Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 27, 1901, Page 6

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There 18 only one self-constituted, self-acting and self-lnbricating machine, and Tom Blackburn is it. The lively interest in the republican county primaries means that Douglas connty republicans ave not resting on their onrs “For the welfare of the country and the good of the vepublican party,” go to the primary polls and vote to reward loyalty before disloyalty The British athletes who came over to compete with Amerfcan collegians were given a run for theie money, but thefr speed was not equal to overtak- Ing it — Nebraska State university orators are to contest with Stanford’s. When the fresh Nebraska breeze is set free on the coast the white caps will roll with un wonted vigor Judge Duffie veports that his canvass for the democratic supreme judge nom ination cost him only 20 cents. His chances looked about that size after the Douglas county delegation threw him down. Now that the steel strike is ended the leaders are quarreling as to who is re spousible for the failu There is never any trouble in finding some one to own up to killfug the deer, but responsibil- ity for the slaughter of the calf is dif- ferent. pe—————— Columbia college upperclass men com- plain because they have been forced to prowlise to cease hazing. It is really too bad a great university like Colum- bla should thus seek to deprive students of this most essential part of a modern college edueation. Republicans who played when the great battle of Nebraska was on a year ago should go to the demo- erats for nominations if they have the turncoats ofMee-diteh now. They have stronger claims upon democrats than they have upon republicans. Iron and steel manufacturers report haviug orders to keep the mills busy until well into next season, even If no more business is offered. Every sign points to the continuance of the present prosperity and that the dinner pail will continue to be full, President Castro of Venezuela denfes that he ires to consolidate his coun- try with Colombia and 'Ecuador into one government, under himself as chief. He doubtless realizes that he has trouble enough for one man in retain- ing power in one country. —_—— The South Omaha delegates to the republican convention are sald to threaten a walkout if they do not get their candidate for sheriff. Suppose the Omaha delegates should pursue the same poliey in case one of thelr candi- dates falled to conuect, what would become of the convention? —e Prince Chun, the Chinese envoy who came to Germany loaded with an offi- clal apology, has declded not to visit the United States enroute home. In view of the uncertainty regarding the stability of his head when he reaches home, Chun is making a mistake In not first taking In all the sights possible. T—— Czolgosz has been sentenced to die during the week commencing October 28 Without taking from the prisoner a single vight which 4s his under the law, it Is well that the trial has been prompt aud the execution of the verdiet equally so. If the example has any ter- rors to men of his class they will get e whole lesson from this, AS TO CIVIL SERVICE REFORM. President Roosevelt has been promi nently identified with the cause of eivil service reform, having served as a men ber of the civil service commission, and his well known views in favor of the reform have led to somwe speculation as to what he may do to extend it, it he Ing generally assumed that the reform will not be neglected under hig admin istration. The statement has been made that the president is strongly in favor of a reform in the consular system and of taking fourth-class postmasters out of polities and also the examining sur. geons in pension cases, There are ahout 3,000 of the latter throughout the coun try and one of the reforms that Com missioner of Pensions Evans has fa vored is to Include those surgeons under the civil service law, The course of the preceding adminis tration in regard to the merit systemn was subjected to no little eriticism and the course of the present administration will be watched with great interest by the friends of the reform, who are con fident that It will be advanced by Presi dent Roosevelt. The New York Times remarks that no president has over taken up the administration of the civil service of the government with a clearer conception of his obligations or a higher standard for their discharge than Mr. Roosevelt. His deseription of the merit system, says that paper, and his state ment of the importance of applying it to the service, are those of a practical and successful administrator and an equally practical and successful politician and party leader. *“He las not merely studied the system; he has worked it. He knows all