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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-09-24

John f. Dubbs. of Huntington, Pa,
and Nettie Schiller. daughter OF John
Schiller. cashier OF the German Saw
ings Bank. were married yesterday
morning in Cumberland by the Rev. J.
s. Braren.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-09-24

AIRS. Mary Mantz Gittinger. wife OF z.
James Gitiinger. died suddenly yester-
day morning at her home. on East Pat
rick Street. Frederick. In the seventy
third year of her age
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-09-24

Samuel Barley. one of the best
known negroes of Nanticoke district,
Wieomico county. died Sunday under
circumstances which will cause inyesti
cation He was taken sick on We'd
aesSay OF last week. and soon after
lsPsed into a comatose state. from which
he never rallied.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-09-24

William Gisriel. Prohibition candidate
for governor; Col. John sobieski. OF
California. and Finley C. Hendrickson.
'f Cumberland. addressed a Prohibition
meeting at Frostburg last night.
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-11-21
INDIVIDUALITY AT THE POLLS.

To the Editor of The Globe:
What have to say here regarding the
exercising of Individual rights at the polls
may not have very sweeping effect with
the voters of this great republic, and yet
l feel deeply the necessity of urging in
dividuality and independence upon the
voters when called upon to cast their
votes at either municipal or national cleo
tionS.
1 fear too many men are unconscious of
the fact that they are responsible for the
well-being of this great nation, that their
vote may be the turning of the scales
either for good or evil and that they
allow themselves to be led or pushed
along party lines and for the sake of
party victory sacrifice their own individ-
ual IDEAS of right to help elect some one
particular party regardless of the kind
of men on the ticket. This is certainly
not right, it Is an injustice to ourselves,
our homes and our country. Every voter
before he enters a polling booth should
familiarize himself with conditions and
investigate to his own satisfaction the
character, capabilities and ambitions of
the men on the several tickets; and in
thus investigating should endeaVor to the
best of his ability to pick out the clean
est and the ablest men from among the
several parties and cast his vote accord
ingly, regardless of party lines
l am in favor of party where it is pos
sible to elect good clean, honest timber,
but am not in favor of such if the good
of the nation or municipality will suffer
in consequence.
Seems to me very clearly that the in
dependence of the voter has been greatly
hampered and his individuality at the
polls sacrificed when the great army of
"grafterS'' with whom we are forced to
deal in both national and local affairs
have been placed in such positions of
trust.
1t is almost certainty if each voter
would do his plain duty when he enters
a polling booth on election day and not
sacrifice individual principle for the sake
of party victory, that the result would be
far-reaching and We would have cleaner
men and better government in all
branches of our political life.
1t makes no difference to me whether
a man is a Republican or a Democrat.
So long as he is the better man of the
two, I want to vote for him every time.
I am not an advocate of hide bound
partyism and the downfall of all that is
good and pure in politics 1 believe thor
oughly that every man should study the
ground carefully before he casts his vote.
Its a crime to do otherwise.
In voting for the head of the nation to
the very humblest servant of the mu-
nicipality, the voter who has the .reins In
his hands should say to the best of his
individual ideas who should or should not
be elected. He should exercise the same
care that he would if he were called upon
portance touching his own individual fire
side.
No man can afford to go to the polls
unconcerned and without the welfare of
the nation and his own municipality at
heart. On him and every other voter
rests the freedom, dignity and prosperity
of this great republic. Yours for honest
representatives,
William A. Mustard
ST. Paul, Nov, 20, 1903.
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-11-21
j. ADAM TO THE RESCUE

The Hon. J. Adam Bede, aforetime
joker-in-o ordinary to the sovereign peo-
pie of Minnesota and inventor of the
birch bank pants, has gone to the res
cue of his town of Park Rapids. A pa
ternal government interfered with the
flow of the Mississippi to such an ex-
tent that the principal industry of
Park Rapids was threatened. The peo-
pie of the town appealed in vain to
have the fowage of the Father of
Waters restored. The paternal one
turned step-fatherly ear to the people.
Then they bethought them of J. Adam
and how he had once upon time per-
formed a notable stunt with the aid Of
bit of birch bark. Now Jadam stands
in the imminent deadly breach revers
ing the position of his Saxon ancestor
who bade the sea to back up-for J.
Adam is commanding the waters to
flow
There will probably be something
doing with the Mississippi in the neigh
borhood Of Park Rapids now that Mr..
Bede has taken charge. The waters
that were backed up with view to
assisting the rain makers will again
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-11-21
NO CIVIL PENSIONS.

