Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 10, 1903, Page 4

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REMITTANCES. e Remit by draft, express or postal order, Vable t5 The Bee Publishing Company, nly 2-cent stamj accepted in payment of mail accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. THR BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF cmc%uflox: Btate of Nebraska, Douglas Coun i George B. Taschick. secretary " e sée Publishing Company beng sworn, auly Bays that the actual numper ot full and coples of The es Datly Morning, nd Sunday Bee printed during the 1903, was as follow 7. Net total sales. Net average sale: GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK, Subscribed In my presence ana sworn to Noumn\hm:& of July, A. D. 1903. B, HUNGATE, (Beal) Notary Publio. EE——————sshgeeey PARTIES LEAVING FOR SUMMER. Parties leaving the ofty for the summer may have The Bee sent to them regularly by notifying The Bee Business effice, in person or by mail The address will be changed as oftem as desired. e pree—————tee Prospects are that the harvest will be mhort, but not the price. ] Having been duly coronated Plus X has a right to feel every inch a pope. —— A world-wide audience is waiting for Madatn Humbert to tell just how she aia 1t eemgE——— The open door question is not half so $mportant to Omaha as the open bridge Ruestion. Ee———— | General Miles fully realizes the fact fhat he would retire from the command +- &f our military forces but onoe. —— The collége professor who denounces bur jails as schools of crime forgets that most of the pupils learmed their lessons before they got theres e o 8o far as the patrons are cdoncerned, nothing in the size of the monthly bills goes to show that the electric lighting company has been reorganized. E—— Strangely enough no one has proposed James K. Jones for the presidential nomination on the democratic ticket— not even Bryan. Is‘this not ingratitude? S Now, really, Coroner Bralley would render the community greater service. it instead of exhuming antiquated cof- flos he would embalm a few fossilized mossbacks. Spmmey————— ’ As a shining example of divorcement ®of police from politics, the South Omaha police board has no equals—unless It he some of the recent governorappointed police boards of Omaha. E————— Postponement of the third trade ex- cursion ought to be a double boon to the towns on the itinerary. It will bring them their Omaha visitors later fn the scason when ram is needed more than now. — Our new congressman is evidently overlooking a thing or two. With one Nebraska sendtor in Alaska and the other in Europe, he might be the whole thing for a few weeks had he only staid at home. N —— The Nebraska populists all unite in en- dorsing the Denver declaration that fu- sion is futile and democrats no better than republicans, but they will fuse with the democrats just once more be- fore swearing off. E————— A special army order lssued by the wecretary of war probibits the docking of horses’ tails ore«lipping beyond “such reasonable. trimming and plucking as may beé necessary to prevent shagginess of appearance.” Officers and privates in the army will reserve all their cutting and slashing for the enemy. CE—m——— The pmpoud'«nem.lon of the Omaha street rafllway to Fort Crook is Itable to project a nmew issue into the tax erena, namely, whether a street rallroad that operates in two counties shall be assessed by the #tate board of railroad assessment or by the local boards, the same as If it were operated {u only one eounty. | e ——————— The rallroads are already threatening Bt. Louls with punishment for not ex- terminating the scalpers before the gates open on fts Warld's fair. 8¢ long as the scalper is in business, they declare, mothing better than the regular excur- slon rates will be given exposition vis- ftors. This 18 the same old story of every exposition g WARNING AGAINST SPECULATION. In view of recent experience it would seem to be hardly necessary to warn the public against speculation, yet such admonition is to be regarded as never untlmely. With the market for stocks low there is presented a temptation for men with small incomes and savings to speculate. The Philadelphia Inquirer warns them not to do it. It gives this advice to those of moderate means who cannot afford to lose; those who can are able to look out for themselves. That paper remarks that there are standard stocks of railroads and cor- porations which are safe for investment, “but don’t make the mistake of specu- later ~buying on a margin. Pay for your shares outright and lay them away in a tin trunk and draw your dividends.” Another paper makes the suggestion that it {s not a time for any kind of haste or flurry. Real investors have no occasion for feeling scared and it is ev- ident that thus far there is nothing panicky in the situation. It counsels leaving the stock market to work out its own salvation with the help of the financlal interests with which it is in- volved and says: “There are symptoms of slowing up here and there, of a mod- erate reaction In industrial activity. But there is promise of good crops and the underlying conditions still seem firm and stable. The banks have a large responsibility upon them and evidently begin to realize it. There was never a time calling more emphatically for Judicious discrimination for the support of the legitimate in business and the restraint of the speculative. There