Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 13, 1901, Page 7

THE ©MAHA DAILY BEE E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR P PUBLISHED BVERY MORNING. TERMS OF Dally Hee (with, Daily Bee and 80 Thiustrated Hee Bunday Bee, One Baturaay Hee, One Year Twenticth Century Farmer, OFFIC Omaha: The Bee Bullding Bouth Omaha City Hall Bullding, Twen- ty-ith M { Councll Chicago st S tay ICRIPTION One ‘Year § i ar " 0 1.60 One Year. 1Lw Pearl Street, ty Building Temple Court Washington w1 Fourteenth Street CORRESPONDENC Communications relating to news and edi- torinl matter should be addressed: Umiha Bee, Editorinl Lepartment BUSINESH LETTERS Business letters ar emittances should be addresscad L he Publishing Company, Umaha Temit b express or postal pavable td jec Publishing Company niy 2-cent star iccepted. in_payment of mail uc Omaha T ounts. Personal checks, except on r 1 eXchatges, not atcepted BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY ATEMENT CIRCULATION f Nebraska, Douglas County, s8.: B. Tzschick, secretary of T'he Bee oK g *| have been o natlonal ealamity it would LITTLE EFFECT ON BUSINESS The strong condition of th and business interests of the is strikingly shown in the fact that the attempted assassination of President | MeKinley had searcely any effect on those Interests, Precautionary measures | to avert panic were promptly taken by | the "W York clearing house, hut while was judicious it was not really neces sury, as there was no symptom of panie | even following the announcement that the president’s injury was probably fatal, It was something of a shoek, of cou to financial eireles, but only momentar vhody realizing that not only was the financial situation sound and enre, but also that fn any event the ma- chinety of government would continne in uninterrupted operation. Such is the ample provision for this that although the death of President MeKinley would financial conntry uve caused no paralysis or even serfous disturbafice of any function of the government. The vice president would Immediately have become president and taken up the duties of the office, so Publishir Bays t complet Evening the Company, belng duly sworn, t the actual number of full and coples of The Daily, Morning, and Sunday Bee printed during month of August, 191, was as follows: PO X1 11} 15.000ii0ees 40,508 19.. ..25,370 2 25,540 2 25,000 2 (10 28,840 2 28,400 25,240 26,1460 25,24 25,1850 25,1880 25,04 25,150 L.25,100 0 1 12 i i .. Total ... {oréien Less unsold and returned coples.. Net Net 25,110 25,1800 7,855 e TNROH5 . ... 25,421 B. TZSCHUCK. nce ana sworn to of August, A. D. B, HUNGAT Notary Pubil total daily average GEORG Bubscribed in my pres before me this Slst d 1901 The increased school attendance is an other proof that Omaha is steadily ex- panding in popu The Ak-Sar-Ben ca will be a success because everything Ak-Sar-Ben | bas ever taken hold of has always proved a suc —_—_— Wonder why the scheme of the joint committee of the whole for swallowing | the populists cannot be trled here in Douglas county at the coming demo- cratic and populist convention! It Is stated that th of Czolgosz comes from the viclnlty of Posen. It s veally immaterial where they come from or what his nationality. It is the man himself and those who instigated | his crime who are responsible, The propagation the good roads movement continues unabated, a good ronds congress being on the boards for Buffalo next week, | The east may lead in the experiments, but .the west will be found keeping up with the proces- sion. All politieal parties make mistakes. The Maryland republicans evidentiy made one when they selected Welling- ton to represent them in the United Btates sena There is no probability, however, that the mistake will be re- peated, Tiperor William has decorated the entourage of the czar and the has conferred like favors on those who surround the German emperor, 1If these visits become common the court favorites will need a “eaddy” to carry thelr emblems. all czar The gunboat Ranger, which has been at Panama, bas returned north, on the supposition that the battleship Towa is amply capable of looking after the in- terests of this country. It will be de-| cldedly better for the troublesome spirits | down there If they take the same view of the matter. E— It is to be hoped the recommendation of General Bates for the assignment of more soldiers to the post at Fort Crook will meet with the approval of the War department officlals. Fort Crook I8 one of the newest army posts, equipped with all the modern convenlences and it is pity that it should remain unoccupied any longer than necessary, Democratic National Committeeman James C. Dablman announces that the democrats will land the fusion nomina- tion for supreme judge and they may be generous enough to give the populists the tw andidates for regent. This is all very nice, but it Is not the first time by several the democrats have an- nounced a determination to have the head of the ticket and falled, — The new rule promulgated for elty hall employes vequiring them to fepor for duty at ®:30, without reserve, will encounter no complaints among the tax- payers. 