Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 13, 1903, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. ERY MORNING. PUBLISHED BV TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Bee (without Sunday), One ¥ Paily Hee and Sunday, One Year. Liiustrated Bee, One Year........ Bunday Bee, One Year.. Baturday Bee, One Year........ . Twentleth Century Farmer, One Year.. DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Bee (without Sunday), per copy.. e (without Bunday), per week..12c D: (ncluding Bunday), per week..17c Bunday Bee, per copy.. e Bee (without Sunday), per Bee (Including Sunday), Dally y week Seopasegns Complaints of irregularities 'in delivery should be addressed to City Circulation De- partment. OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Bullding. South Omana—city Hall Buflding, Twen- ty-fifth and M Bireets. Coungll Bluffs—10 Pear] Street. Chic 14 Unity Bullding. New York—28 Park Row Bullding. Washington—1 Fourteenth Btreet. 3 CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and ed- ftorial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorlal Department. REMITTANCES, Remit by draft, express or postal order, avable to The flee Publishing Company, nly 2-cent stamps accepted In payment o malil accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha _or eastern exchange, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION, Btate of Ye’!hruh. Douglas Coun"_i_ Beo eory Tzschick, secretary of Publishing Company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complete rning, Evering and jec printed during the month of Less unsold and returned coples Net total sales Net average sales. GEORGE B, TZSCHUCK. Bubscribed in my p.esence and sworn o 28t el . D. before me this 25th day of February, A (Seal.) Notary Publle. D ] The Southwest Improvement club has thrown out its tow line for an extensiou of street car service over Twenty-fourth street to South Omaha. Sep—— If the Chicago Great Western will only set the day Omaha people will be pleased to make arrangements to cele- Dbrate its entry in fitting style. E— Judging from the way he talks on the canal treaty, Senator Morgan must im- agine himself the whole treaty-ratifying power instead of only one-ninetieth part of it. e p—— St. Louls wants all the national nom- inating conventions for next year. It hardly dares hope, however, that the prohibitionists will be disposed to accept the invitation. em— The advent of spring is manifest by the waning memory of the oldest inhab- itant, who annually assures the younger generation that “the spring floods of this year have broken all records.” S ——— Competing telegraph companies are compelled to connect with each other in the transmission of dispatches. Why should not competing telephone com- panies be on the same footing? Alexander IIT ought to have birthday anniversaries oftener If they would move the present czar to grant his Russlan subjects still further conces- slons in the direction of individual liberty. SEpeep——— Whenever the United States senate wants to revise its rules with a view to shutting off perennial debate the re- vision is not to take place until the next session. And the next session never arrives. | Emm—— It Is only fair to explain that the Midway islands that have just come into our possession are located in the mid-Pacific ocean and not on the Skinker road In the St. Louls world's falr grounds, The merger of sugar plants out in Cali- fornia is of course like all the other mergers, solely in the Interest of economy in production and distribution, in which the consumer may expect to share, but the price of sugar will not suffer any decline on that account. The suspension of a division chief in the Postoffice department at Washing- ton for borrowing money from his sub- ordinates Is just retribution. Had the offender only borrowed money from his superior officers also they might have been Interested enough to see that he did not lose his job. emmm————— The public service corporations will ve to pay taxes on an assessment de- termined by the market values of their outstanding stocks and bonds secured by their property and franchises. The rallroads should be compelled' to pay taxes on the same basis. No other plan will produce the uniformity guaranteed by our constitution. eEmm————— If every legislature still in session passes resolutions joining in the demand for a constitutional convention to sub- mit an amendment for direct popular election of senators the number of states on record for the proposition will be perilously near the requisite two-thirds. The consummation of this great reform is steadily coming closer and closer. E————— Can they crush Bryan in Nebraska? That question inst now seems to be paramount fu the minds of democratic editors and politiclans iu these parts. With every officer In the state house by from five to fifteen thousand majority and with 108 republicans iu the legislature out of a total member- ship of 133, the