THE HEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, MAY 14. 1909.
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STATEMENT OP" CIRCULATION.
State r,t Nebraska. Douglas County, as:
George B. Txschuck. treasurer of The
fee Publishing company, being duly
fnrn, says that the actual number of
full sr.d complete corlea of The Dally,
Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed
during the month of April, 1909, was as
Jollow:
1 8t,960 IT 41,030
2 39,060 II.... J7.130
8 39.4SO . It 40,38
4 3,a00 10 40,020
6 ...41,300 Sl...i 40,410
40,540 . 2!, 40,400
7 41,000 - . II.;- 40,380
1 41,460 ' 14.; 40,040
41,680 36 43,480
10 . 41,400 Ss. ......... 48,880
11 S7.3O0 27. 48,520
12 41,300 II . 4580
18...
. , 41,440 It
V
45,390
14 40,80 10 . 40
1 40,600
It 40,6 CO Total. .1430,410
Returned- copies... , 11.803
Net total! liaaMOT
Dally average....,.,... ..' 40440
GEORGE a TZSCHUCK,
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Subscribed In my presence and sworn to
before ma this 1st day of May, 1909.
M. P. WALKER,
Notary Publia.
WBBIT OCT Of TOWW.
Subscribers leaTtaar the city tern
porartly shoald have Tho Be
mailed to tkesa. Address will be
chaaged aa aftea as reqaested.
Keep politics out of the' county hos
pital. There Is no call, there for po
litical doctori or political nurses.
A Ponca man la reputed to have
. walked nine miles to get a drink. No
' record of how far he walked in getting
back home.
If Mr. Harriman has a grip on the
Chicago Great Western it is a safe
guess that he will not let go if he can
help it.
A Milwaukee man has engineered a
comer in pretzels. . How maay steins
required for a man to see a corner in
a pretzel? i J.
A Carnegie library Is to be planted
in Norfolk, Neb. Now for another
eruption from' our amiable democratic
contemporary;. '
It is perfectly mete and proper that
the pressure for a reduced tariff on
window glass should come from the
hailstorm belt
The fraternal organization known
t as the Western Bees is to move Its
headquarters to Omaha. Welcome to
our namesakes.
.!
Drowning people catch at straws,
but it doesn't follow that is the con
dition of all the people you see around
the soda fountain.
English reviewers have decided that
George Ade's style lacks form. A
well-selected chorus is supposed to
supply jhls deficiency.
According to Omaha's most eminent
artist, it would be far better for us to
have eneap hosiery than cheap works
of art. "Why not both?
Over 1,000,000 old election ballots
have Just been sold to the junk men
in Boston at pound rates. ,What a dis
count', from the original, purchase
price. '
A grandson of Admiral Perry is to
be received by the emperor of Japan.
The young man will find ample proof
over there that his grandfather started
' something.
HuaUog Hons in Africa would be
nothing as compared to the fun he
would have chasing the Tammany
tiger, (if Roosevelt should consent to
run fof mayor of New York.
Amateur theatricals are the reign
,ing stunt In society in the east. Last
year ft was monkey shows and the
; critics are afraid, to say which puts
, up the( better performance.
Twq, thousand acres per day of for
mer range lands are being plowed up
; to be put in crops In two 8outh Dakota
counties. That should help some to
ward solving the world's food prob
lem.
Several missionaries to the Congo
country are on trial for libel. That
someone has done a tremendous
amount of lying about the conditions
1a that country Is self-evident, and it
is to be nope4 the present proceedings
will develop, which set of missionaries
told the ttuthV v
According to General Allen, chief of
the army signal corps, who ought to
know, the balloon bouse at Fort
Omaha is Jibe finest in the world. Our
people should wake up to an apprecla
tloa of what they tave right here at
borne which many o there; would travel
tciwcs tot'Jacnts to see.'
I Come Along:, Mr. Aldrich.
Senator Aldrich has announced
that sometime after adjournment of
congress, probably in the fall cam
paign, he will tour the country, fol
lowing the example of Mark Hanna,
just to show the people that he is not
adorned with the boms and forked tall
of his Satanic majesty.
