Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 16, 1903, Page 6

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REMITTANCES. . - Remit by draft, express or post 'Tl‘e to The lkebl"ublhhln[ Company, I-cent stamps accepted in payment of mall accounta. Bersonal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, ted. THE BEE PUBLISHING STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Do County, ss.: George B. Taschuck, secretary of 'The Bee Publisiiing Company, being ~duly sworn says that the actual pumber of full a Evehing asdSunasy Des printed airing the vening and Sunday month of May, 1903, waa aa follows: 80,000 EVERY MORNING. 2 2. 1 1 .00 w0 0 50 0 o0 Butiding, Twen- not accs COMPA EEERNRRRBREBES Bubscribed In my pi and sworn to betore e this Sist dky of lflfmuxfl. (8eal.) ‘Notary Publio. —— We will all be pleased to call him King Peter and let it go at that. No apprehension of regicides in the peaceful realm of good Ak-Sar-Ben. National El;g_ertest on in full .blast, there should be music in the alr at Baltimore. With the ‘With its strikes practically all settled, it is high time for Omaha to bucklo down to business. The Skupshtina would also confer a great favor by rearranging its alphabet at the earllest possible day. Colonel Clowry continues to hold the helm at the Western Union, all yellow gournal fakes about his enforced resig- mation to the contrary notwithsta: Government inspection and grading ot‘ hemp s to be instituted in the Philip- pines to facilitate exporting. A speclal grade should be established for hemp suitable for necktie parties. — Now watch the American small boy who wants to see the base ball game without going through the gate take a tip from Santos Dumont's scheme to take in the races from his airship. Colonel Bryan may not be president of the United States, but his late law partner will be head consul of the Mod- ern ‘Woodmen' of America, which is a small presidency in itself. ‘When the messengers come to tell him that he has been elected king and de- mand if' he will accept, Prince Kara- georgevitch will mot have to say “This 16 80 sudden!” and ask for time to think it over. Plans for the reconstruction of the Kansas City platform regardless of car- penter strikes and without the ald or consent of the boss bullder are being prepared by democratic architects in various sections of the counu-y.‘ Unless the assessor of Florence pre- einct sees fit to revise his returns of the assessment of personal property it may be incumbent on County Attorney Eng- lish to proceed against him#in accord- ance with the provisions of the criminal code. The local democratic organ, quoting a democratic member of the South Omaha council, says that there ure “plenty of good, intelligent, progressive and well-informed business men even among the republicans.” That is a con- cesslon as is a concession. Along with the institution of the per- manent teachers’ list, the duty devolves upon the school board to see that no incompetent tedcher is invested with a claim to permanent tenure. A corps of instructors permanently loaded up with incompetents would be a calamity to the schools. lowa democrats are still dividing on the lines of fealty to the Kansas Oity platform which promises to furnish the fireworks again in their coming state con- vention. If there were the ghost of a chance to elect anybody on the demo- cratic ticket in Iowa the disposition to fight over dead issues would be speedily repressed. Assistant Postmaster General Bristow thinks rural free delivery as now in- duiged is altogether too great a luxury for the Postoffice department to afford. ‘When free delivery curtallment of this service. “ " aodite. started in the cities there were also many to predict that the results would not justify the outlay, but no one would now advise The same thing is Nkely to happen with reference to the rural free delivery. The postal business it stimulates is sure eventually to bring it close to a self-supporting TRE INUSPENDENCR . OF TRE WEST. In its last Issue the Wall Street Jour- nal discusses the éldim that the west is financially independent of the east and coficludes that It Is only measurably trie. After polnting out the mmmunll ing position which the west hu long held 'in the polities. of the natfon—a position certain to be maintained and strengthened—that paper siys that while the growth of the west in wealth has in a measure given it financial inde- pendence, the claim is somewhat exag- gerated. “There {s no doubt whatever,” says the Journal, “that the west has made 8o much money that it has been able to pay off its indebtedness to the east and to acguire & large surplug, but it is noticeable that it has come to Wall street to invest