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Now they are having earthqunkea
over In Aila. It must bo a reflex of the
recent commotion at St. Petersburg.
If the price of the product of the
poultry yard keeps Its present tendency
It will not take much of a goose to lay
a golden egg.
If that rullroad pass Investigating
committee wants to cut It short. It
might couch Its report In these words:
"Sic semper McGlnnls!"
Just congratulate yourself that you do
not live at Glendtve, Mont, where tho
column in the thermometer refused to
top till It reached S3 degrees below.
With the ferries In New York tied up
because of Ice In the harbor, the de
mand for a subway extension to Jersey
will receive vigorous reinforcement.
If the railroad traffic Vnnnagers would
busy themselves for a little while cut
ting the coal rate instead of the grain
rate, they would strike much closer
borne.
No danger, however, that the refusal
tf legislators to turn in claims for mile
age as allowed under the .Nebraska
Constitution will become violently contagious.
. On the question of local option and
the regulation of the liquor traffic, the
Nebraska legislature would not go far
wrong if it invoked Mark Hanna's pop
ular rule by "letting well enough alone."
Typical of one phase of American life
la the report from Washington that all
clerical positions on the canal cone are
filled, though there are places still for
several good men in the shovel brigade.
It is alleged that General Grlppen
burg will retire from the command of
Russian forces In the orient, but if the
present death rate Is maintained for any
considerable time the army will beat
him into retirement
It was only 22 degrees below zero In
Lincoln when the thermometer regis
tered 26 degrees below in Omaha. Who
says the presence of the legislature
and its attendant lobby is of no advan
tage to the capital city?
Admiral Botrovsky should send notice
of his Intention to Join the squadron of
Admiral Rojestvensky several days in
advance If he wants to make sure that
his squadron is not mistaken for part
of the Japanese navy.
Texas has decided to make the mar
riage of divorced persons difficult in that
state. And yet there are people who
will not admit that the Lone Star state
has Improved much from the descrip
tion given by a distinguished army officer.
The World-Herald has not yet taken
back its double-shotted demand upon
Governor Mickey to endorse Governor
Folk's rules for the guidance of pro
fessional lobbyists, which Governor
Folk now denies having promulgated.
What 1 It waiting for?
In the light of the report of the Inter
state Commerce commission those offi
cers of the Colorado Fuel and Iron com
pany who were calling for troops to sup
press the lawlessness of strikers last
year seem to have been close to the
position of the man who shouts "stop
thief while gelng away with the
plunder.
Some Americans familiar with polit
ical discussion in this country will be
surprised to hear that one reason Ger
many is considering the purchase of the
coal mines is for the purpose of combat
ting socialism. Over here advocacy of
government ownership of coal mines
brings down at once denunciation of the
advocate aa a socialist
THE POLICY Of FAIR DEiUWh
It is an unfortunate fact, very gener
ally recognized, that fair dealing be
tween railroad managers is the excep
tlon rather than the rule. There have
been from time to time many so-called
agreements between the managers of
the railways of the country and invari
ably these understandings, apparently
entered into with the best of intentions,
have been violated and proved to be ut
terly worthless. -The record of railroad
agreements for the past twenty years
will show that there has been an utterly
unscrupulous course pursued by most of
those entering into such understand
ings.
In view of this there Is great force In
the declaration of President Roosevelt
made in his Philadelphia address, that
"It is In the interest of the conscientious
and public-spirited railway man that
there should be such governmental
supervision of the railway traffic of the
country as to require from his less
scrupulous competitors, and from un
scrupulous big shippers as well, that
heed to the public welfare which he
himself would willingly give, and which
In of vital consequence to the email
shipper." Referring to this view of
Mr. Roosevelt one of the most prominent
railroad mop in the country, the presi
dent of the Southern railway, says
President Roosevelt is absolutely right.
He declared that the vast majority of
the managers of the railroads warmly
second Mr. Roosevelt when he recog
nizes that conscientious and public
spirited railroad men should be pro
tected from illegal acts of "less scrupu
lous competitors and from unscrupulous
big shippers." This railway official as
serted most positively that practically
all the railroads in the country are op
posed to the rebate system and were
prepared to second the efforts of the
national administration to have this
abuse done away with. Upon this point
he is quoted ns saying that there is no
difference of opinion between the rail
roads, the country, the congress and
the president on the subject that re
bates are wrong and that they must
be stopped; that secret and discrimina
tory devices of all kinds, direct or in
direct, must meet with the same fate,
and that the highways of transportation
must be kept open to all upon equal
terms.
