok squadron and the ttelzure of any of
their goods. A Washington dispatch of
& few. days ago jstialt d that it .was un
derstood that the company had been
supplied with the desired Information,
from the American point of vlew.' '
' It Is said to be a mutter cf common
knowledge that large 'quantities , of
canned meats, flour, and olhee commod
ities have of late been ordered from this
country,-' by the Japanese government,
presumably for the use of the army and
navy f Japan, and that large :ouln
inenta of such supplies are now on the
high sens, In American ships,, for their
destination. There is no doubt that
such cargoes are regarded by Russia as
contraband of war and that If the ves
sels carrying them" ftro overhauled they
will be seized and the cargoes confis
cated. If that should take place it is
the opinion that our government would
make an energetic- protest, as', it did
when a British warship, during" the
Boer war, seized an American merchant'
man that was tarrying a cargo of flour
to a Portuguese port ln.Delugoa bay.
In that case it was held by the Britltih
government that the flour was really
Intended to be shipped to tha Truns
vaal. but the contention of the United
States afciitnst this assumption whs rec
OKiiktHl as sound and Great Britain pur
chased the eargj of flour and paid daui
t"s for tLe seizure of the American
vessel. There was thus created a prece
dent which may be appealed to in the
event of the seizure by ItiiH.sia of an
American t-hip em''ud ia ttadrt between
t!.i;t country and apan.
Uns.'la at" the uut.iet ef f.-c v.-r vith
Ji'l-an aimuii:i v I wh.-.i , t '. .. I ie-e-t
ct.i.Uhl.iind i.i Miir, but L-r
c!.,,-..!;51'ht!i):i Blutiu ((..is Hot !eter:u:i!e
! "f. r -r-.t ti I 1, 1 ;:,', IH
i. t act 4-'. 1 it as tU-c'.-Utf. i:n). 1 it
1 t ; i I l.' c . i w r. i i t H ,-(e-I
.ft V , '-t a t t l .- I.
While the United ftatos recognises the
rfct of a bcIlUerent to scarcli ueutr.1l
Mi!p tliat are bounl.for the couttry
of Its enemy, It does not concede that
foodstuffs are contraband of war unless
their destination Is clearly and unmis
takably to a port of one of the belliger
ents, or obviously Jntended to reach
one of the parties to a war. The same
applies to coal, which the Russian gov
emment included in its list of contra
band.
If the Vladivostok squadron is to op
erate In the Pacific, as is thought prob
sble, the United States may become in
volved In the issue that Russia has
raided In regard to the search and seiz'
ure of neutral vessels. In that event
our government will undoubtedly Insist
upon tho postion It has uniformly main
tained respecting contraband of war
and which differs ia very important re
spects from the Russian rtew. .
COXSOL.ATIOX TOR MEAT EATERS.
The impending meat famine that is ex
pected to follow in the wakp of the meat
packers' strike very naturally attracts
attention to the substitutes that will ap
pease the meat appetite and at the same
time prevent a slump In muscle end
brain force among the people of America.
Although Omaha, in view of recent dis
closures, is prepared to face the "roost
ppalllng conditions," we are gratified
to be able to allay any apprehensions
that may be entertained regarding tho
menace of a meat famine..
According to the best British beef-
eating authorities, moat is not essential
to bodily or mental vigor. The Japanese
never eat meat, and in the tropics the
ordinary kind of manual labor is per
formed on a diet consisting mainly of
rice and bananas.. In the temperate zone
a pound of oatmeal is found to give out
more nutriment than a round of meat
and so long as oatmeal holds out In
America there need, be no appreciable
shrinkage of muscular tissue. The
young man who labors with the base
ball bat and the young woman who
dances on the stage will not have to uso
sawdust and bran to fill out their stock
ings.' - ,
I'o be a little more specific, here are a
few figures that give the percentages
of nutriment: Meat 83; cheese, 60;
dried prunes, GS; oatmeal, 84; rice, 80;
dried beans and cornmenl, 87; whole
wheat flour, DO; peanuts, D5; walnuts, OT.
