Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 26, 1902, Page 6

A . & . THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1902. THE ©OMAHA DAILY BEE . ROSEWATER, EDITOR. —tads PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Patly Bee (without §inday), One Year.$4.00 ily Bee and Bunday, Une Ye . 0 llustrated Bee, Une Year HM:J Bee, One Year.. turday Bée, One Year.. entieth Century Farmer, One DELIVERED BY CARRIER. ly Bee (without Sunday), per copy ally Bee (without Bunday), per weex sily Bes (Including Sund r Wi unday Bee, per copy. vening Beé (witnout Kvening Bee (ncluding Sunaa: Complaints of ifregularities In delivery should be addressed to wvity Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Buliding. Bouth Omaha—City Hali Building, Twen- ty-fitth and M Sireets. Council Bluffs—iv Pearl Btreet. Chicago—1640 Unity Bullding. New York—Temple Court. Washington—5i Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and editorial matter should be sadressed: Omaha Bee, kaitorial De ment. 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Are not these dally rehearsals of the coronation procession likely to wear the newness out of the performance? e——— | Like the candidate for office, the pro- fessional prize fighter is always confl- dent of winning up to the very eve of e battle. —_— The Bee will be pleased to welcome President Burt of the Unlon Pacific into the editorial profession as soon as he !aunchm his promised paper. ' Now that the drouth in Texas has been |broken we may expect the Texans to go back to ralsmng the same old brand which has made them famous. emm————— A messenger boys' strike has stag- nated the business of the telegraph com- panies at Chicago. The imitative bump 18 well developed in the American youth, E——— It is only fair to assume that when Oyster Bay was given its name the founders had no idea that it would ever become even the temporary abiding place of a president. m————— \ The announcement has been made that a truce has been patched up be- tween ex-Senator Allen and Edgar How- ard. The shade of Jefferson may now rest in quiet during its summer vaca- tion. Our Dave pretends to be still walting for his committee to tell him what to do, while the committee cannot move until our nonresident congressman gives the word. The deadlock between Mr. Mercer and his committee is certainly wonderful to behold. Another revision of the railway map of this section of the country by absorp- tion and merger is predicted. The rail- way revolution has only taken a start, and not even thosé most famillar with the situation are willing to hazard opin- fons as to where it will stop. \ Mr. Bryan's Intimation in his Roston speech that there is room in this coun- try for only two permanent national po- litical parties must be discouraging to the populist allies unless they can de- lude themselves into the belief that the populist party is to be the permanent party and the democratic party soon to vanish from the earth. — The grand assessment roll for Ne- braska, as complled by the State Board of Equalization, shows an increase in assessed valuation of more than $5,000,+ 000. The assessments of the rallroad property, however, do not contribute to this increase. But the rallroad tax bureau keeps right on trying to persuade the people that the rallroads of Ne- braska are overtaxed. . Smm————— Of the $5,000,000 added to the assessed property valuations in Nebraska subject to taxation for 1902 as compared with 1001, $3,000.000 comes from Douglas county, and Douglas county will pay pearly a seventh of the entirn taxes by the state. Yet when Douglas slvely or even chiefly to its interests it will be treated as if it were a forelgn E———— Oolonel Bryan now divides the demo- ‘erats who refused to follow his leader- ship In 1806 luto two classes—those who bolted out of ignorance and those who bolted knowlingly. The ignorant voters he would like to welcome back on con- dition that they acknowledge their in- ., While on the other hand he bolt the door against the intelligent ‘who knew what they were doing they bolted, If this loglc does not the much-desired democratic what willt ~ BUSINESS MEN ON THE POLICE BOARD. The Massachusetts editor of the de- funct Omaha Republican made himself famous by prefacing his sugar-coated sawdust-ple editorials with the declara- tion, “and we desire it distinctly under- stood that we do not wish to be under- stood.” That is precisely the present position of the World-Herald, which de- sires it distinctly understood that it is for home rule in the governmest of the police, but rejolces over the ' decision which takes away home rule from Omaha and transfers the government of the fire and police to the state house at Lincoln. When the air is cleared of the sawdust and sand and the true