Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 23, 1902, Page 6

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REMITTANCES. - Remit by draft, express or postal order, yable to The Bee Publishing Company. i cent stamps accepted ih payment of count Parsonal checks, except on or_eastern exchange, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCHLATION. fl‘: of Nebraska, Dougias County, s8.: rge B Taschuck, secretary of ‘Ane Bee Publishing Company, bel duly wworn, Mays thai the mctuai number of full an §hmplete coples of The Daily, Morning, ening and Sunday Bee printed durln the month of April, 1904 was as 1oliows: 20,560 Wasesoose ERENREEBRRECE: s m BoRGE B TZECH K. mha-thl.. A vmphunc- and_sworn u? a'l-l-) Governor Savage will doubtless feel day. of April, A. D. M. B. HUNGATE, relieved most of all. Notary P See———— Mount Pelee seems to have no aver- sion whatever to working overtime. S——————m—m—— That promised speed competition be- tween the Chicago-Oniaha railroads re- sembles so far a pugilistic tourney—it's , mostly talk. Em——— What a lot of flaring headlines and sensafional extras the supreme court ‘has the yéllow-journal-ridden % of Omaha. R aae—a———1 year's leyy for county and state was 243 mills. This year's county tax | g be reduced to 20 mills. or N v The fix‘f‘um‘s the Omaha Fakery prints a straight tip from the supreme court people will confidently look for a decision. the opposite way. SpEt———— Memorial day is a holiday in whose #pirit all can unite. The committees in charge of the local observance should have general support and co-operation. _———— In'the language of Chiet Justice Sul- livan in the pelice commission opinion, “all judicial controversies must end some time and 'this one seems to have L run its course.” p—————t—— It is 'noteworthy that the pnf-ne of 1 J. Hill through Nebraska' has not ‘been attended by earthquake, volcanic . eruption or any other unusual demon- o’ flslh of nature. ] ~ The principal duties thus far entailed _upon Pregident Palma as chief execu- tive of Cuba appear to be making due acknowledguents of the flood of con- 1 ,stnhmy messages, X SEemee—e—— ~ When the machinery of the federal courts is employed to work personal ‘revenges for the prosecuting attorney . it Is time, for the Department of Justige . to dispense with his further services. o S : The claim is made that the Kansas Oity platform is the grandest political _ document ever written. Won't someone _gome forward to champion T. Jefferson's fmmortal Declaration of Independence? i - ioo—— King Alfonso has started out on the royal stage In true Castilian style by ‘attending a bull fight of the genuine . Bpanish pattern. The new king evi- ‘fently wants all the royal traditions .~ kept alive. o Emm——— Nebraska's supreme court nevertheless | ‘wants it distinctly understood that it | reserves the right to bombard the ex- . ecutive mapsion with writs of man- damus and iojunction whenever the _ “wecasion demands. s e By the way, there is nothing to stop the State Board of Equalization from . peconvenigg and adding the valuation _of the rallway franehises to their as- t without. waiting for a court date to that effect. By L ] . The Bee feels sure it is not violating “confidence In making the announcement “that each and every ong of the expectant i commissioners will now swear . that they wolld not have accepted an ~ appointment hwn Governor Savage un- may take great com- out of the privilege accorded him ‘presiding over the state touvention South Carolina democrats, but that 't'".uu the popular verdict on disgraceful exhibition he made of at the time of Prince Henry's the national capital. If South ‘stands for Tillman it will have d alone. z \ . AN UNMITIGATED OUTRAG: At the tistance of United States At- torney Summers the federal grand jury is sald to bave returned Indictments against two reporters of The Bee. One of these, H. H. Claiborne, is charged with' having given false testimony in a case tried in the United States court two years ago.. The other, C. J. Best, 1s charged with personating an officer while recently making an Investigation of the conditions preva!ling upon the Winnebago Indian reservation. The at- temipt to place a stigma upon these men is manifestly a deliberate effort on the part of United States Attorney Sum- mers to destroy their credibility in or- der to slifeld himself and other federal officials over whom charges are hanging at Washington. The spirit that animates the action against ‘Claiborne 18 so transparent that no amount of palaver can conceal it. It Mr. Claiborne were gullty of a crime two years ago there is no valld reason why he should not have been prose- cuted within reasonable time after the alleged offense was committed. Two federal grand juries have been in session in the time intervening, but nefther Attorney Summers nor any one else saw fit to present accusations. Even without a grand jury, Mr. Sum- mers could have readily preferred his charges before a United States com- missioner and had the offender bound over. The true reason why Mr. Summers has suddenly awakened to the gravity, of Mr. Claiborne's alleged offense is that an affidavit signed