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TIlE WASHINGTON TIMES THURSDAY FEBRUARY 19 1903 G I The Washington Published every day fe the year FRANK A MUNSEY PUBLICATION OFFICE Tenth and D Streets Subscription rates to out of town points postage prepaid Daily one year Sunday one year V 25O- Ml coMwmtwtoBtiwM intended tor publication in The Time should be accompanied by name addreM of the writer for the cJitTs tntsrm tt m and ac a jc ttratit c of good XattiMcripta will be returned only when the nf- W h n The Times fe found OH sale places when Washington papers twualljr are soW in- tending wilt CORfu favor hjr in- forming this ottcc ot the fact The Snowfall Problem Why Not Have a Permanent Fund for Blizzard StreetCleaning Every succeeding blizzard finds Washington trusting to Providence or a belated appropriation from Con gross to clean the streets and prevent the packing of ice in the Potomac This year fate has beon more than usually kind to ii U But the happygolucky methods which have loft us in the present pinch without sufficient funds to rid the streets of snow and forced us to make a hurry call on the two houses are not to be commended Why not secure in advance a fund larpre enough to insure against all ac- cidents ard cvbr4 all 3hS caprices our uncertain winter weather Operatic Storm Signals- But They Fail to Turn Director Conned From His Noreast Course Wo learn with sorrow and some ap prehension that there is danger to frame the indictment lightly that the ontonto cordiale between Heir Con ned the new director of tho Metro- politan Opera House and some of the artistes of grand opera is in danger of being destroyed before it has fairly Lad an opportunity of being estab- lished Listen for instance to the impassioned remarks of Mme Gad ski I am afraid that Mr Conned will have to expand a great deal from the management of a little German play- house to Jha Jtrnprcsarjo pfthe mar- velous the wonderful the great Met- ropolitan Opera Company He may be a good stage manager but he will have to learn that great vocal artists cannot be bullied driven or whipped into getting around for S oclock morning rahearsals like tho little Ger- man actors of his little German the ntcr Thus it will be soon the storm sig- nals are flying and if Herr Conned were a iiraift navigalor Ho might be tempted to anchor in the offing and not put out into stormy waters until the wind had lulled a bit But he is nut On the bridge of the Gorman bark which h has safoly steered through irany troubled waters and past many- a lee shore he has always been un riucstionud master We wagcrhe will s4fii Xi w xnand Perhaps it would be woll to keep out of the zone of fire of even hi subcaliber guns As for the 13 imhors cgadski we would rather not be there when Herr Conried gives the order to Are The New Departments Home Congress Should Authorize Plans for One Before the Session Ends ugrees should no time in providing strituble homo for the rw Department of Commerce and Labor Secretary Cortolyou has tke oath of office bureau ohicfs are being selected and the work of organizing this new branch of the Government service to be quickly nccotupliubcd Are the new Secretary and his staff to be fur- nished with accommodations equal to their needs and worthy of the Gov- ernment which ofTore thorn or aro to strugglQ along indefinitely in makeshift quarters left to the uncur thin and coetly hospitality of private landlords fongroes lias too often shown it H lf penny and pound foolish in choosing to cramp tim various execu- tive departments into buildings which no lougor meet their wants or as an alternative to scattor their dismem- bered drKMNonK and bureaus to all cmte of the city The Government now pays annually for rentals 4 0000 whiuu represents at 2 pot cent AU investment of 13000000 That sum would easily cover the cost ol three or four additional depart- ment buildings furnishing habita- tions for exiles and wanderers like llto Department of lueffj relieving t e general discomfort and congestion Times 300 Ute Mid faIl ti 1T ueut for that purpoec Ret at a of con Anc ItO to b nt- tl which he om logo a taken prom 606 iso poIe I purch ers thy ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ in the older buildings and constitutj ing in themselves meats to the National Capital But Congress has on one pretext or mother maintained and extended the shortsighted rental system instead of capitalizing its rent account and enjoying the many splendid fruits of that capitalization It is to be hoped that a wiser judg- ment will induce the two houses to recognize the individuality of the new department by voting it a building distinctly and completely its own It should have a home where all its bureaus can be brought into touch and its work can be done with the maximum of cfiioioncy and comfort It is not too late to authorize the appointment of a building commis- sion at this session If Congress ad- journs without such action the new dopartment will be left a waif till next December and its occupancy of a permanent home may be indefinite- ly deferred If the now Secretary and his force are to be housed in a man- ner befitting a rich and powerful na- tion why not take the first step in that direction now Venezuelas Gratitude Existing Only in the Fertile Imagina- tion of Eminent Publicists In certain quarters the results of the Venezuelan imbroglio are set forth with singular innocence under the following heads United States has earned the undying gratitude of Ven- ezuela and other South and Central American States and the trade with those countries will therefore devel- op henceforth at a surprising rate Britain has lost prestige and its trade will seriously suffer Third Germany ditto ditto Such reasoning is puerile to say the least But it is probably no worse than the inflated rubbish to whioh we have been treated during the last few weeks For have we not had if dinned into our ears that the Kaisers sinister purpose was to seize territory and to smash the Monroe Doctrine into smithereens Have we not been told by eminent strategists that war was inevitable and that a hundred thou sand stood on the shores of the North Sea watching for the signal to embark Have we not been kept awake nights by the wail- ings of naval men on the trail of glory and contractors inN search of pelf that it is ships more ships and etill more ships we want and that without them some ono will steal us or wipe us off the face of the earth Let us pinch ourselves to see whether we are awake or simply be fuddled Does any sensible person believe that because of our recent course Venezuela feols profoundly grateful toward the United States Everybody on the contrary who knows anything knows that these makebelieve hidalgos hate us with a hatred that is surpassed only readiness in making use of the Mon- roe Doctrine whenever they wish to shield themselves from the conse- quences of their misdeeds Grover Cleveland certainly gave Venezuela every opportunity to show its gratitude and within a year after having settled the boundary dispute with Great Britain we had a new crop of claims against Venezuela includ ing the asphalt controversy on our hands Gratitude The word is not to be found in the official dictionary- of a South American republic And this idiotic twaddle about an increase of trade resulting from our political attitude toward the countries to the south of us Why we shall continue as heretofore to buy each year their products valued at about 120000000 paying for them in cash while they will take from us lass than onethird of that amount or about 38000000 and demand long credits in the bargain Theyll con tinue to buy in the cheapest markets and try to sell in the dearest That business Whatever else they may be they tire not fools The fools are those who fancy that because we came to their rescue when hard pressed the Vene- zuelans will