Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 18, 1902, Page 6

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S ——— Congecticut s the latest state to &nm dorse President Roosevelt, and the en- dorsement s a hummer. e It's a safe bet that many of the loud- est talkers about the price of anthracite coal have never used anything but soft coal. With three bank presidents on the Mercer primary tickets, Our Dave would be safe if the dollars voted instead of the men. Governor Savage may bring on his militla 1n support of Mercer, but he can’'t make the workingmen of Omaha support Mereer. di y Sp—e— Porto Rico has been accorded self-|' government only, 4 couple of years, but has already developed opposing political parties just as If it eame by them nat- wrally. The organization of a gigantic com- bination of the iron and steel industries in England hardly consists with the theory that free trade Is the remedy for trusts. L ree— A man cannot serve two masters. Mercer's first alleglance Is to the cor- porations, and as between the corpora- tions and the common people, he will always be for the corporations. The test oath bluff has also been ealled. Regularly registered repub- Mcans will vote as usual at the coming republican primaries without an inqui- sition into the secrecy of the .bnllot. ‘The market house ordinance has been again passed by the council for the *steenth time. That Is no assurance, however.) that it will not be passed up and passed down a few more times. ———————— A committee of the city councll will take charge of the city hall reviewlng stand when President Roosevelt reviews the Ak-Sar-Ben parade. Now will the members of the school board be good. Noth'ng like an inevitable overlap in the police fund can be expected to deter the Broatch-Mercer police board from using the police force to meet the po- litical emergency presented by Our Dave's desperate case. S—————— If the rallroad managers and bankers could cast all the votes at the republican primaries next Friday, Mercer would win out hands down. But the wage workers ought to have something to say and will bave something to say, N ey Secretary Wilson's bulletin predicting that the price of beet will soon begin to fall as the result of abundant grass and corn crops will be gratefully ac- cepted, provided it is followed by fulfill- ment. It Is safe to assume that the meat packers' trust will not co-operate very strenuousl, Speaker David B, Henderson was unanimously renominated by acclama tion, but he refuses to be a candidate when .even ' small portion of his re- lecq constituents differs with him, as he conceives, on a matter of principle. Dave Mercer—~ But it would be an In- sult to the speaker to muke any com- parison with Dave Mercer. General Plerson's m'edlctron that by 1910 the South African mines will turn THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1902 —_—_—— NPEAKER HENDERSO: WITHDRAWAL. If the withdrawal of David B. Hender- son from the race for congress in his | district means his retirement from pub- | lic life it can be regarded In no other | light than a national calamity. As speaker of the house Colonel Henderson has become a npational figure, speakership in Importance and influence ranking second only to the presidency | It will be conceded by friend | itself. and foe that in that trying position Speaker Henderson has acquitted him- self In the most efficlent and creditable manner. No other man in congress could have succeeded to the place vacated by Speaker Reed and accomplished 'the same results with as general satisfaction and as little friction as has Colonel Henderson. It is no disparagement of Colonel Henderson to say that following in the footsteps of that giant of states- manship his notable achievement has been to hold the speaker's power built up by Speaker Reed and to gulde the course of legislation in smooth channels without encountering the personal op- position which Mr. Reed met from mem- bers of the house of both political parties. Bpeaker Henderson's hand upon the legislative throttle has been the all- powerful factor for safe and conserva- tive law-making In the national halls of legislation since the retirement of Speaker Reed. In view of these conditions, viewed from the national standpoint, it Is cer- tainly to be hoped that Colonel Hender- son's determination to decline his re- nomination is not irrevocable and that he will be prevailed upon to reconsider his announcement and to continue in the position of party leadership he now occuples. The reasons given by Colonel Hender- son for his refusal to make the race for congress will, as a matter of fact, strike broad-minded republicans as of minor and inconsequential importance. The difference between his views and the declaration of the Towa republicans on tariff revision, emphasized in his statement, I8 rather more apparent than real. Colonel Henderson declares that he does not belleve tariff reduction is the cure-all for trust evils and in this only narrow-minded bigots will disagree with him. The*most that ardent ad- vocates of tariff revision could look for would be simply a partial relief from exactions by the few trusts that have been sheltered by tariff’ advan- tages, The most careful reading of the Iowa platform annonncement does not, in