in- wardness of the movement for another change of police boards is disclosed, the business men of Omaha will discover that they have been imposed om by schemers who have no other object In view than to use the police commission to promote thelr ends in politics. The original object of the creation of a fire and police board appointed by the governor was to make a strictly non- partisan body free from local partisan influences that would divorce the fire and police departments altogether from politics. The first board appointed by Governor Thayer chosen from among his personal friends was so intended to be. The board consisted of Chris Hart- man, L. M. Bennett, George Gilbert ‘and Howard B. Smith, two nonpartisan democrats and two strictly nonpartisan republicans. The board sought to keep out of politics, but in spite of all its ef- forts was accused by the opposition press with being in politics. When Mr. Bennett dropped out Wil- liam Coburn was substituted, but that did not seem to make the board less offensive, When James E. Boyd became governor the democratic organ ralsed the howl of politics and insisted upon a change. In response to this clamor Governor Boyd tried to displace Chris Hartman by Con Gallagher, a non- partisan business man whose principal business was politics, and to oust two of the other members wih his own favorites. Governor Boyd's nonpartisan board falled to connect, however, by reason of supreme court interference, which was denounced by the World- Herald as the most rank exhibition of judicial partisanship. Two years later Governor Crounse in- jected Attorney V. O. Strickler into the board in place of Mr, Gilbert. This ap- polntment was made expressly for the benefit of the World-Herald, which then, as now, pretended to be in fayor of bus- iness' men on the board. Governor Holcomb's appointees to the police board were Charles H. Brown and D. Clem Deaver, to serve with Strickler and Smith. This board was eventually ousted by special legislation that trans- ferred the appointing power from the populist governor to the republican land commissioner and attorney general. Thelr successors, the Churchill-Russell board, were business men out of politics who were always active in politics, namely, W. J. Broatch, A, C. Foster and Paul Vandervoort. This trio, although decldedly in politics, appeared to be em- inently satisfactory to the World-Herald and its political backers, and they found no fault when Broatch was succeeded by another business man out of politics in the person of Captain H. B Py T, Jr when, a year later, P. 'W. Blrkhauser took the place of Vandervoort. ‘When these nonpartisan business men were displaced during Governor Hol- comb's second term by such business men as Lee Herdman, Dr. J. H. Pea- body, Attorney D. D. Gregory and W, C. Bullard the change brought on no re- sentment from the nonpartisan organ. The Herdman board succumbed to the | Nantasket is inconsequential. nothing that he had not uttered many home rule decision originally rendered by Judge C. R. Scott and confirmed by the supreme court, placing the appoint- ing power in the hands of the mayor and council. The only really offensive partisan board, then, is that appointed by Mayor Moores, constituted in the first instance of the late Charles J. Karbach, Dr. V. H. Coffman, M. H. Collins and P. W. Birkhauser, who had also been a mem- ber of a former board. In what respect Dr. Coffman differed from Dr. Peabody from the standpoint of business or poli- tics and how far Mr. Karbach differed from Captaln Palmer or Mr. Collins from Lee Herdman as political factors will scarcely be discernible to anybody. The present police board, including, besides Mr. Collins, F. A. Kennedy, George A. Mead and P. C. Heafey, cer- talnly has as good business standing outside of politics as any of its prede- cessors. The objection to it is not that its members do not belong to the Com- mercial club or assoclate with other business men, but because they have not ground political grist upon the popo- eratic mill. They have offended not by what they have done politically, but what they bave failed to do. The fire and police departments of Omaba are syrely as well administered today as they were under the two Gallaghers. The board and the departments under it certainly have not been as perniciously active in politics under home rule as they had been under the model business man's boards made up of Broatch, Palmer, Herdman, Vandervoort and Foster, when everything went “just lovely” In the eyes of the sham reform organ. Order is well malutained, prop- erty is secure from destruction by fire, internal dissension has been banished from fire and police forces. The World- Herald 18 clamoring frantically for a change simply because it expects to reap & political advantage. e— THE