If the railway men of the country
generally were earnestly in sympathy
with this view of President Spencer of
the Southern railway there would be
no difficulty in solving the problem that
confronts the country and Is recognized
on all bands as the most serious ques
tion for the determination of the federal
government. An obviously vital point
in the whole matter is that of protect
ing the conscientious railway man
against his less scrupulous competitors
and if this can be done there will be
no serious difficulty In regulating rates
and putting a stop to rebates and un
lawful discriminations.
EXPLAXATIOKS ABE IN OHDEB.
Two vital amendments to the Dodge
water bUbwere offered in . the house
before the passage of that measure.
Ono provided that the water board
should not be allowed to draw salaries
or perquisites, or make expenditure out
of the water fund before the city shall
have acquired the water works the
other that the board be forbidden to
renew, modify or extend the existing
contract between the city and the water
company without first submitting the
proposition to a vote of the people for
ratification. - Against these amendments
Mr. N. P. Dodge, Jr., vehemently pro
tested, declaring that "practically the
whole of Omaha is for this bill Just as
It stands and there are but two powers
fighting it, namely, The Omaha Bee
and the water company."
Now let Representative Dodge ex
plain to the people of Omaha why he
wants them taxed for salaries of a board
that has no water works to manage
and, in fact, no duties whatever to per
form, except to draw salaries. Let him
explain also why the citizens of Omaha
should be deprived of the privilege they
now enjoy under the charter to declare
through the ballot box whether they
approve or disapprove the granting of
any franchise for the supplying of pub
lic utilities. Let him also tell when,
where and how the water company has
Interposed or obstructed the passage of
his bill.
It Is a matter of notoriety that the
water company was in accord with Mr.
Howell in his attempt to force the pur
chase of the works' by compulsory leg
islation. It is a matter of notoriety
that the capitalists who have a con
trolling Interest in the street railway
company are also largely Interested In
the water company. It is a matter of
notoriety that while the first water bill
was being engineered through the sen
ate by Howell two years ago, it was
being railroaded simultaneously through
the house by the engineer of the street
railway company, Mr. Gilbert
It was also a matter of notoriety that
Superintendent Hunt who is the chief
political manipulator of the water com
pany, was given a vacation to Califor
nia during the whole session of the
legislature two years ago, and not a
soul lifted a finger against the water
bill . while it was pending before the
legislature. It is an open secret that
Superintendent Hunt is now on a vaca
tion to the Sandwich islands, and not a
finger has been lifted by the water
company against the Howell bill No. 2.
And It is not too much of a stretch of
the Imagination to surmise that the sec
ond water bill was inspired by parties
not Inimical to the water company. It
Is a matter of notoriety that the ex
isting water board, Including Howell, is
eminently satisfactory to the water com
pany, and the company prefers to close
the deal for purchase of the works or
extension of its contract with the board
without the consent of the citizens of
Omaha.
Because a baker's dozen o! Fqntanelle
braves, including Mr. Dodge, endorsed
the new Howell bill at a star chamber
meeting, Mr. Dodge takes It for granted
that all Omaha favors the pernicious
measure, when. In fact the overwhelm
Ing majority of our citizens are against
It The mere fact that people who are
opposed have not rushed to Lincoln at
their own expense In way-below-tero-weather,
while the members of the
board and the would-be $10,000 water
commissioner, who travel mostly on
passes, have camped at the capital,
affords no proof that the bill Is in har
mony with popular sentiment
TJ.TT ON THE PHlLIPrlXES.
The American people are very willing
to accord to Secretary Taft the best
possible motives in his efforts to pro
mote the Interests and welfare of the
people of the Philippines. No one will
question for a moment the sincerity of
his desire in this direction or doubt the
earnestness of his declared convictions.
Ills hearty sympathy for the Filipinos
is the quite natural result of personal
contact with them and is altogether
commendable. They are a people who
for centuries were subjected to Spanish
greed and oppression and knew little
or nothing of the civilization to which
they are now being Introduced.
