Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, November 03, 1906, EDITORIAL SECTION, Page 14, Image 14
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Rpmlt by draft. express or postal order pavahle to The Ben Publishing company. Only 2-crnt stamps rpcelved as pnynipnt of mall accounts. Personal chpeka except on Omaha or eastrn exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OP" CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas CO'intv, ss: Charles C. Rosewater, general manager of ThP Bee Publishing rompony, being duly awrtrn. eavs that the arinnl number of full and compiet c.ppl-a of TIip Dally. MornlnK, Kvenlng and Sunday Bpp printed d'iring the Inon'.h of Ortober. lso, waa as tonows 1 . . 3. , t. . 4. . . . .30.860 , . .30,800 , . .30,800 . . .30,730 17. . . .30,830 18.. 1.. 30,930 31.390 31,330 20. 1 30,780 31,780 21 31,900 2J 30,850 7... 1. 1 . 9. . . 10. . . II... 12. . . 13... . .30,300 , .30,870 . .30,590 , .30,730 . .30,920 . .30,730 . .31,050 2. . 24. . :s. . 26. , J7. . 21. . .30,830 . .30,830 . .31,370 , .31,410 . .31,740 , .30,870 29. .31,800 14 30.300 It 31,400 SO 31,110 81 31,110 If 33,000 Total 961,350 Less unsoM copies 11,033 Net total sales 950,337 Dally average. . , 30,859 C. C. ROSE WATER. General Manager. Subscribed In my presence nnd sworn to before me this 1st dav of NovembPr, li. (Bpal.) M. B. HUNUATH, ' Notary Public. WIIKS OIT OF IOWX. Safcacrlbera leaving- the city tem porarily ahonld have The Bea mailed to them. Address will he Register today. Omaha people are still glad to bear and see Bryan, but sorry they cannot conscientiously vote as he advises. It the railroads paid city taxes on their terminals, a bigger police force for Omaha would soon be doing busi ness. Tory victories In the London county council may be a valuable "tip" to the British government on the subject of Us parliamentary program. The Ade-Hale Incident should cause press agents to take their principals into their confidence before publishing engagement announcements., - vv Don't imagine that you can vote next Tuesday on last year's registra tion. No previous registration holds good this year. . Tou must register anew. Russia is preparing for a parliamen tary campaign, and the test of au tocracy's power will come when It un dertakes to secure a working majority of the members. Ex-Senator Allen and Judge Graves should get together on the subject of the pass as a bribe, but perhaps the rule "honl solt Qui mal y pense" ob tains in this case. Count Bont de Castellane doubtless realizes his mistake In trying to "bluff" an American girl, even though she had shown herself weak enough to marry him on his own terms. After mature meditation Mayor Dahlman has decided that the only punishment he will Inflict upon "holdup Insurance" city officials is a sentence to write no more letters. Candidate Shallenberger is said to imagine that be will poll as many votes in Omaha as did Mayor Dahlman. Can didate Shallenberger Is likely to be badly fooled. There Is only one "Jim." In the light of recent verdicts that Ohio attorney must have decided that it would be a hardship upon house keepers to press suit against the "Plumbers' trust" until danger of frost Is pant. If the railroads are compelled to pay city taxes on their terminals the same as other property owners, Omaha would have no trouble to find the neo- essary money to put In the double shift fire department. If the railroads paid taxes on their their terminals, South Omaha would come In for a neat revenue, which 1 now lost to the Magic City by railroad tax evasion and shifted onto the little home owners who have no way of get ting away from their taxes. The allegation that the former Mrs. J. Burke Roche is guilty of bigamy because her American divorce is not recognized In Great Britain brings up another phase of International law which threat us to become of para mount Importance to several distin guished persouagos almost any time. Candidate Hitchcock is playing for the favor of colored voters of Omaha Just as It their memories were so short that they bad forgotten the undis guised effort of Mr. Hitchcock's news paper to Incite a race riot here a few weeks ago in which one or more Inno cent colored men woald surely bave lout their Uvea. HOW TO SCRATCH WILLIAMS. Evidence accumulates that the can didacy of the treacherous Williams does not sit well with thousands of de cent republicans throughout Nebraska. The fact that he traded himself Into a nomination tdr railroad commissioner on the republican ticket as the consid eration for repudiating his Instructions is not recognized as giving him a valid claim to party support. The ex hibition of political treachery, which he made in the state convention, hai marked him as unsafe and unreliable, and an extra hazardous rlBk as a mem ber of a railroad commission passing on Interests .vital to