PANAMA NEGOTIATIONS. The treaty between the United States and Colombla ' in regard to the canal ‘will probably not be signed before Sep tember and perhaps later. The delicate question respecting soverelgnty over the territory to be ceded for the canal is still to be determined and may con- sgme some time. In the meanwhile the American officlals will go to Parls to look into the various legal questions conpected with the transfer of the ca nal property to the United States. The counsel to the Panama coppeny is new on his way to Paris to assist in the in- vestigation of the matter of title and he has expressed no doubt that the re- sult will be entirely satisfactory to our government, an opinlon acquiesced in by some of the ablest lawyers In con- gress. The question will undoubtedly be speedily settled after the American officlals get to Paris. and with this dis- posed of In the way expected an agree- ment with {he Colombian government will promptly follow. It appears that Nicaragua and Costa Rica are still hopeful of some hitch in the negotiations that will give them a chance. The ministers of those coun- tries at Washington profess to belleve that the United States will not be able to make satisfactory arrangements for the construction of a canal at Panama and will therefore in the end revert to the Nicaragua route. This is of course possible, but as now appears not at all likely. THE DEMOCRATIC “HARMONY” MEETING The meeting at Nantasket under the auspices of the New England Demo- cratic league, with a view to promoting party harmony, contributed nothing to the attainment of that object, If in- deed it shall not have the effect to ag- gravate democratic discord and division. The conciliatory talk of Edward M. Shepard of New York was neutralized by the utterances of W. J. Bryan. The former would have the differences of the past forgotten and all democrats united on the questions of the present. Mr. Bryan declines to forget the past and he refuses to harmonize with those democrats who did not accept the Chi- cago-Kansas Oity platform and support him. He still believes that the doc- trines upon which he made his two presidential campaigns are the true principles of democracy and he proposes to adhere to them. Mr. Bryan divides into two classes the men who did not support him in 1806— those who understood the issue pre- sented and those who did not under- stand the real nature of the contest. Ot the former he declared that until they “are completely changed in their sympathies they cannot return to the party without Injuring it.” The refer’ ence is to that large body of democrats, including the ablest men in the party, who rejected the free silver heresy and who still believe in sound money. This element Mr. Bryan proposes. shall not be recognized as democrats and shall not be permitted to have anything to say in regard to democratic principles and policies unless they repudiate what they did six years ago and confess they were wrong in not supporting Bryanism. The inference is that if they are ad- mitted to the counclls of' the party Mr. Bryan will refuse to associate with them. Thus democratic “harmony” has been given another slap and it remains to be seen what the effect will be. Be- yond this the speech of Mr. Bryan at He sald times before. The country has been long familiar with his demagogic class appeals and they can exert no influence now upon the intelligent and discern- ing. They had some potency when the country was under a pall of industrial and commereial depression and millions of people were idle, but they carry no welight now when prosperity abounds and the demand for labor in portions of the country is in excess of the sup- ply. When the people are in distress, as they were a few years ago under the operation of democratic policy, the demagogue has his opportunity, but his voice is not heeded when all the peo- ple are prosperous, The opinions, the doctrines and the predictions of W. J Bryan during the past six years have been utterly discredited by events. No politician in our history was ever more completely wrong than he has been. His latest deliverance shows that he has not gained {n wisdom and therefore has not improved his claim to popular con- fidence, e OUBA IS TRANQUIL. According to trustworthy advices there is no substantial foundation for the reports of possible disturbances in Cuba. Havana correspondents say that the Cubans realize that the eyes of the world are upon them as well as the United States and their pride is at stake. They know that the life or death of the republic depends upon their behav- ing themselves and they are determined to conduct themselves aright. The most radical leaders, it is stated, impress this upon the people, and it s safe to say that their counsel will prevail, for