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PORTLAND, TUESDAY, SEPT. 17.
A FORWARD STEP.
"While the aim of the so-called Lock
wood primary law falls short of direct
nominations, yet it is a step in the right
"dlrectien, and offers promise of specific
and sneedv amelioration in a place
where it is sadly needed.
The State Circuit Court, in its decis
ion of yesterday, follows the California
view that members of one political
party cannot in justice he permitted to
participate in the executive acts of an
other party. The objections to the
Morgan act, contemplating direct nom
inations, were many, but this is the one
upon which the court lays greatest
stress. Its view is that for Democrats
to participate in the selection of Tte
publioan candidates is unfair, and it Is
easy to see that such an arrangement
-might be utilized by Democrats to Im
pose weak .nominees upon the Repub
licans, with the express purpose of de
feating them at the polls with Demo-d
crats. This was done, it was alleged, in
Minneapolis at a recent election for
Mayor, though the sequel indicated that
ibs outers' raised came principally from
machine politicians who were eager for
ajiy pretext to assail the law. Dr.
Ames, -who was chosen with the help
of alleged Democratic votes, -was trium
phantly elected by the Republicans, and
is apparently making an acceptable
Mayor.
The Dockwood act, which is sustained,,
perpetuates the present party conven
tions. The reformation it Inaugurates
Is limited to the conduct of the prl
Jtnaries, such as are now held. This
conduct of the primaries Is taken out
of the hands of the party managers
and put into the hands of the officials.
The County Clerk names a primary day,
appoints the polling-places, supplies the
ballots. The judges and clerks appoint
ed under law by the County Court for
general elections are to serve as judges
and clerks for the primaries. The party
managers must submit their lists of
nominees for delegates to the County
Clerk four days before primary day.
The records of the primary elections
are oublic records.
This is obviously a bogus form of di
rect primaries, as The Oregonlan has
hitherto pointed out; but as has already
been said, it is a step in the right di
rectionthat is, in the direction of
fairer primaries. The conduct of our
primaries heretofore has been unsatis
factory and fraudulent "Whichever
faction has been "in" has sought by
exclusive measures to keep the other
out, by denying It equal representation
on the primary election boards. Scan
dals and violence have often resulted
from this regime in the past, violence
and scandals can be safely predicted
of the same regime for the future. That
is why we should welcome the present
decision. It enables the Lockwood law
to take the appointment of judges and
clerks and the counting fit ballots out
of the hands of a partisan machine
and put it in the hands of the sworn
officials of the county. It Is perfectly
certain that this tends powerfully
toward fair and orderly primaries.
The Australian ballot has demon
strated its usefulness In general elec
tions, and thereby has justified its ex
tension into the primary system. A
fair primary is greatly to be desired,
inasmuch as unfair primaries not only
encourage corruption and bloodshed,
but also promote factional bitterness
and belligerence after the nominations
for office have been made. Party peace
and order and community dignity will
have an effective ally in the fact that
the faction defeated in the primaries
can no longer go before the people
with the plea that it was denied a fair
show at the primary election.
The obsequies of Captain Sebastian
Miller took place at his late home in
Canemah Sunday afternoon, and were of
reminiscent character, the heme of
which was the rapidly passing pioneer
and his work in Oregon. Captain
Miller's home was, literally speak
ing, long previous to the last ten
years of his life, on the steam
boats that plied the waters of the
Willamette, Columbia and Snake Riv
ers. In his capacity as master and pilot
of river craft, especially those of the
Willamette River above the falls, he
was known to thousands of Oregonl
ans of the early and middle history of
steamboating on Oregon waters. Dur
ing all of this time his home, in the
sense that a man's home is where his
family resides, has been In the pictur
esque little village where he died and
whence he was carried, followed by
neighbors and friends of a lifetime,
through the deep green woods to the
graveyard a mile above, overlooking the
river upon which so large a portion of
his three-quarters of a century of life
had been spent. HJ,s passing was that
of a man who, havIngeompIeted'his
long journey, sinks quietly to rest in
the evening shadows.
GROUNDS OP CONFLICT.
President Roosevelt has spoken on
the paramount economic theme pre
sented to the new Congress. On the
tariff he declares for the reciprocity
treaties and the removal of unnecessary
duties. Thus he embraces the two an
tagonistic horns of a legislative di
lemma. He essays to mount two horses
going in opposite directions. Sooner or
later he will have to choose between
them. Lines will be sharply drawn in
the Republican party, and it will not be
the President's opportunity or disposi
tion to be either bi-partisan or neutral.
There is. obviously, no inherent in
compatibility in reciprocity and tariff
reform. The difficulty Is artificial, and
grows out of the eleemosynary func
tions of a protective tariff. If we en
acted schedules on general principles,
the thing would be simple. But we do
not We frame tariffs as benefactions,
and unless they are welcome to the
j beneficiaries they fail of their purpose,
which is political and partisan. To
enact reciprocity and tariff reform syn
chronously would be to fix the sugar
tariff regardless of Havemeyer and Ox
nard, the iron and steel tariffs without
consulting Pittsburg and Cleveland, and
the machinery tariff without reference
to Philadelphia and New Jersey. This
is the most baseless of dreams.
