Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 13, 1903, Page 6

—————— S THE OMAHA DAILY BEE E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, Dafly Beo (without Sunday), One Year. Dally Bee and Sunday, One . 1llustrated Bee, One Year Bunday Bee, One Year. Baturday Bee, One Yea e Twentleth Century Farmer, One Year.. DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Dally Bes (without Sunday), per cop Dally Bee (without Sunday), per weel Daily Bee (including Sunda: Bunday Bee, per copy... Evening Bee (without 8 E"Oml:ll Bee (Including Sunday), Complaints ‘of (rreguiarities in_ dellvery nhould be addressed to City Circulation De- partment. OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Bullding. Bonth Omana_clty Hall Butlding, Twen- ty-fifth and M Streets. Council Bluffs—10 Pear] Street. Chicago—1640 Unity Buflding. New York—232% Park Row Bullding. Washington—01 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. = Communications relating to news an torial matter ahould be addressed: Omah Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. R Remit by draft, éxpress or postal order, ayable to The Bee Publishing Company, hly Bcent stampe accepted in payment of mafl accounts. Personal checks, except on aha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, se.; rge B. Tzschuck secretary af The Bee Publishing Company beng duly eworn, says the actual numoer »t full and gomplete copies of The Dally Morning Evening rinted d month of 1. ny), per week 6c por nd Sunday Bee p uring the July, 1903, was as follows: EPEERNRREBNNBEES Lesa unsold and returned coples. Net total sales.. Net average sales....... GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK, Subscribed In my preseice ana sworn to before mo this 8lst :l of July, A. D. 1903, U B HUNGATE, (Beal ‘Notary Public. e ——— PARTIES LEAVING FOR SUMMER. Parties leaving the eity for the summer may have The Bee t to them regularly by otlitying The Bee siness or by mail. will be changed We draw the line at April weather in August. To the weather man—Isn't the water pretty near squeezed out? E——— The Grand Army of 1861-65 is proba. bly making its last march across the continent. —— Perhaps General Miles will feel better in knowing that Secretary Root will follow him shortly into retirement. Sm———— Benator Tillman ought to have no dif- ficulty In getting new. railway passes, even If the finder of his lost bunch fails to return them. em————— Now If it were only a convention of candidates for sheriff instead of a con- vention of sheriffs there would be no need of postponing a session because of delayed attendance. The chief consolation about plastering the city with thirty-year bonds is that few of us are likely to be here when they mature to worry about raising the money to pay them off. There 1s not much betting on the big pugilistic mill at San Francisco.- Peo- ple find the stock exchange equally ex- citing and holding out better prospects for losing their money. E—— Colonel William R. Hearst should get the endorsement of Colonel Willlam J. Bryan before starting out to corrall en- dorsements of labor organizations for his presidential aspirations. The railroads now want to adopt uni- form freight classifications all over the country. Making the classification unl- form will, of course, be a good excuse for giving the rates another boost. St. Louis is gradually gathering in nl- most all the big conventions of national organizations for the World’s fair year, but we presume other cities will be al- lowed to compete again after 1904, The outlook for street repairs and new pavements is growing better and it is to be hoped that no further ob- structlans will be placed in the way by injunctions and counter injunctions. ap——p—— As soon as the local Bryanite organ found that the Chicago Chronicle wi sticking pins into the Folk boom for governor of Missourl it Immediately rushed in as a Folk champion. Watch the Chrenicle and see the World-Herald take the other end. — RUSSIA IN THE PACIFIC. General Miles sald fn a conversation while in this city that “Russia is cer- tain to dominate the Asintic coast’ of the Pacific, just as we dominate the American coast.” That such is the aim of Russia’s eastern policy is not to be doubted, but whether she can attain the coveted position against the powerful opposition that confronts her appears to be very questionable. A writer In one of the current magazines points out that it was in the early nineties that Rus- sian policy began to turn eastward. It was manifested in the project of bind- ing together her vast eastern and west- ern empires by a great intercontinental railway connecting Moscow with Viad- ivostock. It had been intended to take the rallway only to the Chinese frontier, but later it was determined to extend it, into Manchuria and then came the seizure of Port Arthur and the arrange- ment with China for carrying through the rallway from Moscow to the long- desired back door of Russia. “From a European power,” says this writer, “with a great army and a defensive navy, Russia became a power in the far enet, with a base for her fleet and a jumping off place for any further enter- prises. Then