THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY. MARCH 26, 1911
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Writers levi tb city
temporarily sbasld bee Tb
Be vaulted then. Address
will be rbanged aa ettea ae re
tarded. This has been a season of when In
doubt, mow.
Aw, com on, let's go swimming;
never mind the work.
Have you got your money's .worth
out of that coal yet?
Wat that the people or tb bosses
wko spoke la North Dakota?
In union thar is strength,
what about th Clttiens' anion?
But
Which reminds us that work oa
that power canal has not yet begun.
i
01' Maa Winter, you ol' hound.
Ton gotta quit kicking Miss Spring
. around.
That south pole doea not seem to
be aa good a talking point aa th on
at th other td.
How are w going to stand a na
tional campaign and a Chautauqua
season all la on leap year?
On thing at a time, gentlemen.
Th city primary oomet first on that
red letter political calendar.
"Coal la king," says an exchange.
Nothing of th kind. Cora I king
and coal Is nothing but a baa burner.
Th St. Louis Olobe-Democrat
speaks of 10,000 poems on spring.
Poet write en such unreal subjects.
"Who do you think will win?" Ob,
get out; who do you think will wine
th Clinis, th Phillies or th Cubs?
"British Wages Bill Advanced"
oa th calendar of th house, but
British wages ar still where tbey
were.
It Is time man's attentions were
diverted from th hat In th ring to
another on nearer his fireside and
pocket book.
"I did vote for Bryan and Kern,'
declares Woodrow Wilson. Then
you ar thoroughly -qualified -for the
Whit House.
Rain or shine, aa Buffalo Bill used
to put It, our local base ball season
will open April II. Tim and base
ball watt for no man.
When It comes to his penitentiary
appointments Governor Aldrlch is a
standpatter. vn against accusation
of being a reactionary.
Mr. Bryan want a presidential
preference primary when he wants it,
bnt when be doesn't want It, it ha
no blading fore on blm.
Speaking of Senator Kern of In
diana, dark boms may be all right,
but they ought to bar at least a
bright spot oa them somewhere.
Anyway it Is gratifying to know
that Secretary of Stat Walt will
grant hearing on protests filed by
th warring democratic factions.
If the atork and tbe moving van
would decide oa different date and
not both come around on May 1, it
might tav a lot of unnecessary
commotion.
It 1 evident now that that Hound
Dawg song was sprung too prema
turely so far aa Its advantage to
Champ Clark's candidacy Is con
cerned. ' "Charley" Town threatens to
move out of a fashionable New York
suburb because of the . multiplicity
f burglaries, hi horn having be
robbed twice of late. Seems tbe
Nemesis pursues "Charley." He
moved oat of Minnesota whea the
other fellows took all th rota away
from him.
Where'i the Difference T
Mr. Bryan haa declared that It elected
a delegate to the RaJtfmore convention.
be will not help carry out the will or
the Nebraska democrats If their win la
contrary to hla own. Thoaa delegates who
will abide by tb primary only if the
primary loea their way, ought to b ai
frank with the party as Mr. Bryan la.
World-Herald.
Thus doe Senator flitcbcock'i
newspaper organ plllorr Mr. Bryan
for refusing to play the presidential
preference gam unless be ran make
sure he holds the winning cards.
We wonder If our august senator
es that the indictment he here
brings against Mr. Bryaa may be
brought with equal tore against
himself In his attitude on the arbi
tration treaties, which be helped to
kill simply because proposed and
championed by President Taft.
Tbe deadly amendment which Sen
ator Hitchcock voted Into tb peace
treaties was practically the same that
Mr. Bryan proposes to engraft upon
our primary law. Senator Hitchcock
insisted on modifying the arbitration
treaties so that the United States
should be obligated to submit to ar
bitration only such cases as we felt
sure we would win, and be free to
refuse to arbitrate whenever w
feared we might lose. . Mr. Bryan Is
willing to let tb democratic voters
arbitrate bis preference for president
only on condition that they vote for
his choice, but declines to arbitrate,
or rather announces he will reject
the award and refuse to be bound by
It, If the tribunal decides against
him.
