Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 2, 1902, Page 6

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King Edwird should try to time his fliness hereafter .to cause less incon- Anere The last curtain {s down on the Trans- mississipp! exposition, but the picture of the exposition will mver fade from the memory . of uym who shared its eee—————— Hereatter. aspirants fofe the United States sénate will Mvetoplu(dvn gervice examination as pugllists. South Carolina and Texas have set the ball a-rolling. m The ofm‘flllwtmmthe ‘Wwill be deferred until the series 1s resumed after the two houses reopen next winter. In the interval, the mea of the official tralner prom- Ilq!qb- Iin great and steady demand.. 'l'o sheriffs have just been killed in & batte’with horse thieves in Oklahoma, Presumably this is (intended as rein- forcement of the plea for statehood for Oklahoma, on the ground that its people themeelves. == m nr* profitable to the coal " #ho have managed to unload from 20't0"80 per cent on ordinary sum- mer vates. ‘When' the strike s over tense that coal is scarce and the de- xuns high. are, Fully competent to take -care of nlep coal miners' strike has '.hdr surplus of coal at an Increase they will:keep.up these rates, under pre- - Our democratic friends are not so THE RECORD OF CONGHESS, While the first session of the Fifty- seventh congress did not do some of the things expected of it, there was enacted legisiation of very great importance, a ‘part of which will make the session memorable. This is to be sald of the passage of the irrigation bill and the isthmian canal bill, measures whose ef- fect will be to inerease greatly the na- tional wealth and augment our com- meércial power. The carrylng out of these great enterprises will for several years require a large expenditure, but that the ultimate returns will vastly overbalance the outlay is certain. The Peclamation of the arid lands means a large addition to our agricultural pro- duction and this will not be made faster than there is a demand for it. Eastern opposition to the opening up of these lands was due to a fear that the agri- cultural producers of that section would be injured by the added competition, but there is no substantial reason for such apprehension. Reclamation of the arid lands will be a work of years and in the meantime both the home and for- elgn Memand for agricultural products will grow. The Philipptne civil government bill is also a measure of importance, which there is every reason to believe will have a most beneficlal effect upon conditions in the archipelago. It must convince the natives of the purpose of this gov- ernment to treat them fairly and justly, giving them such participation in the government of the islands as circum- stances warrant, gradually enlarging it toward complete self-government as the people grow in.capacity for governing themselved. The creation of a perma- nent census burean is another plece of legislation that will undoubtedly prove valuable. ; - The question of mnflnl tariff con- céssions to Cuba commanded more at- tention than any_other and the failure of the reelprocity propositions does not necessarily mean that the question has been finally disposed of. = The president may negotiate a treaty with Cuba and 'call a special session of the senate to act upon it. Of the other matters that falled, or are hung up in either the sen- ate or house, there % none that cannot safely wait until the next session and it is perhaps quite as well that they were deferred, with perhaps the exception of the bill for the admission to statehood of' Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma, which was made the nunfinished business in the senatd for December 10 next. The efforts to have the tarift interfered with met with little support, for the sound reason that tariff tinkering would unsettle and injure business. The cur- rency propositions, also, were not serl- ously considered for a like reason. In the matter of a ations the session was liberal, as Mr, Cannon, chair- ‘man of the house committee on appro- pn-uoumudw:lfnhnm It does not appear, however, that there ‘has been any great extravagance, though of course this will be ¢harged by the democrats in the congressional cam- paign. On'the whole the record of the fitst nession of the prekent congress is creditable to the party in power. ey THE KING CONVALESCING. The latest dispatches appear to fully warrant the conclusion that King Ed- ward s now out of danger and that his convalescence will be uninterrupted, though it must be time before recovery is complete. ' The progress of the patient has really'been remarkable, considering his age and other condl- tions, the consensus of'opinion in the medical profession at the time of the operation being that the chances were very largely agalnst the king survivin the treatment, which it was very gen- erally thought had boen updoly de- layed. From the medical point of view the case is regarded as furnishing a valua- ‘ble object lesson. 