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tho Brier Hill Collieries and the Cun
jCoal company required investigation and
placed my interests in these matters in
of Senator Bailey or Toxas, wnn power
y from me to handle them as he saw
ed Mr. Gruet to place himself at the dis-
Sdnator Bailey and make such investiga-
o the interests mentioned as Senator Bal-
edwlred. Mr. Gruet readily assented to my
stion and returned to St. Louis within a
ftpr two, where he met Senator Bailoy and re-
yea instructions irom aonator uaiiey in regaru
o investigation which. Senator Bailey desired
at Nashville, Tenn., which was tho head
ers of all these companies." Mr. Pierce went
explain that Gruet put in several months in
ville making investigations under the dlrec-
of Senator Bailey, and then went to New York
make a report to Pierce. Mr. Pierce contin-
"Senator Bailey expressed the opinion that
et's examinations at Nashville had heen with
out value. It was subsequently proved that Sen-
rrJ&br Bailey's impressions were correct and that
Gruet had simply gone to Nashville and copied
n books and come hack here and gone to New
tiork and did not even turn in his report;"
REFERRING TO THE Pierce testimony. Sen
ator Bailey says that the Standard Oil
company has no interest or connection with the
Tennessee properties for which he is the attor
ney. The Washington correspondent for tho Chi
cago Record-Herald quotes Senator Bailey as say
ing: "My employment in this instance, as well
as in all other instances, was such as any hon
orable lawyer is glad to accept, and my clients
are entirely satisfied with the manner in which
I have protected their interests. We, perhaps,
have reached a time when the public is unwilling
for a man engaged in its service to be at the. same
time engaged in any other business, however
legitimate and honorable it may be; and it may
be that hereafter our senators and representatives
are to "be made up of men who are wholly depend
ent upon their public salaries for their living. If
the public chooses to dismiss men of affairs from
its service and to employ only professional poli
ticians it has the -right to do so, but, as for my
partt I have, no intentions of Sacrificing my right
to' earn a competence for my old age, so long as
I can do so 1n it perfectly honorable way and with
out neglecting my public duties. If I choose to
w6rk while other senators rest or travel, intelli
gent men are not likely to make that a ground of
complaint against me. Not only do I intend to
use my own time in the legitimate practice of my
profession, but I do not intend to humor what
seems to be a morbid state of mind which de
mands an explanation for everything a man does,
no matter how entirely proper it may be. The
next thing you gentlemen of the press know the
men who happen to dislike you will be declaring
that you are paid for what you write, and that
declaration will be made with an air of mystery
which will be expected to Impress upon certain
minds that in making a living with your brain
and your pen you are guilty of something wrong."
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, the London author
of several hotly criticised plays, was re
cently invited by a New York theatre management
to Tisit America and was promised a "royal good
time." Mr. Shaw replied in this way: "It is just
that royal reception that makes it impossible for
me to come. If I could come quietly, without con
vulsing America, without delivering a hundred
addresses to enormous crowds, -without a salute
of 101 guns, without the risk of being forcibly
naturalized and elected president, and subsequent
ly seized and imprisoned by Mr. Comstock, then,
I might come. As it is, I prefer the quiet and re
tirement of London. Besides, I am writing a
new play an astonishingly good one. I had no.
idea I had so much good left in me. It has de
layed my reply a little; but you will forgive me."
WHILE ADMITTING that prohibition figured
in the Maine campaign, the Springfield
(Mass.) Republican says that prohibition was not
tho only cause of the republican weakness, but
that for years there have been accumulating
"minor causes of dissatisfaction with the machine
for so long in the control of the state's affairs."
The Republican adds: "An oligarchical rule had
arisen within the republican lines and a little in
side ring had left tne rank and file mit litUo share
in the actual government of the commonwealth.
That there "was more or less dissatisfaction with
this condition of affairs Is well known to those
who have had tho opportunity to test sentiment
among Maine voters, and that this feeling mani
fested itself yesterday, much as tho same fooling
was manifested In tho heavy vote for Mr. Clement
in Vermont tho week before, Is altogether likely.
