TTTE OMAHA DAILY HKK: FRIDAY, AriUL 20, 1907.
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Financial note: The Nebraska
wheat crop la still quoted above par.
Paris reports a famine lu snails.
Philadelphia's supply is apparently In
exhaustible. As a base ball tosaer Mayor "Jim"
Is not In It with the same "Jim ' en a
lopo thrower.
"What is the matter with New
York?" asks a writer in The Krdder
magazine. What isn't?
Foreign visitors at the White House
wore full dress at a morning reception.
The St. Louis style Is evidently spread
ing. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., says he is
tired of the publicity and newspaper
notoriety. Is that boy going to turn
mollycoddle?
A New York girl lecUiuil In court
that she could not live on 117,500 a
year. Many other people do not for
obvious reasons.
Those city hall elevators might work
better If they could utilise some of
the steam blown off weekly lu the city
council chamber.
If this cold .weather continues much
longer, when Miss Spring arrives she
will have no time for anything except
to introduce her successor.
Editor- Stead of London says the
Ann r leans are natural fighters. , He
n.ust have been reading English his
tory of King Qeorge III times.
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Frost Is said to have played havoc
with the Missouri fruit crop. This,
however, will not kep MiasourJfrom
offering the usual supply ot Hen Davis
apples.
Royal etiquette requires King Ed
ward to kiss the kings he 1b visiting
on his tour of Europe. He must re
gret that more of the kings are not
queens.
Senator Beverldge predicts that the
United States will fvnctually own all
of the West Indies. Some men are
never happy unless they are borrowing
trouble.
The president declares he Intends to
take a long rest at Oyster Bay this
summer, which means that while there
he will not work more than twenty
hours a day.
Boston teamsters are Musing a lot
of trouble In their strike. All a team
Bter has to. do to block traffic Is to stop
his wagon In the center of on ot Bos
ton's narrow ' street
These efforts to eliminate largs con
tributions to campaign funds may
make, It more than ever necessary to
nominate a bar'l tor second place on
all the national tickets.
"The democrats axe planning to put
another comedy on the road next
j ear,?' says Colonel Watterson. If
that's the ' case, why not nominate
Weber and Fields T
Officials of the Omaha street rail
way company have been aaked to file
a schedule of rate charged with the
State Railway commission. That
ought to be easy If the return only
notes the exception In favor of the
man with a tlme-eiptred transfer.
light mm RODS CP tit jvwa.
Governor Cummins of Iowa, who
has been "prominently mentioned" a
a candidate for the republican nomi
nation for the presidency in 1908, has
confounded sosna ci his political oppo
nents In the state and added spice to
the ante-campaign collection ot specu
lative gossip by declaring that Presi
dent Roosevelt should withdraw the
statement he made on the night of the
election In 1904 and agree to accept
the nomination for another term. In
a private letter intended for publica
tion he says:
Thore la a great deal being- said and a
great deal oelng written with regard to
the candklate for president, but it Is vastly
more Important that we succeed In an
nounclrg plntfoTm that will be expres
sive of our purposes than It is now to de
termine who the candidate shall be. p--sonnlly.
I believe that President Rorwrelt's
piaJn duty Is to withdraw his former state
ment and to say that tinder the demand
nyw made, and the evident stats of the
public mind, he will accept another nomi
nation If It Is tendered to him with prac
tical unnnlmlty.
In these days when politicians fre
quently use the confidential letter as
a medium. of conveying their views on
pending public questions tho purpose
of the writer is often more Important
than the color of the ink used or the
phraseology employed. ' The political
situation In Iowa would be classified as
"mixed" if It was quoted on the mar
ket like live stock, and there is some
difficulty in determining how much of
Governor Cummins' letter 'was de
signed for national political signifi
cance and how much of it was calcu
lated to confuse some of his. political
opponents ot home. At the recent ses
sion of the Iowa legislature a resolu-
ion was Introduced endorsing Pi esi-
dent Roosevelt and urging his nomlnit-
?on for another term. The resolution
v as tabled and the faction if the Iowa
republicans opposed to Governor Cum
mins have been busy charging him
with smothering the resolution lu
order to further his own candidacy.
