Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 8, 1900, Page 6

THE GMAHA DALY BEE E ROSEWATER, Editor. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNIN — s TERMS OF BUBSCRIPTION. gflly Bee (without, Sunday), Une Year.$6.0) ly isee and Sunday, Une Yeur. o llantratod 15 s, e Yea Sunday Hes Onie Year. uraay Bee, Une Year, Weekiy Bee, One Year. OFFICES. The Bee Buflding. Bouth Omaha: City Hall Bullding, Twen- ty-Afth and N Streets + Council Blufts. 10 Pearl Street, Chicago: 18w Unity Bullding. v York. Temple Court. ashington: 51 Fourtecenth Street. Bloux City: 611 Park Street. CORRESPONDENCE. ‘ng‘oltlnmlln: tona relatin dm "": 2 mat he nddressed: Bee, Editor} n Omaha: and edi Omaha TERS. nd remittances should Business fotters ’ Bee Publishing Com- ressed: T pany, Umaha, “ REMITTANCES. emit by draft, express of postal order. Bayatle e e Publiahing Compnn nly Z-cent stamps accepted In payment o = hnmu" .. |.-r.4mh.| checks, except on maha or Eastern exchanges, not acoen THE Hok PUBLIRHING COMPANY. " BTATEMENT OF CIRCULATION te of Nobraska, Doug as County, 1.: orge B. Tuschiiok, secretary of Th tee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, says that the actual numoer or il ani completa coples of The Dally. Morning Evening and Bunday Bee nrinted during tie month of October, 1900, was a8 fol.ows: creesees 87,320 7 97,450 7,800 27,670 28, A% B Net total sales... Net dally average. GEORGE B, TZ8CHU'CK Subscribed fn my presence and sworn tn before me this first day of November, A. . 1900, M. B_HUNGATE, (Beal.) Notary Public. —_—e 1t begins to look as If Nebraska has been redeemed. A umml;fif_ “dishonor cannot suc- ceed with the Amerlcan people. That alliance with Croker does not seem to have been much of a winner for Mr. Bryan. Another lnt;-x;;-utih—g.%i may soon be expected from the pen of Willlam Jen- nings Bryan. back his relinquished editorial tripod are strictly barred. is Inconsolably sorry? Wil the tiger shed a single tear? Send a message to Aguinaldo that the American people are not In sympathy with any fire in the rear. ‘The stakehqlder for bets in Nebraska 18 hereby watned not to pay anything to people holding the Bryan end of It It 18 now a fair presumption that the gold standard Is a fixture In the financial system of the United States of Amér fca. The Fourth ward remains the banner republican ward of Omaha with nearly 700 majority for McKinley and pros- perity. —_— Remember that Douglas county gave McKinley less than 600 majority in 1806 and was carried for the fusion state ticket last year. ‘The American people have again ex- pressed thelr renewed confidence In the abllity of the republican party to handle and curb the trusts. When The Bee said that the fusion how! of election fraud was for the pur- pose of covering Its own crooked work 1t spoke with knowledge of the facts. Republicans who helped elect a dem- ocrat to the sheriff’s oftice have discov- ered what they may expect on turning over officlal power to the fusion ma- chine. \ SEem— The renewed business confidence that must at once ensue as the first result of the presidential election will prove an Immeuse impetus to the trade and commerce of Omah lmperialistic issue is only another illus- tration of the trulsm that the people, not a heaven-born leader, make the' is- sues in a presidential campaign, Theodore Roosevelt will give the American péople a lesson In what a good, live, active man can do even though welghted down with the position of vice president of the United States, L av—— If the fusion combination s not above voting Insane and pauper Inmates of the county poor farm they are not above any other kind of election fraud. Mark that down, —————— If you want to amuse yourself just go back over a few of the recent Issues of the local popocratic organ and read again some of the lurid political prog- nostications that grace its pages in big black type. mm— Bomething like a million and a quarter of first voters jcast ballots November 6. Evidently they endorsed the war policy of President McKinley, Certainly they discarded the idea that any portion of the American people have im- perialistic tendencles, Now, for the second time, we see the utter transparency of the claims of the state and national chairmen of demo- cratic comittees. As usual, meither had the slightest foundation for his per- sistent, extravagant claims In regard to nearly every debatable state in tho unlon. It was so four years ago and 1t is likely to be so four years hence, ) AWAKE 'TO THEIR INFERESTS. Sometimes the American people seein to be blind to their own interests. They were véry much awake to them Tues- day. victory of Americans The large majority of voters placed be fore and above all else the question of | the “paramount Issue” | campalgn. Every American citizen de- glres that