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The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-11-08
Times' Changes

The young man looked into the
Office of the Daily Razooper, but
seemed loath to enter.
Finally he screwed his courage to
the sticking point, entered and APP
preached the want ad window" with
evident embarrassment
What can l do for you, sir" said
the polite clerk.
rs this where you get notices in
the for sale or exchange depart
ment?' whispered the young man.
Eyes, sir; five cents a word, three
Insertions" replied the clerk, showing
blank at the visitor.
The embarrassed young man took
the blank, stepped to the desk and
proceeded to get busy. For thirty
minutes he chewed the end of the
pencil. made words only to scratch
them out, and shifted from one foot
to the other like hen on a hot stove
lid. Finally he had it finished to his
partial satisfaction, and again APP
preaching the window he handed in
his copy, together with the requisite
duiOulL vi uOuCy. i ucu lie uuTTlculy
fled. The clerk read the following:
Wanted, to Exchange-A dress suit
and opera hat, both as good as new,
for baby carriage. Address G. D., care
Daily Razooper"
I'm afraid We can't settle this fence
question without a law suit" said
Farmer Kornsilk stubbornly.
Il reckon not, and I'm ready for it
any time you start" retorted Farmer
Alfalfy.
While they were talking Mrs. Korn-
silk and Mrs. Alfalfy were doing some
scheming.
I'VE can fix it without trouble" said
Mrs. Kornsilk.
Sure we can; and we've got to do
It," said Mrs Alfalfy. 1--WE can't have
the friendship OF years spoiled by two
pigheaded old curmudgeons
An hour later the telegraph operator
at the station was sending a message
TO Washington asking that Secretary
Taft be sent to Riggs Corner to settle
4 great difficulty.
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THE PRESIDENTS REAL SALARY

In the appropriation for the fiscal
year, $4,000 appears for the presi-
dents travelling expenses, an
item uninportant in itself, except
as constituting the fifth regular APP
preparation which affects the life Of
the occupant of the White House,
While the school-book information that
the president receives a salary of $780,
600 year is sufficiently accurate, it
is not strictly SO, as ordinary people
measure incomes. Sixty thousand dol
lars is appropriated for the care of
the White House, including refurnish-
ing as we'll as repainting. The fuel
for the White House and it's conserva-
tories is also supplied by Uncle Sam.
Formerly the greenhouses were direct
ly connected with the mansion itself,
covering what is now the west ter
race, but in the McKim restoration
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drummers draw in only one year.

drummers draw in only one year.
If $4,000 bank presidents draw each
$4,000 annually, their combined sal
aries would only amount to $3.50, 000,-
000-only half what the drummers
draw in the same length of time.
We draw $500, 900, 900 salaries every
year and spend $500,000,000 more in
our expense account; circulate one
round billion dollars every year. We
pay to hotels $250,000,000 annually.
We pay to railroads 5000, 100000 an
nually, and spend $5d,0OO,OO0 for Incl
dentals, rarely ever tented.
We talk about billion dollar Con-
gress-that means two sessions-ap-
preparations for two years. We spend
a billion every year and never feel it.
Five hundred millions dollars is sup
posed to run the United States govern
ment, with all her expenses, ample
every year, while we spend that much
every six months. H.
The gross earnings of every railroad
in America are put at 100000, 900
annually. The net earnings of per
cent, amount to $4,000, 900 profit. We
sell $9,O00,000,0OO every year which
represents our gross earnings for our
respective firm. At two per cent net
profit we would make our net earning
$1,000, 1000, O00E$100,000,O0 more at
two per cent than all the railroads
make at four per cent.
l can take the salaries of all the
drummers of the United States for
one year, combine it in one mighty
trust and make Morgan look like thirty
cents l could take it and buy all the
railroad stock that the Vanderbilts,
Goulds and Hill could carry to save
their combined interest and l could
buy Rockefeller and every coal oil can
in all the world. l believed could take
it and initiate Mrs. Chadwick with a
dozen millionaires on her notes.
The assessed wealth of America is
estimated at $50, 000, 600 900, and If we
sell $9,000,000,000 annually, then we
sell all the combined wealth of Amer
lea out, lock, stock and barrel every
nine years, and so to any one wishing
to invest with us in this mighty nine
years of the possibilities of the drum
mers at this ratio, we can guarantee
RCl OCAl OA IAC LIZ CSlllCAA.
There are 100000 miles of sim
gle railroad track in the United States,
and If it costs $4,000 mile to build
it, and $4,000 mile to equip it, the
value of all the railroads in America
equipped would be $4,000, 000,0 900. /
can take the salaries and expense ac-
counts of the travelling men of Amer
lea for one year and buy one-tenth in
terest in all the railroads and in ten
years to own them all at what they are
actually worth.
And we draw more salaries in Amer
lea as drummers annually, than the
standing army of the round, round
world costs in the same length of time
We are the highest livers in the
world and the biggest money spenders
on the globe, because we live on the
best going and always buy the best we
can find
We are the world builders and ball
rollers, and we are always busy.
HENRY D. CALHOUN,
Ex-President Georgia Division Travel
lers' Protection Association, Angus.
ia, Ca Member Council 312, United
Commercial Travellers.
THE PRESIDENTS REAL SALARY |
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SHAMEFUL EXTRAVAGANCE