From the way the insurgent sena
tors are going after the Rhode
Islander it Is not Impossible that some
folks may get to believe that he is the
human Incarnation of Mephlatopheles.
If he has any horns we want him to
bring them along when he comes out
west. No No. 2 company will go out
here palmed off for the'original cast.
We are willing to pay the price of ad
mission and at the same time show
the senator several things that are too
big for him to take home to his little
two by four state of Rhode Island.
The west Is generous and kindly
disposed and does not yet imagine it
knows it all. We are willing to live
and let live and as proof are ready to
guarantee that Mr. Aldrich returns
home safe and sound and that he will
learn as much from his trip as our
people will learn from him. If he
will tell us all he knows as an expert
on the currency and the tariff the west
will appreciate the favor and in turn
convince him that a whole lot of this
country lies outside of New England.
If he proves to be Just half as good a
fellow as Mark Hanna did when the
Ohloan toured the west to show off his
horns, we will send him home as we
did Hanna, a bigger, broader and more
farseeing man than when he came.
Carelesi Handling- of Explosives..
Twenty killed In a New York stone
quarry is the toll paid for the careless
ness of those charged with the
handling of high explosives. Scarcely'
a day passes without telegraphic re
ports of similar casualties, though the
losb of life In this instance is greater
than common though by no means a
record. The catastrophe simply Illus
trates how cheaply human life is held
in this country.
Explosives, particularly those of
high power such as are used in large
undertakings, are dangerous at best,
but neither the law nor. custom af-
forda the protection It could or should
to the people who must work in and
around them. The transportation
companies have been compelled to ex
ercise care in their handling and for
their own protection the railroads
have gone farther than the law com
pels them to do. After the dangerous
compounds have been turned over to
the users the restraints are too often
removed. Inexperienced men are en
trusted with their handling, but more
frequently the accidents occur through
the carelessness or ignorance of out
siders. There appears to be no neces
sity for so large a number of men
as were killed in this instance to.be
presenter within the ,danger . zone
when . preparations are made.. tor .dis
charging such a death-dealing dose.
Adequate regulation as ' to the
methods of handling and the placing
of work with explosives in the hands
of experts would save hundreds and
possibly thousands of lives each year.
For the coal mines this has been done
in many states, but in other darigerous
caUlnga the toll of human life con
tinues to be exacted because of an in
excusable desire to avoid the extra ex
pense proper precautions would entail.
Taft Bedeeming- Promises.
One of President Taft's announced
policies was to endeavor to the best
of. his ability to appoint only men of
the highest character and attainment
to the federal bench, that these quali
ties were to be the first consideration
and all others subordinate. In his
appointment to the judicial vacancy in
North Carolina he haa demonstrated
that he meant just what he said.
Owing to the peculiar, condition pre
vailing there, no-republcan lawyer fill
ing all the requirements of experi
ence and character could be found in
the district, and rather than make an
unsatisfactory appointment Mr. -Taft
has named a democrat for the place.
In doing bo he makes it plain, how
ever, that the nomination is not made
because the man la a democrat, but
in spite of the fact, and that the only
purpose Is to insure a fully equipped
bench.
Those. who profess to see in this a
possibility that federal places as a rule
are to be given to democrats, south or
north, are likely to be disappointed,
but it serves notice that if southern
republicans want the offices they must
present candidates who possess all the
needful qualifications. The president
is holding out no bait to the south,
but eimply giving the south what it,
like all other sections of the country
are entitled to, capable officials. While
Mr. Taft is not making unusual noise
about it, every time he has the oppor
tunity of making good on a campaign
pledge he is doing it.
Mr. Straus to Constantinople.
The political revolution that has
taken place in Turkey gives the posi
tion of American ambassador to Con
stantinople a particular importance at
thia time, not exceeded by our dlploj
matle representation at anyEuropean
capital and makes the selection of
Oscar S. Straus, formerly member of
Mr. Roosevelt's cabinet as head of the
Department of Commerce and Labor,
and likewise previously experienced as
our accredited representative to the
sultan'a government, a most wise and
satisfactory choice.
