Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 16, 1901, Page 6

5 OMAHA DAILY BEE. E. ROSEWATER IDITOR, PUBLISHED BVERY MORNING ), One Year. $6.00 day Year.. 8.0 | M 00 [Vt ar. 1 Cw| ry Farmer, One Y, OFFICES Omaha: The Bee Bullding South Omahu. City Hall pullding, Twen- ty-fiith and M streets « | Blufls; 10 Pear] Street. Chicago: 14 Building. New York mple Court Washingtlon: sl Fourteenth Street, CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi- toriul matier should be adaressea: Omaha Bee, koitorial Department BUSINESS LETTERS, Bus letters ond remitiances should be acaresseq. ‘The bee Puolshing Com- pany, Umaha REMITTANCE arait, express or postal order, Hee Pu Compiny cpted i payment checks, except on 1wes, Not accepled HING COMPARNY | Omaha or casiern THE BRL BTATEMI Btate of NCb Geor OF CIRCULATION ki, Dougias County, #s.; | H. ‘Laschick, sccretary of The Bee | Publisning Company, being duly sworn, | says that the actual number of full and complete ccples of The Datly, Morning Evening, and Sunday Bee priiited during the month of June, iwl, was as foliows 20,170 26,400 10 690 | 25,610 | 776,045 sold and returned coples.... 8T4 Not total sales 700171 Net dally avera 25,072 5. B, TZ8CHUCK | G Bubscribed In_my presence and sworn to before e this 30th day of D. 1wl M.} HUNGA B, Notary Public PARTIES LEAVING waving (he city for r muy have The Hee Ol SUMMER, rar the a on « them regularly iying The Bee Business otilee, In p or b mull, The nddreas will be ¢ as often as desired. N uged w Pittsburg is the storm cente No phantom rain storms for us. Ne- | braska wants the genuine article, | the Kansas Clty plattorm, | ple fact 1s that the obvious purpose of L and | Betore complete, THE POLITICAL CENTER versbody recognizes the fact that this yéar the political center is Ohlo. Not only Is that the president's state and the state of the.chairman of the 1 republican national committee, but it is | peculiarly the state where the very worst sentiments of the Bryanized democracy 9| Linve found the strongest support among | the states of the north. Looking over the istory of. politics it will be found | that Oblo for mauy years has been the | center of certaln political doctrines that have had a great deal to do with form- ing the course and polley of the dem- ocratic party. The cheap money cra had its stronghold in Ohlo in the ‘708 and there is no state of the north in which the doctrine of free trade, disguised nnder the phrase of a tariff for revenue only, liad a greater support than in the Duckeye state, notwithstanding the fact that it 1s one of the greatest manu- facturing states in the unlon. The democratic party of Ohio, In the last two presidential elections, was ab- solutely regular. As we have hereto- fore pointed out nearly the entire dem- e vote of the state was cast for platform and candldate of the Kan- s City convention. How is It to- The platforms and the candidate 1806 and 1900 have been renounced and repudiated, If we except only a part of the platform relating to so- called imperialism. It was quite Impos- sible that the Ohio democrats should ignore everything that was embraced in but what was recognized was not necessurily an | indorsement of Bryanism, as some of | the still blind and foolish supporters of Mr. Bryan profess to believe. The sim- oc the Olio democrats was to cut loose ab- solutely from the doctrines of populism socialism that had taken posses slon of the party and to get back to the old standards which in the past had en- abled the party to win victories, How much real honesty and sincerity there 1s In the declarations of the Ohio democrats remains to he seen. Their idea seems to be to fight the campaign chietly upon local issues, but this is an old subterfuge which they will not be able to work to very much advantage. the campaign has progressed half way nothing but national ques- tions will engige the public attention. The fact remains, however, that what- ever the result of the election the re- pudiation of Bryan and Bryanism is The democratic party In Ohlo has put Itself absolutely on record in It will take a Lot political | spposition to the leadership of Bryan good de glue to make Ohio democrats stick to- gether. It costs $100,000 to convict a cattle thief in Wyoming. It only costs 20| cents to hang a horse thief in Wyoming. | “Free public baths are Omaha's ery- ng need” So also are free private baths, with soap and towels thrown in. In the broiling heat of July home owners shouid not lose sight of the fact that precinet assessors are to be elected in the cool days of November. It Is an il wind that blows nohody good. The tropieal season has been a windfall for the street rallway com- pany and the de in cool drinks. at Is the kn game warden doing during this hot spell? Is he loading hig bird gun for grasshoppers or preparing his caunon cartridges for | tives from all the South Amerlean coun- | Praska have led the country in corn pro- quall? tries. duction and are always up among the PR ORI Aecording to Washington dlspatches | leaders. The honor of belng the great- An Omaha man compluing to the po- | 8 B0 T olutely pertect | 8t corn_ producer fluctuates between lice that some one stole a couple of understanding reached by which the Tows, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas and :‘":11\1“‘5: L D ol Ao controversy between Chill and Pera, re- Nebrask ould steal a blanket this Kind of 3 ¢ lating particularly to the question of e £ weathéh 1s o ntural born thiof, ; Agrieh ] Jobn 1. Wilkle, chief of the Unitea (. —— arbitrating thelr -pust ditloulties, bas) oo ooorer gorvice, will ask tlie next And now it is announced that we are to bave a theater trust that will reach | from San Franeisco to New York, with Omaha in the middle. The proposed trust Is among the least harmless of those that have yet been projected. One effect of the control of the rall- road sySfews ‘of the ‘country by New York financiers is the securiig of spe- cinl rates from’ all over the country to attract merchants to the metropolis, Th community of interest appears to cen ter In New York. —_— Minister Conger will sall from San | dificulty, though it may be perfectly Fraucfsco tor Pekin tomorrow en- | legitimate for such a congress to pro- tirely oblivious of the gubernatorial | vide for the settlement by avbitration boomdet that has been incubated In his| of any future controversy between interest by political admirers in Iowa. | those countries, as between any other Minister Conger believes a bird in the | of the states of South America. hand i worth two in the bush, Carlisle Graham has succeeded for | will have upon the future relations of the fifth time in going through Niagara | (he independent states of this bemi- rapids encased i oa barrel. Graham | sphere, cannot casily be overestimated, should be suppressed. HIs feat works | while so far as the United Stutes is no good result, hut simply encourages | concerned it will undoubtedly be the other rvattle-brained people to attempt | most fmportaut ngress of the re- the same thing and probably lose thefr | lives. Colorado pleasure resorts have a repu- tation of letting no one get away with- out spending all the money th have, The Epworth leaguers enroute to Cal- tfornia did not appear inclined to stay long enough to spend any considerable | amount, o the pickpockets tinished up | the work. Troubles on the Mexiean division of the Southern Pacific road illustrate the value of a sound currency to the labor- fug wan as well as the man of finance, The tralnmen are on a strike for more | wages. They get the same rate of pay as ewmployes of -the company in this coun- try, who are perfectly satistied, but it is In Mexican dollars, which means the purchusing power of thelr wages is cut in balf, Sunday the Japanese unveiled a mon- ument to Commodore Perry of the | the crops which have not yet matured, American nayvy, This s probably the | with few exceptions, have been seri- first instance in - the world's history | ously damaged. This includes nearl where one people voluntarily pald such a tribute to a man who had humbled them. It was Perry who forced open the doors of wnese ports and made possible the development of modern Japan. Perry was looking to the In- terest of his own country, but in so do- ing rendered the greatest service to Japan. | country and to the doctrines for which be stands and it is most significant that in taking this position It is receiving democratic indorsement in every section of the 2,200,000,000 bushels, at a valuation of not less than 800,000,000, The most extravagant estimate of the corn crop at this sty does not exeeed 50 per cent of the crop of 1000, the greatest shrinkage belng reported from Kansas and Missourl, where the pro- tracted hot spell has been most severe In Nebraska the damuge so far Is not | 80 great as to cause serious alarm; in fuct, the only section of the state that has been serfously affected is that por- | tion lying west of the 100th meridian, where a comparatively small area is de- voted to corn ralsing. In the central and eastern sections the conditions in- dicate a medinm crop unless the usual July rainfall fails to materialize, At the very worst Nebraska is in no dunger of ‘urrence of the distress | caused by the drouth of 1804 aund 180 Nebraska's excellent wheat crop, which is already harvested, is estimated at $20,000,000. The value of other cercals and farm products will range from $10,000,000 to $15,000,000, that the gross value of the agricultural produc will exceed $35 per capita, omitting tue corn crop, dairy products and the re ceipts from cattle, sheep and hogs, which will this season run into the millions, Altogether the prospects for Nebraska cannot be said to be discouraging, what- ever may be the outcome of the torrid | wave. s0 The Chicago Chronicle pays a left- handed compliment to Omaha when it states that its recovery from the ae pression due to its exposition fs e denced by an increase of 606 per cent in its building permits during the past season over the same period & year ago. The fact is well known that the Trans- mississippi Exposition did uot cause depression; on the contrary, the expo- | sition had a decided tendency to lift | Omaha cut of the slongh of despond fol- | lowing the business depression and | stagnation of 1803, which was succeeded by the disastrous crop failures of 1804 and 180 Omaha did not overbuild | during the exposition period and there- fore did not suffer from the reaction that was experlenced in Chicago and other exposition cltie: The Nebraska farmer laughs and grows fat, all because the populist policy of more money and higher prices has been adopted by McKinley. Big crops and high prices! Just think of {t! In the old days of “hon- est money” big crops always meant low prices.