empty the contents of thsir pockets into our laps or that business is based upon sentiment in- stead of cold hard and unsympathet- ic factS Lo the Poor Biker The L A W Once an Army Now Numbers Five Thousand Five years ago the League of American Wheelmen had a member- ship of 103000 a regular army In those days the silent steeds were as thick as mosquitoes on a summer night A year ago the league hat dwindled to 10500 People said that the dwindling was over that the cranks had fallen by the wayside that those who wore left represented- the real enthusiasts Today we see the L A W has FirstThe SecondGreat FourthItaly shamelessHuns I bytheir 1 ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ 53SO members In 1SOS there were fifty cycling papers in the land Now there is only one such paper Lo the poor biker will soon be a lone- some figure The day of the striped shirt century meet sooms to be over FreeHand Comment Mulls and muslin and shimmering gauzes interspersed with flowerladen hats and chiffon pnrasota place the shop windows and the snowcovered street in sharp contrast Still the window displays servo a cheerful purpose for even plowing through the snow we are reminded that the good old summer- time is coming On such a day as this happy should bo tho man or woman who can sit by the parlor window of a home made cozy by a roaring wobd fire and study at close range the beauties of Whittlers Snow- bound St Valentine showed a great deal of forethought in distributing all his love missives before the blow came and the mail trains stopped Cupid even laughs- at blizzards The college presidents talk a good deal about the path a young man should in fitting himself for a profession but the sum and substance of their re marks is that it all depends on the young man The world Is divided botwixt the peo- ple who would convict a man before the law has had a show and the people who protest the innocence of a man even after the law has convicted him Ithacas epidemic is subsiding Sci- ence has got the trouble by the throat and typhoid fever will soon coasc to epidemic form But the question arlsos what are State and local boards of health for if the water supply of a whole city can be contaminated as was that of the pretty university town Etornal vigilance should hurry itself A bill has boon introduced In the Mis senate to make It a misdemeanor to flirt with boarding school girls or spin- ster principals or teachers The last two classifications wore added to the bill In order to prevent tho charge of special legislation What a pitiable Ignorance- of human nature Any man of eiper lenco would at once flirt with a teacher rather than a pupil There Is a despera tion in the coquetry of an aging teacher that is Irresistible even to deep thinkers The Talk of the Dav The look of Ute worlds a made up Oer graves and fiery depths and nothings tate But what is horrible If man eovM see- The perils and diseases that he elbows Kach d y he walk a mile which catch at isbn Which fall behind saul graze him a passes Then would he know that Lifes a singfe pll grins Fighting unarmed a mo neat a thmMaad ftokliers Il in this infinite invisible Which we must leant to know and yet to scorn Irma the scorn of that regard Ute world Convicts tortured by straitjackets in California prisons We thought that Charles Roade exposed the horrors of such jackets once and for all In his Never Too Late to Mend Pension the exslaves Certainly but let us free and pension the white slaves of today as well as pension the black slaves of befo the wall So Mr Conreld Is now said to be Mr Graus successor Further remarks by Mr Damrosch showed that he felt keen disappointment at failing to obtain the direction of the opera The position is not an enviable one There are the sub scribers to be satisfied and some want French and Italian operas and some want nothing but Wagners music dramas but both factions want the best singers Then there are the prima donnas and the tenors must be counted among are daily to be ap- peased and flattered The prima donnas are the ones that shatter the nervous system of the manager with their jeal- ousies and their demands The success- ful opera manager ia a born diplomat Ho must not only know the weaknoMe of human nature he must coldly take advantage of thorn A contributor to the New York Times Saturday Review writes that ho In- quired lately for a library edition of Florlos translation of Montaignes es- says within the reach of the booklover or moderate mans and was informed that there is none The bookseller that informed him needed Information There Is an uaexpurgated Florlo in one volume clearly printed and edited by Henry Morley Rut how seldom booksellers are aware of books that are not on their shelves Only by reading the ancients do wo become fully acquainted with the won- drous schemes of nature Thus Bet nardin de SaintPierre tells us that nature divided the melon into slices so that it could bo eaten by a family but the pumpkin is larger and can perhaps- be eaten with ones neighbors See his Etudes tie la Nature This reminds us of n sentence of the Bishop of Meta in 1846 Tho Inunda tions of the Loire are due to the ox ceases of the press and the nonobsorv ance of Sunday And side by with these observa- tions may bo put this opinion of tho good Fenelon Water was made to uus those prodigious floating buildings which are called vessels Fullblooded men who walk in fur coats woo pneumonia openly If you are fat and scant o breath and possess such a garment talk about it Its nearly cold enough to wont by fur coat I wish I had on my fur coat What do you do with your fur coat in summer but leave It in the cedar oloset no matter bow shrewd the wind You are not the first to own a fur coat Both AngloSaxons pace Mr Freeman and Normans sported them Henry VIII that hearty old monarch loft such a splendid collection of furs that for years aCter his death they fur- nished a stock from which presents were given to pcraons of distinction pursue b- In 1 FOUr faN he a from the of a tar star themwho 00 I lie a And edge aide tam a ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ THE FIELD OF POLITICS GOSSIP VIEWS AND INCIDSffS Editor Young an Original Maker of Presidents Arrives at the Capital From Des Moihes lsStl I Without Office lrTfiU Iowa Way A Luncheon at the White Cummins a Eyes on file to His Home l HouseGovernor MonologistAll TariffReturns Editor Young of Iowa Here The Iowa Way has been the sub- ject of many animated discussions tho past week due largely to the arrival In Washington ot Col Lafayette Young publisher of the Dally Iowa Capital For this he is Justly famed In the State as his paper Is probably the leading afternoon dally In Iowa Admirers of Colonel Young look upon him as a maker of men and give him the credit of placing Theodore Roosevelt In his present exalted position A fond say ing In Iowa Is that Roosevelt would never have been gIver the nomination for Vice President had It not been for Colonel Youngs speech placing before the Philadelphia convention the name of the hero fresh from tropical battlefields Xo speech ever rang from a conven- tion floor causing more bubbles of en- thusiasm to break over the audience and dance and scintillate in the colored rays that came In through the stained windows of the han than that of tho colonel No speech ever delivered In honor of tho Grand Army of the Repub- lic possessed more fire more praise of the grand old flag and the boys that fought In the shadow of its foldsIn Hawk- eye ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ The Saxon Divorce With regard to the stories currant ot the impending annulment by the Vatican of tho already legally dissolved marriage between tho Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Saxony there Is but little truth in them and Inasmuch as the suc- cession to the Saxon throne Is assumed by the