It is doubtless due wholly to the de
velopments of the last , few months,
centering the eyes of Europe and the
whole world upon the Turkish capital,
that Mr. Straus has been persuaded
to accept this assignment, which he
had before filled and which, otherwise,
would hardly have afforded him full
scope for his high talents as a diplo
mat and public man. His return to
Constantinople as our ambassador will
testify to Mr. Straus' high idea of pub
lic duty and his willingness to serve
the country in the capacity In which
he can do most good.
With Mr. Straus In close touch with
the Turkish situation and advising
him as to the requirements of our
position in thst highly complicated in
ternational tangle. President Taft will
surely feel that our Interests there are
fully protected and that he has the
very best man he could have In that
most trying place.
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Progress in Dry Farming.
A few years ago when an enthusias
tic Nebraskan who had made a study
of the soil conditions announced that
the semi-arid regions of the middle
west could be made to raise bountiful
crops he was called an impractical
dreamer. He reminded those who
laughed at him that much of what
was once a part of the so-called
"Great American desert" was already
raising bountiful crops and that those
who first said this was possible were
similar subjects of ridicule. He was
reminded that the older skepticism
was born of a misconception of the
character of the soil and the quantity
of rainfall, all of which had behind it
largely the force of fact. But, undls-
couraged, he kept on Insisting that
one drop of water intelligently handled
could do the work two had previously
been doing. His Insistence finally
found a few converts willing to back
him sufficiently. to enable him to make
a practical demonstration. Today
there are thousands of converts to the
dry farming Idea and thousands of
acres have been thus added to the pro
ducing area of the country.
Colorado, Wyoming and Texas in
particular are taking hold of the new
method and demonstrating by the un
answerable logic of successful farming
on a practical scale that the remainder
of the "desert" can provide' homes and
a profitable occupation for many thou
sands. When crops can be success
fully raised on seven and one-half
inches of annual rainfall instead of
the Minimum of twenty-five, as once
supposed, it Is time for the former
"crazy" man to smile at the expense
of the ones who clung to outgrown
prejudice.
The dry farmer has not demon
strated that it takes less moisture to
raise a crop than formerly, but he has
taught the lesson of the age, the con
servation of what we have and econom
ical Instead of wasteful use.
Socialists in Omaha.
The official canvass of the recent city
election in Omaha shows that the head
of the socialist ticket running for
mayor received 441 votes. Three
years before the socialist candidate for
the same office received - 427 Tote.
Last year the socialist presidential
ticket received in Omaha 676 votes.
Taking these figures as reflecting the
normal socialist strength in Omaha
would Indicate that the socialists here
constitute a small group firmly de
voted to the principles whlcn that
party represents, but practically sta
tionary in numbers.
During the recent city campaign the
socialists were more than usually ac
tive in circulating their literature.
Their candidates went before the peo
ple on a platform of distinct pledges,
socialistic in their tendency, yet not
unattractive. They demanded that
the city acquire and itself operate all
the public service utilities, that a free
public highway be erected between
Omaha and Council Bluffs, that the
city health department be expanded to
furnish free medical service and free
medicines, that all public work be
done by day labor on an eight-hour
basis at union wages. And yet, not
withstanding this program, which
would naturally appeal to the laboring
men and the poorer classes, the social
ist vote shows no gains. x
It strikes us that these facts furnish
most encouraging evidence that the
people have not been led away in any
great number by the socialist schemes
for the complete reorganization of so
ciety, but prefer to work for practical
improvement of existing institutions
through the established machinery of
government.
Something will have to be done to
prevent a recurrence of the fatality
which overcame the Fort Crook sol
dier who tried an inebriation experi
ment with a barber's supply of witch
hazel. Either the barber shops will
have to take out liquor licenses or the
pure food Inspectors will have to en
large their jurisdiction.
The local Bar association is to take
up the question of dealing with al
leged Jury bribing with a view to co
operating for its extermination. It is
to be hoped the Bar association will be
more persistent and successful in this
than it has been in dlsbarlng its own
members guilty of questionable prac
tices. A labor unionist asserts that Moses
called the first strike in the brick
yardVof Egypt. It will also be re
membered that when he called his
people to walk out they wandered
around for forty years before they set
tled down again to a steady job.