its relations to public af- | fairs and to party affairs int mately and aceurately, He has keen and has tested it himself in all possible ways and he cannot be seriously mistaken or misled regarding it. Moreover, the deepest feelings of his nature respond to It. It is, he de clares, in Its essence as democratic as ommon school system, for It simply us equal chances and fair play for There I8 no question as to the Learty and earnest devotion of the president to civil service reform and there Is every renson to believe that so far as he possesses the authority it will be xercised in extending and strength ing the merit system. The only ques tion is whether congress will enable | him to go as far as he may de | Meanwhile the civil service system, as | shown by the last report of the com-| mission, I8 working well and there Is ¥ improvement in its operation. are still irregularities, but they less from year to year. During ended June lagt there were classi- grow tie yeu more persons appointed to t fled service as a direct result of com- petitive examinations than in any pre- vious year. The number of persons in the classified service at the time of the prepuration of the commission's report was about 90,000, whose aggregate sal- aries approximated about §75,000,000 per annum, while the unciassified posi- tions numbered slightly more than 100,- 000, composed chiefly of presidential and fourth-class postmasters, whose ag- gregate salaries approximated $30,000,- 000, It can at least_be confidently pre- dicted that there will be no backward | step taken in regard to civil service form during the administration of Pres- ident Roosevelt. SHAFFER CALLED TO ACCOUNT. Organized labor throughout the coun | try will be interested in the action of | Mr. Gompers and Mr. Mitehell, presi- | dents respectively of the Amerlean Fed eratlon of Labor and the United Mine Workers of America, in calling upon President Shaffer of the Amalgamated Assoclation of Steel Workers to sub stantinte the charges and insinuations made in his public statement explana- tory of the failure of the strike of steel workers. These were of such a nature that Messrs. Gompers and Mitchell could not have retained the respect and contldence of the organizations of which they are the heads, or indeed of any- body of organized labor, if they had per- mitted the charges and Insinuations to €0 unnotics Mr. Shaffer has announced that he will accept the challenge and doubtless the proposed committee of three will be agreed upon within the specitied time aud will promptly proceed with the in- vestigation. The result may be inter esting and instructive to the general public as well as to organized labc it may disclose some things not appar ent during the progress of the strike that will be enlightening as to the methods employed in connection with that contest and as to whether those responsible for it pursued a falr and honorable course toward the men who had entrusted them with power. In the meantime it may be remarked that the president of the Amalgamated association will find it difficult to regain his lost prestige. | FOR REFORM IN NEW YUKR. The anti-Tammany forces are ahout ready to enter upon a vigorous cam- palgn, with Seth Low as their candidate for mayor of New York, After a thor- ough eanvass of popular sentiment op. posed to Tammany, by representativ of the elghteen antt-Tammany organiza- tions, Mr. Low was decided upon as the most avallable candidate for the mayoralty and he has announced that he will accept the nomination. Four years ago he was the independent can didate for mayor and showed his pop- ular strength in receiving over 151,000 votes. Had he then been endorsed by the republicans, as he now is, he would have heen elected. Mr, Low Is a man of high character and proved abllity and there {8 no doubt that as mayor he would give New York an eflicient and upright administration, so far as possible freeing that city from the venality, the corruption and the abuses that have prevailed under the present Tammany administration, There are not wanting indications that Tammany is serlously troubled over the situation, There are internal dlis- sensions In the organization and a strong tendeney has been manifested to revolt against the leadership of Croker, It is said the boss is far more perplexed THE OMAHA DAl now than he was when he return from Europe four years ago to resume his place as leader, for the proble that then confronted him was loss grave than that with he to leal, although similar in charncter, Moreover, he has doubtless somewhat weakened his hold upon the organiza { tlon by his sojourn abroad. However, Croker will undoubtedly e be the leader of Tammany, | there is no one else so well qualified for | which now has continne hecause the leadership in