onr judgment, admit fairly of the interpre- tation Colonel Henderson has put upon it, but on the contrary it strongly re- affirms the historic protection policy of the party. Much more ado has been made of it by the Iowa democratic press than it really justifies. Even if Colonel Henderson were at varlance with a por- tion of the republicans of his district on this one.question, as he seems to think, he is still In full accord with them on all the most vital issues of the day, and they could well afford to over- look one point to retain the services of 4 man of such transcendent ability as the speaker. Colonel Henderson looms up so far above all the other western members of the house that should he retire the speakership would certainly be lost to the west. The west particularly would rejoice if, after all, it should be found | that no considerable element of the party in his district takes uncompro- mising lssue with his position and he should yet allow them to re-elect him in November. S—— THE OYSTER BAY CONFERENCE. Very little is positively known in re- gard to what transpired at the confer- ence at Oyster Bay between the presi- dent and leading republican senators, but there appears to be no doubt that one of the things decided was that there will be no revision of the tariff at the next session of congress. It is stated that two of the senators, Mr. Allison and Mr. Spooner, favored revision, on the ground that it is imperatively de- manded by the west, but it is doubtless safe to assume that the statement is erroneous. Those senators know that a general revision of the tariff, iIf done with proper care, would be well-nigh impossible at the short session of con- gress and it {s hardly concelvable that they would recommend undertaking so large and important a task at that ses- slon. The Fifty-fifth congress spent over four months on the Dingley tariff, for the enactmént of which it was called in special sesslon. To properly revise that act in a session of less than three months, with all the other business re- quiring the attention of congress, is obvlously out of the question. It is stated that the president is to malintain his position as to the trusts and also to Insist on his demand for Cuban reciproeity. The president’s at- titude in regard to the great industrial combinations is so generally approved by intelligent and conservative public opinion that there is the most conclusive reason why he should maintain it. It Is a sound and defensible position, which bas in view the correction of and abuses without injuring those who are innocent or jeopardizing the evil security of our entire industrial system. The president's plan is remedial, as opposed to the revolutionary policy of The latter pro- poses, as forcibly exjiressed by Speaker Henderson, “to kil the child in order to President Roosevelt and the republican party would preserve the in- dustries of the country while remedying those evils that are incident to great the democratic party. cure it." combinations. It is not to be doubted that the presi- dent will insist upon reeiprocity with out an apnual product of 1,000 tons of gold, or four times much as the world's present output, is a wild over- estimate. But it is well known that now that the Boer war is over gold productiop In South Africa is increasing at & rapid rate. It is noteworthy that large i rtations of gold to this coun- try are now being made. Sk | Cuba. public speeches. Mr. the material welfare of that country, and he also belleves that it would be of benetit to this country to help Cuba. the | He has clearly indicated his purnese to do so in some of his recent Roosevelt most earnestly belleves that It is the duty of the United States to make some tariff concession to Cuba, in order to pramote He will therefore continue to urge Cuban reciprocity and it is understood will have a tréaty ready for submission to congress when It assembles. There are predictions that such a treaty will be ratified, but as to this no one can | now speak with certainty. Notwith standing the fact that most of the state republican conventions have declared in favor of Cuban re ity, there is still a strong republican opposition to it and it Is at least doubtful if a treaty could be ratified. The conference at Oyster Bay 1s to be regarded as assurance of the president's earnest desire to maintain harmonious | relations between the administration and | congress. —— 1HE UNION PACIFIO LOCKOUT. SOUTH OMAHA, Neb., Sept. 16, 1902.— To the Bditor of The Bee: I read your “Time for Plain Talk’ editorlal and was surprised as well as grieved at its general | tenor and tendency. The bueiness commu- nity and good citizens usually overlook one-sided and prejudiced reports and write- ups, but when we find a great paper's ed- itor publishing such glaring and unjusti- flable ideas as contained in your article the better element in this country may well begin to prepare and fear for the worst. To tell how the Union Pacific rallroad or any other employer of labor should run their business affairs is entirely out of place for you or me or any person not interested financlally in the management of their plant. If those employes, who were well treated and better paid, did not like the change to plecework it was their right and privilege to quit