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THE CANAL TODAY.
When Theodore Roosevelt, as pres
ident, made his visit to the canal, one
of the decorations to rejoice his heart
and reveal the spirit of the men on the
job, was a crudely painted banner,
flying from a giant 103 ton steam
shovel in the Culebra cut, inscribed:
"We will do our best to help you
build the canal."
And such is the spirit today under
the leadership of Lieutenant Colonel
George W. Goethals. First and last,
I have known intimately a goodly
number of big construction camps, but
never have I witnessed esprit de corps
such as I beheld on my recent visit to
the isthmus; that, indeed, and cleanli
ness were the two things most to im
press men. Every man on the canal
seems to regard the job as his own;
and that it could not go on without
him; that the success of the prodigious
undertaking depends on him. I was
surprised as well by the individual
manifest pride in what already has
been accomplished as by a general
ambition to "make the dirt fly," so to
say. Everywhere, on all sections of
the work, I found this spirit in evi
dence. The shovel gangs vie with one an
other as to which shall head the list
(for moving the most cubic yards) in
the "Canal Record" an extremely
informing and entertaining weekly
which our old editorial friend, Joseph
Bucklin Bishop, includes among his
multitudinous labors as secretary to
the commission. Steam shovel and
concrete mixing-laying records are
made one week only to be surpassed in
the week following. Canal records
have become, in fact, world's records.
For example, one day last February,
2,869 cubic yards of concrete were
mixed and set in a single day beat
ing the world's record of 1 ,700 yards
very likely the canal hustlers have put
up new figures since my visit Casper
Whitney in Collier's.
MORE CHEER FOR DEMOCRATS.
It is much to be feared that the
views of the Nebraska democrats on
county option have less interest for the
rest of the country than their view of
Mr.. Bryan. With all the experi
menting we are having with the liquor
problem, all over the country, it dies
not seem transcendently important
that any particular state should be
trying any particular one of them.
That the Nebraskans simply will not
have the county option arrangement is
nevertheless interesting; for it may
indicate a trend of opinion in that part
of the country to the effect that it is
best to have prohibition only in those
communities which want it, and in
which, therefore, it is likely to lie
reasonably well enforced or, in other
words, that the only desirable kind of
prohibition is the kind that will really
prohibit
But that Mr. Bryan fully committed
himself to county option, and under
took to commit his party to it, and
that the party repudiated both the
policy and Mr. Bryan's leadership
unmistakably, overwhelmingly, and
with quite as much emphasis of rejec
tion on the man as on the policy this
was something that the whole country
sat up to take notice of. We have no
desire at present to say unpleasant
things about Mr. Bryan. Our im
pulse is never to hit anybody who is
down, whether temporarily or perman
ently. But from the beginning of the
movement to revitalize and regenerate
the democratic party it has been clear
that Mr. Bryan's influence and his
ambition, taken with his past record
and his habitual flightiness, constituted
the chief obstacle. As he showed no
disposition toward conciliation and
compromise with democrats of a differ
ent way of thinking, but kept an auto
cratic, rale or rain attitude, it became
clear also that the only effective way
to deal with him would be to break
his power and destroy his prestige.
Thia the democrats of his own state
kave taken a long step toward accom
plishing. Harper's Weekly.
A BIG LOSS ON EGGS.
Nebraska is getting a good deal of
unfavorable advertisement in tke east
in connection with the sale of bad
eggs sent from that state to the eastern
market.
A week ago the eastern papers pub
lished accounts of a number of arrests
made in connection with the sale of a
carload of bad eggs shipped from Ne
braska to Philadelphia. Now comes
another story that in Pittsburg the
federal food inspectors are seizing lar
ge quantities of bad eggs from Nebr
aska, some of them labeled "Canned
fancy mixed and frozen, guaranteed
pure a fresh."
United States District Attorney
Jordan of Pittsburg, gives out that
20,000 pounds of these bad frozen eggs
from Nebraska have been shipped in
to Pittsburg recently. The Nebraska
packer, so the inspectors say, candling
his eggs, breaks the bad ones into cans
and jars, seals them up, freezes them
into a solid mass, brands them as above
and ships them to the eastern markets
where they are sold and used in the
restaurants for cooking purposes and
served as "scrambled eggs."
