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HAtRlSON PRESS-JOURNA GEO. D. CANON. Editor. HARRISON. - - NEBRASKA NEBRASKA NEWS. lira. M. Baugb fell from a rehlcle at Hastings and broke both her arms. The residence of John Terbune of Litchfleld was partially destroyed by Ore. The origin of the fire is unknown Loss, about 1500. Red Cloud has now a rood telephone service. The Nebraska Telephone com pany has Just completed the system They start with sixty-five instruments William Bales was burled at Alliance being brought from Gillette, Wyo. He drank horse medicine In the night, sup posing It was whisky, and the poison caused his death. Fire destroyed the large barn of E. Jarvls, in the northern part" of Grand Island. The origin of the fire is un- known. The loss is 11.800, with insur ance for 11,500. Nellie Huff, daughter of a prominent ranchman of Wheeler county, was kill ed by lightning near Bartiett Several people in the wagon were all severely shocked and one horse killed. Fred Goebel, who was arrested In Juniata Monday night for selling 11 quor without a license, was brought before County Judge Bowen at Hast ings and bound over In the sum of $400 to appear In the district court August tO. He furnished bond. Lee Young of Alliance lost the sight of one eye and Is disfigured for life as the result of a premature explosion while blasting at McShane's grading camp, twenty-five miles out on the new line. He was directly over it when the charge exploded. The Northeast Nebraska Grand Army of the Republic reunion at Plalnview witnessed an attendance of about 4,0O people. The rain In the afternoon in terfered somewhat in the enjoyment, but the crowd was goodnatured and the big pavilion and large number of tents afforded shelter. The . program was well carried out: Prank Boyd, alias Peterson, had his preliminary examination before County Judge Wintersteen at Fremont on the charge of assaulting President Leavitt af the beet sugar company with a knife. He was bound over to the dis trict court for trial and, not being able to give ball, will have to stay In Jal) until September. The ' Wood River creamery plant, which has been lying Idle for neat7 a year past, has been leased by the Long nont Creamery company of Denver and Is now operating dally. The outlook Is good Ibr a prosperous business. The company finds a good market for their creamery product In the mountain states. ' A largely attended mass meeting was held in Lincoln last week to perfect plans for a state reception to the First Nebraska regiment, which is expected to reach Saa Francisco within two weeks. It was announced at the meeting that other towns and cltle had abandoned their plans of holding regimental receptions and would unite with Lincoln in a demonstration oon Sucted on a magnificent scale. . Mrs. I E. George of Syracuse was seriously burned Wednesday. She u preparing something to eat for her hus band, who was sick in bed, sod was called away from her work for a fern moWents. On her return the stuff had boiled over and was in flames. Mrs. George attempted to remove the mess from the stove when her dress took Are and burned her arms and face in a very painful manner. The board of regents of the state university elected as acting chancellor to take the place of George E. McLean, resigned, Charles E. Bessey, dean of the Industrial college of the university. This place was first offered to the sen ior dean. Charles A. Sherman. A com mittee consisting of Regents Klnnebe rer, Raw lings, Weston and Gould was appointed to recommend to Uve board a suitable person for chancellor. Wednesday afternoon as Mr. and Mns. Jacoplts were out plowing corn, two of the children were drown In the Cot. ton wood, northwest of Roaeland. The Barents sent their 7 and t-year-okl son sad daughter to the house after some fresh water. It was so hot and the Cottonwood, that flowed only a few rods from the house, wsa so refreshing, the children dived down Into the creek last as they had seen two boys do the day before, never to be seen alive White la the act of dosing windows durinsT a small thunderstorm Mrs. Jen sis WcLaugnton of York was stunned sad found unconscious shortly after, the ttghtatng struck the window frame astd sash, tearing and splintering the wood. Mrs. McLsraghton is still la a :t9earm condition. During the same laim Lntaing struck a Una, large tree tm the yard of W. L, Linen, splintering Hat era aad killing nearly alt of Mr. Unes's e hie kens, that