Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 17, 1902, Page 6

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BUSINESS LETTERS. letiers and remittance The Bee Publishing Busines be addre: , Umaha. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft postal order, r yadle to The Bee "Fublishing Company, nly 2-cent : 1 STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas Coumy i George B. Taschuck, secretary of Publishing Company, belng duly -wurn, says that the actual number of full and complete coples of The Daily, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of May, i%2, was as follows: 1 0 1 ..29,560 29,560 BEE EEogNERERER Lees unsold and returned copi Net total sal 29,319 R GEO. B. TZ8CHUCK, ubscr! n my presence and sworn to before me this 3lst day of May, A. (Seal.) My OB l)/ AeE?mL y Publie. e —————————————— After rain, sunshine. — The acquisition of the Chicago Western raflway will put feather into Omaha's cap. Great another King Edward has lmd a chill. His coronation nightcap evidently does not set well on his tender stomach. The tax commissioner of South Omaha may as well understand that the taxpay- ers will countenance no monkeyshines and juggling. The game played last year is not to be repeated with fm- punity. When a public officer makes oath to & statement affecting important vital public interests one week and swears to the contrary the following week he shows himself utterly unfit for any po- sition of public trust. —_— Congressman Mondell of Wyoming, who piloted the irrigation bill over the sandbars and reefs of the house, is en- titled to a great deal of credit for the skill and tact displayed by him in per- forming the arduous task. The republican state convention should make no mistake in the selection of candidates. No man should be nomi- nated whose public acts would have to be defended, or whose conduct would have to be explained away or apologized for. s All the walling and gnashing of teeth over the collapse of the Van Dusen boomlet comes from the element of re- publicans in South Omaha who habitually knife the republican ticket and seek shelter behind popocratic fences. e The campalgn of education inau- gurated by the rallroad tax bureau will not be an altogether one-sided affair. The bulletins issued by the bureau on behalf of the rallroads will be followed by bulletins issued by The Bee on be- half of the people. E—— Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma must remain on probation six months longer before they can hope to be ad- mitted into the sisterhood of states. In the meantime the territorial officers will draw thelr salaries out of Uncle Sam's strongbox without a murmur. —_— Notwithstanding Willilam Jennings Bryan's positive declination of guberna- torial honors former Senator Allen insists that Bryan must be nominated and reinforces his declaration with very cogent reasons why Nebraska's Peerless should head the fusion ticket. e— Another man’ with wheels In his head says the millenjum is near at hand. In anticipation of this event the earth will keep on rotating on its axis once in twenty-four hours just the same and business will be transacted all over the world as If nothing serious was to hap- pen. % —— Up to date our Dave Las not taken his constituents iuto his confidénce as to whether he is willing to quit with a pixth term In congress or whether he ‘wants a seventh term, an eighth term, a ninth term, and as many wmore terms as will fill out the remainder of his npatural life. The survey of the railroads in Douglas county by the county surveyor has been postponed for a week by an accldent to the engineer in charge of the sur- veylng party, but it is to be hoped that the postponement of this work is not to be permanent. A rallway map of Douglas county, representing official corrected from year to year, . have been within the reach of the county board years ago. POINTING BACKWARD AND FORWARD. Six years ago this month an associ- ation of republican editors was or- ganized at the state capital with the avowed object of promoting clean politics in Nebraska. Convinced that republican supremacy in Nebraska could best be promoted by the nomination of capable and clean candidates on local and state tickets, the members of the association pledged themselves to exert their influence individually and col- lectively for cleaner politics in thelr respective localities. A straightforward, honest editorial policy and an Ag- gressive fight for the true prin- ciples of republicanism were pro- claimed the guiding rule of the organi- zation. The movement for clean poli- tics was heartily endorsed by The Bee in an editorial, from which we repro- duce the following extract: The course which the editors of re- publican state papers have mapped out for themselves cannot fall to be conducive to a higher standard of political morals and the nomination of a higher grade of can- didates for places of public trust and honor. For years The Bee has been an earnest and persistent advocate of clean candidates and decent methods in party primaries and conventions. When the republican party was supreme and counted on majorities ranging from 20,000 to 