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PORTLAND, TUESDAY,
SEPT. 25, 1906.
CAN CUBA STAY INDEPENDENT?
The two hostile factions in Cuba
government and revolutionary have
full opportunity to adjust their quarrel
and to save their island from invasion
by a peace force of the United States
and annexation to this country. Mr.
Tart, possessing plenary powers con
ferred by President Roosevelt, has had
abundant pretext to assert the author
ity of the United States if this country
had annexation designs. But he is
holding off, playing to the utmost the
tactful role of a pacific mediator, and
proving to the world the sincerity of
President Roosevelt's declaration of
September 14:
Our Intervention in Cuban affairs will
only come If Cuba herself shows that she
has fallen Into the Insurrectionary habit;
that she lacks the self-restraint necessary
to peaceful self-government, and that her
contending factions have plunged the coun
try into anarchy.
Representatives of the warring ele
ments are to come together before Mr.
Taft and Mr. Bacon to etate their re
spective claims. The verdict of the
mediators doubtless will inipoee sacri
fices on each side, which must be ac
ctfHed by both, else the United States
will bring peace by force. In that
event it is quite likely that the Amer
ican people, seeing that Cuba lacks the
"self-restraint necessary to self-government,"
will maintain their authority in
the island indefinitely.
A few persons in the United States
would be directly benefited by annexa
tion, chief of them owners of large
sugar and tobacco properties in Cuba,
who seem to have been encouraging
the insurrection so as to lead up to an
nexation and secure free admission to
this country of their products. Annex
ation is wanted also by the commercial
interests of the island, which are cen
tered at Havana and which, according
to news dispatches, are crowding about
Taft and Bacon, urging intervention
and declaring that the security of prop
erty cannot last unless enforced by an
American drmy. "But," says a news
dispatch from Havana, "he (Taft) con
eiders it is the duty of the United
States to give the republic another
chance and believes it would be bad
policy for the United States to keep
a force in Cuba longer than is required
to supervise the laying down of arms."
In this Mr. Taft is pursuing the pol
icy enunciated by President Roosevelt
on September 14: "Our intervention in
Cuban affairs will only come if Cuba
herself shows she has fallen into the
Insurrectionary habit," adding:
I solemnly adjure all Cuban patriots to band
together to sink all differences and personal
ambitions and to remember that the only way
that they can preserve the Independence of the
republic is to prevent the necessity of outside
Interference by rescuing it from the anarchy
cf civil war.
This comes from the same President
Who himself withdrew the American
Army from Cuba and put the island in
possession of Its own people, under its
chosen government. Seven years they
have prospered as an independent peo
ple, four years under their own rulers.
This they may continue to do indefi
nitely if they will but put aside per
sonal ambitions of rival leaders and
end their strife.
Whoever are to blame for the strife
the United Stateswill not wait to learn
before pulling the wranglers apart. The
first offender really appears to be Pres
ident Palma himself, whose govern
ment used coercion in the late elections
to maintain itself, the came way as
other petty American republican gov
ernments are wont to do. The upris
ing appears to be an intemperate pro
test against the unconstitutional poli
cies of the Palma administration, of a
kind that shows its doers lack "the
'self-restraint necessary to peaceful
self-government." This ' is borne out
by the fact that while many are op
posed to revolution, few are rallying to
the support of the government. Presi
dent Palma evidently has a weak
power behind him, and well may he
resign, as the late dispatches intimate
he thinks of doing. He would have
shown a greater wisdom had he con
tinued to be the "president of all the
people" instead of becoming the head
of a party which has controlled him.
The government, .instituted ,in May,
1902, ran along smoothly enough until
Palma allied himself with the Moder
ate party lad year. Then followed epi
sodes which, now looked back upon,
preeaged this present trouble.
On April 17, 1905, Senator Manuel
Sangully. one of Cuba's ablest and
most respected public men, called at
the palace and virtually charged Pres
ident Palma to his face with the use of
his official position for the advantage
of his own and his party's interests.
In the evening of the same day General
Maximo Gomez, at an indignation
meeting at the Liberal Club, said that
he "felt the beat of revolution in the
air," and that the time had come "to
put a stop to the abuses of the gov
ernment and to the attempt to set up
an oligarchy." The Presidential cam
rjaijrn. in which this was one of the
opening incidents, was marked by
many unfortunate experiences. A
town hall was burned, Bnrique Vie
luendas was assassinated, elected Lib
eral officials were remove from their
places and Moderates were appointed to
succeed them until there were few, if
any. Liberals left in office or in gov
ernment employment. Scores of Lib
eral leaders were arrested on various
pretexts and put in jail. The situation
culminated in the withdrawal of Jose
Miguel Gomez, the Liberal candidate,
from a contest which, under the cir
cumstances, was evidently hopeless.