10 it ix good for the eity hall, bhowever, it should also be good for the court house. There is more soldiering done every day, In proportion to the number of employes, in the court house than there Is in a week iu the city hall. e a little over 7,000 nmes missing on the rolls of the Grand Army of the Republic from one year ago, deaths being wuntable for the net loss, The reunions a getting smaller and the mounds ou Memorial day are getting more numerous with each pass- ing year. The thivty-six years siuce the close of the war has seen as great a change in the uation, however, as it has in the ranks of the veterans. The Porto Rican tax law Is proving & disappolutment in one divection. It was asserted Ly sowe that it would not produce enough revenue for the pur- poses of government, It has not only that there would not have been 80 much as an hour's interregnum. In an interview at Buffalo Senator Hanna sald: “The business of . the country never rested on a firmer founda tion than now and so we are able to stand the blow. We Americans o not without sentiment, in spite of the general bellef to the contrary, and the news of the attempted assassination of the president was a hard strain. It was characteristic of our people, though, to quickly recover thelr equilibrium on the receipt of hopeful news from the doctors and now everything will go on | swimmingl We are golng have | good times. We are having good | times and there is favorable promise | that we shall have better. It is known that will need all the food stuffs that this country can spare aud while it is probable that we shall not this year export so largely of our manu- factures as last year, yet a large trade balance i favor of the United States Is assured. Whatever the future may bring there is no fmmediate danger | from forelgn hostile tariffs. The action | of the Russian government has not | proved, as yet, as_hurtful as was ap prehended, while the proposed Ger- | man tariff, should it be adopted, would | not go into effect at once. Moreover, it | is probable that the bill as framed will | undergo great changes when it shall | come before the federal council, which will be shortly. It Is reported that even | the agrarvians are willing to have it | moditied. There is still talk in Burope | of dolng something to check American competition, but the more such a propo sition Is discussed the stronger must be- come the conviction of Its imprac- ticability. The soundness of our financial and business conditions bas been well demonstrated within the past week and there is at this time nothing to cause a doubt that good times will continue, even to A WEEK OF SOLICITUDE: A weck ago today President McKinley was shot. It has been a period of solic tude and anxiety for the American peo ple, for although the opinions of the doc tors, since the second day, have been of a hopeful and reassuring nature, it is only within the past twenty-four hours that the general public felt confident that danger had passed and that the president would certainly recover. One f the doetors was reported to have said that he should not feel sure of the presi- dent’s recovery until a week had passed and there hiad been in the meantime no change for the worse, While as late as | Wednesday another of the doctors (nhli the Associated Press representative that | he would not say the president was out of danger. The latest advices, however, show so great an improvement and such entirely favorable conditions as to war vant the confident bellef that danger is passed and that there will be stendy and rapld improvement. The fact that the patient is able already to assimilate solid food and takes it with a relish Is most encouraging. Surgery has achieved another notable triumph in this case and too much can hardly be said in praise of they physi- clans who attended the president, par- ticnlarly Dr. Mann, who performed the operation. There are many in the med- leal profession who think that Garfield might have survived had he receive better surgical treatnent, but it is to be remembered that surgery has mad great progress since that time, while it is doubtless also true that Garfield's wound was more serlous than MeKin ley's. The apprehension amd anxiety of the American people have given place to a feeling of profound gratification and the dally bulletins from Buffalo from now on will be expected to report continued improvement of the dis- tinguished sufforer. RLLIEVING THE MONEY MARKET. Secretary Gige proposes to give re- lief to the money market by the pur- chase of honds, At this season of the year there is an extraordinary demand for money for crop moving, which to- gether with the continued accumulation of currens by the national treasury, threatened a serlous stringency in the moaney market, There has heen a heavy drain on the cash of the New York banks and at the close of last week a number of them held less than the legal requirement of reseyves. ‘This condition led to an advance in the interest rate With « view to driving down the rate of sterling exchange and bringing in gold, but gold imports could not be e tected at once. It also caused an appeal to be made to Secretary Gage, who im- mediately on his return to Washington announced that the treasury would pur- chase bonds. This will give relief, but whether all that the situation requires remains to be seen. If not, the secre tary of the treasury may deem it expe- dient to increase the government de posits In the banks, which he is fully done this, but leaves a surplus in the treasury. Its opponents were those who had previously escaped taxation under the old Porto Rican system. 