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GEO. D. CANON, Publisher.
HARRISON. ... NEBRASKA
Astra Drorak, the Bohemian com
poser, haa been made a member of the
Austrian boose of Lords.
LI Hong Chang probably would be
willing to pay the indemnity himsell
If the empress dowager had not been
so rude to him in the earlier stages ot
the game.
President Schwab of the steel
trust will have the meat luxurious pri
vate car in the country. That alone
should sell several million dollars
worth of the common stock.
Green and yellow chartreuse may no
longer be manufactured in France if
the bill against religious associations
goes through, as the head of the or
ganization of Carthusians, the monks
of the Grande Chartreuse, is situated
outside- of France.
Detroit will soon celebrate the two
hundredth anniversary of its founding
by Cadillac. Eastern people are apt
to forget that there is so old a city in
the west. In the story of the settle
ment and progress of Detroit much is
revealed of the history of "the north
west under three flags."
The latest Paris idea is to pave the
streets with glass, and experiments are
now being tried to that end. Accord
ing to the Telegraph's correspondent,
pure glass is used without admixture
of cement, but subjected to a special
treatment, called devitrifaction. The
result is a hard, smooth substance,
opaque, absolutely non-porus, absorb
ing no foreign matter, and thus re
taining no dampness or unpleasant
odors.
The varied character of the Manila
population is shown by such items as
these, taken at random from one issue
of a local daily: "Sim Vlaco, a Fili
pino, ran amuck on Calle Anda on
Thursday night and attacked Lu Tang
with a heavy scantling. Mandarin
Chang Quing, son of Carlos Palanca,
the Chinese millionaire of Manila, has
been appointed ambassador to Mexico,
and is expected by his father to visit
Manila about April 1."
Ex-Empress Eugenie has given to
the municipality of Paris the cradle of
Prince Louis Napoleon, the only son of
Napoleon III. and the Empress. Prince
Louis was killed in the Zulu war in
South Africa in 1879. The body of the
cradle is made of rosewood and is dec
orated with enamels in antique silver
and. chiseled bronze. The frames are
of silver. A statue holds the imperial
crown, in gilt and bronze, over the
pillow, , which Is of white satin em
broidered in gold with the letter "N."
Th, rri itta waa rtHiHnflllv a f i ft frnm
the municipality of Paris to Empress
Eugenie.
Farmers of Wabash county, Indiana,
are building good roads by co-operation
and at much reduced cost. They
have an agreement among themselves
on road-building, each owner of land
abutting on a highway to be improved
pledging in work or cash 11.50 per acre
within half a mile of the road. Pay
ment may be made within three years,
and the burden thus distributed Is
hardly felt. The work Is done la dull
seasons, and gravel roads have re
placed the old mud highways over
many miles of turnpike. On the com
pletion of a road the task of maln
talng it is assumed by the county au
thorities. The general design for the naval
arch, which is to be erected at the
Battery, New York, has been approved
by the trustees of the Naval Arch As
sociation and the organization of the
finance committee for the collection of
the funds, with which to construct it
will be effected at once. The design
was prepared by Ernest Flagg. It is
estimated that the arch, including the
statuary, will cost 1850,000, while the
sea-wall, beacons and monuments will
cost $300,000 more. In organizing the
committee for the collection of the
fund, every care is to be taken to
make it as representative as possible,
is order to give perfect confidence in
the project.
The French military authorities,
after protracted experiments, are said
to be so far satisfied with the value
of the motor car in war time, that
they are making arrangements
to acquire, if necessary, the whole of
the auto-cars for military service in
the event of the army entering the
Held. t Notices are said to have been
sent to owners of auto-cars, asking
ttesn if they are disposed to sell their
vehicles to the government whenever
the country should find Itself threat
ened with war, and also requiring
them to ax prices of the cars. The ac
tsjai purchasing price will be decided
won by the military authorities when
the vehicles are headed over after
taking Into account the depreciation
they auy have undergone in the meaa-
tlM
Recent experiments by railway ofll
etala fern Bene with an automatic ticket
cacttae, laveated by a Swiss, have
vea entire satiHfactloe, says a Bene
f rraeedeat. The atacblae la sfml
t f the ordinary automatic see
( "ja, Mf the (Sees eases eoatate the
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LET THE PEOPLE RULE
INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM
IS LOOM1NO UP.