The island was ripe for revolt at that
time, but the friends of Cuba held their
faith in her ability to pull through with
out a conflict. Their faith was Justi
fied, mainly by the attitude of Senor
Gomez, who refused to plunge his
country into civil war. It was general
ly believed that the, crisis was past.
About four months ago careful observ
ers noted the reappearance of storm
clouds, but encountered only derision
if they called attention to them. The
storm came suddenly and unexpected
ly. It is probable that it broke before
its leaders intended it should.
But in spite of grievances It behooves
the Cubans to lav them aside and sup
press their indignation, for the sake of
their own independence. They should
seek to adjust their difficulties by other
methods than by armed conflict. In
America we bottle up our wrath until
the next election. The Cubans must
learn to hold themselves In check In
this same manner if they would have
the "self-restraint necessary to peace
ful self-government."
THE NEW YORK CONTENTIONS.
Both the Republicans and Democrats
of New York hold their etate conven
tions today; the former at Saratoga,
the latter at Buffalo. The principal in
terest of the conventions lies in their
choice of candidates for Governor.
Both parties being divided into hostile
factions headed by men who seem at
present to be irreconcilable, all predic
tions concerning the results of the con
vention are hazardous.
Still,- Mr. Hearst, who has already
been nominated for Governor by his
own Independence League, le perhaps
the strongest candidate who will go be
fore the Democratic convention. Many
county delegations have been instruct
ed to vote -for him to the end; he has
the delegations from Buffalo and Syra
cuse, and at least part of the strength
of Tammany, led by Murphy.
Hearst and Murphy xhave been ene
mies, and each has bitterly denounced
the other. Hearst has gone so far as
to declare that he did not want Mur
phy's support and would not accept it;
but papers like the Evening Post doubt
his sincerity and boldly assert that
there is a deal between the editor and
the Tammany chief, both of whom are
anathema to the old-line Jerome and
Parker style of Democrats. Jerome is
himself a candidate for the nomination,
but, unless something very unexpected
happens, he 6fands but a slim chance
against Hearst. Of course it is possi
ble that some third man, like Sulzer,
may carry off the prize from both.
Hearst's weakness before the regular
party convention is that he is not and
never has been a loyal party man; but
these are days when party loyalty does
not count for so much with the voters
as it once did, and Hearst's undoubted
strength with the discontented masses
may outweigh all his sins of independ
ence at Buffalo.
Whom the Republicans will nominate
is still more uncertain than the Demo
cratic choice. Mr. HIggins will proba
bly control the convention, since he
carried the New York City primaries,
routing the Odell forces. President
Roosevelt has in one way and another
intimated his confidence in HIggins,
but for all that he would be a weak
candidate; and it is fortunate for the
party and the people that he has de
clined a renomination.
The intellectual papers of New York
favor Mr. Hughes for the Republican
nomination. He has another advantage
in being personally agreeable to both
HIggins and Odell, while with the vot
ers he is immensely popular. But Mr.
Hughes has not sought the nomination
and may decline it if offered. It is said
that he is the only Republican now
before the public who is at all likely to
defeat Mr. Hearst, should the Demo
crats indorse the latter.
A STRANGE PROCEDURE.
Judge Prater, of the Superior Court
of King County, Washington, has pe
culiar ideas of law and of justice as
applied to the punishment of crime and
the detention of criminals. They are,
indeed, so peculiar as to be all his own,
and withal so remarkable that none are
found to Indorse them. .
A murder was committed in Seattle
some weeks ago by a fanatical young
woman; the murdered man was her
brother. An accomplice before the fact
was another young woman of unbal
anced mind. Both were subject to idio
syncrasies, miscalled religion. Having
been taken into custody and called
upon to answer, it was found that the
young women were warped mentally
in a way and to a degree that did not
justify the infliction of the death pen
alty upon them. They were classed as
irresponsible, but at the same time as
persons whom it was unsafe to set at
liberty.
The duty of Judge Frater was plain.
The State of "Washington maintains an
asylum for the insane at Steilacoom,
and to this institution these misguided,
half-crazed women should have been
committed, as persons unsafe to be at
large. Instead of pursuing this plain
and simple course. Judge Frater or
dered that the women be deported to
Oregon! The basis of this Btrange pro
cedureif It can be said to have a
basis was that Maud Creffleld and Es
ther Mitchell had formerly and Just
prior to taking up their residence in
Seattle lived in this state. v
The utter absurdity of this order Is
apparent. It would Indeed be ludicrous
were it not-likely, in effect, to prove
serious. That it is untenable in law
cannot be doubted; that it is shameful
from the simple standpoint of common
humanity is plain. The case, according
to Judge Frater, may be thus simply
stated: Maud Creffleld and Esther
Mitchell are Irresponsible criminals; it
is not in the province of the law to
punish them for the crime which they
committed in Washington, nor is it
safe for them to be at large. There
fore the court orders that they be de
ported to Oregon.
