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THE OMAHA DAILY BEBi MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1907. Ttte Omaha Daily Bee. fOCNDED BT EDWARD ROnEWATaR. VICTOR ROSKWATER. EDITOR. Entered at Omaha Pmrtofflo M Gond ii matter. Trmnsi nv si-nnrnilPTION. ally Bee (without Sunday), en year.-W 00 ujr BN and Sunday, an ' 1 ur.dar Dm, on year J" aturdfty Be. one year t." DELIVERED BT CARRIER, pally Be (Including Sunday), per wk..l6c VnUy Be (without Sunday), per week. .10a Onliing B (without Sunday), par week So Bvenlng Bo (with Sunday), par weki..lOe Addraa all complaint of lrrgulerltle lo delivery to City Circulation Department. offices. 'Omaha The. Bo Building. South Omaha City Hall Building. Council Bluff a IS Beott Street. Chloago-1M Unity Building. , i New York 1W Hnme Life Insurance Bdf. Washington 01 Fourteenth Street. " CORRESPONDENCE. Cnmmunlcatloni relating to newa and edl Iftrlal matter eh on Id be addreaaed, Omaha Wee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit bjr draft, express or poatal order payable to Th Be Publishing Company. Only t-cent stamp received In payment of nail account. Personal cheeks, eeft on Omaha or eaatorn exchange, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION, ftat of Nebraska, Douglas county. ' George B. Tchuck, treasurer of Th pee Publishing Company, bains duly worn, aaya that the actual number ot full and complet eoptet of Th Dally Morning, Evening and Sunday Be printed fuMn th month of August. 191, wan a allows: 1 M.7S0 IT S6,M0 II.. MiSOO 37,040 it riao 4 SS.I00 10 7,00 5 t7,440 11 344 1 8,830 II S,S0 f 3,T00 II M.tSO I M.B80 14 3,B0 S,0 It 38,800 II 880 II 38,70 II 38,660 IT 30,380 II 3740 II 30 480 II 37,110 21 30,300 II 80,700 10 80,340 l 38,770 II 83,140 '....:.... 33,800 - Total 1,138,330 Leas nnsold and returned copUa. It, Net total 1,188,974 Dally averag 30,334 GEO. B. TZ3CHUCK. Treasurer, Subscribed In my pretence and sworn to refore me tbla list day of Auguit, 107. v (Seal) M. B. HL'NOATK, Notary Publlo. WBElf OUT OF TOWB, 8akrlber leaving th elty turn rarllr Hol bar The) Be) Mailed tm tkent. Aars will ekaagea aa often aa rcnestea. Nebraska's best Reason of the year the Indian summer time. Mr. Taft says there are too many millionaires, but most ot us wish there ere Just one more. The cotton crop is said to bo worth $900,000,000. Now you know what the term "solid south" means. A dressmaker declares that the curveless woman will bo in style this winter. More joy for the angular girl. fix-Governor Taylor refuses to re turn to Kentucky while a low political barometer reading Is shown In that atate. ' '..Z , It is up to those dilatory paring contractors to make a spurt on the home stretch to get ahc.a ot Jack Frost. Cleveland might try a reunion of the republicans who have sought po litical fame by running against Tom Johnson for mayor. .A woman has been arrested at Kan sas City for trying to starve herself to death. Evidently the poor no longer have any rights which are respected. That siren whistle is not doing its duty these days. The Farnam street pavement has been finished and Omaha has won the base ball championship. Managers of the Jamestown imposi tion are out with a formal announce ment that the last buildings will bo finished before the closing day of the show. Addicks of Delaware still Insists that he Is for Cortelyou for the presidential nomination, although there Is nothing to show that Cortelyou ever tried to harm Addicks. One of the chief recommendations ot this man Chanler whom the Now York democrats are touting for the presidential nomination is that ho can coako a nolso like a barrel. The democratic national platform will doubtless contain a plank demand ing the preservation of the forests. Democrats have to have some tall tim ber to go to every November. . The railroad presidents who declared that the new rate law would kill their business are now explaining that ship ments are being delayed because the railroads have more business than they eat handle. The republicans are going to run a man named Burchard for governor of Rhode Island. It was a man named Burchard that kicked the republican tat into the fire In the national cam paign in 1814. With grand jury indictments - for land frauds catching one lawyer for tbo prosecution and another lawyer tor the defense In the Haywood case, honors must bo easy among the legal lights ot Idaho. Representatives ot "the only good railroad In Nebraska" will soon be ex plaining that they got tangled up with th bad railroads la that. Injunction ease quite by accident and not knowing what they were doing. Judge Gary, head ot the 8teel trust, says "The time has gone by tor the great corporations to ignore the pub lic