TTFR OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: AUGUST 27, 1911.
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oliMTthers Iravlnt the city tern
pftrarily should have The lire
mailed to them. Address will be
changed as often as requested.
Nobody dared to introduce Hobson
to Togo.
A little formaldehyde might not
hurt this benzoate controversy a bit.
Take nota that Togo liked Niagara
to look at, but did not try to Jump it.
"Good Rains in South Dakota."
Well, that Is refreshing to know, any
way. Another week gone and men still
drinking beer without knowing what
it is.
Society at Newport is progressing.
It has adopted dolls, as babies, having
quit dogs.
If President Taft Is like the rest of
us, two weeks of real vacation will be
quite enough.
President Taft says ho will loaf for
three weeks. "On my laurels," he
might have added.
Those Arctic explorers who ate their
fur coats should never again kick on
boarding house hash.
The Harmon campaign book is out.
Mr. Bryan will, of course,, subscribe
for a de luxe edition.
St. Louis produce merchants taboo
mixed eggs. That's right. Breeds
snouia De Kept separate.
A Liberty, Mo., man writes to the
Chicago Record-Herald to ask. "Who
owns the air?" Hot or cold?
Wasted time is worse than wasted
money. A person might get other
money to make up for what is lost.
It will take additional effort to
insure a safe and sane Fourth next
time when celebrated by forty-eight
states.
That Buffalo man who is happy on
$9 a week certainly baa it on John D.
nocKereuer, woo is miserable on a
million a minute.
Every time we think we have gone
ahead of every age we find some
patriarch rising up to challenge our
progress. Here Is Elijah, the first
aviator.
The ministers will all soon be back
from their vacations and then will
begin anew the old fight with old Mr.
Nick, who has done fairly well without
a vacation.
Never mind, when aviation is fully
protected by safety devices, we may be
sure some other equally dangerous
game will be forthcoming to keep up
the excitement.
Woodrow Wilson has not yet sent
in his answer to those thirteen que
tlons. He must be still in doubt
whether. Mr. Bryan's endorsement
would be an asset or a liability.
The Outlook, carrying Colonel
Roosevelt's name as contributing
editor, says that the recall should
never apply to Judges. That ought
make clear what the colonel meant.
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And in the meantime, before the
next session of congress, perhaps
Messrs. Bryan, Underwood, Clark.
Wilson, Harmon. Folk. Marshall. Dlx
Foss and the rest can decida which
shall become the democrats' peschal
lamb in 1912.
Mr. Bryan admonishes the demo
crats in congress to treat the Insurgent
republicans fairly because they may
still be needed at the next session. If
not needed, they might expect to be
treated Just the same as the democrats
treat the rexular republicans.
It will be noted that the million
aire's wife, who insists that the court
must allow her $3,012 a month as
minimum for support, in detailing her
items of expense, needs only $2 for
books. A person spending that amount
on self has no time to bother about im
proving the mind.
Condition to Statehood.
With rare exceptions even the most
partisan opponents of President Taft
concede the soundness of his argument
against the recall of Judges embodied
in his statehood veto, the only point
on which Issue Is taken being the con
tention that if the people of Arizona
want to try a doubtful experiment
they should be permitted to do so,
especially since after admission to
statehood they might reincorporate
the objectionable feature into their
constitution without interference. The
suggestion, however, that congress has
no right to impose conditions pre
cedent to the transformation of a ter
ritory into a state, and that, if the peo
ple of any territory are qualified for
statehood, they are entitled to come in
under any, kind of a constitution they
see fit to frame, does not fit in with
historic facts. Few states, if any, have
been admitted into the union without
meeting certain stipulated require
ments set forth in the enabling act,
and whether, having secured admis
sion, a state is really free later to
repudiate and change the express
terms is a question not tested out.
We happen to have in the case of
our own state of Nebraska a particu
larly striking example. The original
enabling act of 1866 enumerates and
defines these conditions on which
statehood might be had and presum
ably statehood would hot have been
accorded without strict compliance:
1. That slavery be forever prohibited.
1. That complete religious tolerance be
assured.
1. That the people disclaim title to all
public lands within the borders of the
stats.
4. That lajids belonging to non-resident
citizens of the United States shall never
be taxed higher than lands belonging to
residents. . '
6. That no taxes be Imposed on property
belonging to the United States.
