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in localities where navigation is not suspended during
the winter months during the months in the
northern section the railways and the waterways do
business successfully side by side To large extent
the waterways feeders of the railways and the rail-
ways in turn, are feeders of the waterways.
There IS competition between them for large portion
of the traffic that accessible both but there
slant tendency economic division of the traffic
along fairly well-defned nes7he railway corryng
along fairly welldeined Hnesthe railway carrying
rule larger share of the business and of
te higher classes of freight all freghts requiring
especially quick movement including perishable products
On the other hand the cargoes Of the water carriers
are generally made up in most part of commodities Of
the heavier and kinds Not only in this
try but Europe WELL there Is the general tendency
to division of traffic between water and ril carriers
along these lines. and may, with advantage,
study the results that have been attained in countries
where facilities water transportation have been
fully developed than III the United States.
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Russian Book Indicted.

Even in Russia ii does not often
happen that charge is brought
against book and not against the au-
thor or publishers thereof. Yet a case
of this kind was brought before the
Warsaw courts the other day, says the
Pail Mall Gazette.
The charge was laid against work
by a certain Gustave Baumfield as be-
ing of a nature ''likely to arouse its
readers to revolutionary actions" The
dock was perfectly empty and evidence
was given by the police who had con-
fjScated the book. The verdict was
pronounced against the book and
amounted to an order that il should be
burned.
The explanation of this peculiar in
cident is that the book in question was
discovered by the police while still in
the printers hands and that as It had
rot yet been published was held re-
sponsible for its revolutionary tenden-
cies, All the blame was laid on the
book, of which every sheet has now
been destroyed.
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great chimney broke the silence. Both
sat gazing into the leaping flames
Il should have known better than to
return here" Aunt jasmine contin-
ued. Il can't think why | came, only
your father wrote that he so longed to
see me, and that since our fathers
death he had moved into the old home.
Home, you can't realize, Muriel, what
it means. l didn't think the first even
ing would upset me So What a weak
creature l am"
This is what 1 beg of you, honey"
Aunt Jasamines voice was very low,
mot to throw away your lifes happi-
ness. l was only eighteen when l con
cluded l was far too bright and charm
ing to waste my talent on plantation.
The winter in New York spoiled me.
was feted, dined and battered until my
poor, silly, little head was about up
side down. The great singing master
told me my voice was so wonderful,
so beautiful, it would be Il sin to de-
prive the world of so great blessing.
In February | returned with a mighty
idea of Miss jasmine Montrose. and
her Importance. At our yearly ball. st.
Valentines Eve fourteen years ago
TO right. l told Court of my inten-
tiohs | was going abroad for two
years 10 study; after which 1 would
delight vast audiences with my sing
ing. Poor vain little me! How well
remember his shocked expression, as
he said, Sweetheart. you can't do this
mad thing. Have you forgotten that
we are to be married in June?-Why
darling. when the roses bloom my little
white rose is to come to her Old Ken
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She's always beautiful. There's heaps
of time before dinner, and daddy, /
got a valentine, and
well, well, how many words are
you capable of a second?" asked her
father, as he lovingly drew her toward
him. 1T is twilight, grille, ring for
lights; l have brought some one with
me-"
In the doorway, the dark oaken
woodwork fitting frame for the
handsome face and the dark eyes
glowing with excitement, yet with n
trace of sadness in their depths, stood
Courteney Falconer. AS lights were
brought, he stepped forward with out
stretched hands toward Jasamine
"Have you no welcome for me, Sweet
heart" he said.
Muriel and her father slipped quiet
ly from the room. But, presently
down the stairway floated a fresh
young voice.
1.-THE sun shines bright on my old
Kentucky home.
'Tis summer. and the darkies are
gay"
Thank Cod" said Courteney Falco
ner.-Waverley Magazine.
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HOW WELL 1 REMEMBER.

tucky Home. Surely, sweetheart, you
are jesting'
~ am i'll earnest l replied How
stupid TO shut myself up here. Court.
there's years and years to be married
in. | can sing and be married later
Never he declared In sudden pas
sion. No woman who has paraded
herself in public. and allowed her pure
voice TO ring out from stage upou a
throug of men, and often women, unfit
to touch her, shall ever become the
wife of Courteney Falconer. Our name
and. please God. it shall never be dis
graced by me-.
