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Evening journal., 1902-03-13
WAS IT DELIBERATEq

Tho following article appeared In the
last issue of the Smyrna Times. II APP
pears to bo false in every particular,
and the paper was either imposed upon,
or penned the article with a malice
which, happily Is rare That paper, If
it wishes to retain the respect Of any
GLASS of readers. should either retract
OF explain. This is the article:
Mr.. Irving 7. Cooper, who was ap-
pointed by the late Congressman John
Henry Hoffecker 10 a clerical position
in the United States Census Bureau at
Washington, ID. c., has been laid on
with a number OF other clerks. He ar
rived home ON Monday. He held a
high record as a clerk and despite the
fact that he was ordered TO be relieved
by Congressman Ball several months
ago he was kept by his chief who was
reluctant about losing his valuable SER
vices. Mr. Cooper is a staunch Repub-
lican. but this made little difference
with Ball who wanted one of his per-
sonal friends substituted.
Congressman Ball, when shown the
article by a Journal representative
said that he had never heard Of Mr..
Cooper. and did not know that any
Delawaroan held the position named
until the matter OF the laying of OF
Mr.. Cooper was brought to his atten
ton. Il was due, as everyone knows
to large cut in the. clerical force o
the Census Bureau. owing TO the fac
that most Of the work has been com
pleted Mr.. Cooper went with many
others because he was no longer need
ed. DR.. Ball says that when he hear
of the matter he went to the directo
and urged that he be retained, and tina
subsequently he made another appeo
in company with Mr. Cooper. Mr.. Bal
saws that he did all in his power
have him retained because he was al
pointed from Delaware. and that pol
tics had absolutely nothing TO do wit
L. The position has not been filled B
follower of Congressman Ball, sin'
r there is no position left to I'LL.
Under these circumstances the
printed about the matter is the mea
est that possibly could have been co
ceived. and we must believe until q
Times explains the matter, that it w
imposed upon.
Evening journal., 1902-03-13

midnight. Mr.. Altgeld was the princi-
pal speaker at a pro-Boer mass meet
ing Tuesday night in the Joliet Thea
trc The cause of death is given as
cerebral hemorrhages. Just at the
close OF his speech a sudden dizziness
seized him, and he was assisted from
the stage. The meeting proceeded,
the audience not realizing what had
happened. Mr.. Altgeld was taken to
the door of the theatre, where several
vomiting spells seized him. This con
tinued for nearly an hour, and was
so pronounced that he could not be re-
moved 10 the hotel
Physicians were hastily summoned
and the stricken man was carried to
the hotel across the street. He re-
tanned consciousness and urged the
newspaper men to keep the affair
quiet for fear Of alarming his wife.
Shortly before midnight he became un'
conscious lie remained in this condi-
tion until his death.
Flags ON all state buildings will be
displayed at half-mast until after the
funeral. The remains of Mr.. Atlgeld
were taken to Chicago last night. The
body was accompanied on a special
train by a few of his old friends, by
his business partners and a delegation
of business men.
Evening journal., 1902-03-13
THE LITERARY WORLD

Richard Harding Davis long novel
his most ambitious work, which be
gins in the April Scribners, has for us
hero a young West Pointer who was
dismissed from the academy and tries
to retrieve his military reputation by
adventures in a revolution in Hondu-
ras. This novel is to be illustrated by
Walter Appleton Clark. An adyen-
turous career has been led by James
IB. Connolly, the writer of sea stories,
who begins a new series about Glou-
cester. North Sea and Baltic fishermen
i'm the April Scribner's. Mr.. Connolly
is himself the son of a New England
skipper. has sailed with fishermen
lfrom boyhood, could get job at any
Itime on a Gloucester boat, spent "a
year at Harvard. went to the Olympian
games and took a prize, served in the
Spanish-American war; and made a
reputation as a writer Of short stories
at a single bound when "A Chase over
| Night" was published about a year
ago. Howard Pyle and +. c. Nohn
have illustrations in color for The
Story of Three States in Scribners
for April. Other illustrations showing
the region of the Wyoming massacre
as it is today will accompany this STIR
lring article
Evening journal., 1902-03-13
ner THE rREsIpENr DECIDE