and the public Interests." There is a suspicion that the public learned that fact before the corporations did. AO LMTT1XQ DOWX TH BAHS. With the approach of the Ak-8sr- Ben carnival pressure Is being brought on the authorities to let down the bars for a number of shady enterprises which would not' bo tolerated In Omaha as regular day In and day out performances. Promoters of thinly-veiled gambling propositions want to sneak in under the license accorded to Ak-Sar-Ben fun-makers in the hope that they may run the gauntlet of the law through the era of good feeling. Having put the ban on the gambling slot machines the police board cannot consistently wink at gambling concessions for car nival week, whether the winnings are promised in money, cigars or candy. The same protection against bunco games afforded to strangers through out the year should be extended to Ak- Sar-Ben visitors. What is said here applies equally to the projected prize fight exhibitions which an attache of an alleged reform paper is trying to engineer disguised as boxing contests. We have had these boxing contests before and know that if they are not fakes they are prise fights. In either case they are prohibited by law, and even if they were not, they are not needed as car nival adjuncts. COST Or RAILROAD COSTBCCTlOIf. Charles H. Cochrane, a constructing engineer, recognized as a high author ity In his profession, has compiled some interesting statistics relating to the cost of railway construction. Railway managers do not agree upon this prop osition, the claims that are made of the physical cost of railroads varying to such an extent as to make the fig ures usually offered absolutely worth less in an effort to strike an average approximate) cost. There can be no fixed rule for the mileage cost of railroads. The cost of the Denver ft Rio Orande, much of which was bored through granite mountains, bears no relation to the cost of roads like the Rock Island, running for the most part through level prairie regions. Mr. Cochrane has, nevertheless, gone to great pains to arrive at something like a general average cost per mile of railroad con struction in this country. Poor's Man ual, also a high authority, places the average cost of construction at $69,443 per mile, but this Includes the cost of rolling stock and terminal Invest ments, which can hardly be included in construction cost. Mr. Cochrane, taking sections of all the leading rail roads in the country, selecting those whose cost varied greatest,' concludes that the average cost of railroad con struction is $49,000 per mile. The Cochrane statistics show that a typical railroad can bef constructed through a rolling prairie country at $21,000 a mile, and he declares that $16,000 a mile will cover the cost In the level prairie regions, where most of the new rail -ds are being pushed. The conclusl is forced, from Poor's figures and those prepared by Mr. Cochrane, that the railroad managers are in fanciful mood when they insist that the construction cost of American railroads legitimately exceeds $126,- 000 per mile. THE DCTT Off WHIT FINS. Lumber dealers'- associations and builders in different parts of the coun try are organizing In an effort to in duce congress to repeal the tariff schedule which places a duty of $2 per thousand on white pine lumber. The agitation tor the removal of the duty Is also causing speculation as to why it was Imposed. The duty was laid ten years ago, at a time when our white pine forests had been practically denuded. At that time Canada waa sending about 700,000,000 feet of white pine lumber to this country every year. The duty was calculated to be prohibitive and accomplished that purpose, as but little white pine has been received from the Dominion In the last decade. In that time the whole state of Michigan has been robbed of Its ptne and but little ot It remains In other sections of the coun try. The lumber tariff has added mu-'.h to the acuteness of the problem of for est preservation and has worked an incalculable hardship on builders, compelled to pay exorbitant prices for material which Canada stood ready to offer In unlimited quantities and at moderate prices had no tariff barrier been raised. Every foot of white pine used In this country In ten years has carried an additional price of $2 per thousand on account of the tariff. The repeal of the duty would not only lighten the load of the consumer, but also aid the government in Its efforts to save the remnant of the nation' timber resources. STOPPIItQ PRESS CRITICISM. Some one offended at the exposure of the peculiar methods of the city au thorities of Joplln, Mo., has wrecked the office of an afternoon newspaper there, destroying Its presses and type