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THK ItEE: OMAHA, MONDAY; AUOt'ST 30, The -Omaha Daily? Bee FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSE WATER. VICTOK WATER. EDITOR. Entered at Omtbt poatoffico as second class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Bee (without Sunder) one year. .94 00 Dally eo and Sunday, one year e.w DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Dally Bee (Including Sunday), per wek..U) Dally Hee (without Sunday), per weea..iuj Rvnilm Ra wlthmit Shindav). Dr Week 0 livening Hee, (with Sundays per week..lOe Sunday Bee, one year M M Saturday Bee, one year - Address all complaint of Irregularities la delivery to City Circulation uepnrunenu OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. Smith Omaha Twenty-fourth and N. Council Bluffs It Scott Street. Lincoln 61 Uttle Building. Chicago IMS Marquette Building. New York-Room Uei-UB No. M WHI Thirty-third Street. Washington 72 Fourteenth Street. N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communication relating to news and edi torial matter ahould be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 1-cent stamps received In payment of mail accounto. Personal checks, except on Omaha, or eastern exchanges, not accepted. STATEMENT OT CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County .ss.: Oeorgs B. Tsschuck, treasurer of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, says that the actual nun.oer ot full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during toe month of July, 190s, was as follows: 1 4A.T40 IT..... 4110 ....... 41.780 II 4000 ( 48.080 1 4140 4 4030 0 41,780 t... ....... .43.180 II 43,480 41M St 41,080 7 4180 IS 4110 I.. 4170 14 4100 t 4110 21 40,150 10... 41,700 ! 4170 11 40,680 IT 41,880 It 4S,80 tl 4140 It 41,740 tl 41,840 14 41,710 10 41,880 It 4170 11 4180 II 41,740 Total 1,888,040 Returned copies.. 8,888 Net total 188,413 Dally average 4188 GEORGE R TZ8CHUCK. . Treasurer. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this Id day of August, 1M8. (.Seal) M. P. WALKER, .. Notary .Public. porarlly should bar The Bee mailed to them. Address will be chanced as often mm requested. Aviation will spraad last, for tho spectators at Kheltus all exclaimed "Isn't it pretty?" Airship road law the papers call for. A good beginning could be to put into Jail every Bteersinan who goes over the fence. The south is overtaking the west Louisiana and Mississippi raise more corn this year than ever before in their history. The latest is a water power combine in Michigan. . It is not supposed to obstruct the health food industry at Battle Creek. If this is what Mr. Harriman calls a& after cure, he is advised to make a contract next time to have It all done in one lob. Along the lower Missouri President Taft's tour is sidetracked until the incubator baby is finally placed with a mother of some kind. Perhaps Mr. Harriman went Into seclusion so soon - because he was afraid J. J. Hill would catch him out alone without a doctor at hand. W. E. Curtis has tried it, and says that the eating In the Yellowstone Is as good as at Delmonico'a. What of itT We do not eat at Delmonlco's. Charles W. Morse is at liberty and with skillful attention those Interested may learn from him what la needed in the organisation and reform of trusts. At the present rate of ballooning a 80,000-ton warship will soon look like a seventy-gun man-of-war after the meeting ot the Monitor and Merrlmac. Congressman Hitchcock wants It dis tinctly understood that he harbors no sense of gratitude for the committee ship favors which he accepted at the hands of Uncle Joe. Omaha will entertain the Ad men's convention next year. It is the busi ness of the ad men to advertise, and advertising is one of the essentials of a live-go-ahead town. Charleston is setting its ducks in a row for a music festival. They have no program and no crowd, but they can talk about the festival. Charleston has the proper civic spirit. Governor Shallenberger says he would hate to think his speeches wer not worth 150 apiece. We would like to buy a large consignment at our price and sell them at his. Mr. Hill, one of the grand old men, reproves the young fellows with the correction that crops in the northwest are not bumper, but Just good. The rest of us stand moderated. Kentucky's county ralrs are multi plying. The movement of popularity started when the events were turned into vaudeville shows. Kentucky must always see the great, wide world. Nebraska's share of the National Guard money appropriated by congress amounts to $45,000. Time to renew agitation for a permanent armory for our local companies of the state militia. - Governor Johnson of Minnesota Is booked for an address at the fortieth anniversary festival of a Swedish Lutheran church at Oakland. Wonder if he first got permission from Mr. Bryaa to come Into Nebraska? Mr. Bryan't Latett Challenge. In one of the first-page first-column thrillers in which the editor and pro prietor of our rerpected and atten lively watched contemporary, the Commoner, Issues alarums to the democratic hosts, we learn that the time is passed for "aham battles" on the tariff question. The point taken Is that "the only victory we hav won on the tariff In recent years was the victory of 1892, when we attacked the principle of protection." The offi cial framer