The Philadelphia Press has been ad-
vocating that Congress leave the dis
cretion Of selecting the route of the
Isthmian Canal 10 the President 1t
has the support for its policy of such
able champions as the Atlanta Con-
stitution and the New York CONNER
cial Advertiser. There are a number
of reasons for this solution of the
problem since it seems assured that
should Congress endeavor to decide the
matter. there will be a snarl which
will result in the whole matter being
postponed till the next session.
IL a canal should be authorized and
suitable appropriation made, leaving
tho selection of the site to the Presi-
dent. That would bring matters to
focus. and If the Panama stockholders
have anything to sell they would know
THAT they had but one chance, anC
THAT they had but one person to dea
with: one clothed with full authority
and who would not delay his decision
} awaiting the pleasure OF the par1e
concerned With our knowledge o
81 tho President we feel sure were be en-
l trusted with the decision that a cana
: would be built. and that his selection
e would depend absolutely on the eyi
dence Of the respective merits of IN
e two routes.
r. With the contending and coniictin
l. elements in Congress. and the presenc
e of an influential lobby. 1t seems in
IS probable that a decision may be reacl
ed under which active work on cant
Evening journal., 1902-03-13
FACT AND ERROR

We agree with the statement In the
Every Evening of yesterday that Coun-
ell should act one way or the other at
its meeting tonight-either TO endorse
the appeal TO the Supreme Court in the
matter Of the Weldin purchase, or to
order It's discontinuance.
We are also in full accord with Its
opinion that the only proper course II
the needs of the people are to be safe
guarded is to end these dilatory tao
tics and order the repeal Withdrawn.
II is settled beyond controversy that a
new reservoir. will be needed very
soon. and it must also be admitted
that the Weldin site is the most advan-
tageous in all respects of any.
But we think our contemporary is
unfair when It says that 1t Is not a
pleasing spectacle TO see one man as
suming to, act for body Of thirteen
and the other twelve meekly asserting
as though they had no opinion and no
will in the matter"
There has never been any indication
that twelve men proposed to meekly
assent to the dictates of a single indi-
vidual. On the contrary, there seem
to be six members who stand as a unit
against Councilman Kanes autocrauo
policy. For purposes Of designation
not for political effect-let lis say that
these six men are the Republican mem
bers. Councilman Kane, If he succeeds
in having this appeal continued, will
have TO drive into limo six Democrats
some Of whom are reluctant. There
are men in Council holding the exact
position supported by the Every Even
ing; these men should be treated fairly.
Evening journal., 1902-03-13
Gas Works. March 10, 1902.


My dear Lauray:
Spring has came at last and l kin
smell the breth of the plowed fields
again. and at mites / go down TO the
marsh and listen to the frogs and
then ] git real homesick. About this
season hit allus seems to me that I'd
a done better to stay down onto the
farm and not spent so dern much time
4 fOohn around a-pOliticl1in-
But hit gets into the blood and Doc
tor Billiards. Blood purifier can't teoh
hit That appintment that l got as
road-overseer done the bizness. Hits
like
Coin thumpin' down the hill
And never goin TO stop,
With destruction GRIMM at the end
And no friend up at the top.
That's poetry, which amt much in
my line. as Scott vernon says. Hits
a sad world and sometimes I'm ready
to give up and let her go TO smash
without no help from me.
Now there's that trolley down in
Kent county; the folks says they will
pay for their rides and vote as they
blame please Did you ever hear any
thing as mean and ornery as them SEN
timents?
Vote as they pleasel We'll, I'd like
30 know what they spose Mister Ad-
dicks is buildin the road for? Is hit
for fun or for his health? What he
wants is votes. and votes he must have,
even though he has to buy, beg, bOr-
row or steal EN-" as a great STATESMAN
onct said
say II you ride on that trolley you
ought to vote for Addicks, and II you
ride on the railroad you ought to vote
for John Biggs, and II you ride on
both, You ort to drop a vote in fol
both. That's common honesty.
Some says I'm wrong, and allows
that they is a difference; they holds
that II you ride on the trolley you
ort to pay fair Of course, and likewise
cast your vote for the boss Of the road
but they say that ridin on the railroad
is different. especially If you has a
pass. and that you must cuss the rail-
road Just to show you amt bribed.
/ haint certain bout that, and I'm
goin to ask Gale IAtun, cause hes {
jim-dandy on explaindn tanglesom'
propislshuns. When he gets through
with you. you are either convinsed
or hipnitized. so hits all the saim.
We air comm out strong for reform
in the next campane Mister Addicks
says hit grleves him much and gives
him a pane under his left gallus buckle
to see the corTupshun that has tool
place. OWN to the ornrynees OF th'
Democrats and Reglers.
Says he. the Democrats has the i'm
Evening journal., 1902-03-13
Maud MuIler,s Hen

