Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 11, 1903, Page 6

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The address will often as desire EEbe—————————— Nebraska prohibitionists have headed off all the other parties in placing their {ced apollinaris state ticket in the fleld. Judging from the cablegrams from Macedonta, the Russlan czar is prepar- ing to carve Turkey before Christmas. Is not the manager of the electric light company trying a dangerous ex- periment when he attempts to blow out the gus? The Nebraska appropriation for the Bt. Louls exposition is being expedi- tiously expended ,in the prellminary survey of the crop situation. The republican candidates who are not in position to plank down the cold cash before entering the fall races will have to give it up without trying. A spontaneous Miles presidential boom is said to have been started in Boston. The chances are that it will not go much further than Boston. t——— There is altogether too much boy's $lny in the protracted jangle and wran- gle over the paving and repaving con- tracts. It way be fun for the boys, but it is death to the frogs. The relentless play of unseen forces that has brought about the collapse in stocks is said to be a puzzle to stock brokers; it is also a source of sorrow and distress to stock gamblers. When the new Jefferis-Vinsonhaler primary election regulations are given a trial it may be discovered, in the lan- guage of Harry Deuel, that there are several holes in that skimmer, There is war on the moon in Oshkosh, Editor Hicks of the Oshkosh North- western has drawn his pen against Governor La Follette because he leans too far over to the side of organized labor. Rallroad traffic managers In Omaha pronounce the story that they intend to command Nebraska farmers to hold up their hands a pure fabrication. and unless otherwise contradicted they must be taken at their word. —_— Dispatches from Honolulu announce that the great volcano, Kilaluea, has given up smoking after many years bad habit and the Sandwich Islands have been robbed of one of thelr chief attractions for tourists. —_— Talking over the telephone In Omaha has become a dangerous pastime for men, judging from the fact that an- other man has dropped dead while talk- ing over the ‘phone. Up to date no such incident is reported as regards the other sex. The first fiight of the Langley flying machine terminated with a mud bath at the bottom of the Potomac, but that does not discourage the illustrious in- ventor, who now proposes to bring all of his sclentific knowledge to bear upon the perfection of his aerlal steering THE PRESIDENT ON LYNCAING, All law-respecting titizens will un- qualifiedly approve the views of Presi- dent Roosevelt regarding lynching in his letter to Governor Durbin of In- dinna. It is a timely utterance which should make a very decided impression upon the public mind and induce those charged with the execution of the laws to be more firm and determined in dea'- ing with mob violence. The president is entirely correct in characterizing such violence as a form of anarchy and it must be treated as we should treat an attempt to overthrow the govern- ment through anarchistic methods. As Mr. Roosevelt says, the spirit of law- lessness grows with what it feeds on “and when mobs with impunity Iynch crimtnals for one cause they are cer- tain to begin to lynch real or alleged criminals for other causes.” Examples in proof of this are numerous. Mobs have put men to death for offenses of an ordinary £ ype and there is no donbt that Innocent persons have been made the victims of this form of lawlessness. ‘What the president says in regard to expediting justice in the case of those charged with heinous offenses will also recelve very general commendation. There {8 a very nearly universal feeling that the law's delay 1s in no small de- gree responsible for the prevalence of mob violence and that reform in this respect 13 most urgently needed. ‘“The substantial rights of the prisoner to a fair trial,” writes Mr. Roosevelt, “must of course be guaranteed, but subject to this guarantee the law must work swiftly and surely and all the agents of the law should realize the wrong that they do when they permit justice to be delayed or thwarted for technieal or in- sufficlent reasons. We must show that the law is adequate to deal with crime by freeing it from every vestige of technicality and delay.” This is a prop- osition which should especially com- mend itself to the thoughtful consider- atlon of the judiciary. The judges of our courts have it in their power to prevent delay and expedite justice and it 1s an unfortunate fact that too few of them are disposed to exercise this power. They are generally too willing to permit technicalities to cause delay, thereby not only retarding but often de- feating justice. The public knowledge of this creates distrust of the courts and conduces to an appeal to mob violence, particularly