this surplus. Its Hanks and trust companies still deposit a, part of their reserves with- New York intitu- tions in order to earn the ‘2:per|cent interest pald on such deposits. More"| over, they have become a'factor ig the New York money market; 'by making heavy direct loans and by purthases of mercantile paper. Western capitalists likewise have employed the facilities of the Wall street market in order to Make their investments and to carry on their speculations.” These: facts, in the view of the Journal, show that while in one sense the west has become independent of Wall street, in another sense it still depends very largely upon it. As the financial center of ma mqmry Wall street will nlwnn draw capital from other sections of. the country. For purposes of speculation and for certain classes of Inyestment those having sur- plus capital will inevitably take it to that center.' There will be.no dissent from the proposition of the Journal that because of powerful mutual interests there cannot be abgolute financial inde- pendence in any section. Yet 4t is a fact'that'the west mo longer has to rely upon the east, as formerly, for means to carry on its business and meove its crops, and the independence it has attained in this respect will not be lost. 'Western capital is steadily increasing and the promise of abundant crops this year holds out the assurance of a larger ac- cumulation of capital in the next twelve months than in any past year. The west 18 now prosperous and if what is promised shall be realized 4t will ex- perience a higher measure of prosperity than it has yet known. Flor the purposes of its legitimate busi- ness we think the claim that the west is financlally Independent s well founded. Its own capftal {8 ample to meet the demands of legitimate' financial, industrial and commercjal pperations and there is no doubt that it is being augmented at a satisfactory rate. There I8 good reason to bellevé that the west will be in position mfill to finance the moving of the crops’without calling upon the east for assistance, unless there should be an wnexpected -change from exlsting conditiongy A& 57 " SERVIA'S NEW KING. "It reguired only & Tew ifilfifes’for the Servian parllament to choose' a new king to succeed the murdered Alexander and it was accomplished, without the least excitement. The enthusiasm with which the people halled the event at- tested the popularity of Prince Kara- georgevitch, whose title as-king.will be Peter 1. He has bad an adventurous and | checkered career, the most notable fea- ture of which is.a good record as a sol- dier in the Franco-Prussian. war, he having ! received ‘a thorough military education in France. been saild of him, he appears to, be a man who should give Servia stable and good government and promofe its ma- terial growth. The expectation is that Russian influence will now be para- mount in Servian affairs and whether or not this will be of benefit to the eduntry 18 a question. As now indleated King Peter may find the cbief difficulty confronting.him that of dealing with those who are respon- sible for the murder of the late king and queen. It is quite probable that some of the leaders in that bloody event will ask to be recognized in the new govern- ment and if the king should give any of them recognition Servia's relations with other powers might be imperiled. This Is shown in the position taken by 'the British Foreign office that if ‘the new cabinet shall include, those wha were in the assassinations it .would ‘be tmpés- sible for Great Britalr to ‘continue dip- lomatic relations with Beryla. On the other hand the leaders in the reyolt may make trouble if they are refused recog- nitlon. However, a way will_doubtless be found to arrange everything to the satisfaction of the powers and permit the little kingdom to enjoy a period of peace and do away with the unhappy conditions that have long disturbed it. THE TRUST OPPOSITION. Regarding the alleged feellng af hos- tility to President Raosevelt on the part of the men In the Ereat combjmations, the New York Commerclal says it is convinced that the feeling has been greatly exaggerated and that papér is in a position to speak with seme authority in the matter. information that the trust people will oppose’ the president, there is little rea- son to doubt that most of them are hos- tile to him and that in due time this will be manifested in some unmistakable way. It is a matter that is not causing the friends of Mr. Roesevelt apy con- cern or uneasiness. They do not fail ' recognize the fact that the representa- tives of the great combinations are financially powerful and able to put an almost unlimited amount of money into & campaign, but the Philadelphin Ledger