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Mr. August Belmont, the New York multl - millionaire, franchise - grabber and Democratic boes, says he does not believe that 'men can accumulate large fortunes dishonestly and improp erly." With the definition of "dishon est" which euch a man would naturally adopt his proposition is true. If we de fine white by the word "black," of course all negroes are white. It would be too much to expect Mr. Belmont to call his own methods dishonest or im proper. Mr. Rockefeller often speaks of. those which he himself has used as being- strictly righteous, and doubtless Captain Kidd held similar opinions on piracy. Human nature is the same In a predatory millionaire as in a pick pocket. Each gives the most euphoni ous name he can think of to his occu pation. Mr. Belmont's convincing; views upon dishon,e&t wealth were expressed at' the meeting of the National Civic Federation in New York, where Andrew Carnegie and Mr. Melville Ingalls, of Cincinnati, also made remarkable ad dresses, neither of them agreeing with the street railway and gas trust mag nate. Mr. Carnegie believes in am in heritance tax which would confiiscaite the whole of an "enormous fortune" at the owner's death; though he is willing to, spare enough of it to give the mil lionaire's children a fair start In life. Kxcceslve wealth left to a child is an in jury, in his opinion. It certainly is an injury unless we call it a benefit to enable a child to grow up in idleness, conceit and parasitism. A father who provides for his sons on the scale that the late Marshall Field adopted sim ply dooms them to imbecility. For all practical purposes that great merchant might exactly as well have taught his children to smoke opium as to have left one of them seventy and the other forty millions of dollars. In all human prob ability the effect will be substantially the same upon their efficiency and char acter. It is a strange species of affec tion which thus dooms a. child from his infancy to pauperism. That the condi tion of the imbecile rich is substantial paupersm no thoughtful person thinks of denying. They earn nothing, they produce nothing. They feed upon the productions of Industry precisely ae a pauper In the poorhouse feeds upon the benefactions of the county, and the ef fect upon their character is the same. Of course we cannot think clearly upon these matters unless we distin guish sharply between the pauperized rich and the industrious. A man who has made a fortune by honest industry is entitled to enjoy it;, but his children had no part in accumulating it, and therefore, Mr. Carnegie argues, they have no right to claim more of it than a wise policy may apportion to them. Mr. Carnegie goes far in his advocacy of a confiscatory inheritance tax; though, one must confess, not a step farther than our best thinkers go with him. But concerning the income' tax his views are different. This tax he condemns because it would check busi ness enterprise. Mr. Ingalls, on the other hand, favors an income tax, but he would not graduate it because this would "tax thrift and energy." These reasons may be sound; but if they are valid against a graduated Income tax they are much more valid against our present system of property taxes. For example, let a farmer expend strength and money clearing ten acres of wild Jand; what happens to him? Straight way the Assessor, appears. and raises his valuation. In other words, he im poses a penalty upon the farmer for his "thrift and energy." Let another farmer tear down his old shack which has defaced the neighborhood and build himself a decent dwelling, and what happens? Straightway appears the As sessor and raises his valuation. Again the farmer is penalized for his "thrift and energy." All that can be eald against an income taac under this head ' can be said with tenfold as much truth against the taxes . which are now lev ied. Almost every one of them penal izes thrift and energy; and, worst of all, the penalty falls upon those who-' are least able to bear it. Modern students are unanimous in the opinion that taxes should fall upon men In inverse proportion to the sacri fice they must make to pay them. The greater the effort it takes to pay the tax the less the tax should be. Now, regarding incomes, a man with a. very large income can bear twice, or thrice, or even ten times, the tax rate which befalls a poor man with much less sac rifice. For example, if Thomas' income is $300 and the tax-gatherer takes ten of it. his family will suffer. But if John's income is $100,000. the tax-gatherer can take $50,000 of it-without caus ing actual distress. In this case a rate of 50 per cent is less oppressive to John than 3 per cent is to Thomas. More over, we can truly say that Thomas' thrift and energy are more severely taxed by the low rate than John's are by the very high one. The thrift and energy upon which the genuine well being of the Nation principally de pends are the thrift and energy of men in Thomas' station, while speakers . like Mr. Carnegie and Mr. Ingalis think only of those in John's station. This error naturally tends to vitiate their conclusions upon the subject of