Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 2, 1903, Page 6

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Parties leaving the city at any time may have The Ree to them regularly by notitying The Bee Business ofice, in » The address will be chan ‘ms often as desired. — e Anything more to enjoin? m or by ma Ak-Sar-Ben's royal bill posters are at last abroad in the land. Sir Thomas Lipton insists that he prefers not to have the agony prolonged. Most of us will side with Sir Thomas ot this question According to the press report, the Minnesota state fair opened with a long distance speech and a short dis- tance trotting match. 5 The irrepressible tendency in the % court house to make crooked things straight bas reached high water mark in the proposed straightening out of the Elkhorn river. eEe——————— With the approach of the carnival season The Bee renews its suggestion that confetti throwing be barred. The revelers can cut up enough with the confett! cut out. It will be remembered that the school board, once or twice “went after” the drug men who sell liquor at wholesale on a $10 druggist's permit, but that it went no, further. ~ emm———— . The sultan does not like to have ‘American war ships heading for his ports. It sets altogether too bad an . axample which the powers of Europe may be tempted to follow. EEmm——— Mayor Ames, Minneapolis' boodling executive, seems to have hard luck in ~his efforts to secure new trials. He ought to have moved to Missourl before starting on his career of corruption. . e Members of the Alaskan boundary commission refuse to talk for publica- tion in advance of the officlal sessions. They will bave plenty to say, however, @s soon as the ball is formally started. Andrew Carnegie is becoming more and more optimistic in his predictions of the future of the race. A man has a right to be optimistic when he counts his wealth by the hundreds of millions, After the cleaning up the police board has given that part of the city, the sug- gestion that the new market house be converted into a public bath house comes almost as an insult to the neigh- borhood. — Crop prospects in Nebraska have not improved as they should have, but neither have they grown worse. A harvest-end lift for the corn would eome in right handy and the weather man is requested to take due notice, Tan't the employment of a teacher of writing as necessary for High school Ppuplls a sort of reflection on the instruc- tion In writing in the preparatory grades? Can a pupll who can't write legibly be qualified for High school work? se=—mne—e No wonder Secretary Shaw Is In such high favor with the 8t. Louls exposition officers and mauagers. The secretary carries the key that unlocks the vault contalnlng a $5,000,000 appropriation out of the national treasury for the ben- efit of the St. Louls fair, EE———— It will be a cold day when there is not at least one Injunction issued by our courts to restrain the mayor and counctl from exercising their legitimate discre- tion, or to restrain city officlals from performing duties devolving upou them the laws of the state and ordi- ot under ‘nances of the city. TRIBUTN TO SECRETARY HATY. Secretary Hay stands very high in foreign opinion as a diplomatist and he has well earned this esteem. The Lon- don Spectator in a recent article says of the promised opening of two ports in China, at the solicitation of the United: States, that it is a crowning proof that Mr. Hay “ls one of the ablest and most successful of lving diplomatists,” and in a review of his career pays fur- ther tribute to his worth and merit Americans who are able to consider the work of Sqeretary Hay in connec- tion with our foreign rélations with fairness and freedom 'from prejudice will fully concur in the opinion of the London paper. John Hay has had long experience in dlplomacy and he has improved every opportunity that came to him for the broadening of his knowledge of inter- national affairs and for strengthening, in all legitimate and honorable ways, the influence of the United States in respect to such affairs. As the Amer- lean ambassador to England when the war with Spain came he showed a very high order of diplomatic abllity and in dealing with the Chinese trouble he demonstrated that he was the peer if not the superior of the European for- elgn ministers. He proposed a pollcy in regard to China which unquestion- ably prevented war against that em- pire by the European powers that would have resulted in its dismember- ment. What he did In this matter alone established a claim to distinction in the field of diplomacy. The policy of the State department under Secretary Hay has been to deal fairly and candidly with all countries. He sald in a public address some two years ago that con- sciousness of our national strength brings with it no temptation to do in- jury to any power on earth, the proud- est or the humblest. It is in this spirit that our foreign affairs have been con- ducted by Mr, Hay, with results most satisfactory to our people and at the s#ame time strengthening the TUnited States in the respect and confidence of all nations, MAKING BXULUSION MORE EFFECTIVE. A great many Chinese are said to have come into San Francisco who had no right to enter under the exclusion act. This has been accomplished by claiming that they were born in the United