'Why Oregon? Why not send them
to Montana or Idaho? The fact that
they lived in Oregon before taking up
their residence In Washington, in
which state they committed the crime
of murder, has no bearing upon the
subject. They are not In the custody
of Oregon officials; they have commit
ted no crime in Oregon that warrants
their arrest at this time by any mem
ber of its constabulary. Who is au
thorized to ttlen the order for
commitment to the Oregon Insane Asy
lum? Surely Judge Frater is not em
powered to do It.
The proceeding is not only unusual,
it is outrageous.ince in effect it can
only result in turning looser in this
state two women of notorious life and
character, whose criminal tendencies
and instincts render it unsafe for them
to be at large. In this event the Seat
tle court may be called upon to deal
with them later, since, being free to
choose their place of domicile, they will
doubtless prefer to return to that city
and there re-establish themselves.
PORTLAND'S SI2E AND SEATTLE'S.
That Portland is the largest city in
the Pacific Northwest is clear from
comparison between it and Seattle, of
statistics that cannot be padded
school census, voters' registration and
postofflce receipts. For the two cities
they are:
' Portland's
Seattle. Portland. lead.
School census (1000) 2.ir9 23 r.no 2.341
Voters' registration 22,707 2o.266 2.49
Postoffice receipts
(year ending Mar. 1
31. 1906) 1402.044 $495,503 $38,549
For Seattle to assert its suprtmacy
in the face of these figures is ridiculous.
There can be no surer guide to popula
tion than these, except an actual cen
sus, taken according to the methods of
the National Census Bureau. The last
National census, in 1900,. gave Portland
a lead of 10,000 over Seattle, and that
Is probably not far from Portland's
lead at the present time, as indicated
by'' the 2341 names in the school census
and the 2499 more names in the voters'
registration. ,
These figures cannot be "doctored,"
even at Seattle. They show unmistak
ably that the metropolis of the Pacific
NorttfWest is Portland. Against them
Seattle tries to put padded bank clear
ings and "directory statistics." But
such ' fakes cannot deceive. Seattle's
clearings are swelled each day with
heavy unpaid balances of the day be
fore, while Portland's are paid daily in
cash. And Seattle's directory popula
tion is swelled by inclusion of persons
whose names do not go into a legiti
mate directorj". Besides, the Seattle
system expands real estate transfer to
tals by enlarging to actual values deals
which go into Portland's total .at $1
and by marking up building permits to
full fcost of structures, while in Port
land only the partial cost is Included.
This padding makes a big exhibit, to
be sure. But it cannot . be put into
school census or voters' registration or
postofflce receipts. Where Seattle can
not apply its padding "system" it falls
behind Portland.
Does Portland wish to adopt this sys
tem? If so, its banks can make a
showing that will outdo Seattle's and
stop that city from leading the weekly
clearings of this city by 40 per cent.
Its real estate buyers and sellers can
mark up $1 deals to true figures, and
its contractors and builders can include
full cost "of construction in building
permits. The possibilities within range
are so immense that Seattle would be
far outdistanced.
Seattle boasts of 206,000 population
(city directory). Its actual population
is about 115,000. Portland's directory
makes out 185,000 for this city, though
why it stopped at this figure is not
clear, when it could have passed that
of the other city. The actual popula
tion of Portland is about 125,000, ar.d,
with suburbs included, less than 140,000,
as is proved by the state census of
1905 (ilO.000), and the school census of
1906. Seattle's smaller school census
and voters' registration make plain
that its population is less than Port
land's. .
WHEREIN DOWIE JAILED.
His parting message to the band of
followers at- Shlloh House Sunday af
ternoon reveals the fatal weakness of
John Alexander Dowie. Appeal for a
little money, confession that his heart
was broken and once more laying the
blame of his downfall at the door of
his wife, show that he lacks much of
the fighting spirit of Napoleon, with
whom he has often been compared.
Now that he is dpwn and out, it is
interesting to inquire what manner of
man Dowie was. Contemporary opin
ioTl by shrewd, observing neighbors Ju
dicially inclined may be safely accepted
as correct; therefore value attaches to
the following estimates from Chicago
newspapers, called forth by the ZIon
City election last Tuesday, when by
vote of the commonwealth its founder
and chieftain was formally renounced
and banished. Says the Chronicle:
No absolute charlatan, no mere quack, no
comple'e impostor, ever has done the things
that Dowie has done. To begin as a street
preacher and to foud a sect numbering al
most 100,000 members scattered over all the
world, to build a city and to establish flour
ishing industries, to gain 'and hold (until
physical ills impaired Intellectual vigor)
the loyalty and unquestioning obedience of
every one of his people these are achievements
Impossible to any but a man- of commanding
force, of dominating temper. No mere adven
turer or aelf-consclousj pretender would have
been capable of them. It has been frequently
asserted by people who saw him from a dis
tance that Dowie was a make-believe and im
postor that he laughed in his sleeve at the
claims to Inspiration which he made the basis
of his ecclesiastical organization. Nothing could
be further from the truth.
