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PORTLAND, FRIDAY, MAY 27, 1904.
WHY? OR WHY NOT?
Are you a Republican? Then, If the
candidates of your party are fit men, as
fit as any opponents, why not vote for
them?
Take the tickets as presented. Com
rtre them, man for man. What candi
date on the Republican ticket is not as
worthy for the position for which he
is named as any opponent?
No party, we take it, has nominated
men of low personal character, or imbe
ciles; still less, criminals. Admitting,
then, that on the average one set of
randldates, as men, is as good as the
other, why shouldn't Republicans vote
for the candidates of their own party?
You can support your party and the
principles it stands for only by support
ing' ItK candidates. Of course It Is to be
presupposed always that as men and
citizens the candidates of your party
are reputable, and fit to discharge the
duties of the places for which they are
named.
For we take it that no party con
sciously names unfit men. Of those
whose names appear on the Republican
ticket none Is inferior. In worth or citi
zenship, to any opponent Nobody will
seriously pretend it. Then, if you are
a Republican, and wish your purposes
carried into practice and action, vote
for the candidates of your party. It
Is the only rational way. Personal
piques or private dislikes should have
no part in such a matter.
MURDER MYSTERIES AND TRIALS.
A murder trial that is not a mere for
mality, as In the case of Czolgosz
against whom the evidence admitted of
no squirming into freedom, is sure to
attract the attention of the public. The
reason is not hard to find. Apart from
the morbid curiosity that a crime so
revolting as murder arouses In many
breasts, there is the spectacle of trained
wits fighting a battle In which one
party has at stake life Itself. A trial
In which the defendant has a chance of
escape has the attraction of a well-contested
game of chess, or, better, a hand
at whist, for no trial escapes some in
fluence that removes it from the mathe
matic precision of pure calculation.
This inherent Interest is alone sufficient
to account for the attention drawn by
the trial of Norman "Williams at The
Dalles, were the circumstances of the
alleged crime less unusual. The de
fendant Is accused of murdering two
women after having deliberately lured
them into a lonely spot. This, and the
length of time that elapsed between the
disappearance of the Nesbltt women
and the arrest of Williams, as the result
of patient effort on the part of the
older woman's son, invest the case with
unusual and dramatic features. Fur
thermore, the evidence against Will
lams Is circumstantial in its character,
and circumstantial evidence, however
patent Its indications, is always capa
ble of producing false conclusions.
The evidence adduced against Will
iams is, briefly, that he left Hood River
with Mrs. L. J. Nesbltt and her daugh
ter. Alma Nesbitt, on the night of
March S. 1900. ostensibly to visit the
Nesbltt claim. Neither of the women
has been seen or heard of since that
dark and stormy night. Williams has
made contradictory statements as to
what became of the Nesbltts, he forged
the signature of Alma Nesbift to a re
linquishment of her claim, and in the
ground near his cabin tresses of gray
and of dark hair have been found, to
gether with some blood-stained sacks.
The state's witnesses have testified that
the hair is human hair, and one of them
that the blood Is human blood. This Is
the root of the state's case, and it
should be remembered that the state
must, of course, convince the Jury that
the women are dead before the defend
ant can be found guilty of murdering
them.
The case has certain features of re
semblance to thejnost sensational mur
der investigation England has known
of late years, the "Moated House Mys
tery." A Miss Holland, a middle-aged
woman of some wealth, lived In a lonely
manor-house surrounded by an empty
moat. She became acquainted with the
man who was hanged a few months ago
for .her murder, and was secretly mar
ried to him, although this fact was only
revealed by subsequent Investigation.
Miss Holland disappeared. No suspi
cions were aroused, and for a couple of
years the man continued to draw money
from her account on forged checks. It
was one of these checks that led to in
vestigation, as the forged homestead re-
Jinqulshment led to investigation of the 1
Nesbltt case. The man -was arrested
and gave conflicting accounts of Hiss
Holland's disappearance. In their ef
forts to obtain proof of her death the
police dag up every foot of the moat,
and finally the remains of the Tiody
were found and Identified. The case
aroused the widest Interest in Great
Britain, and accounts of it were even
cabled, to American papers. The case
at The Dalles, It will be seen, has strong
features of similarity.
The manner in which circumstantial
evidence may lead a jury Into making
wrong Inferences is shown in a noted
Edinburgh case of the year 172L An
upholsterer named Shaw was on rather
bad terms with his daughter, as she re
jected the suitor he approved and re
ceived the attentions of one he dis
liked. One afternoon Shaw left his room
after a violent altercation with his
daughter, a neighbor overhearing the
girl use such words as "kill" and
"death." A few moments after the door
closed the neighbor heard a groan and
rushed Into Shaw's room. The girl was
lying on the floor in a pool of blood,
fatally stabbed. Just then Shaw re
turned, and his agitation, on seeing his
'daughter, was very great. The dying
girl was conscious, but unable to speak.
She was asked if her father had killed
her, and made -a motion with her head,
a motion taken by the witnesses as an
affirmative reply. Shaw was tried for
murder, convicted and hanged. The
next occupant of the rooms found,
where It had slipped under the wain
scot, a. letter written by the girl to her
father before she committed suicide.