II listened In amaZement. The idea
Of Court opposing any wish of mine
had not entered my head. My pride
arose in arms. and l swept haughtily
past him. He was old-fashioned, of
course, but. dearie, | believe he was
right, had but known it then.
Later in the evening. as they were
playing for the last dance. he came
and stood beside me. Sweetheart
don't be angry with me-llsten, they
are playing our dear old song. Place
yourself in my position; think of our
love. dearest. and don't be foolish he
begged.
'Some demon must have been in my
heart. l turned coldly from him. say
ing. BE careful. lest you should. by
conversing with me, disgrace the name
of Falconer.'
"He looked az me for a moment. then
! just as the violins waited forth, Weep
no more, my lady he said. Very we'll.
/ jasmine and turned away.
"A few months later / went abroad,
but not to sing. for with the passing
of Court the light of my life went out.
Now, honey, you understand"
Muriels cheeks were wet with tears.
Aunt jasmine patted them softly.
There, there. dearie, never mind.
must not shadow your life with my
sorrow. Come, honey. 1t Is time to
dress for dinner"
There's fathers voice now in the
hall" cried Muriel. starting up. her
brief sorrow quite forgotten. Daddy.
oh daddy, come right in and be comfy
with US. I'm In an old gown. and Aun-
ties says she's fright but she isnr
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exist IN only comparatively few States, their influence
is widespread is evident by the growing demand for
stringent State laws regulating savings banks along
the lines that have been tried and found effective by the
mutual savings banks Statistics Of State savings tanks
other than mutual indicate that these banks are well
and ably managed and entitled to the complete conf
Gence of the community.
In 1906 there reported but five failures of
ngs in the United States with liabilities of 100000
and assets of 100000, net loss Of $4,000, most
insignificant amount compared with the deposits OF
these banks which aggregate thing $C000000
The record of the other class of financial institutions
that receives savings deposits the trust company while
not plain. is still admirable.
The trust company Is comparatively new type hav
Ing been developed largely in the last ten years 1t has
quite found it's proper sphere, but it unquestionably
serves real ard it is only question OF a short
time before 1t will rank equally with the older types of
financial institutions in conservatism and stability.
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/ isolated ones are supplied with food
and fuel, too, and it is fact that it
often costs more to get these supplies
to the lighthouses than the supplies
themselves cost. Men who receive 500
year or other small salaries do not
have charge of first-class lighthouses.
They are the men who attend to light
J ing one of the small beacons, but even
in that case they earn their money.
| Lighthouse keepers are not allowed
to take up any occupation that would
interfere with their duties, but some
of them manage to earn an honest
penny occasionally by making shoes
or doing tailoring or other intermit-
| tent work One Is reported who
preached every Sunday at little
church near the light. Another was a
| justice of the peace. Another taught
school.
Tie summer isn't so bad anywhere
| On the northern Atlantic coast things
| 90 to the other extreme. Summer
! folks become veritable pest at many
| L
the large resorts are made the objec-
| tive points of hundreds of yachting
parties. of launches, Of idlers in any
kind of thing that will float.
When these visitors come by scores
every day and must all be taken I'D to
see the light-a very respectable little
climb if the tower happens to be 100
or more feet high and must all be fed
with the same facts-all of them indi-
gestible to the average mind on a sum-
mer vacation-and must all peek and
peer into the private quarters of the
! family, then the isolation of January
doesn't seem to be without it's redeem
| ing features
The wife of n lighthouse keeper has
no sinecure. One wonders what hap
pens If a man in that position marries
an untidy wife. According to the testi-
monys of one woman who lives in
lighthouse the inspector would make
short work of a domestic slattern.
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United Democracy.

Secretary Taft's saying that there is
not harmony of sentiment within the
Democratic party, and that varying
Democratic opinions make up a crazy
quilt Of political sentiment fits tie sit
uation within his own party to nicely,
as the Chicago convention will show.