Will Ma Oh mt Uw Laa'laf lasMS
the Mattaaal CaMl Tare T
Ittml Ktatw AtUst Jaatlea
f BjrMaa Pgw to Oyaewa Ik
Jefferson said: "I am not amongst
those who fear the peole," but how
different is the case with the modern
republican party. The effort to give
the people a direct vote on important
laws that are to govern them has been
endorsed by the Fusionists in some
states and will be forced as an issue
in others and possibly be adopted as a
national remedy as a check on much
evil legislation that we are now suffer
ing from.
First attempts at radical changes In
the machinery of government always
meet with obstacles, especially when
favored corporations with vast means
of corruption, such as railroads, are
likely to have some of their special
privileges curtailed or abolished. It is
no wonder, therefore, that in one of
the first states to adopt the re
form it should meet with a rebuff at
the hands of a republican court and
legislature.
South Dakota's initiative and refer
endum, which was embodied in the
state constitution two or three years
ago, says the Springfield Republican,
is thought to have been wrecked by a
recent decision of the state supreme
court. The referendum amendment
limited the absolute power of the leg
islature to such special cases of legis
lation as were mentioned in the con
stitution itself. Now the constitution
also provides, somewhat loosely, that
whenever the legislature declares cer
tain bills to be emergency measures,
these emergency measures may be
come laws without being brought
within the scope of the referendum
clauses of the constitution. A test case
was made up by the foes of the refer
endum In passing an act legislating
some fusionists out of office, the act
being pronounced an emergency meas
ure by the legislature. The South Da
kota court decides that it is impos
sible to consider the motives of the
legislature in making any bill an
emergency measure, and that any law
which emanates from that body thus
labeled cannot be referred to the peo
ple. It also decided that no act which
the legislature chooses to pronounce
necessary for the protection of the
public peace, health, safety or sup
port of the state government and its
existing institutions, can be referred
to the people. The right of initiation
by the people in legislation was not
passed upon by the court, but that re
mains of little service if the referen
dum has been emasculated. It is evi
dent that any legislation under that
decision can choke oil final reference
of its work to the popular vote by a
simple majority declaration. The
friends of the referendum declare that
while the first attempt to subetitute
direct legislation for the representa
tive system has apparently failed, the
question will be a live issue, if not the
controlling one, in the next state elec
tion. LESSONS OF THE PANIC.
There are few things that have been
exemplified by the late Wall street
panic that Is of enormous importance
to the whole, people and the most im
portant object lesson Is the vast
power of money. When the panic
was at its height and money was loan
ing for 60 per cent, a few bankers
met and agreed to loan $16,000,000 at
S per cent, and thus aid the recovery
of the market. The banks composing
trust having command of hundreds of
the clearing house are a kind of money
millions of dollars, and if it suited the
purpose of the managers they can
make or mar the market for stocks
and bring on or retard a panic at any
time, as nearly all the transactions on
Wall street are conducted on borrowed
capital and mostly on call loans which
can be called or foreclosed at any time
by simply giving a few hours' notice.
This power has been used both ways
and will again when it suits the money
trust to do so.
It will be remembered that the great
panic at the beginning of the second
Cleveland administration was precipi
tated by the banks to force Congress
to pass the repeal of the silver coinage
act It is probable that the money
trust did not intend that panic to
be so disastrous, as it Imperiled their
own stability and led to the downfall
of some of their own associates.
There is, however, a prospect that
these princes of finance may disagree
over the division of the spoils, won
from the people by the trust combina
tions, and although this would prob
ably precipitate a panic which would
involve the whole country, it may be
made to bring good out of evil by
opening the eyes of the people to the
causes that allow sucb an abnormal
condition of affairs. It may thus lead
to national and state legislation that
will curb the trusts and by the repeal
of the protective tariff and other laws
that now allow monopoly and . with
honest servants to execute the laws,
and not aa la now done, leaving to
the banks the enormous sums without
interest, at present amounting to over
ninety millions of dollars, a reform
may be Inaugurated that will allow
every citizen an 'anal show In his ef
forts for success in life.
