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HIE OMAHA DAILY UEE: SATURDAY, !rf Y 18, 1907.
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:. . WHEN OUT OP TOWH.
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poravrlly should . have The) Dee
aallad to them. Address will be
changed as aftea si requested.
Still good advice when inclined to
take a flyer In -wheat, don't.
The Omaha Elks have proved that
they are old stagers at stags without
staggering.
An English physician has discovered
the English girls wink the left eye.
That la one of their rights.
San Francisco now has proof that it
spoiled a mighty good orchestra leader
to make a mighty poor mayor.
ICb a poor locality that connot break
Into print these days through the aid
of a green bug or a bug of some other
color.
The new husband of Ellen Terry
may discover a little later that he is
her leading man only when on the
stage.
Of course Mr. Bryan's money is all
clean as he asserts. He has done lit
tle for several years except to clean up
money.
Secretary Taft vouches that the
Jamestown exposition will be all right
when It is finished. So wll) the Pan
ama canal.
Senator Piatt says he is eorry he
made Mr. Roosevelt president, but the
rest of the country is glad Senator
Piatt Is sorry.
"General Kurokl saw everything
worth seeing in Washington," says the
Washington Herald. He did not go to
the ball game, then?
"'Jhewing tobacco makes a man
think," says President Woodrow Wll
eon. Yes, and it makes his wife do
more than think.
' There is talk of a bread famine If
the price of wheat continues to soar.
In that oaae we may have to fall back
on breakfast foods.
The crowds that lined up in Ohio
waiting for the Foraker presidential
boom to pase a given point have evi
dently gone home In disgust.
Some of the Wall street magnates
suspect that Mr. Harrlman juggled
the letters and handed them a lemon
when he had promised to cut a melon.
Scalpers have been enjoined from
doing business at Jamestown. The
original colony at Jamestown also had
trouble In settling the scalping prob
s&. The country's apparent anxiety to
forget the Corey-Oilman episode may
be expected to spur Pittsburg up to
the point of offering something equally
as good.
The bishop of the Protestant Epis
copal diocese of Nebraska has re
nounced all the pecuniary emoluments
of his office. - There Is no Immediate
Sanger, however, of his example be
coming contagious.
A 'Milwaukee dispatch tells what a,
woman of that city said when she dis
covered that she had exchanged her
suit case with a burglar by mistake.
What the burglar said will never be
printed.
The outgoing deputy, state oil ln
ipector has turned over $49,000 of ex
cess fees of his office Into the state
treasury during his four years' Incum
bency. His predecessors under fusion
regimes did not turn In enough excess
fees to warrant a separate ledger account
THE TJ Birr AS AH 1F6UK.
In an authorired Interview the ven
erable Senator Allison of Iowa, the
acknowledged leader of the United
8tates senate In matters pertaining to
finance and revenue raising measures,
asserts that tariff revision will be an
Important, If not the paramount Issue
in the next presidential campaign. He
intimates further that It may be taken
up for consideration at the next ses
sion of congress, In order to give the
country information on the policy to
be pursued by the republican party
In the next administration. The sena
tor admits that sentiment on the ad
visability of considering tariff legisla
tion at this time is dlded. some sec
tions demanding a revision of
schedules, while others are strongly
opposing any "tariff tinkering." This
makes It the duty of congress, in Sena
tor Allison's opinion, to investigate
the demands for revision, ascertain
what the people want and where seri
ous Inequalities exist so that a later
congress can proceed Intelligently.
This official notice that the "Iowa
Idea" etlll persists will carry special
significance to politicians who under
stand Senator Allison's relations with
the administration at Washington. The
Iowa senator Is evidently speaking with
the knowledge of President Roosevelt,
who has always favored a reform of
the tariff, but has deferred urging
action on the subject for other more
pressing reforms which he has urged
successfully upon the national legisla
ture In the last four years. Political
gossip has had it that the president
was compelled, four yearB ago, to
agree to leave tariff alone In order to
get the support of Speaker Cannon and
the pronounced standpatters In con
gress for the railway rate bill and
a iled reform measures adopted in the
last two congresses. That compact, if
such there was, has been fulfilled, and
with Senator Allison's declaration that'
congress will now take up tariff re
vision comes a report from Washing
ton that the administration forces are
urging Congressman Burton of Ohio
to enter the race for speakership
against Mr. Cannon,' to Becure a man
at the head of the house organization
who would not use his great power
to block measures looking to tariff
revision.
