The Daily Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 6

THE A i Monday Evening, April 11, ttriw. THE DAILY BEVIEW. at the lUinoM The Review Publishing, ULUWIK. Office ta avrtew oonMr.ef Matt North AOwtMnc rates made taowa es MM at efOea, WJBBCRIPTIOK. 11.

DHHOCRATIC TICKBTft, CITT. Fourth wmrd-- J. F. Hlchter, Fifth B. Oldrldge.

Blxtb ward-- C. H. Qoodmlller. LOiB AN KSSfCNTIAl, FEATURE. It Is told there la one feature of the saloon ordinance offered by the M.

4t H. association that will not get by the council, owing to the opposition of the mayor and some aldermen. It is the feature that provides that a saloon license shall be renewed to the holder 'at the end of the year-- provided, of course, he conducts himself during the year so as to hold the license. The mayor and some in the council object that feature, which for them is called a "perpetual license: 1 Some changes are rung on the word "perpetual," and there is the statement such a feature will not be fair to other citizens who may want to go Into the saloon business. You can from this hint easily call up the line of argument that is adopted in opposing the feature.

As the M. M. association looks at the matter, and this after careful consideration and considerable investigation, It Is too bad this feature can't be Incorporated In the ordinance. It is an essental part of the plan that was perfected for the regulation of the saloon and to take it out of politics. In fact It Is hard to see how saloon men are to be kept away from politics this feature of the ordinance, or at least something that will serve the same purpose.

Assume that thirty-five licenses will fee granted in this city, or call the number thirty if you prefer. Later the number of licenses will be kept down to one for each thousand of population. Selections of those to get a license will have to be made, for likely there will be more applicants than licenses. This will remain true at the end of the year; it wiU; remain true indefinitely. As the year's close comes along there will be, say, thirty men with licenses and there will be a' dozen others who will want a license.

Those who are without a license and want one will endeavor to elect aldermen who will favor them; that Is aldermen who will take a cense away from some of the old holders and hand It over to new applicants. At once this puts the men who have licenses In position where they will have to defend themselves against those who will want to take the license away, to be handed over to themselves. That Is all that Is necessary to get saloon men In politics, for under that situation it will be difficult for them to keep out. Of course those who have even a little acquaintance with politics understand what, this means. The saloon man will have to conduct himself in a way to be In favor with the votere in his ward; he will have to seek the protection of the voting public rather than devote his time to an observance of saloon regulations.

There may be places in the city the man with a license wfll give serious offense to many voters by Hiring up to saloon regula tions; and the offended ones will tel him they will "get him" when election time comes. What is that saloon man to do when placed between the devil of the offended voter and the deep sea 'of regulations that are to be observed? He is going to be in -a bad way, and naturally he will squirm and shift and sidestep and throw back In the effort to save himself. It is entirely nature that he should: and it Is to be expected It Is really unfortunate, If it Is true that we can't put the saloon man in a position where he can go ahead and live op to regulations and not have to pas attention to anything else. Give him that program and he has something simple, and If he is straightforward he can live to It; and then we are justtfie in demanding that he shall. But If he is placed in a position where he ma have to.

go into politics once year for his existence are we not fool Ish to Imagine be will stay out of poll tics' Doubted that he has the capacity to if he did have the time. hat; are we to do when we read. of that klndT We go to 8eo- etsry Wilson to get the-thing stralght- ned out in some fashion, and his eon- to the shindy is an expression f. his best Information and belief that Processor Hopkins has a blue sky fer- (llier to sell the farmer and is angry ecause the secretary of agriculture will not help with the advertising. Iain)? this does not make the situation any.

more bearable. We should have, call on the police to preserve order ere It not that fortunately 'these two gladiator farmers are a thousand mthBs apart. Even at that we may have to eq4iest'that neither the malls nor the elegraph be used to transmit the hlngs they have to say about ea.cn ther. We note another thing the talk iade by Professor Hopkins. He speaks crop rotation being about as bene- iclal to.

land as would be the rota- ion of the check hook among members the family to the bank account. How bout this statement? Is it scientific? Our farmers for some time have been crop rotation, and that on he i ice of the department of agrl- i i i Is it possible that by doing i icy have only been hastening the mpoverishment of their land? seems to us, in the light of re- icrted experience, that Professor Hop- tins in the enthusiasm of his denuncla- lon of Jim Wilson overshot the target this crop rotation remark. Farmers who have rotated say the results are good; and if the results are there it will take more than hot talk to over- ome them. We suspect that Professor Hopkins oes not like Jim Wilson or anything he can say or do. If Wilson should ad- rise cutting weeds Hopkins might be xpected to discover that the weed has jeen maligned.