fact that the crown three little boys there are no reasons of state or of a dynastic order to render It necessary the crown prince should marry again It Is true that the Catholic church at the Vatican will In rare instances an nul a marriage when It can be definitely proved that one or another of the par- ties has been forced into it and it was on this ground that the first marriage of the now reigning Prince of Monaco and of Lady Mary Hamilton daughter of the late Duke of Hamilton was annulled evidence being given to the effect that Lady Mary bad been compelled to wed against hor will by her mother the late Duchess of Hamilton nee Princess of Baden and by her cousin Napoleon III But In this Monaco case the husband and wife lived but a very short time to gother only one child being born to the union who was declared legitimate by the decree that annulled the marriage of his parents and Is now the Crown Prince of Monaco With the Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Saxony however the con dition of affairs is quite different For although it Is notorious that Princess Louise was anxious to wed Prince Ferdi nand of Bulgaria and reluctant to marry the Crown Prlnoe of Saxony yet she lived for more than twelve years with the latter as his wife and bore him no less than five children whloh of course indicates that however muoh the prin cess may at first have disliked becoming the wife of the crown prince she resigned herself to her lot and was a willing consort It Is for this rea- son that tho Vatican will be unable to THE PUBLIC EYE Father Edmund Goetz a famous South African astronomer who has spent tho lost fourteen months conferring with American scientists has sailed for France where he will secure instruments and proceed to Rhodesia South Africa to establish the first reliable observatory in that country Senator of Indiana has been Invited by the Methodists of Sa- vannah Ga to bo pros out at the bi- centennial of John birth June 38 The Rev Dr W S Ralusford of New York when asked how he regarded tho action of Vermont in repudiating pro- hibition said I rathor see a man free than sober John P Jonas of Nevada about to close thirty yoars of service In the United States Senate is one of five mem- bers of the upper house not a native of this country Herbert W Bowen minister to Yen ozuela Judge Taft governor of the Philippines and Judge Hunt governor of Porto Rico were classmates at Yale and were close friends A NIGHT SONG IN THE STREET Here mid the hasting and eddying faces Here In the whirl of tho crowd Where the car lights flare and the win- dows glare And the night In white and loud Here we two are two Unheeded content unknown Not In the wilderness could we be More wonderfully alone No face of them all is a face we know No too familiar eye Will peer from the throng to vex our joy As we two wander by Yon towering walls with tho lights that soar Arc gnomeland palaces You airy train Is a dragon rushing To carry us overseas I press you close to my side secure In the solitude of tho throng And the laughter of children cornea to our lips For we know that love is long Charles G D Roberts that 11 Def rldge esleys ould togetherwe after- ward ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ fact Colonel Young surpassed his many successes as a Fourth of July orater in this tho crowning effort of his life With the Rough Riders But the inspiration was there fourfold Wasnt Colonel Young in Cuba to famous Rough Riders follow their intrepid leader up San Juan hill Have not Colonel Youngs stories of that bat- tle thrilled the lovers of history and daring deeds At least thv readers of the Dally Iowa Capital have been filled with the delight only to bo found by a perusal of his twenty installment history of the Spanish American war written by One who was there La- fayette Young So when the calls of tho country be- came burdensomely persistent Mr Roosevelt consented to have his bi ography road to the assembled dele- gates As evidence of the fact that the reading was well done one only has to look at the result In a whirlwind of applause the name of Roosevelt wa launched upon the convention and all that were not cautious enough to set- out of the way were trampled under foot by the march Rooeoveltward When Mr Roosevelt ascended to tho Presidency Iowa asked What will he see- the ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ IN THE COURTS AND CAPITALS OF THE OLD WORLD Complications Have Followed Crown Princess Louises Elopement Efforts Afoot to Deprive the Crown Prince f the Saxon Suc- cession He Cannot Fight With Giron and Has Lost Caste in the Eyes of All Continental Europe r Which = Me its way clear to follow the divorce just pronounced by the Saxon tribunal with a decree of annulment An to Windward Incidentally I may mention that In certain portions of Austrian Russian and German Poland it Is common among the Catholic aristocracy that on the day of the wedding Just befQre the the mother of tho bride should in the presence of as large a number of the guests as posnible give a slight slap on the cheek of her daughter This Js solely and entirely for the of enabling the bride If afterward hor marriage turns out unhappily to be able to ap- peal to the Vatican for an annulment of the union on the ground that she had been compelled by her mother to wed against her will To Supersede the Crown Prince Meanwhile steps are being taken with- a view to the crown prince waiving his rights of succession to the Saxon throne In favor of his eldest boy the now ten yearold Prince George who would in that event ascend the throne as King George II on the demise of his grand father the present sovereign of Saxony The regency would be undertaken by tho youthful monarchs uncle the childless and popular Prince John George of Sax ony pending his nephews majority and it Is a wellknown fact that this project meets with warm approval both at Ber- lin and at Vienna In each of which capitals John George Is far more popu lar and Is considered an Infinitely more capable man than the crown prince- It IB noteworthy that on the occasion of the banquet given In honor of the Xalat rs birthday the other day at Dres- den it was Prince John George instead of the crown prince who presided in the place of the still ailing King and 4n all public functions and state affairs it is Prince John George and rot the crown prince who now represents the King This Is by far the coivenlont way nchor ceremony most purpose ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ do for Colonel Young The position- of First AMtietant Postmaster General was thought about right bet unfortu- nately thq place was filled by a com- petent man The Des Moines postomco- Is generally considered a cinch and when Colonel Young shied his castor in its direction everyone la that city wrote their friends that Young Is go- ing to be appointed postmaster how the place failed to materialize or Mr Young declined to aoeopt tho nomi- nation Guest of the President Faith in the President and his Inten- tion of doing the right thing hi friends never flagged Something was sure to be found Consequently all Iowa ryes wore turned to Washington hon Colonel Young came scanned the columns of their papers and at last wore rewarded at last They saw this para- graph Colonel Lafayette Young of Moines was the guest of President Roosevelt at luncheon Sunday Those of the oldtimers in Iowa who remembered Colonel Youngs social am bition when he was a young man were glad to kaow that tho true friend ban a long memory But there are other reasons for of The Iowa Way Colonel See b They thus dis- cussion ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ out of tho very awkward imbroglio For rightly or wrongly the husband who has been unable to retain the fidelity of bl wife to her marriage vows is an object of ridicule rather than sympathy to the