by Mr. Claiborne had been filed at the White House some weeks ago relating an interview be- tween himself and Summers on the Sunday following the pardon of Bartley from the penitentiary. In this inter- view Mr. Summers boasted that he had been instrumental in inducing Governor Savage to grant the pardon; that in his (Summers') opinion Bartley was still the great political power In Nebraska whose influence would make itself felt in the future. Incidentally Mr. Sum- mers admitted to Claiborne that he had invited Bartley to come up to Omaha for a conference, which took place in the wine room of Flynn's saloon at the corner of Thirteenth and Douglas streets, lasting from 8 o'clock in the evening until 2 o'clock the next morn- ing. . The facts set forth in this affidavit were verified by direct and indirect proof. It is a matter of notorlety and has been a scandal that District At- torney Summers has been closely afli- ated with the rottenest element of the republican party in Nebraska and he made no bones of his intimate rela- tlonship to and champlonship of Bartley, At the state capital Me has been given the credit of writing the lame and'im- potent explanatigf that was attached to the pardon ovgf the signature of Gov- ernor Sav: The conference In the Flynn sal as verified by affidavit of witnesy.eq has, as we understand it, been adyaitted, but with the assurance that % Summers confined his thirst to ‘apoilinaris, while the liquors served were consumed by his companion, and this is not intended as a reflection on Mr. Bart- ley. It is safe to say that had not the Claiborne affidavit been filed with the president the grand jury would never have heard of Mr. Claiborne. The case of Mr. Best is If anything a greater and more inexcusable outrage. Mr. Best was dispatched to the Indian reservation a few weeks ago to run down and verify reports of maladmin- {stration on the part of the Indian agent and abuses to which the Indians on the Winnebago reservation were being sub- jected by a land lease ring in collusion with the agent and trader. In the dis- charge of this duty Mr. Best took pains to get at the truth as well as he could, notwithstanding the obstructions put in his way by the parties who have de- spoiled and debauched the Indians. Mr. Best made no secret of his connection with The Bee and resorted to no decep- tion. To assure his informants who had been victimized and terrorized by the ring that they would mot Le punished for telling the truth, he said that their complaints and any disclosures made would be forwarded to Washington. For daring to discharge his duty as a reporter and to counteract the damaging effects of the atfidavits he gathered and the affidavit he made he is to be perse- cuted and smirched by the misuse of the power vested in the district attor- ney, who, while pretending to be anxious to punish the rascals who have been rebbing the Indians, is pursulug a course designed to protect them. For- tunately there is a higher authority than District Attorney Summers. That au- thority, we feel sure, will not be dis- tracted in its purpose to get at the true inwardness of affairs on the reservation and to discharge the obligations the government has assumed toward its wards regardless of the beneficiaries. The Bee has up to this time refrained from giving publicity to the facts In its ‘possession relating to the discreditable conduct of Mr. Summers in counection with Bartley and the rottenness on the Indian reservatiod, preferring to allow the department to right the wrong and deal with the recreant officers. When the attempt is made to wreak personal revenges on its reporters it Is compelled, however reluctant, to defend them and expose the animus of their persecution. SHOULD BE SATISFACTURY. The letter of Presidept Roosevelt to Bishop Lawrence of the Episcopal dio- cese of Massachusetts should be satis- factory to all who desire a thorough in- vestigation of the alleged cruelties in the Philippines and the punishment of those who are proven guilty of the atrocities. The president is most ex- plicit in his assurance that the investi- gation will be thorough and sweeping and be as strongly reprobates as any- one ean everything in the nature of bar- barity. “No provocation,” says the let- ter, “however great, can . be accepted as an excuse for misuse of the neces- sary severity of war, and above all not for torture of any kind or shape.” The president states & fact that bas not been generally known, which is that the War department ordered a rigld In- vestigation of certain charges long be- fore any statements had beem made public and before any action had been taken by congress. This will correct the common impression that nothing wias done until congress took notfce of the public statements alleging extraor- dinary/ acts of cruelty by American soldiers in the Philippines and with fair-minded people will acquit the War department of the charge of dereliction in this matter. The administration is doing its duty zealously and earnestly in regard to the charges against the army in the Phil- fppines and it can be confidently as- serted that the country will be in- formed of all the facts. ] NAILED