But It is a little rough on us farmers to have these two apos- les. of agriculture assault and batter ach other In this fashion. What are we to do when the men in command of he great agricultural industry begin 0 He in wait for each other with a tufted club? Meanwhile the farmers are getting along quite well. Jitn Wilson says they re following his lead and advice, and he points to their prosperity as proof of the Worth of his doctrines. Wilson may be.

unscientific, but it is useless insist on that in this day and generation; the men who are attending his cachings are prosperous, and how are we to-get away from that? TOP FARMERS FALL OCT. We are pained to learn that thes experts in agriculture can't agree. Pro fessor Cyril O. 'Hopkins, head of th department of 'agronomy In the Unl verslty of Illinois, refers to our honored Secretary of Agriculture Jim WUso and his teachings as "damnable, "abominable" and "disgraceful." An then, and this must be the worst of al he refers to our secretary as' an "un scientific man." It Is insisted tha Wilson has been so busy learning poll ties that he has not had time to knowledge of and 1 TOO BAD Mrs Sayab--I should think that the criticisms tfrat'y-our son received on his bode would -fairly make him smart. Mrs.

Ruyter Doun--Well, I guess they do 1 they don't 'make any smarter. DOLEFUL. COMPANY. Several old campaigners have been In politics a long while are drop- ing'around to Inform the innocent by- itander that Dr. A.

D. Bridgman la urely mistaken if he figures any considerable augmentation of the bltion party because of the wicked flurries, of the last two and a half Practical politicians, whose one great specialty Is getting their kind of a vote Into the ballot box, are telling hat locally the grand old party is the only one that Is making headway these stormy days. In this community Republican prac leal politicians are not downcast as hey view what they think are the prospects. They tell on the east side of the city, where once there wai a bulwark of Democracy, most people have been voting the Republican ticket hree to four years and that they will continue to do so for some time to come. And they refuse to be east down by prospects on the west side.

They tell that the west enders may vote the Democratic ticket in unimportant elections, but that when it comes to an office that counts in maintaining a party those always sure to line up with the patriotically faithful. In other words, these practical fellows are figuring that only the Republican party is to be helped locally. They concede nothing to Dr. Brldgman's Prohibitionists, and just a little less than that to unterrlfled those prophets are correct in this eitl- mate of the situation we. Democrats can be sorry that it should come upon us just at a time when the party in most places in tlfe country seems to be up and coming and able to make a tight that will get all that Is due and then a little.

The worst of It is that Democrats can't join Dr. Bridgman and i tract pleasure from failure. ABANDONED RAILROAD. it is a little' startling to learn that there Is an abandoned piece of railroac at the edge of the garden spot; and ye; we are advised that what we. have had for some time.

Sometimes we read streaks of rust" "green grass growing in the roadway," but we have always taken these things as figures of we did not. seriously believe they were probable. But there is an abandoned stretch between Shumway and Effingnam, a distance of nearly ten It is abandoned-track, all that- the world Implies. has always been told in the practical world that it you once get a railroad built it will be operated; It may break 'the, prompters, but the road wilt always be there, to. help, the community and It will be run by somebody.

Now It is demonstrated 1 to- us that there is such a thing as real, abandonment of a railroad GURGLETTESo KOOKE. PRACTICAL RESULTS. Hazel--Do you bellevee those Billi- kln idols bring.good luck? Tom--Moat assuredly. I killed a howling cat with one last night. USUAL DISCOUNT.

here, this check calls for $980 only. You promised my wife a dowry of $10,000. Money-bags--That's rail right, my son. I always take off 2, per cent for cash. "HE KNEW HIM.