—Nebraska Independent. Here is populist logie for you! Why not ask the Nebraska farmers to ex- plain how it comes that eggs get harder the longer they are boiled, while all other substances expand by heating until they reach a melting point. Would | and nowhere with greater en- thuslasm than in the south. THE PAN-AMERICAN CONGE. According to the latest advices, the Pan-American congress, which is to meet in the city of Mexlco next October, will have representatives from all the Amerlean states. There has been some doubt whether all of the states of South Anterica would be represented -in ‘the congress, owing to issues between cer- tain of them, particularly Chill and Peru, growing out of old differences, but through the offices of the United States it now appears to be practically assured that all misunderstandings have been amicably arranged and that the congress will include representa- been left entirely out of the program to be cousidered by the congress. This does not mean that the question of ar- bitration will not be considered, but it will not be permitted to apply to the old controversies between South Amer- fcan states and manifestly there is no good reason why it should be allowed to apply unless some new conditions should arise In connectfon with those controversies, For example, the trouble between Chili and Peru occurred sev- eral years ago and it is manifestly not the business of an international con- gress to take any cognizance of that The importance of the coming Pan- American congress, in the bearing it publics of the western hemisphere ever held. One result of it which is par- ticularly to be desired and expected is that it will correct the idea now w hh'ly‘ prevalent In the countries south of us that the United States is not as friendly as formerly to the republics of South and Central America and that we have designs upon the territory of those stutes. Nothing in connection with this congress will be more fwportant than that of convincing the southern repre- sentatives that thelr countries arve as sceure today as they have ever been in the friendship and protection of the United States. NEBRASKA NOT SERIUUSLY AFFECTED. The torrid temperature that has pre- vailed in nineteen states during the past three weeks has wrought focaleulable damuge. The Intense heat, which in many places has broken all records, has covered an unusually wide range., All every agricultural product of importance except wheat and some of the smaller frufts, The destructlon is most severe in the great corn belt. In 1900 the corn erop of the country aggregated 2,100,000,000 bushels, which had an estimated value, on the farm, of $760,000,000. Sixty days ago the corn it not be much more pertinent for the | chief expounder of populism to explain to Nebraska farmers why thelr prod- | ucts sell at high prices for gold stand- ard money in spite of the fact that we have no free coinage and silver is bought for the mints at the ratio of 30 to 1?7 Secretary Wilson should take another look at crop statist He 18" quoted by a New York paper in discussing the | corn crop situation as saying that so far as the total yield of the cereal was concerned Nebraska and Kansas did not | cut much of a figure, as the great corn | states were all east of the Missouri riv If the secretary will take the trouble to look it up he will see that In numerous years Kans and N congress to enact luws that will wipe out eoin counterfeiters. The most ef- fective law that congress could pass to put a stop to connterfeiting would be to wake the business unprofitable by enacting a law calling in and recolning all the sliver money now in eirculation and converting it into honest dollar halves, quarters and dimes. So long as the temptation is offered for making a profit of 100 per cent by colning silver the most drastic reasures congress | could pass to punish counterfeiting would not put a stop to it. 