Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 30, 1903, Page 6

/ THE OMAH BEE: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1903. e S THE OMAHA — E. ROBEWATER, DAILYV BEE [— PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING -— TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION ally Bee (without Sunday), One Year..$4.00 afly Bee and Sunda, One Year, .8 M. rated Bee, One soses O funday Bes, One Year 2.00 aturday Bee, One Year.... .y 1.50 § 'wentleth Century Farmer, One Year.. 1.00 DELIVERED BY CARRIER. ally Bee (without Sunday), per copy 2e afly Bee (without Sunday), per week.. lic Il Bee (including Sunday), per week..lic lay Bee, per o be ning Bee (without Sunday), per week 6c ning Bee (including Sunday), per sek < 3y . 100 Complainta of irreguiariti #hould be addressed to City Pertment. OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Buildin Eouth Omaha—city Hall Bullding, Twen- ty-nith and M Stregs Counal Blufta_lo Pear} Street. hicago— Inity Buflding. («n-'fi.rpnn Park Row Butlding Vashington—601 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating t6 news and edt- forlal_matter should be addressed: Omahe Bee, Editorial Department REMITTANCES Remit by draft, express or postal order yable to The Bee Publishing Company. nly 2-eent stamps accepted in payment of afl accounts.’ Personal checks, except on maha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. [ S et o STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, 8a.: George B, Tzschuck, secrotary of The Bes Publishing company, beng duly sworn, sa $hat the actua] number of full and'com- Biete coples of The Daily Morning, Bvenin and Sunday Bes printed during the mont ©f August, 108, was as follows: 1. 20,010 1 2 1 “in delivery Circulation Dé- 27,260 29,780 29,9830 20,760 29,760 29,920 -80,180 20,810 29,800 10. 1. 12 1. 1. 1. EEERNRRYRBEEEES Less unsold and returned copies. Net total sales. et average sales, GEO! Bubscribed in my presence ‘before me this §lst day of Aufi\ M. B, HU Notary Publi LEAVING THE CITY. Parties leaving the city at any time may have ‘The MNe t to them re larly by notitying The Bee Hasines office, ’n person or by mail The address will be changed an often as desired. —_— e When the red-coated marine band | strikes up the centennial chorus at Chi- cago all the other bands will remain mute, E—— The burial of the hatchets among republican factionists seems to make the fusion reformers’' organist disconsolate and out of tune. emmee——— News from Colorado indicates that there are other states besides Nebraska ‘which occasionally furnish examples of republican factionalism. et Perhaps our amiable contemporary does not know that those Blackburn resolutions were designed as a firebrand, but went off like a fizzing firecracker. . _ ) That investigation of the $6,000 plumbing job in the county infirmary and the alleged frauds in the construc- tion of county bridges seems to hang fire. Sir Thomas Lipton asserts that he in- tends to keep after the cup until he gets it, Sir Thomas' persistence is worthy of the cause that promises quicker results, Now that Uncle Sam's wards at the ‘Winuebago reservation have a new school superintendent the truant little Indlans and,big Indians will be put on thelr behavior. h pme——— "By the way, what has become of that great bridge between South Omala and Lake Mapawa, which Our Dave prom- to construct for some nanieless pad within a few months? ¥, epm— For a man who is not known to main- tain & literary bureau Major Church Howe 1s doing quite well, judging by the complimentary comment of the Brit- ish press on his promotion to the consul- sbip general at Antwerp. SpE——— ‘While the newspapers are reading him in and out of the presidential race, Ser tor Gorman is not. saying a word. Gor- man has won most of his triumphs by keeping his mouth shut, and he is too old to change his tactics, — ‘Wall street is getting panicky, but the ‘Awmerican farmer, who feeds the na tion, f§ ready to respond to requisitions when accompanied by cash or approved securitles. The bulls and bears need not fear starvation unless they go broke political | REASONS FOR CONFIDENCE. Those who are disposed to take a pessi- mistic view of the future of the business of the country, beeause of the depres- slon in the stock market, perhaps do not generally give careful consideration to conditions as a whole. From long babit of regarding the course of prices on the stock exchange as correctly indicating financial conditions and therefore the actual state of the country's prosperity, they see in the steady decline of securi- ties a sure evidence that the country is on the road to a crisis that is not very far off, when all values will be reduced, industries guspended, labor thrown out of employment and the investments ot capital become unprofitable. We do not think