remarks, In any coptest fought out to a conclusion between them and the plain people of the country, they and their campalgn fund would cut but a sorry figure. “The plain people have the votes,” says that paper, 2‘and they do not forget nor fall to appreciate that in fighting his winning fight against the ‘4 trusts ‘and ‘vested - interesty’ Preuident ¥rom what has | | Wiiathesy iy vo definite | " the taxpayers of that county are to Roosavelt fought the plain people’s bat tles, and they love him for doing it and for the enemies he made by doing it.” As we have heretofore sald, the next presidential election will be decided by the pRople and not by the men who con trol the great corporations and combini tions. Opposition of the Jatter to Presi- dent Roosevelt should and it Is not to be doubted will strengthen him the people, whose interests and welfure he has in in enforcing the laws against combinations believed to be vio lating the laws and doing injury to the view public. Mr. Roosevelt will be nominated | in response to a popular demand that attests the unqualified approval of his course by the people. Opposition to his election by the combinations will onty tend to make the people more earnest in his support. OPEN THE STREET REPAIR CAMPAIGN. Now that the Board of Public Works has agreed npon its muster roll and is ready to resume active operations, the fitst thing in order should be a cam- paign “of ‘street*. clearing and street cleaniig. Beferé this is begun, how- ever, the board should require the vari- ous . corporations that have heen en- gaged in street ripping within the past year to restore the pavements, that have been torn up for their benefit, at their own’ expense with the same ma- terial that was taken up by them. Un- less these companies are forced to put these pavements in good condition the burden of repairs, which should be cheerfully borne by them in view of the valuable privileges they enjoy, must come out of the pockets of the tax- payers. It is the manifest duty of the city authoritles to enforce the city's rights against the corporations that have been freely permitted to dig up the streets and tear up pavements for the purpose of laying tracks, planting conduits and laying pipes and wires, Miles upoh miles of good pavement have been pulled up by the roots and the gaps in these pavements have been shiftlessly filled In with loose material. Nearly every thoroughfare in the city bears testimony to the vandallsm of the ditch diggers and track layers. In every in- stance promises have been made that the gashes and gaps would be filled in and the pavements replaced as soon as the weather would permit such work to be done with safety and dispatch, but we are now espproaching midsam- mer without any sufficlent evidence of good faith on the part of the varlous public utility corporations that enjoy the privilege of occupying our streets and alleys. The latest excuse for putting off the repair and replacement of damaged pavements has been the labor trouble that made it impossible to prosecute the work with any degree of regularity and safety. Now that the labor troubles are happily adjusted no more excuses ahiofi avililable. Tt 18 nbt the tity's ‘busineds to rostore the pavements at its own expense, for is the city warranted in incurring further, risks of damage suits, for loss of life, limb or property by reason of defective pavements or the overflowing of sewers flooded by water that soaks Into the trenches adjacent to warehouses and store public utility corporations should be re- minded that there is such a thing as riding a free gift horse to death. ‘What is the matter with the county assessors? Can anybody explain why their assessment returns for 1903 show a decrease of $230,181 as compared with the assessment for 1902? Has the value of farm property in Douglas county de- creased 9 per cent, and where is there any evidence of a decrease in the value of personal property of nearly 10 per cent in the fourteen precincts? Has there been any material decrease in the number or value of live stock and chat- | tels, and if so, when and where? How can thej assessor of Florence precinct, for example, explain the slump of 7 per cent in personal property returns for | this year as compared with the preced- ing year? Surely there must be a screw loose someswhere. South Omaha assessors return an in- crease of real estate values for the year 1902 of just $2,407; multiplied by six this would represent a true value of $14,442. In view of the fact that sev- eral of the packing houses have ex- pended more than double that amount | in 4{mprovements within the past year, and In view of the fact that the im- provements in the stock yards will run several times