unclouded political mind ‘would naturally infer that there ls very Yttle more crushing to dev HOUSE RULL NO. 2% House Roll No. 236, which has been logrolled through the house under false pretenses and pushed through the sen- ate committee on elections without de- liberation or discussion, should either be radically amended or indefinitely postponed. Ostensibly this bill was de- signed to effect the puriffeation of po- litical primarfes and that portion of it relating to affidavit voting may, If prop- erly enforced, work a desired reform, but the real object of the bill as em- bodied in the first section is not merely designed to subserve factional ends, but to destroy the secrecy of the ballot. The registration laws of Nebraska grant to each voter the privilege of recording his party affillation and the political committees very properly ex- clude from participation in any primary election all who have not declared their affiliation with the party. When a man declares under oath that he is affiliated with the republican, democratic, popu- list or prohibition party, his right to vote at the primary of the party he claims to be afiliated with is assured and In case of challenge the only legiti- mate questions he is obliged to answer are concerning his citizenship and resi- dence. ' To compel a voter to disclose whether he voted for all of the candidates of his party at the preceding election is an in- quisitorial proceeding that would de- stroy the very object for which the Aus- tralian ballot was enacted. It is a mat- ter of notoriety that workingmen em- ploved in Omaha and South Omaha in mills, factories and packing houses were dragooned Into voting the Mercer ticket at the last primary election, but did not vote for Mercer at the regular election. To compel them to disclose for what candidates they voted and for what can- didates they did not vote would expose these men to persecution and possibly discharge from employment. To refuse them the privilege of voting at the pri- mary of the party with which they or- dinarily afiliate would be disfranchise- ment. The effect of that provision of House Roll 236 that authorizes inquisitorial in- terrogatories would be elther to dis- franchise large numbers of voters or to encourage wholesale perjury. In Omaha and South Omaba its effect would more- over be to fence out hundreds of legiti- mate party voters. The object of the existing registration law Is to expedite voting in cities. When a citizen has ouce complied with the requirements of the law the election board s presumed to allow him full exercise of his fran- chise without let or hindrance unless challenged on suspicion that he s per- sonating a registered voter or is fraudu- lently registered. In that case only is the board empowered to inquire Into his qualification as a voter, If every voter can be challenged in- discriminately concerning his political antecedents at a primary, what use is there of registration, or a declaration of affiliation? If a voter can be chal lenged under pretext that he did not vote for this or that candidate, or that he failed to vote for a majority of the candidates of his party at the preceding election, 1t will take from three to five minutes for every voter to pass the or- deal and at the utmost not more than 150 votes will be polled in any polling place, That portion of House Roll 236 re- lating to a swearing in of votes by affi- davit is not objectionable, although the reform aimed at could be reached by rules adopted by county and city com- mittees, who have ample power to pre- scribe the method of voting at primaries by affidavit or transfer certificates. In a nutshell, the most objectionable feature of House Roll 236 i that it at- tempts to make every election board a tribunal of inquisition into the political action of every soverelgn voter, who is presumed to be answerable to nobody except his own conscience regarding the votes he has given or withheld from candidates for office, —— FOREIGN VIEW OF OUR PROSPERITY. Financial and industrial conditions in this country command very great inter est abroad and there is just now a tendency to regard them somewhat pessimistically. In the opinion of some. of the foreign observers we have been indulging in a financial debauch, for which there must be a day of reckoning that may not be far off. One of these remarks that “no country can show con- tempt for sound business rules with im- punity,” which is entirely true, but it is not shown that this country has been doing this. The writer who makes this remark polnts to a few facts, chiefly of a financial character, which give a meas- ure of plausibility to what ke says, but he overlooks a great many others that do not support his conclusion that we heve beew, showing contempt for sound business rules. It must be admitted, of course, that there has been speculation, in some di- rections to perhaps an unsafe extent. It will be conceded that finadclal opera- tions have not always been