shippers and great corporations. To make the protest against Williams effective, however, those who propose to scratch htm should take special care to do so In a way that will make their votes count. To scratch Williams and scatter the vote among all three of his opponents on the fusion ticket would not accomplish the object. The vote that Is withheld from Williams should be centered on the strongest candidate, on the opposition ticket, who in this instance is George Horst. Hor6t is not only a man of known re liability and Independence of corpora tion strings, but he has given assur ance that if elected he will perform his duties irrespective of partisan poli tics. Further than this, it should be re membered the Nebraska ballot law makes It necessary that, when anyone wishes to scratch one or more candi dates and otherwise vote a straight ticket, he must Indicate his choice plainly. In this case, therefore, every republican who scratches Williams should be careful to put his cross in the party circle and then to make three cross marks in the division of the ballot devoted to railroad commission ers one each opposite the names of Cowell, Wlnnett and Horst. THE STEEL COMPACTS REPORT. , The report of the United States Steel company for the quarter ending Sep tember 20 Is to be read as another chapter of the story of an essentially speculative scheme, the most gigantic of the time. For it Is believed by competent judges that the capitaliza tion on which that combination was floated and began business five years ago was a third to one-half water, or dependent with the best management upon Incredibly rapid growth of the country. At the utmost the whole vast Issue of common stock, which the public took In a moment of Infatua tion, could have no other basis, and In the reaction that followed reflection sank almost to sero. Unprecedented Industrial expansion, however, has enabled the company to accumulate profits on a basis ap proximating the original abnormal capitalization so that earnings for the September quarter, after paying in terest on bonds and dividends on pre ferred stock, left net earnings of $17,- 238,830. But as In previous quarters for a long time, Instead of applying net earnings to common stock, the company declared a one-half per cent dividend, which required only $2,541,- 612, thus holding back nearly $13, 000,000 as surplus for the three months. The vital point la that these enormous surplus earnings, over and above many extraordinary deductions for special purposes of a permanent character, are being put into the form of Improvements like the great new steel works at Gary and not paid to the investing public that originally took the watered stock. On the other hand, the scale of prices of Iron and steel, fundamental materials in all in dustries, is enforced unescapably on the general public on the basis of the fictitious capitalization. - It Is true, in a measure, that the value thus added to the property will reappear In the quotations of the com mon stock, but that value was not re alizable by the mass of original stock holders who could not survive the shrink that bo quickly followed the sensational flotation of the steel scheme. The effect in last analysis Is equivalent to wringing water out of the stock, except that the value Is ex tracted from the pocket of the con suming public and does not even go into that of the victimized original or early stockholders and only in a frac tional and Indirect way into that of present stockholders. THE PRESIDENT ASD HEARST1SM. The address of Ellhu Root, while ex emplifying the extraordinary intellec tual power of the secretary of state, carries also the force of a direct mes sage from the president of the United States to the citizens of his own state on the eve of election. The necessity of such authoritative communication has been forced by the unprecedented audacity of the Hearst pretensions to reform and even to Identity of aim with the Roosevelt program. The grotesqueness of the fraud is, of course, apparent to all intelligent minds, but when as . the campaign progressed It was systematically pressed with a view to Imposing upon uninformed and gullible voters, it was characteristic of President Roosevelt to commission the chief of bis official family to denounce the Imposture "by authority." The substance of the secretary's ter rific arraignment of the New York yel low Catallne la indeed little more than a summary of the president's own pre vious public expressions, with the ex plicit assurance that William Randolph Hearst Is the man whom the president had specifically In mind when Id a message to congress be denounced "the reckless utterances of those whd, on the stump and In the public press, appeal to the dark and evil spirit of malice aud greed, ear and sullen hatred," and "the deliberate dema gogue and exploiter of sensational ism." And