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Murder Will Out.
ft* have felt from the start that there was
ing fishy about that “Ballinger exon
t>n.” AVe have felt, and have more than
JMifnated that Ballinger had imposed upon
lent Taft and hoodwinked him. But the
-worse than we had supposed. The story
ieh we publish to-day from Cleveland is
ig. It is positively asserted that Ihe
iident‘s exoneration of Ballinger was pre
bv Osear Lawler, law officer of the De
nent of the Interior, in collaboration with
tOinger himself and that President Taft adopt
it as his own, with the public assurance
“ I have examined the whole record moat
efnly and have reached a definite conclusion ’.
the facts concerning the now famous white.
be in truth as they arc above stated.
t-ja-FOont for profound general disappoint
9t in tlie character of the President. He
to us advertised as the rare combination of
and executive. The country was invited to
eleome a change from the “square deal'' by a
«r in the face to a policy that would do that
and impartial justice which high courts are
ed to accord. To know that this judicial
lent has permitted his negligent good na
to go to the length of honoring with his
eial signature the partisan defense of an
d under indictment is matter making for
•pair of public honesty and official obligation.
Abandoning its Creed.
(a recent sermon, Pastor Maurer of the On
Congregational Church of Xew Haven, un
>k to show why his church had decided
assent to the Apostles’ Creed was no long
to be required as pre-requisite to member
He declared that the Creed still coin
led his admiration and reverence, lie bc
that it will always keep its place in the
but he thinks it is misused when etn
as a test at the church’s door sill.
'-We are requiring men to express their faith
belief in terms of this Creed,” he went on.
IP And if a man loves Christ, believes in him.
es to accept him. before men, as Lord and
er. wishes with all his heart to submit him
in humility and sincerity of heart to the
■<jf Uod, but differs from the Xicenc theory
the Trinity or the parentage of Christ, or
»t understand how it was possible for
t’s physical body to ascend into heaven,
ilcli flesh and blood cannot jntfVerit. or whose
in tells him that ther® hannot be a ressur
tfi of Ab.e V call your attention to
ifkrt that wc are compelling that man to twist
! juggle phrases into meaning what they were
Intended t<> mean, and before the very al
'©£ God arc urging him t<> be irisineere. . . .
church must h«Ve a place for every man
can meet the test of diseipleship, or pay the
fe. Men will find their way to God, and woe
to Zion if they are forced to find that way
Je the Christian church."
lit-if tin- ejutre.h luts no written cri ed, no
lin chart, how shall it guide its eourse? And
! each member has a creed of his own. how shall
re be any unitj and communion?
Hfjastor Maurer's statement of the case is plausi
enough. but to an outsider the action of his
lh has the appearance of a bid for new
embers.
Primary or Convention.
► Commenting on (he discussion which ha< been
on in some of the Virginia newspapers con
ning the primary election plan, the Wilming
Stir says:
‘'The Virginian wauls to refer the question to
fountain-head—the people who do tin vot
, That is Demoeraey. The same power
Well is 10 decide the question as to the primary
best decide as to whom they would nomi
ne to till their offices. There is no higher
rer than the soverign people. They could
■Xp- *11«'*d-fo-t-Xefs-isc tie-ir right tn mfr
the merits of the primary plan or the eou
ntirni plan. and. in doing so. decide to take
c«r nominations out of their own hands by
|ving them to conventions composed of only
of the people.
^Conventions can be packed and primaries
Ik debauched, but it is up to the people to
ly the remedy. They can do it better if it
fteft in their hands—to their vote.
‘Thepeople rule.' the Virginian remarks, but
lien they do m>t make their own nominations
fry merely think they rule. To believe that the
aple rule and should decide for themselves
i to the primary is equally as good as saying that
should also decide as to who shall be
nominees for the offices.
isEbe nearer you bring any question to the
the more correctly is the principle of a
racy illustrated. Tin- primary puts the
it eat ion into the hands of the people, and if
primary is debauched by any man or set
the people can crush •.hem and eall-a halt,
people are not capable of making their
nominations they are not capable of de
! how these nominations shall be made.”
Fe would have our esteemed North Carolina
Wary to understand that this newspaper
terably in favor of the primary election
| of choosing candidates and we cannot buT
that the great majority of Democrats in
are like minded. But. the plan has
had a fair .trial in Virginia except in
Wests. WoN^ave no legalized plan and
the last State Convention declared it
favor of a primary election law and in
Cmnwawltee to endeavor to se
ta law, the .General
Assembly took no actions Although several bill*
were offered, including one prepared by the
I committee.
