THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MARCH 1I, 1911.
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mailed to theui. Aldraa will Urn
(banged as oftea aa rruueatcd.
That will make Nick Longworth an
uucle, anyway.
"Taft .Started the War,"
headline. What war?
says a
Never mind, we will have congress
with us again In two weeks more.
Among other things, teach the boy
to be as good a loser as he Is a winner.
Pretty near time to profound the
question again Why don't men go to
church?
Jus', suppose Texas had voted for
prohibition before those 20,000 sol
diers arrived.
Beans prevent tuberculosis, says a
Loston advance guard. But so does
Nebraska ozone.
The automobile baa been a bond,
and also a bound, between urban and
suburban people.
A scientist says a diet of sand will
cure btomach trouble. Enough sand
will cure most troubles.
Public attention was never so at
tracted to Senator Cullom as since he
went to bed with Lorlmer.
Anyway, that little game of war
down In Mexico has not interfered
with Mr. Taft'a game of golf.
IT Colonel Cody gets elected senator
from Arizona, we nominate Mayor
Jim as his private secretary.
"Senator" Buffalo Bill probably
would prefer to pull them back with
the lariat rather than the retail.
If Lincoln wants mote orator for
lis municipal campaign it might find
a few volunteers up hare in Omaha
Mr. Bryan, speaking on the merit of
brevity, proves again that the world
moves and that this is a progressive
age.
Harvard snubbed St. Patrick by
having its March 17 lecture on
"French Music of the Eighteenth Cen
tury." '
It la '.ertalnly going pretty far with
the search for smuggled jewels when
tbo custom officials compel women to
disrobe.
The Omaha Laud show U still
boosting for Omaha and this went
wherever any one who wm in attend
ance RO.B.
immigrants have just landed at
Boston whose language Is familiar to
no one there. No use to try the In
terior, then.
Om-ha Is again discover'n that a
little competition' anion:,' paving con-
tractors puts money into tin Uxoay-
era' pockets.
This much may be said for Senator
Tillman: He did not begin to wor
ship the Joe Baileys of politics until
his health failed.
The public Is likely to lose all re
spect for the businebg acumen of those
moving picture fellows If they misa
their opportunity In Mexico.
Ixiid Defies' sister Insists that while
the is a suffraglbt. she Is not a suffra
gette. The difference Is one of meth
ods, peaceable and otherwise.
Mr Bryan scold, the newspapers
because their editors do not always
tav exactly what they think. It Is f re-
jttently out of deference to Mr. llryan.
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Mr. Hryan insists he would rather
lot be president. That was the
istural Inference from his having had
. run three times to convince himstlf.
The way to keep South Omaha ami
Dundee from constructing independ
ent water works Is to glvs them their
necessary supply of water through the
Duiaha water plant.
The Judiciary and the Recall.
Just before Theodoro RoosevHt
made hln lant visit to Omaha a story
' circulated through the public
1 print that he would advocate the re-
or judges as the only effective
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remeuy for abuses in me courts. ioe
ater-
predicted declaration did not m
lailze, but the report gained ground j
out. me report ga nea gruuuu ,
eless that Colonel Roosevelt J
m-mltted to this Idea. It la. J
nonethel
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therefore, Interesting to note In his
' "Nationalism and the
jud(car .. whch nag been- devoted
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icnieny to tne question now isr juages
j should be Immune from criticism,
i Colonel Roosevelt expresses himself
I rn IhA tA.1l ffte tllrl'Trta aa fnllnn'a
In crrtaln states the piopossl lias been
ma le to require all federal JudKes to be
elerted for short terms. 1 do not agree
with this proposal. Neither do I believe
in the recall uslnn the word In the ordl
rary senile as applied to our federal
JndgeK. I do not wMi to see steps taken
which would hurt the usefulness ami dlR
nlty of our fine national Judiciary. The
Introduction in principle of the method
for removing Judges which are provided
In the constitutions of New York and
MaMsachuettn (for unfitnesa on address
by a sufficient nialorlty of the two
houses of the legislature) would. 1 believe,
work well. If th's Is objected to, then
the only alternative Is that there shall be
aYull, free nnil effective criticism of the
conrt whenever the court acts upon some
oTirt
great queulon of policy and principle as j
to which the people have a right to de
cide, and where their decision, and not
that of their servants, must ultimately
sta ml.
