Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 14, 1902, Page 19

- WHERE BAS-BEENS FLOCK Washington the Magnet for Statesmen Out of Favor at Home, TYPES OF STATESMEN OUT OF A JOB | | fourtn Hotel Were obbles ¥ Once The victims of the vicissitudes of fortune embrace men in all the avenues of lite, pro- fessional, mercantile and political. The most Interesting, and, indeed, instructive from the point of view that “the gremtest study of mankind {s man” is the fallen statesman—not fallen in the sense of a tevolution of power, but in the more pathetic finale of a revolution of cireum- Sthnces, personal to the Individual him- aif and involving neither party nor prinei- Pples. Washington is the harbor of this flotsai and jetsam, relates the Washington Post. The nation's capftal first welcomed the budding statesman, who in all the am- bitious and exalted spirit of the selected | d “favorite mon" came credentaled by & admiring constituency ‘to the halls of Oongress, and Washington, when the afore- ®ald admiring constituency has evem for- gotten that this one-time “favorite son" ever existed, affords him a refuge and a substantial existence as & member of the great proletariat. The evolution of the statesman from the particular sphere of influence where he had both local habitation and a name” to the national legislature is momotonous in its sameness, and it is only in the ending that the lines are plaintively shadow- graphed, showing the point of demarkation between the fortunate and the submerged. Business fallures, however disastrous, are ellminated, or, indeed, devold of that pathos | which spontaneously and naturally springs | to the human breast on beholding the skele- tomized dignity with which the former statesman struts through the corridors of & Botel to his seat in the lobby which he has kept free from dust by an admirable regularity of habit. The number of submerged ex-statesmen in the nation's capital is not large in com- parison to the many who have strutted their briet hour on the floors of congress and returned to the bosoms of their con- stituencies, with less exalted spirits, per- h-‘r , but certainly wiser and more practi- cal conmclusions. Numerically speaking, however, they are surprisingly many, and embrace one-time well known names. How do they live, and what occupations do they follow? Answers to these interrogatories must naturjlly develop In the narrative of their devolution from Caplitol Hill to the Valley of Impecuniosity, where those allke who have never climbed the mount and those who have lost their footing and rolled down live in the unsympathetic fellowship of_consclous disappointment or philoso- phical resignation. Meteoric Career Begins. Helecting & type to fllustrate the text ts dificult only iu the sense that tne retro- gression varies and that each individual reached the valley by a different route. Bome made a toboggan slide of the matter, while others rolled down more deliberately, “oft pausing on the steep descent.” A member of this latter class, who may be encountered nightly at his favorite hotel— for be it remembered these ex-statesmen have not only ‘their preferred chairs, but their particular hotel—was some twenty years ago a practicing attorney in the county seat of his native county and state. BAchsed on a farm, with numerous brothers and sisters, he 1is selected by unanimous consent of.the famlly for a profession. His indisposition to work on the farm is accepted as an additional indication of his ingellectual superiority, and his native abil- ity to make the ‘‘worser m the better part” whenever he is in a minority in the domestic economy of the family stamps him a8 a genius, from the maternal point of view. Some heavy sacrifices are required of the family to forward him in his career. But he more than compensates its members by the brilllancy with which he forges ahead of all competitors and rivals until he is the acknowledged head of the bar and in the enjoyment of a lucrative practice. In the natural order of evolution he fills the offices of county prosecutor and district Judge. AL what Is considered a mature age, the crowning glory of representative in con- gress of bis district is conferred, and he enters the natlonal capital with the ey of his constituency expectantly fixed upon him as the coming man, the rising sum Whose refulgent rays would {llume if not immortalize the district which had the In- telligence and sagacity to select him as the “favorite son.” The district has seiected many “favorite sons” who turned out in- @tfterently, but this particular district any more than similar ones is never weary of welectin, favorite sons.” And it is because of this almost universal penchant of dis- triets that the subject in hand, after two terms, in which he falls to secure positions of emclument and trust for divers and sun- dry influential homemade politicial is de- feated for a third nomination. But he has become acquainted during - AT THE TOP. . It is a laudable ambition to reach the top of the ladder of success. But many wnwhwhuthe rung his position a torment of a triumph. He has § L 4 B £ i !