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A DIFFICULT SITUATION.

New York Evening Post.--Having
thrown his bomb among the conspir-
ing rich men, and retired upon his Of
fetal dignity, the President leaves it
to the much enduring Loeb to explain
ali awkard details THIS ia the more
natural in the present case, since it
now appears that it was the faithful
Loeb himself who first uncovered to
Mr.. Roosevelt the hellish plot. Sena-
tor Penrose has refused to assume
the role, for which he was cast, If
drunken senatorial babbler, but the
Presidents secretary artfully points
out that no name was mentioned in
the original official statement. Hence,
if it was not the senator from Pennsyl-
yania. it might have been any of the
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up at the present banquet of the Com
mercial association by Hon. George A..
Mahan, one of the leading lawyers OF
northeast Missouri and leading fac
tor in the Hannibal Commercial ascot
alton. MIR. Mahan said:
Il do not altogether favor the theory
of paying bonuses, but gentlemen, if
can lay down $500 and pick up 81 900
it is a good enough theory for me-"
Mr. Mahan is one of the men who in
the past few years has made Hannibal
one of the wealthiest cities in Missouri,
wholly by inducing factories to build
there ana by fostering the industries
thus secured. In his address before
the Commercial association he told
how Hannibal had induced a shoe fac
tory to locate in its midst by giving
bonus. That factory now employs e.
600 men. he said, and the bonus has
been returned ten fold to the residents.
Another factory Of the same kind fol-
lowed it without a bonus. 1t now en-
ploys 500 men. A cement factory was
brought to Hannibal through the eff
forts of it's live boosters and 1t now
gives employment to more than 1000
people.
But Hannibal did not pay bonuses
to every institution" said Mr.. Mahan.
e. young man came to our city looking
for location for dynamite mill We
did not know him nor whom he repre-
scented. But the directors took an in
terestl in him. They entertained him
and showed him every possible cour-
tesy and aided him in every possible
way. AS a result he reported properly
to the company he represented and
today the Du Pont people operate the
largest dynamite plant in the world
just fifteen miles from Hannibal, safe
Fdistance thank you. But the employees
live in Hannibal, and go back and
forth each day in a special train"
The city fortunate enough to be peo-
pied with progressive men of Mr.. Ma
hans calibre need have no fear Of
retrograding; need not fear that it's
march of progress will be stayed no
matter how much printers ink is used
by the Pacific coast boosters.
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GOOD COUNSEL.

Chicago Chronicle.-People get tired
Of hearing the woes of other people
continually dinned into their ears. Even
the most deserving petitioner for right
and justice can prejudice his case by
eternally proclaiming his wrongs from
the housetops. Therefore Booker
Washington is exactly right when he
tells the negro newspaper editors to
stop harping on the wrongs Of the ne
gro race. Everybody knows that the
negro suffers some injustices, but
white people also have their wrongs
Neither race has any business to be
forever wailing over its misfortunes
Such lamentations make the world
tired.
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TIME FOR THESES
WRITING Is SET.
MISS NYE, COUNTY sUPERINTEN-
DENT, GIVES OUT INFORMATION
OF INTEREST TO TEACHERS.

Amy Saturday between now and the
end of May will do" 1t was Miss Emma
Nye, the county superintendent talk.
Ing and the young woman to whom the
remark was addressed was teacher
inquiring as to the time when she
could write her theses
To illuminate this to the Law mind
every teacher who desires his or her
certificate renewed either in full or In
part is required to write theses on a
given subject to the presence of the
county superintendent or some one an.
pointed fol that purpose.
Recently number of inquirers have
been made Of Miss Nye as to when
these theses might be written
"of course" said Miss Nye "thss
must be written here at my office.
Any Saturday during this month OF
next will be satisfactory though II
must be done during that time.
THE subjects have been given out
and teacher may chose which subject
she will write on, then read up on 1t,
give it as much study as she pleases
before she attempts to write the
theses. However the actual writing
must be done here
ne loiloWinS is the llSt or subjects
which may be taken. A wide range
is given by the list:
"The educational theories of Rous-
seau'
"The doctrine of interest"
"A discussion of Herbert Spencer's
Theory OF Punishment"
1.-THE use of the study period
"The Panama Canal
"Reclaiming of Arid Lands in the
West"
schools" - z.
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4 JOKE FROM THE SOUTHLAND.