public and has been so from time immemorial and it ia realized that it would not be conducive to the prestige of the crown to have on the throne a man wto has not only been betrayed hut who h 8 been unable to avenge the Indignity placed upon him The Ethics of Insult According to the ethics of officers nobles and gentlemen of birth and breeding on the Continent and especial- ly In Germany and Austria anyone who has been subjected to an indignity is de barred from accepting apologies but is compelled to obliterate the stigma of the affront by bloodshed on the socalled field of honor The officer or the noble man who fails to do this is subjected to ostracism and when In the army or navy Is compelled to resign his commission Meetings on the field of honor can only occur between equals that is to say between gentlemen of high and low de an officer who for instance Is Insulted by a working man or by a ser- vant Is debarred from fighting a duel with him and has no alternative but ta cut down the individual in question on the spot with his saber or falling that to shoot him That is why one hears so frequently of Instances of unarmed civilians being cut down in the streets in Germany and Austria by officers of the army In the same way that officers are from fighting duels with men inferior social caste royal and Im- perial are prevented from meet- Ing nobles and gentlemen on the field of honor and from either graating or demanding satisfaction so that whoa an officer Is unfortunate enough to be in- sulted by a monarch or by a prince of the blood from whom he is unable t obtain satisfaction ho follows the ox greeand de- barred or- an mare ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ BITS OF MISCELLANY HighPriced Rails PenmvrvMia Railroad Oarepaiy has or- dered 4000 torn of aieJral taut HMM wilt cost about 74 a ten while owMfwrjr r standard cost 13 a too Tke rafts be on some of die feeswy em no to fbe- AH Rh Ry Uowatafaw PittH mtK HMrisii sad die middle dtrMons Kew Y ifc W fW Once Hero Now Educator Capt Richmond Paarsoa Il son ttK kora- of the Morrimac will write a and all Mtt time to lecterisjf Htoratr wait captain MJV th t in the foowc Ms mtaata would b t tifcseaU tfc Amorlea people tfcftt- tfcfe fa the greatest nation in the world tint we coatrol fxwthmi f the wwM ansi fore ottfibt to bays die say in tkKi world sad M mart to soy m fottersntMMl af a all of K rop tegetlter Chicago die Tea Drunkards Tta dnmkaHte ae nearly as nmimtui opium seed MIll gtmisVirs among owe lees ttwrded maids sad laatnsui ot mte artrtoe racy of wealth It Is a terrible dtolpaMon Some of the victims Mil tfc tee sitU evety bit tbe loaves which renders the Mts r and dangerous It is astringent that no membrane can readily overcome its erect Women wise revel and luxuriate like K tioaamso it b a good ptckmewp While siwtae it in evtf corners same ave kegs to drop art always loft hi the cop These wttchM wOl tell a t drunkard sheet everything she is go- Ing to do dwtoft the day how man callers she will have whether they will be men ur women whether er no she is going to drive ride or have a lIght with husband or be at peace with all Ute work What New York Press Honna Hash Corned beet hauls a la hisses Is a favorite tanclieen dish with many When Shavr the head waiter the Senate restaurant waRt its prepared with Mmsual care he orders it this way One corned hash for Senator The restaurant was doing great business yesterday and everybody seemed to want corned beet hash Fourteen the order for orated beef hash for Senator llamas sbowled to tins chef AVben Ute fifteenth order west down there was a rumbling noise U the kitchen sad the chef shouted Thats fifteen orders for Suawter He better watch out or hell founder hlssef Xew York World The Me- t saul lairs psick IR York S- H social tIN or the tWIritaMic seW Men le fie old ki aM toed Ute of the NaftS wttidl deuce her heel HaLe a was Ira steel rails seed seeai The these largest New s eztnctd fr Iaagsuoge seat Senate ci times ¬ > Yottags coming followed slosaly upon the telegraphic Gov- ernor Cummins of Iowa had started to Washington called by the President for a consultation on Ute qwwftUwa of tariff revision Governor Cummins is member of tbe faction in the Kopubllea party kaown as the advance claws Sonater Delltvtr is a classmate of the goeraer aw they have both been promteoatly before the country Is the past year speaktaion the Mibjeet of tariff revision Coleeol Young- is also an Iowa Republican but repre- sents the staadpat faction Talk of the Gossips Taken together the arrival et the two leaders of opposing factious attracted almost as much attcatloe ae did the recont visit to this city of Governor Odd and the snnoyneoraet that the President was fixing up tbe governors quart I with Sonator Platt But Governor Cummins declined to go before the country in that light When he learned of the prescace of Colonel Youag in Washington and his vIsit to President the governor completed his speaking tour and returned to Iowa Governor Cummins never was strong In the double comedy act but as a mon ologfst he has few equals anno Dt J the thai 5 ¬ ¬ ample of the oldtime Japanese Samurai who when affronted was wont to take his own life There are stories whisper ed at many of the Continental courts ot Europe of cases where young officers who having become Involved In disputes with princes of royal and Imperial birth and subjected to gross affronts by the latter have either blown out their brains or else have taken their life by moans iof a simulated accident Dut thus far there has been no instance I can recall of a prince of the blood putting aa end to his days owing to his Inability to secure satisfaction for an af frost put upon him by an interior No Duel With Giron Possible Had Erof Giron been an army officer or a man of birth the crown prince might have waived his rank and fought a duel with him It may be romomber ed that Prince Philip of Coburg chal- lenged and fought a duel with his ex chamberlain Captain Keglevltch after tilt latter had eloped with his wife the duel taking place at Vienna to which Keglevitch returned under a safe con- duct for the purpose the encounter re- sulting in the prince being wounded But Giron comes from the lower strata of the Belgian bourgeoisie and aopordlng the ethics of the Continent of Eu- rope the crown prince could no more meet Giron in a duel than an ordinary officer of the army could light a duel with a menial The consequence is that the crown prince the betrayed husband who has takes no steps beyond those of the law to avenge his honor occupies at the present moment a very awkward posi- tion in the eyes of the royal personages of the nobility and of the entire mili- tary caste of Continental Europe More- over he is disliked by bis future sub- jects who do not refrain from public raaalfestadoBs of their Illwill toward him Indeed his position Is s cb an in- tolerable one in every respect that I tot one should not be actoatobed at any time to hoer that he has killed himself MARQUISE DB PQNTENQY that to I s ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ THE BEST THINGS FROM OTHER NEWSPAPERS r r I EDITORIAL COMMENT Glad to Get Out Alive Germany I ha achieved wWi MO KXi What have y f got out of KngJand That I haw Rot H at enough for me N r York Kwnlag P t A Deserved Promotion The promotion of Cot Wallace K Ritneofph chief of artillery to the reek of brigadier gen- eral made under Secretary Roots interpret stkw of the general stag act te a prompt ansi de- served recognition of General Rewleljms ser- vices JM well of the needs of the Artillery Corps It gives to corps for the heel tissue in niece than hundred y jwt K nc l artillery who succeeds to the pest once heW by on Henry Knox Washingtons ann aiit sad meat vvmed military adviser New York A Lesson to Venezuela Vcnecuela should profit from tide lesson and all of tile