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Treasurer, County Judge, Coroner and Supervisor.
The Frontier
PnblUhad by D. H. CHOHIK,
KOMAINE SAtlNDKItS. Asalatunt Editor
and Manager.
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Our exports which were under the
average duilng June, July, and Au
gust took a very substantial jump up
wards in September to 9153,800,400, an
increase of over 915,000,000 more than
the September average for several
years. The October figures are not
yet available, but it Is expected that
they will sustain the September ad
vance. Our Imports are still large,
but the balance of trade is again in
our favor, and while for the year will
be smaller than usual, will probably
grow from now on. The movement
of gold Is about the same as for the
last two or three years, the exports
slightly exceeding the imports.
Judge James W. Witten, who con
ducted the government land openings,
resents the imputat ions of President
Hill of the Great Northern railroad
inaspeeoh at Billings, Mont., that
'the land opening was a swnldle,
because it brought far from their
homes and at a great expense for
railroad fare people who could least
afford it, just to take a chance in a
lottery. Mr. Hill said the Great
Northern had received its portion,
“but would rather give it back to the
people, if we knew where they were.”
Judge Witten now offers to furnish
the president of the Great Northern
the names and addresses of every
one who registered and traveled over
the Hill lines to do so. It is now up
to Mr. Hill to make good.
Collector of Customs Loeb has a
way of his own to catch a thief and
he thinks he can not be told anything
about it by a federal judge. Mr. Loeb
has been in the customs service only
a short time but he has been doing
things. He has brought to light and
put a 8top to a pretty extensive
system of cheating on government
revenues. He has been criticized
some on methods, but is obtaining
results all the same. Mr. Loeb dis
covered a system of short weights
whereby the government was being
heavily duped on revenues. He set
about to secure convictions and suc
ceed in the case of a wealthy cheese
importer who had bribed custom
house weighers to make short weight
reports. The conviction was secured
by the testimouy of four weighers
who were promised immunity and
retention in the service to get at the
facts of the bribery system. Mr.
Loeb explains that the government is
not so much after the little fellows
who proved dishonest to get a penny
but wants to land the big fellows in
prison who are responsible for the
bribery.
Trouble Ahead for Uncle?
Word comes via Chicago from away
down at Bayou Sara, La., that a
political program is under devise
ment which has for its chief object
the retirement of Cannon as speaker
of the house of representatives. The
news is given out that some thirty or
forty "regulars” of the house are
going into a combination to secure
re-nomlnatlons and re-elections on
platforms declaring for the retire
ment of Cannon.
The story runs this way:
"These men are not necessarily ‘in
surgents,’ and they do not appear to
be following the Insurgent flag, which
was raised conspicuously in the last
session of congress. They form the
element whloh would prefer to have
the republicans of the house organize
the house, but would eliminate ‘Uncle
Joe’ to insure a republican majority
in the next house.
"They have reached the point of
discussing candidates for the speaker
ship and, from information obtained
today upon the presidential fleet,
early in the approaching session of
congress, during which Speaker Can
non will preside over the house, a
definite program of action will be pre
pared and followed.
"Names of tentative candidates
who are under consideration have
been reported in confidence and if
made public would astound some of
the intimate Cannon coterie.
“One of the prospective speaker
ship candidates is from New England;
another is from a state hard by the
New England dlvison. Two come
from sister states in the upper Mis
sissippi valley, one is from Nebraska
and another is a Pacific coast repre
sentative, who has been prominently
identified with the existing house or
ganization, but who is ready to break
away, is the last one to be suggested.
“That revolt is to burst out in
Illinois is all but conceded by even
the standpatters. The net result is
that the Indications are certain that
the republican party is already to set
about placing its house in order and
is deirous of doing its own house
cleaning.” _
President Taft on the Tariff.
“It will be observed that the object
of tariff revision was not to destroy
protected industries in this country,
but it was to continue to protect
them where lower rates offered a
sufficient protection to prevent injury
by foreign competition. That was
the object of revision as advocated by
me, and it was certainly the object of
the revision as promised by the Re
publican platform.
