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Show DAILY UTAH STATE JCURNAL, MONDAY. JANUARY PAGE POUR. 13, 1903, AS TO SILVER. T Rdltra THE COUNTRY'S NEED to Every OF MORE RAILROADS (From the Manufacturers' Record.) The country need of more railof presroads. of the double-tracient linen of more rolling stock, la la no wise changed hr present financial conditions. Even If there should be a In traffic, this would not p alight change the fact that our transportation facilities are wholly Indequate to the volume of our trade and that the country la rapidly growing while the railroads are not. The late Senator Gorman of Maryland, ten or fifteen years ago. very wisely said that the greatest problem before the people of America Is that of distribution. Dlstrl-ttoEvery day since then has emphasised the porrectneaa of Senator Gorman's Judgment Under such conditions the coet of transportation Is of far less Importance than the question of securing the facilities needed. We already have by far the cheapest railroad freight rates la the world rates that are the marvel of the people of European countries. What we need now Is not low rates. freight or passenger, but a vast Inrreaae In facilities for handling business. Of all the absurd movements of the last twelve months In the railroad and political worlds nothing else quit equals the effort to force down railroad rates. It la almost puerile In Its shortsightedness.' It has cost our country billions of dollars without a redeeming thing to the credit side. Money for railroad expansion cannot possibly be had under present condltons. Infinitely better would It be for the whole country If the people would recognise that, Instead of reducing rates, the railroads must be given full authority to make a general advance In rates commensurate with the Increased cost of doing business. The railroad business must be given an opoprtunlty to make profits large enough to tempt capital from everywhere to seek Investment In railroad securities. Men are not going to put their money Into such enterprises subject to the dangers of leg. Islatlon and they would be foolish If they did so unless the profit Is groat ' enough to Justify such risks. To attempt to limit the earnings to per cent or even 19 per cent, or to any fined amount. Is not only absurd, but economically false, tor any attempt to limit the earnings of legitimate bust ness undertakings will Inevitably react and coat' the country far more than the difference between a fined Income and the profit which might otherwise be mads. Their own preservation would necessarily require of the railroads as favorable rates as could be given with safety for themselves and their future. Of recent years the publlo seems to have come to the conclusion that men with bulging bank accounts are walling eagerly for an opportunity to put money Into railroad securities, though the control of the railroads Is taken from them, and though other people who have no Interest In them are given authority to fix the rates at which they can do business. The Idea Is very fallacious. The capital needed for ralmad expansion Is not going to seek railroad Investment, but railroad men must seek the capital with diligence. It must be presented In such a way as to Indicate profits large enough to Justify the risk, or otherwise those who have the bulging bank accounts will keep their money themselves or else put It In securities over which they do have some field for Investment the control. As railroad Is no longer an attractive proposition, and this, too, comes at a time when never In our history do we so much need money for railroad It la quit within bounds expansion. ng let-u- n. . t FVance Is to say that during the next five or six years this country ought to spend 11.600,000,000 a year In the enlargement itf railroad facilities. We ought within the next five or tea years to as much money Into the put enlargement of railroad facilities as the total amount now represented In all the stocks and bunds of the railroads of the country. Where Is so vast a sum to come from? If It should not oome, then business wlU be halted, railroad facilities will grow steadily worse Instead of better, and the country will suffer ns It has suffered tor the last few years because the railroads were unequal to the volume of traffic. The country holds Its hands up la horror, and Justly so, at the disastrous railroads wrecks, but railroad wrecks happen to a considerable extent because the volume of traffic Is largely beyond the facilities of the railroads, and partly, too, because mea have been taught during the last few years to seek to get as much as possible and give as little of faithful work In return as possible. While railroad employes generally are faithful to their trust, soma Inefficient mm, without a sense of their resposlblllty, have eagerly grasped at this