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THE OMATTA DAILY REE! MONDAY, JANUARY 23. 1003. The Omaha Daily Bee E. ROSEWATER. EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Be (without Sunday), one year.. $1 V Daily Hee and Sunday, one year, Jllustrat-d bee. one year , Sunday Bee, one year Kalnrrliv Itmm nn IMF ..... .") .. 2. 0 .. l a" Twentieth Century Farmer, one year... LuO DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Tally Re (without Sunday). pr r0P,'r"-,0 Dally Br fwithort Fundi v). per wrek...Uo Dully Bee (in' lu ilng Sunday). Ir week..l.c fcundsv Dee, pr copy Kvenlng Hoe (without Ptinrlay). per week c Evening Bee (Including Sunday). per week 120 'omplalnts of Irregulirl.l-s In delivery hould he addressed to City Circulation de partment. OFFICES. Omaha The p Building. South Omaha City Hall building. Twenty fifth an1 M street. Council niMre 1f prart street. ' Ch n-itKii f'nltv building. New l'nrk ITS Tark Row building. Washington 501 Fourteenth street. CORRESPONDFNCE. 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The very latest is a proposition for the creation of a state registrar of vital statistics. Army officers are beginning to learn that an army order to return home from the Thlllpplnes does not carry with It a divorce from native wives. The czar is discovering that peace hath Its troubles no less acute than war. A striker at' home looks' more dangerous than an enemy in the orient The natural route from the corn belt to the Bps Is the route traversed by the great rivers that divide the continent, which is also the shortest route by rail. Just to get down to business, the Douglas delegation to the legislature, as a whole, should resolve itself into a charter revision committee of last resort Lord Roberts thinks the British .army today is an improvement over that of fifty years ago, but intimates that it is not yet ready to face war with a flrst class power. Now that Emperor William has turned his attention to the German army scandals it will be possible to determine whether be is really a soldier or simply one who likes to wear a uniform. Yellow fever on the canal rone prom ises to reduce the number of those applying for positions to a minimum and it may become necessary to build that canal with "forlorn hope" volunteers. The lesson of the annual assessment of property for taxation by tax com missioner, review, boards and boards of equalization is that a whole lot of people pass for more than they are really worth. If those First district statesmen do not hurry up they may have to .Initiate the new direct primary law In nomi nating the. respective candidates who are to run for Senator-elect Burkett's cast-off congressional shoes. The Missouri bolters are out with a signed statement that they will not vote for anyone for senator except a true and tried republican. Inasmuch as every one of these bolters participated in a republican caucus and bound themselves to vote for the choice of that body this Dew promise may be taken for what It is worth. Congressman Norrls' explanation of his bill for an amendment to the federal constitution extending the terms of rep resentatives and senators is clear enough, but he might have saved him self the trouble. The people of this country will never coiisuut to lucrease the six-year tenure of United States senators until they shall first be per mitted to choose their senators by di rect vote. And now it transpires that the chief draughtsman of the Andersen charter U Cadet Taylor, who Is said to bare de voted myth time aud all his talents to the laborious task. It tnuat be con ceded that Cadet has both experience and capacity for framing a municipal charter. Ills experleuee as Mutch dog of the city treasury about the time a $115,000 slump was discovered In the treasurer's accounts aud his rapaiity for bubble bauklng eminently qualify him for framing a water-tight, burirlur-proof charter. MR TRADE EXTEXSWX The special niessiiKC of the president to congress. Indorsing the plan of the assistant secretary of state for extend ing American tralc ahronrt, will have the support of the business Interests of the country, which should make their influence In fuvor of It felt upon con gress. The plan contemplates the co operation of the Departments of State and of Commerce and Labor In collect ing Information concerning trade condi tions in forelen countries anil enlists the services of diplomatic and consular of ficers. In addition It recommends the appointment of speclnl agents who shall lie assigned to foreign territory where they Svlll make a study of Industrial and commercial conditions, reporting to the Department of Commerce and I.ubnr the results of their Investigations. It Is thought that the plan would eventually result In a pretty thorough reorganiza tion of the consular service, as the spe cial agents would he chnrged with ex amining Into the efficiency of consuls, their methods of work and the value of their servlc s. They would co-operate with consuls in the gathering of the Information wanted and their investiga tions would naturally suggest where Im provements could be made in the service. In his nieaFage on, the subject the pres ident