As aa Instance that ail is not love
ly ameag the powers that rule in the
ieaactal world the financial corres
pondent of the Chicago Chronicle
ays: Morgan's ambition was held re
staefbU for the seats, it was charg
ed that be had tried to nog" the rea
read nXnetloa In the north aad middle
west, m rid reasWted over aad
laa artsirrSow Esst ta tt rsol
world as Ilarrimar., Vaaderbilt and
Scblff without regard to the eoase
quences In tbat financial district.
Bank presidents for other reasons
denounced James Stillman of the Na
tional City bank, while the panic was
at its height One of them declared
that Stillman's ambition to rule in
finance to the exclusion of all others
was intensifying the panic.
Another heatedly made the predic
tion tbat Stillman and his ambitions
would one day engulf Wall street in
the greatest financial disaster the
world had ever known.
Another thing to note Is that stock
gambling has assumed such large pro
portions that no town or village .is
without its votary. The newspapers
all over the country tell the same tale
of great losses by those devotees of
the stock gambling habit. New York
and Chicago are largely supported by
the enormous amount of commissions
paid to bankers and brokers by these
small traders. Of the constant stream
of dollars that pour into these cities
from every town and hamlet but few
return and those that do are sweated
by the rakeoff.
ANTI-TRUST LEGISLATION.
The need of tariff reform is so
pressing in view of the domination of
the trusts that it may be well, instead
of waiting for the control of the gov
ernment to pass into the hands of the
Democrats to adopt the advice of the
Washington Post, which says:
The Republicans took a hand In the
Democratic tariff revision of 1894, a
useful, helping hand, going so far as
to dictate entire schedules. Let the
Democrats reciprocrate that favor in
the next session of Congress. The
Democrats were divided on tariff re
vision in 1894. To-day there Is a di
vision on that question in the Repub
lican party. The movement for anti
trust legislation will divide the Re
publican party Into two factions, as
hostile as were the Cleveland and anti-Cleveland
factions seven years ago.
Why should not Democrats who want
"sensible reform of the tariff" follow
the example of those Republicans who
aided Gorman in his anti-Cleveland
fight? This suggestion seems to us to
open up great possibilities of early and
wholesome reform. Its adoption by
the Democrats would be far more like
ly to expedite than retard their ac
quisition of full control of the govern
ment The Post is an advocate of protect
ion and yet sees that the tariff must
be revised so what it means by "sen
sible reform" is rather an uncertain
quantity, but if a faction of the Re
publicans are really In earnest In
pushing anti-trust legislation, though
it is very doubtful if enough of them
are, the Democrats will be found will
ing to aid them in passing such legis
lation if it includes a "sensible re
form" of tbe tariff.
But will the Republican brethren be
able to stand out against the decision
of a party caucus and the wrath of
Hanna and the lack of patronage that
McKinlcy will withdraw from recalci
trant members. That will be the cru
cial test.
HAMMER AND ANVIL.
Next to a third term, it would suit
the present administration to be suc
ceeded by Hanna, then after eight
years of Hanna well, what matters?
If a Democratic administration had
been in power when the Wall street
panic occurred, what a lesson the Re
publican newspapers would have
drawn from it!
The extravagance of Republican con
gresses are proverbial, the amount ap
propriated for the fiscal year begin
ning July 1st has just been compended
and the total sum is $730,338,575. No
wonder the war taxes could only be
in a small measure repealed.
Senator Frey has announced that he
will reintroduce the ship subsidy bill
directly the 57 tb Congress meets. A
day or two after this announcement
Senator Hanna was in Philadelphia
holding a conference with the Penn
sylvania railroad officials and other
ship owners, probably arranging bow
much bonus tbey will contribute to the
Republican campaign fund if the bill
Is passed.