While the constitution framed and
adopted pursuantly fulfilled all these
requirements, it restricted the suffrage
to "white" citizens of the United
States and to "white" persons who had
declared their intention to become
citizens.
This restriction proved to be even
more offensive 'and objectionable to
congress than the recall of Judges.
Admission of Nebraska to the union
was promptly denied except upon ad
ditional fundamental conditions pre
scribed in a second act, passed in 1867
over President Johnson's veto, whose
vital section reads:
This sot shall not take effect except on
the fundamental condition that within the
state of Nebraska there shall be no denial
of the elective franchise or of any other
right to any person by reason of race or
color, excepting Indians not taxed, and
upon the further fundamental condition
that the legislators of said state, by solemn
publio aot, shall transmit to the president
of the United States an authentic copy of
said set, upon rscslpt whereof the president
by proclamation shall forthwith announce
the fact, whereupon said fundamental con
dition shall be held as a part of the organlo
law of the state, and thereupon and with
out any further prooesdlng on the part of
congress the admission of said state Into
the union shall be considered as complete.
It goes without laying that the
legislature when convened accepted
and ratified the fundamental condi
tions. Nebraska became a state
March 1, 1867, and the supreme court
in one of its very earliest decisions
held that these conditions had become
a part ot the constitution and binding
as such, although never submitted to
the vote of the people. The adoption
6f the fifteenth amendment soon made
the question a purely theoretical one
as to whether the state could have re-
Inserted the word "white" if it so a
sired, but strangely enough the whole
purport of the veto message of Presi
dent Johnson was to the effect that
congress bad no right to prescribe
conditions not required of other states
supposedly on equal footing.
This, then, may be put down as
established, that congress can enforce
and has enforced conditions precedent
to admission to the union; that con
gress can enforce and has enforced
them, both before and after the adop
tion of their constitution by the people
of the territory seeking statehood;
that the much-talked-of right of the
people of a territory to become a state
whenever their numbers and resources
warrant under any frame of govern
ment they choose to adopt has never
been recognized and has no foundation
in fact.
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An Outward Effect of Lynching..
Every time a lynching or burning at
the stake is committed in this country
somebody uses it as a text to preach
the failure of democracy. Mob vio
lence is a most shocking and deplor
able crime and perhaps more shocking
and deplorable because committed in
a democratic and Christian country,
but it is not indicative of inherent
fallacy or failure ot either. It only
shows what a task our governments
have and the lnfrequency of such out
rages shows bow well the Job is being
performed.
Such depredations are always com
mitted by a mere handful of citizens
and condoned by very few others. If
they were generally approved there
might, indeed, be cause for alarm, for
then it would Justify the fear that the
fundamental principle of government
was In peril. What most people over
look in such crises is that this country
is heterogeneous, the most cosmo
politan country in the world, and
that, therefore, It has the tempers
and passions ot all the races to deal
with. In a land of $0,000,000 peo
ple of all colors, creeds and nation
alities, where mob violence is no more
common than It is in the United
States, surely there la no need for
alarm as to the permanency of govern
ment. A native of a foreign land, where
racial blood runs hot, writes to a
Philadelphia newspaper to condemn
the recent horror at Coatesvllle, where
a man was taken from bis hospital bed
and burned alive. No condemnation
could be made to fit so black a deed,
but no one should mistake this spo
radic art of outlawry to be a standard
by which to Judge democracy and to
make dismal predictions of its future.
Facifio Koadi and the Panama.
The Pacific railroads are said to be
deeply engrossed already with prep
arations for meeting the new condi
tions arising In the opening up of the
Panama canal, which Is now set by
some for the autumn of 1913. Some
big railroad men profess to see a re
actionary period for their lines in the
all-water competition from the Atlan
tic to' tho Pacific of the canal route.
They argue that under old conditions
the roads have been unable to enlarge
revenues as fast as desired and that
with greater competition to meet and
no material reduction in the cost of
operation In sight, they cannot hope to
bring their revenues up where they
should be to warrant profitable pros
pects. Of course, this new transcontinental
water route will create new traffic
problems, but, to a layman, it would
appear that the railroad prophets are
overlooking the fact that the canal
also will lead to the development of
new territory and new traffic, enough
so, it would seem, to offset any new
burdens of competition. At least,
that has been the common view all
along. And, as the Financial World
observes, the operation of the Panama
canal traffic should have the tremen
dously -profitable effect of converting
a lot of small subsidiary lines, now
mere suckers on the main lines, into
healthy feeders.
