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Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-15

kaiser. who, considering that suhteient Sc
verify had not been exercised, requested
the resignation Of all of the superior ON
GERS of the regiment, including the colonel
himself The lieutenant had meanwhile
gone to England He has now returned
and has been sentenced to seven months
His brother, who saw him
on at Berlin, has been dismissed from the
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-15

National in the Cooper building, and tbs
National Bank Of Commerce welcome the
ladies' as cordially as they can but they
have not overstepped the bounds OF the
national bank conventions. Other banks
are the same way.
ladies have pockets you know" sagcly
remarked a dlgnifed vice president Of one
Of these in observation-disclosures Times.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-15
MinisterIaI Union MeetinE.

At the regular meeting OF the Ministerial
Union OF Omaha next Monday morning in
the Young Mems Christian association
rooms, Nineteenth and Farnam streets
Rev r. b. A Mcbride. pastor Of the
Central United Presbyterian church. will
read a paper on Some Historic Revivals. +"
Rev. IA. l.. Mills, pastor OF Hillside Con-
sion on the subject The Torrey-Alexander
committee viii make its report at that
s.a-aium
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-15

pecial Lot 500 Brussels Rugs
No inter seams. We have Just
received 500 Brussels Rugs,
size 9 II. by 10 IT. in, closed
out to us by one of the biggest
rug mills of the East, and
which rugs we are going to
sell at a most sensational price
this week They are new de-
signs of most exquisite shades
and blended colorings. Closely
woven, wonderful HOE
values. ...............
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-15
A Brave Flight

against Stomach. Liver and Kidney Trouble
is always successful II carried on by means
Of Electric Bitters. 30 cents. For sale bv
Sherman & Mcconnell Drug Co.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1906-05-24
A Veterans Complaint.

A war veteran in the custom
house said yesterday: 'EDon't you
think the G.. A. r. is thing of the
past? Where is the poor old veteran
today? Where is his friend? If he
parades he is ridiculed. If he asks
for a pension he is laughed at, If
he talks about the war people snick-
er and sheer. If he wants place in
the government service he is COM
PEELED to become a messenger or
common laborer, while people who
never smelled gunpowder get 81 900
a year and over and strut around
as colonies, majors, captains, etc.
Shame on the unpatriotism of our
country We veterans will not live
much longer, so why not gladden.
our last days ?"-New York Press.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1906-05-24
Attest:
NEW APPENDICITIS FAD.
@. M. WISE,
Clerk.

DR.. Pond of Liverpool airs new
appendicitis theory in the London
Lancet.
He says that appendicitis and
other such ailments can often be at.
tributed to antimonial poisoning,
and the source of the antimony
taken up by man is said to be the
rubber rings which are frequently
used to close bottles.
DR.. Pond has proved that such
rings consist of almost one-third
their weight Of anthony. The an
timony is not only dissolved by min
eral waters containing alkalis and
organic acids, but these rubber rings
soon become brittle, and some Of
the compound falls into the vessels.
DR.. Pond claims to have found
that antimony can become the
source of disturbances of the nutrl-
tive and digestive systems, especial
ly through continued weakening Of
the muscles of the stomach and in
teStineS.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1906-05-24
Making Child Linguists.

A new method of teaching Ian
guages by interchanging children
between different countries is being
popularized by an institution which
has its headquarters in Paris.
Sir Oliver Lodge has adopted this
method of teaching his children
French by exchanging them for a
limited period with members of the
family of NJ. Toni-Mathieu, the di-
rector of the society.
In its first year the society has
been the means of exchanging no
fewer than Lightweight children
and young people between families
in England, France, Germany and
Austria.-London Mail.
ST. Helena.
st. Helena is one of England's
moribund colonies, according to the
report of the governor. It has ca
BILE station and garrison, but that
is all. Only three British warships
called in during last year. Consid-
ering the proximity of St. Helena to
the West African coast and the
splendid climate of the island, the
governor wonders that it is not used
as sanibarium by the navy.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1906-05-24
The Machine Made Pie.

The national institution has
reached its apotheosis in Pittsburg,
where the American eagle screams
~ver a machine which turns out for
~ ,,;os minute, 2,400 al hour, ef
~ ~ p 1feS . :" dov o. a tan hours, A man
named Sons invented it. S " 'Fs T.
boss baker, and the labors of sue
cessive generations Of mothers over
millions of American pies have bios
somed in his genius. The machine
will turn you out a pie while you
wait-apple, mince, blueberry, rasp-
berry, blackberry, pumpkin, custard
or lemon meringue. This shows the
progress of civilization. Instead of
$4,000 women, each making pie
for dinner in her own kitchen, one
woman will 60 and tend that ma
chine and turn out $4,000 pies a
day.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1906-05-24
TWO Miles a Minute.