the present exigency, { but he may have to aceept some condl | tions that are distasteful to him, par ixh-ulurh in the matter of candidates. It will be an interesting contest, with { the friends everywhere of sound, honest { and decent government earnestly hop ing for the success of the anti-Tam many movement — STRUCK THE KEYNUTE. The most vital concerning the people of this city and county is redue tion of taxes. The Real Estate ex change has struck the keynote in its de mand for tax reform that will lighten the burdens of property owners and make Omaha t te a salable com modity in the 1 Tax reform can accomplished only two ways: An increase of rev and decrease of expenses, Increase of revenue can about most effectively hy ble assessment of property. The whole sale exemption of corporate property under varfous pretexts and the diserim ination between large and small prop erty owners in the assessment has kept the grand assessment roll away below what It should be. The failure to re turn personal property for taxation has also become an intolerable abuse that nmust checked, On the other hand, the cost !gu\--rmnl‘ul is altogether Nobody can stand up to defend the reck less waste of county funds and unbusi ness-like management of county institu tions. While there 1 be a few super Issue 1 ests rket in e be brought more equita be of local excessive, | here and there o the various clty de partments, the increase of nearly $17,000 a year in the salary list of the county for 1000, as compared with five | ago, is as utterly inexcusable as the ex | penditure of over $80,000 a year on grading and bridging county roads or the paying out more than $10,000 a year for supervision of this work. According to the estimate made by Commissioner Ostrom most of the grad ing this year has « | cents a yard, when it should have cost | no more than 12 ceuts a yard. | The county still pays 45 cents a day | st the taxpayers 75 | numeraries in the elty hall and wastage years | LY BEE: FRIDAY have found scarcely of them. The audacity which robbed the government openly was evidently supple mented by a cunning that has balked every effort of the Department of Justice to re- cover the plunder. more than one-half Melanoholy of Fallure, Story Chicago Chronicle President Shaffer tells the melancholy story of the failure of the steel strike and explains how ft happened. Gompers with the labor federation, Mitchell with the coal miners and geant with the railroad men not only failed to call thelr men out on a sympathetic strike, but failed to pay 1 cent for the support of the strikers. Pub lie opinion was against the strike. The strikers failed to support the strike, but off to other strike-breakers localities and joined the At nonunlon mills. Thers were other reasons, but theas were enough. The fact that thousands of strikers went to work in nonunion mills at other places 18 cvidence that the strike was unpopular with the Amalgamated association as well as with everybody else. | went | | Primitive Peoples Blighted. Philadelphia Record It s one of the saddest commentaries on our civilization that wherever it Is car- ried among aboriginal and primitive peo ples it is demoralizing and deadly. It s now reported that the Indian tribes of the Yukon valley are being swept away by diseases which are (he direct result of contact with the gold-hunting plonecrs who have overrun their country. The natives cannot withstand the fmpact of our vices. Half fed, unclean of habits and ignorant of any means of self-help or cure, they perish by thousands, It would seem to be the destiny of these simple races that, left to themselves, have been enabled to with- stand the rigors of high northern latitudes | to perish utterly from the face of the | earth. | Slans p | Boston Transcript | The death and burial of President Me- | Kinley and the accession of President Roosevelt have so absorbed public inter- | est and attention that | have been but 1ttle noted. Yet two things occurred that at least are noteworthy as | showing, if not party tendencles as a whole, tendencies in localities. Thus the democrats and populists of Nebraska, Mr. Bryan's state, have fused on a state ticket and have resolved that their hearts are true to Poll,” and that the Kansas City | platform s all right to be the platform | of democracy. Influenced by the national | tragedy, they departed from the traditions of democracy ar as to recommend a closer regulation of immigration. As | marking a republican tendency, it may be noted that the republicans of lowa have | put reciprocity forward as the great plank of their platform in the campaign they are now carrying on and are circulating President McKinley's last speech as their all-sufficient literature. MISPLACED OFFICIAL 7 Activity of Immigration erienl