Statés and invoking the writ of habeas corpus. The San Francisco Chronicle explains that the custom has been to sue out a writ while the Ohi- nese under suspicion of being Inad- missible was detained by the immigra- tion officer and before the latter had thme to make a satisfactory investiga- tion of the suspected case. This abuse of the writ enabled the agents of the petitioners to get control of their.clients and coach them before they appeared before the United States commissioner to testify concerning their nativity. The judges of the federal courts at San Irancisco have made a new order in regard to the nature of a petition for the admission of Chinese which it Is thought will do away with evasion of the exclusion act. The Chronicle says it will be a safeguard against coaching, will give the officials more time for the investigation of cases and will increase the peril of the agents and court prac- titigners who are engaged In the dis- reputable business of coaching and thus aiding and abetting the claimant for admission to defeat the law. It is probable that this sort of evasion is not 80 common as represented, but it is manifestly proper to put a stop to it. Whatever one may think regarding the policy of the exclusion act, it is the law and should be faithfully enforced. NATURAL FOROES AND TRUSTS. The committee on commercial law of the American Bar association sald in its report, to which reference has already been made, that we cannot “rely on natural forces, on the law of supply and demand, or on economic considerations, to limit the growth of modern combina- tions.” It was urged that the people must put limitations upon them by their legislatures, their congress and their courts. There is no doubt as to the soundness of the latter suggestion, but it is still a fact that natural forces and economic considerations are exert- ing an influence in checking the growth of modern combinations and there is reason to believe will continue to do so. | Evidence of this is found abroad as well as in this country. An eminent German economist has recently pointed out that the operation of natural economic forces has had a very distinct influence in checking the growth of combinations and it Is certainly a fact that these forces are exerting themselves here in a like direction. There is hardly a com- bination which has not felt the effect of these forces and some have been compelled to succumb to the pressure. Overcapitalization, unsound manage- ment, the carrying on of business in disregard of established economic prin- ciples, have caused the dissolution of a number of combinations and there is no doubt that for the same reasons others will sooner or later be forced to dissolve. Yet It manifestly would not be wise to rely wholly upon natural forces and economic cousiderations to limit the growth of combinations. There is needed, also judiclous and practicable laws, national and state, for the proper supervision and regulation of what are commonly designated trusts. In the first place, the public should know how every such combination s organized and how managed. This is contemplated in the law creatihg a bureau of eorpora- tlons charged with the duty of ascer- taining specified facts in regard to all combinations, other than common car- riers, engaged in commerce among the states or with foreign countries. Whether or not this will prove sufficlent to check the growth of cowbinations s yet to be determined. but prebably it will be found that something more is necessary—that there must be a well- defined policy of regulation, provision THE OMAHA DAILY REE: for which may not be easy under the limited authority of congress. It is the opinion of many intelligent students of the subject that in order that the gov ernment may exercise such corttrol of the trusts as is demanded in the publie interest the constitution must be amended so as to confer greater author ity upon congress. Natural forces and economic consider: ations have by no means lost their power. They will continue to operate more or less effectively upon the com- binations. But it Is wise to supplement them with restrictive and regulative legislation and this will be done. THE LAW'S DELAY. Fred M. Hans, who has been in jail here for some time awalting a hearing for kill ing D. O. Luse two years ago, as he says, in self-defense, gave a bond today for his appearance at the next term of the district court, October 5.—Dispatch from Ains- worth, Neb. Here is a striking example in support of the recent declarations of President Rodsevelt, that the prime cause of Iynching is due to the popular distrust in the courts engendered by the law’s delay. “We must,” says President Roopevelt, “show that the law 1s ade- quate to deal with crime by freeing it of every vestige of technleality and delay. Justice should act swiftly says, “and the efforts of all legislators, Judges and citizens should be addressed to secure such reformation in our local procedure as to leave no vestige of ex- cuse for those misguided men who un- dertake to renp vengeance through mis- guided references.” The fact that Detective Fred Hans has been able by legal quibbles to stave off trial for the killing of Luse for more than two years cannot fall to have a tendency to bring our system of justice into disrepute and iIncite men to take the law into their own hands. The state of Nebraska has made ample provision for the expeditious administration of Jjustice. 