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RAILWAY QUESTION. Washington correspondents agree that the subject that just now is get ting more attention than any other at the Capital is regulation of railroad rates and rebates, and how to do it. Each state may act for itself on the subject, on traffic -within its own bor ders; but regulation of interstate traffic can be -effected only through the Gen eral Government. The impression is growing that Congress will soon act. Charles A. Prouty, of the Interstate Commerce Commission, recently said: "There will be either Government own ership or Government regulation of the railroads. Which it will be depends mainly on the managers of the rail roads. If they do not want Govern ment ownership they will cease their opposition to the President's plan for preventing the enforcement of rates which are unreasonable." But the subject is one of immense difficulty, because conditions in various parts of the country are so dissimilar. What would be a fair rate in one lo calitv would be too high or too low in another; and rigid statutes therefore could not apply to all sections. To decide whether rates are reason able or not is a judicial act; and since judicial power is conferred by the Con stitution linnn "tYta Smmmn On,,.. ..... ------- 2-WW- v,l. ..U ui.a interior -courts as congress may from lime to time ordain and estab lish," it follows that no decision by a Commission can be rendered, that will not be subject to review by the judicial power. One proposal, therefore, is that separate courts of the United States be established within suitable circuits, for consideration of this class of cases alone. It Is, however, to be noted that there are those who assert that the au thority to fix railway Tates Is purely legislative, and that Congress cannot delegate it to the judiciary. Tet this opinion has little standing, for the courts in various cases have already undertaken to declare rates fixed by law unreasonable, on the ground that they were so low as to amount to vir tual confiscation of railroad property. Whenever railway policy is up for discussion the opinion of James J. Hill is sought. His view of the Interstate Commerce Court, proposed by one and another to fix railroad rates, is that if considerable reductions are made the railroads will be compelled to cut the cost of operation, to reduce the effi ciency of the service, and reduce the wages of employes to meet reduced 'earnings. "The transportation rates of Ameri can railways are the wonder of the world," he declared. "Nowhere else are they so cheap. In England the average rate per ton per mile is 2.38 cents. In France, Germany and other Continental countries it falls lower, until in Russia, where the conditions of long hauls are more like our own, the minimum 1b reached. In America our rates average only 0.76 per ton par mile." But the chief complaint in our country is not so much that the rates are too high, but rather that they are unequal made so through rebates, use of proprietary or private freight cars, and other expedi ents, which flavor certain shippers and injure or even ruin others. There Is much in the argument that the railways would better accept mod erate and reasonable regulation than to provoke radical socialistic attack. This was sum of the suggestion to them in the- President's message. WHAT IS LIBERTY? Liberty Is a fine thing. But when it signifies yellow fever, bubonic plague, smftllpox, and whatever other diseases there miry toe. why, then, liberty is not so fine a thing. The "tyranny" of the United States has extinguished yellow fever in Cuba. Never would the Cubans have destroyed it. We did It by the "persuasion" of force. We extinguished "liberty," while we compelled the Cubans to clean up. And the same thing has been done, or rather is still doing, in the Philippine Islands. Vital statistics of the City ot Manila show that the death rate is being constantly reduced, and indicate that America will do tor the Philippines what has already been done for Cuba and what is beginning to be performed f ,r the Isthmus of Panama. The death rate in Manila Is remarkably low, con firming the public stateriicnts frequent ly made by Secretary of War Taft that te climate of the Philippines is not jurious to those who know enough to cbfy the ordinary rules of sanitation. What's the use of prosing and dron r.g and drooling upon abstract prlnci r.es of liberty, in the face of "facts like these; -when. moreover, the United States, enforcing the principles of san itation, carries liberty itself, even in its abstract principles, higher and fur ther than our theorists and our dream ers on abstract liberty ever conceived of imagined? It is astonishing that we have in our country a lot of people still devoted to the abstract theories of sav age liberty. TWO BANQUETS. A banquet given by Mr. Charles Sweeny, of Spokane, to . the members of the Pierce County delegation "may be said to mark a new era in Washington politics. In the enforced absence of Senator Foster at Washington, where he is diligently neglecting his private Interests in jtfie publI6 service, Mr. Sweeny thoughtfully and graciously promotes good feeling among the im mediate followers of the Pierce County man by a season of wine, wit, song and frivolity, -with a few edibles thrown in. With surprising tact it was stipulated by the host that no politics should be discussed, and thus all possible chance for misunderstanding between Mr. Sweeny and Mr. Foster was avoided. When