As the World He'Vol'Ves The War on Heet Sugar. The American Sugar Refining Com pany, otherwise known as the sugar trust, recently began a war upon the beet sugar industry by cutting the price of granulated to 3^ cents a pound at Missouri river points. This has been followed by a reduction of price In all states from Colorado to California amounting to 30 cents a hundred pounds on beet sugar and 20 cents oil cane sugar. The object is to deal a blow to the beet sugar manu facturers In their own territory. The recent report of Secretary Wilson on the beet sugar Industry estimates the total product of 1901 at 19S.500 tons, of which 119.000 tons come from the Pa cific coast and Rocky Mountain statil. besides 7,000 tons from Nebraska. Cali fornia, with an annual output of SO, 000 tons, is the leading producer. Resignation of President Adams. The educational world of both con tinents suffers loss in the resignation of Charles Kendall Adams, president of the University of Wisconsin, which expresses its appreciation of his serv ices by giving hint indefinite leave of absence instead of accepting his resig nation. Or. Adams retires to a milder climate on account of ill health. Dr. Adams arrived at the University of Wisconsin when it was in urgent need of his intellectual resources, his reserve, fortitude and precision. Un der a flabby administration the delin quencies of some of its faculty would nave inflicted grave injury upon the Institution. His discretion in vicissi tudes overcame the ill effects of per nicious subaltern teaching. His moral aims were promoted with reticence and dignity and throughout his tenure the DR. CHARLES KENDALL ADAMS. University of Wisconsin has risen to a foremost place in higher education, both abstract and practical. The president of the modern univer sity must possess the comprehensive and genial culture derivable from an tiquity. He must walk, however, with the quickening music of humanity, which is no longer ‘‘still” nor “sad.” It is a trumpet blast that calls nations now, and it is given to the United States to be in the fore. Electric Tab on Fray era. John Alexander Dowie is now able to keep tab on his prayers. All this is accomplished as the result of novel uses to which is put that triumph of modern mechanical ingenuity, the elec tric time stamp. Few except those fa miliar with the busy life "Dr.” Dowie leads realize what a service the elec tric time stamp will oe to him. “Eli jah II." spends a considerable part of his time dally praying for various Zionites whose friends or relatives have asked the general overseer to join them In prayer for healing at Buch or such an hour, says a Chicago paper. These requests for prayers are received by Dowie's secretaries, tabu lated according to the specific hours at which the special prayer is sought, and taken up by the head of the Chris tian Catholic churcn at the time spec ified. The moment Dowie finishes a prayer he slaps the written slip into the Jaws of his electric time stamp, slams his hand on top of the device and the exact time he prayed is in stantly recorded upon the sheet. Here !■ 111 » PRATED AUG 1? 1-04 PM 1901 JOHN ALEX. DOWJE, A PRAYER REGISTER. 8 a facsimile of one of Dowle’s time itamps. When a week or so later the general iverseer Is Informed that at such or •uch an hour the patient seemed to Im prove, he can refer to the documen ary evidence to prove that he prayed it that hour for the healing of the be iever in his powers. Many times Dr. )owie has produced the stamped and lined slips to convince followers of ibe potency of his prayers. A Duke Who Must Not Marry. One of the most remarkable figures Vienna society is Archduke Eugen, (rand master of the German Knights *f Malta. The office, which is invaria bly held by a member of the Austrian •eigning family, brings a very large ncome, but the holder may not marry, fhe archduke looks remarkably well n his full costume in white, which he years only on festive occasions. He is i general in the army and commander p chief of the Tyrol. ;People and <*T E*)ents Kitmou* a* a Oolfer. Miss Genevieve Hecker of Noroton, Conn., who won the national woman’s golf championship, is, in the field oi woman’s athletics, the most remarka ble young woman in America. Al though only 19 years old, she has three years of fame as a golf player behind her, with the probability of extending GEisEVIEVE HECKER. her conquests to cover English and Scotch links. The final great game, besides being her last fc.- the season, was the last she will play before she becomes the wife of George Jenkins, her lover since school days. The wed ding is to take place before Christmas. Miss Hecker is the daughter of the late John V. Hecker, who was a million aire flour manufacturer. Last Hour* of Great Men. No life had more in it of terror than Napoleon’s, yet he said, on his dying bed: "There is nothing terrible in death; he has been my pillow for the last three weeks, and now he is about to take me away forever.” Louis XIV was happy in his death. “Why weep you?” he asked his friends. "Did you think I should live forever? I thought dying had been harder?” Sir Philip Sidney would not change the joy ol his last hour for “the empire of the world." “Let me fall asleep to the sound of delicious music,” said Mira beau; and Humboldt, the naturalist, exclaimed in his dying peace: “How grand these rays! They seem to beck on earth to heaven." Sir William Hunter wanted a pen "to write down how easy and pleasant a thing it is to die.” But surely the most beautiful farewell ever addressed to the world was that of Keats. “I feel the flowers growing over me,” he said in a phrase which, as a thing of beauty, is a joy for ever. Labor Chief Is a Prearher. Rev. Sheldon A. Harris, the Dwight minister who was elected as vice-presi dent of the Illinois Federation of La bor at the recent convention in Joliet, I REV. SHELDON A. HARRIS, was formerly a mission worker In the neglected districts of Chicago. He was born in Pennsylvania Feb. 2. 