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

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The message of President Roosevelt recommending legislation to make effective the Cuban reciprocity treaty, as required by the senate’'s amendment to the treaty, presents the arguments for the desired action briefly and foreibly. They arve not new to the conntry, having been tated in previous utterances of the president as well as by other advocates { of closer trade relations between Cuba {and the United States. It is urged that botlt our interest and our honor demand the legisiation contemplated; that our relations with Cuba make incumbent and necessary close economfe relations; that the new repub- lic baving acted in good faith toward the United States, by complying fully with the requirements of this govern- ment, it is our imperative duty to help that republic onward and upward, in doing which we shall also promote our own interests, These arguments un- questionably make a strong appeal to the American sense of fairness and jus tice, to the feeling that this great na- tion ought to show speclal favor to the neighbor to which it gave independence and the security of which it is bound to safeguard. The president expresses the belief that no injury will result to any American interest from the treaty, but that many interests will be benefited. There are still some, however, who earnestly be- lieve that repiprocity with Cuba will prove damaging if not disastrous to the domestic sugar industry and to some extent an injury to the tobaceo industry. Whether or not those who hold this view will persist in opposing the treaty remains to be seen. It is reported that a considerable opposition {ln likely to be manifested in the house, but it s not thought that it will be sufficient to de- feat the proposed legislation. That nu- merous American interests would be benefited by reciprocity with Cuba is not to be doubted. ‘As shown by the statistics of Cuban trade compiled by the Department of Commerce, the United States {s not now getting such share of that trade as it should have, that while Cuba has been selling to this country in increasing volume, by much the greater part of her Importations have come from Kuropean countries. It is entirely probable that this condi- tion, anomalous though it is, will con- tinue if the reciprocity treaty is not made effective, with the possibility, as President Roosevelt points out, of Cuba cides with that of the reading public. The Board of Review this year ought to have a comparatively easy task. The Board of Review last year blazed the ‘way and set the pace. m———— The plumbing in the county hospital 1s still leaking, but there are also sev- eral other leaks in the county board's conduct of county affairs. Ee—— . With two, gandy, dealers in the, city ~ cduncil the -pusheart cand$ men - com- mit an unpardonable. offense in selling their wares at neighboring corners, m————_—— No, Oanada does not feel any better over coming out at the small end of the boundary arbitration, but it has stopped advertising 1ts' grief quite so widely. Em—— Ouba has been showing some signs of a disposition to do something 'for itself from which the argument that we ought to do lon\e!hinx for Cuba at least, gains some strength. Ee—— With the assistance of the Omaha Commerelal club George H, Maxwell is earning the salary the railroads have Pput up for him as secretary of the Na- tlonal Irrigation association. Em——— Nebraska congressmen fared better than their colleagues from Iowa in drawing seats in the hall of the house. They will have to hustle, however, to keep up with Iowa in pulling out the legislative plum e According to best reports the county treasurer-elect is going through the throes of a second campalgu, wrestling ‘with the guaranty bond men who want to insure his incumbency, To say which ordeal 18 the worst would require ex- pert testimony. — Nebraska is put down as having five out of six new and Inexperienced con- gressmen to represent it in the house at Washington. Never mind--four out of the five will not be so new and in experienced when they are returned to | | teemr provided whare the soldier was not | allowed to drink to excess and where he the next congress. The new Republic of Panama has se- cured a recognition from France as well as from the United States—the two fore- most republics of the world. The bond of sympathy Dbetween republics fs plainly closer than the bond between the old monarchies and the new republic, Colonel Bryan expects to start this week on his much-talked-of European trip and be absent several months. It is safe to say he will keep advised of the direction of the political weather-vane on this side and that