of paramount Issues con cludes by saying: "The democratic party most challenge the republicans -standpatters and progressives alike to defend the protective principle." It is inferred that the party Is to re turn to the old battle between protec tion and free trade. The professional proponent of demo cratic challenges might give to his party a contention which has all the charm of age and all the attraction of library academics. But there is no such political issue around which any large body of Americans can be ar rayed. Mr. Bryan almost kills the practical politics of the cause oy In troducing the victpry of 1891'. Men do not remember the victory of 1891 as well as they remember the dire and dreadful days and years which fol lowed tho "party perfidy" which that victory produced. The victory proved the victorious party Incapable of pass ing a tariff law which was not thickly sown with the seeds of trade stagna tion and business confusion. No doubt there still is a respectable body of college free traders. But even they turned with dlscouragemot from the fruits of the victory of 1893, and they and their successors have evlnceSJThe no desire to call again upon the demo cratic party to construct a tariff law. Mr. Bryan himself lacks what the Chicago Record-Herald aptly calls a fighting record on the subject. If the issue comes up people will recall his Clarion words that if protection had slain its thousands, the gold standard had slain its tens of thousands. In cold and premeditated council he sur rendered the classic democratic doc trine of a tariff for revenue only, first to the apparently promising opportun ism of silver inflation, and then to the ignis fatuus of imperialism.' As a consequence our whole people seem now to have agreed that the tariff question Is a practical measure of legislative detail to obtain the necessary government revenue and promote the prosperity and industry of the people who labor. When faced with the responsibility democrats and republicans both work out the tariff In that way. Birmingham and Chatta nooga are as protectionist as New England. Louisiana is not preaching a tariff for revenue ( only any more than is Pennsylvania, and Texas gives up even its demand for free raw ma terials. Mr. Bryan started out to coddle the so-called Insurgents' whom he now says he must fight Just as hard as the extreme reactionaries. This an nouncement should be notice to prog ressives and standpatters that as re publicans they will find their common Interest in following the leadership of President Taft along lines of practical and substantial reform. American Piano Music Except in the piano trade few per sons care whether there are 12,000,- 000 instruments in the country or not much more than half that number. But It really is curious and financially worth noting, If the musical doctor who starts the discussion is right in saying that there is in America not a single pianiste of even the third order, though here more women play than In any other part of the world. Exactly what Is the American feel ing about music has always been hard to tell with precision. Americans spend money liberally, even extravagantly, for the privilege of listening to music. They patronise song, strings, the piano and the symphony orchestra. On opera they "go broke." Yet they do it all as If it were a conventional obligation to society. The musical doctor just quoted does not explain, how we send to Europe for all our virtuosos of the first rank, after our free spending of money to make musicians. Our girls show no lack of ear or facility, but they seldom get far enough along to more than teach the rudiment! to the little girls of a nursery age. There Is something not mathematic ally practical in sacrificing so much to music without a proportionate return. Yet social life would miss a great deal without the piano on- numerous occa sions. Besides, It is much to a girl to possess the potentiality of performing more like a virtuoso If inclination or necessity drives. If we could examine all the conditions we should find, we may assume, that the piano and all of our music, If It supplies no delight for many of us, fully Justifies. Itself, Something Doing in Kansas. That there is something doing in Kansas Is evident from the notices sent out by the superintendent cf insurance informing all fire Insurance companies transacting business In that state that under authority conferred by a new law he has reduced fire Insurance rates II per cent from the existing rates on all risks except on residence property, churches, school houses, farm property or special hazards, and has eliminated the exposure charge on dwellings. The fire Insurance companies quite naturally do not take kindly to this assault on their strongholds from Kan sas, but at last accounts had not de cided exactly upon the best course of action. Accompanying the notice was a letter of explanation, from which the following extracts are taken: I have made a careful Investigation of the ttra Insurance situation In Kansas and I have reached the conclusion that the pro- pie ot the state are entitled to a eubstan tlal reduction In the rates paid for certain classes of property, snd accordingly I have made the order, to which I will expect a prompt and, I hope, a cheerful compliance. The subject of fire Insurance rates Is n Important one, and