ctors Hoston Globe. for feeding jall prisoners, while the city is paying only 16 cents a day for equally | substantial fare. H The surplus in the city treasury 2 per cent for the taxpayers, is earning 2 while the money in the county treasus is not bringing them a penny. | The demand for tax reform will come | to nothing unless public sentiment en- | forces more equitable assessments and more honest and economic disburse- ments of the money ralsed by ‘taxation, | If Douglas county taxpayers will| study carefully the statistical exhibits | The Bee has been waking of the opera tion and expenses of the different branches of county government, they | will see the poluts where reform and | retrenchment must be applied. These | reviews are based upon the official records; they are made in an entirely unprejudiced and dispassionate man- | ner; they show the exact facts as they | exist without discrimination between | departments under republican or demo cratic officers, The story the figures tell wust be instructive to those who have to pay the bill else mu Whatever ¥y be short, the Omaha crop of suckers is up to the average, It is strange that people will | give up money to have some one tell | them where several times the amount paid is buried. As if a man with sense enough to come in when it raius would | not dig it up himself without waiting | for a chance to put some one else in| possession of a good thing. | The decision of Judge Estelle that the county board cannot transfpr money PR political grading may come in handy for the taxpayers If it ean be made to cover other lllegal trausfers of funds levied for specitic purposes. These transfers are alwiys a source of extravagance and wastefulness, Taking a Lurge Contract, Loulsville Courler-Journal, President Roosevelt 18 going to be an unusually busy man if he s to undertake the suppression of the amateur photo- graphers. No Cn for Worry. Washington Post, It 1s unnecessary for the English ed- itors to worry over President The American people are the cerned in the matter and thy Roosevelt., most y have already con- expressed. thelr confidence in thelr chief executive and sbown in the most con- clusive manner that they have no fears concerning tho future of the country. Justi- fication for this feeling has been liberally supplied by the words and acts of Presi- dent Roosevelt, Give Buffalo a Doost. Chicago Tribune, There is no reason why people who had planned to visit the exposition should not do s0. Certainly such a visit would mean no disrespect to the memory of President Me- Kinley, who has made the exposition his- torfc mot only by his death, but by the great speech he delivered on the day pre- vious to his assassination, and which in the light of what has followed its delivery reads like a great farewell address. From every standpoint and in every way Buffalo and its exposition deserve the support of the people. Searching for Stolen Money, Philadelphia Record The frauds in Savannah harbor work for which Captain Carter is now undergoing imprisonment at Fort Leavenworth netted that interesting individual over $700,000, He did not waste his stealings in riotous living, but endeavored to invest them in some safe way, so that if, the mischance of retribution should overtake him he would have something to start anew with on emerging from a conviet's cell. Up to the present time the government officials The zeal of the immigration commission- | ers in New York is at white heat just now. | The new regulations requive immigration inspectors to take afdavits of natives, fill out identification blanks, and to seize the passports or naturalization certificates of naturalized citizens. The papers seized are | held for verification, to be malled to right- ful owne Some time ago Eugene F. O'Rourke, pud- | lisher of the Unlonist, was gent to Swansea, Wales, as a delegate of the American Fed- eration of Labor. Happening to return when the zeal of {he inspectors was at full heat, he was selzed like a criminal, for he had forgotten to take his naturalization papers with him, and was on the point of being sent back as a susplcious person, when he was rescued by barely proving his | identity. Other peréons who are citizens say they were treated scandalously by the| hot-headed inspectors, and even thelr pa ports and other papers taken from them | without warrant. While officialism remains unduly exclted citizens of the United States whom poveFty requires to return from Europe in the eteer- age will be constrained to wonder whether their citizenship fs not an embarrassment rather than a help. CROOKED DOCTORS BOUNCED, ing Board Retired Busine: Pension Exami fr Philadelphin Ledger. coveries made in the course of the ne of the pension bureau have con- strained Commissioner Evans to address a