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I 8 THE MORNING OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1906. r v suBscKirnos bates. tr ITVARIABLY IN ADVANCE, ."d (By Mall.) Pally. Sunday Included, one year $8 .00 Dally, Sunday Included, ilx months.... 4.-5 Ially, 8unday Included, three months.. 2.-5 riollv Cnndav InKlnilnll (in tnnitth.... . Pally, without Sunday, one year J-j0 Iially, without Sunday, lx months 8--J Ually, without Sunday, three months.. 1-73 Dally, without Sunday, one mourn unday. one year Veekly, one year (lBsued Thursday)... 1.3J unuay ami Veekiy, one year.... 3.50 BY CARRIKR. nllv. Rmdnv Included, one year...... 9.00 ally, Sunday included, one month. HOW TO REMIT Send poBtofflce money trder. AiureMa order or oeraonal check on wn.i- Ia.i Kt.nl, Rtnmna coin or Currency are at the sender's risk. Give postofflce ad dress in full, lncludlni: county and state. POSTAGE RATES. Entered at Portland. Oregon. 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The emall- of the majority for Hughes in the er portion of the State of New ii is due to the singular apathy of ubllcans, who failed to appear at polls. Hearst's vote is actually iee-s than that cast for Herrick, the Democratic candidate for Governor two years1 ago; the Hughes vote up state falls behind that for Higgins, the Republican candidate two years ago, by a great deal more. But Hughes has made? heavy gains in the vote about New York Bay. Greater New York and Long Island hav cut Hearst heavily. It is due to business influences, by -which Hearst H. detested; also to the influence of the sreat metropolitan press, that fought Hearst as much for the honor of jour nalism a3 from a sense of his unfitness and from disapproval of his purposes and methods in politics. Had Hearst won, he would have be come at once the leading power in the Democratic party; he would have made himself the director of its course, the arbiter cf its fortunes. This morning ovould have begun the work of his paid clacquers in New York to make him the candidate for the Presidency, and the work would have been extend ed speedily to every state of the Union. The man who could carry New York at this time would have been acclaimed .as the man who could carry it in 1908, This alone would have forced his nom ination for the Presidency, and a con test whose features would have been the most deplorable yet presented in our politics a class contest, stirring the worst passions and dividing the people of the whole country against each other, business, property and or derly government on one eide, and all their negations on the other would have been the consequence. Hearst has passed the zenith, he will 60on reach the nadir, of his political fortunes. He is, indeed, but an acci dent of wealth; for it is only to the great wealth that he inherited that his career is due. With it he has drawn men unto him who have been the pi lots of hie course, and his exploitation of himself through those travesties of journalism that bear his name has car ried him nearer to political success than he ever will be again. In New York he would not be so strong a can didate for President as he has' been for Governor, and in no other state would he have formidable strength. It is a happy thing for the country to foe rid, in its politics, of what he represents. His Journalism, too, as all newspaper men of judgment have long foreseen, will wear out its meretricious fashion. SQUAW MAN GETS HIS DESERTS. It is gratifying to note that the Su preme Court of the United States has affirmed the decision of the Court of Claims in the case of a large number 6f white men, known in the West as squaV men, who brought suit to force participation in the distribution of the lands and funds of the Cherokee In- d.'an. These men are not in any sense worthy of the bounty xf the Govern ment, nor are they entitled to the de cent respect of mankind. Drifting across the border because it was their nature to drift rather than to stem the tide of honorable industry, these men attached themselves to . the Indian tribe by marriage. Mercenary consid erations and base desires ruled them in so doing. The Indian women, though nominally their wives, were their slaves and the mothers of many children for 'whom, almost literally speaking, there was no place in the world. Many of these women, though faithful, patient wives and uncomplaining burden-bearers, were deserted by the men whom they married, and with their children were left to make their poor way among their people es best they could. Yet such husbands and fathers had the impudence to come beforo the Gov ernment claiming under the allotment of Indian lands and funds a share in the distribution.' The Justice of the decision disallow ing such claims is unquestioned; its decency is apparent. It fixes the legal status of the squaw man, it may be lioped, permanently. His social status i 1 has long been fixed upon the lowest level of semi-civilized life. Hundreds of men and women and boys and girls of half .blood attest toy an existence that furnishes no settled place in life to the outrage that these degraded fathers perpetrated