PRINCESS LEAVES HOME
AND BRUTAL HUSBAND
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Tim crown princess of Saxony dis
appeareel in a sensational manner
from the palace at Dresden at night
recently, ami it transpires that she
fleil from her husband with a young
Frenchman named CJiron, the tutor of
tier children, with whom it seems she
I as long been in love.
Details of the scandal are beginning
t' come to light. The Berlin Vossische
.eitung declares that the rrown prince
was In the habit of beating the crown
princess. The Lokalan.eiger also de
clares that previous to the disappear
ance of the Crown Princess Louise
with Prof. (Jiron. she made several
inisuci ci-'f-ful attempts to elope with
MARCONI'S GREAT TRIUMPH.
"Marconi has succeeded." It would
be difficult even to attempt to esti
mate what these three significant
words mean to the world. The ex
periments in wireless telegraphy, we
are told, have been crowned with
Marked success. Long messages have
pasted between iH. station at Glace
May. Nova Scotia, and Cornwall. Eng
land, a distance of 2.300 miles.
There icoms no reason to doubt this
statement. The governor general of
if
Canada has flashed a message to King
IMwaii of England, and the king has
flashed one back. Both messages
were complete. The correspondent
of the London Times has sent a long
wireless dispatch to his paper from
Marconi's station at Clace Bay. and
the Times has confirmed the receipt
of t!i:s message. Marni citainlv
does appear to have triur.iphe-'.
And the creilit which this ae-iiee-nient
merits will not be i-nie 1 eini.
Tioe may he some question cs lo his
right to be known ao the invev.b -cither
of wireless telegraihy or all
of the apparatus with which K now
operates his system. But there is no
doubt that he has put these things to
Fifty Years a Mason.
On Christmas night Bishop John
M. Walden (Cincinnati) of the Meth
odist Episcopal church had been a
member or the Masonic fraternity for
fifty years. He was made a Master
Mason on Dec. 25. 1852. in MeMack
in lodge. No. 120. of Mount Healthy.
0. Bishop Walden's "Masonic semi
centennial was fittingly remembered
by. that lodge at its regular meeting
last week. A silver loving cup was
presented to Brother Walden.
Propose Monument to Poe.
Literary people of Boston are agitat
ing for the setting up in Boston of a
tablet in honor of Edgar Allen Poe.
I'e born thre in 1S09. his moth
er being a leading woman at the Hay
Market theater. His first book was
t-i.-Mu-d "A Bostonian." The present
movement is one of the results of the
I'ibors of Brof. Richardson of Dart
mouth in reviving interest in the
vriings and history of I'oe.
Coincidence in Lord Mayor's Life.
it is said of Sir Frank Green, lord
mayor of lndon in 19o-l3'l. who has
just died, that the first sight he saw
on coming to London as a country boy
vas the lord mayor's show, which took
place on the day of his arrival, and
that he became lord mayor himself
c?c tly fifty years after.
Fund Hearing Completion.
William S. Hubbard of Indianapolis
1. ai promised to give the last $5,000
reeded to purchase the United States
f r.-eiol grounds in that city as a site
lor the National Technical institute,
n'ifh this pledge $13,000 of the neces
n.ry fund remain to be raised.
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CPOVM P0fCfii fVE&ffKH AUGUST
SAXONY
other persons. These the crown prince
forgave.
It is reported at Dresden that the
crown princess left for her husband a
written confession of her relations
with M. Oiron. together with a declar
ation of her unalterable intention of
never returning to the Saxon court.
The court has no official information
as to the present whereabouts of the
princess, but it is known here that
she is going to Mentone. France, to re
side. The court at present Is con
cerned with considerations as to the
best course to pursue in the matter. It
is believed that the pope will be ap
pealed to to grant an absolute divorce.
practical use, has made them availa
ble for the needs and pleasures o
humanity. And he will reap the re
wards which the world always gives
to achievement and a purpose fully
t.ecompllshed.
