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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TnTRSPAV. JUNE 22. 1005.
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dress will bo ebaaaed mm often as
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Why not nnnie
United National?
tho tripartite bank
To the State Board of Assessment:
Stop playing horse.
Thut reminds us. What has become
of the tax committee of the lteal Estate
exchange?
Perhaps the Omaha school board
should put In au experimental hippo
drome as a training school for teachers.
THE riMKClAb lyrLCZSCE
Thi'io I no doubt that a powerful
flnnnclsl Influence Is belnjr exerted In the
Interest of pence In the far east. As was
noletl ii month or more ago, the French
financiers, who have lieen the main de
pendence of the Russian government,
unqualifiedly refused to let that govern
ment have any more money for carrying
on the war. They were quite willing to
lend any amount which might be re
quired after peace, but they would not
consider any proposition, however lib
eral, for a loan Intended to continue hos
tilities. The French capitalists, already
carrying an enormous amount of Rus
sian securities, were unwilling to loan
more money to the czar In the face of
what seemed to them a hopeless conflict.
Nowhere else could Russia look, for
money and her home resources have been
practically exhausted.
Such is the present situation. Rus
sian credit was severely hurt by the re
sult of the naval battle and the nearly
universal belief that If another great bat
tle Is fought the Japanese will win a de
cisive victory only serves to still further
wenken ralth in the ability of Russia to
find money to continue hostilities, while
there seems not to be a shadow of doubt
s to the ability of Japan to obtain what
ever money she may need to go on with
the war. Not only are her home re
sources, so far as It appears, far from
exhausted, but her foreign credit seems
to lx perfectly sound, so that she could
robably effect another foreign loan, if
necessary, to continue the war, on more
favorable terms thnn those she has al
ready negotiated. Russia would proba-
ly find It very difficult, If not fmpossl-
blo, to get n loan on any terms, not that
er resources are exhausted, for such Is
not the case, but for the reason thnt her
lready enormous obligations, foreign
nd domestic, Impose so great a burden
upon her people that to increase It would
reate an Intolerable condition and most
certainly Intensify the revolutionary
tendency now so apparent in nearly
every portion of the empire.
There Is not now a money market in
Europe where a proposition for a Rur-
lan loan, on whatever terms It might be
offered, would receive the least consid
eration if the decision of Russia should
Vie to continue the war.. On the other
hand, if peace were to Tie declared the
Russian government would have no diffi
culty in obtaining all the money it might
require.
There is no doubt that the financial
consideration is exerting a very power
ful Influence In behalf of peace. War
fare on the great scale that Ir lelng con
ducted in the far east demands an enor
mous outlay and there Is very good
reason to believe that Russia is no
longer in a position to meet this demand,
This Is undoubtedly the most potent
force that Is making for peace and its
influence Increases from week to week.
Messrs. Hydo and Alexander have
shown that they are "resigned" 'to Mr,
Morton's administration, hut the public
will wait for the reports.
With the Swedish premier and king
for pence, the warriors of Sweden may
save trouble by permitting their steel to
remain in pruning hooks.
Francis Joseph is going to run no
chance of losing Hungary for refusing to
appoint a cabinet even though be must
select one from the minority.
Now that the Twenty-fifth street
boulevard ordinance passed the council
it will he in order for the engineering
department to find the Invisible bound
try line.
There should bo no unnecessary delays
In starting up that city asphalt paring
repair plant. The pay of the appointees
In charge does not commence until the
work begins.
If Japan means to Inaugurate the
"open door" in Manchuria by driving
American business houses from Port Ar
thur It may find that It has learned one
lesson too well.
The increase of $2,100 lu the assessed
mileage valuation of the Union Pacific
may be enough to send the road to the
courts if not enough to satisfy Uie de
mands of strict equality.
Nebraska's oldest citizen has just died
at the ripe old age of 102 years. Ne
braska will take no back seat even for
states which hare histories going back
further than fifty years.
That New York bank which decided
dividends of 120 per cent in addition to
dividends of 115 per cent quarterly will
bava a hard time to prove that it is not
In the "get-rlch-qulck" clnss.