upon a con- servative basis. There has been a vast overcapitalization of industrial combina- tions and no little recklessness In the financial support given to the promotion of such combinations. Corporate ex- ploitation has been carried on during the last five or six years to a dangerous extent. But npotwithstanding these things there are many and substantial evidences of prosperity which furnish a sound basis for American confidence in the immediate future. We have been steadily developing our Jndustries and moving forward toward commercial supremacy. Whereas ten years ago the manufactures exnorted were less than a Afth of the total exports they now amount to a third. Last year the iron and steel Industries were unprecedentedly prosperous and they are still active. Never were the agricultural interests in better condition than now. The new mileage added to the raliroads last year ‘was greater than for & number of years and the demand upon transportation has been larger than ever before experi- enced. Vast as has been the production of all Industrial enterprises, there is no sign yet of everproduction of the com- modities in which commerce deals. Such are the evidences of a sound and legitimate prosperity, for the continu ance of which the promise Is most favorable. As an eastern paper remarks, Buropean distrust of American con- ditions betrays as incomplete an under- standing of their strength and direction as European talk of a trade boycott against the United States. “The forces that would have to be thrown out of gear in order to terminate the present prosperity era are difficult to divert from their path as the forces that would have to be brought into new combina- tion in order to organize the Industry of the continent as & unit against the United States.” It Is true there Is nearly always present the danger of overspeculation and of an unsafe ex- tension of credits, but the immediate tendency Is toward conservatism and this is certainly to be encouraged. It s not a favorable time for promoting over- capitalized corporations and it is a re- assuring fact that this is not being done. As to the general business interests of the country they are still on a healthy basis and the outlook for them is highly satisfactory. — WOULD DEFEAT THE OANAL, If the proposition should prevail to amend the Panama canal treaty so as to provide that the United Stdtes shall owr outright the territory through which the canal passes, or the neces- sary strip on each side of the canal, with the right to fortify, the probable result would be the failure of the en- terprise. This question of acquiring ter- ritory from Colombia has been most fully considered and the fact clearly es- tablished that the constitution of that country does not permit the alienation of any of its territory. The treaty goes as far as the Colomblan government can copstitutionally go in the conces- sfon of tefritory. It gives the United States such control over the canal and the strip of land on either side of it as amounts practically to sovereignty. Our government would exercise every right and authority necessary to the manage- ment and protection of the canal and there Is no reason to doubt that this would be perpetual. With the canal constructed there would uvever be any serlous danger of luterference with the control awd authority of the United Btates. As the New York Tribune remarks, this country Is not in the business of aonexing South American territory. To ask Colombia to do that which is Inhib- ited by her constitution would cer- taluly not be creditable to this govern- ment and it is to be regretted that such a proposition should be seriously pre- sented In the senate. Ee—————— ACCEPTS THE MONROE DOCTRINE, The Argentine Republic is the first of the South American countries to form- ally accept the Monroe doctritfe as a principle of American public law. Other southern countries have given indirect recognition to the doctrine, notably Venezuela, but it appears that Argen- tine is the first to give it direct ac- knowledgment and it is to be expected that her example will be generally fol- lowed in due course of time., The Argentine government submitted to the Amcrican Department of State a state ment of its views regarding the Hability of South American states for debts growing out of injuries to foreigners or of default in the payment of loans contracted by the state, desiring to know how the government of the United States regarded the question. It fs stated that in reply Secretary Hay quoted from President Roosevelt's mes- sages and advocated settlement of dis- putes by arbitration when the claims were not capable of adjustment by dip- lomacy. This appears to have been en- tirely satisfactory to the Argentine Z0v- ernment. There are the strongest reasons why the Latin-American republics should ac- knowledge and accept the Monroe doc- trine as a principle of American publie law and it is surprising that only one of them has done so. That