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Urcn County lister.
Br Bill D. IKE.
LRONTON. t i t MISSOURI
HAPPY FAR-OFF CHILDHOOD.
Where the primrosed ways are wending
And the live oaks cast their shade;
Where the willow twigs are bending
O'er the streams we used to wade;
Where the oriole is swinging
In his nest high up In air,
And the mocking birds are singing,
Don't you with that you Were there?
Don't you wish I'll befyou're dreaming
Of the dear old scenes right now!
Of the flecks of sunlight gleaming
On the water, and of how
You have sat along in June time
And have watched the bubbles rise
Till the droning heat of noontime
Laid Its spell upon your eyes.
And until the west'rlng shadows
Xike an umber mantle lay t
Over stream and wood and meadows
You have dozed the hour away
tn that borderland of sleeping,
Where the bird songs Altered through,
And you felt the breezes creeping
Wish it? I just know you do!
You can see the meadows bending
To a sloping grassy brink;
You' can see the cattle wending
Softly lowing down to drink.
And the orchard and the wlldwood.
All the dear old scenes you knew
In your happy far-off childhood;
Don't they all come back to you?
J. M. Lewis, In Houston Post.
By Florence M. Bailey.
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'THERE were three of them in the
I playing of the little comedy or
tragedy. She the first "she," the one
most concerned-r-was dark-eyed and
lissome and altogether lovable, with
a name unmistakably Irish and a
voice that was as absolutely "country
born."
Frewin, being very much of a
"griffin," did not hear this defect until
it was explained to him later by the
visual well intentioned feline creature
and then it was a little too lute for
Eose.
Meanwhile he had liked it; there is
a certain note of appeal in the accent
when the speaker, who is also young
and pretty, is pointing out to you the
snows and the various peaks, and tell
ing you to ride rather slowly down
that narrow track, because for new
comers it is somewhat risky, and
then takes it herself at a gallop, which
displays alike her perfect form and
perfect riding.
Frewin, town-bred and hardly
across a saddle until became to India,
looked upon the girl who could do
mis tiling, wim me euge, oi iiie- kuuci
(the descending side of a mountain
road) breaking with each thud of her
pony's hoofs, as something superior
even to himself, which was about the
highest compliment he could pay
Pitchforked into the C. S., with very
little knowledge of the world in gen-
1 eral and none whatever of India in
particular, he had come out- to be a
small spoke in the great govern
mental machine. Happily or other
wise depends upon the point of view
he did not know Ins own roagnin-
cance even when posted to the azra
station, which was a far cry from
Simla and the upper ranks of the
heaven born.
His almighty egotism, plus his su
perb ignorance of the small change
of life nnd the ways of the world
caused his bearer to name him, within
the second day's service, when detail
ing Frewin to a select audience of
friends, 'the "Chotn burra sahib" (the
small great master), while the other
C. S. men, with finer irony, hud dubbed
him the "Sub janta (all knowing);
which, not knowing, Frewin went on
his way, fulfilled his duties with
thoroughness almost priggish in so
young a boy, and occupied his spare
hours riding with Miss liowan "Rose
Mary" it reminded h'nn of convents
and sweet simplicity and things like
that and at a later stage he wrote
some scrappy verses to her as "My
Rosemary." without apology to
liosselti.
Besides the dark eyes, the bright
face that surely changed some twenty
times a minute, the gravely gay tern
per, there was nothing Irish about
Rose. She had never "been home"
that great journey which softens
the lot of even the country bred.
Her father hud been a typical reg-i
ment doctor, who died as he had
lived, very gay and very poor.
sister, married to a wealthy trades
man of Lucknow, who came up to
Nazra Hills for the hot weather, was
Hose's guardian and supporter.
It may be placed to Frewin's credit
that the knowledge of Miss Rowun's
monetary position, common property
in the narrow little station, did not
influence him; he was a rather care-
ful young man, and still Buffering
from the effects of having been too
well brought up, but he was not mer
cenary. Moreover, as the cynics of
Xuxra would remark, there was an
elderly brother-in-law, with many
rupees and no children.
