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The Washington times., 1902-10-27
s1DELIGHTs ON NATIONAL POLITICS.
Unsatisfactory Statements.

| The extremely conservative statements
which appeared in the papers yesterday
over the signatures of Chairman Bab-
cock and Chairman Griggs have thrown
no light on the Congress situation
Neither claims the next House by a big
majority. though most every other polit-
ical prophet-and the tribe is quieter
this year than ever before-belieyes that
If the Democrats win at all ii will be by
a regular landslide. As no prophet has
the premonitory symptoms of a land
slide. and as no pronounced symptoms
have yet been observed in any part of
the country, the balance of chance seems
decidedly against the Democrats. How
ever, Chairman Babcock talks so guard
edly for publication, and he is so expe.
rienced in the management of Congress
campaigns, that his caution may be con-
stdered sign of fear on his part of
sensational reverse on November T.
One Of his most inexplicable perfor-
mances in this campaign was his call
ing to New York few days ago trust
ed newspaper friend from Washington,
to whoms he gave an estimate showing
that there were twenty-one districts in
doubt, that the Republicans were reas-
onably sure of carrying 205 seats and
the Democrats 160. Mr.. Babcock would
not permit his newspaper friend to use
his name in connection with the publi-
cation of this estimate. and to those ac-
quainted with the Republican chairman's
methods his refusal to attach his name
10 the forecast is somewhat mystifying.
On the other hand it is argued that IL
Mr.. Babcock really was dubious of the
result he would emit cry of distress
mat would bring to the exchequer of his
committee flood of dollars from the
sources which are supposed to be most
Interested in the political complexion
u the House. Common report has it
nat both committees still are poverty
stricken, which would seem to indicate |
nat the groups of men who are alleged !
Usually to put up the bulk of the money |
or Congress campaigns don't care much |
which way the election goes next week. |
The Washington times., 1902-10-27
The Evacuation of Shanghai.

Brooklyn Eagle-The evacuation puts
China upon her good behavior. Re
occupation of Shanghai would be a COM
paratively easy matter, owing TO the
proximity Of the city 10 the sea, and be-
cause of its accessibility by river ways.
Under the tripariite agreement by which
the powers now leave. not only 'Shang-
hal but the entire Yangtsekiang Valley,
10 the rightful dominion of the empire
of which they are a part. an equality
of treatment is assured to all foreign
ers and arrangements are made where
by Great Britain. Germany, and France
will resume their former status as
guardians of the peace should circum-
stances arise to warrant their interfer-
ence. Strange to say, Secretary Hay is
not responsible for the evacuation, in
spite Of the kindly efforts of European
correspondents, writing for American
papers. to attribute to him that which
he does not claim for himself
The Washington times., 1902-10-27
Heinze Beats the Record.

A son of the Ion. w. A. Clark ac-
cuses the Hon. Augustus Heinze of
offering him bribe of two and a half
million dollars to throw down the old
man. in the language of Clark .'fils," in
the pending campaign in Montana.
Heinze. it appears, wants to name the
judges in Montana, and would theu care
rot who made the laws. OF course,
young Clark spurned the Offer of gold,
and is still true to 1.-The old man." More
over, he says he Will have Heinze in
dicted. A careful search of the records
shows that young Mr. Clark is the only
statesman in the United States, If not
in the whole world, who refused a bribe
OF two and half million dollars. The
revelations now being made at st. Louis
show that the ruling price of bribes in
That region was only twenty-five hun
dred dollars
The Washington times., 1902-10-27
ON THE TRAIL OF
THE AMERICAN ADAM
By PROF. " J MCGEE. OF the National Geo
graphic Society.