It will be noted that a pound of dried
prunes will go as far as two pounds of
meat as a generator of man flesh, and
one pound of peanuts, better known as
goobers in North Carolina, where they
are raised, is a good ubstltute for three
pounds of meat And surely a meal of
dried prunes and peanuts is within the
reach of everybody.
Another, very suggestive piece of In
formation from British scientists is that
a meatless diet improves the health and
tends to-check rheumatism and kidney
diseases. Persons afflicted with a crav
ing for meat like those who crave tea,
coffee or beer, can be cured of the dis
ease by an egg, cheese and milk diet,
buttressed by strong will power and a
determlnaatlon to cast off the habit and
break the chains of the meat appetite.
! These suggestions, well masticated and
digested with a grain of salt, will go
far to remove apprehensions of impend
ing fatty degeneration and will afford
consolation to those who are afflicted
with the meat habit
Omaha is not the only city in America
where commercial bodies and property
owners are compelled to expend their
private funds for placing public thor
oughfares in a passable condition. In
Chicago, for exariplo, one-quarter of the
business district hzv been receiving a
dally thorough cleaning for about a
month. This applies especially to State
street, the principal, retail thoroughfare
of Chicago, which has been kept clean
by the expenditure of money contributed
by the merchants and -commercial clubs
and the business men who occupy store
buildings on that street. The owners of
lots cn North Sixteenth street and tho
occupants of stores might profit by the
example of Chicago. The repaving of
that thoroughfare between Cuming
and Douglas baa become an im
perative ' necessity and the embargo
placed upon the paving by the warring
contractors leaves do alternative than
the repaving of that street by co
operation of the property owners.
The general crop outlook, according to
Dun's Review, may be condensed into:
"Weather conditions are most favorable,
crop prospects bright for more than an
average yield." The security market is
assuming a stronger and healthier tone,
retail trade has been stimulated by
w.arui weather, this in turn has increased
the Jobbing orders, and the country,
apart from the much-to-be-deplored
strikes, is enjoying an era of quiet pros
perity. ' It is pointed out that while
exports of grain and foodstuffs last year
were small, it was mainly en account of
the small yield and the great demand at
home. The Immense exports of manu
factured materials, on the other hand, is
most significant. The manufacturing
Industries, not being dependent on the
weather, could develop without let or
hindrance and the favorable trade bal
ance for the fiscal year Just ended of
$170,084, t."5 has only been surpassed
twice In the natiou's history. '
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"Steady, boys, steady!" was tha hab
itual expression of the late Marsh Eider,
one populist speaker of the Nebraska
ho;io of representatives, when ttie house
over which be presided became unruly.
To him "the boys" were like so many
oxen working in the corn field. "Steady,
democrats, steady!" cries Grovtr Cleve
land. Manifestly Grover also looks uin.
the average democrat as a yoked steer
diaci in.? tlirt democratic gang plow
tla-ouiii the political corn field.
Tl.ii-ty-seven mills at l ull KUer, Mass.,
are !..-.! down cm account of a t. trite
l:ivoht! I a per t-eet cut la wuies.
Oei ii is taking a i i-.'.'...i i.i t'..
li:,'..-:', . l.t, .In ', : ulcliy, tha tors to the
I.., itli-uU tf the t.-wn, If t'. ci.t vent
info effect would bo rsprly on rlihth
of all the money spent in their stores by
the thousands' of mill operatives. This
kind of a strike hurts all around.
After making a proposition for holding
Joint primaries with the county commit
tee, Mr. Blackburn, in his capacity as
congressional committee, convened blrn
self and decided to go it alone, without
waking for the county committee to say
yes or no. Not only that, but he himself
interposed a technicality of the law to
prevent the county committee from ac
cepting or rejecting. Great is Thomas.-
The World Herald's charge that the
railroads hnve for years dominated the
state government of Nebraska would
constitute a much better plea for the
restoration of the demo-pops to ofTice If
it did not Include the whole period of
fusion supremacy in this state . when
the railroads got pll they wanted at the
state house, and got It easier, so they
say.