We say that the State primary election plan
has never had a fair test In Virginia because the
plan itself is faulty and because there are plenty
leaders who prefer the convention. Instead of j
trying to help the primary its opponents have I
tried to discredit it and make it unpopular. In
two instances of late the primary was discarded ]
in favor of the convention, in open defiance of'
the party law on the subject. One newspaper j
went so far as to say that Democrats in that j
district were tired of the primary and were in
rebelion against the party law. Then eame tin
proposal that the question be submitted to vote
of the Demoeraie masses, whether or not the
pimary should be retired and the party return to
the convention method of making nominations. [
The Virginian is quite willing that the people,1
shall have an opportunity to settle the matter.
We think it would be a fatal blunder for the |
party to abolish the primary, but the people j
Tiavc tlie right to decide for themselves. More* j
over, if the party primary law is to be ignored j
and openly defied, it would be in the interest of j
party organization to abolish it and substitute ]
a law that will be observed.
-The Rule of Assessment
Tim Bedford Democrat is still lecturing on the
correct and incorrect manner of assessing prop
erty for taxation. It quotes Judge Henry S.
Blair who formerly presided over the Bedford
Circuit Court as saying from the bench that
1 lie “market value” contemplated by the law
was a price that property would sell for should
all the property of the country be thrown on
the market at one time. This said Judge Blair
would attract investors and create such a “mar
ket value” as the law contemplates.
It is the contention of the Democrat that. ,V^c
! market value of a property is its investment
lvalue, or rental value, but that in making his
assessment on that basis flip assessor should
keep in mind the fact that, /there should be de
ducted from the annual rental value a sum suf
ficient to keep the property in ns good repair
from year to year as when the assessment is
made.
“Two other words,” adds our contemporary.
I “the assessment should be based on the net
.rental value.”
That rule is as good as any other, provided
it is made the rub- for each and every locality.
It matters little whether the assessment be high
|or low, provided only it be uniform. If a low
|assessment is made and it does not yield suf
! licit nt revenue at the prevailing rate of tax
ation, the rate will have to be increased. It
makes no difference to the tax payer, one way
i or the other, if he is made to pay the same
I amount, of tax. The injustice of the present
system consists in this, that assessments are high
in some sections and low in others, whereas the
State rate is the same for all. >
We insist upon the rule of the Constitution,
but that rule is interpreted in various ways, so,
that each community is a law unto itself and
the rule varies accordingly. We wish that a
test ease might he made up ami carried to the
Court of Appeals for interpretation of the rule,
j Let that court make the terms as plain as possi
ble and then let the judges in the several eir
jeuits and cities see to it that assessors follow di
rections. If that were done, uniformity would
follow as a eorollarv.
I
“Our esteemed contemporary, the
‘Hartford Times.' thought it was get
ting sonic fun the other day out of a
paragraph from ‘The Courant,’ which
referred to two tires, of which one hurst
and the other blew up. Vpople who
had their laugh over that repetition
may have laughed again when they read
in the esteemed ‘Times’ the statement
ihat a young woman’s leg was broken
in two places—‘one below the knee and
the other above the ankle.’ ’’—Hart
ford Courant. _
Tins showsliow dangerous it is for one news
papers to play up the mishaps of another. Sooner!
or later, usually sooner, the ehieks will come
home to roost.
Life in Norfolk is of few days and full of
anxieties. A little while ago tin; Landmark was
frightened out of its wits by prowling auto
mobiles. Next our contemporary had a ease
of dog fright. Now the. Iledger. Dispatcii says
that “it is little short of miraculous that some
body was not killed by the showers of flower
pots that were blown off the windows on Granby
street Monday afternoon by the sudden gust of
wind.’’
What 's the matter with yon fellows down
there? Are you naturally timid? Or is it a
ease of “the wicked flee when po man pursueth?’’
In either event, Norfolk seems to be an open
field for the accident insurance agents.
We respectfully offer 1o our North Carolina
brethren and brethren in other States who are
given to boasting and boosting the following'
exhibit from the Eastern Shore: John W. Guy,
aged 77; number i>f children, 3'J; oldest child
tagcd 54 ; youngest children twins not quite a year
old: physical condition of the exhibit robust and!
heart v.