came the pretext offered by the Boxer troubles of tightening the Russian hold on Manchuria, nominally for the protection of its railway, and the sequel is sufficlently well known.” The writer quoted accepts the current view that Manchuria is absolutely dom- inated by Russia and that she Is only waiting for a plausible excuse to re- pudiate her pledges in regard to its mill- tary evacuation and to complete her work by the final and avowed seizure of the three provinces to the exclusion of the commerce of other powers. He evidently believes that she will be able to accomplish this, remarking that while ten years ago, as a naval power in far eastern waters, Russla was an inconsiderable factor and the British squadron had no serious rival, today no fleet, if even the British and Japan- ese squadrons in the far east combined, equals hers and he reaches the con- clusion that it is on this foundation of a great fleet that the policy of Russia rests. It is a fact that Russlan naval power in the far east has been greatly increased within the last few years and 18 now quite formidable, but it is doubt- ful if its strength equals that of the combined British and Japanese naval power in that quarter. The important matter of interest for the United States, however, relates to the effect upon this country of the dom- ination by Russia of the Asiatic coast of the Pacific. General Miles said that in the event of war growing out of the complicatiois due to Russian and other European maneuvers in China and Ja- pan, our position in the Philippines forces us to take part. This view has been expressed by others and is cer- tainly given great welght by eo distin- guished a military authority as General Miles, yet it is not to be regarded as conclusive. It is conceivable that this country might become involved in com- plications growing out of Russian pol- icy In the far east, but it is unlikely ex- cept in the most improbable event of Russia assuming a course menacing to our possessions there. It s reasonable to assume that Russia i{s as anxious to maintain friendly relations with this country as the United Btates is to be on good terms with her and that conse- quently Russia will do nothing to menace the American possessions in the far east. E——— IMITATING NEW JERSKY. Massachusetts has a new corporation law, passed by the last legislature. It will be the leading issue in this ycar's campalgn in that state. Speaking of it Congressman Thayer sald it has placed Massachusetts on a par with New Jer- sey and other states where all kinds of wildcat corporations are created. Here- after, he declared, there {s no necessity for schemers and capitalists to go to other states to get corporations made up of so-called watered stock. It can be done in Massachusetts. “Our state seal used to be worth something,” said Mr. Thayer, “when it went on to a certifi- cate of incorporation. Now it is worth practically nothing. We have robbed the seal of its value and it stands on a par with the New Jersey seal. The people of the state have been robbed of the protection heretofore held out to them. There is practically no protec- tion for the man with a few hundred dollars who desires to invest it in some Massachusetts corporation.” This arraignment gives some idea of the law, which certainly reflects no credit upon the legislature which en- acted it. It has been generally under- stood that the old corporation law of Massachusetts was an excellent one, particularly in the matter of protecting investors and safeguarding the public against wildeat corporations. Perhaps some modification of it was desirahle, but it is unfortunate that Massachusetts should have followed the example of New Jersey, however profitable in the matter of revenue her doing so may Tammany is hunting for an eligible candidate for mayor to run agalnst Mayor Seth Low. Strange to say fealty to the Kansas City platform which Boss Croker helped to inflict on the democ- racy seems to cut no figure whatever in the gqualifications exacted. emmmm———— Perhaps it will be necessary yet to open schools to give instructions how the new republican primary system works, It seems the candidates cannot get the scheme through their heads, but then the candidates are doubtless more obtuse than the common voter. ———— It is foreshadowed from Washington that the re-establishment of the army canteen is to be recommended in the re- ports of the wmilitary officers and depart- went heads. The Woman's Christian Temperance union will proceed to put on their war bonnets and get out their palat without walting for further notice, o ' prove. THE JAIL AND THE PUOR RUUSE. A few weeks ago & man who fired & revolver at another and did not kill or maim him was sentenced to a two mwonths’ term in the county jall. Shortly after he had been in jall the man with the defective alm became sick and hy the intervention of friends on the out- #ide succeeded In convincing the county physician that involuntary confinement in jail had impaired his health to an ex- tent that made serving out the sentence a serious menace to his life. With this certificate of disabllity the culprit man- aged to exchange his boarding