IA JOKE FROM THE SOUTHLAND
For president on the democratic
ticket-Theodore Roosevelt.\ This is
the latest sensation in the world Of
politics, and it was sprung at an occa
sion no less than banquet at which
William Jennings Bryan, the 'tpeer
less" was the guest of honor. John
Temple Graves, the Atlanta editor, is
the author of the Roosevelt democra.
tic boom, and when called on for s,
speech at the Bryan banquet in Chat.
tanooga, Tenn, last night, here are
a few of the utterances he made:
we are fronted now with condi.
lions in this republic which few men
could have forseen and which no men
ten years ago would have had the TEN
Gritty to predict. Out of the camps of
the enemy, out of the Pretorian Guard
OF privilege and monopoly there has
come an unexpected and potential con-
vert to the creeds and theories of de-
mocracy Theodore Roosevelt has
learned his democratic lesson we'll. We
may as well acknowledge fairly what
history will fearlessly affirm. that he
has become the foremost and most
practical champion of popular rights;
which these two generations of the
republic have produced.
The things for which we have
fought for forty years he has been
putting into fearless and effective exc
cution. Avoiding the extreme which
might have halted and destroyed his
mission, with conservatism as firm
as the times required, and with a
radicalism as fearless as the peoples
rights demanded, he has gone slowly.
steadily, discreetly and yet definitely
toward the disownment of the priyi-
legged iniquities that were robbing the
government
He is putting into execution the
things which democratic platforms
have Numbered for twenty years.
What our propagandas have preach
ed and what our platitudes of popular
liberty have pleaded he has framed in
part in statutes, until today, as an
honest party representative of an hon
est people, we can do no less than re-
cognize his patriotism and applaud his
transcendent service He has crap
pied the iniquities of the meat trust.
He has put his probe into the putr;d
pOllllCS vi luS companies.
He has gripped by the throat the al
most omnipotent power of the trans
portation magnates, and he has today
at his feet and asking clemency at his
hands the tallest and most tremendous
figures of the tyrant railway systems
of our land
and in doing so he has vindicated
'e.aIv principle for when Bryan has
pleaded and Hearst has thunderel,
and has proved himself a publicist
and & democratic republican, who de.
serves to rank in achievement with
the best and bravest in the annals of
our immortal party"
AS Mr. Roosevelt has declined to
consider a third term as the republi-
can candidate, Mr.. Graves evidently
believes that it is not the Office but
the party to which the President OBJ.
jects. From a safe distance it looks
as if the Atlanta editor is tempting
fate and may awake to find himself
engaged in controversy that may
result in forming an addition to the
membership of the Ananias club.
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MUNICIPAL LIGHTING.

Is This Tainted" News or Is 1t True
The Courier is in receipt of the fol
lowing communication and news
story. We don't know anything about
the Central News bureau, but evident
ly this particular bureau" is "agin"
municipal lighting plants. If the en-.
closed figures and statistics are in &C.
cord with the facts they are exceeding.
ly interesting. If they are not true we
will be glad to have some one who
knows the facts enlighten the public
through the columns of the Courier.
Editor: The appended article is sent
you free. If you use it please send us
copy of paper containing it; stamps
enclosed. &
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his policies come from ghost? Did
the ghost appear the next day to- a
specter and lift the curtain by daylight
without the walnuts and wine? Did the
specter go to the White House and
whisper to the president? Did the pres
ident know the specter and did the
specter know the ghost?
In short, were all the correspondents
seized with sudden epidemic Of mad
ness? Or was the White House the
victim OF strange and mysterious de.
fusion?
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WAS 1T A GHOST?

Philadelphia Press.-Senator Pen
rose says he was not at the dinner. He
didn't make any such statement. He
was always for Roosevelt. He doesn't
believe there is any $5,000,0O0 conspir.
acy. He doesn't know what Pennsyl.
yania will do. He puts in both an
alibi and a nux vomica
Now, was there any dinner, anyway
If there was a dinner, did anybody say
anything? Did the revelation of a
conspiracy against the president and
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CLING TO YOUR APPENDIX.

Kansas City Journal Cling to your
appendix with both hands, says the
Clerk of the Day in the Boston Tran
script. The Rev Samuel Van Vran-
ken Holmes, who preached at Har-
ward last Sunday, has furnished the
clerk with documentary evidence re-
garding the inestimable value of ap-
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eighty-nine others. Consequently we
shall have to get interviews or affidav-
Its from all of them before the story
is disproved. Under such circum-
stances 1t will go hard if the admins
tration Is not able to produce "a good
enough senator until after the cleo
ton"
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The Washington times., 1907-04-23
KENDALL SCORES SUCCESS.
BUT PLAY DID NOT

