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

- — THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, THE OMAHA DAY BEE B. ROSEWATER, EDITOR PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING 10N Yeor. . $1.00 6.00 TERMS OF SUBSCRIP Daily Bee (without 8 Jally Bee and Sund Tllustrated Bee, Or Bunday Bee, One Baturday B . Twentleth Century Farmer, One Year D D BY CARRIER Dally Bee (without Sunday), per copy.... 2¢ Daily Bee (without Bunday), per week .1 Daily Bes (Including Sunday). per week..1 unday Bee, per copy be Evening Bee (without Sunday), per week. 6c > Gncluding Sunday), per 1.00 in delivery should be addressed to City Circulation De- partment. OFFICES. Omaha~The Bee Building. Bouth Omaha—City Hall Bullding, Twen- ty-fifth and M Streets Council Bluffs—10 Pearl Street Chicago—1640 Unity Building . New York—2328 Park Row Building. Washington—601 Fourteenth Street CORRESPONDENCE Cogimunications relating to news and edl- orial matter should be addressed: Omaha , Rditorial Department REMITTANCE Remit by draft, express or postal or Biyable to The iice Publishing Company, nly 2-cent stamps accepted in payment of mail acoounts. Personal checks on Omaha or eastern exchange: THE BEE PUBLISHIN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, 88.: George B, Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, ®ays that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Daily, Morning, Bvening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of May, 1903, was as follows: SEBNEREBRESEES t total sales.. t average sales. GEORGE B. TZ8( Bubscribed in my presenco and aworn to before me this st dni‘.n& 0y A Dyt (Beal.) Notary Public. Y Judge Hook got his hook on that cir- cuit judgeship first. —_— When the new Powder trust busts, watch out for an explosion. The greatest need of American work- ingmen is honest leadership. EEm— The motto, “Slc semper tyrannis' seems to have been resurrected over in Servia. Some men have ;uy-lty thrust upon them. King Karageorgevitch belongs to tlat class. Omaha has had all the experience it wants with pavements that are cheap in quality as well as price. —e It the council and the Board of Public ‘Works can get together on appoint- ments, so can the councll and the mayor. ——— Whenever The Omaha Bee hits the senlor fakery a blow between the eyes it exclalms, “Mr. Rosewater 1s mad, that's very evident.” The railroad passenger agents are again engaged in the commendable effort of persuading people that it is cheaper to travel than to stay at home for a vacation. If all the power canal projects “sure to be buiit” materialize, Omaba will have power to burn. Most of us, how- ever, are from Missourl on the power plant proposition. Lady Henry Somerset has been re- elected president of the World's Wom- en's Christian Temperance union. As long as Lady Henry is wiiling to foot the Dbills she can have the honor. The tourist who was robbed of $20,000 while crossing the ocean will get little sympathy. He ought to know better than to carry his wealth in a form that allows other people to realize on it. It is announced that the Standard Ofl company has decided to cease its efforts to break into the Roumanian oil fields on account of the government opposition it has developed. People conversant with the tactics of the Standard Oil con- cern would advise the Roumanians to be on their guard. Nebraska will get nearly $15,000 out of the first apportionment of money ap- propriated to equip the national guard on the same basis as the regular army. This 18 $3,000 less than lowa gets, but $2,000 more than the share allotted to Kansas. Compared with surrounding states, it looks as if Nebraska were be- ing given a fair deal. E—— This 1s the tine the tax committee of the Real Estate exchange should get busy with the county assessment, which will certainly bear improvement. It is Just as important for the county tax list to be equitable as it is for the city tax list. The campaign for equal taxation must be waged in the county house as well as in the city hall, — In view of the experience so fur with the amendments tacked onto the charter by the Douglas delegation to the late legislature, the best thing that could bappen to the city for the simplification of municipal government would be to have the whole charter amendment bill knocked put by the courts on ground of unconstitutionality. court some It wouldn't be a bad idea either for the same committee that Is investigating | city hall ‘sinecures for the Real Estate exchange to look, into the soft snaps under the county officers and county board across the street. Sularies pald to useless county officials come out of the pockets of the same taxpayers salaries