It was November when Frewin was
gazetted 1 to Nazra, consequently
there were few people in the sta-
tion, and the fact that Mrs. Burton,
Rose's sister, remained up through
out the winter was an acceptable one
to the new comer.
Not thut Frewin tried to convinca
himself that he frequented "The
4 Deodars" for the pleasure of meet
ing fat Mrs. Burton, who perspired
even in December, and whose conver
sation was strictly limited to the
wicked ways of the servants, the
shortcomings of her neighbors, and
the weather. He owned, alike to him
self and the club, that Miss Rowan
, was pretty and rode well, and could
talk of India nnd its people even if
she were totally ignorant of all
things English, and could not appre
ciate the difference between an M.
P. and a county councellor. So he.
In Wb heavy way, taught her a little
concerning England, and she, un
knowingly, taught him many thing:
Indian, and society, an known in
Nazra, having gone down to Cal-
cutta, there were fewet venom tipped
tongues to wag.
Not that Rose would have cared if
all Anglo-India had risen to, forbid
ooooooeoo
Owing to Circumstances.
her intercourse with this youthful
civilian, who represented to her the
whole glory of the British empire and
the perfection of mankind. She
adored with an unreasoning adora
tion which would have been foolish
and superfluous in the heroine of a
penny novelette.
She was only 20, and life so far
had meant to her a convent school
and Nazra, with occasional weeks at
Lucknow, and one whole fortnight of
dissipation in Calcutta.
Moreover, she had the nature of a
saint rather than a flirt, and it was
her amazingly angelic temper which
most won Frewin. A man likes that
sort of Griselda girl until it palls,
and he wants a change.
So they rode and danced and dined
together throughout the four
months winter, while Mrs. Burton
beamed propriety and conveniently
went to sleep.
There was no definite engagement,
but just mutual understanding which
seems almost sweeter when you are
young and foolish, .and the world is
gay the state which "vcrsteht sich
von selbst, as the expressive Herman
phrase goes.
Frewin wrote home fanciful ac
counts, in confidence, to his favorite
sister (it is a curious fact that most
griffins do this), and wrote Rose
many chits when he should have been
attending to the. service of govern
ment. The spring wind blew rose
lenves through their small particu
lar world nnd made life a glad thing.
March brought buck Nazra's sum
mer population, including sundry of
the heaven born, without whose guid
ing hands the station managed to do
very well during the winter months,
but who were absolutely necessary
to the working of things there when
it began to warm up in the plains.
Old C. S. men. with many rupees
and few joys, owing to their touchy
livers or their wives; younger ditto,
to whom Nazra meant little work,
much gayety, and many flirtations,
nnd who voted India "immense, not
being able to see from their comfort
able place on the top rung that Anglo-India
was situated chiefly at the
bottom of .the latter, in steummg
plains, where there was small leisure
and less heart for polo and lawn ten
nis; sick men who had been consider
ately sent up by their firms in or
der to save giving thein six months
to England; men without their wives,
longing for them daily; men with
their wives, wishing them anywhere
but in Nazra hourly; pnlhd, snnrly
tempered women, with babies that
were ditto, only more so; objection
able Anglo-Indian children, compared
with whom the American genus is as
an angel all the miscellaneous, un
wholesome collection, of varied color,
which swarms up to an idyllic hill
station and make it hades.
The Nazra crowd included the usual
limited number of "just out" girls,
brought out by their respective rela
tives as marriageable lots, under
which heading came Miss Ethel May
nnrd. She was the most perfect
specimen possible of the conventional
English girl tall, fair, well-dressed,
warranted irreproachable in conver
sation and deportment, with n knowl
edge of nil the polite accomplish
ments and no grain of originality
or tenderness in her whole body
the kind of a woman a man marries
because she suits his dining table and
the family plate. lie is never
ashamed of her, but as the years go
on he gets very tired, and generally
he lives his real life opart.