Mr. Schwab, the president of the
steel trust, has been making a speech
to a graduating class in New York, in
It he said: "Boys should start In
business early and should place no de
pendence upon Influence." Now this
would have been good advice before
this age of vast combinations and
trusts, but Mr. Schwab should know
that bey or man at this time has but
small chance of employment at any
work that is considered desirable un
less be has some influence back of him.
Mr. Schwab and his partner, Mr. Car
negie, made their start In life in more
propitious times and even they may
have bad some influences that advanc
ed tbelr own strenuous efforts and they
by luck or sharp wits fell Into a busi
ness tbat was protected by a tariff that
gave vast advantage to a few sharp
men.
It Is rather late in the day, but bet
ter late than never for the president
to talk about saving the constitution
as he did at San Jose. In his speech
there he said: "To us, my fellow citi
zens, young aad old, the preservation
of that constitution is committed. It
la a sacred Instrument, and Is a sacred
trust given to us to see to it that It is
preserved in all its virtue and ' Vigor,
to be passed along to the gent rat ions
yet to come. Glorious constitution,
glorioui union, glorious flag. Seventy
live millions of people stand together
as they never before stood to defend
them all." These be line words, my
masters, glorious words, but as a
Judge of the supreme court said of
President McKinlcy when he had ut
tered his beaevolent assimilation
Speech, it Is not by what the preeMeat
says that we must Judge Mai, bwt If
bisects
MXAUR1N MIST GO.
DEMOCRATIC PARTV HAS NO
ROOM FOR HIS ILK.
rrvrty Baloag to the Parly mt Haa a
Traala. IaiprUUIai aad Kalloaal Hauk
Ba "Maaaf" paUUea May B
Workiaf I KttaulUa a Monarch.
-The Republican papers are making
much of the speech recently delivered
by Senator McLaurin, of South Caro
lina, at Charlotte in that state. And
well they may, for it marks the be
ginning of a movement In the south
which will have an Influence upon the
politics ot the nation, says Mr. Bryan
In the Commoner. It is not likely
that Mr. McLaurin will be the leader
of the movement because he is handi
capped by the fact that he is using his
official position to misrepresent the
views and Interests of his constitu
ents, but some leader will arise to
give direction and force to the aristo
cratic and plutocratic element for
which Mr. McLaurin speaks. There
is such an element in every commun
ity and now that the race question no
longer unifies the white people of the
southern states, it will doubtless
manifest Itself. Then, too, the corpor
ations are increasing in number and
magnitude in the south and with tbelr
growth will come attempts to secure
from the government privileges, fa
vors and Immunities. The commercial
Ism that has debauched municipal and
state governments in the north will
soon be apparent in the south and the
senatorial contests which thus far
have been comparatively free from
scandal south of the Mason and Dixon
line will show the handiwork of or
ganized capital.
Senator Tillman has already taken
up the gauge of battle thrown down
by Senator McLaurin and will doubt
less be able to marshall a consider
able majority in that state, but the
same influences are at work in other
states where there is greater danger
of their success.
Imperialism gives to the plutocrat
his opportunity. He can hide behind
a pretended patriotism and conceal
his mercenary purposes by profuse
declamation about the nation's ex
panding greatness and international
obligations. Those who are willing to
purchase trade with everybody's bloo'l
but their own and who will sell any
political or moral principle for a pe
cuniary consideration rush to defend
the administration's Philippine policy.
The democratic sentiment is strong
enough to resist and overcome the
McLaurin movement, but those who
believe that the man Is more import
ant than the dollar will have to be
stir themselves. The corporations
are not much on public meetings but
they are diligent In securing delegates
to conventions. The real democrats,
confident of the merits of their cause,
often lack organization and are, there
fore, at a disadvantage. Tbelr hope
lies in a prompt open and persistent
appeal to the voters at the primaries.
A white republican party In the
south may bring some compensation
in that It is likely to divide the colored
vote in the north and answer the ar
gument of those northern republicans
who have been able to give no better
reason for remaining with their party
than that the south was solidly demo
cratic. THE PHILIPPINES AND CHINA.
