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A DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS:
A DIgtif of Polltloal, Social and Indue-
fate of this measure, the revisory au"
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trial Affairs, Conducted by E. 0. Santar,
riod was 35.400,000; the dost Of
opera-
FRMALE LABOR IM FFALX.
DIHEEN LEGISLATION.
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root of the evil lies in too few
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the most difficult of munic
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"Uncle Joe" Canno’s birthday party
which took place at the Arlongton ho-
tel. Washington, May 7, served to call
attention afresh to the speaker's presi-
of sewerage in all the towns upon those
streams, because the government will
not tolerate the pollution of the waters
of any stream which it m seeking to
canalise. If the Marshali experiment is
entirely successful it will solve one of
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sultant fluid was as pore as the water
from any artesian well.
The plan, often used, of throwing
sewage into a pool or stream of stag-
nant water is a high crime against
the public health, and should be se-
verely prohibited by statute. Efforts
that are now under way to open up the
Trinity, Brazos and Red rivers to par-
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with the ornate signature of a captain
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Spokane Bpokesman-Record.
Rev. Dr. E 8 Curry, who died at
Meyers Fall*. Wash., last week, is sal
to have predieted that San Francisco
was In danger of an early earmquake.
He was n setentist of eonmiderable abil-
ity and had given much study to geol-
ogy and astronomy. He was an author
of note and had a five-volume treatise
— he finally exclalmod,
clever man. all right, painting
tures at oncet Then, after,
he added: ‘Rut that one you
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in Europe as a bureaucrat of the bureau-
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district. or the territory adjacent to
Wichita Falls and Vernon would be-
come a large producer of cotton would
have been laughed at. Today, ia the
face of the succensful production of
cotton throughout West and Northwest
Texas no one would be rash eQough
to attempt to prophesy a lmiutton
upon the onward movement of th* sta-
ple. It la adapted to both the seasons
and the soil of a proven territory as
larse •• New York, Pennsylvania and
Ohio combined. With an abundance of
labor Texas eould produce a ten mil-
lion bale crop, without any diminution
of its other products.
Cotton ia and always will be king
of the agricultural world, and Texas
is and always will be the most fa-
vored province of Its empire.
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On the Celtic, of the White Star line,
which sailed from Liverpool for New
York May 5, the most Important pas-
senger was his highness, the gaekwar
of Baroda. He is acompanied by his
wife and daughter and intends to tour
the states and Canada in an official
visit to friends.
The gaekwar is a Mahratta chief of
the highe st caste. Baroda his native
state. Is in the Bombay presidency, and
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Bjree ddMhig
state that the child should be anchored
to sound morale thah, that It should
be taught to solve ana
lem. Many nations have'
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Harper’s Weekly.
An Mlustrator whose work for the
maganines is now generally admired
tells a story of his early days, when
his lines were cast in harder places
than at present.
“I wax pretty hard up," says he. "and
in the West was once obliged to make
a living by "quick paintings at coun-
try fairs. I remember how. on one
such occasion, I was surrounded by a
crowd galling raptly at my work. I
was hurriedly conveying the colors
from the tubes to my palette, and from
thenre to the cheap stuff supposed to
be canvas, very anxious to get the er-
feet deslYed and to be through with
the.ob, for 1 was desperately hungry.
•The man nearest m was absorbed,
day. he finally exelalmed. ‘you’re a
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Meet All leer eased Demandm.
The address of President Calvin
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logy partly published at the time
death. He was 70 years of age
id bees in the active ministry In
the Conzresattonal chureh for many
certain charge* brought
against Rev. B. Q. DL-
pastor of the church.
A little negro girl, s ward of Mra
Grannia, wip "made faces"
when attending i
by women
ranks as one of the most capable and
advanced rulers. If he sees frit on any
occasion during his visit to this hemis-
phere to don his robes of office and his
own jewels he will undoubtedly daz-
sie all beholders. He has a great colle-
tion of precious stonec, many of which
have boe n in the possession of his fam-
ily for more than five hundred years.
He carries a large part of these with
him on his travels.
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is as resistlesa as ths
ocean.
When the whirlwind
from the egregatfon. Mrs Grannis,
who was present at every session ok
the trial, declares she will continue to
attend serviees at the church.
Th* mensational trm) is the resuit of
Statutes De Not Alwnye Held the Re-
sults Ixpeesed.