The fusion democrats now see" their
mistake they should have nominated
their state ticket and worked the popu
lists for an endorsement at the time they
held their state convention to select na
tlonal delegates. Effecting fusion iu
June would have been like rolling off a
log. compared to bringing It about Jn
August.
War correspondents In the east will
now give front place to the men report
ing the strike in the packing centers,
While we are all Interested in the east
ern war we are much more Interested
In knowing when the historical parity
will be restored between 15 Cents and
a pound of sirloin steak.
The commander of the British ship on
guard at the entrance of the Dardanelles
should have adequate ignorance of in
ternational law. A man in his position
cannot afford to know so much as to
hamper immediate and effective work
when the time for action arrives.
The appearance of a portrait of ex
Chief of Police Seavey in a pald-for
frame on the front page of a local
weekly would indicate that that aged
veteran 1st again looking for something
to drop in his direction in the vicinity
of police headquarters.
Claaalfled at Laat.
t Washington Poat. ,
Kouropatkln declares ho will win if It
takes htm twenty-five . years. lie Is ap
parently the J., Bryan of Russia.
One Popular Strike.
Boston Globe.
The strike of the public. In refusing to
buy meat at the high prices unnecessarily
charged In Boston," Querns to be succeed
Ing. t . . ; " - ,. '. - ;- " .
What It Meana.
Kansas City Star.
Answer to Inqulrerr" The word "delenda"
used in the quotation, ."machlna, delenda
est" means, freely translated, ."all shot to
pieces."
K-,- St..
t ,MIk n tk, Cocoannl.
Buffalo Express,
Noii 1 the dali-y 'inrereata must prepare
to fight the cocoanuts. A German chemist
has found 'a" way of' making the finest
kind of butter froni '(the huts. '
Dividing- the Church Vote.
1 '" Washington Poat.
The chtirch vote may still be considered
divided. Judge Parker passes the contri
bution plate every Sunday, and Theodore
Roosevelt, Jr., has' taken charge of 4
Sunday school class at Oyster Bay.
Disadvantages of Concentratloa.
New York Tribune. ,
It ought not to be possible In such a
country as the United States for a lot of
dissatisfied laborers in Chicago to make
tho entire country1 go hungry. Concentra
tion and specialisation hava their advan
tages, but It Is at times like the present
that the people perceive most vividly their
disadvantage also, and that Is a fact that
ought to make both strikers and packers
conciliatory In their attitude. ,
American Fruit Industry.
Philadelphia Press.
The development of tha fruit Industry
In the United States la one of tha pleasing
results of the protective tariff. In 1831 the
Imports of. fruits and. nuts reached nearly
iia,uv,M i.i value, while tha exports were
of the value of 12,4.14.7113. But last year the
Imports aggregated 122,000,000 In value, while
the exports reached nearly th same fig
ures. Of tha Imports over $7,000,000 worth
consisted of bananas.. In time the United
States, Including Its outlying possessions.
will supply nearly all of the fruit and nuts
consumed In this country and vast millions
for export
Ignorant Critics of Krnger.
Springfield Republican.
It has been a favorite Idea of writers oa
Mr. Kruger that he was archaic In char
acter and Ideals end ignorant of the real
power of the British empire and of the
world. Yet he was scarcely more "old-
fasbloned" In his Ideas of tha Bible than
Mr. Gladstone, and as for knowledge of
the world, he had been far more of a
traveler than mot of the. presidents of the
United States. Mr. .-Kruger had visited
Kurope three times before 1888. Ha at
tended the Paris exposition In and a
little later he became personally acquainted
with Kalaer Wllhelm I and with Bismarck,
who was deeply Impressed by the rugged
Boor. Ia view of these -facts, the notion
that Paul Kruger did not know "the
world," or was a mere pastoral survival
of a distant age, seems ridiculously Ill-
founded.
