Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 31, 1903, Page 4

| THE OMAHA DAlry BEE B. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, Daily Bee (without Bunday), One Year..$4.00 Daily Bee and Sunday, One Year 6.00 Tllustrated Bee, One Year Bunday Bee, One Year Baturday Bee, One Year Twentieth Century Farmer, One Year.. 1.00 DELIVERED BY CARRIER Daily Bee (without Sunday), per copy Daily without Sunday), per week....12 Daily Hee (Including Sunday), per week..1jc Bunday Bee, per copy § Evening Bee (without Sunday), Evening Bee (ncluding Bunday), Complaints of irregularities in delivery should be addressed to City Circulation De- partment. 2% 2 @ bc per week 6 per OF 5 Omaha—The Bee Building. Bouth OmahacCity Hall Buflding, Twen- ty-fifth and M Btreets. Council Blufts-10 Pearl Street. Ch 01640 Unity Bullding. ork—228 Park Row Building. 51 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to n torial matter should be addres Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, ayable to The Bee Publishing Company nly 2-cent stamps accepted in payment of malil accounts. Parsonal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMBNT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglds County, ss.: George B. Tzschick, secretary of The Beo Publisning Company, being duly sworn, ays that the actual number of full and complete* ‘coples of The Daily Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during thé month of July, 1903, was as follows: n s and ed- ed: Omaha 30,350 BENEEEEBREEE 29,720 30,010 ex 933,315 9,648 Net total sales, 923,067 Net average sal 20,705 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed in my presence and sworn to before me this 3lst aay of July, A. D. M. B. HUNGATE, (Seal) Notary Public, ——— e PARTINS LEAVING FOR SUMMER, Parties leaving the eity for the summer may have The Bee weut them regularly by, notity L Bee Business flice, in persom or by mail, The address will be changed often as desired. —_— The Turkish minister to Washington talks as if he were scared. to When Ak-Sar-Ben hits the road with his show he is sure to make a hit. .Delegates to ‘the irrigation congress at Ogden are figuring on a special train. ‘Why not charter a flitboat? It looks as if the threatened extra ses- slon had decided not to interfere with the congressmen's vacations. . The office of police commissioner and the position of trustee of a drug store do not seem to hitch Well together. " The mdnagers of the Nebraska sfaté fair, billed for the coming week, should put in their order early wltli‘ the weather man. The first delegate to the republican national convention of 1904 has already been commissioned by a Pennsylvania district and instructed for President Roosevelt. But not the last. ———— General Greeley has returned from the wireless telegraphy congress at Berlin to make his report to the government. One would suppose he would have sent in his report by the wireless route. The World-Herald admits the charge that its professions of nonpartisanship are for partisan purposes. Its only an- swer is that The Bee does not pretend to be boosting partisan nonpartisanship. Omaha with its network of railroads radiating in all directions has the best of it when traflic is impeded by storms. It 1s a rare occurrence that all of the roads are knocked out at the same time. Colonel Bryan must believe firmly in the resurrection idea. He is quoted as saying to a reporter at Waterloo, Ia., that “my issues are dead at the present time, but I believe they will come to life again.” This is faith. e President Nash of the Omaha Electric Lighting company says he will open the debate on the question of street lighting after his company has made its formal proposition to the council. The discus- sion will then become general. —_— Missourl’s attorney general must be getting envious of the reputations achieved by the boodle prosecutors and proposes to catch up by going after the bridge and termiral monopolles in St Louis. Let the g work go on. The award of the normal school loca- tion is to be made this week. As there are fifteen Nebraska towns in the run- ning and only one normal school to be established, the rate of joy to disap- pointment can be easily figured out. An eminent German physiologist classes “the apestles of female emanci- pation” among the degenerates. The eminent sclentist will do well to stay away from our suffrage conventions if he wants to escape & halrpulling match, —_— To a man up a tree it looks as if the rights of the poor soldier's widow were not half so much Involved in the appeal for a reversal of the recent Interior de- partment ruling as the rights of the big cattle corporations who undertook to subsidize a battalion of women to take up land for them which they had fenced in fllegally and to which they could get no legal title except by cir- cumventing the homestead law in some such manuer as this { THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY AUGUST 31, 1903 THE FOOD EXCLUSION LAW. The law providing for the exclusion from the United States of food products and lquors containing adulterants in Jurious to health, which went into oper- atlon two months ago, is stated to be now working smoothly. Under the sy adopted samples of articles im- 1150 | ported are promptly furnished by the Treasury department to the Department of Agriculture for inspection and the examination is expedited as rapldly as possible, the officials very properly re- cognizing the fmportance of this to im- porte It is stated that the average detention of goods at New York has not been more than three days, but