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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-07-31
WOMAN BURNED TO DEATH.
She Was Cleaning Furniture With Gasoline
Whsn She stepped On a Match.

A Mrs. Gross of Penn,s Grove, N.
J., was burned to death Tuesday. She
resided at Broad and Pitman avenues
and with her two daughters was clean
ing furniture with gasoline. While 50
doing, she tramped upon match aud
it set fire to her clothing.
Her daughters fought the flames and
put out the fire, but not until Mrs.
Gross was badly burned and they them
selves were injured. The accident oo-
Cured in the morning and Mrs. Gross
died last evening.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-07-31

ASSOCIATED Ties l1spttch D Special Wires.
Evansville, Ind, July g.-I.. d. ZiIaner-
man, postmaster for a quarter of Q century
at Linnyille, WaErick county, was fatally
shot late last night by two robbers who
secured over $500 in money ard made their
ESCAPE on handcar. y.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-07-31
lllSHAPS ON THE RAILROADS
Reading Station at Trenton
Was Wrecked Yesterday by
Runaway Freight Train.
ONE MAN HAD NARROW ESCAPE
Vacated the Ticket Office Just
Before the Crash.

Two Persons Are Reported Killed and
Several injured In Collision OF Passen-
ger Trains on the Chicago. Miiwsukee a
ST. Paul Railroad This Asorning.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-21
PERSONAL NOTES.

The duke Of Marlborough is not much OF
a locker. so the duchess gets her picture
in the paper about 100 times as often az
does his grace.
Judge C. NJ. Tompkins, who has been
In the Pension bureau, Washington, for
forty years. celebrated his S0th birthday
last Wednesday.
Francis Kossuth, the Hungarian states
man and a son Of Louis Kossuth, Of Hun
garian revolution fame, will be entertained
in Chicago the latter part of this month.
Governors have their woes. The chief
executives Of Rhode Island and California
are being sued for libel by men who didn't
like the governors remarks concerning
them.
Charles T. Yerkes Is credited with saying
that men are in their apprenticeship until
they reach the age OF 40, and hat a business
man is not ripe until he is ten years older
than that.
Captain Freeman, of British steamship
Roddam, has been presented with a gold
medal for gallant conduct in taking his
ship out Of St. Pierre at the time OF the
eruption Of Mont Pelee.
Ex-senator Cameron OF Pennsylvania
says he quit politics a good while ago. and
he is OF the opinion that when a man
quits and says he has quit he ought TO
quit and his friends ought TO let him quit. 4"
Senator Pettus OF Alabama, who is 50
years old. has been enjoying his vacation
in Mobile and has astonished everyone by
his sprightliness. He claims to be good
for many years public service and unless
appearances are decsitful his claim Is we'll
based.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-21
sPoONER 10 BE kA-ELEorED.

Representative Babcock of Wisconsin,
chairman of the republican national
congressional committee, told President
Roosevelt a few days ago that Senator
Spooner would be reelected. That is
the opinion of other representative
Wisconsin republicans In Washington,
all of whom earnestly desire the sena-
tors reelection. 1t is stated that every
convention held In Wisconsin to nomi-
nate legislative and local candidates
since the state convention was held
has repudiated the action of the
latter body in trying to tie Sena-
tor Spooner's hands. They have all de-
clared unequivocally for his reelection
and have pledged the legislative candi-
dates to vote for him. There appears
to be a very strong feeling against the
course pursued by Governor La Fol
lette toward Senator Spooner.
The very earnest expression of repub-
lican leaders all over the country and
of the republican press generally urging
that Senator Spooner should be re-
elected, together with the understand
ing that his retention is strongly desired
by the national administration, have led
the Wisconsin republicans to a better
comprehension than they probably had
before of the high esteem in which Mr..
Spooner is held as a statesman. They
have learned that in the general opin-
ion Of the party he is needed in the SEN
ate. The assurances given of his re-
election will be regarded by republicans
everywhere with great satisfaction.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-21
SWEARING BY TELEPHONE.
Penalty for an outbuFst of Pictur-
esQue Explosives.
New York Times

