THE OMAnA DAILY DEE: WEDNESDAY, MARCII 2, 1904.
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48m " Notary Public.
Tbe policeman who usps his club on
every occasion will have to go.
Douglas e unty should not require the
"wrvlces of any middlemen to sell Its
bonds to the state school fund.
Mr. Stlckney has pried the railroad
"oor to Omaha open and Judge Sanborn
as Inserted the wedge that will keep
.t open.
When King Edward visited his fllma
:.;ater he at least was saved the chagrin
of meeting village boys who had
trounced him la fair fight.
Why should any reform movement
;ave to be carried on In secret? A good
i-ause ought to need no other means of
attracting support than publicity.
Dock laborers who are Idle' at Odessa
leed not be without hope, as the war
which has rendered them idla stands
I'pody to give re-employment for some
time.
The Japanese have sent their entire
general staff to Chemulpo without half
.he fnsa and feathers. raised in -getting
General Kouropatkln out of St. Peters
burg. : The' Russians have decided that coal
contraband of war only when in the
!'unds of people whose national govern
. .ent is In no position to enforce an ob
jection to the rule.
riaving approved the plan 'for seating
I he delegates to the republican national
(invention the national committee can
nw start jo work on Its plans for seat
, ' ig the next republican candidate for
'.he presidency.
The present war, with its consequent
activity on the part of almost every na
.ion to Increase Its defenses, threatens
10 give the czar additional work on bis
disarmament plan when he gets time to
i. ike it up again. ,
The reason "for the decision of the
czar to go to the front is evldeut. He
l.as so long been surrounded by the of
Ucers detailed to direct the war In the
ast that he does not feel safe when
they are out of his sight.
Residents of Ban Domingo should re
niie that they are not getting the same
amount of free advertising out of their
revolutions that they would if they re
volted in more quiet times. At present
llie game is hardly worth the candle,
That Chinese oitirer who threatened to
turn the Japanese gunbouts upon the
Kussian vessel whUJi Is said to.be de
fying the neutrality laws in Shanghai,
ould probably have made a more fear
ful threat If he could have thought of
oiie.
If Its experience with the Taclflc rail
roads Is any crlterlbu the United States
ran better afford to build the railroads
i t the Philippines and lease them to
perating companies than to guarantee
aterest on the bonds of private railroad
corporations.
The "board of lady managers" of the
1H. Louis exposition Is having the usual
experience of women who try to keep
recounts. There Is only a difference of
V,000 in the figures as kept by the
ycretary of the board and that kept
jy the exposition company.
-. Will the World-Herald please print the
names of the 'members of the Kearney
Wrand Army post who were present and
voted for that resolution impugning
Chancellor Andrews' loyally and the
regiments In which euch saw service in
tbe war in which the chancellor lost an
eye fighting to preserve the union.
A country weekly imbued with an
rrdent admiration for' the lone demo
cratic congTessiiian from this state asks
. v. by tbe ticket should not be Hearst and
Hitchcock r Why not Hitchcock and
Hearst? Why should Nebraska take a
:ack seat after occupying the front seat
In the democratic coach for two succes
sive national campaigns? We want to
J.U9W,
the rittsiDKitra utatb.
While New York Is not absolutely
necessary to republican success in this
year's national election, yet it Is tnnnl
festly of very great Importance, in the
lcarlng it will have generally, that the
republicans of that state should be har
monious and stand loyally by Presi
dent Roosevelt. This the meeting a
few days ago of tbe state committee
showed them to be and there Is not the
least reason to doubt that, they will
continue so throughout the campaign,
all working earnestly and shoulder to
shoulder for the success of -the republi
can ticket. There had been some ap
prehension that the meeting of the state
committee would develop factional dif
ferences and possibly a contest for lead
ership between Senator Tlatt and Gov
ernor Odell. Such fear was unfounded,
the veteran senator yielding the leader
ship of the organization to the governor,
there probably being a perfect under
standing between them In the matter.
At all events there was no difficulty
or disturbance In the committee and the
resolution commending the administra
tion of President Roosevelt, declaring
loyalty to him and pledging to him
earnest support for renomlnatlon, was
unanimously and enthusiastically adop
ted. After this action of the represen
tatives of the New York republicans
it Is to be expected that there will be
no more reports from that state of dif
ferences in the party and of intrigues
hostile to the president. The delegates
from the Empire state to the Chicago
convention will go there prepared if
not instructed to cast their vote for
Theodore Roosevelt and when he has
been nominated the party will rally
loyally, earnestly and eealously to his
support.