With the Elijah incident in mind, the
Tribune is disappointed but not down
cast because there was nothing sensa
tional in the exit; because no whirl
wind triumphantly enveloped him and
no chariot of fire bore him dramatic
ally to celestial regions. Concerning
his integrity, it says: "If he imposed
on others, he imposed also on himself.
That he believed unequivocally in him
self, and to a degree at least in the
honesty of his mission, may be freely
admitted. At no time since the begin
ning of the troubles that have over
whelmed him has he admitted his falli
bility or receded from a position of
God-given prerogative. To the last he
was defiant and self-assertive."
Dowie's biographer will write the
story of a unique achievement by a
man of commanding force. Under new
leadership, or a commune with only
nominal governing power, Zion may
slowly fall to pieces; it willrobably
begin to grow weaker at once. Al
ready it is less cohesive. While in
many ways Dowie was strong, lie
seems to have lacked intellectual vital
ity; he had not the mental endurance
to hold his self-created place of spirit
ual and temporal dictator. And his
biographer, recording the- Immediate
cause of his failuae, cannot overlook
the fact that he was .deficient in com
mon business sense.
Evidence that brain work is condu
cive to longevity is offered by the 70th
anniversary of Professor Edward Zel
ler's promotion to the degree of doctor,
simultaneously with the retirement, at
S2, ' of Professor Kuno Fischer from
Heidelberg and -the completion of his
70th year by Professor Johannes Ranke.
The .youngest ,of .the' three Is best,
known to the general public by his
book, "Der Mensch," of which Virchow
said that Germany ought to pride her
self on having produced it. Fischer for
more than thirty years has been the
most popular professor at Heidelberg.
His knowledge, Imagination and elo
quence enabled him to make a lecture
on a dry metaphysical problem so in
teresting that the students would ap-'
plaud it like a play or a political ad
dress. To the venerable Zeller, now in
his 93d year, all the honors possible to
a scholar have come. He has been
made honorary doctor of all four fac
ulties in succession by the Universities
of Heidelberg, . Tubingen, Edinburgh
and Marburg. He began his career as
a theologian and stands at the head of
historians of .Greek philosophy, as
Fischer does of historians of German
philosophy.
The illness of the Sultan calls atten
tion to the attitude of the Turkish
court toward modern medical science.
Abdul Hamid II was brought up under
the' care of a Greek physician, Mawro
genl Pasha, who taught him the rules
of personal hygiene from his childhood.
He advised the ruler to abandon the
old palace and build a new one on
higher ground. He was responsible for
numerous modern hospitals in the prov
inces as well as the capital. But he
fell into disfavor and was supplanted
as head of the medical staff by Beiram
Effendi, an Albanian, who scorned
medical science. He knew nothing
whatever of surgery, and antagonized
it fanatically. Bernhard Stern ' relates
in his recent volume on the Sultan that
during the last war with Greece Bei
ram would not allow the wounded to
be operated on, his argument being
that if God willed It they would recover
anyway, and, If not, amputation would
be a crime. He rejected antisepsis.
Llsterism and iodoform, and spoke dis
respectfully of the microbe theory. The
Sultan's personal attitude at present is
by no means hostile, to medical science.
September weather, though in the
main pleasant and enjoyable to urban
residents, has been vexatious and in a
degree disastrous to farmers of the
Willamette "Valley. This is especially
true of hop and prunegrowers. Up to
the first of September both of these
crops promised large returns to grow
ers, but rain, succeeded by several
days of Summer heat, caused the
prunes first to crack ano? then to drop
untimely "and drove hop-pickers from
the yards. While a large percentage of
both crops will be saved in excellent
condition in some localities, a consider
able proportion of both will be lost in
others. The conditions are those
against which no foresight can provide.
The loss will be overcome to some ex
tent by the good prices that are in
prospect for hops. The situation rep
resents one of the vicissitudes of agri
culture to which farmers in every land.
however favored, are liable.
Thrifty hop-fcickers are coming home
with substantial earnings, notwith
standing some days of disagreeable
weather in the fields. The hop harvest
means in aggregate thousands of dol
lars' in .wages every year a healthful
and pleasant outing ' in pleasant
weather.'Bchoolbooks for a multitude of
children, fresh paint and paper on
many family living-rooms, the final
payment on many homes, and the as
surance of money wherewith to pay
taxes on many farms.
