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8 THE MORXIXfc OREGONIAS. TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1906. "d t the Postofflc at Portland. Or., j as Second-Class Matter, i & -. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. . I 1!VARIABLT IN ADVANCE. 3 (By Mall or Express.) Tvlt AILT. BUNDAT INCLUDED. ( . 1; "lontha,.....; 19 00 Tenths 4.ZS i Op, months 7.2S L;'.nionth 73 I lJr','.r"1 b" carrier, per year 00 br carrier, per month .1 Per week -3 t", yr 450 ''lt : Tar (leaned Thursday)... 1-5S H llc.M n1 w'"Jr. one year 50 'j,r Send postofflcs money : ) oo. ', "Press order or peraonal caeca; on '. al Bank, stamps, cola or ourrenwr ,h sender's risk. 1 EASIBEM BUSINESS OFTIC. Vk C Xkirltll Special Agenor New o J'oom 3-S0, Trlhune building. Ckl- 810-612 Tribune building, i' c . , KFI ON BAU. ' Auditorium Annex. Postofflcs 8i Dearborn street. ft,., UJ, Minn. A. at. Mario Commercial w? '"Hamilton Kendrlck. 0-H llll.t,tnth street; Pratt Book fiiore. 1214 Goi street, 1. Welnateia. Kin Cay Maren. HtniZ -"r. Alo. Kickaecker clear - 1 nl Walnut. Tr4 ""oils M. J. 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Strain, of Umatilla County, a pamphlet which treats In an interest ing manner of several questions relat-'""v.'i-tgxatlon. Passing by the other rTtirti a for the present, we note that Mr. Si rain proposes to turn the proceeds of the state inheritance tax into the irre I dticlble school fund. His reasons for this ' r an ate: First, that It would diminish ihe annual school tax upon property; p'cond. that It would . improve the Pihools; and third, that It would pro vide capital which could not be with drawn from the loan market in times of panic. All these points are Indisputa ble, but, In regard to the first, we fear that it would be of little or no practi cal advantage. What the school fund gained other funds would lose, and the seneiHl burden of taxation would not be lightened. It would be no jfreat conso lation to the farmer to diminish his fx-hool tax while his other taxes were increased by exactly the same amount. One l constrained to remark, there fare, that this suggestion looks a little specious, but the other two stand on tf'-.lner ground. 4 t'he Irreducible school fund Is the manont endowment of the common schools. It Is to them what the enor mous benefactions of Rockefeller. Stan ford, Pearson, Carnegie and others are to the colleges and public libraries, and the larger'- fhe fund Is the better the schools will be .Of.this there can be no loubr, l-but a scoffer-might ask what reason there Is. for endowing the school system which will not equally apply to a system of public telephones, tele graphs and roads. All these are edu cative In' their effect, and they are among the prime essentials of modern civilization. "Vi'hy not use part of, the inheritance tax to found an irreducible fund for roadbutlding? Would not Mr. Strain agree that the usefulness of the public schools In the rural districts de pends greatly upon the condition of the roads? Would he deny that education among the children of farmers would he powerfully promoted) by a system of roads which could be traversed with facility the year round? Of course he would not, and neither would any other citizen of his Intelligence. The value of an education lies partly in what it makes of a man and partly in what it gives, hinv the ability to- ac complish. Thinking for the moment of the farming communities only, how much more every individual belonging tn them could accomplish with tele vhones as free -as the schools now are nnd roads as perfect as those which iruerse the rural districts of France. W ithout desiring to advocate these or ny other specific applications of the proceeds of the Inheritance tax, one may suggest that there are other uses unite as beneficial as to turn the whole 'f It into the irreducible school fund. l"pon the desirability of the Inheri tance tax Itself, apart from the ques tion how it shall-be used, there cannot he two opinions. It is1 the only form of taxation which is absolutely fair and to which there can be no theoretical ob jections. .An Income tax Is, In part at least, a penalty imposed upon, thrift and enterprise. To assess improvements upon real iroperty, 'as Is now done, is to discourage the .development of the country.. Personal property never has been and never caji be fairly assessed. Taxes upon railroads and' other corpor ations, excellent as they are and un deniably necessary, tend nevertheless to fall ultimately upon the public. In ternal revenue taxes upon liquor and tobacco are paid by the consumer, and not by the producing ' trusts. Tariff taxes come out of the pocket of the last purchaser of the goods. But in the case of the Inheritance tax the read Inci dence Is where it seems to oe. it is not and It cannot be shifted to some other mZon. It wrongs nobody, for It takes property to which the title has lapsed hv death and to which ownership is absolutely created by the civil lawN It ,loes not discourage thrift and enter prise, but rather it stimulates them since It leaves to a man all the fruits of hl. industry and diminishes the temp tation to idleness and parasitism which begets the unfortunate recipients of bloated inheritances. Tne inheritance tax is not only ideal in its equity," but also. If it is made heavy enough, it performs a valuable and necessary social function by dis couraging the tendency to found fami ,, - and thus create what ' is called a. ' 1 . ,, , 1 .. 