Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 7, 1901, Page 6

THE ©OMAHA DALY BEE. E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. - PUBLISHED EVERY MORNIN B Daily isce Daily e s taicd Sunuay Bee, Ui Butariiy e, Une X var Awentcih Century Farmer, One Year.. OFFICES, bee bullding. » City atan sullding, Twen- M8 OF 8U (Without Sunc anu sunday Bee, Une 1 Year SCRIPTION, ¥), Une Year.36.% e Yeur 3 Umaha. Th Bouth Ui toiuith an s Streeis Counchi Bliils: 1 Fearl Street, Chicago: inw Unity Bulluing. W Lork. Tempie Court Washingio I Fourteenth Street. FOREIGN VIEW OF THE STRIKE The strike of the steel workers is garded with deal of inte abroad and it is needless to say would he regret on the the Iron and steel nfacturers if the strike should extend aud be proteacted, One German paper | sed the hope that for the sake f the German iron and steel Industry | the strike here would continue with in: creasing intensity and undoubtedly there | Is the sawme feeling in other countries, | Foreign manufacturers are ni itous than ever regarding Awerican n good that part no o wolies | CORRESPONDENCE, Communications reluting to news and edi- 1O1al taticr shouu be wddress Uimaha Lee, Lailorial Uepartment BUSINESS LETTER Business letters remittance be audressea: b e Publisning wany, Umah should 15 come REMITTANCES, by draft, express or payavie 1o Lhe Bee Puolis ULlY Lcont staBips accepted MAIL GCCOANS. Fersonui checks, exce Umaha or castern exchunges, Hot aceey THi BEL PUBLISHING COMPASY, Rem|t der, STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, s George H. ‘L zschiick, secretary of i e I Puolisning’ Company, bewg duly sworn, s0y8 that the wctual numper of fuil and [ complel sples of The Daily, Morning Kveiing and Bunday Bee printed duciig e | month of July, 11, was as 10llows 25,110 17 18 1, 25,120 | 25,100 | 120 | 020 5,305 25,020 25,840 38,850 .45, 340 26,200 25,470 .25, 220 P L 28,070 Total Less unsold and returned coples t total sales Net dally average 25,000 GEO. B, TZSCHUCK ubscribed In my presence and sworn to ore me this 31st day of July, A. D, 191, M. B, HUNGATI Notary Public PARTIES LEAVING FOR SUMMER, Parties leaving the city for the summer may have The Bee went them regularly by notifying The Nee Business office, in person or by m The nd m will he changed an often ns desired. C—————————————————— L industry of the United St competition siuce the organization of the | American Steel trust and they a nat wrally hopetul that the strtke will have | the effect of relieving them of this com ition by erippling the iron aud | fudnstry here That sucl will be the result strike ext il 18 long there can be no doubt. rt in tinance or Springfield Republi serfons disaster it the | continued | “It requires no trad observes 1, “to see that to the iron and steel 8, brought about by the quarrels of the Steel trust with a trust of workmen, would injure severely the prosperity of the country by curtailing the forelgn trade in iron | and steel and by fmpaiving the | pacity of the trust 1o pay the enor mous interest on s capital stock” A prolonged contest betweeen the Steel trust and its unlon employes would certainly be most damaging, per- | haps utterly destructive, to our foreign trade in dron and steel and it would | probably take years to recover the lost ground, ‘This §s the most serfous phase | of the contest, though depression of | the trust securities wight prove calam- | itous, Meanwhile the situation shows change, There is still talk of Dble settlement, but it does not appear t have uny very substantiol bagis. The deluy in issuing a general strike order may be a favorable indication, or it may simply mean that the officlals of the Amalgamated association not yet fully prepared to make so radical @ move. As to the officials of the steel corporations they have given no sign of a disposition to settle upon any other conditions thau they have already proposed. 8o far as can be judged from surface indications, therefore, there s no promise of an early termination of the contest, charges little W possi- Kansas Is always suffering. At pres- ent It is suffering from a car famine. Unless all signs fail the Ak-Sar-Ben festivities of 1001 will be a record- breaker The thermometer is well behaved at present, One such spree as that of July should be enough to last for a decade, The latest fad to be Introduced in the High school is automatic bells and clocks. 1t Is hoped this automatic fad will not extend to the teachers. S————— Anenterprising thief stole $250,000 worth of gold bars from a San Fran- clsco smelte That thief has the cor- rect modern idea—there Is no use operat- ing on a small scale, — ring factions in Venezuela are now at the proclamation siage. The casualties up to date consist of a few sheets of paper and a couple of over- worked typewrite The wa eat Britain has balked at the last moment on slgning the agreement which Is expected to settle the troubles in| China. - Great Britain Is as coy as a | prize fighter in search of free advertise- ing. ~ — The most profitable industry In the United States marshal's office seems to be In the arrest and conveyance to the federal court of Indians charged with smuggling liquor into the Winnebago reservation, High railroad officlals have again de- creed that no passes shall be glven to sbippers. The contracting frelght offi- clals are supposed to know that the word “small” belongs just in front of the word shipper. — A leopard cannot change its spots, but they cun be changed for him with a paint brush. The