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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-02-12
Another Outrage"

In the sarcastic language of the late
another outrage" BY what was almost
a partisan vote the Republican majority
has unseated a Democrat and given
his place to Republican. Only three
Republicans. Messrs. Shiras of Pennsyl
vania. and Parker and Lanning Of New
Jersey, refused TO stultify their con-
sciences and vote with their party when
they honestly believed it TO be in error.
The Hon. George Howell of the Tenth
Scranton district of Pennsylvania is
the man ousted. anG the Hon. William
Conneli the man given his place. The
action of the Republicans was not based
upon what is sometimes called party ex
pediency and done in order to help make
! substantial working majority. but be-
cause a liberal old millionaire had had
his ambitions crushed by defeat at the
polls and desired his party friends In
the House to do what his constituents
had refused TO do for him-give him a
seat in Congress.
The case has been interesting in
number of phases William Conneil was
born i'm Nova Scotia and began life in
the Pennsylvania coal region, working
down in the bowels Of the earth with
the ordinary miners pick and outfit and
earning the princely sum of 10 cents
day. The story of his rise to wealth is
substantially the story of many another
mans rise to affiuence. He acquired the
money and no one ever accused him OF
being dishonest in getting it. Not many
years ago he sold out his mining inter
ests to a coal trust and now receives
from that concern the handsome reve-
nue. of $1,000 a day. payable every Satur-
day night This income is to continue
for ten years. Besides this amount
turned into his Golfers every week. Mr.
Connell's wealth is variously estimated
between ten and twenty-five millions Of
| dollars.
Democratic in Manner.
Despite this fact MT Cornell is most
democratic in manner and appearance.
To look at him one might judge that
he was still a miner working for 40
| cents a day and had about a week 5
wages in his pockets. Having sold out
his mining interests, Mr.. Con-
nell had one controlling am
bition-not to acquire more money.
money. but to come to Congress- and
/ the mere matter OF years income
| he wouiG not allow to stand I'm the
way OF realizing his desire. He was
elected to the Fifty-f1fth Congress, and
returned to the Fifty-sixth and Fifty
seventh Congresses. He sought re-elec-
ton TO the Fifty-eighth Congress. and
I'm order TO make success as he supposed
doubly assured. after getting a renomi-
nation at the hands of the Republican
| district convention. he sought 10 have
the thing made unanimous by an effort
to induce the Democratic convention to
nominate him also.
The Democratic convention was ac-
cordlngly packed with Council Demo
! Gratis who tried to get their party to
/ name a Republican for Congress- They
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-02-12
BANK CLOSES
IN CITY or SYRACUSE

The Comptroller OF the Currency hai
been advised by National Bank Exam
liner J. Van Vranken that the directors
of the American Exchange National
Bank of Sy racuse, n. Y. have voted to
close its doors. The Comptroller has
appointed Examiner Van yranker-as
receiver
The Comptroller is not in possession
OF any Information as to the immediate
cause Of the failure.
The resources of the bank at the tiLle
OF the last statement. January p. were
s9O6. 0Ss.0S. The capital stock was s2o0.-
600: United States bonds TO secure circU-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-02-12
LIKE oNE-HoRSE SHAY.

In the House the other day Mr..
Thayer asked General Grosvenor in the
course Of a colloQuy between them. IL
the Ohioan had any objection to his
reading from the Republican platform
of 1856.
No" answered Mr.. Grogvenor. Il
cast my first vote in favor Of that plat
form. / am held by it: am in favor Of
it; splendid old platform, Never has
been improved upon. Free speech, free
press. free men, Fremont and anthem
oeTatic wherever they were"
Mr.. Thayer: Yes; and they all went
down together like the one-horse shay
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-02-12
NO OBJECTIONS MADE
TO BILL FOR EXHIBIT

