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PORTLAND, MONDAY, JULY 9, 1906.
IS HE "CONSERVATIVE" BRYAN?
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the Ne-braskan among the grandees of
the earth. "President" Bryan is the
title by which Democrats of Indiana,
Missouri, Arkansas and other states
would place him among the world's real
potentates. Yells assail the sky, hats
fly up and a boom echoes from ocean to
ocean, for Datto Bryan, and for Presi
dent Bryan perhaps.
But stay What Is Bryan saying?
Does It echo of that which came forth
of his mouth before? Is he cured of
heresies that beat him twice, and is he
passed from a radical to the boasted
conservative?
In writing from Stockholm he says he
wants "certain reforms" In America,
but tells not just what. In London, he
wants "two-legged" money and de
nounces imperialism.
In campaigns past Mr. Bryan has de
lined "two-legged" money as free coin
age of silver as well as gold; and im
perialism ae retention of the Philip
pines and other insular possessions. It
is natural to suppose, therefore, that he
means for his "certain reforms" free
coinage of silver at 16 to 1 and aban
donment of the Philippines, Hawaii and
other insular additions to United States
territory. These are still his issues,
then, as they were in 1896 and 1900, and
as h reiterated them in 1904 true
Democratic doctrine. That he will be
the nominee of his party for President
In 1908 seems altogether probable at this
time, and that he will enforce these
Issues is natural to expect, in the light
of what he has Just said abroad.
This, then, is the "conservative"
Bryan, who has been tamed by two de
feats at the hands of Republicans and
one defeat at the hands of his fellow
patriots. This Is the man who has
traveled the world, surveyed many
lands and beheld many peoples; all of
which, it was said, would lift his hori
zon and broaden his vision until he
should be no longer the old-time radi
cal of the Wild West but a mellowed
statesman, "safe and sane," the protec
tor of his party against the "yellow
talons of the griffin Hearst" and of his
country against the "Roosevelt man on
horseback." His travels were to lift
him high above the old heresies and
gain him that public confidence whose
lack In two campaigns defeated his
Presidentiar ambitions.
These "certain reforms" are of tre
mendous interest to the electorate of
the United States. They are the test of
Bryan's fitness to be President. His
late utterances have been awaited ever
since his last boom began, and it was
said for him that time and travel had
reformed his notions and tempered his
speech. Because Roosevelt has curbed
trust barons and corporation greed,
won for the country a rate law and
pure-food regulation, relieved it of In
surance rapacity and coal greed. It has
been said by Bryan boomers that in
these things Bryan and Roosevelt are
alike, and this has been asserted so
often that "nonpartisan" elements, like
those which made Chamberlain Gover
nor of Oregon, have begun to sit up and
take notice. s
But Mr. Bryan Is beginning to show
himself the same type of man and mind
as the people twice rejected. Though
he admits the "white man's burden" he
denounces Imperialism in the same old
way in which he assailed American
occupation of the Philippines. Imper
ialism and that occupation appear to be
Just as synonymous in his view as six
years ago.
"Henceforth," says the Independent,
"he ranks with other "scutcheoned
grandees of high fame and strange
name the Padishah of Persia, the
Ameer of Afghanistan, the Tycoon of
Nippon, the Inca of Peru, the Mahara
jah of Mysore, the Sirdar of Egypt, the
Khalifa of Sudan, the Mahdi of Khar
tum, the Negus of Amhara. the Dey
of Algiers, the Imaum of Islam, the
Soyyid of Zanzibar, the Sultan of Johol,
he Vali of Janina, the Mutaserif of Is
mld, the Kaimakam of El-Juf, the Mu
hafza of Suaklm, the Sachem of Tam
many, the Than Thaiof Anam, the
Khan of Kalat, the Tetrarch of Abilene,
the Grand Mogul of Delhi, the Gaekwar
of Baroda, the Sclndla of Gwalior, the
Kazi of Sikkim, the Nawaub of Mysore
and the Akhond of Swat. Shall we give
him the title higher than any of these,
of President of the United States, for
his nominations have already begun to
pour in from East and West?
The Washington Railroad. Commis
sion Is at last displaying commendable
regard for the proportions of the task
which It encountered in the making of
a new distance tariff. It is now an
nounced that It will be several weeks
and perhaps months before the details
of the new raes can be worked out.