Senator Allison insists that the tariff
must be revised by republicans. He
calls attention to the difference be
tween tariff revision and tariff destruc
tion, explaining that the republicans
want to revise the tariff along protec
tion lines, reducing the rates to a pro
tective basis in all cases, while the
democrats seek to destroy protection
entirely by reduction to a strict reve
nue basis. In the meantime the mere
decision of 'the republican leaders to
Investigate the subject of tariff re
vision places the democrats at an
other disadvantage. The democratic
leaders, with the exception of Mr.
Cleveland, whose authority is not gen
erally recognized by the rank and file,
have ignored the question until now,
when if they decide to take up Its
championship they will find themselves
again Indorsing another proposal in
which the republicans have taken the
lead.
A RGVUEKTS FOB PEACE.
The International peace congress at
The Hague will meet about the middle
of June for the purpose of consider
ing what has been accomplished In the
past year that furnishes encourage
ment for the fulfillment of the dream
of universal disarmament and world
wide peace.
One document that should prove of
special Interest to the delegates Is a
review, just published by a naval pa
per, of additions made to the war fleets
of the world In 1906. This shows that
215 war vessels of all types were
launched during the year, of which 41
per cent were battleships, 87 per cent
armored cruisers, 12 per cent torpedo
craft and gunboats and 10 per cent
protected cruisers, submarines and
auxiliaries. Russia led with a contri
bution of 33 ships, with Great Britain,
Germany, Japan, United States, France
and Italy in the order named. Accord
ing to the report, all the nations are
abandoning the armored cruiser and
the battleship of the smaller type and
devoting their attention to the con
struction of warships of the Dread
naught type, making them bigger and
more destructive than ever before. The
naval budget of every world power is
larger than ever before in history, ex
cept in time of actual war, and there
is nothing to indicate any desire or
Intent of any power to curtail Its ex
penditures for naval and military
equipment. ;
It will be Interesting to Bee if the
delegates to The Hague can find any
encouragement In the statistics of war
ship construction.
PASS ISO OF THE a RATTER.
The confession of Abe Ruef, for years
the political "boas" of San Francisco,
la significant principally in showing the
good results for civic betterment that
have followed the unearthing of frauds
and corrupt methods In the adminis
tration of the nation, state and munici
pal affairs. While attempts were made,
in the early days of the anti-graft
crusade, to manufacture political capi
tal from the disclosures and prosecu
tions, It long since developed that graft
is nonpartisan and that the crook has
no politics. Official corruption was a
natural outgrowth of civic Indifference
for years most pronounced, partic
ularly in the conduct of municipal af
fair. The business and professional
men and what is known as "the better
element" have not, until recently,
given attention to municipal matters,
with the result that official control haa
been left largely to less competent and
less honest classes. The penalty haa
been paid in loot.
Within the last six years the elvte
conscience hu been aroused. Starting
with the exposures in St Louis by Bis
trict Attorney Folk, now governor, the
spirit of Inquiry has epread throughout
the country and resulted in a general
official house cleaning. City aldermen
and other officials have been Indicted
by the hundreds In Milwaukee, Chi
cago, Boston, Cincinnati and perhaps
a score of other cities. Uncovering of
the land frauds, pontofflce frauds and
othtr abuses under the federal govern
ment followed and their perpetrators
wero punished. The inquiry has ex
tended to railroads and other corpora
tions engaged In a quasi-public busi
ness and the whole official and public
life of the nation has been subjected
to Investigation with resulting elimina
tion of the most flagrant abuses from
which the people have too patiently
Buffered.
The San Francisco graft cases are not
different from others that have been
exposed, except perhaps the partici
pators In the frauds displayed more
than usual zeal In taking advantage
of their opportunities. Ruef'B confes
sion shows that the city officials, scores
of them, shared with the owners of
corporations the idea that franchises
and public concessions were matters of
barter and sale and the officials of
'Frisco had become experts in seeing
that nothing went to the lowest bid
der. The confession will have Its effect
in San Francisco, as similar exposures
have in other cities, in putting a keener
edge on civic Interest and spurring
honest people, who are everywhere In
the majority, to greater activity In pub
lic affairs.