There is no question that President
Roosevelt has recently been growing In
favor in bis state. It is said that some
of thbso outside of politics who hve
been opposed to him as certain of the
combination and financial magnates
have ceased their opposition and will
do nothing hostile to the president either
before or after his nomination. New
York will be a battle ground which will
command the attention of the country,
particularly in the event of the demo
crats taking their candidate for the
presidency from that state. It is at
present placed among the doubtful
states, but with he republicans har
monious and united the chances should
be considerably In their favor.
A RKVtViyo 1HDCSTHY.
A very good index to general business
conditions Is the state of the iron trade
of the country and it Is therefore grati
fying to note a reviving tendency in
this industry. A Cleveland dispatch re
ports that the United State's Steel cor
poration has closed a contract for a
large amount of pig iron to be furnished
from the furnaces in the Mahoning and
Chenango valleys, paying a Httie more
a ton than the price prevailing a month
ago. This will put at work several
thousand men who have been Idle a
considerable time. Every blast fnrnace
owned hy the United States Steel cor
poration in the central west is now In
full operation. The dispatch states that
the feeling among Iron men in Cleveland
is distinctly optimistic, many expres
sing the opinion that the period of de
pression experienced in some quarters
for several months had run its course
and that the prospects for a season of
renewed prosperity in the iron trade
are now exceedingly good.
If In that trade why not in other lines
of Industry? There Is no information
as to the cause of the Iron trade revival,
but it is very -likely largely; due to an
Increasing demand for Iron and steel
In building. A material improvement
in the building trade, if not interfered
with by strikes, as was the case last
year. Is therefore probable. This would
bring increase of activity in other in
dustries. The larger employment of
labor will mean greater consumption
of commodities of ail kinds. Obviously
the indications are favorable to another
year of sound and substantial prosper
ity, in which every industrial and com
mercial Interest will share. If the signs
are not misleading those who have been
predicting a year of dullness and per
haps severe business reaction will be
disappointed. The country was never
stronger financially than it Is todav and
Its business generally is on a sound ba
sis. The outlook Is altogether encourag
ing. A VICTOR r F(JH OUAHA.
The decision of the United States
court of appeals, affirming the right of
the Chicago Great Western railroad to
enreT Omaha over the Union Pacific
bridge and to have access to the termi
nal facilities of the Union Pacific at
Omaha and South Omaha is preemi
nently a victory for Omaha. The de
cision does not merely affect the Great
Western, but opens the gates to every
railroad that desires to avail Itself of
the Union Pacific bridge and terminal
facilities in this city at reasonable cost
and prevents effectively any attempt to
create an embargo by which railroads
that desire to compete for Omaha's com
merce could be excluded from access to
the mills, factories, elevators and pack
ing houses now existing or hereafter to
be erected In Omaha and South Omaha.
In rendering this decision the United
States, court of appeals has simply re
affirmed the decision rendered last year
by Judge Munger of the federal district
court. The basic principle enunciated
In the decision Is eminently sound and
In conformity with the conditions under
whIPh the Union Pacific Railway com
pany acquired its right-of-way. depot
grounds and terminal facilities in the
compact between it and the city of
Omaha. The decision is also in con
formity with the letter and spirit of the
charter granted by congress to the
Union Pacific for the construction of Its
main line and the subsequent charter
for the erection of its bridge across tt
Missouri river.
These charters contemplated that the
Jlnion Pacific would give access to Its
terminal facilities to connecting rail
rosds and especially to the Iowa rail
roads converging at or near its initial
point The conditions of the original
contract between Omaha and the Union
Pacific expressly require that company
In consideration of the donation by
Omaha of depot grounds, free right-of-way
through Its streets and the closing
of a very large area to public traffic for
the special benefit of that road to ex
change traffic with other railroads on
fair terms.
Ono of the most damaging drawbacks
to Omaha's commercial growth and
prosperity past years lias been the pro
tracted contention over the Union Pa
cific terminals. Now that the contro
versy is finally adjudicated this stum
bling block to Omaha's progress Is for
ever removed and Omaha will enjoy the
full benefit of reciprocal traffic exchange
between the great overland line and
the railroads that seek an entrance into
Omaha.
TBK Dt MUCRATIC OCTLOUK.
An eastern paper quotes a prominent
democrat, who it does not name, but
states Is a close personal friend of Mr.
Cleveland and Mr. Gorman and who has
been in communication with the state
leaders all over the country regarding
the coming presidential election, as say
ing that at this time he did not see that
there ia any hope for the democratic
party winning the contest next Novem
ber. He pointed but that with the na
tional convention of the party but Jittle
more than four months off, the democ-
racy'stands today without a distinctive
issue to go before the country and peo
ple upon. It has no lenders at the front
who can or would Inspire the confidence
of the business community or the work
ing classes. It has only a very frail
national organization, with state ma
chinery, In most Instances, in very bnd
order and greatly weakened.
