Tnn OMAHA DAILY DEE: MONDAY. MAKCII 27, 1903.
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The legislature Is now entering the
home stretch.
.' It will take a muster plumber to stop
all the leaks In the court house and
county hospital.
The commodity rate bill was a small
plum, but even that has been denied
by the legislature.
The scramble for the councllmnnlc
vacancy will begin In dead earnest Im
mediately after the legislature adjourns.
The Board of Education has discov
ered that It Is needlessly alarmed over
the alleged defects In the revised
charter..
At last accounts the binding twine bill
was badly tangled with a conference
committee strenuously trying to undo
the knots.
yl Eastertide would be the most appro
, prlate time Utter all to celebrate the
; restoration of peace on ' earth among
hitherto warring nations. ,
- All anti-pass "bills may have been
killed by the legislature, but that Is no
assurance "that they will not be more
alive than ever when the next legisla
ture meets.'
Senator Warner volunteers the Infor
mation that be is squarely with Roose
velt on the question of railroad regula
tion and trust repression. That's the
way to talk.
, One of the bright Hashes of humor in
the eastern war is the announcement by
General Llnevitch that the Japanese
cannot travel as fast as the Russians
when going toward Siberia.
There are now said to be thirteen can
didates for -the' vacant place' in the
Omaha city council. That is sure to
mean bad luck to at least twelve of
them and possibly to all thirteen.
- The Auditorium is to have a new
tage and curtain. A new tile roof to
protect the structure against conflagra
tion would be much more desIrableMn
fact it has become an imperative necessity.
i The big committee on public affairs
ct the reorganized Commercial club has
bad something referred to it, presumably
Just to find out whether the committee
can be expected to get together on anything.
( All legislative reapportionment bills
Lave been killed and Douglas county,
with an eighth of the population of Ne
braska, will continue to be represented
. in the legislature by one-eleventh of the
membership.
. That plan to. connect the democratic
clubs of New York and Chicago by tele
, phoue on the occasion of the Jefferson
.day banquet may be a scheme to make
former Candidate Tarker sorry be prom
ised to speak. '
. Governor Hoch announces that the
new warship Kansas will be christened
. with crude Kansas oil. If the Intention
. Is carried out the memory of that ctarls-
i toning will linger longer in the nostrils
of the participants than any previous oc
casion of similar character.
The United States attorney for the dls
trlct of .Nebraska Is to bave a band in
the grand jury Investigation Into the
Beef trust now In progress In Chicago
If the predecessor of the present In
cumbent were only still in office what a
lot of grandstand play we would have.
The passage of the Dodge amendment
to ttie constitution whereby future legts
latum would be forever barred from
protecting patrons of railroad, telegraph
and telephone companies' unjust dis
crimination and extortion would be a
fitting cHinax of shameless subserviency
to public. carriers by the majority of the
present legislature
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MEDIA TIUS FIRST,
In a recent conference between Presi
dent Roosevelt and representatives of
organized labor, Including four Interna
tional presidents of labor organizations
and three International secretaries, Mr.
Roosevelt said: "Mediation before a
strike is far better than arbitration
after." Om of the labor leaders who
was present at the conference Is quoted
as saying that this made a powerful Im
pression on every member and be
thought it would 1 the means of ad
justing amicably many of the troubles
of organized lalor.
The wisdom of the president's sugges
tion should certainly be recognized by
all who are connected with labor or
ganizations and there can be no doubt
that If It were generally heeded conflicts
between labor and capital could In many
cases be averted and the cause of In
dustrial pence be greatly promoted. If
when labor has a grievance It would
consent to submit It to mediation before
having recourse to a strike very many
conflicts which are costly to both par
ties could be avoided and such a course
on the part of labor would insure for it
public sympathy, without which ltr can
rarely be successful. After a strike has
been entered upon arbitration becomes
difficult, for the obvious reason that
both parties to the controversy are
angry nnd a militant disposition has
been created which It Is not easy to con
trol. The forces of both capital and
labor having assumed a fighting attitude
and declared a purpose to carry on hos
tilities, neither is thereafter disposed to
listen to proposals of arbitration and
consequently It Is only very rarely that
they can be Induced to arbitrate their
differences. Tasslon lias been aroused,
antagonism has been Intensified, ench
party Is imbued with a determination
to fight to the end. Such ft situation, as
all the history of labor conflicts attests,
presents but little. chance for arbitra
tion. The challenge to battle having
been made and accepted, neither side Is
willing to recede from the position It
has taken, lest It thereby imply a sense
of the weakness of Its cause.