PAROLE LAW ABUSES.
The parole by Governor Cummins of
Iowa "in the interest of good govern
ment" of a professional burglar serv
ing his fourth penitentiary sentence
and admitting the commission of other
burglaries here in Omaha and else
where for which he has not yet been
punished, suggests the question,
What's the matter with the Iowa pris
oner parole law?
The whole theory of the parole sys
tem 1b that it affords the means of giv
ing convicts not yet steeped in crime
an opportunity to reform by setting
them free on probation with a view to
helping them once more to their feet.
The Nebraska prisoner parole law
makes these conditions pre-requlslte.
The power .vested in the governor in
this state to order the release of con
victs on parole is strictly limited to
those "Imprisoned under a sentence
other than murder In the first or sec
ond degree, who may have served the
minimum term provided by law for the
crime for which they were convicted
and who have not previously been con
victed of felony and served in any
penal institution within the United
States of America." In a word, the
Nebraska law permits paroles to first
termers only and no such reckless use
of the parole -power could be legally
made to turn loose on the public a
convict confessing to four terms in as
many different state prisons and to
additional offenses subjecting him to
as many more prison sentences if he
could be prosecuted for them.
The same considerations which
made the Nebraska parole law bar pro
fessional criminals serving a succes
sion of penitentiary sentences should
prevent the liberation of such prison
ers even where the letter of the law
permits it as it does in Iowa. It Is
certainly remarkable that anyone pro
fessing to be working "In the interest
of good government" should ask for
the parole of a four-time penitentiary
bird no matter how useful he may
have been in supplying manufactured
testimony for the prosecution of
trumped-up charges against the chief
of police of Omaha.
The State Board of Assessment will
hold one session for private citizens
who may care to be heard on the ques
tion of railroad valuation. It ought
not to be necessary for private citizens
to eeek a hearing before the board.
The members of the board as elected
public officers represent the taxpayers
of Nebraska as a whole and should
see to It on their own account and to
the best of their ability that the rail
roads get a square deal In the assess
ment of their property no more and
no less.
Colonel Bryan now gives this an
swer to most of the questions pro
pounded by interviewers:
I have nothing to say. I do not think I
should prophesy for republicans and have
no intention of prophesying for democrats.
Colonel Bryan must at last have
come to the conclusion that his previ
ous efforts as a prophet do not justify
him In setting up In the clairvoyant
business.
The World-Herald sayB that the
democratic city prosecutor haa never
had any money in payment of his sal
ary or fees from the guaranty bond
company that advertised him as Its
legal representative in order to secure
business from saloon keepers liable to
police court prosecution. Somebody
must be holding out on the innocent
city prosecutor.
Deputy Attorney General Martin haa
come to the rescue of the state of Ne
braska by advancing 1 1,800 to be ap
plied on contract for the purchase of
lots for the Home for the Friendless,
for which the legislative appropria
tion is not yet available. Why should
a man who can write his check for
$1,800 want the position of deputy at
torney general?
The best estimates on the basis of
fgures at hand are that the graft en
joyed by Douglas county sheriffs sub
letting the county jail as a lodging
house haa averaged for many years
more than $1,000 a year, Thla graft
should not only be stopped for the fu
ture, but any money Illegally pocketed
by present or previous sheriffs should
be recovered back for the taxpayers.
A Mast on Henry Wattersnn's bugle horn
would be worth a great deal to the demo
cratic party. World-Herald.
And they get It nearly every day
without putting up a red cent beyond
the regular price of a copy of his
paper. t
Prof. Lowell has reached the con
clusion that the mean temperature on
Mars must be about 47 degrees Fah
renheit. It must be May In Mara all
the time.
Senator pick's action rescinding the
call for a political harmony meeting
In Ohio shows that he haa not forgot
ten how to back-pedal when he strikes
a down grade.
Milwaukee has a $6,000,000 estate
with no heir to claim it. There is also
a $5,000,000 political conspiracy es
tate down at Washington that no one
seems to care to own.
It will now be charged that the Wis
consin legislature has compromised
and broken its deadlock by picking
an understudy of Senator LaFollette
to succeed Senator Spooner.