paid to unnecessary city ew: doyes. SUMEWHAT PREMATURE. Consideration of the question of & re- publican vice presidential candidate in 1904 seems to be somewhat premature, yot the matter is recelviug attention in political circles and several are named us possible running mates to President Roosevelt. It has been suggested that in the event of the election by a large majority of Myron T. Herrick for gov- ernor of Ohio he may stand a very good chance of being nominated for the vice presidency, the assumption being that he would be favored by Senator Hanna jand the Ohio delegation in the national convention. Another suggestion is that General Taft, also of Ohlo, would be a most available candidate for the vice presidency and would doubtless be entirely acceptable to Mr. Roosevelt. Senator Beveridge of Indiana is being talked of and mention has also been made of Governor Cummins of Towa. Some republicans are of the opinion that it would be good policy to take the can- | didate for vice president from the Pa- cific coast and Senator Bard of Cali- fornia hns been suggested. Several others have been named and undoubt- edly the list wiil be considerably en- larged before the meeting of the na- tional convention a year hence. It is sufficient to say at present that any one of those suggested as possible candi- dates would be acceptable to republicans generally. They are men of excellent ability and character, thoroughly grounded in the principles of the party and having a substantial claim upon the confidence of the country. There are others, however, equally worthy of con- sideration and it 18 quite possible that the national convention may not find it expedient to select from among those now being talked of for second place on the republican presidential ticket. It seems to be rather premature, also, to consider the chairmanship of the re- publican national committee for 1904, but according to reports the politiclans are already manifesting interest in the matter and expressing opinion on the subject. A few days ago Senator Platt of New York was quoted as saying that he saw no objection to retaining the present chairman and Senator Lodge 1s #aid to have expressed the hope that Mr. Hanna will retain the place. The Wash- ington correspondent of the Philadelphia Press states upon what he claims to be authority that no one but Senator Hanna has been in the mind of Mr. Roosevelt and his friends. He further says that the mention of Senator Quay for the chalrmanship of the national committee has been entirely gratuitous and with- out warrant from the senator or his friends. The national committee for 1904 will be named by the convention and it will choose its own chairman. He will of course be a man entirely acceptable to the candidate, but while the nomination of Mr. Roosevelt is as- sured, he will not, it is safe to say; in- dicate a preference for any one as ¢hair- man of the national committee in ad- vance of his nomination. . ‘What can confidently be predicted is that the next republican national con- vention will nominate for vice president a man in every way worthy the support of the party and that the chairman of the national committee will be chosen with reference to his ability to judi- clously and vigorously conduct the cam- paign. Governor pp— THE CANAL COMMISSION. President Roosevelt will have few du- ties more important than that of ap- pointing the Isthmian Canal commis- sion, provided for in the Spooner law. It is said that there are several hun- dred applications on file for places on the commission, but very likely only a few of these, that of men of the highest capacity, will receive consideration. It is the intention of the president to ap- point only skilled and practical engi- neers, with one or two exceptions. He wants good business men on the com- mission, because it will have the ex- penditure of an immense amount of money and practical as well as scientific Jjudgment will be required in the prose- cution of this great work. The pro- fessional men whom he appoints must possess engineering ability of a high order and be above reproach as far as their personal qualifications go. Politiclans who have been urging the appointment of one of their kind on the commission are said to have got cold comfort from the president, who told them that he proposed to restrict ap- polntments to men experienced in en- gineering enterprises. Regarding the construction of the canal as perhaps the greatest achievement of ancient or mod- ern times, the president does not pro- pose to injure the prospects of the un- dertaking by appointing men not known to be thoroughly competent to take charge of it. This is & matter in which political