Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 20, 1901, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE L oioer B. ROSEWATER, ITOR. — . PUBLISHED EVIRY MORNING, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION (without day), One Year.§6.90 and 8 e Year. (5] w ne D BY CARRIER. UL BUnduy, per copy « Sund K ng Bur orrIc . ha: The Bee Building : Bouth Omaha: City Hail suilding, Twens Ly-fifth and 5 Strevts souncll Llufts; v Pearl Street. Chicago: 161 Unity Bullding. New vork: Temple Court. Washington: sl Fourtoenih Street, CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi- torial_matier snould be wddressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department BUSINESS LE RS, Business lctters d remittances should be dressed: h. beo Publisning Company, maha Dally, with Dally, withe Daily, Bunday b REMITTANCES Romit by draft, express gr postal order, ayable (0 The Boe Pubiishing LCompanyy “cent stampw accepted du payment of ail & 1. Personal checis. except o maha or castern exchangos, wi accepted, THE BLE PUBLIEHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. to of Nebraska, Douglas County, 5. George B. Taschuck, secretary of I'he Bes Publishing Company, being duly sworn, pays that the actual number of full and gomplcie coples of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed durin fhe month of August, 1901 was a8 follows: 48,800 1 28,870 oo CENfemcans Total vere i Less unsoid and returned cople: Net total sales.. Net dally average GEOR Subscribed In my o before me this Slst day of August, A. 1901 M. B. HUNGATE Notary Public. _— His good deeds live, Every cloud has a silver lining. Do not feel too bad about the rain, It snowed up in North Dakota. The influence for good of McKinley dead s still gre by far than that of all lis living detrs Edgar Howard shomid have known that Constautine J. Smyth was loaded when e undertook to blow down the muzzle, No day of prayer and mourning ever came home to people so closely as that d in memory of President Me- of the new political found- ‘e Allied Party.” s chief dificulty promises to be In getting Itself allicd to the voters, EEEEpt———— 1 A whole nation stood still with un- covered head as the funeral cortege’ of Willlam MeKinley passed.. What greater mark of respect could be paid to man? With summer's sun and au early frost King Corn has had a hard time of it this year. But when it is all over Ne- ka will still be found in the corn S—————re—— If the fusion conventions had built ten different platforms instead of two, Judge Hollenbeck would just as will- fugly have agreed to stand on them all without reading thew Another bunch of regrets comes from Bouth Africa in the shape of 200 British soldiers and two cannon captured. Up to date the pile of regrets is greater than the acceptances. The populist and democratic state committees haye fused for the cam- paign. “Before the campaign is ended the funds are likely to be more than fused—they will be consumed, —— The base ball season is ended, Omaha several lengths behind. The local funs, however, need not be dis- couraged. The club will start out next year with just as much hot alr as ever, with Cecil Rhodes states that he has always had a fondness for collecting Dutch curios, Duteh paintings and everything Dutch, Perhaps this throws some light on his part in layiug the foundation for the conquest of the Transvaal. 1t fs worthy of mote that despite the fmmense crowds that have Invaded Omaha during carnival week no vis- itor has been compelled to walk the streets b search of accommodations, as was sald to have been the case during the state fair, ———— The vefusal of the executive council of the Federation of Labor to place an Owaha labor paper on the unfalr list because It has seen fit to eriticise the Central Labor unlon shows that the frecdom of the press Is not yet ban- ished from the land. It is tob bad that someone always thinks it incumbent upon him to smash traditions of long standing. The latest to suftdr is that of Ben Rutler and the spoons, a man being found who owns up that he was the person who got them, instead of the general, The soldler boys of the National Guard are just begiuning to vealize what an advantage. it is to have their annual encampment within reach of the convenlences und hospitality of a great city. When they are asked to come FRANCO-RUSSIAN AMENITIES. The arrivai of the czar in France was marked by extraordinary precautions for his safety. Tiue Buffalo tragedy has more strongly Impressed European rulers with the necessity for greater safeguards. The dispatches state that the ceremonies connected with the re- ception of the Russian emperor took place behind an impenetrable wall of soldiery, so that the people, who had made extraordinary preparations to do honor to the natlon's guest, were not permitted to even see him. A further precaution was the guarding with troops of the entire track from Dunkirk to Complegne, the number of men required for this constituting a large army. Whether or not the vigit of Emperor Nicholas to ¥rance has any political signiticance does not appear. It bas been suggested that it was intended to facilitate the placing of a Russian loan at Parig of $200,000,000, but this is Improbable, since the czar's jnfluence exerted through his finance minister would be guite as effective as going to France bimself, A more plausible view is that the czar desired to convey to the people of France a visible assurance of his continued friendliness and to all Eu- rope his