Somehow, when an unprejudiced ob
server looks out over the western rail
road world, he finds it a little difficult
to subscribe to this gloomy view of the
situation ahead. The railroads that
keep abreast of the times are in
vesting large sums of money for double
tracking, reconstruction of roadbeds
and other costly improvements, even
to the, building of new branch lines.
It goes without saying that they are
doing all these things through faith in
the development of the country they
traverse and they have good grounds
for believing that this development
will be quickened, Instead of checked,
by the opening of the canal route.
Study it for Yourself.
On another page The Bee prints in
full the text of the commission plan
law which the people of Omaha will
adopt or reject at the' special election
called for Saturday of this week.
The Bee set In motion the machinery
by which thia law may be made effec
tive by securing the necessary petition
signatures prerequisite to a vote on it
and filing the petition with the city
officials upon whom devolved the next
step.
A careful readng of the law will af
ford the best explanation of its pro
visions and furnish complete informa
tion as to what changes it would make
in our city government and how these
changes would be made.
. It Is tho duty of every person inter
ested in the future growth and pros
perity of Omaha to post himself on
this important question whose decision
will determine the form of our munici
pal government for the coming years.
Tho commission plan law as written
on the Nebraska statute books gives
the outlines of the proposed change
and a study of It will answer most of
the questions that are being asked
about it.
It is up to the voter who wants to
cast an Intelligent ballot to Inform
himself by going to the law at first
hand.
Emperor William's Boy.
The German emperor gives the
world a view of the personal, domestic
side of his character in his Altona.
Prussia, speech and it is a healthful,
wholesomo, admirable view. The
world needs now and then to know the
private side of great public charac
ters like Emperor William. As the
ruler of one of the great world powers,
he stands out strong and rugged and
the' effect ia inspiring upon other
powers. But what if, when the curtain
that conceals his private life were
drawn aside, it disclosed a weakness
there how would this affect his ex
ample and Influence?
First, Emperor William at Altona,
in honor of the province of Schleswlg
Holsteln, pays a tribute to his wife, a
daughter of this province, as "an ex
ample of German mothers, because she
has brought up six sons, serious, ener
getic men, who are not inclined to
take advantage of the comforts and
enjoyments of their rank and position,
like many of the present-day youth,
but have devoted their strength to the
Fatherland in hard and strict fulfill
ment of duty, and, should a serious
occasion arUe, are ready cheerfully to
sacrifice their lives cn the altar of
their country."
A noble tribute to this German
mother and her six strong sons. She
sets an example worthy of emulation
in every home, lowly or exalted by
wealth or power. It Is a good thing
to make known facts of this kind
about royalty, for, surfeited as the
reading public becomes with facts of
a different sort, it is liable to fall into
the sordid belief that the simple vir
tues of life are unknown in these high
stations.
The German people everywhere
have a right to feel and do feel dis
tinct pride in this grand old ancestral
household, where the father, the
mother and the children set an ex
ample In' home-like simplicity. The
German, nation is stronger as a result.
It can afford 19 face Kg destiny with
more self assurance thus than If these
six sons of the emperor had not had
such a great and good mother.
Great Britain today is in a similar
situation. Its ruling head grew up
under a home Influence majestic in
motherhood as well as regal power,
and he, too, like these six German
boys, spent his youth in studying the
serious side of life, that he might be
prepared for It when destiny should
call him to the ruling station.
Possibilities of Arctic Exploration.
Not in a long time has a more in
teresting piece of news come into cir
culation than that of the possible dis
covery in the Arctio regions of a
strange race of people, who never saw
a white man nor an Indian until the
arrival of the explorers. The explor
ers are headed by Vilhjmar Stefans
son, a Harvard graduate of 33, who
left the United States in April, 1908,
on an anthropological search under
the auspices of the American museum.
His name denotes Scandinavian descent
and he seems to be upholding the his
toric fame of his ancestors.
The news that such a race has been
found in Victorialand came by letter
to Brooklyn under date of a year ago,
and It is the first word received from
the expedition since it set out more
than three years ago. Instantly,
therefore, the mind turns to the loca
tion of Victorialand, and probably the
map will reveal many surprises to
those who had not before taken the
pains to inform themselves that there
was such a place as. Victorialand. Its
position, Just across a narrow neck of
water called Dease strait, north ot
central Canada, does not seem so re
mote, and yet the better illustrates the
comparatively little we know of these
Artcic lands. By what means this
letter was transmitted is not stated,
but there can be no other method than
dog sleds, driven by native Eskimos.
