Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 43, Number 40, Jasper, Dubois County, 7 June 1901 — Page 3

Weekly Courier.

C. imi:. I'ultlealecr. JASl'Ell, : INDIANA. MY ENEMY. ( walk.et toward the deor of lilni that I t it cd In the- month of the apple MMM And IUm thought uf Qoil : love tor a loving woti.i VBBfl iliiwn th-- soft pe-rfmnes. Of love the mati-d sonK-tcr sans; And I h chlldllkd brook I. t prated till I Journeyed on wltli limit of hat To tin- door of him I hated. And the hills Mftl up thetr hymn of praise T I kl. s 1 n t low to If ,i t , And tin- world wait alert to catch the strain Of Hi'" son of the v i k 1 1 . . 1 . it And tin- heart of t!i.' wot Id I, at t,,.-t with Joy. ith ey and leva slated - pin I Strödt on with heart of hate To the- door of him I bates. And thin- eBBM through, the- o;. ri door A OOBhfl born.- Iiy m -n. Thiel! th. y bor to u grave 'nrath the. i i'plo tri s At tli" foot of a hlonmlnir gln. Whm th. y h it him there 'mid tin- npplc t re -es To Nil new h d nwitnl I crept. Mm) the Mrdl tang triad ua they sans hefore. Tint I fell on Iii- i?rave and wept -Sam Walter .- in ( House-keeping. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA A CHANCE SHOT. : 4 BY H. W. PHILLIPS. YYYYYTYYYYTTYYYVYYYTYYYYV REDDY and I were nlune at tho lake beds. .- sat outaide tha .-aliin braiding a leathe-r liat band eight strands and the "repent" figure an art that I never could master. I tat inside, with n one-pound package of "Hull Durham" tobacco bcoidfl m and newspapers within roach, rolling the day's supply of cigarettes. Reddy stopped hi story lino; enough to say: "Don't use the 'Missouri Coyote" kid that paper burns my tongue take the 'Pioneer;' tin-re's plenty of it." Well, as 1 was any lag, I'd met a lot of the boya up in tOVo this day. ami they threw man? aa twe driaka into me; I know that for Certain, because s hen a e took the parting dOM I had a glass of whisky in eaeh hand, and had httt twice as many friends as when I Started. When I pulled out for mighty good for myself looking for trouble; but to dodga it any. either. home I felt DO! exactly not a-going 1 was warbling "Idaho" for all I was worth - you Know now prettv 1 can sin?. a . Cock-eyed Fetereon need to say it made him forget all his trouble. "Because," says he, "you don't notici it when a man bats you over the head with a two-by-four." Well, I was enjoying everything in light, even a little drizzle of rain that was driving by in rag! of Wetii'x. when a flat -faced swatty at Fort Johnson halted me. NOW, it a dreadful thing to be hutted to death by a nanny goat, but for a full-sized row puncher to be held up by a soldier is worse yet. To say that I was hot under the collar don't give you the right idea of the way I felt. "Why. you cross between the last root of summer and a bob-tailed flush!" says I, "What d'yer mean? What's got into you? Gket out of my daylight, you dog robber, or I'll walk the little hOTM around yout neck like three-ringed circus eoma, get a mOV, and pull your freight!" It seemed that this swatty had been chucked out of the thM story of Frenchy'a dam e emporium by Bronc, Thompson, which threw a grant respect for ot:r profesh into him. COBou.ntly he wasn't fresh like BMtl soldier, but answers me as polite as tin-horn gambler on pay day. Says he: "I just wanted to tell yOU that old Krosthead nnd 40 braves ire some'era between here and your outtlt, with their war paint on, ami blood In their eyes, cay oodling and whOOptn' fit to beat the band, and if yon get tangled up with them I reckon they'll give you a hair-cut and shamI'".., to say nothing of other trimmings. They say they're after the ''tows, hut it's a 110 hill againat a Inst year' bird's nest that they'll take on any kind of trouble that comes long. Their hearts is might v bad. thai state, and when an Injun's heart get spoiled, the disease is infectious - you'd better stop awhile." now, cuss old Frosthead and you, ! ' savs I ays I. "f h,. ciinics cow -howPing on my re-, nation. I'll kick Iii pantalettes on top of his scalp-lock." "All right, pardner!n say- he. "it's your own funeral. My