this department Is clothed with unusual power, which should not be abused, and which. I trust, will not be while I occupy the office. I have taken great oars not to Inflict In jury upon the fire Insurance companies that furnish the Indemnity, for such action might be as disastrous to ths people as to the Institutions themselves. I do not want to Imperil the solvency of the companies. It Is not my purpose to weaken the effi ciency of a single fire Insurance company to perform the functions for which It was created, but, on the contrary, the new law will give strength and furnish a ssfeguard to the people. When rates are reduced by my direction it will be the result of careful Investigation, and as near as I now can determine the present order will amount to a saving of approximately $460,000 annually to the peopls of this state. This new law Is the most enlightened In surance legislation ever enacted by any' state, and the Judgment of the legislature will be fully confirmed before the meeting of another session. While the life insurance companies were being cleansed and regulated a few years ago, the fire Insurance com panies sat back with a self-satisfied smile, but If the Kansas idea pans out and spreads the fire Insurance com panies will be more sympathetic when they get through. British Land Tax. The popular feeling about the land tax In Great Britain makes it either the livest issue or a close second to naval defense. Mr. Asqulth, the prime minister, explains that the tax is really not a tax on land at all, but on the added value given by social causes. taxes do not apply to agricultural land as long as It can -be fairly so described. Nor do they apply to public land. It Is the so-called unearned in crement that the tax seeks to reach. Although the sum estimated for the first year is a trifle, all parties agree that It may be greatly enlarged in a few years. Mr. Balfour, the minority leader, denounces the tax as revolu tionary, unconstitutional and class legislation of the first order. Naturally the hokse of lords Is In a state of bitter opposition. The lords easily persuade themselves that confiscation and ruin are the purpose of the radi cal and socialist elements in the liberal majority. The high feeling is Increased by the direct issue between the com mons and the lords, which adds the historic class quarrel to the contes. The argument is intensified by the gathered feeling of centuries against the land monopoly of hereditary aris tocrats. The house majority, has already yielded to the conservatives on several points. The government, and not Jhe land owners, will now pay the cost of valuation. Tho commons agree that owners shall have a right of appeal to the high court of justice. Other concessions may be made and the un willingness of the lords may be over come. The whole subject does not to Amer icans seem to Justify the excitement of feeling in either side, but to those who have all their lives seen In Eng lish literature and history the great place occupied by land tenure it is not so strange that one side is eager to tax the unearned Increment and the other Is tenacious of the anti quated sacredness of a "rood of land." Mr. Bryan in his Commoner sug gests that the language employed by Justice Brewer In denouncing the in come tax "raises the suspicion that his vote against the lnoofne tax when it was before the court was the expres sion of a personal opinion rather than a Judicial decision." This Is -characteristically Bryan. It reflects Mr. Bryan's ideas of a court in which the Judges vote their opinions Just the same as members of congress or of a legislature. And the democrats of Nebraska are trying to smuggle their candidates into office under pretense of nonpartUanshlp. Among the names attached tn th resort made by the committee of fif teen on judicial reform to the Amer ican Bar association are those of three lawyers of national prominence who started their professional careers in Nebraska, namely, Frank Irvine, nenry jj. Estabrook and Rr Pound. A pretty good contribution tor a prairie state that used to be mapped as part of the Oreat American desert. The brief to support the motion for a rehearing in the so-called nonparti san Judiciary case is to be written by Oil Inspector Mullen, who Is chief of Governor Shallenberger's political staff. The brand of nonpartlsnnship mat comes from the political oil in spector will not be thick enough to spread with a knife. Omaha jobbers say they are too busy to take another trade excursion this fall. They will not be too busy, however, to entertain merchants from surrounding territory who come In to participate In Ak-Sar-Ben festivities and do a little buying on the side. The kaiser keeps up his end. Count Zeppelin is led out before they can tell much about Rhelms. The Zeppelin ship Is the only real, big, original, reliable, stand hitched, irreslstable dirigible In the eastern skies. In replying to the old fogy Prof. Armstrong, on the educated woman Issue, one Chlcsgo dame says that a happy marriage Is well worth waiting for. How do you tell them at sight and how do you get them? When the present garbage contract was made we were told that the gar bage problem had been foiled for Omaha forever, but It turns out that It was not solved at all. The garbage problem will never be solved satisfac torily until the rlty mantalns