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U04. M. B. 1IIJNGATE. 1
tSeal) rotary public
The republican gubernatorial situation
Is rapidly clarifying.
unicago uns again provi-u us iu
be called the Windy city.
A good motto for the Civic Improve
ment league: Actions speak louder than
words.
Panama la thu otilv nation which has
so far followed the czar's advice on the
subject of disarmament.
Now look out for trouble in the
Balkans. Turkey is said to have agreed
to the reform plan in earnest.
This belated cold wave may teach the
Georgia peach crop that it is not safe
to halloo until it is out of the woods.
fit Tvm,U omilri- not roalot tho tomnto.
tion rnor T,ionnf nooth.P wi.iin
Chicago was suffering from wind, and
xain. - I
' Iowa coal miners might look to south-
eastern Colorado and then conclude that I
a strike. Is worse than a poor compro-1
mlse.
vdiio tuv - aib uiriuvi) vvi i
orado has, not yet been able to rival
" " " f " uv"vc "ai
newa, i
news.
The Jacksonlans are going to discuss
the county funding bond proposition. It
is up to the County Democracy now to
make a demonstration.
The next time the local democratic
harmony committee meets it should see
to it that the prearranged program Is
nailed down more tightly.
The man who can tell Just what has 1
been done In the present Oriental war
must have gotten his information by
revelation rather than from the war
correspondents.
i . m
Admiral Togo may feel repaid by a
Tote of thanks, but there are several
American admirals who would rather
be in on the prize money than the reso
lutloas of respect
There Is a growing impression that
while the managers of the recent rail
road merger may be willing to carry
out the decree of the court, they want
to do it ln their own way.
Democrats need worry little over the
phraseology of the national platform.
Conditions are such that the record of
the candidate will be the real platform,
. tfenlt the. language xf the resolutions.
-
, The- auditorium-completion fund is
steadily growing, but there is room for
several more subscriptions which ought
to be forthcoming from those who will
share the benefits but have not yet eon-
trlbuted.
Editor Hearst's candidacy for the
democratic nomination for president has
at least oue commenuauie leature it is
causing tne conservatives of that party
to take a renewed interest in the affairs
of tho organization.
Japan may get more than it Is look-
lug for if it attempts to use New
Chwang as a base of k supplies. This
place is considered by the nations of
the world as the one oasis ln the desert
of war which all desire to keep a neu
tral port.
Reduced to homely, fractions 20 per
cent Is one-fifth. Any assessor with a
knowledge of the mere rudiments of
mathematics will be able to figure out
the taxable 20 per cent, if only he be
able to discover what 100 ptr ceat is. dal points out, not ouly was the pur
That's where the rub comes. chasing power of 37,000 workingmen cut
In bis reply to the man who tendered
blm a nomination for president at the
bands of the prohibition party General
titles bad cot the heart to refuse, but
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oil.-. mi in wuu.u
prefer to taae u as an endorsement
A A a A. - - .
tb work of another convention
VAUKtH UK 1!C A US Tt
AH firewMit Indications point to the
probability that the ral contest for tlx?
Iircsldciitial nomination In the demo
cratic national convention will be be
twoen Judge 1'orker and W. R. Hearst.
While two mouths ago the Hearst con-
't tw the nomination was very gon
erally regarded as In the nature of n
..... . . ...
Joke, It Is now recognized as a factor in
the democratic situation that Is to be
taken seriously. When Hearst captured
a majority of the Rhode Island delega
tion It began to be apparent to the so-
called conservative element of the party
that here was a man who meant busi
ness and subsequent developments have
confirmed them in this view. The
Hearst boom has not halted, but on the
contrary has been steadily paining in
force, in spite of the efforts of the con
servatives to decry and depreciate it.
N0t e-uly has it made headway in the
Houui ana west, nut it is strongly mani
festing itself in New York. The predic
tion Is made that Hearst will have sup
porters in the delegation from New York
to the St Louis convention, though up
to this time It appears probable that the
delegates from the Empire state will be
-
unit for Parker. Meanwb.Ho the
I Ten rat aeents are Active in everv sec-
nearsi agents are active in eviry sic
tion of the country and especially in the
.
south.
The movement for Jndce Parker does
not appear to be making much progress,
although it has undoubtedly made some
gain within the lust few weeks. ,The
uncertainty is In regard to the ability
of the Turker following in New York,
'blcb. 's unu"er the leadership of David
IK. Hill, to secure the delegation from
that state to the natlonul convention and
hold it together for their candidate.
