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Omulm B&rkalow Bio ...mi; Uageath Stationery Co., lilua i-uiiiaui; 240 South Fourteenth. Sacramento, Cal. Sacramento Nwi Co., 4SU K street. Salt Lake Salt Lake Ntwi Co., T7 West Second street South: Kosenfeld A Hansen. Los Angeles li. B. Amos, manager aeven atreet wagons. Sun Diego B. K. Amos. Long ll.ach. Cal. 11, E. Amos. l'audciia, Cal. A. F. Horning. San l-ranclsco Foster A Orear, Ferry News Stand; Hotel St. Francis News Stand. Washington, D. C. Ebbltt House. Penn sylvania avenue. Philadelphia. Fa. Ryan's Theater Ticket Of flee. I'ORTLAXD, WEDNESDAY, OCT. IT, 1906. THE WW AND THE TRUST. Most readers know that for some time a lawsuit has been pending at Flndlay, Ohio, wherein the state of Ohio was plaintiff aril the Standard Oil Com pany defendant. The charge against the trust was that it had conspired to destroy competition and thus create a (monopoly, which, under the status of Ohio, Is a criminal offence. The case was begun with a certain parade. The trumpets sounded, the tomtom was beuteu and proclamation went abroal that at last the great octopus was to be brought to Justice. Thore Is some reason to believe that Mr. Rockefeller hlmeelf was worried over the affair. At any rate he went to the trouble of deploring in the newspapers that such an attempt ahould be made to discour age what he was pleased to call "de velopment." In his vocabulary "develop ment" seems to be a euphemism for piracy. The Socialist), however, who, -with their faults, must be credited with no little astuteness, were never in the least impressed by the pomp and promise of this prosecution. Their organs pre dicted from the beginning that it was all a farce. It would be carried Just far enough, they asserted, to make a colorable pretence that eomething had been attempted and then an excuse would be found for dropping it. Either an opportune flaw would appear in the Indictment; or some rule of Immunity would turn up; or, in case things began to look really black for the monopoly, the Judge would exclude evidence enough to break up the prosecution. In nome way the trust would be cleared, the Socialists predicted; and It turns out that they were right. The Standard Oil Company was res cued from the clutches of the law by a happy thought on the part of the presiding Judge. The thought was not only happy but it was also original. It overturns an ancient principle of the law which no court ever before thought of questioning; but the law Is a small matter when tho Interests of a trust are at stake. The ftate offered evi dence to show that the Standard Oil Company had paid rebates to a retail fvrocer through its agent. Such rebates would of course demonstrate to any cane mind that the monopoly was fight ing a competitor by Its well known methods and endeavoring to drive him out of businefr!. There could have been no other motive fur paying them. The judge must have fe;ired that the Jury would tnko this view, for he excluded tho evidence of the rebates. This rul ing saved the trust from conviction but It did not save the Judge from sus picion of bias. Nor does it save his logic from contempt. Judge Hanker excluded the evldonco that the agent had paid rebates on the ground that tho prosecution had not shown that tho Standard Oil Com pany ordered him to pay them. Since such orders are always given secretly and will never be confesed under "oath by either principal or agent, they never can be. proved. Judge Banker's ruling, therefore, should it be followed, would forever put an end to all prosecutions of this sort against the trusts. The previous presumption of the law has always been that what an 'agent does for his principal la authorized unless thero is clear proof of the contrary. Ia the contemplation of the law the prin cipal knows tho acts of his agent and is bound by them unless he can show that he forbade them. Even then he is still bound in many cases unless he can show that third parties also had notice that the act was forbidden. This rule is clearly demanded by sound public policy. A principal can not 6afely bo permitted to shield him self from the consequences of his agents' acts by claiming that he did not know of them or that he did not authorize them. He must be able to prove that they were done contrary to his -wishes and orders. The burden of proof is always on the side of the principal who wishes to repudiate an agent's act. The maxim of the law, "Qui facit per alium faclt per se" identifies the principal with his agent; treats them as one individual in their relation to tho public. The publio can not know what their secret agreement may be and no court before Judge Banker's has ever held that it was necessary to know In order to establish the principal's responslblllt-. Why did he not require the monopoly to prove that it had repudiated its agents' rebates? Such proof would be very easy. A reference to the books would settle the point at once. Was the agent's account for the rebate disallowed? If it was not disallowed, then the company had full knowledge of it and assumed all the responsibility for it. It is a principle of law that failure to repudiate an agent's act amounts to ratifying it. What evidence did the Standard . Oil