President McKinley's Buffalo speech
outlined the theory which Mr. Roose
velt fondly imagines he can easily fol
low. That theory is that we are to buy
freer markets abroad with concessions
to importers of wares we do not pro
duce. The history of politics affords
no more absurd proposal. "We are to
get valuable things in exchange for
nothing. Europe does not do business
in that way. The things we do not pro
duce are on the free list now. "What
Europe wants is concessions on things
that are now produced here and on
which tariffs are still demanded by our
protected interests.
Here is the fundamental error of our
opportunist school. They want civil
service reform rigidly enforced, but in
such wise as shall not Interfere with
the reauirements of the- spoilsmen.
They want the gold standard firmly
established, but so as to save the face
and shield the follies of the silver men
in the Republican party. They want
honest pensions, so issued as not to
cut off the dishonest. They want the
Nicaragua Canal, but they want it built
when and how its implacable enemies,
the transcontinental railroads, shall de
termine. So now they want reciprocity
that shall not cost our exporters or
jobbers -in domestic wares anything;
they want the tariff reduced every
where but where protected interests ask
for its retention.
What defeated the reciprocity treaties
In the Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth Con
gresses? The protests of protected in
terests. The treaties proposed to give
Europe and the Argentine and the West
Indies freer access to our markets for
goods that are now burdened with Im
port duties. The beneficiaries of these
present duties rebelled, they made
themselves heard, they had their way.
So they -are likely fo do again. So, at
any rate, they will try to do, and try
desperately, and for and against them
powerful factions will be arrayed in
both Republican and Democratic par
ties. Precisely the same dilemma is con
fronted in regard to tariff reform
proper, or the removal of unnecessarily
high duties without reference to reci
procity negotiations. Mr. Roosevelt Is
for abolition of such tariffs von foreign
goods as are no longer needed for reve
nue, BUT "if such abolition can be had
without harm to our industries and la
bor!" Who is to say whether the tariff
on sugar can be removed without harm?
Why, Oxnard, of course, and he will
say it cannot. Who is to say whether
the tariff on wines and fruits can be
reduced without harm? California, of
course, and she has repeatedly assever
ated it cannot.
The tariff Is to be approached in Con
gress this Winter from two diametric
ally opposed points of view. One camp
will stand for reciprocity that is sacri
fice of some producers who are subject
to foreign competition for the benefit
of others, like iron and steel and ma
chinery men, who don't need protection
at home, but covet more favorable mar
kets abroad. The other camp will de
mand reformation of the tariff at the
expense of the very elements that
clamor for the reciprocity treaties. Of
these divergent programmes no recon
ciliation is possible. .The tariff policy so
hopefully enunciated is almost tanta
mount to a contradiction in terms.
AMERICAN WIVES.
Intelligent foreigners whp have stud
ied home life both in Europe and Amer
ica generally agree in the assertion that
the lot of the American wife is an ideal
one, and that she ought to be the hap
piest woman on this earth. She owns
the American husband to a degree un
heard of in English families. Travelers
tell us that the English husband is the
absolute lord and master in his own
house, and that his wife is loved and
respected by him, but is treated like
an elder daughter. 'Generally speaking,
the same condition prevails In Scotland,
Ireland and Wales.
From her early girlhood the American
girl is treated with a tenderness, a
courtesy, a loving indulgence. When
womanhood dawns she pleases herself
as to the man she marries, and there
are no fussing French mammas and
papas to suggest a marriage of arrange
ment. As a wife, an avenue of emanci
pation opens before her. She can do
things then with perfect propriety that
she could not have ddne "as a maiden!
She is the mistress of her household,
and will likely resent any interference
in this direction. She measures her
husband in her mind's eye, and pro
ceeds to own him without his knowing
a thing about it. The poor man is not
met by an insolent fury, who says: "I
own you body and soul. I am the boss;
you must obey." Not a bit of it .She has
that fine, subtle instinct which never
makes a costly mistake. If she be a
true woman, and she twines herself
around her husband's heart and rules
him by her sweet influence. His bet
ter self unconsciously leaps Into being
for the first time. r
As the years go on, because she is an
American wife, probably one child
brings added happiness to her Home,
and no other children come because she
does 'not want them. If she lived in
Britain she would probably have six
or eight children, whether her husband
could provide food and clothing for
them or not In Scotland she would
have to perform all the washing for the
household, and would think It an ex
travagance to send the heavier pieces
of clothes to the laundry. In America
the wife has the clothes "done" at the
laundry, and does not spoil her fingers
with withering soapsuds. In Scotland
she would clean her children's and often
her husband's boots every morning. In
America her .husband employs a boot
black, her child cleans his own boots,
and dainty Mrs. Columbia either em
ploys a bootblack or she attends to her
boots herself. If she wears a long skirt,
the chances are that she does not worry
much about her boots.
In America, if lier husband Is a wage
earner, there is more money for the
household, because wages are higher in
this country than in Europe. Therefore
the American wife has more money
than her European cousin. Mrs. Colum
bia, finds thaf housekeeping tries her
strength, and she Is of slight build; she
ahd her husband immediately break up
house and live in a hotel or boarding
house. In England and Scotland the
American boarding-house is unknown.