doctrine was declared, nearly eighty years ago, for the protection of those countries against foreign aggression as well as for the security of the United States. It has protected them and will continue to do 80, yet they have falled to realize its value and importance and some of them have even been as hostile to it as European governments with whose col- onizing ambitions it interfered. The doctrine will stand whether the south- ern republics accept it or not, but a gen- eral acceptante on their part would be effective in silencing European antag- onism and perhaps causing the doctrine to be universally recognized as a part of international law. S The Howell telephone bill has been modified by a home rule attachment which gives the people the ultimate say whether a new franchise shall be granted by requiring submission for popular r-pnmnou of any franchise proposition. This is certainly an provement, for it would be the most flagrant invasion of local self-govern- ment for the legislature to attempt to glve away valuable franchise rights in our streets without the ald or consent of the citizens affected. But if home rule is right and proper in the granting of telephone franchises, why is it not equally proper for the selection of water commissioners, police commissioners and all the other officers who administer any branch of the municipal government? Why make any exceptions to the home im- rule principle? Nebraska is again on record in favor of the election of United States senators by direct popular vote. The declaration comes In the shape of & jolut resolution, THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, requesting congress to submit an amend- ment to the comstitution of the United States In accordance with article v, which requires congress to submit amendments on petition of two-thirds of the states. A similar resolution was passed by the last Nebrasih legislature and by the legislatures of a dozen other states, but the United States senate— the graveyard of comstitutional amend- ments—does not appear to heed these demands and will probably pay no at- tention to them until two-thirds of the states have joined in to force the issue. Local manufacturers and jobbers ex- plain that the reason Omaha gets inade- quate benefits from the Indian supply depot Is that the bidding and contract- letting for supplies all take place in Chicago and the expense of making an exhibit of samples in Chicago eats up too much of the profits. If we had se- cured the army supply purchasing depot which was once within our grasp had not Congressman Mercer deliberately killed the bill providing for it, the show- ing made on army supply purchases made here would have opened the way for letting Indian supply contracts here also. — The exemption of the public service corporations from assessment on their market values under the Gilbert amend- ment would have meant a loss to the grand assessment roll of over $5,000,000 on the valuation of the franchised cor- porations in Omaha alone. The tax- shirking of the rallroads means the shifting of tax burdens in far greater amount to the shoulders of the ordinary property owner. Equality in taxation is the only fair rule. —_— The first step toward printing reform in the state house should be the aboli- tion of the costly and inconvenient form of legislative bills and the substitution of the congressional style of bill print- ing. The present style of bills is not merely wasteful in quantity and dimen- slon, but entalls an extraordinary ex- pense for bill files which are carried away as souvenirs by the members of each succeeding legislature. A W e Basket Tragedy. ‘Washington Post, A Nebraska woman committed suicide because the newspapers and magazines declined to publish her poems. There are times when the work of protecting the public causes sad cases like this. Galety with a String Attached. Kansas City Star, The celebration of Missourl's emancipa- tion from debt ought to be as gay, at least, as the funeral of the poor, overworked farmer’'s wife in Kansas which took place the day after the mortgage was lifted from the farm. Aee y 8 v New York Tribune. Ex-Senator, Vest—It seema strange after all these years,.to have to prefix that “ex to. bis title—appears to doubt the ability of the democrats to “get together" next year. ’?fl Missourl statesman gen- erally aid e up his party pretty ac curately. 