The inference was naturally Implied
that Governor Cummins was opposing
President' Roosevelt. As a silencing
answer to that brand of criticism, his
letter goes to the extreme of profess
ing a willingness to sacrifice personal
ambition in a demand that the Roose
velt policies be continued by their au
thor Instead of being' sublet to any un
derstudy from Iowa or any ' other
state. v
Time alone will demonstrate the
Ehrewdness of Governor Cummins' tac
tical move on the political checker
board. Apparently the Iowa lightning
rod Is up to catch flashes from either
presidential or vice presidential thun
derbolts.
irREKQTH lit VlflOK.
With a new regime ahead of us in
the matter of railway rate regulation,
Omaha should prepare to defend its
rights and make sure of getting a
square deal as compared with Its com
mercial competitors. In every ques
tion that may come up affecting our
trade interests, either before the In
terstate Commerce commission or the
new Nebraska State Railway commis
sion, Omaha should not demand more
than It Is entitled to, but neither
should It be content with less than It
Is entitled to.
The organization upon which the
duty naturally devolves to take care
of Omaha's Industrial Interest is tho
Commercial club and no effort should
be spared to strengthen and solidify
the Commercial club with a view to
making Its work In this direction more
efficient and more effective. Des
Moines Is Just prosecuting a cam-'
pal go to raise Its Commercial club
membership up to 1,000, and If Des
Moines can maintain a club with 1,000
members Omaha ought to be able to
push its Commercial club membership
up to 1,200 or 1.500. The same
methods employed In Des Moines and
other cities tor recruiting by personal
canvass and Individual effort can be
employed In Omaha with equally good
lesult.
Under changed transportation co ad
ditions that now exist the Commercial
olub organisation can and must be a
much mors -Important factor In
promoting business growth, extending
trade territory and preventing railroad
discrimination than ever before. With
all our business Interests compactly
ranged together for nnlted action on
very proposition Involving Omaha's
commercial advancement and prestige
there will be little danger of , com
peting trade centers making any pre
ventable gains upon us.
"SUK&RUS" TO BC UNMASKED.
Judge Samuel H. Cowan ot Texas Is
getting ready to uncork another Jug
of trouble. Judge Cowan for many
years has been attorney of the big
cattlemen of Texas, active In the work
of the National Live Stock association,
special Attorney ot the Interstate Com
merce commission, and is credited
with being the author of the railway
rate bill passed by congress.. He has
accomplished" much la bringing about
recent reforms In transportation af
fairs, but he has now undertaken a
plan that looks like a blow at Tested
rights. ' As attorney for the Texas
Railway eommlaslon, Judgu Cowan la
going down to New York to take testi
mony and announces his intention ot
making the big officials at headquar
ters tell Just what disposition was
made of the money entered on their
books as "sundries" and charged to
the expense account.
"Sundries" has as many aliases as a
professional crook. In England It ap
pears as "Ei peases not Classified."
In Nebraska and aome other western
state, corporations rloak It as "Ex
penses of the Law Department."
Sometimes It parades as "Miscellane
ous" and In private accounts it fre
quently hides its sinful head under
the cloak of "Inetnyntsls." .Indue
Cowan and his Texas conferees have
a notion that "Sundries" In railroad
accounts means "millions that the
railroads spend every year on politics,
In one way or another" for the "crea
tion of public opinion and lobbying."
The Texans will demand the vouchers
that will show the exact purposes as
well 88 the amount expended and en
tered on the books as "Sundries."
Desirable as the purpose of the Texas
ci.bimlHslon may be, trouble will fol
low If Jade Cowan's plan succeeds
and results in a sentiment and demand
for universal explanation and elucida
tion of the "Sundries" account. The
traveling man Is going to protest if
that $3.80 he lost at pinochle 'while
waiting for the train at Podunk and
the $4 for a new hat must be re
turned only on piesentatlon of vouch
ers Instead of being allowed as "Sun
dries." The Junior partner will be
compelled to cut tfiit the soubrctte
suppers if "Sundries" will no longer
pay the bill and the family account
book will become a regular South
American republic as a war breeder If
the old man's expenditures for cigars.
booze, lunch for the stenographer and
items of that character have to be set
down in damning detail instead of
lumped under the accommodating and
peace-promoting ead of "Sundries."