orders was to halt everyone going throuirh; big I ain't a Whole company, so you can nava it your way. Only, if friends have m take you home VoeJ-ecuttle, don't blame me. f l ion.l I your in a Paaa, - , i . BO I went through the officers' l":'rtrrs to alle an hour, letting out ' string of yells you might haxe heard to the coast, just to show my respect for the I'nited states army, Now this has alwavs been my luck: Whe never I make a band WBgoa play, ornebody'B sure to strike me for mi license. Or else the team roCB in' o ditch a mile further on, Coma out about na happy as and i small yniMT clog at a bob-cat's cauc us. -me fellers run run in a shiny cabo that 'ml make the hair stand up n a baffeler robe, and get away with M j'i-d like nice; but thai ain't me. If I sing a IMle mite ,, high in the '' Mar. down comes the rocf atop of So it was this day, old Johnny Jlnrdhioh aocktd it to me, same aa usuaL

Qoefc a' Bsightjr! I he liquor died In m r.flcr n win!.- 'in I went SO'jnd s'. in l!,e M 1,1,., , Wei!w- p with a jat to tui myaelf right in the mid. Lib- of old ProstheetTa gang; Iha drusM "boom blipping." and thoss i odd ie.i tigers "hyah-hayahing" In a style that mob- my skin net up and walk all on r me with cold feet. How in blaiea ri Dsaaaged to slip througn those njuni I don't know. 'I would have bona a vv iinlei f r.l pi.-.e of eantlac if ru neant it. You .an 'most always do any darn thing y.ui don't u nit to. Well, there I wn., und. oh doctor! but wan't I in a lovely Bteaa! Thai war song put a crimp int.. me that .lack frost himself COtlldn'l take OOf It trat .is dark as dark bv this time.

Tli ii i on just stuck one eye over I lie edge Of tile prairie, and the rest of the sky was covered with (loud. A little light came from the Injuns' eainp lire, but not enough to ride by, and, besides, I didn't know which wav I Ollght tO gl). Bays I to myself, "Billy Sanders, yon are the champion nil round, old fashioned fool of the' district. You are a jackass from the country where ear lcss'n three foot long are curiosities. You laaaed that poor awatty that wanted to keep you out this; tooting your baoo like a man peddling soap; but now it's up to you. What are you going to do about it?" - and I didn't gat any answer, neither. Well, it W8I no Uta asking myself conundrums out there in the dark when time was so scarce. So I wraps my hankereher around Laddy'a nose to kc.p him from talking horse t., the Injun pi.ni.s, and prepared to sneak to where I'd rather be. Lnddy was the quickest thing on lege in that part of the count rv, and Ii.. :rf 1 a . , .. i iwieiv ii i coiiio get TO The open tliem Injuns wouldn't lave much of ChaBCe to take out my stopper and er amine my works not much. A half mile start, and I could show the wholt Siou nation how I wore my back hair. I cut for the place where the Injuns seemed thinnest, lifting myself up till 1 didn t weigh 1" pound, and breath ing only when necessary. We got along first-rate until we reached th edge of mi, and then baddv had to stick his foot in a gopher-hob and Walloped around there like a whah try ing tp climb a tree. Some darned cuss of an Injun threw a handful of hay on the fire, and, as it Maxed up, the winde gang spotted me. 1 linlimbered my gun, sent the irons into Laddy, Bad era began to walk. I didn't like to make for the ranch as I knew the boys w. re short-handed SO I pointed north, praying that I'd hit some kind of settlement before struck the north pole. Well, we left those Injuns so far behind that there wasn't any fun in it. I slacked up, patting myself on the hack; and, as the trouble seemed all over. I was Juat about to turn for the ranch, when I heard horses gal loping, and as the moon come out little I saw a whole raft cd redskins come a-boiling up a draw not half a mile away. That knocked me sla'i . f 1 w . l m a a w ..a sioeci. It looKeci line I got the wrong ticket everv time the wheel turned. I whooped it UD again, swearing I won Id n't stop this deal short of n dead sore tiling.' We flew through space T.addv onlv kind of tickling the high spots with his toe nails. A trays down the valley I spotted a lit tie shack sitting all alone bv it self out in the moonlight. I headed for it, hollering murdei . A man came to the door in his under rigging. 