An appeal to mediation before a strike
Involves no such admission. Jt simply
recognizes the principle that every Issue
or controversy Is capable of an amicable
adjustment and that It Is the duty of
the parties to It, In the general Interest.
to seek such adjustment. If this were
more generally recognized alike by or
ganized labor and capital. It Is not to be
doubted that It would make very
strongly for the cause of Industrial
peace, and It Is needless to point out'
what tiffs would mean for capital and
labor, and therefore for the general wel
fare. The greatest danger to national
prosperity Is In the possible conflicts be
tween the working forces and those who
employ therh. How to avert such con
flicts Is a question of supreme Import
ance. Unquestionably much can be done
In this direction by following the sound
and sensible suggestion of Mr. Roose
WHAT OMAHA SHOULD NOT DO.
Omaha newspapers, Omaha merchants,
Omaha manufacturers, Omaha bankers
and Omaha real estate dealers bave
evolved volumes of advice as to what
Omaha should do to be more prosperous,
more v populous, more progressive and
more beautiul. A few stray thoughts
as to what Omaha should not do may
not, therefore, be out of place at this
time.
First and foremost, Omaha should not
lull Itself to sleep with the idea that it
will be able to make headway In com
merce and industrial growth in its race
with energetic, progressive commercial
rivals unless it keeps itself in trim to
combat aggressively Its foothold in the
territory commercially tributary.
Having given away valuable fran
chises and concessions worth hundreds
of thousands of dollars to public utility
corporations , and railroads within the
past quarter of a century, Omaha should
abstain from granting more franchises
or valuable rights-of-way without roy
alty or d.ue compensation. ,
Having passed the 100,000 population
milestone, Omaha should not allow itself
to-be checked and handicapped in its
progress and growth by the clamor of
political grafters and tax-eaters banded
together to prevent the annexation of
territory properly part of Omaha. The
trend of the twentieth century Is toward
expansion of population centers and the
merger of the cities and towns that have
a common Interest in simplifying mu
nicipal government and reducing . ex
penditures incidental In its maintenance
on modern lines.
Omaha, as a city, has sown its wild
oats and should now turn mature per
ception with clear vision to the solution
of problems by which it is confronted
and not allow itself to be buncoed by
charlatans and hoodwinked by mounte
banks who seek popularity with fake
nostrums under pretext of Imperative
reform.
OIL THV8T INVESTIGATION.
Reports from Washington state that
the president is not well pleased with
the disposition ou the part of certain
citizens of Kansas to dictate how the
Investigation shall be made Into the oil
situation in the state and whom the
president shall select to direct the In
quiry. He will Ignore the public criti
cism that has appeared In newspapers
as emanating from the oil producers of
Kansas. One dispatch says that the
publication of the proposed communica
tion from the oil producers to the presi
dent Is regarded at Washington as little
short of an Impertinence, but It will of
course make uo difference as to the
prosecution of the Investigation, which
It Is the purpose to make as thorough
as possible.
The opinion is expressed that the
Ksusas producers have prejudiced their
case at the very outset by their attack
upon Commissioner Garfield. Whether
or not such is the rase, there Is uo good
reason for questioning the fitness and
Integrity of the chief of the bureau of
corporations. He Is entirely competent
for the work and his honesty la unim
peachable. Mr. Garfield has the Im
plicit confidence of the president and
nobody, even In Kansas, can be more
anxious than Mr. Roosevelt to have the
Investigation of the Oil trust made com
prehensive and thorough. It Is the duty
of the commissioner of corporations to
conduct the Investigation fairly, honestly
and without prejudice and It Is not to be
doubted that this will be done.
OET-IilCH-QVICK FHAUD8.
There will always be people who can
le Induced, by the persuasive arpeals
of the unscrupulous, to Invest their
money in schemes which the promoters
promise will give large returns and
which the credulous victims bejieve to
be square and honest A short time ago
a "get-rlch-qulck" concern In New York
that had carried on a swindling plan for
a considerable period was exposed and
it was found that hundreds and hun
dreds of people all over the country had
been victimized, the losses of these peo
ple amounting in the aggregate to hun
dreds of thousands of dollars, ninny of
those who had intrusted their money to
the fraudulent concern being beggared.