Secretary Taft has confidence in their
ability to improve and progress, if the
right conditions for this are afforded
them. He regards them as capable of
being uplifted and of bejng made use
ful to themselves and to the world and
he most earnestly thinks that It is the
duty of the United States to spare no
effort to advance the welfare of these
distant wards of the nation, nis view
is that the archipelago being territory
of this country our government is as
much bound to give It every Industrial
advantage and benefit as in the case of
nawaii and Porto Rico. In regard to
this he says: "Whatever ultimately
will be done with the Philippines, they
are necessarily for the next generatlcn
a part of the United States, and there
Is no more reason for a tariff against
them thnn against nawall or Torto Rico
or our territories."
This plausible view Is concurred in
by a very considerable number of the
American people, but on the other hand
there are many who think that a proper
care for our domestic Industries, with
which those of the Philippines would
compete, requires that a tariff rate be
maintained on the products of the srolil.
pelngo which will continue adequate
protection to our own sugar and tobacco
Interests. It Is the view of Secretary
Taft that these Interests would not be
materially affected even should the
Philippine sugar and tobacco Im ad
mitted free to this country. Perhaps he
is rignt, but no reasonable fault can be
found with the American producers nf
sugar and tobacco for holding a differ
ent opinion and for insisting that the
principle of protection in regard to their
Interests shall not be abandoned. As we
have heretofore said in relation to this
matter, the Importance of which Is ob
vious, let all that can legitimated be
done for the benefit of the Philippines
be accorded the Islands, but the pri
mary duty of our ffovernmenr la
sider and conserve the Interests and the
welfare of our own people.
South Omaha taxpayers flr-A nrntAet.
ing against a bill purporting to rt
the city authorities with power to (..
$250,000 in bonds for the construction
of a sewer, denouncing it as dangerous.
What would they say about th
bill slated to be saddled upon Omaha,
puinng the door wide open for the
water board either to saddle Omaha
with bond issues up In the millions or to
tie the people of this city down to an
extension of the present water contract
without so much as a word aa to .
terms?
easily obtainable. The president aa usual,
takes hold of the right end of the skein.
First find out the prevalence of an abuse,
and the causes thereof, then be prepared
to provide an Intelligent remedy.
ButbIbbt Wards Pa Oat.
Chicago Tribune,
A man may, and probably sometimes
does, think strongly when trying to talk
through a telephone, but there are tea good
reasons, lately supplied by the courts, why
he should keep hi violent thoughts to himself.
Eqaallty lav Rates.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
President Roosevelt Is a good friend to
ths rsilroads. He has Just called their
attention to the fact that it costs no mors
to haul a poor man' freight than a rich
man', and that the rates ought to be
equal.
Graft's Last Prop Gone,
New Tork World.
The supreme court ha declined to In
terfere In the ease of Machen, Lorens and
Groff, and the three postofflce "grafters"
must go to the penitentiary. Occasionally
the mills of the gods turn out a highly
satisfactory grist.
Two Salaries Better Than One.
. Chlcazo Chronicle.
The republio of Panama naturally ob
jects to the consolidation of the offices of
United States minister and governor of
the canal tone. In a country like that
there cannot be too many omc holders
when somebody else pays the bills In gen
uine money.
Long, Tedious Walt.
Philadelphia Press.
If th Russians are to wait for General
Kouropatkln to win a victory before con
sidering peace negotiations, a reported
from St. Petersburg, it looks as though
they would have a long time to wait. And
If General Kouropatkln won a victory there
would be a good chance for him to repeat
the success. In which case the Russians
would not want peace until the Japanese
sued for it. So far there has been no
Indication that Japan will be forced to
take that course.
Degreea of Wifely Self-Sacrlfl.ee,
Kansas City Star.
Just what degree of self-sacrifice a hus
band may rightfully demand of his wife
has never, it Is believed, been definitely
determined1 by the courts. The matter Is
rather a delicate one and standards have
been changing rapidly of late years. Many
of ths things which a husband was per
mitted to Insist upon a century ago are
no longer countenanced by enlightened
public opinion. These desultory reflections
are suggested by the Washington dispatch
announcing that when Senator Clark of
Montana made his first appearance as an
orator yesterday before the senate "his
young wife was the sole occupant of the
reserved gallery."
MAKI.1Q MILLIONS IN A DAV.
Op-
From the reported activity of the
cattlemen trying to prevent new Hft
tiers from taking up homesteads under
the Ivlnkald law, one would imagine
tney uiought the law intended i
cluslvely for their benefit If the cat
tlemen are going to stand In the way
of the success of this law, thoy will be
in poor position to ask further favors
or to continue to take privileges with
the public domain without regard to
law.
fifteen American warships have
started to see that Japan and Russia
preserve the peace in American waters.