setting machinery by exploding dyna mite beneath them. While the perpe trators doubtless expected to put the newspaper out of business and thus stop the objectionable criticism, what they have actually done has been to furnish almost conclusive proof that the strictures passed by the editor were fully warranted. Such an out rage, of course, will bo resented by all fair-minded people and the Joplln newspaper will not suffer except In Its Immediate pecuniary loss. This exhibition of aslninlty at Jop lln finds Its counterpart In a milder form In the action ot a medical society composed of physicians ot two north ern. Nebraska counties, which met at Emerson a week or two ago, which resoluted a demand that the local newspapers refrain from mentioning tbelr names In connection with any case la which they might be employed professionally. The doctors did not use real dynamite to stop criticism, but only figurative dynamite In the Im plied threat of boycott and withdrawal of subscription patronage. The doc tors will probably explain that their purpose was to prevent the less scru pulous among them from securing free newspaper advertising contrary to the medical code and that the request to omit mention referred only to favora ble mention. A doctor may, however, be entitled to unfavorable mention as well as favorable mention, and he ought to know that his profession does not guarantee him Immunity from press criticism. I Unless we are greatly mis taken the resolution of the Nebraska doctors will have about as much effect upon the freedom of the press as the lawless work of the Missouri dyna miters. ths rRoanaiTr or thx tarmir. All the news that comes from the farms In these piping times of pros perity tells of satisfactory prospects. The season of estimates and specula tion Is about ended. Crop scares have lo.Lt their potency and it is now largely a question of weight and measure to ascertain the amount of new wealth that will go this year to the pockets ot the farmers and producers. The latest government reports indi cate a corn crop of 2,500,000,000 bush els, compared with 2,900,000,000 bushels last year, and a wheat crop of 625,600,000, as compared with 635, 261,000 bushels last year. In both cases the production this year is above the ten-year average, although less than the record-breaking crops of last year. Only three times in the history of American agriculture has the corn crop exceeded 2,600,000,000. The wheat crop will be the largest, with five exceptions, In the country's his tory. The oat crop is more of a failure, but, taken altogether and considering the fact that large surpluses were car ried over from last year, there Is an assurance of an abundant supply of all grains for home needs, which are In creasing very rapidly.' with a handsome margin for export at high prices In making good a serious shortage in the European harvests. The cotton crop promises a yield of 18,000,000 bales, with an estimated value of $750,000, 000. Any reduction in the production of cereals will be made up by the ad vanced price due to the steady demand for domestic consumption and the cer tainty of an increased foreign demand, so that the crop of the present year will return as much or more actual revenue as last year. The farmer ac cordingly has reasons for being exceed ingly aelf-saUfled. . The Increase In the value of his land has been prodigious. He has greater assets than ever before and owes little or nothing. He has worked hard for years and nobody will begrudge him his horn of plenty. IND OF A!f AHCIS1IT riQTIT. Acceptance by tlio British govern ment of the request of the United States that all points at issue in the Newfoundland fisheries controversy be referred to The Hague tribunal for final adjudication and settlement promises to end a dispute of nearly 100 years. The question arose out of the . conclusion of a modus Vi vendi to cover the season's fishing in Newfoundland, and out of that came the proposition and acceptance to re fer the whole matter to The Hague, a working plan having been agreed upon to cover the fishing rights pending the final settlement. Certain rights in Newfoundland waters and the Gulf of 8t. Lawrence have been assured to American fisher men since 1818, but disputes between this government and Newfoundland have been almost continuous since that time. The case reached something like a climax in 1889. .when Secretary of State Blaine negotiated what was known ,as the Blaine-Bond treaty, in suring certain reciprocity rights in the fishing industry, but the senate refused to ratify it and Newfoundland fisher men were cut out of the United States waters. Newfoundland could not, of course, abrogate the treaty of 1818, but the province made every effort