Company offer that it had repudiated the agent's re bates? But it is idle to reason upon this matter. Judge Banker's extraordinary ruling was made simply for lack of some plausible way to break down the prosecution. To demonstrate a corpora tion's innocence by denying the state the right to prove it guilty Is a little crude, but it serves when there is no better way. The case against' the Standard Oil Company must now fall completely and the Socialists have one more Instance to point their contention that the Government has neither the ability nor the wish to control the trusts. Judge Banker's ruling dis credits all that has been promised by recent legislation In the public interest. This man should be impeached, or In dicted and removed from office. His offense is one of the most flagrant yet committed for defense of the Illegal and oppressive methods of monopoly. TO STAY IN CUBA It is little believed in the United States that we shall ever be able again to withdraw our authority from Cuba. The people cannot govern themselves; and by this token It is manifest that we shall have trouble in governing them, if that undertaking shall fall into our hands. There was civil war In Cuba. Secre tary Taft was sent to interpose be tween them. In taking measures for pacification of the island, he was obliged to rely upon his own Judgment. To The Oregonian It has seemed that he was too much Inclined toward the insurgent party and its claims, and that injustice was done to President Palma and his party. But Secretary Taft appeared to believe that the shortest and easiest way to a settlement was to take the side of the insurgents, per haps because that was the readiest way to Induce them to disband and give up their arms and bring about a settlement without sacrifice of Amer ican lives. He found the Insurgents wouldn't yield, but the Palma govern ment, not supported by the United States, would be compelled to yield. So the insurgents got rid of the govern ment against which, because they had been beaten in an election, they took up arms. What's next? The military forces of the United States occupy the Island and a "Gov ernor" from the United States is in oharge. Palma, to whom more than any other man, the island owes its deliverance from Spain, proudly refused to act the part he was urged to take; that is. to remain nominally at the head of affairs while the Insurgents, under protection of the United States, were to be given a free hand to organ ize a government against him. He therefore peremptorily resignel, and doubtless will spend the short re mainder of his life In exile. Now is to follow the farce .of new elections in Cuba; to which the beaten party will be as little disposed to submit as the Insurgents were to Palma. Secretary Taft was unwilling to com mit the United States to war in Cuba, anl so took? the only course that seemed to him likely to avert such conse quence. However, unjust to Palma and his party, it was probably wise. We didn't want to Jump into war and sub due the rebellion. But the trouble is by no means over. We probably shall not be able to get out of the island; and if we do get out, we shall have to go back again. Yet we certainly do not want to annex Cuba. We have troubles of our own race differences, industrial and electoral difficulties, tariff disagreements, representative problems and a whole line of troubles and complications to which annexation of Cuba would bring unwelcome addi tions. And yet we pretty certainly are "in for It." That is, we shall not be able to withdraw from Cuba, now or hereafter. NEED OF BANK SUPERVISION. Need of state supervision of private banks and trust companies is a live topic with members of the American Banker's.AEsoclatlon, now In session in St. Louis, Just as with members of the state associations of Oregon and Wash ington. This need Is recognizes by all progressive bankers. Clark Williams. President of the American Association and Vice-President of the Columbia Trust Company, of New York, urged It in his annual address yesterday. Ho said: Some good may come from the catastrophe of the Real Estate Trust Company falluro at Philadelphia and the Stensland bank at Chi cago, if only the practical lessons- we may learn are of lasting benefit. Nothing could more clearly demonstrate the wtedora of the roltcy in advocating adequate State supervis ion. It seems to have been so lacking In this particular case that the trust companies of Pennsylvania are considering the advisability of calling a general convention to demand re lief from present unsatisfactory conditions. The bank depositors in Oregon and Washington have no laws to protect them against the looting of banks or the abuse of. the banking privilege by unscrupulous or negligent bankers. The criminal law punishes offenders when they can be caught, but does not re store losses. Besides, sharpers evade the criminal penalties. There Is need of law to prevent bank fraud, through supervision by a state officer. THE SPOKANE MI RDKR. The hypothesis that Reno Hutchinson was murdered by a highwayman may be dismissed as extremely Improbable. The murder was committed in the full glare of an electric light. A highway man would not have chosen such a spot for his attempt. Moreover, if