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About Harrison press-journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 8, 1901)
Crrtes Press-J::rc2l tt. A. FaUFfa, Faaliaaar. HARRISON, . BRASKA conscript nat just excused from three yean' service be ttUM of ugliness. It ni held that Ilia appearance would make bis comrades laugh and thua interfere with discip line. Young lawyers have a fine field open to them in Texas. There are forty countiea in that ctate which have to aeek legal advice outside their limits, as they have not a aingle attorney of their own. The vestry of Christ Church in Phil adelphia, replying to the many sug gestion for memorial tablets at the grave of Benjamin Franklin, says: "It may not be generally known that the grave of Franklin, though simple, is what he himself, in bis will, dictated it to be. The church has for past years maintained a policy of keeping the historic spot as it is." Boseman, and, in fact, the whole of Gallatin county, Montana, Is afflicted with a scourge of dandelions. They are to be seen in every garden and in nearly every held in the county. In the summer the little globes of fluffy cotton-like substance, containing the seeds of the dandelion, float through the air and alight In every nook and corner. J matter how poor the soil the dandelion flourishes. According to a paragraph which has been going the rounds of the French newspapers, M. Waldeck-Rousseau the French premier has all his dogs vaccinated to prevent them from hav ing distemper, and has never lost one from that disease. Jenner, who intro duced vaccination, proposed that all the dogs in Sngiaftu buutilu tm ifc&id la this manner, but was laughed at for suggesting It. made at a zoological laboratory at Naples are reported, by Hans Winkler. A flowerless aquatic plant, that grows normally with its roots in the sand and leaves in water was inverted, speci mens being placed with the leaves buried in the sand and the roots float ing in the water in strong light. The roots changed to stems and leaves, and the buried parts becoming roots. Within two years the Cherokee, Choc taws, Chickasaws, Creeks and semlnoles will cease to exist as an In dian people governed by tribal laws, and their territory will be broken up and allotments of land made to them as citizens of the United States. They have been known as the Five Civilized Tribes, but the government has decid ed that they have failed to live up to their name according to the American requirements of law and order for the Indian Territory. Swiss military papers speak in high terms of the new revolver which has been adopted for the mounted troops of the Swiss army, and which is the in vention of two Berlin engineers. The recoil on firing brings a fresh cart ridge from the magazine into the bar rel. The pistol weighs one pound, thirteen ounces,' and its center of gravity lies immediately over the hand of the flrer. The magazine carries eight cartridges, and practiced shots can fire forty-eight rounds in from twenty eight to thirty seconds. The calibre of the weapon is 0.32 in., and its range is given at 2,000 yards. Young ' King Aiphonso of Spain, when he attended his first bull fight at Madrid in full state, was received with unbounded enthusiasm. Unlike hit; Austrian mother, whose aversion to this form of sport is notorious, he appeared to follow the Corrida with the most keen interest and satisfaction, thereby showing himself a true Span iard, and as possessed of what is known aa "sancre torera." that is to say, "bull fighting blood." At the close of the performance, which waa particularly . sanguinary, eight . bulls having been killed, and twenty horses lisped np, the young king, presented handsome gifts to the leading toreros, Maxxantini, Bombitta and Fuentes. One of the great packing bouses of Chicago has prohibited profanity upon its premises. The primary purpose of the order was in itself excellent, name ly, to protect employes against abuse by swearing foremen or overseers; but it cannot fail also to exercise a good Influence over all those who work for the company, especially the younger men. In commenting on the order the Chicago Post truthfully says: "It Is one of the better signs of the time that is these days the men at the head of Bain are presumed to be, If not Christians, at any rate gentlemen. ' They find ways enough of making their wishes intelligible and effective without resort to bluster or awagger AT the ladiicoaclos of blasphemy." Kr. MeAsie of the Weather Bureau km hoea stodytag the formation of f m t the rtdaJty of the bey of Ban rli'nn which la famous for Ita erMHtcrS dew. He shows that CxMt tOOgmphy of this re--"3 tf It a aataral laboratory 15. r Lf tr-wl hi the ' of water J,- .mrx-ar futtfOMV "'Z XL" " m . iiSai Ittl V"l j t Lzi Cm ftwvsO J f. 3 tefusjgj WILL LEARN LESSON. 