80,000, the efforts of The Bee in this direction were seconded by a majority of the republican state papers, but in more recent years the tendency seems to have been to allow the party to drift without rudder and without sail at the risk of being stranded upon the reefs of popular distrust. Men notoriously unfit for the position to which they aspired were allowed to folst themselves upon the party without protest by a subservient press, and the result is seen in the reduced majorl- ties of rapublican candidates. For this condition the republican press {s not alone responsible. Bad leadership has contributed much toward demoralizing the party and recruiting the ranks of popullem, which was originally a protest against misrule, corporate Interference and offensive nomi- nations. When the republican editors of Nebraska feel impelled to organize for the regener- ation of party politics and concerted op- position to the nomination of candidates who cannot command public confidence, we bhave a gratifylng assurance that the awakening conscience of the party is serting itself. The redemption of Nebraska two years ago was In a large measure due to the efforts made by the republican state press, which battled fearlessly and zeal- ously for the regeneration of the party. ‘The same spirit, we feel sure, animates the molders of public opinion today. It remains only for the men who will rep- resent the republican party in the im- pending state convention to firmly ad- here to thé purposes and principles pro- mulgated six years ago in the nomina- tion of candidates whose character Is above reproach and whose record is un- assallable. The campaign of 1902 should be aggressive and not defensive. A PERPLEXING SITUATION. The president's message in regard to reciprocity with Cuba does not appear to have had any effect upon the situa- tion, the latest advices belng that the republican division on the question con- tinues as before the message, with no promise of a change. It is not possible to say with any degree of cemlnly\ what the outcome will be, but it appears probable that some determination of the matter will be reached this week so far as the senate is concerned. To- day the republican member of the com- mittee on Cuban relations will confer regarding reciprocity and also consider the question whether there shall be a caucus of republican senators. There is opposition to a caucus and there really seems to be no good reason why one should be held, since it is apparent that it would have no binding force. There has been some hope of a compro- mise upon the basis of the Spooner bill, which provides for a 20 per cent reduc- tion of duties on Cuban imports for five years In return for like reciprocity, with conditions intended to insure the benefit to the Cubans. It has been thought that possibly the opponents of reciprocity might be induced to accept this measure if it were amended so to empower the president to suspend the agreement under it whenever it should be found to work injury to any Awmerican industry, There does not seem, Lowever, to be any prospect of this being accepted. As to the rebate plan, the fact that President Palma thinks it would be impracticable and expensive will very likely cause it to be dropped from further consideratiou. Thus it is seen that the situation re- malns as uncertain and perplexing as before the message of the president, with both factions firmly adbering to their positiol UPHOLDING THE ARMY, Congressman George B. McClellan of New York is one democrat who belleves in upholding the army of his country. In a speech at the meeting of the Tam- many general committee last week he sald that no matter what may be the cause of the war in the Philippines, the army must be uphbeld in the work that bas been put before it. There may have been acts of cruelty committed by American soldiers in the Philippines, “but let us not prejudge the case, let us not forget the provocation. It is so easy to prefer charges agalnst men 7,000 miles away, so difficult for them to make their defense.” Mr. McClellan declared that there is no army on earth so near the people as ours. “It Is recruited from all parts of the country, from the plow and the railroad, from the shop and the factory. It represents the bone and the sinew of the people of the United States. It is swayed by the same passions, subject to the same temptations, it has the same virtues, the same vices as have all of us; its merits are our merits, its sins are our sins.” What & rebuke is this to the democratic caluminators and tra- ducers of the American ‘soldlers in the Philippines. The son of one of the great commanders of the umion army believes that the soldiers who are faith- fully dping their duty in those distant islands \are entitied to the respect and confldcnv of their countrymen. They in the service of their govern- ment, thought of the policy of sending them there, they should not be subjected to indiscriminate abuse and charged before the world with being brutal and bar- barous. Mr. McClellan honors his name and the memory of his distinguished father in championing the patriotic sol- diers in the Philippines A PREMATURE PROPOSITION. The