and do better if they could, but they have no right or authority under the law to arm themselves with bludgeons, brass knuckles and other deadly weapons and aseault, beat and mur- der those poor laborers who are willing to work to support themselves and families, 1 observe a strong disposition on the part of public officers who are elected to administer impartially justice and protec- tion to every citizen and aleo on the part of newspaper men to represent everything favorably toward these thugs and law breakers and reflect as unfavorably as pos- sible on the business men's corporations and business world in general. The office hunters and politicians are also eternally clamoring for the union vote. You touch very critically the fact that a young man in the prime of life who was willing to work for an honest living was foully murdered by those ruffans who res tused to work, preferring to loat and guze zle bad whisky. You call the perpetration of this terrible crime “a fray or skirmish” and eay it was by no means an exceptional incident. The world at large does not need such a statement, as everyone knows when these non-responsible bodies go out on a strike they always mean to intimi- date, harass, assault and kill, it you please; other poor, laborers who are willing -to work and fill their places. What, T would ask, is this country fast approaching? 1 answer frankly. anarchy | and revolution. But thank God there is | and always has been good citizenship and | | true patriotism enough to put down and subdue all evildoers, agitators and malcon- tents. When the business interests of this country, the agricultural and manufacturing interests, are once fully aroused to the ne- cessity of thelr own defense the horde of mischief's labor leaders, the union combina- tions and the politiclans, will be quickly | brushed to one side and our Declaration of | Independence and glorious institutions will | be strongly sustained, preserved and handed down'to following generations unsullied and untarnished. You say Mr. Burt knew the rules of the international union prohibited the piece- work system. I infer from this that you believe their obligations to their unfon are paramount to the service and dutles to their employers. What an anti-republican and preposterous proposition! Do you permit your employés to override and disregard your instructions concerning their duties toward you? If so, you have my unfeigned sympathy, for your workmen have you by the throat. You intimate the strikers are struggling for lite and subsistence when they quit their jobs voluntarily that were netting them $2 to $4 per day, and the army of vagabonds who quit their work five months ago in Pennsylvania and have been engaged de- stroying their employers' property and in- timidating and murdering their fellow men, 1 presume are also fighting a battle for life and sustenance while losfg $10,000,000, through idleness, in wages, and you and I help to foot the great loss because the own- ers and employers of the coal region will not permit the. workingmen to run their business. And what free-born American citizen, I ask, will submit to such uns reaconable and unbusinesslike conditions? 1 think you and I and every true lover of his country should discountenance and frown upon everybody and every movement calculated to foment strife and disorder in the community and thus show our good citi- zenship and true patriotism. DAVID ANDERSON. It is the policy of The Bee to give a fair hearing to all sides in every con- troversy Involving vital Issues, reserv- ing to itself the right to express its own views fearlessly from the standpoint it believes to be for the public welfare. Mr. Anderson's indictment of labor unions in general and the Unlon Pacific shopmen locked out by Mr. Burt In par- ticular is as unreasonable as it is un- just. We are living in the twentieth century and cannot meet modern in- dustrial conditions with eighteenth cen- tury methods. gvery clvilized country has recog- nized the right of workingmen to or- ganize for mutual benefit and protec- tion. Within the past fifty years colc sal combinations of capital have monop- olized every avenue to employment. They control vast armies of wage work- ers, who would be absolutely at their mercy were it not for the trades unions and other associations of wage workers. Organized labor alone ¢an cope with or- ganized capital. Were it'not for labor organizations the captains of industry would become harder taskmasters than were the pharaohs of Egypt or the feudal barons of the middle ages. The union labor trust is essential for the protection of the middle class, the farmers and wmerchants, against the ag- industrial trusts that have become a wmenace to Awerican self-government. Pregidert Roosevelt has recognized that fact in his recent speeches. And all ra- free American lustitutions agree with the trusts wust be curbed and labor must be protected in its right to resist the tyranny of corporate monopoly. Mr. Anderson's views of the obliga- tions of the wage ployer are based on ancient gression of the railroad trusts and the | tlonal people who want to perpetuate him in the declaration that the power of worker to his em- usage, when the man or woman who worked for wages was the chattel property of the man who bired