8HOUTERS FOR M'KINLEY TO LOOK FOR JOBS. af Kallraaaa WiU ' nmiO oat ot Thalr Jaas thar Km ait ( IUi ( mate at Waaalaftaa. Tract The employes of the railroads will suffer by the combination that the rail road Interests have perfected and a good many will be hunting jobs in a few weeks. They will thus be thrown into competition with the higher paid clerks in other lines of business and eventually force lower wages than cVeii uOW pTeYaK fur this Ciana Of labor. The Railroad News says: "It is reported that the offices of railroads in the different combinations located In all principal cities throughout the country will be consolidated. The re port is revived in connection with the Morgan-Hill syndicate operations. Af ter the offices of individual lines under the same ownership have been brought together it is said that thousands of solicitors and passenger agents will be eliminated in the interests of economy." When these men voted to elect a Re publican congress, and nearly all of them so voted, they helped to intrench the combines and trusts in power and their only hope now is to join the at tacking force of the Democrats and force asunder these combinations that free competition may again prevail. SENATORS, TRUSTS AND GAGB. The Protective Tariff League and the Home Market Club of Boston, who look through the same glasses and see nothing but ruin for the country un less the trusts are protected, have been making a fight for some months to get Mr. Gibson out of the office of counsel to the treasury department before the XinmA m 0m1 ; a V-t-- v. i.v i mi AivMKtB aim uae Mr. Washburn, Senator Lodge's private secretary, appointed in his place. Sen ator Lodge and other senators have been aiding the trusts in this matter and in the haughty manner of Repub lican politicians demanded that Secre tary Gage at once make the appoint ment and followed it up by a telephone message asking why the removal and the appointment had not been made. Secretary Gage, whose vertebrae is not very rigid, did not resent these de mands and succumbed to the trusts. Noting these facts, the New York Times says: But it would give great Joy to some millions of the American people if some time the head of a de partment who dearly loved a fight would send back to his insulters through the mails or over the telephone wires messages of loud defiance, ac companied by opinions on the charac ter and habits of place-hunting sena tors, enlivened by epithet and glowing with Justified anger. A DEMORALIZED REPUBLICAN. Senator Foraker, who was coquet ting with the Democrats but a few months ago, has now turned over all his fire apparatus to Senator Hanna to save his political neck and help the latter loot the treasury with ship-subsidies and rob the people with pro tection for the trusts. Louis Post in the Public says: Senator Foraker, of Ohio, makes a better candidate for re election than he would make for Mrs. Irving's offer of $1,000 to the success ful man who can carry on bis affairs for a month without lying. While de livering the opening speech at the Ohio Republican convention he tried to fool the people by declaiming against municipal ownership of public utilities as enlarging "the field and op portunities of the political boss. " So gravely and with such oiliness wag this said, that one might suppose Senator Foraker had never beard of "the field and opportunities of the political boss," In connection with utilities, which his good friend and copartisan, the delect able Senator Quay, haa in Pennsyl vania utilized beyond the dreams of avaricious power without municipal ownership. Yet some of Mr. Foraker'a bearers must have known, as Mr. For aker doubtless did himself, that with municipal ownership, nothing like so great an abuse of power over nubile utilities would be possible. THE TRUSTS ADVANCE PRICES. The Republicans haTe been claiming that the trusts are good things, that they raise wages and Increase trade and generally benefit consumers. This optimistic view does not gibe with the facts that are dally coming to light The latest exposure of the rapacity of the trusts Is the Increased price that the Window-glass trust is demanding of Its victims. The Florists Exchange publishes the following letter: "Toledo, O. J, J. Jackson hsa let the contract to Bostwick, Braum It Co., for 215 