satisfaction with the alllance between Russia and France. It 1s to be remembered, however, that Nicholas was Invited to visit France by Presi- dent Loubet, after the Russian emperor had decided to attend the German naval maneuvers, This seems to dispose of the idea that there may be political sig- nificance in the visit and suggests that the ¢ was simply interested in the nuval maneuvers and wanted to get away from his capital for a little recreation. There was certainly no need of his going to France in order to impress the French people with his friendliness, They can have no doubt of this, because they know it is distinetly in the Interest of Russin to ma ain the most cordial relations with France, The alliance be- tween them' is mutually advantageous and enables them to exert a potential | influence in European affairs, It makes for the security of each and also for the maintenance of the general peace. So long as this alliance continu Frauce is safe against possible aggres slon and Russian jnterests in rope will be conserved. However anomalous such a compact between a despotism and a republic may appear, there can be no doubt as to its expediency. This was recognized by the statesmen of both countries long before the alliance was entered into. With these two powerful military nations firmly bound together, as they now seem to be, and desiring the preservation of peace, the danger of any serious disturbance of European peace is small and remote. Undoubtedly the czar's visit to Fraunce and the enthusiastic interest taken in 4t by the French people will have a good effect, but there appears no reason to think that it has any detinite political signiticance, or none other than the fact it shows that the two nations are on the very best of terms and propose to continue so. SEmesmieasmapamyey ! 0 AMERICAN CORN IN EUROPI The Anmierican consul at Liege, Bel- gium, roports. that the consumption of corameal in that country has increased 400 per cent in the last five years. He expresses the opinion that our cornmeal will in time win favor in other countries and that our present export of corn will' be very greatly Increased. There is, however, an intens¢ prejudice among the working people of most European countries against the use of corn for human food, in spite of the well under- stood fact that it’1s freely used by the American people. According to the consul, in Belgium this prejudice has been to a large ex- tent removed by actual demonstration of the food value of corn preparations. A like effort has been made in other countries, but with little success. For several years the Agricultural depart- ment had an agent abroad whose duty it was to demonstrate the food value of corn, but he accomplished very little and this experience discouraged fur- ther efforts, though there was a corn display at the last Paris exhibition. The Philadelphia Record suggests that if in addition to practically show- ing the merits of corn as food our gov- ernment should secure its entrance Into European countries free of duty our shipments would doubtless greatly in- crease, It Is not at all likely, howev that our government could secure a concession of this kind, though it would certainly be well to make the effort. While there is some encouragement in what has been accomplished in Belgium, progress In overcoming the prejudice among Europeans generally against corn for human food will be very slow. Per- haps some help in this divection will come from the advancing price of bread- stuffs abroad. THE DANISH WEST INDIE Whether or not the United States is to acquire the Danish West Indies will probably soon be determined. It has been reported that the offer made by the American Department of State to the government of Denmark has been accepted by the ministry of the latter and it is expected that the Danish Par- lHament, soon to meet, will approve that acceptance, In that event the purchase will undoubtedly be wmade, as it is un- derstood that the offer was not made untll the sanction of it by two-thirds of the senate. wus assured. It is only from a strategic point of view that the acquisition of the islands can be regarded as. desirable. They have no real commercial value, Their population numbers only 32,000 and the entlre area of the three islands of Nt. Crolx, St. Thomas and St. John is but 132 square miles. St. Thomas possesses again the noes will be decidedly in the winority, — The country has not only heen liberal in its display of black crepe for the dead president, but black tar has also been protided in abundance for those un- wise enough to make anarchistic re- marks at this thme. Men who hold such oplntons will do well to take a thinking part for a while at least, one of the finest harbors in the West Indies and it is urged that in other hands than ours it would be a constant menace to our safety, particularly after we shall bave constructed an juter- ocennle canal. The New York Sun says that “in the hands of a strong mari- time power hostile to us the harbor of St. Thomas would be a source of danger, not:only to Porto Rico, but to our gen- erul Interests in the Caribbean aud the THE OMAHA DAILY BiEE: FRIDAY, SIPTEMBER 20 1001 Gulf of Mexico and In the prospecti interoceanic canal. In our hands the same port, held in conjunction with San Juan, Porto Ri wonld enable us to control the favorite passage for vessels coming from Kurope to Mesico, Central Awerica, Northern Colombia, the west ern part of Venezuela, Jamaica and the southern ports of San