Colonel Roosevelt's endorsement of
the recall by no means extends as far
as, for example, that which Is em
bodied in the Arizona constitution. In
other words, he realizes and empha
sizes the value of an independent ju
diciary unswerved by temporary
wares of popular sentiment whose
tyranny, If permitted to warp the de
crees of Justice, would differ only in
degree from the lure of power or the
menace of wealth. The assumption
of Judges, however, of Immunity from
criticism, and from responsibility for
abuses and arbitrary acts, ts not to be
conceded. If the despotism of the
mob were the only alternative to the
tyranny of the judicial despot there
might be little choice. In the ulti
mate analysis the solution of the prob
lem goes back to the people, who di
rectly or Indirectly choose the judges,
and who must be brought to make
their selection with the utmost care
and thorough knowledge of the men
they are thus commlsbloning to 'Inter
pret and pass on their laws.
Terrori of Juror in Italy.
In various times and places In our
United States history, even ordinary
courageous men shrank from serving
on Juries or acting as judges where
certain well known characters in the
community were arraigned on crimi
nal charges. Justice often got. the
short end of the bargain in these ter
rorized places.
But that was more frequent a long
time ago than today, and while many
American citizens may shirk Jury ser
vice, it is usually on different grounds.
Italy, an older country by many cen-
iturles than the ifnlted States, seems
only to have caught up with this stage
that we have passed decades ago, as
is shown in the Camorra trial at
Vlterbo. Good people, who, doubtless,
are willing enough to recognize a pub
lic duty and tha right to demand Jury
service of them, resorted to every
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means of avoiding it. They
wttre
acutely familiar with the records of
this secret society and shuddered at
the thought of offending It by helping
I to convict one of Its leaders of crimes,
which no doubt, they believe he com
mitted. The progress Italy has to make in
this respect is a matter of interna
tional concern, for the terrors of this
band of assassins has been felt In this
country as well as In southern Europe.
But for the sake of civilization and
law, it Is to be hoped that no personal
consideration will keep the men
chosen for this Jury from doing their
duty. How long Is the tradition of
the Camorra to live that its bane
once fixed on an enemy, his doom Is
sealed? Yet so long as each Juror
feels himself a marked man, watched
In every move and thought, it may be
doubtful If the brigands before the bar
come off much the worse for having
been there.
A Friendly British View.
Americana bear so much criticism
-nd BO ,ittle ..,.. from thelp Brltlllh
: coufjiua that compliments from this
j fall like sweet music uDon their
ears, The Honorable Mrs. Wilkinson
of London, a sister of Lord Decles,
who recently achieved fame over here
by marrying our Miss Vivien Could,
has just made a tour of the American
ontinent, spending much time on the
Pacific coast, and she is ecstatic in ber
praise of us. For Instance, she aava
I have traveled considerably In my life, j Wtckershani of Alaska and Congress
but your people are a revelation to me In i an Mondell of Wyoming locked
kindness and hospitality. I have written
dozens of letter, home telling of the gi..ii- j
ona Mmineaa I have met with. I don't:
think KnaUnd and the Knallsh can av.r b. I
good enough in return. No country can
I touch you in your direct, simple, kind-
I heartedness. All you seem to do I to try
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j KlKd a time aa the reat, and li not reie-
gated to tha ba kground aa in England.
That will do to put away In the na -
jtlonal scrap book and to show to the
jnext Briton who takes up with the
usual bent of condemning us for our
faults and inferiority. It might even
look well reprinted In some of the
London papers. As a matter of fact,
Mrs. Wilkinson has but voiced the
views of the representative of Great
Britain who knows America and
Americans better than any of his
countrymen, Ambassador James Bryce.