/ Primitive man was governed from
without; modern man from within. The
change from the one form to the other
| is the history of mankind.
| The primitive man was more bound
by laws than are we of today.
/ His laws were founded, not on the
broad principles of what we term justice.
His intellect was undeveloped. his only
desire being to secure food and protec-
tion for himself and family. He was
only an animal of hign order. His
foes were the wild animals of the forest,
that sought to carry off and to kill his
children or TO steal his stores of food
We must base our studies of primitive
man net on what men think today, but
On what primitive man thought as We
interpret it from the relics that have
come down to US from former ages. We
have been able to discern in the past
few years a vast amount OF information
concerning the earlier inhabitants OF
this continent through the study of some
of the surviving tribes of Indians that
have retained. from enc generation to
another. striking racial characteristics.
\ notable example is the absence of
the knife sense which l observed in a
tribe OF Indians ! once visited on an ISL
and in the Gulf of California. With Is
this sense is intuitive, but with these
Indians it was swallowed up in the fear
of the sharp edge"
| once saw an Indian woman pounding
the flesh and ligaments from the legbone
OF horse with rounded stone. in order
TO give the flesh to her children. After
a time the stone broke in two in such
manner as to offer her the use of two
sharp edges. a form of the stone that
to the white man would have suggested
itself at once rs great Improvement on
the former rounded shape. But the wo-
man was aghast. She carefully picked
up the broken pieces and threw them
into a cactus thicket. warming those who
were present to avoid the place hence
forth.
From this and other cases which we
have examined, we are forced 10 the
that the Indians whose his
tory we have learned must have reached.
only after very long course of de-
the stage where it occurred
to them to chip stones so as to make
the sharp edged tools which came into
use in mere recent times. In other
words, this evolution has been in prog
'ess for thousands of years.
We have not yet reached the point
where we can determine exactly who the
American Adam was; but we are GER
.ainly making great progress toward the
solution of the problem. The investiga-
ion of archaeologists is narrowing down
he possible candidates for this honor
md in time we may hope to identify him.
The Washington times., 1902-10-27
Official Orthography.

New York Sun-What sense or rea.
son is there for insisting that the capi-
tai of Cuba shall appear in Government
books and maps as 'Habana ?" Not one
man in fifty knows that the Spaniards
pronounce 'b" approximately as we dc
"" One of the written rules of geo.
graphic societies is that reformed spell
ings shall convey as nearly as possible
the sound of the word as pronounced by
the people in whose country the place
is situated. Does "Habana" convey %
our people any idea of the correct pro-
nOunciation. or is II simply misleading ?
The Washington times., 1902-10-27
A Preriium on kissing.

1t may be that the wise doctors COM
posing the Missouri Valley Homeopathic
Medical Association honestly believe
they have put stop to the practice of
kissing by solemnly denouncing it on
hygienic grounds, but they will make a
grievous mistake in SO thinking. What
they have done in reality is to encourage
the practice, for on the principle that
stolen kisses sweetest are" their ta-
boo simply puts premium on all kiss
ing by CHASING il in lump as forbid
den fruit. .JACoUES OF ARDEN.~
The Washington times., 1902-10-27
Mahany Rampant.

When the Hen. Rowland Blenne rhasset
Mahany OF Buffalo. was in Washington
last week he entertained hosts of ad-
mirers with predictions OF the early
wreck and extinction OF the Re- ublican
party. Until the Spanish war sturbed
the peace of the world for a week or
two Mr.. Mahany from his perch in Con-
gress, foresaw the doom of Ii : Demo-
cratic party. He was eager ior war
He asked President Mckinley to give
him a commission as a colonel on the
adjutant generals staff so that he might
go forth from his seat in the II ouse and
run the Spaniard from the Western
Hemisphere. The President could not
see his way clear TO crafty the Buffalo
statesman's ambition for so hie,h a rank.
but offered him commission as a
major This the valorous M;ihany de-
clined because it did not coplport with
his dignity. He is now a Democrat.
The Washington times., 1902-10-27
Deliver Us From This.

] fail TO see anything to commend IL
the determination of one "Bill" Pritz
heralded as the most famous of the
Western Pennsylvania moonshiners, te
go on the lecture stage. We have ne
means of defense against the assaults
Of returned Arctic explorers, famous
principals In sensational lawsuits and
certain others who beleaguer us from
this point of vantage. but the line ought
TO be drawn at Illicit distillers. The new
departure threatens to make the lecture
platform in this country more ..katzen-
Jammery" than ever. SO to speak.
The Washington times., 1902-10-27
The Perils of Prophecy.