DUWN FOR GOOD. The supreme court decision in the Omaha police commission case may be pronounced in parliamentary language a nailer. Once and for all time the court has afirmed that the original de- cision settled the case, which cannot be reopened by juggling the parties or changing the form of the sult. In other words, a case once adjudged by the su- preme ceurt and the decree entered after formal hearing and rehearing is adjudged for good. This principle has been asserted and reasserted by The Bee even at the risk of a forced contri- bution of $500 into the state school fund. The final adjudication of the issues ralsed is gratifying to the people of Omaha for many reasons. The per- petual contention over the legality of the police commission has seriously im- paired the efficlency and usefulness of police and fire departments by keeping the members of these departments undes the menace of removal or degradation from rank. It has also bad a tendency to diminish popular respect for the police as officers of the law and prevented some reforms that would have been in- augurated but for the uncertainty of tenure of ghe commission and the men under it. As a factor in politics'the scope and influénce of the police commission has always been overrated. While the com- mission is in position to make friends, it is also compelled to make enemies who are often more active than friends, From the broad standpoint of good gavernment the settlement of the police commission muddle, insuring home rule at least for the coming year, must be satisfactory to all who are not biased by personal interest or partisan preju- dice. ———— SENATOR HOAR'S POSITION. The position of Senator Hoar regard- ing the Philippines is well known to the country, but his speech yesterday again defining his views will command gen- eral attention and perhaps will be more widely read and discussed than any other speech that has been or will be made on the subject. This because all men recognize not only the great ability of the distingulshed Massachusetts sena- tor, but also his absolute sincerity and fidelity to his conscicentious convictions. Mr. Hoar's attitude respecting the Philippine policy of the government has beerl entirely consistent, which is not the case with some others who condemn that policy. He has not stultified him- self as have the democrats in the senate who have been most consplcuous and vehement id denouncing the course of the government and assalling the army in the Philippines. The telegraphic summary of Senator Hoar's speech does not show that he added anything new to the discussion. Much of it appears to be a repetition, in difterent phraseology, of what had gone before. It is mo more convincing than his previous utterances on the subject and these have falled to convert any considerable number of the American people to the senator’s views. Even in his own state he has not succeeded in influencing popular sentiment to any ap- preciable extent and his party there 15 overwhelmingly opposed to him on the Philippine question, His latest deliver- ance, therefore, will probably have little if any effect upon the public mind, ' It may serve to strengtlien the views of those who believe as Mr. Hoar does, but it will hardly increase their number, ,The statement that this government had erected a despotism In the Philip- pines is clearly unwarranted and 1§ an impeachment of the policy of President MecKinley, still being pursued, for which no justification can be found in his proclamations and instructions to the military and civil agthotities In the Philippines defining the policy and pur- pose of the government. Not the Massa- chusetts senator himself is more hostlle to despotism than was Willlam McKin- ley. In regard to the Philippine army, it is gratifylng to have the admission from Mr. Hoar that he belleves the offi- cers, in general, are humane, yet he does not think the war on our part has been conducted with humanity. The fact that there have been acts of cruelty is not questioned and no one in author- ity has attempted to excuse or Justify m. But these acts bave not been mmon or general and it is a well at- tested fact that as a rule and with rare exceptions the Filipinos haye been hu- manely treated. There is much native testimony to this effect. A thorough jhe vestigation of alleged cruelty is belng made and there is the assurance of President Roosevelt that those found guilty of barbarities shall be punished. Until this investigation is completed it would be well not to arraign the whole army, as has been done, Senator Hoar has doubtless made as strong & case against the Philippine policy of the government as can be made and there the discussion should end and the sepate act upon the pending bill pro- viding for civil government in the Phil- ippines and the inauguration of condi- tions deemed necessary to the future weltare of the islands. s Senator Dietrich hit it right when he charged the democratic members of the Philippine Investigation committee with reflect on the army and the administra- tion and suppress those things to their credit. The democrats are on & fishing expedition, hoping to land a string