in communities where re- gpect for the law 1s not very strong. President Roosevelt urges that ‘“the best and immediate efforts of all legirla- tors, judges and citizens should be ad- dressed to securing such reforms in our legal procedure as to leave no vestige of excuse for those misguided men who undertake to wreak vengeance through violent method ‘There is no doubt that such reform 1is attainable and there {8 a growing public sentiment in favor of it that will certainly make it- self felt and heeded. e THE CURRENCY NOT RESPONSIBLE. It is so common to hear the currency system of the country held responsible for disturbances in the markets that it is something of a relief to find the members of the senate finance coin- mittee, who are endeavoring to frame A new currency measure, expressing the opinion that the demoralization in the stock market was not due to any defects in the currency system. That is entirely correct, though the specu- lators may profess to hold a different view. As the New York Commercial says, a greater volume of money in actual circulation or quickly producible, with all the elasticity that the most ardent monetary reformer could wish, wouldn't have prevented the successive slumps in Wall street that have marked the business record of the past six months. It was something else, and entirely different, that was needed. _The view of the senators who are formulating a currency bill for intro- duction at the next session of congress is interesting in so far as it may serve to put a check upon the demand from speculative sources for an increase in bank-note circulation. The simple fact is that there is no money famine and it i1s manifestly absurd to charge the currency system with having anything to do with the stock liquidation. That experience, however, has very strongly demonstrated the general soundness of that system. COST OF THE COTTON CORNER. The corner in cotton is proving a serious matter for the manufacturing industry, both In this country and abroad. A dispatch from Fall River, Mass., reports n further shutting down of mills, throwing out of employment 500 operatives, and it is said that the shut-down will probably countinue until the new crop of cotton is on the market, some six weeks hence, when a lowering of the price is expected. According to the advices, of the 10,000,000 spindles installed in New England less than 4,000,000 are in operation, while the mills of England and the continent have to a large extent given up the attempt to make goods that would have to be marketed at a loss. Thus the cotton speculation is work- ing to the disadvantage of the manu- facturers and the wage earners and must eventually, of course, affect con- sumers. The Boston Trunscr‘m gives an example of what the loss will be by a single mill from suspending op- erations, placing it at from $600 to $1.500 a week, and says: “Multiplying the case of this single mill by the hun- dreds of larger and smaller ones where work has been suspended and one can wear. Judge Dickinson doubtless appreciates the compliments showered upon him by the local democratic organ, but there is & well grounded suspicion that the “taffy” would Laye been reserved until after the democratic primaries had it not Dbeen for the anxlety of the “hypenatad” to assist its lawyers in the eiy prioting contest. get some Idea of what the cotton specu- latlon’ means to this most important industry and the interests that are in- timately and remotely dependent upon it” The loss to the wage earners will be as great or perhaps greater than that of the manufactuers and they are less able to bear it. The cotton corner has enriched a few speculators at the expense of hundreds of thousands of people engaged in cotton manufactur THE ( AHA DAILY BEE: T ESDAX, AUGUST 11, 1903 ing, but there appears to be no remedy [ the legislature has not yet been di- | RETIREMENT OF GENERAL MIL for this sort of thing. There is talk of appealing to congress for legislation to prevent this sort of legislation, but no one has suggestad a practicable plan and one 1s not likely to be formulated. Cotton must stand with wheat and corn as a commodity subject to the manipn lation of speculators, 4 SCREME TO BLOCK MUNICIPAL LIGHTING. According to a well-defined rumor, the reorganized electric lighting company has perfected well-defined plans for monopolizing the public lighting business in this city for the next ten years. With this end in view the company proposes to submit to the city council proposals for abrogating the electric lighting con- tract entered into with the Thomson- Houston company less than two years ago, and make a new contract at ma- terially reduced rates to cover a period of ten years, providing that the city will at the end of the present year give up gas lights altogether and intro- duce arc lights in their places over the entire city. At first blush this proposition may appear very attractive, but upon seriotis