1f they intend to pursie their efforts to hreak down the law they must seek some new yoint of attack. i authorized by law to do. The accumulation of currency in the national treasuryj iu spite of the reduc- tion In internal revenue taxation, is a matter which can hardly fail to receive the attention of congress. It will very likely create an urgent demand for g | and ro J-Admlnl Sampson was within shooting dis- Y BEE: FRIDAY, SEP TEMB further. reduction of taxation, which it | facts and conclusions directly and epee m\.] iIs the opinfon of fir including some officlals, can safely made under existing conditions of pros Perity. The cutting off of internnl taxes by the last cong ed to duce the revenue ahout 40,000,000 an nually, but it has not done o and at the | present rate of treasury receipts ther will be a heavy surplus at the end of the current fiseal year, The treasury now has a eash balance which would enable It to meet all ordinary demands if ther should next two or three y is no doubt, there fore, that a further reduction in taxation can be safely made, nciers, treasury ™ 8 WA OXp R ALL SIDES. It is given out by officers of the Real| Estate exchange that in the future peo- | ple invited to address that hody will be | expected to confine themselves to pro- | Jects designed to promote the city’s ma- terial advancement and to keep clear of its woes, real or imagi “If peaple | cannot look at the bright side of things," the president is quoted as saying, “they ean at least keep their mouths shut and Tet those who do see bright things ahead do the talking.” We doubt serfously, however, whether the Real Estate exchange or any other organization, truly bent on fmproving Omaha, éan follow out any such rule of action. While there is no eall for any one to dilate upon our woes, our draw- backs and abuses must be polnted out before the remedles can be applied. In order to keep Omaha well toward the front In the procession of progressive clties we must have mentors to warn us when and why we lag behind, The aflor who shuts his eyes to the breakers ks in_front is mu lable to suffer shipwreck than the sailor who keeps a sharp lookout and marks every new dunger on his map as it appears. With respect to the welfare of the cf the same Is largely true. The functions | of the Real Estate exchange cannot be satistactorily performed unless it keeps on the alert for every slgn of retrogres slon or even of standstill aud constantly ready to remove the obstruction It may be unpleasant to have faults pointed out, but it Is the true friend who gives timely warning and advice. The optimist who enthuses ug with hopeful antielpations has his part to play and is a necessary factor in the motive power of progress, but the city | will go forward faster that looks upon all sides, good and bad, and guides itself | accordingly. | MUST CONSIT mor our | Notwithstanding all the statistical ex bibits that may be prepared, owners of | real estate in Omaha will not 1 suaded that their tax burdens a than they should be. People who own | property in various cities are, as a rule, | best able to judge as to the weight of taxation, The question is not what the rate is on the valuation which purports to be a certain percentage of the true value, but what the actual amount of the tax Is on a piece of property bring ing a certain rental in Omaha as com: pared with a piece of property bringing the same in anotl city., On such a comparison the Owmaha vealty owner has good grounds to complain that real estate is loaded up with an undue proportion of the expenses of | government. Dts at west- week as com Hing off in hog re ern packing centers last pared with previous ones would seem to indicate that the stampede caused by the hot, dry weather earlier in the seu son, had about run While past ipts have been above the nor mal for the season they have not been sutficiently large to drain the country of hogs by any meaus. The falling off is rather an added evidence that there will he more corn in the country than antici- pated a mouth ago and owners of stock are disposed to hold them for normal de- livery. Nebraska's export corn will be short, as compared with other seasons, but there will be plenty to cacry through and mature its stock. The its course. The ska Bureau of Labor Sta- tisties is going into an extended and detafled inquiry as to statistics of di- vorce in Nebraska and proposed reme- dies for the divorce evil, The fnquiry will doubtless furnish wuch interesting and suggestive material, but what it has to do with the industrinl progress f the state is certain) very remote and the burenu has tosstreteh a point to bring It within the e of Its functions. There are many more pertl- nent and pointed subjects of inquiry which the lhmited funds at the disposal of the labor bureau could more profitably devoted, The departure of State Treasurer Stuefer from the state without respond ing to the demand of the republican convention for n exhibit of the amounts and whereabouts of the public mon in his custody is to be regretted it it means that the statement