New York Times.
A case has been decided In ST. Louis and
a physician who was made defendant was
mulcted in a substantial fine for relieving
his feelings when exasperated beyond toll
GRAFTON by the vagaries Of the telephone
and pouring into It a stream OF picturesque
and variegated profanity. His defense was
that he was not swearing at the operator,
but at the system. This did not avail.
Central received the message and promptly
curled up like a caterpillar on a hot shovel.
Her ears were blistered and 1t needed a half
holiday to restore her normal equanimlty
so that she could say They're busy with
becoming calmness. The incident should
be a warning to short-tempered people who
are prone to think aloud when they have
the mouthpiece at their lips.
1t is not only very wrong to swear into a
telephone. but 1t is very foolish as we'll.
Nothing is accomplished by 1t. Our ad-
vice to the man who cannot contain him
self is to ring OF" retire to a safe dis
lance, and then say what he thinks. Cen
trail has him at a hopeless disadvantage.
She can cut him of just at the climax Of
his imprecation or connect him with some
one else-his wife or his pastor, II the OPP
p~ortunity offers. There is absolutely no
satisfaction in swearing into a dead" in
strument, nor, for that matter, in a feeling
Of uncertainty as to whether what you have
been said has been heard or not. THE
system" does not care a rap how much you
curse It, and the operator will probably find
1t a diversion from the monotony Of their
occupation to make you pay for your fun
in a police court. The only value of this
kind of diversion is in its reflex influence
upon the person who INDUCES in It. This
satisfaction II, when his internal pressure
exceeds the weighing of his moral safety
valve. he will go on by himself and, we'll
perhaps the best thing he can do then 1. TO
reflect whether 1t is worth while to swear
at all.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-21
FARMERS AND CO-OPERATIoN.
Difficulties to overcome I'm PerfectinE
n Merger.
Chicago Tribune.

Chicago Tribune.
Every harvest season somebody expa-
tiates to the farmers on the advantages Of
cooperation on a grand scale, and offers
to assist them In the labor OF cooperation
and secure for them better prices for their
products. That the farmer labors under
some disadvantages perhaps almost every
one will admit. He is not near enough
TO the field OF trade to be able to dis
pose Of his products successfully. He sells
in the dark. He sells at the wrong time.
He reads about high prices, but before he
gets to the elevator prices have fallen.
He ought to have an agent. Why not,
then. organize the farming population into
a cooperative society and let the agents
OF this society dispose Of all farm products
at the proper time and at the proper place:
The farmer will then get his own profits
instead of passing them on to the indie
pendent salesman. No idea could be more
obvious. For years people have seen that
the farmers position places him at a disad.
vantage In the market. other producers
are on the spot. The farmer is not. He
has to guess. 1t is the elimination Of guess
ing that the cooperative company will try
to effect.
Two things will be needed. Immense cap
ital and immense confidence. Managing the
sale Of the corn crop Of the middle west will
be no small task. Establishing confidential
relations between the managers and the
farmers will be even more difhcult. Here,
indeed, is the rock on which similar enter
prises have split. II is next to impossible
to establish a farmers organization which
will be effective. The ofhcers OF the or
ganization. in discharging their duty of SELL
ing. are far removed from one another.
They are in a different position from other
stockholders because they are putting in
not only money. but goods. They must
have the most implicit trust in the men
into whose hands they deliver the goods.
II this trust can be secured perhaps a
farmers cooperative company can do
something. Otherwise the farmer will con-
tinue in his haphazard ways. selling his
grain at the nearest railway station and
taking pOtluck with the market
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-21
VIEWS or LnnGE hnLMrEs

A good deal of interest has been
shown regarding the views of Judge
Holmes, who is to succeed Justice Gray
Of the supreme court of the United
States, as to the constitutional status of
the insular possessions. 1t has been
stated upon what appears to be good
authority that before making the ap-
pointment the president was careful to
definitely ascertain the opinion OF Judge
Holmes On the constitutional aspects Of
expansion and that his position was en-
tirely satisfactory to Mr.. Roosevelt. This
has been characterized in some quarters
as packing the court-a most unrea-
sonable view, since it would be mani
testify absurd to expect the president to
appoint to the supreme bench a man op-
posed TO the policy of the government.
The fact appears to be that Judge
Holmes is an anti-imperlalist in the
broad sense of the term, but he believes
In the right of the United States to hold
and rule the Philippines until such time
as a Filipino republic may be estab-
lished with safety. Thus he is not at all
in sympathy with the anti-imperialists
Of the Boutwell, school, who would have
the United States withdraw from the
Philippines and leave the archipelago
to civil strife, anarchy and bloOdshed,
perhaps to become the prey Of foreign
nations. The former attorney general OF
Massachusetts, is quoted as saying that
Judge Holmes has always been a pro-
found leader in uplifting the dignity and
power Of government and his construc-
ton OF constitutional provisions has
been invariably in the direction Of the
liberal exercise of legislative and execu-
tive functions. There appears to be no
doubt that he will entertain the same
views upon territorial questions n the
powers Of the United States govern
ment under the constitution, and the ex-
tension Of the authority Of the United
States, as were held by his predecessor.
The most trustworthy Information is
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-21
Progress of the Country
Chicago Tribune.

