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TIIE OMAHA" DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, AUGUST lf 1903, 6 TltE OMAHA DAILY BEE. E. ROBE WATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERT MORNING. " TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, fally Bee (without Sunday), one fear. .$400 llly Bee and Sunday, on yar 600 Illustrated Ree, on year IW Sunday Ben, on year JW Saturday Bee, one year 1.50 Twentieth Century Farmer, one year.. 1 (W DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Pally Bee (without Sunday), per copy.. Jo tatly Bee (without Sunday), per week.,12o elly Bee (Including Sunday, per week.. 17c Evening Bee (without Hunday), per week 7o Evening Bee (including Sunday), per week ...J 12c Sunday Bee, per copy 6c Complaints of Irregularities In delivery should he addressed to City Circulation De partment. - . . OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building-. Rout It Otnaha City iiall Building, Twenty-fifth and M street. C'onnrll Bluffs 10 Pearl street Chicago 1M0 Unity Building. New York 1S09 Home Ufa Insurance Building Washington 601 Fourteenth street. . . CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi torial matter should be addressed:' Omaha Bee. Editorial Department. REMITTANCES Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to Th Bee Publishing Company. Only t-cent stamps received In payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omntva or eastern exchanges not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, STATEMENT Of CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska. Douglas county, ss. : C C. Rosewater, secretary of The Bre Publishing Company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening and 8un1ay Bee printed during the month of July, 19u6, was as follows: 1.. Sl.fllO 20.300 ro.ioo 17.. IS.. 1.. 20.. M.4JIO 2N.ONO KA.MO Sft.lOO I i. I , sn.rno s,mo T as. oho !....' 80,04)0 11 JW.300 22 S9.070 23 2S.0OO 24 SM.OTO 16 SM.1TO 2 an. too 27 88,130 28 8tt.lo tt a,4oo 10 SW.4JW tl 87,810 , 2S.1B0 ZM.UOO .M0 SA.OOO a.ioo 2A.T10 2,8AO 88.180 10.......... u It u.. ........ H , It u Totals. Mit,8Sn ! unsold copies i 0,815 Net total sales.. Dally average .. , UUi,415 , SIH.-SOS C. C. ROSEWATER, Secretary. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this first day of July, 1906. (Seal) ' . '-. M. B. HUNGATE, ' ' . '-- Notary Publlo. ; WHEX OIT bF' TOWJ. Subscriber leaving- the city tern porarlly ahoald have The Bee nailed to them. Jt Is better this daily letter fom home. Ad dress Trill be changed as often as requested. , The treaties of Guadeloupe Hidalgo and Paris will show Japnu and Russia bow to solve the questions of indemultr tnd transfer of real estate. And to think Unit the nopullsts and prohibitionists should leave It to the so cialists to defend the rights of third political parties In Nebraska. OOTernor Oummins evidently believes In reciprocity, between nations on the tariff, but not In reciprocity between Stutes oh .extradition of criminals. - It begins to look as if the aortgnga held for some time by a distinguished Nebraska n on the position of. ambassa dor to Mexico were about due for fore closure. Let the grain rates go down as low as the ratemakers - are willing to put them just so Omaha does cot get the worst of It, compared with the other grain murkets. Wltn the -Iowa Idea" In control of the reciprocity convention, there prom "toes to be a lively time In the organ iza tlon unless -the "Mea" loses Intensity through, expansion. Now comes the report that thfl Gulf stream has wandered from Its usual course; Here Is one Irregularity which wfll baffle even the power ol a depart mental lnvetrtrrfltloo.. If the grain dealers spent nearly 14,000 giving members of the 1903 Ne braska legislature a good time,, wouder what It cost the railroads for their share of the legislative hospitality. A Russlau writer admits that Japan would probably make better use of the Island of Sakhalin than Russia Is doing, ind this Is doubtless one reason why the ciar objects to parting with. If Henry Watterson says that the real I leaden of America prefer to name con- gressmen rather than to be congress wen. Colonel Watterson ought to know, for he once served as a congressman. With a." rampalgu Inaugurated for a "double-standard" tariff, a number of democrats will discover for the first time that such a policy was the true idea of the founders, Thomas Jefferson and An drew Jackson. i Recalling Nebraska experience, the statement that an institution to be known aa the Capitol National bank is ,;to be established at Topeka should T 'lewed with alarm Vj the residents of the Kansas capital. Florida evidently has not had as much experience with railroad lawyers aa Ne . braska, or the fact that one made sev eral different affidavits a to the value ot railroad property, would not have created much excitement The pretended eleventh hour conver sion of the local-democracy to the direct primary will fool nobody. The local ' democratic machine could have .itab t lUbed direct primary Dominations long 1 ago as the republicans had done, but It ; would bay none of It until it had no l alternative. - , ,. i,; ' ,' The main difference between a street ' ,. and a boulevard In Omaha la that abut tiag property owners have to pay for Improving the street, while the