Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 27, 1902, Page 14

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BUBINESS LELTERS. letters and remitiances ghould d. e Lee Fubusbing Low- Bullding, Twen- Bustne be aaar pany, O REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, yable to The Bee Pubishing Lompany, niy i-cent slamps accepied in payment uf maii accounts, Fersonai checks, except oi Umaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEsl PUBLIsHING COMPANL. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. ka, Douglas County, ss.: & scauck, secreiary ot ‘Ahe Pubiisning Company, being auly $worn, says (hat the actuai numper oi tull and complete copies of The Dally, Morming, Kvening ana Bunday Hee priuted auriig the mOLth of June, iN2, was as Lollows: 20,410 Total Less unsold rewurned copl Net total sales. . STO,508 Net dally avera . 20,318 G Bubscribed in_my before me this 3th (8eal.) 0. B. TZ8CHUCK. presence and sworn to g b ISre AT " “Notary Pubile. — e The Nebraska farmer has his hand on the pulse of prosperity. A few choice seats on the coronation stands ought now to be rad at decidedl; reduced prices. . = With oats commanding more money than corn, corn cakes are apt to run oatmeal off the bill-of-fare. Paul Kruger s also entitled to work out an answer to the question, What shall we do with our ex-presidents? —— If Canada bhas any ship subsidies to distribute, Mr. Morgan's shipping syn- dicate ought to be able to accommo- date it I No rest for rallroad tax bureau bunco men, The slightest interruption of their work of deception might let the vietims get their eyes open. e When the bicycle was in the early stages & great improvement was per- fected which made it known as “a safety.” A safety automobile is long past due, —e—— To anxfous inquirer: Res judicata is a legal term used by courts when ‘they want to decide the same case one way at one time and precisely the other way the next time. ‘What becomes of the consent-of-the- governed theory In the reversal by the Nebraska supreme court of the munici- pal home rule doctriné previously pro- mulgated by that body? L ] The only way for democrats ever to get harmony In thelr natiogal organiza- tion will be by golng after it without walting for the aid or consent of Bryan or any other person on earth. E—ee——— And now the sports who put up money at the gate and more money at the betting board are crying about the great fight being a fake fixed up In advance, What did they expect? And what right have they to squeal? w China has come fo the conclusion that its best friend he does put up a high board fence sur- mounted with triple strands of barbed wire to keep the poor Chinaman out of his bailliwick, E——— Britain's new prime minister, Mr. Balfour, seems not only gratified to be able to luberit the adwministration of an empire at peace with all the werld, but also content to cultivate continued peacp at any reasonable cost, And more than that, he does not hesitate to say 80, ESST— Parliament has just received a report from a select committee that had been appolnated “to Inquire into the increase of great emergency. be to make general the discipline which in the past has only existed in isolated regiments in the Natlonal Guard. The purpose is to modernize the militla of of public betting among all classes and whether any leglslative measures are possible and expedient for checking the, abuses occasioned / thereby.” Th gambling mania evidently s not con- fined to the Unlted States nor are we the only ones pussled by the problem. = ‘When the Federation of Woman's Clubs held its national convention at Los Angeles, The Bee sent a bright young woman as its speclal representa- tive all the way to the Paclfic coast to give its readers an aceurate and sympa- thetic review of the work and achieve- ments of this great twentieth century culture movement. The Bee Is quite willing to have its enterprise In this respect compared with that of other papers who prefer to send reportorial sports across the continent to witness a prise fighting tournament beiween pro- fessional Lruisers. FORCING A LOCAL 1SSUE. The recent decision of the supreme court by which the control of the fire and police departments of citles of the imetropolitan class bas been taken from a board appointed by the mayor and council and placed In the hands of a board appointed by the governor forces the issue of municipal home rule into the forefront of this year's campaign in Douglas county. The appointment of a metropolitan po- lice force through commissioners named by the governor was originally justified on the ground that the police of the large cities should as far as possible be removed from local political influences and made