! ‘ _
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j It is said that Mr. House volt’s heroes are
jTimoleon, Hampden, Washington and Lincoln.
I And all were fighters.
i It is lmrdiy necessary to say that the investi
gating committee went to the bottom of the
, sewer matter. 5
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THE PEOPLE'S FORUM
Arlington Monument.
To the Daughter* of Virginia:
Yon have doubtless read with interest the stirring
accounts sent from the reunion In Mobile of the
veterans who so bravely fought for th< lr country and
thefr rights, and who so distinguished themselves bjr
their noble, glorious deeds.
Did you read of their halting steps, of the trembling
limbs, of the feeble frames, but who, with hearts still
full of fire and of pride, marched beneath the battle
scarred Hags which they bore In the sixties?
Your hearts thrilled with pleasure as you read how
"Dixie" cheered and encouraged these old men, dearer
to us as, with each advancing year, their ranks grow
less.
Should we, can we, forget such reminders?
Let us do all within our power to deepen these
saered memories of the long ago. that our young peoplo
will know the noble record of their ancestors.
How shall we make Immortal their deeds? What
better can we do to perpetuate them than to erect
this grand and effective shaft at the old home of
Hobert K. Doe, beautiful Arlington’
There two hundred and sixty-dvr of our brave sol
diers are burled—those who died In prisons and hos
pitals in and around Washington the last six months
oi the cruel Civil War.
They died uncared for and unknown. Our Chapters
asked permission to bring them ba1 k and bury them
in their own homeland among those for whom they
fonght and suffered and died. That request was re
fused them by the Fnited Htates government.
Daughters, 1 feel that If there were but one monu
ment in our Southland, that one should be In Arling
ton!
Yours, for continued effort,
MKS. THOMAS S. BOCOCK,
Director Arlington Monument for Virginia.
Our State Contemporaries
Convention and Primary.
Ikies any Kepublican candidate in Virginia go before
the voters of his party for a desirable nomination an4
submit to them his name and claims to he voted upon
directly in an open primary? Ik.es the average Re
publican voter have any voice or < hance for a voice
in the selection of a .nominee of his party for any office?
Will the average Republican voter in the Ninth district,
for Instancy. Have any chance to vote against the nomi
nation of Mr. Slemp for Congress ' Will he not And,
If Ja* lakes the trouble to attend his precinct or county
meeting, that everything has been arranged, cut and
dried, by the managers, chiefly office-holders? In all the
time he has been in ttiat party In Virginia has he had
one chance to go to the polls am! vote for the party
nominees according to hts own preference and by bal
lot? He never lias.—Roanoke Times.
Practical Education.
Governor Mann by his visit to the Claremont Colored
Institute Monday endorsed not so much the institution
nor the man as the principle of practical education of
the fellow citizen. One citizen whose head is educated
to nmke good use of both hands and head is worth
more to the world than a dozen classical graduates who
know nothing but what Is contained In the text-book.—
Sussex Statndurd.
Cost of Battleships.
In the account of the launching of the battleship
Florida at the Brooklyn navy yard yesterday appear
ing under a New York date line In the Richmond liven
ing Journal, the following remarkable statement was
made:
“An important fact in the launching of the Florida
is that the vessel is being built in the government
shipyard, and iter total cost will not exceed $8,000,000,
which Is about $3,000,000 less than the price that would
lmvA been paid to a private company.”
Those who are familiar with the history of battleship
construction will know that this is utterly absurd. In
the first place, while the cost of the Florida is estimated
at $6,000,000, it is altogether probable that these figures
will be exceeded when the final settlement comes. But,
allowing that the ship is to cost $6,000,000, there Is ab
solutely no ground for the statement that she would
have exist as much, to say nothing of $3,000,000 more,
had she been constructed at a private yard.
The battleship Delaware, about the same class of
ship as the Florida, was built at the Newport News
plant for $3,987,000, exclusive of guns and armor, and
completed and ready for battle she cost only $5,702,750,
or nearly $300,000 less than tlv government estimate of
tlie cost of a ship building by the government. The bat
tleship Utali, slstershlp of the Florida, is being con
structed at Camden, N. J., the contract price being
$3,946,000. This means that the l’tall will cost com
plete about $5,700, or Just $300,000 less than her gov
ernment-built sister.