Innumerable are the pitfalls which
await the unwary political prophet
With trusty lead pencil and a
tempting sheet of foolscap he can
sweep the country, as Chairman
James X. Jones, of the Democratic
national committee, used to do in 1886
and 1900. With the help of last
years political almanac he can reckon
at a party majority in the House OF
Representatives, as Chairman James
M. Griggs, of the Democratic Congress
sional committee, does every day or
two, just to keep on edge his talent
for mathematics But what a fate
does such closet calculator court when
he rushes into print with forecasts
thus evolved from the depths of his
own unruffled consciousness!
Judge Griggs has just suffered one
of the rude awakenings which come
to jolt the too confiding foreshadover
of party triumphs. In his predictions
of Democratic gains in Pennsylvania
he seems to have leaned too heavily
on the deceptive reed of an obsolete
Congressional Directory"
In a recent burst of candor, Chair
man Griggs declared that I'm addi-
tion to the three Pennsylvania Con-
gress districts now Democratic-the
Eighth, the Ninth, and the Seventh
we expect to carry the Twelfth, the
Thirteenth, the Nineteenth, the Twen-
ty-sixth, and very likely the Twenty
eighth
Mr.. Griggs spoke by his card-the
antiquated guide book to Pennsyl-
vania politics, which formed part
of his managerial library. But un-
fortunately, the Pennsylvania Legis-
lature passed a reapportionment bin
q year ago, dividing the State into
thirty-two Congress districts, instead
of twenty-eight. This caused certain
changes of boundaries, and involved
a REMEMBERING of other districts left
unaltered. In the mix-up the old
Ninth-the Northampton district
was rechristened the Thirteenth, and
the old Eighth-Berks and Lehigh
ounties-becanie the new Twenty
sixth. But by carrying them under
both the old and the new designations
the chairman of the Democratic Con-
gressional committee has scored to
his own unmeasured satisfaction a
gain in Pennsylvania of two absolute
ly non-existent seats
Mr.. Griggs' ingenious calculations
only illustrate the perplexities un-
der which the political forecasters la
Dor this year. New apportionments
IN many States have upset the condi-
tions and vitiated the calculations
of other years. Surface apathy, too
has concealed more than ever the real
drift of political sentiment. Under
the circumstances, party prophets !
may be pardoned, perhaps, for shoot
ing recklessly into the dark. But the
public must also be pardoned if it
takes their predictions, one or all,
with more than the usual regulative !,
pinch of salt.
The Washington times., 1902-10-27
Rockefeller's Gift to Columbia.

New York Mail and Express-If John
D. Rockefeller had selected see
tartan beneficiary for his 100000 thank
offering there would have been no sur
prise. That man of his deep religious
instincts has chosen instead to enrich
the Teachers College of Columbia Uni
versity is a cause for general congratu-
lation. 1t Is recognition of the truth
that no higher. holier work appeals to
than the fitting of men and
women to be agents of enlightenment
throughout the land
The Washington times., 1902-10-27
Christian Science Manslaughter.

New York World-Nevertheles little
Esther Quimby remains in a passed
on" condition, or. as the ignorant null
titude would say-dead. And in the eye
of the common law. rejecting that COM
mon sense which is the greatest foe
OF enlightened Eddyism. somebody was
to blame for the failure to give her
any actual antidote for the very actual
poison Of malignant diphtheria, which
ended her life and spread contagion in
the community. nd-and-somebody
should be punished for it.
The Washington times., 1902-10-27
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.
Inhibition Against Hypnotism.

Philadelphia Press-France, Italy
Germany and most European countries
have statutes regulating exhibitions OF
hypnotism, except for scientific pur-
poses or in the course of medical in
struction. The subject is vague. Hyp-
notism itself is not to be easily defined
1t runs through many grades. 1t has its
medical use. Its employment for mere
vulgar curiosity should be prohibited.
The Washington times., 1902-10-27
Modern Economy.

Il don't see why you say I'm SO ex-
travagant, dad, protested the young
man mildly. Pm sure I've been very
economical in one direction at least"
I'D like to know what" growled the
old man.
why. | have never so much as con-
templated getting married.
The Washington times., 1902-10-27
Doubt on an Interesting Point.

1t is positively known that at this
interesting juncture of affairs it is the
Presidents matured intention 20 urge
strongly upon Congress in his annual
message the completion OF Statehood
legislation for the Territories of Okla
homa Arizona, and New Mexico. The
bill to admit them passed the House at
the last session by surprising ma
jority. due almost wholly to the Pres-
dents quiet insistence. II was held up
in the Senate because most of the Re-
publican leaders there are convinced
to Statehood will strengthen the Demo
cratic party sooner or later. Senator
Beveridge, chairman of the Committee
on Territories. frankly proclaims his
opposition to their admission on this
ground
In a discussion of this phase of the
question last spring the President de-
clared that he was not a bit uneasy
about his ability to carry all three of
the proposed new States; for he realizes
that he is extremely popular among the
men who control them While MIR Bev-
eridge and other Republican Senators
opposed to their admission On the ground
stated do not doubt President Roose-
velt's ability to carry the new electoral
votes that would be created, they are
that the chances would be
against any future Republican candidate
for President Even if for obviously
wise purposes the three Territories
should go Republican next week. still
This would not wholly remove the fears
that control many. of the Senate Re
publican leaders. Hence il is by no
means certain that the omnibus State
lood bill will get through the Senate at
The next session. II is not impossible,
iowever. that Oklahoma may be singled /
'ut by the Senate for admission. Okla +
IONA is more hopeful Republican ground .
hat either Arizona or New Mexico
The Washington times., 1902-10-27
"UNCONSIDERED TRIPLES
The Modern Make-Up.

