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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-11-19

A household necessity. DR.. Thomas
Electric Oil. Heals burns, cuts, wounds
OF any sort; cures sore throat, Group, ca.
tarrh, asthma; never fails.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-11-19

Cure your cough with Hale's Honey Of
Horehound and Tar.
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-11-19

To Cure a Cold in One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 25c
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-11-19

Putnam Fadeless Dyes do not stain the
hands or spot the kettle, except green and
purple.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-11-19

The best policy il = paid-up one.-Chica
60 Daily News.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-11-19

SIS The trouble with parafine noses /,
that in hot weather they are apt %
malt s55I55s.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-11-19

Magnificent promises are always to
suspected.-Theodor Parker.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-11-19

! Posthumcus praises are like gold stripes
IN hearse.-Chicago Daily News.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-11-19

Charity seldom crawls out of . crowded
purse.-Ram's Horn.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-11-19

The little folks love DR.. Woods Norway
Pine Syrup" Pleasant to take; perfectly
harmless. Positive cure for coughs, colds,
bronchitis, asthma.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-11-19

When passion is ON the throne reason
$ out of doors.-M. Henry.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-11-19
Low Rates for Homeseekers!

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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-11-19

If man carries mortgage it is usually
because he can't lift it.-Chicago Daily
News
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-11-19

The grace to do small things may b.
greater than the gift of doing great things
Rams Horn.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-11-19

j Another club woman, Mrs. U
Haule, of Edgerton, Wis.,, tells
how she was cured of irregulari-
ties and uterine trouble, terrible
pains and backache by Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
"A while ago my health began to
fail because of female troubles. The
doctor did not help me. I remembered
that my mother had used Lydia e.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
on many occasions for irregularities
and uterine troubles, and I felt sure
that it could not harm me at any rate
to give it trial.
II was certainly glad to find that
within a week I felt much better, the
terrible pains in my back and side
were beginning to cease, and at the
time of menstruation I did not have
nearly as serious a time as hereto.
fore, SO I continued its use for two
months, and at the end of that time
was like new woman. I really have
never felt better in my life, have not
had a sick headache since, and weigh
20 pounds more than I ever did, so
unhesitatingly recommend Vegetable
Compound."-MRs. MAY HAULE, Ed
gerton, Wis, President Household
Economics Club. $1,000 forfeit if o,igina, Of
aoooe letter proving genuneness cannot be Produced
Women should remember there
is one tried and true remedy for
all female ills, Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound. Re-
fuse to buy any other medicine.
you need the best,
Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-07
AN ISOLATED LAND.

By what Is known as b Platt
amendment relative to Cuba, the Isle Of
Pines was not included in the constitu-
tional boundaries Of the new republic,
the title thereto being left to future
adjustment by treaty. Consequently
when the American occupation of Cuba
ended 1t left the people in the Isle Of
Pines without any form Of govern
ment and it is said they are now prac-
tically in a state of chaos as far as civil
order In concerned. For over a month,
says a Washington dispatch, they have
had no government except such as is
exercised by the petty authorities of a
little old Spanish town on the south
coast of the island. The schools have
been closed for want of evenu to con-
tinue them and every other public func-
ton has been abandoned. The civil af-
fairs of the island are at a standstill.
The Americans who have gone there
have taken up over half the island and
are prospecting with their farming en-
terprise. They believe they have the
finest cattle country in the world and
are in every way satisfied with their
prospects.
But they are isolated so far as their
political condition is concerned and the
American settlers have appealed to our
government to take such action as will
give them the machinery to govern
themselves. in order that they may have
roads, schools and other needed public
institutions and works. OF course moth
ing could be done until diplomatic rela-
tions were established between Cuba
and the United States and this having
been done the disposition of the Isle of
Pines by treaty will doubtless be speed
lily effected. This small piece of insular
territory is of no great value or impOr-
lance, but 1t was the opinion of con-
gress when the so-called Plat amend
ment was adopted that the island should
come under the jurisdiction Of the
United States and as there is a consid-
cradle number of Americans among its
inhabitants there will probably be no
objection on the part of Cuba to giving
this country title to the island. 1t is u
peculiar circumstance that this little
spot should have been isolated and left
without any form Of government when
American authority was withdrawn
from Cuba, but 1t will not continue
much longer in this condition.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-07

