Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 8, 1903, Page 6

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The Address will be changed as oft as 4 d, The gas company has accepted the ex- nsion of its contract. That might have een expected. aEpEm—— The farming out of trust funds for private gain is just as reprehensible as the embezzlement of public funds. Em———— 1 some of the high class exhibits at the Midway were labeled low class ex- bibits they might be more attractive and less commendable. Ep————— ‘What would bpcome of South Omaha it the patched-quilt charter enacted by the late legislature should be knocked out by the supreme court? Sm—— Sepator Tom Platt wants its distinctly understood that he does not propose to be outdone by his colleague, Senator Depew, In the matrimonial department. emm— The late Postmaster General Bissell really achleved more fame as President Cleveland's former law partner than as & member of President Cleveland’s cab- inet. Governor Van Sant welcomed a grain men's convention to Minnesota as the “bread and butter” state. Nebraska will bave to be taken Into the combina- tion to make It a beef sandwiclh. While there is not ak much harmony in Douglas county republican ranks as there ought to be, there is a good deal of discord also in democratic ranks and the coming county election is linble | ) be full of off-year surprises. ; | SEE—— In cutting dividends on United States Steel in balf, the company is only pro- wmulgating a post-mortém statement af- | firming the judgment already rendefed by the stock Jobbers who cut Steel com- | moi quotations in half and then some. In the case in which ll-ll‘ railroads have been most interested in the Ne- braska supreme court In recent yes the railtbad tax case—they got a deci- plon from Judge Sullivan just the way What they wanted It they ask? better could Everyone takes It for granted that the republican candidates for university re- nnl to be vomwl on in this state at the mnw election will win ont withoat au offort. We adeoot that it looks very much as it this assmmption were about Lo prove true. —_——— Tnports iuto the Philippines during the past fiscal year decreased a tritfle. The | :uml}tr of Ameriean soldiers on duty there to constitute the effective demand for the fluid that made Milwaukee f: mous and other little luxuries that have 1o be imported ffom home Is smaller. The Lincoln Star says a few words editorlally in praise of Omala's Ak SarBen demonstration and expresses the wish that the earnival and pageantry may he this year the most successtul of the'series. This is so at variance with the uul attitude of Lincoln papers to- ward Omaha entérprises that it is re treshing as well as gratitying. oot For everytbing that the ety of Omaba hsl_i usually pays more and never less thith the market price. but when it |8 ommercially, | be thrown down and general disaster | ings THE DEMOCRATIC APPEAL In his speech accepting a nation Governor Bates of Massachu- sotts said that the democratie party makes its appeal to “the discontented, renomi the disgruntled, the unsuccessful, the disappointed.” While this had special refercuce to the democracy of Masea chusetts, it applies to the party throngh- out the country. Look at any cratic platform of this year or of any recent year and it will Dbe found to contaln an appeal to the cle- ments spoken of by the governor of demo- “FHE OMAHA D AILY BEE: THURSDAY. OCTOBER &, 1903 tivee it is because he feels that this wonkl be in the interest of economical adraindstration. OMAHA AND OTHER CITIES neral Manderson returns to Omsha from a visit to New York, Pitteburg, Philadelphia and Minneapolis saturated with municipal snggestions. First and foremost, General Mander sonMeels impressed with the impe necessity for replacing and repairing street pavewents that are worn out and keeping the paved streets clean and un- ive Massachusetts, There s in none of these utterances a candid and unqguali- fied acknowledgment of the material progress and prosperity of the country. If in any case they imply that the na- tion has been growing industrially and it s accompanied by the atement or insinuation that such prog- Las mot been normal and that t ress it cannot last. The persistent democratic | assumption is that the country has advanced in wealth and power under | conditions that are lar v fietitious and that there little if any substantial foundation to its prosperity. The dem- ocratic campaign in Ohio is being con- ducted upon this theory and very re cently one of the democratic leaders in New York publicly expressed the opin- fon that the time {s near at hand when it would be shown that our “alleged prosperity” is insubstantial and the in- dustrial and commercial fabrics would is ensue. According to these prophets of amity the country is soon to experi- P obstructed for traftic. “This is a splen- did idea,” as was the habitual exclama- tion of an eminent Omala lawyer and intimate friend of General Manderson. But how should we go about it to put this idea into execution It 18 a matter of notoriety that many of our most prominent