“I want to make as clear as I can
this proposition because in order to
determine whether a bill is a compli
ance with the terms of that platform,
it must be understood what the plat
form means. A free-trader is opposed
to any protective rate because he
thinks that our manufacturers, our
farmers and our miners ought to
i withstand the competition of foreign
manulacturers and miners and farm
ers or else go out of business and find
something more profitable to do.
Now certainly the promise of the plat
form did not contemplate the down
ward revision of the tariff rates to
such a point that any industry there
tofore protected should be injured.
Hence those who contend that the
promise of the platform was to reduce
prices by letting in foreign compe
tition are contending for free trade,
and not for anyth ng that they had
the right to Infer from the Republi
can platform.
“Mr. Payne reported a bill—the
Payne tariff bill—which went to the
Senate and was amended in the Sen
ate by increasing the duty on some
things and decreasing it on others.
The difference between the House bill
and tlie Senate bill was very much
less than the newspapers represented.
It turns out by examination that the
reductions in the Senate were about
equal to those in the House, though
they differed in character. Now,
there is nothing quite so difficult as
the discussion of a tariff bill, for the
reason that it covers so many differ
ent items, and the meaning of the
terms and the percentages are very
hard to understand. The passage of
a new bill, especially where a change
in the method of assessing the duties
has been followed, presents an oppor
tunity for various modes and calcula
tions of the percentages of increases
and decreases that are most mislead
ing, and really throw no light at all
upon the changes made.
“One way of stating what was done
is to say what the facts show—that
under the Dingley law there were
2,024 Items. This included dutiable
items only. The Payne law leaves
1150 of the items unchanged. There
are decreases in 654 of the items and
increases in 220 of the items. Now, of
course, that does not give a full
picture, but it does show the propor
tion of decrease to have been three
times those of the increases.”
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This Was In Denmark.
An Englishman having busluess in a
certain Danish town arrived at the
railway station. lie inquired of a
grecp of men standing near the way to
the house he wauted. whereupon one
of them offered to go with him and
show him. With recollections of whnt
such a service meant in Englnud he
said. "I don't want a guide." “But
surely you asked ns to show you the
way,” said one of them. “Yes. but I
don’t want a guide." “Sly dear sir, 1
am not a guide; 1 am the bishop.”
Romance In High Life.
"So that heiress is engaged to a no
bleman.”
“Yes.”
“And you say the affair was roman
tic?"
"Oh. very. Why, the duke was even
too poor to hire a lawyer.”—Kansas
City Journal.
Afraid of Consequences.
Dog Hater (tremulously!—See, here,
sir: Will that dog bite me? Dog
Owner (scornfullyi—Do you suppose he
has no instinct of self preservation?—
Baltimore American.
The sagacious are generally lucky.—
Blackwood.
IN A PYTHON’S COIL
An Adventure That Nearly Cost a Zoo
Official His Life.
The attendants In zoological gardens
are exposed to dangers of various
sorts. The superintendent of the Cin
cinnati animal park once had an ad
venture with a python which came
near costing him his life.
It became necessary to make some
changes in the snake house, and the
superintendent, Mr. Stephens, was in
the cage of pythons, anticipating no
danger, when to his dismay he saw
the largest snake coming toward him.
hissing and darting its tongue angrily.
Instantly he realized his danger.
The superintendent quickly grasped
the huge reptile just back of the neck
with his right hand and with the left
clutched the creature two feet lower
down, where the greatest muscular
power of the python is located.
He tried to thrust the writhing mass
into a waiting box. but the python
colled its twelve feet of length round
the man’s leg and began to constrict,
carrying its tightening coils higher and
higher.
Struggle as he might. Mr. Stephens
seemed helpless in the serpent's grasp.
His bands were so moist that the
scaly body twisted in them. Perspira
tion streamed down his face. The
python had worked its head free and
was darting its horrid tongue almost
in its victim's eyes.
The man threw up his hand instinc
tively to shield his face, and at the
same moment the snake seized and
began swallowing it.