Distance tariffs, like joint rates, are
dangerous weapons In the hands of
novices, and the caution with which the
commission Is approaching the matter
Is in strange contrast with the reckless
disregard for property rights shown in
Its order regarding the joint rates on
wheat. Men with a lifetime of experi
ence in the making of rates and dis
tance tariffs approach any such radical
change as that proposed by the Com
mission with considerable seriousness,
realizing as they do that even a slight
alteration in a single rate may have
considerable effect on ten thousand
other rates. The Commission is appar
ently beginning: to appreciate its limi
tations, and, if it continues to act with
the present caution, it may do less
harm to the Washington taxpayers
than ia now expected.
OUR FRIKXD THE RAILROADER.
There are so many contributing fac
tors to the remarkable growth Portland
is experiencing at this time that It Is
difficult properly to apportion the credit
for the wonderful change which has
taken place since the close of the Lewis
and Clark Expositibn. All know that
the large increase in our population and
the advent of much new capital are to
a large extent due to the wonderfully
favorable impression which our last
Summer visitors received. Except In
rare cases where chronic soreheads
were obliged to maintain their local
reputation by finding fault with Port
land and the Fair, every visitor from
the East returned home to become a
walking and talking advertisement for
Portland and the Pacific Northwest.
To all of these good new friends Port
land owes a debt of gratitude, but
above all others to whom we should feel
grateful stand the railroad men of the
country; not to the representatives of
any particular line or locality, but to
practically all of the men. engaged in
the business of routing passengers from
the Atlantic to the Pacific and from
the Great Lakes to the Gulf. The very
nature of their business makes it a ne
cessity that railroad men, successful
either by birth or training, or both,
should be broad-minded individuals of
more than ordinary intelligence. The
railroad men in almost any city In the
United States are at times called on for
information regarding localities many
thousand miles away from their imme
diate field, and it Is a part of their
education to prepare themselves with
expert knowledge regarding the entire
country.
The visit of the American- Association
of Traveling Passenger Agents to Port
land last Summer placed those men in
possession of the actual facts regarding
the great Northwest, towards which the
gaze of many people was directed: All
that this rich country ever needed to
attract immigration was to have its re
sources and possibilities understood,
and the railroad men were quickMo ap
preciate them. As immigration agents
seeking to induce new settlers and cap
italists to come into our country, these
men were far superior to any other
agency by reason of their being con
stantly in touch with people who are
contemplating a change and desire ex
pert knowledge of that part of the
country toward which they may be in
clined. It was largely through the Commer
cial Club that the Railroad Men's Con
vention was held here last year, and,
while this splendid commercial organi
zation lias achieved rare success along
many lines of promotion, it is doubtful
if any other single feature which has
enlisted their effort has brought such
highly satisfactory returns in the way
of immigration and general dissemina
tion of the truth regarding Portland
and Oregon. Portland is under lasting
obligations to the railroad men who
have done so much to advertise the
city and state, and incidentally we must
not forget the untiring efforts of the
Commercial Club.
FOREIGN TRADE MISUNDERSTOOD.
With the aid of a guidebook and a
few pages of foreign trade statistics,
the political economists of the Middle
West evolve grand theories regarding
the export trade of the United States.
The Commercial West, a weekly trade
Journal printed at Minneapolis, In Its
last issue has the following:
Notwithstanding the strenuous efforts ot
this country, by reciprocity treaties and by
political protectorship, to buUd up trade with
South America, our exports In that direction
have made less progress than to any other
section of the globe. On the other hand, not
withstanding our hostile legislative and treaty
enactments against China and our Inadequate
shipping facilities- on the Pacific, American
exports to the Orient have grown during the
past ten years more rapidly than to any other
part of the world.
Our exports to South America have
made less progress than to other parts
of the world for the simple reason that
the commodities of which the United
States exports in the greatest quantities
are also exactly the same as those in
which South America leads. We could
enjoy a fine trade with South Amer
ica if that continent would buy our
wheat, aorn, beef, hides, wool and other
great American staples, which are pro
duced also In South America in large
quantities. Americans, of course, re
fuse to buy these commodities from the
people of South America, and the latter
accordingly establish trade relations
with other countries which are in need
of them. This, however, does not pre
vent us from buying Immense quanti
ties of coffee, spices and other com
modities which we can secure in South
America to better advantage than in
any other country.
There Is no sentiment in trade and
buyers purchase where they can secure
the best bargains. "Hostile legislative
and treaty enactments" against China
have had little or no effect on American
export trade with that country, for the
reason that this country had better
goodg at lower prices than competitors,
and the Chinaman is sufficiently Intel
ligent to avoid "cutting off his nose to
spite his face." "Inadequate shipping
facilities on the Pacific" would read like
sarcasm, if one were to believe that
the writer knew anything about the
situation. As a matter of fact, at all
times in the past ten years there has
been a surplus of tonnage on the Pa
cific. Even at the present remarkably
low rates It is impossible to find cargoes
for the regular liners. As an illustra
tion of the situation, the case of the
big H1I1 liner might be mentioned. On
the last outward trtp from Puget
Sound this mammoth steamship, with
a capacity of about 25,000 tons, carried
less than 4000 tons of freight, and on its
Inward trip less than 2000 tons.