It was at 'what, the newspaper hack
still continues to describe as a "minor
function" that Miss Muynard met
Miss liowan: naturally, Miss Rowan,
being associated with trade, was not
asked to the great fund ions.
"That is Miss Rowan?" in response
to Frewin's directing nod. "Oh!"
the Englishwoman's nasty little "Oh!"
with a significant pause after it.
"She is the" Miss Muynard almost
said "person" "the same who did
that extraordinary thing last week
galloped a mile and a half at night,
alone, to see some native?"
She was still honoring Rose with
the si are known in vulgar English as
polite. Frewin, not being o large
minded man, felt awkward under
Miss Muynard's disapproval. Vet he
hud thought at the time, when Rose
had shyly told him of Ihe incident,
how splendid it was of her.
"Er it was a very old servant
her mother's ayah, I believe," he re
plied, "and (she was dying, and sent
a message to her missie buba," he
broke off, lamely.
It sounded realy absurd now, and
Miss Maynard's light, cold eyes were
disconcerting.
Then he did a foolish thing, even
for a grillin with no tact he intro
duced Rose to Miss Ethel Maynard
There was the usual stiff Jive min
utes conversation, and as Rose moved
away, Miss Maynard, with Rose bare
ly out of hearing, asked briefly:
"Country born?"
Only that with the exquisite in
flection of the most refined and utter
contempt natural to a pucca "girl
from home."
"Er yes 1 believe so," said Fre
win, in a vague tone, as if he wished
he could deny it, and completed his
confusion by adding, ' :'-!ie's really
Irish, you know."
Miss Maynard laughs the English
woman's little laugh of polite incred
ulity. "Ves? Funny thing, isn't it? They
aire generally Scotch."
Luckily Frewin's Indian experience
has not- been sufficiently lengthy for
him to appreciate the insult applied.
Hut when he rides with Rose next
duy, the soft sluccato voice jars on
him for the first time, the many tri
fling ignorances strike him in a new
light, and she quivers at his irritable
tone.
The idyll's ending was swifter than
had been its beginning. Miss Maynard
was only one of many who, with the
very best intentions was there ever
yet a woman who did harm without
these same good intentions?--told
him more or less candidly that it
was simply impossible that he should
think seriously of "that Rowan girl."
His chief's wife, who had a peculiar
aptitude for managing other people's
affairs, reasoned with him urgently;
the owners of the marriageable lots,
viewing Frewin as a young man likeljf
to come on in the service, asked him
to dine; while the lots themselves.
observant that he was quite a nice
looking boy, and would probably have
a comfortable billet later, flirted
with him to a degree that simple
hearted Rose had never attempted.
The long solitude a deux was ended,
and even when it was possible to re
new it Frewin showed no eagerness
to do so. A place was made for him
in Nazra society, by virtue of his
position and its probabilities, and his
eminently resjiectable relations at
home, but there was no room for Miss
Rowan in the same circle.
She missed Frewin, and being young
and foolish did not understand. Out
of the fullness of her loving lu-art she
wrote him notes which made him
frown and put on his judicial look
the same look which in later years he
gave subs when he told them that
"this course must be immediately dis
continued." He wrote replies that were vague
excuses at first, and stillly formal
denials later.
Rose cried over them, and the
strange pain that had come into life
grew greater with each letter. She
wrote a last appeal, full of loving
foolishness and angelic forgiveness,
nnd went up to the little Catholic
chapel to petition that the answer
might be as she would have it.
And Frewin wrote back that "owing
to circumstances circumstances over
which neither of them had any con
trol he had been forced to the con
clusion that, any more intimate rela
tions than those of friends would not
be wise for either," etc.
It was- a loner, semi-official letter.
't-ing to justify u position of which
even Frewin had the grace to lid
ashamed; but the long words nnd
careful phrasing were lost on a gir!
whose heart was broken.
"By the way, Frewin," says a man
nt dinner in the after years when
Frewin is high in the service, and the
former Miss Maynard is presiding
over his house and name with all the
chill dignity of which she gave prom
ise, ""who do you think nursed mt
when I was in the hospital with ty
phoid fever last month? That pretty
Rowan girl who used to be ot Nuzru
when you were there. Went into a
convent, and is a hospital sister now.
