T1IE BEE: OMAHA. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1900.
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t ....41,600 II 43,630
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t 30,900 H 41,770
t 41,830 ' 3S 48,820
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It seems that the bis Eagles come
first and the little Eagles follow.
Glenn Cnrtlas was all ready. The
moment Peary and Cook shut off the
flow, Curtlss made a new long flight.
President Taft will not submit to
Interviews on the seatless gown,
though it ts already a leading Issue in
Chicago.
' Speaking of doubts and alarms,
what would they do if J. P. Morgan
should mina a meal while Aldrlch Is in
Europe?
Ccorgla raises mountain rice and
rice makes whisky, good enough for
Japs. The brain fag Georgia has with
its prohibition Is pathetic.
. A college professor who is vouched
a devout Christian will supervise the
census of Chicago. How will he make
it gee with the municipal effort of a
few weeks agoT '
A state university student at Lin
coln is reported to have died of star
vation from refusal to eat. We move
an investigation of all the university
boarding houses.
Either the written tales of Peary
and Cook are first-hand truth or the
American gentleman has become care
less in throwing around previously
undiscovered facts.
Battling Nelson has been denied a
room in another hotel. Mr. Nelsoc
is as .versatile as he is talented. - He
at least knows one way to start con
versation in the barber shops.
A clergyman in Virginia is starting
a dally paper. If he, Is seeking bow
to spend money he can learn from the
four papers which are now working
the Peary and Cook literature.
Canada pines for a navy. Take it
quietly. The United States has a second-hand
lot in Its obsolete class that
may be bought cheap and will do for
Canadian practice several years.
Texas starts out to tell the federal
government how to regulate Irrigated
land. Texas Is not wise, but tries
every game it hears about, even red
headed widows. , Abk the Houston
Post.
Perhaps the Mahatmaa can tell us
who discovered !e North Pole flrBt.
If not, we ma; ve to go back to
the fake pain;: and clairvoyants,
who continue to . ,ie In gulllbles with
impunity.
What is that military aide going to
do on the Taft tour? There is noth
ing to whip. Captain Archibald Butt
may be assigned to the relief squad
aud put to making speeches, turn and
turn about.
Every little while in his lively nar
rative Peary takes a fresh hold, thinks
of his dogs and says: "They were full
of spirit and their tails were curled
up tightly." . It is fine, virile litera
ture, but the sequences are not all
self-evident. Is It related to the call
of the wild?
Governor Shallenberger has Just
commissioned another .colonel on his
military staff. The number of colonels
Is strictly limited by law, and the gov
ernor long ago over-ran the limit. But
a little thing like disregarding a law
which carries no penalty clause will
not bother the governor.
More About the Banco Game.
At the statewide primary recently
held in Nebraska out of more than
8,000 ballots cast in this county, the
largest in the state, each ballot con
taining the tickets of fire different political-parties
for the free choice of
the voter, there were Just four popu
list votes returned and recorded in the
official eanvass. We have not the ex
act figures for the two adjoining coun
ties, which, together with Douglas
county, constitute this congressional
district, but It is not a rash guess to
say that no more than 100 populist
votes were cast In the primary In the
whole Second district.
Whatever may be the condition In
other parts of the state, the pretense
that there is a populist party entitled
to recognition in this congressional
district Is so flimsy that it cannot pos
sibly fool anyone. Be it remembered,
however, that only one year ago the
democratic candidate for presidential
elector from this district was put on
the official ballot a second time and
labeled as a populist over the protest
of the editor of The Bee, on the rep
resentation that there was a populist
party in this district casting 2 per
cent of the total vote, and thus en
titled to the same recognition as the
regularly organized political parties
whose standing is unquestioned. The
bunco game which the Bryanites
played last year, masking the demo
cratic presidential ticket as populists
in order to deceive the remnant of the
old-line populists, who could in no
other way be brought to cast their
votes for Bryan Instead of for Wat
son, was enough in Itself to keep Ne
braska out of the republican column
where It belonged.
Yet even this year the democratic
manipulators while hoisting a fake
banner of nonpartisanship, are still
perpetrating the same old fraud of
putting their candidates on the official
ballot twice, labeled once as demo
crats and again as populists.
