Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 29, 1903, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY JANUARY 29 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR f— PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING BECRIPT ar TERMS OF & ally Bee (without ally Bee and 8 llustrated Lee Bunday Bee, Onc Year uturday Bee, One Year wentleth Century Farmer, One Yeur DELIVERED BY CARRIER g-ny Bee (without Sunday), per ¢ nday ar..$4.0 nday, One Y One Year y 20 160 100 | | per week aily Bee (without Sunday). per w aily Bee (Including Sunday) 17 UNGAYy Bee, per COpY ¥ vening Bee (without Sunday), per week 6 vening Bee (Including Sunday), per week ...10c | Complaints of irregularities n delivery $hould be addressed to City Circulation De riment o OFFICES Omaha—The Bee Building, | Bouth Omahs—City Hall Building, Twen- | fy-ffth and M Street Council Bluffs—10 Pe 1640 Unity Bullding. 2 Park Row Butlding. 01 Furteenth Street. PONDENCE Communications relating to news and ed- torial matter should be addressed: Omaha ee, Editorial Department. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATIO Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, 88.: George B, Tzschick, secretary of The Bee fubushing compasy, belag duly swutn, ssve at the actual numbcr of full and complete ©oples of The Daily, Morning, Evening and unday Bee printed during the month of cember, 192, was as follows: 32,280 31,120 41,470 81,060 31,040 1.820 ...28,600 30,960 1 Street Washington CORR 820 30,610 0,550 0,780 28,700 | 80,600 1. 18 19 2. 2 ..80,530 ..30,870 28,563 30,000 30,070 30,040 25,820 80,810 30,010 Net total sales ........ Net average sales ........ GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed In_my presence and sworn to before me this et day of December, A. D. 4902, M. J3. HUNGATE, (Seal) ‘ Notary Publie. [ A S Nl ey Whenever Haseall approaches the end pt his string you may look for Has- eality with a big R. If this keeps on, the Omaha police force will soon|have more detectives than patrolmen on duty. e Councilmen who take frivolous vaeca- tions will be given a permanent vaca- tion after the first week in May. —— To the list of western industries flour. {shing under the sun of prosperity that of bank robbery will now have to be wdded. Senator Teller's title to represent Colo- rado in the House of Lords has beén declared clear. Senator Teller is classed by the corporations as a safe man. Social note—Mr. John Baldwin of Towa is keeping open house at Lin- coln during the session of the Nebraska legislature. Continuous refreshments. —_— ‘Willlam McKinley was born at Niles, 0., January 20, 1843. People should not allow themselves to be confused as to the date because the Canton celebra- ton was held two days hiead of time. The lower house of congress has passed a bill granting to the states con- trol of original packages. If the bill becomes a law, Kansas and Towa prohi- bitionists will be able to catch their medicine coming and going. A chance to get solid with the su- preme court commissioners by rushing Into print in defense of the commission 18 npt to be lost by the far-seeing law- yer who hopes to have a case appealed to the highest court some day. — It the bill to purify elections intro- duced by Representative Gilbert of Omaha will accomplish what is prom- | Ised for it, it should pass by all means. There 1s a long-felt want for an in- fallible primary election purifier. Minnesota lawmakers are memorializ- mg congress to take the tariff off of lumber. If the present fuel situation Justifies the removal of the coal duties, perhaps it might be made to cover also taking the duty off of cordwood. President Roosevelt's judgment in ac- cording President McKinley the place In Amerlean history ranking in fmpor- tance next to Washington and Lincoln will be affirmed by the sober sense of | svery thoughtful American citizen. The responsibility New Jersey rallroad twenty-two lives with unanimity upon Engineer Davis. It is noteworthy also that Engineer Davis 1s dead and,can not deny his guilt, for the wreck terrible in which were lost is placed The strike leaders business with President Burt, but| whether President Burt is ready to talk business with the strike leaders is still problematic. Up to date Mr, Burt has | led them a very pretty dance without talking business. ady to talk Kansas women suffragists think they have found the sympatiy they of ghat state, which, they hope to| persuade Iuto passiug & sullrage bill for them, This should be uotice enough for Carrle Nation to prepare to go home and exchange her byftleax for a ballot. Our Swedlsh-American citizens who have undertakén to raise funds for the rellef of distressed Swedes In the home country are making good headway, over §20,000 having already begn seut from Chicago alone. The object is not only & most worthy one, but we may be of | | doubtless well informed on this point, a | the railroads of Nebraska pay any more | cifie coast, so that a vigorous opposition | have | should carefully read. been seeking In the present legislature | 1 ENLIGHTENING