To the Editor of The Globe.
The Baltimore American today re-
printed your excellent editorial on the
weakness of Pensions which should be
reprinted again and again by every
American newspaper until all intelligent
people clearly see that individual devel-
opment depends entirely on individual re-
sponsibility, and that to remove that in
dividual responsibility is to weaken and
deteriorate men mentally, morally and
physically.
Teach them that youthful Incidence,
negligence and extravaganza brings want
poverty and discomfort in old age and
they will guard against the former in
order to prevent the latter. But assure
them that the state i. e., other people,
will tender by care for them with pen
sions in old age and all incentive to labor,
economize and store up for the future
(what will never be needed) is gone. En-
ergetic men became such because from
childhood up circumstances induced them
to lead active lives and indolent men are
such because their surroundings fostered
the Incidence. Pensions are not only un-
Just to those who must pay them, but they
greatly injure those who are led to ex-
pect them. They take from the indus
trious, frugal and deserving and give it
to the lazy, shiftless and undeserving
ID. Webster Groh.
Hagerstown, Md, Nov. II. 1903.
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-11-21

roll on gathering volume as they jour-
ney to the Gulf and incidentally help
ing to make pulp at Grand Rapids.
Thus will Mr.. Bede justify the faith
his people had in him and prove that it
is more honorable to sit in the con-
gress than to star as "a contributor
the Humoristiche Batter. What would
it profit the people of Grand Rapids,
or the state of Minnesota, If the useful
ness of Mr. Bede had been restricted to
the furnishing of passing joy in the
humorous columns of the press? NO
joker ever turned the wheels of pulp
mill, but when congressman gets
busy-ah, then do the wheels begin to
go round!
The lesson that this activity on the
part of the new congressman teaches
should not be lost on those who have
been wont to look with indulgence on
the maker of the joke that glistens for
an instant and is then lost, as the foam
on beer. Better is it to live preserved
in the Congressional Record to remind
the sober minded that life is tragedy,
than to frivol through the span for the
amusement of those who would grow
fat.
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-11-21
ZION CITY WILL BE
KISSLESS HENCEFORTH
Lovers Are Enjoined to Strict Compli
anc'e With Dowie's Mandate.

WAUKEGAN, ILL.,, Nov. 20.-"No
kissing in Zion!" is Dowie's latest bat
tie cry. Lovers and others inclined
to the exercise of the ancient art of
kissing are likely to have sorry time
of it henceforward, for the fiat of the
master of Zion has gone forth, and
this means that Zion City is to be
kissless.
One Zion City young man has al
ready felt the wrath of Elijah II"
as the result of violation of the anti
kissing ukase. He is a socially in
clined young man, and Wednesday
night he gave one of the occasional
parties which constitute the social
pleasures of the community. The
shocking announcement was made to
Dowie this morning by one of his om-
nipresent detectives that he had seen
a tender salute exchanged between a
dashing cavalier and one of Zion's
coy maidens. The host at this party
has been forbidden to give any more
parties.
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-11-21
SPEAK FOR YOURSELF.

The very sensa tional murder case in
Minneapolis, with which the police au-
thorities of both cities are now busted,
furnishes text for editorial utterance
by the Minneapolis Times that requires
brief attention. The Times says very
truly that crimes are increasing in fire.
quency all over the country. The ap-
proach of severe weather, but more
particularly the perceptible diminu-
! ton of good times and easy living, has
made the laWbreaker more numerous
and more daring
The Times, however, in pointing out
the prevalence of crime in MINNEAPOLIS
and in calling for drastic measures, en-
deavors to soften the severity Of it's
own indictment by coupling this city
with Minneapolis in the bill. 1t says
that st. Paul is suffering less severe
ly," because 1t has for a long time been
the policy Of the police department to
drive out suspicious characters. It in
Inmates that crooks find in st. Paul
base of operations where they may lie
quiet, and from which they can work
| in quarters where they will be less
| promptly interfered with.
All this, except as far as it describes
current conditions in Minneapolis, is
stuff and nonsense. The obvious truth
is that st. Paul is today, as it has been
for some years now, the best policed
city in the United States. Crimes,
either great or small, are of the rarest
occurrence within our boundaries.
There are neither burglaries nor hold
ups nor other assaults upon the busi-
ness or property of our people. Our
streets are safe for travel by day and
| by night. Men and women are free
from molestation and may traverse
| either the business or the outlying res
idence sections with as much security
as if they lived out in the country.
When other cities are suffering as
| severely as they are from lawlessness,
this condition argues an unusual de-
gree of efficiency in police control and
calls for compliment and congratula-
ton to the authorities. If 1t is true,
as we think it is, that the prevalence
of police graft in so many cities of the
country, including the demonstrated
rottenness in Minneapolis, shelters the
outlaw and encourages 1awbreaking. by
the same token it is true that st.
PauPs police government stands very
near the top in the list of cities of this
country. Our record is made I'D and
we stand by it. Minneapolis should
| speak for herself
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-11-21
TODAY'S WEATHER