upon them by call ing them into the world. The United States Court of Claims did well in dis allowing the claim of such men to a share in the distribution of tribal lands and funds, and the Supreme Court of the. United States did well to approve the decision. UNJUST WATER RATES IX PORTLAND. The method of laying water pipes In suburban districts of Portland, free of cost to owners of the land, taxes the many families of this city most of them humble householders and rent payers for the benefit of wealthy land syndicates and estates and speculators!. It enhances the value of large areas of vacant land, enabling the owners to put up prices and make speculative gains through high water rates ex acted from families of small means, who could have water at from 25 to 60 iper .cent less than the present cost were the landowners benefited by pipe extensions, instead of all the consum ers, required to pay for the new pipes. In 1905 the total receipts of the Water Department were $513,021.70. Of this sum, not quite half $251,444.02 was ex pended for running expenses and oper ation, interest on bond3 and sinking fund, leaving $261,577.68 for construc tion of pipes and reservoirs. Most of this 6um went for .pipe extensions. It is easy to see that small water consumers from whose pockets comes the bulk of the water revenue could have cheaper water were not their rates put up to provide funds for the pipe extensions that enhance value of suburban land. In many places in the Eastern fringe of the city, where there are no houses, or where they are wide ly scattered, a few land speculators and owners of large tracts are profiting from Investment of the money of the many water consumers in pipe im provements for a few holdings. The owners mark up the price of their lots ahead of the approach of the new mains, and then mark it up again after the water is flowing through the pipes, put the profits In their pockets and declare that the system speeds the growth of the city, and that the city owes it to the suburbs. But does the city give free sewers? Why should not the cost of water pipes as well as of sewers be assessed against the benefited property? And new pipe in the heart of the city, where it is most expensive and where high service mains for fire pro tection cost large sums of money, should it not be paid for as reasonably by the property served as by small wa ter consumers? These questions have been raised by the Portland Free Water Association, which purposes to put the question of free water before the voters of the city in the municipal election next June. This plan has the indorsement of the Portland Federated Trades Council, and is exploited in the latest number of the Portland Labor Press. The free water plan is of doubtful expediency, but its advocates make proper criticism of the tpresent water system. In announcing the new method, the association says in part: As the water system is now managed, it is a tax- on the rent.payer and the small home owner for the benefit of a few men who jwn the down-town property; as the expensive part of the water plant Is in the business district where the Are protection is needed. There you find the large mains and other expensive parte, of the plant. The land speculator has a good thing limited in the present water board. It is laying mains around farms in the city and across long stretches of vacant land that are held out of use while the water board Improves them with money taken from the rent-payer and the email home-owner. As the water system is now managed we are not getting any benefits from public owner ship, as the plant la being handled by the same old -crowd. Public ownership of any kind should be run to give good service at actual cost, and not bad service at great profit to a favored few as now. Caesar Augustus Issued a decree that all the world should be taxed for the benefit of the Roman Empire and every man had to go to his city to be taxed once a year. Our modern Caesars of the water board have iesued a decree that all the people of Port land shall be taxed and that every mother's son and daughter of them shall go up to the City Hali, or other designated place, and stand In line with money in hand to be taxed for the benefit of the "landed interests," after which they may depart to return and do likewise the next month. The present unjust system has ruled many years, making higher water rates .than should have been charged. Less than half of last year's receipts, went into maintenance and running expenses. One pipe all consumers should pay for that is the main tube from Bull Run, which serves every con sumer. But the distributing pipes should not so be paid for. HOPS, BEER AND CONSISTENCY. F. G. Deckebach, a Salem brewer, complains that the people of this state, in passing anti-liquor laws, did not discriminate between beer and ardent spirits, but placed all intoxicating liquors under the same ban. He calls attention to the enormous sums of money brought to this state from year to year by the hop industry, which really means the beer industry, for hops have no commercial use except for the manufacture of beer. Because