Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 20, 1902, Page 18

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E— It 1s to be hoped that Governor Savage pvlll not keep murderer Rhea too long in suspense. 4 At the coming state falr the State Board of Agriculture proposes to exhibit #he resources of Nebraska from the &rand stand on the race track, EE—— The bill for the relief of Cuban re- ®iprocity has been temporarily laid un- Mer the table, but that fact will not seri- pusly impair the prosperity on the dsland. And now the Beef trust is charged with sending up the price of boots and #hoes. This is only another striking proof that corporations have no soles @ven when they deal in raw hides. Sp— Willlam E. Curtls, who has reached 'Syria in his foreign travels, says there ‘are no public bulldings in Damascus. Can it be possible that they have no Cadet Taylor in the oldest city of the world? — Before the commissioners of Douglas county venture upon the construction of half a dozen new bridges across various streams they had better confer with the county treasurer and the taxpayers to ascertaln where the money Is coming from. Spee———— The Illinols Congress of Mothers, which has just concluded its session in Ohicago, was largely attended by women who never have had any chil- dren to raise, but are very anxlous to belp to ralse the children of other people. ——— 2 Down In Mexico, Mo, a court has Just declded that school teachers may whip puplls whenever it is deemed mecessary. Up here in Nebraska the teacher would have to first consider the @lze of the boy or ascertain whether the @irl has a big brother. SEEm——— Denver never loses®an opportunity to advertise itself. The mere fact that the #Oolorado volunteers have invited Ad- dmiral Dewey to a banquet is heralded #ar and wide by telegraph. Whether Dewey accepts or rejects the invitation, nver gets the benefit of the announce- Pt Em———— Now that the agitation for a double standard of colnage has subsided in KLolorado, Denver is agitated from cen- ter to circumference over the case of Robert H. Beggs, principal of one of the public schools, who before a meeting of women teachers affirmed his bellef in a double standard of morals. One of the most deplorable events of wecent times is the reported sudden de- mise of the man who was about to lo- cate a glove factory in Omaha. The diagnosis of the medjeal éxperts was %“heart failure,” but the political mind readers of the Commercial club will doubtless ascribe the lamentable fatality to the hostlle attitude of The Bee to- ‘ward the renomination of Mercer for a th term. } o ——— 1 As between Asheville and Omaha for Wext year's entertalument, the free ride and free lunch aggregation that pre- .tends to represent the press of America under the name of “The Natlonal Edi- Q-tld association” has given preference b Nobody in the tar heel sum- mer resort would have spent $5 to en- l.n‘ the junketeers. The scenery in SMASHING THE TRUSTS. The recent rise in the price of beef which is generally charged up to the Beef trust affords an opportunity for the local Bryanite orgal to exhibit its lack of common sense and common honesty by slashing around promiscu- ously against the trusts in general and the republican party in particular. In one of its double-shotted, double-column editorials the popocratic megaphone de- clares that “Destruction, not regulation, I8 the remedy for the trusts! It was not the fear of bimetalism which prompted the trust magnates to con- tribute millions of dollars to the cam- paign fund of the republican party in 1896 and 1900 for the purpose of de- feating William J. Bryan. These men knew that with Willlam J. Bryan In the White House public interests would be protected and the trusts destroyed. Mr. Roosevelt has the same power te day. It cannot be expected, however, that he could succesufully wield that power even were he so Inclined.” Such drivel may impose upon ignorant partieans, but it will not down with intelligent thinking people. Did not Bryan and all of the Bryanite organs proclaim in 1896 that the battle against bimetalism was waged by the money power, which had entered Into a con- spiracy to make money scarce and dear in order to depress the prices of all commodities, impoverish and enslave the producers and finally monopolize the wealth of the nation? Did not Bryan declare free silver to be the paramount issue in 1896 and did he not declare free silver and imperial- ism to be the paramount issues of 1900 with the trust questlon as a mere Inci- dent? Were not the Standard Ol trust, the Whisky trust, the Sugar trust and scores of other trusts in existence when Bryan was in congress, and why did he do nothing? Suppose Bryan had been elected presi- dent. Could he have done any more to smash the trusts than Roosevelt, or any other president? Could he have dic- tated a trust-smashing law to congress if the majority of that body, or even the senate alone, stood as a barrier against such legislation? Viewing the question from a purely practical standpoint, would it be more prudent to destroy the great combina- tions of capital engaged in colossal in- dustrial enterprises than