there is any substan- tial ground for apprehension of this kind. On the contrary we believe there are very good reasons for confidence in the future and the expectation of a con- tinuance of prosperity. The liquidation that has been going on in stocks cannot be satisfactorily accounted for. Nome of the financial journals which make euch matters a speclal study offer any convineing explanation. One of these in its Iatest issue, referring to stock mar- kot conditions, says that there has been a lack of distinct reason for the ligui- dation. In the absence of all explana- tion, remarks that journal, and as best describing the severity of the struggle, gome have called it a battle of the glants in finance. *“That idea, however,” it goes on to say, “has nothing of fact to support it. The general character of the selling and the diversity of the securities thrown upon the market point rather to a wider source. It would almost seem as If banks, trust companies and the loaning community were all scrutinizing collaterals more closely and forcing bor- rowers in general to put up more margin or sell out.” This is manifestly a plaus- ible explanation. So far as the general business of the country is concerned the reasons for con- fidence are of a very substantial nature. There I8 no longer any doubt as to am- ple crops and in this fact is the assur- ance of continued prosperity. The pres- ent state of our foreign trade Is satis- factory and the outlook altogether favor- able. Some domestic industries are be- ing unfavorably affected by labor con- flicts, but this does not threaten any very serious impairment of the general pros- perity. The transportation intetests are still active to the full extent of their capacity and the banks are represented to be generally in good condition and to be observing care and conservatism In their operations. All this should certainly make for confidence, regardless of what has taken place or may yet happen in the stock market. Tt should be borne in mind that Wall street is not the whole country, a fact that has been very strik- ingly demonstrated within the past few months, during which' the operations in that center of speculation have pro- duced no appreciable effect upon the legitimate business of the country. Those who are apprehensive of the fu- ture will have their fear dissipated by an intelligent and careful study of those conditions which are the basis of na- tional prosperity. JUDGE YINSUNHALEKR'S RECORD. It is embarrassing for The Bee to crit- icise Judge Vinsonhaler. It is a matter of notoriety that his nomination for the first term was promoted and brought about by Mayor Moores, W. J. Connell and other of his most intimate friends and associates. It is a matter of history that Mr. Vinsonhaler's election for the first term was heartily and vigorously supported by The Bee. It may not be a matter of notoriety, but it is neverthe- less a fact that Judge Vinsonhaler's re- nomination for a second term was made by acclamation under a compact volun- tarily entered into between himself, Frank E. Moores, John C. Wharton and Edward Rosewater. While that com- pact was broken by Judge Vinsonhaler | almost before the ink was dry on his signature, no reference was made to this breach of faith during his second term campalign, nor do we propose to discuss the subject at this time. ‘What is pertinent and what The Bee cannot refrain from discussing without being derelict in its duty to Douglas county taxpaying citiens and republicans generally is Mr. Vinsonhaler's recorg as {a judge. Under the laws of Nebraska county judges are required not fmerely to make periodic reports of the fees col- lected and disbursements made, but also to pay to the county treasurer the bal- ances, if any, of moneys collected by them. An examination, or rather inquiry, at the county auditor's and treasurer's offices reveals the fact that while Judge | Vinsonbaler has filed quarterly reports of bis receipts from fees and disburse- ments made for clerical help he has made but a single payment into the county treasury in the thrée years and altogether. is in World-Herald declares that bharmony is | rapldly betug restored among the high of the state guard and Generals | Harmony the air. Bven the Barry and Culver are working shoul der to shovlder to work up and discl- pline the guard e It scems that Chicago makes history | something to furnish a convenient hook on which to ‘hang successive celebra tions to atfract visitors and teade, The chief difference between historle events in Ohicago and in other citios is that they always happen on a larger scale in the borhood of the Windy city. ——— City' Attorney Wright has reached about the same conclusions reached by The Bee some weeks ago, that the pro- of the $200,000 refunding bonds be used for paying current ex- but under the