Were it not for this arrant trickery
the democratic aggregation in Ne
braska would not have even a faint
hope of saving one of the pieces..
Ownership of the Pole.
Neither the Anti-Tariff league nor
the Saratoga conference has raised the
issue of the mastery of the North: pole.
The whole democratic party unites in
confining its foreign policy to tearing
down the flag from the Philippines.
Other people are paying more atten
tion to the railroads and the currency.
Nevertheless, the ownership of the
pole is a topic if not an issue.
One eminent publicist takes pains to
explain to the ignorant populace that
there is no danger of squatter sover
eignty, since no Esqulmo would live
where there is no polar bear. The
white bear Is not found near the pole,
unless he "got run away with" on
piece of floating Ice.
That theory settled, the possibilities
of conjecture remainlngare whether
the United States owns the place or in
tends to leave it to some other sover
eignty. The consensus is that by right
of discovery It is ours. It Is sure in
any case that if we want it we must
assert our authority and set up some
semblance of government.
Canada has a hazy claim that every
thing north of its territory belongs
to it. That claim is not admitted by
international law and may be ex
cluded. The pole Is so far separated from
the, continent that, as an authority
says, it is apart, geographically as well
as politically. If we abandon the
spot, it may become the property of
any other country whose citizens find
It and get fe!y away. Then if that
country should not formally set up
possession it might .drift around in
definitely from one owner to another.
In one view, the ten square feet,
or whatever it is that is necessary to
convey ownership, belongs Jointly to
all countries whose territory lies di
rectly to the south of It. Thus, Can
ada, Russia and Norway would be our
partners. It the imaginary point
called the pole is not on land, as seems
to be the case, but on what would be
water if it were not Ice. it may be
three leagues from land on the high
seas and therefore outside of any
Jurisdiction and beyond any claim.
The topic become1 a, mere empti
ness, and yet there might be a tres
pass or a complication. After all our
joking It might be well for all the na
tions to enter Into a solemn agreement
which would forever prevent differ
ence of opinion or hostility of Interest.
Saratoga Speeches.
Comparative degrees of nothing
ness are not supposable, but If the
scrutinized and considered - declara
tions' Of the Saratoga conference pre
sent nothing rejuvenating or rehabili
tating to the democrats, the accom
panying speeches present less.
Judge Parker, saying an undisputed
thing in a solemn way. argued that
public expenditures should be held to
the needs of the government. Of
course, but what are the needs of the
government? Judge Parker launched
bis powers of mind into a comparison
of the expenses in Cleveland's admin
istration with those of Roosevelt's.
After Cleveland came the Spanish
war, the Philippine troubles, the Pan
ama canal and other additions ap
proved, indeed, demanded, by the
democrats In congress. Moreover, the
economy and extravagance of expendi
tures are not measured by what a na
tlon does not have, but by whether its
objects are useful and are worth what
they cost. It Is futile to say that
Mississippi spends less than New York.
Would It not be more to the point In
Judge Parker to discuss what expenses
in Roosevelt's period should not have
been incurred?
VI r. Osborne, chairman of the exec-
ntlve committee, could think of noth
ing more instructive than the Impres
sive news that the democratic party Is
the party of progressive reform. He
had no definition of progress or re
form, except to imitate Parker in cau
tiously hinting that they were de
nouncing both Roosevelt and Bryan as
disturbers whom Seymour, TUden,
Cleveland and Hill would have cast
Into utter darkness.
Chairman Shepard rested the bur
den of his anxiety on the evils of ft
tariff compared with the blessings of
an income tax. That has the aroma
of old-fashioned democratic talk, but
it is not what American majorities
have been calling progressive reform.
Platform and interpretative speeches
are alike in one respect. They say
either things that everybody concedes
or things that have been repudiated
by the country until everybody Is weary
of discussing them. After going
through their hall of fame these New
York aristocratic democrats can point
with pride only at Seymour, who de
clared the war a failure and Lincoln
a fool; Tilden, who would have repudi
ated the national debt and destroyed
the national banks; Cleveland, the hon
est, but unlucky, author of financial
disaster, and Hill, the paragon of ma
chine politics. The speeches are no
more inspiring than the lifeless
declaration of principles.