the time of his r turn will depend largely on which way Fl‘ wind blows, — e It is particularly appropriate that one party of invaders into the old Red Lake Indian reservation, now thiown open for settloment, will make its incursion fro Thief River Falls. The line of demar- kation I8 very hazy between taking land in a government lottery and taking it without any rightful claim at all W —— Mayor Moores is right in declaring that the city should not tolerate any more foolishness from bond brokers who bid in our bond issues and, after holding them ' for months as an optlon, refuse | to execute the contract unless ) have previously turned a profit by unloading on other investors. The city should keep & boud Dbrokers’ blacklist and every bond house that breaks faith onew should be barred from having its bids sonsidered for all future sules Itive of discipline. | near military posts of a low class of | tices are allowed. making commercial arrangements with other countries to our disadvantage. It is well understood that other countries are most anxious to make liberal com- mercial arrangements with Cuba, par- ticularly England, Germany and Spain, and we shall be estopped from making any objection to Cuba treating with such countries if we refuse the reci- procity she asks. The question has been so thoroughly discussed in all its aspects that it would seemn congress should not be long in ‘disposing of it. Perhaps the house will not be, but it is possible that it will start a prolonged tariff debate in.the senate. E— THE ARMY CANTEEN. There 1s promised another contest in congress over the army canteen, a bill having been introduced in the house re- storing thé Ccanteen. If the practically unanimous - testimony of army officers in command of military posts is to re- celvé the consideration which it merits there ought to be no difficulty in passing the bill. So far as we are aware not a single report to the War department of post commanders has failed to point out the {ll effects that have resulted from the extinction of the canteen. The tes- timony Is overwhelming that the con- sequences have been most Gemoralizing to the soldiers and necessarily destruc- Drunkenness and disease in the army have greatly in- creased and many of the men do not give that. care and attention to their |parwnnl condition and to their duties as soldiers that they formerly did. This can readily be understood when the circumstances are known. The nbandonment of the canteen was promptly followed by the establishment saloons, where vile liquor is sold and gambling and other demoralizing prac- In these places the soldiers drink the poisonous stuff that is provided and not infrequently are robbed of their money by the sharpers who hang about the saloous. The can- could find congenial pastime injury to his health or his morals, without The | welfare of the army demands the resto- ration of the canteen, the abandonment of which experience has amply demon- strated was a grave mistake. PRUTECTING PUBLIC OFFICIALS. It has been remarked that congress has seldom displayed more indifference to the teachings of experience than in its fallure, after three presidential as- sassinations, to do anything for the bet- ter protection of the chief executive, aside from an unimportant section of the new immigration bill regarding the deportation of an anarchist. When President McKinley was assassinated it was very generally thought that con- gress would throw whatever sateguards | were within legislative reach around | the person of the chief executive. This was made the leading recommendation in Président Roosevelt's first message and of the three specific suggestions | submitted a part of ouly one has been adopted. He recommended the suppres- sion of anarchists and anarchistie liter- aturs, also that the federal courts should be given jurisdiction over any person who Rills or attempts to kil the presi- dent of the United States or any one who is in the line of succession. The question of protecting public o clals will again recelve attention from the t congress. Representat! THE OMAHA DAIL duced a bill providing that the crime of killing the president, the vice president, ambassadors or ministers of foreign countries accredited to the United States, shall be punishable with death, and prescribing life imprisonment for attempts to commit bodily injury against the president or vice president. The bill further provides a penalty of fine and imprisonment for the teaching of an archistic doctrines and for conspiring within or without the United States for the killing of a ruler or chief executive of any other country. There is no doubt of the desirability of legislation of this character, and there ought not to be