it has been a little longer at other ports. As soon as a sample has been tested and it 1s found that the consignment represented by it is not liable to ex- clusion the secretary of the treasury is notified and Instructions are immediately given to the customs officials to admit the goods. There had been some fear that the holding up of consignments under this law would produce a con- gestion at the appraisers’ stores in New York, but the business has been handled so promptly thus far that nothing of the kind has occurred. It is stated that the law has worked out in ‘practice just about as was’ pre- dicted by the chief of the bureau of chemistry. It was hig opinion that for- eign manufacturers of goods that would be liable to exclusion either on the ground of adulteration or of false label- ing would so changé their methodd that their goods would not be liable to.ex- cluglon. He predicted that no goods adulterated so ns to be injurious to health and none the sale of which is prohibited or restricted in the country of its origin would be shipped to the United States, and that articles which had been falsely labeled would hence- forth be labeled so as to show exactly what they are. This, it is said, is just what is being found to be the case. For- eign shippers, of course, do not want to run the risk of having their goods excluded and of having to pay the freight for their return across the ocean and therefore they are taking good care that nothing is sent to the United States that will be returned. Thus already re- sults are such as to fully jus- tify the enactment of the law and it appears safe to pre- dict that it will stand permanently. We have not observed that any objection has been made to it on the part of im- porters, nor does it appear that under its operation there has been any reduc- tion in importations. Perhaps it may be found expedient to in some respects ‘modify the law, but there seems to be no reason to doubt that in Its chief ob- Ject it is judicious legislation, which if properly enforced, as is now being done, cannot fail to have beneficlal results, b ——— A PHILIPPING PROBLEM. The Manila Review of Trade, a pub- lication devoted to the business ‘inter- ests of the Philippines, gives extended attention in its July number to the opium problem, which has been receiv- ing the very earnest consideration of the Philippine commission, "f'wo measures frelating to the oplum tiade were dis- cussed by that body. One of these pro- vides for the creation of a monopoly to be sold to the highest bidder and the other prohibits the importation of the drug save by pharmacists, who would be allowed to sell it only on a physician's prescription. The Manila paper prints the argument of Governor Taft in ad- vocacy of legislation that will restrict the use of opium in the islands, which it appears, has very considerably in- creased since the American occupation. Under the law of Spain the Filipinos were forbidden to smoke or use opium and all dealers in the drug were forbid- den to sell it to Filipinos. The opium trade was confined to the Chinese. Of course the Spanish law ceased to be of force when the United States took pos- session of the islands and now the use of oplum has become general, necessarily with demoralizing effect upon the peo- ple. In order to have all the ascertalnable facts before taking action, the Philip- plne commission last month appointed a special commission to investigate the subject in China, Japan, Singapore and Burmah. A report from this commis- slon should not be long delayed, since it cannot be difficult to obtain the in- formation desired. That there Is oc- caslon for some sort of restrietive legls- | lation is most evident. The steady growth of the use of opium by the Fili- pinos is a really serious matter, for they are less able to withstand the effects of the drug than are the Chinese and un- less there is a check put upon the use of opium the natives at no very distant time will become a mass of oplum sots. The difficulty of the situation is only too evident. It is not practicable to re- store the Spanish law, though one of the measures discussed by the commis- slon proposes to do this in part and this measure has the approval of Gov- ernor Taft. It does mot propose prohi- bition, which the governor general re- gards as inexpedient, but a license sys- tem with such restriction and regulation as it is belleved would prevent excess in the use of opium and materially re- duce the ‘sale of the drug. It is im- probable that the use of opium by Fili- plnos is anything new. It has doubtless been in use more or less ever since the Chinese came to the islands. This is shown in the fact that Spain legislated agalnst its ugesby the natives. It is a habit which spreads rapidly when no effort 1s made to check it and a proper consideration for the welfare of the Fili- pinos requires that something be done to stop the growing use of the drug. If the collapse of two tumble-down bulldings in this city had been due to an explosion of oils or fireworks, which would have had the same effect as the weakening of the walls, the fallure of the city to provide proper inspection of explosives stored within its boundaries would call forth u demonstration of popular resentment. Yet it is plain that similar accidents are Iltkely to happen with still more fatal consequences at any time. The enactment of the ordi- nance regulating the storage of oils and explosives in the city and providing for its enforcement is overdue. AN UVERPAINTED PICTURE. To the discussion of the effect of changing Industrial conditions on