A Texas college professor wandered
over into Arkansas and forgot who be
was or where he came from. Arkan
sas must have reformed it he found
anything there to make him forget
Texas.
There will be a great deal of tourist
travel through Omaha this summer,
with the Seattle exposition as au addi
tional attraction to take eastern peo
ple west. Omaha should do some
thing to Induce these tourists to break
their Journey by stopping over here.
A growing city can have no advertise
ment more effective than a personal
Inspection.
Abdul Hamld Is reported to have
given up the money he had on deposit
In foreign banks. Abdul Is In much
the same predicament as the man fac
ing a gun in a poker game who could
not under the circumstances be ex
pected to argue the point.
Collector Loeb at the port of New
York has unearthed some more cus
toms frauds due to underwelghlng. If
he can keep up the gait he tins set In
preventing frauds he may be able to
settle the treasury deficit without the
aid of congress.
An Indiana man who has reached
the age of 102 confesses he has never
written a book. He had better hurry
up, for If he tells that story to St.
Peter his veracity is likely to be ques
tioned. The Water board's refusal to take
care of the accrued hytfrant rental is
costing the taxpayers of Omaha ap
proximately $3,000 a month. Wrhat
are we going to do about it? ,
Exceeds the Contract Price.
New York Sun.
If Mr. Roosevelt has really cRptured
alive with his hands, no doubt a hitherto
unknown animal, half xebra and half
giraffe, his account of it would be worth
more than a dollar a. word.
Drawing" the Distinct Ion.
Indianapolis News.
As that Omaha balloon didn't explode
until the landing, it was, of course, an
entirely successful ascension. On the other
hand, however, if It had exploded a few
moments sooner the same could hardly
be said.
Some Krmarki on Mldca.
loulaville Cburler-Journal.
The skin of the black fox Is worth hun
dreds and even thousands of dollars. It
appears from the way Dolllver went after
Aldrich in the senate that there may be
an Impression that the skin of the gray
wolf is worth as much as that of the black
fox.
Politics and Judgeships Divorced.
Baltimore American.
The American public generally will com
mend President Taft's decision to divorce
Judgeships from politics and to obtain for
the bench the best men, Irrespective of
other considerations. The judiciary should
be like Caesar's wife above suspicion. It
should te a bulwark of law and justice
upon which the people can look with ab
solute trust.
Extended Corn Acreage.
Springfield Republican.
.Reports from the west Indicate the plant
ing of a greatly extended acreage to corn,
the principal cereal crop of the country.
Present prices are highly stimulating to this
result, and not - only will the abandoned
winter wheat acreage be given over to
corn, but further areas additional to those
usually devoted to the crop will be planted.
If the season proves fairly favorable the
corn crop of 1909 should break all rec
ords.
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Safety Devices oa 'Railroads.
Boston. Herald.
Out of a railway mileage In this country
amounting in 190S to more than ZH,2Z
miles, at the close of that year there were
only B9.M8 mites under the block system
at signalling operation of trains, the net
gain for the year being 870 miles. This
tortotse-llke pace in effecting adequate,
rational operation of American railroads
Is due more than anything else to popular
Indifference to loss of life and limb. Were
Americana sufficiently reverent of human
ity as such, were they even alive to the
economic waste involved In destruction of
property and Ufa by collision, they would
not permit railroads, on the excuse of
"hard times," to deflect public opinion
which demands the protection of the best
signalling systems.
A MIST OF EXPLANATION.
Missouri Rate Decision Wrapped I'p
la a Fog. .
St. Louis Republic. '
Judge McPherson's supplemental decision
In the I-cent rate case, filed In the Kansas
City federal court, recalls Mark Twain's
remark that he "hated explanations; they
always fogged up a thing so." It is
chiefly made up of comment upon and de
fense of this utterance from the original
decision:
"It being a legislative act and not a
Judicial one, thla court cannot fix rates.