There has recently been developed in
the Bouth, among the conservative dem
ocrats, a more favorable tendency to
ward I'arker and if ho can secure the
support of his own stute It Is very prob-
able that he will ept a lurirn southern
... ., , ; .. . .
aupyuri, lis lue ucmuinus vi mill sec
tion arc disposed to accent anyone who
receives the endorsement of the New
york democracy. The supporters there
of Judge Parker, however, have thus far
had to struggle hard to ealn what thev
unve aml the contest with the Hearst
forcPa la not vet ended. A New York
paper says that the chances of sending
an instructed delegation to St. Louis for
Parker are about even and that if this
Is not done Tammany will throw off its
wcveianu mask and cast its influence
lnto tlje scales with the radicals against
Parker,
According lo report the Hearst boom
ers are making the most liberal prom-
lses as to what their candidate will do
In the matter of a campaign' fund should
ho receive the nomination. There is no
thnf ha . 'arne
,g abundantly nble to b0i and lt' l the
knowledge of this fact that is winning
i.i... M i . ,
among uje
lle,uocratic politicians who are hungry
0T fi8' "We do not want a wan who
uuiuinmion, recetjtiy
saia tne venerauie senator I'ettus or
Alabama, but he speaks as a democrat
' former days and does not reflect the
feeling in the party today.
Tlta BTATtHUOD QUtSTWN.
xne Bl0CK growers Of New MeXiCO
The stock growers of New Mexico
have declared their unalterable opposi-
"on to ine union or New Mexico ana
. n-r,nun.i n i,m i
v"t'v" ura um Oslo i
upon by the republican sub-committee
of the bouse committee on territories,
asserting that such a union is neither
desirable nor practicable. The propo-
sltlon is to create two new states the
Puo out of New Mexico and Arizona and
tne otner out 01 Oklahoma ana Indian
Territory It is said that the bill agreed
uP?n y tU9 sub committee is accept-
able to the republicans ln both houses,
but the democrats, on the other hand,
favor the creation of three states New
Mexico, Arizona and Oklahoma includ-
m Indian Territory. .
The republican proposition is a com-
promise, Intended to do away with much
0f the opposition to the admission of the
new states. It has been urged that
even those opposed on general principles
to the admission of any new states will
recognize that it is better to have two
new states now than to take the chance
of having four new states erected out
of the same territories in the future.
The democratic opposition to the re-
publleam plan promises, however, to
prevent legislation in the matter at the
P" session. The bill agreed upon
D tne sub-committee of the committee
oa territories may pass the house, but
08 tho differences between the parties
woukl aottioss cause a long aebate in
the senate, the question is likely to be
postponed for the sake of a short ses
sion. The action of the cattle growers
of New Mexico, who claim to represent
one-half of Its taxable interests, against
union with Arizona, will probably havo
la good deal of Influence with the deinO'
crats in congress. It seems pretty safe
to say, therefore, that there will be no
Btatehood legislation at the present ses-
Bon
KTHlKtn ARE VVSTLY.
The New York State Board of Media
tion and Arbitration, in a report to the
legislature, presents an estimate of tho
cost of the building trades' Etrlkes iu
New York City last year. The report
states thai over 8.iaa woronpnen
were out of employment for a total of
1,700,000 days, with a loss iu wages of
nearly $0,8X,Ok). No estimate is given
of the loss sustained by the employing
builders and not ouly in this respect
does the computation fall to give an
adequate idea of the losses incident to
the strike. As the New York Commer-
off for many months by reason of the
bulldlug-trades dispute, but production
in a multitude of industries that, ill
I rectly and indirectly, furnish building
supplies, was also affected. Beta 11 deal
a I .11 kMff., Vnm I. In
ira u
oil anility or tuo&o out oi worn iu uuy
. . . . . M -A. t . A. - M X I I
I necessaries and pay old debts, with the
result that these tradesmen purchased
less stock from manufacturers, whole
sale dealers and fanners. Thus the 111
effects of the strike were widespread,
though the severity of the loss suffered
fell chiefly upon the men engaged and
their families.
