Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 7, 1901, Page 6

e o Y e s e T'IE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY MAY 7. 1901 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Dally Be without Sunday), One Year.36.00 Dally Hee and Sunday, One Year. B0 Tilustrated Bee {oar i 100 Bunday Tiee, Ohe Vear, ... 1 i Joe, Une Yeu o ] Twentieth Centiry Farmer, One Year.. 1.00 OFFICES Omaha: The Bee Building 6 Sulflhl Omaha: Clty Hall Bullding Twen- hoand M strects (1 1sluff; 10 Pearl Street, 1 Unity Bullding. New mple Court Washington: @l Fourteenth Street. 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HUNG Notary E———————————— The Bee's new dot contest Wednesday. Every subscriber vote carly and vote often, begins | should Omaha and Kansas City dry ones | might meet half way, say at St. Joseph, and syndicate thelr trouble Contributions for relief pouring Into the burned city of Jacksonville furnish new proof that Amerlean generosity is equal to every emergency. The pressing of a button will allow the battleship Ohio to slide into the water. It will be almost as easy a job as an Olio wan going after an office The American soldiers’ are brought out of China. They ent country with credit to themselves are leaving it in the same wanner, By his speech at Boston Viee President Roosevelt has again demonstrated that no oune in this country can stir up the democratic animals so thoroughly as he. being d the | and And now we have oll tields unearthed in Towa, too. The whole United States must be undermined by one vast oil lake large enough to float oil prowmoters in every state in the union. Kansas City is enjoying a puritanical Sabbath simultaneously with Omaha, Kansas City has some yellow journals, but they will not go into spasms to the sume extent as sensational yellows. The trouble aliead of the Nebraska fusionists who are demanding that pub- licity be given the men of thelr party who have been consorting with the cor porations 18 to find one of their number qualified to throw the first brickbat. The comptroller of the currenc called for another statement of th dition of national banks. In these times bank managers do not worry about calls for statements—they are prepared to make a satlsfactory showing any time, The sultan of Turke order which greatl, has issued an reduces his visitors' list. If the advisers of the sultan could ouly invent some way of excluding im- portunate creditors along with other visitors they could command all the honors the sultan could confer, — The administration expects to retain only 40,000 troops in the Philippines and even this number may not be necessary within a short time. This i8 the most conclusive answer to the charge that no material progress has heen made toward the pacification of the islands. Des Moines is encountering still more trouble in its effort to secure the estab- lishment of an army post at that point, as the army authorities do not favor the project and evinee a disposition to hold to the strictest enforcement of every condition of the bill making the loca- tlon. In the wmeanwhile the post at Omaha 18 quite sufficient to accommo- date all the surplus detachments that can be spared for service In this section, — The dispute between Omaha and South Omaha as to which should pay the ex- penses of a smallpox patient sent from South Omaha to be cared for in Omaha's emergency hospital {llustrates the dim- culties constantly growing out of the fact that what constitutes in reality one city is organized into two separate mu- nicipal corporations. Consolidation |s only a question of time, It may be held off until the next census, but it is sure 1o cowe eventually, ———— The Cuban commissioners have ar- rived home and anvounce having agreed pon a report they will make to the con- stitutional convention. These commis- sloners have it within their power to hasten the formation of the Cuban gov- ernment by tendering good advice to the convention. They left it to be Inferred while in this country that they were satisfied with the assurances given. By adhering to that idea they will further the asplrations of thelr countrymen and relleve their benefactors from the ewm- | wint | powers and leading to terrible confusion MEXIC0'S GREETING The greeting extended to President MeKinley by the representative of President Diaz, on the border line of the two republics, will contribute to the strengthening of friendship between the It had chief countries, already most cordial. been the intention of Mexico's magistrate to personally greet P MeKinley, but e was unable to do = owing to the fact that the Mexican con- | gress 18 In sesson. A meeting between these eminent men would have been a most interesting event, but nothing | more than what took place at El Paso was needed to attest the friendly vela- tions of the sister republics, Steadily the tinancial and commerc boud between the United Stat and Mexico grows stronger. Many millions of American capital are now invested in the railroads, mines and plantations of Mexleo and much more is certain to go there. This growth of mutual inter- | ests assures a continuance of friendly relations, It has been a conspicnous | feature of the statesmanship of I dent Dinz encourage the investinent of American capital in Mexico and there is a large field there for its profitable ‘mployment. Notable as been the