reflection it will be found de- cidedly objectionable. First and fore- thost, the proposed ten-year electric light contract would block municipal ownership of public lighting facilities, favored by an overwhelming majority of our population. Munieipal owner- ship was the paramount issue In the recent oity campaign to whleh candi- dates of all parties were positively cor- mitted, and unless a great revulsion in public sentiment shall take place the mayor and council cannot honorably or consistently turn their backs upon the policy to which they pledged them- selves before election. In the next place, no emergency ex- ists that would justify the proposed ten- year contract at this time, even if pub- lie sentiment favored its final consum- mation. In other words, there is no good reason why the city should nego- tiaté a ten-year electric lighting con- tract without mature consideration and full public discussion. The contract with the Thomson-Houston company does not expire for several years and the contract with the gas company for street lighting svill not expire until the first of January. ‘Whether this contract {s renewed or not, the mayor and council have ample time to discuss and figure with the rival companies before reaching a final conclusion. Conceding that is is the city's interest to get its public lighting at the lowest price, we doubt very much whether the taxpayers of Omaha want to give to a private corporation the ex- clusive ‘privilege of lighting our public thoroughfares for the next ten years. It is also a question whether or/not the ten-year contract would not consti- tute a franchise. If it does, the mayor and councll would be compelled under the charter to submit the question to a vote of the people for ratification at a special or general election. In any event there is no reason why the nego- tiations should be rushed. ‘While the Maryland union veterans are escorting General Miles to the na- tional encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, Georgla’s secretary of state, B. N. Blackburn, celebrated his retirement from the command of the army by decorating the state capital with confederate flags and portraits of confederate generals. Blackburn was in his swaddling clothes during the civil war, but imbibed in his infancy the treasonable sentiment of his en- vironment. Very naturally he enter- tains intense hatred for General Miles Dbecause the latter had put Jefferson Davis, the arch traitor, “into chains” at Fortress Monroe. Georgla's secre- tary of state may not be a near or dis- tant relative of Doctor Blackburn, the diseiple of Jeff Davis who scattered in- fected clothing to spread yellow fever in the northern cities, but his perform- ances indicate the breed. As a matter of fact, General Miles did not put Jeff Davis in chains at Fortress Monroe, but acting under instructions from the secretary of war, and as a matter of precaution, he had manacles placed upon his limbs to prevent him from making his escape, or being rescued immediately after his capture and while conflned in a room in which there were no window bars. The Georgia incldent forcibly illustrates the effect of dis- loyal teachings andspernicious literature that have polsoned the minds of the new generation of southern men and womin against thé galaxy of patriotic soldlers of the union, who offered up their lives and fortunes to save the republic founded by Washington and his compatriots, and to preserve the heritage of free Institutions for futnre generations of Americans, north and south, east and west, There is always room for improve- ment in every branch of the publie service and there is, doubtless, much to be desiréd to improve the efficiency of the fire departwent, but it takes money to make the mare go. It will take a good deal of money, for example, to substitute automobilks for the fire ap- paratus horses that eat their heads off six times a year and it will take still more money to provide the department with all the latest fire extinguishing de- vices. For the present, however, there 18 a large vacuum in the avallable fire fund and no immediate prospect of a surplus. Spasmodic police reform has at last struck Lincoln. Notice has been served on all whom it may concern that card playing in cigar stores, slot machines and games of chamce of any kind in saloons and vocal and instrumental musie in licensed and unlicensed pub- lic resorts will not be tolerated hence- forth and forever. This order, declares the chief of police of the capital city, means business. Whether the ediet will be suspended during the next session of vulged. E——— William Jennings Bryan is reported to have held a conference in Missouri | with Clrcuit Attorney Joseph W. Folk, | who 1s said o be a candidate for the gubernatorial honors. 