Shaw's body was exhumed and buried.
In consecrated soil as the only available
way of doing his memory justice.
STATED ONCE MORE.
What's the use and what's the ob
ject of denying that the Intent and pur
pose of the so-called local option bill
is prohibition, when the bill Itself dis
tinctly states that its object is to re
quire the County Court, on petition of
10 per cent of the voters, to order an
election "to determine whether the sale
of liquors shall be PROHIBITED" in
such county or subdivision? What's
the use of the quibble that the bill does
not enact prohibition, but only provides
for the enactment of it, by counties or
precincts? Its main intent Is to enable
the rural districts of-a county to force
prohibition on the towns of such county,
known to be unfavorable to it. There
fore it is not local option at all. It Is
a deceptive measure, intentionally so.
It comes forward under the name of
local option; but its intent is to force
prohibitory laws on unwilling commun
ities, through the votes of those other
communities where there is no demand
for liquors, and none therefore bought
and sold. It is not honest to call this
local option.
Oregon'has now, long has had, an ef
fective law for restriction of sale of
liquors. Except in incorporated cities
and towns, where control is lodged with
the municipal authorities, no one may
sell liquors without first obtaining legal
permission with payment of the license
fee or tax required by law; and before
a man can get such permission he must
obtain the signatures of an actual ma
jority of the voters of his precinct to
a petition to the court requesting that
such license be granted. What makes
this so effective a measure of restriction
is the disinclination of many, usually
most, of the legal voters of a commun
ity to set their names to a petition of
this kind. This present law, which has
been in force many years, is all the
"local option" needed There Is seldom
a rural community or small village
where people will put their names to
such a paper; and there can be no sale
of liquors therein unless a majority of
th.e legal voters do so. It is the most
effective kind of local option, and ought
not to be superseded by a scheme
which tries to sneak in under a mis
nomer, and which, if enacted, will set
town and country at loggerheads in al
most every county of the state.
"THE BEATEN SrANIEL'S .FONDNESS
NOT SO STRANGE."
The vigilantes of Clackamas Heights,
near Oregon" City, have undertaken,
gallantly and valiantly, to correct the
practice indulged by one Albert Riggs,
a domestic tyrant whose abuse of his
wife has long been a scandal to the
neighborhood. Acting upon the princi
ple that like cures like, a number of
sturdy champions of weak and helpless
womankind, as represented by this
specimen of a beaten and abused wife,
fell upon the unhusbandly monster a
few evenings ago after he had been en
ticed from his house for the purpose
and gave him a dose of the medicine
that he has often forced upon his cring
ing wife that it Is believed will act as
a corrective. After drubbing him
soundly they released him with the
warning that the dose would be doubled
If the offense was repeated.
The case here represented is one of
the few perhaps we should say of the
many that the law cannot reach. A
woman who will not protect herself
from brutal treatment In her own home
or of her own person cannot be pro
tected, except spasmodically, as In this
case, by outraged public sentiment. At
tempts to Invoke the law made and
provided for the punishment of the in
dividual who lays violent hands upon
another have generally and indeed uni
versally failed In such cases, for the
simple reason that the beaten wonjan is
not a woman of spirit and either has
tens to the defense of her brutal spouse
with words that her bruised and bat
tered body refute, or refuses to testify
at all.
It is impossible, except in the most
temporary way, to help a person man
or woman who will not lay hold of the
means provided by nature and supple
mented by law for self-help. A woman
who will stay with, the husband that
has once beaten her until he has time
or opportunity to beat her again is
practically beyond help, since her weak
and servile spirit was conquered by the
first castlgation. A wife with a self
respecting, self-reliant spirit would only
submit (and then not without such en
ergetic self-defense as her physical
strength would permit) to the first beat
ing. A woman thus equipped by nature
would either remove herself at once and
permanently beyond the reach of the
conjugal bludgeon or fist, or she would
watch her opportunity, take the cow
ardly tyrant at disadvantage and re
taliate upon him In a way that would
make him afraid to repeat the act, lest
some fine morning he should come up
among the missing.
Neighbors who turn "regulators" in a
case of this kind undertake a thankless
task. There are women not necessar
ily of unusual strength physically, but
of self-respecting, resistant spirit, upon
whom no man, however brutal, unless
filled to the brim with Dutch courage,
would venture to lay a finger in
anger. These "regulate" their own do
mestic conditions. There are others
God pity them, since human pity only
mocks at their wretchedness In trying
to help them who are beaten at the
whim of the cowardly domestic tyrant
and will be beaten to -the end. They
are lacking fatally lacking In the first
essential of jtrue womanhood, the dig
nity that comes from self-respect and
jthat will not compromise on any terms
whatever witfi human brutality and in
justice. There was a lesson conveyed in a sen
timental slave sqng of a past era, the
truth of which is applicable to cases of
this kind. It ran in this wise:
NIcodemus was never the. sport of the lash.
Though the bullef. had oft crossed his path;
There were none of his masters so brave or go
rash
As to face such a man In his wrath.