IT'S SO heartless for people to say
that houses in the suburbs have Queen
Anne front and Mary Ann back
And so unnecessary. My husband
says that the average Mary Ann has
front enough for anything
The Washington times., 1902-10-27

England is said to be amazed at Amer
lean astuteness in settling the coal
strike; but England is not used to fur
naceheated houses, nor to Thermometers
which dodge below zero at the slightest
provocation
The Washington times., 1902-10-27

DR.. Twombly's charge that Americans
are responsible for deplorable moral
conditions in Hawaii recalls to mind
Bret Harte's ironical query in the
Heather Chinee." rs civilization a
failure?"
The Washington times., 1902-10-27

Booth Harrington explains his stage
fright as political speaker by saying
that he can think better at his desk.
What on earth has thinking got to do
with stump speaking?
The Washington times., 1902-10-27
The Unkindest Cut of All.

Did you say that correspondent was
mutilated in Cuba? He doesn't look
like it,
Yes; he didn't lose any arms or legs.
but be had his expenses cut off"
The Washington times., 1902-10-27
Chicago Through English Ewes.

II John Frazer, the English author of
The Real Siberia" ever returns to
Chicago he'll either receive welcome
SO frosty that Siberia will seem as, hot
as hades by comparison or q greeting
The Washington times., 1902-10-27

1t will probably remain a mystery to
man why some women persist in vast
ing tears over the love affairs of Jim
Younger. but it might have been worse
If he had remained alive.
The Washington times., 1902-10-27

Governor La Follette's ultimatum to
Senator Spooner reduces itself down to
the simple terms of you tickle me and
I'll tickle you
The Washington times., 1902-10-27

Commercial Councillor Heckmann will
sail on November 3 for the United States
to study commercial and Industrial con-
ditions. at the instance of the Berlin
chamber of commerce.
The Washington times., 1902-10-27
An Aggravated Horror.

There may have been middle-aged
cllbwomen with hobbies in the days of
our grandfathers, but at all events they
did not wear sailor hats.
The Washington times., 1902-10-27
Chemically Prepared.

What do you think of Meachams s
serial in this magazine?"
We'll; he may call it cereal, but ii
seems more like infants food to me-"
The Washington times., 1902-10-27
One Kind.

THE charm of New York is that it's
so full of clubable people
That's what the policemen seem to
think"
The Washington times., 1902-10-27
The Popular Profession.

The reason why giving advice is so
much more popular than taking it is
that it does not require one to be so
many different kinds of people
The Washington times., 1902-10-27

1t is TO be hoped that Mr.. Morgan will
remain well and in good spirits. If any
thing should happen to him he might
have to take all that is left of the earth
for his health.
The Washington times., 1902-10-27

If the newspapers have really made
the political stump speaker an unneces-
sary evil and retired him to oblivion. a
relieved public cannot be too grateful.
The Washington times., 1902-10-27
A Definition.

DO you like classical music?''
Not much; that's the kind they play
on the street pianos. isn't it? You never
hear it at the theaters.''
The Washington times., 1902-10-27

Jessie Benton Fremont, the aged
widow of the Pathfinder was the first
to be entered on the new register OF the
Fremont Hotel, recently opened in Los
Angeles and named in honor of her hus-
band.
The Washington times., 1902-10-27

Oil is found to be a poor substitute for
coal as fuel for warships. The steam
batteries of our fighting craft seem to
demand something they can set their
teeth on with bulldog grip.
The Washington times., 1902-10-27

King Chulalongara of Siam will have
some thrilling stories of his American
adventures to tell if he blows in that
junket appropriation of 1000, 900 taels.
The Washington times., 1902-10-27

Waldeck Rousseau. ex premier of
France, has become counsel in that
country for one OF the largest insurance
companies Of the United States.
The Washington times., 1902-10-27

Trusts may be. as their friends de-
clare. the mothers of prosperity, but
some of them are too exclusive with
their offspring.
The Washington times., 1902-10-27

They were unprogressi.e people in the
Middle Ages. They burned people at the
stake, but there was no journalism or
headline rhetoric about it,
The Washington times., 1902-10-27
Senator Hanna's Stubbornness.