1f W. J. Bryan ean induce the Missourl democracy to place Folk in the governor's chair, he will render that state iInvaluable service. A few boodle terrorists of the Folk stamp, whether democratic or re- | publican, as state executives will purify | the political atmosphere by making | bribery odious. John W. Bookwalter, who is reputed to be heavily interested in farming lands in southern Nebraska, has de- clared himself a candidate for United States senator to succeed Senator Hanna. Like his running mate, Tom E L. Johnson, Mr, Bookwalter can tap a | barrel or two without impairing his fortune, but his chanées for occupying Hunna's cushioned seat next year are exceedingly slim, Ss—e—— ‘We do not know whether there is any cruelty in firing men out of a cannon up in a balloon, but we are sure it would be considered cruelty if a canine were rammed into the mouth of the cannon and dropped 500 feet head down- ward, even If he were attached to a parachute. S — A Melancholy Descent, Brooklyn Bagle. Mr. Bfyan has dropped to the plane of calling Grover Cleveland “a bunco steerer." Mr. Bryan's descent in manners and in morals is melancholy to trace. How the Title Originated. ‘Washington Post. As we remember it, Mr. Cleveland did not achieve the titls of “bunco stoerer” until, after his second defeat, he took the lecture platform, started a newspaper and bought a blooded helfer. Alas, Whi Fall, Chicago Chroncle, As a consequence of the doings In Wall strest Newport, which last year gave mon- key dinners and bathed in champagne, is now passing around the hat to defray the expensa of cheap soclety entertainments. Alas! where are the snows of yester year— likewlse the promotion profits? Nebraska’s Banner Year, Minneapolis Journal. This {s to be the banner wheat year In Nebraska. The acreage, which s 15 per cent greater than last year, will yleld at the lowest estimate 80,000,000 bushels. This crop shows an Increase of 70,000,000 in the last thirteen years—In 1690 the wheat harvest of Nebraska was 10,000,000 bushels COause of All the Trouble. New York Telegram. A California professor, whose study is water, has within a few days added to marine blology several new forms among the protozoa and goelentera—one, the “per- fdinfum” of the animalculea, which is said to glve the characterlstic hue to the Red sea, and the other the “sapnyina,” whose {ridescence vies with the plumage of the peacock. Life Is full of contradictions. It 18 in all probabliity trylng to avoid these monsters that causes the feud in Kentucky and the vendetta here. Thod, too, BINlY New York Sun. Saint-seducing gold has another victim. Another populist backslides, The Hon. Willlam Vincent Allen, affeo- tlonately known as “Wind" Allen, some- time a senator in congress from Nebraska, the champlon long-distance shouter of the senate, member of the populist national committee, president of the popullst na- tional convention of 1892, and as loud and long a voice as ever roared agalnst cap- Italists and corporations, Is becoming a corporation and a capitalist. ““In company with Judge Cadman Dayton of Washing- ton he will bulld a line from Huntington, Ore., to Lewiston, Idaho." Coxey, Hogg, Towne, Allen—shall we never see an unprosperous and unregen- erate son of calamity? PASSING OF OLD PREJUDICES, A Spectacle Worthy of the Country and of Civilization. Philadelphia Public Ledger. There have been few events of the last half century, extraordinary as so many of them were, which have 80 plainly shown as the life and death of Pope Leo XIIT have done the world's recognition of truth, charity and good will. It denotes the spir- ftual progress, just as our industries' mar- velous growth shows the material progress. The life and death of this one great and good man have curlously demonstrated the existence and strength of the universal kinship. When the tidings of the passing of the pope were announced there was a truce declared among the ever warring creeds; the clamor of their contention ceased; men of all sects and faiths, by a common impulse, gathered about the bfer of the dead pontiff and with uncovered heads reverently saluted the great teacher, the true priest, the grand, good old man that was, by the love which he gave to the world In full and overflowing measure; by his strong, brave, helpful work for hu- manity; by his profound wisdom and plety; by the purity and simplicity of his life, honored and revered of all true souls. The recognition of Leo XIIT by all sects, all sorts and conditions of men, all the earth over, wjs one of the noblest tributes which has been paid to any man in this, our day and generation It mattered little of what so-called de- nomination the churches or the preachers were; while the bier stood uncovered, and afterward, those of all dlssenting creeds, even those who yet loyally exalt Luther's broom, affectionately and reverently tes- l‘m"‘ to the worth, the goodness, the wis- dom and the broad, all-embracing charity {of the late head of the Roman Cathollc church. The general tribute which the world has paid to Pope Leo is not more the trlumph of his noble, beneficent