The scheme by which the unscrupulous'
scoundrels carried on the swindle was
fully exposed, but It Is doubtful If the
lesson was generally noted.
Last week a similar fraud was ex
posed In riillndelphia, where It was
found that a so-called Investment
bureau, which had promised great re
turns for money placed with It, wns ut
terly worthless and had taken several
hundred thousand dollars from people
who could III afford to lose It. This
swindling concern was placed in the
hands of a receiver, who found very
little In the way of assets, but discov
ered a mass of appeals from Investors
for their money, some of these being de
scribed as most pathetic in character.
A large number of them were from
women who had invested the savings of
a lifetime with the concern and who
begged for the return of their money to
meet pressing wants. Koine were from
old men who are beggared by the loss
of their money and will be forced to re
sort to charity for their maintenance. It
Is stated that the customers of the con
cern were mostly aged men and women
and It Is not difficult to understand what
the losses to such people mean. In many
cases they had entrusted to the fraud
ulent concern all they possessed In
money nnd consequently many of them
are left in destitution.
If this were a new sort of swindle it
might reasonably be expected that its
exposure would put a stop to such fraud.
but the number of credulous and gul
lible people who can be allured by the
promises of great returns for their
money is so large that it Is too much to
expect that there will not be like frauds
In the future with an army of victims.
There are tens of thousands who are
not satisfied with a slow accumulation
of money and It is to these that thc'"get-
rlch-qulck" swindlers appeal. Their
success shows that there Is still a host
of those who Justify the adage regard
ing the parting of the fool and his
money.
While the Kansas oil field Is attracting
a great deal of attention just now, the
Wyoming oil field, which is much more
extensive, is being quietly developed and
will soon be in active competition with
the petroleum of Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Kansas and Texas, art! an opening will
be afforded to capitalists. It la only a
question of time when Omaha will be
connected with the Wyoming field, as
well as the Kansas field, by pipe lines
that will make this city one of the prin
cipal distributing points.
Tom Watson's magazine promises an
early contribution from that flower of
Nebraska populism, Charles Q. De
France, but not a sign yet of anything
from the picturesque pen of Tom Tib
bies, the old war horse who was yoked
up in double harness with Watson for
the last campaign. Is there an estrange
ment between these two popullstic
headlights?
It begins to look as If the English lib
erals would have as much trouble in
making the new "fiscal policy" an Issue
In the present campaign as the demo
crats did In trying to raise the issue of
"imperialism" In this country in 1004,
and the reason is about the same the
party in power will not deny the ob
vious truth just because the opposition
desires it.
Unless all signs fail, Omaha is destined
to make greater material progress as a
city during the year 1905 than in any
previous twelve-month period in the last
dozen years. Omaha Is going straight
to the front and will make Its com
petitors in these parts hump to keep the
pace.
When the Mormons have returned to
Illinois the heart of the local census
taker may be filled with gladness and
the statesmen of the Windy City1 may
come to have as high an opinion of
simultaneous polygamy as they now
seem to have of the consecutive variety.
Governor Folk has vetoed Uie St.
Louis "home rule" bill, proving that the
"reform" governor still believes that he
can rule the city through appointees bet
ter than the people can rule themselves,
and that the old democratic machine
still has influence at Jefferson City.
Oh, Willie, Why Did Yoejl
Mlnneapoila Times.
Buffalo PU1 can now appreciate the feel
ings of a man who has been run over by
a sprinkling cart.
Prolta of the Haslle.
Philadelphia Record.
The gods help those who help themselves.
Japan la helping herself to a piece of the
mainland of Aala, and: Nature has be
stowed a new island upon her.
Hard Han ( Luck.
Portland Oreonlan.
Uncle Bam la huvlng a run of legal hard
luck. He waa mulcted by the Sugar trust
a few days ago In a supreme court decision
which coat him $5,000,000, and now the
Cherokee Indiana have won In a ault In
volving the payment to them of H,&oo,OuO.
"Do, the poor Indian," down on the Chero
kee strip, must be accepted figuratively
and not literally.
Taking? Early Varatloas.
Boston Transcript.
Now cornea the problem of locating van
ishing witnesses In the Beef trust Investi
gation. Of course nobody will be surprised
to find that many of them can afford to
take a vacation whenever they feel like It.
Taking; It Serloaaly.
Washington I'ost.