_« ] - i | Right Rev. | death of Aréhbishop Hughes | ereated cardinal priest of the Holy Roman THE OMAHA DA ILY B New York’s Archdiocese | When Right Rev. John M. Farley assumes the duties of archbishop of New York, re- Iates the New York Tribune, he will be the to occupy that office. The first bishop of the, diocese of New York was R. Luke Concanen, who was consecrated on April 24, 1808. He was suc- ceeded by Right Rev. John Comnolly on November 6, 1814. Bishop John Dubois was his euccessor, assuming the high office on October 29, 1826. On January 7. 1838, Rev. Dr. Jobn Hughes was consecrated titular biehop of Basileopolis and coadjutor to the bishop of New York. He succeeded to the see of New York on December 20, 1842 Bight years later he was rdised to the dignity of archbishop. The Catholic com- munity bad increased rapidly and when the rchdiocese was created, on July 19, 1850, the act was looked upon as a proper recog- nition of the fmportance of the* Catholic church. Archbishop Hughes was a man of marked bility and exerted a great influence for 800d on the people whose spiritual welfare was placed in his keeping, and when he dled, on June 3, 1864, he was sincerely mourned by the whole community. He was succeeded by Rev. Dr. John McCloskey, | who had been the coadjutor to the bishop of New York. In 1847 he was translated | to the see of Albany and came from Albany to assume the place made vacant by the He was church on March 15, 1875, under the title of Sancta Maria supra Minervam. He died on October 10, 1885, and was succeeded by Rev. Dr. Michael Augustine Corrigan. The third archbishop was consecrated bishop of Newark, N. J., in May, 1873, and promoted to the archiepiscopal see of Petra and made coadjutor to Cardinal McCloskey, with the right of succession, on October 1, 1880. He succeeded to the see of New York on October 10, 1885, and was made assistant at the pontifical throme on April 19, 1897 He died on May 5, 1902, and it was freely predicted at that time that the fourth arch- bishop would be the able coadjutor, Bishop Farley, who had demonstrated that he wi not only a learned churchman and a cap: Sky Limit Poker | “There was & poker game out In my town & while back that might have forced a good many of us to smoke col pipes until the beginning of snow time If it hadn't turned out the way it did,” remarked an alderman of & western city, quoted by the New York Bum. “A pretty fair-sized percent of the downtown population was more or less mixed up in the outcome of the show-down, and the number of pikers who stood to go broke was remarkabie. “The game started between a quartet of newspaper men—night police reporters. They'd been in the babit of starting a small game every night, after the bulk of their work was done, in the room set aside for newspaper men at police headquarters. They didn’t hurt each other much in these games, although once in a while one of them, when the limit had been recklessly ralsed around pay day to as high as a quarter, succeeded in annexing most of the wages of the other thrze. There wasn't more than $10 among the four of them on this night, though, and the game drifted along without any tional plays for an hodr or so. Then Charlie Caldwell—which is close enough to the police reporter's name—opened a jackpot for 10 cents, and the only man in the bunch who stayed was George Carter—which is a eufficiently close stab to his real name. . “Caldwell's hand shook a little when he surveyed his_cards, for he never was a lcensed poker player, being unable to con: trol his facial expression and conduct at eritical points of the game. And Carter, who in & game of poker generally exhibited the countenance of a cigar store Indian, looked a bit flustered himself when he scanned the five in his bunch. The two players who had dropped out looked at him with some curiosity. “Both stood pat, and then, by 10-cent bounds—a dime being the limit—they both bet all the money they had. Then they each borrowed all of the money that the pair of dead ones—the two who had dropped out—possessed, each man getting half, share and share alike. Then they bet that. When it came time for a show-down Caldwell said to Carter “‘Charles, I've got & hand here that's warth more than the little coln we've got to bet tonight. Is that the way you look upon your fistful?" “ Precisely,’ replied Carter. ““Well,' sald Caldwell, ‘what's the mat- ter with both of us sealing our hands up his two terms with the high and mighty. He cultivates this acqualntance, too, to such effect that after hanging around the usual limit he receives a consular appoint- ment to some tropical climate, where epi- demics are of no commerclal value and anybody can have ome for the asking, and sometimes has it forced upen him to dem- onstrate the hospitality of the country. / Becomes a Comsul. It should be stated that during his con- gressional terms he was so impressed with the dignity, If not the gravity of his rep- resentative character, that he was largely in debt at the end of his services and the consulate is, therefore, most welcome. ilis wife went back to their former home until he got settied In the consulate and made sultable arrangements for her reception. His reception on entering the forelgn har- bor sends his blood coursing through his arteries. The American man-o'-war fires seventeen guns in his homor and the forts of the harbor join in the salute. As