that can be served up as political capital in the coming campaign. The only extra- ordinary feature about it is that a democrat like Senator Patterson should be brazen enough to attempt to deny It. When the local bar association goes after members who tamper with wit- nesses and jurors it should mnot stop with one poor colored attorney. Nearly half the cases tried in the criminal court are said to point to testimony set up by the attorneys or their abettors. Time and again an alibl is pleaded which the verdict of the jury proves to be without credence, yet nothing is done to stop the practice. The bar can keep busy If it will. President Loubet of France is receiv- ing an ovation in Russia from which there is nothing detracted because he is at the head of a great republic while Russia is the greatest autocratic mon- archy. But it Is not so long ago that such an Interchange of courtesies would have been regarded as ominous for the future of either the republic or the em- pire. The latest mechanical invention for the production of the modern newspaper is a printing press capable of turning out 150,000 complete eight-page papers an hour. If anyone had had a vision of.this while Ben Franklin was pre- slding over his old hand press he would have insisted that the day of miracles was ahead instead of behind him. Issues are important in every cam- paign, but so are men. A man whose conduct and character belle his loyalty to party and friends cannot command confidence that he will be true to any issue he may claim to represent. Un- trustworthy candidates are not made trustworthy by flaunting an issue above them. Is it Worth the M Philadelphia Ledger. It & billion-dollar congress were only worth the money the oounl.r' could easily afford to have one. 244 An Invitation Pigeon-Holed. Detrolt Free Press. While the Boers may ultimately be chained to the chariot wheel it i5 apparent that they have no intention of taking part in the coronation parade. Echoing nd the Chicago News. As President Roosevelt has decided not to interfere with the British camp in Lou- isiana the bray of the British mule will continue to be heard round the world. World, A Gigantic Gouge. New York Tribune. e one thing ceftaln about the coal strike e that the public of this city.is be- Ing unmercifully mulcted. The raising of prices of coal 1s a grab, pure and simple, and nothing more. P — “Criticising the Army.” ¥ Indianapolis News. Those who have foolishly felt themselves called on to defend, not the army in the Philippines, but the outrages with which certain of the officers and men have been charged, must feel, after reading President Roosevelt's letter to Bishop Lawrence, though ' they had been wasting their time. There is probably no more devoted friend of the army than Mr. Roosevelt, yet he refuses to think that a thing is right be- cause it s done by a soldien in uniform, or that those who demounce a wrongful act done by a soldler are necessarily hostile to the army. 0Old Age Pension Scheme. Boston Transcript. Another contribution to the growing list of old age pension plans comes from the Metropolitan Traction company of New York City, which has a commendable scheme in operation for pensioning its aged and {nfirm worthy employes. As the 16,000 men now in the employ of the company ‘were engaged on the grounds of character, health and intelligence, it has been corre- spondingly easy for the management to in- troduce the reform. According to the provi- slons employes between the ages of 65 anl 70 may retire at any time after twenty- five years' service. They recelve a pension in proportion te length of service, varylng from 26 to 40 per cent of the average an- nual wages for the ten previous -yeayps. Beneficlaries under the system, it sholld be noted, are not required to contribute to the fund, the necessary amount belng ip- propriated each year by the company, PERSONAL NOTES. King Alfonso is bearing up bravely under his shower of decorations. Sir Thomas Lipton would rather lift the r the king's garter. of Pratt county, Kansas, has established agencies in various west- ern cities to secure 20,000 workmen to help harvest corn and wheat in his state. The late Amos J. Cummings w the champlion of the birds in congress, and some of his most brilllant speeches were made in behalf of his feathered friends. Miles Kirk Burton, general manager of the Mersey docks and secretary of the harbor board of Liverpool, England, is in America inspecting the dock system here. The following conundrum is crediled to Rear Admiral Walker, president of the canal commission: “It is not & questjon of earthquakes, but of proximity to volcanoes. One route has volcanoes, and the other has not. Which is safer?” John Henry Sheldon Lee, assistant state's attorney for Cook county, Illinols. has been appointed professor of criminal law and eriminal procedure in the Northwestern university law school. Leon, the tfashionable hatter of Paris, is dead. When he took the measurement of the head of a famous man he alwa took it in duplicate, thus obtaining a col- lection of head shapes of celebrities of great iaterest to phrenologists. “Private” John Allen of Mississipp! is one