Should Mrs. Columbia be unfortunate
enough to marry the wrong man, she"
tries to reform him, and if she finds
the task is beyond her strength, she
can get a divorce more easily than her
European cousin.
The sum of it all is that Mrs. Colum
bia lives in a wife's paradise with the
best-tempered and most considerate
husband In the world, because he is an
American and stands for the best of his
kind. Cross, bad-tempered old bach
elors, miserable beings, may have their
vague theories about Mrs. Columbia,
but while they prate about her they do
not know what they are talking about.
They cannot tell what married life is
from actual experience. Those of us
who are married know that Mrs. Colum
bia is the dearest woman in the world,
and that the whole earth does not hold
her equal. Those of us who have found
this out differently are unfortunate.
OUR ACCIDENTAL PRESIDENTS.
Our first accidental President was
John Tyler, who, by the death of Gen
eral W. H. Harrison, became President
April 4, 1841. Immediately on his ac
cession his administration was made
discordant by the strife between the
old-line Whigs, led by the imperious
Henry Clay, and the anti-Jacksonian
"States Rights Southern Democrats,"
who had supported Harrison to crush
the Jacksonian faction led by Van
Buren and Benton. Tyler was, when he
first entered Congress, In 1811, a Jeffer
sonlan; he opposed the recharter of the
United States Bank as a gross viola
tion of state rights; he opposed inter
nal Improvements in 1816; he was hos
tile to a National bankruptcy act; he
denounced General Jackson in 181& for
his conduct in Florida; he favored the
admission of Missouri as a slave state
In 1820. without conditions, and voted
against the Missouri Compromise, de
nying that Congress had any control
over slavery in territorial domain; he
bitterly opposed the protective tariff as
United States Senator from Virginia in
1828, despite the fact that the tariff of
that year was supported by such Dem
ocrats as Benton, Jackson and Van
Buren.
In 1832 he supported Jackson for Pres
ident; he opposed nullification, but
-voted against Jackson's force bill, de
nounced his proclamation, of December,
1832, and voted for the Clay compro
mise tariff of 1833. On the removal of
the bank deposits in 1833 Tyler broke
with Jackson: he disapproved of the
National Bank, hut was hostile to Jack
son's lawless methods of procedure; he
voted for Clay's resolution of censure
of Jackson, and became a member of
"the Southern States Rights" party, by
which he was nominated for Vice-President
in 1836. In 1840 the Whig conven
tion at Harrisburg, Pa., adopted no
platform, and Tyler was nominated for
Vice-President to catch the votes of dis
satisfied Democrats, just as Harrison
was nominated for President to catch
the anti-Masons and anti-Clay men.
Henry Clay attempted to use the vic
tory exclusively for the old Whig party
of a National Bank, high tariff and in
ternal improvements. Despite the fact
that the Harrisburg National Conven
tion had nominated Harrison and Tyler
without any platform beyond the war
cry of "anything to beat Van Buren,"
the most of the voters believed that
Harrison's victory meant a victory for
f"!!nv5 Hnftrlnpc; nf hlfrh nmtectlve
tariff, the National Bank and Internal
Improvements.
Even before Harrison died Clay used
such dictatorial language that the Pres
ident was obliged to say, "You forget
that I am President" To this situa
tion Tyler fell heir; he had always been
a man of Independent views and action:
he had sometimes supported Calhoun
and sometimes sunnorted Jackson, but
Vs an old-time Jeffersonian he finally
broke with Jackson because of his dis
position to make his arbitrary will the
supreme law of the land. He regarded
the Whig triumph of 1840 simply as the
overthrow of the faction of Jackson,
Van Buren and Benton. Clay boasted
that he would force Tyler to execute the
will of the old Whig party, but he met
his match in Tyler, who defied him.
Tyler vetoed Clay's so-called "fiscal
bank" bill, and his veto was sustained;
next he vetoed also Clay's "fiscal cor
poration bill," and the next day, Sep
tember 9, 1841, Secretaries Ewing, Bell,
Badger, Crittenden and Granger re
signed, but Danjel Webster, who was
Secretary of State, remained at his post
From this time forward the Whigs as
completely abandoned Tyler as the Re
publican party did Andrew Johnson af
ter he refused to approve the recon
struction legislation of Congress in
1866. Tyler vetoed the original tariff
bill of 1842, which so enraged the Whigs
that ex-President John Quincy Adams
arose in the House and threatened the
President with impeachment for "his
unwarrantable assumption of power."
The Whigs, however, were obliged to
amend the tariff bill by dropping the
clause distributing the surplus revenue
among the states before Tyler would
consent to approve it The victory,
however, was with Tyler, for in the
Fall election of 1842 the Whig majority
of 25 in the House was replaced by a
Democratic 'majority of 61. The Ash-burton-Webster
treaty with England
was among the important events of
Tyler's Administration. He favored the
annexation of Texas, and his policy was
indorsed, and consummated by his suc
cessor. President Polk. Tyler had a
stormy administration, but he was a
good fighter, and he did not deserve the
name of "turncoat" whan he was
elected by a party without any platform
save an anti-Jackson battle cry. Tyler
had always been an independent man, j
and his refusal to become a bigoted
"Henry Clay" Whig was entirely to his
credit: he was not a weak man; neither
was lie a turncoat nor a traitor, for he
was always true to his antecedents as
a Reader of the "Southern States
Rights" party, which had nothing in
common with, the Whig party save hos
tility to the Jacksonian Democrats.