the count merchant and small shop keeper the following contribution has recently been made by A. B. Hedbloom, a well known young lawyer of Stromsburg in Polk county of this state: The future of the ordinary merchant in the country towns is very discouraging, as the mall order business is constantly in- creasing, while they are on the decrease, and our citizens are bullding up the large centers. The mercantile interests largely make the conditions of the town, and conditions of the town generally regulate the value of the real estate. Land sells near this town from $70 to $100 per acre, while sev- eral miles out it sells for $:0 to $6) per acre, and yet this has no materlal consid- eration for those who are looking for im- mediate bargains in merchandise. And two. ef the prominent -features in aiding the mail order houses are the free mall delivery and the rural telephone. We predict in a few years' time that all the business the small merchant will get )8 what coffee and sugar he can trade for stale butter and rotten eggs, as the large commission houses will get the good eggs and the creameties the cream. He may possibly sell a little to some on “after harv terms when he has not the money to buy the money order from the rural mall clerk. If this gloomy picture were not over- drawn the prospect for the small trades- man outside or inside of the big cities would Indeed be discouraging. But it is by no means so bad as the dismal prophet would have us believe, because despite all the forces of concentration and consolidation the country store and the corner grocery have managed to survive, and they survive because they fill a want that cannot be satisfied else- where. The free mail delivery and the rural telephone have not operated alone to the benefit of the big mail order houses, but the merchants near at hand have also shared in their benefits. The free mail delivery and the rural telephone have not worked merely to divert traffic, but they have created and stimulated new demands never before in evidence. The isolated farmer who had to go to town over many miles of bad roads every time he wanted something from a stere was likely to go altogether with- out many things he would be glad to buy for his use. On the other side, these conveniences unquestionably con- duce to the comfort of farm life and will eventually serve to increase the rural population always dependent more or less on country stores for arti- cles of consumption. In the cities large and small the same fight for survival is constantly on be- tween the big and the little stores. In each case the outcome seems to depend chiefly upon the abllity of the merchant and the kind of service he renders to his patrons. Big stores have gone to the wall and little shops have forged ahead and little fellows have been squeezed out by the growth of the big ones. But the small store keeper has not yet been doomed either in country or in city. The Lincoln Independent which epeaks as the officlal organ of the populists in Nebraska, takes a gloomy view of the results of the Grand Island convention. Referring to the repudiation of the Den- ver conference, it says: The effect of this action upon the pop- ullsts of other states will be depressing. In many states they some years ago aban- doned thelr organizations and eutered the democratic party; but as soon as the peo- ple's party ‘was swallowed up and assim- flated, the plutocratic element in democracy again asserted itself and is in open or secret control. Especlaily is this true in Iowa, where such men as J. B. Weaver, ‘W. H. Robb and others allowed their party to die. In Nebraska alone did the popu- lists persistently keep up their party or- ganization—and just as that organization was strong or weak, the battles were won or lost. If ft should happen that this Is the last popullst state convention in Ne- braska—which is by no means beyond the realm of possibility—no well-informed dem- ocrat in Nebraska would need to gues: twice as to which of the remaining two parties would win the victories. If any other paper should be first to suggest that the last popullst state con- vention in Nebraska had been held, what an outery of protest it would evoke from the populist organs. Judge Suilivan bespoke at the bus convention fair treatment competitor for supreme judge, assurance that he had found Barnes to be an able and honorable lawyer. But no one supposes that this will deter the overzealous fusion organs from Indulging their customar paign of mudslinging and blacl ing. Colum- of his glving Judge cam- wash- Effect of Good Credit, St. Louts Globe-Democrat. Philippine bonds now command a pre- mium in the world's money market. Un- der Spanish dominion they could not have been floated as waste paper. A Warning Worth Heeding, Kansas City Star. At the end of twenfy-six hours a Chic: “professor” who undertook, on a wager, to play a saloon plano for that length of time without cessation, collapsed completely and had to be carrled from the place. It is pleasant to discover that the power to in- fiict torture on others is sometimes retro- active. Now Will You Be Goed! St. Paul Ploneer-Pre We are repeatedly assured by eastern journals that the west shall have money to move its crops. Small thanks to the east! The money which will come west for crop moving is that of western men, temporarily loaned to “help out” the ever- needy east. The gbligation of the west in the case Is that of the depositor to the bank which honors his checks—a thing it must do or "bust.” Tragedy of a Strike. Springfield Republican. Another tragedy growing out of the