the people of our new pos sessions shall be treated Justly, that they shall be gi good goternment, with such participation in it as they are capnble of. But the milllons of in felligent men who voted the republican ticket declined to regard as subordinate to this the material interests and wel- fare of 706,000,000 of our own people. They refused to be affrighted by the false and empty ery of lmperialism and militarism when the party making it avolded domestic policies that would bring ruin and disaster here. These voters have faith in themselves and In their fellow-countrymen and they know there Is no such danger to our fostitutions as the democratic party alleged, while on the other hand they had no trouble in understanding that if that party should be successful and carry out its declared principles it would be Americans alone who would sufier, Patriotism Is not confined to the duty of taking up arms In defense of one's country. It Is also shown In promoting and fostering waterial inter- ests and the general well-belng. It must always happen when the comnon sense and the intelligent judgment of the peo- ple are appealed to, when they are not blinded by passion and prejudices and can see with clear vision the true char- acter of the questions presented to them, that they will vote for the promotion of American Interests and the conservation of thelr own well-being. The Amwer- fcan people are exceedingly practical and they do not easily forget such ex- perlence as they had a few years ago. In this is the real significance of the republican victory. A majority of the voters determined to “let well enough alone.” Undoubtedly some of these voters are not altogether in accord with the policy regarding the new posses- slons, but they are pretty well satisfiec with conditions here and they are not the least bit apprehensive that the re- public is to give place to an empire or that thelr liberties are In danger be- cuuse the governwent is endeavoring to repress resistance to Its authority in the Philippines on the part of less than one-tenth of the people of the Islands. It would be well for political leaders who shape the policy of parties to un- derstand that there Is a patriotism growing out of enlightened self-interest which it is expedient and prudent al- ways to counsider, THE FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Not less important than the election of a republican president Is the choice of a republican house of representatives. In the Fifty-seventh congress the repub- licans will have a strong majority in the house—thelr present majority Is only thirteen—and with a republican senate the carrying out of the party policies 1s assured. The next congress will have im- portant work to do. It is probable that the present congress will not legislate regurding the Philippines, but will leave the management of affairs in the Islands entirely In the hands of the president, even should resistance to American authority cease at once. In that case the succeeding congress will be called upon to legislate for the Phil- ippines, for of course there Is no turther question as to their retention, that having been settled by the popular verdict. ' This question bhaving been ‘tully presented and thoroughly dis- cussed, the decision of the people apon it wust be accepted as final. In the language of President Mciilnley, there will be no “scuttle” policy In the Philip- pines. The archipelage will bé held as American territory, pacitication will be effected and the people will be given as large a participation in the government of the Islunds as they are capable of. Another matter which will very likely be lert to the Kirty-seventh congress to deal with Is taxation. It Is doubtful if the present congress will deem it ex- pedient to make any lmportant changes from existing tax laws. Possibly a few taxes wmay be dropped or wmeditied, but there will hardly be an attempt at the short sesslon to make a. general re- vision. By the time for the meeting of the Fifty-seventh congress, however, there is every reason to expect that the conditions will be such as to admit of a conslderable reduction In taxation and perbaps a moditication of the tariff, The next congress will be expected to deal with' the trust problem, should the presept congress not do so, There Is pending a bill, which passed the house, amendatory of the anti-trust act of 1800, and this may be enacted into law, but it Is by no weans certain that it would prove adequate. There Is a very general sentiment in tavor of an awendwent to the constitution giving to congress broader powers to deal with trusts and monopolies, and as nothing can be done owing to democratic opposition, the question must be left for the determina- tion of the next congress, Therg is not likely to be any currency legislation