Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 21, 1903, Page 6

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Bditorial Department, - REMITTANCES. it Remit draft, express or postal order gaystle to The Bee Publishing Company, n} l 2-cent mn?- .umrua in payment of accounts. un mwk!,(el&m “(gl aha or eastern A 3 O % Bt PUBLISHING COMPANY. ¢ STATEMENT OF clxx:l.n.lvru:n:i : says that the actual n "Dlfll e of The Dally Morning, ening Sunday Bee printed durin month of September, ‘was as fol- HUCK. GEORGE B. T: Bubscribed in %pnnnlu -’l’l’fic sworn to pefore me this dav of September, A. dealy R As a campaign caricaturist Mr. Hitch- calf is a bird. Hep—hep. That last panic on Wall street appears to have soveral postscripts attached to it. — The bridge scandals and vault jobs have been disereetly ignored up to this time by the sham reform organ. E—— 1t now begins to Took as If the little . market house under the big dome might prove itself a paying investment. S—————— President Roosevelt's call for an extra session s out. It shonld bé a great re- lief to the Washington correspondents who have been speculating upon it. AEpEpm—— Those fshline caricatures are not - likely to land the two demo-repub. can- . didates for district judge. There are not as many catfish in the Blg Muddy ?"u there used to was.” 4 | Dr. Dowle thinkk' Wall stréet may imeed a little divifie Relp. If Dowle 1 would only keep the contribution plate “tull, the/bulls and lof the Btock ' exchange would doubtless be willing to \do the praying themselves. Emmpep———— For the past two years the ‘work de- volving upon the county clerk has been done by his deputy. Drawing the sal- ary as principal and doing the work by proxy is a pernielous system t should not be tolerated fn public office. ] The Omaha Bryanite organist rarely opens ‘his mouth without putting his foot in. This i1s agaln strikingly shown by the carlcature of the shackled ju- diclary in which the editor of The Bee 18 crayoned with the words “Hep—hep" ‘emanating from his mouth. The Canadian commissioners refuse to sign the Alaskan arbitration award. As they constitute a very small minority of the board, the decision will stand just the same. All that they are succeeding in doing is to give an illustration of the baby act in International relations. Cdere——y The news is sent all the way by cable that Andrew Carnegie has been given the freedom of the City of Waterford in Ireland. Mr. Carnegle had previdusly been free with his money to give the Uity of Waterford a library. We be- Heve the City of Waterford came out best in the exchang - J Among others who are advertised to read “carefully prepared papers” before ‘the Nebraska school principals and su- perintendents at their annual meeting at Lincoln this week 1is Superintendent Pearse of the Omaha public schools. Qarefully prepared by whom? By his efficient private secretary? ‘When Omaba gets its grain market firmly established there will be an open- dog for concentrated activity. To make Omaha the distribution center for Wyo- ming ofl & pipe line from the Wyoming ofl flelds to Omaha would be worth more for Omaha's industrial and commercial expansion and development than the Platte river canal. e For good sufficient reasons the people of Nebraska always feel that thelr educational institutions are safer in the hands of republican adminis- trators than in the hands of those who &0 to make up the so-called fusion re- form forces. The election next month will restore republican management of the State university as sure as an elec- tion 1s beld. T —— The gubernatorial candidate of the Jowa demiocrats 18 trylng hard to make & tarift-for-revéhuoonly lssue in the campaign in the Hawkeye state. He will have & hard time with this self- $mposed mission, as People of lowa however much some of them may favor tariff vevislon, are firmly, committed to e in no te BXTRA SDSSION 14LLED. President Roosevelt has issued the call for an extraordinary session of the Fifty-elghth congress, to meet Novemr ber 9. As now indicated the session will be devoted wholly to the considera- tion of the Cuban reciprocity trely This is_the reported opinion of the re- publican leaders. Representative Payne of New York, chairman of the ways and means committee and the leader on the floor of the bouse, is quoted as saying that the three wéeks to be devoted to the special nession would be occupied in the enactment of legislation to make the Cuban treaty operative and that there would be no time for the consideration of any other matfer. This view is sald to be concurred in by Mr. Daizell of Pennsylvania and Mr. Grosvenor of Ohio, members of the ways and means committee and also of the committee on rules in the last congress and