It goes without saying that if anv flo-hr.
ing Is to be done within
limit of the Philippines Uncle Sam pre-
rers to ao just a little more than hnif
or it himself.
The attention of Representative Bur
ton of Indiana is called to the present
condition of the Ohio river as rnnno
to his remarks derogatory to the Big
aiuaay, wnicn tias never shown a dispo
sition to scare people when it should be
firmly ice-locked In its bed.
Tips from the Water Logged.
Baltimore American.
Western Irrigation enthusiasts might re
ceive some valuable Information by con
sulting certain successful Wall street operators.
Speculation Linked with Business.
Chicago Tribune.
Bomebody should call Mr. Rnrv.ft.it.,.'.
attention now to the fact that nothing will
mo me oust along nn railway tracks so
well as a liberal sprinkling of oil.
High Rone to Popularity.
Minneapolis Journal.
Nobody would for a moment hum, ,.
government, but If the supreme court could
do inaucea to nand out a light slap to the
coal trust It would be appreciated about
now. -
A Forgotten Party,
Philadelphia Ledger.
Somebody has proposed that th. v..
braaka legislature shall pass a law provid
ing ror an eight-hour day for the hand
organ monkey, but nobody thinks of ths
farm- hand.
Take Hold of the Rlgrht End.
Cleveland Leader.
President Roosevelt desire congress to
empower the director of the census to col
lect data concerning divorce that can be
used as a basis for general and uniform
legislation, In th states, under which sev
erance of matrimonial bond hall be less
Inflated Capitalisation and the
presalon Springing from It.
Leslie's Weekly.
The amazing statement was made before
the City club of New York recently that
while the aggregate nominal capital of all
the companies which entered Into the Con
solidated Gas company of New York In
1881 was $17,000,000, on the same day of the
consolidation this capital was raised to
mooo.000, although "no capital was con
tributed to the consolidated company; ex
cept that which was transferred to It by
the several constituent companies." In
other words, 122,000,000 was made In a day
by those who manipulated the combination,
and on this vast amount of water the citi
zens of New York who patronise the gas
company must pay Interest, for all of the
Consolidated Gas company's stocks and
bonds sell above par and pay good rates
of dividends or Interest. One of the con
stituent companies was allotted J7.600.000 of
the new capital stock, though the entire
amount Its stockholders had paid into the
company was 1750,000, and they had taken
out of it In dividends during the fifty
years of its existence over 116,000,000 that
is, they had- received their original invest
ment back twenty times over.
It was the former commissioner of water.
gas and electricity, under Mayor Low, Mr.
Robert Grier Monroe, an excellent author
lty, who made this astonishing statement,
and he followed It by another disclosure,
equally astonishing, to the effect that In
1898 the independent electric light cornea
nies in the borough of Manhattan had an
aggregate capital of stock and bonds of
$26,000,000, but when these were absorbed
by the Edison company this capital was
raised to 145,000,000 of stock and ,40,000,000
or bonds, and that the citizens of New
York are now paying about $4,000,000 an
nually above the cost of producing and
delivering the electrlo current. On the
same basis he shows that if the water
supply of the city, which Is now conduoted
by the corporation, were In private hands.
the citizens of New York last year would
nave expended for their water from $15.
000,000 to $20,000,000 instead of $5,000,000. Mr.
Monroe added, and those who are familiar
with the facts know that this Is true, that
"the lighting combination Is powerful and
dangerous because It Include among Its
members city officials and members of th
legislature."
A HATTER OF RIXES,
Contrasts in the Methods of the Two
House of Congress.
Washington Post.
.&acn senator is a powerful factor In
legislation. "One senator, under the rules
of the senate. Is equal to tho whole house
of representatives," Is tho remark of
member of the house. Of course his re
mark was exaggerated, but he had In mind
a time when one senator held up congress
and forced the house to yield to an ap
propriation that the house had well-nigh
unanimously voted down. It was at the
close of a session, and such Is now ap
proaching. Congress would have expired
In twelve hours. Two appropriation bills
would have been defeated and an extra
session made necessary. The senator gave
notice that If hi appropriation was de
feated th bill could not pas. The house
yielded, and because of that It Is asserted
that one senator Is more powerful than
the whole house. Four years ago Thomas
H. Carter, who has Just been elected sen
ator from Montana, talked the liver and
harbor bill to death after it had retched
the conference stage, although It had
passed both houses.