letter to every hoard of examining surgeons requiring the exercise of greater care in | the investigation of the physical condi- tion of claimants. Recently twenty appli- ants appearcd on the same day before a certaln board, which reported that each applicant was suffering from organic dis- case of the heart. The coincldence was so startling and the accuracy of the reports so improbable that the commissioner caused a re-examination to be made by disinter- ested experts, and they found that none of the applicants had heart disease. This was 1o isolated instance of carelessness or fgnorance on the part of examining sur- geons. Special examinations disproved the roports in other cases. Commissioner Evans dispensed with the services of the Incom- ¢ boards, and felt obliged to Issue a general circular advising examiners throughout the country of the discoveries that the bureau had made, and notifying them that they would be expected to make out careful, conscientious and intelligent roports It is not Improbable that the delinquent medical men discharged from the service and the applicants, whose claims have been disallowed because they lacked pensionable status, will Join the chorus that is malign- ing the commissioper of pensions, faleely accusing him of hostility to worthy vet erans, and demanding that he shall be re- moved from office and the bureau given into the custody of one who will lavish pensions upon the undeserving, as well as upon the del It is & fact that from the time of the institution of the pension bureau, through the terms of the various commis- sloners, frauds and attempts at deception have heen unco ed, and attorneys have been disharred for trying to cheat the gov- ernment or to impose upon claimants. It 18 a mathematical probability that, as a gen- erous and appreciative natlon widens the avenues of its bounty and opens the doors to additional pensloners, attempte at sharp practice will increase. In no sense does this constitute an implication upen honest applicants or reputable attorneys. The statement, however, should serve as a warn- ing to tae public not to be deluded by the speeious accusations of {1l treatment and in- justice, which are recklessly brought both by persons who have been detected fn frauds and others who find fault with the burea, because it will not, as it cannot, make rules and give interpretations contrary the acts of congress. Commissioner Evans fe himself a union veteran and a republican so highly esteemed by his party as to have polled the next highest vote to Mr. Hiart for the vice presidency in the national con vention of 1896, HMe i« second to none in his disposition and desire to award just and lib eral pensions to worthy veteran soldiers and sallors of the union, and public opinion, as well as his intelligent comrades, sustains to who have becn seeking to discover Car- ter's planted securities and investments him in his conelderate and consclentious course #s bead of the peusiom bureau. SEPTEMBER 27, political happenings | 1 01 ’nn‘f‘ started fe he ¢ A Model Trial | Bere was sorapiet. ¢ was comy i dead pre 1 pasto 1 | 8t. Paul Pl Pre r rmed f For once an American court has vind «z. Yot a whole year, lacking only two saving for year cated 1ts claim to prc s as woll as days, were permitted to lapse botwe b, but fairness in meting out ji to a mur- &booting of Garfield, July 2, 1881, and hi winful one. N l-h\rl‘r. and because of this prompiness jus- expiation on the gallows June 30, iSs2 ate chur tice 18 doubly glorified. Thera was not a Hi8 counsel were permitted to 1se every the habit of r | day's unneceseary delay in putting the Jle to delay and possible defea fent atten assasein on trial After the decosss of {he e. And this example is one of really into the coffers of president had made murder pird i 1 work when compared with e readily tha | tion of Czolgosz’s crime. Two da g ous othier murder trials, In Oregor : EVERLIDR of W for sseuring & Jury atd for the formal o murderer was hangel ouly ston was organized in | presentation of evidence—though such pres. 1'% MONth for v o, y"":’ ;"f"' . s T |'posetble defense that could have been of. | ex than that for which Czol- seat X M, 1 | . 