who wul doubtless be continued on these com- mittees. ‘I'he organization of the house is not to take place in complete form until the convening of the regular session. After the election of Mr. Cannon as speaker the omly committees necessary for the work in hand will be those of ways and means, mileage, accounts and possibly rules.. The work of the ways and means committee in preparing the enabling act in regard to the reciprocity treaty will be brief and the expectation is that there will not be much delay in passing the act. It has been suggested that con- slderation of the treaty may be marked by a discussion of the tariff that will hold the special session until the date for the regular meeting of congress in December, but this is now thought to be improbable. Of course so far as the hou#e is concerned the committee on rules can control the duration of de- bate and it seems not. to be apprehended that the opposition to the treaty in the senate will be dl to delay action. It has been stated, apparently upon trustworthy authority, that most of those who antagonized the treaty in the last congress have withdrawn their op- position. In regard to the regular session it ap- pears to be certain that there will be no tariff or currency legislation. There is unanimity among the republicans In congress, and it is also the view of the administraiton, that the tariff should not now be disturbed, while as to the cur- rency the opinion expressed by Senator Allison, that there is no present need for financial legislation is quite gen- erally acquiesced in by republicans in congress and undoubtedly is approved by the legitimate business interests of the country. The promise is, therefore, that the extra session and the first regu- lar session of the Fifty-eighth congress will be free from any legislation that might in the slightest degree disturb business or unsettle confidence. The purpose of ‘the republicans is to do noth- ing that could place a check upon na- tional prosperity. — ESTIMATAS FOR TRENAVY. The naval estimates for the next fls- cal year, made by. the chiefs of bureaus and approved by the secretary of the Navy, cofitémplate an expenditure ex- ceeding by about $23,000,000 that of the last fiscal year. Included in the esti- mates is the sum of nearly. $29,000,000 for increase of the navy construction and machinery. It may be doubted whether congress will be dispesed “to vote so large an amount as $102,000,000 for naval purposes, and indeed if a pol- icy of economy and retrenchment is serlously intended it is safe to say that the aggregate estimate will be mater- ially cut down. This will have to be done chiefly in the estimate for naval increase, though doubtless it will -be found practicable to make reductions in other directions. As to the largest item it is probable that it will be cut down several mil- lions of dollars, but as to this a vigorous opposition to any reduction is to be ex- pected. The administration feels so strongly on the subject of naval in- crease that undoubtedly its influence will be vigorously exerted to secure all the appropriation = for this purpose which the Navy department recom- mends and it is needless to say that it will have many supporters among the republicans in congress. Our naval establishment requires a good deal of money, but there are not many who will question the wisdom of maintaining it. e——— TU RENSW CANAL AGITATION. Senator Morgan of Alabama has de- clared his purpose to call the attention of congress to the isthmian canal ques- tion as soon as possible. He sald he did not know in what form the ques- tion will be brought up, but expressed the opinfon that the house is more than likely to take initial action. As every- body knows, Mr. Morgan is the fore- most champlon of the Nicaragua route and doubtless no one halled with greater satisfaction that he the fallure of the treaty with Colombia. Of course he believes that it 1s now the duty of President Roosevelt under the authority given him by the Spooner act, to at once enter into negotiations with Nicaragua and Costa Rica and it is to be presumed that he will endeavor to have congress request the president to do this. It Is highly improbable that such an effort will succeed, unless it can be conclusively shown to congress that there is no chance of emtering into 8 fair and satisfactory treaty with Co- lombia. It must be admitted that the promise of negotiating such a treaty is not encouraging. There is the author- ity of the special commissioner of the Colombian government just arrived in the United States that there 1s practical unanimity among the people of Colom- bia agaiust any relinquishment of sov- ereignty over the territory required by 'the United States, while there