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Some person mathmetically inclined
has been trying the figures on the pro
posed Rockfeller philanthropy "found
ation"and finds that in 1979 the fund
will heave reached thirty-nine billion
dollars, or equal to all of the present
national debts in the world. None of
this, mind you, to be taxed, and to be
administered by future Rockefeller es
tates. So vast a sum devoted to char
ity and philanthropy could be made to
do a great deal of good in the world,
properly handled, but the perpetuation
of the greatest fortune in the world in
this manner, even under the guise of
philanthropy, is rather rasping to the
sensibilities of the masses ofthe Am
erican people. Kearney Hub.
lu striking contrast to grasshopper
and drougth years, when activities at
"farm moving time" were similarly
conspicuous, are conditions these pal
my days in Nebraska. The March
moving period this year has been un
usually lively along with the farm real
estate transactions, which set au un
precedented high water mark in vol
ume. The shifting about of farmers
this spring has been in a large propor
tion renters who have bought land for
themselves, either in the neighborhood
where they have been residing or else
where, probably in the west, where
prices are lower. This is another
phase of aflkirs that challenges atten
tion to the prosperity of the country
people and the profit of their returns
for labor expended in this rich section
of the country. It is not to farm and
fall in central Nebraska. It is to farm
and buy farms with the profits aud
become independent. Truly there
seems no quicker, surer path to wealth
for the industrious young man with
moderate education than down the
rows between the stalks that yield the
golden ears. Fremont Tribune. "'
Gossip among the personal friends
of President Roosevelt in New York
has it that he is by no means a rich
man. He is supposed to have spent
his entire salary while in the white
house, and has nothing left but his
personal fortune, which yields about
$8,000 a year. This would be enough
for a quiet life, but it is likely to be
added to very largely during the next
two or three years by the returns from
his literary labors. The manuscript
of his African story is expected to
bring in not less than a quarter of a
million dollars. It is not believed
that Mr. Roosevelt went to Africa for
auy such purj nse, but the journey did
give him au opportunity to reap a
large financial reward from his vogue.
He went away, very wisely as avents
have proven, to escape embarrassing
his friend who succeeded him in the
president's chair. Also because he
was eager for big game hunting. No
body will be sorry if in addition to ac
complishing both of these purposes he
coins enough money out of the trip to
make him independent of all financial
worries during the remainder of his
life. State Journal.
If old Joe Cannon is dishonest, or
unfair, why did not the members of
the house of representatives turn him
out last week? They had the power
to take him oft the committee on rules,
and did it, but they permitted him to
remain as speaker. The fact that old
Joe was not deposed as speaker con
vinces us that the row is purely politi
cal, and intended to advertise the
insurgents and democrats. The insur
gents and democrats do not want
Cannon deposed as speaker; they want
him to remain, in order that they may
have something to fuss about. A new
man named Hubbard, or Hurlbut, or
something of that kind, from Nebras
ka, is now said to be a "new national
figure," because of his activity in bad
gering the speaker. That's what all
the members are working for: notor
iety. The insurgents and democrats
stirred up a row, and made it so hot
4hat they had the votes to remove the
speaker. If the speaker is the man the
democrats and insurgents say he is, it
is disgraceful that he was not'removed,
when opportunity offered. We have
no special interest in the regulars, or
in the insurgents, or in old Joe Cannon,
but it seems to us that the proceedings
in the house last week were silly, and
had no other purpose than to advertise
a lot of men who cannot progress
politically in a legitimate way. Atch
ison Globe.
THE COST OF CRIME.
Hugh C. Weir in "The World To
day," calls attention to the fact that
the United States is the wont crime
ridden country on the face of the globe.
He says: "Ten thousand persons are
murdered in this country every year
shot, strangled, poisoned, stabbed or
beaten with a club or a sand bag. Of
the murderers, two in every hundred
are punished. The remaining ninety
eight escape absolutely free! In
many of our states, the proportion of
convictions is only half aa great In
Georgia, for instance, only one mur
derer in every hundred is punished.