The candidates for governor of Texas
and all candidates for the legislature
who have spoken on the subject are
agreed that our system of criminal
procedure needs amendment to the and
that a better enforcement of criminal
law shall be secured. Every lawyer in
the state will admit that there are
many defects in the law which oper-
ate to clog the wheels of justico and
to bring reproaeh upon the courts.
With public sentiment thus united and
emphatic, there should be no serious
obstacle to the adoption of remedial
statutes. The dizfieuity, however, is
greater than it appears on the surface
to be. for the reason that every stat-
ute that may be passed must be in-
terpreted and applied and it may be
England. Four years ago two wl
sale shoe companies of Lynehburg,
investment woul not
tive.
all dwelt together i a Fools Para-
disse, in an atmosphere of expectancy,
sad then the earthquake came. After
it had finished the demoliahment of
paper walls, and wall* built of brick
which contained nothing but straw, the
wrecks of federation gave dismal evi-
deace of the folly of attempting to
plant the Napoleonic idea upon the in-
dustries of this country. It can never
become a one man’s land as long as the
spirit lives which breathed life into
the constitution and rebellion into the
souls of the men who made it.
Mr. Rockefeller was never so weak
as when it was disclosed to the coun-
try how strong he was. From that mo.
meat he became a noun in apposition
do th* great middle class, whose ab-
sorption he threatens, and the contest
will go on until he and his associates
abandon their schemes of industrial
federation. Were their resourees twen-
ty times as large as they are, they
would be forced to quit this field soon-
er or later, because arrayed against
them is the aggregated strength and
sentiment of a nation and its power
having undertaken to
many corporations; that
continue to be manufactured
exclusively in the factories
disaster came in 1890, and great houses
% ere falling everywhere, the writer
appealed to the president of a Fort
Worth bank, noted for his thoughtful-
ness and conservatism, to know why
Texas was so seriously afiected, not-
withstanding it was beyond the rim of
the real disturbance. His reply con-
tained much wisdom. Said he.
This country is too large, its inter-
ests are too vast and varied, to rest
on a Kinancial foundation no bigger
than one or two streets in New York
city and Boston. It is the case of an
inverted pyramid. We need more finan-
(cial centers. Every state should hava
| one. The gumbiers of New York can
now create a panic whenever they
want one, and sometimes tney get it
when they don’t want it. If Chicago,
St. Louis and Kansas City were each
a financial center. It would cause no
disturbance of the business of the
country for the bulls and bears of New
York to fall upon each other and fight
to a finish. Financially speaking, the
couiftry is in the hands of too few
men.”
That is the lesson taught by Mr.
Fish's statistics. If they teach any-
thing at all they ought to sound the
One omthern City I* Competing With
Mew Enginnd.
During what were known as the
"boom times," many eftorts were made
to establish hoot and shoe factorise
in Texas, nil of which failed and some « .
of which involved sever* loss to their
promoters. The explanation given of
this at the time was the lack of skilled
operatives In this state, and partici-
pants in these efforts reluctantly ac-
cepted the contention that the boots
and shoes used on this continent would
lack of labor. Fifteen years ago th*
Toxas cotton crop was based on negro
labor. This has become more and more
unreliable and unsatisfactory, and now
one-half or more of the work done
in the cotton fields of Texas is per-
formed by the wives and children of
the farmers. The negyo is fast being
relegated to the gypsy life of a migra-
tory cotton picker, who is used when
he can be got, but whose movements
are so uncertain that the grower is
ceasing to base his plane upon him.
The negro population of Texas, which
is approximately 750,000, if trained to
steady, faithful, constant work, would
quadruple the results now attained on
farms more or less dependent upon
them. It would be well for those who
have charge of the educational Inter-
ests of Texas to consider carefully the
question as to which direction they are
sending the negro by such education
as they are giving him. The road to
the penitentiary is broad, and many
there be who walk therein because
they know just enough to hate phy-
sical toil.
Mr. Calvin's estimate that there are
10,000,000 nares of land in Texas avail-
able for the growth of cotton is about
five times the estimate usually made
by eastern authorities. It is, however,
not excessive. The march of cotton
toward the north during the last de-
cade has been amazing. Fifteen years
ago one who predicted that the Abilene
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A Proeenn of FMtratien Solves the
Problem for a Texas City.