1852, and came to Illinois in 1859. His father was David Allen Harris, an officer ol the Merrill horse, which served with distinction in the civil war. Rev. Mr. Harris began life as a wood machinist ne became a salesman for a Chicago house, then entered evangelical mis sion work and spent four years among the poor. He was ordained in 188u. He located in Dwight in 1900. He is chaplain of the Sons of Veterans ot Illinois and belongs to several fratern al orders. His sympathies have al ways been with the labor unions and the poor. He says: "I believe in Christianity, but not in churchlanlty.” The Connecticut Election. The result of the vote In the consti tutional amendment election in Con necticut last Monday is the adoption of two amendments, which are now a part of the organic law—namely: the election of state officers by a plurality vote and the enlargement of the state senate. The first of these reforms was carried by a majority of over 20,000 and the second by over 35,000. The main feature of interest, how ever, was the vote upon the proposi tion to call a constitutional convention for the purpose of securing reform in representation and doing away with the anomaly of a little town or village having the same power in the legisla ture as a city. The sectional character of constitutional reform is illustrated in the returns of the election. Of the city registered vote only 35 per cent was polled and in the country towns 83 per cent, but the urban vote was substantially solid for the convention, as well as the vote of the larger fac tory towns. The seventeen cities of thu state gave 30,024 majority ior the convention and the rest of the state 8,887 against it. Of the 168 towns for ty voted for it. TREE PLANTING IN NEBRASKA W. L Hall of WMhliiKt»n (Jl?ei §om« Sn?£*'*tions on th#» Nabject. OMAHA, Oct. 21.—William L. Hall, assistant superintendent of tree plant ing, division of forestry, has made ex tensive investigation in Nebraska rel ative to tree planting. He says there is no question but what the soil and climate are favorable for a certain amount of forest planting. To what extent, however, is in a measure a matter of experiment. He has in course of preparation a report to the department, making special recom mendations both as to extent of plant ing and methods. He also says there can be no system applicable for the prairie district for general operations. While there is a great interest man ifested in forestry, yet there appears to be a very meager acquaintance w-ith the subject of tree planting on an extended scale, Mr. Hall says. Many trees have been planted more as a "wind brcaa” than for timber cul ture. Mr. Hall found a number of catalpa plantations which have shown a thrifty growth, but show- a lack of maximum grow-th, owing to lack of management or attention. The ca talpa is an especial favorite with Mr. Hall. He believes that it does best on Nebraska soil, which is porous. Its durability has been overestimated by some, but its value for various pur poses has been fully appreciated by the general public. It is a rapid grower, of good form, lightness and possesses great strength and elasticity. It requires from eight to twelve years to mature sufficiently for use. In speaking of the species and sec tions for profitable tree planting. Mr. Hall said that the catalpa and red cedar grow readily along the Platte river; the Russian mulberry in Cen tral Nebraska, the black walnut in the eastern part of the state, while the bur oak thrives best in the valleys of the Niobrara and Missouri rivers; the green and white ash does w-ell in Northern Nebraska. There are many other trees valuable for planting, such as the elm, poplar, maple and willow, but in a system of forest operations instituted solely for profit and carried on under competition, such trees are not to be considered. WATER R OUTS ON PLATTE State Board of Irrigation Heart Argu ment In Gothoi burg rat**. LINCOLN, Oct. 21.—The state board of irrigation and Engineer Dobson lis tened to testimony and argument in the case of the Farmers' and Mer chants' Irrigation company. The Gothenburg company asserts that it has a prior right to water in the Platte river and was sustained in this position a year ago by Engineer Wil son. It owns and operates one long canal, of which one-half was con struced after the original water right was taken out. The water right grant ed by the board authorized the Goth enburg company to appropriate 200 cubic feet of water per second and it is now claimed that there is no law to prevent the company from turning the water so appropriated into the new section of the canal. The board took the case under advisement and will render a decision within the next few days. The Farmers' and Merchants’ Irriga tion works and property are valued at not less than $175,000, while the works and property of the other company are said to be worth approx imately $300,000. The former is cap italized for $3,000,000. Land LcbmIdk Tour* LINCOLN, Oct. 21.—Land Commis sioned Follmer has planned to make a land leasing tour through northern Nebraska, beginning at O'Neill in Holt county on November 18. Subsequent auctions will be held as follows: Bas sett, November 19; Ainsworth, No vember 28; Chadron, November 29; Harrison and Alliance, November 30, and Gering, November 31. Cowboy Carnival at Hyaonla. LINCOLN, Oct. 18.—Governor Sav age and several state officials will go to Hyannis this week to attend the cowboy carnival at that place. The program includes an exhibition by Captain Hardy, a shooting tournament and several other events. Woman SuffragUt* Active. BLAIR, Neb., Oct. 21.—The local or ganization of woman suffragists are making big preparations for the com ing conference of the woman suffrag ists. Aipcn Tunnel li Opened, EVANSTON, Wyo„ Oct. 21.—Th5 great^Aspen tunnel through Piedmont hill, east of here, was turned over to President Burt of the Union Pacific by Contra^rs Kilpatrick Bros. & Col lins TuesdaT. The first train passed through the big bore Monday, being a work train. The first passenger train to pass through the big hole in the mountains was the one in which the president and other high officials of the Union Pacific were passengers. STATE’S DIVORCE LAWS , Ki.-Senator Allen Ultta HU Opinion Re I>r