In writing swell Elegant Jones" the
vehicle in which Ezra Kendall is star
ring this season, and which had its first
Washington presentation at the Co
lumbia last night. the author, Herbert
Hall Winslow, made an attempt 20 imi-
tate George AIDES delineation Of char
acter types, and at its best it can be
called but an imitation. It is verbose
without being especially witty. and
many Of its scenes are prolonged until
they become really tiresOme
As has been usually the case since
Mr.. Kendall left vaudeville for the
legitimate stage, he has been unfortu-
nately surrounded by a company that
Is considerably beneath him in efficiency,
save little Douglass Joss, who plays the
part Of Club, Jones son. The child
aCung IS both natural and delightful
Mr. Kendall himself works hard
throughout the allotted two hours and
a half and aroused the audience TO a
degree Of enthusiasm when he gave ten
minutes at the close of the second act
10 excerpts from his welI-knOwn mono
lOgues. At the close of the first and
third acts-there are only three In the
pTOductiOn-the curtain was allowed 10
descend in a stiffness that was relieved
only by a most audible sigh Of relief.
The Washington times., 1907-04-23
Aiming for Peace.

Gentlemen may cry Peace!
Peace' but there is no peace"
On the contrary, we go on at our
highest speed inventing means to
make warfare more and more dead
". Maybe that is the way to peace.
If so, it is d dark and dangerous
way.
Note the news in one or two is
sues. It is not necessary to go back
any further. All Europe is modify
ing its tactics according to the les
sons taught in Manchuria and South
Africa. The Dreadnought has proven
herself not only the greatest fight
ing ship afoat. but one of the great
est sailors. Germany is developing
a system of moving target trains to
give practice to her artillery. The
Prussian infantry is the subject of
notices in scores Of papers for re-
markable discipline and endurance
on the march. Bulgaria is develop
ing a cavalry force that is making
her greater neighbors sit up and
take notice. England has twelve
new torpedo boats. Russia's peace
strength in Central Asia is 57,7S7
men, her war strength 99.247. Can
ada is experimenting with bob"
sleds TO carry cannon.
This is the situation while dele
gates talk peace in New York. They
are right, of course. The world
would be vastly better off if the
money, talent and life expended on
man-killing machinery were TO be
( thrown into a mill pond. But so
would the world be better off with
out scarlet fever or smallpox, if we
could get rid OF them-which we
can't. Until we can get rid of war,
all honor to the Peace delegates
who oppose the war spirit, and all
honor, again, TO the Administration
which is not willing TO put the
United States at the mercy of the
widest nation which chooses to
make war upon us.
The Washington times., 1907-04-23
Williams Ideals Do Good Work.

The Ideal Extravaganza Company
under the personal management Of Sam
Williams, played 10 Two standing-room-
only houses at Keruan's LyceUm yester-
day and last night. The costumes and
scenery were extraordinary for a COM
pany of this character and the chorus
was exceptionally well trained The
specialties were well received by appre-
ciative audiences.
1.-The other Fellow" Frank O'Brien,
Kathrine KIare, VlaytOn Frye, and Ed
ward Nanny, in the star roles, acquitted
themselves with credit, and there was
never a dull moment during their stay
on the boards Original and catchy
songs were introduced during the two
acts, and the singers responded to en-
core after encore.
The international Musical Trio, James
FalcO. Jennie FalcO. and Edward
Nanny. delivered the goods in a skit
arranged by Mr. Williams, which proved
the headliner. Margie Hilton presented
'-'rhe Ideal Girl" and was heartily ap-
plauded. Dora Taylor is a premier
danscuse worthy Of the name.
The Washington times., 1907-04-23
PRINCETON TRIANGLE CLUBS
MUMMY MONARCH" A HIT

Princeton alumni and a good proper
ton OF comic opera lovers who were not
Princeton alumni crowded the Belasco
Theater TO the doors last evening to see
the presentation of 1.-The Mummy Mon
arch,'' by the Princeton Triangle Club.
That the performance was appreciated
beyond the approval usually given to a
professional company was proved by the
multiplicity of encores received by the
choruses and the soloists. In brief, the
show" was a great success.
The scene of the comic opera, which
is written-book, lyrics and music-and
staged and managed exclusively by
Princeton students, is laid on the ter
race Of the Grand MoguTs palace at
Gizeh. Egypt. with the pyramids seen
in the distance. All the fun arises from
the incUrsiOns of Americans actors and
actresses and promoters" They cap
tivate the Egyptian ruler and furnish
the grand problem by blowing out Of
the pyramids with dynamite a mummy
5000 years old, and his wife.
he turns out to be PtOlemy I, King
of Egypt. and he naturally wants his
throne and kingdom back. Such a
situation gives opportunities for fun, Of
which the Princetonians take fun ad-
vantage. and the laughs of the audi
ence were frequent
The hits of the evening were the ex-
quisite costumes of the women of the
cast, and the solos. The students who
The Washington times., 1907-04-23
A Judicial Anomaly.