There is a food law in Nebraska in
tended to keep bad eggs out of the
market This law was enforced under
Governor Sheldon's administration
through vigorous prosecution that
stopped the bad eggs business for
awhile. But since the food law is neg
lected under the Shallenberger ad
ministration, the bad egg, along with
a good many other bad practices, has
gone back into business again. Ne
braska produced last year 100,000,000
dozen of eggs. These eggs, grading
low in the eastern market on account
of their uncertainty as to quality, sold
at an average of 5 cents a dozen less
than the market price for good eggs.
This mixing of bad eggs with good is a
fraud that ought not to be tolerated
in any state, especially where there are
food laws, food commissioners and
food inspectors who are paid by the
public to attend to just such things as
this bad egg nuisance.
When a food commissioner adver
tises by his inactivity that he has no
respect for the law and no interest in
its enforcement, instantly a thousand
little money making tricks get into
activity. These all cost the honett
man money. A few energetic prose
cutions in each county in the state
every year would keep the law adver
tised and in effect The producers
cannot afford to have their products
unfavorably advertised and sold in
the eastern market on account of law
lessness that the food law is intended
to restrain.
The Nebraska egg crop last year is
reported to have been worth $18,000,-
000. It would have been worth
$5,000,000 more than that if the law
had been enforced and the output kept
up to the proper standard Souix City
Tribune.
TRADE AND EXTRAVAGANCE.
The theory that the high cost of liv
ing is largely .to our extravagance
seems to be borne out, in part at least,
by the trade balance figures for the
fiscal year ending June 30. We were
extravagant enough, in fact, to im
port $1,557,854,854 worth of com
modities, or more than we had ever
bought from foreign countries before.
Besides this, our extravagance also re
sulted in our making the prices of our
domestic products so high that the to
tal value of our exports were only
$1,744,966,203, giving us a "favorable
balance of trade" of $187,111,349,
which is the smallest we have ever
had. Indeed, for five months of the
year the balance of trade was against
us, and possibly the balance for the
whole year would have been against
us if there had not been a recession in
prices.
When we compare this lowest bal
ance of trade of $187,111,349 with the
record figures for the year ending
June 30, 1908, which was $666,431,
554, this statement becomes more im
pressive; especially when it is recalled
that three-quarters of that year was
under the panic influences of the fall
of 1907, and the prices which gave
this total were comparatively low.
Even comparison with the ten-year
average, which is $493,399,825, shows
that we have permitted ourselves to
fall far short of our possibilities as a
producing nation.
Now, if we are to retain our pros
perity as a country we must restrain
our extravagance as a people. In
other words, we must get our prices
back to a point where we shall not be
the best nation to sell to and the poot
est to buy from in the world. The
policy of recent years, for the most
part, has been the maintenance of
prices at any cost and we are begin
ning to realize that the cost has been
so dear. For instance 'whenever de
mand has failed to keep up with sup
ply there has been curtailment of sup
ply in order to maintain the price in
stead of reduction of price in
order to maintain the demand. One
result of this has been that more and
more people have been doing without
more and more luxuries and conven
iences, aad reducing their consumption
of necessities to the lowest possible
limit or confining it to the cheapest
grades. Another result has been the
lessening of foreign demand for our
products. And the combined effect of
these has been, on the one hand, a
check in industrial development, and
on the other which is just now de
veloping idlemachinery; notably in
the manufacture of cottons and woo
lens. Indianapolis News.
SOURCE OF TYPHOID.
'A mystery in the spread of typhoid
fever which had puzzled Rochester,
N. Y., physicians for some time was
solved recently. It was found that
seveml persons had been taken down
mysteriously with the disease and its
source could not be traced. The cases,
while rather numerous, were scattered
about the city. There seemed to be
no foci from which the thing had
spread. Water, milk, flies, and all
the other common media for the trans
mitting of the disease were eliminated
by the medical men, and the source
still remained hidden.
By a comparison of notes, it was
found that in each case the patient
had visited a waterfall in the neigh
borhood of Rochester a short time be
fore contracting the disease. With
this as a clue, the physicians proceed
ed to the waterfall and collected sam
ples of the water from the spray. It
was found to be infected strongly with
typhoid germs. The physicians con
cluded that their patients had inhaled
the spray upon their sight seeing visits
and had in that way contracted the
disease. The stream had been prac
tically an open sewer, or at any rate
was strongly polluted by Rochester
sewage.
