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they say, strictly, in the presidential class. Ho lias
!nrovodr himself both a constructive statesman and
.a. "practical politician.- He has 'produced the
goods' both as the governor of a state and In the
.larger, realm of Washington and national affal.-s.
He Js regarded by almost everybody except Mr.
.Roosevelt, apparently, as more nearly the pnrallel
to Roosevelt than any other man in public life.
-But the president seems studiously to avoid drag
ging in the name of LaFollette when presidential
matters arc discussed. If ho is not absolutely m-
. posed to the Wisconsin man, it Is at least strongly
believed in Washington that he is prejudiced"
against him. When LaFollette first came here his
relations with the White House were no more' cor
dial than with 'the conservatives of the senate. It
was said that the president regarded LaFollette
as a 'demagogue.' There was the impression iu
many quarters that the president did not Tike to
brook opposition in his own particular sphere. He
was accused of regarding LaFollette as a rival of
himself, whom he might not be able to domi
nate, and whom, therefore, he chose to oppose.
Nothing has done the president moire harm, in the
estimate of Washington .people who have observed
' him at short range, than his attitude toward La-
JFolletto. Spooner, than whom few men prominent
in public life were more elementally opposed to
the ideas of Mr. Roosevelt, received the most dis
tinguished consideration at the White House, and
got what he asked In patronage, while LaFollette
was apparently Ignored. The president made some
tardy concessions to' the Wisconsin man after, the
latterhad proved that he could make headway
even without the alliance of the White House.
" There is a large element in the Roosevelt wing of
the republican party which regards Roosevelt as
not a constructionist, while it looks upon LaFol
lette as both an agitator and constructionist."
ON THE OCCASION of the opening of the
Jamestown exposition, April 26, Hampton
Roads was the scene of a great naval review, fifty
s great war vessels taking part. The Associated
s Press report says: "The illumination of the com
' bined fleets of Great Britain, Germany, Austria,
the Argentine republic and the United States,
crowned with magnificent splendor the picture
which had been presented when President Roose
,velt?, aboard the naval yacht. -Mayflower, sailed
'".arouncL the anchored squadrons and received the
-' welcome of their guns fired in the presidential
salute. The daylight decorations of various col
ored signal flags stretched in fluttering strings
from stem to stern gave way with the setting sun
to the glow of thousands of electric bulbs and the
- far-reaching flash of a hundred playing searcu
.. lights. The vessels of the American fleet were
' completely outlined in" incandescent bulbs. Mili
tary masts and turrets, water line and free board
were strung with the fairy-like filament lanterns
and in bold letters across the bridge the name of
the vessel burned the identity of the sea fighter
- into the night." )
ON THE exposition grounds. President Roose
velt was introduced by H. St. George Tuck
" . er, president of the exposition. The president was
greeted with great enthusiasm. He delivered a
speech in which he discussed the abuses of cor
porate wealth, saying: "The corporations have
-. nothing to fear if they obey the law."
"np HE. INDICATIONS are, that the Jamestown
. exposition will' be a great success. Refer
"ring to this great enterprise, a writer to the New
York World says: "The period from the dis
covery of America to the foundation of the first
English settlement in the new world was almost
..-as long as the lifetime of the republic. It is 131
'. years since the declaration of independence was
signed, 118 years since the beginning of consti
tutional government. So slowly began the move
" ment that has grown so swift that 115 years
. passed after Columbus sighted Watling's island be
fore the Jamestown settlement, In 1G07, whoae
tercentenary celebration is to begin this week.
- With the St. Louis exposition the United States
has passed the -series of centennials advertising
the bigness of achievements. A notable series It
-has been: the Declaration, the Constitution, the
' Northwest Ordinance, the Lewis and Clark ex
pedition in advance of the prairie schooner and
' the railway, the Louisiana Purchase. Jamestown
,. belongs with the Chicago Columbian celebration
and with such two hundred and fiftieth anniver
saries as old towns In the east, in Florida and in
the Spanish southwest from time to time hold. J't
. takes us back to rude beginnings. The place is
appropriate. Charleston, St. Augustine, Boston,
Philadelphia, New York and Jamestown are cen-"-ters-
of antiquarian tradition in -.regions where
patriotic pilgrimages have many sources of . in
spiration. The past makes but a faint cry In a
bustling big city, but on the plain where James
town was and has vanished the exposition is
some miles awaymodernity is less insistent.