In the famous battleship building face between the
local yard and the Brooklyn navy yard, the Louisiana
was built here for $7,425,613. while the Connecticut was
constructed at the navy yard for $7,911,175. The local
lmllt ship was finished In four months less time than
the navy yard took to complete her sister, and the speed
of the Louisiana exceeded that of the Connecticut by
about half a knot. . \
The government yet has to prove that it can build
warships as quickly, ns cheaply or as well as they can
be built in the first-class private plants.—Newport News
Press.
Carolina Comment
The Taft Administration.
The Taft administration ho far has bean a complete
failure. This cannot be denied. At almost every point
it has fallen below what had been expected of it. Not
only with reference to the tariff, but In other matters
this Inefficiency has been shown, and unless a re
markable change takes place during the next year or
two, which quite unlikely, the Taft regime will be
known as one of the greatest failure* In the history
<it American public life.—Winston Sentinel.
Danville’s Problem.
Danville having voted wet. Is now considering the
problem of fixing the license tax. A wholesale tax of
$2,500 and a retail tax of ll.oufl has been propoaed, and
the City Council Is also considering a proposition to
deny dealers the right to ship the Stuff out of Dan
ville. If Danville could contrive to bar the mall order
business some of the disagreeable features of the wit
ness of the town would be averted. The people of Dan
ville voted wet, but that shouldn't be construed to
mean wet for all the territory around Danville.—Greens
boro Telegram.
Land Values Increase.
It may cost a lot to live these days, but It coats
more to buy real estate Some years ago the late
Mr. J. K. Prurten bought the Aoourt farm, some five
miles from Greensboro, near Guilford College, for
something like $7,000. Mr. Jamea F. Jordan broke it
up into small farms and yesterday sold 185 acres for
$15,560, with 65 acres of the or'glnal tract left.—Greens
boro Record.
The Btst Road*.
Several of the Southern State* art now boasting of
their modern highways, and among them North Caro
lina lake* the lead. New Hanover county ha* the beat
system of roads In the State and She can boaat along
with the other progressive counties lh thi* or any other
State.—Wilmington Star.
The Most Honorable Business Man.
With due respect for others, the Chinaman Is, per
haps. the moat honorable and upright business man
In the world to-day. Ills huainjms principles are
founded entirely upon honesty, and he adheres to his
policy with the insistence of a leech. The chase after
dollars stops If lie has to resort to a low trick to get
them. Of course, a little thing like telling a falsehood
occasionally does not bother him so much; but when
it comes to plotting and scheming to defraud some one
the task becomes distasteful. The equal of the Japan
ese In initiative and foresight, he is much their supe
rior when Integrity is concerned. A Japanese does not
think twice before deciding to get .the heat of you.
He calculate* that you are liable to change your mind
or get out of reach if he indulges in aTlttle mental
debate as to the propriety of cheating you.—The Book
keeper.
Not Always the Unexpected.
"It's ala-ays the unexpected that happens, you know,"
sh« said.- - •=
“Not always." h# replied. "Whan I-Fa# calling on
Dorothy Gadsworth last i
to come downstair* about
He did."—Washington Star
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CATCHING STEP
By JEANNIE O. LOIZEAUX.
(Copyright. 19J0, by Associated Literary Preaa.)
Akers was discouraged. He had plodded along with
his set of books at Dennison's for ten years. He had
come there when he was twenty-five. Now the hair
was thin at his temples and a little gray. And be no
longer hid from himself the fact that there was a
small bald spot on his crown. He did bis work well,
but he had become a fixture—ho made no headway.
They had raised hla wages twice In the first four years
he had been there, but no raise had been mentioned
since. He dared not mention It, because they might
refuse It, and his pride could not let him remain
after that. But he could not lose his Job. There was
the old mother at home, bedridden for years. And,
a year ago. she had died. He had not yet paid all
the doctor's bills. And there was a bill" at a drug
store. Akers was honest, and paid Installments as he
could. He had given up the small house In the sub
urbs where, after and before work, he had taken almost
the entire care of his mother, except when she was
at her worst. Then he had had to hire a woman.
Anxiety had laid Its fearful hand upon hint. And youth
had taken wings and fled.
When he was almost thirty, the year his mother
first t>*ok to her bed, there had been a girl. 8he was
pretty and gentle and sweet, a billing clerk In the office,
but a born homemaker. Her smile was a comfort, and
though she was not much past twenty, she mothered
everybody In the store Impartially, from the skulking,
smoky oat to Akers. She seemed to understand. No
body made love to. and everybody loved her. The
other girls took Amy Bartlett their little Jealousies
and rivalries and the men took courage from her.