progress of that country during the past twenty years, the development of its resources {8 still far from the limit. More railroads will be built, mining will be extended, additional coffee and sugar plantations will be opened. Only re- contly there was organized at New Or- leaus & company to engage in the pro- duction of sugar in Mexico, while a con- siderable amount of Amerlcan money is Invested there in coffee production. There reported raliroad projects which If carried out would take many willions of dollars from this country to Mexicc Thus « in the wel e, who esi- | people have a deep interest of the neighboring repub- people in return appreciate what has been done by Americans in developing thelr country. he citizens of both republics will heartily approve the expressions of friendship and good changed between the chief mag- istrates. MINISTER CONGER'S VIEWS. Minister Conger bears testimony to a fact which has been apparent since the powers begun to negotiate with China for sttlement, that the Chinese gov- ernment is willing to meet every just and reasonable demand and to do all within its ability to reach an amicable settlement, Had all of the powers been actuated at the outset by a purpose to | deal fairly with China and to ask no more than justice required, as was the case with the United States, it is not to be doubted that a settlement would now be in sight, if not effected. But some of the powers saw an opportunity to de- spoil the empire that was at their mercy and made demands which were utterly unjust and unreasonabl The claims for indemnity originally submitted have been somewhat modified, but they are still excessive and probably will not be Mr. Conger thinks that some nation may yet demand territory in lieu of a money indemnity and he says that iw such an event the position of China will follow, with the inevitable effect of causing much dissension between the in China. Of course this Iy possible, but there does not appear to be any- thing In the present situation to rend it probuble. The very decided attitude | of the United States, Great Britain and Japan against the partitioning of China will undoubtedly prevent any of the powers from demanding territory there as indemnity. Moreover, all of the powers have declaved that they do not desire Chinese territory and it is not likely that any of them will seriously attempt to repudiate this declaration. Mr. Conger says the integrity of the Chinese empire should be maintained. The influence of the United States will be constantly and earnestly exerted to that end and we are assured of the sup- port of Great Britain and Japan, If of | no other power. The interest of these na- tlons is in preserving the territorial in- tegrity of China and it Is not to be doubted that they are abundantly able to do this, CIVIL GOVEKNMENT IN PHILIPPINES. The first step in the establishment of civil government in the Philippines has been taken at Manila, though for a time officials will not be elected in that city as in other municipalities. It is not ex- plained why the Taft commission i un- willing at present to permit elections, but the probable reason is that popular sentiment in Manila cannot be relied upon to choose officlals who would work in harmony with ¢he Amerfcan authori- ties. The city has a population of 244,000 and doubtless there is a considerable ele- ment which is not entirely friendly to the United States, the votes and iu fluence of which would in an election g to candidates that might prove troubl some, It is therefore sater to delay elections perhaps until the complete ac- complishment of pacitication, which it noW seems s not remote. 1t is presumed that the first step in the establishment of civil government having been taken the work will be ad- vanced as rapidly as practicable, It is by no means a simple task. It involves a great deal of arduous and careful labor. In instituting civil government in the Philippines great care must be exerclsed in selecting the public officials, The men chosen for positions of trust and responsibility must be thoroughly capable, of undoubted integrity and of unquestionable loyalty to the United States. There will be no lack of candi- dates for the official stations, but many will not have the necessary qualitica- tions. A number of disappointed aspir- ants is inevitable and it is to be ex- pected that some of these will endeavor to make trouble by creating popular dis- content with the administration of af- tairs. Strong, capable men, of known probity, will be peeded in the conduct of affairs to counteract the influence of the disgruntled and disaffected. The federal party, which is doing excellent barrassment of insisting upon conditions which will prevent more serious trouble in the future, vt e service In the work of pacification, will doubtless be drawn upon for most of the | Islands, xpedient to make some selections out side of this party, in order to avold the appearance of too great partiality for the one political organization, The extablishment of civil government is not the only task before the com mission. The tariff and taxution are matters of great importance in their bearing upon the future welfare of the These are recelving considera tion, but it ix doubtful If any action will be taken in regard to them pending a judicial decision as to the political status of the Philippines, Meanwhile