is also THE - OMAHA DAILY BEE: patriotism with his people, which can- not be overcome by money or argument. Here are obstacles to an agreement that may prove insurmountable. It can be confidently assumed that our gov- ernment will not pay such an indemnity as Colombia is disposed to ask, while the required territory must be prac- tically under the sovereignty of the United States. There are some influen- tial men in Colombia who are favorable to the terms offered by this country and it Is possible that in time some who are now in opposition will change their minds. There is nothing now, however, to indicate that this is likely to happen. PLAYING A LOSING GAME. The official ballot for this judicial dis- trict will contain altogether the names of nineteen candidates, of whom eleven are on the republican and democratic tickets, the remainder being labeled populists or socialists. Each of the eleven candidates is pitted against the other ten and the seven receiving the highest number of votes will be de- clared elected. When the democrats adopted five re- publicans as running mates for Ferguson and Page, the two lone democrats, they virtually whipsawed the candidates of their own faith. These two democrats are compelled to outrun not only the seven candidates nominated by the re- publicans, but also Dickinson and Read, the two republicans picked up by their fool friends, the democratic leaders who concocted this wonderful nonpartisan Judiciary scheme. It is plain therefore that they have been playing a losing game from the outset. If all the demo- crats vote for Ferguson, Page, Dickin- son and Read, depending on disgruntied republicans to make up the margin, they are sure to fall down because 99 per cent. of the republicans who are dis- posed to scratch any particular candi- date may be expected to,vote for either Dickinson or Read and not for Fergu- son or Page, thus leaving the two demo- crats distanced and beaten by their own running mates. Any man with common political sa- gacity must have foreseen just such an outcome, but the democratic leadgrs in this district are stronger at playing poker than playing politics. —— EX PUST FACTO PROTBSTS. Henry W. Yates has contributed an interesting letter to The Bee on the sub- Ject of the new revenue law, emphasiz- ing the position taken by tfm mercantile houses and business men of this city with reference to what they term “double taxation of credits.” Anyone who will give serious study to the ques- tion of taxation will readily see that the complaint entered by Mr. Yates is well founded, and that in attempting to tax credits without deduction of debits the lawmakers who framed the revenue bill violated ome of -the established canons of taxation. 7 Our business men, however; should be reminded that they are decidedly late in entering their protests. This very question was up at Lincoln last winter before the revenue committees that had the work of revenue law revision in hand and the arguments were presented at that time against this species of double taxation. One of the editors ef The Bee as a member of the gemeral committee on taxation of the National Civic fed- eration drafted a section which he brought before the joint legislative reve- nue committee to provide for the unit system of valuation—namely, a valua- tion of the debt and the security- for the debt as one item of property at the place of location of the property. In this case, however, hie stood practically alone, and his proposition. wasjrejected hecause the lawmakers, while ddmitting that it was right and just, expressed a fear that it would not be popular. ! Where were the business men of Omaha when the legislature was In ses- slon? Why were they not down at Lin- coln by their representatives, backing up The Bee's plea for more equitable taxation? Hadsthey reinforced our ef- forts at the proper time, might they not have escaped the predicament in'which they find themselves and avoided the necessity of appealing to the courts to remedy a flagrant error? It may not be oo late for them to protect themselves now, but it certainly would have been much better had they taken “the stitch in time that saves nine.” The Washington Post suggests Secre- tary of Btate Hay as a running mate for President Roosevelt, giving the Dis- trict of Columbia the honor of claiming him its favorite son. This ralses a rather nice point of constitutional law. That the constitution makers never con- templated a president or vice president hailing from a territory is plain from the provision barring presidential elec- tors from voting for candidates for both president and. vice president from the same state as themselves. At the same time the supreme court has since de- cided that there 