When the house of representatives pro-
vlded that the committee on rules should
have Iron-clad authority; that the speaker
could count a quorum, and that the fili
buster should no longer be a factor, the
members surrendered their Individuality
and gave the senate great advantage over
them. In fact the representative made
Individual senators rank a high as the
entire house In such Instance a cited. Of
course It I plain that the fillbusterer in the
house could not have prevented a filibuster
In the senate accomplishing the defeat of
measures, but a minority of filibustered in
the house could have defeated the appro
priation which was made, unless they also
were afraid of an extra session. It is a
common thing to hear the senators say to
house conferees concerning some disputed
point: "You will have to yield; under our
rules we can never get a vote If we take
the bill back there without this provision
in It. You can put your Iron-clad ma
chinery at work and get a vote any time."
That is the advantage th senate, with Its
liberal rules, has ever the house with Its '
restrictions ;
OTHER LAXDS TIT A OCRS,
Both Hungary and Austria are mosaic
of populction differing In religion and In
race of which no one element Is or can
become predominant and the Inexorable
logio of facts will eventually compel th
oceptanc of the compromise which the
Ausgelch represents. There might be a
united and Independent Hungary were th
Magyar numerically no lea than po
litically In tho ascendant. They are not.
They form less than half of a population,
which comprises $.000,000 Rumanians, 2,000,.
000 Germans, 1,000,000 Slovaks, nearly 2,000,
000 Crcatians fend over 1,000.000 Servian
and they are only able to elect a majority
to Parliament because the law discrim
inate In their favor. From a religious point
of view the diversities are not less
striking, for besides the 10,000.000 Cathollo
are about 1,000.000 orthodox, nearly 1.000,000
Greeks, 1,250.000 Lutherans, 1500,000 Calvin
lets and over 800,000 Jews. These would not
long endure an exclusively Magyar ' and
Cathollo administration, and the dual n
plre will continue for the lack of an avail
able alternative. But there may be some
trouble before the triumphant Kossuth
party Is o convinced.
It require expert knowledge to trace
the distinctness between the German par
ties and faction. The following parties
voted at the elections In 1903: Th conserv
atives, free conservatle or Imperialists,
clericals or centre, national liberals, antl
Semites (who are divided Into numerous
small groups), league of agriculturists,
moderate liberals, radicals, southern Ger
man democrats, Guelphs, Poles, Bavarian
agriculturists, Alsace-Lorrainers, Danes,
the social democrat A writer descanting
upon the German political groups repre
sented In the Reichstag says the principal
drawback which prevents the German
Reichstag playing the part due It accord
ing to the constitution is the great number
of parties of which It is composed. "Apart,
perhaps, from Austria, there Is no Parlia
ment In the world which has such a kileldo-
scoplc appearance as the German Reich
stag." The list of parties in nearly all of
the countries of continental Europe Is a
study In political nomenclature. The French
parties are numerous. The republican
group In the chambers Is composed of five
parties: The democratic union, radical
left, radical socialist left, extreme socialist
left and the socialists, pure and simple.
These groups constitute the republican
"bloc" upon which M. Combes relied for
support
...
The persistent reports of Italian anxiety
over the movements of Austrian troops
upon the frontier seem to be tho work of
mischief-makers and one or two Vienna
newspapers. They were started some time
ago, soon after the disturbances at Inn
bruck. Not long after a correspondent of
the London Times writing from Vienna de
nounced them as moonshine, and ridiculed
the notion of the Italian government paying
any attention to them. He said that five
or six battalions of troops had been or
would be moved from Galicla and the Ruko.
wlna, In accordance with a plan established
eighteen months ago, and lodged more com
fortably at various points between Relchen
berg, on the Bohemian-German border, and
the southern frontiers, but that the move
ment had no strategical or political Import
ance whatever. Careful Inquiries, he added
had convinced him that the Austro-Hun-garlan
government had no Idea of adopting
any policy likely to be annoying to any of
the powers, or even to the Bnlkan states.
It was too anxious that they should all be
In agreement In case of trouble In Mace
donia. Moreover, the Turks are Inclined to
believe that the troubles of Russia will pro
vide them with an opportunity of crushing
Bulgaria, but they have no money at pres
ent for enterprises of that sort.
aa
There are now two memorial tablets In
the crypt of St. Paul' cathedral, London
In honor of war correspondent who lost
their lives in active service. The first of
these bears the names of writer who
perished In the Sudan campaigns of 1RS3-84.