In a recent census of American crime,
digesting the nation as a whole, the
statement was made that in only 1.3
per cent of our homicides do we secure
a convictiou. Chicago averages 118
murders in a year. In the same space
of time, Paris records only fifteen
murders and attempted murders.
London, four times the size of Chicago,
has only twenty murders. In the
course of twelve months, Georgia a
typical example of the average Ameri
can state records forty-five homicides
more than the whole of the British
empire! More people are murdered
in this country in a year than are
killed on the railroads. In three
years, the victims of our murder cases
total more than the losses of the Brit
ish army in the Boer war. This is the
land of the free and the home of the
brave. This is the country that first
proclaimed liberty to men, that rose
against the tyranny of kings and insti
tuted a government by and of and for
the people. On occasions of patriotic
addresses, we are fond of referring to
our nation as the model republic of the
world. In 1861, we went to war in
order to set the black man in our bor
ders free from the ownership of the
white man. In 1898, we went to war
again in order to set the black man on
an island outside our borders free from
the tyranny of white men across an
ocean. We have said to ourselves, and
to the world, that this country shall
represent man's goal of all that is
good and great in government, that it
shall be the champion of freedom and
justice, whether for the individual or
the many, and, in proof of all this, a
sculptor fashions a wonderful statue of
liberty, which we set at the mouth of
our principal harbor as a beacon to the
stranger. And now we discover that
when our poets and our orators and
our artists have finished telling of our
greatness and our glory, we have fos
tered wickedness and lawlessness as
has no other nation in the world; that,
behind our boasted institutions of gov
ernment, the thug and the thief and
the assassin are operating with a vigor
and a freedom duplicated nowhere else
in civilization. And our crime and
wickedness are steadily increasing.
There are four and a half times as
many murders for every million of our
population today as there were twenty
years ago. The significant fact about
it all is that the rest of the world does
not share these statistics. Our increas
ed wickedness is confined to our own
borders. In the march of civilization,
as applied to the protection of public
life and public property, we have fallen
woefully behind. We may lead the
globe in many things. We assuredly
lead it in crime. In ninety-five per
cent of the homicides of Germany, the
guilty person is brought to justice. In
Spain, the number of convictions is
eighty-five per cent of the total num
ber of crimes. In France, it is sixty
one per cent; in Italy, seventy-seven
per cent; in England, fifty per cent.
Do these facts when offset against
our two convictions in every hundred
murders explain why our lawlessness
is increasing; why we have more homi
cides every year than Italy, Austria,
France, Belgium, England, Ireland,
Scotland, Spain, Hungary, Holland
and Germany combined. These are
not theories. They are facts. These
are not the haphazard claims of fancy.
They are the tested, proved figures of
record, open to all who will search
to you as well as to me. What is
wrong? What is the reason for our
murders, which do not heed even the
cover of darkness? Why are we so
much more wicked than our neighbors?
why do other countries punish the
evildoer and we do not? Why are
those governments, which we have
been accustomed to view with scorn
and contempt, able to protect their
citizens and homes, while our govern
ment is not? But let me emphasize
the cost of our crime from the selfish
standpoint of the dollar. The golden
yield of wheat for the year 1908
brought the American nation a total
of $735,000,000. The production of
coal for this same period waa $350,
000,000. Two sets of figures two
widely varying harvests of the soil.
Together they will pass the billion
dollar mark by a margin of eighty-five
millions. In this same year of grace,
American wool, the shearings of the
millions of sheep at the four points of
the compass, brought to the pockets of
the American people $298,000,000.
Before us, we now have three columns
of figures, and their combined total
gives us the giant's calculation of
$1,373,000,000. This is what crime
costs the American nation each year.