co-ordinate with the state militla In the enforcement of law.and opder. It was also deemed desirable to have the police protected by regulations to Insure tenure of office and prevent removals except for cause. By placing the appointment and discipline of the police In the hands of a nonpartisan board, responsible to the governor only, the dtvorce of the police and fire forces was expected to be assured. Experfence has demonstrated that this plan works out much better in theory than {o practice, Instead of producing stability and discipline, it has produced constant mutations and contentions within the police ranks and the selection of commissioners has become a foot ball of partisanship and political factional- ism. When in addition to the control of the police and fire departments the board is clothed with the power to license the liquor traffic, the difficulty of dealing with local conditions through a governor-appointed commission i8 in- tensified. The basic principle of the Slocum law is local option. Under that law every community in Nebraska enjoys the privilege of suppressing or regulat- ing the sale of liquor in conformity with local sentiment. In towns where public sentiment s gpposed to the traf- fic altogether, the people elect town boards known to be opposed to grant- ing any license; in towns where a ma- jority of the people favor the licensed sale of liquor, boards are elected favor- able to license under the restrictions fixed by law, This local option is absolutely destroyed where the com- munity has no volce In the selection of the board, but must depend upon the caprice of the governor for the regula- tion or suppression of the liquor traffic. While the supreme court has never directly passed on this point, the inter- vention of the governor in the exercise of licensing powers s in positive con- filet with the local option law, which applies to every community in the state alike. 8o long as the local option law is on the statute books, it is as unjust and in contravention of the spirit and letter of the law to except Omaha from its operation as it would be to force license upon towns whose people are opposed to It The issue s therefore squarely pre- sented In the coming election, whether the voters of Omaha favor leaving the control of their police comupilssion to the governor or whether they favor municipal home rule, /| Upon that issue every candidate for the legislature from Douglas county will have to take a stand, gE— A MURE EFFICIENT NATIONAL GUARD. In his address to the National Guard of New Jorsey, President Roosevelt pointed out how much the country must rely upon these citizen 'soldiers and therefore the Importance of having them well trained and disciplined and always in a condition of efficlency that would make them immediately avail- able for service in case of war. He, said that the regular army is and of) necessity must be so small that the great bulk of our troops must come, as in the past they have come, from the ranks of the people themselves, “and in forming those regiments the good done by the presence in them of men who have served falthfully in the National Guard capuot be overestimated.” He appealed to those he addressed to do thelr duty faithtully ag national guards- men and the appeal is of general appli- cation. Referring to the bill to promote the efficiency of the militia of the several states which passed the house of repre- sentatives, the president expressed the bellef that it will pass the senate at ts next session and gave assurance that he would sign it. This is a measure of very cousiderable lmportance from a military point of view. It con- templates glving the organized militia in the states a military standing which has been impossible for it to attain in the past. By the provisions of the bill the militia would become an. or- ganization thoroughly effective in case The effect would the country and to bring its organiza- tion, aymament and discipline into com- plete harmony and accord with that of the regular army. The Dbill provides that the militia shall be furnished by the United States government with up- to-date guns and equipment, which shall remain the property of the na- tional government available for use in time of war, Congress has the constitutional author- ity to organize, equip and discipline the militla, but has never yet exercised it in time of peace. It is belleved that the time is mow ripe for-such action. Representative Dick of the house com- mittee on military affairs, in a speech on the subject, sal “The safety of fHE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, JULY 27, 1902 and this force will in & short time doubtless reach 200,000, Of this num- ber it is belleved at least 150,000 