coat of maintaining the boulevard is charged . v against the whole city. That, in lan part, explains the pressure to cba&g to tMnfttreeU Into tautevarda. THE TISAKCIAL SIDE. The Russian government needs money. Evidence ol tins is seen in me fact that an Imperial ukase hns lxea is sued authorizing a new internal loan of $100,000,01)0. Russia can borrow no money abroad while the war Is In prog ress and Is therefore itujpelled to seek it at home. She will pfbably be able to float the new internal loan, but the ability of her people to supply the gov ernment with money ruunt be pretty nearly' exhausted. The war expendi tures are estimated to amount to fl.OiH), 000 a day, so that the new ioan would meet the demand for only a little over three months. What will Russia then do for money If the war should be con tinned T The French bankers some' time ago decided to loan no more money to the Russian government for carrying on the war. The German bankers are under stood to have reached a like decision. It Is needless to say that a Russian war loan could not be negotiated in England or the United States. The representa tive of a great American banking house wan quoted In a dispatch from Ports mouth a few days ago as saying: "Rus sia can obtain In America all the money she wants to make peace, but none to make war. Our position Is the position of the Paris bankers." On the other hand, the Japanese government can bor row in London and New York, without straining her credit, for another three years at the existing rates and she can also get more money at home, ns shown In the fact that .her last domestic loan was largely over-subscribed. AH this It must be presumed Is famil iar to the Russian government and its representatives at Portsmouth. M. Wltte Is understood to have conferred with leading Paris financiers before leaving Europe and It Is highly probable that the financial agent of the Russian government In this country has con sulted with American bankers as to the chances of getting money here In the event of the failure of the peace confer ence. Ip regard to the financial side of the situation, therefore, Russia is mani festly at a decided dlsadvantoge and it Is reasonably assumed that this wiW ex ert ft powerful, perhaps a controlling, Influence In determining the final action of her envoys. To carry on a great war requires money and when a nation finds the money markets of the world closed against It, when on every hand It meets with refusal to support it In carrying on hostilities, and when ' the ability of its own people to give financial assistance Is about exhausted, the time has come to make peace. That is the admonition conveyed in the attitude of the financial world toward Russia and It would seem that power cannot commit so great a mistake as to disregard It. If she shall do so the consequences, there Is every reason to believe, will be far more disas trous than she has already experienced and her humiliation very much greater than If she submitted to the hardest of Japan's demands. THE CVBAN CAMPAiaX. , There is a presidential campaign in Cuba and according to accounts from there it threatens to develop serloos con ditions. Indeed, fear is freely expressed that a revolution may result, bo bitter is the feeling between the liberal and mod erate parties. The candidate of the lib eral party for president Is Jose Miguel Gomes, while the moderates are sup porting President Palma for re-election. Gomez, who is now governor of the province of Vueltas, has taken a de cidedly revolutionary position, threaten ing defiance to even the supreme court of the republic and doing everything possible to arouse partisan passion. A late dispatch describes the situation as serious. The breaking out of a revolution in Cuba at any time would not.be aston ishing. While the people nave been ex ceedingly well behaved since the estab lishment of the republic, showing a bet ter regard for law and order than was generally expected, still partisan feeling runs high and they are easily aroused to violent demonstrations. A Cuban revolution, however, would be short lived, because the United States would undoubtedly interpose before It bad made much progress. One of the Piatt amendments, which are incorporated In the Cuban constitution, binds that re public to admit and at all times recog- nlze the right of the United States to Intervene if necessary to preserve for and in the Island a government able to meet all Its Internal and external obli gations and protect life, property and individual liberty. Under this our gov ernment could aid that of Cuba in put ting down a revolution and undoubtedly would do so. It la therefore not prob able that Gomes and bis followers will go to any such extreme as they now threaten. SLOW PBUOBESS AT PANAMA- The chairman of the Canal commis sion, after a visit to Panama to look Into conditions there, has given out some lotormatlon which is chiefly interesting to the American public in showing that progress on the canal Is slow and that a great deal of preparation Is yet neces ary before much, can be done in the way of construction. He points out that the care of 20,000 employes must have precedence over the actual work of dig glng and bow kug it will take to pro vide this be does not say, but In view of the fact that the somewhat difficult task of preparation has