The principal embarrassment of the
Democratic party just now Is that the
administration faction of the Republi-
can party has taken up most of the
Democratic policies that are vital at
the present iuncture, while the organi-
cation at large has presented no new
issues for a division of parties.
The AldricE wing of the Republican
party is as far apart from the Taft
Roosevelt wing as it is from the Demo
Gratis. and likes it less. Between the
standpatters and the tariff reformers
of the Republican party the gulf is
wide and deep. And among the latter
there is a tumble of conflicting views
crazier than was ever pictured in any
quilt
"A
shades of opinion with respect to the
Presidents remarkable recommended
lions to revolutionize the government
by executive orders and TIE destruction
of the States by constructive juris-
prudence" On these questions Republi-
can opinions differ all the way from
those of Secretary Root. who would
support the President in such course,
and those of Lieutenant Governor Sher-
man of Illiniis, who has latterly be-
come an ardent defender of State
rights.
If the Chicago convention would only
put into its platform plank support
ing the Republican Presidents position
| In this matter we should have this year
a division Of parties that would cleo
| trify the country and make sweeping
| Democratic victory a certainty. But
| the convention will do nothing of the
sort. Mr. Taft and his friends are too
good politicians TO invite defeat by car
rying to its logical conclusion their ad-
vocacy of Rooseveltian ideas.
| There are no such differences among
Democrats. The questions on which
they were divided in the past have gone
to the limbo of dead issues. Demo-
Gratis are united in defense Of the gov
| eminent as it has come to us through
long line Of patriots and jurists.
They are united for the full exercise
by the national government of all its
| legitimate powers and for defense of
| the States in the performance Of every
function which is properly theirs under
the Constitution.
Democrats are solidly united for rea-
sonable and proper reform of the tariff
| to meet the country's needs. for just
and reasonable regulation Of corpora
tons chartered 10 serve the public. for
| the nations honor and the peoples
liberties. The resolutions TO be adopted
at Denver viii form platform upon
which every Democrat will be glad to
stand.
Mr. Judson Harmon proved himself
a most philosophical observer Of things
political when he declared in his Bir-
mingham speech that for the first time
In a number Of years the Democratic
party goes into the approaching Presi-
Dental election thoroughly united to
contend against an opponent hopelessly
divIded-St. Louis Republic.
4
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Republican Bossism,

Ex-Governor Black of New York
rather startled the Home Market Club
of Boston when he declared, at the
annual dinner of that high tariff or
ganization, there never has been in
the history OF this country a bossiem
so despotic and INSCRIPTIONS as that
which controls you now" and further
said. prosperity. but yesterday at the
flood. has leaked away. And yet Yesu-
vius still continues active" BY Vesu-
vius he meant the eruptions Of Presi-
dent Roosevelt, but why he should
have twitted the high priests of tariff
protection with the fact that their
boosted prosperity has vanished was
rather curious. But Republicans are
ratified these days.
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On Feb. 13, Mr.. Rainey, of Illinois
made an excellent speech on the tariff
Mr.. Rainey is the man who so vigor-
ously attacked the watch trust in the
last Congress. His recent speech, how
ever, dealt with the Standard Oil Trust
and the Presidents attitude toward it.
1t was made in support of his bill to
exempt from duty petroleum and its
products.