Clara--Hodge says he thinks he'll abroad next month. Frank--it's much cheaper to think than really go. built; it Is a shock to have to admit it. It is true they will spend more money 'on this stretch rehabilitate It and put'; it in commission again; but this does little to lighten the seriousness of, the fact that the was'abandoned, for years. We.

Knew that could happen'to'waterway transportation lines, but we did think possible in railroads, especially so near the. garden The good brave men continue-to come to the front: to claim attention. This time it Is a policeman in Des Molnes who conducts a running revolver battle with a bank robber, and finally wings him and takes him to jail. It looks as If bravery Is about to become a.fad; all' stylish circles. will have to It The-citizens of -Hamilton, Ohio, have bought stock of fireworks in that city and now have an ordinance that no kind are to be'sold.

They are in'earnest-about a sane' Fourth. What Mr. Taft's administration have- thousands of Republicans talking 'about "running Theodore -Roosevelt for president In 1912. Orderly Crowds in Berlin if Police. Berihi, At So- and part yesterday -in "the most 'Impressive demonstration ever held (n Beriuri in favpr of suffrage re.form,.iri; The police aid n'ot Interfere when: big; parades marchedto Friedrlelw- thaln and pptow park, where the had sanctioned open air 'meJBtings.

CROWD WAS O'RDERLT: There was no shouting or singing as the crowd" pvised through the'" streets. At meeting placep ana radical members vehemently 'denounced the in- jrttlc'es of the present system of. elections. A to fight for reform until vlctjjry' had been won for the people, passed amid great cheering. DISORDER.

'AT The meeting! disbanded', tfie original group marching; home without the slightest disorder. The. entire Berlin got reKdy, but the Cervices of thei military. were not required. Twleve meetings' were held suburbs, and these also passed off without untoward Incidents.

NEED OF.JOFFICKRS. Commissioner of police Van Jagow. who- utterly surprised discipline and good order. Pstrto HKls France, April opening of 'thre ereotoraf campaign here yestenjay-by PremieryBijlend 'was marked by-vh)1ent demonsiratlons by ln by off. re- were -made t.

ual meth- SCRAP BASKET. Roosevelt Speeches lit London; Forecast by Punch HER SPRING HAT. Wifey--My new spring, hat is a dream, dearest. Hubby--Thank goodness, I set the alarm clock! SURE THING. The Heires--Mammsa, I'm BU.O Lord de Broke will soon propose.

Her'Mother--Why? The Heiress--He cabled home today for pictures of his estates. London, April week's Punch tlrizes ex-President Roosevelt In a olumn article. This article is headd: "Mr. Roosevelt In England. Ex- racts from the Journal of Mr.

Roose- elt's Round Trip." It reads as follows: TELLS COUNCIL HOW. Monday--Today. Mr. Roosevelt hav- ng arrived at Charing Cross the pre- lous night, addressed.the members of he London city council at the county all. Mr.

Roosevelt was received In tate by the chairmen and aldermen: an Impassioned speech, which occu- ied two hours In delivery, he adjured he council to ignore party ties, not to other about rates, and to sound the eath knell of municipal trading of all What, he asked, did a tram line or less matter, and why should ot all needy parents of at least twelve hlldren be fed and clothed at the ex- ense of the rate payers? FEAZED HIM NOT. A this stage William Hayes Fisher nd Sir John Benn left the hall, but Mr. Roosevelt, nothing daunted, con- nued his address. Eventually the meeting adjourned in onfuslon after an enthusiastic vote of hanks to the distinguished visitor had een passed by a majority of one in a otal vote of three. SOME GUARD! Tuesday--Today Mr.

Roosevelt paid is long promised visit to the houses of parliament. The members of both louses had assembled In Westminster all to do him honor, a mixed guard honor being furnished by the First egiment of life guards and the Middlesex yeomanry. The speaker of the ouse of commons and the lord chancel- or led Mr. Roosevelt to the brass plate ommemoratlng the position of Staford during his trial. TERMS SCATHING.

