The National tribune., 1906-10-04

many of the schemes to which he re-
fers are robberies pure and simple. The
country is rich and offers many good
chances for safe investment but these
lshould all be carefully examined, refer
lences asked for and sought etc, before
La dollar is parted with.
Men sometimes say funny things un-
Intentionally. For instance, Mr.. Bryan
said the other day: when l was IA
years old the ambition of my life was
to go to the United States Senate.
did not want to go to Congress or to
be President. The Senate was the
place" Now, that is really funny, don't
You know. did not want to go to
Congress The Senate was the place
| Now, really-well, the man who made
that break has been twice a member
of Congress and twice a candidate for
| President and yet does not know any
| better than to mix things like that. To
be Senator is to be a member of Con-
gress, and one could not be a Senator
of the United States and not be men,
Der of Congress. To be a Representa-
| tive of a State in the United States
House of Representatives is to be Il
| member of Congress. To be n member
| of Congress is to represent ones State,
| either in the Senate or in the House.
| That is what constitutes Congress. 1t
tdheS tHt Two TO CotlStllute tile
supreme body, and one is nothing with
out the other. One House of Congress
cannot adjourn over three days without
the other body does the same thing or
consents. 1t is improper and illogical to
speak of a member of the House of
Representatives as Congressman
from such and such district in such a
State, although you see the term COM
monty used in newspapers and other
NJ h1ira finnS ma of fact q
United States Senator is just as much
n Congressman" as a member of the
House. United States Representative
Blank" is the proper title for member
of the House. and United States Sem
ator Blank" for a member of the Sem
ate. This distinction is one of the very
first lessons that a cub reporter is
taught in a newspaper Office, yet he
constantly hears from members of Con-
gress their own titles used very much
out Of place by themselves.
If you paid any attention to the COM
plants filed in the Police Court you
would soon come to the conclusion that
Washington was "Cranktown," so per-
fectly ridiculous are some of the ex
cuses for complaining. For a long time
now, indeed, one might say for years,
and possibly forever" just such COM
plants will go on. Peopie-some peo-
ple-have been complaining about the
ringing of church bells! 1t seems in
credible. but it is true that there are
people who object to the sweet-toned
bells in the church towers of the city.
Some of these people. who swear that
the church bells prevent their sleeping
after o'clock in the morning. own
automobiles with fog-horn whistles on
them which they operate until long
after midnight, much to the distress Of
everybody within half mile: but they
do not think of this nuisance. Others
have miserable little cur dogs that bark
two-thirds of the night and all day.
but they do not consider that their
neighbors should be annoyed by that;
others declare that the clangor of
street-car gongs does not annoy them,
nor the screech of the railway engine.
but church bells-well, a church bell
gives them nervous prostration.
There isn't any doubt at all that there
are some people that church bell will
annoy, no matter how sweet their tone.
There are those who do not like to be-
Eeve that there is any hereafter, and
they do not want to be reminded of its
possibility by the ever-suggestive
church bells. There are infidels, back
slidcrs and all sorts of people, and you
generally find when you scratch one of
these kickers that one OF the foregoing
is hurt. The man who will kick on the
ringing of the sweet-toned church bell
would probably beat his grandmother
| if she got too much salt in the break
fast biscuit, and slap his wife before
company if the dinner roast was over
done. The ringing of church bells is
almost as old as time. Not bells such as
we have to-day. tuned to sweetest con-
cord, but harsher, harder substitutes.
| Every tribe, every nation of people, has
| had something which stands for a bell
with which to call attention and to
congregate people. The idea is as uni
versal as that of the Supreme Being, or
ruler of all things, which seems to exist
among all peoples save and except can
nibals. The rudest peoples have assem-
bled to the call of the rudest Of bells,
and the most refined people of the
world to-day are summoned to their
houses of worship by exquisite chimes
of bells which play the cradle hymns
| of all nations. The man whose nerves
are touched by the ringing of church
bells ought to get off the earth. AT
least, he might cut out his cigarets, his
beer, his whisky. his wine, his playing
for high stakes, his midnight carousals,
and maybe his nerves would tone up a
little. Let the church bells ring.
| President Castro, of Venezuela, is
very i'll. and the State Department has
been so informed. He may die at any
time, such being the nature of his all
ment. and if he does die, there will be
| troubles and troubles in that much
rent little country. Persons here ia
miliar with the political situation in
| that country are certain that the death
of President Castro would bring on a
\ strife between political factions for
| control of the country. Even at the
| Venezuelan Legation here it is admitted
that a serious situation would be
| brought about by the demise of the
| present Executive.
/ Alfred w. Cooley, a member of the
! Civil Service Commission, has announced
his intention Of resigning his position.
Il Mr.. Cooley states that he will retire as
a member of the Commission next year
and return to New York, where he will
resume his law practice, in which pro-
! fession he was engaged prior to COM
ing to Washington, in 1903, as q men,
: er of the Commission.
Nanny Jacobson, the Swedish sailor
5 Coxswain of a cutter, who dashed into
the channel in front of Santiago dc
! Cuba under a hot fire from Ell Morrc
and liftaJ tba n. bla 6, ring tho Cpap;,t,