Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 30, 1902, Page 6

| | | THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. Lm'rm\ E Rufl.\\ ATER, PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily Bee (without Eur , One Year um Dally Bee and Sunday, One Year.. INustrated Bee, One Year Bunday Bee, ( Saturday F Twentieth per copy... ¢ (without Sunduy), per week..12c ncluding Bunday), per week.1jc per copy ac 'without Sunday), per week 6 (Ineluding Sunday) T .llM: Complaints of " irregularities i should be addressed 16 City Clrculation De. partment. OFFICES. Qmaha_The Bee Bullding Bouth Omaha—City Hall Bullding, Twen- -Afth and M Streets ounefl Blufte—10 Pear] Street. hicago_io Unity Bullding New York—2128 Park Row Buflding. Washington—#1 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE, Communteations relating to news and ed- 1 matter should be addressed: Omaha , Editorial Department. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION, ltn. of Nebraska, Douglas County, 8s.: w(h B. Tzechuck, of The lishing Company, says that the actual number of full and complete coples of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of November, 1902, was as follows: 1 o Net total sales. Net average sales. GEORGE Subscribed in_my presence and swotn to before me this 30th day of, November, A, D. 1902, M. B. HU '«:A’rE, Notsr y (Beal) By its next transformation the free- for-all party franchise will be made a free-for-none franchise. It would indeed be highly sensational if Morgan or Schwab should not try to buy up something big in Europe for a week or two. -_— It 18 worthy of note that both *Ne- braska’'s senators still live in Nebraska and have some place to go when they want to go home. The interchange of bouquets between General Miles and the empress dowager of China must be regarded as one of the crowning victories in the closing year. ‘The number of those who claim the distinction of Dbeing descendants of Aaron Burr almost equal those who had the honor of shoeing George Washing- ton’s horse. The organs of the fire underwriters are again complaining that the rates on fire risks are not high enough. They will have difficulty in persuading Omaha policy holders to that belief. Nothing has failed oftener or more completely than the prediction that Sec- retary Shaw was to retire from the cabinet, but still the Washington cor- respondents are trylng it again. SEE— ‘With the funds donated by Andrew Carnegie for Its new library building now avallable, it Is up to South Omaha to push the work along and make the library a reality before another year is over. From the way In which Richard Oroker 1s buying up a landed estate every now and then in England it is evident he told the truth when he de- clared he had had enough of New York politics. e It is explained on behalf of the Mexi- cans that while they want to show all courtesy to Colonel Bryan on account of his eminence as a party leader there s no disposition to take his advice with reference to silver. ———c———— ‘The annual tug of war for the control of the county hospital and poor farm 18 heaving iuto sight. It is too bad this Institution cannot be taken out of the realm of politics and placed under some sort of civil service regulation. One of the legislative measures the State Bar association is incubating con- templates simplifying the practice be- fore the supreme court. Up to this time the lawyers have been busily engaged in eomplicating the practice before the courts. e The week between Christmas and New Year's will soon belong to the school teachers and college professors, who are fast monopolizing it for meetings of their WILL THE BLOCKADE BE RAISEDY That Is a question of very great in- terest to Venezuela and which it is un- derstood s recelving attention at Wash- Ingt It was stated some days ago that our government would urge the European governments to call off the blockade during the progress of the arbitration proceedings, so that trade with Venezuela could go on. It is said that the Venezuelan government will ask this and in that event it should have the support of the United States. There is a considerable commerce be- tween this country and the southern re- | public and there seems to be no good reason why it should not be allowed to be carried on without interference while arbitration proceedings are in progress. There is nothing in the constitution of The Hague tribunal that bears upon the question of calling off the blockade, but it appears a most reasonable conclu- sion that when the allies take their case to the international court for a peace- able settlement they should end the warlike demonstration they are making in Venezuelan waters. This is due to the interests of neutral nations, which are entitled to consideration and it could do no injury to the allles. Our government should make an earnest ef- fort to have the blockade raised as soon as the terms and