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Now that Colonel Bryan has returned
to Nebraska, the democratic Insurgents
v.lll promptly grovel In the duet
Dancer from blizzards Is not past.
Georgia announces that Its peach crop
will be the. largest In the history of the
hlate. " '
The .civilization of Japan Is unques
I unable since' It Is able to 'find a gang
ft boodlera In its legislature even during
var. times.
The fully failure has demonstrated
!ie fact that speculation has less effect
tiwlay upon legitimate business than
i-ver before.
. If General Kouropatkln blows as hard
r, fter he reaches Manchuria as he does
S i starting tha Japanese will have to
t ike to the cyclone cellar.
.. With the memory of Kelff and Klshl
rsff fresh in the minds of the public,
tmplalnt of Japanese cruelties comes
r.ith poor grace from Russia,
Counting tnatroctod delegates, the Ne
&ptskTdldate tor-, vice- president on
.tTejubllcan ticket, Ja. several , laps
i. head of most of his competitors.
yyf A a ?:
i - If Voula appear from the evidence of
first Assistant Postmaster General
Y.'ynne members of congress would not
I ave got what they did not want had
x'.iej Jnot insisted, upon receiving it
If there are no sinecures in Washing
ton,, the public service will surely suffer
' hUe. the 'Burton trial is in progress in
i;t.; Lla,'from the number of govern
ment : employes summoned there' to
testify. . ' ;
' The ,local democracy furnishes some
striking examples of the damage fac
tional political clubs can do to the cause
f party pceeBa..JlThey are not exam
ples that should incite imitation by re
publicans. ' ,
, .with Premier Combes and Premier
I'.alfour both facing a disappearing ma
,'jrity favorable to them In their parlla
i lents the bond of sympathy between
Hie governments of France and England
Is increasing.
It is quite in keeping with the eternal
Ttnes of things that the head ,of the
(plum smugglers should lead the latest
utbreak against Christians tn Chlua. A
Christian nation is said to have forced
i lie opium traffic upon China,
Having learned that the 'sultan of
I'nlu was not unduly excited when told
that the treaty between his august per
t onallty and the United States had been
Abrogated, the public can return to con
t uiplation of the war in the Orient with
equanimity.
English class distinction comes to
notice frequently, but never so forcibly
If recent years as at the death of the
iluko of Cambridge, whose son is not
ti be permitted to inherit bis title be
cause his mother was not a member c f
any royal family.
If the school board would wait until
.Mr. Pearse had made his departure
;rom the city before undertaking to nil
the vacancy created by his transfer to
Milwaukee it might be in better posl
lion to act in tha interests of the tax
payers and patrons of the schools free
from dictation by the departing politi
cian.
The declaration by one of the city
(ouncllmen that the council is con
Mantly violating the city charter is
i ardly Justification of another charter
!i fraction, but quite the contrary,
uuould call for a cessation of the dis
regard of charter provisions. If the
loundl can with impunity refuse to
observe the charter lit one connection, it
, an do the same in all things. The
only safety for the taxpayers Ilea In
the strict enforcement of the laws II in
' Itlug tha authority of their publl
erranta.
TUB WAR tITVATlOlt.
.The seeker after . something definite
nd trustworthy in regard to operations
In the far east will find little in the cur
rent dixpn tches, and that not of a na
ture to throw much light upon the sit
uation. The correspondents are occa
sionally able to send a few facts of In
terest, but for the most part their dls
pntches are made up of guesses and con
jectures, while the military experts who
offer explanations of the probable plans
of the' belligerents are necessarily all
at sea, baring no definite information as
to military movements, or only of the
most fragmentary character. The se
crecy maintained by both combatants In
respect to their land operations, when so
many alert and eager news seekers are
about. Is really quite remarkable and
must be exceedingly exasperating to the
correspondents.
That there is a fine game of strategy
In progress Is not to be doubted and that
It must Hiion bring on a clash that may
have a very important bearing uion tho
subsequent campaign Is equally certain.