'Hi. there? wh it's eating you?" he Vf "Injuns coming, pardner! The country's just oozing Injuns! Better g-'t a wiggle on you! "All right slide alone. I'll ketch up to you, says he. T looked back ami saw him hustling out with his saddle on his arm. "He's a particular kind of cuss." I thought; bareback would suit most people." Taking it a little easier for thnext couple of miles, I gave him a chance to poll tip. We pottnded along without saying anything for a spell, when I happened to notice that his teeth were chattering. Keep your neve up, pardner!" says I. Don t you get scared were got a good start cm 'em." He looked at me kind of reproach ful. "Seared bo darned!" savs he, "I rccloM if yon was riding around this nice COO night in your drawers, vnur teeth'ud rattle some, too " 1 took a look at him. and saw, sure enough, while he had hat. coat and boots on. the pants was missing. Well, if it had been the last act. I'd have had to letlgtl. "Couldn t find 'em nohow," say he. "hunted high and low, jick, .Tack and the game jnt COtaC! to my mind now that I had 'em rolled up and was sleeping on 'cm. T don't like to go around this way I feed as if I wa. two men, and cne of 'em hardly respectable." "Did you bring a gun with you?" lie gae me another stare. "W'hv pardner, you must think I've got a light ami frivolous disposition," says he. and with that lie heaves up tic great grand uncle of nil the sixshooters I ever did see. it made EDV l.Vlong look like something for a Kid to cut its teeth u. "That's the best gnn in this country," he went on. "I. o.ils i if it BBlght be." says I. "His the foundry that east it gone oui of buslneas? I'd like to bare ne like if. if it's .,s tlangeroua as it looks." "When I hara any trouble witu ft man," sa- he, "I don'1 Want to go pecking at him with a putty-blower, tust irritating him. and giving him a little skin complaint here- and there; I want something that'll touch his conscience." j lie had it, fur a broadside from that '

hattery would arutter an eh-phant o er a tow nsliip. We lopci! along quiet and easy until Bun-up. The QrlndatoM Butts lay alMiut a mile ahe ad of us. Looking back, wc saw the Enjuna coming over a rise of groaad 'way la the distance, "Now," says my friend, "I know a short cut through those hill that'll bring us out nt Johnson's. They've? got enough puae&ora there to do tha United Slates army up stare bed and hlueil. Shall we take it?" "Sure!" says I. "I'm only wandering around this part of the BOttn I ry, because this pait of the country Is here if it was anywhere akm I'd "e just as glad." So in we went. It was the .deepest and narrowest kind of canyon, looking as if it had been cut out of the rock with one crac k of the BS. I was just thinking: 'Mb- whlfi but this Would be a poor place tu get su aggeil in," when bang! says a rifle right in front of as ami "m-e-arr!" goes the bullet OVef our heads. Wa wet,, off tham horses, and behind a eoiide of chunks of rock, sooner than we hoped for, and that's saying a good deal. "Cussed poor shot whoever he is."

says in Friend. "Soma Injun holding us here- till the rest come up, I presume?" "That's about the size of it and I'd like to maka yon a bei that ha doe it, t oo, if I thought I'd have a chance to collect." "Oh, you can't always tell you might lose your money," says h ', kind of thoughtful. "I wouldn't mind that half as much as winning," says I. "Hut. on the aqua re, do you think we can get out? I'll jump him with yon if you say so, all hough I ain't got what you might Call B passion for suicide." "Now you hold on a bit," aya he, "I don't know hut what we'd have done- belter to stick to the- horses, and run for it, but it's too late to think of that. Jumping him is all foolishness, he'd sit behind his little rock and pump had into us till we wouldn't float in brine- and we can't bac k out now." He talked o calm it made me kind of mad. "Wall," nay I, "in that eape, let's play 'Simon says thumbs up' till the rest of the crowd conies." "There you go!" says he, "just like all young fellers -gett In' hosatyl rijiht away if you don't fall in with their plan. Now, Sonny, you keep your temper, and watch me play cushion carroma with our friend there." "Moaning how?" "Vmi see that block of stone just this side of him with the scpiare face towards us? Will, he's only cover. 