Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 31, 1901, Page 6

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PULLISIANG COMPANY. i be Capte Pubil BTATEMY I OF CIRCULATION, Blate of Ncorarka, Louglas Lounty, George 15, A&8CHLUCK, sectelary ol i he Bee Pubiioning Loupi e uuly | WO sayn i e "0 fuil wnd iumlvh copies o The Daby % ;\ :“K‘- S ot ik, wale s Gollows: a0, 41,000 27,700 actual Apri . Total ..... . Less unsold and returned coples. Net total sales. Bubscribed in my presence and sworn to ore me this st day, \IKL;\LA) D, 101 " PNotary Pubile It 18 to be hoped the new Maine will travel uuder a luckier star than the old Maine, ‘The Chicago man caught running an llicit oleomargarine factory was after all not smooth enough to keep from slipping up. The financ 1d is not worrying to any great extent over the shipments of gold to Europe. The western pral- rles ave preparing for a harvest which will bring it all back with interest. i llne of blue is getting a little thinner with each recurring Memortal day, but the spirit of the occasion shows that every generation will respond just as quickly if the conditions require. —— The Rough Riders’ reunion will be postponed until Vice President Roose- velt will be able to attend. A Rough Riders’ reunfon without Roosevelt would be like the play of “Hamlet” without the ghost, L _____ ] With the deputy of the county attor- ney prosecuting and the attorney of the county attorney defending, the chances are good that the accused in the pending murder trial will get off without any punishment whatever, Another oil field has been developed in Loulslana, where a great gusher has been tapped. If this thing keeps up 1t will not be long before every man can have an oil well in his back yard to laugh at the Standard Oil company. Richard Croker is preparing to re- turn to New York at an early day. The democratic anization which started out break Tammany may know how the Northern Pacific shorts felt after Croker has been home a short time, The Chinese Boxers might send a delegation to the United States to study the most exquisite methods of torture, They might not be on the ground in time to witness the burning of a negro, but plenty of communities could tell them from experience how it is done, President Sam of Haytl has just re- turned from a tour of the country and the telegraph reports that he was en- thuslastically received. As he took most of the Haytien army along with him the people doubtless thought It was the part of discretion to offer him every hospitality. Democratic papers complain because congressmen and congressional com. mittees are visiting the island posss slons of the United States to study the eonditions. What a waste of time when any democratic editor In the country can tell them all about it and just the proper thing to do. The city of Omaba and the city of Bouth Omaha will lock horns over the bills for the expenses incurred in the care of smallpox patlents. The two citles are practically one and If they were under one municipal government, as they should be, there would be no chance for such contention, Returns to the deputy labor commis- sloner for his compllation of divorce statistics for Nebraska show an un- usual number of divorces in certain countles for which there seems to be no good explanation. Perbaps the rea- son may be found In the unusual ac- tivity of divorce lawyers in these coun- ties who do not hesitate to break up familles for the |ill,‘pn.~4' of earning a few fe Such cases, have been known ln Nebraska. \ An open confession 18%good for the soul. Elere is one of our pushing weekly contemporaries announcing a fortheom- ing chauge in pame and assuring the public thai “in waking the change| the owners are actuated solely from fiu- cial motives.” How refreshing when compured with the usual stereotypid exnlanations about the new ventur) belng in response to a call to a broadef field where the paper can be of more! useful service 1 elevating mankind and promoting the welfare of everyone ex- cept the owners THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1901. BRITISH OPINION. The comments of some of the British newspapers upon the supreme court de. cislon make Interesting if not particu- larly instructive reading. One of these remarks that the world at large stands to galn something from the decision that congress may devise for the de- pendencles a form of government out- «lde the constitution and expresses the opinfon that the relation of America to jurope and the world 18 profoundly modified by the new departure. It also observes that “by stepping outside their continent the Americans undoubtedly weaken the force of the Monroe doc- adding that the “new departure makes it more important than before for the British and Americans, by all possible weans, to keep in good terms with each other and settle by friendly negotlations all outstanding differ- ences," If the editor of the British journal had carefully read the opinion of the majority of the supreme court he would have found the contentlon there that the decigion Is not a new departure, but has the warrant of DUmMErous —prece- dents %0 the course pursued with ac- quired territory in the past. As to its modifying