What difference, then, is there In
principle between these two great
democratic statesmen, on with noth
ing to arbitrate abroad, and the other
with nothing to arbitral at home!
A Far-Seachiof laling.
The Interstate Commerce commis
sion's ruling In th Teiaa-Loulslana
case, that a railroad must so adjust
Its rstes as to do Justice between
communities regardless of state lines.
la on of th most far-reaching It
baa ever rendered. It goes out Into
tb broad 'domain of tb centralUa
tlon of Railroads and railroad rat
regulation, which now appears to be
almost inevitable. This decision' will
in all probability be appealed to tb
supreme court, where the vital prin
ciple Involved will be illibed.
Tb ruling reaffirms paramountcy
of federal to stats control and clearly
Indicate that any local rat which
touches Interstate trafflo la subject
to federal regulation. This being
true, stat authority over railroad
rates Is subordinated to a power to
prescribe merely tentative restric
tions. This very case la band la an
apt Illustration of th conflict of
stat and federal power wherever
stat regulation of local rate af
fect Interstate business. It la a
question, too, If all local rates dd not
In a way become a part of some in
terstate rat. In thla instance, a
local rat la mad In Texas to pro-
mot tb commercial growth of towna
In that stat under, which trafflo I
carried 160 mites for the same charge
exacted by tb same road for trans
porting Interstate commerce elxty:
flv miles. Th Justice of such dis
crimination. It Is Idle to argue,
whether a stat. commission baa or
has not a right to enforce such a
rat for tb purpose of building up
Its own cities at the expense of those
in adjoining states. It Is precisely
such situations that fore the conclu
sion thst we must ultimately come to
complete centralisation of rate regu
lating authority.
Old Dobbin Still a Lire One.
Every now and then some mis
guided mourner write tbe obituary
of old dobbin' and -old -dobbin bobs
up as frisky as a 2-year-old to belle
th notice. In solte of the mar.
velous multiplicity of automobiles,
whose use Is quite general for busi
ness as for pleasure, tbe horse lives
and holds his own both as to price
and demand. This may be an
anomaly, but it is a fact.
The New York state commissioner
of agriculture has recently addressed
a communication to Governor Diz,
advising him that the demand for
horses in that stste is greyer than it
has ever been and far sc-eds the
supply. He says that annually 80,
000 horses ar Imported by New York
from tb west at an average coat
this Is astonishing of $200 apiece.
This official goes on to say that
New York farmers should devote
mor attention to the breeding and
raising of good horse. Doubtlces
tb sam advlca would b pertinent
to farmers In many other states.
"v"" vugui w continue to be a
very profitable crop. A few years
ago when thd auto began to make
uch great strides, men were pre-
ftllM ..-J
""'"i ejiu ven now some are
making the same mlstakei-that it
a IJ a. .
wuu.u n oniy a question of time
until the horse would be put out of
business almost entirely. Well, al
the rate things are going. It will be
a mighty long period of time. Autos
are multiplying by th millions and
yet horse ar more In demand than
ever and at high .prices. Here la all
the proof we want that there is room
m tbe country for both horse and
automobiles. Just as many as we
need. Th fact Is, th momentum of
eur growtn and progress la much
greater than most of us realize.
The official list of a so-called re
Publics progressives" running la
toe - uapenaing Nebraska primary
carries bo candidate for president
whatever. Wbat's tbe trouble? Have
both Roosevelt and La Follett been
lost?
Women to Seform Base Ball
One of the big league base ball
clubs Is owned by a woman, who ex
ercise an active Interest In Its man
agement, Her proprietorship, by
tbe death of her husband, sug
gests the possibility of another field
for woman 'a competition with man
in business. There are many Inter
esting aspects to th proposition.
Possibly women's Influence Is needed
In base ball for refining and reform
ing the game and its conduct. Even
so grand an institution as base ball
might, in the course of time, come to
need some such renovating prors.
Anyway, Mrs. Brltton of tbe St.
Louis Cardinals, seems to tblnk there
Is occasion for something of the kind.