8o far as we can learn, no dis- trict judge is overworked even if he is underpaid, and If a judge in any of the Judicial districts is incapacitated for holding court there is always an ample number of judges willing to take his place. Manifestly, the delay in the trial of Hans must be ascribed to undue par- tlality or sympathy. If Hans Kkilled Luse in self-defense, he should have been promptly tried and acquitted. 1f it was a deliberate murder, then he should have been puf on trial and made to suffer the penaltie§ of his crime after conviction. Commissioner O'Keeffe has struck the nail squarely on the head in his protest against the further expenditure of county funds for fron bridges. The colleagues of Mr. O'Keeffe on the county board may not be aware of it, but it is nevertheless true that the people of Douglas county are onto the iron bridge graft by which thousands of dollars have been annually filched from the pockets of the taxpayers and put into the pockets of contractors who, like the heathen Chinee, are very peculiar for ways that are dark and tricks that are vain. The people of Douglas county have taxed themselves hundreds of thousands of dollars for improving the roadways, but a very large part of this money, wrung from the pockets of the taxpayers, has been squandered through the connivance of dishonest commis- sloners and negligent county surveyors. ‘We do not believe we are putting it too strong In expressing the opinion that the county could have had at least two substantial paved roadways from east to west and north to south, with ever- lasting stone culverts and bridges, for the money taken out of the road and bridge fund in the last ten years for grading roads that will not stay graded and repairing bridges that will not stay repaired. If the county commissloners are in real dead earnest about straightening out the Elkhorn river, why not dig a straight line canal that will absorb the water of the Elkhorn and carry it into a reservoir for electrical power pur- poses, fill up the Elkhorn river bed with the earth taken out of the canal and use the money from the reclaimed lands to pay for the work? That might solve the cheap power problem and save the Omaha Electric Lighting company from the loss it will incur by its proposed ex- tension contract at $70 an arc lamp. American Catholics are given the as surance on semi-official autbhority that two additional cardinals for the United States are to be created in the very near future. Pope Pius could not do anything to make himself more popular in this country than to accord the American church the recognition to which it has long been entitled but which has been withheld from it. — The committee in charge of the re- union of the Army of the PHilippines at St. Paul gives out an estimate that 8,000 of the new war veterans are in attendance, Those who observed the reunion of the army at Council Bluffs last year will wait for a revised esti- Chicago Record-Herald, Mr. Magelssen will have to be numbered with the lucky ones who have had fame and greatness thrust upon them. He ought to be able to write for almost any of the magazines now. Reaching for a Shadow. Washington Post. Mr. Bryan is confident that the demo- crats will carry Kansas next year if the reorganisers do not get control of the party The last expression of Kansas on the Kan- sas City platform was a republican ma- Jority of, 69,083. New York Tribune The conviction amd sentence to prison of a member of the lynching mob at Danville, 1., ought to be foliowel by similar vin- dications of the majesty of the law in every in which a lynching murderer can be trial and found gullty upon con vidence of his crime. In that tried, | way, and In that way only, can this abom- inable practice of anarchy be stamped Brooklyn Our boys and girls have a smattering of of dozen ologles and can beat their parents at sums and triangles; but they spell like the deuce, and thair pen- manship 1s a disgrace to civilization. Less method and more sense. a couple Abhors the Strenuous Life, Washington Star. Historians sometimes take strange liber- ties with the truth in order to aggrandize individuals. But no eulogist, however en- thusiastié, will have the assurance to de- pict the sultan as rushing forth from the palace to personally conduct his cohorts to the fray. When Technicalities Fail. Baltimore American. Gotham is stricken with amazement at the unpracedented sight of a rich eriminal, convicted and in prison, unable to et out by means of technicalities. When technicalities begin to fail erime, then is the law indeed pandering to justice in the most unexpected manner, Ball and Chain for Loafers. Baltimore Sun, Georgla is dealing with loafers by a new method. In that state, as in many others, around every settlement are a number of persons who have no visible means of sup- port and never will have any if théy are left to decide the labor question them- selves. After having on the statute books for years the usual laws of northern states and finding them inadequate, Georgla has passed a much stricter vagrancy act and the judges are enforcing it too. Under the new law vagrancy is punished by a sent- ence of imprisonment for a term of from three months to a whole