The Hon. Mark Hannas performance
In this campaign continues to worry
and mystify good many statesmen in
Washington. Most of them have taken
him at his word that he is not now
nor does he intend to become a candi-
date for President, and still he per-
sists in risking permanent impairment
OF his health by making stump speeches
contrary to the advice of his physicians
and family. Before he was forced to
quit the stump by PHYSICAL break
down he positively declined to go to
Indiana; but from his sick bed in Cieye-
land he withdrew this declination and
is now swinging around the circle in
Hoosierdom accompanied by Senator's
Fairbanks and Beveridge.
The Republicans managers, both State
and National, insist that there is no
danger in Indiana Mr.. Hanna gave
that conviction as the reason of his
curt declination of Senator Fairbanks
invitation to canvass the State with
him. 1t was suggested at the time that
the real reason of the Ohioan's refusal
TO accompany Mr.. Fairbanks was his dis
inclination to do anything that might be
calculated to encourage the IndiananS
Presidential hopes. This theory was not
based upon the supposition that Mr..
Hanna was committed to any other can
didate for President, but simply upon
the understanding that he did not wish
to lend himself to any scheme that may
be working in the head of Senator Fair
banks. When all of these facts, sug-
sestions and theories are placed side by
side with Mr.. Hanna's stubborn refusal
to heed the earnest pleas of his physi-
clans to keep off the stump there is
no wonder that the politicians and
makers are worried.
The Washington times., 1902-10-27
IN THE PUBLIC EYE.

Prof Ledoch6wski, the Austrian me-
teorologist, predicts that the coming
winter will be the severest in fifty years
for all Europe.
The Washington times., 1902-10-27

Prof. Rising. of the University of Cali
fcrnia, has been appointed delegate
to the fifth international congress of
applied chemistry in Berlin, in 1903.
The Washington times., 1902-10-27

The Shah of Persia is probably the
best chess player OF royal blood in the
world Even when in Paris he found
time to indulge in the game every now
and then, but he says that Europeans
cannot play it. 1T is royal game.
divine game he is reported to have
said the other day, but 1t is a game
that was not made for Christians
The Washington times., 1902-10-27

The Rev. Felix NJ. Lepore. pastor of
the Mount Carmel Italian Catholic
Church, OF Denver. Colo, has been in
formed by the committee in charge of
the S250,000 prize for airship competition
offered by Mettz. of Lcndon, that his
machine is ore of the three SO far ac-
cepted for the race out of hundreds of
applicants.
The Washington times., 1902-10-27

precautfon Of securing letters of natu
raiization as French citizen, ant
French citizens, 1t may be added, are
safe from any arbitrary action of thi
KIND on the part of the department o
the interior or prefecture of police al
Paris.
The energetic action of the United
States Gc~ernment in taking up the
cause of Robert Rose and his fellow
American citizens VINO have been or
dered to leave France is likely at length
to lead to much needed reform of the
methods of expulsion of foreigners from
France. which ought at least to be so
far amended as to provide that no alien
shall be expelled save by magisterial or
judicial decree, or unless it can be shown
that he is an ex-convict.
The presence of the crown prince of
siam in this country is especially inter-
esting in view of the decree issu{d some
time ago by his father, the King, that
no children entirely naked were from
thenceforth to be allowed to play in the
streets of Bangkok, that every person
over ten years OF age must be clothed
from the neck to the knee" and that all
persons entering the royal palace should
wear socks" The policemen are con-
sidered competent to decide upon the
question of sufficient raiment, and this
has led to some amusing incidents Thus
shortly after the issue of the decree a
constable swooDed down on a little
naked brat who was leading a horse in
the principal thoroughfare of the city,
an American woman who was
driving past in carriage induced her
husband to provide the diminutive male.
actor with the necessary raiment in the
shape of her microscopic pocket hand
which the child Immediately
'ut in its. mouth. The views of this par
ocular policeman on the dress question
we're delightfully."- liberal, for the pocket
even when tucked away in
he boys mouth. satisfied his scruples |
ind he at once released his prisoner.
MARQUISE DE FUNTENOY.