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TEKEL.
The steel trust is an unlawful combi
nation of millionaires organized to
plunder the American people. The
Dingley tariff binds their victim hand
and foot while the confederated pirates
pick his pockets. The president of the
steel trust has more substantial power
than belonged to the Emperors of Rome
in their palmiest days, and this power
is both economic and political. No
King- of England ever wielded the au
thority over the lives and fortunes of
his subjects which belongs to Mr.
: Corey. Few monarchs have ever
reigned who could by their mere fiat
ruin or exalt so many human beings.
He can, toy his command, doom thou
sands of people to starvation. He can,
by the word of his power, build up cit
ies In tho desert and reduce populous
marts of Industry to desolation. His
nod can paralyze the trade of a great
Nation. The adjectives of adoration
which trembling slaves apply to Ori
ental monarchs would befit more seem
ingly the exalted estate of Mr. Corey,
who above the laws of both God and
man and rules toy the sole virtus of his
Inherent greatness. Still, isolated as he
is on a pinnacle of power, Mr. Corey is
not exempt from human weakness.
Lake Nero and other absolute rulers,
he seeme to have caught that malady
of the mind called by the learned
megalomania, or the delusion of
omnipotence. Alexander the Great had
It when, as Dryden says, he "assumed
the God" and demanded worship from
his soldiers in Babylon. In Mr. Corey'
case the delusion is not so gross as in
that of the Macedonian conqueror, for
the president of the etee-1 trust has
more men at his beck and call than the
son of Philip ever had, and expends a
greater revenue. Nevertheless, willing
as we are in general to pay divine hon
ors to men in Mr. Corey's position, we
have not quite come to the pass where
we admit that the mere fact of their
doing a thing makes it right. The phil
osopher Seneca, who represented the
acme of Roman ethics, could still wor
ship Nero after he had murdered his
mother, but the American people re
volts somewhat from its accustomed
prostrations before the altar of Mr.
Corey now that he has finally cast off
the wife of his youth and doomed the
partner of his early pioneering over the
desert and the waste of life to an- old
age of bereavement and a death of sor
row. Though the divorce was granted upon
her petition, it was the husband who
ae eager for the freedom it bestowed.
When the news of the decree went over
the wires to New York, the gilded pi
rate gathered his confederate band
around him and watched with brutal
orgies at the death of his young Ideals.
Over the ashes of his early love he
made himself drunken and celebrated
the funeral of his manhood with ribald
songs. Meanwhile In her lonesome
chamber his forsaken wife wept herself
sick in hopeless grief. She was guilty
of growing old. She had committed the
crime of loving her home and husband.
"Care and sorrow and childbirth pain"
have left their traces upon her, and
iiuv. sins luuci pe pumsnea oecause sne
is no longer young.
There are no words of execration be
fitting Mr. Corey's deed. It Is infamous
beyond redemption, tooth in Itself and
in its motive. What is the motive?
'Why, this sprightly youth of 42 Springs
withes to embark upon a giddy career
as a woman-killer. This Allhallowe'en
Summer, this latter Spring, purposes
henceforth to trip the light fantastic
toe in the glittering halls of fashion
unincumbered by the burden of a staid,
home-loving wife, and there is no re
pentant King. Mai at hand to bid him
fall to his prayers and remind him how
ill gray hairs .become a fool and jester.
Prayers, forsooth! To whom or what
should the president of the steel trust
pray? Is there In earth or heaven a
power above Beelzebub?
It is a trite remark tha no human
being can safelybe trusted with exces
sive power. It is ruinous to himself
and to those whom he controls. The
enormous power over the lives and for
tunes of their fellow-men which the
president of the steel trust and our
other economic magnates possess is di
rectly contrary to' the genius of demo
cratic institutions. It reverses the
course of history and nullifies the vic
tories which democracy has won
through a thousand years of struggle.
In the constitution of the United States
careful provision was made against one
particular " kind of arbitrary power.
Kings were discarded, the hereditary
principle was abolished In respect to
political office, and every delegation of
authority was balanced and limited.
But the evil genius slain under one
form revived under another more per
nicious. The power of wealth, which
exceeds that of any Kings who ever
ruled, is hereditary. It lays claim to
divine right exactly as did the Stuarts
of England. It calls its authority sa
cred precisely like Louis XV and James
I. Our privileged orders assert a free
hold, or vestjed interest, In their power
over the lower classes, and maintain,
just as did the feudal Lords and Kings,
that there is no authority in the state
to limit or 4mpair it. Divine right,
gross, tyrannical, cruel and cynical as
it ever was, stalks abroad in America
and defies both the law and the moral
sentiment of the Nation. "What moral
distinction can be drawn between the
conduct of Charles II, with his Infa
mous court, and that of our trust mag
nates? Equally they hold, themselves
above the law which governs common
men, and assert that their title deeds to
their power hail directly from the Al
mighty. The principle of divine right in the
political world was once as strongly in
trenched as it now 13 in the economic
world. It had the revenues of king
doms at its command and defended it
self with armies recruited from the
masses whom it maltreated and plun
dered. Nevertheless It ' was attacked,
defeated and annihilated. The warfare
against divine right, or vested right, or
irrevocable franchises. It Is all the same
thing, Is just beginning in the economic
world. The monster is intrenched be
hind the law, the courts and the
church; it imposes itself upon the imag
ination of the multitude with its godless
luxury, as did the old feudal system.
