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The National tribune., 1901-01-10

THERE is a good deal of absurdity in
this talk about recognizing the Democrat
ic party and putting up new leaders No
man nor set of men can, out-of-hand,
make, reorganize or destroy party. That
is matter which must be done by very
considerable portion Of the people, acting
together, and all that the would-be lead
ers have to do is to watch the process,
and take advantage of ii when it has
reached the proper stage. No man nor
set of men can radically change either the
Republican or Democratic party. Each Of
those parties is the expression of the will
Of several millions Of people, and they can
only be changed when those people change
their minds. AS long as some 5000, 900
people think pretty much as they did last
Fail the Democratic party is going to re-
main substantially as it is. And it is the
same with the leadership. 4 leader is not
commissioned as a Colonel is. He is de-
velOped from among the people them
selves. Mr.. Bryan is the unquestioned
leader of the Democracy, and is going to
remain SO until a new and stronger man
develops, of which we see no present
signs. Never in the history of the coun-
try has the Democratic party been so
poorly represented in Congress and in tie
States as today. There seems to be alb
solutely no man anywhere OF such Ma
tional importance as TO promise rivalry
with Bryan. At times German, of Mary
land: Hill, of New York; Boies, of Iowa;
Smith, of New Jersey; Patterson, of Penn
sylvania; Carlisle, of Kentucky; Matthews.
of Indiana, and Bailey, of Texas, seemed
likely to forge to the front as great Ma
tiOnal leaders of the Democracy, but they
have one by one fallen by the wayside.
Bailey, who seems TO have more elements
of leadership than any OF them, is still in
the ring, making a fight for the Senator
ship from Texas. III he succeeds, as seems
likely, he may have great future. The
biggest man the Democrats have in the
Senate today is Senator Morgan, OF Ala
bama, and he seems hopelessly out of ac-
cord with most of the present ideas of lis
party. Except Bailey. there is no present
promise of any exceptionally able man ap-
pearing on that side in the next Congress-
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ceived from him his horses and those OF
his helpers, and saw them rush off for the
train. 81 sent Sandy over with the Lieu
tenants horse for Shad and took the next
best himself.
Now. boys" said ST encouragingly,
there's going to be no trouble about this.
All that's required in driving cattle is lit
tie patience and knack. They're the best
and kindlicst things i'll the world. if they re
only handled right. There's n great deal
o natural crssedness in pigs and sheep.
but cattle's naturally good. Treat EN-
gently and kindly, and you're all right.
Jake. you take 30 men, go down the crick
little way. deploy them around in the
rear of the herd and rush 'em forward. BE
sure and don't skip none Search the
brush thoroughly for 'em. I'll go down
and find this lead steer, this 10 Wheeler,
as they call him. and start him acrost the
.crick myself, and | think the rest'n fOller
all right. Them other fellers have been
nagging and fretting him until they've got
him Wild
Where is this 10 Wheeler. Pcte?" 10
asked, coming up to that youth, who. OBJ
iiyiouS to the worries Of his seniors, was
employing his leisure in trying to beguile
a fish to bite ut a fat grub worm he had
found in the rotting wood and fixed to Il
hook he had taken from his pocket.
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were who tried to drive cattle. Before he
could formulate his ideas another one
struck him on the rump with such force
as to almost knock him onto his knees. 10
Wheeler had been around the army long
enough to know that that position was no
longer tenable." and as he did not have
time to think of any other way. he started
on a gallop back on that on which he had
just come.
81 gathered his hat full of the dornicks.
leaped into his saddle and galloped after
him, tiinging a stone after him at every op-
portunity, and accompanying it with Il vol
ley of Dumb you!' Consarn you,''
Plague take you,' and similar Wabash
eXpletivcs boiling out at white heat.
Here they come! Here they come,
Clear the track. everybody" yelled Shorty.
laughing, as they came in sight. IN bet
every cent I've got, two to one, on the bay
steer-out of Bullbcef, and damned by
everybody in the army. Who'll take it :
Three to one. and no offers. Hump your
self. 81, he's a-gainipg on you. Push on
the reins. Don't throw stones and swear,
81. That's not kind. Always treat cas-,
tie kindly
ST sent stone flying in the direction Of
his partner, who lodged as it whizZed by
him.
81 was landing the stones with such eff
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grant, filling hay, with the soulful voice OF
the teaInster lifted in curdling profanity.
He would rise and go back to his home,
and the bins of forage, for which his soul
an-hunseTcd. lie stole down the Hill like
a ghost and approached the fires.
The cattle saw him and began to throw
up their heads and sniff. Some labored to
their feet.
Something's soaring them beasts" said
81. stopping, filling his pipe. and looking
anxiously at the herd. what can il be?
Can't be no wolves or painters in these
mountains. and all the dogs was starved
out long ago
Their campfire of pitch pine sent Il
bright beam of light directly into the cen
ter of the herd. where 10 Wheeler had
risen to his nimble feet.
Keep quiet. boys so | can listen" said
81. shorty, you circle down quietly to
the right, and I'll take the left. and see II
YOU can see anything. Make as little noE'c
as you can and keep q few rods away from
the herd"
The mule had by this time arrived quite
near. and mentioned his hunger for regu-
iation rations, his abject loneliness and his
badness at finding old friends in a series
If brays so loud that they peaIed back
from the neighboring hills
That was enough for 10 Wheeler With
The National tribune., 1901-01-10