Evidently these explorers have
found something worth while. The
most interesting point about this lost
race is, of course, its origin. The
young explorer argues that it might
have come from the 3,000 Scandi
navians who disappeared from Green
land in the fifteenth century, Inspired
in their quest for new worlds by the
passion that sent Gunnbjorn from Nor
way to the new Norse settlement in
Iceland in the ninth century and con
tinued to drive expeditions of Norse
men to this continent for several cen
turies. What could be more probable
than the correctness of Stefansson's
theory, for some of these strange Es
kimos he finds to be of the same racial
characteristics as his own Scandinavi
ans. If he is not right, by what theory
can we explain the difference in types
of these two sets ot people inhabltatlng
this same region? Of far more inter
est to the world is the news of this dis
covery than anything that has come
from those who have conjured in their
own uncertain minds the belief that
they have reached the north pole.
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Atwood' Triumphal Fliyht.
It is remarked that the marvelous
flight of young Atwood from St. Louis
to New York, a distance of 1,265 miles,
In twenty-eight hours and thirty-one
minutes, is comparable only with the
time of the fastest trains. True, but
if trains had to take as long to make
this record run as Mr. Atwood took,
the railroads would be shunned and
another mode of travel adopted, for it
required ten days for the aviator to get
there in twenty-eight and one-half
hours, because he had to lay off nights.
What Mr. Atwood did was to travel
further than any other aviator has and
his feat loses none of Its daring and
consummate skill in ita lack of imme
diate practical utllty. It is not only in
itself wonderful, but it could never
have been accomplished by a man who
did not possess superior parts. Had,
not Mr. Atwood been a man of precise
self-control, unflinching and unfailing
nerve, he never could have done what
he did. Yet, marvelous as hl achieve
ment strikes us, it still falls short of
demonstrating the every-day utility of
aerial navigation. The fact that it
proves the possibility to travel in a
heavler-than-alr craft so great a dis
tance under favorable conditions still
does not prove much in the way of
making this mode of travel useful in
the near future, although it will in
time.
Perhaps more can be predicted for
this scientific enterprise after Atwood
or some other aviator, has made the
trip from New York to San Francisco,
for which $50,000 is to be offered as
a prize. There will be ample. time
after that to build our air craft and
hea't and light and otherwise equip
thetn for regular trips between fixed
destination points.
Oh, pshaw, we would hate to check
up the campaign expense accounts
filed by candidates for nomination
last year or the year before against
a strict reading of the limitation fixed
by the corrupt practises act without
expecting to find several discrepancies
Julius caeser must nave been a
queer combination. He is said to have
been the .first political boss, he was
the social Hon of his day, he was an
invincible warrior, he was the original
good roads promoter and now they say
he drank beer.
The railroads are making a 1-cent
passenger rate for the Nebraska state
fall- the very same- railroads that
declared a 2-cent fare law would mean
the absolute end of all excursion re
ductlons.
Chorus of I.am Darks.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The lams ducks have Joined the chorus
against Secretary Wilson. In the resign,
tion of Tama Jim they see a possible
chance to limp back to the pay rolL
Eookln Backward
IhisDay inOmalia
COMPILED mOM Df.f. riLF-S
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Thirty Years Ari
The Merchants' and. Manufacturers
union. P. E. Her. president, and Charles
Kauffman, secretary. In public proclama
tion request members "to abstain from
doing business on Sunday. All members
who shall violate this resolution In that
regard will be expelled from the union, and
all surh persons violating the existing Pun
day laws to be found In section 241, Code
of Nebraska, will be prosecuted."
P. J. Johnson died at his residence, 1431
North Nineteenth street, of typhoid fever
after an Illness of about three weeks. Mr
Johnson was a member of the les and coal
firm of, Benson Johnson, which had re
cently dissolved.
The night mail train over the Burlington
was delayed In reaching Omaha on ac
count of the accidental destruction by firs
of a bridge near Creaton. Passengers had
to be transferred to the Rock Island. They
had retired for the night, and consequently
were considerably put out when called
upon to get up and dress.
The windows are being put In Strang's
new building today.