Mr. Foster hears that his home delegation "has been Toyally entertained by a royal entertainer other than him self, we can surmise that he will rush post-haste to the telegraph office and dispatch a glowing message of thanks to the gentleman from Spokane for the friendly and liberal spirit he has mani fested in the welfare of a Senatorial competitor by seeing that his (Foster's) followers are provided with the com forts and elegancies of life, to which they are accustomed when their own generous patron is at home. The menu of the dinner is not at band, but we may be confident from the exhibition of disinterested hospitality made by Mr. Sweeny that he gave just such another dinner as Mr. Foster might and would have given if he had been there. Thus was averted all risk that the Foster followers would acquire an uncontrol lable liking for Sweeny nightingales' tongues. Sweeny chocolate eclairs, Sweeny perfectos and Sweeny vlns mousseux. There Is danger, of course, that the palate even a Tacoma palate might be sated with the finest of red apples and the rarest of two-fers. But, In justice to all concerned, we are constrained to call attention to the fact that neither Tacoma nor Spokane enjoys a monopoly of good-will towards all men, especially all members of the Legislature. Sea4tlels also going Into the banquet business. The Piles Busi ness Men's Senatorial Club issued an invitation for a dinner at the Hotel Washington, Wednesday, December 21. This invitation Is a very Interesting document, inasmuch as It sets forth a long list of grievances King County feels against the balance of the state for Its obvious and unjustifiable dis crimination against Seattle in select ing Its United States Senators from Tacoma and Walla Walla. Says the in vitation: You are familiar with the humiliation and great financial loss this county, the richest and most populous in the state, has for many years experienced from the lack of representa tion In the United States Senate. . Wc have been humiliated and road the butt of Jealousy and discrimination because we have had no one in the Senate to Insist upon fair treatment for ue. With mournful eloquence the Piles Business Men's Senatorial Club shows that by reason of this unwarranted and unaccountable jealousy and discrimina tion Seattle has needlessly Invested $250,000 for right of way for the Lake Washington Canal; been required to pay $100,000 for a battleship contract; lost $100,000 extra appropriation for a Federal building; paid $40,000 for the Magnolia Bluff Army post, only to find that it is being maintained as a com pany and not a regimental post; paid thousands of dollars to entertain Con gressional delegations; and spent an nually $5000 to $6000 for special repre sentation at Washington City. To dis pel the gloom that envelops the com munity ob account of these undeserved afflictions, the Piles Business Men's Committee summons "large numbers of business and professional men" to eat, drink, be merry, and perchance to get drunk. This is where the good will comes in. The remedy is not exactly heroic, but it is at least we trust that it will be efficacious. It may be that some captious critics of Seattle and the Piles Business Men's Senatorial League will endeavor to point out a slight difference In the motives for the Tacoma and Seattle banquets. Whereas Mr. Sweeny gath ered around the festal board the hun gry, thirsty and appreciative gentle men of a neighboring city, the Plies Business Men's Senatorial League Is giving a banquet to Itself. But it is unimportant. Good-tfellowshlp is ram pant In Washington. After a while, perhaps, Seattle will be willing to per mit the rest of the state also to eat. PHRYNE IN A PICTURE HAT. When the state rested its case against the courtesan Phryne,' her advocate made the briefest argument on record. Without a word he pulled apart his cli ent's robes and disclosed her to the Judges "In her beauty bare." The Judges were convinced that one so beautiful could do no wrong,, and the woman was acquitted amid the ap plause of the spectators. Attorney Levy is unable to use such theatrical methods in the defense of his client. Nan Patter son. Athens aiid New York have dif ferent standards of decorum, although the ancient city and the modern city are one in susceptibility to beauty. A pretty woman, It is said, cannot be con victed of crime In New York, a saying that In its exaggeration draws attention to the underlying truth. The Phryne of today has relied during this trial, not upon beauty unadorned, but upon beauty enhanced by well-made frocks and becoming-hats, tind it were foolish to deny the potency of -these arguments. Nan Patterson has all the qualities necessary to make a defendant inter esting to the public at large. She Is young and pretty, she has the strange glamor that clothes women of the stage in -many eyes, she is frail, and she Is accused of a capital crime, the dead man being of National- notoriety. In view of all this, It is not strange that her case should be so widely discussed. A recent-meeting of the Society for Po litical Study, a woman's club in New York, became occasion for general con versation owing to the absence of the lecturer who was to have been present. In the remarks of some of the women, as reported by the New York Press, it is taken for granted, apparently, that Nan Patterson killed Young, and the old -subject of putting women on Juries was discussed, not, as might have been expected, to bring about the Patterson girl's conviction, but her acquittal, as