South American countries ran easily apjireriate whet would be in store lor thorn if the United Slate did net Sonly in sup- port of the Monroe Doctrine Had It sot heed for the Moore Doctrine maintained by the States the Venezuelan port would now be In the hassle of foreign troupe and VeiHiaNeU would be in a situation where she rmrid only regain independence by ceding territory flat Venezuela was to blame in not earlier her debts and making acme effort M pay tbem rbiladelphia Irrw The Tipping Evil We are fast approaching that state of civili- zation where the tip habit like the eeeaine habit is beyond control sad ineradicable as It has long been in If it in still penible It would be a good thing to get rid of the cut torn in this country before it lees become inc radieably fixed It is an imposition upon tho generous who arc Indirectly bled by the stingy and the impecunious and it is unnecessary cause of worriment to those who would le will ing to do what custom prescribes as the right thing but do not care to be imposed upon or to assume an excessive burden Chicago Qhren- iete As Neighbors Colonel Watterson says be would rather Hue England and Germany In same parts of South America than the mongrel government that are there now list the colonel reflected that the ether nations oHurow Asia and Africa have as much right to a f Americas M the two wuntrie lie names When the partition begins the tnlted States will have a foreign and monarchical environment Hut it will never begin SU Louis Globe Democrat ve it 01 tin s Ill n peace esst all- is ass see Sass stand tn ked recog- nizing Europe alice < ¬ ¬ ¬ SHAFTS OF WIT AND HUMOR Reflections of a Bachelor Only a brats will tulsa a his fraw giVT amt cn ittf he bad tasi1 A girl who cast aU bar 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TIlE WASHINGTON TIMES THURSDAY FEBRUARY 19 1903GI
The WashingtonPublished every day fe the year
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The Snowfall Problem
Why Not Have a Permanent Fund forBlizzard StreetCleaning
Every succeeding blizzard findsWashington trusting to Providence ora belated appropriation from Con
gross to clean the streets and preventthe packing of ice in the PotomacThis year fate has beon more thanusually kind to ii U
But the happygolucky methodswhich have loft us in the presentpinch without sufficient funds to ridthe streets of snow and forced us tomake a hurry call on the twohouses are not to be commendedWhy not secure in advance a fundlarpre enough to insure against all ac-
cidents ard cvbr4 all 3hS capricesour uncertain winter weather
Operatic Storm Signals-
But They Fail to Turn Director Conned
From His Noreast Course
Wo learn with sorrow and some apprehension that there is danger toframe the indictment lightly that theontonto cordiale between Heir Conned the new director of tho Metro-
politan Opera House and some of theartistes of grand opera is in danger ofbeing destroyed before it has fairlyLad an opportunity of being estab-lished Listen for instance to theimpassioned remarks of Mme Gadski
I am afraid that Mr Conned willhave to expand a great deal from themanagement of a little German play-house to Jha Jtrnprcsarjo pfthe mar-velous the wonderful the great Met-
ropolitan Opera Company He maybe a good stage manager but he willhave to learn that great vocal artistscannot be bullied driven or whippedinto getting around for S oclockmorning rahearsals like tho little Ger-man actors of his little German thentcr
Thus it will be soon the storm sig-
nals are flying and if Herr Connedwere a iiraift navigalor Ho might betempted to anchor in the offing andnot put out into stormy waters untilthe wind had lulled a bit But he isnut
On the bridge of the Gorman barkwhich h has safoly steered throughirany troubled waters and past many-
a lee shore he has always been unriucstionud master We wagcrhe will
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xnand Perhaps it would be woll tokeep out of the zone of fire of evenhi subcaliber guns As for the 13imhors cgadski we would rathernot be there when Herr Conried givesthe order to Are
The New Departments Home
Congress Should Authorize Plans forOne Before the Session Endsugrees should no time in
providing strituble homo for therw Department of Commerce andLabor Secretary Cortolyou has
tke oath of office bureau ohicfsare being selected and the work oforganizing this new branch of theGovernment service to bequickly nccotupliubcd Are the newSecretary and his staff to be fur-nished with accommodations equal totheir needs and worthy of the Gov-
ernment which ofTore thorn or aroto strugglQ along indefinitely in
makeshift quarters left to the uncurthin and coetly hospitality of privatelandlords
fongroes lias too often shown itH lf penny and pound foolish inchoosing to cramp tim various execu-tive departments into buildings whichno lougor meet their wants or as analternative to scattor their dismem-bered drKMNonK and bureaus to allcmte of the city The Governmentnow pays annually for rentals4 0000 whiuu represents at 2 potcent AU investment of 13000000That sum would easily cover the costol three or four additional depart-ment buildings furnishing habita-tions for exiles and wanderers likellto Department of lueffj relievingt e general discomfort and congestion
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in the older buildings and constitutjing in themselvesmeats to the National Capital
But Congress has on one pretextor mother maintained and extendedthe shortsighted rental system insteadof capitalizing its rent account andenjoying the many splendid fruits ofthat capitalization
It is to be hoped that a wiser judg-ment will induce the two houses torecognize the individuality of the newdepartment by voting it a buildingdistinctly and completely its own Itshould have a home where all itsbureaus can be brought into touchand its work can be done with themaximum of cfiioioncy and comfort
It is not too late to authorize theappointment of a building commis-sion at this session If Congress ad-
journs without such action the newdopartment will be left a waif tillnext December and its occupancy ofa permanent home may be indefinite-ly deferred If the now Secretary andhis force are to be housed in a man-
ner befitting a rich and powerful na-tion why not take the first step inthat direction now
Venezuelas GratitudeExisting Only in the Fertile Imagina-
tion of Eminent PublicistsIn certain quarters the results of
the Venezuelan imbroglio are setforth with singular innocence underthe following heads
United States hasearned the undying gratitude of Ven-ezuela and other South and CentralAmerican States and the trade withthose countries will therefore devel-
op henceforth at a surprising rateBritain has lost
prestige and its trade will seriouslysuffer
Third Germany dittoditto
Such reasoning is puerile to say theleast But it is probably no worsethan the inflated rubbish to whioh wehave been treated during the last fewweeks For have we not had if dinnedinto our ears that the Kaisers sinisterpurpose was to seize territory and tosmash the Monroe Doctrine intosmithereens Have we not been toldby eminent strategists that war wasinevitable and that a hundred thousand stood on theshores of the North Sea watching forthe signal to embark Have we notbeen kept awake nights by the wail-
ings of naval men on the trail ofglory and contractors inN search ofpelf that it is ships more ships andetill more ships we want and thatwithout them some ono will steal us orwipe us off the face of the earth
Let us pinch ourselves to seewhether we are awake or simply befuddled Does any sensible personbelieve that because of our recentcourse Venezuela feols profoundlygrateful toward the United StatesEverybody on the contrary whoknows anything knows that thesemakebelieve hidalgos hate us with ahatred that is surpassed onlyreadiness in making use of the Mon-
