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THE OMAHA DAILY BEEi TIIUftSDAY, JULY 19, 190(5.
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TBS OKLAHOMA CVKSTlTVTtOX.
tt la ft good sign that th rople of
Oklahoma arc centering their Intereet
la tha co ml nc election mainly la tfca
frarolar of lha constitution under
which they tea to be admitted lato tba
nloa as a stata. Tba reault of their
efforts will ba awaited with no small
urloalty by tba people of tbe country
generally.
Tba new commonwealth enters upon
tba work under far more favorable cir
cumstances than those In which most
of tha terrltorlea bays become states.
They hare for many years been a com
rr unity fully competent for statehood
and hare had abundant tlma to con
sider thoroughly ill tha questions
which will be before their constitu
tional convention for settlement. In
deed, they are, practically, in better
position to frame a model constitution
than many states, becsusa they need
not be restrained by old constitutional
adjustments which are so embarrass
ing for conventions when merely re
vising a long standing organic law.
tt Urge part the Oklahoma consti
tution must be a restatement of tha
fundamental provisions common to all,
embodying what has grown to be un
derstood as the republican form of
government required by the supreme
lsw. But no other commonwealth has
recently had such an opportunity to
WHEK OCT OF TOW,
f afcserihere leavlagr the elty tan
pararlly ehoald have Tka Baa
mailed theaa. Addraea wUl ka
ehaaaad. a oftaa aa realra.
An expert accountant at $7.60 a day
is the measure of municipal demo
cratic economy.
Governor Folk advises country mer
cbsnts to advertise liberally and the
sdvlca must ba taken as that .of an ex
pert.
Registration for Shoshone lands Is
renewed proof that soma people have
taken Uncle 8am's anti-lottery laws
seriously.
With tha (unctions at Nsw York and
Chicago, Colonel Bryan will ba pretty
wall received before his Nebraska
neighbors get a chsnce at him.
Now that tha dry dock Dewey has
isfsly crossed the seas, tha next step
will be to ssnd such a craft on tha
same trip under Its own power.
With a New York grand Jury an
Joined from probing Into tha Thaw
murder ease It would seem thst tbe
limit to injunction had been reached
Whan Sir Thomas Upton opens his
Canadian packing house tha New York
Yacht club may decide to let him win
that American cup Just to spoil his id
vertlsenent.
Omaha still remains one of tha best
summer resorts In all America. While
New York la sweltering and roasting
tha people of Omsba keep cool and
comfortable.
Since Germany and Austria-Hungary
ime promised to guard Poland for tha
Ituaslan emperor In case of revolution
it may ba "up to" tha republics of the
world to guard tha guardians.
Comptroller Lobeck very properly
resents tha attempt to Infuse a check
Ing expert onto tha city pay roll
Comptroller Lobeck clalma to ba some-
whs t of aa expert checker himself.
me oaiuesnip Heoreska has re
deemed the promises of Its builders on
tbe official endurance teat. This au
gurs well for a future record credita
ble to tha stata for which It la named
or unfit anlmala. Becsusa they are
outside of national jurisdiction, stata
and municipal authorities everywhere
will have put a trm grip upon them
In tba public Interest.
THE JtAlLnOAVSr bOCBL OAMK.
Every railroad and every corporation that
la aeaking apodal favora, apaclal Immuni
ties, privilege to plunder and oppreaa, has
Ka hand turned agalnat the Nebraska
democracy. WorW-Herald.
To ba mora strictly accurate, tha
democratic organ should have ' said
that "every railroad and every corpor
ation that is seeking Special favors,
etc. baa a hand In the Nebraska
democracy."