The Supreme Court now has under
consideration the employers habil-
ity bin of the last Congress, and a
decision may be expected before
many months as to whether or not
the Federal Government can extend
to men working for interstate car
riers the protection that the laws
of every State and of almost every
other country guarantee. When ar
gument on this measure was ended
the court was rendered a report of
committee of fifty leading railroad
lawyers, holding the act unconstitu-
tional.
Notification of this law would go
farther than anything in many
years to Justify criticisms of the
Federal courts. Heretofore the Su-
preme Court has held-in the Baugh
case-that an interstate railway in
Ohio could kill or MAIN its employees
without liability, while an intrastate
road paralleling it must pay This
is an anomaly which cannot be con-
tinued without justifying most Wig
orous protest.
This Baugh case was decided I'M
der the so-called general law, which
means, in effect, the viii of the
Judge making the decision. Inter
pretations OF this character have be-
come so numerous and oppressive
that one of the foremost Federal
judges, in a dissenting opinion, was
moved to say that the decision of a
majority of the court IL this case
has made human life a cheaper COM
modify than lumber"
Railroad employees are intelligent
men, recognizing that they are
quasi-pubic servants. They have
felt the weight of Federal injunc-
tions, holding them to their duties
as public servants under conditions
obnoxious to their sense of Justice.
They know how powerful is the Fed
eral court when it opposes them.
They know that in this matter of
the employers liability it has power
to do them a great service. As an
intelligent man, albeit layman as
to knowledge of the law, the rail-
road employee has never been able to
understand why the Federal court
has power 10 enjoin him from strik-
ing, but is without power to protect
his right to compensation for in
iuries due to negligence of the en-
ployer. And there are a good many
other people who believe themselves
intelligent, but can't see this point.
The Washington times., 1907-04-23
Automobiles and Others.

Automobile carelessness appalls Us
ali-when It actually happens.
Horse-and-wagon careIessness ap-
pals none of us-and it happens
every day.
Not a day Of the year but citizens
step back from the curb in fright
at the swoop round the corner of
some delivery wagon. Not a day
but the driver of some automobile
risks his life and a property fire.
quently worth several thousands of
dollars through the sudden backing,
or turning contrary to the rules, of
some horse and vehicle regarded by
the authorities as safe as a four-post
bed.
Regulations for automobiles we
have a-plenty. With the abundant
police power vested in them by Con-
gress, il is a distinct wonder the
Commissioners have not drafted
similar regulations for this other
and probably equally dangerous
class of conveyances.
The Washington times., 1907-04-23

ter advantage than in any other play
of this seasons repertoire in which the
respective actors have appeared
Miss PurneI, as Marguerite, was ex-
ceptionally good in the emotional
scenes. her work in the prison scene Of
the last act being highly pleasing. Mr.
Abbey. as AIephisto. shares in the hon
ors Of the performance. It Is decidedly
the best work he has done this season
Mr.. Chase was a pleasing Faust
throughout, and JEFF W Murphy, as
Valentine. was satisfactory.
The minor parts were capably han
died. J. Louis Scrivener, n B Hunter.
Harry a. Chick, aud D. 3. Galleher, a
quartet Of Washington boys, were seen
for the first time, and sang the songs
incident to the play.
The scenery was adequate, and the
opportunity afforded by Faust for
weird and startling scenic effects was
by no means overlooked.
This week bill viii prove thoroughly
satisfactory to all Majestic patrons, as
shown by the large house and constant
applause last night
The Washington times., 1907-04-23
CAPTAIN HOBSON PLANS
NICE JUNKET TRIP

Capt. Richmond Pearson Hobson, the
new member of Congress from Ala
bama, has just organized q campaign
that is designed TO bring much light
and information 10 the people Of'his dis
tCict. he has planned a trip through his
district. commencing at Tuscaloosa on
Nav and lasting for more than three
weeks. Accompanying Representative
Hobson there viii be four Government
experts from the Agricultural Depart
ment and one from the Postoffice De-
partment. Those from the former are
experts on soils, good roads, forestry,
and cotton culture. The man from the
Postoffice Department represents the
rural free delivery service.
At each stop on the trip there is 10 be
a public meeting, at which each of the
experts, who are being paid by Uncle
Sam. by the way, viii give half-hour
talks.
Phil Painter, formerly private secre-
tary to Captain HobsOn, viii accompany
the party on the trip.