South Owaba city council may reorganize itself once more but it will still be recoguized as the same old city counell, Twenty human beings lost their lives gasoline explosion in u Philadelphia tenement block, The same thing is lia-- ble to oceur at any time In Omaha for want of systematic regulation in the storage of explosive ofls and periodic offictal inspection of premises, The Ohio man who whipped up his horse to get ucross the track ahead of & traln with a load of nitro-glycerine succeeded In the attewpt. Load and wman mude a sudden disappearance as the fluale, but In the langnage of the surgeon, “the operation was a suceess,” — Nebraska City Is enjoying its wat tight Sunday observance huge much as the liverymen and undertakers refuse to hire thelr horses and hears parties who want au outing pass them- selves off as doctors aud thus Ret the exclusive privilege of desecrating the Sabbath, After advertising {or several weeks the fire and polic commission has been unable to procure the much-needed horses of standard dimensions and requisite speed for the use of the five department. Sooner or later the fire department will have to be equipped with automobiles, —_— The professional revolutionists in the Philippines have not all of them learned that It is a trade without profit where the United States Is involved. General Malavar has Issued o manifesto in which he promises the natives great things, but those of them who hay come into active contact with the busi- ness end of the United States army THE MARYLAND REPUBLICANS. The republicans of Maryland are not assured of victory this year, but they have bravely anuounced their position on national questions, whereas the dem ocratic platform deals chiefly with state matte The Maryland republicans are in hearty aceord with the domestic and foreign policies of the national adminis- tration and with republican tariff and currency principles. There Is no trim- ming or evasion in their platform and while they will make the campaign chiefly on national questions they un- doubtedly will not avoid discussion of state affairs. The democratic campaign “will be under the management of former United States Senator Gorman, who is one of the most skillful and adroit poli- ticlans in the entire country. Mr. Gor- man desires to succeed Senator Welling- ton and will do the best political work of which he is capable to that end, but it is doubtful if he now has as much in- fluence as formerly. He is a most re- sourceful politiclan, however. The dem- ocrats of Maryland are committed to the policy of negro disfranchisement, which ought to assure their defeat, though possibly it will have no very material effect, The Maryland campaign will be of less general interest than some other state contests, but the result will not be altogether unlmportant. NOT FOR ANNEXATION. General Gomez ras denied the report that he had described himself as an anuexationist. He admits that there are many Cubans who desire annexa- tion, but neither he nor Senor Palma are among them and he implies that none of the chiefs of the revolutlon are aunnexationists, Gomez s fully in a. cord with existing conditions. He holds that the Platt amendment settled the question of the future political relations of Cuba with the United States and he evidently regards the arrangement that has been made as final, Whether it 1s final, howev may de- pend a good deal upon future commer clal relations, If the United States de- clines to make liberal taritf concessions to Cuba it Is not to be doubted that the anunexation sentiment there will grow and may become so strong with the people that they will insist on urging | this country to make the island Ameri- can territory. At present the annexa- tionists are the sugar and tobuacco grow- | ers, the property holders and those engaged in business who believe thelr interests would be benefited it Cubu Were @ part of the United States. If | industrial and commercial development | are retarded because the products of the island are not shown special favor In the American market, unnexation | would undoubtedly become very popu- lar and a very earnest attempt be wmade to turn the island over to this country. 1t by 1o means follows, of course, that the attempt would succeed, for the in- | terests here that arve now prepared to | oppose granting any concessions to the sugar and tobucco of Cuba would even ! more vigorously oppose annexation, | The question of our future commer- | clal relutions with Cuba, therefore, has | a very great deal to do with determining whether the present political arrang. ment is final. That question will be de- clded at the next session of At this thme no oney seems to have | any detinite idea as to what may e doue. What the Cubans want s well | understood. They ask that their sugar | and tobacco be adwmitted to the Aweri cun market free or with u merely nowi. | nal duty, urging that it will be a bet- | | ter policy and a cheaper oue to give Cuba the means of selling her produc than to send there men of war and soldiers to put down anarchy. The | CONKIESS, 5 will need a large amount of showiug before they are ready to believe, & reply to this Is that such a policy would | the THE and o int pose to fight such the power and iuflience The fmportane this matter fot casily overestimated. No can foresee with certainty the possible ditficulties and dar involved in it | I'he representative this country of | Keonomic assoelations of Cubu | seysi “The principal conrse of revo- | lution in Cuba has er been