Judge Parker believes that his recent
participation In national politics bars him
from accepting a nomination for the bench
In New Tork. The judge seems to take
his part In the late unpleasantness more
seriously than the rest of the country did.
Modern Simplicity.
Minneapolis Journal.
When Secretaries Hay, Taft, Bhaw nnd
others were reappointed to their respective
offices they sent for notaries In the depart
ments and took the oath of office without
any fuss or formality. Only one of them
thought to hand the notary freah cigar
after the ceremony. This Is JefTcrsonian
simplicity In modern Washington.
Pralae from Strange Sources, f
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Ex-Senator Pettigrew has spoken In ad
miration of the president and there la a
revival of the suggestion to make It unani
mous for Mr. Roosevelt. Even Governor
Yard a man might be found to be a man of
amiable disposition under proper treat
ment. He la largely the victim of the
meanness of the paragraph writers.
Roosting the Limit.
New York Tribune.
Ir. Wiley of the bureau of chemistry
thinks the ordinary limit of human activity
will soon be ninety Instead of seventy
years. The chief aids to such a result, he
affirms, are heredity, temperance, work
and play In other words, a rational life.
Of these necessary element all except one
heredity are, or should be, within the
Individual's control. Science is adding
greatly to the span of life, and when Its
aid Is supplemented properly by the Indi
vidual centenarians will be so common as
not to excite remark. The difficulty lies
naturally with the human' element In the
factors and the preponderance of Inclina
tion and desire over the reason and Judgment.
SEBHAKKA LK ADS THE WAV.
Commendation for the Act Raisings
the Medical Standard. .
Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Nebraska legislature has ready for
the governor's signature an act providing
that every person who undertakes to heal
disease for money shall have devoted four
years to the study of the subject and have
given proofs of knowledge of It to public
authority.
In the amount of training required this
Is believed to be the highest standard
yet set by any American state. Leading
medical educators are quite generally
agreed that it Is none too high. It seems
entirely reasonable that any one who
undertakes to meddle with so compli
cated and delicate an organism as the
human body shall first acquire adequate
knowledge of it.
The Nebraska law Is commonly spoken
of aa directed against Christian 8olence
healers. Opposition to that form of re
ligious belief may have moved some legis
lators to vote for It. However, sincere
Christian Scientists would seem to have
no logical ground for protest.
Knowledge of the physical mechanism
they seek to adjust, no matter what means
they may use, cannot be harmful either to
healers or to patients. . They may not
use that knowledge, Just as the occullst
does not use In dally practice his knowledge
of general anatomy, yet such knowledge
Is never hurtful and Is often useful to
him and to those whose eyes he treats.
In making no distinction between
"schools" of medicine and methods of
healing, as It apparently does riot, but is
simply requiring that all who take pay
for treating disease shall have devoted
a certain time to the study of the subject
and have given proofs of knowledge of
It, the Nebraska law has adopted a policy
whose fairness will be generally admitted.
It prevents no man who chooses from
risking h's health in the hands of Ignor
ance. It merely says that Ignorance shall
not make money, by representing Itself
to be knowledge.
In striking out the sensible line through
the Jungje of medical practice and In
setting up a high standard for medical
competence, Nebraska appears to lead the
way for American commonwealths.
THE TOKGl'E AS A WEAPON.
Learal Precedent that .Lingered on the
Bench av Moment and Vanished.
Indianapolis News.
It has often been noted that the same
thoughts frequently occur to different peo
ple widely separated in space; that there
is a wave movement in crime which results
in kindred crimes being perpetrated almost
simultaneously, and, In short, that the
human mind works In grooves, so that
there is a sameness In human events, and a
repeating quality In them, both of which
aro remarkable. Only a few days ago we
spoke of a case before an Alabama justice
of the peace, in which the question was
Whether a wooden leg was a weapon. The
decision turned on another point, so the
main point was not decided. But the ques
tion waa presented by able attorneys, and
sooner or later It will have to be decided.
Now comes a story from New Jersey which
Is not greatly different from the Alabama
sory. Police Justice Cook of Madison, N.