Vreeland't Banking Plan.
Congressman Vreeland is chairman
of the banking and currency commit
tee of the house of representatives. He
is also a member of the monetary
commission. The speech made by him
before the Bankers' association of
Pennsylvania may, therefore, be
called the most authoritative utter
ance on the subject made since the
last debate in congress.
The greatest single defect in pres
ent banking methods, according to Mr.
Vreeland, lies in the treatment of re
serves. Centralization of reserves Is
needed. To accomplish thlB, he adds,
he favors a distinctively . American
institution to round out the present
banking system.
Mr. Vreeland thus agrees with most
of the members of the monetary com
mission in looking for a central bank
or clearing house in some form. He
proceeded to say that panics may be
avoided by. better banking and cur
rency methods. "Redundancy of
money Is fully as injurious as scarc
ity. Under our system we are likely
to have an expansion of bank notes
when not needed and shrinkage when
most needed. Bank issues depend on
the price of bonds and not on the
needs of business. This is the great
defect in the currency system."
Mr. Vreeland declares that many
persons think tne trouble In 1907 was
that banks were not compelled to keep
all their reserves in their own vaults.
His own view is that we need further
and greater centralization of reserves
rather than a further scattering. We
need a condition like that of England,
France and Germany, In which every
sound bank knows that at the central
bank it can at any instant get its Own
reserves and any reasonable amount
in addition. In the United States
there are 22,000 banks and the total
reserves are a billion and a half.
enough for ordinary business, but un
equal to sustaining an attack of sus
picious depositors. "Our system
falls apart in time of trouble."
Mr. Vreeland recommends a central
bank, the dividends limited to 4 per
cent, the balance of the earnings to go
into the national treasury. The re
sult would be, he thinks, that the
management of this institution would
direct its policy In relation to note
circulation, reserves and rates of in
terest for the general welfare and not
for increased profits of the bank.
The influential position of Mr. Vree
land gives special importance to what
he says. If the other members of the
monetary commission are exactly in
accord with him its report will recom
mend a system closely in accord with
those of the three great financial na
tions of Europe. In this country the
plan would have to have many modi
fications, but the weight of the com
mission's approval might carry it
through congress in a form corre
sponding to the general object pro
posed by the New York congressman.
Senator Brown asserts that while
pretending to put the Oregon plan of
choosing United States senators on
Nebraska, the late democratic legisla
ture in reality made it more difficult
to enforce popular selection by doing
away with the nomination of candi
dates for United States senator at the
primaries. The late nonpartisan
democratic legislature busied itself
solely with measures supposed to make
it easier for democrats to get the of
fices. Were it legal the democrats
would have made the United States
senatorship appointive by the gover
nor the same as other offices which
they transferred from republican to
democratic appointive sources.
The brief filed by Attorney General
Thompson in the Normal board case
shows where "nulltflers" and "re
pudlators" are located. To get a lit
tle patronage Governor Shallenberger
bas undertaken to tulllfy the whole
state constitution, and yet claims to
be horrified because laws of question
able validity are resisted In the courts.
The doctors would as well tell what
was the disease that caused the death
of E. H. Harrtman. It was bad nu
trition and bad elimination, and, as
they are what kill most of us in the
end, it is useless to inquire further.
In figuring on the re-apportionment
of the active work of managing the
operation of the Harriman roads
among Mr. Harrimau's lieutenants,
don't overlook A. L. Mohler, who was
his right-hand man at the bead of the
Union Pacific, and who has as much
ability as any of them to put to the
laboring oar.
The select grade of democrats at
Saratoga made a bad mixture of the
dead-past and the tried-end-found-wanting.
They called It a declaration
of principles, but the eouthern demo
crats, who do all the voting, say that
they see the declaration, but only that
and nothing more.
Speaking once more of . Joint de
bates, we suggest the following sub
ject, the orators to be chosen by the
World-Herald: "Why did the con
gressman from this district hike off
to Europe without waiting to vote on
the tariff bill?"
Did anybody preserve a list of
words used when Bellamy Storer was
out in front? We recall "mendacity,"
"short and ugly" and a few more, but
the full stock would be useful to
Vocabulary Jbeginners like Cook and
Peary. "
Lord Rosebery says that between
the land tax and the protective tariff,
give him a tariff. Gradually we are
learning a little of British politics.