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Slnet the offenders first convicted are
to be used as on object lesson for all
tha stockmen who have illegally fenced
public land, the others may consider
themselves doubly lucky this time.
Blnce receiving the reiort of the ex
cellence of Roumanian crops the world
will naturally look for less trouble In
the Balkans. Well fed men are not us
ually as turbulent as half-starved men
If the democratic nominee for con
frees In the First district was elected
mayor of Lincoln as the railroad can
dldate only two months ago, how ca
he now pose as the anti-railroad candl
date for congress?
Now it Is up to the sultan of Morocco
to show that the people will not permit
reforms to be Inaugurated. The sultan
of Turkey baa demonstrated tha success
of this method for many yeara and it
till works there to perfection.
sold in the ports of European cities like
articles of ordinary merchandise. Cer
tificates of naturalization, bearing coun
terfeit signatures and seals, have a reg
ular market value nil over continental
Europe. Other facts are disclosed by
the investigation which show the neces
sity for mdlcal changes in the imlurnll
r.n (Ion laws.
In his last annual message President
Roosevelt said: "Fraudulent naturaliza
tion, the naturalisation of improper per
sons, is a curse to our government."
There will be no dissent from this and
the next congress will be called upon
to provide n remedy for a condition
which every good citizen must regard
as fully justifying the opinion expressed
by the president. Too great care cannot
be taken to safeguard the dignity and
the sanctity of American citizenship.
concerns, and the agreed consolidation
of three Omaha banks Is only In line
with twentieth century progress. lu
union there Is strength.
In the performance of his arduous du
ties ns high admiral of I'ncle Sam's navy
at $n.miO a year, and the strenuous la
bors of the rejuvenation of the Equitable
I Ife. Paul Morton manages to put In
some licks between meals at fl2,."00 a
month.
A Jolt fnr Land Crabber.
Washington Tost.
Two Nebraska men have been sentenced
to prison for stealing public lands. Some
effort is being made to destroy the Im
pression In the west that It Is no crime to
rob the government.
A 8ALVJARY EXAMPLE-
In imposing a sentence of one year lu
the Sioux Falls penitentiary upon Logan
Lambert, convicted of bootlegging In the
neighborhood of the Winnebago reserva
tion, Judge Munger has set an example
that cannot fail to have a salutary effect
upon parties who have trafficked In
liquor and debauched the Omaha and
Winnebago Indians in defiance of law.
While the brutal assault made by
Lambert upon Father Schell, who had
been instrumental in the prosecution of
the bootleggers, had no direct bearing
In the trial of the offense for which Lam
bert was convicted, the penalty Imposed
upon Lambert by the court will serve
as a warning to men of his class to de
sist from further Illicit traffic In liquor
around and about the Indian reservations.
The declaration of District Attorney
Baxter, that it is the Intention of the
Department of Justice to go after these
constant violators of the laws prohib
iting the furnishing of liquor to the In
dians, so far as they come within the
pale of the federal statutes, Is a notice
to all whom It may concern that boot
legging will be made odious and boot
leggers will be punished to the utmost
extent of the law.
Primnrily the Illicit traffic In liquor
has been responsible for the debauchery
of the Indians, and, secondarily, it has
enabled the land speculators and graft
ers to enrich themselves at the expense
of the Indians by sharp practices and
nefarious deals with Indians thnt were
brought under the influence of liquor.
Now that the Indian bureau has effec
tively stamped out the Indian land lease
combine and the Indian land robbers
generally, the prosecution of the saloon
lsts and bootleggers within the zone sur
rounding the reservation will no far
toward reclaiming the Indians, and
eventually making them self-supporting.
How tn Achieve Fame.
St. Louis Olobe-Democrat.
Tha impression has long obtained thnt
the cost of life insurance is too high. If
Mr. Morton can cut the price in half, or
establish a system of rebates, he will be
doing the country a substantial service.
There's the Bub.
Alliance Times.
The Omaha Bee suggests to the Bar asso
ciation of that city that the association
Inaugurate a war of extermination against
blackleg lawyers. The big part of the fight
will be when It comes to heading off the
blackleg lawyers from getting control of
the association.
Solution of the Itate Problem.