Domingo, Hayti and Cuba.” The islands have been an expense to Denmark and probably would be to the United State THE MACHINE In every campaign we hear a great deal on both sides of the political fence about the machine, Most of the dis cussion is naturally indulged in by the political opposition anxious to stir up dissension in the ranks of those they have to meet in the political arena. Much of it is designed to create the im- pression that if the people could get rid of the machine everything would be harmony and puri As a matter of fuct, the machine is stmply the popular name for the party organization, Under modern polit methods ey arty must have a politi cal organization, and the party with the most complete and thoroughly worked out organization has the ad vantage of its opponents. Those who decry the machine, therefore, are in- gincere and are not in favor of wiping it out. They simply want to gain con- trol of the organization and build up a machine under their domination in the place of what they are denouncing. This has been the history of all fac- tional contests in all political parties. The organization may change, but 1t is never destroyed. No far as the rank and file of the party are concerned, they are interested only in clean politics and party suce What t want to ask is whether the organization s properly performing its functions, whether it is well managed, whether it is vigilant and alert, whether presentative of a majority ballots the suc party candidates de- pends; in a word, whether ft is faith fully performing the trust reposed in it on behalf of the party. These questions pertain not to the organization of any one party, but to the organizations of all political par- tles, Merely erying “Machin will not destroy the mecessity of party or- ganization nor fmprove the organiza- t that have been laboriously built up. 8. AN EGGS-ACTING DEMAND. A suggestion offered at the convention of the Nebraska Retail Grocers' asso- clation, which has received the official endorsement of that body, deserves more than passing notice. The grocers have decided to request the, cracker manufacturers to change the size of the wooden cracker boxes so that these boxes may be used, without alteration, as cases, It is to be hoped that the crac trust will meet this demand in t same friendly spirit In which it was made and comply with so reasonable a requisition. The cracker trust wmight, if it were disposed to be penurieus and unaccommodating, suggest to the gro- cers the adylsability of changing the size of their egg cases to correspond with the size of the cker box, If that threatened to entail too great an inconvenicnce it might suggest to the poultry raisers and egg dealers the practleability of experimenting in a breed of fowl that will lay eggs of the precise size to fit in with the existing dimensions of the cracker boxes. Fail- ing in this, an appeal might be made to the hens direct, We certainly hope that between the grocerymen, the crucker trust, the egg dealers and the hens this weighty problem may be adjusted without re sort to the courts and without exucting additional tribute from the cohsumers. The loss of both the phenomenally fast British torpedo boat destroyers would seem to indicate that the effort to secure speed had been at the expense of rendering the boats more unsafe to the crew than to a possible foe. No other government has attempted to se- cure such speed in frail craft, or any other for that matter, and none are likely to until the constructors have shown themselves able to combine the great power necessary with stability. Those who now express relief because President Roosevelt has declared in favor of continuing the policy of his predecessor have every reason to ‘be satistied, but they never had any real occaslon for alarm. Nothing in the president’s career indicates that he is anything but level-headed. Outspoken he has always been, but his speech has always been for the right as he sees and from that stand there' has never y fickleness. China has called upon Germany to move out of territory which it occupied during the late troubles. Up to the present there are no signs of moving and the Chinaman is likely to wait a long time for possession of his property, If he ever secures it. The greed for territory among the nations of the world is too strong to expect them to yield quietly anything they get posses- slon of, — By grace of the city council a $2,000 dog pound is to be erected In Omaha for the benefit of lost, strayed or stolen canines that may come into the dog catcher's net, When these sumptuous quarters are provided intelligent dogs will be In a quandary whether to sta) at home or have themselves committed to the pound. Steady Riding Now. New York World, The Rough Rider is a mempry. steady riding now It 1s for Globe-Democrat. There is no politics in the popular move- ment against the menace of . anarchy. Among democrats and republicans, north and south, (he sentiment is the same. An Adm o Start, Chicago News. President Roosevelt’s retention of the old cabinet as bis own sbows from the start what that admirable and thoroughly equipped statesman thinks of civil service reform. It 18 a safe guess that this nation is going to be very proud of President Roosevelt before it gets through with him. Temper Well Controlled, and Plain Dealer. The remarkable manner in which the American public controls its temper at a time when temper could not be more sorely tried, is highly gratifyisg to all levers of good government. A Button Buster, Kansas City Star, Here is one of the jokes perpetrated by the Nebraska populist convention: “We congratulate the republican party for adopting and putting into execttion, so far as it has, populistic theories of finance.” —_— The Leas Said the Better, Washington Post. 1t is always commendable to reduce the amount of political talk, but we fear the manager of the campaign of the Ohio demo- crats was proceeding upon the selfish theory that the less sald about the past the better for his party, Unity of Action Needed. Indianapolis Journal. 