bim. lu these days the only obligation imposed upon wage workers is to do the work falthfully and diligently for which they are paid. No- body contends that a mechanic belong- ing to a union has a right to slight his work or refuse to obey his superiors in the performance of the work allotted to him. But every member of the trades union {8 presumed to be a man of honor as much as the president of a railroad or a bank. When he enters a labor union he assumes obligations which he cannot repudiate with honor at any sacrifice. When members of a trades union are locked out by demands with which they cannot comply without breaking away from the union or violat- ing their solemn pledges, a conflict is forced upon them for which they are not responsible. This Is pregisely the condition of the Union Pacific shopmen who were discharged by Mr. Burt be- cause the rules of their union prevented them from doing plecework. Mr. Burt undoubtedly had a right to issue this mandate, but in doing so he assumed re- sponsibility for all its consequences. To denounce the men discharged by Mr. Burt as a lot of tramps who pre- fer to loaf and guzzle bad whisky to honest, well pald toll, is only heaping insult upon injury. The great ma- Jority of these men had been working day in and day out in the shops for many years. Many of them are home owners and taxpayers, whose sons and daughters, educated in our public schools, occupy positions of trust in vari- ous walks of life. The brutal assault that resulted in the death of the young man imported from OChicago by the Union Pacific cannot be charged up to the Union Pacific strikers, although it is an incident of the strike. The un- fortunate man could bhave found em- ployment in Chicago, but was lured on by the tempting offer of high wages held out to strike breakers by the Union Pacific recruiting officers. The coro- ner's inquest has developed the fact that he came to his death not as a vic- tim of a plot or of an assault by strikers, but in a fray with men em- ployed inside of the Union Pacific shop grounds. The comparison made between the Union Pacific strike and that of the anthracite coal miners only emphasizes the necessity of curbing the greed of organized monopoly. The cruelty, wick- edness and defiance of public sentiment of the anthracite coal mine owners is without a parallel in industrial wars. These' multi-milllonaires who have amassed enormous wealth from the earnings of labor refuse to recognize the advance in the price of bread, meat and clothing. They not only refuse their imported laborers the pittance to which they are entitled, but have taken advantage of their enforced idleness to | double the price of coal mined at the old wages before the strike began. While thousands of -families are at the point of starvatiom these soulless mo- nopolists are levylyg tribute upon the whole country and'filling their coffers. They refuse to listgy to any proposal of arbitration, under the pretext that they will not permit their workingmen to run their business. If the conservative business men of the country want to head off socialism and anarchy, they should protest vigorously against such outrages and endeavor to find a solu- tion for the grave problems that con- front us, rather than attempt to excuse and palliate the wrongs inflicted on the industrial toilers, who constitute the bone and sinew of the land. WHY THE RAILRUADS WANT MERCER. Why are the allled rallroad corpora- force Mercer upon the people of this district for a sixth term? That question can be readily answered. Mercer has always been a ready and willing tool of the corporations and can be depended upon to do their bidding. As chair- man of the committee on public bulld- ings, he is In position to make trades with members of the other committees fot bills'in which the corporations are interested and render them invaluable assistance. In this work Mercer is worth his welght in gold. One example will sutlice: When the Union Pacific railroad was chartered it was given a land grant subsidy of every other section of land withip twenty miles of the main line and a bond subsidy ranging from $16,000 to $458,000 per mile, The Burllugton & Missourl River road received only a land grant subsidy. When that road en- tered upon the selection of its land it found the Union Pacific road within its territory south of the Platte, so it crossed over into the North Platte coun- try and selected a large part of its land grant in counties north of the Union Pacific. In making this selection it overreached its grant by about 200.000 acres. This land was disposed of to settlers, who received from the Burling- ton warranty deeds for the land they bought. The fraud was discovered by Land Commissioner Sparks, under the Cleveland administration, and, being an honest wan, Sparks refused to issue the patents for the Burlington lands that were In excess of their legitimate land grant. Two years ago a bill was in- troduced in congress for the relief of the settlers on the lands fraudulently ob- tained by the Burlington. This relief bill was smuggled through congress by the help of Mercer, under the pretext that it was gotten up for the benefit of the farmers, when, as a matter of fact, it was for the benefit of the Burlingtou company, which was bound to