of momic character, so serious and intense thut Spain bhas found bereelf | powerless to find a remedy for it The | problem is not rendered less difficult aud | perplexing by change of conditic these poliey with they have rests nnd pro a all can one ) an THE WICKED. Tent Evangelist Merton Smith clares that Omaha is the wickedest city | he has ever visited. When Mr. s"“”'i reaches Denver, the Colorado eapital will | be the wickedost city: when he reaches | Ralt Lake, the city of the saints will lwl » wickedest eity, nud by the time he reaches Sun Francisco the metropolis of the Golden Gate will have become the most wicked of wicked cities, In this respect Evangelist Smith s no different from other evangelists whose stock in trade i to discover and con vert the most wicked city, The city in which these itinerant preschers are lo cated for the time being 18 always the wickedest, just as the last congress is the worst congress or the last legisla ture the worst legislature ever known. These touring evangelists do not hesi tate about administering a cont of black wishi to every city where they Luappen to piteh their tents. It is essential to the success of their mission that they should be emotional and sel sutional and paint in glaring colors the vice that permentes humanity in every smmunity, and especially in the larger cities; to depict every town as a wodern Sodow and Gomorrah and roast its oth clals in redhot crucibles, As a matter of faet Omaha is an or derly aud well governed eity and will compare favorably in this respect with any other city of like population. It will certaluly bear comparison with Kansas City, St. Paul, Denver and other clties of the west. From a moral and religious standpoint it will rank infinitely higher than Chicago, St. Louis, Sun Francisco or other cosmopolitun American cities In the watter of open vice and drunk enuess uo Awerlcan city can approach London, Liverpool aund cities on the suropean continent, Evangelist Smith is doubtless familtar with the conditions in these large European citles, and yet he has the assurance to come to Omaha and denounce the city as the wicked- est on the globe, There is sowme consola- tion in the prospect that Omaba will uly remain the wickedest city until this modern Jeremiah reaches the next wicked eity, | | The government crop reports indicate that even among experts, who are sup- posed to have the best means of infor- matlon, there is considerable doubt about the extent of damage to the corn crop. Corn is at a stage In which only time can develop how much, If at all, it is damaged in some sections. In every state in the corn belt scattered showers have saved portions of the crop from damage, while other fields in the same neighborhood even are practically unin- Jured. With favorable weather from now on it is a safe prediction, so far as Nebraska and Iowa are concerned, at least, that the loss has been fully dis- counted, Eastern papers and specula- tors who depend upon alarmist reports for their information can certainly find the most prosperous collection of “starv- ing” humanity in the world if they will only come out into this country. e One feature of the steel strike which has not been discussed to any great extent up to the present is forcing itself to the front. The losses to the men In ages and to the company in decreased output has been figured out, but the loss in the form of shrinkage of values of the combine stock runs into the mil- lons and will be milllons more In case the strike becomes general. Finan- clal houses back of the combine are sald to have raised a pool of $300,000,- 000 to protect the stock, In other words these men must stand ready to buy in that amount of stock when it is thrown by timid Invest The investc loses, but the big fry, when they hay secur the stock at a discount, will settle the strike and scoop in a band- some profit, Epm— Omaha has been banking so often and %o long on futures and options in power canal projects that it would hardly be prudent now to stake its future on the Fremont canal as a foregone conclusion, While The Bee has been in position as all times to unfold the plans of th promoters, it has been willing to let its wore enterprising and less reliable con- temporaries have the credit of the ex clusive exploitation of the negotiations, hitches and counter-hitches that hav advanced or retarded the power cana When this project attains tangible shape and the negotiations are concluded The Bee will publish all the particulars and point out all the important advantages that will acerue thevefrom to the people within the sphere of its influence, he authorities ave having some ditt culty locating the exact boundary of the | Loulslana purchase. As a matter of | history it Is a good thing to bhave the | question settled, but as the United | States owns all the adjoining land and | has no intention of parting title there | will never be any frouble about the line | fence, The rain-prayer remedy did not pan out in 8t, Louis. A light shower fell in spots two weeks before prayer and no | cain has fallen since. The bible says “the prayers of the righteous avalleth ' much,” and the only inference that can | be drawn from the premises is that the Missourians do not trot in that class. The governor of Georgla appears to have at last become awake to the ne- cossity of allowing the orderly mac ery of the law to operate 1o cases where Irwulv. fu destroying the Awerican sugur uegroes ure luvolved, He bas order d OMAHA DAILY BEE ont th when a militia