THE PEOPLE In his letter to the Omaba Real Estate | exchange John N. Baldwin calls atten tlon to the fact that the railroad com panies of Nebruska have within the ! past year spent a great deal of money 50y | to enlighten the people of this state as |he advocated with such ma to rallroad taxation and tax reform This voluntary contribution on the part | the railronds to the knowledge is sald to have aggregated | £30,000, which if properly distributed | along each line was doubtless expected | to take the place of the distribution ¢ railway valuations which ratirond a sessing bonrds have been presumed to ! but have never made. | to Mr. Baldwin, who is| sum of human | According very large block of the rallroad educa- | tional campalgn fund was apportioned among more than 250 country news papers and a few thousand dollars ex- pended for bulletins, circnlars and per- suaders. The unaccounted-for balance is #aid to have been put out for carry- ing primaries and paying the campaign assessments for candidates in the Sec- ond congressional district. With so much light diffused at the expense of the raflroads for the infor- mation of the people, every member of the legislature should be convinced that it would be a great injustice to make w0 taxes than they have been paying in the past or are willing to pay in the future. Such a course would compel them to dispense with the services of Mr. Baldwin's retinue of ready writers | and legislative persuaders, besides put- ting thelr auditors and accountants to a great deal of trouble to cover up the expenses of the oil-room department and subsidies distributed to influential or handy men of all partles along. their lines. THE AMERIOAN CASE. The treaty relating to the Alaskan boundary dispute provides that it shall be submitted to a commission of six Jurists, three appointed by the United States and three by Great Britain. According to reports from Washington the agreement s recognized as one of Secretary Hay's most notable diplo- matic triumphs. According to the cor- respondent of the New York Tribune, it s particularly gratifying to the offi- clal world at the national capital, since it is identical with the proposition sub- mitted by the secretary of state in 1809 and rejected by the British members of the joint high commission appointed to settle all outstanding differences be- tween the United States and Great Britain, It is evident, however, that there is some dissatisfaction with the treaty, a resolution having been introduced in the Louse of representatives by Mr. Jones of the state of Washington de- claring that the United States should entertain no proposition looking to a new interpretation of the treaty of 1825 between Russia and Great Britmin fix- ing the Alaskan boundary line, and “that the officials of this government should notify Great Britain that it will absolutely refuse to entertain or consider any other interpretation of sald {reaty than that accepted by all partles for more than fifty years, and that the United States proposes and is prepared to maintain its rights under the Interpretation until after the dis-| covery of gold in the Klondike.” It will doubtless be found that this resolution flects the general feeling on the Pa- to the agreement may be expected from that quarter. It I8 said to be the understanding that the treaty was drawn up after a thorough consultation with the leading members of the senate of both parties and that an effort will be made to secure ratification before the end of the present session. It is not probable, however, that this can be done, particularly If there should be a stout opposition on the part of Pacific const senators. The American case rests wholly on the express delimitation of the boundary | given In the treaty of 1825 between Russia and Great Britais and upon this our government has firmly insisted. This treaty was undisputed for half a century, or until the discovery of gold and the Increased wealth of Alaska gave the Canadians an incentive to | claim territory that was in American possession, under an interpretation of the treaty between Russia and Great Britain that had never before been thought of. The are abundant facts showing the speclousness of the Cana- dlan position THE M'KINLEY ANNIVERSARY. Today is the sixtieth anniversary of the birthday of Willlam MeKinley. It will be widely observed, not by public demoustrations, but by such celebration as will duly honor the anniversary and glve opportunity for renewed considera- tion of the career and the character of that distinguished man. There bas already been given to the country, in eloquent words, President Roosevelt's estimate of M¢Kinley and it is a con- tribution to the eulogies upon the martyr president which every American he place to be asslgned to William McKinley, among the statesmen- who srformed illustrious service for th republic, may be left to the future his torian. We of todiay need-only record our recognition of his wisdom, his patriotism, Lis faith in the people, his devotion to the public welfare, his be- liéf in the greatness