had gathered UM tree. A aaaa has been on trial la the dis trict oeart at Fremont for the last few amy hwsrrtns; somewhat novel pro- i SC nw. uws mjmrm noow part af the coati'ty la Nov em- rvirtrw-roo i TVaa wars ramore that a part of iH baas ff Ahost a year ago he I l iaatsraas property, aad as 4 . as us rta f vl a CM Ls i 1UI I OM arty eaurt tar her aBo4alait XJmm asja ' L FHo'l T1IE SEATOF WAR DETACHMENT OF FOURTH CAV ALRY ON A GUNBOAT. Have a Llttta Brush With Rebels on the Shore Drive Them Back tc the Hill Wtth Sever Loss. Manila. Speclal.) Lake Laguna de Bay is being patrolled by three troops of the Fourth cavalry under Captain McGraw and the army gunboat Napi dan, commanded by Lieutenant Larson. The force makes its headquarters on an Island, living on cascoes, In which the men are towed, and make unex pected visits to towns where there are small parties of insurgent for the purpose of keeping the rebels moving. On Tuesday the troops had aa engage ment at Mantilupa. on the south shore of the lake. They found 500 insurgents there, entrenched near the shore. The Napidan shelled the rebels and a party of American troops numbering 131 landed and drove them by a sharp run ning fire to the hills, where tbey were too strongly entrenched for the small force to attack them. Two of the cavalrymen were wound ed and the bodies of ten insurgents were found. It Is supposed that the enemy's loss Is thirty-five. VOLUNTEERS IN BAD SHAPE. San Francisco, Cal. Special.) Ad vices received by the transport New port, dated Manila, June 11, are as fol lows: The volunteers are greatly & bill tat ed In consequence of their hai campaigning through three months of tropic weather. Since the middle of May no volunteer regiment has had a sick list of less than 20 per cent. Most of them at the present date had 25 per cent ill. and a few regiments have less than one-third of their number on duty. The Nebraska, regiment has suffered the worst. It came In from San Fer nando a few days ago with less than 200 men In the ranks. Some of the companies have only two sets of fours. The South Dakota regiment followed yesterday with 275 men on duty. The Montana and Kansas regiments at San Fernando have not more than 280 men available each. The morning after the Washington trooj took Morong, a week ago, only 263 men responded to roll call. The Washington men have been engaged since March 12 In pre venting the Insurgent armies of the north and south from forming a Junc tion in the region of Laguna de Bay, often being engaged at the same time with the enemy in opposite directions. Twenty-four of the Nebraska office are on the sick list, and the Montana. Kansas. Washington and South Dakota regiments show twenty or more officers in the hospital or sick In their quar ters. These regiments have borne the brunt of the fighting. Their losses Id killed and wounded range from 160 In the Montana regiment U 280 Nebraska mea. The loss of the Kansas regiment Is second to that of Nebraska, while the Washington and South Dakota reg iments follow closely, each with losses of about 300. The Oregon regiment also suffered severely. Of the regulars, the Third artillery Is the heaviest loser. Its killed and wounded numbering 121 LANDING OF OREGON TROOPS. San Franclaoo.Cal. (Special.) It has been definitely determined to land the Oregon volunteers Friday morning. The Newport and Ohio, with the Oregon boys on board, will be docked late Thursday night or Friday morning. General Shatter has arranged to have a suitable escort from the Presidio ready to march with the returned sol dlers in the parade and later to escort them to the camp at the Presidio. The mustering-out process will take two or three weeks. Governor Oter of Oregon and his staff will leave for Portland after the parade. Naw Curs For Lockjaw. Woea the Navajo Indian Is ailing he builds himself a little hut Just large enough to crawl into, plasters it Inside and out with mud so as to make It airtight, and then, taking with him a heap of stones Intensely heated In an adjoining fire, he closes the entrance of his machine hut from within and re mains there, violently perspiring until all bat suffocated. He then coatee out, has a nibdown, which to an Indian Is a phenomenon, and believes hs la cured, aad be generally Is. What Is practically the some primi tive treatment la now recotniasfided for the cure of lockjaw. This affliction, when caused by a wound, has long been considered Incurable, and only of