1 0 i o Ornam: al Swamps the Useful. Minneapolis Times. As long as ‘thé spelling perpetrated by public sthool paplls is so atrocious that business men and university examiners complain, the public will ifisist that more attention be paid to the language of t! country even If some of the basketry fs dispensed with' and ornamental branches are lopped off. — Who Will Grieve for Them? New York Tribune. A lot of coal dealers who tried to hold up the consumer when coal wag scarce now complain that they are overloaded with coal carried over from the day of high prices and salable only at a los Nobody will grieve muéh for them. If they had been content with a reasonable profit in December and January they might now be better off. G it Fleld of Reform. Indianapolls News. Next to the problem of municipal govern- ment, that of getting decent legislatures is the most dificult and pressing. The peo- ple are often good-natured and careles enough to take the candidate's estimate of himself. In other cases men are nominated and elected as the representatives of cer- tain Interests—railroad and other—so that the lobby is really made up in part of mem- bers of the legislature. Here is a fleld where reform is greatly needed. Of course, there is no patent device by which ti needed change can be wrought. The only remedy that can be applied is in the hands of the people themselves. It is to be hoped that they will use it before long. The busi- ness of legislating for such a state as In- dian is a serious matter. It cannot safely be intrusted to inexperienced or corrupt men, or to men who have interests that conflict with the pubMc interest. WHY MR. BRYAN WILL NOT BOLT, Preparations Jar with a © Chicago Inter-Ocean. Mr. Bryan will pot bolt in 1904; he will use a club. This is the sum and substance of a pronounclamento published in Mr. Bryan's Commoner thie week, which is, in effect, a declaration of war against the Cleveland-Hill wing of the democratig party, and officia! notice of the opening In the west of the democratic campaign for the presidential nomination. Mr. Bryan cxplains that he and his friends were able to control the national democratic conyention in 1896 through the organization of the bimetallic league In 1895. Now he {s forming organization, similar in plan and purpose,” through Kan- sas City plaiform clubs, to control the democratic convention in 1904. The mem- bers of these clubs are pledged to the s port of the Bryan platform of 1900, with i reindorcement of the Chicago platform of 1896, and are committed to the free trade, tree silver, anti-expansion, Bryan polities. On these issues Mr. Bryan declares there will be an organized and open fight with purpose to protect the rank and file of the democratic party from the designs of those who desire to emasculate the Kansas City platform. If the Bryanites win, Mr. Bryan assures the country there will be no boilt, unless it is on the part of those opposed to him. If he does mot win, if the Kansas City platform clubs do not succeed in doing what the bimetallic league did in 1896, Mr. Bryan does not say what will happen. He says simply that he will not bolt because he expects to wield - a club in 1904 heavy enough to compel the convention to do his bidding. At all events, Mr. Bryan is on the rpath against all the reorganizers of the democratic party, and he seems to believe that he will be strong enough to earry bis polat, Reorganisers MARCH 13, 1903, BITS OF WASHINGTON LIFE, Minor Scenes and Incidents Sketched on the Spot. In the opinion of the people of Wash- ington the last congress was the best ever This view bas its root in the national treasury, which is directed to pay out about $14,000,000 for various public bulldings sanc- tioned by congress. A new imion depot will cost with its approaches, $6,000,000, of which the government will pay $2,000,- 000. The new municipal building is to cost $1,500,000. An office buflding, for the uee of representatives in congress, to«over an entire square, and to cost about $2,000,000; an addition to the Department of Agricul- ture, to cost $1,500,000; a new National museum, to cost $3,500,000; an addition to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, at 8 cost of $215,000, and, in the future, a Hall ot Records, which will cost at least $2,000,- 000. These large, juicy plums furnieh ample grounds for capitol cheerfulness and good will. Two of the best story tellers in the sen- ate retired to private life with the passing of conpress. George Graham Vest of Mis. souri, whose wit and stories have enliv. ened the cloakrooms for the last twenty years, ended his public career and at the same time John P, Jones of Nevada will retire. While Senator Vest was brilliant on the floor, he was wittiest in the smoking room. When surrounded by a group of ap- preciative listeners he would tell storfes and make jests br the hour. Senator Jones also has not kept his fun under a bushel. He is extremely serious and profound in debate, but in a free and easy discussion in the cloakroom his qualnt humor is sec- ond to that of no member of the senate. il As a result of the use of soft coal in Washington during the winter Washington mounment has acquired a dingy coat of dark gray. Those in charge of the shaft were speculating on the effect of a long, hard rain. It came down in torrents one day last week for a short time and a tre- mendous wind raged while it was falling. When the monument dried it was striped like a tiger. The coal stains seem to have been washed up in broad furrows. Now the officlals are walting