the relation of Ameriea to Burope and the world, It may be granted that such is its effect, but the extent of this modification ls not so great that the United States cannot still adhere to the traditional policy of keep- fng out of European complications and entaugling allinnces with foreign na- tlons. Regarding the Monroe doctrine, there are many here who take the same view as the British newspaper, but it is not apparent that the doctrine has yet been weakened by the acquisition of tervitory outside of this continent and if the United States shall go no further in thix direction It 1s not likely that the Monroe doctrine will be weakened. As to the expediency of the British and Amerlcans keeping on good terms, it Is to be assumed that all intelligent and unprejudiced men in England and the United States will unreservedly admit it, but this was quite as important be- fore the “new departure” as now. The Idea conveyed by the British newspaper is that it s more important now than before, because “the entrance of the United States upon the scene as a world power Is already regarded as a highly disturbing factor by the European chancellorfes,” the implication belng that this country may sooner or later need British friendship to support it against the hostility of other European governments, 1t 1s i the judgment of many, how- ever, a serlous ‘question whether the United States would derive any real ad- vantage from courting British friend- ship, whether, on the contrary, to do so might not aggravate and intensify Eu- ropean hostility to the United States. That seemed to be threatened not very long ago, when there was so much talk of an Anglo-American alllance.. Of course it is most desirable that Great Britain and the United States shall set- tle by friendly .negotiations. all out: standing differences, b‘l_lt we should be as sollcitous to malintald friendly rela- tions with other. countries . as with Great Britain. What the United States must continue to do is to keep aloof from foreign complications and make no European alllances. If it shall do this there will be nothing serfous to fear from the so-called new departure. Smmse———— AMERICAN TERMS ACCEPTED. The acceptance of the American terms by the Cuban constitutional con- vention, with the addition of explana- tions of certain clauses of the Platt amendment, appears to be regarded with satlsfaction by the Washington authorities and it is sald that the weight of opinion there inclines to the belief that the action of the convention will not be disapproved by the administration. The report of the relations committee of the Cuban conventlon, which was adopted, dld not change the phraseology of the Platt amendment, but gave to some of the propositions an interpretation sald to have been based upon the construc- tion of them made to the Cuban commis- sion by the president and secretary of war. This, it would seem, does not in- terfere with the requirement that the Cubans should accept the American conditions “substantially” as prescribed by the Platt amendment and If this view shall prevall at Washington the action of the convention ends contro- versy In regard to the terms submitted by congress, This does not mean, however, that Cuba Is to immediately become inde- pendent, as some of the Havana papers have declared. The preamble to the Platt amendment authorizes the presi- dent to “leave the government and con- trol of the island of Cuba to its people” s0 soon as a government shall have been established there under a consti- tution which shall define the future re- lations of the United States with Cuba In accord with the American con- ditions, Such government Is yet to be established and until that Is done as prescribed by the Cuban constitution the status of the Island will continue as at present. That s to say, Ameri- can military occupation will remaln and Cuba will still be under the control of this country while the people of the island are taking the ateps necessary to the establishment of a government of their own. When this work has been completed the military forces of the United States will be withdrawn from Cuba and the control and government of the island be left to its people, sub- ject only to such restrictions ns are fmposed by the Platt amendment and these will not interfere with the local administration. It was a close contest between the radicals and conservatives, the latter winning In the conventlon by a single vote, The radicals were bitter in thelr denunciation of the advecates of the Platt amendment, declaring them to be tealtors to Cuban independence, but now that the American conditions have heen accepted It 18 probable that the bitter feeling and the resentments caused by thelr discussion will gradu- ally die out and the opinfon soon bhe- suredly be the case if there shall at once be shown a greater outside inter est in the industrial and commercial af- fairs of Cuba and capital shall more freely seek investment there. One Im- portant fact In connection with the action of the convention Is that it de feats the annexatlon movement, which was alding the opposition to the Platt amendment. We can see no sound reason why the Washington government should not ap- prove the