Funny thing for her to do, wasn't it?"
The speaker's tone is light. The
matter is only a dinner table topic
to him.
But, Frewin responds, "Yes I
should think so," so absently, his eyes
looking back on life's yesterday for
a moment, that his wife tells the kit
mager rather sharply that the burra
sahib is wanting champagne. Black
and White.
A READER'S BLUNDER.
Rejected a Story Thut Became Popn
lar and Litter Hail to He
Itemiiidrd of It.
".lohn lnglesant" was one of the
great, books of the la-st generation.
The author, John II. Shorthouse, had
published an edition of ".' copies, and
then, at the request of admiring
friends, he submitted a copy to the
publishers, Smith & Elder, in the
hope (but they would introduce the
book to a wider public, relates the
Youth's Companion.
James 1'uyn, who was reader for
the house ut that time, advised de
clining the book. It- seemed to him
dulli
Years afterward an American news
paper, in a character sketch of l'ayn,
accused him of lacking liierary per
ception, and cited, as an instance of
his obtuseness, the fact that he had
rejected "John lnglesant."
I'uyn was furious. He went to Mr.
(I. M. Smith, the kindest and
shrewdest, of publishers, and avowed
his purpose of bringing a suit, for
libel against the persons who had
accused him of such gross unfitness
for his post. Mr. Smith heard him
out, and then kindly said, with a
twinkle in his eye: .
"I should let it alone if I were you
What does it matter?"
Piiyn insisted; but finally the tell
tale expression of the' other man's
face arrested him.
"Is there any reason," he asked,
"why I shouldn't contradict thif
man?"
"Well, yes! The fact is, we did re
ject the book."
"What! Do you mean to sny 1
rejected 'John lnglesant,'?"
"I am afraid so. At uny rate, we
did it among us. I don't blame you
Even now I think it's a dullish book."
"And you never told me!"
"No. I thought it might distress,
you. I shouldn't have told you at nil
but I was taken unawares."
Open to PerMnnsion.
"Is. your husband a strong-willed
man?" asked Mrs. Sumption of hei
neighbor, Mrs. Towne. After a mo
ment's reflection Mrs. Towne replied:
"I don't know," she said, dubiously
"I always thought he was, but, the
other day he went into a depart
ment store fo get a new rug for tht
sitting room, because he said lit
wouldn't go another day with oiu
old shabby one.
"He happened to get off on the
wrong floor, and he came home will
four new-fangled flat-irons and h
porcelain kettle, and no sign of u rug
So you see I don't quite know wliai
to say about him since then.
"All he told me was that you never
knew just what you needed till yot
saw it right before you." Youth'!
Companion.
' Xo Senxe of Proportion.
The young man who had spent hit
efforts for several years without re
sult in studying art was talking with
his practical uncle, v-ho had patientlj
paid the bills.
"Of course," said the young artist,
"I know I haven't riade much of t
go of it, but I don!,t. think you ought
to advise ine to try something else
You know it's best to put all youi
eggs in one basket and watch tha'.
bosket."
"Urn! That may be, Charlie, bin
did yoti ever think how foolish it il.
to put so many baskets around on
bantam egg?" Youth'H Companion.
Not Quite Landed..
Edyth Is it true that you are en
gaged to Jack?
Mayine Yes, but you are not ta
mention it. . I'm not quite sure thai
Jack knows it as yet. Chicago DoJly
News, .. ..
A JICALILLA
Find tils Father.
The Jkarillas are a tribe of the Apaches who terrorized the south
west for so many years. The present home of the tribe is in X'ew
Mexico. There are now but about 8oo of them left, and they are the
poorest Indians in the United States, and if it were not for the rations
issued them by the government they would starve The Jicarillas
are devoted to their children, probably more so than any other of the
American Indians. The youngsters are expert shots with the bow
a.id arrow, and help very materially in providing the family with meat
by hunting expeditions into the foothills. The reservation which the
tribe occupies is practically a desert.