1 -. .leisure clas." A leisure class by its veTy nature live without work, and rhls on'y be done by Appropriating ,-r,Q V'lings of other people. Mr. Strain 1 "an facts which show how rap- Idly the country i learning to apprecU ate the merits of the Inheritance tax. In 1891 six states only had introduced it; but in the course of the next decade it was adopted by nineteen others. He remarks that in twenty-two states nearly the entire expense of the Gov ernment is provided in this way. In New York, where the tax is 1 per cent for direct heirs and 5 for collateral, it produced over J4.00O.00O in 1901. Mr. Roosevelt's proposal to apply this method In Federal taxation Is therefore clearly In the line of a National tend ency. The only apparent defect of the in heritance tax is that it cannot reach property held 1n mortmain, that is, by corporations. Since a corporation never dies', no death dues can be levied upon its wealth. Nor does it answer this ob jection to say that the corporate shares are owned by individuals and must consequently pass by inheritance.' A moment's reflection will show . that while this would act to diminish what the heir might receive, it would not af fect the corporate property in the least. Since one-sixth of all the wealth of the country is . already held in mortmain and since the proportion is rapidly in creasing. It will be admitted that this consideration Js important. . If it is de sirable to break up ' great corporate holdings some other method than the Inheritance tax must be Invented to ac complish it. But is such an end desira ble? The tendency of the inheritance tax would be to distribute the owner ship of corporate shares widely among the people, leaving the property Intact which the shares represent; and this Is exactly what some of our most thought ful publicists, like Judge Grosscup, for example, are struggling for. What seemed an objection to the Inheritance tax turns out, therefore, to be perhaps its greatest advantage. As an instru ment for solving our social problems, the efficacy of the inheritance tax seems almost unlimited; the endowment of the public schools Is only one, andl possibly not the most Important, of the beneficent ends which It may be made to accomplish. DOES ORrXiON STAND WITH ROOSE 'TELT? With its eye on Oregon politics, the Washington Star, an independent news paper of high character, meditates thus: Will this election afford in any measure a line on the situation at large? For some years Oregon has been a Republlcsn state. , . . Has the time come, for one reaeon or another, for a change? Is thla the year for a turn In the tide? If so we should see it in the Oregon vote. A Democratic Gov ernor, a Democratic Legislators to elect a Democratic Senator, and Democratic repre sentatives in Congrese, will be hailed by- that side as an omen of victory for 1008. while the opposite result will quits as (ready hearten the Republicans, who are not with out some nervousness. The country Is watching Oregon. A Democratic victory here in the June election will mean several things of far more than local importance. For one thing, It will signify to the Eastern plutocrats that their assaults upon President Roosevejt's ability, motives and character have profoundly affected the people of the Nation and that he has forfeited public confidence. For months they have! carried on a system atic propaganda to produce this effect, and a Democratic victory in Oregon will convince them that they have succeeded and w 111 hearten them for. more vigor ous efforts of the same kind. Readers of . certain Eastern papers have seen the assertion reiterated day after day and week after week that the President Is not as popular as he was a year ago. His failure to control the Senate has weakened his standing with the Nation, it is said, while at the same time these sneering organs with beautiful consist ency abuse him for seeking to secure the enactment of the rate bill. A dis tinct and definite campaign has been waged to discredit Mr. Roosevelt, and a Democratic victory In Oregon will be understood to mean that It has suc ceeded. Such a victory will Indicate to the people of the East that Oregon stands with Aldrlch, Standard Oil and the railroads against the President. How- else could it be interpreted? Mr. Roose velt's policy is before the Nation for Judgment. Approval or censure will be Indicated by the result of the election. The sentiment of the people is shown by the way they vote. They have no other way of showing it. And If, at a critical time like this, they vote against the party of the President, the meaning can be nothing else than that Mr. Roosevelt himself has offended the country by advocating rate regulation, control of corporations and the square deal in general. Can any candid man deny this? Will the election of Demo cratic candidates express approval of the President? . It is idle to say that the June election does not concern the President and his policy. There are times . when local elections should turn on local issues purely, but this Is not one of them. For Oregon to desert the President now would be as base as for a regiment to desert its commander when the fate of a battle hangs in doubt. It is all-im portant at this moment- to convince the plutocratic enemies1 of the President that the country I with him heart and soul. A REVELATION OF THE EARTHQUAKE. Revelations made by the earthquake show that some of the imposing struc tures that made up the outward mag nificence of Stanford University were constructed with the view to cheapness rather than stability, though the cost was as great as if good material, care ful engineering skill and honest con struction had entered into them. Many structures, including the library and gymnasium. buildings, and the gateway to the campus, recently built at a cost bf 23,0O0. were thrown down like houses of cardboard. Sadly viewing them, men pick up pieces of mortar that should be hard as rock and crum ble It In their fingers, while looking In vain for the steel