already been going on for a year and a half It will probably require that much more time to complete it. Of course there has In the meanwhile beeu some digging done, but so far aa appears this has not con trtbuted to any Important extent to the actual worn or construction. For the little that has thus far been accomplished there has been expended about $3,000,000 and it Is stated that the first appropriation by congress for canal construction will be exhausted by January next, when work will 'be halted unleaa promptly after its meeting com gross ahau by revolution provide adJl tional funds. This will doubtless be done, but It Is likely that congress will want to know why so much money has leen spent with such unsatisfactory re sults. Chairman Shunts spoke some what optimistically of the great enter prise and expressed the opinion that it could be completed In a shorter time than has leen estimated, but public confidence In such a prediction cannot be very strong when It is known bow little hns been done In the last year and a half. However, there Is promise of Improvement in methods from which better results ore to be expected. EXAM1X1SO THE FRAIKRNALS ' The announcement that the Nebraska Insurance department will undertake an examination of the affairs of the dif ferent fraternal insurance societies whose membership extends through this state suggests several points upon which the public would like elucidation. While no one has charged that there is any great amount of rottenness or corruption, like that uncovered in the Equitable, festering In the fraternals, but that they have become in their small way reckless and extravagant is Indi cated by hiauy signs. It is notorious, for example, that the biggest, the loud est and most active of the lobbies, with the exception of the railroad lobby, that have been besieging our legislatures in successive years is the fraternal insur ance lobby. The officers of the 'fraternal Insur ance societies doubtless have the right to protect the Interests of the members nd It is their duty to take such pre cautionary measures against threaten ing injuries as circumstances require, but whether they are justified in spend ing money belonging to the Insured to promote or Impede legislation that af fects only the management of the so ciety and In which the officers them selves are the only ones concerned, v is open to question. If the use of the funds belonging to the policy holders for greasing the wheels of legislation and buying influ ence of courts through the, subsidizing of influential lawyers Is reprehensible In the old line insurance companies. similar proceedings on the part of fraternals, although In a small way, would likewise call for condemnation. If the insurance department has a right to examine Into and exercise a control over the conduct of the fraternal insur ance business, it surely hns a right to eto the expenditure of money rnised by assessment on the members for the maintenance of a legislative lobby. If such questionable expenditures were rejected and the beneficiaries com pelled to put the money back, wo would see no more of the fraternal Insurance lobby of the sort that has been so much in evidence of late at Lincoln and other state capitals and the membership of the fraternals would be gainers Instead of losers. The position taken by the county at torney at t)es Moines that the Juvenile court law there is a hindrance rather than a help In repressing crime, will !e of interest here also, although our Ne braska juvenile court law has not been in operation long enough to demonstrate anything except that it is a rather costly piece of Judicial machinery. As these laws are substantially alike in all the states that have adopted them, defects that develop in one may be expected also in the others. A reason for the recent wreck at Nor folk, wherein fifty or more people were killed, is that the red flag used by the bridge company bad faded until it looked white. Saving the cost of a 10 cent piece of bunting Is likely to prove an expensive bit of economy when the damage suits are filed. We are glad to note that Judge Tucker of Nebraska and Arizona enters a gen eral denial to the charges that have been brought against him. We Insist, how ever, that he be more specific as to the heinous offense of sitting with his feet on his desk while entertaining visitors. If there is really not enough cash to maintain work on the Panama canal un til the next meeting of congress, people who have expected to see ships passing through the waterway in ten years will be disappointed or the annual appro priation will have to be Increased. Lieutenant Governor McGllton Is again at the helm of the state house in the absence of Governor Mickey. Whtn it comes to practicing up for tio renl thing, Mr. McGllton has the edge on all the . other aspirants for iLernatorlal honors. Manchurlan dispatches would indicate that several Japanese soldiers still wish to win reputations even in the cannon's mouth. But the world prays that the reputations yet to be made out of the war will be along the lines of diplomacy, If the council cannot draw on the city treasury for expense money for delegates to municipal conventions, it Is greatly to be feared that the honor of officially representing Omaha at these meetings will go to a discount. Since they have gone on