its own garbage department and removes ac cumulated refuse at public expense. The Brooklyn Eagle says (hat the drama owes a debt to Roosevelt. He Is not much of a showman or he would not have lost himself In Africa when there was so much going on in Europe and America. Mr. Taft took the census out of politics the moment he heard that Chicago and Cleveland were training for a count. They were sure to turn out on the counting a lot of bad counters. ' In all this passing army of freshly made outdoor champions none are glanced at by the fickle crowd unless he hss shaken the hand of Orvllle Wright or had a high-ball with Glenn Curtlss. Pinching Scorchers of the Air. New York Tribune. The fining of a Trench aeronaut for reckless flying" follows the Imposition of a like penalty In this country for exceeding the speed limit In the air, and suggests that when scorchers actually "get off the earth" they are not even then exempt from rules and regulations. A Record Worth Noting. Charleston News and Courier. Not a single passenger In the United Kingdom lost he life In a railway accident during the year 1908. This Is a remarkable record, particularly so In view of the fact that It was not many years ago that an express train to London was wrecked and many Americans killed. No doubt many will wonder why Just as good a record cannot be made In this oountry. The an swer Is that It has been made, for on one of the greatest of the western railway sys tems there was no loss of life whatever during the year 190$. In the ease of the American road the use of the masculine pronoun is not necessary. Bank Directors as Ornaments. Baltimore News. The bank director Is a busy man and he must in the very nature of things leave much to the officers who are In constant touch with the bank's affairs: but the name of 4he director Is used to. give the bank credit and to obtain deposits. He Is oompelled both by the law and by the ethics of the case to be something more than a figure head. Moreover, the number of Instances In which -ills neglect Is the direct Incentive to fraud are so numerous that they present all the argument neces sary to show that a director In a financial Institution ought not to serve purely an ornamental purpose. HARRIMAN HYSTERIA. No One Man a Paramoant factor In Nation's Commercial Progress. Washington Post. That Edward H. Harriman Is one of the most remarkable men who has ever par ticipated in the colossal business affairs ot the United States will be acknowledged by every one who Is at all conversant with the history making progress of commercial America. There can be no doubt that Mr. Harriman has - displayed an Imaginative genius of the highest order in addition to that efficiency lnflhe "practical," which has met with encomiums from the exalted of the land. Mr. Ifarrlman'S achievements will leave their Impress for generations, snd the Importance of his part In the country's railroad regeneration and Im provement would be hard to overestimate. But with all the fnost generous recognition possible of his abilities and accomplish ments, there Is at this time a tendency to exaggerate him as essential to the con tinuation of the prosperity of 90,000,000 peo pleto make him a paramount faceor of the nation's commercial healthfulneBS. The country will go on Its way of prog ress and of giant strides In commerce whether Mr. Harriman live or die. The properties with which he Is most Inti mately associated will no doubt be man aged with due consideration for those things which will most benefit them financially and oonduce to the country's welfare, even though Mr. Harriman be compelled to relinquish his activities or ad visory generalship In them. To assume that the taking off of Mr. Harriman would mean disaster to the country's in terests Is to belittle the genius of scores of other leaders In ths business affairs of the United States, and to suggest a ludicrously flimsy foundation for the finan cial and oommerolal structure. To antici pate a cataclysm In the affairs of the cor porations with whloh Mr. Harriman is so closely connected, la he should lose his grasp of their control. Is to underestimate him as a far-seeing man, whose wisdom long ago would have made all ths prepara tion necessary for the full protection of himself and those interested wtlh him, in case of his withdrawal from the world of business. The splendid health of commercial Amer ica and the prescience of Mr. Harriman are facts which make the present Harriman hysteria ridiculous. PERSONAL NOTES. In New Tork they've stopped asking one another "how's your health." They merely ask how's Harrlman's? A two-million dollar hotel In New Haven. named for the president, should come pretty near to being reckoned a Yale as set. Attorney General Wickersham Is 'the Spanish scholar of President Taft's cabi net. He reads, in the original, the works of Cervkntes, Lope de Vega, Calderon, V&, lera anad Galdos. Aeroplanes and biplanes, sperlcles and dirigibles, are useful in their way, but the genius who deserves ths plaudits of man kind Is the Inventor of a collar button that stops where It falls. A rift of humor enlivens the solemn con clusions of the pure food oonventlon at Denver. The association will not discuss "What Is whisky" while Washington is ex amlnlug the buttlonot for publication. The proposed uniformity of portraits on bills of large