to prevent any lynching | colored min in that state i« brought ont for teial. Demonstrations | that the Jaw can and will furnish adequate vemedy for erime will fn tine | check it not eradicate the lynehing labit . n oK Kiyn Kagle Kings of corn corners seem to last about & vear, on an average keeps right on growing as Know 1t was cornere Troub| t Trust Kin Star Plerpont Mor tends to He. it it did not Kansus Clty The flerce anger which J gan displayed on Saturday rather prove that multi-millionaires like body elsehave aunoyances and troubles of | their own n Pays the ¥ w York World, year's coal strike settlement the cost of production The operators have increased « ah Last creased ton in- 10 cents a the | wholesale price 10 cents per month for five successive months Record tribute and Philadelphia neral MacArthur's soldiers' high courage G can to Amer patriotic | devotion in the Philippines is praise from Sir Hubert Stanley, indeed. No soldier of the republic is better qualified to pro nounce the verdict: “Well done!" Provok st he Tired Feeling, Paul Ploneer Press Between the silliness of his “‘farmers' trust” proposals, the rottenness of his hookkeeping, and the rapidity of his vi- brations between millionarism and bank- ruptey, Phillips, the alleged Corn King, vies with Elijah Dowle in his ability to ive steady-going people a very tired feel- ing. More Glory in Dispute, 8. Paul Globe. A rainmaker in Nebraska has been work- ing at his trade—exploding powder in the upper atmosphere—for the last few days, and now, contrary to the weather bureau, an abundance of rain has fallen. While the rainmaker was at work the churches | were praying for the same concession. The Question now arlses, Who s entitled to the glory? Cuban St. Paul Ploneer Press. When the people of Cuba see the sugar planters of Porto Rico getting about $20 a ton more for their sugar in United States ports than Cubans can get, the latter will begin to query whether a lame and propped- up “Independence’ i half as sweet as would be a stalwart union with the United States, accompanied by perhaps $20,000,000 addi- tlonal income to themselves. Business on n Steady Footing. Philadelphia Ledger. Despite rumors of a corn famine, great industrial disturbances and excitement in the stock market, business now appears to bo on a steadler footing and prosperity more general thanm was the case a year ago. In this way only can the fact that the business fallures in July last passed were fewer in number by ninety-six, and nearly $3,000,000 less in Wggregate amount than in July of 1900, bé explained. Not So Decadent After All, » New York World. France I the oply great nation in Europe that has bad thé strength of mind and of purpose to establish a republican form of government, It ts the only nation on earth which has made successful attempts to solve the problem of the uncqual distribution of wealth; based upon the unequal distribution of land. Its percentage of pauperism is the lowest in Europe, its percentage of individ- ual efficlency in production Is the highest among the great nations, — Tom Reed’s Idea of Succeas, In a letter appended to a sketch of the late Willlam L. Wilson, former Speaker Reed says: I had great respect for Mr. Wilson, because he had convictions and was true to them. There was something very pathetic 1n his last struggle, death-struck as he was, with that greatest of all human forces, popular feeling gone wrong. That that feeling Is doomed to revulsion does not lessen its power. Human life is too short for the vindication of the wise man while yet allve. Many suns may set and many dark nights cover the earth with elouds be- fore the truth is ripened into fruitage. He 15 happler who is wrong when others are wrong; but no Darwinlan “survival of the fittest to survive” will ever convince the manly man that there is not something higher than happiness. Doing your duty, and facing the consequences, 8 success it- selt.” CUTTING LOOS 3 FROM BRYA Maryland Strikes the Pace Set the Buckeye State, New York Tribune, The democrats of Maryland have lost no time in seconding the notice of disposses- by slon served on Calonel W. J. Bryan by the | democrats of Ohio. Columbus the Ohio Three weeks ago at democrats challenged Colonel Bryan's pretensions to continued party leadership by excluding from thelr platform any mention of the “peerless com- moaer's” name or any reference to the party pollcy which his presidentjal candidacies 1896 and 1900 had made “paramount.”” At Columbus a minority of six delegates out of had the courage to protest against this brutal snub to a leader whose power a year ago within the party was absolute and un- disputed. At Baltimore not a single dis- senting volce was raised when resolutions were reported which ignored gompletely not only the Nebraska statesman's past service and present counsels, but contemptuously dismissed as worth not a single syllable the issues written under his direction Into the Chicago and Kansas City platforms. The Ohlo democrats, though discarding as hope- less and profitless the party's former de- mand for free silyer colnage, still thought it expedient to echo some of last year's empty thunders about “imperialism” and “trusts.”” The party in Maryland is either more candid or more reckless about ad- mitting the hollowness of recent democratic campalgn cries, for it throws Bryanism and all the follies of Bryanism overhoard to- | gether by declaring that it “is not necessary to do more in regard to national issues than to reaffirm our