peculiar system refunding current expenses can be converted into refunding bonds mnext year. This is simply a link in the end- that bas been vulgarly called L it months since he has occupied the sounty bench, ‘The laws of Nebraska expressly re- quire the county judge to report and pay | into the county treasury once every six | months the unclaimed witness fees col { lected by him, but Judge Vinsonhaler | haw abselutely ignored this law and | never made auy returns of witness fees collected by himself nor of witness fees turned over to him by his predecessor, | Judge Baxter. | Under the statutes the county judge | is made the repository of mone in by railroads and other corporations exercising eminent domain, and it is nat urally presumed that the county judge /s paid would keep an exact record of the sums | deposited with him and that the books containing this information would he ac- cessible at all times. It appears, how- ever, that for some unexplained reason no such record has been kept, or if it is kept, the information as to the amount of such funds in the hands of the county Judge is not obtainable. Judge Vinsonbaler declares that these funds are held on deposit in an Omaha [ Reserved seats for King Ak-Sar-Ben's | more the o bank in his name as county judge. It 18 passing strauge that Judge Vinson- haler was unable to inform the repre. sentative of The Bee how much he had on deposit as county judge. The same is also true with regurd to the moneys held In trust by the county judge for varions estates that are being probated in the court If a perfect account were kept In the county judgels office of the moneys de posited with him fn trust and these moneys were in turn placed on spe cial deposit in a bank, Judge Vinson haler shonld have been able to ascertain in three minutes how much balance fs | to his credit as judge on the bank ledger. | With haif a dozen clerks and bookkeep- ers on the payroll of the judge there ought to have been no difficulty in hav- ing the books kept correctly from day to day and the balances struck so that a glance at the books would convey the tuformation regarding the amounts to the credit of the county and to the credit of each fund for which the county court is made the depository by law. LABOR OPPUSITION TQ CHAMBERLAIN. Perhaps the most formidable oppost tion which the proposed reform in Brif- ish fiscal policy advocated by Mr. Cham- berlain will encounter will come from organized labor. At the recent congress of trades unions there was a decided expression of sentiment unfavorable to the Chamberlain plan and this labor exerts a very great influence politically. It is easy to understand this opposition, notwithetanding tbe assurance held ont by Chamberlain that under the operation of his plan the pay of labor would ad vance. The working classes have no confidence in this, but they do know that if that policy should be carried out as its author originally proposed the cost | of food stuffs would be increased, and this is a sufficient cause for their opposi- tion. It is true that Mr. Chamberlain does not now insist upon a tax on foodstuffs, admitting that the time is not yet ripe for this, but the very fact of his imply- ing that ultimately such a tax may be levied is sure to array against him a majority of workingmen, who will have no regard for promises the realization of which {8 most improbable if not impossi ble. With such an opposition and the liberal party solidly hostile to his plan it is difficult to understand where he is able to find any hope of success. He has thrown British politics into disorder and the probable outcome will be a restoration of the liberals to power. CURRENCY REFORM IN FAR EAST. Prof Jenks of Cornell vniversity, who recently returned from Rurope; where he has been serving as a member of the American monetary commission sent abroad to promote plans for patting | China and other silver standard coun- tries on a gold basis, has been selected by President Roosevelt to go to 'China and further the work of that body. He will also go to the Philippines to assist the administration in its currency prob- lem there, Referring to the work of the commission Prof. Jenks said that the first step has been taken in presenting the matter to the great powers of Eu- rope, which because of the indemnity due them from China have a right Yo ask to be consulted regarding a question which will affect so intimately the financial standing of China. The next step of preparing and putting into effect a suitable plan must be taken by the Chinese government itself. He expressod the opinfon that if the government does succeed after a careful length of time in glving to China a currency on the gold exchange basis, the result will he of in- estimable benefit to the trade of the United States and of other commercial nations, besides