any hesitation on the part of congress in pro- viding it, for undoubtedly it will have the approval of all good citizens. e— AN UNJUSTIFIABLE MEANURE. The Bee has already indicated its objections to the proposition before the city council to enact an ordinaunce of jexclusion against peddlers and street venders in the business district. The inepiration behind this mensure is the natural desire of certain retail dealers to shut out competition in some of the petty lines of their business under the impression that the suppression of the peddier, pusheart and street stands will bring to themselves the trade upon which these curbstone merchants sub- sist. It is very probable that this reasoning is correct and that the enactment of the ordinance would mean the extinc- tion of these, to them, objectlonable venders. But that does not”justify the measure nor does the argument appeal to the public, which usually prefers to live and to let live. The street venders have all taken out peddlers' licenses and complied with the require- ments of the law, and they can hold | no patronage except by ministering to | the convenlence of the public or offering | their ‘'wares at prices that compare favorably with those asked for in regu- lar shops. But above all, the suppression of the | street vender would wipe out one of the distinguishing marks of a metropolitan city. There are no street venders in small villages or dead towns, but there is not a live, hustling American city | whose streets do not swarm with thf'so‘ businessmen of the sidewalk. To x-hut} them out would make the street life of | Omaha dull and listless as compared | with wideawake cities of half its size. | Omaha cannot afford to take this step notwithstanding the clamor for it from the big merchants and shopkeepers. ‘City Prosecutor Lee has just closed up every appealed case for the violation of city ordinances pending in the dis- trict court, and out of thirteen trials has secured twelve convictions, It is no disparagement of his predecessors to say that this is the first time in years that such a situation has been brought about, but it is certainly a tribute to| his energy and activity that he should be able to clean,up the slate in so thorough & manuer. The beneficial re- sults may be expected to accrue in the police court from now on, where offenders will be less likely to under- take to evade their fines by appealing to a higher court with the expectation that the case will never be prosecuted | or never reached. Every competent ob- server agrees that the police eourt in | this city has never been run on such a businesslike basls as it is being con- ducted under the present efficlent offi- clals. Let the good work go on. While the negotlations are pending for the purchase of the water works by the city of Qmaha the South Omaha council is tinkering with a new ordi- nance modifying the franchise of the company in that city. Of course the privileges which the people of South | Omgha are asked to give are put down | as of very little value and covered en- | tirely by thei compensation offered. But let the South Omaha franchise come in as an element of value in the Omaha appraisement and it will have grown | to ‘enormous’ proportions. In view of the fact that Omaha and South Omaha will eventually be one city and jointly bear the burdens of the two, it would | not be inappropriate < for the South Omaha authorities to hold off on their franchise business until they learn the | outcome of the purchase proceedings in { Omaha. : | —— | | Secretary Root says that he will not { ask In his report for any new legislation with respect to the reorganization of the army. This declaration may be taken to mean that the army reorganization law is working satisfactorily, or at any rate that the experimental Innovatfons have not gone far enough yet to call for material changes in the statutes which govern them. The army reorganization bill worked a revolution n our military !system and it will be a good thing to allow time for it to acquire stability be fore being subjected to contlnuous tink ering. s —— It is reassuring to read that ¥, H. Cunningham, the rural mail delivery carrier out of South Omaha, who was recently elected president of the na tional assoclatfon of rural delivery car- riers, has resumed work on his route at the munificent salary paid by the government of $50 a month. This is tau- gible evidence of the right spirit, edpe clally in view of the too numerous in- stances where men as soon as elected to prominent positions in national or- ganizations give up the work by which they became entitled to their prefer- ment. ——— It will take King Edward some time to get his birthday the same recognition on the calendar