his cutter passes the American cruiser the ship is dressed und the bluejackots man the yards. The foreign dignitaries receive him with all the pomp and circumstance due his exalted position. All these inspiring details he minutely transmits to the county paper and his wife is a proud, if underfed, woman, the envy of her neighbors. / Time rolls on, as the novelist desirous of epitomising centuries to bring his plot to & conclusion is forced to observe, and this time a revolution of power occurs, whereby another comsul enters the harbor amid the firing of salutes and the protanity of his predecessor. Home or Washington is now the alternative. At home he Is forgotten. In Washington he can find & variety of oo- cupatiors which a gentleman, an ex-judge, ex-congressman and ex-United States consul can turn his hand to w.thout excit- ing even the comments of the poorest pald department clerk. His mew unofficial life in Washington begins. He “devolutes” from claim at- torney to office hack, all the time sup- ported by the hope of another consular ap- polntment or “something equally as good.” He mars, however, his usefulness for office work with the attention he commands in detalling his experiences abroad. How he crdered the American man-o'-war A bilator to proceed to a certaln port and ‘and marives because t| uative goverament 4ad offended the dignity of an American citizen. Tales like these capiivate the ble spiritual leader, sagacious man of affairs but & wise and The atchbishop of New York's duties are such that he must be possessed of more than ordinary executive ability to be suc- cesstul, because all Roman Catholic church affairs of importance are referred to him and no final action can be taken wthout his approval. The district over which he has jurisdiction consists of the boroughs of Manhattan, the Bronx and Richmond, and the counties of Dutchess, Orange, Rock land, Sullivan, Ulster and Westchester and the Pahama islands. The territory covers 4717 square miles in the United States and. with the Bahama islands, is 9,183 square miles in extent. There are 276 churches, of which 120 are in cities and 156 in the country. There are a'so 156 chapels and over these 716 priests preside. Of these 518 are secular and 198 regularly ordained priests. These churches and chapels are maintained for the ac- commodation of 1,200,000 Catholics. There are alfo ia the archbishopric thirty con vents, twenty wunities of men and thirty-four communities of women. For the accommodation of boys there are fifty- nine parcchial schools, where the attend- ance last year was 19,267, and for girls there are sixty parochial schools, with an tendance of 21,784, These schools are all in this city, but there are aiso seventy- one parcchial schocls outside of New York, in which 3,007 boys and 4,794 girls recefved instructicn last year. In all there are about 72,000 young people under Catholic church care in the archbishopric, Among the institutions over which the archbishop, by virtue of his office. presides. ere cne iheclogical seminary, six orphan asylums, one Infant asylum, twenty-six in- dustrial and reform schools, Af.ecn hospi- tals, three bomes for aged, five immigrant homcs, four day nurseries and two schools for deaf mutes. The archbishop of New York is also the Meiropolitan of the Prov- ince of New York, which includes the whole states of New York and New Jersey. As metropolitan the archbishop acts as arbi- trator in dlsputes between priests and bish- ops. There are eight bishops in the Prov- in envelopes and leaving them here on the table, in the custody of these fellows, while we go out and gather in more coin? I don’t mind telling you that I've got you beat to a standstill, but you are acting In such a eassy way In coming back at me that I don't feel much like going light on you.' ‘ “‘Don’t you let a little thing like that worry you,' replied Carter. ‘I've been ploughing around trylng to get om your trail for a proper killing for some time past, and now that I've got you In the trench, I'm going to throw the clods on top of you. “Bo the two hands were duly sealed up and Caldwell and Carter went their re- spective ways to get money. Each got $50 and they came back and bet that without opening the envelopes. “ ‘Do you want to make it a call?’ Carter asked then, ‘or do you want to impoverish your family by waiting until the morning end getting another bundle on that mess of yours, with the limit taken off ‘That’s just what I was about to sug- gest,’ sald Caldwell. ‘8o they abandoned the game for the night, each man depositing his hand, still sealed up In its envelope, with the police sergeant on duty, the name of each man on the envelope containing his hand. ““Now, all of this happened without any- body knowing anything about it except the four players who had started the game. But the next day the whole city department was next. Caldwell came to me and told me, after asking me to pass my word that I wouldn’t give It away, what his hand con- talned, and sald that if I wanted to make a little side bet on it there was a book run- ping on the outcome at one of the cafes patronized by city officlals. I went there, and, sure enough, there was a regular betting game going on as to the relative merits of Caldwell's and