From One Pnrse to Another.
St. Paul Pioneer-Press.
Don't get excited over those fortunes won
In wheat. Every one of them came out of
somebody else's pocketbook.
Industrial Perplexity.
New Tork Commercial.
If we only knew for sure whether he
meant It we would know whether or not
to keep on manufacturing those teddy
bears.
Playing; In Great I.nck.
Washington Herald.
The Taft boom to be thoroughly Im
pregnated with genuine "Roosevelt luck."
Former Senator J. Ralph Burton has de
livered a broadside against It
Honors Are Even.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Honors are about even In Ohio. Mr
Foraker does not want the Indorsement of
Secretary Taft for senator, and Secretary
Taft will try and worry along without
Senator Foraker's Indorsement for presi
dent. Definitely Located.
Washington Post.
The Omaha Bee comments on the fact
that Bryan's Commoner gives thirteen
reasons why democrats should support
their party's position. By the way, what
Is the democratic party's position aside
from one of supplication at the pla counter?
Value of Industrial Education.
New Orleans Picayune.
The really able and uppermost foot in the
public services of Booker Washington Is
that ha recognized at once the supreme
Importance of educating the negroes in In
dustrial arts rather than In literature,
philosophy and professional courses. Lead
ing negroes everywhere else are demanding
the so-called higher education for their Tel
lows, while Washington, almost alone,
realizes the value of practical every-day
industrialism for them. This Is real
wisdom and he Is the wisest man of his
race. But Industrial education Is good not
only for the negroes but for people of
every color and race and as time goes on
the fact will be generally recognized.
Question of Inferior Rails.
Springfield Republican.
Quite a hue and cry has been started by
the railroads against the Steel trust on ac
count of the unusual breakage in rails
which Is being experienced. The question
was up at last week's meeting of the
Union Pacific board and the fault was laid
at the door of the United States Steel cor
poration. Officials, of that concern reply
warmly that better rails were never made
than the heavy ones It has been turning
out, whereupon the manager of an east
ern railroad system says that Its records
show that the eighty and elghty-flve-pound
rails laid five or six years ago stand the
wear and tear of present heavy traffic bet
ter than the heavier rails more recontly
laid. So much testimony of this kind la
coming forward that the steel men have
concluded to confer with experts from the
railroads regarding the matter.
THROWING PHYSICS TO THE DOGS
Grim Trnths Hurled sit an Audience
of Doctors.
Cleveland Leader.
Dr. William uuu' ceiiaiuly has th
courage ot las couviciloiis. Ad a mailer Oi
fact, ue utu lue courage ot convictions
that are not his but are forced upon him,
for when the public put a falie Interpreta
tion upon his suucinent as to the initiative
of the man of forty, ho took his medicine
without a murmur. lie knew If he talked
and denied the people would think he was
trying to Justify himself, so he walled un
til common sense showed what his attitude
really was.
Some doctors, mora tied to their dignity
than to the real- healing purposes of their
profession, may And like fault with his
utterance at Johns Hopkins the other day,
when before an audience of physicians he
said that he put his faith In hope and nux
vomica. Then, as If willing to put himself1
squarely and aggressively on record, he
added that he knew of only four drugs that
had any curative values.
This Is the kind of open-eyed and open
mouthed wisdom the public tikes to hear
from Its doctors. It welcomes the thought
which blows sway the fogs that have sur
rounded the practice of medicine, Its mysti
cisms, and, If we dare to put It down In
staring black and white, Its ponderosity
and pomposity.
There was a time when the doctor felt
It a part of his duty to humbug his patients.
He gave them medicine whether they
needed It or not. It was the day of the
bread pill and the solemn looking vials of
colored water. Ha did this conscientiously
and as a matter of preservation, both to
hlmie'f and the man who had called him
in. That Individual would have consid
ered himself abominably treated If the
physician had told him he nerded no drugs
and he would have cut that particular phy- i
etclan from his lift ot calling acquain
tances. The enlightenment of the people and the
wisdom of the doctors themselves have
put an end to this double deception. Noth
ing esoteric now swathes the ways of a
doctor with his patient. He gives the sick
person as little medicine as possible and
there Is no complaint. When he does ad
minister drugs, he Is likely to give their
names frankly and their properties, thus
bringing 'In the patient as a mental colla
borator with him. In the main he pins his
folth to good food and good air.