1 in front, ami I'm a'gotng to shoot against that face and ketch him on the glanc e." "Ornat, if you could work it!" says T. "Well, watch!" says he. Then he stiuinched down behind his cover, so as not to give the Injun on Opening, trained his cannon and pulled tv trigger. The idd gun opened k . mouth and roared like an earthquake. but I didn't see any dead Injun. Thc-n twice more she spit fire, ami st.ll there weren't and de sirable corpses to he had. ay. pardner! says r. 'You thla wouldn't make many cigars at game: "Now don't you get oneasv?" savs he. ".lust watc h!" bill, says the old gnn, and this was felt time, sure enough, the Injun knocked clear of the rock. I all abmg that he wouldn't be of a comfort to his friends much after wards, if that trim did land on htm. Stil, he wasn't so awful dead, for as ve jumped for the horses be kind of hitched himaelf to the rock, and laving the ride across it. nnd working the lerer with his left hand, he sent a hole plumb through my hat. "Bully boy!" says , T snapped at him, smashed the lock Of his title to Rind era. Then, of course, he was our meat. s we rode up to him. rnv ward held lead on him. The Injun stood up straight and tall, and looked us scpiare in the eve say. he was a man. 1 tell yon. red skin or no red skin Etat courage just stuck out on him as he stood there, waiting to pass in his becka. My pardner threw the muzzle of hit gnn tip. I can t do it he's gune from the heart out!" sav. he. Then we shocked along down to lohn SOn'a and had breakfast. 'That became of Frosthead and his gang?" Oh. they sent out a regiment or two. and gathered them in bout IS soldiers to nn Injun. No - no harm was done. Me nnd mv pan! were the only onca that backed up iiL-ainst them cliue-k out a cigarette. Kill; my lungs ache for want of a smoke. Idler. Raa Indian Snperatltlnna. Hate's blood useful for young infant. When young one attacked with ague, the tdood ami BOttte mother's milk mixed together and given to drink to the infant, the sickness will go. Black monkey is useful for magic. The monkey will be killed on Sunday, Drink a little blood, take off the skin, and make to cap. The magic- could not touch that man. Peacock's leg useful for deaf man. It mnv be boiled with oil, and when any person could not hear the sound the oil will be dropped u little into the ear and man will be cured. Ow! useful for a woman. Thia will be killed on Moii'lay . Take out bnMi eves. I he h it will be burned and the right an Well, Keep ihe dnrt of the lie, ht, throw e me of the dust on a woman's ftrmeUtB, and she will lore you; ntul when von want to be clear of her, throw dust of left eye, nnd she will h-ivc off by pronouncing some magie words. Oriental Sport ing Mugniiue.

HUMOROUS. loo many people in ihi world talk Wisely un i act foolishly. Chicago Daily Nfw.s. It i ev. n better to hide your light under a l.u-lu l than to have it Dttfled uut by undue CXpoettre. I'uck. A Kccord Itrcak. r. Subbubs "See here, juu .said that house 1 bought of jroa was a atoae'a throw from the station." Agent -"Well" Hubbubs -'Well, I simply want to know who lb revv that stone." Philadelphia 1 lines. Proper En. ,h and Quite English. Wicki.r "beast iy weather, isn't ii .'" Stickler "Whv will warn insist