86, and the second commemorate fourteen
journalists who died on the field, either of
bullets or sickness, In the South African
war. Archibald Forbes has an Individual
memorial. ine oouin Aincan tablet was
unveiled by Lord Roberts. "Bobs," unlike
Lord Wolseley, has never exhlhlted any in
veterate antipathy to war correspondents
and has never had much reason to com
plain or tneir treatment of him. On the
present occasion he spoke of them very
handsomely. He said that the men whose
names were recorded "died, as so many of
their brethren had died before them, In the
loyal performance of their arduous duties
and proved themselves worthy of belonging
io a nign ana nonorable profession, the
members of which in all quarters of the
globe had rendered valuable service, not
1 . I , . ., .
uniy i ms juurnais wnicn tney repre
sented, out also to the publlo at large. It
was therefore befitting that a memorial to
such men should be placed In that cathe
dral, and It was highly gratifying to him to
be afforded that opportunity of offering his
meea or praise." At a meeting held after
the ceremony the Journalists did not fail to
repay Lord Roberts his compliments with
interest.
a.
Belgium, with Its state railways, seems
to have solved the problem of cheap travel.
One can get a five-day "pass" In the little
kingdom for $3.86, the price of a bargain
counter pair of shoes, and for $7.72, the sum
he would pay for an "all wjol" suit at a
red letter mark-down sale, he can wander
about over Belgium, by rail for fifteen days.
Seeing that a good pedestrian might walk
across the country In a day or two, one
would have great difficulty In moving about
Belgium constantly by rail for five days,
let alone fifteen. At the same time, there
Is plenty to see, and the traveler "doing"
Belgium has every Inducement In the way
of railroad rates to make It thorough. For
the commercial traveler Belgium must
be a paradise In the way of railway facili
ties. A trifle over $15 a month in railway
fare will keep him going. It Is a novel
way of fixing railway rates a way In
which time Is the only element considered.
Armenia's misfortune I that It I behind
Turkey. If It were In front of Turkey It
would get as much attention from Rurope
as Bulgaria, Macedonia, Bosnia, Herzego
vina and Roumanla have received. Ar
menia has no port that European men-of-war
can appear In. Its borders touch no
European country except Russia, and Rus
sian sympathies are aroused only by the
sufferings of members of the Greek church,
while the country Is so Inaccessible that
there are few foreign witnesses of the
Turkish atrocities, which are not less In
Armenia than they were In Bulgaria, where
In 1876 they aroused the whole civilized
world and precipitated the Russian war.
POLITICAL DRIFT.
fcew Tork City' salary roll for 1! foot
up $61,000,000. Eigne come high, but
Gotham ha th price.
Senator Depew had his senatorial Job an
chored for six more years before his rail
road Job slipped away.
Some impertinent scribbler want to
know, you know, anent th Bmoot Inquiry,
whether th rest of th honorable sonators
observe the ten commandments In letter
and spirit We pass It up.
David B. Henderson of Iowa, formerly
speaker of th house of representatives, I
now with hi family In Lower California,
"dreaming hi life away," as one of Mr.
Henderson's lifelong friends states in th
New York Sun. Mr. Henderson, In other
words. Is very 111, mentally particularly,
and is never to return to scene of former
activity.
The solons of Illinois, Nebraska and Cali
fornia have each an Investigation on hand,
Involving, the Integrity of members. Ne
braska's investigation is a mere passing
flurry, and that of Illinois an Insinuation
of wholesale graft In California the
meanest squeal Is heard, embittered by the
fact that the accused closed their palms
on marked money.
Only six members of th Illinois legisla
ture had the courage to face the scoffs of
their associates by refusing railroad passes.
Still It 1 claimed "the good die young."
The new senator from Oregon, Samuel
H. Piles, at on time worked In a logging
camp, acquiring practical knowledge of log
rolling. A mighty handy accomplishment
in his present line.
The governor of Kansas has accused the
chaplain of the lower house of the Kansas
legislature of stealing a prayer from the
paragraph In the governor' newspaper.
The chaplain prayed: "There Is so much
bad In the best of us, and so much good
In the worst of us. that It hardly behooves
any of us to talk about the rest of us."