at the coming session, the result of the election rendering it un- necessary, but It has been shown that the law of last March can be improved 80 as. to give greater security to the gold standard, and it will be the duty of the congress elected Tuesday to do this. It is possible that the last contest with the forces of unsound currency has been fought. that the advocates of free silver will not again be able to marshal in such formidable strength as to seri- ously menace the overthrow of the gold luundnd. but none the less It Is 'lm‘ for the late Mr. in this direction by the present congress, | THE OMAWA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY N OVEMBER 8, 1900. art of wisdom and prudence to make the law fixing that standard so strong and comprehensive that only In the event of the opponents of the gold The republicah victory was a |standard securing full control of the gov- Jfor Americans. | ernment could there be any danger to the currency. The electlon of a republican house of domestic welfare, of the maintenance | representatives, with a considerably in- of the conditions that have given the | creased majority, assures the promotion country unparalleled prosperity—another | and advancement of American Interests fllustration of the fact that not polit-| at home and abroad and the smooth feal conventlons but the people make running of the machinery of govern- In a national | ment for the next three years at least, AN EXPANDING BUSINESS. As an evidence of the general pros- perity the growth of the money order business of the government I8 Interest- Ing. Two years ago the figures showed an increase of $17,000,000 over the pre- vious year; the next year there was an Increase of $10,000,000 over that, and the year ending with June 30 last shows the very remarkable Increase of $30,- 000,000. . A conspicuous feature of the increases in the last three years has been the growth of the international money order business, which In the fiscal year 1900 rose from a total of $06,000,000_to one of $11,000,000. The popularity of the international money order Increases with the growth of our immigration. It Is stated that even the Russians and the Japanese coming to this country to live send back large sums to their less fortunate countrymen at bhome. There Is also a conslderable increase due to the closer trade rela- tions with neighboring countries, The money order business with Mexico, for Instance, is constantly growing through the discovery by Mexicans of the large number of articles of domestic use which they can buy In this country cheaper than they can at home. The total annual lssue of money or- ders at American postoffices has reached the large amount of $256,000,000, the war tax of 2 cents on euch order lssued having apparently produced no effect. It would have been otherwise, undoubt- edly, If It bad been necessary to attach a 2-cent stamp to each order. The In- crease of $66,000,000 in the money order business of the government during the last three years, uearly one-half of which is credited to the last fiscal year, which ended June 80, 1900, Is certainly most striking testimony to the general prevalence of prosperity. The telegraph companies did a very profitable business in the sale of elec- tion news to enterprising men who seek to rttract business by the announce- ment that election bulletins will be plac- arded in thelr places of business. Year after year the practice spreads and the profits Increase, regardless of the fact that it injures the business of the news- papers at a time when the demand Is keenest and the harvest ripest. And yet there s nothing In the charters of the telegraph companies authorizing them to gather and sell news for promis- cuous publication, nor do they pay any- thing for a state franchise authorisiug them so to do, for there is no such franchise. ' . How are the mighty fallen! How mugnanimous in defeat is one half- baked contemporary in its comments upon the lost cause. Such twaddle s an insult to the intelligence of our citi- zens. Is It not possible that the Amer- ican people know what they want? In view of the.enormous gains scored by the republican ticket in nearly every state is It not a falr conclusion that the Issues of the recent campalgn were settled right? For weeks the business man has been looking forward to the day when po- litical warfare would subside, so that he might proceed with schemes of money- making without let or bindrance. And now that the questions at issue have been settled right, trade and traffic ought to Increase‘ in volume, as It doubtless will do. Put/your ear to the ground and awalt the sound of the election returns from the remote precincts embracing the cat- tle country of western Nebraska. In that section voters bave heard some- thing about the price of wool and