Oregon is thus a financial beneficiary of the beer-brewing industry, he as serts that a distinction should have been made in the laws between the sale of beer and liquors containing a larger per cent of alcohol. But he leaves the subject just where he found it, for he does not suggest in "what manner a distinction should or could have been made. Having proposed a distinction, he should have pointed out in what respect it could have been es tablished. Mr. Deckebach is unquestionably right in his contention that the State of Oregon is inconsistent in moving against the consumption of beer at the same time that it is trying to build up a hop industry. Viewed from a moral standpoint, if it is wrong to drink beer it is wrong to make it; if it is wrong to mane Deer it is also wrong to pro duce the hops which have no other pur pose than the manufacture of beer. If Oregon desires and hopes to retain and increase its hopgrowing industry, it must as an unavoidable consequence desire and hope to see beer-drinking in crease. Every man 'who wishes the price of hops to be good must also de sire to see beer consumed in copious quantities. If all beer-drinking were to stop tomorrow, hops could not be given away. So far, then, as Oregon has legislated against beer and not against hops, it is occupying an in consistent position. It may toe doubted, however, whether the voters of Oregon passed the local option law upon moral grounds. It has been frequently asserted, and is no doubt true, that many people voted for local option who sometimes drink beer, and even stronger drinks. Their ballots were not cast as an expression of their views upon the right and wrong of liquor-drinking, but as an expression of their dissatisfaction with the manner in which the liquor busi ness has been conducted in Oregon. Some people voted against the saloons because they believe them to be an un mitigated evil and a National curse. however conducted. Others voted against them because the liquor people have openly and persistently violated the laws of the state and municipali ties regarding sale to minors, keeping open Sundays, permitting gambling and other common offenses. Moreover, some of the leaders in the liquor busi ness had undertaken to control elec tions In contests in which they had no particular interest, and many people voted for local-option as a rebuke to this interference. The people of Oregon did not declare for the local-option law on its merits; they did not want to prohibit the sale of beer. They were driven to the en actment of that law by the manner in which the liquor business has been conducted. The local-option law was unfair, and some of its supporters will so admit, but when the liquor people undertook to amend it they proposed a substitute that was an insult to the intelligence of the voters of the state. Was that a proper move for a class of people desiring that discrimination be made in favOr of one class of drinks? Perhaps the people of the state would toe willing to make a distinction in favor of (beer. They certainly must if they desire to be consistent, but it is not likely that they will unless they have some assurance that men permit ted to sell beer will not violate the pro hibition against other drinks, and will observe the regulations regarding sale to minors and sale on bunaay. VITAL NEED OF SPRAYING. In the news columns of this paper re cently it was stated that in the. Wal lace apple and -pear orchard near Salem the most modem appliances are at hand for mixing and handling spray materials. With everything in read iness, the spraying can and will be done at the proper time. The great trouble in most of the small orchards is that the owners have not provided them selves with the necessary vats for heat ing and the pumps for spraying. The original cost of this equipment is not excessive, and if it is properly cared for it will last many years. Of course the character of the equipment must depend upon the size of the orchard, but every grower should have at least a boiling vat and a barrel spray pump. Without at least this much the grower will put off his Winter spraying from time to time until the- season is so far advanced that he must omit it alto gether. If he relies upon borrowing from his neighbors, he will find that in fair weather they are using their own apparatus, and in stormy weather he cannot use it to advantage. The war upon fruit pests is like a war between nations, to the extent that prepared ness is of vital importance. The man who pl,ants or buys an or chard of any kind should count a spraying outfit as a part of his invest ment, and should expect to spray as regularly as he cultivates. Unless he expects to do this, the sooner he grubs out his trees or sells out, the better for him and the fruitgrowing industry. The time for Winter spraying for San Jose scale and fungus growths will soon be here. Horticultural officers should be gin early to induce growers to use the remedies necessary to rid their trees of pests.' This must be largely a work of education of leading rather than driv ing. There are many growers, espe cially those with small orchards, who