action of the Cuban conven- tion and obviate any further delay to the work of establishing in the Island a government under the control of its people., MEMORIAL DAY SUGGESTION There 18 something suggestive in Memorial day that carries its lesson for the past, present and future of Omaha. In the past Omaha has grown and pros- pered in spite of the mossbacks who al- ways pulled backward whenever anyone proposed to go forward with any project depending upon enterprise and publie apirtt. These cronkers could not be made to compreliend why anyone should venture upon any enterprise or con- tribute to any project that did not carry with It a guaranty of 12 per ceut per annum on the Investment. Fortunately for Omaha, a very con- siderable number of the mossbacks have been In position to be beneficlaries of the beautiful customs of Memorial day. The principal monuments they have left are not In the sbape of monumental bufldings or great industrial establish- ments, but in shafts of granite or mar- ble planted in the cemeteries and In- scribed with thefr names and dates of birth and death. A few surviving mossbacks are still with us and continue to stand in thelr own light by selfish refusal to join more progressive citizens In the onward march of improvement. For them the twentleth century might as well be the elghteenth century. They are content with decorating the principal thorough- fares of Omaha with six one-story buildings on one lot Instead of a one six-story building. They Insist the pace of Omaha Is altogether too fast for them and feel sure dire calamity will overtake the foolhardy people who are willing to invest their money in modern store bulldings. Viewed from the purely patriotic standpoint, Memorial day is suggestive of the long-felt want of a few wmore first-class funerals. Looking to the future It also suggests not merely what Omaha might have been but for the pull-backs and mossbacks, but what it will be in the no very distant future when the new generation of push and pluck has full sway and takes full ad- vantage of the opportunities before them. Looking backward and forward, it strikes us as supremely ridiculous for people to debate the propriety of en- couraging the erection of metropolitan buildings in the business center for fear the investment will prove disastrous. Omaha bas long since passed the coun- try town stage. A city that rapks with the four principal commerclal centers west of Chicago, with a tributary terri- tory that can produce meat and bread enough to feed the world, does not re- quire a guaranty bond to insure returns on judiclous investments In real estate and improvements conforming to the demands of the times. The most significant observance of Memorial day In the west was at Sloux City, where was unveiled a monument to Sergeant Floyd, the first American soldler to yleld up his life within the great Loulsiana purchase, then princi- pally a wilderness, but now an empire in Itself. What others fought to save he and his companions blazed the way to open up. It was from the great northwest that came the balance of power which turned the tide of battle in favor of the unifon. The same spirit of defying difficulties which led Floyd and his companions into the wilderness has since made the same land blossom as the rose and furnish food for wil- ltons. The report of the recruiting officer, in charge of enlistment at this point, of the number of wen offering themselves for service affords conclusive contradiction of the stories about the growing aver- slon to the military service. The oppor- tunity for travel resulting from assign- ment to the insular possessions acts as a special stimulus which was not felt when military service merely meant confinement at western frontier out- posts. Of course the novelty may in time wear off, but for the present the adventuresome young man sees nothing objectionable in enlisting with Uncle Sam. Now that the powers have exacted the last cent they thought China could pay they are all willlng to get out. Remain- ing longer would be an expense which they see China s not able to liquidate. We shall see whether the people of that country really appreciate the nations which have Dbeen thelr friends or whether their thanks have been merely empty sound. Unless Chinese charac- ter has changed In recent years the na- tions which have exacted the tribute will lose it many times over In trade opportunitles. According to the tabulated statement of appropriations just made by the state auditor the legislative expenses of the last sesslon aggregated §133,000, which is exactly $1,000 for every member of the house and senate. In other words, while every member of the legislature received $300 compensation for his serv- lces, It cost $700 more for the supplies, attendants, postage, mileage, etc. ap- pertaining to the office It looks as if there were still or considerable retrenchment in the matter of legislative expenses, According to the new edict of the Omaha Woman's club invitations to at- tend its regular meetings will lereafter continue to be free, but they must be cashed In at the door with 50 cents. come general that the actlon of the couvention was wise, This will Unless women are differently