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OKTT WEDNESDAY. NOV. 7, 1906.
THE rASSIXG OF HEARST.
Hughes Is elected Governor of New
oris, but by only a small majority. In
n election where the circumstances
manded a great one. For there
ould have been a great majority in
Jer to make a final and conclusive
d of Hearst in "politics. 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
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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.