18 a citizenship of the United States separate and distinet from citizenship in any state, so that resi- dence in a territory or in the District of Columbia would still conform to the constitutional requirements with respect to citizenship of the United Btates. The chances, however, are against any party mominating & man on a presidential ticket who does not have claims upon some state with an electoral vote worth having in the contest of the ballots. « epT——— The appraisement of the Omaha water woks will be resumed next week. By foot thé bill. In due time also the city will be given an opportunity to take possession by voting from four to seven million dollars of water bonds. Rosewater is also supporting Baxter, Day and Estelle for district judges— three republican candidates who happen to find favor with the democratic non- partisan masqueraders. What claims have they on democratic or independent support that are not possessed, too, by Barnes, Sears and Sutton? Isn't the double-ender’s attempt to make fish of one and fowl of another of the repub- liean judicial candidates too gauzy for anything? A Chicago evangelist claims to be #hocked by Omaba vice. An evangelist who is not shocked by vice in every place he visits would not be a evangelist, but a Chicago evangelist who is shocked over the depravity in Omaha reminds us of the man who does not mind the muck heap in front of his own door, but gets awfully shocked over a shovelful of dirt in his nelghbor’s back yard, ——— Collector Cruzen appears to be solid with the prosecuting attorney for Porto Rico, if the endorsement made by him on the Cruzen indictfuent is a ecriterion. If Mr. Cruzen can square himéelf now with the Treasury department In- spectors he will have a smoother road to travel. \ E—— When They Cool Off. Chicago Tribune. As to the Alaskan boundary dispute, our Canadian cousins will remember that we assured them in the beginning that they, hadn't even a totem pole to hang thelr claims on. A Chance for the Navy. Bt. Louls Globe-Democrat. Owing to recent coplous rains in the vi- cinity of Fort Riley there is a chance for the ¥ to rin the blockade and win a dects| victory over the army In the Octo- ber maneuvers. o — Gould and Fisk Outclassed. Pittsburg Dispatch. Now the press has got to the point of imagining the spirits of Jay Gould and Jim Fisk looking down—or up—in surprise. at the reckless way in which the financiers of the present era blow up thelr stocks. a New Crop. Cincinnat! Times. For a little while, at least, the burnt chil- dren will dread the promotion fire, but it will not be long until, iIf the conditions are favorable, another era of similar enter- prises will be launched, In which the in- nocent investor will play the part of the lamb. More Trow 1 Chicago Chronicle. Tt is said that Edison is about to put on the market a chargfhg machine which will enable anyone of ordinary means to own and run an gutomobile. Hitherto it has been a godsend to thé poor that they could not own an automobile. Only the rich ‘wers killed or maimed. Now it séems as if dis- crimination will no Jonger be made and the opportunity sfor self-destruction is to be open to all. blus J Don't Forweh, Your Watts, Girls. New ¥ork Tribune. Young women s/students in a western college who fought a class fight in chapel do not appear as yet. to have been suf- ficlently influenced by the still air of de- lightful studles and cloistered halls. How bad an example they do set to the natur- ally ebullient and boisterous, sophomores of the ruder sex! Feminine acolytes of edu- eation who are tempted to engage in class quarrels of the disorderly kind ought to be compelled to repeat In chapel every morning the immortal words of the good Dr. Watta: But, children, you should never l* Your angry passions rise. Those little hands were never meant To h oth eyes. Poor. Ly ing 8 New York World. . Mr., Willlam Denton of the British firm that is to bulld one of the mew Cunard steamships, tells a Montreal interviewer that their tonnage is to be 37,500, or about the same that of Cedric and Celtie, but that they are.to be 78 feet long. The White Star monsters are but 700.feet. The length and tonnage indicated mean that the new Cunarders will have & yacht model of very slender proportions, prob- ably not over 70 feet in width, which would give a length of 1.2l times their beam. Deutschland’s length is 1017 times its beam, Oceanic's 10.35. Celtic and Cedric are .33 times their beam in length. Btruria, an old-time champlon, was only 88 times its beam. With a body more than one-seventh of a mile in length and as slender as a torpedo boat's, driven by turbine engines of a power never yet approached, the new Cunarders will give the British govern- ment “a