It were reckless to speculate on a
futun-iodified orJntensified by this
nder. Cyfli Field revolution-
nierce ad brought nations
aking distance when he
ic cable. Marconi has
dispensed with submarine wires, thus
vastly reducing the expense of instal
lation and operation. Nations will
come still closer together, commerce
will enlarge its operations, science,
art. all that concerns the human race,
wili have a freer and fuller voice. Thb
peoples of the earth may now explain
puzzling questions more . easily, dis
putes may not grow to the point of
belligerency because the danger ot
misunderstanding will be greatly re
duced. Maicoii's success, let us hope, will
mean the greater success of industry,
of commerce, of international frater
nity, of universal and permanent
peace.
In Memory of Amy Robsart.
A unique appeal has been sent out
by a number of English personages,
including the bishop of Thetford and
the marchioness of Cholmondeley, for
funds to be used for preserving a me-
i morial window or some such monu
ment to Amy Robsart in the church at
Lyderstone hall, where she wor
shipped. Instead of sending these ap
peals to everyone, broadcast and indis
criminately, they are sent only to
women bearing the name of Amy.
Inherits Theatrical Talent.
Beatrice Terry, the little niece of
Ellen Terry', played a childish part in
"Sara Crewe" in London recently with
"remarkable self-possession and
grace" and justified the expectation
that the traditions of this remarkable
family of actors will be maintained by
a new generation. Her voice is said to
be clear and resonant and she is sdid
to have brought tears to the eyes of
many spectators by simple touches of
pathos.
Prince to Disband His "Army."
By way of setting an example to
other European monarchs the prince
of Monaco has decided to disband his
army. This important event will not
take place until 1904, when the entire
military force in the pay of his high
ness, thirty-two warriors in all, will be
given opportunity to exchange uni
forms for more peaceful habiliments.
Home for Invalid Children.
It is proposed to erect state conval
escent homes In Austria for anaemic
children and those whose weakened
condition renders them liable to consumption.
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PING Til ETKUSTS
SUBSIDY LEGISLATION TO BE
RUSHED IN CONGRESS.
In Return for Campaign Funds Fur
nished to the Republican Party by
the Great Monopolies, the People
are to Be Robbed.
The ship subsidy bill that passed
the Senate at the last session of Con
gress, and has since been held up
by the House Committee on Merchant
Marine, Ik to be pushed through at
this session, at least so the New York
Commercial a good Republican au
thority informs its readers. The Re
publicans did not care to add to their
burdens by the passage of this bill
just before the Congressional elec
tions, but, having succeeded in se
curing a majority of the next Con
gress, they consider that the ship
subsidy steal, the tariff subsidy steal
and the numerous other enactments,
present and prospective, that are to
benefit the few at the expense of the
many, have nil been endorsed by the
people.
A majority of the voters of the
Congressional districts, of course, did
not think, when they voted for Re
publican candidates, that their action
would be considered an endorsement
of the ship subsidy steal; but it is in
terpreted by the Republican leaders
to mean that. The same argument
is being used by the trust organs and
most of the Republican Congressmen
that have expressed the opinion that
the people voted to "let well enough
alone." The leaders have determined
that no legislation against the Coal
trust, the Beef trust, tlie Steel trust,
shall be enacted into law.
To stop public clamor, the House
of Representatives may pass a bill
for a tariff commission and for pub
licity of trust transactions but the
Senate will not have time to pass
upon these issues. But the ship sub
sidy bill cannot thus be postponed
without defeating it entirely, for the
next Congress has a much smaller
Republican majority than the present
one and there is great doubt if the
bill would pass the Senate if it should
again be considered there. The only
hope of the Subsidy schemers is to
push the ship subsidy bill to a vote
at this session.
There is another and mere potent
cause for pushing this bill at this
time, than its apparent endorsement
by the voters, and this is hinted at
in the New York Commercial of Dec.
6, when it says:
"It is asserted, however, that the
managers of the Republican Congres
sional Committee have come back
from their recent campaign feeling
very friendly to the subsidy idea, and
that this will be a new and potent
influence, operative in states where
the subsidy has heretofore been
weak."