Phil delphia strike of textile workers is re- ported—the attempt of a mother to kill her- self and four children, which succeeded in the case of two children. The head of the tamily was oo strike and out of money, I and there was no food to be had, while shelter was about to be taken away. This will be written down by the Jabor movi ment as one of the necessary sacrifices for the triumph of the cause. But fs there no better way of forwarding it? The Ghost of Popullsm. Portland Oregonlan The ghost of popullem was evoked from the shades at the Grand Island convention yesterday by the members proclaiming al- leglance to the populist principles enuncl ated in the Omaha platform of 1882 This attempt to turn backward the flight of time and ignore the verdict of the years would be pitiful were it not so utterly absurd. A platform upon which thousands distract- edly climbed when the Industrial and finan- clal seas were sorely beset by adverse winds will be tenantless, relatively speaking, it idly rides the sea of prosperity. Perplexities of Wealth, New York Press. Tt is recorded of Cornellus Vanderbilt that before he died he‘sald to a friend: “I don't see what good it does me—all this money that you say is mine, I can't eat it, I can't spend it—in fact, I never saw it, and never had it in my hands for a moment. 1 dress no better than my private secretary and cannot eat as much as my coachman. I live in a big servants' board- ing house, am bothered to death by beg- gars, have dyspepsia, cannot drink cham- pagne, and most of my money is in the hands of others, who use it mainly for thelr own benefit.” — Sad Mixup of Vibrations, Minneapolis Journal. Wireless telegraphy got quite a backset 8 a result of the effort to use it in report- ing the yacht race Tuesday. Four wireless systems threw so many vibrations Into the ether that they killed each other off, and only one wireless message got through dur- Ing the day. The fact that three of the systems were more concerned in baffing the Marconi than in transmitting bulletins themeelves, does not affect the demonstra- tlon that wireless telegraphy can be easily impeded. At this stage of the introduction of wireless telegraphy It seems that it is likely to supplement rather than supersede wire telegraphy. BLUNDERS ABOUT IMMIGRATION. History Refutes the Assertions of Frightened Nativie New York Independent. Again, as in prosperous times, there is a larger flow of immigration to this coun- try, and agaln, as many times before, there arises a frightened cry that our in- stitutions are In danger. We heard it fifty years ago, when it created a party whose pretext it was to put none but Argerfcans on guard—in -the offices—but whbse real service It was {o destroy the Whig party. Then every village had its secret lodge, and election day offéred a great surprise, when whole states elected governors and legislatures of a new party that had no name and no continuance, One of the blunders of our present *'know- nothings" is that the newcomers rob the older citizens by taking their employment from them. This is not true. The Irish immigration of fitty years ago did not rob the native Amerfcans of work, but rather supplied the incressed demand for work. 8o the Hungarlan and Ttallan and Russtan immigrants now find ‘plenty of land and plenty of work In mines and roadways, and wages go up while immigration in- creases. Fach new Immigrant adds by his labor to the wealth and’ prosperity of the country. When that condition ceases fm- migration will cease; It {s more frequemtly complainad, by those who would restrfct immigration, that an uncontrollable ‘masw of' immigrants 1g- norant of our la ge, often unable to read, will become cjtizens and swamp our institutions. They would exclude all who are llliterate, and they approve, the action of the judge who the other day refused the application of ap intending cltizen be- cause he could not talk “the language of the country,"” In reply to this®counsel of fear and despalr there js much to be sald which we can here only indicate. In the first place, it shows great un- faith if intelligence thinks it cannot, on the whole, direct and control ignorance. The ignorant members of any community are dependent on the others for thelr opin- fons and bellefs, and if intelligent people will take any proper pains to influence them the effort is sure to be successtul. The idea is ridiculous that the comparatively few flliterate voters can sv combine as to endanger our institutions. The danger comes from another source, from, those who are both intelligent and corrupt. Once more, what we are concerned about is not the immigrants themselves, but their children. They are themselves passing away by death; their children re- main, incorporated in our body politlc, These children we can and do assimilate. Our schools do it; our churches do it; our language does It; our newspapers do it; our political institutions do it. The children of the immigrants of ffty years ago are good, enthuslastic American oft- izens; they are no detriment or peril to the nation. They fight our wars, and they are indistinguishable from our best cit- izens. What has happened to the chils dren of Irish and Germans will happen— is happening—to the children of Itallans and Hungarians and Russian Jews. None could be more enthusiastic Americans. Again, it is the pride, we may say the arrogance, of language and race which gives its viclous violence to the attacks on current immigration. Why should a man be refused citizenship who cannot talk the English language? He can talk one or two other languages of