of the federal commissioners to the St. Louls world's fair, drawing for work in connection with that position the com- fortable salary of $5,000 a year. He was “‘out with the boys™” one night recently, but broke away early, saylog he had a busy day ahead becau: “B nothing,” said o have you to do?" ot to get up.” A couple of days after the death of Con- gressman Cummings & letter and an accom- peuying packa, which he would bhave greatly pri; reached his one-time address ia Washin It was from Frederick Power, & printer who had gone to Manila through Mr. Cummings' assistance. The s The interesting trophy has been New York Typograpbical union. the Spot. The mantle of supremacy in long-dls- tance epeaking which fell in graceful folds from the shoulders of Hon. Willlam Vin- cent Allen of Nebraska while a member of the United States senate promises to de- scend to Senator Thomas MacDgnald Pat- terson, the junior megaphone from Colo- rado. Mr. Patterson is putting in some hard licks for the honor of strenuous verbosity and admirers of hair-trigger talking pre- dict he will smash the record before the sesslon ends. | Patterson's hobby is attacking the presi- dent and the army officers for the manage- ment of affairs in the Philippines. He stirred up the early reports of alleged cruelties to the natives in the Philippines and brought out many of the facts about the operations of the water cure. He s a member of the senate Philtp- pines committee and got into hot water by pressiag Getieral Hughes and other officers who were appearing before that for information which the witness care to divulge. \ Senator Platt of Connecticut wanted to #0 fishing the other day, and so informed a friend whom he invited to take a trip up the Potomac. “Don’t you know thi law to catch bass now triend, “Well, it that's s0," returned Mr. Platt, “we won't go. We senators ought not to figure in the police court all the time," In connection with the above referelice to the peccability of legielators the subjoined conundrum now current in Washington is attributed to Representative Thaddeus N. Mahon of Pennsylvania, who is charged with colning it at the expense of a dis- tinguished southern statesman who has cently attained to publicity through a *r grettable” incident not connected with his duties at the capit “Have you heard?’ asks someone of someone else, “why they sent that etreet car_conductor to the asylum?" “No; what did they send him there for?" 1s the proper reply for someone else. “‘Because he was caught throwing Money around the street and they thought there was eomething wrong with him." it's against the ald the senator’s Senator Hanna was telling a group of his colleagues about an offer he had received from an enterprising Chautauqua manager to dellver a course of lectures. The offer was $10,000 for eighteen lectures, a sum equal to Mr. Hanna's salary as senator for two years. “Now, I don't see why he made me that offer,” aseerted the scnator. “He could get tellow who could talk all around me for quarter of the amount. v ““That reminds me,” sald Senator Spooner, who was one of the group. ‘I was called out of bed about 2 o'clock one morning by repeated rings at my door bell. I stuck my head out of the window and asked what was wanted. It was a reporter for a news. paper that had been anything bt friendly to me. He sald he wanted Information on some insignificant matter and I got maa and berated him for calling me out of bea at that hour of the night. I probably was more forcible than polite and I expected that my vieitor would turn abruptly on his heel and walk away. But he did nothing ot the kind. He listened until I had finishea and then said, dlandly: ‘This discomfort, senator, is simply one of the results of greatness.’ Well, he worked me all right for the interview. That's the way it is with your lecture offer. It's simply ome of the results of your greatness.” President Roosevelt repeatedly glves ex- hibitions of his prowess as a long distanee walker. He walks whenever the fit seizes him and has no regular hour for either walking or riding. An intimate friend from Boston, reports the Baltimore Sun, has reason to remember that the president is no ordinary walker, and will probably not be so_quick to cept an invitation the next time he visits Washington. Three days ago this friena called at the White House, and after an interview with the president was asked to wait & few minutes while some business being attended to, after which the president would be glad to have his com~ pany for a walk. At 3 o'clock p. m., an hour later, they started off together, walked rapidly out be- yond Georgetown, thence to Cabin John bridge, seven miles away, and back to the Chain bridge, which they crossed. Coming down on the Virginia side through brush and woods they again crossed the Potomac by the Aqueduct bridge, reaching the White House at 7 o'clock, after traveling more than sixteen miles. The visitor had an engagement to dine with Semator Lodge informally at 7:30 p. m., and was barely able to reach his hotel. He telephoned the senator that all that was left of him would soon be in bed; that he had been walking with the president and