But Its doom is written in the heavens.
As in politics so in the realm of eco
nomics, special privilege will one day
be annihilated and the principal factor
In its ruin will be Its own iniquity.
THE KLAMATH COUNTRY.
The popular and rapidly-growing sen
timent embodied in the slogan "See
America First" is worthy of the en
couragement which it is receiving from
the railroad companies and ' commer
cial organizations promoting it. There
Is another axiom built on similar lines
that Is also worthy of recognition.
"See Oregon First" might not be bad
advice for the Oregonlans who wander
over into Washington, Idaho, British
Columbia and California, without first
familiarizing themselves with their own
commonwealth. The business men's
excursions which have been inaugurat
ed within the .past few years have done
much to "broaden the view and increase
the knowledge of Portland's citizens re
garding their own state. The excursion
which is to start this week for the
Klamath country will be exceptionally
interesting and valuable from an edu
cational and commercial standpoint.
That rich portion of Oregon which lies
Just north of the California line is, to
the majority of the Portland business
men, an undiscovered country, although
for years we have all had a vague idea
that it possessed resources which were
unsurpassed by those of any other por
tion of the state. To those who have
never visited this far-away land, where
lie "billowy bays of grass ever roiling
in shadow and sunshine," the trip will
reveal something wonderful. It is not
alone the 400-mile ride which will Im
press the excursionists with the fact
that Oregon is truly a land of magnifi
cent distances, but the country itself,
peculiarly adapted to development of
Industries much less prominent in other
parts of the state, presents an appear
ance so different from th.at In evidence
elsewhere that a visitor from Eastern
Oregon or the Willamette Valley is
prone to get the impression that he Is
In a land far distant from the Oregon
with, which he is familiar.
The Klamath country has always
seemed so far away and so Inaccessible
that it is enveloped in an atmosphere
of Interest such as is noticeable only
when there Is something hidden from
our view. Much of -that glamor of ro
mance which generations before had
hung over the possessions of New Spain
lying farther to the south floated north
ward and rested on the beautiful val
leys, azure lakes and wonderful rivers
of the Klamath country. In this land,
where the "woodland met the flowery
surf of the prairie." the vast herds of
the modern cattle kings made the pres
tige of the old Spanish grandees and
hidalgos of the lower coast grow dim
and, lusterless by comparison. By these
lakes and rivers, teeming with fish and
surrounded by an Inexhaustible supply
of game, the "red Modoc" and other
children of the forest Idled away their
lives, enjoying the blessings of the
Great Spirit and unvexed by the prob
lems of civilization.
The Spanish grandee and the hidalgo
have gone forever from the Western
world, the Indian of the old days Is In
the happy hunting grounds and has left
no fitting successor, and the cattle king
is going. Perhaps much of the romance
of the old days vanished with these
departing actors In the drama of life,
but if it did it has been supplanted by
something that is more remunerative
than romance. The "long white horns
of the cattle" no longer gleam through
the grass "like foam on the adverse
currents of ocean," for the simple rea-
son that the 'blooded shorthorn has
taken the place of the picturesque ani
mal of early "cattledom." The dugout
and birchbark of the Indian have been
supplanted by the gasoline launch and
the steamboat. The industry and inge
nuity of man have evened up the dis
proportionate prodigality of Nature by
draining the surplus water out of some
localities where 4t is not needed and
turning it oh others where it is needed.
The Klamath country w;as a little slow
in being discovered by capital, but is
now "on the map" In every sense of the
phrase.
The development now under way and
the latent resources of the country are
of a character and scope that oannot
fail to impress the Portland visitors,
and if they return, as they undoubtedly
will, with any practical suggestions by
which the metropolis of the Pacific
Northwest can secure a larger propor
tion of the trade of that rich and in
teresting region, the trip will have
proven well worth while.
AN APOSTLE OF CHEERFULNESS.
President David Starr Jordan, of
Stanford University, Is an apostle of
cheerfulness. He is quite certain that
San Francisco will not suffer another
severe earthquake "for a generation or
two." The crack in the rock crust of
the earth, to which he says the late
earthquake was due, opened for its
whole length an old break, or "fault,"
on the 18th of last April, thus relieving
a strain for 200 miles on land and at
least as great a distance in the sea.