- ar upon using those- idiotic expressions '.' How can the weather be beastly?'' Wickler "Well, it's raining cats and doge." Philadelphia Preaa, Mr-. Innocence- (finding poker chips in her husband's pockets) "Dear me! an't George too thoughtful for anything! I told him to buy .some thing to amuse the baby, ami lure he baa brought home those pretty colon,) Hake." Philadelphia Be cord, A Good System.- Mr. Meddergrass "Hi Bloeum sent tea dollars to a feller in New York to find OUt howto win at roui. tte." Mr. Podderahaeh "What did the felb r say?" Mr. M.-.!-dergrass "Said to "run the game yourself.'" Baltimore American. Their Favorite Diet. "The bulls and bears in Wall street are all eirIwTOrOtM animals," remarked the horse editor to the snake editor. "Indeed'.'" "Yea; they are fond of spring lamb with United States mint sauce." Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph, waen yoa want shoes, go to a shoe store." read the talkative man In a restaurant from a new -paper adrertlaement, "Yes," said the patient listener across the table, aa he took Bp his extra fork, "ami when you want pi, . go to a pie plant. IndianRpo la New s. CAPTURING SEA LIONS. Aecompllahed Only with .re-nt Dlfl. t-nlt)- and llnnurr to I. Iff and l.luib. A sea lion is really a seal, but larger, stronger and much more f. i.. cious. A great many sea lions are captured about the Parallonea, a group of islands off the e-.;..-t of California, about :iu miles fiue west from San Francisco bay . sav - Golden Days, The lions come- up on the beach and rocks to bask in the sun, and while they are aaleep the sailors crawl up as near to them as possible. Almost Invariably tha ea lions w ake up when the sailors get within ten or twelve feet of the tn and lift up their heads to tight. Then is the Bailor's oppor-" t unity. Quick as a flash he throws a heavy canvas sack over the animal's head and twists the slack about its powerful jars. The next thing to he done is to get a rope about tin- lion's flippers, which renders him helpless either to fight or fly. The process of capturing sea Hons niive- simple enough to describe, but it is dangerous and difficult in prac tice. During a recent expedition in which 14 lions were captured the scenes which occurred were very exciting. The first morning of the hunt, aft.-r three or four sea lions hal been captared, one of the sailors diacovered a lion whose gray whiskera and enormous size test died to his great age. The sailor managed to get his sack hack over the hand of the beaat, but its strength was so great and its struggles so violent that it was onjy with the greateat difficulty1 that he could get the rope eiver one flipper. He Succeeded finally, but as be attempted to tie the other the sack was thrown off the animal'- head, and with a yelling roar he turned and made a eicious snap at his captor. The linn ju-t managed to catch the thumb and firat tint-vr of his lft hand, tearing the thumb, with its tendons, from the hartd and taking the first joint of the finger. The sailor ran a few ste-p-. screaming, and fell. The sea lion, now thoroughly enraged, freed himself from the rope and sack and advanced with open jaws on the prostrate Bailor, He would undoubted! hare torn the man to pieeea had not the mate, at-rncte-d by the seaman's rric a, come up and shot th,- animal through the neck. Even then it mauaged to eacape Into the sea again. This wns the only serious accident that marked the expedition. Among the sailors was an ct-cow-hoy. He- attempted lo nee his laaco on the sea lions, but with very poor sue eeaa, aa the eee llona head la eo email and BCCk so large and smooth, that the noose usually slipped over their beads. One-a reddish -colored, rather small lioness he did catch w ith his lasso. Fourteen se a Ilona were contort 'i in all. Among these we re two siipi rl mnlee. 'Ptaese two were freed in the hold, nnd almcist Immediately began to fight Ihe smaller of the two waa hilled, His hide was torn and punctured in dozens of plnees by his adv . r-arv's teeth, and the adreraary himaelf allowed that thn fight was a hard one. In landing the seals at the wharf two got loose. They looked so dangerous w ith iheir Upraised heads- and shin ing teeth that the men hesitated to tackle-t hem. The dived off the wharf boat la a few seconds, and thus escaped. Raja-llah llral I'nmlh ame. The family name of King Kdwarei Vii. of England is Wettlu, the name of the various branches of the house of Kaxe, one of which is that ol Saxe-Cohnrg-flrrtha. the line froni which descended Albert, the late Wuecn Victoria's hush,-,n!, the prevent king'a father. Albany Argue.