record against free distribution of seed by the government, seed growers must have discovered a new way of disposing of old stock for which the government has been such a good customer. Opposed to Extra Work. Washington Post. The senators do cot want an extra se slon of the congress. They are going to have all they can do to carry out their chprcformlng program at the regular aea slon. Doctors Want Stow. New Tork Bun. It's the doctor's turn to aak for political recognition. At the convention of the American Medical association at Portland, Ore., a resolution was adopted favoring the creation of another cabinet poat, that of secretary of publlo health. If we are to have In the cabinet a secretary of publlq heailfc tha wax wul b opened for Lh establishment of many other cabinet places, among them, for example. Irrigation, fores try, education, Immigration, railroads. steamboats and as has been proposed fine arts. till lUrroftla Ills SosiL Cincinnati Comerclal Tribune. Mr. Bryan s remark that the gold stand ard must not be considered as Irrevocably fixed In the United States Is an Indication that his very sout Is harrowed by the necessity1 for taking his chautautqua prices In the hated yellow metal. Trylnac to Break la. Chicago Record Herald. It has been necessary to employ extra guards at the New Jersey penitentiary to keep women from flirting with the con victs. It will be safe, however, to con tinue to believe that the world would soon go to the bad If there were no women la it. A lonrinmr Minority. New York Tribune. Those lfil Norwegians who voted against separation from Sweden must feel lonesome as they read the election returns. They still have left a way to make their vote effective, as regards themselves at any rate. The can move across the line Into Sweden. Slleinir Off the Purples. ' Phlladeplhla Press. Half a docen Insurance companies out west have concluded that they, too, will probe the Kqultable. When all the probers get to work the Equitable will have to quit everything else and sit around and look pleasant until the probers have pre sented their bills. That will take a slice off the surpus. t'nlqne Cure tor Divorce. New Tork Herald. . , A strange remedy for the divorce evil Is suggested by a Herald correspondent. He would have the priest or minister who celebrates a marriage require each of .the parties to sign a contract that he or she will never sue for a divorce. To be sure, nobody can thuS)deprlve him self of his statutory rights, but this diffi culty our correspondent would "get round" by having all the states pass laws legalis ing such contracts. . Whether this might noti be almost ss dif ficult a task as to Induce them all to enact uniform divorce laws Is an Interesting question. But suppose It could be done. Where are we to get a race of priests and ministers with the braxen nerve to break In upon a happy bridegroom and blushing bride with a contract about divorce? Rl'KNIxa FOR A FALL. Corporation Defiance Sure to Pro voke Drastic Action. Detroit Free Press. In his Chautauqua address President Roosevelt spoke plainly regarding the law less attitude of certain corporate Interests and took occasion to emphasise the danger to which they are needlessly exposing themselves. Touching upon the obstructive tactics now employed by those seeking to thwart Justice, he declared that such a course must eventually lead to the enact ment of drastlo legislation, which, while it might prove distasteful, would be the nat ural result of the stubborn determination of some of the great combinations striving to prevent, by every device, legal and Ille gal, the enforcement of the law as It stands. Carrying the argument further, he pointed out that many of these men appear to think the alternative Is simply between submitting to the mild formi of govern mental control now prevailing and the abso lute freedom to "do whatever they choose, and added: ' ' 'They are greatly tn error. Either they will have to submit to reasonable super vision and regulation by the national au thorities or else they will ultimately have to submit to governmental action of a far more drastlo type.' ' Socialism tn any form possesses little to commend It to the conservative mind. The prospect of any action leading to conAsca- tlon of the property belonging to those who now defy all attempts at restraining them Is abhorrent. Government ownership of railroads and other quasi-public corpora tions falls to appeal to the one who has given the subject due consideration. In spite of thjs fact, U Is clear that President nooseveit aennea ine situation accurately If present practices are to continue. By their flagrant disregard of the law and their disinclination to accept reasonable regula tion on the part of the government, the very men who would be first to decry socialism are doing more to strengthen that theory than all other forces combined. uraatic action is destined to come as a result of existing conditions, and Instead of seeking to ward off the blow those whose Interests are the greatest appear to be striving to hasten their own downfall. CROPS AND PROSPERITY. Abnndant Harvest Stimulates All Lines of Industry, Baltimore American. Wheat, corn and oats each one of these three cereals promises to be a record breaker this year, according to estimates made from reports - as to the condition from the