Akers waked one morning—one morning after he had
been up ail night with his mother and had been told
that her case was hopeless, but that she might live
many years—to the fact that he loved Amy Bartlett.
After that he kept away from tho girl. He could not
bear to be near her und remember that common de
cency and honor kept him from saying, "I love you.”
So his life became a starvation, for hearts must be
fed—and minds. He no longer found lime to read any
thing. or even to go to church, or over to the theater—
he could not afford the latter. And he found he must
sleep when he could, lest he be so weary that his
office work suffer. FVom doing his work confidently,
gladly. It became a drag and a trouble. He might make
a mistake and lose his place.
It was about a year after he had reached this point
that Amy came to him a moment one day when he waa
feeling eo tired and blank that the figures were a mere
base. She bad not said more than a casual word for
months, and now her nearness brought a feeling akin
to hysteria to his throat. He was aft-nud that In spite
of himself he would break Into tears, or put his head
down against her woman's arm for comfort—he so
needed comfort. A sort of gruffness was his only
safety.
I ”1 Just thought I'd ask you—if I had offended you
In any way,” she said rather timidly. “I'm so care
less of what I say, and you've—well, we used to l>e
friends, and I thought I might hav'e said or done solhe
thing that hurt you or—” This was more than he could
bear, but he managed to be very steady and formal
and to speak with a set little smile.
“No, Indeed, Miss Bartlett, not at all. You've always
been very good. I've, only been busy—my mother Is
sick at home, and I’ve had to be up nights—and I’m
sure you’ve never said anything.” And then, because
| he knew he could not bear her questions of sympathy
; about his home life, he turned from her to answer
the senior partner who was about to ask him some
thing. The girl's eyes were pit} ing and pitiful, but
aho went away.
A few weeks after that Bhe took a position In another
store, and he never saw her—not even on the street.
Then his mother grew much worse, and much more
trying, and he was up more at night, and tho bills
; became more frequent. And his work—his one effort
| was to do his work well, and It was done. No farult
i could be found with that, but all human spontaneity
i left him. He had lost step. The girls did not smile
at him and throw Jokes and slang hi* way. The part
ners called him “Mr. Akers,” not the Jovial “John” he
had been for the first years. And then he insured his
I life. In a spasm of self-searchlng he thought It his
duty. He might bo killed In a street-car crash on the
way to work some morning and leave nothing to his
j mother and his creditors. His filial duty and his hon
i esty made him thus further a slave.
One day he heard the girls in the office talking about
n party the force was to have. His name waa men
tioned. They were net even careful lest he hear
them. One of them wanted to Invite him. but another
; carelessly remarked that he was “a thousand years old
: and entirely out of the running.” He realised this. He
knew he had lost step with the march of Joy and prog
! rose.
And then the mother had died. Tin; tirm Rave him
! two weeks off. on pay. and perfunctory condolences,
i They liked Akers; he was faithful. He went home and
, managed the funeral, made the few distant relatives
1 who eoultj come as comfortable aa he could, wrote let*
j ters, faced an empty house. Then ho know that, trying
i as the half-insane, peevish, unloving old woman had
, been, her absence was a terrible thing. His heart was
I empty. He face the fact, which was not the worst
• thing he did; he acepted It, which was fatal. He not
| only recognised loneliness and failure and limitation—
I he accepted them. He had ceased to fight.
When the two weeks were over ho went back to the
I office. He gave up the little rented house and moved
j to a cheap boarding place. It was not comfortable,
I but neither was debt. He settled down to work and the
j fttoop In his shoulders was more marked and hie hair
thinned a bit more; but his smile grew very gentle and
i fine quality crept Into his voice. He slept and began to
' be really rested, and some of the daze passed.
After a few months he began to read again—maga
zine stories, foolish things; but the,reminded him that
there was, somewhere, youth and love and laughter In
the world.
And then there was Ninette. She was the land
lady’s little girl, curly-headed, warm-hearted. With
the confidence of her four years the baby-woman walked
Into hfs heart and took possession. She would come up
to his room, creep into his arms and demand a story.
Unable to deny her anything, he bestirred his memory,
his imagination, and the stories became an escape from
reality.
It was his first step up from the depths of apathy.