a jury of her own sex would understand the emotions that might prompt her to shoot the man who had wronged her. The question of mixed Juries has been discussed again and again. Nan Pat terson is no doubt glad that meiualone are to decide her fate. Her selection of jurors, by their appearance would hot have been fts wise a move had women been among them. As it is, her life has given her opportunities of judging men, and her training Is not unlikely to have stood her in good stead at this crisis. When she declares in tones of deep emotion, "I have always tried to be truthful and honorable," she has every reason to feel that her words Jire no't without effect upon the men of her se lection, talesmen with cynical Vandyke beards having been rejected. Scores of men are said to have forwarded offers of marriage to the prisoner, and a Juror or two of a similar typo would be a present help in time of deliberation upon the verdict. CAMPBELL AND WOODWORTH. "Ben" Campbell and "Jlmmle" Wood worth, as they will always be known to their wide circle-of friends in the Pacific Northwest, have taken another long step upward In the railroad world. Mr. Campbell becomes fourth vice-president of he Great Northern, in full charge of the traffic department, and Mr. Woodworth will have the position of freight traffic manager of the North ern Pacific News of their advance ment will be learned with pleasure by 'these friends, but In the case of Mr. Campbell especially this pleasure will be slightly tempered with regret. Through his long years of service in Portland and Portland territory Mr. Campbell became so familiar with local industrial conditions and the require ments of this region that Oregon was a distinct gainer- by his presence so near the executive head of the Harrl man system. Kis new position Vill take him to a corporation that has never had much in common with Port land, and he will accordingly be unable to do as much for us as he could do In the position which he is about to leave. Mr. Woodworth has risen more rap idly since leaving the employ of what is now the Harriman system, and his latest advancement will in no way change his attitude toward Portland. For that reason there will be naught but pleasure experienced among his Portland friends over his well-deserved promotion. The fact that these two railroad men who have developed ex ceptional ability In their calling have taken their talents to a road having lesser Interests In Portland than that from which they have retired will still be beneficial to Portland and the terri tory served by the Harriman lines. Messrs. Campbell and Woodworth knew this field more thoroughly than it is known by any other prominent railroad men in the East, with the possible ex ception of A. L. Mohler. This knowledge has. of course, dis closed our weak points, and there Is no locality on earth where all trade condi tions are perfect, but It has also given our railroad friends a perfect under standing of our strong points. The rec ognition of Portland's impregnable po sition in certain localities In the Pacific Northwest will prevent the Great Northern or the Northern Pacific going too far with their aggression. No rail road man possessing such knowledge of local conditions as Is enjoyed by Camp bell and Woodworth would ever con sent to such an extravagant and costly diversion of traffic as that which Is now lifted out of Idaho by way of Potlatch Canyon Instead of following the law of gravitation and going to market by a water-level route. The railroad policy which was responsible for work like that in Potlatch Canyon did net differ materially from that which in the earlier days of .the road diverted the funds of the company from legitimate railroading to all kinds of wild specula- tion in land and town-booming enter prises. The selection for such high positions of two men who, practically "grew up" in the railroad business In the West In preference to. older men of longer ser vice in the respective roads is a high tribute to Campbell and Woodworth and a cause for pride in the city and state where their talents were devel oped. The successor of Mr. Campbell has not been announced, and Portland will be fortunate indeed if the new man Is as familiar with local conditions as his predecessor In the position. CHILDREN IN PACTORIES. The New York Child Labor Commis sion has compiled facts and testimony which show that child labor is by no means confined to the Southern fac tories, the anthracite coal district of Pennsylvania and the glass factories of New Jersey. In some cities of New York, a state In which the most strin gent law agalnstchlld .labor In factories exists, this abuse seems, according to this compilation of facts, to flourish In Its most blighting form. For exam ple, children of six, five and even four years of age were found to be working In factories beside their mothers from 9 A. M. to 9 P. M. This la incredible from the fact that such little tots would be In the way, rather than otherwise. In any factory or workroom, and that It would be a physical impossibility for them to work, or even play for twelve consecutive hours. However, this and much other testimony, showing that the child-labor law of the state is being flagrantly violated has been laid before Governor-elect Hlgglns. There is no reason to doubt the trustworthiness of the testimony. There is no argument In favor of employing children under fourteen years the" minimum age in New York in factories that has the support of any intelligent citizen. The