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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1903-02-28
HERE ON A VISIT.
mr., A. A. STANLEY, IA Former Resident,
Visits Here After Absence of 20 Years,

Mr.. A. A. Stanley a former resi-
dent of this county returned here on a
visit after twenty wears He left here
twenty years ago TO try his luck in the
west. He is TO- located at Seward,
Winnobego Co. Ill. in the farming and
stock raising business. He said that
he sees manv changes here during his
absence. While here he was engaged
in the lumber business and he says he
recognizes a few OF the buildings that
he hauled the lumber for. He has
been spending three weeks with rela-
tives near here and will spend an
other week here before returning home.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1903-02-28
FIRE AT

The house of M. Jackson Bait at
Bloomery, HAMPSHIRE county, w. Va,
was destroyed by fire yesterday. The
loss is about 81, 800.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-17

Mr.. Jermane gives T h Journal a
good account to-day of how the senators
are planning to defeat the presidents an
THRUST measures. One Of the plans is to
side-track trust legislation proper with
the Elkins anti trust bill, which does lit
tie more than to amend slightly the pres
ent interstate comm cree law, and give the
present commission such authority over
trusts as the trust senators may think Ii
discreet to grant. The recent speeehes Of
Chairman Knapp Of the interstate COM
meress commission make it plain that the
present membership ao8e that body cannot
be trusted with the esufberyision, Of trusts.
Mr.. Knapp is q Arm believer in trusts and
q warm admirer of their greatness and
the genius Of the men who have, organized
them. as his remarkable speech in New
York last night shows: 1t is constitu-
tionally Impossible for him to do justice
to an antitrust law. - n.y..
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-17
The Ferment at Work.

The radical action Of congress regarding
the coal tariff seems already to have had
some effect in Canada. The Nova Scotia.
coal miners are wildly excited over the
possibility Of some corresponding legisla-
ton by Canada and are threatening that
if Ontario, which needs free coal, comes
out for removal Of the tariff, there will
be a retaliatory effort to remove the
duty on flour, commodity which On
tario produces In large quantities.
i Enough is already seen of Canadian
sentiment to make it certain that if con-
gress had been wise enough and Just
enough to repeal the: coal duty instead Of
rebating it. reciprocity in coal between the
two countries would be at hand. 1t may
not yet be too late to get through q bill
providing for free trade in coal with
countries which impose no tariffs - ON
American COAL. but the psychological
moment for action is past. At the same
time we are confident that congress Will
never dare to restore the duty on coal,
SO that after a year, at any rate, we may
look for free trade in coal between the
United States and Canada, unless the Ca
madam coal monopolists are now become
SO powerful as to keep the Dominion gov
eminent from responding to the natural
and proper demand for free coal.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-17
ADJUSTMENTS
nThe face In the 4Moonlioht. ],

"The Face In the Moonlight"
Robert Mantell revived The Face N
the Moonlight" at the Bijou last night
before large and evidently well pleased
audience. The play. French melodrama
of no particular merit, has long been q
feature Of the Manten repertory. and has
been presented here by this star FREE
quently In the past. In 1t Mr.. Manteu
appears In the dual roles of Jacques Fer
rand, known as tFabat," and Victor Ann
brose. He illumines neither part yet his
Interpretation was warmly approved by
last nights audience Mr.. Mantell is not
comedian-when he tries to be-and his
comedy work in the role OF Ferrand is
heavy and tiresome. However, he SUBJ
stitutes for art, resonant voice and an
exuberance of spirit that have been mis-
taken for acting times without number,
and that have sufficed to make him
paying star despite his manifest cru
dities. AS an actor Mr.. Mantell is retro
grading. AS a theatrical property he still
makes good
The story of 1.-THE Face in the Moon
light" involves a wonderful physical re-
semblance between "Rabat'' and M. Vic
tor Ambrose, soldier. The idea was
not new even when the play was, and
to-day it is hackneyed. The play is re-
markable chiefly for the demands 1t makes
upon the star who must be an agile fell
low, trained to celebrity, in order to en-
compass the many "quick changes" made
necessary by the text.
OF the company in support Miss Minnie
Monk proved an excellent Nine. Pique and
David r. Young was good as the spy.
Marie Booth Russell played Lucille Mu-
nier, and A. F. Yelvington was the Cap
tain Narcisse. j. s. Lawrence
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-17