considerations should have no welght or influence and doubtless will have none. FOR A MERCHANT MARINE. Discussion of measures for the build- ing up of an American merchant marine for the foreign carrying trade will un- doubtedly be renewed in the next con- gress. Meanwhile those interested in the subject will take steps to have the matter presented to congress and to bring pressure to bear in behalf of legis- lation. At a recent meeting the New York Board of Trade and Transporta- tion authorized its president to appoint a committee to lay thé subject of Amer- fean shipping in the foreign trade before commercial associations, labor assoclia- tions and all interests concerned in the increase of our deep sea tonnage; also inviting the press of the country to help |in ascertaining and recording public | opinion as to the best means by whieh our shipping may be built up. The importance of the question 1is very generally recognized. No one who has given it intelligent consideration can doubt that the maintenance and extension of our foreign trade is in mo small degree dependent upon the bulld- ing up of an American merchant ma- JUNE 13, 1903. rine. But so great is the diversity of | be discontinued. Kansas can take care opinion as to measures for accomplish- ing this that there seems’ at present little prospect of any legislation for the attalnment of the desired end. Hos- tility to a subsidy policy is doubtless as strong today as it b ever been, while the idea of restoring the old pol- icy, instituted at the beginning of the government and which Senator Elkins of West Virginia has announced he will urge in the next congress, of dis- criminating dutles upon imports in American vessels, has few supporters. It is a question which the Fifty-eighth congress should make an earnest effort to determine. TIME TO RESUME, When the bread winners in any com- munity are all employed at good wages its merchants are prosperous. When a large portion of the wage-working pop- ulation of a town is idle, business is dull and mercantile pursuits become un- profitable. Within the past year our Dbusiness community has been crippled and prosperity has been seriously re- tarded by labor strikes and labor lock- outs. In July last from 600 to 800 mechan- ics, who had been employed in the Union Pacific shops for many years at good wages, many of whom were counted among our most thrifty home owners, were thrown out of employ- ment. This strike, or lockout, was a most deplorable impediment to Omaha's growth and a serious drawback to its progress. The loss entailed upon the community by the Union Pacific ma- chinists’ strike was aggravated early this spring by the deadlock between the building contractors and mechanics en- gaged in the bullding trades. Within the past six weeks more than 2,000 wage earners—men and women—joined the ranks of the unemployed, creating a big gap in the wage fund that consti- tutes the arterial blood of Omaha’s home traffic. On the heels of these labor troubles came the protracted unseason- able weather that threw a wet blanket upon the retail trade and aggravated the commercial stagnation caused by labor troubles. These causes of business depression have nearly all subsided. The Union Pacific strike has been amicably settled and a larger number of men are now actively at work in the machine shops than bave been employed in Omaha for a number of years past. Most of the working men who went on a strike in the month of May have resumed work and are now earning good wages. The only unsettled strikes of serious propor- tions are in the building trades. These can and should be arbitrated at.the earliest possible moment sothat Omaha may again forge ahead with might and ‘main on its path of progress. The way to bring about resimption is to resume. If the business men, who have organized resistance to all un- reasonable demands on the part of ge ‘workers,. wilk now orgahize to restore the channels. of trade to their normal condition ‘they will have no difficulty in removing all the obstacles in the way of prosperous trade during the remain- ing six months of the year. A few days ago Policeman Goodrich tried to arrest @ man whom he believed to be either a beggar or a vagrant. The man started to run away and the po- licemen fired three shots, one of which entered the back of the man, inflicting & mortal wound, from which he died the following day. It is said the dead man was recognized by the sheriff of a neighboring county as a criminal who had served a term in the penitentiary for grand larceny. That fact, however, offers no justification in law, or In morals, for the taking of his life by a peace officer. A policeman has no right to shoot anybody