8% oot Ave been of- goy about to pay the penalty. Yet, by the T of v fered, ineanity, having been proved useloss Ang to sie (eehBTaRIIy Atter another | admitted to the Retoriva ¥ by the preceding cxaminations of f n o preposterous legal code, the lawyers | ter of a ce tinguished allenists, of whom concurred were able to carry the case from term to Washi n ho w he p in pronouncing Czolgosz sane and intel term and from court to court, when every hurch at Tiffin, O gent His counsel, chosen by the Buffal body k that before the law their client Bar, ‘with every destre to bo falr, would not had ho defense and that be should have | By o eve . [ 8toop to the subterfuge of oftering that de- been exccuted as soon as the briefest of [ yariment of Justl | fonse in the face of such an array of ex- formalitic be mplied with. | o¢ pocovering a por pert opinion with no motive but delay. Oniy Public sentiment v ain every effort | yain Garter stole fr " v the formality of sentence is yet to he gone ™Made by the bar or he to divest our | giationed at Sava 2 through, after which the murderer will po C'minal of the funkold | ypougand dollars in « | placed 1n a cell at Auburn to await the ex- STOWtH of which has - been | ca1y0q at many thou piration of the statutory interval requireq "eTMitted to so disfigure it make |y rolatives of the forn | by New York law between sentence and jeastvie it m !5 itk been selzed by the governme execution. Then the electrical chalr, and for the eriminal a suciontly at worth several hundred .t Cz0lgosz will have gono to his accounting sumeiently conscienceless lawyer e oT i pan s before the tribunal of the Almighty of Buffalo set a splendid example bl Bt s P The contrast between this prompt, dig- measures taken to prevent the C gt bl ""‘.“ {“'s’ | nified and every way exemplary trial and trial from being made another oceaston for [t FEEHIE CHRNEEECEON | the murder trial as ordinarily conducted the illustration of the most prominent | N** clews which may esiab fa too many of our courts, s something defect in our judicial system. What the [ I WAs ik ","”_”l‘ 4 which reflects the highest credit on every jeople want {s prompt and exact justice in | oo thOC “‘I” il Ll one connected with the Buffalo court. every case and a sweeping away of all legal | o t0 O W& desire 1o got pos | Take the trial of Guiteau, for instance. sophistries and quibbles which stand fn fts | Lttt §F thE Herey Beaiel By The evidence of his guilt was just as way R - — - has — Huntington, W \ PERSONAL NOTES, | DEETY, Whs SN 1 name of a brothe « h - - - officer T this brothe | The hunting season in Maine {sn't open | Men nnd Events Ob at the | forred securities, and yet; but a hoy, mistaken for a deer, has National Capital ment they wero disposed been killed down fn New Brunswick | : 1| mold notes being necented Congress is expected to give Mrs. M The renovation &nd aiterations made i | mygge notes wure placed ™ | the White House during the summer vaca- | - | Kinley a pension of $5.000 & year, which | yion of the presidential family resulted in [ YhUIt At Huntington Le | 1ooks rather small for such a big country | % o0 ol FET U doorlocks, hinges and .'.virl‘m of the Lty ok other wornout articles. The death of Presi- [ T4r(1ee, secured o i | The author of “Ups and Downs of &/ gent McKinley gives these articles a mel- | "Il The BelHine 060y | Young Married Man” has just b 11~ | ancholy interest and are eagerly sought for e | vorced from his fourth wife and is RCtting | ug gouvenirs of the occupany of the White | N T“"* N : G0 MEAngs ready to be married again | House by President and Mrs. McKinley orleinally purchased Iy p | Talk about American courage! Al the | The most conspicuous object recently dis- to LBtE LA Shaserbton e TRE X warnings about the Insccurity of the Brook- | carded 1s a massive brass knob and lock | o, bt pursued with re | Iyn bridge only serve to increase the num- | formerly attached to the great door of the | L% e o™ e conuritios b ber of people who pile themselves on it to | White House, opening the north porch Pt e ettt ol | see if it will bear them. | Shortly before _the fumeral of President | ft In not belleyed: ther The letter from the emperor of China to | McKinloy the old door knob was replaced | gl F 8 08 T0E T the kaiser is painted on a single piece of | by massive gilt knob attached to lock | yellow silk over four yards in length, and | of improved design. It is handsomer than | 1 is beautifully illuminated with | flowers and arabesques embroidered in silks | of many colors. Mr. Gates of the Wire trust has a treach- | erous memory. He forgot to declare a lot |of diamonds he had purchased while { abroad, but when his attention was called to them by the customs officials he paid about 000 in duties From New York state have come five of the twenty-five men who have been presi- dent of the United States—Van Buren, Fill- more, Arthur, Cleveland and Roosevelt. Of the five three—Filimore, Arthur and Roose- | velt—were raised to the presidency from the | vice presidency by the death of the presi- dent. € 1. Zangwill has written the followlng let word | ter as to the derivation of the “ghetto: “I don’t think any quite con- vineing etymology of ‘ghetto’ has been ad- | duced, though the most likely connection i3 with the 'ghetto,” or iron foundry, in the quarter of Venice to which the' Hebrews were assigned in 