Doctors of the Osier school, who are frnk
and fair with their patients and the public,
bulk high In general esteem.. The more
they come into the open the bigger and
ruore lmureselvs theg get
. " OTHKIl LANDS THAR Ot RB.
The Anglo-Japanese alliance, regarded at
the outset as a triumph of British di
plomacy, is not likely to prove permanently
proniable for the British empire. The
moral support which the alllanoe brought
to Japan, supplemented with financial
backing during the crucial days of war,
were potential forces in the struggle with
Russia. In thus contributing directly and
Indirectly to the crippling of Its ancient
enemy, Great Britain calculated on a long
respite from Russian Influence and lntrlque
on the borders of India and undivided
dominance In the commercial affairs of
China. But the expectations of Great
Brltalp are not being realized according
to calculations. Russian Influence In China
and Russian lntrlque on the borders of
India are destroyed for tha present. Tet
Great Britain haa not profited thereby. On
tha contrary tha arm which Great Britain
upheld In the contest with Russia has be
come tha Inspiring symbol of Oriental
awakening and Oriental strength. Japan's
triumphs are an Inspiration to allied races.
The life currants of China have been
aroused as never before and military
preparations are going forward with
energetto determination. The remarkable
Impulse felt In China has also thrilled
India and Is regarded as tha chief cause
of the threatened rebellion In the Punjab.
An Anglo-Indian correspondent of tha New
Tork Sun. avidenUy familiar with the
temper of tha people In tha disturbed dis
trict, attributes tha present determined de
mand for native home rule to the uplift
of Japan's victories, "aver since the defeat
of Russia by an Oriental power," ha says,
"every newspaper conducted by natives Is
full of manifest disloyalty to Great Britain
and of admiration for Japan." The visible
results of the past with Japan consist of
the Russian black eye and a menacing ex
pansion of the yellow peril.
Two noted Irish Journalists, T. P. O'Con
nor and Beam as McManus, offer radically
different views of the operation and re
sults of the land purchase act In Ireland.
In a lata number of the Sunday magazine
Mr. O'Connor drew a rainbow ploture of the
transition from tenantcy to land ownership.
One-half tha land has been transferred
from former owners to present occupiers,
and the other half will follow with ac
celerated speed. "You see at this moment
a new nation rising. The land Is the prize
for which the people fought. The struggle
Is at an end. The battle has been won.
The land belonge again to the ancient
celtle race from which It was stolen
centuries ago." Mr. McManus presents a
widely different view of the situation, not
as regards the transfer of the land, but
respecting the terms exacted by the land
lords. Among other things he says: "All
the landlords who have sold out under the
land purchase set, wrung from the tenants
an absurdly high price for the land
from 26 to 83H per cent more than was
Just. In addition to this, these landlords
got from the government a bonus of 12H
per cent of the purchase price, as an In
ducement to them to accept from the
tenants far more than the land was worth.
Our members of Parliament readily agreed
to this bonus being given the landlords,
and chuckled, for It was a bleeding of the
government They were sorry statesmen.
Indeed, who could not first ask themselves
whether the government procured Its money
off the thorn bushes or dipped Its hand
Into the pocket of our Irish-member con
stltutents to get this money. Tha befooled
tenants now awoke to a realization of the
fact that they first had to pay the landlord
direct one and one-third times tha price of
tha land, and in addition pay the landlords,
through the medium of the government, a
bonus of one-eighth of the Inflated prices;
still worse, shop keepers and artlaans who
own no land and purchase none, are now
wroth to find that even their taxes are
Increased to make up deficits In the great
est act of the century." The reason why
these writers. O'Connor lives In London
and Mr. McManus lives m Ireland close
to the conditions he details.
Americans are familiar with many of
the solutions of political and economic
problems worked" out In Australia. Chief
among them Is the Australian ballot sys
tem. Others await Importation. w
tha most Important Is compulsory arbitra
tion of labor disputes, now In practical
operation In New Zealand, me taw w.
enacted to meet conditions such as are
common In the United States, and Is cred
ited with seourlng results which are eon
imnosslble In this country. One
recent instance Illustrates the workings of
the law. About 200 butchers In the slaugh
ter houses at Canterbury demanded an
increase of 6 shillings for each 100 sheep
slaughtered. Tha arbitration court decided
that they should have an Increase of only
8 shillings. This award the employers ac
cepted. The men rejected It and went on
strike. Thereupon the court fined them S
apiece for striking In contempt of court.