joint resolution introduced in the senate by Senator Elkins, providing for the annexation of Cuba and for its ad- mission as’ a state of the union, Is premature and ill-advised. It proposes to give the consent of congress to the erection of the Cuban republic as a state of the union, with a republican form of government to be adopted by the people of the island, with the consent of the existing government, the constitution of the proposed state to be submitted to congress not later than January 1, 1004, The resolution also contains a provision giving the president authority to proceed in a more direct way for admitting Cuba as a state. The opinion is very general that sooner or later Cuba will seek annexation to the United States, with statehood as a condition, but the feeling is also very general that the overture should come from there and that our government should do nothing to encourage or pro- mote it. As yet the Cuban people have not demonstrated that they are qualified for self-government., Thelir desire for independence was not necessarily evi- dence of their fitness to carry on suc- cessfully an independent government. Until they have conelusively shown that they are capable of self-government it would manifestly be a very grave mis- take to allow them to participate in the government of the United States. The proposition of the Elkins resolution i that Cuba may become a state of this unfon within the next year and a half. 1s it at all probable that the masses of the Cuban people will by that time have become so well qualified for self-gov- ernment and so well educated in its principles as to justify making them participants in our government, with representation in congress and the elec- toral college? Before they are fitted to become American citizens and to ex- ercise the rights and privileges that statehood gives, they must have years of tutelage and experience in self-gov- ernment. When they have had this it is quite possible that they will not then desire annexation. The reasons adverse to the Elkins proposition are many and obvious, but it 1s sufficient that the great majority of the Cuban people are not now and will not be for many years, if ever; fit to be clothed with the rights and privileges, the duties and responsibilities, of Ameri- can citizenship. They do not uhder- stand our institutions and at least a generation of teaching will be required to make them do so. There are inter- ests here favorable to the annexation of Cuba. There are many in that island who desire annexation. But it is not to be doubted that a very large majority of the American people would pronounce against making Cuba a state of this union. It is safe to say that congress will not give serious consideration to the proposition of Senator Elkins, who perhaps submitted it merely with a view to testing public sentiment and with no expectation that it would be adopted by congress. emee——— The old adage that he who excuses himself accuses himself may be ap- plied to the three-column essay excus- ing railroad tax shirking, contributed for the information of the people of Ne- braska through the Lincoln Journal The learned professor assures us that Le bas selected the subject of the rail- roads and their assessment “not for the purpose of pleading the cause of these great corporations, who need no outside aselstance and are amply competent to take care of their own interests, but be- ceuse it affords an excellent illustra- tion of the incongruity and inequalities of our present system of assessment and taxation.” According to the computa- tions made by this great political econo- mist the actual value of the Union Pa- cific rallroad is $30,000 per mile, al- though the road is earning 4.7 per cent on $100,000 & mile and is stocked and bonded for a good deal larger amount. This only goes to show that the owners of the road must either be wild-eyed speculators who have no idea of prop- erty values or else they have been grievously lmposed upon when they paid $58,000,000 cold cash to the United States government to take up the sec: ond mortgage, loading themselves down with the $36,000,000 debt on the first mortgage and then went into thelr pockets for §15,000,000 or $20,000,000 more to rebulld and re-equip the road. What' fools these mortals be, Prof. Richard Conrad Schiedt has projected himself inte the sclentific world with a new and startling theory of terrestrial construction and evolu- tion. After profound reflection the great professor has reached the conclu- sion that the earth is hollow in the cen- ter and the crust around the bollow will eventually enclose a vacuum. This al- leged discovery is not by any means very startling. In the eighteenth cen- tury a book published in Sweden, with {llustrations suggested by fancy, pur- ported to give an authentlc description of the hollow in the middle of the earth, which enclosed another sphere whose inhabitants took, the shape of living and movable trees surmounted by many heads and animals with the cau- dal appendages attached where their heads ought to be. This theory has never yet Peen disproved, nor 1s it likely that anybedy In our generation will dis- prove