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DKTAIIiKD figure oT (ho e.dnlo of the Into
iMiii-Kluill Klckl are given ly the Chicago cor
respondent for llio New York World and iow
llwil Kleld Imil iiocuiiiiilalod more limn fclUlj.uui).
000. The taxable personal properly of (lie estate
amounts lo .-fJO.ti7T.li70, on which more limn SoOl).
000 inns! Im paid lids year In luxes. This Is us
against Hi'1 valuation of !2.."u(,i()i) placed on Ills
personal estate by .Mr. l-'leld himself, and llio val
uation of Jjfc.ViiKW'UO which the assessors, under
protoHl bv the :oeulors. took as a basis for tax
ation last vonr. To llio llguros must bo added
JjWO.OOO.OOO In real estate, I'roin which actual
money paid In taxes will be more than 5pi0,000,
milking n total ef taxes lo be paid to the public,
bv the I'Meld estate of about .$1,000,000 annually.
The estate consists of porsonal property totalling
.H-J.Nni.MH.ir. with slocks and bonds listed at par,
but wllh mi estimated market value of tfrr,000,
000; .$;K).000.000 worth of real estate In Cook
county, and .$8,000,000 realty In New York.
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IN AN INTKUVIIOW with the New York Herald
correspondent, Senor I'alina, former presi
dent of llio Cuban republic, said It is for the,
American people to say by what means they shall
fulfill their obligation lo Cuba. Hut the former
president plainly showed that ho favored the
American protectorate, although the Herald cor
respondent says he carefully avoided the use of
tfvr word "protectorate." On his own motion the
Herald correspondent says: "II Is universally
admit tod thai (he people of llio towns wish Amer
icans lo continue In control for a protracted period,
hut one constanliy hoars that in the country tli'j
people desire llio withdrawal of the American
troops, and an independent republic. Investiga
tion shows this is not true of Santiago Province,
which in the past has always been foremost in
uprisings."
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RMPUKRKNTAT1V13 JAM MS M. GRIGGS,
chairman of the democratic congressional
oonunitleo, In loply to a loiter from Perry P.el
inont, president of the National Publicity Bill Or
ganization, suggesting (lint, notwithstanding the
failure of the Publicity bill, lie should voluntarily
make a general statement in regard to the contri
butions received by Ills committee, says: To pub
lish a partial list would be Improper and trilling
with a serious subject. We had no very large
contributions. Among the several thousand re
ceived not over half a do.en were in excess of
$500, and by far the greater number less than $100.
So far as I know or can ascertain, no corporations
were contributors to our fund. It was all given
by good democrats in the hope and for the sake of
democratic success. The entire fund collected by
this committee was a small one, and was barely
more limn sulllciont to conduct the headquarters
hero and In Chicago, and to pay for the printing
incident and necessary to evorv campaign. Wo
agree thoroughly with the publicity idea."'
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T1II0 NORTH CAROLINA state senate has ro
ceived a letter from Mrs. Stonewall Jackson,
widow of the groat southern general, declining ,o
accept a pension of tflui) a month as provided bv
a resolution recently Introduced. In this 'letter
Mrs. Jackson says: "1 most welcoinlnglv appre
ciate this patriotic and loyal tribute to the name
of my hero husband, but I do not fo4
that 1 would be .instilled in accepting it. l urn :ii-
lonueu uiai uie laws of North Cnrolinn limit ,,n
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pensions to those who have not 500 of personal
property, ami as I do not come under this law 1
respectfully request that this bill be withdrawn"
Mrs. Jackson suggests that the proposed Houston
in her behalf be appropriated for the relief of W
tituto widows of confederate soldiers. As it wis
the desire of Mrs. Jackson, the bill calling for the
pension was withdrawn from the calendar.