year. This does not mean confinement in a jafl, but work on a chaln gang that is bullding a raflroad or a macadam road. Thus, If a man re- fuses to work for himself, he is induced to wear the state's striped clothes and work under the state's supervision, KILLING THE TURKS TOO FAST. ‘Wonderful Execution of War Corre- ondents in the Balkans. ‘Washington Post. Tt is quite like old times, as the saying goes, to read the fine, vigorous, luxuriant ‘war reports that come to us nowadays from the Balkans via London. The experience takes us back to the last days of 1896-07, when the special correspondents watched, from the cafe of the Inglaterra hotel in Havana, the victorious onslaughts of the Cuban patriots and recorded, in the capa- city of eye-witnesses, their wholesale mas- sacres of the hated Spaniard. What days they were, to be sure! You could get a battle to order. Spaniards fell down and died by thousands in response to the simplest requisition from New York. It was a dull week in which the:insurrectos didn’t drive the tyrant out of some prov- Ince and saturate the sofl for miles around with his dastard gore. And here we are again! A slight geographical change; the transfer of an arena no longer available; but the same dear, old familiar butcheries and depopulations. We can almost hear the shouts of the victorious correspondents above the noise of the band playing on the Prado. One story in particular delighted us on Wednesday morning—a story from Mahla (Bulgaria, we infer), telling us of the herolc behavion of eighteen revolutionists. These eighteen heroes attacked 250 Bashi-Bazouks who had taken refuge in a stone tower. The Bashi-Bazouks had fled before their impetuous and serried onslaught and hid themselves in the granite fortress, Most men—that is to say, most men operating’ in bunches of elghteen—would have given up in despair before the spectacle of 250 enemles &0 securely intrenched, defended, and walled in. We do not believe, indeed, that even twenty-five of the very flower of the French or Austrian army would have attempted to go farther. Not so thes Bulgarlan patriots, who the Irreverent press agents describe as “Insurgents. The cowardly expedient of the 250 Bashi-Ba- zouks only nerved them to fresh fury. They blew up the fortress and killed every trembling son of a sea cook in the garrison. This is only a single, isolated instance of the irresistible valor of the sons of freedom in the Balkans. The record, taken as a whole, is one unbroken chronicle of slaugh- ter and extermination. Indeed, if the names could be changed so as to take us back to Matanzas, Santa Clara, Pinar del Rio, and Havana, we could easily be- lieve that we have picked up an old yellow newspaper of 1897 and were reading over again the bloody exploits ot Jes Rabf, Lacret, Gareia, Sangullly, as related by the eloquent young gentlemen of the Ingla- terra cotere. We make bold to offer just one suggestion to the equally eloquent young gentlemen who are now engaged at Sofia, Vienna, or shall we not say London?—don't kill all the Turks before the 1st of September, and don't move Circassia into the nelghbor- hood of the Piraeus. We shall need more material for holocausts as the “‘war” pro- gresses, and the Macedonian committes can destroy the Circassians as the curtain falls. . P MR, BRYAN'S COMPLACENCY. Things Coming His Way for Another Mard Fall, St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Mr. Bryan is sald to be satisfied at the way things are shaping themselves in his party. He ought to be satisfied. The Ne- braska democrats and populists have de- clared for silver coinage on his lines and have fused once more, as he bade them. Ohlo's democrats have endorsed the Kan- sas City platform, though making a pre- tense to omit free silver from their sanc- tion. Things are going Bryan's way pretty much all over the west, 80 far as regards the democraey. 3 Every sane person in the United States sees that the action of the Nebraska and Ohfo democratic conventions was & set- back to the reorganizers, whether they belong to the Cleveland wing of the party or are Hill or Gorman men. The states of these two democrats have declared for Bryan just as much as if they had for- mally urged him for the candldacy in 190i. Bryan does not seek the candidacy in that year. None of his friends are ask- ing it for him, One of his friends in the Nebraska convention, however, took pains to declare that while Bryan was not Jook- Ing for the nomination mext year, he ex- pected to have & good deal to say in the national assemblage as to the man who should be the nominee and as to the plat- form on which he should stand. All this 1s very suggestive as to the situ- ation in the democracy during the can- vass of 1904. The innocent democratic pa- pers which are saying that their side is getting together while the republicans are falling apart should wake up and look around. Seldom in the past Yerty-five years have the republicans been more har- monious than they are now. Seldom in the past 100 years has there been more discord in the democratic party than is th at this time. There is a reasonable mzny, in fact, that there will be' & bolt in the demoeracy in 184 like that which took place in 159, excepting that next year it may be the silver men who will go out. It is pretty hard to see at this time how