The boomer's method of finding a
city's population is not to count the
people, but to take a city directory,
count the pages, multiply them by the
names on a page, and the result by
whatever multiple the fancy of the
boomer suggests. This is a most rea
sonable and satisfactory method, for if
you don't get enough population to suit
everybody you can either increase ;the
number of pages or the multiple, and
get any result you wish.
According to the estimate of School
Superintendent Robinson, of Multno
mah County, the saving to the people
of the state by supplying free text
books to pupils of the public schools
would be $30,000 a year. Professor Rob
inson is an educator of! large experi
ence and of devotion to his work. His
view of the subject, given in detail in
The Oregonian yesterday, is worthy of
the consideration of legislators. '
Tha bmintv nf TTnnd T?ivr nrfharc
astonishes all but the owners. They1
know what it takes to make the apple
crop "of that region abundant, and
every specimen of the output toothsome
and fair to look upon. This knowledge
applied to planting, cultivating, spray
ing, picking and packing sends an
abundant and faultless apple crop,
year after year, from the orchards of
Hood River to market.
The Missouri River has not been
used by steamboats in Missouri for
twenty years; but now great popular
excitement has "been created by putting
in a new steamer to ply between Kan
sas City and St. Louis. It will be the
function of the new steamboat line to
bring the railroads to time. Evidently
the Missouri has some points In com
mon with the Columbia.
The People's Lobby proposes to keep
its eye on Congress, and report its
misdeeds to. the country. The idea is
not original, for some very startling
volunteer work has been done along
the same line for the past several
years. But no doubt It will help a lot
if Congress knows it is being watched.
Candidate Adorn, af Buffalo, might
make a powerful point for himself by
raising the issue as to whether Niagara
Falls was the original site of the Gar
den of Eden. Mark Twain says it was,
and he seems to know as much as any
body about it.
I
The American bluejacket thinks he is
entitled to go into any public place he
pleas.es, and is going to law about it.
The usual bluejacket method is to go
in anyway and let the other fellow go
to the courts.
Speaker Cannon says he isn't run
ning for President. Mr. Gompers
hasn't even made him stay at home to
run for Congress. But he is running
very well just the same, under absent
treatment.
From ' one "view the Cubans can
hardly be blamed for wanting a change
aften seven or eight years of peace.
Their patience, compared with that of
their cousins in Central and South
America has been extraordinary.
If Mr. Taft will steam up and come
back t full speed, he may get home
before the 'Cubans fall to again. But
let them try it while he is there!
. We'll see today whether they can put
Mr. Hearst off at Buffalo.
BRYAN 1ST THE SOUTHLAND.
Government Ownership of Railroads Is
Repudiated.
Savannah News.
It is a well-known fact that all of the
southerners who went to New York to
welcome Mr. Bryan on his return to this
country urged him to drop this question
of government ownership of railroads in
his reception speech, but they succeesed
only in getting him to modify his re
marks in respect to it It is doubtful if
there is man of prominence in public life
in the south that favors government own
ership of railroads. Southerners object to
4it on account of the centralization tend
ency of such ownership and because of
the race complications that would be
brought about. It would be hard for Mr.
Bryan to arouse great enthusiasm in the
South as the Presidential candidate of the
Democratic party if he should insist upon
his proposition relative to the government
ownership of railroads.
Not Jefferson Democracy.
Dallas (Tex.) News.
No intelligent person who has studied
Jefferson and other teachers of sound
Democracy can fall to note that Mr.
Bryan's scheme is directly antagonistic to
the same. The fundamental principle of
Jeffersonidn democracy was opposition to
centralized governments Jefferson re
garded that as the beginning and sure
forerunner of political corruption and de
cay. Thomas Jefferson is supposed to
have been a Democrat, but if he was a
Democrat then it is difficult to under
stand the democracy of the man who
would ignore and subvert the fundament
al principles upon which the high priest
of democracy based all his arguments in
favor of free government.
Destroys State Sovereignty. '
Houston Post.
Federal ownership of railroads would
practically destroy the state sovereignty
of which we are so jealous. There many
people in Texas who once claimed mem
bership in Hhe Populist party and they
nominally favored government owner
ship, but there is no reason to believe the
property-owning people of this state
wouJd, after full discussion, ever be will
ing to surrender their control of trans
portation to the Federal government, nor
would they be willing to issue hundreds
of millions of dollars' worth of bonds to
be sold at a discount in order to acquire
the least valuable lines. '
Flouts Southern Opinion.
, Louisville Herald.