Rosebery and Chamberlain must be
as good a pair as Bryan and Parker.
Union Pacific is scraping the cuti
cle off the learned cynics of the street
rather than bumping the widows and
orphans who get their tips after clos
ing hours. Still, don't buy stocks un
less you have the money with you.
There was a time when for art's
sake they made fiddles In Brescia.
Now they fly aeroplanes, with rain
checks for weather and accidents.
They do not seem to be as smart as
they were 300 years ago.
It is now sure that wholesale trade
and industrial lines are in good con
dition. Everybody has said so except
Mr.. Bryan and Senator La Follette,
and they will find It out before the
Chautauqua season closes.
Indians in Oregon have the best
system of dry farming known. v They
rent the land to white men and go
fishing. The white men do the rest.
Can you beat It? Indiana die, but not
of overwork or worry.
He Got There PI rat.
Washington Herald.
Unfortunately for old Adam, nobody was
able to dispute his right to b known as
the man who discovered the Garden of
Eden.
Jast I. Ike Other People.
Indianapolis Journal.
The fourth-class postmasters have ' de
cided that their salaries are too low, show
ing that in on respect at least the fourth
class postmasters are just like other people.
Airy Confidence Shaken.
Newt York World.
Ths American girt who has just received
the title of princes for marriage purposes
adds neither dignity nor glory to her wom
anhood by accepting th evanescent tlna.ii
for her dot. . ,
Costly Iteatltntlon.
St. Paul Dispatch.
J. A. Fox, an engineer employed by the
government, says that the saving of freight
In two years would pay the cost of a
comprehensive system of waterways. Still
the public hesitates to make the Invest
ment, just as the" farmers In som districts
continue to haul half loads to market
because poor roads make it Impossible to
get a day's work out of a team.
Phenomena of Publicity.
Springfield Republican.
Was the attention of ths entire civilised
world ever befor so Intently and entirely
focused as at this moment on Peary and
Cook? It la a phenomenon of modern pub
licity. All arouud the globe people are like
katydids, saying fa did and h didn't In an
endless reiteration. If any one ooncernd
In th drama Is unable to keep bitterness
out, let th rest ot us try to. It Is to be
expected that In due time tb controversy
will be settled, and until then debate do
not amount to much.
Last of Hla Claaa.
Philadelphia Record.
General Corbln, was the last representa
tive of th system of army administration
under which the "staff" counted fur more
than th "line," when the Influence and
power of the soldiers of the desk were
greater than that of the soldiers In th
field. Though out-ranked by several major
generals during the year when h func
tioned as adjutant general at Washington,
the late Henry C. Corbln was a bigger
man than Nelson Miles and all th vet
eran who In his time held the empty tltl
of general In command. The latter
might command, but th adjutant general
ruled the army. We hav changed all
that. Th senior major general, In asso
ciation with th general staff. Is the di
rector of the army's essentially military
affair. Sine the Corbln raglm closed
adjutant generals have ceased to be the
overshadowing officers of our military es
tablishment, and are comparatively rarely
yherd from.
AMERICA WINS AOAI.V,
Another Expansion of the National
Chest I Ho.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
The swift succession of American tri
umphs Is becoming almost monotonous.
The latest Is the world's record for cross
country fight established recently In
England by Captain F. 8. Cody, the Ameri
can who has lung been In .charge of the
aviation experiments "for the British war
office.
Cody's success has besides the' fascinating
quality of romance. Originally a cowboy,
he drifted to London, a sort of jack-of-all-trades.
With no scientific training, he took
up the flying of box kite and demon
strated a lifting power not suspected, later
perfecting a combination of kite and
camera that attracted the attention of Eng
lish army officers because of Its avail
ability tor photographing an enemy's position-
From that to ballooning was a
natural step, th motor and mechanical
apparatus of th Ill-fated Nullt Secundus
being the design of this American cowboy.
Now he has Invented an aeroplane which,
by its performance recently, must go a
long way In restoring British conftdenc so
sadly shaken by th triumphs of Blerlot
and th flights of Zeppelin.