denomination hits the corn belt on a tender spot. Familiarity with ths face of $1,000 bills averts the peril of giving social recognition to the mugs of inferiors. The king of Spain has shaved his side whlrkers because the queen said they made him look too much like an English butler. Evidently her majesty thinks there may be such a thing as too much dignity even in a king. The ex-shah of Persia owed Russia 11, 500,04 at the time he was bounced off the throne. Debt was most rmbarrasHlng to him, for he was so situated matrimonially that there was no possibility of getting In touch with an American dowry. Ex-bankers Imprisoned in the Western penitentiary have discovered a snorts In the books of the Institution. The officials responsible will now regard mem as dan gerous prisoners. The books of the bank ers also showed a shortage, but they were less acta la ferreting (his ouL Around New York Btlpplss the Current ef life as Seem la ths Oreat American Metropolis from Day to Jay. The quarterly report of the tax depart ment for the period ending June SO last presents Imposing columns of figures on the taxable valuation ot Greater New Tork, and the transactions of the depart ment for the fiscal year. A few of these figures will glvs a fair idea of the Im menslty of the city's resources Tor dillgont lax gathering, which are not neglected to an extent noticeable by the taxpayer. Total assessed valuation of real estate and personal property for 1908 was given ss follows: Ileal, $t,8O7,lT9,704; personal, $443,- S20,8n6; total, $7.2&0,600.5M. The net In crease In the assessed value of all real es tate was $84,76S.K15. The Increase in the assessed value of ordinary real estate was $U6,862.2i0. The aggregate assessment of the real estate of corporations was $75, 826,425, a decrease of tll.6ra.77S. Assessments ot speolal franchises amounts to $474,001,900, which Is a iet decrease of $1S.48S,6T7. The decrease Is mainly ac counted for by the reduction in the price of gas and electricity, which has reduced the value ot the franchise of lighting com panies. Seventy-five per cent of the assessment for personal taxes is made in the borough of Manhattan. Collections of the 1908 tax in Manhattan were over DO per cent more than the tax for lyoi. Ths collections In the other boroughs do not show as great a gain. In the boroughs not formerly a part of the city of New York the people were not educated to pay personal taxes. In the old city of Brooklyn or many years there was no law by which collections could be forced. The gain In the assessment of domestic corporations has been more than M per cent. Lewis Schrlver, a steeplejack, was em ployed recently to paint the new flagstaff of the fire headquarters building in Ho boken. He started up the pole with his rope stirrups and reached the top safely. A crowd ot perhaps 00 was watching him when he suddenly threw up his hands and toppled over backward. Fortunately for the steeplejack his rops stirrups held, and the crowd below saw him dangling head downward, his limp body swaying against the pole. It was easy to see that he was unconscious. Chief Dunn of the fire department called John Reagan, the superintendent of the line department, and although Reagan would not have climbed the pole to paint It, he was quite willing to make the ascent to save the man swinging from Its top. He, too, used rope stirrups and reached the top safely. Lieutenant Graves and his men stretched life net under the pole and when Graves gave the word Regan cut the rope stir rups that were holding Schriver and he fell headlong into the net. He was not injured and was taken to St. Mary's hos pital. He was seised with an attack of vertigo. A Columbia student was "suplng" in 'The Canterbury Pilgrims," recently pro duced in the grove behind University hall. His role was thatvof an archer and he wore a pair of green tights, a heavy red coat and a cap with a jaunty feather. The night was warm and as there was no Immediate call for archers on the stage the "supe" strolled down behind the scenes to the stone wall that borders the grove to enjoy a smoke. The grove Is separated front Amsterdam avenue "by a 'high iron fence, through which pedestrians gase at the students. There came one to the fenoe and gaped at the archer and his weird costume. Then: "Say, Mickey, come here quick. Here's one of the bugs takln' an airing." A new street sweeping machine being tried out in New York Is considered a gTeat Improvement over former devices of this class. The machine is a "picker up," and does the laborious work of a dosen hand sweepers In one-fourth the tlms. With It the street cleaning prob lem Is reduced to Its simplest terms. With the sweeper in the lead removing the heavier dirt and rubbish, and the flusher following, cleanliness, even immaculacy, may become a fact. The new machine is simplicity itself. It Is a four-wheeled af fair drawn by horses. On either side be low the frame are rotary brooms set at converging angles and twenty inches apart at the inner ends. The . dirt is thrown up between these brooms In a t6w twenty Inches wide. A third broom In the rear sweeps the dirt thus placed in position for it Into a broad shoe hang ing between it and the forward sweepers. From the shoe the dirt la carried by an endless chain arrangement to the cans above waiting to receive it. Eight of these cans