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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-23

Mrs. Alice Durham Announces the en-
gagement of her daughter, Irma May, TO
william Wade Randolph OF Kentucky, the
marriage to take place In October.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-23

Mrs Mariah L. Dewey was given a
surprise yesterday on the occasion OF
her seventy-eighth birthday by her
friends, Mrs. Hadley D. Johnson Mrs
James Bradford, Mrs. w. ShurtIiff, Mrs.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-23

Miss Marguerite Donnelan and Arthur
Glendipning. both formerly OF this city.
are TO be married Wednesday at Pacific
Grove. The wedding IS TO be QUOT one
because of the Illness Of Mrs. Donnelan.
Later the three Will come to Salt Lake.
Mrs. Donnelan to reside, and the young
couple on trip before they make their
homo In Mexico.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-23

Mrs. p, s. Condle chaperoned a party
OF her young friends at a roller skating
party at saltair Friday evening. The
guests were as follows: Miss Mary Con-
dle, Mr' Gone. Miss Watson, Mr.. Smith
MISS hate Condie. Mr. Robinson, Miss
Pence, Mr.. Calthorp, Miss RUBY CondIe
Mr.. William Balm and Mr.. and Mrs
William Stevenson.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-01-19

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WHY DON'T YOU sMILES

Fze beat over his desk drearily grinding AT his
task, With the corners Of his mouth drawn down and
wrinkles across has brow. He may have been up late
the night before nay hare been trOubled with touch
Z ofdyspepsia; may have been burdened with muih-
tude Of cares and perry vexations-maybe, ey-ry-
thing had gone dead wroHg''
Cheerful NAE, nf6 expansive brow and a smile
that seszrhed from ear v ear entrfed swept his eye
cye- the elongEtsd counsenanoe Of the man at the
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sEaes
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do bis work. Did Il help his digestive Organss Did il
tighten his bnrdea2 Did II make those who saw him
ferl any better and happier Did II do anybody any
goods
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-11
THE STATEHOOD QUESTION

To the proposition of the house, which
is in substance TO admit Oklahoma and
Indian Territory as one state and Ari-
IONA and New Mexico as one state, sub
ject to the approval by the people Of
the latter two territories on a vote on
their merger, the senate, by its action
Friday, responded with the counter
proposition to admit only one new state,
composed of Oklahoma and Indian Ter
ritory, leaving Arizona and New Mex
leo in their territorial status, The adOp-
ton by the senate of the amendment
striking all reference to Arizona aud
New Mexico out of the bill is not con-
elusive that Oklahoma will be admitted
to statehood at this session, although by
universal acknowledgment that terri
tory is abundantly, and even pre-emi-
nently qualified therefor. In the Fifty
seventh and Fifty eighth congresses bills
passed one branch of congress only to
fail in the other through disagreement
between them as to the terms of ad-
mission, and there may be chance OF
final disagreement I'm the present in
stance.
The influences which have thus so far
rendered abortive effort TO admit the re-
naming territories TO statehood are vari-
Gus. 1t is no novelty that partlsanship
should play part In the disposition of
such questions, although as to Okla
hOma particularly there seems to be,
either IN the existing general state of
politics or IN the particular conditions
of that community, little reason why IL
should now be 50. Successive repub-
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-11

ican national conventions have declared
for the admission Of the territories as
soon as they are competent for state
hood. There may be grounds for doubt
of the present competency OF Arizona
and New Mexico separately, or, per
haps, I'm combination, but there is none
as to Oklahoma. The vote in the house,
where an instruction was organized, as
well as in the vote In the senate, re-
vealed irreeoncilable differences even
among the republicans touching the bill
disposing Of all the territories, although
the bill was put forth under the regular
party authority and was understood to
be acceptable to the president.
Back of partisan and like considera-
tons a very potent, although not con-
spicuously acknowledged, force operat-
ing on this question in all it's complica-
tons is sectional interest, the east being
distinctly and arbitrarily hostile to in
crease of western political influence
through the multiplication of western
states. AS frequently before in the
cases of other western territories, so
now this force has had its effect In the
delays and complications regarding the
remaining territories, and even in the
form of the pending bill and the pro
ceedings regarding 1t.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-11
IOWA ANrr-pAss ME ASSURE,