taxation. .... CLOAKING SIN'. The Pittsburg Chamber of Commerce has resolved that judges should conduct immoral cases In secrecy and that the newspapers, should suppress the details of divorce trials. We have not learned that these guardians of .the spiritual welfare of the' public have declared against the practices which cause im moral trials and divorce suits. Like many other Pharisees, they seem to believe that all the purposes of virtue are secured, not by the cessation of sin, but by the suppression of publicity. Of course their action tends directly toward the encouragement of vice There are many persons who are held to the ways of virtue solely by the fear of publicity. Remove that restraint upon their conduct, assure them that they need never face the curious public In a courtroom, and they would aban don themselves to immorality. That the particulars of divorce cases Injure the morals of the public may be seri ously doubted. If to some depraved natures they present vice with a certain allurement, to the great majority of normal persons they serve as a warn ing against misconduct. Newspapers do not publish accounts of these trials which are so worded as to make ein at tractive. Their accounts invariably in clude comment which warns rather than allures. One of the principal seductions of vice to the young is the secrecy which clothes it with deceptive charms-. The ruthles3 unveiling of the hideous spec ter in the courtroom amid the jeers and cynicisms of the public is a Wholesome corrective, not only for the criminals themselves, but for everybody else. Life is not all sweetness and virtue, and the wisdom of trying to make It appear eo to the young is very doubtful. Certain facts are bound to be learned sooner or later. - It is just as well, and perhaps better, for the young to learn them as matters for scorn and reprobation rather than under the treacherous guise of pleasures which society is not too virtuous to relish but is too hypocrit ical to confess openly. NATIONAL CAR SHORTAGE. Human nature seems to be very much the same wherever man's individual interests are affected In such a manner as to arouse suspicion thai some one else is getting a little the best , of a transaction. This trait has been - strikingly illustrated in the car-shortage trouble. In Cal ifornia the fruitgrowers are holding in dignation meetings at which the rail road is blamed for giving all of its cars to the lumbermen in the Northwest. Up here the Uimbermen assert that the shortage is due to the demands of the fruitgrowers in California. The grain men declare that they must pay demur rage on ships because the railroads have all of their rolling stock engaged in hauling lumber and fruit. That these car-shortage conditions and complaints are in existence all over the United States is clearly shown in the news reports from east, north and south. The Baltimore Manufacturers' Record, in discussing the matter, says: "Everywhere the same story is heard, everywhere there is a shortage of cars and locomotives, and persons who could do business at profit find themselves unable to make shipment. Lumber dealers at various points say that they cannot get cars because the railroads are occupied with the cotton crop or with moving coal that has to go to mar ket. In other sections the cotton-growers lament the shortage, and elsewhere the coal operators are In gloom because they cannot get facilities to move the output of their mines to meet pressing demands. At some points mills have been obliged to shut down because of inability to get coal." From all parts of the country are also heard reports of congestion of loaded cars at terminal points, thus indicating that other branches of industry as well as the carrying trade are being pressed beyond the present limit of capacity. It will require a long time for the rail roads to catch up with their business, and other industries will also be de layed until the transportation is forthcoming. Viewed from most any standpoint, the country seems to be booming along on a waive of prosper ity such as we never before experi enced. That it cannot last forever is a certainty, and extreme care will be necessary when the strain is relaxed, lest serious results follow. - AX INDIAN AGRICULTURAL 1AIK. The Indians of the Crow reservation, in Montana, held an agricultural fair recently and made an entire success of the undertaking. This is the most en couraging note that has been struck in Indian civilization. The purpose of the fair was to create a greater interest in agricultural pursuits among the In dians and to arouse a spirit of friendly competition among them in these lines. This was the second fair of its kind, the first having been held at the Crow agency last year. A marked improve ment in the exhibits and their arrange ment was noted, showing the progres sive influence among Indians of the competitive idea in agriculture. According to Major Reynolds, agent for the Crow tribe erstwhile bloody warriors who subsisted upon the spoils of the chase this fair proved that the Indian has a business and practical' side to his character, properly mingled with a desire for amusement. Under the di rection of the