This democrat observed that In New
Y'ork state, so absolutely essential to
democratic success, the Tammany men
are busily engaged In tightening their
grip on New York City, and would sac
rifice the presidency or anything else to
maintain their hold upon the municipal
government There Is ' no harmony
there, only an armed neutrality between
the forces of Hill and Tammany. That
political organization has no candidate
for the presidency and if It had It is most
unlikely that he would be acceptable to
the national convention, since any man
proposed by Tammany would certainly
be regarded as a mere tool of that or
ganization and therefore not entitled to
general confidence.
All who are giving intelligent atten
tion to .the political situation know that
this correctly states the democratic case.
All the reorganization talk for the past
year or two has not served to bring the
factions nearer together and there Is
absolutely no promise of their being
reconciled. The latest deliverance of
Mr. Cleveland in the form of counsel to
his party appears to have made very
little impression. A few newspapers
that regard the ex-president with n sort
of Idolatry have commended his advice,
but' the active party leaders have had
little to say In regard to it and the rant
and file of the party has shown utter
indifference. Mr. Cleveland's chief
recommendation Is tariff reform, but
even most Intelligent democrats under
stand that the sort o. reform which he
desires will not be approved by the
country. Whenever Mr. Cleveland talks
for tariff reform there is inevitably re
vived in the popular mind recollection
of the severe experience of the country
following his election in 1892 and the
effect is not to strengthen the reform
sentiment even among democrats.
The Washington Post remarks that
"Improbable ns it se.ems today, Judging
by surface Indications, the subsidence
of both' Cleveland and Bryan and the
resultant long-talked-of . reuniting may
be near at hand." If that paper can see
any substantial signs of this it has a
keener and more penetrating vision than
most observers of political conditions.
There Is no such elgn furnished by the
democrats In congress and If It exists In
any state It has not been generally
noted. It seems a safe prediction that
the democratic factions will carry their
antagonism Into the St. Louis conven
tion and that there will be one of thel
bitterest and stormiest contests in that
body ever known In our politics. f
Tbe Bee has several times adverted
to the inexcusable recklessness with
which some police officers seem to bo
disposed to use weapons upon prisoners
under pretense of resistance to their au
thority. A policeman has no right to
resort to his revolver or to his club Just
because his commands are not immedi
ately heeded and obeyed. He Is Justified
In using such forcible measures only as
the necessity of the case requires and
never deadly weapons except In self
protection. In view of recent deplorable
events In Omaha our whole police force
membership ought to have Impressive
instruction on 'the rights arid duties of
officers with kpvclal reference to the
limits which they are not warranted in
overstepping. Better several crooks
escape than that one Inoffensive citizen
be clubbed to death.
Colonel Bryan stopped long enough
In Omaha between lecture dates to say
that he has not taken back anything he
has said In the past about Mr. Cleve
land. .Mr. Cleveland has not been out
this way in some little time, but it is a
safe guess that 11 he were here he would
not hesitate to express similar senti
ments about Colonel Bryan,
. j
The finances of Douglas county should
be placed on a cash basis as soon as pos
sible and they should be kept there.
Paying 7 per cent Interest on county
warrants and from 5 to 10 per cent more
for supplies than they can be bought for
In the market because the county csn
not pay Its bills on presentation Is very
costly financiering.
An impression Is gaining ground that
much of the apparent activity- oX the
contending armies In the east is due to
the fact that the names of the same
place are often spelled in different ways
In no other manner can the report of
the presence of a force under one com
mander In two places at the same time
be conformable to truth.
Sample of Husslaa Crnelty.
tetrolt Free Press.
The abolishing; of the censorship on for
elgn press dispatches Is another Instance
of Russian cruelty. What is to become
of all the hard-working; people in Ixmdon
that have been earning their living hy
writing newspaper dispatches from Bt
Petersburg and Moscow?
Talking; for Publication.
Indianapolis News.
The only man among the Japanese who
Is not darkly secret about Japan's war
plans seems to be Baron Hayashl, the
ambassador to London, and the probablll
ties are that he Is talking merely for pub'
llcatlon, and not necessarily as a guar
antee of good faith.
Provocation for a Fit.
Philadelphia Press.
Governor Garvin of Rhode Island only a
short time ago was on Bryan's list of demo
crata who would maka acceptable presl
dentlal candidates. Governor Garvin will
now be deprived of that doubtful distinction
slnoa he seee no reason why the party
should continue to follow the lead of Bryan
and indorse the Kansas City platform. This
will probably give the hysterical NebraeXan
some more fits.
Burning r tho Surplus.
Springfield Republican.