there appears to be a steady growth of native confidence in the American government, which there i« every reason to expect will continue uutil practically all of the natives heartily accept American rule and give sincere alle- glance to the United States, It Is due to the Taft commission to say that thus far it has made no mistake. Its course has been judicions and practical throughout and the results ave in the bighest degree satisfactory. When clvil government shall have become general in the Philippines and the na- tives have learned to comprehend and appreciate what such government means under Ameriean authority, there is rea- son to believe that the population of those islands will be thoroughly loyal and that uo difficulty will be found in preserving peace and order, KEEP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD. On Sunday observance and the policy of dealing with the liquor traffic, amuse- ment places and public resorts, the pop- ulation of Omaba is divided, as it is in all other cities, About one-fourth and possibly on third of our people favor a rigid enforc ment of the Sunday law and the Slo cumb law, Many of themr reguard the liquor traftic as an incentive to vice and erime and look upon the liquor dealer as an enemy of mankind, If they had their way ti would grant no saloon licenses whatever and revive the Con- necticut blue laws, Another class, comprising perbaps an equal number, want Omaha to be a wide open town, with saloons running night and day year in and year out, with li- censed public gambling houses, with frec-and-casy amusement rvesorts and a general do-us-you-please and go-where- you-please policy. The majority of our people, however, are opposed to extremes in either di- fon. They desire a reasonable en- forcement of law aud order. Without | attempting to trench upon personal 1ib- erty, they respect the conselentious seru P of the religious element of the vom- munity. They object to flaunting vice in the face of the public und desire de- cency enforced in public thoroughfares and public resorts. Realizing that gam bling I8 not a legitimate business, they will give no countenance to any attempt to place gambling houses under police protection, Recognizing the impossibil- ity of stamping out the social evil, the favor its repression by police surveil- lance, 1t is impossible to conduct a city gov- ernment so as to satisfy all the contlict- ing elements of the community, espe- slally where political bias and personal enmity are brought constantly into play. To carry out the demands of the ex- tremists on either side for any length of time would prove damaging to the pros- perity of the city even if it were prac- tical to do so. The only safe course is to take the middle of the road, enforce law and order within rational bounds and let the political mountebanks and sensation-seekers rant and rave. 1t is fair to assume that this class will never be content, because discontent is their stock in trade, The Buffalo exposition management has precipitated a fight with the conces- sionaives the first pop out of the box by refusing to allow the midway to do busi- ness for Sunday crowds. This is the same old story told at every exposition, In this case, however, the concession- aires insist that their contracts give them the right to run every day that the exposition grounds are open to the publie. 1If the exposition is to be opened on Sunday for the purpose of giving the concessionaires grounds for damages to offset the profits that they might have made, the exposition might as well throw up Its hands at once, as the con- cesslonalres are sure to suffer damages in their own estimation bigger than all | the exposition receipts. Either the mid- way will do business on Sunday or the exposition will keep its gates closed on that day. The latest outcropping of the siu'lw; rights idea comes from a court over in Towa, which lholds the federal stat- ute barring unstamped instruments sub- jeet to internal revenue taxes from ad- mission as evidence in legil causes to be unconstitutional for the reason that congress has no right to interfere with Judicial procedure in the various states. This raises an interesting point which will doubtless be taken up to the United States supreme court should it be upheld on review by the higher state tribunals, One of the most ef- fective u s of enforcing the stamp taxes has been through fear of incurring this penalty invalidating notes or deeds as legal documents, If congress has ex- ceeded its power it ought to have the limits authoritatively defined, Information comes from the authorities of that country have sug- China that gested the complete opening of Man- churia to the trade of all nations, 1f the report 18 true it will speedily show how much sincerity lles in the Rus- slan pretensions. Japan, England and the United States will certainly assent and there Is no reason to believe that any power except Russia would object. A refusal on the part of that power might possibly precipitate a scramble for control of other sections of China, but if so it might be well to precipitate institutions. distribu reach of its commercial The campaign is to include the tion of 5,000 illustrated booklets telling the Presilent Was Welcomed. what a good town Kansas City is and| The Cabildo building of New Orleans 10,000 Commercial club buttons. 