the senator would understand. b A certain member of congress ylelded to pressure and against his own judgment ap- pointed as a messenger to his committee the son of one of his constituents, a young man noted for his gallantries and devotion to sport. The new appoint emed to enjoy his place; he was, at least, in con~ stant attendance at soclal functions, fre- quently seen on the avenue adorned In magnificent array and indefatigable in showing handsome young women about the capitol, but his employer became dissat- isfled with his lack of application, and was driven almost to désperation the other day on going to his committee reom to find his messenger inditing what was doubtless a love letter instead of operating the type- writer. After several expletives, which it 1is needless to repeat, the irate M. C. said: “George, you make me think of an old farmer in my district, who hired a man to polnt rails, a pointer he is called In local parlance. The fellow did very well the first day, the second he sojered a little, and on the third day whenever the farmer visited the place on which he was employed he found his pointer seated upon a plle of logs calmly pufing a big pipe. “Expostulation had no effect and before sundown the man receivgd his money and was sent offt. On returning to the house for supper his wife upbraided him for dis- charging the man, since he bhad a family to support and was very poor. *‘Well, Mary,’ sald her husband, ‘sym- pathy is all very well, but I hired a pointer, not a sitter." “Now, George, I hired a messenger and typewriter, not a dude or beau. I hope you will take the hint.” Although his hair is tinged with gray, the people of Washington insist on calling him “Jimmie" Garfield. The son of the mur- dered president is being initiated into his civil service commissioner by his Commissioners Proctor and Foulke. Recently he was shown his room and Mr. Foulke said, impressively: “Mr. Garfield, you will have the honor of sitting at the same desk which President Roose- velt used when he was & member of the commission.’ Mr. Garfield did not séeem much impressed. “I am used to sitting at a deek that has been used by a president of the United he said. “I use my father's desk think I shall be 0 work ‘Washington Post. Captain Chadwick permits it to be under- stood that he was fairly aching to bombard Havana the very first week of the war with Spaln and Hon. John D. Long com- “The same old medicine I pre- ‘{scribed half a_cen- i tury ago.” , #1 have used Ayer's Cherry Pectoral for over two years. ™ I have never found anything equal to it for acute diseases of the throat and Jungs. I have arrested consus croup, and beonchial ) May 24, 1850. e, e, 0. w. t A :\I.flcm w'l.h it, and have cured whooping-cough, A. BuAw, M.D,, Halifax C. H., Va. J. C. AYER CO., Lowell, Mass. firms the tement, but adds that he thinks the action of the Navy department in forbldding the attack was vindicated by subsequent events. In view of Captain Chadwick's valorous achievement in the bombarding line at San Juan and Matanzas, we feel that the former secretary of the navy is fully justified in landing upon that conclusion. THE LATE J. STERLING MORTON. Tribute of a Former Editor of the Omaba Herald. Edward L. Merritt of Springfleld, T, editor and manager of the Omaha Herald in 1888-89, pays the following tribute to the memory of J. Sterling Morton, in the Tllinols State Register, Springfleld: Hav- ing had the good privilege of a somewhat intimate acquaintance with the late J. Ster- ling Morton of Nebraska, I trust that I may be permitted to add my sincere and humble tribute to his great worth a man and a citizen through the columns of the State Register. Governor Morton was an American citi- zen of the highest patriotic type. As such he was alwavs true and fearless. No man understood the vrincivles of American gov- ernment and citizenship better than he. He was particularly broad in all that per- tains to good government for the best uses of all the people. During his strenuous life he did more for the upbullding of the people of the great west and more es- veclally for the state of Nebraska than anv other man. His hand was always against shams. Rev. Dr. J. G, K. McClure, speaking of Governor Morton at the services of his fuperal. better said than I can write, that: “The public has claimed Mr. Morton as its own. The claim is well founded. The city in which he resided, the state which be loved and the nation which has re- ceived such distinguished service from him may rightly clalm him as their own. He was ‘everv man's man—not alone in this country, but in the whole wide world. ““The lines of his example have gone to all the earth. Editors and thinkers have had his death in their thoughts. Teachers and pupils have fastened their attention upon his usefulness. Farmers and bank- ers, operators of rallways, mechanics in factories and clerks in stores—all have read with approval the story of his efforts for human good. “The more intellizent and the more thoughtful the public the higher the es- timate placed by it upon the life work of Mr. Magrton. We cannot deny him to the great outside worl’. He was a large, effective