'The medical, Jourhal of Philadelphia says that it teach how little 18 to be gained by delay and bhow great a peril is inedrred by it “We have recognized for a long time,” says that authority, “that the teaching and practice in-this country on the sub- ject of appendicitis were in advance of those that prevail in Bri The con- servatism there has been. extreme; the practice has verged upon timidity. The Amerfean rule, we believe, is the better gne and, whether the king lives or dles, this fact will remain ‘proven. If the king lives it will only be by passing through a great peril, which in almost all similar cases can be averted by prompt operation. . King Edward has shown great fortl- tude in the hard ordéal, bearing man- fully thé severe suffering and obeying Implieitly the directions of the physi- ctans, The favorable promise for his recovery will be universally re‘nrded with gratification. .THE LAW 4AND l’ll: CU4 L COMBINE. The federal anti-trust Jaw declares il- legal ‘“every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or con+ spiracy, In restraint .of trade or com- merce among the several states or with foreign nations.” The gquestion as to whether this applies to the combination states, as contemplated In the federal statute? This ia the question to be de- termined. In order to make the coal combine amenable to the law it is neces- sary to show that there is restraint of trade or commerce and as the situation is at present it is somewhat doubtful if this could be demonstrated. The users of anthracite coal have been put to more or less inconvenience and must pay an increased price for their coal, but can it be successfully contended that these conditions constitute restraint of trade? It 1s manifestly not so simple a matter as at first glance it may ap- pear to be. The existence of a com- bination Js unmistakable. It is not ob- vious that its operation is in restraint of trade or commerce among the several states, though such a condition may come if the supply of anthracite coal becomes exhausted, compelling the stoppage of Industries requiring that fuel. President Roosevelt can be depended upon to probe this matter’ thoroughly and to have proceedings instituted against the coal combine if it shall be the opinion of the legal advisers of the president that the anti-trust law ll being violated. e—pe— WARICH IS WRICHY In his speech of acceptance before the populist state convention, the fusion nominee for governor, endeavoring to explain that although a democrat he was in hearty accord with the populist declaration of principles, declared that to put the populist and democratic plat- forms side by side no one could tell which was which, unless it had the let- ters written across the top. More careful observation of the two platforms emphasizes the correctness of this assertion and enforces the neces- sity of keeping them properly labeled in order that they may not become irre- trievably mixed. The candidates on the fusion ticket, therefore, will have no trouble in straddling both platforms, be- cause, aside from minor details and matters of verblage, they are to all in- tents and g rposes identical. Whether chis will lead the populists to imagine that the democrats have come over to them and succumbed to the irresistible logic of populist argu- ment, or whether it will convince the democrats that the populists are reced- ing from their original tenets and em- bracing the simon pure faith of the founders of democracy, remains to be seen. The average democrat will insist that the démocrats are swallowing the pop- ulists, while the most enthuslastic fusion populists will claim that association under the fusion compact has grafted populistic ideas upon the democratic tree until all that is left is the root hidden beneath the surface. An exact determination by qualitative and quantitative analysis of the relative strength of the populist and democratic ingredients in the fusion mixture will demand the services of the most tal- ented expert. e Presidept Burt of the Union Pacific labors under the delusion that the press is the natural enemy of the Tallroads and that its editors are con- stantly conspiring to misrepresent and misquote the railroad managers. As a matter of fact, the press has no disposi- tion to war on the rallroads or do in- justice to any rallroad manager who is willing to take the public into his con- fidence through the medium of the press. If Mr. Burt or any other railroad maun wants to be quoted exactly he is at liberty to dictate his statements to a stenographer and furnish the press with coples. The trouble with railroad man- agers is that they frequently give out contradictory reports and try to mystify the public when eandor would serve the purpose better, and when they make a break blame the reporter or imagine that the editor purposely perverts their language to place them in a false atti- tude. The mere fact that the press prints information derived from sources outside of headquarters indicates no hostility or malice. It is the business of every good newspaper to all the news wherever it can be gott Neces- sarily, all sources of information are not equally or absolutely reliable—not even those th