There Is no information at band as
to bow many workingmen were involved
In strikes during last year, but the num
ber was large and tens of millions of
dollars were lost to labor in cotfse
quence. That money being kept out of
circulation wag a drawback to the gen
eral prosperity. Not only were those
whoso earnings were stopped injured
thereby, but the communities of which
they were a part also experienced more
or less injury. Such a fact as that pre
sented to the New York legislature
should command the earnest attention of
workingmen generally, for it is they
who as a rule suffer most from con
flicts between labor and capital. It Is
to be hoped that the present year will
witness fewer of such disturbances
than did last year and that greater
progress will be made in the cause of
Industrial peace.
.
THAT FiyB ITALIAN MAUD.
The fine Italian band of the School
Book trust; which baa owned Echool
superintendents and dominated the
school boards of Omaha for the last
fifteen years, is again visible in the
effort to foist a successor to Superin
tendent Pearse upon our public schools
who has no scruples against pulling its
chestnuts out of the fire. In no city in
America has the beneficent benevolence
of the School Book trust been exhibited
so strikingly as in Omaha.
Ten years ago the trust lifted a very
efficient and popular superintendent of
Omaha public schools bodily out of bis
job to place him on its own pay roll at
double the salary. Those familiar with
the inside working of the trust have
never entertained a doubt that it dis
tributed thousands of dollars in Omaha
ehice the advent of Mr. Pearse to pre
vent a change, and the transfer of Mr.
Pearse to Milwaukee was accelerated
not merely as a token of gratitude, but
chiefly to enable him to exercise hla
talents in a much wider field. The Mil
waukee agent of the School Book trust
was, next to Mr. Tearse, the most con
spicuous guest at the recent school
master banquet in this city and the
promotion of Mr. Pearse must have ap
pealed to the schoolmasters in other
towns as an object lesson which tho
pedagogues ambitious to rise from ob
scurity to high place should emulate.
Whether Omaha Is to continue under
the dominion of the School Book trust
for another indefinite term of years re
mains to be seen. It would be far
better if the school board could make a
contract direct with tie trust book agent
to pay double the price for the books it
buys and allow the trust to dictate the
text books than to have the trust dictate
the superintendent It will be preferable
for, the taxpayers of Omaha to contribute
$10,000 a year for the salary of a first-
clam superintendent who is free from
School Book trust contamination than to
let the trust steer upon us an inferior
man subservient to its wish and will at
one-fourth of that sum. .
TW.-n nf T.tnln tl,A tpIo hnnrrl has
been prevailed on to reduce the fee for
druggist's permit to sell liquor for medl-
. . . ...
cinju purposes rrom $i.uu to uu, wun
a vjew to issuing more permits to drug
git9 who have refused to take them
cut nt all at the former figure, but who
pr0mlse to do so at the reduced rate.
tIere ln Omaha some druggists grumble
beCause they are required to put up $10
for a iiauor permit as if it were a great
hardship. The abuse of the druggist" s
permit presents one of the ticklish
points in connection with the high
nCense law.
The suggestion Is made that the Board
of Education might find a western man
quite likely to be Just as satisfactory as
a superintendent of our schools as an
eastern man. We do not believe the
question of geography enters into this
problem. It is not the locality in which
the man happens to be, but his educa
tlonal qualifications and his experience
as an educator which should be the de
termlnlng factors. The taxpayers of
Omaha want the ablest school superiu
tendent they can get for the money they
I can afford to pay,
There is no immediate danger of an
other theater being erected ln Omaha.
Omaha has three theaters now and
stands much more ln need of new hotel
buildings, store buildings and ware-
bouses than it does of additional the
aters. Men with money to Invest in
improvements ' here may be depended
uDon to size up the demand with
special reference to the probable profits
The World-Herald's solicitude for Mr.
Burkett's senatorial aspirations will, as
jguai, be confined to the pre-nomlnation
peri0d. Should he, or any one else for
that matter, be endorsed as the repub
lican candidate that organ would pro
ceed promptly to the task of persuading
the voters that he is not a fit man for
I the place.
Real IV a la Sight
Chicago Record-Herald,
General Kouroputkln Is expected to reach
h front by the end of this week. He will
j,. operations by chewing up a fe
corean villages and spitting them into the
sea.
Surely a Hemlader
Indianapolis Journal.
Some congrcakmen oppose the acceptance
of the statue of Frederick the Great on the
ground that be waa a deapotio example of
militarism. But it would be a constant
reullndtr that be is dead, wouldn't it?
Eatraordlaary, for Kaaaaa.
Kansas City Star.