merely on suspiclon that he is a beggar, or even with full knowledge that the man is an ex-con- viet. It is manifestly the duty of the county attorney to proceed against Goodrich the same as if he had killed 2 man who had never seen the inside of a penitentlary and to vindicate the majesty of the law under whose protec- tion the life of the vilest criminal is Just as sacred as the life of the most honorable and law-abiding citizen. Sme—— The Chicago Board of Education at its meeting lagt Wednesday adopted resolutions declining to permit the ‘Woman's club to take up a collection in the public schools to defray the ex- penses of maintaining summer vacation schools. The board’s adverse action was prompted by its desire to establish a precedent against permitting collec- tions being made from pupils under any pretext even when the object was a worthy one. The opponents of the “in- voluntary contribution” took the ground that it was a wrong principle to permit collections in public schools owing to the fact that “the poorer children are embarrassed by their inability to con- tribute as much as the children coming from the more prosperous homes.” The principle enunciated at Ohicago 1s sound and applies with equal force to Omaha whether the contributions are compulsory or voluntary. Jim Hill's scheme for an air line to the gulf is not the first project of its kind. All the former attempts, how- ever, have foundered on the fact that the shipment of corn and wheat from the gulf ports would leave the rolling stock to be taken back as “empties.” If the time has come when the traffic would support a haul both coming and golng, it is Jim Hill's luck and may enable him to carry his scheme through. Pension Commissioner Ware, who bails from Kansas, and was penned in the flooded district near Topeka two weeks ago, i1ssued the following order over his official signature immediately upon his return to New York: “It is reported that a subscription paper 1Is being circulated in the pension bureau for the Kansas flood sufferers. Let It of its sufferers.” Among other legacies left to Kansas City and the overflowed districts by the floods will be an fmmense amount of litigation to determine upon whom the loss inflicted shall fall. When goods in transit are destroyed or damaged by water, every one is eager to throw the ownership upon some one else. It will keep judges and juries busy for some time determining in whom the title to the destroyed property rests. ———— The Specter of, Europe. Baltimore Ameriean. The outlook in the Balkans is reforted to be better. The Balkan outlook has taken the same relation in reference to current events as the moving picture bears to the summer show. No matter what the pro- gram, the Balkan outlook invariably brings up the rear. Wonders Wrought on Paper. Cleveland Plain Dealer. At present Inventor Bell seems to lead all his competitors in aerial navigation—on paper. He has secured a name for his flyer that seems sufficlently mysterious and he appears to meet every theory that has been advanced and go it something better. But he hasn't done any flying yet. i of the Sav Chicago Chronicle. Another Investigating sclentist has ac- quired large quantities of information re- specting the bacillus of bubonic plague by squinting at it through a microscope, but his information is unfortunately unavail- able because he became deceassd imme- diately after establishing intimate relations with the bug. This appears to be the drawback to all such investigations. The savant no sooner gets well acquainted with the bacillus than the bacillus ungratefully turns in and kills him. The Flag and Its Day. New York Sun. The government flies the Stars and Stripes on Bunday as on other days; consequently 014 Glory should be holsted next Bunday. As In the case of any celebration which falls on Sunday the popular habit is to observe it on the Monday following, put the flag up on that particular Monday and join the crowd in making the day appro- priately festall Again, as some people are sure to cele- brate Flag day on the previous Saturday, that day being somewhat in the nature of a hollday anyway, they too should be sym- pathized with and the flag should be flown on Saturday. - Every day of every other week is also a good time to display the national flag. Long and often may it be waved! —_— “IGNORANT AND STUPID.” Hard Coal Trusters Deémounced Be- eause “They Kept Prices Down.” Chicago Inter Ocean. Robert M. Olyphant, former president of the Delaware & Hudson railway, a member of the Hard Coal trust, made an interest- ing confession on Monday before the Inter- state Commerce commission, “In the whole history of commerce,” he remarked, “there never: was anything so ignorant and stupld as the way the ooal business has been conducfed, considering the usefulness and ne of coal and its limited supply.” ¥y Mr. Olyphant was defeq the increase in the price of hard coal #nd @ccusing the operators of |gnorance stupidity in not getting a higher price, “We could get -a-| highér price,” he added, “it we asked for it."” | However, Mr. Olyphant's charge against the hard coal operators of Ignorance and stupldity s true in a sense far broader than he intended-in fact, in the broadest possible sense, as his own romment shows. Here Is & set of men whom the govern- ment has permitted, on the theory that such permission was best for the public interests, to own privately a necessary natural product—an enormously valuable part of the public wealth. Now, the assumption in permitting pri- vate ownership of such a product Is that it will be handled advantageously for the public. In America the government always has proceeded on this assumption, though in Europe the rule has been the opposite. Yet we find the hard coal operators—the private owners—forgetting all about the condition of thelr existence, constantly shirking their responsibility to the public which created them, thinking only of how hard they can squeeze the public, and accusing one another of fgnorance and stupldity because the squeeze has not been made tighter. For commercial and every other kind of tgnorance and stupidity the hard coal op- erators are indeed, as Robert M. Olyphant confesses, about the most ignorant and stupld set of men known to modern in- dustry. OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. Predictions of & general break up of the Austro-Hungarian ‘empire have not been wanting during the last dozen years or so, founded on various political perils sup- posed to menace that country and on the somewhat doubtful imperial succession. But the most sagacious political observers at- tach little welght to them. In their opinion, Austria has not yet fulfilled its mission, and has a good many pages of unwritten history to round out before lts record is completed. Dr, Adolph Stransky, leader of the young czech party in the Austrian legislature, .says that any dlssolution of the realm of the Hapsburgs Is not within the range of possibility. The leader of the Christian soclal party, Dr. Albert Gessman, says that the empire is not only entitled to further existence on the ground of ite his- torical development, but the most important nelghboring states will feel themselves com- pelled in their own respective interests to insure the continuance of the dual mon- archy. Count Banfty, Hungarian ex-pre- mier, also scouts the rumor of a possible dismemberment for a long time to come— a hundred years or more—which is rather long range firing for political prophecy, and he adds that “both Austria and Hungary are aware that, failing the common bond which insures their twofold independence, nefther could survive except through the hardest of struggles.”” The necessity of its maintenance s not altogether a political one; from the econmoraic standpoint Austria and Hungary are thrown on their mutual resources, and this is a factor wkich is dally growing in importance. o Reduction of military expenditures in the colonies is a question of the day in France. In 1902 the military budget for the colonles was $19,000,00. This year it has fallen to 418,000,000, with some resultant alarm. The Temps, which says It “‘will not be suspected of an excessive weakness for that sort of expenditure,” still enters a strong plea for colonial defense After Fashoda, the Par- ltament voted an appropriation for a com- prehensive plan of colonial defense, but it has been clipped and curtalled, under the pressure for econory. The French colonial system falls into three great divisions: Western Africa, the Cango, Madagascar and Indo-China. At the present time they are garrisoned by B4,500 troops, 2,00 in Indo- China, 15000 in Madagascar and 8000 in Africa. The Temps insists that they should be so thoroughly armed and equipped that, in a crists, each portion of the colonial sys- tem would be capable of defending itself. This would certainly swell, instead of re- ducing, the annual budget, the dimensions of which, as they are, givg the minister of finance sleepless nights. ™ The results of the resent uprisings in Croatia were a good deal less serious than at first reported, but were sufficlently em- blematic of the popular unrest. The Aus- trian premler, Dr. Von Korber, announced officlally that only two persons had been Kkilled by gendarmes and that one of tnese had thiown himself on a soldier's bayonet. Heo added, however, that the storles about scores killed