house, adjoining the court house, for the county poor farm. After a week's stay in the poor farm he sent for one of his friends and begged him for the Lord's sake to get him back to jall. “The county jail,” sald he, “is se much cleaner and the grub so much more palatable tbhat I would rather stay a THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: month in jail than be in the poor farm twenty-four hours.” This is not a figment from the Imagi- nation, but a sketch from real life. While the certificate of the jail bird speaks highly for the salubrity and cleauliness of the county prison and county prison fare, it is a lamentable commentary on the wretched condition of the so-called county imfirmary. The question naturally suggests itself, Why should not that institution be cleaner and better kept than the county jail and why should not its inmates be better fed than the inmates of the county jall? Why should the unfortunate poor he subjected to greater discomfort than the inmates of a prison? Surely the county board has been 1fb- eral enough in its appropriations for the infirmary and no excuse can possibly be presented for fallure to keep that Insti- tution as cleanly as a private hospital, and the food given out to men and ‘women who are sheltered there at the expense of the county as good as is the food dealt out to the men and women who are kept in involuntary confine- ment for criminal conduct. NEW YORK'S CANAL QUESTION. The people of New York will vote this year upon the proposition to enlarge the state canals to 1,000-ton barge capac- ity and as the project would involve an expenditure of over $100,000,000 it is naturally the most prominent matter in public attention. There is strong op- position to it, particularly on the part of the farmers and as now indicated this element will vote almost solidly against the project. It is needless to say that the rallroad Interest is doing every- thing possible to persuade the farmers that not only would their taxes be ma- terially . increased to meet the payment for the proposed improvement, but that they would derive no benefit from fit, and arguments of this sort are very effective with a class naturally sensi- tive in regard to increased taxes, un- less there is very positive assurance of compensating returns. It is perhaps to little purpose to point out, as the New York Journal of Com- merce does, that the taxes of the farin- ers would be raised very little, if any at all, or to explain that the proposed barge canal would be very much to their advantage. As that paper says, the enlargement of the canals would not only insure cheaper transportation through the state, but would conduce to the industrial development of the In- terfor, which would be of great ma- terial advantage to the agricultural pro- ducers. The practical arguments in support of the proposed canal enlarge- ment are very strong and ought to as- sure the success of the project, but it is more than likely that the railroad in- fluence will defeat the proposition. The time will come, however, when New York will have to enlarge her canals in order to hold her commerce and that time will be in the not very remote future. E———— Warren Sanford Stone, for many years a locomotive engineer on the Rock Island system, has been, appointed grand chief of the Brotherhood of TLo- comotive Engineers. If the new grand chief is as thrifty and forehanded as his predecessor he will soon be rolling In clover or alfalfa and become a soclal lion among the nabobs of Cleveland like the late Chief Arthur, who acquired a palatial mansion on Euclid avenue valued at over §50,000 and accumulated more than $100,000 of gilt-edged securi- ties before he passed away. Apparently the position of grand chief of the Broth- erhood has for a number of years been a more lucrative job than the presi- dency of the Union Pacific. es———— There can be no serious objection to the invitation extended by the council to all whom it may concern to submit proposals for street lighting, but it is n serlous question whether the council would be justified in entering into a ten-year contract with the electric light- ing company before it has submitted to the people of Omaha an ordinance pro- viding for a municipal electric lighting plant. When the people after full dis- cussion reach the conclusion that mu- nicipal ownership is not desirable and put their conclusions on record through the ballot box, the council will be at liberty to make the best long time con- tract that it can negotiate. The demand of the postal clerks’ con- vention at Kansas City for better built mail cars, constructed to afford reason- able protection to their occupants in the event of wreck or collision, is a reason- able demand. The rallway mail clerks are exposed to special risk all the time they are on duty and it is owed to them to reduce the hazards as much as pos- #ible. The * government could easily force the rallroads to provide better postal facilities by imposing conditions in the mall carrying contracts, erm— Great Britaln is figuring on restrictive immigration legislation along simtlar Uues to our American immigratipn laws with a view to keeping out undesirable