roe Doctrine whenever they wish toshield themselves from the conse-
quences of their misdeedsGrover Cleveland certainly gave
Venezuela every opportunity to showits gratitude and within a year afterhaving settled the boundary disputewith Great Britain we had a new cropof claims against Venezuela including the asphalt controversy on ourhands Gratitude The word is notto be found in the official dictionary-of a South American republic
And this idiotic twaddle about anincrease of trade resulting from ourpolitical attitude toward the countriesto the south of us Why we shallcontinue as heretofore to buy eachyear their products valued at about
120000000 paying for them incash while they will take from us lassthan onethird of that amount orabout 38000000 and demand longcredits in the bargain Theyll continue to buy in the cheapest marketsand try to sell in the dearest That
businessWhatever else they may be they tire
not fools The fools are those whofancy that because we came to theirrescue when hard pressed the Vene-zuelans will empty the contents ofthsir pockets into our laps or thatbusiness is based upon sentiment in-
stead of cold hard and unsympathet-ic factS
Lo the Poor Biker
The L A W Once an Army NowNumbers Five Thousand
Five years ago the League ofAmerican Wheelmen had a member-ship of 103000 a regular army Inthose days the silent steeds were asthick as mosquitoes on a summernight A year ago the league hatdwindled to 10500 People said thatthe dwindling was over that thecranks had fallen by the waysidethat those who wore left represented-the real enthusiasts
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some figure The day of the stripedshirt century meet sooms to be over
FreeHand Comment
Mulls and muslin and shimmeringgauzes interspersed with flowerladenhats and chiffon pnrasota place the shopwindows and the snowcovered streetin sharp contrast Still the windowdisplays servo a cheerful purpose foreven plowing through the snow we arereminded that the good old summer-time is coming
On such a day as this happy should botho man or woman who can sit by theparlor window of a home made cozy bya roaring wobd fire and study at closerange the beauties of Whittlers Snow-bound
St Valentine showed a great deal offorethought in distributing all his lovemissives before the blow came and themail trains stopped Cupid even laughs-at blizzards
The college presidents talk a good dealabout the path a young man should
in fitting himself for a professionbut the sum and substance of their remarks is that it all depends on theyoung man
The world Is divided botwixt the peo-
ple who would convict a man beforethe law has had a show and the peoplewho protest the innocence of a maneven after the law has convicted him
Ithacas epidemic is subsiding Sci-
ence has got the trouble by the throatand typhoid fever will soon coasc to
epidemic form But the questionarlsos what are State and local boardsof health for if the water supply of awhole city can be contaminated as wasthat of the pretty university townEtornal vigilance should hurry itself
A bill has boon introduced In the Missenate to make It a misdemeanor to
flirt with boarding school girls or spin-ster principals or teachers The lasttwo classifications wore added to the billIn order to prevent tho charge of speciallegislation What a pitiable Ignorance-of human nature Any man of eiperlenco would at once flirt with a teacherrather than a pupil There Is a desperation in the coquetry of an aging teacherthat is Irresistible even to deep thinkers
The Talk of the DavThe look of Ute worlds a made upOer graves and fiery depths and nothings tateBut what is horrible If man eovM see-The perils and diseases that he elbowsKach d y he walk a mile which catch at isbnWhich fall behind saul graze him a passesThen would he know that Lifes a singfe pll
grinsFighting unarmed a mo neat a thmMaad ftokliersIl in this infinite invisibleWhich we must leant to know and yet to scorn
Irma the scorn of that regard Ute world
Convicts tortured by straitjackets inCalifornia prisons We thought thatCharles Roade exposed the horrors ofsuch jackets once and for all In his
Never Too Late to Mend
Pension the exslaves Certainly butlet us free and pension the white slavesof today as well as pension the blackslaves of befo the wall
So Mr Conreld Is now said to be MrGraus successor Further remarks byMr Damrosch showed that he felt keendisappointment at failing to obtain thedirection of the opera The position isnot an enviable one There are the subscribers to be satisfied and some wantFrench and Italian operas and somewant nothing but Wagners musicdramas but both factions want the bestsingers Then there are the primadonnas and the tenors must be countedamong are daily to be ap-
peased and flattered The prima donnasare the ones that shatter the nervoussystem of the manager with their jeal-ousies and their demands The success-ful opera manager ia a born diplomatHo must not only know the weaknoMeof human nature he must coldly takeadvantage of thorn
A contributor to the New York TimesSaturday Review writes that ho In-
quired lately for a library edition ofFlorlos translation of Montaignes es-
says within the reach of the bookloveror moderate mans and was informedthat there is none The bookseller thatinformed him needed Information ThereIs an uaexpurgated Florlo in one volumeclearly printed and edited by HenryMorley Rut how seldom booksellersare aware of books that are not on theirshelves
Only by reading the ancients do wobecome fully acquainted with the won-
drous schemes of nature Thus Betnardin de SaintPierre tells us thatnature divided the melon into slices sothat it could bo eaten by a family butthe pumpkin is larger and can perhaps-be eaten with ones neighbors See his
Etudes tie la Nature
This reminds us of n sentence of theBishop of Meta in 1846 Tho Inundations of the Loire are due to the oxceases of the press and the nonobsorvance of Sunday
And side by with these observa-tions may bo put this opinion of thogood Fenelon Water was made to uus
those prodigious floating buildingswhich are called vessels
Fullblooded men who walk in furcoats woo pneumonia openly If you arefat and scant o breath and possess sucha garment talk about it Its nearlycold enough to wont by fur coat I
wish I had on my fur coat What doyou do with your fur coat in summer
but leave It in the cedar oloset nomatter bow shrewd the wind
You are not the first to own a furcoat Both AngloSaxons pace MrFreeman and Normans sported themHenry VIII that hearty old monarchloft such a splendid collection of fursthat for years aCter his death they fur-nished a stock from which presents weregiven to pcraons of distinction
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THE FIELD OF POLITICS GOSSIP VIEWS AND INCIDSffSEditor Young an Original Maker of Presidents Arrives at the Capital From Des Moihes lsStl I Without Office lrTfiU Iowa Way A
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Editor Young of Iowa HereThe Iowa Way has been the sub-
ject of many animated discussions thopast week due largely to the arrival InWashington ot Col Lafayette Youngpublisher of the Dally Iowa CapitalFor this he is Justly famed In the
State as his paper Is probably theleading afternoon dally In Iowa
Admirers of Colonel Young look uponhim as a maker of men and give him thecredit of placing Theodore Roosevelt Inhis present exalted position A fond saying In Iowa Is that Roosevelt wouldnever have been gIver the nominationfor Vice President had It not been forColonel Youngs speech placing beforethe Philadelphia convention the name ofthe hero fresh from tropical battlefields
Xo speech ever rang from a conven-tion floor causing more bubbles of en-
thusiasm to break over the audienceand dance and scintillate in the coloredrays that came In through the stainedwindows of the han than that of thocolonel No speech ever delivered Inhonor of tho Grand Army of the Repub-lic possessed more fire more praise ofthe grand old flag and the boys thatfought In the shadow of its foldsIn