The disposal of sewage is a prob-
lem that is becoming more and more
perplexing in towns and cities that
are not situated on streams ot suf-
ficient sis* to carry o.. the sewage
discharge without pollution of either
air or water. But few towns in Texas
are thus located, and the rapid growth
The Progress of Egypt.
The enormous progress that ham
been made in Egypt since th* Engfsh
took charge of its affairs is told in
the statement of the foreign funds
that have flowed there for investment.
I Between 1890 and 1898 sixteen com-
mercial companies were instituted,
with a capital of $43,500,000, and by
the end of 1904 sixty-six more, with
a capital of $70,000,000, had gone in.
During the present year twenty-four
uew companies, with a capital of $23,-
000.090, have already been instituted.
During the past few years foreign
capital to the ami l nt of 817 per head
of the population has been Invested In
Egypt, exclusive of the great Nile res-
ervoir and of banking investmenta.
Melancholy Failure of a Scheme to Erect
• Black Bepublio.
In 1820 the American Colonization so-
ciety was formed in Washington, with
Henry Clay as its president, having for
its object the creation of a black re-
public in Liberia, which should be dom-
inated by emancipated negroes from
America. The world applauded the
movement and it made on auspicious be-
ginning. Many negro** were sent from
this country to reclaim the native tribes
snd th* light of civilination was hung
invitingily before the very eyes of the
people. The protecting arms of all th*
great power* were thrown around the
new commonwealth, and every advan-
tage that the world's sympathy could
give was enjoyed by it. Soon a century
will have passed—a period sufficient
to test any people, government or move-
ment. Within half that time the Japan-
ese have progressed from obscure heath-
endom to a world power of high rank.
The land of the greaser has become
a great and prosperous commonwealth.
Most of the petty South American re-
publics have cast off their swaddling
clothes and have put on the whole ar-
mor of modern civilisation. Even far
off Slam hits emerged from tne mo-ep
of centuries and joined the cavalcade of
Progress. Liberia has been traveling
too, but which way? Backward, back-
ward. year after year. The negroes sent
from this country were trained in some
of the arts of civilisation. Their de-
scendants number about one-tenth of
Hie total population of . 2,000,000. The
leaven from heathendom has overcome
the leaven from civilisation. Our mis-
sionaries did not convert but were con-
verted. Liberia is admittedly a gigantic
failure as a governmental experience,
and unless it is taken in tow by the
world powers will soon touch the bottom
of the pit of savagery. Those who fanay
that all the negro needs is an oppor- ,
tunity would do well to study the his-
tory and present condition of Liberia.
Not all of the great financiera of the
country are apologists for th* systems
and methods which ar* responsible for
th* insuranee scandals. Mr. Stuyvesant
Fish, president of the Ilinois Central
raiiroad and vice president of the Na-
tionai Park batik of New York, was
connected with the organization of on*
of the "big three" companies, and his
activity in behalf of real reform so
Ancensed some of his brother million-
aires that they startea a movement to
oust him from the presidency of the
Illinois Cent rat in a review article
recently published on th* subject of
"Eoonomy." as applied to household,
public and corporate affairs, he makes
some observations that must appeal
strongly to thoughtful minds every-
where. He says that during the bad
times which followed th* panic of 1892-
93, the American people grew rich rap-
idly because they had learned frugal-
ity and were saving their means. A
saving or a waste of five cents per
capita per day amounts in this country
to $4,230,000 daily and $1,551,250,000
yearly. In 1894, 1895 and 1896 we were
saving; now we are wasting. Touching
the manageme nt of great corporations
Mr Fish says:
"Having looked into the matter my-
•elf somewhat carefully of late, I beg
to say to you in all seriousness that
not only in the insurance companies,
but in many other corporations, there
is need of the advice and pobably the
knife of the trained surgeon. There is
wrong in the management et many cor.
porations, and it should be removed,
cost what it may, for the benerN alike
of the patient and of the communxy.
Without pretending to any superior,
knowledge on the subject, but having |
given to it thought, not only of late,
but for years past with respect to cor-
porations generally. I think that the
wont to say of his remarks, "the bear-
ing on’t is in the application on't." The
legislature has several times made an
effort to reform judicial procedure,
and the testimony of experienced law-
yer* is that in many cases th* situa-
tion has been made worse instead of
better. Amendatory statutes bearing
upon this subject should be drawn by
lawyers of large experience, and should
have the approval, of careful judges,
based upon lessons drawn from th*
courtroom. Otherwise whatever the pro-
posed reform may promise upon its
face, there is a strong probabilty that
at will be barren of actual results.
