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New York dispatches announce the
impending formation of trust ito
control the salt of the earth" It is
to be an amalgamation of the National
Salt company of this country. the
Canadian Salt company, and the Brit
ish Salt union, with a capital of $780,
100000. Outside of the savage coun-
tries and Russia says one of its pro-
motors. sit will supply the entire
world with salt"
Such tales may serve to attract un-
thinking investors. They will doubt
less be swallowed without salt by
those who believe that 1.-The trusts"
are coming to own the earth. Yet in
reality the salt trust must be a very
harmless octopus, and even those most
timid with regard to octopuses need
feel no alarm. brief consideration
of some of the salt deposits of the
United States alone will clearly show
how utterly impossible it is for any
corporation to control that article to
the detriment of consumers The
known salt deposits of New York state
alone cover 5000 square miles and av-
erage forty feet in thickness. They
are conservatively estimated to con-
tain enough salt to supply the United
There are also vast deposits in Ohio.
Michigan, and both the Virginias-
These are some distance under ground,
that near Cleveland, for example, be-
ing $500 to 3,40O feet down.
But in Lincoln county, Nebraska,
there is a bed OF rock salt SO easily
mined that one man can dig and wheel
out five tons day. The deposits OF
Reno county, Kansas, are from 300 to
400 feet thick, giving about 100000
barrels to each acre of surface. In
Louisiana there are beds of salt over
800 feet thick, of unknown extent, and
80 per cent pure without refining.
These are only a few and the best
known of the salt deposits of this
country. In addition there is always
the sea.
If the proposed International Salt
company succeeds in its aims that sue
cess will not be due to any actual or
possible monopoly of the supply of
salt. 1t can succeed only by keeping
prices so low, so near the cost of pro-
duction, that none will care to COM
pete with it, There is no possibility
of any trust octopus, no matter how
large, grasping the worlds salt. That
is necessity of life which cannot be
monopolized.
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Earmers of TIE Fufure.

Professor il. H. Bailey of Cornell
university estimates that more than
half the people of the United States
live on farms. AS the proper balance
of production and consumption will
make it necessary that at least half
our population always shall be farm
ers, Professor Bailey holds that the
education of these farmers is one of
the great problems now before the
world. In an article in the July num-
Der of the Worlds Work, Professor
Bailey declares that fully half the en-
ergies of the agricultural colleges in
the several states are devoted to the
mechanic arts and that the amount of
money and energy devoted directly to
agricultural education is small when
compared with that expended on other
professional and technical education.
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As THE WORLD
II EVOLVES
Rosfonds Sitter.

Nine de Margerie, the brilliant and
beautiful sister of Edmond Rostand
the author of "Cyrano de Bergerac"
and "L'Aiglon," is now on her way to
America to take up her residence in
Washington Her husband, M. de Mar
gerie, one OF the most promising young
diplomats in the service Of France, ar
rived in Washington about q month
ago to assume the duties of First Sec
rotary of the French Embassy. Dur
ing M. Cambon's absence in Europe,
M. de Margerie will act IS Charge
d'Affaires.
Mms. de Margerie. whose mother
was a Spaniard, has inherited from
her her dark beauty of color and fea-
ture, with an expression of indefnable
charm She possesses also the reputa-
ton OF being one of the brightest and
wtttiest young women of the diplomat
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If secret investigation of trusts by
the federal government is actually in
progress, as reported, it may at least
serve the useful purpose of revealing
the inadequacies of the Sherman anti
trust law.
Notwithstanding the popular clanor
the Sherman act represents the only
legislation of that character enacted
by Congress. To go further than this
has been declared impossible without
violating the spirit or letter of the
Constitution, which guarantees unre-
stricted commerce between the states
Any inquiry started by the Attorney
General must therefore be made with
reference to alleged violations of the
Sherman act. That this law is made
quate when it comes to authorizing in
reference with present Industrial COM
bfnes is plainly manifest to anyone
who is at all familiar with the nature
of these consultations. This act
uals or corporations where the natur-
al or direct effect of it is to regulate
or restrain interstate commerce. In
three cases involving the question of
agreements to maintain rates and
prices the Supreme court sustained
the law. Two of these were suits
against joint traffic associations, while
one was a suit against the Addyston
Pipe and Steel Company, which had
sought through an agreement to con-
troll the market for its commodity in
thirty-six states
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Boers or Ff6hfer.s.