1f this '|l'-!"h‘x|l""_~hln"n' ‘\l;‘l\nv!“_;\ \“,.; tendered does tiot lubricate the fities of trade |8, DOtAbIe Teception ast Thuraday, is one L u of a group of historic buildings facing | leading into Kansas City nothing will. | i kson Square on two sides. These are The country fs again demonstrating how quickly it can open its purse to meet the cry f suffering. Stricken Jacksonville can rely upon the gener osity of the American people to relieve its pressing needs and do it when the assistance will be most valuable, while its people are unable to help them selves, A Magnetie Pair Indlanapolis News. Great is American prosperity and Mc- Kinley is its prophet. His Busy Time. Washington Post Hon. J. Sterling Morton continues to de vote his time to planting trees and swat- tng pops Wait Till the ¢ Chicago Record-He It is again rumored that the sultan thinks of paying what he owes to Uncle Sam. We would, however, advise Uncle Sam not to Indulge In any extravagances on the strength of this report When the Boom Bu Indlanapolia Journal. It only milllonaires are In the wild stock speculation in Wall street no great harm can be done, but when the craze shall have epent its force it will be found that many men have lost all the money they could get possession of. No Oces on for Enthusiasm, Baltimore Herald. Mr. Morgan's investment is of no more value to the shipping interests of this coun- try than a purchase of western England woolen mills by American owners would be to the woolen industry of the Uni: States. Shipbuilding must go hand in hand with shipowning if we are to re-estab- lish American shipping. Business Lowering Barriers, Portland Oregonlan, An American investment of $8,000,000 in a Manchester factory should warn us against making 100 sweeping generalizations con- cerning British investments in this coun- try. As clvilization advances, barriers of natlonality will be thrown down more and more. Some day we may even Rrow enlightened enough in this country to view with equanimity the establishment here of Chinese laundries and Japanese bazaars. w Precautio Springtield Republi The commissary frauds at brought to light by the course of Major West, who, being ordered to the post of depot commissary, refused to take charge of the depot until the stores were either shown upon invoice or fully accounted. In short, he demanded a taking account of stock. The major seems to deserve promo- tion for the good he has done, but promo- tlon never goes to officers for services of that unwarlike charaoter. an. Manila were Patting Stamps on Speculation. New York Tribune. 1t has been decided that Wall street “calls” on stocks are subject to tax. The pathway of the average speculator is heset with thorns and the inevitable expenses of the hazards of the adventurous In the ex- changes and outside the exchanges heavy and constant. And too often the thorny path ends in an abyss out of which there is no climbing, But words of warn- ing are wasted on thé€ men who risk their fortunes in the whirlpool An Educationnl Discovery. Chicago Chronicle, The director of the exceediugly valuable “‘department of child study in the Chicago public schools” makes the announcement that left-handed children are not as bright mentally as their right-handed matcs. This is highly fmportant, if true, and warrants an increase of salary for the director or the employment of an assistant at the least Perhaps we shall have opinions pretty soon on the mental capacity of cross-eyed chil- dren, on the artistic {astes of youths with harelips and on the relations between club feet and mathematical mind. There are left-handed men and women in this town in plenty who are sufficiently acute men- tally to perceivo that the department of child study in the Chicago schools is the biggest humbug that ever was devised for the purpose of taking care of a taxeater, TRANSMISSION OF POW tio) Elect Dintant ¥ Philadelphia Times. When the steam engine replaced the waterwheel—or when combustion replaced gravity—as a source of mechanical power it led gradually to an entire redistribution ot industries. The big factories gathered in the citles and the mills along the streams were abandoned. The new util- ization of water power for the generation of electricity is likely to lead to other changes not less important. We have as yet scarcely realized the scope of these inventions, because the evolution of elec- trical engineering 18 so recent and the economical transmission of power is one of Its very newest successes. At Oakland, Cal., the street cars are now operated by electric power gener- ated on the Yuba river, 140 miles distant, and the power is to be extended to San Jose, fitty miles farther. It is found at Oakland that a current of 40,000 volts is transmitted the entire distance from the generating station with a loss of not more than 5 per cent. This experience is not singular, except that the distance is greater than has been successfully over- come hitherto. Those who visit Buffalo this summer will see the most complete example of the utilization of a great water power, miles y, in every man- ifestation of electrical energy. This will be really the characteristic feature of the Buffalo exhibition, distinguishing it from others, each of which has emphasized some epoch-making invention. It is manifest that if cars can be run, a city lighted, factories operated