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THE OMAHA DAILY HEE: FRIDAY, MARCH 2. 1006.
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AV11KX OIT OF TOWN.
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porarily should have The Bee
mailed to them. . Address will be
phansjed often as requested.
Negro lynching In liot con lined alto
gether to the former Bluve states, as Is
evidenced by the outbreitk at Spring
field, o.
The creditors of Count Bout de Cas
tellnne clearly want to get possession
of his property before It Is dissipated In.
lawyers' fees. ..
Chicago's chief of police must be
"breuklng In" a number of new meu
now that he has resumed work on the
'Mr. Dove" case. ., .
Mr. Cromwell proves that a legal edu
cation Is quite an aid to n witness who
does not want to answer more' or less
pertinent questions.
When refo'rnied Kpelling Jo !ns vertical
writing lu (lie. public schools the Com
mercial colleges may be expected to in
crease their quarters again.
The force which knocked the props
from under prices of stocks on Wall
street evidently found what it was look
ing for and Is ready to support the mar
ket again.
While Senator Tillman Is "officially"
In charge of the Hepburn bill in the
senate, .Senator Dolllver must be recog
iilscd as the real lender when It comes
to the fight.
The decision of official ltussia to per
mit the constitutional democrats to
nialntaiii a meeting place may Indicate
a desire .to have the reformers In a trap
when they rfre wanted.
One thing can be said for the Mareon
lgram editorials In the local demo-pop
organ they are Just as fictitious as the
Mnrconigraiu fakes constantly appear
ing In lis news colutnus.
, If the railroads centering here will
only pull together long enough to build
up the Omaha grain market to its fullest
iMHslbllltles, there will soon be enough
out grain truffle for all of them to han
dle. Memlters of the Fontanelle club who
are plugging for Broatch are cordially
luvltcd to seats in the Bcnsonian plat
form which Is to he on public exhibition
at Creighton hall from 8 to 11 p. m. to
morrow. Ohio's new , democratic governor
should write to Mississippi for expert
advice on the subject of controlling
mobs. , With all his faults dovernor
Vardumau has come nearer to solving
the- problem.
I . y.:- ' . ' .irr-; -
The report on the Dominican treaty,
with jts amendments, shows that sena
tors are Willing enough to regulate tho
affairs of Santo"' Domingo provided
.Santo Domingo has nothing to say as to
how It shall be done.
. Tha TSllroads are preparing to test the
Kaunas maximum freight rate law In
'the courts; but the side shows will all
give place; to the attractions in the main
tent w henever Uncle Ram begins to en
'force tsVlIepburu bill.
We have now discovered a good
reason why it costs more than twice as
much liiuucj to feed prisoners In the
'county Jail than it does to feed them in
the city Jail. Those gas leaks in the
'county Jail sharpen' the appetite for
graft.
Secretary- Shaw objects to having sil
ver 12-plecea Issued on behalf of the
Jamestown exposition on the theory
! that they will circulate; but the same
' objection! lie against the coinage of sil
ver dollars forced Into circulation at
iwlys. ! hvlr luuivslc valuo
THE ro.vr.o voxniTloys.
The conditions in the Congo Free
State, as reported by entirely trustwor
thy authorities, are unquestionably
most deplorable and n terrible reproach
to the 'country responsible for them. It
Is undeniably the duty of all civilized
Moples to raise their voice In protest
agnlnst the atrocities thut have been
committed and to make every possible
effort through the expression of public
opinion to Induce the government which
alone can correct the conditions to take
the necessary action. The horrible rec
ord of wrong anil outrage Inflicted upon
the Congo natives should arouse man
kind and the notice that Is being taken
of them by the American people Is
wholly proper and commendable.
By some it Is contended that popular
protest and condemnation is all that can
lo done, and that the matter Is not one
for the Interposition or Interference of
any government. Any attempt to do so
we are told would very properly be re
sented by the government which con
trols affairs In the Congo Free State.
There are. however, some very excellent
persons' among our citizens who believe
that this government should tivke some
positive action with a view to putting an
end to the gmte conditions in the Congo
country. In the present case Secretary
Root has taken the stand that the
United States Is not In a position to act.
This country has no territorial or ad
ministrative interest In that quarter and
no treaty right of intervention. It Is
even without diplomatic or consular rep
resentatives in the Congo Free State.