JUST exactly what is "colony" is dis
cussed by Henry G. Morris in an ex-
haustive work. Webster defines a colony
to be company or body of people trans
planted from their mother country to q
distant one to cultivate and inhabit it, and
remaining subject to the jurisdiction of
the parent State" Worcester gives sim
liar definition, but these are not justified
by the etymology of the word and its
meaning for centuries in other languages.
1t means anything from plain farmers to
a collection Of people who are connected
with another by religious ties. Mr.. Nor.
ris insists that the best modern meaning
Of the word implies "a large number of
people who have migrated to a distant
country and taken with them their Ian
guage, customs, laws and allegiance to a
nag" 1t is pointed out that this would
not describe William PENIS colony, the
majority Of whom were Germans. Mr..
Morris says that colony differs from n
dependency, in that in the latter n foreign
power has imposed upon the people its
laws, customs and IDEAS
The National tribune., 1901-01-10

DE LEssEPs began work on the Pan
anna Canal Feb. 2S, 1881, and it was then
estimated that a tide-water canal could ne
constructed for S120,OOO,OOO. His success
with the Suez Canal made the enterprise
popular one with the thrifty French
peasantry, of whom about 100000 took
the bonds, from time to time. The money
was squandered and stolen, until when. in
1889, the company was forced into bank.
ruptcy, it was estimated that the bonds
and other indebtedness aggregated $3.50.
100000, besides unpaid interest amounting
to $2O,000.000 more. All that there was
to show for this immense sum was the
Panama Railroad, and an amount OF dig.
ging, estimated at one-fifth the total. This
was being rapidly destroyed by the tor.
rental rains. Now the French want
Sl00,O00,000 for the canal. Bankrupt
sales do not usually realize anything like
that proportion Of value.
The National tribune., 1901-01-10

INITIATIVE and referendum" are sim
ply big sounding words, which some men
believe in because they cannot understand
them That is, the kind of men who al
ways believe ardently in anything they
can't understand, believe in them. Think
ing men see no good to come from this
chimerical system. There is no need of
an initiative" in this country where any
day that Congress is in session any man
can get almost any kind of bill he wishes
introduced. A referendum" is equally
unnecessary, where every member of Con-
gress must come back at the end of two
years to give an account of his steward
ship to his constituents, and receive their
instructions as to the policy they expect
him to pursue in the future. If there has
been any law passed that they do not like,
they will not be reticent about it, nor will
the gentleman of the opposite party, who
wants his seat.
The National tribune., 1901-01-10