J., has JuBt decided a case In which he felt
called on to hold that a woman's tongue
was a concealed weapon, for the carrying
of which she might be fined. Two women,
presumably litigants, began to abuse each
other savagely when they appeared In his
court. Judge Cook bade them "kiss and
make up." They refused, and waxed even
more eloquent in their invective. Then the
judge found them both guilty of carrying
concealed weapons, baaing his ruling on the
"manner In which they handled their
tongues," and fined each woman 10. One
of the women, after having paid her flue,
consulted her lawyer, who appealed to a
higher court, which set aside the conviction
and ordered the return of the fine. Thus
early In lta life waa a great precedent de
stroyed. But nothing (an rob Judge Cook
of the distinction of having tried to formu
late a new legal principle.
The tongue, of course, is, or may be, a
weapon. For we read In the Bible of the
"strife of tongues," and Shakespeare
speaks of being "done to death by slander
ous tongues." Thus far the case Is clear,
and It is to be observed that there is no
distinction between the tongues of men and
women. One analogy may help to a clearer
understanding of the matter, and again the
authority is Shakespeare. "Stabbed with a
white wench's black eye" If so the eye, at
least If tt be black, and belong to a "white
wench" Is a weapon. And If an eye is a
weapon, why not a tongue? The difficulty
that confronts us Is apparent when we ask
ourselves how a woman can help "carry
ing" this weapon, and for the most part
carrying it concealed T It Is In this that the
offense conslHts. If one Is to have a tongue
at all one must carry It; and If one has de
cent manners one must keep It pretty well
concealed. We should think that In the
cose now under consideration the women
hud their tongues less concealed when they
were "lambasting" each other In the court
room than waa usual with them.
STATE PR ESS COMMENT.
Sutton News: Representative Jackson In
formed Senator Foster the other day that
he "had forgotten more In a minute than
you (Foster) ever knew," and the people
are wondering why Mr. Jackson doesn't try
to retain something on his mind.
Kearney Hub: About 99 per cent of the
newspapers of Nebraska, regardless of poli
tics, condemn the legislative and political
free pass. And still there are large num
bers of legislators who profess to believe
that it is "Just newspaper talk." Of course
there are none so blind as those who will
not see.
Albion News: The pass-takers have en
tered upon a pretty big Job If they read
out of the republican party every newspa
per In Nebraska that Is criticising them.
Many If not most of the leading stalwart
republican papers of the state are denoun
cing them In no uncertain tone. Why
shouldn't the republican papers denounce
them when they are wrecking the party
by falling to keep the pledges made to the
people?
Stanton Picket: This editor has not pre
viously favored the election of senators by
a direct vote of tho people. We have
viewed the present system as a sort of bal
ance wheel; as a check upon the people
to save them from their own impetuosity.
The refusal of that body to uphold the
policy of Presidont Roosevelt on the ques
tion of trusts and government control of
railroads, coupled with the Missouri scrap
and Nebraska's similar experience, has
charged our mind.
Tilden Citizen: The state legislature now
In session is apt to prove something of a
disappointment to the republican party.
With a majority that makes the political
complexion of the lower house almost
unanimous from a political standpoint, and
a senate without an anti-republican vote,
possibly too much was expected. But
from the present outlook, the best that can
be hoped for Is that the deliberations
of the legislators will bo productive of no
particular harm to the state at large.
Alnsworth State Journal: One of tho dis
gusted editors of Nebraska announces
that In the future, before supporting a
legislative candidate he will require a
pledgo to the effect that he Is not a pass
taker. He has evidently had a sufficiency
of that sort of candidate and there are
probably a large number of others who
have not expressed their opinions In the
same emphatic manner will be willing to
join In the movement In favor of a legis
lature free from rallroad'influence.
Bradshaw Republican: Wonder if ths
members of the Nebraska state senate
and house of representatives have been
reading the republican country press on
the "free pass" question? If not, it might
be a good plan for them to set apart a day
In which to read and consider them In joint
committee of the whole. After thus con
sidering them they can use their own best
Judgment In regard to the "reading out
of the party" act by resolution or other
wise. Tho republican press of this state
seems to be standing pat pretty generally
on the free pass question if we are uble
to feel the pulse correctly.
Nprfolk News: Tho legislature may And
that there are a great many people in the
state popullstic enough to think that the
business of the state will bo fully as fvell
cared for f the members do not have In
their pockets pastboords entitling them to
privileges such as the railroads appear to
be only too ready to give. Some newspaper
men who give full value for the mileage
they receive in advertising space are some
times Inclined to throw in a liberal allow
ance of principle to make it good measure,
and what may be said of the legislators
who have no way of paying for such favors
other than the service they may give in
their official capacity.