realty owners are lamentably lacking in civie pride and habitually obstruct every effort to induce a majority of the owners of property adjacent to public thorough- fares to sign petitions for paving or re- paving. Without these petitions, signed by a majority of the property owners, the Poard of Public Works aud the mayor and council are powerless under the law to make contracts for paving or repaving.' With the utmost stretch of power ther may do some repairing on dilapidated streets, but even then rival paving contractors and tax shirk ers have blocked the way to these im- provements by injunctions and counter injunctions. Unless the courts ecan be prevalled ence & setback that will destroy the profits of capital and reduce the earn- of labor. inflicting inestimable damage on all interests, They are equally pessimistic, profess- | edly, in regard to our Insular mse!-l sions. Refusing to take any note of the progress that i& belng made in the | Improvement of conditions in those pos- sessions, they yet selze upon every un- toward incident, however triffing, as evidence that what has been done by our government is a failure and that there is no promise of any better re- sults in the future. Fair-minded ob- servers know that a most valuable work has been accomplished in these insular possessions and that their inhabitants are very much better off now than when they came under American protection. Yet the democrats persist in denying this and in asserting that not only has there been no improvement, but that the outlook is anything but encouraging. So with regard to our foreign policy there is complaint and adverse criti- clem, although there has never been a period in our history when the govern- mept of the United States was stropger in the respect and confidence of ihe civilized world. The democratic appeals to the discon- tented and the disappointed may affect u few, but they can hardly bave any ex. tended influence with a people as gen- erally prosperous as are the Amevican people at this time. They have uot for- gotter what resulted from placinz eon- fidence in a like appeal not many years ago and they are not to be misled by it now. The party of calamity has no clazie to the respect or support of a pro- gressive and prosperors people, CHAIRMAN OF 4PPROPRIATIONS. One of tue most important chairman- ships in the house of representatives is that of the committee of appropriations. It has been filled in past years by wmen of the highest qualifications for Integ- rity and prudence, men who were most watchful and zealous in regard to the financial interests of the government and were ever careful to keep the na- tional expenditures down to the mini- mum consistent with a proper adminis- tration of the public service. 1t would be easy to cite the examples of such “watch dogs” of the treasury in our his- tory, of men who, feeling the great re- sponsibility lmposed upon them by con- gress' to carefully look after the ex- penditures of the government have most honestly and zealously performed the duty assigned to them. It is not nccessary, however, to go farther back than the record of the man who is to be the speaker of the house. of representatives of the Fifty-eighth congress, Hon. Joseph G. Cannon. In all the history of our governmeut there has never be a man who has more earnestly worked for a reasonable econ- omy in the public service than this dis- tinguished representative from INinois and there can be no doubt that as | speaker of the Vifty-elghth house of il'l'|lr|'M“|“:l||‘(‘fi he will be no less so- Jicitous than he has been as the chair- man of the commitiee on appropria- tions 1o repress the extravagance and | keep the appropriations of congress within reasonable limits. It is indeed one of the strongest elaims of Mr. Can non to the position of speaker that he can be depended upon to exert the great ||m|uvum which his position will give him to put a check upon all schemes which may be presented for unnecessar- {1y increasing the expenditures of the government, While not opposed to any { expense which may be absolutely neces- sary in the interest of the public service, Mr. Cannon may be relied upon to an- tagonize any and all efforts that may be wade to unduly augment the outlay of | the government. Current report has it that Representa- tive Hemenway of Indiana is to be wade chaivman of the committee of ap- proprintions and there is some testi- mony to his ability for that important position. e has been four terms in congress and a part of this thine a mem- ber of the appropriations committee, so that be is familiar with the duties and obligations that belong to the position comes to official advertsing it insists wpon paying only one-fourth of the com merelal rate churged by the dallies to thelr best patrons—the department nd that notwithstanding the that the total volume of city ad- wl” adyertising done. hy woy rflmmbntmum - of chairman of the house committee on appropriations. He is little known to the country, but that can be said of other men who have first occupled this fmportant position. What can confi- dently be assumed is that if Mr. Can- wuhufluuwwmmhuuh mwwwpu-ur. Hemen- ':«"»mvmfiu,m»wm 3 upon to desist from granting frivolous restraining orders and frowning down upon obstructionists to public improve- ments, the city is helpless and will so continue until the charter is amended and the powers of the mayor and coun- cil are enlarged. Everybody In Omaha realizes that our streets are not kept as clean as they ought to be, but street cleaning cannot be done with a “whereas” or a resolu- tion. It must be pald for with money. 