The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-16

| | tribution of the mails and so caused much
 complaint on the part of the patrons of 1 the office.
 IT IS ALL OVER.
 l But 1t is all over now Love, sweet
 love, the love that iasteth--for while ] proud defiance. of the tyrannical depart ment of postofiiees, Now, 1t Is the tender | condition of two hearts that beat as one,
 two legs that walk as four.
 lated the facts to me. mere bald. uHpoetic | facts this afternoon. there was the sus- picion of tears in his voice. and when he concluded by saying that the bride stood
 on cracker box in a chair in order to | get next the groom in the wedding cere- | inony his voice quavered and he kindly
 said he'd leave the exquisite poetry of
 the situation to my un worthy typewfiting
 machine. So leaving him in the lonesome lonesomeness of the gathering gloom in | the vast stone palace of all the postof-
 Aces. I passed out into the falling snow. l feeling that perhaps after all love ought
 not to have too many legs, since 1t has
 such an abominable habit of running | away.
 Dear fattie,
 So good, sweet and reund-- Your like can't be found.
 Something like that is supposed to have
  | to his postmaster swcetheart.And so 1t 1 comes about that peace dwells where the | Iegless one was bred in old Kentucky"
 GAINES GAINS.
 The honorable and historic member of
 the House, John Wesley Gaines of Ten- | nessee, who has been for years the butt
 of joke and satire. is avenged. Last ses-
 sion no end of fun was had at his ex- pense because in his honest and well, \ me n O | ents, whom he serves so well that they | keep him in Congress term after term, he introduced a bill which had become | a law months before.
 The other day the country was laughing
 at Senator Hear. in some respects the 1 ablest and most accomplished statesman
 in the Senate, because he succeeded in
 passing through that body a bill to di- vide the judicial districts of Alaska, the
 ame measure having passed both houses | last June and received the President s | signature. Now 1t transplres that MT.
 Jenkins chairman of the House Judiciary | Committee, has made an identical mis-
 take. Both Senator Hoar and Congress-
 man Jenkins are admittedly learned in l the law and are most experienced legisia- tors. Thus the facts of duplicate legisla- | ton may be of some encouragement to i the learned lawmakers of Alabama, who l have just taken up their responsible du- | ties. Members of the House here were inclined to enjoy the Hoar Alaska incl I I grave and reverend Senators are positive i ly chuckling like ordinary folk over the diseomAture of Chairman Jenkins.
 The Senators say that Mir, Jenkins, a l setts Senator and one not so burdened with questions of State, should be better
 able to keep his wits about him and not
 put Congress and the President to tine | trouble of placing the same law twice on
 the statute books. It mas been discovered | that last week MT. Jenkins had the House | pass a bill changing the boundaries be-
 tween the Southern and Central judiciary | cal, word for word, with bill passed on March 24 last. The fact was disclosed by a letter from Attorney General Knox calling attention to the duplication.
 FOREIGN SERVICE.
 l If argument were wanting in favor of
 a permanent foreign service of the Cow l ernment, diplomatic and eonsulaF, it is | aSsuredly found in the case of MT. Bo- | wen, the American Minister to Venezuela. | who is today the most talked-of and most | pr Iaised diplomat in the world.
 1 MT. Bowen was for some twenty years
 a consul of the United States at various | ports. Necessarily a consul must be a ! diplomat if he be of any material good 1 to his country. and 1t was as consul that | Minister Bowen gained that experience which has enabled him to be of such in- | caleulable service to his country and to I | our Minister to Venes iela during tho re-
 cent threatening conditions there and in | relation thereto.
 Not only his own Government, but all | the interested powers and the world at | large place implicit faith in his skill and | bis sense of responsibility. This is plain
 ly attributed to his knowledge of Inter
 national affairs and the reputation he | gained as consul.
 Every American who has been in the | foreign service of the Government is
 aware of the prime necessity of experi- | ence and the consequent wisdom to guide
 him in the proper discharge of his al | ways delicate duties. Hence 1t is amaE- ing to those who have creditahly served the country abroad and who have records of their own with the Department of | State of which they are pardonably proud,
 and which are open to any citizens in- | spection, that there should be even the | hint of opposition to peFmanency and
 the merit system in the consular service, | the best of all training schools for the
 higher diplomacy which deals with the | questions of vital international import,
 often involving the worlds peace.