of the country's destiny and his eplendld personal ex- ample. Coming from the plain people, no man ever in American public life took a deeper interest in them than MeKinley. Therefore from the begin- sure the Swedes would not call for help from abroad unless the necessities of the case were most urgent. Our public- spirited citizens withoot regard to nationality should do they cou to cncourage this laudable movement. ning of his publie career he was the | great industrial development ¢ | in I"' last session embodying its budget for | more this year and strongest claim to the affectionate | next summer, but it they arrive at any re- remembrance of his conntrymen. Our uring the to the coun i te his wisdom; the prospe try the past dozen years bears testimony attests abilit give the tioned leadership am This place and as to him unques. ng protectionists. | him, gn him to whatever position it may ass Willlam McKinley's manifegted the patriotism was when b it grew | | in other respects [ | | in his boyhood, entered union army, and with the It was not a boastful or obtrusiv riot'sm, but it was of that nature which gave him a profound sense of the greatness and dignity of country and made him feel that| this republic was to become the leader | the work of civilization, in the ad- | vancement of popular liberty and in the promotion of ped among the nations. Thoroughly American in all his sympa thies, he felt that one of the great family of nations it was our duty to cultivate the friendship and win the respect and confidence of other countries. Thus under his guidance the forelgn policy of the United States, in war and In peace, was conservative and careful, and while firmly insistent upon maintaining Ameriean righis and | protecting American interests, never of- fensive, At no time in our history was the foreign pollcy of the government more wisely and judiclously conducted than during the McKinley administra- tion, with the creasing States. McKinley was a man of peace and accepted war only when it became in evitable. Whether or not the best wis dom was shown in what followed war time will determine, but that William | McKinley acted from a conscientious | conviction of duty none ean doubt and the popular judgment approved his course. As a statesman, ever be his rank among other great Americans, he was ever aetuated by the highest motives. As a citizen he was faithful to every duty, leaving to his countrs men an example in every way worthy of emulation. his yet as result of very greatly in- the influence of the United LET THE BOARD RECONSIDER. The Board of Education should con- vene in special meeting without delay | to reconsider the resolution passed at | the ensuing year and cut the tax levy demanded from mills 2 mills, Analysis of the expenditures of last | year shows that the estimated increases | in the varlous items for school main-| tenance are out of all justifiable propor- tion. In addition to this, in order to conjure up a pretext for an excessive tax levy, the board has overstepped | the law, which limits its appropriations in any one year for new buildings and sites to $25,000. There certainly has been no such in- crease in the school population and the demands on the public schools to call for a draft on the taxpayers for $50,000 than expended PY to was altogethen on the schools last year, in- cluding a goodly sum for construction. It will not be claimed that a reduction of the school levy to more reasonable proportions will impair the efficiency of | our schools in the least, while the com- | plete abandonment of every part of the retrenchment program leaves no legitl- mate room for demands for salary in- creases. keep in harmony with public sentiment | chiet ot | while they decrcased in other parts of ithe | | beyond their control. | of the wora the If the members of the board want to | cause mental and physical une | to prevent the concentration of attention to they will get the school levy down to | 2 mills and take the credit for it. When Hascall ran away from week's meeting of the city counell to break a quorum and Whitehorn kept away from the council altogether, every- body conversant with the situation | pearance at the last meeting must, therefore, be ascribed to the same i fluence. But Omaha surely does not| elect city councils for the benefit of any | franchised corporation or any individ- | ual. Its taxpayers have a right to de- ! mand and expect that councilmen will | transact the business of the city or re- | sign. There is absolutely no excuse for such seandalous performances as have | been witnessed in this city within the past six da; There 1s a limit to popular endurance, If there is money enough in the police fund to increase the forc it was the plain duty of the police hoard to rein- state the men laid off under pretext of insufficiency of funds. If these men are guilty of any misconduct as police officers they should have been arraigned on specific charges and if convieted on credible testimony should have been dropped for cause. That, at any rate, is the spirit of the law. But