four ciphers, and in view of the further fact that the building record of South Omaha shows very gratifying activity in home building, there must be an evident impediment to the veracity or capacity of the assessors. y Lancaster county has trouble with bridge contractors who have appro- | priated bullding material that belongs [to the county for bridge construction and repairs without crediting the value | of the matertal back to the county, But | that leak after all is only a drop tn the bucket, if reports of bridge depredations be credited. In this respect, Lancaster county is not much w than Douglas, where gigantic construction frauds have been however, rse off bridge openly and Board of County Commissloners never explained mayor's appolntment of members the Board of Review for South Omaha 1s not 8o much because the men selected by Mayor Koutsky are incompetent, ir- relevant and immaterial as the proper level. EpE——— Something is evidently awry with the sscssors’ returns for the country pre- with | bulldings. The’ charged by at least one member of the Well-defined rumors indicate that the contention over the confirmation of the of because there is a well-grounded suspicion that they might raise the assessment of the big. corporations somewhere nearer to cincts In Douglas county. It wfll be pretty hard to make anyone believe that the taxable property in this county out- side of Omaha and South Omaba has slirunk during the past year by 10 per cent. Governor Hunt of Porte Rico reports that business conditions In that island are more prosperous than ever before. Porto Rico would have had to go a long time under Spanisit rule to reach the point of progress it has niade in a few short years under the American flag. Time to Square Himwelf. Chicago Record-Herald By the way, how does this Karageorge- vitch fellow stand on the Kansas City plat- form? Who Gets the Difterencet 8t. Louts Globe-Democrat. Recently testimony before the.Interstate Commerce commission in New York shows the average cost of anthracite at tidewater to be $3.20 a ton. Consumers wonder why they are required to pay so much more for the additional transportation. “Unsignificant Coincident,” Chicago Chroniole. It is an interesting but of course entirely unsignificant coincidence that the learned {Jurist who has decided that the conl barons are practically exempt from the operation of the Interstate commerce law is the same who clapped Peter Power into jall when that Individual was attacking another trust. Baer Working Overtime, Washington Star. Tt is to be feared that the Coal trust, which was last autumn forced by public opinion to accede to the president's Ing tervention to end the coal strike, is seeking to precipitate a conflict with the miners which will break the three years' agree- ment formulated by the commission, and, if it is possible, throw the responsibility for the breach on the workers. —— Busy Days of a Busy Man. Chicago Chronicle. Brother Baer graclouely announces that he will obey such provisions of the Inter- state commerce law as he deems constitu- tional. This attitude of Brother Baer indl- cates that, in addition to acting as adviser and counselor to Omnipotence, he has like- wise kindly undertaken to supervise the United States supreme court. Brother Baer must be & busy man these days. ———— Rare and Unaccountable, San Francisco Cal facts of history, which serve to illuminate and color the monotone of life, have a chance to suggest a memorial tablet for some niche in the treasury of California. The legislative committeo chosen to greet President Roosevelt did not spend all of the money allowed ‘and actually turned back some of it inte the treasury vaults. — “Our 014 Kentucky Home,” Philadelphia Ledger. Nothing could faore clearly reveal the benighted conditfoh of Breathitt county, Kentucky, ‘than thé statement that 90 per cent of the speciallvenire men summoned to serve as jurors In the trial of Curtis Jett and Tom White had not read any newspaper account of the killing of Mar- cum, though it-eesurced- in ‘thelr own county, and was an event of great local in- tersst. The reglon shpuld be invaded by chool teachers;and afher agents of civil- ization, Under the last ministration the exports of cotton manufactures in one year increased to the extent of $3,232,539 over, although the exports in a year under the Harrison administration, and that in- crease was In 189, when the days of demo- Leratic rule were drawing to a certaln end. But under President Roosevelt the exports of cotton manufactures last year were $15,- 271,20 greater than they were under Cleve- Jand in 18%. That s proof of what the future promises to the cotton growers and manufacturers under republican rule. If there