A stone weighing a ton fell yesterday
from one of the approaches to the state
house at Tupeka without hitting any per
I son. It is enough to make the public ahud
tn,n wnat m'if nave oeen in
I resuil 11 iw-myiii u "H"
tannin, of Oovernor BaJlev'a administra
i Uon lu.tnaa PI occurring near iu end
J soil it la most eatraordlnary that a piece
of masonry weighing 1,000 pounds could fall
from an entrance to the Kansas carltol,
at any stage of the game, without striking
someone.
Kaally t'oaaoled.
. Chicago News.
Proprietors of the Northern Securities
company Uike great comfort In the fact
that four members of the supreme court
were on their side. However, they will not
be able to draw dividends on this consola
tion. No Ca.ua for 'Worry.
Indianapolis Journal.
Some people are worrying about the form
tn which we are going to pay that 30.000,000
for the canal. One thing Is certain:
whether It Is paid In gold, bills of exchange
or coonaktns, this Is the only country on
earth that could do It without borrowing
or pinching.
Effect of Retaliation.
Indianapolis News.
The sultan of Bulu. It Is reported, has
accepted the abrogation of the Bates treaty
without any evidence of excitement. The
sultan presumably has changed his mind
about making war on us since he has heard
of our possibilities In the way of retaliation
as evidenced by George Ade's opera.
notel Hates at St. Loals.
Philadelphia Press.
The St. Louis hotels agreed with the ex
position authorities not to Increase rates;
but they have found an easy method of
evading the agreement. If a person occu
pies a room big enough for two beds he
must pay the price charged for four per
sons. But four persons can occupy the
room at the same price. That Is the
method adopted by Chicago hotels to be
put in force during the republican conven
tion. It Is unfair and unjust, but will be
followed all the same.
Certain Ganiea of Skill.
Boston Transcript.
The senators' quiet game of "Jal Alal"
behind closed doors reminds one of the cir
cumstances under which, according to one
of the humorists, the game of seven-up
was declared In Kentucky to be one of
skill and not of chance. The paatlme
had always been supposed to be In the
latter class until an attorney one day pro
tested against the popular ImpreKsion, and
culled for a ruling. As a test, the court
impaneled a Jury of twelve, six of them
professional gamblers, together with six
ministers end deacons, and bade them do
their best. As a result of the extraordi
nary manner in which the money In that
Jury changed hands, seven-up was ad
judged to be a game of skill.
Health Faila on the Hralnu
Medical Talk.
To get all sorts of health fads on the
brain Is a disease In Itself. It Is a very
prevalent disease, too. With a few foolish
rules to observe, a whole lot of hyglenlo
quirks to adjust to and a schedule of super
stitious sanitary notions diligently followed
by day and dreamed of by night Ib a malady
which begins as a mental derangement and
ends in a complete physical flzzlo. No
room' left for a spontaneous life, no place
for free. Joyous liberty. Not a minute's
apace for rollicking disregard. Everything
fixed, every minute disposed of. Introspec
tions without number. Forebodings, mis
givings, hovering vaguely about the mind
like flocks of carrion crows. Such a life
is not worth living. One might a thousand
times better go back to the reckless regime
of a rough rider.
Time Softens Atperltlea of War.
Chicago Post.
Time softens, and there Is none so for
giving as the soldier. Who in the year
1861 would have supposed that the time
ever would come when a brigadier general
ln the confederate service would be stand
lug on the floor of the senate of the United
States pleading that justice should be done
to the widow and heirs of Commander
Charles Wllkea. U. S. N., the man who
took the confederate commissioners, Mason
and Sljdell, by force from the deck of the
British steamer Trent and brought them
as prisoners to the United States? This
thing, however, has Just come to pass.
Brigadier General John T. Morgan, United
States senator from Alabama, Is Cham
ploning on the floor of the senate the cause
of the widow and helrs-at-law of Com
mander Charles Wilkes, whom forty-three
years ago the whole south was execrating,
POLITICAL DRIFT.
Democratlo reorganizes are doing the
shouting, while Hearst is coralllng the
delegates.
Ersklne Hewitt, son of the late Abram
S. Hewitt of New York, has announced
his intention to enter active politics in
New jersey.
The gaiety of the country Is largely
increased by the weird antics of democrats
who call Roosevelt "unsafe" and at the
same time shout for Hearst
The New York 8un declares that a con
test for the presidency between Judge
Parker and Mr. Roosevelt would be
race between an Edam cheese and a centl
pede."
George Carnegie, proprietor of Dunge
ness, once the home of Oeneral Nathanael
Greene, and a nephew of Andrew Carnegie
has announced his candidacy for the
Georgia senate on the democratlo ticket.