boxes of glass to be used In the construction of the big greenhouses to be erected for Henry Crane ft Co. of Bast Toledo. Some idea of the profits of the trusts can be gathered from the fact that last year Mr. Jack son bought for $2.60 s box the glass for which he now pays $5.0 per box. Previously to that the glass had sold at fUO a boa." , Is this not indirect violation of our laws, or are there ma laws by which Umss men cam he reached f T. H. NORTON. Hlghetowa, N. 3. , The Gats trust is a monopoly which the KopatMoaa pretoetlve tarif teeters wfch aa araraje In of rs costs a mmmi oa scoots wtolo Csm, wfcfch is f3r srgtatfoa csey, as all O ra of ttf EzJ tacrl hi i (XZiKi to stSJH i two tt 2 Ect o per cent is doubtless in consequence ot the lack of competition and since the rival manufacturers have been bought out by the trust, so that every man that builds a house pays a direct tax to the trust and this in consequence of the protective tariff. NOT A SUBJECT FOR CON CRATULATION. The enormous taxes wrung from the people during the past year through the war taxes and other internal revenue sources, besides the tax col lected under the protective tariff is s great satisfaction to Republican news paper organs. "The nation's books show an enor mous profit account," shouts a gushing Washington correspondent. It seems that the government revenues were greater last year than for any previous year and that the collections from tax ation were $77,000,000 In excess of the expenditures. This declaration is made In a hilarious spirit as if the money had been won in a raffle or was the fruit of plunder confiscated from a for eign enemy. But every dollar of the almost Inestimable amounts collected and placed in the treasury was con tributed by American taxpayers. Every man's wages were docked, every man's honest profits in business were less ened, every source of private revenue was tapped to get this money for the government It is not a subject for triumph by partisan eulogists. If they could show how much the people had been saved, not how much the people had been taxed, it would be a subject for congratulation. HUNTING A PLAIN FACT. That industrious bunch of profes sional office seekers known as the In dustrial Commission, ore playing hide and seek with a fact that is in plain view of those who want to see it The fact that some of the members of the commission wish to find and the others do not in, "are American goods sold abroad cheaper tnan at nomer Mr. Schwab, the million dollar president of the steel trust, testified before the com mission that this was the case. The secretary of the Home Market Club admits the same, but these authorities insist there is no harm in it The great majority of the commission be ing Republicans, they may not find the fact, but the minority have it right be fore them if it has not been suppressed like some other matters have been. This Industrial Commission has not been a roaring Republican success. REPUBLICAN BRIOANDS. When ten thousand men struggle to participate in a public meeting as the people did In Philadelphia a short time ago, to denounce the Republican ma chine and. to take steps to elect a dis trict attorney who, for well doing, had been turned down by the ring, there is some hope that the people will tri umph. The Republican machine was de nounced by Col. Alexander K. McClure In unsparing terms. He said: "A be wildering succession of public robber ies, the like of which no state has ever known, compels the people of this commonwealth to make war today upon the most corrupt band of political brigands ever organized in the United States." And yet with the present election laws in Pennsylvania it will be found almost impossible to defeat them. Government Irrigation of the arid lands of the western states is sure to come In the future when the density of population demands it, but the Chey enne plan will only lead to a few men gobbling all the water rights and leave the people who work the land to pay outrageous water rents. The Philadel phia Record says: Congress is to be asked next winter to set aside all money received from public land sales in fifteen western states and terri tories to be used only for constructing reservoirs In semi-arid sections. The states may thereafter sell the com pleted works to "actual users of wa ter." This is the latest plan approved by western talent in convention at Cheyenne for saddling the cost of ir rigation on the federal treasury. There is millions In it if It can be made to work. The Hanna system of winning elec tions Is a unique one. Promise