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""WWFW The Commoner. PECEMBKR 25, 1903. Mnk. TVii',il'lMMW"l(iIW-BB-ft AN INSTITUTION TO BE KNOWN AS THE Academy of Flowers has been established in Paris. The Paris correspondent of the Chicago Tribune says: "The great palmhouse in the Pare des Princes, with thousands of exotics and plants, has been given by the state for the new institu tion, besides the magnificent garden of eighteen acres adjoining for the study of the thousands of strange specimens for artistic purposes. The art ists are delighted with the new institution, whose pavilion will serve as studio, museum, and lecture room. The best floral painters will exhibit can vases and lecture, and the academy is patronized by Mmo. Waldeck-Rousseau, M. Honataux, and M. Pierre Baudin." so MR. ROOSEVELT'S POLITICAL MANAGERS are considerably worried these days be cause of the suggestion coming from various sources that tho republican party might nominato a candidate for the presidency who would be stronger than tho president. While all the mem bers of the republican national committee said they were in favor of Mr. Roosevelt's nomination, it is claimed by Washington correspondents that only a few of them are willing to privately ex press tho opinion with which they are credited in the public press. According to the correspondents, the vast majority of the members of the republi can national committee say in private conversa tion that Mr. Roosevelt's nomination would bo suicidal. It is reported that at a Washington dinner par.ty, given by J. Hampton Moore, presi dent of the national league of republican clubs; John M. Thurston, formerly a senator from Ne braska, referred to Mr. Roosevelt as "a man whom everybody is for, but whom nobody wants;" and this epigram is said to bo very popular these days in high republican circles. TV f R. HANNA APPEARS TO BE THE CHOICE JLVA of the anti-Roosevelt republicans and al though ho insists that he is not a candidate, he has not made himself as clear' on this point as Mr. Roosevelt's friends would like to have him do. Friends of Mr. Hanna make no effort to conceal the fact that Mr. Roosevelt has been re quired to eat humble pie at the Hanna table. It is reported that Mr. Roosevelt had insisted upon the resignation of Perry S. Heath, secretary of the republican national committee, but Mr. Hanna said that Mr. Heath should not resign and Mr. Heath did not resign. Mr. Roosevelt's friends did not care to have the convention held in Chicago. Mr. Hanna selected Chicago, and Mr. Hanna had his way. Mr. Roosevelt's friends wanted an early convention and fixed June 7 as the limit. Mr. Hanna did not want an early convention and set tled upon June 21 as the day. Mr. Hanna had his way. Mr. Hanna seems determined to carry his fight against General Wood to the end, and he has requested the senate committee to summon Gen eral Wood to return from the Philippines in order that he may explain some of tW charges that have been preferred against himy While it is generally believed that in spite of this fight Mr. Roosevelt will be the republican nominee, it seems to be well understood among politicians that if the anti-Roosevelt men conclude that an organ ized effort to defeat Mr. Roosevelt's nomination would be practicable, Mr. Hanna will be "dragged" into the contest. Many politicians think that in that event Mr. Hanna would become the nominee, and all politicians agree that it would at least result In a merry light. tr vr THE TITLE OF AN ESPECIALLY INTEREST ing article written by Malcolm McDowell lor the Chicago Record-Herald is "Iron a Coquette Among Metals." Mr. McDowell says that an ex perimental scientist in Europe has discovered that metals can be killed by poison, put to sleep by chloroform, made drunk by whisky, and crazy by cocaine. According to Mr. McDowell, this scientist declares "with much confidence that metals possess many attributes and broadly in timates that he is the first man to prove it." Mr. McDowell explains that "every foundryman and blast furnace man for years has known that one metal at least has much akin to human in it. This metal, called the most useful of metals, is always seeking its affinity. It is a sad flirt; a veritable