8o long as the railroads, who own one- sixth of all the realty values In the city, refuse point blank to bear their share of the burdens. of maintaining* local government, the paving repairs and sys- tematic street cleaning are practically a luxury that Omaha cannot indulge in ‘Who is to blame? | There are, doubtless, many municipal reforms that could be introduced in Omaha without a serious strain upon its wunicipal treasury, but these reforms can be brought about only by a concert of action on the part of public-spirited citizens, wiliing to devote part of their time and some of their money to im- and hiding the great excitement they must feel over the spley arguments presented by the represcntatives of the Interested na- tHone to Their Fate. Kansas City Journal Colonel Bryan's willingness to go to Bu- rope and leave the country at the mercy of organized wealth looks suspiclously ke | avandoning the plain people to their fate. ? Meroes to Rely On. 1 Chieago Record-Herald It reported from Washington that chley or General Miles will be the next democratic viee presidential candidate. But the republicans needn't worry. They @ Corbin to fall back on If a hero is needed —_— Trainmen Bracing Up. San Francisco Call. 1t is represented that one of the chiet causes for the crusade which the raflroads of the country are carrying on against the use of intoxieant liquors and tobacco by operating employes 1« the fact, which has been positively disclosed, that the polsons contained in the proscribed articles produce color Blindness, which e, of course, a fatal defect in locomotive engincers, firemen and train hands. Penalties of Minneapolis Times. Greatness has its penalties. Cannon s compelled to take a fine house and entertain In a manner befitting his po- sition now that he s to be speaker. e would greatly prefer the simple, unosten- tatious life he led while he was a mero member and we are informed that his greatest delight s to sit in the lobby of his hotel and swap varns with his cronies, pulling away the while at a large black cigar. They do say that his happlest days are when he is back in the Danville neigh- borhood, expounding politics In some village grocery and epitting at the stove, and it must be admitted that that sort of thing endears a statesman to his constituents down in Tilinols. reatness. MILITARISM GONE MAD, Spectacle Presented by the Colorade State Troops. Detroft Free Press. Civil authority in Colorado will soon have to assert itself or cease to be of any significance in conducting the affaira of the state. The troope on duty there have set the courts and the statutes aside and es- tablished themselves as the supreme law! The local soldlery have made arrests with- out warrant and without the evidence on which & warrant could be issued. When writs of habeas corpus were Issued they invaded the court In the form of a small army and when the judge said that the prisoners must be surrendered to the civil authorities the officer In command sneered at the order and marched his prisoners back to camp. The latest indication that the military is in command appears in connec- tion with the suppression of a newspaper office at Victor. . The paper offending is the official organ of the miners. It is easily concelvable that it aid not please the troops, who arbitrarily took command wherever they were sent; for proving existing conditions. We must remember that Rome was not built in a day. When New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore and Chicago were no larger than Omaha thelr streets were infinitely more wretched and dirty than those of Omaha are today, while their municipal government was more waste- ful and more extrayagant. For that matter, munieipal graft. official plifering and wastefulness in the municipal gov- ernment of Omaba is like a drop in‘the bucket as compared with the graft and reckless extravagance in the conduct of municipal affairs in most of the larger cities of America. But that should not deter us from trying to do still better. A ______J In the face of his own admission of conduct that would justify his impeach- ment and removal from the office of county judge 2,750 republicans of Douglas county have by thelr votes at the primary declared in favor of the renomination of Duncan M. Vinsonhaler for a third term. It remains to be seen whether the 12,000 republicans who bave not expressed a preference at the primary election are willing to put a premium on judicial lawlessness when they cast their ballot at the election on the 5th day of November. The democratic county ticket is