any thing and buy all in light, would be a fair way of putting it Senator Scott of West Virginia, was the head of the promising bureau, and he does not seem to have been chary In making them, especially to the old soldiers. The administration, after election was over was not so free In redeeming these anti-election vote getters and Evans Is still commissioner ot pen sions, much to the disgust of General Dan Sickels and the other veterans. Hanna should make McKlnlcy redisein these drifts on credulity. The latest thing In trusts Is an In ternational Salt trust, the first of Its kind. There Is a tariff on salt and be ing an article of necessity, any re straint in Its manufacture cr sale is against public policy and If the anti trust law will not reach the matter it must be amended so that Rockefeller and the other salt trust barons can be punished. That vain old geutlemaa, Senator Depew, before he left for Europe, boasted of Ms Meadahlp with the two sr thru mm la each .etmatry that soatnti serosal Shirs. Ho Is goao to hare eaaUoaal chat with thou iat wCI fortoi lator 1st us kaow just man a at n tartJ aaJ otttr ttscoro t air tx...?z tta the fcr- lC3MfsY ', ... GOSPEL OF GREED. AGAINST WHICH ALL REFORM ERS MUST SOON UNITE. Owaanklp la Air Blate af Owaan Atom Thalr taaS Wa Mas SUtfaUy ObUb Owaarsfcla af Air The value of land In a great city has long been recognised, but few people, perhaps, have realized how far up and down real estate ownership extends. A lawsuit Juat decided in New York has settled the fact that a man can get damages if his neighbor encroaches for even a few inches on the air above the land to which he has a legal claim. The evidence in the case just decid ed showed that the wall of a twenty story building on Broadway overhangs the land adjoining, at the first cornice of the building three inches and a quarter; at the second cornice three inches and three-quarters. At the New street end there is an overhang of one and one-eighth inches, and in ad dition to this there are overhanging cornices and swinging shutters. The owner of the air encroached upon got opinions from experts that the conse quent injury to him was from $50,000 to $250,000, says the Boston Globe. Judge Lawrence of the supreme court has awarded to the sufferer $5,000 damages. He says that the de fendant will be enjoined from main taining the cornices and swinging shutters, the Injunction to take effect when the plaintiff decides. If at all, to carry up his building, which Is four stories high, or to erect another higher building. If the defendant agrees to pay the $5,000 the plaintiff must give an acquittance of all claim for the en croachment of the wall. The defend ant must also declare that he will make no claim of adverse possession for the time the cornices and shutters remain Real estate experts say that the case is of such importance that it may be carried to a higher court on an appeal. The present decision has shown, how ever, that the plaintiff's hopes for damages were not altogether "in the air." Theoretically, it would appear, a man's ownership of a piece of land ex tends upward to the limit of the at mosphere and downward to the center of the earth. WINNING THEM OVER. They are beginning to find out In Cleveland that Mayor Tom JohnBon Is no humbug and that he Is earnestly and honestly endeavoring to bring about true and wholesome reform. The Cleveland Press, which has been radically opposed to him, has now come over to his side. It realizes that Johnson means business. It says: "All true lovers of justice will ap plaud the mayor's work for the smoothing down of tax inequalities and will hope for his ultimate success. "The human goose squawks lees, as the feathers are plucked from him, if he can witness the denuding of his fel lows. "It is the idea that the fellow next door, by some social or political pull, or other unfair advantage, is avoiding his Just share that gives most of the weight to tax burthens. Under a Just, equitable, impartial system, men would take real pride In being taxpayers, whereas, now, the rich hide their tax able wealth and the poor bear the stronger men's loads without relief. It is the injustice that hurts most The mayor Is In a rather peculiar position. Upon his advice, a large percentage was ad ded to the valuation of bis people's property for taxation purposes. He must eliminate the Injustice the In equalities or stand convicted of fool ishly augmenting the Injustice, His tremendous expenditure of labor and time on the work Is strong proof of his sincerity. If be Is sincere and con