The white slaves of the present day,
of whom the beaten wife at Clackamas
Heights seems to be a fair representa
tive, can hardly be expected to learn
anything from this lesson. They are
too far gone in cringing servility for
that. Outraged neighbors may turn
"regulators" and give them temporary
relief, but for the most part they will
suffer on to the end, nursing their
bruises when they must, concealing
them when they can, lying about them
when questioned as to their cause, and
behaving generally in a way that en
courages if It does not invite a repeti
tion of the castlgation by the time pa
tient nature has repaired the damage
to their bodies. We may deplore In
deed we must deplore, the'fact that the
cruelly beaten and bruised wife mutely
presents In her miserable, hopeless life,
but it is useless, lacking her co-operation,
to attempt to rectify the condi
tions leading up to and fostering it that
exist with her acquiescence in her own
home.
INVITING EMINENT PHYSICIANS.
Nearly all the doctors of Oregon are
making Individual effort to secure for
Portland the annual meeting of the
American Medical Association In 1905.
To the same laudable end the Portland
Medical Society and the Oregon State
Medical Solcety are putting forth united
effort. Early next month the National
Association will be In session at Atlan
tic City, N. J. Oregon has sent sev
eral representative physicians who were
selected especially to put forward Port
land's claim to be the next meeting
place. Mayor Williams and the several
commercial organizations will be asked
to join in the invitation.
By all means let us have these doc
tors visit us. They are the flower of
the profession from one ocean to the
other. They work long hours when they
are home and play long hours when
they are away. Our restful climate
with the cool evenings, will appeal to
them. Fortunately their annual meet
ings are scheduled when Oregon is in
her most entrancing garb. If they
come they will see our Incomparable
roses, more beautiful on the bush than
on display In "shows." They will be
served with strawberries large and lus
cious beyond the loftiest dream of tfsaak
Walton. They will be just in season
for the toothsome crawfish, the crus
tacean that made Portland famous, and
the beverage that goes with it.
But these are only trifles. They will
see the most beautifully situated city
in America, with every up-to-date con
venience, and yet In closest touch with
nature. Nowhere else will they And so
great a combination of forest, stream
and mountain as is to be seen from
half a dozen points of vantage in Port
land, while the several snow peaks will
be to them a revelation and an Inspira
tion. They will see the Exposition to
commemorate the achievement of Meri
wether Lewis and William Clark, who,
under the commission of Thomas Jeffer
son, were the first white men to cross
the continent, and who laid the founda
tion for our empire of the Pacific. They
will meet in Portland many physicians
to whom they can say, as Sir George
said to Dr. William Maclure, of Drum
tochty, "You are an honor to our pro
fession." They will feel the warmth pf
Pacific Coast hospitality, and they will
be certain to carry home pleasant mem
ories. The Oregonlan joins the doctors
In asking their brethren to visit us next
year.
OFFICIAL RECORDS ARE AUTHORITY.
An Oregon City correspondent, who
signs himself as a member of the "Two
Hundred and Third Pennsylvania Vol
unteer Infantry, of the Second Brigade,
Ames' Division," writes us inquiring
upon "what sort of authority The Ore
gonlan calls General Adelbert Ames the
real hero of Fort Fsher, or any -sort of
a hero." The authority of The Orego
nlan Is the official military record of
General Ames. General Ames was
graduated No. 5 in a class of forty-five
members at West Point in May, 18GL.
He was clearly a man of ability, for his
class include such soldiers as Emory
Upton, Kilpatrick, Kingsbury, killed at
Antietam; Kirby, killed at Chancellors
vllle; Benjamin, Guy V. Henry, and Mc
Queston, killed at Opequan. To be No.
5 in such a class implied at least In
tellectual ability.
Ames was a First Lieutenant In the
Fifth United States Artillery at first Bull
Run, was wounded in action with his
batters' and was brevetted for gallantry
because of his stubborn and daring re
sistance to the enemy to the last mo
ment. He was next appointed Colonel
of the famous Twentieth Maine Regi
ment, was appointed Brigadier-General
of Volunteers May 20, 1863; he was ap
pointed Major-General of Volunteers by
brevet In January, 1S65, for his services
at Fort Fisher, and obtained three reg
ular Army brevets for distinguished
service during the Civil War. He serve
with distinguished gallantry at Gaines
Mills, Malvern Hill and Antietam under
McClellan; at Fredericksburg, at Chan
cellorsville and Antietam. He was dis
tinguished for gallantry and ability in
the Army of the James under Generals
Butler and Ord, and General Cox de
scribes him as the real hero of Fort
Fisher, because, while General Terry
was ajnan of ability and experience, he
naturally committed the assault of a
formidable fortification to an educated
military engineer, like Ames. Ames'
division stormed Fort Fisher; Cox gives
Ames credit for the method of approach
and its execution. The official record of
Ames from first Bull Run to Fort
Fisher forbids the assumption that he
was not both an able and a gallant sol
dier. A man does not fall wounded at
Bull Run in July, 1861, and seek the
front in all great battles of the war If
he Is only "a West Point martinet."