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the impending annulment by the Vaticanof tho already legally dissolved marriagebetween tho Crown Prince and CrownPrincess of Saxony there Is but littletruth in them and Inasmuch as the suc-cession to the Saxon throne Is assumedby the fact that the crownthree little boys there are no reasonsof state or of a dynastic order to renderIt necessary the crown princeshould marry again
It Is true that the Catholic church atthe Vatican will In rare instances annul a marriage when It can be definitelyproved that one or another of the par-
ties has been forced into it and it wason this ground that the first marriage ofthe now reigning Prince of Monaco andof Lady Mary Hamilton daughter of thelate Duke of Hamilton was annulledevidence being given to the effect thatLady Mary bad been compelled to wedagainst hor will by her mother the lateDuchess of Hamilton nee Princess ofBaden and by her cousin Napoleon IIIBut In this Monaco case the husbandand wife lived but a very short time togother only one child being born to theunion who was declared legitimate bythe decree that annulled the marriage ofhis parents and Is now the CrownPrince of Monaco
With the Crown Prince and CrownPrincess of Saxony however the condition of affairs is quite different Foralthough it Is notorious that PrincessLouise was anxious to wed Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria and reluctant to marrythe Crown Prlnoe of Saxony yet shelived for more than twelve years withthe latter as his wife and bore him noless than five children whloh of courseindicates that however muoh the princess may at first have disliked becomingthe wife of the crown prince she
resigned herself to her lot andwas a willing consort It Is for this rea-son that tho Vatican will be unable to
THE PUBLIC EYE
Father Edmund Goetz a famous SouthAfrican astronomer who has spent tholost fourteen months conferring withAmerican scientists has sailed forFrance where he will secure instrumentsand proceed to Rhodesia South Africato establish the first reliable observatoryin that country
Senator of Indiana hasbeen Invited by the Methodists of Sa-
vannah Ga to bo pros out at the bi-
centennial of John birth June38
The Rev Dr W S Ralusford of NewYork when asked how he regarded thoaction of Vermont in repudiating pro-hibition said I rathor see aman free than sober
John P Jonas of Nevada about toclose thirty yoars of service In theUnited States Senate is one of five mem-bers of the upper house not a native ofthis country
Herbert W Bowen minister to Yenozuela Judge Taft governor of thePhilippines and Judge Hunt governor ofPorto Rico were classmates at Yale andwere close friends
A NIGHT SONG IN THE STREET
Here mid the hasting and eddying facesHere In the whirl of tho crowd
Where the car lights flare and the win-
dows glareAnd the night In white and loud
Here we two are twoUnheeded content unknown
Not In the wilderness could we beMore wonderfully alone
No face of them all is a face we knowNo too familiar eye
Will peer from the throng to vex our joyAs we two wander by
Yon towering walls with tho lights thatsoar
Arc gnomeland palacesYou airy train Is a dragon rushing
To carry us overseas
I press you close to my side secureIn the solitude of tho throng
And the laughter of children cornea toour lips
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fact Colonel Young surpassed his manysuccesses as a Fourth of July orater inthis tho crowning effort of his life
With the Rough RidersBut the inspiration was there fourfold
Wasnt Colonel Young in Cuba tofamous Rough Riders follow their
intrepid leader up San Juan hill Havenot Colonel Youngs stories of that bat-tle thrilled the lovers of history anddaring deeds At least thv readers ofthe Dally Iowa Capital have beenfilled with the delight only to bo foundby a perusal of his twenty installmenthistory of the Spanish American warwritten by One who was there La-
fayette YoungSo when the calls of tho country be-
came burdensomely persistent MrRoosevelt consented to have his biography road to the assembled dele-gates As evidence of the fact that thereading was well done one only hasto look at the result In a whirlwindof applause the name of Roosevelt walaunched upon the convention and allthat were not cautious enough to set-out of the way were trampled underfoot by the march Rooeoveltward
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Complications Have Followed Crown Princess Louises Elopement Efforts Afoot to Deprive the Crown Prince f the Saxon Suc-
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An to WindwardIncidentally I may mention that In
certain portions of Austrian Russianand German Poland it Is common amongthe Catholic aristocracy that on the dayof the wedding Just befQre thethe mother of tho bride should in thepresence of as large a number of theguests as posnible give a slight slap onthe cheek of her daughter This Js solelyand entirely for the of enablingthe bride If afterward hor marriageturns out unhappily to be able to ap-peal to the Vatican for an annulmentof the union on the ground that shehad been compelled by her mother towed against her will
To Supersede the Crown PrinceMeanwhile steps are being taken with-
a view to the crown prince waiving hisrights of succession to the Saxon throneIn favor of his eldest boy the now tenyearold Prince George who would inthat event ascend the throne as KingGeorge II on the demise of his grandfather the present sovereign of SaxonyThe regency would be undertaken by thoyouthful monarchs uncle the childlessand popular Prince John George of Saxony pending his nephews majority andit Is a wellknown fact that this projectmeets with warm approval both at Ber-lin and at Vienna In each of whichcapitals John George Is far more popular and Is considered an Infinitely morecapable man than the crown prince-
It IB noteworthy that on the occasionof the banquet given In honor of theXalat rs birthday the other day at Dres-den it was Prince John George insteadof the crown prince who presided in theplace of the still ailing King and 4n allpublic functions and state affairs it isPrince John George and rot the crownprince who now represents the King
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do for Colonel Young The position-of First AMtietant Postmaster Generalwas thought about right bet unfortu-nately thq place was filled by a com-petent man The Des Moines postomco-Is generally considered a cinch andwhen Colonel Young shied his castorin its direction everyone la that citywrote their friends that Young Is go-
ing to be appointed postmasterhow the place failed to materialize orMr Young declined to aoeopt tho nomi-nation
Guest of the PresidentFaith in the President and his Inten-
tion of doing the right thing hifriends never flagged Something wassure to be found Consequently all Iowaryes wore turned to Washington honColonel Young came scanned thecolumns of their papers and at last worerewarded at last They saw this para-graph
Colonel Lafayette Young ofMoines was the guest of PresidentRoosevelt at luncheon Sunday
Those of the oldtimers in Iowa whoremembered Colonel Youngs social ambition when he was a young man wereglad to kaow that tho true friend bana long memory
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out of tho very awkward imbroglio Forrightly or wrongly the husband who hasbeen unable to retain the fidelity of blwife to her marriage vows is an objectof ridicule rather than sympathy tothe public and has been so from timeimmemorial and it ia realized that itwould not be conducive to the prestigeof the crown to have on the throne aman wto has not only been betrayedhut who h 8 been unable to avenge theIndignity placed upon him