teaching and feel that the railroads and the world at large owe them a living whether they eam It or not, and the agitation la largely responsible for this. Until these two things have been changed the railroads must labor under treRailroads mendous disadvantages. must be enabled by large earnings to practlcaly rebuild the whole railroad system of the country. They must be one-ha- lf antl-rallro- ad made so profitable that money will find railroad construction a most attractive field tor Investment for until this rendition prevails It will be Impossible to secure the capital needed tor the expansion of railroad facilities, so essential, so supremely essential, to the best Interests of the country. The politicians and the agitators, as well as the people of the country at large, may as well face the situation and meet It squarely with full recognition of this condition of affairs, for until they do there can be no thoroughly marked revival In railroad con struct Inn on a scale commensurate with the needs of the country. People may theorise as much as they please; they may say that railroads must be forced to expand, that they must be capitalised at exact cost, that the promoter's and the banket's profits must be eliminated; but they will wait till doomsday before they secure railroads In The only possion thro conditions. ble chance tor railroad construction on a large scale Is to make Investment In railroad enterprises and railroad securities more attractive than can be found by large capitalists anywhere else In the world. "Ns News In the Paper. Frequently you pick up one of the local papers, and after glancing at the headlines wearily, thrust It aside, i marking: "Nothing In the paper today." Did you ever stop to think what that phrase "nothing In the paper today" means? It means that In the day or week Juat passed that no misfortune has befallen any one In our city; that no fire has wiped out a neighbor's worldly goods; that the grim angel of death has crossed no threshold of a friend; that no man, driven by liquor, hatred or fear has taken the life of a fellow man; that no poor devil, haunted by the past or the misdeeds of some other, has crossed the great divide by his own hand. So the next time you pick up a paper that doesnt announce a tragedy, give a little thanks Instead of grunting because there Is no news. Nevada MalL Blitter In Sega, From time to time lumps of butter are dug out of the Irish hogs, and specimens of It may be seen la various A chemical examination museums. has recently been made of a sample of such butter, which was found four feet below the surface of a hog at Maghery, County Tyrone. The original lump, which weighed about 3C pour Is, Is brobably some centuries old, and It is suggested that It had been put Into peat water to preserve It or to give It a flavor end had been forgotten. Yet l so effectually had the tot been by the peat water that It still retained many of the chemical of butter tat, though Its sprsa ranee had greatly changed. The exterior was white and granular, and the whole mats had been converted during the passage of years into a waxlike material. pro-nri- char-acterislt- not be long before It see quite a number of you'll Men In this vicinity "Kicking themselves." It will be all right for they will simply kick themselves because they neglected to take advantage of our Clearance Sale and buy Clothing, Hats and Furnishings at cut prices. The kicking Will commence when our sale Is over and .vgu-lprices are restored. Don't be of the number who feel like kicking themselves, but come to our sale and get your money's worth. We'll hitch the biggest losd to your Dollar that It ever drew. will ar trifle larger has gathered accumulated wealth and splendor of a thousand years. Her population numlf of that of the bers about United States. All her resources have been utilised; she lives through the product of her soil, her manufactures and her arts, and preys upon the curiosity of those who annually visit her to drink la her splendor and to be Instructed through her educational and art equipments. Her fields are all under cultivation, her roads are all built; so are her cities. No special outlays are required for new and expensive works. Her colonies are self supporting. Yet she has always In us III per capita of her people. Through all the rag of our Interest gatherers to destroy silver as money that the Ing terest and principal of their bonds might be doubled la purchasing power, France adhered to one-ha- Interest-bearin- blmetalism, holding sliver at II 13 1 of gold, she received It and paid It out; It was the money of her shopkeepers, It was the money that was In stockings and . pnder hoarded hearthstones, and she prospered when, through the destruction of silver as a basic measure of values, our country went down Into a panic unparalleled, and half the mea of