Heretofore downtown ticket offices
tn St. Louis have been maintained In
saloon. Hereafter, by Mr. Brit
ton's decree, tickets for Cardinal
games bought down-town will be
bought at drug stores. She admits
it is a concession to her sex. Why
not? ' Women ar great patrons of
the game. And probably with more
women proprietors, th fair patron
age might vastly increase. W have
no doubt that tad Mrs. Brltton come
onto tb diamond soma year ago
when ateina and schooners were in
vogue, she would bav substituted
pop bottles, so now, perhaps, sine
rea the pop bottle la In disrepute,
especially In St. Louis, as Umpire
Evans will testify, possibly th mor
cultured patrons of base ball might
look to Mrs. Brltton for a bit of
beneficial reform In this direction.
Governor Harmon's chairman asks
Mr. Bryan for proof that th Ohio
man la th tool of Wall street. Proof,
th Idea! When did ever Mr. Bryan
bav to prov anything he said?
"Ob, tar a Vast Wilderness."
Baltimore American.
After th Chicago convention It would
be well for those seven governors to
take an extended trip abroad where they
will be beyond earshot of Oyster Bay.
Wee-kins Arad th Till.
Washington Star.
luMeatlona for regulating railways ar
working around to th proposition that
a corporation muat not only be careful
about how It feta It money, but even
more cautious about what It buys with It
0lli ( Bear Money.
Baltimore American.
It te said that mall swindlers caught
by th government were found to have
looted th nubile to the tun of WD.10O.im
Th maa who remarked that foots apd
their money are seoa parted knew what
be was talking about So did th swin
dlers.
Eeaallln Balllaa Aver gee.
PHtabarrh Dispatch.
July reports the killing t a thousand
Arabs and the wounding of a thousand
mor and Turkey promptly comes for
ward with a report of Inflicting a loea of
t.M on th Itailaa force a day or twe
before. This hen tb batting averages
tvsn.
Editing tbe Noiseless Spiel.
Washington Star.
It Is feared thai th members of con
gress wbo detlrs to have lbs word "ap
plause." omitted from speeches printed
la th Record Is lacking In both sym
pathy and Imagination. ' tsteemsn
should st least have th privilege of In
dicating where he thinks th applause
ought t be.
la Cold Stvrase.
Baltlmar American,
France and Spain ar at odds over
Morocco, and England and Oermany have
their relatione strained. Turkey Ja fight.
In Italy, and China Is la th throes of
practical civil war after a revolution.
The spirit of peace and of brotherly love
among mankind appears to be laid up in
definitely la cold storage.
t'oloael Bryan at Baltimore.
Mloua city Journal.
air. Bryaa would Ilk te go to the
Beitliuor convention and assist in writ
ing the Platform. He reminds his friend
that 'th plaifortn comes before nemlna
tloa and that the platform will largely
affect eur chances.'' ! would Uk to
ere a proper platform, and he calls
loudly in bold type: "Put none but th
faithful on guard." Mr. Bryan Is really
mere Interested In the platform than in
in candidate. It It should happen that
he could not very cordially support th
candid a platform worthy of hi ap
proval would slve him standing room.
It Is safs te say Mr. Bryaa will de hi
share to make the Baltimore convention
Interesting.
Tlsae tor AetlM.
Philadelphia Record.
President Taft has urged upon congress
th grant of authority for tb appoint
ment of a federal commission on Inter
national relations, armed with power to
summon both parties te labor disputes
Involving the conduct of Inter -stale com
merce, with a view to fair bearing and
possible adjustment. The Interposition of
such a body, duly representing the whole
mare of th people, wuld doubtless go
far to bring about a fair and proper de
termination of all matters in controversy.
Th apparent Imminence of an anthracite
coal strike should go far to Justify Im-
mediate action upon th bill pending In
th senate and house of representatives
Intended to give effect te executive
dentation.
Cleveland' Uratct litis.
St. Leuii Republic.
Cleveland turned out a crowd of S0.0t
strong to honor a local her on Sunday.