August crop statistics of the Agricultural Department. The winter wheat crop has been harvested, and the estimate of t24,00O,0UO bushels. If accur ate, brings the yield within 130.0u0.000 bushels of last year's entire crop. From the high average condition reported, the spring wheat yield may easily pass 330, 000,000 bushels, and If so the wheat crop tor 1905 will make a new -high record. The corn crop, from : the present prospects, may reach 2,700,000,000 bushels, and the oat crop may soore a round billion of bushels. Taken altogether, the prospects undoubtedly are that this will be the most phenomenally abutuiant of all crop years which the United States has ever known. Or eat crops of wheat, corn aad oats meaa that there wlU be unusually large surpluses to sell abroad, and this means Increasing activity during the next U months for the railroads and the steam ship lines. In Kansas, Nebraska and Mis souri, and In Southern Illinois and Southern Indiana, the wheat and corn crops are both phenomenally large this year, and this vast middle-west territory Is closer to Baltimore by rail than to any other At lantic port. Nothing but an unfairly bal anced differential can rob this port of transportation advantages which natur ally belong here. The eastward . move ment of wheat should begin shortly, and the overland freightage of oats and corn follow In due order. The Seabord lines connecting with the Interior will probably need the full complement of new rolling stock which has been added to their equipment during the past twelve month's, for the moving of the 1906 crops. Even the prospect of abundant harvests sends hope and courage throbbing through all forma of multiplied industries. Not the railroads and the steamships alone will be affected by the great crops, but the manufacturing Industries in ail divis ions mud specialisations will take on an added impulse. The country merchant will enlarge his stocks, and the wholesale merchant, will widen the sphere of his trade, feeling confident that pay menu will be met promptly because the cropa are good. The Industrial fabrlo of a great nation is a complicated mechanism, but the agricultural Industries constitute the motive power that keeps the wheels of industrialism turning. Nothing can Illus trate, the fact better than does the buoy ant tone which has been give a to all forma of business, merely front fine crop esptetatWce OTHF.R LASH THA OVR. The Russian Ullganl are the workless and homeless, the trsmps and - outcasts, the men and women without memories or hopes or ties, of whom Gorky has written. Tak ing advantage of the chaotic state produced by the war and the passive resistance of the people to the old government, they have Instituted a reign of terror throughout whole provinces. Their meetings are held In the ,graveyards at night. Orgies take the place of debates. Without religion and without morals, they think only of satis fying the animal passions which have so long been suppressed by the Iron hand of law. At these graveyard conferences the victims are picked and committees of ex tortion appointed. Then by twos and threes the Ullganl make their dreaded calls. The demand in every case la the same money or your life. No man who owns property is safe. No man who refuses has a chance of escape unless la? deserts all and flees to another land. The troops and the police are powerless. Pitched battles have been fought between them and the Vllganl and the men in uniform have always got the worst of It, the courage of despair con quering over the unwilling bravery that Is only prompted by duty and discipline. A newspaper correspondent, writing from Blackpool, England, says the Lancashire Coney Island la a long stretch of sea beach with three piers, a well constructed prom enade along the front and bustling streets behind, rilled with shops, theaters and side shows. A lofty tower Is aflame with elec tric lights at night; there Is a wheel with a mighty span; an enormous winter garden accommodates thousands of saomterers, and scores of theaters and music halls offer entertainment of high and low degree, from Mme. Bernhardt and Mrs. Patrick Camp bell In romantic drama to the fat woman and the living skeleton in the silent pose of torpid content or pensive melancholy. There ore hotels of every grade and there are lodgings for the humblest pleasure seekers. A medley of fantastic architec ture, garish paint and flashing lights. Blackpool is not picturesque until the 100,- 000 trippers have been emptied Into It from excursion trains and are disporting them selves In the streets and on the sands. Then It is a wonderful scene of surging throngs and rollicking good nature, for the In dustrial classes of the north do not spare themselves when they have a holiday, but go everywhere and do everything with a passion for amusement and a frenxy of ex citement which one would hadly expect from the stolid, careworn faces. The Irrigation of Mesopotamia, with the view of making it once more one of the granaries of the world, has become the sub ject of serious discussion In London and Constantinople. Sir William Wlllcocksj the late director-general of reservoirs in Egypt, has brought the gigantic scheme within the sphere of practical politics. He has made exhaustive inquiries in the land of the Twin Rivers, has collected most Of the necessary