When Vice-President Fillmore be
came President by the death of Presi
dent Taylor, July, 1850, Taylor's Cabi
inet all resigned and a new Cabinet
was at once appointed. Fillmore had
a stormy administration. Up to his ac
cession William H. Seward and Thur
low Weed had been influential with
President Taylor, but Fillmore turned
down the Seward Whigs and gave his
confidence to the Webster Whigs in the
Empire State. The passage of the fu
gitive slave law and attempts to enforce
it covered Fillmore with unjust popu
lar odium at the North, but his ad
ministration was described by Daniel
Webster as very able, and Henry
Clay, from his deathbed,, in 1852,
urged the Whig party to take him
as the wisest possible nomina
tion they could maKe. 'Fillmore had
a hard time: his succession to the Pres
idency ruined him for any further po
litical honors by no fault of his own;
he was heir to the beginning of the
anti-slavery battle; he could not do his
duty under the law without offending
the anti-slavery men of the North, but
he did his duty and suffered his pun
ishment in a manner that did justice
to his reputation as a man of personal
dignity and public worth.
When Andrew Johnson succeeded Lin
coln he heal as a "States Rights Demo
crat" that the S6uthern States hadtiever
been out of the Union; that on their
application for xeadmission Congress
had no power to refuse if or make any
conditions upon subjects over which the
Constitution had not expressly granted
general jurisdiction. The Republican
party held that the action of the seced
ing states had deprived them of their
rights as members of the Union; that
they were conquered;- that at best they
stood as territories seeking readmission,
which Congress could refuse or grant
at will. Johnson began his break with
the Republican party by vetoing the
Freedmen's Bureau bill In February,
1866, on the ground that it had been
passed by a Congress in which the
South had no representation. Follow
ing this he vetoed the civil rights bill
on the ground of its Interference with
the rights of the states. He disap
proved of the fourteenth amendment;
he vetoed the tenure of office bill; he
suspended Secretary of War Stanton in
August, 1867; Congress refused to ratify
the suspension. Stanton, on the resig
nation of Grant as Secretary ad interim,
resumed his office; Johnson removed
him; the Senate declared the act illegal;
Stanton refused to comply with the
President's orders, and the Senate or
dered the impeachment of the President
for violating the tenure of office act.
His impeachment failed by one vote.
The efforts of President Johnson to
fight Congress were so bitter as to be
compared to the action of "aqua fortis
uppn iron." Arthur behaved in a beau
tiful spirit after- he succeeded to Gar
field's place. He lost the friendship of
Conkling because of his forbearance,
and he was. shamefully abused by the
partisans off Blaine in New York State,
who defeated 'Folger for Governor and
opened the way for the rise of Cleve
land: Arthur earned the nomination in
1884. but Blaine obtained it and led his
party to defeat when Arthur would
have made victory sure.
The kinship of humanity has been
strikingly illustrated this present year
in the quick sympathy evoked by death.
The passing of Queen Victoria was too
closely in accord with nature to evoke
protest 'or cause real "sorrow, but it was
not without pathos, and it was full of
reminiscent sadness that touches hearts
and draws peoples and nations together.
The death of President McKinley was of
a different type. Grief rivals indigna
tion, and both at times give place to
horror as the enormity of the crime
which laid him low is forced upon the
mind. The civilized nations of the earth
share, only in a lesser degree, these
feelings with the people of the United
States, and all are thereby brought in
closer touch than before. Anarchy i3
the common enemy of all, and the head
of one government cannotT be struck
down by its cruel, remorseless shaft
without added menace to the rulers Of
all the rest
The building at Sunnyslde, which was
a misfit as a hospital, and an expensive
one at that, has at length, after hav
ing been practically tenantless for sev
eral years, found a vocation to which it
is suited: both in structure and sur
roundings. Persons who reach old age
without having homes of their own, or
homes at least in which they are shel
tered by the love of children, are among
the most pitiable of human creatures.
The home that in the name of human
ity supplies this lack may well be said
to abound in grace the truest, tender
est grace of human nature. Tosuch a
use the old Sunnyslde Hospital building
has been dedicated. It is not likely
that a community ever ready to rise to
a demand of mercy will permit this new
Institution to languish in its purpose
from lack of funds to meet the just
requirements of Its undertaking.
Roosevelt's plea for "encouragement
of the merchant marine and the build
ing of ships which shall carry the
American flag and be owned and con
trolled by Americans and American
capital" is obviously a mere echo. He
will be more definite by December,
when he has given the "subject some
study. Perhaps he is as likely to dis
cover advantages of free raw materials
as the beauties of subsidies.
The objection to the Morgan act, that
it permits members of one party to
nominate candidates of the other, is ob
viated in the Lockwood act by the pro
vision that voters must have presump
tive evidence of their connection with
the party whose ballot they ask for.
Their qualification on this head is sub
ject to challenge.