that was enjoyed by that of his royal mother. May 24 still counts for more in British sentiment than November 9. Remembering that he consumed only seven minutes In wmerging the titular possesslons of Heury John InnesKer with the ¢o0pon securities of Miss Goe- | tunction [ical reforms lower down in the judictal | | among the laymen of that denomination. Y BEE: WEDNESDAY, let, Bishop Doane must consider the methods of fthe ¢ average underwriter tedious indeed. Colorado’s ;\\(~rl|or has decided he will not send troops Into the coal strike district. Apparently the executive now shares the common bellef that the Colo- rado militia does its greatest good when it is kept securely at home. In his message President Roosevelt repeatedly refers to Cuba as “she” and “her.” The propriety of this course Is understood only when ‘we note that all he says of “her” is complimentary if not positively flattering. Good Advice to Heed. Minneapolis Times. Let us glve 8am Parks due credit for the good advice he has volunteered, what- ever we may happen to think of his some- what erratic career. 1de atriotinm, Washington Star. It is cheering to observe that no matter how much a public official is overworked and how inadequate the salary is, he sel- dom feels like turning over the position to some one else who may prove less compe- tent. —— Regular Annual Handout. Philadelphia Prees. The democrats of Pennsylvania are still seeing lessons in the recent election. They see lessons every year, but never anything clse. As long as the republicans get the victorles the opposition is welcome to the lessons; it needs 'em Germany's Great Historian. New York Tribune. That noble old Roman, Mommsen, the historfan, died full of years and honors. Germany was lavish with distinctions heaped upon him in his life and when he was laid to rest. The remarkable feature of his funeral was the presence of twelve surviving children. Mommsen had been the father of sixteen. In his long and diligent career he had garnered an abun- dant harvest in many flelds of activity, and he laid down plentiful sheaves .when he passed over to the maJority. Applying o Good Law. Milwaukee Sentinel. The law which Secretary Cortelyou has for the firet time invoked to exclude an an- archist ffom this country reflects public opinion, and the action of the secretary will be approved. There are enough an- archists in this country now to spread the poison of their theories without borrowing from the old world the teachers of revolu- tion and soclal disruption. The knowledge | of the legitimate fruits of anarchism has been too dearly bought by the people of the United States to be disregarded, and | those who are disposed to defy public opinfon upon this point should be given to understand that there will be no more temporizing, no more misinterpretation of the term ‘“freedom of speech,” no more toleration of a propaganda that counsels the use of the torch, the bomb and the deadly weapon. —— . Corporations and Court Appeals. Philadelphia Record. ’ Justice Brewer of the United States su- preme court, in &n article in the Independ- ent for the current week, says: “I was as- sured by one in a position to know that In a singlé stute-ome of the great raflroad corporations by gppsaling every judgment against it to the supreme court of the state —that court ha$fhg a crowded docket— made cnough In ‘compromising the judg- ments against it in the trial courts to pay the entire cost of its legal department.” ‘The. radical vestriotlon of the privilege of appeal advocated by the justice may seem too severe a remedy, but for the compara- tively poor sulto: e delays possible under our present system of procedure are equiv- alent to the defffal of thelr rights. The name whereby the courts of last resort of many states were formerly known indicates the correction of .errors to be their true If crrors be s0 numerous as the crowded dockets of appellate tribunals would imply ther¢é would be room for rad- hierarchy. In any event, the modern view | that an appeal is a matter of right is baged on false premises. WORNOUT PREACHERS, Problem of Their Care Considered by the Methodists, Chicago Tribune. ‘The questlon of caring for superannuated preachers of the Methodist Eplscopal church is belng quite generally agitated One or two conferences already have taken action, and tkere seems to be little doubt | that all the annual conferences will me- | morlalize the general conference of 1%l to | change the discipline'so as more fully (o recognize the clalms of superannuated | ministers, their wido and dependent | children for support, and to “ask that in | the distribution of_amounts ralsed for min- tsterial support our discipline be so changed | as to recognize