Yet whether as n party to the Berlin
conference we could not with propriety
co-operate to reconvene thut lwaly for
further action is a question he has not
definitely met.
In the meanwhile resolutions passed
by popular meetings condemning the
Congo outrages will continue to be
sent to Washington voicing our na
tional sense of Justice aroused by
sympathy for the wrongs, of these op
pressed people. If a way could be found
In which our government could assist
to mitigate the Congo slttintlon. without
violating our International obligations,
a wave of popular approval would go
up from all parts of the country.
IXTERNAL WATERWAY PRiJJEVT.
On Tuesday the Iiouhb of representa
tives passed a bill chartering the Lake
Erie and Ohio Ship Canal company,
with an authorized capital of $10,(KM),
XH). This Is to carry out a project to
connect l'lttsburg with Lake Erie, which
would" prove of Immense advantage to
that city. It is stated that the lines of
lallway between Lake Erie and Pitts
burg are unable to handle properly and
satisfactorily the enormous Interchange
of freight and for some time the great
manufacturing Interests of the Pennsyl
vania city have been agitating for a
canal. As the proposed waterway,
which will be KX) miles In length, must
extend into tyo states,. it. was desired to
have a federal charter under which the.
canal can be governed us a whole, rather
than have two state charters'and two
corporations to operate It. The water
way will be built by private capital and
will cost the federal government nothing
whatever. There was nevertheless consid
erable opposition In the house of repre
sentatives to granting the charter, chiefly
on the ground that it would be an in
vasion of state rights, though no reprei
sentatlve of either of the states directly
Interested supported this objection. The
opposition came from the democratic
side and it is remarked that scarcely a
vote was recorded against the bill from
within 1,CK)0 miles of Tlttsburg and
Lake Erie.
The building of this canal will of
course contribute greatly to the further
development of Pittsburg as a manu
facturing center. It will doubtless also
serve to Improve the country through
which It will pass. Increasing the busi
ness and the imputation of the towns
bordering on It. While it Is a fact that
In this country canals have not usually
been profitable to their projectors, there
Is good reason to believe that this one
will prove an exception. At nil events
the private capital necessary to con
struct It seems ready to enter Into the
Investment. The sticklers for state
rights may offer a more or less vigorous
opposition to the project In the senate,
but It Is not probable that they will be
able to prevent Its passage. It will be
an Internal Improvement of such propor
tions- as to be of general Interest.
vasal nr VUXTIIAVT.
The views of the former chief en
glneer of the Panama canal, Mr. Wal
lnce, favorable to the construction of
the canal by contract, certainly merit
serious consideration. lie urges thut
when tho work must be conducted 2.O00
miles away from a seat of government
a policy Imposing the necessity of re
ferring all Important questions to Wash
higtou and submitting them there to
men who necessarily cannot be conver
sant with the conditions on the Isthmus
unless they are Informed by the parties
on the ground, cannot give satisfactory
results, no matter how honest or effi-clt-nt
the supervising officers may lie,
He found from his experience at Pan
arua that attempt to curry on construe
tlve work under the direction of Wash
lngton bureaus, especially when tho
work Is large and complicated, are con
dueive of extravagance and waste as to
both time and money. His opinion is
that governmental functions on the Uth
Uius should be confined exclusively to a
general sujiervislon of the work and en
forcement of such simple ordinances
and sanitary regulations as may be nec
essary to secure the iieace and the
health of the community affected by
the constructive work.
"Either the work should be put Info
the hands of one strong mail, with prac
tlcally unlimited authority," says Mr,
Wallace, "combining the technical and
scientific training of the engineer wljh
I the uduiluUtiutivc and executive ability
of a man of force, coupling with this the
separation of nil matters connected with
this work from the control of the ordi
nary government departments at Wash
ington, but under such supervision only
as to Insure the government that his ad
ministration Is efficient, or the same re
sult should Ite accomplished through let
ting of the work to a contracting flrtu
large enough to control under one man
agement the entire constructive work on
the Isthmus, under broad and general
specifications and under such general
supervision ns may appear to congress
to be proper." Such Is the disinterested
Judgment of one of the ablest engineers
In the country, who has made a careful
study of the subject, and everybody who
Is acquainted with government methods
must acknowledge Its force. It would
seem, of course, that the government,
with tts tine corps of engineers, could
dig tfie canal at a reasonable cost, yet
It is a fact that ns a rule men In charge
of government departments and govern
ment work do not show the efficiency
which the ordinary business firm has,
for the o'.tvlous re:tson that there Is not
the incentive in the one case ns In the
other.