certainly nothing has oc curred In our politics, full as It Is of preposterous Incidents, more amazing than the brazenness of Hearst In New York in pretending sympathy with Theodore Roosevelt and to represent the spirit of Lincoln and Jefferson. Though ordinarily the president of the United States is reluctant to make emphatic pronouncement In local po litical contests. It Is well for the cause of decent government In New York and of good citizenship everywhere that, speaking with the tongue of Sec retary Root, he should make clear even to the dullest comprehension the line that should be drawn In the pres ent extraordinary case. The Hearst conspiracy, the diametric reverse of patriotic, sincere, sane effort to reform civic abuses which all good men rec ognize and deplore, strikes at the very roots of civilized society and gov ernment, and unless It be now dealt a stunning blow by the worthy citizen ship of the great state of New York it would have to be encountered and overcome In the theater of national politics. KOW THE RAILROADS WORK IT. During the last year the Chicago & Northwestern railroad has bought something over four city blocks In the heart of Omaha's business district for a site for a new "freight depot. This property, which has heretofore been listed for assessment and taxation by the municipal government was paid for by the Northwestern according to deeds on file in the recorder's office at the following prices: Block 364, lot 4 1 11,500 Block 364, lot S 14,600 Block 354, lot 1 7,900 Block 7, except north 44 feet lot 1.... 66,495 Block 26 81,750 Block 40 77,310 Block 69 70,600 Total .' $339,065 In a word, the Chicago & North western paid nearly $340,000 for a lo cation for its new freight depot, al though It was doubtless compelled to make bids somewhat In excess of what the current market value would other wise bave been. If the law remains as It la now, this property acquired by the Northwestern road will be tacked on to Its mileage returns to the State Board of Assessment with a pretense of dis tribution along the entire line of the road and be absolutely wiped off of the tax Hats for the city of Omaha, so far as contributing to the support of mu nicipal government Is concerned. Omaha will lose over $2,000 In city taxes on this property and no one will be the gainer except the Northwestern road, which will put It into its own pocket. The taxes for the whole North western system payable to the city of Omaha, including the Minneapolis & Omaha, for 1907 are less than $4,000, and it now proposes to absorb prop erty that paid more than $2,000 in, city taxes without Increasing by one penny the city taxes paid by the road. The theft by the Northwestern of the city taxes on Its new freight depot site only Illustrates how serious the evasion of city taxes by the railroads could become. It the Northwestern can buy four city blocks and take them out of municipal taxation, It can buy ten or twenty blocks in the same man ner and reduce our tax values propor tionately. If the Northwestern can do this the Union Pacific and the Burling ton and the Rock Island and the Mis souri Pacific and all other roads can, If they wish, do likewise. It would be quite possible for the railroads to an nex half of the best business property in Omaha to their terminals and turn it In for taxation as mileage, leaving the other halt to bear the entire tax burden of municipal government. How this can, be a fair deal or a square deal is Incomprehensible to the average taxpayer. There 1b no reason whatever why Omaha should not get at least the same amount of taxes out of the Northwestern freight depot Bite after as before the railroad bought It. The republican state platform prom ises to amend the revenue law so as to enable all cities and towns in Nebraska to impose city taxes on railroad termi nals the same as on other property, and every legislative candidate on the republican ticket in this county is spe cially pledged to push this demand. Every taxpaytng citizen of Omaha and South Omaha, regardless of politics, ought to vote the republican ticket on this one issue of terminal taxation. Secretary Taft says it strikes him as the height of ridiculousness for demo crats to ask the people to uphold Pres ident Roosevelt by electing a demo cratic house of representatives to harass and embarrass him. The same thing is true with reference to the other branch of congress. Nebraska can stand by Roosevelt only by electing a republican legislature to send a Roosevelt republican to the senate who will stay with the president on his reform measures without dodging or equivocating. Though Senator Clark may change his mind about his desire to leave the aenate, the people cf Montana will probably Insist that he adhere to bis first resolution. But the Intervening contest should be made remunerative to the participants. Any one listening to George Sheldon will be quickly convinced that when be is elected governor be will be gov ernor for the whole state of Nebraska and the interests of Omaha and South Omaha will be in no danger of suffer ing at his hands. The. warring telephone companies are respectfully reminded that Oma ha's charter is severe in its prohibi tion on franchlsed corporations using uioney to promote or defeat the elec- tton of any candidate for office.