1t every state in the union would pass a uniform law defining anarchy in & succinet and clear manner, and afxing & penalty of fine and imprisonment not so severe but that juries would impose a discretionary punishment, the evil could be effectually suppressed, But there should be concert of action. Too High a Price to Pay. Baltimore Nows. 1t may be un-American for a president ot the United States to avold promiscuous semblages, but it is a significant fact that President Carnot, King Humbert and Mr. McKinley were all three struck down in the midst of a ¢crowd. Such a price is too high to pay even for the distinction of belng an American of the Americans, and it ought not to he exacted of our executive until bet- ter provision is made for his security. Ardent Desire of the People. Philadelphia Recor President Roosevelt has announced as a part of his forthcoming policy “the placing in positions of trust men only of the highest integrity.”” 1t he shall stick to that he will offend many men in his own party, but he will make himself invincible among his countrymen, There is nothing so ardently desired by the mass of the people of the United States as honest government, and honest government can only be expected at the hands of honest men. New Name in the Roster. Keansas City Star, President Theodore Roosevelt has added a new Christian name to the roster of presi- dents. The name of Theodore s strange in the column. Most of his predecessors had plain, common names, greatly preferred in this country, especially in the earlier days. There has been but one George in the White House and he was the first of all the presi- dents. There have been three Johns, one Thomas, five Jameses, two Andrews, one Martin, two Willlams, one Zachary, one Millard, one Fravklin, one Abraham, one Ulysses, one Rutherford, one Chester, one Grover” and .one Benfamin. It is rather singular that such common names as Henry and Charles do not appear in the list of first names of presidents. —e COMPARATIVE VALUE OF CROPS, ow This \"ny". Harvest Compares with Other Years. Springfield (Mass.) ‘Republican, The Septemher 1 condition of the cipal food crops, as reported last week by the Department of Agriculture, com- pares as follows with that of a year and two years ago 4nd the Scptember average for the last ten years prin- Average, September 1. B 150010 years. Wheat i 0.9 [ Corn & Oats . 7.2 Ba & §: Potatoes .. The four especially valuable crops are those of corn, wheat, oats and potatoes. Together last year these four crops aggre- gated a farm value of $1,374, to which corn contributed . or more than one-half, wheat $3 000, onts $208,669,0000, and potatoes $90,811,000. This year three of the four crops are more or less of a fallure, and In the case of corn. the most valuable, and potatoes, the least valuable, the fallure is the worst known since the Department of Agriculture began its report, some thirty odd years ago. The wheat acreage is given as 45,733,000, against 43,113,000 acres a year ago, and on the basis of the reported condition the statisticlan of the New York Produce ex- change figures out a probable crop of 644.- 835,000 bushels, which 1s about 14:000,000 bushels less than was promised by the re- port of August 1 last, and compares with an actual crop of 522,229,506 bushels in 1900, and 675,148,705 and 611,780,000 bushels, respectively, for the years 1898 and 1891, when record yields were made. This year's wheat crop is thus the second larg- est ever gathered In the country, but In point of promised aggregate value it will compare less favorably with preceding har- vests. The present price of cash wheat at Chicago s 68 cents, which s nearly 10 cents below what wheat was commanding a year ago, not much In excess of the aver- age Chicago price of the crop of 1898, and nearly 20 cents below the average price at which the crop of 1891 was marketed. It is evident that the forelgn need is not to be so urgent as the European crop statls- tics have been regarded as promising, and not so urgent as to make bread unduly ex- pensive in this country. Regarded from the consumers’ standpoint and In view of the fallure of the corn and potate crop, this Is a most fortunate eircumstance. The indicated yleld of corn, as figured out by the Produce exchange statisticlan; is 1,335,003,000 bushels, against an indicated yleld a month ago of 1,393,000,000 bushels, and comparing with an actual harvest of 2,105,102,500 bushels in 1900, 2,078,143,900 in 1899 and 2,283.875,000 bushels in 1896, when the yleld passed all records. The greatest corn crop fallures of recent years were those of 1594 and 1881, but the present one is the worst of all shown not only by reported condition, but by comparisons with average yearly vields. For the five years just past rn_production has averaged about 2,038, 800,000 bushels a year, and the present in- dicated loss from that figure for the crop of 1901 of 723,700,000 bushels amounts to a little over 