that conference claimants | shall share pro rata with bishops, presid- ing elders and pastors.” This is the lan- guage of the north Indlana conference In | its memorial, apd clearly expresses the | purpose of the movement. | That there s a general interest in this qn ion of caring for superannuated cler- | gymen is shown by the action of other de- nominations Congregational, the Protestant Episcopal and the Presbyterian churches have all taken action in looking to the support of their disabled ministry, but what has especlally incited the move- ment in the Methodist Episcopal church is the action of the Methodist Episcopal church south. which. owning property lued at 130,341,763, has asked its member- ship(for a permanent fund of $5,000,000 for this purpose. The Methodist Eplscopal church has a (otal valuation of §145,813,257, or nearly five times that of the church south, and yet Its collections lasi year for the support of 2,350 superannuated minis- ters were but $297,000, an average of $12% each, which, as one writer says. is “not | the cost far proper provision for a wornout horse.” 1If the southern Methodists ask for $5,000.000, the five times as well off northern ones certainly ought to ask for twice or three times as much Every laborer ls worthy of his hire. It ‘any superannuated laborer should be com- fortably provided for it is the minister who has done his duty faithfully. He has la- | bored all his active life, as a rule, upon a | small salary. His cares have been great, his trials many. He has had to satisfy all kinds of people and has been exposed to all kinds of critielsm, reasonable and un- reasonable. He has had to dress and live in style not justified by his Income, He is considered superannuated at & period ear- lier than in other professions. The lawyer and the doctor may go on practicing until they are “in the sere and yeliow leaf,” the minister must retire when he virtually is in his prime of experience and knowledge, if not of physical activity. If any class of NOVEMBER 11, | Grow { ducing the salaries of all the higher federal | Ntical Specialists’ school, which 1s to be 1903. BITS 0" WASHINGTON LIFE. Minor Scenes and Incldents Sketched on the Spot. A bunch of fifteen army commissions open to civillans, probably the last for years to come, fs causing a lively scramble among young men anxlous to get into the army. They are all second lleutenancies, and have remained unfilled ince July 1. It has been decided that after July 1 of each year the vacancies occurring shall be kept for the West Pointers who are graduated the following June, and, if any are left, for the men who come from the ranks. What are still left may go to clvillan candidates, who are numerous and persistent. In the years to come it is realized that vacancles will decrease, and the graduates will be provided for only after much difficuley. ‘Therefore, the fifteen places still vacant to the eredit of the fiscal year ended June % last are likely to be the last to which elvillan candidates will be eligible. One of the old employes of the house has figured it out that only four ex-speakers of the national house of representatives are living. Galusha A. Grow of Pennsylvania retired from congress last year, having been legislated out of a job by the redistricting of the state. Joln G. Carlisle is another man who formerly held the gavel in the house of representatives, and General J. Warren Kiefer of Ohlo 18 the fourth sur- vivor of the great number of men who held the important post of spreaker. In mentloning the names of living ex- speakers of the United States house of Tepresentatives one is invariably over- looked. There lives today in Auburn, N. Y. at the ripe age of 79, a rich banker named Theodore Medad Pomeroy. On the 3d of March, 1869, Mr. Pomeroy was elected speaker of the house to succesd Schuyler Colfax, who had been clected vice president and resigned the speakership to be In- ducted into the higher office. It is sald that Speaker Pomeroy served only five minutes, but the encyclopedias and blographical dictionarfes fall to tell why he was elected for so short a perfod, why he left congress so suddenly, why Colfax resigned to get out of his way and what Pomeroy did while speaker for five minutes. The question of what we shall do with our ex-speakers s less of a problem than what Is to be done with our former presi- dents. Henderson and Carlisle are both earning more money now than they ever did in congress. They are corporation at- torneys, with headquarters in New York City, and are doing well. Galusha A. is busy writing his memoirs, and will have an Interesting story to tell of his half a century In public life. General Klefer has reached that ripe old age