to make it a dead letter by passing laws greatly to the annoyance of and dis criminating against American fisher men In Newfoundland waters. Secre tary of State Hay negotiated ,a new treaty with Newfoundland a few years ago, but this was also rejected by the senate and the points of dispute have remained. The reference of the entire question to The Hague will be generally ap proved if it really takes this persistent and troubling question out of congress and out of politics.' A candidate for republican nomina tion in Webster county is in a quan dary because, although he filed to go on the official ballot, his name was left off in the printing accidentally or on purpose and he is asking the attorney general what can bo done to make good tb.e mistake. Suppose the omis sion had taken place In the regular election, what remedy would the candi date have had? That is a hard nut to crack unless the responsibility can be traced to some one and proper pun ishment inflicted. Local railroad men are said to bo taking great comfort out of tho de cision of a minor court denying tho validity ot tho Pennsylvania 2-cent faro law as applied to tho Pennsyl vania railroad, drawing tho Inference that If a 2 cent faro Is not sustained In Pennsylvania it cannot be sustained In Nebraska, where the population is so much more sparse and passenger traffic much lighter. That was the same argument presented to the legis lature when tho 2 -cent fare law was pending, but on the heels of It the Ne braska railroads voluntarily put In a 2-cent mileage book and the law makers promptly concluded that it they could carry the commercial trav elers for 2 cents a mile they could carry the farmers at the same rate. Nothing In the Pennsylvania decision alters this ratio. The Philadelphia Press is talking about the Louis Stevenson Chanler boom for the democratic presidential nomination, while the Brooklyn Eagle Is really enthusiastic over the chances of William Astor Chanler. The lieu tenant governor of New York, whose name Is Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, Is the Tammany candidate for the empty honor. The Chanlers ought to get to gether. The taxpayers of Omaha would like very much to know what contract the Water board has made with the expert engineers who are drawing plans for a new water works system and how much the engineers are to be paid. They would like very much to know whether expert engineers come as high as lawyers. Oklahoma papers assert that the clothes worn by Mr. Bryan in the re cent campaign in that state were the same as worn by him in the tour of the territory two years ago. This seems to furnish President Roosevelt an alibi on that clothes-stealing charge preferred by Mr. Bryan. "The democrats must nominate a man upon whom all factions will unite," says Martin W. Littleton of New York. As soon as he is nominated all tho factions-will unite -in jumping on him, as they did on the candidate put In nomination by Mr. Littleton at St. Louis. General Weyler has written a book to prove that he was not entitled to the title of "Butcher" conferred on him in the Cuban campaign. The average American will be willing to take Wey ler's word for it and continue to for get him. A railroad brakeman in Delaware found a wallet containing $3,000 and discovered its owner In an old farmer asleep in the smoking car. The Del aware peach crop can not have been a failure, notwithstanding the reporta. . Tip for Scientist, Washington Post. The next time Hhe scientists find them selves unable to locate- an earthquake re corded by the seismograph they should see whether we have had the rare good fortune to lose a bunch of the Philippine Island. ' Wolf CrU Vnaeeded. Baltimore American. Mr. Harrlman finds that the west, hav ing prosperity at Hs- door, refuses to be panic-stricken by the old familiar cry of "Wolf!" Evidently Walt street is not meet ing with It old-time success In marketing Its hand-made panics. - i Kntnrn'a Fine Balance. Indlan-tpolla News. Although the crops this year will hardly be so large aa laat, It Is confidently be lieved that nature has achieved a nice balance which will enable the maintenance of those prosperity prices for which we, aa a nation, are so justly celebrated. Postpone Prophecy. Portland Oregonlan. Mr. Bryan again berate Mr. Taft for "postponing" all really live Issue to a later time, but when asked to define what Is the most Important , Issue, he says It Is "too early to predict." , Bryan has reached that doubtful point In his career when he even postpones prophecy. Thrift of Immigrant. Philadelphia Record. Our Immigration committee that ha been Junketing all summer in the pleaaant cities of the old world at public expense bring bark the Intelligence