A Fool aad Ills Money.
Saturday IJvenlng Post.
In New Tork the most magnificent hotel
In the world is approaching completion.
Marble and tapestries arid costly bronze,
and wonderful carvings everywhere; suites
furnished at from D,000 to JflO.OOO so It
goes. Arid the management Is already cer
tain of the success of the enterprise, so
many applications for permanent quarters
have come In. , .
Very significant are the preparations for
separating the rich from their nioney that
are going forward everywhere nowadays.
If the rluh were permitted to live simply
and bring up their qhlldren In simplicity
we might bv In great danger of having a
permanent arliitocrary on our hand. But
how many generations can withstand the
J-fl, toils of cosily Juxuiy? liuolntsa
ability fude-a; the struggle of the arena
Iti'ihiih diHtautt I ji, abhorrent, Impossible;
ln) family line cruinhles and there or no
permanent political privilege's to mulntntn
the family after the I rules and eticigy are
fii. I.uKury will d-.-iroy an urioiuciacy.
1 --lit If the arir.t.x-racy has DO political
Per, l.uw tun ti.o uury dcatioy the
tatel
tiif, rr nrmr or tub mo.
tehrmrm of TnMIe Rnlihery Carried
on by Proanoterb.
The gentls art of fleecing the sy-golng
Investor by means of wind and water secu
rities Is pretty generally known, but some
phases of the swindles are brought under
the -eearchllght by "Jaerer," financial edi
tor of Leslie's Weekly. The writer says:
A well-known Inventor In commenting
bitterly not long ago on the manner In
which the Steel trust was exploited to the
serious Injury cf thousands and tens of
thousands of Innocent Investors and specu
lators, denounced the whole affnlr as a
Startling example of what he called "The
perfidy of the big." lie said that when
the day of reckoning came some of the
biggest men In the financial world would
stand, in the light of history, humiliated,
discredited and disowned. This Is a con
clusion that I had reached long ago, and I
repeat that If the true story not only of the
promotion of the Stoel trust, but of the
operations of some of the most eminent
mllroad and Industrial magnates In the
country, during the past few years, could
be spread upon the minutes for publlo In
spection, there would be such a popular
uprising against men who hold their heads
high In the financial world as this country
has never witnessed.
In no era In the nation's history have so
many men of little or no means suddenly
sprung (Into the ranks of the millionaire
as during fie boom era of 1901, now nearlng
Its disastrous close. How these gentle
manly highwaymen of finance did their
work was recently disclosed In a suit be
fore Justice Greenbaum of the supreme
court, and I am not surprised that the jus
tice, from the teweh. scored the scheme of
the promoters as '"unconscionable and in
defensible. I have not room to enter Into
the details of thla malodotous enterprise,
but, sifted down, the facta show that three
men sought to get control of the Norfolk
A Southern railroad, to merge It into
syndicate, with a trolley line that was
hardly paying expenses, and then, with the
help of a rittnburg trust company, to mort
gage the property and raise the enormous
sum of $4,000,000.
The promoters were to do this Job without
putting up any money. They were to avail
themselves of an option and pay for their
stock by borrowing the money from the
trust company, and to get their profit by
Issuing $4,000,000 of bonds to sell to the dear
public, and gorge themselves on the pro
ceeds. In the height of the boom just auch
schemes were put through, with such suc
cess and eclat that the men who made
themselves . mulU-millionalres by their
roguery are still Adding their heads high
wherever the codfish society can break In,
to pick up the crumbs from the tables of
the so-called aristocracy. And thus we find
railroads that were paying dividends on
their preferred and common shares (mostly
on borrowed money, ' the -borrowing of
which was skilfully concealed by expert
accountants - who had the - temerity to
testify to the accuracy of their reports) are
now discontinuing not only dividends on
their shares, but also Interest cn their
bonds, and In aome cases facing reorganise,
tlon. Is It remarkable that Judge Gross,
cup of the United States supreme court.
in an address almost a year ago before a
noted religious assembly in Illinois, de
clared that in the supervision of monopo
lies by the government lies the only hope
for the perpetuation of the American na
tlon, and that he attributed . the lack of
confidence In Wall street Investments by
the public generally to the fact that "polite
swindlers and high-up rascals" were able to
subvert the laws and give to stocks a value
they do not really possess?