Carter's hands. rter had put his friends next to what he had in his hand, after exacting from them the promise that they wouldn't give away its make-up, and the Carter party looked every bit as confident as the Cald- well party. Now, the Caldwell hand wi almost unbeatable and I took that end of it to a much larger extent than I'd care tuents know, although they aren't very finical in these matters, at that. I just played Caldwell for a world- beater on that hand of his and'got even young seriveners in the law office, but the members of the fin: find them ‘“‘non-pro- " and the ex-statesman, consul, eto., 1s courteously frozem out. Business enterprises next claim his at- ention, and as Washington is crowded with hot-air” artists, he is kept quite busy, and bis stories command a premium. He ultimately strikes bard pan and faces the tnevitable. No consuiship, no assigment from the congressional or national com- mittee to stump the country, mo clients in claim business, and a few dollars only in his bank account. His wife comes on, and, fortunately, being several years his junfor, has a clearer view of things, having more emergy and practical common sense than the dignified wreck she was wont to worship. They compromise their dif- terent points of view by the wife starting & genteel boarding house for government clerks. The ex-statesman sinks below the sur- face {n the mew business firm of wife and self. His time is profitably spent in warm- ing his favorite seat in the hotel lobby and deciding momentous questions on the science of government ‘for the “rounders” | of the caravansary who congregate nightly in winter months and doze quietly the sul- try afternoons of summer in the cool cor- ridors of the hotel. entially as “judge” or “gemeral” and as be expectorates the tobacco juice into the generous cuspldor thoughtfully provided by the hotel management, his cracked but still authoritative voice s heard explaining, premising and emphasizing. ““When I sat in the house fer — district of my native state,” or I “when I was representing my government in Terra del Fuego.” And so he ends his days until the final summons, Bis best friend the little wife who is ladling out hash in probably a third or fifth- rate boarding house, and his associates the “chalr warmers.” who have never been permitted to forget th ence due a man who has sat upon the bench, legislated tor the country and raised his flag over & con- sulate amid the boaming of guns and the acclamation of the populace. Plenty of Types. Are there many such “wrecks of former greatness” in the national capital? The answer is—scores, hundreds, although, of course, not mecessarily ex-congressmen. The broken capitalist, the reduced planter, the ex-state supreme court judge, the ex- state legisiators, the inventor whe bas ex- peaded an indepeadeat fortupe o8 some ‘They address him deter- | The Fourth Archbishop and His Responsibilities. ince of New York, six in the state of New York and two in New Jersey Bishop Farley, who was the unanimous choice of the priests and bishops of the archdiocese for the important office through which these varjous institutions are man- aged and directed, was born in Ireland on April 20, 1842. He attended St. Marcartan's college in Ireland and when he came to this country as a youth continued his studies at St. John's college, Fordham, and at St. Joseph's seminary, in Troy. After an advanced course in the American college at Rome he was ordained In that city on June 11, 1870, and the same year assumed the duties of rector of St. Peter's, New Brighton, Staten Island, where he remained two years. His worth was recognized by Archbishop McCloskey, who chose him as his private secretary in 1872, and he re- tained that office twelve years, in which time he bad many opportunities to study the requirements for the position to which he has been called. In 1884 the pope con- ferred on him the honorary position of private chamberlain with the title of mon- signor, and in 1891 the next great honor came to him fn the form of an appointment as vicar general of the archdlocese of New York. He was advanced to the place of domestic prelate to the pope in 1892 and was made prothonotary apostolic in 1895. On December 21, 1805, he was consecrated titular bishop of Zeugma. The new archbishop is democratic In his manner of life, easily approached and thor- oughly in sympathy with all movements for the betterment of the city and the people. He bas worked hard and enthusiastically in the cause of charity and the men who have been associated with him always found him a wise counsellor. whose services could always be depended upon. The added dignity will sit lightly Bishop Farley. whose courtly manner marks him a prince of the church. He is an eloguent preacher, has always been a close student and those who know him best say that he will fill the high place with dignity and In every way justify the con- fidence reposed in him by his fellow priests and by the pope. upon Police Reportets Stir Up a Whele City. money from the councilmen, police official and city employes who took the Carter end of it. “That's the way the betting went—even money and take your pick—and every man t6 whom Caldwell and Carter had revealed his hand kept his word and held