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The Monte Vista journal., 1902-08-30
FORWARD

The president, in his Swing
around the Circle, takes n correct
view Of the trust situation in de-
clnring that cooperation of capital
has come To stay and /, Is IDLE to
talk about going back to the days
of competition. As 10 how large
business shall be- conducted in
order to conserve the best interests
Of all the people is an open qucs-
tion. The president says:
"Some governmental sovereign
must Tx gwen full power over
thosr artificial and very powerful
corporations. beings. In my judg-
ment. this sovereign mus, he the
national government.
Even when the full power has
been conferred. it would ic highly
undesirable to attempt too much
or Ia begin by stringent legislation.
The mechanism Of modern bust.
ness is rs delicate and complicated
n. il il vast. and nothing would II
more productive of evil 10 nil of us.
an! especially To those least well
of in the worlds goods. than ig.
norant meddling with this mcch.
nnism and. above all. If the med.
ding WAS done IN spirit Of class
or sectional rancor.
Much Of the complaint against
combination. is entirely unwnr.
ran,cd. Under present day con.
diti"ns il Is rs necessary To have
corporations in the business world
ss It is To have organization among
wage. workers. But we have IA
right Ia ask in each case that they
shall do gsssl and M, harm"
The Monte Vista journal., 1902-08-30
The Taxing Power.

The voter reads that il coats u
hundred million dollars to run the
greatest city in America. He
Xssps with astonlshmcnt.
But do you think that the take.
levied by Nation. State. county and
city amount to anything. They
amount to nothing. The real
power Of taxation ~ thi. country
Is the taxing power Of the trusts.
Think how many trusts are ut
work taxing the single city Of New
York.
The Sugar Trust. the Food
Trust. the Gas Trust. aud there
are endless others.
For hard coal TIL. coming Win.
ter the added tax On the people Of
New York CITY. according to care.
ful calculation. will liz thirty mil
lions Of dollars.
How u that for heavy taxation!
The tax inflicted upon that same
city by the cxorbi.ancc Of the Food
Trust is practically incslculsblo.
An estimate of this tax of In.
creased prices by ooe trnst alone
At two hundred snd fifty millions
of dollars would tc r,dic,,lously
far trncath the mark.
What Is the usr 1T thinking
about regular taxation. and i'a.,ng
our politics on TINT kind Of tax.
ation. when We arc taxed on y
scale ~ much more magnificent by
the real powers 10 the Na,ion-thc
tru.tsi
Tens Of Thousands of children In
one great city must O. without
education l,ccausc the city cannot
raisr four or I've m,llioa dollars.
hut 10 that san,e city The Coal
Trust. without say trouble. raises
% extra thirty m,llioa dollars. as.l
The Fool Trust raises two hundred
ssd afsy nillioss as.l nsorr. The
Aoericaa.
The Monte Vista journal., 1902-08-30

The rights and the interests of
the laboring man have even been
the dearest thought O: pharaohs,
empcrors, barons. kings and the
magnates of the past as well as
those Of to-day. They have been
so devoted to him that they fast.
ened bin to the land for fear he
should get off the earth and starve
to death. Sunday News.
The Monte Vista journal., 1902-08-30

ALL the railroad companies in
the State have refused to pay any
taxes under the law passed by the
fusion legislature and as n result
most of the counties are embarrassed
for funds with which TO meet cur
rent expenses. Some Of the coun-
try press ARE ready to "lay down
aud take what the corporations ARE
willing to pay rather than uphold
the law and force collection.
Sooner or later the taxpayers will
learn that corporations are rum
ming things and to oppose them
means stagnation in sIl lines of
business.
The Monte Vista journal., 1902-08-30

Center was billed to play ball
with Monte Vista but got their
backs up because two players
from La lara had promised to
play with Monte Vista.
The Monte Vista journal., 1902-08-30

THE anthracite coal barons are
not losing anything by the pro-
longed strike. They put up the
price of coal sufficiently to more
than cover all losses.
The Monte Vista journal., 1902-08-30

GOLD and silver mining is aboni
the only industry that Is safe from
the trusts. The only way to cor
ner gold Is to buy out the mines.
The Monte Vista journal., 1902-08-30

The Coal Trust. by its attempt
to crush the miners union. has
become not an enemy to organized
labor merely. but to the whole
communicable.
The Monte Vista journal., 1902-08-30