to regulate and supervise them, so as to make them harmless? Take the Beef trust for example. Suppose Bryan were king and could smash the Beef trust with one single blow. Suppose he could close the doors of all meat packing concerns in Amer- fca by one single edict, what would follow? Would it be to the advantage of the American stock-raisers to lose the advantage of the foreign export of American meats and cattle, which can only be carried on with organized cap- ital? Would it be of an advantage to restore the old system of individual cattle buying for the use of retail butchers in the various citles and vil- lages of the country? Would the con- sumers of beef, mutton, pork and canned meat produets be better off than they now are, or would they not have to pay a great deal more for their meats by reason of the unsettled state of mar- kets and lack of facilities for storage and transportation? Suppose that the packing houses were all clored and we had to depend on the individual soapmaker for our goaps and other by-products of the packing house, would not the users of these indispensa- ble commodities have to pay more for an inferior quality of goods? Would the price of leather and leather goods be cheaper if the meat packing houses were closed and the old system of buy- ing hides from each butcher in all of the villages and towns of Awerica were restored? A comparison of prices twenty-five years ago and today would afford ample proof that the new sys tem of organized systematic production and distribution has Introduced econo- mies that could not possibly have been obtained through small cattle buying and individual butchering. ‘What is true of the meat packing lo- dustry Is equally true of nearly every industry controlled by combinations of capital. The most gigantic trust of all, the Steel trust, has enabled America to invade the markets of the world with American rails, American structural fron, American locomotives and Amer- fean steel and iron products, thus fur- nishiug steady employment for thou- sands upon thousands of Awerican workmen at living wages in the produe tion of commodities that would other- wise have been manufactured abroad. What would the American people gain Ly destroying the Steel trust and scat- tering the hundreds of millions now in- vested in its vast plant among inde- pendent factories operated by ordinary capitalists? Would not the destruction of this concern be disastrous not only to several hundred thousand working- men now on its payroll, but also to the whole country iu deranging industry and commerce? Would it not be more rational and prudent to enact laws un- der which the interests of Investors, consumers and working people could be safeguarded and protected against trust extortion and other abuses that are the natural consequence of the new indus- trial evolution? Would it not be more rational for the men who are clamoring for the destruc- tlow of the trusts to tell us what they would do with the broken pleces and what they would substitute for the cap- talns of industry that are now conduct- ing the vast enterprises in which the American people are vitally Interested? According to a declsion just rendered by the supreme court of Ohlo, 11:27 is declared to be high noon in Akron. This scientific astronomical observation from the supreme beuch was brought about by a contest over a fire lnsurance policy, taked out by an Akron saloon keeper at 11:30, standard time, but worded to take effect at noon. Ohlo law makes standard time legal time. At the very mo- ment that the policy was delivered the saloon caught fire and was burned. The refusal of the company to pay the in- surance hrought the case into the su- preme court, which decided that noon at any locality Is the time the sun passes the meridian. At Akron 11 standard time, Is noon. Consequently the court ordered the insurance company to pay the loss. Such a controversy could not, however, occur in Omaha, because mer- idian time here is twenty-four minutes less than standard time, so that when the clock strikes 12 it is only 11:36, sun time, QUESTIONABLE FINANCIAL EXPERI- MENTS. A leading financial journal calls atten- tion to the multiplication of national banks and trust companies which is go- ing on in the east and expresses the opinfon that it 1s of doubtful financial expediency. It appears that recently there has sprung up a number of small Institutions with slender capital and lit- tle prospect of acquiring any command- iIng position. Some of these are de- slgned merely to serve the nelghborhood needs of the districts in which they are situated, but it is pointed out that such a subdivision of banking power is hos- tile to the best interests of banking bus- iness and to safe financial development. One of the very marked results or in- cidents of the last few years of extraor- dinary prosperity is the unparalleled de velopment of the banking institutions that are called trust companies. Until recently these companies were deemed to be simply allies of the national banks, but it is now a question whether the relation has not been reversed, so that the more Influential and powerful bank- ing institutions