late years has It yielded In some degree to the administration of a aew class of remedies, among which are the In fllan woorall poison and enormous doses of alcohol. It la now said that all the alanasas; symptoms of the aeisare can be removed by violent perspiration. The case is quoted of a young man whose band was caught la the gsarlng of a threshing machine. Part of the skin waa carried off. For a fortnight everything seemed to be lavaresslng. but one morning the patient awoke with rigid Jaws, intense pal a over the sternum, dlfacult breaUhtPC aad oon vulstve starts la the lowaa Maths. The doctor lmmedlitety pat hoops under the bedclothes, la order to pre vent their contact with the body, aad than got foar pots Ailed with quick lime, which he saSkUy saoisteoed with water. To pWreat the akin freea be ing arorohed each pot was wrapped In linen, aad then piaaad oa each side of the pa ties, orders beta, left with the faaaf ly la atoistsa the quicklime occa sionally and to chaaaw It when tx- la tease that oa the ftrat day the bod ekithss esjtght Ira. The perspiration ladcesd waa bsyoad all belief; hat the patleat, thoash greatly prostrated, was ansr a raw oars of ooi aMato so to work. a-Tae aodtes of two of at the wrack of the r OtwU. Lorala oa i iUutior i t at Oo aaff 'ta. UtfTt tag. They wart-. aw"S?w, tjsas far aaaa n. Oa, Cars aaat a ttSo at X t-t sf Era. tWS Berlin. Genaaify's exports to tht Doited States for the quarter ended with June last were KU.OuO.uuo, as com pared with S94.5OO.0uo for the oorre pondlng quarter last year. Minneapolis, Minn. A special from Duluth says: Reports were recelvetf Here by grain men that vast clouds oi grasshoppers alighted on the fields lu the vicinity of Holla, N". D., from tht Turtle Mountain region. Louisville, Ky. A decree has been entered In the United States district court on mandate Irom the United States court of appeaJs ordering tht sale of the property of the Kentucky and lnrilna Bridge company, beside; Mher culms. The aggregate of thes. is ll.500.0ou. The date of Hie sale ha not been fixed. .." Chicago 111. A train of nine emptj passenger cars plunged Into the nvei from the Northwestern railway Kinz.i street bridge The conductor an-. brakeman saved their lives by Jumpwig ine locomotive staying on tue uat. i'he train was backing luto tne yard; to carry a crowd of excursionists to K Sin when the accident occuried. bury, wife of the premier and minlste. jf foreign affairs, had a slieht aitac-i. . ixwaiysiB ai w aimer custie. Fne ra. lied well and is now Imrrovina- i neaitn. iid Salisbury hai ooilsvr. io curtail tne diplomatic reception & the foreign office imaieulalelv after tin lei-eipi oi tne grave tidings, and too a special train to aimer castle. Janesvllle. Wis. The national rlmiii: bicycle race meet here was dwlrid on o. ma naers were complaining inai money due them was unpaid ant there was much hard feeling, desrdtt tne splendid track and natural advan tages in favor of the event. Most o, tne naers left for Kavenswood, 111. London. The house of commons ii. committee is holding- an all nieht bp sion over the title rent charge regulat ing bill, the second reading of whicl was carried on June 29 by a malorlu of J14 to 17. The government is fort ng the clauses through by means o. the closure. Brest The Schaesische-Zeitun dt Clares that the death of the czarewitch Grand Duke George, who passed awa uly 10, was da to a bicycle accident While wheeling over the hilly country about Abbas Tuman, In the Caucasus, the paper adds, a mishap caused him tuch loss of blood that he died on the spot of the occurrence. Washington. D. C General Brooke ables the following from Havana. Death report 10th and 11th: Trinida, Private Albert Wirth, company G, Sec jnd Infantry, suicide. 10th: Santiago. Captain Thomas M. Woodruff, Klfti Infantry, yellow fever, 11th; Louisville Leach, civilian clerk, formerly pri vate, company L, Flftli Infantry, 10th Washington, D. C Third Assistant Postmaster General Madden has pro (nulgated a ruling permitting the en losure of coin receptacles for sub- tcrlption purposes with all second anc hlra-elass maa matter. Tbelr mail tng with publications under the usua. ate has heretofor been refused. Boston, Mass. Philip Lambele, alia: George Bchley, of Chlcago.charged will taking 110,900 off the desk of the pay g teller of the Metropolitan Natlona. bank June 22. pleaded guilty betort uage Kicbardson In the superior crin tnal court and was sent to state