Th here was Johnny Kllbane. A prob
ably not en American la a tboasand
knows woe Johnny Kllbane Is. It Is to
order to explain that he la th lightest
of lightweight prise fighters. We ar
Informed that this amazing outpouring
was "a tribute te th Immaculate rife of
Kllbane In and out of th ring." Thla Is
Indeed reassuring. The whs were cast
ing about In their mind for parallels
from the degenerate days of Roman
decline will rejoice to lesu-n that shouting,
perspiring Cleveland wee but peytisT a
tribute to the white flower of a biame-
s life. Let oa all rejoice that she has
at leas en Hi sen who Is without sts'n
r reproach.
Booking Backward
fHilsDivv InCWia
'compiled from BeeriLfca
Thirty Year Ago
This Sunday is down as Passion Sun
day. The rain has made Omaha tbe queen of
mud again.
Dr. Isaac Edwards died, seed e! years,
an old resident of Omaha locating her In
im. lie leaves three grown children.
Mrs. N. N. Edwards and Mrs. Terra of
Omaha, and John E. Edwards of Mount
Vernon. Ia.
Th remains of William QrlndelL the
conductor, was sent by Undertaker
Jacobs to friends in PlattervlUe. Wis.
(. o. Maul Is back from a visit to re
latives In Pennsylvania.
Charles Canan haa been appointed clerk
In Judge Chadwlck'a court.
Clement Chase has gone to 6t. Louis
to sojourn for a week with relatives.
Owes Slavtn. formerly member of th
city council of Omaha, has returned from
New Mexico.
Mrs. M. 8wny of New York, who has
been visiting th family of F. J. Mo
fOisne. has left for her horns.
Attn another new dry' goods house hss
opened at 177 Farnam street. Henry
Dnhl'e old stand, by a couple of well
known Chicago dry goods men. Mean.
Osrrabrand Co.
Brick ar reported In demand, and ad
vancing te ninitus prices, lit per 1.000
being asked for illn count.
Twenty Years Ago
About 7 a. m. rain, which has beaten
down all night changed to snow and the
precipitation continued to a depth sel
dom seen In this vicinity, bearing down
ander Its weight telephone and telegraph
lines, plsylng havoc with traffic and In
terferrtng with business generally. The
cable care soon gsve up trying to run.
By noon fewer then W0 of th ISM tele
phones In th city war working.
Th Omaha Hardware company's stt
story building at Tenth and Jones strts.
was consumed by firs at a loss of thous
and of dollars. Th fire was extremely
difficult to rombet owing to th wind snd
rain, which has changed te snow, and the
firemen had desperate work to keep the
flames from spreading further. Chief
nalllgaa saw at one upon bis arrival
thst herein Isy th great fight.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brown took a
eottsg at Ml South Twenty-first ave
nue. Public sentiment wss agitated over th
scheme to abandon th Sixteenth stmt
viaduct and divert business along Fif
teenth street, where It was proposed by
Herman Kountse, W. A. Psxton and
other property owners to build a viaduct.
City Engineer Rosewatsr and ethers de
clared their opposition to th scheme of
abandoning Sixteenth street.
Mrs. Byron Reed left for California to
stay several months.
George C Hobble and family returned
from Chicago, where they have been
apendtng th winter. They took apart
meats at th Shelton, Twenty-fifth and
Dodge streets.
Tea Tear Ago
Dr. c. r. Wertsnbsker of th marine
service, wbo cam to Omaha from Now
Orleans to Impect th smallpox scsra.
reported te Msyor Moorss bis findings,
which showed th scar net alarming by
any means. J
Mrs. Elisabeth Waarna. St vr rj
died at her residence, 04 Parker street.
Homepslhlc physicians and surgeons In
their society meeting adopted resolu
tions favoring th plan' of erecting a
homeopatblo hospital tn Omaha, where
they felt th need and opportunity for
one was great. -
Clinton Shearer got a verdict of 13.000
asalnst the i Union Stock V arris m-m...
tn Judge tlabeugh'f department of th
district court.
Mrs. O. W. Puraell left for a thre
weeks' visit la southern California.
Mr. and Mra, J. R. Buchanan left for
Wisconsin, th latter to remain far some
time. Mrs. Chan E. Ady went to Chicago.