Tammanyites in congress are shaking
hands with themselves because their names
did not appear ln the Bristow report. It
Is the first bunch of political grafting that
escaped their palms, chiefly because they
couldn't break In.
Senator John Hughes, jr., of Iowa county,
Iowa, has achieved quite a reputation In
the Hawkeye state as author of an anil
pass bill which haa been reported favorably
by the senate Judiciary committee. Sena.
tor Hughes is C2 and is a wealthy lumber
dealer with leisure, which has afforded him
opportunity to make a study of reform leg
lslatlon.
The democratlo editor of the Crawford
County (Mo.) Mirror draws this picture o
the harmony prevailing in the bourbon
camp: "Away up above us somewhere
we hear the republicans having a general
jubilee and an old-time brotherly hand
shaking, while we are down here In tl
dark fighting and cussing each other like
a gang of wildcats. It don't better ou
condition for us to out up so, but we can
help It. We've got to do something to let
the wrath out or we would bust."
Whether the people of Kentucky shall re
turn to the system of viva voce voting Is
to be decided by them at the state electlo:
In 1936. During the discussion of the mat
tcr ln the house of representatives one
member said that the open ballot would
prevent voters from sailing under false
colors, and another member retorted tha
It would result ln the corporations gettin
control of the election. Only two demo.
cratlo members of the house voted against
the measure, and only one republican voted
In Us favor.
Judge Alton B. Parker of New York wa
offered the post of first assistant postmas
ter general by President Cleveland. Th
salary waa 15,000, but Mr. Parker, ' wh
was then surrogate of Ulster county, de
cllned to accept. His.aalary was U.OuO
and as he was building up a good practice
he said he could not afford to accept
Postmaster General Vilas commented:
gave up a practice worth tX.OOO a year to
accept an M.OuO cabinet position." To which
Parker retorted: "Yes, and If I had been
making $-0,000 annually for ten years I
should not mind doing the same."
OTIIKR I. AMU T1IA OIHS.
The good understanding between France
ml England Is being utilized, It Is stated,
to harmonica differences between the two
owers as to Kgypt, Newfoundland and
Slam, ICcypt bristles with difficulties, the
English wishing a free hand mid the
French desiring to retain all that Is left
Of their former predominance. M. 11
caese Is said to Insist on retaining the
International debt commission, which domi
nates the finances of Kgypt, much to the
nnoyance of the British. He also wishes
to preserve the "mixed tribunals," which
maintain a foreign Influence that Is often
distasteful to British administrators. There
are also certain distinctively French in
flations which M. Delcasse wishes main-
tnlned. As respects Newfoundland, ho
asks, In exchange for fishing rights along
the French shore," compensation for ex
isting French Ashing plants and a general
right to fish without the exclusive privi
leges hitherto claimed. Access through
Nigeria to French territory about Lake
Tchad and on the upper Niger Is also
askod as part of the Newfoundland ar
rangement. Siam gives less trouble, each
ower being content with a fuller defini
tion of the sones already allotted. The
questions at Issue are of a thorny charac
ter, but It would be worth some sacrifice
to get rid of them.
Emperor William Is Inaugurating at Han
over -a scheme which cannot fall to com
mend Itself to the attention of the entire
civilized world, and which marks an al
together new departure. It is nothing
more or less than a species of high school
for the training of police officials. He has
long since realized, like so many others,
that whereas the most dangerous crim
inals and anarchists are, as a rule, men
who are not only of a high order of in
tellect, but, moreover, frequently pos
sessed of all the advantages of the most
advanced order of education, many of them
being university graduates, equipped with
11 sorts of sclentlflo knowledge, and their
mental faculties rendered acute and keen
edged to the lat degree by study, the po
lice, to whom is entrusted the responsi
bility of protecting the community from
their evil designs, have been recruited
from an entirely different class of society,
lnforlor not merely In Inherited intelli
gence, but likewise In all thoe accom
plishments which education of a high or
der and rearing among people of culture
can alone bring. In this way the police
ave been terribly handicapped, and It ia
only now and aguln that the governments
are able to find a man who Is so excep
tionally Keen-witted and brilliant that his
gift In this respect in a measure atones
for his lack of the higher order of educa
tion.