the re- form police board does not appear to be governed by law, but by ice. The Nebraska iture 8 not the only law-making body in America that is pestered by a corpofation lobby ex legls debauch members, but nowhere in Amerlea are these corruptionists so brazen and audacious, and nowhere els are men Imported from nelghboring states to dispense railroad refreshimengs and railroad instruction to the le tors. There is only one John N win, And now San Domingo has volun teered to refer to The Hague court a disputed claim of an American concern for whose arbitration the United States government has been pressing. Mem bers of The Hague tribunal are in uo danger yet, however, of champlon of the poliey Which he belived necessary to the welfare of labor, to the {mprovement and elevation of the wage earper. What be did- n this respect belug over worked. Baltimg pressly hired and paid to corrupt and | | cases is to treat the juror ai | had come to court to be bribed and per- last | verted, rather than to lend his ear to an | therefore, tends to {nduce a juror called for | qualification to express such views | excuse him from serving. knew it was by command. The failure | cause they say that they are opposed to of these councilmen to put in an ap- | capital punishment, but it is more Ikely | blame, should be. punished as well as the sult, these results may be put in cold stor- ' age for use mext winter. Missed the Target, Washington Post The indicted Chicago coal dealers have all filed into court and admitted heir innocence. The responeibility for the high therefore, fs still at large prices Trouhles of the Rich. 8t. Louls Globe-Democrat Despite the possession of vast riches | Mr. Rockefeller is not a oontented man. | He longs for a good appetite, a cure for nervousness, a panacea for insomnia and a chance to make more money. Driving n Good Bargain, Loutsville Courfer-Journal. According to the canal treaty, Colom- bia s to get $10,000,000 down and $250,- 000 a year rental for the territorial con- | ceselon to the United States. Colombia | eems to have driven a pretty good bar- | gain. It she had it she could well afford to pay the United States that much money to dig the canal | | | | Promot ot J we Day. Minneapolis Times. The appointment of Judge Willlam R Day as a justice of the supreme court of the United States will be generally con- ceded to be a good ome. As practicing lawyer and jurist Judge Day enjoyed many years' experience prior to his appointment s assistant secretary of state. Becoming that department and afterward commissioner to the Paris conference at the close of the Spanieh-American war, he | had an opportunity to demonstrate his ability and to grow and broaden. One Year's Business Fallures. Philadelphia Press. | The proportion of men in business who | failed in 1902, according to Bradstreet's, | was the smallest fn twenty years, which speaks well for the country. The failures ! in the entire country decreased 675, as ompared with the preceding year. In the | south the fallures increased 15 per cent, | country as follows: 7.4 per cent in the middle states, 16 per cent in the eastern states, 6 per cent in the west, 18 per cent in the northwest and 5 per cent in the Pacific states. Of the 11,068 failures In the United States and Canada, 10,289, or 93 per cent, did not have to exceed $5,000 capital in any case, and 76 per cent of the failures were due to the faults of those falling, the remalnder being due to circumstances Does “II1" Mean “Stek " Harper's Weekly. There are sigoe of an existing propen- sity to constrain the partial withdrawal of the word “sick” from tBe American lan- | guage in favor of the word “ilL" News- | papers in their headlines and elsewhere speak nowadays of “a very 1l man.” It used to be “a very sick man. Why ihe | change? “An 1l wind" Is a satistactory | use of language, but “‘an ill man" grates on | the ear and sounds like an attempt to im- | prove on a usage that had no perceptible defect. They say this new whim s a cuphemism imported from England. A correspondent of a Boston paper discusses and disapproves it, protesting not only against the use of the unwarrantable ad- verb “llly,” but agalnst the “‘growing use | 41 in place of the homely word ‘sick’.” This Boston protestant, quoting Webstur, finds that Shakespeare, with hardly «an exception, uses “Ill" to mean mental, moral or impersonal disor- | ders. “Ill at ease,” 1l advised,” i1l bred, “ill fares' are all it and familiar uses of a good and industrious little word that has | plenty of legitimate, work of its own to do withgut being constrained to figure as a feeble substitute for “sick.” ISOLATION OF JURORS. Pronounced a Relic of Barbarism by Massachusetts’ Attorney General. Boston Globe. Attorney General Parker shows a pro- gressive mind in his report, handed to the legislature, touching the antiquated rules of procedure with jurors in criminal cases. He belleves that isolation of jurors is a sort of relic of barbarism which quite leaves out modern investigations In psychology. Its temdency is to distract normal processes