niggardly greed of coarse, Illiterate parents is the incentive to and the screen for child labor in factories. Stolid, selfish, grasping, the parents of factory children turn without compunc tion the blood of their infants into pitifully small coin. Careless overseers, foremen and Inspectors do the rest. It is hoped that the testimony of the ex tent to which this grave abuse Is car ried, which has been filed before Governor-elect Hlgglns. will Induce him to select a Labor Commissioner who will fearlessly enforce the law, the purpose of which is to shut young children out of factories. Quite a number of trusts seem to be tottering to a fall as the year ends. The local sash and door trust has been on the verge of disruption for several weeks, and. It is reported, will soon be a thing of the past. The labor trust In a number of cities throughout the coun try has been receiving some very severe Jolts recently, and now comes the news that the sugar trust is In danger of an open rupture. According to San Fran cisco advices, six of the big firms heav ily engaged In the sugar traffic have withdrawn from the combination which Is maintaining the present exorbitant prices, and a drastic cut in rates is ex pected. This will not be sad news for the consumers, but It Is doubtful whether the fight will last long enough to result in much good. Now that the"" racing season is over and gossip Is scarce in other directions, the turf-writers have taken up the old subject as to whether it is the horse or hl3 trainers and equipment that are re sponsible for the new records -made every year. A Cleveland writer In a New York paper asserts that the nu merous seconds which Lou Dillon knocked off the Maud S. trotting record are due to improved methods--of shoe ingand balancing and. to lighter har ness and" sulkies. This theory would hardly hold good If carried ' too far. When Maud S. was 'queen of the turf no one Indulged In any "knocking" to the effect that Flora Temple would have been 'Jutf as fast as If she wore the same gear as that which Maud S. used when she captured the world's record. Flora Temple was much faster than the single-toed equlnes of the plio cene age, because breeding and devel opment made her so. The same Influ ences" are responsible for the speed of Maud S., Major Delmar, Lou Dillon .and their successors yet to be. Not all of the wolves In Illinois con gregate around the Chicago Board of Trade. A Bloomlngton, 111., dispatch announces the assembling of hunters from all over Central Illinois to engage In a wolf hunt. It also stated that the wolves had been Increasing so alarm ingly of late that an organized attempt at extermination was necessary Dwell ers in the Middle West, where civiliza tion was supposed to have pitched its tents before Oregon was a stated will need . to revise their views regarding the "wild" regions of the United States. The wolfs "long-drawn howl" may still be heard on Unalaska's shore and in Illinois, but it is not a frequent sound In an" dvanced commonwealth like Oregon. x ' v - It Is a surprise to the pdbllc to learn that Mr. F. P. Mays has beeujndicted by the Federal grand jury. Further, that though called to appear before jthe grand jury, he was given no opportu nity to be heard. It should be borne in mind that this proceeding thus far, as to him, has been wholly ex parte. Un til he has been heard there can be no proper Judgment upon the matter with which he is charged. It is right, there fore, that there should be suspension of public Judgment until a full public hearing can be had. The position of Mr. Mays, his prominence in affairs and the reputation he always has borne, call in fairness for this forbearance. It Is reported that Russia will offer a portion of her proposed loan for sub scription In this country. Half of the last Japanese loans were placed In the United States, and American banks and Insurance companies financed a portion of a previous Russian loan. This coun try has been shipping flour, beef, fish, orage and other provisions, and also ammunition, to both of the contestants In the Far Eastern scrap, and, now that we are called on for the money with which to purchase supplies that we are unable to furnish, it becomes more than ever apparent that no war of import ance can be conducted without our as sistance. An electric locomotive drawing eight loaded cars on a snow-covered track showed a speed of sixty miles per hour on the New York Central a few days ago. Performances of this nature fore shadow the retirement of the steam lo comotive. Numerous tests made on Eastern roads have proved that the new types of electric locomotives pos sess all the advantages of the old steam machines, so far as pee.d, and power are concerned, and in addition are more economical and clean,, smoke and cinders being avoided, while the wear and tear on trackc 13 much- less than with the steam locomotives. Mr. Hooley, the English promoter, who chiseled his gullible countrymen out of about $25,000,000 by schemes In comparison with which the gold-brick trick Is nice and legitimate, has been found not guilty. If the news of that verdict is carried down to the shade of Whltaker Wright as he stalks about In the regions below, he will experience deep regret over the fact that he failed to take into partnership a sufficient number of the British nobility to secure immunity from punishment. Now that Hooley is free, Mrs. Chadwiok should cheer up. City Engineer-elect Wanzer can get a lot of advice about how to run his office from