years this has been de veloped, and the result was surprising. Everything pertaining to the exhibit was in charge of and arranged by In dians. The president .of the association is an Indian, as are all the other offi cers and members of the various com mittee. Interest was not centered upon the racing events, though the coni tests In this department were spirited; but the care and taste shown in ar-ranging-the agricultural and horticul tural products, the way in which the stock was groomed and the vehicles made spick and span by their owners, were of the most encouraging charac ter. During the week of the fair some thing like 5000 Indians were in attend ance and white visitors flocked to the grounds by hundreds. These grounds lie along the Little Big Horn River, and the event was in marked contrast with one which occurred in the vicinity thirty years ago, written in the blood of brave men and known as the "Custer massacre." The show of livestock, especially of work horses, was especially fine, while of poultry, including turkeys, chick ens, ducks and geese there was a large display, most of the fowls being thoroughbreds The display was, in brief, much the same as that shown at any county fair. As an object-lesson to Indian farmers and stockralsers its value cannot be overestimated. But above and beyond all of this is the Individuality and responsibility which the fair and its management en tirely by Indians developed. As long aa any one white man or Indian is car ried he will never learn to walk. If the Indian policy of the Nation is to prove successful in the largest sense, it will be not alone through instructing the Indian In the arts of Industry as ap plied to self-support, but by making and holding him responsible. If he fails when this test is applied, the ef fort and the idea that underlie it will, to that extent, have failed. THE UNWRITTEN1 LAW. The jury in Portland's latest murder case, after short deliberation, returned a verdict in accordance with the "un written law," and Orlando S. Murray is a free man. Of this unwritten law much has been said here and elsewhere lately. Its underlying- principle that of manly pur pose to protect, as far as possible, the women of the family from the perfidy (joined with their own weakness) of men who lead them through false prom ises to their ruin Is too deeply in grained in the nature of high-minded, responsible manhood to be rooted out, even if it were desirable to do so. Yet the closest limitations should for obvi ous reasons be placed upon it by the civil law. .' Human law is at best but a human imperfection; stilU imperfect as it is and necessarily powerless as it is' to right a grievous wrong that grows' out of a woman's ein against maidenly pur ity, joined with a man's cruel boast of its conquest, such power as dwells in the written law would, if properly used when earnestly sought, forestall the exercise of the wrathful vengeance of the unwritten law. We know that, through compelling such' poor restitution as is possible by forc ing an unwilling husband, upon' a girl whom he has sought to leave to her shame, bloodshed has often been pre vented, and; there is every reason to be lieve that the killing of Lincoln Whit ney could have been prevented by this means. .The lesson in this ease lies not, therefore, in deploring the reckless ap peal to the unwritten law; that is fu tile; nor in seeking to flx the blame for the downfall of this young girl upon one or another her parents or those-of her betrayer; nor in striving to adjust the fclame between herself and Whit ney. That is worse than futile, since at best it can prove nothing more t?ha.n what is already conceded that both were at fault in the beginning and he in greater measure later, in his cow ardly attempt to leave the conse quences of a mutual sin upon her a-ione. These are but subterfuges, side is sues, so to speak, that have no bear ing upon the question which seeks to turn aside the vengeance of the unwrit ten law. There is a lesson in this cae0, and it may be briefly set forth in these words: Let the written law be fulfilled to the letter, when called upon, to ad just, as far as possible, a wrong of this nature. Let it be known that the peni tentiary yearns for a poltroon ' who, having lured a young girl, weak through her affection for him, to her ruin, seeks to abandon her to her shame and to throw his own offspring name less upon the world. The unwritten law will never be ab rogated while man is man in the rug ged determination summarily to avenge his daughter or sister, if he fails in the attempt to protect her from public dis grace by inducing her betrayer to fulfill a freely-given promise of marriage. Let the discipline provided by the written law be fully and rigidly enforced in such cases, and the unwritten law will be inoperative, sinee it springs into ac tion, pistol in hand, only when the written law fails to meet the legitimate demand that is made upon it to compel such restitution as is possible a poor thing at best, and frequently followed by a life for the wife of pitiful suffer ing through taunt and neglect but the best that can be done under the cir cumstances. DOES LIVING