MARRIAGE IN RUSSIA.
The Unlimited Tower of Parents
Withili-iinii. nnd Thut of the
IIuMlinnd SnliNliluted.
As a daughter the Russian woman
is under the absolute sway of ' her
parents. The coming of age makes no
alteration in her position. Until the
day of her death, if she remains un
married, the place she occupies in the
family life is a place of dependence
upon the will of her parents. When a
woman marries she changes the au
thority of parents for no less unquali
fied authority of husband. As the
Russian statute suggestively puts it,
"one person cannot reasonably be ex
pected to fully satisfy two such unlim
ited powers as that of husband and
parent."
The "unlimited" power of the pa
rent, therefore, is withdrawn and that
of the husband substituted. She can
not leave him even to pay a visit to a
neighboring town without a "pass"
from him. He names the time she is
to stay, and at. the expiration of the
term she is bound to return or get it
renewed. A husband may appear in a
court of law as a witness against his
wife, but a wife is not permitted to
appear against her husband. A
woman's evidence is regarded also as
of less weight than that, of a man.
"When two witnesses do not. agree,"
the code runs, "the testimony of an
adult outweighs that of a child, and
the testimoony of a man that of a
woman."
According to the tenets of the Russian
church, marirage is a sacrament, and is
theoretically indissoluble. There is no
such thing as a civil marriage, and di
vorce, except in one case, is practically
unobtainable by a woman. The exc?p-
(ion is the deprivation of civil rights
and banishment of the husband. If
the wife chooses she can follow her hus
band into exile, and Russian literature
is full of pathetic stories of women, ten
derly nurtured, braving the terrors of
the long Siberian march. All children,
however, born in exile, are regarded as
belonging to the lowest class of society.
If, on the other hand, the wife seeks, on
the plea of her husband's banishment,
divorce, the church in this case relaxes
her discipline and grants the plea. Al
though the statute recognizes adultery
and desertion on the part of the husband
as grounds for .divorce, the law is beset
with such difficulties that it is never re
sorted to exc ept by the wealt hy, who can
always make the tardy wheels revolve
more swiftly.
While divorce is difficult, to obtain,
there are other means resorted to which
reach the same destination, only by a
different route. Laws in Russia are made
not to be broken, but to be evaded, and
both the civil and ecclesiastical authori
ties have learned the art of evasion to
perfection, says a writer in the West
minster Review. Marriages may be an
nulled if any Informality has occurred
in them, and if parties are willing the
rest is only a question of money. In
some parts of the empire the marriage
service ia enacted with this contingency
in view. The certificate may be left un
dated, or the age of the contracting par
ties omitted. In some parts of Little
Russia a relative, during the ceremony,
gives the bride a slap, to prove in case
of need that she has married under com
pulsion. Women who succeed In obtain
ing a separation from their husbands on
the ground of informality are received
into society, are allowed to marry again,
and may even be separated again with
out loss of position. There is, however,
a more healthy public spirit arising,
which tends strongly in favor of an ad
justment of the present laws.
A Lawyer Duty.
Th El Reno lawyer who asked for
a new trial for his client on the ground
that one of the jurors had fallen
asleep did not receive much encourage
ment from the judge, who ruled that
it was the lawyer's business to keep
the jury awake Instead of putting
them to sleep, and refused to grant a
new trial. Kansas City Journal.
Home Rode In Automobile.
Breaking away from a wagon at
Rhelms, France, a horse dashed into a
passing motor car and leaped into the
back seats. The chauffeur was struck
by its forelegs and thrown into the
road. Passers-by were treated to the
novel spectacle of a horse driving alone
in an automobile.
A Vant Difference.
"It's a shame," said one lady.
' "What is?" asked the other.
; "The way Bliggins treats his wife.
He lost money playing cards instead of
giving it to her to buy progressive
euchre prizes." Washington Star.
BOY HUNTING!
FACTS ABOUT MARRIAGES.