'remier Crispi of Italy 1s danger- v 1l and with the burden of yea lded to infirmity is not likely to re- With oue exception he is the cover. lust of a coterle of greut statesmen whose work in the past generation [ shuped the desting of present day Europe. Gladstone, Disraell, Bis- marck and Gambetta are gone, and of it minds of that period Crispi | and Pope Leo alone remain, Like Bis- | ck, Crispl’s closing days are under n shadow, but this not detract | from his great coustructive work for his country. | does Frauchises are worth money fn Chi- cago. The Chicago Teleplione compuny pays 3 per cent of its gross earnings to that city as a voyalty for the privileges | enjoyed. The total income of the com- puny for the first six months of this yeur wus 1,160,521 and the royalty re- ceived by the city of Chicago uggregated $54824. At the same rate for the next | 8ix mouths the royalty for the year will amount to about §70,000, This will puy the salaries of seventy policemen or seventy tiremen for a year, The British have captured the wife of the president of the Transvaal and have taken her a prisoner to Pretorla, This is the reading of the dispateh, but it is hardly likely that in the ordinary sense she is a prisoner. Such treatment as that would raise a storm of protests which even Joseph Chawberlain would be forced to notic A few irrigation reservoirs in the semi- arid region west of the 100th meridian would be worth millions to the people of the drouth-stricken region, By Comparison We Shine, Globe-Democrat, I France the interest charge on the pub- lie debt is §200,000,000 & year, a per capita of over §5. In the United States the in- THE OMAHA DAILY BEE ® per capita of 39 cents. Uncle Sam head: the Iist of great nations In financial condi- tions and prospects. TUESDAY, Optimiam. Charles A. Dana. We may. be happy You bet Opportunity for Fame, Indianapolis News Any rainmaker is welcome band, yet, to try his Long Time to Get Sober, Chicago Chronicle (dem.) The great democratic drunk Is over with By rights it should have ended a year ago _— Cause and Effect. Philadelphia Record No wonder that the reported partial fail- ure of the corn crop takes the starch out of the market! No Occasion for Grlef, Indianapolis Journal, However, Mr. Bryau has not lost much in Ohto. It whl be recalled that Mr. Bryan never had much fu Ohio to lose. —_—— Treason, WGosh, Philadelphia Record. The vote In the Ohlo democratic convention on the proposed resolution to stand by Bryan amd reafirm the Kansas Clty platform stood 94 against & for re- afirmation. The inconstant Buckeyes this year “‘have other fish to fry.” stute oOr th ninent G. C, Washington Post An English taflor says all Amerlcan gentlemen wear corsets. Has the tailor over seen the Hon. Thomas Brackett Reed, the Hon. Billy Mason, the Hon. Stephen Douglas, jr., the Hon. Jim Ste- phen Hogg, or General Shafter? Balm for the Roast. New York Sun Andrew Andersen of Tonawanda asks us this rather difficult question: “What is the best hot-weather dlet?" The safe rule is to take as little as you | can and keep the machine going. Prof. | Peaslee of Cohoes recommends four quarts | of sherbet to be sipped slowly as you read Dr. Kane's ““The United States Grinnell Ex- pedition Dr. Reuben Pogue of Pittsburg finds the following bill of fare very condu- clve and quicting: “Breakfast Muskmelon on ice. Lunch- eon: Ice cream Dinner: Cold consomme, cold breast of snowbird, fce cream in musk- welon, maraschine punch.” Corruption Through Charities, Philadelphia Times. One of the most subtle and dangerous forms of corruption by politicians is the subsidizing of religlous and benevolent agencies. Men who could not be ap- proached with any suggestion of personal benefit will give thelr influence and their votes in consideration of some favor to an Institution in which they are Interested and political opposition may be silenced by a threat to withhold an appropration The managers of the machine in Pennsylvanla are well aware of the power which the control of the state appropriations gives them and they have used It to the utter- most. The extravagance of their gifts of public money is of small importance com- pared with the debauchery to which it has been applied. Where the Air is Cool. Boston Transcript. The exploration gf the air has been very active again this year in Europe, by bal- loons supplied with varlous instruments.’| In February one balloon reached 41,636 feet, nearly eight miles of helght, where the temperature was 67 degrees below zero. Another balloon near Berlin found about this same cold at an elevation two miles less. Some years ago when the thermome- ter in London registered 80 degrees Fah- renhelt the air was found, thirty-five min- utes later, at an altitude of less than five mileg, to be 20 degrees below zero. It is evident that the attractive and in- creasing study of the ocean of alr, now be- coming International, has gained some im- portant points of knowledge lately. It is but reasonable to believe that good appli- catlons muet follow In due time during this century. The excellent Puritan say- ing is ever before us: ‘‘Advance by new knowledge." DEMOCRATIC PROPHECY, The Star-Eyed Goddeas Considers Things n Century Hence. Loutsville Courler-Journal, One hundred years hence, when these times come to be dispassionately reviewed, the historlan, looking out into the garden of a mansion in the American city of Manila, thoroughly modernized and civil- ized, or It may be writing from a balcony in the American port of Hong Kong, given us by the English for our friendly atd in that little affalr with Russia upon the head waters of Bitter creek In Manchurla, will tell of how there were Josiah Quincys and Tim Plckerings in 1901, as there had been in 1801, to protest against expansion, to predict dire ills of progress, but that In spite of these the star of the republic