23 per cent. The corn crop of 1894 was damaged to the extent of about 31 per cent of the previous average five-year yield, and that of 1881 to the extent of less than 20 per cent of what had been an aver- age harvest. American agriculture in this important particular has thus suffered the worst blow experienced in at least thirty- five years The higher prices of corn will make good much if not all of the loss to the farming community as a whole, but the burden of the disaster will none the less fall upon the country in the higher cost of meat and pro- visions especlally, for the production of which corn is the great staple. Altogether the year 1001 promises to be remembered as one of the worst known in agriculture. But for the single redeeming feature of the wheat crop it would have fo be classed the worst without exception since the clvii war. His Farewell Message Philadelphia Public Ledger (rep.) The speech made by President McKinley at Buffalo on the day before he was shot although it was not intended as such, has all the force and effect of a farewell mes- sage. The president had no warning that it was to be his fast public utterance, but he had prepared it with more than usual care, because it was to be delivered under circumstances that would make it a mes- sage to the world on the subject of America's business policy. In the briat period that elapsed between the time of frs delivery and that of the assassination of the president the press of the country rec- ognized the great {mportance of the speech, and very generally commended the president for the broad view he had taken of the future policy of the country. His sassination has given added force to this, his last public utterance. Mr. McKinley was a pronounced advo- cate of protection to American industry. His advancement to the presidential chalr vas largely due to the assoclation of his name with a high tariff bill that helped to revive the drooping industries of the coun- try. Mr. McKinley's early purpose in his advocacy of protection to Amerlean fndus- tries by tarift duties was to hold Ameri- can trade for American workers, to firmly establish American industries so that they could eompete with forelgn industries de- spite the cheaper labor of European coun- tries, That battle was won, partly through the development of our natural resources, partly by the skill and Inventlveness of American workmen, partly because the latter.were protected from ruinous competition while gotting their Industries cstablished. In- fant Industrles have grown to maturity: American mills and factories have been es- tablished capable of producing much more material than could be consumed in the home market, and President McKinley had begun to look forward to the development of our commerce with foreign countrles. For this also the tarlff could be employed, not for the exclusion of forelgn products, but for obtaining concessions in the laws restrictive of trade that would be of mutual benefit. James G. Blaine advocated reci- procity treaties twenty years ago, but the time was less propitious then than it is today, when America has a surplus of manufactures for which it needs a foreign market and when it has already obtained a foothold in foreign markets in spite of ob- structive tariffs. President McKinley was as loval to the true principles of protec- tlon in his Buffalo speech as at any time in his career, but he was broad-minded enough to see that the time had come for an expansion of American trade. We have attalued the purpose of protection—con trol of our home market—and now need for the continuance of our industrial pros perity such an opening to foreign markets as will enable us to dispose of our surplus of manufactured products. On this subject McKinley satd “The period of exclusiveness is past The expansion of our trade and commerce is the pressing problem. Commercial wars are unprofitable. A policy of good will and friendly trade relations will prevent re- prisals. Reciprocity treaties are in har- mony with the opirit of the times: meas- ures of retaliation are not. If, perchance, some of our tariffs are no longer needed for revenue or to encourage and protect our in- dustries at home, why should they not be employed to extend and promote our mar- kets abroad? President Roosevelt n taking up the work of his predecessor has distinctly pledged himself to continue the policy happily out- lined by Mr. McKinley at Buffalo, and that polley was in the main to promote the in- dustrial prosperity of the country by an ex- pansion its trade relations. Varfous means may be employed to this end—mod- ifications of the tariff that will cheapen the cost of production in this country, improve- ment of our consular service by the appli- cation of civil service principles to the ap- pointments to that service, the construc- tion of an lsthmian canal, the laying of a Pacific ccean cable and amendment of our navigation laws. President Roosevelt can set himself no better or higher task than that of carrying out Mr. McKinley's main purpose by such methods as approve themselves to his judg- ment. There {s no doubt of his sincere pur- pose to do this, nor that he will be a most earnest advocate of honorable peace, nc- copting as his guide without reserve the last words of President McKinley: “Let us ever remember that our interest 18 in concord, not confliet, and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those ot war. We hope that all who are represented here may be moved to higher and nobler effort