It It could, Hts-eent passenger rates would
ba fixed for the stronger roads and S for
the others. But that Is for the legislature
acting itself with experts such as the slate
employed In these cases, or through a com
mission with like assistance." v
Why this should need elucidation does not
appear. The statement Is simple and di
rect. Its meaning should ba clear to the
meanest intelligence. Two ,f the three
sentences composing the quotation art al
most ax'.omatlo in their force. The coa
trast between the clear light of the original
utterance and the misty twilight of the
explanation. "My statement (I. e., that the
court cannot (ix rates) is not controverted
by anyone. Thia being so, of course,
what I said. above is obiter dictum. But
because It is obiter dictum is no reason
whatever for not saying it, and still leas
a reason for now eliminating it from my
opinion."
The utterance as to the amount of an
equitable rate having been pronounced an
obiter dictum, the supplementary opinlun
goes on to amplify, explain and defend
it. All this Is very interesting as show
ing the personal opinions of Judge Mc
Pherson, but It adds nothing but con
fusion to the attempt to understand the
decision of the court. And this is the
matter with which the public and the rail
roads axe chiefly concerned. Since there
was no doubt In the mind of anyone as
to the meaning of the original decision,
the only possible function of a supple
mentary decision is to extend or restrict
the application of the principles laid down
In the original, or to make clearer the
grounds on which it was based. None of
these things is done in the supplementary
decision, as reported. Like Malvelio's
prison, "It hath ba.y wlndowa transparent
as barricadoes and the clear stories to
ward the south-north are as lustrous as
bony."
It might ba well If our jurists would oc
casionally recall to mind the principle
enunciated by a witty editor In returning
a manuscript to H. R. Haweis: "Sir I
return your manuscript without apology
or explanation, for I have observed that
wheraaa an editor Is usually right la his
decisions, ha is Invariably wrong when
ha attempts tq give bis reasons "
Around New York
BUpplss on the Current of Ufa
as Been la the ereet Aaaertoe
Metropolis from Say ta Pay.
A divorce suit Involving several families
on tho social upper levels of Manhattan
and Brooklyn dors not differ In rsaentlal
from the average of domestic rases aired
In court, but Introduces a new element sug
gestive of the abundance of variety avail
able if the ground la properly worked. The
prime cause of the trouble In the family
was the wife's penchant for sentimental
affinities. Limericks and affinities do not
necessarily travel abreast or tandem. Both
may he wholly iimxent of relationship.
Somehow, In the present case, the limer
icks were built on the concealed joker
plan, and as rne of these Jokers exploded
tit an unseemly stage of the game tha
shock was sufficient to remove hubby's
spectacles and put him next to tha
affinities. This pair did tha business:
There was a young woman named Etta,
Who really shojld have known better.
Her folks did what they could ,
To make "her be good;
Not aucceedlng, said, "Oh, let her."
Thera was a young man named Ed,
Who always went early to bed.
He married a wife,
The bane of his life; 1
He'll bo far better off when he's dead.
In three months' time, and that, too, at
a season when there "were complaints of
business stagnation, there were 81,000,000
of Investment, present or prospective, in
new building construction In Manhattan
alone. Judging by the precedents, says
the New York Times, this of Itself is to ba
accepted as Irresistible evidence of the
speedy return of business prosperity of all
kinds, If thla average be kept up during
the remainder of the year and the Indica
tions are that It will be I2oO,OOU,000 will
have been converted Into fixed capital In
real estate investment on the Island of
Manhattan. It is, of course, explained In
part by the fact that money is so plentiful
that it can be obtained for real estate In
vestment at a rate which would make the
Interest charge not much more than 4 per
cent. In this way funds are being diverted
from the speculative markets to those of
real estate Improvements.
The Indications are that this real estate
Inveutment, almost unparalleled, since It
was exceeded but once, that time being In
the year of 1601, is to be continued through
out the year, as has been said. That Judg
ment Is based upon what is known to be
contemplated investments in the summer
and fall. Some of them are going com
pletely to change the character of Fourth
avenue, from Union square to Thirty
fourth street. That avenue Is to reflect
or supplement the business impulse which
has converted Fifth avenue from Centsal
park to Fourteenth street .Into tha world's
most brilliant shopping thoroughfare.