of cattle and hogs. The local courts have resumed op- erations for the winter season and it Is a fair promise that the scales of justice will not need dusting from this time until spring zephyrs blow again, Good Time While 1t Lasted. Washington Post. Count Castellane may find some consola- tion In the fact that he was able to make & score/of $4,400,000 before he was thrown out. New Iasues on the Griddle. Chicago News, On the whole it may be sald the campalgn has directed American th.ught to new prob- lems and helped In many ways to a bettér understanding of them. Vit Polut Overlooke Baltimore Amer! o A western writer points out Mr. Rocke- teller's superiority over Shakespeare, but Deglects to bring in the very strong polat that Shakespeare is dea Admiral Montejo, the comman Spanish fleet in the battle of Manila bay, bas published at Madrid a lengthy defense of his tactics, There was really only ono fault to find with the admiral's tactics, and that was the fallure to tuke Dewey into consideration. Utillzing Water Power. Kansas City Star. The technical press of Europe just now abounds In deseriptions of the exploitation of water power. France, Italy and Switzer- land are just discovering the amount of energy that goes to waste on their water sheds. Costly black coal 18 to be replaced with the cheap “white coal,” as the snow and glaciers of the Alps have been called. An advantage of the white fuel is that it is constantly renewed by the energy of the sun, whereas the black product of the same energy stowed in tho earth s subject to exhaustion. Carb Bit on the C Chicago News. There appears to be a rather unfair rule in fina No conservator was appolnted Gould, who accumulated about $60,000,000 in some thirty vears, or at the rate, cay, of $2,000,000 a year. Yot a conservator has been appointed for the estato of his daughter, Countess Castellane, because her husband spent 23,000,000 francs, of about $4,000,000, In four years. This would be at the rate of only a littlo over $1,000,000 & year, The persons who had the $60,000,000. before Mr. Gould got hold of them may feel that there fs an unjust dls- crimination here, | Dranken ten Rebuked, Philadelphia Record. Lord Roberts' request that the welcome home of his soldiers should not take the form of ‘“treating to stimulants’” was simply an appeal, but in effect it was a stinging rebuke to the participants in the drunken orgles which attendeai the recent return to London of the City Imperial volunteers. The fleld marshal asserts that ve borne,themselves like heroes efleld and like gentlemen on ali other occasions and he hopes that the public will' ald them in upholding the splendid reputation they have won. Lord Roberts' words are as sweet as honoy, but they also burn ke fire. New York Tribwne, The fede al officia s haverad.pted the right course in (heir bandling of Aivord, who 8l0lo no less than $690,000 from the First Natlonal bank. Commissioner Shiclds set his ball at $160,000, In order that there might be no possible chance of his escape before trial, and Marshal Henkel has put in force the most rigorous precautions to keep him securely in custody. The mar- shal adds that Alvord will have no more privileges and Indulgences that the petty rascal who steals a fow dollars. That is the right course to pursue with such men @s Alvord. In recent years the number of embezzlements in banks has been uncom- fortably large. When dishonest bank clerks understand that they need expect no con- sideration If they commit deliberate and repeated crimes defalcations will be less trequent. The rush to Nome Is a closed incident. A fow thousand people remain at that famous beach mining camp with well matured plans for next season, but the great bulk of those who landed thers be- tween May and July have returned to thelr homes disappointed or have drifted away to try thelr luck elsewhere. The claims for Nome as & gold-producing region on tho basis that was the ‘‘poor man's gold- mining country” were extravagant; the rush thither in response to these claims was phenomenal, if any movement {n that line could be 8o considered after the winter rush to the Klondike in 1896-97. The his- tory of the ebb and flow of the human tide, however, presents littlo that is new. It fs merely a record of a wild seramble for gold and an auxillary effort of stupendous force to create and meet a demand for passenger trafic and transportation of supplies. Illustrated by a beach thickly set with| tents for many miles, by enormous quan- titles of mining machinery abandoned upon the sands without ever having been set up and, finally, by a wreck-strewn beach lashed by Arctic gales, this history but adds another chapter to the volume In which the record of mjning excltement in this country is recorded. —— HEROISM AT SEA. Admirable Cou hown in u