force in the world of events and affairs. He thought, spoke, wrote and eave to it. The vision of his ambition was not limited by his immediate environment elther in place or time.” Much has been sald truly as to the great worth of Governor Morton as a public man and a valuable cltizen; worthy of all the eulogies that have been written or spoken by those familiar with his career. But, knowing him as I did in most friendly per- sonal relations, to me his pure and beauti- ful private life was where the splendid character of the man shone the brightest. His home was an ideal home. Its very atmosphere was filled with the fragrance of his pure, brave and affectionate life. It has been truly said that he who causes two blades of g to grow where but one grew before 1s a benmefactor to mankind. How great a public benefactor, therefore, was J. Sterling Morton, who amid his home life ralsed to noble manhood and contributed to the world four sons of sterling integrity and intelligent iness capacity? Three of these survive and are well and favorably known to the’business world as men of vast energy, sound judgment, thorough Integrity and splendid mental endowments. They are living monuments to the goodness and greatness of the father whom they mourn and whose example In public and private is an incentive to right living to all who knew him. FLASHES OF FUN. Brooklyn Eagle: “You never had your ears plerced, did you?' “Wwell, T Atlanta Constitution: *Uncle Willlam, are you troubled about the hereafter?" ‘No, suh; it's de wharfo' er de herein ‘what keeps me guessi Philadelphia Catholic Standard: “What 18 the best powder for bables?' asked the u? heard Miss Hinote sing once.” powder!” absently replied the drug- who_had been up all night with his Philadelphia Press: *As some one has ‘traveling takes the conceit Chicago Post: '‘You are an authority on history, I belleve?" “No," replied the scholar sadily. “T used to be before I began reading historical novels.” Baltimore News: ‘Do you belleve in the eternal fitness of things?' asked the gen- tieman with the philosophic turn of mind. “I dld until that last shower,” mourn- fully replied the practical one, as he | Elanced ‘ruetully at his shrunken spring sult. > Ohlo State Journal: ‘Johnnle,” called the mother, “I want you to go to the store for me!" “‘Walt a second, maw,” replfed the youth, Who was absorbed in 6-cent volume. “‘Pepperhole Pete has thirty-seven Injuns to kill an’ it'll only take him about two minutes,” Puck: Podunk Postmaster—We orter hev another clerk here, 2 Inspector—More than she ean do, eh? Podunk Postmaster—Lord, yes! Why, sometimes she don't get through reading :;l‘ht‘h' postal cards 'fere 10 o'clock -at ! A Baltimore American: “And. s0 you were victimized by the sharpers while you were in the clty?" asked the pastor of the trayeled ‘member of his flock. “'Victimized d the member. '‘Why, rson, I was skinned so good and clean at what was left on me would .dls- courage a chiropodist.’ EVOLUTION OF POOR LO. James Barton Adams In Denver Post. Lo! the poor Indian whose untutored mind In clouds once saw. the face of God on g) And heard His voice in every passing wind, And in the great sun sgw His blazing eye, He isn't that way any more; he's not Untutored now to any marked degree; In mingling with the paleface hordes he's caught ‘Well onto things. Has grasped the golden e: And ope'd the gate to learning’s wondrous at! Ana fearned a heap of things—that's what he hath! No lnnszr doth he yearn for ruddy gore, For| dnnhlng tomahawks and gleaming ades, For scenes' of battle as in days of -yore, For paleface hair of vatied lengths and shades, No longer doth he decorate his face With hideous designs, nor doth imprison His shape in beaded buckskins, minus se— Ah! no, he wants no more of that in . g No l‘(,z:uer down his brunette back doth i The brused scalplock, a la Wu Ting Fang. Bweet civilization beckoned, and he came! Bhe touched his eyes; they opened and he Bhe game To sclence 'lnown as poker, stud and raw. Unto his iips her hand the nectar placed That comes from where the mald of song was bred; His nether limbs in paleface pawnts she ight him all the mysteries of the And " dropped a Derby crown upon his Snatched from his hand the calumet and Between his lips the fragrant cigartte. Sho teught him how to frame effective When truth seemed weak to serve his purpose well, To voice swear-words of usual western size, In shirt of severed back to cut a swell, To covet goods that were the property Of others and to swipe them at his will— AR! yes, the wily red man found the key Unto the knowledge box and used it till is once quite savage and untutored mind B0t akte, oF Just & lap behind: Welcome Comrades We extend to you a hearty welcome, not only to our city, but to our store as well, where all the advantages that can be granted—except | Make our store your headquarters. here and have it checked. bread and butter—await you, Leave your baggage No expense to you. Ladies will find our Waiting Room on second floor a great convenience. * NO CLOTHING FITS LIKE OURS Browning, King & Co, Exclusive Clothiers and Furnishers Comrade R. S. Wilcox, Manager. e A T TS S L. W 50050