Merchants who do not feel Justified In 'en
tailing the enormous expense which build
ing construction on Fifth avenue Involves
are venturing upon Fourth avenue to tha
east and upon tho croes streets as well.
Two new hotels on Forty-second street,
east of Fifth avenue, are among the con
templated real estate Improvements of this
spring. One Is to be twenty -four stories
in height, and another, flanking it at Mad
ison avenue and Forty-second street, is to
be thirty-one stories In height. And these
two ventures alone will represent new In
vestment In hotel properties In New York
not far fiom 15,000,000. It is In part dua to
this real eaUtte activity in New York that
steel and Iron manufacturing, at least orf
Us structural side, and thst the manufac
ture ot machinery and tools have been
considerably stimulated since tha first of
tha year. ... - -,
To prevent as far as possible tha num
ber of robberies in New York getting into
the newspapers, only six of the largest
tiawnshops are now trusted with the daily
list of stolen articles as printed at police
headquarters. These lists show, however,
that since January 1 more than 0, 000,000
worth of goods has been stolen from tha
residents of New York City.
The lists left at the big pawnshops dally
are printed on green paper, and are divided
under the various headings watches stolen,
diamonds. Jewelry, silverware, clothing etc
They are marked confidential and are
signed by Commissioner Bingham.
The remaining loan shop proprietors,
numbering about 135 on ,the east and west
aides , of the city, have no lists sent to
them, and for the last six weeks tha de
tectives have ceased to make their dally
rounds to inquire after stolen property. As
a result the majority of the pawnbrokers do
not know whether goods have been stolen
or not, and the public suffers In the end.
as it makes things easy for the burglars
to get rid of their loot.
Nine-months-old Evans Kllleen, of 26J
Avenue A, swallowed a "Jack," one of the
little eight-pronged metal toys used by
children in playing marbles.
The little fellow had snatched the "Jack"
from one of several children playing In the
hallway of the house. He gasred, clawed
at hia throat and sank into semiconscious
ness. His mother happened to come in the
door and tha other children excitedly told
her what had happened. The woman
slapped the baby's back violently, hut could
not dislodge the piece of metal. Her
screams attracted a policeman, who sum
moned Dr. Teatson from Bellevue. The
surgeon arrived quickly In the new auto
mobile ambulance and decided to operate
at once.
But ha did not have the tuba used in such
cases, so he bundled (the boy Into the ma
chlne and told the chauffeur to put on full
speed. With the siren sounding for blocks
ahead, the car raced along at about fifty
miles an hour. At Twentieth atreet and
Second avenue the surgeon saw the boy had
hardly a minute to live.
"Stop!" he yelled to the driver.
When the car halted the doctor picked
up the baby by the heels, leaned over tha
bock of Ithe ambulance and for fully a
minute swung the boy In a circle, now and
then, when the hend wss toward the street,
giving the body a Jerk. Suddenly there
was a metallic ring on the atreet.
The "Jack" had been dislodged, and tha
doctor, panting from his exertions, placed
the child on the couch again, and once
more the chaffeur put on full speed and
went whizsing like mad to Twenty-sixth
street, rounding the corner into tha acci
dent ward with a dizzy skid.
The life of the baby was saved by Dr.
Pearson's remarkable "operation."
There were about IMO persons In the
crowd that watched the surgeon swinging
and shaking the baby. They did not Inter
fere, although the treatment wss violent,
for they knew the doctor was well aware
of what he was doing. When the "Jack"
dropped the doctor, mopping his brow, sat
down on the bench of the smbulanca ex
hausted, the crowd cheered him.
What Is Really deeded.
San Francisco Chronicle.
There is a growing belief that an asylum
Is hardly the proper place to send a per
son afflicted wltti homicidal mania. Most
of the conspicuous patients of this class
appear to need tha attentions of tha hang
man more than those of a nurse, and
would ba subjected to the noose treatment
If thera was health sense of account
ability on tha part of tha Jurlea
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A RAILROAD AXNIVERSARYY.