that some of the government of Europe are "pleased" when their subject migrate to tills country end send home their earnings. What govern ment have Imparted to the committee this Information doe not appear. But would the committee discourage the coming of these Industrious Immigrants because they save their money and send some of It to their parent and chHdren at home? A PACKAUK roil AMERICAN. We Are Slipshod Lot, In the Opinion of a German Visitor. Washington Star. According to Henry Muller. a chemist ot Berlin, who I visiting America for th first time, there I a deplorable lack of sys tem among the people of the United States. "The thing that strikes me most over here In America," said Mr. Muller, "is the lack of method, the slipshod way you have of doing things. Your people are careless about how the cities grow Into a mass of buildings, without regard for harmony or beauty of any kind. With all the rest of the city commonplace, one will be Jed, In Philadelphia, for instance, to one or two spots that are conspicuous for their at tractiveness, and asked whether Philadel phia la not a beautiful city. If Americans are so careless that they do not aee these incongruities they must not think that others do not. "And that is not all, by any means. You are careless of how you care for the pub llo health. The few laws you have on, the subject are observed but little. You have no general Instructions, widely distributed among alt classes, for protection against contagious disease. When a case Is found, much time Is lost before H Is reported. You are careless about th laws. That man Is accounted the greatest lawyer who can raise th largest number of technicalities to evad the law. It I not a question of whether th man 1 actually guilty or not guilty, but of his state of mind at the time he committed the crime, or whether he tech nically ha disobeyed th statutes. Your educational system la careless In that you permit easy method, rather than strk't discipline, and your laws to compel educa tion are lax. You are careless about your home life, which a German loves more than anything else. You are making money. On the surface you have a veneer of success, but I doubt very much whether America la tending In the direction of thoroughness and efficiency, a It should If It would meet the competition that U bound to con front It." ALOXO PRESIDENTIAL FIR 1.1 Q LI!H Representation of Pnatnera State In nennhllean Convention. Leslie Weekly (rep.) In many of the southern state there I virtually no republican organisation. The party there ha enough members to All the federal offices and to go to national conven tion, but not many beyond this number. And the leader have an Interest in keeping the party small, so to hold the number of claimants for offices down to the lowest possible limit. For Roosevelt In IS only 8,009 vote were cast In Florida, S.00O In taulslana, 1,000 In Mississippi, 2.600 In South Carolina and nearly a small number In several of the other southern states. And yet these handful of office holder and their retainers, who can never cast an electoral vote, have aa much weight In nominating candidate for president a I exerted by many time their number In the northern state which aid In electing presidents. The Injustice in this virtual discrimination against northern communities I rendered more striking by the scandal which attach to many of the southern delegations. Ex cept In 19ti0 and In 1904, when the nomination wa decreed In advance, a large number of the negro delegate from th south were believed to be purchasable by the -highest bidder. In some conventions many of them were purchased, and In one or two conven tion ome of them were purchased by different candidates, swinging from one aspirant to another, and refusing to stay old to the first purchaser. There are excel lent reason of various sorts why the com munities which elect republican president should be given a dominant voice In nomi nating them. Governor Hughe nt Homo. New York World (Ind. dem.) The reason that prompt the republi can machinists to urge Mr. Hughes' nomi nation for president are the very reasons why the people of New York should retain him In the governorship for four years more. He is needed there. He has only begun a work which. If allowed to finish, will mean nothing less than a political and administrative revolution In the state gov ernment. It will establish new standards of effective,- systematic administration to erve as models for the governor of all other states. Mr. Hughe I already doing a work of permanent national Importance. Ho should complete It. If any man la Indispensable to the cause of good state government In the United States at the present time that man Is Charles