So, for that matter, was General Han
cock, a superb soldier, but a brute In
his manners to the volunteer soldier,
and so was General William F. Smith,
a very able and gallant soldier. Con
temptuous treatment of the volunteer
soldier was the rule on the part of the
majority of regular Army officers dur
ing the war. Grant and Sheridan rose
above it. Sherman never did, for he
shelved Logan to make room for How
ard. Thomas never rose above It, for
he always denounced Logan; Mea'de
never rose above it, although he had
sense enough to appreciate a volunteer
of first-class military ability, like Miles,
and so iad Hancock and Humphreys.
We cannot blame these educated
West Point men of ability, because ter
rible disasters to the country followed
the placing of high: military responsibil
ity in the hands of civilian "political
Generals," like Patterson. Dix, Banks,
Fremont, Schenck, Sigel. Sickles. Of
course there were incompetent Army
West Point graduates; but the record of
our Army in 1864-65 shows that the av
erage West Pointer made a far better
General than the average civilian. In
the last year of the war we found in
charge of our armies Grant, Sherman,
Sheridan, Hancock, Thomas, Meade,
McPherson, Humphreys, Warren,
Wright, Parke. Merritt, Crook, Ord,
Gibbon, Welfzel, Willcox, Getty, How
ard, Schofleld. Ames, Slocum, Hooker,
-Newton, Stanley. Stoneman, J. H Wil
son, William F. Smith and A. J. Smith.
A Germanic Congress is to be held at
the Universal Exposition In St. Louis
September 16 and 17 to celebrate the
achievements of German culture. At
the convention of the National German
Alliance In Baltimore last September It
was resolved to hold such a cfcngress,
"not," says the .circular of the Alliance,
"to glorify Germanic enterprise and vir
tue, but to further the interests of sci
ence and International brotherhood. The
German-Americans believe thai such a
congress will be of great scientific
value, and, at the same time, lead to a
better understanding between the Ger
manic races.:' Germans In all lands
have common Interests which may be
promoted by meeting together and or
ganizing co-opera'tion. It is noted that'
immigration Into the United States in
recent years has ceased to be predomi
nantly Germanic, but has "assumed a,
preponderatingly Romanic and Slavic
character." It will be one of the ob
jects of the congress to study this phe
nomenon and its probable effects. "The
representation of the several Germanic
elements," It is held, "as well as of the
non-Germanic races, must be deter
mined before we can forecast the char
acter of the future American nation."
Pan-Germanism as a political element
is not Included In the programme of the
Alliance. The invitation to attend is
extended to the Germanist of all lands,
to specialists in ethnology, in German,
American, English, Swedish, Danish,
Dutch and other Germanic languages
and literature, and also to ethnological
and ethnographical societies.
The Michigan statute under which a
man was recently sentenced to the
penitentiary for life for theft seems a
harsh measure at first glance, so accus
tomed have we become to the retrial,
reconviction and resentence of crimi
nals who make theft a vocation. The
Michigan statute provides that where a
prisoner has been twice sentenced for
felony he may, upon conviction the
third time, be committed to the peni
tentiary for life, the purpose of the law
being to rid society of chronic thieves
without having them periodically before
the courts. The criminal in this case
had been arrested more times than he
could remember, had been twice before
sentenced for a felony, and had served
thirteen years all told for burglary.
Clearly the state's prison Is the place
for a man who takes no pains what
ever to keep out of It, but gets recom
mitted as a thief as often as his term
expires. In the estimation of the Mich
igan Judge who passed sentence In this
case, the statute was framed for the
purpose of ridding society of habitual
criminals, such as this man was. The
penalty as applied to the immediate
crime, which was the theft of a few dol
lars, was out of all proportion to the
offense, but, the ounce of prevention
having failed to rid society of his dep
redations, it was found necessary to ap
ply the pound of cure provided for such
an emergency. '
The deserted husband, ignorant of the
probable cause of his wife's sudden dis
appearance from home, is getting to be
quite a prominent figure in local news.
To suppose that a man under such cir
cumstances has the most remote Idea of
the cause that led his wife to decamp,
Infant In arms, or leaving from five to
seven little tots In the custody of a
neighbor, is, of course, absurd. To be
sure, things might not have been "quite
pleasant at home," especially when he
was there, but this fact can hardly be
expected to throw any light upon the
wife's action. Mysteries of this kind
are generally cleared up in time, often,
though not always, without having to
drag the river.
It is denied by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
that there is any Republican
"bolt" of importance or magnitude In
Eastern Washington. It asserts that
leading Republicans, and all the ac
knowledged Republican newspapers of
Eastern Washington, are supporting
the party ticket, and that the Informa
tion it has collected goes to show that
"the rank and file of the Republicans
of Eastern Washington are just as loyal
as thjse of Western Washington." Fur
ther, that there Is no fear of Turner;
of any possible candidate of the oppo
sition. On the contrary, the Republi
cans of the state would like to get a
chance to settle certain old scores with
Turner.