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i vnwv,ii oi mo valentine is told
uy a
wruur in inn irnhiMiniM. iiAi,.vi .. . .. .
way: a fact in natural history, to-wlt that blr s
in southern Europe pair about the mlc lie of Feb.
niary, is said to have insnirou ,. ,., , .,,
nncient Romans to which the origin of the mortoin
valentine can undoubtedly be traced A (i eon
ot the Lupercalia, held in honor of the great god
Pan, the names of the virgin daughters of it,
were put in a box and drawn l.eref rom bv to
Bill to the maiden who fell to his lot, and to make
her his partner during the lime of the feast. How
this secular custom became allied to the name of
a snlnt is altogether n different matter. St. Val
entine was a bishop of Rome during the third
century. Ho is said to have been a man of very
amiable nature and most eloquent of speech,
wherefore ho was very successful in converting
the pagan Romans to Christianity. Marcus Au
rolius.was then emperor, a relentless persecutor
of llio Christians, and by ids order the bishop
was beheaded. The dale of his death was Feb
ruary 14, H7) A. 1). We 11 ml the statement in
Archbishop Wheat ley's 'Illustrations of the Book
of t'oimuon Prayer' that 'St. Valentine was a man
of admirable parts and so famous for his love
and charily that the custom of choosing valentines
upon ids lostivul took its rise from thence.' But
probably the connection of name Is wholly due to
a coincidence of date. When the saint's name was
placed in the church calendar the day of his deatli
was made a festival to offset that of the Luper
calia, on the l.'itii. In Allen Butler's 'Lives of the
Saints' wo road that the zealous Christian fathers
tried to substitute the names of saints for those
of girls in the lottery game, but without success.
So the 'valentine' custom spread from Rom
through Europe to Great Britain, always in high
favor, and later, in the form of sending tender
missives, came to America and down to the pres
ent time."
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KLAIIOMA'S constitution makers are hav
ing trouble with the "Jim Crow" proposition.
This is a question of inserting in the constitution
a clause providing for separate cars and waiting
rooms for the black and white races in Oklahoma.
Colonel Robert Owen recently returned to Okla
homa from Washington and stated that President
Roosevelt had declared himself strongly opposed
to a "Jim Crow" provision and had intimated that
lie would not approve the constitution if such a
provision were included. A committee of the con
stitutional convention reported in favor of th;
provision. Some members favored adopting the
"Jim Crow" provision and sending it to the presi
dent in advance of the main constitution, while
others thought that the provision should be in
cluded and then hold a later convention for the
purpose of correcting any portion of the constitu
tion that does not meet with the president's ap
proval. O
EFERRING to the opinion expressed by the
census olliclals that in the United States the
growth of insanitj is out-distancing that of the
population, a writer in Appleton's magazine says
there is good ground for the claim and good
ground also for the assertion that the lesser mental
ills are increasing willi ever-growing rapidity.
This writer adds: "The need of a remedy is
plainly urged both by humanitarian and economic
considerations. The maintenance bill for Ameri
can asylums already amounts to more than $20
000,000 annually, over 00 per cent of the insane
in the United States being wholly or partially de
pendent on public support. And no nation 'thus
constantly and Increasingly weakened may hope
to retain political, industrial or commercial head
ship." O
STATISTICS showing llio percentage of insane
.. to. the population are given by this in,
writer in his way: "It appears that, as regards
the countries of the European contlnonf n, i
mum is found in Hungary with a total of 2 710
insane, or 14.1 per 100,000 of population, and tl e
inaxijuum is reached in Switzerland with a total
?(K,'m 'I180' U 2Hpor 100'000- Germany has
108.004 insane, m- 10.1 p.. ,. .x
T &IalI I II ! I tl
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177.5. and Italy, i'.4,802, or 100.2
,r.iu. or
In the British
flllllAI 1 lltA lllI.-r. n.t J 1
w,,i""- "ii; Kiuus juo iar n g ner: Irolnnn oo nu
or 400.0: Scotland, 10,(!5S, or 30.7 E g anTf'ind
5os i13'0!". ' 8.l: and Canada 12 Sin" 1
-oo.il. Turning to the TTr
1 1 tOll Slnfno Jl ',
t!nl,of " fewer than 10,151 insane, rod Z ,i!l
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iiiis iw !i mi n rti ,-,i i. 1 on n -
tion. there is good reason to suspect that ism iJ
s increasing the United States f
I " 'n,y.otl t0ti'y. m any .event it t T
v.iui.iiim xii rjiii f i iv !icj in
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nssnmn ilm m,Ai n .