continued to go westward, the constitution | hand-in-hand with the flag, religion over all! He will write, mayhap, of many ups and downs, of dangers by flood and fleld, of seasons of famine and seasons of plenty, of perlods of darkness and doubt, of mis- government and maladministration, but in spite of these the sturdy moving onward and upward of the republic in the develop- ment of the self-governing principles and the rights of man. He will teil of parties, 100; not of one party in power all these years, but of the excesses of ome party making the opportunity and the necessity for a change of partles; yet not a single halt in the forward march, not the lowering of a single national standard, wot the abridgement of the dimensions of the flag by 80 much as the thickness of a hair, The future can be measured by no rules kuown to the present. The distance be- tween the island of Luzon and the District of Columbla will be scarce noted as the world, shut up by the centralizing forces of modern invention like a telescope, is made familiar to maokind in all its parts and it to live in throughout its length and breadth; a new world, with an autonomy of nations undreamed of by the iron-bound | philosophy of Greece and Rome, even by the limited vislon of the militant sages who made the American union. In a word, we are but upon the threshold of such a development of resources and ideas as will beggar all that preceded it, putting to blush the short-sightedness of those who on the one hand would reduce the constitu- tion to an invoice, the flag to a bill of lading and limiting to & party what was meant for mankind, and of those, on the other hand, who, making a reat pretense of being the party of the people, but in reality not trusting the people, nor truly belleving either in the constitution or the declaration of independence, would stop all movement, dam all pro for fear that in crossing the ocean some of our institu- tlons may get their feet wet As Jefferson did not destroy liberty in annexing New France, nor Jackson, Tyler and Polk in annexing Texas and New Mexico, mor Lincoln in abolishing African slavery, so shall the fires of liberty burn long after the youngest cf us has gone Lo his account, nor less brightly on the other ross, | married | teacher—it JULY MARRT 16, 1901, WOMEN TEACHERS, Why School Bonrds Discontinue Thelr Sery 8chool Board J nal The criticisms so frequently passed upon the action of school boards in excluding married women teachers from teaching in the schools usually come from those have but a theoretical knowledge of subject. It is Invarlably held that marriage doos not disquality a woman from teaching and that a woman who has once been a mother is better qualified to deal with children than fs an unmarried woman. This is all true. ber ever disputes these arguments. But here the critics stop. ‘They seldom enter upon the practical—or, let us say, the seri- ous phases of the subject Let us s 1de prudery and affectation. Let us be plain When a woman enters upon a marriage it Is reasonable to say that her new contract implies household cares and wifely duties And more than that. A woman's marriage implics motherhood. Motherhood at times necessitates seclusion. At least, the echool room 18 not the place for a married woman at all stages of her marrled life. We know of several iustances where school boards were placed under the em barrassing obligation to suspend marricd who woman teachers because they failed to be| as considerate of the school room as its best interests would suggest. However, this point, owing to its delicacy, need not be discussed any farther. The reasons which have actuated school boards in barring married women from appointments have usually been based upon hard, common sense. Here is the woman teacher who is supporting a lazy husband, another who slmply wants to earn extra pin money, regardless of the fact that she neglects her own children by so dolng Then there is the woman who wants to help her husband—a husband who ought to help himself. Then we have the avaricious man and wife, who sacrifice all the things that go to establish Christlan home life and a family. They are simply a co-part- nership of two breadwinners, The woman has an able-bodled bhusband to provide for her and yet she crowds out the young, un- woman, whose parents may have made great sacrifices in order to enable her to become self-sustaining. It is claimed by the ethical quibbler on this subject, that it Is not the business of the school board to inquire whether th woman is married or unmarried; whether, it married, her husband earns a large or small sa or whether her own children are well provided for or neglected, whether she performs her duty as wife and mother or not? And yet when it is considered that soclal conditions may have a bearing upon the pursuit of a profes- slon, that marriage is more frequently a hindrance than an advantage to the woman becomes the 0ol board's duty to recognize facts and not theories But is the married woman teacher prefer- able to the single woman? Are not the cares and dutfes incidental to wifehood and motherhood apt to distract