Baltimore q Ohio-not the other way.
Then came a lot Of small concerns-tho
American Rapid. the Franklin. tho Bankers
and Merchants and similar telegraph en-
terprises, oil Of them assimilsted. more or
less benevolently, by the Western Union.
II is probable that, in the last forty
years, the Western Union has taken in
two-seore telegraph companies-some OF
them opposition. some Of them subsidiary.
Its only failure has been with respect to
the Postal. That very formidable institu-
tion probably is not for sale.
But while the Western Union has been
unsuccessful in buying OF or lighting on
the competition Of the Postal company. II
by no means follows that another opposi-
tion company can do business successfully.
much less run the Western Union out
Whatever may be It's faults and weak
n%esses. the older organization has the sd-
vantage Of being intrenehed in railroad
systems and rights Of way all over the
country. II has the old heads OF the tele-
graph business In its management 1t has
the prestige Of age, name and reputation.
The contemplated opposition may win.
but 1t will have to get up early in the
morning in order to %vanquish the concern
that has been swallowing opposition COM
panies for almost half a century.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-07
Personal NOTES.

Cincinnatus was twice called from his
plow to lead a Roman army. Cronje has
decided that once will be about enough for
him.
Even IL King Edward makes the improve
ment hoped for, some Of those coronation
gowns are likely to get a little out of date
before the great event comes off.
stephen Slnding, the Norwegian SCULPTOR.
has completed two groups Of casts for the
Sherman statue to be erected In Washing
ton. These groups are allegorical. repre-
senting war and peace.
There were two Richardsons-one from
Alabama and the other from Tennessee
In the house last session and they were
constantly being mixed by inexperienced
correspondents, the Tennessee man getting
a great deal of credit which belonged
to his colleague Of the same name. The
latter. in view OF his own experience, had
much sympathy for the four Smiths in the
house.
A member Of Parliament is said to be
circulating about the London clubs q tyne
written copy of an epitaph, which he
solemnly declares is intended for John
Pierpont Morgan, and should be taken by
him as a warning not to push his world
grabbing enterprise too far. The epitaph
is as follows;
Here lies his head at last upon this earth;
He now belongs to what he made his own;
He bought the world for what he thought
1t worth,
And God once more is running things
alonel"
N. Chew, a second deputy auditor In the
Postofice department, Washington, does
little but sign his name for about eight
hours every day. 1t is said that he owes
his appointment largely to his having a
signature containing but FIVE letters and
that can be written with great rapidly.
Somebody sent Senator Burrows a big
bunch of roses one day recently and he
had them taken to his committee room.
The senator refused to tell who sent the
flowers, saying mysteriously: "They are
from an admiring friend" A colleague
raised a roar Of laughter by remarklng:
"oh, bought them yourself, eh?"
Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-07
INTEREST ON PUBLIC FUsDs.