The experts continue of the opinion that
the Russian plan Is to remain on the de
fensive for the present and this view
finds support in the statement that the
campaign of the commander-in-chief is
based upon awaiting the enemy at Muk
den and Harbin, the latter in the very
center of Manchuria. Assuming this to
be the plan and that the Japanese fol
low the retiring Russians, attacking
them in their entrenched positions, the
armies of Japan will lose heavily. It
eenis improbable, however, that they
will do this, though It is to be consid
ered that the longer the Japanese delay
to strike the stronger the enemy will
grow, for the Russians are being steadily
reinforced and appear to bare an abun
dance of supplies. '
Still as we. have an Id pretty much all
that comes from the seat of war Is con
jecture," the only certain thing being that
both belligerents are concentrating great
armies It will undoubtedly add to the
history of war another chapter of nota
ble valor.
A9 UHT1MILT MUVM.
It is possible, as reported, that the
British government is sounding the pow
ers, including the . United States, to as
certain whether they will entertain a
Joint movement for ending the war In
the east. The statement Is made that
the matter has been submitted to the
Department of State, In a message from
the ambassador of the United States to
England, and that after having been
considered by the cabinet it was given
out that our government does not be
lieve that either Russia or Japan Is
ready now to welcome even a tender of
good offices for the ending of the war
and It will take no part In any move
ment for that purpose until it has direct
assurances from both the powers at war
that it would be advisable to do so. Ac
cording to one ' report the feeling in
Washington is that it is inopportune
even to discuss the matter, because it is
likely to offend either Russia or Japan,
and especially the former, because of
her reverses and her sensitive feeling
toward this country..
It .is perfectly easy to understand that
Great Britain should desire to bring
about, )f possible,' a termination of the
far eastern war. There is some reason
to apprehend that she may be drawn
into that conflict and Great Britain does
not want war. Her financial, industrial
and commercial conditions all require
that she shall be at peace. But it ought
to be plain to her ruling statesmen that
the suggestion of mediation or interven
tion at this time has no possible chance
of being seriously considered by either
belligerent nor will there be any chance
until they have done some hard fighting
and suffered severely. At present each
confident of success and therefore
unwilling to listen to any proposal for
settlement of their quarrel otherwise
than by the arbitrament of arms. Be
sides, as matters stand peace could now
be negotiated on a basis but slightly, if
at all, different from the situation be
fore the outbreak of hostilities. Perhaps
sooner or later, before they have become
quite exhausted, both nations will listen
to a proposal of mediation, but that time
Is mmewhat remote. The war will go
on at least until some decisive turning
point in the land campaign Is reached,
LKT TBB AUTl-TRVST LAW tSTAHD
There is a disposition in some quar
ters to urge more or less radical
changes in the Sherman anti-trust law,
On the part of some of the advocates of
amending the law it is declared to have
become Important and necessary, in
view of the decision in the merger case,
that the act be amended to exclude rail
roads specifically from its provisions.
Those who take this view hold that the
roads should be allowed to consolidate
to any extent they wish, but not per
mltted to make what rates they please,
the power to regulate rates and charges
to be vested in the interstate commerce
commlsalon. This is not a new sugges
tion and it has never been favorably re
garded, by the public, perhaps because
there is lack of confidence that the com
mission could always be depended upon
to conserve the public Interests: If the
railroads were allowed to consolidate to
any extent they wish it is more than
probable that they would be allowed to
make the rates they wished. At all
events there would be danger of this.
It is stated that there la a certain con
tingent among the congress attorneys
who believe that the anti-trust la
should be amended by the Insertion of
the word "reasonable" before 'restraint
of trade." They urge that the act
crudely drawn and that the word
"reasonable" was omitted from the text
through an error. They further assert
that the merger decision,' while demon
nt rat lug beyond question 'the attitud
of the court at present will not prove
a sufficiently clear cut precedent to
serve as a guide to subordinate courts
In the future and might even ba
versed by the supreme court itself were
its present personnel to change. This
pan hardly be regarded as a valid reason
for amending the act as proposed. Laws
are not to be changed simply because
of the possibility that their Judicial In
terpretation at one time may be over
thrown or reversed at some future time.