(ienenlou'lKt Sett Forth Some Inter-efftiiiu-
ObMcrvntlonn Bearing;
1'pon 31ntrlniony.
"The marriages of a family are a
good guide to go by in determining its
characteristics," said a woman, whose
business it is to hunt up pedigrees, ac
cording to the Chicago Inter Ocean. "I
should warn any girl who has many
old maid aunts and bachelor uncles not
to dally with her first proposal If she
would not be an old maid herself. Like
wise, I believe that a girl's chances
for remarriage, if widowed early, can
be judged pretty accurately from the
annals of her family in this respect.
"When in the course of my work I
am in doubt about the Identity of a fam
ily I am guided a good deal by the char
acter of the marriages set down. For
these illustrate the dominant family
traits which govern as much in love
matters as in other concerns of life.
"In some families early marriages
predominate. The men invariably
marry before they are 25, and the wom
en at a eorerspcmdingly early age.
Again, late marriages will be the rule
with members of either sex.
"Some family trees show few second
marriages, and rarely a third marriage,
no matter how soon the married state
came to an end. Other records are re
plete with second and third and even
fourth marriages on the part of widows
and widowers.
"Often it occurs that in families ol
nine or more brothers and sisters, only
two or three have married, and the de
scendants of those two or three dis
played a similar proneness to bachelor
hood and spinsterhood.
" 'Our family are not great on mar
rying,' a girl, one of four single sisters,
remarked to me lately regarding the
family likenesses she was showing all
grouped together on one wall panel.
"And I could not bift feel that that
array ot contented-looking single en
tities among her kinspeople must ex
ert some influence on her own matri
monial prospects.
"Some families display a market
tendency to marry their kinsfolk, oi
the connections or relations of theii
kinsfolk. Others again seem by com
mon impulse to have gone as far from
home quarters as possible in search ol
mates.
"In records that go back only a few
generations, there are instances ol
men who have taken three sisters suc
cessively to wife, and of women mar
rying '.Veif brothers in law and cousins
in law, or their stepfathers, the same
tendency to race afnliaition cropping
out again and again in the line. In
other families living in the same
neighborhood and environment not i
single instance of marriage with rela
tions or relations In law occurs.
"One comes upon families in whicl
an unmarried member of either sex is
a great -rarity and families in which
marriage seems to have come easily,
and as a foregone conclusion, and in
which none of the widows or widowen
stayed single for any length of time.
"in studying out. relationships in
quaintly old-fashioned communities
one runs upon families that seemed
bound to marry at cross purposes, af
it were, both as to age and standing
of the mates chosen. A widower takes
for a third wife his son's stepdaughter
or a widow marries the son of the mar
whom her daughter married. Just sc
there are family records In which
marriage at a very advanced age oi
with a partner of lower rank socially
never occurs.
"I thing fortune tellers could add tc
the effectiveness of their propheclei
In love matters if they could have tht
advantage of scanning the family an
nals of the applicants.
"There Is no phase of genealogica'
research so fascinating as noting the
record implied by the marriage on 8
family tree. But the genealogist of tht
future will have more complicated
work in tracing out, lines and traits
than exists now on account of the dl
vorces figuring in the matter."
Qnlclc Coilaumntion.
"The Stickit Minister" was begun latt
one evening, and the bulk of it was
written in less than a week. Then, at
the author himself said afterward, he
"ignominiously lost hold.". But after a
little time he was seized with fresh in
spiration and the rest of the book was
written in 40 hours' actual working
time.
Balloon lSxplonloiiH.
Certain balloon explosions are attrlb
uted by W. de Fonvielle to electric
sparks as the aeronaut grasps the valve
rope. The use of gloves in storm)
weather is suggested,
SCANDALS ARE THICK.
IEthp? Department of Government
Hottea with (ink Uame
and Looting-.