Mrs. William W. Oreen entertained a
party of young folks at her horn. 4021
Lafayette avenue, from I to t p. m the
occasion being the tenth birthday, anni
versary nf her daughter. Ethel.
Mrs. Charles Wordea left for Redlaeda.
Cel.
People Talked About
Just because th calendar maker give
th hailing Is no reason for shedding
winter duds. Calendars ar among the
best sellers In th Ananias club. .
Captain Stephen P. O'Brien, probably
the last survivor of the Mexican war and
particularly of th battle of Buena Vista,
died at his homo. In Ames. Is He served
under General Zacbary Taylor at Buena
Vista.
Captain William P. (Pat) Bane, th
tallest soldier tn th civil war and known
as th Oreen County Giant, la dead at
hla horn near Pittsburgh. Ban was
nearly eight feat tall and weighed more
than M pounds.
Th backbon of Mr. Winter haa been
strained so severely by the exhausting
labor of the season that surgeons regard
th case aa hopeless. A few -curved lump
may develop during tb throes of dis
solution.
A Washington chauffeur, baited for
fracturing tbe speed limit, swatted th
policeman and fled with the machine,
With seven presidential headquarter
working overtime at th capital, th un
expected happens every hour.
Farvtn Swisher of Milton, Pa., who has
Just celebrated the eighty-first anni
versary of hie birth, still works every day.
If was a tanner In early lit and he
hauled bides for his father from Millvlll
to Philadelphia with flv bead of horses.
Th trip took six weeks.
Miss Maud Johnson. J7 years old. of
Peoria. 1IU has Just received from the
governor her official appointment aa a
deputy state humane officer for Peoria
county. Miss Johnson la th youngest
person In human work la Peoria and
th youngest stat official ever appointed.
On of th literary cult of Chicago.
Harold L Cleveland, by hla ewa energy
hss worked up material for a hot story
with a least thre distinct heart thrills
and other trimmings. Thre wive are
striving te become the heroin of tn
reallstM story. Meanwhile th grand Jury
is giving him a Una on tb perplexities of
bigamy.
v peettv Jaaa.
Cleveland Plata Dealer.
Judging from general political aspects
that well known genera plircal pot sailed
Ui lest oaten, win soon be well popu
lated with fighters.
Who Has Changed?
CelenL Reatrrelt'i Fwernt Dar
Aaaertleee ae Ceencsuned wltk
Tbe f Presldeat Reeeevelt.
New Tork Times (lnd.).
Is President Taft the sam maa that
be was In UOk. when he waa making his
campaign for the presidency, or is be a
very different mas, different tn heart,
different to principles and beliefs? If we
can believe Mr. Roosevelt, there must.
indeed, have been an astonishing change
In Mr. Taft. In his Carnegie hall speech
Mr. Roosevelt represented th president
as a believer tn an oligarchical form of
governoment th government of th
many by a few. These are his words:
"Mr. Tsft's position is perfectly clear.
It Is thst we have tn thla country a
special class of persons wiser than the
people, who are above tbe people, who
cannot be reached by the people, but wbo
govern them and ought to govern them:
and who protect varloua classes of the
people from th whol people. That Is
th old, old doctrine which has been
acted upon for thousands of years abroad;
and which here tn America has been
acted upon sometimes openly, sometimes
secretly, for forty years by many men In
public and In private life, and I am sorry
to say by many Judges, see
"This doctrtn la to m a dreadful doc
trine, for Its effect la. and can only be.
to make the courts the shield of privilege
against popular rights. Naturally, every
upholder and beneficiary of crooked privi
lege loudly applauds the doctrine. It Is
behind the shield of that doctrine that
crooked clauses creep Into laws, that men
of wealth and power control legislation.'
This "doctrine" which Mr. Roosevelt
calls so dreadful, the doctrine that th
whol people must submit te the rule of
a few of their number, tbe doctrine that
serves a a ablald for the upholders and
beneficiaries of "crooked privilege." haa
not been expounded or advocated In any
writing or uttaranc of William H. Taft
that has ever come under eur notice, and
we have attended somewhat closely to
th things he has written or said. But
Clearly Mr. Roosevelt believes that Mr.