is to be withheld until bis return. While no one questions the safety of the funds in Mr. Stuefer's possession, the rule of publicity enunciated in the republican platform should be enforced with uni formity on all public treasurvers, with- out discrimination, be Close the Gates, Philadelphia Ledger. Our immigration law caunot be too soon amonded. Score One for Colored Man, Indlanapolis News, It must not be forgotten that the man that first comprehended the situation and felled the assassin with a blow was a negro. me for Argument. Washington Star, . The South American republics do not give themselves time enough between fights to permit any extended controversy over where the glory belongs In the Main Event. Cinelnnati Enquirer. The Schley court of inquiry, however pro. found and searching it may be, cannot re- move the fact that Admiral Schley was an exceedingly active person at the battle of Santiago, and cannot make it possible that No tance. In the minds of the people, who Bre 80 busy that they are lnllfll;l to get at, | strikes in the steel | to point out that a fall of one polnt in the | them he | of President these tails are the salient points are overshadowed by ol the 14 main event eventing Clevelar Hattrond Accidents, 1 Plain Dealer Many ago ously that railway accidents might be pre vented by the simple expedient of tying a director to the pilot of locomotive. The same idea has been adopted seriously In South Africa. One of the important burghers of Pretoria {s compelled to ride years every | upon each train on the Pietersburg railway as a precaution against the wrecking of trains by Boer sympathizers. preotten Inetdent, Springficld (Mass.) Republic An attempted assassination of the presi- | dent of the United States little remembered | now was that of Andrew Jackson on Janu- ary 30, 1835, by Richard Lavrence as the former was leaving the rotunda of the capi- tol after attending the funeral of a con Rressman Lawrence snapped two plstols at the president, but the percussion caps ex ploded in each case without igniting the powder. Lawrence was found to be in- sane, e ——— ins Plant Falled, Buffalo Express. The turning over of the Toledo municipal Bas plant to a private corporation Is hailed as w failure of municipal ownership. The plant was sold for $6,500, although it had cost nearly $1,500,000. That does look like & bad record. The trouble, however, was that this was a natural gas plant and the territory from which it drew gas had fafled. In the circumstances a private corporation must have been forced out of business also and probably the people would have had o p',u- much more dearly for its losses than they plant, Minneapolis Times, are counting the cost of the 1 troubles it Is not amiss While we price of Steel trust stocks means a loss of $10,000,000 to holders thereof—including | the margin men, who hold the stocks only In a figurative or tentative sense. At one perlod of the strike the Steel trust stocks showed a loss of thirteen points, or of $130,- 000,000. The moral of this would seem to be that the trusi can afford to yleld in some directions better than it can afford to be obdurate. The present strike will probably fall. A spirit of fairness and con- servation on the part of Messrs, Morgan, Schwab and other managing magnates would go far to make another strike a thing of the far future at least. ————— Fight Agninst the Tipping System, Atlantic Journal We do not wonder at the growing protest against the tipping system. It has become 50 prevalent in this country as to try the patience of the public and to keep up an almost continuous raid on its purse. The public is largely to blame for this, for with- out its encouragement tipping could neve have gained a hold as a national custom. The tipping habit is strengthened not only by general observance, but by the hard looks that are cast by observers as well as the disgusted walter or porter at the man who refuses to glve a tip. The general public is in league with the tip taker. He is backed up even more solidly by proprie- tors of hotels and restaurants, superin- tendents of clubs and sleeping car ofcials, One of the latter recently declared that the porter “is entitled to his tip because he earns it." But the real reason why the ‘ipping system fis sb strongly entrenched is because persons who travel much and those who live at hotels find that it pays to glve tips. ‘The man who fancies a certain cut of meat or has a favorite dish cannot usually count on getting just what he wants unless he tips. He often gives with @ sense that he is being gouged, but thinks that it pays. Selfishness {s be- hind tipping quite as much as generosity or subservience to a general habit. For these reasons we are convinced that the anti-tipping movement will not succeed, at least for a long time to come. —— PROGRESS IN SURGERY, Methods Compared with Those ot Presen Twenty Years Ago. Kansas City Star The shooting of the president has called attention In a striking way to the great Pprogress in surgery since the assassination Garfleld. If Guiteau's victin could have heen treated by modern methods he probably would have recovered. The wound was dangerous, but not necessarily mortal. A parallel between the two celebrated cases shows the advance In methods of treatment. Garfield