Of course. Judge Cowan la only doing
his duty to the shippers of Texas, but
he ought to think a little about the
welfare of the rest of mankind before
he proceeds further in his crusade for
the unmasking of "Sundries."
WATTKRSOX Olt DEMVCRA TIC
Colonel Henry Watterson, the vet
eran editor of the Louisville Courier
Journal, has long been one of the
leading advisers, counselors and
friends of the democratic party and
special cb,aperone ' of tho "S'tnr-eyeJ
goddess of reform." While he hts
had a seat close to the head ot the ta
ble in democratic counc.la, his advice
has usually been dUreai dei, leaving
him room for considerable satlttfactlou
in saying, "I told yoi bo," when his
party, ignoring nls nagi ndmonltior.3,
has marched "from the slaughter
house to the open grave." While the
colonel has been spending some
months in Europe, evidently he has
been closely advised on the progress
of political events at home. When on
landing In New York he was abked it
he thought there was any chanco tor
democratic success at the next national
election, he made this characteristic
reply:
Yes, If we should have cholera In the
Philippines, yellow fever In Cuba;. If corn
should drop to 80 cents and wheat to 40
cents. Then we wou'.d have a good chance.
Yes. and we might win, too, If the re
publican party should split wide open.
It Is unkind, it not unprofessional,
for Colonel Watterson to hold the In
quest and announce the post mortem
before the corpse has been produced.
but his position is doubtless Justified
by the attitude of many distinguished
democrats who act as though they
were preparing to attend the party
funeral once more. The democratic
party In the east has never accepted
the latter day leadership and even
the south Is showing disposition to
get away, from the present control
and re-establish the old , democratic
party that used to represent some
thing. On the day Colonel Watterson
gave his Interview In New York, the
Charleston (S. C.) News and Courier,
one of the oldest and most powerful
democratic papers In the south, editori
ally declared, "Bryan cannot be elected.
That much is certain, but he can de
feat the election of any other demo
crat by keeping himself so persistently
In the public mind as the only avail
able candidate of his party atlhe next
election. Somebody else ought to have
a chance. The democratic party ought
to have a chance."
Finding even such surface Indica
tions of a sentiment among democrats
that their party must have a creed
and a purpose that are not subject to
revision with each change of the
moon is worthy of note. It Is doubt
ful, however, If this budding senti
ment of Colonel Watterson and the
Charleston editor blossoms Into a de
mand that the democratic party stand
for something more than a label.
N
When it is said that the rallroad9
are In a quandary, as to what course
to pursue on "the party ticket proposi
tion" It should be explained that it re
fers to party tickets Issued to theatri
cal companies, base ball clubs and
similar organizations traveling In a
group and not to political party tick
ets. The railroads are never in a
quandary as to a party ticket propo
sition In politics.
People down at Lincoln are trying
to make their local municipal cam
paign a sort ot curtain raiser to next
spring's presidential contest by drag
ging into it the two republican United
Stltes senators and the democratic
leader, William Jennings Bryan. Pre
sumably they will all tell the voters
what a fine thing It Is to divorce city
government completely from partisan
politics.
The eventual solution of the gar
bage problem will be the removal of
all garbage and refuse by the city at
public expense In the Interest of the
public health. Whatever temporary
arran cements may be made that dis-
rosltion of the matter should be kept
In view, because that Is what nearly
all the other cities have been finally
compelled to come to.
"I am confident," says B. F. Yoa
knm, chairman of the executive board
of the Rock Island, "of a complete re
turn to normal railroad conditions,
with no reduction in traffic for the
year to come." This is particularly
encouraging, coming as It does. from
Mr. Yoakum, who vas going to tear
up the Rock Island tracks and go back
to farming if the different state- legis
latures did not abandon their efforts to
tasB railway regulation laws.
The big fight on the brewers In
Kansas la eald to Involve property be
longing to nine corporations and
valued at $250,000. This is not as
much value as that owned by a single
corporation In Omaha alone, where no
where near as much noise is being
made over legislation affecting ten
times ns much property.
Senator Bourne of Oregon says the
people will force President Roosevelt
to accept a second elective term. That
$5,000,000 conspiracy to defeat the
president alleged to have been hatched
at a dinner given by Senator Bourne
seems to have been stabbed In the
house of Its friends.