The Belgian administration has
asked the congress to appropriate
$40, 900 for new railway into
Germany via Louvain, st. Trond
and Argenteau.
The new line will help to meet
the close competition of the Dutch
railways. Every effort will DO put
forth to make travel as comfortable
as possible and to increase speed as
far as is consistent with safety. 1t is
hoped that the speed will reach 100
miles an hour, There will be no
grade crossings, the grades will be
light, and the radius of every curve
will be at least 1000 yards.
The projected road will connect
central Germany with Antwerp, the
port of entry into Belgium.-Con-
sui MeNally, Liege, Belgium, in
Consular Reports.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1906-05-24

or alteration shall be made in con:
necti on with the city's water and
light system, without written auth
GRITTY issued by the superintendent.
Section 8. This ordinance shall
repeal all conflicting ordinances
rules, and regulations, and shall be-
come effective June 1st, 1905.
Second reading and adopted May
21st, 1906.
Approved.
D. W. PAULK,
Attest: Mayor.
@. M. WISE,
Clerk.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1906-05-24
TO REACH
The ultimate resting place the
service of the
FUNERAL DIRECTOR

must be sought.
Experience and high class ap-
pointments enable US perform
ali necessary services satisfac-
torily.
Preparations for burials and
final interment are carried out
with delicacy an skill.
SOUTHERN MERCANTILE &BUILDIkG co.
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neighborly interference the United
States has ventured largely, with am
pie confidence in its own power to
safeguard its interests in the island?
The Cubans are jealous as a race
another heritage from their peninsular
forbears. Not unnaturally, they re-
sent to some extent American suprem-
acy in the island-American Industrial
supremacy. that is. It must be ad-
mitted that they have some reason to
fear from it. If they were inclined to
believe that the citizens of the great
republic were engaged in an act of the
most beautiful philanthropy the world
had ever known the Isle OF Pines cpl
sode must have convinced them Of their
error. IN that charming islet, claimed
by every Cuban as a legal and logical
part of the new republic. it happened
that as soon as American interests be-
came predominant the newcomers flung
out the stars and stripes and declared
themselves American citizens on
American soil.
This is the feeling that is always up
permost in the mind of tn average
Cuban, and there are abundant evil
dences that it is shared by the govern
ment which proves that the latter is
not. as has been alleged. the tool of
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many persons came to believe them to
be true. 1t was in vain that Lane de-
nounced these undeFhand methods of
attack on him and demanded that his
opponents make specific charges.
Goaded to desperation, one day in the
spring of 1856 he stepped from a bug
gy in which he was driving with a
friend at Leavenworth and, without
word of warning. drew a pistol from
his pocket and blew out his brains.
The next man to fill the seat that
has become known as a mysteriously
i'll fated one was Edmund G. Ross, ap-
pointed by Governor Crawford to fill
the unexpired term. Ross was a promi-
nent newspaper editor and enjoyed
great popularity. What gave promise
of being a fine career was abruptly
terminated with the impeachment pro-
ceedings against President johnson.
Kansas was a unit for the fmpeach-
ment Of the chief executive, but Ross
did not believe that he was guilty and
declined to vote against him. The
senator was bitterly attacked even by
his former friends, and at the end Of
his term of Office he left the state,
practically an exile. He soon suffered
financial embarrassment and found
difficulty in obtaining the employment
to which a man Of his ability was en-
titled. At times he had to work at the
printers case in small offices for a
mere pittance. He died in Texas. alone.
in poverty and almost unknown
Alexander Caldwell of Leavenworth
was elected by the legislature. in 1871.
as Ross successor He escaped the
Lane hoodoo for two years and then
was forced to resign by q storm of in
dignation caused by accusations OF
49,
majority in the stormy campaign that
had resulted in his election. He, too
fell into obscurity. a political wreck.
Judge Robert Crozier, who was ap-
pointed to serve out CaIdwell's unex-
pired term. Immediately became in
volved in a series Of political feuds
which stripped him Of prestige and re-
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An Unusually Senatorial Succession;
a Series of <1isfOrtlrles Has Followed It's ReDres
Succession;