For proof of tha pudding wa need
only refer to tbe recent Joint debate
between O. M. Hitchcock and Judge
Edgar Howard In their respective pa
pers over tha assertion by the latter
that "on many occasions the demo
cratic leaders In Douglas county hsve
betrayed tba democracy of that county
and Of tha stata Into the hands of cor
porations." Not content with msklng
tha charge and backing it up with
specific citations, Judge Howard de
clares that ha stands ready to show to
any democratic tribunal tha truth of
tha facts alleged, and continues:
We challenge tha authority of Attorney
Hitchcock to appear In thla cause aa coun
sel for people who have not employed him.
tha Brat te repudiate It. Certainly ha Is
not likely to permit htmeelf te be ueed as
a sort of collection agency by Impatient
policy holders.
Strata?, My Boy I
Washington Poet.
Mr. Bryan accuse Mr. Rorteevelt of
stealing- his clothes while ha was la swim
ming, and thie In spit a of tha fee, that he
deprecates the uee of a barrel la poll I lea. 1
campaigns.
Tka Kara pea Way.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Tha Japanese government again notifies
tha powers that It has no Intention of pet
manently occupying Manchuria, and It has
again omitted to mention when It proposes
to cease to occupy It temporarily.
Jarrla tka Vactla.
Bt. Louis OlobS Democrat.
The pleasure of tha summer seaaon at
Oyster Bay Is likely to ba marred by tha
antics of Honduras and Guatemala. Irri
table nations ought to do their quarreling
during tha working period of the year.
Belf-Teaeklagr Proaalttoa.
Baltimore American.
Teaching graft In public schools as a
means of avoiding It ws advocated not
long ago In a college address. But graft
Is something so self-explanatory that tt
does not require a School courae for any,
even of the dullest, of tha rising genera
tion to recognise It on sight.
settle broadly and conclusively in Us ' "a whm otJtpTT"tST.
own interest many vuai isnuos wmcu
belong peculiarly to tha time and
which many states under their old con
stitutional forma find themselves
greatly embarrassed to deal with. Such
questions are those Involved in taxa
tion, In corporations, In transportation
and In the salient relatione growing
out of trade combinations and other
conditions of recent Industrial devel
opment, and many other Important
subjects like reform of the criminal
code. The Oklahoma conventlbd. too,
If It be composed of tha wisest and
most progressiva cltlsena, has tha In
estimable advantage of the experience
of all tha other states In dealing with
the new questions which have thrust
themselves forward the last two or
three decades, and it will sit at a time
when the thought of tha whole country
has been concentrated for some time
upon these subjects.
The main difficulty with which the
Oklahoma convention will have to deal
will probably be the temptation to par
ticularize in the organic Instrument,
Men by loading down with mere
matter of legislation, has caused end
less trouble In all tha younger western
states, Including Nebraska. Tha new
state will find Itself In a straltjscket
which will plague It Indefinitely If It
lumbers up Its organic law with a mass
of statutes which ought to be left to
the wisdom of future legislatures, re
stricted only by those permanent fun
damental aafeguards which tha public
Interest requires.
Douglas leaders who have bean criticised
by tha Herald, but ha must show better
authority than ha has shown before we
shall recognise Mm aa a pleader for the
great body of Douglas county democrats.
He has no right to drag the Douglas county
democracy as a whole Into this controversy.
Wa have not attacked the democracy of
Douglas Ss a whole, but only the leaders
Of that pan Of It which pays first allegi
ance to railroad and other corporation In
terests. We stand uncovered in presence of
the great majority of Douglas county dem
ocrats, whose democracy knows no flaw.
It ta In the Interest of that splendid
democracy that wa have pointed out the
danger of permitting the corporation lead
ers to control. Wa regret the necessity for
calling attention to the corporation strings
by which many of the party leaders In
Douglas have been bound. Wa feel that
those strings ought te be cut. We trust the
great body of good and true democrats In
Omaha will soma day apply the knife.
If the testimony of Edgar Howard
on the axlatence of railroad democrats
and their efforts to control democratic
nominations ' and write democratic
platforms Is not conclusive beyond a
reasonable doubt, a good man for sec
ond wttnees would be M. F. Harring
ton, who would also have some Inter
esting testimony to offer, and there
ill ba no difficulty In subpoenaing
still mora witnesses who have been on
the Inside of the democratic camp and
know tha double game which tha rail
roads and the corporations play.