In his speech ln the French Chamber In
support of the bill supressing the monastic
chools, M. Combes said that teaching by
religious associations has had its day. The
religious association was utterly Incompati
ble with modorn society, ho declared, and It
waa the duty of the state to prevent the
congregations from deforming the minds of
the French youth. The state could provide
for all the requirements of secondary In
structlon. As for primary education, the
bill would only require a total expenditure
of $12,000,000 for the establishment of schools1
end an annual grant of 11,600,000 for the
creation of new poets for male and female
teachers. He Insisted that the congrega
tions were a menace to the republic, and
declared that the government desired peace.
but a peace based on the disappearance of
the principal cause of French dissensions.
M. Rlbot, who opposed the bill, said that It
was the negation of the law of 1901, which
was to serve as a guarantee to the author
ized congregations. He defended congrega
tlonlst Instruction and denounced the meas
ure as the destruction of the liberty of In
struction. M. Raslmbaud tried to secure a
postponement of the debate, but as already
reported, the government motion for ur
gency was carried by a substantial ma
jority.
The Irish Antl-Emlgratlon society, which
was founded last year under the presidency
of Cardinal I-ogue, appears to have set to
work energetically and systematically. The
cardinal's appeal to the Irish ln America,
of which the cable has already conveyed
the Intent, declares that the greatest dan
ger threatening Ireland today Is the danger
of the extinction of the Irish race within its
own shores. For now nearly sixty vears
the now of emigration has gone on con
tlnuously till the population of the country
Is reduced to one-half what It was before
the famine. In the space of twenty years
no less than 910,000 men and women have
emigrated from Ireland to the United States
alone. Of these 755,000, or S3 per cent, were
in the prime of life, between the ages of 15
and 35. In Ireland at the last census the
whole number of persons of these ages was
only 1,600,000; so that the loss of Its young
population to one country alone ln the last
twenty years has been fully one-half of the
present adult population in the prime of
life. The appeal then proceeds: "This enor
mous withdrawal of the moat vigorous por
tion or tne nation has had Its natural re
sults. The native population Is steadily
falling; the marriage rate and birth rato
are the lowest of any civilized country;
lunacy Is increasing to an alarming degree;
and the scarcity of labor Is felt In majiy
branches of agriculture. Moreover, whit.
the stream of Irish emigration sets toward
tne west, there is a steady, silent Influx of
foreigners who are rapidly constituting
themselves the dominant commercial and
industrial Interest.
Although the motion to censure the srov.
ernment for advising the approval of the
Transvaal coolie ordinance was defeated
In the House of Commons, the opposition,
nevertheless, gained a moral victory. After
most strenuous efforts of the government
whips, Mr. Balfour was enabled to sustain
himself by a majority of only flfty-seven
votes considerably less than one-half the
number with which his ministry began.
That the country no longer stands behind
them had been made evident enough to
the unionists themselves In numerous by
elections; by their support of the coolie
ordinance they practically confessed that
their Justification for the war against the
Boers, as a struggle to create a white man's
Africa, was a hollow pretense, and that
the welfare of the gold mining syndicates
and not that of British colonists, waa and is
ineir enter concern. They have thus sur
rendered the one principle which was their
strongest claim upon the suffrages of the
people the principle of consolidating and
unifying the ErlUsh empire. The ordinance
is a slap In the face of the Australian and
other colonlBts aa well as of the British
masses, who loyally supported the ministry
in tne aaric days following Colenso and
Magcrsronteln.
It la generally admitted that the war.
and especially the Russian reverses, have
Inspired the Polish patriots with new hope.
The Russian government was therefore
obliged to order a general Increase of the
police force throughout Poland, including
even small villages. The Polish contingent
In the Russian army is limited to 15 per
cent of the whole. . Latterly, however, so
many Poles have been sent to the far east
that this, limit has been greatly exceeded
ln Manchuria, where more than double the
usual number of Poles are ln the ranks.
Last October, when the annual batch of
recruits drew lots for active service, the
number of exemptions wus much reduced.
At I-odi many arrests have taken plaoe.
On February 29 nearly peraona were ar
rested lu the twvuty-luur Lours. The
THERE IS HQ SUBSTITUTE FOR
l&i'
Absolutely Pure
BTISA MATTER OF HEALTH
police told them that they were suspected
of being socialists, but that if they would
volunteer as soldiers they would not be
prosecuted.
HASSA AS A WRITER.
The Lata Senator's First Contribution
to a Maaaatao.
Joe Mitchell Chappie ln National Magazine.