This insinuation, translated into
plain language, means that the powerful
corporations that are to be benefited
by the passage of the subsidy bills
and the defeat of the tariff reform
legislation, paid an unmentioned sum
to the Republican Congressional Com
mittee. This corruption fund was to
be imamI to purchase enough votes in
the doubtful states and Congressional
districts to re-elect the candidates
who would return the favor by vot
ing for the ship subsidy steal in par
ticular and against tariff reform in
general. That this subsidy to the
Republican Congressional Committee
was a large one is certain or the man
agers would not impose such an im
politic task on Republican Congress
men as to compel them to vote for
these very unpopular measures. How
much money will be used by the
Steamship Trust to induce Congress
men to vote for the bill can be imag
ined by the large sums already spent
on the elections. The short session
of Congress has generally been, when
the Republicans have been in power,
prolific of scandals. This session will,
from the present outlook, exceed for
mer ones in the magnitude of the sub
sidies granted to corporations and
the large disbursements to Congress
men to bring it about.
The Steamship trust has an organ
ized lobby in Washington headed by
Clement A. Griscom, vice-president of
the Pennsylvania railroad and presi
dent of one of the largest steamship
companies included in the new trust.
Some of the railroads, especially the
Pennsylvania, are part owners of the
Steamship trust and their money and
influence will doubtless be used in
the same direction.
The Republican voters who en
dorsed this carnival of corrupt legis
lation have only themselves to blame
for the subsidies that may be voted
and the continued extortion of the
coal trust and of the numerous trusts
that are selling their products to for
eigners cheaper than to Americans.
The evidence is overwhelming that
the present, tepublican Congress and
its successor that has just been elect
ed, is controlled by the trusts "and
corporations and no relief can be ex
pected from it. This situation will
gradually dawn on the minus of the
independent voters and wi.l force
them to side with the Democrats in
1904. With a reform D?niocratic
president and a reform Congress to
back him, corruption and extortion
will be banished from the seat of
national government and an era of
honest politics will result.
No Ei'd to Trust Grc '.
The rapacity and greed of the coal
barons is getting almost be;-.- nd en
durance. The bituminous coal com
bine is equally as guilty as the an
thracite trust for it has r 'vanced
prices in about the same pr. ; r tion.
The Coke combine has also i.'-reased
prices on a par with Its brotiiev rep
robates. The pretense is beinr made
by the hard coal trust that it has a
hard and fast price of $3.7'. a ton
at the mines, to which is acT.'l the
railroad freight rate, rangir from
$1.55 to New York, $2.00 to Y.'ashing
ron. D. C, and "whatever tho traffic
will bear" to other points, which va
rkps according to the competition of
river and lake transnortaticr. To
these charges is added $1.50 allowed
the retailer for cartage and profit.
The agents of the Coal tir t are,
they say. obliged to agree :.ot to
charge above the prices giver-, that
is on the basis of $0.75 at Ncv. York,
37.25 at Washington. D. C, and at
other points according .o th In
creased railroad charges. The facta,
however, do not substantiate this
scale of prices for when the har
rassed householder puts in his order
for coal to the agents of the trust he
is informed that his order will be
booked but delivery cannot be prom
ised. Compelled to find coal that will
be delivered immediately, the buyer
finds that the Independent dealers
have hard coal on hand but the price
ranges from $9 to $15 a ton. The
natural conclusion to arrive at is that
the trust Is selling, at a large advance
in price, to the independent dealers
instead of supplying Its own agents
at the advertised rates.
The rich and well-to-do are, of
course, able? to obtain coal, but the
largely increased cost to the poor,
vastly augmented by the profits ot
the small dealers, is so serious that
great destitution and suffering is re
ported In the large cities. In New
York, alone, it is reported that G.ooo
families are unbale to buy fuel and
the corporation of Greater New York
has appropriated $100,000 to purchase
coal to lc given to such destitute
persons.