In reporting on Senate bill 37S7. grant
ing an appropriation to the trustees Of
the Woman's National Industrial tx
hibit. the District Commissioners have
informed the District Committee in the
House that the Commissioners know Of
no reason why the bill should not be
favorabIy reported. but that they have
no specific information conce-1siIfS II.
The bill is TO prasfde a fund to es-
tablish an exhibit in Washington.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-02-12

olninence were distinguished by such
marks of favor. But Kipling is said
not to care for such honors, and Wat
son, in his latest book of poems, has
taken ar attitude so distinctly antag-
onistic to England's present policy
that there might well be some doubt
III the mind of the King about his ear
ing for knighthood, either 1t is only
decent 10 suppose, however, that per-
sCnal reasons have not influenced the
poet in writing this article.
The other point which he makes
is, however, one which will seem good
tc most people He asks why drama
lists and journalists should object to
certain writings in their own line-as
they do now and then-On the ground
that the things are ''too literary"
Innocently, he argues that two pro-
fessions of such a quasi-literary
character should be rather proud of
being literary than otherwise.
This is, perhaps, the>natural point
of view for the purely literary man,
who is ever prone to regard his own
profession as higher than any which
IS not purely literary or at leasi
artistic. But there may, after all, be
some justification for the attitude of
these mongrels, the newspaper men
who condemn things for being ''too
literary" Let us see.
1t is possible in any profession to
become what might be called
''siloppy"-to become so permeated
with the spirit of ones own shop
as to be unable to get the point of
view of the outer world. 1t was once
said of Whistler that he was "a paint
or for painters" In like manner
some litterateurs are writers for
writers; they impart what is dis
tinctive in their genius only to kind
red spirits. This sort of genius Is
quite useless to the newspaper man.
The very essence of his professional
skill is the ability TO keep in touel
with the public, to give it what i
wants. not what he thinks 1t ought tc
want if it were different from what
it is. The interesting people who want
newspapers TO devote a column au'
half to archaeological lectures ant
three lines to the latest musical ex
travaganza refuse 10 recognize tht
fact that newspapers are not printed
for the benefit of one-half Of one pei
cent of the community. To print lonl
essays on purely literary subjects
when only few people understood
what they were about, would be a
absurdly pedantic as the learned tall
OF George Eliot's Casaubon was II
the society of his day. In like man
ner. language which would be beau
tifully appropriate if one were de
sclibing a fire in the pages of move
would be ridiculous if applied to th
burning of q barn in back street
That IS what beng too hterar,
, means.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-02-12
wAcHTER IN LUCK.

Representative Frank C Wachter Of
Baltimore was one Of the first public
men to arrive on the scene Of the great
fire last Sunday He vas there full Of
business. and not from idle curiosity.
Mr. Wachter is the owner of a large
cleaning and drying establishment on
German Street, near Liberty, less than
half a square from the great dIg, goods
house of Daniel Miller & Co.. on Liberty
Street, which made a record by burning
to a mass of bricks in forty-five min
yates.
Mr.. Wachter WIS early or the scene,
and had his books and papers removed.
but the westerly wind saved his property
By driving the fire in the other direction
on German Street
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-02-12
Abraham Lincoln.
A Man Who Has Come Late Into Well
Esrned Fame.