they bave a pride in their republic and are determined to give it a falr trial. It appears that there is a bitter feek ing on the part of the anti-annexation- ists toward the annexationists, but it s not likely to lead to any serious trouble, because there is an impression that if any grave disturbance should oceur in the island, anything threaten- ing & revolution, the United States would at once interpose and perbaps take permanent control of the island. Doubtless our government would offer the Cuban government assistance If it should appear necessary to preserve peace and order in Cuba, but only in the event of the inability of the Cuban authorities to pat down an uprising would the U States intervene, Meanwhile affairs iz the new republic seem to be moving along witheut any great difficulty. The financial situation 18 not quite satisfactory and the gov- ernment is not getting as much revenue as could be desired, Which prevents pub- lic lmprovements that would give em- ployment to the people and better the situation, Yet less complalnt is heard, the people as a whole seem to be falrly well contented and there is a very gen- eral disposition to keep the flag of the republie flylng. —————— The Lincoln Journal persists that the receat refunding of the Douglas county bonds which had five years to run at 0 per cent into twenty-year bonds at 8% per cent, unloaded by the bond brok- ors ob the state school fund on & § per cent basls, is a good bargaln. There s uo question whatever but that it is a #ood bargain for the bond brokers and the bond holders, but the taxpayers of Douglas county, who will be losers by at least $14,000 by the transaction, fafl to see where it 1s a good bargain for them. So far as the Investment of the school fund is concerned, it is neither a good bargain nor a bad bargain, because the school fund could have had the bonds at the same terms by direct pur- chase any time they might have been refunded by the county. In the interval the complication over the release of the old bonds and the delivery of the new ones threatens to make it a still worse bargain for Douglas county taxpayers. SEmgeste— To appreclate the nonpartisan charac- ter of the movement for a new police board made up exclusively of business men out of politics one need only look behind the litigation that has brought out the latest police commission de- cision. The suit was first Instituted os- tensibly to shield Fire Chief Redell, for whom that notoriously nonpartisan bus- iness man, Captain H. E. Palmer, stood as head sponsor. This suit led to the petition for a writ of mandamus against the governor, applied for in the name of that nonpartisan business man, At- torney C. C. Wright, for whom those twin apostles of duplex partisanship, Frank Ransom and W. F. Gurley, ap- peared as speclal pleaders. But of course there was no politics in it The story about the national organiza- tion of millers planning to Invade the congressional district of Speaker Hen- derson for the purpose of defeating the speaker in retaliation for his opposition to a measure in which they were in- terested is denled as only another po- litical fake. The millers unquestion- ably have a right to support or oppose any candidates they see fit, but we may be sure that their fealty to the repub- lican policy of protection will keep them from going over in a body to the de- moeracy, or to democratic candidates, They know they could not help them- selves by electing free trade democrats to congress. - ‘When President Burt starts his paper to drive the existing newspapers out of Omaha he will find that running a newspaper is very different from run- ning a railroad. ‘What Has Become of Adlait Baltimore American. It s observed that the Hon. Adlai Stev- enson refrains from mingling i the demo- cratic Donnybrook. New Designation for the “Peerless.” ‘Washington Post. It is impossible for Mr. Bryan to travel without leaving a trall of vociferation in his rear. is the human sprinkling cart. W Coat, 8t. Paul Dis) “Every democrat should take off his coat and get to wirk to elect democratic con- gressmen,”” ,an organ of that party. But which copt? The Bryan coat or the Cleveland? 