It is the view, of course, that Amer
icans like, since they are subject to the
soothing effect of flattery, like other
people, but nevertheless It Is time for
our critics abroad to do their crlticls-
f. irm.1 m, i
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Bryce have done theirs from this
;Ide. It Is a long stretch to see things iof
across the Atlantic.
ww,nson broueht out one fact
Mrs. wiiitinson brougnt outone lact
In her comment that la notably true
and which our own people can never)"
make too much of. and that Is: "It wnn contusion.
seems to me thet the 'poor relation'!' -
has quite as good a ttma as the rest Ii Travel a Passion?
and Is not relegated to the back- In an address delivered in Chicago
ground as in England." In no eoun- last week Rev. John Cavanutigh,
try In the world has the "poor rela-1 president of Notre Dame university,
tlon" so good a time and so big a I depicted the passion for" travel manl
chance. It Is well when the democ- fested by Americans 111 all w alks of
racy ot our nation Impresses itself as Society as a meuaee to our American
the most conspicuous feature In our
life, for If we are not democratic we
have failed In the first essential of
being good Americans.
Good Will in Business.
A writer In the Outlook calls good
will the hidden capital n business.
He refers particularly to the value of
the customers' good will considered
in the sale of a business as a property
j among the Invisible, but listed, assets.
It. Is not to be depreciated In this con-
nectlon. Tangible elements are often
not worth as much. Today more than
ever enterprising .business men are
magnifying the importance of this fac
tor of trade. Most merchants will
take the short end of an argument
with a customer. If by so doing they
can retain the customer's good will.
But there is another side to this fac
tor of good will in business, and that
is the relations between employer and
employe. No matter what system of
rules oi regulations laid down by some
organzatlons for governing these re
lations, the employer who, aside from
all this, has the hard, Arm friendship
and good will of the man working for
him is that much ahead of the one
who lacks this. He has an asset that
Is not to be calculated in dollars and
cents.
It Is just as short-sighted, however,
In the employe as in the employer not
'to cultivate this good will, which
should work to the mutual advantage
of both. Many kinds of business de
pend In large measure upon the per
sonnel of those In charge, and this per
sonnel, its reliability and permanence.
Is vastly helped by cultivating the
good will element. When an employe
comes to feel that his interest in his
employer's business goes deeper than
the mere matter of putting In so many
hours each day, or even of earning his
salary or wages, be is becoming a
more valuable employe. When he
feels still further that his employer's
interests are his Interests he is ap
proaching the Ideal. And nothing
short of that should be the standard
every man should set for himself. No
man is giving his employer all he.owes
him until he does, and no jnan should
wish to sell only a part of his
efficiency.
One of the basic faults In our indus
trialism, is a. misconception that the
employe owes nothing to the man who
gives him employment. Relations
might be simplified and problems
more readily solved If men would veer
themselves around to a better vlew-
point on this proposition
An ele-
I ment of mutual obligation is involved
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woicn snouia oe canaiaiv rpcnenizpri
and kept in mind, if it were we
If
should have fewer Industrial disputes.
Belligerent Legislators.
Americans talk much of the ethics
governing members of their congress,
of senatorial courtesy and all that,
but when It comes to real urbanity
they have to admit tbelr Canadian
neighbors to full consideration. Even
in the heat of passion members of the
Ottawa Parliament observe the strict
est ruleB of etlquet, as for Instance,
the other day when a Manitoba mem
ber of the House of Commons had oc
casion to question the veracity and
deny the assertion of a colleague. he
did It In this wise:
My honorable friend Is a liar, absolutely
a liar.
That is a plain, simple, forceful
statement, whether of fact or not. at
leaBt with the merit of brevity to com
mend it and urbanity enough almost
to sweeten the malediction. No un
savory adjectives modifying the predi
cate, which might serve to obscure the
meaning, impair the rhetorical effect.
or deepen the feeling of resentment
on the part of the honorable friend
It Is' very refreshing and inspiriting
and supplies such a fine contrast to
our awkward way, to say nothing of
the slovenly manner in which British
narliamentarlans go about such
things.