steadfast allegiance to the cardinal doctrines of the democratic party as expounded by its illustrious founder, Thomas Jefferson. " | No one, however—not even the present | wearer of Jeflerson’s mantle—could have | been greatly surprised at the alacrity with | which the Maryland democrats imitated their Ohio brethren in cutting loose from the popullstic program forced on them by Colonel Bryan's succossive candidacles for the presidency. To Its credit, the demo- cratie party in Maryland never fully yielded Its opposition to free silver coinage, nor did the local party machinery pass at any time, as It did in nearly every other east- ern and rhiddle state, into the hands of managers fn sympathy with Colonel Bryan's policles or personal ambitions. It was to be expected, therefore, that at the first fa- vorable moment the Maryland democracy would express its unveiled hostility to & na- tional democratic leadership under which defeat has come in four campaigns out of the lust five in what had hitherto been held 10 be & stalwart democratic state. Because the corn | every- | | WENT ot r.l er'e Grlp o the Vuk A gt the letter | Mary B K brother, Fre Forty Mile as scription of phic frigid roc account of what Klondike region is ved Wednesday ndrick Brooklyn from he \ who writes from of This de- | the breakup of the Yukon | river and throws a light upon the hard ships that must be endured in residence | there and (he destruction and devastation | which follow the mighty throes of nature | when she awakens into spring | Mr. Nash's letter, printed in the Rrook- | Iyn Kagle, is a description of this scene |48 it passed before him, and he save ‘WOOD CAMP ON THE YUKON, Well, the Yukon broke at 8:15 o May 17 One-half hour hefore the br | the ice looked as solid ax it did in the | winter. We could see it coming, heaving | mrinding and pushing, while down the river | It was as solld as ever. [Iinally it all | commenced to move as far as we could see. Then the sight was grand. High | cakes of ice, alx (o ten feet thick, welghing hundreds of tons, would rear up on end, | thirty to forty feet high, and the noise was terrific, grinding and crushing trees along the banks and sweeping them away | like matches, In places where cakes of {fce would strike the banks they would | plow up high masses of rock and earth. | The fce was so solid that it would not | give, as the Yukon broke before the fce | KOt rotten. This was caused by the Stew- art and White rivers breaking and the large volume of water pouring into the Yukon started the breakup. “Well, it ran for twenty-five minutes and then stopped, which was caused by a jam below Forty Mile at an island. The water commenced to rise very rapidly, until the river got out of its banke, floating huge cnkes of fce over the country. There are cakes now weighing hundrede of tons a mile from the river. The town of Forty Mile I8 situated on flat ground, at the junction of the Forty Mile and Yukon rivers, We knew, from the way the river was rising, that the town would he drowned out. It was in sight of us and we kept watch. We could not see the people, but we could see | the fce floating around and over the build- ings. It kept jummed and rafsed the water until 8:30 p. m., when It broke. Then was When we saw fce moving. It had plied on top, layer after layer, during the fam, and we could see three stories of 10-foot fce floating down with trees, boats, cabine and ;m one cake two dogs, poor things, howl- ng. “After this jam started the water fell twenty feet in thirty minutes, leaving high banks of ice along the river twenty feet in height. That afternoon we could see camp- fires and tents on the bluffs around Forty Mile, and we knew the town.was wrecked and that the men and women and children had to take to the hills. The next day we went to town and found a terrible scene of desolation and destruction; houses washed away, others with sides or ends broken out with water and ice; stores with £00ds & maes of rulns, house logs, cloth- ing, trunks, provisions and every conceva- ble thing. It came up o fast that everybody had to get out with just what they stood in and some had a very close call at that. The po- lice boys and others did some very herofe work rescuing people from upper windows and roofs, “The Indlan missfonary and wite and five children had an exceedingly close call, They live on an fsland and the police and others were afrald to go to them over the jammed Ice, because if it started while they were on It 1t was sure death. Finally a man named Royal and an Indian got a eanoe over to them and got them across to the high ground in safety, “Where our cabin winter an n by Mrs. | | Nash May s a | May m ik 15 located Is across the Forty Mile river from the town on much higher ground. Still the ice and water €Ot up to the cabin, but did not rum in, ours being the only occupled cabin in the whole town that was not flooded. The big cakes of Ice smashed three boats for me, ulso carrled away one cache that I had my tools in, and the water got about eighteen inches deep in the cache I kept my food in, wetting It badly. But we dried most of it 0 our loss was very light. Some of the people lost everything they had on earth, "'The trading companies’ losses are very | heavy. The A. C. company lost $75,000, the N. A. T. and T. company lost about $40,000, But everyone takes it good-naturedly and all are eager to help one another. We are back agaln to the wood camp, feeling first rate, and glad to know that we witnessed the hugest breakup ever known