Chicago Chronicle.
So far as the passenger end of the rail
road rate question Is concerned an obvious
solution Is to be found In the device of
getting up Modern Woodmen conventions
at frequent Intervals, whereupon the pas
senger agents will be fired with a spirit of
rivalry highly satisfactory to the traveling
public. Competition is the life of trade.
EFFORTS TO AVERT A BATTLE
The advices from the far east indl
cate an active movement on the part
of the Japanese to bring oh a general
engagement It seems plain from the
Information which comes from the bead-
quarters of the' army of Japan that
Oyama is about ready to make a general
attack and that news of his having done
so may be expected at any time. If the
blow is delivered there is every reason
to believe that the fighting will not cease
until on fide wins a decisive victory, f6r
upon the impending battle will depend
whether there shall be peace or a con
tinuance of hostilities. An overwhelm
ing Japanese victory would count for
peace. On the other hand a Russian
triumph would give fresh vigor and in
fluence to the war party at St. Peters
burg and perhaps put an end to the
movement for terminating hostilities.
There Is represented to be earnest
efforts proceeding from Washington for
averting another battle. The statement
to this effect comes from the Russian
capital nnd represents that President
Roosevelt is earnestly endeavoring to. In
duce the belligerents to arrange an
armistice. While this is by no means
incredible, since such a course would be
quite in consonance with what has been
done by the president toward bringing
about peace, there Is no confirmation
of It from Washington. It Is undoubt
edly the feeling there, however, that It
would tie better for peace negotiations
If another battle could be averted
pending the consideration of terms by
the plenlpotentarles of the belligerents.
Very likely the question of an armistice
will be decided by the commanders in
the field, In which case it is probable
that the decision will he against it.
There is reason to think that the Japa
nese believe they have an advantage
which they are not disposed to abandon
This will doubtless be determined in the
next few days.
According to the Lincoln Journal, the
Omaha, Lincoln & Beatrice Intcrurban
railroad is planning to place its line in
operation from Lincoln to Bethany n
suburb of that cty by the latter part
of July, and work' will be hurried along
the entire length of the line as soon as
arrangements are completed. It Is also
announced that the intcrurban has se
cured every foot of Its right-of-way
through Ashland and now is ready to
work at that place, and the officers of
the company are very hopeful that
things more tangible thnn right-of-way
negotiations will materialize at an early
day. This sounds very agreeable, but
"Soft words butter no parsnips." Build
lng a suburban line four or five miles
out of Lincoln and securing strips of
right-of-way here and there is not all
that people who bad banked on the early
completion of the line between Bea
trice and Omaha have been led to an
ticlpate. If the project really has the
necessary capital behind It, there should
be no difficulty in completing the road
and having it in operation before the
snow flies. Manifestly all the work up
to date is preliminary to negotiations
yet to be concluded with capitalists who
make Investments in that class of prop
erty.
The revenue law of Nebraska ex
pressly requires real estate assessments
made In 1004 to remain unchanged for
four years, and under the opinion Just
rendered by the attorney general no In
crease or decrease of the assessments
made last year is permissible, except
by reason of betterments or by decrease
lng In value of real estate by a destrue
tlon or partial destruction of Improve
ments assessed last year. This definl
tlon of the law will necessarily govern
the County Board of Equalization.
If the supreme court does not soon
relieve tha suspense by handing down
Its decision on tha biennial election law,
the Inmates of tha county court house
will be round-shouldered for Ufa from
holding their tart to tht grounj
REFORM IN NATVRAL1ZATI0X.
The board appointed by the president
to investigate the charges of fraud in
connection with naturalization, and to
consider and report what changes should
lie made in the laws in order to prevent
fraud, has been pursuing the duty as
signed to it and It Is said will recom
mend radical changes In the naturalisa
tion laws. In his last anuuul message
Mr. Roosevelt called the attention of
congress to this matter and urged the
necessity of some action to correct the
fraudulent practices which had been dis
closed. It is stated that the Investiga
tions of the board confirm sll that bad
been reported In regard to the unlawful
Issue of naturalisation papers, by which
many persons were made citizens of the
United States who hsd not complied
with the requirements of the law.