are accommodated on the wagon. The entire length of the wagon Is less than that of a sightseeing auto mobile. Its bulk Is of course much less. There are two other machines on the mar ket designed to do the same. work, but they are high priced and do not do as much work as the Merrltt machine. A great bunch of wolves pounced on the beneficiaries of - the gas rebate fund as soon as the courts held the 80-cent rate valid, and had no scruples about means of reaching the spoil. Agents swarmed around the' disbursing bureaus, men who said they were notaries, and who competed, with low fees, for the work of attesting claims. This became so savage at aome of the bureaus that the police had to be called in. Several men went Into the business of buying claims, and one person has a record of having gathered In about 30,000 accounts, paying 60 cents on the dollar. It was esti mated that he made more than $30,000 by his work. Then there was the theft of checks sent out by the bureaus with ths vouchers. Robert A. Burbsnk, who, with a force of twenty persons, looked after the legal end of the work, has a reoord of TOO letters stolen and the checks ab stracted. Persons received the letters without the checks, and it was generally found that the checks had been cashed. On Friday of last week Mr. Burbank re ceived reports of sixteen letters opened and the checks stolen. His Investigation show,ed that seven of these checks had already passed through the banks. Do We Bat Too Mscsl Pittsburg Dispatch. After careful study of the national cus toms Mr. Rockefeller Is of the opinion that the American people eat too much. He does not complain that they burn too much midnight oil, and If the new petro leum buttrr gets well under way may be he will be willing that they enlarge the regi men In that direction. Meantime the pack ers' combination seems to be making Its modest endeavors in the wsy of checking popular gluttony. The Great American llarmoalser. Cleveland Leader. It Is probably true that President Taft expects to be able to keep both Secretary Ualllnger and Fornter Plnchot In h'eVid mlnistrstlon. The master of the White Houne is a great harmonlzer, and he has to deal. In this Instsnce, with two men of merit and ability, both di-vmed io the gov eruiuenl service. . rM!Xa OF THE VAMF,nnil.T. Descendants of the Commodore' Switch front the Railroad World St. Louis Globe Democrat. With the advent of Harriman as the controlling spirit of the New Tjrk Centia system, which Is expected to tsks place soon after his return from Europe a few weeks hence, the Vanderbllts, as factors of Importance In the railway world, will drop Into the background. It la believed that the recent sales of convertible bonds of several of the Harriman roads were for the purpose of giving him the cash which would enable him to get a dominant voice In the Central. Early In 1909 he became one of the directors In the Central, and several other members of the board are favorable to his Interest. It Is believed that when the proper moment comes he will have no difficulty in getting sufficient stock to place him In control of the road and of Us subsidiary links. Who would have supposed, In the days of the "Old Commodore." that within third ot a century after his death the New York Central would pass out of the control of the Vanderbllt family! When he died In 1877 he handed over the road to his oldest son, William H. Vanderbllt, and the latter managed it and Its subordinate lines with such skill that the $100,000,000 which he Inherited was increased to more than $200,000,000 at his death in 1S85. Except the Pennsylvania road, It was the largest sys tarn In the world, and Its name and that of Its head traveled farther over the globe than that of any other railway. But the third generation ot Vanderbllts came under widely d fferent Influences from those which had shaped the lives of their predecessors. Ths "Commodore," Cornelius Vanderbllt I., had risen from poverty up to affluence and power. William H. had helped the father to make the family for tune, and the energy and skill which he displayed In the making of it Impelled him to Increase It. But wealth was thrust upon the third generation without any effort upon lis part, and much of Its time has been passed in trying to squander it. Cor nelius II., the grandson of the founder of the family, was a man of education and talent, but he gave comparatively little cf his time to the management of his road, while the fourth generation, as well as some of the third, pass most of their days In dissipation in Europe, with occasional Interruptions In divorce court proceedings In Harrlman's hands the Central will prob ably regain the prominence which it won In the days of William H. Vanderbllt. and will be likely to become more profitable to Its stockholders than It has recently been. SAFE AND SANE PROSPERITY. Need of Guarding; Agaalnst M'aste- t nines. Washington Post. The wisest of men aro those who know themselves all the time not only in troublous days, but when the ilava ar glittering with the sunshine of prosperity. Not some of the time, but all the time. Bo should It be with the people of a nation In the aggregate. i Today this country Is droDDinx from mind and sight the evil times of panic which tried the hearts of hundreds of thousands of competent and deserving citizen, and Is entering into