There is no doubt that the misery
and suffering on account of the high
price of coal will lead to a great in
crease of sickness and a consequent
great loss of life from pulmonary and
other kindred diseases.
The criminal section of the anti
trust law covers just such a restraint
of trade and monopoly as the coal
trust is imposing upon the American
people. The administration of that
law is in the hands of the Attorney
General of the United States and In
each state the United States District
attorneys can enforce the law in the
Federal Courts. Thus the whole ma
chinery for bringing the coal mo
nopolists to the bar of Justice can be
put in motion by the Republican Ad
ministration. One word from Presi
dent Roosevelt would compel his Attorney-General
to act. As he does
nothing to curb the monopoly, it
would seem certain that he does not
want any action taken or, for polit
ical reasons, does not wish the ex
tortion of the trust stopped.
The criminal statute would allow
the arrest of the coal barons and,
upon conviction of being parties to
any restraint of trade, or of having
formed a combination to control
prices, they could be imprisoned for
one year. A coal baron in jail would
soon bring him and his brother rob
bers to terms and the price of coal
would soon tumble.
Administration Waste Basket.
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t; 57 Caw
It gets all of the good bills.
Civil Service Reform League.
The National Civil Service Reform
league, at a convention just held in
Philadelphia, commands the policy of
President Roosevelt in making Feder
al appointments.
The league did not resolve on the
endorsement of the notorious Addicks,
nor did it say anything about the sat
urnalia of pernicious activity on the
part of the Federal officials in Wiscon
sin, which even the Republican con
vention of that state denounced as "in
flagrant violation of civil service law9
in attempts to forestall conventions
and caucuses of the party and assist
ing professional lobbyists before the
legislature and elsewhere in defeating
legislation in refutation of party
pledges."
As President Roosevelt has not re
moved these officials, in spite of their
"flagrant disregard of civil service
laws," it is fair to presume that the
league is willing to condone any such
lapse of virtue, if it is only a Repub
lican that offends.
An III Wind That Blows, Etc.
The Standard Oil company ad
vanced the price of kerosene oil one
cent per gallon on Dec. 10. This
makes Zxz cents advance since the be
ginning of the coal strike. The New
York Commercial says:
"There has been no advance on the
Standard Oil products shipped to for
eign countries, because there is no
coal strike there, and because there
is competition with Russian oil.
"The Standard Oil company has
been using every possible means to
develop the use of kerosene in heat
ing and cooking stoves since the be
ginning of the coal strike. The in
creased consumption, a Standard Oil
official said yesterday, had been very
large. The general impression in
Wall Street yesterday was that the
Standard Oil company is trying to
make its profits large enough to pay
a 50 per cent dividend during the
present fiscal year."
The coal strike is a Godsend to the
Hungry Standard Oil trust. It is
coining money out of the misfortunes
of the poor.
Cannot Be Throttled.
Tariff revisionists are not wholly dis
mayed by the attitude of the Republi
can leaders. The latter may be able
to prevent action on the matter, but
they cannot stifle public expression in
the halls of congress. Tariff revision
in too vital an issue to be wholly
throttled, even in the house of its ene
mies. A man can never be a true gentle
man in manner until he is a true
gentleman at heart. Charles Dickens.
A CONFIDENCE GAME
PROTECTION A LEGALIZED FORM
OF ROBBERY.
Jtatement Prepared by the Treasury
Bureau of Statistics Contains Food
for Thought But the Tariff Super
stition Still Blinds.
A statement which has been pre
pared by the treasury bureau of sta
tistics shcjws that our manufactured
exports during the first ten months
Dt this c alendar year exceeded in value
those for any corresponding period
except in 1100. There was a de
crease in total exports as compared
with other recent years, but the de
crease was in unmanufactured ar
ticles. The magnitude of the figures Is in
structive. The value of iron and steel
exports for the ten months was nearly
$82,000,000, or at the rate of more than
$J8,Ooo,ooo for the year; leather ami
manufactures of leather, $25,400,000:
cotton manufactures, nearly $2'.,000,
ot 0; agricultural implements, over
$,000,0t0; chemic als, drugs and med
icines, over $ll,0oo,ooo.