strengthening China in | all directions. It appears from the statements of members of the American commission that the results of its efforts in Europe were very satisfactory and as the com- mission’s undertaking has been in re- sponse to China’s request, it is deemed likely that its government will look with favor upon the plan proposed. There is no doubt that if the wprk is successtully accomplished it will be, as remarked by Chairman Hanua of the commission, the most Important economic step now pos- sible in the field of international com- merce. As to currency reform in the Philippines, what has already been done is reported to have produced a very favorable effect upon the business of the | archipelago. It was all right for thirty or forty lawyers to get together and put up a| nonpartisan judiciary slate, not only for the people of all parties in Doug county, but for the entire judicial dis trict comprising Dounglas, Washington Sarpy and Burt counties, but it will be | an awful, awful thing for republicans | representing all elements of the party to get together to recommend candidates for the republican county ticket who are most available and who, moreover, rep resent all factions and localities in the | interest of harmony. —_— | The city of Washington boasts that it | is the only city in the country in which the citizens have no voice in their municipal government, *and that it is almost alone in having escaped big | seandals in its city adwministration. If that svere n sure cure the people of some other cities might be tempted to dis | franchise themselves. But/ Washing ton's clean record does not.ge back far enough, neither does it give any reliable assurance that it will not be spotted from time to thue in the future. 1 President Roosevelt’s return ta.Wash ington, Lringing him in nearer. touch with the administration business, is not condueive to a better feeling among the rogues and erooks whe lave secured lodgment in various departments. By belng on the spot the president will A DAILY the city officials. As this is the one oceasion when the city officials have an opportunity to exhibit themselves in the full glare of electric lights and the blare of trumpets, nobody will begrudge them the pomp, glory and circumstance. Commissioner of Indlan Affairs Jones may be sorry to lose Superintendent Mathewson of the Omaha reservation, but not half so sorry as the land grab- bers and grafters who have been ex- ploiting the Indians with the connivance of the Indian agency officers. The In- dians, however, are not sorry a bit. —— ighting the Cashier. 8t. Louls Republic. The Dressmakers' assoclation has out- lined no plan whereby at least six months’ time may be obtained on application by the man who pays the freight. Too Much of & Chicago Tribune. As a rule President Roosevelt pays no at- tention to the uncomplimentary things that are sald about him, but the statement that he weighed 22 pounds was twenty-four pounds more than he could stand Hope Gets a Boost. Baltimore American Persons who are alarmed over the danger of overpopulation owing to the extent to which sclence has lengthened the average lite tenure, will breathe more easfly when they note the increase in the number of stu- dents at the varfous institutions of medical learning. The Pace that K1l Philadelphia Record. The great number of automobile accidents resulting from ruptured tires would appear to Indicate the necessity of either finding a tire that can withstand the Impact of swift movement or of so constructing these machines as to establish a sultable parity between the rate of possible speed and the power of resistance. The man who nowadays pushes the ordinary automobile to the limit on public highways takes both a sulcidal and homicffal risk. Machinery for0ld World Farmers. Detrolt Free Pres Over $21,00,000 in value of agricultural implements were exported in the fiscal year ending with June, as compared with $4,600,000 in 1833, The rapld strides this country has made in the production of such implements ought to improve farm- ing fn all the leading nations. There is stfll ample room to increase the export the only drawback being lack of trans- portation facilities to some parts of the world. Canal Prophecy Fulfilled. + Springfeld Republican. The Panama canal treaty is dead. The only human being who knew positively five months ago that this would happen is John T. Morgan of Alabama. If the United States were Uganda, overyone would now be saying that Mr. Morgan is divinely in- spired and that the whole twentieth cen- tury is revealed to him.. It is necessary to say no more except this, “What fools these mortals be, especlally the fools of Co- lombia. Promoting Sobriety. Minneapolls Times. The Rock Island has added itself to the list of rallroad companies that will not permit their employes to smoke