a period which promises to be of magnificent well being for all the people. The crops, the foundation of the nation's good times, are bountiful; money is abundant for every legitimate commer. olal purpose, and the requirements of the more than fourscore millions of America are greater than ever before. The brains and brawn of the workmen of the country, whether they be merchant mince or tin- Skilled laborer, will be taxed to the limit iron short tlme to-supply the domestic -eM rorelgn demand for the output of farm, ractory and mine. The prices which the products of the United States will bring will be a generous return for the energies of theeople. There Is nothlns- on the horlxon to the most seerchlng eye nor to the most far-seeing mind which Indicates other than a coming era of prosperity and progress for this land of unlimited possi bility. But in the midst of 4hls ainu'lno nrni. pect for happy, prosperous years the coun try should know Itself from day to day and never attempt to force the hand of good fortune. There should he a taking of stock from time to time, that at the first sign of going too far ahead under the stimulation of artificiality and extravagant speculation the halt may come with a little restraint rather than a paralysis later from an attack of commercial heart fail ure. It la proper to "use every energy and seise every opportunity in the. days of business health, but to act the spendthrift with that strength will bring weakness and disaster later. A conservation of prosperity, and not a waste of it, will preserve It far Into the future. WAR ON FAKE WINE. " Tips on California Methods Worth - Knowing. San Francisco Chronicle. In hla war on fake wines Dr. Wiley will have the hearty Indorsement of the public, which will still protest that the use of sulphur fumes In cleansing wine barrels never did and never will harm anybody. "Wine" Is. the fermented juice of the grape and nothing else, and who ever sails as wine oonoootlons or blends of water, coloring matter and alcohol from other sources than fermented grape juloe should go to jail. In hla warfare against the "brick vineyards" Dr. Wiley may be sure of the support of all decent men. But even In this case, where there la no dispute as to the meaning of the term wine, the facts of nature and the dictates of common sense compel some compromise. Before there can be wine which will keep, there must be sugar- In the grapes suf ficient to produce the necessary aloohol and If the sugar Is giot there it must be added or the grape Juice devoted to Infe rior uses. There are many seasons when many of the grapes do not develop the sugar necessary to make wine, and when sugar must be and always Is added. So long as no water la added and only the sugar necessary to raise the contents to the proper point, the laws of this and all othei wine making countries permit the resulting product to be sold as wine. And that is right. But then follows another product. After me real wine has been made and drawn off It Is the custom of many wine mskers to cover the trash with water, add more sugar and sell the product of that fermen tation as wine. It is not wine. The office of the grape In producing the mixture Is merely the addition of whatever color and flavor remain In the arjent The stuff is no more unwholesome than other alcohollo drinks, but it Is not wine and should not be sold as such. And when Dr. Wiley says he will try to send to jail those who do so sell It. hs will find the people behind him. Clothes Do Not Cssst, St. Louis Globe-Democrat. When Mr. Harriman was asked If he evr hires his assistants because of ths clothes they wear, he answered: "It all depends on the snaps of their heads." Everybody knows .that It la not mpoasible for a well dressed man to have brains, though ilarrl man himself Is an evidence of a man having brains without being well di cased. - MNC01.W n it rout ii. Twelve Men Mssssr tn Keep capital nir In Order. Cedsr Rapids tla.) nr;iitlirsn. Mayor Ixve of Lincoln. Neb., was In Cedar Rapids the other day. Among other things he told was that the police force of that elty consists of about a doren men, day and night shifts, plain clothes men and all. Lincoln is a city of nearly en 000 people at that. Some one supposed at onre that It was due to the prohibition of loons which is now in force In the Ne braska capital. Hut Mr. Love prosily stated thai the police force bud been the same for many years, under license as well as prohibition. He said It Is Just a habit In Lincoln and they had found out that a great many policemen are more efV less useless. "For mysi-lf," he said. "I am a great believer In 'plain clothea' men. I am going to strengthen that part of the police force. The ordinary patrolman Is not so useful. There is seldom anything going on in the particular spot where he happens to be, which Is another way of saying that the policeman Is apt to be any. where except In the place where he Is needed. Every one knows the officer la uniform, and every one la careful to avoid a disturbance Iri his vicinity, riul he can not be everywhere." The police situation In Lincoln Is cer talnly unique. We doubt If there is an other city in the world that has so small a foroe to keep Its peace. One officer, day and nlgNt, to every 5,000 people Is a record that Is unparalleled and upsets all known theories of keeping