when he wants no regular occupation. He is living In the past. The opening of each new congress finds him in Washington, shaking hands with the old gray-beards of the house, and causing the new comers to wonder as to the identity of the fine looking old man who wears a full dress suft in the daytime. A pecullar story is behind the selection of building material for the great union depot to be constructed in Washington. Granite will be used, but it will be granite that has never been used for the construc- tion of any other building erected upon earth. Years ago a stone man up in Vermont discovered a quarry of unusual promise at Bethel. The granite from this quarry had peculiar beauties and qualities of its own, not found in any other granite vet ex- cavated or carved or lald, It was a sort of edition de luxe In the granite line, and he saw profits of an unusual order pouring in from the development of his find. He opened his «quarry and prepared to fill orders, when his son was killed in the props erty, Thereupon he issued the flat that this valuable stone should never be used for any other purpose than tombstones or monuments. - And it never has been. But the stone man-who erected this pe- culiar memorial to his deceased boy hns passed away. Helrs have not the same scruples about its use for common bullding construction, 8o a sample of the. stone was forwarded to the men in charge of the construction of the great union depot, in the erection of which the government | has become a partner, after a fashion. | The samples of this one stone decided them. They would have no other. And the union | depot will be constructed of it. A patriot to the manner born offers to immortalize in bronze or marble the con- gressman who makes the best speech in this or the next congress in favor of re- officlals. The patriot's letter, extensively eirculated in Washington, reads as follows: “‘The founders of the International Po- erected and supported In common with | the World's Diathetic institute, to be lo- | cated at the cxact geographical center of the United States of America (in Kansas), | will erect a monument on the site of the Institution to the member of cither branch of congress who makes the best speech during the Fifty-elghth and Fifty-ninth congresses In favor of a reduction of salaries. “Every senator und representative who serves during the Fifty-elghth and Fifty- ninth congresses, or either, will be invited to enter this oratorical and argumentative contest. There will be three Judges, one from China, one from Russia and one from the United States, who will declde as to the merits of the respective speeches and say whose memory will be monumentally com- memorated, the speeches to be examined as they appear in the Congressional Record. | All men who draw pensions are not erans In a military sense. The proprietor | of one of Waslington's leading restaurants | has provided for one of his ex-employes In a manner most unique. The pension consists of three square meals a day and | as many driuks. The old man who draws this pension is an ex-bartender of the es- | tablishment, and was put on the retired list some time ago As the pensioner was known to be fond of “the cup that cheers,” the employer found It necessary to add one clause to the pension, viz.: “The drinks will be given at the appointed time, before breakfast, dinner and supper, provided there are no Indulged signs of having in intoxicants see this old man comfortably seated at a neat-looking little table enjoying his food | s much as he @id In the days when he was in active service. Tt'is expected that during the coming season in Washington the German embassy will be & scene of much soclal interest, as Baroness von Sternburg, wife of the am- bassador, 1s a most charming hostess. The embassy, under his direction, has heen em- | government of the people, A perfect beverage—rich in nitrogenous eiements. Best & Goes Fanthest PERSONAL NOTES, mayor of Geneva, N, Y., was elected by one vote. Stephen D. Winner, 81 years old, reputed to be the oldest locomotive engineer in active servico In the United States, has Just dled in Newark, N. J. Senator Stewart of Nevada Is the only man in the senate who has never been shaved. His beard began to grow when he years. Benator Quay's recently expressed idea proposed new states recalls’ the fact that a strain of Indian blood flows through his own veins. It {s of Delaware origin and those of that tribe even now regard him as one of themselves. Jacob Rifs, the socfologist, was dining out one night when his hostess presented him to a charming young girl. “My dear,” #ald the hostess, “I want you to know Mr. Rils. He is a great soclologist and student of the signs of the times.” *How