COST JHORET , The cost of commodities included in the term "living expenses" in New York reached high-water' mark last month. This cost all along the line of family supplies Is the highest since February, 18S4. In discussing the sub ject, R. G. Dunn & Co. says": "The rise in prices is fairly representative of the greater demand that has fol lowed increased prosperity throughout the Nation, and because of the advance in wages, which has lifted the pur chasing price power of the people above all previous records in this or any other country." ' . . This is in strict accordance with the law of recompense. Only the rnost short-sighted and unreasoning could expect hard times prices to prevail in an era of abounding industrial activi ty and high wages. Steady work at small wages when the cost of commodi ties is low is equal to steady work at high wages when the cost of living is high. The distress tba.t comes from hard times is not in the lowering of wages, but in the industrial depression that makes it Impossible for the work ing men to sell his labor even at the minimum wage. Those who were able to secure work at small wages in the great stress of 1893 and ten years im mediately following did not feel the pinch of "hard times," though the plaint was on their lips, while those who kept 'at work or held positions without decrease of salary as army officers and men occupying politfcal positions were the financial princes of the land,' though the plaint .was also often upon their lips. This shows that .complaint about "expenses" is a matter of habit the toll that life. takes from us, if not always a legitimate one, is irreparable. This' is in accord ance with the idea of material restitu tion, which teaches that for everything that life gives a full Teturn Is ex pected. .. Late gales that swept the Pacific have no doubt left a number of derelicts on the great highway of commerce. Dis mantled, riding mainly below the waves that buffet them, too strong to go to pieces, under the guidance of the mindless wind' drawn, hither and thither by the strong currents and counter-currents of the sea, there is- no object at sea more dreaded no menace more threatening, than a tempest-torn vessel abandoned by her crew. The bringing of bne of these into the port of Astoria with yet much about her that Is worth saving, including three half-famished dogs, is a matter of re joicing to the mariners of the Pacific Coast, while those who rescued the vessel will realize handsomely in sal vage. Of the crew of the vessel and the stress that led to her abandonment there is as .yet no news. It is hoped that later it will be known that the abandonment of the bark was accom plished without loss of life. 1 i A poultry chow in which the fine points of 116 domestic fowls were shown oft to advantage, and to the unstinted admiration of poultry fanciers, was a feature of the week at Eugene. This is all very well, but what is wanted at the university town and in its vicin ity is poultry or the useful rather than the ornamental variety. Hens that lay eggs are preferred stock to students who beseech the landlady in vain for an omelette or a fresh egg for break fast, only to bo met by the plea that there are no fresh eggs in the market and that Eastern eggs sell at Portland prices, which are prohibitive. Those prize Houda.ns and Plymouth Rocks and WVandottes are mighty fine birds to look at, high-stepping, glossy of plu mage, well preened and all that, but when it comes to henly duty they are woefully lacking, else would, not eggs be at a premium in Eugene, with sev eral hundred students at the University of Oregon literally hungering for them. The dunghill hen was not a beauty, but when she cackled there was an egg to show for it. (Points that make the unwritten law effective upon a jury seem to be lack ing in the Bradley-Brown murder that lately was committed in Washington. The principal elements a hotheaded, bumptious young man, a weak, inex perienced young girl and a cool, deter mined brother or father, intent upon restitution or vengeance are wholly wanting In this case. Instead there is in this disgusting nd dishonorable case a man of some prominence, middle aged, the father of grown children, and a woman of equal years, a widow and a mother. The former sought to end a liaison of several years by a cash set tlement that would leave him free to marry another woman of mature years by profession an actress. The party of the second part would not accept the settlement offered, and to forestall the proposed marriage of the man of her unlawful relations gave him his qui etus. The story admits of pity neither on the one nor the other. Hon. James Bryce, the distinguished political economist of England, was puzzled when he tried to comprehend how three separate and- distinct gov ernments could exercise their authority over the people of the same city with out frequent clash. After careful study of our system, he set forth clearly in his master work, "The American Com monwealth," the spirit in which we di vide the responsibility of municipal, state and national law makers and ex ecutors, as well as the spirit In which we recognize their authority and obey