Wood Rfver Interests: The people of Hall
county and especially the farmers will
learn with regret that Speaker Rouse and
Representative Ferrar went wrong when
it tame to voting on the anti-pass bills
in the house, the measure being defeated
by a vote of 45 to 40, and Speaker Rouse
and Mr. Ferrar voting In the majority.
That tho pass system is a most vicious
one and hurtful to the best Interests of the
state is well known by those In a position
to know, and that it is the "man of
cloth" that rides on the pass while the
farmer puts up his 8 cents a mile. How
Speaker Rouso can set himself right with
his "farmer constituency" remains to be
seen. We have known men, when they
got about so high, got dizzy.
Burwell Tribune: A pass may not be
exactly a bribe, but It's a mighty good
thing for members of the legislature to be
deprived of, and so far as this paper is
concerned it will never support for elec
tion a candidate for legislative honors
who will not pledge himself to refuse
passes or other "courtesies" at the hands
of corporations. Legislators are allowed
mileage to and from the sessions and
there Is no good reason why they should
put themselves under suspicion by accept
ing a railroad pass. We have always con
tended that a pass was not a bribe, but
recent events have clearly proven that
while it may not be given or accepted as
a bribe it may be used as a club and in
all events a mighty good thing for those
who are to make our laws to be without.
Ord Quiz: Whatever may be the platform
of any political party, from now on our
platform shall be that no state official, no
judge, no legislator shall accept a pass from
any railroad or accept favor from any
one that would not have been granted him
while yet a private citizen. A pass Is a
bribe, and Is given for the purpose or a
bribe, and any public official who accepts
the pass must either favor the railroad
or not. If he favors the railroad he is un
faithful to the public that elected him.
If he is not influenced by that pass to
favor the railroad he is dealing dishonestly
with the rogue who handed him the pass.
There seems to be no way of defending the
pass user any more than there Is a defense
for the judge who will accept a gift from
one of the litigants at the bur of his
court. Whether or not that Judge is In
fluenced by the gift does not affect Ills
guilt.
Wayne Herald: Gentlemen of the senate
of the sovereign state of Nebraska, 11 Is
barely possible that in ordering the Mockett
roust of the State Journal spread upon
your record, because It voiced your senti
ments in regard to the editorial on the
Ager-Ernst controversy, you performed an
act of wisdom, but we doubt It. When
sufficient time has elapsed to allow your
better judgment to prevail it Is cur humble
opinion that you will be very much ashamed
of that action, and in the duya that are
to come when you learn the opinions of
your honest and unbiased constituency, you
will look upon that act aa being one too
hastily taken. Whatever your Judgment
may have been upon the editorial that so
aroused your indignation, the prevailing
sentiment of those throughout the state
who have closely watched the votes of a
majority of both the senate and house
members. Is that It about expressed the
apparent condition of affairs at our state
capital.
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yellow .dock root, stillingia root, buck
thorn bark, senna leaves, burdock root, cimi
cifuga root, cinchona bark, Phytolacca root.
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genuine medicine, a doctor's medicine.
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ECHOES OF THE WAR,
Some Interesting; Incidents Over
looked hjr the Dispatches.
Confirmation strong as holy writ comes
to the support of the claim that the vic
torious Japanese commanders are distin
guished members of "the fighting race."
The succession of victories they have won
is sufficient to Justify the distinction. Even
Russia concedes It, and who can doubt
when the victim ran for cover? How they
came so far from the land of Brian Horu
was a profound mystery until an Indiana
investigator turned on the light.
The revelation happened at Logansport,
Ind., on St. Patrick's day, and the reve
lator was O. P. Smith, state labor organizer,
member of the Ancient Order of Hibernians
and all-round booster of things Celtic. Mr.
Smith aroused "wild cuthuslasm," we are
told by declaring that the Japanese Gen
erals, Oyama and Oku, were descendants
of Irishmen and still bore the original Irish
names of the families, slightly modified.
"Oyttma is of Irish ancestry," said Smith,
"and his name as orlgiually borne by his
forebears was O'Yama. The original
O'Yama, whose given name was Patrick,
left Ireland during the Elizabethan era for
France, but was shipwrecked in the Bay of
Biscay, and rescued by a Spanish ship
bound for the Philippines. He wus taken
there and cast adrift. His descendants went
to Japan and turned naturally to the career
of fighting men. Intermarriage with tho
natives gave them standing and position
close to the mikado, which was advanced
by their activity In military affairs.