for their own and the world's good, and that out of this city may come, not only greater commerce and trade for us all, but, more essential than these, relations of mutual respect, confldence and friendship which will deepen and endure. Our earnest prayer is that God will gra- clously vouchsafe prosperity, happiness and peace to all our neighbors, and like bles: ings to all the peoples and powers of earth. NEBRASKA FUSIONIS Significant Features of Ghost Dan Kansas City Star (ind.) As might have been cxpected, the Ne- braska democrats, who closed their state convention early this morning, took their stand on the old platforms of the party in their briet reference to national issues. They also fused with the populists, in con- vention at the same time, by the making of a state ticket, taking the head of tho ticket from their own ranks and the nomi- nees for rcgents of the university from those of the popullst faith. They con- demned the proposed reorganization of the democratic party, declaring that those who proposed this adjustment of factions were merely the bolters who had assisted in the election of President McKinley in two na- tional contests. It is apparent that Willlam J. Bryan still dominates the party organization in his own state, whatever his loss of strength may be in other commonwealths. He has espe- clally urged the continuauce of fusion, hav- ing taken the floor in a recent conference and opposed aggressively the proposition to re-establish democratic independence in Nebraska. But the action of the Nebraska democrats will not have much effect upon the general tendency throughout the country to get away from the hopeless issues of the past two presidential campaigns and return to grounds upon which the whole democratic party may be-reunited. The other state con- ventions of this year have indicated very clearly that the popular sentiment of the party is against the continued leadership of Mr. Bryan, that It is opposed to several of the principal articles in the Bryan con- tession of falth and that success can be achieved only through the reunion of the factions. There is plenty of time to formulate the issues of the next presidential campaign, and when they are made up doubtless there will be vital questions not now under con- slderation. But in the meantime it seems almost certain that there will be a radical departure from the Chicago and Kansas City platforms. If not, then the logical candidate for nomination in 1004 will be Willlam J. Bryan, and the inevitable se- quence will be another defeat. the Recent THREE NEW YORK PRESIDENTS, Arthur, Roosevelt—A Bit of History, Washington (Post. Of the five vice presidents, to-wit, Tyler, Fillmore, Johnson, Arthur and Roosevelt, who have succeeded to the presidency to fill vacancles created by death, the state of New York has furnished three. The first of those three was Millard Fillmore, born in 1800, elected vice president in 1848 with General Zachary Taylor, who was in- sugurated on March 5, 1849, and died on July 9, 1850, As presiding officer of the senate at a period of intense excitement Mr. Fillmore won the approbation of all the members of that body by strict and unvarylng impartiality. On July 10, 1850, in the old hall of the house of representa- tives, in the presence of both houses of congress, Mr. Fillmore was sworn into the presidential office, the oath being adminis- tered by the chief justice of the circuit court of the District of Columbia, the ven- erable Willlam Cranch, whom President Jobn Adame fifty years before had ap- pointed to that office. The Taylor cabinet at once resigned and President Fillmore selected & new one from among the ablest whig statesmen of the time, includine Daniel Webster as secretary of state. Peace and prosperity blessed the country during his administration. President Chester A. Arthur of New York, who succeeded the murdered Garfeld in 1881, has a warm place In the hearts of his countrymen. His nomination at Chicago at the end of one of the bitterest factional fights ever waged in any party, a conflict which settled the third term question for all time, was a tub thrown to the stalwart whale. He was little known to the Amer- ican people and there was nothing in his antecedents on which o base an expecta- tion that if called to the presidency he would measure up to the height of that great office. But the occasion found tne man. Coming in as a stalwart, the protege of Conkling, and supposed to be the wuti- pode of Blaine, President Arthur ignored factional differences and remembered that he was not the president of either wing of his party, nor yet of the party as a whole, but president of the United States, the head of the government in which all the people of all sections had equal claims. In all of his appointments, as well as in his refusals to appoint, he aimed to allay animosities. Durlug his administration the civil wery- Ice Iaw was enacted and the absolute fidel- ity with which he enforced its provisions Fillmore, bas Bever peon questioned. It was not bs | fault, not by any mistakes or failures on | the part of his administration, that he was succeeded by a democrat, the first break in | the line of republican succession that had occurred in twenty-four years. | esident Roosevelt, the third of New York's contributions to the presidential | office through the vice presidency, inherits none of the difficulties that surrounded Arthur. There is neither factional nor sec- | tional strife, but a united party, and the people of