Prof. Schiedt’s theory of the hol- low sphere by ocular demonstration or scientific deduction. om—————— It will npot do for Nebraska repub- licans to take it for granted that Wil llam Jennings Bryan will not be the tusion candidate for governor this year because Bryan positively declares that be is not a candidate. Bryan may be Do matter what may be|drafted in spite of his dislnclination, . and the republican candidate for gov- ernor must be a man who can stand all of the pounding that Bryan may be able to give. The impending vacancy on the district court bench by reason of the intended resignation of Judge Keysor will open the way for another judicial nomination, besides that of Judge Read. Had Judge Keysor's intention been known the re- publican judicial convention might have been deferred sixty days just as well as not, Canal Route Pele Kansas City Star. If all that the Panama partisans say of the Nicaragua route is true, and all that the Nicaragua partisans say of the Panama route is true, it wjll be the helght of folly for the country i ccept elthe: On the A ‘Washington Post. It is really cruel in congress to hold up the legislation authorizing certain gentle- men (o Accept the gaudy decorations for- elgn nations desire to bestow. When an American wants to decorate himself in that manner he is naturally impatient, and un- necessary delay in the matter is really ton, Philadelphla Ledger. Arbitration has settled two great strikes in Chicago, and both parties to each of them have made some gains while conceding some demands. It is safe to say that all concerned are better satisfied with the re- sults of this peaceful method of settlement than they would be if the contests had been fought out to the bitter end. Looks m Little Freakish. San Francisco Chronicle. The disclosures that General Wood, an officer of the United States, was using money belonging to the Cuban government to subsidize the New York Export associa- tion to boom the Cuban reciprocity bill shows a curious complication of men, money and measures. There may have been nothing wrong in the action, but it cer- tainly was a freak, Just What They Are Paid For. Boston Transeript. It may be true, as the president sald recently, that “the average graduate of West Point during this hundred years has given a greater amount of service to the country through his life than has the average graduate of any other institu- tion in this broad land.” But, on the other hand, isn't that what the government has educated him, paid him and expected him to do? Doubtfal Declination Boston Advertiser. A more careful examination of the ip- sissima verba of Mr. Bryan's declination to be his party's candidate for governor of Nebraska will perhaps explain the doubt whether he means it. That the doubt exists is shown by the refusal of leading democrats in his state to take “no" for an answer. Mr. Bryan sald: “I am not and cannot be a candidate for governor.” Those are very nearly the exact words in which Horatlo Seymour declined the democratic nomination for the presidency in 1866. “Your candidate I cannot be,” said Mr. Seymour to the national democratic convention which assembled in Tammany Hall on July 4 of that year. Before the close of the convention-he was its candi- date. " “CLEVELANDIZING” THE PARTY.' Plcturesque Posing of the So-Called Peerless Leader. New York World (Dem.) Mr. Bryan writes, to & populist senator that he expects to do all that is in his power to “ald those who “are determingd to prevent the Clevelandizing of the demo- cratic party.” This {8 hardly a happy phrase. It in- evitably suggests to the democratic party the difference between “‘Clevelandizing” the party and pulverizing it—as Mr. Bryan did in his two distressing and lamentable campaigns. Under Cleveland, whatever personal shortcomings he may have had & leader, due to his temperament and lack of early political tralning, the democratic party en- joyed the confidence and respect of the country. It contrelled both houses of con- gress. It had twenty-six governors, inelud- ing fourteen from northern or border states. After six years of Bryanizing where is it?—and what has it Mr. Bryan, when in congress, was as ardent a tariff reformer as ever Grover Cleveland was. He dropped that historic democratic issue to engage in a wild-goose chase after free silver republican and pop- ulistic votes. The chief difference in the principles and policy of the two leaders was on the money question. Mr. Cleveland stood with every democratic president and candidate of his party, from Jefferson to Tilden, in favor of sound money. The country stood with him. That issue is set- tled. There are no longer any G60-cent democrats—un! Mr. Bryan is one. Mr. Cleveland is neither a candidate nor an lssue and is not likely to become either, But between re-“Clevelandizing” or fur- ther pulverizing of the party sane demo- crats would choose the former. GROWING CORN EXPORTS, King of American Cereals Captivating the 0ld World. Minneapolis Journal. In the growth of the exports of corn from the United States to Europe may be seen an Increase of the dependence of the European nations upon American food sup- plies. In 1891 the United