make good its warranty deeds. At the very lowest estimate, these lands were worth $10 an acre, and Mr. Mercer thus saved at least $2,000,000 to the Burlington at one clip. But what benefit was this to the farmers of Nebraska? What bene- fit was it to his constituents in this district? The atfinity of other rallroads to Mer- cer can also readily be explained. Each of these corporations has used Mercer for sowe scheme that brought bun- dreds of thousands of dollars Into its coffers, and there are, doubtless, other schemes on the stocks In which they want to use Mercer's influence for their tions waking such a desperate effort to | own aggrandizement. There Is a well- defined rumor, for example, that one of these rallroads contemplates an exten- slon through the Yellowstone park, for which the government is to vote a free right of way. Mr. Mercer's assistance is very much needed, and Mr. Mercer is the man to whom they look to do it best. To what extent the people of Omaha or the farmers of Douglas, Sarpy and Washington counties are to be benefited by natlonal donations to the raliroads that will be capitalized into millions of dollars of rallroad stocks for private gain, has not yet been explained. County Treasurer Elsasser prints an- other monthly statement, showing that he is carrying In the near neighborhood of $125,000 of county money on deposit in local banks. Although these same banks are paying interest on balances of city money, Mr. Elsasser fails to ghow where a single cent of interest has been turned in to the credit of the county. No good and sufficient reason has yet been advanced why the tax- payers should not have the benefit of the interest earned on county deposits as well on city deposits. — A Sweet Young Th Loulsville Courfer-Journal ‘The latest fad in trusts is a combination of manufacturers of candy with a capital of $9,000,000. This is a case of lengthened sweetness long drawn out sure enough. But will 1t stick? One Year of Roosevelt. Springfleld (Mass.) Republican. Mr. Roosevelt has now been president of the United States a full year. It has not been a year of uniform success, yet it has been by no means & fallure. And the most notable fact to be recorded is that he Is now settling into his own natural stride. Sh, Denath! Chicago Chronicle. Senator Balley has begun to breathe heavily through his nose and hitch up his trousers with omnibus earnestness. Pen- fleld, the solicitor of the State department, who called the senator an ase, is on his way home from Europe. We shall have blood and wounds anon. Favorite of the Navy. Philadelphla Press. A general cheer will go up at the an- nouncement that the battleship Oregon 1s ready for duty again. The country has not felt quite safe from hostile invasion since those rocks in the Oriental seas tore nasty holes in the bottom of the ship that made the memorable voyage around Cape Horn. Blue Bloods at Newport. Baltimore American. Grand Duke Boris, it is sald, retired from a Newport dining hall in a huff be- cause the soup was served to the hostess before being ladled out to him, Five othe of the guests, it {s further told in this thrilling rumor, left In his wake. Perish the thought! Only five? Only five persons in all America in whose veins courses blood of sufficient blueness to cause them to rise in wrath and offended dignity and walk with “‘me, too," air at the angry coat- tails of an irate duke? Only five people who do not know when the soup should reach the duke or the duke should reach the soup? No, it must be a mistake. If the nobility, of Newport knows how to en- tertaln a monkey, it must possess sufficient Darwinian instinct to enable it to feed a duke according to Hoyle. Otherwise the Four Hunf@red s submerged in the con- somme. Manner of Paying for Paving. American Asphalt Journal Every Amerlcan city does a deal of pav- ing every year, and there s a great varety of arrangements for payment. In the Dis- trict of Columbia the district pays half and the United States government half, and it 1s proposed to change the plan. Senator Mc- Millan of the committee on the affairs of the District ot Columbia, has been collect- ing information from leading citles on this point. The cities where the abutting prop- erty owners bear the whole expense of first paving are Baltimore, Boston, Buffalo, Chi- cago, Detroit, Indlanapolls, Minneapolis, Omaha, Pittsburg and St. Paul. In Balti- more, Cleveland, Minneapolls, New Orleans and Omaha the city pays «ll or the greater part of the cost of paving street Intersec- tions. In Cincinnati the city pays 2 per cent of the entire cost of paving, In ad- ditlon to paylng for the street intersections, the balance being assessed on abutting property. In Charlsston the expenses of first paving are borne by the city. In St Louls one-fourth of the cost is charged against the abutting property per foot, the remaining three-fourthe against the property in the district defined by city ordl- nance in each particular case. WATTERSON ON THE SMART SET. Kentucky Editor Hands a Bouquet to the Idle Rich. Loutsville Courfer-Journal. The term “smart set” was adopted by a bad soclety to save fitself from a more odlous description. The distinguighed trait of the “smart set” is its moral aban- don. It makes a business of defying and overleaping