E. Hughe. When the people of the country have had four year more of Mr. Hughes at Albany there will be time enough to talk about promoting him to the presidency. If Mr. Hughes should eventually become presl Bent of the United State we venture to predict that It will be because the people of the United States appreciate his emi nent qualification for that great office and not because a coterie of republican bosses are determined to get him out of their way. Will Bryan 'Tome OflTf" Watterson, In Courier Journal. That Mr. Bryan and his follower have th power to defeat any nominee other than Mr. Bryan whom the party may put up for president, the Courier-Journal has often aid. That to elect Its preaidenttal ticket the party must satisfy Mr. Bryan, and hi follower, which the Courier-Journal ha also said. Is but a corollary of this. That Mr. Bryan himself short of some unlooked- for cataclysm can carry none of the de batable state necessary to elect that he la no stronger1 now 'than ho wa In 18M and In 100,- having gone from the one to the other to a falling, not a rising vote- Is the belief of the best-Informed demo crats -of those debatable states. Hence, as a tactical question, we have put this propo sition to Mr. Bryan himself whether he does not owe to the party the sacrifice of hi Inclination and his opinion taking their color from hi own optimism and the overconfldence of hi followers and, since there Is a reasonable doubt about It, give us. Instead of an empty and hopeless lead ership In 1908, some opportunity to make an aggressive, enthusiastic campaign, hav ing at least the belief that we have om chance to win? Speaker t'nnnon' Boom. Chicago Inter Ocean (rep.). Neither William II. Taft nor Joseph O. Cannon 1 a man who ha given any attention to becoming rich. Both are men who have preferred the publlo ser vice to the pursuit of wealth. Measured by their act and live they would eem much the same kind of men. Yet how different their attitudes! We hear Mr. Taft debouncing a par ticular group of cltlsens. We hear him talking aa Samuel Qompers might talk on the same elde, or a George F, Baor might talk on the other lde talkl.ig with the class spirit and setting apart a certain group of cltlien for special penallxatlon. On the other hand, we hear the Hon. Joseph O. Cannon speaking in the Amer ican spirit, selecting no special group of Americans for assault, making no dis crimination In cltlaenshlp on the grounds of wealth or poverty or any other, see ing that all cltlsens, whether rich or poor, are equally oubject to -regulation of tholr conduct by th lawa and equally entltlad to protection from the lawa. And In thl difference of attitude and spirit we find a strong reason why com mon sense Americans whose thoughts are of building up rather than tearing down should decline to attach themselves to the cause of the Hon. William H. Taft and turn with quiet confidence to the Hon. Joseph G. Cannon. Who I GehasIT New York Tribune (rep.). "So come, let's get together lefa Jit divide the house; thl will make Its fall only the eaeler. Let's ceae to be hood ninb. hv Charlestonlan; let' deafen our ear to the Insidious agencies of the plutos; let' open our eyes to the truo status of affairs and demand our rigoti; let' Intrust no longer Ellsha's rod to Gehaxl, cease delegating our power to babes and weaklings, but rather to vigor ous manhood who will stand and tight for the common good In plte of hell." go says a South Carolina newspaper. We know who Ellsha Is. He lives in Lin coln, Neb. But who Is this Gchail? Can he be Colonel Watterson? A Saddening- Proposition. Brooklyn Eagle. The threat to establish a college for writer Is saddening. There are In this one country something like a million mis guided person who are trying to live by manufacturing novel, poems, plays, his tories, biographies, essays, cook books and time tables, and there 1 room on these jobs for about a thousand. A college that would teach writers how to sew on buttons, saw wood, fry doughnuts and lay brick would sav a lot of heartaches and enable a well meaning class to earn some money once in a while. A Cnmmeaaaale Improvement. Chicago Record-Herald. A Kansas bank which failed some time ago haa paid its depositors 12 tier cent of the money they lost and I geing to raise the rest for them. Since t ha become th practice to end bunker to jail for swindling their depositors there bas been a vast Improvement In th war of return ing the money. MISS JUUE FLORENCE WALSH Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound made from native roots and herbs. No other medicine in the country baa received such widespread and unqualified endorsement. No other medi cine has Mich a record of cures of female ills. Miss