aliens. Great Erltain has heen second only to the United States in extending free welcome fo immigrants from abroad and has only attracted fewer immigrants because it has less to offer in the way of undeveloped resources. The best im- migration from Europe, howevel, will continue to head for America. ——— With a trifle over $269,000 in the city depositories the financial condition of Omeaha is not as distressing as it las been represented in certain quarters. While some funds appear to be ex- hausted, there is still enough lubri cating material left to keep the wheels of government in motion for a few months longer. —————— The petition for the suppression of disorderly resorts and tenements in the immediate neighborhood of the mnew market house before that structure is opened for traffic is timely and the THURSDAY, prayer of the petitioners should by all means be granted by the police board without delay. S ———— A Change of Tu sxested. New York Tribune, Colonel Willlam J. Bryan has been ap- pointed one \f Nebraska's sixty-two dele- gates to the Natjonal Farmers' congress to be held next month at Niagara Falls. Here's hoping we shall hear more of blooded heifers than of “bunco steerers” at that gatherin Strong Timely Words, Minneapolis Times. President Roosevelt's somewhat lengthy expression of his views on the subject of mobocracy 18 well-timed, and in this case he 1s the volce of the best of the American people. But it will take something even more vigorous than strong words to stem this turbulent current that threatens the majesty of the law and the peace of the country. Ameriean Mac Indlanapolis News. 1t by selling millions worth of machinery to Russian millers we enable them to in- crease their output so that we shall com- pletely lose our flour trade with that coun- try, it does not look as if the transaction was going to result in the greatest good to the greatest number of Americans. But if we can make Russia’s milling machinery we will gain In that direction. A “Loyalist” Warning to Choate. Springfleld Republican. « The alarmed “loyalls of Ontarfo may quiet themselves in the matter of the statue to George Washington in & London cathe- dral. The suggestion, it is explained, came from Embassador Choate in one of his after-dinner speeches—and Choate is a devil of a joker, you know. A word of warn- ing. however, to Mr. Choate may be In order. He must look out that his humor does not shake the foiindations of the Brit- ish empire. Rich Field for rm. San Francisco Call. What a wonderfully rich field the officers of the federal government have opened to themselves In their decision to cut down useless expenses of governmental opera~ tions In the Philippines. If the plan to prune expenditures be carried out hon- estly and thoroughly the cost of owning our insular possessions will be so small that we may learn even to forget that we have them at all on the revised map of the United States. American Notions in Cuba. Philadelphla Record. The Cuban land owners who have raised the price of thelr acres lying in the zones to be leased to the United States for the establishment of nayval stations cannot be accused of hostility to this country. The greed of money manifests itself right here at home when a site Is desired for any federal, state or local institution. By, the argument applied to the Cubans, the Amer- ican owners of land wanted for public pur- poses would be enemies of the Union or thelr city or state, “For on the K } O Loulsville Courfer-Journal. The country s laughing at Senator Till- man of South Carolina on account of the loss of a batch of railroad passes, it being thought strange that he would accept such favors from corporations of which he is known as the relentless foe. He excuses himself by saying that it Is the custom for all public men to accept passes, ‘‘and most of us are slaves to custom.” How- ever, there are seyeral very laudable cus- toms to which Sehator Tillman has never given in his adhesion. P — Injurious Shortage of O Buffalo Express. Shortage of cars in the Pittsbus is responsible for, the fdleness of about 12,000 miners. The car conditions are sald to be worse than at any time last year, and it is predicted that by next month the shortage will be so severe that the consequent freight congestion cannot be relleved for months. That is an alarming prospect, with the winter and {ts storms approaching. Apparently it s impossibie for the raflroad companies to bulld or buy enough cars for the traffic. PERNICIOUS DRUG HABIT, Destructive Effects of Various Brands ot “Dope.” Minneapolis Times. ‘We trequently pridle ourselves on the fact that drunkenness is decreasing among us— that the use of alcoholic liquors, malted and spirituous s, perhaps, more widely dif- fused but is less extreme in Individual cases, generally speaking. But it would seem that it {s only a case of one evil superseding another. The new peril is the Indulgence of the use of sedatives, which is certainly on the in- crease. We speak of taking a little bromide or phenacetine for the rellef of a fit of nerves or a headache with a glibness which is the result of familiar association. We are apparently utterly