A little learning is a dangerous thing,
if a writer on trade topics essays to
put out anything approaching a truth
ful review of the situation. We can
trade with foreign countries so long as
they have goods which we need at
lower prices than we can secure them
elsewhere, or so long as they offer us
better prices for our goods than we can
receive for them at home or in mar
kets where we are not doing much ex
port business. Our foreign business in
certain directions could be Increased
by more liberal tariff laws, tut It Is
not suffering from lack of shipping
and it cannot be increased with South
American countries to an equality with
that which is enjoyed by the Europeans
until we buy from South America as
freely as the European countries do.
ANARCHY AND NEWSPAPERS.
Collier's Weekly, which Is friendly to
the Socialists and hostile to all anarch
ists, undertook in a recent issue to
name those American cities which har
bored the bomb-throwing gentry within
their borders. Portland got some unde
sirable and perhaps undeserved notorie
ty from the Collier's writer; and Pat
erson. New Jersey, received the greatest
attention because it has been head
quarters for years of a very active an
archistic "group." The City of Pater-
son has taken mighty offense at the no
toriety it has achieved through this and
similar publications, and it has decided
to do something to vindicate its good
name. The Board of Aldermen has di
rected its City Clerk to institute action
for libel against Collier's, "if. in his
Judgment, action for libel will lie
against the owners of said publication."
Doubtless it would not, and the only ef
fect of the board's action will be to call
public attention to the formal protest
made by Paterson, and to correct in
some measure the false impression the
world has that the New Jersey town
tolerates the existence there of a regi
cide band of revolutionary enemies of
society and all organized government.
No reputable newspaper desires to li
bel a person or a community; therefore
Collier's has in its current issue an ar
ticle designed to appease the wrath of
the good people of Paterson, and to
show that the community is in no wise
tainted by the presence there of the
anarchist group. Yet It practically re
peats the assertions previously made by
its writer and shows that there is
printed at Paterson an infamous period
ical called "La Questiono Sociale,"
which in its issue of June 23 refers to
President Roosevelt as the "ex-policeman,
murderer of the Colorado miners,"
and to Pope Plus as a "sheep" for con
gratulating King Alfonso on his escape
from the anarchist's bornb. The Pat
erson paper has besides an article jus
tifying the assassination of rulers of
high and low degree. "La Questione
Sociale" ought to be excluded from the
mails; perhaps It is. Yet the very vio
lence of its utterances, disclosing the
bloody sentiments of the "group" it
speaks for, is a warning against it and
can only create universal indignation
and protest among all intelligent and
patriotic citizens. When anarchy waves
its abhorrent flag and proclaims its
treasonable and murderous schemes, it
is not dangerous. The real enemies of
law and order are the nameless crimi
nals who make their plans in secret,
prepare their deadly explosives- in the
solitude of their improvised laborato
ries and approach the consummation of
their horrible schemes by stealth and
.surprise. The "anarchists" who hold
public meetings, like the so-called Port
land group, seldom do anything but
waste their time in idle and ineffectual
gabble. The Paterson anarchists have
never killed anybody, and probably
never will. Yet of course their avowed
sympathy for the sporadic deeds of the
frenzied maniac who act first and
boast of it afterwards, is not a good
thing.
WILL EIGHT ADVANCE IN RATES.
Washington policyholders are threat
ening suit against the fire insurance
companies that have announced their
intention to make an arbitrary increase
of 25 per cent in rates in order that
they may more speedily recoup their
losses by the San Francisco conflagra
tion. It is quite clear that it would be
impossible for one or two or half a
dozen of the companies operating in
Washington to put in force an advance
such as is proposed, without concerted
support and co-operation from a large
number of other companies operating
in the state. The banding together of
these greedy companies for the purpose
of holding up policyholders is said to be
directly in violation of the laws of the
state. Under the insurance law of 1897
it was specifically provided that any in
surance companies which entered com
binations for the purpose of maintain
ing high rates should be deprived of the
right to operate In the state.
