The Washington times., 1903-12-29


A multi-marrier.
For you have wit enough to see.
And know exceeding well.
That one good wife's enough of heaven.
one bad. too much of hell,
1t may seem curicus to some that IL
should be necessary TO call I'm the Presi-
dent Of the United States to set right
again before the Community a police-
man falsely accused of stealing a bottle
OF milk. A policeman is surely not an
exalted official. neither IS a bottle of
milk great matter. TIE President is
not STOPPING frosn his high place. new
ertheless. in making use of the pardon
ing power in this case. Justice ia ius-
tice. whether 1t relate to the theft OF a
bottle of milk, or of a railroad. and
theoretically. at least, under our system
OF government. tn rights of the hum
DiSSt individual az as sacred and i'm
portant as those of the millionaire.
Advices from st. Petersburg suggest
that war with Japan may take place
as result, In a measure, of the Cars
ii-health. He Is not sleeping well, and
his counselors fear that he NAV not
nave the strength to resist the will of
those ambitious leaders who see in war
an opportunity for personal advance
ment Would IL not be strange 81 half
the world were to be. set fighting. Just
because the Gar had passed one par
ticIlarly disagreeable night? After sew
eral hours OF refreshing sleep he might
arise, set his foot down. and say. once
for all. NO, There must be no war;
On the other hand. worn out by tossing
Tor hours upon his bed his brain few
cred. his nerves a-quiver. his thoughts
muddled, he might be easily overborne
by the strong Wills of his more IN
scrupulous advisers. II one could have
before him the unwritten history OF the
world. he would find that bloody wars
have been precipitated by less important
matters than Cars inability to fail
asleep on some particular night.
The latest flying machine that will fly
halls from Kalamazoo. Mich. A model
three feet long raised itself from the
ground and flew to a distance OF eighty
feet. Then it came down again. Pre-
sumably it lit on fence and crowed. AT
any rate one win be built and entered
for competition at the Worlds Fair at
st. Louis. II looks now as though the
air would be full OF flying machines and
queer aerial craft during the progress
Of the Exposition. People will return
to their homes fairly bent over back
ward and with their faces set on top II
their heads. from looking up at the
flying machines.
The discovery among a lot Of forgot
ter documents OF a fine Panama hat be-
longing to Speaker Cannon. Is a good
instance of that perverseness which in
animate things sometimes display. The
hat was unearthed at the very slcme of
the cold spell. at a time when but to
look at cooling appliances only makes
one SILVER. AS the hat was sent. TO the
Speaker some months ago. and was
mailed from Manila, II can have no pos
sible connection with the tSttiis1ian ques-
ton.
1t can make but little difference to a
man after he is dead where his bones
rest. yet the living should not be denied
the satisfaction OF paying honor after
deatl 10 those whose lives have bene-
fitted the race. In bringing to this city
the remains Of James Smithson, the
founder Of the Smithsonian Institution.
Prof Alexander Graham Bell is doing
service to the memory OF a distin-
zuished lover of science and of his kind,
that VIII give satisfaction TO genera
tons vet unborn. The appropriateness
OF burying the remains beneath - monu-
ment in the Smithsonian grounds is so
apparent as not TO call for comment. OF
course, such structure would do no
more than TO mark the last resting
place of James Smithson, as his real
monument IS the institution which his
money founded.
1t may not be generally known that
the founder of one of the most famous
and familiar of the great institutions of
Washington was an English philanthro-
pist. a natural son of Hugh Smithson.
Duke of Northumberland. He was a
chemist OF repute and Travelled about the
continent OF Europe, carrying a portable
laboratory with him and making expert
ments Dying, he left his estate, valued
at fI20,0o0, to a nephew, under
the conditions that. in case the latter
died intestate. the money should be used
in founding an institution at Washing
ton Ito be known as the Smithsonian
Institution. for the increase and diffu-
sion of knowledge among men" The
nephew died in 1888. without heirs, and
the property, valued at over 500. 600
came into the possession of the United
states. James Smithson died in Genoa
in June. 1929. and 1t is there that he is
at present buried.