They refused to pay the fines or to re
sume work. Then the court Issued war
rants for their arrest and Imprisonment
for a considerable time unless they at once
complied with Its decree. That brought
them to terms. They went back to work
at the 8 shillings advance decreed by the
oourt and paid their fines, the court gen
erously permitting some of them to do so
In Installments of 1 a week. In several
other places men who attempted to evade
the decrees of the court were brought to
wir tn the same summary fashion. In an
other Instance, however, a number of men
employed In a factory, dissatisfied with
.nd working conditions, simply quit
work and sought employment elsewhere.
The law oould not reaon mem oeoause
did not make a demand on the em
ployers. But the workmen knew their
places could not readily te nnea. tm.
ployers were obliged to seek them and
grant the terms asked. Thus the work
men proved that the law could be evaded
and Its rigorous penalties avoided.
The trade union movement In France has
attained its antl-cllmax In the formation
of a "syndicate", of professional cripples
and defectives at Marseilles, of which the
Paris Temps gives the following socount:
"Marseilles' blind, deaf-mute, one-armed,
legless and otherwise mutilated citizens
met in general assembly the other day.
After a brilliant discourse pronounced by
a deaf-mute and a general exchange of
views. In which several congenltally blind
speakers participated, a list of demands
wss drawn up by the Armless and Legless
Wonder, and Citizen Rosin, unljamblste,
was elected president of the organization.
To their great surprise the delegates failed
to secure sn audience with the prefect of
the department, and it Is announced that
they will appeal to M. Clemenceau. It
must be confessed that the members of
the new union have given evidence of an
admirable spirit They aspire to unite
their colleagues in other cities Into a na
tional federntton. but they itfuae to affil
iate with the General Confederation of La
bor, whose antl-mlUtarlst and anarchistic
views they strongly disapprove. They sre
ready to rush to tha frontiers whenever
the national safety shall demand It, have
no prejudice against any form of faith,
and pledge themselves lu r11cul.ir to ab
stain from singing antl-clerlcal songs cal
culated to check the flow of alms at the
emirch doors."
A letter from Copenhagen to a London
Journal says that the polltlee.1 relations
between Germany and Denmark have been
embittered suddenly by ths unexpected ex
pulsion of two Danish subjects from North
Bchieswlg without any reason being as-
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pure grape cream of tartar, and
4 absolutely free from lime,
alum and ammonia.
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO, NEW YORK.
signed. If the expulsion policy should be
readopted similar to that which prevailed
during Ilerr von Roller's presidency In
Bchieswlg, there would almost certainly be
a new wave of antl-Oerman public opinion
In Denmark. The papers of all parties
characterize the latest expulsions as on act
of unexpected rudeness toward the Danish
nation, but express the hope that they
are only the result of the desire of some
fanatical Prussian officials to make them
selves oonsplcuous. While much satisfac
tion regarding the January treaty with
Germany on the North Bchieswlg "optant"
question was expressed In Denmark, there
was no little bitterness among the sup
porters of the extreme German policy In
North Bchieswlg. Some time ago the Na
tional TIdende gave a warning against
too great optimism, and a recent number
of the Berllngske TIdende quotes various
examples of Inconsiderate behavior toward
Danes In Schleswlg, pointing out that even
those "optants" who, according to the
treaty, are entitled to get naturalization as
Prussian subjects nave not yet received a
reply to their pei'tlons. The radical
Polltlken and the conservative Vort Land
publish long articles along the same line,
the latter saying that Emperor William,
who announced that he would vjslt Copen
hagen In tha summer, must eventually be
prepared for a cool reception.
POLITICAL DRIFT.
Colonel Watterson's dark horse will be
terest certain Folk In tho west
The legions of Joseph Benson Foraker
shout In chorus, "Don't give up the sena-
torshlp."