- Be cause this prohibition has been vio lated in the past with impunity is no assurance that It will be a dead letter this time. Emboldened by the example of other demagogues whose stock act is to com pare themselves with Lincoln and other martyred presidents, Mr. Hearst made the mistake of comparing him self with a living one. Lawyers of Kansas, Nebraska and. a few other states will display a woeful lack of business ability if they fall to get fat fees out of the Scully estate, from which three children have been disinherited. A Bothersome Qaestlon. Minneapolis Journal. The American Bankers' association has been trying to flaure nut how in t mnr money In emergencies. We wlah It would nna tne answer. That question bothers most of us. The Man for the Job. New York Bun. Francis J. Honey In making the amo kind of a fight against the grafters In San Francisco that" he made against the land thievea. At a prosecutor he knows no party, and a braver man never performed a public duty. Lnnrh Carta oa Wheels. Boston Transcript. The Pullman Pnmnnnv Halm, Vi n If m not a common carrier, but Is engaged In the hotel buMnees. and that being on wheela does not change Its status. Will the night lunch carta eventually come under the In terstate commerce lawT Baraaln Price Itoyalty. Indianapolis News. The Juke of Marlborough. scribed by a competent anthropologist as a perfumed little ass." let tro his wife and children for $100,000 a year. It seems like a lot of money, but his pictures indicate that It was cheap. Versatility of Mr. Taft. Washington Star. The comprehensive versatility of Mr. Taft's genius becomes apparent when It Is found that with all this globe-trotting, lld- represang and peace maklna- he ha mn. aged to keep an eye on the tariff. Nothing iiae it nas happened since Julius Caesar managed several campaigns at once, and Incidentally kept a number of amanuemaea buy in the literary service. The Power that Ralea. Nashville American. , A political campaign la not a bopUI nr literary or religious affair. It is not at tractive to negative characters, or Chester, fielda or theorists or idealists, who do nmk. In but dream and sigh. Those who can not taae as well as give have no business in It. Among the Voters are all kinds of men, and the vote of the foolish counts for aa much aa the vote of the wise. ThU Is one of the beauties, or ugly features, whichever you think, of our system of government. The privilege of voting goes with the duty of paying taxes in time of peace and going to battle In time of war. Rough and ready men are reached bv nu.h and ready arguments, but they are not so easily aecetved as demagogues suppose. The man who site In hla studv op at hi. office desk and sneers at politics and scorns to vote is an ass. Suppose two-thirds of the voters did not vote? Then one-third would rule two-thirds. A man may help to make politics better or worse, but ha cannot escape its dominion, its Influence nor 1U rule. k r PKJIALTY THAT HIRTS. Prlaoa Penalty Annoytngr Pro moters of Trade Combines. Pittsburg Dispatch. Hard fate continues to tnirvu thnu Tn. lcdo icemen convicted of violation cf tho valentine anti-trust act. Having taken their appeal from the sentence of the lower court the circuit court finds aa-alnat ikn and confirms the sentence of six months' imprisonment and R.600 fine. They still nave an appeal to the supreme court, but the Ohio law, It seems, does not allow th appeal beyond the circuit court to act as a supersedeas, and there is now no viuia escape for them from the doors of the Jail. l "' aiBtanee the public Judgment of their guilt or Innocence must rest on ih. findings of the two courts and their own piea or guilty, which they have sought to take back when they find that it invniu.. a real penalty. But, accepting the cred- mie presumption that they broke the law which men. great and amali nir.. every day there is no doubt that the Ohio proceoure is on the track of the right penalty. Fines to the men whs, r. mni,in. thousands or millions out of combinations to suppress competition and exact arbi trary prices are flea bites. Rut nhm . man of that sort has to go to prison It Is a deterrent to all hla class; and the higher In financial circles the man who l sent to prison the more impressive is the example. in loieao icemen evidently thought that their plea of guilty would enM then, escape with a line. It is the Imposition of uuprmunmeni against wnicn