says that it Is proposed that the agents shall be chosen primarily for their expert knowledge, "but Khnll be not merely specialists except for par ticular investigations that might from time to time, lie required, but practical men of Affairs with tl experience best snlted to fit them for their executive duties." The president expresses the opinion that the proposed plan promises Important and far-reaching consequences in the Judicious strengthening of ,our whole foreign service In the interest of trade and the gradual development of capacities in it, but Imperfectly avail able, as yet to make it fully adequate to the demands of our productive energy as a nation. He points out that our manufacturing industries are outstrip ping the capacity of even our enormous market and are now looking more and more to foreign consumption for relief from accumulating stocks. lie cites the statistics of exports of manufactures, which have been steadily Increasing, and says: "The magnitude and steady growth of this export movement from our Workshops and factories are such as to suggest the grave importance of providing it with nil the official appar atus necessary to Its full and free de velopment." This evidences the great interest which the national administration Is tak ing In the question of extending our foreign trade and there can be no doubt of ( beneficial results if congress shall provide the moderate appropriation necessary to the carrying out of the plan. "William McKInley said In his memorable Buffalo speech that "the ex pansion of our trade and commerce Is the pressing problem." That is as true now as when uttered and the problem will grow more pressing with our in creasing industrial development In no respect can the national government do a greater service for promoting the pros perity of the country than in securing the expansion of our foreign trade and there should be no hesitation on the part of congress In providing the means necessary to this. WRONG RETREXCUMEXT FLAX. It Is proposed In all seriousness to do away entirely with the Board of Tublic Works and devolve all its functions and duties upon the council and to com pensate council men for the increased re sponsibility by raising their salaries from $1)00 to (1,200 a year. In other words, as a measure of economy it is proposed to plug up the spigot aud leave the bunghole wide open. An Increase of $300 a year in the sal aries of nine council men would mean, at the present rate, an additional draft on the treasury of $2,700 a year, but it would not necessarily mean a higher quality of councilmen or better service than Is now being rendered, An increase in the number of councilmen would In volve an additional outlay of $1,200 a year for every new councilman without materially lessening wastefulness or ex travagance in public works. On the con trary, it would mean an Increase instead of a decrease of taxes and poorer re sults than we are now getting from the present discordant Board of Public Works. Every councilman is necessarily a politician, and, being a politician, he must help other politicians to places and naturally strives for the political support of contractors and public utility corpora tions who employ large numbers of men. Conceding that the abolition of the Board of Public Works as now consti tuted is desirable and foreordained, a much more economic and more satisfac tory plan would be to create the office of commissioner of public works, with a salary of $2,500, or even $3,000, a year for a commissioner, who should be a civil engineer of not less than five years' ex perience In municipal works and whose duty it should be to supervise the re pairing of pavements and sewers, the cleaning of streets and maintenance of viaducts and roadways within the city limits. This would centralize responsi bility for street repairs and street clean ing Instead of diffusing It among -nine to twenty councilmen, each of whom would be striving to distribute patronage In his own ward aud to make improvements In spots without hefng specially qualified to make Improvements or supervise the paving, grading, street cleaning and all work of that sort. It would be other wise only If our councilmen were chosen with special reference to the supervision of public Improvements and the enforce ment of municipal regulations upon pub lic utility corporations. What Is renllv wanted U the divorce of the council as wtM as the engineering department from street divining and street repairs, the council simply to vote the money ueceKsary for this work; the engineering department to plan and supervise tho execution of new public works, leaving to the commissioner of public works the supervision of their maintenance, very much the same as the architect of the building makes the plans and the superintendent of the building sees that the plans are properly exe cuted, while the owner of the building pays over the necessary funds for ma terial aud lalor In the construction. f'Prr.E TARIFF REYISIOX At its recent annual meeting the American Protective Tariff league adopted a resolution strongly declaring against tariff revision at this time. It was admitted that it may and some time will be desirable