to see the effect of a long steady rain when there 1s no wind. They hope it will remove the dirt uniformly from the face of the monument, If it does not do so they say the shaft will have to remain dirty, because there is no way by which its 555 feet of length can be cleaned. The monument is not perceptible more than three-fourths of the distance it was when it was so white it glistened in the sunshine. Representative Finley of South Carolina is publishing a little jibe on Governor-elect Lanham of Texas. While Judge Lanham is an enthusiastic planist, Finley nelther knows one note from another for wants to. But Judge Lanham seized upon him the other night and dragged him up to the music room, where he at once began ‘‘Home, Bweet Home.” At the close of the perform- ance the judge paused in expectation of de- served applause. ‘Judge,” exclaimed Fin- ley soberly, “when you played the first chord I saw the ela trees in front of my house at Yorkville. Whep you had played a little more I saw the front door open and the faces of my three children appear, and then your tuneful rendering made me hear from the dear little ones the words, ‘Hi, daddy. There you are.'"” Guards about the capitol are obliged to exe-cise the greatest vigilance when vis- itors throng the rooms and corridors. The larger the crowd the greater the oppor- tunity for the souvenir flend to get in his work. *‘Souvenir flend” is a polite name for Mgu thieves, whose blind passion for relics will cause them to ruin a costly or historic plcture or statue for the sake of a souvenir. ‘The mutilated bronze dooro at the principal entrances to the bullding are pathetic mon- uments to the ruthless activity of the relic hunters. Fingers, miniature swords and stirrups have been wrenched from the bronze figures on these doors, while several of the ble statyes are badly chipped and scarred as the result of the work of vandals. These flends will ruin a costly lace cur- tain by clipping a square inch of it to show the folks at home who have not been so fortunate as to visit the capitol or will chip off a splinter from the highly polished hard wood of a plece of furniture of historic value, just to show them what style of things there are at the capitol. Only last summer someone pried off the feathered ar- rows on the marble statue of Marquette in Statuary hall. If the miscreant had been detected he would have been punished as was the Pennsylvania militiaman who was caught knocking off a tiny bayonet from a figure in the bronze doors. He was sen- tenced to six months' imprisonment and fined $100, and when he returned to Penn- sylvania, after serving out his term, he was drumheaded out of the state guard by order of the governor. Last spring a dear old woman, while walking through the marble room, felt a loose tile move under her foot. She stooped and picked it up, slipping it Into her pocket, not thinking for a moment that it would be impossible to replace the plece, which was part of an English pattern. The guards heard of the theft and traced the woman to her hotel, where she disgorged ber treasure. So many of the thoughtless vandals who do things of this kind are people of refinement and culture that it is impracticable to punish them properly. WHAT THE WORLD IS CRYING FOR. Fewer Ideaws in Theoryj More in Prac- tical Operation. Baturday Evening Post The common but very erroneous impres- ston prevails that the great want of the day is the man with {deas; that the world is crying for such a man and is ready to fall at his feet. Nothing could be further from the truth. Ideas are as plentiful as the flowers that bloom in the spring; the men who are affiicted with them are as the leaves that fall in autumn. The great want is the man that can put ideas into practice; who can crystallize theories. For one man who can ring the bell thousands can hit the target. For one who can do a thing, thousands can tell how it can be done. Another commen error is the supposition that an idea strikes just one fortunate fn- dividual, who Is sure to profit by it. For instance, one might almost think, judging from the common belief, that the idea of the rotundity of the earth was an inspira- tion of Columbus. It was nothing of the kind. The Chinese, the Arablans, the Egyptians—all had an idea that the earth was round. The idea was in the air and was handed down from the more anclent peoples to the inhabitants of Europe. Co- lumbus set to work to prove it When Edison had succeeded in making the incandescent lamp, and the report of his success was published, dozens of men who were working on the same problem wrote explanations of the impossibility of | Edison having dove what he claimed to have done. The protestors had been work- ing at the matter for years, but had net succeeded in finding the value of the elusive x. A suggestion of the wire-wound gun— which is often erromeously regarded as something entirely new—was in the cannon fired at Crecy. At the time of the civil war & pumber