a great many gentlemen who are Interested In Its administra tion. But he does not need advice so much as a free hand to do his duty. That he seems to have. Therefore he can hold no one but himself account able If he falls. The disablement of the Sevastopol puts the finishing touch to the destruc tion of the Port Arthur squadron, and shows that Russia would have been wiser to put her $100,000,000 In another kind of sinking fund. At the end of the late prizenght in San Francisco "Referee Billy Roche un hesitatingly placed his hand on the California boy as the winner of the contest" California always encourages home Industry. The School Board again passes the question of raising teachers' salaries over to the taxpayers. This is an easy way of dodging a question that should be settled definitely. Vermont has sent to other states this year a million Christmas trees. And the general prosperity Is .such that a million families are able to load the boughs with gifts. Laweon talks of a suit-case crammed withy, currency as lightly as another man mlgtyt refer to one containing a handkerchief and a dirty collar. .& General Wood reports that the Moros are now peaceful. AH unruly children show a marked improvement in the weeks precedirfg Christmas. It looks as If the Kuropatkln-Oyama affair, like the Brltt-Nelson, will have to be decided on points. The prospects for Senator Depew suc ceeding himself look Black. And that's ho Joke. A Reformed Consular Service. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Of the multitude of subjects treated by the President in his recent message the subject of consular reform Is by no means the least important. The Presi dent urges that salaries be substituted for fees and that plans be provided for the classification, grading and transfer ot men In the consular service. .All the de fects in the existing system, or lack of system, which the President points out aro so notorious that relief should be prompt and easy of acomplishraent, yet repeatedly bills to this end have 'been Introduced In Congress ' never to emergo therefrom as laws. K0TE AND COMMENT. Advertisements of the Thrlcc-a-Week New York World, beginning. "The tick ets are now made up and the most in teresting Presidential campaign the. Uni ted States has ever known since 1S0 has begun," are still appearing in the country press "Ladies first," says Port Arthur to Nan Patterson, as it backs oft the front page. Some of the Rhode Island Reds to bo seen- at the poultry show could never have grown to such dimensions within the con fines of their native state.' The Scrap. That there Battling ' , ( Kept things rattling:. . " Flats like bullets from a Gattllns; How he rustled. Punched and huatled. - i- Clinched and tussled Game and muscled. But that there Brltt Just fit and fit. Nelson borinr. Kept a-scorlns, - - Crowd a-roaring Clinch and pound him,- Jump around Mm r ' That one found him See. it's downed him But that there Britt . Just fit . And fit. ' Now he picks up. And he sticks un In the mlx-UD: Last round's comlnp, . ' Flat a are drumming. - Tension's numbing. " I .' House Is humming But that there Britt Just fit And Fit. s. - ,X .. Now to do" it - Both go to It, 7 One must ruo It ' Nelson's scrapping; ' 5 - No love-tapping; . " How he's rapping s .i. Strong and strapping," , ' . But that there Britt - - Just fit . '- And Fit. And when they quit. 'Twos Britt Was It. Rockefeller has given $50,000 to the Uni versity of Chicago to improve the heating plant. Maybe Satan " smiled when he thought of another heating plant. , Now we are told by a New York author ity that water drinking Is very bad for one's health. We never did see any sense in using chasers. Senator Foster is accused of not provid ing cigars for his henchmen. No wonder they don't smoke 'up. Domestic science is one of the subjects recommended for study by the High. School girls. It doesn't sound as if there was anything about washing dishes In it, although that's likely to play an Impor tant part in the future life of the Domes tic Scientists. Russia wants American banks to take part of the war loan. We warn her In advance that she can't do any business in Oberlln. , An Indiana high school boy shot a girl schoolmate and then committed suicide because the girl's parents i-ought her too young to marry. It is strange that so- many suitors become shooters now adays. Love's darts are not to be com pared with lovers' pistol-bullets for num ber or deadlincss. The New York Evening Post points out that American Ingenuity has Improved upon perfection in devising a safer meth od of dueling than the French. The for eign duelists exchange two bullets at 25 paces; the American duelists teste Law son and Greene exchange newspaper ad vertisements at Intervals of 24 hours. James Burnley, an English writer, has compiled a list of the richest persons In the world. It will probably astonish most people to find the two richest men hail ing from South Africa, although the fig ures, after all, are no more than wild es timates. The list comprises: A1?rtBelt diamonds. London $300.000 000 J. B. Robinson, gold and diamonds, ' London 400.000.000 J- D- -Rockefeller, oil. New York... 25O.000.000 V. . Astor, land. London 50. 