is no crisls and no reason why any should he apprehended, but there is a subsid- ing, a hauling In of expanded sall and the need of careful navigation. It is a time for conservatism and a keeping of the head.” Undoubtedly business men generally are of this way of thinking. They realize the wisdom and expedi- ency of a judicious degree of caution In existing circumstances. There is consequently no rushing or pushing by either manufacturers or merchants, but a disposition to be on the safe side and yet keep up with the demands of the market. As to speculation, there wiil continue to be more or less of it, but it has been given a check that promises to hold it within comparatively narrow bounds for some time, possibly for as long a period as that during which it ranged with extraordinary activity. At all events it seems safe to say that it will be sev- eral years before there is again such an inflation of stock values as was reached before the procesd’ of liquidation began, while it_can be quite confidently as- sumed that the promotion and creation of vastly overcapitalized combinations is at an end for a very Jong time. It will hardly be possible in this genera- tion to induce the public to buy the se- curities of any corporation organized on the basis of most of those created dur- fng the last four or five years. ‘“Mor- ganeering,” as the British term it, has fallen under such distrust that no finan- clal or industrial enterprise bearing its character will command public sup- port. S——— IN THS INTEREST OF MONOPOLY. We sald in commenting on the de- efsion of Judge Lochren in the merger caso that it was distinctly in the inter- est of a rallroad monopoly. The New York Journal of Commerce takes a sim- flar view, saying: “If the principles enunciated by Judge Lochren in decid- ing the Northern Securities case against the state of Minnesota should turn out to be good law, the ‘holding’ corpora- tion will prove to be the most effective device yet contrived in the interest of monopoly. What two raliroad com- panies may not do under law can, it appears, be done for them by a com- pany which, though it owns a control- ling majority of the stock of two rail- ronds, is not & rallroad company and ‘which 18 not amenable to the anti-trust law, though it hag the power, and pre- sumably the will, absolutely to extin- guish competitisn between two naturally competing raliroad systems.” In regard ta this peculiar theory ad- vanced by Judge Lochren, the Journal of Commerce polnts out that it is con- trary to decislons of state courts as it also 18 to those of federal courts, The courts of New York and other states have held that if a combination con- templates the acquisition of the power to produce the result condemned by the law it is unlawful, even though there be mo actual eXercise of the power, or even no intention of exerclsing it. This was the position of the highest court In New York in the case agalnst the Su- gar trust and of the supreme court of Ohio in the) case of that state against the Standard Oil company. In the lat- ter it was held that while it might be proved that the company had improved the quality and cheapened the cost of petroleum and its products to the con- sumer, that was not ‘one of the usual results of a monapoly and it is the policy of the law to regard not what may but what usually happens. Thus there is arrayed against the position of Judge Lochren not only the decision in the case of the federal government against the Northern Securities, but alse the decision of state courts in notable cases involving the power of a corporation. to do that which the law condemns, with- out regard to what it may really have done or was Intended to do. In view of this it seems most improbable that the Lochren view, obviously in the interest of monopoly, will be sustained by the higher court: e———— The Chicago Tribune tries to draw out of the Whitaker Wright case the dis- tinetion between an unscrupulous bus- iness man and a confidence man. Wright by its definition was a colossal confl- dence man because he deluded people into buying things which had no value, while the unscrupulous business man at his worst tries to get much for little and makes some kind of an attempt to give value received. To amplify the ‘Tribune's ides, the unscrupulous busi- ness man secks to give as little as pos- sible, and if he succeéds in reducing his contribution to zero he becomes a con- fidence man. If this is not as clear as mud, the reader should ask for the dia- gram that goes with it. e——— A REASONABLE DEMAND. The application of City Attorney Wright to the federal district court to Increase the bonds of the Union Pacific and Rarlington roads in the railway tax cases, to cover the loss that may be en- tailed upon the city by the procedure instituted by these corporations is by 1o means unreasonable. In other states where the rallronds have pursued sys- tematic tax evasion, the legislatures have made provisions for just such cases. For example, the new Wisconsin law for the assessment and taxation of railroad property at its true value re- quires railroad companies or stock com- panles, who apply to the courts to set aside, restrain or postpone the collection of any tax levied upon the property of the railroad company, to pay to the treasurer the amount of taxes which the court shall determine primarily to be justly and equitably due from such company before any injunction or writ to