retaining rods that, according to contract, should have sup ported the masonry. An object-lesson in cheap workman ship and material, employed at a cost of the best in both lines, is presented by these rains. Here indeed is "graft" grimly Illustrated; favoritism shame lessly exploited; money wantonly wast ed; confidence ruthlessly violated. Mrs. Stanford might not have been the wis est woman In the world, but her gener ous Intent toward the university that bears the name of her lamented son Is unquestioned. . She poured out her money without stint in the hope and with the purpose of making Stanford University one of the stable institu tions of the land. That she was im posed upon Is made manifest by a sud den spasm of Nature. The revelation is a painful one. Its outcome will be the modification in a subdued yet striking sense of the memorial features of Stan ford University and their substitution by elements that more fitly contribute to the development of a great educa tional purpose. "No scheme has yet been mapped out for the reconstruction of the destroyed buildings." said President Jordan re cently, adding: "All energy will be de voted the present Summer to making the classrooms, dormitories and labora tories perfectly safe and habitable again." That Is to say, the memorial features are not an essential part of the university. They are sidelights, merely, that were already becoming ob scured by the mists of time, that re vealed the Intensity of a personal sor row, that, after all, few could under stand and none share. The purpose now Is to build up the faculty and buy much-needed equipment for the work of the university. The debris of the wrecked -buildings will be cleared away; the steel dome of the library, which withstood the shock, will stand, an object-lesson ot win: honest construction can do, and reconstruction will wait until a more convenient time to exploit strength and stability in steel and stone honestly and skillfully combined and applied. CHINESE VIEW OF THE BOYCOTT. In discussion of all great political and economic questions the point of view has a most Important bearing. From his position as a discomfited, de feated financial buccaneer who failed to secure his share of the spoils from the "Crime of Amalgamated," TJiomae W, Law-son views that transaction in a vastly different light from the light in which it appears to that other buc caneer, H. H. Rogers, who secured not only his own share of the spoils, but Lawson's also. To the Seattlelte, pad ded statistics are evidence of enter prise. To the -Portlander they are dis tasteful and suggest the presence of fakirs. Europeans who visit this coun try for the purpose of studying life in the great West will differ widely in their views and deductions if part of them study the subject in Western New York or Ohio and the others in Mon tana, Oregon and Washington. So it goes throughout the wide range of po litical, social, financial and economic questions. Environment and personal Interest are bound to lend a tinge of partiality and unfairness to the discus sion. .A particularly noticeable feature of this trait in the human mind is shown in an article on "The Hostility of China," appearing in the May issue of World's Work. The article is written by Kang Yu Wei, a leader of the Chi nese Reform Association, whose pres ence on earth at this time is due to the alacrity with which he departed from the land of his birth when the Empress Dowager checked the cause of Chinese reform by removing the heads of the principal reformers. Mr. Kang does not blame the Chinese government for the present boycott against the Americans, although the bitterness with which he attacks the -morality of the Dowager, who is " the government, leaves no doubt that he would like to place some of the responsibility on her shoulders if by so doing he could make a point in his argument. Kang attributes the boycott to the unreasonable feeling of the people of the Pacific Coast, and states that the Chinese "who follow foreign politics have supposed that the power of your (American) labor organi zations had something to do with it." His contention is that a limited number of Chinese Immigrants should be per mitted to enter the United States every year, and that there should be no more absolute line of class discrimination drawn among Chinese than among other peoples.. While not acknowledging that he has been aiding in circulating this theory or belief in China as well as in mag nifying the alleged offenses against the Chinese in this country, he admits that his reform association has 70,000 mem bers among the Chinese who are living in foreign countries, and that they "keep up an active propaganda through newspapers in China and abroad, and through books and pamphlets designed to carry modern Ideas Into China." Now, If Kang Yu Wei had studied the Chinese question on the Pacific Coast and learned the reasons for the feeling against his race, instead of among the great cities of the East, where the pres ence of the Chinese is hardly noticed, he would have understood that the grievance was one which justified not only labor organizations, but others in terested in good citizenship and a healthy moral atmosphere, in protest ing against Chinese being smuggled into the country in such numbers as were possible if there was relaxation in the enforcement of the immigration laws. Refusal to admit this horde of aliens offered no excuse for a boycott being declared against all American good". New York, which presents the "glad hand" to the Chinese, who perhaps are in reality better than the white trash of Gotham, with which they are fre quently joined in the holy bonds of matrimony, probably told Mr. Kang that his people were not being treated right out in the wild