Peril- o ation, Chicago Post. Praises ot Joht Anderson, first asslstant engineer of the stedmship St. Paul, probably mever whl be sung in verse, but he is a hero nevertheles, The difficulty s that there was nothing spectacular about Ander- 0n's heroism, and it Is the spectacular that @ppeals to humdn belugs. They must be thrilled In order to appreciate a brave deed and the announcement that a man has gone into the engine room and turned off the He‘lm naturally does not thrill them, Yot Anderson ran the risk of meeting death In & most horrible form in order to 8ave the ship and the passengers. One of the screws had been lost, with the result that the englnes, suddenly released from thelr usual task, were “tearing things loose** In the engineroom, The terrific power en- gendered to turn the screw finding vent by simply crippling and smashing things In and around the engines. Great masses of fron and steel were belng huried about, the steam pipes were broken and the room was filled with ding vapor. Into thls Ander- n calmly went, and it was little less than @ miracle that he escaped death aud was enabled to stop the engines before they had torn a hole in the boat. It was one of the illustrations of every- day herolsm that too often pass unnoticed. And it may be sald for tho man himself that be treated it lightly, mere incident In the line of nis duty, at, however, only proves the more conclusively that he is a real hero and has the modesty that goes' with brave deeds. When all others were fleeing for their lives he kept his head, declded what had to be done, and did it. He is a man—a real man. No higher compliment can be pald him, —_— TRADE ALARM IN EUROPR. ctured Articles on Other Side, Philadelphia Record. The alarm with which Europe s viewlng the Invasion of the world's markets by American manufactured goods is particularly marked In Germany, as appears from a re- port from United States Vice Consul General Hapauer, at Frankfort. No manufacturers study the conditions which affect thelr busi- Dess more closely than do the Germans; In- deed, it s doubtful if any give the ques- tions of export openings and possible com- petition as thorough and (ntelligent at- tention. The fatts, then, that the Germans €ee in this country their most dangerous competitor, and are discussing methods to check the competition, should arouse Amer!- can business men to redoubled watchfulness, Though a European customs union directed against the products of the United States bas been suggested mauny times by the press of the continent, there is little likellhood of such a suggestion belug carried {nto practical effect so long as Europe shall be dependent upon America for so large a por- tion of her food supply, but the proposi- tlon (which has been advanced by a bigh German commercial authority) that American commercial expansion should be checked through a commercial alllance be- tween Germany and Russia s worthy of serious attention on this side of the water. It is true +hat Ru: as a natlon has lttle love for Germany, and is well dis- posed toward the United States, but that fact {s likely to cut Iittle figure when the question becomes one of buying &nd selling. A wonderful commercial development {s golng on In Russla. That country's re- quirements in the way of manufactured goods, already very great, are bound to in- crease enormously. For the first eight months of the present.year Amerlcan goods to the value of $6,000,000 were imported direct by Russla, and there Is reason to be- lleve that a very large additional amount was bought by Russlans through Engiish and German hou Increasing as it is by leaps and bounds, the Russian trade is cer- taln to become a most important factor in the forelgn commerce of that nation which shall secure the larger share. The su- periority of American goods, backed by proper vigllance and enterprise on the part of American manufacturers, should bring that good fortune to this country. Tu the meanwhile any effort by Germany to effect a commerclal treaty with Russia to the detriment of this country's trad should meet with the most vigorous oppo-l o0 the part of our goverameat. INDUSTRIAL CONQUEST, stent of American Success Mar) et of the World. Chicago Inter-Ocean in the The United States is, Indusirially, a great world power. We are selling our manufac- tured products In every country In the world. Weo are sending farm implements, wagons, furniture, sewivg machines, pumps, bicycles and typewriters to every country of Europe; locomotives, railway material, household utensils, clocks and watches to Siberia; cotton goods, hardware, can g0ods, sewing machines and scientific ap- paratus to China; farm implements, mining machinery, rails, bicycles and furniture to Africa, Australia and South America. We have lnvaded not only the non-manu- Lfacturing