States exported 30,768,214 bushels of corn. In 1900 the ex- portations had increased to 209,348,273 bushels, of which Europe took 192,519,785 bushels. We are accustomed to think of corn a domestic food and feed crop, not a great staple of export, but including wheat in the kernel and in flour we sent to Europe last year not more than 160,000,000 bushels, or some 30,000,000 less than of corn. The indications are that corn has more promise than wheat as an export crop. The European peoples are just beginning to use corn. The Belglan bakers now mix 25 per cent of corn flour with their wheat flour. Thus corn flour supercedes wheat flour to some extent. Then, too, while wheat flour is tgo expensive ever to be- come an article of food for the teeming millions of Europe that never put their teeth into white bread, corn flour is easily avallable on ount of its cheap It will take time to teach these people that corn and corn products are good foods, but once they are convinced, the market for corn will vastly expand. The Belgian people are further advanced in appreclation of corn than any other European people. Consul Winslow at Liege reports that in 1901 the per capita con: sumption of corn in Belglum was two bush- els. It the per capita consumption of the rest of Europe could be brought up to this figure it would require 1,400,000,000 bushels to supply it, or about three-fourths of the entire product of the United States. It is expected that Europe will take more than 300,000,000 bushels of American corn this year. In view of these figures it may be col fidently assumed that the exportation corn has scarcely begus. JUNE 17, 1902 GOOD MEN NAMED FOR CONGRESS, Oakland Republican: Mr. McCarthy s an able lawyer and if elected will be a credit to his district. Bloomington Advocate: Mr. Norris is a man of known ability and Integrity and will make a clean, strong pull for the office. Central City Nonpareil: Judge Norris is an able man and worthy of representing the Intelligent people of the Fifth dis- triet. Beaver Olty Times-Tribune: In just ex- actly 144 days G. W. Norris will be elected to congress from the Fifth district. Wait tor it. Syracuse Journal: Judge G. W. Norris was nominated for congress by the repub- licans of the Fifth district. He s an able man and will make a winning race. Table Rock Argus: The republicans in the Fifth district In convention at Kear- ney on Tueaday nominated Judge Norris for congress—a good man, who ought to be elected. Webster County Argus: Judge Norrls is a man of broad understanding and one whom the voters of the district need not hesitate to endorse at the polls next No- vember. Columbus Times: The republicans of Platte county will work earnestly, heartily and energetically for the election of John J. McCarthy of Dixon, the nominee of the Fremont convention. Northern Nebraska Journal: J. J. Mo- Carthy will make a clean, aggressive can- vase for votes from now until election day and will be elected the next member of congress from this district. Sutton Advertiser-Ne Hon. J. I McCarthy has been nominated for congrees in the Third district. He is an honest and able man and will be elected and will make an intelligent and strong representative. Leigh World: J. J. McCarthy is acknowl- edged as one of the ablest lawyers of that part of Nebraska. He made a strong and honorable fight for the nomination and won, and If he does as well in the campaign which he has before him, he will undoubt- edly be elected and we believe he will. Wood River Interests: Judge G. W. Norris of McCook was nominated for con- gress at the republican convention at Hastings on the sixth ballot. He was the leading candidate from the start and is recognized as a man of fine abllity, honor- able record and a tremendous vote getter. Monroe Republican: J. J. McCarthy fs one of the prominent republicans of north- eastern Nebraska, having served in the legislature and otherwise honored by his county. He is well fitted to represent the Third district in congress and there is no doubt about the verdict to that effect in November. Fairfield Herald: Judge G. W. Norris of McCook, Furnae county, was nominated at Hastings by the republicans of this district. There was a good fleld of candidates and a spirited time balloting. The nominee Is generally considered a very capable man and highly spoken of by those who know him best and longest. Harlan County Journal: The candidacy of Judge Norris Is looked upon as & strong one. He is vigorous and young, an orator of no mean ability and will make an ex- cellent campaigner. He came into the con- vention strong and was a winner from the start. All the other candidates and coun- ties were well satisfled with the choice. St. Bdward Sun: John McCarthy of Ponca, Dixon county, was chosen as the republican candidate for congress from the Third district. The people of Dixon county have the highest regard for the nominee. He 18 the leader of the bar of the county, having a large practice, the income from which has made him comfortably well off, Grand Island Independent: It was a case of the survival of the fittest and Hon. J. J. McCarthy of Dixon county was nom- inated. Mr. McCarthy has