The Foraker bill. Introduced before
the merger decision was announced,
rovided for amending the anti-trust
law so as to exclude from Its application
reasonable" restraint of trade. It met
with very little public approval and al
most none at all In congress. Possibly
there are a few more now who will re
gard It with favor, but It Is safe to say
that there Is an overwhelming senti
ment for letting the act of 1890 stand
s It is, lest by changing the law It
should be weakened, as most probably
would be the case. The highest tribunal
has now established a precedent for con
struing the law in "accordance" with the
Intention of Its framers and its decision
generally accepted as pre-eminently
ut. It has produced no disturbance
nd none Is likely to come from It The,
scope and application or the anti-trust
law have been very fully and clearly
denned and are well understood. There
ia an end to mergers, at least for a long
time. No corporation engaged In trade
nioDg the states can have any difficulty
lu determining whether Its operations
are In conformity with the law or In
violation of It. The supreme court de
cision leaves no room for doubt on any
essential point It is satisfactory to the
intelligent Judgment of the country and
this Is strongly against any tampering
with the law.
war THIS BDHRSl
At the meeting of the school board
Monday the resignation of Superintend
ent of Schools Pearse was officially ten
dered and accepted, to take effect April
1, and at the same meeting an attempt
waa made to force the selection of W.
W. Stetson of Maine as his successor.
This precipitate action seems to have
been taken, notwithstanding the fact
that Mr. Stetson had not applied for
the position and no one knew whether
he was even a receptive candidate,
while a number of , formal applications
from other educators were on file en
titled to at least respectful considera
tion. The Bee is not prepared to Judge
whether Mr. Stetson is, or is not pre
eminently qualified for the position of
superintendent of our city schools. He
may be just the man we want and
he may be Just the man we do not
want The chief objection to his elec
tion at this time Is that no one knows
anything definite about him, except that
he is at present state superintendent
of Maine and Is a professional lecturer
on pedagogy before teachers' Institutes
and associations that see fit to hire him.
To invest him with the responsible
duties as head of our school system
on the mere voucher of the out-going
superintendent would, in our opinion, be
a decidedly hazardous venture. In view
of the fact that Mr. Stetson Is adver
tised to address the spring meetings
of several of the Nebraska district
teachers' meetings, and will be in the
state on this business within the month,
it would seem to be advisable, if he is to
be. seriously' considered, to wait until
he arrives ant let him speak for him
self. So far as the public schools of Omaha
are concerned, they will not suffer no
ticeably by being temporarily without
a bead, and may even show improve
ment when the teachers and principals
are nelleved of the Incubus now holding
them down and obstructing their best
efforts. The regular teachers in primary
and grammar grades have been the
saviors of Omaha's public school sys
tem and there is no immediate danger
of the schools becoming demoralized or
inefficient because of the lack of an
ornamental superintendent for the next
three months. In choosing a new
superintendent there la, therefore, no call
for haste nor excuse for snap Judgment
or underground methods. If Mr. Stet
son has the stuff in him for a city super
intendent he will himself prefer to have
all the preliminaries straight and above
hoard and walk into the office as if it be
longed to him instead of sneaking in
under cover.
The Bee last Saturday commented
editorially on the local school superfu-
tendency situation as follows:
It is given out that tha school board will
ba tn no hurry whatever to select the suc
cessor to Superintendent Pearse. who va
cates his position April 1. It will be well
to take this announcement with a grain of
.It, for it will not be surprising to sea
a little ring get together under. Its cover
and try to push a secretly selected favorite
In on short notice.
Six members of the school board, at
its meeting Monday night sprang a
dark horse candidate for superintendent
and tried to carry bis election by rush
line tactics. Predictions sometimes
come true, especially when based upon
a knowledge of the forces at work and
their customary methods.