By this time the attendants had
rushed into the cage, and they began
beating the python. Not liking this
treatment, the big snake relaxed its
coils. Mr. Stephens jerked his hand
free and broke off one of the python’s
fangs in his thumb in so doing.
“If 1 had not held on to its heaviest
muscle,” said the superintendent. "I
have no doubt it might have strangled
me.' As long as I kept my grip there I
felt confident, but I was pretty weak
after the adventure.”
AGREED WITH THE ASP.
The Frenchman Got Around the Law
Against Hissing.
A gentleman who had been uncere
moniously hustled out of a Paris play
house because he hissed when the cur
tain fell on the second act brought an
action for damages against the mana
ger of the said house.
The court decided in favor of the
hissing gentleman, adding that if a
spectator is nllowed to show his de
light by indulging in applause his
neighbor has also the right to show
disapprobation in an audible fashion.
But the law in France was not always
so tolerant, in (lie middle of the sev
enteenth century it was strictly for
bidden to hiss in a playhouse, and in'
every theater there were a number of
"gardes Francalses” with strict orders
to arrest any person infringing the
law.
But the French are not easily put
down by silly regulations, and when
ever they see an opportunity they at
tack the authorities with that fearful
weapon ridicule, in this case such an
opportunity came at the Comedie
Francaise during the performance of
"Cleopatra,” a play by Marmontel.
It was a badly written, dull work,
and the people were waiting for a
chance to give vent to their opinion.
At last the chance came. The manage
ment bad ordered a mechanical asp
for the great scene in the final act.
when Cleopatra puts an end to her
life.
The actress raised the asp, which
started hissing, whereupon a spectator
rose to his feet and cried: "The asp is
quite right. We all share his opinion:”
Roars of laughter greeted this joke,
and as it was foreseen that a similar
scene would take place every night the
piece was withdrawn from the reper
I tory. __
MOORISH SOLDIERS.
Their Methods In Battle and Their
System of Signals.
At fighting on horseback the Moors
are adepts and extremely mobile. But
they ore incorrigibly lazy aud seldom
indulge in uight attack. When they
attack in force the horsemen usually
give a lift to the foot soldiers who ac
company them or allow them to run
alongside and hold on to a stirrup iron.
The mounted men then make a charge,
wheel round and retire and make way
for the footmen, who crawl along the
ground, almost invisible, and who rise
to the attack if they come within strik
ing distance of the enemy. As a rule,
the Itiffians prefer to lure detached
parties into an ambush or defile and
thus inflict heavy loss upon them. The
mounted men seldom dismount to fire,
and their firing, being from the sad
dle, is very inaccurate. Should the ad
vance of the white troops be slow or
hesitating the Moors effect a bold
combination between horsemen and
footmen and generally succeed in in
flicting heavy losses on their enemy.
The prime tactics of the Moors are to
delay the advance of un enemy as
much as possible by mounted rifle fire
until they can discern its extent and
direction and subsequently to try en
veloping the advancing force. The
tribes also indulge in sniping, but uot
to a very great extent, aud they also
fight individually. They do not neglect
opportunities for stratagem and can
effect some very clever ruses. They
are also guilty of abusing the services
of the white flag in action.
The Moorish intelligence system is
an excellent one, and the tribes are
seldom without information regarding
the movements of an enemy. They
have also an excellent system of sig
naling at night by means of small fires
dotted about the hi!'.s and ravines,
which are obscured and revealed in
accordance with an ingenious code of
signals known to themselves.—Chicago
News.
DREAM INSPIRATION.
Intellectual Achievements Born of
Visions In Sleep.
It Is well known, says n. Addington
Rritce in Success Magazine, that
dreams have stimulated men to re
markable intellectual achievements
and have even supplied the material
for these achievements. Thus Cole
ridge composed "Kublai Khan" in a
dream. Tartinl got his “Devil’s So
nata” from a dream in which the devil
appeared and challenged him to a mu
sical competition. It was a dream that
gave Voltaire the first canto of his
“Henriade,” and Dante's “Divina Corn
media” is likewise said to have been
inspired by a dream.