J. r. Walsh, of 528 W. loth 8V. New York City, writes "Lydia E. I'lnkham's Vegetable Compound has been of inestimable vaiu- In restoring my health, I suffered from female Illness which caused dreadful headaches, dizziness, and dnll pains in my back, bait your medicine soon brought about a change in my general condition, built me up and made me perfectly well.'' Lydia E. Finkheni's Vegetable Compound eures Femalo Complaints, sueh'as Backache, Falling and Displacements, Inflammation and Ulcera tion, and organia diseases. It is invaluable in preparing for child birth and during the Change of Life. Itoures Nervous Prostration, Headache, General Debility, and Invigoratea the whole system. Mrs. Pinkham's Standing Invitation to Women Women suffering from any form of female weakness are Invited to write Mrs. rink,ham, at Lynn, Mass. FORTt'XES ROWS TOO VAST. Seed of More Restrictive Inherit ance Tnx. St. Louis Times. Recent attention has been directed to the grandchildren of the late Marshall Field of Chicago by the gossip that tholr mother will educate them In England, with a view of having Marshall Field III enter the British army and to having his younger brother become an officer In the British navy. Unheeding somewhat the outcry on this side of th Atlantic against what la criti cised as Mrs. Field's Unpatrlntism, com ment regarding the will of Marshall Field and the effects It successful carrying out will have seems once more pertinent. Tho elder grandson, the principal heir of the Field millions, is now 13 years old. The Field estate I to remain In trust (In larger part) until he Is 60 years old. when It ' will be divided between the legatees. Careful estimates of - thla estate have placed It at tlGO.OOd.COO. In thirty-seven years, If it Increase t per cent a year and be compounded semi-annually, 'it will amount to 31,00.100,000, allowing for no other appreciation of it enormous realty holdings. ttt man, no estate, has a moral right to' hold 11,400,000,000. The possession of a money power so-vast la a ,menace to so ciety. Within a few month past the country has heard disclosures of how far It greatest corporation had been led Into dishonorable practices simply because It had the wealth and the power and the Inclination to do pretty much as It pleased in violation of both statutory and moral law. And the people are still wondering whether a sharp penalty In the way of fine Imposed upon corporations ever wil! be paid. It will not if the men who have been fined can help It. An Inheritance tax practically confisca tory after certain limit of fortune build ing have'-bteen reached will omo tlay be passed by the sober thought of a people who can view only with alarm tho. erection of mountain of dollar to be used' at the caprice of. an Individual. PERSONAL NOTES The cornerstone of the Garfield monu ment at Long Branch will be laid on Thursday., Soptember 1 the twenty-sixth anniversary of the martyred presidents death, and It Is expected the memorial will be unveiled by President Roosevelt on July 4, next. When President Roosevelt returns to Washington he will have for hi use a fine new team of horses which he has Just bought from William Post & Sons, of East Willlston, L, I. The horses are per fectly matched and have long, ' flowing tails, as the president abominate a docked horse. Luther Burbank, the "wlxard of Callfor- fornla," told the Irrigation congress, which has Just been In session In Sacramento, that there I no secret connection with his business; but that he stands ready to as sist by giving Information to anyone seek ing It. Mr. Burbank ha over 6,000 apecler of plants In training for Improvement. Mr. Bryan' earnings as a lecturer in the west for he lectures very little In thtj cast may be Inferred from the report of the chautauqua management at Meadville, Mo., the other day. The contract was that Mr. Bryan should have one-half the gate re ceipt after the, first 609 ticket had bocn sold. Mr. Bryan' share proved to be T17- When William M. Chase was In Flor ence, Italy, recently he waa Invited by Director Ferrl of the "Royal UffUl Gallery to present hi portrait to the famous col lection of portraits of ancient and modem painter painted by themselves. He will do the work this season. The first Ameri can to be so honored was the late G. P. A. Healy and the second was John 8. Sar geant. 1 Julia 8. Bryant, who was the only daugh ter of William Cullen Bryant, ' and who died In Paris a week or o ago, was pne sessed of a house at Cummlnglon. Mass., where her father was born. This house I to be thrown open to the public as a memorial to that' poet. Since her father's death In 1879. Miss Bryant made her home in Paris with her cousin, Miss Anna Fair child. : trains daily ; ) from ; o J J maha Un Three last trains dailv : Fred HaTVCV T i i - meals ; block-signal safeguards ; easy riding, dustlcss track. Chair cars free. Tourist sleeper on payment of berth rate. Personally-conducted excursions. Grand Canyon of Arizona, $6. 