onto the secret of the hand he knew about. “During the day the word about those two hands got all around town among sporting men, politicians and all sorts of people in- clined to take a chance, and I'd be afraid to state just how much money must have been put up on the result. Both Caldwell and Carter had dug up $300 or $400 aplece to bet on their respective hands and the sealed hands were to be opened publicly in the cafe where the betting was going on that night. “BEvery man interested in the opening of the two envelopes was on hand that night when the result was to be made known. At the appointed time Caldwell and Carter stepped to the table whereon the two sealed envelopes rested, and Caldwell, producing a five-dollar bill, laid it down and said: “‘Five more." “Carter produced his five and sald: ‘I call you.' “All of us Caldwellites were on Cald- well's side of the table and we weren't particularly excited when the envelope was opened, for we know that Caldwell’s hand was a sequence flush of hearts, from nine to king. But the Carter gang, on the other side of the table, set up a yell as the cards were laid on the table one after another. “At first, so great was their shouting, we thought we were beat, but when we heard the yell, ‘It's & stand-off,’ we knew that we'd be able to draw down our money, any- way. The cat was out of the bag before Carter's envelope was opened and we knew that he had a sequence flush of diamonds, trom nine to king. “Of course the usual number of croakers, who always malntain that one suit In a case like that beats another, tried to get in their work, but it didn’t go. All of the purses were split and the game was declared no contest. “That was probably the biggest poker game, In point of the number of men en- _gaged In it, ever played in this country, and perhaps as much money was wagered on the outcome of that showdown as ever was skated to the center of the baize in the biggest of Missisaippl river poker games.” figment of his brain, and the other human flotsam and jetsam who slternate on the hotel chairs and compose the audience of the ex-statesman. Every fair sized city has an example or two of the ex-statesman, such as is above described, but where other cities have two or half a dozen the capital of the nation | has them by the dozen, the score and the bundreds. Here Is a tall, shabby, but military looking man of 70. He is living, no one knows how, on a small pension. Forty years ago, when scarcely 30 years of age, he wore the stars of a brigadier general. | He is outranked in the hotel lobby, how- ever, by the portly and dignified looking gray-headed man in store clothes and la season’s straw hat who eat on the bench as supreme judge of his native state and was president of its constitutional comvention, subsequently coming to congress after missing an election as United States senator by a defection of two votes. He rents a small room, which he makes both study and bedroom. He spends hours each day writing on the sheets of hotel paper he carries off, and s neither offended nor aggrieved when the rejected articles are returned to him from magasines and newspapers. His one forethought or pro- vision s entered on the problem of secur- ing postage etamps for his future con- tributions. Here Is another ex-representative In the | real estate busiess without an office or clientele. He Is fairly well acquainted and manages occasionally to effect a trade, & sale or an introduction netting him & com- mission. And here is another who makes | himselt agreeable to a club house manage- ment. He feels nelther envy nor regret at bis financial and social disqualification from membership in the club, but is satisfied with the protection of his sympathetic patron or patrons. His seif-respect 18 ad- mirable and the gentleman is stamped upon his bearing, conversation and actioms. But there is & rift in the clouds, in the lines and fortunes of the ex-statesmen | domiclled in Washington, as there is & | sllver lining to the most somber clouds | which sometimes overshadow the just and the unjust, the fortunate and those who bave fallen by the wayside. There are a few ex-statesmen who have found their Eldorado in the Capital City. Judicious fn- vestments in real estate have netted for- tunes to several, while a few others have boldly challenged the fickle jade aad “won out” in other business lines. i RULER OF FRENCH REPUBLIC Exacting Duties and Diversions of Presi- dent Leubet of France. ENTHUSIASTIC SPORTSMAN WITH A GUN The Gallle Chief Executive and the Peasants He Meets on His Shoot- ing Expeditions—His “Darby Joan” Life. * (Copyright, 1902, by Stephen Austin.) President Roosevelt might very probably dislike the comparison, but it is the fact that his “dear Brother of France'—to adopt the royal style—is as enthusiastic a hunter as himself. The two presidents of the two great republics of the world are nimrods, both. There's a difference, of course; a differ- ence depending upon the vastly dissimilar nature of the two countrie: By the side ot the “big game” exploits of President Roosevelt, “Papa Emile” has the alr of a small boy pelting stones at garden spar- rows from a catapult. He has not at his disposal the vast spaces teeming with su- pert, wild life that Teddy