It is altogether probable that If this
nst work Is carried on by the govern
ment it will cost many millions more
than If done by contract, under proper
govern men tnl supervision, and that the
ti'iie of Its completion will be delayed.
In regard to this Mr. Wallace says that
it will require more time and money to
construct a high-level canal on the
eighty-five-foot plan, under the present
method of governmental control, than
It will to construct a sea-level canal,
provided the work Is accomplished by
niodt rn efficient business methods. The
proposition that the canal should bo
built by contract is likely to grow In
ftiv.ft
ereii.
the more carefully It Is consid-
VHOKISO AT A OX AT
The passing of populism was due
chiefly to the fact that Its leaders
banked on calamity as their particular
stock in trade and were not so much In
tent upon securing relief from real or
imagined abuses as they were for creat
ing a political upheaval by popular dis
content. The same tactics are being
pursued by the leaders of the Omaha
Civic federation. They seem to want
calamity and popular discontent rather
than relief from the evils they complain
of.
Everybody familiar with conditions In
our great cities knows that social vice Is
tolerated evil that cannot be com-
ilptely suppressed, but should be re
pressed and kept under police surveil
lance. If the leaders of the Civic Fed
eration were honestly Intent upon mini
mizing social vice and closing the lid
upon all dram shops patronized exclu
sively by the vicious and criminal
classes, had they waged war upon the
licensed dives in the Third ward where
the thugs, crooks, footpads and vile
scum of the' town" mostly vfoagregate
tjiey would have the sympathy and co
operation of all respectable men and
women.
Instead of prosecuting the keepers of
tl.ese resorts and prosecuting also the
keepers and owners of houses In the
residence portion of the city that are
rented at high prices for unlawful pur
poses, they have raided 170 liquor deal
ers which are in the main orderly and
well kejit for alleged violation of the
Sunday law. Like the populist calamity
howlers they are willing to subject the
town to pillage, robbery and even mur
der In the low groggeries located In the
burnt district Just to show how bad the
liquor traffic can be when conducted In
close contact with social vice. In a
word, the policy pursued is but another
striking illustration of swallowing a
camel while choking at a gnat.
A .V OPB-V DOOR )tO FRA I'D.
An opinion has been procured from
the democratic Bide of the city attor
ney's office interpreting the recent de
cision of the supreme court upholding
the validity of the Dodge primary law as
opening the door to anyone and every
one, whether registered or unregistered,
to cast a vote for primary nominations
upon mere affirmation of affiliation wih
the party whose ballot he demands.
The thinly veiled object of this deep
laid scheme Is to enable the democrats.
who have blocked all competition for
nominations withiu 'their own ranks, to
inject themselves Into the republican
primaries and select the republican nom
inees, whom they will then try to beat
at the election.
Hand In glovo with the democrats In
this scheme Is the combination of Third
ward denizens and corjioration hirelings
who would like an open door for paid re
peaters and colonizers through whom
they hope to buy or steal the mayoralty
nomination for W. J. Broatch.
The baste idea of primary legislation
from beginning to end Is that participa
tion in primary elections shall be con
fined by law to the duly enrolled inem
lers of each respective political party,
and the question propounded by the reg
istrars as to which political party the
voter desires to affiliate with is for the
sole purpose of preparing the roll of
duly qualified republicans or democrats
or socialists entitled to participate in
their party primaries.
The vindication of the primary law
by the supreme court would be useless
If It at the same time destroyed Its ef
fectiveness for confining participation In
party nominations to lsna fide voters of
the party. No twisting or distorting of
a court decision can alter the logic of
common sense which decrees that no prl
mary conducted with the door wide open
to fraud would have any binding effect
A nomination fraudulently procured
would forfeit to the nominee at, the elec
tion the vote of every honest and law
respecting citizen, le he republican or
democrat.
The Ileal Estate exchange has
brought lu auuthei' formal verdict of
guilty In the Pat Crowe case. The diffi
culty Is that none of these post-mortem
verdicts have any standing at law as
compared with that of the Jury empan
eled for the trial.