ShANh
The ststisticians Of the Treasury depart
ment have taken account Of the national
stock. and a marvellous showing they make
Of the progress Of the United States in it's
area, population and material industries. -
In less than a quarter Of a century the
country has zone forward by leaps and
bounds" until now It stands in the front
rank Of the nations, and its progress is stin
onward and upward"
The tabulated statistics Of the last twenty
years read like a romance, because nothing
like this growth and prosperity has been
known In the past In such comparatively
brief space Of time. In these twenty years
the population has doubled and the wealth
Of the country more than doubled, as the
true valuation Of real and personal prop
erty is fixed at s94, 000.0 900, 000, as compared
with S42, 900, 900, 200. While wealth has thus
increased, debt has naturally decreased in
nearly similar ratio, the public debt fall
ing from s1,919, 900, 900 to 81, 107, 900, 900 and
the per capita debt from $3S.27 to S14.52.
The total circulation of money and the
number OF national banks have about
doubled. while the deposits in national
banks have trebled. A most significant
proof Of this wonderful prosperity is the
fact that the deposits in savings banks
have increased from ss1e, 900, 900 TO 81, 450,-
900, 900 and the number Of depositors in
these banks from 2.2S5, 900 to e,10s, 900.
Another indication Of this great pros
perity comes from the Agricultural section
of the country. The value OF farm property
has increased from s12, 900, 900. 900 to 800, $780,
0 5000; Of the yearly products Of farms
from ST. / 900, 900 to SO ,764, 900, 900, and Of
farm animals from 81, 1872, 900, 900 to $685.
900. 0OO. 1t would be interesting to know
how much mortgage debt the farmers have
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-21

THE QUESTION or TARIFF REVISION.
The most prominent question IN the
attention of the public is that OF tariff
revision. 1t will be discussed more than
any other subject in the congressional
campaigns throughout the country. Re
publicans do not hesitate to meet the
question. They have never had any fear
Of a discussion Of the policy Of tariff
protection to American industries and
American labor and they have stronger
reasons now than ever before for advo-
eating and upholding that policy. 1t
has been m~agnifcently INDICATED by
results. 1t has placed the United States
in the lead among the industrial nations.
1t has given to American labor better
reward than is received by the labor Of
any other country. It has created for
our agricultural producers a home mar
ket which is by very far the best mar
ket in the world. Therefore the re-
publican party adheres firmly to the pro-
tective policy, while the democratic
party now as always opposes It.
The republican party. however, is not
unalterably attached to any particular
schedules. Republicans very generally
are In accord with those Of Iowa in IA
voring such changes in the tariff from
time to time as become advisable
through the progress of our industries
and their changing relations to the
worlds commerce. This lie consistent
with the course Of the party. Secretary
Of the Treasury Shaw in his speech at
Morrisville, Vt, said: Whenever con-
gress reaches the conclusion that the
friends Of protection are strong enough
to conservatively modify certain sched-
ules, 80 as to meet changed conditions
and at the same time successfully resist
the efforts of the opposition to revise the
entire tariff law, thus paralyzing bust
ness for a season, I am In favor of It"
So are republicans generally. What
they oppose is an onslaught upon the
tarin as a whole, a sweeping revision,
because they know that the effect would
be most damaging to the business of the
country and give a severe check to pros
perity. Industrial conditions are now
most favorable. There is the assurance
of generous harvests. The supply of
capital for all legitimate demands Is
All interests are looking for
ward to a greater measure Of prosperity.
While in nearly all other countries there
is Industrial and commercial depression,
the United States is having a large
home and foreign business.
In such circumstances would 1t be
wise to attack and disarrange the fiscal
policy Of the nation. with the certainty
Of producing conditions injurious to
businessT The republican party be-
lieves that it would not be wise to do
this and appeals to the intelligence Of
the country to sustain it in this position.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-21
HOT AIR TALK.
About Imperialism, Free silver and
PhantOma I'm General.