and hundreds wounded would probably have been true if it had not been for the discipline and forbearance of the troops, whose Steadfastness was a guar- antee of order. Count Khun Hedervary, the banus of Croatia, is convinced that the whole revolutionary movement in that country may be traced to the parliamen- FLIGHT OF MONEY. Millions of Fictitious Values Take Wing from Wall Street. Brooklyn Bagle. It would be difficult to estimate the amount of money which has taken fiight in Wall street within a week or two. The unfortunates who hoped against hope while their margins were disappearing, and their name was legion, have been sold out. Some of the glants of the street have had thelr wings clipped, and a host of the smaller try have been crowded to the wall. Two or three years ago it looked as though the goose would nmever stop laying golden eggs for the promoter. Practically all he had to do was to effect a reorganization and issue a prospectus. Forced processes “go" in Wall street for the time being, but nothing 1s surer than that the water will percolate through to the bottom, taking face value into no account whatever. Out of a hundred, a thousand, industrial bal- loons the gas has been escaping since the purse strings were tightened. Of course, ruin has come to many. There 18 & moral. The slump is an object lesson in economics. It is the fashion to berate the monopolist, so-called. It is also a fact that the financial shores are strewn with wrecks, but the plain people have not suffered. Liquidation, contraction, percola- tion, has hurt the capitalist. It has hurt those who had money enough to buy out- right and those who had only emough to buy on margin. Nor have some of the so-called monopolists escaped unscathed themselves. The point of the lesson In economics is that industries-are always under fire, not from legislative, but from what may be called natural guns. If they are equipped for defense, for stress and storm and competition, if they are sound and seaworthy, they survive; otherwise they founder, golng down with or without all hands on board. Pressure comes from forces compared with which legislatures, lawyers, courts, officials are trifles light as alr. Corporate evils wherever they exist have an invariable and inexorable tendency to correct themseives, and the more ag- gravated the evils the more remorseless the tendency. To the stock speculator the Bagle has no advice to give, but to the cool, level-headed fnvestor who knows what is worth having has come an opportunity. It s not & bad time to buy—or will not be when it s plain that the bottom, or & polnt near 1o It, bas been reached tary deadlock in Hungary. All the various elements of opposition in Croatia, he sald, in a recent interview, have combined in demanding financtal separation from Hun- gary. Public excitement was intensified by the fact that few of the rallroad officlals knew any Croatian and that Hungarlan names ‘had been adopted where Croatian names had been'used before. The sociallsts| had taken advantage of the opportunity afforded by the prevailing discontent, and the priests alded In the circulation of rev- olutionary placards. In some places, he declared, the rioting was of a distinctly anarchial character, but the military soon restored order. It is plain that the con- dition of the populace is highly inflam- mable. " - The resolution of the chamber of mines of Johannesberg urging the government to import indentured coolle labor for the con- struction of new railways was adopted after a speech by Bir Percy Fita Patrick, who argued that this course would not only relleve the strain on the labor mar- ket, but would afford an opportunity of testing legislative safeguards in the regu- lation of imported labor. All Africa, he sald, was based upon cheap, colored labor. It not only set the pace, but fixed the limit of accomplishment, and unless it could be procured far more plentifully than at present it would be necessary to revise all estimates and possibly might mean the establishment of a position similar to that in western Australla, where they had the greatest gold fleld in the world, but no labor to work it. He then went on to tell what had been done to attract native labor to the Rand. The ralsing of wages by 100 per cent in a few months, the giving of & bonus to time expired “boys,” and the pro- vision of & very greatly improved diet and many additional comforts had failed to effect the object in view. On the mining industry of the Transvaal an immense su- perstructure was raised—soclal, commercial, industrial and political—and it was em- inently desirable that every obstacle to its expansion should be removed. Imported labor was required