made his own in his early days. But in his little way, Loubet is just as enthusiastic a slayer. He glories in {t—and does it right well. From early August Wil midwinter Presi- dent Loubet rests from state ceremony and state work and foots it daily over miles of forest and plain, dealing d truction to the game of all kinds In which the state preserves are so rich. At this moment his gun is certainly cracking persistently at Rambouillet or Marly, once the demesnes of the kings of France, mow the happy hunting grounds of the democratic presis dents of the third republic. Both these classic spots are within thirty miles of Paris. President Loubet could hang his rifle on its nail and appear duly frock-coated and top-hatted at the Elysee in a couple of hours If he suddenly recelved mews that Deroulede was march- ing on the capital across the Spanish bor- der to establish his universal-suffrage re- public—a highly unlikely contingency. As a matter of fact, the president does run up to Faris every now and then on a sur- prise visit and keeps the telephone wires Bot with summonses to ministers and ad- ministrators to present reports and give him the news of the day. Rifle in Hand, Pipe But for the most part he is buried these days in the heart of his forests, rifie in bhand, pipe in mouth and fonocent joy in his peasant soul. Clad in an old blue velvet coat, with his stout yellow gaiters drawn tight over the solid square-toed, heavily nailed shoes, a dilapidated, e y-fitting soft bat thrown In plcturesque disorder on his head, he looks more Ilke & benevolent poacher than & president bound normally by a rigld protocol. When he leaves Paris he elips off his presidency and becomes again the peasant of Montelimar. At first ‘these slmple ways mightily dis- ple-sed the people of France. They had Al ilked his predecessor, President Faure, for his haughty aristocratic or seignorial manner. for the stiff splendor and ltll.r with which he loved to surround mmnfiu. “golng to bed,” as the Parisians sald, “to the sound of trumpets.”” But the change wi too sudden. Loubet was blamed for an “affected simplicity” where Faure had been ridiculed for his pomp and parade. After two years and a half, the “‘peas: nt: of Montelimar' has become Papa Loubet and the smiling, white-haired old gentle- man has found his way personally right to the hearts of the people. Even in Paris, where the mass is distinctly anti-minis terial, Loubet is always welcomed enthl- siastically; in the country he s adored. For mileé round Rambouillet the people never tire bt telling stories about his good- natured familiarity. In one cottage he hfls‘ often invited himself to take a cup of milk and a rest while he reads the mail he has brought in the outer pocket of his shooting bag t another he has frequently depos- ited & hare, a rabbit or a pheasant by the way of a treat for the sick wife; in a third, they will tell you, that he has taken par- ticular notice of a little “Emile” whom he gravely recommends not on any account to be president of the republic when he 1s a man. “And be laughs” the good woman tells me with a delighted sense of humor, “mon dieu, how the president laughs when my little Emile promises faithfully not to think of such a thing!" Expensive Apples. A tavorite story in the purlieus of Ram- boulllet tells how the president was one day making brisk fire close to the chateau when he noticed that he was belng tracked by an unkempt-looking Individual keeping by his side some dozen yards or so within the shadow of the wood. “What are you doing there?” he called sternly. The man stumbled stupidly forward and held out & blg bag. Then, addressing the president with the familiar “thou” which the work- ing folk employ among themselves and which s mot otherwise used except be- tween close friends, he said: “I have brought thee some apples, president. “Thou art very kind,” sald M. Loubet, bumoring the man's _familiarity, ‘“how shall I thank thee “Thou ebalt give me a pheasant!” was the answer, unexpectedly practical, to the rhetorical question. Loubet laughed loud, took the apples and gave a pheasant, “the dearest apples 1 ever bought in my life,” said the president as he handed the bag to his gilly, from whom 1 had the story. At first, the servitor ex- plained, he had feared some mischief was afoot and his relief was immense when he found that the suspiclous Individual was only a simple woodcutter who, not possess- ing & sick wife or child, knew no other way of gratifying & rather undemocratic longing to add a president's pheasant to his pot-au-feu. There does not seem any poss'bility of personal danger to the president from the people of Rambouillet, though Madame Loubet is notoriously timorous on the sub- ject. The only discordant note I heard of during & cycling expedition in the neigh- borhood was reported by a local gendarme. This functionary was immeasurably shocked by overhearing & young man in & Wwine shop dismissing M. Loubet's claim to re- spect in & phrase for whose contemptuous torce idiomatic English has no equivalent. “Un appelle ce un president, ca le vieux tarceur!”; “Call that a president, that old Joke It was mot very terrible after all, this vicious outburst; only & lingering echo of the old reproach of M. Loubet's