. The stately homes of tidewater Virginia make It
easy to Imagine the days when the ship straight
from London laiided at the planter's dock the
miscellaneous cargo his tobacco had bought for
the year's provisioning. And first of nil those
noble homes, but a little way from the exposition,
is one which every American citizen should visit
in his youth, the most solemn shrine on earth of
generous patriotism, the home of Washington at
Mount Vernon. From the colonial period, the
revolutionary war, the British Invasion of 181-4 ami
the sharpest struggle of the civil war the mouth
of the Chesapeake is full of memories. It will do
no, hustling American harm fo cultivate them for
a few days."
ACCORDING TO the Wall Street Journal,
probably within a year or two the open
hearth process of steel making, which had Its
origin and early development In America, will
have displaced the older method known as the
Bessemer process In this country. The Journal
says: "Last year of 23,240,000 tons of steel man
ufactured in this country 12,275,000 tons were bv
the Bessemer and 10,071,000 tons by the open
hearth process. The Bessemer process has hith
erto held sway most widely. Other varieties of
production have had some vogue here and on the
continent, but generally the method followed 1ms
been that which Sir Henry Bessemer invented and
brought to perfection in England after spending a
fortune or two in the effort. The open hearth
process which had for some years bpen looked
upon as hardly worthy of being regarded as a
competitor of the Bessemer process, and will soon
take the place of its older rival,' is an achievement
that does honor to the. United States, because here
' the newer method was brought to .such a degree
of perfection as to demonstrate Its superiority
over the other, especially in dealing with ores of
anything except a very low phosporus content.
The credit of this invention and its adoption here
and abroad rests largely with Talbott, the Ameri
can engineer, by whose name it-. was formerly
known. Within recent ydars' the latter proccs.s ,
has received Very general" recognition In the Brit
ish 'steel manufacturing practice. In this way the
v United States is paying back n debt to Inventive
genius which was begun with the introduction of
the Bessemer system into the United States."
T-WELVE YEARS- ago William January, then
twenty-one years old, was convicted of rob
bing a postofDce in Oklahoma and sentenced to
five years in the penitentiary at Leavenworth?
For three years he was a model prisoner and,
with the allowance for good behavior, had only
eight months more to seryc. Then one night he
took advantage of a sleepy guard and escaped.
The Kansas City correspondent for the New York
World tells the i'est of the story in this way:
"The next day Charles W. Anderson made his
appearance jn this city looking for work. A few
days later he found it in a restaurant. He proved
to be Industrious and honest. . He saved his rrioney
and within three years took a wife. They lived
"happily at No. 1117 Holme street. So far as the
wife knew his life had always been exemplary
Three years ago a baby was born. In time Ander
son got enough to start in business for himself.
He was straightforward in his dealings and re
quired every employe to be the same. Yesterday
afternoon u city detective met Anderson on the
street and recognized in him the escaped prisoner
and arrested him. vJ?hls morning he had a part- .
ing interview with his ivife In jail before being
'taken to prison In Leavenworth. 'Be brave,
Charles,' sobbed the heart-broken woman, 'and
remember there are a wife and baby "who will
always believe in you. Wtf will wait for the
time when you will he released. Then we will
be happy again.' Then handcuffs were fastened
on his wrists and he started on his way to prison."
THE UNITED STATES supreme court, speak
ing through Justice Harlan, has upheld n
Missouri state law, which provides that the sui
cide clause in life insurance policies is inaffective.
'xxie Washington' correspondent for Die St. Louis
Globe-Democrat says: "The statute was passed
in 1879, and thousands of policies were dependent
upon the decision in this case. It was of such
impdrtance that Attorney General Hadley, on be
half of the state, joined in the petition with an
intervener in order to hasten the decision, if po3--sible.
The case in point was the suit of Mrs.