THE Star of Empire did not boom west
ward during the last 10 years Mt anything
like the rate of any preceding decade.
The center of population has been deter
mined to be about seven miles southeast
of Columbus, Ind, and only IA miles west
and three miles south of where it was 1O
years ago. Having struck the rich White
ki.es bottoms of Bartholomew County,
I1{l., it shows very natural disposition to
stay there. 1t cannot find better country
anywhere, snow sence the country's bin
opened no, and the mashes dreened, and
the ager and the milk-sick's gone" as the
old settlers used to say. But we forget:
No real, self-respecting settler in Barthol-
omew County ever admitted for an instant
that there was such thing as "fever-an'-
ager" or milk sck'' in his County. But
they have 'em powerful bad over in the
next County" he would admit.
The National tribune., 1901-01-10

EUROPE has long been taking our back
number reapers, eXpired-patent sewing
machines, etc. American people demand
improvements every year ON their ma
chimes, and have no use for anything that
is out of date. The manufacturers, how
ever, find n profitable market for these
across the Atlantic. 4 sewing machine, Il
reaper, or any machine of the model of
1890, or even Of 1870, which would be I'M
salable in this country, is plenty good
enough for Europeans. The manufac-
turers, having all the patterns and meth
DDS, can make them cheaper than newly
improved machines, and so a great deal of
profit accrues out Of this trade. Now it
seems that they are TO take our blackburn
Der shows. An American circus Travelled
through Europe last Summer, and awak-
ened the widest enthusiasm wherever it
went. In Germany, particularly, the PEG.
pie could not get enough of it. The pro-
prietor has decided to leave it in Europe
permanently, and get up something entire
ly new and fresh for this country. He
says that the old-fashioned circus has got
to go, and be replaced by an entirely new,
range of attractions. All the same, the
old-fashioned circus has its destinations.
The National tribune., 1901-01-10

II we buy the Danish West Indies we
will get in fee simple one of the Oldest
and most widely known of legends-that
of Bluebeard. 1t is not an Asiatic story
as most of the tellers make it, nor a
French one, as the rest do, but belongs
to st. Thomas, and the town of Charlotte
Amalie, as the principal city on the island
is officially named The laal story is quite
different from the one in the highly col.
ored picture-boOks, and makes out Blue.
beard TO be a better sort of Il man. In
reality, he and his brother-in-law, Black.
beard, were pirates, who had discovered
the possibilities of st. Thomas as a base
Of operations against the Spanish treas
ure galleons, and settled there, dividing
the dominion of. the island between them
and each building a strong castle for the
protection of his ships and followers.
Each fellow ran his business independ-
emily, only joining together when some
job came up too big for one. Mrs. Blue
beard was the sister of Blackboard, and q
lady Of very jealous disposition. Any
lady in the settlement whom she suspected
of attracting Bluebeard's attention was
sure to succumb in some mysterious way
to the climate and be fitted with head
stone in the neighboring cemetery. AS
there were none-too-many women on the
island at best, BIuebeard had to restrain
his wife, and he started in to do so by cut
ting off her own head. IL was then that
she sent Sister Ann up into the tower to
signal her brother Blackboard, who ar
rived just in the nick of time. Probably
he only wanted some such excuse for get
ing rid of his brother-in-law and grabbing
his estate. The moral in the commonly-re-
ceived story seems to be that ladies should
restrain their curiosity about their hus-
bands previous love affairs, and that hus-
bands should repress their tendency to
snap off their wives heads to a reasonable
number, say seven or eight. If Bluebeard
had been content with decapitating eight
wives no one would have interfered with
his family affairs, though the neighbor-
hood might have thought he was getting
more than his share of the manageable
girls. But there does not seem to be any
moral at all to the st. Thomas story.
The National tribune., 1901-01-10

The railroad statisticians state that
from 80 to 9S per cent. of the wage OK.
penditures of railroads goes to the lower,
salaried employees OF all kinds, and that
not to exceed 5 per cent, and more gen.
orally only 3 per cent, goes to officials.
The Pennsylvania Railroads report for
1900 shows that S9,0S3,274 was paid to the
trackmen, engineers, conductors, telegra-
pliers, etc, ETC., and but S242, $50, all told.
to the President, Vice-Presidents, Gen
eral Managers, and similar high-grade Of
ficials.
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TOO MUCH POWER EoR THE COMMITS.
SIONER.