life than that of the broadened world that so generous: sincerely pald it. It shows how men have advanced along the certain road to a bet- ter understanding and appreciation of sim- ple worth, virtue and goodness; that creeds no longer, as they once did, blind their devotees to the truth of things and men; that with clearer thought and keener vision the world lets old quarrels and anclent prejudices pass. | A half century ago or less such common demonstrations and reverent expressions of Protestant admiration for the life and work of a pope, and such earnest regrets for his death, would have been impossible in the Protestant churches of the United States. The epectacle s one of which our country may be justly proud; it proves that the American mind has broadened as the territory of the nation has; that all creeds recognize and do reverently exalt the man who, with pure heart, clean hands and Christiike spirit, lives, labors, suffers and dies in high faith and noble deeds for humanity as Pope Leo XIII lived and died. Indianapolis Ne At any eral Miles has the satisfactior that he stood pat up to the last minute, even If the attitude did give him a good many unpleasant quarters of an hour Springfield Republican: The retirement of General Miles marks the end of the old military system under which all the re public’s wars have been fought. His going marks an epoch in the United States army Philadelphia Press: At the head of the army General Miles has been a conspicu- ous and popular figure. If friction has now and then come and some of his acts he been open to criticlsm these things will rate, Cen- of knowing {take but a small place in the perspective of history when his services, his success and his sincere patriotism are summed, recorded and appreciated Kansas City Journal: The general 18 now a private citizen enjoying a big pension. His connection with the army s slight The cause for friction is removed. Time will blot out all enmitles, and the country, it s to be hoped, will remember General Miles, not as he is now, but as he once was —a soldier and officer of high credit to himeelf and of real value in the army. Detroft Free Press: That General Miles ald not succeed in a career of masterful tnactivity is not surprising, and after all, his lack of success detracts less from his reputation than most of his contemporaries assume. A soldier is known by what he accomplishes In war; not by what he falls to accomplish In peace, and as a fighting man the record of Nelson A Miles is with- out a blot or stain. Kansas City Star: General Miles was opposed to some of the administrative poli- cles pertaining to the army, and he was not always careful to use soldlerly discre- tion In expressing his disapproval. More than once he subjected the president and the War department to unmerited and wholly unnecessary embarrassment. It may be considered an especial compliment to his achlevements as a soldier and to the grate- tul appreciation the country feels for his active services that he was permitted to serve out his term and be retired under the age limitation, for even great claims may sometimes be offset by minor annoyances. New York Bun: It must be admitted, however, that General Miles had much provocatfon to resentment. Not unnatu- rally, exhibitions of puerility, vain displays of trifiing amateur military performances, theatrical elevation of rather cheap heroes and hustling of military novices to shove themselves Into notice ahead of veteran soldlers, in the Spanish war, excited the contempt of General Miles, and oftentimes they deserved it. His culpability was in his making of them occasions for exhibiting petulance and even for outraging his office as commanding general by casting slurs on ths army. General Miles could well have afforded to rest on his well won laurels. But, as we have sald, the situation was trying and exasperating, for there was much military sham about. New York Tribune: The new army—the army whose ranks he leaves today—owes nothing, therefore, to its departing chief. What it is In organization and spirit, it is not by virtue of his efforts, but in spite of his discouragements. In the great reforms accomplished by Secretary Root he has had no part. In his view no necessity for those reforms existed. For him the past and its methods sufficed. Brilliant as a soldler in the fleld, gifted as a tacticlan or a strate- gist, General Miles falled to measure up to his opportunities as a creator and an organizer. Others have done the work he might have done or helped to do; and his retirement from active service is not un- justly hailed as ending an unseemly strug- gle—as ushering out an antiquated mill- tary order and ushering in one founded on modern practice and on modern needs. PERSONAL NOTES, Count Tolstol must have a violent antip- athy to the churches. He urges all of the politicans to seek religion. Judge Alton B. Parker, who has been mentioned &s the democratic