The Wall Street Journal recently
printed the following interesting edi-
torial
In one of the Sunday papers. it does
not matter which and it might have
appeared in any, appears a two-col-
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umn article on the folly of saving pen
MES. The following conclusive in.
stances of spending them freely with
good results are given. One man buys
an automobile which he admits he
cannot afford, and makes 100000 out
of casual guest. Another spends rs
cents for extra Pullman accommoda.
ton and secures an interview accident.
ally for which he receives SIS. A
young man in Kansas City INDUCES
himself in needlessly expensive res
taurant and is launched on a land spec
ulation out of which he makes $500 a
month. The son of a New York law
yer becomes so worthless that his
father sends him away west with
$4,000 and he makes $1,000 more in a
gamble In sheep. There is more OF
the same kind, but the instances are
typical of our new Sunday literature.
What pernicious rubbish is this? In
no one OF the cases specified did the
extravaganza justify itself. There is
"a complete confusion between an ex-
|penditure justified by well calculated
results and money needed for legiti-
mate uses wasted upon self indulgence
Ii any OF the young men named had
taken corresponding amount of mon
ey to the nearest pool room or gam
bling house he would have had bet
ter chance for his money at the math-
ematical odds.
A business man pointed out the
other day that when he was having his
hair cut two of his employees, earning
respectively $12 and SIS week, came
in. They each had 15-cent shave, a
l0-cent shine for their shoes, 10-cent
cigar and gave 10 cents to the BARRIERS
assistant. Here were As cents wasted
on what their employer was accus-
toned TO do for himself They should
have been able to shave themselves
and they were surely not too impor-
tant to polish their own shoes, while
their taste in tobacco was far too ex-
pensive for their income.
Is there one of these young men
who could not rely with absolute GER
tainty on thrift and industry bringing
him an ultimate competence? Is there
one OF these free spenders who does
not become burden upon his friends
at the first accidental illness or when
the first lull in business throws him
out of his employment? Do they not
represent the meanest weed that
false system of education has pro-
duced? Could there be a more de-
testable compound of the spendthrift
and the snob?
Our waste is bad enough without
teaching it as business principle.
Our servants. believe there is some
thing to be ashamed of in ordinary
carefulness. Our cooks waste enough
in the garbage pail to feed family of
better people than themselves. The
who maltreats our fur
naces in the winter and lives from
hand to mouth in the summer wastes
60 per cent of our fuel because he
thinks it would be despicable to screen
the ashes. Can we wonder at graft
and extravagance~and folly in the ad-
of our public departments
and the government of our municipal
tiles when we are teaching such les
sons as these to our youth?
The two thoughts which any careful
foreign observer would carry away
rom tour of the United States would
be:
What splendid resources!
What shameful extravaganza!
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Anxious

Miss Pert-"You kiss like a man
who has had a great deal Of expert
ence."
Mr.. Blasey-"How do you know"
Then the engagement ring was re-
turned.
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AID FoR THE SUFFERERS.
Is Asked for In Proclamation by Pres
ident Roosevelt.