When ' the public realises, as they are
beginning to do, the extent of the swln
dies practloed by "high up rascals," they
will agrea that the ' best remedy Is that
which the distinguished judge himself sug
gested ' in - the same address, namely, a
change of our laws so that no set of meu
can organise - a corporation except on
a strictly legal basts, and then to put the
corporations under such supervision as
the national banks are subject to. "When
I 84e the laws of my country, Introduced
to enable men to consolidate money, for
the public good, turned Into an excuse tor
swindles that should land the promoters
In the penitentiary, and , when I see that
to 'be the almost universal history of corporations,-
every drop of my blood bolls
with hate" and revenge." This Is ' what
Judge Grosscup said, and he was right.
and the demand- of President Roosevelt
tor publicity . of corporation affairs was
not made a day too soon.
Let every reader of this column who
has suffered, or who may suffer, from
such, financial rascality, scrutinize closely
the record of every candidate, for the
legislature and for the congress, that he
may be called upon to vote for, and let
him scratch from his ballot every cor
poration promoter who shows his head.
The fault ia with the people. They are
too credulous, too easy, too forgiving. It
is Iu their power, at the baiiot box, to take
revenge, and there are abundant signs
that they proposo to use it
If Wall street complains because of the
lack of business it may charge It up to
a lack of confidence In those on whom the
game has 'been played too long and too
often. "The perfidy of the big" has gone
too far. The revelations In the caee of
the Norfolk A Southern railroad are no
worse than those in the Infamous Asphalt
trust, in which soma of the most eminent
financiers of two of the greatest cities hi
the continent were conspicuously involved.
They are no worse than those disclosed
In the noted case of the Universal Tobacco
company In which Vice Chanoe.ll'W Pitney
of Jersey City" declared "there Is no hon
esty In a stock Issue of $1,000,000 on a 25
or SO per cent basis and the forcing out of
the holders of the common stock to tha
preferment of those holding preferred
stock. That sort of practice Is a fraud
on the people who Invest their money,
and It Is thievery to do It." The story cf
the Steel trust is another Illustration. The
revelations of ths Bay Statu Oas company
and the Amalgamated Copper, of Consol
idated Lake Superior, of tha Shipyard deal,
are all a part of the story which furnishes
as scandalous a chapter In American his
tory as has ever been left unwritten.
Farmers East aad West.
Boston Globe.
An Iowa farmer, who was bred In New
England, after making a visit to the old
farm, remarks that be observes an ab
sence of the oldtlme thrift and application
that once existed among the farmers of
New England, lie says they work SCO days
a year In Iowa and that the New England
farmer would have more "cash money" if
he would labor on his farm'at least one
third of each twenty-four hour for at
least nine months In the year, and during
the other three months attend to the wol k
of turning the forests Into fields. II ad
mits that tha New England farmer can
make more dollars from an acre of corn
than they can In the west, but that the
western farmer makes It up by having
more aer.s under cultivation.
Weary Tales of Wa Correspondents.
bail Francisco Call.
The I'jiny diupositloned correspondents
u the eakt are again singing that song
which with Iteration and alteration has
become a wrailneas and a pain to ths
wurki's ear. "The greatest battle of the
war It, Impending I the btirdsn of the
re-Rome i.f.u!n and still no day comes
fulfill tho irum'oe of etfrday. Mmi-
chuiia. f r a t ,!! at least, hua Leva a
tune of pt If tint tit jio purity.