Not a ghost of a chance would Mr. Bry
an have for the Presidency without the
support of the South. Yet he deliberately
sets at naught what he must know to be
the fundamental belief of the South in
the matter of government ownership of
railways. Does he think that the South
ern white man is prepared to accept any
and all doctrines he propounds without
doubt or Investigation? Doe? he think
that the South is bound to him hand and
foot, that he has but to command, the
serf obey? Time, if such be his belief, for
the South to assert herself. -
Impossible In Every Way.
New Orleans PlcayuneN
The simple fact is that there Is no
practicable way in which the government
can get possession of the roads without
paying an enormous amount of money,
and that would so load the American peo
ple with taxes that they would not stand
for It. This taxation would create a
bloody revolution at home while confisca
tion would bring on foreign wars, and in
either case, as matters now stand, gov
ernment control of the railroads is im
possible. Pleases No One But Himself.
Charleston News and Courier.
Mr. Bryan can have no excuse for tan.
gentiai aberrations at this time. Indul
gence in dreamland reveries about gov
ernment ownership are useless even if
harmless and can serve no other purpose
than to please Colonel Bryan.
Gives Estate to a Former Walter.
Denver Dispatch in New York. Times.
David H. Moffat, the banker and
railroad builder of Colorado, whose
particular friend is Thomas Gay,' ex
head waiter of the Fifth-Avenue Hotel,
New York, desires Gay to live near
him, and as the first step in that direc
tion has purchased 158 acres in Routt
County, near Steamboat Springs, on
which he is erecting a commodious
Summer home for Gay.
The land will be fenced, and will
have an artificial lake, golf links, a
tennis court, etc., making a place
where Gay can.pend his Summers and
entertain Mr. Moffat. Good fishing and
hunting can be had within a few miles
of the place.
The news of Mr. Moffat's latest gift
to "Old Tom" Gay, waiter and head
waiter of the Fifth-Avenue Hotel, for
the last 53 years, occasioned only mild
surprise to his friends here. The Den
ver banker has taken "Old Tom" with
him twice to Europe, has carried him
around the country in his private car
and entertained the veteran waiter in
hlB own home. Their friendship is" of
many years' standing.
Thomas Gay is a man of considerable
education, and has known all the great
men oi two generauons.
Prick's Star In the Ascendant.
Wall-Street Journal.
It is becoming dally more and mora
evident that the -name of Henry C. Frick
must be added to the constellation of
railroad stars composed of Morgan, Har
riman. Rockefeller, Hill, Cassatt, Gould,
Moore and Vanderbilt. The star of Frick
is in the ascendant. It may be that one
or two of the other stars who appear to
be somewhat In the shadow may in the
process of stellar realignment be eclipsed
altogether.
Kansas Blows a Long Toot-oot.
Exchange.
Corn near Lake View, Kan., 15 feet
high, with ears 15 inchss long; apples
at Lone Star that weigh a pound apiece;
plants at Lawrence (the calladlum elo-
phanta) with leaves 8 feet 3 inches long,
3 feet 1 inch wide and 11 feet 6 Inches
in circumference. The owner of the corn
had to use a nine-foot step-ladder to get
to the ears.
' NEWSPAPER WAIFS.
Knlcker "Which side of the house does
the baby resemble?" Bocker "The outside.
Don't you see bow red he Is?" Harper's
Basar.
In Debtors' Heaven "What do you under
stand by the promise that the first shall be
last. In the hereafter?" "Why. It refers to the
first of the month. I suppose. Gives a fellow
four weeks more, you know." Puck.
Foreigner "Scientists agree that climates
are changing all over the globe. Is there not
fear that the American climate may change
for the worse?" American (confidently) "Oh,
no. It couldn't." New York Weekly.
"You don't realise that there are other
considerations in lite than money," said the
censorious friend. "Yea, 1 do," answered
Senator Sorghum. "But whenever I want any
thing done 1 can't get the other fellow to
realise It." Washington Btar.
Mrs. Hlghmus "You ought to have heard
the sermon at our church last Sunday. It
was on Beelrebub." Mrs. Sudden-Klymer -
"Ah. yes; he's an Interesting character. By
the way for I seem to nave forgotten for the
moment what does the B. L. stand for?"
Chicago Tribune.
WHERE LIES THE SHAME.
Some Papers Think It Is In Being;
Caught.
Bend Bulletin.
The Prineville Review. In speaking
of "the shame of Oregon ' due to the
land fraud exposures, says:
"The public would never have known
it was injured by any of the defend
ants except Puter had it not been for
Hitchcock and The Oregonian."