- ftSNcu tOF III rTOCidfidttUu py FFcS-
ident Roosevelt.
President Roosevelt has issued a
proclamation appealing for aid for
earthquake stricken Chile. The proc
lamation reads:
Proclamation: A dreadful calamity
has befallen our sister republic of
Chile In the destruction by earthquake
Of Valparaiso and other localities. We
at this moment see the city of San
Francisco struggling upward from the
ruins in which like catastrophe over
whelmed her last spring. We keep
keenly in mind that half of the ap-
probation we then felt for the way In
which the people Of Europe, Asia and
both Americas came forward with gen.
erous offers of assistance. In this
time of woe of our sister republic, l
ask that our people out Of their abun-
dance now strive to do another, as
others last spring did to us. The
National Red Gross association has
already taken measures to collect any
subscriptions that may be offered for
this purpose, and trust that there
will be general response. (Signed)
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
"Oyster Bay, August Is, 1906"
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MONTANA NEWS.

A business block in the heart of tine
town Of Troy, Montana was burned re-
GENTLY entailing loss Of $40, 900. The
origin Of the fire is unknown.
A badly decomposed body, supposed
to be that of Thomas Lee, who disap-
peared several weeks ago, was found
in the river several miles below Hell
ena, Mont.
George Fellows, Great Northern
freight conductor, was suffocated re-
Gently near Snowden, while trying to
put out fire in supply car on his
train.
The heavy rains of the past week
have seriously damaged the spring
sown crops around Bozeman.
After re-electing President Alex
Fairgrieve and Secretary Howard
Smith by reclamation, together with a
full set of officers, selecting Lewiston
as next years meeting place and vot-
ing down a resolution providing for
affiliation with the American Fedora
ton of Labor, the Montana Federation
Of Labor has adjourned sine die at
Helena, after one of the most success
full and largely attended conventions
in the history of the order.
r. w. Fisher, horticulturist at the
Agricultural College Experiment Sta
ton, at Bohemian, Is making an or
chard survey Of the Bitter Root valley.
He is going to visit each orchard of
commercial size, taking notes on the
number of acres in orchard, the varie.
ties, method of irrigation. cultivation,
pruning, etc.
Attorney General Galen has handed
down an opinion on the right of boards
of county commissioners to offer re
wards for the capture of criminals
holding that under the statute they
have not that right.
e. H. Cooney, editor of the Great
Falls Leader, has received from Wash
ington his commission as postmaster
of Great Falls for the term Of -four
years from the date of his qualifica
ton.
John Ries, the Butte miner takeI
from the Mountain View mine on Jun,
20 with injuries to his back that wer,
considered fatal, walked out of the hos
pital Saturday a well man. His bacl
was badly broken by fall of ground
the fractured bones pressing on thu
spinal cord and his body was para
lyzed below the waist. There SCENE,
little hope of saving his life Their
A difficult operation was perform
ed, the pressure was relieved and tn
bones were set in place.
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Shriners VIII Race.

Spokane people were shocked re-
Gently by the announcement that a
deliberate plan has been made to fix
one of the races at the Spokane In
terstate fair this fall. This is the
race which the Shriners will give on
their day, which is Wednesday, Sep
TENDER 26. The race is to be in au-
tomobiles, participated in by members
of the order. e. E. Hutchinson is
in charge, and it is said he has
openly planned to fix the race. This
will be one of the most interesting
features of this years fair. MANY
peculiar rules have been adopted for
the event. If a Shriner who is in
one Of the machines which is not
winning wishes to do so he can jump
out of the motor car, make a dash
for one in front and ride into victory
in the leading machine, If he can
catch It. These high Masons are
planning for all manner of novelties
and fun features on this day.
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LATE NEWS NOTES.