conventional restraints upon its pleasures and amusements. The women of the “smart set’” no longer pretend to recognize virtue even as a feminine accomplishment. Innocence is a badge of delinquency, a sign of the crude and raw, a deformity, which, if tolerated at all, must carry some promise of amend- ment; for among these titled cyprians the only thing needful is to know it all. In London and in Paris—at Monte Carlo in the winter, at Trouville and Alx in the summer they make life one unend- ing debauch; their only lterary provender, when they read at all, the screeds of @’Annunzio and Bourget; their Mecea, the roulet table and the race course; their heaven, the modern yacht with the luxury and isolation. The ocean tells no tal and as the “smart set” knows no law, when in extremis it can go to se The “Four Hundred" in America take their cue from the “smart set” in Europe. Be- hold them at the horse show in New York. Regard them at the swell resorts after the show. All their talk is about stocks and bonds, puts and calls, hoi scandals and dogs. They the best soclety—good Lord! Truly, we have come to a beautiful pass if the simpering Johnnies and the tough girls that make Sherry's and Delmonico's “hum,” that irradiate the corridors of the Waldorf-Astoria with the exhalations of their unclean lives and thoughts, emulat- ing the demimondaines of the third em- pire, are to be accepted even by inference as the “‘best soclety,” while the good and virtuous of the land, even though quite able to pay thelr way home and abroad, must be relegated to the “middle class and dismissed as simple “bourgeoisie.” The “Four Hundred" are rotten through and through. They have not one redeem- ing feature. All their ends are achieved by money, and largely by the unholy use of money. Must these unclean birds of gaudy and tkerefore of conspicuous plumage fiy from glided bough to bough, fouling the very air as they twitter their affectations of ! ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK. Ripples on the Current of Life in Metropo The tunnel projected by the Pennsylvania rallroad under the Hudson and Bast rivers and through Manhattan island is & gigantic undertaking, both in cost and from an en- gineering standpoint. H. G. Prout, editor of the Raflroad Gazette, estimates the total cost at $40,000,000, of which $25,000,000 will be paid for labor. The new line begine at Harrlson, on the east side of the Passalc river, just across from Newark. It runs along the south side of the Pennsylvania main line for about 5,000 feet, at which point it has such {an elevation that it can cross to the north- ward across the meadows to the west side of the ridge just back of Hoboken. On the meadows the line crosses seven rallroads, besides the main line of the Pennsylvani and an important highway, on which is double-track trolley road, and it ~also crosses the Hackensack river. All of the crossings are over grade. That necessi- tates a continuous embankment, or viaduet, from Harrison to the tunnel portal at the west side of the ridge, about six miles. At the Bergen ridge the line enters a rock tunnel and emerges In Long Island City, the total length of the tunnel being a Iittle less than six miles. The total im- provement from Harrison to the junction with the Long Island rallroad is twelve miles and one-eighth. It fs costly work. Not a foot is on the matural surface; all 18 in tunnel or cutting or on embankment for viaduot. Across the North river will be two tun- nels and across the East river four, and the tunnels are to meet at a great central sta- tion to be established on Manhattan island, between Seventh and Ninth avenues and Thirty-first and Thirty-third streets. On Manhattan island the rails will never be nearer the surface than forty feet, and everywhere they will be below mean tide level. 1In fact, at the highest point of the tunnel the rails will be about ten feet be- low mean low water. Obviously, the sta- tion platforms will also be below tide level. Under the Bergen ridge the grade of the tunnel will be 255 feet below the highest point of the hill. Under the North river it will be thirty-five feet below the natural bottom of the river and elghty feet below mean low water. Under the East river the depths are about the same, The uptown movement extends rapldly. The department gtores, the theaters, the hotels and the newspapers are in the move- ment. An uptown site for a new postoffice will soon be selected. The appellate court already has a buflding uptown. Commis- sioner Partridge has applied to the Board of Estimate for an uptown site for new police headquarters. The site he selects nue and Forty-seventh street, in what is known Longacre Square. This is an admirable situation. There {s no doubt that new headquarters are needed, and there could be no better site selected. That J. P. Morgan belleves in rewarding honesty In others was shown the other day when he gave a little newsboy an extra half dollar for going several blocks to hand him change from the purchase of & news- paper. As the great financler was driving to his office a newsboy recognized him. The boy ran alongside the carriage and shouted: “Hey, Mr. Morgan, here’s a coal strike extra!” Something in the paper caught Mr. Morgan’s eye, and, reaching for it, he threw the lad a