I must here and now pay my personal
tribute by saying that the success of the
National Magazine was mads possible
through Sonator Ilanna. It was he who
gave the first friendly grasp of the hand
and Insisted that It could be made a suc
cess. It was he who withstood all other
offers of larger and greater publications to
become a contributor, preferring rather to
give what he intended to write to those
whom he felt It would most help; and from
the moment that his first article on "Mc
KIr.ley as I Knew Him" was published In
the National Magazine, the growth and
prosperity of the periodical seemed assured,
His only protest to me was, "Don't put so
much Ilanna in the National!" And when
I insisted that that was what made tho
magazine favored, he would blush like a
boy and declare that if I persisted he would
sever all relations with me.
Among the treasures that I possess are
the first pages of the article on "McKlnloy
as I Knew Him," v rltten by Mark Ilanna
for the National Magazine, and which was.
In fact, the first contribution he ever made
to any periodical. There Is something pa
thetic ln these first puges, Indicating the
difficulty he had In writing about his friend
In such a manner as to do him such Justice
as may be done by human Judgment. These
pages had been torn up and cast aaldo In
the wastebaskct as v-t rthless when I res
cued them, but they serve, to my mind, to
show the courage and perseverance of the
man ln accomplishing what he had under
taken, and not only ln accomplishing, but
in not being satisfied with loss than his
"level best." That all this work was done
as a labor of love there can be no doubt,
and this and all of hla writings show that,
though he entered this field late ln life, he
had sterling natural gifts aa a writer. The
simplicity and lucidity of his style make
his writings more valuable than many nioro
ornate compositions, and in all he wrote
there was the simplicity and sincerity that
wins the hearts of the great American peo
ple for whom he wrote.
SCRIPILOIS CITIZENS NEEDED.
Need of Stronger Opposition to Official
Wrong.
Downright unscrupulousness makes the
knave. A partial lack of scruple character
izes tha large numbers of respectable men
who as members of boards, as merchants,
as taxpayers, as politicians, as voters,
wink at evil practices ln others, timidly
avoid all opposition to official wrong and
themselves commit slight and not too con
spicuous irregularities, or glvo support for
selflsh reasons to venal candidates for of
fice. Such "respectables" are the despair
of the patriotic men who ln our day and
in a thousand communities are trying to
stay the tide of that political corruption
which, according to so good a friend of
America as John Morley, "for the moment
obscures the great democratlo experiment."
It comes to this, that "the period of cor
ruption" which friends of Americans
abroad are called upon so often to apolo
gize for a corruption which, while bad
enough, is not so deeply rooted aa our
enemies believe can be brought to an end
only by the growth of a sense of honor,
of scrupulousness backed by moral bravery
upon the part of Individuals In the repub
lic It Is not fantastio to aver that a gift
of Imagination would assist some people
to be virtuous. If a citizen should feel
that his own lack of scruple In any direc
tion was a contribution to the corruption
and dishonor of his country, and that his
personal withstanding of temptation to do
wrong was not only an act of private vir
tue, but had patriotic uses as well if he
were convinced, for Instance, that his re
fusal to vote as a trustee for a contribu
tion to a bribery fund or to a dishonest
boss was a means of doing away with a
national disgrace If he had the Imagina
tion to grasp the large bearings of his In
dividual action, it would be easier for him
to take a stand for righteousness Instead
of weakly acquiescing in some customary
wrons.
ADJOURNMENT OF LONUItKSS.
Late and Early Datea la Presidential
Years.
New York Sun.
The dates of the summer adjournment of
congress In the presidential years since and
including 1864 are given In the aubjolned
table, reading downward toward the past:
1900, Fifty-sixth congress, first session,
June 7.
laHti, Fifty-fourth congress, first seaslon,
June 11.
Ifc92, Fifty-second congress, first session,
August 6.
ltoX. Fiftieth congress, first session, Octo
ber 20.
1H84. Forty-eighth congress, first session,
July 7.
IMtO, Forty-sixth congresa, aecond session,
June 14.
lSTfi, Forty-fourth congress, first session
Aueust 16.
1872, Forty-second congress, second ses.
Ion. June I'l.
188, Fortieth congress, second session,
Julv zi.
lxftt, Thirty-eighth congress, first session
July 4.
Durlng the past forty years the earliest
date of adjournment of the regular session
preceding a presidential election bus been
June T. and the latest October !). The
mean of all the adjournments In preslden
tlal years falls exactly at midsummer;
that Is, on July 15. That point In the
calendar, therefore, may be assumed ns
marking the normal time when the mem
bers of congress in a presidential year
finish their work on the pubiio business
and are ready to go to their respective
homes to take part iu the politics ut the
campaign.