Many novelists on their own admis
sion have obtained the plots for some
of their best works from materials
provided in dreams. A particularly
impressive instance is that of Robert
Louis Stevenson, whose “Chapter on
Dreams” in his book “Acrocs the
riains” should be read by all who
would learn what dreams can do for a
man intellectually. The solution of
baffling mathematical problems, the
ideas necessary to complete some in
vention. have been supplied by dreams.
Occasionally the dreamer has been
known to rise in his sleep and jot
down the information thus acquired.
In such cases he usually forgets all
about the helpful dream and on awak
ing is greatly surprised at finding the
record he has made of it. which shows
that—as with the visions so potently
influencing health—it is possible for
dreams to aid a man in an intellectual
way without his being consciously
aware of them.
Tammany was partially beaten in
New Ycik.
PLAYING THE STOCKS.
He Who Has Knowledge and He Who
Gambles on Gossip.
Of the many popular delusions touch
ing Wall street and its people none is
more persistent or more dangerous to
the outsider than the belief that from
nothing great permanent fortunes have
been made by shrewd and lucky spec
ulation in prices, it isn’t true. We
differentiate here between speculation
in prices only and the kind of legiti
mate speculation which seeks to antici
pate great economic changes. Legiti
mate speculation has its translation
into prices, too, but it takes, first, origi
nal capital in some reasonable propor
tion to the profits expected and. sec
ondly, the treatment of exceptional
opportunity with correct imagination.
Its risks at best are very large. Among
our Wall street acquaintances are sev
eral hard beaded men who succeed in
making $25,000 a year by speculation.
Not one of them has a capital of less
than $250,000. They make it earn
about 10 per cent.
Take Blauk, one of the ablest specu
lators we know. He has made half a
million dollars during the past five
years. Very handsotpe return, you
say. Let us look at Blank. He was
the chief accountant of one of the big
railway systems when an uncle, dying,
left him $20,000. Mind you. he was an
expert railway statistician and an ex
ceptionally able young man to boot.
He knew his own road like a book, as
well as some other things that only the
directors were aware of. The stock of
the system looked cheap to him. and v
he used his $20,000 to margin 4.000
shares. A bull market was beginning,
and within a month or two Blank’s
capital had increased to $60,000. He
was content with a ten point rise,
though the stock advanced ten points
more. That was the first of Blank’s
deals. Twelve months later he won
again. He thought that the stock of
a certain western system was selling
below its value and set about an in
vestigation to find the facts. He hired
a first class engineer and a retired traf
fic manager to travel from one end of
that railroad to the other, and he him
self analyzed the accounts. When all
the reports were in it seemed to him
that the system was earning enough
money to justify an increase of its
dividend, and he plunged once more.
He waited six months for his point
this time, and his investigation had
cost him $5,000. He made $50,000.
Good interest, you say. but think of
Blank’s special equipment for the
game and the trouble he took to be
right. You. Mr. Thlnmarginist. after
reading the Wall street gossip in your
daily paper, adventure your thousand
or two thousand dollars and expect to
double your money. Mark the differ
ence.—John Parr in Everybody’s Mag
azine.
Tennyson's First Poems.
The wind came sweeping through the
garden of an old Lincolnshire rectory
one morning in the beginning of last
century and blew upon a child of five
years old. who opened his arms to the
blast and let it carry him along, cry
ing as he traveled, "I hear a voice
that's calling in the wind.” That was
Tennyson’s first line of poetry. The
first poem he ever composed was writ
ten upon a slate one Sunday morning
at Louth. The subject, set him by his
brother Charles, was "Flowers,” and
little Alfred covered his slate with
blank verse after the model of Thom
son’s “Seasons.’ His next attempt was
an elegy upon his grandmother, who
had just died, written at the request
of his grandfather. When it was writ
ten the old man put 10 shillings into
the boy's hand and said. "There, that
is the first money you have ever earn
ed by your poetry, and. take my word
for it. it will be the last.”—Westmin
ster Gazette.
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