conditions of the ar« bitration are settled. RAILWAY DEVELOPMENT. The perfod of great railroad construc- tion in this country was between 1880 and 1895 and it was thought that never again would records be made in a single year that would compare with or ap- proximately approach yearly records of that period. But in the present year a little over 6,000 miles of railway have been” constructed, at an estimated cost of about $200,000,000, and the work of development is still going on. Moreover there is an intimation, writes the New York correspondent of the Philadelphia Press that if the present industrial ac- tivity continues we may look next year and the year after for the construction of new railway lines, almost all of them being branches or feeders of ex- isting systems, whose mileage will equal the total mileage of the railroads of the United States fifty years ago. Of course nearly all the rallroad con- struction of the present year has been in the west and southwest and the fur- ther railway development will bpe mainly In those sections. It is said that the region where the most promis- ing results just now consequent upon a new rallway construction are foreseen by capitalists {8 in Oklahoma and In- dian Territory and the very rich neigh- boring districts. Nearly 600 miles of railway have been constructed in Okla- homa this year and it is expected that next year as many milss will be built, while in the Indian Territory there is promise of much activity in rallway con- struction. In Texas, also, raflroad de- velopment is making good progress. Manifestly the rallway interest is striv- ing to keep up with the industrial prog- ress of the country and the effort to do this is being well rewarded. According to the report of the Interstate Commerce commission the net earnings of the rail- roads of the United States for the fiscal year ending on June 30 last were over $51,000,000 greater than for the previous year and the dividends declared were nearly, $30,000,000 more than those of the preceding year. The trouble is that the rallroads are making the public pay roundly for their development by unduly increasing thelr charges. PROPOSED EIGHT-HOUR LaAW. The bill which passed the house of representatives and Is now in the senate, proposing that eight hours shall con- stitute a day's work for all laborers and mechanics employed upon work done for the United States, Is a very important measure. If it shall become a law it is believed by men engaged in the in- dustries that it will have a very decided effect upon industrial conditions, not to the advantage of either labor or capital. Many manufacturers, particularly those connected with the national assoclation, have expressed themselves in regard to the proposed law and they are prac- tically unanimous in the view that a re- duction of the hours of labor to eight, however desirable at some imdefinite time In the future, is too violent a propo- sition for present adoption. ‘Washington correspondents say that the hearings on this question which have been in progress before the senate com- mittee on education and labor have been of a remarkable character and that a sharp and flerce battle was waged be- tween representatives of capital and the representatives of labor, in which the latter appear to have galned the ad- vantage. They were able to convince the senate committee that the proposed law 1s desirable and accordingly its various associations. Bducation is a subject which vitaly Interests every family, If the schools are improved as & result of these meetings the public will get the benefit as well as the teachers. S————— That is an excellent Indiana law which makes the fallure of a sheriff to protect & prisoner in his custody from lynching eause for suspension and removal from office, and, what is equally commend- able, it is being enforced to the letter. Lynching is inexcusable under all cir- eumstances, but it is especially helnous ‘when its victim is already in the hands of law officers who connlve at mob violence. —————— Political gossip has 1t that John N. Baldwin of Iowa Is actlvely engaged In promoting the candidacy of W. T, Thompson of Merrick for speaker of the house at the impending session of the Nebraska legislature. Political gossip also has it that the Douglas delegation 18 pledged to Mr. Thompson, leaving it to the public to reason from cause to effect. On the other hand, Mr. Thomp- son Is personally a clever fellow and ought not to be handicapped with Mr. Baldwin's support. enactment is strongly and earnestly urged in & report by the chairman of the committee, Senator McComas of Mary- land. Cogent argnments are presented in support of the bill and it is held that such a law would be constitutional. ‘The question of an eight-hour labor day 1s principally economic. The ad- vocates of a shorter working day urge that it would be a benefit to the workers, in giving them more hours for mental improvement