consti- tuted from wmen, It Is a safe guess that the demand for invitations will -ufl’erl by competent historians appointed by the The Porto Rican Cases Colonial Polley Vindicated. Detroft Free Press (dem.) Within the scope of the questions sub- mitted to the supreme court our colonal policy 18 vindlcated, but this will no more atop popular agitation than did the Dred Scott deciston, A Great Vietory. New York Tribune (rep). The great victory has been won for this nation which Insures it power to exerclse 1ts sovereign authority ¢ iecessity may re- quire, without incurring the obligation to bring all sorts and comditions of men into the close circle of our union as prescnt necessary beneficlaries of our tariff laws and subsequent par(l § nts In our gov- ernment, Main Points Settled, New York World (dem.) The decislons leave open several miror Questions in regard to the new territorie But they settle all the main points and leave the president and the congress prac- tically untrammelled by the constitution and as free as is the British empire to pur- sue a policy of expansion and to govern colenies upon whatever lines circumstances may scem to make expedient. Power of Congrel Philadelphia Press (rep) In the practical work of statesmanship the theory on which a power 1s exercised is of less moment than the power itself. By whatever logic and on whatever grounds the eupreme court establishes power of congress to deal with each new territory as each requires. This power exists. It Is constitutional, It is enough for the de- velopment of the nation through all times to come. Forward, March. New York Sun (rep.). These principles follow inevitably from the declaration of the validity of the Porto Rican tariff under the Foraker act. In the most pregnant decision rendered by the supreme court since the period of the civil war that tribunal has now refused to grant an injunction against American progress during the twentieth century along the Iines indicated by the events of 1597 amd pursued up to this time by the American congress and the American executive, Meaning of “United States." Springfield (Mass,) Republican (ind.). But the supreme court now, by a majority of one, declares that the territories and de- pendencies are not a part of the ““United States” for tariff purposes, and that com- gress is not bound by the constitution in this respect. Thus the court turns a com- plete somersault as to the meaning of the term “United States” in passing from one short clause of the constitution to a com- ponent clause immediately following—and a greater trick In legal gymnastics passes upon the judiclal records of the country than was performed by the court even when it reversed its own repeated judg- ments in the income tax case. An Open Question. Atlanta, Constitution. The constitution does mot follow the flag. That means, for oue thing, that the ulti- mate fate of the Philippines is still, and can for all time be, an open question. Had the court held that the comstitution accom- panled soverelgnty, these islands would, as the result of the treaty of Paris, have to remain a part of the unfon for all time, Once acquired, there could be no parting with them.. The vourt mow holds that we have the right to beld.them and give them any government we may choose, and that while they belong,to the United States they are not part of the union in the mean ing of the constitution. This means that if it should be deemed unwise to hold them we can’make such disposition of them as we see fit, transferring them to a local gov- ernment or even to some foreign govern- ment ivided Court. Times (Ind. dem.) A New Yorl The popular effect of these opinions of the court and in some measure their legal welght will be diminished by the number and abllity of the dissenting opinfons. A court divided five to four does not speak with quite the eame authority as a ¢ that is unanimous. And Justice White's majority opinfon {5 historically and, we think, legally, much sounder than that of Justice Brown, in whose conclusion he con curs. Nevertheless, the decisions are bind- ing %0 long as they shall be upheld by sub- sequent opinions of the same tribunal. Tmperinl Power Philadelphia Record (ind. dem.) Congress, itself the creature of the con- stitution, 1s apparently invested with im- perial powers which find no warrant in the constitution. The court has taken a long time to arrive at any conclusion and has been vnable to reach a decision satisfactory to more than a bare majority of its mem- bership. It may be possible that when con- sidered in all its bearings a clearer com- prehension of the reasoning may satisfy the peopla of the United States that they can fely enter upon colonizing experiments ut instead of clearing away dificulty, new dificulties have meemingly been created Henceforth we are to have two kinds of a country. No_License to Oppression. Washington Post (ind.) We do not understand the court as glving any license for oppression, nor do we be- lieve the government of the United States capable of adopting a cruel policy toward any people under its authority. There wiil be no ground for complaint, and we shall keep our own and the world's self-respect it we act up to the declaration