This law has not yet been. invoked
for the purpose of keeping rates at a
just and reasonable figure, but, If it
answers the purpose for which it was
framed, it can undoubtedly be used
either to force the insurance compsrnies
to recognition of fair play and honest
treatment, or else to kick them out of
the state. Pacific Coast insurance has
been so enormously profitable in the
years preceding the terrible disaster
that it is hardly within the range of
possibilities that it will be abandoned,
by the companies at present endeavor
ing to effect a saving at expense of the
policyholders. Not only are some of
these companies attempting to force an
advance of 25 per cent in rates, but
they are also seeking to escape liabil
ity on policies which were in force in
San Francisco at the time of the dis
aster. Either end of this graft works injus
tice and hardship on the insured, and
every fair-minded Individual will hope
to see the companies attempting it
driven out of the business on the Pa
cific Coast. If the insurance companies
could maintain their wonderful system
of settling exceptionally heavy losses at
less than par and at the same time re
coup with increased charges, the busi
ness would possess all of the essential
features of the surest "sure thing"
game that was ever worked on the pub
lic. Fortunately for those who object
to being robbed in the manner proposed,
or who are reluctant to be unprotected
against loss by fire, there will always
be capital In readiness to accept busi
ness for a remuneration based on the
actual risk involved.
A great many of the insurance com
panies in San Francisco have for years
been accumulating large surpluses over
and above the dividends, for the pur
pose of meeting such emergencies as
that which arose in the Bay City. It
would of course be very nice for the
insurance people to retain these sur
pluses for other emergencies, and, in
place thereof, levy extortionate toll on
the policyholders for the purpose of
meeting the extraordinary demands!.
This nefarious latter plan, however,
does not meet with approval of the
Washingtonians, and in their fight
against it they will have the moral
support of every policyholder in the ad
Joining states. The opportunity for a
local independent fire insurance com
pany is daily becoming more apparent.
Between the United Railways Com
pany and the Willamette Valley Trac
tion Company there has been a fight for
street railway franchises In Portland.
The United Railways won, then capi
talized the franchises and "sold out" at
a profit said to be near $100,000. This
profit is money out of the pockets of the
public, because on it the public must
pay the dividend and Interest tribute.
Yet this is small greed compared with
that of the men who capitalized the
street-car lines of Portland at dizzy
figures a year ago, and "sold out" at
profit of several million dollars. These
same men are now managing the Wil
lamette Valley Traction Company. Had
they won the franchises away from the
United Railways, their career shows
that they would have turned up their
noses at profits so paltry as tlOO.OOO.
The people's savings are sweet booty
for franchise buccaneers and one set
of grafters seems no better nor worse
than another.
The steamer Hilonian, which has
been placed in service between Port
land and Honolulu, is due today to load
at this city on her first trip. A special
effort should be made to send the
steamer out with a good-sized cargo.
Portland and the territory for which
this city is the port of entry and de
parture produce in great quantities the
commodities of which the Hawaiian
Islands have long been liberal pur
chasers. We handled a large volume of
trade with the islands many years ago,
when the unsatisfactory service of sail
ing vessels was the best available. With
the Hawaiian population many fold
greater, and a regular steamship serv
ice, we should now enjoy a large trade
with the islands. The promoters of the
line, however, if the offerings are light,
should not take the first trip of the ves
sel as a criterion for what might be ac
complished, as it will take time to win
back the trade which we abandoned
many years ago.
London advices state that the Sultan
of Turkey is very much disturbed over
the activity of the Greek revolutionists
in Macedonia. It is asserted that the
offending Greeks have the moral sup
port of the government at Athens, and
a representative of the Ottoman gov
ernment asserts that drastic' measures
will be adopted unless the Greeks dis
play less aggression. Some philosopher
is credited with the statement that
"war is hell," and perhaps he is right.
It will be remembered, however, that it
was a war between Turkey and Greece
which was responsible for Fitz Greene
Halleck's immortal poem, "Marco Boz
zaris." If a scrap between the modern
Turks and Greeks could supply the
necessary inspiration for another such
poetic masterpiece, the literary world
might give consent.
It needs be a cold or a hot or a nor
mal day when Seattle does not break
Into view. On the recent trip of the
North German Lloyd liner Grosserkur
furst from Bremen to New York, trip
lets were born the second day out; two
days later the stork, which seems to
have acquired t"He land and water char
acteristics of the frog, brought twin
girls to a much-gratified couple. The
night before docking, Dr. Stark (the
"a" In the ship physician's name sure
ly must be a typographical error) wasJ
congratulating himself on the pros
pect of a rest when he was called to
attend Mrs. Friedenburg, of Seattle, a
first-cabin passenger, who added the
sixth baby to the list. It was a de
scending ratio, to be sure, but Seattle
got there.