The Commissioner of Pensions exercises
far more arbitrary and despotic power
than any other officer of the Government.
He has autocratic, unchecked control
| over more money and more people than
| any monarch in Europe, outside the Car
| of Russia.
This is outrageously um-American and
should be reformed at once.
The Commissioner has absolute control
of the allowances to 993 900 people, and at
his discretion can give to or take away
what is to tens of thousands of them their
only means of livelihood and support. This
is entirely too great a power to be eXer-
cised without check or restraint by any
one man in the United States.
The Commissioner has the disbursement
of $145,000,000 a year, and can at his
pleasure cut this down or increase it mil
lions of dollars. This is discretion far
exceeding that enjoyed by any other Of
fcer of the Government, and is entirely
too much for any one man to have.
Every week the Commissioner passes
upon thousands of claims, many of them
involving the whole support of aged men
and women, and can allow, or disallow,
any and all of them, according to his pres
ent whims, vagaries, Authorizations, preju-
dices or other personal feelings, and there
is substantially no redress or appeal. This
is grossly un-American.
The Commissioner is the final and absO-
lutte judge of all evidence. law and equity
He makes the laws and says what they
shall mean, contrary to every cherished
American idea and principle.
He has the most despotic power over
every attorney that appears before him in
the interest of claimants, and can, at his
pleasure, inflict the severest punishments
upon him.
All these considerations point irresist-
IDLY to the need of a Court of Pension APP
peals to supervise, control and regulate the
Commissioner
The National tribune., 1901-01-10

Mr.. ROBERT P. PORTER, ex-Superin.
fendent of the Census, says that at the
present rate of increase the population OF
the country will be 300,000,000 at the be-
ginning Of the next century. But there
are forces at work which may reduce this
The size of families is decreasing, espe
cially in the cities, where the average
family has fallen from five to four. II
the increased strain in life should make
young men postpone their marriage one
year-the average age for marriage i:
now 25-and marry at 26, it would cause
a falling off of 100000 in the annual
births
The National tribune., 1901-01-10

THE Cuban Constitution makers have
likely been their own undoing. They are
still under the influence of Spanish ideas,
and want to load the island down with Of
fice-holders, who will suck every cent out
of the wealth producers. The business
men have had an opportunity to see the
advantages of a simple, cheap American
Government, and are liable to kick the
whole thing over and declare for plain an
nexation, with Territorial form of Gov
ernment, which would be their sensible
course.
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Regular Army and Navy Union, U. S.

Tri-AIountain Garrison, No. 9S, of Bos-
ton. Mass. held their installation meeting
Jan. l, 1901. The following officers were
installed by Col. Robert X. Centre, Ma
tiOnal A. ID. c.: Commander, John Du-
Bots; S. V. c., J. +. McClusky; j. V. O.,
John j. Devlin; Adj't, Herbert w.
French; Paymaster. Edward ]. Maggie; Q.
NJ. John j. Mahon; Chaplain, j. DeSouza;
Surg. Alex Jameson; o. D., James III.
earle: o. c.. Patrick O'Brien; o. W., o.
H. Holm. Col. Centre delivered stirring
patriotic address, which received the en-
thusiastic applause of the large and APP
preciative muster of veterans, many of the
civil war. who were present, In his adj
dress Col. Centre paid marked tribute
to the perseverance and ability of Ma
ti0nal Commander Morton in redeeming
the Order from the eupidity of its former
National officers
The National tribune., 1901-01-10

The G. A. II. men of Cleveland have
received an appeal from Denver signed
by the Mayor, the President of the Cham.
Der Of Commerce, the Commander of the
Loyal Legion, and the Department Com.
mander and Past Department Commanders
Of the Wyoming and Colorado G. A. r.,
requesting that the efforts being made to
get the G. \. X. National Encampment ia
Cleveland this year be suspended until
Denver has had an opportunity to con.
clude its negotiations with the railroads,
upon which depends its own chance for the
Encampment as first choice.
The National tribune., 1901-01-10