For Instance, a few weeks ago In
the house at Washington Delegate
horns in a debate, whereupon the Hon
bl wickersham thundered various
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of homely words at the Honora-
ble Mondell, interfering with the ex-
j peditlous transaction of business and
j disconcerting the whole house. That,
i In turn, led the Wyoming statesman to
retort in similar fashion and finrllyjbe otherwise, and, therefore, it seems
Involved the gentlemen in a rough-
j and-tumble fight. About a week
later a similar episode occurred on the
! floor of the London Parliament, only
' the fistic features were more pro-
nounced there than in tbelr affair at
Washington.
Readily, we may see tbe great ad
vantage In every respect tbe Canadian
method possesses over both the Amer
ican and British. There la no bluster
wig or bluff. One gentleman simply
rises, addresses the chair and de-
clares. "My honorable friend Is a liar,
absolutely a liar." Simple, straight
forward, direct. No beating about
the bush with the "short and ugly,'
no evasion whatever, and the spokes-
man. after he had withdrawn the
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statement to comorm wuu ids ruiea
th" house, politely Invited his hon-
orable friend outside If he felt any
doubt, rising In his n.lnd as to the !
8 ,.,,. t.
correctness of ths statement It
lln,- conserves uisuuy ana
home life. The mania of peop'.a to
travel from place to place more on
pleasure than on business, in his opin
ion, overtaxes their resources and di
verts time, energy and money from
the household, weakening family ties
and leading to family disruption.
This indictment of the passion for
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Bcruio in tail a iriinu uiran- ;
M
ure or plausibility, but it is like most
complaints against modern social ten
dencies an Indictment of those who
abuse them or carry them to excess.
The deslra to travel may, and possibly
sometimes does, become a passion
with a train of evils In Its wake, but
that argues only for temperance in
travel as in everything else. The' man
or woman who is on the go all the
time takes root nowhere, but the per
son who never looks beyond the limits
of his own small horizon is sure to be
come narrow and stagnant. Travel
is instructive and broadening and its
Influence equally far-reaching after
the return home. People who can
travel occasionally, but who do not,
are neglecting their own-self develop
ment. Up to the present, at any rate,
more harm has come from too little
travel than from over-doing the travel
habit.
All About the Hair Mystery.
American women need no longer
forego the convenience of wearing
hair that they have reason to think
has come from China for fear that it
is the queue of some reformed Chinese
or the token of a tomb. According to
tbe American consul general at Hong
Kong, George K. Anderson, It Is
neither. Mr. Anderson sends the con
soling information that this hair is
all from the combings of Chinese of
the upper crust in society The
women have their maids carefully
save the combings each day and they
are sold to hair merchants, who are
scarcely able to supply the demands
from Europe and the United States.
So far as the theory of the hair
coming from tbe heads of deceased
Chinese is concerned, that, we are as
sured, Is inconsistent with the Chinese
views of the dead and with native
thought and tradition. A Chinese
needs all his or her hair In the other
world, and, not for any consideration,
would It be left in this to adorn the
head of some fastidious occidental.
This should be a great relief to our
women folk, as well as a bullish boon
to dealers in this line of merchandise.
Seriously, our consul general wishes
us to understand that while some 15,-
000 queues have been cut off In the
last several months, under the spell of
Wu Ting-fang'a social reform, none of
them has been sold. This gives a hint
of a new Chinese characteristic, de
crying the Idea of pro-commercialism
In the ancient empire, for the hair
trade is one of th'e bounding indus
tries ot that country Just now and
promises to develop Into immense pro
portions. It does not require more
than two thoughts to guess what
Americans would do in such a case if
they were dispensing with queues.