of President McKinley: “Our flag 1 there—righttully there; as rightfuly there as the flag that floats above me {s here; and It is there not as a flag of tyranny or as the symbol of slavery, but it is there for what it fs here and for what it is everywhere—justice and liberty and right and clvilization.” Indefinite Expansion, Philadelphia North American (rep.). The eftect of this decision is to open the way for indefinite expansion by purchase, cesslon or conquest, while reserving to the malaland the authority to raise tarlff bar- riers against the new territory such as it fs forbidden to erect between the states. This condition of government from without, 80 far as the court makes kuown, may continue forever. In effect, the court has laid a broad and eolid foundation for the extension of a world-wide colonial system absolutely controlled from Washington Henceforth the question of expansion will be one of political expediency, not of con- atitutional law. No Cause for Congratulation. New York Herald (ind.). Tt can hardly be sald that either the court or the country is to be congratu- lated on a decision which four of its mem- bers say “overthrows the basis of our con- stitutional law and asserts that the states, and not the people, created the Rovern- ment’* As Chief Justice Fuller declares in tho dissenting opinion of the minority, ““The source of national power in this coun- try is the constitution of the United States and the government as to our internal af- fairs possesses no inherent soverelgn power not derived from that instrument and inconsistent with its letter and spirit.” That was the view of Marshall, the great- est expounder of the constitution and it must be the view of all those who belleve that the constitution was intgnded by -its framers to be supreme and govern presi- dent and congress wherever the flag floats and the sovereignty of the United States extends. Can We Trust Kresst Chicago Chronfele (dem.) The American people are hardly pre- pared to accept the doctrine implied by the decision of the court that we may trust congress implicitly and that the onstitu- tion with ite restraints is a wholly un- nvecessary document, which is to be inter- preted in accordance with the assump:ion that congress is eoverelgn, and may exer- clse any power which at any time it may deem it necessary or expediemt to exer- clse They are not yet ready to dispense with the limitations and restraints of their written constitution or with the principle that they and not thelr agens are sov- ereign A Moral Q ton Involved. Buffalo press (rep.) There is a moral and political question involved in these cases, which, of course, is entirely apart from thelr legal aspect. Although the power of the United States to acquire colonies and to rule them with- out constitutional Ilimitations is estab- lished, the moral right and the political wisdom of doing so are much in dispute ever. Those who have contended against this policy have their position strengthened by the addition of four such men as Fuller, Harlan, Brewer and Peck- ham to the list of their supporters, which alrendy included Sherman, Harrison, Ed- munds, Reed, Boutwell, Hoar and many others who have long been looked upon as the leaders of political thought in the United States. While the decisions are a defeat for anti-imperialists, they are very far from meeting the expectations of the administration. There Is so much diver- gence among the judges that the decisions can hardly be held to settle much more than the particular cases involved. John Marshall Tarned Dowa. Chicago Record-Herald (ind. dem.) This is a John Marshall year and in the case of Loughborough against Blake he dis- cussed this very question of what part of “the American empire” was embraced within the designation of the United States. “Does this term,” he asked, “des- ignate the whole or any particular por- tion of the American empire?” And this is how he answered his own question: “Certainly this question can admit of but one apswer. It is the name given to our great republic, which is composed of states and territories. The District of Columbia or the territory west of the Missourl is mot less within the United States than Maryland or Pennsylvania and it is not less necessary, on the principles imposition of imposts, duties and excises of our constitution, that uniformly in the ghould be observed in the one than in the other. But Chief Justice Marshall died some sixty odd years ago and the opinion of Justice Brown, backed by the votes of Justices Gray, Shiras, White and McKenna, is the law of the land today, though it tears the constitutional limitations into shreds and, as Justico Harlan launches us on “‘an era of legislative lutism. a perceptible falling off when the new rule goes into effec The court-martial mill grinds more rapidly than the ordinary kind, with the result that the Manila grafters who gought to fatten their purse at the ex- pense of the government are finding out that it is a short journey from office to prison. Thelr successors will probably be a little more particular in the handling of military stores, South Dakota democrats and popu- lists threaten to bolt David B. Hill should he be nominated by the next