their statutes. This chapter Is com mended to the young men of the Pa cific Northwest. Read it. Its luminous style will charm you and you will bet ter understand the force of Secretary Root's admirable speech on "The Unit ed States," published yesterday. Every city should have at least one public enterprise or improvement of which it will be so proud that no vis itor will be permitted to depart without, viewing it. Portland has many such, among them the heights, the park, the City Hall and the public library. The city that cannot "point with pride" to some one excellent feature has little hope of being remembered or favor ably talked about by strangers who come and go. The City of Salem, has undertaken to maintain a public li brary, and if the task is well performed the capital of the state will soon have something besides the. state institutions to show to visitors. Sorhe idea of the importance of that rich, but isolated, land, vaguely known as the "Klamath country," is gleaned from the statement that, during the past season, there has been shipped out of the "basin" 20,000 head of cattle. while there still remain 6000 head of feeders. The stock indlustxy is not the only resource of that rich land, and. If the younger generation of this city live long enough to enjoy transpor tation facilities into that country, they will wonder greatly why It was so long neglected. , Commerce of the Columbia River and through that of the Pacific Coast has a stanch and intelligent friend in Colo nel S. W. Roessler, United States En gineer of this district. His annual re port on the Columbia River bar, lately given to the public, shows a just ap preciation of the work and its needs. "Mr. Dooley" has never written a more humorous article than hie com ment on the President's activities, which will appear in The Sunday Ore gonlan tomorrow. His concept of Mr. Roosevelt's personal direction of the movements of his Cabinet officers is ir resistibly funny. "There will soon be a demand for milkmaids in Linn County," writes the Albany Herald. They will be then a-plenty when Dr.Withycombe has the milking machine running across the river in Benton. Our friend Mr. "Varnum is entitled to sympathy for the pain that Congress must have caused him when it voted down the simplified spelling. In the more or less laudable attempt to , simplify American orthography, President Roosevelt, for once, bit off more than he could cbew. Publishers may congratulate them selves over the prospect that' the old plates will serve for new spelling-books during this generation. In the list of Friday bargain sales one cannot resist a feeling of regret that he finds neither coal nor slabwood. It is a healthy sign that all the de linquent tax lists in Oregon this Fall are mighty short. To Christmas shoppers: Do it now. AMERICAN STUDENTS BEHIND. Colonials Are Better Than American Rhode Scholars. New York Times. The London Times prints a most in teresting and an analytical account of the Rhodes scholars at Oxford, at the beginning of their third year of resi dence. There are. 161 of them alto gether, 79 from the United States, 71 from the British colonics, and 11 from Germany. What is calculated particularly to in terest and possibly to deject Americans is that in scholarship the American scholars fall far behind the "colonials." Many apprehended, when the selections were made, that the social and athletic qualifications of the American under graduates would be comparatively neg lected for the purely scholastic, and that we would send a squad of studious youths, of "digs" and "grinds," with bulging foreheads and concave chests. But not at all. They have to their credit the long and high jumps at uni versity sports. One of them won the three miles, another was second in the mile, a third put the weight and threw the hammer." But In the schools not one of them came within gunshot of the colonial leaders, one, a youth from Quebec, who took the Ireland and Craven Scholarships in Classics, the blue ribbon of his grade; another, also of Quebec, who has been made an hon orary scholar of Balllol; a third, an Australian from Melbourne, who has taken apparently everything open to him in law, and has "won nearly 1000 in scholarships the past year." This is not at all flattering to us. We can -take refuge in the belief that there was no inferiority of natural capacity on the part of the Americans. Many observers will believe that they have been handtcapped by the mongrel American university system in which a veneer of what Professor Muensterberg insists is a misunderstanding of Ger man pedagogics is superposed on a basis of the American cqynmon school. How could a boy brought up under such auspices compete in the subjects, especially in the "llterae humaniores," of which Oxford makes such a spe cialty, with a boy who had gone through the regular Anglican classic "grind" either at an Knglish public school or a colonial school modeled upon it? It seems that to succeed at Oxford you must do what the Oxonians do. And not only must you do it there, but you must have done it before you go there. The Wreck and the Man. Chicago Record-Herald. Although Senator Piatt of New York is