While this cleft is fresh he assumes
that the region that It traverses will
be immune from earthquakes, except
for slight tremors that he calls "wave
lets of adjustment."
Looking above the human elements in
the disaster; above the camps of the
refugees and the gaunt skeletons of
great-steel buildings; above the embar
rassments of trade and,' the wreck of
homes. Dr. Jordan lightly says:
An earthquake once In a generation is as
nothing beside the thousand dally charms of
sunshine, fruit and. flowers, of gentle yet
bracing climate, of noble scenery, and life
among a frank, free people with plenty of
elbow room.
Since no one dwells ' in more than
fancied security, the philosophy of Dr.
Jordan is to be commended. His cheer
ful assessment of damages a generation
or two hence is charming. It is op
timism of this kind that is rebuilding
San Francisco, and its eager blows of
sledge and hammer, demolishing and
rebuilding, awaken echoes that arouse
the wonder and the admiration of the
world.
A MILITARY TRIUMPH.
The elusive hired girl has met her
match at last. Captain Howard, of
Walla Walla, is the man who has
achieved undying fame and won the en
vying admiration of his fellow-countrymen
by actually getting the b?tter
of a cook. We suppose at least that
Miss Beller was a cook. Had she been
merely a maid of all work. Captain
Howard would scarcely have demeaned
himself to compass her defeat. Exer
cising the ancient and hitherto undis
puted prerogative of cooks, Miss Beller
flitted from the kitchen of Captain
Howard to that of Lieutenant Holcomb,
leaving the Captain to bake his own
pancakes for breakfast and wash up
the dishes, to the great detriment of
his military dignity, which is said to.be
something stupendous. According to
some accounts, he slopped dishwater all
over the gold braid on a new uniform
and spilled the yolk of an egg on his
vest front. Whether this is so or not,
something made the doughty Captain
madder than the mere flitting of a cook,
seems to account for, and he began to
meditate upon revenge. Up. and down
the parade ground at Walla Walla he
stalked, terrifying the soldiers by his
frown and casting many a dark glance
at the kitchen. windows of Lieutenant
'Holcomb, behind which the evanescent
Mi6S Beller was at that very time con
fecting a custard pie. It was a pie to
allure the soul of an epicure, golden
of tint, with a crust of mellow flaki
ness. None of your skimping, half
filled pies did Miss Beller make. They
fairly ran over with the sweet and
golden contents. When the eye of the
gloomy Captain fell upon this triumph
of Miss Beller's art, a scheme of re
venge suddenly flashed upon him. That
pie should never he eaten. It should
never be baked. The too acquisitive
Lieutenant should never enjoy the lus
cious fruit of his seductive wiles. He
should learn that it was one thing to
steal a cook and a very different one to
partake of her custard pies.
So the Captain hied him to his tent
and forthwith Issued an edict banishing
Miss Beller from the sacred precincts
of the Walla Walla military post, and
a file of soldiers seems to have been
sent to enforce it. One tall and robust
son of Mars was commanded to set his
military boot down squarely in the
middle of the pie, lest some confederate
of the Lieutenant should bake it after
all, and then, with the band playing
and the commanding officer in full uni
form leading the procession, Miss Beller
was marched out of the post. Let no
one henceforth assert that the United
States regular Army is of no use. A
military power which is able to get the
better of a cook need fear nothing from
the allied hosts of decrepit Europe.
Captain Howard's victory is one of
those which the poets of future ages
will delight to sing, and his name be
longs to the immortal few which were
not born to die.
FAR-FETCHED AND INJURIOUS DE
CISION. '
Despite the general Impression that
the antique navigation laws of this
country are about the limit In the way
of hampering our shippers, it would
seem that there are etill depths of ob
struction which have not been sounded.
These ancient laws which cumber our
statute-books, as has often been ex
plained, prohibit American shippers
from , owning foreign-built craft.
This forces the American ship
per who is desirous of meet
ing the competition of the foreigner
to charter foreign-built vessels. The
greater part of the foreign trade of the
United States Is handled by these char
tered foreign carriers, and until recent
ly no difficulty has been experienced in
effecting favorable charters. Twelve
years ago the Boston Fruit Company,
of Boston, Mass., chartered the new
British steamship Barnstable for three
years. The owners' insurance carried
with it a collision clause, amply pro
tecting them. Less than a year after
the Barnstable' was chartered by the
American company she ran down and
sank a vessel named the Fortuna. The
Fortuna's owners sued the owners of
the Barnstable, and they in turn suc
ceeded in making the Americans a
party to the suit.
Damages" were'awarded, and then the
question of the liability between the
owners and the Boston Fruit Company
was fought out. The District Court
and the Circuit Court of Appeals both
decided that the American charterer of
a foreign ship was not responsible for
the damages caused by the negligence
of the master and crew of the vessel.