they are ex hausting the resources of appeal. If the penalty of Imprisonment Is actually carried out it Is a safe prediction that trade combinations in and about Toledo win hp very scarce for some time to come. RATE REGILATIOX RESULT J. Marked Tendency Townrd Redaetloa la Railroad Sehednles. Pittsburg Dispatch. The railroad rate law has been In effect sixty days. A Urge claim for accomplish ments is already made In Its behalf by Interstate Commerce Commissioner Lane, who reports that never In the history of the country has there been such general reduction of freight and passenger rates aa In the last two months. Of the nearly 5.0 changes In schedules filed by the rail, roads In that time 90 per cent, he say, have bean reductions. The cuts In pas senger rates have been accompanied, toe, by reductions In frelg-ht rates, perhapt not so sensational, but nevertheless notable. Commissioner Lane thinks the abolition of passes has saved to the companies a revenue that enabled them to reduce pas senger rates. But the reduction Itself has Invited sreater receipts by encouragintr travel. The reasons offered for the freight reductions are that the companies, freed from the peril of unfair competition, are now abln to adjust their rates In accordance with the principles of fair business. Also, that this readjustment, as in the case of the passenger reductions, has led to more busi ness and greater earnings, Increased, alpo, by the railroads saving the great sums they have been accustomed to aacriflce by rebat ing. Not even the most optimistic expected re sults so speedily as Commissioner Lane hns founj them. It was thouxht that there would be at least a period of litigation to I test the met, which would have prtvwtml j rexults for a long time. In fact, it is hard, jeven yet, notwithstanding Mr. Line's re. I port, to accept this general change of heart among the rtbaters and discriminators. But I It is Impossible to doubt that the eTeet has (been good, whether the reaulta so far arc laj art at us he edtlmate. We are at least In a fair may of getting such results, even juu a muih rtr jcalt, swonsr ur la 1st. OTHER Ln TH Ot RS. Bv a majority of 9X the dominant unionist party In the House of Lords recast the education bill which the British Parlla- Iment paed at ta first session. The meas ure as sent to the Ixrds prohlbltPd re ligious Instruction during school hours In schools supported by local taxation or par liamentary grants. For this provision the lords substituted one making religious In struction compulsory during school1 hours In all public elementary schools. The so tlon of the hereditary legislators was ex pected, hence the decisive vote registered In favor of reversing the educational policy of tho ministry was not surprising. But It serves to show, as on former occasions, tho Implacable hostility of the privileged classes to all measures of reform. A like fate undoubtedly awaits the labor bills and Irish home rule. What will the liberal ministry do? According to the New Tork Sun, the ministerial program which finds most favor Is that, "pending the flnal re jection of the educational bill, measures calculated to please union labor on the one hand and the Irish nationalist party on the other shall be driven through the House of Commons and sent up to the lords, by whom they are expected to be thrown out. The nim. In other words. Is to make the hereditary legislators offensive to every elu ment of Britain's population, nnd when u universal demand for Its abolition is ex cited, to go to the country, not on an education bill, or an Irish bill, or a labor bill, but on the reauest for a peremptory mandate to mend or end the upper cham ber. The ahrewdnesa of this policy Is evi dent. If a general election were to turn exclusively on any one of the measures which thus far have been Introduced or promised by the liberal government. H Is possible that the electors might be dlv'ded with an approach to evenness. But among the masses of the voters the House of Lords lias few frlpnds, and if thp naked iKsue were presented It Is probable that the British people would refuse to tolerate any longer such a mediaeval absurdity aa an hereditary chamber." The Anglo-French entente did not pre vent the Paris Blecle from using pretty plain language with reference to the pro posed presentation of an address to ex members of the Russian Duma by a group of British parliamentarians. It snld: "The Idea Is preposterous. Not that there is any harm in taking aides with the Duma rather thAn with the autocracy. Among en lightened minds there are few who approve of the ciar's methods, and England is full of such minds. But It Is nevertheless true that a frightful struggle Is going on In Russia between the party officially In office and the revolutionary party. There Is pillage, Incendiarism and assassination. On the other hand, there is merci less repression to the extent of about twenty executions a day. The first duty of foreigners is to leave these people to settle their differences among them selves, and it Is a crime to go and pour oil on such a fire. Englishmen, who are so Jealous of the greatness of their own coun try, ought to have reasoned thus: Either England Is at heart with the Insurrectlcn. and In that case It is by means of its war ships and Its reglnr.ent.