Morning Oregonian., March 13, 1907, Page 5, Image 5

THE .HORNING OREGOMAN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH" 13, 1907.
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TO TRY STRENGTH
intends to Let League Travel
Alone and Run Independ
ent Ticket.
ALARM AMONG DEMOCRATS
Murphy May Sliow Hearst Jlegls
terecl as Independent and Read
Illm Oyt of Party If City
Is invaded.
NEW YORK. March 12. SpeciaM-Tlie
1 iidepci:denee Iasue. havlnp mado its
first test of strength at the two local
Assembly elections, is now preparing to
mix things up in the various villages
throughout the state. Of course there is
hi expectation of electing anybody, but
Hearst believes that he will be iible to
show that the league, outside of New
Tork City is a much more important
organization than the Democratic party,
if he can prove It. the demonstration
will undoubtedly have a powerful effect
upon the minds of the delegates to the
next National convention.
In taking this course Hearst is entirely
innorin the frantic appeals of State
t'hnirman 'FinRy' Connors and Tam
many Leader Murphy. Although there
has as yet been no open rupture, it Is
predicted that the break cannot long be
delayed. Hearst recently accompanied ISO
of his followers to Albany, where they
nppeared before, a. number of committees.
In the course of a carefully prepared
Hddress delivered before them he said:
Ready to Travel Aione.
"I am greatly encouraged by the fact
that our league has continued to Increase
In. strength with every election, and that,
by first allying Itself with the Repub
lican party and then with the Demo
cratic party, it has been able always to
advance the principles it was formed to
promote. And I feel sure that the league
has now reached the point In power and
numbers where it can stand alone and
advocate such principles independently of
any other party or organization."
These remarks raised a turmoil !n the
lieiivcratic state coinmitee. Conners
came here from Buffalo in hot haste and
had a long, heated argument with liearst,
who. by the way. is chairman of the
Independence League state committee.
I haven't a word to say."
was the only comment of Conners when
lie was seen Inter. "Probably tilings can
be fixed some way."
Sluing elections are held in all of the
ST counties of the State outside of Greater
New Tork. and fully 50 pef cent of the
minor officials now serving are Republi
cans. Tn fact the only upstate countv-
that is reliably Democratic Is Scholaric,
which stood alone in giving Bryan a
majority in Last year Hearst led
Hughes there by a scant 300 votes.
View of League Leaders.
The Independence League idea 1b that
a much better showing can be made by
"going it alone" than by combining wltii
the Democrats. a one member of the
League's State Committee said today:
"Nearly all the upstate Democrats are
enrolled in our organization now. Conse
quently why Kliould we turn over this
strength to the Democratic party? Fur
thermore a fusion would mean a positive
loss of votes, for Republicans who might
he willing to support independent nomi
nees balk at the idea of going bodily into
the Democratic camp.
"We will run tickets in every cotinty
where an election is to be held, and are
in excellent shape, as we will not need
to gather petitions, our place on ballot be
ing assured.
"The people upstate want Something
Jiew, -aJKl we are preared to give it to
tiicm. The candidates we will name are
to he of the highest standurd, and our
Intention is to do all in our power to
elect them. Of course, however, the
success or failure of. these candidates is
only a minor consideration. We are out
lor a good fair test witli the Democratic
party and expert to prove conclusively
that we have more votes than the older
organisation.
".It is the iutention to make this the
third of our series of object lessons to the
voters. ' Our first fight was made in
New York City, the Democratic strong
.hold of the North, in 1!.,. We fused
with the Republicans on Assemblymen
and Aldermen and beat Tammany where
1t was strongest. The Democrats lost
control of the Board of Aldermen and ha.d
only a handful of Repivsentatives at Al
bany. Last year we fused with the Deul
tvrats. elected our whole ticket except
Hearst, and threw a terrific scare into
The upstate Republicans.
"We. have shown that the voters will
follow us, any old way, so this time we
intend to muke thorn flock by themselves.
"When - we have finished. I believe
everybody will admit that we hold the
balance of power here, and that the party
which wants to carry New York state
must nominate for President a man that
Is satisfactory to us."
Murphy Has Card Up Sleeve.
As long as Hearst confines his exteri
ments to the rural districts. Charles F.