of reasoning, to iness and the evidence and issues before them. The traditional court usage in criminal though he impartial trial. The dread of confinement, may Men are excused from jury service be- that their dread of confinement for several weeks 1s at the bottom of it. Mr. Parker does not belleve that such restraint as is commonly practiced 1s necessary to deter interested parties from corrupting jurors, who as a class are men fn whose integrity we can generally impose | tmplicit faith, | The whole spirft of proper court pro- cedure has been greatly modified by modern psychological research. The pessimistic view of crime and criminals has given way largely to modern civilization. It is pleas- ant to feel that we have an attorney gen- | eral who realizes it. STOP REBATES ON RAILROADS, Measure Designed to Suppress a Com- mon Evil Philadelphia Press. The bill to amend the interstate com- merce law, which Mr. Elkin Introduced in the senate, is one that migtt well be con- sidered and passed at this session of con- gress. It provides for the punishment of those who receive as well as those who give rebates, as recommended by Attorney Gen- eral Knox. That clause alone, it placed on the statute books, would do much to stop | the wholesale nullification of existing laws | by both the raliroads and certain large | shippers. The Interstate Commerce commission had no difficulty in getting testimony last year | to show that every railroad shipping goods | east from Kansas City and other places violated the law and secretly cut rates and gave rebates. But mot % person was punished. A dishomest railroad man by | pursuing that course may force all of his competitors practically to do the same thing. The shippers, who are chiefly to railroads who give the rebates. There might be some hope then of stopping this gross injustice The bill provides for the punishment n[‘ corporations by fines instead of imprison- ment and fixes rules for obtaining injunc- tions to prevent discriminations, although | there should be such punishment inflicted | as would make injunctions unneccessary. The measure does not provide for all the needed legislation on this subject, but that is where the senate has for years falled to do anything. The desire has been to cure a bill covering all of the points on which legislation is required and as a re- sult nothing has been done, and nothing will be done if that policy s pursued This bill covers a few poluts to which there can be no objection. Pase euch a bill and leave the contested polnts for a The varfous lnvestigations into the coal separate measure. Then something may be unquestionably gave him his highest | problem will possibly be finished some time | accomplished. | cannot be forced while any | the { et | result BITS OF WASHINGTON LIF Minor Scenes and Incldents Sketehed | on the Spot. | 1t 1s generally conceded by Wash correspondents that Senator Matthew ley Quay is boss of the situation in upper house so far as concerns the on bus statehood bill, and can, it h vent consideration of other matter A vote s had.on the measure. But mmtor wi Mr. pressing the me ngt n wills, pr ntil to prelong the conversation not as urgent in a vote as he was the fore part of the and the reason is explained by the ington Post, which says: “Upon the of Senator Nelson of Minnesota there is a big book. A queer light shines in the eye of the North Star state senator as h the book to the chamber morning, opens its broad pages out the same and studies compla delicate band of saffron-colored which marks the page in which keenly interested “One of these days there will be a lull in statehood debate, and Mr. Quay will demand a vote, since nobody {s ready with a speech. Then and there Mr. Nelson will the big book with its band of broad saffron ribbon and address the chair. He will send to the clerk’s desk to k read the mighty tariff speech which made Sen- | ator Quay famous some years ago in con- nection with the Wilson bill “It will be several days thereafter before the opposition orators need worry them- selves about filling time to prevent Mr. | Quay from reaching a vote.” | Quay | Wagh Kk desk senate every smoothes ntly ribbon he is so The auction of White House furniture | that has been discarded since the remodel- ing of that building proved a disappoint ment 8o far as the prices brought by the articles were concerned.” There was very lttle competition at the sale, with the that many good bargains were The glass gas shades were sold cents aplece and a large bookcase went for $1.50. The billlard table, which purchased by President Garfield, brought forward a number of bidders. It was in a dilapidated condition. Accom panylng it were two old battered cues marked “C. A. A.”