Uncle Sam has just held a civil serv
ice examination for five boys who as-,
pire to appointment as messenger in
the Weather bureau office at Omaha.
Wonder If the questions made sure
that none of the boys is barred from
employment by the new Nebraska la
tor law?
The Washington Star suggests
Bryan and Warfleld for the demo
cratic ticket In 1908. The first wave
of enthusiasm over the suggestion has
subsided since the public has learned
that the Warfleld named is a Maryland
governor and not David Warfleld, the
actor.
Rental agents report that the de
mand for habitable dwellings at mod
erate rentals is constantly ahead of
the supply here in Omaha. The open
ing for profitable Investment In such
buildings should not be overlooked by
people with Idle money on hand.
The brewers at Springfield, 111.,
have limited the supply of free beer to
one gallon a day for each employe.
The men are retaliating by demanding
extra pay so they can buy another gal
lon daily after they quit work.
Milwaukee boasts that the breweries
bottle 1,000,000 bottle of beer a
minute. It might add that they are
emptied also at a rate which leaves to
large surplus In the warehouses.
The Old Trath Restated.
Kansas City Journal.
There Is not a republican politician In the
country who la so useful to the republican
party as Bryan Is.
Sloir bat Bare Proitress.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Governor Hushes of New York Is unfor
tunately discovering that a governor with
out help can put In most of his time clear
ing away the obstructions that are heaped
In front of him on the way to reform.
Calamity as a Polltlenl Aaaet.
New York World.
Marse Henry Watterson thinks the demo
crats might win "If cholera should break
out In the Philippines, yellow fever In
Cuba, and corn should go to 10 cents a
bushel and wheat to 40 cents." Few
democrats would prsy for victory at that
rate.
The Knock Con
rtroaa.
Louisville Courier-,
Journal.
William T. Stead aays
have ear for nothing but
dollar. If they would on
the Americana
the clink of the
ly listen to the
clinking of the dollar half
to W. T. Btead the other
reformer might get the
of his system.
of the time and
half that great
peevishness out
The niv lek In Atloa.
Kansas City Journal.
The labor unions that were dissatisfied
with President Roosevelt's utterance re
garding the Indicted Idaho agitators will
be still more dissatisfied with his reply to
their criticisms. The president seems to
be as fearless of organised labor as of
organised capital.
"What Ulaht Have Reea."
Philadelphia Record.
Jamea C. Dahlman, democratic national
committeeman from Nebratka. aays of next
year's democratic convention, "That free
silver la dead Mr. Bryan will admit by ac
cepting a platform from which Its men
tion will be eradicated." If Mr. Bryan had
been equally convinced of Ita deadness In
19C4 the country would be now under a
democratic ' president., and we are not
aware of anything that baa killed free
silver since then.
Seeklasr Pnhlle Cnod Will.
Bprlngfleld Republican.
The movement to unite the western roads
In a legal contest against the J-cent fare
leglslntlon Is not succeeding as well as ex
pected. One of the most Important of the
lines, the Chicago A Northwestern, has
decided to submit to the t-cent laws
adopted In Nebraska and Iowa, and the
Great Northern road. It la reported, will
likewise submit to the similar legislation
enacted In Mlnnesots. Presumably, that U
to aay. they are willing to give the re
duced rate a practical test, which alone
can determine whether It Is reasonable or
confiscatory. This la, of course, the better
policy to pursue In the esse of any rail
road desiring the good will 0T the public.
Philosophies! Skepticism.
Chicago Chronicle.
There Is absolutely nothing so shallow,
foolish and ruinous that It la not believed
and advocated by some people who are
otherwise Intelligent and wire. For In
stance, Major Woodruff, a surgeon In the
United States army, who has a high repu
tation as a man of science, traces nearly
all tuberculosis. Insanity and suicide to
sunl'ght. Unless men. he says, abandon
rVn this foolishness about "God's sunshine"
the race will perish from the earth. Ills
theory Is that luea were originally black
and became white and consumptive by
venturing too much out of the shade of the
Jungle. Can anybody wonder at philo
sophies! skepticism which doubts the
power ot the human mind to arrive at any
truts.l
BITS OP WSHI(iT()1 LIFE.