and recreation, while not necessarily reducing production, their view being that men can work more energetically if they labor fewer hours daily. Manufacturers and other employ- ers of labor very generally assert, on the other hand, that the great majority of workers would be injured rather than benefited by reducing the hours of work, that it would be impossible to maintain the existing rate of production, that prices of all manufactured commodities would inevitably be higher and that the effect upon the industries would be revo- lutionary. It seems that the manu- facturers who appeared before the sen- ate committee were unable to present such substantial grounds for their rea- soulng as to impress the commlittee, 8o THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1902. that it appears safe to assume that the senate will pass the bill In that event a vigorous fmpetus will be given throughout the country to the demand for an eight-hour working day and it will very likely be generally suc- cessful. Once the movement begins to make headway it will undoubtedly make rapid progress. THE CONSTITUTION AND THE TF The record of the New Hamd Al\ln- constitutional convention with reference to unlawful trusts and combinations in restraint of trade forcefully marks out the line of efficient dealing with that subject, and it is especially significant in bearing on the necessity of a national constitutional convention. When the question arose in the New Hampshire convention on the adoption of a pro- vision requiring publicity and providing other rigorous restraints for such com- binations the convention was found to be practically unanimous, only two mem- bers out of a total of 315 going on record in the negative on the decisive vote. Yet in the legislatures of that state for a long period it has been found impos- sible to secure substantial safeguards against the aggressions of great corpora- tlons and monopolizing combinations, and they have been able by their familiar methods to prevent the sub- mission of the mecessary constitutional amendments to popular vote. But the calling of a constitutional convention at 1ast gave the people a chance to enforce their will and opened up freely the sub- jects on which they distinctly demand reform. It need hardly be pointed out that the same considerations apply with equal if not greater force to change of the federal constitution with regard to the trust question and many others. The machinery for amendment is such as to place serfons obstacles in the way of any attempt to secure genuine reform on these subjects. While the people of the nation, like those of New Hampshire, are overwhelmingly in favor of thorough and enforcible remedies for the evils of wrongful corporation combinations, there 1s little prospect that a satisfactory con- stitutional amendment could be got through congress. The method of amendment is so hedged about that cor- porate influence could too easily block the way. Whether present federal legis- lation exhausts the powers of the consti- tution or not, many thoughtful men be- lieve that nothing less than the in- corporation in the national constitution of a mandatory provision requiring con- gress to act and clothing it and the executive with ample powers can ac- complish the reform that the American people require, If this view be correct the motive power must come direct from the people acting upon the several state legis- latures, as it did in the case of the New Hampshire convention, and it must take the form of a demand for a national constitutional convention. This would take the question of change In the organic law out of the hands of con- gress and place it where the corpora- tion combinations and trusts would be at a comparative disadvantage for de- feating the will of the people. ——— MARK OMAHA A GRAIN MARKET. For years The Bee has constantly ad- vocated a movement that would make Omaha a grain market of the same class as Kansas City, St. Paul and Minne- apolis. That this city is so situated to the corn and wheat-producing country to make it the natural outlet for the products of a vast agricultural territory is plainly apparent to every one. In the last few years Nebraska has become as much of a wheat state as it has been a corn state, and if only half of the grain shipped out of Nebraska alone were mar- keted in this city we would soon build up a grain industry of imposing propor- tions. The time, therefore, seems more auspicious than ever for making a grain market here which in a short time would give Omaha the same rank as a grain center that it now holds as a meat- packing point. With a grain market In Omaha we would soon have grain elevators, big flouring and cereal mills, starch factories and a host of smaller institutions work- ing up by-products that would eventu- ally give employment to thousands of wage workers. That there are obstacles In the way of accomplishing