presidential candidate, says he will remain on the bench. L. O. Emerson, the composer of “A Life on the Ocean Wave,” “The Ivy Green" and other popular songs, celebrated his 83d birthday in Boston last week. The new president of the steel corpor- ation gets only 37,000, but perhaps he doesn’'t expect to expend as much nerve force for that sum as Schwab put into the bustness. George B. Young, the St. Paul attorney retained by the Northern Eecurities com- pany in the merger trial, recelved a fee of $10,00. He was speclal counsel for the company. The strenuous variety of Russell Bage's life is 1ow heightened by the fact that he is defendant in a suit brought by the city of New York for alleged violation of the tenement house act. Seven well known New York physiclans, headed by Dr. Albert W. Ferrls, have formed a company for the publication of a daily medical journal, which will appear October 1, and which will report the medi- cal happenings of the world. Thomas Dixon jr. the novelist, owns what Virginlans regard as one of the most keautiful estates on the shores of Chesapeake bay. He has n mile and more of beach on his own place and it is a drive of two miles from his front gate to his house. There are 300 large shade trces on his lawn. Although his nouse has thirty- five rooms, he bulilt a log cabin down near the water that he might have an isolated place to write In. MISSOURI'S RAILROAD LOBBY, A Few Hard Knocks on the Chiet Lobbyist's Testimony. Kansas City Star. “The rallroads are forced for thelr own protection to keep a man on the scene of action, Without a lobby the sandbagging syetem which has heen adopted at the state capital would bankrupt eve terest in Missourl."—From the testimony of Willlam H. Phelps, lobbyist, before the St. | Louis grand jur; But what b break up the e the railroads done sandbagging system?’ Ab- solutely nothing. What they done to encourage 1t? Bverything. If one-tenth of the money the rallroads have spent in buying or defeating legislation had been expended In an effort to detect and expose the bribeseekers, the corrupt practices of the Missouri legislature would long since have been broken up, and the corporations would have saved hundreds of thousands of dollars. 1f there is one human craving that grows by what it feeds on it is the passion for money. The surest way to make the giving of bribes necessary s to give bribes. The best way to make it unnecessary is to re- tuse abolutely to fill the extended hand, and to expose, In every possible instance, the man who extends it. Colonel Phelps cannot arouse any sympathy for the cor- porations he has represented. The rail- roads, through Colonel Phelps and other lobbylsts, have established a sort of mar- ket for the buying and selling of votes They are to blame for the trade that has grown up through this viclous Institution It is not always possible for the people to elect absolutely honest men to the legls- Iature, but it is always possible for cor- porations to refuse to gratify dishonest demands. And no other one agency has enjoyed such great opportunities to expose corrupt tendencles and punish those who betray the people as the railroads. rallroad in- ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK. the Current of Life in the Metropotis. Ripples on A Dutch colonial garden with canals, flowers Imported from Hotland and other pleturesque trimmings, form a feature of Van Cortland park, Broadway 18 one of the boundary streets of the park. lLately it was notlced that the flowers were being dostroyed nightly and that the garden, which cost $20,00, was rapldly golng to ruin. A force of park policaman was detalled to watch the garden and capture the marauders, The marauders were found. but the services of a professional trapper wero engaged to capture them. 'p-to-date he has caught fifty-three muskrats. A bartender In a Twenty-fourth street saloon, near Sixth avenue, was about to close the place one night last week, when two well-dressed girls came in, marched boldly up to the bar and demanded a glass of beer aplece. The situation struck the bartender as extraordinary, relates the New York Bun, but he set two foaming glasses on the bar before the girls. They sipped the beer slowly and engaged him in conversation. “Wo are the two most popular shop- Des Moines,” they explained to We had a voting contest out there, and the two girls who were declared the most popular were to ger a free trip to New York to see the sights. We were elected, and here we are.” “But what are you doing 1n hers at this hour of the night?" inguired the bartender. “Well, you see, we heard that most of New York that was worth seeing was worth seeing at night, and we don't know any one to go 'round with us, 8o we are golng ‘round alone.” ‘Which seems to show that even the most popular girls are sometimes thrown upon their own resources. An elephant at large, swimming in Long Island sound, was a sight that startled passengers on