Captain Reichmann, the military at
tache sent by the United States gov
eminent to observe the operations on
the Boer army, has made official report
which carries more weight than the
views of newspaper correspondents
CAPTAIN Reichmann praises the Beers
as men, but criticises them for lack OF
discipline as soldiers. He says that
the Americans in the Boer army are
the aggressive element in it. He inti-
mates. however. that defeat was inev-
liable in any case because of the over
wnelming numbers of the British.
During a stay of seven months Cap
tain Reichmann saw no drunkenness
and heard no profanity in the Boer
caEps-a record hardly to be dupli-
Gated in any American camp during
war or peace. The burghers read their
Bibles AMI hymn books after the days
fighting or marching, and their re-
Hgious sentiment controlled them at
all times. They were Mortified at the
slaughter of the enemy almost as much
as they were grieved by their own
losses. They never failed to treat
Britich wounded or prisoners humane
Iy. The military attache remarks that
If there was any violation Of the rules
of war it was not confined to one side.
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Lessons of fbe Boer War.

Jean de Bloch, promoter of peace
conferences, declares that the main
lesson of the Boer war is that sue
cessful outcome of a war of agrees
sion against any great power could not
be hoped for. He holds that military
service as practiced today is absurd;
that maneuvers are in no way related
to real war; that no results could be
obtained in European war, and that,
as it has become impossible to wage
war decisively, preparations or secri-
fees for war are unnecessary.
The real lesson of the Boer war is
that a devoted and patriotic people
fighting for country and home cannot
be conquered simply by superior num-
bees. Had the Transvaal been one of
the great powers, the war would have
ended with the capture of Pretoria and
the dispersion of the Boer armies.
This would have been in accordance
with usage and precedent. But the
Beers, a law unto themselves, f0ught
on.
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People and
~ E-OenfS

Canada and IRE Doukbobers.
The Dominion of Canada is eager to
make immigrants feel at home within
its borders, especially If they come
from the land of the car
The Doukhobers are people who were
"persecuted'' in Russia because of their
practices. 1t was the proper thing
throughout the British empire at the
time to take for granted everything
charged against Russia, and to extend
sympathy and succor to any people in
the cars dominions who said that
they were not permitted to worship
God according to the dictates of their
conscience. Canada as an important
part of the British empire has extend
ed heart welcome to the various
sects in Russia that during the last
two decades have been ordered to con-
form to the laws and customs of the
land or move out of it.
So the Doukhobers came. They
founded a colony in the far Northwest
and they seemed to flourish, Then it
began to leak out that the Doukhobers
entertained some very peculiar views
and followed some very peculiar prac-
tees. They believe in a community
of wives and it is against their re-
ligious convictions to pay taxes. The
Canadian government endeavored to
set them right in regard to these mat
tiers, but the Doukhobers protested that
they would move away from the Do
minion rather than abandon their re-
ligious principles. The Canadian gov
eminent wanted settlers and colonists
above all things, SO special law was
enacted giving the Doukhobers the
privileges they desired and enabling
them to practice their free-love and
anti-tax doctrines without interior
ence.
Now the whole of Northwestern Can
ada is in a turmoil over the agita-
ton for a repeal of the law. In the
meantime Russia has been relieved of
large number of people not wanted
in that country of lone law, one re-
ligion and one ruler
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Dog saved kitten.. Lite.

A man servant in family in Eng
land some time ago took a kitten to a
pond, with the intention of drowning
it His masters dog went with him,
and when the kitten was thrown into
the water the dog sprang in and
brought it back to land A second
time the man threw it in, and again
the dog rescued it: and when sor the
third time the servant tried to drown
it, the dog, as resolute to save the lit
tie helpless life as the man was to de-
stroy it, swan with it to the other side
of the pool, ran all the way home with
t. and deposited it before the kitchen
fire From that time the dog kept con-
slant watch over the kitten The two
were inseparable. even sharing the
same bed
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e,esf virsinia4 Governor.