data, and has divided up the country be tween Tekrit and the head of the Persian gulf Into some fifteen sections, which can be dealt with one after another, or simul taneously, according to the amount of cap. ltal available. The whole area includes over 40.000 square miles of alluvial soil, every square yard of which Is capable of being Irrigated and cultivated. The general scheme Includes the Improvement of the Tigris and the Euphrates as means of transportation, and the utilisation of canals for the same purpose. At the present mo ment only an inconsiderable part of this rich delta Is under cultivation, and the means of transportation are altogether in adequate. To carry out Sir William's scheme, all that is required is capital and the permission of the Turkish government. The supply of capital Is, of course, depend ent upon the granting of the concession. The Turks are said to be well disposed towards the scheme, but Inasmuch as part of the territory lies along the line of the proposed Bagdad railway, determined po litical opposition may be looked for from Germany unless England should consent to modify Its attitude toward that pet en terprise of the emperor. The government of Chile has lately been giving some special attention to the pro posed longitudinal railway, which is ex pected to connect the northern and south ern provinces. Its greatest necessity Is to the northern part of the republic, because of the great distance which separates these provinces from the central and southern portions of the country, and the expensive and Inadequate maritime communication. The people of the north of Chile have pe titioned the president with reference to this railroad and have demonstrated the benefits to accrue by giving transportation to a section rich in agricultural products and valuable minerals. The industrial de velopment that would result would so In crease the value of all property In the northern provinces for purposes of taxation that millions of dollars would pour Into the Chilian treasury. The country has many rich and fertile valleys and plains, and la rich in metalliferous ores of many kinds and such mineral deposits as nitrate, sul phur, borate, salt and potassium salts. The railroad Is to be a government enterprise, and is now under partial construction. Sur veys and extensive reconnoissances are un der way, and in due time Chile will be trav ersed from end to end by a railway paral leling the shores of the PaclQc and reaching the numerous harbors at many points along the route. Such a transportation line must have a profound effect on the development of that rich and favored country. Distress and consequent disorders In the south of Spain appear to be mounting every day. Painful stories of starvation and of a sort of reign of terror seem to be only too true. The state of things was clearly foreseen, however, months ago. A practical failure of crops In Andalusia, Estremadura and In parts of Aragon was made certain by the unprecedented drouth through the winter and early spring. The worst fears have now been realised. Hun dreds of thousands are reduced to misery, A couple of weeks ago. In the city of Cadis, no less than 20,000 out of a total population of 70,000 were asking for publlo assistance. Since then affairs have grown worse through all that region. The telegrams report that the rich are fleeing from their homes In dread. There Is a peculiar reason for this. . Most of the land In Andalusia Is held In vast estates, the peasants being practically tenant farmers. This system of latlfundla tends both to unscientific agri culture and to Intensified class feelings. When the famine comes, the peasants, who at best have but a narrow margin sepa rating them from want, turn upon the great landlords as so many despollers. Add the depreciated currency and the high prices of the necessaries of life, and you have a situation truly unhappy. The new liberal ministry will have its bands full in bringing the country safely through so severe an economic crisis. The general report to the London Board of Trade on railway accidents In ISM. slates that the danger of railway traveling has been reduced to such a point that In 1!4 the chances against a passenger being killed In a train accident In the course of a given Journey were more than SOO.000,000 to L The risks Incurred by railway serv ants, especially those concerned with the movement of traffic, are of course much greater. In their case there Is an element of danger which cannot -be eliminated, though its effect may be minimised by the adoption of suitable appliances and safe guards. The increasing use of such ap pliances la having aa apprsUahle effect. WOOERS FUASCF.. Professionals Find In the Game Lota of "Koey Money." Jasper In Leslie's Weekly. A man was arrested In New Tork re cently for selling a little machine with which, apparently, blank rleces of paper t could be readily converted Into IS bills, simply by turning a crank and running the blank sheets through two rollers. The thing worked all right as long as It wss In the hands of the seller, but when the purchaser took It home and found that the paper that he put In between tho rollers went In as It came out. It proved Itself a palpable swindle, and the Judge be fore whom the case was brought Into court smiled when he so decided. He smiled that any man should