be a competition to buy. Monopoly and
competition are mutually exclusive terms,
\. The fact Is that monopoly, unre-
strained can either make prices just what
it pleases Or else abolish trade in the mo-
nopoly article. The anthracite coal-ca
rying and coal-mining railways, in the
face OF a composition, to sell, offered by
the independent miners, continue to sell
their coal at IS q ton, no matter how
high the market price goes. II they had
an absolute monopoly they might sell all
the anthracite at s5 If they wanted to;
though we may add that 1t is strongly
suspected that while for the sake of APP
pearanees they are selling their own coal
at IS, they are getting q handsome rake
off on the coal the independent miners
sell at $40 Or more-though that has moth
Ing to do with the question. ...-. -
AS to the part Mr.. Hlll is playing in
bringing large quantities Of Illinois coal
to the northwest at low prices, railway
monopoly eAn claim no credit since the
two Hill transcontinentals and the Bur
lington operate in entirely different terri
tories. He is doing nothing with the Bur
linston that he could not have done with
out merging the Northern Pacific with
the Great Northern. - '-%
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-17

- q q .g 3 y
Erie canal improvements on the ground
that the more traffic the canal had the
better for the New York Central, though
the two routes are parallel. In Germany
the state, which owns both railways and
canals, finds that Improvement OF navi-
cation is beneficial to its railways u
Writing In the Forum on Waterways:
An Economic Necessity" Lewis NJ Haupt
presents table Of relative limits Of mar
ket range by earth road, railroad and
canal, which is abundantly suggestive Of
the stimulation that waterways may give
to commerce. Assuming that half the
value of certain products is available to
pay for the cost of transportation, he finds
that forest products are good for % miles
on an earthroad, 1874, on railroad ana
2,2s2 on a, canal. Agricultural products
will stand rs miles Of earthroad, 2,e40 Of
railroad and 1920 Of canal. Manufactures
can afford "a miles Of earthroad, $50 Of
railroad and 7,71Q Of canal. Merchandise
will pay for 612 miles Of earthroad trans
portation, 21,26o Of railroad ana e3,760 Of
canal -........
The inference is plain that the more
good roads and canals you have the great
or distances can heavy and bulky freight
be moved. But the greater movement you
have Of these, the more merchandise there
is for the railways. a very small proper
ton OF which IS carried by inland water
routes, or ever will be SO long as rail
ways are available. Merchandise is 9
quick transit commodity and can afford tc
pay for it. e. .ss, n. ~. 60. - q.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-17

the score OF crima and disorder Mr.. Me-
Laushlin thinks we have nothing to fear
from immigration
AZ to possibilities Of race degeneration
Mr, Ml'icIAughlin y not apprehensiye,
though admitting that average immigrants
are inferior to Americans physically and
intellectually. Race intermixture does not
come, ever, until the immigrants chill
dren are men and women. ana we may
hope to raise this first American genera
ton Of foreign descent to the level OF ma
tive Americans, 50 that assimilation will
proceed without detriment to the native
race.
We have always feared the immigrant
In this. country, more or less, and the
lapse Of time has generally proved that
our fears were groundless. Once we
feared the Irish immigrant. In time We
may find the alavs and the Italians no
more Objectionable than the Irish.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-17
IN * NUTSHEL>L<.....


Whatever may thought about stock watering in gem
era is grfsvous to the public when municipal
franchise corporations such light and transit companies
initiate IT Is also great injustice
Of stock security holders who have usually
bought that the stocks would
good rate Of interest In
sequence Of the imitation both
public pays exorbitant
investor receives ridculously small income
time the plants earning very large
the actual Investment Also becomes
easy arrangements Of these companies when It is
proposed enforce higher price gas
cry "Confscaton" with superficial show Of being
In the current Municipal Journal Engineer, Mr.
Alton D. Adams performs valuable public by
ayzing the financial condition of American companies
by states, far gross nconne par
value OF stocks and bonds actual Investment
the experience Of municipal gas plants and private com
panes in Massachusetts (where such closely
thousand feat Of annually sold the necessary
the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-17
Mixed Logic and Economics ON %,