coquette. In its course from the crude ' i 0 ' ' ' mi iMWuiajwiM n jwygi NT Topics " --ttmirr ml f" y--iT gQ WVJ1 ore to tho finished product it runs the gamut of love and hate, and its intrigues and oscapades keep tho blast furnaco aud cupalo in a turmoil. Tliis metal Is iron, and one would scarcely think, looking at tho cold, hard, unfeeling bars of wjrought iron that tho same metal, in tho blast furnaco and the cupalo of tho foundry, is married and divorced a dozen or moro times and is a most susceptible, impressionable, reckless, un faithful sort of a blade. Tho ironmaster, knowing its ardent temperament and fickleness, employs the arts of love to make iron do about as ho wills." A CORRESPONDENT FOR THE ARMY AND Navy Journal has made an investigation in to the matter of the recurrence of family names in tho army register, and tho result is sot forth in tho Journal in an interesting way. It is shown that of the names familiar in history, there are eight Lees, five Grants, threo LIncolns, two Mc Clellans and two Logans. In numbers the Smiths lead, and they are all of tho honest old Teutonic stock, not one disguising himself as a Smyth or Smythe. Of tho fitty-fivo Smiths, threo aro gen eral officers, eight aro in tho staff, nine in tho cavalry, six in the artillery, twenty-ono in tho infantry and two in tho Philippine scouts, and six are on the retired list. Tho thirty-two members of the Davis family follow next in order of num bers, and then come tho Millers and Wllllamses, each having twenty-eight sons to represent them. Brown follows with twonty-fivo, tho Taylors twenty-four, Clarks twenty-three, Jones and Wil son each twenty, Parkers nineteen and Murphys sixteen. There are fifteen Barkers, Mitchells and Scotts, fourteen Harrises, Martins, Moores and Woods. Adams, Anderson, Hamilton, Jackson, Lewis and Wheeler occur thirteen times; Allen, Edwards, Green, Roberts and Robinson we find cloven times; and Abbot, Bell, Graham, Wells and Young ten times. Then come Bennett, Campbell, Cook or Cooke, Evans, Foster, Hodges, Hunt, Jordan, Thompson, Reed, Russell and Walker with nine of each. Bailey, Butler, Carter, Cole, Collins, Craig, ' Elliott, Johnson, King, Lynch, Mills, Morgan, Palmer, Patterson, Stone, Whito and Woodruff eight each. Seven times we find re peated the names of Arnold, Caldwell, French, Hughes, Hunter,-Kllbourne, Perry, Phillips, Price, Pope, Powell, Raymond, Rice, Rodgers, Stephens arid West, followed by six each of Ball, Fuller, Howell, Keller, Long, Morriss, Morrow, Page, Rucker, Tompkin3, Watson and Wright. As wo descend the list of numbers the list of names lengthens accordingly; if wo were asked for a list of those whose names appear five times, we should have to name Bates, Berry, Bowman, Buck, Burt, Fisher, Gordon, Humphrey, Lawton, Marsh all, Mason, Merrill, Morton, McClure, Powers, Read, Ross, Reynolds, Ryan, Turner, Tyler, Ward and Wagner. There are many who have their names repeated a less number of times, but in most cases they are fathers and sons or relatives in the same family. sr ar WRITING IN THE DECEMBER NUMBER of "The World's Work," Sereno E. Pratt' says that one-twelfth of the estimated wealth In the United States Is represented at the meeting of the board of directors of the United States steel corporation, when they aro all present. The 24 directors are John D. Rockefeller, Marshall Field, E .H. Gary, W. H. Moore, Henry C. Frlck, W. E. Corey, F. H. Peabody, Charles Steele, P. A. B. Widener, James H. Reid, William Edenborn, E. C. Converse, J. Plerpont Morgan, H. H. Rogers, George W. Perkins, Norman B. Ream, Charles M. Schwab, C. A. Griscom, Daniel G. Reid, J. D. Rockefeller, jr., Alford Clifford, Robert Bacon, Nathaniel Thayer and James Gayloy. MR PRATT SHOWS THAT THESE MEN represent as influential directors more than 20U other companies. These companies operate nearly one-half of tho railroad mileage of the United States. They are the great miners and carriers of coal. Among these companies are such industrial trusts as the Standard Oil, the Amalgamated Copper, the International Harvester, rhe Pullman tho General Electric, the Interna tional Mercantile Marine, the United States Real ty and Construction and the American Linseed The