in the perform- ance of school room labors? Is the woman who has small children of her own at home, conetantly awaiting her return, fit to teach other people’s children? School boards which have passed rules against the employment of married woman teachers have been “confronted by a con- dition not a theory,” and have not fiinched in doing their duty, LAWMAKING OVERDONE, Absurdities and Inconsistencics of the Legislative Grint. Saturday Evening Post. None who glves attentton to the matter will deny that this country would be freer and happier if there were a lawful check against laws. The lack of any such check puts on the people of every state, in every season, such a mass of restraints that not the lawyers themselves keep track of them and confusion {s worse confounded by the wrongness, Inconsistency and mutual Interference of the bills that go through | the annual grist. Legislatures are com- monly political rather than statesmanlike and they put into the permanent form of law schemea for temporary and party bene- fit. Sometimes the laws are not even g0 wide as that, but are mere screws for extortion. It cannot be that so many measures are needed to preserve the up- rightness of a country that is naturally as upright as any in the world, yet it is a fact that over 20,000 pages of laws issue every year from the legislatures of our states. Wo live in a riot of lawmaking. It is a blessing that most of the measures are dead letters from the day of their enact- ment, yet It is a danger that any of them can be resurrected from the limbo of the forgotten and used to enforce an unjust demand or express a prejudice. Lacking a national check or standard of law, the varlous states and the varlous townships of a state can be widely divided against one another. One could multiply through hundreds of pages the absurditfes and Inconsistencies for which zeal In lawmaking fs responsihle hut it would not check thelr Increase. That is best prevented by allowing the people to approve or nullity their laws. Tnitiative and referendum offer great possibilities, for it laws were submitted for final adoption to the people themselves, or, if we could confine our leglslatures to biennfal per- formances of not more than sixty days' duration, there would he a surcease of law and the governing statutes would sift down to a few sensible measures, We elect men to make laws, but men who would accept office with the understanding that they were to unmake hundreds now on the hooks should be and possibly would be hurrfed into office by tumultuous majorities. PERSONAL NOT Down In Newark, N they claim to have an Infant somnambullst. Elsewhere it s the custom for the baby to get some- body else to do its sleep walking. Marshall Field, the Chicago merchant, has glven a public free library to the town of Conway, Mass. The bullding i3 now complete and will be'dedicated on Saturday next. The sultan of Sulu is a little man with a no more striking personality than is given him by his costume. When standing he hardly comes above the elbow of the aver- age Amerlcan, Prince von Hohenlohe, who died a few days ago, is credited with having made this remark about the German emperor: “His greatest failing 15 that he does not think there are any limits to his will New Orleans thinks of putting forward claims to be consldercd the favorite sum- mer resort of the country. During the hot spell through which the mnorth sweltered the Crescent Clty was very comfortable and but one death from heat was reported On Thursday last Justice Dooley of Chi- cago imposed a flne of $15 on a Mr Lossick because the latter was charged by his wife with having walked backward about the house and with having refused to have his hair or beard cut for six month The Olympla, Admiral Dewey's flagship during the battle of Manila bay, has re- celved some decorations of more than or- dinary significance lately. It has been un- dergolng some overhauling at the Charles- ton navy yard and bas received new stem and stern ornaments. The chief of these Is the forme A Winged Victory holds high side of the world than on this, for we are a militant as well as a Christian people, crop of 1001 was estimated at fully terest charge is less than $30,000,000 a year, ) and God leads the way!l above her head an eagle which she 1s about to launch into the air. Her wings lie along the sldrs of the ship's prow. No school board mem- | ROMANCE OF A MILL ONAIRE, Charming Young Widow Remembered | in Plerre Lorillard's Wil The upper crust of Gotham and the im mediate friends of the family are shocked over the discovery of a clauso fn the will of the late Plerre Lorillard, tobacco king aud multi-millionalre, by which a Mrs. Lily Allien of New York City secures the | princely Raucocas farm and other legaoies | kenerous enough to keep the wolt trom the | lone widow's door. But the legacles are to be contested and the family linen given an alring in court before Mrs. Alllen gets the prize. Twenty years ugo Plerre Lorillard was | | possessed of $15,000,000 or $20,000,000. To- | | duy his catate has diminished to less than one-fourth of that sum. On Mrs. Allien Mr. Lorillard had