would respond to a eall for duty. This would be amply sufficlent ander all contingen- cles which may reasonably be expected for the second line of defense and would give the country breathing time within which to organize and equip its vast unol ganized military resources.” It may be a very long time before the United States has another war, yet the expediency of having a well-trained and diseiplined Natlonal Guard will be gen- erally admitted, e———— A GRAVE SITUATION IN FRANCE. The new French ministry 1s con- fronted with a situation that threatens to have grave consequences. It grows out of the enfurcement of the law re- cently passed in France which requires the authorization of clerical schools by the government, there being many such schools throughout the country that have mnot complied with this require- ment. It appears that there are differ- ing Interpretations of certain sections of the law which were supposed to exempt from being closed the schools in which nuns are teachers. The prede- cessor of the present premier exempted such schools, but the head of the new ministry construes the law differently and insists that the schools be closed. The result s that an agitation has been started In behalf of the nuns en- gaged In the schools to be closed that menaces the peace and order of a num- ber of localities and may spread throughout the country. Rioting has taken place and the people at some points are manifesting a most deter- mined purpose to resist with force the order of the government for closing the unauthorized schools. In the provincial districts especlally there appears to be a general feeling of sympathy with the nuns and a deep resentment toward the government. Undoubtedly the law will be fully and generally enforced, for Premier Combes has firmly declared his policy and he has a strong majority of Parliament, elected when this issue was prominenf, to support him, but it is possible that there will be very serious trouble before the enforcement of the law is completed. S —— INDIANS ASSERTING THEIR RIGHTS. Down In Mississippl and South Caro- lina it is a common adage that “a nigger Has no rights that a white man is bound to respect.” The same idea has pre- valled to a greater or less extent in the region on both sides of the Rockies with regard to the Indian. In the on- ward march of civilization the Indian has counted for little more than the buffalo, the elk or the grizzly. The In- dlan has survived only in spots and the spots where he still subsists have been made happy hunting grounds for the rapacious trader and greedy speculator, The only considerable remnant of the aborigine in Nebraska is to be found on the Omaha and Winnebago reser- vations. That neighborhood has for years been infested by an unscrupulous gang of land sharks, who have operated in profitable Indlan land leases and speculative land sales with the conniv- ance of a very accommodating Indian agent with an India rubber conscience. But even an Indian may feel as sore as an ostrich when he is plucked, and when he does feel real sore he gives an awful roar. That is doubtless the condition of the Omaba tribe, which, at a general coun- cil held last Thursday, served notice upon the land sharks that it would assert jts rights and appeal to the gov- ernment for protection and redress. The resolutions adopted by the Omahas not only denounce the speculators, but openly present charges aguinst the agent, who is in league with them and has countenanced “highly respectable citizens” In the work of alluring ignor- ant and belpless Indians to dispose of thelr lands at inadequate prices. The systematic plucking of the Indians is not contined to the Omahas. The Winnebagoes have been the victlms of the land speculdtors to & much greater extent. The Omahas are reputed to be industrious, orderly and, in the main, sober people, and as nearly civilized as Indians living on a reservation can be, but the Winnebagoes are reputed to be dissipated, thriftless and generally de- moralized, having inherited all the vices of their own race and absorbed the vices of the white man. This lamentable condition, brought about through the lack of efticient moral supervision, has made them an easy prey for the covetous gang of land pirates who have & comumunity of In. terest in standing together to prevens a change In the management and su- pervision of the reservation. It Is to be hoped that the example set by the council of the Omahas will arouse the Winnebagoes to a consciousness of thelr rights and a determination to resist the wrongs being perpetrated upon them. Those who would be free, themselves wmust strike the blow. — e PROPUSED ANTI-TKUST CUNFERENCE. There has been recelved at the Btate department the