longer than any of the others, but when
the stroke came it was an unusually
severe one. Wealthy. a great power in
his own state and to some extent in
the senate chamber, and apparently in
the best Of health, Plumb dropped dead
in the streets of Washington during the
second year of his third term.
The following newspaper dispatch
sent out from Washington tells the
story of the case Of Bishop w. Perkins.
who was appointed by Governor Hum
phrey to succeed Plumb: Perkins. the
new Kansas senator, who was sworn
in today. was not very warmly received
by his colleagues. His appointment
has disguised most of the Kansans. as
well as the Republicans who served
with him in congress After a long
career in the house. in which Judge
Perkins showed himself an able mar.
he blotched his record by participating
in the Choctaw and Cherokee land
steal which went through the last con-
gress" Perkins was ostracized by the
other senators throughout his term. at
the end of which he retired a broken
hearted man. and he died within a
short time.
Judge John Martin. a Democrat. was
the next incumbent Of the hoodoo seat
He was elected to the Office by the
Populists in the Kansas legislature and
from that time on was known as q
Populist, although he never declared
himself one. But his influence in the
Democratic party was gone. and he
soon degenerated into political dere-
let
IN 1895 the Republicans regained con
troll OF the legislature and State Sena-
tor Lucien Baker was chosen for the
Lane succession. It is said he feared
it and that he took the precautlon to
carry a rabbits foot during his term
In any event. he became exceedingly
unpopular, and after entering a con
test with J. R. Burton for reelection
withdrew two weeks before the votg
was cast.
]. R Burton had more terrible ex-
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changed his humdrum life in his Cen
trail Valley schoolhouse for the impos-
ing Havana palace once occupied by
the naughty Spanish governor general.
He went about his task Of running a
complex government with all the ease
and confidence he had manifested in
his private academy for the sons of
Cuban patriots in the sleepy New York
village
Whatever may be the shortcomings
of Tomas Estrada Palma there is no
lack of dignified self possession in his
makeup. It must be admitted also that
he has shown himself to be skillful at
organization and that he is tireless in
his efforts to advance the interests Of
his country. That he has been shrewd
enough to combine personal modesty
with mental fitness and to preserve I'M
falling politeness explains, perhaps.
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why it is that he has succeeded so long
in avoiding political disaster.
Notwithstanding his own freely ex-
pressed opinion to the contrary. the
president of the Cuban republic IS a
remarkable man. He declares that ca
pable leaders were so few in Cuba at
the time he obtained his foothold that
any man of moderate talent was bound
to take a leading place in the councils
Of the new government. There were
so few strong men among u.s." he once
remarked, that any one who stepped
to the front was obliged to become at
least a general. and quickly" Yet no
one who has ever known him has been
convinced of his mediocrity.
Now in the first half of his second
term as president, Senior Palma is in
his seventy-second year. He is a. native
of the Cuban province of Bayamo His
father was a man of great wealth. the
owner Of an immense landed estate and
one of the largest cattle breeders on
the island. Young Palma was reared
in luxury. educated by tutors at home
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perfence than some Of the others who
had tempted the hoodoo Of the III
starred seat. He brought disgrace up-5
on himself and his state, as well as on
the senate, by attempting to shield a,
St. Louis get-rich-quick concern from
the wrath Of the postal department.
Following his conviction and sentence
to Imprisonment, he resigned his seat.
Such is the record of disaster in ths
fatal Lane succession. It has struck
heavily here. and lightly there. but It
has always struck. The lifetime Of
service in the senate customary in so
many states has contrasted strangely
with the short terms and ruinous his
tory of this i'll fated seat in the upper
branch of congress.
Senators Vest and Cockren IN the
neighboring state Of Missouri were
contemporaries of most of the men of
the Lane succession. Senator CuI1om
of the nearby state of Illinois saw more
than half of the occupants Of the Lane
seat come and 80. Senator Allison OF
Iowa served with great distinction for
thirty consecutive years. while the
Lane succession furnished a new man
almost every term and one to whom
either death or misfortune came. and
in several cases both.
sAre you not afraid of the Lane sue
eession2" Judge Benson was asked by
a friend wen Governor Hoch offered
him the seat made vacant by Burton's
resignation
NO. I don't believe in magic" he re-
piled. But he laughed nervously and
refused to discuss the subject further
But others have talked of it, including
members Of the senate, men who be-
Iieve only in the magic exerted by
wealth and power. Some of them have
said that they would rather retire frcm
the senate than have to serve in the
Lane succession.
Judge Benson has a distinguished
record as a jurist. His nerves are good
and there is little likelihood Of his
worrying over what may befall him.
HAROLD b GREGORY
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Tomas Estrada Palma, for eighteen
years country schoolmaster in New
York state, who was transformed sud
denly into the first president of the
Cuban republic. He was installed
on May 20, 1902. but for thirty
years previous to that time he had be-
lieved himself to be the legal possessor
Of the title. He had been elected for
mal1y by the revolutionists in the Ten
Years war between skirmishes with the