the republicans can prevent their majority in the electoral college of 194 from going be- yond the high figure of 1900, WEDNESDAY, BEPTEMBER 2 1903. BITS OF WASHINGTON LIFE. Minor Scemes and I the Spot, The finishing touches are being put on the White House preparatory for the return of the presidential family the last week In September During the summer many minor Improvements wcre undertaken Nearly the entire interior has been re- painted. The executive offices on the western terrace have been touched up and on one wall a pretty picture relleves the monotony. The cut glass chandeliers of the east room, which Mrs. Roosevelt and Colonel Symons concluded were too large and out of proportion to the room were taken down early in the summer and sent to New York. They are now again in place, much diminished in size. But for these elaborate ornaments the east room would be entirely barren, a white coat of paint having just been spread upon the Interor. Adaitional hat and cloak racks have been erected In the eastern terrace for the ac- commodation of guests at the large recep- tions. By steady work on the part of the landscape gardener, George H. Brown, the colonials gardens to the south of the mansion have been laid out and are near completion. At the president's stables there are signs that portend the homecoming. ,All the horses were taken to Oyster Bay early in the summer for the use of the family. Most of the animals are expected in Washington about a week before the president, that they may recover from the trip and be in readiness for service. Sketehed ° The National museum has just recelved two magnificent collections, the finest, in fact, that have ever reached that institu- tion for several years. They are at present undergoing classification, preparatory to being placed upon exhibition. The most important of the two is one just recelved from the War department. , Along about the year 185 the War depart- ment, which, from the very date of its organization and establishment under President Washington, had devoted consid- erable time and attention to collecting fire arms of various types, models, countries and perlods, especlally those made in this country, established a military museum in the Winder building, In which it placed on exhibition what, even at that period, was a very large collection of guns. During the civil war, however, the War department was 8o crowded for room that it was obliged to suspend the military museum and once more to store the collection in the department cellars. The collection has remained there ever since, together with numerous accessions, amounting to as much, if not more, than the entire collec- tion as it existed at the beginning of the war of the rebellion. Recently, however, the War department decided, in view of the fact that it was in no wise able to exhibit these firearms as they should be shown, turned the entire collection over to the National museum, placing it In the hands of Mr. George C. Maynard, curator of mechanical sclence of that institution, who is now busy preparing the specimens for exhibit. 1t is the Intention of the National mu- seum to increase the collection by gather- ing together one of the largest and most extensive exhibits of firearms in North America. As the collection now stands, it contains specimens of each and all of the firearms, invented, made and used for and in the dlfterent American wars, as well as a large body of forelgn arms. Dr. Frankenfield of the United States weather bureau has completed and sent to the printer an exhaustive report on the floods of the Missour! and Kaw rivers. The report is the most comprehensive thing of the Kind ever attempted by the government. Dr. Frankenfleld's report will show that the spring floods of 1908 in the Missouri and Kaw rivers and upper Mississippl were the most destructive in the history of the coun- try and were the greatest in volume of water, with the exception of that of 184 The report shows that the total loss from the flood was, in round numbers, $40,000,000. This {8 based upon actual investigation. The loss in the vicinity of Topeka, Des Molnes and Kansas City was largely to crops, rallroads, bridges and to commercial Interests. A loss of $11,500,000 was sustained between Hannibal and St. Louls on the Mis- sissippl and between Alton and Kansas City on the Missourl. The loss in the immediate vicinity of Kansas City was $15,500,000. Usu- ally the agricultural interests suffer most from floods, but Dr. Frankenfleld remarks that the high water this year distributed its ravages with rare impartiality. The loss from the destruction and damaging of bridges alone amounted to $750,000. AMERICA'S TRIUMPHS ON SEAS, A Phenomenon as Old as Clipper 8t. Louls Globe-Democrat. “American brains and development have us beaten,” says Sir Thomas Lipton. “If the day ever comes when England produces & Herreshoff, then I will chaljenge for the cup again, It will not be until then." The British yachtsman had felt some encour- agement up to the close of the secgnd race and then he gave up all hope. Although the serfes is not yet finished, there is no reason to doubt that the challenger is cor- rect when he says that he is Leaten. The fact that he has given up all intentipn of ever participating in another race for the cup until England produces a man who can buld