do not know when to spray, how to mix materials or what equipment to pur chase. Others are negligent and need timely notices. Condemnation of diseased fruit is all right in its time and place, but it is in the nature of & punishment and acts only indirectly as a remedy. The most successful and most useful member of the State Board of Horticulture and the most valuable fruit inspector will be he who can, without resort to extreme measures, induce the- growers of his district to clean their trees. Quarrel ing and litigation are sometimes neces sary, but a tactful commissioner or in spector should be able to accomplish desired results by the diligent use of reason and persuasion, thus enlisting the hearty co-operation of growers and retaining their good will. The spray ing of fruit trees is the great need of the fruitgrowing industry, especially in the Willamette Valley, where there are so many old and neglected "orchards. Not only commercial orchards, but family orchards, need the remedy. Gen eral results are wanted, not noise and controversy in a few particular cases. Let us now have a campaign of educa tion, stimulation and eradication. Teach the growers what to do, arouse them to an active Interest, and let the scale and worms take the consequences." SENDING FOB THE DOCTOR. It is said by travelers that the Chi nese employ physicians to keep them well; we pay them for curing us when we are sick. Which is the more sensi ble practice is fairly open to argu ment. American Medicine has an edi torial in a late number which rather favors the Chinese method. At least the editorial asserts that we are as a rule guilty of unpardonable delay in sending for the doctor when the first symptoms of illness appear. The city family has a telephone at its service. The doctor can be Avak ened at any time of the night and-summoned to the patient's bedside. The danger in delay is commonly not seri ous, therefore, one would imagine; though, of course, there are diseases where no cure i3 possible unless the remedy is applied at the beginning of the attack. But in country districts, where to summon a physician requires a long ride through storm and dark ness, it is a different matter. Between the moment when the' family decides that a doctor is necessary and the time of his arrival hours may elapse; and those hours very often decide the ques tion of life or death for the sufferer. Whatever rule may seem best in cities, certainly in country districts It is best to err on the safe side. It is better to summon the physician for an attack which may possibly prove trif ling than to run the risk of irremedia ble danger from delay. In the long run this will also be the cheaper course. since timely aid often checks what would otherwise develop Into a pro tracted illness. The doctor's fee is seldom a bad investment, and some times it pays better than any other. It may be looked upon as a sort of in surance premium paid to ward off calamity. This seems to bring us around to the Chinese view of the question. As a matter of fact, most people would profit more by paying the doctor a moderate monthly stipend to keep them well than a large bill now and then to cure them of disease. Probably our custom is too well established to change, but if it could be changed it would be a good thing for tooth physi cian and patient. The settlement of the semi-arid dis tricts of the great plateau, due to the Government reclamation policy and private irrigation schemes, is progress ing with a rapidity that is truly won derful. An example of this is shown in the receipts of the State Land Office at Helena, Mont., for eleven months of the present fiscal year, as compared with the entire receipts of 1896. Dur ing the latter year the total receipts of the State 'Land Department were $42, 689.07; those for eleven months of the present fiscal year are $517,996.76. There is every indication that the receipts of the present month will bring the total up to full $600,000. This denotes ab sorption of the eminent domain by homebuilders at a rate that is at once gratifying and surprising. The large total involves no great landlord schemes and holdings, but denotes oc cupation by families of wide areas once arid but now or soon to be fruitful through irrigation. The boys who soaped the rails of the streetcar track where it enters Ford street on a steep grade were made to understand the enormity of their of fense and dismissed with a severe rep rimand by Judge Pezzer. It is scarcely possible to believe that tooys of 15 years and upwards did not know beforehand the nature of the offense, and the pos sible, and even probable, consequences of rendering a heavy streetcar unman ageable on a steep grade, ending on a high bridge. Yet it is inconceivable that they, or any one of them, would have enjoyed the results of the catas trophe had their purpose in greasing lilt? 0U1.t.COi31Ul O.UVX u. with its passengers been thrown into the ' ravine. Judge Frazer, all things considered, did the best probably that could be done with these culprits, though they richly deserved a much heavier penalty than the severest rep rimand is able to inflict. The