pris. for not leas than two and one-half no more than three and one-half years olltary confinement London. The Shamrock showed s stiff m ita Mais that Fife docked It at douthamptsn and removed a quantity of lead' nVlni life keel. A prominent yachting authority says be regards this as a serious development, making him much more doubtful of the Sham rock' chance. It Is believed Fife wai too hnpwislve. He has altered all his big boats Soon after launching and sel dom has effected an Improvement. Philadelphia, Pa. Eight men former ly employed In the freight department of the Philadelphia at Reading com pany, are under arrest here charged with having stolen thousands of dol lars wsrth of goods from the oomtany't cars. Two of them were emp j ad at xmdactors, the others as brakemen ana their sJlegad peculations cover a periuo of mors. than a year. The valus of the plunder wHl aggregate more than f,00t and the stolen merchandise coimists of thousands of cigars, barrels of whisky and valuable silk and woolen goods. Paris. Sir Richard Webster, attor ney general of Great Britain, conclud ed his presentation of the British case before the Venesuelan arbitration com mission today. In the course of bis re marks he said It would be a deathblow to arbitration If the courts sanctioned such claims as those advanced by Ven ezuela, as K would. In fact. Imply that an unsupported claim amounted to a title. The discussions or the oommls- slpn were then adjeumed until Wed nesday neat. - Detroit. Mich. Venerable Dean J. O. Mitchell of Payne Theological seminary at Wllbarforce, one of the oldest col. ored ministers and educators In the country, read a paper on "Love and Law. the Only Two Mighty Powers In the Universe that Can Harmonise An tagonising Forces in the Moral Realm," before the National Association of Ed ucators of Colored Touth. The associ ation and Its friends took a trolley ride about the city. St Johns, N. F. Another evidence of the British determination to force a speedy settlement of the French shore question was afforded by the action of the colonial legislature in passing a bHI granting mining leases along the bora. Mr. Morlne, minister of nsqc. In moving thee passage of the bill, ssld be expected that within a few months II restrictions upon mining operatloas alone; the coast woald be removed by the action of the British government. Washington. D. C The pension oom- mtttee of the Grand Artny of the public finished IU work here by a call at the Whits hoaae, where R spent sosas time la conference with the presi dent Later It made a flnal visit to the peastoa bares a. where R examined a boat thirty cases aa the result of published reports and other complaints. After eight or ten had been examined aad the committee had agreed with the decisions mads It waa decided use less to proceed farther aJoac that Una. Waaalsgton. D, 0 The complete ststhnlcs of stamped paper sales m the UaMad States durtag the asoal year last eJasafl, as aaaouacad today, shows avajat ss-frscate of MaME ptoses of ad t5aa of stamaad paaar to tha UaHsd Mats, wtth a total aaJwNs (4 rSls?. rm Mtnass of UOAJUA. or -smf (t f-r aaat la asimbsf, sad WCktX ar M per aaat fe rata, swat mar DRAW A DEAD UNI. Indian Draw a Mark and Oar a WmHa Sheriff to Cross Over H. Edgemont. 8. D. (Special) Swift Bear, a Sioux Indian, and eight wagons with several bucks, resisted arrest on Buck creek, Wyoming, for killing game contrary to law. Amos Demtnlng, deputy sheriff of Converse county, and posse, left Lusk on Wednesday with warrants for the arrest of the Indians and overtook them at Buck creek Thursday morn ing. After reading the warrants the Indians refused to go with the sheriff and drew a line and told bim that if he crossed It there would be war and backed it up with their Winchesters. There was a moment of great sus pense, the deputies being nearly out oT it, as the Indians were decidedly In the majority, bring outmimtxied the sheriff went to Edgmont to net help and papers for the arrest of the In dians In South Dakota, as they crossed the line. Deputy Sheriff George Miller of Logmont will go out with tt.em with an increased Ioh. Sheriff Demming telegraphed the In dian agent at Pine Ridge to have a force of Indian police go out to In tercept the Indians if they got away from the Kdtsmont and Wyoming posse It is expected the Indians will be over takn somewhere near the agency, aa they trotsst.