boats as speedy as the American who has constructed several of the cup defenders will be regretted, for Sir Thomas has won many warm friends in this coun- try. But American supremacy on the water 18 no new phenomenon. Nor is it confined to racing machines like the recent cup challengers and defenders. In the days of the old clipper ships, the United States used to make records in the ocean passage which were a good deal more notable and immeasurably more important than any ‘which it has achleved in a cup yacht race in the past third of a century. America had the timber for the vessels, the skill among the bullders and the dexterity among the sallors which won for this coun- try Its pre-eminence on the ocean. This was shown in war as well as peace. The brilliant triumphs which were gained by American ships in the two wars with Fng- Jand long ago were due to all these three qualities, as well seamen. The displacement of the salling vesse! by the steamer and the substitution of iron for wood in construction gave the United States a setback in boat bulldiug for.ihe time, for England was ahead of us in those days In fron and steel manufecture. The civil war, which came on about the time that these changes in character and con- struction of ocean vessels began (o take shape, completed America’'s disccmfiture and gave England a long lead on (he water. For years past the United Staics has been ahead of England and of all the rest of the world in the miahufacture of iron and steel, but the lower price of lahor on the other side of the water gives that country still an advantage over us iu the cost of constructing and manning ocean vesssels. In the building of salling vessels, as shown not only by the construction of the racing yachts, but also in that of the new six or elght-masted vessels for the ocean trade, which are coming into use, the United States still leads the world, and there is a chance also that under the proper policy of protection this country may yet take the leading place In the development and maintenance of & steam marine JOHNSON'S COURSE HELPS HANNA. Ohio Democrats Split by No End of Quarre Washington Dispatch to N. Y. World, All the officials of the administration who keep books on the aspect of political affairs for the benefit of the president have put it down as a sure thing that Senator Hanna ‘will be re-elected with a larger majority than he got five years ago. There has never been, the least doubt about the defeat of Tom L. Johnson for governor, but there has been a fear that Hanna would not have as easy a time as he might desire, Now it Is figured that it Johnson's nom- Ination does not disrupt the democratic party in Ohlo and cause a landslide for the republicans, and the single-tax apostle 1s able to make as good a contest as John R. McLean did two years ago, the result of the legislative fight will be about as follows: Republicans in the senate, 18; house, 60; making a total of . Democrats in the senate, 15; in the house, 50; making a total of 6, or a majority of for the republicans on foint ballot The present legislature Is composed of $ republicans and 64 democrats. The re- publicans have many men in the senate from districts that should normally be democratic. The nomination of Johnson, brought about by bare-faced methods, will increase the, number of party quarrels. In fact, every day since the adjournment of the convention some democratic newspaper or politiclan has announced that thers was a case of too much Johnson. This, of course, will further Injure Clarke's chances for the senate. The managers of Clarke say they will carry all the districts that were formerly democratic, but the republicans are just as certain they will carry two of the dis- tricts that are in dispute. As Senator Hanna never lets the campalgn lag for want of a little money, the chances that these two districts will be carried for him are considered good. 8o far as the house is concerned, the democrats should regain Clermont, Erfe, Marion, Hocking, Vinton, Bandusky and Knox countles, giving them a gain of six members over the present standing. They have a small chance of carrying Delaware, Morrow, Perry, Hancock, Morgan, Noble, Paulding, Muskingum and Williams coun- tles, glving them a gain of eight more members If they carry all these counties, which may be classed as doubtful. But while the democrats are regaining the countles that are normally democratic and are carrying thoss that are really doubtful, the republicans will carry Guern- sey, & county now represented by a dem- ocrat, but which, under normal circum- stances, is overwhelmingly republican. Under that division of the spolls the house would stand a tle, each party hav- ing Afty-five members, and Hanna would have a majority of one vote, which is what he had five years ago. But to even imagine a result as close as that is ridiculous in the eyes of those who know the crew that is salling the democratic ship in the campalgn that is to be begun shortly, Clarke, the candi- date for senator, Is somewhat eccentric. He is really a brilllant orator, but lacks balance as much as Johnson. He is the sort of man who will tell an opponent to his face that he thinks he is a llar and a thief. He did that once to the late Calvin 8. Brice, ‘When Brice prnlM at one of the state conventions while he was senator, Clarke