The Rochester fire Is small mly tn con
trast with the Baltimore conflagration, but
if comparison Is mode with the great fires
of recent years prior to the Baltimore, ex
perience, It would fig-ure among the most
destructive. The year 1904 starts oft very
badly indeed for the fire insurance com
panies. Already It has rolled up a fire
loss closely approaching, If not 'xceodlng,
two-thirds of the agregate losses ordina
rily mot with In a whole twelvemonth
period.
Shy oa Tact.
Chicago Chronicle.
The Novoo Vremya of St. Petersburg Is
perfectly Justfled In the statement that the
traditional friendship for Russia occupies a
firm position in the American mind and
heart It Is a singular friendship Indeed
between the antipodes of human freedom,
Russia being the most autocratic and the
United States the most democratic nation
on the globo, but It Is- a real friendship all
the same. If the Russians only had the
tact to ape&l to the American people on the
score of their past friendly relations, they
might arouse a wonderful exhibition of
sympathy. x
Slana-hter of thr Kilt.
Chicago Tribune.
More useless than the extinction of tbe
buffalo, more cruel than the war upon the
stupid seal, more vain than the killing of
plumage beating birds Is the exterminat
ing slnughter of the stately elk merely to
furnish a fraternal order with ritualistic
inslRnla. To obtain two teeth from each
of these animals pol hunters shoot them
down wherever found, in spite of laws
and game wardens. . The motive for the
crime Is rltlably Inslfmlflcant and mad
den'ngly useless. Members of the Order
of Klks desire elk teeth to hang upon their
witch chains. Therefore a magnificent
American game animal is to become ex
tinct. President Roosevelt has been asked
by werte-n congressmen to interest himself
in the preservation' of the remaining herds
of elk, and congrtss.ls expected to pass
stringent laws In . their defense. This
may delay destruction, but its prevention
lies with tho order Itself.
Ko Foreia-n Alliance.
Washington Star.
The United States la today entangled In
no foreign alliances. It Is bound up In the
political fortunes of no other power. It Is
taking its part In the world's affairs as
becomes a world power, a great commer
cial nation, a friend of world peace and a
leader In trade, manufacture and Invention.
It Is exercising a wholesome, pacific influ
ence upon the world, chiefly for Its own
sake, incidentally for that of th other
nations. It is friendly with all, partisan
with none. and. In the terms of Washing.
ton's warning. It is now, tardily but none
the less satisfactorily, '-'taking car to keep
Itself by suitable establishments on a
respectable defensive posture." Washing
ton's or Jefferson's, the words which ring
today In the nation's ears are wise and
potent for good. And In their interpreta
tion the changes which have occurred since
their utterance must be taken Into consid
eration, else they will not fit the case, as
their promulgators would unquestionably
have wished them to fit In these early days
of the twentieth century.
AMONG THE CANDIDATE!.
Sutton News: The congressional conven
tion has not yet been called, but when It
Is held Hon. G, W. Norrls will be renomi
nated without one dissenting voice. He has
made a good record and is entitled to the
renomlnatlon which will come to him.
Dakota County Record: Tbe Record Is
for II. M. Chllds of York as a delegate to
the national 'republican convention. Mr.
Chllds is vouched for by the York Times
as one of the original Roosevelt men and
that being the brand we are looking for he
has our earnest support
Wayne Herald: Hon. A Galusha of Red
Cloud, Neb., secretary of the grand lodge
finance committee of the Ancient Order of
United Workmen, Is a candidate for the
office of secretary of state. He la said to
be well qualified, a staunch republican and
a man of high character.
Red Cloud Argus: While It to conceded
that that portion of the state of Nebraska
lying west of the east line of Webster
county is a strong factor when It comes to
voting in state politics, yet It Is also well
known that this portion of the state Is sel
dom recognised when It comes to the distri
bution of the offices. Red Cloud has a man
in the person of A. Galusha, who has been
mentioned for the office of secretary of
state, and be Is a man whose prominence
in one of the foremost lodges In the state
has made him acquainted throughout a
wide area and has given him prestige that
would require much opposition to overcome.
We say. Give this part of the state a bite
of the pie.
St. Edward Sun: The Teljamah Journal
of last week brought out the name of Hon.
John F. Piper aa a candidate before 'the
congressional convention as a delegate from
thls district to the national republican con
vention at Chicago. "Our first choice Is for
Frank D. Williams of this county (Boone),
but our readers should be posted as to the
other aspirants for this honor.