Hutchin son was 6hot by a robber why was no robbery committed? It may be replied that the thief was frightened away before his work was complete; but this supposition is untenable, since he had time to place the body on a lawn bor dering the 6treet. He could have rifled the pockets In much less time than this act consumed. If the motive was rot robbery, what was it? But, first, why was Hutchin son shot In the full glare of an electric light? Evidently, because the person who did the deed wished to make abso lutely sure of his aim, for one thing. Besides that, a man shooting into the glare from a dark nook would be com paratively safe. Persons passing . in the light could not discern him in the sheltering darkness and his escape would be easy. It must be admitted, however, that the transfer of the body to the lawn is a difficulty here. The criminal must have emerged into the light to move the body, if he did move it, but, unless there is strong evidence to the contrary. It seems more likely that Hutchinson managed to drag him self upon the lawn after he was shot. What is the fact about this? As to the motive, it is not always wise to seek for something which seems adequate. Any motive whatever is sufficient to a mind criminally dis posed. The most trifling incentives may account for crime. ROOSEVELT, THE CONSERVATIVE. Revolutionary is not the proper term to apply to Mr. Roosevelt's ideas upon the regulation of swollen fortunes. His purpose is threefold and each branch of it is conservative. It is conserva tive, at any rate, if we use that excel lent word, not in the false sense of reactionary fetich worship, but in its true meaning. The President's purpose is, first, to check the power of certain fortunes, which has grown to be a menace to Republican government; secondly, to rescue the Institution of private property from destruction; and thirdly, to compel millionaire wealth to bear Its Just share of the expenses of government. AU this is eminently conservative. To accomplish it some changes in our laws are necessary; but no change can be called revolutionary unless Its purpose, or effect, is revolu tionary. Observers have long foretold two op posite dangers to this republic; one from the passions of the hungry and unreasoning mob, the other from wealth concentrated In a few hands. Which Is the greater were hard to decide; but comparison Is easy, for the dangers are upon us together. From one side march the snarling cohorts of unreason with Hearst, for the moment, at their head. On the other stands the phalanx of the plutocracy. Should either definitely prevail the country is lost. The Wall Street Journal quotes Horace Mann's well-known warning against concentrated wealth and tries to parry It by saying that, while wealth has Increased since the day of the great schoolmaster, It has not become more aggregated. But this is an error. The authorities all agree that the proportion of the national wealth aggregated In a few hands is now greater than ever be fore, while the tendency to concentrate grows stronger yearly. We have always known that money means power in commerce; we are just learning that It means also political power. The authors of the Constitution made ample provision against any person obtaining too great political power by election; against the equal political menace of money they took no. mea sures whatever. To correct this lapse in the wisdom of the fathers Is not revolution but preservation. It Is an essential step to save their work from ruin. The political power of wealth is exerted in every city to grab franchises, to corrupt the councils, to debase the electorate; in every state to thwart wholesome legislation and hire the ser vants of the people to betray their trust; in Congress it has for years de fied the will of the people and substi tuted special privilege for the general welfare. In interstate commerce con centrated wealth has shown its power by gathering the profits of Industry in to the possession of an oligarchy, de stroying competition and substituting the code of the Black Flag for com mercial honor. This perilous drift Mr. Roosevelt has already checked by the railroad rate law. Now, it is said, he purposes to do more. In his next message he may definitely recommend new legislation to control money employed in interstate commerce and lay the axe to the root of plutocracy by a proposal for both an Income and an inheritance tax. There can be no doubt that practical measures of this sort have become nec essary to protect the institution of pri vate property. Property stands in peril from two sides. On the one fcand are the trusts which have devoured the fortunes of the middle class at a fearful rate in the last two or three decades. They are also transforming workmen into a homeless, mlgatory, disinherited mob. The worst enemies of the home and domestic morals in this country today are the trusts. On the other hand, the perception of the injustice of piratical wealth endangers honest wealth, until it is remedied. For the masses cannot draw fine distinctions. They are likely to see all fortunes looking black be cause so many undeniably are black. The feeling that wealth Itself is con crete wrong is abroad and finds its disciples. So long