J. Barry Mahool has been elected mayor
of Baltimore. Mahool sounds like a ver
slon of the Gaelic revival.
i The New York World Is persistent In
asking, "What Is a Democrat?" Former
Senator Hill must be speechless.
In Missouri a law will soon go Into effect
prohibiting any Insurance company which
pays any person a salary of more than
150000 from doing business in that state.
As a trust buster Ohio Is breaking the
record. A brick and lumber trust there
lately pleaded guilty on being prosecuted
and humbly begged for mercy. Now all
tha trusts In Ohio will be good trusts.
What was left of the Pennsylvania treas
ury surplus after tha state house contrac
tors hit it will not be a source of political
anxiety much longer. There won't be any
surplus when the legislature gets through.
Vice President Fairbanks, like Secretary
Taft, was a newspaper reporter In his
early days. Mr. Fairbanks represented the
Associated I'reas at Pittsburg and In
dianapolis before he. Ilka Secretary Taft,
became a lawyer.
Vanished Is the hope that the Pennsyl
vania legislature would complete Its labors
without scandal. Tally clerks of the house
are accused of voting absentees in favor
of measures In which they were interested.
But absent treatment foiled.
Survivors of General Grant's famous 306
in tha convention of 1880 will hold a re
union at the republican national conven
tion next year. Colonel A. M. Hughes of
Tennessee, one of the "Immortals," esti
mates there are between sixty and eighty
of tha number now living.
The recent supplanting by the president
of Governor Hagerman with Captain Curry
as governor of New Mexico gives the coun
try two territorial chief executives who
won renown as Rough Riders. The other
one is Governor Frank Frantz of Okla
homa, who, like Curry, enlisted as a pri
vate In the president's regiment and won
the good opinion of the lieutenant colonel
of that Illustrious band of warriors.
Representative Cyrus Bulloway of New
Hampshire Is still .the tallest member of
congress, although he has something of a
competitor In "Dan" Anthony, the newly
elected congressman from Kansas, who Is
to fill the place left vacant by Senator
Curtis. Anthony stands six feet four
Inches Jn his shoes, but according to ac
cepted belief Mr. Bulloway stands six feec
six Inches In his soclts, and the honor of
New Hampshire Is still safe.
PASSING OF GREAT STRIKES.
Capital and Labor Gradually Getting
Together.
New Tork World.
According to former Labor Commissioner
Carroll D. Wright the era of great strikes
Is passing, a result ha attributes to the
growth of conciliation. '
Certainly there have been no labor con
flicts of recent years comparable in vio
lence, in the numbers engaged and In the
tnagniture of property louses with the
railroad strikes of 1877 or 1894, or with
tha Homestead disturbance of 1892, rela
tively small though the number was of
those participating In that bloody quarrel.
The sight has not been seen In a long
time, as In 1886, of an entire labor or
ganization ceasing work because of the
charge of a single employe, nor haa a Debs
called out a great army of workmen In
a sympathetic strike since the Pullman
troubles of 1894. Less Is heard of armed
Plnkerton deUctlves In the field or of mil
itia companies waiting orders In armories.
Capital and labor have each learned the j
lesson of the folly or using their giants'
strength ilka a giant, and the gain la
grest
BOTH RIGHT
jry HE laggard may
here.
! As.T A - l .1 . i
O nna me sun
dering till now is ready to wear to-day
at our store.
As fine a suit, by the way, as it is pos'J
sible to make'-vand made in our own
workshops. i
S15.to $40, Spring Hats, $2.50 to $6
Browning, King $k Co
R. S. WILCOX. Managsr
TERRORISTS MAKE BIG HAUL
Four Persons Killed and JMne Injured
In Robbery that Netted Five
Thousand. Dollars.
WARSAW. Russian Poland, May 17. A
band of terrorists held up the city office
of the Vistula railroad on Dluga street at'
U o'clock this morning and got away with
JS.OOO after a severe fight, In which four
persons were killed and nine wounded.
The office was full of people at the time
and soldiers were guarding the approaches,
but the terrorists attacked them with re
volvers. killing two and (Muring four of
the guards before they reached the place
where the money was kept. Then, snatch
Ing up a bag containing 15,000, the men
ran out of the office. The soldiers Bred a
volley' at the fleeing terrorists, but only
succeeded In hitting some bystanders, two
of whom were killed and five wounded.