were no race question In the south it would probably soon become republican. Overworked Nerve. Philadelphta Press, The clalm of the anthracite coal roads that the United States Interstate Com- merce commission has no right to see the coatracts between the roads and the coal companies appears extraordinary. It is a question yet to be passed on by the courts. There is an agreement among the various roads and mining companies fixing the price of coal. That is in contravention, &p- parently, of the interstate commerce law, and all of the facts should be made known It should not be a matter of secrecy, as it directly affects the public. There ought to be no secrets in such a matter, and cer- tainly not from the Interstate Commerce cominission. 1008 AND 1883, and Contrasts, New York Evening Post. There has been discussion in the markets, lately, as to the parallel presented by 1908 with 183. These comparisons have been more Interesting from the remarkable similarities between the years 1900-1%02 in- clusive, and 1S%0-1882. In 1880, as in 1900, we had 2 halt pending the national campalgn; & fall in stocks, followed by violent recovery after the election; an immensely profitable grain crop, a huge export trade, apd the beginnings of a stock company ¢raze. In 1851, as in 1901, there was a wild advance in stocks, checked by a corn crop fallure and the assassination of the presi- dent; an immense increase in consolid- ations, rallway ‘“‘de: " and Issues of new securities. In 1882, as In 1902, there were excited and unsettled stock markets, con- stant strain on money, imports hugely in- creased, while exports decreased, and con- sequent adverse movements in exchange. Like 1883, the present year started with an overstrained banking system, a market glutted with unsold securities, and a pro- longed decline on the Stock exchange. Oth- erwise, the resemblances are not so plain. Signs of serious reaction in our trade at large were already visible at this time in 1853, as they are not now. Rallway rate- cutting was constantly breaking out, and apprehension over the silver urrency was felt on every side. Nothing of this sort now exists. The second half of 1883 was strangely interesting. It comprised, first, the most profitable season ever witnessed In rallway industry: ending, however, in a rate war It comprised, also, large increase in ex- ported merchandise and heavily decreased fmports; exports rising $27.30,000 for the full calendar year and imports falling 365, 0,00 What was quite as ingeresting, the full year 183 showed declded decrease In our loss of g | exports decreasing 332, 000,000 from the vear before, and Imports increasing $5.00.000. A very serlous reaction in the iron trade was witnessed, plg fron selling. at the year's end. $15 per ton helow high level of the ‘“boom.” and steel ralls $27 below it. A curlous precedent. if it be a precedent, is that, despite the violent pinch in money during the spring of 1883, the highest rate on call from September 1 to December 81 was § per cent. Those who love the odd and fantastic | Discussion Over Their Resemblance | O‘WAFA T)A"Y BFF: TITESDAY JITN'F lfl 1”03. OF WASHINGTON Minor Scenes and Incldents Sketehed on the Spot. Pension Commissioner Ware has a nice sense of honor which s not appreciated by fellow Kansans in the perision office. During his absence from office a few days g0 & paper was circulated among employes of the bureau asking for subscriptions to the reliet fund for flood sufferers in the Sunflower state. Upon returning to his desk Commissioner Ware expressed disap- proval with the subscription movement and peremptorily ordered that it should be stopped. In consequence he has been mada the subject of adverse eriticism. In this ‘matter the commissioner said he expected to be misunderstood. But knowing the sltuation and sentiment in Ransas, he be- lleves he was right in stopping the sub- scription. He made a liberal contribution to the fund for relief, and s prepared to give more if it shall. be needed, but he strongly objects to having a paper circu- lated among the people of the pension office. “I object,” sald the commissioner, “to have a subscription paper circulated in the bureau over which I preside. It might Suggest to those to whom the paper was presented that if a subscription was not made those refusing would become per- sona non grata with me, upon whom they look as their chief. It might be regarded as coerclon. It s perfectly proper for Kansans residing in Washington to assist their tellow citizens who may be in dis- tress, and I feel the same interest in ac- complishing the largest measure of relief that others do, but I cannot consent to have a paper circulated for subscriptions in the pension