as crying evils are left unremedied these disciples will multiply and the time may come when they will control the government. Therefore, we say that Mr. Roosevelt, by his proposals to control, limit and diminish exaggerated fortunes shows himself the wise and vigilant protector of private property. The overgrown wealth of the country never has paid its just share of the public burdens. We say nothing of Its tax dodging, which is scandalously flagrant. The railroads are perpetually at work upon assessors for partial rat ings. Millionaires perjure themselves without shame to escape their taxes. Some corporations, like Mr. Hearst's publishing company, hide every penny of their wealth from the assessor. But this is not the point. Even If the plutoc racy paid its full tax on a fair assess ment, still it would not bear its just share of the public expense. The rea son Is this. The militia, the federal courts, the federal deputy marshals, are principally employed in protecting the property of the trusts and in set tling their disputes with one another. The ordinary citizen has no direct ben efit, commonly, from all this machin ery. Yet he it is who must pay for It. Again, when the navy or army must intervene in some foreign difficulty. It Is usually to protect millionaire In terests. We do not suggest that this protection should be denied them, but certainly they ought to pay for it. And the only way to make the millionaires pay anything like what they owe the Government is to Impose an Income tax upon them. Many states 'of the Union already have done this. It is the ac cepted policy of France and England. An income tax, an inheritance tax and a Just code of laws to govern wealth in commerce would very soon take the wind out of Mr. Hearst's sails. On the other hand, the prolonged denial of such legislation will send him pros perous breezes and add vessels to his fleet until It victoriously sweeps our political seas. Among the many crimes perpetrated in the name of reform and religious faith is that of starving infants on a "Brotherhood of Light" farm in Col orado. A large number of infants have died on this farm who. were unable to live on a diet of thin milk, given three times In twenty-four hours, supple mented by reading to them out of a so-called "holi" book." Cranks who "go through the wilderness," i. e., refuse to eat for forty days and nights In order to purify their bodies, were not un known to this community a few years ago. Several of them died under the strain, others came to their senses when hunger pressed too sorely and those who survived fell away Trom their fanatical belief after their leader had perished in the "wilderness." This Col orado contingent seems to have gone a step farther in this line and practiced its cruel belief upon Infants instead of upon themselves. Short shrift and long rope should be given to the leader in this crime, and even then the slaugh ter of the innocents of which he has been guilty would be scantily atoned for. A fanatic who practices the black arts of a so-called religion upon him self and his adupt dupes may become a monster of whom a community feels called upon, in the name of decency to Tld Itself by imprisonment in the asylum for the insane or the state's prison. But when he makes helpless Infants and children his victims a charge of murder sustained by evidence easily adduced should give him exit at a rope's end. This Autumn rain Is the magic of field and forest, weather and content in Oregon. If brings the temperature of night and day close together and makes grass and trees jump upward, after summer dryness. It brings joy to farmer, dairyman, logger and steam boatman and soon will fetch in more cordf.vood to Portland homes from up the streams. Rain takes the place of snow in Oregon and the Chinook south wind, the place of the blizzard. When the south wind blows from the shores of Coos, Tillamook and Clatsop it brings clouds that bathe the country in warm ocean mists of the summer's sun. That Is why Oregon Winters are mild, with out extremes of cold. Last Sunday the variation in temperature was between 62 degrees maximum and 50 degrees minimum; Monday It was between 59 and 52 and yesterday between 60 and 53. This same evenness of temperature is a characteristic of Oregon Winters, especially west of the Cascade Moun tains. At the University of Washington complaint is made that the students are lacking in "college spirit," as evi denced by their failure to contribute liberally to the expense of maintaining a football team. Perhaps the students are so busy mastering the intricacies of dead languages and higher mathe matics that they have no time for foot ball. They may be laboring under the delusion that an educational spirit is of more importance than a college spirit. Get the rooters' club after them, haze some of the worst offenders and put them on the general black list. If this does not suffice, organize a pitched bat tle and try to drive them out. If this also fails, leave them to their fate and start a university somewhere else, es tablishing as one of the requirements of admission that a young man or woman shall always subordinate his educa tional spirit to his college spirit. "The revelation" which was vouch safed