The best thing in President Roose
velt's announcement Is tucked away at
the bottom g?od men in office. And
the place it will occupy In his pro
gramme will be far higher than it is
here set down. We have in the White
House another of those men whp be
lieve that public office is a public trust.
Some tokens of respect to the dead
President are empty forms and some
involve real sacrifice. The local theat
rical manager who denied himself the
pleasure of ar$600 house Sunday night
showed patriotism of a genuine kind.
Attendance at the public schools on
the .opening day Indicates that the pop
ulation of Portland haslncreased about
6 per cent in the last year.
ANARCHIST LITERATURE.
San Francisco Call.
Anarchy supports an expression of its
creed In a special organ called "Free So
ciety: Formerly the Firebrand; Exponent
of Anarchist-Communism." The Issue ot
Sunday September 1, is No. 31 of volume
VII. The paper and typography are ex
cellent It contains no advertisements ex
cept of the books of Krapotkin, Llssa
garay; "the famous speeches of the eight
anarchists in court, and Altgeld's reasons
for pardoning Flelden, Neebe and
Schwab"; the works of Jean Grave;
"God and the State," by Nikolas Baku
nin; "The Economics of Anarchy," by
Lum, and various writings by Malatesta.
A poem by Gordak adorns the first page,
In which are these lines:
For -when I sec the earth unpopulate.
The barren fields, the Joyless Uvea of men,
I am filled with that eternal hate
That shall revivify the world again.
The first article is. entitled "The Mons
ter Slayer." which gives the story of
'Hercules and the Dragon, Theseus. Ja
son, extracts from the Arabian Nights,
and concludes: "Oh, Gradgrina, wilt
thou call it unreality and fiction, that
which has fed the souls of so many gen
erations, who could not be persuaded
that they had none: when in this very
millennial age of pig-philosophy a BrescI,
Lucchenl and Anglolillo appear like the
Arabian Princess, each ready to burnji
up some devil's grandson ot a genie, at
cost of being burnt with him?'
Con Lynch, of Los Angeles, Gil., con
tributes an appeal to workingmen to
join the anarchists, remarking that the
Interests of labor require "that every tie
that at present holds human society to
gether be broken."
Then a Mr. Blum makes himself inter
esting on the subject of "Voting Cattle,"
and is followed by Mr. Kinghorn-Jones,
of 3G Geary street, San Francisco, who
desires that the Government Issue fifty
billions'' of greenbacks and pay labor JJQ
a day, and insists that "Government
damns Itself" by not doing this at
once.
On the editorial page the Chicago An
archist Club announces that "the Chi
cago comrades are preparing for the Fall
and Winter campaigns of education.
Meetings will be held to which comrades
are invited that they may learai how to
make bombs and witness the process of
selecting the removers of obnoxious rul
ers." On the same page the police are
denounced. Among the editorial mat
ter appears this statement: "The efficacy
of punishment is disputed in modern so
ciology but an occasional execution com
mitted 'on tyrants seems to have a health
ful effect on these monstera in human
form. Since the execution of King Hum
bert the Italian anarchist weekly, L'Agi
tazione, has not been molested, while be
fore it Was constantly persecuted, both
by the censor and the police."
The signed articles nearly all bear for
eign names. The editor Is Abraham
Isaak. The address of agencies for the
paper in many cities is given, with the
names of agents. Among the names of
the 17 agents we find Bauer, Klsluck,
Morwltz, Kahn, Lang, Havel, Schilling,
Malsel, Notkln and Rieger, who Is the
representative of this delectable publica
tion In this city.
The tone of the publication is Intensely
pessimistic. It attacks, berates and be
littles the qualities of generosity, hu
manity and kindness, and is savage in ex
pression against all existing Institutions.
Wherever there is disorder and lawless
ness it sides with those who cause it.
It excuses and extenuates all kinds of
crime, , evidently regarding the criminal
Instinct as merely a proner protest
against existing conditions.
DEFENSE OF MONOPOLY.
One Side of an Argument, but There
Is Anotlicr.
Chicago Record-Herald,
It is seldom that we hear a loud, clear
call for monopoly. So common has It be
come for people to cry out against monop
olies, indeed, that even those who favor
business combinations, are inolined to do
so In secret, especially If they happen to
harbor desires for public offices. The
Raleigh (N. C.) News and Observer, a
Democratic paper, and a radical opponent
of t'rusts, has, however, made the dis
covery that there may upon occasion be
virtue in consolidation after allT In a
recent burst of righteous Indignation the
paper referred to said:
"Raleigh needs and needs very much
somebody who can arrange to convert all
the three unsatisfactory telephone systems
Into one excellent system. Three systems
are now operating, with the result that
.the service of neither is what? It ought to
be, whereas, if there were a single sys
tem with a costly underground plant,
Raleigh would rejoice. The cost of the
telephone service In Raleigh is enormous.
If a business house has all three tele
phones the cost Is heavy and the nuisance
great1. If only two are used, some of the
best customers cannot be reached, and a
business house with only one telephone Is
two-thirds out of business, so far as tele
phoning is concerned. Many men in Ral
eigh refuse to take any telephone because
they cannot affoTd to take three."