of the Yukon, and the old Indians tell us the high- st water ever known by four feet. It was the grandest sight I ever witnessed and it would be well worth a speclal trip to see.” — INDUSTRIAL CAPITALIZATION, How Values Are Hoosted with Wi and Water, Philadelphia North American, According to figures just published by the American Statistical association, the aggre- gate capitalization of industrial corpora- tlons in the United States at the end of 1900 amounted to the enormous total of $5,365,- 804,100, or, exclusive of duplications through the merging of some companies into others, of $4.443,142,700. This takes in no concern capitalized at less than $1,000,- 000, and, on the other hand, does not allow for capital authorized but'not Issued. Rail- road, sireet railway, gas and electric light- ing consolidations are not included in the above figures, which cover bonds as well as stocks, That this era of industrial consolidation has only just come into its strength is shown by the fact that of the total capital- tzatlon $2,075,410,000 was created in the two | years, 1809 and 1900, and, judging by what | | has been done during the first half of the present year, it would seem that the tre- mendous capitalization of industrials prior | thereto only represented consolidation cap- italized in its Infancy. Thus we have the United States Steel WASHINGTON raphic e Latest 1 Maps tssued In its the J ing i hee serics of topographic atlas United al 1 new survey h sued and intere They or and are Three in Indian Territory in Washington, one Wisconsin, three in Wyoming n West Virginia. Most f them are a scale of one-halt to the mile and all of them besides show ing the ordinary of rivers, towns, roads also exhibit the relief of country by mesn ning through point equal elevation Those of Indlan Teriitory, known as the Stonewell, Talequah and Tuskahoma quadrangles, from the names of the most important towns in each of interest showing the physical features of that little known country, The whole series of the maps of this territory are now coming out rapidly and will be of value In con- nectiod with the political reconstruction which fs at present goiug on among the Indian tribes, which will ultimately lead to a larger development of this country maps and as follows in Montar California cover tories two and one on feat are The Hamilion quadrangle of Montana fn- cludes a portion of the Bitterroot moun- tains, which form a part of the border be- tween Idaho and Montana. It is an ex- ceedingly wild and unfrequented region and with the adjoining territory has been set apart as the Bitterroot Forest The section included is remarkable for a series of parrow and almost perfectly stralght canyons, which are admirably de picted on the map The Chelan quadrangle. Ington, shows the topography of the lofty mountain wilderness about the shores of the southern portion of the beautitul movn- taln-enclosed lake of that name, 1s one of the scenic features of the west and the Ellens quadrangle of the same state, glves an fdea of the mountainous country about and to the southwest of that town, reserve in central Wash The Wisconsin she the Muskego and Waukesha quadrangles, which get their names from the lake and town of those names, {llustrate well the moranic char- acter of a large part of the state of Wis- consin, The three Wyoming sheets are interest- Ing; they are the Newcastle, Cloud Peak and Dayton quadrangles. The first glves the region lying about Newcastle, on the western slopes of the Black Hills country. The second covers purt of the Big Horn mountains and the forest reserve of the same name in the vicinity of Cloud Peak, nd i of ewpecial Interest as exhibiting four distinct glaclers on the sides of this mountain, which has an altitude of 13,165 feet. The Dayton sheet shows with great clearness the bluff eastern escapement of that section of the Rocky Mountain range s The Nicholas quadrangle is a section of Icholas county, West Virginia, on the western slopes of the Allegheny mountains Topographically it Is an excellent example of a well matured region, with a fully de- veloped and complex drainage system. Be- sides being an accurate map of the lo- cality, its characteristics as a physio- graphic type ought to make it useful in educational work, Of speclal interest also from an educ tlonal standpoint is the Mount Lyell, Call- fornia sheet. The country it covers s in the very heart of the Slerra Nevadas, and includes part of the Yosemite National park and the lower end of Lake Mono. A num- ber of the rugged Sierra peaks are to be found, and the series of profound canyons which have made this region famous. The celebrated Mono craters, the remalins ot extinct voleano action; several “hanging" valleys of the Rush Creek canyon, are also to be found, as well as the Mount Lyell glacier, the Conness Mount, Dana Mount and Parker Creew glaciers, remnants of the great fce sheet which formerly coy- ered this sectlon, and are fully described by Prof. Russell in an early volume of the reports of the survey. —— TOO FAST AND TOO FAR, the Pace of Today the One that Killst New York Tribune, Berlin sends word that a member of the Royal Meteorological Institute of Prussia has ascended in & baloon to a helght of more than 33,000 feet. In soariug above the mountain tops, in digging to depths pre- viously unknown, in underwater naviga- tion, in unprecedented speed on the sur- face of the earth, above the surface and beneath it this generation s making the feats of the fathers appear so weak