About Imperialism, Free Silver and
PhRntOma I'm General.
Memphis Commercial Appeal (dem).
AS an issue, Imperialism every day be-
comes more remote. Free silver ragged
red through the country In 1896, and was
as a dying ember In 1900. Imperialism was
stuffed with hot air in 1900 and set up
as a stern, commanding scarecrow, and
today with ni~nety-nine men out Of a hun
dred 1t is a dreary and insufrerable bore.
The retention OF the Philippines has been
removed from the arena of debate. We
have got them, and we will keep them.
There are three insuperable objections to
the injection Of Imperialism into the COM
ing campaign. In the first place It has al
ready led the party to overwhelming dis
aster. In the second place 1t is 10000 miles
away. And in the last place It is dead.
For the democratic party to go Cabling
about Aguinaldo, the injustice OF retaining
a territory that we have paid for and the
general infamy Of a shadowy Imperialism,
when there is a burning issue right here
at home, affecting every man, woman and
hid in the republic; affecting the safety
Of democratic Institutions and imperiling
those principles which had been esteh-
lished by the wisdom OF the ages and
which are about to be overthrown by the
brutal philosophy Of q coterie of vulgar
parvenus, is to make the defeat Of the
democratic party a moral certainty.
The people OF the United States with
out regard to party are demanding relief
from the trusts; and while they are com
planning of the criminal exactions of the
meat trusts, what do they care about
phantoms in the Philippines? When they
are demanding bread, how will it profit
the democratic party to give them a stone?
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-21
Economy with a club.

II is estimated that under the new merger
Of agricultural implement companies about
10000 persons will be thrown out Of work.
This will mean a great saving to the trust.
While 1t is to be regretted that so many
persons are to become idle, no fault can
be found with the new company for reduc-
ing the working force II that is to its ad-
vantage. It is entirely probable that among
the men who are made idle are a number
who will before long be connected with
new competitive concerns. That has been
one Of the results OF the organization OF
the United States Steel corporation, which
released a number Of valuable men.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-21

AADh
exinguished in the last few years, how
much money they have put in bank. how
much has been spent in improving and
stocking farms and how many ~luxuries have
been bought for farmers homes, and what
part have industrial working men played
in this marvellous shoving3 The number OF
manufacturing plants has doubled. There
were $4,000 OF them twenty years ago;
now there are SIS, 900. The value Of the
output twenty years ago was IS, 1853. OOO, 900;
now 1t is more than s13, 900, 900, 900. Twice
as many men have work and wages have
nearly trebled. being 50, 7s5, 900, 900, as com
pared with seas, 900, 900.
The same marvellous ratio Of increase,
and In some directions still higher, is
manifest in every department Of industry
and commercial and financial business.
The country produces about four times as
much coal. three times as much petroleum,
four lines as much pig iron, eight times
as much steel and ten times as much
copper, while the wool product has in
creased % per cent, corn 40 per cent and
cotton 65 per cent. There is not a de-
partment OF natural industry that does
not show the same astonishing increase.
And yet there never has been a time
during the last twenty years when the
voice OF the malcontent and the grumbier
has not been heard p~roclaiming loudly that
the country YVES going to destruction.
There has always been somebody to de-
nounce the policies which have contributed
so much towards the unexampled progress
Of the last two decades. Even today there
are timid souls who would retard II they
could the swift march OF the United
States and bind It down to the eisurely
tagging pace Of other countries.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-21

State Superintendent of Instruction
Fowler has taken it upon himself to
decide a mooted question of election law
Interpretation for a public school class
in civil government, declaring that a
ballot is not invalidated by being
marked with a pencil different from that
prescribed by the law. This is good
horse sense for ordinary cases of the
mistaken use Of a different cOlored pen
ell. but an example might be raised in
which a red or green pencil were used
for the purpose Of Identifying the ballot.
In which event the ballot would plainly
be fraudulent. Academic discussions of
the election laws are conducive to in
telligent citizenship, but scholastic
opinions OF law points are apt often to
be overruled by judicial opinions.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-21
MAJESTIC A