Murphy will not lose any sleep, but he
evinced great interest in a report that
the league would run an Independent
i-otinty ticket tn New York next Kail. A
Sheriff and iome minor officials, together
with a board of aldermen, are to be
chonen. and Murphy wants to have the
naming of them, or at least the lion's
share.
"Th boss doesn't care who is pound
master at Alfred. Allegheny County, or
Governor at Albany." said one of
Murphy's intimates. "Give hint every
thing down here, and you will never
hrnr him scream, not even once. But if
Hearst tries to get gay in New York
County, there will be interesting doings.
He has our permission to jolly the
countrymen, but he must give us a fair
deal or suffer the consequences."
Although William Randolph Hearst was
the Democratic nominee for Coventor last
l-'all, and until March sat in Congress
km a Democratic Representative, he Us not
an enrolled member of his party. Under
the New York election taws, primaries
are conducted under the control of the
state. When a vote registers for the
regular Fall election, he is given an
opportunity to enroll in either of the
two big parties he selects. This is done
by a secret ballot deposited In a separate
box. which is not opened until some
time after election day. Then the lists
are tabulated by the board of elections
and only electors who. appear on them
are qualified to vote at the primaries the
following year.
Mr. Hearst registered and voted last
Fall, but he has always declined to say
whether he put his cross in the Demo
cratic or Independence League column.
From the Board of Klections. however,
comes the information that he failed to
enroll as a Democrat, or in fact to en
roll at .all. That, of course, leaves htm
outside of any primaries except his own
private Independence League affairs.
Several of the impetuous members of
PREPARES
the Democratic state committee were to
call a meeting immediately and denounce
Hearst, but the leaders frowned on the
project. They declare that -nothing will
be gained by coming: to an open rupture
at this time, and that perhaps the trouble
will blow over before the time for the
National election rolls around.
-Hearst has greatly overestimated the
strength of his league up state." com
mented a lieutenant of "Packy" JlcCabe.
the Albany County leader. "He is the
weakest kind of a man with the farmers,
and his ticket will Tj a bad third. I
believe it is the best thing in the woiiJ
to let the league men stand up and be
counted. Then they will realize how
weak they really are, drop their present
foolish tactics and be good."
But the league men are confident that
they are going to make a remarkable
showinsr. and the Gilscy House is again
beginning to show signs of political life.
IN A JAP KINDERGARTEN
l'rctly Pictures of Buby Life and
Character Training.
Marian tlonsall in the Housekeeper.
It was in a Jaianese kindergarten that
1 received my first vivid impressions of
what the training of Japanese women
means. Twenty or 30 butterfly babies
sat about the kindergarten table "study
ing" silkworms. The ugly gray worms
were nibbling Industriously in their boxes
of green leaves, and the tiny tots were
chattering about them excitedly. The
teacher imposed upon them a hard task
moving the silkworms into other boxes
of fresh leaves; and in order that the
stale leaves should not be put in the
fresh boxes it was necessary for the chil
dren to remove the worms individually.
and by the aid of their own small hudl
The little students understood their or
der and knew but to. obey; but the worms
were very ugly and crawly, and the bflby
bands were not eager for their task. In
tently I watched their faces; First they
gazed long' at the worms, then, pucker
ing their brows determinedly, prepared to
lift them .to the other box. Slowly, slowly,
slowly the tiny thumb and fore
finger would draw nearer to the
worms: and then when' almost
touching, within a quarter of an inch,
there was invariably a little shiver,
the hand was quickly drawn back, and
the babies, looking at their teacher
laughed. Oh, precious Japanese babies,
have you any idea how many generations
of the relentless training of your mothers
were required to produce your' involun
tary Instinct of obedience and your bra-ve
laughter at your own fright?
The Japanese teacher laughed, too. but
from a different cause - and fcihdlv nave
Iter pupils chopsticks wherewith to lift
them. With a O hash! the removal was
indeed easy, and not only was the trans
ference of the worms quickly affected,
but they were made to assume different
positions, the straight ones being made
to curve and the curved ones to He
straight, to the huge entertainment of the
children.