was shot In 1851. In the '60s Mr. Lister—uow a baron—had put | forth his theory that the cause of the fatal complications that go frequently attended operations was the growth of vegetable organisms_introduced into the wound from without This theory was flouted by many eminent surgeons for many years. At the time when Garfleld was shot it had been ac- cepted by only the most progressive medi- cal men. operations were practically unknown. Death from peritenitls almost invariably followed any inclsion into the peritoneal ecavity. The operators who began disinfecting and sterilizing everything used had to proceed cautiously in abdominal cases, for they were working in an untried field. The first re- ports of successful operations had only begun to find their way into print about 1880, President Garfield was shot in the right side of the back at about the same level as the wound of Prestdent McKinley. The bullet broke a rib and a vertebra ana lodged near the pancreas. Czolgosz's ball broke no bol , but penetrated both walls of the stomach and stopped in about the same place as in the case of General Garfield The surgeons in 1881 did not have the nerve to operate on the president of the United States. If they had been unsuccessful the great majority of physiclans would have declared that they had killed him by wanton experimenting. At that time it was con- sidered essential to find the bullet Now nobody cares what becomes of it, so long as the damage it has done is repalred Dr. Bliss and his associates who attended Garfleld probed the patient time after time, and even called into use an induction bal- ance to discover the lead. The autopsy proved they were wholly wrong in their surmises of the path of the bullet, and that their work was probably one of the causes of death. An abscess had formed in the tract where their instrument had entered. Doubtless the probe had pushed dirt from near the mouth of the wound further along The probe, when used now, is simply to Indicate the direction for an inclsion in puzzling cases. If General Garfleld had been shot in 1901 instead of in 1881 he would have been put on the operating table at once ayd the path of the bullet would have been laid open. The wound would have been cleaused and the fractures attended to under the guidance of the eye. There would have been no protracted search after the bullet. If it had made trouble later it would have been removed by an incision from the most convenient place An X-ray machine would have located it In case the surgeons’ previous examination had left them in doubt. A comparison of the cases of the two presidents shows a development in the art of surgery so great as to be almost revolu- tlovary, Punch suggested humor | have pald for the Toledo municipal| Under the old surgery abdominal | Lessons of the Crime ‘ Philadelphia 1 s well as govern by the attempt life, varioun with a view to pre Now that the publi ment officlals upon the chief magisir suggestions are made | vent the recurrence of similar crimes. The officers of the association composed of chiefs of police In this country and Canada have already taken Steps to secure police operation in dealing more effectively with | anarchists and other dangerous criminals Attention has also been called to the n for closer surveillance and more rigid re striction against foreign criminals at ports of entry, and the passage of A general law empowering the authorities to act against anarchists has been suggested Al theso measures would no doubt ald in lessening the criminal population, but after the most effective measures have been adopted the peril from the unexpected blow by the un known assassin will still remain. In spite of the unceasing vigilance that is exer- clsed in Europe, rulers and prominent men have repeatedly been laid low. The feeling of security which prompted President M Kinley to move about freely unacompanied by sufficient protection was inspi natu rally enough, by the belict that there was no reason for an attuck upon him, and that, therefore, no danger existed. There should be no peril for the president of the United States under our institutions, but | it Is time to recognize the fact that there 18 grave danger. Of the nine presidents of the United States since and including Lin coln, three have fallen by the hands of the assassin, and all were shot. When so high a proportion as one-third of the presidents during a glven perfod are attacked by as- sassing common sense suggests that much greater care and watchfulness should be exercised In protecting the head of the government. or DITORIAL SNAPSHOTS, in- | the de Loutsville Courler-Journal: It s not Qispensable to an assassination that | victim should die. Assassination 1s | fined “to kill, or attempt to kili, by sur-| prise or secret assault.” Chicago Inter-Ocean: Chicago has the proud satistaction of knowing that colored | | man Porker who dealt Czolgosz such a | etrong righthand blow is one of its former | residents. This helps at present Minneapolis Times: The brutal fool is the worst of fools. The castigation and other punishment administered to men who | have espressed satisfaction at the murder ous attack upon the presideni are well de- rved. Indianapolis Journal: It was come. A Washington dispatch some conetitutional lawyers