Beslobbering resolutions, lauding Su
perintendent Fearse as a great educator,
whose merits have been Insufficiently
recognized, have been adopted by unanl
mous vote of the school board probably
because no members present thought It
worth while to record themselves in the
negative. This certificate of character
will now be framed and exhibited by
Mr. Pearse as his professional diploma,
Every one in Omaha who understands
the conditions appreciates the fact that
the whole thing is a huge Joke, but un
informed people outside will take it in
earnest The barm will be done when
they find out the character and caliber
of the man and Omaha becomes a laugh
ing stock for the ease with which it Is
galled.
Building Inspector Wlthnell and City
Comptroller Lobeck have a long story to
tell in defense of their conduct In rou
nection with the paving specifications.
They do not explain to the public, how,
ever, why they could not have told this
story before the council Investigators
instead of waiting until after the coun
cil report had been made and adopted.
The local Bryanlte organ forgets to
explain that President Teeters of the
Board of University Regents, whom
it takes so severely to task for defend
ing the Rockefeller gift Is also a prod
uct of fusion reform for which that
paper is largely responsible.
t'aaerataaas Hla Party.
Kansas City Journal.
Mr. Hearst seems to have properly esti
mated the cumber of Itching palms In tha
democratic party. Ha Is gathering In dele
gates at a rata which Is causing panic
among tha respectable leaders of the party.
del Baay, Please!
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Possibly too much has been printed about
the war In the east. If the men who are
running the conflict on both aides can
get notoriety without doing anything, they
may ba content. If their names can be
kept out of the papers for a while they
may get to fighting In earnest and make
some news that will be worth reading.
Thinks the Spell Is Broken.
Philadelphia Record.
Nebraska ia no longer hypnotized. In
stead of holding the democratic convention
on All Fools' day, as the Bryanltes de
sired, It will hold It June 1, by which
time most of the' states will have held
their conventions and seleoted their dele
gates. Nebraska no longer aspires to con
trol the democratic party.
Pneumonia Wmrm Thaua War.
New York Press.
Can it be possible that 6.000 persons In
New York have died of pneumonia since
December 1? There was a four years' war
between sections of this country, and in all
that time doctors did not treat a single
case of pneumonia. No soldiers ever
suffered more from exposure, with the
posHlble exception of the French in the re
treat from Moscow. But even among those
hopeless followers of the mighty Napoleon
pneumonia was unknown. Physicians let
us die in swarms right here tn our warm
houses of a disease that did not kill a sol
dier in the longest, bloodiest wars of his
tory. Restraints of Trade.
New York Tiroes.
The supreme court, expressing Its opinion
by the pen of Justice Harlan In the North
ern Securities case, makes a fetich et
competition and In effect declares that the
strong arm of the federal government
should be stretched forth to Interpose the
shield of the law wherever a community
finds itself "at the mercy" of a single rail
road corporation which has obtained su
premacy In the Interstate commerce of,
that region. The states and cities which
He "at the mercy" of the railroads brought
Into one system by the Northern Securities
merger, are growing rich and prosperous.
Pitch restraints of trade fls have been im
poeed upon them by this railroad system
have by an astoniahlng paradox augmented
their commercial exchanges and fostered
their industries, while at the same time
organising an constituting a great high
way of trade between the vast fields of
production in the heart of this continent
and the markets of the distant east.
"Home; Sweet Homer
Philadelphia Ledger.
What a picture of delightful domesticity
Is that presented Jay the telegram reporting
the return of the president of the Mormon
church, Joseph F. Smith, to the bosom
of his families 1, We are a home-loving
people, and tears must rise unbidden at
the vision of fire Watting, smiling wives
and of thirty-four . chubby little . arms
stretched out to greet the husband and
father returning to his happy homes. It
is bad enough when called away on busi
ness to sigh for one's fireside and easy
chair; but to think of sighing for five fire
sides and five easy chairs! It was a busy
day for Smith when he got back, but he
Is an old hand and appointed the Bee Hive
house as a rendeivous and then in a car
riage made a systematlo round of his
houses. But the picture to dwell on, with
four dosen lumps in your throat Is that
of the first greeting, when five wives and
thirty-four children embraced the return
ing traveler and wondered what he had
brought them. That should melt many a
heart In this city of homes.
THE DECISION SUITS THEM.