enjoin or restrain the payment of the taxes can be issued. The Wisconsin law makes it mandatory upon the court in which the actlon or proceeding s pending to determine summarily and without delay what amount of taxes is equitably due from such company. In case the amount of tax justly and equi- tably due from such company shall Le finally determined to be less than the amount so paid the excess is to be re- funded to such company by direction of the court. The people of Wisconsin evidently have had some eéxperience with railroad tax fighters and have an- ticipated their tactics to stave off tax payments. A member of the Douglas delegation to the late lamented legislature has pub- licly remonstrated agalnst the imposi- tion by the republican county commit- tee of an entrance fee upon candidates who present themselves for nomination. Why any member of that delegation should resent the proposed head tax on candidates is incomprehensgible. As a general thing members of legislative delegations have to take a few years' rest after their term expires before they can successfully run the gauntlet of an- other nomination, and the members of the late delegation will have to climb nore barb wire fences to get into the political pasture than a Texas steer that tries to break out of a Nebraska cattle ranch. em——— If the Boclety for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals would devote a lit- tle of its sympathetic attention to the protection of men and women it would earn the gratitude of this community. For cxample, if the Humane society would put a stop to the employment of medical students in emergency surgery at the city jail, where men and women arrested or picked up by the police, who have come in collision with other men or women, or have been accidentally hurt in & melee, are subject to surgical dxperiments that are liable to leave them crippled or maimed for life in order to afford an opportunity for practice to young men who aspire to become doc- tors, Too great care cannot be exercised by the tax commissioner in fixing his real estate valuations for the next year's as- sessment roll. The assessment of realty under the new revenue law is to stand for four years, so that the burden of in- equality will be multiplied just four times. eee———— Omaha will be pleased to furnish preachers to flll eastern pulpits when- ever requisition is made, but would es- teem It g favor if it were permitted to designate those who can be more read- {ly dispensed with and missed least. L _———— Colonel Bryan heartlessly refers to Mr. Cleveland as a political bunbo steerer. Mr. Oleveland will not retali- ate in kind because his thoughts might be actionable for libel if reduced to print and put into general circulation. - e Absentee. 8t. Louls Globe-Democrat. Thomas Jefferson was absent from Wash- ington more days than any other president from the beginning down to 1880. Colonel Bryan must have overlooked this tmport- ant truth in history. Day of Diplomacy Past. Boston Transcript. Pope Plus X. was not very seriously con- sidered at first, because he is profoundly fgnorant of diplomacy. As a fact, however, this Ignorance is probably one of his chief qualifications. The day of diplomacy, out- side of Russia and Cambridge soclety, is certainly past Merger Morgan Forestalled, Baltimore American, J. Plerpont Morgan has achieved the proud and novel distinction of being con- sidered by the British government a per- #on of such formidabllity as to make it worth their while to provide, fni their con- tracts with the Cunard company, against the sale of any vessels to that personage or his company. —— The Glad Hand in Portagal, New York Tribune, Portugal is a little kingdom with a large heart. Its hospitality to the American squadron at Lisbon has been not only generous, but fairly brimming over with good will and enthusiasm. Daniel Web- d in substance of Dartmouth col- 1t 1s a small college, but there are those who love it.”" Simflar wosds might be suitably applied to the modest realm of Portugal. Quaint Quaker Notion. Philadelphia Press. Vermont has an anti-treating law simlilar to that of Nebraska, and, as it is new, It will probably be better enforced. It is fortunate that the custom of “treating.' or inviting others to drink &t the expense of the man extending the invitation, is gradually declining. It means that all of those participating must ‘“‘treat” before the drinking is ended and is pernicious to & high degres. If made illegal in every state and enforced the nation would be the ettes. . MONDAY, CHICAGO TRACTION SITUATION, Problem of Dealing with Franchises About to E o Naw York Qutlook. The crisis in Chicago traction affairs did not develop on August 1, as expected, but Instead a truce until November 3 next was arranged, the city council extending until that date all expiring franchise rights in the streets. Some of the Chi- cago street rallway franchises clearly ex- pired on July 3 last and, according to the contention of the city, a very large proportion of the grants of the companies terminated or were terminable at that time. As to many streets, however, the companies claim rights for more than half a cen- tury yet under authority of the so-called ninety-nine-year act passed by the state legislature in 1865. The act In question purported to extend for ninety-nine years, without the consent of the people of Chi- cago, and in fact against their protest, franchise rights which