by power geperated 150 or 200 miles away, the problem of fuel and of the transportation of fuel must take on an entirely new aspect. It is also manlfest that the con- trol of large streams capable of furnish- Ing power has a new importance, and that the legislature must guard very carefully against the monopolization of such control, which ought to be preserved for the benefit of the commonwealth, It is a perfectly reasonable conjecture that the present system by which every industrial establishment maintains its own furnaces and engines and generates its own power by an extravagant consumption of coal will become obsolete within a very few vears and that light, heat and motion will be distributed from common centers, supplied with power generated at the spot most convenient to the primal force. This need not be mecessarily water powar. There s, for example, latent en- ienerated it before Russia becomes still further intrenched. Kansas Clty's Commercial club is sending out an excursion by special train to visit the cities of southern Kan- sas, Oklahoma, northern Texas and southwestern Missourl to enltivate trade officials, but It will doubtless be xouudl relutions in a territory thut Is within ergy stored In the culm beds of the an- thracite region enough to furnish power for years to come, if it can be burned upon the spot, and the heat converted into electricity can be economically transmitted to the factories. When once the practical problems of transmission and distribution are overcome, and we can turn on power as we now turn on light, we shall see an- other far-reaching range ia our industrial economy, are | BUILDING WITH A HISTORY. The Cabildo of New Orlenns, Where the Cabildo. the St. Louls cathedral, the presbytery and the Pontalba buildings, the latter at one time the swell residence of | Creole aristocracy. The Cabildo is the )anish name given the eme council of Loufsiana, organized in 1769, and the | buflding fn which it met still retains this {name. It is 103 years old, weatherbeaten and weatherstained, but so solidly con- structed that it resists the ravages of time It is a two-story building, with mansard roof. On the ground floor is the police court, which opens into St. Peter street The second floor is occupied by the state supreme court. The presbytery is almost a duplicate of the Cabildo, but is a few years younger. The Pontalba buildings are quite modern in appearance, though built early in the last century by Baroness Pontalba, daughter of Don Andres Almonaster, ar- chitect and owner of the Cabildo and the presbytery. St. Louis cathedral stands on a site first dedicated in 1718, Hurricane in and fire in 1783 destroyed the earlier bulldings. The present building was erected in 1791 and remodeled in 18 In the sanctuary is a tablet marking the place where General Jackson was en- throned during the singing of Te Deum in honor of his triumph at the battle of Chal- mette, January §, 1815 interest centers around Not only was it the scene of real estate transaction ever negotiated by the United States; It was here General Jackson acknowledged the supremacy of civil over military power by paying a fine of $1,000 imposed on him by Chief historic the Cabildo. the greatest the court for disobeying an order issued the day preceding the whipping of the British invaders, Directly across Chartres street is Jackson Square, with Ol Hick- ory's statue in the center, where once a flagstafl bore French and nish flags Here, too, in civil war times, General Hen Butler viewed with indignation the absence of epitaph from the granite pedestal of the monument, and had these deflant words carved on its western face: “The Union Must and Shall Be Preserved."” The ceremony of transferring sovers elgnty over the terrritory of Loulsiana from France to the United States took place in the Cabildo. There were two ceremonics. November #0, 1803, the marquis de Cara- calvo, a former Spanish governor of Louis- fana, and Saliedo, the then Spanish gov- ernor of Louisiana, met Laussat to deliver, in their capacity as commissioners for Spain, Louisiana to France. The popula- tlon of New Orleans was then about $.000 wrly the entire population of the town s gathered about the vicinity while the documents were being fgned. The Spanish flag was pulled down from the pole fn the middle of the Place d'Armes, now Jackson gquare, and the tricolor of the French | publlc was raised to its place, Tie firin of artillery announced to the agitated popu- lation that Loulsiana had again passed un- der the control of France. The real red-letter day was December 20 following, when Louisiana was transferred | to the United States within the walls of the | mow historic building by Laussat, in the name of the French republic, to General James Wilkinson of the United States army and William €. €. Claiborne, governor of | the territory of Mississippl, who had heen deputed to recelve Louisiana in the name of the United States. The ceremonies on this occasion were somewhat similar, so far as the scenes witnessed in the Cabildo and | on the streets outside were concerned, to | those which had attended the fransfer by | Spain to France. There was this difference between the two occaslons, however, that the Place d'Armes was filled with a la force of American troops, militla from the states of Ohlo, Kentucky and Tennesses, and volunteers from