The expert WIN came over irom
Pagosa Ia get the last drill ro.ls
ont ii the Mo-ca oil well did not
suc'rcd IN the undertaking and tho
we'll has h,en abandoned. Tho
casing !. i'cinu ,nkcn up anil will
liz used Ia casing u now we'll ~x,a
70 b oommsecsd. -ilooper Press.
Evening star., 1902-08-28

southeastern Europe. 1t is not easy to take
census of a nomadic people, but If any
dependence may be placed upon official es-
Inmates, Hungary may almost claim to be
what our correspondent calls 1.-THE Prom
ised Land" of the race. If, as is believed
Its gypsy population reaches 100 000 il pos
sesses more than quarter of the total for
all Europe. Roumania, however, contains
an even larger number, the old Wallachian
province having been one of their greatest
strongholds. Governments, especially of
the paternal continental pattern, have gen.
orally looked upon these Bohemian wan
derers as a nuisance and have sometimes
preston, though in most cases with slight
success.
For the matter of that the proposals now
being considered at Buda-Pesth are suffl-
GENTLY drastic. A commission of experts
has recommended that every town and viii
lage in Hungary shall have a number of
gypses allotted to it, whether they like It
not. They are to be trained to handi-
crafts or to agricultural labor, and such Of
them as refuse to bend their necks to the
yoke are to be gathered into two great
reformatories holding 1000 recalcitrants
each. There is q touch of the grotesque
in the notion that a people who have been
ceaselessly on the move for many cen
regular hours and to sleeping under a roof
for all the world like the stationary Cen
tiles for whom they often feel SO much
contempt. But perhaps the contemplated
measures are intended less for actual en-
forcement than to frighten away the Ro-
many, who might prefer to cross the Tran
sylvania frontier into Roumania.
Evening star., 1902-08-28
In Persian Towns.

From the New York Tribune
In Persia, as well as in Turkey and
throughout the orient generally, modern
waterworks are unknown, and in every
Persian town the women and girls may be
seen at daybreak Oh their way to the COM
mon wells just as in old Bible times. They
carry their pitchers on their shoulders and
bring water for the household uses of the
day. The well is the general clearing no Sc
for news. Another common sight in Per-
sian towns is the tea seller. He carries
big brass teapot in either hand, the one
full Of hot water, the other of tea. Ills
cups are in a tray, which is fastened to
his belt. He cries in a singsong tone, Hot
tea Sweet tea, Tea of crimson color"
His tea is prepared with herbs, and has
delicious thymy odor. Wine is carried about
in beefskins, which. pumped out to tneir
original form by the fluid within, present
Startling appearance to the novice. 1t is
one of the impossible things for the west
ern barbarian to attain admission to the
Persian royal harem, but the rdge for pho
tographs has penetrated even that seques-
tered spot, and photographers have lately
been admitted for the purpose of photo.
graphing the royal infants.
Evening star., 1902-08-28
RELIGION IN AUSTRALIA.
A Great Revival Progressing in Mel
bourne and Other Cities.
From the Presbyterian.

From the Presbyterian.
Australia has been looked upon by many
persons as the land of wild and reckless
living. But n change has come over 1t
within recent years. Melbourne, especially,
revival. In great simultaneous mission
no less than PA churches took part 1t
was preceded by a far-reaching league, in
which some 1900 persons participated. The
missioners numbered fifty, and the services
were held, not in the ordinary churches
but in town halls. or tents. Denominations
alism was lost sight of, for the time be-
ing, and all Protestants gave themselves
heart and soul, with the utmost unity and
fullest cooperation. to the common work
of soul-saving.
The popular response was spontaneous
and cordial. No building appeared to be
large enough to hold the crowding audi
ences which assembled to hear the Word of
Life. Even the exhibition building, an i'm
mense structure, was so filled at times
while crowds gathered about it. that II
seemed, 1t is said, like "a besieged build
ing" The theaters lost their fascination
for the many, and the Christian service
evinced the greater drawing power.
One writing Of the depth and extent OF
the gracious work maintains that 1t estab-
lished, as never before, "how deep and
strong Is the religious instinct in the Aus
tralian character" and 'how overwhelm-
ing Is its response to any adequate an
peal" Several facts are mentioned In sun
port of this declaration. Australia has.
"proportionately. more churches than any
other country, the number being 6.Ol3, or
210 to every 100000 people. England has
LA churches to every 10000. Russia only
66 to the same number"
Evening star., 1902-08-28
GERMANS IN AUSTRALIA.
They Are Not Given to Anglo
phobia.
Correspondence of the London Globe.