unconscious of the truth that we are in constant danger of gliding innocently into the drug habit. We live continually at concert pitch, to step back or even to step more slowly than the man who walks beside is to fall hopelessly behind In the modern race for first place, so nerves, mind and body are kept constantly on the rack. The response of the organism becomes after a time s weak that it must needs be stimulated by artificlal means and this is the condition where the taking of sedatives is most pernicious. In the years which have elapsed between, wo will say, 1860 and 18%, deaths from cancer and nervous diseases show the most rapid rate of increase, and the latter phase of affairs presupposes the increased use of darugs. Thero is much to be sald in regard to the use of drugs, on the question of heredity. Medical authorities tell us also that neurotic persons are apt to become victims of the drug habit, but in the main the causes for beginning of the use of sedatives are small things; mental d pression or, acute pain which may be of a very temporary character. The mental de- pression is often caused merely by indi- gestion, Sydney Smith says “Old friend- ships are destroyed by toasted cheese, and hard salted meat has led to sulcide. Un- pleasant feelings in the body produce cor- responding sensations in the mind, and a great scene of wretchedness is sketched by a morsel of undigested or misguided tood.” Instead of taking healthy physical exer- cise to correct the pessimism which s th result of an overtaxed stomach or nervous system, the sufferer tries to ameliorate his condition by recourse to alcohol or quieting drugs, and whatever the motive In taking these things may be, the ultimate result is fatal to the system. The habit once formed, the doses must be constantly Increased: the effect s so de- bilitating on the body that unless under the immediate influence of the drug, it is open and walting for the attack of any acute disease. The moral effect is even worse. Rollubliity of character is swept away. The unfortunate “flend” loses all idea of moral right or of truth. Spoken or written words cannot be believed for a moment, the solemn oath is broken as soon as uttered. The most divine prerogative of humanity, the will, is of no more use than & broken reed. AUGUST 18, PERSONAL 1908. NoTES. General Clay bequeathed a fine estate to his young and eccentric wife. For once she will not go against her husband's will It he wants to overtake the procession Pope Plus X will have to devote the next fow years to having his photograph taken. Marrying & man to reform him is gener- ally a dangerous venture, but Queen Wil- helmina's husband seems to have been so far amenable to discipline that he will now stand without hitching. During thelr Irish visit King Edward and Queen Alexandra of England carried with them trunks and other luggage welghing in all some 200 tons. Among these were two large chests of gold plate. Following the Boston & Maine's orders to brakemen that they shall not assist women from the cars comes a rule issued by a western road that its trainmen must not flirt with girls along the route. Jerry Simpson, the sockless sage of Medi- cine Lodge, Kan,, did not attend the popu- list convention at Denver the other day. Jerry 18 a cattle baron, and does not care what becomes of the “plain peepul.”” Dr. Albert Lefevre, who has been ap- pointed to succeed the late Dr. Edward E. Sheib in the.chair of phflosophy in Tulane university, is a young man, not yet 30 year of age. He has, however, made a reputa- tion as a teacher, thinker and writer. Frederic Charles Digby-Roberts, mayor of Abllene, Tex., has just worked out his genealogical treo back to 1016 on the pater- nal side and fifty years more on the ma- ternal side. He is a direct descendant from ‘Willlam the Conqueror and came from Eng- land twenty years ago. Booker Washington tells this story of a negro: He was employed to work in a cot- ton field, and worked well ror a time, then he raised his hand and turned his face toward heaven and saidy <=Oh, Lawd, de cotton am so dry and de sun am so hot, an' de flesh am so weary dat dis niggah teels he's done got a call to preach.” Eugene Ware, poet, lawyer and United States commissioner of pensions, has gone to Colorado to join his famtly in a six- weeks vacation. The commissioner declares that he has taken the cure for the news- paper habit, from which he suffered se- verely before assuming his present position. “I am now bound,” he sald while passing through Kansas City, “for a pleve where 1 shall be absolutely isolated from telegraph and telephone for six blewsea weeks, and during that time the man who says ‘news- paper’ to me will take grave chances.” FINM BASIS OF PROSPERITY, Exposition of the Internal Commerce of the Country. Philadelphia Public Ledger. Notwithstanding the remarkable shrinkage of speculative values in the stock market and the prevhlence of strikes in certain industries, the government exhibit of the internal commerce of the country for the first half of the current year gives the assuring information that the prosperity of last year has been well muintained thus far in 1%3. There has