Tennessee and Misefs- sippl, who had magched from Natchez and Fort Adams in Mississippl with Wilkinson and Claiborne, to occupy New Orleans after the transfer should be completed. These forces were ranged on the side of the Placs d’Armes opposite to the militia of the cft W and the militia compa of grenadiers which had escorted t n on the morning | of December 20 from the upper military | Rate of the town to the public square As the troops filed into the Place d'Armes Claiborne and Wilkinson entered the Ca- bildo. Laussat was there to eive them with notables of the town. After the cre- dentials and instructions to the different commissioners, and other necessary docu- ments has been read, Clalborne addressed the assembly, announcing the transfer of Loulsiana to the United States. Then he | and Wilkinson and Laussat repaired to one j of the balconies and showed themselves to the people. As they made their appear- ance the French flag came down from the pole In the middle of the square and the “Star-Spangled Banner went up to its place at the top of the pole. As the two flags met halt way, a cannon was fired as a slgnal to the artillerymen fn the fortifica- tlons and in the four forts of the town. The slgnal was responded to by a general discharge of artillery In these works and | by the discharge of cannon from the ships | in the river. As the United States flag rose gracefully to Its appointed place at the top of the pole in the Place d'Armes, there was no enthusiasm exhibited by the spe tators except in one instance. This di play of joy and patriotism came, as was natural, from a number of Americans who were clustered near a corner of the squars. ‘They welcomed the apothesis of the flag of freedom with a waving of thelr hats and a lusty hurrah, When Lafay tte made 3 his tour of the United States in 182 as “the natlon's Buest,” he was received on the occasion of his visit to New Orleans in 1825 at the Cablldo, then th city hall of New Orleans. DICK TOW Y IN TRO Former Nehraskan Wixed Up in the Manila Crookedness. Philadelphia North American. The f{nvestigation of the commissary frauds in Manila is bringing out some ugly facts, but there is every reason to beliove that the rogues who stole from the gov- ernment will get their deserts. The War depurtment realizes now that General Cor- bin spoks hastily when he discredited the first press dispatches announcing the dis- covery of the frauds, and is making amends for his official denial by pressing the trials with all possible vigor. The Navy department has done well to order an investigation of the conduct of Lieutenant Townlev, one of the witnesses in the trial of Captain Reed, Lieutenant Townley, who is fn charge of the nautical school at Manila, testified that he sought to levy contribution from government con tractors in order to make good the short age of an officer in the quartermaster's de- partment. As he put it, he believed that he was acting for the good of the service in preventing the exposure of another ofi- cer's dishonesty, No men have repudiated this pecullar view of an officer's obligations more promtly than the oficers of the navy. It speaks well for the entire service that naval circles in Washington are dumfounded at Lieutenant Townley's conception of what one officer owes another. 1f he is guilty of what he confesses the mavy will well rid of him. Admiral Kempfl has al- ready been instructed to investigate the [ IN THE FUSION FOLD, York Times (rep): The esteemed Ham- ilton County Register brings out William Vincent Allen for the populist nomination for justice of the supreme court. Mr. Allen has been out of office about a month al ready and it really seems as though it was time something was done for him. Kearney Democrat: lsn't the Grand Island Democrat working the ‘“Little Glant,” W. H. Thompson, overtime? Our Grand Island namesake {s now pressing the “Little Giant” for supreme judge. Why not give Billy a well carned rest and try 1o resurrect a name that hasn't so much familiarity attached to {t? Even a good thing becomes stale with too much handling Wahoo New Era (pop.): What fs the matter with Douglas county populists? They come down to every state convention with over 100 delegates, but they have con- tributed only some $3 towards paying off the old debt. In place of burning money on an ostentatious banquet, it would have redounded more to their credit if they had raised some money to Iift the state organiza tion out of debt, but perhaps the stimulat- ing effect of the banquet will awaken them to “the paramount duty™ of the hour. York Times (rep.): A democratic friend nd fellow soldier has at last succeeded in making a political analysis of the su preme court commission and is delighted with the result. He says there are four democrats, three republicans, one silver republican and one populist. It may be the ingredients of the witches' cauldron are separating so far as to be susceptible of amalysis by an expert, but all fusionists still look alike to the unsophisticated. Five members of the commission have been can didates for ofice on the fusion ticket, three are republitans and one is a democrat who has never bowed the knee to B O'Nelll Frontier (rep.): Everything points to 4 complete separation of the dem- ocrats from the populists and silver repub- licans. In this state fusion has simply been an endorsement of populist candidates all along and democrats are growing weary of playing tall to the fusion kite. Even in populist realms like Holt, where demo- crats single-handed stand about the same show as prohibitionists, fusion relations have buen greatly marred. Of course, the plo hunters are averse to it, as they realizo there is no show for them unless the ‘‘re- form forces get together.” Republicans have no cause to worry about what becomes of fusion. With conditions in their faver and a united party they will have no trouble malntaining ascendancy. 