Correspondence of the London Globe.
Although a large proportion of the Aus
tralian population is of Teutonic origin,
there has not been the slightest display,
openly. at any rate, of Anglophoba on their
part. Prolonged residence in Australia ap-
pears to have the same effect on the Ger
man that 1t has on the Irishman. While
retaining an imperishable love of his native
land, he has learned to take broader view
of national affairs, and has repeatedly dis
claimed all sympathy with the attacks
made by Germon newspapers upon the char
acter of the Australian contingents, point
ing out that the ranks of the latter contain
many troopers of German birth. True, the
sympathies of the great body of Germans
resident in Australia are not with Mr..
Chamberlain, but at the same time they
are not with eX-Presdent Kruger nor DIR.
Leyds. whom they bitterly censure as the
real enemies of the Transvaal. Occasion
ally copy of some German illustrated
paper containing pictures of alleged atroci-
ties by British and Australian troops in
South Africa reaches German families in
the commonwealth, but the pictorial libels
are not regarded seriously, the various Aus
tralian papers having published daily all
available details of the progress of the war,
and hundreds of letters from the front, in
which the shortcomings of commanders and
others were freely commented upon. More
than this, there are at present in Australia
lie to the mischievous Misrepresentation
of the German press.
What has largely influenced German opin-
ion at the antipodes is the fact that up to
the present the Australians have never
sought to make the Boer an object of ridi-
cule or contempt. They regard him as a
brave but ignorant man, who has been mis-
led by reckless schemers, and who has
more to gain, from every possible point of
view under the British flag than under the
regime of the men who formerly held the
rens of power in Pretoria. In Sydney and
Melbourne, however, the representatives of
German commercial houses are becoming
alarmed at the possibility of a boycott of
German goods. So intense is the general
Indignation at the manner in which the
character of the Australian contingents in
South Africa has been maligned by German
newspapers that many storekeepers have
refused to renew their orders for goods Of
German origin. Even the proprietors Of
Australian newspapers are hesitating be-
fore giving fresh orders for colored Christ
mas supplements printed in Germany"
Should there be any further attacks on the
Australian contingents there will be a rapid
decline of German business in the common
wealth. So well is the possibility Of this
understood by the German business COM
munity in Australia that no opportunity is
lost of displaying a kindly feeling toward
Australia and Great Britain. The senti-
ment may not be sincere, but it's apparent
existence is a necessity.
Evening star., 1902-08-28
Trees Are Treasures.

FROM the P.ttsDurg Gost.
Time changes all things, and time is
changing the public and private estimate
of trees in this country. When the pio-
neers came upon a vast wilderness the
trees were as much opposed to their maxi
ing comfortable livelihoods as were the cop
per-skinned savages. They made war upon
the forest with more zeal than judgment;
they slaughtered and laid waste. With such
beginnings of the people their con-
stituted authorities have been slow to make
laws for the protection Of mere trees,
though gradually the worth of the latter
have come to be understood by many. Old
trees soon will be held they should be.
to be sacred, and young trees something
to be encouraged. fostered and trained in
the way they should go. 1t is only a few
years since DIR. Marshall of this state as
tonshed the public by bringing suit against
a telephone company for hacking branches
off some stately trees because they inter-
fered with the strnging or proper .nsuls-
ton of its wires. The courts sustained the
doctors contention that ancient trees are
treasures. The telephone company will
not soon forget the fact, for it was COM
PEELED to pay smartly for the destruction
1t wrought.
Evening star., 1902-08-28
The Old Surf Bath.
From Outing.

FROM outing.
1t is not so many years ago when surf
bathing Of a very primitive kind prevailed
al the eastern end of Long Island, and, for
aught l know. at other points. Every Sat
urday morning or afternoon, as the tide
willed, throughout the summer, big farm
wagons trundled down to the beach and
were swung around abreast of the line OF
breakers Old fish houses served the pur-
pose of modern bathing pavilions, and the
sea costumes were those Of last years VIII
lage street. A long rope was drawn from
under the seats and htched to the wheel,
and then some sturdy eX-whaler or life
crew man, in red flannel shirt and old
trousers tied at the ankles, slipped his waist
through the loop at the end of this primi-
tive life line. and. wading out, kept it as
taut as circumstances permitted, while the
women and children hung to ii and reveled
and wallowed and shrieked, rejoicing in
their Saturday tub"
Evening star., 1902-08-28
OLDEST WORKING LOCOMOTIVE.
An Engine Built by Stephenson in
1922 Still in Use.