of men were working quietly on this very “discovery.” The atmosphere is charged with ideas. The successful man is he who can supply the link which will chain them down to the real. “THOSE STRENUOUS YANK That s the Tople Upon Whieh T. P, O'Comnor Discourses. Mainly About People a wonderful race they are to be these Yankees! We are now begin- | ning to discover them. Yet those who trav- | €led in America as far back as twenty, or | even thirty vears ago, must have learned that that vast continent, with its entirely new conditions, was producing an entirely new human being. It couldn't be other wise. When a plece of land, which Is a mere marsh bog. or dried-up prairle, yet untrodden by the foot of man, and roamed {over by beasts still savage, is capable of belng converted, in the course of ten or twenty years, into the seat of a mighty city with a million inhabitants, and with every inch of its space as valuable as land in the city of London—that ety which has centurles of history, struggle, wealth, com- mercial supremacy behind It—when there are such vast transformations in the course of a decade or two, it 1s impossible that man should not, adapting himself to the en- vironment, have become a very difterent type from the ordinary. T could almost draw a portrait, it 1 had any talent for drawing, of the type thus produced. I have seen him in all walks of life in America: in all parts of the coun- try—the descendant of all countrfes, with the blood of all races. He is unique, and yet he is so similar *bat almost one speci- men could stand for the whole race. First Iin my imaginary portrait I put a very square, strong jaw; then place a mous- tache and a goatee on the lip and chin. Above all, be sure about the expression you give the eyes. and the size and ap- pearance of the hand I used to be struck when first I went to America by the method in which many Amerfcans behaved when they were intro- duced to you. It was a ceremony, & chal- What sure | lenge, a pledge; you almost felt as It you were out on the wild prairies in pre- historfe times and were taking the oaths ot blood friendship with a Choctaw Indlan; an oath that pledged you and him to friend ship to the death. For, first, your new friend grasped your hand as in a grip of iron, then he looked you straight in the eye with a stare that seemed to show a desire to penetrate to your very heart of hearts, and to you whether you were ready to fight a duel to the death or to form a friendship that was ready to go even to the gallow After a time I took the thing a little less seriously and saw the funny side of it, but there was a time when I took it as a very extraordinary pes formance, And, finally, I Interpre it as & symbol and a revelation of national char- r. It represented that bold spirit of struggle and deflance which the battle of man with nature, on the gigantic scale of American lite, has evolved. You will find & consequence of this that the man who gets to the top of the political ladder in America is quite a dif- ferent type from the successful politician of your own country. Be sure that if a man be at the top in America he has some right to be there; be sure that you will find in him that square jaw, the grim, com- pressed mouth, the bold, staring, deflant eyes. In time, of cour: this will change; and America, now in its radiant and belli- cose youth, will settle down to its middle- aged tranquility; and smooth-spoken men with diplomatic methods and the air of the drawing room will exercl iway in its councils as they do in ours. But that mo- ment has not yet come, and it never ap- peared much farther distant than it does In the days when Theodore Roosevelt is president. PERSONAL NOTES. Mr. Cleveland says he is out of politics. This confirms a rumor which has been in circulation for several years. Emperor Willlam, it is said, makes it a point never to be behind-hand in his busi- | last, was long identified with the mevement nes He s too good a soldier to let eve: work attack him in the rear. President Francis of the St. Louls world's fair is being ‘“entertained by all th crowned heads of Hurope.” On the strength of this he would be justified in entering himself as an exhibit. Among other novel features of the St. Louls exposition will be reunions of the Smith and Lewls families, which all the Smiths and Lewises in the country will be invited to attend. The Smiths are ra ing a fund of $10,000 for the erection of a bullding on the exposition grounds to be used as their headquarters during the fair. Mark Twain and Chauncey Depew met in Depew's office not long ago and the senator took occasion to wash his hand solled from writing. Mr. Clemens observed that it might be a good thing to perform a siml- lar operation on his consclence. ‘‘Possi- bly,” sald Mr. Depew. ‘“‘Soap would deo for me, but If it was your consclence you'd have to use pumice stone.” Mrs. Charles J. Murphy, who dled {ia Brussels, Belglum, on the 6th of February to popularize the