Mlaor Beeaes aad lapldeats Sketched
'I the Spot.
The many trials and troub'es of ad
ministration, crucial as they appeared,
sink Into Insignificance before the crisis
prectpMattwl 4 CTder TtVlTiff fnlr
rore from the government printing office.
It Is the greatrsl test of strength, courago
and daring welcomed by the administra
tion aince the Rough Riders swept the
heights of Santiago and mocked the hall
of Mauser bullets. The order Is aimed at
the women employes of the printshop.
They wasted precious time primping be
foro the mirrors.
In times pnt many of the floors had
from forty to fifty mltrors upon the walls
In convenient reach of the women em
ployes when ready to go to lunch or to
leave for the day. Knth mirror belonged
to a particular beauty or to a congenial
group and tho utmost harmony prevailed.
"Now," complain the girls, "there is but
one nrge mirror left, and that In the main
dressing room. It Is Impossible for a hun
dred or more women to gather around one
mirror at one time and get any satisfac
tion out of tho proceeding. Consequently
we have to dash on our hats, guess at
where our faces need washing most, and
saunter out on the street a perfect fright."
"The women waste too much time fixing
their hair and arranging their hats," Is
the reasoning ot the department officials.
"We waste no time belonging to the gov
ernment, and should certainly have the
right to look decent," Is the way the
women see It.
When General John M. Wilson, IT. S. A.,
retired, was superintendent of public build
ings and grounds In Washington, under
Cleveland, relates the Washington Herald,
he was Invited one afternoon by General
"Phil" Sheridan to accompany him on a
carriage drive about the city. The hero
of Winchester was In fine spirits until
they approached Scott Clrc.e, In the cen
ter of which loomed the equestrlnn statue
of General Wlnfleld Scott. Then "little
Phil" became serious. Reining up his
horses, he sat and gased earnestly at the
stntua.
"Wilson,' said General Sheridan, "I
have an Incurable malady and do not ex
pect to live more than a year. When I am
AaaA T mnnnaa , Vi ti f mv amiAltrlnn Htlltlie
wiii oe ereciea somewnere in wHsningiou.
I request here and now that you see to It
that I am not seated upon such an out
rageous looking horse b that uoon which
the sculptor has placed Scott."
The Scott horse, by the wsy, was mod
eled after one of the favorite mares rid
den by General John Morgan, the dashing
Kentucky confederate cava rymnn, a fact
known only to General Wilson and a few
other persons In Washington.
Although fourteen years have passed
since congress provided for the erection
of an equestrian statue of General Sheri
dan, the capital Is as yet devoid of that
piece ot monumental art. Work was be
gun on it several years ago by J. Q. A.
Ward, the American sculptor, who, It is
said, finally has abandoned the task,
largely because of the Injunction of Gen
eral Sheridan that his fcronie likeness be
not placed upon any but a read war horse.
Mr. Ward, It la stated, has made numerous
models of horses, none of which pleased
him, and he destroyed them In turn. Pre
sumably when the statue is made it will
be placed in Sheridan Circle, on Maasa
chusettes avenue,, near Rock, creek.
Somebody asked Speaker Cannon a few
days ago what congress was likely to do
after meeting next December. -"When I
was a boy," said the Danville statesman,
"we used to go coon hunting at night u.d
we used to have some mighty good dogs.
But some of them could not be kept in
oontrol run off after a rabbit or a skunk
after the coon had been started. We used
to call these 'sooner dogs. Now, congress
don't meet until next December. That's a
long way oft and I'm no sooner. The next
president? Oh, no matter who he Is, I'll
be able to-get along with him. I got along
alt right with Preaident McKlnley and
President Harrison and a number of other
presidents and I think, the Lord willing,
that I'll be able to keep friends with the
next man that enters the presidential
chair." '
The Agricultural department has had con
siderable trouble In deciding to what extent
the term "sardine" can be used In food
products. Dr. Wiley, the federal chemist,
and Secretary Wilson labored with the
question of the proper labelling of fish of
this kind, finally gave It up. and submitted
the problem to the bureau of fisheries. The
wise heads of that bureau got together
and reached the following conclusion:
"Commercially, the rame sardine has
come to signify any small, canned, clupe
oid fish; and the methods of perparatlon
are so various that It la Impossible to
establish any absolute standard of quality.