office.” ““One of the most peculiar as well as one of the rarest plants produced by nature 18 the clock plant, and there is only one specimen on view In the gardens of the Agricultural department,” said an employe of that institution to a Washington Star man, “The clock plant is a nativé of Borneo, and in that country, even, it 1s said to be as rare as In other sections of the world. Of course, the plant derives its name from its pecullar habits, which are known to but a few who have not studied the plant from a sclentific viewpoint. The plant has leaves of two sizes, one of which acts in the capacity of a minute hand, which keeps moving until about 4 o'clock fn the atterndon, and the other keeps going until morning. The larger leaves act as the hour hands. “Starting in a position when all of the leaves lle close to the stem, with the points hanging down, they rise gradually untl they turn toward the top, and then they drop to their former position. It takes the smaller leaves about one minute to, go through this performance, and the longer leaves just about an hour. When the conditions are favorable this move- ment continues throughout the entire day, but not such days as we have been having lately. “It requires good, warm sunshine for the plants to perform this function. Such days as we have been haying the leaves move, but they do 8o In an imperfect and irregular manner. Why, sometimes the large leaves cling so closely to the plant that it looks like a huge bundle of twigs. “The plant is delicate and extremely hard to propagate, which accounts for the fact that we now have only one of them. We had several, but they have all dled. The plant bears a small flower like that of a pea, and its seed grows in a pod in the same manner. It is hard to get it to seed in this country, which makes it extremely difficult to get seed for pther plants.”’ 37 70035 Here is a story of the president's family now going the rounds: “The present oc- cupant of the White House until the re- cent_renovation found it cramped quarters for a large family. - With one or two of the little Roosevelts off at boarding school, there were enough beds to go around, but none to spare. Well, last winter the presi- dent was entertaining a foreign envoy of great state and many years, and invited him to the White House over Sunday. He was put in Ethel's room ard Ethel, when she came back from school SBaturday, went to sleep with Alice, but unfortunately Kermit did not know of this arrangement. “8o, when early morning came, mindful of his strenuous inheritance, he crept to Ethel's room with a pitcher of water, and softly opening the door without awakening the slumbering ambassador, dashed for- ward and threw the lcy water over the bed ‘with the shout: *‘Get up, you old lazy bones; get up.' “*Then, when a gray head was lifted from the plilows, dripping and alarmed, the as- tonishment was mutual and the departure of the youngster instantaneous—without his pitcher.” In the room of one of the bureau chlefs of the Navy department a huge gong adorns the wall over the door. It has not been in use for a number of years—in fact not since a certaln assistant secretary of the navy retired from office and took up the practice of law. And thereby hangs a tale. It was told the Brooklyn Eagle cor- respondent by one of the department em- ployes as follows: Some years ago there was a bright civil- fun employed at the Naval academy as pro- fessor of mathematics. The superintendent of the academy was a capable officer, but one of the strictest men in the service. In fact, he was a perfect martinet, and, above all things, delighted to show his authority over the unfortunate civillans under his control. A turn of the wheel of fortune brought both men to Washington some time later, and each found himself on duty in the Navy department. A happy political strok caused the appointment of the former pro féssor of mathematics to the position of assistant secretary of the navy. The offi- cer, in the meantime, had been promoted to the chiefship of the bureau. Things had turned completely about in the short space of a few years. The civillan official started In at once to get revenge. He ordered a monster gong placed in the room of the | bureau chief in question, with a push but- ton on his desk to connect with it. Every time he pressed the button the officer up- stairs had to jump up and run to the office of the assistant secretary. The latter found frequent occasion to push the button, and the gong was kept going right merrily. It was a full-powered gong, and used to ring out with a suddenness and volume of sound that startled every officer and clerk on that floor. The assistant secretary kept it in use all during his term of