It would be In accord with the eternal
fitness of things for Walter Moise. Tom
Dennlson and other prominent backers
of William .1. Broatch to Invoke the
power of the court to swing the gates
wide open at the next primary so that
everybody who is willing to swear that
he has affiliated with the republican
party will have a right to vote Indis
criminately, regardless of whether he is
registered or not. With the gates wide
open, we are told, thousands of men can
be recruited for the Midway Plalstncp
candidate in Omaha, South Omaha, East
Omaha, Council Bluffs, Fort Crook and
other suburbs withiu reach. It Is easy
for that class of men to hold up the
right hand, while the left hand is hold
ing fast to the swag.
The resolution pending before the
county board to make the superintend
ent of the court house responsible for
the force of Janitors under him Is a
move In the right direction. It is per
haps to lie expected that janitor service
In a public building will cost taxpayers
more than It would n private owner, but
there Is no reason why a public building
should not have efficient janitor service.
The superintendent of the court house
has usually found excuse for dereliction
In the alleged unfitness of subordinates
holding their places by personal pull
with members of the county board and
imagining themselves exempt from all
discipline, diving the superintendent
an appointing and removing power
would, at least, take away this excuse.
The lawyers of the state propose to
relieve tho Nebraska delegation at
Washington of the onerous duty of
recommending the judge for the new
federal district for Nebraska yet to be
created. This savors very much of the
action of lite Douglas County Bar asso
ciation not so long ago instructing Gov
ernor Mickey whoyi to appoint to a Ju
dicial vacancy on the district bench. It
Is presumable that the state bar organi
zation, although it may be dominated
by democratic lawyers, as was the
Douglas county association, will be good
enough to recommend only republicans
for the appointment by the republican
president.
Governor Mickey wants it distinctly
understood that he Is not responsible
for Broatchlsm In Omaha. Inasmuch
ns Governor Mickey re-appointed
Broatch to the police board and con
tinues to shut his eyes and ears to the
flagrant and lawless use of the police
club to force every man who is under
police surveillance Into line for Prontch
we would like, to know who Is responsi
ble. It required l.."ss) pages of typewriting
on the part of the railroad lawyers to
tell the supreme court of the United
States why their corporate employers
should be relieved from paying the full
amount of the taxes levied on their rail
road property In, Nebraska by the state
board of assessment, but ns the railroad
lawyers are paid by the year It does
not cost anything for gas leakage.
Wisdom Kilters Into Royalty.
Minneapolis Journal.
King Edward's Indorsement of home rule
brings him In line with the best municipal
thoughtors In America.
Popularity ' the Probe Act.
New York Post.
"America leads the world." Here Is the
Canadian minister of finance ordering a
royal commissioner to take up the Investi
gation of Insurance companies of the do
minion.
Hush, Honey, Hash!
New York World.
The transcontinental railroads have been
making' new speed records, with un eye
to the approaching time for the renewal of
the four-year mall-carrying contracts. Do
wise managers make weight as well as time
under the hope of fresh government patron
age? Are the roads making plans also to
pad the mail bags with heavy franked mat
ter. In view of the welghlng-in process
which shall determine the rates of compen
sation? The Army of Ilrlaradlera.
Springfield Republican.
In another particular the I'nlted States
leads the world. There are 245 brigadier
generals on the retired list of our regular
army. Slxy-two of them were created
between January 1, lDeli. and January 1,.
19u5. In each case the new brigadier served
one day In the active service and then was
retired.' Including all, major generals and
lieutenant generals, America is defended
today by W) living generals on the retired
list. It Is a shame that anyone should be
retired as a major or even a colonel.
DRAWING A THIN LINE.
College President's Comparison Some
what Overdone.
New York Commercial.
President Carroll D. Wright of world
wide fame as a statistician and now preui
dent of Clark college at Worcester, Mass.,
has Just been lecturing his students on the
efforts made by states to regulate industry,
and, strange to say, he is a trifle "muddy"
on one point in his argument, "If 1 am a
minister of the gospel." he says, "and I
aak for and get a railroad ticket at half
price, Just why should I preach against
rebates next Sunday? Ethically, there Is
no difference between John D. Rockefeller
getting discount on the transportation of
his oil and the Christian Endeavor society
going to Sail Francisco for a convention at
wholesale rates. We damn the one, and
some seem to wish tht damning to extend
beyond this earth; but we applaud the
other for doing the same thing." The
school teacher, the plumber or the doctor,
who can't get a half rate as a clergyman
can. Is apparently discriminated against
unjustly, and the half rate preacher who
condemns rebating is at least inconsistent,
tut a special low rate to the Christian En
deavorers or any ether organisation can be
taken advantage of by anybody "desirous
of making the same trip. A rebate to an
oil or an Iron manufacturer ia something
that his competitors cannot get; it dis
criminate against them; and morally It Is
vastly different from a cut rate open to the
public for a speclHed period. What shall
we say of social economics at Clark If ths
students are to graduate with a notion that
a violator of the Elklns law is Just SS good
as it CUibUttu Kudcaw
I1ITS OK VAlll(iTO I. IKK.
