Show THE EDITORS EDITOR'S TABLE TALK I OF THINGS GRAVE AND GAY WORSHIP OF OP II CRIMINALS ALS I Readers of American newspapers are familiar with the disagreeable fact that the Jails of the country never contain a bloodstained convict l so loathsome and beastly as not to attract attract the hYsterical hysterical hysterical hys hYs- sympathy and andt often love of abnormal women who it seems are to tobe tobe tobe be found in almost every community An interesting article In a recent Issue of the New York World on The Worship of Criminals furnishes ample evidence that this sort of moral perversion perversion sion aba is exhibited by men men quite as muchas much as by the weaker sex In their experience experience experience ence old officers at th the Tombs prison in New NewYork York w where ere condemned m murderers formerly were kept until the time of execution ex ex- remember that where the criminal crim inal nal was a woman she would have visitors visitors visitors visit visit- ors and coi correspondents respondents who were men invariably well dressed and well supplied t with money money men men who would be regarded aside from their odd Infatuation in infatuation in- in as citizens of bf average Intelligence intelligence intelli Intelli- genCe gence and standing Such puch people would write the most disgustingly love Jove letters etters to female prisoners and the themore themore themore more depraved and atrocious the object of the Insane passion the wilder its expression expression ex ex- would be It is as w well ll to remember remember remember re re- re- re member all this and not to regard the the adulation of desperate criminals as as' as asal al altogether altogether altogether al- al together a cr craze ze peculiar to the femInine feminine fem fern mine gender OUR CONSULAR SERVICE Talking to the members of the Chicago Chicago Chica Chica- go Comm Commercial club last week Mr Frank Franl A. A formerly formerly Assistant Secretary of the Treasury declared that foreign Consuls with fewer academic accomplishments accomplishments accomplishments ac ac- ac- ac and more good Yankee horse sense were what the United States needed to strengthen its markets marcets abro abroad d. d He said that heretofore the demands upon our Consuls have been principally of a social and agreeable nature but if our commercial invasion o of foreign m markets is is' is isto to be complete we must be aided by y our Consuls Mr does not seem seem to to have made any specific charges charge against anybody nor to have suggested any swe sweeping ping c change cange ange i in the inter interest st of greater efficiency efficiency effi em- in the service That it might be improved if f. f completely com IY divorced from pol politics tics js IS S no doubt but even as asIt asIt asit It Is Js it might be worse worse The excellence and value vahe to their government of the Consuls Consuls' ons ls' ls reports home sent monthly b bur by our ur commercial representatives sent tives abroad and published by the Department of State have attracted the attention of the the German and other the European papers particularly the econ economic mic journals have been loud in praise of their authors author Unquestionably that Incompetent me men secure good places through Congressional influence Is true and that th t abuse will continue until the system shall be pla placed ed upon a strictly strictly- merit footing practically with a good behavior tenure tenure to all ll appointees appointees lOR Periodically it s 's seems ims to th o be regarded as necessary by some Washington correspondents correspondents cor cor- respondents to nie ml a home dem demand nd by writing an anes two on the state of morals and among Senators and in In Congress As we gather from two or three exchanges in the Middle West the time for reviving reviving re re- re- re this to certain ertain people always subject Interesting has Tolled rolled around again It Itis is pleasant pleaS to observe that the moral and ai data gathered by the writers sh sh show w a decided gain gam compared r d with mu mu h that has hag has has' been al alleged alleged alleged al- al and ver lr ti likely elY believed in the past There was wa a a. time I it t is said when the legisla legislative ve pace at the CapItal Capital Capital Cap Cap- ital was fast both bohin in the and bipedal dal sense and nd also in the spir spiritual spiritual Ir b but t such Is not no now nov the case case Chamberlains Chamberlain's famous hostelry is closed and the cheery old sports who were used to p patronize it have become sedate and addicted to Lithia water As Asfor Asfor for other amusements prayer meetings and Sunday school gatherings take up most of the leisure of our national statesmen The good old days when Senators took snuff saul and a tumbler full f of brandy at a drink are no more Nothing stronger than cold tea is to be found today In the Senate cloak rooms on the House s side the member who should fill himself with anything more Intoxicating than N Naval val Sherry you woud o ibe I be regarded with surprise This great t reform by bY many is believed bellev d to be be due due to the precepts and example of cool self contained and abstemious men like those of the Kentucky and Ohio delegations delegations and and Balley Bailey of Texas who eschews esc all beverages with the the- same I fixity of purpose sc that he pe does swallow swallowtail taU tall coa coats ts THE LOBBY A MYTH The American public for years h has s been annually furnished with a vast amount of misinformation concerning the operations of alleged lobbyists in Washington who vho are supposed d to go around among among our national legislators with valises full of one hundred and andone andone andone one thousand dollar bills for purposes of bribery bribery- and corruption It Is possible possible possible ble that such things were known a generation or more ago but nothing of the kind nov happens r In the first place votes votes arc c arc not ot now to b be rounded up for this or that measure according to the susceptibility t to persuasion or influence in Influence influence In in- fluence of members as on once they could be That was before the reign of Thomas B. B Reed At present members vote vote- pretty much as they are told and the committees determine what to tell them The Speaker and anti the Committee on Rules do the rest What answers to lobbying now Is mostly most most- ly in the form of legitimate arguments before committees by attorneys who are specialists in the subjects subjects' under consideration and vho who are are retained retained open openly y and legitimately legitimately- by the interests interests inter inter- ests eats concerned In intoe tile the proposed legisla legisla- tion tion Thus the Hon Hem John W. W Foster Secretary ex-Secretary of State appeared before the Senate ml COlI Committee on Immigration and argued against Chinese exclusion b being retained by the government of oi China for that purpose The coarse wine vine opening briber briber and the peroxide peroxide blonde blonge as lob lobbyists if they ever e- e isted haVe hae disappeared and arid probably for ev ever ever r. r THE DOOMED WHISKER It Is rep reported that in the tEe city and in some parts of the State of New York a a. crusade Is in in progress against beards Health authorities are ar are giving strong encouragement to the movement nt which seems destined to to finish the work that fashion has begun in prescribing smooth faces for all men who would aspire to th the reputation of correct form According to to our information It has been discovered that doctors ors with Jong long beards lose more flore p patients than do those without hair on their faces or 01 with only a moustache The impregnation of mi milk k with disease germs germs by by- whiskered whiskered whis whis- milkmen and dairymen i is said to be clearly dearly proven The State l I Milk lk Commission has has' suggested sug-g-ested genera general and obligatory clean shaving among the themen themen themen men wad handle milk and the managers managers managers man man- I agers of the large milk stations in and around Binghamton have ordered their to conf conform rm to the dati dation n. n Should th the reform e orm spread westward it ft would would be a a sad ad blow to the populists in hi Kansas where the elimination of ot wind and whiskers would lay them and their party oU out t cold |