-d Cottonwood creea, near Edgmont, Thursday afternoon, and are traveling for all there Is In It. The Indians traveled over sixty miles Thursday, but their ponies were still as frem as ever, although the depu ties are certain they are nuarly played out. The Indians went through the sheep herd of N. S. Tubbs and stole ail the herders' bedding and food. William Biack lost everything he had. OPENING CHINA TO THE WORLD Immense Alliance of British and American Capital la Dadlcated. New York. (Special.) The Trlbun says: A business alliance of American and English capitalists has been re cently formed which is sf unusual In terest and Importance bcaueo of the leading positions held by these men on both sides, and the many millions In volved in It, because the United States government Is About to be asked to give the compact official sanction and moral support; because England has al ready formally approved it and be cause the Held of its operations Is be yond the Jurisdiction of both nations. Announcement of this alliance was made by F. W. Whitaridge, of the firm of Cary A Whlteridge, who now fills the place left vacant by the death of ex-Senator Calvin &. Brice. aa chair man of the executive committee of the American-China Developmnt company. The company Is one party to the agree ment and the 'other is the British and j Chinese corporation. This makes a combination of the roost powerful com pantos In the world. The field of their activities Is China The concession which ex-Senator Cal vin Brice secured from the Chinese government for the American-China Development company consists of the right to construct a railroad IV) miles long from Canton to Han Kow, exceed ingly valuable coal mining concessions and other Industrial franchises of iv individual but of great aggregate value. The British company bad a contract to build a lMVmlle railway from can tun to Kow loon on the seacoast. The companies resolved to pool their un dertaklngs and the profit. The British company apparently got the better of the bargain, but their ability to sen Chinese bonds In the money markets of Europe exceeded the ability of the American company to sell Chinese bonds In America or anywhere else to such an extent that the advantage Is only apparent. Tramps Killed In a Wrack. Kansas City, Mo. (Special.) Three tramps were killed and Ave others were seriously Injured by the wrecking of a freight train on the Chicago A Alton road near Glendale, Mo. The body of another man Is believed to be at the bottom of the wreckage, which consists of ten carloads of merchandise, hoes and cattle. Perry Curtis of Atlanta. G., Is the only one of the dead Identified. FVre were so severely Injured that they were sent to the hospital. They are: Pat Gloherty. W. 8. Baicd. all of St. Louis Ira Furlong. Spnaatield, III. and J. M McMahon, Chlca-Ku. AU of them were stealing a . ae in an empty stock car when the train left the track on sharp curve. Among those In the car was a woman In male at lire. She es caped uninjured. Violent Death of Vsllow Wolf. Sioux Falls, a D. (Special.) Addi tional particulars have reached here concerning the violent death or xeiiow Wolf, the Rosebud agency Blow. He was found lying on the prairie. Weed ing and senseless, and taken to Rose bud agency, where be died shortly aft erward without regaining conscious ness. One version is that be was dragged to death by a horse which he had been riding; another version Is that h was beaten to death by four drunken Indians, who had secured li quor at Georgia, a small towa across thereservstlon line In Nebraska, Yel low Wolf was a member of the Indian police, and while endeavoring to quiet the drunken Indians waa set upon by them and pounded to death, according to Information received here. One In dian has been arrested as a suspect and other arrests are soon to follow. M'Laurln Holds tha Ralna. Jackson, Miss (Special.) Governor McLaurln has attained such a lead In the county primaries that hja election as United States senator la practically assured. N't has seventy-two votes In the primaries thus far held aad only ninety are necessary to elect. "private" John Allen baa a total In (he nrtmariea of but twsaty-two. Even If be ware successful la carrying all of northern ooustles. wnicn are us- aossd to be solid for Dim, as could hot possibly overcome MeLaurln's lead. The primaries will not be concluded until September 7. Ex -Governor Lowery la la tits lead for the short term eenstorshtp, closely pressed by Senator Eullrvaa. Perth. Western Australia. The BrhV