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they have perverted the powers grant-
ed under corporate charters, and in
their hurry to do a vast business have
ia many cases don* it IL While too
•vll applies to corporations generally
throughout the whole country, my
meaning can perhaps be best illustrated
by taking the case of the three great
life insurance companies of New York
-the Mutual, the New York Life and
the Equitable. A year ago these three
companies had, as shown in the "Di-
rectory of Directors,' published by the
Audit company or New York, ninety-
two trustees or directors who lived
in New York. Of them one was a mem-
ber of seventy-three boards, another of
fitty-eight,- another of fifty-four, an-
other of fifty-three, another of forty-
Bine. another of forty-seven, another
of forty-three, another of fo«Ay-on«.
Ninety-two gentlemen held 1,439 di-
After Um mt two year* of bitterness
and strife Mr*. KN Is* be th R. Grannia,
president of th* national Christian
League for the Promotion rf Social
Purity, and famous woman’s auffragist,
will be formally expelled from the con-
gregation of the Piret Church of
Disciples of Christ, New York city.
In the ehureh trial in which she was
defendant Mra Grannin waa described
$13.50. The grosa income from
government's system for a certain
the Farmers' Union of Texas, before
the cotton conference lately held at
W’ashington, was a timely rejoinder to
the efforts of the European spinners
to develop cotton production in Egypt.
South Africa, India, South America and
elsewhere. These movements, while
they have uniformly been resultless,
have tended to promote the mischiev-
ous notion that there is an irrepres-
sible conflict on between the spinner
end the cotton farmer, The truth is
as emphasised by President Calvin, that
their interests are identical. Violent
fluctuations in the cotton market, pro-
duced by manipulation, are as hurtful
to one interest as to the other. Euro-
pean spinners are combining against
Lhe gambling influence and American
cotton growers are a unit in demand-
ing legislation against them.
Mr. Calvin’s assertion that Texas
alone will be able to provide suffi-
cient increase in cotton production to
meet the increasing demand of the
world for many years to come was a
revelation well nigh incredible to the
old world spinners, yet there was not
a trace of exaggeration in it. The solo
fell because it became ignorant to the
core. This may not be fashionable phi-
losophy. but it is history, and the aes-
son it teaches is being emphasized
every day tn the seandalous develop-
ments that are wiessed in New York.
New Jersey and throughout New Eng-
land.
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ton district. The bulk of the labor '
was found among raw recruits. Today
those factories are running at full
speed and aTe far behind with their
orders, and contracts are. out for the
erection of four additional sho* fac-
toriesin Lynchburg, earn of which will
have a capnetv of 3,000 shoes per
day. Corallary to this is the fact,
which naturally follows, that Lynch-
burg is the richest city per capita in
the South and the third richest in th*
United States.
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denttal boom. Already there is talk that
the Illinoisan may be the man to break
the record—“the good Southern man"
nominated for the presidency. He was
born in ullford, N. C. in 1836.
• squeaky voice who handled the or-
Binary collections, and if he failed to
- pay promptly he was cut off the visit-
mg list without dalliance. The inevi-
table product of these conditions was
more consolidations. The dry goods
houses, the meat markets, evn the cir-
•use* consolidated.
For more than a decade New York,
and with it the entire United States,
has been drifting toward centraliza-
tion of its business interests. The up-
heaval which is n w going on is the
mevitable reaction against the federa-
tion of capital. Men who formerly
owned and controlled small enterprises
that were prosperous and who acquired
habits and thoughts tos which independ-
epee I* indispensable, sr* now ortice
clerks and underlinga, getting their
orders through pneumatic tubes and
telephones. They *r« dissatisfied and
unuappy. and ar* leading factors tn
atirriug up rebellion Tgainst th* em-
pire of eentralized industry they have
assisted to ereate.
In the early eighties the fever for
consolidation strum th* cattle inter-
eats in Texas. Great corporattons were
organized, which were. In most caves
financed in England. The small cat-
tieman was perpuaded to turn over all
of his properties to the giant and in
return received a little cawh and much
benutifully tinted and highly orna-
Debanement of Citizennhip in Centers
of Ameriean Culture.