PER8UHALLT COKDUCtSP.
The moat curious feature of Colonel
Bryan's home-coming Is revealed by
the publication of his latter to tha
committee having, aa It thereby ap
pears, nominal charge of tha New York
banquet of tha Commercial Travelers'
Anti-Trust association at which It Is
planned that he shall ba tha honored
guest. Tha letter discloses the fact
that not only haa he laid down tha
requirements In accordance with which
tha ceremonies and procedure of tha
reception to himself must be ar
ranged, but also tha program In detail
must ba submitted to and formally
approved by him before It can ba re
garded aa official and binding.
Mr. Bryan ta evidently taking no
chances la tha celebration of hla home
coming. At any rata tha solicitude
which ha manifests Shows bow 1m
portant ha regards tha occasion. Tha
country likewise should take notice
that tha proceedings will have all the
authenticity of a personally conducted
anterprlae.
By establishing tba fact that Stand
ard Oil rebates, If any, were paid In
Chicago tha Cleveland grand jury haa
given the district attorney there an
opportunity to take his summer vacation.
The irrepressible stock-holding
"widow and orphan" haa again bobbed
up In the insurance companies and are
now advanced as an excuse for con
cerns trying to escape liability at Ban
Francisco.
The acquittal of Judge Hagls is
Kentucky accentuates tha fact that tt
la sot so much of a crime for a demo
crat to kill a republican as for a re
publican to kill a democrat en that
dark and bloody ground.
With fourteen of tha original alxty
members of tha "Father Tracy colony"
at Jackson to celebrate tha fiftieth an
nlvaraary of tha settlement, it mast be
recognised that the pioneer priest
managed ta select a salubrious loca
tion for hla flock. .
the next legislature should require
tha assessment of all property at Its
approximate market value. Tha as
sessment at one-fifth ita actual value
Is i delusion that benefits nobody and
make Nebraska's wealth look ridicu
lously email when, advertised to tha
world. Assessment at one-fifth re
salads us of tha guessing pussle which
require you ta thartiply a given figure
by two gnd then tubtrict half from tt
SMALL HLAVOHTSH HOVSti WKXT,
Tha discovery through inspection by
the Kanaaa Stata Board of Health that
a minor meat slaughtering house is In
a dangerously unsanitary condition la
suggestive of tha fact, which Is bound
to grow In Importance In public atten
ticn, that the field tor protection of
public health win henceforth lie In the
direction of the smaller local plants
rather than tha great ones. Tha
former In fact have been under none
of the strong constraints which hlth
erto have tended to Improve sanitary
methods In the big packing establish
msnts. It Is to be remembered that
both national and local Inspection has
long been In force In tha big exporting
packing houses, with the result that
conditions had been Immensely im
proved even before the recent disclos
ures, notwithstanding some revolting
circumstances In tha meat industries
grouped around the Chicago stock
yarda. Tha very character of tha for
sign market In which they have striven
to build up ft trade In canned meat
products has been a strong Influence
tor betterment, because theea goodi
bad to encounter foreign official and
private Inspection.
It waa laevitible, therefor, when
attention should later be turned to tha
subject, that a worse) sanitary situation
would ba developed In many small
slaughter house. The frightful filthl
nees which tfia Kansas Board of
Health haa discovered may ba credited
although some of the circumstances
are too offensive to ba described. They
are at any rata upon tha whole worse
than tha worst exceptional conditions
found la any of the big exportln
houses. It Is precisely In such local
establishments that peril to consumers
la now actually Increased by the very
stringency of Inspection at the big ee-
tabllshments. tor in addition to ua
saaltary conditions they will hereafter
constitute tha only outlet tor diseased
f
Haa Adlat a Barl t
Cincinnati Enquirer. ,
Somebody feels thst ha has discovered
an Incipient boom for Adlal E. Btevenaoh.