From the London Railway News.
One of the original locomotives built by
George Stephenson in 1922 for the opening
of the line of the Hetton colliery, near
Durham, England, between their works, a
few miles northwest of Durham, and the
shipping staithes on the Wear at Sunder-
land, is still employed hauling the trucks
at Hetton, and is now, after eighty years
continuous service, claimed to be the ''old
est working locomotive in the world" The
principal dimensions of this "old-timer"
are: Diameter of the cylinders, 10A inches;
piston stroke "a inches; diameter of the
wheels, 8 feet. The weight of the engine is
10 tons, and it has haulage capacity of
about 129 tons at speed OF 10 miles an
hour on a fairly level track. Its general
design excepting the cab remains as orig
inally constructed, while some parts, nota-
bly, the steam dome, are actually portions
Of the engine as constructed in 1S22.
After this long and faithful service 1t is
not surprising to learn that the engine is
at last becoming unequal to the ever
increasing demands made upon 1t, and the
directors of the Hetton colliery, therefore,
and with commemorate appropriateness,
shortly intend to withdraw the relic from
Hetton, and it will in the course of few
weeks find a permanent resting place at
the Durham College Of Science, Newcastle
on-Tyne, where 1t Will be preserved 10 TINS
and future generations as a worthy eX-
ample of the earliest period OF locomotive
engineering 1t may be noted here that
Stephenson's mo l Locomoton," built for
the opening of the Stockton and Darlington
railroad in 1925, continued in working on
"the first public railway" until 1850, when
It passed into the hands of Messrs. Pease
& Partners. by whom it was used for col
iiery purposes until 1857, at which time
it was placed on a pedestal for exhibition
at Darlington station, where IT Is to be
seen today. so that not only In point of
date Of construction. but also as regards
years of "active service" must the engine
used at the opening of the first public rail-
Way give place to that constructed for the
Hetton line by George Stephenson four
Evening star., 1902-08-28
GOVERNMENT SAVINGS BANKS.
Criticisms of the British Committees
Report
From the New York Evening Post.

From the New York Evening Post.
The recommendations of the parliament
ary committee that has been looking into
the conditions of government savings
banks, with reference to the necessity of
adopting a lower interest rate, have
aroused storm of protests. The London
Statist characterizes the committees report
as "a tissue of misconceptions, false anal
ogy and inconsequent reasoning"
1t adds: ''The government invites the
poorer classes of its subjects to deposit
with it in the hope of encouraging thrift.
1t is obviously a breach of faith to use the
money for the benefit of the taxpayers.
The committee, then, is palpably wrong in
saying that the government has the right
to use the money deposited with 1t In any
way it pleases. 1t has no such moral right.
OF course, parliament can do what 1t
pleases. There are no means of coercing
1t into good behavior. But it is not the less
morally wrong to invite money for one
purpose and to employ it for another. 1t is
quite true, we freely grant. that successive
governments have long used the money for
their own purposes. They found that they
had hit upon an unexpectedly rich mine,
and they were not strong enough to resist
the temptation 10 use the money for the
furtherance Of their own objects. More
Evening star., 1902-08-28

over, the false and mischievous system Of
political economy which grew up in this
country in the first half Of the last century
encouraged them in the improper course
they took. Its professors preached laissez-
falre on every occasion. and indoctrnated
the whole country with their heresy. If We
had had craftsmanship among us the i'm
mense sums that were poured by the depos-
itors into the savings banks would have
enabled work to be done which would have
raised the condition OF the people i'm
mensely, and would have built upon surer
foundations our future prosperity. IT is the
more odd that this was not seen. because
abroad, and notably in Prussia, the govern
ments were doing everything possible TO
train their people for the great develop
ments that have since taken place"
Evening star., 1902-08-28
Political Amenities 100 Years Ago.