the peace In cities. Th solution of the police problem in Lincoln la worth being studied by other cities. ELEPHANT ON H1B II AD9. Relations of tho Party Emblem and the Real Article. Baltimore American. Colonel Roosevelt, for the first time In his history, has an elephant on his hands. His first bagging of the greatest of all beasts has been made, and he Is corrt' spondlngly rejoiced; ior be it remembered that while Mr. Roosevelt In his various public capacities, particularly when pres ident, had problems to adjust hs never had an elephant on his hands. His facility to dispose of measures and Issues kept , things passing pretty swiftly within his I purview, and nothing ever landed on his doorsteps that he could not handle ao cording to the situation. " While he has for the first time a groat pachyderm of the African species to deal with, pachyderms have been hla specialty. He had for a long time an elephant l deal with that beats the African beast to a fraisle. But he never thirsted for Its gore. The great O. O. r. animal was his pride. Its care was his devotion; Jts train Ing was his passion. It would eat out ot his hands. At times it showed a surly disposition, but Instead of a prod ha would , hand It out some oats, snd It would snort with pleasure and go to Its accustomed work of treading out the grain from the political chaff of the legislative halls. The present specimen will doubtless be mounted and placed among Uia other eighty-odd specimens ot the hunter's rifle that are to be displayed 1n the new struct ura for the National Museum at Washing ton, and will be a silent suggestion of ths many triumphs of skill that have been his In the capacity of elephant driver. PASSING PLEASANTRIES. Editor Will you give ns a single reason why I should accept your stuff? Poet I can. If you uxed k, you could keep the stamps I enclose for Its return. Cleveland Leader. "What Is a food expert?" "Any man who can make Ms wages buy enough for .the fam)b rt1al,JrTNfii' Yorg Bun. "I demand to know, mndam. who was the woman you were clon.ied with yesltr- f uuy morning, as i w as loin : as sne a fining companion for my wlLeT" "Oh, gracious, I hope so! She's my dressmaker!" Baltimore American. Returned Traveler By thu way, Mr. Munn, your daughter, Mian' Etta, is mar ried. Isn't shet v Old Resident No; she could hnve mar ried a fine young fellow onre, but she threw him over on account of his nam.. She snld it was bad enuUKh to be Etta Munn, but she drew the line at Etta Knox. Chicago Tilbune. "Do you think I can stand n operation. doctor t ' You know your financial condition bet ter than I do. Houston Post. Hungry Hlggins Did you so get a meal outen oat sour face woman up deref Mike Sure. Hungry lllgglns How did youse do ItT Mike When she opined de door I ses. "Is yer mudder In, miss?" Washington Blur. Mrs. Flannlgan Our ' John was awful fat when he came back from the hospital. Mrs. o'Toole Faith, an' I tlo suppose the boy got big from . sleeping on m stretcher. St. Louis Star. "You're not as young as you used to be. Miss Wellup," urged the gray halted bach elor, wiping his perspiring brow. "Don't ou think you'd better recunnldr? I'm your last chance." "Not ut all, Mr. Faralong," said the ma ture but still comely maiden.. "You are n.erely my latest chance." Chicago Til bune. ' Blobbs Why do you liken Harduppe to the busy bee? lie's not particularly In dustrious, Is he? Slobbs Oh, no. it Isn't that, but nearly every one he touches gets stung 1'nilu di.lplila Record. LITTLE BOY'S NIGHTMARE. Chicago Post, I had a nawful dream las' night; I drempt th' schoolhouse bell Come runnin' after me an' gave a nav.fol fiendish yell, An' that it chased me through the town an' out across the crlok, An' then it stopped an' yelled at me; "You think you're mighty slick) -But I'll be oomln' after you another day 'fore long, An' when' I do t think that you will sing another song." I drempt the schooihouse glared st me; Its windows looked like eyes Ah' that the big doors was a mouth of most tremendous slse, An' that It rolled Its window eyes an' gnashed Its big door tenth An' shook Its front-Stair chin that swung an' wabDled underneath. An' growled: "All right for you. my boy. But you can't get away, I'll have you back Inside o' me first thing you know soma day." An' all the words In all the world jumped out of all the books. An' come a-runnln' after me with most bloodthirsty looks- All of them had their letters Wrong, which made tiirm real queer; Th' big flve-sulshul ons, too. Was scat tered far an' near. An' all of them kept chatterln' aA long as I s In sight: "You got to come back to th' school an' learn to spell us right." An' then a lot of f-and-l's come from th , schooihouse door An' kept a-singln' all-th' time about how they made 4. An' longdivlsion hobbled up an' mad a face at me, An 'that "V!)'?" ary,n'1 "Cn t you flnd Th joggerphy Jumped tip at tns and seared me half to death By tellio' mo to bound ths lands an' never stop for breath. Bo I woke up an' plnohed myself to see If was here. But all today I've gone around ao felt ex tremely queer. I walked a-past th' schooihouse an' It looked about th' same. But eomethln' somewhwre muttered, an' I thought It called my name., Aw, what's th' good o' havln' any, old va cation? Say I It spoils It all to know you've got to go to acrtool some dav. SL. n V i .11 8 .7 f wr i