Governor Albert B. White of West
Virginia. who is personally looking
after the interests of the afflicted dis
tricts, came to West Virginia from
Ohio, the state of his birth. He was
graduated from Marietta (Ohio) Col
lege, and soon afterward became a
newspaper reporter. He saved his
wealth. and in 1881 he bought the
State Journal of Parkersburg, w. Va,
at that time an obscure paper Under
Mr.. Whites management the paper
grew in value and importance, and
soon became the leading republican
journal in the state In 1887 its editor
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strained-he called her Madam.
Miss" anything-rather than to sig
nal the triumph of the man who had
taken her from him by calling he1
MRS. Martineau-" She lodged his
name with feminine adroitness; and.
when sne could no longer avoid 1t.
called him "Mr. Raymond" with pain
full precision In the subconsciousness
of each, the Nina" and Leon" of
that former life seemed unquiet. wan
dering ghosts, ready to spring forth
with insistent vitality. But a good.
healthy business relation is marvel
GUS tranquilixer OF graveyard associa-
tons; at least. these two found 1t so.
At the end of six months the feeling
Of restraint. of suspicion. had worn
away. At the end of year it had
given place to a very genuine sense Of
comradeship. decidedly more satisfac-
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Life is privilege. Its youthful days
Shine with the radiance of continuous Mays
10 live to breathe to wonder and desire,
10 feed with dreams the hearts perpetual hre;
Wit anbitons-in hour to know
The depths and heights of feelng-Cod! truth,
How beautiful how beautiful youth!
Life is privilege. Like
The mysteries of the human mind unclose
What marvels lie earth, and and sea!
What of knowledge keyI
What roads of happiness lead
Beyond the realms of Incidence and doubt!
And what large pleasures smile upon and bless
The busy of usefunessl
Life is privilege. Though noontde fades
And shadows fall along the winding glades,
Though joy-booms wiher the
Yet the of sympathy there
Pale leads closer kind,
And in the serious hours of life find
Depths in the souls of which lend worth
And majesty o this brief span of earth.
Life a privilege If sad fate
Sends is alone seek the
If forsake and shadows fall,
Still does the supreme privilege of all
Come that reaching upward of the soul
To find the welcoming Presence the goal,
And the knowledge that feet have trod
FAITHS that led from, and wind back God
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, in the Cosmopolitan
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having made a rec
ord in the civil
war. The wholesale
rascality in connec-
ton with street
railroad franchises
there stirred the
old soldier up, and
from the pulpit
last Sunday he de-
nounced the cor
ruptiOniSts in I'M
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love for ormand Sevfffe, calm. clean
hearted gentleman, albeit rather cold
in exterior.
81 cannot let Elizabeth love that
drinking, carousing, billiard-p playing
wretch you have there" Mrs Mar
tineau protested, with fervid elo-
quence. Its quite impossible-he'a
unworthy of her.
"She will discover that in due time"
Raymond argued. "She Is only to b
temporarily infatuated. Then Ormand
will awaken her real. permanent at.
lection
After the bead and the sparkle have
gone to the first" she urged
Does the first always get the bead
and sparkle? 1 would be happy to
believe So" Raymond interjected. with
one of those dangerous lapses that
were becoming all too frequent since
the subject of love had come to tbs
fore.
I'm stories-yes In real life-noi"
she retorted, with feminine perversity.
This was dangerous ground. and she
knew it, SO she said they would put
away the story for that day, as She
could not be postponed.
On the morrow they returned to the
onslaught
the leaves of the manuscript, but look
ing at Mrs Martineau with danger
Gus something in his eyes-"What
about Hardcastle?" That was the
hero she did not approve OF.
love him-even for little while-he's
not fit
Are women always governed by
their lovers fitness?"
They should be-"
But are they?" She had admitted
in the other life they had lived to-
gether, that she did love him. and If
he was ''fit" then why not Raymond
realized that he was of the track and
jerked himself up.
"If you'll let Elizabeth love Hard
castle Just for little while, I'll. why
I'll do any thing you wish with him
after that, I'll kill him if you say so. ="
why can't you kill him now?" she
fashed-"it strikes me that is the
best disposition to be made of him.
can't let Elizabeth love him-not for
a little while and-to please you!"
Her eyes dropped and her voice toe
at the last
The something that had been SUM
bering in him leaped to flame.
'Do you really care to please me?"
He was nearer to her now than even
the demands of collaboration required.
She was startled out of her self
why, why, 1 shouldn't mind pleas
ing you if it were not at the sacrifice
of principle; but I couldn't let Eliza
BETH
Hang Elizabeth he cried, and she
never knew what became of the pencil
she had in her hand, "she may love
Just whoever she pleases if only her
mistress will consent to do the same.
Nina, it's out now, SO let it GONNA.
this elaborated, secondhand love
won't do! It's decidedly too Barmacidal
for a man who has been hungering for
the real thing for how many years is
it, Dearest?"-
GA woman never counts years" she
whispered with a last dying effort to
keep from succumbing to the newt
able.
Save by their loss" he cried rap
turously as he gathered a more real
woman than Elizabeth into his eager
that refused to tell the lies she babe
them-.Elizabeth and the rest of them
can fight it out on their native heath;
1 care not what becomes of them. You
and are going back to the old, sweet
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&c corps. During the summer M. and
Nine. de Margerie will occupy a cot
tage at Manchester-by-the-Se In the
autumn they will reside in Washing
ton at 1853 N street, the former home
of Colonel Tyler and where later in
the season they will entertain M. Ros-
tand, who it is needless to say, will be
the social lion of the day.
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Senator Kyle Of South Dokofe