a suaye Journalistic friend of the trusts
and depreoator Of attempts to discipline
them, concludes that the northwest is
IN fairly good condition as to coal SUNNY
simply because it IS In the grasp ST TWO
big trusts, the Pennsylvania coal trust
and the Hill transportation trust. The
coal trust, which IL in control 81 the hard
coal situation in the northwest, sees that
the price Of anthracite is kept down to !
reasonable rate, considering the limited
supply; and Mr.. Hill sees that plenty 81
Illinois b.ttnmineus coal is hauled to Min
neapolis and ST. Paul over his Burlington
route at for little or nothing, SO says the
|suava journalist.
There Is measure Of truth In these
statements, but they are III such conf,ict
with other conclusions III the same com :
placent editQrial: and these other state
ments are in such amazing conflict with
each other, that we are reminded that
the way OF the trust defender is indeed
a rough and rocky path to travel.
Remembering that the editorial asserts
that hard coal is comparatively cheap in
the northwest because the hard coal COM
bine more effectively controls the situa-
ton here than elsewhere, notice the state
ment that Honepoiy can no more keep
down price, in the face Of competition
to buy. than It can keep up price in the
face of competition to SELL
There is an abundance Of competition
to Buy in the northwest, yet the trust de-
fender admits" that in the face Of that
competition the coal octopus Is keeping
down the price in the northwest.
Again II would Be interesting. to know
just hew. when selling monopoly exists,
there can be aseohap titicn % sell or how,
when y buying monopoly exists, there can
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-17
An ATTRACTIVE PERIODICAL.

The passenger department of the South
ern Pacific railroad issues regularly a
magazine called Sunset. The Christmas
issue IS No. 2, volume 10, and an ex-
oeedingly rich and attractive publication
The leading article is description of
Stanford university, very handsomely
Illustrated with splendid half-tones and
fine portrait Of President David Starr Jor-
dan. 80
! Stanford university is more richly en-
dowed than any other university in the
country; ss0,000oQ0 have been appro-
priated to the building and maintenance
Of this university-twice as much,
probably, as the endowment of any other
American institution OF learning The
fiction of this number of Sunset has de-
cidedly western flavor. The descriptive
articles and the contributions of the poets
present the attractions of the coast coun-
try In enticing colors. Gelett Burgess fur
nishes some of his ccmical and unique
sketches. An exceedingly interesting
article. profusely illustrated, Is entitled
Discharging a Philippine Army by
Captain John r. Finley of the 9TH. in
fantry This Is not series Of articles on
army life in the Philippines. There is
nothing In the body Of this magazine to
suggest railroad advertisement.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-17

- -F p is Il - o. = =
Some Of the moro moderate southern
papers are arguing that no matter what
may be the qualifications OF Dr. Crum
tor the office OF collector Of the port at
Charleston, or Of Mrs. Cox for the posi-
ton Of postmaster at Indianola, Miss,
only persons should be appointed to those
Offices who are satisfactory to the peo-
PIE who use them and from whom they
derive their revenue--in both cases al
most entirely the whites. Barring the
unpleasant race discrimination this ar
gument involves there is much practi-
cal sense IN its favor. But In Indianoia
the case is one involving the govern
ment's dignity. and some Of the south
ern papers admit that, but think that
dignity could be preserved by accept
Ing Mrs, cox's resignation. The trouble
Is that the resignation was forced by in
timidation. 1t would have been differ
emit II Mrs. Cox had resigned merely be-
cause she knew that she was not ac-
ceptable to the patrons Of the office.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-17

But the stocks and bonds Of all the private
panes of United States sss each thou
sand feet OF Eas annually sold. -4f sss
In other words the stocks bonds private
light companies Of the United States value
ment ssgs S##ss
How this ratio varies in different states is by
few sample figures In Delaware the companies sell 1000
securities figure to $49s5 though that arid
region Oregon $3O2S Of securities
sand feet OF gas sold, Nebraska $2OOs; $9
California &16s1; New York $as1 Massachusetts $s9s;
Wisconsin, $37s, Minnesota, $l166;n
for municipal plants goes Nebraska
figure Is down to SLIT; for Minnesota it is $s.43.
From these figures it that very conserva-
tive reckoning Minnesota municipal light companies
carrying nearly one of solid invest
men On their assumed actual investment, Minnesota plants
gross income OF 1885, stocks and bonds gross
whereas In Wisconsin the percentages are respectively
4
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-17
LITERARY NOTES