to a certain lafc evangelist in Portland bears many evidences of be ing genuine. After twenty-four hours of fasting and prayer an angel ap peared to him and ordered him to look up a job In a sawmill. He obeyed the order. Both angel and evangelist ap pear to have been guite unusually sen sible. Perhaps the revelation was in tended for other evangelists also. It is scarcely credible that such an ex ceedingly salutary bit of counsel was intended to be confined to one man w;hen so many need it. Should the public ever desire to get possession of the waterfront it will find the owners in no wise willing to give up without a big price. It matters not If they grabbed the frontage for noth ing, or if the public gave it to them .as a gift, they would hang on Just as greedily as if they had bought it. The public will consider well before giving away a strip of river frontage between Burnside and Steel bridges, on the west side of the stream, as the Port of Port land Commission has recommended. The Dallas apple show November 2 and 3 will be timely. Give Polk County a show and Rogue River and Hood River will not by themselves fix the high grade of Oregon apples. Polk has any amount of land for the purpose, too. Apples will make it high-priced, as at Hood River and Rogue River. Mr. Hill proposes to name his new town St. James. It's Mr. Harrlman's next move. How would St. Edward do for his new town, wherever it might be? The people would behold saintly qualities more readily if the two rail road kings would stop the "cussin' " by supplying cars. And now it is denied that consolida tion of three Republican clubs in Port land Into one has been effected. Will the brethren ever dwell together In peace and unity? Still, the two Dem ocratic clubs have their troubles, too. Only the Democrats don't have a Mr. Lockwood. It is unfortunate for a lot of Puter's literary critics that he was not sen tenced to the rock pile or to McNeil's Island, so as to deprive him of leisure for writing a book. But many of them are not in position to advocate hard labor for land thieves. Civilization advances In Russia. Cos sacks are now encouraged to shoot young girls who offend them. This Is much mora humane ; than whipping them to death, which has hitherto been the practice of the Czar's gallant troops. Many political skeletons have lain bleaching on the strand since the city primaries of 1905 and the county and state primaries of 1906, but the sad spectacle seems to be no deterrent to the rush for the city primaries of next year. Those precious Hood River apples would be a myth were they not ex hibited at the fruit fair before ship ment away. Oregonians are lucky to have a sight of them, even if they can't afford the price. That New Jersey town that thinks It has a female burglar should try leav ing a new bonnet beside a mirror in each house. The millinery will catch her. In the opinion of a .good many per sons the best way for fuel dealers to disprove the existence of a trust, would be to cut present prices. Will the woes of the common people never cease? Diamonds have gone up twenty per cent. Taft's next Job may be intervention in Georgia, THE CONTEST IN NEW TORK. Democratic Opposition To Hearst. "Make It Half a Million." New York Times, Dem. Republican votes saved this city from falling into the hands of Hearst last Fall. Democratic votes must preserve the State of New York from a like disaster this year. The Democrats will do their part. He is not a Democratic candidate. In this city and in the Interior cities and counties the leaders and chief men of that party have repudiated him. They will vote for Hughes, and openly say so. It is no local revolt, it is not confined to habitual independents, it la a great move ment of multitudes of Democrats over to the Republican camp. The host is swelled every day by the announcement of new names names of Democrats never before known to have voted a Republican ticket. The old-time Democratic strongholds will be Hughes strongholds this year. It remains' for the Republicans to do their duty. Amazing as it may seem, there is the only weak point in the Hughes campaign. After all excuses have been made for the disjointing of the Republican organization through the neglect and disuse incident to the ousting of Odell, It is still apparent that the work of the Republican committee lacks in activity and effectiveness. That will never do. Mr. Hearst's efforts and ex penditures have been directed to the gaining of Republican votes up the State. There Is a danger point in the Republican farmers who are venal or can be fooled by his plausible deceptions. If the Re publican organization will keep its rural vote solidly in line the Hughes Democrats will take care of the cities. The whole Union looks to the Empire State to make an end of this offensive pretender on November 6, to remove him from American politics, and to destroy his poisonous influence. No ordinary ma jority will suffice. Let us make it half a million. That would be exemplary. Surely in this greatest state in the Union, against the unworthlest nominee that ever ran for Governor in any state, the greatest state majority known In our political h s tory ought to be recorded. The half million mark can be reached