000 000 Prince pemldorft, land. St. Peters- ' "A 200.000.000 Andrew Carnegie, steel. New York. 125.00O.00U V. K. Vanderbllt, railways. Now Yfk - 100.COO.000 Yv Ultam Rockefeller, oil. New York 100.000 000 J. J. Astor, land. New York 76.000,000 Lord Rothschild, money-lending. London 75.000,000 J. Pierpont Morgan, banking. New , York 75.000.000 Lord Ivcagh. beer. Dublin 7o.000.000 Senora Isidore Couslno. mines and railways, Chile 70,000.000 M. Heine, silk, Paris 70,000,000 Baron AIphons Rothschild, money lending, Paris 70,000,000 Baron Nathaniel Rothschild, money lending. Vienna 70.000,000 Archduke Frederick of Austria. land, Vienna 70,000,000 George J. Gould, railways. Now York 70.000,000 Mrs. Hetty Green, banking. New York 53.oe0.000 James II. Smith, banking. New York 50-00.000 Duke of Devonshire, land, London. 5d, 000, 000 Duke of Bedford, land, London.... 30.000,000 Henry O. Havemeyer, nugar. New York 50.Q00.O00 John Smith, mines. Mexico 45000,000 Claus Spreckels, sugar, San Fran cisco 40.000.000 Archblihop Conn. land. Vienna 40,000,000 RuflU Sage", money-lending. New York 25.000,000 Elr Thoma3 Litton, groceries, Lon don 25.000.000 Forty hairpins were taken from one rirl's hair recently. After this we don't think go much of the Russian soldier who walked about with 17 bullets in his body. Gondolas on Guild's Lake next year. And not a protesting paragraph about them in the game laws. WBX. J. Ignorant All Around. CUveland Plain Dealer. "Are you going to marry sister, Mr. Frat sjer "I I don't know, Johnnie." 'That's Just what sUrtcr said when mother asked her. Do We Forget? S. O'H. Dickson. Do we forget when "Winter i snows He deep Above the beds where our beloved sleep, And we no longer wildly weep. Do we forget? Because, when comes the holy Christmas tide. And love and Joy are scattered far and wide. We check 6ur sighs, and strive our tears to hide. Do we forget? Do we forget, because with mate Hps pressed To fading pictures, all our love unguessed. Lies' locked secure within our patient breast. Do we forget? Because, across the widening gulf of years. There comes no loving word to quell our fears. No watchful hand to brush away our tears, Do we forget? Do we forget? Nay, In each heart there lies A aeeret place, where, hid from mortal eyes. Dwells, strong and true, a lore that never dies. Nor can forgit: FLASHLIGHTS BY LAWSON Thomas W. Lawaon on "Frenzied Finance" in Everybody's for January. (Law son describes his Interview with Ad dlcks Immediately after the latter had re ceived by telephone the news that Bay State Gas had been turned over to a receiver, at a time whon that meant ruin for Addleks.) DDICKS stepped from the tele L phone and In a "brlng-me-a-fin-' ger-bowl" tone of voice said: "Tom, come into the other room for a minute; I want a word with you." He passed ahead of me through a small parlor Into his bedroom. I fol lowed. He went straight to the bureau took something from a drawer, slipped it Into his pocket, turned, and dropped opon a lounge. But the fraction of a minute had elapsed since ho had left the telephone, and I, being behind, had. not seen his face. He looked at me. Could this gray ghost be the same man who had just before been smiling -so - contentedly at Parker Chandler's last story? His face was the color of a mouldy lead pipe and seared with strango lines and seams. The oyes that met mine were dim and glazed, lustreless- and dead as a flsh3 eyes dragged from watery depths. "Lawaon, the game's up," ho said in a trembling voice. "It's a plot sure a receiver In possession, partlcularly Braman, and appointed In a way that shows deliberate calculation, proves it was done by someone who knows our .situation to a T.' It means ruin for me and the company." "Well," I said, "what are we going to dor He did not reply for a moment. I continued to look at him. His eyes haunted me. I noticed that the lines round the lids had deepened Into fur rows. He half raised himself from the lounge. "I have said they would never get me. and they won't." Instinctively his hand sousht the pocket Into which he had dropped what he had taken from the dresser's drawer. Then I knew. The yellow streak showed plain at last. I had guessed from the start It was there. The closing scene of a most significant drama the release ot Bay State Gas from a receivership by the payment of funds ostensibly devoted to the work of the National Republican Committee was en acted before Judge Wales on an eventful Saturday morning in the Wilmington Cir cuit Courtroom. The dramatis personae w.ere gathered in little groups represent ing the separate interests Addleks and some of his lieutenants, my partner at the telephone, John Moore's partner and Rogers' counsel with their heads together; Braman and Foster near the Judge, their eyes wandering toward two dress-suit eases piled before John Moore's partner, which, it was understood, contained the money. Behind Braman was his clerk, and la the rear of the courtroom sat as many of Addlck's thug3 as could squeeze into the narrow space reserved for spec tators. Court came to order. Foster rose, announced that the- claims of his client had been satisfied, and made a formal mo tion to dismiss tho receivership. Judge Wales formally consented, and as the clerk of the court was entering tho dis missal in his minute-book my partner telephoned the facts to me. I sent back the word that my directors were resign inghad resigned that Rogers' directors were being elected had been elected that the Boston gas companies, which Addicks had agreed to exchange for the money In the suitcases, were now transferred to Rogers. My partner whispered my words to John Moore's partner and Rogers' coun sel. At once the two dress-suit cases, each loaded with currency, were slipped to Braman and Foster, Simultaneously the messenger who was to