wreck-proof mailcar is a device of human ingenuity that has long been looked for in the interest of a faithful class of public servants the railway mail clerks. A number of such cars are now under construction for use on through trains over the Pacific rail roads. The list of railway mail clerks killed, maimed and cremated is a long one; the story of valuable mail de stroyed by wreck and fire is a familiar one in every business community. Speed the day when the wreck-proof mailcar is a part of the required rail way equipment of every road! The work of printing the big ballots for the election that took place in New York City yesterday was enormous. A total of 3,000,000 ballots was printed. They were divided among 14S7 election districts, and every one of the vast number had to be in the hands of the inspectors before the polls opened Tuesday morning. It is easy to be lieve that Sunday was not observed in the printing offices from which these ballots were turned out. The Oregonian cannot ' agree with City Attorney McNary that the fran chise of the Southern Pacific on Fourth street is perpetual, or cannot be re voked or terminated, without payment to the railroad. The Oregonian doesn't believe this; not that it has at this moment legal reasons to give, but be cause the conclusion is not reason able. The doctrine of "vested rights" doesn't stand in this country where it stood -fifty years ago. "Just as good as Hood River ap ples," ought to be taken as a tribute to Hood River apples rather than as a discredit. If, in speaking of Hood River apples, it should be said, "Just as good as Willamette Valley apples, the Willamette Valley growers would not be offended at all. The Peter Iredale, stranded near Fort Stevens, seems to have tried to reach a pilot by the overland route. The vessel's aim was true enough; the pilots were Inside the neck of land which the Iredale started to cross. The Utes, it is said, are suspected of treachery in their dealings with the whites in Wyoming. Why they should be or have been suspected of anything else is a mystery not disclosed by the history of Indian warfare. This 13 the day when a multitude of persons who didn't bet on the election are counting their losses. Just like the many who lost millions of dollars in Portland real estate by not buying when it was cheap. Hood River thinks its red-cheeked babies the best in Oregon, too; but that's a glory which every other sec tion in the state claims for itself, against all comers. Who's to arbi trate? . Judge Parker had to wait in line fifteen minutes before he could cast Tils vote yesterday. That's nothing. There were Democrats in 1904 who were per manently delayed in getting to the polls. After Heney gets done in San Fran cisco he might root into the street car franchise graft in Portland in 1903, whereby a political boss and first families "cleaned up" $4,000,000. Mr. Weyerhauser finds nothing in money but worries. That's what most persons find without money. Man is of few days and full of trouble. Mr. Hearst emerges from the wreck with the loyal and undismayed support of a vociferous string of yellow papers. We wonder what he'll do next? "Larry" Sullivan is an even bigger man in Nevada as a Democrat than he was in Oregon as a Republican. And that's saying a good deal. Evidently the people of New York believe there is a man behind the Hughes whiskers. They are a discern ing lot. By presenting Christmas presents early, we might save money by passing hem round, to a double or treble, duty. No, Mr. Hearst wouldn't rather be wrong than Governor. He'd rather be both. There is now a bigger crop of Alectiort prophets than before. CHANGES IN ROOSEVELT CABINET And How the Members Thereof Have Bern Shifted. Washington Dispatch to the Boston Globe. When Mr. Meyer enters the cabinet President Roosevelt in his six years' . presidency will have had 19 men as mem bers of his cabinet and will have made 25 changes in the distribution of portfolios. This, it is believed, breaks the record, as also the fact that the office of secretary of the Navy and Postmaster-General have been filled by five different persons during the Roosevelt administration. When Mr. Roosevelt entered the White House as the successor of President Mc- Kinley, he inherited this cabinet: Secre tary of State, John Hay; Secretary of the Treasury, Lyman J. Gape; Secretary of War, Elihu Root; Secretary of the In terior, Ethan Allen Hitchcock; Secretary of the Navy, John D. Long; Attorney General. Philander C. Knox; Postmaster General, Charles Emory Smith; Secretary of Agriculture, James Wilson. The ue- partment of Commerce and Labor was created shortly afterward and Mr. Cortei you was made Its first secretary. Changes in the cabinet soon followed. Mr. Gage retired and was succeeded by Mr. Shaw, who in turn will be succeeded by Mr. Cortelyou. Mr. Long retired from the Navy Department to be succeeded by Mr. Moody, who was followed by Paul Morton for a few months and then by Mr. Bonaparte. With the reorganization of the cabinet Mr. Metcalf will become Secretary of the Navy, making the fifth secretary during this administration. The changes in