The local republican organ very well un-
derstands why the county has not prohted
by the payment Of any interest on the de-
posit balances kept In the banks. Under
the law. County Treasurer Elsasser is not
permitted to receive the rates Of interest
which the banks have agreed to pay
World-Herald.
The Bee very well understands why
the county has not profted by the pay
ment Of any interest on deposits Of
county money, although the same banks
are paying 2 per cent on deposits of city
money. The reason is that the county
treasurer is content to loan this money
out to the banks without covering any
interest for its use into the treasury, and
the banks have entered into an unlawful
agreement not to pay the rate prescribed
by the law.
Nobody for a moment believes, how
ever, that IL the county treasurer, with
the proper backing Of the county at
torney and the other county officials, I'M
dertook in earnest to compel the banks
to pay interest on the deposits they have
accepted he would fail to accom-
plish his object. A few vigorous
measures would soon bring the banks
to time. Does anyone imagine that
County Treasurer Elsasser would turn
this money over to the banks without
Interest If the interest could lawfully
be appropriated to his own use, even
though the law fixed the minimum rate
at 3 per cent, as 1t does now7 II the
money to the credit of the county in it's
balances belonged to the treasurer in
his private capacity. we may be sure
he would be collecting interest upon it.
The innuendo of the World Herald in
its question why The Bee has said moth
ing In condemnation of the republican
state treasurer for failing to make re-
ports of the state finances, as demanded
by the republican platform, is decidedly
gratuitous. The Bee has not hesitated
to condemn State Treasurer Stuefer for
his failure to make these exhibits, but
neither has 1t hesltated to condemn his
predecessor, the great reform state
treasurer, Mr.. Meserve, not only for re-
fusing to make exhibits of the money in
his possession, but for pocketlng interest
upon the public funds to which he had
no lawful claim.
How does 1t happen that the World
Herald has had nothing to say in con-
demnation Of ex-State Treasurer Me-
serve for failing to turn back to the
school fund the interest earned on
school money? Why does not this local
popocratic organ waste some of its en-
ergy in persuading the late fusion state
treasurer to put back into the school
fund the interest money he has pocketed
which by rights belongs to the school
children of Nebraska
Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-07
FINE FIGURES FOR STUDY,
Marvellous I'm Values During
the Last Eight Years.
Boston Transcript.


Analysis of the ~semi-annual interest and
dividend payments on public securities
shows interesting contrast with the panic
years, less than a decade ago. Here are
some striking figures:
Par value OF bonds paying interest in
July, 1902, 1851. OOO. 900; par value of bonds
which paid interest in July, 1894, the year
after the panic, 81, 444, 600, 900; eight years
increase In par value Of bonds paying
31.2O7. 900. 900. or 80 per cent. These bonds
pay in July. 1902. 81, 264, OOO, against $780,
26s, 900 eight years ago; increase, S2l, OO0,-
900. or ~ per cent.
Par value Of stocks paying dividends In
July. 1902. S1,s74. 600. 900, against in July,
1894, $50. OOo. 900; increase, 81. OO4. 900. 900. or
IFS per cent. Amount paid in dividends
July, 1902. s4S. 752. 900. against Sls. ss4, 900
eight years ago; increase, S23, SOS, 900, or
121 per cent.
Total par value OF public securities pay
ing interest and dividends July, 1902, SIS
525, 900, 900. against in July, 1894, 1914
900, 900; increase. 81. 2l1 900. 900. or 6sA per
cent, Total OF interest and dividends paid
July. 1902, Sis. 900, 900. against $40, 900, 900:
increase in eight years, S45, 900, 600. or "a
per cent.
In eight years there is 6sA per cent in
amount Of invested capital in railways,
mines, manufacturing. bank. Industrial and
other 6toeks and bonds which pays in
terest and dividends 70 investors, and the
latter receive practically as much more
now than they did then. Two-thirds as
much more earned and paid in onIy eight
years! Let Dominic Sampson furnish the
comment "Prodisiousl"
Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-07
GOING AGAINST THE REAL THING.
Projected scheme TO "DOwn" Western
Union Telegraph Company.
Chicago Chronicle.

chicago CnEonlCles
That the Western Union Telegraph COM
pany will be "downed" even by such hnan-
eial st~rategists as ]. Pierpont Morgan and
Jim Keene is a contingency that does not
appear at all certain to people who have
some familiarity with the history of that
organization.
The Western Union Is probably the old
est example-in this country at least-of
the now fashionable policy Of consolidating
interests. In the case OF the Western
Union the lamb has always laid down in
side the lion, but the purpose OF keeping
the telegraph business OF the country I'M
der one management was successfully
maintained until Messrs. Maekay and Ben
nett organized the Postal company. Prior
to that time the Western Union had alb
sorbed all its rivals, one after another
usually to the financial advantage OF the
stockholders OF the competing concerns.
II used TO be a profitable speculation.
starting opposition for the Western Union
to buy.
The United States company was the first
opposition OF any consequence to enter tho
field. The Western Union reached out and
took It In about 1868, The Pacific and At
lantic was absorbed in 1873. The Atlantic
and Pacihc-a different and stronger or
ga~nization-lasted until about 1878. In
1880 the Baltimore & Ohio railroad tele-
graph system was smplihed and enlarged
by Jay Gould. who used It to fight the
Western Union. He succeeded In getting
control OF that organization. but Il Was
the Western Union which absorbed the
Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-07
THE MAN WHO LOVES A JOKE.
Minneapolis Times.