to make some changes In the present tariff, but It was said that "st a time when all labor is profitably employed, when business Is flourishing, when the aggregate wealth of all the people Is rapidly Increasiug, when domestic consumption is at high water mark, when foreign trade has reached the largest figure ever known In our history, tarliT changes and tariff legislation should be approached with extreme caution, with groat reluctance." It was ur'cd that, the present tariff be allowed to stand until such time as It shall be clearly demonstrated by general experience and practical knowledge that changes In the schedules will be pro ductive of a degree of benefit to tho whole country 4,hat shall outweigh the disadvantages and the injuries resulting from tariff revision. This is in accord with the position of Speaker Cannon and other republican leaders In congress. They believe that It would be nnwle at this time to make a revision of the tariff, because the effect would bo disturbing to business and check tho movement toward n restoration of former prosperity. It Is the understanding that President Boose velt thinks there ought to be revisions, but It Is helleved that he Is not dis posed to hurry the matter and will not antagonize the position of the repub lican leaders In congress. At all events It Is assured that there will be no action regarding tho tariff at the present ses sion and It is not worth while to con jecture as to what may be done by the fifty-ninth congress, though It Is alto gether probable that It will make some changes In the tariff, a good deal of course depending upon the business con ditions when that congress meets. It was to have been expected that the railroad tax agents and attorneys re tained expressly for beating down taxes would protest against an assessment of $1,450,000 on railroad terminals and Im provements that are capitalized at up ward of $25,000,000, but the other tax payers df Omaha would certainly not have excused the council, sitting as a board of equalization, ha.d it yielded to the pressure from the railroad attorneys and tax agents. As a matter of Justice and equity, the assessment for 1905 should have been made what it was in 1003, for the full value of these termi nals, based on estimates made by the railroad engineers and experts under oath in the courts in the maximum rate cases and in other cases where the rail roads themselves submitted exhibits of the value of their terminals and depot grounds in Omaha. The proposed amendment to the county bridge law. Introduced in the lower bouse by Representative Kyd of Gage must commend Itself to all who are familiar with Nebraska brldge-bulldlng scandals. It is a matter of notoriety that hundreds of thousands of dollars have been filched from the pockets of Nebraska taxpayers by corrupt manipu lation of county boards and crooked con struction of bridges. The worst of these bridge construction grafts have been In Douglas and Lancaster counties, and, while they are not likely to be re enacted for some time to come, It is eminently proper that they should be forestalled by legislation. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. That we have more district judges in Nebraska and more court reporters and more court bailiffs than are needed to take care of the judicial business of the state calls for no proof, but we have bad so many propositions in. succession to re duce the number by redlstrictlng that the people will have to be shown before they will regard the effort In earnest The administration of justice can be made less costly without In any way impairing it but the reduction cannot be made except by cutting out a lot of Boft berths now occupied by judges, re porters and bailiffs. A bill Introduced by Congressman Hepburn to carry out the president's recommendations for railroad rate regu lation will bear close watching. Jim Hill might as well prepare a bill to pre vent railroad mergers. Hope (or Troubled Hankers. Washington Post. Mr. Carnegie will pay the losses of the student and "other worthy sufferers" who had money In the Oberlin bank which waa wrecked by Mrs. Chadwlck. Every banker who bit will doubtless try to prove that he Is a "worthy sufferer." Provocation for Radical Lawi, Springfield Republican. The announcement that Mr. Rockefeller's fortune will reach a round billion of dollar within a few years, at the preaent rate oi increase, Is calculated to help the move ment for the extermination of the aecret railroad rebate. Nearly everyone nowaday knows the relation between the rebate ano the establishment of the Standard Oil monopoly. Mat to the Railroad Siren. New York Bun. Why, then, all thia hullabaloo about fed eral control, regulation and adjustment ot railway rartes? Irft the law against recog nised evlla be enforced, and If It la no strong enough let It be strengthened. Ie yond that, no action Is needed. General competition may be relied upon to prevent extortion. A-rallway thai robs Its patrons will get little patronage and will find Its extortion only a form of suicide. The Peualoa Grind. Cleveland Plain Dealt-r. How very much the pension abuse la can be seen from the fact that on last Saturday the