Welt, Mr. Stevenson was a good card In
1S92, and - was not responsible for any of
the defeats with which he was associated.
The country might be congratulated If he
were a younger man.
The same old fake stories are being
again projected out of Worland about
daitltng offers of cash for the relln
quiahment of rights by prize winners
In tha land lottety. In the first place
It la i violation of the land laws for a
homesteader to seek to transfer his
equity for a consideration directly or
Indirectly, and In tha teoond place any
one who wanted to Invest aeveral
thouaand dollars in i quarter section
of land would put his money Into good
Nebraska or Iowa soli close to tha
market. It is ill right for people who
went something for nothing to buy a
ticket la the land lottery, but they.
should not ba misled Into following
wlll-o'-the-wlsp cash prises that will
never ba paid.
An order for tha construction of
twenty new McKeea motpr ears In tha
Union Pacific shops affords gratifying
proof that Omaha will In tha no dli
tant future become in important man
ufacturing Center, aa it already la
jobbing and distribution center. But
wa would Ilka to sea soma of those
ears utilised for tha Conveyance of pas
sengers and mails within the 100-mlle
radlua 'of Omaha. Enlargement of
tha suburban passenger facilities has
been one of Omaha's long felt Wants.
The water company ha signified Its
willingness to extend soma additional
hydrant courtesies to tha city, al
though tha Water board persists in
withholding Ita O. K. on its hydrant
rental bills. Apparently tha Water
company Is willing to content Itself
with patiently waiting for the payment
of tha hydrant rental, which will come
la due course of time with T per cant
interest, while the city water fund on
deposit In tha banks is drawing hut I
per cent.
Our esteemed contemporary, th
W.-H., denlea with child-like aim
pliclty that there are any corpora
tlon democrats in Nebraska. That
would almost make a horse laugh.
How about Candidate Shallenberger
ind ft score of eminent railroad demo
crats who might be named?
Competition among New York law
yera seems to hsve grown so keen that
when no othSr person Is found who can
ba held for crime tha legal adviser of
the victim Is arrested. It Is to be
hoped that the Gibson case will not
follow tha Patrick precedent.
Tha ordinance for an extra assistant
elty attorney at 11,000 a year has
duly made its appearance in tha city
council. Compared with tha bills tor
legal service contracted by the Water
board, thla figure Is modesty itself
la tka Ikaial War.
Cleveland La4er.
Republican majorities are ripening la the
grata fields.
Atklag Tea Msek.
Chicago Chrontcl.
Prealdent Kooaevelt Is likely te ba mer
annoyed than flattered by the action of the
Baa Francises people who have appealed
to hint to make tba Insurance eompanles
pay up at onca. Thla notion that tha pree
Ident la fcnvceied with the functions
Judge. Jury and executioner has gained
considerable currancy of lata, but It la car
tain that tbe prealdent himself would
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PellHral Ceaalsteaey.
Springfield Republican.
Mr. Bryan's Insistence upon his consist
ency In public life Is possibly due to the
fact that he has been so little In office.
His tour years In congress were a long
time ago, and since then he has navigated
merely as a private cttlsen. Office is apt
to make a man do things occasionally that
are dead against his theories; at least,
such Is the experience of moat men who
have had a long public experience. A term
or two in the presidency might make Mr.
Bryan as indifferent to charges of incon
sistency as Mr. Roosevelt Is, and as all
the foremost statesmen of pant times have
been. Consistency Is tha virtue of little
minds, said our epigrammatic phlloeopher,
snd, however that may be. It Is often com
fortable tor great men to think so.
PRIVATE ENTERPRISES.
Caart Hallagr Favorable Tkeetrleal
Maaaarero.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
The dec I son of tha appellate division of
the New York supreme court that theatri
cal managers have the right to exclude
from their theaters sny person who Is dis
tasteful to them, Is not an ultimate judg
ment. It has to be sustained by one higher
court before It will ba tha final law for
New York. But tha court ta high enough
to make the aaaertlon of the principle ar
rest public attention.