STILL THE SHIP SUBSIDY

Repabllrana Quletl? ArramUg I'taaa the lul,,ulle,u. Meaaur al .Nest Sraaloa. to No great strain U put upon ?..pular credulity in accepting the ItBte tat-nt from an authorized republican source that arrangements are being BjUietly ma ie to pass the B&lp subsidy l&qulryat the next session of congrcae. The prime and most active advocates of the measure have- never thought of abandoning their original purpose and are now quietly making an itT,rt under the most approved method to acquire the necessary support iu congress. This is to be had OB a. e ptalde terms, provided the people can be reooaclled to this further daain upon their resources, and it is laiL-'lv w, -lithe local noldera of public sentiment a ithln the re publican party that the plutocratic lobbyists are laboring. '1 hey are not tooling fanfare s from noisy horn a, tiring cannon or beating; torntoin-, but emplov ing the ijuie-t me ; he Is of the literary bureau. What they seem to handle as tin ir knockdown argument amounta, whea analysed, to a point blank assertion that a Nicaragua canal will make itabsoiutelj Imperative that the merchant marine be plant d in control of ourcarr ing t rade, through the bounty of the government, The answe r to ibis dogmatic assertion is that the canal, even when built, will have little to do with the expansion of our sales in foreign markets, for they only take such surplus of our production as they must have, and would lake no more if the American fleet were laiarer than all the real combined. Hut if it be granted that the lathmiaa waterwaj la going to make a greater call up.m our reaourcea and means of t ransport a t ion, t ha t fact will in itself make sea-going vessel property re-munerat i I and invite corporate capital without reference to government aid. The fact is that the canal is a remote contingency when onsidered in connection with present Conditions, and can only be used in this connection for purposes that are unjustified and misleading. The purc hase of a large English transportation line by the syndicate which ,1. Pterpont Morgan repre-ents was made without any reference to the canal. Vet we have no doubt, that if a new lubeidy bill be introduced next term it a ill make liberal provision for this sain,- fleet. Hut that it is in Itself a pa. it.Lr venture is evident beyond dispute in the fact that the shrewd promoter went after it and paid 4." ncT cent, more than the shares showed It to be worth in the judgment of its English owners. Another fact that should t. ad tO BCt the popular mind against the proposed subsidies is the fact that the movement to capture the p.-ople is under the pers-onal direction of President (iriscom, of the International Navigation company, the man who had modestly and adhoiily managed to feather his own nest, inside and out. by the provisions of the bill defeated ley the last congress. It will be recalled that the smooth Mr. Griseom had so arranged his hoppers as to catch all but the bran and middlings of the subsidy grist. He had way the best of all the proposed legislat ion, retroactive, present and future. Either by connivance or an intuition that can discount miracles, he had all Inside information ami had his interests in a position to rake down the bulk of the subsidies. He- had no rival as th' prince of grabbers. Be dictated the bill. He enlisted its powerful and wealthy support, he formed the reports of committees and inspired the tp-ce-hes of the- subsidy oh a III pi on a on the floor. Vet he had the humility of Uriah Heap when Interviewed for publie information. Knowledge ,.f what he has brought about In the- alii nation of national statesmen from their allegiance to the people, and of the motives that actuated him, should discredit him and his movement to f rive Ihe- subsidy scheme. Detroit Free Press. PRESS COMMENTS. Depew is the first republican who has dared to give voice to his thoughts and mention McKinley. tha man of density1 (or was it deetLuy?), as a candidate for a third form. But our Chnuneey always was a humorous somebody. Houston (Tex.) peat. Mr. Hannah may say "poohpooh" and "tut-tut" and "ii d noB sense" and all that, but it is to be nottOed that he has not turned I'. try Heath out of tin- oAos of the national committee- for suggesting him for president in 1 (HH. t'incinnat i Knquirer. The truth that a country injures Itself by shutting out. er increasing the price of raw male-rial is almost sclfevident, and it is equally clear that with higher pri 1 materials the only chance to reduce prices for conipet itive purposes must come through cutting wages. -Indianapolis Sentinel. At Bwtaia eeaayor nanna was still jesting about his BOjaifiBtion for the presidency. That is all right, if it goes no further, but the danger is he will become so fond of t he joke t list he will want to work it off in practical lorm on tue American people aw a whole, and that would be a situation eatirely devoid of humor for cpiite a nun. in r of people. Haltimore N'e w Whe n ( .inkling and his cohorts planned for t he t hird elect ion of ( .rant to the presidency they did not pay high compliment to the intelligence of tha American people. The talk of a third term for McKinley is even less of a compliment. Certainly what (irant could not accomplish would not he easy of accomplishment by McKinley. If it has c ome to such a pass that we must elect a man to a third term In order to sustain business or carry out defined pedicies, then it Is high time to change our form of guTcrnnieii t . Omaha World-Herald,

I THE END OF QUAY.