of New York are the trust companies, with the national banks as allies, elther equal or subordinate. According to late statistics the trust companies of New York have nearly $45,000,000 capital and more than $00, 000,000 surplus and profits, and they possess total resources of nearly $900,- 000,000. They are sald to be gaining In resources so rapidly that if the same comparative gain is reported at the end of this year which it was possible to report at the end of December last then these companies will possess by January 1, 1903, nearly $1,200,000,000 of resources. It is chiefly through these companies that the colossal flotations of industrial and corporate securities have been made in the last year or two. Last year the trust companies of New York made loans upon collateral securities aggre- gating $500,000,000. They carry deposits upon which interest is paid of about $700,000,000, a deposit line which Is rap- idly paralleling that which marks the boundaries of the deposits in the na- tional banks. One of the peculiarities of these companies s that they are ac- customed to carry very little cash on hand. Thelr profits are very large, hav- Ing been reported last year at fully 100 per cent upon the capital. While these financlal institutions and other ventures or experiments have prospered under the exceptional condi- tions of the last few years, paying lib- eral dividends and accumulating a sur- plus, the question I8 how long such ex- pedients can be maintained. The sort of business by which the trust compa- nies have made their great profits in the last few years, that of floating indus- trial and corporate securities, cannot last forever. It has perhaps already nearly reached the limit. What will these companies do when this means of earning money is no longer avallable? And in the possible event of a great change in business conditions, where would these companies, or such of them as may be carrying a large load of in- dustrial and corporate securities, find themselves? They may go on smoothly enough while the prevalling prosperity continues, but let a radical change come and disaster would ensue to many of them, with enormous injury to the figan- clal affairs of the country. This is a phase of the present situation which is worthy of serious attention. RETALIATION NOT FEARED. Leading republicans at Washington are not disturbed by the threat of Cana- dian tariff retaliation if the United States does not enter into a reciprocity agreement with that country., They say that there can be no negotiations with Canada on the subject of trade rela- tions so long as the Canadian govern- ment makes it a prerequisite to such negotiations that the United States shall settle the Alaskan boundary question to the satisfaction of Canada. The threat of retallation is regarded as absurd, for as a prominent official pointed out, there are two sides to that matter and we could practically ruin the trade of Ontario and Quebee, too, for that mat- ter, for six months of the year, by the mere stroke of the pen, which would prevent Canada lmporting through United States ports goods in bond. In that event she would have to enter her goods at our custom houses and pay du- tles in order to get them into Canada, because her own ports are closed during the winter season, excepting in the maritime provinces. Of course nothing of this kind is now being thought of, but it is mentioned simply to show that two can play at the game of retallation. As to the Alaskan boundary question, there has been no change In the position of our government regarding It. An official of the State department is re- ported as saying: “The boundary ques- tion, as our Canadian friends call it, has no existence excepting In thelr own im- agipation. The boundary is the same now that it always has been siuce the United States purchased Alaska of Rus- sla and as it was during all the time Russia owned that territory. The Cana- dians have made certain demands in re- cent years, but we do mnot recognize the government has sent to Alaska an army and a naval officer with the un- derstood object of making a thorough investigation of the boundary question on the und, which it is fair to as- sume has in view the settlement of a difficulty precipitated by the hunger of Canada for an outlet to the sea from its rich possessions on the Yukon. As to surrendering any territory eclaimed by the United States, it 18 out of the ques- tion and the sooner Canada becomes convinced of this the better it will be for her in respect to the question of closer trade relations. Meanwhile the New England interests which are urging the negotiation of a reciprocity treaty with Canada and would have our government take the initiative, may be expected to continue their efforts. . A CHANGL IN INDIAN POLICY. The latest plan of Indian Commis- 8loner Jones for reforming the Indians is likely to be viewed with some con- cern by those who are interested in the welfare of the nation's wards. The new policy, a decidedly radical departure, is to let out to employers of labor in va- rious parts of the country the able- bodied men on the reservations and it is stated that the