originally had been granted by the city council for a period of only twenty-five years. The people of Chi- cago have always refused to recognize this act as binding upon them. They have questioned its legality and Its sufficlency for practical operating purposes, if legal. In the recent agitation over franchise re- newals it has been lald down as a cardi- nal prineiple ot local public policy that the companies, as part consideration for any new grants they may obtaln, must agree to walve all claim of rights under the so- called ninety-nine-year act. Last winter negotiations over franchise renewals were broken oft by the companies because of the city's Insistence on the walver glause. Bince then one of the companies—the city rallway—has manifested a disposition to concede the public demand for a walver of claims under the ninety-nine-year act, but the other company—the Union Trac- tlon—which was recently put in the hands of recelvers appointed by Judge Grosscup, assumed much more hostile attitude toward the city, and has relled on the court and the ninety-nine-year act for protection. In responss to a petition of the receivers for Instructions Judge Gros cup set a date for a hearing on this act, but to this hearing the city refused to be a party, as it desires a settlement by nego- tlation, without adjudication, and prefers, If adjudication shall be necessary, to liti- gate particular phases of the question as they arise. After an ex parte argument Judge Grosscup, in a letter to the recelv- ers, which he said did not have the force of & judicial opinion, expressed a bellef In the validity of the ninety-nine-year act and instructed the receivers not to suffer ny Interference after July 30 with the property under their control. Judge Gros- cup did not, however, pass on the que: tion of the sufficiency of the ninety-nine- year act nor the extent of its applica- tion. The city contends that the ninety- nine-year act, if valld, applles to but very few lines, and even on these authorizes propulsion by animal power only, being by its terms “An act In relation to horse rafl- ways.” For that reason if for no other the act would, be inadequate for the pres- ent purposes of the companies. On petition of the recelvers Judge Grosscup issued a temporary injunction restraining the city authorities from in any way interfering with the operation of the lines after’ July 3%, and the question of making that in- junction permanent was set for hearing on July 27. Before that date, however, an attorney representing the receivers ex- pressed a desire to enter Into ‘negotiations ‘with the city on the question of renewals, and on that representation the court hear- ing was postponed until November 30. Chicago’s contest with its traction inter- ests is full of significance for the entire country and the outcome will be awaited with interest. It is refreshing to see a contest of this kind in which the mayor and aldermen are truly representative of public interests, as is the case in Chicago today. —_— NATURE’S MYSTERIOUS FORCES. Man's Attempt to Master The Ineffective. ‘Washington Post. ‘The painful experfences of two of Mr. Thomas A. Edison's assistants and the nar- row escape of the inventor himself from blindness, as a result of experimenting with the X-rays, indicate forcibly that sci- énce has been dallying with a factor of the highest potentiality in the summoning of the higher etheric vibrations to the service of mankind. One of these assistants h: already lost his entire left arm and t fingers of the right hand, and his brother fs in danger of losing his hand, and per- haps his arm as well. Mr. Edison's eyes are now recovered from the effects of the rays, but lumps have formed in his body in the region of the stomach which resist the curative powers of physiclaris and baf- flo the diagnostic skill of all the anato- mists. It {s believed that the X-rays de- stroy the phagocytes, or certaln white blood corpuscles which possess a distinot puritying and regenerative quality in the circulation. Patients have heretofore suf- fered severely from the ordinary burns of theso rays, and some extremely serious cases have been reported. But the strange part of the afiotions of the assistants in the Bdison laboratory is that the expo. sures to the rays in their cases ceased five or six years ago, when the first unpleasant effects were noted. During that period the baleful influence of these vibrations has been at work, and now even the lives of the young men may be threatened. The truth s that much as sclence has advanced In the conquest of matter and the harnessing of the higher etheric forces, it is even yet absolutely blocked by the great mysteries of their nature. It has summoned electricity out of the alr and produced it from wonderful machines, but it cannot today vouchsafe more than an ingenious and complicated theory as to its real character. It knows, to a certain ex- tent, the effects of this fluld, or current, or state of matter, but It cannot guarantee precision of results when a human being encounters it. The other'day a workman in a local electrical plant received a charge of 800 volts without suffering injury. Again, men have been killed by coming in con- nection with very much less powerful charges. Lightning plays strange pranks with humanity, ying here and and spar- ing there, apparently without law or regu- larity. The multiplication of the enormously high rates of vibration known as “rays” has of late years caused a complete revolution in certain branches of physical and medical sclence. Marcon! has to some extent har- nessed the Hertzlan rays for use in the transmission of messages without wires. Finsen has discovered a curative use for certain ultra-violet rays. But even when these manifestations of the subtler forces of nature have been reduced to tangible terms and effects the supreme mystery of their nature remains unsolved, and the sufferings of the Edison workers reveal clearly that they are far from being as yet subjected to servitude. But, as & matter of fact, not even the multiplication of de- vices for the protection of & community from that element has robbed of its sinis- ter truth the old adage that “fire is a good servant but a bad masi Yet Patriots Get Their Price. San Frandsco Call. The Cubans who fought for independence are to be pald off at the rate of & cents on the doliar. This is dong & good deal better than the colonists did who fought to throw oft the British yoke. But times have improved greatly since the begiuning of the last century, and very poor adminis- trators can manage much better nowadays than brilliant financiers could ia “the days that tried men's souls™ § AUGUST 10, 1903. BITS OF WASHINGTON LIFE. Minor Scenes Incldents Sketehed n the Spot. After unwinding a great deal of leal red tape the Postoffice department has do- cided to apply the brand of fraud to the mail of the Co-operative Turf assoclation of New Orleans. Similar concerns col- lapsed In St. Louls six months ago, fleecing their dupes to the extent of 84,000,000 During that upheaval and subsequently the New Orleans concern advertised ex- tensively, promised liberal profits on a 2 per cent commission and gathered about $500,000. But it could not make good, as usual. Abundant evidence was secured to show the fradulent character of the enterprise and the department ap- plied the branding iron. What a debt of gratituds Washington owes to the summer girl. Without her the city would seem a seething stagnation, but with her—God bless her—life assumes a gayer aspect. You see her everywhere, sans hat, sans gloves, sans restriction, re- lates a Brooklyn Eagle letter. Dressed in the most diaphanous of frocks, with her bare neck and arms gleaming under the electric lights, and her fluffy hair blown all about her face, you find trolley ocar- loads of her every night, on pleasure bent away from the heat and the heart of the city, out to the show places, Cabin John's bridge, Glen Echo or Chevy Chase lake. These are some of the,summer sights. Now for a few of the sounds. While you sit at your ease under the shade of your own vine and fig tree, softly, sweetly, from way down yonder, floats the sound of banjo and jewsharp, and a nearer ac- quaintance proves the music to come from a quartet of colored boys—two instrument- alists and two vocalists. They wander aimlessly, singing as they go, untll a larger than ordinary assemblage of front door stepists would seem to make stoppage pecuniarily advantageous. They will enter- tain you for as long a time as you wish for a ridiculously small sum, considering the real excellence of the entertdinment. Or, again, it is a small Senegambian who will accost you with: “Say, marster, will you give Joo a nickel it he recitations in hawg Latin for you?" An affirmative reply will call forth a grin revealing a double row of ivories and with a rolling of eyes that makes one think of two small huckle- berries swimming in two pans of milk, Joe begins and assails the ears with such a flow of gibberlsh that no doubt as to the certainty of the Darwinian theory is tena- ble, at least as far as Joe is concerned. Again, it s another species of small boy, who, equally eager to see the color of your money, desires to-do a stunt for you, sald stunt consisting of facial' contortions and pedal gyrations that are little short of won- derful. Nor does this exhaust the divers darky ways of winning the white man's money. A loud, but nevertheless insinuat- ing volce will assure you: “Here's codl air, cool air. Shoals of it for only § cents.” This is George Washington Henry Clay Leadbeater, vender of palm leat fans. The contract for the magnificent new terminal for all the steam rallroads now entering Washington has been let, and actual constrcution will soon begin. The award represents upward of $2,000,- 000, reports the Post, and 1is for that part of the work which the officlals of the Baltimore & Ohlo company will supervise. It will take two years to com- plete the work to be done under the con- tract, which provides that the contractors shall begin construction at once. This contract embraces the eastern ap- proach to the new terminal; the freight yards, roundhouses and connecting tracks to be used by the Baltimore & Ohio Rall- road company. This approach to the ter- minal will be about three miles long and will run from Montello, on the Washington branch of the Baltimore & Ohlo. At Mon- tello will diverge the tracks of the Metro- politan branch, furnishing the Baltimore & Ohio's outlet to the west, and the tracks of the Washington branch, which 1s its means of reaching Washington from the north. In the same vicinity the tracks of the Pennsylvania railroad will be con- nected with the terminal approach, One striking feature of the construction of the eastern approach will be the huge stone viaduct. This viaduct will be about one mile and ‘a quarter long, and