The Supreme Court of the United
States reverse! the decision, and the
Bostonians were forced to pay the
judgment. Having heard that ancient
tradition about the superior brand of
justice dispensed by the British courts,
the Boston firm took the matter up in
England in 1904. There, as in the United
States, three trials were held, the
House of Lords a few weeks ago ren
dering the final decision, in which they
held that the charterer of the vessel
was responsible for damage caused,
even though the charterer had no con
trol over the master or crew of the ves
sel. This decision is of much importance
to Pacific Coast shippers, as practically
all of the vessels running out of Port
land, and nearly all of those from Pu
get Sound, are chartered craft, and the
extra insurance which the charterers
must bear adds an additional burden to
shipping.
London Fairplay, the recognized or
gan of the British shipowners, while
withholding blame for the English
courts because their decisions were
based on well-established technical
points, comments quite vigorously on
the decision of the American court. The
editor says that the charterers "are en
titled to sympathy in connection with
the findings of the Supreme Court of
the United States. It seems to me that
in treating them practically as the
owners of the steamer which sunk the
Fortuna. the court went very far." It
is possible that the supply of obstruc
tions which can be thrown in the way
of an American citizen desirous of en
gaging in foreign trade has been ex
hausted, but there may be others. A
law might be passed making it a crime
punishable hy death for a man to at
tempt to ship anything foreign in other
than a subsidized American vessel.
Does Mrs. Russell Sage feel the bur
den of her great inheritance? Probably
not. A woman at 74 can hardly toe ex
pected to indulge in dreams of philan
thropy, feel the weight of a grave re
sponsibility or look forward with zest
to the enjoyment and disbursement of
a vast income. Mrs. Sage Is an unpre
tentious woman not old, since people
who take care of themselves do not get
old in these days; but no longer young.
All of her habits of life are fixed and
her thoughts run along unruffled in
accustomed channels. The lessons of
life have been weld learned. Chief of
these under her tutor was frugality.
The mistress of millions is not likely,
therefore, to break away into a. more
extensive or expensive mode of life
than that to which she has long been
accustomed. She will probably see the
world out of her Fifth-avenue windows,
the mere possessor of enormous wealth,
until the end comes, which, according
to Nature, cannot be many years away.
Wheat on the light lands in the Walla
Walla country is running 18 to 25 bush
els per acre, and on the "best lands from
40 to 45 bushels per acre, with some
fields as high as 52 bushels per acre.
These yields are in districts where seri
ous damage to the crop was reported
before harvest began. It is to be hoped
that the damage elsewhere in the Pa
cific Northwest is on the same compre
hensive scale as that around Walla
Walla. Grain bags are high and the
price of wheat is lower than at this
date last season, but, with the light
lands turning oft 25 . bushels per aero
and barley running as high as 60 bush
els per acre, most of the big farmers of
the Walla Walla country will continue
to wear silk stockings and smoke im
ported Havanas as they whizz around
in their automobiles.
Wise indeed was Solomon when he
stated that there was nothing new un
der the sun. For proof of this wisdom,
see daily papers. The master of the
ocean liner, cutting the corners to save
time, wrecks his ship and hundreds
perish. Same old story, nothing new.
The dishonest Chicago bank officials
loot the institution and flee to Canada.
Victimized people kill themselves or try
to mob somebody. Same old story,
nothing new. New York architects
meet and pass resolutions of regret
over the killing of Stanford White, a
lecherous man-about-town. Same old
story, nothing new. Mr. Harriman's
San Francisco employes promise Port
land an improved steamship service.
Same-old story, nothing new. But why
continue? "It's the same thing over
and over again."
The Walla Walla servant girl who
left a Captain's family to work for a
Lieutenant's wife was plainly unfitted
for a military life. She would upset
the whole scheme of -Army post ethics,
which are that a Captain's wife is a
little better socially than a Lieuten
ant's, a Major's than a Captain's, a
Colonel's than a Major's, and so on;
in other words, the older the ladies are
the better, which Is as it should be.
The War -Department might avoid fu
ture trouble of a similar kind by ex
cluding domestic servants altogether
from military reservations.
Even the proud distinction of having
six toes on each foot failed to save the
Hon. Leslie M. Shaw from defeat by
the Iowa Republicans who do not wor
ship at the shrine of the standpatters,
and his iprestlge as a Presidential can
didate Is gone forever. With tariff re
vision sentiment gaining so rapidly.
Governor Cummins is indeed a "cum
min' " man. . ,
One million dollars was lost by the
defunct Milwaukee avenue bank officers
through bad "investments" of the de
positors' money. If the investments
had heen good, the profit would have
gone to the investors, and not to the
depositors. Great business, handling
other people's money when you haven't
got to tell anybody what you are doing
with it.