Republicans boast that in seizing
the Philippines the United States bold
the key to China and its trade. In
view of the enormous cost in men and
money to bold the Philippines In the
future and saying nothing about the
vast loss already sustained, it is well
to know exactly what we are likely
to gain in the future from this Asia
tic trade. The late Consul General
Wlldman who had represented this
country for many years In China,
pricked the bubble when be said:
The majority of the peasantry live
at the rate from 2 to S cents a day,
and even if they could afford to pur
chase modern American farming ma
chinery there would be no room to
use It Tbe nearest thing to such ma
chinery I have seen In Southern China
is a fanning mill, which is easily con
structed by the Ingenious Chinaman.
The grain Is either trod out of the
straw by water buffaloes or whipped
aver an open tub. Even If an entire
village should combine to buy an
American threshing machine, it would
he used hut once, as It would be con
sidered too wasteful both In the way it
mangles tbe straw and the grain In Its
expensive upkeep. In Southern China
there are no horses except the dimin
utive China pony and, as the agricul
tural country Is mostly flat, there Is
no way to utilize water power. As for
steam, it Is an impossibility, fuel being
one of the most expensive Chinese lux
uries. As long as labor bas almost
no value and flesh and blood is tbe
cheapest thing on the market, I cannot
recommend American manufacturers
to waste good printed matter and
postage stamps on so Impossible a
field. I have already called attention
to the uselessness of mailing to this
consulate trade papers devoted to the
carriage and harness Industries, and
mentioned the fact that we had but
three carriages and a hesrse here all
of which are la a fair state of preser
vation. PROTEST O WAR VETERANS.
The resolution adopted by the Asso
ciation of Spanlsh-Ameiicaa War Vet
erans, says tbe Indianapolis News,
asking oar Indiana Congressmen, with
out regard to party, to use their la
tvence to obtain a court of Inquiry,
so promptly and repeatedly demanded
by Colonel Harrison, to comet the fn
jury and right the wrong done Ma la
Ma aiemlseal from the amy. wtil re
cite the fact that the name of Harrison
bas been associated with the military
history of Indiana from its formation
as a territory. They also recite the
fact that ex-President Harrison died
believing that the creditable military
record of the Harrison family, made
in every war that the country has been
engaged in from the Revolution on,
was Injured by the manner and cir
cumstances of the dismissal of his son.
The recital of these facts Is ample ex
planation, if explanation Is needed,
why this action be taken. Had It been
added that Colonel Harrison was dis
missed 'm order to punish his father
for his failure to support without
qualification the political views or the
administration, tbe common belief of
tbe people of Indiana and of tbe
country would have been voiced. But
whatever the motive, the people ought
to make it plain that they do not agree
with Secretary Root that this Is "a
closed Incident." They cannot afford
to have any such Incident closed in
this manner. They have a right to de
mand tbat justice be done a fellow
citizen. None can more appropriately
lead In such a demand in this case
than tbe people of Indiana. We trust
that this is but the beginning. We
hope, for the sake of fair play, the
rights of American citizenship and a
simple Justice in the recognition of the
equality of such rights, that this
movement will continue until it is
crowned with success.
THE BALANCE OF TRADE.
The chief of the national bureau of
statistics has been trying to answer
the much mooted question of "what
has caused so much produce, merchan
dise and specie to go out of the coun
try without the ordinary correspond
ing returns." That is, without any
goods or money being returned for it,
and known as tbe wonderful and illu
sive balance of trade.
The chief of the bureau acknowl
edges tbat nothing but au estimate ran
be given, which he summarizes as
follows: "Freight paid to foreign ves
sels, $50,000,000. Interest and earnings
of foreign capital, $75,000,000 to $100,
060,000 and a similar sum expended
abroad by Americans. American
funds invested In foreign securities in
1900 about $100,000,000 to which must
be added the amount of our foreign in
debtedness actually canceled by the
return of securities for which no defi
nite estimate has, so far as I am aware,
been made."