Russian circular in which an international confereuce re- garding trusts 1s proposed, but It ap- pears to relate chiefly to the sugar bounty question as affecting the policy of the Russian governweut in dealing with the sugar industry of that country. ‘The claim of that government is that its system I8 not equivalent to am export bounty, as it bas been held to be by our government and by the Brussels sugar conference, and the effort of Rus- slu now seems to be directed to finding some way to counteract the decision the country in time of danger must de- pend upon the volunteer soldiers, It is the volunteer soldier who has fought the great battles of the country and our reliance must ever be on that branch ol the service. The present Natloual Guard of the staies aud tervitories ag- gregates about 115,000 officers and men. With Mberal appropriations by congress and a system of federal control and in- struction, the states also will be - duced to accord more liberal treatment adverse to its policy in this particular. The circular recelved at Washington was handed to the diplomatie repre- sentative of the United States at St Petersburg, but It is not regarded an invitation to this country to participate ia an international conference, should one be called, but intended simply for information. It is understood that only the countries which participated in the Brussels conference have had the Rus- slan circular addressed to thew us an invitation to an international meeting. At any raté the United States would not be likely to send delegates to such a conference, since they could not be given authority to bind our government to any treaty arrangements. This move of Russia I8 not, however, viewed with Indifference at Washington. There i said to be a strong feeling that the Russian government would like to head a movement in Europe to repel, or at any rate stay, the American com- mercial invasion and that her desire is partly anlmated by grievance against us for making the first charge against her sugar Industry as bounty-fed, thereby making it possible for most of the sugar-producing countries of Europe to damage her serlously at Brussels. It will be remembered that when our gov- ernment applied the countervailing duty to Russian sugar that government re- tallated by raising duties on our agri- cultural Implements, machinery and other manufactures, but this falled of the desired effect and it is not at all improbable that Ruussia would now like to bring about a general European ar- rangement hostile to American commer- cial interests. If such is her design It Is not at all probable that she will be able to carry it out. The ldea of a concerted movement by European countries against this country has been pretty well considered and with few excep- tions the statesmen and economists of Europe have pronounced it impractica- ble. Those countries may individually, as Russia has done, make tariff discrim- inations against the United States, but it is hardly possible for them to come to a common agreement In the matter, because of their own diverse Interests. e erehe—— WHOSE MEN ARE THEY?! Two years ago the republican congres- sional convention of the Second Ne- braska district authorized its nominee, David H. Mercer, to name the members of the committee charged with the con- duct of the campaign in this congres- slonal district. In compliance with the authority granted him by the conven- tion Mr. Mercer made the following se- lection: Thomas W. Blackburn, chair- man, Omaha; George Sabine, Omaba; John L. Carson, South Omaha; Lou F. Etter, S8outh Omaha; D. H. Kirschner, Bennington; W. Cook, Blair; Fred Clar- idge, Blair; J. R. Wilson, Papillion; Clarence E. Keys, Bellevue, Having conducted the congressional campaign to a successful issue, this com- mittee has no other function than to make provision for the momination of Mr. Mercer's successor by an apportion- ment of representation to the three re- spective counties that comprise the dis- trict, and fixing the time when the nom- ination of the candidate for the Fifty- eighth congress shall bq made, To all intents and purposes, However, Thomas W. Blackburn has arrogated to himself the powers of the whole com- mittee and eventually proposes to be the whole thing. The question that the republicans of this district have a right to ask fs, Whom does this committee leprugnn Is it Mr. Mercer's commit- tee, of I8 it a committee to represent the republican party of the district? Was this committee chosen to dominate and domineer the party in its, cholce of Mr. Mercer's successor, or was it not selected solely to manage the cam- paign for the republicans of this dis- trict and to provide for the nomination of Mercer's successor by a fair and