laviehed wealth as well as affection. The gift of Rancocas o the beautiful woman is regarded by the friends of both as a mere bagatelle. That Mrs. | | Allten had recelved gifts of a much more | liberal nature in the past is not doubted. | | The beautifully equipped house on Thirty- | first street, in which she lived, it 1s under- | 8tood, was a gift to her outright from Mr. ! | Lorillara It contalns works of art, a| library and & collection of antiques that | bring its value, with its contents, to not | Plerre Lorillard’s attachment for a certuin | mysterious woman of great personal beauty, | but tew outside of the Lorillard family | kuow her name. It was kmown that she | was of good birth, a member of one of the | oldest familles in New York and related by marriage to a still more aristocratic family, but comparatively few kmew who sho was save the immedfate members of Mr. Lorillard’s family. Mrs. Alllen is a | very beautiful woman, statuesque, with an | | oval face, dark, twinkling eyes and an | abundance of curly hair. She is a woman | of many accomplishments, wonderful tact, | and 1s a most delightful hostess Whenever Mr. Lorillard was in New York | | he made his home at 11 East Thirty-first | street, a house that he had purchased and fitted up luxurtously for the accommodation of Mrs, Alllen, her father and himself Wherever he went he was accompanied by Mrs. Allten, save only on those occasions when he went to Tuxedo Park to visit his children and look after the big 5,000-acre estate, developed by himself into one of the most delectable spots in the United Stat In soclety Mr. Lorfllard seldom, it ever. was accompanied by Mrs. Allien, and thus it comes to pass that there {s so much ignorance even in well-informed circles ae to the identity of the woman whom Mr, Lorillard befriended and who today is be- lieved to be in possession of a very large share of his estate, independent of what appears in his will The Thirty-first street house has long been a mystery to the immediate residents of that neighborhood. Just oft Fifth ave- nue and only a etone’s throw from the | sorted couple that each should go his and | her respective way, neither interfering with | The train is a needle, the tracks are thres | the other, each maintaining inviolate the | secret of the estrangement, and the wite | agreelng with the husband and busband | reeing with the wife that no matter what | the relations might be mo word should | be ever uttered In public. Thus, while the | public | tha differences of the Lorillards, | never been a word printed in the whole lifetime of the millionaire tobacconist about his friendship for Mrs. Allien. now, had it not been for the fact that Mr. Lorillard expressly mentioned her in his will, it {s doubtful if the story of his friend- there has | | f And setting round in proy with odd trousers. very reasonable prices. Especially low prices Browning, Store Cloa 7y Nights at D ’uMp for the beautiful woman would ever | Her mantle 15 the «h has gossiped In a quiet way 8bout | yop peaddress is a flee | The Even |Shine! Shin, Jack Frost will fly or thing these torrid days and nights. bave become public Mre. Lorillard, by the terms of an agr ment made long before her hushand's death, gets a large share of W& personal effects and all the blooded stock, including his racing atables in this country and Eng 1and. That fs what reduces to & certain kree the value of Mra. Allien's sharo in the estate. DId she inberit the stock as well as Rancoeas the legacy would repre sent more than $1,000,000. To his two grandchildren, Plerre Lorillard 111 and Griswold Lorfllard, the sons of Plerre Lorillard, jr, Mr. Lorillard loaves one-fifth of his estate The Rancocas stock farm, which thus PASECS out of the hands of the Lorillard family, s one of the moat beautiful estab- lisbments of the kind in the country, If not In the world. 1t was Plerro Lorillard's pride. Sltuated within oasy distance of the Monmouth racing track, it was the {deal of Lorillard’s he 1t {8 estimated that he spent nearly $3,000,000 fn developing and equipping the place as n model stock farm Here 1t was that he raisod and tralved his race horses and ft was from this farm that went the only American horses that ever won the blue ribbon of the Derby. Ran cocas was where Iroquols was trained under the personal supervision of Mr. Loriilard much less than $300,000 From there ho was sent to Europe to “Who s Mrs. Allien?" was a question | C4Pture tho Derby. |on the lips of hundreds of New York . | people. In tho clubs and wherever so TRRVITNS A clety gathered It was the all-absorbing i query, reports a correspondent of the | Pretty Small Dusiness for the Na- Chicago Chronicle. Every one kaew of | tlonal Government to Indulge In. Harper's Weekly The American people have borne thelr war taxes cheerfully. This being the in- disputed tact, it fll-becomes the authori ties to hedge about with needless and irk some regulations the redemption of unused revenue stamps, the chief results of which will bo to save a few paitry dollars to the treasury and to increase to an appr extent the Irritation of the public during an already over-irritating