Minnesota-Fair and warmer in east;
rain or snow in western portion Sunday,
rain or snow; brisk south shifting to west
winds.
Upper Michigan-Fair and warmer Sat-
urday; rain or snow Sunday; increasing
south winds.
Wisconsin-Fair and warmer Satur-
day; Sunday partly cloudy, with rain or
snow In northern portion; fresh south
winds
Iowa-Fair Saturday and Sunday;
warmer Sunday.
North Dakota-Snow furries and cooler
Saturday: Sunday fair.
South Dakota-Fair Saturday and Sun
day.
Montana-Snow fiurries and cooler Sat
urday; fair in eastern; rain or snow in
western portion Sunday.
St Paul-Yesterday's observations,
taken by the United States weather bu-
reau, ST. Paul. w. E. Oliver, observer, for
the twenty-four hours ended at O'Clock
last night Barometer corrected for tenn
perature and elevation. Highest tempera-
ture So; lowest temperature, II; average
temperature, "a; daily range, 90; humid
ity, 81; precipitation. o.; 7 p. M tempera-
ture So; 7 p. m. wind south; weather,
partly cloudy.
Yesterdays Temperatures-
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-11-21
ORDERS FOR GOODS
MORE NUMEROUS
Construction Work Shows a
Decrease--Other Features
of Business Situation.

NEW YORK, Nov. 20-R. G.. Dun
& Co.'s weekly review of trade tomor-
row will say: Labor organizations are
accepting reductions in wages without
controversy, which removes one threat
ening industrial factor, and in several
branches of business there is little ex
pectatior of liberal buying until 1904.
Construction work is decreasing, de-
spite optimistic reports of more build
ing permits issued last month than a
year ago. Mild weather restricts dis
tribution of merchandise, usually in
brisk demand at this season. which is
reflected in restricted activity at
woolen and worsted mills and clothing
factories.
There is not the complaint of traffic
congestion that was 80 frequent at this
time last year. Railway earnings are
reported 1 per cent higher to Nov. 1
than last year. testifying to the in
creased facilities. A week has passed
! without any further reduction in prices
| of iron and steel and stability in price
| IS expected for some time. Railways
have placed orders for several thou
sand tons. Meanwhile foreign markets
are sought with more persistence.
Machinery and hardware have felt the
reaction less thus far than structural
| material and other heavy shapes, while
new ship building plants and machin-
cry for the Panama canal are an en-
couraging feature of the future. Minor
metals are quiet.
Orders for cotton goods increase
| gradually, both for immediate ship
ment and forward delivery, and there
is less disposition on the part of pur-
chasers to secure concessions in quota
tions. Trade is by no means active.
Export inquiries are more numerous,
but actual business is small. Wooden
goods await the stimulus of lower tenn
perature. Meanwhile the tone is not
firm. Eastern shoe shops have about
completed inventories and are starting
on next seasons business. Jobbers
have large supplies of seasonable goods
as a rule, but wholesalers are more
inclined to keep near actual require
ments.
Failures this week were 249 in the
United States, against 266 last year,
and II in Canada, compared with "a
year ago.
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-11-21
we are to get in return canal right