tinues to be fearless. Impartial and consistent, his success seems to be only a matter of obtaining the support of legislation and the people. He has established at the city hall a bureau, where maps of the wards have been prepared and where he can come Into direct contact with the property own ers, on certain days. This sort of labor for the public deserves to be met with the hearty co-operation of the public. It Is difficult to do much for a patient who refuses the doctor all information. The Press urges property owners to go to Doctor Johiwon and tell him where they ache. SWIBS RAILROADS. They have a very crude and oppres sive way of handling the railroad busi ness in Switzerland. About two years ago the government bought the entire railroad system of the nation and pro ceeded to show what it could do. Af ter Increasing the wagea, reducing the hours of the employes, and reducing the tariff to one-third Its former rate on both freight and passengers, the offlclsls were, not satisfied, and pnt in a system of season tickets, by buying oae of which for $l( yon can ride os any railroad la the nation as often ai you please, ss long as you please, and at any time within its limit thst you ploaae. Did you ever hear of such oppression? Was tyranny ever more tyraanoosT How glad we should he that wo live la a free country where wo hare to par three cents a mils to travel, hare to ass the ticket oa the dajr of purchase or loss It; where we teia toatta touraaaMand prove our UmtSZT to oTtry ooadaetor; warn wo avt looked aaoa with suspicion vhsaoTtf wo proseat a as spaa ticket, far fear wo fcxve tssmsStM a apor ros IkX Cc!S3l Cat wo Kro to . fraa eountrT And. Wbit W the government of Switzerland re cti res enough returns to pay lnierew mi 1100.000 a mile, which It paid foi the railroads and is lsylng by a stak ing fund that will wipe out the aeoi in fifty years. But then the Swiss art heetbanp, sod Hnn't know not bin' no how. 'Rah for corporation-owned rail roads and freedom! Appeal to' Rea son, A POLITICAL BANK SWINDLE. The Seventh National Bank of New York City, has been closed by the Comptroller of Currency under circum stances which indicate that some gi gantic stealing has been going on. The cause given by the Comptroller for his action was that $1,600,000 of the bank's mossy had bf-cs loaned to firss spec ulating in railroad stocks, practically without security. One sum of $300,000 was given to the firm on checks drawn on a fictitious deposit In another bank. The comptroller some days ago order ed that the entire loan be paid or that the bank suspend buainess. The direc tors pretended to comply with the or der, but in reality simply disposed of $1,000,000 of good securities, retaining the worthless securities put up by the speculators. Hence the order to discon tinue business. The Seventh National Bank was In part owned by the Heath family, of which Perry S. Heath is the political member. As assistant postmaster gen eral be secured the deposit of immense sums of money order money In It, and otherwise favored it. IU failure under such circumstances simply adds one more scandal to the name of the man who bad to retire from office because of his connection with the Cuban post al steals. He still stands high In the administration's favor, and is in charge of the Republican Literary Bu reau, but this Iat "incident" makes it practically certain that he will not again be placed in a responsible posi tion. INDIA'S BALANCE OF TRADE. The following items are taken from an article published in the Bogton Pilot of July 7, under the title of "Starving India." This article had a number of facts and figure taken mostly from "Yearly Famine in India," by George E. Buell of Rochester, N. Y. The wheat crop of India in 1899 was 232,585,000 bushels. The average an nuul wheat crop for the last eight years was 234,057,750. Over 35,400,000 buehels of wheal were exported from India in 18S9; 16, 509,740 bushels is the average amount annually exported from India for th last eight years. Note Scorn the aboTe ;ures that In dia raised i nttle less than the aver age of wheat last year; but that she shipped out of the country two and one-eighth times more than the aver age shipped. The Pilot comments as follows upon the foregoing paragraphs: According to the "favorable balance of trade" theory India Is the most prosperous of countries, for her ex ports are always in excess of her im ports, and especially so in famine years. BURDEN UP BY MILITARISM. In the general deficiency bill re ported to the House $21,850,000 for military and $3,973,145 