and wooly West, and he could easily see for himself that they were not treated as well where they wers better known as they were in New York. The Pacific Coast does not altogether admire the style of the Chi nese it is accustomed to meeting. Noth ing in their actions or methods of busi ness justifies us in believing that they have ever traded with us because they loved us or because we regarded them as equals. The supposition has been and it has been proven correct by all laws of trade that they purchased our goods because it was to their advan tage to do so. With the boycott, which It Is quite clear was engineered by the reformers like Kang Yu Wei, it is a case of cut ting off the nose to spite the face. It is unfortunate for both parties to the transaction, but in time returning rea son will teach the Chinese that they are gaining nothing by it, and at the same time are losing money by their inability to trade elsewhere to as good advantage as with the United States. Public sentiment in Malheur must be highly favorable to the railroad com panies. In securing right of wayfrom Ontario to Vale the Malheur Valley Railroad Company was obliged to con demn a number of tracts of land which the owners held at exorbitant figures. The awards made, in every case where a previous offer had Teen made hy the railroad company, were lower than the company had offered. For a country that has been isolated as long as the region to be tapped by the new line, it is somewhat surprising to find any seri ous objection to construction of a rail road. The railroad is, of course, being built for the purpose of making money. but it cannot make money without con ferring a mutual benefit on the coun try through which it passes, and real estate of all kinds will greatly increase in value when it is built. The New England Fish Company on Sunday dispatched from Boston its third steamer to engage in the halibut fisheries in the North Pacific. This company has been operating out of Vancouver and Seattle for many years, keeping its steamers In commission the year round and disposing of its catches as fast as they are brought In. The demand for sea food is growing,' not only in the local markets on the Pa cific Coast, but in the country lying east of the Rocky Mountains. Portland and the vast trade field served by this city annually consume large quantities of deep-sea fish, and, as the banks from which these fish are taken are as close to the Columbia River as they are to the northern ports, there is an excel lent opportunity for development of a new industry which will prove highly advantageous to consumers and ship pers alike. The never-ending war between the trapmen and the gillnet fishermen at the mouth of the Columbia is on again, and suits are to be filed by the glllnet ters to enjoin the trapmen from driv ing any more piles. It is stated that there will be no attempt at mob strength, such as has frequently been used in the past, but the prospects for a peaceful solution of the difficulty are not heightened by the statement that, "in order to guard against possible in terference, armed men are kept on the driver, while other men with rifles are concealed in the bushes along the ad jacent shore." If history repeats itself along the Lower Columbia, the armed men on the drivers and in the bushes are likely to come in conflict with other armed men who regard) their rights as gillnetters as sacred as the trapmen re gard their own. Our citizens may well congratulate themselves and each other upon the fact that the Lewis and Clark Exposi tion buildings are not to be razed, but, on the contrary, are to be put in repair and strengthened where necessary for use in manufacturing purposes. The pobability that these buildings would In due time be demolished has caused general regret, not only on sentimental grounds, but for the great waste such destruction would involve. Forming a "city beautiful" during the busy, hos pitable months of one year, the Lewis and Clark buildings will thus merge into a "city useful" that will last for many years, an exponent of the indus trial spirit that the Exposition invoked. Governor Hlggins, of New York, has signed a bill creating the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission. The bill carries an appropriation of $25,000 to be expended in celebrating in 1909 the tercentenary of the discovery of the Hudson River, and in 1907 the centen ary of the trial trip of Fulton's steam boat, Clermont. This provides for a commemoration of two most interesting events, the latter of world-wide signifi cance. A public served by steam can only wonder that but a century has passed since this tremendous power was harnessed to the purposes of com merce. It seems rather like steam as a motive power is an inheritance of the ages. ' The Oregonian is not more than ordi narily incredulous In believing that the earthquake's specific business was to expose the fact that at one of the Coast's institutions of learning straw without bricks and divers breakfast foods had been used as building ma terial, and that the employment of these was merely for the purpose of giving the students a splendid- object lesson in latter-day graft. If our credulity had no limit we should ex pect to see the lesson carried to its un natural conclusion, and be permitted the felicity of publishing the story of the student body's joy in the perfect punishment of the grafters. Ah, yes. A large number of Oregon Democrats especially office-seekers are "supporters of President Roose velt." How many of them were sup porters of President Roosevelt in the last election or would be In the next? The President was put where he Is by the Republican party on a Republican platform; and he got very few votes from Democrats who