we are to get in return canal right
of way.
We do not think that the American
people will approve this way of doing
things. 1t is true that their moral
sense mas suffered considerably during
the past five years. 1t is true that they
have felt constrained by party allie
glance to condone acts of the govern
ment which, standing alone and on
their naked merits, they would reject
with horror and Ioathing. 1t is true
that they have become accustomed to
casuistry in defense of or apology for
policies that are memorably hostile to
the American idea. And yet we believe
there is limit.
We believe that the point will be
reached and that the time will come
when they will cry halt to the prog
ress made and still making toward
absolutism in idea and in act that pre-
walls at Washington. We think that
there are things which they will not
trade for a bag full of dollars or a
promise of commercial advantage. We
admit that the happenings of the last
few years make this faith seem, per-
haps, oversanguine; yet with conf
dence we still wait the resurrection Of
that pure and primal Americanism that
shall stand for the great. simple, posi-
tive ideas of the fathers of the republic,
and shall sweep from the face of the
country the miserable compromises with
commerce and with cash that constitute
the opportunism of latter-day Repub
licans.
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-11-21
Contemporary Comment
Colombia and the Canal.

In zthes long run it will be better for
the United8eStates to have the canal
built with the approval Of the Colom-
bian Experiment. 1t has been COM
PEELED to- resent what we have termed
diplomatic t'bluff." 1t has seen this
bluff and gone considerably better" but
it might as we'll be recognized that,
while the sacred right of revolution
cannot be. absolutely denied, it would
be better for our ends if we gained
them by not becoming responsible for
dangerous methods, while even Pan
anna in. herr relations with Colombia
assuming tHat the latter can be induced
to consents to reasonable canal con-
structionAWould have in the future a
healthier existence because part Of
one of the great states of South Amer
ica.-BoSton Herald.
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-11-21
A PlTIFUL SIGHT.

We do not think a stronger contrast
past utterances of Theodore Roose-
velt as a civil service reformer and the
present performances Of Theodore
Roosevelt as president of the United
States. In his overwhelming anxiety
to be the nominee of the Republican
party next year, he has abandoned ut
terly every pretense of devotion to
reform. He has turned over the offices
as spoils to the senators in the sew
eral states, on condition only that he
shall have the delegates to the next ma
tional Republican convention.
A case in point is reported in our
special advices from the capital, in the
state of Washington. There a minor
official was to be appointed, and a
secretary of the interior recommended
to the president the name Of a COM
petent and proper person. Naturally,
the president sent it to the senate.
Then came the two United States SEN
ators from that state and demanded its
withdrawal on the ground that their
senatorial perquisites had been inter-
fered with. The president instantly
yielded; without the slightest pretense
that the gentleman first named was
unfit in any way for the position, but
solely on the ground that the Office
belonged to the senators and must be
treated as their private property. This
name was withdrawn and that of the
senatorial protege was substituted.
Let us hear no talk in the campaign
next year about the "spoils system in
politics. 1t will be parallel to the hyp-
ocritical shouting for good govern
ment" in the New York city election,
when the sole issue on the Republican
side was the success of Tom PIatt's
machine. The Republican party today
Is absolutely dominated by and built
up upon the spoils system in it's most
offensive and criminal form. A Re-
publican senator from Nebraska is now
under indictment for selling an Office
for cash. The president of the United
States bestows offices at his disposal
without the slightest consideration Of
fitness, as the senators, who are sup
posed to be able to further or to de-
feat his nomination, may direct.
What transition from Theodore
Roosevelt, the champion and represent
ative of civil service reform, to this
petty jobber in federal place; this man
who is using his high office and the
enormous patronage at his command
solely to advance his personal political
prospects. AS citizens emulous of the
honor and well-being of the country,
we could well spare the advantage that
this brings to the Democratic party if
we could be spared at the same time
the shame that it brings upon the
country and the lasting disgrace that
it casts upon the name Of Roosevelt.
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-11-21
MUST NOT READ
BIBLE IN SCHOOL
Nebraska Supreme Court Issues Writ
of Mandamus Against Teacher.

LINCOLN, Neb.. Nov. 2O.-The su-
preme court of Nebraska today issued
a writ of mandamus against the teach
er Of District School No. q, in Gage
county, ordering her not to read the
Bible to her pupils. The case was tried
some time ago, the supreme court de-
Gliding that sectarian knowledge should
not be impaired in public schools. The
teacher continued to read the Bible.
and Daniel Freeman sued for a writ OF
mandamus.
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-11-21
Europe and the Canal.

The maritime nations recognize us as
the proper builders and guardians of an
isthmian canal, and only wish we would
get to work and build it, incidentally
protecting their citizens resident in
those parts. There is little doubt that
European governments expect and de-
sire that the revolution in progress
shall result in the formation of a new
neutral republic virtually, if not form
ally, under the protection of the
United States. 1t is not unlikely that
this may be the result.-San Francisco
Call
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-11-21
PERSONAL MENTION.