-i that It ought to assert Its sympathies, or England has de cided to remain neutral, and, if so, the parliamentarians of the delegation repre sent nothing but their own vanity and tho criminal Imprudence of people whose pro ceedings may give rise to International complications. Such proceedings do no credit to British common sense." Great Britain, France and Germany have had commissions employed for several years seeking a remedy for the sleeping sickness which has depopulated entire districts in tropical Africa and Asia. Prof. Dobert Koch, lecturing In Berlin last March, de clared that since the beginning of the last century 100,000 persons had died of this baffling scourge In equatorial Africa. On June 20, Lieutenant Tulloch,- who had ac companied the British Royal commission to Uganda, and had contracted the disease while dissecting an Inoculated rat, died In London In spite of all that science could do to check the progress of the poison in his blood. Neither the exact nature nor the origin of the sleeping sickness has been satisfactorily determined. The Infection Is spread from human to human by the sting of a small fly, the glosslna palpalls. Fever is the earliest positive symptom. The pa tient then becomes incoherent and en' feebled and finally Is seized by the sleep mania, which ends In death. Thymol, men tioned in the cable dispatches a a cure, Is a crystalline product of thyme, a famlllur aromatic herb. Distilled and diluted, it has an agreeable, cooling taste, and has long been valued In medical practice as a power ful antiseptic adapted to the healing of wounda and the treatment of affections of the nose and throat. From statistics collected by the London Board of Trade, which is a part of the English government. It is learned that the average wage of the agricultural laborer in England is 14.44 and the average income of the city workman $5.06 per week; that from the former's stipend must be de ducted 13.25 a week for food alone and from the letter's 13.60. This leaves very little for lodging, clothes and pleasure and puts the English workman on a far lower plane, so far as the material comforts of life are concerned, than th American workman. Take but a few examples, for all of which the London Board of Trade is authority. In the building trades, car penters. Joiners and bricklayers work fifty hours a week In summer and forty-four In winter at average wages for 110.60 in Lon don and 17 36 in the country. Painters at 17 and IS cents per hour in London average $8.44 weekly. Masons average $10.50 in London and 19 42 In the country. The average weekly pay of the coal miner is I6.S5 a week of from four and a half to Ave and a half days at nine and a half hours. Lancashire pays the highest wage, 11. tt daily. Scotland, In the Lanark dis trict, pays the lowest, an average of 11.36 a day. Cabinetmakers get from tH.62 to $10.35 a week; upholsterers, $S.6 to $10.56; com positors on London morning newspapers, $11.62; on evening papers, $10.42; In IJver pool and Manchester, $8 12; in Scotland and the country, $8.16. While the Dutch are seriously discussing ways and menus of averting ultimate absorption by Germany, now that hope of a direct successor to the throne seems to have been abandoned, the Belgians, too, are growing panicky In face of the Pan Germanic movament. The French press in Belgium is greatly exercised over a plan recently set on foot by the German part of the population to secure legal recognition of their native tongue. In 1900 the num ber of German-speaking inhabitants was only 1 per cent of the total. The ratio may have Increased romewhat since then. The claim Is bssed on the constitutional right enjoyed by every Belgian to make use of his native language tn his relations with the educational, administrative and judicial departments of the government. Admitting, however, their numerical weak ness, the Germans declare that they will be content with an official recognition of their rights without seeking to have them nforced. The Flemish representatives In the chamber, contrary to common expecta tion, have come out against the demand of the German-Belgians, possibly because they are convinced of the necessity of of fering a chpek to German aspirations in general. Standard Oil Case raased. ! JACKBOX. Tenn.. Nov. 1-The rase xaalnst the Standard Oil romuany before J the federal court here Mas vester I ilut piskPd t th n"1 term of court. The