dare acknowledge that they voted for him. Why don't they dare? If they did. their party would repudiate them, and they knew it. The kind of support the President needs is not the kind that talks some times for him and votes always for his Democratic opponent. General Kuropatkln is publishing a voluminous work covering the Russo Japanese war and its management. The work is, in reality, a. defense of the author's strategy in the important bat tles of the war, and it criticises so freely the lack of support given him In high places in the empire and the con duct of certain subordinates that his friends are wondering at his temerity in publishing it. The fact that he is able and dares to publish it In austere, despotic Moscow, indicates that some progress has been made In toleration at the heart of the Russian Empire. Linn County dispatches say the In cumbent of that shrievalty has made a bloodhound pup one of his deputies, and is training his assistant in anticipation of future outlaws of the Frank Smith type. May we be permitted to suggest that if as much attention were given to the education of our wayward lads as will be devoted to the new deputy, the hound could be employed as a tru ant officer, while his faithful -master watched the crops grow and the taxes decrease. The Oregonian several days ago sug gested that Creffield ought to be ren dered Impotent to continue his harmful career; and now he has been slain by an avenging brother. That Is not what The Oregonian meant; but we shall hear no more of CreffieldlBm. We are told that "much annoyance was caused the Portland automobilists (on their Sunday run) tljrough meeting fractious horses, which had never be fore seen a motor car." We should Ilk to hear from- the horses. Bruin arrested two -worthy young men as pickpockets because some one told htm they were pickpockets. The Bruin theory of police work often leads to Startling and original result!. Earthquakes may come and go, but the Kugelers go on forever. TUBERCULOSIS EXPERIMENTS. Notable Curative Results Achieved by the Carrsmo Serum. I'. S. Consular Report, v Consul Dunning, of Milan, Italy, gives an interesting account of some experi ments in the use of the Behring sys tem of vaccination as a cure for con sumption which have been carried on by a group of Italian experts: Several oxen which had been vaccin ated with the Behring treatment were slaughtered with other oxen which had been under inspection for some months, while others were allowed to continue In life in order to further de velop the effects of the treatment. These animals were slaughtered in Milan some time later under the direc tion of the physicians interested In the earlier experiments. Of four oxen killed, three had been vaccinated with the Behring treatment and afterward has the tuberculosis virus injected into their veins. The autopsy, while it did not show definite results, gave encour agement to the investigators. The ox which bad not been vaccinated showed tuberculosis conditions in a marked de gree, while the three which had been subjected to the treatment had re mained Immune and had resisted suc cessfully, unless unknown conditions affected' the result, the several Injec tions of virus Intended to test the po tency of the vaccination. The experts engaged on the test an nounce that at least two of the three oxen showed results which seem to indicate that this method of treating tuberculosis is at any rate well found ed, though they expressly add that very much remains to be done. Other cattle will soon be killed for further experi ments when the treatment they are undergoing has progressed to a more useful stage. The most important tests in the cure of consumption in human beings which have been undertaken in Europe for some years are now going on in several wards of the famous "Os pedale Maggoire" (the Great Hospital), under the direction of Dr. Guiseppe Carcano, one of the most active of the younger practitioners of Northern Italy. Using a serum which has already had a good trial in Belgium and France, Dr. Carcano made a special study of the subject in several countries of Europe, and became so encouraged that he de cided to take up experiments with hu man beings on his own account. A number of consumptive patients from Dr. Carcano's private practice, Kuffertniar with varying forms and de grees ot the disease, were moved to the hospital and placed In reserved wards. Some of the results have been "bril liant" in the language of one experi menter. "One of them," says the princi pal newspaper of Milan in commenting editorially on the tests, "was of a truly miraculous character." Other doctors called in to observe or assist in the ex periments have remarked upon the sim plicity of the treatment. The Consul urges upon every reader of this report who may have any special interest in the matter the need of accepting all such information with a measurable amount of reserve; and he Is moved to this word of caution by the great num ber of letters sent to him from America by sufferers and their friends who had read in the newspapers of sundry ex periments on a similar line In Italy and other countries. The Milan Consulate reported during 1905 on the efforts of Professor Levi, of this city, to check or cure consumption by injecting a prep aration of which iodine is the principal component. These experiments are ap parently in abeyance for the time. Pro fessor Levi's most recent statement on the subject, transmitted to the Depart ment of State by the Consulate at the time of Its issue, disclaimed any ex traordinary results and merely ex pressed the hope that he was on the right track. The Carcano tests has apparently carried the matter further than any similar effort has been able to go. Dr. Carcano stated to