headquarters, for that matter. enTmp— Before the Lincoln city council the county surveyor testified that the tangi- ble railroad property represented in the figures certified by the State Board of Equalization for the municipal assess- ment represents 382.53 acres of right-of- way land, worth not less than $1,000 an acre; 64.61 miles of track, worth $764,- 786, and improvements on the right-of- way In the shape of passenger and freight depots, etc, worth $180,650, making a total of $1,277,068. All this property, however, as returned by the state board for taxation by the city of Lincoln is assessed for only $08,314, or less than 8 per cent of the lowest estl- mate, and this without any allowance whatever for franchise values. And the rallroad tax bureau is trying to make people belleve that the rallroads are bearing their tuu share of the tax burdens. SE—— One of the mominees on the state ficket put up by the Kansas fusionists insists that he 18 & republican, that his nomination was without his knowledge or consent and that he will not run. His refusal to run as a fusion candidate is proof sufficient that he is a repub- lcan. China is locking horns again with the European powers over the exchange on the payment of the current indemnity installment. OChina will discover that the powers are relentless, more par- ticplarly when, as now, they have the whip hand over a helpless debtor. o The bulletins issued from the king's bedside by his attending physicians are to be commended to medical men who may bave distinguished patients in whose condition the public has a rightful concern. While they do 0ot go luto the detall that characterized the physicians’ bulletins during President McKinley's illness, they baye the merit of frankness that Inspires confidence in their truth- ful reflection of the patient’s ‘actual condition and the progress he is making from day to day. In cases of this kind the medical attendants must realize that nothing is to be galned by misrepre- sentation. EEEEp—— Wil the Small Boy Refraint Chicago Tribune. And it s the popular bellef, strengthened by years of observation, that the prolonged firing of explosives tends to produce rain. 1l Wind,” Ete. Atlanta Journal. King Edward's iiiness is proving a bles: ing in disguise th at least one respect—it is getting a lot of Englishmen into the churches and onto their knees, “rTin Around the World by Rail. Chicago Inter Ocean. It séems almost incredible that the short- est mall route from western Europe to the Pacific is by way of Siberia. Yet, with the Transsiberian rallroad almost completed, Russla is securing mail contracts from na- tions which less than thirty years ago were leagued agalnst it. Beyond Reach of V. New York Tribune. Mr. Cleveland's placid enjoyment of the fishing in Buzzard’s bay is ‘@ot likely to be seriously disturbed by any, verbal brickbats from Nebraska. The range s too long for one thing, and even at a moderate distance political missiles of the Bryam make-up are not destructiv Preserving “Spani New York World. Admiral Dewey's latest version of the capture of the city of Manila is not exactly herolc. His statement that he “had to fire and kill a few people” bec: the Spanish governor was not wiiling to surrender until “his honor” had been thus satisfied is a revelation that will not increasé the gen- eral respect for ‘‘the amenities of war." Killing “a few people’ as a matter of etl- quette between commanders seems a shocking thing to the undisciplined civillan mind. Why Savage Stuefer Withdrew. Hastings Tribune. There ia no denying the fact that Ed- ward Rosewater was the power behind the throne that caused Mr. Stuefer and Mr. Bavage to come out and announce that they were not candidates for renomination upon the republican state ticket. And be it sald to the credit of Mr. Rosewater that he had no selfish desire in so doing. What he did was for the best interests of the publican party. It has brought harmony and unanimity to the republican party of Nebraska and has been the means of put- ting up a ticket without a flaw in it. There is only one thing left to be done now and that is for the republicans to see to it that the entire republican ticket is elected by such an overwhelming majority that it will ceed ln driving fusionism out of the state. Clevelandism and Demoecracy. Boston Transcript. A congressman needs to be very careful in quoting a sentiment expressed by an- other congressman to use the exact words of the latter. Otherwise he i lable to be called down. Thus’ Congressman Landis ot Indiana the other ‘day In the house sald that his distinguished friend, Mr. Clark of Missourd, had sald that “Grover Cleveland was the greatest!dalamity that had been visited on this colintry since the days of Adam.” Mr. Clark immediately corrected Mr. Landis in these words: “Mr. Chairman, I wish the gentleman from Indiana would quote me correctly, because I do not want to be put in the attitude of saying something I did not say. What I did say was that t cond elec- tion”of Grover Cleveland was the greatest calamity that has happened to the human race since the fall of Adam.” This {s “worse and more of 1t,” and the moral of the incident is that there are a great many democrats who are harder to “harmonize” now than they were before the Tilden club dinner. — DEGENERATE FIRECRACKER! d i Plea for the Return of & Once Worthy Fourth of July Feature. Baturday Evening Post. Something ought to be done o rehlbll!» tate the Fourth of July celebration, cially its firecracker department. ’l‘he celebration of the present day 1s but a pale reflection and a far-off echo of the glorious triumph’ of the past, and the sickly, petulent pop of the contemporary firecracker bears but sorry comparison with the detonation of its predecessor of a few years aback. It is sad to see a na- tional Inetitution thus going to the dogs, but tho dogs need nmot worry—it no longer frightens them, in times past it aid. The old celebration used to come In at one minute past midnight with a terrific discharge of the viliage brass cannon. This | ! formidable plece of ordnance, loaded with quantities of the loudest powder wedged down with wet grass, was then kept in action by enthusiastic yeomen till sunrise; and throughout the day there were desul- tory bangs, unless, indeed, the thing blew up at about 9 o'clock, as it too frequently did, with & great scattering around of the sald unfortunate yeomen. Then, during there was the program; races of especially trotting races by local me of which would not infre. quently cover the mile in less than three minutes, and running races in which quan- titles of dust were kicked up. There were divers other contests and patriotic songs rendered by the glee club with much sound and fury, with the reading of the Declara- tion of Independence by the school master in & penetrating volce; and, as the cap sheat of the whole—more important even than the cannon itself—the oration by the candidate for congress, in which, with the corner of one eye on the votes of the local citizens from a certain green isle, the tall of the British lion was given a few pretty little tiny kick-shaw kinks—the Anterspersed, punctuated and made “by the resounding explosions of of firecrackers. But now this sort of celebration is be- coming rare and the firecracker is degen- erate. What is meant Is the small, ordi- nary cracker. When it consents to go off at all it is with an finsignificant little sizzling, asthmatic, tentative, spologetic pop which is about as spirit stirriog as the report of & root-beer cork. Why is this Has a trust got hold of the cracker indus- try? Or does it need a trust to put “life and mettle” it it? Or is the Mongolian played out, and has he lost his cracker cunping? Perhaps all firecrackers are now made in Connecticut. If so they must be manufactured in old wooden nutmeg fac- tories. These latter day insudible firecrackers are frauds, cheating the small boy out of his hard-saved dime. And as to the tall of the llon, what is it for? It is an oroa- mental rather than an essentlal appendage, and & gentle little twist, with & bit of a knot or two just for remembrance—lest he forget—can do no harm, and is sure to awaken enthusiasm on the rear benches. Give us back our old celebration! and in the matter of the firecrackers thers should be legislation; the makers must be com- polluhyh'u-mufn'&nl wmore of it BITS OF WASHINGTON LIFE. Minor Scenes and Incldenfs Sketohed at the National Capitel. Half a dozen strapping big Texans called on the president a few days ago and ten- dered the chiet executive a cordial invita- tion to visit the Lone Star state. After leaving the White House they went to the senate chamber to hear Senator Balley's flery speech against certain provisions of the Choctaw treaty bill. One of the ma- Jors wore blue yarn stockings, and he created much excitement in the press gal- lery by placing one df his legs over the seat In front of him and exhibiting a large expanse of the home-knit hoslery. doorkeeper of the gullery persuaded him to draw in his leg without provoking any display of firearms. Some school children were being shown through the capitol the other day and vis- ited, among other places, the vice presi- dent's room. Mr. White, the handsome clerk of Senator Frye, undertook to play gulde for the youngsters, says the Wash- la ne, “1s the bust of George Washington, the first president of the United States. He is dead, now, you know. And here is the bust of Jefferson. He's dead, too. And this is Henry Wil- son, one of the vice presidents. He died in this room.” A little gifl looked up at Mr. White with wide-opefi, wondering efes. “Did be bnn. too?" -ln ml_ Benator B fil & book agent dur- ing his college: and he never tires of telling how - he 1t poasible for his parents to wear gold-rimmed spectacles and the younger ohildren to/go to school because of his swocess In forcing the peo- ple of Indlana to biy bis book. “It was a religlous work,” sald the sen- ator a fow days ago fo a number of his colleagues in the restaurant, “and it was called ‘Error's Chaln' I belleve its ob- Jject was to show that all religlons except the Christlan religion have fallen when as- saulted. I was so successful In placing ‘Error's