lovel. sald the rosebud. "I, too, am a poster col- lector." George W. Vanderbilt contemplates build- ing another model village near his estate at Asheville, N. C. The village will be built about thirty miles from Asheville, and 31,000,000 at least will be expended on the project. Mr. Vanderbilt has already ex- pended about $10,000,000 in western North Carolina Andrew Carnegle, the largest individual taxpayer in New York City, has just sent his check for $41,3% to the receiver of taxes, being full payment for his assess- ment on real estats and personal property amounting all told to $10,000,000. Of this amount $,000,00 was on personal property and a like sum on real estate, The Contederate Home at Beauvoir, Miss., the late residence of Jefferson Davis, is to be opened for tho reception of impover- ished confederate oldlers on Tuesday, De- cember 1. Forty Indigent veterans have al- ready applied for admission. Captaln James Stone of Greenville, Miss., has been appointed superintendent of the home. Governor Richard Yates of Iilinols in his proclamation calls upon the state's “five million prosperous, progressive, pure and patriotic people” to observe Thursday, No- vember 26, as a day of thanksgiving an praise. “Let the manly men, the noble women, the precious children of a lous and beautiful Illinols,” he not ashamed to recognize God. Let all the people fali not to glve thanks and to pray for help to walk, bravely and honestly and wisely, righteously the path through and across the twelve months to come.” THIS GREATER REPUBLIC, “Maintenance of Principles Monarchs ¥ Which ar the Most.” Baltimore American. In his proclamation’ to the people of the United States setting aside November 2% as Thanksgiving day, President Roosevelt used these words: “In no other place, and at no other time, has the experiment of by the people, tried on so vast a for the people, been |scale as here In our own country In the opening years of the twentleth century. Fallure would not only be a dreadful thing for us, but a dreadful thing for all man- kind, because it would mean loss of hope for all who believe in the power and righteousness of liberty. ‘Therefore, in thanking God for the mercles extended to us in the past we beseech Him that He may not withhold them in the future, and that our hearts may be roused to war stead- fastly for good and against all the forces of evil, public and private, We pray for strength and light, so that in the coming years we may, with cleaniiness, fearless ness and wisdom, do our allotted work on the earth in such manner as to show that we not altogether unworthy of the blessings we have recelved.” In these thoughtful words has the pre: dent pointed out to Amerlcans -that, with the new responsibllities the government has assumed, with the new territory over are higher position it has as greatest powers of the world, have come new duties, harder problems and work which must be done in such a way as to convince not only the admirers, but the opponents of a republican form of govern. ment. that when the people are sovereign the rights of all can be ponsidered and the foundation of the republic made all the 4ironger by the maintenance of those very med among the principles which monarcha fear the most There can be no question that this republic as It has gradually developed from Mr. Licht, the democratic candidate for | which it has galned soverelgnty, with the | M a little group of weak col onies Into the mighty union of today has spread the idea of popular soverelgnty in | nearly every part of the world. There are very few nations now, claiming any con- siderable degree of civilization, in which yranny on the throne will leng be tol- | erated. There are not a few In which the kings or emperors have but little volce in the government, but little influence in the affairs of state. Men chosen by the people are the real rulers. By thess statosmen and not by occupants of thrones or wearers was 16 and has been growing for sixty ' of cfowns are the home and foreign policles of the nations developed and promulgated. It 1s the Gladstones and Disraells, the Sal- about an Indian senator from one of the | lsburys and Chamberlains, the Rismarcks and Crispls, masters of statecraft, who have been and are the real sovereigns, not the Edwards and Willlams and Emmanuels, who'elaim to rulé by divine right, but who are only tolerated and supported by the people because of a long established sys- tem of government which they are not yet ready to change. That there are defects In our system of government nonec will deny. The people are far too tolerant of those who use the power they have attained for selfish ends. far too prone to deal leniently with wrong- dolng In public places, to condone offens which In private business would receive condign punishment. Still the defects are far outnumbered by sterling virtues, by .