All those things are sent abroad and
sold without protection, and general
ly in the teeth of adverse duties, in
competition against all comers.
Who can be made to believe that
our manufacturers send abroad their
wares in such quantities and sell them
at a loss merely to get rid of a sur
plus? They do nothing of the kind.
Rather than sell so much at a loss
they would restrict their output. it
would be money in their pockets.
They sell these goods and wares at
at profit. They cannot persuade any
sensible man to the contrary.
We must not overlook the fact that
these articles of which Europe takes
more than half of our exports are man
ufactures, not raw or crude products.
They are the very things which are
most highly protected by our Dingley
tariff.
We must note particularly also that
this tariff is intended chiefly to protect
our manufacturers of these goods
against European competition in our
home market. Yet our manufacturers
are able to send their goods to Europe
and, handicapped by transportation
and duties, compete against European
manuacturers on their own ground.
But they insist that they must be pro
tected in the American market against,
these Europeans by duties running all
the way from 25 to 100 per cent.
Millions of Americans are so blinded
by the tariff superstition that they
verily believe our prosperity would lie
utterly and hopelessly wrecked if con
gress should "seriously threaten (not
to speak of performance)," as Mr.
Roosevelt puts it, to reduce the Ding
ley tariff materially.
Was there ever a bigger or a more
successful confidence game?
Congress Can't anl J 6an.
Congress strains and prrfTs and tugs,
then spits on its hands and strains
and tugs and pulls, then gets breath
and a fresh hold and pulls and tugs
and strains, but oh, dear, and oh, dear,
it can't do anything.
Really, it can't The session is so
short, you see. Money irtust be voted
to an aggregate of a thousand millions
or so, and congress will be so con
sumed busy doing that until the 4th
of March that it can't possibly find
time to do anything else.
That is to say, it can't fyad time to
do anything for the peo It is dif
ferent when it comes to doinjmie
thing for some interest, especially if
it is an interest which is likely to take
an active hand when election day
comes around again if it is not cared
for.
We see how it is in the case of
the importers of tea. They have a
great quantity in bond, and it was late
ly discovered that they would have to
pay 10 cents a pound duty on all of
it under a court decision unless con
gress should come to the rescue and
pass a bill for their relief.
Congress came to the rescue with a
rush. It was a 4-11 call, and congress
came on a dead run.
The bill was whipped through the
ways and means committee in the
morning, shot through the House at
noon, whisked over to the Senate, and
that ponderously dignified body
stopped all other business, turned it
self loose for a rough-rider run, and
had the tea-relief bill on the way to
the white house with an expedition
that would make a humming bird's
head swim.
Now, that was all right. It was
proper to save the tea importers $7,
000,000 or more, but the bill was for
the relief of the Importers and not of
the people. It is when a bill appears
for the relief of the people from
wholly unnecessary and very grievous
burdens that it becomes impossible
for congress to move.
There is a fine appearance of a des
perate struggle to do something. First
the nigh horse gives a tremendous
jerk, while the other lies back; then
the off horse jerks, while the other
grunts and prepares for a fresh yank.
And so on. The result of all this effort
i? nothing but broken tugs.
The people are expected to believe
that the failure is unavoidable. The
case of the tea bill, shows how very
easy it is to act where the interest to
be served is private and not public.
Warning Voice From the West.
Half the protected corporations of
the country are themselves now and
for months have been carrying on r.
vigorous warfare for tariff reduction
through reciprocity treaties for free
hides and free wool. Are they workii.g
for "business disturbance?" Nay,
verily, but for the chance to do more
business. Tariff agitation that pro
poses to abate one jot or tittle of the
profits of the protected trusts is per
nicious. Tariff agitation that prom
ises to give them cheaper raw mae
rials or wider access to foreign mar
kets is blameless. This is not a doc
trine that can prevail.
AnnP.ei Muct Do the Work.