POINTED REMARKS.
"Rut," said the crafty manufacturer, "you
wouldn't advertise the stuff aa 'pure.' "
"Oli, no," replied his piirtner, "ww'll ad
vertise that It 'has a reputation for pur
ity.' "Philadelphia Press.
"What's that you say 7 A footpad held
up a coal dealer?"
"Yes. But 1 didn't expect you to look so
sorry over It."
"SorryT Old man, you are not a good
Judge of facial expression. The look on my
face Is not one of grief. It's one of lucre
dullty." Chicago Tribune.
The whole wept sadly.
"Jonah will have no trouble," he re
marked, "but the fellows at the club will
never believe my man story."
True to the prediction, they derisively In
quired why his catch hud gono up the
spout. New York Sun.
Methuselah was glancing over his papers.
"What a chump I was," ho said, ' not to
take an endowment policy instead of an
ordinary life."
But making the best of it, he started to
" "A." man's Just as old as he feels." Chi
cago Journal.
Mrs. Myles And your husband sleeps all
right now, you say?
Mrs. Styles Oh, myl He Bleeps liha a
Child.
" You- don't mean to tell me that your Bus
bond sleeps with one of his toes iu his
mouth?" Yonkers Statesman.
It was In one of our police oourra the
other morning that a lawyer asked: "You
are absolutely certain about your state-
'""Absolutelv certain," sold the witness.
"Y'ou swear that it is true?"
"I do."
"Would you bet on ItT"
"Krwell-yes, If I rot the right odds."
Thlladelplila Idger.
Mnrguerlto desired pubMM'.y.
"It's a pipe, MHggle," wild iTaust, as he
whispered something ln hr ear.
Immediately thereafter sU- wrtrbled ths
Jewel song. . M , .
Tills Is the first press aarent Jewel tlory
on record. Chicago Jc urnal.
A FREE SHOW.
W. D. Neebit in Chicago Tribune.
Ever notlco the man who gets Into ths
show
On a pass?
They will glvo him a seat ln the very
front row.
But. alas!
He will look at the stage as though it
were a tomb
All IhA.nhllfl.
And there's never a change ln his fact-
lull of gloom
Not a smile.
Yes, the dancers may trip tn tbelr frollo-
nome Riee,
Full nf life:
Or the hero may rush just as bold as
can be,
To the strife:
The comedians, too may enliven their
Jokes
With thA drum-
But the man with the pass, In dejection
he soaks.
Very glum.
He will sit through the play from the
act that is nrst
To the third.
And he'ii vow that the songs are by ail
odds the worst
V.ivr henrd:
He will (inlin that the Jokes are exceed
ingly old,
Wenk find stale:
And declare that the bouse such a drama
could hold
Is a Jul I.
Ever notice the man? It Is natural.
though,
For we all
Get a prhs to come Into "Existence" the
show
On this ball.
And we all seem to live to discover what
flaws
We can clck.
We are here on a pass, so that must be
tne cause
Of our kick.
"A wonderful man tills Napoleon. I
admire lilui. Gad, sir! I'd bfald to
Introduce lilm to my tailor."
llrau llrnmniell to his valet.
THlUti: IS NO NEED OF AN
INTKODECTION TO GET TUB
UKiilT TIIINU IIEKE, AND
THE MOST WONDEItFUI,
l'AKT COMES WHEN YOU
SEE TIIE STYLE, EXCEL
LENCE Ob' MANUFACTURE
AND GOODNESS OF MATE
RIALS THAT AKE SHOWN
IN OLIt CLOTHES. THERE'S
ALL KINDS OF GOOD
THINGS BEING SHOWN NOW
FOR "EASTER." DON'T BE A
TAIL-EN DER. BE ONE OF
THE FIRST TO CHOOSE
EITHER A NOBBY TOP COAT,
A SLIT. A FAIR OF TKOU8
ERS. A FANCY WAISTCOAT,
A HAT. A SHIRT, A SCARF,
UNDERWEAR. HOSIERY,
AND MANY OTHER THINGS
THAT G TO COMPLETE
TIIE TOILET.
TAKE A LOOK AT OUR EAS
TER WINDOWS.
Browning,
King Co.
R. &. Wilcox. Mcr.
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