WHIIE THK JITntRK IS t).
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Baltimore American: The hot wraths
seems to be rather frying the fst out o
the meat strike, as far as the consumers
are concerned.
Baltimore Sun: Physicians now assert
that meat eating causes aprendlcltls. At
present price It Is also likely to cause
atrophy of the pockctbook.
Boston Transcript: The most regrettable
features of the whole affair are that
through delay, the rational method of set
tllng such matters should have received
such a setback; and that labor. In Its dl
appointment, la undoubtedly In a less re
ceptlve and Judicial mood for further nego
nations.
Springfield Republican: Going and com
li.r, In peace and war, the pocket of the
average man Is taxed to "make good.'
He may be cheerful or resentful over this,
but ty be must there is no consideration
for him, and no escape. Ha Is the "easy
mark" of combines and unions alike, the
one factor to whom no regard Is paid, to
be overlooked with Impunity and yet to
be reckoned on with certainty.
New York World: At the outset the con.
suner may as well reconcile himself to
paying the costs. But he will be fortunate
If the demand stops there. It seems to be
much easier to raise prices than to lower
them, and while the consumer has In
stant notice In the way of advanced price
that a atrlke is In progress. It takes a long
time for the advantages of a settlement
to filter down to his pocketbook.
Boston Globe: The laws of supply and
demand are still operative. The lesser de
mand for meat . resulting from the hot
weather and the good advice that has been
spread before the people that meat at this
season Is not a necessity has had the ef
foot of leaving the market glutted for the
time being, and meat both at wholesale
and retail Is cheaper than before the
strike. .
Washington Star: . It la to meet this con
dltlon of stubborn obstinacy and persist
ence In a custom of nonyleldlng that socio
logists demand the enactment of com
pulsory arbitration laws. There are argu
ments against It, but they fall to tit
ground In the face of the repeated proof
that society Is constantly losing from use
less strikes. Any strike Is useless which
Is based upon Issues that can be otherwise
settled. .
Chicago News) The great public baa to
be fed. It Is time for ail parties to this
strike to set aside peevishness and ex
aggerated dignity and get down to a per
manent contract to settle disputes by sans
methods. Here are a lot of men who have
thrown over an arrangement without even
tenting it, on mere ' pique and suspicion.
They have resorted to the extreme and
drastlo expedient of a strike at ths drop
of a hat without a single preliminary.
They trifle with the urgent needs of the
people. In an Irresponsible manner.
New York Times: The chief significance
of the facts referred to is that the Beef
trust cannot give the screw as many turns
as may suit its managers without Inciting
to rebellion and revolution among dealers
The Beef trust can hold Its control of the
meat trade only by rendering a better
service more cheaply-than it can be rend
ered by independent and competing con
cerns. Perhaps it oannot be. displaced and
certainly it cannot be ruined, but it oan
be mads to suffer a loss of business so
serious that it will find the experience In
structive. ; WITU TUB OPPOSITION.
Schuyler Free Lance: There la no need
of Bryan trying to run for the United
States senate In Nebraska. ' His incon
sis tent support of Parker fixes him. All
his ability and all bis oratory will never
explain it away. - '
Albion Argus: If anyone had told us
Bryan would hava ever adopted the policy
"my party right or wrong" we would have
resented it as a slander. Thla only goes
to prove that it Is not safe to write a
man's biography till he dies.
Schuyler Free Lancer The only real dif
ference today between the democratic and
republican parties is. the personality of
Theodore Roosevelt and with the com
mon people that gains htm votes and loses
hjm support with the plutocratic element.
Howells Journal: The Wahoo New Era,
one of the leading populist papers of the
state, says there can be no more fusion
between the democrats and populists of
Nebraska. To all of which we say amen.
Nellgh Yeoman: If .Parker shall be
elected It will be because Wall street de
rides that Its Interests will be safer In his
hands than tn those of Roosevelt.