, i
Of all the arguments that are made i
against undertaking a retorm oi me
t-riff with a view to reduction ot its
burdens none is more shallow and
impertinent than that Congress is in
capable of doing the work. It is shal
low and impertinent for the reason
thai everybody knows that, no matter
how many commissions are created
nor how excellent a work they may
do. Congress will not accept the re
iiultji ' of their labor as having any
worth compared with what Iho com
mittee of ways and means of the
House and the finance committed ot
the Senate think they know. Con
gress will dej the work if It Is done at
all and will do it in Its own way.
It isn't in the power of Mr. Roosevelt
or of Congress to appoint a commis
sion so able that Congress will pay
any respect to its recommendations
on account of the authority of tho
commission's knowledge and patriotism.
Territorial Object Lessons.
As matters now stand the sparsely
settled states of the far west are like
ly to keep the senate in Republican
control for many years. Irrespective
of any political revolution that may
take place in the older and greater
Common wealths.
There is ui.ether reason, however,
why we should kep a few American
tcrritorie's of the first class. Se long
as Oklahoma. New Mexico, anel Ari
zona remain enit f the union they will
furnish the people an impressive eib
je-ct lesson on the subject of demo
cratic territorial government.
The republiean idea Is e xemplified
just nev in Porto Rico anel the Phil
ippines, meu-e partie-ularly the latler.
where there is a military despotism
modified to some extent by an irie;s
pensible e-om mission.
Once More.
Ours is mt the creed ef the weak
ling and the; coward; ours Is the; gos-pe-1
eif hope and of high endeavor.
President's message.
Ours is net the creed t)T the weak
ling and tho coward except when wo
happen to hump into a tarift' protec-teei
monopedy or a criminal trust, and
then we elei net know exactly what oil'
creed is. We wabble. We dodge. We
hedge. We duck. We trim. We await
developments. For we are a candi
date for re-election and we have been
informed that our lequae ity is likely
to get us into trouble.
Our gospel of hope anel high en
deavor has an eye single to a re
nomination. That is what it all
amounts lo.
Criminal Oppressive Monopolies.
Monopolies which empress consum
ers by an unreasonable increase in Ibo
price of commodities anel whic h para
lyze individual efforts by making com
petition impossible arc- criminal con
spiracies. The individuals who or
gar.ize them are criminals. Laws for
their punishment are not party meas
ures. Much has been saiel of "good
anel bad corporations." It is not a
good phrase. "Handsome! ia as hanel
some- does" is as appliable- to corpora
tions as it is te individuals. As the
president aptly phrases it, "we draw
the line against misconduct, not
against wealth."
A Refreshing Confession.
President Roosevelt ael vises in h s
message "the preservation of the
principle wjiieh underlies our wlioio
tariff system" the principle of "al
ways allowing a suflicict ratiei ej
duty to mere than cover the differ
ence between the labor cost here and
abroad." The ejrd "more" has here
tofore been left out of the .Republican
statements of this principle. By in
cluding it the President has candidly
or unguardedly confessed the real se
cret of the protective tariff's hold on
those who fatten on tarifl subsidies.
Flagrant Violators of Law.
The revelations made in the coal
inquiry are such that the law depart
ment of the government ought to pro
ec-ed against the anthracite trust.
The coal roads forming the trust vio
late both the law anel constitution of
Pennsylvania in mining coal. Tho
combination itself defies the federal
statute. The laws ought to be en
forced on their merits, and the
wrongs revealed by the present in
vestigation constitute another reason
why they should be enforced.
The Trusts Need Not Trouble.
There is no reason why any trust
or protected pet should tremble ovei
the president's message. While the
author of the message may be honest
and earnest in his purposes, the plana
which he approves are certainly nol
plans which are apt to lead to reliel
tiom the favoreel monopolies, and
een if they led in the right direction
it must be several long and weary
years before the people could reason
ably hope lor results.
Taffy for the Farmer.