run for its money” which it is pouring but so lavishly for their construc- tion. GIVING TOO MUCH ROPE. Carnival Confetti Promotes Rufanism and Outiawry, St. Louls Globe-Democrat. And it shall come to pass that the police will have to abolish confetti-throwing on the occasion of public festivals in St. Louts; for the beginning of rufanism and crime are already shown by the throwing of mus- tard and red pepper by some on the night of the Velled Prophet's parade, one young woman who was blinded by red pepper having just regained her eyesight to a de- gree that enabled her to report the matter. In New Orleans, or in Itallan cities, the throwing of confetti or sometimes flower petals never goes beyond a playful inoffen. siveness, but the rowdles of large cities in the north can never feel the relaxing hand of the law In the permission of such lib- erties without breaking into the commission of cruelties and the doing of bodily injuries. There is an element in all large cities that always needs the caressing Influence of the flat side of an axe, and is to be feared whenever it is not under the direct sur- veillance of a bluecoat. In Kansas City the “night of misrule’” became so riotous that it had to be wholly done away with. Be- ginning with confetti, it proceeded to flour, then to paint, lampblack, ink and finally WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1903. BITS OF WASHINGTON LIFE. Minor Scemes and Incidents Sketehed on the Spot. One of the livellest fights of the approach- ing session of congress is likely to be pulled off on the question of restoring the canteen or post exchange. An effort will be made to attach a rider to the army ap- propriation bill repealing the anti-canteen law, which was passed two years ago. The army and the administration will be ranged in favor of repeal, while the ‘Womén's Christian Temperance union will battle for the law as it stands. Ever since the law abolishing the cantesn went into effect reports have been pouring into the War department from every garri- son of United States troops in this country, as well as In our noncontiguous possessions, all of them stating that drunkenness, crime, insubordination and other violations of mili- tary laws have increased many fold. Every officer who has had charge of troops has officially stated that his men have become simply uncontrollable; that they havanever lost an opportunity to leave their posts of duty, either with or without permission, and that they have visited low grog shops, gambling dives and other disrepu- table resorts, where they almost invariably became Intoxicated and frequently com- mitted crimes ranging from larceny and fighting to murder. The record has been so uniformly bad that administration officlals have been con- sidering for a long time the advisability of making a fight for the re-establishment of the canteen, where soldlers can drink & few glasses of beer with assoclates, which will prevent their desire to leave the garrison and frequent low loons. The administration realizes that .a big fight will develop from the situation. The ofi- clals know that the so-called temperance advocates will not surrender their ‘vie- tory” without a struggle. They are pre- pared to meet every attack with the offi- clal records of the great increase in drunk- enness and other forms of vice growing out of the soldlers' inability to get a drink without leaving the government reserva. tlon. With these facts In hand the War de- partment hopes to stiffen up the backs of members of congress who have been prone to listen to the requests and threats of a body of women who .are totally un- famillar with military affairs. The recent storm cost the government something Ifke $45,000 in the shape of spoiled silver and gold certificates. Bills to that amount which had been damdged by the raine of last week were yesterday cut up in the macerater in the basement of the Treasury department because they were in too bad a shape forcireulation.. They were paTt of & $840,000 shipment from this city to the subtreasury of New York, and it was thought at first that the entire batch of money had been rendered useless. The money was sent by express last Sat- urday and encountered the swollen rivers beyond Philadelphla. The water entered the express car and penetrated the safes in which the money was locked, Hamil- ton, the treasurer at New York, refused to recefve the damaged money when it was dellvered and it was sent back to Washington. Elght hundred thousand dol- lars was made up of gold certificates that had. been only slghtly wet. They were spread ‘out and quickly dried and have since been disposed of. The $40,000 of sil- ver certificates were soaked beyond restora- tion and were finally sent