SOUTH CAROLINA beat all the other
States in the South last year in building
cotton mills. This gives ray Of hope
that John G. Calhoun and Jeff Davis are
being slowly but surely forgotten. The
whir Of factories and pulsations of new en-
terprises are sovereign remedies for the
malaria of those old poison-breeders.
The National tribune., 1901-01-10

THE mere say so of the Commissioner of
Pensions, regardless of laws and evidence,
can give or take away the whole support
of tens of thousands of aged men and
women. No American citizen should be in
the uncontrolled grasp of any one man.
The National tribune., 1901-01-10

THE Gar is following the Kaiser in
making a knowledge of English obligatory.
Every Russian holding an official position
must study English. In little while this
world will be comfortable place for an
American to travel about in.
The National tribune., 1901-01-10

SPAIN has got ahead of us in one thing:
She has adopted 24-hour day, which we
shall probably have sense enough to be-
fore the next decade opens. There was
enough labor and thought expended over
'A. NJ" and 'P. NJ" during the past cen
fury to have built the Nicaragua Canal.
The National tribune., 1901-01-10

If the Beers had done rs we'll at the be-
ginning as they are doing now, there
would have been different story to tell.
But both sides seem to learn the trade OF
war, and it seems that the Beers are
learning it faster than the British.
The National tribune., 1901-01-10

THE cost of supporting the New York
CITY courts has risen in 10 years from 81
cents per capita of the population to S1.O4,
or 20 per cent. And the quality of justice
rendered is, if anything, much inferior.
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once: 8ss Pennsylvania Avenue N. W.

TALK about military despotism in the
islands. it is nothing to the despotism of
the Commissioner of Pensions over LII
clerks, thousands of attorneys and $4,000
pensioners.
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below of fright, and head and tail up, he
struck out for the neighboring hills as il
shot from Il catapult. There was a rush
as of mighty waters, as every one of the
800 cattle, with gathering horns and hoofs.
dashed madly away in the gloom, leaving
ii almost paralyZed with dismay.
TO be continuedl
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THAT horny-handed wOrkingman, Dick
Croker, has just paid $4,000 for string
of six thoroughbred Kentucky colts.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-09-12
How to Learn to Like Pictures.

The following suggestions, if you
please, are not from an artist nor even
from a connoisseur, the writer being
nothing more than an ordinary picture
lover. In general the principle to be
Followed is to get as much in an atmos-
phere of pictures as possible. Always
go to the museums when you are trav-
cling, and if you live near enough
make occasional picture visits to Bos-
ton, Chicago or New York. Do not
make the mistake Of staying too long
in gallery. You only tire yourself.
Half an hour is quite long enough. But
do not endeavor to look at every pic
ture in the gallery in that time. Look
long at few good ones and let those
you look at be those you like or at least
those which you prefer above the 9TH
ers. Also ask yourself why you prefer
them. Always get a catalogue. Some
times the pictures are not marked, and
you as student want always to know
the painter of your picture.-Frederic
M. Smith in Woman's Home Compan-
ion.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-09-12
The Enrth,s Rendinrs.

Little bendings are in progress all the
time the worAl over. The "immovable"
hills are bowling and scraping to each
other constantly. Every evening, as the
dew settles in the valleys between
them, they nod to one another. So like
wise do the mountains, even to great
er extent. Gravity is Juggling all the
time.
And in London, too. where earth
quake sensations are practically I'M
known, the earth bends daily, and the
buildings, like the hills and the noun
tains, nod to their friends opposite
when the morning traffic begins. On
Sunday usually their manners take a
rest excepting in such places as Petit
coat lane, where business fourishes in
as lively fashion as in Paris.
Heine said that even the trees made
obeisance to Napoleon when he enter
ed Berlin. This was imaginative, yet
truthful, for the weight of the crowd
along Inter den Linden made fitting
sufficient for Professor Mines pendu-
lums to have recorded distinctly. One
might say the crust of the earth acts
like steel spring. it bends so easily
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