this purpose goes without saying, but there is no good reason why, with a concerted effort on the part of all our business men, these obstacles should not be surmounted here as they have been in rival places and the year 1903 made notable by Omaha’ advent into the list of grain market cities. Another pertinent question in connec- tion with the prospective charter revision is, What has become of that beautiful scheme for a benevolent administration of the city by a patriotic committee of five self-sacrificing citizens, which was projected with so much eclat scarcely a year ago The aristocratic backers of this aristocratic government at one time insleted that it contained the solution of all the {lls that heset the municipal body politie, past, present and future. Has not this scheme a single champion among the members-elect to the legisla- ture? It is probably true, from a strict legal standpoint, that the election of a judge on the bench to congress is a violation of the Towa constitution, whether the term of the judge expires or not before the beginning of the congressional term. The words of the constitution are plain and the distinet purpose was to separate Judicial officers from political complica- tions. But the house of representatives is the sole judge of the qualifications of its members and it has refused in sev- eral cases to act on state restrictions total of $50,000,000 inerease in a year, {certainly a large sum, but comparatively inconsiderable as a share of the enor- mous increase of the net earnings of the roads in recent years. On the basis of the present tonnage it would require { ouly one-third of 1 mill per ton to pay it. Demand Chasing Supply. Milwaukee Sentinel. The supply of boodlers holds out in St. Louls, notwithstanding the fact that the Jalls are filling up and courts are working overtime, | Rich Enough to Reform. | Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune. John C. Havemeyer's reason for with- drawing from the sugar trust was that he couldn’t be a Christian and stay in. It Is noticed, however, that John's Christianity dido’t strike until he nad made his pile. Year's Greatest Achievement. Providence Journal, When the record for the year 1902 s written it will probably appear that the most conspicuous material achievement of the twelvemonth was the sending of ex- tended messages with entire success by wireless telegraph across the Atlantic. Room for Misslonary Work. Chicago Record-Herald. Mr. Bryan is in Mexico. Now that the Mexloans are preparing to adopt the gold standard the gentleman froin Nebraska probably regards our neighboring republie a8 a part of the enemy’s country and there- fore a proper place for missionary work. Indianapolis Journal. No American secretary of state hi achleved more diplomatic triumphs tha Secretary Hay. The consent of the Buro- pean powers to submit the Venezuelan mat- ter to arbitration by The Hague tribunal fe his latest. Their °°“Y‘"" was due to diplomatic pressure. Cool & Hot Peravian Blood. Indianapolis Ne Reports from ldma, Peru, say that a storm that struck that Andean city recently spread a foot of snow on the streets and dropped the mercury to 3 degrees below zero. A few meteorological effects of this kind would work a radical change in the governmental aspects of South America. It the people down there would eat more { BITS OF WASHINGTON LIFE. Minor Se on the Spot. from outside parties caused an enormous in- month and a corresponding strain on the typewriting machines and operators. Some remarkable records in typewriting were made in the assignment division. On De- cember 17 there were 122,450 words written by the typewriters. This is about 125 per | cent more than the average and is more by 50,000 than ever were written before in the same length of time. The work of this {office was kept behind for a long time by the number of applications for coples of records and it finally was decided to allow all the extra typewriter operators in the de- partment who could be spared to attend to this work exclusively. The result has been that an enormous amount of work has been done and some remarkable records have been made. The average individual record of a type- writer in the patent office is from 6,500 to 6,000 words. December 17 the average was about 9,000 words, and several of the operators went beyond this record. Several wrote 10,000 words, but the record is held by a young woman who in five hours wrote 13,300 words, an average of 2,660 words an hour, or nearly forty-five words a minute. In typewriter contests this number i ex- ceeded often, but in ordinary work it has at the patent office at Third Assistant Postmaster General Mad- den makes a suggestion which will find great favor with manufacturers, merchants and advertisers, who: business compels them to send large quantities of olrculars or small packages of merchandise through the mails. General Madden proposes to do away