I was Impressed with the fact that a
Japanese baby begins life with a capital
which our little American babies can
scarcely be said to possess. Not for three
or four or five, but for a hundred genera
tions the baby's ancestors'1 have been un
dergoing a Spartan training to the attain
ment of patience, courage and endurance,
until, after centuries, these qualities have
become largely instinctive. It is this
hereditary gift of patience that the Jap
anese usually give as an answer to the
American's repeated wendorlngs as to
why Japanese babies do not cry. Now.
of course. Japanese babies, being human,
do cry, and when the little things are
In pain or distress they lift up their baby
voices right lustily. But It Is true that
they cry so much less than our Occidental
babies that a comparison is inevitable.
The answer of the college professor, the
family doctor and the baby's mother as
to why the little-ones do not cry. though
varying in some respects, seems to as
sume this "Oriental calm" as a basis.
"Why do not our bahies cry?" says the
college professor. "For the name reason
that our people do not cry." "Why do
not our babies cry V says the physician,
whose answer is worth .'considering. "We
have no bottle-fed babies in Janan."
The Japanese mother, with her charac
teristic politeness. Hays bhushingly: "Oh.
I am ashamed: Our babies crv more
much more, I am sure, than American
babie." But if you see her care for her
baby you may gain more suggestions.
One of the most important observations
may be made during the little one's bath.
A loose silk sash about the baby's waist
is untied, and the brilllantkimona with
its large sleeves and open In the front
from neck to hem. is laid aside as easily
ns though only a quilt had covered her.
The loose sash about the similar under
garment is removed as simply. The eoft
white cloths folded about the little body
are unwrapped and the little bather, un
aware of what has lust been accom
plished. iR ready for her tub not a pin,
rot a button having been reckoned with.
So. tinvexed by turnings and pinnings and
buttonlngs antf tight grasping. Baby San
crows with delight in her tub, and, like a
true Japanese, splashes gloriously.
Nor docs tl-.e Japanese baby know the
meatiing of a cradle. Tier bed is of soft
quilts laid on the matting, and never
having known of motion as an induce
ment to sleep, cannot count the lack a
hardship. But she knows her mother's
lullaby and from her earliest infancy Is
accustomed to the daintiest, most sooth
ing little sonffs.
She has her toys. thi dear Oriental
baby, and shakw her rattle with glee; of
gifts from friends and relatives she has
many, pnd clothes such as our babies
never saw. clothes charmingly suited to
the little brown Oriental face of cloth or
s-ilk. of reds and blues and browns and
greens and pinks and yellows blended into
great figures of fans and flowers veri
table flower gardens of dresses: and of
tender care and mother love she ht.s great
store.
Diametrically opposed are the two ideas
upon which the training of the American
vuman and the Japanese woman are
baed. From her "babyhood the American
girl is trained to emphasize her individ
uality. "E'crsonallty." "originality," are
the words fairly ground into her brain.
Any suggestion of a peculiar talent ts
developed: she Is continually impressed
with the necessity of independent think
ing: she is taught to have a crave regard
for her richts a!" an individual. All the
training of the Japanese wot run ll dUk
eratelr calculated to suppress individual
ity. Instead of ideas of iersonalitv and
originality, the duties impressed upon her
are oofiieiic to authority, elimination of
slf. Instead of her rights as an individ
ual, her obligation to the greater right of
the family is the attitude required.
This training begins with little girl
hood, and the t-everity of it Increases
with yeans. et it is strikingly true, and
worthy of deepest consideration, that in
no other nation is the training of a child
accompanied by more gentleness and ten
dcrness.
FATAL FALL FROM BASKEA
Boatvain of Carona Killed While
"Working at the Wreck.
EUREKA. Ca! March 12. Martin Up.
mall, boatswain of the Ill-fated steamer
Corona, was killed today while riding:
with a companion named Roberts in a
tram basket from the wreck to the shore.
The steel hook holding the cable to its
anchor on the shore snapped and both
men were hurled into the sea, Upmall
struck against the side of the vessel and
his skull was fractured. Roberts escaped
injury and was swimming ashore when
th lifeboat, which put out to the rescue,
reached him.
P'orelftn'vs carrying kodaks in Montenegro-without
a written permission will be
r-rieciid. evn if thy only mke snap
shots -f th fw.-t'uery.