pow- erfully weak and powerfully strong in spots. The conglomerate republican primary rules have given the democrats material advantage in harmonizing their ticket so as to represent the various elements of the party and community, as well as the varlous sectlons of the county. It will remain for the repub- licans to make up by energetic work what the anti-committee has spoiled hy its foolhardy attempt to shoot the rapids. s Ont of the 15,000 republicans of Doug- las county only about 5,000 have taken the trouble to participate in the primary election. In other words, two-thirds of the members of the party have re- fused to avall themselves of the privi- lege of expréssing thelr choice of candi- dates by direct vote. This would indi- cate that the rank and file of the party is Indisposed to take any interest in eandidates until after they are nomi- nated, The Nebraska etate chemist bas dis- covered that the liquid branded as pure food apple cider vinegar is neither made of clder, malt nor grain, but so long as it Is sour and makes people’s mouths pucker it ought to pass muster as vine- gar without heing subject to fine and imprisonment. There will be no deurth of applicants willing to accept appointment to the place of seeretary to the State Board of Assessment created by our new fevenue law, but this is a position of such un- usual importance that the office should scek the man rather than tbhe man the office. mm—e————— Prosecuting Attorney Folk of 8t, Louis wants to bave the crime of bribery in- cluded fu the list of ‘Lfenses made extra- ditable by our treaties. The wonder is that this erime should have been over- looked this long by the d'plomats who negotiate our extradition arrangements, National Exelt ¢t in Check. Baltimore American. One righty nice thing about that Alaskan it dealt with them, as usurpers and tyrants, There was no process from the courts, no applications for any. Cavalry and Infantry raided the office, arrested all those hav- ing important connection with the institu- tion, marched them to the camp and im- prisoned them in the guardhouse. The al- leged fact that the charges are now to be made does not lessen the atrocity of the act In the léeast. 'No power on earth was entitled to arrest the accused except upon warrants duly swoin' aut and jesued, placed in the hands of civil officers chosen by the people for that service, and executed by them. The soldiers had the same right to take to the guardhouse merchants, manu- facturers, lawyers, doctors, preachers or anybody else who had dared to criticlse thelr high-handed conduct. While the Colo- rado troops profess to be restoring law and order, most of their efforts seem directed to maintaining a state of lawlessness on thelr own account: FAMOUS JUDGE RETIRING, Record of Oliver Perry Shir of the Federal Bench, New York Sun. Judge Oliver Perry Shiras of the United States district court of the northern dis- trict of Jowa, a brother of ex-Justice George Shiras of the United States supreme court, will leave the bench on November 1, having reached the age limit, 70 years. During the twenty vears since this court was created Judge Shiras has continuously presided over it and his fame as a jurist has extended Beyond the limits of Towa. It has 5o happened that he has had to decide several famous cases, which have subse- quently passed on appeal to the highest court in the unlon. In almost ail of these his judgments have been upheld. As a member of the court of appeals for the Eighth United States circuit Judge Shiras heard the famous case against the Transmissourl Freight association, fnvolv- ing the question whether the Sherman Anti- Trust act applied to rallway companies, and, if ®o, whether combinations between railroad companies for the purpose of main- taining certain frelght rates were lawful under the provisions of that act. Tho two other members of the court, one of them Judge Thayer, who recently wrote the opinion in the Northern Securities case, held that the written contract entered into by the raflway companies was not unlawful, because the rates fixed in it were not shown to be unreasonable. Judge Shiras, dissent- ing, held that the Sherman act did apply to rallway companfes, and that it forbade thelr entering into any arrangement for the purpose of avolding competition among them. The supreme court supported him and re- versed the judgment, though the judge own brother voted In the minority against his view. No federal judge In the west has so wide an experience In trylng cases in which In- | dlane were interested as Judge Shiras. In a celebrated case, In which a Sloux chief, having Killed an officer a few days before a peaco treaty was made with his tribe by General Miles, was subsequently arrested and tried for murder, the judge made the jury acquit the Indian, holding that the convention made with his tribe by General Miles bound the government and the courts to forgive the crime. In a frequently quoted pension case he held that the state laws do not apply in the matter of pensions, a subject wholly controlled by the acts of congress. The United States supreme