Minor Scenes and Incidents Sketched
on the Spot.
Occasionally a Missourlan In congress,
usually dii reet, forgets his training and at
tempts to "show" people some things be
yond the range of common knowledge. At
a recent committee hearing on the bill to
modify the tax on alcohol, Champ Clark
butted In Just to help out a witness who
did not know how a certsln kind of alcohol
was made. The Missouri congressman said
that this particular kind of alcohol was In
vented by a Missouri convict, who pounded
the sour corn pone they gave him for
breakfast until It distilled Into "the stuff
now under Investigation." The story was
received with shouts of laughter, which,
however, did not disturb the witness. Ho
waited until the laugh subsided and then
quietly remarked. "That story proves what
I have always believed, that all tho bright
men In Missouri were put In the peniten
tiary." Mr. Clark thought for some time,
but nothing occurred to him and he did not
speak
The veteran Senator Morgan Is the pos
sessor of that rare sense of humor which
enables him to enjoy a Joke even when it
Is on himself, and he Is even not averse to
telling shout It. One afternoon he sut In
the cloakroom and told this:
"The other afternoon I was sitting at
homo with nothing special to occupy me,
and I picked up an old volume of the Con
gressional Record. 1 opened It at random
and hit upon the middle of a speech, which
I began to read. Very soon I became. In
terested, and as I proceeded I said to my
self, 'This man Is making a very sensible
talk.' I found myself quite In accord with
his views and read along with a good deal
of approval until I had finished two pages.
I was wondering who could have mnde
such a speech, but was too much Interested
to look back to find out. Rut ns I turned
the page I came upon an Interruption, and
there was my own name given as the sena
tor making the reply. It was my own
speech I had been reading."
Senator Tillman has fallen Into the cus
tom, long since established by the orators
In the house, of having a quotation precede
his speech, generally of poetry that Is sup
posed to fit the nature of the rhetorical
effort.
But Tillman has improved upon the house
custom. He has taken ths liberty of In
jecting thoughts Into the quotation. Even
Shakespeare, the man from whom Tillman
borrowed his first quotation, all sufficient as
he Is for so many men, does not express
all the South Carolina senator thinks. Here
Is the Shakespeare excerpt, with the Till
man interpellations:
"Why man, he (Roosevelt) doth bestride the
narrow world
TJke a Colossus and we petty men" you.
thank God, not I "walk under his
huge legs and peep about
To find ourselves dishonorable graves"
or a piece of pork.
When Tillman quoted that in the senate,
he shook hlrf finger at Spooner, one of the
smallest men in the senate. Spooner caught
the humor of the situation and bristled up
as If he were going to make It a personal
matter. In menacing tones he demanded,
"Does the senator mean me?'
Tillman caught the twinkle In Spooner's
eye and laughingly declared that he had no
Idea of holding his friend from Wisconsin
up to scorn as a( petty man.
A bride and bridegroom from Massa
chusetts arrived In town on their wedding
tour and put up at the Metropolitan hotel.
At the same table with them sat a stately,
handsome man who proved to be Senator
McLaurln of Mississippi. Mr. McLaurin's
genial courtesy soon put them at ease.
He volunteered to show them the town and
promised to get them a personal Interview
with the president.
At an appointed hour they appeared at
the senate and the Mississipplnn went to
receive them. He had Just shaken hands
when Senator lidge, cold, dry, wintry and
acidulous, happened to come up.
"Senator Ixidge," said Senator. McLaurln,
"this Is a very dear friend of mine from
your own state. He comes, In fact, from
a town quite close to your town of Nnhant.
I shall he glad If you wdl take him to the
White House and get him a personal In
terview with the president, and there are
several other attentions which I should bo
glad to have you show hlni and which he
will explain to you."
With a twinkle In his eye and a twitch
ing at his mouth Mr. Mclaurln vanished
Into the senate chamber, and for the rest
of the day Mr. Idge was busy showing
the Massachusetts couple around.