im- partial choice of the majority of repub- lican voters? In every congressional district of this state nominating conventions were called weeks ago and nominations have been made. It certainly cannot be re- garded impertinent for The Bee to ask when the committee proposes to move and what it proposes to do In this dis- trict. Mr. Mercer has had the audacity to announce that the committee will act when he gets good and ready. Does he own the committee? Is he to be regarded as a life member from this district with the right to name his own successor, or does he clalm to represent the people of this district by Inher- itance? Do the members of this committee want to advertise themselves as jump- ing-jacks and puppets? Has not Mr. Mercer gone altogether too far in assum- Ing to carry the whole committee in Tom Blackburn's capacious hip pocket? The gala number issued last week by the Chicago Tribune to signalize its in- stallation In its magnificent new bulld- ing Is a fitting souvenir of a notable event In American journalism, The Tribune has long stood in the front rank among the great newspapers of the world, but only now finds itself suitably housed in a modern, up-to-date bullding, equipped with all the latest and Improved facilities for getting out a Twentleth century dally. Although it is difficult to see how this can con- tribute materially to the betterment of the paper, already a model of news- paper makinog, the Tribune is to be con- gratulated on its new home as much for the reading public so deeply in- debted to it as for itself. e It must be admitted without dissent that the Boers have behaved admirably since the peace terms were agreed upon with the British. Granting that they got more than they expected In the way of concessions, thelr discipline could not be better |llustrated than by their speedy execution of their part of the compact without serious lapses even by groups or individuals, much less by any large organized band of their people. The Boers seem determined to make the best of peace as soon as they possibly can Instead of sulking and playlug ugly as the temptation often leads. By this course they will cer- tainly add to the credit marks earned by them during the war. p e One of the points on which the repub- licans of Wisconsin take Issue with Benator Spoomer s the election of United States senators by direct popu- lar vote, which the senator has been actively opposing agalnst the wishes of f A majority of his cofistifuents. Senator Spooner may be and doubtless is sin- cere in his position, but in that he does not represent the sentiments of Wis- consin people, who have a right to have their views volced by their representa- tives. Whether he differs from the platform on the question of direct primary nominations and reform of state taxation Is not so important, be- cause those questions are not within the wscope of oaational legislation, whereas the anfendment of the federal constitution to permit of popular election of senators requires men In the senate in sympathy with the demand or at least not arbitrarily at cross with it in defiance of expressed declarations by the people at home, \ e — Cruelties of South Amerlcan Detrolt Journal. “Let's stop this war,” says Chile to Peru, “‘before someone falls down and gots hurt.” War. The Latest War Engine, 8t. Paul Globe. The automobile, deadly contrivance, holds the record up to date, even as against the airship. Democratic Mixed Drinks. Atlanta Constitution. The rivalry for the democratic speaker- ship of the next house i3 sald to lie be- tween Virginia May and a Texas high Ball. No Rest for n President. Chicago Inter Ocean. There is soma reason to belleve that the president's frionds may succeed in inducing him to return to Washington in order to secure a much needed rest. Wanted—A New Press Agent. Utlca Press. Where is Tracy? Has he had fun enough? Can’t he think of any more adventu are worth while? Perhaps his pre bas gone on a vacation or is busy invent- ing new stories. Another Water Chicazo Record-Herald. Compulsory baths at the Chicago muniel- pal lodging houses have served to materi- ally reduce the number of vagrants in this clty. Why not have a little municipal lodg- ing house, well equipped with tubs, on every corner. Give Us the Good 014 Names. Indlanapolls News. Two new warships are to be named Lou- is'ana and Connecticut. It is, perbaps, fit- ting that all the states should be repre- sented by names in the mew navy, but it will be fine when the source of nomenclature is exhausted and the chance will come to revive some of the historic names, such as Constitution, Old Ironeides, etc. T are namés that should never be allowed to die. —_—— As to Respectable Jury Hribers. Chicago