The secretary of agriculture wants
the American farmer to study foreign
markets pnd discover where he car
ship his products to the best advan
tage. The buncombe of this is ap
parent when one considers that the
American farmer could not deal with
th foreigner direct if he would. Th
controlling spirit of tbe railway and
steamship lints will take care of the
exporter.
Small Comfort in Frigid Weather.
Some of the protectionist organ?
are trying hard to figure out a period
of phenomenal prosperity by enumer
ating the articles that have fallen ir
price during the past year. But when
coal is at a well-nigh prohibitive price
it is small comfort to learn how
cheaply the householder might buy
ether tinn-zs if he could spare the
money.
Seek to Deiay trie Judgment.
There may be some great doings
at Washington this winter, but Con
gress does not start off with a seem
ing purpose to get excited about any
thing. There is a tendency to merely
attend to the appropriation bill3 for
the next year or two and leave the
great big questions to be fought over
in the Presidential campaign of l'J'JL
An Admission in the Message.
Whether anthracite coal is on the
free or dutiable list has been made
cl?ar by the recommendation of the
president that the duty on it be re
moved. That settles one point con
crrning which certain party organs
tried to '.:ecp their readers in the dark.
SPEAKERSHIP OF THE HOUSE.
Only One Ohio Man Hss Held the
Office No New Yorker Since 1872.
Among the earliest dutlcrt whle h will
Je-velve upon the recently elected
memlnTg of the Fifty eighth Congren
will ho the choice of a Kpe-ake-r, and
present iiiliealliiH make It preibable
that the. speaker will be e hosen from
the west.
The xpeaker of the Fifty-seventh
Congress, David B. He iieb rsem. was Hi"
first to be chosen freun the terrlleiry
west, of tlm Mlsslshlppl.
The first speake-r was F. A. Muhleii
buig of IViiiih) Ivania. The post of
speaker WHK "''I I" Twenty fouilli
J and Twenty filth Congresses by James
K. Polk. afteTWiin! preside lit.
Speaker of the- Henise eif lt'pr'Keil-tntive-s
who have' been cundlelateH for
pienldeiit are ihmimtoiih and ln linl
Henry Clay, John Bell ami Jaine-s G.
Blaine. Sciiuylcr Colfax ufter having
been speaker, was vic preslbnt of
the Uriiteel Slate-s.
The oldest surviving speake r Is
Galuslia A. liiow, born In IS'Mi mid
speaker li'om iKeJl lo lSti;l.
The' lasi Demoiratie- speaker,
Cliarle s F. Crisp, was a native of Eng
lanel. Two surviving speakers, Jliu
G. Carlisle, anel Tin-man 11. Heed,
though ele-efe-el Representatives in
Kentue-ky ami Maine resp.-e-M ve ly. are
now re-sldents of the eily of N W
York.
There has never been a speaker
from the- Pacific coast and ll Is a H(me
what curious circumstance that Ohie,
though pre-eminent in m arly all olln r
loiitie-al offices, has had In tho coun
try's hisleiiy Iml one speaker. Jehn W.
Kb-fer, who se-rveel only a siiu-le- te rm.
The- state- e.f N'e-w York has had no
.-epi-akcr sim-e- the close eif I In- Nim--teenlh
Congress In 1S27. though N. w
York has been, eliirlng the- wliele- of
that pe-riod. I In- ineist popule-us stale
jtnl the- one having the- large'M eill
gressional representa! lem.
Trie? spe aker of th- Fifty-eighth cm
fcress whe n e hose n will pre-siile- over
a larger number of Me-inbe rs of Con
gress than any of his pre-de e e-Hsoi s. I lie'
tejtal membership ef the- next Ihiiisii
being 2SC.
A "BOY" AT SIXTY-EIGHT.
New Yorker's Playful Comment
on
Somewhat Elderly Friend.