"The public would never have
known!" Does the Review mean to
imply that the shame of a rascally
deed consists only In being caught In
the act? Is it honorable to steal as
long as you are not found out and as
long as the public does not know that
it is being robbed? Wherein lies the
real shame and dishonor of unlawful
deeds in the deed itself or in being
caught and exposed? Which would
react ultimately more to a state s
shame and dishonor: To have a horde
of thieves holding her high offices
and corrupting her citizenship, or to
have the office-holding thieves and
their accomplices exposed and pun-.
ished?
This silly ranting by some of Ore
gon's papers against the Government's
land-fraud prosecutions is disgusting
and in Itself is a cause for shame. It
must be evxaent to anyone wuo iwi-
lowed the evidence in the recent trials
In Portland that the defendants were
guilty guilty of an elaborately laid
conspiracy to rob the Government in
other words, to steal. Just ordinary.
every-day, "low-down" stealing. It
would be much more to Oregon's honor
for her citizens to unite In condemning
such rank rascality, rather than to de
fend the accused and attack the Gov
ernment's policy of prosecution.
Complains of Too Much Salary.
Chicago Chronicle.
;Charles E. Hunter, chief clerk In the
District Court of Oklahoma City, has
established an astounding record. He
declares his Intention to resign his po
sition and gives as his chief reason
the fact that the fees of his office are
exorbitant. A month ago he gave em
phasis to his views on this matter by
writing to the Department of Justice
suggesting that court clerks in the ter
ritory be put on a stipulated salary of
$3500 a year. In 90 days the clerk
fees in Hunter's district amounted to
more than S6000, which is at the rate
of about $25,000 a year. Hunter insists
that this is little short of wholesale
robbery of litigants, and that the evil
should be corrected. He was a Rough
Rider 6ergeant in the Spanish-American
War and owes his present position
to President Roosevelt, who admires
him.
Lace Found In? a Loaf of Dread.
Philadelphia Record.
A novel case of smuggling at New
York has been reported to Acting Sec
retary of the Treasury Reynolds. There
arrived at the New York postoffice a
neat package with the Brussels postmark
on it. As is customary in such cases,
the addressee was notified to call for
the package, which was to be opened In
the presence of a customs officer. When
the strings were cut out rolled a loaf
of bread, beautifully browned. The sus
picions of the inspector were at once
aroused, and, breaking open the loaf, he
found several hundred dollars' worth of
expensive lace wrapped in oil silk. The
sender, adopting the argument of the
ostrich with its head In the sand, thought
no preying inspector would think of
looking in a loaf of bread for rare old
lace.
Girl Wins In Six-Mile Swim.
Mount Vernon Dispatch in N. Y. Sun.
Miss Corlnne Vlolett, the 18-year-old
daughter of Atwood Vlolett, a broker,
who Is living for the Bummer at Pel
ham Manor, defeated Dennlson Hatch;
Jr., yesterday In a. match swimming
race from the Country Club of West
chester to Great Neck, L. I. The dis
tance of six miles was covered in two
hours and a quarter, and. considering
the strong tide at this point, the time
is good.
Miss Violetfg only condition was
that they swim from the Country Club
to Great Neck Point, which is a treach
erous piece of- water. The couple
started at 10 o'clock In the morning,
followed by the club's launch. Both
swimmers kept close together, the lead
changing often. Miss Vlolett won by
several lengths.
Golf Is a Grandmother's Game.
Baltimore News.
Elihu Root, Secretary of State, ; used
to be a golf player. He was one of the
founders of the Nassau Club. He gave
up playing golf when he went to
Washington and began riding horse
back. The President says golf Is a
"grandmother's game." ,
Change of the Three Hundred.
Kate Packard In New York Sun.
(The new reform spelling contains a list of
BOO words. News Item.)
Wurd reform! Wurd reform.
Progress e'er onward.
Into the Rozevelt Book.
Went the three hundred.
"Sncl wurds as they be red.
Chance al the books. he sed.
Into the Nu Reform,
Went the three hundred.
Rozevelt to rite of them.
Andl to left of them.
Change al arond them.
Volled and thundered.
Ml, how the papers yel,
O. how they al rase hel;
Wudn't it shok U wel?
Out of ther old-time form.
Nu Form three hundred.
When can ther glory fade?
O, the wild chance they made,
Al the wurld wiradered
Webster turns In his grav,
Al the "old timers" rav
Nu Form three hundred.
THE FIRST DOWN
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TBT) HEADS OF THE VARIOUS COLLEGES HAVE COMBINED TO ELIM
INATE ALL ROUGHNESS FROM THE GAME OF FOOTBALL.
MESSENGER BOY'S PROMOTION.
Hard Work Takes Edward J. Nnlly
From Low to High Place.