It has been found by the board, says
a Washington dispatch, that there Is
absolutely no uniformity In the char
acter and form of naturalization cer
tificates as now issued. Each court pre
pares a paper of a type to suit its own
officials, without regard to the practices
of other courts. One of the bad results
of the varying style in the certificates
la the trafficking that Is done ln them.
particularly abroad. Bogus certificates,
it ts said, are printed and bought and
Chicago has not been materially In
Jured by the Jollet cut off and half a
dozen other cut offs by which railways
converging at the metropolis ou Lake
Michigan divert through traffic billed for
the Atlantic seashore, and Omaha will
not suffer materially from the Ashland
cut off. Its business men will simply
have to do more strenuous hustling In
the territory Invaded by commercial
competitors.
Why can't the commercial college boys
and the high school graduates emulate
the example of the college men of New
England and New York, who spent their
vacations profitably as harvest hands on
Kansas farms last summer? There Is
brisk demsnd for young men with
Rooseveltlan instincts for the strenuous
Ufa on Nebraska farms just now.
President Roosevelt has again been
given the title of doctor of laws. Some
day some university will discover a title
which will be suitable for emlneut men
In recognition of public service, but so
far "Doctor of Laws" seems to be the
best that can be offered.
In the distribution of county offices
this fall, providing that an election i
ordered by the supreme court, there will
be some delicate diplomatic questions to
settle between Scandinavian candidates
who hall from Sweden and Norway.
Concentration and consolidation Is the
order of tha day among banks ss well
s all other commercial aud Industrial
Benefits of Stable Currency.
Philadelphia Ledger.
As was to he expected, the adoption of
the gold standard by Mexico has had an
Immediate and beneficial effect on the com
mercial relations of the country. With the
currency fixed and the uncertainties of a
fluctuating value eliminated. Importers are
making lower prices and foreign business
houses are again seeking business In the
republic. This beneficial result is not con
fined to Mexico, but la felt all along the
American border, wherever there are com
mercial transactions with our southern
neighbor.
SI N TIME OR STANDARD f
Important Question Derided In m. Fire
Insurance Case.
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
In the cases of the National Fire Insur
ance company against the Peasiee-Qullbert
company and the Pacific Fire Insurance
company against the Louisville Lead and
Color company the court of appeals of Ken
tucky has rendered a. most Important de
cision, and one that will at least be persua
sive of the law In all the states. The Feas-lee-Oullbert
company and the Louisville
Lead and Color company were Insured In
the two companies," the policies expiring
at noon" on April 1, 1902. On
that day and at 11:46 a. m.t standard
time, a fire broke out In the buildings, de
stroying them and their contents. Accord
ing to the facts 11:45 a, m., standard time,
would be, at Ixmlsvllle, on that day 12:0314
p. m., sun time, and standard time is used
In Louisville.
Demand having been made for payment
of Insurance, the .companies claimed that
sun time, and not. standard time, governed
no mention of ,elther being made in the
policy and that, the fire having broken
out at 12:024 p. ro sun time, the policies
had expired, and payment was refused.
Suit was brought and Uie trial court held
that, In the absence of any stipulation In
the policy to the contrary, standard time
governed. The court of appeals has af
firmed the Judgment.
The decision will be commended. The
meanings of words change with time.
and oldtlme methods give way to new.
When the new comes to an established
recognition It would be a backward stop
to Insist that the old should govern. In
time it may come to pass that another
standard of time than that in use today
will be adopted, and when the reason for
the' use of standard time no longer ex
ists neither should standard time exist.
It is so with sun time. "Noon" today
means the noon of the arbitrary fashion
of standard time, and not the venerable
time recorded by the sun dial nor used In
villages or nonprogressive cities Detroit,
for instance which still clings to sun up
and to sun down as the standard of
measurement of the hours.
AN ERA OP STRANGE THINGS.
Tom Lawson In tho Role of Turning
State's Evidence.
Chicago Chronicle.
Certainly this Is an era of reaching out
after strange things.