jah ship Carlisle Castle waa lost la a storm off Roeklnaham. Tha crew per -l.mA The British ship City of Tork has hssa wrecked sff Rottaeat Island. Seven of the crew wars saved, bat the captain and ai TraaavaaL-Tka VoJkaraad ta adopted tm) praamMe Of the fratv afems law. which declares the aeossstty At for the hamsdlata fopuoa at aw chs eissatttaaiaa. TM LOOK AT YOUR HANDS! "At Deloma, where we rame upon detachment strongly Intrenched. i buried 431 FlMptnos. while our loss was only one. We buried eighteen In one crave. . . There were women here, shot lown while cooking for their husband nd brothers. There were lads of 12 and IS firing bravely to the last, and old men who could hardly see." From .etters published in the Boston Tran script. Look at your hands when blood Is shed For lust of land or gold or rame. And if you find them dripping red. Think not the patriot's honored name Will cleanse your gilt or purge your shanio Look at your hands! Look at your hands, most reverend priest. Lest they should show the scarlet spot That stained Iscarlot s. If the least of these, Christ's little ones, forgot. Cry out to you who answer not Look at your hands! Look at your hands. Sir President! ! they not reek with your dlMp-ace? When free men's knees to force are bent. The tears that stain each patlot s face Proclaim your treason to your race Look at your hands! Look at vour hands, whoe'er ynu be That drive In blood weak Esau's trade! In your despite men shall be free; Hut vou against your .shame are welshed. And whsn the bargain's price Is paid- Look at your hands: William Vicent Byars. GOVERNMENT BANKS. There Is nothing more practicable than governmet bankn. Suppose all the banking buslnets of a city or fifty tnou Band was done by one government bank. The first saving would be in the expense of conducting the business. One- bank would take toe place of a dozen. One set of books the place of a dosen One building the place of a dosen. One third of the number of employes would he able to do the business. Let us start one, hypothetlcally, and see how It would work. The officers would be taken from Among experienced bankers or theii ?mployeo men who knew the flnancia. standing of the people of the city anc surrounding country. The bank open or business and people come to it t deposit their money for safekeeping Nobody afraid of the bank bursting The merchant who was borrowing oi the private bank comes and gets a loan. He gives a note bearing I per cent in terest He save 3 to 7 per cent He lakes credit or the amount of his loar on the bank books. He buys a draft for the amount Sends the draft to New if ork to pay for the goods. A shipper oi roduce calls a few minutes after an', eposlts a draft received from New Tork and gets credit on the books foi t One draft offsets the other. Then tht produce snipper goes to Dis omoe am. checks out to various farmers th amount of the draft deposited. Thi farmers get their money and go to ll.i mores and pay their bills. The mt-r i-hants take the money and deposit I; in the bank the unit day they gel ii The money alwsys gets back to thi bank. It can loan every hour of th day and at closing time will have Jus aa much money as It had In the morn :ng. A farmer who owed a nvortgugi drawing 6 or 8 per cent could go to th irovernment bank and get money at or 1 per cent (perhaps It would be ad vtsable to make the rale on long loan at 2 per cent). With his governmen ioan be would pay off his old debt ani. he man to whom he paid the old deb would take the money to the govern inent bank and deposit It. With gov i-rnment banks everywhere where bank Is needed, all the money exct-p that in the people's pockets would be Ii the banks. There would be very inii hid away in the garrets. It would b Impossible to have a bank panic or . run on a bank. Should at any time i bank run rhort of aotual cash, ca. could be tansferred to It from othe government bnks. Of course prlvat banks could not compete with goverr. ment banks and would have to go ou of business, but they would not surtV any loss of their capital. The goverr ment concerns would take their solver, notes and give them the money fo them. Occasionally, of course, a kt would occur, but not often, for the lo rate of Interest would be easier to pa ind then with the iteadlness of buelnef affairs and the absence of panics thei would not be the business disasters have now. Loans, of course, woul nave to be made to those who wouli certainly pay, but