telephone to their broker rose and quickly left the court room. A brief time longer was consumed In signing receipts, certificates and other legal papers, and then the performanca was over. Addicks' rose and went out among his henchmen in the rear, who eagerly .surrounded him. In the bustle Braman and Foster, each with his own booty, fled. I learned that at the time when Add icks had to secure the release of Bay State. Gas from the hands of a receiver, Dwlght Braman, he had conceived a plan whereby, without danger io himself, he could punish Braman and Foster for the wrong they had done Bay State, and at the same time meet his election expenses at no cost to his own pocket- In the course of his electioneering campaign In Delaware, conducted ao all tho world knows how. Addicks had gathered to his cause as tough and rascally a set of "heelers" a3 ever waylaid aged woman or lame man on the highway. A lieuten ant who has been dispatched to Delaware early Friday afternoon, when It had be come evident that we would get things settled up, gathered the sturdiest mem bers of this precious troop together and solemnly told them that a serious hitch had occurred In Addicks game, and that it looked as though, owing to the re ceivership, there would be no "stuff" to put In circulation this year. The men responsible for this outrage were to be BITS OP OREGON LIFE. Editor Gi 1st rap Falls Into Poetry; EUgene Register. To deal with the cow with the crum ply horn, that jingles her bell from night till morn, from morn till night, is the sorry plight the Springfield Council's now in. Meanwhile on the common and In the streets boss bid? defiance to all she meets, who, In acquiescence, are bowln'. Let the Dead Past, Etc. Tillamook Headlight. Three sanguinary elections in Tillamook City In one year may be somewhat tropi cal to disturb the equallbrlum of the citi zens In getting them up to fighting pitch, but we are glad they are all over so that the citizens can again brush aside their little personalities and be friends once more. Rapid Pace at Maplcton. Mapletoit Correspondence Florence West, Who says that Mapleton is a dead place? Listen! On Monday nights, singing school, on Saturday nights, literary soci ety meets, on Sunday afternoon Sunday school, and In the evening, preaching. And besides all of this, two lodges meet, and a dance every two weeks. Dead! Not much. Wind Will Not Go to Waste. Willow Creek Correspondence Columbia Chronicle. Dack Sutton and Gilbert Gosney- are putting up a windmill on Dack'fl place, j uuoeri suya men: hub uiwuya ueen quite a lot of wind and gas going to waste along the creek, and two years ago he tried to bottle some of the gas and use the same for fuel, but he failed In thnt, and now he Is going to try and utilize some of the wind, and he thinks he will be more successful. Taking Care of the Pennies. New York World. It is often said that only the rich take care of the pennies, the poor aro too busy dreaming of the $1000 bills. That s one of the reasons why .some people are always poor. The substantial fortunes of the United States have been made from pennies. A fraction of a cent on a pound of sugar, a cent or two on every gallon of petroleum, a penny more a pound for nails, grow into the aggregate millions of profits which are the base for the bil lions of stock capitalization. A cent a pound is more than most extreme fluctua tion In the wholesale price of Iron and j steel, more than the difference between riches and bankruptcy In a great Indus try. These savings are as possible to the average man as to the trUst mngnate. In Wilmington on tho following day and, from the appearance of things, would get the money Addicks had destined -for his followers'. He understood that they were to receive it -In cash, too 51o,000 cash that really belonged to Addicks. who had Intended it for his good friends in Delaware. The thugs, properly indig nant ct the wrong that had been done "the Boss," dispersed rapidly to discuss the information among themselves. That night a group of leaders got together and figured out a little plan of compaign to fruotrate the robbery of their beloved master. Court proceedings to release the receivership could not take long, and they calculated that the train schedule would detain Braman and Foster, who would have the money the Addicks "heelers" wanted, at least two hours in Wilming ton after the adjournment. What more easy than the organizing of a little scuf fle on the station platform, or on the street, and in the rush well, many things happen In a rush. This simple procedure commended Itself to all concerned, and that night there was much rejoicing among the Addicks camp-followers at the pleasant things that should be "pulled off" at the flim-flamming bee next day. Moore & Schley, once -a: well-known Arm of brokers In Wall street,, were famed for their discretion and the highest proof of confidence reposed In the firm was the fact that it did the bulk of the stock speculat ing for what Is known as "the Washing ton contingent." This is. perhaps, the most peculiar and delicate business that comes to "the street." A big Wall-street house opens a Washington office and or ganizes an elaborate system of special wires, wires from which there can be no possibility of leakage. It Is then ready for the patronage of members of Con gress, United States Senators and Nation al officials, whose honorable positions make tnem the custodians of National secrets of great commercial value. If, for Instance, a new law is to be