clvilized peoples. Are we going to forbid cltizen- ship to French Creoles in Louisiana, or to Spanish speaking people in New Mex- ico, whose ancestors settled there a hun- dred years before Plymouth Rock? And what is there to fear? Have they not scores of papers In thelr own language— French, Bpanish, German, Hungarian, Greek—published in this country that will give them as much Information as they would need to get from English journals? And will not their children all talk the English language from preference? Especlally is this late know-nothing at- tack made on the Itallan and Hungarian immigrants, as If they were of inferior stock which would degrade the American race. There is at present no more pro- gressive country in Europe than is Hun- gary. Its people are of fine physical and intellectual caliber. They introduce strength, health and energy. No people have more native genius than the Itallans, or a truer sense of the beautiful side of life. We may expect a real advantage to come from that element in our population, despite the presence of a few cutthroats and anarchists. 8o of the Russian Jews. They are not llliterate; they learn English quickly; they are moral and industrious, and are enthusiastic lovers of their adopted country. Thelr children are quick scholars in our schools and ambitious of the best instruction of our colleges. And we may raise the question, how much selfishness there may be in tse nolsy patriotism which would shut out the less favored, perhaps the' oppressed people of other countries, from the chance to better their condition here, Is there no such sentiment to be cultivated as international altrulsm? Have we not a duty to others than ourselves? Is it not just as well to consider the point of view of the Russian Jew or Finn or of the tax-ridden Italian es of ourselves? Can we not generously sive them better opportunities and freer life, while doing ourselves no harm? ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK. Ripples on the Carrent of Life ia the Metrepol Hotels In New York were pushed to the limit to accommodate the crowds gathered there at the opening of the yacht races. A rather pompous old gentleman entered a prominent house one evening and sald to the clerk: “I want six connecting rooms for myself and five friends.” The clerk suavely Informed him that it was impossi- ble to grant the request. ‘“The best I oan do for you, sir, is one large room with a double bed and four cots.” And with this the pompous party was forced to be con- tent. A queer-looking procession moved up Sixth avenue Thursday afternoon. Just what it was no one seemed to know. The policemen along the avénue described it as a “jay circus” The outfit consisted of thres men, two mules drawing wagons, four billy goats and an elephant that trailed along in the rear. At Sixth avenue and Thirty-sixth street there fs a dentist's establishment. The dentist, in addition to advertising his busi- ness by fancy signs, has a gayly-dressed negro on the sidewalk to hand out cards to pedestrians. The negro is known along the avenue as “Jim Cards.” Jim's raiment was particularly gay. He wore a tall hat with a red silk band and a bright red spiketall coat. His trousers were of the “Uncle Bam" variety. The elephant got one look at Jim, and then with a snort made for the card man. The negro fled up the stairs, four steps at & time. He didn't stop in the dental parlor. Instead, he went to the roof and hastily discarded the hat and coat. An hour later the negro came down and resumed his work, but he kept his eyes alternately up and down the avenue to be sure not to be taken by surprise again “Ah wonder what dat old fool el'phant wanted ut me,” sald he. “Ah never said anyfing wrong 'bout him. Fact ah nevah would harm no el'phant.” “When the Pennsylvania railroad shall run its trains from New Jersey under the North river to New York city and through a tunnel under the city and the East river to the Long Island side,” says a letter to the Pittsburg Dispatch, “there will be a great change in the looks of things over there. Already some suburban places which had up to quite a recent date so few houses that they scarcely had dis- tinctive names are beginning to show a remarkable growth. Streets are lald out carefully, sewage cystems perfected and plans for water supply devised, and all in- dications show that the real estate men are in high feather. ‘This being so with the little spots here and here east of Long Island City, in Queens and Suffolk coun- tles, the already well known and full grown villages and towns are fast keeping step with the onward movement. Lots that in some instances could be purchased a year ago for a song are now high priced, and, what is more, high prices do not seem to stem the tide of purchasers, or the con- sequent interest of builders, who are in great demand. In this connection many men of farseeing minds are beginning to wonder as to what will become of the vast flelds of Long Island which are reserved as the abode of the dead. There are now there thirteen cemeteries, and Into these Greater New York and its vicinity yearly lay to their last rest tens of thousands. There must be today over 1800,000 dead in these cemeteries, One of them, which was con- sidered twenty-five years ago “out in the country,” is now almost entirely surrounded by the city of Brooklyn. Another is partly surrounded by other smaller towns. Yet Brooklyn persists in expanding itself. So in twenty-five years from now the new city and Brooklyn will doubtiess see great abodes. of the dead in the very center of a vast living population, - Where