Chain' on the parlor tables of In- diana during my first season as a book agent that the publishers desired to avall themselves of my services during the next vacation. I was made a state agent and I selected Towa as the best fleld of opera- tion. Then I chose about fifty of the stu- dents at Greencastle as canvassers and we went to Iowa in a private car. I estab- lshed headquarters in Des Moines and when school opened up that fall I do mot believe there wi family in the entire state of Iowa that had not been given an opportunity to secure a copy of ‘Error's Chain.' " When Mr, Beveridge got this far in his story Senator Allison interrupted him and in his tatherly way asked: ‘‘Beveridge, are you the person who is responsible for the clrculation of ‘Error's Chain' in Iowa? “I guess I will have to plead gullty,” answered the Indiana man. “Then just step out in the hall where we won't break any dishes. My wife has been holding up that book in my face for the last twenty years and I have always vowed 1 would get even with the man who sold it to her.” Representative Olmsted of Pennsylvania is making a bid for entry into the class of humorists in the house. In his speech upon the Philippines bill he said that the minority report demonstrated the poverty of the democracy in the matter of issues, says the Washington Times. A short time ago, he sald, they thought they had one. The democratic leader, Mr. Richard- son, had joyously Jaunched tbe charge that e tain man named Christmasuhad ob- tained or was trying to obtain from the Danish government $500,000 or so to buy up somebody or something in the United States. From the note of exulta- tion in his volce and the gleam of hope in his eye, Mr. Olmsted said, it was appar- ent that the Tennesseean felt that the democratic party had at last found an issue—that it had, so to speak, “struck ofl.” ““The utter collapse of his charges,”” con- tinued Mr. Olmsted, “reminds me of a client of mine, the necessities of whose large family, recently augumented by the arrival of twins, placed him in financial aits. He came to me one day, joyfully declaring that he had found ofl flowing rom a spring upon his land. The bottle containing the sample which he brought bad evidently seen family use, but I for- warded it to an expert, whose reply dashed to earth my hopes and those of my client. “He simply said: ‘Find no trace of of think your friend has struck paregoric. Senator Chauncey M. Depew is. still mal ing speeches in congress, 8o far as the peo- ple of New York are concerned, although he fs now in Europe, where he always makes it a point to spend his summer va- cation, be began to long for his trip across the ocean and one day announced to his friends that he had made all arrangements to sail. His friends expostulated with him. They urged that he was playing very poor poli- to be elected to the senate and then ve for Europe just at thé time that body was taking up some of the most im- portant questions which it had to settle. “PI'll fix that all right,” said the famous after-dinner speaker. “I will just have my clerk send out a few thousand of my epeeches each day and the people will never miss me.” True to his word, he ordered 250,000 coples of his speech on the election of ators by direct vote to be printed and each day his clerk sees that al thou- sand of them are put into the mail. Senator Kittredge of South Dakota has a ney story which he contributes to the good "of the order, says the Washington Post. It seems that a robbery had beem com- mitted and the new policeman upon the beat was belng taken to task for his ap- parent negligence. “Didn’t you see any suspicious men that night?"" he was asked. aw but man,” was the police- man’s reply, “and I asked him what he was doing there at that time of night. He said that he had no business there just then, but that he was going to open a Iry store near there. So I sald to continued the policeman, “that I d bhim good luck.” “Well,” sald the policeman’s superior, “he 4id open & jewelry store, sure enough, and he made away with a lot of gold watches and diamonds,” “Begorra, then, captain,” replied the po- he man might have certalnly was no Mar!” ‘When the republican comference of last Wednesday became rather prosy, reports the Washington Post, Semator Scott of ‘West Virginia proposed & program of lighter things, to be begun by & speech from Sen- ator Proctor of Vermont, as to what would be the effect upon the maple sugar industry were the baleful Cuban reciprocity bill en- acped into law. Benator Proctor blushed and stammered something about & preference for voting instead of talking. Then it was that Sen- ator Hoar of Massachusetts, In bis high treble voice, spoke up: “My good friend from Vermont,” sald Sepator Hoar, “does not make speeches in defense of the maple syrup industry. He introduces & much more effective procedure. He sends each Senator & jug of maple syrup, which appeals more . strongly to them than any speech he might make.” 3 b wl been a thief, but The | HENRY WATTERSON'S DEFENSE, Loulsville Courfer-Journal. Mr. Watterson has but two ends in view: To scotch & movement wholly dangerous in character, and to vindieate the truth of history. He has never had the slightest private quarrel with Mr. Cleveland. Not a discourteous, unseemly word ever passed between him and Mr. Cleveland. He never sought to folst his friends upon Mr. Cleve- land, and, making few suggestions, he was never refused any personal request by Mr. Cleveland. Everything that s sald, or printed, to a contrary effect, & wholly false, and could only be printed, or said, by malevolent persons, having no personal sense of accountability or homor. Mr. Watterson is the last man in the world to make an individual grief the basis of & public attack. He would despise himself it he were capable of it. Those who know him well know him incapable of it. His op- position to Mr. Cleveland rests upon the specific statements he has made, that Mr. Cleveland 1s an {ll-tempered, self-willed man, having neither the intellectual train- ing nor the moral and political inspiration for democratic fellowship or leadership; that he knows little, and cares less} about tarift reform; that such svmpathies as he has are not on the side of the plain, com- mon people, and still less with the lowly and poor, but on the side of the strong, the mighty and the great; that he is personally an ingrate and a glutton; that, because of his selfishness and his bruttishness, he alienated every democrat of consequence in congress who would mot serve him blindl that, in short, he found the party a noble unit and left it a wreck. Where he s best known he is most detested. Beelng these things, sometimes at long range and sometimes at short range, Mr. Watterson stood aghast and appalled. The Bdgar Apgar tragedy; the Manning tragedy; the shameless turning down of frfends; the assiduous cultivation of ememles; the re- volting self-assertion sometimes of exclu- sive virtue and sometimes of exclusive cour- age; in & word, the perpetual wearing of the self-made halo, the great, noble, con- flding democratic party going to destruction the while, first affrighted and then disgusted him. And, finally, as nobody seemed to be willing to speak out, he did; he did it in 1892, and he is doing it now, and never did man epeak more unselfishly or in greater disregard to any and all comsequences to himself. Mr. Cleveland derives a great advantage from the dignity which doth hedge an ex- president. We should be disloyal to & trust it we respected this. His proposed activity now bodes no good to anybody except him- self and at best but ministers to his quench- less lust for the flesh-pots of place and power. The republicans may have him an’ they want him. The democrats will none of him. They know that when he comes in at the door harmony flies out of the window. Hence, with democracy, the word should be this: I know. thee not, fall to thy B Make less ‘thy body hence and more thy old man; grace Know the grave doth For thee thrice wider than for other men? PERSONAL NOTES, Senor Ofeda, Who is to be the new Spanish minister to the United States, is said to be a man of splendid character, among his numerous accomplishments being his ability to speak the English language perfectly. When Lord Kitchener arrives in London on July 11, from South Africa, he will be tendered a public reception, if the king's health continues satisfactory. The com- mander-o-chief, Earl Roberts, will meet bim at Southampten. . - At least two strest rallroad companies in Chicago give delay el or refund fares to passengers in idown or long delays. ‘An officer of the roads sald that they had triesids for the Governor Bmith of a commission of purchase a bust of Rear Admiral fleld Scott Schley to be placed in the new state capitol at Annapolls, | in accordance with an act passed by the state legislature at its last session. Chicago derives a neat bunch of money annually for rent/of ground beneath side- walks. In the ‘business district, space for business costs §1 a. square foot, and for coal 10 cents. Outside the business district the annual rental is $5 for each twenty-five-foot lot front. David McMahon, a wealthy contractor of Philadelphia, has safled for Ireland, his in- tentlon being, it is said, to buy a historie castle mear Limerick, which he will turn into & summer residence, or perhaps & permanent abode. Mr. McMahon in tim past has purchased large pleces of real estate in Ireland. Governor John Walter Smith ot Maryland has issued a proclamation declaring Satur- day mext, July 6, a public holiday in that state. The day is by custom a half holiday in Baltimore and the larger towns and finan- clal and mercantile institutions petitioned the governor to make it wholly & legal holiday throughout the state. Theophilus H. Porter, for forty-six years & newspaper carrier in Lynn, Mass., retired from business last week, having made enough money to keep him comfortably for the rest of his Jife. In all that time he has walked about fifteen miles every day but Sunday, when he went to church regularly, as he does not believe in Sunday papers. R. J. Seddon, who is premier of New Zea- land, is & mechanical engineer by profes- slon. He emigrated