This hair, which is treated by chem
ical processes to refine it for the mar
ket, is bein quoted Just. as any other
commodity of trade In China. It runs
In classes of AAA, AAAA and AAAAA,
and the prices' are 57.2 cents, 78 cents
and 9S cents per pound respectively.
But here comes in another anomaly of
Chinese business tendencies. A year
ago this highest grade was selling at
$2 a pound. Evidently the Chinese
have not learned the American art of
fixing the scales of supply and de
mand.
ViTisection Again.
Many philanthropic persons and so
cietles that oppose vivisection, as a
form of barbarism which even the de
mands of science do not Justify have
of late become particularly aggressive
Doubtless well-meaning individuals
have allowed their humane feelings to
carry them a little beyond the limit
of fairness in describing the character
and results of this work. Vivisection
Is practiced by scientists on dumb an
imals for the purpose of discovering
and determining valuable scientific
truths, and they Insist that the utmost
care Is taken to prevent needless pain
and suffering on the part of the
animals.
Undoubtedly the medical world is
being enlightened through the pro
'cesses of vivisection, as it could not
esseutlal to scientific progress. If the
welfare of the human race is pro
moted, so long aa every attention i
paid to the comfort of the animal
tested, these demonstrations may be
made. Here is an interesting list of
regulations sent to every research
laboratory in the country where vivi
section is practiced, and ihey show
that many people are wrong In their
conceptions of what Is being done:
I. Vagrant dogs and cats brought to thla
laboratory and purchased here shall ba
held at leaat aa tons at at the city pound. 1
and nlin.ll he returned to their owners If I
claimed and Identified. j
II. Animals In the laboratory shall re- ;
reive every consideration for their bodily
comfort; they shall be kindly treated,
properly fed, and their surrounding kept
in the best Dosslhle sanitary condition.
operation on animals shall
,,,,, exrn,t ,vlth tne F.rtion of the di-
rector of the laboratory, who hoi.ts him-
self responsible for the importance of tho
problems studied nd for the propriety of
prc,.r(,llT .,. , tne ,n,ull0 0f
y.tm. problems.
IV. In any operation likely to cause
greater discomfort than that attending
anatsthetltatlon tli animal shall first hi
rendered Intapable of perceiving pain and
shall be maintained In that condition un
til the operation Is ended.
V. Exceptions to this rule will be made
by the director alone, and then only when
Hnaesthesla would defeat the object of
the experiment. In, nuch caes an anaes
thetic shall be used bo far as possible and
may be discontinued only so long as la
absolutely essential for the necessary ob
servations. VI. At the conclusion of the experi-.ent
the animal shntl be killed painlessly. Ex
ceptions to thla rule will be made only
when continuance of the animal's life Is
necessary ,to'determlne the result of the
experiment 'In that case the same aseptic
precautions should be observed during tha
operation, ana, so rar as poiuic
the
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same care shall be taken to minimise ois
comforts during the) convalescence as In
In a hospital for human beings.
Surely a dog or a cat, a rat or a
rabbit, so privileged, must be recon
ciled to its martyrdom.
Farm Wages.
Statistics from the Department of
Agriculture show that average farm
wages paid in 1910 were higher than
ever in the history of this country. A
study of the figures taken by sections
or subdivisions of the United States
shows a still more satisfactory condi
tion namely, that a better medium
has been attained. Wages have been
brought up In thoBe states where they
were very low iiearer to tbe level of
those where they have always been
high, until the range, including board
of the man, Is from 13 to $32.69 on
the. average. The maximum is paid
in Nevada, where, without board, the
monthly wage runs to $54.
Great as has been the advancement
In most states within the last twenty
years, not much change has been made
In wages paid In far western states.
Twenty years ago ranch hands In Cali
fornia were paid $30 a month and
board, with a minimum of $2 a day
and board for harest labor and that
was about the scale for the entire Pa
cific coast.
It Is, of course, a matter of satis
faction that while the farm hand has
been prospering the farmer has also.
The percentage of Increase in the
prices of what he sells shows up well
against any other advances made.