cigarettes hereafter. The cofin nail s not conducive to mental or physical vigor and rallway men are expected to be at their best at all times. It is miso announced that the use of strong drink will, if detected, be construed as a resignation to take effect immediately. As a missionary in the cause of right living the rallroad is getting to be a power in the land. Irrigating the Dener Philadelphia Record. One of the effects of Irrigation on the soll of arid districts hds recelved Mttle consid- eration from the boomers and enthusiasts of the desert west. The water fed to a eoll which has never been reached by rain causes it to be productive, to be sure; but it also dissolves the alkall, which, in humid reglons, has been’ drained off by thousands of years of rainfalls, Caplllary attraction draws to the surface the water holding the salts in solution, and on evaporation the ground is covered by the “hoard frost of the desert’—i. e., a coating of sulphate of magnesia, rock ralt and other minerals, an excess whereof is death to vegetation. Thus was Mesopotamia, the cradle of human clvilization, rulned; and it is a general rule that frrigation in a perfectly arid climate sooner or later makes the soil permanently unfit for cultivation. Many cases tempo- rarily created in the American. desert by artificial watering have been abandoned in a condition worse than that in which they were first found, because the saturation of the top soll by alkall is incurable. TRYING TO DEFEAT ROOSEVELT. Futile Plotting by Democracy’s Des- perate Managers. St. Louts Globe-Democrat. The democratic campalgn managers, it is said, are plotting to defeat the nom- ination of President Roosevelt, and they think they can accomplish this by a dexterous use of the Miller incident In the government printing office at Wash- fpgton. They are gathering all the facts tion of using them in the meetings which will be held to nominate delegates to the conventlon next year, with the hope of turning the president down. Just at therefore, the democrats’ literary bureau at Washington 1s busy in a direction which, they think, will cause great embarrassment to the republi- cans, "There which party case present, this Miller episods can harm the president or his Mr. Roosevelt said in the Miller timt the laws of the nation were superior to those of any organization In it, and that those laws would have to prevail in the management of the gov- ernment’s affairs. The labor organiza- tions have accepted this ruling as just, and they are making no opposition to it. The more important journals published by the labor organizations have taken the president's side in the affair. 8o far @8 can be learned, the Miller incident is closed. The president and his party have shown their friendship for the 1abor cause so often that the democrats who are trying make capital out of the government nting office incident will fail. JIn the coal strike last year the president's in- fluenge aided unfon labor, and at the same time gave great help to the masses of the people, who are far more numerous and important than the labor organizations. The one party in the country’s history which has been the Intelligent and persis- tent champion of the cause of labor is the republican party. In its tariff acts and the homestead law It did more for'the workers of the country than the demoeratic party ever thought of doing, or ever would do it it could. Neither President Rooseveit fs nothing in avoid unnecessary delay in turning the raseals out as they may be exposed. pageant are to be erected in front of the city hall for the exclusive benefit of nor the republican party has anything to fear from the bringing up of the labor issue in any phase by the democrats. The use of labor, organized and unorganized, is talked about in the canvass the more votes will be cast for the Fepubli- can ticket, ey ean find on this issue, with the in-| 'y ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK. Ripples on the Current of Life in the Metropolis. Opponents of public ownership and con- trol of public utilities persistently assert that the conservative business sentiment of the country is against the policy, and that the supporters of the policy are the soclalistic and nonproperty holding classes. To show how shallow the assertion is, at- tention s called to the platform adopted by the Citizens’ union, which recently en- dorsed Mayor Low for re-election. The union is composed of men of property in- terests, prominent in business and profes- slonal life and conservative In matters of public policy Yot this conservative business sentiment adopted these declara- tions: In reaffirméng its platform the union calls attention to its position on municipal ownership. The unfon believes the prin- ciples of municipal ownership and control, to which the city s already