Maud Muller on summers day
Set a hen in a brand new way,
MAUD, you see, was city girl
Trying the rural life a whirl.)
She covered a box with tinsel gay,
Lined il snugly with new mOwn hay,
Filled It nicely with eggs, and then
Started to look for likely hen.
Out of the flock selected one,
And then she thought that her work
was done.
nc would have been. but This stubborn
hen
stood up and cackled "Ka-doot!" and
then
Maud Muller came and in hurt sur
prise
Looked coldly into the creatures eyes;
Then tied its legs to the box. you bet
know how t0 make you set"
But still it stood. and worse and worse
Shrieked forth its wrongs to the uni
verse.
Kicked over the box with tinsel gay,
And ANONYMOUSLY tapped away.
Then a bad boy over the barnyard
fence
.Tee-heed: Say. Maud, there's a differ
once
Tween hens, YOU know, and 1t is that
one saws Ka-dootl' and one 'Ka-dat!' "
Then Maud recalled that the ugly brute
She tried to set had said "Ka-doot!"
And ever since that historic day
She bushes in an embarrassed way
To think of the bObble she made once
whenm
She tried to set a gentleman hen.
Wichita Eagle
Evening journal., 1902-03-13
THE NEM CANAL EKA

The last half of the nineteenth CEN
tury witnessed marvels in the develop
ment Of transportation. Prior to that
time practically all traffic had been
carried in sailing vessels and canal
boats, and these were only supple
mented by wagons and pack trains
where there We're no streams upon
which to float a boat. To meet the
demands Of inland commerce we built
many canals, and in most instances
large subsidies were given by the
states.
A traveller ON any OF the great rail
ways leading to the West will be
struck by the long lines Of canals, some
disused, and others employed in the
seryile work Of running mill-wheels,
which skirt all the inland streams,
When the era of railroads began there
was a tendency to abandon these
artificial waterways while the laying
Of iron rails went on at a phenomenal
rate.
Sngularly the beginning OF the
twentieth century witnesses a great re-
vival Of canal enterprises. The United
States has about made up her mind to
undertake the most gigantic work of
that nature in the worlds history.
Whether the Panama or the Mica
ragua site is taken unless We mistake
the spirit of our people the two oceans
will soon be connected by a waterway
allowing the passage of all craft.
In all Of our experience in canal
building no enterprise of this nature
thus far has eQualled that of connect
ing Lake Erie with the Hudson river
And, Notwithstanding that railroads
have multiplied, bringing the people
Of the Lake Erie basin in close touch
with New York city, yet the necessity
Of enlarging the canal to accommodate
larger craft is becoming apparent, and
very soon it will have to be done
But the new movement for an in
crease in these artificial waterways is
not confined to This country. In fact
both in projects and their execution,
Europe is taking the lead. Germany
has plans for a giant undertaking of
connecting the Rhine, Weser and
Elbe While France has just appropr-
atod over six hundred and fifty million
francs to be used mainly in construct
ing new waterways, and Russia has inI
view vast undertakings of which al
canal system is an important feature.
To return to America, we remember
that an important subject Of discus
sion in the late Pan-American Con-
gress was a gigantic scheme to connect
the headwaters of the Amazon, La
Platte and Orinoco rivers. 1t is said
to be feasible, and would be a great
factor in developing South America
Massachusetts has two projects Of
vast Importance under consideration.
One is a canal across Cape Cod, con-
Meeting Buzzard's bay and Barnstablel
bay, and the State has authorized al
survey for a cut from Boston harborI
to Narragansett bay. There are a hun-
drcd other projects talked Of like the
proposal to connect Pittsburg with
Lake Erie but all this activity demon
sirates that we are coming to see that
in the development of railroads we
have neglected an important factor in
both inland and international com
merce. 1t would be strange if we
should again have an era of canal
building.
Evening journal., 1902-03-13
Pennsv,a Bio Bond Issue