This is a high-price country; therefore
is a prosperous country. While
there may be some call for still
greater readjustment in prices as they
relate to the general cost of living,
nobody wishes to bring the level down
to a low-price basis, for the low-price
country Is not the one that is going
forward.
With all the improvement in farm
wages and conditions of farm labor,
the supply of workers is still not ex
ceeding the demand and in certain
seasons, particularly in the great grain
and fruit-raising states of the west,
the supply is nowhere equal to the de
mand. Various artificial means have
to be resorted to to fill the farmers'
orders for "hands."
Colonel Roosevelt has been criti
cised for preaching peace and prepara
tion for war at the same time. There
is nothing new or strange about that.
Most people hope for the liest and pre
pare for the worst, and it Is usually a
safe philosophy.
New Yorkers did not seem enough
Interested in mapping out the road to
heaven, bo Rev. Mr. Aked is going to
8an Francisco, a city noted for its
piety ard devotion.
"Convicts are not the worst men,"
says a Chicago minister who used to
be In Omaha. Possibly not. but ordi
narily they are bad enough to be In
jail.
A Peacemaker.
Washington Post.
With Buffalo Hill In the senate, states
men will have to be mighty particular not
to make false motions.
Welcome to All Its Thoughts.
Baltimore American.
If Kurope insists upon regarding Uncle
Sam's military demonstration as a warn
ing and an object lesson, It is welcome to
put Its own construction upon the matter.
Noble Friend ( Man.
Washington Herald.
A Nebraska Judge, in a case between
husband and wife, decided that the man
must not ba expected to build the kitchen
fire mornings, do family washing, sew on
buttons, darn socka or do any other house
hold work. A noble and a righteous Judge,
indeed.
Kicrrdlag Their Authority
Philadelphia Record.
According to a decision of Secretary
Nagel of the 1'iepartinent of Commerce, It
la not within the functions of the immigra
tion authorities to turn back newcomers
who arc destined to regions of the country
In which conditions of labor are unfavor
able. The Immigration authorities wish to
substitute themselves for Providence.
Idvaace of t oitirull Plan.
Buffalo Express.
Tha commission plan of governor- '"
towns and cities Is now on trial in twenty
six states, and In th main seems to work
advantageously. It la In process of ex
periment In 111 cities with apparently satis
factory result. Am a I
the plan has brought better and cleaner
government, with great economy of admin
istration. The fact that tha people In the
more densely populated atatea and In the
larger cities of the country have been slow
to give tha new system a trial may ba In
part explained by the hesitation of the
leaders of political parties to abandon a
professional game they understand for one
In which there aeema to ba a mail oppor
tunity for profit or plundering
People and Events
Purely there Is no ivarrant for a Klii
so long as the March lion Is vindicating bin
reputation.
Py a practically unanimous vote Chlcaso
elects Its official weather sharps to mem
bership In the Ananias club.
Twelve million dollars for travel expense
of federal offlclUla Is not so much when
proper credit !a given the official lip.
Men are gradually plucking un conraae
'to act as they think. An Indiana saPuni.
handed the mitten at the eleventh hotn.
sues for $::..00() damaaes to his palpitatot
A shukedoMM Is the proper return for a
shake.
In this em of increasing p ace and good
will It may be unseemly to mention it. but
It Is difficult to suppress the thought that
the March Hon. In chooxinH this inrtioulai
month for bis capera, gets what is coming
to him In knots and knocUs.
An explosion of graft Is promised on
the Lehigh Valley railroad ilvallng lln-Inotina-
revealed on the Illinois t'vutral.
Tho fuse la set Ht the Buffnlo end of the
line and warning signals have t. i n .M
long enough to facilitate a Jump to Canada
or some other friendly port
Winston Churchill, Drltlsh minister, who
plunged Into the thick of the Moundsriitch i
oatiies witn his topper on straight, has
been presented with an Illuminated address
and a putty medal for "valor." Tin- ad
Wess states that the medal Is awarded
for capturing two aliens with no aid savi
that given by l.SOo policemen, a battery
of P.oyal Horse artillery and a company of
Scots guards.