court upheld this view. 1t has been the subject of much comment that so able a jurist remained on the dis- trict court bench. He Is one of the few district judges who occasionally sit as a member of the circuit court of appeals, and it is belleved that had he chosen he could have been promoted years ago. He is popular, and the Dubuque Har assoclation is preparing a demonstration in his honor on his retirement. Judge Shiras was a Pittsburg boy. He served in the civil war as adjutant on the staft of General Herron. One of his for- mer law partners is ex-Speaker Henderson. As 4 judge he has the reputation of dis- posing of more cases in a term than un average district judge does in two. private life he is a model of precision. mc only paloful duty on the bench, he has ‘| often said, is to sentence prisoners, no mat- ter how serious their crime may bave been. ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK, Ripples on the Current of Life in the Metrop “A few days ago,” writes the New York correspondent of the Philadeiphia Ledger, the communication Itself. But today there Is not man In New York City Grout. On all sides he pilloried for what is termed his treachery to the fusion cauee pting & a more unpopular than Edward M. by acc withdraw as a fuston candidate, admitting that his sympathies are with the Wigwam by declaring that he will not attack that organization on the stump. Mr. Grout is utterly fusion elemen Kings county democrats, who declare that he also betrayed them in years past; the Tammany lenders, with whom it fs claimed he made a treacherous bargaln, have no £00d word to say for him; he was roundly hissed at the convention which nominated | | him oniy through the power of Mr. Murphy | jand his machine, and at last night's | borough convention of the Citizens' Union, virtually Unele Joe | ®hich organization intends to purge itseit | of him if it he possible. The republicans | will do likewise, and the Brooklyn demo- crats will doubtless join with the fusionists in the selection of another candidate for comptroller to oppose Grout, though they will_support McClellan for the mayoralty The combination against the comptrolier promises to be powerful, and at this writing It seoms that his fate will be defeat, humiliation and oblivien." The splendid results of the Nathan Straus system of pasteurized milk Gistribution are made manifest in the statistics of mortality among children. During the season the !trnun depots In New York have distributed 158,725 bottles of pasteurized milk and milk foods. Tn addition to thie, over 600.000 Klasses of milk were consumed in the public parke. As an example of the effect of this and other sanitary reforms, the health de- partment of New York presents a tabula- tion for June, July and August In the last thirteen vears, the death rate being that of children under 5 years of age. It shows that the death rate among children has steadlly decreased from 126.0 per 1,000 in 1861 to 63.6 In 1903, “Have you got any of those fool dream books?” sald a short, stout man, entering an Ann street bookstore. “Lots of 'em,” replled the salesman, toss- ing over a pile of paper-covered books, with demons in red and black adorning the front | pages, "My servant girl wants them,” explained the man, half apologetically. ‘‘Yes,” sald the salesman, looking bored. The man sclected three of the books, one on dreams, one on fortune telling and one on handkerchief flirtations, pald for them and went away. “His servant girl wants them,” sald the salesman to a friend. “The old gag. He wants them himself, and is ashamed to ask for them. “We get several dozens of that Kind in here every week. They are crazy over dream books and fortune-telling books, and all that kind of thing, but they are so afraid someone will know it. “Almost everyone of them blames the poor servant. That's the most popular bluft. They laugh, and say they don’t know why the servant wants them, but they sup- pose they'd better humor her. ““Then they take the books home and read them by the hour. When they've finished them they come back for more.” “It's best to let them think they are fool- ing you, for we sell more books that way." i Notwithstanding innumerable strikes, the records of the Bureau of Buildings for the last nine months show that the amount of business done has been the heaviest In many years, and is several million dollars ahead of the corresponding period of last year. The showing made by the depart- ment since the beginning of the year is considered remarkable, In view of the labor discontent and the high prices of bullding material that have been in evidence since early spring. Tenement house operations have been the most pronounced feature of the activity, due entirely to the modification of the tenement house law early in the soar, Magistrate Crane of the Harlem police court namos tha vices to which cigarette smoking wil' lead boys in this order: 1. cigaretto smoking; 2—beer and liquors; 3— craps; 4—horses and gambling; 5—larceny: 6-state prison. This conclusion was reached, he says, by his personal observa- tlons as a police court justice, He further states that In ninety-nine out of every one hundred boys, from 10 to 17 years of ege, who came hefore him charged with crimes ranging from mis- demeanors to burglary their fingers are stained with the yellow discolorations that result from the use of clgarettes. Search for these stains on the fingers of criminals arralgned before him has become quite as commonplace in the proceedings as the reading of the warrants or the hearing of evidence. By these tell-tale marks of mental decay and moral weak- ness the justice professes to understand as much of the case as In any other way. ‘Hold up your hands,” followed by the question, “Do you smoke clgarettes?”’ Is by no means an unusual way of opening a case in this court “I am convinced of igarette smoking by the great evil of actual observations as a magistrate,”” sald Magistrate Crane to @ reporter for the World the other day. “I am not a ‘crank’ on this subject and do mot care to pose s a re- former, but It is my opinion that cigarettes will do more than liquor to ruin boye.” “Do you find from your observations,” the magistrate was asked, “that the practice of cigarette smoking among boys s increasin “Beyond a doubt and to & most alarm- ing extent. The confessions made In my court by boys arralgned there are posi- tive evidence of this Srowth.” “Do you think a moderate use of cigar- ettes more detrimental than that of Nquor upon boys and young men?” “The ‘moderate’ cigarette smoker is rare exception among the victims of that Mindyourdoctor. He says: ‘“‘Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral for coughs.” isame: e e — “Fdward M. Grout, city comptroller, had the respect, if not the admiration, of the entire community His Jetter to Mayor Low, aceopting the fusion renemination for comptroller, was the occasion for highest commendation for the write well as for ditorlal writers | praised Mr. Grout to the point of laudation. Is being mercilessly | nomination from Tammany and refusing to discrecdited with the | he is being assailed by the | inquiries and | | THE OLD vice, and, as a parent, 1 would yprefer o see my boy given to the use of liquors rather than to cigarettes, for the latter |18 one o the very worst habits to break from. “Boys who use clgarettes,” continued the magistrate, “have suclhi an appetite for them that they will steal the money to get them.” A man of 9 odd years died in New York City last week, leaving written on a small sheet paper the following: ‘‘Personal memoirs. At the age of 30 1 gave up dancing; at 40 my endeavors to please the fair sex; at 50 my regard of public opinion; at 60 the trouble of thinking, and I have now become a true sage, or an egot{st, which fs the same thing. T have ! Absoluiely I"uro | THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE RELIABLE PERSONAL NOTES, Hon. John D. Long has just been r elected president of the buard of overse of Harvard college Senator Hanna's brother has given $i0 0 to the ¥ rn Reserve university, Th will make more votes than a joint debate Ore has been found in Colorado containin radium, unanium, vanadium, baranfum an polonfum. 1f they dig a lttle doeper mayl they will find euphonium and palladium Admiral John G, Walker, president of th Isthmian Canal commission, wears lon Dundreary whiskers, which gives him th nickngme In the navy of “Old Whiskers.” The' theory that business s business again called to mind by the recommend: never meddled in any marrlages or scan- dals; T have never recommended a cook or a physiclan; consequently I have never attempted the life of anyone.” ——— A LAND OF PARADOXES, en of Lite in ky Home,” | Chicago Inter-Ocean | “The Kentuckian who considers God-bidden duty to beat you in & horss trade or a lumber deal,” sald Rev. John R. Crosser at the Kenwood Evangelical church last week, “keeps all of the command- ments, and the eighth much better than his northern brethren.” Rev. Mr. Crosser, it seems, has recently returned from a vacation in the Blue Grass state, which he found to be a land of para- doxes. The native, he discovered, “wou'd not steal your umbrella, but he would Kkill.you for calling him a hard name; he drinks moonshine whisky, yet shows no signs of dissipation, and there is not & dull-eyed man in Kentueky.” All this fs exceedingly complimentary to a commonwealth from which the popu- lation of 1llinois and Chicago has been and is being largely recruited. Such disinter- ested testimony must excite pleasurable emotions In the breast of Colonel Watter- son, particularly, with regard to the ability of the Kentuckian to bear himself like a gentleman and a Christian while he le beating his best friend in a horse trade. Blood will tell, and there Is something in the blood of a genulne Kentuckian which prevents it from rushing to his face while he is palming off & spavined mare upon an unsuspecting stranger. Colonel Watterson will not be pleased, however, to learn from Rev. Mr. Crosser that Kentucklans “do not treat their women right.” *“The men,” he says, “work from three to four hours a day and the women work sixteen.” The Kentucky gentleman who