steamers and numerous fish- ermen In small boats one day last weck. The big beast was some distance from shore and swam apparently with the ease, if not the grace, of a eeal. There were séveral rowboats in pursult ana many attempts were mado to capture him without avafl That the small boats were not overturned was due entirely to the doclle disposition of the beast. The elephant was Basn, the largest of the herd In the zo0 at Glen island, which early in the day took into his mammoth head the idea of crossing over to the Long island shore. Basil was tled to a stake outside the elephant sheds while his stall ‘was being cleaned. He amused himself by affectionately encircling the stake with his trunk. Then he gave it a quick jerk and the stake traveled high i the air. Basil did not move for an {nstant or two. Then he looked toward the sound, where the water was cool and tempting. He made direct for it and waded In. The keepers came at him with hooks and spears. Basil filled his trunk with water and drenched them time and time again. rhey prodded him with hooks, but their labor was futile. Finally ropes were secured, but when the men endeavored to throw them over his head the elephant struck out into the deep water of the sound. A steam launch then jomed in the chase. There were two keepers in it and they managed to get ahead of him and, by wav- ing their arms in front of him, got him to turn and head for shore, his strength ap parently not failing, for twice he turned and circled about. When the elephant reached shore he came up and shook him- self after the fashion of a dog, and then started for his stall in the elephant sheds. The rather decrepit statue of Ben Frank- !in which stands in the little plaza formed by the juncture of Park Row and Nassau street I8 gerving a purpose these days which the designers never dreamed of. Standing as it does at a point where the heavy traffic of two sadly overworked streets meets it forms an “isle of safety,” on either side of which great crowds gather daily to read the bulletin boards of the newspapers which cluster all around It. Besides this some temperance organization has secured per- mission from the city to erect a free drink- ing booth on one side, and this serves to further augment the crowd. Almost at any hour of the day “Poor Richard” may be seen with his hands outstretched and in the attitude of an orator, with an audience varying between 500 and 1,000. Occaslonally a great cheer arises, which further in- creases the similtude of an open-air meet- ing, but the cheers are not for Franklin, and when they rise In great volume they tell the denizens of Park Row that the Glants have won another victory. A certaln well-to-do New Yorker pur- chased a lot far uptown some thirty years ago—at least it was far uptown then. He pald his taxes on the place yearly and sometimes wondered why he kept it. Long before ho had purchased it a man had built a little shanty on the place, and there he has squatted ever since. No one bothered him and he ralsed a large family, several of whom are now In business for them- selves, Recently the owner decided to re- tire from business entirely, #o he sold the lot at private sale for a price vastly in ad- vance of what he paid. The new owner is the man who has lived there rent free for thirty years. In New York the men who sit around a flower-decked table and pass the loving cup are on the same plane with the lowly citi- zens who gather around an alley-harbored dray and “shove the growler.” A magls- trate has sald it, and unti] his declslon is reversed it will stand as a precedent for the defense of “can shooters.” An officer ar- rested a group of sovereign citizens and ex- plained to the judge that he caught them in the act of operating a plece of tinware be- tween a dark alley and a nelghboring sa- loon. “The can,” sald the new Solomon, “is the poor man's loving cup. Go to your homes, men; you are free." Incorporated Under Nebraska Law. Springfleld (Mass.) Republican. 1t remains to be seen whether Nebraska gan maintain in the courts the valldity of its new law requiring all foreign corpora- ttons doing business in the state to incorpo- rate again under the laws of that state and pay a fee gauged to the amount of its capi- tal stock. Thus the Standard Ofl company would be required, if the law holds good, to pay $30,000 into the Nebraska state treasury or cease from “doing business” there, by which is mennt apparently that it would have to close up its sales agencles, etc. It is calculated that In this way Nebraska make the New Jersey trusts as can prof Jersey treasury. If Nebraska can con tutionally do th all the other states can 1+ whack at the trust similarly. But if ¢ can do this, they can impose conditions which would destroy interstate commerce to & very large extent and wall each state in for the exclusive operation of its own corporations. The outside dorporations will at once take the Nebraska law into