American pride, already at high tension
over th new from Rhelms and th Arctic,
can txpand a llttl more upon th victory
over difficulties won by this product of th
western plains, who succeeded through
sheer force of that aptrit which th world
Is coming to recusals as Americanism.
Washington Life
ghort ketch of Xnotflanta aad
Kplsedst that Hark th Progress of
vents at th Vattoaal Capital.
Glob trotter returning from the old
world run up against th. sharp points
of the new tariff law, and ther are nu
merous exclamations of pain at th land
ing place a they are separated from th
goods or th stray coin In their dimin
ished purses. Beside, th surgical
operation, at New Tork particularly, is
performed with what th victims con
sider offensive seal. Customs officer
are not disposed to relax their efforts
In collecting for your uncle alt that Is
lawfully coming to him, no matter how
th kickers may feel about It "If you
g6 abroad and buy foreign goods," say
ths men at the landing place, "your I'ncle
Sam must, see th good and clip off
hla commission." For the benefit of
future tourist th Treasury department
has issued a "Notice to Passengers," con
taining a summary of the new tariff law
so far as It relate to baggag and per
sonal effect. Residents of th United
States must make th following declara
tions: I. All wearing apparel, used or un
used, if purchased abroad; and shall fur
ther stat all further wearing apparel,
Jewelry and other articles which hav
been remodeled or Improved abroad so a
to Increase their value.
1. Residents of th United States are
allowed 100 worth of articles at their
present foreign value free of duty.
V They may bring with them free of
duty all wearing apparel and other arti
cles of personal adornment and similar
articles that have not been remodeled or
Improved abroad so ss to Increase their
value, that may hav been taken out of
the United States by them.
The Department of Agriculture's stand
ing question, "What Is whisky T" has been
replaced St last by the query, "What Is
wine?" and in th opinion of the depart
ment officials as protracted and bitter a
fight is expected over th exact definition
of the lighter beverage as was waged over
tli true meaning of th term whisky.
Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, the pure food ex
pert of th department, has announced
that hereafter win must be mad from
grapes pure and simple.
This will be a happy blow to many
"win growers" of th country, who in the
hurry of producing a cheap beverage at a
low profit, hav established th system
of greatly Increasing the Juice preparod
for fermentation by adding bodily to the
grape extract large quantities of sugar
and water. Dr. Wiley's opinion, If upheld,
will also strlk at tb practice of chem
ically stopping fermentation after the first
stage hat been passed, by means of which
process win has been put on the market
a year earlier than could have been done
If natural fermentation had been allowed.
People In Washington who dally pass the
treasury building and se backed up to Its
curb an old van of a wagon drawn by three
patient white horses, do not realise the In
timate link that this Conveyance bears to
all th money there Is. They are not aware
that every piece of paper money that every
Individual In the United States has spent
or hoarded in th last twenty-six years has
first ridden in that wagon. They do not
know that th sum of money this wagon
has hauled Is equal to all the money there
Is in th world today-
The old wagon is a great curiosity, but
modest withal. It pile regularly between
the bureau of engraving and printing and
the treasury, always loaded down with reo-
taogular packages of 12t pound each. In
every . package are 4,000 bills. If the bills
ar of th lowest denomination th pack
age Is worth 14,000. If of the highest, 110,-
000, It Is worth $40,000,000. One package of
this great value one rod in the wagon.
It would take a string of hay wagons
twenty miles long to hold the money that
has passed through this old van, comments
the Washington Post If the packages
were piled one on top of the other they
would make a monument fifteen miles
high. If the bills were placed end to end
the string would be 250,000 miles long, or
equal to ten times the distance around the
world. They would carpet a road fifty feet
wide from New Tork to Ban Francisco.
Their weight in coal would supply the av
erage family with fuel for 250 years. Had
an expert begun counting the money In the
days of Columbus he would have been half
through when Mr. Taft was Inaugurated.