countries, but the oldest centerf of manufacturing activity In England and continental Europe. Mr, Frederick Emory, chief of the United States bureau of foreign commerce, contends that our leadership as a world power in manufactures is due mainly to our economy In production through the ald of labo ng machinery and effictent use of capit: Five years ago the total exports of manu- factured goods from the United States amounted to $200,000,000. Within three years following 1895 the Increase of such oxports amounted to $107,000,000, or more than half the aggregate in 1805. The total exports of manufactures during the fiscal year 1900 amounted to $432,000,000. There was not only & great gain in the sale of manufactured goods, but a greater galn In the extent of territory covered in the mar- kets of the world. In 1860 ous exports of manufactured goods amounted to $40,000,000; in 1890 to $170,000,000; . in 1900 to $430,000,000. This shows that the greatest Increase has been made In the last decade. In 1860 Great Britain's exports of manufactures exceeded ours by more than $570,000,000. In forty years our exports of manufactures have increased until they are eleven times as great they were In 1860, while those of Great Britain have not quite doubled. In exports of manufactures we stand among the mations of the world second only to Great Britain and we fall behind that coun- try to the extent of only $330,000,000. Our ‘exports of manufactures exceed those of Germany, with its eplendidly organized in- dustrial activity, by nearly $300,000,000, and France falls still further behind us. Ten years ago we sent fow manufactured articles to any of the manufacturing na- tions. In fact we sent few manufactured articles to any country in which we were brougut Into competition with European manufactures Now we have entered the fleld tormerly controlled almost exclusively by England, Germany and France and are selling our manufactures iu the home mar- kets of all these countries. Our captains of commerce and of manu- factures have pushed thelr way in the last ten years Into all the markets of the world. In doing this they have compelled a more active participation of our government in the world's affairs. As Mr. Emory says: “Commerce is in itself a peaceful occupa- tion and draws its very sustenance from the continued amity of nation: But 1t were childish to pretend that there are not occasions when a trading nation must assert Its dignity or protect its rights with a mailed hand. As in the case of in- dividuals, a natfon trading largely must have power of one kind or another at its back and consequently it Is easy to see that this country is being forced by its material development to provide itself with proper weapons of defen ONE DAY FOR THANKS. Numero tude and Thanksgi Chicago Tribune. In accordance with the customi inaugur- ated by Abrabam Lincoln, President Mc- Kinley has Issued his proclamation designat- ing Thursday, the 29th of November, as the day for national thanksgiving, “‘to be observed by all the people of the United States at home or abroad as a day of thank glving and praise to Him who holds the natfons In the hollow of His hand."” The reasons for the giving of thanks, tgned by the president, ample. The country has had abundant harvests. Labor and industry have prospered and commerce has been spread abroad. “Our power and influence fn the cause of freedom and en- lightenment have extended over di: seas and lands.” In all these manifes tions of good fortune, which have worked for the prosperity of the country and the extension of the natlonal power and in- fluenco, President McKinley recognizos the occasion for national grat!tude and supp'ica- tions for ‘“the continuance of His divine favor, for concord and amity with other nations, and for righteousness and peace in all our ways." The president {s right agaln. There is ample occasion for thanksgiving. Every devout citizen will recognize fervently the manifestations of divine favor and every patriotic citizen, devout or mot devout, will eat his turkey and plum-pudding with a heartier zest because of the extention of his country's influence. The gathering of the family about the home board will be typical of the fact that the United States can take its place at the family table of the nations and have Its voice heard at last in all that makes for the progress and pros- perity of the world. Not the least of the reasons of than! glving on Thursday, November 29, will be the fact that on Tuesday, November 6, Willlam McKinley was re-elected president of the United States, and that for another four years be will preserve ‘‘concord and amity with other nations” and admintster tho affairs of this nation “for righteousness and peace in all our ways —_— PERSONAL POINTERS, The wind-up of the long-distance