use of American maize in Europe. Her address at the Women's congress of the Chicago Columblan exposi- tion, relating to the corn propagands in Europe, I1s still circulated. Her malden name was Catharine Tone and she was a lineal descendant of Theobald Wolfe Tone, the Irish patriot. The surviving soldiers who served undes Generals Taylor andeBcott in Mexico in 1846 and 1847, are invited to be present at the thirty-seventh national encampment of the Grand Army of the Repulblo in San Francisco, next August. The pension rolls show that 3,000 still lve, and 1,000 dwell on the Pacific coast. The managers hope to attract at least 400 of them to the re. unfon, belleving that it will be the last they will ever attend. A short time ago Senator Foraker of Ohlo was asked by a gentleman interested in a Methodist convention to go on to that state from Washington and help organize the convention in the Interests of a certain candidate for bishop. “Ob, no,” replied Senator Foraker, "I guess I'll keep out of that. When it comes to republican politics and Methodist politics the Methodist polfti- clans leave the republican politiclans & mile from the starting post.” a spring suit or a top coat here of a very wide range our suits at at the tail Beowning, Ringa Go $20.00 in fit nor workmanship. NO CLOTHING FITS LIKE OURS. ADVERTISING NUISANCES, Movement to Al Dangerons and Disgracetal (1 onrds, Leslie's Weel ly. It 1s highly gratitying movement Is now in progress throughout the country looking to 1) abatement of billboard and poster adver:ising nulsances. The legisiaty of New York, Penns; vania, Ohio and Illinols have measurod under consideration impoting various re strictions upon this kind of advertising; and a large number of minlclpalitios, fn- | cluding Chieago, Minneapo is, Washington Buffalo, Syracuse and Albany, have either adopted ordinances having the same object |10 view or are proposing o do so. The ordinance proposed in Aibaay s one of the o note that a best that we havo secn relating to this abuse, and It might well be adopted in other cities which are comsidering local legisiatalon of this character. It requires the advertiser or billposter who would set up & billboard, first, to secure permissioh from the commissioner of public works, and, secondly, to give a bond of $2 o indemnify the city agains' any damagds that it may incur by allawing the board to | be erected. The proposet ardinance also seeks to limit the height of boards to terf teet or more back of the lot I'ne, und twelvé feet when placed nearer. “hese nre rea sonable restrictions, and tlefr rigid en- forcement would go far to relieve communi’ tles of the advertising abominations now thrust upon them. We are gratified, also, to note that the American Park and Outdoor ‘Art assoclation through its president, Mr. (‘Hnton Rugers Woodruft of Philadelphia, has fnaugurated a general movement to checl this growing evil. Cities and towns are :ofng urged by the association to adupt ord. ances impose ing fAnes for advertising on eleciric light, telegraph, telephone and str-et car poles. trees and troe boxes. Laws Iave beon pro- pared for introduction into 1) @ state legiss latures to prevent the pasting or placing of advertisements In any form om any publiy bullding or other object upe: the grounds of any of the state insti' tions, or ofy those of a private citizen o corporation, without the written consent »f (he owner or tenant. Such a bill has Leen introduced in the Pennsylvania legislatur by the Hon, Leslie Yates of Philadelphta, -t the reques! of the association. The nesoclation has likewise taken up the quesiion with (hp federal gevernment wi.h a viow to haviug congress enact similar legislation. No work, could be more in line with the objects which this assoclation was organized to ac complish, and under its influrnce and lead ership much good should b effected REMARKS, MIRTHFUL Mrs. Dunne—Officer, 1 n Officer—All right. ma'am have, a cook or house girl? Pre: “No," sald the lobbylst, * the bill through.” “Ah!" exclaimed his friend, claimed when you went that ‘every man had his pric “That was the trouble. Evor his price and wouldn't consider Philadelphia Press. “I wonder why it {8, bewal'ed the actor who had turned preacher, “t1at with my most impassioned utterances (rom the pul help Which will you Detroft Free couldn't get ‘and yet you, the votes, man had mine. it I fail to move my audency as I used to o, when | was on tho stage “Perhaps,” suggested his fri nd, “the son is that when you were on the stags you were speaking some other man's lines." “Chicago Tribune. in the world did his constitu- “But whi 5 Tum there? He's no " ettor than ik bas. ® "Becauss he oan talk the strongest bill 10 death, no matter how long it may be neces. ‘to keep up the talking. ~Clevelartd Fialn Dealor. : “That was a splendid spaech you m-dq.? senator. a What part of it ald yoir' ,..'.,w""'..i."!..z?#» . I I hardly know. 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