Avoid alum and alum phos phate baldngpowders.The label lav requires that all the ingredients be named on the labels. Look out for the alum compounds. NOTE. Saicty lies in buying only Royal Baking Powder, which is a pure, cream or tartar baking powder, and the best that can be made. politic i, nniFT. Pre-election predictions look weary "the morning after." Like a base ball game, election results are not settled until the last ballot Is cast. Mr. Bryan etretched a etrlng of speeches through the center of Indiana and re publicans expect to roll up a plurality of 40,ono. The election of a friendly Judiciary Is of vital Importance to William Randolph Hearst. Damage suits pcnJirg In the courts against him total $7,000."00. "Graft In San Francisco!"' exclaimed the Callfornlaii. "Say, you effete easterners don't know anything about our graft. It permeates commercial as well as political life. Why, I'll bet that If the eltlxens un dertake to hang the boodlers they'll get stuck on the price of rope." Senator Clark of Montana Is hurrying home to look after hie fences. Affairs In the Copper state are In a discouraging condition. Pernicious knockers are trying to make two former state treasurers dis gorge the Interest they received on state funds. "If this thing keeps up," remarks a Butte politician, "an office in Montana won't pay election expenses." According to the esteemed Brooklyn Eagle, among those voting for Hearst "will be found every man who Is better than he ought to be; every man who does not know any better; every man who has a feeble mind; every man who wants something for nothing, and every man who Is a nat iral born crank." If Hearst gets all these votes a motion to make the election unani mous will be unnecessary. In the Indian territory side of the new state of Oklahoma both parties are now struggling to control the Indian vote. This has resulted In good places for the In dians In the opening contest. There are fifteen Indians among the fifty-five demo cratic delegate nominees. The significance of this proportion Is seen when It is under stood that the whites actually outnumber the Indians ten to one. There are also to be a number of Indians on the republican ticket. Surprises spring up everywhere. The borough council of Washington, in this etate, passed an ordinance giving a fran chise to the Pittsburg Railway company, but the company refused to accept It, be cause It provided for free passes for tho borough officials. The work will now have to be done all over again, and the officials will have to go without their passes or the railway company without Its franchise. ' BACK TO BOYHOOD DAY. Why Men Dream of Them and Wake . to Weep for Times tiooe Br. Chicago News. Yes, sir! Boyhood happy days, of course. We know about that. We haven't forgot ten the joy of sleeping in an unfiiittiiea loft in winter when our breath frose to the bedding and we had to tlmw us out with a hot Hatlron every mornli a. Morning, too! We got up at 4 a. m., pitch dark, $4 degrees below sero, and still going down! We had to get up, hustle out and feed and milk the lowing herd, curry the rear elevation of the family mule, wake the rooster up to crow, thaw out the pump, chop four cords of wood an i phoM away the snow to make room for the sun to rise. Some times we went to school In ihe winter not often. Only on the days when It waa too cold and stormy to go outdoors. Then we sat on a nice, cool board about fifty feet away from the stove and gayl.v blew at our fingers and picked Icicles from our hair. And, as we sat, we listen! to a wooden image with a teacher's li cense aa he handed us misinformation and permanently crippled our Intellects. Then came the merry springtime. Rise at 2:30 a. m. More lowing herd. The herd, owing to the supply of fodder, being low. Then the hired man, who had hi bernated tn the forest, came forth seeking whom he might make happy with his pres ence. And we, being In need of extra Joy, were allowed to sleep with this wooly hireling, who snored like the boom of the sad sea waves. He was a good fol low, this hired man. He taught us to chew tobacco and swear. These senile pastimes procured us more violent lickings than' any other Joy in our whole young life. No memory Is more loaded with Joy germs than the spring crop working. Can we ever forget the plowing? How we held the jlow when we had to reach up with a pike pole to get the handles; how we drove the old plug team, with the lines around our neck; how when the clevis broke the mares walked away with our frail body dragging behind the ears? When darkness came we stabled the plugs and went forth to milk the brlndle heifer. The heifer kicked us across the barn floor and an old cow ob ligingly kicked us back again. Then when the milking waa over, what fun to turn In and teach a fool calf to drink! This acting as dry nurse to a bandy-legged calf was