This Is very much like saying that
he knows nothing about the matter as
any basis for a statistical statement
and yet the bureau has been publish
ing monthly with great flourish of
trumpets, tbe enormous balance of
trade In our favor. But this balance
is of no use to us unless we obtain
something valuable in return and as
we dc not seem to be getting much
back, at least a large part of It, that
much is a drain on this country that
no statistics can overcome, and In
stead of being a matter for tbe Repub
lican party to crow over is something
we should all regret For instance,
the $75,000,000 or $100,000,000 expend
ed abroad by Americans is an annual
drain upon the resources of this
country without any corresponding
benefit exrept to the few who enjoy
tbe trip, they are like absentee land
lords, they make their money here and
pend it elsewhere.
There Is not much advantage in ex
porting goods unless we get
money or goods in return and
as the export statistician of
the treasury cannot tell us with any
certainty, or even approximately with
in hundreds of millions, tbat we get
anything In return for a large part of
the value of the goods we are said to
export, It Is quite posKlble and prob
able that there is some great error,
either In the reported value of tbe
goods or In the gathering of the fig
ures. FORCED INTO THE TRUST.
The way the trusts wipe out compe
tition and force old business concerns
into their combines Is fully told in the
case of tbe locomotive trust which has
obtained complete control ot all tbe
works in the country. One concern,
the Schenectady Locomotive Works,
objected to being absorbed by tha
trust, but bas finally decided to do so,
says tbe Chronicle. Tbe company will
be reorganized and the capital stock
will probably be Increased. It la
known that tbe stockholders have been
reluctant to Join tbe combination.
Practically all of the stock bas been
In tbe bands of the Ellis family for
forty years and the stockholders have
always felt tbat tbelr position as own
ers Involved some obligations toward
tbelr employes and tbe people of
Schenectady,
At the present time tbe works are
enjoying a period of unexampled pros
perity. It was pointed out by the rep
resentatives of tbe trust tbat tbe Urge
part of tbe output of the works goes
to tbe New York Central. Delaware
and Hudson and Northern Pacific,
which are controlled by the M organ -Vaoderbilt-HIU
interests, and that
they could not get orders enough to
keep the shops running a quarter of
the time If tbey stayed out of tbe com
bination. The works would also be
shut out from buying Iron and steel,
could not All whatever orders were re
ceived, snd the plant would be worth
only the value of the machinery sold
as old Iron. In tbe face of these state
ments, which were given a an ultima
tum, tbe stockholders felt themselves
powerless.
This Vanderbllt trust acts like a
highwayman, with it It Is your money
or your life, If you won't come Into
the trust ws will kill your business.
It la about time tbat action was token
to curb these giant combinations and
tbe people have It la tbelr hands to
do so If tbey will only elect men to
legislate for them whom tbs trusts
caaaot control.
AN HISTORICAL LOCATION.
JtarthwMl WarM-s Fair St
VUraTM latareatlaa WmmH.
The officers of the Northwest
World's Fair Site association claim to
have made a discovery . which they
think will have much weight In tbe
selection of the site for tbe Louisiana
Purchase exposition, says the St Louis
Olobe-Demoeret. They say the home
place of Gen. William H. Clarke, gov
ernor of tbe territory ot Missouri, Is
located on Ooodfellow avenue, In
northwest St Louis, and covers part
of tbe vast property on which the as
sociation has obtained options for the
benefit ot the directors of the World'e
Fair. Secretary E. T. Grether, Presi
dent Lewis E. Snow, Treasurer J. M.