Though his pedigree he painted
'~Scutcheonless OF prince or peer,
Though he boast 10 kinship sainted
Stretching stately In his rear.
Though his funds be slow and slender.
Like of clothes and coinage broke, '
All my scruples l surrender
To the man who loves a joke,
Mark not I his lore nor living,
Coun / not his tongue nor creed,
Sin and shadow all forgiying,
Bow ] gladly to his need,
Friends and fathers ranged before me,
Clodded head and heart OF oak.
/ will give them all that bore me.
For one man who loves a Joke
Flaunt his banners fore or after,
Count his battles lost or won,
Kindly connoisseur of laughter,
Just philosopher OF fun,
Lightlier shall beat the breaker,
Lighter rest the human yoke.
On the happy co-partaker
With the man who loves a joke.
Brother to the world around him
Fellow with the clOd and clay.
Hig and low alike shall sound him
For the comfort OF their way;
Sharer Of LIES JOY and SORROW,
Bearer OF the errinB stroke.
Hopeful OF the fairer morrow:
Lives the man who loves a Joke.
Clearer Dyed and broader builded.
Kindlier toward his human kind,
Vision keen nor fancy-gilded,
Open heart with open mind.
Belf-esteeming, yet denying.
Severed from the selfish cloak.
I will spend my life relying
On the man who loves q 1oka
Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-07
ALAsT WoRD WITH THE SCHOOL BoARI

A LAST WORD WITH H. SCHOOL BOARD
Every member Of the Board of Educa-
ton assumes a grave responsibility
when final action is taken in the choice
of school superintendent The efficiency
of the public schools of Omaha depends
upon the character and capacity of the
man charged with their supervision.
P~artisanship and personal favoritism
should have no place in the selection of
the candidate or the retention of the
present incumbent.
The superintendent of our schools
should be not a politician, but an edu-
Gator. He should be above petty schem-
ing and intrigue and devote all his tai
ents and time to the task %devolving upon
him. For several years our public
schools have been handicapped and
crippled for lack of competent super
vision and intelligent direction because
Superintendent Pearse has sought to
build himself up through activity in
lodges, clubs and organizations outside
of the educational field. He has, more
over, scandalized the schools by his no.
torious relations with the school book
trust that seeks to promote its interests
at the expense Of the taxpayers and to
the detriment of the schools. Coupled
with these influences has been the sys-
tematic barter of favor or disfavor in
the appointment and promotion of teach
ers In ratio to the influence they and
their friends WELD with school board
members. 1t is a matter of notoriety
that Superintendent Pearse does not
enjoy the confidence of the majority of
the board any more than he does the
respect Of the teachers who have been
terrorized and demoralized by his meth
DDS.
Under such conditions it is amazing
that a single member Of the board
should be willing to go on record in
favor Of continuing Mr.. Pearse in his
position for another year. His re-elec-
ton would reflect upon the integrity of
the board and justly lay it liable to the
suspicion that its members either lack
the courage to do right or have become
automatons in the hands of salaried
subordinates who have pooled issues to
keep themselves On the payroll.
The proposed reelection of Mr..
Pearse could not be justified under any
plea. 1t is not a question of displac-
ing a capable man to save money. A
competent educator at $4,000 or $1,000
a year might earn his salary, while an
incompetent man is dear at any price.
1t is not a question either Of unJustly
depriving a man of a position without a
fair test Of his ability and reasonable
notice. Mr.. Pearse expected to be re-
lieved three years ago, when he was
pleading for only n year more, and
ample time has elapsed to demonstrate
his lncapacity to meet the requirements
of a city of Omaha's population and ed
ucatiOnal aspirations.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-07