season. The ro quirement that stamps shall be redeem able only at Washington and that am davits proving ownershlp must accompany each lot sent in for redemption is utterly absurd and unworthy of a government a part of whose duties is to promote the happiness of the people Especially in the matter of bank checke are the require monts without reason. The amounts can not be large and in the uature of things many persons would rather suffer the loss of & tew dollars than subject themselves to the inconvenience of the redemption, but why any holder of these stamps should be compelled to lose even o little as 2 conts 1s not at all clear. The principle invol 18 the same as though the amounts ran into thousands of dollars and Mr. Gage's wsubordinates in charge of this affair should be made to understand the fact. Every natfonal bank in the country should be a medium of redemption for tho government's obligations in this matter and should be required to pay as due honor to a genuine 2-cent revenue stamp as to a $1,000 treasury note that is mot a counter- feit. BT POINTED R former Lorillard mansfon it stands, un- i pretentious, a plain brown stone four-story| Roston Transcript: Welter—They say the i and basement house. Its marked charac- | World owes every man a living teristic is the fact that the shades of @ | ,piacted to pay all its debts’ dark blue hue are always drawn. No one ever saw them open. Yet within the sar girl darkly curtained house there were many scenes of merriment at such times as Plerre Lorillard gathered together a few | Washington Star: ‘De man dat hasn’ of his intimate end boon companions. AT 10,00 B TG G LN o Thero were sumptuous banquets given iIn | takin' some good man away f'um ‘'ls work that house stored with works of art, costly [ to help ‘im loat.” furniture, pricelcss rugs, mosaics and si1- | Dairott Free Press: Polly—Wisdom fs verware. On all these occasions Mrs. lrne’rnllv dnglclml as a man with a long Allien acted as the hostess. liowing bear The halls of the house are finished in |, DOINCYess but my tden of wiadom fe chony and are hung with trophles of the | trimmed whiskers—or, none at all. chase and costly antiques. The parlor ls e 3 filled with beautiful statuary and curlos | huoK: “Shoutnvell s the most disngree- picked up in all quarters of the world.| “Thats gol He wo positive thit evory The lbrary, which adjolns it, 1s a perfect | One W o kroe him L haven of delight to the book lover, filed | 14t R cuBht to be a clorgyman | With books, many of thom almost priceless | Brooklyn Lite: Prospective Hourder—You and all of them In sumptuous bindings. | @dvertise “homellke surrounding; Behind this fe the dining room, superbly [ trom the city for hived man © £0¢ ® Janitor |appointed and with massive paneled walls| " G0 T e o and cellings. Beyond this again is a eir- ot HBOHIDES ok kel L cular smoking room, fitted up in orfental | baf STadustyd from college. What s h style and {lluminated only by stained glass. [ Holden—Well, for the present he is golng |1n fact, there are but few of the rear win- | to #it "found and tell the rest of us ail ho dows of the house that are not filled in j Fhnd with costly painted glass imported from | Philadelphta Press: Tess—She's got such Plerre Lorillard’s bedroom on the mext | dpout it i i lkog floor is eald to have been the most elabo- [ Jess—The fdea! the United States. . The bedstead alone is|he'll have to sit close to her on that o | said to-have cost more than $10,000. It [ count was in this sumptuous home that Plerre f Lorillard spent so much of his time while 158 Reatayrant, his wife resided at Southampton or fin Chlcago Tribune, Washington square, as the season of the [ I 28 alone with my heart= year demanded. *Twas 102 on the street And 112 inside But Lorillard, notwithstanding his fn- | T W% sorty | ordered the heart— fatuation for the younger and more beau- | And, stifred by a etrange caprice, tiful woman, was not forgettul of his wite. | 1 Wearlly pushed it astde. " " He made her a generous settlement at the It's too hot for heart ;,,,-,,‘y time of their separation, and was punctili- | Just bring me a pail of milk ous In seelng that her allowance was And a biscult of shredded hay.' promptly pald. There was a complete :nulvrppluml‘(’ng between this strangely as- BRASKA'S SUMMER DRESS, ' he tles are tucks, | guess That trim the gay. green petticoat Of Nebraska's summer dress Hing dew cout of hrown, fancy stitchés through eams 0f her 6mart new gown. That spangles And the fences The v cloud Beneath a_shade of biue. san Is her lover, fond and proud Of his lady decked anew. )Nd Sun, when spring is gona too, shall pass, over dalo and down cloak for the luss L.J. M And_summe With & russe Portland, Ore “Shedding One’s Skin” their bones would be the But as it's not practical nor fashionable, we think that one of our extra light weight serges or flannels would be the caper—and we have all kinds of thin coats to go FEverything for men and boys v that's comfortable and makes life worth living, at on straw Hats. King & Co. Exclusive Clothiers and Furnishers. R. S. Wilcox, Manager. O'clock, Other Evenings at 5.56