-* high principles, by an ever-present sensé of duty, by a determination that this re- public shall not perish, but shall, by the blessing of God and gulded by His hand, meet every responsibility without fear or trembling, confident of success, teaching the world the great lesson that the strong- est government is that in which the people are the only sovercigns. ——— FLASHES OF FUN, “Those Panama fellows se some rather narrow pre! “I suppose they haven't wider ones."—Cleveland Pl to have o room for any ain Dealer. Ja, i—I see you have been reading the rewn of the government food experts. aggles—Yes, and as near as 1 can fig- yre I've been living on germs all my lie. Hi Tragerdy—And can't he act at all? Lowe Comerdy—Well, upon occasion he can. For irstance, only today I saw him getting next to eome free lunoh and he acted for all the world like a man who was starved to death.—Philadelphia Press. Teacher—Can .any boy tell me what ‘it yas that induded Captain Kidd o' turn 8mart Youth—I'rom what dad sald t'other day T guess It was because they aidn't Know anything about freezeoufs and biind * pool in Kidd’s time.—Boston ranscript. 0 you think you are giving your oity ood “Bovernment r " asked "he earngst man. "Well." answered Mr. De Graft after some deliberation: “it's as good us money buy."--Washington Staf. , Eljah was Being fod by the raveé It I8 very mice."” he mitted, would rather be fed by the ja, Fearing that he was not truly a g man, he wept at his lack of financial ent.—New York Tribune. g “but T reat tal. The doctor was sanguine. ‘We're going to pull you through,” quoth By the leg2” querulously demanted the patient, a sordld man, whose soul; even in that extreme moment, brooded on the mat- ter of expense.—Puck. “This," said the host, as the butler uj- feared vAth two pony glasses of the amser iquor, *is some especlally fine b see how you like ft.” " exclalmed’ the guest from T: ;l he l';"led l!l 311!."'1‘!!!.'5 50\‘)4 Hquah, wouldn’t mind having a drink of thi Philad#iphla Press. . e —— THE POINT OF VIEW, want to “Al at An Indian woman Braid| Old Bruli rel All ready 8 to swing, and flall, And JH{‘" and’ turn, make readly for {he A heap as soft as velvet, and as white, Her dusky ehildren hovered just in sight: Her lordly spouse lay prone before the door, Smoking his peaceful Dirv proudly he woro The. led moccasins the woman's hand Had patiently bedecked. Weaving ihe The Tndtan o Indian woman sang, ‘How blest am The winter's wood aiready ie laid e lord i« kind, he eats the food I b Of beads I have a store, plenty of sirin Feathers and paint, and needies large small, Whatever earth contains I have it 1 ask for nothing better. Care u I've everything I want'" Oh, Indian woman, child of wood and piain, Pleased with a string of beads, a pot of her basket sat, this way &nd that, ll;o.bll pine tree nt stain, My soul could pity thee. Yet some would “Oh, bléssed Indtan woman! Would that 1 Knew only this, then never would I sigh-. The wood and' stream, the sunset's gom goous dyes. Bweet ignorance, 'twere follow to be. wi; IBABEL, RICHE Waltham Sail the free vpon request. American Waltham ““The Perfected American Watch,”” an illustrated book of interesting information about watches, will be sent Waltham, Mass. Watches ships. Watch Company, bellished in admirable fashion, much of the decoration having been done under the | immediate supervision of Miss Violet Lang- ham, sister of the baroness and’an artist | of ability. A younger sister, Miss Ivy| Langham, will probably be a member of the ambassador's family during the winter. The zoological collections of the National museum have grown to immense size, rival- ing, in some cases surpasaing, those of any other museum. Of insects thers are In the men endures and sacrifices it is the clergy, To care for them when disabled is not a work of charity, but of duty The Meth- odist church had little dificulty in raising its jubilee twenty millions. It should have as little diflculty in raising whatever sum may be necessary for the support of its retred preachers. government collection nearly 1,500.000 speci- mens; of recent shells nearly 1,000,000 speci- mens; besides at least 500,000 specimens of other aquatic invertebrates, about 2,000 specimens of fishes, more than 60,00 birds’ eggs; 130,000 specimens of birds; more than || BCATUR, being direct From Maker to Wear: are warranted by the maker through chine sewed pair in the store. $3.50 and $5 Some men's shoes arc made mostly of wind, others of leather, The us to be solid leather, and notia wa- 5 and $3.50 t soon would be',