On* who is described as "one of the
best known men in Chenango county.
New York," writes that he has seen a
canvass of a town in that county which
is noted for its educational progress,
and that 49 per cent of the voters were
marked as purchasable, with the nec-
essary consideration indicated after
the name of each of such voters. This
statement appears in one of th* most
conservative newspapers of New York
city and is entitled to credence as ap-
proximately the truth. To those who
are accustomed to look solely to high-
er education for the betterment of
mm lal conditions it must give a shock.
Others who have studied the social dis-
eases peculiar to our day will not be
surprised by this statement. On the
contrary, every well mformed person
knows that the evil of venality is
greatest in thia country where the
highest ideals of modern civilization
have been realized. A few years ago
the Routh had many critics on account
of the extent of its illiteracy and there
were hot wanting some to prophesy
danger to the republic from thisource.
But th* country is too much engrossed
just now by the appalling spectacls
of dishonesty and corruption in high
places that loom up m ths centers of
culture to give much attention to th«
inability of southern negroes to spell
"baker," or to locate Abyssinia on the
map.
The truth needs to be told over and
over again, and hammered into the
hearts of the people, that there is no
native moral force in that element to
which w* give the name of education.
It is very true that la the process of
acquiring an education one necessarily
cornea within the range of moral in-
fluences and these may dominate his
Ilf*, but they are separable factors
from the education itself and are often
supplanted by influences operating
wholly for evil.
With this truth fully comprehended,
the mistake of relying solely upon edu-
cativer"rorees to safeguard our insti-
tutons will b avoided. It Is more im-
portant from the viewpoint of th*
so many days in a year as th* smaller
shops, incidentally, the cotton mills
pay better wages to girls than prevail
in the silk manufacturing industry.
For mature women the cotton mills
pay from 29 to 39 cents per day. these
being the best prices for female labor
in factories. The average number of
days of labor for which women in
Lombardy are paid in a year is 265
for the textile industries, where most
of them are engaged. Northern Italy
gives steadier employment than the
south. Women tobacco workers in
Lombardy get about 890 d krs a year,
at an average wage of not much over
35 cents a day.
As to the average day's wages. 11.1
per cent of women workers earn sums
up to the equal or 15 cents a day; 30.4
per cent earn from 15 to 20 cents; 43.7
per cent earn from 20 to 30 cents, and
10.5 per cent earn from 30 to 40 cents.
The percentage of women who earn
more than 40 cents a day is only 3.1.
Good domestie servants are hired at
from 13 to $5 a month. Germnn^g'irls,
known as superior cooks and maids,
can earn as much as $7 a monjh. All
the above figures apply to Lombardy
alone.y
Investigation indicates that In the
large factories the larger part of the
women are not over 35 years, while in
the smaller factories women of 53
years and under show a higher aver-
age. Taking 100 per cent of women
workera in Lombardy in all lines, 41.9
per cent are between 15 and 20 year*
of age, 44.5 per cent between 19 and
35, 12 per cent between 85 and RR, and
19 per cent over M.
Manutaetuvers Employ It to Fight For-
eign Competition.
••One of the main factore in th* low
cost of production in the Italian field
is the work of women, taken advan-
tage of in an unusual degree." Thus
writes American Consul Dunning, who
is stationed at Milan. The extent to
which female labor is employed bysthe
Italian manufacturers in the race to
overtake their German, English and
French competitor* and the petty
wages which are paid for it make an
interesting as well as a pathetic story
of an old world industrial struggle-
Taking, for example, girls under 15
years of age, it appears that in faeto-
flea employing 20 operatives or less
they number 80 per cent of the total
number of persons on the pay roll and.
receive an average wage of 11 Ameri-
can centa a day. In factories employ-
ing from 20 to 100 operatives the per-
centage of girls under 15 year* of age
ia 27, with an average dally wage
slightly less than the other case—a lit-
tle over 10 centa In factories em-
ploying from 100 to 500 operatives 24
per cent are girls under 15 years old.
with average wage of nearly 11 cents
per day. Where more than 500 oper-
atives are employed—the eumbos., of
these being, of course, small—the per-
centage of girls under 15 years Is it.
and their average earnings are 14
cents a day. Thus in Italy it seems
that the larger factories offer the best
condition* tor young girls and give
steadier labor and are not shut down
crate and the highest prieost of pigeon-
holes. . Heaviness, cunning and indo-
lence are his main characteristics.