for the rallways, and he urged the mining industry and the whole community to say so boldly. They could not surrender any native labor with- out forcing the question of importing Asiatics into immediate prominence. It is understood that Japanese will be imported to bulld the railways, and return to their own country when the work is completed. P Among the ancient buildings at Vienna now undergoing demolition, s the once famous ball house, or rucquet court, at- tached to the Hofburg. Ball playing with racquets was introduced by Ferdinand I, who brought it from Spain. An official master of the court was appointed, and by degrees four others were bullt for the pub- lic in various parts of the city. The one at the Burg was burned down in 1535, a fact noticed In the Burg archives. Upon the LITHIA BUFFALO WATER Has for Thirty Years Been Recognized By the Medical Profession as an Invaluable Remedy in Bright's Disease, Albuminuria of Pregnancy, Renal Calculi, Gout, Rheumatism and All Dis- eases Dependent upon a Uric Acid Diathesis. Time Adds to the Voluminous Testimony of Leading Clinical Observers. Robert C. Kenn Association, and Editos A.M., M.D., Ex- of Notes on * G President Lowisville Clinical vod's Materia Medica and Thera- peutics,” Lowisville, Ky. (See **Garrod’s Materia Medica and Therapeutics,” fourth edition, revised by Kenner.): ‘*In the treatment of Gout and all the manifestations of Uric Acid Poiaonirz, BUFFALO LYTHIA WATER cient. chronic expression, we shall find the water very valuable. is indicated and will be found very e In Rheumatism, especially the The waters of both spriugs have been found by extensive trial to possess remarkable solvent powers over Renal Calculi and Stone in the Bladder. of that great clinician, Prof. Alfred L. Loomis, that Bright's Disease, beneficial in this condition. water has been found very efficacious. there is no remedy more eficacions than GUETFALO LYTHIA WATER | Medical testimony mailed to any address. grocers generally. BUFFALO LITHIA WATER nd Hammond and other In dyspepsia an We have the authority is of great value in t observers find it greatly S gastro-intestinal disorders the In vomiting and nausea of pregnancy frequently shows itself to be.”" For sale by druggists and Hotel at Springs opens June 1gth. ' PROPRIETOR BUFFALO LITHIA SPRINCS, VIRGINIA. PITFALLS OF THE LAW. Traps Set by Lawyers Around Throne of Justice. Saturday Evening Post. In his will Washington provides for the settiement of a contest, “if unhapplly any should arise” by three arbitrators, and says that they— “Shall,” unfettered by law or legal con- structions, declare their sense of the tes- tator's Intention.” Thus, even in Washington's day, there was among men of sense and experlence a strong aversion to courts and to lawyers— in cases where justice was wanted. And this averslon was never so strong as at the prescnt time when the lawyers have had another hundred years in which to set traps and dig pitfalls all round the throne of justice, and to erect toll-gates at every avenue leading to it. Yet the whole reason the —is that justice may be had by all, espe- clally by the many—the poor and the humble. Our courts, our judges, are in the main sound and just. The trouble is with the lawyers and the lawyer-made laws. In a day when might employs a lawyer perma- nently at a large salary as soon as he shows more than ordinary talent, Is it likely that legislatures filled with lawyers will move effectively to right the wrong? PERSONAL NOTES. George Gould has given $5,000 to the flood relief fund of Kansas City. The present St. Louis exhibition Is the most formidable mass of water that has gathered there In forty-five years. | stoppe for the existence of court law—and lawyer | | and his wife fed the hens on’a John Morley has had bestowed upon him the hanorary professorship of ancient his- tory at the English Royal academy. German women are now warned not to throw bouquets at the kaiser. The kalser 15 parfectl-capable of throwing bouquets at himself, Presient Diaz of Mexico has Inaugu- rated the work upon the Pantheon which 48 intended to be a monument to the illus- trious men of his country. Major J. E. Burke, the blacksmith, who was recently declared mayor of Burlington by the Vermont supreme court upon a re- count of ballots, has began his reform administration by discharging the chief of police and assuming charge himself. Judge Edward B. Thomas of the United States clrcuit court claims to have a friend who is the worst henpecked man he ever knew. On a recent occasion an agent for a phonograph company dropped Into the friend’s office and inquired if he had a talking machine at home. “Yep,” was the reply. “And may I ask of what company you bought it?" persisted the agent. “Didn't buy it; married it.” Bishop Coleman of Delaware at the annual convention of the Protestant Episcopal diocese. of Delaware assalled cor- ruption in the state and said. “A man | must be made to feel that what he would be afraid and ashamed to do in his own social relations he is to be equally ashamed to do in politics He s not to be allowed to use his church membership as a cloak under whose protecting folds he may he gullty of all manner of deceit and fraud." 