to the macer- ater. About $,000 worth of other paper money that had been consigned to different national banks, was also ruined by the storms. “I have stoped talking to you fellows about the [plafis 'of this departrent,” bluntly declared Becretary Shaw to a news- paper friend the other day. "I know, of course, that I can trust you, but I have learned that it is better not toltalk to anybody when I am maturing an fmportant movement. Now take this last refunding operation of the treasury involving $20,000,- 0. Why, man, I sald nothing to any- body about that, and still news of it leaked out before I was ready for it." “How did It get out?” asked the news- paper man. The keen gray eyes of the secretary of the treasury twinkled. He screwed up his face until it looked like a funny mask. “That's what I'd llke to know,”. he sald. “Do you know,” he went on to say, “since I come to think it over I do remember that I wrote one letter about it.” “To whom?” insisted the Journalist. “To the president, sir—to the presfdent exclaimed Mr. Shaw, “but I clear for- t to tell him to sgy nothing about . inquisitorjal ‘The magnificent new union station to be erected In Washington, the cost of which will be $4,250,00, may be ready for the busi- ness of the next presidential inauguration, a year from next March. The Pennsylvania road will employ 2,500 men on the building, and will do the work itself. The Baltimore & Oblo road s to do the, work on the via- duct and approaches and promises to have that completéd on March 6, 1906. The build- ing exclusive of the train floor will cover an area of THx250 feet, while the train shed will be 500x135 feet, Washington men who claim to be in the confidence of “Uncle Joe" Cannon, the speaker-to-be, declare his policy as house leader 18 to be as follows: No “pork bar'l" appropriations of any Kkind; no new public building bills, but only the continuance of appropriations for proj- ects hitherto authorized; no general river and harbor bill, but only provisiohs for con- tract work provided for by previouk ses- slons; no tarift legislation of any kind, and no reciprocity legislation except for Cuba; no financial legislation, and no changes in or expansion of anti-trust legislation al- ready on the statute books. In fact, nothing new, novel or startling In legislation, and only the utmost conservatism. Finally, ad- journment of congress by April, or in May at the latest. ’ General J. P. Sanger, U. 8. A, has com- pleted the work of making a census of the Philippine Islands, reports the Army and Navy: Register. The census was taken as planned, because the people wanted it taken. Many opinions were expressed to its practicability and the Spaniards and some of our army officers, especially those who had served in Bamar and Leyte, be- Meved It to be elther impossible or capable of being finished only after & year or two of diicult work. Much opposition was appre- hended by them from the disaffected and criminal classes, more especially the drones and insurrectos. However, there was no serious opposition encountered in any of the larger islands, and this was especially true of Samar and Leyte, where there was no interference whatever with Headaches ety other caibe, Many pao er cause. ¢ Suffer Intense paine when they could be entirely rellevs hund: by r Gl . have reds of cases that bear us out in this it . HUYESON -OPTICAL CO., 203 Senth (6 Street, « = Paxtes Bleck i the enumerators. In the island of Cam- aguin, north of the province of Misamis, Mindanoa, the enumerators were threat- ened and opposed and it was necessary to use force, but Governor Corralest thought the demonstration had other objects in view and that the census merely precipl- tated the movement. Viclous people in Cebu spread a report that taxation was the real purpose of the government in taking the census and In two or three barrios of that pueblo some objection was made to it, but this was not serious and easlly re- moved when Governor Taft's proclamation was made plain. There were but four at- tempts on the. part of the ladrones to in- terfere with the census and one enumerator was, serfously, wounded. He saved his census records, however, and, it may be sald, at the risk of his lite MODERN PUBLICITY. Dolngs, Sayings and Portraits of Al Classes Public Property. November Century. The flerce light that was supposed to beat exclusively upon o throne has come, in our modern conditions, to beat with almost equal flerceness upon & kitchen. The doings, sayings and portraits of the codks of the truly rich are nowadays mat- ters ‘for public record. Meantime our American court calendar includes not only the daily doings of ithe presidential family, but also of the famllies of those of our millionaires