bouse of representatives punned no lea than 459 prlvato pension bill and took only an hour and three-quarter to do the trtv.k. In Other words, they wers passed at the rate of seventeen bill In four minutes, or about fourteen seconds for each bill. That performance mut have come pretty close to the record. Of course most of these bills are log-rolled through committee, and the committee report Is generally accepted without pretense of discussion and simply as a matter of form. The perfunctory na ture of the ccnslderatlon which thee bills receive Is disclosed by the fact that It wn discovered after this last batch of measures had been approved that five of the bene ficiaries had died in the meantime. A Practical Statesman. New York Tribune. Prfeldent Roosevelt Is a practical states man In the best sense of that much abused word 'practical." Realizing that there would be no possible chance for a measure reducing southern representation In conpre.'S to pass the senate, with It un limited debate privileges, he has not favored such attempts, and Is not likely to do so. lie may have other and valid rea son for this attitude, but the one men tioned is sufficient. The Effacenient of William J. Chicago Chronicle. Nothing could more impressively teach the complete pffaccnient of William J. Bryan from the public mind than tho com plexion of tho Nebriska state legislature. Mr. Bryan attempted to make it a fusion legislature that would eli-ct him to the United States senate, hut only nine fuslon Ists were elected, and even they cannot agree on a candidate upon whom to be stow he questionable honor of their vote In the Joint session for the election of a senator. Tito of n Kind. Philadelphia Record. Mormon Bishop Connelly has denounced persons who betrayed tho Endowment house oaths In the Smoot Investigation ns traitors, and he added that he "had known traitor to be shot." But this was not a threat, or an expression of approval of the shooting. Far from It. Governor Pen nypaukcr said he' had known a newspaper man to be shot, but lie waa inexpressibly rained to have tho licentious press con strue this as a threat, or an expression of approval of the shooting. Washington 1 rleased. Washington Star. The Nebraska lcglt-lature promoted Rep resentative Buikett to be senator from that state, and so, ufter March 4 next, tho dis trict will lose hi service on the appro priation committee of the houe, where he has acted for several year with Intelligent appreciation of the real needs of the capi tal. But in this translation to the upper houso Mr. Burkett will carry with him all the knowledge he has gained as to local conditions, aa a result of his work In the framing of district appropriation bills, and Washington will find him a sensible and Justly considerate a legislator there as he has proved to bo In the house. Nebraska Is to be congratulated upon having made so excellent a choice for the senate, and espe cially upon taking for that post one of Its trained representative In the lower house, whose experience In parliamentary proce dure and personal standing In congreas will at once enable him to prlay an active part in tho proceeding of the upper chamber. The Tari AC on Lumber, Century Magazine. On our northern border Is a country of Inexhaustible timber, able and eager to supply our wants. And yet, for the en richment of a comparatively few, we pre fer at enormous expense to destroy our own supplies at many a point to "make a solitude and tall it peace." The de struction of forest in Minnesota, Wiscon sin and Michigan, . New York and New England by fire and for the need of con struction and, latterly, .for wooilpulp Is alarmingly on the, increase. Against such Influence the conservative tendencies of forest reservation In the far west, tree planting and clentlno cultivation and cutting, seem to be like "saving at the spigot and wasting at the bung." It Is high time that congress ahould look at this subject in truer perspective and should re member that it duty 1 to legislate not merely for it constituents today, but for generation to come who are to preserve and defend the idea for which thl repub ilo stand. PROGRESS OP IRRIGATION. Review of the Work Accomplished I'nder the L,aw. Philadelphia Public Ledger. Aa the government I about beginning practical operation upon one of the largest of tho irrigation projects to be undertaken under national authority that on the North Piatt river in Wyoming and Ne braskait may be of interest to consider the preaent statu of Irrigation in the United States. While the reclamation of land for agricultural purpose ha been practiced in America for more than a thousand years long before written record of it history begin a new era will un doubtedly date from the passage of the national Irrigation act by the last congresa, and a marvelous transformation In the 'arid and semi-arid region of the country may confidently be looked for aa a result of that legislation. ' Although the act was passed early In 1902, the Intervening period ha been oc cupied In extending the Investigation and working up the valuable data previously begun and collected by the geological sur vey, so that the year 190s will naturally be