Mlnden Gazette: If there Is one depart
ment In the public affairs of th state
which has been carefully and conscienti
ously conducted for the last three years It
Is that of the commissioner of public lands
and buildings. This Is one of tho most Im
portant offices In the state government and
requires the largest force of employes to
conduct the business. Of a necessity the
commissioner depend largely upon this as
sistance tn perform the work, and In his
selection of the same he has chosen people
of known Integrity ss well as fitness. Fore
most among this little army Is II. M.
Eaton, his deputy, who has announced his
candidacy for the nomination to succeed
his chief as commUatonssv
KOMIJATIJO A I'. S. SKSATOH.
Kearney Hub: The assertion of the Fre
mont Tribune that those who are not In
favor of nominating a senator by the next
republican state convention are a "sure
enough B. St M. crowd" will stand revision.
There are a good many good men and
good republicans out this way, not allied
with any railroad crowd, who doubt the
political wisdom of nominating a senator.
It Is a matter regarding which republicans
may differ very sincerely , and honestly
without being Influenced by any personal
or railroad consideration.
Norfolk Press: Last Sunday's Omaha
Bee contained a lengthly and labored edi
torial In opposition to the nomination of a
candidate for United States senator by
the republican state convention. The Press
Is not so much surprised at the attitude
of The Bee as It Is at the grounds on which
that paper bases Its argumentthat the
legislature Is more to be trusted to meet
the will of the people than the delegates
to the state convention. Nobody knows
better than the editor of The Bee that
Utiles without number members of the
legislature have violated every pledge they
made and voted against the will of their
constituents In choosing a I'nlted States
senator. In times past the columns of
The Bee have been loaded to the muzsle
with denunciations of the men whom It
claimed had done that very thing. Has
the editor of The Bee forgotten, or does
he now acknowledge that ho was wrong
In what he said about Frank Fuller, II.
C. Russell and other members of the
legislature of 1R87, at whose door he laid
the responsibility for the defeat of Sen
ator Van Wyck for re-election T Does he
pretend that the legislature of 1901 met
the will and wishes of the people Of Ne
braska in choosing United States senators?
Whether such action by the stats conven
tion ss The Bee opposes would be bad
politics or not will depend, entirely on the
character of the man who Is named. There
Is a big advantage In having a state con
vention name a man rather than a legisla
ture In that Its work must be passed upon
by the people before It Is too late to remedy.
Fremont Tribune: The Bee see a nomi
nation by the delegates In tho state con
vention a grave danger of "trading that
might culminate In the selection of a candi
date for United States senator who would
repel popular support from the ticket and
Jeopardize the election of a republican leg
islature." This same thing may be said
of nominations for all other state offices to
be made by the convention. But "trading"
In a convention Is not to be compared with
trading" In a legislature.
York Times: So, then, the plaoe to get
right up next to the people Is In the party
machine after all. The caucus Is the neat
ing place of popular sentiment, and hi tho
convention it finds full fruition. Here you
feel tho delicate vibrations of the fluttering
heart strings of the masses and hear the
softest sighing of the simplest souls. All
this talk about the manipulation and fine
work of the "heeler" and the enchantments
of the political harlot was a mistake. The
great agitation of the virtuous souls of
the reformers over these abominations and
the vigorous demand that they bo done
away with altogether and "primaries" sub
stituted was it. reality an effort to gat
farther away from the people rather than,
nearer to them. The men they elect at
the polls to represent them do not .repre
sent them after all half as well as tha half
dozen politicians who meet In caucus and
elect themselves delegates to a convention.
That Is tha argument now In favor of prao-
tlcally transferring tho choice of United
States senators from the legislature to the
republican state convention. Not six
months ago . the very 'men who advocate
this Innovation were In tha very skirmish
line fighting to abolish the caucus and con
vention as a corrupt machine of no use
whatever, except to defeat the will of the
people. Now they use the same arguments,
or tha same slanders, In favor of transfer
ring the regular work of tha legislature to
these same conventions. If the party con
vention can name the senator, why not
proceed a little further or stop on the
way and enact the laws? Why have a
legislature at all? It Is a useless and some
what expensive body. It does not represent
the people who elect it. A farmer or busi
ness man as soon as elected by his neigh
bors to represent them becomes a criminal,
a bribe taker, a thief, and cannot be
trusted to do tha business that devolves
upon him under the constitution. What do
these political acrobats think of the people
of the state of Nebraska? Do they think
they are as foolish as corrupt? They say
they cannot be trusted to elect their own
representatives; do they think they are so
besotted in corruption that they are blind
and daft?