The passage by unanimous vote In the
Iowa senate of an anti-pass measure
prohibiting railroads, telegraph and teie-
phone companies from issuing passes
and franks to state and national Off
Gals is the latest among many notable
signs of the strength of public send-
ment demanding divorce Of our poll
tics from undue railroad influence. The
Iowa senate bill, whose scope will GER
tainly not be narrowed before hnal en-
actment, is a distinct step in advance,
although its provisions do not cover pll
the pass abuses requiring correction,
and the logic and popular impulse back
of it will cause further steps in the
same direction in the immediate future,
Reasons Of public policy equally re-
quire legal prohibition of the issuance
OF the acceptance of free passes for any
political purpose whatever, especially to
delegates to conventions, their nominees
or aspirants before them for nomina-
ton, and TO agents working In their in
terests. Indeed, the aim Of pass re-
form, as matter of strict justice,
reaches far beyond even such limita-
ton and looks to complete abolition of
ali free transportation favOrs
This is the objective toward which
public attention everywhere is now de-
cisively directed. and state legislatures
in their action are rapidly making
progress toward it. 1t is significant
that while the degree of legislative
progress, dependent of course, upon
local conditions, varies among the
states which have had recent oppor
tunity to act, in no state has there
been either Indifference or retrogressior
as to the pass nuisance, and seyera
have adopted sweeping and stringen
/ prohibitions.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-11

seps attempt on the isthmus, should be
over-sanguine for American accomplish
ment But they failed to take into ac-
count the concurrent progress Of sani-
tation MS applied to tropical conditions.
American experience in Cuba has
proved revolutionary in that direction.
1t demonstrated the efficacy of drainage,
the possibility Of destroying the insects
that communicate the germs of malaria
and yellow fever, and thus Of prevent
ing diseases, which more than any other
one thing save graft broke down the
French effort. The engineers who first
went to the isthmus eager to dig the
canal were impatient during the elabor-
ate and painstaking movements Of
the corps of medical scientists. not re-
allzing how vitality necessary thorough
sanitation was to the efficiency and
economy Of the work. The testimony
before the senate committee suggests
how far the irritation which has arisen
extends, the same probably being the
real cause to which Chief Engineer Wal
lace's dissatisfaction was due.
But the magnitude and value Of this
and similar branches Of the work al
ready accomplished by the government
on the isthmus are now fairly beginning
to be appreciated. The effect will appear
more conclusively when actual construc-
ton work is in full swing. The country
will soon understand, IL it does not now,
that these very preparations, which,
while they were under way were the
occasion of so much Impotence and
doubt are the ground for increasing
confidence and renewed determination
that the canal shall be built.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-11
personal AND OTHERWISE.

The latest Chicago innovation takes the
form of proposition to build second story
railways.
Icemen did not cut much OF the article
last winter, but they promise to cut the
cake next summer.
New York is so thoroughly content with
the present condition Of AFFAIRS that the
natives are seriously discussing the proper
cut for whiskers.
A woman instructor in a Chicago high
school ventures the opinion that a cat is
preferable to a husband. 1t takes all
kinds Of tastes to make a world
The projected lengthening of the ia
panese stature is still in the discussion
stage. but the proposed substitution of
beer for sake insures a lengthening OF the
waistband.
The statment is boldly made that there
is only one man in New York who actually
works for nothing. 1t is hardly necessary
to add that he is not a native. He is a
Hindu monk.
One Of the splendid new charities OF this
country, the Widener Memorial School for
Crippled Children. was inaugurated in
Philadelphia recently. The institution
cost 100000 and has an endowment fund
| VI aou1VsuVVs
A Wisconsin bridegroom, overshadowed
during the ceremonies, recovered his nerve
few hours after the ceremony and calmly
! informed the bride that heneeforth, when
he snapped his fingers she must jump. But
she didn't-she skipped.
The fashionable genius who presides over
| the deliberations OF the DressmakeFs'
| Protective association In Chicago AYERS
| that It is possible with modern hxings
TO make the figure of corpulent woman
look as 1.-THE and willowy as a Gibsonian
gazelle. Such wonders make robust men
realize the hopelessness OF their condition.
Terrence v. Powderly OF Knights OF
Labor fame shed gobs of tears at meeting
in New York the other day. Shareholders
In the Powderly Coal Mine company
wanted to know why there was only So
| In the company's treasury, although
$500. 900 worth Of stock had been sold. Ter
renee was 50 overcome that he could not
fashion an explanation.
Smarting under lashings administered to
Poultney Bgelow for his attack on the
| Panama canal administration the New
York Independent has sent to the isthmus
Edwin E. Slosson and Gardner Richard
son, two OF it's editors. 10 investigate and
report on conditions there, Prof slos
son is western man, serving as STATE
chemist of Wyoming for ten years up Il
1903, when he Joined the Independent stan
Mr.. Richardson is a recent graduate Of
Yale.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-11
NOT so SURPRISING.