Tho governor says he thought that a very
neat bit of phrasing up, and printed it
more thnn a year ago, and naturally h
wants credit for It.
Representative Clayton of Alabama was
talking on the Swayne case. "The tree is
known by his fruit," he quoted from the
Bible. There was some sneering laughter
on the republican side. "I knew it," said
Clayton. "I knew It. You people think
It is wrong to say 'his fruit" I have
quoted that before and have been laughed
at. Now, If you scoffers on the other side
will take your Bibles you will see that the
quotation is correct. You laughed too soon
over there. You ought to study the Bible
more and laugh less."
Governor Hlgglns of New York and the
majority leaders In the New York legisla
ture are considering a state tax scheme
which, If made operative, will unquestion
ably result In greatly Increasing state reve
nues. The proposal Is to levy a tax of 2
cents on the $100 on all transfers in stock
transactions. As actual transfers are pre
sumed to be made, even In margin deals
on the floor of the New York City Stock
exchange. It will be understood- that uch a
-tax would bring to the state a revenue of
thousands of dollars every day the ex
changes were open for business.
State Insurance Commissioner Thomas D.
O'Brien of Minnesota has refused to ao
cept the fees of his office, which In the
past have amounted to over $15,000 a year.
Mr. O'Brien has Informed Governor John
son that he does not believe the law which
allows the commissioner salary and clerk
hire contemplated his taking fees. He Is
of the opinion that the fees belong to the
state and will turn them Into the state
treasury. Last year the attorney general
ruled that the fees in question belonged
to the Insurance commissioner, but the In
cumbent takes Issue with the decision.
Fifty ft" Mo Standard
SPREADING THE GOSPEL OF CORN.
Importance of Good Seed and Scien
tific Cnltlration.
Chicago Tribune.
The corn special or "gospel" train which
many of the western railroads are pre
paring to send out this spring are another
evidence of the Increasing Interest In
scientific agriculture amung those most
directly affected the farmers. It Is the
purpose of the corn special train to warn
the farmers against the dangers of poor
seed and to Instruct them how to select
the best seed and how to prepare the soil
for planting, how to improve corn by se
lection and breeding.
The corn special train, which first ran In
Iowa, probably will visit every corn raising
state in the middle west during this conv
Ing spring or the next. By correct applica
tion of scientific principles it is claimed
that the yield of corn per acre can be
raised from thirty and thirty-five bushels
to sixty and seventy. Tho fanner ha
gradually come to respect the utterances
of science, and he av. .its the arrival of the
corn special train and listens reverently
to the half hour "demonstration" which is
given by the experts of the microscope and
test tube.
Thirty years ago there was universal
apathy among the farmers regarding the
development of agriculture. The fields
were plowed in the same old way. The
harvester and reaper had taken the place
of the primitive "cradle," and machinery
was gradually supplanting hand labor, and
there was a growing understanding of the
necessity of crop rotation, yet of real
scientific agriculture there was little knowl
edge and little Interest was taken In it.
The farmers' Institutes were poorly at
tended. The farmer regarded education as
stepping stone to success in law, medi
cine and theology, but of no practical value
on the farm. The farmer's son who re
ceived a college education looked upon a
return to the funn as an abandonment of
all attempt to put his special advantages
to practical use. But there has been a
change. Science has touched the soli with
Its maglo Angers. The farmers are eager
to learn what the class room has to any
about the fields. The farmers' Institute
have a larger attendance than the political
meetings. The agricultural college are
i.
of
Made from pure cream
tartar derived from grapes
multiplying, and they are filled with ear
nest student. The special gospel train' L
which bring the apostles of scientific agrl-W
culture are thronged with listeners.
m . , -. . . , X
Alio now ariuuiiuro in uui ui Hflnu.
mental growth. It Is extremely practical.
It means more dollars from every acre of
ground under cultivation. It means th
use of lnnd which formerly was considered
worthless. For this reason business men
and railroads have been quick to see the
practical value of the new scientific agri
culture and are making efforts to extend
it as far as possible.
LIXES TO A L Al'C.H.
mtl-
tf irst plutocrat I'd willingly give a
lion noiiars ror a new stomarn.
Second Plutocrat I'd give two millions If
I could get along without a stomach at
all." Chicago Tribune.
"Pe trouble wld de average man," said
Uncle Ebon, "is dat when he ha three
meals a day an' a warm fire, he can't see
why ev'yhody else shouldn' be contented,"
Washington Star. .