all sections are desirous of the | blessings that flow from a wise, well-or- dered administration. Mr. Roosevelt brings to the discharge of his duties a wider and more varfed experience than Mr. Arthur | possessed. Let us hope that such honor as | Arthur won may be in store for him, — PERSONAL NOTES, The shah of Persia has become a camera fiend and has had a large darkroom fitted up in the palace at Teheran. The Society of American Wars is raising funds for the erection in San Francisco of @ monument to John Paul Jones. The will of the late Herman 0. Armour disposes, in bequests to his family and relatives, of $2,230,000 of real and personal property. By breaking up Independence, Mr. Lawson endorses Lipton's opinfon that a vacht bullt for a cup race is good for noth- ing else. There will be assembled in and about New York harbor during the cup races steam yachts to the estimated value of $50,000,000, They represent the Argonauts who havo found the golden flecce, Robert Lebaudy, son of the rich French SUgar refiner, was in New York last week and subscribed §10,000 to the hospital build- ing which the French Benevolent assocla- tion Is to erect in that eity. J. P. Lyon of St. Paul, who is now at the national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic at Cleveland, 0., is said to be the youngest member of that body. Lyon enlisted as the drumer hoy of Company G, Eighty-first Ohlo infantry on October 12, 1861—five days before his eleventh birth- day. Memories of the execution of Maximilian, the emperor of Mexico, are revived by the announcement that the emperor of Austria has conferred the title of baron upon De Francisco Kaska of the City of Mexico. De Kaska accompanied Maximilian to Mexico and remained until the last a member of his suite, The Navy department is soon to have a fine portrait of John P. Kennedy, who Wae secretary of the navy under President Filmore. A nephew and namesake of the former secretary has offered to loan the department a portrait until a copy 15 made. Secretary Kennedy was appointed from Maryland in 1854, M. Wallon, a momber of the French senate, who is known as the “Father of the Republican Constitution,” recently as- sisted his son in rescuing three persons who were drowning in the sea near Petits Dalles. For his courageous conduct the senator, who is 80 years old, has been PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S pI Detroit Journal: The entire country wiil be gratified at the announcement of I're dent Roosevelt that the policies of his | decessor are to be carrled out to the lotter and in the spirit in which they Were con- celved and in which they were being oped. Chicago News: Coming from a man of Mr. Roosevelt's ability and personal force his deciarations mean far more than they would were he of second-rate powers. The public will accept them as further evidenco of his broad-mindedness and froedom from mere personal ambition. { Washington Post: The McKinley polley I8 10 be the Roosevelt policy. Tho Roose- velt policy, therefore, becomes the policy of the progressive American, and the presi- dent of (he United States will have the same loyal and devoted support which has been accorded his martyred predecessor. St. Louls Globe-Democrat: I shall con tinue, absolutely unbrokn the polley of President McKinley for the peace, pros- perity and the honor of our beloved coun- try," says President Roosevelt try knows there s not an at that the pledge will bo scru Boston Transcript: President Roosevelt is a man of his word and his promise | be accepted as made Without reservation Elected on the samo platform as Prosident McKinley, which he had cordially accepied there ought to have been no doubt from th, first as to Mr. Roosevelt's shaping hie policy to attain the same ends as those Mr. Mc- Kinley propose Philadelphia North American: Wo aro sure that no president beginning his term of service has had behind him a country more ready to accord applause for triumph, won or eupport in difficulties that may arise. In the North American’s judgment Theodore Roosevelt has the brains, (h heart and the patriotism to make an ex- ceptionally good president Chicago Tribune: This declaration of President Roos 11, promotive of confidenc, in the present and a good omen for the fu ture, was only another fllustration of his habit of doing Just the right thing at the right time. He has been criticised for his Impulsiveness, but here was impulsivenes of the right kind. He spoke promptly and he spoke in a manner to he elearly under stood and without reservation of any kind, and his first words after taking the oath of office were just the words tho American people were longing to hear. New York Times: Every man who knows Theodore Roosevelt well will avow that these were the looked-for words, this tho personal proclamation naturally and almost inevitably prompted by the character of his mind and the impulses of his heart. Under these great responsibilities the strong, solf reliant man the American people have known so well and studied with such in- terest in his various relations to public af- fairs becomes the safe, wise, conservative president, willing and content to pursue to the end the policies of Willlam McKinley because he was a safe, wise and conserva- tive president. Philadelphla Press: This sentence s {he shortest inaugural in our history. It prom’ ises to prove the most comprehensive and satisfactory. It is pledge, platform and policy in one. It accepts the past, assures the future and calms the