He has dabbled in company promoting
for which he might have been prosecut-
ed had it not been that the late M.
Plehve, minister of the interior, refused
to move against him. His appoint-
ment has filled the friends of Russia
with the greatest apprehension.
CAM suPPLY THE WORLD.
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rectorships in corporations which were
sufficiently well known to be recorded
in the direct y above referred to.”
Mr. Fish to ches—and touches light-
-- —* "I>eon the key to the prepotent evil
of the situution, which is the federa-
tion of wealth under the control of a
few dominant spirits, presenting the
equivalent of the bureaucracy in Rus-
■ia Whatever may be the special qual-
irications of the few, they never fail
to govern badly, whether their rule
extends to political, financial or social
affairs. The evil as pointed out by Mr.
Fish looks bad enough, but in this
case the reformer has committed the
unusual blunder of minimising the evil.
The corporati ne to which lie refers
rule this country in a financial sense;
they in turn are ruled by the ninety-
two gentlemen holding the 1,439 di-
rectorships, but, worst of all, those
ninety-two gentlemen have their own
superiors, and to find these lords of
lords we must run back to a group of
financial kings which does not exceed
• baker's dozen. .
A few years ago the tranks of New
York began the process of consolida-
tion which soon wiped out nearly all
of the smaller concerns. Mr. Dos Pas-
nos. ths eminent New York lawyer and
author, in commenting on thia -rans-
formation declared it to be the herald
of ar, economic revolution far.reach-
ing in its consequences. The director-
ates of the smaller banks were com-
posed of merchant* and small capi-
talists living in their Immediate neigh-
borhoods. These gave a local coloring
to the polieies of the institutions with
which they were connected. Their
friends received favors and were pro-
tected and eacouraged. After th* con-
solidatlon movement had eliminated the
-- •« banks the number of bank di-
rs was curtailed to about one-
ath what it had been, and this one-
tenth represented only the agents of
- * great corporations. The small merchant,
the small manufacturer, the small cap-
italist was submerged. He was no lon-
ger permitted to put his feet up on the
desk of the prevident or to get a drink
of water, from the inside water cooler.
When his notes fell due he was re-
guired to deal with the sman boy with
each decided to build a shoe facto
and did so, against the advice of east- ' , "
ern friends. Superintendents and in-
structors were imported from the Bos-
of urban population in this state makes
this problem peculiarly difficult here.
An experiment is being made at Mar-
shall with a filtration system, having
a capacity of 590,000 gallons per day,
that will be watched wuh interest in
all cities of th* stat*. As explained
by its designer, John W. Maxey, a
Houston engineer, the process of puri-
fication "is purely bacterial and is ef-
fected by a mechanical arrangement of
tanks. First, the sewage passes through
a grease chamber by means of sub-
merged inlets and outlets. This brings
the sewage to a quiescent state and
allows the inorganic solids to settle
to the bottom, while th* lighter por-
lions rise to the '.op and undergo bac-
terial action, which prepares them to
pas* into the next stage. From th*
grease chamber it then passes into
a covered septic tank through a sub-
merged opening, strains through an
Inner dry laid brick wall. Waile 13
this chamber the sewage is attacked
by aerobic bacteria and their ezymes,
which liquify all organic solids, break-
ing up complex organic compounds Into
simpler forms and otherwise preparing
it for the final process of filtration.
Th* last process is that of passing
th* hydrolized tank effluent into a
continuous filter, where it is oxidized
by nitryfying bacteria into a whole-
some filtrate. The completeness of this
process depends upon ha great num-
ber of aerobic or nitrifying bacteria
colonies that can be propagated con-
tinuously. They require an abundance
of oxygen from tha air.”
This plant cost the city of Marshall
139,750, and its results have been so
satisfaetory that an experimental plant
with a capacity of 5,990 gallons daily
has been Installed in North Fort
Worth to dispose of packing house
wastes. A similar plant was Installed
at Cleburne several yyears ago. Th*
owners of adjacept(p roper ty attempt-
ed to enjoin the use ot it oa th*
ground that it created a nuisance, and
a very thorough investigation was
made, which demonstrated by all sci-
entifie testimony which was adduced
on the hearing that after the filtration
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weden’n ‘Telepbone Agate as.