The twenty-first ward of Chicago con
talna more of the "ruling class" than any
other section of productive pralrlo In Cook
county. Secretary of the Interior Fisher
balls from the lucky ward. A prelimlnai y
count shows twenty In the upper circles of
officialdom, embracing three cabinet ot
flcers and running down the roster of
Judges, ministers, congressmen, mayor
and ex-mayor and enough political bosses
to keep" the pie counter in sight.
Kn OF TUB KIEF CASK.
Justice Snrai-eda In Ilobbllnw a Male
factor. San Francisco Chronicle.
Now that Abraham Huef is at length to
receive the punishment for one of the
numberless crimes which he committed,
nothing Is to be gained' by further de
nunciation of him as an individual. In
mercy let his name and memory pasa Into
at least temporary oblivion.
But on the other, hand the pathos of
fuch a parting from his family of such
a man upon such a Journey must not
lead us for a moment to forget that only
justice has been done, or to falter In our
thankfulness that in the eaae of at least
one of the Important offenders the majesty
of the law has been vindicated.
There will always remain a doubt
whether in the course of his long trial
some technical error was not committed
which, under the law and the practice of
Hie courts as they have hitherto ben con
ducted, four or more of the Justices of the
supreme court would have felt bound to
consider fatal.
Kut there la no room , for any doubt
whatever that he took the money as al
leged and distributed It to the supervisors,
as alleged, for the purposu of bribery. And
that is the main thing to be considered.
No one doubts that his punishment Is Just.
The unfortunate thing Is that the worst
villain In the gang has thus far escaped.
Ruef has human qualities which attach
many men to him. Corruptlonlst as he
was. he had a sympathetic side.
Schmlta, on the contrary, Is a villain
pure and simple, utterly sordid, faithless
to every trust, with no qualities to attach
any man to him In the bonds of friendship,
selling himself In cold blood to any buyer.
That he should orcape his Just doom, if'
he does finally escape, It, must be forever
a aource of sorrow and chagrin to every
honest man. No more contemptible person
ever lived thn Mchmlts. whom the deluded
people of Sun Francisco thre times elected
to be their chief magistrate.
( bl.U, (Hi Ul, KNOCK!
Dreadful Charge Filed Aaralnat Amer
ican llloarraplier.
Milwaukee Sentinel.
Certain biographies of Waahington. Lin
coln, Franklin, Grant, etc., have been con
tumelloualy evicted from the London school
libraries. The reason for th writ of eject
ment la thus stated by a Mr. Fender of
the education committee: "These book
are written in American and extremely
vulgar American, at that."
Dreadful, dreadful! Who, pray, are the
depraved authora of these vicious produc
tions? Kurely not John Hay, or Dana, or
Carl Schurz, or Washington Irving, or
Woodrow Wilson, all of whom wrote of
Washington and Lincoln, and in notably
good English.
George Ade Is perhaps one typical writer
of "American" (as she Is stnike), but .we
do tiot recall that he lias been the Plutarch
of any of these national worthies. 1 'arson
Weenie' alleged "life" of Washington Is
certainly pretty bad In point of atylc. an!
largely apochryphal In rolnt of matter.
Miss Tarbell, the iifted celebrant of Stand
ard Oil, has written a book about Lincoln
which might strike the exacting Pender as
not quite up to the Addisonian mark. Per
haps these works might be (If Mr. Pender
will pardon the expression) "fired" 'on
stylistic grounds.
But a total lack In the London school
libiarlea of "lives" of thesa great Ameri
cans of English blood would certainly be
taken as Indicating a corresponding lack
of brains In the education committee, liven
Mr. Pender might find himself written
down an ass by Intelligent British opinion,
which has lonn given up what Sidney Smith
called the "pitiful affection of despising
America."