with the afixing of stamps to {dentical pleces of printed matter or to articles of merchandise. The person sending this class of matter through the mail will simply pay the amount of postage required to the post- masters, whereupon the goods will go through the same as though each piece bore a stamp. General Madden also proposed to abandon the work of canceling and dating these parcels, thus effecting a large saving of time in the handling of this class of mail matter. ““The stamping of circulass and small arti- cles of merchandise is a time-killing em- ployment,” sald General Madden, in discus- snowballs and less red pepper they wouldn't be 50 keen for the revolutionary game. How Times Have Chan Springfleld Republican. It is torty-eight years since the first trans-Atlantic cable was lald. How we have progressed since then! The beginning of the work of stretching the new Pacific cables excites little more than local com- ment, and although Maréonl has tel graphed across the Atlantic without arti- ficlal conductors, the news is received in a matter-of-course way. Half a century ago the country went wild over the first faulty successés of Cyrus W. Field. Mass meet- ings of celebration were held and small sections of the cable furnished much-prized ornaments. Punish Food Adulterati Philadelphta Record. A decision just delivered by the supreme court of the United States shows that there is ample power in the several states to ef- fectively punish adulterations of foods. A person named Layton, in St. Louis, under- took to contest the constitutionality of a law of Missourl on this subject. Layton was convicted in the focal courta for using alum in the manutacture of baking powder, and was fined $100 for the offe The supreme court affirms this action, and the fine must be paid. But apart from the con- stitutional aspects of this case, a much greater punishment Is in the notorfety which it has given to the manufacturer who mixes alum in his powder for baking bread. It the swme publicity could be given in re- gard to all the fraudulent adulterations of food and drink there would be little need of any other penalty. NEBRASKA AT THE HEAD. Jumps from Seventh to First Place in a Cen Computation. Boston Transeript. ‘The tables from the advance sheets of the new census, showing the percentages of literacy of those persons between 10 and 14 years of age in the various states and territories of the Union are interesting and instructive. Nebraska stands at the head of the list with a record of 99.66. Ten years ago she was seventh, Towa being first and Massachusetts second. Now lowa is second and ) chusetts ninth, yet this otate has advanced from 99.17 In 1890 to 99.33 in 1900. This is certainly a record of which we need not be ashamed when we consider how strongly urban as well as manufacturing s this state in character, and a gateway of immigration, thus offer- ing strong inducements to many newly ai rived and ignorant foreigners to remain here, while the more rural and agricultural states have a natural advantage in this re- spect. The lowest in the scale is Louisiana, with a record of 67.12, but even there a hopeful gain has been effected, as the per- centage In 1890 was only 57.26. South Caro- lina and Alabama come next in order, reck oning from t! bottom, thoush both have made galns. New Mexico, which has been knocking for admission to statehood for bove at le three of the thirteen original states, so she can hardly be kept out on the ground of ignor- ance. The hopeful thing about these fig- ures is that almost every state is showing an advance in literacy, most of them already rating high. MRS, GRANT'S WISHES, Interior of the Grant Mommw ranged as the Widow Desired. New York Sun. The letter which follows was written nearly eleven years ago by the widow ot General Grant to the late Genoral Charles H. T. Collls, and, of course, has never be- fore been published: “No. 3 East Sixty-Sixth Street, Jan. 9, 1892.—General Collis—Dear Sir: 1 wish to communicate through you to the ‘Grant sing his proposition. *Houses that send out & quantities of circulars and merchan- packages are required to employ clerks for the purpose of stamping the mail mat- ter. Then, when this is delivered at the postoffice, the stamp clerk wastes enough time in looking for the stamps on a package to stamp and distribute a dozen letters. Manufacturers are constantly making com- plaint that their goods are being damaged by the concellation process. Calendars, cards and all printed matter that is rolled are subject to damage every time a postal clerk takes a shot with a canceling stamp. Fountaln pens and other manufactured ‘e frequently ruined in this manner.” 1 Madden's plan calls for the preparation of a speclal wrapper to be sold by the department to the large users of mails. The plan has been explained to the house committee on postoffices and post and has met with considerable favor. The sdoption of the system would almost do away with the 1-cent stamp. “Decidedly a power in the sena everywhere he goes, is Mark Hanna,” writes ‘Walter Wellman in Success. 