Williams and others have been visit
ing the different property owners for
the past two weeks, spending hour
dally in interviewing the oldest in
habitants and looking over old muni
cipal documents in an effort to get his
torical data. It was while on these
expeditions that they gathered data
which they assert shows conclusively
that on the identical spot where now
stands the Goodfellow mansion, Good
fellow avenue and Natural Bridge
road, formerly stood the residence of
Gov. Ctirke, at which place, known
to the Indians aa Council Groves, the
Indians met to make their treaties,
and from where started the Lewis und
Clarke expedition. Directors Fred
Delbel, Jewctt Wagoner, John Fitz
gerald. H. H. Ellers, Judge David
Murphy, Ed W. Greer, J. L Grether,
Edward H. Blckley, George P. Pren
dergast. W. S. Brawner, M. M. Fitz
gerrell, Fred Spangler, H. B. Schilling,
W. J. McDonald, W. H. Redemeyer,
Sidney E. Davis and Charles H, Fll
ley, the executive committee, will go
before the World's Fair site commit
tee to state that the Goodfellow place
is singularly appropriate for a fair
site and that tbe natural conditions
surrounding It fulfill all the require
ments. Tbe history associated with
this place, they will argur, could well
be preserved by permanent buildings
commemorating the exposition.
Lat' Wool.
The new beverage, so-called, that Is
being Introduced under the name of
"lamb's wool," Is as old as the hills,
Victor Smith says. It Is nothing more
than the Juice of apples roasted over
spiced ale. Every Irishman fhould
know It A great day for it used to be
the feast of the apple gathering called
"la mas ubhal,'' pronounced "lammas
ool." The corruption into "lamb's
wool" was easy.
Teacher and Old Mitlii Preferred,
A farmer's wife, writing to tbe
American Agriculturlgt, says that It
has been her good fortune to take sum
mer boarders for the past seventeen
years, and she eums up her experience
thus: "I have had boarders of all ages,
from the baby with Its nurse to the
aged grandmother, but my favorites
are maiden ladlos and school teachers.
They are most always contented."
Fine feathers may not make fine
birds, but they make soft pillows.
"COMMUNITY OF INTEREST."
Some of the Effect or tbe ftreat Ball
road Change Which Are Oceorrlo;.
"Community of Interest" seems to be
the watchword among the great rail
road corporations, nowadays, and cer
tain persons who are apt to decide
upon topics of general interest, especi
ally new ones, without thinking upon
tbe facts, have supposed tbat this
meant an arrangement of Interest only
to tbe railway companies participating
In the deals, traffic arrangements,
leases, etc., 'Which show In the stock
transactions and engage tbe thought
and ability of traffic and passenger
agents. It Is undoubtedly the financial
Interest of tbe corporations which
moves their officers to enter into con
tracts, but the consideration of this
topic necessarily Includes tbat of tbe
convenience, comfort and attractions
which tbey can offer to tbelr patrons.
If competition be less intense, and rate
wars be relegated to tbe dead past,
It means tbat more attention will be
paid to those, inducements which will
bring business to up-to-date lines of
transportation.
An Instance ot the early profit of the
public Is most worthy of mention. Un
der tbe plan of arrangements known
as "Community of Interest" very close
relations have been established by the
Missouri Pacific System with the Den
ver and Rio Grande railway, tbe Rio
Grande Western Railway and tho
Southern Pacific Railway and other
lines diverging from Junction points,
So tbat now, for the first time in the
railway history of the country, a pas
senger may take train at St Louis and
remain therein until he has reached
San Francisco, Tbe route Is one of tho
most popular because of its great
scenic beauty, and became It gives tbe
traveler the benefit of variety of al
titude and climate, taking him across
tbe smiling plains of Kansas Into tho
wonderful canyons of Colorado, and
through bcr most noted mining locali
ties, and by the great inland salt sea,
where a great religious organization
has bulldcd a city of magnificence in
an oasis of the desert, and whose po
litical power has been maintained in
spite of the objections of the concen
trated power of the I'nllf-d States and
In tbe face of all tha obstacles which
have ever, from tho dawn of Christi
anity, contended agalnr.t Its establish
ment by any sect vr creed.
These places are of great Interest to
the traveler of today, and since they
may be visited with such ease in tho
magnificent trains of tkU monster sys
tem of railway, tbe tide of tourist traf
fic Is being turned to tliom by natural
selection. The Missouri Pacific and
the Rio Grande reach all points In
Colorado, tub and the West, and thus
"Community of Interest" among tbe
railroads already benefits the public la
ucb an everyday way as to convince
the tboagbtless person that ha must
revise his hasty Judgment