committed, should be recognized in all developments of instrumentalities of general public serv- ice, such as water, light and transportation, and that the city shall have full power as the public interests may demand efther to lease for short terms or operate such in strumentalities. When circumstances are unfavorable to direct: operation, private franchises should be limited to short terms with option of resumption by the city on prearranged conditions. “New subways are about to be contracted for. The rapid transit act should be so amended that the city, not the corporations, should control the situation, and, It neces- sary as a means of compelling satisfactory service, the city should have the power to operate. “Ownership of our water supply and ac- quisition for just compensation of gas and electric light supplies, to be operated by the clty if adequate merit system safe- guards are provided “Retention by the city of ownership of all its franchises and no leasing of the same, except for short perlods, so that the in- crease in value shall be for the peopie's benefit, U “Largely at the instance of the Citizens' union, tha principle of municipal owner- ship of ferries has been applied to the Staten Island ferry. The city will own the plant, getting the advantages of its Increas- ing value, and will, by lease or operation provide service which will make Richmond borough almost as easy of access as Brook- Iyn.* Among the characters that frequent the downtown business section of the city, none is better known than a tall, quaint figure who travels from office to office with a basket of catnip. The pet cat is a fixture with many business people, and the catnip man has his regular customers, whom he serves weekly. His stock in trade is carried In an ordinary market basket. The office boys know when he s expected to make his rounds, and many a prank is played at his expense. The street urchins have also become ‘acquainted with his| wares, and, on a recent occasion, seeing him approaching, stole up from behind and dropped a street cat In the basket. Catnip, man, basket and boys were soon in a mix-up and this peddler will keep an eve open for mischievous boys in the future. There is a man in New York City who spends his leisure moments in the manu- facture of diamonds. He declares that he has manufactured as perfect stones as those of the Kimberley mines, and his only trouble is their small size. t, however, 18 & mere detail. If he can make diamonds at all the question of size need not worry him. In the operation he employs a heat of 3,000 degrees, and has made diamonds by the handful as large as the head of a pin. This flerce warmth he produces in a furnace by means of gas, using a blower of his own Inventfon. “It I can obtain 5,000 degrees,” he says, “I will produce | dlamonds of a carat weight. If T can obtain 7.000 degrees there wili,be no limit to size, and my diamonds will rival those of the most celebrated mines.” The third rail, which carries the electric current and furnishes power to move the elevated trains, is rising to the importance | of an issue in New York. It claims a vietim almost daily and sometimes more than one. Recently two men were literally roasted and six others jumped to the street to escape the deadly current. Workmen on the repair gang are always the victims and the accidents usually come about In | the same manner. The third rail looks | exactly like the other two and there is no mark upon it to show that it carries a deadly fluld. A workman will be Unkering about on one of the traction ralls when suddenly he forms a circult with a metal tool. Instantly he is enveloped in a mass ot blue flames and before he is drawn away he is roasted to a turn. Frequently it happens that fellow workmen, in at- tempting 1o rescue the victims, are them- | selves caught and then the horror of the sickening spectacle Is Increased. When the accidents happen near station platforms great crowds are sometimes compelled to see the victim writhing in death agony while they are powerless to give aid, | Willlam H. Parsons of New York City, a director of the Bowery Savings bank, in presenting a gold watch and chain to Henry Brushaber, an employe, in recogni- tion of fifty years' faithful service, cited | these Interesting details of the bank's history: “The Bowery Savings bank was char- tered May 1, 1834. June 2 it opened for | business, fifty depositors putting in $2,0%. | The bank was located in a three-story and attic dwelling house at 128 Bowery, belng a portion of the present site. It occupled the first floor only and Mr. Giles H. Cog- geshall, who served as secretary for about | forty-nine years, occupled the premises over it as a dwelling. For several years after hie became secretary the chest which has been placed upon the president's table as a relic of the past contained all of the valuable securities of the bank, including the cash. In 1843 the deposits were $637,222 ten years later, $3.020,000; in 156, over $6,500,000; In 1873, more than $29,000,000; in 1883, over M1000000, and In 1908, within a few dollars of 353,000,000, The total amount of dividends or Interest paid to the de- positors since the bank commenced busi- ness, Inclusive of the amount paid or de- clared January 1, 193, has been $63,00 .. Wolt Weisman of Hoboken, who is hale and hearty at 104, attributes his longevity to the fact that he has always used b and light wines and scarcely knows taste of water, the His case, seemingly, might of viduality and character of essence of good style. 