RatlrMd Mannar era A P plan 4 tha
Wreck af tha Merger.
New York Evening Post
Attorney General Knox made one very
striking remark In his comment on tha de
cision. It was this:
"My views on the decision cannot be bet
ter expressed than in the language of one
of the best known railroad presidents of
the United States upon the occasion of the
decision In favor of the government In the
court below. He said: The decision is
sound law, good sense, for the advantage of
all legitimate Interests and for the ooun
try's welfare, and voices the Judgment of
probably nine-tenths of the most cense rva-
tlve business men of the country. "
Much curiosity has been expressed in
railway circles as to who was the railway
president whom the attorney general cited.
The guesses of people more or less behind
the scenes chiefly converged on the execu
tive heads of two very large and Important
railways in the nearer northwest. It was
said this week, not disrespectfully, that
the language quoted was that of a "railway
man of the old school." This description
used to mean to the financial community,
three years or so ago, a person of obstinate
opinions, who had been left behind in the
progress of events; It is coming nowadays
rather generally to mean a person who
kept his head when other people were
going mad: and the guess is for that reason
interesting.
But aa a matter of fact, citations by the
attorney general were not necessary. A
reasonably thorough canvass of responsible
railway officials, made both before and
since Monday's decision was given out,
showed remarkable unanimity of opinion,
that opinion approving a Judgment against
the Northern Securities combination. The
following statement of views Is fairly typt
cal; It comes from a quarter which may be
said to represent both important railway
and Important banking Interests: "It Is
clearly evident that the Northern Securi
ties company must be dissolved, without
any trifling and in good faith. In my opin
ion the decision ' will ultimately result In
good to all railroads. It may have a de
pressing effect until It la thoroughly under
stood, hut eventually It will mean that the
railroads will develop and expand along
lines that are natural. It means, of course
the survival of the Attest: but so does
everything elsa in this life." One railway
officer among thoaa talked with this week.
and only one, troubled himself to go Into
the question of the usefulness of the
Northern Securities, snd of the theory era
bodied In It, aa a restraint to speculative
assaults on permanency of railway manage
ment. It la. In fact, no secret, to any
one familiar with the talk of railway cir
cles, that the high grade, practical operat
ing men, proud of their own achievement
and aware of their system's peculiar quail
ties, have chafed from the first under this
theory of sweeping everything Into a huge
conglomerate, where .no one would really
know who ruled, and where the good work
would have to ah are the fortunes of the
bad.
KUTt Or WAAIIlHGTOlf IJFK.
Miner tee-nee an laeldenta Sketched
the Sont.
Hon. Joseph I Brlstow of Kansas,
whose record ss fourth ssslstant postmas
ter general, commands national attention,
has under his direction the largest body
of men in the government service. There
are at least 100,000 men under his control.
Including all fourth-class postmasters, tha
city letter carriers snd the rural carriers,
besides the route Inspectors, special agents
anl division superintendents. Originally,
the fourth assistant had (0.000 fourth-class
postmasters under htm, but when the In
vestigation was commenced last year there
were turned over to htm JO.ono city letter
carriers and about 15,000 rural carriers and
175 Inspectors, special agents and division
superintendents. v
With the exception of the fourth-class
postmasters, all of these were formerly
under the first assistant postmaster gen
eral. They were continued under his
Jurisdiction In the appropriation bills.
The free delivery service and the clerks
were formerly under the first assistant;
now he has 23,000 clerks and 5,000 post
masters of the first, second and third
class under him. The second ssslstant has
11.000 people under him in the railway mall
service, while the third assistant postmas
ter general has only the 100 clerks in his
bureau and a few superintendents In the
registry department
Speaker Cannon never falls to show a
good-natured contempt for the senate,
though he- confines his flippant allusions
to Informal conversations, and does not,
aa Mr. Reed was wont to do, carry ridi
cule of "the hlgest legislative body on
earth" Into his formal utterances.
The other day he met Mr. Frye on
Pennsylvania avenue, Washington, and ral
lied the acting president of the "upper
house" ppon the decision of that body to
put in another clock.