Results of the vigorous campaign for
immigration under way in Canada are
shown in an official report for the year
figuring the increase in settlers for 1902
at over $1,000 more than in 1901. The
significant part of the table is that
which dlscloses the source Of immigra-
ton as between Great Britain, the
United States and continental Europe.
or the 64,634 Canadian settlers recorded
for 1902 the United States leads with
24,099, as against 1900 for Great
Britain and 23,535 for all other countries
The United States, moreover, contrib
uted CLIP of the 1925 increase, or con-
slderably more than a third. 1t is plain
that the Canadian government has set
about 1t In the right way to induce
newcomers to settle up it's unoccupled
territory. Vast areas of the west in
our own country are waiting on settle
ment that should be promoted by sim
liar systematic effort and would have
no difficulty in competing successfully
for a large share of the stream of imml-
grafton now directed principally to Can
ada.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-07

Perusal of the platforms promulgated
by conventions of various political hues
In different states affords striking proof
Of increasing strength of the demand
for the election of United States SEN
ators by direct popular vote. Planks to
that effect are to be found in quite a
number of the declarations for this year,
both republican and democratic,
whereas a few years ago such a de-
mand would be SO exceptional as to at
tract special notice. Popular election of
United States senator's may be retarded,
but the people will not stop short of its
achievement no matter how long 1t may
be necessary to fight it out along that
line.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-07
BEYOND TRUMP OF RESURRECTION.
-DemOcracy's Retired Prophet, aa
Viewed from Afar
Portland nrernnian

Portland o%regonian.
The language Of Bryan concerning the
recent speeches of ex-President Cleveland
and David r. Hill is entirely free from
ambiguity. Mr.. Bryan may not be a demo-
cratic statesman Of historic worth, but he
Is at present a very vigorous, alert and
pugnacious political figure. and he has a
very large following among the demo-
populists of the south and southwest. He
does not propose to be turned down"
without his consent. and he makes It very
clear that he will never consent to be
turned down to please Grover Cleveland or
David B. Hill. Any plan for the %restora-
tion Of the democracy to the harmony and
health prefgured by Cleveland and Hill will
die in its birth IL Mr.. Bryan is not con-
suited and deferred TO. Cleveland's talk
about the democracy Of Tilden'' is absurd.
The democracy OF Tilden has been obsolete
for ten years in the south and west; 1t has
been replaced by demo-populism, which still
prevails in this region, where Bryan's
views through his paper have a thousand
readers and admirers where the views of
Cleveland and Hill have one. This may
seem dispiriting news to the kid-slove
democracy Of the North Atlantic states, but
II Is the truth.
Mr.. Bryan does not intend to be snuffed
out, he proposes to be consulted and re-
spected in the deliberations concerning the
future of the democratic party, and IL he
is not he will be sure to make the party
caldron bubble with plenty Of toll and
trouble, for while Il is possible for the
organizing and reforming statesmen of the
North Atlantic states to refuse him a
chance to make q spoon. they are not
strong enough to prevent him from spoil
ing the horn. Mr.. Bryan is the only man
in the democratic ranks today who has an
appreciable following at the middle west.
southwest or south. He is an attractive
orator; his newspaper has a large circula-
ton; he is n man Of energy, sh~rewdness
that Cleveland, Hill and German rave
never lost a chance to defeat him, and he
will not suffer any man of their cult to be
nominated in 1904, or, failing in this, he
will secure their candidates defeat. Bryan
is determined to be distinctly recognized
and a man with at least a million of voters
at his back is pretty sure of recognition.
Napoleon told Talleyrand when he said
Europe would not permit him to march
against Moscow; Bah! Europe Is the
mistress of any man who has 500, 900 men
at his back"
Cleveland's vague, ore rotundo ventuosi-
ties count for nothing against the plain,
direct, purposeful speech of Bryan. Cleve-
land is as venerable and vacuous an orator
as Tom Hoods fruit vendor stalking
solemnly through the streets OF STEAMBOAT
crying. "In the name of the prophet, fgs!"