Chronicle, There Is some reason to doubt the com- plete success of the bar association's plan to cure justice shop evils by fequiring all lawyers in justice courts to be members of the bar, It may be remembered that the lawyers recently convicted of bribing a justice court jury were members of the bar in good standing. It is by no means the pettifogging shyster who is the most dan. gerous enemy of justice. Everybody knows what to expeét of him. When your highly respectable practitioner goes a-bribing peo- ple don’t expect it—though they very well might. How Mining Millionaires Are Made. Minneapolls Times. A Washington man stumbled over a rock and his foot scraped the moss from the cor- ner of a vein of ore worth many millions. It yeu will read your little history Yooks you will find that all the great mineral discov- eries have been made in some such man- ner. Sometimes it was a dog chasing a rab- bit, pometimes a carele: a cliff and pulling a b out by the roots, sometimes a Rocky mountain Willlam goat fleeing from its pursuers and dislodging a boulder. Of course mines have been dis- covered by men who were looking for min- eral in a practical and scientific way, but you bave not heard so much about them until their stocks were listed. COMMERCIALIZED EVANGELISM. Pointed Protests Against O. O. Meth n Chureh Comverts. ‘Washington Post. The Chicago Tribune is authority for the statement that in the northern part of Iliinols there an evangelist going about from church to church on these terms: *“Forty dollars & week and fifty conver- slons guaranteed or money refunded.” That is quite the reverse of creditable to the northern part of Illinols. Although shameful than the ern section of that state, commonly called Egypt, it evidences the existence of con- ditions that are quite incompatible with & high degree of Christlan eivilization. One could easily understand that a man with an fll-balanced mind, a poor creature who ought to be in a sanitarium, might congelve of that plan for getting cash and notoriety. There are weaklings, cranks and frauds in all professions, the min- istry belng no more exempt than law, medicine, literature or art. Therefore it would not be in the least surprising if in any well-regulated community some has brained preacher should start out carry- ing & banner with the strange device, “Forty dollars a week and fifty conver- slons guaranteed, or money refunded.” But what sort of peopl they among whom such a sacrilegious creature finds encouragement ? To what denomination do the churches belong that are open to this profsnation of Christianity? If it were pessible to bring religion into con- tempt, that ult would be produced by this performance. It is witless and with- out excuse. The Founder of Christianity gave His ftollowers an example to be followed In & case like this. He drove the traders out of the temple with & whip of small cords— & cat-o’-nine-tails—and He “overtbrew the tables of the money changers and the seats of tbhem that sold doves.” There ought to be emough of Christianity in ost any lllinols community to insure s ducking or & e on a fence rail to any such offen inst decency ™ his so-called ev: And any prescher who opens his church and loans his pul- pit to such a burlesque on religion ought to be set to hoelng corn, driving mules or cutting fodder by hand. Such a preacher has not intellect enough to qualify him for those higher branches of agricultural labor in which costly machines are em. ployed, and the mule is the only member of the equine family to whose manage- ment be Is It is not o are proselytifig in the section has openings for offers conversions at 80 eent: ineness guaranteed or money refunded. Did anybody ever hear of & Mormon who dared to insult Christianity man falling over | SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT, New York World: Fot weather earned & benediction in northern Michigan by re- dueing o sermon to twent; en words. Boston Globe: The weekly newspaper out in Ilinois that has begun the publica- tion of the bible as a serial is probably act- ing on the theory that much of it will be Dews to many people. Cleveland Plain Dealer: It is clalmed that Bishop Potter doesn't belleve in long engagements. Luckily, all the surround- ing circumstances in his own case are fa- vorable to his view of the subject. Chieago Record-Herald: A Pana (I11) paper has begun printing the bible as A serial story. If it hopes by this plan to work up a boom fim its circulation it is probably {n for a sad disappolntment, Boston Transcript: The ministers who went with the officers of the law to arrest in a Sunday game of base bail a City were greatly lacking In diplomacy. Thelr efforts should have been | limited to arousing the