na- tional conventlon, It will not matter much to David whether they do or not, for the chances of any democrat re- ceiving the electoral vote of that state in 1004 are exceedingly remote, —e Rubbered for Emergencies. Indlanapolis News. The Platt amendment is elastic, and not calculated to shackle the feet of events. The Country is Safe. Washington Post. It is magnanimous in those West Point cadets to recognize the authority of the War department. For a time it looked rather dublous for the department, ——— emand, Baltimore American, The supreme court decision on the insu- lar cases makes imperative a larger exhibi- tion of statesmanship durig the next ses- sion of congress than has been kmown for a good many years e It in Up to the Germans, Philadelphia Ledger. Our government has taken the proper at- titude in ignoring the incident at Pekin when an American sentinel fired on a Ger- man soldier wha broke through his guard. If a sensation is to be made of this affair, let Germany make it. It Is for her to show that the sentinel did wrong in obeying his | orders or that the orders were improperly | given. Good Reasons for Cheering. Minneapolls Journal. When General Chaffee comes home, all honest men ought to make a special effort to get out and make an outery. During the excitement in Pekin last winter a weal by Amerlian citizen theie sugges ed to General Chaffee that citizens of this country might as well get a share of the loot that was being reized. He offered to pay for the transportation to New York of two splen- did temple bronzes If the general would overlook thelr removal. “The Amerlcan caught looting wiil be shot at once,” was Chaffee's answer, and the rich man retired with what dignity he could summon. Sequel to a Scandal. Chicago Chronicle. The marriage of Prof. Herron and Miss Rand appears to have beon u common law affalr with & good deal of sociallstic moon- shine on the side. No vows were taken and none were necesary, for the very good reason that the doctrine which the parties to the unfon are attempting to inculeate expressly repudiates all autbority, re- sponsibility and obligation. If the profes o be not grievously misunderstood he Is a god, and, of course, his new wife, under the forms of socialism, must be a goddess The so-called marriage coremony was a pit- 1tul sequel to a scandal of outrageous pro- portions and it ought to put an end to the interest and even the curfosity wi‘h which the participants have been regardel. The assumption of such characters to lay down correct rules of lite and of religion for the guidance of other people 1s one of the most astounding manitestations of am era of loose thought and loose action. PERSONAL NOTES. George Hitchcock, who is mow rapldly growing wealthy by his work as an artist, began his career as a newspaper illus- trator only about fifteen years ago. Emperor William had a level head when he gave orders that the crown prince is not to recelve ovations when on excur- stone, but is to be left undisturbed, “so that he may enjoy bis youth." According to the royal mandate, it Is all right for British soclety to play cards in this year of mourning, but not to dance. It s philosophic. Card playlng Inspires mourning much more frequently than danc- ing does. Mr. Charles Dana Gibson finds that the average American girl Is growing taller at the rate of two inches every ten years. This would be alarming for posterity were It not for the fact that one cannot have too much of a good thing. Ex-Senator Mitchell of Wisconsin, who has returned home after two years spent abroad with his family, says that since the Spanish war it is evident to travelers that the English regard us with much more triendship and that “the French do not like us at all, though they are afraid of us.” During his speech In introducing = the British army proposals of the government Mr. Brodrick stated that the familles with three sons gerving in the army number no fewer than 300; four sons, 176; five sons, 142; six sons, seventy-two; sevem sons, twenty; eight sons, two; nine sons, one; ten rons, one. Henryk Slenkiewiez, 52 years old and al- ways faultlessly dressed, Is a perfect type of the Polish gentleman. Lanquid in man- ner and slow of speech, he takes little in- terest in anything outside of Iliterature, though be has done most of the things which the world offers a rich man to do. Ho {s an inveterate smoker of strong clgars. Adolph von Breuning, formerly secretary of the German legation in Washington, has been restored to the kaiser's favor, which he lost two years ago on his marriage to the beautitul divorced wite of Gordon Me- Kay, the Bostor millionaire. The emperor had refused consent to the marriage be- cause Mrs, McKay was considerably older than her German lover and because his majesty thought so wealthy a man should unite with an undivorced native and resi- dent of his own country. Influential triends have procured a reconciliation. Prof. Clark of the Northwestern univer- sity, Chicago, makes an indiguant and sweeping denfal of the stories attributing to him reflections on college-bred women as wives, Theso stories formed texts for editorials in prominent newspapers, one of | which was transferred to the columns of The