From the London Times Of 1902.
After the late election for Norwich, Mr..
Windham happening to meet one Of the
electors. was told by him his reasons for
not voting for him. In the first place. he
did not like him; and in the second. his
aversion arose from his being a turn-coat,
and many more observations equally af-
fronting Mr.. Windham replied very cold
ly: You do this. sir. to put me on my
guard: but am collected, and though the
laws Of courtesy bid me knock you down.
yet as you have before voted for me. ana
as / think 1t may teach you how to behave
i'm future, ] shall only pull your nose" :"
which he did, by vTinging il well.
Evening star., 1902-08-28
CIVILIZING THE GYPsIEs.
An Effort in Hungary to Force the
Romany to Work.
From the London Standard.

From the London Standard.
bold experiment is to be tried by the
Hungarian government. According to our
Vienna correspondent 1t proposes to civil
Mze the gypsies by force. From the time of
the great immigration in the fifteenth CEN
tury, II not before, the Egyptians have
always heen exceedingly numerous in
Evening star., 1902-08-28
A Definition.
Frum Puck.

From Ouck.
Little Clarence-"Pa. what Is experience?'
Mr. Callipers-"Experience.m my son, is the
headaches you acquire from butting against
the world"
Evening star., 1902-08-28
600, 900 Gallons Daily,

Throughout the institution about 600 900
gallons Of water are used daily, and the
supply from the wells bored near the river
not proving adequate, recourse has to be
had TO river water. The next report Of the
hospital will urge Congress to appropriate
money for the sinking of more wells. or
else to provide funds with which to install
some KIND or hltering plant at st. Eliza
beth's.
Another Improvement which Dr. Richard
son desires TO carry into effect is the re-
moval and rebuilding of the morglle of the
institution. Here physicians perform much
work in bacteriology and In pathology and
the building, besides being too small for
It's varied uses, Is situated In an unfavor-
able place. Recommendations on this point
Will be made in the forthcoming report.
Particular attention is being devoted by
the landscape workers and the florists TO
the lawns and flower beds about the insti-
tuition, with the result that the grounds
present beautiful appearance. An addi-
tlon 10 the greenhouses is being made by
the erection of rose house rs by 20 feet
System Of Courts.
The system of courts and roadways
which DR.. Richardson has in contemplation
for the new section of st. Elizabeth's when
completed will be decidedly attractive. In
this connection 1t Is planned to close the
upper entrance on Nichols avenue to the
asylum and rebuild it where a former one
was located lower down the avenue.
Yesterday was visiting day at ST. Eliz-
abeth's, and hundreds of persons awaited
themselves of the opportunity to view that
part OF the institution open to them.
Superintendent Richardson has decided
that he will take no vacation this season
having been absent recently for a number
OF Gays, although not on pleasure in at
tending medical conventions in Saratoga
n. Y. and in Canada.
Evening star., 1902-08-28

Every thinking girl understands that q
mere smack is not a courtship, these DAYS.
whatever it may have been formerly
Puck.
Evening star., 1902-08-28
Broad Roadway.

The construction of roadway of crushed
concrete twenty-six feet wide, with a foot
way six feet wide, Of granolithic, has been
carried out between the administration
building Of the institution and the site of
the former stable. This roadway will ulti-
mately be carried to the buildings of the
extension. The old brick stable has been
torn down, the new one east of Nichols
avenue now being in use. The Improvement
made by the removal of the old building
and the laying out of the fine roadway is
very marked. Granolithic walks have been
laid about the kitchens. the store room, the
laundry and adjacent places. the ground In
some instances having first been raised, SO
that now all is high and dry.
The population of the government hos
pital remains at high figure. there being
on the rolls at the present time 2,3OO in
sane inmates. To relieve the crowded con-
dittons at the institution somewhat DIR.
richardson is having constructed south of
Howard Hall, the convict building, a tenn
porary frame two-stOry building capable of
accommodating 120 male patients White
men Will occupy one section and colored
men the other.
The old laundry building has been re-
modelled into ward for fifty colored fe-
males OF the working class. Their quarters
comprise sitting room, dornitory and a
dining room. In spite of the Ill adaption
OF such place for the housing of patients
their rooms have been made surprisdn eIv
cheerful and pleasant
Evening star., 1902-08-28

ENDLESS were methods of carrying out his
purposes Ramon Castillo, governor of the
province Of Macoris became much beloved
by his people. so that hisspopularity threat
ened the permanancy Of the presidents
rule Heureaux commended Castillo pub
licly for his splendid administration and
to reward him made him minister OF war.
an office taking him to the capital, but