1f your dealer it mee—] woill A PRESIDENT WHO DARES, Powe 1 Element Unable te Change Hin Policles. Detroit Free Press (ind. dem.) No one has set up the Infallibility of the president of the United States. His warmest friends admit that he does mot always proceed in the most diplomatic way to the accomplishment of his pur- poses. Belng a man of strong character and strong convictions, he Is brusque and direct when most in earnest and on oc- casions finds it nécessary to reconcile an opposition which he had no thought of creating. But such errors as have been charged to him are those of detall and not essentials. Being a man whose intuitions are almost prophetic and whose actions fol low quickly upon an accepted suggestion, he finds it difficult to keep within the tire some and annoying restraints of govern- ment red tape. Slow action s forelgn to his nature and it is a matter of time him to learn that the traditions must be held sacred just as they were in the famous “circumlocution office’ where there was something like a trip around the world to accomplish an end that a man of directness could reach by crossing the street The president has not been and probably never will be weaned from his abrupt ways, but he is proving a revelation tp those who formerly treated his promptness as im- pulsiveness and as the evidence of a judg- ment that would have to be frequently re- versed. There s a forced abandonment of the idea that he has been playing the game of politics and that his policies could be changed by powerful enemies threatening him with a termination of his presidential career at the end of the present term. The intimation from Wall street that its wealth would be used against him in the next na- tional campaign did not swerve him a hair's breadth from his plan of dealing with the great combinations inimical to the pub- lic welfare. The test cases pending when this attempt at intimidation was made are still pending and there is no thought of abandoning them. As one of the advisers of a modified currency bill when the specu- lative operators wanted one that would in- sure expansion after the plan proposed by Senator Aldrich, he again served notice that he is the president of the people and not of Wall street. All this, sald the doubting ones, was a bid for the labor support. The answer came quickly and left them without a leg to stand upon. Under the pressure of an emergency he has taken a stand in the case of Assistant Foreman Miller of the government printing cffice that has aroused all the hot-meaded element of organized | labor to threaten the defeat of Roosevelt | s soon as they get a chance at him. This has not frightened him Into the dismissal of Miller or any attempt to placate the dls- gruntied. Rather than retreat from a pe- sition which is absolutely correct, and to abandon which would be dangerously lke treason, he would prefer to go down fight- ing for what he thinks to be right. In sue- cession the president has locked horns with what aré regarded as the two great political forces of the nation and nelther has been able to worst him. In the grand total he has more friends and firmer friends than at any previous time since he was so suddenly called to his present responsibili- ties. The demand of the national situation is for the fearless man with honest pur- | poses, and the conviction grows that he is on duty. Wall street already realizes that it took the wrong stand labor is rap- idly moving to the same conclusion, while the masses rejolce that they have a worthy champlon in the fleld PERSONAL NOTES, “Charlle Ross" has been found again. The mystery of “The Man in the Iron Mask" may yet be cleared by the confession of the wearer.’ Andrew Carnegle has settled a pension of fifty English pounds a year on the granddaughter of the Poet Burns, who has care of the little house in Dumfries in which the poet died. The place of the Von Buelow family In German history dates back 70 years. No other family during the perfod has con tributed more officers to the empire efther n military or eivil life. Miss Clara Barton has not ceased her la- bors in behalf of the Red Cross soclety, notwithstanding the recent efforts to depose her from the presidency. She is formulat- ing plans for a new and large fund of probably $1,000,000 for the extension of the work: H. P. Ingalls, believed to ba the oldest Mving American showmarny resides in the little town of Huntsville, O. Mr. Ingalls born in Merrimac, N. H., March 18 18%, and In his day was the close friend ofs Barnum, Van Amburg, Forepaugh and Robinson. He made a fortune by exhibit- ing the Blamese twins, The Norweglan author, Bjornson, was lecturing one evening not long ago when he noticed that several women present had been unable to get seats id: “I urgently request that seats be provided for the ladies.” As Bjornson is an ardent champlon of “women's rights,” stagger the Women's Christian Temperance unfon, but they doubtless can explain it away by saying that had a man of such constitutional endowments abstained alto- gether from drink he would by this time be at least twice as old. “Big BIlI" Devery was discussing some of the men who caused his defeat for leader In New York the other day, and this was what he had to say regarding one of them: “I've been thinkin' over the old days when they used horses on the cars, an' it reminded me that ‘Sport’ Murphy that s just now wearin' around a counter- feit red badge o' courage, used to be a con- auctor on a Becond avenue car. My memory is all right, pard, an' it all comes back to me like a bill for coal that this gent Murphy quit his job on the horse car the very day the eonductors were handed bell punches.” The shoe for men. You He stopped and | From maker to wearer. I'it feet as feet should be fitted Wear wearers as shoes should wear, Cost buyers $3.50 or $5.00. your choice. each day in shoes —comforta- Is ome of the comfortable kind and has that indi- design which is the ot you them, does’ LEWIS A. CROSSETT, Inc. MAKER, NORTH ABINGTON, MASS. he was asked subsequently how he could consistently demand special privileges for the fair sex. Henry Ward Treaner was the man be- hind the battleship Indlana's S-Inch: gun that put four successive shots through the bullseye of the 17 by 21-foot target at the 1,400 and 1,600-yard ranges during the re- cent target practice of the vessel. Iis hallg from 8t. Paul, Minn The Balvatlonists who have begun In 31i starred Breathitt county, Kentucky, seerr to be finding the people down there the mildest kind of cutthroats that ever were They report that the mountain folk ‘‘are freer from vices that debase humanity than any similar number of people in othe states.” ASANTRIES, ‘Once a man tells a girl her mouth s a perfect rosebud, that spoils it immed ately.’ Bpoils the rosebud, you meai “Yes; it begins to blow ngnt away.'- Philadelphia I'ress. “What do you suppose they make this Scotch whisky LigAleohol, smoke and dialect.”—Brooklyn Mre. Knicker—80 she Is a good house~ keeper? Mrs, Bocker—Yes, she says she hates to | think_that York Sun. her ancestors & e dust.—New msonback—Dinner's ready, John. imsonback—Wait till I change my Mrs rs. Crimsonback—Never mind taking | them off, Joh ou've got a duck to earve. ~Yonki Statesman. ‘‘Aren't you the head of the how asked the relation. “‘Yes," answered Mr. Meekton T'm the head, but I don't assume to be the brains.' ~-Washington Star. “Is it not a fact,” sald the lecturer, warming with his subject, “that, owing to { the effeminacy of our modern w our men are becomi smaller and smaller every year “Yes!" responded a hatier In the audi- ence, s of Hv- physically shouted icago Tribune. several shoemakers.— ““They call me a gamble they are wrong, Tow s it isn't gambling with me. t even the element of specula- tion in_{t—except ‘speculation as to how [puch ‘money the sucker hat.”—Chicago ost. he sald, “but ‘Wife—I wish we had a nice, large country place, where I could give a lawn party. Husband—Just for the pleasure of invit- Ing some of your friends, eh? vife—Well, yes, and the pleasure of not inviting some.~Philadelphia Ledger. “I found out what kept the dining room bell ringing in the night,” ‘said the young bride. “What was 1t “Why, one of those light tea biscults I made for dinner rolled from the table and fell on the electric button on the floor. Cleveland Plain Dealer. HE ALSO RA Somerville Jotrnal. , T am the man for the place,"” sald he, ou can tell by a look in my tace,” said e *That I am the man To be boss of the clan, And 1')!'" certain to win In the race,” sald e. [ “The others are not in my class,” sald he 'm sol for them, but alas!” sald he. “They'll have to admit That we can't all be I And T am the one who will pass, U b AL T IR SR “Now why in the world did I run?" sald e (The voting was over and done you ses) 1 thought 1'd be first, But the thing was reversed, by geel" And I was the hindermost one, Broken Your Glasses? 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