one of the mort unmixed Joys of all. We tied the calf short, set the bucket In front of him, got astraddle of his neok, stuck two fingers in his mouth and with the other hand Jammed hla head Into the pail. And all the time we were emptying out abuse on calve. In general and this lop-eared Idiot In particular. This wtnt on until dad came In and with loving patience horsewhipped ua ell about the place. Then when we had carried In the wood, brought forty gallons of water from the spring and eaten ab iut eight pounds of ro'.ld food, we went Joyfully upstairs and came down again Immediately to breakfast We often dream and wake to weep for the days gone by when the day wis ripe. We recall the eld swamp that always had to be cut by hand. We recall little stones that we rasped the edge of our blade on. We recall the pretty snakes we stepped on with our bare feet. We remember It all with solemn gladness. Well. Weill liuw It all comes beak ta us! FROM COAST TO COAST. Two Systems of Railroads Plan o Male (he Oceans. Wall Street Journal. George J. Gould asys that a transcon tinental railroad of the United Stales Is as. sured. In making thla statement he refers, f course, to his own system. Meanwhile, however, Mr. Harrimnn, by his acquisition of an increased Interest In the Baltimore A Ohio, appears also to le reaching out for a transcontinental system. A short time ago one of the leading rullroad men cf the country not Mr. Gould declared that in twenty years the whol railroad situa tion in the country would be radically changed and that the situation then would be a few systems reaching from the At lantic to the Pacific. If this takes place it will be revolutionary Indped, for It has been the Judgment of the best railroad experi ence- that the public and the stockholder could beet be served by making the Mis sissippi river the great dividing line of the railroad systems of the country. This, for Instance, has been and still is the pollc y of the Pennsylvania rnilroad, which has thus far persistently refused to enter Into any plan of extending Its system heyoml the Mississippi. SAID IK Ft. Police Officer Have you ever been a can didate for office? Prisoner (who has been arrested for dis orderly conduct) Once, many years ago. Police Officer Sorry, sir, but we shi'.ll have to take your Bertlllon measurements. Chicago Tribune. Percy Did you notice that the paper said my remarks Bt the bun quel Jait night were "punctuated with applause?" Miss Cuttingly Yes, and I thought it waa a mean thing to say. It meant, of course, that thp audience was trying to put a period to them. Washington fctar. "No, ma'am," Harvard Hasoeen ex plained. "I'm not a common tramp, I just can't get work. I'm what you might cull 'an unhappy medium.' " "Indeed (' replied Alrn. Subbubs, sarcas tically. "Yes m; you see. I'm too heavy for light work and too light for heavy work." Philadelphia Press. "Did It ever Btrlk? you that the averao Juries are very much on the order of seif cocKIng revolvers?" "How do you make that out?" "Thpy always go off as soon hs they are charged, and no man without the experi ence or a patriarch and the foresight of a prophet can possibly tell where tney are going to lilt.' Baltimore American. "1 don't see why they are trying to din cover the North oW now." remarked the aiaiuen wlih more bloom tuan scir-ntulc at tainment. Wi.at makes you say that?" asked her visitor. "1 snouhln't think thry would need any more poles now they have wireless lelcn rdphy anywhere." replied the unsophisti cated maiden. Baltimore, American. TRIALS OF AS A I TO. Rldgway's Magazine. I remember, I remember. The car I uned to drive. It Marted out right gallantly, But never would arrive. The commutator wouldn't work. The Jump-spark wouldn't play; Then suddenly 'twould give a JerU That took my breath away. I remember. I remember. How nothing would stay right; The aspiratirn pipe got loose. The carbureter tight; The Fleering knuckle broke one day; 'Twas Just before we. met A hepdlpss old ppdpstrlan The man la living yet! I remember, I remember, The eurvee I used to swing: I thought that twenty mllca an hour Waa speed like anything! The car seemed like a feather then. That seems so heavy now. And punctured tlrea could not disperse The smiles that wreathed my brow. I rempmhpr, I remember, That little runabout; It always skidded, slipped and bucked. And calmly threw me out. I have a Palace Flyer now. But still 'tis little fun For I am far less satisfied Than when I first begun. " vwuldn't give a penny for a Boy," Beau Brummel, "who Add no prid in drrM." A PROPER PRIDE It is part of the develop ment of a Boy's character to teach him to have regard for appearances. It can't be done with elouchy, ill-fitting clothing. 'Suits for school, for plav, for drees, for whatever occa sion, those we sell are the best that money can buy. Y7 Browns?- v J- Kirg--(5