who aro in, and are by some supposed exclusively to constitute “socfety.”” Not only this, but there s a system, espectally in what would be called in England the provineial = press, of re- cording the doings, movements and vis- itations of pretty. much everybody in pretty much every community in the country. What effect is all this publicity to have upon the average man, woman, and girl? But, particularly,- what effect is all this famiilarity to have upon the world's senti- ment with regard to royalty and high ecclesiastical authority? As to these latter matters, surely there will be palpable ef- fects. Can_the sense of awe continus as great when there. is so little left of the unknown? One thing is sure: the sentiment toward kings and courts and vaticans can never remain_the game In these new and remarkable conditions. The relation be- tween the former’and their subjects and followers may be'rione the Jess affectionate, even reverent; it may become more human, more close. But the mystery having de- parted, there.can hardly be the old stress. When the mind is no longer awed and clouded by the dim and the unknown the appeal, to reason must he reinforced. — e PERSONAL NOTES. Mark Twain goes to Ttaly this month, and the smile is coming back on Mary Baker Eddy's face. A Missouri court holds that $15 g hug is about the right size. Pretty stift price for the Missourl variety. Dr. Frank Bowker Sleras, a well-known dentist of Maiden, Mass., has received an invitation to become court dentist to the king of Saxony, with headquarters in Dres- den. Lord Rosebery's aphorism that “you can- not prevent a storm by sitting on the bdrometer” will probably weather the storms of time and go down to posterity as & classic. The old Chimney Butte ranch, made famous as the ranch established by Theo- dore Roosevelt, when he was a Bad Land's catfleman, has been sold by the Northern Pacific to Ferris Bros. of Medora. Sir Henry Irving, Joseph Jefterson and Mme. Patti will do the farewell act in America this season. Parting is such sweet sorrow, howevér, that they may be able to hold out for another decade or two. Every living descendant of Oliver Ells- worth, who was the third chief justice of the United States, united in the presenta~ tion of his old home in Windsor to the Daughters of the American Revolution, They are sgattered from New England to Japan. Prof. Penny teacher of music at Wash- burn college, Topeka, Kan., startied his students several days ago by declaring that there were ~twenty-five immoral hymns in the gospel hymn book. Among them he names “God Be With You Till We Meet Again’’ and “Shall We Gather at Waltham the River,"” being immoral because of the music. The first woman to be admitted to the New York bar s Miss Gabrielle Townsend Btewart, who was entered upon the list of attorneys last week. Miss Stewart is a young western woman, who has already ac- quitted herself brililantly at the Ohio bar. In Cleveland, where she made her home, the soclal prominence of her family made her a belle before ambition persuadéd her to study law. She fs descended from an old Scotch-English family, many members of which have stood high in tie legal pro- fession of Great Britain for centuries. Her great-grandfather was at one time lord ehief justice of the realm. ———— LAUGHING REMARKS, “Patience,” sald Unble Eben, “is' what ev'ybody thinks ev'ybody else ought to have an' what nobody has much personal use for.”—Washington Star. “Don’t let my carving this chicken dis- turb your conversation,’ sald the youiu husband, red and perspiring, to the com ny at the table. *I can ao it even bet r If you keep on talking .and pay attention to me."—Chicago Tribune. no Quizzer—Is he a multimillionaire? Whizzer—Oh, my, yes. In fact he's so multy that he can afford to run over or- dinary millionaires and then let his scc gallry attend to the damages.—New York un, “Why s it that woman so often leads man to make a fool of himself? “8he doesn’ e man who makes a fool of himself over a woman would do It any way, but she happens to furnish the easiest excuse for it."—Chicago - Tribune, “I never heard a more disgusting in cendiary speech than old 'man Hrown made this morning.” “Who's old man “The old fellow work for. Hoe sald: ‘See here! If you don't do better I'll dro you."—Phlladelphia Press. rown "’ hear you've put Knosegard off the “Yes. He wouldn't obey the training rules—wouldn't y any more attention to the tralner than he would to ane of the faculty.”—)ck. ‘‘You know that mai, Flipperton, who ch.l,m- to read character at a glance?"’ Yo, he swindled me out of $300." bo”l‘"fi I di :A‘l“'lunpnle he- av'er put s taten; amy. practicar use.'” Cleveland Plaindealer. 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