agent at the Standing Rock reservation has offered to stock- men, farmers, raflroads or any other class of employers of labor the 534 able-bodied Indians who live there. It bhas heretofore been the policy to en- courage the Indians to remain at home and work on their farms, but it seems that this has not worked satisfactorily and so It has been decided to farm them out to whoever Is willing to em- ploy them. The object of the commis- sioner is in part, it is said, to cut down the rations allowed to adults, Agents have been lustructed not to supply ra- tions to able-bodied Indians, \not al- ready self-supporting, who shall refuse employment that is offered them. The commissioner says that “instead of an Indian agency being a center for the gratuitous distribution of supplies, it should be an employment bureau.” While it is certainly desirable that able-bodied Indians should learn to work and be encouraged to become self- supporting, the new policy of the com- missioner is open to some objections. As the Philadelphia Ledger remarks, “the letting of the Indians out to con- tractors at a distance, after the fashion of sotithern convict labor, seems to be pernicious and likely to retard the de- velopment of the Indigns as citizens. The place for the Indian is on his own land and if the ‘family is the basis of civilization,’ the separation of these Sloux from their families will be a most unfortunate step.” President Roosevelt said in his message that “the effort should be steadily to make the Indian work like any other msn on his own ground.” The plan of Commis- sloner Jones is pretty sure to be sharply criticised and it would seem a quite safe prediction that it will not prove a success. — The Chicago Civic rederation has promulgated a platform that contains the following declaration: “The crying necessity Is for a unity of effort—a pull all together by business men, public officials and the press—for either a con- stitutional amendment or a constitu- tional convention, and it must be de- cided at an early date which of the two is agreed upon. The federation has stood for an amendment, but it must be referred to the reorganized citizens committee to ascertain which can enlist the greater unit of action.” This declaration applies with as much force to Owmaha and Nebraska as it does to Chicago and the state of Illinols. The crying need of the hour is constitutional revision either by amendment or con- stitutional convention. The cheapest and most speedy mode of revision would be by the submission of separate amend- ments through the legislature. S The formal installation of Nicholas Murray Butler as president of Columbia university marks an epoch in the history of that great American educational in- stitution. The selection of Dr. Butler to the position filled by his predecessor, Seth Low, with such signal ability and marked distinction was within itself a high compliment, seldom bestowed on any man of his age. A man scarcely 40 years old is very rarely placed at the head of a great university unless he is known to possed¥ remarkable executive force and extraordinary organizing ca- pacity. No higher tribute could have been pald to the new president of Co- lumbia than was pald by the presence of Presldent Roosevelt, who came ex- pressly from Washington to participate in the ceremonles of inauguration, which were attended by the heads of all of the great American universities and the most eminent educators of the country, —eeee According to the latest cable advices . Plerpont Morgan has been negotiating a merger of the principal transatlantic steamship lines. If Morgan keeps it up at this gait for a few years longer the transportation lines of the world will be Morganized and the people of the whole earth will be piying tribute to his syn- dicates, whether they travel by rall, or water, or balloon; whether they travel on the great rivers, the lakes or the ocean; in rolling palaces or floating palaces; on the Red Star or on the White Star; cn the American line, Dutch line, French lne, the Hamburg-Amer- fcan or the North German, and the man who manages to get a merger paste- board good on all the Morganic liues will have a good thing, providing be has money enough to tip all sleeping car and stateroom porters, diner waiters, bar- them and do not propose to do anything more about the matter.” It is presumed that the official did not inean by this that our governmeént will do nothing looking to a final settlement of the dis- pute, but simply that it will pay no further attention to the extraordinary Capadian dewands. As a watter of fact bers, stewards, musicians and z/utdu. The resolution adopted by the Na- tional Asssoclation of Manufacturers in favor of the reduction of dutles on sugar fmported from Cuba reached Washington too late to be of service to the Sugur trust. n 5 NDAY, APRIL 1902. WELCOME TO THE PEOPLE. Action of the National Authorities in Enforcing Law Against Trusts, Philadelphia Press (rap.) Attorney Gemeral Knox is enforcing the law as he finds it. This is new to the trusts. It {s welcome to the people. The campalgn began with the attack on the Northern Securities company. It was continued by the Injunctions against the | railroads at Chicago and Kansas City. It is carried a step forward in the proposed investigation into the Beef trust. These three proceedings cover each phase of the modern trust. The Northern Securi- ties company is simply a New Jersey cor- poration organized for control. It has no other object or purpose. Its purchases of Northern Pacific and Great Northern shares are not for cash. They represent nothing but steps taken to consolidate control. As with the trust organized In 1885 to hold the | stock of the sugar companies, the Northern Pacific represents the trust plan for elim!