The case arose on tha. exclusion of a
prominent dramatic critic from the New
Tork theaters because soma of his crltlo
Isms were Obnoxious to them. Tba principle
ss laid down enables the theatrical man
ager to exclude every dramatlo crltlo whose
comments on his productions do ne) ' vn
v. ai
ms manager. The. exercise or super
power would, of course, destroy, all dram
tic criticism. Notices of performances that
sre ehaped eolaly by the dictates ef th
box office are not criticism; and the public
Is very prompt to find out the fact.
It Is human nature- for the -manager to
desire laudatory netlees of the play thst
occupies ths stsge for the time being. Bui
experience has fully shown that the drama
tic column which gives Itself wholly te
puffery loses It Influence with the public
The earn fate Is Inevitably reserved for
the Sort that I governed by enmity or
prsjudle. AH th puffery thst Is possible
cannot make a success of a week play; nor
Can pur enmity write down a good one.
But honest and truthful criticism cart es
tablish a reputation that will aid the sue.
esse of good plays snd enable the stag
to mors promptly rid Itself of the burden
of trash.
The decision saems correct In law. Tba
theater Is a private enterprise and It IS
herd to sea how it Is charred with any
obligation to admit th public equally.
But before availing themselves of tha abil
ity to shut out criticism managers Win b
wise to consider whether It Is to their d
vantsg to do so. It Is cleSrly for the In
terest of tha playgolng publto te have
frank, Independent and Intelligent criticism
of the performances offered for their pa
tronage; and what Is for th Interest ef
th patrons of ths theater Is for tha In
terest of tha theater Itaelf.
MTNICirAL OWNERSHIP.
A CELEBRATED CASE. ,
rial 0lsery ef tb isIIUla aad
TlislMtlti f Drey fa.
Stripped ef tb entangling yarn of trag
edy and eemedy, of perjury, forgeriee and
murder a, th true thread of the Dreyfus
story is not difficult to trace. In th sum
mer ef UK relate the New Tork Times,
when General Mereier was minister of war,
a member of th French "Contre-Eeplon
a" wa caught near th German frontier
and released by tha minister's order. Mar
clef, never popular with the liberal press.
thereby brought down upon hla head a heap
of unjust. Insulting denunciations. His
mallgner could not know tha true charac
ter of the man released. An opportunity
waa offered Mercler to rehabilitate himself,
when a bordereau, or list enumerating arti
cles that had been transmitted to a foreign
power, waa intercepted and taken to him.
The character of the contents showed that
tha writer waa a treasonable member of the
French general staff. If Mercler could de
tect the criminal there would be no more
cries heard from tha liberal press that he
was In ths habit offreelng traitors.
Mercler called to his aid on Du Paty de
Clam and ordered him to find the author
of th bordereau among th officer of the
various bureaus. The handwriting of an
Alsatian Jew, Captain Dreyfus, resembled
that in tha bordereau. Experts were of
varied opinions. Dreyfus was arrested and
a curious "acta d'accusatlon," or Indict
ment, was drawn up against hlrn in which
various charges were made on less than
hearsay. He wa tried on tha charge of
having communicated to a foreign power
obviously Germsny ths documents men
tioned In th bordereau.
From the very beginning the prisoner
counsel, Maltre Demange, swept away all
charge with th exception of that impli
cating Dreyfus as the writer of the bor
dereau. Th court retired to deliberate on
this point. A hurry call was sent for Mer
cler announcing that the prisoner was
about to b acquitted. Mercler hurried to
th Ecol Mllltalr and entered without
ceremony tha secret chamber of tha court.
He aald he Would road to the court a tele
gram which had been Intercepted while
prising- from tha military attache of one
embassy to that of another. This docu
ment, he added, was in cipher, but he
would translate. He read: "Decidedly this
rascal Dreyfus has become too exacting."