if the Re publicans will give their candidate the hearty, energetic, and unanimous support of which by his character, his record, and his ability he is in every way worthy. "IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE." The London Times Yields to American Methods. Chicago Evening Post. Your Englishman seldom does things by halves. He may be a trifle slow in deciding upon a course of action, irri tatingly cautious in giving or witn holdlng tiraise. but when he does act or doed speala it is in a spirit of whole ness that Is refreshing. The British Publishers' Association may not have intended to pay a high compliment to the methods of the American advertiser when it took the old "Thunderer" to task, but we .on this side of the pond are privileged to read into the scolding somethins dis tinctly gratifying to ourselves. v rei:av witu nni. u v. ............ v viewed the task assumed by four Americans wno a iew yu.i new deitook the gigantic work of modern izing The Times of London. To swerve that staid British publication from tho beaten path of a century's making was considered an undertaking for some agency other than human. Now, in the protest of the British publishers, we have abundant proof that the task has been accomplished, the impossible has been achieved. The "Thunderer" has capitulated, surren dered horse, foot and dragoons, to the wiles of the American advertising writer and the consequent shower of British sovereigns. Because of this shower registering in the counting-room gauge of The Times as high as J150.D00 In a single day the British Publishers' Associa tion Is mad clear through. The Times has been uncommonly successful; hence its dire offending. "It pays to advertise," was coined in America It is one Americanism that the most conservative of British Jour nals does not hesitate to borrow and to repeat in the loudest black-face type that its waning conservatism will permit. Uncle Je Cnnnon Versus Sleep. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "Uncle Joe" Cannon has been telling his Missouri admirers that late to bed and early to rise has been the rule of his life. "Uncle Joe" scoffs at the old couplet. Early to bed, early to rise. Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. He believes with George Ade that "early to bed, early to rise, and one meets few prominent people." Ho in dorses the theory of the Rogers Broth ers that "early to bed. early to rise, makes a good milkman." "Uncle Joe" has slept little. Like Na poleon, he gets along without it. Like Cassius, he is lean, hungry and wakeful, the type of man feared by good poli ticians like Julius Caesar. He has ex ploded the Gladsonian theory that eight hours of sleep a day are essential to greatness. For is "Uncle Joe" not truly great, and is he not the one man in this country for whom the newspapers waive their strict rules against the printing of those Impolite words and ? Washington, D. C, and Elsewhere. Philadelphia Record. The cost of the Capitol at Washington, D. C, which covers four acres, was a little over $13,000,000. The cost of the Con gressional Library, covering three and one-half acres and undoubtedly the fin est structure in the country', with all its beautiful adornments (Including $585,000 paid for the site), was $6,032,125. These great buildingsi paid for out of the com mon purse, furnish a means of com parison with our costly State Capitol, which covers two and one-half acres of ground which was already owned by the state. B-ut "comparisons are odorous," as Mrs. Malaprop observed. Mr. Hushes Is Not Wealthy. Yonkers Statesman. It is no discredit to Lawyer Hughes that he is rated poor in this world's goods, notwithstanding the fact that he has been successful in his profession. The biggest fee he ever received was the $25,000 one paid him for his services In connection with the Insurance inves tigation. It was pretty generally reck oned Inadequate compensation for. the services rendered, but it satisfied Law yer Hughes, who evidently is not one of the grasping kind. Besides, there was the glory and its subsequent devel opments. Crown Fashioned From Cannon. Philadelphia Public Ledger. King Peter's regalia crown, scepter and orb, with a fine buckle for the state mantle thrown in was made by a Paris Jeweler from a portion of a cannon used by the Servians during a struggle for freedom under His Majesty's grand father, Karageorge. Artistically en riched with enamels and sundry precious stones, these regal emblems are not, however, of very great market value. One Place For Reformed Spelling;. Cleveland Plain Dealer. An imposing name is that worn by the aged Sultan of Borneo. In full he Is called Sri Paduka Bawa Dull Sultan of Hashlm Jalil-Ul-AIam Akamadln Ibnl Almerhum Sl Paduka Manlana Sultan Omar All Saigudin. His Imperial High ness, the twenty-fifth of his dynasty, is S3 years old. -T No, But Give Her a Little Time. Chicago Journal. Cuba hasn't had time as yet to begin to bother about what she shall do with her ex-presidents. EIGHT-HOCR DAYS ON STATE FARM Perplexities of the Law In the Case Observed in Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Agricultural College, one of the best Institutions of the kind in the country. Is in a quandry this