half dollar. The carriage never slackened its speed. The boy clambered on behind, and when it stopped in front of Mr, Morgan's office he handed out 49 cents change. “‘Here's your changi as Mr. Morgan step « “What's that for gruflly. ““You bought a paper from me at Liberty treet, and I couldn’t glve you your change,” answered the boy. Never mind the change,” sald Mr. Mor- gan. Putting his hand in his pocket he took out another h: dollar, which he gave the boy, telllng him to buy himself some peaches from a cart standing near. sir,” sald the laq, “I call myself an indexer and a scrap- per,” said the occupant of an office not far from Madison equare, quoted by the Even- ing Post. “By scrapper I do not mean a pugllist, but a professional scrap book maker. In these two flelds, or, really one fleld, because mo scrap book is of value until it has been Indexed, I am an expert. That does not mean much, because there are only six or elght of us in New York. Our calling is the result of the clipping bureaus, of which there are now some thirty or forty in various parts of the country. You subscribe to & bureau and order clippings upon any particular sub- ject or subjects. These are furnished to you by tens, hundreds or thousands, mc- cording to the subject given. Each clip ping is mounted upon @ slip, which glives the name, place and date of the papor from which it Is taken. If you are wiee you will now employ an indexer and scrap- per to put these into permanent and valu- able form. If you do not care to engage an expert for the entire job you will find it advisable to consult with one for in- formation and advice. “In the choice of scrap books beware of the gaudily bound affair with which the market is flooded. They are poorly bound and go to ple before they are half filled with scra What is even worse, the pages are made of thick wood pulp paper, which dries, cracks and breaks ere @ year has gone by. I have seen scores of nice looking scrap books which were masses of fragments by the time the last page was pasted with clippings, The only kinds of paper which should be used are either the best linen or else Manlla hep. Literary people may profit by the usages in business offices. The books there which are made for the heaviest wear and tear have their pages of yellow or brown Manila hemp paper. This is particularly the case with all first-cl Invoice book: which will Jast till the day of doom. Mos of them will outlast their bindings and for this reason nearly all are so constructed that the hegvy canvas bindings can be re- moved without trouble and handsomer ones put on when so desired. What is more, they are very economical. A 250-page in- volce beok costs $1.50, which is less than most of the pretty parior table affaire which contain but 100 pages and the poor- est wood pulp paper,” Extent of Morgan's Power, Springfield (Mass.) Republican. The editor of “Mogdy's Manual of Cor- poration Securities” Bas been studying his latest bulky voldme of facts for the pur- pose of tracing out the measures of J. P. Morgan's immedlate, active power In the financlal world. He finds that Mr. Morgan's influence fe paramount in 065,555 miles of rallroad, or over one-fourth of the total milea; is capitalized at $3,002,949,671; that dominates the United States 1l corpos tion with a capitalization of §1,389,339 554 and three minor trusts, and that he is now to control a steamship combination of a capital at the start of $170,000,000. The total capitalized power of Morgan is rep- resented by $4,737,280,527—this aside from the influence which necessarily radiates out in all directions from so colossal a concen- tration of fpancial might. When Gladstone of the country; that this mileage he 1s the triangle at Broadway, Seventh ave- | ABUNDANT YIELD. The natfonal department of agriculture will not publish its final crop figures for several months to come, but the statistics now given out of acreage and condition of the principal crops, on September 1, make it possible to present approximate figures of the season’s results, which are thue cal- culated in bushels by the statistician of the New York Produce exchange as to corn, wheat and oats, in comparison with offcial estimates of ylelds for a few years back: 748,400,218 %.MT“ B47,303, 943,397,375 675,148,706 730,995,143 530,149,348 %.M“ 427,684,346 346,404 The corn crop is late, and in the more northern sections of the belt it s still ex- posed to danger of damage by frost, and will be till near the end of the month, but there is every promise of a harvest in ex- cess of any previously kcown. This is an extraordinary outcome for a seagon of ex- ceptionally low temperatures and high molsture, and all the more fortupate in view of the very low production of last year and the consequent depletion of the country’s granariee. The wheat yleld has been three times exceeded—in 1901, 1898 and 1891, but .is well above the avrrage. and will leave a large surplus for exportation beyond sup- plylng the domestic demand. e oat crop s large, but of poor quality, The other cereal crops are as a rule above the average, and potatoes and apples will be abundant and cheap. The cost of food, aside from meat, will thus be lower for a year to come than it has been, and so it le that the wind in some measure is tem- pered to the