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; 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.
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' ,' 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.
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