0ddly enough, Hanna is stronger now than he Was & year or two ago. Then there was a little jealousy of him on account of his membership of the kitchen cabinet at the White House. The senate, remember, pro- ceeds always upon the theory that it is supreme, and not even a president may dictate to it or seek to manipulate It through a backstairs agent. With change at the White House, Hanna on his own merits, and these—frankness, good humor, common sense, courage and of late a power of expression which has made him almost an orator—have given him high rank. He Is eeen to be solar, not lunar. Now he has power and influence second to none in the renate, and this is because he is Merk Hanna, not on account of any one else. The man with dollar marks all over his ample person is dead, and in hiz place is the man who wears his heart on his sleeve and has more personal friends than any. other living American. He is now the most popular republican on the democratic side of the senate chamber, the majority senator who has the greatest influence with the men of the minority. One of the great- est triumphs ever won in congress was that which Hanna achieved with his Panama canal bill. When he began his campaign all but five senators favored Nicaragua, but when the roll finally called, he had a majority of eight as he is An inquisitive vieitor was received by President Roosevelt the other day. After the formal greetings the visitor drew the president to one side and in a stage whisper asked for a little confidential information regarding the probabllity of this nation's being plunged into war with Germany and Great Britain by the Venezuelan crisis. The president listened to the question atten- tively and -finally sald in & voice which reached all over his office, “Why, of course there fs not going to be any war.” The visitor was not satisfied and he Insisted that the president tell him why he was able to make that assertion. “Do you sup- pose that I would permit any war,” asked the president, seriously, “while I am penned up here in the White House and could not get into i7" ‘The room of the commitee on pensions is called the deadhouse since the last battle between the republicans and the democrats. There were more casualties in that com- mittee than in any other. Congressman Walter Reeves of Illinois is the chairman and the committee has but little business pending before it the chairman did not have a chance to count up the dead until he called a meeting just befors the Christmas vacation. Then Mr. Reeves discovered that over half of the committee had fallen in the struggle. Bight of its members will not swer roll eall in the Fifty-eighth con- gress. Mr. Reeves himself refused a nom- ination for re-election, having determined to return to his law practice. Corliss of Mich- Monument association.’ Some weeks ago Mr. Duncan, the architect, who is to build the monument for my husband, General Grant, suggested, whilst showing me the plans of eald monument, that my remalins should be placed in the same sarcophagus with those of General Grant, this, he said, would save space. I wish now to most earnestly protest against this plan. Gen. erel Grant must have his own sarcophagus, and I my casket beside him. “General Grant's identity must remain distinet. Hereafter when persons visit thi spot, they must be able to say, ‘Here rests General Grant.' Yours most sincerely, “JULIA D. GRANT." Mrs. Grant's wishes, thus directly and simply expressed, were respected in the arrangement of the final plan of the monu- ment. Most people, we think, will be touched by her manifestation of a conscien- tious solicitude for the historic proprieties and a definite purpose perhaps at variance like that of Iowa. If all the rallroads in the United States should advance the wages of thelr employes so that the average would be 10 per ceut higher it would mean a with the natural impulse of the wi This is why the chamber in which Gen- eral Grant rests by the Hudson differs in one particular, so conspicuous that no wvis- itor fails to observe it, from that other impressive tomb mear the benk of the Seine. igan, Tompkins of New York, Jack of Penn- sylvania, Lewis of Pennsylvania, Irwin of Kentucky, Rhea of Kentucky and Mutchler of Pennsylvania were all defeated. It cer- tainly seems to me that we were very un- lucky in the fight,” observed Chairman Reeves to the mourners. “Why shouldn't we be asked Mr. Sulzer of New York, who then called attention to the fact tha here e thirteen members of the commit- tee. The next largest number of casualties was in the committee of accounts. Five of its nine members falled of re-election. ‘When the bill for the relief of the tea im- porters, who, under a decision of the circuit court in New York, were compelled