1 ript. One moral of the General Bragg incident is that a public man should not write pri- vate letters. Another moral is that a busi- ness man is & better selection for the posi- “lon of congul general at & port with which i we have large dealings than a veteran of war and politics, of peppery temper and but little acquainted with commerce. Ahead in South Africa. Philadelphla Ledger. The trade commission sent out from England to inquire into the best methods of pushing British trade in South Africa was disgusted to find a number of restless America! already Installed there and pushing business without walting for any commission to instruct them. They had chosen their own methods, and the com- mieslon was obliged to report that they were meeting with the same success in South Africa as in the of the world. Under the circumstances, it would scem that the best recommendation the com- mission could make to its constituents would be to study the methods of the Americans and follow them as closely as possible. . PERSONAL AND GENERAL. The school board of Newport, R. I, has elected a colored women as teacher in the public schools. She is the first negress to be so honored in the New England states. A wonderful beard 1s worn by Jean Co- non of Montlucon, France. It is 10 feet 10% inches in length and nearly 5 feet of it, when he stands erect, rests on the floor. The ends of his mustache hang below his walst. Senator Depew 1s sald to be consulting several famous Parisian physiclans with a view to his son's studying for the medical profession. The young man will probably be glven a private laboratory in the Pas- teur Inmstitute. The king of Italy is a great eater of sweet cakes and fancy bread of every de- scription and his cook has a reputation for bis confections. The king rarely touches wine, his chief table drink belng two Aus- trian mineral waters. The total emigration of Bweden to Amer- lca during the last fifty years has exceeded 860,000, while about 150,000 Swedes have gone to other countries. Of the emigrants to the United States only § per cent have returned to their native country. The latest reports of the British regls- trar general shows that the natural increase in population in the United Kingdom during the three months ended in March 31 la was 95,01 The death rate during that quarter was 189 per 1,000, and the birth rate 28.1 Ras Makennon, the Abyssinian general urprised the French people by his imperturbality. The magnificence of a military display at Long- champs did not move him to enthusiasm and he almost yawned at the fireworks dis- played in his honor. He found the weather preesing and, altogether, seemed to e the entire place a bore. Charles de Lesseps, son of the late Fer- dinand de Lessep, the projector of the French Psnama Canal company, expresses the opinion that the United States will be able to complete the enterprise within six years. He gives the amount expended .by the French ompany on the work as §252,- 000,000, All its rights are to be acquired by the United States for $40,000,000. Michael J. Hennessy of Woiceator, Mase, has allowed twenty-one pleces of skin to be cut from his legs to be grafted upon those of Francls Earl, an S-year-old boy who was recently badly burned and is now undergolng treatment the West Penn- sylvania hospital, Plitdburg. Heoneasy was taken to the hospital for wounds re- celved in & rallway acoident and became intereated in the case of Earl America A REMARKABLE INDUSTRY, Mechanical Appliances for Cultivating e Sofl. Philadelphia Ledger. ‘The extent to which machinery s applied to agricultural operations in the United States 1s one of the wonders of the time. A complete revolution in farming methods has taken place within a lifetime—in much less than an average lifetime in many direc- tlons—owing to the Introduction of the in- genlous devices which have supplanted the primitive tools with which the husbandman gathered his crops and prepared them for market. The manufacture of agricultural implements has long since become a great Amerioan industry, furnishing an important contribution to our export trade, while it remains, and I8 likely to remain, fn exclu- tive possession of the home market. For a decade the paltry sum of $108 represented, 80 far as the treasury reports show, the value of the agricultural machinery im- ported into the United States from 1891 to 1900, inclusive. The mental activity and in- genuity exerted in the invention of agri- cultural appliances is indicated by the cen- sus statement that 42,674 patents have been lesued for various devices from the organi- sation of the patent office to January 1, 1902, The value of the agricultural machinery manufactured and sold for home use in a single year (1900) was $85,108,27v. The speclal census repori on agricultural implements for 1900 says that before 1850 the manufacture of said implements was little more than a hand trade, and in no sense a factory industry in the modern eense. The industry before that year was conducted, for the most part, in small shops, and the output was sold in the Immedia neighborhood. There were many more es- tablishments in operation in 1850 (1,833) than i 1900 (717). The development of the industry is best exhibited by the increased capital invested. In 1850 it was $3,564,282; in 1900, $157,707,951. The special census report graphically il- lustrates tue time and labor-saving value of agricultural