the date from which to make compari son. Perhaps with thl object In view, the Census bureau of the Department or Commerce and Labor ha Just Issued a special bulletin on the subject, bringing the figure of the twelfth census up to 1902. From thl compilation It appear that In that year 134,086 farm, comprising 9,487,077 acres, were1 under, irrigation, and that the greater part of thl area nearly 8,500,000 acre waa In the arid part of the west These engineering work, though costing to construct more than $77,430,000 for the arid region and more than 15,300,000 for the semi-arid section and In the rice fleins of the southwest, have meant In tha first case the conversion of worthies desert Into farm land which are producing crop of an annual value greater than the total construction cost of dams, canals and ditches. It ha been estimated that 60,- 000 000 additional acres In the arid state are capable of reclamation through Irriga tion. When It Is remembered that the Increase of Irrigation In the thirteen year between 1SS9 and 1908 amounted to 21 per cent ana over; that this meant an addition to the national resources of a crop-producing area greater than Massachusetts and Connecti cut combined: that the success of recent efforts ha stimulated Interest, led to the development of Improved methods and ma chinery, and to the solution of difficult problem of water storage and diversion; and that greater desert tracts once re mote are now traversed by railways whose Interest It is to open them to settlement, predictions of unprecedented progress in the near future do not seem either extrava gant or unreasonable. Nor are the benefits of Irrigation con. fined solely to the arid states: Its utiliza tion In rice culture, particularly in Texaa and Louisiana, Increased ' In the thirteen year 141 per cer, with the propped of making this country before many ear an exporter of this cereal instead cf an Importer; while even In the humid states fhttre I an Increasing recognition of the value of Irrigation work in Intensive cul tivation. ... APOSTLE BRAMOA. WTi T There Was Only One Irishman la the Mormon Hierarchy. To studmts of racial tendencies and re ligious movement tha marked absenoe of Irishmen from the Mormon church ha been a source of wonder and Interroga tion. This absence Is conspicuous In the lay and clerical divisions of the church of Brigham Toung. The average Irishman Is presumed to be as gallant as any apostle fhat ever laved his limbs in the Jordan, and he loves the fair sex one at a time with strong and enduring devo tion. Some believe that early training and later experience anchored the conviction that man can get too much of a good thlog. Other assign as a reason the Irishman's pronencss to mirth and Joyous ness, traits which would seriously mar appreciation of the responsibilities of pro viding for and keeping the peace In a fam ily of half a dozen or more wives. Tha real reason is based on different gTounds, hitherto unsuspected, but sup ported by such credible evidence a to re move It from the shadow of doubt. The details of the historic episode ex plaining why there are no Irishmen In tha Mormon church conies from Secretary of the Navy Morton, through tho Philadel phia North American. Secretary Morton got his Information from "Bucky" O'Neill, the Intrepid Rough Rider, who was killed In Cuba. O'Neill waa a newspaper writer when Secretary Morton knew him, and claimed to be the only newspaper man who had ever obtained an interview from Hrlgliam Young, the then head of the Mormon church. Secretary Morton met O'Neill In a stage coach. In which he was traveling between two small towns in the remotely settled section of the far west. Tho two became friendly, and the conver sation turned upon the Mormon church. "Do you know," asked O'Neill, "why there are no Irishmen among the Mor mons?" The secretary admitted hi ig norance and O'Neill continued: "That Is one of the Questions I asked Brigham Young, and ho explained the matter to me In considerable detail." O'Neill then proceeded to tell this story: Casting his mental vision about, as a wise and far-sighted head of a church or ganization should do, Brigham Young saw the possibility, as he thought, of strength ening MormonlBm by making converts among the Irish. That race of people, he thought, would afford a fruitful field for missionary effort and vastly strengthen hi organization If ho could get them started In tha right direction. Brigham sent a number of his leading missionaries to Ireland, with instruction to select a man there who would serve as a leader of Irish sentiment In favor qf Mor monlsm, and who could be counted upon to exert a potent influence among hi own people If he were once converted to the Mormon faith. Young's agents picked out a man they thought would fill tha bill In all particulars. He was strong mentally and physically. In addition he was prac tical and listened readily to the proposi tions the Mormons had to make to him and the purposes It was expected to accom plish through him. Ills name was Branlgan. As a result of the negotiations Branlgan agreed to Join the church, and left Ireland, accompanied by the missionaries. When the party reached New- York