"Hello, Frye. Hear you're going to have
two clocks In your chamber. What's in
the wind?" -
"Why, you see, our present clock Is at
the rear of the chamber, facing me, and
senators are tired of turning around to
consult It. Besides, Cannon, we don't want
you to be able to say that the senate Is al
ways looking backward."
"Thank Ood for that! I was afraid that
If you got in two clocks you'd have too
much time on your hands, and Ood knows
what that means to the country."
One of the Important Items of the United
States army commissary Is candy, and
why not? If Uncle Sam can supply United
States senators with free quinine pills
SO. 000 of them there need he no criticism
of candy for our soldiers. In fact, noth
ing can be too good for them. The only
question to be asked is whether it is good
candy or not. We want no glucose and
white earth' served out to our hoys In
blue or khaki tn the far off Philippines and
In sweltering Panama. None but the best.
In lace paper trimmed boxes, tied with
gold cord, will do. We'd ratfeer see them
eating candy than drinking vino.
There would be no great complaint If
lee cream were served every day at mess.
The army of the Philippines will suppress
as many Moro Insurrections with Ice cream
as without It. A Spartan diet does not
necessarily make a Spartan.
Our soldiers won in 1861-1RR4, not because
of hard tack, but In spite of Itr they mjght
have won more quickly on roast beef and
apple dumplings If they could have been
had. With 100 rounds of ammunition and
twenty rounds of butter scotch there Is no
telling what young Americans might do.
Why dont they try It instead of all these
hashes and pemmlcans and other things
which Inspire do enthusiasm?
When Hoke Smith was secretary of the
Interior he was especially generous to
Georgians In the matter of department
clerkships. It was generally conceded that
around the patent, pension and land office
one could not throw a stick without hit
ting a Georgian. Senator Voortiees. of
Indiana had been trying to place one or
two Hoosler constituents, but had failed.
One day the senator came along, whistling
"Marching Through Georgia" and keeping
step to the tuna "What are you doing
that for?" asked Hoke Smith. "Just can't
help It' said Senator Voorhees. "This is
Just like marching through Georgia to
come through your department." He got
the appointments that day.
Secretary Hay's million dollar apartment
house, Stonelelgh Court, threatens to drive
htm to something or somewhere. That Is,
the tenants do. Here Is an Instance of the
secretary's distractions due to his owner
ship of the apartment house:
He was called up on the telephone the
other night. The voice at the other end
of the line said:
'Hello, Mr. Secretary, I live in one of
the apartments In Stonelelgh Court, and
our dumbwaiter is out of order. Please
come over and have it fixed right away."
That Is only a sample. He's always
getting the same sort of complaints. Mr.
Hay turned the renting of the apartments
over to a firm of agents. His tenants in
sist on doing business direct with the
secretary of state. He Is called out of
bed to hear complaints about gas stoves
and elevators and ail kinds of things, and
he Is besieged In his office by tenants
who want things done.
Mr. Hay figured on leaving the mag
nificent Stonelelgh Court as an Investment
for his children. When he was building
It the contractors struck a marsh under
the foundations and were obliged to ex
cavate fourteen feet deeper than they ex
pected to and put In piling. This cost
Mr. Hay $300.000' In excess of the sum he
had decided to put Into his house, but
that is a minor matter when compared
with the friendly tenants who want to take
their complaints and suggestions to the
man who owns the building.
Representative Cowherd of Missouri has a
constituent who has for years been trying
to procure a pension as a daughter of a
soldier. At first she asserted her father
served In the Mexican war, then In the
Seminole war, and finally In the war of
1812. She wrote Mr. Cowherd that a man
having the same name aa her father served
In the war of 1812, and he wrote her that It
required something more than a mere name
to get a pension, and to send some addi
tional facta. In reply he received this:
"My father was of medium height, had
black hair, couldn't slut one eye without
shutting the other and knew nothing about
music."
