THE OMAHA DAILY BEBi MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1907.
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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,
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refore me tbla list day of Auguit, 107.
v (Seal) M. B. HL'NOATK,
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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. -
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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
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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 ;
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Three last trains dailv : Fred HaTVCV T
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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
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