the missionaries telegraphed to Young that Branlgan had refused to start for Utah un less It were promised him that he should be a deacon In tha church. i Young replied that Branlgan should have the office he desired. At Omaha Branlgan struck again. "He Insists that he shall be made an elder," Branlgan' escort telegraphed to Brigham Young "Make him an elder then," said Young. , Branlgan had been In' Salt Lake, ac quainting himself with the way of the Mormons and the duties he was himself expected to perform only about six months, when he announced that he wanted to be a bishop. Brigham Young and aJl the member of the Mormon hierarchy pro tested. But Branlgan was obdurate. If ha were expected to convert the Irish people to Mormontsm he must have high office, he said. Otherwise he could not and would not do anything. Neither threat nor arguments moved him In the slightest degree. He would be a bishop, or ttfe deal was off. Reluctantly Brigham Young and the other Mormon leader surrendered and Branlgan wa In stalled as a bishop of the church. Brigham Young, In relating the story to O'Neill, said It wa very probable Branl gan would have been contented with, the office of bishop had not bad luck Inter vened to further arouse hi ambition. Just at this-unfortunate Juncture, one of the twelve apostles, who act a the adviser of the president of the church and share his authority, happened to die. Branlgan, on the spot,' Immediately de clared himself a candidate for the vacant apostleshlp. He met tho protests and threat of Young and hi coadjutor with the same stolid stubbornness as before. He must be an apostle or there would be no convert among the Irish to MormonUm. The church again surrendered. Branlgan wa made one of the chosen twelve', and Brigham Young began to figure upon the possible results of his rapid elevation, be lieving that at last Branlgan would go to work. He wa therefore horrified when, In a re markably brief period, Branlgan Informed him that he expectel to be a candidate for the presidency of the church aa soon a Young himself was prepared to make the place vacant. Then Young saw that steps must be taken to get rid of Branlgan. Accordingly, he commissioned him to go west to collect tithes from the Mormon working In the goldfleld of California, and to convert such Irishmen a he happened to meet. Branlgan went forth gaily and cheerfully. For more than a year Brig ham Young heard nothing from him. Then returning Mormon began to tell atorle of Branlgan' activity upon the Pacific coast, especially In the collection ot tithe. The president of the rhnmh ..... Vt xintyvtj wrote him a letter rebuking him for hi mence ana reminaing nun that he had not only been sent nut ta work for tha h..... but that he had been commissioned to col lect -nine ror tne iora." In due time Young received Branlgan' answer. He wrote In a spirit of brotherly lOVe. discussed the annait nt Mnnnnl. In the west, the prospect of the church mm umer vuDjecis, ana at the vry con clusion of hi missive, said: "A for the tithes I have been collecting a an agent of the Lord, I hava only thia to nay. The Lord can have them any time He call upon me for them. I can see n reason for turning the mover t an ik of His agent." Since then, according to Bucky O'Neill's version of Brigham Young's tatement, a. handed down through Secretary Morton, no Irishmen have been admitted to the Mor mon church or asked to enter It. Secretary Morton adds to the story the statement that Branlgan died a wealthy man in California a few years ago. He al ways maintained that the basis of his for tune he waa holding In trust for the Tord, having collected It a one of the Lord' agents, duly commissioned by the Mormoti church. The Color Mae In Kansas. Chicago News. It Is Interesting to learn that Booker T. Washington Is good enough to be Invited to address tha Kansas legislature, but not good enough to b admitted to an ordinary Kansas tavern. PERJOItll, ROTES, President Roooevelt has accepted an In vitation to be present at the commence ment exercises of William colli ge In June. John Maynard Harlan Is again a candi date for mayor of Chicago and appear to have a cinch on the republican nomination. J. Plerpont Morgan has donated lio.noo to the Catholic University of America, and Senators Elk'.ns and Aldrich have also made donatlors. Among the recent Austrian to leave for America Is the elrgant young Baron Roger Morpurgo, who left debts amounting to 600,000 crowns behind him. Snow ha fallen In Oregon this month for the first time In two years; In Rome for the first time la ten year and In the City of Mexico for the third time in half a century. All the world seems to bo getting a taste. Theodoro Sandford has been a justice of the peace in Bellevue. N. J for fifts'-two years and now at the ags of W Is still In the harness. His ancestors have been con nected with the Industrie and public affalra of New Jersey since IRtiS. Elizabeth Duse, daughter and only child of Mme. Eiconora Duse, the Italian trage dienne, has entered an English college devoted to the study of farming and hor ticulture. Slgnorlna Duse l only 17 years old. To her mother's grrnt Joy she has shown no desire for stage