2R NO' Now that Dr. Ament country, he and Mark Twain should form a has reached this Gei Together club. The new sccretary of the Turkish legation is sald to be six feet four inches tall. The sultan evidently wishes him to overlook thinge, Daniel C. French, the sculptor, is already at work on his design for the Lawton monu ment, the fund for which has now reached tha, sum of $4,000, -Governor Morrill of Kansas owns what is sald to be the largest apple orchard in the world When work now in progress shall have been completed the orchard will contain 64,000 trees, If “misery loves company,” victims of the diamond tontine graft will derive some cheer from the statement that Miller's 520 per cent syndicate of Brooklyn, N. Y., will pay & cents on the dollar, Last Thursday a granite shaft was reared on the spot at Champoeg, Oregon, where the meeting to organize the first civil govern- ment west of the Rocky mountains was held, fifty-eight years ago. An inmate of a New York insane asylum who ran away for the purpose of seelng for himself the alleged heauty of 700 Vassar girls, has returned to the bughouse per- fectly contented with his lot. One look was sufficient. The democratic mayor of Detroit who sought to monopolize the local pie counter without the advice or consent of the re- publican ci the fence by a ripper bill-vesting the ap- pointing power in the city council. The splendid joke of the Pan-American exposition is on the capitalists who built the mammoth Statler hotel, with nine acres of sleeping rooms, three miles of halls and a Jining room to feed 100 persons. Last Thursday 286 employes were on duty at the hotel. There was one guest. Baron Kentero Kaneko, Japan's new minister of justice, is one of the best Eng- lish scholars in Japan, speaking the language with fluency and writing it with almost the same idiomatic precision as a native. He is a graduate of Harvard, and acquired his legal training in Japan. He 15 47 years old. Brigadier General G. Norman Lieber, Judge advocate of the army, who, having reached the age limit, will retire next month, is a son of Francis Lieber, the distinguished publicist, who was professor of economy in South Carolina college, whence, before going to the Harvard law school, General Lieber was graduated in 1868, Prof. John Fiske, the historian of Cam- bridge, Mass, has been invited to deliver an address at the commemoration of the millennial of the death of Alfred the Great | to be held in October at Winchester, Eng- land, the place of his burfal. A statue of Alfred is to be unveiled there at the time and many eminent men will take part in the exercises, One of the happlest men in the country today is George H. Daniels, senger agent of the New York Central The Postoffice department has adopted as a design for the Z-cent postage stamp spe- clally issued in connection with the Pan- American exposition the New York Cen- tral's Empire State express. Of this «tamp it is expected that more than 800,000,000 | will be printed pee WORDS OF A JUDGE. — | SOUN Rensoning of the Court in Setting Aside a Libel Verdiet, Philadelphla North American. | Judge Russell of Brooklyn has estab- lished & noteworthy precedent in a libed | suit brovght against the New York World. | The plaintiff, whom the newspaper do- | seribed as a burglar, confessed that he had | a4 buser purpose In entering a young girl's ro evertheless ho bad the effrontery to seck compensation at law for the dam- age alleged to have been done to his repu- tatton by being published as a thief. Although the jury awarded the criminal nominal damages Judge Russell set aside the verdict and directed a new trial. The law, he said, would not allow a profit from (he results of wickedness. This was his reasoning “What is the injury by 1ibel? Ts it the actual wrong to character of the man, or the lowering of a false reputation for honor and good conduct? The character is what the man is; the reputation what he is sup- posed to be. For defamation compensation toce to equalize the diminution of reputa- tion below the real worth of the character. And when it appears that the actual of- tense s greater in culpability, ethically and legally, than the one to which an Incorrect name was given, substantial compensation for the mistake in publication would award a profit for a supposed, but false, reputa- tion, instead of adequate restocation for a loss."" This is most excellent common semse, Tt contravenes the long line of decisions in English and United States courts, which matter. 