Ho would think things out to tell the baby- and he
took to buying her candy and cheap toys. It was the
first time in years that he had practiced self-indulgence.
He did it as a lover wastes gifts on the lady of his
dreams. One nlhgt the child, overtired, fell asleep,
her yellow little hed on his breast; and he held her
awhile before carrying her down to her mother, who
was none too sorry to have the care of the child fall
sometimes upon this big, kind man.
He became lighted of heart and brighter, and his
work had a tingle of hla boyish energy in it. It occur
red to him one morning Just as the senior partner
came up to speak to him to ask for a raise. Without
giving himself time to weigh and ponder, somewhat to
his own surprise, he did it confidently on thV spot.
The request was granted; he had forgotten that a man
was valued by himself and that others rated him
with some dependence on this valuation.
That night he bought a new gray suit and took the
band from his hat. It was early summer, and he took
Ninette out for a walk in the little park.
Sitting In a red swing in the twilight, with the
eleepy child in hla arms, all of a sudden his heart was
j full of Amy Bartlett. Where was she? He longed to
I see her. to hear her gentle voice and see the womanly,
motherly, comforting smile. Being fair hlmaelf, he
liked dark women; there was to him something deep
and sweet about them. He remembered that Amy had
a dimple in her plump cheek. Then he carried the
little one home and went to hla room with his mind
full of Amy Bartlett.
The next day he asked Mrs. Farley, who had been
years in the office, what had become of her. The older
woman looked at him him with a sort of pity before
she replied.
"Well, you actually want to know? She’s at Wood
ly’s—two whole blocks away. John Akers! And while
we're talking about her, let me tell you something—
you’re the most awful idiot. Well, it's ttme you were
catching step!"
That night he walked out of the office thinking.
Wlut had Mrs. Farley meant?—what? He did no* go
home. He went for a walk, passing out of the hot
streets to a quieter way, on# that led to the little
park. It waa early evening. He went alonr, and then
suddenly he turned his head to glance at a woman
sitting on q bench. He met her darkeyes._
It Was Amy Bartlatt, and he went straight to her—It
woe as If she might disappear before hescould tell her
something. She held out her hand and gave him a
•mile, but there wee a pathetic look in her eyee. A
great light came to him.
‘Amy" he eald low end breathlessly, “do you know
how I Starved for you? how I have lovetT you?
Do
you know? I wanted you to know—It will be easier
then to go on atone." She choked a little and he oaw
that her eyes were humming with tears.
' .’’AJenaT ymrmom H be atone. jotmr J 1
Tfcqr Ml Mgf into the twilight, and the heavy past
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War an Socossian.
.. •* leaflet aent out "by Profeaaor Edmond S. Meany, of
the University of Washington, at Seattle, seeks a con
sensus of opinion of those to whom U has been ad
dressed, about 3,000 in all. upon the name that abould
prevail to distinguish the great war of 18*1 to 1885 in
thia country, It contains a considerable portion oY »
discussion that occurred In the United States Sonata
on January 11, i#07. More than a dozen senators, rep
resenting all' geographical divisions of our country and
both parties, participated that day in a debate that wa*
very interesting in its presentation of facts or theories
and without a single word of acrimony or even tentative
reflection upon motives. The question was should an
act of Congress relstlve to certain pensions refer to
the war as one of “Rebellion” ae a “Civil War,” upon
a motion to strike out “War of the Rebellion" and in
sert in lieu thereof “Civil War," which was finally de
cided in the affirmative.---—
There seems no good reason for division on this ques
tion. Educators of the South are pretty well agreed
that “war for secession" is the correct term, and the
quicker'there is sdoptlon of It the better. The term
war between the States falls short in that there is an
absence of motive, an objection amply met In the
name suggested. The Cincinnati Enquirer interestingly
discusses the movement as follows:
"Now, it seems to many who were conversant with
the history of that war in Its inception and progress,
whether from the experience of actual participation in
or close following us readers of the dramatic and tragic
scenes, that it would be more correctly historical to uas
the word ‘secession.' The States of the South, ons
after another, by their representatives at their capital^
adopted ordinances of secession.
"The people loyal to the preservation of union spokg
of those acts as of secession and of those who partici
pated in them as ‘secessionists.’ Wherithe calls for tha
levies of troops were made it was (he common un
derstanding that they were by their deeds at arms
to prevent the success of secession and to maintain tha
Integrity of the entire country by forcing those who
sought to secede to remain in the Union of States.