life. Lord Minto mada somewhat of a sensa tion In a speech In London on Tuesday In which ha said that "Canada Is tired of receiving nothing but a bucket of cold wuter," and continued that tho United States was seeking reciprocity with Cnn ada In the hope of stealing It away from Great Britain. Constable W. D. Currence of Valley Head, near Klklns, W. Va., was S2 years and 8 months old last week, when he went to Klkins to lake the oath of office as con stable of Mingo district for the fourth term, having already served twelve ycara. "Uncle Billy," as he Is familiarly known. ; still gets over the mountains of his dis trict ns spry as ever and brings thn of fenders of law to Justice in short order. A man with a dubious check recently drifted Into the banking house of Henry Clews. The cashier regretted he did not know hlni. The man becamo Indignant and finally reached Mr. Clews' private ofilce. Ho represented himself as the proprietor of a enfo on upper Broadway. Mr. Clew was sorry, but he knew no such cafe. "I sup pose you have been up Broadway as far as my place," said the man with the cheek. "I don't know," said Mr. Clews. "I've been up Broadway as far as Al bany." TALKING FOR KFKEtT. Railroad Manager In Constitutional Hot Air. New York Tribune. We dearly love to see a railroad presi dent taking refuge in the views of "the fathers" against threats of legal restraint upon corporations, and President Tuttle of the Boston & Maine railroad furnishes no exception to the rule. Anybody who thinks he has got free from the annoyance ot law, only to find that law grow and catch up with him, almost always discover that the law, by a process of degeneration and usurpation, hns been perverted to use un dreamed of by an earlier and better gen eration. So with President Tuttle. He op poses rate regulation by the federal gov ernment. Consequently In an address on Sunday he took high constitutional ground against the prevailing conception of federal power over Interstate commerce. HI remark are thus reported In the dis patches: "He did not think ha had been or could be shown that the maker of the constitu tion ever had any other thing In mind In connection with the delegation to congress of the power to regulate Interstate com mercial relation than a well defined Intent forever to prevent the erection by any state of any customs, tariffs or other bar rier that ahould be an obstruction to the free current of commerce." Now, there Is doubtless something In that, but are we to understand Mr. Tuttle as wishing to limit the power of the national government with reference to commerce to those activities which were conceived of a necessary In 1787 T I he willing that hi railroad shall have no standing in the United States courts to protest against any state oppression which does not take the form of a tariff or other barrier such a he describes? If we are going back to primitive times to free the railroads from federal control, we must go back there also to deprive them of federal protection. When the constitution was formed the team railroad had not been dreamed of. Interstate commerce was carried on In small sailing vesels and road wagons. Any body who wanted to engage In It could do o freely. The road waa there and the navigable water waa there, and a cart or boat could be easily had. No carter or skipper could hold two state at hi mercy, or fix offhand the conditions gov erning their commercial growth. The rail road ha changed all this. It I a natural monopoly. With It the Incidents of Inter state commerce known to the founder of the nation disappeared. The danger to the free current of commerce foreseen by them became of no Importance, but new danger arose of which they had no vision because the Instrument of those par ticular evil had not then been Invented. They did not know that by rebates, draw back and secret understanding the rail road having the monopoly of Interstate oommerc could more effectually interfere with Its free current than any state coula do by tariff duties. The supreme court in 1877, in the Penia- cola Telegraph company case, laid down thl rule: "Tha power of congress are ES You walk with her, you rock her, you give her sugar, you try all kinds of things I But she coughs all through the long night, just the same ! No need spending another night this way. Just a dose or two of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral will soothe the throat, quiet the cough, insure a good night's rest. Ask your doctor about the wisdom of your keeping this remedy in the house, ready for these night coughs of the children. Doctors have the formula. They know all about this medicine. Kate by th. t O. Art O., Leweu, auM BMMUturr ml .TOR'S Bar Y100-Faf th h Alfctt'S naaAaraJULLa-yM U Ums. not confined to the Instrumentalities ot commerce known or In use when the con stltutlon wa adopted, but keep pace with the progress of the country." Accordingly at that time It bl1 t1'graph line fre from state control, though obviously ths notion of a telegraph line never dawned on the constitutional convention. If now Mr. Tuttle Is goh-ig back to eighteenth century conceptions, he must give over to local spoliation the telegraph companies, be