Marveloas Proaress la Railroad Work
la Forty Years.
St. Louis aiube-Democrat
When, on May 10, 1SOT, Thomas Durant
and Leland Stanford drove the golden
spike which completed the track laying Of
tha Union and the Central Pacific roads,
did they or anybody else dream of the ex
pansion In railway construction which the
next forty years would bring In the United
States? Probably not The meeting of tha
rails on that day took place near Ogden,
in Utah. Thera were 46,000 miles of rail
way main track In the country at that
time. little over 290,000 miles are her
now. The railway system of the United
States at this moment has a capitalisation
of over 115,000,000,000. which represents an
eighth of the $190.0(0.000.000 of the wealth of
the entire country in 1909.
The event In Utah forty years ago com
memorated the completion of the flrat of
the transcontinental lines of railway, and
transmuted tha dreams of Asa Whitney
and Thomas H. Benton Into fact. Today
six lines span the continent In the United
States. The Canadian Pacific extends from
the Atlantic to the big western ocean. The
Grand Trunk Paclflo, another road crossing
through Canada, is expected to touch ths
Paclflo In mi. The Canadian Northern,
according to present plans, will reach thera
by 1914 or earlier. Probably by the tlms
that Canada haa Its three transcontinental
roads the United States will have added
one or two mora to Its own list.
Three-quarters of a century ago, when
we were sending to England not only for
rails and locomotives, but also for men to
run tha latter, who would have Imagined
that a day would come when the United
States would not only exceed England in
railway mileage, but all of Europe? That
day came long ago. The United Stales In
190S hfcs ten times as many miles of rail
way main track as ths United Kingdom
It has 40 per cent more miles than all. of
Europe. It has 42 per cent of the mileage'
of the entire world. American .built loco
motives may ba found on every continent
on the globe. The 1,500.000 employes of tha
railways ot the United States constitute
ss large an army as were under ths Rus
sian and Japanese commanders combined
at tha time when President Roosevelt
brought the truce In 1906 which led to tha
peace of Portmouth.
PATENTS AND MONOPOLIES.
Law y Shoald Work Forfeits
of
I' aased Patents.
Wall Street Journal.
In 1907 ths liberal government in Great
Britain succeeded In passing Into law a
very Important act dealing with foreign
patents. In effect, It made it necessary
thst an article patented In Great Britain
by a foreigner should be manufactured In
Great Britain. If It Is not so manufac
tured anybody can apply to revoke the
patent and can proceed to manufacture
the article forthwith.
Justice Parker, one of tha strongest
lawyers of tha king's bench, has now
handed down a decision on the first for
eign patent holder's apnea.) under tha
terms of this law, In which he revokes
tha patent. In doing so he has laid down
a broader principle and one which ought
to be good law In this country just as
much as In England, whlls It may be
called sound equity anywhere.
In effect tha fcngllsh Judge says thst
letters patent create monopolies and are,
therefore. Contrary to the spirit of the
common law as being restraints on trade.
They ars only granted for tha encourage
ment of trade and of inventions useful to
trads and It la felt to be intolerable that
tbsy should be used exclusively to pre
vent the development of new industries
or to fetter existing Industries. He refers
here to all patents, and not merely to
those affected by the law of 1907. He pro
ceeds upon tha broad principle that a pat
ent, which. In effect la a monopoly. Is
granted not for the sole profit of individ
uals, hut for the benefit of ell.
Our legislatures may very properly de
vote their time In preference to risky ex
perimental legislation to extinguish dor
mant patenta and franchises. A patent
which Is granted but not used, the title of
which Is retained purely to restrict fair
competition Is a monopoly In restraint of
trade. It confers a privilege never con
templated or Intended. It falls to come
within Justice Parker's definition of a
grant for tha benefit of all. failure to
manufacture under a patent within a rea
sonable time should ba automatically
followed by the cancelling of that patent,
with free permission to everybody to util
ize tho protected process or principle.
Our product and reputation are the
best advertisement we can offer
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PERSONAL NOTES.
According to the bureau of statistics we
are still 2.000,000 shy of the 90,000.000 mark;
but ws will make It by another yaar"if we
have ta Import 'em.