and feeble and slow as to provoke derision But is it not possible that in some of these explolts of this impetuous cra the veloclty is excessive and the rush too headlang Is It wise to hurry too fast and cast aside moderation and self-restraint with a reck- lessness which takes heed of nothing? Is it prudent to draw too heavily and too rapidly upon the reserves of vitality and elasticity among the people of the time? Are we not going too fast and too far just now? Might 1t not be advisable to call a halt, to pause for a little while and to take time to think for a brief season? The pace of today In many things is & pace that kills because it Is so furious. Put on the brakes and hold the train in check. PERNONAL NOTES, After all, Eark Roberts' $500,000 will hardly compensate him for the loss of his son Shares in some of the Texas panies are selling as low rs with a splendid chance of losing even that amount oil com- 5 cents each, Joseph Jefferson is again in Oxcellent health. Hie cheeks are rosy, his eye bright und hig step firm. He says that he owes bis good health to his out-of-door life The Texas legislature at its special ses- sion this month is to be asked to make an appropriation for a mon over the | corporation alone capitalized this year at | $1,404,000,000, including bonds and stock, | while corporations with $30,000,000 caplital | have aprung into existence with a rapidity that s startling. It must be remembered | that & large proportion of these new corpor ations result from a merging together of | previously created companies, At the same | | time this process has almost invariably re- | | sulted 1n an increase of capitalization, cer- | | tainly not less than 25 per cent on the aver- | uge, Take the Steel trust as an example. It I8 at once the vastest and best known of the | industrial corporations. Here the compa- | nies consolidated had an aggregate capltali- zatlons In stocks and bonds of $1,019,600,000, of which about $150,000,000 remained unis- sued. The present corporation has a cap- italization in bonds and stock of $1,404,000,- 000, practically all issued and outstanding So in the shufMe which brought che Steel trust to life there was an increase in capi- taliaation of $385.000,000, or nearly 40 per cent No one will contend that the actual value of the properties combined fs greater be- | ause of such inereased paper capitaliza- | tlon. The virtual monopoly secured gether with the economies fn production made possible by doing things on a vast scale, may, and doubtless does, enable those properties to earn a greater return on their actual value, whatever that may be. Shorn of all side issues and considerations, the present method of organizing fndustrial | | tuture and make (he present pay the costs. | | that wha | telephones grave of General Albert Sidney Johnston in Austin King Victor Emmanuel has won hearts of even his republican subje a noted republican in speaking at Naples the other day sald that it did not matter much if the country remained a kingdom as long as the present King relgned, be cause no president could be a better ruler or more liberal Thomas W. Lawson, owner of the pendence, 1s something of a fatalist the ts, since Inde- The | toss of a coin has determined for him more stock transaction. He believes ver befalls after a man bas don his best is part of a grand scheme of the total of human events. He believes in the good luck of certain numerals; the figure 3 multiples appear in all his affairs I8 at 33 State street, Boston. His are 323 and 3339, respectively His yacht's firs illug test took plat June 3. He wears @ watch chain consisting of 333 gold beads Through the ctforts of Silas Dewey the founder of Dewey Park, a suburb Plainfield, N. J., it 15 proposed to erect that place a statue of Admiral George Dewey. The corner stone is to be laid on September Labor day. Mr. Drake an invitation to the admiral to be prese on the occasion. He recelved a note fre Admira! Dewey fn which he expressed him It as appreciating the houor which is to be shown him by the citizens of Dewey Park and vicinity. He regretted, however than one or His offi Drake of at sent corporations is an effort to capitalize the |1t would be impossible for him te be pres- | ent owlug to bis bumerous oficial duties. tione of several | distributed | sne in | The tnch | the | of contours or lines run- | manufactur which | | | | | | | | oF TIU Tmpositions and prttons Practiced Upon Cus Indiana ers News { ts T deal trusts re Is of opposition to hears comparatively familiar with the po of them, much of purely demagogical who their too and their functions Th gospel have nd he the We Al deauncis which Is known fears of manifest influence in control of certain gover have been et forth very cloarly who believe in the old-fashloned of competition and individualism had their say. But the mer s who are customers for the most part k 10 themselves. Yet thoss are real, and they are keenly felt. The little impositions and extortion that they suffer at the hands of the trust have developed & bitferness that ous. Not content with controlling duction, the trusts seek to control distr bution. They inslst in many making the prices at which the utors shall sell and in saying t they shall or shall not sell. To all ! plaints of unjust treatment they a deaf ear. A large buyer of certain articles in this town declares that he never any trouble when be buys from an dependent producer, but that he is jected to many annoyances when he from the trusts. In the latter case h not