are of opinion | that an attempt by congress (o repress an- | archy would be an invasion of the rights of the states. Some people to think | the constitution deprives the national gov ernment of the power of self-preservation. w York Tribune: Anarchists who rave against all law have cause to be most grate- ful to the law at present for the protec tlon 1t gives them. If it were not for the law, and for popular respect for the law, not an anarchist life in the United States would be worth a moment's lease. As it 16, the life even of Czolgosz 1s quite safe. Chicago Chronicle: The “yellow” news- papers which have been most bitter and fu- decent in their attacks upon President Me- Kinley and which for a year or more have | preached assassination in a guarded sort of way are now outdoing all other organs of opinion in the manifestations of their grief and in their sympathy for the stricken chief magistrate. In this respect they re- | mind one of the boy whose father had died | and whose mother had made such sensa- | | tional demonstrations of sorrow at the | church services as to call forth remarks | from some of the friends after the funeral, which were overheard by the lad, who thereupon exclaimed with an air of pride “You ought to have seen me rafse ‘Cane’ at the grave!" | Kansas City Star: The country should | take a lesson from the present crisls and | the real feelings that are expressed for the president and for the services he has | rendered his country. Hereafter the great campaigns of the republic should be con- ducted with more dignity and more honesty. | When men are known and shown to be un- worthy they should not be spared. It is the duty of the press to expose them. But to be abusively unjust for the mere sake of pulitical “apital is not only a great wrong, but it i¢ shocking taste. Sick bed repentance s very well so far as it goes, but how much better it would be it there wera no offenses to condone In paying be- lated tributes. Philadelphia Record: Out of the most hellish evil some good may come. The universal grief and the universal {ndigna- tion that followed swift upon the knowledge of the attack upon the life of President McKinley serve alike to show how real aro the honds that bind the people of these states together in one indissoluble fra- ternity. And the lines that divide us from continental neighbors and the seas that | keep us apart from other great natlonalities | did not for a moment separate us from the profoundest and sincerest expressions of sympathy for the stricken chlef, for his noble wife and for his sorrowing country- men. These manifestations of good will cannot go unregarded or unremembered or unconstdered In influencing our future rela- tions. They make for a closer brotherhood among men and serve to defeat the errand of the assassin's bullet, however, deadly may have been his aim. This {s the silver lining to our cloud of suspense and sor- row. sure to says that | seem ) | Paderewski loves his billiards and belleves that the cultivation of delicate work with the cue aids him in the fecling and ex pression of such 'musical refinements as | those of Chopin. The chateau of Comiegne, wherein the czar and czarina will be housed when they visit France, stands fitty miles northeast of Paris and dates back, in part, to the time of Charlemagne James McGarry Dooley,” who is slck 18 resting easily and Mr. Hennessy doesn't and talk him to death The will of the Hoston leaves $10,000 for of a driveway on the necticut river, near where Mr. Haynes laid bis fortune Captain Oscar W. Farenholt, who, hav- ing reached the age limit, was retired from the navy last week, eniered the service as a seaman in 1861 and won promotion through continued gallantry in the war of the rebellion A. J. Balfour, his 530 birthday at an exceptionally he origlnal “Mr. at the county hospital may yet recover if get into the roon late Tilly Haynes of | the construction banks of the Con- pringfeld, Mass., the foundation of who has just celebrated is a man who “arrived" early age for a British statesman He entered Parllament at wus a cabinet minister at 35 and led the House of Commons ut 45, Carrle Natlon sat on the bench the other afternoon with Police Commissloner Devery who was hearing complaints agalnst officers. The Kansas woman insisted on questioning the accused policemen, though warned by Devery to keep qulet Finally he lost his temper and sald “Look here, Carrie, If you don't shut your face I'll throw you out' This threat was sufficlent to keep Mrs. ‘Natlon quiet until the trials were I . wishes | the | been chipped and mutilated | big | him | wanted Ledger news from Washington Indicates tha will under with more thot During Mr The the federal o do (his work in future than in the past eveland’s administration the plan of the army officer who had charge of the Rov ernment buildings in Washington to main- tain a guard on the White House grounds wholly p There was some jost ing comment made at the time, and as thero not of late appearcd to be any dan ger menncing presidents, vigilance has been reluxed. In dispensing with detectives the ecr officials have but followed the wishes of President McKinley, who re posed confidence in his fellow countrymen and desired to move amoug them as one of them without formality and parade. It 