- nating competition carried out under guise of a corporation. The speclal railroad rates given the mem- bers of the meat combination by the rail- ronds reaching and leaving Chicago and Kansas Clty represent the second familiar Instrument of monopoly. These special rates exclude competition. They _enable the members of the combined meat packers to charge what they please to the consumer and to pay what they please to the pro- ducer, because no one without these special railroad rates can ship meat from the packing centers to the retailer. The meat combination would fall to pleces but for this ald, which Attorney General Knox has attacked by asking for injunctions against the railroads. Last is the meat combination ftself, an assoclation of packers to maintain prices. This is no corporation. It has no trust. It 18 simply a combination between firms and Individuals to maintafi prices. This is the simplest form a monopoly can take, It has no machinery. There is no corpora- tion to attack. Such a combination offers more dificulties in prosecuting its members for violation of law than any of the more complex corporate or quasi-corporate or- ganizations. If Attorney General Knox can collect the evidence and break this combi- nation up all monopolies can be destroyed. Each of them falls under one of these three heads. They are all either corporations or gain special frelght rates or are mere assoclations. The power of the law over these monopo- lies has never before been asserted in this | manner. Attorney General Knox is testing, and for the first time, whether the law and the courts can arrest these combina- tlons. He stands today the conspicuous representative of the public determination that no man, men or corporation shall be able to evade the law prohibiting combi- nations to advance prices. RELICS OF BARBARISM, The Wedding Riog and the Dreas Coat Cruelly Assalled. Denver Evening Post, The erudite and gifted anthropologist, Prof. Frederick Starr, in a lecture deliv- ered before the co-eds of the Chicago uni- versity on “The Relics ot Barbarism,” made one or two Interesting assertions. The wedding ring, for example, that existing symbol of love, devotion, endearment, etc., is shown by this gifted gentleman to be merely an emblem of woman's vassalage. Years ago the brute man looked upon woman as a chattel. He put rings on her fingers and bells on her toes, and the rings were for the purpose of chaining her and dragging her as a slave or tying her in bondage as he would a horse, a cow, an a ewine or other cattle. And yet this ring used originally for such purpose is now an emblem of all that is tender In our higher civilization. It ‘a relic of bar- barism” that was in the first case mis applied, but by a matter of evolution as- sumed its proper position. And the dress coat! but not prehistoric, that garment was the feature of a hunting dress. Man's swallow- talls were buttoned up behind when the ‘wearer mounted his horse to go in search of game, The servant in those day: now, alsb wore the dress coat, but that was done simply to wear out the master's garb. Today this ‘“relic of barbarism' is the somewhat dark and gloomy badge of polite soclety. It is still used, however, for hunting game, but largely in the drawing room and the other haunts of our Twentieth century social life. Many other things were sald by this scholarly professor which go to show that the present owes much to the past, although the point of view 1s wonderfully different. After all, there is little new under the sun, and old Seneca uttered a great truth when he observed that originality died cens turles ago. In times remote, Minneapolis Tribune. It there were some modern Homer to sing the physical prowess of the youth of the present generation, the chances are that Achilles, Afax, Ulysses, Hector and all the rest of the old Homeric ‘“push’” wouldn't be in it with our college boys. The strength test being made in the edu- cational inatitutions throughout the United States give some remarkable results, and indicate that the race in this country not deterlorating. Joys Money ot Command. Saturday Evening Posi Within the past year the number of mil- liohaires in this country bas jumped over the four-thousand mark and is now in the fitth thousand. But all of them put to- gether, with their millions plled In one big heap, cannot buy the joy of the small boy who lets down his little hook and hoists up the first fish of spring. Where the Blame Helongs. Brooklyn Eagle. Out west they are blaming the law and the shopkeepers