moral conscious- ness of the people to a point where any un- worthy use of Sunday would not be toler- ated. If they falled In this method they could not hope to galn anything In the struggle for more spiritual ideals among the people by mixing up in the work of the police. The Man of Nazareth and His disciples understood this, and beyond re- moving Intruders from the temple none of them ever attempted to go beyond an ear- nest effort to awaken the spiritual natures of mean. FAMOUS POLISH CARDINAL. Prominent Part Played hy Ledochows aki in the Contest with Nixmarck. New York Sun, For a time Cardinal Ledochowski, who bas just 4ied in Rome, was a prominent and plcturesque figure in European poli- tics. A Pole, appointed to the archbishop- ric of Posen-Gnesen at Pruss! request in order to conciliate the Poll population, he became the chief opponent of Bi in the long struggle between the state and the Catholic church that s known even out of Germany as the Kulturkampf, Ledo- chowskl's uncompromising opposition brought on him a sentence of two years in Jall, which he served. He was made a cardinal by Pius IX. while in prison. The fight he made 1s part of German history. After his release he went to Rome and filled many high positions. At his death he ‘was the senior cardinal priest and prefect of the congregation for the propagation of the faith. He was a leader of the ulti conservative party among the cardin: and opposed to all concessions to the mod- ern spirit. A noble by birth, placed early in high office In the church, engaged in a fight for the church's existence, his ideas were paturally like those of the great pre- lates of bygone days, who were temporal lords as well. Leo XIII. has now survived all the car- dinals appointed by Plus IX save two, Cardinals Oreglia di Santo Stefano and Parocchi arc the only men left who en- tered with him the conclave of 1878, INSURANCE GAMBLING, Demoralizing Character of Policles Lives of Noted Personages. Milwaukee Wisconsin. The English custom of insuring the lives of persons without their comsent, which was brought into gemeral notice In conneec- tion with the preparations for the coro- nation and the sudden f{llness of the king, is undergoing discussion from an ethical standpoint, In this country such insurance would be impracticable, by reason of the Insistence by the American companies upon & medical examination of the person to bo insured as a condition precedent to the granting of a policy upon his life. In Bogland, however, this precaution s fre- quently waived. Not only haye English companies sold’ numerous policles to the general public insuring the life of the sov- erelgn, but, according to current reports, London stock brokers were recently granted policles on the life of an American eitizen, J. Plerpont Morgan, on their claim that they had an insurable interest in his life consequent upon financial transactions in which they and he were jointly engaged, and which would be injuriously affected by his death. It is concelved that grave temptations to erime might arise from the widespread ownership of policles contingent upon an individual's life. As arson is belleved to be frequently perpetrated for the purpose of collecting insurance, so murder, it Is gued, might be attempted where a simil incentive for galn is permitted to exist. Case and Comment, a well known publi- eation devoted to legal literature, says that the origin of insurance on the life of a sov- erelgn was & relic of the feudal system— the ligbllity of the tenant under that s tem to pay, in addition to his annual tribute to the lord, a fine on the lord's death for the privilege of continuing the tenure. This custom, in course of time, came to be modified so as to require the payment of the fine on the death, not of the lord, but of some prominent person, such as the sovereign, whose death would be a matter of public knowledge. The amount of the fine might be a considerable burden. Hence arose the practice on the part of the temant of taking in: the life of the soverelgn or other the event of whose death the fine would become payable. The principal thus estab- Ilished has graduslly extended, so that tradesmen, under large expense In prepar- ing for King Edward's coronation, and con- templating the risk of heavy loss in case of his fallure to survive for the ceremony, took imsurance on his life by way of pro- tection. The exact nature of these policies, Case and Comment says, has not been clearly d. They have been spoken of as Insurance on the king's life, but they have also been spoken of as policles for the season’s profits of the tradesmen taking the insurance. A copy of one of the poll- cles issued on the life of Mr, Morgan last mmer, however, shows that it