feeble in the extreme and moves about only with great difficulty, he has savage aversion to anyone hinting at his con dition. He tottered out of the Senate while the President's message was being read and made for a watting carriage. A stiff breeze blew his coattails widely about and his thin frame shook like a reed. A caoitol policeman made bold to take hold of the old man's arm as he tried to mount the steps of the carriage and assist him to enter. Fiercely the New Yorker turned on the cop. "What are you doing, sir?" snarled the Senator. "Only trying to help you in your car riage, sir," politely replied the bluecoat. with a tremor in his voice. "Get away from me, snapped Senator Piatt im periously, "I don't need the help of you or anybody else to get Into my carriage." The policeman scooted back to his post. A Note of Appreciation. PORTLAND, Or., Dec. 14. (To the Editor.) At a joint meeting of the Muni cipal Association, the Woman's Municipal Association, and the Associated Charities, note was made with appreciative com ment of The Oregonian's recent editorials upon the slot machine and the music ordinance, and a resolution of thanks was unanimously passed In recognition of the same. We are more profoundly im pressed each year with the power of the press as an educator of sentiment, and as a result sadly deplore anything but the clearest and strongest utterances in favor of civic righteousness and are cor respondingly thankful when our great papers unequivocally support moral measures. .ADA WALLACE UNRU'II, Chairman, MISS R. L. RAY, Secretary. Seeing: Himself Aa Others Saw Him. Baltimore Sun. When Clemenceau, the new prime minister of France, was appointed minis ter of the interior and paid his first visit to the office he came upon a secret document concerning himself which set forth minutely all the details of his poll tical career and innumerable episodes of his life. One item related to certain weekly visits which he had paid to a mysterious person, supposed to be an enemy of the Government, with whom he spent an hour or so on each occasion. The mysterious one, as a matter of fact, was M. Clemenceau's chiropodist and the minister took pains to have this grotesque Information inserted in the serious docu ment. Kitchener In Reflected Honor. 1 New York Herald. Lord Kitchener, the noted British general, was induced to attend a big social function in London recently. He was introduced to a very pretty girl. who expressed intense pleasure at making his acquaintance. General Kitchener abhors "gush," but the girl seemed so sincere that he asked her why she was so glad to meet him. "Why, you are Toby's uncle," she re plied with a blush, "and we are en gaged, you know." His lordship hard ly remembered the young man, but ac knowledged that he was delighted to shine in the reflected glory of "Toby." Explaining; How It Happened. Washington (D. C.) Post. Representative Wharton of Illinois was telling Speaker Cannon how he came to be defeated for re-election. "I was beaten by a roan who never made more than $40 a month In his life a telegraph operator," said Wharton, who was once a guide in the stock yards. "Whew," commented Uncle Joe. ''He must have had the dots on you." "You'll Hare to Pay Your Kiire." Baltimore Sun. A8 ' Washingtonward. one by one. The members took their way, To answer when the roll begun And thus secure their pay. The stern, ead look upon each face Ah, it was not carved there By problems of the state, but this: "You'll have to pay your fare!" By B. O., by P. R. R.. From North and East and West, In plain day coach or'parlor car, The same dark cloud oppresst. The same deep wrinkles marked each brow. As if the hand of care Had touched them. But, 'twas only: "Now, You'll have to pay your fare"' From Oregon and Tdatio. From Texas and from Maine, To reach the capital, you ' know. Each took his destined train. But sweet dreams of the paBt no inore Hose brightly In the air No pass, no privilege, just the roar "Of "Let me have your fare!" Across the prairies and the bills . Despondently they rode, ' ' To vote upon and offer bills And bear the Nation's load. But no this weight and not this woe Turned gray each statesman's hair; Twss this, that now, where'er they go. They'll have to pay their (are) THE TITLED liPKMCI'IIHIl'T, j ' i How Count Cast rl lane Made the lul i Fortune "fckldeo," Paris Cable to the New Vork iiwfKiii. At the hearing of the Cusleilaue -fiJ- itors' canes today Maitre Oyppi, ! Mine. Gould's lawyer, told how i 'ovii.il j Bonl fell into the hands tit the fuouey- ' lenders and how he was driven to .dr- i pcrate straits to raise money. Count 1 Bonl, the lawyer said, was even ou;- pelled to descend into trade to raise money and bought and sold goods just ! like the common tradesman whom it is the fashion of the French arlslocracy to denounce. Maitre Cruppi talked for four hours, mostly with tire technical reading of the civil code, the marri;tB contract and other dry documents. In the middle of his speech the 'judge went to sleep and slipped in ills chair. and several persons among the audience snored. Cruppi demonstrated how Count Hon! had been the victim of usurers, Isi dore Ziegler, the principal creditor, claiming over 1.000,000 francs for urns advanced with which to manage the count's household affairs. Ziegler showed himself 'the chief of the band of money-lenders, and Cruppi said that Ziegler was a sly fox, for he advanced the least possible amount of money himseif and always got somebody else to furnish the funds.' Cruppi advanced proofs of usury in the following trans actions: In one case Count Boni gave a note for 44,000 francs, but actually received in two payments only 29,000 francs. Again he gave a note for 21. 