Here is a case in which monopoly
would undoubtedly be beneficial to the
public. In the City of Cleveland a simi
lar condition exists. Two t'elephone com
panies are doing business there, and while
they have cut prices so that It Is possible
for Cleveland people to be served by ope
company or the other at a lower rate than
citizens of Chicago are compelled tfo pay
for telephones, the Clevelander is at a
disadvantage because he must either have
both lines or put up with an abbreviated
service. If he pays to have connections
with the lines of botfh companies his tele,
phone accommodations cost him consid
erably more than they would if he did
business In Chicago, where a monopoly
exists.
In addition to the cost there Is the an
noyance of being compelled to look
through two directories whenever any one
is to be called up by telephone. Compe
tition may In many cases be a good thing,
but ..e town that has more than one tele
phone company is unfortunate.
Looks Differently Now.
Philadelphia Times.
It? Is Idle for the eminent physicians and
surgeons in attendance on President Mc
Kinley to attempt to deceive us by sclen.
tine bulletins which Indicate the favor
able progress of the case. Julian- Haw
thorne Is upon the spot?, and he has
doomed v.the President to death. From
Hawthorne's expert decision upon any
subject there is no appeal. He has stud
led the bulletins closely, he says, and after
after due reflection "although, of course,
he has not seen the patient") he is "forced
to believe that' there Is very little chance,
If any, that! 'Mr. MoKInley will recover.
It is, on the contrary, more than possible
that he may die within a day or two." It
is true that Dr. McBurney and Dr. Mann,
who have seen the patient' and are as
sumed to know something, take a dif
ferent view of the case: but theer Is rea
son for that. "The stock market has to
be thought' of, and political exigencies."
For the exact and unbiased truth, we can
look to Julian Hawthorne alone, who can
tell what he does not know upon any
given topic with more assurance than any
other space-writer, llvlnff or dead.
Irritating: and Senseless Tallc.
Indianapolis News.
Persons who are disseminating ground
less fears of financial trouble because of
the President's death are doing themselves
no credit and the country no service. In
culcation of the notion that our Govern
ment is of such delicate fabric that it
hangs on one office or on a certain man
filling that office is not only foolish, but
false. There is, too, an irritating quality
In this kind of talk, because It Is an as
sumption that the country is In leading A
strings, and that sort of thing emanates
very frequently from the seat of govern
ment. There Is an Implication In it that
the people are a set of incapablcs; that
government really does not rest with our
selves, but rests In Governmental centers.
AMUSEMENTS.
The coming of James Nelll and his com
pany to the Marquam Is always a wel
come event, for the frequenters of the
theater have grown to look upon them as
a certain quantity, who may be counted
upon to give the public what It ought to
have In the way of entertainment, and to
give It with that tact and skill which
combined spell good taste a thing mod
erately rare on the stage. They received
the same old greeting when they opened
their engagement in "The Case of Re
bellious Susan" last night, and it came
from all their old friends and a large
sprinkling of those who will soon be the
like. The house was crowded upstairs and
down, and as the well-known members
of the company made their several en
trances each was given a separate and
distinct volley of applause for auld ac
quaintance sake. There have been some
changes since the company was hero In
the Spring. George Bloomquest, who has
been an absentee for a time, has rejoined
the company to strengthen the comedy
staff, and Louise Brownell Is a valuable
addition to the women. Both had good
parts last evening, and earned no small
share of the abundant honors.
('The Case of Rebellious Susan" Is a
problem play which makes a rather inef
fectual stagger at solving the problem
the ancient question about the propriety
of having one rule for a husband and
another for the wrlre but it is full of
quiet comedy and bright satire, and it cer
tainly proved an excellent means of re
newing the old friendship on the two sides
of the footlights, for all of the members
of the company were cast in parts of
which they were able to make a great
deal. There Is little to say of the story,
save that It concerns a wife, who, dis
pleased with a disquieting revelation of
her husband's "private" life, fares forth
Into the world and picks up a romance of
her own and carries it almost to the point
of Indiscretion, but Is persuaded to return
to home and safety before her reputation
suffers. ,
Sir Richard Kato, Q. C, that character
in which Mr. Nelll appears. Is a lovable
but rather wordy old lawyer whose pain
ful duty it becomes to restore peace in
two warring households. The part is one
which might easily become tiresome, but
Air. Nlell's quiet humor and easy stago
presence lent a ready charm to it, and
so exceedingly did he please the audi
ence that they would not excuse him after
tho second act till he had responded
briefly to a rousing demand for a speech.
Miss Chapman, as rebellious Susan, was
at her best, and her picture of feminine
temper and firmness was delightfully
funny. George Bloomquest, as Fergusson
Pybus. and Louise Brownell, as Mrs. Py
bus, a couple who from incompatibility
of temperament were the victims of a
little family jar on the side, supplied th
broad humor of the comedy, Bloomquest's
air of blighted ambition and blasted hope
of stamping his name on the age being
one of the best things he has done, whicn
means a good deal.
Frank Mac Vicars had little to do as
James Harabln, the husband of Susan",
and Miss Julia Dean almost as little is
Sirs. Queznel, a friend of Susan, but both
were good, as they always arc. John v.