Pennayltalca Hepnblleaa Bcaaa I llrsrspcl the Knd uf Ills Political Hop. At a filaautr and rece ption recently give-n in Senator Quay's honor in Philadelphia by t in- st ate League of Bepah licaii ( lulls the s, nator announced in the eoursa of his epeeeh that he- would retire- from politics at the close of hia present term. He- said: "My politic -al race j run. It Is not te ba understood th d (tad's fword Is drawn immeeiUtc 1) afatr.st mv life i or t Ii t ie .- ,t In tha senate la lo Be n m ctur. ly vac ated, but that, with th.- subscrlptloa ot mv official oath on th IBth of JaYBUftr mv i onnectlon with the gerloui labor and raaftaSBa IbllltU- of ac tive- jiolltUs i . e-. . I. . x. pt In so far as I may be committed to c rUiu, ii. isurei peadlsg in th. .. m Ujti.-u-tui I "I will never airaln be a Candidate for r.o acce pt any official position." The public- si i v ice would have gained in decency and dignity ami ihe Mate of Pennsylvania would have gained hi prestige and influence in national affair if Mr. Quay bad mnde this decision many years ago. Such a determination would have commanded the I.- u iy support and approval of a ma jority of the eitiaenahip of tri.- Key stone stale. If Would have received, also, the unqualified indnrsemeut of a rery large and respectable portion of the republican nartv. Hut now that era have- it from the lips of ihe Pennsylvania boss himself that his political race in run, it is inte resting to look ove r the public record that is soon to eloe- for any e-i-dence-s of high-minded sstateamanship or constructive legislative ge nius that might be- suggestive or inaptrlng to the ambitious young men of the country What public .-e rv i , -.- has Mr. Quay rendered to the- country in return for the pecuniary re wards, bl has reaped froaft pol it ies? Careful and diligent scrutiny of hia career from the time he entered politics in 1865 as a member of the- statelegislature of Pennsylvania fails to rei veal any legislative ide-a or measure that may be traced to his authorship or that owes its enactment to hia championship. As secretary of the commonwealth, as recorder of Philadelphia, as treasurer of the commonwealth, he never Instituted any eonspii'tious state or municipal reforms." As- I'nited States senator he n, ,-r participated in any great debate ,r made a BOtable speech upon any issue of national importance. The "political race" which he now says is about to close extends over 3$ ears of public oflicehold ing and parfj dictatorship. Its close will end the political career of a man w ho will be remembered only as one of the most sagacious, unscrupulous and invincible party bosses that ever figured in our political history. Chicago KeeordHerald (Rep). DECISION OF SUPREME COURT. The Porto Hlean Qneatlon Mettled to the St Infliction of Amrrleaa Syndicates. Out of the conflicting opinions ot the supreme court of the I'nited States in the insular cases one fact is painfully npparcnt, and that is that the constitutionality of the Porahef ae t as respe cts PortC Rico is upheld. Thus Porto Kico, the Philippinen and the Haw aiians become mere dependenciea of thl I'nited Slates, domestic territory for some purposes and foreign countries for other purposes. Their commerce and industry may be burdened hy taxation or destrryed by taxation as congre-ss may decide. Tor the pur BOSOS of the tariff they are not American territories. This view is based on the theory presented by the administration that territories of the United states nr beyond the pale of the constitution nnd that they may enjoy its benefits only as congress, the supreme authority in the premises, shall condeacend to extend thom, There may be some doubt even BJ to the question whether the pewer of congress in the matter Is limited by the bill of rights. While the decision cannot fail to shock countless Americnn, It is certain to give great satisfaction to the syndicates which hnve made American expansion for the first time synonymous with injiistice and inequality. Lands won by the valor of American soldier- and sailors or purchased with money wrung from American toil are to be exploited in the inte rest of commercial combina tions at whose demand the preeodetitll of a hundred years have been set aside. The court's opinions are in conflict In some respects ami they do not appear to be Wholly clear in others, even to the justices the mselves, but the Judgmeat sustaining flie Foraker law is vital and seems to cover the whole ground. If congress may levy tariffs In the Halted States against Porto Rice and in Porto Kici against the I'nited States Ihe same .vithorite obtains with respect to Hawaii and the Philippines. The power of congress will be conceded by many Americana who do not approve of the I pacific acts of congress in an exercise of that authority. The apparent intimation that this power may be SXerciasd without constitutional restraint is the feature which OOnatittttet the BOW and dangerous doctrine in the preaa I sea. f'hicago Chronicle. Mr. Ilanna has been an intimate part of Do- aduiini-tration, hut ho did not go w ith the president to Cslifornla. Perhaps he U w a it ing I ill the spring of, say. 1 !"'.. That t iine-. according to BB calendar trier lion, ivrry p. nesta might take a notion toget out, WOUkl be directly after Iii It OOBd inauguration. Mr. Ilanna would not rare to go on a trip of that scut merely as aa "understudy" of the- preaidtSt, Chm clnnatl Enquirer