It appears - to this department that tho
purposes of the pure food law will be
carried out and the publio fully protected
If all sardines bear a label showing the
place where produced and the nature ot
the Ingredients used In preserving or flavor
ing the fish.''
In harmony with the 'opinion of the ex
perts of the bureau of fisheries the De
partment of Agriculture has decided that
the term "sardine" may be applied to any
small fish described above, and that the
name "sardine" should be accompanied
with the name of the country or state In
which the fish are taken and prepared,
and with a statement of the nature of the
Ingredients used In preserving or flavoring
the fish.
SpVaker Cannon the other evening stood
In the receiving line at the Washington
residence ot Vice President Fairbanks pass
ing kindly word and grip with friends as
they came along. At length his own
daughter approached . and drawing1 up his
spare frame he grasped her hand In formal
fashion and . Inquired with well-assumed
disinterestedness: "Your name, please?"
"Lydla Plnkham," replied Miss Cannon,
amiably. "Well, Lydla, my dear, we are
well met," the speaker responded, "for I
guess there's just about as much good In
your remedies as there Is In my presi
dential boom!" .
Admiral Wlnfleld Scott Schley was In
formed the other day that he was again
being boomed for vice president. The
veteran sailor said with marked animation:
"My whole life's training hss tended to
unfit me for civil duty and I feel sure that
If I were to accept responsible office I
should soon be heartily despiped. No man
trained to the trade of the soldier or sillor
Is fit to hold office In a government like
ours. PTverycne who has tried It has proved
a failure. So to the deuce with this talk
of me for vice president or anything else!"
As near an approach to a Joke as ever
came from the supreme court bench wss a
statement made by Justice Holmes last
week In announcing decision In the rase of
David Kawananakoa. Jonah Kalanlanaols.
AbUals W. Kanwananakoa and Elisabeth
K. Kalanlananle agalnK Bllen Alberdell.
Holmes merely said the case was No. TX
and he would not announce the names, as
they were of record. Only Justice lie
Kenna gave the suggestion of a smile.
Oar Baar Iay.
Washington Herald.
When the next campaign subscription Is
collected. Mr. Harrlman need not bother
about hiring extra help to keen tha visi
tors away from his offioa. '
NATURE PROVIDES
FOH SICK WOMEN
a more potent remedy in the roots
snd herbs of the Meld than was ever
produoed from drug's.
In the good old fashlonnd days of
our grandmothers few drugs were
used In medicines and Lydla K.
Plnkham, of Lynn. Mass., In her
study of roots and herbs and their
power over disease discovered and
gate to the women of the world a
remedy for their peculiar ills more
potent and efllcaclous than an
combination of drugs.
Lydia E. Pinkliam's Vegetable Compound
Is an honest, tried and true remedy of unquestionable therapeutic value
Dnrlng its record of more than thirty years, its lonjr list of actual
cures of those serious ills peculiar to women, entitles L.vUia E. i'inkham's
Vegetable Compound to tho respect and confidence of every fair minded
person and every thinking; woman.
When women are troubled with irregular or painful functions,
weakness, displacements, ulceration or inflammation, backache,
flatulency, general debility. Indigestion or nervous prostration, they
should rctt-cmber there Is one tried and true remedy, Lydia G. Pink
ham's Vegetable Compound.
No other remedy in the country has such a record of cures of
female ills, and thousands of women residing in every part of the United
States bear willing testimony to the wonderful virtue of Lydla E. Pink
ham's Vegetable compound and what it has done for them.
Mrs. l'inkham Invites all sick women to write her for advtee. She has
guided thousand! to health. For twenty-fire years she has been advising
sick women free of charge. She is the daughter-in-law of Lydla E. Pink
ham and as her assistant for years before her decease advised under her
lmm,ili,(A ttf,t ltti A iVl rot, T.vnn XT ,e.
PERSONAL SOTEI.
I
The New York bank clerk who stole
$j0,(KO worth of bonds Is likely to be In
bonds for quite a while.