Ninety-fve years ago today Abra-
ham Lincoln was born. Forty-five
years ago few could have supposed
that his would be a name second only
t'. Washington's In our roll of fame.
Indeed, IN some respects the char
acter of Lincoln is greater than that
CT Washington, because he owed less
to the fates. With neither education,
birth, position, military glory, ora
torical power, nor any other of the
passports to fame which have been
possessed by various great men OF
our country before and since his time,
he achieved height of glory unfore-
seen by those who watched him rise,
undimmed by subsequent develop
ments. The figure of Lincoln stands
Today not only as one of our greatest
men, bet as one of our greatest Amer
leans.
There are many ways in which the
character of this man repays study.
One might point out the fact that
during his lifetime he was vilified.
belittled, misunderstood, earicatured.
and then almost worshiped, and that
none of these things seemed to move
Linn from anything which ne believed
to be right. No one can doubt that he
sometimes wondered if his aecusers
were right and he wrong, and that the
storm of abuse which beat upon him
wounded and disheartened HIM; but
he seems always to have had the power
OF saying TO himself, as Luther said +:
Here | stand. ! cannot do other
wise. God help me. Amen
There is one fact IN Lineoln's life.
However. which may at some futurs
tine prove TO be more important than
l. now seems. He was product OF
the Middle West. There are those
who believe that the great valley OF
the Mississippi. SO lightly esteemed
and so che0plv held for two centuries
after its discovery, will yet give Il,
car finest Americans. Lincoln came
OF the heart of that vast country
The Mississippi Valley was then, .:
If Is now, in the path of travel from
the one ocean TO the other II wa,
then, as it is now, made up Of selected
elements of our population. men fol
whom the older communities were 10,
small, too slow. too rich. Ii is the pie.
neer region OF the country still, no
IN roughness or in crudity, but in Ger
tain bold and independent qualities
A. Washington was of the type o.
Colonial American, 50 Lincoln may b.
said TO present the type Of the new
American, man autochthonous. sin.
pie, with infinite possibilities. TIL,
fact that his greatness has been ac
h.owledged even by those who wer
cree his enemies proved how stron;
was his influence upon country We
Uniformed. There Is no chance tina
future years will dim the greatness o
Lincoln. and there rs but little that h
viii ever become 20 mere steel enerav
ing" He was too thoroughly a ma
ct the people, and too many of hi
characteristics and principles are still
abroad IN American life.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-02-12

We are now told that we are extremely
mistaken IL we think for a moment that
Russia wants Manchuria for any selfish
purpose. The amount of unselhshness
that is lying around loose in this world
Is truly amazing
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-02-12

We are told that King Edwards speech
at the opening Of parliament was more
uninteresting than usual" Lucky for
King Edward that he is not in vaude-
Vile
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-02-12

Admiral Evans still maintains that
the canteen would be good thing on
warships, but he would not be as brave
as that II he were running for office.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-02-12

Adida-A girl is usually known by
her associates.
Hilda-Yes, and they tell all they
know. too.
Arizona republican., 1904-04-09
TURNER'S GREAT AMBITION.

Turner could not bear to sell a fa- vorite painting He was always mel ancholy after such s transaction. "I lost one of my children this week." he would sadly eXclaim. At a meeting at Somerset House 1t was decided to pur- chase his two great pictures. the Rise" and the Fall of Carthage" for the National gallery. A MT. Griffiths was commissioned to offer f5OOO for them. "A noble offer" said the painter, "a noble offer; but no, I cannot part with them. Impossible MT. GriGiths. greatly disappointed, took his leave. Turner ran after him. "Teu those gentlemen, he said, that the nation will most likely have the pictures af- ter alL' Long before ths Turner had matured a purpose which continued tG be his dominant idea while lie lasted. This was to bequeath to his country Turner gallery of pictures and to amass 100000 to buiId~an6 andow an asylum for decayed artists. It was for this great object that he denied nim- self all pleasures that cost money, all
Arizona republican., 1904-04-09
SHE SIZED HIM UP.

After the opening meeting of the Religious EdUcatiO.i associations re- cent convention in Philadelphia the Rev.-Erastus Blakeslee, of Boston, en- tertained Dr. Frederic Tracy and Dr. Halsey Gulick with stories of his youth.
 "A friend of mine at college" this learned editor said, was a lad Of skeDtical views. He and I made a walking tour one summer, aud late on certain evening We stopped at lone ly farm house and asked for shelter for tho night.
 ''The old woman who owned the farm welcomed us. She had a simple pioUs mind, and she insisted on us talk
Arizona republican., 1904-04-09