year. The Massachusetts Legislature has pass ed a law limiting to eight hours the work of all employes of the state. The agri cultural college ands it necessary to em ploy a number of helpers In the stables and on the land attached to the school, and under the law none of these Irelpers must work more than eight hours. The authorities of the college have not yet hit upon a program which permits all farm labor to be done within the eight-hour limit without causing an expense not con templated in the last annual appropriation, and in any case there is a waste of time which is not relished by the men any more than it is by the managers. v- For example, it is twelve hours between one milking of a cow and the next milk ing. If the same man has been set to milk the cow both times the law has been violated unless he has been in a state of enforced Idleness during four or five hours of the intervening time. Contemplate the feelings of the farm superintendent when a summer thunder storm is muttering In the distance, at. say. 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and the hay must be left ex posed to the rain because the men have already worked eight hours. Fines and imprisonment are the reward of the man who tries to save the state s property under such conditions. Other complications, such as can read ily be imagined by any one who knows of the manifold duties of life on the farm, are not jesting matters to the unhappy state officials. It has needed only this revelation of the actual workings of the eight-hour law on the farm to set the Massachusetts farmer to thinking. In the last analysis it is the farmer who pays the taxes. The farmer works all day, himself, and when he is driving along the road and sees the farm laborer, whose wages he pays, swinging in a hammock, reading novels or playing golf for exer cise, while the sun is still high in the heavens, he may well begin to wonder why his representative In the Legislature is so much more sparing of the paid em ploye of the state than of the hard-working taxpayer. He may even question whether a farm can be considered a model for his sons to study where the law com pels the hiring of twice as many men as the farmer himself could afford to hire for the same work. First lessons in bank ruptcy should not be substituted for in struction in scientific agriculture. Bnby Taken As Security For Rent. Wilkesbarre (Pa.) Cor. North American. Failing to obtain several months' back rent in any other manner, Jacob Temerer, who owns a tenement house at Mtlvale, seized the two-weeks old baby of Mrs. Michael Koch and ran away with it. He went to the house with a constable, but the little furniture there was not one tenth the value of the rent due $50. I'll' take your baby then," he cried, and, seizing the Infant ran out. The constable advised Mrs. Koch to have him arrested for kidnaping, tut she was afraid of tho law's delays, and sped in pursult. When she overtook Temerer she paid him $25 and promised the other $25 soon if he gave the child back, and he agreed to this. And Lives to Tell the Tale. Indianapolis News. Hon. C. S. Rolls, of London, who is only 29. has had many and varied ex periences as a motorist. As he once told the members of the Automobile Club, he has run into a tree at 70 miles an hour, has pushed a car three miles in dress clothes, has had to walk nine miles for petrol, has five times been run away with (twice forward and thrice back ward), has been overturned twice, has had a horse on top of him, has twice had his car burned, and has been run over by his own car. Reflection of Another's Greatness. Chicago Chronicle. The Duke of Wellington, who recently celebrated hiB 57th birthday, is Prince of Waterloo in the Netherlands. He is Duke of Ciudad Rodrigo and a grandee of the first class in Spain and Duke of Vittoria, Marquis of Torres Vedras and Count of Vimjero in Portugal; also Earl of Mornington and Viscount Wellesley of Danagan Castle, In the Irish peerage. Passing; the Love of Lovely Woman. Springfield (111.) Sun. Murphy says in the future nothing can separate him from the love of Hearst, no matter what he does. Cleveland Just Keeps On Fishing. Philadelphia Press. Grover Cleveland has gone fishing, and the chances are he will Just keep on fish ing until after election. Rosa's Parrakeets. Catholic Standard and Times. . Rosa, weth her parrakeets, Tal da fortune een da. streets. Geeve her flva cent an' Bee Wat your fortune gona be. Ietla birds so smart, so wise. Beet een cage an' weenk deir eyes; Scetln' een a row dey wait Teell she ope da leetla Bate, An' ahe tak' wan on a steeck, Keesa heem an' mak' heem peeck Fortune card out weeth hees beak. Wat do card eea say to you, Mebbe o ees son' com' true. Som day, mebbe, I weel se "W'at my fortune gona be. Fef I could be rjarrakeet. Dat she eesa keens so sweet. I am sure I would be wise Jus' for lookln' een her eyes; Mebbe so I be so smart I find fortune een ber heart! Dat ea klnda fortune, too, Dat I weesh ees Ron' com' true. THE HOLE UNDER THE FENCE "JOE" CHAMBKRIAIX, INVALID. Great British I'nlonlst Politician Thought To Be N carina; Death. London Despatch. Joseph Chamberlain, the, "strong man of England," is said to be .a hopeless and helpless paralytic, with