". d. Nesbit IN Baltimore American.
Majestic mani How proudly he goes ever
How FIRMLY he maintains his course, with
No petty curiosity can lead him from his
InquisItiveness feminine awakes his caus-
He holds his way unswervingly -
But mark you SETTLING crowdi
They %struggle hitherward and yon, With
What Is Il? Oh, what is It? Why, II Is
your men of might
oO''t tia SseT TiSS sH kRsSti tense two lit
Majestic mani He holds the world SUBJ
The elements are ,harnessed for MS pleas
With calm unfaltefins cOnhdsnOs he
And woman's wondering nature has his
tn. dlsIlse strong Hn99d great
$500 Watt. Here's another mob,
Mark how within Its boundaries the heads.
What Is ~ Some debate on how TO pay
IT'S mighty man before a new display Of
cigarettes!
Majestic mani As we ave said. he goes
upon his way, 49,.
unhe tbs sos aII t ~ little things that fret
The burden OF the world is his-no mo-
u,. msnt must he lose;
. Look! Here they're shining
And one lone man Is in a chair with boot
While htty mighty men are ruhte-neck.
ing from the street!
But, as we started out to say. man 4. too
And fool around. ana look at thinRs. hka
women when they shop.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-21
The pecline in E1portr.
Philadelphia Record.

FHIIHueIphIh Hecoru.
Treasury department figures Of foreign
trade for July last show exports valued at
$SS, S07. $50, a falling off Of nearly S21, O00,-
900 as compared with July Of last year,
and imports Of s7e, 2O6, 22O, an increase Of
about $4,000, 900. The excess of exports
since January 1 last is $191, ass, 761-the
lightest showing since 1896, In the world
wide readjustment Of prices during half
a dozen years past the foreigner has cut
under or ignored the American market
with constantly increasing assiduity and
success, and the pendulum Of trade still
swings in that direction.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-21
EVIL. of Modern stock Jobbinx.

AhuldAdAOllS NO"S-
One Of the greatest evils in modern joint
stock enterprises is the tremendous over
capitalization. There is not a railway,
steam or electric, that is not capitalized
greatly in excess of it's actual value. All
the recent congratulations and trust for
nations have been attended with stock wa
tering. This evil would seem to be one
that the lawmaking power Of the state
could cope with. II all railways and other
Joint stock enterprises were taxed on the
par value Of the stocks and bonds issued
against the property. unless these sold at
a premium, and then on their average
market value, you may be sure stock wa
tering would quickly disappear.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-21
Ripe for ReruIar Ration..
Portland OreRonian

Portland Oregonian.
Alaska may now be regarded as definitely
installed at the government appropriation
trough. The first hsrbor work in that ter
ritory is to be done in Wrangel Narrows,
a survey of which has been authorized. The
commerce Of Alaska is of sufficient mag
Ditude to justify government attention to
the navigation channels, and 1t will pay to
remove some Of the dangers that menace
ships In those waters. Alaska, which has
already become a political factor Of some
~pretensions, may be expected to come up
for regular rations hereafter.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-21
How Promoter work the Public.
Philadelnhia Racord.

Syndicate underwriting OF schemes Of
consolidation attained perfection in the
financing Of the recent purchase of the Mo-
non road-the Chicago. Indianapolis &
Louisville railroad-by a southern railway
combination. The syndicate member were
not called upon for any cash contribution.
and divided over $780, 900 in profits. The
investing public bought all the securities
offered for sale, and there was nothing left
to underwrite. Thu all concerned In ac-
tual buying and selling worked for the syn
dictate and paid their own expenses and a
heavy commission besides.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-21

John w. Gates proverbial luck seems
to have gone against him in the hrst
round Of his fight for control Of the
Colorado Fuel and Iron company. Gates
started out doing too much talking, on
the plan Of the professional pugillst. and
the free advertising is all that he has
scored.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-21

In view OF General Ayers candidacy
for the United States senate. it is just
possible that the whole war with Spain
VIII be fought over again, only with
the scene Of beligerency transferred to
Michigan.