We pause aghast before the $964,
000,000 of our national debt If
American crime could be eliminated
for eight months, the saving to the
country would liquidate this obligation
in full. Our imports of merchandise
for one year are $100,000,000 less than
the cost of our crime. The output of
our gold and silver mines for one year
is equal to only half the cost of our
crime. Lump the market value of all
our horses, our cattle and our sheep,
and the cost of our criminals for one
year would just balance the result
Every hour of the twenty-four,whether
the nation is asleep or awake, our
crime costs us near $100,000. We
spend each year $175,000,000 to main
tain our public schools, that our chil
dren may become good citizens. We
spend $190,000,000 each year to pun
ish those citizens who have failed to
profit by our teachings. Crime costs
us three aud a half millions a day.
Germany convicts nine out of ten
criminals; we convict two out ot every
hundred. The trouble is smart politi
cians and poor policemen."
A CYCLONE OF DEFAMATION.
This country has just passed thro
ugh a cyclone of defamation, vitupera
tion, exposure much of it indecent
We have been in a state of panic
through the policy of burning our
barns to kill the mice.
We are now recovering our sanity.
The commercial jolt we have experi
enced has shown us that when the rail
roads are prosperous buying rails,
extending their lines, building bridges,
warehouses, collecting a better equip
ment we are all prosperous. When
the railroads cease pushing for better
facilities, there is a lull, the bread line
forms, the tramp of the unemployed,
aud the hoarse and ominous roar of
the mob, are heard in the land. In
such times, an extra police force is
needed, and menace liecomes imminent
Individuals at work are safe aud a
nation is only safe when its people are
employed.
Now suppose you raise a cry of
"Stop thief," and turn the powerful re
sources of the government to harassing
enterprise with the endeavor to confis
cate its property, take away its char
acter, destroy its good will, does it not
stand to reason that we thus kill ambi
tion, destroy initiative, smother as
piration, aud get a condition where ex
pansion ceases, orders are cancelled,
men are laid off, and the whole land
suffers? Happily, however, we are
now gettiugour nerves back to normal
and sanity will soon take the place of
hysteria.
We do busiuess now according to
Marquis of Queensbury rules, when
formerly London rules governed the
contest Our fight is with six-ounce
gloves. Horse shoes and railroad
spikes are barred. There was a time
when we fought with bared knuckles.
But business is not yet a ladies lunch;
a snare and inuocuous, harmless, tab
by Four-o'clock. It is a struggle for
supremacy. And it is a fight to a fin
ish. And it is just as full of romance
as were the knightly courts of old.
Money is the measure of power, hut
money for its own sake is not worth
the struggle. Modern millionaires do
not hoard; they invest And they in
vest that they may use. The success
ful man now always has the builder's
itch he is always and forever widen
ing, extending, building, improving,
and it is all the line of human service,
human betterment The exploit so
ciety is to fail, and wise, successful
men know it.
Nothing is more silly and absurb
than the idea that the men who have
built up the great modern American
fortunes are intent on ease and luxury.
As a class they are men of obstemious
habits; simple, rapid and direct in their
dealings. They work sixteen hours
a day. They are in the game, and
they can't get out of it if they would.
Their millions are invested in a way
that makes use an imperative necessity.
To liquidate would be red ruin.
"They say I am rich," once said James
J. Hill to me, "and the yellows roll off
the number of my millions. The fact
is, I owe mure money than all the men
in Minnesota. To make my invest
ments profitable, and to keep them
from fadiug away, I am obliged eter
nally to struggle in keeping them ac
tive." One inyestment calls for an
other to protect it; so Mr. Hill is ever
building, ever extending. This eter
nal unrest of business means national
prosperity.