Mr. Roosevelt then began his harangue by dwelling in scathing terms the contrast between the material plendor of an archbishop and the leedy wretchedness of a laborer out of employment. No archbishop. he hought, sho.uld receive a stipend of more than 100 pounds a year, paid quarterly In advance, and both of them Paradoxical as It may seem I. A Buckingham is attorney for Alderman John Brant.

They were in the relation of client and attorney before humidity became a political issue in Decatur and there has been nothing In the exigencies of the strenuous campaign to separate them. A day or two ago Brant dropped into Buckingham's office for just a advice and got it. The consultation occupied about thirty seconds. 'How much do I owe you?" asked Brant when he'had got what he come for. "Fifty dollars," said Buckingham.

Brant thrust tils hand into his trousers pocket as if he was reaching for his roll As the roll seemed to be a trifle elusive Buckingham waved his hand with gesture of breezy liberality and 'Oh', never mind. I'JUst contribute that to your campaign fund." Brant thanked him and went his way. At the entrance to the building he met Buckingham's partner, J. M. Gray, and F.

M. Webb, both men of pronounced dry proclivities: "How much are you going to give me for my campaign Brant asked Gray. hard up tight, now, and I don't see how I can give you any said Gray. "Your partner Just gave me and it seems to me you ought to do something." "I guess you will have to be satisfied with that from our' firm," said Gray, and went on into the building. Mr.

Webb heard in amazement, which rapidly bloomed into Indignation. Buckingham to the.election of a wet alderman was more than he could bear without protest: He started for Buckingham's office and by the time he' reached it teeth were bared and claws' unsheathed, 'figuratively speaking. He confronted the attorney and'charged him 'with perfidy. "But I didn't give him fifty dollars," said Buckingham with heat. "''He's telling all over town that you gave him fifty dollars." only thing I know -that yon can do is to' follow him around arid tell people that I didn't give him Mr.

Buckingham explained the' real nature.of the donation. It was fifty dollars which he had never seen and-never expected see. J. M. and Judge Ben B.

were Introduced' while the latter was in Decatur Friday night and in the brief conversation which followed they discovered so many bonds of sympathy that they felt a relationship which was almost 'brotherly. Cowan has for "many years been giving his time money In much the, same Judge Llndsey has been doing with such wonderful 'success in Denyer. But it was not that which brought them together. They are both southerners, both. Tenneseeans, In fact, and'the fathers of both were on.Gen- eral N.

B. Forrest's staff. Mr. Cowan's father was General Fprrest's chief surgeon. Llndsey's lather served In.

a clerical capacity the staff and af- Wward wrote Forrest's" biography. It was. written as an'autobiography but waB written by Llndsey, General Forrest' having but little education. A North Edward street man, one of those cheerful keeps a diarVand is always'digging up things that happened last 'year, year before or ten years ago, IB now worrying over the discovery that he is going to have to expend a lot of energy In mowing hie lawn this, year Because of the early spring. It is now' only the tenth of April -and he has already mowed his lawn twice.

In 1807 he did nut have to mow his la.wiv. until If the weather as It has he will have to gtve'BU lawn at least two and possibly three more before the date on which he year. He is a. methodical man and keeps account of the time that It takes for, each mowing and its cost at the average rate of wages for competent lawn mowers. He also figures the additional wear on the lawn mower, and the extra cost of sharpen Ing and the'oil.

It Is a very significant sum when taken In connection i high cost of living; and the high taxes and the wet town. He also tells us that in 1908 he mowed his lawn first on April 37 and in 1909 on April 21. Compared with these two years he Is at least two mowings to the bad this year but may be if the season turns out dry and the lawn grass Is killed he will have some the labor at the other end of the summer. Ten Years Ago Today In Decatur APRIL ill; 1000. A bet of $100 was made by two De catur men that the Boer war would be ended by July 1.

The rrioney was up Superintendent Robertson of the Wa. bash was inquiring of general contractors about bidding on the new pas senger station. He was tha the contract be let to local men; Bicycle riders we're complaining be cause of so much glass streets The lowest temperature twenty four hours was 23 ind the. highest 41 H. R.