It would not be loot until Industry, economy and honest; would be good security for a reason able amount. That Is to say. It woul' not always be necessary for a borrow to be possessed of property. The ma. with some land, but no fit habltatlo for his family could get money to bulh him a home, say 11.000, which woul. cost him but $30 a year. Under preset systems a great majority of fumillt live In small houses, and tne ratner I only able to build after saving fo. years. He lives crowded In one, tw or three rooms with his large famll: until he Is well along In life, his chil dren are married off and gone, thet perhaps be can and does build a larg house, whose very dimensions remind him how bsdly they needed It year: before. As experience should show I" to be safe, the government banks couh aid the people In getting homes. Th- profit of government banks shoulf largely reduce taxation If they wen used in place of taxes. Scenes wouli occur like this: Collector's offlae: Enter taxpayer Taxpayer I want to pay my taxes, suppose they are about the same a last year M0. Collector Oh. no, only half as much. You see the profits of government bank ing have been applied to the payment of public expenses. Taxpayer Well, well, that la good. Reduced Interest and reduced taxes. But the greatest benefit of govern ment banking would be the prevention of the concentration of wealth fa the hands of a few. A thousand dollar loaned it U m rent, compounded annually, will amount to over thirteen million dollars In one hundred years. That is not a long time In the life of a nation that long ago the writer's grandfather was twenty years old. Interest to private parties will concentrate nearly all property in the hands of a few In a remarkably short time from now on. because there Is, It Is estimated, aot leas than the vast sum of tweety billion dollars st Interest In the United States. Some es timate It higher than that. Tha lead ers ran ass only a small part of the nterest, so the greater part of It probably nine-tenths of It Is loaned out again and the lots rest la in effect compounded. Twenty-frr years mors at an average rat of t per seat aad tha capitalists will own wealth easel te the- en tin present w earth of th United State. What th halaao of th people wNI have win he ss amount aqaal toa Is rraaat af wealth between now iad thai tlmu, aad vea this may largely ht' concentrated la th hands of specula tors. With the government doing all th money lending, interest on mone) would not concentrate capital la a fea people, for every dollar of Interest would belong to all the people an would In effect be divided into seventy million parts. Banking is properly government function. It should not b In the hands of private parties. The people can never enjoy the fruits ot their own labor while the money lend lng is done by private corporations or Individuals. Interest to Individuals will Just as surely as time passes transfet the property of the many to the pos session of the few. With government banks the govern ment would always have an unlimited cash resource to carry out any gTeal project such as the construction ol railways, canals, etc A government banking system would he a medium ot exchange of labor. A million of men. now Idle, could at once be set to work on Interns 1m. provements giving their labor to th whole people in exehange tor a por tion ; the products m the labor ol others. Money and banking are th principal mediums through which labor is exchanged and they should not bt controlled by private parties. The trlb. ute paid for the privilege of exchang ing labor is the whole secret oi nar? Units. The Science of Government On tha Coast Lines. Pros. Oscar C. S. Carter of the Cen tral high school, Philadelphia, gave so illustrated talk before the Engineers' club recently on "CotuOa Topography. ' The subjf-ct was treated In a manner . quite new lo the older members of the club, and Illustrated by photographs of various portions of the coast line of North America, bordering on the At lantic and Pacific ocean. Taking up a definite portion of the .oast line, like that of Maine, or an Is land, like Nantucket he showed what forces had been at w.rk, ancient and lomparutively recent, to produce the results now seen. The coast line of Maine, Its rocky character, studded with islands, Is due to the submergence of the mainland; the islands are simply drowned hills; the valleys that inter vened have also been submerged. The Island's