death not far off. A severe stroke of paralysis came three months ago, and the great tariff advocate has been incapable of resigning his seat in Parliament, even if he would, since he could not make the formal application necessary. As night is dropping Its curtain around the picturesque Unionist leader, his American wife, who was his comrade in his battles and victories, la giving him the comfort of her constant companion ship. She was Mary Endicott. of Salem, descendant of the first Governor of Mas sachusetts. Their love has touched the hearts of all England. Breakdown of Joe Chamberlain prom ises to take with It his party. At this moment a strong section of the Union ists is making deterntlned effort to force Balfour from the leadership. That Joe-Chamberlain has not reaped his harvest Of physical neglect sooner has been a marvel to those who knew his habits of life and work. He always re fused to exercise, rode in a closed car riage and smoked many long, strong cigars dally. When his first symptoms of gout appeared, and he was ordered to give up smoking, he replied that life would not be worth living without his cigars. He was given to worry, and the crush ing disappointments of the last few years weighed heavily upon him. First cam the disasters of the Boer war. with the consequent strain upon him as Colonial Secretary. The hopelessness of the out look when he visited South Africa added to his burdens. Then his gruelling cam paigns for fiscal reform were enough to kill a man of ordinary endurance. Through these battles his wife, as has been her custom for years, accompanied him and sat on the platform to encourage him when he spoke. Doubtless a disappointment. It was not Balfour's elevation to the Premiership that broke down Chamberlain so much as his overwhelming defeat in his campaign for a protective tariff policy. Bourke Cochran's Hearst PHI. New York World's Report of Bourke) Cockran'g Buffalo Convention Speech. "I don't think any of the harsh things. said In a campaign hurt any one. I don't. "I was In hopes when I came here that we would find another than he whom we are tonight forced to support. "But," he cried out, "what is the al ternative? Admit that on the one side we have communism, socialism and all these evils that my dear Democratic friends have mentioned?! On the other side we have the unspeakable corruption through all our publio and business life. If I must choose between rottenness and riot, I regret the choice, but give me riot. Riot will cure itself in time, but rotten ness once entered into the body politic, that body can never again be made whole. "We are supporting Mr. Hearst, at least I am, because as a Democrat I can not help it. I am here to make no pro fession of personal friendship or liking for him. He has struck me some hard blows: I have not failed to strike one or two back." Kaiser Drinks Milk and Snsrnr Soup. . "Vienna Despatch. A story is being told to the effect that Emperor William while on a hunting ex pedition lately in North Germany took breakfast at the castle of a young newly married couple. The soup was served en tasse (in a cup) and the Kaiser, who was busily engaged in conversation, asked the servant for milk and sugar, thinking it was tea. The hostess was too shy to call atten tion to the mistake. The milk and sugar were brought in and the Kaiser added them to the soup. When he sipped it he discovered his mistake, but rather than embarrass the hostess he heroically drank the whole lot. Able To Take a Little Nourishment. Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch. The Atlanta Constitution prints a fac simile of the order check for Mr. Bryan's; breakfast at the Piedmont Hotel In that citv showing that he ate $3.25 worth of food. The Colonel's appetite seems to continue fairly good in spite of his ram bles over the face of Mother Eartn. The Devil En Tour. Baltimore Sun. The devil came up from his real below To Washington city soma time ago A blistering, blazing summer day. With Congress and President both sway. It matters not Juat In what month and year Though historians all on that point are clear. "I'm uo here on business a little while," He said to a Journal, with quiet smile. "When Congress and President both are here My interests are safe and I've naught to fear. In stirring up mischief and making strife They are fully my equals, upon my life. As agents of mine they are hard to beat. And never In Winter or Summer heat Allow an occasion to pass them by Of playing the devil as well as I." ' Just here said the journalist man to him: "In Summer news items are few and slim Pray give me a brief little interview Some 'hot stuff' that's racy and crisp ano5 4' new To let every one of my readers know (Before to the old resorts you go) If all of your Interests far and near Are prospering well, as they proeper here.'" "Not now." quoth the devil, "my friend, not now." And, pausing and panting, he mopped his brow. "But say to the people of Washington all The devil Invites them to make a call Invites every woman and child and man To pay him a visit, if come they can. To cool themselves off in this fearful spell. For Washington city la hotter than ." He fainted before he finished.) From th Bt. Paul Pioneer Press. 4 4 4 J