over it the entire traffic from the north and east will pour into Washington. Stone was se lected instead of steel so as to make the work a permanent one. It will have ten tracks to reach the terminal, and inside the station the train tracks will be more than double that number. Owing to the immensity of the work to be done in creating the new terminal, it was found necessary to divide it into three parts. One feature will be the construc- tion of the station Itself. This will be in charge of Architect Burnham of Chicago, and will be & beautiful marble building, with ornate landscape effects surrounding it. A second feature will be the buflding of the approach from the south, including the great tunnel under Capitol hill. Th work will be done by the Pennsylvania raflroad, and thé third will be the work for which the Baltimore & Ohlo awarded contracts recently. The whole work will cost about §14,000,00. When finished it will glve Washington the finest railroad ter- minal in the world. It will embody the ad- vanced ideas of the rallroads of the coun- try from an operating standpoint, and in the decorative feature will harmonize with the fine government buildings in the capital eity. PERSONAL NOTES. Leong Kal Chew, who was recently a guest of the Chicago Chinese, was referred to by the filppant papers as Long Sneese. A woman in a New York town recently celebrated her elghty-fourth birthday by stopping & runaway horse. Nobody in this age needs to be old unless he or she wants to be. It is sald that in memory of many fish- ing excursions jointly enjoyed by ex-Pres- ident Cleveland and Joseph Jefferson, the new Cleveland baby s to be named Grover Jefterson Cleveland. ‘When Henry Cabot Lodge, who s a lit- erery senator from Massachusetts, was jked what the Monroe doctrine meant, he replied that it, as long as Hay was i office, would mean “keep off the gras The pictures of Plo Decimo make him out a handsome and 'seemingly youthful man for his age, with & comfortable fullness of physique, indicating that pulse and water have not been his sole means of subsist- ence. Great White Bear, the great-grandson of Tall Tree, whilom chief of the Crow In- dians, will blow a bugle for Uncle Sam in the navy. Tired of the tame life which he endured in the Carlisle Indlan school for five years, he enlisted on the receiving ship Minneapolis as a musiclan, Senator Depew, though a witty man him- self, naturally suffers from having credited to him meny witticlsms of which he was never guilty. “Senator,” said a friend to him the other day, “what is the wittiest thing you ever sald?’ “I don't know," he replied, “but it was probably sald by some one else.” One of the most picturesqué of British subjects s Richard J. Sedden, premier and ‘uncrowned king” of New Zealand. He went to New Zealand In the early ‘60's and waa first & gold digger and saloonkeeper. He was a great man with his fists in the early days. Now he is trying to bulld up an empire in the Pacific and has put some interesting soclalistic theories into prac- o TALK OF THE STATE PRESS, Kearney Hub: Governor Cummins of Towa has raised the rallroad assessmont in that state $10,00,000. But that s in lowa. Boaver City Times-Tribune: The Times- Tribune offers the following as & platform for the democracy next year: “When In doubt d—n Hanna." Plainview Republican to fuse" don't mean “to lose, or not to lose™ In Plerce county any more. The repub- licans have a nice majority whether the opposition fuse or not fuse, and they simply can't lose. Lyons Sun: Speaking of rallway assess- ments, it behooves the demopop editors to remember that the lowest valuation put on the railroad properties of Nebraska in the last ten years was fixed by the pops when they were in power. It was the way they had, you know, of exhibiting their hatred for the “corporation cormorants.’ Wayne Herald: The delegates from Wayne county to the republican state con- vention are for Judge Barned of Norfolk for supreme judge. Mr. Barnes, who is now one of the supreme court commis- sioners, is recognized as one of the ablest Jurists In the west and eminently qualified for the responsible position to which he aspires and to which the people will elect him. Howells Journal: Willlam V. Allen is quoted as being opposed to any more fusion. Like some other pops we might mention he has got all the loaves and fishes possible out of the combination and would like to try a new game. It looks very much to the writer as though this is to be the last year of fusion in Nebraska, and if such should be the case we don't know as the democracy of the state will have any cause to mourn. Wisner Free Press: The last legislature passed a law which makes it the duty of every farm owner to mow the weeds along the road as far as his land goes. In case of the owner's failure to do this, the road overseer is required to do the work and charge the expense to the owner of the land. The time lmit in which this work is required to be done has about expired, and farmers who have not done 8o are ad- vised to get out thelr mowers and scythes at once Oakland TIndependent: The new law against selling, giving or furnishing to- bacco to minors under the age of 18 years is now in effect, and proper observance of the law will be required on the part of the dealers and handlers of tobacco every- whers In the state. From time to time there has been much sentiment expressed in favor of a concise law of this charactes, and