Two eleb-rly men were coiiKpie-iieius
the other morning In a Sixth Av-iiu-elevateel
train. The-y ente-re-l al j -jjosile-
enels of the- car. One- w.-is siiori.
slow ami heavy eif t re-ad, anel yet obvi
ously anxious te appear niy and
youthful. The oilier was tall, span-,
anel active, ami only gave- toke-n ( ad
ane-e-el ye-ars by the- fussine-ss with
whie-h he- eluste-el the- ear t-.e-at lu loie
settling ele(wii ie his metrning p;i i ,
says the' Nw York Times.
As the- erowel thinne-d out at Park
Place- the- twej me n eauglil sig.'it eif
each otlwr anel ih- tall one- move d over
to a se-at alongsiele- his frlenel.
"Hew spry you are for your age!"
remarked the short one, wild a symp
tom of envy in his feme1.
"Age?" exe-laimeel the- eiiher. "Why
I have not begun ye t lei vreiw ei. 1
am only seventy-four."
"Well, well." puffed Hie- Hold e.ne,
"are you seventy-four' J e';dn"i Hiiul.
on were o 1 I BSBMW-t 'y '
sixty-eight."
"Why," e-xelaiine-el th- I'-ini erne, lap
ping his companion playfully on the
knee-, "you are.- quite- a boy ye t.''
Eating in Old Times.
The Romans te;ek the ir nials v hil--lying
upon ve ry low ceme-he-s, and ii'ii.
until the time eif Charle-magnc was a
stand used around whie-h gue sts v. v
seateel on e-u.sliiejiis, while- the- tabl
anly made its appearane-e- in the- mie
Be ages, bringing with it be-ne-he-s and
backs. The Greeks and Iteiinans ate
from a kinel of porringe-r. During a
portion of the mielelle age s, howe ve i
slices of bread cut remriel tejjk the
place of plates. The spoon is eif gre at
antiquity, and many spe-e inie-ns are- in
existence that were iise-d by t lie
Egyptians as early as the- he-ve-nieiith
century B. C. The knife-, though ve ry
old, die! not come into common use- as
a table utensil until alter the- tenth
century. The fork was absolute-ly un
known to both Greeks and Romans,
appeared only as a curiosity in th
middle ages anel was first u.-e-d upon
the table of Henry III. Drinking e-ups
in the middle- age s mad- freun ni' tal.
more or less e-opious, aecerdirig to II."
owner's means naturally date irom
the remotest age-.
An Ideal Husband.
He should lx- tnx- and l--r.i--r
JJlK hatnh I es win- arid warm,
A BtroiiK arid hrave- il-f-nd--r.
To slii'Id from e--ry Mirrn.
A toilT in life's Ilai-I.
A li'-lp in titii" "f i"'-d..
So r-aly arid no ahl
To fjuiJ-. uphold and l-ad.
A man upright. e;,dr" arlnp.
Who farn not any man.
Who may no tfeial fo liarlr:S,
Hut dots t)i h'ft h can.
His pr'-Mi ri'e. daily ll'HK,
Ht-'n neither nle-rri nor cold;
Kind w'rds and fond enress"
e'om from hlM h-art of fc-old.
f loves his family dearly.
Ail horn" in he-av-n to him;
Jl,- earns fre-xh aur-lie yearly.
His lustr n-vr khiwh dim.
Don't wy hf is Id-al.
yr iik th- word In J. ctt
To fw h true wife- he;' re-al
ll r husband, !irt arid b-st !
Mrs. Kln.lle-y IJradB,
The End of the World!
A somewhat learned 'professor of a
l'rench university met his class the
other elay with the serious announce
ment that, since the end of the world
was evidently coming, he would not
lecture any more, but would devote
his time to preparing for death. Dr.
Rc-ssinger. who is in charge of a
French asylum, states that a dozen
new cases have been brought In, rav
ing Bolely about the comet meeting
the earth, and hence reducing the
world to ashes. The Republican Ar
dennais, a provincial paper, reports
that in the Ardennes mountains twe
entire villages are abandoned, the in
habitants having retired to wild
gorges in order to fast and pray ami
prepare for their com ins doom.
In London each day 400 children
are born and 250 enter tschool for tho
first time.