"General Oku's name originally was
O'Koough, who though a military genius
was a poor hand at spellings The rigors of
the Japanese alphabet proved too great
for him and by Imperial edict he was given
permission to cut out a few letters. Thus
the family name became Oku and the sons
and grandsons after many generations fol
lowed the fighting trade."
war as supervisor of nurses of the Red
Crows, with the rank of officer; sent to
many hospitals; and required to make re
ports and recommendations to the Red
Cross society. A Japanese woman, by pro
fession a teacher, had formerly held this
position, but since her death It had been
vacant.
PERSONAL OTE.
Plea for the Simple Life.
Baltimore American.
The world Is at one with the president
In his advocacy of large families, and also
with his enthusiasm for the simple life.
It would be Interesting and Instructive,
however, if he would have something to
say upon the lack of a simple life for the
modern baby, which usually Is forced to
wrestle with all sorts of patent foods and
soothing syrups, and knows nothing of the
delight of the old-faahtoned cradle and
the little trundle bed.
There are two obiectlves for the Jananese
army Harbin and Vladivostok. The for
mer is on the Sungarl river, 640 miles from
Port Arthur and 341 miles from Mukden by
rail and 370 by wagon road. It is 380 miles
west of Vladivostok, 250 miles south of the
Amur river, or rhe Siberian boundary, and
600 miles by rail from the crossing of
the Manchurlan branch of the Siberian rail
road into Russian territory.
Harbin Is a modern Russian city, built to
order under Russian and American super
vision. The Russian government expended
In less than two years 116,000,00 in munici
pal Improvements, warehouses and rallwny
buildings, and $212,000 on army hospitals.
Mukden, Lluo Yang and Tiellng are Chinese
cities with small Russian settlements at
the railway stations. Harbin Is as exclu
sively Russian as Vladivostok or Moscow,
although American, German and English
capitalists have made heavy Investments
there.
General Nogl, idol of the Japanese army,
and twice captor of Port Arthur, isof the
ancient Samurai fighting class of Japan and
for forty years he has served his country
in various capacities in the field. Few great
generals ever went through a sterner no
ltlate than this resolute self-contained, self
mastered and ascetic Japanese general, who
when the war with Russia was declared
was given tho post of honor, the com
mand of the army for the conquest of Port
Arthur. In the Chinese-Japanese war
Nogi's army had captured Port Arthur at
a single assault, losing only eighteen killed
and 262 wounded. His first success raised
hope of perhaps a similar success the sec
ond time among the Japanese people, but
Nogi himself realized the stupendous na
ture of his task, and set himself resolutely
to accomplish it. ,He succeeded, but at
terrible cost, and his achievement has mado
his fame secure "n military annals.
The Red Cross society of Japan is prob
ably, all things considered, the finest or
ganization of the kind In the world, declares
a writer In the Century. It has been grow
ing and Improving constantly since Its
small origin In 1877, and now has nearly
1,000,000 members, an excellent relief or
ganization and large funds. Its methods are
radically different from nny volunteer aid
w have yet seen In America, for Its funda
mental assumption Is that the army knows
Its own business and is competent to attend
to it. Its general attitude, Instead of Imply
ing, "We know the medical department will
break, down in the field, und therefore we
Inslat on going to the front and Into- the
camps to supply its defects," Indicates this:
"The people of Japan appreciate so highly
the work of the medical department that
they ask the privilege of assisting It."
On the contrary, in the Spunlsh-Amerlcan
war we had a multiplicity of amall so
cieties, meaning well, but working blindly
and at cross-purposes, accomplishing good
at an altogether disproportionate cost of
money and labor, and not Infrequently In
terfering with and handicapping the work
of the responsible medical officers.
But In the Jupanese-Russlan war there is
a single great, well-prepared organization,
the ally and assistant of the medical offi
cers, working only where It Is instructed
that It will bs of use, and accomplishing
vast good at a minimum cost.
The Japanese Red Qrosi society la char
acteristic of the nation; for every war,
campaign and great disaster since Its foun
dation has been to its officers a lesson by
which they have profited. In the prevent
War they are always on that alert to dis
cover their defects, to learn how to remedy
them, and to gain new Ideas for improve
ment. It was as one of many means to
attain these ends that some American army
nurses were wanted In the Japanese hos
pitals, where their work could be carefully
observed; and for the same reason the
writer was appointed by the minister of
The new senator from. Massachusetts,
Wlnthrop Murray Crane, receives more
begging letters than any of his colleagues.