and the butchers and all rts of people for the shortage in the supply of game birds. But they have noth- ing to'do with it. It is the gunner who has made the shortage in all kinds of birds. Indianapolls News. Mr. Carnegle shows his wisdom in noth- ing so much 2 in giving his millions by deed and not by will. No ope can question the former. Almost any lawyer can at- tack a will when It 18 In the interest of the public, Let Us Be Thankful. Baltimore American. Things might always be worse. There is mo way of extracting oxygen from the atmosphere 80 as to form a trust for the purpose of supplying breath at arbitrary rates to alr consumers. Two Lives Measure Boston Transcript. On the whole, the eulogies of Wade Hampton justify more complimenary infer- ences than do the eulogles of Cecil Rhodes. Yet he dled In poverty. Pt Somerville Journal. The young man who sceks employment ien't as lkely to succeed as the young man who looks for work. Foor Con lom. New York World, Oom Paul may even smile griml sees how British humanity s staggered by “eorn tax." BLASTS FROM RAM'S HORN, He who will not learn of all shall teach none. Hard times try our valor and good times | our virtue. ! It takes & brave man to retreat from | temptation. Men reach God by realities and mot by tormalities. God never forgets the man who can for- get himself. The man who {s willing to work is not kept waiting. To foster the fires of lust is to furnish a hell in the heart. Uncharitable thought will deface the most | charitable actlons. The bigoted hold no bellefs; In bonds by them. Idleness and riches furnish time and tide for the devil's ships. The elaborate coloring of ritwal cannot | cover moral corruption. Prosperity becomes a poison when grows at the expense of plety. The full salvation of the saint depende on what Le Is doing for the salvation of the sinner, SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT, they are held it Somerville Journal: People would listen to long sermons with more patience, if more of them were as broad as thev were long. Hoston Transcript mage preached to larger audiences than any other American clergyman; but that was due to the fact that he did it through the newspapers. Detrolt Free Press creed, as revised by the committee which has just completed its work, specifically repudiates the idea of infant damnation. This not only enables the good to die young, but the young to die good Atlanta _Constitution: That Kansas preacher who has been pronounced a he- retic is disposed to continue the argument and make his case unfinished business for the higher councils of his church. A he- retic withoat publicity 1s as miserable as a bally-hoo with a sore throat Boston Globe: A woman who preached in Wineted, Conn., last Sunday in the place of her husband, a clergyman, told among other soul-scaring things of a woman friend of hers who attended a dance and drank a glass of beer and ten years later dled a drunkard. And yet there are some women who will continue to dance. Brooklyn Eagle: The ‘“Mormon peril," forsooth! The Mormons have a church in Brooklyn! Yes, and have had it these twenty-five years. It has probably not grown 1 per cent in that time. As for Mormons controlling the western states. we ghall expect that when the Mahometans control New York, and not a second sooner. Facts, not hysterics, must rule in these matters. There is not the slightest peril from the Mormons, even If it is true that the faith is spreading, which we doubt. When the natlon rises against the Presby- terlans, or the Congregationalists, it will be time to consider the peril which we suffer at the hands of the Mormons. As a matter of plain fact, we are not in the slightest peril from any creed whatever. 8o go to sleep. The late Dr. Tal- The Presbyterian | BEEF ROASTS, Indianapolis News: By putting up the price of meat the Beef trust has become an active supporter of the vegetarian propa- zanda. Milwaukee Sentinel: The news that the prices of provisions are going up ought to inspire some sclentist to invent a cheap and nutritious dinner tablet to be taken with water three times a day. Philadelphla Record: Shakespeare often put a nugget of wisdom in the mouths of his fools. Sir Andrew Aguecheek said: I am a great eater of meat, and I believe that works much harm to my wit.” New York Journal: At the Omaha cattle yards quite a number of beef steers find sale at $6.50 to $6.80 per 100 pounds, on the hoof, which is the highest at this season for several years past. With prices for cattle on this generous scale, the beef men can afford to divide with consumers the proposed special tax on chemically clean butter, colored to meet established preju- dice—not because the coloring adds to the | value of the article. Springfleld (Mass.) Republican: The pop- ular uproar over the high prices of meat appears to have stirred the Washington Department of Justice into ordering some inquiry whether & combination exists among the leading dressed meat houses of Chicago, Omaha and Kansas City. This is an old subject of government and con- gressional investigation which has hereto- fore come to nothing. There 18 less evi- dence of a combination here than is known to exist in a hundred other industries touching the necessaries of life. w Grade of Prosperity. New York Mail and Express. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach is & man who always wants to be moderate in his state- ments. He says in his budget speech that “the last year has not been exceptionally What the budget itself sald | damaging to the fair plaintiffs, PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE, Besides his talent as a poet the new pen« slon commissioner is an adept in the na« tional game of poker. St. Louls is becoming reconelled publicly to the falr postponement idea. Privately the town is tickled beyond expression. A sage Missourl court holds that “a jag is not a full load.” In the lexicon of Mis- souri a full load is measured by the extent of the paralysis. A brick dropped from a helght of 130 feot fell on the head of a white man in New York City without injuring the brick or the head. ‘Both classed shenoms, Buffalo 1s talking of moving the electrio tower of the exposition to the lake front park and rebullding it at an estimated cost of $151,495. But the money has not been subseribed A New York contractor has been fined § for littering up the streets. Affairs have come (o a dangerous pass in the big city when the rights of contractors are thus cruelly curtailed The awful thirst generated in New York City by dry Sundays truly “drives men to strong drink."" One of a crowd of fdle can- ners could not endure the drouth and soaked himself with carbolle acid. That did the business. A court and jury in Wiscons!n and in Kentucky have within a week -decided ad- versely on claims that unsought hugs are Courts are beginning to realize the necessity of in- gratiating themselves in the affections ot mankind Kentucky does not produce all the “moon« shine” whisky, nor is the “water cure” an exclusive Philippine idea. New York Clty has. a moonshine factory, and the authori- tles of the town are investigating the death of a girl of 14 whose iMls were cured by ica weter baths. Owing to frequent explosions in New York City dealers in window glass are forced against their will to boost prices. It 1s sald the rate makers sobbed so hard that their tears blurred the boosted figures. In such a paneful situation none but the heart~ less would harbor the thought that the dealers needed the money. Colonel William Hester, president of the Brooklyn Eagle association, celebrated on the 12th inst. the golden jubilee of his sery- ice with the paper.. Among the employes of the paper the colonel is affectionately re- ferred to as the “Basy Boss" and the com- pletion of fifty years' service was signalized by presentation of an autograph congratu- latory scroll and a watch from the em- ployes. Colonel Hester's record is a notable one. May his years and his tribe increase. may rightly be as DOMESTIC EASANTRIES, Chicago Post: fairy tale? ‘Because it says they we lived happily ever afterward. do nit a married and you ca Philadelphia_Press taking plano lessons, replied Mrs. “M_\' daughter s said Mrs. Nexdore, Peppre dly, “s0 I hear. Detroit Free Press: He—Why were you ous while I proposed? She—I was 5o afraid someone would inters rupt. Mabel—Blanche, to .uu;;l Mr. Oldboy? Blanche—Yes, I think so. Mabel—But he's three times as o'd you Blanche—But he does harmonize so with my antique furniture. Judge: are you going as ly Brooklyn Life: “Rose and Mabel have never spoken since they took part .n the private theatricals. “Professional jealousy?" “Worse than that—amateur jealousy."” Philadelphia Press: Mr. McCall—The woman 1 expect to marry must be beautie ful, cultured, sweet tempered and— Miss Passay (coyly)—Oh, you flatterer, Washington Star: “Do you think your father would offer me personal violence it I were to ask him for you? “‘Hardly. But there’s no telling what he will do {f you don't say something pretty soon." Chicago Post: “Do you think the very Joune, wite of ‘an old ‘man can be really happy ‘Why, certainly, 1f the old man fs con- siderate enough to stick to his club with reasonable persistence and s properly gens erous in financial matters. WHEN THE OLD Frank L. Stanton in Atlanta Constitution. When the ol' man got religlon things sorter changed arc ‘Che house wuz upside down; We didn’t know ‘what hit us; we'd started Wrong; Lite had to be made over to his hallelula song. -turvy, the worl' wuz ‘peared liko the whole house hustlin’. it's called today! An’ pray whilst you're a-workin'; an” work away But ever' youngster of us—with sad an' sollum face, Wuz prayin’ fer the ol’ from grace. He kep' “Work but work man to fall away Long years have passed, an' left us still with our work to doj An' the o’ man, bein' weary, ' left us, t00; y his homely’ counsel safe to the shelterin’ fold— Sightin’ the fur-off city, with shinin’ strests of gold. went home An' evermore we're pralsin’ of the Provi- dence on high That the ol' man got religion in the happy days gone by; An’ we hope to hear him shoutin’, reach the heavenly stairs, In the bright, celestial mornin’, when we “Rise up ‘Gross deficit, £45,000,000. to fam'ly prayers!" 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