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Notary Public.
The sparks from Manchuria and Tort
Arthur Doem to hare ignited at St.
Petersburg.
In taking over the Dominican customs
houses In order to pay governmental
debts Uncle Sum is proving true to name.
Senator Smoot believes in Jatter day
revelations but has little sympathy with
those who reveal endowment house mys
teries.'. ' ' '
New state offices are still multiplying.
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.
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