One of the delegates from Nebraska
to the divorce conference. which re-
Gently met in Washington, discussing
its proceedings upon his return, is
quoted as follows:
was much surprised at the ground taken
by the women delegates to the conference.
Almost without exception they were ex-
tremely radical in their views. They
favored throwing down the bars and grant
ing divorce right and left without any re-
strictions. There were eight women dele
gates.
That women should hold an attitude
more favorable to divorce than men is
not so surprising when past history and
existing conditions are taken into con-
sideration, although there is no more
reason why women should favor unre-
stricted divorce than men. If accurate
divorce statistics were at hand they
would doubtless show that practically
nine-tenths of the divorces in this coun-
try at least are procured by women and
that even when separations are sought
by the men the decree Is usually al
lowed TO be given to the women with a
chivalrOus view of leaving her in posi-
ton TO show that she is not the party
at fault.
The institution of divorce on the ap-
pllcation of the injured wife as distinct
from the biblical divorce allowed to the
husband, who alone was entitled to put
aside the wife, is unquestionably one of
the greatest single steps in the eman-
| cipation of woman. Women naturally
regard divorce as the safety valve of
their sex against abuse and the mere
possibility of divorce cannot fail to ex-
ercise a potential influence for the pro-
! lection of the wife against mistreat-
ment by the husband. Women as a
rule are thoroughly convinced that there
are conditions Of family life that con-
stitute much worse evils than divorce
no matter how greatly it is to be depre-
Gated.
At the same time women ought to be
impressed, If anything, more than the
men, of the desirablity of limitations
on divorce for the benefit of the chill
dren of mismated pairs. Where the
Earring husband and wife alone are di-
rectly concerned their divorce cuts COM
paratlvely small figure, except for the
bad example it sets, but where the fu-
ture of innocent children is clouded by
a separation Of father and mother their
rights have a first claim upon the inter
vention of the law. Surely the mothers
more than any other members of the
community. must deprecate the un
necessary disruption of families by di
vorce, and also the operation of divorce
mills as commercial undertakings under
encouragement OF wide-open divorce
laws 1t is no wonder. however, thai
the women find no favor for any effor
to close the doors to divorce to then
completely or to make it more difficult
for them to open when there is rea
reason for divorce.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-11
SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT.