Burton was his usual delightful old gen
tleman. Sir Joseph Darby, and Scott Sea
ton made an ardent Lucien Edensore, the
gallant of whom Susan becomes danger
ously enamored during her absence from
her husband.
The costumes worn by the women were
of a charcter to excite envy among the
feminine portion of the audience, and the
mounting, particularly that of the third
act, eclipsed anything of the klnc, ever
seen on the, stage. Mr. Nelll and hfs
gifted stage manager, Robert Morris, have
a genius for stage settings, but this sur
passed anything they have heretofore at
tempted. Tonight "The Royal Box" will be giv
en. Thursday night the curtain will be
raised between the acts to give the audi
ence a view of the shifting of the sceqes.
DAUGHTER OF THE DIAMOND KING.
Melodrama Please Big: Audience at
Cordrny'H.
"The Daughter of the Diamond King."
which was produced before a crowded
house at Cordray's last night. Is a well
act'ed melodrama up to the third act. In
that act, throuch the windings of the
plot, the actors find themselves in fancy
dress costume, supposedly in the con
servatory of the Metropolitan Club, of
New York. The specialties that are In
troduced are of the best, and last night
they won the applause of the large audi
ence that filled the theater. Dolly Kemp
ner, a dainty little tot, made a great hit
with her ragtime solos, to which she
played her own accompaniment on the
piano in dashing style. The child has
Lad no training, and her natural musical
gift and her sweet Voice make her one of
the most popular juvenile performers that
lias been seen on the stage. She plays
the part of Dolly Golden In the cast, and
sustains her role with great cleverness
and naivete. Kitty Lenton, as Nanon, the
actress, sang two clever coon songs when
her time came to spring her surprise,
and she was heartily applauded for the
two melodies she gave In a sweet so
prano, with accompanying cakewalk steps
that were quite fetching.
People who are lovers of Orpheum stunts
wera delighted with the turn of Frank
and John Lenton. These two, in the
garb cf clowns, did an act as grotesque
tumblers and hat-throwers that brought
down the house. bhe of the cleverest
things In their turn was seen when one
stood on the head of the other and was
carried all around the stage, while theli
facial contortions convulsed the juvemie
elemenet of the audience. Their hat
juggl'.ng was as clever as any turn that
Is seen on the vaudeville stage.
One of the best pieces of acting In the
play Is done In the third act, when the
heroine, La Belle Laurette, as Nellie
Golden, transforms herself by appearing
in the attire of the prel'ty French sou
brette, Nanon. She deceives the villain,
Hiram Small, the attorney, whose part la
bo well taken by Charles A. McGrath
that he wins a round amount of hissing
from the gallery. To do t'hls act of de
ception. La Belle Laurette, who appeared
as the innocent daughter of the Diamond
King. Percy Golden, and the wife ot
Dwight Perkins, the inventor, has to prac
tice all the wiles of a coquette, making
an effective bit of acting.
The plot has wide ramifications. In
the first act 30 school children are seen
bending over their books, making a very
realistic picture, as there was no doubt
for a minute that the school children were
real. The culmination of the act Is in
the marriage of Nellie Golden to Dwight
Perkins, the inventor, which is well taken
by W. A. Whltecar. This is performed
by Old Griswold. the justlca (H. F. Clar
ens), and Is one of the humorous scenes
in which the play abounds. It? ends In a
pretty tableau, when the school children,
rush in from recess to sing "The Star
Spangled Banner." Through this mar
riage'fhe wrath of the Diamond KInc Is
incurred, as well as the hateful enmity
of the villain. The latter has his innings
and cast's the husband In prison, carries
off the trusting wife. Injures the husband
by a blow that causes him to lose his
reason, and Is about to come off victori
ous, when the wife find3 out his deception.
The play comes to a spectacular end when
the villain Is foiledfor the last time, and
the great electrical discovers' of the In
ventor illuminates. In a brilliant display,
the palace of the DIamong King. Willie
Jenkins, the bad boy. taken by Juliette da
Grlgnan, is the life of the play. The
Couches of New England life given by the
characters Old Griswold, the justice (H.
F. Clarens), Ell Stebblns, the schoolmas
ter (Fred Seaton), Betsy Perkins, the
spinster CVIrginia Clay), and Miss Plun
kett, the milliner (Kitty Lenton), are well
handled by the players. Same bill all
tho week,
NOTE AND COMMENT.
September is living right ap to its
record.
The question of the hwr Whs yer
teacher?
The Fall openings inelod many resist
ing purse strings.
The shirtwaist now gracafully retires
before the sealskin sacejue.
It is now asserted tba.t kiztaaee Ik a
disease. And what a contagious eml
J. Pierpont Morgan owns tha Goterobta.
Let the quaking yachtsman etaar p-
General Urlbe-Urlbe must n.v ben
looking on the pulque whn ha flrt wrote
his name.
The Sultan well may ak for moral sup
ports Ho Is shorter on morals than dny
one we know of.
The fact that the Schlay ifivtstfgatton
is held Ina shop doea not matt that
the sound of the hammer la stilled
there.
The Atlanta Constitution afiaaka of
Professor Triggs intha pluraF. Thj Im
plies that he Is one too many ffcc hia
critics.