Tha document was not In cipher, nor did
It contain th nam Dreyfus merely th
letter D. .The judges, however, never ques
tioned their general's word, nor did they
resent being mad his criminal partners by
accepting evidence which .was Introduced
without th accused's knowledge or. the
knowledge of his counsel. They found
Dreyfus guilty and sentenced him to death
a sentence later changed to Imprisonment
for. Ufa on Devil's Island.
A - book might b written books hav
been written showing how th conviction
by the court-martial had been illegal how
this Illegality was made public. Tha names
of CJeorgea Plcquart and Emile Zola and a
host of others should always b men
tioned in th Story which tells of th three
years' struggle to bring th illegality to the
attar. tlon of tha suprams court of appeal.
Thla court was finally reached. During the
winter of 189S-W it heard witnesses, and
finally gave his opinion that Captain Drey
fus might be Sent before the Re ones court
martial to be tried on the charge of hav
ing transmitted to a foreign power certain
document mentioned In a list which It
(the supreme court of appeal) bad over
whelming evidence had bean written by
another man. AS th proceedings of this
court had bn dally published, there waa
ne doubt aa to who the other msn waa.
He was th notorious Eetarhasy, the real
traitor. Th suprsm court. It will b
seen, thus left .th Rennes tribunal an ab
surdity to establish.
At Rennes, however, th Judge utterly
Ignored th opinion ef th supreme court
thst f Itaelf would hav been sufficient to
hav th sentenced annulled had not the
agitated stata of th country prevented th
supreme court from exercising its author
ity in this Instance and proceeded to try
Dreyfus en the old charge, with all the
old paraphernalia, but with an additional
witness, named Carnsky, who falsely swore
he had overheard man talking about Drey
fus' delinquencies. And th Rennes court
martial found th defendant guilty of high
treason, but "with extenuating clreum
stancea."
Th new of this absurd sentence had
scarcely reached Paris when Dreyfus'
brother, Mathleu, wa on his way to
Rennes with th news that th govern
ment desired to pardon th Convict. Drey
fus thought of his sufferings at Devil's
Island, of his long pa ration from his
family, and accepted th offer. By this
action, however, he Incurred the enmity
ef some ef his most ardent defenders, who
had attempted to make hi case a national
political cause. But he wa weary and
would rest. LAter he would clear his
nam.
Lesger
Where Oaee
Affrights
It Did.
Hartford Courant.
M. E. Ingalls, one of th committee of
tbe civic federation sent abroad to Investi
gate municipal ownership, tell th New
Tork reporters that in Glasgow, Manches
ter and Liverpool the system work "ad
mirably," and is looked upon as a "public
benefit" In other places th sentiment is
the other way. All this Is mighty Interest
Ing. People ar studying th subject aad
ar getting a lot of new light on It. In th
first place, w vsntur th statement that
the words "municipal ownership" do not
bring up the spooks that they formerly
called forth. That is because It ha com
to b realised that th thing Itsalf Is not
new. Whose ar the fir engine bouses tn
Hartford T Who owns th water works!
How about tha parks?
Ws might let out ths fighting of fir to a
company organised for th purpose. In
many cities th water business Is given
over to a private company, and a consider
able element can b found in such placea
to declare that no city government can
manage eueh a business suitably. The
parks cost money right along, but. If we
turned them ever to private management,
they might be made, tnataad. to produce
revenue on th charge ef an utterly insig
nificant admission fee. And so with nu
m era us other publt Interests.
Th fact Is that there la not so much
prlnolple aa practice Involved. Ths qua
tlon eannot b asked whether society I
going astray If It permit municipal owner
ship, because that I permitted right atona
It Is whether such treatment ef th prob
lems ef living la wisest In each ease, and
th cases will hsve t ba treated individ
ually a they come up. Wa hav often re
f erred to tha difference between Hertford
and New Haven a to tba ownership of
water work. Down there they think mu
nicipal ownership means th advance of all
th Ism and the triumph ef communism
up here we take municipal ownership as a
matter of courae.