It is stated seriously and presumably
truthfully that the governors of Missouri,
Minnesota, Nebraska and Kansas have In
vited Thomas W. Lawson to visit their re
spective states during the month of July
and deliver public addresses under official
auspices. Mr. Lawson has accepted the
Invitation and It is declared that his tour
will be "a most picturesque and stirring
campaign against the crimes of predatory
wealth."
It certainly ought to be picturesque. It
should likewise be Interesting. Just how
Instructive It will prove Is a matter for
conjecture. Different people will view it
in different ways.
At any rate, the appearance of Mr. law
son on the platform is certain to attract
attention. This is because he has become
a public character through methods which
testify to his astuteness and originality.
If his lot in life had been that of a theatri
cal manager Instead of a speculator, Mr.
Lawson would have been the most suc
cessful lmpressarlo of his time.
A notorious stock gambler, he has at
tained extensive notoriety through his de
nunciations of stock gambling. Confess
ing to complicity In a gigantic scheme to
rob Investors, he has won celebrity and a
certain amount of popular admiration as
an exposer of the methods through which
the Investors were robbed. Inspired by a
desire to "get even" with his accomplices.
he has posed with success as a virtuous
repudiator and foe of crooked methods In
high finance. The whole thing has been a
triumph of paradox and of colossal effront
ery. That It has been a triumph Is shown In
the fact that Mr. Lawson Is taken at his
own estimate by the governors of half a
dosen states and that he is to speak In
those states as the guest of the governors.
It is a singular and by no means reassur
ing phenomenon..
We have had In this country many popu
lar prophets who were altogether wrong,
but they have been men of honest purpose
and of some reputation for consistency.
The populist apostles and the free silver
proponents, for Instance, were charged
with fanaticism, but never with being ac
complices before and after the fact of the
men whom they opposed.
We have now, it seems, come upon times
In which the easy way to attain public
confidence la to turn state's evidence
against one's former confederates and lo
recite one's past criminal performances as
an evidence of present sanctiflcatlon.
Such a situation, it may be repeated. Is
Strang and ominous.
ROIAD ABOIT NEW YORK.
nipples on the Current of I. Ife In the
Metropolis.
The Indiscreet haste of the New York
cer.sus takers In making thrlr report la a
source f f acute grief to the boosters of the
metropolis. For weeks past the boosters
let go occasional whoops of Joy over what
to them was a (inch on a population of ov.r
l.nnn.on). It s not difficult to Imagine their
grief when the footing of the count showed
only 3.!R7,:.12, Just 12.74S short of the hnpod
for totnl. What makes the Indiscretion of
the census men smack of disloyalty Is the
fact that one or two more shiploads of Im
migrants In the harbor might have been
counted, but were not. Hence these tears.
The city, however, has quite a bunch f
people. It Is twice as large ns Taris, three
times as large as Berlin and at least twice
as large as Chicago. Since the first census
of New York was taken. In 17Sft, there has
been a constant Increase except In 17!W, isns,
1R13 and 1823. In these years there Is shown
a slight falling off from the previous years.
In 1824 New York had 25,000 registered per
sons In the directory and from that day to
the present the number has been steadily
growing, until today It reaches the enor
mous tojal of 3.987.0X1. Lately the Oernians
and the Irish have been falling off and the
southern Europeans have been coming to
the front. There are in New York at pres
ent about 70,000 negroes.
When the new Hamburg-American liner
Amcrika makes Its first trip to New York
In the late summer something new In the
way of ocean steamships will be seen. This
ship Is equipped with electric elevators,
Turkish baths a,nd a hundred little conveni
ences heretofore unknown In ocean travel.
The Amorlka is about twenty feet shorter
than the Cedrlc, the Celtic and the Arabic,
but it Is a trifle wider than any of them.
It will make the trip across In six days.
Some of the details of the new ship not In
corporated In the other great mnrine hotels
are restaurants a-la-carte, nursery for chil
dren, dining room on promenade deck,
trained nurses for seasick passengers, sil
verware used by the German emperor,
Tzigane band for dinners, two-story first
cabin smoking rooms, twenty Italian mar
ble mantels and old stone hearths, gymna
sium, etc. English, French and German
will be spoken by all stewards and officers
of the ship.
Corporal punishment may bo Inflicted
on disobedient pupils in public schools of
New York under certain circumstances.