the nation were made bankrupt. Then from altogether unexpected and unforeseen sources a groat aggregation of gold was poured In upon our country, such an aggregation as no other nation since the beginning of time ever enjoyed, until the men who keep the books In 'Washington announced that there was In circulation a sum so vast that If equally divided there would be 313 for every man, woman and child In the republic, Bnt at last a fear of disasters to come spread among the people, and true to Its Immemorial history with that fear gold began to disappear, until finally all the wheels of business stopped and a panic spread from ocean to ooean. At the same time the work laid out for the coming five years, work on roads, on Improvements In cities, on viaducts,, on the redemption of arid and swamp lands, on the Improvement of waterways, on the navy and on needed fortifications and armaments exceeds In amount what were the property values of the republic at the close of the Civil war only a little more than two-sco- re years ago. As the land slowly emerges from the collapse some of these improvements will have to be made. How can they be? The Instant answer of most men Is, "By Increased taxation or by selling bonds. Why would it not be better to reduce taxation and at the same time stop interest by restoring silver and paying the country's expenses In silver certificates? Do our foremost financiers Imagine for a moment that they are superior to the financiers steer their counof Fiance that to try through without panics at the same time lend to the Men-leu- AND MESMERISM. Of course, whoever wants to hypnotise In fact, no one but a physician ought to do It must learn the technique and apply It patiently and skillfully. And, certainly, there are Individual differences. Not every one can be deeply hypnotised; with not a few the Inhibition goes no further than the Inability to open the eyes, while only on out of tour enters Into strong hypnotic hallucinations Further, not every one la well prepared to awaken that confidence which Is eeeenttal'and . 24I3Wshlnjfton Avenue WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15th Positively the last day. Every Suit and Overcoat in the house at HALF THEIR ACTUAL VALUE. Days More. The Plac- e- The Time-T- wo 0. OGDEN N. 236 WASPS, THE ORIGINAL PAPER MAKERS. Of course the writer knew that waspa were the original paper makers, and long since pointed the way to the uee of wood pulp for that paper making which has so Immensely Increased In later years and Is threatening much of the literature of this era with early extinction. But tor what particular object was the pulp gathered? Now came a rare surprise. A few feet beyond the old tree stood a cheat-n- ut telephone pole. While passing It on day a hornet waa seen to alight upon It. Eureka, the mystery was solved. For straightway ths Insect began scraping off the surface with Its Jays Settling well upon the poet It fastened Ita open mandibles Into It, drew them together, thus removing a particle of fiber and backed down a little way. This act was repeated until It had covered a apace about three-four- th of aa Inch long and wide. Just the stretch of ths hornet's Jaws Meanwhile a tiny pellet of wood dust had been gathered and rolled and pushed beneath the mouth; whereupon Vespa flew away. In fact her method of gathering building material waa Just ths reverse of that used Twenty-ilit- h CO. Street when giving it out in construction. Now the poet was carefully Inspected and It was found to he mottled on all aides and to the top, about eighteen feet with streaks like that which the hornet had Juat left, the fresh marks upon the abraded wood showing distinctly against the weathered surface. The streaks were not all of equal length; for, as it afterward appeared, the pulp gatherers seemed somewhat fastidious In their selections and would shift their positions several times. Sometimes, also, the scar already made would be continued by the same or another worker; and often It would be overlaid. But, aa a rule, the apace which measured the amount of fiber removed at one visit to the polo corresponded with the amount of pulp laid on at one time by the builders of the nest; and that in both cases waa determined apparently by the carrying capacity of the Jaws The visits varied In length. Thus, of three noted, one was tour minutes, with seven shifts; one two minutes, and one three minutes and nip second. Wishing to get some idea of the number of visits made by the Insect pulp gatherers I counted carefully the cars within several square Inches of aurface, and therefore estimated the number within a square Inch around the girth of the pole. Thence I roughly calculated that at least 40,003 visits had been made for wood fiber. Some of theae were made by yellow Jackets and brown wasps, but moat of them by hornets from the study