The habit of certain newspapers of
trying to inspire class hatred by pic
turing the great baaiawr builder as a
parasite, living on the labor of the pro
letariat, is an insult to the intelligence
of the age. Should our government
begin to confiscate private property in
the name of the law, that instant will
enterprise grow old, and senility prate
of the past, but this is not to be. We
are beginning to realize that business
is built on confidence; that when we
destroy faith in our commercial fabric,
we are actually taking the roofs from
our homes, snatching food from our
children, and pushing bodies naked
out into the storm. Business means
homes, gardens, books, parks, music,
goods, schools, safety, peace and pros
perity, and of these things the world
has not yet seen a piethora. Shall we
blast, wither and destroy with the
breathe of our mouths all that civiliza
tion holds dear? I think not. We
can direct and regulate, but we will do
it in justice and not in blindness and
wrath, lest we welcome the angels of
peace with bloody hands to hospitable
graves, and we otherwise'go down in
the sunken roadway, horse and rider,
pursuer and pursued. Elbert Hub
bard. GRANT'S FIRST LESSON FOR
THE ARMY OF THE POTO
MAC. "History tells fully of the manner in
which President Lincoln and father
met for the first time, when father went
to Washington to be commissioned by
the president the commanding general
of the Union Army," said Gen. Fred
D. Grant to me recently, "but it does
n't tell of the initial purpose that fath
er had in mind as regards the Army of
the Potomac when he went East.
"You known, father was never East
from the time he entered the Union
Army as a colonel of an Illinois regi
ment until after theChickamaugaand
Chattanooga campaigns, in the fall of
1863. Buthehad studied pretty close
ly the movements and characteristics
of the Army of the Potomac in its three
great campaigns up to that time, and
he had pretty well made up his mind,
even before he knew that he was to
command the Union armies, as to what
was the matter with the army that pro
tected Washington.
"After it had become known that
father was to be lieutenant general,
and that he would take personal com
mand of the Army of the Potomac, a
great many persons with whom he was
acquainted, and some with whom he
was intimate, said to him at one time
or another before he started East:
'Gen. Grant, what are you going to do
with the Army of the Potomac?
What kind of a campaign against Gen.
Lee are you going to make? Have
you formed any plans whatever for
offensive operations?
"Of course, none of these questions
father would answer. But I have al
ways thought that he at least became
convinced that it would be a good plan
to tell some of his friends in a general
way what he would do immediately
after he had assumed command of the
Army of the Potomac. So it happen
ed one day that when a friend said to
him: 'Gen. Grant, what are you going
to do after you begin operations in the
East?' he replied: "The first thing I
shall try to do will be to teach the
Army of the Potomac not to be fright
ened out of its wits at every mention
of Bobby Lee's men.'
"Again, when another friend would
ask father a similar question he would
reply: 'I am going to train the Army
of the Potomac so that in will conquer
its fear of Bobby Lee.' And yet again,
when some one else had put the same
question to him, his answer would be:
The first enemy that we have to con
quer is the fear that takes hold of the
Army of the Potomac whenever Gen.
Lee's name is mentioned.'
Now, father said this is no dispar
agement whatever of Gen. Lee. He
had the highest admiration of Lee's
qualities as a soldier and of the purity
of his character. But he had become
satisfied from his study of the career of
the Army of the Potomac that an un
reasonable fear had seized it, due to
the very high repute of Gen. Lee as a
soldier. In addition, he believed that
the Army of the Potomac had no more
reason to fear Gen. Lee than the arm
ies of the West had reason to stand in
dread of the great commanders who
led the Confederate forces in that sec
tion of the country; so that before he
had left the West to become lieuten
ant general his initial plan for the
Army of the Potomac was to teach it
no longer to fear Bobby Lee. And
you will observe that father never told
any one what his plan of operation for
that army was until after he bad
taught it not to shiver every time the
name of the great Confederate com
mander was mentioned in its presen
ce." E. J. Edwards.
First and Last Words.
Wby do we pay so much attention
to the Iaot words of great men?
"Possibly because tbelr first words
are all alike. Washington Herald.
One makes one's own happiness
only by taking care of the bappini
of others. Saint-Pierre.
ANOTHER REFORMER CAUGHT.
Herkimer, New York, dispatch:
Following a confeaaioa that he had
rained Mia Abby Haynen, one of the
moat popular and attractive young
women in his congregation, the Rev.
S. Robinson, pastor of the First Meth
odist church of this village, has been
suspended by the church board.
The story of his downfall has been
a great shock to the residents of this
place, where both the pastor and his
unhappy victim have heretofore been
held in highest esteem. Because of
the bitter public sentiment against
him and threats that have been openly
made, the deposed preacher has been
cautioned not to appear in the public
streets, and to get out of town quietly
before he is ridden out on a rail.