"This seems logical enough, and yet there was only
one of the senators who seemed to argue for tha
name of ‘War of Secession'—one seemed Inclined to
follow the editorial thought of the South, which has
been, and still is. for ‘War Between the States,' as tha
name for it.”—Montgomery Journal.
NOTHING SERIOUS.
Pa Showed Him.
"Como try pa’s telescope,’; she said.
He tried It with a chill o£ dread.
And even as ha stooped snd stared
Her pa rushed In and had him snared.
Said pa: "You're fond of stars, no doubt."
He turned the trembling youth aDout.
A million star* the latter spied
With flfty comets on the side.
—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Heard in the Houss.
”1 have the floor," shouted the carpet.
“Go ahead," returned the wallpaper, "l am up against
it.”—Baltimore American!!.
Springtime Contentment.
Grass all 'round Is greenin’ now.
Air Is good to sniff:
Wind Is brlngln' pinery smells -
Jest a teeny whiff.
’Course I'd like to be John D..
Morgan, too. by Jing!
I-life their Jobs mix' anj time—
’Ceptin' spring.
—Cleveland Plain Dealen
Give Him a Medal.
“That party w ho Just called a s the most remarkable
man I have ever met,” said the city editor to his assist
ant. ,
"In what way""
"He did not tell me how to run the paper.’’—Life.
Love in Livery.
He, dreamily:
"The skies are blue.
And I am, too.
What can It bo that ails me?"
She, practically:
"Your blood. I think,
Is on the blink.
Your liver, darling, fails you."
— Uppincott a
The Dilemma.
“I' if awfully like to see the Jeffries-Johnson fight.”
"Why don’t you go?"
"Gee. I'd miss so many ball games!"—Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
I
Referendum in Nebraska.
Mr. Bryan announces that the lower house of the
! legislature Is .ready to pass an Initiative and referen
dum resolution in special session. That puts the issue
up to the Senate and gives exceeding interest to ths
record of that body on two questions.
He cause the handful of House members who opposed
' lar session were the wettest of the wet. and because it
was the Douglas county Democrats who fought it
hardest in the Senate, there is a tendency to assume
that the alignment on County option and the Initiative
and referendum was the same. The fact that the
Senate vote was in each Case the same, 17 to 1C,
heightens this Impression.
An analysis of the votes in the Senate shows, how
ever, that the alignment on the two questions was
nowise the same. Of the 1C votes for the Initiative
and referendum and for county option, only 10 were by
[ men who voted aye on both questions. Six senators
supported county option and voted against the Initiative
; and referendum bill, and six voted for the initiative
and referendum and against county option.
Thus, so far as the vote shows, count}’ option lines
no more than party lines determined the result on the
initiative and referendum. Five Republicans and eleven
Democrats favored It; ten county optionists and six
anti-county optionists favored it. Bight Republicans
and nine Democrats opposed it; six county optionists
; and eleven anti-county optionists opposed lb
I So mingled were the elements In this voto that one
! cannot easily Judge of the probable action of the
Senate with the measure up in a special session. The
fact that the six county optionists who voted against
the Initiative and referendum were all Republicans
and the “vice versaS” ail Democrats hints that the
liquor question may have determined the vote except
as affected by party considerations. Some of these
fix Republicans may have felt called upon to oppoas
because Mr. Bryan .was for, and some of the six Demo
crats to favor for the same reason. At this time tha
demands of consistency might cause a change," for
If count}- option Republicans are to remain opposed
to the Ibltlattve and reference because Mr. Bryan ia
for it they will be compelled by the same consideration
to turn aralnst county opt!ton wo that Mr Bryan has
turned toward It. And fhev will hardly do thatj—Ne
t braska State Journal.
A Tribute to "Ben** Lindsey.
Denver is a beautiful, prosperous and enlightened
city. Nestled at the knees of the snow-laden peaks of
the Rockies, with a climate finer than that of the
Rlvelra. depot of The wealth of mines and farm lands
alike In richness, it is an Inland capital admired by
all who know the city and Its people.
Yet Intelligent as the those people who are so Justly
proud of their city, there ia one thing that too many
of them do not know. And that ia that no single
achievement by any man of Denver or by all Denver
combined will reflect such honor upon their city, in tha
years after the names of their present politicians gnd
corporation bosses will long have been forgotten, as