1f a court of inquiry recommends his dismissal he will get no sympathy fi his brother officeis for his attempts to Jeover the woik of uuiformed thieves were based on the principle that the exact uncil has been tossed over | general pas- | “Let us ho replic | his “m: for At Our Working Girls Life to the most favored is not always full of sunshine, but to the average American girl or woman who is obliged to work for her living, and, perhaps to help others at home, life is often a heavy drag in consequence of illness. Women who work, especially those who are constantly on their feet, arve peculiarly liable to the development of organic troubles, and should par- ticularly heed the first manifestations, such as backache, pains in the lower limba and Jower part of the stomach, {rregular and painful monthly periods, | Miss Eria Brexxen, B Rocurster, ORio, faintness, weakness, loss of appetite and sleep. The young lady whose portrait we publish herewith had all these symp- toms, and in addition leucorrhioea, and was cured by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. First, she wrote a letter to Mrs. Pink s labe oratory at Lynn, Mass., deseribing her trouble, received in reply accurate in- structions what to do to get well, and now wishes her name used to convince others that they may be cured as she was. The same helping hand, charge or obligation, is extende every ailing woman in America. you are sick you are foolish not to get this valuable advice, it costs you noth- ing, and she is sure to help vou. Don't free of wait until it is too late — write to-day. RGE IEVES, Relentiess ishment o Minneapol The army and navy of the United States, their officers and men, their methods of ac- omplishment, their honorable traditions and their high code of personul othics are Severe Pune subjects of admiration not only in the country under whose flag they serve hut in the older civilizations beyond the sea To be an officer of the United States army or navy is to be considered a gentleman according to the best definition of the term, which includes personal honor and absolute business re Billions of dollars de o ha%e prerequisite been handled by disbursing officers in the two arms of the | service since this republic took its place | among the nations and of defalcations there have been 5o few, while the amounts stolen have been relatively s readily challenge small, that we ¢ comparison as to probity | with any nation in Christendom The recent developments in Manila and | the evidence already adduced in the court | martial of Captain Reed will, we fear, { furnish the lamentable exceptions that go to prove the rule. To prove the rule of | probity, however, so that criticism shall ba | silenced and faith held steadfast Captain Reed, but every abettor or plice of his in his plans to steal (should he be proved guilty hy the should be made the mark of such | not only accom- money, court) signal Justice that not only this country but the world will recognize how dear to our peo | ple is the houor of officers and how determined are those bigh command to remove even the faintest suspicion of dis- honor from the f of the service large, | Tt was a good tiing for the army when | Carter wus sent to the penitentlary and we | devoutly hope that he will serve his full sentence at Leaven th and come out to find himeeli dishonored in the eyes of ¢ | cent men. If there are others who, undes | terred by the punishment that befell Cap {taln Carter, have resorted to bribery and malfeasance, they too, should be imprisoned and for a term of years that shall | doubt as to ous estimation of the of their offenses. AND BR e no gravity Judge: Miss Richman—He is the light of my Ife. pa r. Richman—Well, perhaps he s, 1 no- tice that he snves bills Chicago Tribune: hi f on his Why 1 that” Somebody told limp." “Cholly rather 1o knee nowaday 1mes him he had the golf Puck: “I see the Newgifts have glven cir automobil ‘hat fo | *“The found, afte all, that It wasn't 80 expensive as keeping hor | ehii Pross Sphe of in- | fluen. Britannia, fretfully, | “do bail one up xo" | Now it was pliin to I hair was coming down b not the heart to tell he seen that her nd, but we had of this, | Cleveland Plain Dealer Higsby wonld make his fortune ax a vaudevilie mimic. What makes vou think He never played golf but once in his | 1ife, and vet he's perfection got the golf limp down to Cleveland Plain Dealer T &ce the ezap [of Russia gets a salary of 000,00 a vour And vet he can't keep the anarchisti wolf from the door Chicago Reeord-Herald: “Don’t you (hink A man has to well born to have r of marner? ); being born v will do Just as well “The 1 to he Chicago man s en; nouneed wirels marrl him to attempt an irmle Leslie's Weekly Tnsgle What m think they are searching for the unat iinah! Waggles—His wife fs secking for thing to rem uperfiuous. hALr, whil i looking fc preparation to krow on a bald head Pre that T Philadelphia Mrs. Browne a fishing tri ler, Jen't T should re “He's a gomerville Jonrnal 1 ire #0 many books to read There And new ones every hat 1 confess 1 stand perplexed And watch them with disma v And yet one hus to make folks think He has them all down pat 8o I read what the erftics su And let it go at that 1 There are 80 many magazines h better than the rest, I can never find the ‘time find out which hest I really cannot read them all And do my work, that fat And o I look the pictuves through— And let It go at that 1l Know Have nothi truth must be proved in justification, but it conforms to reason and meets all the highest requirements of justice, However. on This whirling 80 I just glance the Aud let {4 gu at that where world is at ' heuadlines through— !