President Charles Cuthbert Hall, of
the Union Theological Seminary, New
York, declared in a recent address be
fore the Religious Educational Associ
ation in Chicago that morally the Amer
ican people are deteriorating, or, as he
expressed it, "going rapidly astern, so
rapidly that one Is dumfounded at the
contrast after a visit to some of the
countries of the Old World." This Is In
tune with the doleful cry of Dr. Edgar
P. Hill. Dr. Hall was on his way to
Colorado Springs when he stopped by
the way in Chicago to speak these de
spairing words. He should push on
through to Seattle, telegraph Dr. Hill to
meet him there, and be comforted.
So many accidents occur In swimming
baths that it ought to be made a rule
of every one of them that no person
shall enter the tank unless a compe
tent person be In attendance, to render
assistance in case of need. If there be
no person in attendance, the place, for
the time, ought to be closed. Water is
not the natural element of the human
being, and all who can swim are not
good swimmers, and even good swim
mers have been known to drown. A per
son may feel a kind of security in going
Into an artificial swimming pool, but it
may be no safer than a river, unless
help be at hand for an emergency.
Always There.
Town Topics. v
Tom Are you on the water wagon now?
Dick No; but my milkman is.
KUROPATKIN'S LIFE ROMANCE,
Chicago Tribune.
It ought to be a source of considerable
gratification to General Kuropatkin to
have the opportunity ot encountering a
completely equipped and highly intelli
gent enemy. A warrior of Ms voracity
could hardly have died replete If the
scanty fare of his previous campaigns
had not been supplemented by, this
brawny piece de resistance.
For 3S years Kuropatkin fought Bok
harlans, Algerians, Khokandlans. Turks,
Khivans, Samarkhandlans. Khirghlzes.
Tashkendians, and variegated mid-Asfa-tlcs.
His foemen were worthy of the
arsenal of stars, swords, and crosses
which they have won for him from the
Czar. They were wolves. But that Is
Just what they were. Even the Turks,
because of the Infirmity of their gov
ernment, resembled a pack of wise ani
mals rather than the army of an organ
ized nation. When Kuropatkin -went to
St. Petersburg In 1S9S as minister of war
he must have felt that he had been not
so much a conqueror of men as a hunter
of inferior breeds.
Today, as he. watches Kurokl come to
ward him over the Manchurlan hills with
a commissariat department and a chess
game plan of campaign, his heart should
bound with the prospect o'f making his
first offering In the Temple of the Real
Thing.
How many strange scenes, drawn from
strange and .widely separated parts of
the habitable world, must float now
through Kuropatkin's mind!
He must see himself as ho was in 1874,
young enough to have the "wander feel
ing in the feet," and therefore wander
ing fo Algeria In the French army under
Loverdo. How far away, how unreal
those Algerians 4must seem with whom
he fought on the desert sand3 and over
whom he rode into the Legion of Honor!
And then the Turks, especially the dead
Turk under whose body he lay, wounded
and unconscious, all one cold night! They
must come back to him, together with
his chief. Skobeleff. tandlne shoulder
to shoulder with him in hand to handN
encounters with bashi-bazouks and drip
ping equally with blood while Archibald
Forbes asked them questions and tele
graphed to his newspaper his famous
description of their gore embossed uni
forms. Turks and Algerians, however, must be
but feeble Images of Kuropatkin com
pared with those mid-Asiatic Turcomans
Bokharians, Khokandians, and the rest
whom it was his life mission to sub
due. "The Russians will not be able
to conquer the Turcomans," said Lord
Salisbury. "The Turcoman barrier will
last for our lifetime at least." It was
Skobeleff and then Kuropatkin who rid
dled this prophecy. The Turcomans
yielded to marches as magnificent as
that of Lord Roberts on Kandahar and
to massacres as promiscuous as those ot
Caesar In Gaul. Does Kuropatkin re
member Geok Tepe now and the 20.C00
men, women, and children delivered to
the flesh and blood lust of the Russian
soldiery in one of those thorough dis
suasive lessons which, in the book of
Russian colonial assimilation, precede the
insidious suasion of administrative gen
tleness? Certainly there could hardly be found
for any individual man in any previous
period of the world's history a more
varied retrospect than that which comes
now to the Russian general, who, a con
tinent away from home. Is taking what
Is perhaps his last stand against
the enemies of hi3 sovereign and is fight
ing instead of hunting.
WHAT IS A FELLOW SERVANT?
Uncertain State of the Law on Thi3
Proposition.
Chicago Record-Herald.
It is a settled rule of law that when
one employe is injured through the neg
lect or blunder of a "fellow servant,"
the employer is not liable in damages.
The courts have held that where one em
ploye is necessarily exposed to hazard
by the carelessness ot a coemploye he
must be supposed to nave voluntarily
taken the risk of that carelessness. If
he notices that one of his fellow-workers
is negligent or unskillful, and hence a
dangerous man to work with, it is his
duty for his own protection to notify the
employer.
The law may seem plain enough, but
there are continual disputes over what Is
a "fellow servant." If a dozen men are
lifting a beam and one is careless and
another is injured, clearly the employer
is not liable. If the men obey the blun
dering order of a foreman and one Is
hurt, the foreman Is not a fellow ser
vant, but a representative of the employ
er, who is liable. There are more com
plicated cases than this. There is, for
instance, the onte passed on by the Su
preme Court of the United States this
week and determined by a vote of five
to four.