Prof. Wiley, chief of the bureau of chem
istry In the Agricultural department, and
something of a humorist, was before the
bouse agricultural committee. "What is a
sctentlflo agriculturist?" Inquired one of
the rural members, desirous of anllghtment
and also of drawing the professor out. "A
scientific agriculturist," replied Prof. Wiley
sagely, 'Is a gentleman in the employ of
the government who can make f2 grow on
an appropriation bill where only fl grew
before."
A Penetrating Prna.
Mexican Herald.
The fun poked at Ruaslan names la rather
provincial. Many English proper names
must seem quite as odd and mlrth-pro-
voklng to the Russians as theirs do to us.
No Russian would write "Cholmondeley"
and pronounce It "Chumley." or "Beau
champ" and call It "Beechem." And what
would a Rusalan of cultivation say to the
Virginia family "En roughly," who pro
nounce it Unrfcy T
Get well before you have to
think of weak lungs, bronchi
tis, pleurisy, or consumption.
Take the medicine all good
doctors prescribe.
Made y . C. Ayoe Oe.. Xmvellt 1
Ala auuwniettireM i
ATRft'S BATO TTOOK-Por the hair.
AYBR'g 8AR8APAR1LLA For the Mood.
Cherry
AS IT LOOKS NOW.
Forecast of n Prospective Scene at the
St. Lonls Convention.
Washington! Post.
On the assumption that Mr. Bryan .is
an honest man, what must be the gauge
of his Intellectual capacity as tested by
his views on the great issue that waa
permanently settled by his first defeat,
almost eight years ago? In the year of
our Lord 1904, after Mr. Bryan has en
Joyed more than seven years of plenty
and has waxed fat in purse as a direct
result of that sockdolager tha only presi
dential candidate in our history who was
enriched by being voted down and fully
six years after the silver cause became a
horror to most of those who had sup
ported it, "the peerleas leader" calls on
the party which he can never lead again
to rise up and ahout: "We demand the
free and unlimited coinage of both sliver
and gold at the present legal rate of 16
to 1, without waiting for the aid or con
sent of any other nation."
Only a ghost, and a demented ghost
at that, could be imagined to utter that
cry from the grave of a long-burled is
sue. A herd of wild asses. Joining in one
long, loud-ringing bray, would nicely
typify a so-called donvoorvtio convention
that should perpetrate such a hideous bawl
as that in 1904.
PKHSO.VAX, NOTES.
A New York broker has obtained a $12,(S00
verdict In a suit against Russell Sage. It
is quite evident that "Uncle Russell" is
getting old.
Boris Sarafoff, leader of the Macedonians,
will conduct the spring Insurrection In an
automobile. This promises to change the
Macedonian cry to a toot.
Allen P. Lovejoy of Janes vllle, Wis., has
Just died. He leaves an estate valued at
about 110,000,000 and was the richest man
In Wisconsin outside of Milwaukee. His
fortune was chiefly accumulated In lumber
ing operations.
Mr. Rockefeller stands in public, estima
tion as a man who Is probably as willing
as any of the big financiers to profit by his
opportunities, but everybody will admit
that In cornering the violet market he has
shown himself the king of the bunch.
E. P. Harris of Topeka, the only living
man who set type on the first paper pub
lished In Kansas, has been celebrating his
semi-centennial as a printer. For fifty
years he ftas worked continuously at his
trade, and is still able to turn out a re
spectable "string."
John Morley, M, P., the distinguished
llteratteur and biographer of Gladstone, Is
the great-grandson of Duncan McAllum,
a Methodist preacher, and the grand
nephew of Dr. Daniel McAllum, also a
Methodist preacher. His mother was a
Methodist class leader.
M. Paderewski,. the pianist, who has been
touring Russia, has been expelled from the
country at twenty-four hours' notice. The
reason for such action, acoordlng to a
Vienna version,' is that at a special au
dience with the ciar the pianist corrected
his majesty, saying: "I am a Pole, but
not a Russian."
New York physicians report that a great
many of their pneumonia patients are bach
elor men and maids who are of the
roomer" class ard have little or no home
care. On this account tney neea closer at
tention than home patients. All the hospi
tals in the city are full and have been for
months. Bellevue and its allied institutions
turned away from eighty to 100 patients
for a week.