excessive simplicity and bonbommie; and I learned from the Indignant police office that the assembled drinkers promptly avenged the fnsult on the sportsman of Ramboulllet by finging the critic out at the door. On His Goed Behavior. in Mouth. my The offending youth would be happler probably if fate had cast his lot at Marly. Here he would not be shocked by the sight of & president shooting in an old blue coat. At Marly peor M. Loubet has to be on his §00d behavior and play & part. For it is in these classic, kingly woods that take place the state shooting parties which are de rigueur in this curiously hide- bound democracy. Just as the president must never appear on the streets of Parls in quasi royal state, so he is strictly bound to hold at fixed Intervals solemn official battues which the officlal world attends by right and mot by lnvitation. There is the shooting party for the senate, the shoot- ing party for the ministers, the shooting party for the deputies and I kuow not bow i many others. These are state functions, | controlled by a rigorous etiquette, arranged by a protocol as rigid as that which attends the reception of a relgning sovereign. The guests are formed into a long firing line, with the president in the center; every “gun" occuples relatively to the president | the exact spot to which his office or his| rank entitles him. The commandant, Lamy, who fills the ancient court office of grand veneur (high hunting master) is there to see that the president is observed clsely. Jokers say he would have to com mit suicide on the spot it a simple deputy, for example, got one place nearer to the | president than a deputy that had been min- ister. Behind the firing line is (he serving line, to every guest a gilly with a second gun. | The double, long-winged file advance in | rigld order in an immense clearsd space in | frout of the coverts; a bugle blast Is blown; the beaters send the game flying to their death; the president fires first; in one second all the guns join in, and then it is every man blaze away as hard as he can, snatching a fresh filled gun from (he | man behind after each shot. | Frightful Slaughter of Birds. | The havoe is frightful. The birds uu‘ in hecatombs. They are put imto & com- | mon “bag” and divided up afterwards—so many to the president, 50 many to the guests, according to their rank, so many to various local officials (mayors, sub-prefects and so forth) the rest to various hospitals and benmevolent Institutions depending on the state—always, by the way, a big bag for the hospital of Montelimar. It is said, | apropos, that the president had quite a squabble with Commandant Lamy over this last bag. Montelimar had no existence on the ancient protocolian map: but M. Loubet held firm and the sick of his native village | eat of the state game in season. It was a | kind of a revolution. | “It is magnificent, but it Is mot sport,” | one may suppose that M. Loubet says to himself, for it is known that he disiikes the whole business—unlike President Faure who beamed with joy on these occasions and showed plainty that he felt himself, when center of the Marly firing line. a Worthy successor of the long line of kings of France who had shot thus in state before bim. | President Loubet has ample reason for his dislike of these solemn massacres even apart from the stiff ceremony which attends them. The birds are practically tame; a | host of keepers tend them all the year round; they are protected from the severity of the winter; they are fed on ant's eggs to make them the more worthy and the fatter for the glorlous death that awaits them. The peasant soul within the presi- dent revolts at this aristocratic refinement of cruelty; he would rather take his chance shot at a chance bird in good fighting, or | flylng condition. | He Is a very fine marksman, by the way, rely missing. He keeps his eye in very carefully, and when he is out walking in the country without a rifie, one may see him suddenly raise his stick to his left shoulder—he s a left-handed shot, and gravely “cover” his aim. would have had him, hein!" he will say to | his companion. At Home This they the t of remark he is Iikely to make when he is indulging in one of those brisk, sturdy- stepping country walks of his. At home he talks freely, boisterously even, accord- ing to general rumor, but out of doors he seems fo resume the taciturnity of the peasants. He likfes, however, to be talked to as he trudges along and Is supposed for this reason to take especial pleasure in the company of Colonel de Lastours, com- mander of the garrison of Rambouillet, who is one of the livellest conversationalists a man would hear in a lifetime. He I8 very “thick” also with M. Gauth- erin, the mayor of Rambouillet, a lawyer of the old school, who is often invited to dine sans ceremonie at the chateau and whose dry Eighteenth century humor keeps the president beaming with pleasure. These homely dinners at Rambouillet are the joy of Mme. Loubet's heart; except for them she would scarcely know her husband at all. At the Elysee he is occu- pled nearly all day with state affairs or with functions that take him away from home; in the evening the dinner is nearly always as solemn as a coronation. It is at Rambouillet that “la