All these and many more stupendous
facts might be cited with reference to the
old money wagon. Tet It goes unnoticed
In Washington, and not one cltlsen In a
hundred realises that any Interest attaches
to It
Within gunshot of the White House snd
the capltol the federal government has
Itself been operating a distillery. The dis
tillation plant was not conceived with a
view of evading the Internal revenue laws,
yet ther was no special tax Issued for Its
operation. The output has not been of the
regular "moonshine" character, and there
was no effort at concealment, though the
approach to th plant, located in the rear
of 18S8 B street, Southwest, would Indicate
such.
The undertaking has not been one for
profit but for scientific research. Dr. Har
vey W. Wiley, chief of the Bureau of
Chemistry, Department of Agrloulture, has
ben th chief distiller, and he 1 going
to publish to the world the results of
his expotienc, a demonstration of the
methods of making, th sources and th
uses of denatured alcohol.
Great Increase la Farms.
Springfield Republican.
Census bureau authorities are predicting
that next year's enumeration will show
an addition of 200.000 to the number of
farms in the United States sine 1H00, when
th number was about 4,000,000. Such an In
crease would seem to b quite possible,
even though In New England the old hill
farms hav in recent years been more or
less In process of consolidation. Consider
able new land has been opened to settle
ment in the far west, and It may be, as
It should be, that the big bonania farms
of the wheat country ar being cut up.
Intense rather than extensive agriculture
Is now to be the Order of the time In th
United States, and this meana an Increas
ing number of farms within a given set
tled ara.
On th Uarssls Counter.
Washington Post.
Confidence In the comparative safety of
aeroplanlug Is rudely shattered by the vio
lent death of two aviators in one day. No
doubt the previous Immunity of the new
form of locomotion from accident has been
due to th superior skill required of the
aeroplane operator a compared with the
qualifications necessary In automobile
chauffeurs. "Joy riding" In aeroplanes by
Inexperienced driver Is hardly l.kely to
become prevalent
Why Thry Lose Oat.
Indianapolis News.
Not having had the foresight to provide
themselves with a powerful navy In the
Interest of International peace, the Es
mtwvw, uuiiih, mm nave no claim
whatever to any land In their neighbor
hood which happen to b discovered by
travelldg foreigners.
PERSONAL H0TL5.
Cleveland democrats hav the Tom John
son so bad they are running him for the
fifth time.
If th rival pol finders dnslr quick ac
tion let thero submit their claims to Peter
Flnley Dune.
Som complaint I heard that American
beef Is crowding the English and Irish
article out of the horn market. Th ulti
mata consumer Is feeling bully.
"The sword by which he had cut his way
from the War department to the White
House" was the memento presented by the
Gridiron club to General Corbln at the
close of the Spanish war.
The reports of a drouth In Missouri are
exaggerated. More revenue from beer In
spected poured Into the state treasury dur
ing August than in any preceding month,
Indicating a vast expansion of irrigation In
dry territory.
According to John D. Rockefeller a golf
player who can always keep his temper
come pretty near being perfect man.
No rude exclamations burn the air on the
Pocantlco course, henc th boquet blooms
on th right lapel.
Saved by milk will be the record of For
rest Burbank of Alfred, Me. lie lighted
th torch of his steam automobile at the
wrong time, the gasoline exploded and he
took fir just as a milk man was coming
along who poured three Cans of milk over
the flaming clothes.
A real thrilling discovery In a month
of discoveries, Is the discovery of a fortune
of $1,000,000 left by a New Tork poet,
whose muse warbled Its merrleet In praise
of cabbages snd pumpkins at county fairs.
THus do poets who snuggle up to nature
gather coin In bushels.
King Edward Is a clergyman, though few
people seem to be aware of th fact. Ho Is
prebendary of St David's, In Wales, and
gets a salary of W a year. II Is entitled
to preach one sermon a year In the ca
thedral. H I also a member of the
English and Irish bars, and a member ot
the Royal College of Physicians.
In the Interest of "morality," the chief
of police of Nuremberg Issued a formal
order forbidding the publlo wearing of
"tight-fitting dresses of the scabbard, di
rectors or princess kind." Thereupon the
women of that quaint old German city all
appeared in the obnoxious go'vns, and
rather than expose ths jails to a tight fit
the chief took It all back.
A RIGHTEOUS TRIUMPH.
Arrogrnnt Corporation Count the Cost
of Folly.
New Tork Post.