000 francs and received actually 14.000 francs. Being unable to pay this when due. the money-lender extracted a note renewed at 25.000 francs. The sum total received by Bonl, however, was only 17,000 francs. On another note for 55,000 francs Boni actually got 20.000 francs. Count ess Anna denied any participation in or benefit from these loans, and .said they were made without her knowN edge or consent. She. refused, there fore, to be held responsible for the same. Concerning the tradesmen's bills, said Maitre Cruppi, Countess Anna is always willing to pay the same when they are legitimate demands. Cruppi showed how a dressniaker, claiming nearly 20,000 francs, did not furnish any dresses to the countess, but lent the money to Bonl. So, too, an antiquity dealer, claiming payment for numerous objects of furnittire, real ly sold the countess only two. The other items of the bill figuring as pieces of furniture were disguised loans. One dealer claims that he sold the Castellanes two sofas, one for 60,000 francs and the other for 80.000 francs; a chest of drawers for 9,000 francs and a desk for 20,000 francs. Countess Anna .says the last two items were delivered at her house, but she never saw the others. Notes for the same were signed by Count Boni without his wife's knowledge. Another dealer sent a bill for a coffee pot. 200 francs, and an antique bottle, 20,000 francs, but these objects Boni sent as presents to his women friends. Concerning' Count iBoni's extrava gance, Cruppi said he not only spent his wife's entire Income, which she paid directly into his hands .out of generosity, but used up his personal sources of revenue. Cruppi detailed mortgages amounting to nearly 7,000 000 francs raised by Count Boni on Ave separate personal and real estate properties. Bonl also speculated in antiquities, but did not have much luck in these transactions. He generally lost and Anna had to foot the bills. However, sometimes Boni did make a profit, notably in a transaction with Seligman. the antiquarian or tne lai ace Vendome. Here Bonl bought goods which he. resold, making a profit of 570.000 francs. This sum should have been contributed to the expenses of the household, but it was not. It went in the usual direction of lordly extrava- Kance. Count Boni's extravagance, Cruppi said, sometimes ran pretty close to what by anyone else might be called a swindle. One piquant detail con cerned Mademoiselle Nimldoff, a great beauty and a singer at the Grand Op-era-House here. She sold Boni a Jot of rich rings, pins and necklaces Tor 120,000 francs. She holds Boni's re ceipt for the goods, but never got the money. She applied to the countess for payment, -but Anna declared she had never set eyes on the jewels or heard them mentioned. Boni, when asked for an explanation, declared he had shown them to Anna and she had picked out those she preferred and had sent them to a jeweler to reset, and he had intended returning the remainder to Mile. Nimldoff. It turned out, how ever, that Boni had simply taken the jewels around the corner and sold them to a jeweler for 55.000 francs. Nlmidoff then wrote Count Bonl a letter which was read in court, saying that she knew all American women were charming, and was sure that the countess would see that this affair was properly settled. Cruppi declared that Anna was wax in Boni's hands. He used to write letters to her family or to business people and obliged her to copy them and sign he? name. Cruppi said that Boni resorted to tricks to make Anna write these letters, telling her they were intended for one person and then he mailed them to sombody else. Bonl wrote very well in English, and the letters read were originally written by Boni in English. Cruppi summed up by saying that Countess Anna was perfectly willing to pay the tradesmen's bills, but re fused to settle the claims of dress makers and furniture dealers who had never delivered goods to her. When Hnrrlnian Does the Honking. Buffalo (N. Y.J.News. -Mr. HarHman declares that he does not control one mile of railroad, but he can not deny that he makes a noise like a controller of a whole system of, Voads. He does the honking, anyway. A "BIG STICK" H4HK THAI IX fHF: AM FUMEI, M AsfaV.. C'ongreaa to Advocate baK la Copyright. W ifuhiiigiMn ill, C Dispatch to New Vork World. With the ii rmnmrlPr flirting with tbe 1r t v.iug point, Hamuel I,. Clemens Mark 'J'waiii appeared at the Capitol in a i reaiu- olored suit of r5unim r flHjijjJ. lit um(; over to advocate a -l:a'tit in I he c opyright laws, so that a kyok , an be protected during the lifetime of til author and 50 years li-y.ijd. instead of the. 