lamb shorn by the conl and beef trusts. . The corn and wheat comparisons in the above table are probably more favorable for the present year than the facts war- rant. The year's acreage is calculated by the agricultural department on the basis of last year's, and that wae arbitrarily increased in order to make thé depart- ment's estimates conform more closely to the census revelations, showing that the department had been greatly underestimat- ing the principal cereal crops. In other worde, this year's and last year's harvests on a revised estimate are being compared with previous estimates that are ad- mittedly too low. But after making all reasonable allowances on this account, the fact would remain that the season’s ylelds are a large average all afound, and most assuring for the continued prosperity ot the country. PERSONAL NOTES. Mascagni eays he admires this country. It is unnecessary to say that he will make & tour here. Mayor Tom Johnson has ope comfort.in his political tour. He's the ‘‘whole thing" was informed that they had a man in Amer- fea (Wlllam H. Vanderbilt), worth $200,- 000,000 in negotiable securities, he declared that it was too great a power for one man to have, and that the government should soclal supremacy, with no ome to shy & |look after him. Apparently the government brick or to cry, “Scat, you devilsl will bave to look after Morgan. at his circus. A nephew of General Dewet,.the Boer commander, arrived in Berlin recently to be treated hy Prof. Rergmann for a mun- shot wound. Lieutenant Frank L. Harris, the only survivor of the Hayes Arctic expedition, is in Boston. He was the first man te plant the American flag in the present eity of - San Francisco. % Senator Pettus of Alabama, who is 81 years old, has been enjoying his vaeatfon in Moblle and has astonished every one by his sprightline: He says he {s good for many years of public service. 1 Alexander Scammell Wadsworth, ® nild-" shipman of Chesapeake, is & great-great- grandson of General Pelig Wadsworth, and his great-grandfather, Alexander Scammell Wadsworth, was born in the Longfellow he , in Portland, Me., in 1790. Major Cornellus Gardiner, who has just arrived in San Francisco from Manila, has brought with him a native Filipino, Emili- ano Gala, who will complete his studies at the University of Michigan, having already obtained the degree of B. A. at the St. ‘Thomas university of Manila. When Admiral Rodgers was in Japanesc waters lately he entertained Hiral Suke- kichi, & poor fisherman, who was of serv- ice to Commodore Perry on the latter's visit, which opened Japan to the world. Hiraf 1s now 90 years old and on his visit to Admiral Rodgers was accompanied by his son, grandson and great-grandson. The late Admiral Killick, who went down with the Haytlan guoboat the other day, was not exactly a naval adventurer, far, while his father was & BScotchman, his mother was a Haytian. Adventurers from Europe and the United States, however, have often figured as the commanders of South American armies and navie 'The names of Cochrane and O'Higgins are con- spicuous in Chilian military annals. WHITTLED TO A POINT, Somerville Journal: If you want to know where the ripest are in your yard ask your neighbor's o W?,_Ahln‘loll Star: *“Do you enjoy walk- T) sely."” WL rn sane 7tk the country in my automobile. Philadelphia Press: ‘Tess—She' per- petually smiling these days. Jess—Yes, she's got a new set of false teeth. Tess—Ah! 1 to “grin and ba Baltimore American: Great Inventor—I have been experimenting with this new compound for a week and I cannot decide what it is. 3 Wise Friend—8ay, 0ld man, you've struck a great idea for a health food. for a ride in and she's determined Chicago Post: * the manager, ‘‘th with stage frigh ut are you sure,” asked t you won't be troubled tage frllht, exclaimed the woman scorntully. “Huh! I've been through two Cchurch weddings and a divorce suit.” Somerville Journal: Mrs. Wifson (up- stairs)—What is the baby crying about? Mr. Wilson (downstairs)— will have to ask the baby. find out myself. Philadelphia Press: Mame—My steady blew me off ter supper at & reg'lar rest'rant last night. ua.—s-y, they téll me he's real ye- wat! When he poured his coffee out fn ‘ls saucer. ter caol It he i’ blow 1t Iike some guys would, "t Jist fanned it wid 'ls Panama, i ‘Washi, Star: “Bo you went to {hat tamous DL Yesbrirt o | fot I haven't been able to es.’ “Any result?”’ ] “Decided. Be nervous prostration.” YEARNING, Somerville Jourpal, It may be that the skigs are And “that the sun is shining brig) To some the outlook may be ga; But life to us looks dark at night. There's little comfort in our home, And all our household's in a whirl, For Hannah quit us yesterday, And now, alas! we have no girl, ‘Tis true, we did not love her much, , She was not beautiful to see, Her work was seldom rightly dome, And with her tongue she was too free. But oh! we mi her from our lives, Her absence leaves an aching void: And now e's gone, we do not think How frequently her faults annoyed. 8he was the fifty-seventh girl We've hired since the glad New Year, And now we're waiting sadly for The fifty-elghth girl to appear. . Fate, wend her soon, and may she be dlamond. a priceless pearl, v One who will stay at least For what s life without - Wi n;u‘.fi.'