* and “C. A. A., Jr." the tnitlals of President Arthur and his son, who were fond of biliards | Gas fixtures of ancient design were knocked down at insignificant figures and a | number of mirrors were sold cheap, owing | to the old-fashioned manner in which they | were mounted. An 8,000 chandelier, con- talning 4,400 pieces of cut glass adornments, | was saved from the hammer by Colomel | Bingham, who ordered the plece sent to the capitol. There were also chandeliers taken trom the Bast room, which were superseded by electric fixtures. A large sldeboard, beautifully carved, which was used in the White House dining room for half a cen- tury, drew only a fair price, while a high | mantel of antique design brought almost | nothing. There were twenty barrels of smaller ornaments, bric-a-brac, etc. Win- dow frames, grates and other furnishings of lke character were sold at low prices to contractors, who will dispose of them to collectors of curios. | secured at 15 was Representative Mondell of Wyoming made a speech on irrigation in the house. In | the course of his speech he sald: “You must remember that we inherit as | a people, as viewed from an irrigation standpoint, a very extraordinary rule for the vse of water, that rule under which the bucolic owner of a few rods of reed- bordered shore along the lower courses of some great river gystem largely controls its destiny, from its birth amid the snow- clad mountains, in its meanderings through | rich ‘and fertile agricultiral regions, past | mighty cities, to where it fiings itself into | the bosom of the briny deep.” “Hoop-1a!"" shouted “Uncle” Joe Cannon. Colonel Theodore Bingham, Fuperintend- ent of public buildings and grounds in Washington, In his report to congress, asks for an appropriation of $110,264 for the White House for the coming year, against $35,000 for the present year. The report says: “The recent changes in the White House have resulted in a buflding far more expensive to maintain than formerly. The character of the new fittings and new fur- | nishings s such that repairs and replacing will be more expensive than before, and it | will be more expensive to replace speclally | designed silver doornobs and escutcheons, silver and gllt hinges, etc. Hardwood | floors and tiling will require extra labor to keep in order. More help will be needed in the laundry, owing to the large family which occuples the White House and the large amount of entertaining done.” Washington s a paradise for the unfor- tunate blind. Not far from the city, in one of the attractive suburbs, is of the most perfectly appointed colleges for Ulvl‘ education of the blind in the United States, or perhaps in the world. In the congres- sional library there is a reading room set | apart for the exclusive use of the biind and stocked with books printed in raised letters. Attendants are on duty at all times to care for those who patronize this | section of the library. Once each week an | entertainment, generally a musicale, is held. | ey I e eraiog | Senator Tillman thought of something. It | was just after Dolilver had delivered 'h!“ tarift speech which caused such consterna- one w tion on the republican side of the chamber. | Tillman walked over to the lowa man and | said: “Dolliver, do you know what Aldrich says about you? 0, what Is 1t?" “He says you remind him of a mass meeting and that all you need is a greased pole and | & merry-go-round to be o county fair.” | Dolliver flushed up and looked over toward Aldrich, but on reflection let the matter drop, not heing quite perhaps, that the southerner was telling the exact truth, a sure A young anl enthusiastic reporter went to see Senator Quay a few nights ago about gome phase of Pennsylvania politics. He found the senator reading in his library. There was some general conversation. Just | as the reporter was ready to spring his first question, Senator Quay asked “Do you like to play poker? “Sometimes I play,” the reporter con- fessed “well,” like this little Ware. I think have seen.” He handed a book to the reporter, who, out of politeness, read a page “Ah,” sald the senator, "'l see you are interested. Take the book aiong and read it at your leisure. Good evening When the dazed reporter got outside he looked more closely at the “little” poker story by Ware. It was fifty-nine page long. said the senator, 1 poker story it is one of “then by the you'll gene best I When John D. Long was secretary of the navy one of his subordinates was a dapper | lttle man whose Skeeters. He clined at times, secretary foand somebody for drunkenness the occasion to deliver a tempe e | lecture, being & teetotaler himse ot | course, Mr. Skeeters, he sald 1 not drink.” “Oh, certainly not, Mr. re- | tary,” was the reply “omly nedicinal purposes. 