From messenger boy to vice-president
and member of the board of directors of
a 3100,000,000 corporation, with much of
the executive work ot the concern placed
in his charge such is the story, in brief,
of the meteoric career of Edward J. Nal
ly, until yesterday official head In Chi
cago of the Postal Telegraph-Cable Com
pany. Mr. Nally was elected yesterday, at a
meeting of the governing officials of the
company in New York, to both of the high
positions named. His new duties will ne
cessitate his removal to New York in
two weeks. It will be some time before
his successor as general superintendent
of the Postal Telegraph-Cable Company
will be in full control here, and in the
interim he will flit between Chicago and
New York, spending much of his time In
this city.
For 31 years Mr. Nally has been in the
telegraph service, without the break of
a day. He has risen by hard and con
scientious work. The change of duties
decreed for him is in the highest sense
promotional.
The story of Mr. Nally's rise from the
place of hiessenger to a commanding po
sition In the management of one of the
world's greatest enterprises Is a romance
of. American business life a reminder that
the days of opportunity for the poor
boy's acquirement of position and fortune
have not vanished, even In these days
of Immense corporate aggregations of
wealth.
It was as messenger boy In the St.
Louis office of Colonel R. C. Clowry, now
president of . the Western Union Tele
graph Company and then its manager in
Missouri and the Southwest, that Nally
first took up the work of telegraph serv
ice. He was then 15 years old.
The Job of messenger boy was not Mr.
Nally's first position, for he then had
been seven years a "working boy." When
only 8 years old he was forced by the
necessity of aiding in the family's sup
port to seek employment. With less than
two years of "regular" schooling, he
started out in life in St. Louis. He wonted
at all sorts of odd jobs until his chance
came In the form of an offer to run er
rands for Colonel Clowry and sweep out
his office.
It was in 1875 that Nally entered Colo
nel dowry's office. He remained with
him five years, during which time he
learned the business of telegraphy and
became an expert operator. Then he
secured a position In the operating-room
of the Western Union Company. There
he remained until 1890, when he was of
fered and accepted the position of assist
ant general superintendent of the Postal
Telegraph Company at Chicago. About
this time Colonel Clowry was promoted
to the position of general superintendent
of the Western Union Company In Chi
cago, where hJhfound his chief rival was
his former office boy.
Five Ilulloons to Go at Once.
Pittsfleld Dispatch In New York Times.
The Aero Club of America Is planning
the biggest demonstration In, ballooning
that has ever taken place in America. It
Is proposed to send up five large balloons
from the Aero Club Park here In one
day, each balloon carrying from three to
five passengers. The plans for the ascen
sion are being made by Homer W. Hedge,
president of the Aero Club of America,
and the latter part of this month has
been selected for the time of the ascen
sion. Those who will make the ascension
are A. N. Chandler and party, of Phila
delphia; H. Clay Green, of the Lambs'
Club; George P. Butler. Beals C. Wright,
Raymond D. Little, Homer W. Hedge,
Leo Stevens and Dr. Thomas and party.
The Pittsfleld Gas Company has agreed
to furnish the balloonlsts with gas, and
Leo Stevens will arrive here shortly to
complete other arrangements.
EnWllnh Hospital Officials Thanked.
Salisbury Cable Dispatch in New York
Times.
At the annual hospital service in the
cathedral yesterday a letter from Pres
ident Roosevelt to the officials of
Salisbury Infirmary was read by Bish
op Webb. The President says:
"I have heard so much of the gener-'
ous care you have lavished upon the
American sufferers In the lamentable
train wreck that I wish to write you a
line of acknowledgment on behalf of
our people. As one of those you took
care of has written to me, from chap
lain down to hall boy, no sacrifice has
been too great for you to, make on be
half of those who so suddenly came
under your care.
"I thank you from the bottom of my
heart."
Conrled and His Chorus Singers.
Boston Herald.
Herr Conrkd claims to be very gen
erous with the chorus singers he has
brought to this country, their pay being
far higher than they could get on the
other side. In Italy the singers who take
small parts get at the outside only to a
week. In France those who take small
parts get at the highest IS. Here they
get 2o a week, and Conried claims that
they can live as cheaply over here as
they can auroad. If they want to. The
compensation doesn't look exorbitant,
compared with the sums paid the leading
artists. '
Interjects Songs Into His Speeches.
St. Paul Pioneer Press.
Thomas Bent, the Premier of Vle
toria, Australasia, introduces songs in
his speeches. A word or phrase strikes
a chord of memory, recalls some half
forgotten melody and then the Pre
mier breaks forth into song. Reply
ing to criticism, Mr. Bent says he
never Introduces songs of the present
day, of which he has a very poor
opinion.
A Riddle t The Panama CanaL
Kansas City Times.
It is dug out ot the ground, but never carried
away:
It Is worth countless millions; how much
none can say;
The future may see It, the past never did.
Men have sought it In vain, though its place
is not hid.
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