New York Mail: Bishop Scannell says
that the mothers of the country are dodg-
ing the discipline Of the children. He inn
plores the fathers to take up the task.
Everybody shirks but father.
Baltimore News: The Postoffice depart
ment has shut down on the use by min
lister of the franking privilege to circulate
reform literature Even pious graft can
not claim immunity in the present state of
public opinion.
Washington Post: Rev. DR.. Madison c.
Peters protests against young women drink
ing champagne in New York cafes with
men old enough to be their fathers" Prob
ably the young men did not have the price.
Boston Transcript: Among the other SER
mons of last Sunday we note that a New
Jersey minister spiritually uplifted his con-
gregation by discussing Business Women
DO They Reduce the Number of Mar
riages and Do They Make Good wives?"
These are interesting conundrums, although
we had hardly imagined that they were
part of the curriculum of our schools OF
divinity.
Buffalo Express: A pastor in Jersey City
is being sued to recover the statutory pen
atty of $500 for performing the marriage
ceremony in the case OF minor The min
lister, OF course, pleads that the girl told
him she was of legal age, but there is sell
dom good reason why a clergyman should
marry persons who are strangers to him
Some ministers will not perform the mar
riage ceremony unless at least one of the
parties is member Of the parish.
San Francisco Chronicles: Many Catholic
clergymen have taken strong ground
against the practice of poor people wasting
money on ostentatious funerals, but have
not succeeded in abating 1t to any marked
extent. A priest in Chicago. however has
furnished an object lesson which may prove
effective, Almost with his dying breath he
asked for a simple funeral without any
mark of mourning whatever His request
was compiled with and his Pensioners fol-
lowed him to the grave in trolley cars, at
! their own expense II they follow the good
! priests example and arrange their own
funerals as simply. much money now
wasted on senseless ostentation will be
| saved for needy survivors.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-11
THE CANAL OUTLOOK.


The prophets Of evil concerning the
Panama canal, whether prompted by In
terest or mere pessimism, are prema-
ture. Investigations, conflicting reports
of fittlng newspaper correspondents,
charges and eounter-charges, have not
weakened the national determination
that the great work shall be completed
or public confidence that the present ad-
ministration is doing, and will do, all
that under the conditions could be done.
1t is becoming clear that the diff
culties which have been encountered
were inevitable. They were greater
than were anticipated, and II is easy
now to see how misunderstanding, and
to some extent conflict which have con
tributed to temporary confusion in the
public mind, have arisen between two
groups of officials having the work I'm
hand-thOse concerned with its engi-
neering and those concerned with It's
sanitary phase. The former did not
give due consideration TO the latter, and
failed to see how essential 1t was, espe-
elally In the first stages of the enter
prise.
It was natural that the general pub
lie. as well as professional engineers,
impressed by the remarkable advance OF
engineering science and the improve
ment OF the mechanical means at its dis
posal since the failure OF the De Les
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-11

KEEP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD.
The preliminary campaign to the
forthcoming municipal primaries base
progressed far enough to disclose the
position of the three principal candl-
dates for republican support for mayor
on the main issue at stake. While
there are also other points of difference
that will weigh with the rank and file
of the voters, the important thing is TO
declare along what broad lines of policy
the government Of a growing city like
Omaha should be directed.
Brastus A. Benson, the candidate of
the Fontanelle club, who three years
ago ran independent as a populist after
boiling the republican convention, has
defined his attitude as one of strict law
enforcement He would hew to the line
in applying penalties for the violation
Of every law or ordinance that happens
to have found a place on the statute
book. without regard to consequences.
Under the plea that the letter of the law
must be exacted in every and all In
stances, he would attempt to give us
straight-jacket municipal administration,
bending neither to the right nor to the
left to admit of the expansion our
spreading business enterprises and
growing population requires.
William ]. Broatch has not laid down
a definite platform, but the champion
ship of his candidacy by the combine Of
gamblers and dive keepers, leaves no
room for mistake. Broatch would go
the whole length to an open door to
lawlessness and Righteousness. he is
hand in glove with the vicious classes,
who would Of one accord hail his sue
cess as their victory and proceed to en-
Joy the fruits thereof.
August II. Hennings, on the other
hand, presents himself not only upon
the creditable record he has made as
city treasurer for two terms, but he
occupies the middle ground between the
two extremes. To use the words of his
own announcement, he Twill stand for
rational, equitable and conservative
enforcement of the law" but docs not
believe 1t to be to the interest of our
city to return either to the wide open
town or to the old Puritanical idea and
tlre laws Of years ago" He adds,
further, "Being a firm believer in law,
dcccncy and order, l am opposed to
anything in the nature Of a reign of
lawlessness and crime, and as chief ex-
ecutive would do everything in my
power to keep professional criminals as
far as possible from the corporate lim'
it's" II word, Mr.. Hennings would
apply common sense TO the enforcement
Of the law, in the light Of all the cir
culbstances and conditions, with a view
to getting the desired results.
We believe the great body Of our citi
zens prefer to have a city government
that keeps in the middle of the road
and have no sympathy either with wide
open lawlessness or penalizing thu
slightest deviation from blind obedi
ence to the strict letter Of the law.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-11
THE PRESIDENTS POPULARITY.
UAshaken Popular Confidence In His
Leadership.
Leslie's Weekly.