tween the cars to uncouple them, eX- cept that he either thought he could save time, or he was like many rail- road men become, 9 little careless and preferred to uncouple them in the old fashioned way rather than use the mechanical arrangement for doing so. That he stepped between the cars is proved not only by the engineer who saw him suddenly disappear, but by the imprint of his hand on the grab bar on the end of the rear car, which was to be kicked off" This grab bar was thickly coated with dust except where the hand of someone, presum- ably MT. Marsh, had seized it. The body, and particularly the head, was frightfully mangled. Coroner Burnett was notified and a jury viewed it, after which it was turned over to an under taken and the inquest proceeded with. From his pockets were taken a gold watch that had not stopped running S9S.S5 in money and a pocket knife bent by the wheels of the car. The verdict of the jury was that it was an unavoid- able accident.
 Mir Marsh was about fifty-four or fifty-flve years old and resided at 4S7 North Fourth avenue with his family which consists of a wife and two daughters, Misses Bertha and Grace, who attend the seventh and eighth grades, respectively, of the Central school A son, George, Is attending the University of Arizona, but was away on a trip to Bisbee, where he was notified by wire and will come home as quickly as possible The shock was a terrible one to Mrs. Marsh, who was overcome with grief when the ter rible news was broken to her, and it was no less distressing to the daugh- ters who were at school when they first heard it. One of them almost tainted and became hysterical.
 Mir. Marsh had been a railroad man the greater part of his life, having been employed on the Pennsylvania system for over twenty years and hay ing given up Q responsible position there to come to Arizona for his health. He was very i'll of asthma when he came here, but improved so rapidly that about four years ago he entered the employ of the s. F. P. & P. com pany and has been with that company continuously since then, being account ed one of it's most trustworthy and re- liable employees and being held in high esteem by all who knew him.
 No announcement has yet been made of the funeral arrangements.
Arizona republican., 1904-04-09
FRENCH TOBACCO USERS.

The increase in the quantity of to- bacco consumed in France is astonish- ing. In 1S11, 55,S97,915 kilogrammes were sold. A kilogramme weighs lit tie more than two pounds, and this sale amounted to $5O,574,O7S. From 1911 to 1900, France made by it's monopoly of the tobacco industry $2757, 324, ,459. In the exposition year Of 1900 the state made s67, 774,5 ,565. Naturally strangers within the gates of Paris largely con- tribute to that consumption. France is not sorry when there is one more day every fourth year, for, witE all taxes. if makes a profit of $4, 200, 900 just on that extra day. Tobacco alone pours over a million francs a day into the udget.-RrooIlyn Eogle.
Arizona republican., 1904-04-09

luxuries. His resolve, once made, could not be shaken. On enc occasion he was offered f1OO.OOO for the art treas ures locked up in his "den." "Give me the key of the house, MT. Turner" said Liverpoor merchant, "and here is the money" NO, thank you" re- piled Turner. T have refused a better offer" Which was true. By his will he bequeather f14O,OO0 to found an asylum for poor artists born in Eng land, and magnificent art collection to his country. This latter bequest was, however, coupled with the condi- ton that his "Rise and Fall of Car thage" should be hung in the National gallery between Inude's Seaport" and Mill Golden Penny.
Arizona republican., 1904-04-09

ing part with her in evening prayers.
 'At the prayers 'erd my skeptical companion attempted to deride her pi- ety.
 Do you believe he said that men are made of dust?'
 The good book says so. Therefore I believe it. said the old woman.
 How about wet weather then, when there is no dust, when there is only mud? What is done then?' said my friend.
 "The old woman looked at him and laughedJ
 "'When there is only mud, she said, infidels and such like truck are made Buffalo Enquirer.
Arizona republican., 1904-04-09
KILLED BY MOVING WHEELS
Tragic Fate of If. G. Harsh in the
 Santa Fe Yards.