, Speaker Cannon was talking about the
queer requests he receives for appropria
tions from Investigators of various kinds.
"One time a government scientist asked
for $1S,000 for the study of astrophysical
science. I asked him whnt he meant by
astrophysical. And what do you think lie
told me?"
" 'Why,' he said, 'astrophysical Is the
study of the sun's rays behind the red.'
"Think of it! Kiphhteen thousand of the
government's good hard-earned money for
the study of the sun's rays behind the red.
" 'What are the sun's rays behind the
red?" I asked.
" 'Why, the colors of the spectrum out
side of the red,' the man of science ire
piled. " 'Can you see 'em?' I asked.
" 'No.' he replied, 'but I think I could If
I had the 118.0X1.' "
Senator Foraker. while debuting the pure
food bill, was getting warm on the subject
of fusel oil tn whisky. He had submitted
to several Interruptions and his patience
was about exhausted when Senator Tillman
asked him a question. The Ohio man re
plied somewhat pettishly, whereupon Till
man said: "I was head barkeeper down
In South Carolina when the dispensary sys
tem was Inaugurated, and I know what I
am talking about." Mr. Foraker allowed
him to go on and In five minutes the south
erner amply made good his boast and had
shown that he was the best posted man In
the senate on the making of whisky, and
had silenced everybody, Foraker Included.
"I am not much of a sharp on tho taste
of whisky, but I know all about the mak
ing of it," he ended triumphantly, and no
one could say him nay.
Representative Payne of New York was
guilty of perpetrating a pun In the house
recently. He askeil for the re-enrollment of
a bill concerning a dam, which he ex
plained had in some way lieen lost.
Mr. Alexander of New York asked if It
Wiis not a bill whic h had been sent to the
president and returned.
"Oh. no," replied Mr. Payne, "It Is not
that dam bill; It Is another dam bill."
The houKu laughed and Mr. Payne
laughed.
Relief Should Be Prompt.
Portland Oregoiilan.
I'nlesa the world comes promptly and
fullhanded to the relief of the famine
stricken of northern Japan, tens of thou
sands of the people must parish. Civilisa
tion knows, in a stress of this kind, neither
race nor creed. The trouble will not be in
withholding supplies from theae destitute
people, but In getting relief to them before
it is too late. With Its population deci
mated by war and famine, the island em
pire still plucklly holds up its head and
looks confidently to the future, when. With
expanded area, It will lie able to provide
for Its own against stress of drouth and
menace of Invasion. In the meantime,
however. Its starving subjects by tens of
thousands ask for temporary relief In order
I tutu Ibry uiay not luUcrubly ptriali
PK.WSON!, MtTK.K.
William II. Melntyre. fourth vice presi
dent of the Equitable A.'surance society,
has finally been Iocs ted. He is president of
a railroad In Texas.
Mark Twain rsn now reciprocate felicita
tions to William P. Hon ells, who Is TO years
old this week. Uoth are getting busier and
better all the time.
Emperor William 1ms appointed Prof.
Ernst von Hergmann a member of the up
per house of Parliament for life. This Is
the first time that such nn honor has been
conferred on a member of the medical pro
fession. Luther Rurbank has IihiI to call a halt on
his visitors. tASt year he entertained over
6.000 persons Interested in his experiments
and scientific work, and lie says he lost too
much valuable time and he has posted signs
on his grounds forbidding trespassing.
The New York papers are parading the
news that Mrs. Yerkes, who married a
young fellow named Mistier some hours
arter the death of the multimillionaire from
whom she had been living apart, has
thrown over her young husband. The
cause Is stated to be the discovcrey that he
married her for her money.
It is expected that when General Orosve
nor of Ohio shall retire from congress a
large number of heads will fall In the vHri
ous departments. In Washington. During
his long service In the house the general
has had many fights and many obstreperous
constituents have been Induced to be good
by the conferring of offices. They will all
have to go when his successor romes in.
The school children of Kentucky have
raised above in.000 for a statue of the late
Stephen C. Foster, author of "My Old Ken
tucky Home." The work Is to be done by
W. J,. Roop of Ixiulsvllle, who has recently
obtained In Pittsburg a photograph of Mr.
Foster, taken about ISfiS. A plaster cast f
the statue Is to be ready for unveiling at
Ioulsvllle next June In connection with the
celebration of "Honie-conilng week."