was a straight contract for the payment of a specific sum of money, to the Insurer on the death of Mr. Morgan. The English courts, it is asserted, have never been called upon to sustain policles of this kind. In effect such policies are a wager botween the company and the In- surer—a gamble pure and simple. In most states of the American ‘union there is a statutory provision by which an elestor loses his right to vote at an eloction If he has bet on the redult, the presumption being that bhis desire to win the bet would influence his action in voting more than bis instinct of patriotism. Everywhere tho ocourts hold that gambling contracts are ot enforeible by suits at law, Case and Com- ment holds that whero the risk assumed by & company issulng to an insurer a policy on apother person’s life covers merely the actusl financial loss that the insurer would suffer by reason of the person's death, and does mot cover a certain sum of money, which might exceed that loss, such policles aftord no inducement to do harm, except, possibly, with the purpose of giving talse proof of losses not actually suffered. Buch contracts, on the other hand, as are re- ported to be contingent on Mr. Morgan's death, it rightly promoumces utterly in con- filet with public palicy, and it observes that when policies of this character come before the courts they will certainly be con- demped. ™ Providence Telegram. Jobu W. Mackay's demise empbasizes the democracy of death. ILA.l'l" FROM RAM'S UORN. ‘The throne of grace Is not & bargein ceuns ter. Deep digging must go bofors Ligh bdulld. Ing. The love Is not faultless that fa'ters at & fault. Trisls are deaverly teachers In o guise. The stream of life risos mot abcve Its source. Culture 1s mot character, but chzracier is culture. There are no sins that & man way Leep to himself. When a man people's devil, Some mon march to hell to the thue of heavenly tunes. Few ever intend to take more thsn a tiny taste of sin. The heart within to resist evil is batter than a fence without, The only thing that comes to the mam who waits I8 the dust from the procession. The problem is not to get education out of politics so much as to got edueation into the politicians. A woman may have opened the deor to sin h‘! man gave it the glad hand as soon as he got home, —_— PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE, hy s own god he le other Baron Yanosuka Iwasaki, the richest mer- chant of Japan, has started on a trip around the world. He is now on his way to Bu- ropo and will spend a few months there before coming to America. Lord Edmund Talbot, whe becomes heir presumptive to the dukedom of Norfelk through the death of the affiicted earl of Arundel, Is the conservative member for the Chichester division of Bussex. Lily Langtry will visit Nevada some time this year to look after the development of valuable mining property she owns there. Sh sald to own one of the richest gold ledges ever found {n the west, Joseph Hodges Choate has mever held a 'ved as president of the New York Constitutional convention in 1894, Marshall Fleld of Chicago is heading & movement to colonize the number! doned farms of New England with farmers and mechanics from the old world. Soveral railroads are also interested in the pro- Ject. A slab has been fixed to the front of the house where Cecil. Rhodes was born at Bishop's Stortford, bearing the Inseription: “The Rt. Hon. Cecil John Rhodes, the founder of Rhodesia, was born in the room within, July 5, 1863." Mme. Berphardt in referring to the poor salaries pald by the Theater Francalse sald the other day: ‘“‘Other theaters keep abreast of the times, but not the Franeaise. I lost 500 francs a day by ying there for my last year in the place. Sir Ernest ‘Cassell, whom Lord Salisbury s sald to have declined to malke a peer, though urgently requested by King Miward to do so, has given largely to charity cs- pecially to aid in medical investigationa, He is a self-made man, having advancsd from a clerk to a high position in finance, He had a good deal to do with the Inte Baron De Hirsch and found the comnection quite profitable, SAID IN FUN, Playwright—-My play is & clean anager—Well, I'll t it, but I don't know' Bow the bublio Wil 'stand. it. Boston Globe: “How will you (n your \H qu.l’ldedtlht‘lllhnwbu 3 ! ap] e disagreeal patron. And the barber cut on. Backporch—Heered th' roke inter Josh ast night eat every in th' pantr Mrs. Backporch—Burglars, eh? I'll bet it wuz some o' them half-starved summer boarders from Hank Brown's Place. Catholle Puttl confounded thin, rd and Time: away your old y're queer looking i owing away with it. Nir Kute—Camphor balls? Not much! Th s are live moths. 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