to pay the war tariff of 10 cents & pound on tea in bond, was under consideration in the house entatives John Wesley Gaines of who is frequently referred to as the irrepressible,” offered an amendment removing the duty on anthracite coal. The motion brought Representative Payne to his teet with & jump “I ask to be informed what possible re- lation anthracite coal bears to tea Payne announced, sarcastically. “I only thought you might like a little coal to warm your tea,” replied Mr. Galues, ! nes and Incldents Sketohed The demand for coples of patent records crease in the work of the patent office this “EVERYBODY WAS RIGHT.” Charles Franels Adams’ View of Our Only Great War, Baltimore Sun Mr. Charles Francis Adame of Boston, in his address Monday evening in Charles- ton, 8. C., at the banquet of the New Eng- land society of that city, asserted that the civil war was a necessity from the very nature of the Constitution of the United States. Mr. Adams has long en- tertained liberal views on this subject. Last June, in a speech In Chicago, he paid an eloquent tribute to General Robert E. Lee, to whom, he sald, the nation owes a debt of gratitude for his decision not to prolong the strife through guerrilla warfare. In his Charleston address Mr. Adams frankly aseerted that his study of the questions which led up to the eivil war had convinced him that “everybody was right; nobody was wrong.” ‘“So far | a8 I can ascertain,” said Mr. Adams, “every state In the federation became a member | of the union with mental reservations. The ‘one thing our ancestry united in most apprehending was a centralized government. From New Hampshire to Georgla such a government was associated with the fdea of a foreign regime. The pecple clung to | state.” The civil war was, in Mr. Adams’ opinion, question of sovereignty, and, in his view, when it came to be decided “either side could offer good ground, historical and legal, for any attitude taken in regard to ft.”" It is refreshing to find so distinguished & representative of Massachusetts opinion &8s Mr. Adams conceding that the south had ample constitutional warrant for mak- ing war in defense of state sovereignty. Mr. Adams makes the interesting suggestion that if the southern states had withdrawn from the union before 1861 “they would never have failed of success.” They were conquered, in his opinion, not by military skill, or wealth or courage but by steam and electricity. “‘Before 1861,” he observed, ‘“steam and electricity, neither on land nor water, had been rendered so subservient to man as to make him equal to the prodi- glous, the unprecedented task then under. taken and finally accomplishex Mr. Adame' Charleston address will enhance his repu- tation as a diligent student of American history and an able and fair-minded ex- pounder of the Constitution. PERSONAL NOTES. The New Hampshire constitutional oon- vention took care to adjourn when the ap- propriation for the convention had been used up. E. 8. Chapman of Cincinnati, O., & nephew of Hans Van Winkle, who has been im- mortalized by Washington Irving in his “Rip Van Winkle,” died Wednesday. With “Gentleman Jim" Corbett, John L. Sullivan and “Golden Rule” Jones at their dinner, the Salvation Army of Toledo may claim to have attracted “de quality.” When Reed Smoot of Utah and Levi An- heny of Walla Walla and a few others of that graft get into the senate, the roll call will be something extremely melliflu- ous, Mayor Hayes of Baltimore is in favor of reviving the Oriole, an annual fete, which years ago was recognized as a fixture in that city as much as the Mardl Gras is at New Orleans. Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson has turned his 81t year and is still in falrly g0od health, passing considerable time at his writing table. Among New England men of letters only Dr. Edward Everett Hale s his senor. the local autonomy—the sovereignty of the | an irrepressible, inevitable conflict over the | THE OLD RELIABLE Absolutely Pure THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE how can you | women, residing in palaces or on estates , in prosperous surroundings, undertake to to what course to pursue, successtully fight the evil?" Major General Adna R. Chaffes, home from China and the Philippines, has been visiting the scenes of his childhood in Ash- tabula county, Ohlo. In response to some question in regard to the ““war” in China the general said: “It was rotten, from a fighting standpoint—no war at all, in faet. The Chinese troops are very imferier sol- dlers.”” The general has great admiration for the empress of China, whom he pro- nounces to be a wonderful woman, POINTED REMARKS, JYonkers Statesman vou like my ght- Welt 1 lm stuck on two of them. “Which two?" “Tha two'T bought, Penman—You zen, subject without publicly norance concerning i New York Times ashington was asked if he was pleased with the title of Father of his Country. 