machines in practical opera- tion on the farms. Contrasting conditions in 1830 with those of 1896, the report says that the amount of human labor mow re- quired to produce a bushel of wheat is on an average ten minutes. In 1830 the time required was three hours and three min- utes. The cost of the human labor required to produce a bushel of wheat fell in the sixty-six years' interval from 17% cents to 8% cents. Simllarly striking examples are given with respect to corn cultivation and hay making. Taking the country over, “In the case of the crop of corn the money mea- sure of the saving of human labor required to produce it in 1899, in the most available economic manner, was $523,276,642; wheat, $79,194,867; oats, $62,866,200; rye, $1,408,950; barley, $7,323,480; white potatoes, $7,366,820; hay, $10,034,868. “The total saving In the cost of human labor for these seven crops in 1899, owing t6 the posefble utilization of the impzements, machines and methods of the present time, in place of the old-time manner of produe- tion, reaches the stupendous amount of $681,471,827 for this one year. The development of agricultural ma- chinery is not complete. The probable use of the automobile in farm operations is one of the interesting predictions made by the census report, which closes with this ob- don: OTHER LANDS THAN OURS, The coming general election In Japan will be of probably greater Interest and {mport definite party lines will be drawn. Ever since the establishthent of the constitu tion, Japan has been moving toward party government on somewhat the same lines as the free countries of the western world. Various circumstances have retarded the process now and then, but at the present time party development has reached a point where it may be said to be crys- talizing into permanent form. Neverthe- less, Japanese parties are still a puzzle to most people outside of that empire, ap~ pearing to be organized upon entirely different bases from parties of similar names in other lands. Thus a Tokio cor- respondent points out that intelligent ob- #ervers have In successive Interviews re- garded the same Japanese statesman as an ultra conservative, a moderate liberal and an extreme radical. The key to the puzzle les in the fact that Marquis ito, the con- servative or constitutional leader, is a ‘It seems safe to predict, in view of the development of the automoblle, that within the next decade the feature of modern fn- vention will have found an additional ap- plication as & motive force in connection with agricultural implements of tillage, planting and harvesting.” NEBRASKA'S RUIN! Philosophic Rumination on the Good Crops Always Following DA er, Chicago Inter Ocean One of the strange things about agri- culture in Nebraska is the fact that, while the crops are ruined there many times every growing season, the harvests are almost invariably bountiful. This statement of course will call to mind the somewbat similar conditions which prevall annually throughout the peach district of Michigan. However, there is a difference. The Michigan peach crop is rulned as a rule by a late frost, and only once every spring, whereas the Ne- braska corn, wheat, oat, rye and barley crops are ruined frequently every summer by drouth, floods, hot winds and hail storms. Travelers through the parts of Nebraska which have been desolated most frequently are surprised to find them thickly inhabited by a happy and prosperous people. In those counties where the drouths, floods, hot winds and hail storms lay waste thou- sands of aci of growing grain every sea- son may be seen from a railway car window handsome farm houses, fine bar: flelds of golden corn, herds of fat cattle and other evidences of the bounteous blessings which nuture bestows upon am industrious people. Nobody but a complete stranger to the way of Nebraeka, however, will permit this apparent contradiction to trouble him. The traveler familiar with the vagaries of agri- culture in this transmissourl ecommon- wealth will simply continue to look out of the car window and say nothing. The crops of Nebraska had already been ruined three times this season when the following dispatch reached the Inter Ocean from Hastings: “A terrific hall storm prevailed over a considerable part of the farming cquatry in this county this afternoon. Chunks of ice welghing nearly a quarter of a pound fell for fifteen minutes. Chickens were killed and young stock injured. Oats and corn were driven into the ground.” That the oats and corn should be driven into the ground by chunks of ice weighing nearly a quarter of a pound will surprise nobody. Nelither does it seem strange that such hallstones should kill chickens and injure young live stock. The strange thing is that there should be anybody or anything left in or near Hastings