1 generally take little toddy at meal times.” “And what does Mrs. Skeeters say?' sald the secretary reproach fully. “Geberally she says, ‘Skeeter here's your toddy,’ and that's all. name closely re was rather 0 one it ne sembles bibulousiy morning when essary. to ss | ke embraced | in dism you for | ser | step { able dist ICTION OF A LIFE WORK, Importance of Ave the & o, Mard, Forcing young p atlons they - 8 n in Success. can possibly Hat a1, regardle is often irrepar soclety as a whole knows nv hi able to do rately ruln their chil but ently n's futur strong I know a number of young people naving marked ability in cer are probably capable of making great reputa- but being held back by parents who do not happen to think it wise or prudent for their children to strive to express what the Creator has locked thin them, and so they are cramped and happy. It is serious business even for a parent le o God-given ambition, to dampen a divine aspiration. If a decided talent has by it into a child a parent should think many times before taking the responsibility of countermanding the Cre- ator’s order. Every child comes into the world with sealed orders from the Infinite hand and even the fondest parent cannot certalnly read the secret message written within that bit of clay. The child has certain in- allenable rights which even the parent has no right to question or to try to modity Selecting a life work is serious busi- ness. It should be done only after care- ful study and test of aptitudes, fitness and tastes, by both the person choosing and those having authority with him, un- less his bent speaks so loudly in his blood and his dominant facultles are so impera- tive in thelr expression of choice that he annot mistake the calling for which he fs fitted. It is everything to a boy or a girl ain lines who ons who are | to get into just the right place, where the find a highest and noblest faculties will healthy and delightful exercise instead of the lowest and meanest. To do the kind of worl for which one is fitted by nature, and to do it to the best of one's ability, is working along the lines of one's strength, which increases with every well directed effort PERSONAL NOTES. Apoitle’ Reed Smoot is a good talker. This is fortunate, as the senate s in great need of some more good talkers. Leonard Roeder, the oldest citizen of TIli- nols, died at Quincy on Wednesday. ©ed in the German army under Blucher, the battle of Waterloo. Thirty-one huge and exceedingly strong Havana clgare are the daily allowance of King Carlos of Portugal, the biggest and fattest of all the reigning monarchs of the old world. The duke of Manchester, Cincinnati's lovely son-in-law, was greeted on his ar- rival in New York the other day with an attachment for his baggage and an unpald jeweler's bill. The attachment pained the duke, but it didn’t touch Papa Zimmerman. R. H. Milward, the Birmingham solicitor who drew up the marriage settlement be- tween Miss Vanderbllt and the duke of Marlbhorough, has been sentenced to six years' servitude for misappropriating trust moneys. His embezzlements amounted to $420,000. A genlus In Germany has invented an appliance to measure mental fatigue. Un- less it will register the cause in letters #0 large that he who looks may read at it will not contribute much to the sum of | human knowledge. People afflicted with the tired feeling do not need a machine half | & much a a high ball or similar confection. The long-promised Blography of Benjamin Disraell, Lord Beaconsfield, is to be pub- lished this year. The name of the author is not announced. It is mot, at any rate, Lord Rowton, who by the terms of Di raeli’s will Is in possession of all the per- sonal documents and correspondence. It 18 intimated, however, that to many of them access has not been refused. 4 Senator Hoar heard the other day that an old lady in reduced circumstances had a fine portrait of Daniel Webster. The sena- tor, who owns the largest collection of Websteriana in the country, hurrled to the address given and shortly owned the paint- ing, which is from the brush of Chester Harding, well known in art circles sixty years ago. He thinks it is one of the finest portraits of Webster in existence. Congressman Crumpacker of Indiana, while in Indianapolis recently, secured for one of his constituents a position in the file rooms of the state capitol. He re- quested the man to come on at once. The constituent hastened to Indianapolls with the avidity a Hoosler usually displays when there 1s an office in sight, but he carried with him a satchel full of files of every variety that a machinist could devise. Brigadier General Edward M. Hayes, just promoted from the coloneley of the Thir- teenth cavalry regiment, is the officer of longest commission in the United States army. He entered the service as a bugler in 1855, when but 13 years old, and has risen by step from that rank. He served during the civil war and achieved consider- tion in later Indian troubles on the frontier. He has been wounded a num- ber of times, A gcod many of Congressman Shattuc's colleagues have felt the sting of his ready wit at times, and few care to engage In repartee with him. The Ohio man who down to defeat last fall told some friends last week that he had purchased bird dogs, giving $1,000 apiece for This gave a fellow member a long- opportunity and he sald: “Well, Shattue, if you're rich enough to pay $1,000 aplece for dogs it's about time you retired.” two them sought ding Mistakes at into the first situ- ot differ- iemnation can be too oh | but was not with him in that of 181 He ROMANCE AND POLITIC! Deplorable Denth of Soldier of Liherty. a Chivelroue 8t. Louls Globe-D The South lina which Narcieo G. Gonzales, ¢ Colum- " bla State, was assasstnated feutenant Governor Tillman, recall ments for the freedom of Cut dently shows the vast h Amerfcan Iife has over ments country’s popy brose Jose Gonzales, the father dered editor, was the second 1 in the first filibustering expedi sent from the United States | which, under the command ot | Lopez, landed in that fsland fn 1849 zales was with Lopez In two the carlier move- and inel- ng power the ele- Am- f the mur- nmand m - ever that assim to Cuba n- expeditions, in which Lopez was captured and ex the Spaniarde. Seeing that ther chance, at least at that time, Cuba from Spain, Gon s, who was a native of Cuba, settled in South Carolin: fdentified himsclf actively with that s interests, entered the confe te army 1861, and served through the war, being Joe Johnston's chiet of artillery at the surrender in 1865 In one respoct did the younger Gonzales, | who was born just befora South seceded, differ from the rest Carolinfans of education, character and balance. Through his father he inherited a devotion to the interests of Cuba, but he wanted Cuba to become part of the United States. For a short time ho had a connection with the rebellion which began in 1896, serving under Gomez in 1898, when the Americans were driving the Spanfards out of the fsland. He was active in the social and political lite of South Carolina, and belonged to the conservative element of its people, that which was represented by Butler and Hampton In the senate in the latter days, and which was assalled by Tillman, the present senator, who led tho revolt which overthrew the old regime and put an entirely new order of men in con trol In the state's local and national af- tairs. Gonzales had a forelgn sound to those ac- customed to the Anglo-Saxon names, but there was nothing foreign about the man whom South Carolina’s recent licutenant governor assassinated. The W which he published at South capital was conservative, sane and oughly American In tone. He himself stood with the ingredient of the population which gave that state ita Ieading place in the days when it was a powerful force in the politics of the country. No more pub lic-spirited and patriotic person could be found in the country than this m of the old Cuban Insurgent of half a contury ago. No Smith, Brown or Jones was more thor- oughly assimilated by the Americanizing influences of his environment than was this man with the Spanish name, whose first 1n- troduction to the great mass of his coun- trymen was through the tragedy which ended his life. There are no lines of de- marcation in the populace of the United | Btates, The men of the second generation of residents in this country, and in many Instances those of the first generation, the naturalized citizens of foreign hbirth, are usually as thoroughly Infused with the American spirit as are the descondants of thoee who came over in the Mayflower. e FLASHES OF FUN, cuted by was no for wresting Carolina of tha South paper Carolina's ““Patlence,” said Uncle Eben, m’ril\le H|n mf\ln doesn't gib u siness in order o ‘tend to | ton Star. stk “ls & great p, bis regular —Washing- “I never could understand why puts anything on her face. ng one but herself." “Isn't that enough a woman She deceives Brooklyn Life, “I've been told,”" sald the amateur, “that I'm a good actor. What do you think o it a you think of 1 think there are some this world."—Chicago Poat, ~ 1" Uers n s theatrical life expensive?” “Well, it takes quite a figure to go the stage.—Detrolt Free pross. ©o "TO" Elderly Sultor—Don't eould learn to love me? Elderly Maiden Elderly Suitor—W old to learn.—Degre you think I don't think so, 1 guess you are too Free Press “What would you ( found you had a gathering on th your neck?" the skeptical “Command it to disperse, healer.—Chicago Tribune. She looked up from her paper In aston- tshment. ‘Here's an item,” she said who has a second uth in her cheek.” ow, there's the only girl T ever heard Le returned, “who was worth kissing on the cheek."—Chicago Post. A FOOL'S WISDOM, you for instance, 1f you back ot crson inquired sald the mtd “about a girl perfectly developed E. P. Larken in Longman's. He loved to watch the swallows Low down across the reedy While brown birds sang hymn, The man’ who was three-parts a fool. wim pool, their eventng He loved to hear With smiling tre: or, on a lonely rock To fac Red gold he worshiped with the best Of striving, greedy sons of men Skyward the fields lay, in the West, In which he sought and found his gain. he summer s chery Kiss th and free, the wild waves' besiial roar. shore; He loved the scent of autumn trees, The soft, sad sound of winter snow The whispering of the summer breege, And the spring’s footfall sweet and slow. Life was to him a varying dream, A pageant str ov grim, now fair; The very city's self did The casket of some jewel rare And 0 he dreamed the yvears ¢ Until he left the lower scl Learning his lessons in hix | The man who was three-j restores color to gray hair. yer's Hair Vigor Makes grow. the hair Checks falling, 3.0. Ayer Oo., Lowell, Mass. A