MOSCOW, May n.-Belenzoff, tha man
who carried out the .great Moscow bank
robbery March 20, 1908, when a band of
terrorists seized 127,600, and who escaped
from a train while being extradited from
Switzerland, died In the prison hospital
here yesterday of consumption. The gen
eral belief has been that tha ' police al
lowed Belenzoff to get away on condition
that he betray his accomplices and oth
ers, and that he has been living here
under police protection ever since his
"escape" was announced. Belenzoff was
possessed of the dementia tliat several
terrorists were trying to kill blm for be
traying his comrades.
SM1LI.MG LI.U9.
"Is young Softy going a fast pace!"
'Is he? iou Just ougnt to see nlra run up
a bill." Baltimore American.
Teacher What Is meant by tha wave of
popularity 7
jane The Marcel wave, ain't It, teacher!
Cleveland 1'iuin Dealer.
"Buttrln has been a good deal In tha pub
lic eye, hasn't he?"
"Yea, in the sense that he gets himself
blown into It once in awhile." Chicago
Tribune.
"What do you consider the chief danger J
of weaith7" asked the solemn man.
"That the other fellow will have 1t," re
sponded a hearer Inclined to flippancy.
Philadelphia Ledger. '
"Tou reckon these fault-finding brethren
go to heaven?" t
"Some of 'em will have to. The other
place la too full of 'em." Atlanta Consti
tution. Mrs. Kntcker Has she clothes for all oil- j
males i
Mrs. Bocker Tea, exoept tha one her hus
band mentions when he gets the bill. New'
York Sun.
"Now here," said the enthusiastic real -estate
agent to the prominent politician,
"Is one of the most desirable houses In tha
capital. It has exposure all ar ' A1 "
"Good heavens!" cried the , prominent
politician, with a start of dismay, "that's
Just what I'm trying to get away from!"
Philadelphia Press.
Late Arrival Who Is that man over
there, Mrs. tlpmore, that everybody ap
pears to be so eager to meetT
Hostess Is It possible you don't knowt .
That Is Mr. Perenltum, the man who wrote
a short story foi a magazine without
putting an automobile In It Chicago Tri
bune. "Papa, are we all worms of tha duet as
the preacher said?"
"Well, son, perhaps we're all worms, but
some of us nre shy on the dust." Phila
delphia Ledger.
Floorwalker I'd be ashamed to let my
trousers bag as yours do. You ought to
have them creased once In a while.
Bookkeeper If my shins were as sharp
as yours I wouldn't have any more trouble
In keeping my trousers creased than you
do. Chicago Tribune.
JL'ST OHDIN ART.
3. M. Lewis In Houston Post.
He never scaled no summits, nor stood out
Uon the brink,
And his name was never blazoned on no
page In printers' Ink,
Ana no ono In the next county never
knowed he whs on earth.
And a mighty Utile money would have
bought all he wns worth.
But his horses neighed a welcome when he
comes Into the barn, . .
For he gentled 'em an' loved 'em, an' he
never grunted "Darn!"
Ner used any other swear Word, ner laid
on 'em with a goad.
When th' pullln was too heavy; ha JaM
lightened up their load.
And his babies run to meet him when the
work In' day was done,
And he hollered soon's he saw 'em, and he
helped 'em romp an' run,
And the harder the day's work was and the
wearier the mile.
The smoother growed his wrinkles an' tha
broader growed his smile,
And his wife was never worried fear he'd
come home out o' sorts,
For he never lost his temper and he never
made retorts
That would hurt a body's feelln's, he was
always Just the same.
Though no one In the next county aver
knowed him nor his name.
i
So, although he scaled no summits an' was
quite unknown to fame,
Tet I think the hosts o' heaven flew to
meet him Jurt th same,
An' they bore htm on their pinions to be
side the crystal sea.
Where the lovln'est and gladdest and tha
gentlest spirits he.
And although the world kept rollln' when
he smiled an' said goodbye,
An' there ain't no big mausoleum to show t
where he does He. "
Tet he world's a whole lot better fer his
llvln' Just bekuz (
His children are proud of htm 'cuusa ha
waa Just like he was.
AND READY
make up for lost time
At -a i t . rr
inar. ne nas put on or'
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