WOULD BE LOTTER!
Hill's Opinion of Government
Ownership.
HOW PLAN WOULD WORK
Quite Willing to Sell Great Northern,
but Government Would Be Glad
to Unload K.-di mates Value
of. the Koad.
MINNEAPOLIS, March 12. James J.
Hill, president of the Great Northern
Railroad, 'testifying before tho Sound
bury legislative committee today, de
clared without qualification that he
would be oirly too willing to have the
I'nited States Government take over
his rood He stated further that, if
the Government should go into the
railroad business, it would be nothing
short of a lottery and the country
would, as a matter of fact, have an
"elephant" on its hands.
"Then," said he, "the Government
would be obliged to engage in an
other lottery to get rid of the ele
phant." "Why do you say that4" asked
James Manahan. attorney for the com
mittee which is trying to ascertain
the cost, of the railroads in the state.
"I make the assertion because it Is
so." said Mr. Hill. "If the Govern
ment had charge of all the railroads
in the country Congress would be kept
busy making appropriations night and
day, and tile distlicts with poor rep
resentation and sparse population
.would be left in the lurch. This would
mean that the districts in question
would go to Seed as far as the rail
roads were concerned, and that the
railroads would get ru'ety, figuratively
speaking, and become less and less
valuable."
Jlr. Jlanahan asked Mr. Hill what it
would cost the Government to secure
control of the Gre-t Northern. Tne
witness replied it would cost more
than J40.000 per mile to "reproduce"
the Great Northern not counting ex
pensive terminals, docks and other
property, he said it would cost about
$60. 'n)0 per mile to "reproduce" the
road.
Mr. Hill used tne word "reproduce"
guardedly. not admitting that he
would sell bis road for only $40,000 or
?6i.-00 per mile.
STICKXKY PREDICTS A PANIC
Says Hostile State legislation Mill
Bankrupt Railroads.
WASHINGTON. March 12. A. B. Stick
ncy, president of the Chicago Great Wes
tern Railroad Company, who arrived here
tonight, in an interview discussing the
railroad situation, said:
"The people are now laying- the founda
tion firm and strong for a tremendous
panic."
Mr. Stickney said he did not believe
that the crisis will bo reached within the
npxt two yearjs, but lie took the position
that it certainly will come and will, be
even more disastrous than the panic of
1S93-4. He declared that, if the present
railroad agitation is kpt up, all the rail
roads are threatened with bankruptcy
and that in 1!09 hundreds of thousands of
men will be thrown out of enfvioyment. -
The great unrest in the financial world,
Mr. Stickney said, is not due to the pol
icy of President Roosevelt, hut Is brought
about by "hostile legislation by the vari
ous state legislatures." Mr. Stickney con
tended that the only solution of the rail
road problem is to grant all the power
to resulate the roads to the Federal Gov
ernment. He urged the establishment of
a rppartment of Interstate Commerce,
Its head to be a member of the Cabinet
and he asserted thai the present Inter
state Commerce Commission Is a failure
because the power to act is placed in the
hands of too ma.ny men. Ho said he be
lieved far better results could be had if
the entire matter was placed in the hands
of one man.
Mr. 'Stlckney's visit here at this time,
following so closely that of E. H. Harri
man and the hurried trip of J. P. Mor
gan, caused much comment m omcial
circles tonight. He says that he has no
appointment to see the President, but in
timates that be may call at the White
House before he leaves for the West,
"I am in favor of all that President
Roosevelt stands for up to this time as
to the regulation of railroads and their
rates." said Mr. Stickney, "but the Legis
latures in the different states have taken
the matter up where the President left
off and seem to be vleing with each other
in trying to reduce rates and make other
regulations in regard to the methods of
conducting railroad business which are
entirely inconsistent with each other and
the regulation of the Federal Government.
This has brought about a condition of af
fairs which threatens disaster in the im
mediate future. The railways already are
finding the greatest difficulty in obtain
ing sufficient capital to complete the im
provements now under way and to pay
for additional rolling stock which has ul
ready been contracted for."
The railroads of the country will be
forced into bankruptcy, Mr. Stickney
added, unless the revenues increase great
ly over the past year.