There is good sound sense in the sug
gestion that what Oregon needs is the
production of crops that . will have a
much larger average value. It is folly
to raise $12-an-acre crops on land with
soil adapted to the successful produc
tion of craps that will be worth $50 an
acre. Raising the value of the crop
produced will be followed by an ad
vance In the value of the land. Farms
will be smaller because a smaller area
will produce enough to support a fam
ily. The population will be denser be
cause it takes more labor to produce a
crop that yields a larger value. One of
the needs of this state is the adoption
of industries which will increase the
average value of products per acre.
T( Buenos Ayres and even to Pata
gonia by rail will be one of the new
trips available for the globe-trotter a
few years hence. The projectors of the
Pan-American Railroad are pushing
southward from San Geronimo, on the
Tehuantepec National, and expect to
reach Quatemala before the end of the
year. If the revolutions will cease re
volving for a brief period, the line may
be pushed well Into Guatemala before
the end of the year. The route should
present great attractions in cenic won
ders and also offer some rare speci
mens of nomenclature. For example,
we note that trains are already in op
eration as far south as Pijijiapan.
On second thought, the Canadian Par
liament has decided not to shut the lid
down tight on Sundays. The trains
will run, and the Sunday newspapers
will go on just the same, and every
citizen will bepermitted to make him
self as miserable as he pleases in his
own way. That ought to make him
happy. What the average Canadian ob
jects to is to have somebody else tell
him how he must make himself miser
able on Sunday.
A Seattle young man fatally shot a
Superior Judge because he thought the
latter had interfered to prevent his at
tentions to a young lady. The Judge
failed to figure in the shotgun charac
ter of Seattle love.
It will probably turn out that the
lone 'outlaw who held up five stage
loads of Yosemite tourists in succession
was the Valley hotel-keeper. But why
did he hide himself at a turn in the
road?
The Bryan boomers should look after
their man; he needs to be "seen." A
datto might coin silver at 16 to 1 and
pull down the flag in the Philippines,
but a President probably not.
They are quoting District Attorney
Manning as saying In Seattle that if
Mitchell had slain Creffield in Portland
"he wbuld not even have been arrest
ed." He meant "convicted."
We glean from Eastern exchanges Just
at hand that the Fourth was about 50
per cent more sane and safe than the
hysterical effort to make it so.
Liquor can be sold by a 'wet" county
tb a. "dry" one in Oregon Is state
prohibition necessary to stop this
method of securing liquor?
Mr. Bryan declares that he greatly
"enjoys the freedom of private life."
The whole country enjoys having Mr.
Bryan enjoy himself.
Senator Depew will serve his country
during the Summer by spending the
Senate recess abroad. He has no in
tention of resigning. Why should he?
He hasn't been convicted by a jury.
Portland, It appears, broke all pre
vious building records for June by 106
per cent. That is even a higher notch
than the July thermometer.
JOB FOR PLUTOCRAT PREACHER
Let Him Show The Oregoalaa the Error
Of Its Ways.
Salem Capital Journal.
The Oregonian should mend the error
of its ways and become more orthodox la
its religious views.
Dr. Hill should quit the employ of the
millionaires and plutocrats long enough
to convert The Oregonlan.
Its cold and heartless materialism in
assailing the vested rights of the plutoc
racy is discouraging to capital invested
in- churches.
Does not The Oregonian know that Dr.
Hill is a labor union man, and pleads the
cause of the down-trodden at $500 per
month and an occasional trip to the holy
land thrown into the bargain?
In the early days when Scott and Pit
tock were young men trying to pick up
a living among the big stumps where
Portland now stands, there was no Y.
M. C. A. stretching out its helping hands
to set right the young.
They had to grow up the best they
could with such simple equipments of
morality as the golden rule and rustle
for your self and the devil take the hind
most. And the former was not as much
practiced as at present.
The man with the least conscience and
the most cunning did not always get the
highest rewards for his activity, but fre
quently dangled atthe end of a rope.
When in their old age 3cott and Pit
tock are trying to get right and are ex
posing the avarice and greed and gen
eral cussedness of the trusts and monop
olies, they ought not to be discouraged.
Dr. Hill has no patent or monopoly on
being good. There is no law that forbids
any man, even though he be a hoary sin
ner from away back, from turning from
evil and being just as good as he can be.
We are not claiming that Scott and
Pittock are as good as Dr. Hill or any
of as new lights of public morality, but
for the chance they had, in an unenlight
ened pioneer age. when most ministers
preached for glory In lieu of cash, they
have done fairly well.
If Harvey Scott ever gets to heaven he
will probably be fenced off in a corner
somewhere with Joab Powell, Dr. Driver
and other backwoods exhorters of the
huckaback variety.