Schuyler Free Lance: The democratic
party has returned to Clevelandlsm and re
moved all evidence of ever having been
otherwise. The party repudiated the plat
form of 1896 and 1900 and repudiated Bryan-
Ism. It returned to the gold standard and
was too cowardly to say so; It turned down
Bryan's pet Idea of an Income tax, because
that would not suit the rich classes of the
east. There Is nothing in common today
between the democratic and poullstlc par.
ties, and certainly . all fusion on national
tickets must be at an end. The Bryan
democrat who supports that ticket must
about face- and forward march to the
realms of Grover Cleveland. Bryan may
figure out how he can support Parker on
that platform and his followers to a cer
tain extent may be so wedded to the name
democracy that they will do the same re
gardless of principle, but the man of con
viction has reached the 'parting of the
ways.
Crete Pemocrat: We want It distinctly
understood by democrats with whom we
have been in. close political touch upon all
questions Of national character, - as well
as those who have trained with the enemy,
that Palmer and Buckner renegades can
not make precedents for this paper to
follow. We are not that kind of a demo
crat. We did not Imbibe our democracy
from the Van Buren bottle, from which
the republican Infant was suckled; but
from democrat who were contemporaneous
with Jefferson, Jackson. Thurman and Bey.
more, who believed that the majority
should rule In party affairs. Should we
now run. to the enemy and give It secret
or open support, because we did not get
all we wanted in the platform, nor the
men for candidates whom we believed
would make the best democratic officials,
then we would feel as mean politically as
those who skulked in UM and 1W00.
Butler County Press: The Idea that Mr.
Parker Is a sure winner was a special
sentiment worked up tat St. Louis) by
people In the employ of corporations, who
have spent months at It. It was the only
way they could beat Bryan. It Is a good
feeling to open 'the campaign with con
fidence, but as 'a betting proposition we
desire to post our friends. We met many
New Yorkers while In St. Louis. They
say Mr. Parker's election was purely ac
cidental, and his strength an uncertain
quantity. Against the man himself they
utter not one dUparatflng word. They say
he Is socially and morally clean and a good
judge, but they dlatruxl the ltelinont bend
scheming crew as much as western people
do, and Tammany Hall hates Iiavld B.
1UU worse than a rattlesnake. They ac
cuse him and Judge Parker's other aca )
c'.atos with defeating l!!id Colt r fur gov
ernor, when New York City av him the
blggont vote ever received ny any man.
You may chen fully ut fur a imtn and
yet not ioi,: jc l.l u a sals i .' v pouUm to
bet on.
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PERSONAL AXD OTHERWISE.
If Henry Gassaway Davis lived In Japan
ha might easily be elected to be one of the
elder statesmen. .
Jules Verne says the great bulk of his
work has beert done by writing for. three
hours before breakfast.
Santos-Dumont win not return to the
United States this year. He thinks the
competition is too great In the gas bag
line.
Senator Fairbanks. candidate for vice
president on the republican ticket, has no
more devoted admirer than Mrs. Dorothy
Cole, his mother-in-law. She Is now (4
years old and a resident of Marysvllle. O.
Lieut. W. E. Safforfl, recently of the
navy, but now of the Department of Agri
culture, has about 200 books from the
library of the late Robert Louis Btevenson.
Among them Is the Bible which belonged to
Stevenson's father He bought the books
in Samoa.
Herr Kubflik, the Bohemian violinist, who
lately received word that he was the proud
father of twins, Is said to have made over
$500,000 In the last three years. With some
of his great earnings from his violin he
purchased Kolln castle, near his native
place, in xsonemia. , ,
The venerable Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker,
Huxley's lifelong friend and one of the most
famous botanists of the has Just cele
brated his 87th birthday.. His name Is held
In special sanctity, by the thoutands who
enjoy the glories of Kew gardens, for he
was the director there .or .thirty years. '
All Holland is excited over - the semi
official announcement that - Queen . Wll
helmlna expects an heir .to the throne
shortly. The young queen has now been
married three years, and the Dutch people
were beginning to fear that, there would
be no direct heir to. the crown of Holland. ,
Jay Cooke, now 84 years old. and a party-
of friends from Ogonta and Ashbourne '
made the star catch of the season at Beach
Haven, Mass., on Tuesday. The result of
the trip affords a rood example of Mr.