works three or four hours a day, declares Rev. Mr. Crosser, will not swear in the presence of the Kentucky woman who works six- teen hours a day. Whether this is due to the Kentucky man's fear lest his profanity might cause the Kentucky woman to sus- pend work, Rev. Mr. Crosser does not in- form us and we shall have to iook to Colonel Watterson for an explanation. Still, it is difficult for even a preacher who has been making observations during & 'vacation period to generalize in a matter of this kind. There must be plenty of Ken- tucklans who do not cheat In horse trades, and it only stands to reason that there | must be many Kentucky gentlemen who | work as many as eight hours a day and some Kentucky women who do not work at all. “Our Old it his so well GREAT INDUSTRIAL CENTER. Consumption »f Coal Attests the Manufacturing Uplife. 8t. Louis Globe-Democrat The announcement by the United States ! geological survey at Washington that the | United States’ output of coal In 102 was 300,000,000 tons tells the story of the coun- | try’s Industrial activity and prosperity. 3 other country came anywhere mneuar this figure. The United Kingdom, which led all the rest of the nations along untii re- cently in coal production, ts far behind | us now. Though the United States stood { keeper to have the assurance of the De | parjment of Commerce and Labor that th | cent ’ Franklin J. Willey night? Mrs. Highmore—No, {ndeed; T enjoyed {every minute of it, 'thinking about the | Yuppstarts | knew wanted to be { It aln't no use ter mope an' sigl A feller's better glad This world is good wf fer us It's Joolish ter il | 1t ain't no use ter mope an' igl it ain’t philosophy: Th' man thet s an' works llke & Is ter e It _ain't no use ter mope an' sig) Ye'll never win a el tion of Secretary Cortelyou for an appre priation of $7,000,000 for & commerce bulld ing 1t is a great relief to the agonized house cost of living has Increased only 17 pe: Here Is how a Kansas paper identifles a multimillionaire raflroad magnate: “George Gould, who is a brother of Helen Gould, paseed through here yesterday on his spe- clal car.’ Although the C out of the great Philadelphia shipbullding concern, the senlor member of the old coni- pany, Charles H. Cramp, will remain with the new ccmpany as an adviser to the president, receiving a salary of $20,000 « year, amps have been forced of Janesville, Wis, who was found dead in his bed on Thurs day last, was widely known among thos interested in tobabco as a writer on the « ture of the plant. His services weic i1 - quently In request as an expert in disp: as to the quality and value of the | product. POINTED REMARK . in the ¥y w reply, And for Some people that eema to bs the only thing to do.—Chicago Post, “Phwat's the matter Casey of MeGookin. blced OL hov,” replied s a bad no: okin, the plumber, “an' Of can't stop wid ye?" asked ‘tis not much av' a ye can't stop a leak ‘—]’)lllud( Iphia Press. ember my son, at a penny plumber yo in yer own face. “Re sald saved the prudent 18 a penny s That's so,” replled the reckless youth, cThe troublé with me 18 that T um alwuys gelting hoid of the Wrong prov Wi Bkl Nothing venture Boching nave, —~Washington Star Servant—De doctor sald T musn't give you no more brandy. sah. Major - Wiy, brandy {s my favorite bever- ge. "l knows dat, sah you must change off.’ “Oh, well, then, we''l make a change.” To what, sah?" ‘|Tu another doctor,”” But the doctor said Kansas Clty Jour- I wunt to.see the parade,” wailed tf B ¥ ed the father. who had expert usual viclssitudes of elvie celebrations, “T'll put you in the cider pross and you'll have all th going 80 far tor them nsations without hicago Post. shn—DIdn't 1t worry you Mrs, Up simost to All' th to entertain that big ecrow and the Buttininns, that | here and that T hadn't asked to come.—Philadelphin Press T AIN'T NO US Wi world'll think fur morn irown ™' V low in the list in its coal yield & third of !a century ago, it now produscs more than a third of the world's annual ovtpht As coal is the foundation of all the manufacturing activities, this immens output shows that the [United States 1= high on the prosperity wave. At the minimum price at the mouth of the mine this yleld of 300,000,000 tons means u direct addition of $125,000,000 to the country’s In- | crease in wealth fn the year. Mo | the output In 1%3 is likely to g0 mucl Leyond the mark of 1902. Last year the! production was diminished by the lengthy and sens strike among the anthracitc winers. Nothing like this is in sight this year, although strikes have threatened. There is no doubt at all that the try's product could be largely increased even by the forces which are at present | at work. ‘The mines are not run to their full capacity in all cases. There is talk every little while that some of them arc being shut down or thelr product de-| creased, in order to give an excuse f keeping up the price. The consumer is the person who pays the frelght in the last analysis. He Is the man who suffe: for the wraagles of the operators and the miners. 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