A HMI.HOMI KRROR.
Demand for Public Control of Hates
o en- Thing.
San Francisco Chronicle.
At a recent banquet at Ixis Angeli
President K. P. Ripley of the Santa Fo
railroad was reported as saying that in
his opinion "the agitation of the rate ques
tion may be said to have started with th
report of the interstate Commerce com
mission In the spring of 1!KM." The re
mark simply shows the fallibility of the
memory of a busy man. The agitation
for the effective public control of railroad
rates began forty years ago, more or less,
and was conducted far more bitterly than
now for many years, until the great under
lying doctrine was settled, about a quarter
of a century ago, by the supreme court
of the I'nlted States In what are known
as the "granger cases." Following that,
and state regulation of Interstate com
merce having been found ineffective, there
was another bitter contest, which resulted
In the creation of the I'nlted Stutrs Inter
state Commerce commission. Within a
few years after that, and following cer
tain decisions of the supreme court, there
began the present phase of the agitation,
which is apparently about to culminate
In a law actually conferring upon the
commission the power which the people
demand that It shall have, and which
was supposed to have been conferred by
the original law creating tho commission.
It Is astonishing that Mr. Ripley should
have forgotten all this that happened pre
vious to 19f4.
Doubtless Mr. Ripley was right In say:
Ing that no railroad company willingly
gives secret or other rebates from Its pub
lished charges, but that traffic managers
only stand and deliver when big shippers
threaten diversion of traffic If rebates are
not given. That Is no excuse for violation
of law. There was' never a day when
tho railroads did not have It in their power
to put an end to the depredations of these
commercial highwaymen. Had Mr. Vun
derbllt and the other railroad presidents,
who, years ago, signed the Infamous con
tract which Rockefeller extorted from
them, instead of signing, published the
contract which Rockefeller demanded that
they should sign they would have amply
protected themselves and their companies,
and the whole history of railroad legisla
tion In the I'nlted States would have been
changed. Publicity is the remedy for a
multitude of evils, and the public, can
never be got to believe that the railroads
have not adopted this policy In respect
to matters In which they were the vic
tims, for the reason that they did not
dare let in the light on transactions In
which they were themselves the bandits
and other people the victims. It Is useless
to ignore the fact that railroad officials
have abused their powers, and to that
Is due the Inflexible determination of the
people to reduce, come what may, these
powerful corporations to complete submis
sion. Cause and Effect.
Brooklyn Eagle.
One strange thing about foreigners who
enter our universities Is that they study
language, science, history and philosophy,
while some Americans go there to study
leaping, rowing and foot hall. Is that why
the foreigners are always pushed so hard
when we have to fight them?
Coal. Wood. Coke, Kindling.
W soil tha best Ohio and Colorado Coals -cloan, hot, lasting:
Also tho Illinois, Hanna, Shsrldan, Walnut Block, Stoam Coal, Ete.
For gansral purposes, uss Chsrokaa Lump, $5.50; Nut, $5.00 par ton
Missouri Lump, $4.75; Lsrgt Nut, $4.50-makes a hot, quick firs.
Our hard coal Is ths SCKANTOM, tha bost Pennsylvania anthraclts
Wo also ssll Spadra, tho hardest and elssnost Arkansas hard eoal
All our coal hand scraanad and waif had ovar any oity scales desired
COUTANT &. SQUIRES ,r..?S?.AM
Man wants lt'MJ here below,
But lie wants that little flood.
rAKTKTXAK PKOPLK FIND
Hillers Old Standard Whiskey
''liotllttl in Bond."
&)e Best for Home Use.
It is a Kentucky whiskey, distilled and aged under govern
ment supervision. The government stamp is on every bottle to
vouch for Its age. strength and purity.
hKK THAT IT IS IX VOl'K HOMK.
IP IT COMES
FROM
MILLER'S
I
130S Parasat Street
Miller's Whisk ij. full quarts
union TKNIX; SKIES.
Mrnnrlni 4 loads Passlna from Ihe
llnslnrss llorlsnn.
Washington Post.
Often over s fair and sunny summer
Inndsispc, suddenly from some mysterious
somewhere there rise and anther dark,
muttering clouds that shut out the Unlit
and bring vague forebodings of storm
and wreck. Sometimes the fury of nsturs
Is let loose and devastation and ruin
spread for miles about, and sometimes the
clouds melt away without, a gust, and
all Is serene again.