Justice Brewer pleads with members of
the legnl profession to elevate it, but some
could contribute to this laudable end only
by resigning.
With a $14,CO0,00o surplus In the treasury
and $1,000,000 a month being added to it,
it is not to be doubted that those Cuban
patriots will soon begin to take an Inter
est In something besides chicken fighting.
Rnbbi J. Leonard Terry of the Rodelp
Shalom congregation of Pittsburg, and
president of the Pittsburg Peace society,
will go to Germany next month to ask
the toy makers to cease manufacturing
toys which Instill thoughts o war lnv the
minds of children. j
Although a millionaire, Edwin V. Curtis
has taken the position of United States
subtreasurer at Boston. Early in life he
(took a fancy to politics, and, having
plenty of money, he gratified his desire.
He was elected mayor of Boston. Twice
afterward he was nominated, but each
time defeated.
Sheffield Ingalls of Atchison, Kan., son
of the famous senator from that state,
has made a good reputation as a lawyer
and has fought his way Into the Kansas
legislature against powerful opposition. Mr.
Ingalls persistently refuses to make use of
his relationship to his distinguished father
and claims to be divested of the handicap
of illustrious ancestry.
The hope of keeping the Anthony home
stead In Rochester open as a memorial to
Susan B. Anthony snd for the use of
suffragists has been relinquished amid uni
versal regret, but the heirs. Miss Lucy
Anthony and Rev. Anna H. Shaw, found
It Impossible, and the house will be closed
or fall into the hands of strangers. The
personal belongings of Susan and Mary
Anthony have been gathered together and
carefully put away. '
Pennsylvanians who take an Interest In
public affairs are filled with shame and
mortification by the state house disclosures.
One of the state officers who had some-,
thing to do with letting the crooked con
tract gave a painful exhibit of ignorance
before the Investigating commission. Like
the boy who playfully placed a burr on
the subway side of a mule's tall, he may
truthfully exclaim, "I ain't quite as hand
some as I was, but I know a blamed sight
more."
Frank James, Missouri's famous ex-bandit,
has been a Iawabldlng citlsen ever
since that day more than twenty years
ago when he voluntarily surrendered to
Governor Crittenden at Jefferson City after
he had baffled for years the efforts of the
best detective agencies In the oountry to
capture him. At present Frank Is living
In Kansas and meets dally many of the
men whom be used to fight In yie bloody
days of the border warfare between Mis
souri and Kansas.
GLOWING OCTLOOK, FOR FARMERS.
Future of the Foaadatloa ot national
Prosperity.
Cleveland Leader.
Much of the prosperity which the Amer
ican people are enjoying, In unprecedented
degree, Is based upon the solid foundation
of the soli and the minerals under the soil.
It rests tn large part upon the earth, not
In the more distant and less evident sense,
but Immediately and visible.
Great crops have added enormously to
the wealth and resources of the nation.
They have made hundreda of thousands of
farmers well-to-do who were In pecuniary
straits only a few years ago. A multitude
of land owners, especially In the newer
states and territories, have been enabled
to make costly Improvements upon their
property, which have sdded much to Its
productiveness. Good times have given
farmers an opportunity to fertilise, drain.
Irrigate and develop their land as they
never could before.
Manufacturers of machinery and tools
for Irrigation ditches, drainage ditches and
other land Improvements rejort a remark
able and unparalleled volume of business.
They cater to a wide demand, which Is
steadily growing greater. They are in touch
with the forehandedness and enterprise of
the farmers, who have prospered so much
that they are able to put much money Into
the betterment of their property.
It will not do to estimate the possibilities
ot American agriculture by Its pant or
measure Its future by the records of yesrs
gone by. There will be constant enrich
ment and Improvement, and increased pro
ductiveness throughout the country.
Oar Friend, the Enemy.
New York Sun.
The democratic party Is the most good
natured and long, suffering party on earth.
If we could take you through
our establishment, and show you
the vast care and cleanliness
which produce the old original
egg and sugar coated Arbuckles
Ariosa Coffee, no one could
ever tempt you to change to
any other coffee.
AROCaX BSOS.. New York Cat.
LYDIA E. P1NKHA1
LETTER ASD SPIRIT OF I, AW.
Means Adopted by Lawyers t
Rvnde Iloth.