That decision was given by Justice Olmsted
In the children's court, when Jacob Saro
wltx, 11 years old, and Harry Gordon, 10
years old, were arraigned on complaint of
their teachers.
Barowitz was charged by his principal
with playing truant from school and Gor
don was accused of stealing a gold ring
from his teacher. Both boys admitted they
were guilty.
Justice Olmsted, after reprimanding them,
decided they should be punished more se
verely, but he did not want to send them
to at Institution, owing to the pleadings of
their parents. He finally decided to act un
der a new form of commitment, by which
they or any other pupil who was disobedi
ent or committed a small crime could be
taken In hand and punished accordingly by
teachers or principals In the schools. This
new form of commitment means corporal
punishment and according to Justice Olm
sted It Is lawful.
Children brought before him, he declares,
can be punished by teachers Just the same
as they would by their parents. He basis
this opinion on section 713 of the penal cod's.
Under this section Justice Olmsted de
cided to place Sarowltx under the guardian
ship of Miss Conway, the principal of pub
lic school No. 130. for a year. Miss Regna
Cregln, rhe principal of school No. 42, will
have the same control over young Gordon.
One of the hot afternoons last week a
man on WeBt Twentieth street did a thriv
ing business with a peripatetic merry-go-round.
Placed tn the center of a wagon
was a large circular seat, which was kept
whirling round and round. It. held, per
haps, ten or twelve small children. A hand
organ, formed the driver's set, and from it
pealed forth the familiar street tunes. The
price for a very short ride a minute or two
was 1 cent. Soon after the wagon had
driven up to the curb a hundred children
gathered eagerly awaiting their turn. The
man did such a rushing business that he
stayed in one spot for an hour with his
wagon, which was painted bright red and
looked remarkably Inviting.
Somebody standing on the back platform
of the car dropped the bundle. The woman
saw It and picked It up. She was an honest
woman, nevertheless she opened the pack
age. It contained a waist pattern of very
pretty silk. When the woman saw that
she thanked her guardian angel that she
had been created honest.
"If I had not been," she told her husband,
"I should keep this silk as sure as any
thing, and make It up for myself."
"But since you have been," said the man.
"what are you going to do with It?"
"Oh," said the woman, "I shall take It
back to the lost and found department of
the store where It was bought. The pur
chaser will probably Inquire for It there."
And that was tho last heard of the silk
for seversl days. One evening, about two
Weeks later, the woman appeared at dinner
In a new waist. The man looked at it ad
miringly. "Hello," he said. "Seems to me I have
seen that before. Isn't that something like
the piece of silk you found?"
"It is Just like It," sighed the woman.
"It Is the same piece. I took it to the lost
and found department, but I I couldn't
stand It. I went again the next day and
asked for it myself."
The latest beer enterprise sanctioned by
Bishop Potter, the St. Nicholas Garden,
was opened last week with much eclat. Tha
crowds were there and there was a good,
pld-fashloned time. Pure beer was to be
had In plenty. A dozen prominent minis
ters had sanctioned the enterprise, but not
one of them was present at the opening.
Curious laymen were there In number
enough to keep the merry tune of the cash
register working, and the opening may be
called a success.
SENATOR AM.ISOV9 VOYAGE.
Iowa's Grand Old Man Pals Aside the
Cares of State.
Washington Post.
William B. Allison, the grnnd old man
of the senate, the Nestor of the republican
pirty, the safest political counselor that
party has had In fortv years safe, sane,
practical, politic has taken a vacation,
and will refresh himself on the other side
of the seas. He will not get out of a trio
to England what that other grand old
man of the senate, lately departed from
the haunts of men. found in corner and
cranny, In town and In country. In castle
and In cottage wherever history and tra
dition, romance and poetry, could lodge
In all the grand old Isle, but he will see
a great many things that he will be the
wiser for having seen, and he will fetch
back a deal of experience that will do this
country service.
His has been a wonderful political
career. He entered congress simulta
neously with James G. Blslne. Samuel ,T.