be so utterly credulous as to believe that he could buy for a few hun dred dollars a machine which would print, as rapidly as one could want them, bank notes as good as any bank Issues; snd my readers, no doubt, will smile when they rend this brief report of a true Incident In the recent court annals of New York City. But the credulity of the unfortunate vic tim of this bunco game is not greater than that of the general public. I nijfd only call attention to tho enormous sums of money sunk by the public In all kinds of wildcat schemes from year to year. It seems only necessary for swindlers to have sufficient Ingenuity to tell a smooth false hood and to promise prodigious profits on small Investments, to make tho suckers bite. Recently, a man In St. Louts suc ceeded In coaxing ont of the publlo be tween, 11,000,000 and t2,000,0)0 on a com bined banking and publishing scheme, wblch was so rank that the Postoffloe de partment finally Interfered and stopped his mall. Scarcely a day pusses but' that the postofn.ee authorities find similar work to do. Some of these swindles run on for a long time the Storey Cotton company, for instance. When the money begins to pour in the swindlers use a part of It to pay big profits to some of those who are In, and thus stimulate new business. They did this so successfully In the Storey Cot ton company that the concern ran on for a number of years. I had repeated Inquiries from readers who asked how It was possible for the Storey Cotton company to pay from to to 100 per cent Interest on deposits. Again and again ,1 replied that If there were such profits for outsiders that the Storey managers could make they would make It themselves, and that some day the smashup would come. And It did come, and the loss to the credi tors of the Storey company ran up Into the millions. This Is a disreputable sort of buxlness, but only disreputable, it seems, If It Is done outside of the exchanges. In the stock market deceptions . can be prac ticed, the public can be misled by utterlj false statements, and bonds and stocks cat be floated In prodigious quantities at ex travagant prices on prospectuses full of lies, and the men who amass Immense for tunes by these reprehensible methods, act ing under the advice of lawyers who are as unscrupulous as they are adroit, cap manage skilfully to keep out of jail. PROFITS IS COAL STRIKES. Anthracite Barons Realise Hand somely on Labor Tronbles, Springfield (Mass.) Republican. As for the anthracite mine owners and operators, they cannot be much disturbed over any such possible consequences of Mr. Roosevelt's visit. Indeed, the "alarm" which they really feel regarding this matter seems to be reflected In the course of the stock market the other day when most of the anthracite coal properties scored far ther sharp advances Delaware and Hud son rlslngvlBi, Lackawanna 19H. following a recent advance of SO points or more Cen tral of New Jersey V4 and Ontario tt Western l. Apparently the more strikes which the Industry has, resulting as the last one did, the better will It suit the coal roads as coal operators and carriers. Compare the present prices of their stocks with the highest prevailing In that year before, the great strike of 1902 and Its set tlement: , . . Present Prices Prices. 19.8. Delaware A Hudson 220 Delaware and Lackawanna im Reading, common Iu6 Reading, first preferred 96 184 297 8V ? 44 7& Central of New Jersey 217 Ontario A Western M Erie, common 47 Erie, first preferred 84 These changes represent the addition of over $100,000,000 to the market value of the properties specified and this lurgely be- cause they were able, through combined control of a necessary of life, not only till pass along the costs of the strike and lts( settlement to coal consumers, but to make a further addition to the price of coal onj their own account. If comparison Is made with the lowest prices of the strike periods the addition to the value of these proper ties would approach $200,000,000. . The coal roads can easily stand anothef strike settlement of that sort, but the casa of the coal consumer Is different. Ils nol the public's turn to have a strike one which will either break up this might combination of common carriers UlegltM mately engaged In coal mining, or bringing the monopoly under close publlo regula- tlon, which will fix prices according to some) other standard than what the people can' be made to pay. Agitation of a Foghorn. New Tork Sun. The Hon. John Temple Gravea, a distin guished cracker maker of orations and perorations, has been "denouncing republi canism as the spawn of federalism" and saying of the democratic party that "It ( mission was never clearer and its prospects never brighter." It has the blessing of tl e oratieal and orotund temperament that it never Is hampered by facta and realities. There is a reason, and the best Kind of a reason, why Ayer's Hair Vigor makes the hair grow long and heavy. It is a hair-food. It feeds the hair and makes It healthy and strong. , Healthy hair grows, keeps soft and smooth, does not split at the ends, and never falls out. Give Ayer's Hair Vigor to your gray hair and restore to it all the deep, rich color of early life. atsde fey h - n IwU, Mm, ilM SUtlJwittWI if www. a rnfiRV PtCTOBAL Fwe oouih. TE'S HLL8-?r eon.tlp.tlos. POLITICAL DRIFT. iWorm has become so