Chicago Chronicle.
Justice Brewer of tlTfe national supreme
court In a public aitdress delivered a day
or two ago said that no other profession
was so often and so wrongfully attacked
as the legal profession. But he Immedi
ately added than "an Ingenious lawyer
can often find either In the statute or In
the . mode of enforcement some way of
escape from Its penalties. It Is this," ha
continued, "which provokes the frequent
remarks that the law so seldom reaches
the rich, for the rich can pay for the
brainiest and the branlest can most cer
tainly discover the means of evasion."
As against this Judge Brewer appealed
for a higher standard of ethlos. He
thought It not too much to ask every law
yer to soy to his client: "This may be
legal, but It Is dishonest and I will have
nothing to do with It."
In all this Justice Brewer hit not only
the lawyers, but the laws and the courts
pretty hard. He very plainly Intimated
that the laws were defective, that the
courts regarded the letter rather than the
spirit, and that brainy lawyers were none
too scrupulous.
It is perhaps, too much to expect that
lawyers who, the judge Intimates, get their
fattest fees for discovering means of
evasion will reform so long as the laws
ore defective and the courts regard the
letter and technicalities rather than ths
substance of the law and the purpose for
which law IS made.
MERRY JIKGLB9.
"Now that Grindle has made his pits h
has joined the church."
"Wonder why he didn't Join before?"
"He didn't want anything to Interfere;
with his business." Cleveland Plain Dealer.
"What special kind of beverage do you
suppose the poet thought of when be
wrote, 'Drink to m tmly with thme rf 11
"1 guess he meant what an Englishman .
would call 'igh balls." Baltimore Amari-
can.
"Do you Intend to have a garden this '
summer7" i
"No," replied Mr. Bubbubs, "I've per
suaded my wife that we ought to have a
change, so we've decided to adopt an or
phan." Chicago Record-Herald..
"I see that a Pittsburg millionaire who
married an actress a few months ago has
Induced her to quit acting."
"1 wonder how he managed to broach
the subject without ofTendlng her? My
wife sings." Chicago Record-Herald.
"No," declared Mr. Nagget, "there never
waa a woman on earth who could refrain
from turning around to rubber at some
Other woman's clothes."
"No?" remarked his wife, sweetly, "didn't
you ever hear of Eve? "Philadelphia Press.
"Why don't you try to make a speech
that will echo down the corridors of time?''
"What's the use?" answered the cynical
statesman. "It would simply result In a
future lot of school boys making me seem
ridiculous when they get up to recite."
Washington Star.
The waitress in a California restaurant
had been Informed that her little mining
Investment hsd panned out a million.
"Are you surprised?" ihey asked her.
"Not at all." she responded, laying aside
her apron, "that's what I waa waiting for.'
-Philadelphia Ledger.
"I wonder," said ths country editor, .
"whether that new compositor Is merely
an ordinary blunderer or a philosopher "
"Why " asked his assistant. "What Is -It
now?"
"He set up this, Time and tide wait fus
woman.' "Philadelphia Press.
The frog, In trying to be as big as ths
ox, had Inflated Itself until It burst, sub.
stantlaliy us related In the standard his
torical works.
"H'm!" exclaimed the ox. "That's ths
worst case of exaggerated ego I ever saw."
Meanwhile the frog, as such, had disap
peared, and being unable to collect Itself If
attempted no reply. Chicago Tribune.
OMKWAY OF PEACE.
Paul Kester In McClure's.
To live within walled gardens.
Once again to bound my life
This side the distant
Woodlands and blue hills;
To know
Neither the mystery of the river's source
Nor where It widens to the open sea.
To seek only the short beaten paths
Where the dew cllnRS
To cowslips after dawn.
To find no new way out
Vpon th uplands,
Never to measure
Eternity's long ways ,
t'p to the distant stars.
Never to know the meaning of the sun's
fierce fires
Except up.m brown cheeks.
Never to greet the rushing tumult of the
storm
With kindred tumult;
Only to know the brttath
That shakes
The orchard petals down
I'pon the low bent graas
Or ririvvs the shadows
Of flecked clouds
Acn ss the sunny ' -New
mown meadow lands:
Has peace a, surer price? . .
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