been a gain in the shipment of western staple commodities. On the Great lakes the traffic has exceeded that of the corresponding period in 191 and 1%2. River and canal trafic has increased, and the shortage of cars at certain points may be regarded as one of the unfalling signs of active Internal trade. The encouraging officlal staflstics are confirmed by reports of commercial agencies, just published, for the month of July. Bradstreet's predicts u highly promis- ing future, “despite some mainly senti- mental drawbacks,” evidently referring to the collapse of various financlal bubbles, whose passing has not serlously affected substantial interests. This report notes that while the east feels the effect of “speculative liquidation,” of strikes and of the high price of raw materlals, the west and south are waiting good crop yields with “confidence and even optimism.” Food products show a tendency toward lower prices; a lower level of fooa prices favor- ably affects the standard of living, and 1s a boon to the wage earner. With respect to rallway earnings, one of the accepted indicla of prosperity, Bradstreet's an- nounces that the figures for July show a gain of 14 per cent over those of July a year ago, the best ever reported for that month. Despite the disturbed condition of Wall street, it is worth noting that the business failures of the country for the week ending August 6 were 161, as compared with 190 for the previous week, 169 in the ke week of 1902 and 18 in 1901 Dun & Co.’'s Weekly Review of Trade is not less optimistic. Its advices from all sections reveal as favorable conditions as those existing a year ago, and an increase in transactions is reported in many lines. Manufacturing plants are well employed, with the exception of cotton mills, and “the distribution of merchandise Is so heavy that rallway equipment already proves inadequate, although crops are not the factor they will be in a few weeks." All the available sources of information, official and otherwise, abundantly justify hopeful views of the business situation. There is apparently no pause in the general prosperity. —_— SIGNIFICANT FACTS, Supreme Court's Probable Attitude in the Northern Securities Cawe. New York Evening Post. Although Judge Lochren’s decision against Minnesota, in the Northern’ Securities case, has not been regarded as has greatly interested lawyers, because of the totally opposite conclusions reached Ly judges reasoning from the same facts and premises. The circult court of ap- committed no act restraining trade, it must be presumed that it intended 8o to do, be- cause that was the natural consequence of the merger. Judge Lochren, trary, holds that no such Intent can be presumed until indicated by some action of the company. Judge Lochren and Judge Thayer both stand high in the federal judiclary; which view of the case, then, ought the supreme court to take? In the transmissour! decision of March 22, 1897, It took pretty rfiearly the view advanced In last April's 8t. Louls decision of the circuit court. It reversed the decisions of the federal court of appeals and of the circuit court, both of which had decided that the Tranmissourl raflway freight agreement was not illegal ‘What 18 still more striking, is the fact that the transmissourl decision was re- dered by a vote of five to four on the su- preme bench. This raises the Interesting question, whether this close majority might not be reversed, especially since two mem- bers of the court of 1887 are now dead. The five votes against the rallways, in the transmissouri decision, were those of Jus- tices Fuller, Peckham, Harlan, Brewer, and Brown. These five are all now on the bench. These four votes of 187 In favor of the rallway were those of Justices Field, Gray, Bhiras and White. But Justices Fleld and Gray are no longer with the court bearing on the main result, nevertheless it | peals, sitting at St. Louls last April, decided | that, although the Northern Securities had | on the con- | In other words, the majority which con- strued the Sherman act, in 1897, on Mnes similar to the circuit court's construction of last April, is still intact. Whether Jus- tices Holmes and McKenna, the new mem- bers of the court, would or would not follow Justices Field and Gray In sustaining the rallway’s contention, may be doubtful. But even If they did, they would not make a majority, unless one of the five judges, who assented to the decision of 1897, were to change his general attitude. L. » SHOE POLISH olutely black polleh is gioen by SHINOLA The Modern Paste Shoe Polish. Not & purple, yellow, blue or red shade in it. A deep, Intense, brilliant black color results from its use on Mes It is absolutely wa 3 Women's and Children’ contains neither acid nor alkali $h preservative of leather, and prevents eracking. SHINOLA is easily applied with the Shinola Dauber and Polisher ; shines instantly, and one shine lasts a week. Buy a large box today, At mail i¢ for the price. Get it ¢ our dealers, roe. If h T s et ooty o, we e y SHINOLA Co., Sole Mamufacturers, RocHESTER, N. Y, T e ) ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK. Ripples on the Current of Life in the