Quite an excitement was created at the
night performance of the circus. The reg
ular circus performance had been con
cluded and the concert was on. Ths roust
abouts were engaged In tearing down a
portion of the seats, getting ready for de
parture, when the ropes attached to the
gasoline lights came to the ground on a
run. The ean broke and ths gasoline Ig
nited, biasing to a height of four or flvs
feet. A, general pants ensued, and only the
presence of mind of James Nellgh and
others of the circus attaches prevented a
Jam, and -quiet was- restored.
Twenty Years Ago
County Attorney Mahoney and County
Clerk CMalley took to Lincoln the $18,000
of Union Pacific 'refunding bridge bonds
to have them registered with State Auditor
Tom Benton.
Captain PaP Mostyn of the police force
had SS he did not know what to do with.
Tha money, In bills, was found under an
old sidewalk at Tenth and Harney streets,
where repair work was going on and
turned over to him, a youth who found It
evidently having no use for money In those
piping times of peace and plenty.
Phil Armour was In the city.
F. J. Sutcllffe grew weary of his Job as
manager of the opera house and handed
In his restgnstion.
Sheriff Boyd named his long list of depu
ties for the state fair ground for the com
ing week, with Lou Grebe as superinten
dent and chief deputy.
Postmaster T. S. Clarkson denied that
residents of the vicinity of Twenty-first
and Vinton streets had any kick coming
on their mall delivery.
Ten Years Ago -
Irvln A. Medlar, who was stricken with
appendicitis, was too HI to attend the
funeral services of hla father-in-law, C. L.
Jenkins, though held at the Medlar home.
Tony Llghtner, an employe of the Mur
ray otel, fell out of a second story win
dow and was taken to tho hospital with
a broken arm and leg.
Patrick Mahoney, aged 79. father of T.
J., J. J. and P. H. Mahoney, died at St.
Joseph's hospital.
Tax Commissioner Fleming asked the
city council to confirm these special depu
ties: A. F. Ross, George W. Covell, Dan
Angell, C. K. Forbes, T. C. Goodson, Peter
Klewlts, Dan Durham, W. C. McLean, P.
L. Forgan, George Fltzpatrlclc, J. G.
Arthur, James Ford. Julius Janhowsky,
Emll Mots, Ellas Svenson. Mat T. Greevy,
James McMonles, J. D. Nathanson, John
E. Emblen, Bernard Sachses.
Detectives Drummy and Mitchell, who.
had been long at work on ths mystery of
the "dark man with piercing black eyes"
who for twenty years had been persecuting
Mrs. J. H. Glassman. 3130 Corby street,
finally threw up ths sponge In despair of
ever finding the man.
William Boettger, a farmer living near
Bennington, where the Douglas eounty
democracy held Its picnic on ths Sabbath,
complained to the police that his pockets
were picked at that, patriotic gathering.
Attorney Charles E. . Morgan, represent
ing the city council, began action against
the Board of Education, seven members of
which refused to appear before the council
and testify aa to the disposition of funds
from fines, and he took as a starter Mem
ber Robert Smith, one of the recalcitrant
seven.
People and Events
Why make such a fuss about It? Hasn't
the venerable and ancient Mona Lisa the
right to go off Into a quiet corner and see
If that mysterious shadow of a smile won't
come off?
The Croton watershed, which collects the
water supply of New Tork City, Is getting
so dry that the residents may be obliged
to cut out the "chaser," a contingency that
Is not viewed with alarm.
Members of the New York chicken ttust,
sent up for three months for extortion,
will be out Just In time to make the
ultimate consumer squeal -xs he views the
price tags on Thanksgiving turkey.
Paris is about to spring on lovely woman
an aeroplane sleeve with an armhole large
enough to hold all the hot air blown toward
the wearer. Just what purpose the not
air will serve is one of ths mysteries
fashion delights In.
The actor who has embalmed In story
his prowess In hitching his matrimonial
cart to three stars In twice tan years, and
being ditched In each case, must feel
cheap and comical beside tha record of
five husbands by a Chicago woman of 26
Woman's superiority over them needs only
the chance to put ths former lords out of
the running.
Agulnaldo, the pale brown patriot of 'he
Philippines, the warrior Ignobly pinched by
Funston, Is now s- plain farmer, cultivat
ing several hundred acres at. Cevlto, Just
across the bay from Manll According to
tourists the once noted insurreoto has cut
out all political ambition, and la diligently
devoting himself to raising cane and other
truck, and salting the consumers' money.