M. G. Marsh, yardmaster of the Phoenix & Eastern and Santa Fe, Prescott & Phoenix railways, and con- ductor of the Phoenix-Mesa train on the former line. was accidentally and instantally killed in the Phoenix yards yesterday morning about 7:30, by get ting one of his feet caught in the frog Of a switch while he was uncouplinS two carc of a slowly moving freight train. The accident was one of many of the same nature by which railroad men have loststheir lives. The faithful conductor was careless of the danger, and stepped between the cars to make the uncoupling, instead of standing outside and using the mechanical safety appliance.
 MT. Marsh and his crew were making up the regular morning train which goes to Florence, a mixed passenger and freight. They were switching back and forth on the tracks west of the freight depot, and the accident happened near the foot of Seventh avenue. The engine was manned by Engineer D. l.. Lee and w. A. Wilbur, fireman, but neither of them saw the accident at the instant it happened. The conductor was killed on the engineers side of the train, and at the fatal moment the engineer happened to be looking toward the front of his engine, while Marsh was killed car-lensth to the rear. When he did look, he saw the body of Marsh projecting from under the fatal wheels, which were passing over the crushed members. The engine. headed west, was backing east erly toward the freight depot, and on a track that runs on the south side of the building. It was pushing two freight cars, and was pulling eleven others by the bar attached to the pilot.
 MT. Marsh had turned the switch west of Seventh avenue, that threw the train from the second to the third rack. counting from the north, there being eight parallel tracks at that point. The train was to back down toward the de- pot, then west again on another track, placing the front cars and the rear car next to the engine in the train being made up. To save time it was the pur- pose of Mir. Marsh to have the other car behind the engine kicked off, He ran back along the car next to the en- zine, the train moving slowly. and stepped between the cars to uncouplc them. As he stepped between the cars the engineer momentarily glanced to- ward the front of the train to watch for any signal that might be given by the brakeman, then turned his head to the rear again and saw the body of NIT. Marsh projecting from beneath the ca. next the engine and being whiried around. The engineer stopped the train almost instantly, or at least with in little more than the length of the ear that killed Marsh, his body being found under the trucks of the tender.
 When found, a portion of his shoe and foot were caught in the frog be- tween the two diverging tracks.
 The cars are fully equipped with the coupling and uncoupling attachment to be operated from the side of the track. They were inspected before they were moved, by the car inspector, and again after the accident. and the machinery was found to be in good working or der There is, therefore, no apparent reason why he should have stepped be-
Arizona republican., 1904-04-09

The sales during the year 1903 of Moet & Chandon White Seal were A. 013,634 bottles, a figure never before reached by any other champagne house. White Seal is the champagne of the day.
Arizona republican., 1904-04-09
PLANK, the Halter
 FLEMING BLOCK

The foxy physician realizes that some people have too T,uch money TO be permanently cured.-Philadelph Record.
Arizona republican., 1904-04-09

No, Maude, dear, a dark-brown taste in the morning doesn't necessar- fly come from drinking SchuyIkiII Record.
Arizona republican., 1904-04-09

Fish make excellent brain feod and those that get away make monumental liars.-Chicago News.
Arizona republican., 1904-04-09

Many novel lacks color and yet it is read.-Philadelphi Record.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-11-18
INDIAN WAS NOT HEATHEN
In His Primitive State in Weird,
StrL.age Way he Worshiped
q God.

Charles Gibson disputes the
assertion that the primitive Indi.
an is heather, says the Kansas
City Journal. Says Mr.. Gibson:
"The Indians green corn dances
are looked upon as a wild, savage
proceeding, but in reality these
annual festivities are a species of
religion. The Indian is more seri
Ons, sober and on good behavior
at 'husk' than at any other time.
''The reason for these annual
festivities is the ripening of corn,
which is twothirds of an Indians
living. When he has corn in his
crib he has plenty to live on.
These dances were originally held
at the ripening Of all fruits. In
fact, it was the custom to cele
brate and in a simple way give
thanks TO the Great Spirit for
granting the privilege Of feasting
upon the fruits Of nature. The IN
dian has always in his simple way
Worshiped God.
''The square grounds wherein
these ceremonies are carried on
are very sacred, when the customs
ar carried out properly. For in
stance, drunken man is not al
lowed inside the tucha, as the
dance ground is called. No loud
talking or boisterous person is
allowed 10 come within tn.
grounds; furthermore, no woman
with a clouded reputation is al
lowed to come into the grounds
night or day. The ceremonies are
very solemnly carried out and no
foolishness is allowed. 1t is also
a custom not TO allow any four
footed animal to come about the
place, as they are looked upon as
unclean.
"The man, woman or boy who
had eaten green corn before these
ceremonies were concluded was
not allowed to take part at the
musk. as their taking hand
would destroy the great virtues
to be received from the Great
Spirit. The person who ate green
corn before the black drink was
administered at the regular 'husk'
was considered q backsIider."