I'nder such circumstances It looks to US
as If the attempt to make tha question a
party one la not likely to come to much
As General Hancock said (and he earns
very near the truth, too) about th tariff,
It I a local question. I thla ic business
nobody would have thought ef a munlrlpa
Ire eetabltshment If the privet concerns
engaged In tha business had not turned
bogs ami dictators S'J at onaa, aad under
taken tn deprive the drlsae of th oppor
tunity to de bust nee a they choea
A large auaibar of criminal and etvil law
suits aroee from tb case, and so Intermin
able did they seem, so threatening to public
safety, that it became necessary to pas a
law granting general amnesty and pro
hibiting further litigation. Dreyfus him
self, however, was not included In this law,
H could tranquilly await th time, there
fore, when "new facta," unknown at the
time of the Rennes trial, might be discov
ered. That time ha now coma. The saw
facta presented to ths supreme court of
appeal were aa follows;
(1) The "petit bleu" (olty tube telegram)
sent by Colonel Pannlsaardi to Colonel Von
Bchwarskoppen about the transport of
troops on the Eastern railway In th event
of mobilisation waa not written In as
was behaved when Dreyfua was trleu st
Rennes. but In tha year following, when
he waa at Devil s island.
(Jl At Rennes Dreyfus was thought to
have communicated a not on th different
artillery resrlment to the Garman govern
ment. aa It wa supposed to have disap
peared from the bureau where he waa
working. Now this very note haa since
been found at th war omce.
(It Tha fact that tha Initial "D" oc
curred In another "petit bleu" exchanged
between the Oerman and Italian military
attache waa regarded a proof aalnst
rtrevfus. It haa since been ascertained
that the original Initial waa scratched out
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in It has also been found that several
documents in favor of Dreyfus were not
aubmlted to the officer who tried him at
Renna. ..
m hi nee ism a document has been dis
covered which shows that Dreyfus never
(I) It le alleged that there I evidence of
on false witness l tu jiennea iriaj.
ORBAT LOAD LIFTED.
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s)ailrae Relieved f tk Sardis f
t Rebate.
Cleveland taader.
la th west alone H.Wo,Ofo a month la
being aavsd to railroads because freight
rebate and official eecret tariff havs been
withdrawn. This flgur i said by soma
t raffle officials te be too low and by others
to b too high.
Sine th passage of the Elkins anil
rebel law it has been poaalbl for rati
roads te refuse secret favors to shippers
on th ground of their Illegality. As a re
suit there has been a steady moral Improve
ment in tha conduct of tbe railroad bust
nesa. ut certain powerful shippers havs
contended that they were abev tb law
and could not be forced to obey it. Sev
eral recent oonvlctiona under th Elkins
law and th pS f th r ew railroad
rata bill have caused tbem to amend their
vlewa en this subject, however. Th re
sult is mat th railroads new ar being
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cases. Especially good in bronchitis,
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ATXa'S BAJtaAPAULLA Vst ta Med. ATIK'S AQUB CUIB-For auilariA asd art.
operated in a stralghter and more honest
way than ever before.
Many large Industries hav been built up
during th lest few years because of the
rebates from railroad. With this unfair
advantage taken awy, what will become
of them? It Is reasonable to suppose that
some of their business will be divided
among their competitors. The Standard
Oil company ha been th greatest bene
ficiary of secret freight rates. Next to It
cam th Chicago meat packers and then
th grain elevator men of the west and
northwest.
Th rebat has been an old man of th
a on th shoulder of th railroads, and
they ar glad tt haa been shaken off. An
other question ha com up, however. If
th railroad could pay big dividends in
spit of rebates, can they not. In the ab
sence of the latter, make a general reduc
tion In th straight rates which must here
after prevail t The question is legitimate
and answerable In only ope wsy. If the
railroads obey the law they can, on re
duced rates, give better service than they
now provide and still make money.
PERSONAL NOTES.
Ex -Governor Bradley of Kentucky, In an
address several days ago tn Louisville,
Ky., advocated graft aa a course In the
schools of the country.