A fireman on the Northern Pacific was
killed in a collision caused by the negli
gence of a telegraph operator and station
agent working for the road. The operator
gave the train dispatcher Incorrect in
formation about the movements of trains
which caused him to give an order which
resulted In the collision. The Circuit
Court of Appeals was uncertain whether
the operator was a "fellow servant" of
the fireman or a "vice principal" of the
company, and asked the Supreme Court to
determine the point. Justice Brewer and
four others say he was a "fellow ser
vant," and Justice White and three others
that he was not. The majority governs.
Railroad officials will agree with Justice
Brewer and railroad employes with Jus
tice White. Those who belong to neither
class will be divided In their opinions,
but the majority of them will think that
the operator was not a "fellow servant"
about whose lack of competency and lia
bility to be dangerously negligent the
fireman had sufficient means of getting
information; that it was the duty of the
company to have a competent man In his
place, and that If it put an incompetent
man there It ought to pay for his blund
ers. But the Supreme Court has decided
otherwise.
Hermann's Speech at Salem.
Salem Statesman.
The speech of Hon. Binger Hermann
at the Grand Opera-House on Tuesday
evening was a masterly one, full of quiet
statements of fact, clean explanations,
courteous answers to his enemies, and
sound Republicanism. Mr. Hermann an
swered all the lying charges brought
against him by his vllifiers. and In such
a manner as to draw to him the respect
of every man and woman who heard
him.
That Mr. Hermann has ever been
guilty of anything at all looking towards
a defrauding of tne Government no one
at all acquainted with the man ever be
lieved. He is no way ashamed of any
of his public acts; in fact, he feels that
personal satisfaction that comes to one of
public duty well performed.
His vspeech will strengthen his position
In Oregon and wih especially give pleas
ure and contentment to hi3 loyal frlend3.
In Texas.
Fort Worth Record.
There Is not a Democrat fn tvt-c tt-i
has the remotest Idea that Hearst can be
nominated or that he could be elected If
nominated.
A Land Dirge.
John Webster.
Call for the robin-redbreast and the wren.
Since o'er shady proves they hover
And with leaves and flowers do cover
The friendless bodies of, unburled men.
Call unto his funeral dole
The ant. the field-mouse, and the mole
To rear him hillocks that shall keep him
warm
And (when gay tombs are robb'd) sustain no
harm:
But keep the wolf far thence, that's foe to
men.
For with his nalb he'll dig them up ajaia.
f CULLOM MARKED FOR SLAUGHTER
Springfield (I1L) Journal.
One of the conceded points of the
convention is that it evidently marks
the passing of Shelby M. Cullom from
the scene of political activity after one
of the most remarkable careers in Illi
nois history. There was no urgent .ne
cessity for the activity displayed by
the senior Senator In this campaign
and his position would have "been more
dignified and safe if he had refrained,
but he would not keep out and has
only himself to thank for the fatal
consequences. His officious activity
has brought back the boomerang
which slays the wlelder. The Cullom
campaign has been "anything to elim
inate Yates." Its result has been to
harass and hamper Yates without elim
inating him. and will be to eliminate
Cullom. This result was predicted, and
it is retributive justice. The Cullom
game has been worked once too often
and it may not be expected ever again
upon the scene ot action in this state.
During the -canvass the State Journal
declared the Cullom tactics was to seek
the downfall ot Yates by bolstering one
candidate in one Congressional district
and another in the next, throughout
the state, so that Cullom might, as
usual, land with the winner and claim
credit under any banner for effecting
the result, if the assault upon the Gov
ernor should prove successful. This
was denied at the time, but it was
clearly foreseen by alL with whom the
Cullom maneuvers are familiar. Now
the facts are freely admitted even by
Cu Horn's lieutenants on the floor olt
the convention and the chickens are
coming home to roost so rapidly and
in such flocks that the shifty Senator
cannot rent roosts fast enough to ac
commodate the hasty arrivals.
Cullom has had some steadfast
friends in Sangamon County who have
stood by him through thick and thin
for nearly half a century of hard cam
paigning; who have slaved for him in
wind and weather without regard to
personal sacrifices; who have befriend
ed him and defended him in every
way; who have never wavered Inthelr
allegiance or winced at his "elimina
tion" of friends to whom ho was in
debted. They have been sold out at
last, as it might have been expected
they would be, just as others have been
sold out all over the State of Illinois
whenever Cullom has considered it a
matter of temporary personal advan
tage to sacrifice a loyal follower. They
are just about the sorest men in the
State of Illinois, and any one in Spring
field who wants to see a man wince
needs only to quiz a local follower of
Shelby M. Cullom or Howland J. Ham
lin, about how he feels about Cullom
now.