are the cem- eterles of the future Greater New York and its coming neighbor to be? Certainly not on Long Island. It may be that even Greenwood and Calvary will be invaded by the living and the great army of the dead removed. Who can tell? Madison square and Washington square were once ceme- terfes, and.if any man living then ventured to predict that the jclty would disposses the dead he would have been declared in- sane." J ey IRRIGATION PROPOSITIONS, Five Projects Decided Upon by ihe Government. §t. Louls Globe-Democrat. It s gratifying to learn, from a report just completed, that the United States geological survey is steadily at work on compgehensive plans based on the new national law, which, in states and terri- torfes where there are arld sections, sets aside the proceeds of the sales of public lands in that reglon for general irrigation work. Up to July 1 the money thus accu- mulated amounted to about $15,000,000, the anuual recelpts having steadily increased. The total was $3,144,801 for 1901 and 34,685,516 for 1902, while the amount’ for the flscal year ending June 3, 1903, 1s equal to the fund derived from the two preceding vears. The states and territories entitled to frriga- tion money from the sales of thelr own lands separately are Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Ne- braska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Da- kota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington and Wyoming, As soon as the law was passed the geolog: fcal survey distributed fleld parties from the Rio Grande to the Canadian line. The report now ready deals more especially with conditions in Kansas and Oklahom touching on reservoirs, dams, artesian pos. sibilities and the underflow of large streams whose beds, on the surface, are dry in summer. ‘After consultations in the cabinet within the last year it was decided that the gov- ernment should build what are known as the Sweetwater dam in Montana, the Gun- nison tunnel irrigation work in Colorado, the St. Mary system of canals in Montana, the Truckee system in Nevada and the Salt river dam in Arizona, the cost of which five enterprises is estimated at $10.- 000,000, Arid lands in the regions named are now practically valueless, exeept for grazing, and for that purpose will not bring §1 an acre. But irrigation would work a marvelous change, for land In the same localities supplied with water sells now for $50 an acre upwards. On an av- erage an acre of frrigated land will sup- port one person. In the United Btates are 000,000,000 acres of vacant public land, of which over one-half is suitable only for grazing. There Is running to waste in the west alone water sufficient to frrigate at least 75,000,000 acres. Clearly, a subject 80 extensive must be dealt with on a large scale by the national authority, and the work s going forward on the broad foundation required. The five projects decided on rest on former Investigations and engineering re- ports, so that no uncertain risks are in- volved. Public lands included in these five cases have been withdrawn from settle- ment and will not be reopened until the water can be applied to agricultural pur- poses. Speaking of the part to be taken in irrigation by the national government, Becretary Hitcheock wrote at the beginning of last year: “Water should be brought to the point where the settlers can, with their own labor, or by co-operation, con- struct ditches and laterals to reclaim the desert land. With the requirements of actual settlement and cultivation, to be followed by the payment of the cost of storing water, the speculative element will be eliminated, leaving the ground free to bona fide settlers.’” The Irrigation law is one of immense promise and the national authorities are losing no time in the pre- paratory steps THE STATE CAMPAIG Ponca Journal: Judge Bullivan got his nomination as easily as Judge Barnes, but how about election Wayne Herald: Judge J. B. Barnes of Norfolk was nominated by acclamation for supreme judge by the republican state con- vention at Lincoln. It was but a fitting tribute to Nebraska's able jurist and eitl- sen and his majority this fall will be ex- ceedingly large. Ponca Eagle: Judge J. B. Barnes, who was nominated for supreme judge by the republican convention at Lincoln, Tuesday, was a resident of Ponca for seventeen years. His large acquaintance throughout this part of thesstate will make him many additional votes. Lelgh World: It is not often that a can- didate meets with such universal satis- faction as has John B. Barnes for judge of the supreme court. When the entire republican party of Nebraska unites on a man without a kick he is pretty sure to be elected. But then he is an upright citizen, an able attorney and will mako an excellent judge. Why should not the entire party be for him? Ord Quiz: Judge Sullivan has been re- nominated for supreme judge by the popu- lists and democrats. He did not want the nomination again, but felt that he ought to stand for the hopeless race just to show his gratitude to the fusionists for electing him six years ago, #o he consented to ac- cept the nomination. After election he will rpturn to his practice of law which is more lucrative than serving the public as su- preme judge. Norfolk News: If Judge Barnes was to attempt to flle away all the good things that have been sald of him by the papers of Nebraska since his nomination his office would be fllled with scrapbooks. They have accepted the choice of the conven- tion with a unanimity that speaks well for the campalgn, and the anticipation is that if the unity of