A German frineess la to be tried for
larceny. She oonfeaaes to kleptomania, and
the court evidently has a dealr to differen
tiate psychologically.
Ths clamors of the Parisian populace for
the degradation of Colonel Paty du Clam,
the officer, largely responsible for the per
secution of Dreyfus, evidently make Du
Clam feel ilk crawling into his shell and
staying there.
Thorn A. Edison haa ought his birth
place In Ohio. H will never be abl. how
ever, to buy all tho hotel in Canada
that ar now pointed out to tourists as
where Edison boarded when he was a
telegraph operator on th Grand Trunk."
Wishing to honor th. memory of John
W. Mackay, jr., his brother, Clarence H.
Maekay, and hi mother hav donated
$100,000 to the University of California for
the establishment of a professorship of
electrical engineering. Th annual Income
from th money Will be applied to the pay
ment of a professor' salary snd the ex
pense and maintenance of the depart
ment, the original fund to be kept intact
In perpSSulty.
Patrolman James Murray of th New
Tork police force ha received a medal
from the government tor saving th lit
of a sailor who fall into th river lest
February when th mercury was but a tew
degree above serq. Murray jumped in
after tb man, overcoat, overshoes, belt.
pistol aad all. The sailor had sunk twlo
when Murray reached him. The river wa
full of Ic at th time. Murray weighs 1st
pounds, th sailor weighed about 2BX
MIRTHFIX REMARKS.
"Congratulations, old man."
"What for?"
"O! don't ba hypocrltal. Jokely tells me
your rich old uncle died last week."
"Jokely thinks he's funny. A pretty
young widow moved In next door to my
uncle and he's dyed his hair snd mus
tache." Philadelphia Presa
"You must remember that the people
who sent you to this high plane did It be
cause they esteemed and trusted you."
"No, they didn't," answered Senetor Bor-
Sbum; "they did It merely becsuse they
Idn't like the man who waa agalnat ma. '
Washington Star.
"I suppose It Is the life which sailors lead
that makes them so quarrelsome on shore."
How Is thatT"
"To begin with, they have eo many spsrs
on a ship, and then, you know, the men
have to box tha compass." Baltimore
American.
"I thought May Gldday was going to
msrry old Gotrox."
"8he was, but she hss broken the en-'
gagement."
"What forT"
"When aha aocepted him he told her aha
had put new Ufa Into him." Philadelphia
Presa.
Tha Author In this scan some on
Cornea In suddenly snd tells you that your
husband has run away with another
woman, and then you swoon."
The Actress O, that will be nice.
The Author Then the leading man
comes In and brines you to.
The Actress What brings me two
bandaT Tonkera Btatesman.
OLD-FASHIONED FXOWERf
hue-
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Where are the sweet old-fashioned posies,
Quaint in form and bright In hue.
Such as grandma gave her lovers
When she walked the garden through?
Lavender, with spikes of asur
Pointing to th dome on high.
Telling thus whenc cam Ita color,
Thanking with ita breath the eky.
Four o'clock, with heart unfolding,
When the loving sun had gone,
Streak and stain of cunning crimson,
Lik th light of arly dawn.
Feral lilies, many petaled,
Like the curling drifts of anew,
With their crown of golden anthers
Poised on mslachlte below.
Mnmlng-glorles. tints of purple
Stretched on bars of creamy white,
Folding up thalr satin curtain
Inward through the dewy night.
Marigold with coat of velvet
Streaked with gold and yellow laee,
With Its love for summer sunlight
Written on its honest fsce.
Dainty pink, with feathered petal
Tinted, curled and deeply frayed.
With Its calya heart, half broken.
On ita leaves uplifted laid.
Csn't you see them in th garden.
Where dear grandma takes her napT
Sea cherry blooms shake softly over
Silver hslr and snowy oapT
Will th modern florists' triumph
Look so fair, or smell so sweat.
As thee dear old-fashioned post
Blooming round our grandma feett
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