Thero was never a more misguided
or worse treated body of men in this
county than the little band that went
against the guns for Cullom in support
of Hamlin for the purpose of elimin
ating Yates. They will not be caught
In that trap again. When Cullom ad
vised his friends in Sangamon County
to stand for Hamlin the Senator' rep
resentatives guaranteed Cullom's sup
port of Hamlin In the convention and
the trade was made by men whose
authority tb speak for the Senator was
then and still is unquestioned. The
guarantee was never denied and will
not be. Before the convention was
called to order they were betrayed In
the temporary organization, and after
the permanent organization they were
betrayed upon the floor. The Cullom
repesentatives in other counties co
operated with the Lowden crowd and
Yates in preventing the seating of the
Cullom-Hamlin delegation from Sanga
mon, and when the proceedings began
Cullom and many of his Federal ap
Dolntees were seen continuously upon
p the floor of the convention hall par
ticipating actively in the management
of Lowden's campaign.
There will never be another Cullom
delegation in Sangamon County upon
any proposition. Shelby M. Cullom will
never be able to muster enough of a
squad in his home county to make a
respectable showing in a county con
vention. He has shown his best friends
how he can turn them down as read
ily as he has been accustomed to turn
down other friends in other counties,
and they do not hesitate to admit pri
vately that they are done with him.
They have found out how it seems to
be sold out by Cullom and they will
have no more of him.
After the State Convention comes the
contest before the election commission
in this county to determine whether
the Yates or the Cullom-Hamlin can
didates for county offices shall have
their names upon the ticket. The con
test would be abandoned but for the
personal interest of the candidates
themselves. Naturally they have rea
sons of their own for wishing to suc
ceed, and will push the contest for
themselves alone, but It will make no
difference to Shelby M. Cullom which
side shall win a place. upon the ticket.
The Cullom-Hamlin contingent Is
managed by men who were for Ham
lin only to down Yates and not to
exalt Cullom. After the war Is over
the factions will get together and there
will be no faction in Sangamon County
Republican ranks. Every Republican
in Sangamon County will be for the
state and county ticket, and nearly
every one of them will be against Qul
lom on any and every proposition that
may arise in the future. This Is Sen
ator Cullom's farewell tour..
Panama and Sailing Ships.
Washington National Geographic Mag
azine. The duration of the voyage between
New York and San Francisco by way of
Cape Horn amounts to 140 days outward
and 130 days homeward, while the passage
from New York to Colon may be made
in 20 days and the return in 2S days.
This gives for the total sailing time from
New York to San Francisco via the canal
74 days, and for the return S5 days, which
means a saving of 66 days and 45 days,
respectively. The coastwise tfade befweeni
the Atlantic and the Pacific seaboard of
the United States, so profitable prior to
the construction of the transcontinental
railways, has almost vanished from the
sea, the traffic In coal alone surviving.
Whether It can be revived by throwing
the canal open to sailing vessels of small
tonnage, coasting schooners, and the like,
is a problem.
Not Local Option.
Daily Guide, Pendleton.
The Prohibitionists say that it is a law
of equity, but it Is not, for the very rea
son that should two precincts in a county
vote against local option, and the fifty
odd other precincts carry for It, the ma
jority of the larger number of precincts
would exterminate the expressed wlbhes
of the two lone precincts. From this ex
emplification it Is readily seen that might
becomes right, which is not a principle of
a. Republican form of government.
i
White Unto the Harvest.
Atchison Globe.
It Is about time for some women's so
ciety to appear and attempt to stop the
war between Japan and Russia.
Care-Chamber Sleep.
Samuel Daniel.
Care-charmer sleep, son of the sable Night.,
Brother to Death, in silent darkness born.
Relieve my languish, and restore the light;
With dark forgetting of my care return.
And let the day be time enough to mourn
The shipwreck of my ill-adventured youth;
Let waking eyes suffice to wall their scorn.
Without the torment of the night's untruth.
Cease, dreams, the Images of day-desires.
To model forth the passions of the morrow;
Never let rising Sun approve you liars.
To add more grief to aggravate ray sorrow:
Still let me sleep, embracing clouds in -vain.
And never wake to feel thb day's disdain.
NOTE AND'COMMENT.
Lured From Duty.
Our genial stagedrlver. Ralph CantreU, gts
in on good time, unless there Is a young lady
on the stage. Fife Correspondence Harney
County News.
Better dear slabwood than dear straw
berries. Camels on the hoof must be slumping
if they only fetch $100.
Up in. Clackamas they took a wife-beater
out and walloped him.. A very illegal
proceeding, but
One good thing about the Squth Sea
Islands: You can't find people engaged
when you go tocall on them, for nobody
ever has anything on.
One of the judges at the beauty contest
In St. Lbuis will be the "husband ot Anna
Held." This Is hardly fair, as he may be
prejudiced in favor of thin girls from see
ing so much of Anna.
We notice that a woman writing a
testimonial for a patent medicine says
that it keeps away colds in Fall and
Winter, keeps the blood clear in Spring
and In Summer takes the place of a va
cation. It is said that In many of the depart
ments of the St. Louis exhibition visitors
are greeted with the sign: "No admit
tance. Keep out." In the uncompleted
parts of the Japanese exhibit the sign
reads: "Kindly do not enter." And the
Japanese are ready to enforce their polite
request, as the fuming war correspond
ents are amply able to testify.
The question of corporal punishment In
the schools 13 being agitated in New York.