Windsor-M. j. Connolly, Dubuque; H.
S. Callius and wife, Spokane; Mrs George
Lerch, Hibbing; J. D. Mulloy, Lidger-
wood; N. ,I, p: . 1u ,o,.ao. ro,co
Dunlop Anaconda; J. c.. Kohl, Fort
Dodge; A.. Joseph, Fargo; o. M. Martin
and wife, Owatonna.
Merchants-Es A. Martin, Chippewa
Falls; w. HI. Lucas, Tacoma F. McDon-
ough, Eau Claire: I. A Enow and wife,
La Crosse E. T. Barron, Bozeman; G.
R. A. Scobey and wife Fort Peck, Mont. /;
s. j. Lambard, st. Charles; L. A. John,
Anaconda; 4 F. P. Bacon, Butte; Mrs.
James Tawney, Winona; c. s. Carpen-
ter, Seattle.
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-11-21
The Curiosity of IdIers.

For the assurance of those persons
who may be concerned over the fact
that thousands of women crowded to
see the Duke of Roxburghe and Miss
Goelet, it may be remarked that two
headed calf or a f1rst-rate bargain sale
would draw together equally as many
persons. The spirit of the old Atheni-
ans still lives in the breasts of idlers
everywhere e.-Philadelphia Press.
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-11-21
FINDS VEIN OF COAL
IN STEARNS COUNTY
Well Digger Claims to Have Struck
Large Deposit of Anthracite.
Special to The Globe.

ST. CLOUD, Mimi, Nov. 20.-Jacob
Stern, a well digger, residing at Cold
Spring, Stearns county, claims to have
discovered a bed of anthracite coal
while digging a well on the farm OF
Michael Schreifels, six miles south Of
Cold Spring. He declares that he bor-
ed through a vein of coal four feet
thick at a depth of twenty-e eight feet
and brought samples of the article to
the village. 1t has been known for
years that coal existed in small guam
titles in this vicinity, but this is the
first vein Of any dimensions ever dis
covered.
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-11-21

Three robbers arrested at st. Louis
declare they are from Chicago. And
the only way to prove that they are
not telling the truth is to take a census
of Chicago.
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-11-21

And now it is Republican senator
who is under Indictment for selling
federal places in his state. There
isn't anything, apparently, from a big
office to a postage stamp, that can get
away from the ruling spirit of Repub-
licanism.
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-11-21
Among the Merrymakers
Worked the Dey.

The dey Of Gazooluland was angry.
Petulantly hurting the gold brick to a far
corner of the throne room, he exclaimed:
"And thus is my confidence in humanity
imposed upon! Gold-bricked gold
bricked! What is the world coming to?''
Your altitudinous excelency," inter-
posed the court jester with a sinister
smile, "was it not but yesterday that the
poet-laureate composed a ballad setting
forth that this is a work-a-dey world?"
Ten minutes later howls from the rhyme
room told that the court poet was get
ting his.-Judge.
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-11-21

That invitation offered by an even
ing paper to go a-maying is calculated
to inspire the wrath Of the gods. If
we must take to the woods, let's go
snowballing.
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-11-21
. A Delicate Position.

Our position is an important and a
delicate one We can remain secure in
it only by being just and impartial.
We shall have great temptations to
overcome and difficult problems to set
tie. European immigration is now
flowing into the Southern continent in
steady streams. In course of time there
will be populous and prosperous ma
tions there The direction of their des-
TIMES is now in great measure under
our control.-KanSas City Journal.
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-11-21

If the negus of Abyssinia has been
reading the papers, he ought to have
sense enough to go and hide his crown
before Consul General Skinner. the
American envoy, confiscates it in the
name of liberty.
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-11-21

Mr.. David M. Parry has one feature
Of the strenuous life beat: He Is not
going to be driven to insomnia sitting
UP nights lodging invitations to deliv-
er Labor day addresses.
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-11-21
The Spacious Times.

Elizabeth had signed Mary Stuarts
death warrant.
'9It is such a novelty" she explained.
''to give my autograph to person who
doesn't want 1t.
Thus did the Scottish queen fall a vic
tim to the all-prevailing fad.-New York
Sun.