Randall and James A. Garfield, and with
an hiatus of two years, his parliamentary
career has covered a period of forty-three
years In all forty-one years, doubtless
the longest In our history. But that la
not all, nor the best of It his political
career has been tranquil. Whatever hon
ors have come to him were the reward of
modest merit. When John Sherman first
got the senatorshlp. doubtless, a majority
of his party In Ohio believed the distinc
tion should have gone to Robert C.
Schenck. and It is certain that most of the
democrats thought the senntorship
should have gone to Vallandlgharn, In
stead of Thurman In 1S6H.
But Allison's career has been unham
pered by friction. He has been supreme
In Iowa for thirty years. He has never
had a battle on his hands, except against
democrats, since he took his seat In the
senate in 1873. He made the first free
trade speech In congress, after the war,
but got bravely over that, as did John
Sherman. His name Is to a measure that
added to the full legal tender coin of the
country some 1400.000,000 silver, yet he is
as sound on the money question as his
party, and, perhaps, he and his party both
have some unpleasant memories when
meditating on finance. Senator Allison, al
ways a republican, has operated on lines
where least resistance was met. Certainly,
it Is the easiest road to travel. Maybe It
Is the best road to travel.
Let us wish the old statesman a pleas
ant and prosperous voyage, and a safe
and Joyous return. It will be well for him
and for the G. O. P., If that mass of
political dynamite that Is lying round all
too loose In Iowa does not explodo In his
absence. There are too many great men
out there.
Harmon and Lentz. In Ohio, are not
much further ' apart than Hepburn and
Cummins In Iowa.
But as long as the old man lives he
may be able to keep the lid on.
PERSONAL NOTKS.
The late Guy Boothby, author of many
novels, called himself a mechanical author.'
He worked with the phonograph and rarely
wrote a line with pen or typewriter.
lAfayette's tomb Is sadly neglected In
Paris and a committee of American women
have bunded themselves together to have
It kept decently by the provision of a small
annual sum for watching It and providing
flowers.
Chancellor von Buelow has had showered
upon him princely rank by the kaiser and
bequests from admirers and other unex
pected honors, among them the printing
over his nama of the picture of Hans von
Buelow, the pianist, in American newspa
pers. ,
At a hearing in the Hargls-Marcum feud
case, at Jackson, Ky., the court required
those In attendance to disarm. If this
keeps up It will be Incompatible, suh, with
tli' honah of a Kentucky genieman to at
tend sessions of co'ht, suh.
Count von Belx, a member of the German
nobility, has accepted a position as fore
man of the Michigan Central machine shops
In Michigan City, Ind. He Is trying to se
cure a thorough and practical knowledge
of American methods of railroading, and
on his return home he will become the he&d
f a lars railroad system.
A WHOLESOME LESSON.
The Successful Revolt Against Polit
ical Corruption In Philadelphia.
New York Tribune.
Philadelphia is teaching the country not a
few wholesome lessons. Its successful re
volt against the corrupt political machine
which dominated its local legislature has
demonstrated the enormous power In city
politics of an aroused and united public
sentiment. The ease with which the Qua
ker City freed Itself from the clutch of its
overconfident and overgreedy oppressors
has set other municipalities to thinking
that they, too, are capable of working out
a similar emancipation. Mayor Weaver has
promised to give Philadelphia for the next
two years a model administration an ad
ministration divorced from politics and de
voted simply and solely to the public In
terest. In the measures ha haa'taken since
the fight to kill the gas steal opened he
has shown abundant energy, capacity and
courage. Some of his moves have been
original and startling, and by the time his
term of office ends he will possibly have
done many things destined not only to leave
their mark locally, but to Influence ma
terially our general municipal development.
One of the mayor's most striking Innova
tions has been his appointment of an
advisory staff of fourteen members, all
of them men prominent in Philadelphia life
and representing broadly its varied intel
lectual, commercial, social and business
Interests. This advisory staff Is to serve
during the remainder of the mayor's term,
and its opinion is to aid and guide him in
carrying through the refbrms he contem
plates in municipal administration. ' A
mere reading of the names on the com
mittee list guarantees its high personal and
public, character. It Is a nonpartisan body,
chosen with the single aim of securing men
of proved capacity and public spirit, to
whom the regeneration of Philadelphia will
appeal as a patriotic; obligation and a labor
of love. With their co-operation the' city
will be governed not for the benefit of
placeholders, contractors, speculators and
political bosses, but for the benefit of the
workers and taxpayers, on whom these
predatory idlers have hitherto fed. The
Idea that a political middle class, with its
special interests and appetites, must In
tervene between the voters and the officials
who conduct the public business Is to be
abandoned, and the municipality Is to be
administered hereafter on the theory that
the welfare of the people is its direct and
primary concern.