Metropolis. Tragedles such as occurred in the subway of Paris the other day have evidently been foreseen by the managers of the New York subway and of the Pennsylvania tunnel. Defectlve wiring set fire to the wooden cars In the Parls subway and the confined smoke suffocated many passengers. To avert simi- lar tragedies in New York's underground highways steel cars will be used exclusively. The Pennsylvania company has adopted de- signs for steel cars for its tunnel and five cars of that material, bullt for the subway, have been recelved from the factory. The framework of the cars Is all steel plate, and everything possible in the way of safety ap- pliances are provided. It {s now estimated that trains will be running in the subway by March 1, 1904, The largest blown glass bottle In the United States, or in!the world, so far as the makers know, is on exhibition in a win- dow In Barclay street, just above Green- wich. It holds sixty-five gallons and is shaped something 1ike a baby’s nursing bot- tle—narrow at the bottom, bulging at the middle, with a small neck and mouth. The bottle s a trifle less than five feet high, and fs about four feet in circumference at its widest part. The man who blew it at the factory in New Jersey Is just about as tall as the bottle. If he could manage to squeeze through the neck, he could sleep very com- fortably inside of it. If the surface area of the glass blown Into the bottle were spun silk, it would make a gown for a moder- ately large and stout woman. Although blowing by guesswork, tempered with long experience, the man exceeded by only half an ounce his instructions as to the size of the bottle—sixty-five gallons. New York husbands, almost as a unit, have taken during the last two years to sending thelr wives and familles out of town, to the multitudinous resorts, for the summer, and remaining at home them- selves. Never before has New York been the abode of 8o many voluntary grass wid- owers as It has been during the present summer. The town is cluttered with ‘em. They're everywhere—on the roof gardens, at the ‘nearby beaches and race tracks, swinging along the circuitous paths of Coney's Isle, swamping the city and park restaurants, overflowing the lounging rooms and verandas of the road houses, even patroling the great white lane called Broadway. The voluntary grass widower of New York is so easily distinguished, too, despite his elaborate efforts to make him- self appear like one of the great unfettered and untrammeled! If you possess so much as one-half an eye, you can see that his newly resumed jauntiness, as of the mad, glad, sad, bad bachelor, is the veriest clumsy bluff, that his rogueishness of manner is just a “phony” of the real thing, that his occasionally unnatural hilarity is a thing put on out of & spirit of recklessness born of the knowledge thay it can only last a little while longer, and that the vein had better be worked to the end of the tension before—well, before “the folks” come hom The fllustrations in the funny papers o the summer widower vainly batting aroun endeavoring to make himself imagine he is having a hot time in the absence of his wife have a good deal more truth in them than most of the alleged comic pictures of the day possess. Every kind of craft avallable in the New York harbor is being put in shape for the international cup race, and probably 30,000 people will witness the great contest from the water. If all those whom Sir Thomas Lipton has invited to attend as his guests accept. the Englishman's invitation he will be obliged to put three more boats like the Erin into commission. Besides the big New York fleet there will be the usual in- flux of boats from neighboring waters, and altogether the audience of the cup race will be quite as Interesting a spectacle as the race itself. One of the bright clerks in the office of & firm of bankers and brokers in Wall street, which is known the country over, transacted a business matter In a way which highly delighted one of the mem- | bers of the firm. “Get the finest over- coat in town," sald the broker gleefully, ! “and send the bill to us.” In a few days the clerk appeared in a beautiful fur-| lMned coat. “Fine coat—fine,” remarked | the broker as he contemplated first the | gayment and then a bill for $1,30. “Why | aian't you have ofl paintings on the bul»i tons?'" Some practical joker Inserted an adver- tisement In all of the New York newsp pers to the effect that a certaln famous theatrical manager, an employer of many chorus women, desired 500 red-hatred girls for some productions that he was making The red-haired women were Instructed in the advertisement to report at the man- ager's Forty-second street office at 10 o'clock in the morning. They reported all right. They were of all ages from six- teen to sixty, and not a few of them whose hair was not of a distinct red shade had gone to the trouble of having it dyed to hues ke unto the afterglow of the set- tng sun, the better to increase their chances of becoming gay show girls. They fought and stormed their way into the! manager's offices, and the cordon of cops summoned to handle them was all but useless to dlsperse them fér