leading telegraph system, the traction lines of New York, of Philadelphia, of Pittsburg, of Buf falo, of Chicago and of Milwaukee, and ono of tho principal express companies, aro represented in tho board. Thin group includes also directors of flvo lnsuranco companies, two of which have assets of $700,000,000. In tho stool board aro men who speak for flvo banks and ten trust companies in Now York city, Including tho First National, tho National City and tho Bank of Commerce, tho threo greatest banks In tho country, and tho head of important chains of financial Institutions; for two banks and three trust companies in Philadel phia; for two banks and two trust companies in Chicago; for ono bank and two trust companion in Boston, and for ono bank and one trust com pany in Pittsburg, besides banking institutions In smaller cities. Tolephono, electric, real estate, cablo and publishing companies aro represented there, and our greatest morchant elta at the board table. AN INTERESTING STORY IS CONTRIBUTED to tho Chicago Inter-Ocean by that newspa per's Philadelphia correspondent. Under date of December 12, tho Inter-Ocean's correspondent claims that a lineal descendant of King David re cently died In Philadelphia. Tho story Is told In this way: "Mrs. Gustav Lipschuctz was her name. She lived with hor husband and flvo children on Diamond street Through the misty reachos of sacred history this woman could trace her kin ship to the distinguished Jewish family Abar banol, whoso relationship to David is undoubted and whose achievements throughout Europe aro matters of history. Mrs. Lipschuctz, whose maid en name was Bortha Neumann, sprang from that branch of the family of which Don Isaac Abar banel, prime minister In Spain In 1492, was tho head. During that time, when persecution against tho Jews began as a result of tho change In tho religious views of Ferdinand and Isabolla, Don Isaac was obliged to flee with his less favored brethren. Tho family scattered, settling In vari ous parts of Europe. Don Isaac afterward became prime minister In Italy. The grandfather of tho dead woman was Rudolph Ilirsch Abarbanol, ono of the foremost rabbis of Germany in the last cen tury. The city of Gretz, whore he died, gave him a public funeral, and the government buildings were draped In mourning. Mrs. Lipschuctz was born in Germany In 1850, and came to this country during tho civil war." TN HIS RELATIONS WITH NEW YORK'S 1 famous Sunday school class, John D. Rocke feller; jr., Is frequently embarrassed by tho record of the trust magnate. Under dato of December 13, tho New York correspondent for the Philadelphia Record says: "A remark by ono of his hearers caused John D. Rockefeller, jr., to dismiss the young men's Bible class of the Fifth Avenue Bap tist church today without ceremony. Rockefeller had just finished talking about charitable giving, when a man arose and said: 'Mr. Rockefeller, just one word' 'I beg your pardon, sir,' said Rockefeller. 'We are very late now, and wo won't have time for any discussion.' 'Just ono word, Mr. Rockefeller,' and every eye was fixed upon the tall man with long locks and drooping mus tache; 'I just want to say that perhaps as soon as some of us cease taking from others we can give with better grace.' Mr. Rockefeller turned to tho orchestra and said: We'll have the music omitted today; we're late. We will not hear tho announcement for the week by the secretary.' " THE GERMAN WAR MINISTER IS DEVOT ing his best energies to stamping out bru tality and immorality among his troops. In a speech delivered in tho roiebstag, Minister von EInem admitted that there has been abuses and declared that tho army administration was deter mined to correct them. The minister said that during tho year 50 officers and 577 non-commissioned officers and good service men were pun ished for mistreatment of private soldiers. Ac cording to these figures, one officer in 400 and ono non-commissioned officer In 120 had been found guilty of tho misuse of authority. The Berlin correspondent for the Chicago Record-Herald, re ferring to Minister von Einem's statement, says: "Herr Richter in reply pointed out that a single non-commissioned officer in the guards had on, : -i iii I n 4Hiv . 5fcufca. i4