"What Is an Impulse?" asked the teacher..
No answer.
"It's something that comes to vnu sud.
denly. Can you form a sentence containing
the word? Any one may answer."
"A snow bail Is an Impulse," ventured
the timid little girl with the curly hair.
Chicago Tribune.
Miss Pitts-Burger (seeing New York)
And is Washington's the only statue la
Wall street?
Her Experienced Father Yes, my dear,
the only full length statue: but you hear,
now and then, of a brand new bust In
copper. Puck.
'Yer honor." protested the seedy pris
oner, "dls Is Jlst a case o' perllce porsecu-
llon. uey se tryin ter keep me down, yer
honor. You ain't goln' ter let 'em keep me
down, are yer?"
Certainly not, replied the magistrate.
I'm a-oinir to send vou ud for ninety ,
days." Philadelphia Press. 1
"The trouble with you," said the musical
enthusiast, "Is that you do not understand
classical music.
"Perhaps," answered Mr. Cumrox. "But
I refuse to be regarded aa a man of In
ferior Intelligence until I find some on
who Is competent to prove that he under
stands it." Washington Star.
Archie's elder sister happened In while he
was snavinr.
"Why don't you wait till you've got
somethlnar to shaver sne askea.
"Because," he retorted fiercely, "beards!
ain't raised that way nowadays. I'd have'
to wait ten years before I'd have such a
muBtache as you've got! Chicago Tribune.
CAN IT BE f
Oh. can be it be I ever thought
This earth a torrid place?
Oh, can it be I ever mopped
My fiery brow and face?
Oh, can it be a cooling bath
Was once a precious treat? j,
Oh, can it be I ever dreamed
There could be too much heat?
Oh, can It be I ever wore
A ribboned 'tsn of strawf
Oh, can be It 1 gloried when
A cake of Ice I saw?
Oh. can It be I fumed and fussed
Way back in last July?
Oh, can It be once on a time
An end seat hog was I?
Oh, can It be that once content
Beneath a tree I basked?
Oh. can It be one sultry night
A fan was all I aiked?
Oh. can It he I wondered once
Where all tho hct came from?
Oh. can It I ever longed
For winter time to come?
Oh. can it be I envied once
The Ice man on his way?
Oh, can it be I loved to sail
Upon the glassy bay?
Oh. can it be I once was glad
To shed my coat and vest? i
Oh. can It be I once rejoiced
When Old Sol sunk to rest?
Oh, can It be I ever cussed
i Because the day was hot?
Oh, can it I ever sought
A cool and shadv spot?
Oh, can It be a brimming stelil
Was ever fine and nice?
Oh, can it be I ever drank
A liquid cooled with ice?
Omaha. Neb. VAN.
URS. WINSLOW'S
SOOTKIMQ SYRUP
nas been used by Millions of Mothers tor thetr
ohlldren while Teatblns for over Fifty Tear.
It tuothes tlie oblld, M.tuins the gunif, allays
all pain, auras wind oollo, and is th beat
lemedy for diarrhea.
TWESTY-riVE CERTS A IWITLI,
WOMAN'S CROWNING GLORY
U tar hair. ItGny or Blotched, It cm b ra
ft tore d to Its natural color without Injury lohaoitk
r fcHtip by oo.tpplkat.oa of tho
Imperial Hair Regenerator
THB STANDARD HAIR COLORING, It
.(ut, J (JNB APPLICATION LAS1
dfVMONTHS. SiplJW yourh.tr c.lorcd
Imtwriil ChMS.MIt.O W ?M ..Nw Varf,
Ihirmaa A MrCoon.lt nra Ca., lltb pods ti
THE
Hr. Bryan's Position,
Naw York World.
'My position at present," said William
Jennings Bryan to some friend at Wash.
Ington a day or two ago, "Is that of th
young man down couth who was In love
with a fine young woman. He proposed on
night und sh accepted him. After the pro.
testation of undying affection had been
made a hundred time th young man went
out Into the night and looking up at the
brilliant star raised hi arm above hi
head and said: 'Oh, Lord, I ain't got noth
ing ag'ln nobody.' "
The Way to Do It.
New York Tribune.
President Roosevelt and his attorney gen
erals, Knox and Moody, have given munici
palities a splendid lesson In th enforce
ment of laws, and the lesson is. The way
to enforce 4 law la to enforce It,"
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