Show A MAYOR OF philadelphia A they have been having ome borne pretty hot times time over 01 er li philadelphia streetcar strikes always are marked by violence and pistols stones po I 1 cemen s clubs and not infrequently a stick of dynamite or two play an important part in a ION day s happenings ph ladelphia has had all of the e just as did st louis and chicago when tl e car men went ment out in those cities but to get down to the subject it is iq of mayor john edgar reburn former school teacher law yer state senator presidential elector and mem ber of congi eis we intend to write aher the strike started politicians went to the n ay or and told him the stand he had taken that ot of supporting ohp transit company and siding against the employed emp loyes meant political suicide but the mayor wouldn t back down it is not our place to say wheal er the mayor was right or wrong in the stai d he took but it is certain that few men would have the courage to face public epli ion ton as did mr air reyburn the mayor said he did not consider coi COL sider the demands of the car men fair and he refused to concur in the gei eral kopini 11 prevailing ailing in philadelphia that the differences ought to be arb grated then came the riots cars were wrecked and innocent persons killed still the mayor stood to hn his g ns and lent his influence to the side of capital state senator john P nichol joined the other leaders hi ri an effort to influx ence mayo mayot reyburn to change his attitude but ditl out avail mayor reyburn put his own opinion above the interests of the republic can party which has elected him to var ous posts of honor A street car strike is annoying to the people to bay u the least it is not pleasant to hae have to walk to work and iren then N alk home borne again at night few cars can be run when mobs threaten business bi siness is affected and the whole city feels the effect of such a labor demonstrate demon strat on antly it took tool nerve on the part of john edgar reyburn to adopt the position he took few men hae have done it the outcome is awaited with interest but it Is a safe prediction that mr air reyburn will not be a can didace for office again the party bosses ft will ill see that he doesn doean t get on any ticket in philadelphia NEW SENATOR CALLED DOC 33 william NN illiam E purcell democrat is now the ju j bior genitor from theSta the state teof of north dakota the governor of senator purcell s state is a demo crat and pend ng the convening of the legisla ture it ml f 11 to his lot to name a senator he gave I 1 his preference to fountain L thompson of can do a man of illinois birth and education who went to the dakotas a good many years ago thon apson had been in washington only rt short time NN ahen hen his health failed to such an extent that he was compelled to resign his senatorial e and then gov burke named mr purcell the he new north dakota senator was born and reared in the east country when he went west he was ery very muan of a tenderfoot he landed in dakota as a full fledged lawyer but it took the residents of the little town in which he al gated 48 hours to learn the fact for two full days they had held to the belief that the newcomer was a doctor of medicine and although they were viere undeceived the title of doctor has clung to him from that day to this it has been abbreviated to plain doc doe how eer ever while mr purcell was on hi way to his dakota home a passenger on the train became seriously ill and an attempt was made to find a physician when the lain who is now senator found that there was no doctor on the train he turned to do what he could for the itlena p and in order that the sick man might not lose his nerve through lack of confidence mr air purcell did not dis close the tact fact that he was not a phys cian he ile used some practical means to make the patient comfortable and did everything in true hospital style the man was taken off the train at the town in which mr pricell had elected to live from the time that he offered his services to the suffering man he baa ha been called doc doe the democratic s i a tor ator from north dakota comes from the town of wah peton in which lives his republican colleague senator mccumber the two men have been political rivals tor for years bit bi t also they have been firm per bonal friends and their friendship is marked to today day when both are members of the united states stites senate SALARY FOR BEING HUSBAND how would you like to be a husband at 50 a yeara year if reports are true that Is the part the viscount maidstone is going to play nor is he to get the full amount the first year sometime in J ine the viscount int t I 1 is coming over to this country to wed miss margaretta margare tta arm strong drexel of philadelphia he is going to be placed on his good behavior by his papa in law who reads the newspapers and knows something of what nhat happened to anna gould when she be came the countess castellane and to alice thaw when she became the countess of yarmouth so papa drexel has hag decided that it is well to be wary he has devised an ingenious marriage settlement by which he will allow the viscount 10 the first year and will increase the amount 5 annually until it reaches 00 00 oo all conditional on the bridegroom s conduct the viscount if au 2 years old a keen kc en sportsman one of the most popular men in english society and the eldest son of the earl of winchelsea Win chelsea he ile has a few thousand pounds sterling iam 1 luelf elf and can afford to accept papa drexel s proposal so said lk english genealogists are now saying that it if the anglo american alliances J i keep up at the present pace future students of genealogical trees will have ha V e r 11 to trace the lines of the british aristocracy back into the antiquity of the united states isn t that too bad BLUFF U S ENVOY I 1 the united baates has a minister in colombia col ambia who is equal to an emergency his name is elliott Northe northcott ott mr air northcott hails halls from the state of west vriginia Vl iginia and is a friend of stephen B elkins down in bogota the capital of colombia he the street railway system Is operated by an ameri can company the citizen of be he united states who manages the affairs of the street streetcar car corn com pany got into an altercation with a policeman just liae like a citizen might do in this country this altercation led to a riot the he colombians are a hotheaded people and after they had wrecked a few street cars and stopped the traffic they thought it would be the proper thing to stone the united states legation they surrounded the place and threw their stones mr air northcott wasn gasn t the kind of man to stand anything of that sort he promptly told the leaders of the mob and the authorities of bogota that he would hav bale e part of uncle sams army down in that part of the country in a jiffy if they tried anything more of that kind colombians have had occasion to look upon uncle sam sams s soldiers and they dlan didn t relish the idea they decided to let the american legation alone the city was quiet tor for several days ind and then the feeling against the streetcar tre etcar car company boiled ON over er again but there was no attack on the ameri can legation the warning in good west virginia english had had its effect 0 d arf 1 |