Mr.. Rainey is not one of those Dem
ocrats who applaud every adcap tam
DUN trick of Mr.. Roosevelt THE eff
fort is made by the President" said
he, ito prove that he is engaged in a
terrific warfare against the Standard
Oil. AS a matter of fact, the Standard
Oil has not paid the fine of $4,000, 600
recently assessed against it, and no eff
fort has been made to collect it. Like
the revision of the tariff, the collec-
ton of the fine has been postponed I'M
til after election. When the elections
have been held the friends of the tariff
and the Standard Oil will, as they
hope, postpone both the revision of the
tariff and the collection of the fine"
Furthermore, he showed that the
Standard Oil was making 60 per cent
profit on its capital; that its product
was protected to the extent of 10 cents
per gallon, though ostensibly on the
free list; that it sold it's product abroad
much cheaper than at home; and that
The TRADES against it by the President
were not sincere, because the President
was opposed to any reduction Of the
tariff before the coming election. "At
the present time,'' said he, "a new
method has been devised to postpone
the revision of the tariff 1t is a tariff
commission, which is to be composed
of Republican tariff experts. The Re
publican idea of tariff expert is a
man who is either in favor of main
tanning the schedules just as they are,
or of revising them upward"
Mr.. Rainey's speech was perhaps
the severest arraignment of the Ding
ley tariff law that has been made this
session. In this connection it may be
well to remember that on March 81
1897, when that bill was under consid-
Grafton in the House of Representa-
tiyeS. the Democrats voted solidly for,
and the Republicans solidly against n
motion to recommir the bill, with In
structions to report the same back to
the House with amendments placing
upon the free list all articles manu-
featured. purchased, or controlled. by
any combination or organization of per-
sons, formed in the United States for
the purpose of limiting regulating, or
controlling the supply or price of any
such article. Record, Vol. 80, page
557 If this motion had prevailed, the
instructions been carried out, and a
bill in conformity with them enacted,
there would not have been to-day a
single trust in the United States. But
the motion was defeated by solid Re
publican vote, and hence the Presi-
dents buncombe TRADES against trusts
are but so many indictments of him
self and his own party. The cure for
trusts is not vulgar billingsgate and
false pretenses, but tariff revision
along the lines proposed by the Demo
Gratis in 1897.
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My Old Kentucky Home
O0-~r~~NON-No~

Weep no more my" Muriel
Montrose stopped abruptly. with a final
crash OF discord. Aunt jasmine,
what is the matter? Why do you look
Mt me in such Mortified way? Are
you ILL has something happened?" she
asked in one breath.
Nothing dearie. nothing; don't both
err reckon am not quite we'll
"WelI-indeed you look like ghost.
Do tell me what it means. Something
terrible has happened. and you're
afraid to tell me. oh, I know some
thing just awful has gone and happen
ed" and with the abandon OF her six
teen years, Muriel began to cry. At
each word of comfort she but walled
the ouder, until she caught the word
song" Then she sat up so suddenly
IS 10 nearly upset poor, distressed Miss
Montrose.
DO | sing 50 horribly as that. and
me-wlth thoughts of q career. oh,
Auntie Jasamine"
mo. honey. it wasn't your voice !:
that is swcetly beautiful, but" she
seemed unable 20 go on.
"Auntie. dear, what is it," Muriel
slipped to the floor, and nestled caress-
ingly the older woman's knee. why
did that scrap of such dear, old song
affect you so: oh, know you are hid
ing something from me. | promise
never to tell soul II you will only
tell me. Please, Auntie jasmine"
There was silence in the spacious,
lovely, old room for time. Then with
smile that was half sigh, the story
was told; the old, old story of girlish
foolishness and boyish pride.
Il had thought never TO speak of
my life. Muriel. least of all to child
like yourself. but prehaps 1t may save
YOU from similar fate" Aunt Jasa-
mine began, as she stroked the shining
hair. You know, dearie, that for
years and years | have lived abroad
trying with travel, music and art 10
help time pass. II is nearly fourteen
years since | left the dear old home.
Your father. you know, is my only
brother: we two were left without our
mother when but little tots, and grew
up under the care of an indulgent fa-
ther was too obstinate, honey; |
s know it now; much to fond of my own
way.
''In the old days Courteney Falconer
was constant visitor in our home. l
accepted his devotion as matter of
course. His love was an old story, for
as children l had always been sweet
heart to him" Ii really seemed as
s though that were my name. He sell
dom called me Jasamine. unless hurt.
or angry. We spoke of the future as
ours. Our home. our horses. our
halls or his affection there was no
doubt. and loved him. child. God only
knows how much. l still do, though
it's years since we heard from him.
When he first went West he wrote 10
his mother. but since her death there
has been absolute silence. OF course
we considered Kentucky the only place
on earth. and Court loved the song
not only on that account. 6ut for his
mothers sake. 1t was her favorite
How often have | sat at this same
plano, honey. with his deep voice sing
ing beside me-" Muriers hand stole
softly Into hers. For a time only the
esackle Of the burning logs In thz
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stretching the Constitution.