hours, so de- termined were they to get a chance to ex- hibit their crimson tops right in the pres- ence of audlences. The one pleasing fea- ture in connection with this incident was that the angry manager whose name had been thus misemployed found the funny Jokelst who had perpatrated the little plece of bumor and pounded him to & pulp before his wrath was eatisfied. e Alaska Company is Incorporate TRENTON, N. J., Aug. 12—The Pacific- Alaskan Transportation, capital $3,000,000, was incorporated here today. The com: any will do a general mining business ncorparators: Louis 8. Hosmer _and David M. Barnes of New York uls B. Daly of Jersey City. NATIONAL IRRIGATION BEGUN. Important Public Work Inaugurated by the Government. Philadelphia Bulletin. Down In Arizona, adjoining reglons which are now an arid waste, the federal engi- neers have begun the construction of the first storage reservoir to be erected under the irrigation law passed by the last con- gress. The Initiation of this work has attracted comparatively little attention. Yet the pol- fey upon which the nation has entered in this respect is one which ought to exercise a decisive Influence upon its history. Well planned and honestly executed, the irrfga- tion system will reclaim tens of thousands of square miles of desert lands, enable a multitude of citizens to secure homesteads and add enormously to the productive ‘wealth of this republic. The chief perils in its path are two. First, there is the danger that the wealthy cattle companies and other corporations will take advantage of loopholes in the present statutes to secure possessions in advance of the tracts to be irrigated, thus barring out actual settlers from thelr rights. This {s a contingency which con- gress ought to meet promptly and effectu- - ally. The second perll {s that of wholesale Jobbery. Government contracts involving many millions present a tempting mark for practitioners of ‘“rake-offs” and other frauds—as the recent postoffics disclosures have once more demonstrated. It is the duty of the government to maintain a keen lookout for all rascality of this sort. National Irrigation is pecullarly identified with the Roosevelt administration. The president cannot afford to allow its prose- cution to become infected with gross dis- honesty or impeded by willful extravagance. | AID IN FUN. Bhe (romantic)—~When you first saw t wonderful Niagara Falls, didn't you reheol aa thoy oh yxauhwgul:l like to jump n? 8 adn’ ; . gotten “my - hotel bill “Ef some ounf men, o1 * gatd 2 “was as industr Ll R us addin’ up figgers columns as dey is gettin' ‘em in Fows t:: pollcy slips, reckons dey’'d be savin' money. ‘ashington Star, The man who hesitates Is_lost, unless the proverb has it wrong, but there is a great difference between hesitating and pausing to think the matter over—Somer- ville Journal. ““What would be the fl do it you had Rockefel “Wake up, probably." “What did the a 4 e eronaut say when you in. “He told me he needed a wind before he could soar.” iWhat dif you seye sa/ d ve m a puff.". Plain’ Dealer. © B ereand Bacon—We've formed a life-saving corps in_our town. Egbert—What are you talking about! There isn't any water within ten miles of your town! “I know it, but there are lots of auto- mobiles coming out that way."—Yonkers Statesman. When the prince proposed a morganstio marriage the lovely American shook her ead. “Papa would never consent, sald she. ‘He and Mr. Morgan are on such bad terms!"'—Detroit Free Press. Mary, Queen of Scots, listened to the death warrant unmoved. “It is evident,"” she said, lightly, “that tomorrow the house of Stuart will be the principal one on the block." ‘Thus with rare perception she seized the advantages of the situation.—New York Sun. “How affectionate you are!” he ex- claimed, as his wife gave him a kiss en- tirely unsolici “Yes, 1 just want to prove to you that you're' wrong when you say I never kiss You except when I want a new gown,” “Then you don't really want a new sown “No; it's merely a dlamond necklace thix time.”'—Philadelphla Ledge: SEVEN AGES OF GRAFT, Chicago Tribune. All the world is graft, ‘And all the men and women merely graft. ers. They have their sure things and thels bunco games, And one man in bis time works many grafts, His .l.hf.”' being seven ages. At first the nfant Conning his dad until he walks the floor; And then the whining school boy, poring o'er his book, Jollying his teacher into marking him A goodly grade. And then the lover, Making each malden think that she s but the only one. And then the soldler, Full of strange words and bearded like & pard, Secking the bubble reputation, Even in the magazines. And then the ustice, Handing out the bull con to the bench | And jollying the jury till it thinks The sixth aj ry pantaloon, s I8 o graft! He knows it all With s | For he is then the Old Inhabitant And all must hear him talk, Last scene of all, That ends this strange, eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, pull, sans cinch, San graft, sans everything. sang Avyer: Hair Vigor Probably you know how it always re- stores color to gray hair, stops falling, and makes the hair grow. Then tell your friends. PAT )