A St. Louis wife left her husband and
applied for a divorce berauae she couldn't
eat the heavy, sour biscuits ha baked. It
serves Mm right. No nr.an who is a', poor
cook has any busipess marrying
George R. Hough, for forty-tVo years a:
conductor on the Wabash in llllnoji and
Iowa, died In 8t- .Paul, Minn., from d
stroke of paralysis, aged 79. He began
working upon tha Wabash in . lSo. at
Springfield. 111. l-.-.-y -, .
Miss E. D. Todd of New York expect
to have an aeroplane ready for Its trial
flight early In June. The machine is for
one passenger and she expects to drive It
herself. ' It Is to be propelled by gasoline
engine and Is planned to have a maximum
speed of forty miles An hour. '
Mrs. C. E. Whltnal and Mrs. Meta Berger .
were elected school directors in Milwaukee
the other day. Twenty-one men are said,
to have run for the same office and only
three were elected. Mrs. C. J. Evans was '
elected to the school board in- Topeka, Kan.
She was supported by members of the
Women's Federated Clubs, many of them
going to the polls In their carriages and
bringing their women servants with them.
Justice Clark of the New' York supreme
crAirt, sitting In Rochester, recently' had a
word or two to say tor people who go
about public highways-on foot. Address
ing the' grand Jury', he declared:' "Ths
automobile la an Institution which has '
come to stfty. But the pedestrian was here .
first. He has certain defined rights. One
of these is thst he must be protected In
traveling on the public highways. Care
less, reckless and criminal operation of
automobiles must be stopped."
6 AID .Iff FUN, : ,,
"Jenks is a pushing sort of a fellow,
isn t he?"
"I should Judge ao by his performances
with the baby carriage and the saw a
mower, 'lialtlmorv American,
Belle Well, you ought to be happy.
Nelle Why?
Belle You've married a rich husband.
Nelle No, I haven't; I've married a- rich
man, but he's a mighty poor husband
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Lawyer Madam, what la your ageT
Tha Oppoalllon (Interrupting Your
honor, I submit that my honorable oppon- '
ent Is Inciting tha witness to perjury I
Cleveland Leader. . v
"You ought to ba more rarefuf about
what you say in your speeches' before your
colleagues."
"I suppose I ought," snswered Senator
Sorghum. "But to tell the truth, I didn't
realise that any one was listening. Wash
ington Star,
Salesman (at- bookstore) "Perhaps this
is what you are looking for. It's a work
sntltled, 'Housekeeping Made Easy.' Tells
you all about"
Anxious Customer "No; we've got that.
Haven't you a book called "Moving Made
Easy r' Chicago Tribune.
"Jjdge," said the prisoner, 'if you give
me a severe sentence I shall never live to
pay It."
"That being the case," responded tha
Judge, gravely, "I sentence yrxi to life Im
prisonment, and I fall to sea how suicide
ran have any hearing on tha payment"
Philadelphia Ledger.
"He testified that the agents of the com
pany tried to bribe him, eh? What could
have been his motive In giving there
away?"
"It la generally supposed that they didn't
offer hiin quite ss much a &s bad
expected." Chicago Tribune.
PENALTIES OP FAME.
J. K. Bangs in Harper's Weekly.
I dreamed that fame was mine.
Ana all slong the line
Friends, relatives and f oea aJl three
Began to hammer' me.
And when I woke 'twas with relief im
mense To find my fame marked down to thirty
cents.
I had the dresm once more
'Twas worse than 'twas before.
I found myself perched up on high
Just underneath the sky.
Stone cold It wss, and lonely. Oh be sur
'Twas sweet to wake and find myself ess
scure! ..........
Again It csme. Alas!
How sorry was that pass!"
A wresth of bay all flaming red
Pressed on my scorched head
Pld sear me so that when I woke anon
'Twas Miss to find I'd but a nightcap oa.
And hence It is I say ' '''-'
Fame need not come my way, .
I much iwfer things as-they are :
In byways nebular.
Where public optica do not rudely stare
And burning laurels do not singe my hair,
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