from England as a gold seeker in 1867. Besides being premier he is a general utility manm, as he holds the posts of colonial treasurer, minister of labor, minister of defense and comm sloner of trade and customs for the colony. has appointed Don’t Forget that Friday is July the fourth. The day ‘we celebrate. Our store will be closed ALL DAY OLD MARRIAGE LAWS, Effective Me of Preventing Clan- destine Unions. Portland Oregonlan. A hundred years ago there wa in full force in a number of New England colonies making a wide de- gree of publicity prerequisite to marriage. The first section of the Rhode Island law, which did not differ greatly from that in some other colonles, required specific pub« lication of marriage intentions. If made to a clvil officer, it was his duty to post a written notice thereof in some public place in the town herein the parties sespec~ tively dwell;"” if to the minleter, the bans were to be published in church for thres copsecutive Sundays. This latter provi- sion was a survival of a good eld English custom, and might be revived with profit, nce its tendency Is to place marrl upon & poteible, dignified Dba and recognize the fn- terest of soclety thereln. Another point of some importance in this old law was the provision which required those who alleged some impediment to the proposed marriage to furnish their reason in writing to the officers, and to give sureties to make the objection good, thus guarding against merely maliclous prosecution. The whole intent of the law was to make marriage a respon- alble, solemn and binding engagement. Of course, a marriage made in the most public manner may, and In point of fact often @oes, turn out unhappily. Tfere can be no legal guarantee against diversity of temperament or opinjon, or against the soclal and individual sins that wreck homes and fill charitable Institutions with worse than orphaned children. But it can scarcely be doubted that a law which prevents clan- destine marriages effectively, s this old statute must have done disposes of some ot the most conspicuous causes of divorces. Thia being conceded, it is worth while, in the very general discussion of the divorce question, to consider whether or not an act based upon the old law. would be an ad- vantage In these times. Mediums through ‘which matters of interest are conveyed to the public are different from those of a century ago; hence publication of intenti in the newspapers, as other legal notices are served, three weeks in advance of the date set for the marriage ceremony, might well take the place of posting public notices or crylng bans from the pulpit. soelau. baving largely to bear the consequenc: hasty, {ll-assorted, inconsiderate mrrhn- may well rise up in denlal of the pompous individual assertion of the'present day that marriages concerns nobody except those who enter into it. “It is our own business,™ say the bumptious youth and pert miss who enter clandestinely or deflantly into mar- riage. And though the foolish and fmpu- dent assumption is disproved in a few years, when the young woman returns with her children to her father's home ta be cared fer, or, falling in this retreat, seeks the managers of baby homes or children's ald socleties with a babe in her arms and another clinging to her skirts, asking that they take her children in, as has de- serted her and she and her babes are home- less,” the proof comes too late to protect parents or soclety from the results of fll- advised, irresponsible marriage. In the face of this literally “crying evil” legis- lators would do well to consider seriously an amendment to our marriage Jaw provid- ing that the intentions of persons entering matrimony be duly declared to the public, with a challenge to anyone to present good and sufficlent reasons, properly avouched, why the marriage may not or cannot law- fully take place. LAUGHING MATTER. Philadelphta Press: mosquitto, *what d an, way 7" “/Perseverance wise old Inseq screen. a: "Pa sald Pa,” sal mo'“u. my child,” lied the Means Anding & hole in New York Sun: Knlckar—'l'hm. bathing girls must be afrald of the poll Bocker—How 80?7 Knicker—They hate to be caught with the soods on. ‘Washington Sta leader of arty AWell," answered Senator Sorghum, doing his best to make people tmnr but as a matter of fact he is simply h ;::ll to keep his party from running over s that man still a . o Somerville Journal: n_co-education? He—Well, yes—it all the boys and girls belong to the same family. e \ Chicago Tribune: “It seems to me,” ob- Jected the sl shaired spember of the committee on resolutio e ain’ f lu 't Bimes o A the chairman, “we've got to have something d-mo:uuu in'a democratic platform, haven't we?" exclaimed Post: “Why do you spit on, your bates aaked the clty angler sarcastical . of :hn boy with the bent pole and knotf ““Huh!" replied the ure “That's a fool quuuon I've ketched fnur fish. -lqp you t here, an’ you hain't had a Cleveland Plain Deale n-w kln‘ o! Suony is a great musiclan.” Maybe A good many yarns come from lony ADJOURNMENT OF CONGRESS, Washington Star. 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