Hastings Tribune: Nebraska fepullcans
will make a grave mistake If they at
tempt to nominate a senatorial candidate
at their coming state convention. Sucto
a move would ba foolhardy Just at this
time. It would create political enmity
and strife that would not end at the ad
journment of tbe convention, but would
undoubtedly be carried to tbe polls next
fall, when the Innocent would ba made
to suffer for the folly of a few. The re
publicans of Nebraska have success and
victory In sight, the majority of tho peo
ple are with them and will vote with them
providing there Isn't any politloal trickery
or treachery In the making and placing
of candidates upon the state ticket. It
is op to the republicans to maintain har
mony or create an eruption within their
own ranka
Wayne Herald: 8ome editorial lights are
tearing their vesture over the prospect of
a senatorial nomination by the state con
vention, alleging tha fear that defeated
candidates will weaken the strength of
the republican party during the campaign
and render victory less certain. Cannot
defeated aspirants for senator wiggle along
without fighting their ticket as well as de
feated candidates for state offices? Is
available senatorial timber more childish,
peevish, resentful and vindictive than those
who yearn for other offices? These stick
lers for a conservatism that falls to meet
tha exigencies of advanced times base their
reasoning on groundless suspicion.
Crete Vldette-Herald: We hope to see
the United States constitution so amended
as to require tha United States senators
to be elected by a direct vote of the peo
ple, but until so amended It Is a foolish
plan to try and get around existing law.
This is a large state, and it contains a
good many thousand voters. While Mr.
Burkett Is pretty well known and Is per
sonally popular In the First district, we
take It for granted that he Is not so well
known, nor as popular as some other men
might be to the voters of the five other
congressional districts. That being so.
What is the result, provided Mr. Burkett
receives tha endorsement at tha state con
vention? It virtually eliminates from the
canvass next fall every man who may
have a slight or strong aspiration for the
nomination, and throws a wet blanket upon
the hopes of their personal following. Can
not one Imagine that be can find many
legislative districts where the republicans
will say: "Oh, wa can carry the legisla
tive district for Klnkald or Grimes, or
Adgms or Halner, etc., etc., because our
voters all know him, as the case may be,
but not one man out of fifty ever saw
Mr. Burkett, and the result Is in doubt."
We are opposed to the plan suggested by
the state central committee. There Is no
substance In It. It weakens the party.
Our opponents have quit that foolishness.
They go it as pope In some counties, as
democrats In some and as fuslnnlsts In
othera They aim to get all the votes they
can, and pool their Interests In the legis
lature. The more good candidates ws cn
have the better, because It rouses local
pride, atlra vg a healthy oompeUUoo,
BITS OF WASmOTO LIFE.
Minor Scenes mm Incidents Sketched
ea the Spot.
The most entrancing spectacle In Wash
ington Is a member of the army general
staff on dress parade. The uniform Is gor
gcousneae Itself outshining the regal 1a of
the diplomatic corps, hitherto regarded
as the Omega of sartorial genius. Resi
dents do not concern themselves seriously
with such spectacles, regarding them as
the Insignia of warriors In repose, but the
visitor, unused to "the pomp and circum
stance" cf soldierly glitter. Is mticn awed
and filled with wonder. A story going the
rounds Illustrates one of the many Im
pressions they create In the minds of the
inexperienced. The daughter of a western
member of congress attended a reception
at which the general staff was well repre
sented. The young woman wss charmed
with the music and with the brilliant uni
forms in sight. Seeing one officer In un
usually gorgeous raiment, whom she mis
took for the leader of the band, she asked
"Won't you please have the band play
Bedella?" Oh, I think 'Bedella Is ex.-
qnislte: it's simply charming."
" Bedella,' repeated this officer. I don't
know it."
"Don't know Bedella?' That's impos
sible." -
"No," he repeated, a little gruffly.
'Why, I thought you were the leader of
the band." saM she Innocently enough.
"Wen, I'm not." was the curt reply from
this officer.
Mount Vernon, the home ef George
Washington, has been saved by a clever
engineering expedient from more thnn pos
sible destruction. At a coat of nearly
17.006 a tunnel Is being driven through the
hill on which the mansion stands, to carry
oft the waters of an underground stream
that has been causing serious landslides.
Sooner or later, if the precaution had not
been taken, the historic dwelling might
have fallen into th Potomac.
The trouble has been going on for a
long tfme, and In its earlier stages was a
cause of not little anxiety to Washington
himself. It was on this account that. Just
before his death, he decided on building an
other burial vault, further away from the
brink of the hill. His executors carried out
his wishes in this regard, the result being
the present vault in which the remains of
the Immortal Oeorgs and his wife now rest
Inclosed In two huge blocks of marble.
W. Cameron Forbes, who has been named
to succeed Secretary of War Taft as chief
of the commerce and marine bureau in the
Philippines, Is a grandson of Ralph Waldo
Emerson. Twelve years ago ha was grad
uated from Harvard and soon after became
identified with a large firm whose elec
trical enterprises represented $30,000,000.