The victory of the strikers at the Pressed
Steel Car company's works at McKee
Rocks Is really a triumph of common sense.
The company has surrendered on nearly
eveiy point; the final wage question is left
for arbitration, but an advance is already
given. Thus ends In deserved disaster the
stupid and blundering policy of President
Hoffstot and the other officials of the
company. When tho strike began Mr
Hoffstot said: '
There Is nothing to arbitrate In the pres
ent difficulty. The officers of the company
will rot meet with any committee of th
men. The Jobs are there for the
men as soon as they want to go back to
work, but th 600 who started all the
trouble cannot work for the company an
other day."
Well, after fifty-seven days, the strikers
have all gone back to work, the company
Is said to have lost (1,000,000 and, what Ir
worse, has achieved the reputation of be
ing inefficiently managed and utterly be
hind the times In dealing with Its labor.
Perhaps ten lives have been lost, many
people hav been Injured and much prop
erty destroyed all because President Hat.
tot believed that the only right his men
had was the right to quit As for the
strikers, unorganized but with righteous
demands, they brought a great company
to Its knees and have, we confidently be
lieve, taught a salutary lesson to corpora
tion managers everywhere.
Forest Reserve Fond.
PIERRE, S. D., Sept 12. (Special.) Gov
ernor Vessey today received notice that the
forest reserve fund which will come to this
state for this year will amount to 210,498.38.
This Is divided between the Black Hills
reserve and the Sioux reserve, th latter
Including the Cave Hills, Slim Butte and
Short Pine reservations, all In Harding
county. Of the total amount a little over
2800 will belong to Harding county and the
balance of nearly tlO.OuO will be divided
among the Black Hills counties Included In
the forest reserve.
Notaries In Readiness.
PIERRE, 8. D., Sept 12. (Special.)
The notaries of this city held a preliminary
meeting last evening to get In shape for
a permanent organisation on the 15th of
the month, for handling the registration
business. Committees were appointed to
make a list of accredited notaries In the
county, and to select locations for regis
tration booths, and on the lth a regular
organization will be formed under the rul
ings mad by Judge Wltten to control that
class ot work.
Mnrder Wilt He Charge.
SIOUX FALLS, S. D., Sept. .-(Special.)
Th preliminary hearing of Charles
Radford, declared by the coroner's Jury to
have fired the shots which caused the
death last Tuesday morning of George
Hurd, a Sioux Falls man, has not yet
been held, but likely will be held some
time on Monday. It Is stated Radford
will be charged with murder In the first
degree, and that his brother, Eugene Rad
ford, will be prosecuted for complicity In
the Hurd killing.
Brown High Flyers.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
An aerial navy Is recommended by Sen
ator Brown as cheaper for the United
States than the other kind, but unless ex
perience counts for nothing, contractors
may b reckoned on as fully capable of
srndtng prices up a high as a balloon.
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a flavor snd est that only tpicet of full strength and
flavor can give. Tone's Spicet poase
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TONE BROSh. Da Molaea, Iowa
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SOME MOTOR CAR FIt UK.
One Family la Forty Rooked for the
Speedway.
Boston Herald.
It Is estimated that 2240.000.001 will bn
Invested In motor cars In the United
State next year. A trade authority say
that thero will be 200.0HO cars sold nt an
average price r.f $1,200. The number uf
cars to be sold is not more elgnlfirni.t of
the development of motoring than Is ti,n
average price. Taking the hlgh-prlcci ( nr
Into consideration. It must mean thnt t, ns
of thousands of cars will be sold at ti
figure under $1,000. This means thnt tV
perfection of motor car production hns ii .
ceeded to th point where manufacture ii
possible at a cost within the reach of per
sons of ordinary means. According t
these figures ode family In every forty In
the country will have a motor car next
year; there win be one- car to every &o
of the population, and this estimate will
not Include the tetentlon of old cars In ser
vice. Equally significant Is the estimate that
6.000 business cars will be built for next
year's trade. The number looks small in
comparison with anticipations of pleasure
cars, but the business car Is not subject
to such variations In stylo and the fancy of
th owner as Is the pleasure vehicle, and
average a longer life. Rut a small per
centage of the 6,000 business cars to ha
built will retire cars now In Use. Th
figures Indicate a practically absolute In
cress of motor' car use In business. Fig
ures of this sort mark tho advent of the
motor car as a necessity. Communities
must adjust themselves to the fact
POINTED PLEASANTRIES.