There are more John Browns than any
other name in the new city directory of
Philadelphia, but they lead the John Smiths
by only one. There are 316 John Browns
and 816 John Smiths. Among the 600,000
names recorded are 1,200 Whites, 4E0 Blacks,
9 Greens, 1 Red, 17 Blues and 6 Lavenders.
V.aV
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Pure &nd Unmixed.
Delicate Aroma.
Really Cheapest In Use.
ct8eat &
Don't be deceived by a little sunshine. It's a trifle early yet for
EASTER BUNNET8.
Bay lSiii!i i
That's the fuel for these equinoctial storms. Nut, $6.00 for cook
ing. Lump, ?6.50 for all heaters. Clean aa hard coal and last;
Just aa long.
VICTOR WHITE COAL CO., 1603 Faraam. Tel. 127.
s
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oM tat M years.
ATHR'f Mil rVw eensMnatie.
ATatt'j AflUs) OCRS Wm swkarw asd arse.
Pectoral
In the bird Une there are Canary, Robin,
Eagle, Crow, Hawk, Sparrow, Buizard,
Peacock and Bantam,
Water Engineer Alfred M, Quick of li;il
timore estimates that 60,000,000 gallons ot
water were thrown upon the flumes during
the great fire of last month in that city.
JABS OF TUB JOKERS,
"Do you think you have written any
lines that will live'" she asked the famous
author.
"Yes," he replied, "I have sent some
private and confidential lotters to mv
friends which they will probably publish
after my death." New York Sun.
Dick Why did you ask her to "slug':
Surely you can't enjoy that caterwauliiiK.
Ned No, but It is always such a keen
delight to hear her stop! Bomer vllle Jour-.
nal.
"Are you still making visits to youi
dent 1st ?
"No."
"How's that?"
"Oh, nothing, only I ran out of teeth."
Detroit Free Press,
Jones Is your son fond of literature?
Jenkins Immoderately, I've known him
to read some of his own articles. Boston
Transcript.
"Mrs. Gaddlo That's tha lady tn the cor
ner house called upon me today," snld
Mrs. Newcome on the evening of their first
day In Lonesomehurnt, "and she tells me ,
all the people are like one big family here."
"Ah! yes," replied her husband; always
knocking each other." Philadelphia Catho
lic Standard.
"The trouble with Corea," said the pro
gressive diplomat, "is that it la too slow."
"Blow!" replied the emperor, "you wrong
ns. Any country that can Jump from fatty
degeneration into nervous prostration as
quickly as we did Is pretty rapid," Wash
ington Star.
"I'll trouble you to hand over your
watch." said the courteous footpad. "No
trouble at all, I assure you," returned the
equally courteous cltlien. "It's one of
those dollar watches that's guaranteed to
run one year, and the year's up." Indian
apolis Bun.
"I must warn you, Bridget," said Mrs.
Nurltch, "to see that the peas are thor-
ougniy masneo.
'Washed. It is?" remarked the new cook
In surprise.
"Yes; Mr. Nurltch Is so hJghstrung, you
know, they make him nervous when they
roll off his knife." Philadelphia Press.
- .
Patron I'll have a piece of pumpkin pie.
Walter Punkln plef- Yes, sir. .
Patron Pump-kin Pie.
Walter Oh, yes, sir. Think the Boston
club will have any chance o' wlnnln' tha
pennant this year? Philadelphia Lodger.
THB PROPOSAL AND PAPA.
Pittsburg Post...
Lord Fucaah had with ease obtained
Mias Ostorbllt's consent;
And so the next day alt ho" It rslned-
To see her pa he went.
The peer, with . reverios of "dough,"
And the impending bliss
He'd have In spending it, you know,
this.
' like
steps
tha
Went
Her pa received his lordship's newa
With manner sternly grim;
American men thus ran his views
Were good enough for him.
Lord Fucash ventured on a sneer-
Papa, with ne'er a mlae,
His Drogans planted, and tha peer
Came
tha
like
eogatttltcat