Spanish oppressors. He accepted the
dignity and never yielded it. When he
was captured during the early part of
his career and taken to Spain and i'm
prisoned. he claimed the title even in
his captivity. In the progress Of a
census at his battlemented prison
among the Pyrenees an officer de-
manded his occupation. sT am the
president of the Cuban republic" he re-
piled.
So he looked on his election after the
Spanish American war as a vindica-
ton and restoration of his rights.
without any sign Of elation he ex-
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the American influence" It is true
that political independence came to
Cuba through American interference,
but it is also apparent that the steady
movement OF American capital into the
island threatens its commercial indie
pendence. from the Cuban point of
view.
The eastern end of Cuba is practical
~ owned by Americans. The British
and English have also been attracted
by the favorable opportunities for in
vestment. but they have been over
Swallowed by the magnitude of Ameri-
can enterprise. It seems almost in
credible, but the time has actually
come when the immediate consequences
of civil disorder in the island are GER
tain to be more disastrous to Ameri-
can interests than to the Cubans them
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"a W WILL Senator Alfred W.
"a Benson Of Kansas escape
the mysterious fatality of
the Lane succession ?"
The seat in the United States senate
occupied by Judge Benson for a few
days last spring and TO which he will
return at the next session of congress,
IS called the Lane succession" be-
cause it was first filled by Colonel
James H Lane in 1861. after Kansas
had been admitted to the Union Dis
aster and in several cases death have
overtaken the ten occupants Of that
seat, from Colonel Lane, who committed
suicide. down to Joseph Ralph Burton
who was convicted for abetting fraud
against the postal department.
The other Kansas line Of succession
in the United States senate, now occu-
pied by Senator Long, has moved with
a comparatively even tenor. Since the
dramatic exposure of Senator Pomeroy
1t has ruined no man politically, and
one man at least, Senator Ingalls,, made
a brilliant record in it.
When Kansas was admitted TO the
Union it elected two senators, ON. be
ing entitled to a long term and the
other to start on the short term. Lane,
who was colonel Of a Kansas regiment
recruited for the civil war, and S. c.
Pomeroy were elected. Lane was much
the more popular and Adler man Of the
two. and nearly all of Kansas citizens
wanted him to be the senior senator.
The two men pulled straws. and Lane
drew the short one and the short
term.
Lane was seldom in his seat during
the war. for he spent most of his time
running back and forth across Kansas
recruiting soldiers. He was reelected
in 1855. and from that time on he suf-
fered heavy loss in prestige. His po-
htical enemies magnified all his petty
sins Of commission and omission. They
could point their finger at no great
fault. but they circulated disagreeable
gumors with such persistency that
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and sent to the great Spanish univer-
sity at Seville to complete his studies
He was a remarkably diIigent student
and attracted much attention from the
university dons, who were surprised
that such a scholar could come from
America He was graduated from the
university and returned to Cuba a full
fledged lawyer.
But he never began 'he practice Of
his chosen profession When he reach
ed home he found many changes. His
father had died. and he had succeeded
to a great estate. The preliminary agI-
tation that proceeded the coming strug-
gle for liberty had begun, and he en-
tered into i with all the ardor of his
youth. The war came. The Spanish
conhscated his estates, carried off his
mother and tortured her to death.
This made him the hnplacable foe
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United States, who are in certain way
committed to the maintenance of I'M
INSTRUCTED opportunity for the COM
mercial ventures that have taken root
IN the island.
present i'll timed revolution is do
ing. 1t is a condition that is likely to
prove far more harmful to the Ameri-
can capitalist who has cast his lines
in Cuba than to the average Cuban
patriot who has little to lose and
whose dreams of ultimate gain are
roseate. It matters little to the latter
that his island is self supporting and
prosperous, that her Industrial life has
expanded and that there is now COM
Portable surplus in the national treas
ury. 1t does not interest him to learn
that the favorable trade balance for the
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freedom. but have expanded into pro-
portions undreamed of by the Cuban
Imagination. In a word, he seems dis
inclined to be satisfied with the fact
that the government of his own coun-
try by its own people under its own
president has been safe, sane and con-
servative, the United States standing
close at hand to protect it from any
foreign aggression that might threaten
it's autonomy.
There is one Cuban. however. who
does not share his compatriots' dis
trust of the Americans. That man is
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at the time Of the establishment
"a Of the Cuban republic there
were few so sanguine of its
- nernetuitv as to regard it as
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selves Anything that interferes with
the working out and profitable devel-
opment Of the numerous great enter
prises established by American com
mercial ambition is a matter of very
serious import to the authorities in the
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year exceeded s40.0OO.000. He cares
not at all that the islands two great
industries, tobacco and sugar cane
growing. have not only recovered from
the ruin into which they had fallen dur
ing the dark period of the struggle for