Indeed, the wholo northorn tier of Now England
states havo lately exhibited marked signs of rest
lessness under tho political dominion to which
they havo long been subjected. Coming to Con
gressman Littleflold's case, which has attracted"
more attention In the country than tho stato con
test itself, it must bo admitted that Mr. Gompcrs
has 'made good.' Of tho national significance of
the tremendous reduction in Mr. Littleflold's plur
ality there can bo no possible doubt. Tho com
parative success of tho laboriten in this opening
battle againBt some fifty republican congressmen
is calculated to cause a panic in republican con
gressional circles and at one stroke to make the
complexion of the next national house a matter
of grave doubt. In the Maino election, national
republican leaders like Secretary Taft and Speak
er Cannon burned their bridges, so far aa the de
mands of organized labor aro concerned, and Mr.
Cannon's somewhat irascible defiance of Mr.
Gompexs will echo throughout the autumn cam
paign. It must finally be observed that the cry,
'Stand by the president,' proved futile in Maino
to hold the republican strength up to its normal
level, and to this fact we may concede a certain
ominous significance, whilo refusing to read into
the result national implications that are obviously
not there."
GNOMES WERE SUPPOSED by some people
to inhabit the inner parts of the earth and
to be guardians of mines and quarries. Pope re
fers to the "gnomes or demons of the earth who
delight in mischief." The dictionary describes
it as "a dwarf; a goblin; persons of small or mis
shapen form or features." This introduction will
prepare the reader for "the discovery," made by
Col. Henry Steele Olcott, chief of the Theosophi
cal society at Chicago. Col. Olcott recontly ad
dressed the TheoSophists and, according to a Chi
cago dispatch to the New York World soil:
"Gnomes, sylphs, undines and salamanders are
the spirits of the earth, air, water and fire, re-
spectively, and unless there is an ablo-bodied
' sylph in a person's systom he will have no suc
cess as an aeronaut, slack-wire walker or flying
machine inventor. Unless the man who under
takes to control money, oil, diamonds and other
treasures of the earth has a few gnomes to pilot -him
he might as well go into bankruptcy before
ho lands in a madhouse. If a farmer boy out in
Minnesota awakens some morning with an un
controllable desire to go to sea, he is beset by an
nndine. Salamanders obcess those who climb
fire-escapes, sell coal, members of the fire depart
ment and those who conduct fire sales:" From this
the World correspondent reason? that "gnomes
the funny little creatures with round, floppy ears
and pointed red caps, are the actual financiers
of the world. John D. Rockefeller Is said to be
simply jammed full of these imps, and every man
in Wall street who is successful is simply beset
by them."
SOME INTERESTING testimony was given re
cently before the interstate commerce com
mission in session at Chicago. A. B. Jacquith, of
Omaha, formerly manager of an elevator com
pany, admitted that he knew of an instance where
tho m. cents' allowance to the Pcavey company
had been divided between the company and the
man who sold tho elevator company the grain,
so that a greater price was paid for the grain
than competing companies could pay. Ho also ad
mitted that with this additional allowance from
the railroad the dealer may go into tho country
and defeat his competitors because he has the
allowance to aid him in overbidding the com
petitor. AB. STICKNEY, president of the Chicago
Great' Western Itailroad company, gave the
details of the alleged trust formed by the Union
Pacific and showed how two men who dared defy
the trust were" crushed financially. One of these
is Ems Leflln, a former grain dealer of Lexing
ton, Neb., Who has written tho commission that
he wishes to testify in the present inquiry. Mr.