it should be expected that violations of the law will be watched for the pro- ceedings Instituted against violators. The only sate and proper thing for a dealer to do 18 to observe the law, and ses that neither clerks nor others they employ vio- late the law, either thoughtlessly or other- wise. Alblon News: Nebraska is still to retain & front seat in national politics, especially In that bearing the “reform” brand. Ex- Senator Allen and ex-Governor Poynter were two of the leading spirits at the re- cent Denver conference held for the pur- pose of rehabilitating the populist party and pulling it out of the democratic quag- mire. These gentlemen are both on the committee to lesue an address to the peo- ple, and are all in all the most influential men in the movenmient. It remains to be seen whether they possess suficient in- fluence to hold the Nebraska populists away from the democrats in te coming campalgn. We prophesy that there will be fusion this year. Norfolk New: A Tecumseh man who owns a farm and rents it has gone into figures to ascertain of what value the land is to him as an Investment, something that not all the farmers of valuable Nebraska land bave done. He finds that he could not afford to sell his land for $80 an acre. From a thirty-six-acre fleld of corn, raised last year, his share of the orop brought him $320, and he feels 86 well pleased that he recently declined an offer of $80 an acre for the land. There are thousands of farms in Nebraska bringing the same kind of returns to owners and renters, and there are millions of people who have not yet discovered that Nebraska land is worth $80 to $100 an acre, although much of it is on the market for considerably less than that amount. 8t. Paul Republican: Regardless of the anti-fusion manifesto issued by ex-Senator Allen and ex-Governor Poynter at Denver a few days ago, Howard county populists are laying their plans for one more tieup with democracy. The custom was estab- lished when the “reform” party was strong, and now that it has become weak it dares not break the bonds which have helped it gain a place at the publio erib. Since the Denver manifesto has been agreed to by all factions of populists, no one can find the slightest excuse for further fusion except as a means of getting offics. An organiza- tion which enters bragenly into such an alllance cannot expect to long command the respect of honest men. Principle can- not be forever trampled under foot. Stanton Picket: As long as young men will return from college, put on a pair of overalls, roll up their sleéves and go to work, the country is in no danger from the higher education of our young men. Just now we can name a dozen right here in Stanton county who have been away to school a portion of the time during the past two years, and not one ef them is disqualified for work. at work on farms, one s learning the blacksmiti's trade, another is driving a dray team, doing whatever comes, one is in a real estate office, others are temporarily in the harvest flelds. Not one of them {s & simpering $3-per-wedk clerk, with hair parted in the center. Not ““To fuse, or not one of them is trying to shirk work or ts | ashamed to be seen doing manual labor. It is a healthy outlook for our country as for the boys, and we like it. NOT UNDER CONSIDERATION. Projected Campaign on the Tarift Pronounced Absurd. Philadelphia Pres The decline of $1,254,23 In customs re- ceipts in July as compared with the cor- responding month last year indicates that the high tide of imports is receding. The imports were much greater last year than ever before in the history of the nation. The tarift was no great barrier. Anything the people wanted from abroad, including dlamonds and preclous’stones in general, was imported In large quantities. But this served to increase production in general in the United States and to lesson the de- mand for imported goods. There has been no decline in the aggre- gate in production In this country. The speculation In cotton, which has resulted in an enormous increase in the cost of the raw material, has served to close some of the cotton mills, but a larger number, for the same reason, are closed in Europe. Strikes have interfered with business, but they are no indication of any falling off \n the demand for goods. Some grossly overcapitalized ‘“trusts” have met with trouble in disposing of their stocks and securities, but that is rather & favorable symptom. The organizers of these inflated corpora- tions, to meet the raids of bears and pre- vent some of these “‘trusts” from going into bankruptey, have been obliged to dis- pose of good stocks, and have been unable to protect them from declining. But this has had no particular effeot on the busi- ness of the nation. It is mot only good, but highly prosperous The erops promise well, and tho prosperity continues, regard- less of Wall street. Imports decline some- what, but that s a favorable sign It will be hard, under these circum- stances, for the democrats to make a cam- palgn on the tariff, as suggested by M. Gorman. WIth the imports greater than ever before and the country enjoying groat prosperity & ory for tarift reform as a presidential i8sus will be in the highest degree absurd. Euch changes as may be found necessary It the future will be mads by the republicans, as they have done in the past, but to ruln the business of tho nation by bringing a free trade party into power s something the