the party counts for anything, the republican nominee will be elected by a record majority. Arcadia Champlon: The republicans have placed a state ticket In the fleld that the ‘'party can well be proud of. In J. B. Barnes of Madison they have a candidate against whose long career as district judge nothing can be sald. He fs a man whom the party can point to with just pride. The candi- dates for regents, Charles 8. Allen of Lin- coln and Willlam G. Whitmore of Doug- las county, are both good, clean, capable men and deserve the support of every re- publican. Bloomington Advocate: There Is no ques- “tion but what the day of fusion in Ne- braska is nearly a thing of the past. The ate has gradually worked back until it 18 now safely republican on the state and congressional tickets, and locally is held together simply for the purpose of holding onto the county offices a while longer. In many of the countles in this state fusion has only been accomplished through the hardest kind of an effort on the part of the officescekers, and in nearly every case there Has been so much dissatisfaction over it that the result will be very bene- ficlal to the republicans. i PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE. Tom Johnson's devil wagon A4ld Turkish execution among obstreperous democrats in Ohio. Up-to-date rallroads might improve con- ditlons materlally by equipping coaches with canoes. It Is barely possible some of those be- lated prayers for rain reached their des- tination last week. That was a hard blow to 8ir Thomas off Sandy Hook on Saturda: It prolonged the agony a few days. In the absence of any foreigner of dis- tinction, a colored man is holding the cen- ter of the soclety stage at Newport. It 1s conceded that the Britons are much better up on yachting terms than the Amer- fcans. Lord Shaftsbury says Reliance is “Jolly well the best boat.” A New York woman s going to marry the lawyer who procured her a divorce from her first husband. Maybe she thought it was cheaper to marry him than to pay his fee. Coal ofl and music having falled to check the serenades of mosquitoes, Jerseymen are beginning to shoot them. The new method is popular and promises to train a host of bill collectors. Boston feels that its decorous dlgnity has been shaken to the roots by a couple of frivolous youngsters caught kissing in & public place. The penalty for such crimes is sixty days in the subway. For the love of a malden who refused to love him a gallant young sergeant at Fort Snelling took the morphine route to the other shore. with the Filipinos only to be bowled over by a girl at home. A stand-up fight is not as dangerous as heart fright. The founding of a pleasure steamer in & canal near Indianapolls caused a panic among the passengers. There were three feet of water and velvety mud to wade through. Bravely the passengers waded, sustained by the patriotic conviction that they were making tracks for another his- torical novel. Oliver Hopkinson, oldest member of the Philadelphia bar and oldest surviving grad- uate of the University of Pennsylvania, celebrated his 91st birthday last week. Fis grandfather was Francis Hopkinson, poet, author and signer of the Declaration of Independence, and his father was Joseph Hopkinson, judge of the United BStates court for the district of Pennsylvania and author of “Hail, Columbla.” ROOSEVELT AND THE TRUSTS, Promoters and Calamity Howlers Form an Alllance. San Francisco Call. During the recent convention of the In- | ternational Typographical union in Wash- Ington city several of Mr. Willlam Ran- dolph Hearst's employes appeared and steered an antl-trust meeting in one of the theaters, The affair had a distinct cam- palgn alr, There were red lights, trans parencies, brass bands and Henry George, jJr. The occasion was not tumultuous, but it is the sllly season and Washington is dull and even a poor brass band ls at- tractive, ‘The purpose of it all was soon disclosed in the booming of Willlam Ran- dolph Hearst for the presidency as a trust buster. In the speeches and resolutions President Roosevelt was attacked, de- ! famed and belied In the most approved and yellow way. The next morning the New York Sun (trust organ) appeared with a leading ed!- torial explaining that the democrats have a chance to succeed next year because Roosevelt's enforcement of the anti-trust laws has won him the enmity and oppo- sition of combined capital. The editorial closed with this sentence: “All the world knows that the great prosperity contipued in the United States till President Roose- velt began, a year ugo, his New England specch-making against capital organized by its owners to promote American indus- tries. There you have it, men and country- men. The trusts want hard times that they may lay the responsibility at . the president’s door because he enforced the law, and the boomers of Willlam Randolph Hearst want hard times that they may lay the responsibility upon the preaident because he did not enforce the law! As lwanny alliance of upworthies as ever tried to fool the people. « He survived a dozen battles | TWO VANISHING TYPES. Humorlsts a Cholee Mate: Milwaukeo Sentinel. Two vanishing types of the American are, alas! still presented in the new novels and the current magazines, although they are rare indeed in real life. These are the backwoods farmer with the fringed beard, bent back, and the down east dialect, and the western desperado with flashing eye, quick pistol hand, and a whole dictionary of swear words. Doubtiess it will be many years before the Inhabitants of Great Brit- ain awaken to the fact