42 yars nov. pivvided by Hie Copyright law. Mr. ' 'Jeiiieus apparently preferred to taik auout loti.es father than copyrights, for Jje tpeit icoert itf the time discuss ing whal n.en eijould wear. "I suppose rve-rvone Is wonderlns; wliy f am wmrMx wliwt 1 am," he said. modceiiy, referring lo llie flannel out fit. "This its a uijIfor.H. It is the uni form nt the American Association of Purity and Perfection, of which I am president, secretary and treasurer, and the only man in Out I'nited Ktates eli gible to tnembcrKiiip. "I am Just 71 years old. and when a man reaches that age he has a right to arrogate to himself many privileges to wlilcli younger men cannot anplre. When you are over 71 you are privi leged to dress in the fa-shion that con forms most to your comfort and enjoy ment. 1 have reached tin- ae where dark clothes have a depressing effect on me. "I. prefer light clothing, colors, likn those worn by the ladies at the opera. Vhenever I go to the opera ami soo the men sitting around with thoso beautifully-gowned ladies they are rn more cheering than a lot of oid crows. If nobody else will wear colors Hint cheer me up I shall wear them myself. Man's clothing is bad in color and gen erally uncomfortable." "What, in your judgment, is the mopt comfortable costume?" Mr. Clemens was asked. "There is no more delightful costume possible than the human skin. The most ' satisfactory costume I ever saw was worn by the natives of the Sand wich Islands, whom I saw 40 years ago. When they wanted to adorn themselves beyond what nature gave them they put on a pair of spectacles. "Clothes, in our modern civilization, are to preserve decency, and for us to get as much comfort out of as possible. But how any man can get comfort out of the clothing made for men today. I cannot, see. Nothing is more absurd, ungraceful and uncomfortable than modern men's clothing, day or night, and at night man wears the most ridic ulous of all garbs evening cloths." "What would you suggest for men peekaboo waists, with short, fluffy sleeves?" "Certainly," replied Mr. Clemens, run ning his lingers through his hair. "The women take and wear our clothes, don't they? Why should we not learn from them? They always have beautiful fabrics, splendid colors, and, moreover, women's clothes arc always pretty. "I would go back to the middle ages for the gorgeous, glorious, gaudy cos tumes of that time. Then we could wear colors. Back to the days be fore buttons were invented, when they laced their clothing up, and it took a little time to do it; back to the days of tights and the helmet! Yes, I admit that it might be uncomfortable for a bald-headed man wearing a tlghtly-screwed-on helmet, with a bee or a fly Imprisoned therein." Mr. Clemens left William Dean How ells to look after the interests of the authors, while he strolled about, renew-, ing old acquaintances. He called on Senator Cannon, and they joked with one another for half an hour. Speaking at the copyright hearing, Mr. Clemens commented on the impos sibility of understanding the legal phraseology of the bill and said he al lowed all credit to the "trained legis lators" who were wrestling with it. "I am particularly interested in the portion of the measure which concerns my trade," he continued. "I like that extension to the life of the author, and 50 years thereafter. I think that ought to satisfy any reasonable author, be cause it will take care of his children let the grandchildren take care of themselves: It will satisfy me, because it will enable me to take care of my daughters. After that I don't care. I have long been out of the struggle, in dependent of it and indifferent to it. "It Is not objectionable to me that all the trade and industries of the United States are In the bill and protected by it. I should like to havo the oyster culture added, and anything else that might need protection. I have no ill feeling. I think it a just and righteous measure and I should like to see it passed." Mr. Clemens argued that there was really no legitimate ground for making any limitation to the life of a copyright. "But," he added,' "I understand It must have a limit because that Is re quired by the Constitution of the Unit ed States, which sets aside that prior constitution we call the decalogue. Th decalogue says you shall not take away from any man his property I will not use that harsher word. But the laws of England and America do take away the property from the author. They all talk handsomely of the literature of the), land, then they turn around to crush and wipe it out of existence." The expiration of a copyright, he ex plained, did not inure to the benefit of the public, but to the publisher, "who lives forever and rears families in af fluence and enjoys from generation to generation these ill-gotten gains. "My copyrights produce to me a great deal more money than I can spend. However, if I did not have them I could take care of myself. I know half a dozen trades and if these ran out I would invent a half dozen others. But for my daughters. I hope Congress will extend to them the charity which they have failed to get from me." THAT WILL HELP From the Pittsburg Dispatch. (fin i k