The high-salaried, kid-glove, smooth
shaven dispensers of orthodoxy would not
relish the plain-spoken unkempt camp
meeting shouters who washed themselves
at the watering troughs and dried on a
saltsack towel.
It's a hard job trying to split a tough
old stump, but Dr. Hill and Rev. Dr.
Brougher should forego their annual out
ing at the Summer resorts and convert
The Oregonian into a clean, moral, re
ligious newspaper.
Will This ln)te You Shudder!
Springfield Republican.
Since railroading began people have Im
agined the case of the engineer who
should suddenly die at the throttle and
leave the train, filled with passengers,
to the mercy of chance for the remainder
of the run. Engineers, like other men,
may have heart disease or apoplexy, and,
if they have attacks while on duty, there
you are. This long-imagined case actu
ally was realized and perhaps it has
been" aany times before on a fast ex
press train running from Trenton to Phil
adelphia Thursday last. The engineer
died at his post, nobody knows just when,
but the dead hand remained on the throt
tle and the sightless eye continued for
miles and miles to glare along the road
bed in front of the rushing train. The
fireman observed nothing unusual; the
track was clear; every switch was prop
erly turned and the flyer sped on within
scheduled time. Not until the train ap
proached Philadelphia and a place was
reached where the speed is usually slack
ened did the fireman feel a thrill of alarm.
They were entering the city like the
whirlwind, and then, examining the en
gineer, he found him dead. Suppose a
wreck had occurred before the fireman's
discovery. The engineer would have been
found "killed." and his "negligence"
would have been held responsible for the
disaster.
Hot-Weather Fish Story.
Ellensburg Capital.
It will be remembered that last year
the Hayes brothers did some boring for
artesian water on their farm in Johnson
canyon. After they had gone down less
than 100 feet they gave up the idea, al
though they had struck water which
came up to the surface. They covered
these holes they bored one of 10 inches'
and another of 6 inches' diameter for the
safety of stock and have done nothing
with them since. Lately a remarkable
discovery has been made. W. T. Sheldon,
who has a farm near by had occasion
recently to lift these covers, and he was
surprised to see scores of fish rush from
the surface into the depths. He called
the attention of others to the strange con
dition and many have since seen them.
No one has gone to the trouble of catch
ing any, but Mr. Sheldon says they look
like trout and he believes they are. He
saw no large ones, but says they certain
ly made up In large numbers. The ques
tion naturally presents Itself, where did
these fish come from? Mr. Sheldon's the
ory will doubtless be accepted. He thinks
the drill holes connect with an under
ground lake or river.
Junk Dealer Buys Courthouse.
Somerville (N. J.) Dispatch in N. Y. Sun.
The Somerset County Courthouse, one
of the most striking specimens of old
Dutch architecture in New Jersey, was
sold by auction today to Hyman Kline, a
junkdealer, for $125. It was built in 1779.
soon after the British burned the first
county Courthouse at Millstone. An ef
fort was made to preserve the old build
ing, but it failed. The building will be
razed, and on its site will be erected a
white marble Courthouse at a cost of $300,
000. The high stone steps, the columns
supporting the lofty portico and many
other of the striking features of the old
Courthouse will be preserved in the archi
tecture of the new building.
Spokane'Newspaper Change.
The Orator, a Spokane weekly, a year
old and in the first class of Its kind, has
absorbed the Outlook. Mr. Norman, edi
tor of the latter, will enter the daily
newspaper field.
Remarks From the Pup.
Burges Johnson In Harper's.
She's taught me that I mustn't bark
At little noises after dark.
But Just refrain from any fuss
Until I'm sure they're dangerous.
This would be easier, I've felt.
If noises could be seen or smelt.
She's very wise, I have no doubt.
And plans ahead what she's about,
Yet after eating, every day
She throws her nicest bones away.
If she were really less obtuse
She'd bury them for future use.
But that which makes me doubt the most
Those higher powers that humans boast.
Is not so much a fault like that, ji
Nor yet her fondness for the cat.
But en our pleasant country strolls
Her dull Indifference to holes!
O If I once had time to spend
To reach a hole's extremeat end,
I'd grab it fast, without a doubt.
And promptly pull It Inside out;
Then drag It home with all my power
To chew on it In a leisure hour.
Of all the mistresses there are.
Mine Is the loveliest by far
Fain would I wag myself apart
If I could thus reveal my heart.
But on some things, I must conclude.
Mine la the saner attitude.
KING ALFONSO'S CHANCES.
They Are In Favor of Ills Escape from
Assassination.
New York Tribune.