Stafford, roadmaster of th. Amboy division of the Illinois Central was In town and placed orders with' lo cal florists for flowers arid for the Illin'ols Centred park south the passenger station's. Up' to time the story of this park had been looked upon as a dtj S1AIE BOARD fiEJECIS ON DRESSED BEEF Springfield, April The state board of administration Saturday rejected the 'bids on dressed beef for the state Institutions, which have a tota population of 15,000 persons. The prl has gone: up 26 per cent; The stafc board advised that the state either gi into the open market and-buy Its bee or also estsblsh a slaughter house 1 Its own and buy tha beef on the hoof TAFT WITH MOURNERS AT WALSH FUNERAL Prominent Men'Par Tribute Sllve King. Washington, April Taft today paid honors today to th late Thomas F.

Colorad silver "mining Who died her Friday night, by attending tuner al servfces. The funeral was. conducted unde Masonic auspldes. Among the prominent, members the order-who took the-ser were Admiral and forme Senator Teller of Colorado. Among th honorary were Admlra Dewey, Speaker Cannon Justice Me Kenna, Myron 5 Herrlck, Senato Hughes of.

Colorado and John R. Me Lean. Mamy at Gtab. 'Sixteen pjeople Vere'a't. the Flshln club Sunday for.

dinner'Bind about si were, there for The ground were tilted with people all Hay an many had their open Fish ing. playing tennis and gathering wll (lowers were the amusements of th day. ought to be compelled to pass at least eleven months of every year In a-slum dwelling. ONE HAD TO LEAVE. At this point the archbishop of Canterbury was unfortunately called awajr by a long standing previous engagement.

Mr. Roosevelt. continuing, poured scorn on such efforts as might from time to time be made by the bench of bishops to preach and enforce the superannuated doctrines of peace amongst mankind. WAR REINVIOORATOR. Having thus cleared the hall of all the bishops, Roosevelt went on to deliver a glowing panegyric on war as the relnvlgorator of nations.

He was himself, he said, no supporter of the obsolete privileges possessed, and exercised by the house of lords, but at the same time he felt bound to commend that house for throwing down the gauntlet to an upstart and Ignorant assembly like the house of commons, who for their part deserved nothing but praise for the way In which they had determined to assert their privilege! against a most unwarrantable encroachment. MAKE IT PERPETUAL Both the houses, he thought, ought to welld a perpetual veto against one another. They might then combine to build ten dreadnoughts a week and to make every man. woman and child a soldier, a course- which he himself, had determined' to pursue when, if -ever, he returned to the United States. Let them use the big stick on one another and on foreign nations, and all yet might be well.

SHOOK A HAND. Finally Mr. Roosevelt shook the hand of his remaining audience, a deaf peer whose name did not transpire, and left Westminster in a taxicab. Unfortunately Mr. Roosevelt's promised lecture at Windsor castle on the duties and rights of royalty has had to be postponed, Mr.

Roosevelt having been summoned to Berlin by the kaiser and the Imperial chancellor to settle the vexed question of the Prussian franchise. PULLMAN SLEEPER RATEHOME Interstate Commerce Commission Says $1.50 Is Plenty For Night. Washington, April Interstate commerce commission, in a decis- on yesterday, holds it to be unjust and unreasonable for the Pullman company to charge equally for upper and lower berths. The ruling is recognized as the opening wedge for a readjustment of sleeping car rates. The Pullman company stated it will carry the decision to llhe courts.

CUTS RATE TO COAST. The commission cut the prejjjjht rate of $12 from St. Paul to the Pacific coast to $10. The present prlce'of $12 for an upper berth was ordered reduced to $8.50. NEVER MORE THAN $1.50.

A short night's JourKey, the commission holds, should not carry a rate of more than $1.50 for a lower berth and $1.10 for an upper. The rate of $2 from St. Paul to Fargo, N. 242 miles, was ordered reduced accordingly. ANOTHER REDUCTION.

The upper berth rate of $1.50 was reduced to $1.10 between St. Paul and Superior, and the upper rat.) between St. Paul and Grand Forks was reduced from' $2 to $1.50. The raJes prevailing were approved for lowers. ENORMOUS DIVIDENDS PAID.