the courts, where its fate will be noted with general Interest e Cause und Effect. Indianapolls News. It 1s hardly surprising to learn that the petty officers are drawing the color line in the navy when it Is remembered that it was not very long ago that one of the CONCERNING BUNCO STEERERS, How Bryan's Characterization Cleve nd Fite Himself, Chicago Chronicle Mr. Bryan, the Nebraska popullst attorney for the silver truet made speech at Urbana, O, on Wednesday, the course of which he chara rized Gr ver veland, twice president of the United States, a= a “bunko steerer.” A bunko steerer i sald to be a who persuades innoéent or avariclous in dividuals to take part In a gambling swindling game in which they are sure to losa Mr and a in person or money Cleveland 1« olft history with several fmportant 1ssues, among them the following: Taxa- tion for public purposes only, enforcement of the laws against mobs of public and private crodit, economy if public expenditure, imperialistio ex- pansion beyond the sea, and the vigorous assertion of the Monroe doctrine. When Mr. Bryan began the acoumula- tion of his present fortune a few yoars ago he became the attorney of the sflver mino owners, who had a plan for doubling the value of thelr product. Mors than other man in America Grover Cloveland 1s to be credited with tho defeat of this swindling proposition The project of the silver mine owners which Mr. Bryan has supported on what seems to have been liberal compensation fdentified in American no any was practically the first development of the trust fdea. Its purpose was to create a monopoly and to enhance prices. As to some other trusts, it Is asserted that they have lowered prices, but there was no such purposs behind the trust which had Mr. Bryan's valuable services for ten years. Its one aim was to make 45 cents’ worth of silver bullon do duty as a dollar in money. FIRLLL] To bring about this end, which would have cut every man's wages in two, and which would have enabled publio and pri- vate debtors to repudiate more than one- half of thelr obligations, the chief attorney for the silver trust had to b something more than a mere lawyer. He had to be a politiclan and a demagogue, if not n scoundrel as well. If he could identify his swindling game with a great political par- ty, so much the better for the trust—and for him! Mr. Bryan filled the bill rdmirably. By trickery and treachery the attorney of tho silver trust became the democratio nomi- nee for the presidency, and his fortune was made. He falled to ‘“deliver tho goods,” as they say In bunko-steering cir- cles, but if ever a cheap lawyer merved a monopoly faithtully Mr. Bryan has earned all that he has received as the spokesman for the meanest and rottenest of all tho trusts. LAUGHING GAS, “This,” said the young and timid lawyer, “4g but'a rough draught of the will." “Then,” said_the old lawyer, curtly, “it needs filing."'—Baltimore American. “What makes her go solemn?" “Well, you see, she's a temperance ad- vocate, and some one told her that her smiles were perfectly intoxicating.'—~Phila- delphla Bulletin. The Doctor—I am greatly interested in that story of the Oregon chemist swho has Sicceeded In turning siate into gold. The Professor—I see nothing remarkabla fn it. My coal dealer often turns slate highest officers in the service objected to an enlisted man taking an examination for a commission because the unpolished satlor would not be equal to the soclal stunts required. into greenbacks.—Philadelphin Press. Hewitt—Do moblle these (?l Jewett—No; Bun. “Mammy," sald Pickaninny Jim, “I's jes' discovered why a chicken allus cackles so wh;'n it I "yn;'-:yf,'i;;r ou_g'wa: Dnod‘] has. She's beggin’ de egg Instid o' cookin' her fol ‘Washington Star. The crowd in the b fi automobile, who had just ridden over to hear the outdoor con- cert, cheered the classical selection per- sistently and with much enthusiasm. The bandmaster shook his head. “We played ‘Hiawatha' about ten min- utes ago!" he called out.—Chicago Tribune. u ever go out in your auto- .? i'm too lame.~New York ou to take dinner."— William Tell had just shot the apple from his son's head. reen,” he explained, nervously, to 4o something quick before the boy ate it."" Subsequently a more artistic version was dven to the newspapers, but truth, crushel o earth, will rise again.—New York Sun, “Yes,” she sald, “for the summer we try to go to some place where we won't need clothes.” p T'd like to go there, too,” he announced, after an admiring glance, and she hastily changed the subject without even attempt- ing an explanation of what she really meant.—Chicago Post. THE NEW STENOGRAPHER. W. F. Kirk in Milwaukee Sentinel. I have a new stenographer—she came to k today, Ehn'lourld r?xa i\lll she wrote the Graham tem, Two -K:ndrefl words a minute seemed to her, she said, like play. And word for word at that—she never missed ‘em! 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