While King Alfonso himself, and many
others besides, are imbued with the con
viction that he is destined to die by the
hand of an assassin, his consort may de
rive some comfort from the fact that of
all his long line of predecessors upon the
throne of Spain, throughout a period of
nearly a thousand years, not one has been
murdered. King Peter of Castile, sur
named "The Cruel," succumbed to vio
lence, It Is true, but It was during the
course of a personal encounter with his
brother Henry, and can scarcely be de
scribed as an assassination. The contest
between the two was witnessed by the
French national hero. Du Guesclin, who,
seeing that his friend, Don Enrique, had
the upper hand, allowed him to finish oft
his brother when he had the latter on the
ground.
Other rulers of Spain, but relatively few
of them, have had their lives attempted.
King Amadeus and Alfonso XII were both
shot at, without sustaining any Injury,
and old Queen Isabella was stabbed on
one occasion when leaving church by a
crazy and unfrocked priest, but her corset
saved her from harm; the would-be mur
derer was seized before he could repeat
the blow, and the dress which she wore
on that occasion, cut and pierced by the
poniard, now figures among the numerous
gowns constituting the wardrobe of Our
Lady of Atocha In the, famous church of
that name.
Still. It cannot be denied that the crime
of regicide Is Increasing by leaps and
bounds In the civilized portions of the Old
World, and that It is far more frequent
today than it was in the medieval era. In
the first half of the nineteenth century
but one ruler was murdered. In the sec
ond half a dozen perished by assassina
tion in Europe alone, and although but six
years have elapsed since the opening of
the twentieth century already three rul
ers have met a tragic fate.
Seeing Things in Hover.
Sunshine.
A sight which Hoverlans will probably
never see again was presented here a few
evenings ago after a shower. Just be
fore the sun set, its radiance burst
through the clouds while the raindrops
were still falling. This resulted in a
two-thirds circle rainbow. This is not an
unusual sight anywhere, but across the
river from Hover, and at a point midwity
between Attalla and Two Rivers, was
presented the most gorgeous phenomenon
of a lifetime a mirage sunset in the east.
Turning to the west, one saw the orb of
day through the light mist of the rain,
and the reflection not only of the sun
but of the foothill behind which it now
sinks from sight was perfectly mirrored
in the east.
Straight Dinner Comes In Again.
New York Press.
London society has taken to dining with
out the aid of an orchestra, and those
gifted with garrulity will now have a
chance to hold forth undisturbed In the
"musicless restaurant." Music and din
ing are incompatible, say the enthusiasts
of this latest fad. For a long time BOclety
has had to be baited with something be
sides food, no matter how elaborately or
florally served, to get it to attend a din
ner, and music was considered an essen
tial attribute to these entertainments.
Now, however, the straight dinner has
come in again. Doubtless it is a relief to
have a chance to converse In a normal
tone, but It is doubtful If London does
without music or a compromise of some
sort for long.
Never Wore the Same Suit Twice.
New York Times.
On Jlo a week Harry H. Forsyth, as
sistant treasurer of Proctor's One Hun
dred and Twenty-fifth-Street Theater, was
the Beau Brummel of Harlem for a time.
He never wore the same suit of clothes
two days in succession, It is said. Now
he is in the Tombs, held in $2000 ball, on
a charge of stealing $440 and withholding
500 theater tickets. Central Office detec
tives appeared as complainants against
him in the Police Court where he pleaded
guilty. He was held for further exami
nation. Prison Sentence for Plutocrats.
Omaha Bee.
A prison sentence on Toledo Icemen re
sulted in a reduction of 13 a ton in the
price of ice in that town. Where fines
have been imposed in other cases the con
sumers have usually footed the bills In
higher prices.
A Song of the Airship.
Leslie's Weekly.
Oh. the horse and the wheel, and the auto
mobile, And the train for the people who crawl,
But for him who will dare take a ride In
the air,
A journey to heaven's blue wall;
A race with stars In their silvery cars.
And a brush with the moon as we fly,
Is the trip to enjoy when all earth-pleasures
cloy.
Then ho! for & spin In the sky.
The world, with Its woes, and Its rains, and
Its snows.
Drops down like a plummet below.
And the universe lies straight ahead as we
rise
Like an arrow unloosed from the bow.
The cloud-wreaths divide like the foam on
the tide.
And the planets like lampposts flash by
As we daringly sweep through the aerial
deep
Ho! ho! for a spin In the sky.
ABSOLUTE SECLUSION IS WHAT THE PRESIDENT WANTS
DURING HIS VACATION
DU POSrS FIGHTING BLOOD.
Delaware's Next Senator Has a Fine
Civil War Record.