the Consul he felt reasonably sure that In many cases he could absolutely cure consumption, becaus.e cures had already resulted from the use of the serum which he has adopted. While not making too sweeping a claim, he is anxious to have the treatment tested in as many countries and by as many persons as possible. The serum is about to be placed at the disposal of physicians and others In a form convenient for use during a period long enough to test its value. It is injected into the veins of the pa tient in the ordinary way by means of the hypodermic syringe. Inquirers should address Dr. Carcano, who uses English, directly. Meantime, the hos pital tests are continuing, under the patronage of the foremost of the Mi lanese physicians. Further develop ments will be reported by the Consul. No Bed of Roaes. New York Journal of Commerce. The life of a broker in Wall street is by no means a bed of roses. When a bull campaign is on and his customers are making money he is widely praised for his shrewdness, but when the mar ket breaks a quarter of a point be tween sales and the Inevitable call for margin Is made he is apt to hear some unpleasant things. In more than one customer's office yesterday clients who have been forced to unload Friday and Saturday found what they considered a cause for grievance in the recovery of the market. As one disgruntled trad er put it: "The old story; when stocks are going up they urge us to buy usually at the top and when stocks decline, to sell, invariably at the bot tom." Then, too. a broker is compelled to stand complaints because of poor exe cution of stop-loss orders. A customer buying 100 shares of stock and leaving town gives an order to sell at two points below the market in order to protect himself against the unexpect ed. Ordinarily, the order would be ex ecuted at within , but In panicky times it might be or even a point lower. A story was told yesterday of a stop-loss order for 1000 Brooklyn at 75. only 100 of which was got off at 74T, the remaining 900 being sold at 74-i and 74H. Longworths Go In for May Music. Cincinnati Dispatch New York World. Congressman "Nick" Longworth and his wife, who was Alice Roosevelt, came to Cincinnati to attend the May Music Festival, which was opened at night. Mr. and Mrs. Longworth ap peared in radiant spirits and health, Mrs. Longworth being clearly several pounds stouter than when she was the guest at the Longworth home, Rookwood. "So glad to get home again," ex claimed Mrs. Longworth, with a laugh, on alighting from the train. Seeing the venerable "Wes" Rippey, agent for the Longworth estate, approaching, she pinched her husband's arm and ex claimed: ' Nick," there's your boss coming." Sultan Bays- SKOOO Camera. Macon Telegraph. The Sultan of Turkey has a camera made by an American firm, the like of which does not exist. The metal work is cf gold, the framework of the finest ivory, the bellows of morocco leather lined with black velvet and the whole inclosed in a case of white morocco, with a gold lock and key. It cost ap proximately $8000. Justice White Talks for Two From a Washington. D. C, Dispatch. The Damon and Pythias of the United States Supreme Court are Justices White and Holmes. They walk down Pennsylvania avenue every day. rain or shine. Justice White does most of the talking CUNTS FIGHT OVER SEEDS. Statesmen - Plead for Farmers' aad Suburbanites' Graft. Washington. D. C. Cor. New York World. Seed day in the House was a field day for John Wesley Gaines. He was waving his fists, shaking, his head, pounding his desk and roaring nearly all day. He had one speech that he got oft 40 times, and the only time he -arled it was when ho thought Burleson, of Texas, had insinu ated that he was a grafter for wanting free seeds. "Do you mean to say that I'm a graft er?" he demanded, with menacing em phasis. "Oh: no." retorted Burleson; "I never thought of you." But a moment later Burleson practically repeated his remark. Instantly Gaines leaped to his feet. He tossed his shaggy mane and shook his fists at the ceiling. "There's that insulting language again!" he shouted. "Any man who calls me a grafter" he hesitated as if selecting with care the terms of denunciation with which to wither his antagonist "makes a mis statement of fact." he concluded, and the House roared and cheered for a half a minute. Representative Cocks, of New York, had a merry time. He tried to read a bunch of letters from the editors of agricul tural papers protesting against the seed distribution. From all over the House the seed distributers snipped at him. They kept up such a yelling that not 20 words of what Cocks said were heard by anyone except the stenographers, and they were hopping about trying to get all the inter jections. For half an hour Cocks held the floor, but of all he said the only sentence that rose above the din and reached the press gallery was this: "My constituents would rather have free jackknlves and pocket compasses." Burleson did the best he could to shat ter the ceiling, but his voice cracked. He shouted once: "Every self-respecting farmer supports the Government, and doesn't want the Government to support him." " The gigantic frame of OUie James heaved up. "Did I understand you to say that every self-respecting farmer opposes free seeds?" Striking a tragic attitude, Burleson re plied: "I conscientiously so believe." "Well," roared James, "do you mean the farmer who farms the land as an ag riculturist, or the farmer who farms as a farmer?" Then Candler, of Mississippi, unfolded a passionate declamation about the "farm er whoh tills the soil with his hands, with the brawn of his own muscles and the sweat of his own face," who needs and wants and is glad to get these free seeds, which the "sllk-hatted and