talking match shows Roosevelt several lengths ahead of Bryan, Senator Willlam Lindsay of Kentucky, who will retire from public iife next March, has decided to joln the colony of former statesmen who are practicing law in New York City. He has begun his preparations for moving from Frankfort. A statue of Rev. Adin Ballou, the writer and reformer, & gift of Genmeral W. F. Draper, former ambassador to Italy, was unveiled last week at Hopedale, Mass. The statue stands fn a little park on the site of the preacher's former home, A tablet marking the site of the house in which Samuél F. B, Morse made his home tor many years and died has been placed on a ten-story business block in Twenty-second street, New York. It was formerly on the house itself, which was torh down to make way for the larger bullding. The old home of Stonewall Jackson in Lexington, Va., 18 now & tenement house and the house which once sheltered ome family comfortably now swarms with a large number of famlilles crowded in un- comfortably. The famous Sunday school in which he taught negroes is still flourishing. Colonel John M. Brooke, who designed the ram Merrimac and thus revolutionized warine warfare, is still living at Lexing- ton, professor emeritus of phys in the Virginla Military institute. He is now 79 years old, but is still vigorous and walks trom his residence on the outskirts of the city to the postofice at the same hour every morning. It 18 the oplnion of Dr. Conan Doyle, who has been serving as surgeon in South Africa, that swords, lances and revolvers should be sent to the museums, as the only weapons left are the cannon and the maga- zine rifle. Still it would rob a famous line of much of its dramatic effect to sa; AN OBJECT LESSON IN CRIME, - a Degradat Portland Oregontan. |telier of the Firet National bank of New York City, now {n jail, with certaiuty of | congiction and a long sentence to the peni- | | tentlary, js a powertul object-lesson for men Wwho aro disposed to adopt for their motto, “After me the deluge.’ The trouble with Ife, and catches them without any ark of safety upon which they can ride the retri- butive storm and flood of their own making. Before his detection and arrest Alvord was known and envied among his nelghbors of and upright man-the king of the highest soclal circle, an exceedingly aftable and popular citizen, of imposing personal pri ence and captivatlog manners, He bad & beautiful wite—a poor glrl whom he bad married in Lis days of poverty, a charming home; he had led a sober life, was a faith- ful and loving husband. But today, at b2 another o Sing Sing. | has tumbled like a house of card |and children are reduced to poveriy, to which will always cling the memory of his t crime and disgrace; he Is too old to pect a merciful sentence; he fs too old to begin life anew, should he survive his punishment; be s too old to hope for any public clemency for his wrongdoing. In his cell Alvord will find out the difference between the soclal monkey crowned and the same monkey without a throme. When the social monkey relgns, everybody dances be- fore him, but when the same monkey is de- throned, his former sponging satellites are the first to wonder that he was ever mi fhken for a man, and to stigmatize him & wretched ape, a silly mounkey monarch, who thought a fool's red cap was a crown, and a beggar on horsebuck & creature of exhaustiess dignity and immortal honor. That time of defeat, retreat, rout, ruln and disgrace comes soon or late to every charlal who steals & crown by craft or (mpuftent usurpation, and finds out that to keep a crown there must be a man under the coronet and within the stolen robes of royal purple. The charlatan’s day of dls- crownment comes at last; his pinwheel fire- works are all burnt out; his rockets have all been set off; his Fourth of July is over never to recur. There is mothing left but the stick to his stolon rockets; the pins to his looted pinwheels, His brief candle of soclal notoriety which he stole for a head- light of fame is utterly burnt out, and he I face to ace with the cheerless question that all men have to answer when they can no longer successfully masquerade in splendid } garments stolen by sin; viz., “Does it pay? In the long run right s not jeered on the scaffold nor wrong applauded on the throne The rascals who have strutted at’st. Cloud quite frequently die biting their flesh in helpless rage and grief at St. Helena. This i6 the gemeral fate at last of all cheap crafty charlatans, high and low, who try to fool both God and man; for sin in the long run s not successful, and the vulgar mob that cheered the charlatan yesterday finds out at last that “though hand go in hand, the wicked shall not prosper.” This is the lesson of all the exposure and pun- ishment of the exponents of the philosophy of