passed which must favorably affect a given stock. Legislators who are on "the Inside" often buy thousands of shares to reap the profit of the rise in value Incumbent on Its passage. Or, perhaps there is to go through a law which will Interfere with the special privilege of another stock and reduce its price. Those- in possession of advanced Information "go short" of that stock (sell for future delivery) to profit by the drop. There are many other op portunities the Washington "Insider" of speculative turn may use to advantage. For Instance, if a high official of the Gov ernment were about to issue a proclama tion against a foreign nation and should desire secretly to make a million or so out of the panic he knew must follow the announcement, he would cast about him for a broker who would preserve trua sac red confidence.! It would Invariably be through the Moore firm that his secretary or confidential man would do the short selling. There are also operations of lob byists who, to affect Important legisla tion for this great Interest or the other, buy or sell stock for the benefit of legis lators whose votes they desire to influence. Extreme caution is demanded In tho exe cution of 3uch orders, or all hands might by some slip-up find themselves wearing striped suits. If the details of the great reorgan ization and trustification deals put through since 1S85 could be laid bare, eight out of ten of our most successful stock-Jobbing financiers would bo in a fair way to get into state or Federal prisons. They do such things better in England. During the past ten years three "frenzied financiers" have prac tised their legerdemain in London Ernest Hooley, Barney Barnato and Whltaker Wright. The first is bank rupt and discredited; Barney Barnato Jumped into the ocean at the height of his career, and Whltaker Wright, after numerous attempts to escape, was hauled before an English Judge and Jury, pjotnptly convicted and sentenced and committed suicide by poisoning before leaving the courtroom. I will agree at any time to sot down from memory the names of a score of emi nent American financiers,, at this writing In full enjoyment of the envy and re spect of their countrymen and the lux ury purchased by their many millions, whoso crimes, moral and legal, com mitted in the - accumulation of these millions, if fully exposed, would make the performances of Wright and Bar nato seem like petty larceny in com parison. But freedom and equality, as guaranteed us by the Declaration of Independence, have recently been cap italized, and "freedom" now means Im munity from legal interference for financiers, while the latest acceptance of "equality" is that all victims ot spo clal privilege are treated alike by those who control and exercise such privil ege. If tho Judges and the public prosecutora of these United States were equal to tho sworn duties of their sa cred offices, this "freedom" wouid have been confined long ago, and. throughout this broad land there would be jails full of "frenzied financiers" who had imagined themselves licensed to rob the public. NElGHB0RLYREC0GtITI0N. Chchalis Bee. The work of erecting the buildings for the Lewis and Clark Fair that will bo held In Portland next Summer Is. now well along, and the Exposition's success, seems quite assured. While the world could have worried along without the Fair that will be held next Summer In Portland, yet now that It Is to be held and that arrangements are progressing so favorably, the only nice thing for Washington to do Is to help it to a successful finish. The Fair at Portland will be of just as much benefit to Washington as it will be to Oregon, Probably It will be more bene ficial, for the people who come to see the Lewis and Clark Fair are going to come to Washington to visit the Puget Sound country. People who como to the Fair next Summer aro going to come to see our state as well as our neighbor. Wash ington has nothing to lose by comparison with Oregon. The benefit to our state will be great. Residents of Washington and Oregon can do much to help the states by each one taking it on himself or herself to help the Fair. There are few of us but that have friends In the East whom we would like to interest in this section. Let us make up lists of these and see that at the proper time they are all advised that there will be an original and attractive Exposition commemorative of the great ness of the Pacific Northwest at Portland next Summer. Let us impress on them what a delightful place this 13 to spend the Summer. The effect of an organized effort along this line would be remarkable. It is surely worth the trial. Rhode Island. Springfield (Mass.) Republican. The tremendous seriousness with which Rhode Island lo taken by some of Its old resi dents la shown in the perfectly sincere state ment by Sidney S. Rider, of Providence, editor of Book Notes, that "the history of the foun dation of Rhodo Island by Roger Williams was of an event greater than the foundation of Greece or Rome, and second only to Palestine " But why second to Palestine? This estimable Rlwde' Islander la too modest by far in hts claim for Roger Williams' Commonwealth. The Sick Man and the Lawyer. Judge. The sick man had called his lawyer. "I wish to explain again to you." said he weakly, "about willing my property" The attorney held up hit hand reassuringly. "There, there!" salcf he. "Leave that all to me." The nick man sighed resignedly. "I suppose I might as well." said he. turning upon his pillow. "Youil get it. anyway."