An Inquisitive court in Ban Francico,
having before It the photograph of the
defendant in a divorce cms. asked the
deserted wife what she nw in such a
face to tie to It. "Nothlna, your lu.nor."
she replied meekly. "My heart was
touched by his stories of battles, sieges ana
fortunes won on ths foot ball field." It
takes a mighty strong heart or an empty
cocoanut to pluck romance from a foot ball
scrimmage.
It was a Chicago man who bad the nervt
to stand up and decry the bread that
mother used to make. As be views ths
situation, bread making at home is a
menace to health of the consumer and the
financial health of ths bker. Whoiver
listens to the sons of an Interested "heaTh
promoter" has cause for wondering St the
magnitude of Ood's mercy in preferring ths
race until th CMcego manter oaker
reached the center of the stage.
EDITORIAL PES POINTS.
Cleveland Leader: Strange, the extent to
which Uncle Joe Cannon's name falls to
appear In the news dispatches from Wash
ington. Boston Herald:. That the political com
plexlon of the senate may be decided by
Arisona and New Mexico Is one of the
possibilities.
Cleveland Leader: No, one of the songs
sung In the balls of congress upon ad
journment was not "I'm Afraid to Go
Home In the Dark."
Pittsburg Dispatch: A Denver judge has
derided for tha United States a suit against
a railroad on a $10,000,000 timber trespass
claim. Another assault on business?
Brooklyn Eagle: Mr. Roosevelt says a
boom for him In 1911 would be a genuine
calamity. Some day there will be a Nobel
prlss for worthy students of tidal waves.
Chicago News: Mr. Bryan may not be the
bright luminary he was of yore, but the
hopeful democrats are not pointing In the
direction of Nebraska and saying. "Oh, see,
what a fine sunset!"
Houston Post: They are calling Colonel
Roosevslt "Foxy Grandpa" In Oyster Bay.
Isn't It risky to select so small an animal
aa a fox to typify the majestlo strain of the
colonel's grand-daddylsm? ,
New Tork Post: Ones more the colonel
shows his Instinct for divining the feelings
of his countrymen by saying that a move
ment to nominate htm for the presidency
next year would be a "genuine calamity."
Cleveland Plain Dealer: Woodrow Wilson
describes himself as a "conservative with
a move on." If Judson Harmon doesn't
"get a move on" pretty soon he will be a
sure-enough conservative "with a grouch
on,"
Kansas City Star: If it Is true, as Sec
retary Wilson says, that Dr.' Wiley is
"talking through his hat," a careful ex
amination doubtless will show that the
doctor took the precaution to sterillxe his
hat.
Detroit Free Press: Politicians seem to
be alike in all countries and all times.
They're waving the old flag across the
boundary now with the very same motions
they used on this side thirty or forty
years ago with the bloody shirt.
Sioux City Journal: Said Representative
Mann: "The principal legislation which
the session has enacted Is the provision In
ths Canadian reciprocity bill admitting
wood pulp and paper free from Canada.
That provision of the law was drafted by
me and enacted exactly as I had drafted
It. Their acceptance of that provision was
the wisest thing the democrats have dona."
The search for the most modest Mann
will have to continue.
COMMISSION GOVERNMENT.
Hopeful Features of Demaad for a
Ckanare.
Harper's Weekly.
"Like wildfire" Is ths accepted phrase
for the way the commission plan of gov
ernment is spreading among American
cities not ot the very highest rank. We
don't know much about wildfire or how
fast It spreads, but if It spreads as fast
as this Idea does there Is nothing slow
about It. A" parts of ths country show
rapid gains for the scheme of centralising
municipal power In the hands of two or
tl.ree well-paid commissioners Instead of
distributing It among aldermen, council
men and a mayor. But for the moment
the south Is In the lead. In Alabama the
three principal cities Birmingham, Mobile
and Montgomery have all got authority
from the legislature to make the change.
In North Carolina, Greensboro has Just
gone over to the new order by a big ma
jority. Aahavllls Is about to follow, and
the other day Wilmington, old, conservative
Wilmington, put the question to a vote,
and out of a total of 1,200 votes oast there
were Just twenty-two noes. In the face of
such eagerness to try a promising experi
ment, It can hardly be contended that our
cities don't want better government. Ths
plan Itself Is a hopeful one, highly Com
mended by the experience of such cities as
have already tried It. But still mors hope
ful Is the keenness of the Interest It
arouses, the civic awakening of which its
popularity is a sign.