Many teachers have petitioned the Board
ot Superintendents for there-establishment
of the system, but tho board will prob
ably refuse the requests. The City Super
intendent's private secretary has pointed
out an insurmountable obstacle in the
way of spanking. "There are 70.000 chil
dren In our schools without seats," he
said.
Lady Violet Greville, who spends moat
of her time protesting against one thing
or another, is now protesting against the
advertisements of corsets and such things
In the magazines for women. It is the
illustrated ads to which she most objects,
for the strange reason that it is not fair
to give away these secrets to men. Lady
Violet may rest easy; the only men that
read magazines for women are probably
wearing corsets themselves.
The higher criticism had little effect on
the kid of whom the Kansas City Inde
pendent tells this story:
A little Boston girl found it difficult to mas
ter a stitch in knitting, and her aunt thought
to enforce patience by reminding her that
Rome was not built in a day. To which came
the quick response: "Oh, aunty, how can you
talk so? Don't you know that it took God
only six days to make the whole world, and
I don't suppose he spent more than half an
hour on Rome!"
In fancied security Canada lies sleeping.
She little dreams that In a few days her
government will be overthrown and a new
republic organized. But the plot has been
revealed. A postal card, mailed in New
York May 2L conveys the momentous
news. Here It is:
We organize Canadian Republic at Winnipeg
May 30 Docoration Day leave N. T. City
Hall Monday. May 23d. 3 P. M.. Italian Rifle
Guard and Hebrew Volunteers see us off 1st
Regiment Canadian Army.
Lillian Russell, it Is announced, will ap
pear next season in "Lady Teazle," which
Is a musical version ot "The School for
Scandal." This should blaze the way for
musical versions of all the classic plays.
"A Winter's Tale" would afford the
adapter an excellent opportunity to In
troduce topical songs, and a good coon
shouter and cake-walker might make
something real fine out of Perdlta. Auto
lycus could be the fat Dutchman, an ap
parently essential part of all modern per
formances, while the Prince could easily
be turned iato a spendthrift N' Yorker.
Dead mens' brains are useful in some
ways, and there can be no kick from
them if their work is twisted out of
semblance to sense.
This is the latest development of tho
Cinderella kind of story, as told by tho
New York Press:
One of the richest and most prominent
society women, who Is very quiet and un
ostentatious in her dress, and by only Ihe ap
pointment of her equipage betrays the fact
that she is wealthy, stopped her carriage out
side the establishment of a fashionable mil
liner, entered and addressed the proprietress.
"I see you have in your window a sign,
Apprentice Wanted,' " ehe began.
The milliner eyed her contemptuously from
the crown of her modest bonnet to tho tip
of her common-sense shoe.
"You would not do at all," she said. "I
want a ladylike person who can wait on cus
tomers." "I wished to place one of my maids with
eome one from whom she could learn mil
linery while I am abroad," continued the
visitor quietly, "but I'm afraid you would
not do."
As tho footman opened the carriage door
for his mistress the horror-stricken milliner
recognized too late the livery of one of tha
"first families" ot Xew York.
WEX J.
OUT OF THE GINGER JAR.
"We get some idea of the importance of chir
alry -when we reflict that in iU day it had as
much influence with women as hae chocolate,
creanra in our times. Puck.
Mother Johnny, what makes that little boy
out there wear such a superior air? Johnny
Oh, he's the only kid on the street that's had
the measles twice. Detroit Free Press.
' "So jou are opposed to Sunday baseball?"
"Emphatically. Leaving religious considera
tions out of tne question, there ought to he at
least one day in the week when the home club
is sure of not losing a game." Washington
Star.
Miss Wayupp Shall I Invite the Newcomer
girls V Mrs. Waj upp Really. I don't know.
Are they in society? MIs3 Wayupp-Oh, they
must be. They never gobslp about anyone
who doesn't belong to the four hundred. New
York Weekly.
"Bligglns and his wife must get on very
happily." said the gossip. "She says she never
scolua him." "That doesn't Indicate happl
nes," answered MI3S Cajenne. "It la sad. It
shows that she considers him bejond hope."
Washington Star.
The overfeeding of Infants has been respon
sible for so many deaths recently that it is
proposed to legislate with, a view to making it
compulsory for every child, to be marked with
a leadline corresponding to the Pllmsoll mark
on ships. Punch.
"You can't get something for nothing," ex
plained Mrs. Wall Street, as she gave an ac
count of the morning's shopping. "So; but
you can get nothing for something," replied
her hueband, who had Just dropped a largo
sum on the market. Detroit Free Press.
The beautiful Washington maiden cut him
off in the middle of his impassioned proposal.
"Indeed. Mr. Awlwrite." she said, "you must
not say any more. There are reasons why I
cannot listen to you." "Then give me leave
to print!" gasped the young Congressman, too
badly rattled to know what he waa saying.
Chicago Tribune.
"Anyway." snapped Mrs. "Nagsby, who waa
getting the short end of the argument, "my
Judgment is better than yours." "I'm sure it
is, my dear." replied Tfaggaby, calmly. "Our
choice of life companions supplies all the
prbof you need to back up that assertlon-"-
Chicago Dally News.