office as & con- stant humiliation and reminder to his old enemy that, at last, the cividan was on top Hon. Carroll D. Wright, chief of the De- partment of Labor, has under way an ex- tended Investigation of the trend of wages in the United States. Statisticlans, special agents and experts of the department al- ready have been on the task for nearly three months and it was expected that a preliminary, If not the final report, would be ready for publication some time during the summer. The work broadened as it sdvanced, however, and now Mr. Wright says it will not be finished until late in the winter and probably not until near the time when he will leave the department it will be well done, It is intended e historical record of wages be made for the last half century, which will faithfully rehearse the pay which the workingman has recgived for his laber. Beyond this period the, experts are 80 the poor civillan professor led | a very unhappy life for a couple of years: | When | WwAnt & watch case for pro- lon, durablilty and beaut 'l""‘“h Boes ln the ke Jnside. Bend for boOKIS THE KEYSTONE WATCH CASE cO., Philadelphia. e — having a hard time in securing statistics fram which worthy deduction can be made. Indeed, according to Commissioner Wright, the department has never begun a work so difficult While he could not give the exact per- centage, the figures at hand showed that there has been a constant increase in the general run of wages. Each year In every Indusitry so far investigated found the workingman getting more money for the same amount of work than the preceding one. PROTECTING THE PUBLIC LANDS, Need of Checking the Grabs of Capi- talists and Speculators. Minneapolis Tribune. The _crusade agalnst monopoly of the public lande by capitalists and speculators is no new thing. It only gains new interest now from the increased danger that this monopoly will destroy the whole heritage of the people if it be not checked. Of the three liws, whose repeal 1s demanded by | the president and the secretary of the in- terior, only one was enacted in the interest of the people. The homestead commutation act served a good purpose in enabling settlers to ob- tain title so that they could raise money | on their homestedds for improvement. But it served a much largef purpose of cor- ruption in enabling fraudulent entrymen to capitalists and speculators by whom they were Bired to commit perjury. The stone and tmber act and the desert land act never were passed in the interest of the people. They were passed to serve the purpose of capitalists and speculators at a time when public opinion on this subject was languld, because so iarge a propor- tion of the arable lands had been taken up. But the adoption of the national policy of irrigation revives public Interest in pres- ervatfon of the land for the people, as it increases the activity of the speculative rald upon them. Entries under the stone and timber act are nearly ten timés what they were'five years ago and pfobably the samé is true of the other two acts. The department belleves that a large propor- tion of these are fraudulent and it urges that even honest entries under these acts are opposed to public policy, now that the government has declded to redeem the arid iands for actual settlers, ‘The senate committee on public lands, in its report on the rej eal bill, points out that presidents and secretaries of the Interior, and later secretaries of agriculture, have been urging- thé repesl:of all these acts for twenty yeaf past.'Sedretary Hitch- cock and President Roosevelt have been led to glve more earnest attention to the matter by the fact that public land entries increased from §,000,000 acres {1 1898 to 19,- 000,000 acres in 1902 without any perceptible increase in the area of actual settlement outside of Oklahoma, where only the origl- nal homestead act prevalls. It is perfeotly clear that the public domain is passing into the hands of great landed proprietors, who will reap the benefit of the national policy of irrigation if the movement be not checked. PERSONAL NOTES. The remodeled White House - contains thirty miles of wire, but is so arranged as to be useless for a pull. ‘There 1s no distress in Kansas. The rescued poets are aiready writing of “the crystal waters of the noble Kaw as they glide laughingly to the sea.” Richard Carvel has been arrested in New York on a charge of extortion, which would seem fo justify him in belleving that The Crists in his affairs has arrived. A Bt. Louls judge decided that a woman can lawfully extract nickels from her husband’s pocket. Everything seems to be playing into the hands of the street car companies. Morgan Necessary eloped with Pearl Hoss down in the Indian