Bee. In a letter to the New York Tribune Prof. Clark says: “The report that I have made any strictures on edu- cated women is absolutely without founda- tlon. The subject has never even been mentioned {n my classroom session of a class In theme writing, while commenting on an exercise just then read by @ student on a similar subject, 1 did make certaln comments on a particular class of ociely women to offer for what I really said ing I was informed that I was quoted in one of the ‘yellow' newspapers of Chicago as having expressed a sweeping cond tion of all college women. The libel is due to the idoley or the possible malice of some student reporter. As a matter fact, the views attributed to me are the exact opposite of those that 1 hold. I was fortunate enough years ago to marry & college-bred woman and sixteen years of experience have served only to confirm my original belief that the college-bred woman makes the best wife and the best home- maker of all women." At a recent | 1 have no apology | - | ment | of BITS OF WASHINGTON LIFE, Completion of the Biggest Book Ever Issued by the Government. Twenty-six years ago, In a preface to the first edition of his Memolrs, General Sherman made this sarcastic reference to the slow publication of the rebellion rec- ords: “At the rate of progress for the last ten years, it is probable a mew century will come before they are pub- lished.” General Sherman's sarcasm proved a cor- rect prophecy. The last volume of the glgantic publication, officlally kmown as the “Union and Confederate Records of the Rebellion,” has just been fssued, and the work completed except for the imdexes. With these included there will be 127 volumes of about 1,000 pages each, repre- senting an outlay of $3,000,000. The job was started tentatively thirty vears ago, says a Washington letter to the New York Sun, but it did not take actual form until 1874. Volume I was lssued in 1880. The compilation was at first fin charge of civillans connected with the War department, but afterward was more fully organized by an army officer, Lieutenant Colonel R. N. Scott. After Scott's death a board of publication was provided for by congrese, composed of an army officer, who was president, and two civilians. In December, 1598, the greater part of the books being completed, this board was dissolved by the secretary of war and the unfinished volumes handed over to an army officer again, From 1801 to 1898 more than 100 persons were employed in the War Record office. It has been a gigantde undertaking, but | after all has repald its cost. It is largely by means of this vast government publica- tion, involving such enormous outlays and 80 many years of painstaking labor, that the true greatness and patriotism of the people on both sides of the line are now more fully understood and appreciated and the animosities of the war days greatly al- layed. | Tho first series, with a set of maps, of which there are thousands, deals principally with the battles and campalgns and fn- cludes official reports, orders, returns, lot- ters and telegraphic dlspatches on every concelvable subject relating thereto. The second serles embodles the same sort of documents relating to prioners of war and state, The third series embodies the offclal calls for troops and the documents cover- ing the history of the drafts, organization | of armies and related subjects on the unfon | side. The fourth serles embodies similar matters on the confoderate side. There 1s a coplous Index with each book, beside which there is to be the general index to | the whole. Congress provided for the issue of edltion of 11,000 coples of each separate volume, the greater number of which | were distributed through designations made by senators and representatives. The beneficlarles have been receiving the books | for twenty years at an average rate of about six volumes per amnum. As more | than 1,350,000 books in the aggregate have been printed and thus distributed, a large force has been constantly required for the malling service alone ever since 1880, work which has been done in the War depart ment. A certain portion were reserved for | sale at cost and each executive department | | of the government also received a comple an All the sets for free distribution were long ago exhausted, but the public pres | sure for the work still continues. Congress has already been importuned to reprint the | entire set, but it will hardly do so. | every public Itbrary in the country of any consequence has been supplied with & set of the rebellion records Many people suppose the records are a | runsing Listory of tbe civil war, written | government. They are notbing of the sort Not a line wae written by the compilers, other than footnotes or headings, explan atory of the documents. The war records so-called are a collection of all the ac- cessible official documents, whother reports, returns, letters, telegrams, or what not, ve- IAting to the rebellion, arranged in chron- logical order in the sequence of eveuts They are printed exactly as written, the compllers morely correcting bad spelling and subjecting them to a general rule of punctuation and address. They were not otherwise edited. Occasionally a footnot