The Washington herald., 1907-03-16
AT THE HOTELS.

'~rhe legislature Of South Dakota" said
Mr. J. S. Hutton. Of that State. at tho
Arlington, lately passed a Law making
il impossible for divorce-seekeTs to file
suit for separation until residence Of
one year in the State had been acquired.
This law was sanctioned by the governor.
but under our referendum system. II IS
many as 8 per cent Of voters can be had
for petition praying that the law be
stayed until the next election, to give the
people a chance to vote upon IT, the
measure does not go into effect. but must
await the action Of the people at the
polls.
Under this system. the new law is
STAYED or until the next general election.
two years hence. TO the great delight OF
lawyers. hotel keepers, and others who
made rat fees out Of the diyorce-hunting
colony that came TO South Dakota be-
cause Of the easy.way IN which the courts
parted people who wished to be free from
obnoxious matrimonial ties"
Il notice that the Fort Worth admirers
Of Senator Bailey are going 70 give him
/
drawn by four white horses when ne
makes bis early appearance there as
visitor TO the fat stock show" said Mr..
n j.. Sibley. Of Texas. ar the Raleigh.
This action IS not surprising since Fort
Worth has always been a Bailey strong
hold. The tOwn has been his constant
champion from the beginning Of his ca
! reer.
In Dallas thirty miles away. the situa-
tion is very different In the larger city
Bailey has a multitude Of enemies, par
ticularly among the lawyers. and in the
list is a number who viii never cease in
their antagonism toward the Senator. IN
the other Texas cities there is consider
able division OF sentiment, but in Fort
Worth and Dallas IL IS all probably
and anti-Bailey, a condition that may be
partly explained by the chronic rivalry
that exists between them.
we had John Alexander Dowie with US
/ in Australia for some years" said Mr.
George Monson, OF sydney, at the New
Willard.
! He was regarded by intelligent people
/ in our country as a sort Of charlatan
and religious fakir. but nobody ever
dreamed that he would be able 20 cut such
a swath as he did in the United States
through the exercise Of cunning play on
the credulity OF q lot Of misguided men
and women. His miserable death was
what might have been expected. but Il
viii net be q warning TO a certain class
Of people. Other humbugs and rascals
will from time 10 time arise TO duplicate
the deeds Of Dowie by drawing millions
Of dollars from the pockets Of half-c-azy
victims who are mere tools in the hands
Of clever adventures.
"The people Of my State" said Attor-
neg General c. W May. OF West Virginia.
at the New Willard, ''do not believe they
are morally OF legally indebted TO the
State Of Virginia to the extent of dollar,
in spite Of the long-staDdiRg claim Of the
Old Dominion for large but indefinite
sum. Time and again, however. in the
Iendeavor TO be entirely Just, we have
tried 10 make some settlement, but always
in vain In the early 70s a commission
from West Virginia went 70 Richmond,
bur the governor Of Virginia refused to
recognize them. and the commission went
home without accomplishing anything.
The suit brought BY Virginia. now pending
ia the Supreme Court Of the United States.
has some interesting phases. One CT them
Is that a State has no property. what
may be called such Is not owned by thu
Commonwealth itself but Is held by its
officials purely as agents for the whole
BODY OF the people. West Virginia is be-
ing sued. but West Virginia has no prop
erty with which a possible Judgment could
be satisfied. n State may have enormous
wealth. but only in the sense that its cbl-
lective citizenship Is thus blessed"
"One Of the best signs or the prosperity
of the South is the fact that many of the
negro citizens of Dixie are driving about
IN buggies Of their own" said Mr. r,
Moore. of Alabama, at the Raleigh.
An infallible sign OF well-doing among
the black brethren Is the ownership OF q
vehicle, and especially Of an srlstccratic
one. such as a buggy Is held to be- A
buggy gives its colored proprietor a Ger
tain status. a dignity and prestige that
lifts him above the average Of his Gel
lows. OF course, it helps the cause
nightly TO have it pulled by a sleek-Iook-
ing horse, but If a fine locking nag is
wanting. any old Rozinante viii do or
even a mule VIII suffice The buggy is the
main thing. and there is no happier man
on earth than a daTky sitting stif1y up
right as he j0gs along in his blessed turn
out. The owner Of a $4,000 motor car fsn'
in it with the Senegambian I am talking
about, and there are more OF his kind in
the cotton belt this year than ever were
known before"
Mr.. a. B. BeaH, a prominent real estate
man Of Sioux City. who is at the New
Willard. told Herald reporter something
Of the enormous prosperity of his section.
our banks. have more money than they
know what to do with, and our farmers
are enjoying unprecedentedly good times.
p Many OF them are selling of their high
/ priced farms and investing in the cheaper
lands of the Southwest particularly the
Panhandle Of Texas. in which region the
: rapid rise in values has made fortunes
for Northern investors. Iowa is very
quiet politically but there are sharp divi-
sions between the standpatters, of whom
ex-Secretary Shaw Is at the head, and
the tariff refOrmers, led by Gov Cum
: Minis. The governor thus far has got q
J little the better of his opponents. and it
would not be surprising to see him
elected to the next vacant SenatoTship.
Raising the Lords Army.
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