James H. Kyle, whose illness was
reported last week, is serving his sec
ond term as United States senator
from South Dakota. having been first
elected in 1891 as an Independent. Dur
ing his present term he has generally
acted with the republicans. Before 60
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"a Woman Never Counts Years"
collaboration of other days. It's worth
all the pen and ink stun in the uni
verse"
And, looking into her happy face,
you would not have thought she cared
a flip what became of Elizabeth.
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ruptiOniS'

measured terms. The theft of the fran
chises, he said, was municipal treason.
and the curse of God would rest on the
men who for personal ends betrayed
their city. Mr.. McCook has been life
long Republican.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-07-13

was elected president of the National
Editorial Association Of the United
States His nomination for governor
two years ago by the republicans was
unanimous. He had already served az
collector of internal revenue by APP
pointment of President Harrison, and
was rightly consfdered the strongest
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-07-13

To grow old nicely Is . great art.
and old people ara quite mistaken In
imagining that they must necessarily
De bores to the young. though some
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What Became of Elizabeth.

BY EVA WILLIAMS MALONE.
Copyright, 1901, by Daily Story Pub COD
/ Since collaborating is the popular
fad, why shouldn't we try it?" he said,
tentatively, as he handed her pack
age of accepted manuscript for her
department.
Years before they had projected the
collaboration of their lives, but a base
less lovers quarrel, backed up by two
hot tempers and two stubborn Wills,
had cast all their rosy dreams into
pie" In a spasm of resentment she
married another man, and spent the
time until death relieved her in repent
ing her rashness. He had vented his
Resentment by assuming a bitter at
titude toward all women. and especial
ly toward her.
Now, by strange irony of fate, they
were thrown together as workers on
the same magazine. When they as
certained that this was to be their
relation. the first impulse of each was
to resign the work-the second was to
keep straight on so as to show the
other that they didn't care"
At first the situation was horribly
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IL. Hon. Min -ss.rrifs,s claim.

The Hon. Bill Sterritt, formerly of
HawesviIle, KY, but now newspa-
per correspondent going at large. il
being suggested as the proper person
to MI a Congressional vAc-zcy In one
Of the Texas districts The people Of
Texas might go further and do WORSE
The Hon. Bill Is . nne. large man
He has the reputation of never having
turned a deserving 5uzop from his door.
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Req. Mccook .st,rred Up.

Rev Henry C. McCook of the Tab
ernacle Presbyterian church, Philadel-
rhia, is one of "the fighting McCooks,"
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The Gold -Orrfouf.

From advance sheets furnished by
The Engineering and Mining Journal
1t appears that the United States was
the greatest of gold and silver pro-
ducers during the year 1900 In gold
production Australasia dropped from
first to second place and the Trans
wall, which beat this country's output
in 1899, fell far to the rear, owing to
the stoppage of mining operations by
the war. The following table indicates
the relative position of the. countries
named except the Transvaal whose
record last year puts 1t below some
of the minor producers which are not
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1t II likely that Russia produces far
more gold than IL reported and would
hold hrst place were the bullidns pro-
duction instead of the coinAGo pro-
duction given While gold = being
produced at this rate and made into
money there can be no hard tmeA
Middletown transcript., 1901-11-09
KILLED WHILE he SLEPT