Twenty-two thousand poor depositors
were swindled by two or three frenzied
Chicago financiers, and there is no
remedy but to put the bankers in jail,
if they can toe caught. But a Jail sen
tence will not give the victims their
money back. An efficient law and hon
est and thorough inspection would have
kept their money for them, though.
General Andre called General Neg
rler a liar, and General -Negrier called
General Andre a liar for calling him a
liar. In the ensuing duel. General Neg
rier didn't fire, and General Andre
missed. Are we to infer that the
doughty Generals are both 'better
marksmen with their tongues than with
their pistols?
The narrow escape from a jailbreak
of serious proportions at the County
Jail, Monday, suggests unlimited pos
sibilities for such affairs if the control
of the prisoners Is taken away from the
Sheriff and turned over to an indis
criminate lot of waiters and cooks who
might be sent in by the contractor for
meals. - . .
In the rush of business in Russia
General Stoeseel seems to have been
forgotten. He was the man who held
Port Arthur against the Japanese until
he could hold It no longer A solemn
court-martial sentenced him to death.
Has he been executed? Or has he sim
ply dropped out in the bloody shuffle?
The latest Iowa ddea seems to have
been to retire Mr. Shaw as a candidate
for the Presidency in order that Presi
dent Roosevelt might he able to retain
the services of a mighty good Secre
tary of the Treasury.
Now is about the time to scan the
Eastern papers for the .picture of the
winsome young man who has set out to
convince Mrs. Sage that $100,000,000 is
really too much for a lone widow to
look after.
We are not disposed to raise the use
less question as to how much that dol
lar Democratic campaign fund would
have been worth if Mr. Bryan had had
his way in the troublous days of 96.
Among other heinous crimes of
which the Mormons are found guilty by
Senator Dubois, they usually vote the
Republican ticket in Idaho. And they
have female suffrage there, too.
Some of the details of the Democratic
State Convention at Coeur d'Alene City,
Idttho, would indicate that the Russian
Douma has no monopoly of strenuous
politics.
There are something like forty rea
sons why the Russian strike failed. But
a growing love and loyalty for the Czar
were not among them.
The gamblers are toeing driven out
of Saratoga, N. Y and there is now no
place for them to go, unless they go
to work.
JULY IN SAN FRANCISCO.
How the City la Recovering From It
Great Disaster.
Progress Bulletin, July 31.
Wonderful activity .has been shown
Jn all lines in San Francisco during the
month of July, and reconstruction work
has been pushed with vigor.
There was' a loss of 335,000 of the
city's population during the first month
after the fire, and it is estimated that
more than 200,000 have returned, while
50,000 are waiting in nearby cities for
accommodations in order that they may
return. The present population is estl
mated at S65.0JO.
Transcontinental railroads report
eastbound travel as normal, while west
bound travel is far above normal.
The number of people receiving re
lief in the city has been reduced from
223,030 during the first week, to less
loan 17.000.
Hotel accommodations are now sat
isfactory, and are fast being placed in
condition to care for all who may come.
Dealers in all lines note a demand
for high-class articles. Those who
stocked with cheap goods, especially
in the line of clothing, have been dis
appointed and are hurrying orders for
better goods.
Seven theaters are playing to good
houses every evening. Others are in
course of erection.
Labor supply shows but little im
provement. There is great demand for
ordinary laborers and In all depart
ments of tne building trades.
In the state conditions indicate one
of tho most prosperous' years in the
history of California. Banks report
good business. Crops are exceptionally
good, especially grain. Labor is in de
mand at good wages for harvesting
grain and fruit.
Reports from mining districts indi
cate a greater output of mineral wealth
than for several years past.
The following summary shows condi
tions in San Francisco:
July building permits issued, 470.
Value $3,514,000.
Real estate transfers, 610.
Building contracts recorded, 132.
Value $1,282,506.
Bank clearings, $160,631,793.87. In
crease over July of 1905, 8i per cent.
Tonnage of the port of San Francis
co, 63 4S9.
Class A buildings being rehabilitat
ed, 35.
Class A buildings occupied, 18.
Permanent buildings under construc
tion, 66.
Temporary buildings under con
struction, estimated, 4500.
Firms doing business In burned dis
trict, estimated. 6J0O. .
Number of men. doing construction
work, estimated, 25,000.
Average number of cars of debris
removed daily, 100.
IX THE OREGON COUNTRY.
With the Old Folks.
Walla Walla Argus.
Mrs. Martha Gwinn, aged 78 years, ap
peared at the Walla Walla Land Office
yesterday to make final proof on her
homestead near Touchet.
John Bowman, who is the mechanic for
the Sparks Bros.' combine, was in the
city yesterday forenoon for repairs for
the harvester. Mr. Bowman will cele
brate the 70th anniversary of his birth
Sunday, and is yet able to take his place
In the harvest fields, along with the
younger bloods.
Helix Herald.