"A decrease in the average rates of
only a mill per ton a mile," he said,
"would wipe out all the dividends and
a further decrease of a mill and a third
of a mill per ton a mile would be equiva
lent to all the interest oh their bonds
and other indebtedness. Uuring the past
six months the wages of all employes,
which constitutes about 60 per cent of the
operating expenses of railways, have
been increased fully lt per cent and un
less railway rates can be increased 10 per
cent to cover the increase of wages the
leading railroads will be forced into bank
ruptcy." BKC.VVSE HE AD-MIKES FISH
CJcorge Gould Tells Keason of Fish's
Election to Board.
NEW TORK. March 12. George J.
Gould, president of the Missouri " Pa
oilic Railroad, said today regarding the
election of Stuyvesant Pish to the direc
torate of that company.
The eleciton of Jlr. Fish -as a director
of the Missouri Pacific has no signiti
cance. He was an old friend of my father
And is a friend of mine. I have great
admiration for his abilities as a railroad
man and when he relinquished the duties
as head of the Illinois Central, I thought
it would be an excellent thing for the
Missouri Pacific to secure his services.
He will be elected a member of the ex
ecutive committee of the company, but
will not. so far as I know, be elected
president of the company, and beyond
this the election has no significance what
ever. FISH . JOTXS GOIXD SYSTEM
Deposed President Vnanimotisly
Eleeted Missouri Pacific Director.
ST. LOCIS. March ll-Siuyvesant Fish,
former president of the Illinois Central
Railway, was today elected a director of
the Missouri Pacific Railroad at the
regular stockholders' meeting.
Mr. Fish was elected to succeed James
H. Hyde. It Is said that more than )
per cent, of the stock of the Missouri
Pacific was voted in today's election,
which is said to be a larger amount than
has been voted in previous elections.
Mr. Fish was unanimously elected,
which is considered signillcant of the
important part he will take in the fu
ture conduct of the road. . At the general
o:fice no statement could be secured con
rerning the matter beyond the an
nouncement of the result of the election.
ADVENT OF ARTILLERY,
Remarkable Guns Made in the 16th
and 1 7th Centuries.
New York Sun.
' With the advent of artillery and fire
arms, all kinds of queer weapons were
from time to time invented. Many of
them distinctly foreshadowed our modern
repeating and rifled weapons. Not a few
revolvers, repeaters and rifled muketfl
were made in the 16th and 17th centuries,
but as the whole affair had to be made
by hand their cost precluded any general'
adoption of these ingenious devices. The
earliest cannon were breechloaders, and,
like our modern guns, were built up
rather than cast. But even after the in
vention of cast iron and brass cannon the
smaller pieces were generally made to
load at the breech. A couple of such
weapons mounted in a kind of cart were
used by Henry VIII against the Scots, and
would appear to have been quite practical
little affairs. They evidently could be
wheeled like hand barrows; the sloping
shield would afford excellent protection
to the-gunners. and probably contained a
receptacle for ammunition.
War carta or chariots were not unusual
at this time, especially in Germany. They
eenerallv took the form of a rude ma
chine gun, several musket barrels being
placed together in the center, and a great
array of curly,, murderous-looking spears
and halberds arranged on either side. The.
Lyoners is a later type without musket
barrels and intended for blocking a nar
row passage. Sometimes a whole sheaf
of musket barrels were fixed upon a stand
or carriage. These contrivances were
called orgues. from their resemblance to
the pipes of an organ, or sometimes thun
der carriages.
Monster cannon were an early form of
extravaganza in military weapons. There
are several accounts of such pieces of
ordnance. A traveler in 1743 stated that
he had seen at Brunswick a gun or rather
mortar cast in 1411. It was made of brass.
was 30 feet 6 inches long, and no less
than & feet 2 Inches in diameter, and was
said to bo capable of throwing a KiuO-
pound .shell. India boasted several of
these monstrosities. One still to be seen
at Kubberpore is said to be no less than
21 feet 3 inches long and 5 feet S inches
around the muzzle. It is called Jaun
Kushall, of destroyer of life, by the na
tives, and was probably cast somewhere
in Persia. .