the Postofflce Depart ment have been equal in number. Mr. Smith was one of the members of Mc Kinley's cabinet soon to leave. His place was taken by Mr. Payne, and on his death Mr. Wynne held the place for a few months, giving way to Mr. Cortelyou, which was his second cabinet position. The fifth appointee will be Mr. Meyer. Mr. Knox retired from the Depart ment of Justice to enter the Senate. He was succeeded by Mr. Moody, whose successor will be Mr. Bonaparte. The Department of Commerce and Labor will also have had three secretaries in this administration when. Mr. Straus be comes its head, Mr. Cortelyou, Mr. Metcalf and Mr. Straus. In the State Department there have been two secre taries. John Hay and Mr. Root, as also in the War Department, Root and Talt. In only two departments have there been no changes, interior, Secretary Hitchcock, and agriculture. Secretary Wilson. Mr. Cortelyou holds the prize for having been secretary in three depart ments; Root, Bonaparte and Metcalf have filled two cabinet positions. Mr. Wilson is the dean of the cabinet. Next March he will have served 10 years, which has only been exceeded twice in American history. Albert Gallatin served as secretary of the treasury from 1S01 to 1814 under Jefferson and Madison, and William Wirt was Attorney-General from 1817 to 1829; Lower Fares Pay. New York World. When the New Haven Railroad Com pany reduced its passenger rate to 2 cents a mile the officials estimated that there would be a loss of about $703,000 a year in gross receipts. The reduced rate, which affects nine-tenths of the system, has been in operation several months, and Instead of the predicted reduction there is an in crease in gross earnings. Lower fares have given the company enough new business to more than make good the lessened profit on each fare. When the Michigan Central charter was re pealed and a 2-cent rate was fixed by the Legislature the company brought suit against the state of Michigan for $5,000,000. By the time the case got befons the courts the receipts already showed a large increase in passenger earnings. Instead of losing by the repeal of a charter which gave it the right to charge 3 cents a mile the Michigan Central had actually bene fited. The recent reductions in fare on the Pennsylvania were made in a confident business belief that there would be more profit for the company in carry ing people for less money. Other companies are planning similar reduc tions. The next five years will wit ness unprecedented reductions in pas senger fares. Railroad managers are coming to (understand the simple set entitle principle" that there is more money in doing a large business with a small margin of profit on each trans action than in doing a small business with a large margin of profit on each transaction. Goulds of Royal Blood $"0,000. Philadelphia (Pa.) Dispatch. That her son, Kingdon Gould, might be able to trace relationship to the rulers of England and that she might show that the blood in her own veins Is of the pur- plest, Mrs. George Gould has employed a firm of genealogists to prove If. Working with a dozen agents In Eng land and France, these genealogists have now succeeded. They show that Kingdon and Mrs. Gould have in them blood of British kings, and reveal ancestry back to the Twelfth century. The result of the probers' labors Mr. Gould has made up in pamphlet form. Every entry in the record is backed by letters from the English College of Arms or from churches and old records In Eng land. It cost Mrs. Gould $30,000 upward for the work of preparation. The records show that the Kingdons have the right to quarter their arms with those of the Hockins of England, as a Mies Hockins, known in heraldry as an "heiress," mar ried a Kingdon. . By an heiress, it is ex plained by the compilers of the book, 13 meant a maiden who is the last of her race, and in this connection it is stated that Mrs. Gould is an heiress, being the last of the direct descent of the Kingdons. About the New Chrysanthemum. bt. Louis Republic. The chrysanthemum show at Shaw's Garden will open November 12, and prob ably last two weeks. If will be held in a large tent, which will be erected over the parterre, the cinder walks serving as aisles, as the plants will be grouped on the tulip beds. This arrangement will give the visitors more opportunity to get around among the exhibits than was pos sible last year. There will be 3000 plants on exhibition, representing 300 varieties. Last year there were 2000 plants from 210 varieties. Two of the new varieties are the "Comte Tornelli," which has a showy light yellow blossom about eight inches in dia meter, and the "silver wedding," which grows very tall and has a waxy white flower. President Roosevelt will also be repre sented by a new variety bearing his name. Of the prolific flowering varieties, the "Mistress Y. C. Warden" will probably carry off first honors, as one of the plants already has 700 buds almost ready to blos som. Tho plant is about six feet In di ameter. Making: a Corner In Bull Dogs. London Dispatch. Three American dog fanciers are in Lon don trying to make a corner on the de scendants