Philadelphia, March A3.-The direc-
tors of the Pennsylvania Railroad
company, at their semi-mouthly meet
ing. held yesterday at Broad Street
Station, authorized the issue of $780,
100000 convertible ten-year 3 IL per
cent. debentures, to pay for additional
rolling stock equipment and to meet
the construction of the New York
tunnel for 1923. OF this amount
$24, 900 900 will be expended in 10000
new steel cars and 26O locomotives.
and the balance devoted to the build
ing OF the tunnel.
Evening journal., 1902-03-13
NAV Ruv the FrIars, Lands.

Washington, March 13.-It was au-
thoritatively stated yesterday that the
president had not appointed any one
to negotiate for the sale of the friar
lands in the Philippines to the United
States. The president has the mat
ter under consideration, and as soon
as Governor Taft can arrange for a
conference with the president the
whole matter will be discussed, with
the probability that a commission will
be appointed to see what can be done
toward acquiring these lands.
Evening journal., 1902-03-13
Tainted AS officer Seized Him.

New York, March William
Chielewsl1i, Of Shenandoah, Pa, was
arrested Tuesday as he was about to
90 UP the gangplank Of the Hamburg
American line steamer Deutschland, a
few minutes before she sailed. When
the man felt the officers hand on his
shoulder he dropped to the deck in a
faint. He is said to have beeR in the
liquor business at Shenandoah and
to owe $4,000. He was too sick to be
arraigned in court.
Evening journal., 1902-03-13
lOLDFIELD TALKS ABOUT THAT TROLLEY,
AND INDUCES IN SOME LINES OF POETRY

prudence to come out and try to play
my game, and the Reglers insted OF
comm out like men and buyin their
votes square, sneaks around and tries
to git men to vote their convictions"
Their convictionsl I'd like to no
what that has got to do with polly
ticks. If we do git holt Of the Stait,
we'll have the satisfaction Of KNOWN
that we bought her honestly with the
peoples eyes wide open. and they win
all be included in the deal
I've writ q little piece which we sing
at our meetins. Sim Penniwell is first
tenor. George Marshall second, and
Frank Alice takes the base, with Gale
Latun a fOllerin. The rest jines in
as best they kin. only Mister Addicks
sets and laffs. don't know why ne
lafls so at our antics and is so sour
castle unless hits cause he's onto us.
Here is the piece:
We love q purity lady
She's the sweetest in the land,
We set UP mites a-cortin her
And fiirt TO beat the band.
We watch her and we foller her,
And hold her in embrace,
And git up close and take a look
Into her purity face.
We swear there ain't another such
On earth or heaven above,
For the lady on the dollar
! Is the lady that we love.
We're fxin up slate for the leg1s-
( lacher in Moo Cassel county. Mister
Addicl1s said we'd better lay low and
git some want to win" feller to make
the slate. Well we got one and he
done hit all rite, but the Reglers is on
TO hit, and they IS maxim hit look like
thirty cents, as the pOut says.
Them want to winners" is the most
Obigin people you ever seen; they does
| lust what we tells EN- and asks no
Questions, and pears satistide with
What we give 'em, which certainly amt
much. They says they're agin Mister
Addicks and for that resun we must
send him to the SENT to get him out
OF the way. They certainly is forgivin
and sensible. and what they is Of them
does us moar good than that menny
out and out Addicks men.
Our paper down on King street is q
runnin yitand We feel real encouraged; /;
I'VE ndu HOO cOW-Sdll lulS WICK anu
got a pound of butter for the work
lThey was two new Subscribers last
month. but they only pade twenty-five
lcents for three months and we had to
throw in a cake Of soap. so they amt
much profit They don't seem much
reward for encoTagin the criminal
4 classes.
Yours In hOap,
Silas Oldheld.
Evening journal., 1902-03-13
SENATE OPPOSES
PANAMA ROUTE
FaVOrS Construction Of the
Canal Via Nicaragua
Concessions OF Costa Rica and Mica
ragua Ace Ready to be Put
in Writing