presidente” enjoys her husband's soclety as It he were a simple citizen. Not any more closely than that, it fs true, for if the ordinary citizen has his office to go to for the day the president is just as irresistibly drawn out of doors in the daylight hours, but like a faithful hu band he comes home to dinner—and Mme. Loubet, to use the rather pathetic words currently attributed to her, “gets young again.” They are good specimens of the “Darby and Joan" order of belngs, the pre 1dent and the presidente, and the Informal evening meal at Ramboulllet with onme or two Intimate, ancient friends as the only guests, is a rellef to madame's heart. As long as the university vacations last the son of the house, Paul Loubet, is gener- ally there, a genlal young law student, rather ‘“rattle-pated” perbaps, who, In term-time, may be seen strolling down the Boul'mich’ with his student’s serviette un- dér his arm, just like any other lively, unpretending denizen of the Latin quarter. He is much liked in the quartier where the camarrades of the A" (the ‘Associa- tion Generals des Etudiants”), after re- viewing him with some slight suspicion when he first joined their ranks, finally proclaimed him “brave garcon’ (go0d fellow), finding him just as good- naturedly unpretending as his father, the | peasant president. STEVEN AUSTIN. pre. the Coum Apoplexy aused more deaths in New ork City in 1901 than were occasioned by Smallpox, Typhoid Fever, Malarial Fever, and Scarlet Fever combined. The Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York will not insure those who have apoplectic symptoms. This suggests the advisability of in- suring your life while in good healtg. The of The Musal Life Insur of New Vork exceed those of any other -p-$. existence. They are over 352,000,000 1t has paid Pelicy-helders over $569,000,000 surance company ce Company insuranes for * Where Shall | Tnsure?™ vTuAL Lire INsurancE Comrany oF New York Ricuaxn A. McCurny, President. FLEMING I;n_‘lfl: Managers. Des Molnes, In. Oma . relds, special agents. Ll""a_gfivs TRIAL, . %o ok, sesselorgian Jost madhoed, seital wouk Schmoller & Mueller TooMany Pianos A Sweeping Reduction in Price Mighty Bargains to Astound the Most skeptic The first of last month we had the opportunity to buy for spot cash from eastern tactories, over 800 planos at a most decided reduction from the plano dealers’ regular wholesale fig- ure. It seemed like & large undertak- ing, as we had already contracted for our regular fall stock, but the prices quoted us were such a temptation, we decided to try it. We bought the entire lot. Some are here already— the balance on the way. That means we must sell 300 more piancs than we expected to this fall. It means we must move them terribly fast, or hire a storage house with all kinds of expenses. HAVE WE MADE A MISTAKE] If 60, at any rate the plano buyers| of Omaha and vicinity are the gain- ers. We know this. Weo are swamped with new, expensive planos from the most famous factories of America) and we HAVE TO TURN a portion of this immense stock immediately into cash and contracts. Commencing Monday morning, September 15th, and continuing ouly until the stock Is sufficiently reduced, wo shall start a cut price plano eale, the like of which the good city of Omaba has| never seen. The price cutting starts at the front door and sweeps like & war over the entire stock. It you EVER expect to own a GOOD plano this will be your life's opportunity —Just look at these a few samples, taken at random and don't hesitate to select yours at onmce. You will never aee planos of this class sold again at such ridiculous prices: Squares take more room, hence a| double cut on these. SQARE PIAOS Worth. $30.00 Gilbert, small . $40.00 Stodard, small . $50.00 Ladd & Co., medium . $100.00 Weser & Minton, fine $60.00 Meyer, medium . $125.00 Halns Bros, refinished $160.00 Emerson, elegant $225 Stelnway, par-excellent. UPRIGHTS Be prompt. If you hurry you'll get first eholce. Worth. $176 Helmbrodt, walnut . $160 German, walnut . $226 Camp & Co., ebony $276 Arion, oAk ...eeeee o $290 Arion, walnut $800 Singer, oak .. $226 Everett, oak.. 3350 Singer, walnut $375 Emerson, oak Vose & Sons, ebony . Gramer, mahogany . Story & Clark .. Hardman, ebony Emerson, walnut Steger, mahogany Decker Bros., mahogany Emerson, mahogany. Bteger, walout . Ivers & Pond, walout .. Hardman, mahogany Emerson, birch ...... Steck, mahogany many more of the 30 different high class makes we carry regularly in stock. Notwithstanding these whirlwind prices, they can be pufchased It de- sired on the easy payment plan, of $4.00, $6.00, §7.00 to $10.00 per month for the highest priced one on sale. Omaha buyers can eave thelr win- ter's coal bill and then some. Out- of-town customers can save thelr entire railroad fare and expenses to Omaha from the farthest Nebraska or lowa point and still have a con- siderable sum left for music lesson BE PROMPT—its like finding money. No planos reserved in this sale. No trades taken. No commissions paid at these prices. First come, first served. One price plainly marked SCHMOLLER & MUELLER WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS, PIAN Retail store—13138 Farnam Strec Factory—1316 Farnam Street, OMAHA Branch—502 Broadway, Council Bifs)