Territory, and the heartless judge sent the Lochinvar to jall, insisting that Hoss stealing was not justifisble under any conditions. A New York judge was recently called upon to decide that a man ninety years old has a perfect right to fall in love and get married. After a man has lived ninety [vears ne ought surely to know his own | mind Governor Pennypacker of Pennsylvania | Geltvered an address at Lancaster the other day in which he made this extraor- inary assault on the rules of speech: Pennaylvania will never again produce |a great general, a great poet or a great statesman until. the people behind them {recognize thelr greatness when the man ppears among them." this offer. store. chairs—Electric obtain title In order to transfer it to the | | but upon net business THE FALL IN STOCKS. “Facing a Condition, Theory. Philadelphia Press. The rallroad plant of the country also expanded to a basis needed not only to handle enormous business, but the addi tional business during the last three years created by railrond expaneion itself, a very considerable ftem. The bfidingh in our cities are all bullt on the basis of a boom. The three, mamifacturers, raflroads and bulldings, are now each of them waliting for the business and the profits which will Justify the expansion of the last threo years But the instant the expansion of all three had a check In the early part of the year, there came also a check in the demand for manufactures, and this in its turn brought one In the demand for freights. Things are worth not what they are valued in prospectuses and in certificates, but what ‘they will earn Earnings depend not upon gross business, Net business has been sadly cut into by thé fashion in which the price_of materfal and the rate | of wages has béen ratsed The country therefore faces what many a man and corporation has faced, a sud- Country Not was stock | den demand, an expansion to meet the demand and the discovery, when the ex pansion 1s made, 'that the démand has passed. A fall under these conditions is certain. Intrinsic values remain. The only men who will suffer will be very rich men, who have borrowed money to pay for what hey did not own. There has also, it must not be forgotten, been a prodiglous conversion of floating capital into fixed capital, and much of this fixed capital is lost because the business for which it was Invested was exaggernted exactly as the capital invested was itselt overstated. How long the fall will last no one can may, but it really depends upon causes and conditions which are wider and more powerful than any man, however, able in banking, any corporation, however great, or any trust, however mighty. SMILING LINES, Fairy in the Pink Snct Waist—Reggte boasts that you're his girl. 8weet Young Thing in Blue—m’\n I am, but he ain't my best feller by a long shot.. Chicago Tribune. “'Some men," sald Uncle Eben, “gits a heap o" credit foh bein! good natured when dey is simply too lazy to look out foh deir rights'—Washington Star. “What is an optimist, pa?" ¥ “An o] tlmm ‘man_who_pretends to be as well satisfied when. the weather'l ) badas When IR £004."~Detroit Free Press. \ “Oh, w'l], talk is cheap,” sneered the angry lawyer. ot lhlt kind,” replied the fudge, h ruy “Ten dollars, please.”—Syracuse ‘8o you "h’:' to #see the government owning everythin, “I do,” "Mr. Sirius Barker, ‘T'm 0t parine X ‘Washington Star. tired of paying (uel “Do you belleve In the l.rl'ument that a tends to promote peace? bl Cortainly. Aftar & matlon has bullt a big navy it feels too poor to inauln in the luxury of war."—Chicago Pos “Yes, I was turned down fur dat office,” u!zeuclx!rlfle, the ward heeler, “‘but I ain’t no quitter. De administration’ll make a place fur me yet. “I belleve there foot alread; is such a movement on " sald the holnel( citizen. ;! hear there's’ talk of bullding & new pes {tentiary."—Philadeiphia Press. it Sy THE PRAIRIE STATE IN JUNE. I've Y?!I‘lk(:“l?n(.ellm. spell-an’ I tho't 'Bout the_folks who think they own the Whenu'tlhe;d!llked from mor{\ till late of 1 st Saking ot the Praifle state in June. ht and of | They would tell of sunshine brigl tain tops so white, Anm:rm:rrl.:u groves an' mockin' birds Al ll‘\e While 1 -umed t0 hear the meadow k so cleas Go :l’nzl.n: ‘hrough the Prariei state in June. At a swell hotel one day I just up an’ had &y To rfie-r‘ap who et his orange with a An' he owned Ta o the race, when I d him face to face 1t ?.1"5 ever seen the Prairie state in June. When my days on earth are past an’ I go t a at las Be 3"- mmons late or be the sumumons I will rest contented there, n that land s et hin Lo the Prairie state in "s something like the e A"RETURNED TOURIST. 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