11t's great,”, he replied, beaming. . 71 eer- talnly wouldn't want to father the Hastily extricating himself from me sub- way and side-stopping from an automobile, he fled to Mount Vernon. Cleveland Plain m\aler a_model husband.” what wi Whenever he doesn't eat anytling she asks him if the cooking lsn't as good as his mother's.” “And what does he say?" “He says he has no doubt it is, but that his indigestion has quite unfitted him to be a competent judge.” “Mollle Brown Philadelphia Pres the political job he ha The idea! ‘why 1 understood it was a regular little sinecure. o but after the last election it became a litile insecure. Philadelphia Prees: “Another thing ahout these apples,” the dealer sald, opening the barrel for his inspection, “is' that if you put th them in a cool place they will keep all winte: 1 quite positive they won't,” sald the oustomer, who happened to be the father of & half grown boy, “but I'll take them." Brooklyn Life: Mrs. Newriche—Now, here's my latest portrait in ofls, and i must say I'm perfectly satisfied with it. I'm sure it does me justice; don't you think 80?7 Mrs, Cuttinge—Yes, indeed; justice tem- pered with mercy. There {8 a dressmaking school in Brillon, Wis., and the local paper speaks of the en- thusfastic young women who attend as if they were making some sacrifice. All women take enough interest in dress with- out the aid of a school. The completion of the great Nile reservoir recalls Lord Milner's story of what a wise native told him twenty years ago. “If you are going in for charlatanism,” said the Egyptian, “relieve the land tax. If your object is to e hospitality to Egypt create a reservolr. The National Woman's Christian Temper- ance union wijl not hold its next convention in Milwaukeé, because the only hall avall- able is owned by a brewer and is adjacent to three saloons, and, in view of possible strained relations, it has been suggested that they meet in some American city. For the third time in the memory of this generation a big block of Astor real estate in New York City has been sold. Colonel John Jacob Astor has disposed of forty lota, valued at about $750,000. The two other Astor sales were made in 1898 and 1900. For about a century it has been the custom of the family to increase and retain real es- tate holdings. Governor Odell of New York goes about the prepartion of state papers, such as nual meesages, in cautious and methodical fashion. First he digests one topic thor- oughly and writes it. Then he puts it away and tackles another. When all have been written he sits down with his secre- tary and the pair go over the topics ome by one, changing and correcting until they are satisfied 1t will stand any eriticism that may be brought against it. Emperor Willlam has informed the Prin- cess Salm Hostmar and several other la- dies of his court that they are not fitted to fight vice or clevate the social conditions of the cities. The noblewomen had formed an anti-vice soclety in Berlin, and the em- peror, in discouraging the movement, wrote to the princess that she ‘“‘should know that such things are much better left to the law and its officers, and if it is true that even they are frequently puzzied as hia Catholic Standard: Philadel, “8o you on't mind my plano playing, I Skorcher?”’ remarked Miss Nexdoo “Not at all,” replied Skorcher. “I like it best when your coasting.'” “‘When I'm coasting?” e when you keep your feet off the pedals.” n New York Sun ner had just dis- chasmed: tho GO0 Whot strange notses ar- rested his attontion “Eureka!" he cried, “the very thing! I'll found a new school of music! Hastily scoring ect of crashing pots, smashing china and iking furniture, he forthwith became famous, Chicago Post: “Didn’ you tell me dat dng’:ou sold me were a huntin' dog?' “He don’ want to do nuffin' but look foh comf'able place to lle down in.' ‘Da’s right. Huntin' wahm spots is his speclalty. THE VANISHED LUNC Bt. Louls Globe-Democrat. It_happened at a boarding house ‘Where married couples stay, And where the men folks (wiser sex!) For luncheon do not stay. But Jenkine he was {ll one day, And tarried in his room, The women asked him down to lunch— The Fates' inviting doom. ‘With “d.:“ white the hoard was spread And decked with shining glass, There was a glass of milk for each, A dish of apple sass. Some crackers, too, ,nd eke some cheese, And e'en & loaf o d. And Jenkins I|Ilnl hll And casually he fed. He finished up the apple sass started on the cheese, And lofll( said he did not care For little things like these. He gobbled up a loaf of bread— The women looked dismayed— And then he lald aslde his fork, His knife aside he lald. H said he was not hupgry and He smiled upon that bunch, Apd meekly he Inquired why hey did not bring the lunch. a vacant plate And then the women they riz up; They riz up grimand tall— And shrieked at Jenkins: ‘r:h you wretch! 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