that the: two personages are not the highest human Yro- ducts of our Amerfcan clvilization. Here on this side of the water the two carica- tures will continue to be cherished ones in the pastoral novels and the blood and thune der melodramas until some other burlesques can be made popular, The rallroads and the telegraph lines have put almost inaccesible districts inte close touch with the great centors of popu- lation. Yankee ingenulty has enabled the American farmer to accomplish wonders with the aid of agricultural machinery. Good sized cities are so numerous In the United States that only a small population is really isolated. The western desperado has disappeared before the hardy and de- termined settlers of the frontier. In some cases he has become a millionaire or & prominent citizen. In the last fow years trolley lines and rural mall routes have put the farm house in dally touch with the busy world of business and commerce. The novelist or the dramatist desirous of being absolutely faithful to present day lite would find himself compelled to make the American farmer a prosperous country gentleman who dresses well, employs plenty of “help” and piles up a comfortable bank account. In many cases the country farmer utilizes some of his meadow land for golf links and makes a shed beside the hay- rick for his new automobile. The general dissemination of knowledge has made the study of grammar so common that our cholcest dialects are likely soon to be classed among the dead languages. This national progress is disappointing to dom tic novelists and the forelgn visitors, but there is no way to prevent our rapld evolu- tion. Playwrights, humorists, and novel {sts are being robbed of their cholcest mate- rial, but “the earth do move." LAUGHING LINES, ts Deprived of Father (proudly)—"I belfeve, my dear, the baby is going to look like me." Mother (gazing at the Infant)—'"Yes, poor little fel- low, I'm afraid he 1s."—Chicago News, “Did you have a good time fishing?" “Oh, fair, fair,” replied the candid man, “but we had a better time lying about it when we got back.”—Chicago Post He—When did you begin to suspect I was in_love with you? She—The day you told me I could have anything I wanted on the bill of fare.—De- troit Free Press. “Some folks,” sald Uncle Eben, “loses de full benefit of deir work by not bein' able to handle it. De chicken kin lay de egs, but she can't poach it."—Washington Star. “Yes, I've got to ask her mother for Jen- nie's hand. “Does It worry you?' “Well, to tell you the truth, teel sorry her father isn't living. land Plain Dealer. it makes me —Cleve- Mrs. Knicker—Aren't you glad your chil- dren are all settled? Mrs, Bocker—Yes, happily divorced no “The idea of speaking of men as ‘the brave'!" exclaimed Miss Ann Teek, sourly, “all men are natpral cowards.” " “Really,” replied Miss Pert, “you shouldn't say that just because noné of them ever kissed you. I know several who would do it on a wager, if they were dared.’—Chi- cago Tribune. i they're all “I'll bet a dollar If I should ask you to marry me you'd refuse’’ ventured Gussle, trying to inject a little more spirit into the conversation. $aowis mail M h“ldy‘ lbul you're a cheap one!" resronded the girl. “W-w-w-why?" stammered Gussie. “Because you won't bet more than a dol- lar on a sure thing. “Do you think those new people will make good neighbors?” “Oh, delightful. Why, I can see already that they're going to do enough scandalo; things to keep us in gossip all winte Chicago Post. GOL DARNED TOUGH. James Barton Adams in Denver Post. Comin' back from a vacation Is & purty rank affair, it takes 'a Christlan fur jugate the swear, Fur the soul is yit a jinglin’ with the music o' the woods An' the stomach yit a yearnin’ fur the com- missary §oods. NEfp At the desk we squat a th'nkin' o' the heaven we have seen, ¥ We kin hear the birds a singin' an’ ki» see the livin' green $ Of the ever-smilin’ valleys an' the mouns tains bold an’ rough, An' we look on our imprisanment a8 ol A to sub- Darned Tough! Try to put our thoughts on paper, but they canter far away To the brooks where speckled beautles in their fishy frolics pluy. A’ we smell the timid fragrance o' the purty mountain flowers As they deck with modest beauty all the shaded woodland bowers. We kin feel the line a jerkin', hear the reel begin to spin, Find ourself a speculatin' if the trout or us will win, Then we hear the cry fur copy, fur a batch o slushy stuff— > Tell you what, the rude awakenin' is Gol Darned Tough! | Feel & hefty lot o' envy fur the fellers with the cash, i Them, ‘at never fesls the cuttin’ o' the daily labor lash, But Xin loaf out in the wildness o' the everlastin’ hills 2 Til o) autumn comes a skippin’ with her frostiness an' chills. : Beems a hint o' comin’ heaven when you're campin’ in the shade Of an overhangin' mountain in a quiet rustic glade. But to have to hang to labor fur the fiithy lucre stuft i In the blasin’ heat o' well, it's ol summer; Darned Tough! ol autumn is & comin’ with the winter ship in tow, the breeges ‘Il be sprinklin’ Jewels us they blow, akin' snowy feathers from thelr widely sweepin' wings, be aggravatin’' noses with the sharp- ness o their stings. Then the golden rural the memory Il skip, An' we'll nee the mountain valleys strug- in an ey gTip, set In cosy quarters an' our faith- we'll puft §rind won't seem to be %0 Gol Darned frosty visions from Toughl Hair Vigor Hair falling? Then you are starving it. You can stop hair-starvation with a hair- food. Ayer's Hair Vigor nourishes, feeds the hair. And the deep, rich color of early life comes back to the