It is another instance of the insidi
ous manner in which infectious dis
eases spread. When the high dam is
completed in the Mississippi, St Paul
and the southern portion of Minne
apolis will have somewhat similar
problems to face. The lake which
will be formed, it is practically agreed
by engineers and sanitarians, will be
strongly polluted by Minneapolis sew
age. Some of St Paul's sewage will
aim enter. While the flow over the
dam may not throw spray upon a
great many persons, so as to infect
them, the polluted lake will remain a
menace to health, unless Minneapolis
sewage and a portion of the sewage of
St. Paul is. treated and made innocu
ous This is one of the problems
which must be worked out in connec
tion with the high dam, and, in the
light of Rochester's experience with
sources of typhoid infection, it is a
problem of large importance. St
Paul Dispatch.
REACTION vs. PROGRESS.
The ref ublican senator or represen
tative who voted against the Payne
bill voted for reaction far more com
prehensive than the reaction involved
in Senator Foraker's vote against the
Roosevelt bill.
A vote against the Payne bill was a
vote against redemption of the repub
lican pledge to revise the tariff at a
special session to be called immediately
after the inauguration of the new
president
A vote against the Payne bill was a
vote in favor of the Dingley duties
and against the 600 or more reduc
tions in duty on articles comprised in
the new schedules.
A vote against the Payne bill was a
vote against the progressive maximum
and -minimum system whose adoption
by other countries made it imperative
that our tariff system, in order to be
practical, must be brought to the
same basis.
A vote against the Payne bill was a
vote against Philippine free trade, long
urged as a measure of justice to our
Filipino wards as well as a means of
promoting American trade with the
islands.
A vote against the Payne bill was a
vote against the corporation tax.which
has this year brought the treasury
$27,000,000 of new revenue, and which
offers the first practical step alongthe
line of federal regulation of corpo
rations. Finally, a vote against the Payne
bill was a vote against nucleus of a
tariff commission, since expanded into
a workable machine for ascertaining
cost of production at home and abroad
and furnishing more scientific basis
for future tariff revision.
Suppose the politics of the situation
had induced all the so-called progress
ives to support the Payne bill, while a
few wicked old standpatters had
opposed it What a howl of indigna
tion would have gone up from the
progressive camp over these reaction
ary votes!
The alleged progressive who voted
against the Payne bill stultified him
self. The party escaped stultification
only because there were not enough
alleged progressives to defeat the most
progressive tariff bill ever panned.
Sioux City Journal.
CUMMINS' INSULT.
And will Mr. Cummins make him
self president or will he give the job
to LaFolIette of Wisconsin?
The platform of the Iowa republican
convention was as much a joke in one
way as was the Nebraska republican
platform. The Iowa resolutions em
phatically attacked the movement to
read the insurgent senators from that
state out of the republican party, but
before the resolutions were even read
Senator Cummins put forth his utmost
effort to hurl himself out of the patty,
without aid or consent of auhody else
on earth. He delilierately jumped
himself overboard, notwithstanding
the fact that the platform framed by
his followers was to denounce all those
who would for a moment think of
helping to throw him over.
n insulting President Taft, Senator
Cummins insulted the republican
party. President Taft was elected as
the head of this government and as
the head of the party. He was en
dorsed by his predecessor, Theodore
Roosevelt, as the most capable man in
the country for the presidency. In the
one short year of his term, in spite of
such great obstacles as were thrown in
his way by party quarrels kicked up
by Senator Cummins and his. kind,
President Taft succeeded in accom
plishing more big things by way of
constructive legislation than ever be
fore have been accomplished in so
short a time by any president In one
year he practically redeemed every
national republican platform pledge.
And he did it in spite of, instead of by
the co-operation of those self-seeking
insurgents whose efforts are apparently
directed toward the formation of a new
party that will give them the ring
leadership than they are fighting for.
The Iowa platform denounces the
tariff law, in spite of the fact that the
tariff law did bring the promised revi
sion on a very great many necessities
of life, and in spite of the fact that a
tariff board is provided for to go about
the business of further revision in a
scientific way.