Before being appointed to his new place he
had been an officer In over forty Important
corporations. Mr. Forbes has been long
an enthusiastic athlete having coached the
Harvard foot ball team one season. He
also coached tha Harvard base ball nine
which defeated Yale in 1S97 and 1SS6.
Ono Item In the urgent deficiency bill
Which has neither been reduced by the
economists of the House nor Increased by
the more liberal senators Is found on the
seventeenth line of page eighty in the
printed bill: "For contingent. Bureau of
Medicine and Surgery, 1 cent."
Only the bare statement Is there con
tained, but a search of the records reveals
the history of this Item, one of the smallest,
beyond a doubt, to which a paragraph of
a public bill was ever devoted. In May of
1001 the Southern PaclfJo railroad carried
some goods by freight for the bureau pre
sided over by the surgeon general. For
this service it charged f&2t. As It was a
bond-aided road, however, Its relations with
the government were such that it was not
entitled to cash payment. Only a fraction
of 1 per cent of the bills of such a road are
paid tn cash, the remainder being credited
to Its account in the treasury. It 'so hap
pened that In this case the credit was $5.28
and the cash $0.01.' Together with a number
of other freight bills of various bureaus
aggregating several thousand dollars, the
account passed the auditor, for the Navy
department. On the discovery that there
were no contingent funds available, from
which the cash payment could be made,
the secretary of the treasury transmitted
the separate Items to the house of rep
resentatives among his estimates.
The capltol needs a foreign guide, and
there is a situation ready for somebody.
The sergeant-at-arms who has the Issuance
of licences would put on a good man who
could speak a number of different lan
guages If he could find one. although the
rest of the guides profess to see no need
of It. Perhaps they think it an unpatriotic
concession to old world vanities to furnish
Information in anything but the American
language. They, however, agree that for
eigners are most lavish in their fees; that
whenever a gentleman from Spain visits
the capltol he brings enough money "to do
the square thing."
The death to announced of John J. Doran
of ths United States CTtilser Montgomery,
who receiver1, a medal from congress for his
heroio action In cutting the cable at Clen
fuegos under the fire ef Spanish batteries
In the Spanish war. Doran was then chief
boatswain's mate of the United States
cruiser Marblehead and was one of the
volunteer crew that engaged In this hazar
dous undertaking. He was wounded se
verely and was In the hospital for months.
PER SWT AI. JtOTES.
Matrimony among teachers is now called
"Insubordination" by the New York School
Board.
Edward Porter Cheney of Red Bank, N.
J., a brother-in-law of Horace Greeley, has
Just died at Litchfield, Conn. He secured
for the Tribune Its first subscriber.
Evolution In the dress of senators has
been from the old clawhammer through
the frock, up to the tailless or sack, which
many of our most strenuous statesmen
now affect.
The sultan of Turkey never sleeps two
consecutive nights In the same room, so
great Is his fear of assassination. In the
palace are a number of bullet-proof rooms,
all of which are furnished as sleeping
chambera
Congressman Mann of Chicago has been
suffering for some time from a carbuncle
on his neck. It is a big carbuncle and a
painful one, and Mr. Mann hadn't laughed
for a month until yesterday. He was walk
ing gingerly down toward the capltol In
Washington when two little girls who live
next door to him saw him. "What's tbe
matter with Mr. Mann?" asked one of
the little glrla "Oh," replied the other
with an assumption of much wisdom, "he's
got a beltbuckle on his neck."
Cojriy $622 ancl ty worth ii
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The F.nllghteneei Cariosity ef Senator
Warren ef Wyoming.
' New. York Sun.
The Hon. Francis Emroy Warren, a sen-
stor In congress from Wyoming, may have t ,
been born Inquisitive. Ills positively first i
appearance was made in Hinsdale, in west-
ern Massachusetts, a region full of sn
enlightened curiosity and deelrs for knowl
edge. Sociologists tell us that It Is also a
region of pocket pistols. The inhabitants
of a sparsely settled .district have to be
prudent and carry their medicine with
them. Precaution Is the mother of safety.
These two facts explain why Mr. Warren
tampered with the pocket pistol pocket of
the Hon. Benjamin Ryan Tillman Thurs
day. Mr. Tillman was busy. He was ex
postulating with the Hon. Joseph Weldn ,
Bailey of Texas, who differed with him
as to rural free delivery, South Carolini
ans In Texas and other high matters. Ab
sorbed, In , the dlscusnlon, the Palmetto
Pitt didn't feel the sociological hand In
his medicine pocket or sea that Inquiring I
statesman prig a bottle of yellow liquid, , '
remove the cork, smell of the contents, j
gravely, roll a humorous eye at the gallery t
and then return the original package to Its
place. The galleries laughed. Junior sen
ators smiled. Mr. Warren hlmeelf will
not be 60 until June. The fathers of the
senate looked solnmnar and saddnr than
an old slate gravestone In Hinsdale, In
cised with limping elegies and devilish
oherubs. The dignity of the senate had
been abraded by the Impish young investi
gator from Cheyenne.