Another Indian piece, cast by Chuleby
Koomy, Kalin of Ahmednuggecr, about
the year 1540. lias such a tremendous bore
that the interior is now fitted up as a
kind of Summer house. A cannon made
at Bruges in i:;4ti had a square bore and
fired cubical shot. Guns were made of
all kinds of materials.' though all such
may be regarded- a-s freaks or experi
ments. The leather guns invented by an
officer in the army of Gustavu Adolphus
had a certain vogue on account of their
lightness. Some wero effectively used by
the Scots under tieneral Leslie - at the
battle of Newburn Kord In ltW. They
were made by wrapping rope and twine
around copper cylinders strengthened Ty
iron rings. They were then coated with
Plaster, and finally covered with leather.
They were very portable, but unreliable
and shortlived. Guns have been made of
wood hooped with iron, not only in an
cient times, but quite recently in tho Phil
ippines, where they were used against the
American troops.
The Chinese had a gim made of bamboo
in 39. wtt only the other day the Japan
ese were making effective use of wooden
mortars bound around witli bamboo for
throwing explosives into the Russian
works at the siege of Port Arthur. Guns
have been made of glass and oven of ice.
Some of the latter made for saluting
purposes at the marriage of the Russian
Prince Gallilzi in 1731. are stated to have
been "fired more than once without burst
ing." Guns have been made of the pre-
cious metals In 1663 there was In the
arsenal of Verona "a great gun found in
Candia, all of gold and silver."' A golden
cannon was captured at Pekin in 1S60,
and King Thebaw of Burmah was the
possessor of another, which was also in
crusted with precious stones The early
caliver was little inferior to a cannon
in clumsiness, as It took three men to
carry it and a fourth to fire It.
When firearms became somewhat more
portable, and especially when pistols were
introduced, wo find them mounted in the
most extraordinary fashions. Shields or
targets not iifrrequently had a pistol
fixed in the center, with a small grating
for aiming through, but there Is an ac
count of a shield at Genoa which had no
less than 120 pistols connected with it
Rather a heavy acfair to handle, one
would imagine. The Emperor Charles V
had a curious shield which he carried
when walking about at night: 4a spear
came out of the side of it. besides that
fn the -middle; if any thrust was made
at the shield, the sword's point was
catehed in It and broken."
Another surprising medieval contriv
ance wa an iron hat or helmet, which
is described as having "two crowns, each.
with four pistols. A volley of eight shots
from an opponent's headpiece must have
been very disconcerting probably to all
parties concerned. A curious mortar in
the tower of Iindon is square in front
and has no less than nine separate bores.
The 18th century was distinctly the epoch
of sieges. The attack and defense of
carefully fortified places was carried out
In the most methodical and patient man
ner.
There were many inventions at that
time e?peeially applicable, to the attack
and defense of fortified towns. The
petard was much used. It consisted of
a bell-shaped iron receptable filled with
powder and clamped down to a block of
hard wood. It was intended to he fixed
to doors and gates for the purpose of
blowing them in. Another device was
the pot a -feu or fire pot. which was a
kind of ball or globular jar filled with
old tarred rope, which was thrown
upon the enemy's works, to light them
up at night and enable tire to be di
rected upon them. Ioaded pistol bar
rels were attached to these to prevent
any one from picking them up and ex
tinguishing them. The (pistol at reveille
could be set to explode a mine at a
given hour.
But B.11 said and done, we need not
dive into the past to find extraordinary
ideas and weird, warlike appliances.
Our modern Inventors are quite capable
of keeping up the supply. Leaving
aside the steam guns, which were in
tended to spurt out streams of bullet3
after the fashion of a Maxim gun,
which were invented by Perkins in
1S21, by Winans in the. "60s, and the
very similar compressed-air gun pat
ented by one Sturgeon in 1SS7, none
of which realized its Inventor's expec
tations, we can find plenty of extraor
dinary contrivances.
AFTER PEWMAKERS TRUST
Chicago Federal Grand Jury I lei urns
Many Indictments.