only not sure of gating homest wr but he fs reasonably sure to get welght—and there is no redress. The planation is that there {s no individual r. sponsibility. The man In charge of ti mill_or factory Is responsible to a hoard in New York, and his only object s to make as good a showing as possible. His alm i« not to please his customers, but to rn dividends on the watered stock of the trust Thus all over the country a feel of the bitterest hostility toward trusts is grow {ng up among the most influential and sub stantial business men. And it fs strange that the trust people do not realize it Powertul as these combinations are, they are going to need friends and when they need them they will need them badly. But apparently there is no consclousness that there may be a day of reckoning ahead. Nothing will hasten its coming so much a8 the insolent and unfair—and in some cases dishonest—trentment of their best customers by the trusts. which are n fon to he those deplore plitics mental of | 8 merchants of trusts have ! grievanc grievances 1s omin pro cages i distrin ) whom om turn BETTER THAN THE CORY CROP. Vast Possibilities of the Beet Sugnr Industry. Chieago Post 16 corn the best crop for such states as Kansas, Nebraska and Illinols to culti- vate most extensively? The question has been forced upon the attention of the agriculturists by the prolonged period of | drouth to which the district known as the corn belt has been subjected, and from which the crop has suffered enormously, %0 that a negative reply thereto is being unwillingly forced from mapy who have heretofore relled on corn as the chief source of their income. The corn crop is subject to periodic fallures, the recurrence of which every six or seven years has always been attended with severe loss, amounting in many instances to disaster, so that if a sultable substitute could be found for it the agriculturists are now In a condi- tion of mind to adopt it with alacrity. But {s there any such substitute? An afirmative answer to this question may be found in a speclal report which has recently been submitted to the Department of Agriculture by a special agent appointed to investigate the beet sugar industry of the United States and the possibilities of its development. The sugar beet, it 1s well known, delights in just such soll as 18 to be found in the three states named, and in the continued sunshine to which they were subjected throughout the month of July. There are no limits to the possi- bilities of development in the sugar beet industry, and the cultivation of it much more extensively than has yet been thought of would in all probability result in the enrichment of all concerned As an inducement to the pursult of the industry the report in question points out the rapld increase in the consumption of sugar in this country and the probability thaut (his increase will continue at an ac- celerated rate for years to come. For the fiscal year which ended June 30 last the sugar imports amounted to nearly 2,000,000 tons, and for generations to come the American people must rely largely upon forelgn producers for their supplies. It is gratifying to know that the report in ques- tion credits Illinols with being ahead of all the other states as a producer of beet sugar. In the opinion of the investigator 1t will be but a little while before Illinols will be taking advantage of the many op- portunities that exist in this state for becoming the center of a vast sugar manu- facturing reglon. LIGHT AND BRIGHT. Washington Star: perience Uncle Eben, “Is a ve'y pow ful teach you wants to look out foh her. 1t do ) de saflor no good to know whah de rock is aftuh he has done run futo it.” Yonkers Statesman: Redd—Have those new golf stockings of Lings ¢ u checkerboard R Id think they might give him pearance of having a game log. can: _“Where 8 thut king of the royal cham Vi geen They Baltimore Amerfcuan page? asked the berlain “8ire, he I« missing ko much that he seem- flyleat . by my rood ness, “'he fs not oniy is a blankety blank yared his royal high W blank page, but he Philadelphia Press anything so stuck up as marked the sawhick And why not?" replied the “He's well-connceted, you see Did you ever that pump? Te- milking stool Somerville Journal: “Have you a family tree?” neked Bjohaxon )" confessed Rjackson grandfather went out to Califorr tgers and was hanged on one but m « with the Smig thinks doesn't he AbOuL &Ko choose Phil t Yos volc it w phin Times 1l of his v but ft's he'll and hix pr the tw potnt t his riend " e Doctor ve made him vinted inspector that exists only in his Too bad think Chic: about he's mat mind The Tribur Swiskers ng 1o spes—an ofce Th [3 Profes Ah, then ' he expects to fll "0on AL Cool in What-t His eyes are balls of polished steel His lungs are sponges dried; His blood is houlllon-concentrate In veins of leather hide His muscles When hurr, Hix hair 1 like ime chords His hear A hous For loye Because rouk like pulley into play plano chord ire lost, they sa ropes & a little globe of punk of constant gloom 0 never burn within, there fsn't room Hig appetite has dwindled down To fit his little food T fruft is Cwater in And bread i “so much poke Hot apple tarts He reads of them agh, And watfles brown and chicken stow Are “terrors of the past and pumpkin ples- #1 And, smi A tiny box of tin, With capsules brown and pellets pink All ratting within m his vest he slips Then, with a gulp, he swallows (o Hig dinner from the ca Phix product of the health-food school 4 The concentrated man