Mcclure, Phillips q Co will soon issue
a volume containing the prayers of Dr.
Samuel Johnson, with an Introduction by
William A. BRADLEY. DR.. Johnson's writ
ten prayers, which he personally used, are
characterized by fervent piety and deep
humility. Many Of them have been in
cluded in various devotional books
An anthology Of verse for little children
by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora ArcIli-
bald Smith, entitled "The Posy Ring" is
announced by Mcclure. Phillips & Co.
Italian and German versions OF Car
negfe's Empire Of Business" will be pub
lished in the spring
w. r. Thayer, editor of the Harvard
Graduates Magazine, has been made a
knight OF the Order Of the Crown Of Italy
by the king, in recognition Of his his
torical work, 1.-THE Dawn Of italian Inde-
pendenee.''
DR.. Albert Shaw. editor Of the Review
OF Reviews. will write volume on Iowa
for the American Commonwealth Series
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-17
DlPHTHERlA IN LEAD PENCILS,
Philadelphia INQUIRER

An epidemic of diphtheria among tho
children Of Passaic has been traced to
the schoolroem. In these days slate pen
ellis have been abolished and lead pen
ellis take their place. They are collected
and distributed daily, and one child with
diphtheria managed to spread it broad
cast. Every child has an almost uncon-
trollable desire to bite the end Of lead
pencil, and in this way the disease was
spread, with fatal results. While it is
possible to make too much of the germ
theory of disease there are certain pre-
cautions which are necessary at all times,
Thoughtful parents will not allow a child
to use one OF the pencils furnished by
the schools but will supply their own.
They cost little, but there may be a life
saved by this precaution. Sanitary
science has succeeded In greatly bene-
fitting school children and cutting down
the chances Of disease, but there are stiH
many avenues OF danger, and they should
be closed when possible. A cent spent
for a pencil is a cheap safeguard against
infection.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-17
HOW A HOG EATS HICKORY NUTS

New Or ANS Times-Democrat.
People often wonder how it is that !
hog can set all the kernel out of hickory
nut, or any other kind of nut for that
matter, without swallowing any Of the
shell" said a man from the country, ."but
as a matter Of fact there is nothing mys-
ferrous about the process. Mind YOU,
hogs don't swallow any of these hard SUBJ
stances. They get rid of them, and then
1t is just as easy for them to get rid OF
the shell of a nut as it is for a man or n
squirrel. You might think that because
hog brushes the nut into small fragments
that he would necessarily swallow a good
portion of the, hull. But he doesn't do
any such thing. It is a conceded fact
among men who know anything about the
subject that the horse Is the most per-
fectly constructed animal in the world,
considering the purposes for which the
horse is used, and it's methods and habits
in life. But want to put in a good word
for the hog when it comes to the thing
Of cracking and eating nuts without get
ting any of the harder substances intnl
the stomach. The horse has very fine
teeth. =, The back teeth particularly and
finely constructed with a view of enabling
the horse to crush it's food we'll before
passing it into the stomach. These
heavy grinders, heavily set in the horses
jaw, are looked upon as marvels. So,
they are. But what's the matter with the
teeth Of the hog? What's the matter with
that marvellous process by which they
separate the kernel Of the nut from the
hull? 1t has occurred to me that this is
no small achievement, and nature is at
least entitled to some sort of tribute for
her skill in making this result possible.
In the first place the hogs tongue is more
sensitive than would be supposed, and it
can easily detect the harder from the
softer substances. BY some sort of pro-
cess the hog is able to work the bits Of
| hickory nut hull over to the sides of its
| mouth, the tongue being used for the
| purpose, and there they are thrown out
| at the corners. Probably you have no
| tlced that the corners of a, hogs mouth
are somewhat different from the corners
| of them ouths Of other animals The lines
| of the mouths of other animals. The lines
hence it is a much easier thing for the
hog to work the harder substances which
he does not care to swallow out through
| these little openings. Stories are often
| told of men who could eat fish in ths
| same way, that is by working the bones
out Of the corner of the mouth, and with
out. the use Of the hands. Against which
must enter protest, This is one of the
habits of the hog man has not yet been
| able to practice, and the indications are
| that the hog will have monopoly On it
! for some time to come"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-17
80. ). tEt Is H$.f Ea.s s.- - 60 $50
The Advantage of Waterways.