robber finance, whether illustrious or obscure. It does mot pay to spend your lifo bobbing for the Dead Sea apples of {l1-gotten wealth and risk dying in a prison cell like a wounded catamount, writhing, walling and biting its own flesh because it lost its liberty and has an Incurable wound. Thid man Alvord wanted to mount the world’ phant and ride up and down amid a crowd of childish spectators filling the air with the hosannas with which a Hindoo ‘city greets the approach of their bedizened and bediamonded tyrant. He wanted to cut & big swath, but be handled his scythe so recklessly that he finally ended his little day by cutting down and hopel y crippling himself. All that this silly, greedy embezzler has stolen h melted away. The insubstantial pageant of his stolen riches has faded, leaving bhim a hopelessly dlsgraced and discredited man in the prime of his days, doomed to brood dismally in prison over the gloomy rulns of the once proud edifice of his sordid hopes. He must have been a man of superior abllity and address to have won the com- fidence of his employers so completely in twenty years that he has been without check with his opportunities which he has used to steal $700,000. With his abilities, his freedom from dissipated habits, his tractive personal address and fine presence, he might have blessed his day and genera- tion had he remained a legitimate man of business instead of becoming a greedy rob- ber of his great trust, raging to cut & great soclal swath at the risk of the loss of his soul. Verily, these men with a pirate's heart and a gambler's hand, who, staking all that makes life werth living for pelf, and losing all in thelr immoral greed, die dismally on the barren rock of blasted for- tune, have their just reward in their ig- The e o defa #ho Ne fate of Alvord, the defaulting note | sadation. tuese crooked people is that the deluge gen- | erally comes befors they have dome with| the suburb in which he Ilved as a prosperous | years of age, he is 1n a felon's cell, which | ho will never 1eave except to exchange it for | His charming Home | bis wite | diteh of a sulclde's grave or ultimately | tumble fnto the penitentiary o: the alms | house, where there are neitho apples of gold nor plctures of silver—nohing but a reless Arctie sea of disgracy and dox LINES TO A sMi Philadelphia Bulletin: “I thought 1 told you that when you are augry jou shoull count ten.” 1 did. and by that time I was ten timc.s as amry.” HomerviNe Jours i When pecple say: “The pen is migh'fer than (o they forge! rest of the quot neath the rule of men entirely Bodton Tranecript: “Clara {$ much im- presgsed with palmistry,” “Yes: she takes it 8o serlously Lhat she i really changing her character tolconforn {0 ghe rules Jaid ‘down un'the 1yt paim | book.™ Cleveland Plain Dealer: “Oh, Jacoh, did (¥ou read how this poor boy 'at Yale is golng tneane because of overstudyhg?” “Well, don’t you worre abof that, Martha. Our boy will never KI Insana unless gome other football rufan 1 the head.” l Chicago Post: “He affects a eynidil alr." Thats the wise thing for him o 4p." Becuee It taken o miehty sght maricr man to bo an optimist than 1t does to be & cynle. Finding fault (s the cheapest way of attracting attention. Pittaburs Chronfele: “Papa,” sald fammy Bnaggs, “this story, says that the mutineers were put in frons.’” . Bammy 7 Hut, papa?" , Bamm Why' do they iron prisoners?” “To take the starch out of them, Sammy.' THAT OLD RED SUNBONNBT. James Barton Adams in Denver Post. “How dear to my heart are the scenes cf my childhood, ) wm‘u fond recollection presents them to view! The orchard, the meadow, the deep tangled wildwood, And every fond spot which my fnfancy knew.’ 8o sang the old poet in rhythmical mensure, And mililons have dreamed of ita ploiurs ®o fair, But never a word of that one crowning treasure, The old red sunbonnet our girls used to wear, The belles of today n thelr scorn woul} deride It And wonder how maldens could wear such a fright! But when ‘twas protecting a deur head inside 1t To old-fashioned boys ‘twas a heavenly sight No oriaments decked it, it boro no fine aces, No ribbons of bright-colored hues did it rear, But bid in its dopths was the sweetest ‘of nces That old red sunbonnet out girl used to wear. v When school was dismissed on her head we would set it, And tlo the long sirings tn a knot 'neath chin, m from her red iips a kiss, and would get it Tor kiseing in old days was never a sin, Then homeward we'd speed whero -the brooklet was splashing Down through the old wood and the meadow o fair, The #kies not more blue than the eyes that were flashing, Inside that sunbonnet our girl used to wear, vou In front of her mirror a proud dame is standing Arranging a prize on her head, now so white! 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