From Various Sources.
In 1861 two classes were graduated from
the United States Military Academy at
West Point. At the head of the first
stood Henry Algernon DuPont. of Dela
ware. He carriers from the distinguished
family of that name (who can proudly
write themselves De Nemours, from the
French ducal house thus called), that in
every war the Republic has fought has
had a son In both the land and sea serv
ice for over a hundred years.
Graduating, as he did. first In his class.
Henry A. DuPont could have gone into
the Corps of Engineer. But the fighting
blood of the ancestral head of the De
Nemours (who went up in the breach of
the wall at Ascalon side by side with
Godefroy de Bouilllon) was strong within
him. He could not sit In an easy chair
and well-carpeted office with a war go
ing on at the very city gates. So Du
Pont respectfully declined the commis
sion in the swell Corps of Engineers and
chose the artillerv instead.
At all the great battles In which the
Army of the Potomac was engaged, the
ring of DuPont's lS-pounders was heard.
He was breveted for times for "distin
guished services and gallantry in action."
When the war closed he was a brevet
Colonel and Brigadier-General. He could
have had the actual rank three times, but
he would not leave his guns the guns he
had made famous on 20 stricken fields.
Just after Chancellorsville. when Merritt
and Custer were Jumped, one from First
Lieutenant, the other a Captain, to the
rank of Brigadier-General, DuPont was
offered the same grade. "No," he said.
"I will stick to what I understand best."
When the wag closed and peace was made,
Henry Algernon DuPont hung up his
stainless sword and took up the business
of the great powder factory of Dupont
de Nemours, over a century old.
At his princely home on the Brandy
wine he dispenses the most charming
hospitality to old foes who were In front
of his guns and those who supported
them.
Cannon In Role of "Noblest Roman."
New York Sun.
Compliments for the Speaker are al
ways in order in the closing days of a
session of Congress, but there Is nothing
perfunctory about the tributes paid to
the Hon. Joseph G. Cannon.
There has been no presiding officer bet
ter liked in our time, and Mr. Cannon Is
admired and esteemed in spite of the fact
that his policy has raised up a large body
of insurgents in his own party, and to
spite of periodical denunciation as -in
iron-handed despot by an unterrifled but
helpless minority.
How can the language of amiable hy
berpole used by Representative Townsend
in speaking of Mr. Cannon In the House
be accounted for? Is the Speaker "devot
edly loved by every member?" Is he, to
quote Mr. Townsend, "younger than the
youngest and stronger than the strongest,
'the noblest Roman of us air "?
A well-preserved and remarkable man
Is "Uncle Joe," but a partisan withal,
and a good hater as well as a staunch
friend. He would be the last man In
Congress to wear a halo, and he has no
Illusions about his greatness. The secret
of his popularity In the House is com
posite. He Is always one of the boys,"
his heart being on the floor with them,
although he sits In the exalted chair of
Speaker and rules them grimly for their
own and the country's good; they know
him as a thoroughly trained and sapient
legislator who never loses his head: his
human nature is all-embracing and equal
to every emergency; he is so good an
American that he might pass for Uncle
Sam himself.
Other Speakers have been looked up to
and even feared, and many have enjoyed
the esteem of their assoclats; but Mr.
Cannon has won and rtained their per
sonal affection while commanding their
respect under the most trying circum
stances. Nickel Soda for Convicts.
Columbus Dispatch.
"Soda water, 5 cents!"
These words, spoken in a whisper, may
be heard in the halls of the penitentiary
In the evening nowadays. Warden Gould
has given permission to sell soda water
behind the walls to the convicts, who
eagerly look forward to the evening,
when, during hall permit, they are able
to get this delicious refreshment.
Old prisoners, who served behind the
walls for many years and know what it
is to be held so strictly to rules that
they almost forgot how to talk, look with
wonder on the development of the ele
ments of humanity.
The soda, however, Is "the goods" with
the convicts, and many a man who
laughed at the person who drank soda
on the outside likes his little Ice cream
now as well as he liked his whisky be
fore. Retrospection.
Walla Walla Statesman.
The old-fashioned woman said little
and spanked much; the woman of the
present time says much and spanks lit
tle. When we remember the spankings
we got when we were little, we think to
day's woman Is the better, but when we
see how noisy today's children are we
wish we could have more old-fashioned
women around.
Yes, If a a Little Premature.
Baltimore News.
Fun 1st being poked at London Punch
because It referred to the President's
son-in-law as "Senator Longworth." Per
haps the defense will be made that the
term Senator is in literary use in England
as applicable to any legislator.
From the St. Paul Pioneer Press.