While the rapid growth Of the American
railway systems to a mileage Of 203,0O0 is
a subject of great pride to our people, the
condition Of our national waterways is a
cause Of humiliation. Our transportation
development is abnormal in consequence.
Over-developed, perhaps, on the side of
the railways. it is under-developed on the
side Of the waterways. 4 &
There are two main reasons why the
waterways have been neglected. One is
that they have, since the civil war, been
government, and the other is the powerful
opposition Of railway companies. The
federal government has never yet taken
the initiative in projecting or building or
improving waterways, but has been con-
tent to carry out whatever plans were
approved by congress acting upon the
initiative OF localities. Waterways being
enterprise there have been no acoumula.
tons of capital to push their construction
for the rewards Of business.
Yet the greatest service the federal gov-
eminent can now do the people IS to take
charge Of the waterways III an aggressive
and original manner, and aspire to work
out the best possible system Of internal
waterway communi cations The interests
of the railroads, too, would be advanced
by perfected system of waterways,
though few railway managers understand
that fact. Mr.. J. ]. Hill, for example, who
has a remarkably broad and catholic gras p
on transportation problems as whole,
does not seem te understand that 1t is
good for a railway to be adjacent to a
water route. Railway men take the short
sighted view that since water transporta-
ton is cheaper than rail carrying, the
creation of a route of the former kind
means loss Of business for the latter.
This is directly contrary to experience,
which shows that while waterways may
take some heavy freight away from the
railways they move 50 much freight that
the railways could not afford to carry
that the general stimulus thus given to
production and commerce vastly increases
the total railway traffic. The greatest
railway systems in the United States have
grown UP alongside Of the greatest in
ternal waterway route-tf,e great lakes.
Ghauncey NJ. Depew, formerly president Of
the New York Central always favored
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-17
Time to Let Up.

The current issue Of the Commercial
West contains an editorial intended to
magnify the benefits which Mr.. Hill con-
control of the Burlington road It speaks
with undissuised contempt Of the effort
Of the governor OF the state to enforce the
law and prevent the consolidation of the
Great Northern and Northern Pacific The
presentation Of this issue before the peo-
pie Of the state In the last campaign is
described as a ''kiyi'' and political war
dance and all those who have had the
temerity to support the governor as a
public official in the exercise of his au-
thority for the enforcement Of q law
against railroad consolation are branded
as narrow obstructionists Of commercial
progress. because they are not willing to
recognize the supremacy of the creature
over its creator-of the public service cor
poratton over the state--of the ambitious
and powerful individual over the law. We
are told in. this article what a splendid
thing it was for the northwest for Mr.
Hill to buy the Burlington. We are told
joys through the greater facility with
which it Is supplied with southern coal
on account of that purchase. s
How much that purchase may have had
to do with these advantages, in view of
the service which other roads are render
ing in the same direction, may be q mat
ter Of some speculation, but granting that
everything that Is claimed in this parti-
cular by Mr.. Hills apologists is true, what
has that got to do with the conselida-
ton Of the Great Northern and Northern
Pacific? The issue Of the merger fight is
not the purchase Of the Burlington by Mr..
Hill. They are not competing lines in the
state Of Minnesota. The Issue Is the
consolidation Of the Great Northern and
Northern Pacific, which naturally are
competing lines and whose consolidation
Is expressly prohibited by law. Mr.: Hill
can buy railroads reaching clear around
the world II he wants to and string them
end to end without encroaohinr in the
least upon the principle on which opposi-
ton to the consolidation Of competing
lines is based in Minnesota. =
Isn't 1t about time now to let up OF,
this inspired effort to becloud the public
mind and fool the people as to the merits
Of consolidation Of tho Northern. Pacific
and the Great Northern by talking about
benefits resulting from control of the Bur
lington by Mr.. HIP IL. ...s.. -.