The pickings and stealings that have
been partly exposed in the investiga
tion of the post office scandals are but
a sample of what has occurred and is
taking place in every department of the
government. Already an inkling of the
corrupt state of affairs has come to light
in the agricultural department, and an
investigation would doubtless discover
much more serious breaches of trust
than the short weight of seeds pur
chased for free distribution and the
change from high-priced seeds to those
worth much less. The secretary of ag
riculture and assistant secretary are
both responsible for this defalcation,
the change having been made on their
express order.
In the war department the letting of
contracts to favorite bidders has been
partly exposed, and involves Gen. Lud
dlngton and the quartermaster's depart
ment and Congressman Littauer, who
President Roosevelt says is his most
intimate friend and closest political ad
viser. This Littauer contract for gloves,
with a profit of $90,000, is but a trifle
compared to other Bcandals that will
develop when a thorough investigation
is had.
The purchase of supplies for the treas
ury department has so far had no light
thrown on it for some years, but it is
well known that favored bidders have
a pull that outsiders cannot overcome,
and the prices paid are far in excess
of what the same class of articles can
"DIVIDING
be purchased for in the open market.
The contract for ink for use in the bu
reau of engraving and printing has long
been noted as a steal of great magni
tude. Secretary Shaw is so occupied
with protecting the interests of Wall
street with his refunding and other op
erations, that of course he has no time
to give to the minor details of his of
fice, and the looting goes on right under
his nose without an attempt to stop it.
The republican members of the ap
propriation committees of both houses
D congress are dined and wind by
those interested, anil their eyes blinded
to the waste and robbery of the vast
sums they authorize to be expended.
The republic is in the "commercial"
stage of its existence, and officials and
the favored few are nearly all inter
ested in the crying evil of the day, mak
ing money easily. The get-rich-quick
schemes are not confined to thoese who
advertise for dupes in the newspapers,
but others are being industriously
worked to loot Uncle Sam's treasure
box, which is continually kept filled
by the taxes that a generous and long
suffering people pay under the contribu
tions that their representatives force
from their pockets, in the aggregate
one-fourth of all of the money paid for
taxes and appropriated by congress is
wasted or stolen, and nothing but a
reform of the sysUm that has grown
up in the past few years will bring
about retrenchment and a return to
honest government.
COMMENTS OF TSTE PRESS.
Senator Allison's Iowa idea is
that the republican revisionists in his
state are easy. Blnghamton (N. Y.)
Leader.
It is a pity that the face of Wash
ington on the two-cent stamps failed to
influence those unblushing falsifiers of
the post office department. Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Manila used to seem an awful long
way off, but with the new cable In op
eration It will be just the same as next
door with some tariff restrictions.
tndianapolis News (ImU.
A plea of guilty once made per
manently prejudices a case. The preju
dice remains, though the plea be with
drawn. The Iowa republicans have con
fessed that the tariff schedules afford
shelter to monopoly. Modification or
obliteration of that confession will not
aininish its effect upon the country.
Elmira Gazette.
Postmaster General Payne, It ap
pears, has Issued an order to all postal
employes, high and low, enjoining
"strict secrecy" henceforth concerning
past, present and future developments
In the department. This order comes
rather late. Strict secrecy now would
simply confirm public suspicion that the
worst Is yet to come. Providence Jour
nal (Rep.).
, The republican platform says that
"the protective tariff has made the
United States the greatest industrial na
tion." It neglects to state, however,
that the natural resources of the coun
try are so great and the land so fertile
that the people are able to bear tariffs
which would crush people less fortu
nately situated. But this is no excuse
for the Injustice of a high tariff. The
Commoner.
Mark llanna feels confident that
Postmaster General Payne "will not re
tire under fire." We had supposed that
Payne was doing the firing. Indianap
olis Sentinel.
IOWA ALSO "STANDS PAT."
Republiraim ot That Ktale toac-tutt
ta Let the Trants KrvU th
Tariff for Turin.
The "Iowa idea" was vanquished oh
its native heath. The demand of the
Iowa republicans made two years ago
for a radical revision of all the Dingley
schedules that "afford a shelter to mo
nopoly" was whittled down to the van
ishing point, says the New York World.