The Schley court of inquiry ramrods
us that an Admiral namad Daway to still
considerable of a figure In the Navy De
partment. If things go well with Explorer Bald
win he will soon hava tha flag flying:
from the North Pole, with tha Constitu
tion a close second.
One peer at King Edward's coronation
will wear a coronet af si Wed ceppar but
others are rich enough to ornamant their
coronets with potatoes.
The man who was going to swim from
Boston to New York has changed
his mind. Ha probably consider! this
course preferable to changing his stato
of being.
The P.cv. Charles N. Sheldon says ho
would rather drink a, bottle of rad ink
than a bottle of beer. But Mr. Shatdon
should remember that all of us db not
receive salaries which enable iw to in
dulge in such expensiva tastes.
No longer In tha lurW sfcy
The blazing" sun shall bHrnj
To torture us poor mortals ew
It's
Jack
Frost's
Turn.
Qregasfan.
But don't imagine that wWI stepi
The ahronla kicker's fuer
No matter -what the wather te
He'll
howl
and
cuss.
San Franiecb BuiKttin.
But still the kicker hfe full duo
It's only right to give,
Te cursa the weather 1 hte ono .
Pre-
ros-a-
tlvo.
In many cigar stores and at stands "in
hotel lobbies dealers are discarding the
alcohol lamps and other patent davlcas for
getting a light. They glva a customer a
small box of inextinguishable matches.
For lighting a cigar In the wind these
patent matches are all rtehfc. btfor use
around an ofllce or In a smoking-room
they are dangerous. In' a Philadelphia
hotel recently a smoker waved ona of
these matches after lighting a cigarette,
and. supposing It to be extinguished,
tossed It Into the waste paper basket by
a stenographer's desk. There was a brisk
blaze In a minute or two that destroyed
the waste basket and ruined the stenogra
pher's gauzy gown. Unlike the ordfteary
match, these inextinguishable affairs do
not go out until they are totally burned
up. In the hands of a careless man they
are really dangerous.
Few photographers realize to what ait
extent photography lias been useful In
tho work of the United States In pacify
ing the Philippines. A very complete
photographic department has been or
ganized, and Its members have performed
some really heroic feats. Captain O'Xeefa
performed before Malabon. ona of tha
most brilliant pieces of photography aver
attempted. He was engaged In taking
a picture of the enemy's entrenchments
some hundred yards without his own
lines, when a band of Filipino, lad by a
deserter, attempted to cut him off. Ho
calmly focussed his camera on the proper
spot, waited until the band broke from
cover, not 50 yards from him, and then
photographed them. During hte subse
quent retreat his assistant was twice
wounded, he himself once, his spare plates
were shattered, but the camera was un
injured, and the plate he took was sub
sequently the means of convicting tha de
serter of treason, for which he is now
serving a life sentence.
PliEASAN'TIUES OF PAttAGRAPHERS
She Was It. "llr. Calient, you are some
thing of a student of human nature," began
Miss Bewchug. coyly. "Ah. but now." ha In
terrupted, flashing his bold black eyes upon
her, "I am a divinity student." Philadelphia
Press.
His Preference. "Would you rather have
something else than a piece of pie?" aeked
the kind neighbor of little Freddie, who had
run an errand for her. "Yes, ma'am." said
Fredddie promptly: "I wu'd ruther hav' two
pieces." Ohio State Journal. vj
No Time to Lose. President (of mine)
Advertise that we have a few shares ot new
stock to sell at $t a share. Clerk When shall
I put the ad's In? "At once. We've got to
get enough money together to pay tha next
dividend." Detroit Free Press.
Her Predicament. Mamie T think Mr. Crust
elgh Is Just too mean for anything. Faiwye
But he married your mamma Mamie I
know he did. I jilted him for Harold, then
he married mamma, and now he won't let
me marry Harold. Baltimore American.
In tho Future. "Do yez keep an assistant
to the cook?" "Yes." And the assist
ant have a helper?" "She has." "Awl have
yes a kitchen maid to clane up after the
assistant's helper?" "We have " "Well, I'll
give yez a week's trial." Brooklyn Life.
Mistress Margaret. I told you I eould not
permit you to entertain male eallers hi the
kitchen. You had a man there last evening
Maid f know It. mum: but that was Thn
Murphy, a tur'ble bashful feMer. Ye'd never
injuce him to stip into the parlor. Boston
Transcript.
"How did you happen to Injure In that par
ticular company'" "I consulted the wlahes
of my wife." "Of course: tht3 very jnJe
worthy. But does she know anything about
Ufa insurance companies?" "Yes. She laves
tlgated. and found that this one always Issues
tho prettiest -calendars." Tlt-Blts.
Oratorical Style Obsolete. "Miss Minnie, it
has been on my mind a long time to say some
thing to you. but with the natural distrust
that Is a part of my being I still hesitate.
Yet I am persuaded that you must have an
ticipated what I am about to say. It la hard
ly imaginable that my Intentions can havo
been misunderstood. It cannot have escaped
vour notice that my partiality for vow so
ciety " "Pardon mo for Interrupting you.
Mr. W'ellalcng; but that Isn't the style now
adays. If you expect to propose taa girl be
fore tha procession gets clear past you, you'll
havo to hurrryl" Chicago Tribune.
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