of the famous bulldog Rodney Stone. Descendants of this animal rarely come on the market, but when they do they sell for nearly $5000 apiece. Jeffries, who sold Rodney Stone to Mr. Croker, says that if the men trying to make the corner apply to him they will have to pay steeply. "Jimmy Hyde la a Sensible Role. Baltimore News. James Hazen Hyde, ex-vice-president of the Equitable, who is living in Paris, has arranged for a debate in French between Harvard and Yale. He has offered a cup to the team win ning such sa contest. This is one of many things Hyde has done to in crease an in-erest in the study of French at Harvard.", WORST DISASTER IN RAILROADING Atlantic City Accident Contrasted With Other Affairs of Its Kind. Phllaaelphia North American. Seldom in the history of American railroading have there been wrecks in which the loss of life was so appalling as in the wreck of the Atlantic express on the new electric line of the Pennsyl vania Railroad on Sunday. In a head-on smash-up, on the South ern Railway, at Hodges, Tenn., in 1904, 62 passengers wera killed and 162 more injured. The same year 60 persons were killed when a Denver & Rio Grande express broke through the bridge in Colorado. In the Baltimore & Ohio wreck at Connellsville the day before Christmas, 1903, 7J were killed. In 18SS. at the Mud Run (Pa.) wreck, 66 pas sengers and employes were victims. The year before, in a wreck at Chatsworth, 111., 85 persons were killed, and in 1876, at night. In a storm, 80 passengers were killed when a Lake Shore train went into the river at Ashtabula, Ohio. in ine isast probably the most disas trous wreck, in number killed, occurred In 18o6 at Camp Hill, when an excur sion train loaded with children ran into another train ana 66 persons, mostly children, were killed. The Meadows wreck, on July 30, 1896, about a mile west from the last wreck, when a Read ing Railway flyer crashed through a Pennsylvania excursion train, cost 47 lives. Recently the Pennsylvania Railroad has had a large share of bad wrecks. The late one, with its large list of killed, is the worst. In the Harrisburg accident, when th Cleveland express ran into a wrecked freight-train and caused the explosion of two cars of dyna mite, 25 persons lost their lives and scores were injured. September 25, 1905, the New York Limited smashed into a local train at Paoli, killing six passengers and injur ing 18 persons occupying the general manager's private car. That same year seven were killed and 50 injured at Ellsworth, Pa., where a second section of an inaugural special ran into the first section. September 29 of this year, hardly a month before the Atlantic City wreck, three persons were killed and a score injured at Eddington, on the New York division. An express from Long Branch telescoped the three rear coaches of the New York-Philadelphia express, which had been brought to a stop by a broken brakebeam. Less than a year ago an accident sim ilar to that on the Atlantic City Mead ows occurred on tho Pennsylvania Railroad's bridge across Cooper Creek, Camden. The bridge had failed to close so that the rails met properly, and a locomo tive and two passenger cars jumped the tracks and ran across the ties. Ow ing to the weight of the locomotive it did not jump over the guardrail, and no one was injured. At May's Landing, 2"passengers were killed August 11, 1S80, when .two sec tions of an excursion train came to gether, two being killed outright and the others dying of injuries. February 21, 1901, 20 lives were lost on the Camden and Amboy division, when a New York express ran into a local train at Rusling's siding, above Bordentown. . "Must Be a Fool Or Toady." New York Despatch. ' Mrs. Sallie Morris Corey threw the club women attending the meeting of the So ciety for Political Study into a spasm, by saying: "To be a really popular and sought after club woman one must be either a fool or a toady, without originality or In dependent speech, admiring everyone, cackling as the others cackle, talking only well worn platitudes in short, just being one card in the pack. "Striving after the unattainable Is one of the great feminine faults of the cen tury. To be better dressed, to make more of a splurge than a neighbor, to shine in the world above others these desires can only find place in the mind of a fool." Get Roosevelt Hound For Bears. Bloomsburg (Pa.) Despatch. One of President Roosevelt's famous bear hounds is to be used in an effort to clear out the bears that infest the sec tion around Jamison City. The dog was one of those used in the West two years ago by the President, and was presented by him to the late Dr. Bonham, of Fair mount Springs, who died a short time ago. It then came Into the possession of James T. Brady, of Jamison City, and it has just arrived at his kennels. The dog will be used in tracking bears. There are so many in that section that the farmers are greatly annoyed by them, and almost daily some fresh story of their raids upon the farms has been told. Bachelors Organize For Business. Sterling (111.) Cor. New York World. The young men of Sterling, not to be outdone by the score of young women