The recent utterances of Senator
Raynor III regard to the Presidents pol
icies are highly important. Senator
Rayner gives the President credit for
sincerity, but regards the remedies sub
gested by him for existing abuses as
either unconstitutional or impractica-
Bile, and, therefore, utterly futile, or ut
terly vicous-futile whenever imprac-
ticable, and vicious whenever uncon-
stitutional Like jefferson and Madi-
son he views the powers OF the federal
government as resulting solely from the
compact TO which the States are par
ties, and as limited by the plain sense
and intention of the instrument consti-
tuting that compact. He regards those
powers as being no further valid than
\ they are authorized by the grants
enumerated in that compact, and de-
plores the deliberate, palpable and dan
gerous attempts on the part of the
President to exercise himself, and to In
duce Congress to exercise, other pow
ers which are either not granted or ex-
pressly prohibited by that compact. He
points out instances in which the Pres
idant has manifested a disposition, if
not actual determination. to enlarge the
federal powers by forced constructions
of the constitutional charter which de-
fines those powers. the obvious ten
dency and inevitable result of which
would be to transform the present Re
publican system of the United States
into an absolute or, at best, a mixed
monarchy.
Senator Rayner did not like certain
features of the AIdrich currency bill,
and objected especially to the comming-
ling of the taxing power with the pow
er to coin money and regulate its value.
II do not for a moment favor the arti-
fetal method of taxation that is to
force the currency back and contract
expansion when money is no longer
needed" said he, Il would force con-
traction, not ~ taxation, but by in
creasing the reserves"
To prevent the taxing power as the
Aldrich bill proposes to do by amalga-
mating it with a distinct and wholly
different power would be an outrage.
But the President favors this uncon-
stitutional proposition.
Senator Rayner also charged the
President with having ''unconsciously
contributed to the misfortunes that
have overtaken u.s." with having terri
fed every manufacturing industry i'll
the land; with having impressed the
public mind with the idea that every
man engaged in a large business trans
action is a malefactOr."
After enumerating several remedies
suggested by the President which he
declared to be utterly impossible of
accomplishment by the federal govern
ment," Senator Rayner added: Il am,
as / have often asserted in this cham
Der, against him whenever he proposes
to subvert the rights Of the States and
invoke the federal authority" How
different are such views from the the
atrical demagogy and quackery of those
who yelp at Chautauquas and Sunday
school conventions about the democracy
of Roosevelt.
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AFTERTHoUGHTS.

A woman wearied with life's toll
And never ending quest
Beside the two-score milestone sat
To muse awhile and rest.
"Oh, youth" she murmured, thou ar
gone
With all thy golden hours.
Woald l had gathered less Of thorns
And more Of loves sweet flowers.
1.-THE busy years have come and gone,
Each bearing in its trail
Peace, JOY and turmoil intermixed
With much of needless pain.
eff ! might live my life again
But that can never be
The hours | now would fain improve
Are in eternity.
This will | do. Whate'er remains
OF life on earth to me
To works of mercy shall be given
And loves sweet ministry"
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Arbiter and Arbitrary.

If an arbitrator is chosen to end a
dispute, says the London Chronicle,
there Is no reason to dread that his de-
eision would be arbitrary, though the
two words are very near relatives. An
arbiter. the Latin word which used to
be more common as English than it is
now. meant by derivation simply zone
who went to" something to examine IT..
and so at first spectator or witness.
Then in Roman law it assumed the
technical sense of an umpire But a
iudicum," the legal decision in case
with regard to a definite sum of mon
ey, for instance. was distinguished
from an arbitrium, legal decision as
to an uncertain sum which had to ne
determined; hence arbitrary acquired
the sense of uncertain. caprieious.
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or the accounts and financial methods
OF the railroads. To vote this large
sum will make some of the Republican
friends of the railroads in Congress
squlrm, and their action will be watch
ed closely. If the railroad rate law
IS TO be useful in reducing rates, the
commission must be given the means
to discover how much the railroads
are now making, and how great reduc-
tons of rates can be made withcat
Gripping those CO rporations.