The Ethics of InsultAccording to the ethics of officers
nobles and gentlemen of birth andbreeding on the Continent and especial-ly In Germany and Austria anyone whohas been subjected to an indignity is debarred from accepting apologies but iscompelled to obliterate the stigma of theaffront by bloodshed on the socalledfield of honor The officer or the nobleman who fails to do this is subjected toostracism and when In the army or navyIs compelled to resign his commission
Meetings on the field of honor can onlyoccur between equals that is to saybetween gentlemen of high and low de
an officer who for instance IsInsulted by a working man or by a ser-vant Is debarred from fighting a duelwith him and has no alternative but tacut down the individual in question onthe spot with his saber or falling thatto shoot him That is why one hears sofrequently of Instances of unarmedcivilians being cut down in the streetsin Germany and Austria by officers ofthe army
In the same way that officers arefrom fighting duels with men
inferior social caste royal and Im-
perial are prevented from meet-Ing nobles and gentlemen on thefield of honor and from either graatingor demanding satisfaction so that whoaan officer Is unfortunate enough to be in-
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HighPriced RailsPenmvrvMia Railroad Oarepaiy has or-
dered 4000 torn of aieJral taut HMMwilt cost about 74 a ten while owMfwrjr rstandard cost 13 a too Tke rafts
be on some of die feeswy em no to fbe-AH Rh Ry Uowatafaw PittH mtK HMrisii saddie middle dtrMons Kew Y ifc W fW
Once Hero Now EducatorCapt Richmond Paarsoa Il son ttK kora-
of the Morrimac will write a andall Mtt time to lecterisjf Htoratr wait
captain MJV th t in the foowc Ms mtaatawould b t tifcseaU tfc Amorlea people tfcftt-
tfcfe fa the greatest nation in the world tintwe coatrol fxwthmi f the wwM ansifore ottfibt to bays die say in tkKi
world sad M mart to soy m fottersntMMl afa all of K rop tegetlter Chicago die
Tea DrunkardsTta dnmkaHte ae nearly as nmimtui
opium seed MIll gtmisVirs among owe leesttwrded maids sad laatnsui ot mte artrtoeracy of wealth It Is a terrible dtolpaMonSome of the victims Mil tfc tee sitU evety bit
tbeloaves which renders the Mts r anddangerous It is astringent that nomembrane can readily overcome its erectWomen wise revel and luxuriate like K tioaamsoit b a good ptckmewp While siwtae itin evtf corners same ave kegs to drop
art always loft hi the cop These wttchM wOltell a t drunkard sheet everything she is go-
Ing to do dwtoft the day how man callersshe will have whether they will be men urwomen whether er no she is going to driveride or have a lIght with husband orbe at peace with all Ute work WhatNew York Press
Honna HashCorned beet hauls a la hisses Is a favorite
tanclieen dish with many When Shavrthe head waiter the Senate restaurant waRtits prepared with Mmsual care he orders it thisway
One corned hash for SenatorThe restaurant was doing great business
yesterday and everybody seemed to want cornedbeet hash Fourteen the order for oratedbeef hash for Senator llamas sbowled to tinschef AVben Ute fifteenth order west downthere was a rumbling noise U the kitchen sadthe chef shouted
Thats fifteen orders for Suawter Hebetter watch out or hell founder hlssef XewYork World
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Governor Cummins is member of tbefaction in the Kopubllea party kaownas the advance claws Sonater Delltvtris a classmate of the goeraer aw theyhave both been promteoatly before thecountry Is the past year speaktaion theMibjeet of tariff revision Coleeol Young-is also an Iowa Republican but repre-sents the staadpat faction
Talk of the GossipsTaken together the arrival et the two
leaders of opposing factious attractedalmost as much attcatloe ae did therecont visit to this city of GovernorOdd and the snnoyneoraet that thePresident was fixing up tbe governorsquart I with Sonator Platt
But Governor Cummins declined to gobefore the country in that light Whenhe learned of the prescace of ColonelYouag in Washington and his vIsit to
President the governor completedhis speaking tour and returned to Iowa
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iof a simulated accidentDut thus far there has been no instance
I can recall of a prince of the bloodputting aa end to his days owing to hisInability to secure satisfaction for an affrost put upon him by an interior
No Duel With Giron PossibleHad Erof Giron been an army officer
or a man of birth the crown princemight have waived his rank and foughta duel with him It may be romombered that Prince Philip of Coburg chal-lenged and fought a duel with his exchamberlain Captain Keglevltch aftertilt latter had eloped with his wife theduel taking place at Vienna to whichKeglevitch returned under a safe con-
duct for the purpose the encounter re-
sulting in the prince being wounded ButGiron comes from the lower strata ofthe Belgian bourgeoisie and aopordlng
the ethics of the Continent of Eu-
rope the crown prince could no moremeet Giron in a duel than an ordinaryofficer of the army could light a duelwith a menial
The consequence is that the crownprince the betrayed husband who hastakes no steps beyond those of the lawto avenge his honor occupies at thepresent moment a very awkward posi-tion in the eyes of the royal personagesof the nobility and of the entire mili-tary caste of Continental Europe More-over he is disliked by bis future sub-jects who do not refrain from publicraaalfestadoBs of their Illwill towardhim Indeed his position Is s cb an in-
tolerable one in every respect that Itot one should not be actoatobed at anytime to hoer that he has killed himself
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Glad to Get Out AliveGermany I ha achieved wWi MO KXi
What have y f got out ofKngJand That I haw Rot H atenough for me N r York Kwnlag P t
A Deserved PromotionThe promotion of Cot Wallace K Ritneofph
chief of artillery to the reek of brigadier gen-
eral made under Secretary Roots interpret stkwof the general stag act te a prompt ansi de-
served recognition of General Rewleljms ser-
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on Henry Knox Washingtons ann aiit sadmeat vvmed military adviser New York
A Lesson to VenezuelaVcnecuela should profit from tide lesson and
all of tile South American countries ran easilyapjireriate whet would be in store lor thorn ifthe United Slate did net Sonly in sup-
port of the Monroe Doctrine Had It sot heedfor the Moore Doctrine maintained by the
States the Venezuelan port would nowbe In the hassle of foreign troupe and VeiHiaNeU
would be in a situation where she rmrid onlyregain independence by ceding territory flatVenezuela was to blame in not earlier
her debts and making acme effort M paytbem rbiladelphia Irrw
The Tipping EvilWe are fast approaching that state of civili-
zation where the tip habit like the eeeainehabit is beyond control sad ineradicable as Ithas long been in If it in still penibleIt would be a good thing to get rid of the cuttorn in this country before it lees become incradieably fixed It is an imposition upon thogenerous who arc Indirectly bled by the stingyand the impecunious and it is unnecessarycause of worriment to those who would l e willing to do what custom prescribes as the rightthing but do not care to be imposed upon orto assume an excessive burden Chicago Qhren-
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As NeighborsColonel Watterson says be would rather Hue
England and Germany In same parts of SouthAmerica than the mongrel government thatare there now list the colonel reflected thatthe ether nations oHurow Asia and Africahave as much right to a f Americas M thetwo wuntrie lie names When the partitionbegins the tnlted States will have a foreignand monarchical environment Hut it will neverbegin SU Louis Globe Democrat
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