patent-leather-booted and swallowtall-coated farmers who meet in the Willard Hotel" are opposed to giving him. All this time Mr. Lilley, of Connecticut was busy with a big bunch of letters. Every time any man got a good start on a speech Lilley Jumped in with a request to be permitted to read a few dozen or so. At last he got the floor in his own right and began to read. They were from farmers of his district, replies to some of the 12,000 letters he had sent out, trying to learn the sentiment of his district. "You're a good fellow, but your seeds are no good." one man wrote. "I don't want the seeds," another said, "but please send me an Ayrshire bull and $25,000." "If the Government has any more seeds to send me," said another. "I'd prefer to have their value in cash or postage stamps." ' HOBSOS OUT FOR PRESIDENT. Campalsn Manager Launches i Boom In New York. Washington (D. C.) Post. Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson. of Alabama, who recently won a Congres sional nomination by defeating Repre sentative Bankhead at the primaries, is in the field as a Presidential candidate. His principal backer Is L. B. Musgrove, who managed Hobson's Congressional campaign. Mr. Musgrove came to New York today to meet the Democratic lead ers of this state and boom Hobson. He has already talked with Norman E. Mack, of Buffalo, and he expects to meet Charles F. Murphy, Mayor McClellan and other prominent Tammany men in the next few days. Mr. Musgrove said this afternoon: "Captain Hobson would be an ideal can didate . for the Presidency. He is the strongest man In the country among the young Democrats, and his popularity ex tends throughout the United States." It was said today that Captain Hobson may be Invited to deliver one of the "long talks" at the Tammany Fourth of July celebration. May Be City of Concrete- Wall Street Journal. Frank B. Gilbreth, the contractor, declares that the new San Francisco will bo, to a large extent, a city of concrete. Observations in San Francisco, Oak land and Berkeley show that a mono lithic plant of reinforced concrete will withstand any ordinary earthquake shock. This type of construction consists of building an entire structure walls, supporting columns and floors of solid concrete, reinforced with steel bars and w-ire mesh to provide additional strength. Of course, no type of con struction could withstand the strain of a heavy shock. One- Haircut Did for Both. Saturday Evening Post. John Wesley Gaines, the voluble Repre sentative from Tennessee, has long gray hair. So has Chief Justice Fuller, of the Supreme Court. Somebody hailed Gaines as the Chief Justice a few days ago and the Chief Justice heard of it. "Did Gaines get his hair cut?" asked Mr. Fuller. "Yes." said the story-teller. "Thank heaven!" said the Chief Justice, "then I won't have to." Corporal, Here's t "Von. New York Sun. If It Is possible to identify the corporal who reduced the price of bread from 75 cents to 10 cents a loaf at the point of the bayonet in a San Francisco bakery, he should hear of something to his advantage in chevrons from the colonel of his regi ment. Who Killed Poor Youth' Garnet X. Wiley In the Bohemian. Who killed poor Touth? "I," said Desire: "1 killed poor Youth with my red fire." Who saw him die? Said Love, "It was I; I saw him die, while I stood by." Who'll make his shroud? "We," said the years; "We'll make his shroud out of Love's tears." Who'll take him to grave? "I." said Remorse; "I'll take him to grave, on my dark herse." Who'll ring his knell? "With mv great bell. I," said old Wisdom, "I'll ring his knell." To Russia. William Watson. The knights rode up with gifts for the king. And one was a jeweled sword. And one was a suit of golden mail. And one was a golden Word. , He 1'Uckled the shining armor on. And he girt the sword at his side; But he flung at his feet the golden Word, And trampled It In his pride. The armor is pierced with msny spears. And the sword is bresklng in twain: But the Word hath risen in storm and firs To vanquish and to reign. ALL-NIGHT BANK OPENS. Quite a Flood of Deposits In the First Ferr Hours. ' New York World. The first "Night and Day Bank" in ths world opened Its doors for business at S o'clock last night at Forty-fourth etreet and Fifth avenue, and from that time on until midnight officials and clerks were kept busy. Within five minutes SO accounts had been opened, representing deposits of about $100,000. When the clock In the rotunda marked midnight the deposits had run up to $5"0.000. At that hour the bank, keeping open house, had received R000 visitors. The first depositor was the Brook Club, and to win that distinction in the book ledger it kept a messenger hugging the account window from 9 A. M. until S P. M. John W. Gates was a visitor, but did not open an account. He told one of the bank officials that he rarely "goes broke" at night, and therefore doesn't require an emergency account for nocturnal pur poses. Soon afterward Mark Twain peeped in at the big bronze doors to see If any thing unusual was going on. He said he liked the hank, and would buy it on a So day margin if he could get it cheap. He had $2 with him and wondered if that would get an option on it. But he didn't get the bank, and said he would not open an account for the reason that he had given up all his late-hour habits when he got to be 70 years old, but thought be might try them on again when he was 80. He said if the bank was still alive then he would consider an all night account. John Drew was among the early de positors. Behind the actor trailed several women who opened accounts. Up to mid night IS ot them had added to the de posits. The largest single deposit of the first night's business was $30,000. and the smallest $100. There were a large num ber of deposits that ran as high as $25,000. but it was remarked at midnight, that in nearly every case the large de posits were in the form of checks. One woman proved an exception to this rule, for after hunting for about ten minutes In the ample folds of a wide-spreading skirt, she found a capacious pocket, from which she pulled a roll of ten $1000 bills. "I've carried this around with me long enough," she said to the clerk at the window. "I'm sometimes afraid I might lose it." The Night and Day Bank originated in the mind of Oaklelgh Thorne, who Is Its first president. He is president also of the Trust Company of America. G. M. Wynkoop, vice-president and execu tive officer of the new bank, was one of the leading spirits in the organization, which was effected In January. 