1016, As this was the flrst compulsory Hebrew quarter in Italy the all were more or less flercely fought by the dominant political elements in the sourh Roosevelt might also bave been so fouzht if he had entered the presidency by ele tion, yet the old flerce political animosi- ties have been dying out in the south. Mc Kinley's adminlstration did much to re move them. And Roosevelt will probably appeal to the south as a semi-southerner quite as strongly as he will be opposed be cause of his republicanism. This will tend to soften political opposition in congress and to make his work ensier While thus appealing to the south by his ancestry, he appeals no less strongly to the west, becauee he has lived so much in that part of the country and 1s 8o famillar with its life, its people and its aspirations. Thor ough New Yorker though he is, he is more | famillar with the great, etruggling, am bitious, energetic west, the vigorous west of the mountains and prairles, than any president has been since Lincoln, at least, perhaps since the elder Harrison, or even | Jackson. H is no less popular in the west | than in his own state. This will help fu ther to make his administration easy. Youngest of the presidents, he Is farthest | removed from any sectional suspiclons, 1s more familiar with the thought of all ecc- tions, than any president sinco the early | days of the republic | Having declared his purpose to continue | the McKinley policies and retained the en tire McKinley cabinet, he has left little ground for the hungry to expect a redistrl- | bution of the spoils. The offices are prae tically all filled, he has no pledges or obit- | gatlons to fulfill and there can be little ex- | cuse, and certainly will be Iittie encourage ment, r politiclans to trouble him with| claims for patronage. * * * All of these and other coneide to justify strong hopes for the Roosevelt| administration and for the peace and qwml‘ -ations tend | of the country iu general, | were worn out, no one will deny EMILING th: old one, but it is not quite so large and was not manufactured to order. The knob and shield are gold plated nd cost, Philadelphia with the locks, $55. The old knob bore on|MKe that whisky ? its face a spreadeagle, surrounded by thir-| Bibblesitis like teen stars, representing the original state Nobody seems to know Just how many years it had been in use, and, although the uni-|{ \woohineon formed guards usually open the door for|Uncle Eben visitors, the doorkeeper asserts that "'“l:'.“'.,,“““' tike doorknob has probably been grasped by | (T AR more distinguished hands than that of any star “sometimes him t him out'n ul other portal in the world Baltimore American: Mre. The iron hinges on the door of the cab- | fRRKCA Vou LHHIC LB Ml inet room, which have turned to &dmit| Mr Wunder—Why, my « Into the presence of the president, scores notice that he 1 three « of cabinet ministers and many thousands [ POtatocs of official visitors during half a century, | New York Time Anxious 1 have been removed. Brass hinges of the [ do you pronounce “tahle d'hot latest pattern have replaced them. The '.“*.vl,.”',’.i‘:‘.' Rrontiion 15 0ld hinges are now in the possession of the [ S e, PACe WENBERS (0 venerable Captain Charles Locffler, who has been the president’s doorkeeper for elght | Frooklyn dtagle: Penclope or nine administrations, and since, through 1'\\”1'\“1‘}“"n\.:h”v in cou L his falthful service in opening and closing | Coneiunee- Perhaps nion with her the door during all these years, the hinges his right e e e . The Heaviest Hair on Record Absalom’s. Every:year he polled his head, and the weight of his hair was 6 1-6 pound We can’t promise you any such hair as this; yet you know the familiar saying, “Ayer’s Hair nVigor§ makes the hair grow.” It also stops falling of the hair, and restores color to gray hair, all the dark, rich color. “ My hair was coming out very badly and was turning gray. Two bottles of Ayer's Hair Vigor stopped the falling and completely restored the color.” Mgs. M. D, GRay, North Salem, Mass. $1.00. Al drugglsis. J. C. AVER CO., Lowell, Mass. arter a co has b seized a 1t in th ted 1 REMAGRIKS 1 Chicago Tribi SEE X t Al e others were called by the same name. to possess them. He will keep the dis- [ i (HCRKS wx- Eph'm, “how ot m Though President Roosevelt ts the young- | carded hinges as valuable relics and hand | chine busineas fx a-grow ATtor w est chief magistrate this country has ever | them down to his children. youl be dropnin' ay in ¢ had he is not so youthful as the heads of il some other governments, The president i | Graco Reform Mission chapel, suddenly | _Cleveland Plain D “I noties 11 43 years old? but Emperor Willlam will not | yrought into prominenc the! Iioaalc uthoritics h e¢ be 42 until the 27th of