The report, written by Commissioner Lane, reveals that the company declared annual dividends of nearly $80,000,000 from 1899 to 1908 Inclusive. During the period of eleven years $51,000,000 In special. cash and stock dividends were paid, In addition to the anriual ones. ALL oo NOT NINE LIVES IS WRONG New April this IB my husband," said Mrs Joe Kelly. not" said; Joe "This isn't the man you said Deputy Sheriff Charles J.

Wagner Kelly was being tried before Justice of the Peace Mitchell for non-support of a minor child. "I rule that he Isn't your hus-band" said Justice Mitchell, as he dismlssec the case. Kelly was nabbed as he' canu out of the penitentiary at Columbus after serving a term for horse steal- He was brought to this city Sat' 'i urday. Mrs-. Kelly has seen her husband only two or three times.

She -knew his name was Joe Kelly, but It happened that there was another Joe and tha he resembled- Mrs. Kellyts bus band. RAISE $324,000 INJ8 MINUTES To Build New Church for 1 Congregation. New York, April 11 In twenty eight minutes the congregation of the Fifth Avenue Baptist church subscrlb ed $324.000 yesterday to build a new edifice. John D.

Rockefeller gave half having promised to duplicate dolla for dollar up to $250,000, when limit will have been reached. The congregation did not raise $250, 000 today and other collections are tc betaken. New York Woman Sued Declares She Sold No Insurance. New York. Miss Virginia Pope keeps an ornithological laboratory and general biological boarding house at 146 West Sixty-eighth street.

Besides taking parrots and goldfish and genteel marmosets as paying guests, she sometimes selte times canaries and sometimes paro- quets. YOU NEVER CAN TELL. But she does not sell guarantee! oh leases of Bird sood she may pense at tnarkej'rates and South Cartf- llna mocking-birds on occasion when there is a demand, but as she put It yes. terday, none of us mortals knows when he will be called, and therefore how can she know when an expensive canary or a ringtailed Hoang-Ho goldfish will pass into the great beyond? SOLD PINK MALTESE. Some time ago Miss Pope sold a plnlt Maltese Persian cat to Mrs.

M. S. Putnam, who lives at 318 West Eighty- fourth street. The cat was In excellent condition when he left Miss Virginia Pope's biological boarding house; not damaged or In any way indisposed. But after Mrs.

Putnam had had him at her home for two days she telephoned down to Miss Virginia Pope's to say that Thomaii was sick. SENT OIL BY BROTHER. So Miss Pope sent her brother, who Is interested In her laboratory, up to Mrs. Putnam's house. The brother carried with him a small bottle of olive oil.

When he arrived at Mrs. Putnam's house he administered the olive oil to the cat. The cat did not get any better the next day and Mrs. Putnam asked Miss Pope over the telephone to take him back to her place for a few days and nurse him. Miss Virginia sent her brother for the cat and she nursed the cat for two.

day. Then the cat died WANTED BACK. Thereupon Mrs. Putnam went around to Miss Pope's place and said that a dead cat was not much use to her. so would Miss Pope refund the $10 which Mrs.

Putnam had pa.ld for this deceased pink Maltese Persian male cat? It must be recognized, said Miss Virginia Pope at the time, that this sne clfic cat IB a dead state did not represent any money value to be reckoned among the assets of her ornithological laboratory and biological boarding house. STARTS SUIT. that the husband of Mrs. nam, who. Is a lawyer and who consequently has access to the law of torts as bearing upon dead cats, moved to bring suit against Miss Pope to re- covej that $10.

Miss Pope said Thursday that she would fight the suit, for she believed that she was in the right. ATTORNEY GENERAL BEARS POOD NEWS Gam to Taft With In Hto Pocket. Chicago, Ap'rll leaving for Washington yesterday AttorMT General Wickersham lald'he had jM news for Taft. He said: "I do not believe the party is to be split by a divergence pv.er the other policies. I my opinion on the inquiries I made here concerning the 'Insurgent' movement.

Misunderstandings still are prevalent and as soon these are cleared up I am satisfied that the Insurgent sentiment will subsldt "TTie public se'nerallV does not appreciate how much has been occosa. by lEWSPAPERr VSPAPES.I.