15 clear now, however, that the secret serv- fce burcau in the future has a duty to per- form, irrespec of the chief executive's The president of the United States not only but while he holds office fs also the head of the nation, upon whom grave responsibility rests and upon whoge safety vital questions often depend In order that the work of the secret sery ice officials may be made efficacions pre. idents must co-operate by putting a stop the reckless and useless custom of shaking hands with the multity All the nation would gladly shake hands with the president, but as it is manifestly Impossi ble that 76,000,000 should do it there will bo no hardship in ending the practice al togother. The president of the United | States needs all his strength for more im- | portant business and while he can never | be absolutely safe as long as anarchists and lunatics are at large the danger will be much curtalled if needful precautions are taken secret service oughness « was oper. worvice 18 A cltizen to D ABROAD. Hot Chase for Telles of the Buffalo | Tragedy. The souvenir flend is abroad in Buffalo hotly chasing relics directly or remotely counected with the attempted assassination of President McKinley. It has been found | necessary to place guards in and around the Temple of Music to prevent deface- ment of the building by the throng of eager relic hunters. The two trees before which president stood during the reception, have been stripped of their leaves, and the chair In which the president was placed jmmediately after the shooting has Bvery articlo | related to the tragedy has been attacked by the souvenir flend and despoiled and such as were movable disappeared. The man most sought after at the ex position nowadays is James Parker, tho negro who smote the anarchist be- fore he could fire the third shot. Parker is employed as a walter in one of tho restaurants on tho grounds. Ho s of cologsal build—tall, broad shouldered, mas- sive limbed and of great muscular develop- ment, and is proud of the honor and fame he has achleved. The Buffalo Express re- ports that Parker's buttons, shoes, hat, necktie, even bits of his clothes, aro eagerly sought by relic hunters. Almost imme- diately after the removal of the president from the Temple of Music to the emergency hospital Parker appeared in the mall near the West Amherst gate between the Sery- fce bullding and the south wall of Alt Nurnberg. It had become noised about that he was one of those who had seized the president’s assailant and he certainly was one of those present in the Temple imme- dlately after the shots were fired. Groups of people promptly surrounded Parker and urged him to tell them what he had seen. Parker obliged The details of the shooting as related by Parker were thrilling. His tale of his own part in what followed immediately after the shooting was mot censured. He vividly portrayed the struggle when Czol- gosz sank to the floor beneath the blows rained upon him. Admiration for Parker grew as his experfences and his story in- creased. Eventually, somo of the listeners became enthusiastic, and when Parker told how he seized the anarchist and bore down and banged him on the floor and lesped upon him and crushed him be- neath the weight of his chest and stomach, an enthuslast pushed forward and begged for a plece of the waistcoat which Parker wore and against which the anarchist had been pressed when Parker leaped on him. Parker gave the man a plece of his walst- at. Then another and another and an- other of those standing by wanted pleces as souvenirs. Finally, a man begged a button from the waistcoat, and it was cut off with a knife. Then another man offered a quar- ter for a button. “I'll give $1 for one of the button a man, He got a button. Then another man bid and bought, and another did likewise. If Parker had been twenty feet tall with a walsteont reaching from his chin to his toes with buttons on it every inch of the way the supply would not have been suffi- clent for the demand. A woman concelved the whim that she must have the necktie that Parker wore, while another woman | a lock of his hair. Parker laughed | and sald that he feared he could not glve | her a lock, but he might be willing to spare | a kink, for Parker {s somewhat of a wit. Bventually, this crazo for clothes be- longing to the big negro became so proe nounced that two men appeared and wanted to buy the shocs that Parker wore be- cauke it was sald that with them he bad kicked Czolgosz and had stamped on his face. The price offered for each shoe was sald to havo been $5 and one of the men | remarked that he would have given $25 "i ald necessary $1.000 it 1 the life out think abon Others have and his nesota ha tha r o hie any M s wr ition who fin him 1 Frank artille pistol excitement had been made Private O'Bricn | about his part in th but those who were seeing him as he strugel Czolgosz. 1t Private O to grappling with the ing the prostrate anar drawn his bayonet fron prisoner at police headq now be eating three full meal craze for souvenirs has not molested 1'r O'Brien to the extent that ft b Parker. But in due tima it s that the plucky artilloryman will he, too, can turn his surplus wa into cash and decline an offer to go the stage. 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