First Suffragette What did you thing of
the candidate?
Second Suffragette I was very much dis
appointed In him.
First Suffragette How so?
Second Suffragette I thought when h
took my hand to shake It he was going to
hold it for a lit tlo while. Tonkers States
man. The North pole stared at the Intrepid
newcomer.
"Is your name Cook?" It ssked.
"Yes."
"Then I'm discovered," said the pole.
And the shade of Christopher Columbus
looked down and chuckled. Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
"Btffers Is a slhgularly narrow and sel
fish person, Isn't he?"
"He Is. t'ook at the wtesk Is far more
interesting to him than Cook at the polel"
Cleveland Plain Deale.
Mabel So you and Jack don't speak.
What's the trouble?.'
Marjory We had a dreadful quarrel
about which Joved the other most Boston
Transcript '
"Why don't th theatrical managers
want husband and wife In th sam com
pany?" "They think the public wouldn't care to
ee a man making love to his wife."
"Looks too much like acting, eh?"
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Said William's wife: "William can make
money, but he will never be able to save
any."
Kald William's mother: "That Is just
what I warned my son when he wanted
to marry you." Baltimore American.
"I am surprised at the way you speak
of the fare you found at that farm house.
In his letter to me the farmer speaks es
pecially of the great Impression made by
the butter he has on his farm."
"He must mean th goat." Baltimore
American.
"Why do they want to preserve th
great American forests, pa?"
"So they can have forest fires, my son."
Puck.
"Couldn't you give something from out
your abundance to help a poor woman?"
"Why, certainly. I'll contribute an old
sheath gown and some puffs." Louisvlll
Courier-Journal.
A youthful versifier sought the Judg
ment of a well known critic.
"Sir," said the poet Indignantly when
the expert had advised, him to burn his
lines, "poets -are boYn,'. Sot imaiHr V '
'Young man." replied the critic, smiling,
do not try to shift the blame on to your
parents!" Philadelphia Record.
"Fred certainly does mix his figures of
speech. What do you think he said yes
terday when someone remarked that no one
had as yet discovered the South pole?"
"What did he say?"
"'No, but they're getting warm.' "Bal
timore American.
"Anything on this evening, old chap?"
"Nothing whatever; denh boy."
"I say, y' know, aren't you rather
anliamed to be out?" Boston Transcript.
Jason had found the golden fleece.
"It Isn't like discovering the North pole,"
he said. "I've got to take It back with
me."
Still, even when he returned with It,
there were doubters who declared that It
was neither all wool nor a yard wide.
Chicago Tribune.
"Don't you wish you were a boy again?"
"No," answered Senator Sors-hum: "f
can't say that I find conditions much
changed since my youthful days. I used
to be told that children should be seen
and not heard. I now find that a poli
tician should keep In the spotlight and
yet try to avoid being Interviewed."
Washington Star.
PERSEVERANCE.
The Bookkeeper. '
He kept his eyes upon the goal.
Contentment ruNd his heart aud soul;
i He faced hard luck
With nerve and pluck
And paid the world's exacting toll
His winning smile i.
Made life worth while.
Each day he did hM level best
He trudged along
And aang a Song
Of cheer while riding on th crest!
Though years of toll brought ne return
Each knock but made Hope's bright light
burn
The brighter, and his dauntless air
Struck from his life the word "Despair."
He bore his load
Along the road
And though h staggered 'neath Its
weight,
He smiled to know
He had a show
To win, and Old not hesitate.
And when tho world kicked hard and
pressed,
H grimly smiled, threw out his chest.
And Joyed to know he stood the test
And treated troubln as a Jest.
He lugged his burden
And the guerdon
Of success at last came by,
And It crowned him
When It found him .
With a crown that ne'er would die.
Snappy
Gingery
CooUIziq
Gingernsnhps with snap to them.
Gingerbread of the pinpery kind.
- cake that tastes . of gpic.
you can depend
MlMIU
every Duality that
taey aretuUbodied
ma aromatic