for naval pur poses are carried. Added to the regu lar appropriations for army, navy and pensions, which aggregate $398,942,102, this will bring the total appropriations for these purposes made at this ses sion of congress up to $424,265,248. But does this imposing row of nine fig ures clearly convey anything to the average reader's mind as to his Indi vidual share of the enormous burden? We fancy not. It will help the average American man to grasp It better if we say that if he is the bead of the average fam ily of five persons he will have to pay this year just about $28 as his share of the taxation necessary to meet this vast military outlay, TIiIb Is the. larger tax per capita for military expenditures than is borne by the people of any other nation on earth. And If it were only taken In direct taxation, so that every head of a family of 8tc received his yearly bill "for military purposes, $21," there would be a revolt against It that would break the party responsible for It FREE RAW MATERIAL. Protectionists favor putting "raw materials" on the free list, but they do not have the least conception of what constitutes raw material, because If they did they could not be protection ists. The farmers are entitled to the same care and attention at the hands cf congress that any other class is, In cluding the manufacturers. Then If the manufacturer Is entitled to his raw material free, the farmer should have his free, too. Now, the products which the farmer does not produce hlmta'f, but has to purchase as the product of another, would Include bis clothes, farm Implements, furniture, crockery, ttc.,. "and I should like to see the tariff law constituted that would place these articles on the free list and hare any protection left for the manufacturer." R. C. H?rsom at New England Free Trade League meeting. A youngster of seven, describing to his father how a lady caller, childless herself, had Jocularly proposed to pus chaos the little follow, the father re plied, "But I am afraid they oaalda't afford It, aoaay; they couUot possi bly raise swSdeat money ts hay you." To hit aatoajahsaoat, tae serea-yesr. oU praaipCy napoUsi, "They snjght est ay s grass ralalt la Caaeslata. Rev. Dr. C. P. H. Nasoo, who has resigned the pastorate of the Second Presbyterian church la Germaatowa. Pa., is to be United States consul at Grenoble, France. Dr. Nasoa was graduated at Williams college la lfttt, which waa President Carter's clsss aad his degree waa enfrrd by Williams two years ago. This Is rather a pleas ant way for a cergyman to retire. Rev. Mr. Nason was acting pastor of the American church Imparls in 1$. A Callaa-a Tntlmr ay OO. Although President Henry O. Weston of Crozer Theological seminary is more than 80 years old, he performs all the duties of his office and will deliver four lectures next week at the interdenom inational Bible class to be held at Lake Orion, Mich. As long ago aa ltis be VS3 fnruimnlnr nl tne uapust ueneru Association of Illinois, which state was tb scone of his early labors. "Bob" Is a Crack BlSar. t a Rnlwrti 1 a fearless rider and uraaliy well in at the death in a fox bunt, bur his eminence as a nunung man depends on his splendid eye for country and his unrivaled knowledge of horse flesh and not on mere dare- deviltry. Lord Roberts has bad his share of "croppers," but thanks to nis light, steel-built frame, he has never come to any serious barm In the hunt ing field. , lit Dmim This Tlasa. South Bend. Ind., July th: Sit different doctors treated Mr. J. 0. Lan deman, of this place for Kidney Trou ble. He had been very ill for three years, and be despaired of ever being well. ' Somebody suggested Dodd'c Kidney pills. Mr. Lendeman used two boxes. He is completely cured, and besides losing all bis Kidney Trouble, his gen eral health Is much better than it has been for years. No case that has occurred in St Joseph County for half a century, ha created such a profound sensation, and Dodd's Kidney PUls are being well advertised, as a result of their won derful cure of Mr. Landeman's case. Com Paul's Smoking aad Drinking- Paul Kruger smokes almost Inces santly and for many years drank amazing quantities of beer daily, but only on once occasion did he ever taste alcohol. That was at Bloemfon tcin after the signing of an alliance with the Orange Free State. On that occasion Oom Paul took off a bumper of champagne, and he liked it so well that he has never tasted It since. Auk your grocer for PEFIANCB STARCH, the only IS ox. package for 1? cents. 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