fs ventured to explain some obscurity, or reference which otherwise would not he understood. The work's mreat feature is that the documents relating to & given event like Gettysburg, for instance, are all brought together. It is therefore a work of enormous value to the historian of (o day and for all time, as well as to the coun try, but it 1s not a history in ftself in the common acceptance of the term, otherwise than as the docupients themselves tell the story of great events, which in fact they do D RS OF A SWIFT PACE. Rapid Transit Not as Desirable as Some Imngine. Boston Globe. The greatest problem mow agitating two coutinents {8 how to run electric cars at something 1ike 200 miles an hour. There I8 only one discount on this splen 14 prospect of heing approximately every where at the same time. One may convey his thoughts and wishes at Iightning spe but dangers multiply as he attempts to move his body at any such speed as miles an hour. A forecast of what this danger is may be seen every day in the casualties r sulting from such rapld transit as we al ready have. In Albany last Sunday two trolley cars, running at forty miles an hour had a head-on collision which mado kin dling wood of both. They are eald to have been “racing for a switch” As a rosult five persons were killed and scores of mangled and bleeding victims were piled into one ghastly human pyramid It is such things that confront rapil transit. If forty miles an hour can work such havoe what would result from a head on collision of two trains going at 200 miles an hour? Soclety, like the individual, las the best of reasons for “going slow’ sometimes ES TO A LAUC Brooklyn Life: “Papa, what fs a syndi- cate?” "My son, It 18 a body of human beings en- ttrely surrounded by money." Cleveland Plain Dealer: I sea that thera 1s a_great scarcity of jars in this country.” “Fruit or family?” Brooklyn Life: First Hospital Nurse What appears to be the matter with the big trust magnate Second Hospital Nurse—Tt seems to be a case of “water” on the brain Detroft Journal: Our idea of an feal woman s & woman to whom the mos exgensive hata In the shop happen to be unbecoming: Record: Simpson, rald “On do ‘you ask faithful in drawing years as any other Chicago ground, Mr. raise? “Why, I've been a my salary all these clerk In your offic Philadelphia Pre “I had intended,” sald Mrs. Reuben Necke at the supper table, “to go downtown todny to look &t some’ stockinge, but it rained so all after- noon." “Why," remarked Mr. Reuben Necke, ab- gent-mindedly, “that's tho beat time 't seo them.” Chicago Record-Herald: “Those folks next door hardly speak to us." “Lawn mower troubles?" “No; we sent them a cook, and ehe didn’t like them." what for a Detroit Fres Press: “Mayme, here's a college professor who says he hus never kissed a girl.” “Oh, well; lots of profoundly sclentifio men haven't really good common sense.'” Washington Star: “What did your wife do when she found those poker chips in vour overcoat pocket?” asked the practical joker. “She took the matter very coolly found out where they came from and sent A messenger boy to get them cashed.” Cleveland Plain Dealer: Do vou think the Princess Chimay will permit her ex- travagance to be curtalled? ““Chimay, and she may Somerville Journal: The doctors wouldn't get 80 many fees as they get now if their invariable rule always to let the well enough alone. Detroit Free Press: The Young Man-—I suppose, sir, that when I become formally engaged to your daughter you will admit me a8 a_member of the firm The Pather—Well, 1 don't know. I don't feel as If 1 could afford the expense of both of these things just now. e . ERRY-BOUGHS. Lizette W. Reese, in Iippincott's. Oh, who shall run and greet me in the alleys of the spring? Oh, who shall seek and find me, and go re- membering ! And what {s this that waits me In the orchard long and white? What can It be, my heart of hearts, except our Lost Delight! And oh, the haunting cherry-boughs, that are o good to know! Ana “oh.'"the " heavenly cherry-boughs, stralght up to God they gre And oh, that lonely foot I liear a-following through the trees, And in the stopping of the wind the little, wrangling bees Ye clerks, fare from the counting house; ye shepherds, from the hill! Make fast the latch, yo careful wives, of April take your fil! Yot what f% this that walts you in the orchard long and white? What can_it be, ye sons of men, except your Lost Dellght! To you the word, to you the dream, to you the quest shall fall; For every vexing thing shall pass, but not The Best of All! the cherry-houghs it ¥ and 5o kind, And you will hear It following in the stop ping of the wind! Feeling Poorly? That’s often the case this time of year. Hardly sick enough to have a doctor, yet miserable all the time. Of course, if you are right hard sick, you should call your physician atonce. Even now that you are only half sick, why not ask him about your taking Ayer’s Sarsa- parilla this spring? He knows it's the strong- est, safest, purest, and best Sarsaparilla you can buy, and he will probably tell you that for general debility and nerve exhaustion it is the best thing you can take. $1.00 & bettle. All druggists. J. C. AYER €O, Lowell, Mass, stan