CHICAGO, March 12. F. A. HoLbrook.
of Chicago, who has been referred to as
the directing force of the so-called church
and school-furniture trust, and nine
churches and school -furniture manufac
turers were named in indctments re-
turned today by the Federal grand jury,
Jn addition, two petitions were filed in
the United States Circuit Court asking for
an injunction restraining the furniture
companies from further violations of the
Sherman anti-trust act, under which law
the indictments were returned. The In
dictments charge the defendant corpora
tions with controlling !S0 per cent of the
church and. pew and school-desk business
in the United States.
MODIFIKS COAl-LAXB OllttEH
President Will Heopcn 28.000,000
Acres to Public Entry.
WASHIXGTOX. March 12. In a letter
to Secretary Garfield today President
Roosevelt .has directed, a modification of
the orders issued under his direction last
y-ar, with-drawiug certain land from
coal entry. Conformably to the Presi
dent's directions, about 2S.000.000 acres of
coal land will be immediately opened
to entry with other lands to be opened
as rapidly as the Geological Survey can
make the proper examinations.
CANNOT RUNCARS SAFELY
Louisville Company Abandons Serv
ice' When Strikers Oppose.
LOUISVILLE. March 12. With the aid
strikebreakers and the protection of
the police the street railway company
this morning opened -a partial service on
four lines. Even with the two police
men on board each car trouDie Degan
early, hold-ups being numerous.
Suburban service w-as not resumed.
After considerable further disturbance.
the street railway company ordered all
cars iuto the barns this afternoon.
Shopper Saves the Half Cent.
New York Globe.
.A woman shopper wanted two and a
half yards of white goods. The clerk
showed her two pieces, one for 1 5
cents a yard, the other IS cents. The
hcaper piece was plenty good enough.
yet tiie woman bought the more ex
pensive piece.
"I ll take this." she said to the clerk
spitefully, "so your old store won't g:et
more than is coming to them. When
buying a fraction of a yard of anything
I make It a point never to select a ma
terial that sells at an odd figure say
J cents a yard. The store simply
shall not make that extra half cent off
me."
"Oh, no," explained the clerk, when
the transaction was finally complet
ed, "hers Is net an usual case by any
means. Lots of women object to tho
store profiting by the extra half pen
nies, and always buy so that an odd
figure won't be split."
Defects Found in Dreadnaughl.
LONDON. March l'J. According- to
the Chronicle today, the official ac
counts of tne Dreadnaught's behavior
on her trip to Trinidad arc not alto
gether supported by private letters.
The engines worked well, but tne
heat i'- the engine-room exceeded any
thing: evr oxpericned . by those on
board. Owins to the crreat size of the
ship, her maneuvering qualities at
slow speed were not equal to those of
small ships.
It is stated that the hlK battleship
cannot keep her station with reeipro-catin-
ships at -0 knots, and that for
night maneuvering without lig-hts, in
close formation, the thip is out of the
ruimln&r.
Icicle Kills Moturmaii.
NIAGARA FALLS, March 12. A huge
icicle dropped from the cliffs of the Ni
agara Gorge on an electric car of the
Grsn Road this afternoon as it was
passing the rapids. The motorman wns
killed and several passengers were badly
bruised.
hirairo Shipbuilders Strike.
CHICAGO. March 12. -The South Chi
cago employes of the American Ship
building Company went on a strike to
night in accordance with the orders of
the National ofiicers of the Shipbuilders
Union. Between S00 and 300 men are af
fected in Chicago.
Miners Postpone Meeting.
GOI-'DFIELD, Nov.. March 12. At
huge mass meeting of miners tonight it
was decided to defer a meeting of a com
mittee of five delesrates from the Western
Fdcration of Miners with five delgates
from each of the American Federation of
Labor unions, on the ground of inequal
ity of representation. It Is believed a set
tlement will be reached in a few days.
AVanted for Many Murders.
NEW YORK. March 12. Charles Henry
Rogers, accused of the murder of Fred
erick R. and Will la G. Olney, wealthy
farmers of Middlcton, N. Y., and of Alice
Ingerick. the 19-year-old daughter of the
housekeeper, and also with an attempt
to kill the latter's- mother, Mrs. Martin
Ingerick. has been arrested in Panama.
Re Loyiil to Employers.
Elbert Hubbard.
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institution ne represents.
I think if I worked for a man I would
work for him. I would not work for
him ft part of his time, but all of his
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