It was an anonymous letter that first
warned Mr. Haynes, father of the girl,
that all was not well. While the let
ter has not been directly traced, it is
generally believed that it came from
some one connected with the liquor
interests. Aa head of the Anti Liquor
league, Robinson has been making a
bitter fight for "no license" in Herki
mer, and the saloon keepers have been
keeping close tab on him. This, it is
believed, is primarily responsible for
his exposure. At any rate, Abbie's
father began to watch after receiving
the letter and seon had evidence that,
while notconclusive,made him morally
certain of the preacher's guilt. He
accused his daughter and she finally
broke down and told all.
THE AMERICAN ACCENT.
An English Writer Frees His Mind ar
the Subject.
"The Americau accent," writes a
contemporary correspondent, "is far
less Irritating than the cockney dia
lect, and It would be well for us if the
former, which is at least musical,
could be substituted for the cacopbo
pous patois of our east end."
As a matter of fact, we think that
the cockney accent has a certain num
ber of real admirers, but what we
wish to call to our readers' minds par
ticularly Is that America bas Its cock
ney, so to speak, precisely as we have.
People in Kentucky have a rather
burrlsh way of speaking, and they
loathe and detest the fruity twang
which overwhelms New England. The
westerner, again. Is responsible for the
dialect which was supplied on the
English boards by stage Yankees.
Whether you acquire the American
accent or not depends on the length of
time you remain In America. English
men who stay in New York for pro
tracted periods preserve their native
cadences intact. It is the man wbo
pays a flying visit to Che United States
wbo comes back and always says
"nop" for "no" and "yep" for "yes."
Once we met a man who bad re
turned from a week's stay in Boston.
He said he bad beard it was easy to
acquire the twang and finally exclaim
ed, "Waal, stranger, I guess It may be
dead easy for some, but not for Blank
Z. Asterisk," meaning himself. "Now,
what's your opinion? Am I right?"
London Globe.
THE VORACIOUS TUNAS.
What Happens When They Meet a
School of Flying Fish.
One time at San Clemente we sight
ed a feeding school of tuna, an exhil
arating sight. A flyiug fish weighing
a pound and a half or more would
start from the water and soar au ex
traordinary distance, nearly out or
sight; but every inch of that (light 1
knew was covered by a big tuna keep
ing bis place just beneath the tiler aud
ready to seize it the moment it fell
into the water. This rarely failed.
The moment the fish begun to drop
the tuna would spring at It like n
tiger, turnlug and tossing the spume
Into the air with a splendid and elec
trifying rush, a maneuver that was
repeated ail over the blue channel.
The sensational charge meant that a
school of tunas bad discovered a school
of its natural prey, flying fishes. At
once the lust for blood aud food was
on, and carnage was the result.
I have observed some curious scenes
at sea, but never have I seen fear so
forcibly expressed as by a school of
flyiug fishes, exhausted aud at the
mercy of the voracious tunas. 1 have
had them gather about my boat and
cliug to Its keel as closely as they
could, while the air was full of leap
ing tunas and soaring fish. At such
times when a school of sardines is
rounded up the fishes ure so terrified
that men have rowed up to them and
scooped them In by the paiirul. Out
lug. Curious Optical Properties.
Asterlsm is the beautiful name given
to a curious optical property of cer
tain minerals. They show a star
shaped figure where light is reflected
from them or transmitted through
them. This Is seen In the star stone,
which Is a sort of sapphire, and In
the star ruby. There Is asterlsm also
In mica. The photograph of a lamp
flame taken through a plate of mica
shows a six rayed star, with six faint
er radiations between. Outwardly
star mica resembles the ordinary form
and shows the same phenomena under
polarized light When examined un
der the microscope, however, the star
mica Is found to contain fine needles
of another mineral. And these are
regularly arranged at angles of 120
degrees. To these needles Is due the
star seen by transmitted light. Chica
go Tribune.
A Tip He Wanted.