The government of Sweden owns the
principal telephone system of that
country, which ha* * total mienge of
70,009 miles, against 10,000 miles owned
by private cprporations The city of
Stookholm uses 29,000 telephones,
against 27,000 used in New York City,
or »9 phones per 100 ihnbitants in
thority of th* people will effect a very
great chaega for the batter in public
expenditures in Oregon. An anti-pass
law, woman's suffrage and • measure
to give the people of the several dis-
tricts th* power to adopt Loeai
not at variance with the general laws
or the state will also be voted upon in
that state in June. Chicago is the most
important American city to adopt ths
referendum system and lately tested It
on the proposal that te city should
own and operate ti skeet railways,
which carried. Buftalo,.N. Y, has
lately adopted th* advisory referen-
dum and initiative, and Fort Worth.
Memphis and Grand Rapids have
amended their charters ss as to Eive
the electors a part In municipal legis-
lation with respect to franchises and
other matters. Australia and New
Zealand, which were pioneers in the
adoption of direct legislation, are con-
stantly extending lis use.
recently adopted
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scriber pays $13.50 per year, which en-
titles him to talk to all other aub.
scribers within a radius of forty miles.
For greater diatances there is a charge
of 4 cents for 70 miles, 8 cents for 19*
miles, 13 cents for 400 miles, 90 cents
for 900 miles snd 27 cents for all dis-
tancss beyond that. In 1890 the
charge for a telephone varied from $43
to 975. The government entered ths
business in 1983 snd the charge fell to
335 snd has gradually decreased to
New
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Memphis and Grand Rapids have lately
secured amended charters with refer-
endum features of more or less vigor.
Oregon was the first of the states to
plant the system in "its constitution
and the results there have been closely
watched by all students of political af-
fairs. At first but little use was made
of the power, but gradually the people
have come to understand and apply it.
In‘June several questions will be voted
on. One proposal I* to veto the mil-
lion-dollar appropriation bill passed by
the legislature for the operation of
the state government. It is a safe
prophesy that whatever may be the
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._____ Govennment Taba*** Induniry
A commission from the federal par-
liament in Australla has been Inves-
tigating the tobacco Industry with
ti e result that a majority of the com-
mission han reported in favor of the
nationalizatton of tne industry. The
m'nority report is unfavorable to this
plan upon the ground that the cost
woula bo abont $a5,000,000. snd the
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Reeent Progreum of the System 1* Sev-
eral State*.
The growth of th* system of direct
legislation, commonly known as the
referendum, by which matters are re-
ferred to a direct vote of the people.
Is one of the symptoms of the intensity
of popular feeling and demand for re-
form in polrtical methods which ex-
tends from ocean to ocean. Nevada
A.c smon pAcronxes.
amendment, modeled after the Oregon
constitution, which eables the people
by petition to submit proposed laws to
popular vote. It is the fourth state to
go thus far. Montana will vote on a
similar constitutional amendment in
November next. In Mae-- husetts,
Maine, Wisconsin, Colorado, Illinois
and California legisiative proposals to
submit referendum amendments to tho
people were defeated but received, in
most caser, strong support, and the
agitation for the movement goes on.
In Delaware a vote will be taken in
November on what. is known as the
advisory initiative and referendum. It
is in municipal affairs, however, that
the referendum is making most rapid
headway. The system has been im-
bedded in the government of nearly
all California cities. San Francisco,
Los Angeles, Pasadena, Vallejo, Sacra-
mento, San Bernardino. San Diego.
Eureka and Fresno all have charters
which give the people, through direct
vote, the power of making laws for
themselves and to grant or withhold
franchises: Denver, Fort Worth,
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‛ Equitable'n Saving.
The Equitable Life Assurance soci»-
ty has given out a statement showing
that its savings on the expense account
•or the first quarter of 1906 are equiv-
alent to an annual saving of 31,409,000,
which is about one-half enough to
run the government of Texas for one
IHN FUK'I WORTH KKCUKD: SUNDAY MORNING,
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Australinn Primary.
The first primary election to be
held In Australia will be held soon by
the labor party in Victoria to reduce
the number of candidates in that prov-
tree for the federal senate from twen-
ty-three to three.
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