Ex-Frcsldent Cleveland hns gone to Flor
ida a-f!shlng. Mrs. Cleveland accompanied
him as far as Princeton Junction, where,
we suppose, she presented him with a little
fishing smack.
Archibald Forder, widely known as ths
"Arabian IJvlngston." for his extensive
travels In Arabia, Is in this country In '
the Interest of the neglected Ishmnclltes
around and beyond the Jordan.
As a reward for twenty-five years of
faithful, distinguished and continuous serv
ice in the consular corps of tho United
States, Consul General Frank II. Mason
will shortly be transferred from Berlin to
Paris.
Milwaukee has a convert to the simple
life In Major Fred Pahst, who owns ths
fluid factory thot made Milwaukee famous.
Major Pabst has retired from business
and will hereafter live In the country, fas
ten his trousers with nails and take his
beer from a meek and lowly can.
Rear Admiral J. A. R. Smith, head of
the steam engineering department of the
Brooklyn navy yard, has been relieved
of duty and will become general Inspector
of nil machinery now under government
contract. He has been stationed, longer
ut tho Brooklyn yard than any other
officer at present there.
Two American women who have Just re
turned from Santo Pomlngo had an audi
ence one forenoon with President Morales,
who apologized for his, appearance,,,. "Ths .
fact Is, ladles," snld he, "I was so very
busy yesterday and. this morning that t
have not had time to be shaved. They
tried to assassinate me, you know, so I .
hope you will overlook my appearance."
PASSING PLEASANTRIES.
"Ooea your husband ever boast of his
mother's cooking?"
"Boast! I should say not. Why. only the
other day I saw him out In the alley play
ing quoits with somp of his mother's dough
nuts." Cleveland Plain Dealer.
"Now that spring Is on the way luxuries
are getting cheaper."
'Think so?"
"Oh, yes. Strawberries, for Instance, are
t as high ns they were."
"No, but the bottom of tho box Is."
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Philadelphia Press.
Elderly Adviser You mustn't make lova
to tho girl In such an ardent, impetuous
way rlslit at the start.
Young Man Why not?
Elderly Adviser Because you 11 be surs
to go stale before the seuson Is over. Chi
cago Tribune..
"Miss Sharpe Vera," ho began, "you
must know why I've been calling here so
much; why I sit here In the parlor with you.
Itipill lllivi nifti'i .... , , ,
"I suppose, Mr. Kloseman, the girl In
terrupted, "It's cheaper to do that than taki
me out anywnere.
Standard.
Philadelphia CathollO
Euclid gave up In despair.
"It Is totally Impossible to square a sew
lng circle," he announced.
Herewith he had to listen to the newest
details of the Jones family skeleton. New
York Sun.
"Mr. Spoonnmoro," she snld, with cutting
scorn, "I wouldn't marry you If you wera.
Worth a million dollars. Is that pluin
eiioi'h?"
"No; it flatters," he replied. - 1
For he wss gazing despairingly at her
portrait on the mantel.
Then he took his hat and his departure
Chicago Tribune.
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offer from me," said the first merchant
"How did you get him to come to you? ' ,
"Perhaps von didn't offer him enough ,
money," replied the shrewd merchant. ,
"I told him his wages would be $10 ,
W"lktold him his salary would be $500 a
year to start." Philadelphia Ledger.
IJOX'T TAKE 'EM OFF.
Chicago Record-Herald.
A word, O fellow rliiziii,
Don't take 'em off!
The storm king may return again
Don't take 'em off!
The morning may I glud and r""i"t.
And. though It seema that spring s iq "Ishi,
You can't tell what may come ere night
Don't take 'em off!
Perhaps 'thev scratch and stick and burn
Don't ftke 'em off!
Too Into is not the time to learn
Don't take 'em off!
The buds will soon begin to sprout.
The lambs ere long will frisk about.
But don't you care you Just look out
Don't take 'em off!
The hearse Is not a lovely thing .
Don't take 'em off!
It's sad to have to die In spring
Don't take 'em off! -
What If the crocue wants to poke
Itself up through the sod and croak?
A word to you. and It's no Joke
Don't take 'cm off!
Girls' and Hisses'
Tailor Mado
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