Real Brand of Optimism.
Sioux City Journal.
President Taft's temperament Is so opti
mistic that even the thought of 200
speeches to come will not interfere with
his enjoyment of three weeks of golf.
Sunderland Receives
Coal Order From London
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SECULAR SHOTS AT rUlTTT.
Boston Herald: The scheduling ef the
second coming of Christ for "some time In
conn coming or mrist for "some time in
ovember of 1912," by a committee y'f
owleltes. Is Interesting, but ws would Hk(
Nov
Do
to know whether this Is to occur befor
or after the national election. V
Houston Post: An Arkansas minister's
wife Is suing for a divorce because he
charged her with winking at a deacon.
Our sympathies are with the good sister.
There never was an eye In this w.irU
that could rest for a second on an Arkansas
deacon without blinking some.
St. I.outs Globe Democrat: The Washing
ton churches have been closed most of
the time this summer. On Sunday, when
the president and two friends sought a
place to worship, they were compelled to
hunt long before finding It. This spiritual
neglect of Washington at a time when coiy
gress Is In session, and with more demf
crats In congress than for many year
past, is not easy to account for. Somebody
Is asleep at the switch.
Boston Transcript: Tha Illness of the
pope brings to ths public notice again the
happy relations between himself and his
sisters. These two old women have in
very much In the public eye of Rome sinre
their brother was elected to ths pontificate,
many years ago. They are middle-class
women, almost Illiterate and have always
made the care of their priestly brother the
the
hut
lit
chief affair of their lives. The stories th
are - told of their little homely ways
Venice and the same ways which they
to nave in Home
really touched the nert
uxhout the world. They
as to his comfort and ho
of humanity thro
are so solicitous as
is to theirs
DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES.
"What makes you so sure that he cannot
live without you?"
"I have Just been looking at myself in
the mirror." Houston Post.
"Mercy, child! Are you going to marry
him to reform him?"
"Yes, auntie: I'm going to see If I can't
make him wear better clothes." Boston
Transcript.
Pa Munn I want Helen to marry a busi
ness man. She's going to get all my
money."
Algy That's grand! What business would
you like to set me up In?" Philadelphia
Bulletin.
"Did Gwendoline keep her determination
to marry nobody but a man who could,
make money?"
"Yes, but she's sorry for It now."
"Why Is she sorry?"
"She married a counterfeiter." Baltimore
American.
"Why, ma, where are you going In such,
a hurry?"
lo your pas orrice, replied Mrs. aii
All
A
rocks. 1 just tried caning him up by te
pnone ana heard mm tell the orrice
to say he was too busy to talk to me,
show him what I let him have -a teleptv
lu his office for." Chicago Tribune.
Maud Did Alice say anything about me
during her call yesterday?
Ethel Oh, no; she s a nice girl, A lire.
If she can't speak well of anyone she says
nothing at all. Chicago News.
LONG AFTER IT IS DARK.
W. D. Neeblt In Chicago Post.
Long after it Is dark and still
And all the world begins to rest
You need but climb upon the hill ,
And gase afar Into the west
To see, all faint and faraway,
A rosy gleam across the sky, ' .
As though an echo of the day
Still trembled there to greet your eye.
Sometimes It lines a cloud that swings
Among the first pale stars that gleam,
As though Into the night's still things
It flung the wonder of a dream;
Sometimes with slowly fading hues
It melts, and lingers on and on
Until at last you will refuse
To think that It la really gone.
The bold stars climb the arching east,
They blase In splendor overhead
The while the day has long ceased
Still limns the haalng west with red,
And often long beams glimmer through,
Flung from the sun afar below,
Then softly In the dusk, they, too.
Insensibly die out and go.
Then drifts the velvet hush of dark
Across the world, with gentle peace:
The fireflies through ths shadows spark.
The crlcket-chlrplnga rise and cease
And rise again; and all Is still
And yet, entranced, you fain would stay I
Upon the pathway up ths hill
From' whence you saw anew the day. Jr
'
Long after sorrow's dark comes down
We may look on, as from a hill.
And banish fear and fret and frown
By seeing, gleaming softly still.
The upflung radiance that lives
Forever. In fair memory's light
It Is this wondrous balm that gives
The hush of peace to sorrow's night.
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