Mr. Cummins has been knifing the
administration and the republican
party at every opportunity. And yet
he pretends to be a republican.
As Colonel Lacey of Iowa says, it is
important that Iowa go republican,
but it is vastly more important that
the republican party shall go republi
can. Norfolk News.
COMMERCIALIZING THE FLY.
There passed through New York
recently en route from the West Indies
to Germany thirty-eight large bags of
dried flies. The Germans will feed
them to their chickens.
At Tulsa, Oklahoma, recently, they
had a fly tournament For a week
there was a contest to see who could
kill the most flies.
Put these two events together, the
sport at Tulsa and the profit of the
West Indian fly catchers and of the
German chickens. The conclusion is
unmistakable that the fly problem is
solved. Our American hen may be
too proud a bird to eat flies, but the
German market remains. Combine
sport with profit, even though a small
profit, and but one result can ensue.
Two generations agoour plains were
black with buffalo. Man's love of
sport combined with the price of buf
falo robes provided that today we
should be guarding a few dozen buffalo
with guns to prevent their extinction.
So it has been with ginseng, the prairie
chicken, the passenger pigeon, and the
fish of our streams. So it will be with
the fly.
Where flies formerly hunted us, we
will now hunt flies. Avaunt dull care
and sedentary pains while we don our
hunting coats and off to track the timid
wild fly. Let us hasten, ere legisla
tures forbid pot hunting with these
big traps that try to catch all the "flies
out of doors, or order the game war
dens to arrest all sportsmen with more
than 500 flies in their game bags.
Let the market for flies once estab
lish itself, and the sport of fly hunting
be popular as it deserves, and we shall
be having fly commissioners to plant
flies as the fish commissioner plants
fish. Then flies will be so timid they
will no more bite us than a rabbit.
Let our local health officer turn from
posting "swat the fly" circulars to
promoting the trapping and marketing
of flies. Lincoln Journal.
IN DAYS OF OLD.
"The other day," says a writer in
the August American Magazine, "I
talked politics in a country store with
a vigorous, profane, down-east in
Maine democrat He belonged to
that stern and rock-bound race, one of
whose members when asked if he was
a democrat replied solemnly: 'Boy, I
was a democrat ia Indianny when they
hunted 'em with dogs.' It is hard for
us in this" generation to realize the
hardships encountered by democrats in
strong republican, abolition communi
ties during and after the war. The
tide of-roaance was against them, the
heartofyouth against them. Religion,
education, the facts and finally the
chances of battle were against them.
They had to have much iron in their
souls to stand up as they did. It re
quired the fortitude and constancy of
character of a martyr; also the enjoy
ment of a state of settled disagreement
with their neighbors, which has more
or less to do with political martyrdom.
In some communities the democrat
was placed on a plane with the towu
drunkard. Occasionally he occupied
both difficult and couspicuoiis offices.
He was both town druukard and the
town democrat. I have heard pious
people who wanted to describe & man
aa an atheist, a blasphemer, an outcast
and a gambler, sum it all up iu the
words: 'He is a democrat.' "
NO CONFIDENCE IN INSUR
GENTS. The insurgent movement in the re
publican party is being fostered by
men who are more socialists than re
publicans, and who are to blame for
much of the unsettlement which is
rife in general business the country
over. Their plans for legislation are
destructive and not constructive.
They are demagogic by nature, and
their desire for self advertisment is
apparent Even under demo
cratic administrations, nothing as
bad as some of their pet projects
found its way into congress and their
speeches ring with socialistic propagan
da. The remedy for the situation is
for the country to wipelhese mongiels
out of congress. The insurgent move
ment means death to commercial am
bition and blight to industrial success.
The country at large has no confiden
ce in the insurgent leaders. Stanton
Picket
A QUICK CHANGE.
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Cold Roast.
"Say. Jen," said Katie, the brunette,
with white side combs in ber hair. "I
sec Mamie has bleached ber hair again.
Ain't It terrible?'
"Yes, perfectly awful!" replied Jen
nie. "She asked me if I would do It
If I were she. and I said yes. Donlt
she look perfectly dreadful and it's
getting streaked already. You could
tell in a minute it was bleached, tbe
roots are so dark."