fearsome In Phila delphia that a recent court Jury adjourned with acorlng one "approach." At the last tally the number of graveyard voters registered In Philadelphia numbered 64,730, with several wards to. hear from. Joseph U Brlstow, the "nemesis of pt office department grafters, has finished hla task In Panama, ami la about to resume the editorship of his two Kansas paper. A Kanaaa dispatch reports that Senator William Warner of Missouri, Is so pest ered by patronage hunters that he argue with Imaginary office seekers even In his aleep. ' The preliminary municipal campaign In New York Is unusual, Inasmuch as neither of the t'nlted States -senators Is thus far taking a hand. Mr. Piatt, "he lay low," while Mr. Do pew lias other flph to fry. The nuiyor of Atlantic City, N. J., insist that bathing suits worn in that locality must bo of generous length, and of solid material. Peekaboo cloth Is forbidden. Evidently the Atlantic City functionary is looking for trouble. ' The most serious objection against S Pennsylvania!! aa a candidate for t'nlted States senator is th fact that he is too rich. In nearby states wealth la the flrat essential. But Pennsylvania Is taking largo doses of reform. The chief business of leading Pittsburg officials appears to be to get railroad passes for their constituents. We are told that the office of the mayor la so crowded with paas seekers all the time that there la little chance for the transaction of other business. , Tho legislature of Connecticut closed a busy session of five months a few weoks ago, and left abundant evldenoe. of Tanks thrift In the shape of bills for necessarlea of legislative life. Among these wera btlle for six fountain pen, and 2,860 Jack knives, appraised at $1,000. The former wer used In drafting bills and the latter In whittling measures about which the members wer proerly approuched. Tho contest for the city clerk of New Al bany, Ind.; this fall will be a one-legged man's race, for all the candidates an nounced for tho office have only three legs between them. It Is not likely that an able bodied man will be found to compete, as it Is expected that sympathy will cut a big figure In the primary. City Clerk Eugene Brlsble, who will have no opposition for th democratic nomination, lost his leg under an engine fifteen years ago, John C. Short and t. a. La Point are the only candidate for the republican primary. ' Short lost his leg under a train at Tipton and La Point's leg was cut off under an engine on the Southern railway four years ago. TART TRIFLES. The Prodigal Son had Just been wel comed. , , "Pretty fair reception," he remarked, "but It's nothing to the way they rooted when I made a home run on the dia mond." . . Passing the plate for mors veal, he ac cepted the congratulations graciously. New Tork Sun. "Tell me," said the fresh young caller, producing a cigarette, "does smoking go "ere?" . . . . "Yes," replied Mies hirigni. nromrur, "and so do the smokers. 'Philadelphia Ledger. "Thev ssv vou're making plenty of money In the stock market." f "Yes; I never lose anything." "Ah! You get straight tips, eh?" "No; I sell them. "-Detroit Free Press. "Ntirltch Is forever making the most dis gustlng incendiary speeches. ' "You surprise me! I don't understand. "He's continually bragging that he's got money to burn." Philadelphia Ledger. "I shook hands with Hllklns this morn ing. He doesn't seem well. What's th tnattcr with hlni?" , "I think Irs ennui." ' 1 . "Heavens! my wife wottM -worry 4f sh knew! She's always afraid I'll carry some of these contagious diseases home to th children." Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Well, well!" exclaimed the man who was reading the scientific notes, "some one ha 'nvented a woman's theater hat that Shuta up." 'Huh!" snorted tho other, "somebody else ought to Invent a box party that would do the same thing occasionally." Philadelphia Press. i ins man wnu can nil iwuuwn I - without getting Ink all over his fingers and Ittie woman who can keep a watch running so that It won't lose more than a minute In a month ought to have some wonderful children, if they should ever make their minds up to get married. Somervlll Journal. THE BAREHEADED GIRL. Hartford Post. Tou may say what you please about wooiei I Who set the male mind In a whirl. Tor of course they are all very charming, But give me the bare-headed girl. Thus Venus was doubtless a picture I As dripping she came from the sea, (But not quite the typical maiden . For fellows like you and like me. Or Minerva, of wide information, Much wiser than man could e'er be An.l that means a mighty sight wiser Than's good for a woman, you see. And Diana, of course, was entrancing, , With quiver and arrows and bow, felut much aa a n.an may like hunting;. Being hunted la different, you know. And ao all of those of tradition. The girls that we And In the books, iArtd take upon mere reputation. Regardless of habits or looks. ' Avaunt! Let them stay with the ancient! The twentieth century whirl Demands all the modern Improvements, So give me the bare-headed gtrL The bold sun may kiss her complexion As If It were really a peach. , He may tan It, or freckle, or sunburn, But she her objective will reach. She lets the free wind her hair tousle, To lend it her favorite curl; A beauty she Is, and forever A Joy, the gay bare-headed girl. Si ! L