of Nantucket and Mar tha's Vineyard have no bed rock, but are made up of morainlc material and recent formations, some tertiary and retaoeous. These Islands are entirely Jlstlnct In character from the Rocky stands of Maine, and are made up mostly of sand, clay end gravel. The antern illustrations gave the general topography of Nantucket, showing the -oast line and harbor and the 'Jetty made by the government, constructed y bringing bowlders walghlng several jns each from the coast of Connecticut tnd dropping them In parallel lines, leveral hundred yards apart, for a (Us ance of over a mile out from the har- xr. The wash of the tide was aepenu- d upon to ecour out the ship channel hus formed.. Coming down to the coast of New Jer- el. a series of slides showed where ind was being made and where the sea as cutting It away. This coast alsa .vas shown to be sinking. He regarded elaware Huy as a submerged valley. nee high enough to be above the ocean vlth the river running through It. In ke manner the sinking of the const i ad produced the Chesapeake Bay. nmllco sound and the lagoons that re found along the coast from Norfolk o Florida, making a chain ot soundt vhich could be used for navigation v-lth a few short portages. On the Pacific ooast the Illustrations ihowed the few harbors to be found here, Santiago, San iKtmlnlca, M-onte-ey arid fan Francisco. In California, tnd then a few near the Columbia iver. He gave as reasons for this orclty that the mountains and valleys .ad been lifted up along the shore line, nd there had been very little submerg ne. There were few river valleys, the- ivrs being mostly "young." Their alleys had been cut out deep and the ddes were precipitous, whereas an old. nature valley sloped off in V shape. Speaking of the alternate submer gence and elevation of the coast, he tald that In the glacial period, when the ice cap on the entire northern portion f the I'nlted States was a mile thick, and when the Adlrondacks stood up is Islands and were submerged by the ice sheet, then the weight of that mass if Ice pressed down the earth's crust ind caused It to sink. The whole coast line of a continent a' as not necessarily Involved, and the professor called attention to the face hat the northern coast of Norway was Inking, while the southern coast waa jelng elevated. A Window Dresser's Hit. 'Funny thing happened to me when 1 was working for Blankety Blank A Co. In Chicago," said a New Orleans wlnow dresser. "I had a big window mi .Clark street that seemed as if it as hoodooed. No matter what I pul there It appeared to be Impossible to attract any attention, and the manager. who was as keen as a hawk, began to grumble because he never saw anybody looking In. I used to lw awake night racking my brains for new schemes. but It was no go. One day, when I was fueling pretty blue, I told our negro porter to clear everything out prepar atory to making a big display of a special Une of shirts. "He was a fat, black, trifling fellow. and I guess he must have been out at Cakewalk the night before, for he fell fast slep In a chair In the middle of the window. I was on the point of waking bin. up and giving blm fits. when I happened to notice how ex tremely ludicrous he looked. His head was on on side, his enormous mouth wide cpen. and hi limb relaxed in the oddest postures Imaginable; In short, be was s perfect picture of a lasy rascal In happy slumber. That gave me an idea. I dtdn t say a word, but grabbing a piece of pasteboard I dashed off a sign: 'Dreaming of our Dollai hlrts,' and stood R quietly against his knees. , 'Then I gently rolled uo the curtain and awaited developments. Well, the hit that window made la th pat tradl- in ot tne store to this day. Psonlr simply blockaded the sidewalk, and you ould bear them laughing a block aaay. The runniest part about It was rst rcoocy supposed for a moment It coul losslbly be th real thing. Thy thought It wsa a clever piece of acting, or else a wonderful wax figure. Thai n cocn was actually asleep never oc- urreo to any on, aad I stood around with my heart In my mouth for fast th nois would arouse him. ft didn't however, aad ha anored way peacefully until nsarlv 4 a'elark Then he wok up with a atari, aad war snrpnaaa a cams near tu nin through the plais glass tha apeetaton howtsd, and that alght lb hoaai rsjsvu my salary. I tried to- work ths I ssaam afterward, hwt it wa isitur. tbs earn ooaida't worth a esat." dia ewtldtoj at tfea turn to ts (it '