Representatives postoffice clerks from
six of the principal cities of the west
met in convention at Chicago last Mon
day and formed a national union under
the auspices of the American Fedora
ton of Labor.
The first and second federal grand
juries at Chicago have returned indict-
ments against the Standard Oil COM
pany before Judge Bethea in the Unit
ed States circuit court. The indict-
ments, which contain 6428 counts, are
all in connection with the granting of
rebates.
Three Spanish ships captured by Ad-
miral Dewey in Manila bay May /,
1898, have been sold by the navy de-
partment for $103. They have been
stripped of everything movable and are
simply hulks practically useless for
any purpose of the navy.
The convention of the American Bar
Association is in session at st. Paul
this week. 1t is expected that between
500 and 900 attorneys will attend the
sessions.
An unknown man committed suicide
at Occur d'Alene last Monday. He
shot himself.
1.-THE Japanese government will open
Dalny to the commerce of all nations
after September /. 1t is to be a free
port.
dorothy Davenp ort of Pasco, aged 4
years, recently fell from second story
window in hotel, distance of 10
feet, and escaped death by falling on
hoarhound weed. She fell head first.
Roswell, N. MI. S. Merscham,
travelling overland from Portales, dis
covered two men sitting upright in a
wagon, dead, and four mules dead in
the harness, near Kenna. The men
have been identified as Victor and
Thomas Simpson, brothers, who lived
on farms near Elids. They were kill
ed by lightning when driving from
Rowsell to their farms.
1t is said that China has placed
heavy orders for artillery with the Jap
anese factories.
General Won Liarliarski, acting mill,
tary governor general of Warsaw, Rus
STA was shot and killed last Monday at
ternoon while driving in cab. The
assassin escaped.
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Gamble at Washington, o. c.

1t has been discovered that almost
under the dome Of the capitol at Wash
ington well equipped gambling re-
sort is being operated beyond the con-
troll of the authorities. It is a huge
houseboat in the Potomac river out of
the jurisdiction of the District Of Co
lumbia, and also that of Maryland and
Virginia. It runs full blast day and
night. keno, roulette and crap shoot
ing being the principal games. An
EFFORT will be made to GUST the gam
blers.
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DEADLY CARGO FOR CUBA.
Six eatIinss and 1900 Rifles on the
Mexico.

Arms and ammunition for the Gu
ban government were shipped from
New York last Saturday for Havana
on the Ward line steamer Mexico.
The steamer had slowed away in her
hold $4,000 Remington repeating RI
files, 100000 rounds Of ammunition and
six Calling rapid fire guns for the
use of President Palma's forces. The
shipment it is said. would have been
larger, but the vessel could carry no
more. The steamer Kansas, which
will sail Thursday, will carry 100000
rounds of ammunition and 5000 Rem
ingtons for the Cuban government.
Report on Trade.
r. G. Dun's report on trade Is as
follows: "Wall street provided the
only important development in the
business situation during the past
week, prices of stocks rising within
So a share of the high record estab-
lished last January, while the general
public became interested to an extent
that lifted money rates for all periods
to the legal maximum. Owing to
few exceptionally large undertakings
in this city, the total value OF all
building permits issued in July was
slightly smaller than year ago, but
outside of New York there was a
heavy increase"
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OREGON NOTES.

Ex-Governor T. #. Geer has one
half interest in the Pendleton Daily
Tribune.
The infant daughter, aged Is months
of Chris Thoeny, was tossed upon the
horns Of pet cow recently at the
Thoeny farm, mile above Weston,
The baby girl was thrown fully 20
feet and landed on harrow, slight
wound in the mouth being her only
injury.
At Baker City, L. M. Gosney, aged
70 years, and Mrs. Katherine Gibson,
aged 70, were married recently.
The IL months old child of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Perkins of Pendleton
met death Sunday afternoon as the re.
suit Of having drank quantity of fly
poison. which had been left where the
baby could reach it.
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FRISCO CARS tied UP
KOTORMEN and CONDUCTORS
AGREE TO STRIKE.
All But Two Lines Are at standstiII-
Men Want So per Day Of Eight
Hours-Mayor Schmitz Tried to Set
tile it-2o00 Men Are out-crowds
Take Things Happily.