In breaking so resolutely with the po
litical middle class Msyor Weaver has set
a notable example for other municipalities
to follow. He has chosen as members of
his advisory staff men of all shades of
opinion in national politics, but united in
their belief that partisan considerations
should have no weight In the working out
of purely municipal problems. The foolish
notion that a man's views on the tariff or
territorial expansion or state rights should
determine his attitude on questions of local
taxation and administration has been re
sponsible for a vast amount of misgovern
ment In American cities. The sensible
voter will not hesitate to lay aside national
Issues when It comes to rebuking a cor
rupt municipal ring, wearing the livery of
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either party. He will gladly Join with
neighbors of any shade of political belief
In defeating the plundering schemes of
politicians of any kidney who betray the
public Interest. The purification of mu
nicipal government can only come through
a general recognition that partisanship Is
out of place In municipal campaigns.
that clean and honest government Is only
obtainable when It is demanded ty an
enlightened and courageous nonpartisan
local sentiment. In recognising and acting
on this fsct Mayor Weaver has gone a long
way toward solving the municipal problem.
MIBTHFl l, REMARKS,
That's our local weather forecaster who
Just passed."
"You don't say? Not a very healthy look
ing man. Is he?"
"No; It seems the climate here doesn't
agree with him."
'No? I wonder If that's why he keeps
chsnglng it so much." Philadelphia Ledger
I
"Hey, boy, Where's your brot
"In the barn, shoeln horses.'
brother?"
"In the back yard, almoin' chickens."
"Where's your father?"
"In the hammock, shooln' files." Wash
ington Star. , . , , ,
"I notice, my dear, that the courts have
decided that some western man Is only half
married. I wonder which half it 1, ha,
ha, ha!"
"Well, I hop It Isn't the Idiot s better
half." Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Euclid was laying down the axiom that
two parallel lines can never meet.
"That doesn't matter." sniffed the finan
cial magnate, "you can merge 'em."
Herewith the mathematician sadly turned
to the multiplication table for consolation.
Puck.
It is proper to lay up something for a
rainy day, rut don't lay up another man's
umbrella. Bomervllle Journal.
The bibulous voung millionaire had Just
broached a cask that had lain undisturbed
in the family wine cellar for more than
fifty years. , ,
"Spirits of my ancestors!" he exclaimed,
with gratitude amounting almost to rever
ence. Chicago Tribune.
"I think," said the patron of the cheap
restaurant. "I'll take shirred ergs."
i "Aw, g'on!" cried the new waitress.
"Quit kiddln' me."
"What?"
"Aw, you can't fool me. I used to be a
seamstress, and I guess I know It ain't pos
sible to make gathers or tucks in an egg."
Philadelphia Standard.
TUB SHEARING.
Nancy B. Turner in Bt. Nicholas.
The day they cut the baby's hair
The house was all a fidget:
Such fuss they made, you would have San
He was a king the mldgetl
Some wanted this, some wanted that;
Some thought that It was dreadful
To lay a hand upon one strand
Of all that precious headful.
While others said to leave his curls
Would be the height of folly.
Unless they put him with the girls
And called him Sue or Molly.
The barber's shears went snlp-a-snlp,
The golden fluff was flying;
Grandmother had a trembling lip,
And aunt was almost crying.
The men folks said, "Why, hello Boss,
You're looking five years older!"
But mother laid the shaven head
Close, close against her shoulder.
Ah. well; the nest must lose its birds.
Trie cradle yield Its treasure;
Time will not stay a single day
For any pleader's pleasure.
And when that hour's work was welghe4
The scales were even, maybe;
For father gained a little man
When mother lost her baby!
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