.Amanda S. Wbltefield, widow of James White
.field; former sporting editor of the Kansas City
Star,, against the Aetna Accident Insurance com
pany of Hartford, Conn. -Mrs. Whltefleld claimed
the full amount ot ?5,000"wlllcli. th6 company
promised to pay In event or death of her hus
band from accidental causes, but the company
would agree, to pay only $500, or one-tenth 'of
the amount of the policy, because there was proof
of suicide. There was an 'agreement on the facta
In the cose when It came to the supremo court,
Mrs. Whitfield admitting as th(proofs of death
had shown that her husband's death was due to
a self-inflicted pistol wound, but claiming that
ho was mentally Irresponsible at the time. The
insurance company had a clause in Its policy to
the effect that It-would pay only one-tenth of IU
face In case of death by suicide. The Missouri
statute, however, permits recovery of the full
amount, notwithstanding any clause to the con
trary in the policy iu case of suicide. The su
premo court today upheld this statute while the
trial court and the court of appeals at Kansas
City had sustained the insurance company's con
tention." IN THE CbTJUSE or his opinion Justice Har
lan, said that the law.whlch forbade any In
surance company doing business within that state
from using suicide as a defense unless it were
shown that the insured contemplated sufcido at
the time the. policy-was applied for was a legiti
mate exercise of power by the state, and Unit the
limitation flxed by the policy was an attempt to
evade its provisions. It was not, he declared', an
interference with the freedom of contract, be
cause the insurance company was not compelled
to enter Into such contracts, and lie found nothing
Inconsistent with the policy or public morality In
the claim that it offered a premium or bounty on
suicide, for the reason that the companies would
be relieved of liability in cases where It was Shown
that the Insured contemplated suicide at the time
the policy was issued.
rp HIS PECULIAR story comes all the way from
X New York, and Is vouched for by the World:
"Probably the AUdobon society will be Interested
In the poetic and bird-loving burglar who robbed
Joseph Beinl of a canary, a pair of shoes and a
razor yesterday. Belnl loudly complained at the
East Fifty-third street police, station that Uie door
of his room on the fourth floor of No. 020 Second
avenue had been forced. 'And read what the ras
cal had the Impudence to write to me,' said.
Beinl. ne tossed before Lieutenant Ellis a big
sheet of manlla paper on which' was rudely
scrawled:
'World-weary as I passed along,
From yonder casement came a sound,
A soft persuasive, mellow thrill,
All listening hearts with Joy to All.
'WItli, sweet appeal the captured bird
Told "of Its woes, and as I heard
I felt that I the one must be
To set the tiny prisoner free."
"P. S. The man who keeps a bird In a cagb
deserves to lose more than his boots and his
razor." "I don't care a rap about ray shoes and
my razor, but I want my canary," said Beinl, who
is a cigarmnkcr. "It is not only a sweet singer,
but an animated alarm clock. It wakes me w
early every morning by singing to me." Ellis sent
out Detectives Tobon and Cummins, but they had
caught noither bird nor burglar at an early hour
this morning.
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RITING TO THE New York Press, 'a
thoughtful observer" says: "SeeTif any of
your readers can explain why, without any ex
ception, a person having met death through vio
lent means is picked up with either one or both
shoes removed intact I have been employed m
railroad work for twenty-seven years, and have
witnessed hundreds of Instances which lead me
to consider such facts as nothing short of myster
ious phenomena. Last Saturday night I was rid
ing from Albany to Troy on the belt line, and the
engine struck and instantly killed a man -walking
on the track. While the excitement was going
on I remarked to a fellow passenger: 'Look aud
see if he has both shoes on.' We both looked, and
discovered that the left shoe had been removed
without the string having been loosened. Hovr
can you account for it?"
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UNITED STATES Senator Borah is one of the
attorneys prosecuting Moyer, Haywood and
Pettibone for the murder of the late Governor
Steunenberg of Idaho. Senator Borah has also
been indicted in connection with the timber fraud.
Washington dispatches say that Borah has asked
delay- in the Indictments in his case In order that
be may prosecute these three officials of the West
'enr Federation of Miners.
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