Mrs. Elizabeth AVyrick, one of the pio
neers of Umatilla' County, visited with
her grandson, Frank Myers, a couple of
days the first of the week. While she
has reached the ripe age of S3, she is in
full possession of her faculties, keeps
house for herself, and sees to It that she
is not a burden to any one. She is as
jolly and full of fun as many women 30
years younger..
"I'm Captain Jinks."
Walla Walla Statesman.
It looks as if the servant-girl problem
has been solved at Fort Walla Walla
But such solution cannot be expected
with us poor civilians, who are not pro
moted from dinky officers to high com
mand.
Hymns Are Sung for "Uncle Joe."
Rushville. Ind., dispatch to New York
Sun.
Joseph G. Cannon, Speaker of the
House, was the guest of James E. Wat
son, his "whip" last night. Upon his
arrival at 6 o'clock "Uncle Joe" sug
gested his fondness for the old-time
religious hymns, and a song service
was arranged Immediately.
Church choirs were depleted by the
committee on entertainment and the
best talent in the city hurried to the
home of Hon. J. K. Gowdy to sing for
the statesman.
The musicians entered into the spirit
of the occasion and sang as they never
had before. "Rock of Ages," the Speak
er's favorite, was the climax of the
evening's devotion. The music began
Immediately after dinner, which was
served at the Gowdy home.
Flip of the Coin Settle Offices.
Marion, Ind., Dispatch.
Being unable to decide between two as
pirants. Mayor K. W. Swezey appointed
both Dr. O. W. McQuown and Dr. K.
O. Harrold to the office of city health
officer, each to serve pne-half of the
term. The doctors tossed a coin to de
termine who would serve the first half.
Dr. McQuown won. He took up the du
ties at once, and will serve one and one
half years, when Dr. Harrold will finish
the term.
Maybe Peaee Prlae for Roosevelt.
New Tork Tribune.
Rumor from Washington, D. C, says
that the Nobel peace prize this year is
to be awarded to President Roosevelt,
on the recommendation of a number of
universities. If any further recommen
dation is needed, it can be supplied
without the slightest difficulty either
In America, Europe or Asia.
American Editor for Londoners.
St. Louis Globe Democrat.
S. J. Pyron, who was formerly con
nected with the newspapers of New
York, and who has been prominently
Identified with several . English news
papers, has been appointed managing
editor of the London Tribune.
Sent From the Hntrhet Department
Kansas City Star.
Finally it occurred to the Czar that
the Douma was overduema.
Only a Poor Millionaire.
St. Louts Globe-Democrat.
The millionaire sat In his chair.
And madly tore his store-bought hair.
And moaned In bitter pain.
Ah, woe was his! Tou know It Is
An awful thins;, this Croesus biz
And sans; this sad refrain:
"I am only a poor millionaire;
No friends have I;
The people all hate me, the papers berate
me.
I wonder. why?
I have but a million they say ifs a billion.
And that all my wealth Is a taint;
That I am inhuman and don't know what's
due men,
I know I am not and it ain't!
'If I don't own an auto car.
They say I am short:
I trot out a "wagon," they say I'm a dragon
And run over people for sport. .
If my money In bank I keep I'm a "crank,"
A miser, a gold hoarding boor.
But If I Invest It, they say, or suggest It, .
That I am oppressing the poor.
"If I attempt to give away
My wealth I'm Pluto's minion.
My gift they describe as attempting to
bribe
Through public opinion.
My wealth's a disgrace, and I have no place
On earth; and I can't get in heaven.
For It's no use to try tarough the needle,
Its eye.
The came) cannot be driven.
MRS. SAGE'S VIEWS ON" MONEY.
She Is of the Opinion That Women Are
Not Born Financiers.
New York World.
These are some extracts from the writ
ten or spoken opinions of Mrs. Sage.
They all point to the same ideal of the
home, the wife, the mother, reverence
for God and man. which have made the
wife of the financier beloved by all who
came In contact with her:
"A woman," she writes, "has much
more trouble with money than a man
does. Women are not born financiers.
and they don't know how to handle for
tunes as men do. Besides, when a wom
an is known to be charitably inclined
impostors fairly besiege her.1'
"The proud and lazy certainly don t
deserve help."
"I approve of founding homes one for
transients who have no money to pay for
accommodations at hotels and one for
permanent residents."
"The higher education of women docs
not mean clothes and frivolity. It means
the advancement of the sex, the ad
vancement of man a step forward for
the whole race. It means a better ob
servance of the American Sabbath, a
higher plane for the American home."
"The danger of International marriages
the wedding of our young American
girls to titled foreigners lies not in the
possibility of the loveless alliance dic
tated by ambition nor in the diverting of
American wealth, but in the belittling of
American traditions."
"Society needs more sleep. Society peo
ple are burning out their lives in the ef
fort to keep up with one another, and
the effect on the next generation will be
deplorable."