got the floor and walked down to within ten feet of where Brice sat and poured out the most bitter vituperation. Brice sat through it all without betray- ing the slightest emotion, but he took the ©edge off the remarks of Clarke by leaning forward and saying: “What did the delegate say his name was? ‘1 did not catch it as he came for ward, and I do not think the clerks got it. Clarke is an ardent gold man, but, like Johnson, is & supporter of Bryan, because he says he belleves Bryan is on the side of the people. in the BECOMING MORE REMOTE. Day of Commercial Wirel graphy Not in Sight. Chicago Chronicle. Contrary to the confident assertion of ex- perimenters and exploiters, the commercial day of wireless telegraphy becomes more remote instead of nearer. The little progress which has been made shows only two things conclusively—that s Telo. s to the courage of the | transmission without wires is possible and that there is no security in the process, no reliability in the result. Three companies operating during the in- ternational yacht races appeared to be more anxlous to demonsts the futility of wire- less telegraphy than to make steps In its advancement. The recelvers of none of them proved safe from the currents of the others. Their rival messages became aer- ally Interwoven and nothing was achieved beyond the certainty that no method yet de- vised lifts telegraphy without wires out of the slough of bafing atmospheric condl- tions or above the perversity of viclous competition. The question fs narrowing down pn one slde to the maximum of propulsion. The plant with the highest power is able to de- range the working of plants of lower power. But no plant yet established fs proof against eccentric conduct by nature's plant and no code or mode,is exclusive or trust- worthy under all circumstances. The rival companies had a superb oppor- tunity for promoting wireless telegraphy by co-operative work during the yacht races. Instead of displaying the true spirit of sclence they manifested vulgar puerility and malice more worthy curbstone huck- sters. PERSONAL NOTE! Prof. Langley's flying machine seems to | Wave the same trouble in the air that the | 8hamrock has In water All hands are anxious to pledge a hump‘f} to 8ir Thomas Lipton, and they will be dd- | ing him a great kindness it they will make {1t cold tea The manager of the Atlantic baseball club |48 named Finn and he writes his christian name “Mique.”* He refuses to adopt the | suggestion that he spell his second name | “Phynne.” | ‘Three sons were born to a Kentucky | farmer a few days ago and he has named them, his wife acqulescing, Kentucky Tennessee and Virginia, in honor of tM three states In which his wife has lived Mrs. Florllla Swetland Plerco, grand- daughter of a brother of John Hancock, one of the signers of the Declaration of In- dependence, celebrated, last Tuesday, her | 100th birthday at Honeoye Falls, N. Y. General U. 8. Grant's old farm, miles from St. Louls, has recently sold, a street railway running to fit, a part of It is to be made into a p) re resort, which Is expected to be especially attractive because of its association with Grant's life before the war The General Soclety of Mayflower D cendents will hold its third general con- gress in Plymouth, Mass., next Saturday, September 5. The congress is composed of delegates from the varfous state socleties of those descended from the pligrims who landed at Plymouth from Mayflower in 162, P ——— POINTED REMARKS, four been and »‘'Whew! it's hot here," exclaimed Jenks, Wwho was calllng on his friend, the dra matie critic, *Of course,’ where I do Ledger. replied the critic my roasting “This s ‘—Philadeiphia “Are the mosquitoes very bad around ere? h eBad!” echoed the native, derisively ‘Mister, did you ever hear of a mosquiio beln' converted? '—Washington Star. Just then an automoblle whizzed by “Speaking of ‘red devils,' "' said old Chlet Geronimo, who chanced to be in a rem niscent mood. “I wasn't what you would call a slouch myself in my time, was 1 Chicago Tribune. Columbus, with his ships, was approach- ing America, ve - " muttered the Indians, “this is tha an to come after the cup in 1,452 Ly their treasure, they wat, the ships spread out their baby Jib-topsails.—New York Sun secreting Kwoter—Oh, there are quite as good flsh in_the sea ns ever were caught, you know. Newitt—Better. Just think of the many enormous ones that just managed to get away. from all the anglers.—Philadelphia Press. “What {s that porterhouse steak worth?" asked the professor. The butcher weighed it. “Elghty-five cents,” he sald ‘Well,” sighed the professor, ft—but ‘cannibalism would be cheape: Chicago Tribune. Angry Father—Young man, you are sit- ting up foo Inte with my diughter. Last night T heard you kissing” her. ‘aperton—Well, sir, some one has got to, —Detroit Free, Press. Paul Revere was doing his famous stunt. ““There's one satisfaction,” he gasped, “the, small boys can’t yell ‘Gittahorse’ at me!" Feeling that life was worth lving with- out an auto, under these conditions, he sped on.—New York Sun. Visitor—You are the editor? Well, T want to speak to you about my daughter. She 'ls‘lfel poetry, sir, and she's only 14 years ol Editor—Oh, well, T wouldn't worry. She'll outgrow it, perhaps.—Boston Transcript. 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