1006. At that time the stock was all subscribed . for at $100 a share. It Is quoted at double that amount. Girl Invents Handy Auto Applianre, 'Exchange. A Brussels girl, daughter of a titled Belgian, and not yet 15 years old, has patented a remarkable Invention, con sistlng of a turn-table for reversing the direction of motor cars. The apparatus is fixed on the chassis, which ha3 a driving wheel at each end and is worked by an electric motor. The Invention was the outcome of watching the difficulty of maneuvering beavy mo tor wagons in the Antwerp streets. After watching the motor wagons for some time the girl went home and by the next morning had a complete scheme for the turn-table. The motorists who were visiting her. father brought a de signer, and the plans were at ones drawn up under the child's directions. The patent for the invention has been secured in the name of Esther do Susl, daughter of the Comtesse de Susi. When a reporter visited the child in ventor the other day he found the house besieged by inquirers and Government engineers. Mile, de Susi is a tall, well-, built girl, with a bright face, fair hair and brown eyes. Experts declare that the new turn-table will be of enormous value, and a fortune is in prospect for the girl and her mother. A Plumber Is Out of Plumb, New York Tribune. Some person indifferent to truth cir culated a report that Theodore Becker, of Geneseo, 111., a plumber, was about to abandon that trade for banking. Preposterous on the face of it, Mr. Beck er hag yet felt compelled to deny this "malicious rumor." "I regret." he says, "that we should have persons in our midst who attend to other people's business when their own affairs are suffering for want of atten tion." Their own affairs are obviously out of plumb, and Mr. Becker should plumb them. He has no Intention, of course, of choosing a business in which people leave their money with him temporarily In place of one In which they leave it with him permanently. He would be plumb daft to do so. Big Statue Turns to Dust. St. Louis Post Dispatch. A pile of white dust and a few frag ments of staff are all that remain of the heroic statue of Joliet, which was taken from the World's Fair and set up at the entrance of O'Fallon Park. Without a warning creak the great image tottered and fell from its base Sunday after noon in view of hundreds of pleasure seekers in the Park. The figure. 26 feet high and 15 feet long, crashed to the ground. When the statue was taken from the World's Fair residents of the O'Fal lon Park district were told by Sculptor Carl Bitter that it would last at least 10 years. Oreeley Fsmlly I.ona; Lived. Exchange. Simon Greeley, nearly 99 years old, Is dead in Concord, N. H. He belonged to a branch of the family closely related to Horace Greeley. He cast his first Presi dential vote for Andrew Jackson in 129 and voted at every succeeding Presiden tial election. His grandmother died at 93. his own mother at 84, one sister lived to be 94, and a sister nearly 90 survives. CURRENT COMMENT CLIPPINGS. Beating the Greeks at their own game seems to be an easy proposition for the Yankees. jAlbany Press-Knickerbocker. Even Speaker Cannon admits that Con gress may remain in session until August. Suffering citizens! Cleveland Plain Dealer. The Cannon boom for the Presidency came a trifle too early to be- taken for a Fourth of July firecracker, but it sounded like ene. Boston Globe (Dem.). It may be proper to explain that the Kan sas City sprinter who is winning honors in the Olympian games did not get his start as a messenger boy. Kansas City Journal. In these days of specisl messages and proclamations of reform nostrums one Ellhu Root. Secretary of State, is saying lit tle and sawing much wood. Buffalo Courier (Dem.). There will not be much apprehension about reducing the number of canal commissioners so long as the working force on the Isthmus is not cut down. Washington Star. Texas has started lift to make certain trusts pay penalties amounting to $17,000,000. If the state gets the money It will be better than putting the trusts In jail. Philadelphia Press. The papers are now printing pictures of ths San Francisco heroes, but so far they seem to have overlooked ths man who in sisted on paying his hotel bill while tne building was falling down. Washington Post. There is as much foundation for Mr. Shaw's moral picture of the intelligent in dependent as there is for the allegation in his speech that "history Is repeating .Itself In that foreigners are again freely spending money in America to elect Congressmen pledged to tariff revision and reciprocity. Chicago Record-Herald. Legislation respecting the automobile is new and experimental, but brief experiment has demonstrated the necessity of brosder public safety legislation, legislation that will cover all possible conditions, legislation that will protect the prudent aiilomobllist and punish the reckless and negligent. Schenectady Evening Star. ( I