"Sure. 1 noticed that!" responded
Katie. "And. say. did you see tbe rag
of a dress she bad on yesterday? And
It's fit gracious! Looked perfectly
dreadful, didn't it?"
"Perfectly dreadful," echoed Jennie.
"Weil, she wanted a pattern, and I
gave her tbe one of that dark blue silk
I bad three years ago," said Katie.
Tou did?'
Tes. I did."
"Oh."'
"And tbe bat she was wearing." con
tinued Katie. "Did yon get your optics
on that?'
"Yes."
"Perfect sight wasn't Itr
"Where did she get It?"
"Ob, down at tbe Moody's. I helped
her pick It out." was Katie's reply.
"Why. why, here comes Mamie now,"
she continued. "Hello. Mamie, yon
dear, sweet thing! How nice you look
too darling for anything!"
"Yes. Indeed." added Jennie. "Yon
do look perfectly charming. Say, let's
all go and get some soda."
And the three friends walked away
together. New York Times.
PROCRASTINATION.
The Habit f Putting Off Doing th
Jrius Thing of Lif.
Much of the unhappiness and im
providence In life Is caused by early
habits of procrastination habits con
tracted unconsciously perhaps when
character Is in its formative stage and
at the very time when most attention
should be given to the untrained na
ture. It Is so easy to fall into a happy-go-lucky
way of living, so easy to jog
along unconcernedly, doing the things
which suit us best and perhaps which
count for the least and leaving undone
all tbe acts and unspoken all the words
and unexpressed all tbe thoughts and
unused all the advantages which are
really so essential to a better under
standing of ourselves and tbe wonder
ful life being lived about us!
What a bright world of promise ful
filled this would be If responsibility
could only be made half as attractive
as some of tbe minor diversions which
seem to furnish so much pleasure to
their partakers! If the hard places
could be made soft the rocky roads
smooth and difficult undertakings easy,
there would be small need for putting
off from day to day tbe task of fulfill
ing any task whatever. As It Is, with
the certainty that happiness unalloyed
is not within tbe grasp of man and
with the knowledge that sorrow and
trouble must come at some time into
each of our lives. It seems strange
that for all our weak human nature
we cannot learn the lesson that pro
crastination teaches and benefit there
by. A Mistake semtwMn.
"Is It true. Miss Gertie." be said,
"that there are Just two things a wo
man will jump at a conclusion and a
mouse?'
"No," she answered; "there is a
third. Mr. Philip."
After thinking the matter over a
few moments he tremblingly made ber
an offer, but she didn't jump at It.
He was not tbe right man.
Two Mn.
A feeble man can see tbe farms that
are fenced and tilled, tbe houses that
are built Tbe strong man sees tbe
possible bouses and farms. His eye
makes estates as fast as the sun breeds
clouds. Emerson.
High Class.
Teacher What class of birds does
tbe hawk belong to. Tommy? Tommy
Birds of prey. Teacher Now, John
ny, to what class does tbe quail be
long? Johnny Birds on toast. Chlca
co News.
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Th Evr Activ Brain.
Tbe question. "Does tbe brain ever
rest?" would seem to be answerable
only in the negative. Unconscious
cerebration appears to be a necessary
concomitant of the powers of intellect,
and during sleep, whether we remem
ber it or not. we are always dream
ing. Of course, during waking time
we are perpetually thinking, thinking,
thinking not always logically and de
liberately, but nil tbe same, thinking.
Dream is tbe thought of the sleep
time, wben reason is out of the game,
and tbe fancy, or imagination, has tbe
reins, with nothing to hold her back.
We take many a trip under her guid
ance that we are unable to recall wben
she has resigned tbe reins into tbe
hands of reason. Awake or asleep, we
are always busy. The mind never
rests. New York American.
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contiguous diseases." said Mrs. Lnp
slin. "Wlit'ii Johnny bad Rot well of
the measles we lioubt some sulphur
candles and disconcerted tbe bouse
from ton to liottom." Chicago Tribune.
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"So yu ,,refer servants who speak
English ii perfectly';"
"Yes." replied the housewife. "If I
don't understand what they say I am
not obliged to dismiss tbem so fre
quently." Exchange.
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