Cooke's skill as a fisherman. The party of
five caught 474 fish In all, of which 177 were
caught by Mr. Cooke himself.
JUST Ilf JEST. ...'
Widow Wlxen Yes. . Henry died dulte
reconciled. I was at his bedside until the
last moment.
Dumley (meaning to be complimentary)
Ah! that accounts for IL-riioeton Tran
script. , .
Mrs. Winks How much better off a man
would be if he would take his wife's ad-
Vioo! .... - - , ,-,,
Mrs. --Rinks Yes. T advised Charlie time .
and again not to bet on horses that
don't win, but he will do it New Yorker.
Sign Fainter I don't see any suitable
vacant space on your wal'.s. Where do
ou want the motto, "Term Strictly
iash," painted T . 1 ,
Barber Shoo Proprietor On tho celllna-.
of course. Chicago Tribune..
Mrs. Noodod Mr babv cries all nlskL
I don't know what to do with It.
Mrs. Knowltt I'll tell you what I did.
As soon as our baby commenced to cry
i used to turn on an the gas. That
fooled him. He thought it was broad day
light, and went to sleep. Trained Mother
hood. . ...
There is only one way to make grown -u a
people wise and that Is to let them be as
foolish as they can. Puck.
Why did Buncombe become a motor-man
after he lost his propertyT"
Hecause he wanted to throw down trie
people who had thrown, him down." Cleve-
and Plain Dealer.
Jfthnnv Wtmt rinen It mean tn tsV a
thing philosophically? '
Mother It's the way your paw pays
his card debts, but not the butcher bllL
New York Sun.
Miss Passay The Idea of Mr.' Hoam'ey
asKingtno if I uouiun I ieurn lo love
nim:
M tn P.nnr.v W Vi r nnl? fin. I n.v.ii
too old to learn. Philadelphia Press;
Isn't that orator always saying some
thing he will be sorry, for?"
"Its worse than that." answered the
politician. "He is alwavs satisfied with
what he says. His political . friends are
sorry." Waahlngton feinr. , . -
She picked up a huge paper weight
And said: ' If he brlnx" home a skelght
Like he did 'tother ulMt
I'll just turn down the llsht -
And land with this weight on his pelght.
Houston .roei. ;
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S. W. Oilman In Success.
There's a erase among us mortals that Is
rnipl Vuart In npinit. ,
Wheresoe'er you find a human you will find
the case the same;
You may seek among the worst of men or
seek among the bent,
And you'll find that every person Is pre
cisely like the rest.
Each believes that his real calling is along
some other line . ,
Than the one at which he's working tke,
for Instance, yours ana mine, .
From the meanest "me-too" oreature to ins
Iwtder of the mob,
There's a universal craving for ''the other
fellow 8 JoD. .v
There are millions of positions in the busy
world today, .
Each a drudge to hi in who holds It, but to
him who aoesn i. innyi ...
Every farmer's hroken-neartea that in
( L. k t.ta .ull . ,
While that same unhappy farmer p the
envy of us all.
Any taxk you care to ; mention seams a
vhbiIv better lot'
Than the oua. esneclal somf l hlng hlch you
happen to have koi.
There's hot one nm e way v to Smother
i.nvy s nehrtachn and her son:
Keep too buey at your own, to want the
other laiiow s juU" .-
IkGcpCooI
Electrie fans give
you a constant cool
breeze a steady sup
ply of freah air In
the oflee, store or
home.
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ltt-ia. Desk Fn. ... . . f . , , . flrt
(yrofan, doable 12-ln g'!5
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