Washington, March 13.-The senate
committee on isthmian canals has de-
cided by a vote of z to to report
tho Hepburn bill providing for the
construction Of an isthmian canal via
the Nicaraguan route.
The action of the committee was
taken at called meeting held yes.
terday afternoon, and came after
brief report by Senator Morgan. the
chairman of the committee, detailing
the result OF a conference with Secre-
tary Hay as to the status of diplomatic
negotiations with the Central Amerl-
can republics concerning the canal
He staed that the secretary had told
him that there are no negotiations in
progress between the United States
and Colombia concerning the Panama
route and that the new minister from
Colombia had not even presented his
credentials; but that on the other
hand the representatives of this coun-
try and those of Nicaragua and Costa
Rica had been I'm consultation and
had agreed upon practically all the
points to be covered in concession
treaties, nothing really being left in
that connection but to put the agree
ments into writing. He said that the
governments of those two countries
had manifested a disposition to make
all the concessions the United States
could ask to aid in the construction
OF a canal, and that among these con-
cessions is one for perpetual right
Of way
When the recitation of the report
had been completed. Senator Hanna
minister had been detained by. un-
toward circumstances, and proposed
that action by the committee should
be delayed until opportunity could be
had to ascertain Colombias position.
This suggestion met with a strong
protest from the friends of the Mica
raguan route, and Senator Mitchell
moved to report the Hepburn bill as
It passed the house. The vote for the
Hepburn bill stood: Yeas-Morgan,
Mitchell, Hawley. Platt. of New York;
Harris. Turner and Foster. of Louis
lana Nays-Hanna, Pritchard. Mil
! lard and Kittredge.
Senator Morgan, after the adjourn
ment of the committee, said that he
probably would report the bill to the
senate today. While he would use
all due diligence in securing consid-
Grafton of the measure. he had had
no conference with the Republican
leaders of the senate as to when the
measure should be taken up for con-
sideration.
The Hepburn bill authorizes the
president to acquire territory for right
of way for q canal from Costa Rica
and Nicaragua; directs the construc'
q tion Of a canal of sufficient capacity
to accommodate the largest ships
- from Greytown on the Atlantic via
Lake Nicaragua to Brito on the Pa
cific, under the supervision Of the sec
rotary of war; authorizes surveys OF
the harbors at the two ends of the
route; guarantees the use of the cana
to vessels of Costa Rica and Nicara
qua, and appropriates s10,000,00O fol
beginning the work.
Evening journal., 1902-03-13

The diverting incident of the visit
Of a German prince is over fortunate
ly without any unpleasant incident
Prince Henry conducted himself in a
manner to win admiration, and every
thing was done for his comfort and
happiness. A congratulatory telegram
has been received by the President
from tho Emperor, and reply for
warded. and thus the pleasing incident
is happily closed.
Evening journal., 1902-03-13

The Morning News, among other
things, has this to say regarding Di-
rector Melvins position: 1T would
not require the vote Of Mr. Melvin to
bring about some action on the mat
ter. Thus there is no responsibility
placed upon Mr. Melvin" That is a
novel and interesting statement GER
tainly. We imagine that Mr.. Melvin
will resent being placed in the position
Of a useless officer. whose action Will
be ineffective one way or the other
We disagree radically with our contem-
porary, holding that Mr.. Melvin mus
be held responsible for his official acts
regarding the citys interests.
Evening journal., 1902-03-13

may be begun. Congress is a ponder
GUS body. and could not act with the
freedom and directness Of the one man
power of a President If 1t is urged
that this is a dangerous precedent in
placing this power in the hands of the
Executive. the answer is that other
Presidents. not capable Of exercising
such trusts need not have the honors
thrust upon them.