50 extra. Aik for particulars and ' To California in a Tourist Sleeper" Ssail Larimer, Paa. Agent, A. T. k s. r. ., 406 6th At., Equitable' Bldg, IXS Moines, low. WOMEN SUFFER Many women suffer in alienee and drift along from bad to woraa, know ing; well that they ought to have immediate assistance. How many women do yon know who are perfectly well and Strong The cause may be easily traced to some feminine derangement which manifests Itself in depression ot spirits, reluctance to go any w her or do anything, backache, dragging sensations, flatulency,- aervonaneaa, and sleeplessness. These symptoms are but warn Inga that there is danger ahead, and un less heeded, a life of suffering1 or a serious operation la tho Inevitable result The best remedy for ail these symptoms is iter advice is rree. , RIGHT KIXD Or TALK. Yalne of Reformation In Certain Lines of BasUnosa. Brooklyn Eagle. Paul Morton should bo heard from trior frequently. He says that - ultimately II will be found that the Influence of th president ha been for the genera) good of American business, adding: "A year ago the Chicago packing hcnis scandals were-tho talk .of the world. Every music hall had some reference to the. character of the irroduct of- Chicago and one would almost imagine that tht United State wa poisoning the entlrt British nation. On Saturday I read In an English paper that a contract had been made by the British government by which the' English army I to be supplied with meat by a Chicago firm, . .This- report -wa accompanied by a statement to the effect that in cleanliness, scientific method and the cheapness of tha product the Chicago bcof houses were the finest In the world, or something to that effect. In othet words, confidence In that Industry-has been restored, and so I believe It will be with other American Industrie, and enterprise which are now being -urged to undergo n similar process of reformation." Talk uf this sort la (u Hemand, . Nothipg can be safer than to discount what ex tremists say, whether they be Worshlpert at the shrine of the president or. whether they be howler of the calamity brand. Tho country la not going to the devil. The president should be slow to pursut any policy coupling the Innocent with tht guilty and compelling them to. share tht earn fnte, but there Is nothing organically wrong with the United State. They will puli through. The Morton talk was not a waste of breath. ", ' FLASHES Of FUX. The bonrder, who had, received a. hastily written scrawl, brought Tt to flu- Jundlord. l "I can't rend this, Mr. Hickam," he eald, "Cart you niaka It out?" "I guess I can, Mr. D Link," answered the landlord. "I made if out an hour or two ago. It' your bJU.'VClilcagb Tribune. "No." said the stubborn man, "nobody can alter my regard for. Jlggin. ie'a a man you don't meet every flay." ' "I admit that," replied, , Murkley, "but 1 attribute It to the fact tfiat I loaned him $10 several months ago." Catholic Standard and Times. i ' 1 He, (angrily) But you 'can't prove that I proposed to you. , She, (calmly) Yes I can. We were on the stoop when you asked me to marry you, and the neighbors on either nlde, for four houses away, heard you: distinctly. Cleve land Plain Dealer. "I should like to write you for an accident policy," said the insurance man. "No use," replied the Billvllle editor, "Had one for ten years and been In sixteen railroad wrecks and ain't even had a leg cut off, or an arm broke! I'm the un lucklent mortal In existence!" Atlanta Con stitution. . "I have discovered one far't In natural history," said the smart hopeful of tho family. "What Is that, my son?" Inquired the proud father. 'That trees are shout the only thing whlrh can leave and ty around at th same time.'VUaltimore ,Amrlcan. -. . -i . "Funny thing about Pnbley. He said h needed a littlo whisky because ha waa run down." r. "Well, wasn't he run down?" "I don't know about that; btlt I do know he was run In." Catholic Btandard and Times. "SPARE ME MV DREAMS." Richard Watson Gilder hj Collier' .. I:' n ; Relentless Time, that give both harsh and kind. Grave let me her ' To take thy varlou gift with equal mind, ' And proud humility; But, even by day, while- tha. full sunlight gleums, Give nie my dream! ,. It' ' . . Whatever. Time, thou - takeat from my heart. What from my life. From what dear thing thou yet mayesl make me part Plunge not too deep the knife; As dies the day, and the long twilight gleams, Spare me my dreams! ' Fred Harvey V