who organized the "Matrimonial Help Club," have organized a young men's "Betterment Club," the object of which is to promote matrimony and at the same time guide the unwary young man. In this club there are now 20 young men. the same number of members as the girls' club. The club will pass upon the merits of -the women eligible for matrimony. It will be determined whether the girl can bake and mend and keep house in ad dition to playing whist and attending the theater. If she be addicted to jewelry or frivolous she will be blacklisted. MR. BRYAN "ALAS,'P00R vs AY 1 ' r A REAL KANSAS WAR . STORY "Sol" Lanham Finds His "Bunky" After An Absence of 42 Years. Eldorado Republican. Solomon Lanham had been in Kansas City with two cars of steers and was re turning home to Oklahoma on No. 5. He was in the smoking room of the rear sleeper with another passenger and they were telling "war stories." A third man entered the sleeper at Topeka and after lunch they all three re-engaged In con versation about the war, which was con tinued until the train arrived at Emporia. "At the Battle of Nashville, yhich was fought in December. 1S64, my brigade was ordered to charge," said Comrade Sol. "We were going up a hill at a lively clip when we came to an old-fashioned 'stake and ridered' rail fence. I was on the top rail when a rebel shell exploded over our heads. A piece of it cut a gash across my breast to the bone, and I fell off the fence as good as dead. My old bunky we had messed and slept and fought to gether for three years got hit in the head. When I came to I raised myself on my elbow and not ten feet from me was my bunky. He was on his back. The blood was streaming down his face, which was as pale as death. Poor Jim was as dead " "You're a d d liar, Sol," exclaimed the comrade who got on at Topeka. "Sol, you old fool, you are dead. I came to pretty soon after I was hit and looking around saw you was as dead as you will ever be. I saw you die, Sol" and they fell onto each other and they hugged and they cried and they cried and they hugged while the other fellow he cried, too. "Where are you going, Jim?" said Sol. "Going to Colorado." "No you ara not. You are going home with me." And thus did Comrades Sol Lanham and James Sanderson meet forty-two years after the war. English Humor Gets Real Busy. London Punch. 7:30 A. M. Alarum goes off. Query: "Is lunacy increasing?" 7:32 A. M. Drop off to sleep again. Query: "Do we sleep enough?" 8:30 A. M. Wake with a start: take breakfast while dressing. Query: "Do we eat too much?" Rush to station, miss train through being knocked down by "Vanguard." Query: "Are motor buses dangerous?" 9:13 A. M. Arrive office late. Head of firm already there. Query: "Are you worth your money?" 1 P. M. Go to lunch. Give waiter penny. Query: "Are tippers moral cowards?" 1:45 P. M. Buy two bananas: rush up and down Fenchurch street to tlnd place to put skins;' fail to do so. 1:59 P. M. One minute to get back to office; in desperation throw fskins in street; policemen rush from all quar ters. Owing to circuitous route taken to avoid them am late at office. Lose situation. Query: "Is alcohol worthless as a remedy?" 5 P. M. Leave office; have a "ban ana fall" on own skins. Query: "Have we lived before?" 6 P. M. Arrive home; tell wife about my dismissal. Query: "Does woman help?" 10 P. M. Retire to bed for the night, cursing my luck. Query; "Are we growing less religious?'' Out of the Mouths of Babes. Catholic News. Little Marsie (reading) What is the "pale of civilization," Tommy? Small Tommy Oh, some new brand of face powder, I suppose. "You're a tattle-tale," said little Harry to his small sister. "You run and tell mamma everything that happens." "Well, I ain't as bad as you are,' re joined the little girl. "You tell her a lot of things that don't happen at all." "Papa." said small Freddy, "I'll be 6 years old tomorrow. Don't you think I ought to have a gun for a birthday pres ent?" "No, I don't." replied his father. "You might shoot some of the neighbors." "Oh, well,'' replied Freddy, "they can get their lives insured" The Earth's Surface. Llppincott's. Two sisters, one tipping the scales aV 200 pounds or more, and the other slight to extreme slimness. but very beautiful, were being introduced at a reception. "What's her name?" whispered one young man to a friend, referring to the slim sister. "I didn't catch It." "Virginia." answered the friend. "Virginia!" repeated the young man In apparent surprise. "Then her sister must be the whole United States." Self-Convleted. Catholic Standard and Times. "Why deny it?" he insisted. "It Is because some gossip intimates that I am not true to you that you have broken our engagement." "Oh! no," she replied, "It Is because I believe you truthful that I am break ing it." "How do you mean?" "Well, you remember you have fre quently told me that you were not worthy of me." Happiness In the Family. Meggendorfer Blatter. Mrs. Newlywed My husband admires everything about me my voice, my eyes, my form, my hanos! Friend And what do you admire about him? Mrsi Newlywed His good taste. HEARST, I KNEW HIM WELL" From th Chicago Trttnme.