"Love in a cottages Is quite romantic,
but human nature is alike the world over
and will not be denied. Some women
will always be envious of their more for
tunate sisters. A men should be pretty
well fixed financially before he is married
if he would live happily in New York."
"Thi-s display of luxury on the part of
the rich before the eyes of the poor is a
sin and should be punishable by social
law."
"A wife should have an allowance not
a carte blanche order on her grocer or
milliner for what the household needs
but a regular cash allowance or salary.
Several women in this city whose hus
bands are worth millions are driven to
borrow money from tradespeople and have
it put on their bills."
"There would be little in the servant
problem if our families were more do
mestic and if the mistress of the home
took more interest in every-day af
fairs." "Character is a perfectly educated will.
Women have leaped barriers, overcome
obstacles, achieved splendid victories, but
self-mastery is still to be learned. 'He
that ruleth his spirit is greater than he
that taketh a city' may be said of women
as well as of men. That this ruling of
the spirit does not prevail everywhere is
evidenced in the frequent and bitter ani
mosities and recriminations in women's
societies and clubs."
"I am fearful that the future of the
Nation will be ruined by the degeneracy
of its women. It may sound strange to
say this in the 20th century, with all the
boasted advantages of higher education
but the very fight for equality seems to
be accomplishing this. Equality in the
higher sense does not seem to be possi
ble. The woman is dragged down once
she begins to take on man's ways.
"I think that men appreciate an edu
cated woman. Husbands of Buch women
certainly do. Education does not detract
from a woman s fascination.
"Women start a club with an object In
view, an ambition to attain, Men have
nothing In view beyond material com
forts. Men's clubs certainly do not make
for good citizenship. If woman had the
suffrage she would appreciate -it more
than to sneak, off to a country club on
election day. .The men's club, besides, is
the hotbed of gossip. Half the divorce
scandals are made public through the
clubs, and much misery made permanent
that otherwise might be a passing domes
tic cloud."
"Cabby" Alfred . Vanderbllt.
New York Herald.
"Cabby" Alfred G. Vanderbllt and wife
returned to Newport from Atlantic City,
where he drove the public coach Venture
and at the horse show came out No. 1
in the list of winners among the many
exhibitors.
Mr. Vanderbllt drove to the Casino with
his chum. Willing Spencer, arid his close
friend, Munson Morris. No sooner had
Mr. Vanderbilt reached the entrance than
congratulations began. The cottagers
were proud of his winnings at the horse
show.
"Do you like being a cabby ?" was asked.
Mr. Vanderbilt smiled for the hundredth
time and replied:
"It's great sport. Sure, I intend to con
tinue. My badge number was not 23. It
will be kept with my other coaching tro
phies." The Alfred Vanderbilts have gone to
Long Branch for the horse show there.
Edison's 2.0O-Mlle Auto Trip.
Baltimore News.
Thomas A. Edison is planning a 2500
mile automobile trip this month. He will
be accompanied by his wife, his daughter
and his son and a few friends. Three
automobiles will be used. The trip wiil
take in Buffalo, Toronto, Upper New
York, Maine, and other points in New
England and Canada, where Mr. Kdisorf
will continue his researches into the co
balt deposits.
A Lesson In Empire Building.
Toronto Mail and Empire.
Canadians resident In England have pre
sented a superb silver centerpiece to t'J-.
new British battleship Dominion. On the
base is inscribed, "One life, one flag, one
fleet, one throne."
As the Brook Runs.
Everybody's.
As a stilt brook within the woodland's green
Sings softly to Itself the livelong day,
Vnconsclous of its gentle roundelay.
Its open purity and silver sheen
Knowing not how In all that wild demesne
Its music is a strain the angels play
And lts fair face a Jewel amid the gray,
Beshadowed places that it flows between.
So your dear love, a simple forest stream
Bearing the wealth of all that life can hold.
Nor ever dreaming of the worth that lies
Deep in your heart why, you have made It
seem
That every empty hour is wrought of gold
And this tear-sodden world, a Paradine!
SUCCESS!
. I,
WHERE YOU MUST LIVE IN A FLAT
Only 2.1 Private DwellluKa Started la
Manhattan in Six Mouths.
New York World.
Manhattan is losing its private dwell
ing homes ut a rapid rale. .
Builders have started only 25 dwell
ings in Manhattan during the first
half of the year. In the meantime the
destruction of old dwellings to make
way for business expansion or for large
flats has exceeded 500 houses.