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mediately, show us the certificate (before it is taken up
by the companies issuing it) no that we may know that
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SECULAR SHOTS AT FULPIT.
Washington Star: It would be Interesting?
to know whither lr. Aked baa any reason,
for believing California would be led to
i righteousness more aally than New Yotk.
Mprtngfleld Itepublican: Mr. V'ddv's for
tune proves to be larger than had been
supposed Nenrly .t.(v'0.riO Is the present
aluatlon placed upon the CMatc by ths
executor. It Is an astonishing amount to
I have been gained for the founder In estnb
I llshlng a religion less thin forty years old.
i Inevitably, perhaps, there arc quarrels over
the distribution of the fortune. Mortal
mind feels the lure of the dollar. If the
; Christian Science cult gets the lion's share,
j as It ought, m view of the fjet It con
jttihirted the bulk of it thiough the pur
chase of Mis. Kddy's hooks, the money will
i be put to philanthropic and worthy uses,
! no doubt.
I 1-eslle's Weekly: The militant Methodist
'Kpisiopal church may t u had In large
salaries, but It never allows lis active niln
i islets to suffer and It plans also to clva
; even more attention than in the past to
those who have become Incapacitated. ' At
! Its annual meeting In Chlcauo Hie board
, of conference claimants decided to ralaa
! $2,(('.C0O for superannuated ministers Itce
; ognlzing the needs not only of the future.
' but of the present ns well, the hoard plans
to use one-half of the amount during the
cominn year In support of wornout mtn-
inters, widows of deceased minister;.
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dependent children. The church which
takes care of llmse who have worn them
selves out In Its service, will haie for its
general benevolences and forward move
ments not less, but rather more. A church
failing io cate for its own Immediate
household cannot make a very convincing
plea for mission at home or abroad.
DOMESTIC 1-LUSANTRIES.
Miss Knox What would jou ylve, dear,
to have such a figure as mine.'
Miss Hammer I don't know what did
lull give'.' Uoatoii Transcript.
"My husband has given me a diamond
neeMace."
"My! My! What was it you caught hlin
doing?" Louisville Courier-Journal.
"What Is the proper thing for a loan to
do when his wife ask him for money and
he hasn't any '.'" ipierled New l wed.
"Oh, there Isn't any proper thing to do
under those circumstances.'' replied Old
wed. "Anything he dues will be wTong."
Chicago News.
"1 couldn't think of
Ient."
thing to giva up
"That so?"
"Yes, and when I remarked as much in
the bosom of my family my wife and
daughter told me I could put In the time,
getting ready to give up lor ICaster.'
Houston Post.,
"1 nut your husband yesterday. lie
isn't looking at all well. Why don't you
urge him to go abroad and trv the baths
somewhere'.'"
"Dear me. it's almost impossible to get
him to bathe at home ." I'leveland Plain
Dealer.
Mrs. Cobb Was the grocer's boy Impu
dent lo you when you te ephoned your
order this morning? t
Cook Yes, Mrs. Cob, he was that. H it
I fixed blm this lime. I sez: "Who the
do you think you're talkln' to? This
Is Mrs. Cobb." I.lfc.
THE RIVER OF LIFE.
Thomas Campbell.
The more we live more brief appear
Our life's succeeding stager;
A day to childhood seema a year,
And years like passing ages.
The gladsome current of our youth,
Kre passion yet disorders,
Steals lingering like a liver smooth
Along its grassy borders.
But as the careworn cheek grows wan
And sorrow's shafts fly thicker.
Ye stars, that measure life to man,
Why oecm your courses quki.cr'.'.
When Joys have loFt their bloom tni
b:-ccit!i.
And life Itself la vapid.
Why, as wo reach the Falls of Death.
Feel wc Its tldo more rapid?
It may be strange yet who would change
Time's course to slower speeding.
When one by one our friends have gone
And left our bosoms bleeding'.'
Heaven gives our years of fading strength
Indemnifying fleetness;
And those of youth, a seeming length,
Proportioned to their sweetness.
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