Artist (to burglar, wbo is making
away with pointings) Er-by the
way. If you should manage to dispose
f them would you miud sending me
your customer's address? Life.
Had Shown Good Sense.
Hewitt That rich old fool wouldn't
let me marry bis daughter. Jewett
Well, be may be rich and old, bat he's
no fooL-New York Times.
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A POOR JUMP.
It Came Near Being the Death of Isa
bey, the Painter.
Napoleon Bonaparte, as Is well
known, was in the habit of walking
with his arms crossed upon his chest
and his head slightly bent forward.
Isabey. the painter, was at Malmal
son, and be and some of the first con
sul's alds-de-camp were having a game
of leapfrog on the lawn. Isabey bad
already jumped over the heads of
most of them when at the turning of
a path he espied the last player, who.
In the requisite position, seemed to be
waiting for the ordeal. Isabey pur
sued his course without looking, but
took his flight so badly as only to
reach the other's shoulders, and both
rolled over and over In the sand.
To Isabey's consternation, bis sup
posed fellow player turned out to be
Bonaparte, wbo got up, foaming at the
mouth with anger, and, drawing his
sword, pounced upon the unfortunate
artist Isabey, luckily for himself, bet
ter at running than at leaping, took to
his heels and, jumping the ditches di
viding the property from the highroad,
got over the wall and never stopped
until, breathless, he reached the gates
of the Tuilerles.
Isabey, it was added, went Immedi
ately to Mme. Bonaparte's apartments.
and she. after having laughed at the
mishap, advised him to lie low for a
little while, v
Conscious During a Fall.
Every time a workmau falls from a
forty story building there are people
to say. "Well, he probably didn't feel
It when he struck." There Is little or
no basis for this belief that a person
Is dead or unconscious at the end of a
long fall. Our surviving jumpers from
Brooklyn bridge prove this, and that
a person retains consciousness Is
shown by the case of the English boy
who fell down a pit some 250 feet deep
and shouted "Below!" three times on
the way down. One theory Is that a
person "falling would not be able to
breathe, but a train at sixty miles an
hour is moving raster than one would
move in falling a hundred or so feet,
and no one pretends that one would
die of suffocation if he put his head
cii the train window. Exchange.
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BLAKE'S VISIONS.
The Curious Hallucinations of the
Poet-Painter.
William Blake, the contemporary or
Charles Lamb, was a man of visions.
Blake dined with prophets ami held
converse with archangels. A friend
of Blake tilled on the poet-painter
"and found him sitting, pem-il in
hand, drawing a portrait with all
the seeming anxiety of a man who is
conscious of having a fastidious sitter.
He looked and drew ami drew and
looked, yet no living soul was visible.
'Disturb me not' said Blake in a
whisper. I have some one sitting to
me. 'Sitting to you!' exclaimed the
astonished visitor. 'Where is he? 1
see no one 'But I see him.' answered
Blake haughtily. Then he is. His
name Is Lot You may read of him In
the Scriptures He is sitting for his
portrait.' "
Blake's hallucinations, however, rare
ly took a malignant form. One of his
most beautiful visitors was of a fairy
funeral. "1 was walking alone in my
garden," he said. "There was a great
stillness among the branches and flow
ers and more than common sweetness
In the air. I heard a low and pleasant
sound and knew not whence it came.
"At last I saw the broad leaf or a
flower move, and underneath 1 saw a
procession of creatures of the size and
color of green and gray grasshoppers,
bearing a body laid out on a rose leaf,
which they buried with songs and then
disappeared. It was a fairy's funeral."
Chicago News.
The Work of Time.
"And to think." sighed the man who
.was trying to find a belt which was
long enough to be buckled around
him. "that the boys at school used to
call me Skinny!" Chicago Record
Herald." He Gave It
The Girl (rather weary, at ll:oi
p. m.) I don't know a thing about
baseball. The Beau Let me explain
It to you. The Girl Very well; give
me an Illustration of a home run.
Life.
Simplicity is, of all things, the hard
est to be copied. Steele.
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