present. It gives a grief-stricken land the broad, general and generous assurance it desired that the prin- clples and policy of an administration suc- cessful beyond apy other in our day and generation are to be continued, entire and complete, by President Roosevelt. The country desires no more than an adminis tration as prosperous as the one just sadly closed fn universal grief and world sorrew,' and the best friend and fondest admirer of the new president could wish him o greafer success than to meet this desite, whose ful- fillment. is assured by his first, frank, fufl declaration of policy. The coun- m of doubt Wously kept. ur Way. s News. The British mail from Australia is to g0 across the United States Instead of the Suez canal because much quicker time be made than by the old route. E thing is coming our way. POINTED REMARKS, Plttsburg Chronicle: Mre. Snaggs—The early bird does not get the worm this sum- mer’ Mr. get Mrs. Snaggs—Doesn't he? What does he Snaggs—The caterpillar, Chicago Tribune: “You know, of eourse, onel,” remarked the barterder, “that Kentucky {8 producing about 30,000,000 gal- lons of Whisky a year now “Have you any idea, sah,'* asked Colonel Hankthunder, raising his glass with a steady hand, “whah we get the rest of ouah supply?” Somerville Journal-Mistress—Have any near relatives, Thomas? Coachman—Yes, ma'am, 1 have in Philadelphia who s about as they ever make 'em. Washington Star: “One gret trouble,” Kben, “is dat n s gh to say anyfing wuf hearin,' he is also smaht enough not to talk much.’ you Ohfo State Journal: “T am sorry,” said the physician to the ossified man, “but you cannot live long, “Well,” replied the ossified man, the times comes I will die hard." Philadelphia Press: “My good man we said to the pagan Chinese, “do you not recognize the signs of the times? “Indeed,” he replled in soft tones, ‘- deed 1 do. They are the ones thut say ‘Pay Indemnitles Hero,!' are they not?” “when Cleveland Plain Dealer: “T see that « Connecticut pustor hus been sharply criti- clsed for dealing in stocks on margin “Does he offer any exci “Yes, He says other mintsters same thing." “Of course, do the That's a stock excuse.” Stray Stories: “Smithers can tell s gocd a fish story as anybody I know. T told him awarded a medal of the first c| M. Marche, a French engineer, claims to have solved the problem of telephoning by submarine cables for great distances. His experiments are reported as having been very extensive and exhaustive and as hav- ing resulted recently in his being able to transmit & telephone message, with perfect distinctness, from Calals through a cable 400 miles long. Kathryn Tynan, the Irish writer, 18 Mrs, Hinkson by marriage. She was born at Dublin 40 years ago. At 25 Miss Tyna published her first volume of verse, having then been writing for eight years. Since then several volumes of her verse have been printed, as well as some ten novels. D. A. Hinkson is also the author of several novels of Irish life, Wolf von Schierbrand, the newspaper cor- respondent expelled from Germany, 18 well known here and in New York, where he re- cently arrived. He clalms that the actual cause of his expulsion was not, as stated by German officials, because he had tried an awful whopper the other night, but he matched jt." How """ He sald he believed me.*’ Puck: Wirst Correspondent-Aha' This is_really important, 1f true! Second Correspondent—What fs {7 v First Correspondent—There's n roport that Russla and Japan have entered into secret treaty not to let their criscs ko too far, »ere i aln't o doubt Washington Star i e, “edvien- about {t."" sald » tion payk.” 1 &'pose you're ence?’ responded temptuously y Tam. T went t'roo one o' de biggest col- leges In do country while de students was asleep.” ' SOME TIME WE SHALI andi spoakin’ from expert Plodding Pete, con- UNDERSTAN (Bung at the State Funeral, National Capl- . tol, Washington.) Not now, but in the coming years, 1t may be in the better land, We'll read the meaning of our tears, And there, some time, we'll understand. by illegitimate means to obtain advance coples of the new German tarift bill, but because in two of his letters the drinking habits of the emperor were described. M. M, Fulton, manager of the Postal Tel- egraph and Cable company at Bucyrus, O., has bulletined the assassination of three presidents. When President Lincoln was shot Fulton was night operator at Allegh- eny, Pa., and recefved the bulletins an- nouncing the tragedy. At the time Presi- dent Garfield was shot Fulton was the day operator at the Western Union office in Bucyrus, and received the news of that event. He is now connected with the Postal Telegraph and Cable company in the city, and in the regular routine of cuties recelyed the news of the tion of President McKiunley, CHORUS, Then trust in God through all thy davs; Fear not, for He doth hold thy hand Though dark thy way, still sing and pra's Home time, some time, we'll undersiand We'll catch the broken thread again, And finish what we here began; Heav'n will mysteries explal And then, ah, then, we'll u We'll know why clouds instead of sun Were over many u cherished pla Why song has ceused when sca b "Tis there, some time, we'll underst; cratand gun; A Why what we longed for most of all, Eludes so oft, our eager hand; Why hopes aré crushod and castles fall Up thers, some time, we'll understand God knows the way, He holds the key, He guldes us with' unerring hand. Some time with tearless oyes we'll woe ‘es, there, up there, we'll understand,