The Hon. Augustus Octarius Baeon ef
Georgia lings Roman yet. Its told Mr.
Tillman of the searching of the toga, and
the smelling of the ampulla. Mr. Tinman
rose to discomfit certain newspaper men
who love to malign bm. He explained that
he had troubles In his throat and was car
rying a bottle of boracic acid to cure
them. Mr. Warren averred the facetious
purpose of his Investigation. There is sore
ness and sorrow over the dryness of tho
capltol restaurants, a dryness caused or
iginally by the desire to "go on record"
for total abstinence In the expectation that
the other house would understand the Joke.
The tongues of scandal aayt "Oh, what's
the difference? Search those statesmen
and' you'll find them with the wet goods
on them," Of course, this Is not Mr. War
ren's language, but It expresses his Idea.
"I know," he said, deprecatlngly, "that the
senator neither tastes nor handles."
Mr. Tillman would not have It so. He
wished to rebuke a disturber Of the dlg-nlty'
of the senate. He uttered this amene an fT '
Impersonal reproof:
"The senator does taste and handle, but
he does not get drunk except at banquets
and then not so drunk but he can find the
way home. He never makes such a fool
of himself that he has to be hauled home."
Mr. Allison held up a protesting hand.
And here the hammer fell. Mr. Frye
banged it tremendously. There was a
consultation. It was sgreed that the dig
nity of the renate should be preserved.
Plat dignrtas, mat veritast Keep un the
dignity, doctor the Congressional Record.
So the words of Mr. Warren and Mr. Till
man win be buried by mutual agreement.
But What Is history going to do, and who
can plaster the wounds of sociology, If
the senate Is to appear, not as a knot of
men subject occasionally to Infirm tempers
and mlschevlous propensities or belated
puerilities, but a gallery of statues, heroio,
calm, austere. Mrs. Jarley's wax wqrks
In frock ooats? Fortunately, the future
MacMasters will be able to find in the
newspapers the little senatorial farces end
pantomimes which are missing from the
official record. A hundred years from now,
Mr. Warren, sniffing at Mr. TJllman's
boracto acid bottle, will be an Inviting
figure to the Imagination.
This present, week, however, the Warren-Tillman
Incident belongs to morals;
and this Is the moral of It: ; "If a tb'
butterln that gets the black eye."
BRIGHT A1TD BREEZY,
eManaaasasni
"FTZ. .5" ! . t"1 to hav tooth
pulled?" they asked him as he came out of
the dentist's office.
"It cost me a dollar to find out," groaned
Mr. Pnoer, "and I'm not giving away any
information." Chicago Tribune.
Janitor I'm going to make It hot for
you. -
Tenant But isn't that contrary to all
precedents? Town Topics. ,
"Here Is a new pupil," said the boy's
father, "I'd like you to keep in your eye."
"I've a pupil In each eye already," re
plied the pedagoe-uK; "however, I'll keep
this one under the lash at any rata"
Philadelphia Catholic Standard.
"She doesn't care much for clothes, I un
derstand." "I should say not. Why, If she had her '
way she'd live on the bathlna- hearh in -
summer and the burlesque staga In winter.'' !
silica go ton. j
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OPrORTTIUTY AND JOHXJtY. w
8. E. Klser In tbe Record-Herald.
Johnny made a lot of snowballs.
Made them nice and round and . hard.
Then upon a box he piled them
In a corner of the yard.
Saying: "Walt till Willie Watkins
Conies around this way again
Oh, I'll bet I'll make him sorry
He told teacher on me, then!
Through the night they lay there freezing.
They became as hard as rocks;
In the morning Willie Watkins
Chanced to se them on TTie box;
Johnny had not risen early,
Johnny was a sleepy head;
Willie Watkins took the snowballs
While their maker lay In bed. .
When at last the slothful Johnny
Sauntered outward thrnugti the yard
To prepare to batter Willie,
He was hit by something hard!
More than fourteen snowballs struck him
Ere he howling got away,
Conscientiously believing
It was his unlucky day.
Thanks to thee, O, lazy Johnny,
For this lesson thou hast taught!
Oft wa labor hard preparing
And our efforts come to naught
Oft we spend long years In getting
Ready to be great and grand.
Just to fall through lielng absent
When It's time to be on hand.
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