San Francisco, Aug. 27.-With the
exception of the California and Geary
street lines, street railway traffic in
this city was suspended Sunday as the
result of the strike of the conductors
and motormen OF the United Railways
system.
Although the California and Geary
street lines were in operation their
limited equipment was inadequate.
The employees of these two lines will
not be called out but they expect their
employers to follow the lead of the
larger company in any change that
may be made in the wage schedule.
This action of the carmen was taken
in spite of the efforts of Mayor
Schmitz during the past two days to
avert the strike. The strike affects
about 1000 men.
A few men, sufficient to start the
cars ii word was received that the
company would grant the demands,
gathered around the car houses, but
there was no disorder. A small sized
riot occurred at Fillmore and Turk
streets, which, however, had no direct
connection with the strike of the car
men.
The California and Geary street ca
BILE roads did their best to help out,
but were fairly swamped with traffic
and unable to make much of an i'm
preston on the crowds that gathered
at their respective terminals and along
the lines. The California street line
operated but seven cars, all the COM
pany had left from the fire, and on ac-
count of having no headlights for the
cars, closed down at dark. The Geary
street road is better equipped than the
California street line and is running
tonight.
The crowds that passed up and down
Market street took the inconvenience
and hardships of walking, in some in
stances distance of two or three
miles, very good naturally, laughed,
joked or jeered at some fat old fellow
who had been inveigled into the long
walk to the ferry, or of necessity had
to make it, stumbling over the rough
cobblestones, cursing strikers and the
United Railroads alike.
Indications are that the strike on the
United Railroads will be long and
bitterly fought contest.
Later Report.
In bulletin made public Monday
night. and which will be posted upon
all the car barns of the United Rail-
roads, the directors of the corporation
urge that the striking employees return
to work, promising that they will be
treated literally and justly as if they
had not gone on strike.
The bulletin is in the form of a COM
munication direct to the employees and
signed by President Patrick Calhoun.
The men are notified that when they
have returned to work the company
will be prepared to consider a modifi-
cation of the contract that exists be-
tween the union and the United Rail-
roads.
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IDAHO NOTES.

Harvesting has begun In the Pot
latch country. Farmers are paying
considerable attention to the opera
tions of a combination thresher which
has been placed in the field Of Edward
Stovell of Fairview.
Neither time, money nor trouble is
to be spared to make this years Lew
iston- Charleston fair the greatest event
of it's kind ever held In the territory.
The annual fete and barbecue by
citizens of Lane was held Saturday
and was one Of the most successful
and pleasing events OF the kind In the
history of the town.
The Hill roads announce a rate OF
one fare from points along their lines
to st. Paul for those attending the
National Irrigation congress at Boise
September 8. The association offers
one fare plus so cents.
Rains have increased the water in
ne Snake river so that It Is hoped nav
isAtion to Riparia may be resumed
several weeks earlier than estimated.
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President Roosevelt has appointed
w. s. Brainard postmaster at Ward

President Roosevelt has appointed
w. 8. Brainard postmaster at Ward
ner.
A novel event in the way Of dance,
given 100 feet underground. was held
at the Ozark mine near Pierce City.
A platform large enough to accommo-
date two sets had been constructed at
There is a possibility that Mrs.
Leachman, should she recover, may
never be able to utter another word
because OF paralysis of the vocal
cords. She was shot last week at
Lewiston by her husband, s. s. Leach
man. before he sent bullet into his
own brain.
one of the stations in the mine for
the benefit of the dancers.
As a result of being shot by the ac-
cidental discharge Of gun, Earl Red
head, one of the we'll known young
men Of Occur d'Alene City received
injuries at Hayden lake Saturday even
ing that resulted in his death.
A Mr.. Stark was recently drowned
In the Snake river at Box canyon.
w. F. Kettenbach, president Of the
Lewiston National Bank, had mar
row escape from being killed by the
explosion of fve-gallon can of gaso-
line recently while filing the tank Of
his automobile near Waha lake. The
exploding gasoline set fire to his cloth
ing and to the automobile. Mr.. Ket-
tenbach rolled down hill and extin-
guished the fire in his clothing, and
sustained severe burns and painful
bruises. His companions, one of them
also burned, extinguished the flames
which were devouring the machine.
It was badly damaged.
In the presence of her husband and
15 year old daughter, Mrs. Lottie Nc
Dermott, wife of Peter McDermott, a
farmer residing eight miles from For
est. near Lewiston, was instantly kill
ed. A tree which her husband had cut
fell upon her and crushed her skull.
The tree fell against another and Mrs.
McDermott was assisting in pulling it
down when it fell. The woman lost
her presence of mind, and instead Of
running away, rushed under the tree.
The stump Of limb struck her on the
head.
The total equalized valuation of the
state for 1905, as reported by the state
board Of equalization, is $50, 7O4,-
$40. IS, an increase over 1905 Of $5,-
42S, 261.29, last years figures being
$75, 1881 ,087.97.