must let the agrarians or socialists who can gain control of a particular state work their will on the railroad without federal Inter ference based on the Interstate commerce) provisions of the constitution. If congress Is literally and exactly to restrict Itself to the control of commerce considered neces sary at the beginning. It will only prevent the lmpcsltlon of tariffs at tate boundaries and religate the modern Instrumentalities of Interstate commerce to the tender mer cies of the stales. Resppnslbtllty Implies power, and, If Mr. Tuttle denies power to the national government, ha cannot, of course. Invoke Its protection. As early ns ls:4 chief Justice Marshall, In the case of Clil.bons ngalnst Ogden, gave, vitality to the Interstate commerce) clause of the constitution when he reversed Chan cellor Kent's decision holding that C.ibbon could not navigate the Hudson river under I a coasting trade license because of the mo nopoly ( stenmlMMit navigation In New York waters given by tho slate to Robert Fulton and acquired by Ogden. From that time on federal authority ha been con strued aa adequate to the control of Inter state commerce In all Its changing form. Mr. Tuttle will have to make a long Jour ney backward to renoh his Ideal of federal impotence, and as he traverse the way h will find the railroad corporations a.'klng the liberal interpretation of federal power to protect them from local wrong a often ns he will find private persons Invoking It against railroad abums. If his rule of law prevailed, the corporations would fall the victims vf commercial anarchy. PSIt I'lKMAVIBlEt, "They say that men ot gi-nlus wrote most Illegible." "les," answered the olil-tlnte printer. "Thai In where tiny y.ero slirewl. They owo sonin of the brightest thlngx to tha Ingenuity mid originality of ilie composi tor." Washington Ktur. Coiighy Why Is a tisk bookkeeper In a tea stoio uiiillng up his hills like u Woman' Christian Temperance union woman? Ground lia In a tva-totalvr. ltrooklyn Eiile. "Did tho old man cut Jim off with a shniing?'' "A shilling? By gum, he r irly cut him off with an ax!" t levelund Plain Dealer. Little Brown Belligerent I thought you were my friend. Vet you anj furnishing nrms and ammunition to tho honorable enenij-! Ills Hoimst Ally Hist! Not n word! I am selling them to him so that you can capture them and get the stuff for nothing, don't you know! Chicago Tribune. Diogenes was asked why he had ceased his finest for nn honest man and lingered all day in his homelike tub. "What is the use'.''' he returned, pessi mistically. "Thniiiaa W. I.awson won't be born for mom thnn a thousand years yet." With that he blew out his lantern. Puck. Babel had Just been seized with the con fusion of tongues. "It Is very simple." explained the sporting editor. "Thy sre merely speaking golf, auto, horse and hockey." As In those benighted days people still used the ordinary vernacular, the result may be imagined. New York. Sun. "Here, you two!" yellet the stevedore, "handle thnt gunpnwdtr careful!" "What's tho matter wld It?" demanded Casey and Reilly In one breath. "Don't you know some of that sam powder exploded a co-ul of years ago and Mowed np ten men?" "Sure, that couldn't happen now," re plied Casey. "There's only two of us here." Philadelphia Catholic Standard. MARY S 'IX ART AS A PORT. A recently discovered essay by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, published for th first time In Harptr's Magazine for Feb ruary, recalls that In one year after her marriage the young queen, Mary Stuart, beheld herself an orphan and a widow. Th news of her mother' death reached her at the very moment when her husband was expiring In her arms. She wrote the fol lowing poem, which Longfellow translates thus from the French: In accenta sad and low, And tones of soft lament, ' I breathe the bitterness of wof". O'er this sad chastisement. With many a mournful sigh The days of yoilth steal by. Was e'er such stern decree Of unrelenting fate? Did merciless adversity i E'er blight so fair a state ' As mine, whose heart and ey In bier and coffin He? What In the gentle spring And blossom of my years,. Must bear misfortune's piercing sting; Badness, and grief, and tears; Thoughts that alone Inspire Regret and soft desire. What once was blithe and gay Changed Into grief I see; The glad and glorious light of day Is darkness unto me. The world the world, ha nought That claim a passing thought. Deep In my heart and eye A form and Image shine. Which shadow forth wan misery On this pale cheek of mine. Tinged with the violet blue. Which Is Love' favorite hue. Where'er my footsteps stray, In mead or wooded vale, Whether beneath the dawn Of day. Or evening twilight pale. Still, still my thoughts ascend, j To my departed friend. " If towards his home above I raise my mournful sight, I meet his gentle look of lovs In every cloud of white; V But straight the watery clou Changes to tomb and shroud. When midnight hovers near, And slumber seals mine eyes, His voice stll whispers In mine eaff His form beside me lie. In labor. In repoBe, My heart hi presence know. ATYt'f PtLtS yf onetlratles. ATSJt't AOUa COUr-SW SialaiiS f ftfaS. AH 4 fi