Taft Is an oligarch, a bUvr In th rul
of th few, and In a kind of government
that protects the beneficiaries of crooked
privilege.
It waa not so la ISO. For during th
campaign of that year, when Mr. Taft
was th republican candidate for th
presidency. President Roosevelt wrot a
letter to Conrad Kohra of Helena, Mont..
In which h spoke of Mr. Taft In terms
of the highest praise. After describing
th qualities of a true friend of reform,
a true foe of abuse, he said:
"In Mr. Taft w eisv a man who com
bines all of these eualitlea to a degree
which no ether man In eur public life
since the civil war haa surpassed. To a
flaming hatred of Injustice, to a sown
ef all that Is base and mean, to a hearty
sympathy with tb oppressed, he unite
entire disinterestedness, oourag both
moral and physical of the very "highest
type, and a kindly generosity of nature
which makes him feel that all of his
fellow countrymen are, to very truth,
his friends and brothers."
Certainly thla Is not th man described
tn th Carnegie hall address, tbe man who
believes In a form of government that
would be the refuge and shield of op
pressors and robbers of th paople. Mr.
Roossvelt In his letter te Mr. Kohrs re
ferred to the decisions rendered by Mr.
Taft," when he was a Judge of a federal
court Of these decisions he wrote:
Thy mark th Judge who rendered
them as standing for tbe rights of, the
whole people; as far as daylight Is from
darkness, so far Is such a Judge from
the tlme-earvars. the truckler te the mob,
or th cringing tool of great corrupt and
corrupting corporations. Judge Taft on
the bench-as since tn the Philippines, in
Panama. In Cuba and In the War depart-mnt-hoived
himself te bo a wise, a
feerUes and aa nprlght servant ef the
whol people, whose services to the whole
peopl wr beyond all price, e e e Let
all fair-minded men, wag workers and
capitalists alike, consider yet another
fact In one ef his decisions upon th
bench Judg Taft upheld In th strongest
fashion and for the first time gave full
vitality to the principles of th employer's
liability for Injuries done to workmen.
This was before any national taw on th
subject was enacted. Judg Taft' sense
of right, his Indignation against oppres
sion In any form, against any attitude
that Is not fair and Just, drov htm to
take a position which wss violently con
demned by short-sighted capitalists and
employers of labor, which was so far la
advance of the time that It was not gen
erally upheld by th state courts, but
which we are now embodying In the law
of th land, e e e elected, he haa
shown by hla deeds that ha will be tbe
president of no class, but of the people as
a whole.
The president of th peopl ss a whole?
n u nnthin- of th oligarch In that.
Th Taft of 1PM Is th direct oppoalt
of th Taft of th Carnegie half speech.
There has been an a ma ling change some
where? Hav th peopl taken not or iit
Have they been aware of the changes
which have transformed the broad
minded, generous-hearted friend of all the
people Into a believer In th nil of a
few and In a denial of the right of th
many? It simply passes belief that our
president should so change, and nobody
but Mr. Roosevelt find It out.
There is en alternative supposition. Is
It nut In Mr. Roosevelt himself that tbe
ehang has taken place? He has done and
mmiA munt reckless things to promote
his candidacy for the nomination. W
think th opinion will be widely held
that be Impute these "dreadful doc
trines" to Mr. Taft, not because Mr.
Taft has ever preached or held such doc
ii4hm hut because Mr. Roosevelt see
that In order to get tn nomination for
himself, hs must do great damage to tn
MmiiiAn of hla aucoeasor In the office.
But It will be objected tbat this method
of waging a campaign Is unprincipled
snd Infamous. We think It Is open to
that objection.
Demand far Bear Flatten.
San Francisco Chronicle.
It look as If tb railroads of the coun
try will be hard put to ft to provide rear
platform spec for all th presidentia'
campaigners who are la the ring this
year.
Tblwsr Happen a.
Pittsburgh Dispatch.
With all this talk about the rul of th
people some of the most vociferous re
formers may yet hav cause to reflect
oa th old proverb about being hoist with
their ewn petard.