Leslie's Weekly.
Certain groups OF politicians and certain
newspapers have been wondering" TO
suspicious extent, recently, whether
President Roosevelt's popularity was not
on the wane and incidentally have been
helping the waning business along by ob-
servations as "a Mr., ROosevelt's alleged
bumpti0usness and disposition ito do
things" without the valuable advice and
consent Of eongress-a tendency, they say,
which Is on the Increase and is alternating
from the president some Of his former
and strongest friends. The sage remark
Is made, also. that after the presidents
part In the Portsmouth treaty and the
outburst OF praise and admiration from all
the world which followed that great
achievement, It vas natural and inevitable
that a reaction should come. II is only
another case OF ArisEides the Just, etc,
We have been looking Tor comments OF
this sort. and they have arrived about
on time. II is not IN the least difheult to
recognize the paternity OF such Thoughts
nor the motives whic' prompted them. II
is not true that Pro7ident Roosevelt is
losing his hold upon ANY class OF people
whose esteem is worth having, nor is he
in any danger OF losing q with these The
spolsmen, the bosses thu greedy crew
whose arrogance and rapaeiy he has as
closed and is seeking 70 restrain b. !a.s-
ali these are no more in love with %:m
than they we're eight months aso, what
ever their professions may haze been az
that time. The American people, a. a
whole, have lost no jot OF their rain IN
him as q leader nor confidence "a HE Abl-
ity integrity and unselsh dsvodon % their
welfare.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-11

Harper's Weekly follows up the pro-
lection by its editor of Woodrow Will
son as the next democratic candidate
for the White House, setting out his
good points and eminent qualifications
in all earnestness and seriousness The
distinguished president. of Princeton is
worthy of all the encomlums passed on
him, but he would have little more
chance of getting the hearty support Of
the Bryan wing Of the democracy than
the sage of Princeton himself. While
it may be harmless pastime to pick
democratic presidential possibilities at
this stage of the game, the return Of a
globe-girdling traveller will have to be
awaited before any serious move can be
taken.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-11

New York Press.

New York Press.
What is truth that through the ages man
should rife earth and star
Seeking ever in the unknown where its
mystic fountains are,
For the law of righteous living, for the
love that shall not die,
While the soul has aspirations to be glori-
fed on highf
What is truth that in the distance It should
blaze with holy light,
Beating back the hosts of darkness In the
worlds enfolding night,
Making man nobler creature, giving
Giving virtue, knowledge, valor' each
bright, immortal manner
Lo, the world is ever changing, and the
new is ever old,
And who lights with human progress is a
warrior oVerbold;
And the truth is what we make It by the
light of that great love
Which forever lifts the planet toward the
singing stars above
Truth is simple as the sermons nature tells
Gentle as the thought Of brothers who were
parted yesterday;
It is plain as honest faces that betoken
hearts so kind,
They are hands unto the weary, seeing
eyes unto the blind;
It is beautiful as morning when the world
awakes TO Joy,
And lifes golden expectations thrill the
eager heart Of boy;
II Is lastine as the cIin rock that forever
fronts the sea,
Lasting as the ocean waters that shall
wash the cliff rock free
And although It wrinss emotion from the
life that suffers long,
Though II girds the loins OF labor for the
battle fierce and strong;
Truth is ever what we make It in the light
of love and peace, Ia
Help and hope unto the toiling VINO Woulu
give the soul Increase!