The total estimated cost of building
the 25 new dwellings is figured by the
architects at $1,335,000. This is an
average '-f $53,400 for each house. Tha
most costly dwelling was planned for
Robert S. Brewster on the southeast
corner of Park avenue and Seventieth
street, 35x76.2. It will cost $150,000. The
cneapest dwellings comprised a row ot
three three-story houses on the north
west corner of One Hundred and Sixty-
ninth street and Haven avenue fur
Adolph Wurzburger. They will cost
$10,J0u each; they are so far north.
nowever. tnat-they really ought not to
be counted among the Manhattan pro
jects. In comparison with the small num
ber of new private dwellings, the flat
houses projected by Manhattan build
ers during the first half of the year
number 664. This shows that families
who must make homes In Manhattan
are being crowded steadily into nar
row flatliouse districts.
In further comparison, the first half
of the year lias seen S00 private dwell
ings started in The Bronx, 2303 in
Brooklyn, 1800 in Queens. In all the
suburbs, Including New Jersey and
Westchester, there are 7300 one-family
and two-family dwellings tinder con
struction as a result of the half year's
activity.
The suburban dwellings average
$3000 each in constructional -cost. The
favorite sites for such houses are in
the far suburbs. Builders are improv
ing with small houses the cheap out
lying lands, which are soon to be
drawn within quick transit lines of
Manhattan business centers. The land
nearer Manhattan, even in the sub
urbs, has udvanccd to such high prices
that it is becoming available only for
flat house improvement. Near the 211
mile circle of the new rapid transit
zone are found the most busy scenes of
small house building.
"See All the Americana You Can.
London Cable Dispatch in New York
Times.
, It lacked but ten minutes of the time
set for Bryan's departure from his hotel
to take the train for Holland, and he was
working tremendously hard and fast at
the final preparations for the journey.'
The room was littered with trunks, satch
els, shawls, umbrellas, hat boxes and an
overflow of stuff, for which Mrs. Bryan
and a friend of her husband's were striv
ing to find accommodations In a weeny
little steamer trunk. Bryan himself, in
his shirtsleeves, the perspiration pouring
off .him, was writing an important letter,
presumably about American politics.
Suddenly the door was thrown open, and
two elegantly dressed women entered, one
young and pretty, the other of middle
age and very handsome.
"We came to see the next President of
the United States," one of the two wom
en said.
Bryan turned about and saw the wom
en. Quickly rising, he advanced toward
them, smilingly apologizing for his ap
pearance. "Did you hear what we said?" the wom
an asked.
"Yes." replied Bryan. Then, speaking
with charming good nature, he added:
"If that's what you want, ladies, let
me advise you to see. all the Americans
you can, because the more you see tha
greater will be the liklihood of your
meeting the right person."
The women immediately retired.
New l.lfe for an Old "Spook House."
(Mkldletown. N. Y., Dispatch in Wash
ington. D. C, Post.
The famous "spook house," on Benton
avenue, this city, occupied by Luther R.
Marsh, the noted lawyer and one-time
partner ot Daniel Webster in his declin
ing years, has been sold to Dr. B. B.
Klnne, of Philadelphia, ' who will turn the
mansion Into a sanitarium.
Some weeks ago an effort was mad
to sell the property at public sale, but
no bidders appeared, though the prop
erty is a most desirable one. Supersti
tious people claimed the house was
haunted.
The property belonged to the estate of
Clarissa J. Huyler, the alleged medium,
who, it Is said, for years duped the ven
erable Luther R. Marsh- It was here
that Mrs. Huyler dictated the greater
part of one of Marsh's well-known
books, "Tho Voice From the Patriarchs."
Mrs. Huyler called to earth the spirits
of the many Biblical characters, anil
Marsh communed with them, putting
their words in his book. It is understood
that the house was sold at a sacrifice.
Captured TroIIey-Cai to Cateh Train.
Chicago Dispatch.
Passengers on a southbound Halsted
street car were badly frightened when a
woman pushed the motorman from the!
front platform and ran the car at hlgft
speed for nearly a mile. No stops werd
made for passengers to get on or off,
and the car collided with coal wagons
and other vehicles along the route. Sev
eral women In thecar. thinking an Insane
person was at the lever, became hyster
ical and had to be held by the male pas
sengers to prevent them from leaping to
the street. The woman who caused the
terror and excitement was Mrs. S. H.
Chidester. of Evergreen Park.' 14 miles
southwest of Chicago. She wanted to
catch a train at the Halsted and Forty-ninth-street
station, and for that reason
took possession of the car. The conductor,-
assisted by several men passengers,
overpowered her after she had run the
car six blocks and took her to a police
station. Sho convinced the police that
she was not insune and was released.
Donation for Auto Speeding VlftO.
Boston Herald.
Ambassador RelJ, who recently plead
ed Ambassadorial privilege when his
chauffeur was arrested at Barnet, Eng
land, for violating the speed law, which
caused the police to withdraw the sum
mons, has donated $150 to the Barnet Hos
pital. Passionate Cry of Prohib Town.
Topeka Uapltal.
The thing Topeka needs worse than
anything else is a bartender who can,
make a good gin rickey.
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