Stfckney did not divulge the name of the other
man. The reason given by Mr. Stickney for with
holding the man's Identity was that he was afraid
if he disclosed the name the man would suffer
the loss of a clerical position he is now holding
in Chicago. According to Mr. Stickney, this man
whoso name Is withhold, invested 30,000 in the
grain business In Nobrnska. Ho was having a
hard timo whon ho recoived a check for $5,000 for
tho Peavoy Elevator company. He saw that it
was a mistake and asked tho Union Pacific, which
sent the check, to give him a rebate of the same
kind. Tho man also found a letter accompany
ing tho check addressed to tho Pcavey Elevator
company. Tho railroad, Mr. Stlcftnoy declared,
told tho man he would bo taken care of If ho
grtvo back the letter ho had received by mistake.
Tho letter and chock were then both returned to
tho railroad. Shortly after, Mr. Stickney said,
tho man was put out of business and left Nebraska
penniless.
W'lLLIAM F. T1IOBER, of Tronlon, N. J was
married on Seplombor in to Miss Viola
Giover of Newark. Behind this brief announce
ment Is a startling story. Timber was married on
Saturday evening at tho homo of Miss Mary Mac
Donald; whom ho expected to marry on Sunday
evening. By merest ndcldent Miss MacDonald
learned that her finance had jilted Miss Glover
sixteen months before. Tho wedding Invitations
had boon sent out, tho bridal drosses wore all
ready and the minister ongnged, and then camo
the climax. Miss MacDonald summoned MJss
Glover and her parents to the MacDonald homo
on Saturday. She also summoned tho minister
and a few especial friends and near relatives
to whom' she told tho story. Thoher came to
tho MacDonald home on Saturday evening, pro
pared to remain there until the marriage on
Sunday ovening. He was met at the door by his
fiance's brother-in-law, Mr. Griflm. "Anxious
and eager for the wedding?" queried Mr. Griffin.
Thobor said ho could' hardly wait. "Then wo'H
have it right now," said Mr. Griffin. The folding
doors were thrown open and tho astonished
young man saw a dozen people Btanding around,
while tho minister stood waiting. Ho stopped
forward;- and to his surprise and dismay saw
Miss Glover approaching him. Ho was handed
a ring, and gently pushed in front of tho min
ister with Miss Glover at his side. In a few
brief twords the minister pronounced the words
that- made the jilted and betrayed Miss Glover
tho wife of William F. Timber. TJio moment
the ceremony was concluded Mr. Griffin escorted
Timber to the hall, handed him his hat and
said: "You may go." Timber went. Then the
guests sat down to a wedding supper without
tho bridegroom, and the happiest there were
the two young women the one who had escaped
marriage with Timber, and the other who had
secured a legal righting of hep-wrongs. Thoher
has not been seen by any of the guests since
the startling wedding.
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WINSTON CHURCHILL was -defeated In his
fight against tho republican railroad ma
chine in New Hampshire, but he made some bad
wounds on his enemy. A writer In the New York
World says. "His supporters in one city ward de
feated United States Senator Galllnger, chairman
of the republican state committee; Samuol C.
Eastman, who was slated to preside at the state
convention; James O. Lyford, naval officer at tho
port of Boston, slated to he chairman of the com
mittee on resolutions; Frank S. Streeter, counsel
for the Boston and Maine railroad and member
of the republican national committee, and other
prominent state politicians. It was a big killing
for a beginner. Senator Gallinger's scalp alone
would have been a big prize."
WRITING TO THE New York Evening Post,
Joseph S. Wood of Mt. Vernon, N. Y.,
criticises Mr. Roosevelt's "spelling" decree, and
says that It presents a very serious situation. Mr.
Wood explains: "When congress passes an act
it is engrossed, and It must he printed as it Is
engrossed. If congress adopts one style of spel
ling for the laws it enacts, and the president
adopts another, which is to be the standard?
Again, the United States courts have reporters
who are appointed by them to look after tho
printing of the reports of tho decisions rendered.
If the judges of these courts spell their words
not in accordance with the edicts of the presi
dents or with the laws of congress, we may have
an executive English, a legislative English, and
a judicial English. Again, what Js true of con
gress and the United States courts is equally
true of tho legislatures and courts of the several
states. Who can say whereunto this will lead?"
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