this month. The ¢zar | qent's church,” is loeated on Fifteenth 1 of Russia is only 31. mm:m.u«-x‘n of l‘l‘fall)' | street, between Riode1siand avenue and ve to twenty years, T belteve will be 33 this coming November. H=1p street, and is one of the humblest houses helmina of Hollm\‘d was 21 ,;nu: ,':M 1”’(“(,, worship in Washington. Its pastor is k’!”v:l”l ‘."'rm "‘ Al month and Alfonzo XIII of Spain, the|pey john N. Schick, D. D., a plain, con- | He—No; 1 didn't know young of them all, was only 15 May 17 Jast. | ycientious man, who Is the best of pas (SheThaes funny. T tioueht A —— tors, but hardly a great preacher. His | 1Ol vou joined.the. chol 5 8 3} ki o h! 8h did tell me it ROOSBVELTE-ADVANTAGE, sermons are simple, straightforward taiks | 0 O" |l ik TLE to the members of his congregation, who [ Hrooklyn Hagle: Mre New Administration Starts Under|aro neither, as & rule, rich nor aristo- [ thought vou said it wouid 1 Favorahle Auspices, 4 ; Dr. Sawbone I necd 5 The site the congregation owns on Fif- [ mobil Buftalo Express ; ferd OB Tl President Rooseveli's mother was & mem- | teenth street is & valuable one. The chapel i o ber of an old South Carolins family which | #1t8 at the rear of a deep lot, leaving in AN IDYL OF THE PARK had been prominent in the affairs of that | {roNt an ample space, on which it is boved » faet | SOMe day a splendid church building wiil Lesle's Weekly state since before tha revolution. The fact |\ FO 0, B 0 ERREE Py ome. th - is referred to by him in “The Winning of | Lk ¥ " nasaI! 1€ | t'pon the well worn bench they B e e aceounting for & greater | President’s church, that day will likely not | Piminacul of who pa b S [ be long delayed Around them sparrow . interest in the history of southern develop- | ' b delay ' them } A pre are no Washir ast | Among the leaves and gr ment and a closer sympathy with the south- | | PO HEe BOW in Washington et least| (VnONE bl otat Rkirt wils gnificent churches which owe their | A0S the b o ern viewpoint than he might otherwise | UG WRETFCCRL CRATChR mALCh owe thelf | rhe pables take their air ve had. ¢ some importance, now | PUlldiD e faok & sidont of | And refugecs fror Pt "]‘.“‘5 ‘:“ ’“ ’:‘.:(d‘m o 1t will doubticas | the United States worshiped with thoir | “Stroll ehutting, jesting, star tha P 3 ® | congregations. The movement for the erec- | - X 4 secure for him a greater measure of popu- | (FUEFTEREARE: G IC FRKERIORE FOF (I SR | Fona tovera they—-within his orr 8 y president has | ' 5 L. She fiestles all secur Lurll'y‘h:‘ fl:lm""'f]‘\"n";""“r “"1’1‘:_ |:‘l:\u' of u | church began when Garfleld was elefted | He holds her fast from siress o Ad sinte LIRSStk cos- | 10 the presidency, and the magnificent [ She vic to him demurel nian's birth, or the birthplaco of his anced- | ooy oiarian Church of the Covenant, on | What matters wibe or sneer? tors, recelves much more attention in tho | 't on [ VG harfect blue are o'c o han In the morth. New York i | Connecticut avenue was erccted for Presi- 1 scen through one anoth ot the fact that Roosevelt is o |0¢nt Harrison. The first Vermont Avenue | “The vista opes before thom proud_of ; | rosidence, | Christian church was fully as obscure and ’ 4 New Yorker, both by birth and residence. | | & o doubt her gown Is cheap: per > . 4 inpretentious as the church which Presi 1o Hre creatlo but it is probable that he would be no fier hat no Irench i less popular here if e had been born in | 90t Roosevelt will attend. 1t was a dingy | But nuught I lncking to i | s - little oden structure, ol ev. | Of tender udoration Floridn or Nevada. With our migratory | {10 Waoqen structurs, 1 “'f‘]?’( “’ ¥ R | v dba Tiava babits, we have come te Judge men by ‘ " FRBOL) FUEAS BRI, IRAY Is calloused, brown, gigant bt ihey do rather than by their birth. | CAme almost a houschold word in America, |y pulse bencath ith pron:r AN y estry. But sectional pride is | Preached to a handful of people, mainly With theill no less romanti place or ancestry 4 I from the humbler walks of life. The church | still strong in the south and It would not | Trom the humbleb walks of flfe. The CAAECH | gomn wrehtns scoft: some sparvow ” be surprising if Roosevelt came to bo DLYLY. abe thsiranes LA robin caroly wwect] looked upon there as more of a southerner | PUr&lar broke into it and stolo the pulplt| A couple turna to look and L "Thera | DiPle the Washington papers announced | A nirsemaid smi i than any president since Jackson tore | that the “Iittle colored church on Vermont | And T in moting ihe er ve been three southern presidents since o ore . . | A sigh would 1 i i ‘:M: S tyler, Taylor 824 dJohnsop—but |8YeBUS" Bad béen robbed. When Garfield , 10, defying tim d Jackson—Tyler, J was elected president a movement was at] Two hearts have found euch ot