A net he Coleael I ntertable.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Governor Marshall of Indiana has
nearly thre times as many delegates as
hav been pledged te vote for Wood row
Wilson. It la hoped that Colonel Watter-
aoa Is resting easier.
- POLITICAL SSAPSEOTS.
Louisville Courlersloumal: President
T eft's advocacy of preferential primaries
mar take some of the wind out ef Coloovl
Roosevelt's sail, but has th perpetual
candidate ever been completely out of
wind?
Houston Post: Colonel Roosevelt says
politics is not a game. let considertnx
the peculiarly fortuitous drcumetancVe
which brought tb colonel tnto tb big
affairs of this world, we are Inclined to
believe be carries loaded dice and a cold
deck In his pocket all the tlm.
Springfleld Republican: Senator La Fol
lett may fairly claim the right to dispute
Mr. Roosevelt's supremacy aa the leader
of the pitigi usilve republicans. Th North
Dakota result is mightily encouraging to
him. He kt abundantly Justified In stay
ing In the race and contesting as a candi
date In every presidential primary yet to
be held. The senator's grim tenacity
extorts the admiration of his critics and
even of his foe.
San Francisco Chronicle: Colonel Roose
velt has much to say about the com
petency ef "the peopl," but It to be noted
that be does moat of his neatness with the
plutocrats. The "yon and I are business
men" of hla letter te Harriman finds its
latest counterpart In the friendly call of
George W. Perkins, former partner of J.
Plerpont Morgan and now a power in
Wall street. Likewise, It la to be remem
bered that his trip to Africa, and tri
umphal tour of Europe waa hugely
financed by Andrew Carnegie.
One Available Manager.
Mlnneapolia Journal.
Jimmy Garfield says, say he, that tbe
courts cannot provide constructive busi
ness legislation. No, It take a combina
tion statesman, prophet and financier like
James to do that. Remember Ms report
which gave the packers their Immunity
Steel Passenger Cave.
Philadelphia Bulletin.
The New Tork Central railroad has
mad a contract with th Pullman com
pany by the fulfillment of which steel
ears will displace every wooden sleeper
or parlor ear on th system by the end
of July. Flv per cent of all the pessaa
gsr rare now In use In the United States
are of steel, and many mor hav steel
undei fiames, and ever ) per cent of the
construction ths present year will he of
th Indestructible sort. There seems to
be Uttl need of drastic legislation to prod
th rallroada to their full duty In this
measure ef safety for their passengers,
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ho are they?"
"Pawnbrokers." Baltimore American,
The Doctor I see there hss been some
discussion as to whether It should be a
Norwegian or an English fisg tbat flies
from the South pole.
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Tribune.
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"Never claims he was happier when he
waa poor. Always says he is happier
now." Washington Herald.
"Tou know Alice wss struck with the
erase to be a business woman and be
independent."
"Yes."
"Well, she and her business have gone
to the wall."
"How was that?"
"She's taken up house decoration. '
Baltimore American.
GLEAMS,
Baltimore American.
Out of the dark and the cold and the
storm.
A ray of bright sunlight comes dancing;
fter the long time of chill and rain,
A day of eprlii glory Is glancing
Across th drear air. like elixir of lire.
All hearts with s fresh delight filling
With buoyancy gay. and an energy fine.
One's sluggish blood stirring and thrill
ing. One's troubles grow lees and one's
pleasuree grow mor.
At the win of th year's youth thus
draining,
And hopelessness files at the gleam so -revealed
Of all that life yet Is containing:
Forgot Is th tlm when the clouds hid
the sun.
And cold blasts the earth caused to
sniver.
For such is the power of one warm
spring day
From winter's whole spell to deliver.
And so It Is with the sunlight of the
heart:
One bright gleam of hone and of loving-.
One ray of th light, springing out of
ths dark,
Th load of Its eoiruw removing.
Can make us forget all th winter that's
passeo.
All tiie woe and the trouble upon us.
And teach us the light muat some time
Pierce the eioua.
And make dearer th blessings
won us.
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