voters of United Btates do not contemplate. the DOARDS OF CONTROL. How Minnesota Promotes Economy in State Institutions. Chicago Naws, Governor Van Sant of Minnesota makes the Interesting statement that Minnesota's Board of Control, during. the first year of its existence, saved the state $140,000 in ex- penses, while still greater economies are expected in the future. Governor Van Sant is of the opinion that Diinois could benefit greatly by establishing a*similar board. Instead of having separate boards for each Institution, as in Illinols, Minnesota the control of all state institutions in a single board of three members. In this way the different institutions can be correlated and made to work to the com- mon advantage of all. Economies can bs Introduced tn the purchass’of supplies and in other ways. Vghere one institution man- ufactures goods used in another, for in- stance, the transfer can be made from one to the other without employing the services of any middleman. At the present time in Illinols one institution may be making goods of a certain kind and placing them on the market at a low price, while another Institution may be purchasing goods of the same kind at a high price, Ilitnols is much In need of a clvil service law for state institutions, ' When a thor- oughly effective and comprehensive merit 1aw has been secured, so that efficient and honest management of these Institutions can be maintained, it will be advantageous to take up the question of establishing o board of conmtrol. The object sought in providing for such a board will be to se- cure wise and economical business admin- istration, and If the desired end is to be obtaihed, the members of the board must be absolutely freed from political Influ- ences. Doubtless a plan for the unification of control over the state institutions would Se of signal benefit under these conditions, theugh it 1s doubtful whether in one par- ticular the plan adopted In Minnesota does not go too far. There the State university 1s held to come within the purview of this controlling board, although it is not cere tain that such was the intent of the legis- lature at the time the law was passed There is force in the contention that the State university should remain separate and that its management should rest with the regents. Both economy and greater efficlency of management, however, should result from placing all other institutions under a single board of control when once the proper civil service conditions have been established. BRIGHT AND BRERZY, ked enviously at the mop. he exclaimed, ‘“wouldn’t it be finn if a foot ball player could grow his afr like that?'—Chicago Post. “The president's craze for bear leads him to adopt, queer devices.” wvhat's the latest?" it o n on 0 und."" eve- land Plath Deale . ‘Yes," said the intellectual girl, “the: is a convincing beauty in Hogarth's curve.” “‘Never saw it,” said the young man, who wears his straw hat with the brim turned down. hat club does Hogarth pitch for?"'—Washington Star. Mr. Stalate—Don't those trolley cars make an awful racket when they go by the door? Miss Bord—Yes, and they pass at such nopportune moments. It was on account of them that you didn't hear the clock the last two times it struck.—Philadelphia Press. The Landlady—Are the pickles too highly seasoned, Mr. McGinnis? Why, 1 thought you liked them that way. I made them especially for you. 3 Boarder—The way to a_man's heart is through his stomach, Mrs. Irons, but not by boring a hole through it—Chicago Tribune. “Haye you had much experience?" asked Mrs. Youngwife of the applicant for the position of cogk. ‘Mum,"” said the cook lady portentiously, 1 ‘could write a book!"—Somerville Jour- nal. A STILL DAY IN AUGUST. Sarah Helen Whitman. I love to wander through the woodlands In the estt ight of an autumnal day, the 80! 3 When summer gathers up her robes of lory, An: fl;{ a dream of beauty glides away. How throdgh each loved, familiar path she toy through the golden mist, 8, Serenely smilin Tinting the wnfi grape with her dewy fingers, il the €dol emerald turns to amethyst; Kindling the faint stars of the hazel, shin- To 1l§ht the gloom of autumn's molder- i e umes tho clematis entwining, t um e 1 M here o'er"the rock her withered gArment falls. Warm lights are on the sleepy uplands waning, Beneath soft clouds along the horizon lled, T the slant sunbeams through thelr fri raining, Bathe Sii the hillé tn melancholy gold. The mofst winds breathe of crisped leaves a 1 In ‘the 'damp hollows of the woodland sown, Mingling the freshness of autumnal showers Whh spicy airs from Cedarn alleys blown. Heslde the brook and on the umbered mea- ow, Where yellow fern-tufts fleck the faded round, with* foldea 11ds beneath their palmy shadow gentlan nods in dewy slumbers bound. Upon those soft, fringed lids the bee sits T oofon lover ot to say farewsll ond love L oreith “ahut Wings, though silken folds ding. Crt’e':'v'lrune:r' her heart his drowsy tale to tell. The little birds upon the hillside lonely it nojselessly along from spray to spray, gilent a8 & sweet wandering thought that onl; Shows its bright wings and softly glides away. Ayers Cherry Pectoral Talk this over with your doctor. If he says Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral is all right for your hard cough, then take it. We are willing to leave it with him. He has the formula. Doctors have known it for 60 years. 4. 0. AYER 00., Lowsll, Mass. 3