8 FLASHES OF FUN, “How aid you come out with your law- suit?" “T won it." “Get damages?"' got almost enough to pay my leveland Plain Dealer. “Sure, lawyer." Mrs. Gwem—How does it happen that you are out of work? Dusty Rhodes—I belonged to de labor union; den I joined de Employers' union, and I'm out on strike against meself both ways.—New York Sun Here the eminent statesman who was dic- tating the particulars of his early career to the reporter paused for n moment. “This will be the place, I think,” he said, “to insert the statement that I don't like to talk about myself, and that I me these facts with evident reluctance.'" cago Tribune. Little Willle—Say, pa, ence? Pa—Experience, my son, {8 the headache & man acquires from butting in.—Chicago ows. what is experl- “Now, what do you suppose ever induced him to Write a book like that?" “Perhaps—it's a mere supposition of course, but perhaps he needed the money." ~Chicago Pos Bjohnson—Will you lend me your lawn mower? Bjackson—Yes, if you'll cut my grass to pay for the use of it.—Somerville Journal. “How was Ethelinda’s graduation essay?"’ “Beautiful,”” answered the proud mother. “We spared no expense in ribbons to bf it, and I have no hesitation in saylhg was the most becoming essay in the class, ~Washington Star. Hicks—Bjohnson says his hens have all aying suddenly. Wicks—How does he account for it2 Hicks—Well, he found out on inquiry that the supply of wheat gave out yesterda o breakfast food.—Somerville Journal. WISHING. John G. Saxe Of all amusements for the mind, From logic down to fishing, There fsn't one_that you can. fing So very cheap as “wishing." A very cholce diversion, t0o, I we but rightly use it, And not as we are apt to Pervert it and abuse It. 1 wish—a common Wish, Indeed- My purse were somewhat fatter, That I might cheer the child of need, And not my pride to flatter; That I might make Oppression reel, As only gold can make it, And break the Tyrant's rod of steel, As only gold can break it. I wish—that S8ympathy and Love, And every human passion That had its origin above Would come and Keep in fashion: That Scorn and Jealousy and Hate And every base emotion Wera buried fifty fathoms deen . Beneath the waves of Ocean. 1 wish—that friends were always true, And motives always pure; 1 wish the good were not so few, 1 wish the bad were fewer: I wish that parsons ne'er forgot To heed their plous teaching; 1 wish that practicing were not So different from preaching. I wish—that modest worth might be Appraised with truth and candor, 1 wish that innocence were free From treachery and slander; 1 wish that men their vows would mind; That women ne'er were rovers; I wish that wives were always kind, And husbands always lovers! 1 wish—in flne——t‘:ulld‘loly and Mirth, every good ldeal, M‘n\;dmmo Lréwhile, throughout the earth, To be the glorious Real; TIN God shall every ereature bless ‘With his supremest blessing. And Hope be lost in Happiness, And wishing in Possessing! Weariness When all tired ou ?‘ervon-, leep does not rest, and the &ppe- :izg- r, take Horsford’s Acid te. A tonic and r.e:xa & qui improves the (oow:..?m ulnt.pou haviug ——————— same spot @ larger one was bullt, to which the court passed through a curious covered bridge, built across the public street, which will now also be abolished. As the fashion for ball playing dled out the court lay neglected for a century, until the Archduke Rainer, after his visit to London in 1862 to the South Kensington museum, proposed that the anclent bullding should be temporarily used as & museum untll a new one could be bufit. The em- peror agreed, and the ball house served this purpose until 187.. The old edifice, 1ll ording with the restored Hofburg, will shortly be leveled with the ground le Western Timber. St. Louls Globe-Democrat. The latest good western man who has been mentioned for the second place on the republican ticket of 1004 is Judge Taft This would be an excellent selection. The fact that good men are mentioned in nearly every western state in connection with the candidacy shows that the convention can- not go astray in the matter of the selec- tion. 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