Car No. "a of the Wilmington and New
Castle railway struck and instantly
killed an unknown colored man about
three miles below New Castle about II
o'clock on Saturday night. The car that
struck the man was on its return trip
from Delaware City.
When about opposite the gateway to
William s. Hilles' residence, Motorman
George Powell noticed dark object
lying directly across the track. He en-.
deayored to stop the car, which was
going pretty rapidly, but was too late.
As he came closer he saw that the object
was man who appeared to have gone to
sleep directly on the track. In an instant
the car struck the man almost seyerine
his body and killing him outright.
Middletown transcript., 1901-11-09

l,Daiiy. sDaiIy except c1ldsy. tsaturdays
asa stops 70 leave rasse,.sse,s non, xv,,n,,,.z.
ton and points north, or we passengers ToT
points south OF Deimar.
Stops to leave passengers rom NeW
.f' Stops only notice TO q lduetor or age, t.
or on signal.
'.f' stops to leave passengers rom Middle
.ip stops to take on passengers for Cape
Charles aud beyond.
.o sps Stops ss 70 leave .pe.ssrgers from pois ts
mingtOn and points north.
son Saturdays arrives 9.21 p M.
Arriyes daily except Saturday ard sunday.
NEW CASTLE ACCOM- MoDATfoN TRAIits Leave
WhmipgtonS g i3 a. M, SOB, sG2 AID 6-5S p. NJ,
week days. Leave New aste s q. 9si5 1903
o. m. 6.4i p. m week daYs.
Express trains leaving Harrington 8 10 g. m.
snd arriving at $40 p. M, week days. run
through solid to and from Baltimore. Via forteT
and Newark.
BRANCH ROADS.
DELA WARE, MARYLAND u EIKGINIA r. r.
Leave Harrington for franklin City and way
stations l0.3e m 6.14 NJ week days. Return
ing train leaves Franklin City $50 .. ne. and
Leave Franklin City for chircotesaue wis
steamer) i2i p. m. week days Returning,
leave Chincoteague : % q. M. Week-days
Leave Harrington for Georgetown. and Lswes
At 20 m 6.i4 p. M, week days Restraining,
leave Iewes 6.i' q. m AID s.03 D. m week
days
Leave Harrington for Rehoboth la.ss a. m.
Tuesdays. Thursdays aud Saturdays only.
Returning, leave keh0bOth z4o p. m. Tues.
days, Thursdays and Saturdays only.
Leave Harrington for Berlin, 10 IS =. M and
6-l4 p M week days. Returning leave Berlin
6.36 m and 2.29 p. m. week days
Leave Clayton for Chesiert0wn ard way
stations A. q. M. week days eturnInR.
leave ChestertOwn $50 a. IN w'ek-days
Leave Massey for thesiertown anu way sta.
tons 1921 4 m. and 5.3n d. m week days
Returning, leave Cbesttrtown 626 u in and
230 p. m, weekdays
QUEEN ANNE & KKET R-Laave Townsend
for Centreyille and way stations 2. y ra and
aO8 m, week days Returning Iewyss Centre
vile 81 =. M. and 45 p. ~ !. week-cayt.
DELAWARE q CHESAPEAKE X. R--Leaee CLAY.
ton for Oxford and way stations 81 q M md
"a M, week days Returning. Ieava oxford
SO a. m, and 81 p M. weekdays
CAMBRIDGE q SEApoHD r f1.-fseave SeafOrd
Tor Cambridge and intermediate stations H. IA n
m aud 52p m. week days Returning Ieavs
Cambridge 90 Am. and 35 d. ln wpe -days,
CoEEEcTIUN.-At Porter with Newark and
Delaware City Railroad. At Townsend with
Queen Anne's 4 Kent kailroad All Clayton
with Delaware Chesapeake RaiIruaf s,tJ
Baltimore & Delaware bay iajfroad Al Ilar.
rinEton- with Delaware Maryland 4 Viesfnia
Railroad At tseH4ord with Cambridge 4 Sesford
Railroad. It ilelinar. with New York. pIlila.
delphia Y Nol folk. Wicnmico PnnoTnoke q. and
Psninsuls Railroads..
q HUT; .B fSON. cieneral Nax.,.,.v
J T. WOOD General Passenger Agent.