to tell the tale. Perhi these quart pound chuvaks of ice fell with the soft side down in most cases, or perhaps they fell with force ouly on the tassels and heads of the corn and oats. How far the stalks were driven into the ground the dispatch leaves us to con- jecture and we are equally at a loss to know whether they can be pulled back again in time to break a corner on the Board of Trade. But we presume they cam. Torpid Liver ‘When your eomplexion is sallow, and you are troubled with Copstipation, M Bukl{udugw ou?som:um laints, take Horsford's Acid Phosphate It stimulates healthy liver activity, inereases the flow of bile, improves appetite, pro- motes di ion, enriches the blood, and iiwproves the whole systew. Hersterd's name on every GENUINE package conservative in politics because he is a radical in social reforms,” while Count Okuma, the radical or progressive leader, Is a radical in politics because he Is a conseryative in social matters. "o One of the dangers of the telephone where the service is in the hands of the government has been curiously {llustrated in Germany. An association, of which a well-known German ‘“captain of industry” is a member, recently found it necessary to ask him by telegraph if he was satisfied with a certain resolution passed by the soclety. The telegram was forwarded to Cologne by means of the telephone, and on its way the word resolution became revolution. This was enough to make the operators at the Cologne central turn over the dispatch to the secret police. With their customary wisdom, the latter saw in the message plain proof of a widespread anarchist conspiracy to overturn the gov- ernment, particularly as it was signed by an organized body. Forthwith two detec- tives rushed to the hotel and arrested the captain of industry onm sight. Since the latter's name is known throughbout Ger- many, he found it easy to prove his inno- cence and to explain the message. But what would have become of him had he been a forelgner, or an inconspicuous per son from a far-off village, is something about which the knowing prefer to remain silent and look wis Before the present year closes the great Transsiberian railroad, the longest con- tinuous line in the world, will be open for trafic, and Russia can well clalm posses sion of the mosi wonderful line of trans- portation in existence. The new road will extend for a distance of over 5,300 miles and connect with the old Russian road from Moscow to the Ural mountaine, thus forming a continuous line from Moscow to Port Arthur or Viadivostock; the passage will occupy about sixteen days. The road has cost the Russian empire 750,000,000 rubles, or $375,000,000—a vast sum of momney, but one that will no doubt be re- pald with ample Interest within a very few years. It is one of the grandest works un- dertaken by the government of the czar, and it promises to increase the wealth of his dominions almost immeasurably by bringing China into direct commercial communication with Russia. o An official return of incomes subject to taxation in Prussia shows that in the last ten years the number of persons with in- comes ranging from 900 marks ($225) to 8,000 marks ($760) has increased by 62 per cent, while the number of incomes over 8,000 marks has increased by 37 per cent. Tue rise from incomes below to incomes above 900 marks has been proportionately much greater than froia incomes below to incomes above 8,000 marks. The number of persons enjoying Incomes from 900 to 3,000 marks has always been six or seven times as great as those with 3,000 marks or micre, but the aggregate income of the former class has mot been much larger than that of the latter, and its income tax contribu- tion has been much less. Thie would seem to show that the burden of the tax falls on the shoulders of thase best able to bear it. Pers enjoying incomes of 900 to 3,000 marks, with the members of their faially, formed in 1901 80.44 per cent of the popu- lation of Prussia, while persons with in- comes above 3,000 marks formed, on a similar calculation, 4.31 per cent. . Canada is gratified to observe that its export trade has nearly doubled in nine years; In 1893 it amounted to $102,000,000, and in 1903 to $196,000,000. It is especially flattering to Canada to observe that its manufactured exports much more than doubled In the nine years. Of the total increase of $94,000,000, §$29,000,000 i8 in the product of the mines. The ratio of in- crease is nearly sevenfold; in no other ce than any which has preceded it, because in it more than in any other i | branch of exports has the ratéo been nearly | 80 great. The Increase in the exports from the fisheries is $6,000,000; this item 4id not double; the forests furnished an incremse of $8,000,000, which # less than |2° per cent; animal products increased [ $28,000,000; this is not very far short of doubling; agricultural products Increased $15,000,000, or about two-thirds. Manufac- tured exports were $7,693,957 In 1893 and | $18,462,070 In 1902. This increase in manu- factured exports is the more notable be- cause the population of the Dominion has not increased rapidly; the results of the last census were much below what it was hoped and expected that they would show. —_— Bomerville Journal: Al ly) =] made this_waist myselt. o Maude—Yes, I knew it. Bomerville Journal: It ig seldom wise to play a practical joke on the man who fixes the amount of your salary, Chiea, News: ,‘r;'cnoa,""a.u th e rust, 1% "don™t, %5, Individual, “Put not your trust in (e clerieal-locking man in replied the prosperous-looking T put my riches in trusts. “It i# your plain duty, and—" 8; and ‘t'}:n;‘ is what makes it o ish we could, once In a ;mlle, have a duty so ornamental that it ould be a pleasure to contemplate it.” Yonkers Btatesman: Pati Thi Nice does everything Fiy, doesn'e he' .’?:‘?;"’hnw":" thing properly, doesu't het ¥, he went to our plenle, .y gldentally sat in a custard ple, ahd 46 you ‘novz‘ his trousers just matched the cus- Washington Star: “You must n that you owe your country non’;e:lh)l‘n:q,:‘.‘ s haont Jorget it,” answered Senat-s ‘ur[ um. “But my ecountry, I am hapny 0 say, I8 an easy creditor, and I am too much of worry m“,q philosopher to let my debts Catholic Standar “I_have bee: . s n told,” 8ald the new patlent, “that you are the highest authority on ‘appendicitis.” Oh! T don’t know,” vepli*d the eminent :,‘:}:}_s‘mv “I only chamge $1,00 per opera- Lite: He—You o rop iy et know you married me e—~Well, T'm glad you glv for not being an utter fool. bk e ey ‘Washington Star: “Don’t t !o yoh good Intentfons,” sald rl"ll::'lctofi‘h::!r unless you has skill back 6f 'em. Good Intentions satixfles de man what has ‘em, g:“!’%‘v_y is de rulnation of a heap o' cholf A Ditty of ance. Washingtos Little drops of water L‘?prlnl'(;'ed“]hrlouxh the stock ave e all street I Hopelessly in hock. = X THE GIRLS OF LONG AGO. Leslle Griswold in Los Angeles Times. Oh, the dear old-fashioned girl that I knew ong years ago, When the worid, 'the girl and 1, were in Bhe was Beon'us et ear s ear v Tams ey snowdrops amid the o Was mweet & - oty s the wild rose of sum. nd she Knew Just how to make Pound and sponge and ginger Gake! Bhe could spin and weave and Knit the And"the butter®th e butter, cheese and o Why. T tnink T nave o dream rivin, ur driving home the cows through Oh, thess vaunted moder: ys! I n them cin compare: 0 NothInk To the husking bees and spelling schools old; Nothing sets my heart a-d music on the air, Y oy Merry jingling of sleighbells in the cold. h, those days of long ago, en the winter's frost and snow Hnla-ir:’ clglle embrace the woodland vale pool; Wrapped in robes and blankets warm ‘.‘x?':: cnn&weahr wind and storm, Wh e gathered at the weekly si) achool] Ol Oh, the old-time sin hea inueht the Tasss 00k, mX heart ne-lu. at the mem'ry of those days of ong ago; It keeps the very time of the dear old < _ singing-master, Unconsciously I'm humming some tune I used to know! And in memory once more .. At the old red schoolhouse door I'm waiting for ‘‘ye maid” of olden times, d 1 feel her fingers small Lightly on my coat sleeve fall, ‘While our hearts are beating to the sleigh- bells’ chim Oh, the dear old-fashioned girls have with time grown calm and stately! For I sometimes meet them in the street or store, They nod théir pretty heads, smiling at me most sedately With a flash of eye or dimple as of yore, ‘And the gentle tones, the while, Of those days we talk and smile, When we all were happy boys and girls to- er! And the happlest of our themes— Like the dearest of our dream: ging schools we went to all to- r! oh, those days of long ago! Oh, the boys I used to know b, the girls who made life's sunshine bright and fair! ‘When we've crossed the ‘‘great divide," Passed on the other side, ‘We shall meet them, know them, greet them, over there! EXTENSIVE ALTERATIONS In and about our store make it necessary to dispose of as much of our merchans dise as possible, for we rather sacrifice prices now than to hold the articles sub~ ject to dust and dirt, 25 and 50 Per Cent Discouht Wash Suits, $1.25, Discount off Makes Price § .95 Wash Suits, $1.50, Discount off Makes Price $1.15 Wash Suits, $2.00, Discount off Makes Price $1.50 CHILD'S WOOL BUITS— From $3.50 to $8.50, 25 per cent off. BOYS' OR SMALL MEN’S BUITS— From $7.50 to $15.00, 25 per cent off. One Table of CHILD'S BUITS AND KNEE PANTS— 50 per cent off , BOYS’' AND CHILDREN’S STRAW HATS-— 60 per cent discount. 50c Ha ts 25¢, $1.00 Hats 50c. Kre-§-Q Exclusive Clothiers and Furnishers. " Re 8. Wilcox, Manager. We Close Baturday at 9 p. m.