The new platform says:
"We reiterate our faith In the historic
principle of protection. . . Tariff rates
enacted to carry this policy Into effect
hou!i be jut, fair and Impartial, equal
ly opposed to foreign control ;:nU do
mestic monopoly, to pectin. il discrimina
tion and individual favoritism, and must
from time to time be changed to meet
the varying conditions incident to ilia
progress of our Industrie. and the chang
ing relations in our foreign and domestio
commerce. Duties that are too low
should be Increased and duties that are
too high should- be reduced."
This eminently "tactful" declaration
means anything or nothing, accordingto
the individvual interpret at ion which
any Iowa republican chooses to put upon
it. That is its obvious purpose. But
whatever success it may have in satis
fying the republican farmers of Iowa
that they can safely trust the monopo
lies to revise the schedules that shelter
them, the country at large will not mis
take the meaning of this "compromise."
it completely devitalizes the "Iowa
idea." It abandons the brave demand
for such a reduction of the Dingley du
ties as would deprive the trusts of the
power to extort prices from 20 to 40 per
cent, higher for their products in Amer-
THE SPOILS."
ica than they are selling them for to
foreigners.
"Stand pat" isjlio p-iform in Iowa
as well as in Ohio and all along the line.
It is a comprehensive platform and cov
ers all the issues. "Stand pat" for the
trust-made tariff anil the tariff-made
trust. "Stand pat" for colonies where
our flag can be carried without, our free
dom. "Stand pat" for Payne, the practi
cal politician, ami his peculiar methods
as an investigator of the post office ras
cality. "Stand pat "for "the statute of
limitations." "Stand pat" also for
Hanna and Quay and Piatt and Addicks.
In short, "stand pat" for everybody ami
everything that will make an easier road
ior tne election to the presidency of Mr.
Roosevelt, nt one time civil service re
former and moderate protec tionist, and
self-proclaimed successor to the policies
including reciprocity treaties and a
letling-down of the tariff bars of the
late William Mc.Kinley.
THE IDEA NOT REPUBLICAN.
Thnt l'rntertinn I-'onlerN Trnat I
Something ReiMiliIicaiin Wunl
to Keep (Inlet.
The idea that protection is the mother
of trusts and a shelter of monopoly is
not, and never was an idea of Iowa repub
licans or any other, protectionists. To
speak strictly, it never was an idea that
they wished the people to get into their
heads, says the Chicago Chronicle.
It is not so much an idea as a fact
which is perfectly well known to the
beneficiaries of protection as it is to free
traders, but the former would rather
not have the people know It.
Mr. Cummins and some other republi
can leaders in Iowa saw that the farmers
and many others suspected the fact, and
turned what they saw to their own and
their party's political profit. But they
were careful all the while to protest that
they were protectionists of the strictest
Pennsylvania sect. They were, there
fore, to a position to keep the suspicion)
protectionist farmers in line by pre
tending to oppose a tariff which shel
tered monopoly while, at Ihe same time,
magnifying protection. ,
In short, they have been confldenclng
the plain republican people of Iowa
who were getting their eyes open to the
fact that protective tariffs necessarily
shelter monopoly and that they are con
trived and enacted for no other purpose
under heaven.
It is time to stop taiking about this as
an Iowa republican idea. It Is giving
the devil ten times his due.
Uncle Hanna declares that he vis
ited Uncle Morgan In Wall street the
other day "entirely for recreation."
Whnt a jolly time Uncle Hanna and Un
do Morgan must have had exchanging
jokes and funny stories. Chicago
Chronicle.
The trouble with the Ohio repub
lican platform plank concerning the
tariff is that it means what the trust
magnates wish and only appears to
mean what the consumers think it
means. The Commoner.
In asking Mr. Hanna tor manage
the republican campaign of next year,
Mr. Roosevelt pays a high tribute to the
value of the professional coach. Boston
Herald.
Even the octopus Is subject to the
freaks of fortune. The shipping trust
was a failure. St. Louis Globe-Democrat
(Rep.).