nest, as could be deterimned by the direction of the Insects' flight One must also consider that in many caserf the scraped surface had been gone over more than once, so that the estimate la probably below rather than above that mentioned There were several similar poles In the vicinity, all more or lees thus marked, the on nearest to the above quite freely. Even from this Inadequate estimate one can see the enormous Industry of our colony. Dr. H. C, McCook In Harper's Weekly. " Founder ef Groat Banking Heuea. August Belmont, father of the present banker, came to this country la 3337 aa agent of the Rothschilds, ths great European bankers. Ha waa bora la Rhenish Prussia, la 1313, and received hla business training la tbs Rothachld banking house at Frankfort He became prominent in this country politically aa well as financially, and waa rated aa a man of originality, of strong prejudices and stubborn Independence of thought and action. You say it doesn't agree with you? Makes you bil- ious bloats you leaves you dull and drowsy? over to the dreamy state; the look, the voice, the features, the phrases, the behavior of certain persons make them poor hypnotise rs, however well they may understand the tricks. But In principle everybody can hypnotise and can be hypnotised. Just as In principle every one can love and be loved, and no special mysterious power is needed to fail In love or to awaken leva Yet, while thus every one can exert hypnotic Influence, no one can do It by a mere glance. All the stories of a secret Influence by which one man's will gets hold of another man's mind are remains of the mysterle theories of the past. Today we know that everything depends upon the attention and Imagination of the hypnotised, and that no mysterious fluid can flow over from the mind of the hypnotist to the mind of the subject The old mystical view of unscientific superstition reached Its climax In the prevalent oellef that a man could exert secret Influence from a distance, without the victim's knowledge of the source of the uncanny distortion of his mind. According to this belief, every heinous crime might b committed under that cover; the distant hypnotlaer could- Inflict pain and g Leaves an unpleasant taste in die mouth? Beer doesn't appeal to you at all? No relish for itl Ah! Then its quite dear that you have not yet tried "The Beer You LiKe that feeling of repoae which guides one - Fred M. Nye Co. the city im- The New , Thermometer. of thermometer, which may prove useful In laboratories and r factories, has been Invented by Fournier, of the Sorbonna, Paria It makes use of the principle that the tension of a saturated vapor depends solely on the temperature, and Is Independent of the volume, as long as the liquor from which It Is prod need has not been wholly vaporised. The apparatus consists simply of a reservoir to contain the vapor, connected with a copper tube of any required length. A manometer at the end of the tube registers the tension, which varies with and so reveals the temperature. By means of this Instrument an engineer In his office may suffering on his enemy, and could miswatch the changes of temperature use the Innocent as Instruments of his criminal schemes Professor Munster-bertaking place at a distantr point Youth Companion. In McClure's A new form Sale Clothing: in' Half-Pri- ce and provident men of the United States when they get In a close place? To restore silver would be a proIt would tection to every banker. make unnecessary the sending of gold to the orient or South America. It would enable manufacturers and exporting merchants to know exactly what their products would bring In the Orient and Spanish America. It would double the .base on which the trade of our government and people rests. Why not ask the nations of the earth to Join with ours and do Justice once more to silver, and by so doing help every mans business? It would be common sensei Why not try It? Salt Lake Telegram. HYPNOTISM Only You will like Luxus, because it will like you. AH your objections to beer have been carefully studied, analyzed, and refined away in the brewing of Luxus . Luxus really Is different" it is not heavy, not sticky," not green it is not ordinary beer. Luxus is brewed to suit the true, refined American taste. And this statement means more its realization has cost us more than we can put into a few words. You can drink Luxus drink all you Hke of it and it will do you good. It is a light beer the lightest brewed yet very nourishing withal, wholesomely satisfying , deliciously refreshing. It is distinctly ' unique in bouquet, snap, sparkle, life, and flavor. Order a small bottle with your luncheon today and you will mvWs?anri Then have a case sent home without delay. Order from your or direct BREWED AND BOTTLED IN OMAHA BY THE Fred Kmig Brewing Company THE 'EXPONENTS Or FINE ART OF BREWING." |