Bo it Is In the business and financial
world. For a long period now our skies
have been tindlmmed, till all at' once the
sun ceased to snlne so brightly a great
and destructive strike loomed on ths
horizon, serious complication over Mo
rocco began to appear, holding possibili
ties of widespread strife; troubles threat
ened in China, a tarlfT war with Germany
most Injurious to trade seemed Imminent,
and the railroad rato situation; began tn
look complicated and almost .Imposslbla
of solution. Now, quickly as they gathered,
these menacing conditions seem to be pass
ing away. Miners and operators have
met on n friendly basis, and arc confer
ring together In a spirit of conciliation and
with a realising sense , that ' there is a
public to lie reckoned with. The envoys
at Algeelras. though still skirmishing for
position, make It evident that the contro
versy, even If unsettled, holds no war In
Its bosom; the best Chinese authorities
feel assured that there will bo no Imme
diate outbreak. 1 modus vlvendl Is ar
ranged with Germany, railroad earnings,
which were thought to have reached about
the limit, are still advancing; the season's
business has been excellent, and the prom
ise of spring ttjidc was never so rosy.
Crop prospects, so far as they ran be
prognosticated at this season, sre favor
able. There has been some apprehension thst
new enterprises Involving vast expendi
tures nnd the necessity for floating im
mense amounts of securities were being
brough forward fa rapidly as to menace
the stability of '"financial conditions, but
it must not be forgotten that there Is
every month poured Into the world's
money supply over t1o.ono.0no gold, and
that bank note circulation In this country
has vastly Increased. If all sorts of
construction are , expanding, so are the
tools to do It wrth Increasing, and It Is
reassuring to find the financial skies. If
not yet wholly cloudless, by no means
overcast.
POIXTK.U REMARKS.
Mrs. Sllmson I thought yon were coming
home early to punish Willie for telling
that lie. (
Sllmson I was, but I had to stop at the
cltv hall and swear off my taxes. Brooklyn
Dife.
Mrs. Chugwater .Toslnh. this paper speaks
of a limn in Washington as a "senatorial
time-server." What does that mean?
Mr. Chugwater 1 reckon he's the man
that winds thesennte clock. What do von
want 'o ask such a fool question as that
for? Chicago Tribune.
He (guardedly) Dn you believe the old
saying that two can live as cheap as one?
She (unreservedlv) Ves, If they nre a
cheap couple to begin with. St. lxmls Post
Dispatch. "I don't hear the complaint that I used
to about the Idleness of the wealthy
classes."
"No."'nnswered Mr. Dustln Stax. "These
Investigating committees are now criticising
us for getting too busy." Washington Star.
"We Americans eat too much," said ths
scientist.
"Yes," said the ordinary citlsen. "We se
the cost of food going up so fast that we
feel there is no time to lose." Washington
Star.
First Doctor Have you noticed that the
people who live In a mountainous country
generally have good lungs? ...
Rccond Doctor Ves. If they don't, they
die there. Soincrvllle Journal.
Wife Here's the elocknuiker, come to fit
our clock. Go upstairs and get It for him,
won't you?
Husband (lazily) It Isn't upstairs. Is It?
Wife Certainly. Where did you think It
was?
Husband I thourht It had run down.
Philadelphia Ledger.
"I suppose vou expect to move your audi
tors by your eloquence."
"Thut Isn't mv object," answered the
young orator. "I will he thankful If T can
keep
them ln their seats. Washington
Star
NORTHERN I.K.HTS.
The Spectator.
All scentless tn the fields of stinw,
The valley mists hang deep below;
No earthly damps attaint the air.
And ail Is pure and white and fair.
No stir betrays the wandering breeze,
No whisper from the frozen trees; .
They muster still and stark and pals,
A phantom host In silver mall.
And silver-studded over all
Is drawn night's velvet purple pall.
And all Is peace; the fitful breath
Seems sacrilege In this land of death.
When far athwart the northern pols
The rainbow-tinted streamers roll,
The leaguered wizard of the north
Has flung his fiery challenge forth.
And, where across the frozen plain
l.les the grim harvest of the slain.
His ley searchlights coldly sweep
The approaches to his virgin keep.
So are there latitudes too hljjh
In realms of cold philosophy
And barren wastes that canno.-glve
The bread whereby a man may live.
IT MUST
BE GOOD
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