urgent sopliil problem which must bo solve 1 it
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e nesi interests of the nation are to 1 e con
rved. inyostfeatlon shows that though to iS
it ratio of 1S0.2 per 100,000 refers only to AiP
isnno immured in asylums, it exceeds by 10?
llio ratio of 1SO0 for all the insane in the UnlW
Stales, whether in or out of asylums, and e.
coeds by OU.O the ratio of the same year for the
asylum insane. Doubtless, as has been suggested,
the increase is in part attributable to kinder ami
more rational methods of treatment whereby the
lives of the insane are prolonged. But this can
explain only a small part of the increase, when
the fact is borne in mind that during the decade
1880-1800 the population of American asylums in
creased from 40.402 to 84,028, and by 1903 had
leaped to 150,151, or more than double llio total
for 1800."
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AN AUSTIN, Texas, dispatch to the Now York
World follows: "J. D. Johnson, of St. Louis,
attorney for the Waters-lMerce Oil company, in
his testimony last night before the legislative com
mittee investigating Senator Bailey, gave an ac
count of a conference between Waters-Pierce Oil
company and Standard Oil company ofiicials held
at Standard Oil headquarters, No. 2G proadwav,
New York, last fall, at which Mr. Bailey was
present. He said Mr. Bailey was informed sit
that conference for the first time that he had been
deceived into believing that the Standard Oil com
pany owned 'none of the stock of the Waters
Pierce. Mr. Bailey became very indignant and
left after telling J. D. Archbold and other Stand
ard Oil men present that they all ought to be iu
the penitentiary and that he would help put them
there. P. J. Hall, sheriff of El Paso county, re
ferred to in one of tlio charges made by Mr.
Cocke, was called to the stand. Mr. Hall said
that ho did have Mr. Bailey look after the pay
ment for a lot of heifers he had sold to the gov
ernment, but denied emphatically that he had
paid Mr. Bailey anything as a fee, loan or gift
in this connection. He said be had tried to pav
Mr. Bailey's expenses, but Mr. Bailey would not
consent. The transactions referred to occurred
ten or twelve years ago.
ACCORDING- to the Washington correspondent
for the Richmond, Virginia, Times-Dispatch,
there is considerable talk in Washington in favor
of nominating for president a southern democrat
in 1908. This correspondent adds: "Senator Dan
iel, ot Virginia; Senator Culberson, of Texas, are
two names most frequently hoard mentioned
when the proposition to name a democrat from
the south as the party standard-bearer next time
is advanced. Recent mention of the name of Sen
ator Daniel has elicted favorable comment from
the democratic press of all sections of the union.
Many papers express the opinion that the time is
ripe for the selection of a southern nlan, and that
a valiant veteran of the confederacy who has
done much to restore good feeling between the
roi.f,Ci,0,1S WOi!U1 llC thG I)l,1)er lau l0 oos2
for the honor. Senator Daniel Tills the bill ' a.
SrSSrlr rW1. tlcYratlc association of
UioD strict of Columbia said today that the as
sociation would in a short time take up for con
sideration a proposition to launch a Daniel boom
It is proposed to indorse him for the den lorn ?Ue
nomination next year, and to have e ocrat e
organizations all over Virginia follow suit Del
egates to .the next national convention wouin ii
instructed for Senator Daniel, and ho would o
into the convention with the delegation from ?
own state as tie nucleus to whidi elegatio s
from other southern states could rallv It te hS
lieved by the advocates of the iion ation of l Se
b glVanftoho 80uUl07l Son win
didatc.'' 5 BUpDort of Vlrglna's cun-
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, s.mit,Ion; lllc senator's oiiicial term ov
p res March 4 but the Georgia log is aturo wldcli
stands ready to re-elect him does not SlenX
AiSitn a !VhiS StrauG condition' "he
Augusia, ua., Chronicle savs iX,vhn rtr.r.'jt
of the United States proMdes thntM??aSScI?S
happen by resignation or oUierwiso durin the e.
hereo SalM n"y "
o next meoSS
ZfQ whl shall
nndorstood that the senator is orocoiveie
ocutive appointment under this clause whe SK
nTuneP,TutiUH:slnir,1 leoiS
m June. But, as it is held by some that as 'va-
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