been a promi- nent figure in the legislature, is a stralght- forward, clean, independent sort of a citi- n, generally having right convictions and always following them out, even It they lead to defeat. Dakota County Enterprise: The Third congressional convention was ome of the kind of political gatherings it does one good to attend. The greatest harmony and enthusiasm prevalled, everybody was satis- fied that the convention had named the strongest man and the defeated candidates did not even seem to be disappointed. Me- Carthy's election s assured. Tekamah Journal: J. J. McCarthy of Dakota county, whom the republicans of this congressional district mominated last Tuesday evening at Fremont as their candl- date for congress, 1s well and favorably known by many Burt county citizens. His reputation, both as to morals and =bility, 18 of the highest. He will make an active energetic congressman; his election being assured. Hartington Herald: The nomination of Hon. J. J. McCarthy for congressman 18 a fitting recognition of the abllity and cour- age he displayed during his two terms in the state legislature. The rank and file of the republicans of the Third district will be glad to learn of hia nomination. Mr. MeCarthy will be triumphantly elected and, mark our words, he will be bedrd from in congress in due season. .. McCook Republl The unanimous nomination of Judge George W. Norris as the republican candidate for congret this district without the least {Il feeling in the matter, where there were 8o many asplrants, is an honor to him and a record that but very few candidates can start out in a campalgn with. Such an endorsement from opponents to his nomi- nation should win votes for him. Fairfield Herald: John J. McCarthy of Dixon county was nominated at Fremont by the republicans of the Third district for congress. He will be elected. There ls no better campaigner in the wide west than McCarthy and the Third could not send a better man than he to congress to represent the people. Mr. McCarthy's record in the legislature ls too well and favorably known all over the state to need comment. Columbus Times: Judge G. W. Norris of MecCook was nominated for congressman in the Fifth district at the republican con- vention at Hastings Tueeday. The judge is & native of Oblo. A few years ago be was an attorney at David City, but in 1900 re- moved to McCook and is at present judge of the Fourteenth judictal district. He is exceedingly popular where known and his election by & good big majority is predicted by his friends. Pender Republican: In the nomination of McCarthy for congress the republicans of this district have undoubtedly put up the strongest man in the field. With a properly conducted campalgn, which Is as- sured from the selection of the gallaxy of able men choen on the congressional com- mittee, there will be no doubt as to his election by & large majority. Mr. Me- Carthy is one of the ablest lawyers and campalgners in the state and has never known defeat. Oakland Independent: J. J. McCarthy of Ponca was nominated for congress by the republican convention at Fremomt. Me- Carthy bad a hard fight on his hands in order to secure the nomination, not be- cause of bis unpopularity or inabllity to fill the position that be is aspiring to, but because there was an abundance of good republican timber for congress and several of the counties of the district had their favorite sons which they wished to sup- port. In the sharp contest for congres- sional honors McCarthy provsd again that he is both popular and capable of handling el BITS OF WASHINGTON LIFE. Minor Scenes a meidents Sketel on the Spot. A young woman vieltor in Washington sat in the senate gallery a few days ago watching the proceedings in that august as- Sembly. Senator ‘est tottered from his seat to the cleakroom, supporting himselt on the arm of a personal attendant. Sena- tor Hawley, with his falling strength, valaly tried to push open & door leading out of the chamber; Senator Hanna came Hobbling down the alsle leaning heavily on his cane and Semator Platt of New York wobbled shakily into his seat. The young woman looked on wonderingly and then re- marked to a friend: “I should think they would call this ‘the old men's home' in- stead of the United States senate.” Represefitative Lacey waxed eloquent yosterday during his discussion of the for- est reserve bill, of which he is the author, ®ays the Washington Times. The Iowan usually employs cholce wel forcetul diction, but this was what he sald in tell- ing about an isolated spot somewhere in a remote reservation: “Why, on this spot,” he exclaimed, hand of man has never yet set foot.” It was fortunate for Mr. Lacey that there were but few members In the house and of these very few giving any heed to what he wae saying, as the measure was not one of much general Intrest. Of course it was a slip of the tongue and Mr. Lacey will have an opportunity to correct it when he comes to read his speech before it is printed In the Record. “the Congressman Payne, leader of the house, was in the lobby of a Washington hotel th other evening when Representative Les ler and his 7-year-old son came in. “Go over to the gentleman,” sald Lessler to the little boy, “and say ‘How do you do Congressman Payne? " The long word was too much for the child, who said when he came up to the eminent leader: ““How do you do, con men Payne?’ and when his father explained matters to a laughing group one of them remarked: ‘Well, the little chap wasn't so far wrong after all. ““Many years ago there happened to me in Washington one of the pleasantest epi- sodes of my life,” said former Governor Thomas G. Jones of Alabama to a Wash- ington Post interviewer recently. “I was a mere stripling of a boy and was proud of the fact that my father had al- lowed me to make a journey to the na. tional capital on my own hook. The Na- tional hotel was then the chief hostelry and thither I repaired, anxious to get a glimpse of the notables I knew to be liv- ing there. In wandering about the house it seems that I got into a private parlor quite by accident. The solitary occupant was a nice looking old gentleman with a very benevolent face, and very soon we were chatting together In the freest way. “I told him that I came from the south and that my chief ambition was to shake hands with the president. At this he seemed greatly amused, but presently grew serious and told me that if I'd wait only a few minutes he would promise me the meeting that I longed for—that I should see and talk with the president. ‘‘Presently he left me, but in a short while a servant brought word that I wi wanted outside and conducted me to the street where the kind old man eat in a fine carrfage drawn by a pair of splendid horses. ‘Get In," sald he, and I lost no time obeying. All the way to the White house I was in a kind of trance, and it w not until we reached the executive mansion that I woke up. “It must have been the extreme defer- ence that I saw a lot of people and at- tendants pay my rable friend that caused me to realize, as by a flash of in- tuition, that I had been taken under the wing of James Buchanan. It was the pres! dent himself that brought me to the White house. For a minute, with boyish difi- dence, I hung back, but he made me go inside, and for an hour or more I wi royally entertained as though I had been a young prince.”” Professor Robert T. Hill, the government geologist, brought back to Washington with him a quantity of specimens af the ashes thrown out by Mont Pelee. Prgfessor Hill's supply of sacks and bags in which he put the material ran out, so he utilized his surplus socks for this purpose. He is now engaged in labellng the various specimen that he secured at Martinique. The dust varfes a little in color according to the places where it was collected. It can all be called gray, however, and it all has the same gritty touch when pressed between the fingers. Some of it has a decided blue tinge, like powdered blue clay. All the hardware picked up by Professor Hill indi- cates that the explosion of Mont Pelee created an almost unbearable heat in the city at its bass He found a cluster of for example, which had so melted as to have run together. Several cases of crockery found mear by had cracked into small pleces. Yet several of the articl which Professor Hill has were apparently not heated at all. He discovered some- where a “keno’ outfit with a score of small checkers, each marked with a numbes Not one of these shows any signs of heat. A western congressman who has just been renominated, and who has returned to Washington to receive the congratul tions of his colleagues, tells in the Wash- ington Post a good story on himself upon condition that his name be mot mentioned. When the nominating convention conm- cluded its work, the exuberant congressman telegraphed to his family “Now you can paint my home r He thought nothing more of the telegram until next day, when reaching his home, he found it covered with brilllant carmine. His sons, who love & practical joke, had taken him at hig word, and had covered everything—house, fence, hencoops and even the trees in the yard— with red paint. And to add iosult to in- jury, the boys presented their father with the bill, amounting to $160. “I paid it without a murmur,” says the congressman. Why 1s oné small jerkwater railroad al lowed to tax the whol orld that jour- neys to the tomb of Washington, and to make of that sacred spot & commercial asset? This s & question which has doubt- less occurred to some millions of touris foreign and domestic, who come to Wash- ington and religiously visit the home and grave of the father of his country. The question 1s like those riddles in “‘Alice in Wonderland.” It has no answer. For little journey of seven miles from the ‘White house the public is held up 50 cents & head. There is a boat and it costs the me. The little jerkwater electric rafl- road has a double riveted brass-bound monopoly on earrying people to Mount Vernon, and the consequences are as usual ~poor wervice, crowded cars, Infrequent trips, dirty coaches and all the rest of it P RSONAL NOT Emperor Willlam has turned over several | hundred souvenirs of the trip of Prince Henry to the United States to the Hohen- sollern museum. It is the fate of greatness to be misrepre- sented. President Palma gave $15 to some !poor people in Havana and by the time the story reached the United States {t made him contribute $1,000 from his private purse to avert a bread riot. John E. Bristol of Alta, Ill., the sole sur- vivor of the famous battle of the Black Hawk war, which occurred on May 14, 1832, drew aside the flag at the unvelling of the monument to the men who fell in that bat- tle at Stiliman Valley, Illinofs, June 12. Colonel B. F. Hawkes, who made a speech at the decorating of the statue of General U. 8. Grant in the rotunda of the capitol, 1s one of the three living comrades of the general in his cadet days at West Point. Generals Dana and Longetreet are the other two. A Kentucky young woman has sscured & verdict of $100 in a suit against & man who Kissed her without leave. If $100 i a fitting punishment for kissing & grown woman against her will, how much ought to be e; acted from a man or woman who kisses a poor, helpless baby? Pension Commissioner Ware exhibits this communication, which he recelved from a plous Illinols widow, who believes that falth without works is not enough: “Dear Mr. Ware: 1 am trusting in the Lord to get my penslon, but as I need the money, I do] hope you will give & little help your- selt." Judge Samuel W. Pennypacker, presiding Judge of the court of common pleas of Pennsylvania, eourt No. 2, who was nomi- nated for governor of the state at the republican state convention at Harrisburg, fs a prominent local historiographer and aptiquarian as well as a jurist, His papers on the “Pennsylvania Dutch” are consid- ered valuable contributions to the history of the Keystone state. Secrotary Shaw has taken a cottage for the summer at Burlington, Vt., the state of hie birth. Some one remarked that the fishing was good up there away, and added that Mr. Shaw could probably hold his own telling fish stories. “Now that's hard om me,” sald the secretary, “for fish stories are supposed to be pure fiction. Well, I'll show them that it s possible to go fishing and etill keep within the bounds of truth as it (s known in Iowa In connection with such expeditions.” The Denver Post culls the followihg ltem from the brilllant record of Senator Pat« terson: “Mr. Patterson defended the mo« tion vigorously. The motion was lost—6§ to 6. Senator Patterson bitterly denounced the amendment, which was then carried— §8 to 7. Senator Patterson made a brilliant speech favoring the motion. The motion was defeated—76 to 3. Senator Patterson moved an amendment to the substitute. Lost—74 to 3. Senator Patterson then arose to address the senate, It was moved to adjourn—94 to 0. LAUGHING GAS. ab a heap . “Ef a lot o n's went runnin’ aroun' a track he wouldn't resk his digner bettin’ on de e. Ohlo State ' Journal: Lady—There water in the milk you bring me, sir! Milkman—Can't help it, ma'am; my cow will_stand in th' crick this hot weather all I kin do. Cleveland Plain Dealer: “I see that the coal strike has already caused a loss estl- mated at $22 hew! I wonder what my share is?” “You'll find out next winter.” Philadelphia Press: “If I were not an Englishman,” sald the pompous Briton, nlronlllnxly, “I should “wish to be a fhdeed!” replied the_belligerent Boer, “and 1, if 1 were not a Boer would wish | was one.” Ghicago Post: golf_ball Never heard of it,” der. “Give me,” he sald, “a returned the bar- benighted!” commented the thirsty one. “A cube of ice, a little Scotch and fill it up with seltzer.,” Philadelphia Record: Sharpe—I wonder it beef will ever be reduced. Whealton—It s reduced now in some place: Sharpe—What places? ‘Whealton—Boarding hous: half as much as formerly. Fydg: 1 gom ke ¢ 1 mdnl been talking to him nvo min. utes before he said I was an idio 'Why the delay?” I only get "l don’t like the man.” ‘Washington Start “I suppose your polit- feal career has taught you to value the of wisdom answered Benator Sorghum, '‘es- pecially when they take the form of politi- cal plumi CHILDHOOD, Arthur G. Burton in Troy Times. The little red schoolhouse, alone and fors lorn, Of all its fair freshness and beauty quite shorn, gtill siis at the turn of the road. The h Jyhocks blossom along near the And Uhe sunflowers, stately, majestic and st} *Cheertully bear up their load. On a sweet little girl, at her desk all The l':'m."umnx rays of the last sunlight one, .Yull tipping her falr hair with gold, 'rhrnu.h (3 n‘windnw the sound of her pen And 1o mix with the bumble bee's deep, droning note As she traced o'er her copyBook old. Outside. with his numbers and coples all m: his brown feet and legs in A littie boy sat on the fence. His young face was sad, and {ncessant his To the schoolhouse were turned and away from his books, As he fingered his coat with its rents. The lchonlhl)u‘o fldunr closed, and with rne Mt maid turned trom his dark oyes of brown, Which seeméd o'er her pale face to roam, As he stretched forth his hand, which would carry her bool Bhe IHIWQMG his -mlll a shyly sweet A!lfl |h-y trudged down the lane toward her home. Proper Neckwear The narrow four-in-hands are much worn this summer on account of the high band collars now so popular. We have also some pleasing bat-wing bows. Both shapes, newest designs, at 50 cents.